skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget that the ex-employee might be gone, but the guy who hired him is probably still there and doesn't really need documentation of how his judgment was screwed up at hiring time. So there is very little motivation to document why someone is being fired unless you can prove in writing the problem began after hiring or couldn't have possibly been detected in the hiring process.

The explanation is silly (does any company REALLY care about its employees much less ex-employees?) but the end result is the same, no point in talking about it.
New npm documentation
Amen. What a dumb move.
Event? Really?

Well, I guess monit had better hire a few more lawyers.

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=event&type=Code&r...
I agree with you that it was done for not vindictive reasons, but I think it could have been handled better. Consider following response: instead of airing everything immediately, instead a statement is made that reddit takes all the feedback seriously and firing had nothing to do with that. Make a specific point that if an employee wants full accounting of all the reasoning, he can respond to that statement and full reasoning will be explained. This way former employee clearly soliciting for feedback and reddit has extremely solid moral ground.

TL:DR While employee definitely had this coming, I think that reddit should have held onto higher moral ground and settled for milder action then the one was taken. I do not know full context, as I only read two posts, but official reddit reply does leave a bit of snide and petty aftertaste.
Yes and no.

Years ago I commuted between Washington and Baltimore. It was mostly OK, but one hot summer all trains were run at lower speeds because of track expansion. The MARC commuter trains were lowest priority and I got home late quite a few evenings.

And there is not a lot of flex if things go wrong. A fellow I know got to Washington something like five hours late once after somebody stepped in front of the Acela in Delaware.
Stanford is 43-55k, but the cost to the lab is higher due to benefits, etc.
Which in turn is derived (on purpose) from the various sources as composed together by Joseph Campbell in "Hero with a Thousand Faces". Narrative is even more absurd to call duplicate than a totally new implementation in a different computer language.
What you describe certainly used to be common, but it's not anymore. You didn't say why the old style is better.

I find it frustrating for a mailing list because invariably a long thread is going to have missing messages. In the context of a mailing list the default behavior should be to reply to the list and setting the Reply-To takes care of that nicely.

Btw, the "because I've been doing it for n years" argument gets less effective as n increases. Ok, it's probably a bell curve but it peaks long before 25.
I didn't say that. I said it wasn't vindictive.
I don't know. When the employee publicly disparages the business, I feel like a swift and decisive rebuttal might be a good idea.

I'm not saying I definitely disagree with you, but I can't really see why what reddit's CEO did was bad. Risky, sure, but it strikes me as a justified and effective response.
Fallacy of the excluded middle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fallacy_of_the_exc...

The choice is not between saying nothing, and completely devastating that person. Surely there is a third (or even fourth, fifth) alternative.

Also, saying nothing doesn't lead to the belief it is a shitty workplace. Just because someone posting in a forum that he's been fired from Company X for a reason he doesn't understand, that doesn't automatically mean that Company X is wrong and shitty; not everyone jumps to this conclusion, and certainly not based on the absence of any response from Company X.
He's adding fuel to the fire. This was a childish move on his part and certainly not leadership material.
Related: http://www.computerbasedmath.org/computer-based-math-educati...
He wasn't laid off - he was fired. This is the first point the CEO makes and it's an important distinction that the poster seemed to not own up to at all. Not knowing the difference between being fired and being laid off is bad - there's a pretty remote possibility that the poster's direct manager didn't own the message well and told the guy "we're letting you go" and he didn't understand he was being fired, but even if that's the case, most organizations of any reasonable size should have someone in HR handling the exit interview who makes things like this super clear.

I have no insight into what happened here, but I definitely have had experience working with and processing the termination of underperformers who don't recognize or accept that they are not meeting the bar and this sounds a bit like one of those cases.

There are probably some aspects of this separation that were imperfectly handled on both sides, but given the context of "guy is fired from company chooses to be interviewed on company site and say the company didn't give him any reason why he was fired" and the company says "you weren't doing your job" - I tend to trust the company.
It took a public outcry for Reddit to ban kiddie porn. This is not a site with a history of caring much about such concerns.
You can't make that claim without then undermining the licenses of many / most GNU software implementations, even say GCC.
I personally like jack2 better.

If your friend is using Debian, may I suggest the kxstudio repos [1]? They make JACK (1 or 2) easy as pie to deal with. I personally use Arch nowadays, and breakage after upgrading hasn't been a concern for quite some time.

