skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No one else here is reporting "down for me too"."

Except for the other person who complained in the responses about uptime.

Or the tweets from people reporting that their site is down, and your site is down:
https://twitter.com/#!/search/%40wpengine%20down

"And "terrifying"... really?"

When you get hit with a heavy load and go down, it is an huge issue for a web business. The whole point is to drive large amounts of traffic, and so if a marketing campaign is successful you're paying for nothing.

Apparently you don't think that web based businesses having downtime is an issue. Worse yet, your casual and downright confrontational attitude when confronted with actual evidence.

So, yes, WPEngine...terrifying.
You are kind of stretching though. Why do we have to assume that 355/113 is "magical" in order to advance mathematics:
The Pittsburgh Foundation handles both grants and endowment funds. Due to their presumed expertise in all things non-profit related, the Pittsburgh Foundation should be familiar with the basic categorization of non-profits as either private or public. You commented that the "De facto" non-profit does accept donations. I proffered that the Pittsburgh Foundation is a voice of reason in your own backyward and they would be happy to point out that this is not really the case. It is up to you to pursue that.

I do have some other concern which is why is your ethos/structure is posted on a blog and not a more permanent page? If this is to be a working document then please annotate changes or if your intention is a truly "open" company then how about enlisting feedback from potential users some of whom might be lawers or accountants familiar with small business law and also interested in alternative business structures?

If mmahemoff's quote (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4287308) is direct from your page, it shows a revision from what is currently shown and from what I'm going to presume is the original blog post from Google cache.

Quoted in comment from mmahemoff:
"An open company differs from a non-profit organization in that an open company does not itself accept donations, and it does not compensate its employees. From the open company’s point of view, whether and how its employees receive money and for what, is undefined."

Current blog display:
An open company differs from a non-profit organization in that an open company is not registered as a charity with a government, and does not itself accept donations. An open company also does not have a paid staff, as most non-profits do in practice. From the open company’s point of view, whether and how its employees receive money and for what, is undefined.

Google Cache (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RwFZLSt...):
An open company differs from a non-profit organization in that it does not itself accept donations, and it does not compensate its employees. From the open company’s point of view, whether and how its employees receive money and for what, is undefined.

With all of that said, I really like what you're doing here. I just am not able to see how this would be better than a well-documented non-profit or a B Corporation. But I am open to being convinced if there really is a better way to do things. If you want a real challenge and a start-up idea, I'd love to see you tackle a better non-profit transparency mechanism than we have available today with GuideStar and Charity Navigator.
Not really, as it's only a minor refresh of the original iPhone 4 from most users' point of view.
But we might just manage to keep some of what we still have.
Simple And Safe In-App Purchase Using Parse
Its not stealing because the word fails when used outside physical property. To make some examples:

Person X entered my building without authority or right to use the restroom. He stole my restroom!

Person X insulted me. He thus "stole" my reputation.

In Sweden, the state has sole right to sell alcohol, thus any Person X that is selling alcohol is thus "stealing" from the state.
We're working on a generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth spec(s) for python. Quite a bit is working, and it has a very reasonable API. Help wanted!

https://github.com/idan/oauthlib
Ask HN: When do you say "enough is enough" and just ship it?
I've been developing my first web startup (foldr.co) since winning a startup competition in late February, and while I've made a huge amount of progress, I have an ever-growing list of "must-have" features and design changes that come from interviews with alpha testers and potential users.

I know I should launch as soon as possible, but I'm also keenly aware that any drastic changes to design or functionality might upset users. I'm experiencing an incredible amount of anxiety on this front...so much so that I opened registration to make myself feel like I had "half-launched". How those of you with experience launching startups convince yourselves it's time to temporarily stop development and ship?
The issues with things like Freenet are far more subtle than that. What you describe is easily addressed.
They missed the analysts predicted revenue and EPS, but not their own guidance: revenue of $34 billion and earnings per diluted share of $8.68. Wall Street investors go bullish when iPhone sales slow, and bearish when sales are exploding.
So, they have little-to-nothing useful to say on the current state of affairs for modern ISPs and telcos, then? And are instead just wanking around a mythical tabula-rasa marketplace?
correct - one of observations in the article was that many of the series identified so far lack the magical 355/113 - I was curious what a converging series would look like, not the equation that describes such a series.

I would be interested in identifying this next super series in terms of an equation but given the few minutes on break, and that total it is unlikely someone as bad at math, such as myself, could come up with this series in a few minutes - I opted for the fun programming route.
Level - TV Whitespace RF for Arduino-type devices
Taking a quick look through this list:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/universities.ht...

