skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judge Rejects Facebook ‘Sponsored Stories’ Lawsuit Settlement
The whole dialog between him and the manager gave me that vibe. He has the manager giving two- or three-word responses and non-responses like "Umm, well...." and then the CEO launches into a monologue. I don't see anywhere in the dialogue that he gave the manager a chance to explain his point of view. The dialogue is very unidirectional. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I'd say the CEO could probably try listening to his managers more and giving them orders less.
> restrictively licensed (GPL, say) open source project

Please, stop spreading this meme. The only thing GPL restricts is companies who want to restrict the freedoms of their users. Software, sex and yes, users, are better when free.
Are you thinking something like Wordpress meets Twitter?
I have 50 dollars is a great satire of yet another social network (app.net) that promotes non-social interaction..
Not to mention letterheads, business cards, envelopes, labels, internal paper forms. Both the sign and the printing industry benefit when a company rebrands.
I'm certainly not trying to imply any policy prescriptions. I'm strongly in favor of nuclear power. But if there's risk we should know what it is so it can be distributed/compensated for.

I'm not saying it's not worth the cost (or even trying to discuss things in those terms), but I'm not convinced this outcome is insignificant. If this article is right, many of these people will die N years sooner than they would have otherwise. How high does N have to be before it gets worth discussing?
The LNT model is clearly wrong, but people like numbers even if they're wrong, which is why you see it used in planning and media reports. There are probably fewer cancer cases than LNT would predict, but beyond that we simply don't know.
Really? As a VP, this is your reaction? The CEO, your boss, just told you that it was his number one priority to make sure that the employees felt like it was a great place to work, and that your direct report employee was failing miserably to follow this policy, and you didn't seem to notice, even though it was covered by the basic management training provided by the company?

Meta: I hate that a silly comment like this gets so much attention only because it's the first comment.

(edit: By "first" I meant top of the page.)
That's a false dilemma, and the CEO is the person who let it get to the point where the only option was to threaten to fire someone by surprise. I'm not sure how we can say that this was a high priority before Ben noticed it. Aren't the management team employees too?
How does the radiation from the power supply not screw with the electronics?
Wait what, how did "mentally ill" suddenly drop in there?
Maybe not.

Imagine a perfect world. Not a world in which everybody is perfect, that would be boring, but a world in which institutions really function. In such a world you'd expect to find this kind of forums, find them anonymously and relatively easy. They'd be up and running for years. And they'd be fully staffed by people well-versed in finding and helping pedophiles (cops, psychiatrists etc).

You can't check people at birth and see if they have criminal tendencies. It's unethical (and impractical) to watch everybody all the time. What you can do is make sure there are places where they'll gravitate naturally towards, and control them for your benefit.

The right way to dismantle a pedophile network is to arrest everybody, steal their online identities and keep on posting the materials they already have. Otherwise you're just playing whack-a-mole.
Previously covered on HN.
It wasn't the first comment.
I ran into it accidentally just the other day, but all it told me was that I couldn't use it while debugging a multi-threaded program. I was immediately both elated and disappointed in the feature, since nearly all the C++ programs I work are multi-threaded.

I don't know if that's true in the latest versions, but it certainly seems like solving that problem in a multi-threaded environment would be difficult.

Edit: this seems to indicate it can be enabled in a threaded program: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7517236/how-do-i-enable-r... I will have to try it. I guess it's just another case of a badly worded error message "Target multi-thread does not support this command." sure makes it sound like you can't reverse in a multi-threaded program, doesn't it?
I think this would be a mistake.

This is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate that anyone can fork the MySQL codebase and create other plug-in replacement databases with it, such as MariaDB and Drizzle.

All that is lost is the MySQL name and brand.

PostgreSQL users and developers must seize the opportunity to show businesses that free software cannot be killed, not even by mighty Oracle. They and, most notably, Microsoft, have been trying to kill it for more than a decade now.

Because the anti-free-software FUD machine (fed in part by Oracle itself) is already having a wonderful time with this.
My best wishes. Will contribute by code and kind. And the day such a service exists, I am closing my twitter accounts.
I agree, the quote is more applicable to conceptually very different languages (e.g. Lisp, Forth, and Smalltalk) than to clever features of particular languages.
Permethrin treated clothing is the best deterrent I've used. Deet doesn't do much in my experience but if ticks get on pants treated with permethrin they get off as quick as they can. I've use this spray to treat my clothing before going out in the woods anymore: http://www.rei.com/product/768970/sawyer-permethrin-pump-spr...
ACM ICPC previous problems are also interesting.

http://icpc.baylor.edu/info/Problem+Resources
Kind of but not Wordpress as Wordpress is far too bloated for 140 char status's. I'd relate it more to Diaspora that Wordpress personally.
Steve doesn't have 100s of things to think about?
Because Diaspora has done so well.

