skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came away from this with more respect for Reddit and it's CEO than I had before, so painting this as bad publicity for them isn't just something that can be assumed here. What the CEO said didn't seem inflammatory or over the top at all, it was just the facts with little or no vindictiveness. I'm not sure where anyone's sympathy for the former employee is coming from, or how anyone reading what the CEO wrote could parse it as the childish, unprofessional flame that it's being described as.

A lot of people have a natural tendency to always side with the underdog regardless of the facts of the situation, especially when it's one guy vs. any sort of institution (a company, school, whatever). That probably says something nice about humanity, but it doesn't make it any truthier.
Yeah, I don't really have anything more specific in mind. I think your analysis is spot on.
This Is What Common Core Looks Like
It's a starting point for a crawler, and does not have limiters on robots.txt and sleeps yet. Users could easily add them in if want to crawl with it.
The 20th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition
I had the great pleasure of meeting up with Paul and Eric at a Data Science Meetup in SF. Both of them were very smart and driven in their passion. Eric explained to me in great length why and how they were doing -- Bayesimpact.

Wish you guyz all the success
Let me know if you have questions about this :)
Trespassing is a good analogy. Neither all laws or violations of laws are equal.

On one hand, there are the vandals, or outright criminals, who are using and abusing my property for their gain to my detriment.

On the other hand, there's a passerby who knows about the criminals in the area, knows no one else is looking for them, and trespasses my property because the trail led him onto it.

Now that guy willingly alerts me to the criminals, offers an explanation of what he did on my property and how he found the criminals -- what should my response be?

I know that technically he broke the law, and there are those who want to see anyone and everyone pay for their deeds, but in this situation, wouldn't a reasonable person possibly consider tracking down the criminals first before crying "trespassing!"
I'd love to know what the inappropriate interview qusstio s were (if that bit is true).
Am I misremembering or is the GCC maintainer famous for being such a gigantic asshole that he has essentially scared people away from working on the project?
If someone only wants to eat Soylent they should. They should also be documenting as many health data points as possible, how much they are eating, and when they deviate from the diet. Twenty five to thirty years out we should have a good idea what the side effects are.

Negative side effects showing up within the next couple of years will kill Soylent. Why? Because their marketing says you don't need to eat anything else. That is a very steep claim, not much different than claiming your magical sugar pill prevents cancer.

If they made diminished claims I would speak less negatively. Certainly, as a nutritional supplement it would have strong and immediately measurable benefits in poor areas such as sub-Saharan Africa. Put a healthy 21 year old exclusively on it until they are 35? Ouch.
Which site drives traffic? Hint: Not NYTimes
Bacon jumped the shark when they started putting it on desserts.
People or certainly some companies might be put off from contributing due to licensing. That might be. However, it shouldn't be understated that a great number of contributors to GCC do so because of its license.
Is the system corrupt? Probably! But the government is there to protect the interest of the voters. Democracy is flawed, as is human nature, as is capitalism. There is no pure system. We need a combination of all of them. And, sometimes, we need legislation: very often, to defend us against ourselves (our flawed nature, our procastrination, our inability to understand the complexity around us).

Some (maybe those who are not so flawed), will consider that a limitation of their freedom. But they live in this society, and must accept the rules chosen by the majority. They still have the right of arguing for different laws, and convince the majority that those rules are against their own interest. Or they can leave this society and build a country in the middle of the Atlantic (from scratch, not taking anything from our society with them: you can not have it both ways!)

The sum of individual forces does not necessarily lead to a system which optimises the well-being of each individual (tragedy of the commons).
Why should anybody believe either the CEO or the ex-employee based only on their word? You're assuming the CEO has all the actual facts and is being honest about them. I can envision many scenarios where he may actually have cause to believe he has the actual facts, when he doesn't (e.g. colleagues lying about the employee's resistance to change, performance, etc.).
All the CEO's response accomplishes for me is prove the accusation that was out there.

The ex-employee implied management doesn't like criticism. Management then completely overreacts to criticism.
Me too. What's with all the pink. Atleast, give the user an option to choose from 6 or so basic colors.
> Someone who has spent one year at their current employer is more than ten times more likely to leave to go to another company than someone who is five or more years at their current employer.

