skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's convergent evolution at work. Upsetting for you personally, but I don't think this is going to change how people view you or cannibalise any of your market.
That wasn't my experience, but I'll grant that maybe I got lucky. I also live where it takes a transfer (a local bus that comes every 15 minutes to downtown and get on the 545) and, at least in the case of my coworkers, a lot of people are vehemently opposed to transferring. A bike commute would be awesome if I could make it up that hill to the IH-90 bridge...
JL somehow implies that, rejected applicants of YC might have a "character" problem. So why to sound it so loud? YC might invest or not, but saying "some" applicants were rejected because they were bad persons is different than saying YC is not investing for not specific reasons (as PG said that couple of times). The judgement is not objective, so keep it to yourself, otherwise, you might raise a flag about others rejected.
This is a thinly veiled advertisement for a dictionary. Maybe these guys should Chevron as well for using a chevron as their logo..
I know that Wall Street is the boogey man for the HN crowd but how in the world can Wall Street be the villain in this story?

The Sims was only completed because EA was able to prop up the studio while it was underdevelopment. They were able to do that because A) they are good at selling software and B) they were a large public company.

Since then the studio has had a couple of huge flops (Spore and SimCity online) as well as a few enjoyable but disappointing from a sales perspective releases. In an industry built on the blockbuster model, I'd say its surprising they've lasted this long. They have because they have been spending other peoples money. So if there was an inefficiency here, it was that the studio got too much leeway, not that it was shutdown too soon.

There is no paradox, because you started with a completely flawed conjecture.
So the author invented an "Up Arrow" with the word "Lookup" next to it ?

I think I might have stolen a lot of stuff lately if that's the case.
Non-blocking buffered file read operations
It's a cynical view, but I'm afraid to say I feel it too. This whole 'body acceptance' movement (in the context of obesity) that's happening at the moment is detrimental to society and should probably be shunned as overweight people justifying their inactive lifestyles.
Don't posts like this usually first have some description of the complainant's attempts to notify the offender, the offender's response (possibly a blow-off, even), and THEN commence with the shaming? Is it really so difficult to believe that another company would simply be unaware that a tiny (four-digit download) app is using a similar logo and product name, especially when said name is such a common term that it is the title of four other [1][2][3][4] apps?

[1]http://xyo.net/iphone-app/lookup-by-privacystar-mCQNMsg/

[2]http://xyo.net/iphone-app/lookup--xt0VAGM/

[3]http://xyo.net/iphone-app/lookup-syIFzuQ/

[4]http://xyo.net/iphone-app/lookupp-_8wZ.Lk/
I'm not an efficient market hypothesis proponent in the least, but nearly every study, simulation, etc does in fact show that it is nearly impossible to beat the market via stock picking.

Also as an aside, commodities and foreign exchange are places where it is explicitly allowed to have non-public information...
I remember when this story happened and after reading it all again, I still think that what makes it so terrible is the fact both sides were fired. One of them because he was behaving immaturely at a conference and another because her employer was getting ddosed.

Is it just me or are those both terrible overreactions from the companies' sides? The whole sexism discussion is perfectly valid and very important, we need to talk about what is wrong, but those layoffs were nothing but selfish pragmatic decisions. Hank's company didn't want the bad PR and Adria's didn't want the security trouble...
Then, why implicitly stating that "some" rejected applicants were bad persons? Why not simply saying "we did not invest because we don't think it will succeed."
This guy is doing a great job promoting his book. I guess the discussion here won't be real different than this recent one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9085680

It will certainly be interesting to watch the mechanics of internet mobs evolve as people get a better idea of the potential consequences of them.
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> "MongoDB 3.0 features [...] enhancements that place MongoDB at the forefront of the database market as the standard DBMS for modern applications."

That's a pretty bold statement.
This is ludicrously ambitious, love it. Keep it up!
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Another interesting article about online shaming:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tw...

The things is that we often forget that there are actual human beings behind the tweets - sometimes with poor judgment skills, but often more misguided than malevolent.
Where is the designer joy in Bootstrap?
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To all you aspiring entrepreneurs, this is all you need to know: "Verify that there was an existing market opportunity in the form of real customers willing to pay you real money to solve a problem"

Now, go!
It is not trickery, it is constraints declarations.

If you want to go with scripting you will end with your own ad-hoc incomplete bug-ridden slow implementation of half of CSS engine, to paraphrase famous law. Bugs will be prevasive, because your "solver script" will be good in most cases except some where it will be glitching or unstable.

