skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an aside, I think that you would have to look at the individual cases and determine what the circumstances were for each as from what I'm reading it wasn't a blanket clawback.

In the case of someone hired but who wasn't really as qualified as they represented themselves to during the interview process, then it would be understandable if they were summarily fired. No options, no nothing. Same would go for an individual who retired while still at the office. They're a cancer and you can't keep them around. I cannot see these types of people being reassigned. Oddly enough, some of those people are actually kept around, but that's another story.

But in the case of someone who was promoted to a level of responsibility beyond their capabilities, after working at the company for some time, I could see management clawing back those options and benefits given to them in addition to the ones they were originally at the time of their initial employment.

However, and if I'm understanding what is being written about Mr. Pincus, going after those options deemed excessive which were granted to early employees for the sole purpose of not having them participate in an equitable share of the profits of a stock sale, well, that's fraud. And Mr. Pincus had better hope that only a very minimal paper trail exists of those employee agreements. Very minimal.
Heh, I don't even mean that. I just meant that such a politician is liable to get assassinated.
The execs at Zynga who did this should not only lose their jobs, they should be facing criminal penalties for fraud.

I had a phone call interview scheduled with Zynga today, but I read this story first. I didn't even pick up the phone when they called me.
This would be a great feature to integrate with ClassCloud, which is a cloud based classroom management system. I hope the class pager guys release an API! Would make my life easier.
Shh, don't let the word get out. The traffic is already bad enough around here.
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Is anyone else starting to get annoyed by the fixed-to-top navigation trend? I think, just like most web trends, it's appropriate or beneficial in some cases, but it seems like everyone is jumping on the bandwagon now.

The main issues are that they take up screen space and they don't work on mobile browsers like iPhone and they only partially work on devices like tablets.
Quran Explorer
What if you don't have (or can't use) the Steam client?
It's on my list of todos! https://github.com/rgarcia/instacss/blob/master/static/js/vi...
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Employees got these options when they were worth virtually nothing as compensation. Now they're worth something, Pinkus wants to change his mind.

This is equivalent to employees taking options for a company that had failed then three years in going back to the ceo and saying, "You know, I'd like to trade these worthless options for the $20K/year of salary that I gave up. Thanks"
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"jQuery Mobile doesn't add much to mobile web app development."

Hmm, I think you've glossed over the rather large set of browser quirks that the library addresses for you. Here are few choice examples off the top of my head:

1. Touch and Click events: Different platforms and hardware will fire different events. The vmouse additions unify the two possible event sources to make handling easier for developers

2. (push|replace)State: iOS 4.x and some desktop browsers have critical bugs in their implementations that are handled for you where possible.

3. Orientation values on orientationchange events: Different browser implementations fire this event at different times relative to the actual screen size. It doesn't solve the timing issue but it does provide the right orientation value for use regardless.

If you're only implementing for iOS you might be right, but if you have a large set of target devices it does provide a lot of value.

[EDIT] I should point out that I agree completely with the article. I'm actually rather tired of people selling html5 as the end-all solution for mobile app development right now. There are a lot of hurdles yet to overcome.
"Put this way, I think it's reasonable that Zynga wants to let some early people go at their current compensation rates (and California has at-will employment, so you can quit or be let go without reason at any time.)"

At-will employment does not mean without reason at any time, and while I am not a lawyer, I believe making a threat of termination if you don't sign over your unvested options would be a good case for wrongful termination.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment#Covenant_of_...
[proposal] add some layer of abstractions so different insta-docs (i.e. insta- html5, js, node, some-api) could be easily build on top of that engine
I'll forward it too, I know several high school teachers. Are you targeting secondary school teachers or college professors as well?
Have you ever watched a mob?

A corporation is a group of people. Like all groups of people there can be a mix of the full spectrum of humanity in varying percentages. Go to a protest or a concert, witness how groups of people react, especially when they are told to do something that no one wants to do. Corporations are run by people but you should not think that they are somehow different from groups of people and that group psychology somehow doesn't come into play.
If you're not willing to actually grant equity, then don't pretend to grant equity.

Grant "up to $5M of go-public bonus cash" or something. If they had capped the upside up front, this wouldn't be a story.
Thanks for the feedback! The search algorithm is very basic right now, and will definitely change to address the "exact match" scenario. The paragraph was a mistake in the template that should be fixed shortly...
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In this instance it wouldn't look ugly as they are just three different results that could show up in the search.
But this only affects future options, not options already received, right?

