skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most "good" laws in this area would specify the desired outcome (secure online transactions), and let people devise their own methods.

And anyone who manages to get their method entrenched can grow a de facto monopoly, with pretty much the same result as in this case.

At the very least, a "good" law should provide a standard interface and mandate interoperability.
Doesn't seem to work for me. I just get the following error in the console:

soundManager.createSound(): Audio support is not available.

;_;

Edit: Reloaded and it seems to be working now. YES.
No problem, sign up and I'll add some credits to your account, it'd be really good to have some feedback.
Irrelevant and besides the point.
it's only those that believe in them that cause any sort of difficulty.

And the golf course would be a beautiful place if it wasn't for the damned golfers.

You can't abstract God away from the church, the religion, man. Any one is meaningless without the other.

You're just going to have to put up with the religious and our noisy, imperfect, interpretations of the Truth.
Legally, minors are considered "incompetent", the idea being that they wouldn't know if something would be harmful to them in the long run. Additionally, the level of wisdom/intelligence is just too different -- children are extremely easy to manipulate compared to adults, especially since adults are almost unanimously regarded as "authority figures", doubly so if a family member. Voluntary means little if you can't reason at the level of an adult. I don't think we can honestly say that a 7 - 10 year old child has the same reasoning and experience to make good choices.
Surprised I didn't see a twitter link on their site, in case anyone else was looking: http://twitter.com/ncombinator
No, more to the point: quit Jan 1st, but before you got your Christmas bonus due to some silly delay.
I still find the ddg results are lacking about half the time. Fortunately, its only two characters more to redirect the search if ddg came up empty handed.
Oh well. It was probably faster and easier to code in C++ initially. And allowed him to beat all the competition to market.
It amazes me that Stallman is viewed in this way. Steve Jobs was undeniably an asshole to many .. and Steve Jobs' fans refuse to deal with even fair criticism of him.

There's a strange warped perspective at play.
Frankly, at this point it's beyond the money.

Any time you see this, you can be pretty much guaranteed that it's entirely about the money and nothing more. If you want to prove to yourself that it's about principle of exposing poor business ethics, then give some or all of the money to a total stranger (or a charity) when you get it. Not going to happen? Then you're not really in it for the principle.
There's quite a big difference between "no reason" and "lousy tradeoff."
Thanks for the kind words! Yes, we are planning on building it up. Just wanted to get it out and get some feedback.
Im in Europe:
OVerplay.net ( VPN )
Spotify
Ovh kimsufi x 2 ( vps )
Bufferapp
If Somrat had not said:

"After you lost our data and caused our entire
company to scramble for 3 days, I am hesitant",

everything might've been fine for Miso. It's too bad he never learned to keep his mouth shut.
Otherwise what you are saying is to be afraid of the status quo because they have many ways of monitoring your past so you should behave, isn't it? If your 'future employer' gets biased by this kind of stuff then it would make sense to reconsider applying for work there, and whether it is really worth it to keep on supporting such kinds of disciplinary systems. What he is claiming sounds reasonable, and there should be no lose-lose when facts are facts.
as someone who has been in charge of tech hiring for a startup, this would definitely not be a red flag for me. as you say, it's not like we would be planning on ripping him off, and blacklisting him for what is after all nothing more than human disgruntlement over getting screwed would be petty and childish.
How big of a risk, do you think?

The point I'm driving at is that this is (obviously) seen to be taboo behavior, but I'm not sure that anybody would find this and visit repercussions upon the author.

Additionally, a lot of the taboo might be based on "word getting around." Well, how many times have you heard of management badmouthing people to other companies? Ever? I'm not sure the blacklist implied in some of these responses actually exists.

Furthermore, there has been plenty of bad management to go around, and publicizing their faults has not affected hardly any of their careers. In fact, it can be seen as a badge of experience to have presided over a failure. Experience is experience, after all, and might you want to hire a developer who has learned the hard lesson of not keeping backups? A lot of companies (including Miso, apparently) could use talent like that.
I think you are right in your conclusion that you have no understanding/conception of how the average internet browser reacts to advertisements.

