skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's impossible to know how big the risk may be, how can you say that there's any risk?
It is strange that the consensus in the Java community sort of ended up being against checked exceptions. I for one think that this consensus is completely wrong and I suspect that what looks like a consensus is just a bunch of very loud people shouting down everyone else (and to me not making very compelling arguments).
Elliotte Rusty Harold's brief post on this pretty much nails it for me:
http://cafe.elharo.com/blogroll/voting-for-checked-exception...
Who made the rule that it has to be about one thing, and one thing only? He can care about the public good and his own good all the same time. I know I do.
Except that is only enforced at runtime, and converts the exception type to unexpected_exception, which is even worse!
Also, they should be forced to read Fabian Pascal's rants about the end of Western Civilization, aggressive ignorance, and lack of understanding of the Relational Model.

http://www.dbdebunk.com/
A diet can not help the people who need this.
Here's what surprises me: Miso - Hey, is $10K really worth having a disgruntled ex employee out on the streets bad mouthing us in the community (even if you assume he/she doesn't go public with a post you know the story makes it around to 50 people in his circle) Ex-Employee: Hey is flaming Miso for this really worth $10K to me when it could cost me a future opportunity to work someplace where the salary is 6 or 7 figures over a few years + equity upside?

Between the two of these sense usually prevails. However, this one appears to have made it past both barriers and out into the public.
Saw this over @ hackaday.com, and thought some of you might find it interesting.

I just find homebrew computing fascinating.
I would love to see a job post for a company looking for "American fat asses" instead of Ninjas. LOL
I was surprised. We built 'hellod' servers in numerous languages and with various runtime stacks[1]. The results are here and might surprise you:

https://github.com/carbonfive/hellod/blob/master/results.md

[1] C/libev, Clojure/Aleph, Clojure/Jetty, Erlang, Go, Java/Netty, Java/NIO, node.js, JRuby, MRI Ruby
Jameson and I spent Mochi's first summer (2005) on Maui, where we built the majority of MochiBot and MochiKit. Worked great for us, although we didn't keep California time or do any planking.
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When the author states something like "give me my money or I'm going to the press," he loses all good will I might have towards him.
This ought to be counter-productive, considering that most students either know or potentially know about the Pirate Party. All this does is making people who didn't care enough become interested. I think the Pirate Party will probably get more votes from this, as people like to feel they are sticking up to the man - voting on a censored and a non-non-sensical party seems like a good way of doing it, especially since their views are aligned with most students views.
It's not a bonus. It's payment for services rendered. They offered $10k for a service. He performed the service.

Say I take a cab home from the airport. The money I give the cabbie upon arrival isn't a bonus -- it's payment for services rendered. (The tip is the bonus.)
"Ads are just more answers"

I think ads and social should compete equally with other content in Results. In that, most ads should rank just above the spam at the bottom. And Social results should rank as any opinions, like forums and such.

Where's the money in that? Dont know, but users would flock.
There's a reason he's a CTO and not an attorney. As is probably been mentioned a million times, it sounds like you absolutely had a contract. It need not be written. If you have emails or some documentation implying a contract between you and Miso, that's every bit as good (in some cases better because it is specific to your case).

If it were me I'd get an attorney to take it up on my behalf. If you have a friend who is an attorney who can do it, even better. File a small claims suit. Make them show up or hire an attorney. Settle out of court for five or six grand or go to court and take your chances. Sounds to me like you have a very good case complete with emails to show consideration. Split the money with your friend (or pay the attorney). Move on satisfied that you made them pay up.
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Thanks for putting this together... Looks good:) reminds me of console.fm.

Is there any way to skip through the selected mix?
Yeah, but Type 1 is much harder to treat.
For his next meeting he should wear a Betabrand executive pinstripe hoodie and dress pant sweatpants, and really throw em for a loop.

http://www.betabrand.com/executive-pinstripe-hoodie.html

http://www.betabrand.com/favorites/gray-dress-pant-sweatpant...
Well, shows how much I know. I guess the fact that most recruiters I've interacted with have been terrible might be coloring my opinion of their value. How does one go about finding a good recruiter?
It could have just as easily been one flag. A sufficiently weighty user can wipe a fledgling submission right off the front page with one click. You probably already know that though.
Anything is fine if you stick to the recommended dose!

