skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to defend people who made a bad mistake worse. It's nothing personal, competent systems people are in short supply these days.
Got a Startup in Latin America?. Think twice before going to Delaware.
Is it possible to join if you are not physically there ?
The UI is the new and interesting aspect here.
I'm nervous about moving to the states because of just that. Here in New Zealand it's easy because we're all guaranteed access to a great public health system, no matter what. You can buy private insurance and expedite certain things if you want, but the public system is always there and available to everyone. Moving to the US and having to deal with health insurance makes me nervous.
> The product guy, on the other hand, is the DNA of the company. He forms the vision, culture, management. You can't replace that.

As I pointed out, the "product guy" doesn't necessarily form the culture or management. And, he isn't the sole source of the initial product vision.

However, the core of the argument is "YOU are easily replaceable. You're just the coder who builds the thing. Once MVP is launched and the company raises funding, you could easily be replaced because I guarantee you there are thousands of engineers just as good as you."

The same can be said of the "product guy". Yes, folks bought into the MVP, but that doesn't imply that the "product guy" is the only person who can do the follow-ons.
Benefits no one except the participants?

Also their customers, future business partners, spouses, etc... Don't sell yourself short.
In the context of the Semantic Web, there is also the Silk Framework [1], a tool to automatically link related data within different datasets.

[1] http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/silk/
While this is unfortunate and it sounds like you deserve better (I'd like to hear the other side of the story first), I would discourage against taking this public. This is an issue between you and the founders, and no one else. "Warning" your former Miso coworkers should happen privately -- this post brings them the wrong kind of attention, but they did nothing to deserve it.

Future employers who read this post will think twice about hiring you -- frankly, this is rather unprofessional. Yes, the Miso founders might be in the wrong, but you can still take the high road.
Yeah, just saw that :/

One of my life lessons was that I didn't save email from one of the scenarios, email in which the CEO had asked me how old I was.
IANAL - I am not a lawyer.

Just incase there are others like me wondering what the heck that acronym stood for…
By free, you mean that we prefer to use the system we're already paying anyway ;-) (when we can afford the wait).
Not sure if this will make it better or not but I think Bing is willing to try lots of things to say to people, "We're here too." If the test results were done fairly (I have no reason to doubt them) it must be frustrating for Bing engineers, their work is not being recognized.

Personally I do not like Google's "Ads are just more answers" attitude, it opens the way for perverse incentives. Ads are ads, so I hope Bing, DDG, Blekko and others take a bite
Or better yet, where if you don't have a job with a group plan you just might find it impossible to get insurance at any cost, and if you pay the medical system directly you'll pay 3 times what the insurance companies pay, and 10 times what you would pay in the second most expensive country in the world.
Their tongues are firmly in cheek.
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Yes - and they took it away from mobile too.
Inflammatory statement, and not true. I happen to know doctors in the US who do not refuse care for those who cannot pay.
There have been several N combinators, but none of them was quite as nifty as the more famous combinators (Y, U, S, K, and I are the ones that immediately come to my mind).
Just some feedback on the schedule, a 4pm kick off isn't that great. I have a 9-5 paying for crazy self-funded startup adventures and I'm sure others do as well, can I suggest pushing it back a little for working types?

Great idea though and I'm definitely on board with this one. Beautiful site too btw! :)
Your growing jaw provided the scaffold.
I think the original question was more like: can a third party like Opera or Microsoft port their browser to B2G and make it available through the B2G store. As an app.

The answer is no because third party B2G apps cannot be written in C or C++.
Social/Moral question: Is it acceptable to wish Mr. Stallman well in light of allegations that he has advocated for truly awful practices?

e.g. Dutch pedophiles have formed a political party to campaign for legalization. I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children.

http://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html
I live in Boston, Massachusetts, where we have universal health care and some of the best doctors and hospitals in the world. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Strange. It seems to me that the consensus in the Java community is that checked examples were among the worst misfeatures of the language.

Googling for ---java checked exceptions--- is illuminating.
Don't ever make the mistake of looking up medical conditions you see on a show like House. You will forever be plagued by ads trying to address your condition!
It's ok we won't be dicks about it :) it's just there to keep people motivated. Teams that are dysfunctional / aren't producing should know it and bow out voluntarily.
I agree, it's cool. The only drawback I noticed is that my browser seemed labored in scrolling. Anybody know why?
I really don't understand the over fixation on Silicon Valley.

