skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had the same email address for 18 years, but I'm a dying breed. Most people I know change email address pretty regularly - as in more than once a year.
I'm sorry to be blunt, but You're Doing It Wrong. You are not the arbiter of how to have a good conversation, but the nominal go-to person for Ember.js documentation. From a cold reading (ie not being an Ember.js user and not knowing any of the participants in the discussion), my reading of Delvarworld's commentary is that s/he worked to soften the blow of his/her criticisms by couching them in gentle humor, and describing systematically the thought process and frustration encoutnered in trying to get to grips with this tool. A lot of people would have just said 'this sucks/is stupid' or something worse.

Slapping the poster down in public without any attempt at a substantive response, and then sending a long private explanation of how you should be communicated is a major dick move.* You are arbitrarily setting yourself up as a superior being and deflecting wholly valid criticism by making such public pronouncements. Following up with a private message is not much better, because it prevents the recipient from having the issue out with you without breaking the implicit confidentiality of email.

* Since you referred upthread to 'dickitide' I am presuming the term 'dick move' is not going to be offensive to you.

Your role as a community member is not to lecture other people in how they may address you (within reason, there's no reason you should have to tolerate outright abuse), but to exemplify the standards you wish to propagate. If you use community standards as a shield to deflect substantive criticisms of your work, voluntary or not, then you are undermining those very standards by using them for exclusionary purposes. The fact that you are in a distinct minority in this discussion and are defending your position by arguing that dickitude is the norm and you are the exception ought to serve as a red flag for you.

My advice is to apologize to the original poster (ie Delvarworld) for your dismissive reaction and then engage with that poster's substantive criticisms. If you truly feel unable to engage with someone who is engaged in the mildest kind of personal expression, then perhaps being in a liaison position is not for you.

In the meantime, I urge you to revisit the Discourse blog article you linked to (where you cited the 'don't be a dick' principle) and keep reading to (at least) the section titled 'Be reasonable, even when you disagree,' which includes a plea to avoid 'responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content.'
Think I'm going to go with this:

http://www.amazon.com/Crosley-Black-Candlestick-Phone-CR64/d...
I'm one of those people that has found Ember intriguing and have also found the getting started/documentation lacking and can understand people's frustrations in the original thread and in this HN thread.

It's strange to me that you're trying so hard and making so many posts to basically fight and counter anyone and everyone in this thread (including the original forum post)..

Try being a little more positive and view the feedback not as an attack against you but as suggestions for improvement from people who are legitimately trying to help. Spend your energy saying less "no one understands me, he was rude to me in the forum post, you guys are all misunderstanding me, etc" and more "I/We will get this done".

Look at wycats' post about what documentation is available and how he is looking to improve it as opposed to your posts. His post is helpful and constructive and makes me want to one day give Ember another go (when documentation improves). Your posts are all "No no no. He doesn't speak like a perfect gentleman when addressing me and I wish to challenge him to a duel".
It's meaningful when you _start_ a career, I think. I've seen to many 20-year olds following this advice all starry-eyed, without any idea how to ever actually make "what they love" into a lifetime of meaningful and useful work.

And the issue is not finding people who don't enjoy what they're good at. I agreed that that might be quite rare. (Although there are definitely moments in every career where you hate what you do. It's inevitable)

It's that people abandon something they do enjoy, because it is not what they think they love. It's easy to love from afar, when you have only a passing knowledge. The hard work is keeping the love alive once you get intimate knowledge, in relationships as well as in jobs. So if you start with something you do well, you start with something you already know intimately. It's much easier to keep that working for you than building a new relationship, so to speak.
It was - bug with our social widget. Corrected now.
How soon until Google Alerts is retired, I wonder.
This is ridiculously easy with Tropo. You plug in an ATA, register it and it works. We did this with an ATA to Rural India that forwarded local calls from a toll-free number to Tropo for an IVR. Works a treat. No computer needed.

What a waste of time with this Twilio garbage.
They weren't forgotten,

True. I live in San Fran and would be much happier engineering for Wells Fargo than any startup (from a total-compensation viewpoint).

that's why it's so hard to hire.

This is probably more of an issue where the salary offered needs to match the risk of the job. There was an HN discussion some time ago about how wall street workers have to sign stiff non-compete agreements, but they get a substantial golden parachute if they are ever laid off.
That's the thing! I find myself ping-ponging in my mind between "But Ruby and ActiveRecord are so beautiful and easy to use." and "But what happens if the 'magic' breaks?"

