skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of saying something terribly unpopular, I've got about six more of these in me, then I'm done.

Seriously. Let's get real. There are what? Say thirty thousand or so startups in the U.S., with ten thousand joining and dropping out in any given year? So if 1% were fuckups, we'd be able to run several of these stories a day. Forever.

I think people like them because it feels good to see young jerks acting like, well, young jerks. Don't we know so much more than them? Wonder how they feel, now, those assholes! You can get the holier-than-thou feeling and you can riff off the righteous indignation. Lots of folks just can't get enough righteous indignation. Then you can sit around and share stories from the good old days.

The problem is, not only can you run these ad infinitum without actually doing more than sharing a ton of anecdotes -- it doesn't lead to any sort of productivity. It gives me nothing to go and accomplish, it offers no insights into what public policy changes might be required to stop it (if it did, it'd be politics, and we don't want to go there). It's just -- nothing. Like driving by a fender bender and talking to the other people in the car about what happened and who must be at fault. A waste of time.

I really wish there was something useful here. Best I've got is "People who don't understand employment law are going to make lots of mistakes"

So I got that. I got that with the first of these.

Maybe we're seeing the start of a new genre, like FuckedCompany. If so, perhaps there's a subreddit for it somewhere? After a few dozen of these, it ain't going to be stuff hackers are interested in, unless they're some pretty monotonous hackers.
When those in charge fall asleep at the desk, this is the mess that follows.

What's really sad is that ordinary folks are complicit in the exploitation as they don't see anything past the pretty UI. They think they're hiring vetted people who're treated well, when in reality, they're better off being hired directly via old-school Yellow Pages or even Craigslist.
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I saw that as nothing but an admission of guilt. I wonder if the tweet will stay up. I bet their corporate lawyer won't be happy when they see it.
Highland Capital Partners is one of their investors. Prior investments by the firm include http://www.hcp.com/companies/
Law librarians have been complaining for years about the expense of the old paper systems, especially since the companies who produce them keep increasing the price for updates every year. Almost everyone I know now uses equivalent digital systems, although where I work many older lawyers often ask for paper copies of things after you've found the most relevant cases/laws/rules.
>>This is what completes genius.

Not it doesn't. People are different. Some more different than others. Frankly, it sounds like an autistic person is being described.
So, looking at the "nominology" article, and considering our name ( "Fogbeam Labs", with domain name fogbeam.com), I'd rank our name like this

EVOC - neutral. Fogbeam is evocative of something to do with light and illumination, so if we were a LED bulb manufacturer or something, it would be good. But we're using it as a metaphor, since we're a software company focusing on knowledge management, integration and collaboration. I think our tagline/slogan plays ties it together though "Cut through the information fog".

BREV - I think we're good here.

GREP - Yep.

GOOG - Very much. There are very few other references to the phrase "fogbeam" and the few there are relate to something obviously different - bulbs for auto fog lamps, etc.

PRON - Yep.

SPEL - Yep.

VERB - Fail. I don't think anybody will ever say "Go fogbeam that" to anybody else. :-(

For the most part, we get a lot of positive comments on the name when we introduce ourselves to people, so all in all, that's one decision that has worked out well. I don't think our name is so special that it will cause us to succeed all on it's own (could any name do that?) but I think it's more than good enough to not be an impediment.

What do you guys think?
> late evening tours are quite interesting.

And also sold out months in advance.
Yes. In the case of fraternities, the stereotype exists for a reason: they overwhelmingly attract people who were either jocks in high school, or wanted to be cool like the jocks.

In my university, the Greek system as a whole (with the exception of two frats) was loud, obnoxious and cliquish. In addition, the vast majority of them majored in easy topics where they could get good grades with minimum effort. In fact, most house parties were thrown on Thursday nights because a ton of Greeks were business majors and the business school didn't have classes on Fridays. Or maybe it's the other way around...

What happens to those types of people? I think we all know: most of them end up under-employed (Starbucks, etc.) or they become "full-time students" by pursuing MBAs, law degrees, and so on. And of course, the ones with connections end up as pointy-haired bosses, much to our disappointment.
Anybody interested in emulating this system might be interested in this http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/xerox/alto/...
> It’s like running Microsoft software on your servers. [Like StackOverflow, launched in 2008, does!]

That is a fact I've condemned about Stack Exchange and their founders on Meta.
The commerce clause may be violated if the effect is discrimination.

