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"..so that none of us find ourselves in your shoes."

Thank you for this comment.
This is a very important discussion to have. And I don't think naming the company is a good answer (it is a point solution - you may not want to join this company but thats it). With this thread getting some attention, I have higher hopes than that. I think we can come up with good strategies, resources, and an agreed upon code of conduct that future early employees can use to protect themselves.
I am going to agree with "JasonFruit" here.

The company has a much rosier picture of themselves than you do (and who is to say which one is right?). Think of possible mitigating circumstances, first duty to investors, what's right for the company, we made a mistake, etc etc and who knows what else.

You don't want to make enemies, have them hit back in public, etc. This is not about what is "just" but what is efficient to get on with finding a job, and telling everyone about it.

So I do think it would be a mistake to make it a public fight and bring up the name of the company.
PSA tests are very controversial because many believe early detection of prostate cancer leads to worse health outcomes as many men get surgeries to remove cancers that will have no material impact on their life expectancy or quality of life.

How do you plan to deal with the fact that early cancer screening may be detrimental to health outcomes?
was thinking the same thing ..how about a hypothesis and an experiment to test it :)

it seems to me design and scientific method need not be separate at all...
i worked with some good designers at ziba on my last project and they were effectively following a scientific method - hypothesis for design, rapid implementation, then testing with users, observe and repeat. ( was fun too )
I guess you could move it up a notch and use a spreadsheet which would make graphing etc. much easier than a text file.
"These rules are together called “preservation” and “progress”. Notably, they leave a lot of room for the language to define what it means to justify a change in types (automatic upcasting, for instance, is interesting) or well-define program dynamics."

Safety and progress is a weird distinction in the types of properties you can express. It seems to be context dependent. (I'm using what I consider the "standard", loose definitions of safety and progress: safety means the program will not go wrong, bad things won't happen; progress means the program will perform correctly, good things will (eventually?) happen.

For example, consider a program involving binary search on an array. Clearly, "does not access elements outside the bounds of the array" is a good safety property, but what is the status of "if the array is sorted, the search will correctly find a matching element or report that none exists"? It looks like a progress property, but depending on how the results are used I can see how it would become a safety problem. (I think; I'm still undecided on that point.)
Everything other than the titles are unreadable. What is with this grey on grey nonsense?
It would be weird to fire him for that reason without saying it. Maybe he can help, maybe he knows people who can, you never know, I don't think a sane person would just give up without even discussing it with all parties.
I recommend http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/07/30/amazons-latest-volley/ (from John Scalzi), which engages directly with the math. Many relevant points.
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Nowhere on Fivver's website do they claim you are getting a unique one-of-a-kind hand-designed logo

On the other hand, http://www.fiverr.com/search/gigs?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_in=e...

I think the larger issue is that some of these come from stock photo sites which place restrictions on using them as logos. I'd be more than a little annoyed if I built a brand around a $5 logo and then hit legal trouble because of it.
Maybe I should have a stern talk with our cat about his health - he likes to sleep on the wifi box as it's nice and warm.

So far the only ways we've found to block the cat also block the wifi.
Oh, like the next round of shitbag YC kids hiring a COO?

C'mon, man.
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Is every case where you don't commit charity to the starving exploitation or is it only since sex is involved?
Reminds me of an article on /r/movies the other day about "XYZ didn't kill the movie industry, the movie industry killed itself".

Well... no. The movie industry is far from dead and is doing quite well for itself. It even avoided the mistakes the music labels made when they gave Apple too much power (a mistake that they have since recovered from).
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What companies are out there that would be best to join today if sole criterion is to make cash (>300k) out of employee options?
From wikipedia:

> Although sweating is found in a wide variety of mammals, relatively few, such as humans and horses, produce large amounts of sweat in order to cool down.

We don't beat them out necessarily because we can replenish more, but because we are much more efficient at cooling ourselves. Obviously water and tools helped us, but imagine trying to compete in a 5k wearing a rubber suit--you wouldn't come close to competing with those humans you're up against.
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Private sector wages are quite high in places like San Francisco. Large successful corporations are great at incentivizing would-be startup owners into staying. Large companies are making money, the employees are creating value, and they're realizing some of the value as personal wealth.