I was shocked to realize this about myself after talking to my ex's sister. She teaches kids in the BD class of a Chicago public school. She shared a story of her frustration trying to teach them about healthy eating. It went something like this:

"Can anyone give me an example of good or healthy food"
Class Chorus: "Mcdonalds!"
Carrie, taken aback: "Oh! and what makes McDonald's healthy"
Class: "McDonalds makes you big and strong! You could play in the olympics"

That anecdote hit me at the same time I had been researching literacy, and it really struck me that different classes of people exist in our society who interpret symbolic content at different levels. You or I probably see a picture of an athlete on an McDonald's bag and our lip curls in contempt at the transparency of the lie. But to a different type of person with a different background, that representation is taken at face value.

It's really apparent when you see people make a living off other transparent advertising, "Teen Mom discovers weird old trick to remove belly fat." Ok, bullshit. You can't target lose weight etc, but that isn't a multinational with inefficient marketing, that's an individual identifying basic desires and exploiting certain segments of their market. And it works.
Love this title. So many bad, uncreative titles. At this one is honest. Albeit in poor taste.
Doesn't Heroku allow somewhat unlimited development sites as well? Though the database limit is even smaller at 5 MB.
They have discovered buzzwords!
What makes you think that you're qualified to judge what's relevant to you?
Thanks for sharing your personal experience with this, I've also been through similar things.

On the "take it down and he'd get paid" issue, one has to be very careful. There have been a few news stories where this has happened, the ex-employee agrees, and then the company goes public with a "employee was attempting to extort $10,000 from us" angle, painting the employee they cheated as some sort of criminal. The spin is they try to make it seem like the bad report was false and the employee was extorting money to take it down as some kind of protection racket.
The quoted statement was hyperbole. I followed it with as much nuance as I felt it made sense to get into in the broader context of the article.
Interesting. A similar thing happened to me at college: I had to sign that I would abide by a license agreement that was not actually available for me to read. I signed the paper, because it was MS software and I figured it was probably the usual EULA junk. A few weeks later, I was told that the college was possibly in violation of their agreement with MS because of my behavior! I went to the office and was scolded for buying more than one copy. I told them I had no idea, since I was never shown the agreement. They said, "Oh, we don't really show that to people. But you need to abide by it, we could be in big trouble if you don't!"
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Great work!

Added it to my ever-extending list of resources.

Thank you.
You argue against building the tissue. I buy your argument.

Small children can regrow fingertips, yes? Couldn't it be possible to use that mechanism for fingers?
I like the idea of hyper lightweight goals and structure.

Are you a cargo cult?

I think they should take on as one of their goals not to avoid being a cargo cult, but to simply be self aware if they are one. Just for the paradox.
I think we're only in a Facebook-fueled Social Network bubble. While at the same time, we are only at the beginning of genuine technology boom. Mobile and cloud computing tech isn't going to go away like a fad.
> I'm sure there are plenty of Muslims who are equally frustrated over being automatically judged by the standards of the worst members of their community.

I don't believe this is true.

I'm from a huge Muslim family. The majority of the women/girls in my family are not educated, had marriages arranged from birth (usually to first cousins) and the men in the family genuinely believe that this is the in their best interest. This is somewhat representative of life for girls/women in rural Pakistan, a country of 180,000,000+ people, 95% of which are Muslim.