"It is the effect upon commerce, not the source of the injury, which is the criterion." - N.L.R.B. v. JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORP., 301 U.S. 1 (1937) [http://laws.findlaw.com/us/301/1.html]
Read books

Take a look at these:

1)Learning Ruby the Hard Way

2)The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez ( Get this Book )

3)The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learning by example ( Get this book )

4)Rubymonk

5)Codeschool

6)Coderwall

7)Railscasts

The Ruby on Rails Guide is underated.

This should get you where you need to be!
Please re-read my post. I clearly stated that I wasn't aware that these feeling persisted AFTER college. I knew what I was getting into.
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I agree that you should read books and NOT blogs!
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Hey, class participant here. Your angular course was where I first really saw firebase in action, and speculatively angular probably has something to do with the acquisition.

I'm curious to see how this wraps up into App engine though. Currently there is a web routes hack to get angular to send/receive to datastore, but it's not very robust.
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Not noticing the use of JavaScript is actually the beauty of it.
I bet they complain to congress about a shortage of qualified employees, too.
Not only that, but the extrovert face has a smile and vivid eyes, while he introvert one has tired eyes and a concentrated "smile". Also, the competent face looks like he's paying attention, while the incompetent one does not.

Except for the trustworthy (that is female), every face seems to be decided on current expression, instead of static traits.
We have an expectation of privacy from the government if we the people say that the government is simply not allowed to look for or look at something, regardless of who else may or may not have access to the something.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ...

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transc...

Our government was created to serve us, as we see fit, not the other way around.
You're right. I made a facile comment in haste and I was wrong.
Alternatively, one could build software to do this for them.

Consider: Facial recognition with a camera facing the person is pretty well understood. It's not perfect, but it's probably good enough. Could we extend that to also pick up the subtle facial cues that this research is talking about? And then based on that, train a person on how to manually adjust those cues?

Maybe we're not quite there today- but I bet we're not far off. I can imagine seeing this as an app that you whip out just before you walk into that interview, like a mirror to adjust your hair, but for your facial expression.
Different programming languages can possibly have different terminology for this. In C, "implementation-defined" behavior hinges around standard language features which have implementation-defined characteristics (which must be provided by an implementation). An example of such is the value of the CHAR_BIT macro in <limits.h> (how many bits in a byte) or the range of type int. It does not mean "anything defined by an implementation": that would be too obvious and clear a use of English.
As a swarm, they forage for nectar with a pretty neat algorithm[1]. As individuals, they are capable of learning [2]. Apparently, honeybees can even learn to identify human faces. Oh, and they can also beat me at chess.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bees_algorithm

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_learning_and_communication
POLARBEAR detects curls in the universe's oldest light
There are two methods, an old one and a new one. The old one is to spend more time with fewer people. The new one is to know more about new people as soon as you meet them. This is one of the goals of projects like Google Glass.
You are correct. I didn't mean to imply there was any value to the employee in watching them.
But those are typesetting concerns, not something authors are traditionally concerned with. The fundamental problem with word processors is that they merged these two separate disciplines. In traditional writing, the author prepares the manuscript which is generally not formatted at all other than basic chapter, section, and paragraph structure. A typesetter would then take that and make it look good in the final published version.
http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/rece...
CommonLoops: Merging Lisp and Object-Oriented Programming (1988) [pdf]
I have contacted you via email.
Interview Cake: The Nth Fibonacci Number
until tls session resumption gets more common and someone comes up with a "tls session resumption is not in fact secure" :(

there were some talks in 2013 about this in various sec conferences
Yup, good call. It's generally cheaper during surge, but more expensive if not. I have a ton of credits still so I'm less price-sensitive for it.
> Someone who has a "friendly" face is going to be picked first in sports...

this is not true if you're at all playing competitively. you pick the best players first.

which gets at the limits of this kind of bias--that a consideration of relevant indicators, once known, can overwhelm facial bias. it doesn't have to be destiny.
Eh. It's very much about the differential treatment that different types of employees get in startup. I don't think it's uncommon for programmers to be far more spoiled within companies than say, sales
Google Apps !== Google Cloud.

Speaking as a former Google Cloud customer (App Engine), while I had my gripes, the one you cite wasn't one of them. They already provide what you're looking for in my experience.
> the stereotype exists for a reason

That's a really poor argument. You could not use that same logic for any other group of people without being called ignorant or bigoted.
Google Play tells you download number approximations, additionally on iTunes / AppAnnie you really want to see an app like yours ranking well in a bigger category, being featured by Apple etc.

