skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The kind of company you want to work for is the kind of company that looks positively on the responsible and professional response to difficult situations like this.

Not everyone is willing, interested, or capable of affording themselves the luxury of working for such a place though it can be very rewarding to make those life choices.

In this sort of circumstance the merits of the case might make a difference to future employers and to yourself, whether the legal action and your participation in it seems morally just.

You have to weigh your specific circumstances and the circumstances of the case to make your decision, likely nobody but you can really understand enough to give solid advice.
How immobile is it? The building can't move. But from what I can tell, servers depreciate quite rapidly. If your town decides to exploit the DC too badly, you'll get a nice chunk of change for a few years. Meanwhile the owner will stop replacing servers in that location and rebuild in a location without unfriendly natives.
This is not new. And there are sites that do this already
This article gives some ethical analyses:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/23/nobody-likes-a-tattleta...
Delisasa
A third possibility is investors are lemmings and are too stupid to understand the unique insight you have into a big market.

As an investor who thought Instacart, Uber and BufferBox were really stupid ideas and missed a chance to invest in them (Uber through AngelList), I know this possibility is all too real. :)
My theory is that Jobs killed Flash because it was too good. Would have been able to compete with the appstore.
A compatible alternative to syslog would have been healthy. An incompatible that is the only thing properly supported by systemd is not.
There's a lot of naive bullshit in here, with people running their mouths about integrity or other nonsense. Remember that the only person prosecuted for waterboarding is the whisteblower John Kiriakou, and he got two and a half years for his trouble.

My point is, you need to look out for number one and not let some law firm looking for (their own) payday get you entangled in their profits, because none of them give a fuck less about you.

So without more clarity on which laws were broken and your role in this (are you the primary witness? Sole witness? One of a dozen?) it's hard to give specific advice.

But just don't let yourself get screwed because some lawyers see a payday they damn well aren't going to share with you.

ps -- if you get a subpoena, get your own lawyer. Maybe even get one now; a lawyer's job is risk management and that's what you need.

ps2 -- Depending on what happened, when people ask, "What kind of person do you want to be" the response might be, "The sort who has a career and can afford indoor living." Here's another whisteblower about mortgage fraud who has destroyed her career [1]

[1] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witn...
just make user click your crafted link, "she put it in her mouth and you wont believe what happened next!"
Sort of like the old Voodoo Envy power brick w/ Ethernet: http://blog.laptopmag.com/hands-on-with-the-voodoo-envys-wi-...
Have you given any thought to volunteering some of your time to teaching local kids or adults how to code?
Final Fantasy XIII goes mobile
A million times this. Hopefully they'll make one after it's released and people complain, but I'm not very hopeful. At least it's standards-compliant so Hypermac can make batteries for it and other companies can make power adapter + hubs :)
Google's Swiffy is an offline SWF to SVG converter, whereas Shumway is includes an AVM1 and AVM2 interpreter and jIT (to JS). Shumway has a JS library that will work any most browsers, but can implement more advanced Flash features like RTMP streaming and clipboard support when it is installed as a Firefox extension (using Firefox Apis).
Thanks so much! Looking forward to the memory trip! Wish I still had my IBM PC XT to run it on, but DOSBOX should do...
Honestly, I have no way of knowing.
Just hook a hub up to the single port. Super elegant!
Encryption Support for EXT4
That's pretty conclusive proof that I'm the only person here working four days a week!
Which engineering/UI/UX/design/bug/feature/helpdesk toolchain most-loved today?
The leading software engineering/design toolchain was paper & whiteboard when I started in 1990. Today my expectations for software engineering toolchain have grown to include interactive multi-user storyboarding & live simulation features with rapid prototyping & user community support/bug/feature tracking, project management & source code git repository integration to bring together, inspire & empower every member of a fast-growing, agile- social- lean- startup- mobile- cloud- legacy- enterprise- consumer- everything product dev & marketing team in a single IDE with screencasting & live document sharing, streaming media, social network & #Periscope support. The modern Cyber Entertainment production company toolchain. Where is it? What do people love right now that comes close? I can has cheezburger?
Come to Cambridge or London and work for a startup that appeals to you. Also if you don't mind being exploited you could try and join the games industry. Fun to work for as long as you don't mind the long hours and low wages.
What's your specialisation?
Ah, I think I understand now, thanks for clarifying. Though I'm sure one will be made, IMHO I'd much prefer a dongle. My ideal dongle would have AC adapter + USB + Gigabit tthernet + HDMI + 2-3 USB ports all in a small package: a docking station over a standard USB connector.
whooo .... I use Gnome and there's no malware
I have firefox configured to search just my history and even that gets cripplingly slow. I'm incessantly frustrated by the preposterous need for resources of web browsers.
We are trying to change that
No, it doesn't really interest me, and I forgot to mention that I have very poor social skills.
What is the moral thing to do?
While I agree that systemd does not play nicely with syslog, you quickly realize that journald can be exported as JSON, filtered, described as time ranges, chunked and easily imported into ELK. My users (mainly developers) with less sed/awk fu have come to rely on these features heavily. I'm not really sure what there is to miss about syslog or syslog-ng when you have a robust ELK+journald system.
IANAEE, but maybe it's due to the cable length and signaling requirements of the 3.1 spec when transferring that amount of power. I wouldn't be surprised if you're right about it being the thin cable, though.
The secret of happiness? Stop feeling bad about being unhappy
This is the only answer to his question :)
They're both free software dvcs hosting web applications, but beyond that everything is different:

