skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the extent we're able to be objective, we try to be. YC founders and companies get their titles edited and suffer the same penalties as everyone else. The only advantage YC founders and companies might have is the ability to recognize each other from the orange names.
I'm glad when people post things like this. Obviously I take it with a grain of salt, but it's beneficial data nonetheless.

I'm glad as a consumer, because I use Grooveshark semi-regularly and I would be pretty upset to lose my saved playlists and tracks. This makes me worry for their future. I'm certainly now going to migrate that data elsewhere.

I'm glad as someone in tech, because I imagine this employee is not the only disgruntled employee. Especially if they really are astroturfing Glassdoor. To me, that's a really serious red flag and I would definitely not apply to or recommend Grooveshark to anyone I know seeking employment.
That's pretty horrific. Is Chrome on iOS the same?
That seems as a bit of a slippery slope. Also, I dislike FB as much as the next guy but I can't really imagine that someone would sign up for FB without realizing that something like this feed manipulation is a real possibility.
Apps that curate music seem to be pretty viral in usage. I feel like you can't say the current growth rate of users will really pay off.

Apple tried iTunes Radio and that failed so they snatched Beats. Google Play is not gaining enough traction so they've now snatched Songza.

Is Amazon going to join the gang? Or perhaps Facebook acquire Spotify to up the ante?
the same as asian it up
There's Saavn, but it does a mediocre job IMO.

http://www.saavn.com/
This so reminds me of the days of fuckedcompany.com, although that was mostly leaked executive emails.
You sound like you may not know how to do it. I manage a medium-large sized site with Wordpress and git and it works great. Why would you ever try to check plugins into git? You are not supposed to touch anything outside of your theme folder. I have never had any issue updating anything.
It's possible he's changed details in subtle ways so as to avoid "completely destroying himself".
Uggh that really kills innovation and our web app that turns an audience & their devices into a huge stereo system all via a URL.

Why force an audience to download your app when you can just say, "Hey everybody go to speakerblast.com/party and we'll all become a rocking stereo system with our devices."

Our fingers are still crossed this is a bug!
...I have exactly 8 minutes and 20 seconds to get that watch off of your wrist and into my pocket.

I know this isn't a real concern but it was the first thing I thought when I saw the timer.
Glad to read it was only the domain, It makes me sad the awful methods of protecting the sensitive data of these kind of sites.
It very well could be. For example, they might have discovered a resource leak in Safari (based purely on observation, Safari seems to have more than a couple) and unintentionally blocked these features' method of operation in the process of fixing it.
The money laundering charge can be used to coerce the owner in to pleading guilty to whatever else they want to add to the list -- whether or not there is a case for it. Considering the age of the site, one would speculate that the owner may have said no to something the government politely asked for, and then ended up getting their insides turned out as a result.

The EFF certainly could have done a better job on this one. I'm not familiar with the site, but this seems to be a very different situation than Craigslist ran in to.
Photo gallery, near the bottom, first YC Class.

Sam standing next to Paul.
That's a shitty reason. Don't excuse his behavior as though it was his age that caused him to be a gigantic asshole. He acted badly and had peers who provided feedback that supported his behavior.

18 years olds are empowered to make decisions on whether to shoot children carrying a rifles.

This guy and his friend couldn't decide if calling a coworker a whore qualified as work appropriate.
Can you explain how you used the redbook site? Did you find sex workers through paid ads or classifieds? Did you rely on reviews of other customers?

If you had a bad experience or if the services weren't as described, did you use redbook to resolve the dispute?

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Was there any indication that the sex workers you met were trafficked, or that they were 100% independent?

