skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if I remember correctly, Eric Lefkofsky was one of the investors who cashed out ~$1billion (!) of his Groupon shares during one of their last VC rounds. I'm surprised they were able to do that, but so many people were killing themselves to be a part of the deal that Eric was able to push this slimy deal through. How any rational VC allows early investors to do that is beyond me...

Nothing against the guy (I have no experience with him) but that deal just smelled rotten. So I'm not convinced that these two people are going to be particularly effective replacements/stand-ins.
1Password (or equivalent).

Even though a service might desperately want to know my personal and/or business email address, and disguise that desire with the usual "Hey, just use your email address as your login username!", doesn't mean I have to comply. Unless they're prepared to accept responsibility to disclosure of my address, I feel perfectly happy taking the required measures to minimise those risks myself - no matter what they attempt to enforce with crappy email validation or ToS requirements.

(And, although Dropbox have finally arrived in their forum-thread ~24hrs late apologising for their "community moderators" calling their customers idiots, the responses from Nathan and especially Chris only strengthen my resolve to ignore any attempt by companies/services to gain access to my personal email addresses as part of their user databases.)
There's also their Xombrero browser, of which I am quite a fan.
Many thanks to Conformal from a FreeBSD aficionado.
This is a rather odd argument to post. You are faulting the CEO of a company for stating that he believes his company will do well in spite of publicly available data. No mother ever calls a child ugly. No matter what. Plus ever CEO out there exhibits this same kind of behavior. It's bad for the company when the leader is talking negatively about it.
> If what they actually meant was that customers would be sending their card data directly to Balanced and it wouldn't ever hit the other business's systems even transiently, that's a more interesting case.

Balanced seems to be following a model similar to Stripe where the payment details are indeed sent directly to them (via javascript in the browser, for the most common use case), and it never touches the merchant's servers.
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The article unhelpfully uses the term "sugar" broadly when a more specific term would be clearer, using a few specific terms only in passing. Then mentions the causality problem by claiming it's also impossible to "prove" climate change or that smoking causes cancer (???). It says in one place that fructose is the problem, but concludes that "sugar" is toxic.

I feel bad for the authors of this study.
Why is that? In nature, different fruits ripen at different times. Even if you were restricted to nature's cycle, there could potentially be fruit available for most of the year.

http://www.cuesa.org/page/seasonality-chart-fruit-and-nuts

I mean, sure, you wouldn't have access to all of these fruits in one location, but point being fruit wasn't something you got for a week in June, then never again until next June.
This is similar to what the backports repository provides, After you add the repository, apt does not install anything from it by default. Instead, you have to tell it to, e.g. apt-get -t squeeze-backports install "package"

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

http://backports-master.debian.org/
Biggest lesson here is to go for Zuckerberg style control. Mason gave these guys control from the very beginning because he 'doesn't care about money' and didn't want to be greedy. Now look at him - he got fired from his own company while it's still an infant.

Pincus, Zuck and many others will have as long as they want to turn their companies around and wont be out unless they decide to quit. They learned from Steve Jobs.
Groupon has Jeff Holden, who was an extraordinary exec at Amazon in the earlier days.

He might be a good fit for CEO.
Sort of reminds me of his "Death Stare" interview with Kara Swisher. http://live.wsj.com/video/d9-video-andrew-mason-death-stare/...

But really, hopefully it's a move in the right direction for the struggling company. There's opportunity to open new revenue streams especially considering that businesses are still creating new Groupon deals.
Fat people are not "those people over there" to me. I am in that group. Actually no, I am not "fat". I am 15 pounds over the line between overweight and obese; I am a "fucking lardass".

The fact is that many fat people come up with all sorts of justifications and excuses to try to make themselves feel better. If you honestly have not noticed this tendency, take a look at the "fat/body acceptance" social movement. It is a real phenomenon, not imagined.
Yeah, he was once meant to be on TV news talking about Groupon and because they asked a question he didn't want to answer, he told a funny irrelevant story about his life just to play out the clock. A real square peg in a round hole but in the best possible way (though not necessarily from investors' POV).
It's refreshing to see an exit memo that is so honest. He even put some humor in there, and personal accountability.

Self-deprecating though it may be, I'm sure there are a multitude of factors that he's taking the fall for. CEO's are responsible of course, and he's taking this hit as gracefully as anyone could, but there's no way he could shoulder all of this on his own.
EFI uses the PE executable format.
Jottit is a site that was co-created by Aaron Swartz. (And runs on Heroku, apparently.) Hopefully his co-creator can help bring it back up?
Sound reasonable to me. That judge is probably a parent. I suspect most parents understand: if we waited to be "ready", nobody would ever be a parent. Conventional parents get months and months of notice. If they're like me, they're still nowhere close to "ready". It's terrifying. But you, and these guys, and everyone else just do what we've been doing for hundreds of thousands of years.
Thank you!

