skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fire him. However, how you handle it is of the utmost importance.

The truth is, not only will you not be able to work with him, but once it gets out to the company, everyone else will begin asking, "Why hasn't he been fired?". If you avoid that decision, you will very quickly begin to lose the trust of your employees, as they'll think you're indecisive and that your employee is the one with hand.

If you decide to continue working with him, the employee will continue to undermine you at work. And then he'll leave, start his own company doing the same product, and bring three quarters of your best devs with him, because they think you've lost your edge.

So get it the fuck together, fire him, and make a public statement that his firing was due to a lack of personal integrity and make it clear that you won't tolerate that kind of personal betrayal. Details can be spared, because those kinds of rumours spread faster than diseases through a workplace.

This is a pure power play. Don't let him win.
Because we're more mature than this "puff out your chest, be a man and get the girl" crap.

And of course your other comment here is "beat the crap out of him". Wow.
Who knows, you might be right about it being a "designed controversy". I expect an apology post to be top on hacker news in the next few hours.

In the crowded market of user testing, just getting people know you exist for any reason (either liking you or hating you) is a winning formula.
I couldn't find a way to sync with Pinboard.

Your Add-on has a keyboard shortcut? Using mouse for this purpose is lame and injury-prone.

How are you fundamentally different from Pinboard? Though, two things I could notice are that your add-on is snappier and looks better, at least on Firefox Mac; and I guess you listen to users unlike Pinboard dev).
Finally one that isn't a hard decision for me: it's their business, not mine. If the boss and the employee and the wife are all good with it, great, no problem.
You cannot be serious. You cannot go through life letting people walk all over you and abuse your trust. Your approach isn't "better than most alternatives"; it's encouraging him to accept the role of victim. Life is too short for THAT.
In general when implementing an easily parallelizable algorithm, you can expect about an order of magnitude improvement in power or speed going from a traditional CPU to a DSP or GPU, another going from that to an FPGA, and another going from that to hard silicon. In real applications you often have un-parallelizable or less-parallelizable parts that limit your gains.
Right, in our conversations he always referred to his "coder" and asked me if I wanted to freelance for him.
The tourists beaten by Greek police
From personal experience that is far too low, I'd like to see the source for this.
More importantly you have an entire video and audio editing/production pipeline built for the timings of 24 fps. If your going to increase the rate of all those systems, its far easier to double the rate than increase by some arbitrary fractional amount.
I think the only correct answer is to talk to a lawyer and determine the best way to legally terminate the employee. Also, another lawyer should be involved to settle matters between the company owner and unfaithful wife. Things could reach another level of complicated if the wife decides she wants a say in the matter. Does she own any portion of the company, or have a voice in how it is operated?

The end action is obvious (to me). It's the legal minefield of steps necessary to get to that action that the owner needs to carefully consider (with the advice of sound legal council).
Previous discussion of TechCrunch report:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5033742
Oculus Rift demo
The wife is the one at fault, not the employee. Chances are that if the employee said 'no', then the wife would've found somebody else to sleep with. The wife was the one who took a vow to remain faithful, not the employee.
As in, you'd hire a bus driver?
I'd say there's life in the old dog yet given that BBC's iPlayer site runs on Catalyst.

On the other hand, Dr Dobbs thinks:

"...Perl continues its long decline. According to Google trends, the number of searches for Perl is 19% of what it was in 2004. Its declining role in open-source communities further cements the perception that it's in an irretrievable tailspin."

http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/the-rise-and-fall-of-languages-in...
This reminds me of another story "Fired for being too hot" http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/dental-assistant-fired-...

In this story the wife asks the husband to fire the very competent & sexy assistant. He does and the court rules in his favor... because she was a cause for distraction (simplified). I don't agree with this ruling since the assistant did not do anything wrong.

If him being around makes your life miserable, fire him (check with a lawyer first). He's obviously a cause for distraction, you're going to have a hard time trusting him and you are probably having a hard time focusing around him.
We used BetaPunch extensively whilst testing our latest Decal CMS tour/on-boarding process[1] and I have nothing but good things to say about the service and Ross himself who was very pleasant and responsive. I've recommended the service to everyone I've met since. For the type of user testing you get, you just can't beat the price.

Although some of the testers weren't exactly in the "target market", by having some people that weren't designers or developers muddle through our demo, we were able to fix some really critical bugs.

I even met some people through the service (testers) that were willing to jump on Skype with me to discuss the product and who were interested in taking the beta process further.

I'd highly recommend you try them out. The social strategy Ross is going for here may be a little misguided, but the product itself, and indeed Ross (as far as I've dealt with him) are hard to fault.