Except the chart does not support this claim. Authors seem to confuse
probability of leaving at certain point with number of employees that left at
the point. The little data that was presented does not say how many employees
in total reached those 5 years at the company.
I completely forgot how fun playing with shaders in realtime is. Last time I did this was in AMD RenderMonkey. Look what I made after a 2 minute poking around the editor (it's animated, too!)[1] :)

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/BGv8dL9.png
That's odd... I thought passive-aggressive is when you're deliberately failing to do something you're supposed to do and capable of doing, but what he's usually accused of is actually doing too many things - please clarify this apparent contradiction.
Uh, no. Social psychology is a complicated subject and there is no way to distill 'social media and group-think' into a single set of choices for all situations. Most companies say nothing, but if they do say something, it certainly isn't a good idea to seem vindictive when you do so, and is an especially bad idea to do it on a public forum. Luckily they know their audience well and being a jackass is applauded, so their position wins - as long as he can't convince people their response isn't genuine. Group dynamics and public opinion can get as complex as chess.
Since the flag button seems to operate as a super downvote (and its UI is ostensibly "get the mods' attention" unless you know this) do you feel like the current system is useful? Should flag be a super downvote, or should it just get your attention? Is "both" useful?

I resist clicking flag because I know how hard it hits a story, and based on what you're saying, it seems like people are pretty free with flagging (which might be affecting controversial stories inordinately). Not that you'd compare your UI to Reddit's, but: Reddit's "report" function gets the mods' attention but does not impact the submission, to my knowledge. Recently, to cull people reporting things they just don't like, there's now a modal that pops up when you click it to demand a reason.
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PBS Self-Destructs
Show HN: Qbox Releases QES Elasticsearch Connector for Magento
Why should each marketing site be HTTPS?
You may be thinking of glibc, which (for a time at least) was known for having an especially abrasive maintainer.
Take an interesting design/page you see on the web and try to replicate one part of the design using HTML and CSS. From there you can compare how you did it to how they did it, and see if you can clean it up or make it smaller, faster, better etc.

Also, I am not affiliated, but you can also try codeschool if you want something a little more formal. https://www.codeschool.com/
First of all, I wouldn't call CEO's response childish, I'd call it exactly right. Honest, clear and straight talking is what we need to have more, and not some corporate contentless PR fluffs.

Secondly, CEO just exposed himself to a potential lawsuit and a total loss of respect from his subordinates if he lied even a little bit in that statement. That is kind of a whole lot of evidence favouring trusting him over the other guy.
Notifications for Angular.js applications
If you're interested in privacy and have Windows 8 Pro, you can use Client Hyper-V and Differencing Disks to make what is effectively a "read only" system. You boot into the VM, do whatever it is you have to do, then shred the differential [0].

Alternatively just encrypt the VM[1].

Alternatively again just run a Linux "Live OS" from a DVD and pull the power to "wipe."

Alternatively ad-infinitum make a Windows To Go Thumb Drive and smash it with a brick when you're done.

[0] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc720381(v=WS.10)...

[1] http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/kbase/VirtualizationTips/...
Universal expectation? It seems you two are railing against a straw man. Abusive behavior, even on the LKML, even by Linus, is rare. If you feel as strongly as you seem to, please subscribe, form a first-hand opinion, and maybe contribute to positive change. (I contributed around 2001-2003 and really enjoyed it; I don't subscribe now).

Too many misunderstandings have been caused by well-meaning people reading too much into cherry-picked HN comments.

Hm. Because these comments are WAY off topic and have now drowned out the article and any rational discussion, I won't comment any further. Diederich, I hope you'll show more restraint with the Reply button.
Indeed, and it can be found here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/520/n...

The "artisinal toast" aspect is the least interesting. It's an amazing story about a person dealing with their own mental illness, with some good startup advice mixed in at the end.

"Just get some cups. Brew some coffee. When you run out cups, close the door, and go get more cups."
That would be my way to point out that if he were aborted due to poor code, he also wouldn't be around.

I just think his hyperbole is a way of expressing good discussion and reason.
More importantly, while a casual scan of a website that shows a "Yes" is bad, a "No" doesn't prove much. Update bash.
I would love to hear some details. When I've see PHK get vicious he's always been right.

He's been in this game years longer than most and perhaps he's tired of defending the right way nicely.
"should be"—have you tried setting your monitor to grayscale? (It's not quite accurate, but fairly close).
Large research universities offer things that I think you would have a hard time replicating with this model. For instance, a research-grade fMRI facility costs millions of dollars to run and requires a large number of dedicated staff to maintain it. I can think of a lot of other resources like this -- primate facilities, certain kinds of DNA sequencing equipment, etc. Universities absorb this kind of cost with their endowment. I'm skeptical you could get a critical mass of scientists in a certain sub-speciality to be able to fund those things profitably, especially if they were doing basic science research (not pharmaceutical kinds of stuff that can make a profit on their own)
Apple sapphire supplier GT Advanced files for bankruptcy protection
It's a baconspiracy!
A Toast Story
> Pick a sensible default - if you get more business from the US just show dollars. Or do some simple A/B testing and see if you get better conversions with one versus the other.

