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> This is interesting. What's the evidence?

I'd be interested to see the evidence for "terrible for you".

Hypnotics just make you sleep - they don't treat the cause of the insomnia. (For some people they're great at kicking you back into a routine.) There's evidence that long term use can create rebound insomnia.

Here's a guide for general public stating the need for using the meds short term:-

(http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/TA077publicinfoenglish....)

Here's a slightly more technical document with links to the evidence that they used:

(http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/TA077fullguidance.pdf)

Here's a guide aimed at clinicians with many links to good evidence:

(http://www.cks.nhs.uk/insomnia/evidence)
Number 2 is number 1
"If you don't like it, it must be because you haven't taken the time to understand it" is cognitive poison. What evidence will convince you that someone has understood well enough to judge that something doesn't make sense?

I've spent many years using schemas, and I know well how they work and what they achieve. I'm saying they're a lousy tradeoff.
Even saying that it could cost him seems like empty threats from the peanut gallery. On what basis, that someone might not want to hire him because they plan to rip him off?
Sorry but you need to take responsibility for forgetting to ask for the bonus at the end of six months while you were still employed by Miso. If you had remembered in all likelihood you would have been paid in full and all would have been well.

As it is, you left the company on bad terms and decide to publicly shame them. You will have trouble getting future employment as a result. Your future earnings has just potentially decreased by substantially more than $10k. How would you feel if after someone fired you they blogged about all the mistakes you made on the job publicly referring to you by name? You just don't do this. It's bad for business.
Box model: Fixed in IE6, 11 years ago: Internet Explorer versions 6 and onward are not affected by the bug if the page contains certain HTML document type declarations.[1]

Double margin, min-height: Fixed in IE7, 6 years ago.

Staircase bug: Fixed in IE8, three years ago.

You're complaining about issues that were fixed over a decade ago. You haven't even bothered to research the very things you're complaining about and you expect people to take you seriously. These are solved issues. If you ensure your page has the correct doctype -- which they should have regardless of whether you want to support IE or not -- then your site works on all versions of Internet Explorer after 6 (which has a ~2% market share [2]).

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_box_model_bug...

2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2012-04/Squ...
In HSV space it's not as much of a problem.
People fit into a black-white-red triangle
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Uhhh...

The fact that NO AMOUNT OF MONEY could save you from prosecution in China maybe?

In fact, the American Conservative can point to several dead Chinese 'Boardroom types' to make a quite convincing argument that no amount of money could even save them from execution in China.
It's also considered polite to cut people waiting for an ambulance to arrive to take them to the hospital a little slack.
Well actually, I haven’t expressed an opinion about whether his words are acceptable or whether he’s a bad person, whatever that means. I have heard more than a few people taking me to task for wishing him good health on account of his words, and one of the reasons I posted this was to hear from people like you.
I've done a quick study of this at my office, and I'm not saying the results were what you experienced, just that this was one sample. When people put the same simple search term in both, they found the result quicker in Bing. When the search term was more complex and used operators, they found the result quicker in Google. The difference I saw was that people were used to Google and how to format a search so Google finds it better. The same search operators didn't work as well in Bing.

Whether this is a problem with complex queries in Bing or a problem of the computer training the user, I can't say. This was just what my office found out. For the record, no one changed their search provider.
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Yep, we'll change the name (our first batch of startups will get to pick the real one) . NCombinator is just a working title.
In this particular case the upgrade was interrupted. I have around 250MB on my / partition now. But as I prefer to upgrade from text console, I caught all "out of space" messages and fixed it trivially (made more room, repeat the command). That's the only problem I ever had with a Debian upgrade. I typically use testing.

Now Ubuntu upgrades are hidden behind a GUI, and you are told not to do it manually. It's not uncommon that they fail to cover all difficult cases. Either way, I have Ubuntu on my mother's machine and I've become scared of making upgrades. A few times I had to drop to IRC to ask for specific instructions because I couldn't figure it on my own.
I hope this pans out; the Ruby community has historically had a lot of behavior at conferences that isn't just slightly offensive, but genuinely disgusting.

In general I often find myself on the "the line was blurry, the intent was not to offend, so let's educate" side of things, but when there is a track-record of behavior like I have seen, something set out in black and white like this is clearly needed.
That "Kudos" meter in the top right corner is inaccurate. I moused-over the black circle before I realized what it did, and it counted my "vote" anyway.
Yea, I agree that his blogpost was more colorful, but his emails to the company seemed totally fine. He's basically just asking them for more or less a favor that they are not obliged to honor (like you pointed out), but is all this really worth the bad PR?