The problem with this drug is that 16-20 tablets can be a fatal dose - which isn't that many taken 2 at a time.
I'm even further away in Santa Cruz, so I might not really be the best choice for a valley meetup organizer. The valley would just be less of a trek for me personally (and it's easier to find parking spots), and it's the right choice because the world obviously revolves around me.
A huge thumbs up for this!
May I suggest the Resident Advisor and XLR8R podcasts to be added too?
Again: Thanks for creating this site.
I'm still seeing it:

http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/essential-mix
Lawyers typically work personal injury on a contingency basis because they have a high percentage win ratio and because, all things being equal, the person injured is likely to be poor. There may well be lawyers who take employment law cases on a contingency basis, but there will also be ones who simply hire out their services in formal letterwriting on an hourly basis, broken down into six minute increments. That is, overwhelmingly, the most common billing arrangement in the profession. You might even find a lawyer willing to do that and defer the payment until after the check had been received, but I do not anticipate the legal bill here being a prohibitive amount of money for an American professional.
+1

This guy Joshua Z.H. Wu does not come out looking good in this blog post. He doesn't realize it, but he just lost a lot more than $10k in lifetime earnings too. Someone willing to nuke something that their friends/coworkers built in this fashion is just not someone you ever want to hire. You find this kind of crap on Google, and you just don't call him back or offer an interview.

After all employers are human too, and when you delete the production db, make everyone pick up your mess, quit, and then have the stones to ask for your long-forgotten referral bonus for current employees in a chipper tone when you are already at another company...yeah, he's kind of a douche.

I'm sure he can be legalistic about it, and I'm sure there are no end of lawyers out there willing to huff and puff about the evil employer but...douche.
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The lies we tell ourselves
Miso shares the same root as Miser.

How accurately suited their name relates after this.

Nuking the database isn't related at all to his entitlement to the referral bonus. Publicly naming is risky for future prospects as well. Hopefully, your integrity shines above the perceived lack of loyalty that future employers will see. I think you made the right call naming, but without legal intervention, you won't see a penny of that $10k.
Usability feedback: I completely missed the fact that there was a Details block until you mentioned it. Why? I don't know. Maybe I was assuming that their info was in one floating block as with LaunchRock.com.
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I absolutely love this.

Couple of things:

- It would be nice to be able to skip to an arbitrary part of the mix.

- Sound didn't work for me until I reloaded the page.
Right around the turn of the millenium, I downloaded a couple dozen Essential Mixes while I was on the GT campus. This just made my day--I really hope any legal issues can be avoided and this can stay online. :)
Thanks man! Those two are definitely in the works.
I have another addon instead: ad-block in Google Chrome. No problems at all. Sometimes I need it disabled for work, so I also have 3rd party cookies disabled. This way even if I come to coca-cola site I will not see it everywhere :)
I think it's worth noting that the people who really ate it are the original AIG shareholders. They lost a lot more than the taxpayers will.
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Even water is toxic if you ingest too much too quickly.
How excited are you to give it to him?

The scenario implies that the impact of the production db nuke was equal or greater than the bonus. Depending on the context, the impact could range from trivial to catastrophic.

The fact that it wasn't backed up only makes it worse. Sometimes I joke that correctly working yet poorly-written code is "conceptually broken". Similarly, any important data that isn't backed up is already "conceptually lost".
Is there any way to see the number of flags a link has accumulated?
Joyce, Eric, Wynwyn and Caleb were great to work and eat with! Loved the beach. Working in Hawaii now a days is great because of all the coworking spots like The Box Jelly and The Greenhouse. Hawaii is really taking off and will soon be the tech hub of the Pacific.

Side note about working with the SimpleHoney team - One time in the Ko 'Olina house I killed a cockaroach (follow him here - https://twitter.com/#!/householdroach) in the bathroom but was too scared to pick it up. Joyce "The Terminator" Kim went in there and picked it up for me LIKE A BOSS!!!! True Story!
we should do an exchange program, so HI startups get a taste of ground zero in Bay Area.
Postgresql will scale to 32 cores with a real workload, and has done so for a few years. Mysql performance still tanks at 8 cores.

Both of those statements are not accurate, but hey, what's it matter? Without benchmarks we're both talking out our ass anyway.
Good suggestion. BTW, have you looked at http://dbpedia.org/About ? DBPedia is RDF data extracted from Wikipedia data. There is an interesting and useful ecosystem built around it.
Not embedded. Something even simpler such as the number of email you donated + number of referrals and a link with a catchy phrase to a page where you can either donate your email signature or donate actual money to well known organizations.
Furthermore, there are usually eminent domain laws which can be used to by local governments to pressure landowners into using that prime real estate.
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No, it's a mathematical operator.

What I really like about the Y-combinator name is that it is actually a really neat metaphor for venture backed / mentored start-ups. The two legs of the 'Y' symbolizing the partnership and the return value (the bottom part of the Y) the result.