Maybe they did this, and get more business from the UK?
In the spirit of non-disparagement, it seems like Yishan could have sent a private message to the employee which reiterated why he had been fired, and asked him to stop posting about it. If Yishan felt that it was necessary to comment, he could have still posted something without Reddit losing face – something like, "We're sorry that you feel our decision to let you go was unclear. I've sent you a private message, and would be happy to go over things again with you personally."
Could be an interesting story, but it's paywalled. Bummer.
Right, I'm thinking of inertial navigation to help out in a case where you have spotty GPS and you lose it for 10 seconds. It's not practical for these sorts of applications to use only inertial nav, but it can help in the region between full GPS and no GPS.
HTML5 vs. PhoneGap vs. Xamarin vs. Native
They already do- for a long time before Clang was ready for prime time, the default compiler on OS X was GCC with an LLVM back end. I'm not sure if any of this ever got merged into mainline GCC (the work was done on a pre-GPLv3 fork of GCC), but the code is widely available per the terms of the GPL.
This American Life ran a part of this story on a recent episode: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/520/n...
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I don't think that userbinator is complaining about gcc's licence so much as about the unnecessary complexity of the codebase. The accusation that I've heard levelled at gcc in the past is that the code is structured such a way as to make it hard to use parts of it with other proprietary modules. The consequence of this is a codebase that is less modular and more complex than necessary.
because it's only a lead gen page.
Seeing some of the back & forth among HN'ers about "laid off" vs "fired" as a lie vs truth, I think it's worth clearning up a particular point.

Yes, being "laid off" is different from "fired" but the ex-employee (dehrmann) actually did say he was fired. He just said it in a very roundabout way. He wasn't using "laid off" in its most obvious definition.

dehrmann said: "I was laid off...no reason...some management doesn't like feedback..." which is his euphemism for saying "fired".

(sidebar: If one is a high profile employee such as an NFL coach or big shot CEO, he/she can simply and directly tell journalists, friends, etc that "I was fired"[2]. For some psychological reason, every one else from middle management down to line workers have a defensive mechanism to avoid the word "fired" and use softer language.)

TheOsiris[1] was of the few readers that picked up on the poster's roundabout language. Many others did not parse it correctly. Unfortunately, the Reddit CEO also didn't interpret it correctly and so he thought he had to correct dehrmann by saying "you were FIRED for the following reasons..." So, a misunderstanding by yishan for not recognizing his ex-employee's strung out phrasing of "yes I was fired" unfortunately lead to the (unnecessary) boldface of "fired" in his response.

Anyways, we can set aside the "laid off vs fired" and recognize that the real disagreement is whether the ex-employee and the the company parted ways because of management retaliation about charity strategy, or because a lack of work productivity.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8417769

[2]http://www.siliconbeat.com/2008/06/10/fiorina-to-nyt-i-layed...
That would be illegal, unfortunately. If we could do that the internet would be a much cleaner place for sure.
"Shotgun-Toting New Jersey Man Shoots Down Man's Drone", charged with criminal mischief and weapons charges: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/weird/Drone-Shot-Down-Lo...
You're caught in a semantic rut. Your peer in this conversation isn't suggesting that there is no "right to silence". Re-read his comment. He's acknowledging that there is an implied right, but pointing out that it is not in the Constitution. He agrees with you that the right is eroding.

His disagreement regards the solution that erosion. Your solution seems to be to shore up the implied right to silence that comes from Miranda. His is to add an amendment to the Constitution to formalize a right to silence.
I think you are referring to philosophical theories. In science a theory can be a "fact". Ex: Theory of general and theory of special relativity, Theory of evolution by natural selection, Quantum theory, etc.

Theoretically (excuse the pun) they could all be disproved some day but most people know they will not be.

To cite wikipedia for lack of a better source:

"Scientific theories are the most reliable, rigorous, and comprehensive form of scientific knowledge, in contrast to more common uses of the word "theory" that imply that something is unproven or speculative (which is better characterized by the word 'hypothesis'"

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory
I find it fascinating that the second picture down (rainy diner scene) has a mobile device in it with a strobing screen. His other works have CRT displays that, when filmed, do tend to strobe according to their refresh rate. LCD screens, however, do not. That makes this a neat example of visual language being used to imply function, even when that function doesn't match the object being represented.
Here is a suggestion, tell them to state their intentions or go away. Once they state their intentions tell them they have to sign a Memorandum of Understanding about what you're going to talk about and if they walk away it will cost them $X million (pick a number that would be able to resolve your debts and pay off any investors with a slight return).

What ever you do, do NOT be lured into thinking they are thinking about maybe a big exit for you, your interests are not aligned yet and you need to realize that. If there is any IP possible make sure you have provisional patents filed before you talk to them about anything. Even if you don't think it is patentable, force them to either buy you or risk infringing you if they go into competition with you.

