skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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

I would have second thoughts about hiring this guy, not just because he took his dispute with an earlier employer public, but also because he apparently blew up a production server and screwed everything up for several days.

Right now these are the exactly two things I know about this dude, and put together they don't give a strong first impression.
I don't really see why the distinction matters. Somebody pushed a button and it got shoved multiple pages back, votes [mostly] discarded from consideration. Whether it's 'community' or moderators seems minor.
But only for municipal elections in some federal states. For state elections it is 18 in all federal states except for Bremen where the voting age is also 16.

However, there are students at school that are already 18, so I can see the problem here. Though it seems that it was caused by a misconfigured filter and clearly lack of intent.
Metrics, Metrics On The Wall, Who's The Vainest Of Them All?
Judge moves to limit 3rd phase of Oracle v. Google
HelloFax (YC W11): With 51K Installs, We’re The Top Google Drive App
In case you don't know, the BBC is pretty happy to take down sites hosting their content. Be careful. I'm pretty sure Mixriot tried the same thing and got burned.

Feedback-wise, you might want to look into more flexible search for non-standard letters. Concrete example, "Tiesto" returns no results, but "Tiësto" returns seven. I have a feeling most people are not going to take the effort to find an umlauted e and will just assume you don't have any of his mixes.
I think he was talking about this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-437215/Scient...

If I remember correctly, this isn't widely used because of cancer risks.
Ask HN: NCombinator, feedback?
Here's our site: http://ncombinator.com

We're trying to build an "open source ycombinator" that is less about investment, and focuses on the one aspect every YC alumni says is the top advantage of YC: "the network".

Our first post got booted. Another HN reposted it and that got booted too.

So we'd like to ask, what do you hate? (besides the name... which we're changing). Obviously we're big fans of YC's ideas so our goal is purely to spread those ideas farther and wider.

Thanks!
Why doesn't anyone want to build companies anymore?
At my company, it's a perk. And I love paying it out. And my loyalty is to my employees. I would bleed for them. But it's not to my former employees. As I approach 100 employees, many who have been with me for 4+ years, I find my stance to be entirely in their favor.
This probably doesn't apply in this case, but if any of you ever have an employer fail to pay your paycheck, you probably can get it resolved without a lawyer. This happened to me once, and I filed a complaint with the Bureau of Labor in my state (Oregon, at the time), and they leaned on the company and got me my last paycheck in less than a month, no cost to me.

(On some level, though, I wish I felt like naming names, because that company is still in business, despite that one quarter where they suddenly stopped paying everyone. But don't worry - they're almost certainly nobody you've ever heard of or done business with)
Ask HN: Will you beta test my location-based game, Friends With Guns?
Friends With Guns has been my project over the last several months. The game pits two players in a real-time, worldwide battle of virtual missile attack and evasion.

Play the game on either your iPhone or Android web browser by visiting http://www.friendswithguns.com.

I recently opened up the signup to the public, so feel free to invite others to play. If you don't know anyone, you can play me by creating a new game and entering my alias "Captain Kirk".

I would appreciate any feedback you have. I've been making updates each day and just added the Leaderboard yesterday.
I was expecting some fluff piece about how to make a passive income on SEO while living a jetset life style. This was not it. The article makes surprisingly much sense actually.
Are the health insurance plans means tested? ie does a millionaire pay the same as someone who is unemployed? Does the government also contribute some money behind the scenes?

In the UK dentistry is not covered by the National Health Service. (More accurately it can be but the vast majority of dentists opt out.)

As for waiting lists the UK did significantly increase spending in order to reduce them. (The UK also had one of the lowest per capita spending rates in the EU.)

However every health system anywhere has to do some form of rationing. There aren't an infinite number of beds, doctors, machines, or money for that matter. When there is some waiting then whatever is being waited on can achieve 100% utilization although queues can easily get out of hand. How to do the rationing is very tricky. Ultimately some value has to be put on human life. Spending $5000 on a course of treatment instead of $100,000 where the latter has 5% better outcomes needs to be decided.
There are quite a few things in life that are based on you remembering something. Remembering to pay your taxes on time. Remembering to register for the Selective Service upon attaining the age of majority. And remembering to cash in your bonuses and vacation days BEFORE quitting and burning bridges, not after.

This guy isn't a current employee. There wasn't a contract signed. That is a gaping hole wide enough to drive a truck through when someone has burned through goodwill like jzhwu has.

> I'm in that set: the guy's out ten thousand dollars, who cares about feelings or "employers being human" at that scale?) and the employer.