Here's a possibly analogous scenario:
Imagine this was salary instead of stock: an employee was hired because he was the foremost expert on technology X. To entice him to join, the employee was offered $1m/year for each year that he stayed, up to 4 years. Now it's 2.5 years in, and for various reasons the employee is no longer worth $1m/year to the company: perhaps X is no longer a useful technology, or expertise on X is no longer needed, or there has been an explosion of experts on technology X who would be happy with $200k/year. Would you say it was unethical to tell the employee that while the $2.5 million he has earned so far is obviously his, you can't justify paying him another 1.5 million in the next year and a half, and that he can either accept a pay decrease or be asked to leave?
You're forgetting that when employees took their compensation packages, it was based on factoring in some probability of hitting a mega upside.

By capping that upside, any vesting option package is worth less in expectation, so employees would have demanded higher base salaries knowing that they wouldn't fully participate in a huge win.
Wow, my memcached server in go is going to be two years old tomorrow. :)
Did not realize there were restrictions on the reasons for terminations (other than obvious restrictions like wrongful termination). Thanks for the info!
hm, i should have read the code first...
although github issues is a better way to go, if crowdsourcing is appreciated
I highly doubt Valve's database is more complex than Apple's or Amazon's database. You never hear about theirs being compromised to the same extent as Valve's.
Here's what I think:

1. Great idea, especially considering the attention span of a student can be somewhat diluted with so much modern technology - incorporating that same technology is a great hook.

2. Color scheme is good, and so is simplicity, but while erring on the side of simplicity is better than erring on the side of a very busy screen, it's still erring. While your concept is clear and concise on the home page, I personally feel as though there is too much white space (again, this is not a color scheme issue, but an issue of not enough going on).

3. What is the stated problem that you are trying to solve with this technology? In other words, what is the hook you can use to relate to your audience and persuade them to use the product?
This is an official memo to Zynga employees and Pincus can't even take the time to use proper grammar and capitalization?
If ruby core shrinks and more of the standard libraries move to gems, it will be easier to just write this sort of thing as a gem and let the best ideas win out. The state_machine gem is a great example of the slow (but very solid) evolution of acts_as_state_machine into a highly useful general ruby library.
I work from home part time and while I appreciate having that option, I do find there are negatives. Other than missing basic human interaction, there's something to be said about the chance encounter with a co-workers in the hallway that leads to an idea or being able to pop by someone's office to discuss a problem. I also find that face-to-face communication is a higher bandwidth medium than phone/IM chat.
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Man calls 911 five times to complain about broken iPhone
For what it's worth... I sent your site to my sister who teaches highschool biology and she replied:

I've been using remind101.com. Looks like the same thing except with mine I can have as many classes as I want for free. I can't do the questioning thing, but the kids aren't allowed to have their phones out so I can't use it anyways.
I didn't realise that about deionised water. At least it's not toxic when gaseous (unlike fluorinert) or flammable (like mineral oil).

As for boating ... I vaguely recall the joke that it's easier and more fun just to pour cash into the sea than to get a boat.
"If they do not agree to vest on termination then we go back to salary negotiation or I walk."

So true. Expensive lesson for these folks.
Good call. The author could easily force the query to be treated as all lowercase.
I really like how you can actually use regexp to search though: "position" vs "^position".

How about changing the search box heading to something more instructive, more instant, like "Begin typing a CSS property". Also, I'd like to see filters like :hover.

Great job so far!
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It'd be fun to see the tech stacks of the various political parties and see how they stack up against the stereotypes, etc.

I mean this has to be Java right? or PHP?

edit: or .NET! Duh!
Heroin was a trademark of Bayer. There are currently several companies manufacturing it for European countries. If it was more widely legal, why wouldn't production ramp up very quickly?
The site is loading extremely slowly. Might I suggest you turn off, or dramatically reduce, the KeepAliveTimeout?

Header:

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Keep-Alive:timeout=15, max=100
I wonder if Facebook does (http://tinypic.com/r/wjctow/5) hmmm... that interesting..
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The UX Behind Barkles UI
> If you write in PHP, you can develop applications that integrate with the GOP.com platform.
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The employees already have a huge win... the article talks about employees being worth $200 million once they are fully vested. If they're halfway to vesting, they might be worth $100 million, and it seems like Zynga is saying that it's not worth $100 more million to keep the employee for two more years.

