skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect to Jason and DHH, I wouldn't consider 37signals a "friendly" company. Mailchimp is a friendly company, but even still, I could see Ben (or any founder) having a similar reaction.

If I found someone blatantly repurposing something I worked hard to create, I'd have a similar reaction. This guys aren't CXOs of a Fortune 100 company that need to fear how the board and stock holders may react (and god fucking bless 'em for that). They're scrappy guys still hustling like they launched yesterday.

Calling them "fucking scumbags" isn't a cocky response, it's a free reality check. Poor Allan had a pretty significant lapse of judgment, and DHH may have given him the most valuable lesson of his life.
Maintaining integrity usually doesn't consist of calling people "fucking scumbags". Notify people of their mistake, make it known that what they have done is not acceptable but crossing into personal insults and curses is not acceptable.
Looks crappy in every version of Internet Explorer, 6 through 9. Is it shocking that IE doesn't place nicely? https://ten7.litmus.com/pub/adfdb99
You are confusing everyday English with court pleadings. Here are some illustrative examples to show the difference.

1. You come home from work, and find that while you were gone someone came into your garage and stole your motorcycle.

It would be quite normal to exclaim "I've been robbed!". Yet you in fact have been burgled, not robbed. Nevertheless in common English usage people use "robbed" in a more expansive sense than it is use in law. If writing a police report, or an indictment, one must make the distinction, but not in regular conversation.

2. You are in a bar, in a tuxedo, obviously trying to drink yourself into oblivion. I ask you what is wrong. You tell me "my best friend stole my fiancé...on our wedding day!".

Technically, he did not steal her, as she is not property. He perhaps committed tortious interference with contract, or maybe alienation of affection. However, if you are not writing the pleadings for a lawsuit, it is in fact perfectly acceptable to say the bastard stole your fiancé.

3. You are the quarterback for your high school football team. The big game is coming up with your most hated rival high school. Your sister starts dating the quarterback of their time. While he is at your house visiting your system, he sneaks into your room, where you have your team's confidential playbook. He quickly uses his cell phone camera to take photos of each page.

This would generally be described as him stealing your plays, even though it is not legally stealing (and probably isn't even legally a crime).

The use of terms like stealing, theft, robbery, and so on to describe situations where they do not literally apply in the legal sense goes back a long way. E.g., from Shakespeare: "Who steals my purse, steals trash, but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed." Note that he is using both filching (a synonym for stealing) and robbery to describe damaging a reputation.

Copyright law's mechanism is to create a property interest in the right to make and distribute copies of a given work. Exercising someone else's property interests without there permission is acceptably called "theft" in ordinary English.
PG would obviously need to clarify; but I assume he clears out the accounts with just a few comments that have almost never been logged-in to.

The only way to try and stop it is to prevent people being able to create a new a/c from an ip address they were using to login with on their proper account. (and maybe penalize them for trying).

That's probably a fruitless effort though with proxies et al.
Or obviate all of the potential downfalls with null by simply sticking "anonymous" in the name field.
Are you under the assumption that these are fresh-faced kids out of school who don't know how to dress themselves, let alone "launch" a web app?

You might want to go and study some LinkedIn profiles before apologizing for these guys. And as far is DHH is concerned, why would you want to steal from him in the first place. He gave his best work away for free. I'm no fan but I believe he's entitled to call these people out. In whatever tone he deems appropriate. Get used to it if you think following Curebit's steps is the way to go. It's a rough world out there.

Yet Stallman is coddled every time he calls someone "evil" and wishes them dead. Odd that.
Testing Socket.IO With Mocha, Should.js and Socket.IO Client
Oh, and in Safari there are no icons.
Hey -- yeah, I'm one of the co-founders of LaunchBit, and it's true that on a startup budget, we bought the image from iStockphoto.
None of that post makes any grammatical sense.