People launch businesses when they have no better opportunity in front of them. In a rising economy with a record stock market, even the most capable people are finding significant upside within the companies they're employed by.
I would like to run this browser on an OS which is nothing but CLI. This imagined CLI based OS will come with two things only: A gigantic and thoroughly indexed PDF file containing hundreds of commands to do all kinds of things (so you would only use Ctrl+F to search what you're looking for); and a modern browser with least minimum settings.
$5000 is peanuts to work two weeks, uproot your life and reject other, more valid job offers, only to get sand kicked in your face for no reason. in fact it's downright insulting, and most importantly, humiliating to an extreme degree. if there's anything in the world that could be classified as being a bitch, that's it.

stop short-changing yourself and technology professionals, you do us all a disservice and it's embarrassing. i am literally embarassed for you by this comment. it doesn't matter where you're from - we're talking about someone who was hired as a chief-level executive with a name brand startup in the first world, funded by billionaires or at least hundred-millionaires, or at the VERY least a bunch of millionaires that manage money for pension funds and endowments i.e. venture capitalists.

a shitty CPA (or lawyer) makes that in a few days of work. a good one can make that in literally 1 minute by signing a few documents. they can do that because they have professional respect, something technology workers sorely lack right now.

a CPA also could not get hired, and let go for no reason, within 2 weeks, without having several avenues of recourse through his professional governing body. a lawyer would file suit immediately, something i would do also even though i lack a law degree.

i would literally not stop reading/learning law except to eat, shit and piss until i learned how to get compensatory damages out of them. then again, i make it my mission in life to not be a bitch. but as it turns out, some people are fine with being a bitch, go figure.
>>Nowhere on Fivver's website do they claim you are getting a unique one-of-a-kind hand-designed logo

I'm sorry, but if someone says in their profile headline, "I will design amazing logos for $5" then I expect it to be more than just clipart or color-shaded text.
>They withdrew an offer of employment. //

I thought the OP said they hired him and then 1 week in to working he was told he should leave.

If there was any package, like taking on the position would accrue shares and such then he's due that at least along with his weeks pay and his agreed/statutory notice period pay. The rest is probably down to local laws (both localities potentially if the company is operation in both).
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Have you actually done this? If not, you're just making up numbers. What's the variance? etc. etc.
Wow. So beyond survival all happiness comes from beating your neighbour, and the sum of happiness is constant?
I must say I really disagree with this.
> But hiring and firing is a purely business decision. ... Its a job at the end of the day and he was let go.

I have a serious beef with this mode of thinking. Nothing that you do to another human being is a "purely business decision." And from a practical perspective it's better, in the long run, for you too to be remembered as having owned your mistakes and done right by the people you wronged.

Of course, there is the line of thinking that, hey, this guy won't ever help me later, so I can screw him and skate. And that is entirely too common in startupland. But that speaks to the poor humanity of its thinker more than anything else.
The missing link between the new Pepsi logo and TimeCube!

Saddest thing is I can see a board room eating this up. Remember when Marissa Mayer redesigned the Yahoo logo with a small team over a weekend? "no straight lines in nature" she said. Sounds good, except it is wrong.
UFO - not as flying saucer, but an unidentified object - visible whole video.

And here another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAsxflfMXtg - NASA wont comment for now.

I am absolutely no sensation hunter and I am very sceptical about stuff like that, but why NASA switches cameras whenever things like that shows up?
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I agree with everything you said, as long as the vehicle has a clear line of sight of the road ahead and there is enough room to drive off of the road if something unexpected happens.

In the situation mentioned there is a blindspot where a child could be (for whatever reason) and a wall on the other side of the road. The vehicle was traveling fast enough so that it could not stop or avoid the child and if it crashed into the wall it would kill the passengers, in my opinion this vehicle in this situation was traveling too fast.

How about this scenario, say you purchase an autonomous supercar that can travel at 150+ MPH down the highway and a deer approaches the road, the vehicle should slow down to a point where it can safely avoid the deer no matter what random action it takes, correct? If the deer hits the car, everybody loses so it is in everyone's best interest to avoid that situation even if it means that person gets to work a few seconds later every day because there are always deer at a certain place on the highway.

This is especially true in cities, yes, autonomous cars could probably "safely" travel at 100+ MPH but if something unexpected happens it would not be acceptable to hit several pedestrians due to the unknown happening, like someone or an animal running out into the street.
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Hello, everyone! Joshua Berk here.

Current Location: Brooklyn, NY

Remote: N/A but ... yes?

Willing to relocate: Of course! Preference: Pacific Northwest or SF, but totally open to international also.

