skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice simple editor web based editor, though I'd still use the fuller featured SVGEdit in most cases.

One thing that would really stand out would be an 'infinite zoom' I've seen implemented elsewhere.
Not necessarily.

Charges can brought in multiple states at the same time, for the same crime which doesn't violate fifth amendment protection of double jeopardy. It's known as the dual sovereignty doctrine.

The FBI only gets involved in the most serious of cases such as organized crime, drugs, gangs, terrorism, cyber crime, etc.

What the FBI investigates: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/what_we_investigate

Info on the dual sovereignty doctrine: http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-rights/charged-twice-in...
It is becoming quite homogenous here. There's just a ton of really wealthy, well-paid business/engineer types.

I've heard varied reports on dating. Some friends are very successful, others no so much. This seems to be more a personal situation then dependent on the culture of the city as a whole. You just gotta get on that tinders or cupes or grindr if that's your thing and play the game just like any other city.

It's a fun city, but it's increasingly become a fantasy for rich white people.

Like parent says lots of "lifestyle" shops; I'm going to arrange a store so it looks like my home but everything is for sale. It's all bullshit though because the rent for these lifestyle shops must far outweigh what they're bringing in. It's hobby businesses for the wives of rich white C-level execs. I don't know I just made that last part up, but you get the picture.
Not usually. For a few reasons: 1. If you aren't careful, specific feedback could be used against you. 2. It's not my job to help people get good at interviewing. The one exception I can recall is when a candidate had exactly the wrong set of skills for the opening we were hiring for, so I did provide some feedback on the types of skills they could look to develop or roles that they might be better suited for.
> If China dumped bonds, why would anyone buy debt from the USG when they can get it cheap on the open market that has just had 1 trillion dumped in it.

The member banks of the federal reserve are required to buy government debt if nobody else will.
Amazon got away with it and they have an editorial process for the Kindle store. Youtube takes down offensive videos and has a human appeals process.
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I think you're mistaking multipool for middlecoin. The latter is what you described. Multipool gives you the coins directly and shows tons of data of your/the pool's mining status.
I didn't get it either. I'm actually considering Braintree for accepting payments because their price is lower.
I definitely agree that those would all be issues, but those are issues for every underhanded transaction, not just this kind of transaction. You could say almost the same thing about drugs, hookers, etc.

Criminals do find ways to do business, and I believe they substitute money and intimidation where trust would usually go.
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First off, congrats on the hard work and incredible progress you guys have made.

I'd just comment that you responding to this, along with a YC partner, only adds credibility to the story. If its BS, it should be totally ignored. The fact that both of you took time to attempt to discredit an article from a blog would make one question why you feel the need to do so.

Interestingly I got down-voted on this comment too.. Ironic because I am generally impressed with and love Stripe and its story. Just sayin' to not take an outlet like Pando too seriously.
The "surface area" of a black hole is defined precisely as the area of the boundary beyond which light cannot escape, so I don't this angle will work the way you're thinking it might. (It's fairly straightforward to show that that surface does indeed expand as more mass is added, too.)

It's pretty neat, actually: if you had a black hole containing the mass of a whole galaxy (which isn't unthinkable, especially in the distant future), local space-time at the event horizon would seem completely ordinary (at least as far as we understand from classical relativity and semi-classical quantum corrections like Hawking radiation). You wouldn't have the foggiest idea that you had crossed that fateful line... until you caught on to the fact that you weren't actually making any progress when you tried to turn back.
I moved to STL last year for family reasons. I had been struggling a bit to figure out things to do so the list in this post is much appreciated.

Good luck with your startup!
How solid did the projects look when you originally started using them?
http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-take-portrait-pictures-like-A...
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They were booking rides without the intent of actually taking or paying for those rides. How is that not fraud? The fact that they were doing it to mine for phone numbers doesn't make it less fraudulent. That'd be like saying it's ok to order a bunch of pizzas from Pizza Hut without the intent of paying for them because you were simply trying to figure out who the drivers are.
Clang is free software.
Is it actually illegal? That seems to be very much a question, not a matter of fact. It's obvious Uber was not intentionally trying to disrupt Gett's business. They were trying to harvest driver phone #s (so they could later try to hire away the drivers; while ethically dubious, this part does not seem illegal). Furthermore, they paid cancellation fees to Gett for doing this. It does not seem clear-cut to me at all that you could label this as fraud, which I believe is the only way to claim this is illegal.
Heh, it was a long road:

1) Have a p2p startup get acquired by Akamai
2) Want to do something financial
3) Financial == PCI compliance == super super expensive
4) Use p2p to build inexpensive PCI compliance
5) ...
6) Profit!
Theoretically, if the company can get a bunch of phone #s, they could even completely anonymize it by assigning two temporary numbers (one to driver, one to passenger) and call-forwarding them for the duration of the trip.

