skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read a number of statements from Uber, and talked to every driver I've had. My understanding is that they all are required to be licensed (and in fact are already limo drivers who are filling free time). I haven't run into a driver yet who drove for Uber full time.

I've also found that I've gotten uniformly glowing assessments from all my drivers about Uber. This past weekend, my driver told me that "Uber is the best thing to happen to the transportation business ever". He had driven taxis, limos and worked as a delivery driver before. I hear similar stories from all my other drivers. It's certainly a different experience than riding in a taxi, but it's always hard to generalize from my limited number of rides/drivers.
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OP here.
Interestingly enough, my conversations with Paypal became more and more surreal and I felt more and more powerless with every one in the end.
I had a trail of information and there was evidence of multiple fraud, but I never felt as powerless as I did after my phone calls with Paypal.

I am in contact with the police captain in the small town where the item was shipped, but I have very little faith in their ability to recover it.

I will file a local police report as well and try to appeal with paypal.

Meanwhile i want everyone to be aware that the so-called Seller Protection is totally worthless, since thats how Paypal chooses to pursue a legit fraud case.
I'd like to claim the invention of the use of V in the software domain. I have a pet project called Bvckup that dates back to 2009 and I am pretty sure I was the first one to mangle a software product name that way. Otherwise the medal goes to the Italians for Bvlgari.

It was a half-joke, but the name stuck and now I wish I picked something else. The problem, obviously, that it's unpronounceable. As "online" as the life is right now, people still communicate in person and the name like this is a stumbling block. Though on the other hand this is what makes it memorable. So, all in all, V-mangled names may not be a bad idea, but only for as long as yours is the only one in its respective domain.
source: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
It always baffled me that this feature didn't exist before. I'm glad they implemented it.
I don't think I understand #2, wouldn't the small vendor just build and sell their boards pre-populated with an intel CPU part? They'd have to carry more inventory but not a crazy amount more.
Out of curiosity, if the sticker was the same how did you know for certain that the broken phone was a different phone?
Just like anything else, selling in person to a stranger is not without risk either. I wonder how the frequency of robberies associated with Craigslist sales compares against eBay fraud like this one. Personally, I'd rather get hit with a chargeback than a baseball bat.
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Thank you for the swift response.

Will definitely be using your platform in the future , it's exactly what i was looking for.

Any plans on crowd funding posters in the future?
Not to mention I'd rather see a replaced letter and have to tell friends "It's Push with a v instead of a u," instead of "It's called Dweeblr!"
It does kind of read like the kind of company who advertises for "the best of the best." Then again, when was the last time you saw a job req that covered adequacy in a realistic fashion? "You should eat and breathe Big Data and stomp the kittens of database caching in your sleep." I could go to Craigslist (or HN YC job postings) or wherever for in-the-wild examples here, but I'm sure we're all remembering the same things.
Yes, but outside the Go standard libraries, adding a dependency on a standard library isn't a big deal and won't add a cycle.
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Edyt is currently seeking front-end, back-end, and full-stack developers to contribute and grow with us. We perform complex processing on a JavaScript front-end client and increasingly use Node.js on the back-end so expertise or willingness to become expert in JavaScript is a huge plus. We also use Python and PostgreSQL on Linux infrastructure to support semantics, search, and collaborative document stores.

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Maybe the problem isn't with the engineers, but with your startup.

Being compensated through equity is a gamble. Most times it doesn't pay off. So many more startups fail than succeed that the odds are heavily stacked against those options ever being worth anything.

Sometimes people are willing to take that gamble anyway, in spite of the horrible odds, because they believe in the business. They look at the product, the founders, and the rest of the team, and think "this is going to be one of the ones that succeeds" -- strongly enough that they're willing to bet their own money (in possibly lost compensation) on the outcome.

If you're showing talented people your idea, or your product, or your team -- or yourself -- and they're not coming away convinced that what you're showing them is good enough to justify taking that risk, maybe it doesn't mean that they're lamers who don't understand startup culture. Maybe it means they looked at what you showed them and decided that it wasn't a horse worth betting on. So they'll work for you for salary, which they can put in the bank the moment you give it to them, but not equity.

If that happens consistently, maybe it's time to step back and look more holistically at your business. If you can't convince potential employees to bet on you, you might have set your product up in such a way that you'll have trouble convincing potential customers to bet on you too.
UK or US? OP is in UK. Might be a significant fact, sadly.
2% is a way higher number than reality. The amount of fraud on eBay is well, well below a 10th of a percent.

