skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in a similar situation some years ago. My contract was not signed on time, and I started working some weeks before the contract date, with a "gentlemen's understanding". I was also owed back pay for consulting work done, plus reimbursement for office expenses, and travel expenses to fly to and from the company's other office across the world.

I kept asking for the reimbursement and back-pay promised earlier, some months later they just refused, and I was not paid. I was offered stock options (not even stock/equity) instead of money. That's when my team and I saw the crap going down and started preparing for the worst.

You need to have all your communication about this problem documented, including if possible the responses from the CEO and others.

You may need to consult an employment advisor or lawyer for advice, if your department of labour can't provide this to you. You need to be crystal clear about your situation and repercussions if you choose to torpedo this company.

If things are really as bad as you say they are, you don't need to be too worried about your reputation - I have been through this situation and it is not hard to manage. As for co-workers, I sympathise with their plight, but you need decide for yourself how much you value your career (or don't) by not taking action now. Also, your co-workers ought to be smart enough to see what's happening.

In my situation, I went and spoke to a government officer in our department of labour. She told me that I needed to engage a lawyer in my situation. Legal fees would have been greater than the money I was owed. In the end, I filed a police report for the record, with complete documentation on everything that happened and details of the compensation owed to me.

I lost a few thousand dollars, chalked it up to experience and moved on. The company's office in my country had to close, their hardware and other equipment was seized for non-payment of rent, and they wasted many times the money they could have just paid me to build a great product. As for the product, their launch was delayed 20-24 months but I believe they did get something out.

What's even more pitiful is that they had a few million in funds, were already cash-flow positive on a previous product, and could easily afford to pay what's due.

Bottom line - if the company is run by a money-grubbing skinflint with a tendency to shaft his employees, you have every right to do what's good for you.
They didn't just "mislead you", their behavior is outright criminal.

If you don't report them more people will be victimized by their antics. So you have a moral duty to stop that from happening.
> it's inevitable to have a trust contract with them, it's pretty much essential to the notion of the cloud.

I disagree. It's possible to make good use of public infrastructure without handling any important secrets on public machines. Under certain threat models, you have to assume public infrastructure is vulnerable to coercion of the providers and side-channel attacks from co-tenants. As we are beginning to see, providers have the tools and processes to comply with coercive demands (RAM/disk dumps) and co-tenants can feasibly succeed in obtaining secrets via side-channel attacks.

Under models like this, public infrastructure is still useful for storing and routing encrypted information, enabling NAT traversal, and distributing signed material which can be authenticated at the client.
Nor really, most products aren't designed for consumer use. If a company makes nuclear weapons, I hope the board members are not using them. Board members may not have a use for straight jackets, body armor, cash registers, oil rigs, industrial equipment, commercial fishing vessels, you get the point.

Even if the product is great, the business model could suck and the company will fail.
> I don't really understand this. The tools work better on C code right now, because some/most of them just don't support Rust at all. It's not a theoretical problem, but a real problem: C has better verification tools than Rust at this time; running many of them is far less costly than a rewrite; ergo -- we should run those tools before we rewrite to guide us as to what, if anything, is worth rewriting.

> And what if it costs 10-100x as much? Because that is very likely to be the case. But we won't know until we run the tools...

Do you agree that if one believes (as I do) that we'll inevitably need to rewrite sooner or later, then running those C verification tools is a wasted effort? They won't generate results that usefully carry-over post-rewrite, and they're only helpful in determining what to rewrite if there's a possible result that would convince one that code is good enough to be used without rewriting.

If your use case is "we need to cut the defect rate of this C code by 50% as a one-off" then sure, I can see static analysis tools and the like being the cheapest way to achieve that. I'm not convinced that's a realistic use case - the requirements that lead one to want to reduce the defect rate are likely to be recurring. I think it gets exponentially harder to do that in C. (I think it still gets exponentially harder in Rust, but with a smaller base - so an exponentially large advantage from a rewrite in the long run).
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Prior to forcing people's computers to move to Win 10 and using scummy badware tactics (close the dialog to install, no "do not install" option) I'd have agreed; MS looked like they were reforming.
Yeah, if they roll out the Azure theme I would be incredibly happy!
Any idea what your new venture will be?
>> It seems to be mostly about dealing with everyone's crap, trying to fight fires and constantly battling with the other managers and tech team to get things done.

That's 99% of what management is.
hows minecraft doing for microsoft?
Linkedin is a great buy for Microsoft! Congratulations to my Linkedin friends. :)
This article has more to do with publishing platforms than UX but I wonder when we will see the first real businesses founded on the idea of producing high quality news content while completely abandoning publishing platforms and posting direct to Facebook/LinkedIn/other.

