skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two years ago the company I worked for was acquired by Oracle. There was the initial "Yay! Money!" moment, followed by months of horror and disappointment.

They had to "standardize" our office which meant removing our wireless for ~6 months because ours wasn't "secure" enough. They replaced it with open wireless that required a VPN to connect to. That meant if you wanted to connect from your laptop to your desktop over wireless, your traffic was routed through some VPN gateway on the other side of the country and then back again. Not to mention that all traffic meant for external domains was routed through a proxy. Good luck trying to use skype or similar services to communicate. They didn't provide any internal solutions.

The coffee was also taken away, and we were given pots of the some of the worst coffee I have ever tasted. This is while our k-cup machines sat in a closet next to the kitchen. We couldn't even bring our own k-cups to use because these were locked up. We eventually got new coffee, but it took a lot of complaining.

All our email/im/phone/etc was switched to some horrible mismatch of open source or acquired products. Nothing worked correctly and everything was so slow. There was almost no integration between these either. You know the webmail is bad when people would rather use Thunderbird as their mail client. They also gave us all touch screen cisco phones that no one used because people don't use phones.

I was an iOS developer, which meant that I had a Mac. My team needed a Mac mini for something, which required filling out a form that went all the way up to the office of the CEO and getting approval from some of the highest executives in the company. This only took a couple months and a few more once it got sent to fulfillment. Meanwhile on our business trip, Oracle had no problem paying for expensive meals, drinks, etc. God forbid I actually want to spend money on work. It's also a good thing my mac didn't die, because if it did, I would have to go through the same steps.

I could go on for hours about how dysfunctional things were and still are (although I no longer work there, but I keep in touch with many former coworkers). The point of my post is to simply point out that all those steps on that site are great, unless you are getting acquired by a company that could care less about you as an employee and your work life.
>What do you guys think?

That resolution is tied with 1280x800 for us. Your mileage will vary. Responsive designs with media queries is the best method for general, public-facing website.
I wish I had read this advice a year ago. Keeping your spirits up is really hard, particularly if you want to get going on the next business, but it's critical if you care about your team and their well being when you are gone.
A year into my post-acquisition "stint" I find the most valuable lesson is to accept that, by design, everything about your startup culture will have to cede to your acquiring company's culture. Don't fight it; how well that transition occurs will help define the "success" of the acquisition, and as a founder you will be judged in the future (fairly or not) on how well the assimilation occurred.
You can also use Shift+volume to silently adjust the sound, what won't I learn today.
I'm not trying to be snarky here, but that would advocate for no improvements anywhere else. Why did Ruby 1.9 bother with a new VM? Why try to improve GC? Why bother with invokedynamic? Why speed up JSON parsing? Why bother with speeding up YAML? Yet there's obviously value in improving all these areas and they speed up almost every Ruby app.

It's overly simplistic to say the only option is to cache everything. Or that your DB is going to be your ultimate bottleneck, so the other N - 1 items are worth investigating.

And even in the link you supplied, the illustrative example is getting a 20 hour process down to 1 hour without speeding up the single task that takes 1 hour. It suggests there's an upper limit, not that because there is an upper limit you can't possibly do better than the status quo.
What you're describing is not really A/B testing.

Real A/B testing would mean to simultaneously show to different users, different pricing for the same product and I believe in some jurisdiction this could get you into a trouble legally speaking.
This is largely an illusion. Take the war z. They were able to release a dishonest incomplete game, and it took community outrage to bring it to valve's attention.
You are wrong. These terms (and the definitions steveklabnik gave) are very important in sociology, and were coined in large part by sociologists looking for a way to describe social phenomenon that they'd observed.

We've used them in the vernacular (which is the dictionary definition) to describe individual offenses, but when sociologists and academics use them (the field the terms came out of), it is very useful to describe a power structure and things that happen within that power structure.