[1]http://www.decalcms.com/
I would give him a pay raise for outing my wife as untrustworthy. You already know your employees only continue to show up because you pay them money and you only hire them because you profit from their work. Your spouse on the other hand, was in what was supposed to be a committed relationship where she would stick with you even if you were broke.
Caine's Arcade: A cardboard arcade made by a 9-year-old
Just realized that this story hit HN in a different form nine months ago...

Now - Caine's scholarship fund is almost to the $250K match!
http://cainesarcade.com/
As in, "I'd figure out how to keep the company successful and growing after one of my employees suddenly wasn't there any longer."
Very surprised nobody has mentioned "at will" employment.

.. or as my old employment law professor used to say:

You can require all of your employees to wear purple shirts. And then the next day when one of them shows up wearing purple, you can fire him for wearing purple.
I can't. Tried owncloud, as an alternative to my paid Dropbox account. It's incredibly slow to sync anything moderately large. I handed it 30GB of my 70GB home directory, and filesystem traversal on startup was taking 15min. On an ssd. Where Dropbox would take 15-30s.
Was your wife working for the company? A lot of companies forbid husband and wife to work for the company at the same time.
I can only assume he didn't get a great grade at his marketing degree after this mess...
Yay! Glad to hear it all got resolved. Be in touch if you hit any more problems. And let us know what you build!
NYC?
Just realized that this story hit HN in a different form nine months ago...

Now - Caine's scholarship fund is almost to the $250K match!
http://cainesarcade.com/
Am I the only one on this thread who was tried it. I used the True & Co. service to try to avoid shopping for bras, a chore that I dread. Unfortunately they were way way off on my sizing. Way way off. The sizing, the construction fitting to my shoulder shape, color (they send you some bras that they chose for you, which were colors that are not versatile to wear under normal clothing)... pretty much everything.

I tried another bra quiz service, Herroom's Know Your Breasts Bra Finder, which gave me a lot more insight into my sizing and why certain bras didn't fit right- particularly the way my breasts naturally hang and the way my shoulders are shaped. Unfortunately it gives you around five different characteristics of your ideal bra and no way to find bras that share several of them since they don't have faceted search or anything like that.

I ended up going to Nordstroms, where they were really unhelpful despite advertising having a "bra fitter" and I bought a bra that sort of fits and ended up buying a second shoulder strap for it on Amazon to gerryrig it not to slip all the time.
Critcue sounds a bit like feedback roulette.
Tech has a small but noticeable celebrity culture to it. Danielle has a decent number of twitter followers and has had articles at the top of HN at least a few times. I don't find it too surprising that she has some fans willing to defend her with a "You don't know who you're messing with!" message to the BetaPunch people.
> I'm the owner of a business [...]

If he divorces his wife, could she potentially get part ownership of the company?
Reddit is over that way.
Law No. 2 of The 48 Laws of Power could have made you more wary about this situation:

Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_48_Laws_of_Power
I want to play this like I want to continue breathing. Gimme!
Nooooo. They are being managed by software. Facebook has 1 admin per 1000 MySQL instances. You can't do that except with software. If the DevOps guy is spending much time touching servers, you got the wrong guy.

I've been through this multiple times. In each case, I hired a good Devops guy and told him to work his way out of a job ASAP. Typically, he was down to spending 1/3 of his time on ops of any kind, including DevOps, within 6 months. At that stage I had him helping Prof Svcs, QA, and the Developers by directly writing product code.
Firing somebody in the UK is very difficult. No matter how aggravated he is, if the law is not on his side then there's nothing he can do.
Besides the obvious answer of firing him or making his life so miserable he'll quit, etc., here's an out of the box idea (I don't know if the preceding 38 comments touch on this - if they did, that validates my idea a bit):

What about the idea of selling the company to him or firing yourself with a nice, generous severance or golden parachute?

One possibility is that you don't yet respect yourself as much as you could.

Another is he may be more important than you right now.

A third is that you will start messing up at work if you keep him around, so you are future value add will at some point be less than his.

Any of these three possibilities suggest that the company is better off with him staying and you leaving.

That said, my first suggestion for you is to get a good therapist. Get some help from your real friends and family (parents? siblings?) And when you man up, fire his ass.

Good luck. You seem like a good person intent on doing what is right for all but it may be time to do what's right for yourself.
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You can achieve 4% investing in large cap dividend payers. The dividends alone can be 4%, and any price appreciation on top of that is gravy. Though of course, you have to diversify and thus put an immense amount of research in many companies.
Here you can download the original trailer in 48FPS. Watch it at 2X Speed on VLC to see what 48FPS looks like.

https://rapidshare.com/#!download|931p5|868604620|The_Hobbit...
>How can content producers protect themselves from legitimate copyright infringement on services such as YouTube that allow unverified uploads on a massive scale?

