skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no shame in this, there is just the reality that you were dealt with in an unprofessional way and I think that they will see it just like that.

If you're any good at all your boss will be happy to see you back but I wouldn't count on a raise or promotion until you've more than proven to be there to stay.

And it wouldn't hurt to have a solid backup plan just in case they do decide to lay you off at some point in the future.

Keep in mind too that since you left voluntarily that if they do take you on again it counts as a new employment, essentially you're a new hire. You may even have to re-negotiate your salary.

Being out of a job normally would be hard enough, but since your residence depends on your job there is a very important reason to make this work.
It's interesting, Microsoft getting to play the "Your browser is sub-optimal" card for a change. I can only imagine that in the light of the 'obsolete before its release' news recently, this was all the more incentive to push the beta of IE9 out as quickly as they could.

For what it's worth, I didn't run through the whole thing, as the movement was too jerky (for me, in Chrome). I won't bother to look (or download IE9 for the moment), but the cynic in me is guessing that they're already implementing some 'browser-specific' tags that render shoddily elsewhere.

Feel free to tell me I'm full of shit, as I'd love to hear that they've actually released something standards compliant that is so significantly faster than the competition that Chrome just can't possibly be expected to smoothly render it. I just doubt that's the case.
This happened to me at Google pre-ipo:( You are out of luck. In California job positions are at-will... I'd most likely go back to your old company, look for another one or just start a new company.

I know a few good Bay Area companies that are hiring if you are interested...
Much appreciated! I can assure you Adam & Steve are obsessive when it comes to product speed and usability. The user experience is paramount. We'll never bombard with ads or try and do anything to keep folks from the fastest, most agony-free flight searches possible. And we trust folks around HN and beyond will let us know should we falter. We want to hear it.
Ask HN: Review my minimum viable product - thewillcreator.com
I've been reading about all the different Hacker News users who are launching a minimum viable product and I wanted to do the same. It took a month to create thewillcreator.com. Please give me any constructive feedback.

It's a simple questionnaire to generate a legal last will, living will, and medical power of attorney.
You can use a Chrome extension, "Chrome URL Expander", to always see the underlying links. I've always assumed the underlying expansion services never resolve a URL more than once, but don't know for sure.
I would use something like typed racket or haskell for all the critical parts to increase safety. Then I would check the performance bottlenecks and rewrite them in C if needed.

Then I would use a more programmer friendly language on top of that. Something like Scheme, Ruby, Python and the like.

Stratified design, basically.
It's not a blemish on your record that your new employer flaked out. That's a blemish on their record. Your job seems to like you, or they would have fired you for giving notice, right? So don't panic. Talk to your boss. It'll be an uncomfortable conversation, but that's par for the course in uncomfortable situations. You're still awesome.
I agree with everyone here. Ask for you old job back, they should understand. If all works out, please blog about the experience in more detail...
totally agree... but that's the if the post rides on!
Posterous is hiring, and we love Ruby on Rails. Let me know if you'd like to talk. Perhaps we can make lemonade from these lemons. http://posterous.com/jobs
Utah does have a blanket law for riding on sidewalks or pedestrian pathways, though it is not expressed deliberately.

The only exceptions to a person riding on the sidewalk is if the road does not have approved bicycle lanes, or the person is in a group with special permits, or the road is physically unfit for travel. As of the last 4 years, every paved road, with the exceptions of interstates, were approved for bicycle travel, even if they do not have designated bicycle lanes.

http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r805/r805-001.htm

Granted, one may argue that any road is unfit for bicycle travel if the speed limit is 55 MPH or so, but you must prove in court how the entire road is unfit, which requires just as much effort as the DOT requires to gain permission to re-pave the surface from a graded dirt base.
I think it helped to make people see that it was a 'valid business' and that in turn got him quite a bit of press I believe.

As a 'bootstrapper' it can be a lot harder to get press than with a company like YC behind you.
Publish your disucssion and let others benefit (www.SimpleConnexion.com)
www.SimpleConnexion.com allows you now to publish your discssions. If you made a good discussion with someone and think it is valuable and other people might benefit from it, you don't need to rewrite it into a formal blog. All you have to do is just publish it and it will remain online ready to be read by others
This exact thing happened to me last year, too. Though in my case I was already between gigs so it wasn't as big a deal.

Look at it this way -- would you really want to work at a company that would rescind a job offer this way? It says a lot about a company that they don't have their act together enough to know if they can hire or not.

Good RoR devs are hard to find -- I'd just let your current employer know what happened and see if they'll keep you on. Just say that the offer they made was too good to refuse. And, as it turned out, was too good to be true in the end.
> One company just gave up when they got their UltraSPARC3 rig

On the other hand, the Niagara family seems very interesting. Sadly, never had the chance to characterize its performance under my loads, but I suspect there is a lot of stuff they can do better than the same price x86 box.