Bell Lab's had the most Nobel prizes of any for profit institution at 7. There's 13 non-for profit organization that have eight or more. Even if you drop out the political Nobels (Peace and Economics), there's still 11 entities out there besting the best that for-profit institutions have to offer. Also, most of these Nobels have been in the past hundred years, so no need to normalize out the advent of democracy.

It's true that for profit enterprises take these discoveries (e.g. Giant Magnetoresistence, MRI, Fiber Optics, CCDs) and ramp them up for mass production. However, they're still tweaking the major break-through made by people focused on things besides the personal accumulation of wealth.
Apple's guidance is incredibly conservative. I don't believe they've ever been under their guidance for years. On the other hand, they normally blow it out.

The best thing to "trust" is the market. Apple underperformed what the market was expecting. It happens once in awhile..
earl who replied to you seems to have been hell-banned. So I am copying his comment because I think it adds valuable data points.

--

Amazon is experiencing tons of growth right now, the last thing they want to
do is keep having to rehire associate workers. If you are good, there is no
reason why they should fire you.

Kindly educate yourself before writing [1]. Because despite your hypotheticals, it's well documented that amazon is doing precisely that: hiring tons of workers, firing them very quickly, and intimidating injured ones into signing papers saying it wasn't from the job. Amazon even stage ambulances outside their unconditioned warehouses in order to be prepared when employees get sick and have to be taken to hospital because of heat.

From the article:

Temporary employees interviewed said few people in their working groups
actually made it to a permanent Amazon position. Instead, they said they
were pushed harder and harder to work faster and faster until they were
terminated, they quit or they got injured. Those interviewed say turnover at
the warehouse is high and many hires don't last more than a few months.

This whole program is a bullshit ruse to deflect criticism. Because guess what: the first thing a student needs is a reliable schedule. Mandatory overtime kills taking classes, because your butt often needs to be in the seat at a fixed time, particularly for tests.

[1] http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-allentown-amazon-complain....

[2] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f....
Super fun, thanks for building this! Had an issue where my Dropbox logo was only showing up at 50% opacity or so, so my final color was off by a lot more than I was expecting. My Shell logo was also just slightly darker red and I got a 58. There was a weird transition of the color I chose and the actual logo, so not sure if that had anything to do with it.
You can like Celera or hate it, but you can't just pretend that it didn't exist...
The GM seed of ML has been available to developers since July 9th, the assumption is that the production and assembly teams would have had access to it even earlier if need be. However, drop-shipping new MacBooks from Shanghai takes 5 days maximum, if Apple just wanted to guarantee that all Macs delivered the 25th and later had ML, they'd only have to start imaging for machines being shipped out on the 20th. Easy.
If the user isn't posting a creative work just a statement of fact, it doesn't what the user says--it's not protected by copyright.

>the TOS also grants CL the right to prevent others from displaying it without CL's permission.

Just because the ToS says it doesn't mean it will work. Recently a judge said that a copyright troll called Rightshaven didn't have standing to sue on behalf of copyright holders for works that they licensed.
>There is no need to actually take the goods. //

Can you go in to this a bit. The Theft Act 1968 requires you to appropriate the goods at least. I don't think you do this until you exit the premises with the goods.

Indeed in the current situation if I were to intend to test whether the price would be accepted at the till and then leave the goods in the store it can be seen clearly that in verity there was no intent to permanently deny even if the goods were considered to be appropriated.

I'd argue that switching the tag is not yet an appropriation - only departing with the goods when having failed to pay [through deception] the right amount.

Here it seems the mens rea can't be demonstrated to exist - beyond reasonable doubt - unless the actus rea of leaving the store with the goods is shown.
That would be 20th anniversary 8 months ago...

:wq
No. you're right it isn't universal. There are six clients that pay on time. two are yours. Two Swedish guys & a moroccan company pay on time and there is one german cannery that paid in a timely manner four times. All the rest are always late.
Make sure you see a doctor. Depression is a serious condition that needs medical attention. My doctor + fluoxetin saved me, my startup and my family.
This is a lost truth on most people. If something trademarked can be used in a context that does not result in the consumer being confused, then the owner automatically loose the trademark. Its a consumer protection law, not an anti-competition law.
That's taking it a bit far, eh? Tasteful user interfaces answer relevant questions - not just any question at all.
It's also easier to get it over bumps, since you're pulling upwards, rather than pushing down into the ground. I'm not 100% sure that applies so strongly to the chinese design though.
> What entitled bullshit.

Wanting the market to work isn't entitled BS. It's good civic thinking. Craigslist holding onto its incumbency, counter to the interests of the public is entitled BS.

> Padmapper could've run out of money and shut themselves down - would you pursue a court injunction on the basis that they shouldn't be able to interfere with how you hunt for an apartment? How about if they changed the UI in a way you didn't like?