My family is full of people who find homosexuality repugnant. Homosexuality is a crime against nature in Pakistan, punishable with a prison sentence. All Muslims I've met, in my family or otherwise, inside and outside of Pakistan, believe that this is a perfectly good state of affairs and have no interest in inclusivity for groups they deem inappropriate.
Now, let's be serious. If we all block ads, whic is really trivial to do, then the web would cease to be an important medium, the quality of content found through the web would drop sharply and our lives would lose the enrichment that online advertising brings. It would just be terrible. Don't block ads. A kitten is tortured everytime you do.
Maybe Mozilla should code for the new version of the extremely efficient RiscOS on Raspberry PI that's due soon and get on with life. Windows 8 will be a failure anyway.
Seems a bit trademark infringy.
Fake Grassroots Campaign Against Wind Industry Exposed
Or one could use it as a dress rehearsal.
Its true that there are far more Type 2 diabetics than Type 1. But there are still 3 million Type 1 diabetics, and there are many Type 2 diabetics who still use insulin pumps and who thus could benefit from such a device.
> I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that I think he's being rude and arrogant.

Sure. Wearing what he feels like wearing, something which isn't indecent and what he has been wearing on a regular basis for a long, long time is being rude and arrogant.

/s
"Name and shame" is a thorny issue.

Opponents are right in the same way you shouldn't badmouth former employers in job interviewers. It's not fair but it makes you look worse. You just kind of have to suck it up and move on.

When companies screw you out of money, you should name and shame them (IMHO). Trust me, over the years I've probably lost out on all told $50,000 or more that people never paid. In some cases it was a clear breach of contract. I never pursued it through litigation and reading stories from those that have I'm kinda glad. Such a thing is a mental burden and a distraction. Your best bet really is to move on unless the amount is really huge (maybe even $50,000+ for a single claim).

All that being said, this scenario is not one the company should be ashamed of IMHO and were I Miso I wouldn't have said a damn thing about it.

He forgot to claim a referral bonus. They didn't pay it after he left the company. Technically, they are correct: referral bonuses are paid to employees. He is not an employee.

Sure they could've paid it to him and maybe they should've but I sympathize with their position.

No matter what anyone tells you--and this is important--when you get a bonus of any sort it is forward-looking even though it's for what you've done. If you've left the company or are leaving, you are no longer of value to them.

If he's made the claim and pushed back on it finally reneging, that would be a completely different story.

This is a textbook example of "nothing to gain" and "makes you look bad" rolled into one.

EDIT: to answer one point brought up by a commentor (chasing): yes, you are correct. This is not a bonus in the strictest sense.

It is not however automatic compensation like your salary is. You need to take action to claim it (by submitting the form or whatever to get the referral bonus). Miso admits he did not do that. He is no longer an employee and thus can't file forms an employee otherwise would.

I imagine if this were a case where he expensed something and failed to claim the expenses the employer would pay. From this you can (reasonably) view the two as similar. The difference (IMHO) is that if an employer doesn't pay outstanding expenses, you may continue to own or you have a pretty cut-and-dried case against them for breach of contract.

Failing to file a referral bonus form while you were an employee is really your fault.

I'm not saying the employer is completely in the right here but honestly I think they're more right than he is and certainly come out of this looking better than he does.
And maybe, if the Nerve Ending Fairy leaves them enough $100 bills, Americans can afford one of these new teeth!
One of the nice features of CouchDB is that the views are incrementally updated, ideal if you have a large dataset that changes frequently with little changes and you want frequently get the most up to date transformed data.

Looking into Riak, I am under the impression there is some caching done on parts of their map reduce system, but I couldn't really find a lot of advice on the performance characteristics of frequently running a map reduce over a large, slowly-changing dataset.

Does anyone else have experience using Riak for this kind of thing?
I know it's possible to charge 500-600 euros per day consulting in Vienna since I've done it :)
Ask HN: Charging clients for estimates?
Can anyone point me to resources, or offer suggestions here, on how best to go about doing this? I'm part of a (small) design/development shop - most of our clients are small to medium local businesses. I've read some stuff suggesting that it's best to charge for an estimate, the justification being that you need to expend significant energy to come up with something that accurately scopes the project, and that's of value to the client.
My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-free zone
If I remember correctly, Factual uses Clojure a fair amount. They have some functional nerds over there.
Don't you think this is an awesome opportunity for Square to explain to the author how charge backs work and why he should have money in his account? Perhaps if they used something other than cryptic replies they could help him understand the entire process and help make him even more of a Square advocate than he was before? That would be a HUGE differentiator from PayPal.