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I've done this before (though not using this solution), and I'll never do it again. Managing Wordpress (and the database backups) with Git causes ENORMOUS history files over time, to the tune of many gigs on the server depending on the size and configuration of the site. It isn't worth it. Perhaps only monitoring a couple directories (such as plugins) would be better, but too limited for a serious whole-framework solution.
Thanks... that's helpful to know where Ansible is coming from in all this. You seem to be following the management pattern of the organizations behind the majority of the tools and frameworks I use.
Yea, it was pretty terrible how they got hacked after this article.
So on the positive side, social logins are easier for users, don't require a choice between vague error message or leaking user information, and are probably more secure (likely that Google, Facebook and Twitter have stronger security teams than your company).

On the negative side, social logins contaminate your site with someone else's brand, and take away some of your control (what do you do if Facebook decides to ban the user).

As always, look at your users and their usage and try to make the decision that is best for your site. There is no absolute right or wrong here.
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There are laws regulating the use of human subjects in experimentation. I have faint but enough knowledge to believe that Facebook might not be in the clear here.
Free speech is for speech you don't like, or it's for no speech at all.

EDIT: No, that doesn't allow incitement to violence, though in the US it does allow hate speech that isn't incitement.
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While I'm still chewing on the general premise... I have to say I really like the way the author quantified the involvement of the various parties involved in chef. That took some work and is useful, so I'm impressed.
Was he excusing it, or was he explaining it?

Pretty sure he was doing the later.....
>Detailed & convoluted, yes. Conclusive, no. It is interesting that engines dramatically improved after these patents expired.

What you deem convoluted is simply covering all bases and countering any arguments before they come up.

All the improvements that came after were from the "expansive" use of steam. There was no way Watt's patent could have prevented the expansive use of steam because it covered the "contractive" use of steam, specifically the condenser. The condenser is an additional, separate mechanism that is completely unneeded for expansive use of steam. The improved steam machines simply could not have infringed Watt's patents. That in itself is pretty conclusive.

However, engines improving after the patents expiring is interesting, but not for the reasons you may think. The authors provide data showing why improvement stalled in those years (number of deaths caused by use of expansive steam). But Watt's patent covered the most efficient use of steam known until then, and that forced people to start looking for workarounds, which led to Trevithick's breakthrough. So the interesting thing is that Watt's patents actually spurred research into expansive steam, leading indirectly to the improvement in steam engines. This is interesting, because "invention by forced workarounds" has long been a post-facto rationalization of patents.

> Wouldn't society benefit more from inventors inventing instead of dealing with legal issues?

The flip side is, wouldn't society benefit even more if people rewarding inventors and spent their efforts making their own inventions instead of simply copying others'?

All human economic activity, since the earliest days of barter, depends on quid pro quo: People perceive value in something, and in return they offer compensation. There is absolutely no reason this should not extend to intellectual creations. Innovation may be in the domain of the creator, but it doesn't happen in a vacuum. Even the most prolific creator has to eat. If creators can't reap the benefits of the value provided by their creations, nobody's going to be innovating. All IP law essentially is based around this.

> If someone create a derivative work from my work, then I'm happy. I trust that collaborative environments with such a feedback loop creates more global innovation.

That's your prerogative, but not everyone feels this way. More often than not, in my experience, people will take your work and give nothing in return. I've seen it happen to popular open source reduced to begging for donations (I've donated to some), and I've seen it happen to small startups that got blatantly ripped off by the big guys and went under (I worked for one). Heck, when people fantasize about a world without IP, I just ask them to explain the state of innovation in China. Yes, there are many nuanced reasons for it, but it boils down to the fact that people will not give back unless they have to. Unfortunately, there are more predatory people in the world than collaborative, and as with all laws, that is why we have IP laws.
And it's hosted from an S3 bucket with CloudFront.
The fonts spacing on posthaven (eg 'facelift') seems a bit unique/interesting. Its not the serifs itself, IMHO.
The problem with introducing new keywords and doing this in a backwards incompatible way, is that we'll be running with three module systems for years: CommonJS, AMD, and ES6. As far as I can tell, and please correct me if I'm wrong, it looks like ES6 modules aren't solving any new problem that CommonJS did not solve. Browserify does an excellent job of bringing CommonJS to the browser and it's gaining a lot of momentum. With ES6 now pushed back until June 2015... I'm not sure what to think anymore.
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That's what I read, but I can't tell for sure.
I am going to have to disagree with everything but your first sentence. Free speech is more about what kind of society we want to create. I don't want to live in the kind of society where hate speech is unrestricted or where instructions on how to make bombs to destroy people's lives and/or property are unrestricted.