git,hg...fossil
no issue tracking...distributed issue tracking
python...c
gplv3...2 clause BSD
Note that most businesses with remotely-sensitive data would not use a third-party service to host the data, or even third-party tools without sufficient liability assurance.
Testify.

As an employeer, the kind of lawsuits that give me pause would be from a sanctamonious employee out to make a quick buck.

This lawsuit look like the testamony is coming from a principaled employee: the kind of employee that I would be proud to work with that would call me to better behaviour.
Or hers :)
Hmm... if I recall correctly, originally they were going to shut it down completely. (I certainly see some old articles about that, from a brief search.)

I think there was enough pushback from people willing to pay that they decided to keep it open as a paid service instead.
I'm 20 and in (almost) the same boat. But I'm in the midst of starting a startup (140k users, 2m+ downloads). If you're interested in chatting, shoot me an email at ashish@pandhi.me
This is smart. Guilty as sin or not, testifying against an employer seems risky for one's career. You want to be able to explain to future employers what happened in a manner that takes personal character assessment out of the equation: somebody broke the law and you got a subpoena.

EDIT: I've worked at some shops that were "cultish" and would look at testifying without a subpoena as not being part of the team. Fucked up, but organizations are often so. You need to do the right thing in the smartest way possible.
To be fair I doubt any powerful desktop OS (ie not Android/iOS) demos particularly well to a new user - I bet Ubuntu with Unity wouldn't, and nor would eOS, and I bet Windows 8 didn't either. I used eOS for a little bit on my old laptop and it doesn't really feel like "acting like there's no choice", it feels like choosing design. It's compatible with everything Ubuntu, you're not giving anything up.

I won't disagree that OS X is probably not for you if you take advantage of Linux. But yes, there are programmes that claim to be window managers for OS X:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8768022 (HN comments for Amethyst, see the top comment for a few more)
For anyone who likes the look of it but doesn't want to go off their current Linux distro, you can just download the Pantheon desktop.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pantheon
This looks need but I much prefer gitbucket[0]. It has been the easiest to deploy and looks better then most things out there.

0 - https://github.com/takezoe/gitbucket
If you have some concrete action in mind and want to rally people around it, you can use this: https://www.iwoulddo.it/
That adapter only supports up to 1080p at 60 Hz, and the 30" cinema displays are 2560x1600.
Exactly. $1.7M premoney valuation and a chance to get advice from PG and others who have helped 6 unicorns come about and, per @sama, 22 others who can get there is pretty darn good, IMO.
How is the HiDPI support in this version? I'm afraid to go to the trouble of making a live usb if everything is small.
I think it depends a lot on what the actual infraction is.