This is beyond the pale and it is not a case of 'live and learn'. Every single one of us as developers have taken the page layouts of others, even looked at their code and then coded something ourselves based around it. What you don't do is list layout code straight and insert your own images and URLs. I take it you're investing enough to employ people with HTML, CSS and front-end skills?

Will you throw some funding at me please?
Posso comentar em português nesse texto?
Just asking :D

Muito boa a iniciativa do Paulo. Ainda não li nenhum livro dele, mas como é o preferido de Will Smith, lerei em breve.
That someone was wrong in the past does not mean someone else is wrong in the present-day.
I'm happy to offer confidential negotiating advice to anyone I help recruit for a company. ;) Because my responsibility lies with them, and not the corporation.
Man! Curebit is definitely very wrong, but all those abuses just don't make a pretty read on my twitter feed. I am gonna unfollow DHH. I respect him a lot for what he's achieved, but all that profanity leaves a very very bad taste.
Personal learning: never abuse. Those words mean nasty things.
"Easter Island 2: Earth" is going to be so much more entertaining for the people 1000 years from now. We didn't get to read through all their "why cutting down the last tree won't be so bad - plus we need more Moai statues" hack WSJ op-eds from concerned islander scientists

What I learned from this letter: CO2 emissions are good for plants and poor people; controlling CO2 emissions is Stalin
I love how religious everyone gets about this.

What does that mean? A group of people preach one thing, and everyone takes their word for it. Your college professor told you anthropomorphic climate change is the real deal, and you took their word for it. Your conservative talk show host told you the opposite, and you took their word for it.

I do not care what f_cking side you are on. Yes, that's right, I called your "science" a religion. It is religion when you use more faith than reason or logic. Its a religion when you get emotionally involved in your belief.

Think for yourself. What does a REAL scientist try to do? Disprove their hypothesis. Look for holes in your argument, fallacies, unknown variables, false positives, etc.

<end rant>
"and hotlinked to images on their site."

Jesus...............
You realize there's two parts to the oatmeal response right? It also includes strong language. For example: "To the users of FunnyJunk: I never had plans to sue FunnyJunk and get it shut down; I just wanted my stolen comics removed -- your admin is a moron who chooses his words about as carefully as a mule chooses where to take a shit."
Unfortunately, blog author did not get the lesson.. 37Signals was ONLY ONE-OF_SITES that Cutebit stole from..

Thy have clear habit of doing so
fucking |ˈfəkiNG|

used for emphasis or to express anger, annoyance, contempt, or surprise.

scumbag |ˈskəmˌbag|

a contemptible or objectionable person.

It's appropriate.

EDIT: here's full context per JackWebbHeller's request:

@dhh The Sharebooster site is serving even more images straight off the Highrise server: http://yfrog.com/oddh4zoj . Fucking scumbags.
As a society, we know how to take action under uncertainty and imperfect information. It makes no sense to me when people argue we should take no action. The only rational viewpoint I understand is taking action (and realizing cost) proportionate to our confidence. Risk-based cost-benefit analysis.

The "It's took expensive to address the problem" argument doesn't hold water; it presumes the outcome is binary.
I use Safari as my main browser, and it displayed the icons correctly. (Or I probably wouldn't've posted it, since I only found it and didn't make it!)
Database connection error...
IVF could be avoided if clinics investigated male infertility more
I absolutely agree with this article. couple have gone through IVF treatment sometimes for no reason. no checks no investigation have been asked to a male-infertility condition
To quote another poster in this thread:

Tell that to the employee who was "terminated within the hour."
Generally speaking I like to have at least one CI environment available for every branch that makes you nervous, plus master. So what number you're dealing with depends on the team. Sometimes you have eight engineers but only four of them are doing something major at any given time.

Of course, whatever you call what you deploy to production -- master, production, timestamp tagging, etc -- it should ideally pass CI before getting deployed as well. And there are merge conflicts to deal with, too -- that ideally belongs to whoever's doing branching.

