skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've personally been instructed to fire two people who reported to me, who had been coworkers before organizational changes and who were both nominally friends. There is no easy way to do it even if it's justified. The worst part is honestly what happens after - the person may have a hard time finding another job, and even if the separation is justified it's still kind of 'on you' for letting them go; a lot of people would assert that it's on you anyway for not making them better.

I've been through a 'silent layoff' at a startup, wherein most of the staff just stopped getting paid. We were funded by PE; the leadup to the separation was several weeks of accusations back and forth re: lying about available funds vs. mismanagement of granted funds. The company offered no severance and fought my unemployment claim. I was kind of relieved when it was over, but I would not recommend handling it this way unless you just don't care; it's been years but I still basically hate everyone involved.

I've since survived 3-4 rounds of layoffs where I'm working now. We've had it most of the ways you can have it: mass meeting, one on one w/ HR rep, nominated out-of-dept managers shepherding individuals out of the building, rent-a-cops in the office, etc. In all but one case, the departing employees were given a couple of paychecks severance + placement assistance and IIRC in at least one case remaining employees were offered grief counseling.

I don't think I could ever enjoy being laid off, but IMO the right way in a multi-person separation is to have one meeting with everyone, be honest about what's going on, and give them whatever you can to soften the blow. Unless there's a good chance your funding situation is about to improve, this means you should do it a little earlier than you think you need to so that last x days/weeks of salary can be severance instead; IMO people are not going to be significantly happier about being laid off if it happens 2 weeks later. If you've got contacts at other places and you can give references or help place, do that. You probably don't need police to escort people out, but you should get the departing employees out of the building w/ relevant credentials and badges revoked asap. Don't let people mill around, it exposes you and gives them more opportunity to vent in ways both of you will regret; I've seen where people were let go, then went and deleted things from file servers or otherwise destroyed property prior to leaving the building.
> Don't do it on a Friday, mid week is best. Friday is the worst

Having gotten laid off on a Monday morning at 10AM after spending the whole weekend working in anticipation of finishing a major deadline that day, I'm not sure I agree. I'd rather not find out though...
> Streamus always loaded the video and it is now simply being presented to you

I really didn't know this. I thought Streamus only download the audio stream (since most youtube downloader able to retrieve audio stream without the video)
Not my sub, but I thought it was a fun idea.
I just went through a layoff, but was thankfully hired at another place within a few weeks, and I consider myself very fortunate, given that I was having performance issues. For me, here's what helped me get through it:

-Getting a month's severance pay. Personally I wish I had gotten more, but it greater than zero so I couldn't complain all that much(sorta, I wouldn't have been happy if it was just a few hundred or so).

-Getting a month's worth of health coverage. My internal doomsday clock started ticking for getting a new job, and having that health insurance gave me some comfort knowing I wasn't going to be completely screwed if I were to be slammed by a hauling truck the moment I left the parking lot.

-Being reassured it wasn't for performance reasons, especially since I had just gotten a poor review several months prior(the severance contract specifically stated this, and said I was eligible for re-hire). I wanted to leave, and I'd never reapply anyway, but it was nice to do so on good terms.

-Getting an offer for a reference during the transition. My sorta-boss said I could use him as a reference before I even asked, I didn't need it but I really appreciated it.

-Getting some time to talk with now-former-coworkers, rather than being whisked out of the building. I was annoyed that my PC access was immediately disabled and my keycard disabled(let me take my stuff to the car, I need multiple trips, wtf), but getting closure with people(along with emails) more than made up for it.

The one thing they did that pissed me off was that they did it on a Monday morning at 10AM after I had spent the whole weekend pulling overtime for them to finish up a major project deadline that was due 5PM that day. It felt like a huge slap in the face to put on your A-game for the day, only to be dropped after sacrificing personal time for the company. Despite all the rosy things I said, I'm still bitter about that.

It sucks to be in this position and I wish you, and those who'll be laid off, the best of luck.
Airbnb is an example of a company that is nothing more than just a brand

So is Coca-Cola. In most cases, a companys brand is way more important than it's technology.
Just be honest. Don't try and hide stuff, or sugar-coat things: tell people how it is, why it is, and even if it's horrible initially I believe they'll thank you for it in the long run.

Do it as soon as you can. If you know now, tell them now. Every day you don't tell them is a day they're potentially missing out on another job.

For yourself, try and keep some perspective. Things happen. Life moves on. People recover.