Technologies: JS / HTML / CSS, Git, Python/Ruby (casually)

Github: http://www.github.com/joshuajberk

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5fEmAwkq3NhLVU4WE15Ty1BRGM

Email: joshua.j.berk@gmail.com

Self-taught, can read/understand any code, but I'm seeking a Product-related role (dev advocate, associate product/project manager, etc.) Biz-degree, previously in Ads @ Google. Big surprise: I'm super interested in all the sexy stuff (crypto-economics, quant-health, VR, drones). Design-oriented user-focused mindset and understand distribution/monetization very well. Love playing with data-viz (d3.js). Boundless curiosity + enthusiasm -- super friendly and a great teammate in/out of office. Just returned from 5-months backpacking Southeast Asia. Cyclist. Consider me the glue that holds different teams, roles, and partners together. My only criteria: an awesome team and an ambitious vision; a place I can learn, grow, and work 150%. Say hello! Questions: joshua (dot) j (dot) berk (at) gmail (dot) com :)

Also, PGP: https://s3.amazonaws.com/pk9/jjb
>'I'd say you did the right thing in not saying what the startup was — it isn't wise to look like a bridge-burner when you're looking for work.'

So true.

I abhor this, but I certainly understand it.

I think the real danger in bridge burning isn't from the people you leave behind, it's everyone who might see the smoke and flames.

It's the label you'll get.

No matter the actual facts, moving forward in the back of many minds you're a liability, a vigilante arsonist ready to torch a company when things don't work out in your favor.
The burden is on the individual not to "burn the bridge" because it suits everyone (rightly or wrongly) to perpetuate the myth that companies cannot be held responsible for screwing up the lives of individuals.
Or you could just buy a windows phone. I kid. I kid.
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just tried HN Special... much better than the default styles. Thanks!
I would strongly advise against suing, however. It certainly sounds like you have a case (although IANAL), but it would damage your reputation[1]. Do document everything though, it's great to have options.

[1] I know this is BS, but it's reality. Your reputation shouldn't be affected with your response to unethical former employers, but as someone entering a new community (i.e. bay area startups), you don't want to make it any more difficult than it has to be.
And if you want to co-author a story with my idea, give me a shout. :)
An employee who was acceptable to the company on X and unacceptable on X + 2 weeks is being asked to shoulder risks equivalent to that of an independent contractor or consultant. Many people enjoy shouldering the many risks associated with parachuting into foreign countries for two weeks to execute engagements with no guarantee that there will be work available on week three.

We are customarily compensated for shouldering these risks. It is one reason why consultants quote week rates like $10,000 as opposed to getting only $120k in yearly salary but very predictably actually getting that and its attendant benefits suite.

Half of the low-ball startup monthly salary offer plus no benefits plus no options doesn't even crater the approach to the bridge of the disruption this putative employee suffered to get him to the US.

While acknowledging that the US is largely an employment-at-will country and people can dissolve things for any reason or none at all at virtually any time, writing somebody a $4k check as sole payment for services rendered, after they've joined your company as an employee and been involuntarily terminated 2 weeks in, strikes me as deeply problematic.
Pushing the liability to the bank rather than merchant would also be a huge step forward.

Just so long as there's not a bailout back-door on that.
This is the standard Go response to every complaint:

- no generics? You don't really need it.

- no operator overload? You are doin' it wrong.

- GC pauses are annoying? Man up and reconsider what you do.
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@angersock yeah, exactly like the next batch of shitbag YC kids hiring a COO. Because apparently that's who he's trying to get employed by. It's weird that you seem to think that this crowd are shallow children and yet somehow don't think that they will retaliate against public criticism.
Music companies have already lost all of their storefronts. I think the last time I was in a record store was the early 1990s. The big record company executives aren't as rich as they once were, and they're starting to lose their grip on the recording and manufacturing process.

The labels really are dying. They'll hold on a few more decades, but only because they'll not let go of their venue monopoly willingly.

And books? When's the last time you were in a Borders? How long before all those old Barnes and Noble storefronts are just Halloween stores for 2 months out of the year?

They too are losing control of the publishing and distributing process.
What kind of visa could you qualify for as a COO?
Works for me in Stylish. I installed the extension, then clicked "create new style for news.ycombinator.com", then copy-pasted the CSS inside

"@-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") { [...here ...] }"

However, the front-page was really wonky until I removed the "float: right" on: "body > center > table > tbody > tr:nth-of-type(3) tr td:first-of-type" (line 84 of the original file).

Comments also have weird alignment issues, but seems like others have posted about that on Chromium as well.

PS: do not use "//" to comment out CSS. Use /* foo */. I don't know for Chromium, but it's not valid in Firefox.