Trust me, I have been thinking about what you say every day for the past 5 days.
No, that is a separate incident: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycons-response-to-inaprop...
I am getting the same reload error on Google Chrome on Win 8 notebook. Not a very good way to launch a new product.
Facebook rolls out "Lookalike Audience" targeting
With all due respect I don't think that this is what happened here. That's fine if he felt no need to help, to problem is when you go out of your way to let someone, someone who is trying to learn, that you think they aren't worth your time due to the tone of their post. I understand where the OP is coming from, the frustration at trying to learn something and constantly hitting roadblocks. Was he a little sarcastic? Yes, however I would be too if I couldn't find any help. This situation was escalated by the fact that his cry for help was met with a core contributor taking the time to tell him he wasn't going to help. I would compare that to going up to a homeless man and telling him you weren't going to give him any money. There just wasn't a good reason to post something like that.
Your name on website is listed as: ILIAS ISMANALIJEV
English isn't my native language, but I lived in US for 20+ years.
There are a lot of practical jokes based on names, such as spell 'CUP' (see you pee).
When I look at your name, I see 'ISM' followed by a foul 4-letter word. (that last word in US is going to get some giggles).
My suggestion would be to get a different translation for your last name. You could probably even cut it to Isman.

Although maybe I'm the only one who sees it this way.
Please do not be offended.

This is similar advice I just had to pass on to a friend 'Svetlana', to call herself 'Lana', instead of 'Sveta', as in US 'Sveta' isn't easy to pronounce, and 'Lana' sounds better to American-born from what I see.
Wouldn't it just work? The FXS port will generate the 90VAC/20Hz signal and the device plugged into it interprets that as an incoming call.

You guys only support termination through SIP, not origination, so the dialling mechanism doesn't matter. And if you did want to do origination, the ATA just has to understand pulse dialling.
AFAIK comprehensive numbers for YC outcomes are not public, but Paul Graham has indicated that returns from YC investments follow a power law distribution, meaning that if you can only get equity in a single YC company (by virtue of being an employee) you have a very small chance of making a ton of money but probably will end up with very little.
Listen, I know that once we turn forty we're all put out to pasture in the Great Programmer Iceberg and left to fend for ourselves but:

I think the takeaway is, you're not building something sustainable if you can't attract people with kids. Kids are a very natural and common lifecycle event for people over the age of 25.

In terms of dollars and cents, the notion that you're building a team of "world class talent" that doesn't include anyone over the age of 30 is silly.

Not that the vast majority of startups need world class talent, but that's neither her nor there.
I would replace "early employees" with "early engineers". Not sure why, precisely, but it wouldn't surprise me if negotiating prowess played a role.

Companies I've worked for in the past would never dole out more than 1% to engineers, but dropped anywhere from 2-5% on sales / biz-dev / managers. In one case, the engineers had actually been with the company for years and working at half-market wages prior to the non-technical hires.
Redditors got mad lol
Party with a Local just went Global with updated App Version 1.1
It's a clear backpedal, they're trying to claim they asked for something completely different because what they were asking for was so obviously unreasonable.
Boy, I can't wait to have two years worth of notes 'No longer supported'! Sign me up!
The problem is managing alone time vs. social time. Most measures of mental health say it's absolutely crucial to have daily social interaction to stay at peak health.

So the question is, what's the optimal balance?

I've had times where I shut people out and hack for a day or two straight, completely alone. These are most certainly unsustainable, but can make for incredible creative pushes.

Should we force breaks of solitude, or incorporate solitude into daily habits?
They killed Google Notebook a couple years ago. I don't know why I should trust this one. Pretty ballsy to call it "keep", bloggers can start drafting their "Google Loses Keep" headlines now.
SpaceX Tests Reusable Rocket
CSS Scalable background-image with no HTTP request
If I wasn't unduly optimistic, I'd be institutionalized by now. My suggestion to the OP was that periods like he described have happened for me as well -- in retrospect, they were "remission-like" incidents. When the first one crashed back into full blown, I went from "the usual depressed" to something much darker. When I had another remission period, I was elated but aware that "all good things must end" and I enjoyed every damn minute of it. Right now, I'd love a period of remission, it would make a SIGNIFICANT difference in my day-to-day.

My hope for the OP and my intention in writing was to encourage him to have some psychic cushion for the potential of a return to strongly symptomatic existence. The only constant is change.
Is this hosted on Google Drive?

Anyone know if they did a post-mortem post explaining the Google Drive outage from a couple of days ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5394475

The post quickly disappeared off the HN front page despite having a lot of upvotes, perhaps due to flagging.

http://hnrankings.info/5394475/
Confirmed: iOS 6.1.3 Has Another Passcode Security Flaw [Update]
From: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21866532

The Voyager project scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ed Stone, said he wanted to see a reorientation of the magnetic fields around the probe before declaring it to be in interstellar space. This was a "critical marker", he added. "…that change of direction has not yet been observed."
>if you fail, you have a network

What is the factual basis for this statement ? Its not like this network will clothe & feed you & find you your next gig when your startup goes south. There are several yc alumni who, after their startup went bust, also went bust.
I keep seeing this listed as an Evernote competitor. I have a sneaking suspicion that people saying that have never consistently used Evernote since it does so much more than Keep apparently does.
Me three, over and over.
I run Uptano (https://uptano.com), so I have some experience with this stuff.