I was wary of this thread showing up on HN because I felt I was a bit unkind when posting in that thread, but Chris' comment towards me seemed completely unjustified. And he deleted a prior post along the same lines, hence why I quoted him on my next post.
"Put yourself in Andrew's shoes in 2010."

The startup CEO has to be a cheerleader and biggest believer. And at the same time, the biggest realist, the most aware of the downside risks. There are times when you have to push the kool-aid aside.

"Nobody knows future."

History is littered with startups that didn't exit in frothy markets, then cratered. Timing is everything. Andrew's advisors should have been aware of the downside risks, should have had some experience with previous business cycles. IMHO they gave bad advice.
GRPN appears to have dropped more than 75% over the past couple of years. Barring some very unusual circumstances, that seems like a compelling argument for a change in leadership at any business.
A quote: "However, what may be lost on the mayor and local media is that lockpicking has long been a part of hacker culture—best exemplified by the fact that Germany’s well-known Chaos Computer Club has been holding a Lockpicking Competition since 1997."

How could they write this article without mentioning Richard Feynman's famous lock-picking activities at Los Alamos during the World War II Manhattan Project?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

A quote: "Due to the top secret nature of the work, Los Alamos was isolated. In Feynman's own words, "There wasn't anything to do there". Bored, he indulged his curiosity by learning to pick the combination locks on cabinets and desks used to secure papers. Feynman played many jokes on colleagues. In one case he found the combination to a locked filing cabinet by trying the numbers he thought a physicist would use (it proved to be 27–18–28 after the base of natural logarithms, e = 2.71828…), and found that the three filing cabinets where a colleague kept a set of atomic bomb research notes all had the same combination.[21] He left a series of notes in the cabinets as a prank ..."
I have to say, accusing Dropbox of leaking in the title of the thread, with out any actual basis, since it is possible that the user cocked up somewhere, is not the best way to get polite support. Yes the mods could have been a lot more professional, but I can see why their backs were up and why they would be defensive.

On the other hand, too often as a user I feel I have to walk on egg shells to avoid upsetting some over sensitive petal of a forum mod. One misunderstood word and you are banned for life, with no appeal what so ever.

All of which leads me to think there should be some third party arbitration for this sort of thing.
Why do you hate battle toads?
I always use the domain-name minus the top level for my token. So if my base email were "david@example.com", for "dropbox.com" it would be david+dropbox@example.com. That makes it very easy to figure out all the emails I might have (since I'm essentially just remembering an very simple algorithm to generate them). Very often sites have sucky email validation that rejects "+" so I configured my system to allow . and _ to also work the same way. That way I can choose david.dropbox@example.com or david_dropbox@example.com if the + doesn't work.
This objection is beyond silly, but here's another writeup, not from this author, for Parents magazine.

http://www.parents.com/parenting/adoption/stories/adoption-s...
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My experience with Foundation has been great. The only thing I really didn't like was the markup full of classes a la bootstrap, and now they've fixed it! There has never been a better time for the semantic web.
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You're right, but it's unfortunate that you are.
No, it's perfectly fine to accuse in this case. It's very unlikely for something like that to be guessed and the dropbox moderators should understand how email works or else they shouldn't be responding.
"eval" in the CSS case just means injected into the context. Nothing gets computed :)
You bring up a good point. We have a privacy policy in which our lab does not know the name of the customer through the entire process ensuring confidentiality. We also delete your DNA after 30 days when your guarantee expires. Finally to ensure your identity protection, we do not sequence your entire DNA. We only sequence a portion. You can think of this as only having the first four digits of a credit card. To actually have an even better idea, imagine only having one digit of your credit card. That's the amount of DNA that is sequenced in respect to the entire human genome. When taking these measures into consideration, we believe the issue of personal identification becomes non-relevant.
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Bill has been passed today.
You can probably increase your fat consumption, eat less carb, and still lose weight. Shoot for less than 50 grams or carbs a day.
Yeah I thought the A.I. categories would get some feedback like this. It's a huge field.
Very classy. Keep in mind, though, that it makes is somewhat easier to take being fired in stride when you have a $200 million cushion. He doesn't have to deal with many of the challenges that most newly-fired people do - like finding a job in the not-too-distant future, etc. To be sure, getting kicked out of the company you founded is an emotionally challenging experience, but he can lick his wounds on board a private jet to a private island.
Perhaps, but the intention doesn't change the result. Who is left unprotected? The taxpayer, who's funding all this.
Comets also are travelling waaaay faster than asteroids because they come from farther out in the solar system which gives them more potential/kinetic energy. Generally speaking a comet will be going about three times as fast and carry about nine times the kinetic energy as an asteroid of the same size.
Bootstrap styles are deeply baked in. Changing the variables file isn't enough if you want a non-bootstrappy looking site. Foundation's styles are easier to override and to get the look you want.