A T3, with its many multi-threading cores resembles much more a "flock of chickens" than a Xeon does.
That was somewhat predictable. I think there will be a lot of 'secret' meetings in the near future.
I love the way Gosling uses "financial realities" as a delicate euphemism for "poor management"...
One thing I would do is figure out whether they got some information about you that made them not want to bring you on or whether some disruptive event happened at the company. If there some information or misinformation out there that would cause someone to rescind a job offer, it's very important that you know about it.

Beyond that, it seems like you should find a job at another company or try to get your old job back. A lawsuit seems really complicated and unlikely to get much for you.
I'm going to take a wild guess that not all fonts include all Unicode characters.
I know that you'll look ridiculous when you get back to your old job (if you did). But trust me, it's a lot better than staying JOBLESS especially in this economy.
Well, the point I guess is that the people who use it are more and more the people who make the decision, b/c the channels of distribution have changed, even for biz software. http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/dailystat.php?date=092110
I had a farewell lunch yesterday.

Make a joke of it. If you get your job back, take all the same people out to lunch. Play up the funny side. Give a "take me back" speech, "what was I thinking" etc etc.

Laugh at yourself, and the world with laugh with you. With your immigration status at stake, this is not the time to stand on some misplaced ego thing.
Bad advice, no need to lie about the situation.
Did most of the direct advertisers come to you, or did you actively look for them?

I've seen the link shared by friends before, is most of your traffic just organic/viral link sharing?
I don't think that has too much appeal either. Quite frankly, I would prefer the 80's C to that.
I thought he got press coverage (Time) prior to his posting the numbers.
I believe that, other than telling others that it is a 'valid business', announcing those numbers did not achieve anything useful for him.
Davinia Turrell’s New Face
The photo of Davinia Turrell became the symbol of the London bombings on July 7th, 2005.
The style is a reflection of the substance. The style reflects the thought process and the concrete representation of thought as expressed in writing. The (mis)use of the English language by Dave is reprehensible and abhorrent and has no place in professional discourse.
Since you are German, have you contacted GABA (http://gaba-network.org)?
Jeff Bezos: Regret Minimization Framework
Congrats...btw, does anyone know who else besides pg doesn't show up on that list?
To expand, then, borism:

Usual McClure style can often bore me compared to the style of writing compared to Fred Wilson, Steve Blank, etc etc. Isn't it ironic that his ironic writing to be interesting and break the mold is the very thing that turns me off? Kudos to his thoughts, though. It's just that his style leaves much to be desired.

Is that a bit better?
I've gotten a lot out of reading this discussion, but I will toss out the additional suggestion that some tasks you think are necessary may not be. A particular home and/or lifestyle may impose certain tasks and making other choices may reduce those tasks. One obvious example: A house with a large yard requires more maintenance outside than a house with a small yard. But there are lots of things most people take as a given which aren't. If you really just can't find the time, maybe you should track where your time is going and explore the possibility of making some lifestyle changes which might free some of that up. (As for the yard: I recall reading an anecdote once that some guy that had been a devoted gardener discovered golf and basically paved over his yard so he wouldn't have to fuss with it anymore. :-D)
If you have the job offer back from them, with their signature on it as well your own, then I would also recommend outing the offending company... That is probably one bridge you can afford to burn - and current and future employees of the company all will probably see the information as valuable.

If you never got a signed copy of the job offer, then I would think your options are fairly limited.

Best of luck, either way.
I think all we can say for certain is that large groups of people like to migrate to new forms of organized boredom.
Interesting.

My average time was actually slightly faster when the bubble cursor was off, but I think that was only because it made the teal bubble much easier to find. The clicking itself seemed significantly easier with the cursor on, especially when the teal bubble was small.

By the way, the selection method here is not complicated: a click just selects the nearest bubble. The interesting part is the interface.

Also, I'm wondering how this could be adapted to a more realistic context: say we have a large rectangle with a bunch of smaller rectangles inside it (e.g., a window with icons in it). The typical rule is that a click inside the large rectangle, that is not also inside a smaller one, counts as a click on the large rectangle. Now, could we adapt the bubble cursor to this situation? You can't differentiate between a click on a small rectangle and a click on the large one by the nearest criterion, since all clicks will generally be inside the larger rectangle.
Fascinating puzzle, although I agree impossible was a bit strong. I never would have concluded on my own this to be the solution.
Ok, that may be true. I thought the membership counter was on the homepage right from day one, but I may be mistaken.
Just a small addition to what everyone else is saying: After a couple months, no one will remember this event.