That framing of the question is inherently biased. It assumes that if no good solution can be found, some bad solution that solves that problem is the only alternative, regardless of whether it creates even more serious problems for other people.

It also assumes that the "problem" is sufficiently major to justify the implied "whatever it takes" approach to solving it. Notwithstanding that substantially all of Hollywood's collected works are available on The Pirate Bay and in a thousand other places, the studios continue to make record profits. While an elegant solution to the problem you mention would be convenient, the decidedly inelegant approaches currently on the books or theorized by pundits are not inherently superior to the default alternative of doing nothing at all just because "something must be done" is a popular piece of political rhetoric.
Here is an alphabetical list of cognitive biases. There seem to be more than 170, including a 'Google effect'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

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Daniel Kahneman (prominent psychologist, 2002 Nobel in Economics) helped develop "reference class forecasting" to avoid poor project management decisions on novel or unusual projects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_class_forecasting
Same experience. It took a while to arrive, though it did come in cool packaging.
The article is very hyperbolic, and I don't think that the author meant to say that networking is unimportant. I think he was trying to say that your friends are more important for determining your success than your network.

And I agree with that. Your friends, much more than your network, define your outlook on life, your general attitude towards various successes and failures, the things you place the most importance in. If all of your friends are get-out-there-and-do-something people, it will rub off on you, even if not to the same extreme.

Furthermore, it's much easier to do something extreme or different if you have a friend group that wants to do it with you. Starting a business on your own is nearly impossible. Starting a business with a close friend is no cake walk, but now there is motivation. And regardless of what sort of way you try to be successful, friends can pool their networking resources.
I used to have this effect watching video game streams in 60FPS, and I have absolutely no conception of how this works at all (I mean games run at that FPS anyway, I cannot figure it out at all).

It goes away after a while and then it just seems smoother, it is very disorienting at first though I admit.
If this is happening in the U.S., then the employee is probably an "at-will" employee, who can be fired for any reason whatsoever - as long as you're not discriminating against him based on his sex, religion, or membership in some other legally protected class. People who've slept with your wife are not a protected class under law.
This is more than just "puff out your chest, be a man and get the girl". This whole event is rooted in evolutionary psychology. The power dynamics has unconsciously shifted towards the employee. This is like a power frame which is adopted in Pitch Anything (http://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Anything-Innovative-Presenting-P...). To overcome a power frame, you need to break it. If not, he will always submit to the employee's power frame unconsciously. This is not good for his productivity, his leadership, his being as a man and ultimately his company. One way to break the employee's power frame is to fire him.
I've done quite a bit of work in both C# and ruby and I haven't had any more or less difficulty in developing against APIs with either of them. Development speed is about the same either way. Working against a well built API helps. In a previous project at work I developed a mobile web services back-end in java and integrated Twilio into it in less than a day. Twilio is super easy to work with, so implement it now! :)
True, but the insurance industry is one where profits come specifically from not delivering anything.
Also, consult with a lawyer before doing anything (that should go without saying), but do it quick and your goal should be getting him out of there as fast as possible.
One nice side affect of this is that PHP can suit both novice and experienced programmers. Newbies don't have to learn OO before they write Hello World.
The subsidies aren't there to make anyone richer/more equal/etc... They are there to get scales of economy developing in Renewable Energy such that the price comes down.

It's been extraordinarily effective in Solar.

The only rational reason to make these investments as a society is if we believe that Petroleum/Coal/Nuclear based energy has externialities (or present-value-risk-adjusted externialities) - I.E. Climate Change, Pollution, Nuclear Disaster, etc... that exceed the cost of these subsidies.

I've often wondered whether the deaths of Solar Panel installers, Visual/Noise polution of Wind Farms, and environmental havoc resulting from hydro electric facilities are factored into these equations when subsidies are being handed out.
While it's useful to know he was nice to you (and I also had good interactions with him), it's still only one data point. That there are more than a few data points showing a profound inability to play nicely with others is far more enlightening. We all make mistakes, but I'm guessing most of us here seldom make very public, mean-spirited mistakes like his.
Hmm, no. You don't necessarily want endlessly increasing information content because that's more work for your brain to filter. As I pointed out below, 48 FPS has been well within our technical capabilities for a long time - far longer than the current polarized-3d technology, for example. Yet there isn't a body of 48 FPS films out there, in contrast to 3d, super-widescreen, movies with vibrating chairs, 'smell-o-vision' and various other technical innovations.