Source: I had to tell 22 people that the company we were running had just gone in to administration and today was the last day. We only found out ourselves the day before when our "accountant" (grrr... anger still remains towards that one) revealed herself to be less than competent. It was horrible, but me and my colleagues just sat them down and laid it out straight and said we'd do whatever we could to help, and that was that.
I think he/she just means a surprise account lock followed by the you're fired meeting. [ala finance industry]

You would obviously close off all credentials once they're out the door.
"There is a difference between saying that "the Greek people are corrupt" and saying "the Greek government and tax-collection system (or other systems) are corrupt""

Really ?

That corrupt Greek government and tax-collection system, who is it staffed by ?
The Inuit ?
There are no amendments in the constitution.
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For me, the fact that it had been upvoted as much as it had was enough to warrant an investigative click. If I had expectations to the content at the least I would have been pleasantly surprised. Discovering new things is half the reason I come here!

I certainly wasn't confused to the content after that point, but don't think that editorialising the title would have made much difference before then anyhow.
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That's not news, Apple allows a lot of languages to run on their OS now.

What matters is: how extensive is the support for this language on iOS? As far as this app shows, the support for Go looks very primitive and not really applicable to anything but toy apps.
Reminds me a lot of Star Control 2, which had the added Melee mode for battles.
Thanks. Screen clearing and state saving are on my todo list. It's just a big list. I'd like to get the source code published first, and that means landing some toolchain cleanups first. (The android app is a bit ahead, it has a clear button.)
I'm pretty sure he wasn't saying to leave them unlocked indefinitely. Some companies lock accounts as soon as they lay people off (or even before), because they're paranoid that someone will grab trade secrets or sabotage something. Treating people this was is really insulting. It's generally reasonable to let people retain access for a short period of time (i.e. the rest of the day) so they can do things like send goodbye emails to the team, grab the e-tickets (or whatever) that they had sent to their work address instead of their personal address. No one should expect their accounts to remain unlocked for long, but long enough to close out any open threads and say goodbye is just being respectful.
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Is Mozilla getting anything from this? I know in the old days almost all of Mozilla's income came from money Google gave them to set Google as the default search. I suppose you could look at this as a similar thing, the difference is you could easily remove Google as the default if you wanted to.
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I'm in Boston and I'd love to spend some time teaching folks. Hard to fit it in, though.
I've not moved VM's between Windows and Linux, but it works fine going back and forth between OS X and Windows. The only caveat being that you have to re-visit the VM's settings for things like host volume mapping and especially networking config.
First, the graph you complained about is specifically showing large budget deficits for the last 14 years or so. It's the blue bars. You might think the data in that graph is somehow false, but at least it's very relevant data for this conversation.

Second, there indeed all kinds of sources claiming there's been a primary surplus for years. It's also clear that Greece is paying very little interest (2.6-4.0% of GDP in 2014 depending on the source -- it's quite amazing that you can't get reliable facts on something like this!). Their debt is also continuing to increase rapidly, and now they're going to need another 80 billion bailout.

This combination of supposed facts just doesn't add up. If there's a primary surplus and the interest payments are tiny, there should be either a fiscal surplus or at most a tiny fiscal deficit. And in that case there's no reason for the debt to grow. The easiest conclusion to see is that this is just the books being cooked once again. For example in 2013 that was a total of 9.5% of GDP in spending being ignored due to being supposedly non-recurring. (Not blaming Greece for this btw, it's been in the interest of the EU to pretend that the situation is somehow getting better and the plan is working).

This rather suggests that forgiving the debt (not just, some but even all the debt) would do little to get them out of the whole. They'd still be running a deficit, and would just have to start going to debt once again.
Patents are only good for 20 years, right? It seems very hard to believe that this could be used before expiration - what is the point of patenting now?
This work is the extension of the Go on mobile experiment for Android, which was originally proposed here: http://golang.org/s/go14android.

Over the past several months, several open source contributors (most notably minux) and I have been working on darwin/arm and darwin/arm64 support for Go 1.5. We can build binaries, and we can build Go packages as C archives that can be compiled into an ObjC program.

At the same time Hana has been extending gobind (http://golang.org/s/gobind) with ObjC support, and came up with the idea of turning Rob's Ivy into an app. Hana built the Android app, I did the iOS app.

This is a few hundred lines of ObjC/UIKit for the UI, calling into a Go function:

func Exec(line string) (string, error)

With the bulk of the app being the actual Ivy implementation in Go.