The first would've been the market working as it should. Also, if Padmapper messes up its UI and goes out of business, then the market works as it should.

Craigslist holding onto its monopoly position is a broken market.
Every American citizen should know the 4th by heart. It protects us from "unreasonable search and seizure". When a government agent stops you (a police officer), you have the right to not consent to search. You should always exercise this right. It may seem like a harmless question when the agent asks, "If you have nothing to hide, then you won't mind if I look, right?", but it is not a harmless question, he is asking you to consent to a search and to give-up your constitutional right against such searches. Always say, "I do not consent to searches" and be polite to the agent. The agent may not place his hands in your pockets. He may not open your purse, and if he does these things, he's breaking the law as you have not consented.
The answer given was that individuals can then choose how many spaces they want their tabstops set to, and this was mostly an accident not formal thought out design. (I didn't see any other arguments given.) gofmt itself is of course a very good idea.

I have been following Go along the years, but think they made a big mistake with exceptions. In particular you have to manually write the code from where an issue happens all the way to where it is handled. Exceptions as done in other languages isn't the exact pattern that has to be followed - it is the writing of the boilerplate code that bugs me. Heck they could do something as simple as if the error value returned is not used in any way then an automatic 'return ...vals..., error' is inserted after the call.
For some reason, with newer media, the simple principle of
"no meddling in private communications/publishing" gets
lost.

You do realize that the same principle is hardly something that a free market would automatically support at reasonable price to the user, right?

It's working just fine without the FCC's enlightened
approach

You're not a Time Warner Cable customer, or Cox, or subject to throttling very much, are you?
You got a silly reductio ad absurdum answer... but also asked a silly question.

Compare: "What if someone bought all the movie theaters, and then prohibited the showing of movies?!?" The thing is, people who buy theaters buy them because they want to show movies. People who run roads want them to be used.

Sure, you could have a few eccentrics with destructive rules. They will not thrive.

There may be innovative rules that appear eccentric at first, but turn out to offer offsetting benefits in allocation-of-limited-capacity-to-most-productive-uses. This is why competitive realms so often result in better results than those with a single, governmental/monopolistic owner: there are creative ways to re-slice a problem that never occur to a committee, or politically-sclerotic bureaucracy/legislature, or a comfortable incumbent. But a smaller entity -- individual or corporate team -- facing more directly the upside/downside of their decisions, can innovate.

(Taking your enclosure question at face value: most fans of strong property rights and marketizing-almost-everything still believe in various kinds of common-law carve outs. You can trespass to rescue someone in distress; a tradition of allowed use creates an implied right-of-way/easement for continued use; etc. So you're no more likely to be 'encircled' by sustenance-denying monopolists in the extreme-market solution, than you are in a system where government zoning, eminent-domain, and redevelopment sometimes does the same thing to the politically-weak. Both have some corner-case risk, both have traditional checks. Which converges on useful arrangements more quickly, more often should be the question... rather than concocted extreme cases.)
This title is terribly misleading "Greenland ice sheet melts 97% in 4 days". The reality is that 97% of the surface experienced melting, not that 97% melted, or that it shrunk by 97%. There's still a ton of ice there.
Thanks for the input! I took a look at the site, nothing interesting about it seems to jump out at me. I'm asking this question to see if there is a need for some kind of leaderboard for what people consider the most interesting companies to work at. A lot of the postings seem kind of haphazard and unfocused.
Challenge HN: Show your company doesn't contribute to the male/female pay gap.
There is a pay gap between men and women in computer programming and software engineering. Women who are classified as "Software Developers" on average make 86 cents for every dollar their male peers make, and women classified as "Programmers" on average make 93 cents on every dollar their male peers make. Here is the data straight from the Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat39.htm and again in a nice little screenshot http://imgur.com/vMoOU

This is a challenge to companies which hire either programmers or software engineers to release statistics proving that they treat men and women equally. I understand pay-gap is not the end-all-be-all yardstick of equality so you can break down the statistics by seniority, experience, or any other metrics you like.

