skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another Go fanboy getting a bit defensive without having to add anything constructive?

If you actually checked your “claims” you would see that people are singing so many praises that the mailing list is continually filled with proposals to fix the worst parts of Go's packaging system.
I was pretty excited about original link in this HN submission, but now I'm roughly twice as excited to learn about z. Love it.

[Disclaimer: I don't know rupa at all]
It seems he didn't because he feels his former boss is untrustworthy and lacking in character; someone who's ready and willing to be someone's unthinking paid henchman.

> His ethics meant nothing as long as he was having a paycheck lorded over him.

> We need to be employed. But at the cost of what? Our ethics? Our passions? Those that trust us?

I had to do a lot of extrapolating to come to this conclusion. Given the circumstance I wouldn't meet this former boss either. I learned a long time ago that people who'll screw me over once will screw me over again.
Your previous comment is right there for anyone to read.
Since you're green we can't see an e-mail address. May want to share a contact method with us directly.

If you're not compensated in writing in the LLC agreement (which you would've signed), and you haven't been compensated otherwise or signed away your rights, then you own the code you've written and can act accordingly when it comes to negotiations. That may not get you very far, but it does give you some leverage.
What does liberalism mean in that context - the belief that everybody is only responsible for themselves? (Again serious question, I don't know how to interpret this).
Interesting theory. But it seems to indicate that the best piss off those higher up in the corporate food chain, and do it repeated, without results, until they get fired.

From my perspective, both tact (and associated political skills), and knowing when to cut your losses are awesome skills that many of the best have.

However - I do agree that getting fired can be a badge of honor.
Yes, I agree. That's a large part of why I found this particular quadcopter project attractive. I am interested in a fairly specific project that is much more about how the quadcopter is used than about the science of keeping it stable, aloft, and responsive.
Not legally, that is.

How the immigration service will know that you are working in your apartment in the US is another question altogether. You're not allowed to, but you don't really have to tell anyone either. It's a grey zone: business trips are fine, "working" isn't. When you go in the country, say you are there for meetings, no more. Never say "work" (ever).

Here's what can happen: MANY people go to the US on a tourist visa, and then work there. Mostly they work as waiters and such, and it's not really a big deal. You can easily rent an apartment, even buy a house, and not have a working permit. The US is friendly to immigrants.

However, you don't get rights. You can't easily leave the country and be expected to be let back in. You are now "illegaly" in the country and it's not a great long-term situation.

Another option is to get a 6-month tourist visa, stay for 6 months (and work), and then leave.
I understand your position in this, and after reading the full story, I even agree... but I also know a few independent security researchers (i.e. people who don't do this professionally) who do not.

They, rightfully or not, see an independent who was ignored and then persecuted for trying to responsibly report a bug. It's given Facebook a black eye to more than just the HN crowd, and people will probably be thinking twice about disclosing security bugs, particularly if they get "working as intended" as their initial response.

Also, consider the guidelines that go into developing a UI. The more roadblocks you put in someone's way to register for your site, the fewer people will register. Apply that to this, and the more roadblocks you put into reporting a bug correctly (requesting special accounts, fighting to convince staff that your bug is an actual issue), the fewer bug reports you're going to get. That's not a good thing for Facebook in the long run.
From what I understand, under the Terrorism Act you're legally compelled to cooperate with the questioning and you're not allowed to remain silent so I have no doubt that those threats were real and that those questioning Mr. Miranda intended to act on said threats if they saw fit.
Here's a question: what's the difference between this icon font, and font awesome, which for a time looked to be the 'go to' way of doing icons? I have no horse in that race, and they both look good to me.
I've heard similar first-hand accounts from women travelling in northern India. One friend in particular was almost raped in a taxi but was able to fight off the attacker and escape. She also was molested on trains on multiple occassions, basically men groping her breasts and groin as described in the article.

Combined with the recent reports of rapes of tourists and local women I think that by now it's fairly well known that India is not particularly safe for women travellers.
HN-as-a-hivemind really should approve of this sort of snark. It's nerd-snark!
He's making a generalization about people making generalizations. Dog chasing his own tail and all.
Just because everyone on the web corrects everyone else, English is not the most spoken language in the world. It is the third most while Arabic is the fifth to my surprise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_...
You mean, you will prefer a bigger place. It's not a need. We live in the most spoiled country on Earth and think that our absurd norms are the same as necessities. Having a decent safe home in a decent place with modern technologies is the most anyone needs.
It's a very difficult problem to solve here in India.

Sure, you can have proper laws to handle it - but what do you do about the lacking enforcement?

