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Your stance is very black or white - either you're for the employee or you're a founder. I don't think it's quite that clear.

As an employee, I wholeheartedly agree that he should have been paid if he had some written form of agreement (email counts).

As a sensible logical person, I think he should have gotten paid when he was an employee especially since this was an employee perk.

I don't need to be a founder to know that he's not entitled to anything from the company when he's no longer an employee. What's the limit here? Can any past employee in the history of the company suddenly realize he's entitled to some perk, come back and demand it? And if he doesn't get said perk, publicly shame the company?
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Ask HN: YC Work At a Startup advice?
I applied (and got invited!) to the YCombinator Work At a Startup event next week! It has always been a dream of mine to work at a startup (on the developer side) in the bay and/or SV, and I'm finally taking one step closer to making that a reality.

I'll be flying in for my first time to SF and really have no idea what to expect or do. I'd love to get more plugged in with the community and spend my day meeting as many cool people as possible.

Any advice on what to do for the day would be awesome.

(edit: spelling)
I don't think this relates to the discussion at all. Based on the article, it sounds like it was not merely a perk at Miso. If you say you are going to pay it (in writing, etc), you must pay it.

At your company, I'm sure you've done the correct legal things to make sure that it's defined as a perk. But I don't see any evidence that that's how Miso has done it.

BTW, showing no loyalty to your former employees is a black mark in my book. I would urge you to reconsider your attitude.
Really disappointed by this post. As a long time friend of Miso and the awesome people there – the people responsible for several awesome open source projects (Padrino, RABL, to name a few) – it makes me really bummed someone would choose to bring an issue up in this way.

I've never heard of a former employee receiving a bonus – referral or otherwise. The idea of a referral bonus is rewarding someone for /growing/ the team, and if you leave before that term is up, or if you leave before you file for the bonus, it's ridiculous to ask for it later – especially when you've already deflated your good will with a company. Moreover, I've not heard of people receiving a referral bonus after forgetting to claim it. I've forgotten to claim one! But I'd never think its anyone else's fault but mine, and my company is backed by an enterprise with a lot of resources.

Hey, I dunno, maybe I'm too busy putting my heart in the work to focus on stuff like this. People like the `jzhwu` whine, foster negative energy, and distract our community from focusing on good work.

Or maybe I'm just secure – financially and mentally. I don't need to squeeze money from former employers or vent my discontent because I'm focused on what I'm doing now, and what I'll do next, and how I'm growing as a designer and a person. I hope this guy discovers a more mature mindset before he does more damage to his career.

Finally, I'm also disappointed by the many people who can't see this for what it is – I assume they're the same crowd that's taking to badmouthing "brogrammers."
Yea the first assumption I made after reading this is that he was fired in relation to nuking the DB.
RMS is controversial, extreme, and perhaps even crazy.

But it's scary to imagine a world without the counterpoint that RMS singularly embodies.

In a way, he evokes images of the Dalai Lama: In (metaphorical) exile, regarded as a heretic from many, and revered as a guiding beacon by others.
Have you ever understood physiology or biochemistry, much less endocrinology? While I'm sure you think you do, your comments reveal that you do not.
Let's not lump everyone together. There will inevitably be some significant minority of people on Wall Street who came there for the respect, and it's little wonder that when they don't get that respect despite the large number of 0s they command they get butt-hurt all too easily.
Could you give us more insight in the differences between the Cloudera videos and the BDU courses?
As the husband of a type 1 diabetic, this isn't anything new. The only difference between this and something I've seen a half-decade ago is that it's wireless communication between the pump and the sensor.

Maybe the software is a little better, maybe the sensors are a little smaller, but this isn't a step forward, it's just a step to the side. You still will have to poke yourself with 2 needles (one for the sensor, one for the injector), just not as often. You'll also have to wear this. Call it vanity but my wife would like to wear a shirt without some weird lump under it. A swimsuit might be right out.

Pumps are also prohibitively expensive, even with insurance. We're talking about $8k for the pump itself and the about $500 per month for supplies (for current models). Insurance usually covers about 20% of the pump cost but it will probably have to be replaced every 5 years.

There are more interesting things on the horizon like implanted glucose monitors[1][2]. Since diabetics eventually get used to the needles, they typically need a better way to know when they might need more insulin (or in some cases sugar).

[1] http://www.s4ms.com/products_glucose.htm
[2] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100728144347.ht...
I agree with your entire post. This part made me laugh though:

>you shouldn't throw away your high-level life just because it's "simpler to be poor."

It made me think of people that have won the lottery and after they've finally blown through all their winnings many concur that: it's "simpler to be poor."
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Show HN: my weekends fashion project
this project started at a local hackathon and I spent another 4 or 5 weekends polishing it up. My girlfriend, who I brought along to the event, said she was getting 'tired of her friends asking her what she will be wearing tonight or the brand of the foundation she is using right now'. A digital wardrobe, for the lack of better words.