TV frame rates (at least in the US) are ~25% faster than film, and have been for years. Standard definition video doesn't have the same resolution of film, but it's still quite viewable on a medium-size projection screen. HD is ~4x better and can be projected on large screens in excellent quality. So why hasn't higher-frame rate video become popular for film (by which I mean moveis, not celluloid)? There's no problem in projecting it (most commercial theaters have a HD projector next to the main one); there's no magic about projecting at 48 FPS, and indeed many affordable pro and semi-pro HD cameras can shoot at 60 FPS progressive.

You might as well argue that dance music should approach ever-higher BPMs because increasingly fast tracks incorporate more musical information. Now I do (sometimes) like very fast dance music of 200+ BPM but that's so high above normal human heart rates that it has an extremely limited audience because most people just don't want beats coming at them that fast.
Zingerman's simple email survey
Sorry, but come on, "social strategy?" What is that, exactly? Antagonizing your potential customers?
Expect a point-and-click exploit that will run arbitrary code on vulnerable servers.

If you've never dealt with a problem like this, you may not be ready. So, here's the most important thing you need to understand:

If you have a vulnerable application anywhere, on any port it will be found and compromised. This is a spray-and-pray vulnerability. It costs attackers nothing to try, attempts don't crash servers, and so people will try everywhere.

If you lose an application in your data center / hosting environment, that's the ballgame. It doesn't matter that the app you lost was the testing instance of a status dashboard with no real data in it, because the exploit coughs up shell access on that server. If there is one thing every black-hat attacker in the world is truly gifted at, it is pivoting from shell access on one server to shell access on every goddam server.

Please make sure you didn't just patch the app servers you know/care about. THEY ALL NEED TO BE PATCHED OR RETIRED.

Additionally:

* If you are one of those "same password on a whole bunch of services people", now is a good time to make sure nothing you care about has that password. Some app somewhere is about to lose that password.

* Now would not be the worst time in the world to go to your Twitter config, hit Settings -> Apps, and scrub out all the stuff you don't use.

* Now you know why you never give 3rd party web apps your Gmail password.
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the media has constantly been repeating that the housing market was key to recovery and that the government had to do things to help prop up house prices.

It is interesting how many people are misinformed about this. The government hasn't and can't do anything to "prop up" house prices. It only sets the prime interest rate, which affects the ability of people to borrow money (specifically does it affect ARM mortgages), essentially the ability of people to "afford" housing, or the rate at which they'll be able to convert the debt behind their mortgage into equity.

Here is an interesting fact: My house whenever I can afford it, will _not_ be the most expensive thing I will have to buy in my life. My retirement savings are.

Again, not true. As you get older, as you're converting larger and larger portions of that debt behind your mortgage into equity, it should be close to being paid off by the time you reach retirement (the theoretical pie in the sky for our generation). So the amount of "retirement savings" one needs depends on what kind of housing situation one is in at the beginning of retirement. The sub-prime lending crisis occurred because people who HAD worked their whole lives, had accumulated their retirement savings in their houses or whatnot were literally swindled out of that savings by real estate people selling them "refinance" lemon loans and banking on the commissions.
While I'd agree, I think the very fact that he's asking this question is proof enough that at least one of the three parties is not fine with the relationship.
Another great solution that doesn't involved changing anything in how you run your blog (or even moving off of Dreamhost), is a front-end cache like http://www.fastly.com/.

It's really affordable for personal sites, and for static sites like yours you'll be getting 98%+ cache hits – almost no traffic will ever hit your Dreamhost box, it will all come from their highly optimized Varnish caches around the world.

Learndot's blog is hosted on a ec2 small instance fronted by fastly, our launch article was on HN/Techcrunch/etc... simultenously and we never went over 10% cpu.

tl;dr: Use fastly.
Conflict can always be avoided and, when you lead people, this is your daily job. The blog post serves no purpose to Danielle. It might kill betapunch, but it will die the same. Why would you do that? You just found an opportunity to make something better!!! How great it would be if Danielle used her skills as a CEO to make betapunch understand how f'up their twitter tactics are.

As a CTO/COO (not a startup, large company) it actually makes me HAPPY when I turn _bad_ into something better. Changes do not come from sheer force, influence or conflict, it usually comes from understanding.

There is pure evil, where changes are impossible and there is nothing you can do, but this is not the case.

Edit: Read how jorde reacted to betapunch wrongdoing and, after that, a direct insult. That's a CEO.
Firing people in Portugal is also hell, but loopholes exist in every law; I'm sure it's not different in the UK. My favorite, which also appears applicable to this case is: promote him into a top managerial position, then fire him for breach of trust (top managerial positions require trust from shareholders, the board and the CEO)

Speak to a lawyer, though. IANAL, obviously.
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Yeah, I don't think there's any strategy here. Strategery, maybe.
No. No it doesn't. It does it easier. That's not the same thing.