I'm sad to see that steveklabnik has been downvoted so much on this board for saying something that is so very correct.
Oh, I can't wait for the "ly" suffix thing to be over.
The last time I looked at DOL data they also reported the actual wage.

Do they still do that? I'm guessing no since you didn't use it.
This policy would let schools copyright everything students or teachers create.
Can I have your job? K. Thx.
I am in much deeper doodoo than you are. I wrote at length a couple of days ago but couldn't manage to post it and now I cannot find it. I haven't experienced any of the malicious sounding tactics that other posts here describe. If you can pay it, do so. Be polite. Be honest. Make a good faith effort. It is a business like any other. They just want the money they are lawfully due and they deal every day with people being assholes to them and lying, hiding assets, etc. Don't be an asshole about it and they will probably not be assholes back.

At least that has been my firsthand experience doing this. Feel free to believe in the boogiemen posited by these folks who are probably generally well off and have never been through something like this.
I think it's more that, with the passage of time, people can step back and take a more balanced look. Good ideas are still good ideas, even when bad people have them. Babies and bathwater and all that.
If you get on the first results of a Google search, yes.
As long as it can reasonably expected to be mostly bug free and support everything you need it to with little changes to the app. It wouldn't need to require to much time playing around with it before the EC2 savings are eaten up by the wage costs of spending time on it. (Depending on how many servers you are running of course)
They do report the actual wage. Except that's the employer can choose to specify it as a range between a minimum and a maximum. This is optional, it's also possible to specify just one number.
That is why the user created stores would be great. You'd still get curated content, just not from steam. So it might be even better than today, in the sense of "properly" curated content!
www.slower.ly
Similar experience here... Despite repeated pleas to IT, they closed all of our network ports to be able to access our app's database or git repositories, so if we want to do anything (legitimately) we have to work from home. Brilliant!
A month with the Nexus 4
It increasingly feels as though Chrome OS functionality is a subset of Android functionality.
Boeing Engineers Begin Vote On Strike This Week
23,000 Boeing engineers, members of SPEEA, have until February 19th to decide if they want to go on strike.

The strike would slow down fixing the 787, but it has wider implications: white collar, professional workers are not known for striking or belonging to unions - this strike can challenge that. Also, in an unusual move for any union, the SPEEA engineers are rejecting a new contract that splits the workforce into two tiers - Boeing is offering guaranteed pension benefits for current employees at the expense of new hires (who would receive a 401k instead of a pension). Grounding of 787 has given Boeing engineers additional leverage to demand Boeing to extend their original contract.

The union believes a strike would shut down Boeing production lines in Everett, Wash., where its big planes are made, as well as Renton, Wash., where it cranks out more than one of its widely-used 737s every day. A strike would also shut down Boeing's new, non-union plant in North Charleston, S.C., which makes 787s in addition to those assembled in Everett.

More info: http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2013/02/boeing-engineers-begin-vote-on-strike-this-week
SPEEA: http://www.speea.org/Contact_Us/About_Us.html
For https://circleci.com, they're going to stop setting up Jenkins servers, and (in many cases) they're going to stop manually deploying.
I wish Python the best, but I hope they can figure out their fragmentation issues between 2 And 3 before I want to invest my time in that ecosystem.
How do you know it was Anon? Anyone can claim to be Anon. It's not as though Anon is really even a thing, as opposed to an ad-hoc collection of factions.
As a 0.6er myself, I'm surprised to hear you aren't more familiar with 0.8. The two make for quite a great combo!
Innovation or Exploitation? Get a geek perspective on CFAA. 2/19 at Stanford.
Supports UK?
I'd have to agree with you that gesture interactions tend to feel more natural then typical button pressing (e.g. pinch-to-zoom), but can be a little awkward for first time users. A customer who stops by a mobile phone kiosk while walking through their local mall might not know how to handle a BB10 device without assistance from a sales associate. However, gestures often become second-nature, and users rarely find themselves asking "how do I do this again?"

