skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the nostalgia, but I don't understand the melancholy. Why should you feel sad for a company that was so inept? We should be celebrating the fact that a company that failed to adapt and produce products that people really wanted was trampled by more nimble competition.

After all, if you look at the phones Nokia put out over the last ten years, it's clear they had no clue what they were doing. Instead of really focussing on a few good ideas, they just kept throwing shit at the wall to see what would stick, adding bizarre features and more buttons and releasing phone after awkward useless phone after phone. All the while the big innovation was just turning the phone into a simple frame for the canvas, a big screen on which to run a flexible, updateable OS - then supporting and building a community around a single phone line.

And when that innovation came, they scrambled to cover their asses, but it just wasn't in their company DNA to show that level of focus. Instead you could sense that they were upset at having to buckle down and "get serious" - like someone took away their toys.

They were the consummate manufacturers of Homer Car phones. Their phones were pre-Cambrian experimental bodyforms. Well guess what, 99% of those random bodyforms were junk.
Hacker Group Anonymous targets Children's Hospital
CruiseControl is also from ThoughtWorks, right? I would be curious why one company produces two tools for the same jobs. What do they do differently?
It has stormed the front immensely in the last 10-15 years. Almost all contracts have an arbitration section to bypass the courts which has many to blame.

It is a strange world when we live 'free' but our companies are dictatorships/feudal while using military tribunal type justice in arbitration, but it is a byproduct of ludicrous overstepping of the bounds with lawsuits so the other side gets wacky.
Killing patents, part 2
While this is probably helpful in some situations, my expectation is that like monitoring interwebs traffic, most tech companies don't care and won't bother.

This is really only something that probably matters if company has to take legal action and needs the CYA.
Girls and women are also a lot more vulnerable on the streets -- I met a 17-year-old who was routinely assaulted when she slept outside, who eventually took up sex work for the stable shelter.
I think it mentions Lua and a few others. I think the chapter is equally applicable to those too. It's as much about how to implement your language as it is about how those languages were implemented.

(In particular, I learned much of what I know about bytecode VMs from Lua's implementation.)
Dad with Alzheimer’s Briefly Regains Speech With Family Dog
You guys are SO awesome!
You guys are so fantastic. this is awesome and it's great to see companies embracing open source!
This one isn't "simple". At least, not "simple" as in "simply reflecting the beam of light at constant angle from regular polygon sides".
Courts will often order arbitration in civil cases anyway, moving to a trial only if the arbitration fails.
I don't see much positive coming from this.

At a previous company a round of firings were commenced with evidence contributed from HipChat logs... That was followed by a rash of everyone using the XMPP interface so they could encrypt their chats- I thought that was a bit much but now their paranoia has been proven wise...
Pluto Mail – edit, self destruct, and read receipt your sent email
Irony is ruining our culture
Taking Away Our Words
Probably true, but I think a lot of Atlassian customers (maybe most) aren't tech companies, but tech departments within big enterprises. I think most big companies actually do have web and email monitoring in place.
Arbitration is not applicable in criminal behavior. It's for civil disputes.
I never understood these jokes, I always put the USB key/cable in the good position. 99% of times you can rely on the USB logo (which has to be at the top).
I agree with you, forcing Facebook to be your zombie of doom is very different to attempting to DoS facebook.

If you can easily cause any website to become an on demand low orbit ion cannon, they're going to cause problems.
People were typing incriminating things in a chatroom on your company's HipChat server?

I could believe that they were surprised management decided to track what they were saying, but I can't believe anyone thought HipChat would protect chatroom logs against the account administrator.
Enterprise Software and Building Infinite Staircases
I work for Red Hat (http://www.redhat.com/), not remotely identified as a startup these days but I couldn't be happier with my job, work environment, and corporate culture.
I know this will be a bit controversial, but would it be silly to suggest trying marijuana? Obviously you don't want to talk to investors high, but there is certainly a middle ground.

edit: Really? Downvoting? There is plenty of anecdotal evidence of it helping people with stuttering.
Maybe Amazon is just a massive float machine for Bezos. Sorta like insurance companies for Buffet.
Outbound traffic. That's only serving up a few large images a second. It's entirely IO bound on network output. Getting a 1Gbps connection is not a big deal.
1. Having a working product and customer traction is a big deal because a lot of startups have neither. Many people have stress and anxiety when talking about their businesses. I'm sure a speech impediment doesn't make things easier, but you should try to remind yourself that you're coming to the table with a lot more than most.

2. Investor relationships can be like marriages. If a prospective investor focuses in on something that is absolutely meaningless in the overall scheme of things, consider it a reverse filter that enables you to avoid jumping into bed with somebody you'd probably want to divorce in a year anyway.