It was a fun project and some of the early adopters are her friends. And since this site is more female oriented, here's my manly profile: http://re.mu/alvin

I highly recommend bringing your significant other to a hack event.
No they cannot refuse to send him his last paycheck.

I can't speak for the paperwork involved when leaving Miso, but most companies make you sign an agreement (often in the exit interview) that you are not entitled to/owed anything more than X, Y, Z items that are explicitly stated (which usually included the last paycheck and any unpaid vacation days).
Keep on reading your linked page:

> Although transitive sense 2 of flaunt undoubtedly arose from confusion with flout
The first one won't happen because it is good for literally no one. That's not prisoners dilemma. That's not even a dilemma.

The second one is happening full speed and has happened throughout the history of humanity. If you'd looked at wood usage 200 years ago, we looked doomed. If you'd looked at whale oil around the turn of the last century, it was all over.

We're shaking off oil now. It's taking a while, but every time the price of oil goes up, the profit for replacing it gets higher. 100 years from now, our 20 billion descendants will have more than enough of this curious mineral oil stuff for whatever archaic activities such might be used for then.
Try making those doctors work for free, and see how long there are "enough doctors available."
this project started at a local hackathon and I spent another 4 or 5 weekends polishing it up. My girlfriend, who I brought along to the event, said she was getting 'tired of her friends asking her what she will be wearing tonight or the brand of the foundation she is using right now'. A digital wardrobe, for the lack of better words.

It was a fun project and some of the early adopters are her friends. both our profiles: http://re.mu/connywu http://re.mu/alvin

I highly recommend bringing your significant other to a hack event.
Generally auto immune disorder means your body is so full of toxins it can't work properly. That's why your first order of business is to cleanse it and stay away from everything your doctor says is fine: genetically modified foods, food dyes, pesticides, vaccines, fluoride, benzine and paragons in everyday products (think shampoo), artificial sweeteners, processed foods, animal protein and load up on vegetables, fruits, legumes, quinoa, super foods and antioxidants, etc. The information is out there, people just would rather listen to their doctor who will be out of a job if you just took better care of your body. There's no Spinach Foundation or Kale lobbyists paying doctor each time you walk in the door.
What they did to you is the right thing. I can't imagine rewarding a stupid employee who wiped my data and left my company.
We may think it's the man we don't like but it's really his actions and beliefs

(Shrug) I am my actions and beliefs. There's nothing else to me. I don't know about Stallman, though.
'Correlation does not imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing "look over there".'
I understand this point and it is a good one.
But do people really click on ads that much? I didn't even realise that they registered for people.

They must or it wouldn't be a profitable system. Strange.
But what does that have to do with Malthus?
I agree with your central theme that more data is better. That's why as I suggested, he should have handled it on his own and taken legal action against them, so that there was a clear legal record of such behavior by Miso.
First search for something, then click on advanced. Bing's designers have obviously spent too much time playing Braid.
Could you please explain this in more depth, or provide a link?
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>just wrap the main function in try/catch block and you can handle all the errors in a single place.

Yeah, this kind of statement always scares me. In my experience people proposing it tend to 'handle it' by simply ignoring it happened. As if by simply catching and not crashing you have averted disaster. Nevermind that very little, if any, code is truly exception safe. That exception just tore through N frames of code interrupting each one at who knows what step and who knows what kind of state the object is now in. If you were lucky they were at least using RAII objects to ensure they haven't leaked things, but that is only half the battle. Unless they are using some kind of transactional approach to mutating their own instance state you likely have an object in a 'half-transitioned' state, which will likley violate various invariants the original author assumed (incorrectly) would always hold. Continuing in C++ (or really any language) after swallowing an exception 'around main' is a supremely bad idea, unless you like heisenbugs or getting pwned.
And we would do that... why?
You might think facebook needs to show respect to it's users, but clearly it doesn't. The relationship between them is one where facebook feels free to abuse their user's trust in the service by being awkward and unfair with their personal data.
Can you clarify who you think the asshole is? I think you're saying Pachter, but commenters below seem to think you're talking about Zuckerberg.
Wow. Was about to go find the Nero Essential Mix and write a new feature, but this site takes care of the first part for me :). Great work!
I assure you I'm not being one sided here; jzhwu and Miso clearly didn't part on good terms. It seems he's at least mildly incompetant. And he's clearly profane and confrontational. It's entirely plausible that the leadership team at Miso hates this guys guts for valid reasons and doesn't want to pay him a cent they don't have to.

And if this was a forgotten poster from his office or a lost book, no one would care. But it's ten thousand dollars. What do their feelings have to do with an obligation of that magnitude? Either they have to pay it or they don't. Who cares about whether he "deserves" it or not?