We're offering dedicated hardware at really low prices. The biggest reason we can do this is by having really low overhead. Our pricing is competitive with doing it yourself.

Most providers are baking in a lot of additional costs that have nothing to do with the actual cost of your server. Namely employees and centralized hardware infrastructure.
they will be taking 5 weeks off traveling the world, but they are still getting work done

That's not vacation, that's telecommuting.
Awesome! Could you add me too? Github id 'dedene'. Thanks!!
Building A Company YOU Love
Official Blog: Google Keep—Save what’s on your mind
Yeah - I think it would. Going to eBay a fierce looking red one from the sixties and going to give it a spin.
What alternatives to Google Alerts are there? The only one I knew of that came close to it was Backtype, but they were acquired and shut down a couple of years ago.
> In other words, repeat with me: loops don't compose.

Iterators do, though. Most of the languages that don't do TCO instead lean on those instead: C++, C#, Python, and eventually JavaScript.
What part of my "opinion" was "uneducated"?
I completely agree with this. We (bugsnag) are running on rails 4 beta right now to help iron out any production issues before that is released.

We didn't, however, realize that "patch" releases also have release candidates. I'd recommend following the rails blog (http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/) which announces release candidate builds too.
Worked for three start ups in the Web 1.0 days. Silly hours and silly promises of shares... Never again.
Not sure why people are downvoting you for coming and explaining the facts to us.
Oh no! Not another puzzle! ;)
That may very well be true but it doesn't change the fact that his response was very negative (much more so than the OP's) and for no good reason. The OP did not say "Trek sucks, his attempt at documentation is laughable" in fact I would venture a guess that the OP had no idea who Trek was prior to his posting. This was not an attack against Trek or the work he has done but rather a frustrated programmer explaining his predicament and asking for help and Trek told him he wasn't worth his time. If that's not pouring gas on the fire I don't know what is. If I were the OP I would completely abandoned trying to learn Ember.js after a comment like that, talk about kicking a man when he is already down.
I'm getting it in Chrome as well.
Can you reference any studies? If this is true, I've been doing it all wrong...
You basically (literally) said exactly that. "Entitlement" is not a personality trait, "acting entitled" is, and even then it's only a negative if you aren't entitled to whatever you're "acting entitled" about.

"Entitlement" is literally nothing more than having the "right to something." And as a human, you are absolutely entitled to being paid exactly what you are worth.
The Inadequate Guide to Rails Security
Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to daringfireball.net
As a developer for a startup creating software that makes achieving net-zero easier than ever, it's good to see it being taken seriously by more and more.
The ceaseless whining over Google Reader is getting tiresome - I don't think there's been a Google-related post in the last week that had discussion actually related to the article.

Google took a zombie out back and double-tapped it. You can download your data. You have plenty of alternatives eager for your business. Move on.

http://xkcd.com/1172/
This is a really nice comment that I think really cuts to the meat of the issue. I'll admit to being a pretty big Google apologist, but now that we know they are willing to ax services with devoted followings it makes me really hesitant to take the dive on new products they are releasing. My confidence in them being willing to support these services down the road has been great impacted.

Now with every new Google that gets released the first question that goes through my brain is "Will this be here in 2 years". That can't be a good thing.
Bad timing. The JVM has had an abnormal increase in security patches over the same time frame too.
I do wonder why the UK scene doesn't seem quite so vibrant

You just go through a list of state-required benefits or drains on individual risk taking and then you wonder at why the startup scene isn't quite so vibrant?

Risk taking requires the ability to... uh... take risks.
I was really replying to the comment asking what will we do at 65 and lamenting the fact that older workers get pushed out of the industry. My point is to put your house in order financially so you can have the luxury of doing what you love at whatever age.
Quora Introducing Improved Search
Out of curiosity, what kind of bad experiences did you have? What were you disappointed with?
Studying User Experience Trends in Website Layouts
>"It's a TED talk, it'll be worth watching" are gone

I think this is primarily the issue. It's in part due to just the shear over saturation of the talks these days. It's tough for everything to be "great."

Second, the brand has been diluted to the point that it's tough to know whether or not a talk is worth investing the time. There are videos on how to tie your shoe.. I mean, come on.

