skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In finance non-compete clauses are enforced with an army of lawyers. It doesn't really matter to them if they lose in the end or not, you may be in court for years. The flip side is that you get paid for this time.

One of my friends left a major hedge fund with a two year non-compete and hold me he would never even think of crossing their lawyers as they would stop at nothing to ruin his life as an example to others. The law real only helps you if you have the resources to use it.
"Our monthly revenue was around $70K at the time, making $11.8M a 14x multiple on our annual revenue. Even in SaaS, that’s on the very high end of the norm, and a multiple generally reserved for highly profitable companies (or ones with massive user bases)."

Congratulations to the company for the growth after only a handful of months. Very impressive.

Using multiples always seems a bit odd for me in super high growth early stage companies. If a product really takes off the early small numbers can really skew things in comparison to later big ones. It's like seeing a 10,000 percent growth rate in the first month on a tiny base.
Of course there's some bloat, but this makes our lives easier every day. Developers now can focus more on solutions and less on code.. The wheel was already invented a long time ago, don't you think ?

Please tell us which slick and efficient open source products do you use.
So basically that book could consist of one page.

"You're screwed"
Appalling... I'm really sorry to hear that you were involved with her, that she had such a disgusting manager, and that he nor she were reprimanded.
This. So many solutions in search of problems.
This is the Internet in 2014. We don't refute controversial arguments, we scream "wow, just wow, hate speech, what a bigot", publicly shame and defame their character and derail their careers. We're enlightened now.
I think the point is, it's extremely likely you'd end up in a situation where someone intentionally introduces a hard to detect flaw. If the flaw is then sold to a government agency:
1. The person who introduced the flaw will not suffer any consequences.
2. You've now set the precedence that it's free game for people to intentionally leave holes in software and get paid to do so.
Let's play a fun game of "Spot the logical fallacies!"

> If it worked on someone as stubborn as I am, it will work on anyone.

Hasty generalization

> When you say, "I'm bored," you're actually saying, "I'm boring."

Ad hominem

> ...and boring people are bored.

Affirming the consequent

> Surprisingly, it's entirely true.

Argumentum ad ignorantiam
Who says they do...
Woman Surfs Chasing Mavericks Wave
The article claims that we now have evidence that the gut influences the brain (rather than just correlation), but the evidence isn't exactly compelling.

GABA doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier, so the fact that bacteria in the gut release GABA won't have any effect on the brain.

A caesarean will be a huge stressor, and cortisol in the mother is known to affect the brain of the child, so why do they think the bacteria was causal in making these changes when they didn't actually do any controlled tests for the bacteria?

Similarly for autism: we know the brain is different, so it seems more likely the brain changes are causing the changes in the gut bacteria rather than the other way around, as we know for certain that brain changes will affect the gut (stress), but there is no evidence that gut bacteria can make these kind of changes in the brain.
Are You Getting the Results You Paid For?
I thought Groove was Ray Ozzie's old company that he formed before Microsoft acquired it. I had no idea there was a new startup re-using the name.

EDIT: The original title said "Why Groove walked away...".
Given he's rebuilding RCS, I think we already know the answer.
Steve Ballmer's Harvard CS50 Lecture Yesterday
Those are valid, and very real concerns.

Learning by mistake is one of the quickest ways to learn something though. Personally, to mitigate the possibility of losing my hard work to this problem, I started using git for personal projects and didn't use it for my important work until I was comfortable with it (eg had run into several problems, but resolved all of them).

This also helped me understand Git well enough to teach it to my colleagues (and in teaching others, you learn even more yourself), and now that everyone on my team is comfortable with it we've switched to it almost exclusively.
I mean except that it's not actually meant to be a pdf host. Hasn't been in years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034431
That is totally true. I suspect many companies sell when they know grow will start to slow, but that trend isn't obvious yet.
I like the effort that went into the eyeball command. It speaks to you like a human. That is, rather than showing a cell hint, it works out how you would get there and tells you that.

I did similarly in a sudoku game, it is an interesting exercise that then colors your thinking about error messages in future programming.
In the US, at least, if the supervisors pursued legal action, they'd have a case if their job duties were closer to those of non-exempt employees than exempt ones.

Also, this is why labor still organizes in the US, even if organization is down substantially over what it used to be.
Congratulations for the good job GrooveHQ.
Sure, I sometimes try things that don't work, and I can just revert my changes. I'm just used to having everything in source control, so I even like it for one-off stuff that doesn't fit in an existing repo.
Here's ESR in 2013 arguing that transexuality and gender identity issues are disorders comparable to schizophrenia.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5015
>> "The government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it did not immediately cave in and comply with the secret court order."