If you have proper enforcement - what do you do about the corrupt courts?

Even if corruption is fixed - how do you tackle scaling with dealing with these issues?

If we had all that working - who teaches these people to be respectful of personal rights?

In my opinion, this rape problem isn't THE problem, but merely a symptom of a much larger set of more important problems. I don't like these articles because they hardly do anything to bring to light what I think are huge structural problems that need to be fixed that allow rape to be a non-issue. I truly believe that fixing all the fundamental issues is the correct way to fix the country.
It is within our right however to protest against Facebook's decision, especially with the way it conducted itself before with the 'This is not a bug' response it gave.
Having tested and used most of these solutions in the UK, Stripe wins hands in almost all scenarios for bootstrapped companies. Its just so easy to get up and running, and their support is top-notch.

There is one big downside though - you can only charge in USD, GBP and EUR. We sell to other countries who like their pricing in local currency, and this is a major issue for us.
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The button gradients are toned down a little, but they're still there. It's still closer to the v2 style than it is to flat.
I don't see how you get from the facts of what happened to "persecution". Could you go a little further into that?
Keep in mind though that if part of your loading time is parsing large amounts of JSON returned from your backend, this blocks the main thread and your loading bar will be stuck for that time.
Yes, the top country for my customers is the United States followed by the Philippines and Nigeria.
I prefer http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/
yea AllThingsD didn't really get the whole story.
Fair point. But again, even if you are not a party, your political movement will have to overcome a lot of major problems. I wouldn't count money as one of them.
I've been mostly on the sidelines for Groupon, and realize most companies that sign up don't realize that it will most likely end up being a negative for their income.

However, I do know a few places that have made very good use of groupons. One example is our local eat-in movie theater. Tickets usually go for $9. Groupon ticket is $5. Customer saves $4, but movie theater makes up for it by selling overpriced (crappy) food and alcohol.
The RED user is a very strange beast. I have witnessed both sides of the mania (I attend a lot of tradeshows for media types) They swarm around Ted (from RED, who is a nice, but odd chap) They literally eat rumors for breakfast, and then troll other manufacturers.

Trying to make software for "casual" red users is a devil's own job. They never really pay for anything, and are very, very moaney.
A long time ago, I read the classifieds section of an Indian tabloid that has 1 million readers. These are examples of what I saw:

> Male Gorgeous: Male to Male only. Head to Toe complete relaxation body massage, Hygienic North, South India masseurs anytime.

> Body Massage: Male to Male (Hotels/Doorstep). Complete Relaxation. Good Looking Guys. High Profile. Only Male Service.

Now, I'm not one to judge, but the fact that it's important how good-looking the masseurs are indicates to me that people aren't just getting massages.
> "I knew my country would protect me, and I believe in my husband and knew that he would do anything to help me."

Can the media please start saying "Greenwald's husband" instead of "Greenwald's partner"? They're married, and "partner" has a business connotation that's just confusing in this context when you don't know the history of the couple.
Either that, or he's done this to many other people...

--seems more likely. dude comes off as a bully.
Thank you! I'll begin with a traditional key, and listening.

My keyboard is an IBM Model F [1] through an interface from Hasgstrom Electronics. It has the Control key and Escape key in the old places, essential for vi.

[1] I bought the Model F from http://www.clickykeyboards.com/

[2] Pre-PC/AT keyboards won't work directly with PC/2 or USB adapters; you need a protocol converter from http://www.hagstromelectronics.com/products/ke_xtusb.html
Nope. I know plenty of people who have significant worth to their companies/clients and never been fired.
This is one of several reasons why most developers don't announce a game until they have a reasonable chunk of it done.
Needing external validation to feel good about yourself is a fundamental characteristic of human psychology. The black box thing is about picking and choosing whose validation you care about and whose you don't. That's healthy. Genuinely not caring what anybody else thinks sounds more like sociopathy.
There is apparently enough retailers that simply don't know any better.
A human... being

/Simpsons
Apologies not necessary :).
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After an experience like this, somebody like him would probably swear never to put himself in that position again.
This is slightly disturbing. If you're comfortable with it, could you elaborate on what happened to you? I have never heard of cases involving men.
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But then people could game the karma by submitting/posting stuff that might not be worthy. Why not just start everything with 0 points and let the karma flow from there?
Just look at the people in this thread asking how to install it

They are talking about how other installation methods than Postgres.app can be difficult. Which is exactly my point: If you're on Mac and you want to get started with PostgreSQL easily, Postgres.app is the way to go.
Thank you so much for that link. It was the perfect antidote to the disturbing story of India's misogyny.
I was one of the developers that participated in this project.

