skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question, or at least food for thought:

How are you instilling that attitude in your company? How big would your company need to grow before misguided middle management might be appointed who _does_ think this is an appropriate management technique, resulting in this happening on your watch with you later described as a "detached executive"?

Having stuff like this "never even occur to you" leaves you in the possible danger of not being aware if it starts happening around you. (Though, in this instance, the revolving door developer role should have brought some scrutiny on the manager in question…)
How Twitter's largest outside investor tricked me
...there is about a 1 in 1333 chance of the average vehicle catching on fire.

Well. There's that chance of the average vehicle burning.

There's a breakdown in the PDF "Highway Vehicle Fires (2008-2010)" that points out a lot of the fires in traditional vehicles (about 40%) are started by arson and accidental, non-malfunction sources of ignition. And that there's reason to believe arson is under-reported:

NFIRS no longer collects information on suspicious fires that may have been intentionally set. As a result, intentional fires may be undercounted. Moreover, due to the volume of fires, many automobile fires are not investigated for possible arson.

Only about a quarter of vehicle fires are considered to be definitely malfunction-related.

I want to see Tesla succeed. But I don't think its hype or alarmist to say that they seem to be malfunctioning in this way a lot, catching fire in everyday situations (like driving down the road) that don't seem to ignite many conventional cars. That's probably perfectly natural; new tech always has growing pains.
What about the surely obvious privacy implications

What about them?

would you trust them with seeing everything on your screen?

Hell yeah, in an instant, if it meant I had a way of searching everything I'd seen! I'd want a way to turn it off at times ("Incognito mode"), but to me the benefits would be huge.
Supporting certain action of the administration and being a mouthpiece for the administration is a very different thing. Do you think any media org that supports, for example, the killing of Bin Laden, which is commonly attributed to Obama administration, is an Obama mouthpiece?

There were many people that supported Iraq War, from many political persuasions. Some regretted it, some didn't. It doesn't mean they all were Bush's mouthpieces, there is place for genuine agreement even in today's politics.
I can't see any of the images on my iPad using safari.
I doubt "outing" the manager would have made the slightest bit of difference.
Microsoft Trumps Sony's PS4 Apartment With An Xbox One Hotel
Point taken. It seems like we have been moving backwards since about 1980, though. (Using "Reagan" as the poster child for friendly fascist stupidity, whether or not Gen. Francisco Franco is still valiantly struggling to remain dead)
Security in the wake of MongoHQ
By creating a custom-IPO process, they saved on banker fees but wound up leaving an awful lot of money on the table.

Could you elaborate? I thought the dutch auction was a good way to maximize google's share of the pot (by taking money away from well-connected people who received shares at the IPO price). Looking back at historical reports it only "popped" 17% ($100 from offering price of $85) compared to twitter's 73%.
"A couple of years later when the company had an exit, of the 35+ people that were there when I left, only four that I new (including the two founders) actually remained."

Assuming it was a good exit, those 2 are some shrewd (and despicable) founders.
The most commonly reported figure for the cost of the Mars mission is US$72 million.

There's apartments in NYC/London that cost more than that.
The rates for east Asia (as was noted in the article) are almost certainly misleadingly low because mental health issues of any kind are so highly stigmatized in these cultures, much more so than in Europe and North Ametica.
So you are saying those intangibles don't exist? Maybe you and your mother just don't value them as much.
If you can't get your message across on a plain text web page you may want to reconsider whether you intent is to mislead.

(I love plain text email, but this proves too much.)
Just so ya'll know, the main crux of this deal for the US is that they're going to be a major natural gas supplier to the United States of Europe to cut off Russia from it. This is part of the reason Russia has probably been to supportive of Snowden, which would normally be a bad idea politically, because they're trying to mess up the US/EU relationship. Natural gas is going to unfortunately be the way forward for awhile in all the post-Fukushima paranoia/propaganda cycle.
Dumbfounded by discovery of a new type of space object
It looks like a window into the fucking netherworld.
> You Were Fired.

I don't think you can fairly say a person was fired simply because s/he quit following a dispute with the boss. Maybe the person would have eventually been fired, had s/he not quit. But that's pure speculation.

There's the cliched "you can't quit, you're fired"/"you can't fire me, I quit" scenario. I think the question of who terminated the relationship is less clear there. But that doesn't seem to apply to the story the author tells.

Why quibble over this? Because the distinction between being fired and quitting matters for the employee's future prospects.

> The biggest mistakes you made was a) still being a contractor

How do you know the author was in fact a contractor? The author didn't post his offer letter, tax forms, or other similar documents. So we can't know for sure. But he says he understood himself to be a full-time employee. Some of what he describes, e.g. the boss's comments about hours, seem to support this view.
At no point am I arguing that the mission was too expensive or anything like that.