It will be open source when I find the hours in the next week.
Then make it into this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/520939881867172271/.
Also, if you have a non-compete on the employment agreement. Do the right thing and nullify that agreement. If they go to your competitor, you have no one to blame but yourself. A non-compete does nothing from sharing secrets. Confidentiality agreement prevents that. (That is advice from a lawyer)

I'm not sure if I agree with you on the saying the good byes. Linkedin is a bit better than that. The worst thing you can do is send them back to their desk to backup and make the announcement while they're packing.
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I love that. All that corporate maturity and yet the young gamer lived on. He was the perfect Nintendo president. How are they going to fill those shoes?
Sticking to your validly formed opinion, no matter what, and never compromising in the slightest is beneficial in academia, because you need grit in convincing all those new students of your theories, and your results probably came from decades of work. Similarly, diplomacy is not too important, at least as soon as you have tenure.

While being a politician and dealing with other countries means lots and lots of (sometimes bad) compromises and a lot of diplomacy.

Varoufakis never cared for that. He constantly insulted the people on the other side, with the simple "excuse" that they are filthy politicians and he's a noble warrior for the common good. He didn't care for established procedures and common courtesy (like recording others without their knowledge or consent), everything was fair game to him.

That's why he was such a terrible representative of Greece. And all his petty attacks after the fact don't serve Greece in the slightest, they only feed his ego and his fans.

I would have expected him to keep silent for a while, in order to help Mr Tsipras reach a solution.
Is this the modern form of the drive-by-installed toolbar?
I have luckily never had to do this or never been had to be laid off, but when I read his book, this appeared to be the most reasonable way to do it.
Have you tried Bashmarks[0] for Bash? I have also written a compatible version for Fish called Fishmarks[1].

0: https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks
1: https://github.com/techwizrd/fishmarks
I would say that in this case... the personal stuff should have stayed off of the work email.

I'd rather leave a company knowing that my accounts were locked, than not. If it's locked, I have more confidence that I wouldn't be accused of doing something seedy when packing up.
This was the first phrase that came to my mind.
As a founder who has laid people off in the past, I think the kindest thing you can do (for everyone involved) is give them as much notice as you possibly can. No matter what pay-rate the employees are at, assume they're living paycheck to paycheck, and that a sudden loss of their income will be much worse than a loss 2-3 months from now.

My second suggestion is to go out of your way to be the best reference these people have ever had. Write letters of rec, tell them to list you personally as a reference (with your cell #), etc. And if you can, use your network to help them find new opportunities.

For those who remain, just try to be as honest as you can. If their jobs are possibly insecure, let them know as well.

Best of luck, I know this is hard.
We have one instance where we update an account, that goes out to potentially 11 service calls which are not transactional. We are having to maintain state in our app because the micro services have split this up so much.
mozilla's response:
http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/09/mozilla-responds-to-firefo...

> Pocket has been a popular Firefox add-on for a long time and we’ve seen that users love to save interesting Web content to easily revisit it later, so it was an easy choice to offer Pocket as a service in Firefox and we’ve gotten lots of positive feedback about the integration from users.

> All the code related to this integration within Firefox is open source and Pocket has licensed all the Firefox integration code under the MPLv2 license. On top of that, Pocket asked Mozilla for input on how to improve their policy, based on early comments from Mozillians. After that discussion, Pocket updated their privacy policy in early May to explain more precisely how they handle data. You can read Pocket’s privacy policy here.

> Directly integrating Pocket into the browser was a choice we made to provide this feature to our users in the best way possible. To disable Pocket, you can remove it from your toolbar or menu. If Pocket is removed from the toolbar or menu, then the feature is effectively disabled, though you can still find it again by accessing it in the Customize Panel. You can find detailed instructions here.
Ask HN: Why does LeaseWeb require a multimillion insurance of me?
I'm currently in search of a basic Windows VPS package. I was browsing through the LeaseWeb ToS when I stumbled at this:

>> Customer shall obtain and - at least for the duration of the
Agreement - maintain the following insurances with a reputable
insurance company, which (at minimum) covers:
a) third party liability;
b) Customer's liability towards LeaseWeb; and
c) Customer's liability as an employer towards Customer's
employees; in each case
up to an amount per event of - at least - three (3) times
Customer's total annual Service Charges, with a minimum of
one million US Dollars (US$ 1,000,000.--).

Needless to say I was shocked. These terms are completely crazy. I wouldn't even dare to guess how much that kind of insurance would cost me. I do not even understand what the items a) and c) mean so I'll have to go to a lawyer (and pay him).