You mentioned moral indignation, which is a pretty strong, and rare, kind of reaction. I assume you are not talking about the reaction of religious people when a rule is broken, but that spontaneous combination of disgust, revulsion, and outrage that comes when something egregiously violates basic decency. I don't want to live in a society that is so weak-willed that it can't even stand up for its own values and say "this is wrong!"

I think your right to free speech ends somewhere around the place where my right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness begins.

I don't really want to live in a society where intimacy is so distorted that society accepts buying and selling the most intimate act as totally acceptable. You can't buy and sell intimacy (sexual or otherwise). True intimacy is rare and a little fragile, and is something I hope that society feels is worth taking a stand to protect.
I will say safeguards against tampering are getting better for newer browsers. I'm working on a software stack for PirateBox type systems but focused on security, so I get a pretty good glimpse at how a lot of sites handle incorrect certs, since it's an internetless portal and redirects everything to its hosted SSL page. Both gmail and hackernews will refuse to load at all, as they properly support HSTS. Well gmail "cheats" and is hard coded in chrome.
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> In their Group F World Cup match late last month, Argentina and Iran were still deadlocked after 90 minutes. With the game in stoppage time and the score tied at 0-0, Lionel Messi took the ball near the right corner of the penalty area, held it for a moment, then broke left, found his seam, took his strike and curled it in from 29 yards.

So he didn't score a goal for the first 90 minutes, or he just wasn't on the field? If he is so good, why did it take him 90 minutes to score the first goal?
I've never worked on such a major project or been part of such a large company so I doubt I know what I'm talking about, but wouldn't testing include this part of operation?
I could be wrong but based on the article...

> If you're buying a guy with a rolodex, do you really own his rolodex or are you renting the use of it?

Both. His job is to convert contacts into customers. If contacts become customers, his obligation is not to re-sell the same customers to the next company.

> If said rolodex was created on Amazon's watch, with Amazon resources, you can make a pretty decent claim to ownership, but if those contacts pre-dated Amazon, then (not legally speaking, morally) can Amazon really lay ownership on it?

Key bit from the article was:
“Szabadi was involved in developing, implementing and managing Amazon Web Services’ strategy for many of its partners, and was the first point of contact for most partners who were considering working with Amazon.”

I'd say, morally, its quite reasonable to say "No, you can't solicit business from our customers for X months." Amazon is just playing it cautious and being negotiated down to that position.
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I imagine this is a bug; the feature was only introduced in iOS6 (I think, possibly 5)
I completely disagree with this sentiment. People should know, and outing company policy like this CAN AFFECT CHANGE. Right NSA?

"Just quit!" is crap when you've invested yourself in something, when it hurts to see something you've been a part of destroyed by unthinking executive children.

No.. I think you are outright and absolutely wrong.
The attitude you share always strikes me as a business cover your ass move, implemented as cultism (don't talk to outsiders) and marketed as professionalism.

You make it out like the only acceptable options are "keep job, don't talk" "quit, don't talk", or "sue". Which doesn't really reflect real life, people are not robots. It's just a set of options that minimize risk for the employer by keeping the potential labor pool under-informed unless you have a legally actionable gripe that you can afford both financially and emotionally to pursue legally.

And asking for them to reveal their identity is just a way to attach a reputation to them. That way the job market can punish them for breaking an unwritten rule against attaching a reputation to a company.
"The FBI" doesn't give a fresh shit about any of those things, because the FBI doesn't give a fresh shit about the lot of prostitutes nor victims of human trafficking. Someone in the FBI just made a headline that will help them get their next promotion, though.