The web app launched about a month ago and is currently running with some beta users testing it out.

I got paid for my development work and we are currently working on advertising the app with the advertising budget we set aside.

I'm sure if things go well we will do a write up about the experience and post it at some point.
Its exceptionally hard to not get pissed off. If you work hard on a product, put your money on the line and people get all huffy about the shape and size of screw holes, or the wrong coloured button.
Is this actually true (or is it more the experience of a few people generalized to everyone)? How do you avoid this?
I agree with your point, but sadly I would like to add that this is the case for a large amount of companies hiring sales people for similar jobs, it's not restricted to groupon.

Having worked in the "mass web site production for soulless company" at one point in the past, this is also why you can end up with terrible un-doable projects with ridiculous timelines that the sales department sold, they're not dumb, they get their commission and now it's your problem if it fails. If they did not sale, then it was their problem for failing a sale.

Didn't realize how terrible of a job it was until I left. Yippee
I think he was displaying his skill to facebook while giving them a hint as to what to do about it ;)
Glenn referred to him as "my partner" himself. Maybe this couple prefers that term?

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-m...
There has been a deluge of news reports about Indian rape culture during the past few months. If you haven't noticed, you haven't been paying attention. See, for several horrible examples: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/india-bus-gang-rape...
There's another loading bar example on http://www.jellibug.com
"Every one of the downvotes this post gets are because this post runs counter to the HN echo chamber."

It seems ironic to me that you make this statement (which would you could not possibly know to be true without being omiscient), and then add:

"... hell if anyone will say anything that may disagree with all that anger boiling up inside you."

While there are no doubt many ex-Google (and ex-other-high-profile-company) employees who put out poorly-worded and sometimes poorly-defended rants which in the end serve little purpose other than to vent their own frustration, I do not think you can lump Stephan's post in with them.

I have followed Stephan's work for many years. He is one of those rare developers who actually enjoys putting out high volumes of good documentation (which he readily admits on his own web sites). He appears to be passionately invested in every open source project he contributes to, and is quick to invest large quantities of his own time in helping others to use the code he has made generously available for others to use (much of it in the public domain, btw). I do not always agree with everything he says, but I give him great credit for his generousity.

While he may like to see himself given some credit for his contributions (who doesn't), he doesn't much struck me as the narcissistic type. Overall the interactions I've had with him (and the ones I've read online) have been quite civil. Occasionally, such as in this post, his passion for what he believes comes to the fore, and I suppose that might turn some off. However, I don't consider this post to be too far over-the-top, and it is obvious that he is trying to express a great deal of frustration while attempting to remain as civil as possbile. I think he at least mostly achieved that goal.

It is a difficult thing to abandon a project you have invested a lot of time in for over four years, especially when you feel the project could have easily been so much more if circumstances beyond your control would have been different.

Also, I don't think posts such as Stephan's ever need to have an effect on the offending party's behavior (in this case, Google and/or the V8 developer). There are many developers who have an interest in using and/or embedding V8 in their software, and having these insights into possible problems with doing so is worthwhile information by itself. The fact that Node.js uses V8 makes this information valuable in my opinion.

IMHO you owe it to yourself to take a look at Stephan's work (both inside and outside the v8-juice project), and perhaps form a different opinion.
Seems like it crashed, here's the cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.fdp...
> Admit there's a problem, and work to fix it.

You must be crazy. Its not like you do git pull india --rebase and everything's hunky dory from then on. Its 1.2 billion people. Beyond a certain threshold, systems are essentially unfixable. India has crossed that threshold a long, long time ago. You'd have a better chance if you just ran away & started a new community elsewhere - which is why there are little-indias everywhere - in seattle, silicon valley, new jersey, queens, austin,...
Here's a list of top 20 little-indias:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_American#U.S._metropolit...

All those little-indias are doing fine. Its the Big-india that has issues.
Why would anyone bother with an "idea grab"?

Based on the number of "seeking technical cofounder" emails I get every week, ideas are not the problem. Successful companies are built on execution.
100% stress-free gets boring though. I'm good at insulating myself from drama and anger and hate, but I'll be the first to admit it leads to a sort of _sterile_ existence, that sometimes starts to feel devoid of passion. "You've made enemies? Good..." and all that.
That's not a counterargument, that's just a bunch of hypotheses. Namely: we might lose diversity of thinking, we might get translation technologies in the future, while I presented only facts:

-translations cost a huge amount of money

-a fragmented world slows down the spreading of information

-the most influential pieces of writing are written in English

In addition, if you say "let's get some translators instead of learning English because learning is hard" that's laziness. There's no way around, it's not like I think you're just being lazy, it's just that you are being lazy.