I would definitely say funding is for increasing customer service and trying to create as many advocates of your service as possible!
A simple electromechanical computer that you print on a makerbot
Jumping to conclusions. Nice.
Toothless stem cell researchers. Getting crafty.
This is a legal dispute and your bringing it public reflects terribly upon you.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_media
I disagree. Handling things professionally and keeping people honest are two different things.

There is no "service to the SV community" that this guy is doing by airing dirty laundry. If you've been wronged by your former company, handle it on your own. Shaming the company is not going to help you, the company, or anyone else. What you're effectively suggesting is that your "service" is to warn everyone to stay away from Miso.

Unfortunately, as a hiring manager, I'm going to stay away from you. While I wholeheartedly agree that you should have gotten your $10K referral bonus, I also believe it should have been while you were still an employee there. Once you leave, you're not entitled to anything more from the company.
Would regulating Google results violate First Amendment?
But... they start with totally different letters :)

Just kidding. The name is going to change, but the idea will remain intact.
Isn't it bad form to SPAM this place with duplicate submissions?

Original Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3955265
My brother was told to show up to his first day in clean clothes, for one data point.
When my girlfriend broke up with me, we had a lot of shared stuff in my apartment we had purchased together. I gave her back everything she wanted and more.

Why? I didn't owe her anything. We'd purchased things together, lived together, ownership was undefined, and hell, she left me. Oh wait - human decency. That's what it is.

I guess since HN is full of armchair CEOs, dismissing respectful business relationships is in vogue here.
The point about illegal retribution is really good. Notice how email #3 walked it right back and came up with an entirely different argument. They knew they screwed up.
At getdropdock.com we used postmarkapp.com which is super great :)
Funny thing: this UCSD page has an embedded video that played me an ad for KY Touch. Too bad UCSD isn't getting the money from that ad - could be a whole new way to solve the funding problem.
"This is interesting. What's the evidence?"

http://www.madinamerica.com/2011/11/anxiety/

The actual book (Anatomy of an Epidemic) explains it better, but those are just some quick links. They're also vastly more addictive than heroin. While the worst of heroin withdrawals are over in less than a week, benzo withdrawals can literally last over a year, with people unable to sleep and in severe pain that entire time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine_withdrawal_syndr...
Microsoft to bring full IE browsing to Xbox 360 with Kinect controls
Bookmarked, about to start furiously tweeting, this is excellent and kudos to you for doing it!
Maybe a parachute is a bad example. The questions are:

1) Is good quality associated with good grammar? (ie are these variables correlated?)
2) Does poor grammar signal other deficiencies? (ie where there is smoke, is there fire?)

Yes, poorly written instructions are not vital. However a menu with spelling errors in a high end restaurant may signal poor attention to detail/standards elsewhere.
The numbers post for my Vancouver bus app
It's still there:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3955265

As I write this it's at position 101. I suspect that it got flagged a bunch of times by ordinary HNers who don't like the semi-appropriation of the name. It doesn't need any censorship or action from moderators - 8 to 10 flags will hammer an item way off the front page.
That was what kept me reading the entire article.

Somrat started the conversation by making it personal.
So, where do I sign up to beta test?
For not being a lawyer, this is an awesome reply.
Your analogy makes no sense.
I'm sure their loved ones noticed.
What did you end up doing in the end once you made the mistake? As in, what did you do to help?
I like the django-rest-framework CBV design, finding them much more elegant (and documented) than Django's own CBVs.
> 10-11)

Yes. However, daily releases are possible for SaaS solution only.