If it's something that most people in your industry actually think is bad, go for it.

Then again, there are now so many and so broad regulations that any business will violate some on a daily basis. I would like to work with people who don't go to the legal system whenever they can.
It depends on the tickets I'm assigned, and that can be feast or famine. I don't possess any decision making power in the tasks I am assigned, and to be honest I'd rather not have it.

Sometimes the tasks I'm assigned are merely to reconnoiter the feasibility of taking action, and not to actually develop or commit code changes.

In other cases I'll be asked to change something that required 30 seconds of effort. Maybe flipping the value of a configuration flag from true to false, et c.

On average, I'll deal with tickets that involve several hours of stepping through nested loops in a debugger and inspecting log output, or wading through long-running SQL queries, and then committing changes that improve upon an existing body of work.

More rare are the intermediate tickets, that might take days and weeks of effort, and roll up into a larger project spanning many weeks or months across multiple developers. Tickets that keep me continuously tasked for multiple days at a time experience differing degrees of productivity, depending on hundreds of variables, and some of those variables are the work environment.

If something's really important and difficult, and the colleagues I'm delivering it to possess an understanding that it requires my undivided attention, then I'm provided with exactly that. I'll ask for a quiet office to camp out in, with a door I can lock, if I need it.

No matter what, I'm in the office, regardless of whether I'm idle, during a dead zone of activity while we wait for other people to provide requests or complete planning through interminable daily hours-long meetings, or whether I'm swamped in a firestorm of emergencies that divide my attention across several immediate worries.

At the end of the day, I'm paid for my time, and sometimes that pay is what will retain me through period of waiting for my turn at the trigger. If you don't pay me for that time, then I'm a temp, and not a regular, full-time employee. That's how it works.

I'm not a founder, or a partner, so I don't receive bonuses or a share of profits based on the success of calculated risks. In exchange for that, I accept the status of a regular persistent relationship. Eight hours a day, 50% of my waking time on this plain of existence, on call as a resident expert.

I stopped worrying about a perfect, even flow of continuous, normalized engagement a long time ago. Almost every field out there has varying degrees of hurry-up-and-wait temperament, and that comes with the nature of human interaction.

It's not productive to mince parsimonious hours and minutes, in my opinion, when it doesn't reflect the realities of human interaction.
Which, the newest 2 Nexus phones and the Palm Pre? 0 iPhones can do wireless charging, and those are pretty popular. Wireless charging still also requires a big dock thing to be plugged in to USB or mains power; it's not as if all (or any, that I'm aware of) laptops have a built-in zone which charges anything you lay down on it.
I prefer this over to the "search within yourself" answer.
The Macbook supports "displays at up to 1920x1200" over HDMI, so that probably wouldn't work. USB-C should theoretically be able to pass 4k @ 60hz via Displayport 1.2, but they don't seem to be releasing a multiport adapter for that.

Google released a USB-C to Displayport adapter that might work, but then you'd be on battery power.
Figure out what you find important. You live in a post-modern, pluralistic age now, and although many people may claim to know what you should value, nobody really has the authority. Thus, figuring out what things or ideals you value is your own job.

Maybe that is changing the world. Maybe you want to live in the future. Maybe you'll figure out you like the world as it is and want to conserve it. Maybe you don't care about the larger world and just want to experience life. More probably you can't decide because you feel the limits of each of such lifestyles intuitively, and these scare you. I can't tell you and frankly I don't see how anyone on the internet could.