It seems like all credible news agencies try to compete not just on having the best stories and coverage but they also on building a distribution platform. Presumably they do this because they think it's the best path to monetization but I don't see the exact angle there. The NYTimes seems to have done this well but most other self-built publishing platforms aren't that great. For example I find the WSJ to be pretty obnoxious and it's considered a major paper.

I wonder why we haven't seen more agencies/companies that only handle content creation but don't self distribute. (On the flip side of that, more tech companies that only build a distribution platform but produce no content.)
Not sure why you're being down voted. You are completely right. I've found multiple people using a search tool inside of an app and then call it "googling" instead of search.
> I guess it depends on if the IOMMU has a fault interrupt that can be acted upon. If it does, then it can probably be done. However, I'm not sure if the OS will handle this or not.

Interesting idea. I'd also like to know if IOMMU faults can be acted upon. It might require protocol support between the bus and hardware device (GPU) [1], to tell it the page is not currently present. And a way to tell GPU once the page is available.

As far as I can see this kind of mechanism would require one CPU interrupt per GPU fault. That might be too inefficient.

[1]: Edit: It's indeed possible to handle, if the device supports "PCI-SIG PCIe Address Translation Services (ATS) Page Request Interface (PRI) extension".
Or, it could be a terrible sign for LinkedIn...
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Thank you! Well designed and very useful.
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Yes, the dev activity seems to be declining - https://go.libhunt.com/project/cayley
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The share price hasn't exactly been rosy recently, so at least the shareholders have something to look forward to.

http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Summary?s=...

http://www.reuters.com/article/linkedin-results-research-idU...
When I encountered clowns that ran companies like the post described, there's probably no money for back wages and taxes.

My guess is that the founder is three steps out of the poor house himself (or herself.)
I have been using Intermittent Fasting for about 3 years. I typically eat between 11am and 6pm, usually eating a little later than 11am and finishing before 6pm. My weight has never been more steady and I am 20 pounds lighter than I was when I started.

Like the author I routinely will allow a day each week to enjoy friends and craft beers. Sometimes this is two days a week and then I just go right back to my schedule. My weight stays steady and I feel great.

The biggest benefit I noticed is no blood sugar spikes. I tried 3 meals, and 6 small meals throughout the day, I was always hungry and felt like I was always dieting. Not anymore.

I am 45 years old, I run and lift weights, but I did both these activities before Intermittent Fasting. I still move heavy weights and my running times keep improving and I weigh the same as I did in my 20s.
Not at all. Those were sincere numbers for what kind of damages I think would be reasonable.
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Thank you, I wasn't aware of Block Element (it works in Chrome too). Great feature.
Compared to SF? And it's not the only factor. And I didn't say they'd all come back to Toronto. Schools, proximity to extended family, less likelihood of mass shooting, and room in your house for your kids can all be additional factors. If you're established enough in your career, you can work remote for US companies or bring work with you in some other way. Sure, Toronto and Vancouver aren't cheap, but they're more affordable than many places in the bay area, especially for what you get.
I'd like to see this valuation - this transaction looks shaky at best.
For an app with 200 records!?
Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11781269
Twitter users actually spend time on Twitter, read status updates from hundreds of followed accounts, have it installed on their phones, etc. And at least for me Twitter has been much more interesting than Facebook. Because even though most of my friends are on Facebook, most of the people I admire are on Twitter.

LinkedIn on the other hand is, depending on your point of view, either a database of incomplete, mostly outdated and uninteresting resumes, or a circle jerk of HR folks and dubious "coaches".

People stay on LinkedIn because they are afraid of missing out. But really, it's a genuine ghost town, a once promising service that was completely destroyed by their monetization needs and most of us have classified LinkedIn emails as spam long ago, after realizing you can't unsubscribe from it. And the only reason I haven't deleted my account yet is because once in a blue moon I get to take a look at forwarded profiles. You don't get anything interesting really, LinkedIn profiles are boring, superficial and generic, but hope never dies.
What poor timing to announce a research note about slowing prospects for LinkedIn... Hours later stock rallies 47% on a buyout!
The submission is blogspam of the Barron's report, which ironically focuses more on stock prospects: http://www.barrons.com/articles/linkedins-online-job-posting...