> 12) Are release and eventually rollback operations automated just like a one-click operations and so are the deploy to the automatic test servers?

Yes, deployment is automatic. Roll-back is semi-automatic so far, but we are working on fully automatic roll-back and it will be ready soon (for SaaS). However, customers can install TargetProcess on their own servers, and in this case there is no automatic roll-back.

> 13) Can teams make architectural changes (i.e. change the persistence technology, change the presentation technology, change the authentication method/technology, change the caching or session state implementation) comfortably and gradually and without pain or huge risks ?

UI layer - yes. Caches and persistence layer, not so easily. Codebase is 8 years old in some places and definitely there are parts that are hard to modify. Several years ago speed was more important than code quality, so we have dome debts to pay. New code is very clean and cool, old parts of the system refactored gradually.

> 14) When you removed the time-boxing and at the same time adopted some kanban practices (from the report I understood WIP, leading time, just-in-time meetings as retrospective and planning) have you considered the possibility to keep both (as I understood time-box and kanban practices are compatible and so kanban and meeting with a fixed cadence are compatible, so as I understand all are valid options that team can adopt) ? What teams sensed in order to make the decisions and what consequences have observed ?

The main reason to try Kanban was an ability to release each feature or bug fix separately, so we did not considered cadence of any kind. I don't think cadence is required in Kanban. But definitely team can keep it and see how it goes. Changes were not easy initially, but in 2-3 months situation improved and it was clear that Kanban works better for us.
Mommy, how did Daddy become a zombie?
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Why We’re Definitely in a Bubble
We didnt post the second one. Someone else did because the first one got banned.
My old MBP had a PATA optical dirve bay connector. I didn't have the choice if in order to get the best performances.
If they file a lawsuit against an employee for losing a database that they neglected to backup, I would love to hear a follow up story.

I'm sure that after it gets out how they deal with routine mistakes they'll have highly qualified database engineers lining up at their door to work there because of the excitement of working in such a high stakes environment.
Do you realize how diametrically opposed your two points are? If an agreement is legally worthless unless it is formally stated, then all agreements will quickly become formally stated, and will devolve into "gobs of paperwork and hours of meetings."

If informal agreements are considered contracts (which they legally are), then the startup (or whatever) won't need all that formal processing.
Thanks for this!

Here's my resume using this template. With the PDF and LaTeX source-code. 'https://github.com/jjuliano/resume
Thanks, I signed up right after the launch to try it out (on my personal account)..
The product is cool, two things that I think will make it perfect:
1. Some kind of a security explanation, about the confidentiality of the content - my partners are a bit reluctant to give even a "read only" access to the PayPal account..
2. Slowpal was really slow (about 24h) in indexing my personal account which has way less transaction to date then the business account.

But its a great itch to scratch.. thanks!
What "list from IBM" would they be using? Can anyone confirm this categorization of the site as "illegal drugs"?

Edit: any chance this was done by someone in support of the pirate party?
A bonus is a contractual obligation, just like sales bonus salesperson get or revenue target bonus management get. In this case it's a payment for the recruitment service. It's not an informal bonus.

Technical recruiters typically got 1/4 of yearly salary as payment. $10K recruitment bonus is cheap.
I'm happy to see you name names. I've seen too many posts where people mention being wronged but then let the guilty parties of the hook. I can't imagine any company wouldn't hire you because of this is a company you'd want to work for .

You made a mistake with the db, but I don't see how that entitles them to essentially fine you 10k.
It's impossible to know how big the risk may be. Maybe he'll impress the hell out of whoever Googles him in the future. Maybe they'll run screaming.

My instinct based on incomplete understanding of the information is that the risk/reward was too high for my comfort level. In any case, I wish the author the best of luck in getting his bonus and in getting better about backups :)
Yeah, that tool worked just fine when I had to use it. So the Adobe person you asked did not know his stuff.