You can take a look at QOCA layout constraint solving engine to get a feeling how much code you will write in the end.
I really have nothing nice to say about Adria Richards. Following my mother's advice, that is my only comment.
> “Somebody getting fired is pretty bad,” I said. “I know you didn’t call for him to be fired. But you must have felt pretty bad.”

> “Not too bad,” she said. She thought more and shook her head decisively. “He’s a white male. I’m a black Jewish female. He was saying things that could be inferred as offensive to me, sitting in front of him. I do have empathy for him but it only goes so far. If he had Down’s Syndrome and he accidently pushed someone off a subway that would be different... I’ve seen things where people are like, ‘Adria didn’t know what she was doing by tweeting it.’ Yes, I did.”

A past of abuses does not justify Adria's reactions and lack of empathy. Moreover, the article describes her blaming Hank for the threats, despite the fact that he didn't engage in any vengeful behaviour.
Another thing about the landing page... there is to much "we" going on. It needs to focus on the customer, not the company. And that starts with writing copy that focuses on the user, not you.
I remember when this incident happened. I can't remember what my reaction was at the time (probably a combination of "let's not alienate women in tech further" and "sexual jokes are OK in the right context, and a conf is propably not it") but reading this excerpt - particularly reading about Adria's continued anger(?) at Hank - really shocked me.
Let's be clear here, Jon Ronson spent a fair bit of time lying to Adria Richards to put together his book, his portrayal of the timeline is inaccurate and even if this wasn't the case it'd be a phenomenal amount of false equivalence:

http://www.shakesville.com/2015/02/the-falsest-of-false-equi...

TL;DR; Yeah he got fired, but he didn't get fired because of an internet backlash.
Can someone tell me what "95% reduction in ops" means. I'd love to have me some of that, whatever it is.

I once heard a TV commercial claim that their conditioner made your hair 95% more manageable. I guess it's a bit like that.
But people don't commute across the US, just like they don't commute from Brussels to Madrid. Cities in the US are crap for a variety of reasons (racist zoning, defunding of transit, forced car infrastructure in the form of parking minimums, absurd NIMBYism, etc.)
This gives feminism a bad image.
People who have been through the wringer on these subjects fight pretty hard in "nymwars". I personally try very hard to keep my real name off the internet.

I don't think there's an easy solution to the downsides of viral publishing.

About Jon Ronson's writing, I pretty much detested "Them" because of how he ridicules the conspiracy theorists at the start of the book. He goes on to spy on the Bilderburg group and the Bohemian Grove and comes away with a "so what" conclusion. At the start of the book his attitude was ridicule, that no such meetings take place.

Maybe I'm just mentally unflexible, but maybe if he stayed around for a bit longer for meat and bones discussion instead of engaging in idle chit chat he'd have a different opinion.

Also similar to "so what" attitude in Four Lions the film, he badly underestimates the Finsbury Park mosque crowd.
C&C - Red Alert 2 is the best RTS game I have played so far.
The thing about EA is, its probably right. If a game does not perform well, its better to cut losses as the game industry is very unforgiving. But somehow all these studios closing down, does feel like the original theme or charisma of the game that they are associated with is lost.
Good Luck to all at Creo.
BTW the video you discovered on vimeo was just a quick demo we did for internal usage. It wasn't meant to be showed to public and it demonstrates a very old version.

There are a lot of critics here and I really appreciate the "brutal" honestly in your answers, we'll do our best to treasured your advices.

I really think that there are some misunderstanding about the real intent of the article and since the website is just a landing page, the best answer is just to release an impressive product as soon as possible.

As I already wrote, a public beta version is expected by mid April.
The problem was that many people went a lot further than standing up for Hank.

(I thought her reaction was wrong, pretty much from the first step, but it wasn't something uninvolved people needed to pay much attention to either.)
1) Functional Programming: What? Why? When? by Robert C. Martin @ https://vimeo.com/97514630

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Anyone who is interested in discussing this growing phenomenon may like to check out http://www.reddit.com/r/outrageculture
Is that author saying that he can claim to own the pun "look up" with an up arrow?

I have a few business ideas for him.

IN->PUT

^UPLOAD

>COPYRIGHT

Such clever logos, wow
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I remember this too. When sendgrid was ddosed, as a company that entirely depended on sendgrid to send mails (I had joined recently), we were affected too. Since then, we run postfix and use multiple email providers behind it, but ironic how a tweet affected so many people.
These questions quite unambiguously pointed at YC never giving their application proper attention. Perhaps they skimmed it, but even then they should've picked up that the product was for non-developers. So to people who spent days writing the application and planning their life around the interview it would look like a half-ass effort on the YC part. It's only natural that they are pissed about the whole experience. One can hardly blame them.
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Hipsters are just the "long hairs" of our time. Those who use the term in a derogatory way will be sarcastically mocked by future generations for the rest of their lives. It happens any time there's a cultural leap that allows those left behind to externalize their self-consciousness.
> Another word for software is “repository”

Tech reporting in a sentence.
"If HN types don't recognize and question these car-dependent assumptions, there's no chance the rest of the country will. "

Some of us do. If you hang out on HN when Europe is awake it helps.