3. As for customer interaction, there are people who love to sell and people who don't. Most people don't. If this isn't what you want to be doing anyway, it sounds like you're at or approaching the stage where you have enough validation to bring on somebody who can take on the sales role.
He's using "outbound" traffic as a DoS metric which is sort of novel. I guess it looked better than "1000 HTTP requests"?
I'm curious about this too, and whether 'off the record' does anything with a corporate account.
Full emoji support and users can upload custom emoticons. It's full of win!
Just FYI, it's spelled "tic" without the k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic

I had a friend in high school who had some minor tics. Funnily enough, he also talked rather slowly and deliberately.
Side note: 420 is not a standard HTTP error.
Sounds cool, care to expand on that? One can never miss an opportunity to hear cool facts from an astronomer :)
For another open source alternative: http://stridercd.com/
C99 6.5.2.3.5 seems to suggest that non-overlapping union members could break conforming code:

``One special guarantee is made in order to simplify the use of unions: if a union contains several structures that share a common initial sequence (see below), and if the union object currently contains one of these structures, it is permitted to inspect the common initial part of any of them anywhere that a declaration of the complete type of the union is visible. Two structures share a common initial sequence if corresponding members have compatible types (and, for bit-fields, the same widths) for a sequence of one or more initial members.''
>We trust our employees

>I don't particularly want them to read my private communications

either you trust them, or you don't. It doesn't seem like atlassian's problem that you don't trust your senior staff to not read your chat logs.
I would argue that "maddening" is an understatement. JIRA' ui tries to do so much and allows such granular customization that it takes an age of expertise in the tool to simply properly configure it to your organization. In fact, one of my college buddies job's is exactly that.
I had a mild stutter when I was younger. It was mainly because I have a tendency to talk too quickly and stumble over my own words. I recommend trying to consciously slow the speed at which you talk. Perhaps that will solve the stuttering.
Agreed, paying $1.99 for a digital key, probably an SHA hash, to be added to your account is pretty ridiculous.
Debunking the Parable of the Product Roadmap
I'm not sure about strength being mostly compressive -- for example, Apollo 9's Saturn V withstood a longitudinal oscillation with an amplitude of 12g[1] and it wasn't deemed to be dangerous enough to cause an abort.

I'd expect maintaining pressure in the tanks not to be a significant problem, though it would need to be addressed -- pressure needs to be maintained reasonably constant during the whole burn, and it's done by admitting helium from compressed helium tanks. If the fuel/oxidizer tanks don't leak too much, the same mechanism could be used after the rocket has landed.

[1] http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2008001...
I don't think a and b need necessarily overlap. I think the types need to be more like this:

struct A {char a;};
struct B {char a;};
union U {struct A a; struct B b;};
You also control the routers, the email server, any other form of digital communications, and possibly even the software in their desktop.

What's the difference? Just because an employer can snoop -- and might be legally obligated to snoop -- doesn't mean your company can't have a clear policy regarding when and how you will exercise that ability inherent in owning infrastructure.
HR-level discussions should be documented at all times, so that seems like a poor example to use here.

I truly feel that if the chat platform is being provided by the employer, then they have every right to disallow you from taking conversations offline.

The problem really lies with Atlassian for not offering better permissions.
Discrimination starts even before grad school, study finds
In the same vein, drinking a bit of alcohol as badely as it sounds does help reduce my stuttering. Obviously making a habit of having a few beers before investor meetings or sales calls is not a viable solution.
That sounds entirely believable. At $PREVIOUS_JOB, the Puppet git repository was large enough (several GB) that cloning it was painful, and new starters were handed a pruned repository via the local network so that they could get something done today.
I guess the podcast hasn't had much attention recently (too busy selling). I'll email you a link though.
The first time you plug a new brand of USB memory stick into a Windows 7 box, Windows goes out and downloads a driver for it.

So it's automatic, and it's "plug and play" in a sense, but it's just papering over the "driver disk" problem, not really solving it (i.e., eliminating the need for the custom driver).

And if the company that made the device doesn't feel like updating their drivers... well, you're SOL, probably. Buy a new scanner.