1. http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net
Interesting idea. I often find eating sort of a task that is required rather than enjoyed. With that said, my wife has helped me really enjoy the process of sitting down with others and enjoying their company whilst eating. In addition, I've been learning how to cook as well and it's helped me really enjoy the entire process of sitting down and having a meal.
In response to your request for a "real food soylent",

There is another company called mealsquares that is planning on doing just that. I was going to sign up for the beta test but it currently isn't available in Canada.

http://www.mealsquares.com/
Maybe the fire needs to burn. Maybe Reddit's definition of leadership and company culture is different from that of Goldman Sachs.
"It is company policy not to comment on personnel matters." is the standard, expected response, no matter the guilt or innocence of either party.

Is it satisfying? No. But it avoids exactly this situation.

And by the way, even that response is only expected when the company is directly asked. The correct response until then is to simply pretend nobody (or at least nobody in management) is aware of the issue.
The new Unreal Engine will bring eerily realistic skin to your games
Even if that were the case, it's still beyond the scope of the allegations that can be made in a DMCA takedown notice. If they were asserting any patent rights, that would have to be through a regular cease & desist letter. It is possible though unlikely that patents could come into play here, but they clearly haven't yet.
I feel like it's relevant to point out that Yishan, Reddit's CEO, has written some of the most thoughtful advice on engineering management. I have personally benefited a lot from his thoughts on this:

http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management.html
ESI is not a very well designed protocol, and cache invalidation is hard. You could look at Ledge[1] which has an aim of supporting the cache use cases for ESI fragements.

[1] https://github.com/pintsized/ledge
Agreed the response is too much. As a CEO getting involved in a dispute like this seems to be all downside with very little upside. If I had to draft a response in his position It'd go something like this:

> Reddit is not laying anyone off, you were fired.

> Your comments about our revenue had no effect on this decision. This type of criticism is welcome and even encouraged at our company.

> I don't believe it is in good taste to publicly discuss the reasoning for any termination unless it is absolutely necessary.

> If you'd like some additional clarification on our decision to fire you please contact me or (Someone in HR) directly.

> Thanks
fortunately i've not trusted winzip binaries since the mid-90s
I'm sorry but this doesn't make any sense. If you merely read the code for another open source implementation before implemented something totally different that shares a separate publicly documented configuration language it's derivative. I'd be appalled at a judgment that upheld that view.
why isn't this an HTTPS site?
Because the last time I encountered that, it turned out to be an awful, toxic situation that ended up in court?

Maybe I just have bad experiences in life but generally people who can't say "Hey, we don't fire people in retaliation" without getting sued are people to avoid.
The statement by the CEO seems 'stupid enough' already. It has qualifiers that could make this a wrongful termination, defamation, or other lawsuit.

If it's performance related, that's all that you should state. Defining and qualifying "much" is difficult.

It's probably not best to tell the public that inappropriate interview questions have been being asked ~for a while~.

This response stinks of a small company that could have definitely benefited from using a PR statement instead of a posting from the CEO.
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>Pardon me if I think my nation should tolerate nuclear missiles 90 miles off our coast from a country aligned with our enemies

Don't you think people of other nations may have the same intolerance to their enemies' nuclear missiles deployed right on their borders? The Cuban missiles were symmetric response to deploying the Jupiter missiles in Turkey - which is right on the border with USSR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter

"They were all removed by the US as part of a secret agreement with the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis."

Do onto others what you don't want others do onto you :)
AngularJS and Salesforce1 at Dreamforce 14
I attribute the rise in bacon consumption to _why. Long live crunchy bacon!

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-3.htm...
>What you're describing is a particular mailing list configuration (one often seen today); not what mailing lists are.

So are you! Your original point hinges entirely on having many non-centralized posts and counting them as part of the list.
To be fair, I said the same thing about windows 7.
You should try KDE sometime. You'll get to experience all the features windows will be offering in 2017.
In California, a termination conversation usually begins and ends like this: "Thank you for your time, your services are no longer required. Please collect your belongings."

Anything else opens the company up to liability.
Non US based HNers might be confused; bacon really is a big deal in the US. Restaurants put it in salads, sandwiches, and pretty much anything they can- I've had bacon ice cream once (weirdly it was pretty tasty).

Some macho people proudly eat pounds of it, claiming that it is a manly/american food- see for example this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8u8Z3bUQfs . In stores, you can find as many items with bacon texture on them as you can find items with prints of the US flag. "Bacon bowls" are a thing.

It's really more than just a food in the US- people are obsessed with it. If you spend time on reddit, you can get a glimpse of that through the ever recurring bacon posts in the mainstream subreddits.
Lacking actionable specifics that can survive independent testing, it seems like the straightforward explanation of "how" is simply being well-connected. This does not scale.
Assuming you're not trolling; "brigading" is you talk to all your similarly, minded peers on IRC with long-standing, legitimate HN accounts to flag the story because it annoys you. (Different from a voting ring, which may include non-legitimate accounts and lacks the 'tit-for-tat')

I haven't flagged it because it's more than stupid high school drama, it's an object lesson - is the person who would become CEO on the startup team you're joining/funding likely to behave in a similar fashion?

