skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also tend to believe that these companies sanctioned this activity until they were against it.

Why? It provided absolutely no value to them. Actually worse, it cost them affiliate fees on sales that rightfully would have been affiliate fee free.

There is no scenario where it makes sense that eBay (edit: wow originally wrote Amazon) would endorse this.

they invite one of the guys to a private dinner where he is the only non-eBay employee in attendance, and treat him like a king.

Have you considered that maybe his sense of truth is a little skewed?
>Would there be felony charges if she was a white girl from the rich burbs?

It's a legitimate question but I don't know if the answer is that clear. For something like this to happen you need two things:

1) Rules that are too harsh and too broad, that classify blowing a small hole in the ground by mixing household cleaners just to see what would happen as the same offense as an act of terrorism.

2) "Zero tolerance" law-and-order bureaucrats who don't care that they're ruining the lives of bright young people by charging them with crimes they may technically have committed but fall outside the legislative intent or any sense of proportionality.

"Would this happen if she was a rich white girl" is a question of (2). It's plausible that some bureaucrats are racist or are more inclined to prosecute someone expected to have fewer resources to mount a defense, or that the bureaucrats in poor neighborhoods are more likely to draw a hard line. But the way to prevent things like this from happening is really to fix (1). As long as you have rules on the books that make what happened here into a serious offense, you're providing cover for overzealous prosecutors to defend themselves under "just following orders" type rationales that appeal to the letter of the law, and paint the supposed wrong not as being that this girl was charged but that the rich white girl wouldn't be.

The problem here is that the rules allow them to do this to anyone. The rules need to change.
Been working on something similar for local use by running nodejs to both server static files and mock API responses. https://github.com/rco8786/apimok
Drug regulation is incredibly effective and has saved millions of lives.
Depends on what you mean by stock options. I imagine quite a few people here trade single-stock (e.g. AAPL https://www.google.com/finance/option_chain?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL) options.
Putting people in prison for doing this stuff sounds fine to me.
A lot of this difference of opinion comes from people with different backgrounds looking at a problem.

Some people are visionaries and spend their days trying to connect the the dots that other people haven't yet connected to push the boundaries. Steve Jobs was like this.

Most developers are implementers. Since developers spend their days working through the details of any particular spec, they think of the details much more than the visionaries. Woz was like this.

Both types of people are crucial for any product to be a success and both types can really help each other in crafting something up if they would both listen to each other.

Unfortunately this rarely happens...
I made over 6 figures from a post-IPO, listed company.
Well, it's interesting to note that Tammy Glotfelty, the prosecutor who decided to giver her two felony charges, but decided not to charge another (white) teenager who shot and killed his younger brother with a BB Gun the week before:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/02/1206443/-Would-a-Wh...

Now obviously, the Daily Kos has its own slant so take this with a grain of salt. But certainly seems like the two cases have radically differing reactions from one another.
The Use of Mirror Imaging
> Everywhere else tab indents text

Everywhere else that's an explicit text editor indents text.

This comment field? Hitting tab goes to the reply button.
IMHO, disarmament creates that opportunity for abuse. I've never seen someone take advantage of the strong.
I think one of the biggest things you get from YC is acknowledgement. Most people who apply have jobs or at least more than one idea or project: getting into YC is kind of a confirmation that someone thinks you're on the right track.

Even though the promise of Silicon Valley is anyone can make it, a lot of people still need "permission" to go full time on a start up.
> before joining I didn't honestly know what it would be like to be a lead (and only) developer for that platform x. After working for a few months I realized that being a lead so early in my career is not what I want.

Yes, it's not unusual to have that kind of realization and having had that realization, it is logical to pursue the course of action you did.
My problem is less the high standards for the U.S. and Europe than it is the low standard for China. I'm quite sick of all the China apologists crawling out of the woodwork rationalizing its repressive communist government (mostly because it's a good place to invest right now). China is too developed to play the "poor third world nation" card anymore. It's playing with the big kids now and should be held to the same standards.
this isn't a sieve, this is trial division. the runtime performance is very different.
That link you gave could equally well be used to support the argument that the prosecutor is prejudiced AGAINST white people. Set off a minor explosion at a school where it will put black people at a slight risk, he prosecutes. Kill a white kid, he does not prosecute.
Google changes Palestinian location from 'Territories' to 'Palestine'
I totally agree. The other day, subject line and e-mail address input field would not take text input straight from my keyboard. I had to copy/paste them from a notepad file, and strangely Ctrl-C/V would not work...rather I had to paste through right click menu. Such an annoyance to find the contact and then paste it. I am on a job hunting spree, and this single thing just put me over the top. Furthermore, I wanted to attach some images, so i dragged and dropped them, like I would do previously, but instead they were coming out as inline images. I could not find what I was doing wrong, so had to do it through the "attach images" icon.