Swipe-upwards to unlock/return to homescreen requires initial contact with the screen's bezel, which should mitigate the number of times this gesture is unnecessarily actuated.
Growth Hacking - Lean Marketing for Startups
(For those who don't know, Haskell has an optional whitespace-significant syntax (which most humans use) as well as a brace-delimited syntax, and these are exactly equivalent.)
The 7" Blackberry PlayBook 16GB cost $499 when it went on sale in April of 2011. That's the same price as Apple was selling its 10" iPad 2 16GB for.

Five months later, RIM slashed the prices of the PlayBook. The 16GB model was sold for $199, $6 below the Bill of Materials costs.

RIM sold 700,000 PlayBooks before they lowered the prices, and even when they were selling them at a loss, they only managed to sell 1 million more.

Aside from its price point, it's not hard to see why the PlayBook flopped. When it launched, there were hardly any third party apps for PlayBook, the OS lacked autocorrection, the onscreen keyboard was barely usable, there was no integration with cloud storage, the default search engine was Bing, it had no store for media content, and of course: it had no standalone e-mail and calendar software.
So your major point is that software is unique because it:

1. Spans N orders of magnitude in scale which is M orders of magnitude more than X sector.

2. A single individual can put out superb products while some teams put out mediocre products.

3. The possibility exists for companies to be created with J founders and reach a valuation of K in L years.

Sorry, but none of these are unique to software. They're just the same arguments for anything else with different values for the variables.

Again, your sector is not unique. Last time we thought software was a unique sector lead to the great "paradigm shift" (as Greenspan called it, I believe) of 2000. You might know it better as the dot-com bubble.
You'd prefer that nothing changed? OSs evolve. Deal with it.
And if you have set the volume change notification to silent, Shift+volume does the opposite. Also ALT+Volume opens the system sound configuration window.
In a recent speech by Gabe, I think he said they'd still check for malware. But he didn't give any details, so I'm not sure if he actually has a plan to open the market, but in the same time has a system for checking malware, or he was just saying that.
Maybe this is off-topic, but having worked at a Lucent acquisition in 1999, I recommend buying put options to form a straddle with whatever stock options you get in the deal. If you can expect anything from an acquisition, it's volatility. (IANAL, but this probably isn't legal if you're an executive.)
That is some serious debugging, supported by even more serious persistence by the author. Total respect.
How Google Buses Are Ruining San Francisco
He's not claiming that their trademark is invalid because of "prior art", he is saying that they should not have a trademark on the term in the same way that Tropicana should not be permitted to have a trademark on "orange juice".

That is to say, "space marine" and "orange juice" are both clearly descriptive marks. That "space marine" is a descriptive mark is evidenced by it's long history of usage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_distinctiveness
All of the chromebooks so far have been able to run non-chromeos linux distros just fine. (The ARM-based ones require a little effort, but it's possible. I've got fedora/arm on a Samsung chromebook that I play around with) Hopefully that will be the case with this device as well.

The 13" Retina MacBook Pro starts at $1700. We'll have to see what the final specs and pricing are for the Pixel but it could be very compelling. A high-DPI display is really a killer feature.
I did this too. It's been that way for months. It's outrageous. Maybe they don't read their e-mail.
Settings Pages for iPhone and iPad Apps
His argument is that we shouldn't feel obliged to deliver mail to residences so far out of the way that said delivery is cost prohibitive, not that "no government services should be provided to anyone not in Washington DC". Sounds reasonable to me. The specifics of "cost prohibitive" and "out of the way" can be refined to prevent ideologically-charged, unrealistic reductions like yours.
Let him make it DRM free first.
Wish it was Android OS.
It's not so much a fragmentation issue as it is a migration issue. Everything is -- slowly but surely (and speeding up!) -- moving to Python 3.
Matt,

This isn't about the developer. It is about Freelancer.com. How is it possible that project that I initiated and paid for, gets cancelled by the developer, and I can't even leave a feedback?
How's this stuff not more widely known. I've been using a Mac for years and am only just finding this out.
>in my old phone(2.3.4-ish I think),