Wonderful. And how much do you think his database mishap cost them? Probably a lot more than $10k! And now he's attacking them on the internet. This is someone who is willing to cause hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage for what he's convinced himself he's entitled to, even thought it's a bonus for current employees.
Of course it's a mistake I've made.

The difference between me and this guy is that I wouldn't've turned around and asked the company for a bunch of money afterward.

And what, exactly, do you think I owe him an apology for?
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This Stallman quote (transcript from an interview) may be instructive here:

"And the issue doesn't really arise for software that goes in a watch or a microwave oven or an automobile ignition system. Because those are places where you don't download software to install. It's not a real computer, as far as the user is concerned. And so, it doesn't raise these issues enough for them to be ethically important."

Source: http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.html
Sure thing man! Frontend is all Backbone.js hooked up to a Rails API for the backend. We use MongoDB with Mongoid and LESS for CSS with the old bootstrap.less (which later became Twitter Bootstrap). As for the background I could of used a gradient but its just an image made with photoshop.
What if materials could defy gravity?
Its 18. In North-Rhine Westphalia. http://www.wahlrecht.de/landtage/

End yes, just this was most likely just one commercial filter going rogue on drug related words in one school only, which blocked a completely legal and g-rated drug politics statement on the website of the pirate party.
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I am downvoting you because I think it's repugnant to wish someone ill health because of what they said, especially if you're pretending you're being neutral/'fair' about it.

That it was said six years ago and you dredge it up in an entirely unrelated topic shows that you are more interested in grinding an axe than discussing the matter at hand.
Yep, skipping the - sometimes longish - intro talks would be a plus.

That said... awesome! Already sharing stuff on my Facebook :)
Real world / hypothetical world / thought-experiment aside, the point stands: treating a service as an entitlement entails imposing an obligation on somebody else to provide that service, OR to pay for that service, etc.

If granting one person a "right" means violating someone else's rights (that is, their right to choose how to direct their energy and the fruits of their labor) then it's unjust.
Glucose regulation is done by bonding oxygen to glucose with insulin.

When the pancreas does not manufacture insulin, no oxygen gets to the brain. Eating anything at all, no matter it's origin, will cause you to require insulin. Period.

Eat anything YOU want, but people who need this CAN NOT be helped by modifying their diet.
> Did they promise him a referral bonus? Bam, done, legally binding contract.

Nope, not if they actually have a pre-existing contract signed with other employees that states that the bonus is for current employees only. Then the email conversation is a reference to this pre-existing contract, which excludes Joshua Z.H. Wu in his current state.

And if you were the DBA at the company who was just caused no end of trouble by old jzwhu, you might remember that you signed a contract like that back in October or something.
Yes: basically any study on the effects of more diverse work teams or leadership has come up with the same result: diversity is good for business, better for the bottom line, results in better products, and so forth.

Have a gander: http://j.mp/J3RwfG
I feel like there should be a meta-HN app that allows people to categorize and collect HN discussions like this (I often find myself doing that myself). But your analysis is spot on, and it bothers me that so much of the conversation seems to miss the central point: the company promised something, and then broke the promise. This is wrong, and should not be encouraged in our society.

(Reminds me of the gay marriage debate, which too-often ignores the simple fact that these "defense of marriage laws" are exactly like Jim Crow. It doesn't matter if you like gays or not, or why you do/don't like them. You can't discriminate, period.)
Yup. Paleo has been transformative for me. The reason this diet is so great for diabetics is two-fold:

1) Meat gives my body the correct satiety signals, and so staying away from all of the carby treats that I use to find so addictive is no problem. It's easier for me to eat the right foods AND eat the right amounts of those foods.

2) Meat is not made of sugar like high carbohydrate foods are. The protein of meat needs to undergo a slow metabolic process (gluconeogenisis) in order for my body to turn it into sugar. What this means is that my food is "slow release" energy (sugar) as opposed to an instant sharp spike in sugar. Predictability is key when you need to manually inject the correct amount of sugar consuming hormone after every meal.

This diet is also great for EVERYONE... But that's a different discussion.
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Thank you. Working on reading it now.

(Though I think "auto immune disorder" is utter bullshit and generally means the same thing as the phrase "dumb luck" -- basically, that they don't really have a logical explanation.)
I'm looking at it in terms of a 5.0 product. Unless they secretly removed the feature from that version (I'm assuming not but please tell me if I'm wrong), then anyone buying it knew what to expect.

In terms of car analogies, one that 'bursts into flames' needs a recall, but one that tends to overheat in the worst days of summer, in a product line that's always done that, is a fair deal.
I just realized that Haxe might fit the bill, with support for both Flash and HTML5: http://haxe.org/
Shouldn't that be no-followed?
Always collect your money before burning bridges if possible, especially in this industry.
Buy black ops
really they got booted? I signed up as soon as I landed on the site, sounds really cool. Why would people hate on this? :(
Backbone refactoring: moving presentational logic out of the model
Sure but it doesn't matter and isn't the issue at hand.

