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An important point is that it isn't for services rendered -- it's for services to be rendered in the future on receipt of payment. At the point of billing I owed them $0, and had received no service from them. A credit card number is the compound of the number and expiry day, and they essentially fabricated a new expiry date.

There are whole industries built around billing people for services they don't actually want, and this is just an example of it. I completely understand that it is normal across the industry, but it is incredibly scummy and puts deception and evasion ahead of providing actual value.
How is it supposed to be spelled..?
I suppose I can stretch a bit and see that. Of course if you lose your inkan, you'd probably notice it was missing. If someone gets hold of your password (which may not even be your fault) there's a good chance you won't realize it has been compromised until too late.
Obviusly, he meant that it was a stretch that the video belongs on HN, due to it being involved with our civil liberties.
I clicked the login button on your oauth.io site' and I was surprised to see a basic email/password form. Why not use your own product to allow login through Facebook, twitter, github, etc?
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nope. It's a fair point. I kind of expected the video to be turned off before that happened, or to just be a news article.
'Hacker News' is whatever news is voted up by the users. While the original article might not be about programming or startups, people might still be interested in discussing it with like-minded people. In this case it involves technology and sousveillance, which is related to a lot of issues going on that are more 'hacker' related. It might not be that interesting to you or me, but it's at the number 1 spot on the homepage, so people do want to discuss it.
i hate to be "that" guy, but:

you're an idiot.

in an unchecked police state, technology does not exist in any form worth focusing on.
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A quick search of their cited source shows this to be incorrect (or misleading, at least). Here's a few corresponding values (Total Cost of Employment = salary + overtime + vacation/sick time value + employer contributions to medical + employer contribution to pension + employer 401k matching + 'misc')(Cash = salary + overtime):

- Customer Service Clerk: 61k cash, 85k TCOE

- A-Line Train operator: Hard to say, because the range goes from 7k cash to 122k (although half of that high number was overtime). It looks like the lowest paid operator that's probably full time is around 40k cash, 74k TCOE

- Elevator worker: I couldn't find this job, but a "maintenance engineer" is 68k Cash, 106 TCOE.

http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area/2012
I received an invite to this service today and just checked it out - this is not correct.

You have to generate your own keys for each service, then store them with OAuth.io. This doesn't mean they can't access your users' data, just that there isn't one "master key" that could shut everyone down.
I was about to post a similar comment. Your advice is very good, and hasn't yet been heard by enough people to have the knee-jerk "victim blaming" response attached to it.

Edit: Oops, poster above did in fact throw down the victim blaming card. Indeed, the man did nothing wrong, but he could have a live dog right now by simply avoiding the police.
Stupid mother fuckers who don't understand animals... You don't reach for a dog's face or leash while he's trying to defend his owner. The dog wouldn't have lunged if he wasn't provoked.
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> the officers were correct to shoot the dog once it was jumping at them and was undeterred by being kicked

The larger question is whether or not the officers had any business with the dog's owner in the first place. If the answer to that question is no, then none of their actions have any justification, shooting the dog included.

And unless there's more to the story about what Leon Rosby was doing (if he wasn't simply filming), then the answer to that question is in fact no.
Snowden didn't begin the spying program, he is the one who informed people about the fact so that they can protect themselves from being cheated by a lie.

The thing which hurt the US is the activities that its present government has been taking - and those activities are what people overseas are upset about.

Indeed, you need to re-break a break sometimes, but it is not an action that harms the break or the person: it is the only action that enables them to heal. We judge if they are harmed or not by the result, and the result of this method of treatment if correctly followed is decidedly good. So it's not true that temporal pain is implicitly indicative of harm.

The people who are in power in the US right now do not represent the real will of the people and thus they do not have the people's mandate. As such, no matter whether the EU withdraws from a trade deal with the current US government, it is not withdrawing from a government which is of the real people. As such, it would in fact be right of the EU to withdraw its agreement with the current US government so that more truth about the degree of legitimacy of the current US government is revealed. It's only by admitting the truth that we can finally start to go on the right path. To continue the way things are going now, where these dire problems are hidden, is even more painful to truthful people than it is to have the truth come out. Because the truth always exists.

I hope this helps things make more sense to you.
A need they can fill on Reddit, yes?
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I think it's on topic -- consumer tech and rapid distribution of video disrupting how groups (in this case the cops) function and deal w/citizens. Would the situation have been different if he were filming w/google glass?
CBS is reporting they were seeking a 15% raise over three years.