(I always find it easier to deal with unfortunate or embarrassing situations when I'm reminded that they appear more severe and permanent to me than they actually are.)
This would be a good question for Less Wrong. I suspect the answer is that you can't use irrational means to encourage rationality.
Upon reconsideration, yes this was bad advice. When I read he is on a "work visa" and in a bad situation due to job transfer problems, I automatically assumed he was dealing with the worst kind of employers waiting to exploit him. Clearly this is not the case most of the time.

So agreed, if he works for a good manager / employer, it is better to be forthright.

I rescind my advice.
> OTOH, that they added the credits tells something too.

Yes, that guy had been called out earlier for ripping off content from apple... it tells me he didn't learn much.
So sorry to hear this. I don't know how the work situation is in the US, but here in Norway it's quite common to get positions, even the really good ones, thrown after you if you have the right resume.

Sit down and think what you want to do. If the position you were offered was the dream job; locate a similar company and send them your resume. Or even better, the best people is reading this very post. Put up a link to your resume right here, and see what'll happen. Couldn't hurt(?).
Perhaps with 2010 style C ;-)

But maybe, just maybe, I would first connect Oracle's prodigious moneyduct into a team writing a kick-ass Lisp compiler and then writing the best RDBMS using Lisp.

One can dream...
Just created an issue or feature request with that exactly:

http://github.com/ankit/stylebot/issues#issue/21

Would be very neat.
That's true. In the context of a logic puzzle, we're supposed to assume that a card is a logical entity— having two states, face up and face down, belonging exclusively to one deck, etc.

If the puzzle relies on doing things such as tearing a card or turning on the lights that don't really make logical sense, you would usually call it a lateral thinking puzzle instead.

Obviously some people take a lateral approach to logic puzzles like this and declare it "solved", which is a perfect segue into a lengthy discussion on what the criteria for solving such a thing actually are, and who judges that.
Now that is why I love HN, SO, and all these tech-nerd websites. Community.
The "at will" issue is not as cut and dried if on a company sponsored visa.
I solved this in like a minute. I rule!
How is your relationship with your former boss?

When I switched jobs, my boss left me on leave for two months in case I changed my mind.
> I would use something like typed racket or haskell for all the critical parts to increase safety

I am not sure about Haskell, but, from my limited experience, Erlang runs at levels very close to C (my C, at least)
double take Wow. The spread of the "average" column is not what i would have naively expected.
Minecraft now generating $300,000 per day
Wow!
So he offered for free during the last few days while solving some server problems and now that he started charging again, the sales exploded!
http://minecraft.net/stats.jsp
If you're good, I'm sure they'll take you back. The cost of hiring and ramping a new employee to replace you is much higher than the cost of bringing you back.
I'm not sure why you'd expect a PhD candidate to necessarily have a practical application in mind.

The idea of human-powered machines that mimic bird flight has been around since ancient times (recall the myth of Daedalus), and there have been several attempts to actually build one over the last thousand years or so. This appears to be the first ever successful flight of its type. Given the history behind it, it would not be the least bit surprising if this is being done just for its own sake.

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter
http://www.flyingmachines.org/davi.html
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Now Richer Than Steve Jobs
Though I had meant it in a different way, I do agree with the similarity you have pointed out, regarding organization of both religion and science in general.

Regarding the questioning aspect:

I would say that all religions originated out of questions, they were early attempts at science (that is,.. attempts to answer questions on natural phenomena and the unknown - at that time), but over time they just evolved into ideologies that no longer tried to answer phenomena.

Why I say this?

without going into a monologue - all current religions, monotheistic or polytheistic, were predated by earlier polytheistic versions which were more or less dominated by deity worships. The deities were more often than not the powerful and frightening phenomena that people couldn't explain back then. It wasn't different from culture to culture neither, the Norse had their Thor and Hindus had their Indra, both for thunder, the Egyptians had their Ra(sun god) and so on.

If the ancients had better tools for the analysis of phenomena, I am sure they would have come across better conclusions, just like JJ. Thomson would have come up with a better model than the watermellon model for the atom, if he had better tools for investigation.
You obviously make the risky assumption the managers in question know how to properly document and develop software.
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Is there another side to this story, why did you quit your job in the first place? Was the other job that much better?

I agree if it is a time constraint thing you have no choice in approaching your prior company. But if not I would keep looking for something that fills your need, like the Posterous post you will learn a lot more than just RoR.

Good Luck!
If you aren't terribly unhappy there, tell them what has happened and ask to come back. There is no shame in that at all - in fact it puts you in a pretty good position at your old job (because they now know your skills are valued elsewhere).

Another possibility is telling them what has happened, but say you still planning on moving so offering to stay for another month.