Merck knew about Viox' problems from the research they suppressed.

The data matters mainly to retrospectively determine how bad the situation was and looks like it was really bad.
Love it. Netsky's Essential Mix is amazing to listen to while programming: http://mixture.fm/search/netsky :)
Scarily enough, that actually sounds like a decent idea.
I think maybe the only distinction that mattered was that being flagged to the point of getting pushed 4 pages in is not the same as being banned.
While a situation like this totally sucks the bridge was destroyed like The Bridge on the River Kwai on both sides. Maybe even nuked.

Never heard of Miso (other than the awesome soup) but this is heavily damaging to the brand (for developers). They really should have paid if the new employee was working out, not anything based on the employees performance. Isn't a referral based on getting a good additional asset? Without that referral would you be less a good developer, then pay the bonus.

For the OP, probably should have just moved on as destroying bridges is not a good idea, the world is smaller than we think.
Insulting him and telling him he shouldn't ask for money he is clearly owed because of a mistake we've all made. Actually, that second part is an insult, too. So, really, just being incredibly insulting.

That you wouldn't ask for the money is irrelevant. We're not required by any law, moral, or ethic to go through life as a doormat. At this point, money has been stolen from him, just as if they'd taken it from his bank account. He is owed that money, and entitled to ask for it without you attacking him for it.
I can certainly understand and empathize with your intentions, but as some of the reactions in this thread have shown, the intended sarcasm is instead being taken at face value by some, and perhaps alienating those people.

Then again, the people who are overly sensitive/annoyed about the whole brogramming/ninja craze may be unlikely to join ncombinator anyways, so perhaps there is no real downside anyways.
I argue that if he didn't do it -- it would be a dis-service to the community. I look at it like if it were simple assault involving you and an assailant. Since you were not really injured you decide not to press charges against them.

Let's say the assailant does this again in the future -- hurting somebody marginally. And they do press charges.

To the court this looks like a first offense and they let the assailant off gently.

Now suppose the assailant attacks again and this time causes significant injuries.

Had you originally reported your attack, then it is reasonable that the court would see a second minor attack more seriously and could bring more severe charges, deterring the assailant from subsequent assaults and improving the not only the assailant's life, but also the community (as a whole).

This is a specific instance of the more data a deciding entity has, the better chances their making the right choice.
He was a current employee when the payment was due, thus the money was owed then. That he later quit does not somehow erase the debt.
Oh man, I would love this. For some reason, every so often, a tooth of mine starts hollowing out from the inside and I need a root canal. Then a few years after that, the hollowing out resumes and the tooth eventually distintgrates, and then I need an implant. This has happened four times already, and it looks like #5 is beginning.
Thank you very much for your first sentence. Are there any links you would reommend to better understand the process? I did a paper on "functional hypoglycemia" many years ago, so I am not starting at square one. However, I find good info (like your first sentence) tends to be in short supply.
I'd say they're pretty great competition

The teams who finish will probably have an mvp, maybe a pivot or two, hopefully some user traction. That might be enough to get to VC's in this climate. Or even just bootstrap and own the company 100%

It's also far more likely that the good teams will get sniffed out by angels at this early stage rather than giving pg a bite at the apple

Having said that you're right, I think pg will want to be close to these kind of things rather than futilely trying to kill them
I interviewed most of those people. We couldn't get a decent JS dev for less than 400-450 a day. We could get people, but one (who cost 300/day) actually didn't know much JS.
Perhaps they figured that there was no downside to going public, if they had to disclose their finances anyways? If Zuck has 56% of the voting power, and other former and current Facebook employees have significant shares as well, then it's quite possible that even with the IPO, Wall Street won't have much sway in the company's dealings regardless.

(I am personally a big fan of Costco for rebuffing Wall Street's cries for higher prices and lower worker compensation and benefits)
Contracts need an offer, acceptance, and consideration. "Consideration" just means that both sides should stand to gain something from the agreement.

Non-disclosure text at the bottom of an email seems like a real stretch for that. Of course it depends on the jurisdiction and the case law.
I'm glad it works out for you, but that diet is not great for everyone. In fact, much like the standard american diet - it's BAD for everyone, especially if the meat you consume is not grass fed. You're basically consuming the toxic soup of GMO corn, soy, and other grains fed to animals that were never meant to eat that. Plus you're consuming animal protein, which is very bad for humans. Unless you're thinking mainstream, those people don't even take issue with aspartame in their regular diet coke intake.
Danger moment for Apple and speculative tech industry
Well, now I think you owe me an apology for telling me that I'm being insulting. Not that I expect to get one.