Do you think that really would have happened if the CEO or a high ranking employee came out publicly and explained what was happening? There is no way the fines would have happened or anyone would have been prosecuted. Sure the USG could have done it but they would have been insane to.
USA supported murderous regimes in Dominican republic, Chile, Haiti, Guatemala, Nicaragua, South Africa, Indonesia, Iraq, and many others.
> Sure, let's wiretap cell phones of all Turks in Europe? I don't think so.

Wait, Germany was actually shown to be engaging in surveillance of Turkish telecommunications... for 38 years.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/23/us-germany-turkey-...

And while you may argue that they're only targeting diplomats, policy makers, etc., NSA makes the same argument: they have to collect a lot to make it even possible to surveil the far smaller set that they target.

Furthermore, German politicians expressly talk about the need for intelligence on human traffickers, drug smugglers and terrorists as a justification to spy on Turkey. How does BND manage to spy on just the bad guys without getting the rest of the law abiding Turkish citizens in their dragnet?

So no offense but leave off with this faux moral superiority, as EU states certainly differentiate in their treatment between citizens and aliens for many "rights" that the state provides, just as the U.S. does. Just ask the Romanian immigrant to the U.K. that lost her 'welfare tourism' case in a recent final ruling in the ECJ.
Woooho, I´m an alien, I´m a legal alien
It's quite possible that many people do better on glute-free diet despite all the test coming negative. That might be because:

-tests doesn't cater for everything; maybe there is some mechanism in which gluten harms those people which isn't detected by tests

-maybe removing food with gluten from the diet removes something else which was harmful (one hypothesis is that maybe it's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP)

Your attitude is amazingly closed minded. There is nothing wrong with being skeptical but suggesting all those people just want to feel special (or similar psychoanalytical mumbo-jumbo) is just made-up nonsense. There is 0 evidence that they do it to want to feel special or what not but there is a lot of evidence that they in fact feel better (their feedback).
The good thing about Screeps is that online users counter means nothing here. You could build a large empire with a complex network of roads, sourcing, mining, manufacturing, border defense which would live on its own, while you would occasionally drop in from time to time just to check the situation and polish your scripts, if needed.
I would like to know what tools/frameworks/languages were use to develop this cool game. I know it boils down to HTML5/CSS/JS, but was it DART? TypeScript? What frameworks did you use? I want to start a small game as a web app, but I'm having trouble settling into which tools ... so far I'm tinkering with DART and Polymer ... ideas, suggestions?
The upside potential is exactly why they offered 14x revenue - they had to sweeten the pot and make sure that they incentivize you to move now as opposed to later. They are willing to pay a little more now in exchange for insuring that they don't miss out, or miss a huge inflection point.

However, bear in mind that as time goes on, and there's more data about monthly run rate, that multiple will likely go down.

First, as time goes on, it will become increasingly less likely that you will "pop", or have a huge hockey stick of growth. Part of the multiple is designed to get you out of the game before you hit that inflection point.

Second, many companies fall down once they try to scale their business. It requires a different set of skills, often different employees, and makes it a lot more likely that you'll miss on execution. Once you have a few quarters in a row of ~2% growth instead of 5%, your valuation will drop dramatically.

Third, the market moves around you. Even if you're continuing to grow, what your competitors do can influence your valuation, to your betterment or detriment.

I'm not saying that the author made the wrong decision, only that it's always easier to say, "Well, if we keep growing, and wait another year, we can get acquired for 2X more!". Heck, a year from now, that acquirer themselves might not exist anymore.

I think that if you expect you'll want to exit the business at some point in the next few years, if you are fortunate enough to get a more than fair offer where all of your employees and investors would see it as a win financially, you need a really compelling argument not to take it.
Except Scribd just doesn't show it on mobile...
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1063
What's your website?

It may also be that your customers are comparatively good at predicting their size/fit.
I hate the term bloat. It's unquantifiable and is always inevitably in the eye of the beholder. It's a trick meant to make people think there is some objective measure being discussed, but in fact it is just a subjective 'gut feeling', that tends to be 'I don't like this software.'

I'd suggest if you want to criticize this release, you do so on a specific basis. You're generalizing not just about bloat (which is a relatively meaningless term) but also Microsoft itself. If you feel the .NET framework is bloated, then be specific. What does MS's operating systems have to do with the release of the .NET CLR and frameworks? These are two completely different pieces of work.
I've found that it seems to accept any valid solution. Perhaps your solution wasn't as valid as you thought?
Hi HN,

I'm a cofounder and CTO at Glose. Please let us know if any questions or feedback! We're very excited to be launching and trying to reinvent the way we read books :)

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I think it's time the reverse is also true, since governments are only half of the problem. Companies are the other half. EU privacy rules need to be applied to US citizens as well.