The idea is to compile a list of companies which do prioritize treating people equally so that employees can make informed decisions about where they would like to work.
Based on the data Microsoft is willing to publish, one can only assume that they are using the threat of a lawsuit to intimidate other companies into signing lopsided deals like this. That is, of course, illegal under US anti-racketeering and anti-trust laws as well as immoral and unethical. Without knowing the details of these agreements, of course, no one can say one way or the other, but given Microsoft's history of illegal anti-competitive practices they are inviting these sorts of speculation when they sign these deals. I doubt AMDocs is profiting from the deal and I doubt they would have bothered if not for fear of being crushed under the weight of Microsoft's legal department.
This is disingenuous. Craigslist isn't doing the public's will. It's just taking advantage of public apathy. (Much like Microsoft did with the browser wars.)
this is traditional: they almost always undershoot the over-expectations
Not trying to refute what you said, but am curious what makes you think they are the most desired to work for? Do many of your programmer friends want to work there?
This isn't Mikko Hypponen's sense of humour - I'd say it's real, even if it is ridiculous.
Agreed, I personally think an HSL colorpicker would work better here, but I'd like to see/try others.
I'm not sure how attacking SSH would help you crack a web app (the users in the app won't be unix accounts), but I'll take your word for it :)
Hey mate,

There is already a app level loyalty system which tracks coffees ordered and will automatically give the user a free item when they have purchased 10 items :).

I definitely want to take this national shortly.

The way it works is by recharging your account with credit so that the fees are only incurred once on a 10-20$ transaction.

Thanks for the support! Hopefully I can get it off the ground :P
"and any leverage that you have (like a kill switch as OP had mentioned)"

A kill switch is pretty silly. All you need is "the copyright transfers on full payment for services rendered" in your contract.
There are two disconcerting trends I see in the NSA wiretapping fiasco independent of whether wiretapping is a good idea, a necessary evil, or a bad idea.

The first is the amount of effort it takes to get very basic level of information regarding NSA activities, even when those activities are known to exist. A "secret national security court"[0] determines whether the laws voted on by Congress are constitutional? Good information is paramount in developing good opinions. It would certainly be unwise to inform parties that have been wiretapped, but ballpark estimates of how many people are wiretapped and with what level of intrusiveness are necessary to really form an opinion.

Second, there is a surprising level of apathy on both sides. Of course most people would object to a secret court to resolve questions of government power, if asked, but no one seems to consider this a question worth debating. I see some editorials explaining that warrantless wire taps are an unfortunately necessary tool in modern law enforcement, but these seem to focus on explaining why the taps really aren't a huge deal, or why the airport scanners are not really invasive, but never why they are positive steps in the right direction, actions to be applauded.

These two properties combine in an unfortunate feedback loop: it takes an inordinate amount of effort to obtain reliable information on programs such as this, and without enough initial paranoia, few delve deeper. But without easy access to what's actually happening, it's hard for the non-paranoid to get upset: there's little to do other than to say "hey! the NSA might be wiretapping, we think, but we don't know who, and we don't know when and we don't know how many."

[0] WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044409790457753...
I believe the quote refers specifically to the speaker's research, not all the research on earth.
A howto is not incitement. If I tell you how to tie a noose I'm not inciting you to commit suicide, nor even to tie a noose. Very expensive barristers can probably twist a situation sufficiently to get an incitement charge though.
A copyright clause designed to allow Craigslist to stop abuse shouldn't be used to squash competitors. That's not dictating "how they should run their business." That's telling them to stop being selfish.
Basis Band Use of Data
How many companies in the Valley develop software with tests?
Hi, I just moved to "The Valley" from London to work for a startup. I am shocked that nobody in this company thinks that writing tests is a worth cause (or at least one that we can afford). I assumed that on this day on age the value of tests was a given. I am told by my peers that here in "The Valley" writing tests doesn't fly because the need to produce software fast and the ability to pivot within days. Is this REALLY the case?
I'm working on a simple version of this which I plan to open-source soon. You basically cron commands like df and uptime, pipe them to mail and send to app. App uses MailGun to read mail and then create reports.

Looks like this:
http://cl.ly/image/0Z15301Q3L1u
The story says "sending and receiving email," spoofed headers do nothing for receiving...
The purpose of CL is to provide data for free. Why should they care how that data is packaged, so long as this packaging is not abusive, but actually beneficial?

The real reason: Craigslist wants to hold onto their monopoly position.
I did a poor job of explaining myself despite my over-sized rhetoric. It's one thing to point to specific provisions of a policy and say "In the following case, Provision A had Effect B" and show the specifics. It's another to espouse platitudes with to backing data about a hypothetical scenario and claim ideological superiority.

So, no, criticisms of the Patriot Act backed by data are not stupid, especially if the criticism is up front and says "we believe this to be true."
Code formatting conformity is pretty big in the Go culture.

Go the language doesn't care if you use tabs or spaces, Go the community would prefer you to use tabs so when your Go code is loaded in whatever random editor any member of the community uses there are no surprises.
Seems like search tool needs some work. I can't find books that I am looking for 3 out of 3.
One person holds the cart, the other fills it. Two of you dump it out where it's supposed to go. As long as your cart can carry > 2-3x the load, it should be more efficient (or you can load it with buckets).