Because CEO Yishan just opened up Reddit to a potentially expensive, but more importantly, distracting lawsuit. It may have saved face in the all important young-male demographic that Reddit caters to, and probably felt good as the CEO to be able to perform to such a public 'smackdown' of a former employee 'running his mouth off', but as as developer it says quite a bit about the the companies culture if the CEO bullies people like that. "Taking the high road" is how professionals act towards other professionals, and while the former employee was far from professional, that might have been the better option for the Reddit CEO to take.

Even waiting a few days to make sure the 'i's were dotted, and 't's were crossed by the legal team, followed by a (short) public blog post refuting the most disparaging remarks made would have been less childish and more responsible would have been better.
Out of curiosity, wouldn't this also apply to the security researcher at erratasec.com that did an earlier survey? That scan logged into peoples boxes and executed a ping going out. Now obviously there isn't any damage, but what legal theory is protecting these legit security researchers?
To say millenials invented social media is to forget an entire generation - the X generation. But we're used to it. Millenials didn't invent it, but they certainly made it the water they swam in.
No comments here on HN yet along the lines of all PR is good PR?

Lets face it, this is Reddit. He didn't get fired from the local railroad yard. They're getting excellent traffic off this story. Even the guy who got fired is at least getting "internet famous" for a day.

The whole story boils down to "reddit AMA's, something interesting to look at and talk about". Not seeing a problem here.

A real conspiracy theory would be playing this game to get some traffic was part of his severance package (In exchange for a faux argument in a AMA with our CEO, you'll get an extra 6 months salary as a severance bonus plus an extra month if the HN story gets over 100 comments, etc)
I'm pretty sure Saudi Arabia never had nukes pointed at us or tried to. Ignoring the reality of the cold war and the brutality of Catro's regime and pretending everything is fine now is pretty ignorant. Modern Cuba still is the same disaster its always been. Why must the US reward the Castros? Why can't they make themselves a more viable trading partner? You're not entitled to my business, plain and simple.

Whataboutism isn't addressing my issues. Sadly, knee-jerk anti-americanism passes for "intellectualism" around here. Funny how an oppressive anti-capitalist state is applauded on a forum dedicated to VC funded startups. Oh, the irony.
Perl. You can find anything with regexp.
Well, if you didn't like their denying your improvement, you could always make a fork, that's the beauty of the open source.

It is usually advised to people who manage open source projects to stay focused on their vision, and not accept random improvements that do not help towards their self-imposed goal.
Unfamiliar with IRC slang, because don't hang out on IRC.

Wasn't looking for an opportunity to relitigate the whole pointless thread on this subthread.
Ask HN: Approaching new clients in the USA and UK with no reputation there
I run a small development agency in Cape Town, South Africa and I am looking to expand my client base in the US and UK. In Cape Town, the business has been built up over 15 years through word of mouth. That has given us a really strong base to work from and happy clients that freely advertise our services. Unfortunately most of our clients are extremely price sensitive (as most of Cape Town is) which has left us with little ability to increase our rates without losing clients. We're a small shop (4 devs and a designer) so we struggle when we try and compete at the top end of the market where sales cycles are long and expensive (although we do have some big clients).

I am looking at sourcing more business from the US and UK where we can earn more per hour as we have a fairly poor exchange rate. I am looking to build proper client relationships through quality work just like we have done in Cape Town. I would be pitching us in the $70 - $90 per hour range.

Our business proposition is that we offer a good quality customer service, good value for money and we are native English speakers. We are also able to confidently work in Wordpress (to an intermediate level) and custom software development in ASP.NET MVC (C#, SQL server, etc) for medium size projects (up to 6 months development).

How do I approach potential clients who have no reason to trust a small business at the southern tip of Africa so that we can start building the relationships that lead to sales?

One solution is to focus on companies that do business analysis (or some other client facing service) so that we just become the implementing partners and they are able to manage the client relationship. In Cape Town, this approach has been very successful for our Wordpress team.