I really wish that, just once, I could criticize a bad argument without everyone thinking that I support the opposing view.
You'll always have that threat. The users don't want simple text. It looks great in html most people wont even know about the risk or even understand it.
i just signed up for RFP-EZ, looks great, except all of the existing projects seem to be links to massive FBO RFPs. hopefully more projects are submitted soon!
It's probably a bit tough when it comes to a small outfit like the one described. In this case the main red flag was the mysterious previous developers. So to avoid situations like this one would have to find people who previously worked at the candidate employer and have them give references for their former boss.
Cache link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.jay...
I find hungarian useful only in shitty environs like Java and c++. In sane dynamically typed languages, the cognitive burden is reduced enough that it becomes overkill.
>>You're correct in the abstract that such an agreement would need Senate review

Even without fast track approval the agreement would be structured as a congressional-executive agreement that would not require a two thirds majority. With fast track approval congress would still have to approve the agreement although a filibuster would not be possible.
The company I work for, http://energycurb.com, has a home energy analytics product that might be able to compete in this.

We aren't doing anything with public data but this is giving me some good ideas.
I'm imagining the opacity of language that would result from this scheme, and it is frightening.
Clang certainly has its advantages (the faster compile times are very nice), but for a typical user that just wants to compile stuff, there's really nothing huge—and as always they need to balanced against the disadvantages. In general it's often a wash, and you may as well just use whatever comes with your system or whatever your friends use...

For me, the killer is typically optimization: e.g. for a CPU-intensive app I work on, gcc generates a binary that is twice as fast as what clang generates (this has been true for ages and across many compiler versions). I can live with slightly pokey compiles, but having my program take one week to execute instead of two is pretty compelling...
This is the first app you made to learn obj-c? Not bad! Congrats.
“Sense and Avoid” (SAA) capability

This is the one aspect that I have yet to see addressed. Aircraft operating under VFR are responsible for their own separation. This is mostly done by "see and avoid". The use of TCAS or other transponder detection solutions can be used, but keep in mind that not aircraft have transponders (gliders, older GA aircraft without an electrical system).

As a general aviation pilot, I have a huge incentive to see and avoid other aircraft. UAV pilots don't have the same incentive level. It scares me that this one simple aspect has yet to addressed.
in pyjamas.
Company wide emails or email signatures give a better impression to people if they are pretty, leadership likes that.
Yes, that the batteries would shut down if they were overheating from use. It's certainly safer than the alternative.
Seriously? What about https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/cfhdo... (AdBlock Plus), for instance?
Regarding your edit, at no point is it said Japan has low incidence of depression; the claim made is that they have few diagnoses of depression. The article takes care to point this out. I would take these numbers to mean that Japanese people are not receiving adequate treatment for their depression (of which diagnosis is an obvious first step), contributing to the suicide rate.
>>I'm sympathetic to your concerns around IP enforcement in TPP. But instead of discussing those, I find myself having to educate people about the basics of legislative procedure, like whether a treaty will be reviewed by the Senate. Even under TPA, the answer is yes.

I'm not quite sure I understand how an up or down vote in the senate that is certain to pass counts as 'review.' The time to mount any public criticism will be very small and there will be enormous pressure to approve the agreement as amendments will not be possible.
> I get the impression there's a certain group of people who read lists like these online or in a book somewhere and go about mimicking them without understanding the underlying prerequisites.

As a somewhat of an aside, I notice this disturbing tendency a lot in rookie salespeople. One of the bits of sales advice everyone appears to have read in some list somewhere is something about mirroring and first names.

It would creep me out (and trip the "douchebag alert!" signal) every time I spoke to a salesperson who would poorly imitate my mannerisms and keep jamming in my first name between their words.
It's mainly a reference to a "party" that was held at the employers premises where beer was consumed, OP doesn't drink alcohol.

In any case, while this was apparently a pretty "lame" party, it appears to have been an important part of the culture of the firm, and OP didn't jibe with it very well.
Oh, the employment law is a lot employee-friendlier in Canada than in the US. In particular, BC employment law (relevant to this post) is a lot friendlier than California employment law. And when you go to take them to court, the government will, under some circumstances, provide free legal services to the employee (you can look up the BC gov's Employment Standards Branch).

That said, IIRC, even BC is pretty employer-friendly for the first 3 months, in terms of notice and so on. And it appears the author thought he was entitled to stock options after 9 weeks, which is.... not typical, in my limited experience. And they company sounds like they were dicks about it, but basically, terminating the relationship and paying out your salary (but not bonuses or unvested equity) is usually legit.

If he had made it through 3 months, he'd have a right to some severance pay, and if they tried to terminate-with-cause he'd be able to sue for wrongful dismissal. Because of this, even in borderline cases, most (many?) companies go for termination-without-cause.