Between apply the US Privacy Act to EU Citizens and applying EU privacy rules to US citizens, both US and EU citizens will enjoy less surveillance from governments and corporations.
This is the first time I read that Mercurial's CLI is ugly
Hey agwa. Any forward progress on supporting EV certs?
I'm surprised that HR was immediately on the manager's side. I'd expect HR to protect/defend management that is above their work group, they write the checks after all. However, there is no incentive to protect anyone on the same level or below their reporting manager.

HR exists to defend against litigation and conspiring with Kivin's manager worked directly against that purpose. Their actions resulted in a fat public lawsuit where winning won't matter. The findings related to the ethics of Amazon's ad platform are damning, their corporate customers would love to recoup misappropriated advertising dollars with their army of attorneys on retainer.
Yes, it's pretty easy to maximise your points-per-second simply by clicking everything once to red, then correcting the ones that the endgame says are wrong.
You do have some very valid points, and git can be confusing. I wonder if those points are more confusing for someone coming to git from some other VCS than someone using git as their first VCS. My 13 year old son got the idea of Git after seeing a diagram like this:

http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/book/01-introduction/images/ar...

So it is confusing, but I think it can be taught for very basic use.
Interesting witness of someone who got 'addicted' to Lisp:

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
Hah! And I thought HN was for the most part troll-free.
They have a mistaken belief that it's a PDF host. It's not, in the words of its founder.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034431
People take OpenBSD and turn it into not open source products all the time. For a more famous example, FreeBSD is at the core of the Playstation OS, but it's no longer open source.
Did the headline change from a normal one to a clickbait?
You're getting downvoted because you've misunderstood the original comment. Antimagic seemed to be pointing out that claiming that Munira was still in employment because she was a member of a protected class was quite probably racist. You replied saying that kind of thing needs to stop, because it's mean to women.

The only sane conclusion from this is you've misread antimagic's original comment.
I didn't state that it's necessarily because of gluten sensitivity only that's is very possible.
Also it's very possible that gluten acts in some ways we don't understand (and thus can't test for) yet.
My point is just you can't dismiss the feedback from people as "wanting to feel special" just because you don't believe their assessed the situation correctly.
Can't wait for the follow up, a year from now about how things went after this acquisition attempt and post. I'm not insinuating that they'll fail, just that the follow up is more important than this declaration.
Multiples are a convenient way of benchmarking deal performance, and it tends to work out very well for typical deals. Successful series B startup with a consistent growth rate? ~10x trailing 12 months revenue. High-growth series A startup? ~15x. Mature post-series C startup with large customer and revenue base? ~8x.

Obviously, the excitement in the market, the competitive landscape, bidding wars, etc. can all screw with those points, but time and time again you see those general ranges for acquisitions.
I heard a story of the vulnerability being exploited on several sites, a new backdoor created, and then the hax0r applied the drupal update to close the door behind them. So, don't just check if the site was updated, check if the site maintainer applied the update.
This is likely a response to the impending release of Android Studio and Android 5.0 -- there are a lot of developers warming up to Android development that previously weren't involved.

Not only that but Java/the JVM drives the bottom line of a lot of places where it matters (mindshare, money).
Thank you for your reply. I guess i'm separating the person from the issue. I'm not a fan of publicly attacking and divulging information or revealing negotiations, so i'm a bit skewed. I think future employers would potentially see this individual as a liability - regardless of right/wrong.

To me it seems:

He couldn't build consensus within the org around his opinion (critical skill in a Senior PM role). Regardless of the underlying issue, it seems he can't rally people around his idea. That makes me think either A) the idea is no good or B) you can't rally people very well.

He didn't look ahead - His actions and disagreement with his manager led to his departure. We only have one side of the story here but im guessing him and his manager didn't get along often.

After departure( i get that he's bitter) he decided to release this confidential information. Even communications from Discover personnel that have nothing to do with the issue - I have an issue with that and would not trust this individual.

I am not defending Amazon or Management, merely disagreeing with the notion that this is an individual you want as a Senior PM. All in all, it seems this employee/manager relationship failed big time, and I would put some blame on both sides.
would love to know how you sandbox and isolate the user-uploaded JS that runs serverside. how do you manage to do that safely? how protected is it against malicious js?
There's a difference between non-compete clauses (that prevent you from working for a competitor after you leave - and are no longer being paid by - your now-former employer) and gardening leave (where you're still employed and getting paid, but you're sent home for the duration of your notice period). The idea behind the latter is that, by the time your gardening leave is over, your knowledge of clients, etc. is out of date and/or (in situations where you've been the primary point of contact or managed the the relationship with the client) you've been replaced.
What's the Temperature of Outer Space?
> Corporations could buy the "zero days" in their own products in order to fix them.