Selling on craigslist and gazelle does not solve the issue. It could be lost in the mail or you could be robbed. Il take a 99% chance at getting twice my money than a 100% chance of getting half. To each his own though./
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My mind read it as "stickied".
HTML5 image upload, resize and crop
stick-id, maybe?
Three planets above Egyptian pyramids on December 3, 2012? NOT.
Another thing that's missed, that doesn't seem mentioned in the comments thusfar, is that we're not looking at the odds that this company succeeds; we're looking at the odds the investment I made pays off. The odds that a company that already deserved investment succeeds should only be increased a bit by getting funding now (as opposed to later or as opposed to getting by without it). However, the fact that they raised the money means that someone else thought they were at least so likely to succeed (and bet on it) and that should increase my estimate that this company will succeed more than the cash infusion will increase their actual chances.
+1 on Jekyll. I've been running my primary site (http://personalmba.com) on Jekyll for six months now. No regrets.
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When the buyer made the chargeback, why isn't he forced to return the item?

Isn't this the obvious step that is missing from the whole equation?
I really hope they come through with the Chuck Norris API

http://www.pvshapp.com/#feature_requests/50bcf99ee4ca239c000...
One of those dimensions may be service availability to low income neighborhoods. Cabs are supposed to take fares anywhere

Just because they are supposed to doesn't mean they do. The first few paragraphs of this article[1] details one journalists' attempts to get taxi service in DC. When you force entities in an industry to subsidize some services below cost (such as rides out to the boonies), you don't always get the service below cost; sometimes the entities "forget" to pick up the fare.

(I don't mean to suggest that Uber is the only way of solving that problem.)

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/why-you-... and the writer is an Uber fan so apply some grains of salt.
Did Ebay / Paypal forward the fraud information onto the bank?

Did the police do anything?

It really sucks that the seller took the hit. Who should? The credit card companies? The banks of the scammers?
A top 10% engineer should expect more than $135k/year, a top 10% executive founder should have no problem raising enough money to pay those kind of salaries. Sounds like an average (at best) founder looking to recruit out of his league.
The whole tech culture is also to blame. I'm sure there have been a LOT of great alternate ebay, paypal start ups who just didn't get traction. Bloggers won't talk about you if you haven't raised a million and you won't get much traction on google without bloggers or spending major bucks.

My Dreamybids.com site for example, is an awesome service that uses the quibids model. It allows anyone to host their own auctions for products or services. Meaning a graphic designer could auction $200 of services. 10 people pay $20 to participate in the auction, one person wins and gets $200 of graphic design for $20.

Good luck getting traction with that if you aren't in the tech crunch, mashables, stanford, in club.
This article goes into my "arguments for Bitcoin" pile. More sellers need to recognize the risks involved in doing transactions through PayPal/any other credit card processor and protect themselves.
Yes. What I mean though is that if you are reimplementing, say, fmt.Printf, such a suggestion system might correctly suggest you use fmt.Printf instead, but also suggest you can use func (m Month) String() string from time, or something equally silly.

Since the standard libs in Go duplicate code, you would have to be careful that your suggestion system isn't picking up false positives. I think the idea has a lot of promise though.
I don't really like the term 'hiring' when you're talking about someone that is barely drawing a salary and is taking a large amount of equity. In that situation, you are partnering with them.

It sounds like the guy in the article just wants to make a reasonable amount of money while hacking away at a problem. That's fine. You need to let go of the notion that every employee you have is going to be as heavily invested in your product as you are, because very few will be. If they are and they want equity, awesome. If not, they could still turn in some fantastic work for you if you're just willing to pay them a decent wage.
This is misleading. Windows 8 has just passed 10.7.4. There are 3 more recent Mac Versions that have a higher install base than Windows 8. Hell even Windows XP has more Users than Windows 8.
No he was not. He went straight to his credit card and they took his side.

I had no chance of appealing because Paypal would not disclose the Credit Card issuer contact info to me so that I could contact them directly
I believe one can make a stored procedure that implements an atomic enqueue or dequeue operation in a transaction. Still, such systems seem to end up polling, or having triggers that launch non-database activities such as scripts or network activity.