All the bits about reclassifying a full-timer as a contractor, though? Hells yes, that's a world of hurt for the company if they try that. Not only work direction and taxes (both huge issues), but also consider the pay consequences of trying to get 70-hour weeks out of a contractor. But I doubt that they were actually trying that; it seems so unnecessary.

The spin of the article is weird, though. He's having trouble justifying his 9 weeks? "I tried an experiment because there were some very attractive aspects about the opportunity, but it turned out that management had no experience and very unrealistic expectations, and it didn't work out." What could be simpler?

SHORT VERSION: as patio11 said: don't hurry to sign anything, and spend at least an hour reading about your legal rights, and as patio11 suggested, drop hints that you're interested in your legal rights
Agreed. I think most of us tell clients this when it comes up. But still, some clients view that response as a way to weasel out of "building a good site." Clients don't always understand the distinctions in roles. Some of them see "making a website" as a monolithic task. To them, adding a blue background to a page and moving that page up in the SERPs are equally difficult--for both, you just have to know how to code.
Time to try Slackware again. It was my first dip into Linux many years ago. I moved to apt-get supportive distros but the idea of keeping a smaller set of applications around and knowing exactly what's on there is appealing.
To me this is less about 'beer and overtime' and more about conformity to pre-existing culture.

It doesn't matter if it's beer or if it's Star Trek or if it's an religious-like attitude to Cucumber Testing or even if it's a tech company or not, the fact is that some potential asshole who's on a slightly higher salary than you can decide to fuck with your livelihood if you don't tow some intangible line that matters to them.

I see it as a byproduct of capitalism, bosses will be bosses, and I've seen people trashed with 'fairness' as often as I have seen them trashed with non-conformity to whatever the ones in charge (or even the ones in the middle) care about.

As long as you have a list of conditions attached to your paycheck, this isn't going to change. It sucks, but it is how it is. You either have to play the game or find some place to work where the game is tolerable to you and your values. It doesn't matter how you cast it, but there's always a game to be played, some will seem more virtuous than others, and that will change from person to person.
... and figuring out how to deal with that is the reason that libstdc++ is moving slowly on this.

libc++ has the luxury of assuming c++11.
> HTML email allows an unreasonable level of deception. How does your mail client render this?

How does your browser render that? This isn't something unique to emails, and we didn't end up deciding that text only web pages were the way to go. That said, email clients could catch a number of simple cases like that and warn the user (yes, I realize there are ways around that).

> If you can't get your message across in a plain text email, you may want to reconsider whether your intent is to mislead.

While this is true, the reality is that html emails are, basically, required in many cases due to marketing. Generally speaking, html emails are not being created by legitimate business because they want to mislead people. They are being created because they look better (leaving aside the caveat that some businesses aren't very good at the "make it look better" aspect).
People who don't drink tend to view quasi-mandatory drinking as exclusionary and indicative of strange priorities. Imagine you were a non-smoker and your team regularly got together to smoke, then questioned your commitment when you didn't join them. It would heavily colour your opinion of the team dynamic and why it seemed broken to you.
When you delete the word "sounding" it becomes very rational behavior.
The risk of losing money in a savings account is not zero. By losing I mean, losing its purchasing power. Banks have repeatedly gone bust throughout all of history, in all countries. But there is such a thing as deposit insurance. In the U.S., your savings (up to 100K per account) are 'insured' by the FDIC, but the FDIC has a mere pittance of money compared to the total deposits in all the banks, or even in one of the big banks. It cannot, using the money it has, save all depositors if a big bank is allowed to go bust.

So, given your bank goes bust in say, one of those recessions the U.S. experiences in greater and greater frequencies, either you lose nearly everything in your 'savings' account as the FDIC doesn't have enough money to cover all of its deposits the bank loaned out for its own profit - fractional reserve banking serving YOU since 1913. OR the FDIC pleads to the Federal reserve to 'give' it money, print it that is, causing massive inflation. Though in that latter case, you get the money first, so get to spend at current prices before the influx of new currency causes prices to inflate.

Though in current times, the solution is that these banks are too big to fail. So whenever they gamble your money to make a profit, yet lose, they get some of those nice big bailouts from the Fed. In that case the banks get to the spend the money first, and everyone else holding USD gets an inflationary hit - again you lose your purchasing power of your savings.
makes me wonder if the PM is part of the mgmt team and this is just his tactic of extracting cheap labor without diluting founders' shares.
That map is a really bad visualization. They're showing a single numeric variable with a limited scale, so all they need to express graphically is a level between "empty" and "full". They should have mapped it to a single axis that intuitively corresponds to that notion: for example, a simple scale between white and red would have been perfect.