You could also approach this market from the other end - everyone has to give someone this data, and that someone has to do stuff with the data, maybe you could streamline it on their end so it's about more than saving the driver a small amount of time. The app may even be superfluous in some cases if you can just process GPS data a company collects from all their vehicles?

Edit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.esocialllc...

Seems like this is the biggest on Play, 100k - 500k downloads in 2 years, so there is hope, but it looks like unique differentiators and fast growth are a challenge.
How would google glass know whether somebody was trustworthy or not?
I disagree. I've used all sorts of ergonomic keyboards, but always keep coming back to the quiet low-travel scissor-switch keyboards. I even went so far as to get an Apple wired keyboard for use with my Windows machine at work.
The biz: Going rate where I deliver in Joisey for cleaners is $60 (min) for 2 hours. Homeowner/patrons I deliver to are too smart and would never call Handy back for next time.. just arrange it when they leave and the tip is given.

Her story: : It's about revenge (or opportunity to gain satisfaction). Does not matter if 0 or 100% is true - impersonal bashing is just now so easy and like this post, can lead to tons of reaction and attention. At my other job a man gets coffee each morning (at a C-store on Rt 15) and text's the district manager with his version of how bad the store is that morning. Each day, every day. No Joke. "Out of lids" - "Didn't say Good Morning" "bla bla bla" He does it because he can.. it's not revenge.. (we need a new word)

Her story v2.0 - It's about eyeballs. Making a post "pop" - The billfold (says) is a site about money, earning, spending, etc.. Her post is like having watermelon for Thanksgiving dessert. Satisfaction from eyeballs and keystrokes for certain to a site that is a stretch for relevance.

Her story v3.0 - Just another (engaging) article about a not so good place to work, of which we should never be surprised when we hear stories like this again and again.

I re read her words more than three times and something does not smell quite right. Just my gut. Perfect quotes, predictable responses, outrageous behavior of 'strangers' (the brandy new co-workers)- even the AHs in my Gov't job know when to not talk, especially around new faces. New faces are always thought of as spies until proven otherwise. [like the old phrase "a first impression has to be disproven"]
What are you trying to prove with this cherry-picked time points?

Author notices that number of women in CS significantly went down in 1984 and searches for reasons. According to the graph provided in the parent comment it was actually CS as a whole which went down.
Both lines on the graph are awfully similar, and one can assume that there wasn't any sudden catastrophe for women in CS at that time.

When analyzing 'What Happened To Women In Computer Science?' the absolute number is not important, but the ration of women in CS and when that went down (and why).
This is one of several significant conflicts of interest in this lecture series. I'm surprised it doesn't seem to bother people to see VC trying to play both sides of the table. The optimal world for investors (a tiny proportion of huge successes) looks very different than the optimal world for startups (many moderate successes). And the idea of investors trying to coach founders on how best to enrich investors is just nuts.
Show HN: The Insider – Anonymous Messaging for Work
Marissa Mayers Vision for Yahoo Starting to Unfold
This article raises some refreshing points on the startup naming process.

It can be quite tough - and I ran into the naming problem many times over the years. Over 100,000,000 com domains are registered, iirc. It reached the point where I would spend days trying to come up with something that was a) good and b) available.

Frankly, I ended up feeling that finding a good name for a new project of mine was quite unlikely to happen. Which lead me the idea that the only way I'd be able to find usable (let alone high quality) names was by making a tool to help make it easier.

So I built Namebird - http://shobia.com/namebird

For it, I came up with a variety of probability based algorithims to generate names that are catchy and memorable. It works pretty nicely, imo. And, in making it, it has been able to help me find a large amount of domain names that would be good for startups.

Perhaps some here might find it of value.
Moodi: Where Emotions Matter
Moodi is an anonymous social app that lets you express your moods and emotions openly and honestly with others. Encounter a community that reflects on the things that matter most in their lives.
It's a lot like handing over your rolls of film to be developed to the teenager at CVS. Discreet. If you voluntarily conveyed the information, you've got a poor claim to privacy in light of Smith v Maryland.
Internet of things: Making sense of the next Mega Trend with graphs
Thanks for posting this.

While I would have my concerns about going with Firebase after a Google acquisition, shutdown isn't one of them. They're clearly investing tons into the Google Cloud Platform, pouring resources into things like App Engine. Google also just seems to love competing with Facebook, which now owns Parse - the top alternative to Firebase.