There's a lot of history behind it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSPHfZQpIQ
Remedial Javascript (re: inheritance)
Yoink user here, love it.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yoink/id457622435?mt=12

http://www.eternalstorms.at/yoink/

Sounds like DnD's "wiggle" is a nice innovation.
Heh, I thought it was a variable name, i.e. ncombinator let's you combine N people...
The level of ignorance revealed by that one short quote is just stunning.
Taking it public like this comes across as really petty and childish.
um, who are you? your site gives me no idea who you are and why you think you can pull this off. not trying to circle jerk for a summer. the selection criteria at YC is what makes it valuable.

edit: slightly less harsh tone
Stop moaning and taking yourself too seriously. You're like the guy who moaned at Zuckerberg for wearing a hoodie. Ninja or not, like the site says, ship or die.
I doubt it. It would probably just one more treatment option in the arsenal of the modern dentist (probably replacing some of the less natural options like implants).
Agreed. Regardless of how you were wronged, threatening to take something like this public (instead of just doing so, or even better instead of talking to your lawyer first) can come back to bite you, in a number of ways.
> During my last 2 weeks at Miso I accidentally blew away one of the production DBs for a service that was launched 2 weeks prior. No, we didn't have a backup.

Step 1) Make bad engineering decisions that make accidents like this possible

Step 2) Blame employees who knock over your fragile infrastructure

Great strategy, Miso!
The author mentioned one of the reasons for choose MySQL is that they are familiar with MySQL. They could've went with PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB, also a great company. It's not like you can't get commercial support with PostgreSQL.
Thanks! I don't know if I could fix all the grammar, but the spelling nazi in me wants to correct those mistakes for sure.

Maybe the PDF is designed for smaller screens . It looks better on an iPad or android tablet. I used the .mobi instead to wipe out the font anguish. ;-)
oops, sorry. my comment was poorly worded. I just meant that our goal is to benefit the community and not just a few particular individuals. In other words Ncombinator is nonprofit.
They encourage groups outside of the US to participate, so can't imagine they'd exclude a stateside group. I plan to participate remotely myself.
Sorry, I should have been clearer.

My argument is this: If you can't count on people to take a drug that will drastically reduce their likelihood of dying, how can you trust them to accurately determine the trade-off between efficacy and safety?

Most patients don't display the ability to figure out risks and trade-offs now (and relatively simple trade-offs at that). Do you think they'll be able to figure out what "45% increase in the risk of heart-attacks (41.2 - 48.8%, 95% confidence interval) in populations who have had a transient ischemic attack in the last 180 days, excluding those who have diagnosed atherosclerosis" means to them?
Mostly good feedback except bellbottoms are bad ass.
Internships are for people with a knowledge about, but not direct experience in some thing. That can apply as easily to programming as it can journalism.
I really, really don't buy the idea that I should feel bad for using adblock. The whole "ads can be a way to provide quality services, and adblock removes that revenue" is the marketer's equivalent to the {MP|RI}AA's "every pirate is a stolen sale".

The whole thing with the Internet is about desintermediation, and marketing departments are nothing but middle-men between producers and consumers. Even worse that they actually sell the idea that producers need to "build a brand". Zero actual value-add to the chain, but work to increase perceived and actual costs of the goods produced.
One of the comments on the original post complains about extra boilerplate with CBVs using django-rest-framework. I'll admit that I was concerned about this as well, but after working with it for a while, I have to say that mixins are a very natural pattern for API writing. You can string together a bunch of them to get auth, pagination, etc., in a very clean way.
The tooling around FF was/is remarkably better than that with IE, so I always found it easier to start there head to IE than to start by groping blindly in IE.
You still haven't responded to his point, which is that to deal with the reality that constructors and destructors can fail, he ended up having to write more complex code than he would in C. (Specifically, the code in the passage I cited, which turns each object into a little state machine.) Saying "just make those things not fail" is no answer at all. So, to repeat: how could he meet his error-handling goals in C++ without handling object construction/destruction in that state machine style?

I have no opinion about this, but given that it's the point of the article, that's what people should be addressing.
django-tastypie is nice and new, but it does not yet handle file uploads natively [1] which is why I went with django-piston for my project.

There is plans to support file uploads, but this was a deal breaker for my API.

[1] https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie/issues/42
I wasn't going to respond to this to avoid prolonging this burgeoning off-topic health care flamewar, but I figured that in the name of cross-cultural understanding, I'd correct you:

Hospitals in the US are obligated to treat any emergency patient regardless of whether they can pay.
Thanks for dropping that knowledge. I didn't realize :)
This is a good illustration of the integrity of the company's founders. You should feel lucky to have gotten out. Hopefully your referral is planning on leaving too.
I dont agree. 99% of this time this type of stuff stays private because the employee is fearful of repercussions and as a result, new employees never get warned about the mess they are walking into. Thats why I upvoted this- It takes balls to air this publicly and thats the only thing you can do to stop shit behavior like this from happening and scare other companys into treating people right.

So long as companys think they can get away with treating you like shit, most of them will. Stuff like this stops that.
I had no idea retargeting even was a thing, until one particular ad kept repeatedly showing up.