Have I missed something in the hosting market in the last years? Do I really need like a $1 million insurance for a simple $20/month VPS?
But wait - You're leaving out the company's loss of 10% of its equity as part of the investment transaction.

The company's equity was worth $1500K before the investment.

After the investment, the company had $1350K of equity left because it sold 10% of itself, and it no longer owned that chunk of equity.

However, it had $150K of cash that its equity investor paid for 10% of the company's equity. So $1350K of remaining equity + $150K cash = $1500K company value. Same as pre-investment valuation.

It looks like the company's total value didn't change, it just traded 10% of its value for cash. Which is the point of selling equity - cash allows a company to pay for people and things. Equity doesn't.
The gomobile tool is part of the broader project, but that particular CL is about `gomobile build`, a sub-command designed to build all-Go apps. From inside Go, we have only built out access to portable APIs like OpenGL.

This app uses a different mode of the same tool, `gomobile bind`. This lets you use a Go package from inside an Android app, or from ObjC in an iOS app. It is related but parallel work.
This is the announcement of the diagnosis. He only survived a year.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/stock/meeting/140627/
Try not to laugh when you tell them.
I couldn't resist...

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According to an article I found, the way to disable it via about:config is to set
browser.pocket.enabled = false

A comment on the post said to restart FF to get the change working. After I did that, the icon left my FF toolbar.

http://lifehacker.com/disable-pocket-integration-in-firefox-...
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Right click the toolbar, select CUSTOMIZE. Drag the Pocket button off the toolbar. Click "Exit Customize". No more Pocket.

I, too, don't care for it, but I'm not going to pretend that the inclusion of a new button that doesn't do anything if you don't use it is like injecting malware into my browser.
> perfect Nintendo president

Not talking about him as a human being, but his decisions in the past few years have put Nintendo in trouble, actually.
I want Pocket & Telefonica removed. Or at the very least implement something fair like the Search Engine toolbar (in the case for WebRTC video). Except Pocket, why on earth isn't that still just an extension.

Why force it on people who don't want it AND withhold the ability to permanently remove it? What's wrong with them?
What browser can I use that respects privacy? Mozilla was the last bastion of privacy. The final pillar to lean on. What happened?

I miss the early 2000's of the web where everything was the wild west and was untouched by the advertising cancer.
This is interesting. As someone who doesn't have a whole lot of experience with most of these container solutions how similar is this to how kubernetes works?
Enhance+your+decision+making+and+sharpen+your+reasoning
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Mobile interface for cloud site has no informational links fyi
> I've been through a 'silent layoff' at a startup, wherein most of the staff just stopped getting paid. We were funded by PE; the leadup to the separation was several weeks of accusations back and forth re: lying about available funds vs. mismanagement of granted funds. The company offered no severance and fought my unemployment claim. I was kind of relieved when it was over, but I would not recommend handling it this way unless you just don't care; it's been years but I still basically hate everyone involved.

This and a few other things really makes one not want to work for a startup again.
With the procedurally generated content, this game is a little bit more generic. It really misses on all the interesting story from SC2. But it's a good start, and if only they can figure out dynamic history generation...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9857662
It's true that the original army command wasn't a big Hitler fan, but it was still an enabler. Like all the aristocracy who looked down on Hitler and thought they could use (and contain) him.

The thing with the German army ("Wehrmacht") is that for decades Germans told themselves that sure, SA/SS were evil and did horrible things, but the Wehrmacht was "clean", so granddaddy never did anything wrong, he was only defending his country.

Then in the nineties, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmachtsausstellung came along, showing how the common Wehrmacht committed its share of atrocities.

When I went there with school I actually had my grandmother calling me on the phone, in tears, telling me that her husband was no murderer.

This exhibition ripped apart a few lies we Germans had told ourselves about our honorable Wehrmacht.
Yes, and timr was replying to this:

> EVEN WITHOUT ANY DEBT PAYMENTS, the country still is running a deficit because they are way over generous on their pensions,

So clearly primary surplus is relevant.
> any Civilization game

Exactly, it's a good example of a game that uses 3D only for effect, without incorporating it at all in the gameplay.
It reminds me a bit of those PCs from the late 1990s where they'd give you a unit free if you give up so much of your screen space to show ads.
How would hard evidence be provided?
Where can I find information on this?
You forgot Limbo. Yeah, not pure 2D per se, but it's a clear 2D game at heart (just like Another World).