It's a weird problem that I think is only there because Zynga grew so freaking fast. Normally an early employee's 4 years are up way before a company is worth billions of dollars. Even in the last year or two of a 4-year option plan, the employer's implicit choice is "is it worth another .1% for me to keep this person for one more year?", and .1% might be worth 20k or even 50k, and so the employer doesn't even consider ways of reducing that cost because it's tiny compared to the early employee's value. But when the cost is $10m or $25m or $50m a year, it's definitely something to think about. And only the hyper-grown companies that popped up recently (Twitter, Zynga, Groupon) have had to face this problem.
I sure hope not as we actually build mobile web apps :)
But I imagine if Apple's or Amazon's databases were compromised, it would quite likely be to a similar extent.

Once you can perform a select statement, extracting data becomes pretty easy.
I'm not entirely sold that the practices that are appropriate for microsoft are even appropriate for microsoft.

Some orgs are pretty solid patterns and practices wise and some divisons are like stepping back into the early 90s.
your analogy is flawed.

Employees got these options in exchange for something -- less salary, or risk. Your hypothetical didn't give up anything for that salary -- it's not like the employee turned down $1.1M for $1.0M. I refer you to the symmetric situation in my previous comment: if Zynga hadn't worked out, would Pinkus be giving long term employees the cash they gave up for their options?
yup, fixed!
That's a bit of an oversimplification. If the drugs they move are suddenly legalized, do you really think they're going to shrug their shoulders and drop everything? It might slow their imports here, but we aren't the only country who uses drugs, and you can bet the country where they're already hanging bloggers from overpasses won't be able to stop them from exerting control.
Follow up idea, read mutual fund prospectuses and identify anything "out of the ordinary."
Life Insurance or Investment?
If this was Microsoft, I'd fully expect them to keep hammering away for years and dump as much money as it took for them to own the market, but Google has institutional ADHD.

If they don't outright kill it after three years of it not making them any serious money, I fully expect them to abandon it with only minor updates for some other shiny and new product.
I work at Iron.io[1]. Our new SimpleWorker API[2] is written in Go and we'll soon be releasing another service implemented with Go.

[1] http://iron.io/

[2] http://blog.simpleworker.com/2011/11/simpleworker-has-shiny-...
You're missing:

1. You can move away from a small town to escape the embarrassment.

2. The people of the town know you, and therefore have some sort of prior connection with you. Here we are getting the raw details of people who we've never met, thereby forming first opinions of these people before we ever meet them (should that ever happen).
Keep in mind he was referring to credit card information, not the credit card number. He mentions this here: "We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked." By credit card information, he's referring to address and name, for example, which, at last check (earlier this year) didn't necessarily require encryption.

That the information had encryption is a good sign.
if i have a company with no products a top 100 company ceo is worthless compared to a lead software engineer that could provide what you need to develop and polish a product that wins the market
Stock options vest in the future if you are still working there. The idea is that it keeps you committed - otherwise everybody cashes in on the day after an IPO and walks, and it rewards people who were the reason for the success.

You can't leave and then expect to get unvested options = otherwise people would simply sign up for every startup, stay a month and move on - then come back years later when the company is a success and ask for their million dollars.

It's abused when companies deliberately fire people before the options vest - this is relatively rare, since any sane company knows that getting rid of all your talent is a rather short term option.

This is what Oracle did when they took over Sun - they fired almost all of the VPs before the deal so they would have no share. In their case it was more justified, these people hadn't contributed to Suns future (it didn't have one) and weren't the reason for the Oracle takeover - there was no reason why they should gain from Oracle being in charge when the music stopped.
You'd also need to let people arrange to vote and then later cast a fake vote, for the case of coercion at the voting deadline And that only works if the upcoming coercion is known in advance.
That's the "no government" case, not the "without a big government" case.
Pure spin: Pinkus is trying to make this story about merit and reward. But really its about not honoring contracts.

The stock options given to employees were part of their employment contract with the firm. They were based on imperfect knowledge of future facts on both parties, i.e. taking risks. Zynga attempted to use its power to revise the contract post-hoc.

If I have to negotiate a deal of any sort with Zynga in the future, I'll be wary of them honoring it.
Why bother negotiating options at all if what you end up with is a fraction of what you negotiated for to begin with? If the company isn't willing to honor the agreement, it shouldn't offer it at all.