So, maybe my ideal workflow looks like this:

* Branch away from master
* As you work in your branch, grab a CI server if you feel like it (telling
everyone else)
* Commit code in your branch, keeping an eye on your CI as you go
* Periodically merge in from master, dealing with merge conflicts in your branch,
*not* in master
* When you feel like it's ready to go, get whatever review you feel like you
need -- code review, product manager review, etc
* If you feel 99% certain it's good, merge it into master and push that back to
origin
* Wait for master CI to pass
* Deploy to production
* Beer

From an etiquette point of view, there are things that can go wrong, not least the individual commitment to deal with merge conflicts before they get involved in master. And conflict resolution cannot be rushed. If you have engineers who are just gonna edit files randomly to get git to accept their merge, you're going to have problems. (But if you have those sorts of engineers, you already have problems.)
So you're saying that 'wannabes' shouldn't have the same freedom of speech, and implying that it's okay to beat or arrest them?

Sounds like a shining beacon of free speech to me.
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One magazine article is not the same thing as the mountains of evidence for climate change.
Just checked it myself, looks like it's missing on OS X Lion. Are you on Windows?
Founder of LaunchBit here. That's right. We bought the right to use the rocketship off iStockPhoto. It's fair game for anyone to purchase it as well.
I wouldn't be surprised if WSJ starts promoting Intelligent Design as a real scientific opinion soon too.
They show up just fine in Safari on OS X Lion here.

http://cl.ly/2C3u0l053r0Q2j201t37
Thank you for the newsletters Peter, your success is well deserved! Just this morning, reading the latest JS weekly, I thought what a great service you are doing for the community.
Ubuntu seem to be working for completeness, especially multilingually http://font.ubuntu.com/

Sorts mill Goudy has italics, text figures etc http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/sorts-mill-goudy

Clearly though there is much to do in free fonts.
It's only vague inasfar as the words themselves are vague.

"COPYING" is abused. RIAA and other organizations have really tried to grossly expand the definition and that has tainted the discussion. For the next paragraph, "COPYING" means literally using the same assets (or a digital replication).

The line is drawn at "literally copying assets". Putting up your own assets that are inspired by another site isn't copying. Putting up another company's assets (or downloading and self-hosting other company assets) crosses the line.
I like the article. Tell me more about it. I just hope that it delivers as promised.

Eep.
Unfortunately - reducing our impact in the way many advocate has serious consequences on the poor and impoverished. In fact the best way to lower humanity's impact on the environment is to reduce third world poverty and thus reduce population growth. Many scientists advocate a mixed approach - where we work on improving crops so that they'll grow in warmer climates, improve water processing, and in general improve humanity's ability to handle climate change all the while allowing developing countries to use fossil fuels to improve their standard of living. As technology advances they'll move to other means of energy.
The popular press greatly exaggerated concerns of an ice age. Wikipedia has a pretty good discussion of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
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My recently launched discount gift cards exchange marketplace http://www.giftcardzilla.com, aggregating discount gift cards from more than 6 shops currently (more to be added soon).

I started working on this project last year. When I was working on my site last year, Cardnap.com launched with a good write-up at Techcrunch.com. But they folded soon and I got more encouragement to launch my site after re-writing the entire code.

After overcoming my fear, at last I launched the site this month after doing a UI makeover. I am improving it day by day, adding more functionality and more stores. Appreciate fellow hackers's feedback and encouragement.