Whatever. This thread has been an idiotic waste of time. I do think I'll be saving it for future reference though.
No the UK does not make you wait weeks for broken bones. That would never make sense, because the bone would have healed in that time in the incorrect position, and then require expensive surgery to re-set it. It's so obviously nonsense.
I loved the page, don't listen to these fools :P
These posts (of which there are plenty) rely on the extremely common and (I think) extremely flawed assumption that company = technology + marketing/sales. Hence, great tech + great network = $$$.
A company is first and foremost a product. Which involves understanding in a novel manner both your users and the technology to build it. Great product people can be techies, designers, "business people" (whatever that means), sales people, doctors and housewives. They are those who define the company.
Secondly, a company is a team of individuals. Getting many people to work well together is very hard.
Then there is technology, marketing, and finance and HR etc.
Of course there are many "nontrepreneurs", but it gets boring to gripe about them.
More importantly, I feel like an engineer who pidgeon-holes himself as a techie (and that's it) lacks ambition, and is unlikely to get senior in a successful startup. All techies I can think of who started a big one seem to prove this.
(Signed: engineer AND business person)
Taxes and draft registration are legal requirements. So is paying your employees what you owe them. I don't see the asymmetry here. Bonus compensation is still wages (i.e. what line does it go on in your W-2?). You don't have the option to not pay wages to former employees, even ones you don't like.

And your last bit is IMHO horrifying. You clearly think it's OK to dock wages for mistakes on the job. That's both illegal (Wildly so! Don't try this on real employees or you can wreck your company.) and immoral.
This is exactly what I've been wanting to do. Well done simplehoney; sounds like a great time.
You are wrong. Has your wife ever tried a plant based diet, or is it just more convenient to believe your mainstream doctor? I guess the latter.
I think they should use the word cloud more. Ridiculous.
You're missing the point. Facebook might not have been "forced" to go public, but they still don't really need the cash from the IPO. And there are undoubtedly lots of bankers who would kill to be in on the facebook IPO.

So the banker who expected Zuckerberg to bow and scrape was still badly mistaken. Zuckerberg isn't really "asking investors for their money" in the IPO, because he doesn't really need that money. That's the point.
It's not contradictory to agree that the MPAA's "every pirate is a stolen sale" claim is bullshit, but still think that torrenting TV shows is unethical.

Some may believe that the ethical choice is just to not watch that TV show.
OMG, is Amazon going to kill tech blogs too?
>The very goal is death

Are you saying that the goal of soldiers is to die? I assure you that, in reality, it's quite the opposite. Please read nknight's parent post to which I replied. I brought up police officers and soldiers as examples with higher mortality rates than what nknight mentioned. Dan just provided some numbers.

>Nobody made or remotely implied either statement

It seems the confusion is that you believe I'm talking about other HN posters. In reality I am referring to the American public and Government agencies seem to be making this statement due to their reluctance of embracing risk that's inherent in space exploration. I appreciate that you provided information on what you find acceptable.

>indoctrination
Are you implying that this is a new phenomenon? The expression "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" has been around since Rome. I would just have us apply the same pride in defending our country to expanding our national scientific advancement. Imagine the day our scientists and researches attain awards and recognition similar to what we offer our military heroes.
Will this get booted too?
I don't think it's unjust to make people contribute to society through taxes if they want to live in it. They're free to opt-out from that implicit contract by going to live elsewhere. There's plenty of inhabited places on Earth still.

In any case, rights can and are sometimes eclipsed by others. The idea of natural, absolute rights is just ridiculous.
Don't forget the corollary to Hanlon's Razor, Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
Your loyalty to your employees should include respect for contracts and the law. This man satisfied the conditions for payment of the bonus before he left the company, he is entitled to the money. That you would not give it to him makes you little better than a thief.

Fortunately, we all now know that OpenDNS and anything else David Ulevitch is involved with in the future is a company to avoid.
Miso HR department should have automaically paid the $10k as soon as the criteria was met.

When you work your heart out for a company, you expect the company to look out for you. Loyalty is a two way street, at least this is how I used to manage my people and I would go above and beyound to protect them.

All said, the OP harmed himself as much as he harmed Miso. Although I side with OP on principle, his rash reaction would make me hesitate to ever hire him. It would have been better to have exhausted all other options, before trying to burn your old company.
If we learned more from our failures than our successes, presumably unsuccessful entrepreneurs, especially serially unsuccessful ones, would be the ones most sought after for advice on startups....
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