The number of people that care about why Diaspora exists and why a Twitter clone in the same vein would exist is extremely small. Small userbase means the service is basically dead on arrival.
Fear vs love right, ala The Prince. I think the lesson is that people respect fear and that love will only get you so far, but that a bit of both is needed.
Go Go Gadget (Go in production at bitly)
> blowing up meeting packing plants would be justifiable too. But it doesn't happen.

There have been plenty of incendiary devices planted at a variety of UK locations, including department stores that sold fur.
Yes, you're actually right. I'll try to come up with a new description.
State Department: The U.S. does not recognize the concept of ‘diplomatic asylum’
It mystifies me that a fairly unambiguous, direct decision made by the CEO (managers have regular 1:1s with their reports) can be interpreted as somehow optional or negotiable. If you're going to have a diva moment and quit because someone threatened to fire you for not doing your damn job (for the manager, holding the 1:1's--for the VP supervising that manager, holding the manager to the expectation of holding 1:1's), the company can go without you.
> They're buffered by the OS and happen behind the scenes whenever the disk is free.

I don't think you're cooperating with the thought experiment here. Yes, buffering will help a lot, but buffering doesn't conjure up capacity that doesn't exist. If you need to write a megabyte and your throughput is just 5kb/sec, then buffering isn't going to make a whole lot of difference: you'll need to use up a full 2000 seconds of throughput at some point. If your written logs and files over a day average out to be more than 5kb/sec, you're still in for a world of pain no matter how nicely your buffering smooths out the load.
I said no such thing. The teaching of good values entails quite a bit more than merely repeating a set of values or a specific creed.

While people may or may not like what the military does, most of its creeds/values are for the most part positive things. The Army values for example are Duty, Loyalty, Selfless Service, Respect, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage - pretty generic and not nefarious at all.
I don't really buy this idea that it's not "really" a camera.

Think of it like this: A still camera has a number of small receptors. When you take a photograph, you wind up with a bunch of numbers that average the amount of light that hit each one. It's not a perfect record of the light that was really there-- does that count as a "real" picture? A video camera takes a series of slices at particular moments in time. Information about events that occur between those slices is lost, either blurred out of existence or ignored entirely. Does that count as "real" video?

So, this camera can record a single line once at a precise instant in time. If we want to turn that into a moving picture, we can either parallelize the camera, or serialize the event. So let's say we put together a hundred million of these cameras using mirrors and amplifiers and whatever else we need to record video of a single pulse of light happening once. Let's say we also use a single camera to record video of a hundred million pulses of light which we know will have a variance of less than the resolution of the camera. Let's say we crunch the data from both of these "cameras", and they come out as identical.

Which one is the "real" video?

Anyway, there's a much more salient reason why this wouldn't work for a moving object: As the man pointed out, at this rate, even a speeding bullet would not move perceptibly.
Kinda cool. While covering basic topics I don't know if this really the best guide for beginners. REPL is just not a term a beginner needs to know. Also while the console is awesome It's hard for a beginner to take the knowledge and apply it to something they can immediately do on their own.
Take a look at StatusNet. That's effectively a Open Source Twitter Clone.
The striking parallel with user agents makes a good case for a generalized design rule of "don't assume anything about the ability of the other side to handle your side's specifications. Let them make the decision."
"Some reason" being that they were failing to do the job he had hired and trained them to do. Don't be a prima donna--many working people would get fired just for showing up 30 minutes late, what makes you think you're any more special than they are?
It is pretty bad, but people have seriously argued that the evacuation itself killed more people: Japan (like any other highly populated First World country!) is stuffed full of old or sick people, and when you force them to evacuate quickly and be separated from all their stuff, their doctors and medical records, their local pharmacies, and subject them to a ton of stress in every respect - well, quite a few people are going to kick the bucket.
I wonder how hard it would be to add a stalking function to an IRC server, so you can follow someone and see all their public messages; and then log messages so recent chat can be viewed by looking at a channel... are there any other reasons to use twitter over IRC? :P
I just happened to see it on that blog, and wanted to quote its phrasing (which doesn't appear on the video's own page as far as I can see). Sometimes a sentence adds a lot.
A little background on this "Form D" I’ve been hearing about
The damage that actually occurred is not that serious. The oceans are large, and eventually the authorities will pick out what's left of the fuel rods and store it safely. This is what was done at Three Mile Island.