When my grandmother died last year we looked up the website for a cremation service to find their phone number. Then for the next week or so I kept seeing banner ads for the same cremation service all over the web, on completely unrelated sites.

I would expect to see a cremation service ad on an obituary page, maybe a local newspaper, etc. I would not expect to see it on, say, a tech blog or an Android user forum. And I could consistently refresh threads on that forum and keep seeing that particular ad from that same company. Maybe it was the nature of the service advertised and my frame of mind at the time I was seeing it, but I was really creeped out.

I cleared cookies and it stopped. At that point I realized that the advertiser was doing something in particular to tell Google that I visited their site and to start throwing ads at me elsewhere. I checked out the AdWords docs to see how they were doing this and figure out how to opt out.

I don't know how long this has been a service offered by Google. Up until that one instance I likely had countless ads retargeted at me, and I may have even clicked such ads. And it works great until one instance where I'm creeped the heck out and I push back.
FTC Launches Probe Into Facebook-Instagram Deal, Could Delay IPO
I totally agree. Big props with making it work nicely on mobile Safari too.
Someone needs to write better copy...

"Aren't you just a bunch of YC rejects?

No, not really. Most of our companies haven't even applied to YC."
no way. it's gonna be the second myspace.
I run similar program in Russia for the last 6 months, called "The Accelerator" http://zonaspace.ru/accelerator/

Yes, it definitely works for our members. Membership is public though. The most useful part is solving startup problems case by case. Also, the whole thing is built around a few key coordinators and their "office hours".

We have 30+ projects. Some are Russia-focused, others are international. Two most interesting ones are http://UploadCare.com (launched few months before YC's Chute) and Android app Drawing Cartoons https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.jecklandin....
Actually, if you know anything about Richard Stallman, he was probably dead serious.
Ask HN: Developing From Home
It is so easy to procrastinate while at home, with all of the distractions.

For those of you who develop from home (either for a job or for your own ends), how do you stay motivated and focused?
For $10,000? Lawyers aren't cheap and, honestly, typically aren't worth it for amounts under $25k, especially if the other side can lawyer up faster and better than you can. Take it to small claims and get as much as you can.
I'm similar and I too got the same amount of pleasure reading this.

Wall Street investors don't have any principles. The only thing they care about is how much money you make for them. Zuck could've shown up naked and they would've still jumped all over each other to invest in Facebook.

And this idiot who complained that Zuck underdressed - if he doesn't invest because of that, and the stock skyrockets, you think he's still going to have his job? Doubt it. He'd be out on the street wearing a hoodie.
But do ninjas really ever go out of style?
I think it's worthwhile taking stuff like this public but threatening beforehand is a big no-no.
He's ok http://www.fsf.org/news/richard-stallman-speech-in-barcelona...
However, by taking it public, there's a chance that Miso will try to fix the situation, and he will get the full $10,000 bonus, rather than paying a lawyer.
Academic is not a synonym for scientist. Historians are academics, but they're not scientists. Journalists may or may not be academics, but I think it's pretty clear that he was acting as an academic in writing that book.
At least he probably doesn't need to worry about the hospital buying him a parrot.
Farmeron Raises $1.4 Million in Seed Funding
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File under: Live and learn.

$10K is an amount that sounds like a lot to many folks but it's nothing you can ever recover. If you engage a lawyer it'll all go to his fees even if you "win." Move on.
Seems to me like he's bringing this unethical decision to attention so that employers and employees know that it's not okay. I disagree with you. It's not petty, and certainly not childish.
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I must be reading this differently than a lot of people. I don't think he's talking about actual business people. People with demonstrated experience, skill, and/or ability.

It sounds more like he's talking about the idea tourist. The guy who truly believes that the secret to start-up success is:

1. Have an idea.
2. . . .
3. Make money.

I think we can all agree that the idea tourist is annoying. If all you bring to the table is something as ephemeral as an idea, just keep walking. I've got no time for you.
Flipboard inspired page layout made with CSS3
Microsoft have the technical capability to deactivate pirate installs of Windows through WGA. Instead, they choose to display a nag message and disable software updates. Microsoft spent a ton of money developing a really sophisticated anti-piracy system, but decided against using it to prevent piracy by end-users. To me, that speaks volumes about how piracy fits into their business strategy.
Show HN: I love sushi, you like sushi then why don't we eat together
Being skeptical of a claim isn't the same as advocacy.
Depends on what his motives are...

Also, it's 10k. For that kind of money, it's much cheaper to go public than to go legal.
Bold comment. Privately, I was disappointed that he was fine after reading the news; I suspect that you're not alone in your views based on that and I had a similar moral debate internally.