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I'm not sure a crippling beating with a nightstick would be a kindness--if you were the cop in question, faced with a dog that size lunging at you, you're probably not going to go for a love tap.
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A large contingent of mainstream European nations included. Europe stepping forward to defend Snowden and stand against surveillance may tilt the balance. Europe is quite angry about being the "OK to do 100% surveillance on" foreigners.
Let's see: The guy is using a smart phone to record in a public space and gets arrested (not to mention the dog).

Use of smart phones (video apps etc) in the public space and it's implications are certainly HN-relevant.
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My idea of "cold blooded" mistakes are the other cases where they did something like this and then charged them. For those, I have no sympathy whatsoever--those are flatly ridiculous. I don't think this was planned or well-thought out, though, on any side, so I would not classify this as a "cold blooded" mistake by anyone.

Every case of running from the cops could be considered "entrapment" in the narrow sense that the person could not have fled from the police without being chased by them. As such, I do not find it sufficient inducement to support any such claim.

That said, I would certainly acquit anyone whose only crime was fleeing or "resisting" arrest--with no actual underlying crime, I would be highly suspicious of any account given. I am sympathetic to the idea that those are BS charges often added as padding. If there is no evidence of injury to one of the cops, I would consider any charge of "resisting" arrest to be likely BS.

But that's why I support the people who did the right thing and dropped the charges. Cops are not inherently different from anyone else: they make mistakes just like we all do. The big problem is that their screwups cost people more.
Especially those folks that need control of their data. And don't want the abysmal Azure upload speeds. Nor NSA access to their data.
I expect we'd see more liquidity on MtGox if they figured out how to write a matching engine. I would never add liquidity on a venue that routinely takes hours to process orders and cancels.
> Having said that, given the opportunity and no legal obstacles, it's almost stupid not to soak up every last piece of data.

then

> Blaming the NSA for PRISM is like blaming the ocean for New Orleans.

I simply can't buy that.

It doesn't take a ton of smarts to know that a giant database such as this, even in the hands of the most kind and benevolent stewards, _will not stay in those hands forever_.

It's a ticking time bomb for abuse. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when, and how bad. It's a silent bloodless military coup in a box with a big red button on top.

Once built, something like that could never get meaningfully opposed, and a large-scale abuse would be the absolute end of freedom as we know it: everything from oppression of the free press, to coercion and blackmail of political opponents, and silencing of activists or loudmouths of any/all stripes.

I just can't see how any reasonable person, even with a 100% belief in the legitimacy of spying, even domestically, could not see what a COLOSSALLY BAD IDEA this thing is.

No conceivable threat model, even fantastic ones from Hollywood, makes it seem sane, as the damage to the "American way of life" is an order of magnitude greater from such a system than any bomb or attack.

I see what you're saying, and all of these seem like reasonable explanations, but they all become non-starters when you consider the long-term consequence of this thing being built. It's like a doomsday machine that you can't turn off.
Plus 2% cost of living each year. That's actually 22.5% over 3 years.
This is sad in so many degrees. One why would you arrest someone for not doing anything? I didn't notice any treats or suspicious activity plus I think that dog situation could have been handled more properly, There are a few strong cops out there and one dog that they need a gun for? It's not a lion! misuse of power I say.
Is the author of the original post as dense as he professes to be in his total inability to understand the angry responses to the discussions of "creeper?" I have a hard time believing that, so I conclude he is writing in a mode of rhetorical trolling in service of making his point.

either case, his obtuseness as to why labeling people as creepers might cause anger is dismaying, particularly coming from a high status make with a privileged background. (Harvard Law and ask that).

Of the many problems with his essay, probably the simplest to point out is the snide callousness of defining people as "creepers" who allegedly engage in "creepy" behavior.

As an anecdotal observation, when I hear female acquaintances use the term creep/creeper it almost always refers to unwelcome sexual advances by lower status males.

I have not heard the term used much to describe the more harrowing examples of sexual harassment outlined in helpful internet posts describing just what "creeping" is. Or if the term is used, there is clarifying language ("asshole, jerk") to make the distinction that it was a more serious situation.
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Technically you're correct in that, this site is a culmination of news that gets submitted and upvoted. However, eggbrain was quoting the Hacker News Guidelines [1], when he listed the Off-Topic line. I think that this story does fall within the off-topic category (even though it is popular, like you mentioned), because it is graphic content, which is probably a crime, and just senseless violence.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I wonder what exactly happened with Hong Kong. Did he get wind that the HK govt intended to end-run its own laws and asylum process and extradite him, or something similar?
I wonder if it might just have to do with the fact that the people most inclined to comment on an article are the people that disagree with the premise most strongly. That goes with /any/ subject, not just this one. People that agree usually just hit "like" or move on. So if you're only paying attention to the direct comments, you're going to get a skewed view of things.