Seriously, you have nothing to gain from this distraction if they aren't serious, and if they are serious they will put it in writing for you.
There is no limit after registering the address. The idea was to cover temporary needs as well as providing the posibility to use it persistently.
Ah, I didn't realize it'd recently surfaced on HN. That makes sense, then.
What are you going for, here? The old, "if you benefit from something, you're not allowed to criticize it" angle?
It doesn't sound like this person trespassed at all, but merely traversed your land during his investigation. He didn't do any damage or remove anything, so what was the trespass?
YouTube's joke of a fair-use appeal process
Great idea. Garanimals for food. I do this informally. Common base of ground meat, onions, tomato, spices, and broth with a varying selection of additives like beans, bell pepper, carrots, peas, corn, root veggies of all kinds, green leafy veggies, squash. It comes out different every time but always tasty, easy to freeze and reheat, and a decent balance of protein, fat, carbs, fiber, and micro-nutrients. Not great for breakfast, but it's fine for a good chunk of the remaining 14 meals per week.
Not quite, Silk Road document is using very neutral and "objective" kind of speech, c.f. "Based on my training and experience, Silk Road has emerged as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today." [0]

[0] http://computersweden.idg.se/polopoly_fs/1.526338.1380735946...
Ok, I don't get it. So everyone here says that CEO's statement was childish, and yet next time when another company issues a professional statement, people will be calling it content-less cover-your-ass PR fluff, and crying for more honesty and straight talk. Make up your mind.

As for me, personally, I think CEO's response was exactly what it should be. Honest, clear, straight to the point. Reddit just earned my respect as a workplace.
Exactly, intent is very important in these types of things.
And why should we believe the CEO?

I don't trust either of them. At all. What I do know, though, is that one of them wrote a comment which is tremendously meaner than those of the other person.
Agreed. It doesn't help that his post was clearly made during working hours, on company time and with his official account. This is now the Reddit's official and definitive response to this employee's termination. You can go against the grain as a CEO and be more involved and approachable but, at the end of the day it is your ultimate responsibility to uphold the best interests of the company and it's investors. I'd be very concerned about this behavior if I was an investor or employee of Reddit.
yishan just gave some more background about his comment in the discussion in r/RedditCensorship.

https://np.reddit.com/r/RedditCensorship/comments/2ifd3p/ude...
Paraphrasing?

I think you meant to say, "Sorry, I was just making that up."
I'd say you should talk to an attorney. I'd want a more specific letter of intent or NDA covering your startup in case they decide to play in the space. Letting them get to far into the technical due diligence before they have committed to something seems like a bad idea to me. They may be large and reputable, but that doesn't mean they won't steamroll a small company to get into a market they feel is compelling.

Trust your gut, your asking the question because you have doubts as to their intent. So make them spell out their intent clearly. If they walk away, you know they never had a genuine intent, other than to steamroll you and pay you as little as possible, if anything.
Mitnicks security company recently started a vulnerability marketplace. For vulnerabilities that meet the criteria (they have to be of a certain severity, not already known, etc), they are sold for a minimum of $100,000.
JP Morgan has ~$2.5 Trillion under management, annual revenues near $100B/year, and profits around $20B/year. Estonia's GDP is $25B and their annual tax receipts are about $4B/year. It's quite easy to assume that JP Morgan spends far more on security than the entire country of Estonia.
I came started reading this thread with the thought that the CEO was in the right. After reading many of the comments, I have to believe that both were in the wrong and this is the right way to go.
> the marketing has to establish a hierarchy

Most mature products (particularly of leisure) have an associated hierarchy of quality. Top shelf vs. bottom shelf liquor. Name brand food products vs. generic. High fashion outlets vs. walmart.
"where is the rest of this guy's PPE?"

Pictures of a lab I worked in were taken, we were marched out because we were almost all fat middle aged white guys, then a team of Very attractive college students of politically correct gender and race were marched in and pictures were taken for the PR brochure.

Also the photography crew had a team of makeup artists making last minute corrections, and PPE is going to mess that up. More important to get the hair and makeup correct than proper wearing of gear.

Responses were highly variable, ranging from don't care to absolutely incensed. The people who were incensed got pretty mercilessly teased about it later on, all in good fun.

I suspect this is not an isolated incident when lab pix are taken.

Also comically on NANOG mailing list a long time ago I remember a legendary thread about one particular male model that somehow appeared in multiple competing long distance company ads and a couple competing telecom gear ads, before merger mania. Someone screwed up and ran two ads with him in the same industry trade rag leading to someone on NANOG noticing he's in the Cisco ad and the AT&T ad or whatever it was.
This is how I use DayOne (http://dayoneapp.com/). All backed up in Dropbox, and it alerts me once a day to write things down.
Get a good lawyer. It will cost you, but it will be worth more than all the advice you will get by technical people here.
What programmes should be cut to fund them?