OTOH, there is plenty of RoR work around, so I'd be surprised if you can't pick something else up pretty easily.
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...which was really easy and quick because I already had a merchant account. :)
just to clarify, the blemish is his disloyalty to his previous company (i mean that strictly literaly- i would not call someone who takes a new job disloyal)
What I would like to know is what is the name of this company that would hire then rescind immediately.
After the Challenger accident, a jettisonable hatch, personal oxygen systems, parachutes, rafts, and
pressure suits were added to ascent and entry operations of the space shuttle.

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/298870main_SP-2008-565.pdf
Maybe it's the communist solution? Everyone gets a piece of everything.
That's a question I'd like the answer to. A normal customer is limited to 20 on-demand or reserved instances per region. Could anyone request to have that limit raised to 1000 per week?
I agree with everyone else: try to get your old job back. If they're professionals (and you didn't burn any bridges), then they should realize that it was nothing personal when you looked for other employment.

True, they may question your loyalty in the future, but if they like you, then they will probably be relieved that you're staying. They might even try to address whatever it was that made you look elsewhere to begin with...
It fluctuates wildly, grellas, patio11 and wheels are usually pretty high.
Totally awesome, simple but useful business model.

I didn't sign up, but I have a couple of questions:

1.) How do you get around the witnesses, soundness of mind issue?
2.) Are there legal differences from state to state you need to consider?
3.) Do you have the capacity to/Would you want to upsell consulting to individuals with a net worth beyond a certain threshold? It works for someone like me with a net worth only visible with a microscope but for higher worth individuals I'd assume they want to speak directly with someone.
4.) Perhaps before getting someone to sign up, you could let them know "what they'll need to get started" (maybe in the FAQ). This is ultimately what prevented me from signing up. Didn't want to give out my e-mail address for something I wasn't prepared to finish.

Hope this helps and I truly do think this is a good idea.
If you're not optimizing for your users - the poor schmucks who are forced to use you day after day, you're abusing them and making their lives hell.

If you're in the business of abusing your users because they're not the people writing the checks, I hope you fail (even though I know you won't). Making money and caring about your users are not incompatible goals.
Stick to your existing employer. This event might be embarrassing but everyone will get over it.

If you leave the job; not only you will be out of job, but out of immigration status as well. There is a lot at stake, this could ruin your career and personal life as well.

Ask your current company, if you can have the job back.
Typographers can tell. For others, there are sites such as http://new.myfonts.com/ and http://www.identifont.com/identify.html. I own a printed variant of such a tool: the book "The Typefinder". Far from being an expert, I do not know whether it is any good (google learns me that it has a foreword by Frutiger, so It cannot be really bad), but I find it entertaining and educational. Among other information, it gives the most distinctive characters for each type, with arrows and dotted lines pointing out what to look for.
Realize that in any good company, there will always be an expectation that people eventually move along to other opportunities. Don't feel any shame about going back.
For him it is a big deal because his residence status depends on his employment.
Toad for Cloud - relational interface to Cassandra
It needs to identify more than US-style dates.

Oddly, I tried: 27/9/10 -> 1/10/10

and got:
BHX → AGP on Mon, Sep 27, AGP → BHX on Mon, Jan 10

So it looks like it's being worked on.

It'd be good to have the output as 27 Sept & 1 Oct too.

Seemingly small stuff, until you book the wrong flight.

But it's looking decent so far.
We did it in a company I was working before and it was a little above $3k (in Chicago).
Twitter is releasing a real time analytics solution in Q4
I basically went and bought a High Times magazine and contacted every. single. company. that advertised in the issue I had.

I got a handful of responses, and one of them took a chance and gave me $X to try it out. I'm still waiting to hear if he wants to continue advertising.

The other one took longer to get, but I'm sending a significant amount of traffic their away and they're seeing revenue from the traffic, so it will likely continue.

RE: traffic -- My visitors are by FAR mostly coming directly. Which is a great position to be in. The other misc. Facebook was an early source, but not very high (no pun intended). Once I added "like" buttons to each story, facebook skyrocketed to the number 2 traffic referrer. Then there is traffic from StumbleUpon, twitter, a few blogs, and lastly organic search. But the search keywords are mostly just "that high", nothing outside the name of the site.

I'm sure there is a TON I could do to get more visitors. I would like to focus on it more and turn it into something that makes alot more money than it currently does. I know if I put some more time into it, it could make a ton of money, I just have to grow it, and that takes time.
I have a friend who is a lawyer, and his stance is that when it comes to employment, there are too many variables involved to make a good judgment on where you stand without contacting an attorney who practices in the relevant jurisdiction. Most people who lose their job think they're doomed because of at-will, but it's not that simple.

I'd recommend calling an employment lawyer. What will likely happen is that he/she will return your call, ask you a bunch of questions, and give you some very good free advice on where you stand and what your options are. If they can't do anything for you, they will tell you that without you having to pay anything.
Should be we worried what happens after year 2019?
Name and shame the buggers.