Lazy:

adjective

-unwilling to work or use energy

-characterized by lack of effort or activity

All I got so far are a bunch of downvotes, what I didn't get is an opinionated, fact-based counterargument.

And I'm sad to say it, but I'm frankly disappointed that a community of engineers (for the most part) exhibits this kind of hidebound mindset.
Nice story, but we're hearing only one side of it.

Was the writer working running his "sex and comedy" blog at the same time as working for the company?

I can imagine the CEO sacking him when he came across the guy's blog; what with the pictures of vibrators and skanky models..

The start-up's customers were looking for Software Developers: unless they were limiting themselves to the young/liberal Bay then this kinda thing will be damaging to their image.
Ah, the magic of "at will" employment. It's an excellent tool for those who rely on fear based management, and a horrible deal for employees.

Based on my experience in the tech industry, I assume I am being lied to. Things have only gotten worse recently with all of the fast money sloshing around and the bad actors it has drawn in.
"Today, mainstream usage of 'hacker' mostly refers to computer criminals, due to the mass media usage of the word since the 1980s."

Source: Wikipedia, "hacker".
ok, I'll bite. Interesting hypothesis. What's the control? Given that government exists and has a significant role in the system, how can we control for that in order to identify whether it is cause, correlation, or mere coincidence?

For the record, I think the issue with government isn't government per se but the extreme levels of regulatory capture.
They scare me a bit, simply because of the added structure. I don't have any concrete argument for why they're bad; it's just that there's more places to start from when analysing them.

I don't buy the cost arguments... if you're limited by how many asymmetric crypto operations you can handle, you're either doing something very wrong or something very unusual.
At least they did not try to kidnap her as is common in some muslim countries.
I still remember the initial Scarlet hype. "$3k for 3k". Man, was I ever pissed when it didn't pan out. :)
The problem is that you have been ingrained the picture of terrorism to be a bomb blowing up, killing people or crashing planes. This is how probably 99% of all people would define terrorism (me too). However, laws cannot just talk about a common word without defining it. Everything needs to be made precise. That is what this law is doing in their very first sections. It defines what terrorism includes. And I quoted that in my first reply which you may re-read. It does define terrorism differently.

As has been noted by others, Miranda had potentially national security related material which can be interpreted as (a) or (b) of above.

This will be my last response.
Can the environmentalists please start lobbying for sensible Internet laws now?
Just a little something for Why day called Quotewall
Had it been because of the Stored Communications Act, would that explain why he couldn't talk about it?
As it went down, even the bad reviews really don't reward the sales process. He received very firm no - he didn't say he'd post bad reviews if he didn't receive a sale, but retaliated after the fact. Additionally, it doesn't seem that he used bad reviews priorly posted with future leads ("don't let this happen to you ...") All in all, his actions were those of a bratty punk, and didn't directly come out of the base + commission model.

You see this model everywhere: hire young kid who'd be lucky to work in a mailroom or as a waiter, and give them opportunity to earn big $$$ via results. In Houston it may be oil-related; Florida vacation properties; SF, Internet companies. Some achieve success through thick skin and tenacity. Immature response, especially when it has nothing to do with achieving sales objectives, is not a foregone conclusion.
> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Kids Involved in Bullying Grow Up To Be Poorer, Sicker Adults
It's astonishing that they're still being made. I'm going to buy one before they become extinct. Thanks for the pointer.
There are certainly organizations for which this is true. How else would you know, at those places, whether someone was any good unless they were fired or badly mistreated?
Its the apple model.

You put out a reasonably good product to the rumor mill. Stoke the rumors, and then refuse to answer anything specific by saying "its a secret"

For example, the REDray, you ask how its connected to the TV, "its a secret"(looks like HDMI to me), what is the colour depth "its a secret".

whats not a secret? its 4k. Its great for the press as there is a hint of mystery and controversy, shit for anyone that has to use it for a living.
You can't deny that there are a large number of Indians who work in technology and start-ups.

Engineers and others who work in the tech sector (especially in Silicon Valley) almost certainly know and work with more Indian or Indian born people than people in almost any other profession. Learning about the culture they come from and how they treat foreigners and women is absolutely relevant to people who care about and work in technology.
>"Salary and equity are non-negotiable" ...

>You should be allowed to negotiate as a savvy prospective employee.

that was the negotiation. The author took "being a part of that revolution" in lieu of money.
No, rather it would be assisting those talented engineers those who cannot speak fluent English and are discriminated against in that sense.
Ah thanks. Sorry about that.