But the reality is they only very narrowly avoided a catastrophe that would have been orders of magnitude worse, since they were only able to regain control of the site by putting people there to add water. That was mostly luck.
An alternative to Twitter has existed since 2008. It's called identi.ca

http://identi.ca/

The issue is getting people to start using such a service.
The risk for the GE MkI was (is) well known, but physicist-socipath Seaborg chose to hand out the operating license:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4401744
Vico, an open source vi like editor for Mac
May be because the sugar is formed after breaking down the meat during digestion.
Same here. Overall the piece left me with impression that Ben is a horrible boss and manager and his company is not a good place to work.
I think Rands wrote about this. 1:1's are not supposed to be about status updates: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/09/22/the_update_...
"When Steve came into my office I asked him a question: “Steve, do you know why I came to work today?”

“Why did I bother waking up? Why did I bother coming in? If it was about the money, couldn’t I sell the company tomorrow and have more money than I ever wanted? I don’t want to be famous, in fact just the opposite. ”

Well, then why did I come to work.”

And on and on... Please...

My impression would've been, "why is this guy treating me like a 5 year old".

My approach (IMHO) would've been something like:

Me: "Steve, one of your managers isn't following company policy concerning 1 on 1 meets".

Steve: "Oh?".

I give Steve the managers name, "You'll take care of it?"

Steve: "Of course."

Me: "Thank you."

I give Steve the benefit of the doubt that he'll deal with it. No need for me, the CEO, to micromanage. Now if Steve doesn't deal with it, that's another matter.
I'm not disagreeing. ThinkPads are awesome machines. But Macs have a second mouse button. Had for ages, now. Their mice still suck, though – but the trackpads are great.

That was the topic of discussion, I think. I certainly didn't mean to imply that Macs are better than ThinkPads.
Yes, Horowitz sounds like a total asshole. But I have a feeling it didn't go down quite like this, but rather the conversation and overall tone have been fictionalized to better illustrate the underlying message of this post: proper management and organization are crucial for a good work environment. I couldn't agree more. Management is one of those things that seems easily in theory, but is really tough to nail in practice.
Show HN: Voice feedback widget to hear from your users
There are some subtle points in there.

(as an aside, the bar on the left makes it look like a block quote.)
I don't think they are going for the HN type programmer market, but other types of programmers will not see anything wrong with it. I am thinking more hobbyist programmers and enterprise programmers etc. The closest they get to an online community is Facebook and they perhaps discover answers on stack-overflow after googling but have never thought of creating an account. They probably think, facebook is cool, now here is something like facebook for programmers!
Ha! I saw those pictures and had the sentiment. Looks like fun but not my cup of tea either.

For others: http://richkidsofinstagram.tumblr.com/
If app.net can get the press it has gotten it probably means that the marketplace has reached boiling point. I'm thinking developers and many twitter users are ready for a more reliable and trust-able system.
The opposition into Japan is not about the exact number of cancers or deaths. It is about trust. To quote the official report [1]:

...the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot be regarded as a natural disaster. It was a profoundly manmade disaster – that could and should have been foreseen and prevented. And its effects could have been mitigated by a more effective human response.

How could such an accident occur in Japan, a nation that takes such great pride in its global reputation for excellence in engineering and technology? This Commission believes the Japanese people – and the global community – deserve a full, honest and transparent answer to this question.

Our report catalogues a multitude of errors and willful negligence that left the Fukushima plant unprepared for the events of March 11. And it examines serious deficiencies in the response to the accident by TEPCO, regulators and the government.

For all the extensive detail it provides, what this report cannot fully convey – especially to a global audience – is the mindset that supported the negligence behind this disaster. What must be admitted – very painfully – is that this was a disaster “Made in Japan.”

Its fundamental causes are to be found in the ingrained conventions of Japanese culture: our reflexive obedience; our reluctance to question authority; our devotion to ‘sticking with the program’; our groupism; and our insularity.

(the rest is worth reading too)

If your government and industry had failed you like that would you trust them to continue with nuclear power without fixing the underlying problems?

[1] http://www.nirs.org/fukushima/naiic_report.pdf
"The E-Myth Revisited" is a great book that deals with this problem (amongst other things).
A possible solution: You need additional tablets. There are swipe gestures to transfer parts to your tablet for further interaction. When you are ready, you swipe the result back on the table/large monitor to compose the end result.
"as if such a thing was or is factual or even possible."