The submitted headline is mostly correlation (between economic conditions and # postings) implying causation, in the same vein as Google Trends. Hiring is a seasonal process.
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I would assume it's too late for Twilio, but the next time this happens, there are many companies now that arrange secondary sales where employees can sell some shares so they can use the money to buy a house, car, fund a college education for their child, etc. It is not a liquid investment like a publicly tradable security, but this is a solid option in many cases where you are unlikely to be able to participate in the IPO without connections or a large bank account balance.
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Thank you for this, it's the way my mind has been leaning but it's good to hear. I realize my original post makes it sound like I had no idea what being a senior manager might involve which is just not true. I understand a lot of fire fighting and dealing with problems is par for the course I just didn't know if I'd enjoy doing that or not. How are you supposed to know until you try? :)

I also felt like I'd have way more control than I currently do. Perhaps that is a problem with me and if I simply took control and treated it like my own business I could change things enough to suit me more. But is that a good decision for the business? I'm not so sure. What's the point in changing things so much that the business suffers?

Anyway, your points about your previous boss really resonate with me right now. I'm finding myself increasingly frustrated and dreading meetings because I feel that frustration is coming across to the rest of the team.
OK ... I'm kinda sold on the added value of Emoji in comments. Wasn't aware that VSCODE had the ability to insert them.
Good UX? I just uninstalled Facebook Messenger AGAIN on Android because it was taking 17% battery for doing absolutely nothing. Thanks for reminding me how much I hate everything about them. I use Facebook a lot less since I uninstalled their shitty apps and I don't care for their browser clients either.

Let me know when I can get a simple list of what happened on Facebook on my feed by DATE and I'll care again.
Awesome, thanks for the background - sounds like things are working well, glad to hear it.
A hotspot on the map highlighting Mt Yasur Volcano, Tanna, Vanuatu is an example of the near-IR. No light pollution there.
Nah, I think that's the default place that Googler's code goes, if you spend 20% time on it (so it's the company's code).

There was a discussion about it a couple months ago [0] when that rust text editor came up on HN.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11576703
Yeah, the forced upgrade isn't bad. The low quality of the new version is bad.
Past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11874624
!? what's the diff with a db!?
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Humor can be made from formulas, but it tends to suck. Usually when people say AI, what they really mean is learning, not some straightforward algorithm. This is why they're arguing it's the final frontier, because it requires a deep understanding of the constructs, relationships, and emotions that humans go through.
Interesting side note, "crux of my problem" let me bet the country is Germany.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Either the article has valid arguments or it doesn't - whether the author agrees with it today or not.
On the other hand, as a coder, working with a manager with little or no code experience is ineffective and frustrating. Having a manager who can wrap her head around complex architectures, and argue/negotiate for one strategy over the other is extremely important. Yes, so are team skills, but I wouldn't call the the path from coding to manager coders fundamentally flawed.
Both should be options. It's hard for me to say a priori which one I would choose given that I don't actually know what gender dysphoria feels like, and it definitely seems like something you'd have to experience to truly understand. One major advantage of changing the mind over the body is that a lot of people want their own children (independent of gender), and transitioning removes that possibility modulo some work-arounds.

But just because someone has a specific mind now doesn't mean that they'd want to change it. There are lots of people who want to change their minds. I suspect that most people with depression and other mental disorders would love to have the option to get a treatment that changed their mind to remove that condition. I bet most of us here would change our minds in order to be smarter, and indeed some people are already taking drugs that claim to be able to do so (though the entire field is in its infancy). More to the point, at least one transgender person I know says she wishes she could've simply changed her mind to agree with her body rather than go through the entire process of changing her body. Our minds are maybe more malleable than you think.
Honestly, Linkedin by itself would have made a very strong Salesforce competitor. Not sure why they never went down that route, instead they focused only on recruiting, the least interesting use-case.
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If the company is this bad at money so early, are they really likely to get better at it? This is what a dying company sounds like, not a growing company.

I have trouble believing you'll be hurting your coworkers. If no salaries are being paid, they'll be in the same boat as you very soon when they start trying to claim unemployment.
What are the main reasons someone would use this over Neo4j? Is being open source the primary differentiator?
The remedies vary but in Delaware these disputes are heard in Delaware's Court of Chancery.

You can google for recent judgement in the (re?)purchase of Dell by Michael Dell. Chancellor ruled the stock was underpriced by the terms of the sale but the remedy is available only to those shareholders who sued not all.

Appraisal is a bizarre bit of corporate law to say the least.
If you want indentured servitude, that's how you get indentured servitude. It is also, not a system of wage suppression that people think it is (although it certainly is abused in that way). The entire pool of H1Bs represent a tiny pimple of the US workforce.
Sounds like an awful lot of money. Must be cheaper ways to make the money LinkedIn is supposed to make them.