Yeah that's going to make a HUGE difference.
This is a problem in a number of languages, in various guises. Generally you'll want the solution as outlined car54whereareu, but I don't deny that Go makes it harder to vary the type parameter than I'd like (it's easy to make a map with a 3-tuple key, easy to make a map with a 4-tuple key, not easy to pick between them without sacrificing type safety somewhere). It works almost exactly like Haskell, if you couldn't just say "a" for the key type of a map. And if you have no good way to label keys as immutable.
Super excited for this. We've got a couple coming to our office.

Can you talk a little bit about the construction of the unit? How does the craftsmanship look?
It depends where you look for the common meaning. To native English speakers in the UK, Australia, New Zealand (ie outside North America, coincidentally including the country where the English language developed) specious has one very clear meaning

I would also direct you to the usage examples in your link. All of which use specious in a context that implies deception of outright falsity. I have never ever seen specious used synonymously with obsolescence.
This isn't a theoretical argument. I actually did this and it didn't take all that long and some of it was even fun. An added benefit is my specs run faster, too. So developer time is saved on every spec run now. You also hit that intangible of improved developer happiness.

Additionally, the X time exceeds Y cost argument really only works when people are optimally efficient. Clearly those of us posting HN comments have holes in our schedules that might be able to be filled with something else.
Sorry, Malcolm Gladwell: NYC’s Drop in Crime Not Due to Broken Window Theory
Sure, but it's always good to keep in mind that spinning up more dynos if you're already the limits for your database is a bad idea.
Tumblr Tests Out Real-Time Notifications From People You Follow
Ask HN: How do you get 'your-domain.com' email address, now Google isn't free?
Google has made their Google Apps for business NOT free some time last year.

So I wanted to know what HN'ers are doing to get their own @your-domain.com email addresses for free?

Apart from

* Doing your own mail server
* Paying for it (I know I know...)

I heard Microsoft is offering something similar, but is it actually useful?

As a side note, maybe this is a good idea for startups. :)
Regarding the "ignored" message sent via Facebook, it's possible that the message didn't hit the recipient's inbox but the "Other" folder if the sender and recipient weren't friends. That has happened to me a number of times.
That post seems to unpack more or less the same assumptions I'm unpacking:

"A running theme in a lot of feminist theory is that of institutional power: men as a class have it, women as a class don’t"

"What this imbalance of power translates to on an individual level is a difference in the impact of a man being prejudiced towards a woman and a woman being prejudiced towards a man"

Or as I called it: "the notion that everything in society is systemically biased in favor of men, at the expense of women", leading to the conclusion that "it doesn't matter as much when a man faces sexual discrimination".

Fine. We agree that the same assumptions are being packed into the feminist usage of the word "sexism". My argument is that these assumptions need to be called out and defended in this forum. If this were a feminist forum where everyone could be reasonably assumed to have already accepted those assumptions already, perhaps the implicit jargon would be more appropriate. Furthermore, the act of imposing this jargon is a backhanded way of imposing the assumptions behind that jargon.
For what it's worth, amalog's definition of "specious" is the one I'm familiar with. My girlfriend recently quizzed me on her GRE words with that one, and my definition was the given one, too.

So I'd argue that amalog's definition IS the common one.
Instagram’s co-founder, Mike Krieger, killed my startup.
I didn't have that impression either, but the implications are far too frightening.
False flag is false.
Very interesting! Let's pair this up with an Oculus Rift and call it a day.
sara.ly would have been a lot cleverer, if they had to go the .ly route
Dam control, or damn control? I teach a control systems course, so I know about both kinds.

PS You should be very frightened. The industrial control systems industry are slow to adopt new tech/new best practices/anything else new; and even more reticent to touch anything that "works." Tons of vulnerable equipment controlling dangerous things with default passwords (if any at all). I could go on for days.
Why Writers Will Own the Future
I also own one and have started developing a 3D painting application with it. It's magical, like playing with a touchscreen was magical.