There's also a video on how to dry your hands with one paper towel (it doesn't work). Sure, I mean, I guess it's kind of interesting (If it catches you in the right mood, perhaps), but, I mean, "shake your hands a bit before you grab the towel" sounds a little more like something the would pop up in /r/lifeprotips.
Besides liquidation, companies might just ask for the options back like Zynga did.
I don't find my notes in drive. Except for the URL there seems to be me no connection to drive.
Google launches Evernote rival Keep for the Web, Android 4.0 and above
Actually, there were some studies that showed absence of correlations of ability of solving puzzles with actual productivity.
See "The Invisible Gorilla" book by Simons and Chabris. Very rewarding reading.
He absolutely does. If you make something, you have a fundamental right to decide how it gets used.
Respectfully, I cannot recall seeing a single YC company which has given up 3X LP at any stage short of an out and out crisis - and I've seen a few (work on the investor side). Hell, short of short-term debt which is clearly a bridge to an acquisition of sorts, you never see those terms. The high level point is valid (LP is there for a reason), but not to the scale you talk about it.
If They Have to Ask, You Didn't Afford It
For the various tasks involved in a chess engine Python and Ruby are likely to either be performance equivalent (in that performance doesn't really matter) or entirely unsuitable.
No, thanks. I'll keep out of any new google services
I value independence and eventual ramen profitability far, far higher than the average person. A life spent working for other people instead of customers or fans is a huge risk and I'm running from it.
In the words of Clint Eastwood's character in Unforgiven:

"'Deserve's got nothin' to do with it" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpDkYZWeeVg)

I'm "entitled" to a market rate. I'm also "entitled" to negotiate for the highest rate the market will bear.
Junk article
Yay, more indignant Reader protest in the form of casual comments about a different Google launch, how refreshing!

As you noted Drive is actually acknowledged to be under someone's management (Apps) and not an afterthought kept on life support, so there's that.

And worst case scenario you can export your data and stick it in any number of similar services out three, it took me all of 3 seconds with Reader.
The popup is gone for me, now it works perfectly

EDIT: now it's back to the popup... There wasn't anything particularly exciting anyway.
How does this compare to Evernote?

(I wish there was a way to filter out all the comments referring to Reader. Most people including me don't care that they discontinued it so please stop spamming about it everywhere.)
Has the Sharing Economy Already Left Zipcar Behind?
I'm not part of the whole Google Reader hate bandwagon, but this one makes me puzzled too. Isn't Google Keep a shade too similar to Google Notebook ( http://www.google.ca/googlenotebook/faq.html ), a product they shut down a couple years ago?

Does this show a lack of foresight in maintaining products, a lack of dedication to making them successful, or what? There's clearly a problem here.

Google has the same duplication problem all over the place -- constantly recreating projects that they've previously shut down, or running several redundant projects simultaneously. Google Chrome and the AOSP Browser, Buzz/Orkut/G+, Sites and Blogger (and whatever they had before). Reader and Currents, What is going on here? Rather than improving a project, they seem to have this epidemic problem of creating a whole new one and letting the old one get lost in the fray.
I rely on LastPass for confusing sites like that one. If it weren't for that addon, I'd never know, for example, which of the 7 or so Windows Live accounts that have been generated on my behalf is The Right One for which website.
Exactly, I know plenty of people in the food industry that work harder than some engineers I've seen.
Could not agree more, there was a post on HN about this recently[1] and I also found this[2] one when searching for the first.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5267330
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034972
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I didn't mean just insurance either.

Independence and the ability to come and go as I please is more valuable to me than whatever risk/reward calculation you're working with in your head.
The thought that in the US your health insurance depends on your workplace makes me a little sick inside.
You should trust them as long as the people behind this app are working for Google. It is apparently obvious that Google as a company stays above its products and people. When people leave, the product pretty much goes with them. Unless of course you have built a cash cow like Gmail or other Ads generating mechanism. Also exempt are your Glasses, self-driving cars and etc.
A side question on his net calculation, how did he end up with 63% tax rate? anyone care to elaborate
It's entirely possible that you haven't heard from delvarworld because that person felt hurt and humiliated by your public response, which may also have colored the impression made by your follow-up private communication.

It's also disingenuous to say you were called out; a third party (locks) mentioned that you were the appropriate point of contact for suggestions like this. In no way could this be construed as a challenge or mockery of you personally.

I don't wish to belabor the point so I will not comment further about it. I just urge you to take a step back and try to consider the whole conversation from the perspective of a neutral third party.
Google Tasks might be a candidate for next Spring cleaning.
Keep your stuff at Google - until their next spring cleaning!
> what is the best way to approach the bikeshedding issue?

Required background reading for anyone who hasn't seen it: bikeshed.com

Regarding (a): Give people lots of choices, and they'll learn to pick the right ones. There is a reason the two main smartphone platforms have completely won out over the older stuff. It's just really sad there there aren't more to choose from, since iOS and Android both have major areas of suckage.

Regarding (b): Public servants should not be making crucial decisions about technology. The government could never build the massively complex system described by OP, and regulation would have killed it quickly (probably by cementing an AT&T/IBM duopoly in technology).