But instead, they decided to have a scale between red and blue, which goes through purple if it's an admixture of the two colors. But then they would just have had a few colors with more or less the sale lightness and saturation, but different hues, and there's really no intuitive reason why purple should be perceived as "more" or "less" than blue. So instead they made a three-point scale going from red to white and then to blue (look at the pink and light blue colors next to the center to see that this is what they did); except that now white looks like "empty", and redder and bluer colors look increasingle "full", except in opposite directions: the only situation where this makes sense is when you have relative numbers, and white is zero, red is positive and blue is negative. But then it would look like Iran has lots of depression, Brazil has no depression, and Australia has... negative depression?

They could tell that something looked wrong, but what? "A-ha! Of course!" - thought the graphic designer - "a mix of red and blue is purple, not white!" So he replaced the white in the middle cell with purple, leaving the neighboring pinks and light blues unchanged. So now the scale goes "red, red but a little whiter, white but a little redder, PURPLE, white but a little bluer, blue but a little whiter, blue", and nothing makes sense. Good job!
exactly. People that own the nissans don't drive them because they suck. :-)
When it's offered to the Senate for ratification, which is entirely in line with Article II of the Constitution as far as I can see. The President is empowered to make treaties, and the EFF is being rather disingenuous in seeking to imply that Congress's role is being usurped in any way.
Who decides who gets to be a CA for SSL certs? Similar process. Somehow my browser doesn't recognize a CA that would allow any random person to pretend to be Facebook.
I've thought it would be nice to have a public server/service that you can pay a nominal fee for (like dropbox) that can also run a handful of web based applications against your data.. Multi-client webmail, and iGoogle, Google-Reader replacements spring formost in my mind... It would be great to have an application platform that's hosted, where the user owns their apps and their data.. and can simply take their ball and host on Amazon, Joyent, or wherever if they like.

That's been in my head for years now.. just not sure how to have something accessible, with a free tier and make money.
Yes, I read it very carefully. It does not discuss the role of the web developer, or how much power a developer has to affect rankings.

The closest thing I can find is this: "Not every website can come out at the top of the page, or even appear on the first page of our search results." But many web dev clients are likely to respond: "I know not everyone can be first. But why can't I?" To which I reply that the client's competitors also have perfectly competent web devs.

It does say a (very) little about how relevance is determined. But to a client who doesn't want to be bothered with implementation details, this will come across as noise.
I think it might depend on what sort of problem you're trying to solve.

If you have, let's say, a django app, and you want to be able to run it all sorts of places, Docker is very much the wrong tool; it doesn't run at all most places, and it's finicky to get working. You're better off just getting that one app to run when and where you want. And if you run into any issues, virtualenv will solve it, no big deal.

If you have a bunch of apps you want to get running (or perhaps a bunch of interlocking pieces of a single stack, or the different elements of a SOA), then Docker suddenly starts to look very attractive. And then you might go to the trouble to get a single gold server image with docker installed and working (or an Ansible playbook, or a Chef cookbook, or a Digitalocean snapshot, or an EC2 AMI, or whatever), and you know you can just spin up a server and deploy any app you want to it. And once you start thinking about testing, CI, orchestration, automatic scaling, etc., it all becomes that much more attractive; you've got these generic docker servers, on the one hand, and these generic docker containers on the other, and you can mix and match them however you like. When you start having more than 1 server and 1 app, that's amazing. Very much worth the cost of entry of having to install docker everywhere...if you need that kind of thing.

You're focusing on portability between operating systems, but that's not the point of docker; as you say docker isn't portable at all (which should be a strong hint that isn't the problem it solves). But docker containers are portable between servers with docker on it, and with some architectures (or at a certain scale), you will suddenly realise just how useful that is.

If it helps, consider Heroku (and the other PaaS outfits like dotCloud, etc.). A lot of startups outsource big chunks of their infrastructure to Heroku, and Heroku uses a very docker-like architecture. If you were to shift that back in house, in many cases that same architecture makes sense (largely depending on just what you were outsourcing to Heroku...). ...and sometimes it doesn't. But if it does, docker is probably a core part of any attempt at implementing your own in-house PaaS. And if you need that kind of thing, you aren't going to stop because "well, it doesn't run on OSX"; nobody (well, nearly) is using OSX is production. :)
Luckily my father advised me on this as soon as I started working. _NEVER_ sign anything. At one point early in my career a scummy employer wanted to fire me without reason, but did not want to pay the salary plus benefits required by law for wrongful termination.

I was asked by a lacky to sign the 'I quit' paper, essentially resigning my benefits.

Lesson here: Do not sign anything without asking a lawyer about it or at least reading it in depth.
What's funny, is the windows Live Mail client (now a separate download) seems to be closer to the old 2.x Thunderbird than the current tbird is.