That's kind of an absurd situation. Yes, using USB is a little smoother than it used to be, but why is this the best we can do?
Sounds like you've been conditioned to think that way - that it's only socially acceptable to eat out when there are 2+ people.
There seems to be a stigma about single people eating alone, that it's sad and pathetic that they are forced to eat by themselves.
In reality, I think it's the other way around. I think it's sad that people need to have someone else there just to eat out - something that is a one person activity the last time I checked.
I have a stutter and I've tried marijuana a few times. It might help a bit, but it can also make it worse.
Actually the number of HTTP requests is 180,000+.
OPeNDAP: Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol
I do not understand the comment about the jokes. Where are the jokes here? But anyway, if you can see the USB logo, you are observing the device. Therefore, it will not be in the superposition state.
I don't see how this is relevant, if it was bad enough to warrant being fired, logs or lack of them wouldn't have helped. Sure they might have acted as evidence but there was probably other evidence of the actual action?
Were non technical staff able to grok it? I recently went with HipChat over Slack mainly because Slack just seemed too confusing, but now I'm kind of regretting it.

It took me a minute or two to figure out how to change rooms in the Slack Android app (it has menus that slide from the left AND the right).
The PowerBook was a truly non-Jobs Apple product and still one of their all-time greats.
Why do you care? If you ran the chat server locally, you'd have the ability to snoop already.

Atlassian themselves could snoop on your traffic; the only thing stopping them is their terms of service. All you have to do to protect your employees is publish clear guidelines on when and how your company will access employee communications on company-owned infrastructure -- bingo, problem solved.
Wow, thanks for writing this. This hit really close to home. As a 17 year old web developer and entrepreneur, one of my greatest fears is that my stutter will make it impossible to raise funding or do sales.
> If you can easily cause any website to become an on demand low orbit ion cannon

You can do this with any website that lets users post links which may or may not be automatically loaded (by other users too). There are tons of these around; forums, blogs, etc. See also: Slashdot effect. That's also a true DDoS, coming from many IPs, as compared with a few of Facebook's servers.
I'd say gang-rape by fellow employees and KBR/Halliburton attempts to cover it up both fall under criminal behavior; at least it seems criminal to me.

Who knows how many untold "civil" cases like that one have never seen the light of day due to forced arbitration.
let nan = 0.0/0.0 in nan == nan
For those interested in what the text of the email was, from the study [1]:

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Subject Line: Prospective Doctoral Student (On Campus Today/[Next Monday])

Dear Professor [Surname of Professor Inserted Here],

I am writing you because I am a prospective doctoral student with considerable interest in your
research. My plan is to apply to doctoral programs this coming fall, and I am eager to learn as
much as I can about research opportunities in the meantime.

I will be on campus today/[next Monday], and although I know it is short notice, I was
wondering if you might have 10 minutes when you would be willing to meet with me to briefly
talk about your work and any possible opportunities for me to get involved in your research.
Any time that would be convenient for you would be fine with me, as meeting with you is my
first priority during this campus visit.

Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Sincerely,
[Student’s Full Name Inserted Here]

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2063742
I think the point here is that eating does not require a social component. Food does not taste better by virtue of having another person present.
So you're saying the issue is that we need to teach women to be more confident and less worried about what others will think of them?
If your response is "I hire based on merit alone so this is invalid," a) good for you, but that's demonstrably untrue in aggregate and b) you're basically saying "LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU THERE'S NO PROBLEM HERE."
No, git has delta compression. It only saves the changes.
This might be right in spirit, but Phabricator is maintained by Phacility (some ex-FB people) and used by at least 6 other companies outside of FB.
Why somebody would flag this post, I'm not sure, but plunged to page three off the first page.
Why don't companies sell an open/hackable version of this? Surely they could make a killing off the maker / Hacker News crowds.
You can argue anything; the question is how long and how hard can you afford to argue it, and what are going to be your ultimate chances of success based on the history of people making the same sort of argument, and which venues are you going to be forced to make that argument in.

Might be better for you to take the token settlement as an apology, and sign the papers.
For a general magazine, I cannot recommend the New Yorker highly enough. By far some of the best writing in the field.
That history may actually be over as Google is aggressively undercutting them and they are scrambling to match pricing.

Glacier now costs the same as a Google drive, except drive has none of the restrictions. AWS on-demand prices have been cut so much they've actually left some of their prepaid discount prices ('reserved instances', in their parlance) higher than what they sell on demand.
Will have to give hall.com another serious look...
Asylums are better than homelessness, but to go as far as saying they are "safety net" is a stretch. They were usually not designed to help, but to put away.
Then again, I'm not american and whenever I come to the US I'm amazed by how many homeless people one see in the streets.
San Francisco Is Dead. Long Live San Francisco.
http://youtu.be/a_rnija1nOA
Off-Topic

I want to get further into the robotics area but from a design/UX perspective. (Information dashboards, remote controlling interfaces, fleet management interfaces, visual programming interfaces etc)

If anyone has any projects they could use some design help for, fell free to hit me up.

My mail is in my profile.
Only when git repack operations run.
What's gotten crazy in the last 2 years or so after some bad Supreme Court decisions is that corporations can get more and more sneaky about saying what constitutes your "agreement" to their terms - things like "liking" the company on Facebook or walking through the door of their fast food chain...