Also: you realize your intuition makes no legal sense, right? If you "agree that he should have been paid" then you are agreeing that Miso has a debt to jshwu. Debts don't disappear like that because of technicalities (or rather, not unless such technicalities are described in a contract that everyone seems to agree doesn't exist in this case).
I'm surprised no one has mentioned his Sequoia pajamas pitch for comparison.

http://www.quora.com/The-Social-Network-2010-movie/What-did-...
How can I upload my own mixes?
Huh. Why would anyone sign such a thing?
Either the doctors will have to work for free, or the rest of us will, to pay for others' health care.
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Me thinks you didn't bother to check my profile or you would know I run an alternative health site. While I generally agree with you, your approach is insulting, unnecessarily provocative and childish. Further, my experience is that while toxin load matters, it isn't everything. It is more complicated than that. Last, given your handle, it seems pretty clear you have an agenda. I would appreciate it if you don't drag me into your agenda. I have been whored out by other people enough in my life.

Thanks.
So I suppose claiming negligence is better than lying.

A question that should be asked is if Yahoo hired him opposed to another person based off his supposed CS degree. If so, negligence or not, someone else should be chosen as CEO. (and maybe someone can properly vet them before hiring.) If it was negligence he shouldn't get ostracized but he shouldn't keep a job he's not suited for.
I'm afraid not (and to clarify the first sentence, the 3 are "bonded" to a red blood cell).

Sometimes an article in a journal about beta cells or diabetic metabolism will have a quick overview, but it's usually fairly technical.
Pandora plays the crap out of Netsky if you make a station of Ed Rush (and that's a good thing!). I actually like the occasional break in play from Pandora as it reminds me to get up and walk around a bit.
I see this growing into something if:

-- You remove the profanity from you profile. It takes away from the concept.

-- You allow people to easily share it through a mobile device. Kind of like -(SMS)- "Hey, tell me if you think what Im wearing is hot or not?" (/SMS) Then they include a link to their profile with their clothing combination.

Heck, if I could text my wife and ask her if what I'm wearing is up to modern fashion standards (I can't dress), and share with her a link for her (dis)approval, then my life would be much better. I hate arriving to some family gathering and listening to her say "That's what you wore? The Pac-Man Shirt?"

PS. I love my Pac-Man shirt, but would love to have someone upvote or downvote me wearing it depending on the occasion.
I was an intern in a startup that tried exactly this. It was a lot of fun. We got a ton of VC cash to burn and so why not do it in a nice environment? In the end, the company failed. We all got too much into a "holiday" mood. The webdesigner won a surf contest. The CEO started an affair with not one, but two of the female employes. We all got fat from eating delicious food from the 5-Star hotel and high class Restaurants near by.

Moral of the story? Stay frugal even when you dont have to. It might be better for the company.
Reminds me how the most common street in the US is, bafflingly, "Second Street" [1]

The reason being many times "First Street" gets renamed to commemorate a person or event.

[1] http://www.nlc.org/build-skills-networks/resources/cities-10...
Hey, at least you get to pick your ads. :P
Btw, a simple search for anything geeky gets me tons of dating ads. (i havent installed adblock on my Opera test-browser). Pics of smiling chicks may be preferred over ugly medical conditions.
This sounds great, but it's not really a solution to the hard problems with crypto. The single biggest impetus to a fully encrypted internet is not a technical barrier, but the fact their are too many competing systems and standards, all with different drawbacks, but generally all of which give terrible UX. For an encrypted web to become ubiquitous, there will need to be a set-it-and-forget-it solution that requires minimal input from the user and which doesn't reduce functionality.

Using .secure just asks users to instead place their trust in a new central authority; why does this even need to be a new TLD? This researcher is wasting money buying into ICANN's bullshit monopoly. The future of strong crypto systems will most certainly be decentralized.
The thing is, if we're interviewing, and the person who shows up in Pajamas rocks out on the whiteboard, and just blows us away with their humility, ability to communicate, domain knowledge, and mental agility - I don't think we'd hold the Pajamas against them. Also - Pajamas are kind of a hipster startup wear on occasion. I recall our VP of HR showing up in pajamas at Loudcloud. And, I saw people wearing Pajamas at Lily's Crepery in San Mateo this weekend. Maybe they would lose marks on the Gym Short/undershirt thing - but they wouldn't automatically flunk out the interview.
Email is the property of his employer, the courts would not expect him to be able to produce it. His lawyer could however ask the court to obtain the email on his behalf, and the company would be compeled to provide it.
Thank you. I will keep your remarks in mind. Though my first thought is to wonder how that relates to the inflammation component, which is a known factor in both my condition and diabetes generally. I need to think on it.
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#1) Can't unsubscribe in the settings menu. (Specifically trying to uncheck News & Updates)

#2) Are you going to implement capability to launch warheads at a specific location? That way we can preemptively strike at targets we think a person will be at?
Why doesn't the rest of the US use Boston's approach?
This + RFC 3514 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt) will make internet secure!
But when you're in a position of power you also have a responsibility not to be a dick.