Your analysis is probably worth more though ;-)
the best investors generally offer the cleanest terms. we advise founders to walk away from messy terms.

what most investors mean here is not to obsess over small differences in valuation (most good investors don't do this either, but some do).
AngularJS Superluminal-Nudge Promises Substantial Performance Improvements
They never hired her. There was no on-going agreement or failure to opt-out.

Again, contracts still need consideration. Employment is consideration. They never employed her.
Do Foreign-Aid Donations Make Things Worse?
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Yeah.. I am good with the resources and have collected them also.. But I just confused how I can split my 8 hours into these programming language.

I have good knowledge on some of them whereas others are just new to me. Whether I should Concentrate on one language and move on to next once if I have some grasp on it (if so, which language to begin with) or else have my time split across all of them on a given day (if so, which one to put more weight on)
Indeed. I can't edit, but good catch. I got it right in the third paragraph ;)
Please, oh please, make this a reality: "By classifying regulations using the same system that science librarians use to organize papers in agriculture, we can determine which scientific papers may form the rationale for particular regulations, and link the regulations to the papers that explain the underlying science."

I cannot begin to describe how incredibly useful this would be. Regulators rely on the information provided by regulatory attorneys to craft their policies, so it's critical that the attorneys have a deep understanding of the issues. And paid legal research tools just don't/can't/wont provide that sort of information.
In this vein, it would be wonderful to include social sciences - topics like economics and finance. Perhaps SSRN is a good option.
> Anyone have a good end to end example of Consul, Docker, Service Discovery?

There are a few floating around. Here's mine: https://github.com/kanzure/docker-basenode

Here's something useful for end-to-end: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-haproxy
Thanks. It's been a long day...
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Imagine talking to someone at a conference and seeing a summary of their expertise from StackOverflow, an estimate of their credit score or their peer reviews from GlassDoor or LinkedIn right next to their head.

Imagine talking to someone and using an app that assigns a probability the person is telling the truth based on language, tone, facial changes and reviews from other users of that app.

Those kinds of things are part of Google's ambition for glass. Even now, Google can tell you someone's name and where they're from, allowing you to catch basic lies you wouldn't normally notice.

Edit: Given the downvotes without explanation, I have to explain that I'm not a fan of Google glass - I'm just explaining that Google wants to instantly deliver information about people that currently is learned over time.
$28 Billion dollar market sounds high. More than four times all of mobile? Maybe in time.
Show HN: GiffyTube – Generating 3 sec GIFs from YouTube videos
I've been playing with this idea for a while and finally took the time to build it over the weekend. I would love some feedback and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

The extension adds another link box to the "Share" section on a YouTube page and fills it with a link to my web service. GIFs are three seconds and the start time is controlled by the YouTube player.

You can install the extension here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/giffytube/fijjgkkihhmbajhllkonpghlniolbhgl

Thanks!
Why not? Contact the author(s) and ask if they'll give you non-GPL license.
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$28 Billion actually sounds low to me
It seems like it's only for the United States at the moment.
The reason why compilers are currently pretty bad at producing diagnostics in such cases is explained by a later post in the series (along with briefly explaining why the behavior is, in fact, useful):

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...

That it is useful (depending on your priorities) is confirmed simply by looking at performance. I don't have exact numbers, but -fwrapv is considered to generally make programs slower, albeit unevenly. Thus making such assumptions allows generating better code. This could be due to obviously wrong code like yours being skipped and thus producing an incorrect result faster - but such bugs are not that common in practice, and can be checked for using -ftrapv/UBSan/etc. Rather, the more assumptions the compiler can make, the more relatively complex things it can do...

edit: The benefit is more obvious with, say, strict aliasing, where it's extraordinarily useful to know some pointers can't alias, as it immediately allows removing redundant loads from the generated machine code in common cases like

y->foo = x->a;
// .. perhaps some other random stuff ..
if (x->a == 5)

and helps with things like loop vectorization.
Ask HN: PHP Symfony2 session storage reliance on native php sessions
I haven't dug in too deeply yet, but are there any storage handlers in Symfony2 which are completely encapsulated and protected from native PHP session handling?

I've hit a snag on incorporating sessions into a project I'm working on where I'm building small simple application server based on Symfony2's encapsulation of HTTP protocol in their HTTP Foundation classes (currently have things working through Silex). Also relies on PHP Event package (http://php.net/event).

https://github.com/cameronjacobson/Spaz