I didn't know about Stylish (and its Chromium equivalent), really fun stuff. Thanks for posting this, and looking forward to experiment with it more.
Most companies are worse at interviewing than even they think.
Do you have help from either of your parents? Many of my friends who are trying the dual-income parenting thing (especially my friends from China for whatever reason) will tend to have one of their mothers come and live with them, especially when the baby is young. If you live far from family members who can help, then you're trying to do TWO difficult things at once:

1. Dual-income parenting.
2. Parenting without extended-family support.

You need to recognize that this is a thing. You may see other dual-income families and think "they make it look easy" but fail to realize that they are not attempting the same challenges you are. So don't feel discouraged if you can't do what they do. Either set your sights lower (one challenge at a time!) or try to get that help.
I'm from Mexico so it might not be as useful but my ISP is Cablevision. The only proof I've got is that it was an iframe inserted into non related pages from their server and for a specific offer they were making.
I really doubt it was any form of local malware.
There is an official one: http://hn.algolia.com/api/ and several unofficial ones that you can find by Googling around.
I know! I was being hyperbolic, but you get the idea :-) Memory leaks are almost the same thing, perhaps worse. You can always change a stick of RAM, but chasing down memory leaks, that's more than a 5 min job!
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Hi Josh,
I was able to find a few that do integrate by going to Intuit's App center (Intuit makes QuickBooks). As n FYI, by far my favorite & the most affordable is Funding Gate's Receivables Manager. If you're a mic biz (less than 10 clients/invoices) you can use the software for free (awesome!). Here's their Intuit review http://appcenter.intuit.com/fundinggates

As a more general answer to your posed question, always check the parent company's site-- most companies are pushing upgrades, integrations, and overall partnerships with their original software. Branding/Co Branding new apps and software is also a new "big thing".
For anyone else wondering what Elixir is (like I was):
"Elixir is a functional, meta-programming aware language built on top of the Erlang VM."[1]

[1]: http://elixir-lang.org/
Actually, I tend to think that the Iron Law of Oligarchy is correct. Dictatorships also converge to oligarchy. The autocrat still has to rely on his handlers and lieutenants for information. They become oligarchs.

Oligarchy gives way to aristocracy, which is more effete and less dangerous. Oligarchs want to be powerful. Aristocrats want to be other things (e.g. dignified, respectable, prestigious) and tend to let go of some of their power. The problem is that some aristocrats see the power vacuum and rush in, and then you get a new oligarchy, but one based solely on entitlement. That tends to lead to collapse, from which all sorts of systems can emerge.
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There's really no reason to be concerned about that.

I'd be significantly more worried(ie: actually worried) about a mishap with that gumstick cell, which looks like it could be(edit: probably is) a lipo.
I agree, but lots of JS developers (mistakenly) think there is nothing wrong with this:

Object.prototype.myDumbShim = function () { ... };

Chances are good that your code will be running in the same scope as one of these people's code eventually.
No, I'm suggesting that you should not assume that you don't have a kidney disease just because you had basic blood and urine work done.
"Yet it also seemed too good to be true: how on earth could anybody make a living creating logos for $5?"

$5 is 3x minimum hourly wage in Poland. And you can create more than one logo in three hours.
But I like Opera.
In what way would telling the truth in a private email constitute tortious interference?
>Tree-style tabs (Firefox extension) are an even better solution: each new page becomes the root of a "tree", and the tabs that are opened from it become "branches". There is also a very interesting contrast between following a link (so the previous page is available on the Back button, and therefore either accessed right away or soon forgotten) versus opening it in a new tab (so the parent remains visible as a remainder of an interesting place or a branching point in the navigation).

I can't even operate without tree-style tabs anymore. They make it really easy to organize my thoughts, activities, and the current state of any investigation that I'm on.

They tend to start with a search, then all interesting links opened as leaves, then pruning happens, then finding the most comprehensive leaf and promoting it first leaf, then deleting the (search) root to make the most general leaf the new root.

Some leaves then end up becoming branches as I move leaves beneath them, and I may find old tabs or trees than may get moved into this tree. The final leaves usually end up being the most concrete pages - manual pages, product listings, specific vendor options, etc.

I keep these open until whatever I was working on or investigating is complete, or if other things get in the way, I can archive them by bookmarking the entire tree and giving it an appropriate folder name.

I get the suggestion that window managers could handle this, but I don't know of any window managers that handle tree-style tabs and bookmarks like that, and anything else at this point feels like a step back.
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I'm curious about what went wrong with the interview and what the performance problems were without being too specific.
No, I meant that socialism/communism do not state, in their list of goals, "an equal outcome in all circumstances". This is not about hypocrisy, but about misrepresenting socialism and communism.
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It's not the fact that the passwords are being copied, it's that someone without access took access.

The closest analogy to media piracy is someone with a password telling it to their friend.

In short, the difference is between 'sharing' and 'taking'. It's not about whose data. It's not hypocritical.

(That said, feel free to disagree with the opinion, but don't accidentally strawman it. Maybe it would be better to use a different word here too, but this sort of thing is much closer to theft because of that lack of consent and breach of privacy.)