You're young only once, and not for very long anymore. I'd advice you to try and enjoy it.
Sometimes I wonder if "Make something people want" could be even better if it were "Make something you and other people want".
i was a named plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against google in 2009. that didn't stop them from contacting me repeatedly to try and hire me, and i did work for google for a bit in 2013.

i wouldn't worry about it.
I would just formulate it differently: "If you have no backup, you have no date. If you have one backup, you no backup."
I think this page could serve as a textbook example for how not to write an about page. I didn't know MathWorld before, but the first paragraph is so high-level that after reading it, I had a very vague idea at best.

Then follow three paragraphs about how MathWorld came about -- for someone like me who'd just like to know what the heck this is a complete waste of space.

Then finally, in the middle of the page, you get the bullet points that contain concrete information.

And then, in paragraph five, you get some technical background in that it is based on Mathematica. Okay, perhaps the URL could have let me guess that ;-)

One a positive note, they do invite feedback, so I may contact them with a similar note to this one (perhaps more politely phrased).

The last paragraph of the page, I could do without. It really doesn't contain any "about" information anyway.
Except it doesn't answer the actual question...
In our office we work around 8 hours per day. We use Agile (Scrum) but we count only 6 hours per day. We recognize that we spend around 2 hours in overhead tasks (informal meetings, tasks not listed in the sprint and some not-job related work.
> with no success.

Not entirely.

"In addition to confirming that the gigafactory will employ 6,500 full-time employees, Tesla also raised its average wage estimate to $26.16 per hour.

Full-time staffing for the gigafactory will comprise of:

4,550 production associates paid $22.79 per hour
200 material handlers paid $22.79 per hour
460 equipment technicians paid $27.88 per hour
360 quality technicians paid $27.88 per hour
930 engineers and senior staff paid $41.83 per hour.

Wages paid by Tesla for the gigafactory will total $353.6 million per year at full employment. The figure does not include construction jobs for building the plant. Tesla partner Panasonic already started listing jobs related to the gigafactory."

http://www.rgj.com/story/money/reno-rebirth/2014/10/23/tesla...
If you don't care about the crime, don't do it.
But is the argument for higher consistency based on the existence of "saner" architecture as in x86, and wasn't argument insufficient in the time the article was written (1998) as well as is now, given that ARM predates the article and its popularity significantly increased since?
You are what defines your career, not the other way around. There are a lot of companies out there, some will see testifying as good, some bad. If your choice is true to yourself, and the company you want to work for really doesn't like that, I'd say eventually you will not go along well with that company and this acts as a "fail fast" filter.

Finding a good career path may take quite some time, but working for the wrong company can cost magnitudes of more time.

For most HN readers, including me, the answer is an obvious "testify", because we see it as a big plus. Do you want to work for people who see it as the right thing to do, or people who avoid it?
No mention of the Thunderbolt display. Hmm.
Marissa Mayer shuffles Yahoo leadership team
I like eOS. Like you I don't use Mac because of a few things that totally breaks it for me. eOS looks kind of like Mac OS X but IMO does a few things a lot better.

For example consider just the fact that you can get a nice desktop where you can apt-get all your[0] normal programs and they look nice. Or the fact that the menu follow the window in question instead of being locked to the top of your screen.

[0]:yes I consider myself a linux user who sometimes have to use other OS, not the other way around.
Not that I disagree with your suggestion, but the testimony is the thing that helps determine guilt (or innocence, for that matter).
> The Silently Shifting Semicolon (1998) [pdf]

This article is from 2015, not from 1998.
Using this algorithm, I set three records (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHex), the last of which stood for 9 years and 10 months until a team at Yahoo surpassed it (http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3171).
This is one of the most realistic approaches to project management that I've ever heard of.
Wireless Antenna mod for the Ouya
Would the fable be any different if the character was named Adam?
>>But maybe some people contribute indirectly/do it like a personal contribution instead of a "corporate" one?

like in one of those parent comments of this , it seems very unlikely given :

>>>>To do ANY FOSS work as an individual unrelated to the company (And I mean ANY: private projects that may be on Github, projects with nothing to do with Amazon) required a one-off application for permission.