In general, that's a great idea and I agree. But Wall Street types mostly don't believe in that responsibility. So it's nice to see someone turn the tables on them.
Was the parent edited, or are you arguing a straw man?
Your java library might still throw unchecked exceptions, so you have to be as careful as if all exceptions were unchecked.
Yes, do charge them.

Way less headaches.

I've done this in multiple industries (not only software), and it filters out the tire kickers.
What makes this worse is that you'll get the same ad used across the entire page. If one wasn't enough, why not have another in the middle of a paragraph, and at the top of the page, and down the sidebar, and at the bottom, and above the comments?

Why not show me several retargeted ads? If I don't click one, I'm not going to click one of the other dozen copies on the page, so why not put something else relevant there?

As it stands, viewing a retargeted advert on an ad-heavy page is like being mithered by an annoying child. "Buy this buy this buy this buy this!"

(Curiously I appear to have opted out, but I still get this retargeting stuff.)
Sorry but to me the moral of the story was not stay frugal, but to stay focused on the product or company vision.
Love it, and loving your selection I'm seeing in there.

You might like the "mix youtube music videos" website I made. You can load any youtube user's video playlists as "crates" and then mix from track to track:

http://burnsmod.com/fun/mixtube/mixtube.html
This isn't entirely true and varies from state to state and hospital to hospital. We had a trip to the hospital last year (non-ambulance, but was an actual emergency). Prior to checking out, we refused to sign anything from the hospital itself until checkout time. (quick sidebar, I've never seen anything as sleazy as an administrator trying to get someone who's heavily sedated and mediated but hasn't been fully diagnosed yet (triage and stabilization only) to sign paperwork related to billing and insurance, and then to authorize a room change to long term and the to an overnight room...all before they even knew what was going on). At checkout time, they had no insurance info...if we had no insurance, they would consolidate the fees from all groups (contracted doctors, anasthesiologists, equipment use, medications, etc.) and waive 2/3 of it and set up a payment plan (non-loan style, so no interest, or fees). This total was lower than if we used insurance and paid what was remaining on the deductible for the year and happened late enough that we wouldn't have benefited from using the insurance. I have no idea if it was attitude, handling it like business, persistence or just how they do business, but it greatly impressed me.
You're missing the point and rushing to defend someone I'm not trying to insult. I never said or implied Jobs fans aren't the same. The point is that when someone dies or has something bad happen to them saying something like "I'm not glad he's dead but I'm glad he's gone" is like spitting on their grave and in such times we should remember that they were human like you or me and forget our petty grievances out of respect. When someone like Stallman dies it reminds us of our own mortality as would anyone's death. I'd hope no one was a dick about it "because Stallman said this and that about Jobs after he died" or "because he promoted some awful ideology" or something like that. I don't even like Stallman but when someone has a health crisis or dies you don't celebrate it no matter who they are. It's just common decency. Don't make this a Stallmam V. Whoever comparison.
As I resident of O'ahu, I'm psyched to see this. We don't have enough startup activity here.
>The developers we have onsite...

I'm not sure what in particular you are saying, but that is a terrible rate of pay that only the worst (or most naive) developers must stomach. Six figures is not at all uncommon.
> Fortunately, we all now know that OpenDNS and anything else David Ulevitch is involved with in the future is a company to avoid.

It seems that's true only if you value treating people with respect when you aren't legally obligated to.
Meat quality is a huge component of eating Paleo. Grassfed and pastured meats may be more expensive but they pay dividends in health benefits.

Which brings me to your second statement that "consuming animal protein" is "very bad for humans". Do you realize that humans and the ancestors of humans have been consuming animal protein for 2 million years? Our metabolisms EVOLVED for eating animal proteins. Consuming animal proteins is the only way our species has been able to survive and thrive in ALL climates from the north to south poles, many places where vegetation is only available three months out of the year. Animal proteins are the only food available to us which include all 20 amino acids necessary for optimal health. Pound for pound, meats are drastically more nutrient dense than any other form of food. What the hell are you smoking?
So, let's see. For an inflated price, you get a domain name which has a vastly more complex application process, which places arbitrary restrictions on what services and configurations you can run under it, which mandates periodic security scans (probably at your own cost), and which retains the right to seize your domain, possibly permanently, if you don't comply. Oh, and you end up with what is ultimately a less memorable and more difficult to type domain name.

With features like this, how could you say no?
Being able to parameterize table and column names in queries would be a big help.