Another option is to hire a salesperson in those countries but I'm not sure we would want to manage a person in another country and the admin overhead that would bring.
How to Start a Startup – W02
If you don't have a hardware bound key as part of the KDF then you will be subject to extraction and parallel breaking. It may take more computing power with scrypt but it will be doable. KDFs enforce round constraints relative to the hardware they run on. Being able to extract from that hardware means being able to apply orders of magnitude greater processing and parallelization of that process. Hardware keys like Apple's are the only way to go.
I think Edward Bernays goes fairly un-credited in the article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays#Techniques

The idea that it is "breakfast meat" is probably his making.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLudEZpMjKU
It's not just the United States. According to my Swedish friend bacon-mania is the same there.
And also, technically the YC entity has no investment in reddit anymore, only individual partners. :)
You're confusing explicit rights with implicit rights built on precedence. Much of what's considered Constitutional rights is not definite and explicit. Likewise, the Constitution doesn't explicitly state that you have a right to your physical senses as a sentient being beyond ambiguous terms pertaining to welfare. This reminds me of a leading worry during the writing of the Bill of Rights: a worry that the affirmation of some specific humanitarian rights might regrettably lead society into believing that mere omission becomes the grounds for abusing freedoms unstated.

> It is only in the past 50 years that any court has ever held the fifth amendment gave you the right to remain silent, and in fact, precedent was the exact opposite for centuries.

Yes. It became a right. Go ahead and argue all day about what you perceive as fulfilling the qualification of a "right." I'll argue in direct contrast if your interpretation of rights remains narrow and dictated by the past. It won't help the situation at hand. Miranda warnings wouldn't have resulted if it weren't for precedence and perceived rights upholding it. Now the tides shift again. You're free to call this a "return to the past" or a "return to previous rights I think you never had" or whatever you wish. I call it the erosion of rights.

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Edit:

> But the solution to that is not to pretend they are written into the constitution and then lament a changing ideology of the supreme court, but instead actually put them there.

That would be ideal. That would be a colossal task, indeed, in lieu of a great number of other rights continuing to erode through an oligarchy's surveillance institutions and corporate decree.
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The response went into far too much detail. Wrongful termination lawsuits happen all of the time, defamation can be found when any term you use can not be evidenced.

A pro would have either ignored this AMA or issued blanket, definable statements, such as "You were fired for performance related reasons."
Gender and diversity threads don't hit the front-page because the decorum in those threads is so bad that they both trigger automated self-defense mechanisms in the HN code (the "flame war detector") and inspire flags. I try not to flag those stories, because I agree with the people who have qualms about HN effectively brushing those stories under the rug, but I've flagged some of the more hopeless-seeming variants.
I only recently learned about the Post-Bac program, and I wish I had known about it when I was just out of school- I went to a university that wasn't research oriented, and such a program would have been fantastic for picking up the research mindset before going to graduate school I ended up in a lab staff instead, and learned about real research in sort of a trial by fire manner that's been much more stressful than the postbac probably would have been. So it's got it's possible advantages- let alone working for the NIH looks pretty good on a CV.
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I don't know, even still it's not really sitting well with me how the CEO handled it
Left unmentioned, but a major factor in my personal bacon consumption and observation of others': the rise of low-carb, rather than low-fat, diets.
Why are you putting help and suggestions in quotes? What's wrong with a jump table?

There's no excuse for the language in that post.
And some potential employees will look at it and go "Well, I am not going to risk working there" as a result either way.
Ask HN: Non-technical Opportunities in Orange County, CA?
Long post - thanks in advance for reading!

I recently moved cities for a job in a Business Strategy role and after a month in the position, I am now no longer part of the company. My coworker with the same position has also left. Although not provided with a reason, I believe it is because the company had realized their growth objectives were not as aggressive as originally planned - thus not needing my position anymore. This a reasonable thing from a business standpoint, but it has put me in a very financially uncomfortable position.

This was my first full time position. For the couple of years post graduation, I had been doing web design; and although design is not the field I wanted to be in (or think I'm particularly best at), the money was good enough and I learned quite a lot about developing new clients and running my own small practice.

Now, I'm quite worried I've put myself in a bit of a hole as I have no "professional" in-office experience of note and have been let go from the first full time position I've ever had.

- What am I looking for? -

Ideally: A position with a startup or young business where I will have some degree of freedom and responsibility to play a noticeable role in the growth of the company. I think I do my best work in high responsibility/high pressure situations.

Realistically: A job. I'm pretty comfortable with a variety of tasks and the ones I'm not, I think I can learn pretty fast.

- What I come with -

Long term vision with a tactical mindset. Experience in advertising (specifically social media). Many good references. A very positive mindset and some quirky humor.

TL;DR: 2 years out of college, no "professional" experience, only 1 month in a full time position, new city, need a job, please help!

Also, email is in my profile if you wish to reach out in private.
Most importantly, none of these statements should be made in public. The company stands to gain much more with a dignified silence and a personal explanation to the hapless individual, than by wringing the dirty laundry out in public. That an individual employee is immature / causes a stink, happens every second of every day. That a company CEO does the same is unacceptably poor management, and poor PR.