Or even desirable.
To the author of this article: I will believe you if you agree to move to Fukushima and live there for the rest of your life.
I realize this may be a very american perspective, but I can't imagine any tradeoff that would make this "worth it" for me.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither. - Benjamin Franklin.
Although the CEO definitely did not need to act and word the encounter the way he did, I don't see this as a self respect issue. The employee failed to do something that the CEO trained him and required him to do for his job. The employee did not hold up his end of the deal, which means he was in the wrong, and at risk of getting fired. As you say, amongst professionals, one should do the things their boss asks.
A nice addition would be a close button, plus listening for the Esc key, to close the "Send us a voice message" dialog after it has been triggered. Otherwise a very impressive idea!
We have two rules in Zoho Corp:

1. To evaluate a team member's contribution fairly, every manager has to really know the person well. In other words, no "fly-by-night" form-filling performance reviews!

2. No negatives surprises during a performance review.

These two together mandate that every manager spend a great deal of time with the people who work for them and bring up any negatives on a timely basis so the team member has an opportunity to correct them rather than being inflicted a negative surprise.

So I agree on the importance of regular 1-on-1's. Having said that, I am not sure I really like the tone of Ben's conversation with his manager. First of all, I find this yes/no style insulting to an intelligent person on the other side, and second, if the managers in question were valuable to the organization (which should be the presumption here), it is odd to think the CEO would threaten to fire them so readily. I would not expect an intelligent and self-respecting person to work under those terms - I know I would not.
right but doesn't this depend on how fast you can send and receive those trillion light pulses? if that can be done in sufficiently short time, the object in motion will have only moved by a small amount, and it will look like it has been elongated in the direction of travel, like a motion blur.

The above is my uninformed and optimistic speculation.
A CEO can only act on information they have. Primarily directives are carried out by being followed down the chain. By not following something the CEO felt was important, the employee (manager is this case) is creating a problem. First they are ignoring desired direction. As a person in a management role, this basically means that they are not doing their job. Second, they are demonstrating that following direction doesn't matter. This was a serious issue for the CEO and it had to be dealt with.

The executive should have been made aware that this was an issue or fired, not threatened. That was a stupid move. If you have to threaten your employees, you have already failed as a leader.
The designer does the rebranding, not the customer. This means generating all the new style guides, promotional material templates, business cards, even sometimes ad templates.

All of that derives from the logo/wordmark, but it's usually the majority of the work.
Completely this. Developers seem to think that the business stances Facebook and Twitter take can be solved purely with more development. They can't be. The problem is hearts and minds of users.
How could it have been like Chernobyl? The Fukushima reactors didn't have graphite moderators.

Totally different reactor technologies, equivocating them is spurious at best.
Look my friend, a guy in North Korea gets 100% of the vote. And Russia's poor friend Saddam Hussein got 99.9% on the most recent presidential "elections" he held. Putin, after 12 years of ceaseless propaganda should be ashamed to get the miserable 64% (of those rigged) votes. How much he stole does not really matter. He stole the election process itself. And he violated Russia's own Constitution by running for the 3rd time. Just like some of his comrade dictators. His gotcha moment. Welcome to the club!

P.S. Calling those "elections" democratic tells the whole story about you. Yes, you. They was nothing democratic about them, my Kremlin paid buddy.
Did this thing catch on? I remember reading about it a couple years back.
I was clearly speaking from my personal experiences and perceptions, which are obviously not intended to be considered the equivalent of a formal scientific study.

But since you asked, why would one have to have experience with that exact group of people prior to coming to a conclusion? I agree that it would be ideal if that was the case, but there are many studies considered to be scientifically valid that use one group of people who come from similar circumstances as a control, while only testing on another group. In my example I suppose the control would have been the people I know from outside the military. As I stated though, my comment was just an anecdote from my personal experiences, not a peer-reviewed, published article intended to expose the author of the other study as a fraud.
I think non-profit and open-source might be being confused here. I'm talking about a highly publicized non profit utility style global API. To make it easy build-on and fast to proliferate it should probably be an always-on centralized service.
A good manager would have recognized your reaction against threat and have taken a different approach with you. Truth is, without knowing Steve or Ben and Steve's relationship with each other, it's hard to extract too much out of this line.

The executive ranks are full of people who prefer direct "do this or here's the consequence" talk. I personally prefer that. If it's really that important, then let me know with words that can't be misconstrued.

I like my leadership transparent and decisive. Sometimes that may come across as blunt and rude.