This site may not become a big hit, but I learned a lot from launching this site. Including project management, User Design, PHP & web crawling, hosting on VPS (Linode - Best VPS hosting) and more.
Even if it isn't illegal, it's probably contrary to the interests of the accelerator: if one of your startups needs somebody more than another--enough for an increase of pay or some other benefits--then, for the whole program, having that person move is probably better than artificially forcing him to stay.
>the existence of climate change caused by humans is settled science.

the editorial does not question that. it questions the need for drastic action to reduce carbon emissions.
Sorry, I screwed up. Yes, it looks ok on OS X, that's what I'm on. Looks like it's missing on Safari but that could just be a time to load thing? Not sure: https://ten7.litmus.com/pub/adfdb99/results#saf4m-full
clickable link http://www.giftcardzilla.com
Flagged - this type of article doesn't really belong on HN as there isn't really anything new presented in it and will merely cause a flamewar.
I've found that the tone of the message is often an indication of what the sender thinks it will achieve. The all-guns-blazing "How dare you do this to me?!" is intended to get an immediate apology and admission of guilt, with the probable end goal being a free or discounted service. People who immediately threaten to "go public" with their experience without first trying to resolve it are kind of banking on that sort of response, IME. It's the internet equivalent to "making a scene" at the customer support desk.

It might be just personal experience, but the most foaming-at-the-mouth also seem to be those who maybe realise or suspect they might be personally be at fault, and are writing to reassure themselves as much as blame you.

Those who genuinely don't understand will often to go great lengths to indicate that they've tried, sometimes with speculation on what they might have done or where the problem might be.

Pretty much everyone will occasionally vent their anger at some public contact point of an organisation they're having problems with though, especially if there's external pressure (bank charges, missing SO's birthday delivery, or whatever) on top. The impersonality of email doesn't really help, although anyone who's worked phones or retail knows that some people will rage anywhere.
Not just another buzzword for a resume, I put one on my resume. I got more responses but no more offers doing that. It seemed to grab attention and then distract people.
Maybe you could put that in the github repo?

(Or maybe I could, I know, I know ...)
""For reference, here's the Time Magazine 1974 article about the coming Ice Age - http://bit.ly/zNZfI8

1. Time Magazine isn't a science journal, and that they did a story doesn't mean there was anything resembling consensus at the time among scientists. Magazines like Time regularly do stories based on 'intriguing' claims by a few scientists, that never actually pan out.

2. We have 40 years more data now, and better data, than they had in 1974. You might consider how the 'ice age' thing was an early 70s blip, but the data supporting warming has only been increasing for DECADES.

If Time magazine had run a story in 1974 about "Life in 2012", with flying cars and jetpacks, and it was wildly wrong, would you use that to dismiss or question the work of today's scientists and technologists?
If you want any chance of a Linux app looking at all "native" to the user's currently selected theme, your best bet is to let the window manager draw the window frame, which includes the title bar and minimize/close buttons. Chrome specifically doesn't try to look native in its default state, but also gives the user the option to let the window manager draw the window frame, to fit in at the expense of using more space overall. This is a side effect of X11 and window manager APIs, as well as the proliferation of competing window managers and widget toolkits like Qt, Gtk, etc.
This fork brings some up deep issues, perhaps intractable, around
about the development of syntax-y languages. Useful source
transformations require marginalized forks of the compiler and all the
development burden and risks that entails. In some sense CoffeeScript
inherits the actual problem with JavaScript - a select few determine
the introduction of language features. Perhaps these language
features are best shipped as libraries?

Maybe it doesn't matter. Perhaps most users don't need it. Or perhaps
as we continue to develop software we'll find that we'd rather defer work to the
compiler / macros and the high cost of syntax is simply not worth it.

I'm looking forward to see how 3 languages I immensely enjoy (JavaScript, CoffeeScript, ClojureScript) co-evolve :)
And some of these "scientists" have little to no credentials in climate science or adjacent fields. Many of them are also retired or emeritus.

Burt Rutan a scientist? Edward David (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_E._David_Jr.), an engineer who spent 8 years as a research director for Exxon? J. Scott Armstrong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Scott_Armstrong), an advertising and marketing professor?