I hate the +You thing too, I do not have a G+ account, but still that thing is there. Always. In the corner. Enticing me. Chastising me.

I used to use Google scholar frequently, but since they have removed this option from the tab bars, I seem to have removed it from my work flow. Another annoying thing is, the two similar bar options when on Google search page.

I am in process on moving to outlook.com...simply because I think MS is an enterprise company and more conservative of design changes. Otherwise, I would have to move to a desktop based client.

When I moved to gmail from Yahoo, it was such a bliss....it has been a bliss until some year ago. But I think, I should be more open with my choices now.
I don't have an AR but I assumed that because the cartridge flows from the lower receiver and is chambered in the upper that the upper was what was the ATF definition of a gun. My mistake, I got them backwards. The lower is what needs the background check through an FFL.

I guess I also didn't read the law correctly with respect to a silencer. I figured since it's illegal to possess without the proper paperwork you couldn't make one anyways since one you completed it you were immediately guilty. I didn't realize there is a separate law covering the process of building one but I guess I should've since guns require a manufacturing license.
And yet, we can't even manufacture a mini rail-gun (or similar) with regular materials that would do more than leave a bruise. Honestly, the old X-Files plot of ceramic weapons making it through security seems more plausible, even post-911. So does using chemical or biological agents to carry out an assassination. You can even send them in the mail!
Square sets its sights on check-ins: 'We can do something better'
For the hack to work, the victim's computer had to get a cookie from ebay. The widget caused this cookie to get downloaded to the victims computer, but only this cookie. Normal visits from legitimate users get everything on the page. Adding a small invisible file meant that a normal user would get this file as well as the cookie but the malicious widget would only grab the cookie.

Finding out how many IP's were legit vs bogus was then a simple matter of going through the http logs making sure all gets of the cookie had matching gets of the gif. Cookie gets without gif gets were fraud.
Entrepreneurial Activity Declines as Jobs Rise in 2012
For me, the now-hidden formatting options was the biggest annoyance. I use quote/indent/lists a lot. Now I am slowly getting used to the new UI because I have no choice. I have new compose enabled on the @gmail account, although old compose is still active in Google Apps account somehow.

Also, as @tomkarlo suggested, use undo_send, that is a life-saver. I set it to max possible- 30 seconds.
And this is why I stopped running my own email and use gmail. This entirely alone.
I think the best way to get the "permission" should not be from any of investors, more from customers.

With many of customers who love your product,you should be able to attract investors or incubators more easily.
I use http://frisbyjs.com/ FrisbyJS for most of my front end API testing needs.
They mean ESOs or RSUs
what would you call a fifth generation Baronet who was educated at Eton and Oxford, served as an officer in a prestigious Army regiment, listens to Radio 4, reads the Telegraph, never watches TV and likes to walk in the country ...?

British. Very, very British.
The problem with that story is that the prosecutor advised the charges by telephone.

It is much more likely that she, the police officer and the principal got all worked up over "OMG BOMB" than that the police officer decided that mentioning the race of the girl on the phone was relevant.
All in all, bad darts from Unicef as 'likers' donate as well. Basically they say we don't want likes, just money please.

The solution is simple. The platform (in this case Facebook) has enough money to step up and give 0.01$/0.1$/1$ for each like of the photo/page.

I am pretty sure it wouldn't be a significant dent for Facebook's finances, actually with proper campaign it could go in their favour via stocks.

But then again, Unicef isn't the only charity in the world and supporting one and ignoring the others isn't fair as well.
90%? Are you sure you're not exaggerating that a little bit?

Yes, tricking people for profit IS fraud. Tracking you across the web like Adsense does is NOT fraud. The act of stealing someone's contact list like Path does is NOT fraud either (but may be a different crime).

And very very little of web sites or applications engage in fraud. The world does a pretty good job of blocking these things, the way Chrome won't even let you go to a web site that has been known to deliver viruses. And yes the FBI should arrest these people.
I live in this area. Bartow is phosphate mining and oranges. Culturally diverse it isn't. Her race is most likely relevant. There's a reason Florida is known for weirdness and general idiocy.
The scary thing is that the assistant AG is trying to charge her as an adult, with a felony charge. The race part comes in when the AG has chosen not to charge a white teenager who accidentally killed someone with a gun not so long ago. Both were accidnets, just that one resulted in someone dying by illegally handling a firearm and the other was a student experimenting at school with a science project. I think what a lot of black people are thinking is what if the roles were reversed and she accidentally killed someone with a firearm?