I used to live in California, now am in Dublin, and indeed it's remarkable how much life fits in a 2 mile radius. More than I had within 40 miles in LA.

Unfortunately the US has a culture which is positively allergic to change, and a generally ignorant populace, so it's hard to imagine it changing substantially. It is, though, slightly. City centers are becoming more popular and the suburbanite boomers are starting to die off.
One interesting aspect that seems to be completely left out of that discussion is the issue of labour protection laws.

Firing someone in Europe for some minor issue like that would probably be a major legal issue here.
I find this description of the threaded/linear dichotomy outright bizarre. Here I am making a reply that it is not out of the realm of possibility that only you will see, as far from "yelling across a room" as one can get and much like an actual in-person conversation. Whereas linear comments are posted as nothing more than a howl at the universe, a paragraph answered by no one at the bottom of an article and directed at no one in particular -- save for the use of kludges like "@commenter1234".
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Global write lock gone?
She lost her job and faced the usual (sadly) torrent of internet abuse. I really dare you to be cool then … I mean, the gall of some people. That’s so fucking weird.

In my view no one should have been fired here and that’s that.

We are facing a huge problem. Abuse and harassment run rampant and I bet that’s one of the reasons why some women are very, very sensitive to some things. That’s the problem to solve here.
Interesting, why thank you - I shall acquire and hopefully enjoy it!
Using sufficiently powerful programming languages, we can create better libraries that use lazy evaluation and higher-order functions.

Well, yes. But the whole point of using a framework is that it's already created. The next time I go to a client who wants a scalable international web application that needs... well, the same stuff that's in pretty much every other scalable international web application. Why shouldn't I run it up on a framework that provides all that and save myself (and the client) six months of building, glue code, integration, and all the other testing?

One of the arguments against frameworks is that they're hard to learn: On the upside, while frameworks often need the be “learned”, this is less so the case with libraries. People read whole books on how to use a particular framework, but they usually just start programming against a library.

Right. So I go and learn a framework, once. In a few weeks of not being visibly productive, I front-load the next 2-5 years of my life and my actual day-to-day job of creating the unique stuff -- the business logic, data tier, front end -- becomes much more productive.
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I'm sure this is all a big misunderstanding. As it clearly says on the LOOK UP (housing) website, the up arrow has a "unique character [that] gives the Look Up symbol distinction."

http://i.imgur.com/L4n6VLM.png

See? It's a totally original, distinctive logo.
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Same guy, same story, same book he's promoting.
Do you have any links to those pictures? "The Thing" is pretty hard to Google.
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Despite all the good points made by other commenters here, I see that nobody has yet quoted the other somehow related story that appeared on these pages not long ago:

How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867335

It seems interesting because the author of that post basically described how he came to YC without a developed product but only a vague and confused idea, and how his project was nonetheless accepted. He then moves on to describe how, having entered YC, he started frantically working on different projects that had nothing to do with the original idea, until he finally gave up.

Now, I wonder which could be the factors that make YC accept a non-existing project, so shaky to evaporate one hour after the interview, and reject people that at least produce and are entirely focused on a working prototype of a new product.
It's very hard to sympathize with anyone when you're reading someone perform a character assassination on them.
I'd say there's certainly that general consensus. There's a huge difference between "people on hacker news think it's good" and "the general public thinks it's respectable". It's not the National Enquirer -- completely out of thin air I'd guess that well over 90% of the American public think Wired is generally reliable on technical issues.
> One of the four people who co-founded YC is hardly "most people."

That's exactly when you should be more sceptical! You need to work past survivorship bias.
One wonders whether it'll have the traditional Paradox steep learning curve (i.e. vertical)
Fortunately nobody is going to fail for that this time.
Giving up is not an option.
It's down to a document-level lock with the new WiredTiger engine.

http://www.mongodb.com/mongodb-3.0#performance
Bear in mind that Adria's _still_ getting harassed over this. For Hank it's over.
With enough money in the fired party's bank account, it would be. I think the only difference between Europe and the US in this regard is the amount of money required to get justice.
The issue was that the sexual joke - a subtle and not particularly harmful one - was part of a private conversation between the two men. Richards inserted herself into that situation and made a big deal out of it. OK, you could say, she felt upset at their language, so maybe reporting it to the conference organizers was fine. But sic'ing her twitter mob on the men essentially invited the backlash that followed.
> Is it just me or are those both terrible overreactions from the companies' sides?