IMO the most "broken" part of the system is that the corporation gets to pick the "arbitrator" who they think will give them the best outcome (and they are paid by the corporations, too, generally). I'm not sure how "new" that part is, but when my father-in-law explained it to me (he's a trial attorney) I was like "No way - that sounds like some stuff that would happen in some 3rd world country." But I went and read up on it myself - and sure enough, that's the case.
You could have ended your sentence after predict.
Off-Canvas Sidebar Transitions with CSS
It's in the "Rules" part that shows up when you click "Start Game". I've also expanded the RPS in the navbar to make it even more explicit.
Anyone with sleep problems owes it to themselves to read Chronotherapy by Terman and McMahan (2012).

Basically, for manipulating your circadian rhythm, light therapy is recommended as the first line of treatment (possibly supplemented with low-dose melatonin). The timing and intensity of light relative to when your internal clock thinks it is in the day determines the amount of slowing or lengthening of your cycle. So bright light during when your body thinks it is 'morning' will slow down the cycle, and bright light at 'night' will lengthen it. That's why many people use f.lux. But how much, how long?

Your cycle's natural free-running cycle length (without zeitgebers, or cues, to entrain it) appears to be determined by genetic factors. This is hard to measure without doing some tracking and, ideally, actually free-running. Pretty inconvenient.

This paper, which I look forward to reading in-depth, claims to have figured out optimal ways [took another look: general principles] of calculating the correct exposure and absence of light to allow for rapid recovery from jet lag. If true, it will probably make all light therapy much easier to do and calculate.
It doesn't download it from the internet if that what you mean. Windows 7 comes with a big library of generic drivers included.
I have a windows 7 machine that I've never connected to the internet or even a network and most things will have drivers installed automatically.
Sure, but I don't think that's what most people are thinking about here.
I wish there were more companies that were more worried about doing the right thing than serving their paying customers. Especially when those customers are businesses who want to snoop on their employees, or ad agencies that want to sort through your mail.

I'm tired of constantly being screwed over by any company that I'm not paying directly.
Testing new soccer app at final series today
From the US National Institute of Health (NIH) report on Asbestos. First sentence:

Asbestos and all commercial forms of asbestos are known to be human carcinogens based on sufﬁcient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans.

You can read the rest if you want more info:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110429155522/http://ntp.niehs.n...
Good question. We currently only support loading the widget at the top level where it will show all categories/articles. However, we plan to release an update in the near term which will allow you to initialize the widget filtered on a specified category or article, which should allow you to customize the display for each of your steps.

Keep an eye on our blog where we'll announce new features such as this!
Amazon is far from free of competition in almost any part of their business. If they start to gouge their customers, they will simply lose them.
This is a reliable iOS crasher.
Thanks! Lots more to come...
Does this applies even if no chat history is being saved?
This is garbage. We have over 250 people using Hipchat and we use the 1:1 as the way to vent outside of the rooms that we're also part of. Better? I'm an admin and I'm so pissed that they decided to change a feature that I sung praises of for so long. Just like another company tool, we'll start to use another outlet to "really" communicate to each other while the HipChat rooms will be relegated to PMs and business owners fishing for updates.
With Google Apps for Domains you can take over an email address, for example after you fire someone. Nothing prevents you from seeing old emails.
Somehow Netflix never got that memo and they seem to be doing just fine.
That's what we were told at an all hands meeting to squelch the morale decline after a handful of people were sent packing... That they were being poisonous in a group room and it backed up allegations about their behavior.

I was surprised at the same foolishness. But it's inline with the story we were told about their rather cavalier attitude about coming to work inebriated and abusing substances on company time. I didn't know any of them at take the information at face value- the message was don't come to work high and you won't get fired. The takeaway was don't brag about your activities on the company HipChat...
Well you can circumvent the "recruiting" process by getting to know more founders and putting your hat in the ring.

Yes I agree with you about the cost of building an application, but its always been cheap form a code generation perspective. The marketing and sales channels (read viral "whatsapp", which is unique in the world) have changed. You don't need to have a boat load of sales and support personnel anymore, because 1, its not expected, and 2, you have the web to deploy and support your app which is a force multiplier.

I don't think the CTO/VPE is the guy with the most or even the best grasp of how software should be developed. He should be the guy that most effectively bridge the communication gap between the engineering dept and the board room. Focusing the group on the things that will make ownership happy.

In that respect sometimes the CTO is a guy that gives the BOD confidence that he'll look out for the Boards interest, not the guy who's going to deliver. I know that may sound counter-intuitive but its true.