I'm proud of you for lending your username on HN to remind everybody how truly awful of a person he can be, but I fear that even your clout cannot save this comment from people that love him.
I've been following Stallman since forever. Even in the article it states that it was said in jest.
As I mentioned here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3955537), living in Boston, Massachusetts, we have the best of both worlds when it comes to access to health care at some of the best healthcare organizations in the world.

I should also add that even if you don't have money, you still have access. I was seen at a clinic at Mass General (http://www.massgeneral.org) recently by making an optional $2 donation.
Why ? I love sushi, you like sushi then why dont we eat together and share some laughs :)

I built this product wherein I can show interest in a place and if someone else also likes the same place, he can either eat out with me or he can show his own interest and wait for some one to contact him. Currently it has the Seattle Restaurants but I ll expand it to other cities.

Some features:
1. I have implemented a small feature where anyone who is interested to eat with me can also see if we have some mutual friends in facebook so that they can be invited as well.
2. I have intentionally delayed the sign up process so that people can first see the listed restaurants/folks interested and then can decide on if they want to eat out at a place or not.
3. It gives the best dishes to try at the restaurant.

I showed this to my friends/work colleagues and they were excited about this, also till now 20 people have eaten out using my app :) I know its small but it feels good.

Do you guys like it? Also it will be awesome if you guys can give me some advice as this is my first ever product I launched.
1. How do I engage users on my app? I was thinking of placing some kind of notifications on the app because notifications kind of make folks come again and again to the app. Sounds reasonable?

2. Till now I am the one who is manually putting up the restaurants in my app because I want to put up the best dishes to eat out and till yet I haven't found any API that can give me that information.

3. I was thinking of monetizing by having restaurants pay if they want to get featured on the app, are there any other ways to monetize as well.
It's always better to say positive things in public than to post something like this. However, it also sounds petty and childish on Miso's behalf. They are the ones who hired the author, and they're the ones who set the stage for what constitutes appropriate behaviour, so the whole episode just looks ... bad.

Worse for Miso, though.
Lately I've been re-discovering the value of the ORM and putting as much business logic on your models as possible. This, after spending way too long writing out lots of query logic in views instead. It's amazing how you can many times reduce complexity from 10-20 lines to 2-3 lines, and gain reusability, just by putting business logic where it belonged in the first place.
You're right. I'm definitely not proud of that.
I agree, yes public shaming is free but he also just told the world he blew up a production database. That said I'll paraphrase Tom Watson when an employee of his made a $100,000 mistake "Are you kidding? We just spent $100,000 on your training".
One could file in small claims court, if $10k is within the limit.
Using gmail only makes it worse, as far as I can tell. I don't get the impression they pick your emails apart enough to distinguish between "bought this" and just "looking at this". I guess there's also the chance that, say, after buying a Frobnitz, you'll want to visit a Frobnitz-seller's website to buy accessories.
Well, they've got me sussed. With unsettling accuracy.
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That's interesting. I'm not a day to day Java programmer so my perspective is different from the Java community's. I have ran into problems numerous times in other languages where an exception isn't discovered until runtime in production because there's simply no way of knowing whether a library's function might throw an exception or not. The workaround is to be overprotective. I've always envied that Java devs know what to expect from every function they call
Same. Firefox on Debian. Could only sign up (if it even worked) because I could access my browser's dropdown list of emails.
Wow, I had no idea.

That's repugnant. Why do people still invite him to conferences? Surely there's less-objectionable representatives of his views on software.
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Employees are scared to burn bridges or take it public, because it will affect them when it comes to future job prospects. Unless your new potential employers really know your rep, HR will stay far away from you.

It's also up to the new employees to stay vigilant and find out as much as they can on their new employers – LinkedIn makes it so easy to track down ex employees of companies, just shoot them an email, introduce yourself (even easier with connections) and hopefully they can give on some valuable feedback (and hopefully they're honest!)
100 employees @ 100k = 10 mil. He will last a year?
There's a problem with "search" in particular because I just have too many ideas. Almost all of them suck.

What's the most iconic image of search? Finding a needle in a haystack. Well, that won't do. Second most iconic image of search? Police searching a home. Looking for your keys. Rummaging couch cushions for change. Steal the Google logo.

Some ideas of search are okay, but don't play well with the other icons -- a piece of paper with text, one of the lines suddenly jumps to a fragment of blue text. (It works if your "find" highlights a word with a blue box when it finds it.)

The closest I have come to another good icon for search is to try to denote the question, "where is it?" This could be a question mark with the "box" which represents the filesystem. Perhaps many balls are shown coming out of the box. Or perhaps a stack of notecards with one of them being pulled out.

"Call" is different because I have too few ideas. A phone, perhaps. Two faces seen in profile could mean "converse" with the implication that there will be voice. Or an ear, perhaps, with its oblong shape. Telephone wires are iconic in parts of the US, but are an oddity abroad. And beyond that, I'm a bit lost.