No it's not just you, the responses from the companies were, as far as I'm concerned, illegal; the guy was fired for something he said (freedom of speech?), and she was fired through 4chan blackmailing her employer (as far as I could tell).

Of course, I don't know what kind of employee protection people have; IIRC the IT business isn't unionised yet, so there's little to fall back on. Well, besides the internets, which is what caused kind of a giant backlash.
One was a professional context, one wasn't.
What character assassination?
He seems to have forgotten that most DVCSs allow you to perform lightweight clones, so you don't need to pull down the whole repo.
In related news, your mom is spying on you.

Question: who gives a damn.

No one is entitled to privacy - no government, no organization and no individual. It's not one of your "human rights". In fact, it's not even a thing. Quite literally everyone has access to all of your personal shit and all of your super-secret secrets at all times. If you have a problem with this, switch planets perhaps, I don't know.
““Maybe it was [Hank] who started all of this,” Adria told me in the cafe at San Francisco Airport. “No one would have known he got fired until he complained. Maybe he’s to blame for complaining that he got fired. Maybe he secretly seeded the hate groups. Right?”

This paragraph really gave me chills... A lot of insight about her thought process, and a bit terrifying in my opinion.
It's hard to fathom they thought it wouldn't become public knowledge. I don't think anyone is that stupid. Far more likely, they just didn't think it was a big deal.
It's not even released yet but it's better? When will this early access bubble burst? There's cities xl as well (with the benefit of having actually been released), how would you rate it?
I have the same problem with Sublime Text 3 — Ghostnote doesn't detect it at all. Detaching doesn't help.
> Evolution didn't know, too. But it happened.

Whilst technically correct, unguided evolution doesn't necessarily help us.

We know that intelligence can be achieved by one brain's worth of matter, suitably arranged, in a few years. In fact, with an extra 9 months and a suitable environment, we can do the same with a single fertilised egg. Yet reproducing these feats artificially is well beyond our current abilities.

On the other hand, evolution required a whole planet and billions of years before it stumbled on intelligence; many orders of mangnitude more effort than the above.
No one said it would be easy. Isn't saving 10,000 lives a year worth some effort?

And waiting until the problem occurs is obviously not the time to try and change the behavior.
Haven't they been making that claim since the first release? I remember their entire marketing strategy being convincing people that MongoDB solved any and all DB use-cases better than all existing tech. Which is why so many people who jumped on the bandwagon found themselves switching back off of it once the honeymoon was over.
Even bigger discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039274
Look at the original blog post. I just added third column to show ratio between given data.
I would argue in your specific argument the next layer up is using a prebuilt CMS not just a development framework...
Turn your work into a game but don't tell your boss
Except nothing in that page gives any facts about why he was fired. The author claims:

> A man was fired for violating the conduct rules in a professional space.

Which is naked supposition on her part.
knowledge & history erodes

There surely is history worth preserving. It's just this "compulsive hoarding"-approach that seems ultimately futile to me.

The internet itself inherently preserves the knowledge that at least one person cares enough about to put it on a webserver. Pretty much everything of even minor relevance should be referenced by Wikipedia by now.

IMHO the internet itself is the "Internet Archive".

Remember the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami?

To be honest, no. But Wikipedia seems to have that event pretty well covered; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_an...
But that was not Hank's fault or Hank's problem in all fairness.
It means the previous version of MongoDB was 20 times worse in terms of ops.
They wanted to make a video game phenomenon. They made $10M
One of the saddest stories in tech in the past few years.

Everyone lost. Nothing was gained.

As a white male I was implicitly guilty, but wasn't sure how to stop being so.

The sock / penis joke (broadcast to 9000+ people) was hard to get past, given the 1/9000th sized unintentional audience of the repo / dongle joke. Neither was especially funny, and it's hard to remember a time in my distant past that I may have found either particularly droll. Maybe the low bar for contemporary comedy is what I find most disappointing.
Try reading threads like this, repeated ad nauseum: http://www.metafilter.com/147527/idea-a-man-exercising-on-a-...
i agree, seems like the author has quoted her truthfully and she assasinates her own character.

give someone enough rope...
That's anything but clear. Could you clarify what lies Ronson told and also point out the inaccuracies in the timeline.

There's plenty of inaccuracies in your link, for example: I'm not sure how forking a guys repo is sexist, that seems to be (an understandable) context based misunderstanding rather than a fact.