BTW, this post reveals a bit more information than Leap Motion would like developers to reveal. Essentially, OP broke the agreement.
So is it only the byte at 0x47f that matters? Could you just send a packet filled with 0x32 0x32 0x32 0x32 0x32 to trigger this? (Like, download a file full of 0x32s?) Or does it have to look like a SIP packet?

You'd think the odds of getting a packet with 0x32 in position 0x47f is almost 1/256 per packet? So why aren't these network cards falling over everywhere every few seconds?
I joined Cisco after undergrad to work on next-gen ISR platform. There was interesting work, no doubt, but too much BS. I left after 1.5 yrs and now am working on OpenFlow at a much smaller switching company. Boy, you never really know how things really are until you get another reference point.
I'm pretty sure his comment is indicating he _does_ use Python and that is his take on the "significant whitespace" issue.
I think they can hit 400-500$ price point by using a ARM 15 chip. Chrome already runs in HiDPi on nexus 10 and retina MacBook pros. I am interested about the scaling they will use here.
It's off-topic, but I'd like to point out that there is no connection between being vaccinated against the influenza virus and spreading germs.
Hi meaty,

You are right, most APM tools are working on covering multiple platforms. We are trying to provide extra depth into the Windows Server platform because thats what we know (for example, I used to be the PM for IIS 7 / ASP.NET).

Our goal is to be able to help you with more than just giving you the info to monitor your apps, but really give you the expert analysis of it. A better example is, you might hire a consultant to help you tune up your app, or have your developers get training on performance tuning. Those developers will then potentially use New Relic or Redgate tools to support them in doing their work.

In our world, you just use our product and receive that level of expertise automatically from our service. Without having to hire those consultants or have your engineers spend their time learning about the insides of IIS.

Re: leaking information. If you are not comfortable with leaking information, you are not using the new SAAS APM tools like us or New Relic. Thats certainly your tradeoff to make. I have to say though, we worked really hard to make sure we dont collect sensitive data:

- We dont load a profiler/debugger into your application like most other APMs (e.g. New Relic). We collect only external information, which does include errors/stack traces but no data/code/cookies/etc.

- We provide a mode where our monitoring service is sandboxed to a non-production vm in your environment, so nothing to install on prod servers.

Re: scale. We've handled Viddy.com, Vevo.com, etc. Are you larger? We do a lot of engineering to reduce the data volume and process it effectively while maintaining high resolution. Tell us what your specs are and we can tell you if we can do it.

Best,
Mike
Awesome I was looking for anther example of a website using the default bootstrap style!
If you are allowed to comment, what exactly did leap not want to be revealed?
It's nice. Very simple: plastic case, black plastic on top, black rubbery base on the bottom. Two USB ports on the side, but they are hardly noticeable. Overall, it's one little brick, and there are no moving parts, so construction is very simple and works very well.
That's right: the post is precisely about what the founder of a company acquired by a bigger company should do. As he stated, he was locked in for two years, so he made the best of it, then left at two years on the dot and is now a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
So, the less rich people live in SF, the better?
Probably not a slap, just waiting for Meraki's lease to run out. It's funny how Cisco walks the "networked world" walk in a number of ways (IP phones on the desks, virtual secretaries in some of the lobbies), but still wants to maintain a city-within-a-city with its attendant traffic bombs and mazes of twisty little cubicles.
> Swipe-upwards to unlock/return to homescreen requires initial contact with the screen's bezel

Hopefully that works well. However when playing games it's pretty easy to hit the bezel when you're aiming for something on the edge of the screen. I always used to have this problem (and still do) on Android phones with their capacitive / on screen buttons.
This seems very useful to me. I have struggled with a bug that I think is in Nouveau but I haven't reported it because im not sure what information would be required. This at least tells me what the dev requires to understand the issue.