Note that I'm not endorsing this scheme.
Age of Empires II in the browser would tank my GPA
The BS? Samsung copied their work...
what other legal documents are mass produced by a computer with no human oversight?

Mortgages and foreclosure documents come to mind. See "robosigners".
Don't know if they're any good but the Economist just wrote up EcoATM (http://www.ecoatm.com/) which lets you sell used phones at kiosks. You show up with your used phone and put it into the machine, which can apparently verify its make/model and condition, and lets a network of buyers instantly bid on it. If you choose to sell, the kiosk keeps your phone and you leave with cash.
From Wikipedia for other curious non-native speakers:

Voir dire /ˈvwɑr ˌdiər/ is a legal phrase that refers to a variety of procedures connected with jury trials. It originally referred to an oath taken by jurors to tell the truth (Latin verum dicere), i.e., to say what is true, what is objectively accurate or subjectively honest, or both.
Meanwhile, as a purchaser on Paypal, you only get 45 days after the day of the transaction - which caught us out last week.

We ordered some stuff from (at least theoretically) a reputable company. We had to pay about 2 months ago, but kept getting emails telling us that the stock hadn't arrived yet and to just be patient. Then a couple of weeks ago, they told us that they actualy didn't have the stock and that we'd have to get a refund. But they were refusing to respond to any of our requests for the refund, so we contacted Paypal and they told us that we'd missed out on the 45 day window and they couldn't help us.

The company we ordered from eventually (after over a week of chasing) paid up, but if they hadn't we would have been left high and dry by Paypal.
I completely agree - while I love using the command-line for most tasks, R is ideally designed for this... and rightly so, since that's the whole point of the language!

R also supports the use of atomic operations on vectors (it automatically maps the operation over the vector), and other idioms that would be liabilities in other programming languages, but hugely beneficial in this one area.

I still haven't found a language that treats reading (and then processing) a CSV file more easily than R.

Conveniently, R should be really easy to pick up for someone familiar with working with a POSIX shell or Bash. For example, to see all variables defined in the current namespace, just type ls().

R is basically the POSIX mentality applied specifically to data processing, instead of general-purpose work.
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LOL! What attorney would give a crap about a $500 phone? The sad truth is that in this system of ours, you can screw someone for up to $50-100k and get away with it because that's the minimum potential damages amount that would pique a decent attorney's interest.
So he actually made it to Guatemala?

Always thought his posts were kinda made up rants, but at least this shows that he was not lying in his last posting about having left Belize.

Also: Is there some new Anti-McAfee gossip filter in place? There are news on the front page with 4 points in 33 minutes, and this one has 4 points in 12 minutes and is on position 76.
The only logical conclusion that can be made from eBay's and Paypal's policies is that they no longer want small sellers to use them. They want professional sellers to sell from their site, people who are used to dealing with chargebacks, etc, and can foot the bill when it comes to chargebacks/fraud. They want to facilitate BUYING from regular people, but make SELLING by regular people very difficult.

There is no other explanation for getting rid of buyer reputation and providing no protection to sellers. They only want people who don't care about buyer reputation, and have deep enough pockets and the expectation that chargebacks and fraud will occur. If they deal with these larger customers, this increases their selling volume (and fees) and decreases their support costs.
The TACK proposal would pin public keys to domains to prevent even this attack. http://tack.io/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4010711
It's hard, as a paranoid person I try to document things as much as I can, filmed tests, clean pictures, filmed packaging process. It's not perfect but for what it's worth, I had an issue on priceminister (european website) involving an old motherboard being flagged as failing by the buyer, they were thorough and rejected his claims after all. Nothing major it was 20$, but it's good to see that some websites go the other way too.
This whole thing has a faint whiff of DOJ anti-trust investigation on it. Maybe it's wishful thinking.
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There just needs to be an easier way to buy bitcoins. I added it to my gamerholic site and a couple users were just confused on where they can buy coins. You have to click one link after another.
Why Selling WhatsApp To Facebook Would Be A Big Mistake For Its Founders
Because we're targeting consumers, they're less familiar with shipping than businesses. Our system provides buyers with accurate shipping costs and prepares labels for sellers when their parts have been purchased.

All they have to do is put it in a box and drop the package off.