The implicit threat that if you don't pay enough to secure exclusive access to the zero-day, it will be sold to others who may use it against you - that seems a lot like blackmail. It's different with bug bounty programs, which are not explicitly set up to compete with the price a vulnerability would get on the black market, but rather to incentivize civic-minded responsible disclosure.

Assuming the exploitation of a vulnerability is considered illegal, selling the vulnerability to someone who you have reason to suspect will exploit it should also be illegal, surely?
Anyone know how Discover responded to this? Are they still working with Amazon?
There are app versions too!

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/0h-h1/id936504196?mt=8
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.q42.ohhi
It was a new platform/venue with an company they were spending 30 times a much on advertising. This strikes me as a "nothing ventured, nothing gained" and "none of us realized they were a criminal organization". Unless all advertising venues are roughly this bad (Neilson has a service where they track advertising to allow companies to confirm they're getting what they paid for...) this one effort shouldn't be such a black mark for those on the Discover side, prior to their learning these ugly details.
> even if you do win then other companies will mark you as a troublemaker. Getting hired is going to get a lot harder.

This. If you're ever suing a company for a grievance, make sure the potential winnings are enough for you never to work for another company again. It's illegal but you will be black listed.
Actually, you can configure GitHub to do that. Just add ?ts=TABSIZE to the url. For example:

https://github.com/facebookgo/httpcontrol/blob/e815eb2/httpc... (tab size 2)

https://github.com/facebookgo/httpcontrol/blob/e815eb2/httpc... (tab size 4)

https://github.com/facebookgo/httpcontrol/blob/e815eb2/httpc... (tab size 12, seems to be the maximum)

Unfortunately, there seems to be no such entry in the account settings. I'd love to set this value once and for all, or maybe once per file suffix (2 spaces for stuff.xml, 4 spaces for stuff.go).
Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute
It doesn't have to end all life on earth, it just has to end ours. Moss and bacteria will survive a lot more than we will.

Plus, to be rational, you have to evaluate not only probability but also potential losses, and multiply the two. A messed-up climate causing crop failures and population reverting to, say, middle ages counts would cost, say, 100 years' worth of 95% of current world GDP. Human extinction, from a human point of view, has infinite cost.
The options aren't that great either considering they don't necessarily stood the test of time like Java does...
I actually appreciate the sense of discovery in the way the rules are presented. It felt like someone was actually watching me play and stepping in once they saw I was stuck.
ESR is not the only contributor to SRC, check the log. So no, SRC would be the wrong tool.
Nothing stopping shops from writing a simple wrapper to add commiter ID and signature in a machine-readable standard way to the commit messages. Sure that could be easily gotten around. So can git's.
Related, but with spaceships and written entirely in Postgres: https://schemaverse.com
> If I'm going to enforce security on a device I will need to wipe/reset the BYOD phone and apply my enterprise policy

Which is exactly what happens in a BYOD scenario and the process is getting better for both employees and employer. For example, my employer can now "wipe" all my corporate data on my iPhone while leaving all my personal data intact. Of course, as long as I have their data the security policy (password on start, device encryption, etc) is enabled.

We do have CYOD but we only facilitate the connection between the employee and the provider -- the employee owns the device. Mobile devices are very personal things and nobody wants to carry two of them.
Maybe they mean the ability to obtain a 50Mbps connection?
$NAME_WITHHELD is apparently (edit: Not) Apple. Someone else here has figured it out and is now hellbanned.
I know it's popular to make fun of people who don't eat gluten and don't have celiac disease and I'm the first one to correct people who says gluten is "bad for you", however this is not the full story.

There are people who are "gluten sensitive" and my wife is one of them. More specifically, she is only sensitive to gluten in American products. She cannot eat anything with gluten here in the US without immediately having very painful stomach cramps and bloating. We spend about one month per year in Spain, where she is from, and she eats all the bread and gluten that she wants with absolutely no problems.

So, all I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't be quick to judge people who don't eat gluten and don't have celiac, unless they're just doing it because they heard it was bad.
Heh. It's not that bad.

1) Very few of us suffer from the legal definition of discrimination. (Being mistaken for the secretary sucks but it's not illegal.) The book gives us realistic options.

2) Most of the time we just deal with an unfavorable boss or upper management. The book gives more actionable options there.
Are you the person who filed the law suit? If so, please stop posting on HN, unless your attorney is supervising your commentary.
Just look at the source!
Vanilla Forums to integrate intelligent text analytics solution SUMMICS
I'm making an assumption here that you don't have a lot of development experience. Given that: start with the basics. Pure javascript/html5/css. You'll then learn what you want out of a framework and will have a better foundation for the next project (which might be a rewrite of the same thing).

You'll also get a first-hand view of how screwed we are in the HTML5 "standards" department,
>> "I can't help you."

That's fine. There are plenty of other answers to my legitimate question (certainly wasn't trolling) and those were able to help me.