And a few more regulations on even things such as taking courses!
This article[1] highlights the ridiculously regressive arguments given by the Indian ISPs against net neutrality, as reflected from the TRAI’s consultation paper:

1. OTTs negatively affect our revenue
2. OTT apps use very less data
3. OTTs earn too much
4. Net neutrality is already dead
5. Compression algorithms further reduce our profits
6. Too much freedom of expression is bad

Here's how the telecom regulatory authority of India defines OTT:

"The term over-the-top (OTT) refers to applications and services which are accessible over the internet and ride on operators’ networks offering internet access services e.g. social networks, search engines, amateur video aggregation sites etc. The best known examples of OTT are Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, Chat On, Snapchat, Instagram, Kik, Google Talk, Hike, Line, WeChat, Tango, e-commerce sites (Amazon, Flipkart etc.),Ola, Facebook messenger, Black Berry Messenger, iMessage, online video games and movies (Netflix, Pandora)."

[1] http://new-digital-india.blogspot.in/2015/04/how-indian-isps...

edit: added definition of OTT
Let's be realistic: there are many companies that won't hire you after this. The question is, are those the companies that you want to work for? It's a tough choice, of course.

You mention that the company you worked at is popular here on Hacker News. So let's assume we are talking about Apple or Google or perhaps AirBnB. So from now on, when people look up your name, they will see something like "Testified against Apple".

A lot of companies will quietly remove you from consideration, if they see that you have testified. And, sad to say, this might exclude you from a lot of the better paying jobs in the industry.

All the same, you have to ask yourself, how will you feel about yourself if you don't testify? What kind of world do you want to live in? What sort of tech industry do you want to live in?
> There is nothing left from Macromedia anyway

ColdFusion is still sticking around, but its shelf life is open to debate
I really respect you, but that's spoken by a person relatively unlikely to need to convince someone else to hire him again.
It sounds like it's time to change jobs. If you don't care much about the money but want to keep learning new things and to be challenged, and would like to with on something that could have a big impact on the world, an ambitious startup should be perfect for you - if you are behind its mission of course.

London has lots of startup jobs that are likely to appeal to you. That said most people I know that lived in London did not stay long. I work in Amsterdam and this city has a lot of great and ambitious startups too, plus everyone here speaks English very well. If you're considering to move, feel free to email me. I'm sure I can help you if you're open to emigrating.
Look into R+D. I was in the same boat as you. Then I decided to take a look at research, now can't get enough of it. There are government funding for PhD's (Search Department of Education and learning (DEL) Funding.)
http://tempatwisataparalayang.wikidot.com/
I see the reference to the "1998 ACM Subject Classification", but this paper is part of a May 2015 conference: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~todd/research/pub.php?id=snapl15
Could you elaborate on each of these blocks please. This sounds like what I should be doing.
> You're young only once, and not for very long anymore. I'd advice you to try and enjoy it.

That's just terrifying. Especially when you have no idea how to enjoy it or if it's even possible for you.
Rename tracking is what undoes a lot if the more naive variants.
I saw that a few times. Brilliant college minds failing at programming because of legacy and ad-hoc features. They preferred maths and physics, not devoid of arbitrary but, probably tinier and more stable over time.
You can get full featured cables supporting 3.1 with power delivery support

One example: http://www.belkin.com/us/F2CU030-Belkin/p/P-F2CU030/
First off: You already have google results, this one will probably not be on the first page, and you can easily push it down further.

Secondly: A good employer is interested in your current abilities to fulfil the role they need, and will ignore unrelated information.

I've worried about having anti-commercial anti-proprietary statements on my google results, but I've never had a problem getting job offers from proprietary software companies.
This interview with Tyler Brule of the very successful Monocle Magazine, is relevant and worth a read as he's been a booster of print. He draws the same conclusion as point #3, that the iPad wasn't going to be a saviour, and I think he would lean to #4 (subscription as membership) as being the best path forward. At least that seems to be the direction Monocle has moved in.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/03/how-tyler-brule-has-extende...
The 'Great Cannon' Is China's Powerful New Hacking Weapon