Bootstrap's eco system is huge. If I had to use one, it would be Bootstrap. Since I can choose either, I use Bootstrap most of the time and Foundation when I need more control.
Wow. That sounded a lot like I wrote it. Sounds like the same story line I've experienced. :)

If I'm at Toys R Us or something, I'll just be like uh... "tru25@<mydomain>.com" so they don't question me. (Also, I chose Toys R Us as an example because when I went to sign up for a loyalty program, and they typed in "toysrus@<mydomain>.com" their cash register black screened and rebooted... !)
Agree that the letter is good. But I'm puzzled by your reaction to it. Seems more of a populist "touchy feely aw shucks nice guy". How does that make you want to work for him? He wrote a good letter. What about the things he sucked at? What about the immaturity? The bad business decision. So what he is humble.

Some of the business people who are viewed as the most heartless and absolute assholes (by outsiders) can be incredibly loyal if you are on the inner circle and can provide you with opportunity. The nice guys can be swayed by others and give you the axe.

Business is business. Being a nice guy doesn't equate to winning in many cases.

Your comments sometimes come off as abrasive. That has no impact on whether I would recommend you or your company for security work (which I have done btw). My wife choose a doctor with a great bedside manner for a difficult operation our daughter needed.[1] I found a world class person who specialized in the exact problem who was almost impossible to deal with and very dismissive. He handled a difficult operation brilliantly. That's what I want the personality is secondary.

[1] Risk of facial paralysis a possibility with bad outcome.
Congrats, the improvements are quality.

Would love to switch to light table, but I need paredit. Can't switch without paredit.
>The amount of animals at shelters does not appear to be an issue here.

The numbers really don't agree with you there. Your anecdotal evidence really doesn't mean much. With 6 to 8 million animals entering shelters each year and 3 to 4 million being euthanized, the amount of animals is most definitely an issue.

http://www.humanesociety.org/animal_community/resources/qa/c...
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I cook on a regular basis, and have for years. Try as I may, there's no way I can match the cost of McDonald's for dinner every night, calorie for calorie. The closest I can come is by buying heavily processed foods.

There's not much need for skepticism here. Pay even the tiniest amount of attention to prices at the supermarket, and you'll know that it's true. I can buy a can of beef stew for $5. Buying the raw ingredients to make the same quantity of beef stew would cost me at least $10.
I couldn't find any examples on the site of using "the magic of Scss, you can now remove almost all of the presentational classes from your markup." Could someone provide an example, or provide a pointer to an example of html markup which removes all presentational classes?

I did look at their templates site:

http://foundation.zurb.com/templates.php

and I still see presentational markup.

EDIT: I'd also like to see a sample SCSS mixin which attaches the style to the HTML. Something as simple as styling a few "Hello world" phrases arranged in a grid would be great.
DNS aside, Name.com is one of the only registrars I know of with reasonable security practices.

They support two-factor auth (almost no one else does), and have nicely scoped cookies (HTTP only, Secure flag, etc.).
The letter opens with the things he sucked at.

I don't care that he's nice. I care that he cut through the crap.
I am also open to other concerns that people may have.I'll do my best to answer them. Please feel free to ask more questions.
Screenshots taken from MtGox homepage - click on "charts" section, a thin ribbon at the top with current valuations.
Battletoads:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qor5Rn7glaU
>Framing it as mutilation makes it hard to debate it rationally.

Framing it as anything else is dishonest.

"To disfigure by damaging irreparably"

"To make imperfect by excising or altering parts"

>which, from what I understand are the ones that get used when cats are actually defending themselves

Cats use all 4 limbs, and their mouth to defend themselves.

>I have to believe that vets put down a lot of animals

Not due to overpopulation though.

>And these are people that choose the career because they like animals

You should go to a vet conference sometime, there's a whole lot of vets who have no apparent affection for animals at all.
an honest post. I haven't really followed what's going on with Groupon or the whole daily deal space, but good on him for driving the whole world insane with the daily deal craze. Seriously, two years ago, finding daily deals online was EVERYWHERE - it's not easy to start something like that.