I agree that we should try and keep this not focused on race but most people are thinking about it and it is rational to assume that it may play a part. I am amazed how much injustice passes by the public eye in the US and everyone just moves on, I blame the press for a huge part of this as they just look for the next fresh headline. A good example is right now, they are milking the Boston bombings for all they can, it is no longer about the victims, its tuned into a soap opera where we need to know what this guy ate everyday, that he liked playing FIFA wtf,when simple gun laws cannot be passed. The Newtown school shooting is not worth their time anymore. A recent injustice not reported on is the two old Latina lady's (one was 71yrs) who the cops opened fired on when they thought it was Chris dorner's truck even though it was a totally different make. The total paid to them was $40 000 for a new truck and that's it. Both these woman were struck by bullets from cops just spraying them with bullets, its amazing. Sorry for going off a tangent but this irritates me.

EDIT: It has been brought to my attention below that as of April 23rd, the LAPD will pay them a $4.2 million settlement. I am still concerned about having cops that can open fire on US citizens without warning, which amounts to an attack to kill.
No just don't commit fraud.
Because he wouldn't get as much attention.
Ridiculous. Poor software is unusable. Poor restaurant food, on the other hand, is mostly just "meh" and only very, very rarely, unedible.

Fine dining is about paying huge sums of money to go from "good" to "really, really good". There's no equivalent in the software world whatsoever (Mac fans: shut up)
Test-driven Development for Chef Practitioners
The government does not want free thinkers who explore their curiosity designing its bombs. What the government wants are people who do what they are told, who follow procedures, and who do not ask unnecessary questions. The government wants the kids who only made little explosions when their chemistry teacher told them to and only using the chemicals they were told to use.
yeah, me too. i got the free trial for house of cards and i'm going to leave it active until arrested development. we'll see if there's any other good stuff coming up after arrested development to leave the account active for. It's easier to pay for a couple months here and there that i don't need than to keep cancelling and re-subscribing.
Wouldn't that hash change if the title is changed by a mod?
I remember hooking a D motor up to a guide wire (no rocket!) and firing it off in a lot behind my friend Jason's house. It took the predictably chaotic trajectory and again predictably shot straight through the closed window at a house under construction across the otherwise empty lot. I think we stuck around long enough to make sure that the place didn't catch fire, which, in retrospect, was probably the dumbest thing of all.

Good times.
From the outside looking it, I would say it just looks like a rational model is being imposed on a chaotic system as a means to control and understand the risks. Can we take it for granted that the primary motivation of investors and entrepreneurs is to make money (aka prestige/power/status), and things like changing the world, enjoying their work/team, creativity and other motivations are secondary? If so, since investors start with the money (prestige/power/status), they have the upper hand in a rational model, where successful investment always pays back dividends.

The cause of this situation is the accepted superiority of money (prestige/power/status) and the way investments are structure to ensure the return of more of it to the ones making the investment. The only alternative would be a kind of philanthropy, where investors gave money (spent as capital and income on necessities), without asking for a return, to those they believed would do the most good with it.

Personally, I think that there are other ways to acquire/demonstrate social status other than money, but they aren't as easy to use in algorithms and economic models, so they aren't given as much attention. I think people need to spend more cycles on considering these other ways of measuring status. Certainly we can't dispense with money, because it makes perfect sense to use a common way of measuring the value of most everyday things. But in terms of how you measure a person's significance and contribution to their society, I think it's very limited.

EDIT: some examples of alternatives to money which bequeath status, and which can work as currency or to enhance bargaining position: unique or protected (patented) knowledge, talent (artistic, athletic), beauty, perceived wisdom (spiritual), nobility/heritage. All of these are familiar, but subverting bankers/investors seems to always involve having access to some amount of one or more of these, because it can be translated into followers (audience, buyers).

The growing pool of entrepreneur/labour may have some amount of hustling skill, but if it's not unique, then it is doomed to be commoditized. Anyone who is trying to emulate a Gates, Jobs, Zuck, or other uber-hustler is automatically not unique, and therefor expanding the replaceable pool. Anyone who can acquire followers independently of capital is on to something new. They can escape the dictates of the imposed model and set their own terms, because they have a different sort of capital.
I sympathize with why the mods changed the title from "Porn" to "Video", but now you've made it so that HN users are unwittingly clicking into an article that talks about porn, in such a way that could be detected by a workplace firewall. That's not an ideal usability decision. Why not use good ol square brackets to maintain the integrity of the title:

How I Made [Porn] Video Streaming 20x More Efficient with Python and C
I did. I skipped all the math and just said that is a game where people guess secret numbers that fit a pattern, and when they find one that fits, they get points. Everyone uses computers to help guess, and some people agree to sell real stuff for points. She didn't care enough to challenge my explanation. The hard part of intuitively grasping bitcoin is explaining why money works at all, not why mining works.
There are many keyboard shortcuts available for gmail. You have to enable keyboard shortcuts in the settings though.
See this link: http://gizmodo.com/5995218/a-cheat-sheet-of-every-single-gma...
Or enable keyboard shortcuts in gmail and press shift + '/'

Some of these keyboard shortcuts address some of the issues pointed out in the post, but I did not see any shortcuts that allow you to edit the subject in a composition window though.