And MS has a pretty bad history with these big acquisitions. MS Kin failed. Skype is not what it used to be. People seemed to start leaving it after MS bought it and made it worse. Nokia was a big disaster.

Shouldn't they have learned by now? I pretty sure MS is not going to make back the money spent on LinkedIn.
Your rich text editor demo is leading to a 404'd page http://francisco.io/editor. Your site is very nice btw
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I understand your point, but I think part of his question also involves advice from a business ethics, and a 'what would you do -- is this normal?,' perspective. I'm just saying I think it's a reasonable question before/while pursuing a lawyer
Fortunately no. I've not used or seen a Windows machine (aside from old XP VMs I use to test ie) in at least 5 years.
Oh sure.

Software eats fulfillment, basically.

Currently FBA (http://services.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/benefits.ht...) is a 3B$ business without any competitors. There are good reasons for that: it's capital-intensive, technically/operationally/managerially challenging, and can only really be learned by doing.

I've just finished architecting & implementing a 30k package/day distribution system from scratch, I know I can do better. FBA is a surprisingly low bar to clear (they're mathematically/structurally constrained), and the industry hasn't really improved since the 90's. And with the right structuring it can be mostly funded through debt & advance receipts.

Basically, I'm going to pick up where FlexPort (https://www.flexport.com/) leaves off (literally! Ha, logistics joke!) Except in an even less sexy vertical. :)
You know, maybe it makes me sound bad but I do enjoy leadership on a smaller scale and where I am ultimately in control. I know one-man bands don't get very far (usually) and some people management is expected even in your own business.
I guess my point here is that yes, you're right I have enjoyed leadership previously and thought the step up would be similar but it's not.
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Most of us get repeated phone calls asking where the buttons went. Learning new things gets harder with age.
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You're right. Difficult was probably the wrong word. It would open the door to too many overstatements if companies could value their own brands.
Sorry, not sure I follow. Is mongo public? I dont think so. So the issue isn't the spreadsheet, it's your data with public write access, which is of course a very bad idea.
Seems like this is what they're going for - https://ncmedia.azureedge.net/ncmedia/2016/06/msft_announce_...
Yeah doing things without the user's permission is great. I just love it when my computer does a software breaking update for me.

Microsoft: Enjoy the safety (and the ads), because you have no choice.
Two shitty companies merge. I can only imagine what Microsoft has planned for LinkedIn. Hopefully this is one of those acquisitions where they purchase it and shut it down months later.
Hit enter early. My point was that there are plenty of huge businesses from a money perspective that don't require too much compute.
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I wouldn't say Facebook as good UX so much as so many other websites have downright trash UX. Being the best turd in a toilet isn't much to brag about.
>Your livelihood is always more valuable than a reputation.

I can't say I agree. There are plenty of instances where your short-term financial situation could be a whole lot less important than your long-term reputation within an industry.
I also worked at Epic for a while; CEO was definitely a control freak at that time. I consider it very likely that she has not changed in that respect.

I was promised employee stock at hiring. The company shortly thereafter reneged and substituted a "shadow stock" plan. The rationale I was given explicitly mentioned that having too many private stockholders would trigger mandatory financial reporting, and that the company would rather give me the finger than its balance sheet.

It was just one of the many reasons why I left. The company was fueled entirely by the inherent brokenness of the US health care complex. It seemed to be metaphorically powered by shoveling fat stacks of $100 bills directly into the fireboxes of pre-Watt Newcomen steam engines. They didn't even bother with the seemingly simple expedient of converting the $100 bills into $1 bills to increase the available fuel supply.

The end product that was visible to the customer was good, but it almost certainly cost several orders of magnitude more to produce it than was strictly necessary.
How come? I've seen native anglophones use that idiom often enough - pretty sure I've used it myself, in fact.
Older computers are getting more valuable ever day.
>EDIT: You can only be a contractor if they are actually paying you. If you are getting no money, not sure what that means.

Breach of contract?
> Congrats to anyone who was holding LinkedIn stock. Microsoft's bid of $196 per share has LNKD up $63 bucks a share or 48% in premarket

Or tough luck to those who bought LNKD at $258 a few months ago and held on...
That's a terrifying perspective. Thank you.
They are hard links in iOS, nothing you can do to change the default apps unfortunately.
I only have additional anecdotes, but the claim has been leveled several times with varying degrees of convincing evidence. Here's another:
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/06/10/google-is-manipulati...
What's the company name?