It's a freaking joke. Compare the publication records, science activity, and career impact of the people on the other side. These tend to be people who have spent their lives seriously measuring and analyzing climate, not just dilettantes with a grudge. (E.g., http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Miller/, who's the science PI of a satellite designed to measure CO2, and a contributor to the fourth IPCC report.)
Just because something is expected doesn't mean that it is acceptable. On the contrary, if someone fucks up, like they always do, and you EXPECT it, you can act on it. In this case, thousands of people are about to have a payday because some evil execs who probably don't even know how email works fucked up. Someone, somewhere expected it, got the evidence nailed down, and went after them. After this settles, there's going to be lots of people (and many lawyers) expecting this behavior and actively looking for it.
I complained about this exact same issue on G+ a while ago:
https://plus.google.com/100209651993563042175/posts/FjQ8DpMa...

Indeed, it's backwards and it's a big problem. I find myself sharing less because I constantly have the thought of my audience in the back of my mind. I don't want to spam people.

There are several orthogonal directions in which people group. First, there are people who I have a relationship with for largely historical reasons, and who I've hung out with at some point for one reason or another. This includes my mom, old time high school friends, a friend from tennis class, etc. These people rarely ever share the same interests, and yet this grouping alone is emphasized in most social networks that currently exist.

The other significant, orthogonal and just as important portion of my connections are people who I share an interest with, irrespective of whether or not I know them personally. These are colleagues studying the same subject at a different university, hackers, bloggers, tech enthusiasts etc.

Somewhat ironically, Facebook clearly goes after the former grouping, and yet if you look through your Facebook stream you'll realize that most of it is garbage exactly because people don't have all that much to say about themselves and end up sharing mostly about their interests. It's just a mess. I was looking up to Google+ when it came out to fix this because they were coming in with the advantage of seeing the Facebook model unfold, but circles isn't it.

In short, I wish social networks emphasized and catered to the power of an interest as much as they cater to the power of a personal connection.
I'm curious what would it take to overturn "settled science," or are you saying that is impossible. I was not aware that science took that kind of a dogmatic stance.
Australia has very little in the way of protests and the only uprising we had was 150 years ago... a mere thirty died.

Yet we've slumped to 30th in the ranking.

Besides, Papua New Guinea has armed separatists, plus Port Moresby is one of the murder capitals of the world, yet it's 10 positions higher than the US.
agreed. sage advice.
It's appropriate when taken out of context with two generic dictionary definitions...
Actually, a few prominent scientists still argue that we are still headed towards another "Little Ice Age." I'm not saying they are right, do your own research, but if you look at the graph of past temperatures (the Medieval Warm period and the last Little Ice Age, it does not seem completely unreasonable).
Very true.

Unless we are talking about Steve Jobs.
By configuring, I don't just mean the IDE.

Generally, it's about setting up the project structure, writing your configuration XML, and fetching all the dependencies libraries. Usually, this involves the writing of Maven or Ant XML files, and generating the project from it. Sometimes, the IDE chokes and you have do it all be hand. Eclipse is notorious for having their plugins conflicting with each other. I switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ for that very reason.

A lot of the modern programming languages offers package managers that dramatically improves this process. The only thing that Java has is Maven..and Maven pom files aren't just simple dependency management.
From the article:

>We did not wish to mislead the public into thinking that scientific issues
>are decided by who has the longer list of scientists!

I was under the impression that currently accepted scientific discoveries required that the majority of the scientific community to be in agreement. If this is not the case could you point me to an explanation? I'm really curious, not trying to be a smart-ass or something.
The problem is, by doing everything they can to delay any response or preparation, the WSJ is in fact making panic more likely.

The WSJ approach would insist that it would be a mistake to insure your home against fire and buy fire extinguishers and smoke detectors. That would be "panic".
I hope they're A/B testing their apologies, because that one sucked.
Agreed, climate change is built into cycles of earth's atmosphere, everyone agrees about that. The reasons for climate change, and the question if whether how much we can do about is up for debate. Lining up scientists for popular press articles are a "tactic" often used for all kinds of arguments, no need to call them out for that.