I have not been terribly inconvenienced by the changes to the interface.
Hm, I suspect you will get a lot of "$0" answers from folks who have only been out of school since 2008, and much higher answers from folks who were in the Valley pre-2001.
> Government "protections" can only make it worse.

Bullshit.

> Similarly child labor is only a problem when families are too poor to survive if the children don't work.

Bullshit.

> Minimum wage laws "protect" the least profitable workers from getting legal jobs, forcing them to get illegal jobs or survive on government handouts.

Bullshit.

> Environmental destruction happens because government restricts property rights and creates commons which belong to no one.

Big surprise, bullshit.
There's still a lot of coding for that. I'm thinking a drop-in app that looks at a database and creates list and record level editors for each table automatically. Users could still customize it from there but they'd have a good start.
I haven't participated, but a few months ago I went to one of their meetings. I spent most of my time talking with one particular startup I thought was interesting.

To my delight and surprise, they just presented at YC's demo day. :)
I think that the multi-device-thing is not a problem, I've been logged in for weeks (or months) from my laptop (Chrome), work PC (IE 6-8) and 2 different phones (android) without problems
They are disparaging MSIE 5 for MacOS X in particular, which is indeed a piece of junk that no one should be using. That's just facts.
RSU's are different that stock options, no? I answered zero as I have never had anything come from options, while RSUs have been very nice.
In 1822, Charles Babbage wrote about a plan to print mathematical tables using a machine. Yet not until 1979, 157 years later, did Epson's competitively priced printer hit homes, establishing a market for such trinkets. The burgeoning realm of computer printers was launched. Today, mass-produced printers flourish, present in nearly every North American home, owing to a visionary mathematician.

In 1984, Charles Hull invented stereo-lithography: the ability to print tangible 3D objects. By 2002, scientists had engineered a functioning kidney, demonstrating the idea of printable organs. In 2008, the first printer capable of printing most of its own parts was created. The year 2012 saw the first 3D-printed prosthetic implant. Printing 3D objects is a technology poised to bloom.

In 1901, Ransom Olds invented the modern assembly line, ushering an era of mass production. His idea allowed manufacturers to make everything from horseless carriages to automatic weapons on an unprecedented scale, but not with free rein. Factory owners, distributors, and stores must abide by certain regulations, including strict gun controls. In a world of mass-produced, manufactured goods, drafting laws that restrict who can buy or produce guns makes sense.

Hardly will it take 157 years for 3D printers to go from hobbyist tinker-toy to standard home appliance. The technology is advancing faster than a speeding bullet. A decade hence will dawn the age of 3D printers, wounding the mass production industry and killing certain government controls.

Once people can print plastic cups and assorted nicknacks from their couch, the proliferation of untraceable guns could be... explosive.
I have only had above water options at one of three start-ups I worked for.

Pre-IPO stock options should be viewed as lottery tickets unless one is a founder. Still, they motivated me.
:) yeah -- I just had a moment of what-if science fiction run through my head so I posted that...
> I "invited" the LAPD Bomb Squad to my High School Graduation when some punk kid crawling on a roof he was not authorized to be on found a little science demonstration a friend and I had set up for the time of graduation and told a gym teacher who took the science demonstration from where it had been safely installed and placed it in his enclosed office and called the LAPD Bomb Squad (on my behalf.)

"Punk kid" was crawling on a roof. He was not authorized to be on said roof. He found the OP's science demonstration that he set up on the roof to go off during graduation. The "punk kid" told a gym teacher, who contained the experiment to his office and called the LAPD. The bomb squad arrived to investigate.
I spend a vast amount of time every day in Photoshop and Illustrator. I got bored with uploading screenshots some time ago, but here's a small collection of my day-to-day interactions with the software.

http://bad-adobe.tumblr.com/
I'm calling bullshit. I did that many times and never blew any significant hole in the ground (though because of impatience I started using 220V -- not a great idea). Yes it makes a loud boom, but a 2 foot hole no way.
Pretty sure this is referring only to IE for Mac, not IE and MacOS separately.
How secure is putting the login info in there?
I made about $2,500 for 2000 shares once when my company was bought out and was promised $50,000 more if the company hit certain milesones. We did not hit said milestones.