It's like... Gangnam style for startups!!!
Andrew Mason is out as CEO of Groupon, here’s his sendoff letter
I do think this is an interesting question however unpolitically-correct it will be. A lot of our notions about sexuality seem to be at least somewhat cultural considering how drastically they've changed from ancient times until now, so it seems plausible that it would change your view of sexuality. It's unfortunate that investigating this sort of thing is dog whistling for homophobia.

One of my friends in college considered herself to be a lesbian, had a long term girlfriend, and had been raised by lesbian parents. She's now happily married to a man and considers herself bisexual. I wouldn't be surprised if someone more to the middle of the sexual spectrum were more likely to act on same sex desires if they have parents as an example.
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If subsidies were put in place for fresh fruit, agribusiness would switch from corn sugar to sugar extracted and refined from, say, grapes. The end result is that the market finds a cheap way to put large quantities of sugar in foods.
These are the unintended consequences of subsidies.
Yeah, I have to say I really appreciate this as well. It's especially eye opening to go into a movie theater and see the large popcorn labelled as 1500 calories (!!!).
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Yes so far we can create a portrait of your dog and soon we will be able to make cat portraits as well.
The child is better off than he would have been had he been left in the subway. Kids need most of all someone who will go out of their way to keep them safe and healthy.

He had parents who were presumably a man and a woman. They left him in a bundle in a subway.

He had parents who were a man and a man. They dropped everything in their life and rearranged it so they could save a stranger's baby who only needed to be taken care of.

What's the point of even questioning his sexuality? He's prepubescent, he's not got a problem with his sexuality because he doesn't even have a sexuality.

I do know he will have grown up with parents who were not 'normal', but who were tolerant enough to sacrifice their whole quality of life for the baby of a stranger, of another race, of whom they knew absolutely no history. He could have had fetal alcohol syndrome, he could have been a crack baby, he could have been broken in many imaginable ways. Instead, they took this baby, they stood by it even when the 911 operator didn't believe their story, they made sure it was looked after, and when asked they agreed to raise it without hesitation.

These are upstanding people. Nothing indicates that homosexuality is contagious, but even if the kid does end up gay due to his upbringing, then what of it? It didn't stop his parent's from being upstanding people. Being straight didn't make his birth parents paragons of virtue.
>Your anecdotal evidence really doesn't mean much.

Yes it does. I would not be able to solve the mythical overpopulation problem even if it existed. The question was how can I feel justified in buying a pet. The question is thus entirely about my impact. So my personal circumstances are in fact the only thing that is relevant. The fact that many dogs are killed in the southern US has no impact on me in canada.
Agreed - but I also suspect he's been writing this letter in his head for quite some time.
"The first study showed that male rats given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in addition to a standard diet of rat chow gained much more weight than male rats that received water sweetened with table sugar, or sucrose, in conjunction with the standard diet. The concentration of sugar in the sucrose solution was the same as is found in some commercial soft drinks, while the high-fructose corn syrup solution was half as concentrated as most sodas."

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/inde...

Not saying one two-part study alone is everything, but it's also not nothing.
So the problem isn't that you thought he was a hypocrite, it's that he didn't lie well enough to hide it. Isn't that hypocritical?
I cook, and I'm extremely skeptical of the GP's claim.

A factory farmed fryer-sized chicken costs $8-$15, and feeds four adults. You'd need two to get 8-9 meals. Best case, that leaves you $4 for everything else.

Maybe you can do better in rural America, but roughly half of the population doesn't live there.
Yeah, that's good - but ~22hrs late.

I'm surprised (bordering on disappointed) that the initial response by the moderator Chris didn't trigger a Dropbox employee response almost immediately. Even given worst-case timing I'd expect a first thing next working day response in 16 hours - but for a potentially serious security related problem like this I really expected to see an immediate "Hey, thanks for the report - we're looking into this right now, can I contact you off-forum to get more details." from a Dropbox employee - preferably with an obviously security related job title.

I fully understand why Dropbox can't afford/justify providing high priority customer support to their free-tier customer base, but ignoring possible security breaches reported from the free-tier seems foolish, and allowing your crowd-sourced forum-based-customer-support to mishandle it like this is really sad.
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The backpedalling needs to come from the federal government. After all, they have been promoting the idea of the food pyramid and "a calorie is a calorie" for decades. The food companies are definitely influenced by what the federal government says is healthy and what they convince people is healthy.
It's not an issue of HFCS, it's an issue of HFCS (or any sugar) being put into all sorts of food where it shouldn't be. Like bread and grilled chicken.
If it's a library, it should be trivial to have the latest A 1.1 installed alongside older A 1.0 and stable B.
More than once at company meetings, when he turned around and looked at the video projection, he'd mention being startled at how fat he looked from behind.

This is what Andrew Mason was like. He was one of the high points of working at Groupon.
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