Future options are precisely what was on the table when negotiating and subsequently accepted an offer form a startup.
You have an SSL certificate problem with heroku, getting a warning.
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This is great info. Do you have any references for metrics like these or are they anecdotal based on your experience?
http://dillinger.io

A 6 hour project I put together including porting bootstrap to Stylus.

It's a web based markdown editor for proper WebKits at the moment.
It does not appear to like subdomains. I've been trying to get it to visit http://news.ycombinator.com and see what it thinks. But I keep getting back, We were unable to connect to http://www.news.ycombinator.com. If it exists, please try again later.
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I am finding it pretty difficult to change my Steam password. Where the hell do you do it?
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Neat. Works on the iPhone too.
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The keys generally aren't kept anywhere. In fact, the encryption keys for a company valve's size should be split among multiple key company officials. The idea being, you should be able to steal the box that contains the credit card data and/or the machine that does the actual encryption and not have access to the keys (which, technically, aren't stored anywhere).
I'm not an Australian employment lawyer (or any kind of lawyer for that matter), but I believe companies under a certain size are exempt from unfair dismissal laws.
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That's not analogous, because you take stock options as compensation for not taking a market-rate salary and for accepting the risk inherent in working for a startup. The stock isn't a bonus - it's a part of the total compensation package that is negotiated when the employee is hired. I'm going to accept $Xk/year because I'm getting Y% of the company in stock options, and I believe that the company has what it takes to make it big and for those stock options to be worth above and beyond what I'm giving up in salary and stability for the years that it takes to get there. Furthermore, if you hire someone whose skills become unnecessary, you just lay them off. You don't keep them on board and try to renegotiate them down to a lesser compensation.

Here's another analogous scenario: Imagine that you are hired under a contract that says "We don't have the cash on hand today to pay you full market rate today, so we're going to pay you $X per month (which is significantly below market rate), plus $250k bonus at the end of each full year that you're working for us, up to $1m over 4 years, assuming the company lasts that long". Two years pass, and they come back and say "You know what? We decided we don't want to pay you your remaining $500k in promised compensation over the next 2 years. Forfeit that part of your compensation package, or we're going to fire you." You accepted the original compensation deal because the year-end bonuses were adequate compensation for the monthly pay cut you were taking. Stock options aren't just icing handed out on top of already perfectly-acceptable contracts just because.
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We have two option clawback stories in six months or so. These actions erode the trust relationship between entrepreneurs and the technical talent on which they depend. The expectation that startups will honor the options they give to the talent they hire is part of the social contract of the community. Reneging on that expectation will make talent wary of taking on the immense risk of working for or founding startups.
Thank you so much for the effort. This is really something useful. Would love to see more projects on making privacy themes more accessible.
Run from this company if you work there, as if you were running for your life.
You're constructing an artificial dichotomy of blame here. You're attempting to say that we can only blame the couple or only blame the broadcaster.

Does the general sentiment that 'no one likes a gossiper' only apply to private information?

Example:

1. I'm with a friend in public
2. I pick my nose
3. No one notices but my friend
4. My friend then shouts at the top of his
lungs, "Hey everybody! This guy just picked
his nose."

Are you going to pin a medal on my friend because you dislike people that pick their nose in public?
I was criticism the article, not Code Complete. I love that book, I still have my first edition.
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I have very different reactions to talent, product, user and technology acquisitions.

I wish someone would track which kind of acquisition is made and let me track it by acquiring company. From my limited vantage point, Google seems to make mostly talent acquisitions and that generally makes me sad.

Anyone know which this was?
Also, this is a problem: http://imgur.com/K0d2z
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To change your Steam Account password do it from inside the preferences menu in the standalone application.

The interface for changing your Steam Forums password is not currently available.
Ask HN: use this bookmarking tool to learn your next tech stack
I am working on a chrome extension bookmarking tool which lets you use your recent search activity to tag your bookmarks as you save them.

It's useful if you are doing research or searching a lot to learn a new tech stack or solve a bug.

I've built a prototype and have been using it to learn how to build it... a virtuous circle of productivity!

Please let me know if this is something you might find useful or if you would be interested in trying it and giving me some feedback and critique.

Thank you very much for your time.
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Successfully taking risks should be rewarded in any meritocracy. Portraying employees who took a risk by working for the company before they were making money hand over fist as undeserving is wrong.