This also means that we can eventually grow each seller's addressable market within our system as we'll handle cross-border shipping on their behalf.
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I'm also in the UK. It was the Apple Store in Newcastle.
Credit cards and Paypals both take a piece of a transaction fee and creating an illusion of a safety net is cost of doing business to them.
Paypal has a much better chance of having direct contacts with fraud departments of other institutions than individuals do, so they should take it upon themselves to sort it out.

Of course Im not being objective here, but their Seller Protection wording could be a lot more forthcoming in communicating the lack of protection for this case.
Its your job to make him fit!

Its your job to coax the useful skills out of him. Besides doing 2x the work of a normal employee, many people who are brilliant at computer science are good with strategy and customers as when they are asked to write it down. This was your loss.
That's not how copyright works. Copyright is specific to the manifestation. EA gave its blessing for sites to host the game install files as part of its promotion. EA does not appear to have given its permission to host this game. As long as this game is merely a tech demo, it is arguably covered by fair use to some degree (i.e., as educational). However, once you add in attempts to derive revenue the fair use analysis tips toward commercial considerations which are far less forgiving.
I had read it as "Sticky-D", which didn't evoke the best imagery. Yours is much better.
Correct.

We built it to integrate with vBulletin forums: https://partners.styckyd.com

Our brand name is taken from "stickying" a post on a forum.
I think you might have misread the table. Windows 8 64 bit looks to have about a 1% lead on the four versions of Mac OS listed:

Windows 8 64 bit 4.25% +2.40%

MacOS 10.8.2 64 bit 1.49% -0.11%
MacOS 10.6.8 64 bit 0.78% -0.20%
MacOS 10.7.5 64 bit 0.72% +0.03%
MacOS 10.7.4 64 bit 0.27% -0.27%

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As a build-your-own-box type guy myself, this doesn't particularly bother me, for two reasons.

First, it's extremely rare (in my experience, anyway) to want to upgrade the CPU of an existing machine without also upgrading the motherboard. Usually by the time CPUs have advanced far enough to justify upgrading, there's also new connectors, faster memory interfaces, etc. out as well that would require a new mobo to take advantage of. If you skip the mobo upgrade and just buy the CPU, you risk just moving the system's performance bottleneck around.

Second, installing the CPU onto the motherboard is easily the trickiest, most delicate part of building your own PC. In an age when everything else plugs together with idiot-proof plugs and sockets, CPUs still have a forest of fragile pins on the bottom that can easily be bent or broken. You also have to manually add thermal protections like fans, heat sinks, thermal paste, etc., which all require selection and installation; if the CPU came pre-installed on the mobo, you could skip all that hassle completely.
Based on the stunt that was pulled at the border with his "double", I wouldn't be surprised if this was planned.
I will give you that.

But do you really want me to enumerate the list of things that OrgMode can do and other guys don't ? :-)

(Esp. for me its ability to do integrated Calendaring, Task Management with Time tracking is priceless. I haven't seen anything that even comes close to that functionality. Commercial or Free.)
..adding 'windows 8 (0.44%) and 'windows 8 64bit' (4.25%) gives us 4.69%

..adding all mac osx versions (1.49%, 0.78%, 0.72%, 0.27%) gives us 3.26%
LOL. You do realize the laffer curve is widely discredited?

All reducing corporate tax rates does is cause a race to the bottom.
Governments are a means to solve cooperation problems.

Yes, a very crude and usually ineffective one. So are corporations.

There is no good means to solve cooperation problems in the general case. The only way we know of that actually works is to have a group of people who are all committed to a specific goal and who all share the same factual beliefs as to how best to reach that goal. That is very rarely true, which is why cooperation problems rarely get solved very well.
Don't worry: software still manages to bloat the hardware into uselessness every few years.
I have a group of friends and ex-coworkers who are part of the Los Angeles startup scene. Every so often I get to be asked to be part of startups. We've had something like the above conversation. Floating my family situation requires that I get more salary than they are able to afford. Their equity offers were generous. I wished my life was different because I believed in them and thought they had a good chance of making it. Sometimes they do.

At least 3 times now, I've passed up the opportunity to make millions. I don't regret it - it was what I had to do. But I do sometimes wish that my life had worked out differently.

That said, for every startup that I would personally take seriously enough to consider the offer, there are dozens who would try to make it to me, and I would laugh. Unless I know, and respect, the people making me the offer, I treat equity as a fancy piece of paper that I'll ignore.