Very clever, it is too neat to be a co-incidence.
Not that I know of - it requires tracking rankings and making deductions. I know of no way to see the flag count.
It's not the same in all European countries. I think in the UK it is like you describe. I was quite shocked, however, when I heard about the typical wait times for things like broken teeth or bones (weeks - that was 18 years ago, though, don't know the current state). In Germany there are specific health insurances you have to pick. However it has become mandatory to have health insurance a couple of years ago, and the public insurers may not reject you.
Integrity isn't about technical or legal validity. It's about having made an agreement with someone, and honoring it.

Finding a semantic or legal way to breach an agreement is wack. Extra-much so if due to interpersonal static.

I don't know the parties involved nor do I like the attempt to adjudicate the matter in the court of Internet public opinion, but I do understand why folks are reacting to the story.
Heh, as a developer with business credentials as well, I find it somewhat ridiculous that it takes such a hostile tone towards business people towards the end. You do realize that 1) many businesses are needed for which designers/developers are a small part of the product and 2) sales and marketing are usually vital for growing businesses?

I was somewhat interested until I read that and got the impression that this seems like a glorified meetup group for web dev enthusiasts. I already know how to code. I am more interested in connecting with people who compliment me.
Thanks for letting us know. I really like rms, even if I don't agree with his every position. Here's to hoping he gets into good health soon.
Awareness of the incident aside, the comments on this thread just remind me of this well worn mantra:

Asking developers and entrepreneurs (as awesome as they might be) legal questions is about as useful as asking my lawyer engineering questions.

Name and shame, awesome, now get a lawyer.
The company agreed to pay him a certain amount of money if he referred somebody who stayed for at least 6 months. He referred somebody who stayed for at least 6 months. The company thus owes him the money. His employment status with the company has nothing to do with it, unless that was stated as part of the deal up-front.

I'm pretty sure this would last about five seconds in front of a judge. Produce whatever documentation is available (an e-mail about it should be plenty) showing that they promised the money, and it's done.

It doesn't matter that he forgot to claim it. Unless he let it go for so long that the debt passes the statute of limitations (7 years or so?), it's still owed to him.

This is little different from spitefully withholding an employee's last paycheck, a practice which is wrong and highly illegal.
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This seems interesting, I left my email. Gotta say, though, really turned off by the ninja stuff (and 300 picture). No, I don't wage covert warfare in feudal Japan. I do, however, enjoy shipping great code as fast as possible.
Startup launch PR is a tool to gather data
| It would be nice to be able to skip to an arbitrary part of the mix.
This is in the works. Just wanted to get the bare minimum out the door.

| Sound didn't work for me until I reloaded the page.
Looking into this right now.

Thanks for the feedback:)
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I find the reactions here fascinating. There's a hugely bimodal distribution here between people who sympathize with the employee (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.

I'd guess the latter are mostly founders, or people lurking here in the hope of someday being founders. And that makes me sad that so many of you think it's morally acceptable to promise large bonuses to your employees that you intend to pay only if reminded about it.
Good idea, but I see one big problem: market of lemons, i.e. the really good teams will concentrate on getting into YC or Techstars and only the mediocre teams and ideas will participate in NCombinator. But since there are plenty of good teams & ideas that get rejected by YC, there should be plenty of fish left.
I like the direction in which NCombinator is heading, a big part of the value that YC adds is in the support network and mentors. We need something like this in Berlin too!
Unless you're just generally curious of the company's internal process the details of his action/inaction to resolve a DB issue are completely unrelated to the dispute on wage.
The average IPO proceeds for the past two decades have never exceeded 100 million and have been hovering around 70 for a while. At 3% that means the typical cut is $2.1 million or less. Facebook plans to raise $11.8 billion, which at 1% would be $118 million. Compensation of fifty times normal implied by the 1% figure thrown out in the article still seems pretty high.
Splitting hairs over a commission when you make money on a deal is going to cost you a lot more than just paying out.

Next time that deal will go to a competitor that has no qualms about paying, even to non-employees.

This sends all the wrong signals.
There is EASTL, though I've never used it myself. https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL

Valve's Source SDK makes extensive use of their own data structures, however it is very specialized. For example, linked lists are allocated as growing, contiguous blocks of memory to reduce cache misses. The Doom3 source code might be worth looking at, but I'm sure it's the same story. https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl

At the very least, there's a lot of great reference out there.
You guys can both be right and it still doesn't matter. If you're going to offer bonuses or incentive comp of any sort, plan on paying them. You should be allergic to any reason for not paying short of "there is no credible claim to being owed this bonus".

It's definitely true that bonus programs are usually intended for existing employees. Concrete example: my last employer blew out their numbers the year I left the company; I wound up in a 6 month transitional role (and a few additional months of outside consulting) after a cordial mutual understanding that I was going to leave. The whole company got a massive bonus. I got a negligible bonus, even though I was a full-time employee, and even though the bonus accounted for multiple years where I was a full-time, fully performant employee with no stated intention to leave.