The part that really bothers me is that one of the reasons they give for denying him this is a recent engineering mistake. It just feels like this is all out of spite, and it's more of a childish move more than anything.
Looks nice, I know this is a pretty simple thing to do but you should release the code just so others can see it for reference.
Liked the article up until the point at the end where he attributes our deficit to Medicare and not the wars.
So very much this. My time is worth more than you could possibly charge per impression/click when one of your shady ad networks gives me some form of malware.

Until ad network administrators take responsibility for what's being shown under their name, adblock stays on.
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Does somebody know how to get access to the courses that require an "enrollment key" like this one: "spreadsheet like analytics" http://bigdatauniversity.com/courses/enrol/index.php?id=462
Is it worth learning LaTeX as a premed?
I agree, I created an account whenever Square had first come out and for whatever reason my identification could never be verified allowing me to not be able to use Square. After an email to customer service, I was told "If we believe we erred in our assessment, we will reach back out and contact you", to basically say that my ID couldn't be verified and it would be that way into the extended future unless Square changed their minds. I understand things need to be safe and secure but at least ask for some other form of verification for my ID before telling me that I just can't use your service.
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It looks like I'm the only one here that's stunned by the chutzpah of asking for a referral bonus after accidentally nuking the production DB, and costing the company a lot of time and effort to recover it, while on your way out the door for a better opportunity.

Regardless of whether or not Miso is right to evade their promise of a bonus, I'm not so quick to heap sympathy upon rremoncake.

This certainly isn't the kind of dirty laundry that belongs on HN.
Does anyone think that CSS scrolling effects will be seen as good design in 5 years? I think it will be seen as a horrendous fashion.</blink>
Most contracts in practice are informal. When you buy an ice cream from a street vendor, there's an informal contract - you give him money, he gives you ice cream. If you take ice cream, eat it and then say "I'm not feeling like giving you money now" - it would be stealing, and you can't claim "I did not sign anything, so I am entitled to think that was just a gift".

If you tell employee "do this and get $10K" and he does and you say "well, I'm not feeling like keeping my end of the bargain now" - it is no different. It is harder to enforce, but that's only difference that lets all kinds of sleazy characters get away with it. If you don't mean to give $10K - don't promise it. Nobody forces anybody to promise it. If you do promise - fulfill your promise. It's very simple, I wonder how people can have trouble with it - unless they meant to cheat at the first place.
Wouldn't that be NYCombinator?
I understand that to start something new you need to focus -- but, I'd also love to see Peninsula meetings. Maybe if there's enough interest it can happen.
It's coming. The law is a mess, and phasing in slowly. But it passed, and it's real. It will no doubt have to be fixed over the coming decades, but universal health care in the USA is a reality.

But the "lot of money" thing is just reality: health care costs a lot of money, period. And it must be paid. Coming up with a regime to do so without leaving people out or inappropriately burdening them is a hard problem, and frankly no entity, government or private, can claim to have solved it "well".
Sick that a country that most people would agree doesn't have strong human rights values /executed/ people for a similar scandal while we don't even slap their wrists.

Money over positively everything.
More to the point: Quit Dec 1st, don't expect a Christmas bonus.
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Genuinely curious, because I don't think I understood this: what do you mean with "people like me"?
There are lots of people who would like some of the benefit of the Ycombinator experience but aren't a good fit and don't even apply. For me, I have no interest in getting into the VC sharktank and the projects I work on are so far out there that a lot of people can't even comprehend their value. This might be a great alternative for those who are thinking way, way outside the box.
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They don't have an ios app.
That list is pretty silly. Perl belongs there, but Python does not (neither does Ruby, though it wasn't listed).
I'll make sure to remember that you'd like to take away the praise and honor you bestowed upon me for my achievement. :)
Well, considering he considers the practice of having children 'menacing' (his words, not mine), even when it is the children of contributors to his own projects, I don't find myself really surprised.

http://edward.oconnor.cx/2005/04/rms
That argument is false for a few reasons. With many online services, who's to say precisely what the product is. Aren't we (the users) the real product for a lot of large, free services (gmail, Facebook, etc.)? And for the bandwidth, I'm paying for that too. I pay an ISP every month to browser the internet. Shouldn't I be able to control what I use this bandwidth for? When I click on a link, I don't truly know what resources resolving that address will require; it only seems fair that smart consumers can decide to black/whitelist content that they don't want.
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They're leased because of patents. The manufacturer makes way more money leasing then selling.
Yep, nobody ever is rational when they feel they might die.
One of these days it's going to be for real and I wonder how many of his fans will be enraged when someone says something like "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone".
This kind of post does not belong on Hacker News.
We appreciate data and reason, not conjecture and appeal to emotion.
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Pretty sweet infographic.
That is your money, you earned them.