Also, I'm not sure about your new word. At first, I thought you meant the sites are hydrostatic somehow.
High marginal tax rates are indeed a big problem.
I'm sort of assuming it can be ignored for now. Like you said, it doesn't add anything, but also doesn't preclude anything that we can do today, so it seems like a wash.
> You know what? If you don't like working there, then quit! If you're an engineer, the job market is heavily weighted in your favor right now. You can find a job.

This "if you don't like working there, then quit! You can always find another job." argument is used here often, but I don't think it holds too much water for the average case. Most well-paying companies want to hire only what they call the top 10% of engineers. Go to any advice site for interviews, and they all say, "only hire the best" or some variation. There is a reason this person was working for 40k at a well-known startup. At that salary (assuming it is on par with his peers at Grooveshark), would you still call the job market as being heavily weighted in his favour?

> But if you're just upset at "Greek culture" and "that fucking bitch Julia," then sorry -- you don't have any options. Either quit, or shut your mouth and keep working.

Well no, he/she has a third option -- Get it to a popular site where people who agree with it will upvote it to the top, and spark discussion about how a lot of people may feel likewise.

> Frankly, these types of anonymous rants are immature, classless and cowardly.

Why does being anonymous make it immature or cowardly? This is essentially the same argument that Eric Schmidt makes, "Well, if you didn't want your search history exposed, then maybe you shouldn't have searched for it in the first place"; and is designed to make people "shut your mouth and keep working" -- as you put it.
It is absolutely biased, no "likely" about it; but based on my own (non-Grooveshark) related life experience as a developer it rings true enough that Grooveshark is now on the list of places I will "never, ever, ever work for under any circumstances" (not that I was thinking about working there previously).

At least until such a time that they can dispute the rather striking amount of detail given in that post that would be easily disputable if it were untrue (and I'll grant up front that as of now they haven't had enough time to do so).
Thanks for posting this, I couldn't figure out what they were referring to by "Greek fucks".
Why is everyone assuming it's actually a Grooveshark employee?
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Hire more people that meet that demographic criteria at all costs.
I appreciate what you guys are trying to do but I can't seen many mathematicians or statisticians applying for this unless you provide a little more information about what these "hard" problems are.

Honestly it reads like your offering basic in training in a a random selection of tools and then hoping some non profits present a problem with nice clean data that can be solved through application of a few methods from scikit.learn.

If you wan't to attract math people my suggestion would be to identify a few intriguing and hard problems a head of time and taking applications specifically for them...you can always suggest a change if you think an applicant would be better suited to a different one. Providing intriguing problems that might match up with peoples pre existing research interests is key...there is lots of room for cross pollination and growth but a bayesian statistician is going to be much more intrigued by something that might benefit from a hierarchical model then something that needs ODE's or online convex optimization.

Worse 4-6 months might not even be enough time to formulate a problem that needs a solution and get the required data in place. Non profits are generally extremely overworked and take a long time to do things. They will not have their data in anything resembling a database or standardized format...think short hand notes in word files if you're lucky. Identifying people and data you can work with on this end a head of time is key.

For the record I work for a non profit analyzing complex diseases and my background is in math. I've also sat on the board of and been involved in a few other non profits.
One guy doesn't make a team.
Yep, all he needed was a single 4 and he would have had an average of 100. Impressive guy, the idol of basically every kid whos ever played cricket.
You wouldn't have a maximum account balance, would you?
Is there some sort of inside joke that I'm not aware of re: BitLocker?

By default, it does key escrow. It's pretty trivial to disable that. Other than that, I've yet to hear any substantive reason why I wouldn't use BitLocker.
Disgruntled Grooveshark employee, music industry attempt to smear the company (eg. "Sam was caught red-handed uploading pirated music to his website" and "You know you're working on illegal shit when Dan Rua's in the house.") or made up fantasy of someone with a creative mind.

Whenever there's no proof but words on the internet I lean towards option three every time.
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