Am I mad? Nope! Most of the (unstated) point of the bonus was employee retention. I was unretainable. Paying me a giant bonus was irrational.

I think that's the same sentiment 'cletus is talking about, and to that extent, I'm totally with him.

But the answer to most disputes about bonuses should generally be "I'm sorry we let this escalate to a dispute, it's important to us that everyone knows we deal fairly with the team, and so we're paying you the bonus. We wish you the best."
The Pirate Bay Proxy, an Open Internet and Censorship.
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Asking for money you're owed never makes you a "douche". It doesn't take stones to ask for what you're owed just because you caused some problems. There is no link between the two! I'm astonished that anyone thinks there is. There's absolutely no leeway to say, "I don't like what you did recently, therefore I'm not going to pay you the money you're owed for something completely unrelated."
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Yeah that would suck, and I wouldn't have put it past that individual in question.

In my particular case, I had all my documentation in a row, but still didn't choose to 'go public', tho in retrospect I somewhat wish I had.
I thought fluoride is put in water for its teeth/health benefits.
You know, when I posted the comment about Children of Men, I was worried the topic might veer off into film critique.
First: this is a treatment for type 1 diabetes. There is no reversing type 1 diabetes.

Second: a _low carb_ diet helps type 1 and 2 diabetes and in many cases reverses type 2 diabetes. It has nothing to do with being "plant based". The greatest improvement in my control of my type 1 diabetes came when I eliminated grains, a type of plant, from my diet.

So, I directly disagree: A meat based, grain free, low carb diet is the single best prescription for anyone with any form of diabetes.
I don't get it. The author makes it sound like he did a great job.

How buying a domain for 20k$ is a great thing? Is "megirl" already anchored in the heads of thousands of users, enough to justify this purchase?

IMO, this 20k$ could have been used to do much more important things. New features? Marketing? Or even pay the shareholders!
When I saw the name (NCombinator) and the Ninjas, I was all but convinced that this was a tongue and cheek, well designed humor page.

Alas...
I don't have any connection to YC (other than this site) but I don't agree. I think it is belittling to say "that other place that takes equity."
Good feedback. I'll tone down the rhetoric. I'm absolutely not opposed to business guys. Just teams entirely composed of business guys "looking for a technical cofounder".

Right now it is a glorified meetup and support network. But it's also a "pact". Join and ship every week. Formalizing that and bringing together people who can uphold it is something I greatly desire and that's why I want NCombinator to exist and be successful.

We're very open to suggestions on how to make it better though. Had to start somewhere.
My wife is a type 1 diabetic. Type 1 diabetes is a disorder not caused by diet or by any particular moral failing you might imagine, and people with it are the primary target of a device like this.

Your ignorance is insulting to millions of people who suffer due to diabetes. Please educate yourself rather than spouting nonsense.
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When it started happening to me I was more or less indifferent other than to think: "why are they showing me an endless stream of ads for things I'm already a customer of?". I have more disposable income, so show me something new ferchrissakes.
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right. I have a bunch of usability feedback I could give if I thought it would matter. Some of it may be personal preference but... ack... that loooooong single page with no navigation is... well... special.
Absolutely a huge risk. This is a signal for litigious behavior. Who knows what could set this guy off? This time it's $10k. Maybe next time it's something else. There are a lot of smart people out there, many of whom are more reliable than this guy. Pass for sure.
Only 'a' has nothing to do with 'b'. Those things are independent.

Also, any company that allows a single person to 'lose their data and cause the entire company to scramble for 3 days' has some issues with separation of duties.
Groupon expands beyond deals with rewards program
I agree. I'm having a really hard time understanding the people who are defending the company here.

I can understand, if not sympathize with, the guys at the company doing what they did. Emotions get in the way, and it sounds like they were kind of angry. In that situation, it's only human, even if not right, to decide the answer first ("no") and then rationalize it.

But I can't understand why you'd defend them without any skin in the game. Maybe people don't think that an exchange which isn't written out in legalese and signed doesn't constitute an obligation? Maybe they're trying to approach it from some sort of karmic perspective, where somehow fucking up the database makes him no longer deserve the money he was promised for something completely unrelated?

It's bizarre. And troubling. Personally, I would say that this is about as cut and dried as it comes.
this headline is misleading. The website was blocked in some schools due to an incompetent configuration of a filter software. The filter configuration has been changed.
If you just mentally ad-block, are you still denying them?
I think you meant that the "dumb and energetic" should be transferred elsewhere.

Somewhere I heard a variation on this quote, attributed to Napoleon, that his solution for the dumb and enthusiastic was to "shoot them".