And there is nothing bad or evil about going to work for the money and expect others to hold up their end of the bargin.

It is what allows us to have the society we have today.
I looked at Riak a bit (we use CouchDB and Redis at our startup). It seemed to not scale down as nicely as CouchDB: no Futon, binary API's and a lot of emphasis in the documentation on sharding stuff (where we just run CouchDB on a single server with a backup server where we continuously-replicate to).
I chose the most polite way to point out his error, and now you are compounding it by attempting to rebut me with quotes that don't actually rebut me if you know what you're doing. Listing all keys is a function meant for debugging, not for running in production. If you're running M/R jobs based on that then you don't know what you're doing. The person you're quoting, in fact, said they were doing MR jobs over billions of keys. Further the person who made that recommendation doesn't work for Basho, and that they said he should consider HBase is not the same as saying that Riak can't do it.

You want to say I'm wrong, make a specific argument. Don't selectively quote things out of context that actually don't rebut my position, as that's profoundly dishonest. It is a way of pretending to rebut someone but without saying anything yourself so you can't be pinned on any statements. It is disingenuous.

I'm really tired of having to rebut these argument-from-ignorance "rebuttals" here on HN.
One way to fix it (at least a little) is to do the background change asynchronously (setTimeOut)
"Because you are no longer employed by Miso, you are not eligible for this bonus."

I must say, I completely agree. This is how it works. Your referral bonus is a perk, and nothing more. You didn't claim it. They weren't on top of it. You both failed here. But then you quit. And you left without it. That sucks for you, but they owe you nothing.
Pretty cool. I'm surprised Instagram doesn't have something like this on their site already.
Can you name some other examples?
* So you can tell me the exact backup times of everything at Facebook for your machine right? You're an engineer at Facebook therefore under your broad assumption you should be performing the exact same of your statement. If tomorrow everything was to fail at Facebook & there was no data recovery you're saying that everyone in the company should come blame you because well, hell, you're an engineer there after all...

The more reasonable point is that he's an engineer not a sysadmin or ops guy this isn't his responsibility directly & more so this falls on the CTO shoulders of failing to assign someone to this task.

* If they point directly to production this really isn't unheard of.

* Why are we making any assumptions if the guy is fired or not; This has nothing to do with the fact of the bonus not being paid out on time while he was an employee.

* You're going to argue that the company failing to perform backups is confidential information about infrastructure and operations especially after the company mentions it in an email after his employment :|?

* These are emails after his employment & the company is or should be well aware that these emails from that point on can publicly be posted because he's not bound by anything to keep them confidential any more. This is why most companies follow strict HR policies of no further communication & very strict emails to former employees.

Come on, I expect a bit more from an engineer working at Facebook other than broad assumptions & statements.
ps. I really don't understand why people downvoted your comment.
Sure, Square has to "live within the existing system"...in fact, from everything I've heard from them, their value-add is that while they live in it, they shield you from it.

They are very sympathetic with regard to how crappy banking technology is and try to shield you from that; however, it doesn't seem that this sympathy extends to the charge-back side of things.
Nice work! I'm in the process of hiring right now, and I was just thinking this morning that I needed a solution like this to give a code test to a remote candidate.
Fair enough. After I wrote that I remembered that readFile wasn't blocking anyways, but it was too late to edit at that point.
And it turns out you are misrepresenting the situation completely. You can run M/R over key sets in the billions of keys. It sounds like you've not organized your data at all.

You're bashing a product here based on your lack of knowledge, not the products lack of capabilities.
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I think you a verb.
Yes. He's a human being, with the same right to hold opinions different from mine or yours and to defend those opinions as we do. He didn't defend pedophiles - he stated a fact (that they were organizing a party) and an opinion (that he has doubts about the harm it does).

He's probably wrong about the harm, but even being wrong doesn't void his right to free speech, or to life.
HN readers, especially those who might contruute another perspective. e.g.

reg: Stallman is an important voice.

detractor: He’s also advocating pedo.

reg: He’s still an important voice.

HN reader: Actually, he isn’t advocating pedo. <- new perspective
The thing is, if the product is actually valuable to me, I would spend more money on them that they could ever make from me through ads.