I neither agree or disagree with his premise, but I don't know that you can take the responses to his articles to represent some "trend", because you're basically filtering for a certain thing (disagreement) when you write on controversial subjects and just read the comments.

I guess I just read that article as: "I presented a strong opinion to the entire world AND PEOPLE DARED TO DISAGREE WITH ME?! WHO ARE THESE MONSTERS?!". Well I mean, you presented it to the entire world, what did you expect, 100% agreement? It doesn't necessarily mean anything though.
Not what they're trained for? One of their jobs is to handle domestic disturbances and what do you find in domestic settings? Dogs. So every time a dog doesn't like what you're doing, you shoot it?
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This. Completely true.
well. The site is marginally about that. It seems actually more to do with the right to record officers.

Honestly does seem like pure politics to me. I don't see a discussion about how the inflation of cameras causes a rexamination of the rules, or how it's impacting things.

Frankly. That's a dubious connection at best. I know there's some people who don't like it. but I like hacker news to be about hackers.

As a citizen I find this interesting, as a hacker I don't.

Simple yes?
That's interesting but it doesn't answer the question of which rules the Obama administration broke by revoking Snowden's passport.
"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link"

Also from the guidelines.
I will grant that transplants get us into weird territory. It was just in the last decade or so when the first larynx transplant was done did we learn that the recipient has his original voice restored and doesn't gain that of the donor's. The outcome was really in question at the time.

Perhaps the new body does feed back some changes into the brain, but overall we still have a cortex with the original memories, etc as a starting point.
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As much as I want more publicity for this case, I agree. I don't want HN to be completely politics-free, as issues like SOPA and PRISM are deeply relevant to the startup community, but in this case, I think Reddit and TV news have got it covered. Reluctantly flagged.
That kind of innovation (a) is difficult and (b) requires precisely configured conditions. Unfortunately the lesson that corporations learned from the golden age of these labs was that though they produced amazing things, they didn't provide an adequate return on the investment. Now that everybody has learned that lesson, there are not many such labs left and the ones that are thriving operate much like either product incubators (Microsoft) or agencies (PARC).

Another problem is that there are not many properly educated people to establish and run labs like this thanks to our education system falling apart. But you won't hear anybody talking about that. Things will just get worse and worse.
This is ridiculous. A guy takes a picture of his cat in the park. He took a picture with his smartphone. Use of smartphones in a public space are HN-Relevant. Thus, we can now upload cute animal pictures to Hacker News.
Another thing that works great:

Just email one specific question.

Then a week or so later, email another specific question. Repeat.

I've been saying no to all "pick your brain" requests, and even interview requests, but if someone emails a specific question, I answer it. (I'm at derek@sivers.org if you want to test this.)

One guy wanted an interview, I said no (just too busy), so he emailed just one question, then did it again, and a month or so later he posted our interview: http://onepercentcollective.org/derek-sivers-generosity-talk...

I thought that was a pretty clever hack. Clever enough that I then met with him later, and he's an impressive dude.
Nice write up. I am recommending https://github.com/wg/wrk instead of ab if you ever have to run those kind of benchmarks again.
The distinction seems vague to me. It's either "don't come back or we will throw you in jail for coming back" or "don't come back or we will throw you in jail for committing a previous crime."
No; this attitude is exactly what allows for the community dilution. "Open membership" + "front page should be a representative sampling of 'anything the membership likes'" has its asymptote at "cat pictures."

A community starts with a focus, and its core members join because they want a focused community. But they invite their friends, who aren't necessarily fully interested in the core discussion--so discussion drifts wider. And as discussion drifts, more secondary members (only somewhat interested in the core topic) and event tertiary members (not at all interested in the core topic, only in the secondary topics introduced by drift) join, until the community no longer has any core topic or core userbase whatsoever. The core members see the community as useless (because it no longer gives them anything they couldn't find elsewhere on the internet), and leave to find/start another community that actually has a focus.

The only way to stop this process, is to either disallow "open membership"--e.g. you can't invite your friends if they're not also hackers--or to disallow "front page should be a representative sampling of 'anything the membership likes'"--e.g. by requiring that people vote to a criteria other than "what you personally enjoy." The HN guidelines are an attempt at the latter.