"But wait, what about freemium? Plenty of services remove the ads for paying customers", one might ask. The problem with it is that you now a have false sense of choice:

1) Free product + ads
2) Paid product and no ads.

There is a third alternative: free product, adblock, no ads.

Yes, marketing is much more than advertising. But I think that the "advertising" part is what everything else is based on, when it shouldn't. To take on your example, the "press who review products" is, most of the time, dependent on eyeballs to sell ads to. This model is so broken that you either have newspapers going bankrupt or Huffington Post-style blogs, with zero actual content.

If enough people started using adblock, perhaps we would get to a point where the current model would be unsustainable, which would producers to either:

- Get rid of ad-based services and products, and start charging directly.
- Improve their ads to make it more relevant to consumers.
It's so true, but in both directions and also in the direction of the design department. The thing is it's hard to find the real deal with all the people out there who are quite confident about being the real deal, while they actually aren't. Sometimes it's even hard to see yourself, if you are the real deal or not, because it's just so easy to talk yourself into believing it, while doing it is actually quite hard, right?
Impractical fanboyism that doesn't understand the software in question.

Poor attempts at proselytization like this do more to harm Erlang than help.
I tend to find that they work the least as they have highly paid skilled positions where they do a short week.
There is no "best tool" for the job. Used to be that you've had one tool for the job 50 years ago, now you have 50 tools for the same job. And 500 more, And 5000 coming...
Makes sense, but in that case, what is the word "excesses" doing in that sentence? I think somebody miss-transcribed the interview tape.
Ask HN: Sparrow for Google Docs?
I was wondering if anyone uses a native Mac app for opening and editing Google Docs similar to what Sparrow is for email?

I know there's Memeo, but that seems a little overkill and bloaty for my purposes.
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This presents an interesting situation. Is Stallman okay with being hooked up to medical computers even though they may not be running free software? What about the privacy issues involved in being checked into a hospital?
Well, this is now the only thing I know about Miso.

Good call, Miso.
While it looks beautiful, this is kind of a silly infographic. The data has been collected from https://cloudability.com/, a company that helps you track multiple cloud costs. Why would you be using cloudability if you werent tracking multiple clouds? Thats the whole point of their product.
I actually think there are massive opportunities for startups in this space.

One of the apps I would have loved is something that can recommend me deployment options that take into account latency e.g. find me a dedicated server that is close to EC2 US-East to pair with my existing instances/SQS. Or where should I put my servers if I need to serve Japan and UK customers from the same servers.
Why? Everyone who upvoted this is an employee of that company.
No, it's BASIC with the potential for C++ syntax when using objects.
Why is it that people loathe domain name holders, but don't feel the same sense of outrage over land holders?
What "professional" means here? The person is being cheated out of $10K, how one is being professional about it? I do not know any profession that has "being cheated out of $10K" as part of its definition, and engineering professionalism definitely does not help you here. What a true professional would do in such case? Politely ask, get "screw you, we didn't sign anything" and go away? How would that be helpful?

Really, for a professional engineer - which professional way of handling such situation would you recommend, providing that the law road is probably infeasible (you'll spend more in time and money on the lawsuit than you ever have a chance to recover)? As far as I know, there's no app for that and no python module for that, so which professional option should one take?
As the blog post author I'd like to add some clarification here. By "seeing" I meant see them speak at the conference, not necessarily that the things they share in common are things you can see. Commonalities can cover a very wide range of things including, but certainly not limited to, sex, gender, and race. That being said, people who fall into some of these visible minority groups often have a hard time finding role models in the programming community. I think it is awesome if conference organizers can help with that, and do not feel that it is in conflict with also providing the best speakers possible.
Do you oppose automated hell-banning here?

It has lead to people being hell-banned for inoffensive things, the worst I've seen is someone hell-banned because their double post got such a large amount of down-votes.
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Jeez, calm down. It was a joke.
I seriously wonder if medical care done by proprietary devices with proprietary software is something that he would object to!
Thanks. That's useful context.
Cloudability is for much more than just clouds. It's for all the services around it e.g. UserVoice, ZenDesk, Pingdom etc.
I applaud this.

I'm really tired of this one way street where employers get to be sleaze-balls behind the mask of a company name while an employee doing anything that skirts the line of not being upstanding is 'irresponsible.'

We need more of this IMHO in that there is way too much practicing of sleazy business techniques in SV if you ask me
They act more like quick fixes used to get it running on schedule
This isn't really a problem for Facebook since users are logged in no matter what device they're on.
Aren't these separate incidents? Miso is benefiting from this employee referral, after all.
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