You wouldn't even need a bunch of phone numbers. Assuming caller ID works correctly, you can use that to decide where to route the call. Customer A is calling? Route to Driver X? Driver Y is calling? Route to Customer B.
Can it be used to resurrect Aldus/Macromedia/Adobe FreeHand? I still can't use anything but it and I keep a windows VM on my Mac almost only for it.
gfodor: I've thought of a clever, easy way to send the coins to new users that doesn't require a sign-up. But I still don't know how to notify new users, unless they've already installed the extension. Your idea of Twitter handles is a good hack, but as you point out, it misses a non-trivial number of users. Hmm...

PS: By the way, to viach, mrfussion, and gfodor: I've already got a backend system built using Tornado and ZeroMQ for a Bitcoin POS that could be adapted to this scenario fairly easily, and it would scale well. But how to notify new users without pissing everyone else off....
Asking about previous employees is no more rude than asking an employee for references. If a company has a history of lots of employee churn that's a big warning sign.
This is terrific. Been fiddling around with the pen tool. So far, not much worse than Illustrator!

A few feature requests: having the shift-c tool (convert anchor point, I think) and being able to delete anchor points would be great. Much harder to work without that. Saving also didn't work the first several times I tried (but great to see auto-saving to ¿localStorage?)
It's not pretty impressive that it hasn't caused inflation. It's exactly what we would expect based on the predictions of mainstream economic theory in our current situation. Indeed, if the Fed had to print an additional $1 trillion to cover these dumped bonds I am doubtful the inflation would tick up more than half a percent at best.

The whole thing is kind of moot since China would be committing economic suicide by doing this.
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"The people who campaign for GPL software authors to change their license seem to assume that the authors of the software naively chose the GPL, as opposed to choosing it for its particular spirit."

Sometimes they do. I've seen it happen more than once where developers chose the GPL, were asked to change it and then did saying they only chose the GPL because it seemed like a decent default because that's what Linux or whatever used.

Even more common are developers who don't fully grasp the practical implications of a particular license, like making a Go library LGPL without a static linking exception, not realizing that LGPL is basically the same as GPL on a platform without dynamic linking or a toolset that is well suited to distributing pre-compiled object files to satisfy the license terms.
It's only a faux pas if the company you're talking to sucks. Great companies love hard questions.
How much do they charge you for credit cards? Do they add a % for AMEX, Discover + "unqualified" transactions? What about monthly fees?
Also, I'm from the south, so feel free to contact me if you need any advice. I've been there; done that.
Disclaimer: Salt developer here.

Please don't conflate acknowledging that the ssh implementation is a newly-implemented feature with "discouraging" the use of it. You're better than that.
I assume all things Essex are likewise unreachable.

(The implication of my comment being that the filtering mechanism is not limited to being that dumb; the stupidity in the particular (as opposed to the general) may be laid at the feet of incompetent management.

In the general, the incompetence -- and maliciousness -- has already been rightly laid at the feet of governent as well as its subornation to vested and entrenched private interests.)
> This is a judgement of the motives of Apple that I do not believe is correct by Stallman and he making a straw man case for it. I don't think that Apple "hates" their freedom.

I think Apple views freedom as a threat to their business, so if companies are capable of "hate" then I think the statement is accurate.
Great job. One request: Make the CMD shortcuts work for the CTRL key too. They don't seem to fire.
<yet another reminder that Richard Stallman is bat shit crazy but a necessary vocal FOSS proponent for counterbalancing closed-source interests>
I think you can assume that this kind of thing goes on outside of SV, so it shouldn't color your relocation-to-SV utility curve...
The human appeals process wouldn't really factor into it. It's more about the distinction between "auto-posting anything submitted" and "high-touch pre-posting decision making process prior to posting" that distinguishes "safe harbours" from sites that bear responsibility for what they host.

I'd need to read the Amazon decision for more insight into how that played out. Seems like a somewhat unsettled area of DMCA caselaw.
You should use Python + PyGame.
No, not "old white dudes." The Wikipedia page is decent on the topic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_%28slang%29

Also, when analyzing the forces resistant to legalization you should account for the allegiances and power dynamics, particularly as applies to the information channels that communicate crime and other social costs upward to the actual policymakers. You're painting a caricature of a flattened hierarchy of federal policy and politics that simply doesn't exist.
The average property tax rate is 4x California's, though. On the other hand, the average property value is lower. How all those factors combine depends on your income/location/etc. The group that comes out worst is the middle class in cheaper areas, around 40th-70th percentile incomes. If you make mid 5 figures, and live in a $150k house, your tax situation would be better Bakersfield than in Houston.
Down from here. Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
If you read his post, that isn't an additional issue, it's the issue he was talking about. If you read my post, you'll see GPLv2 isn't restricted for the reasons you mentioned because of existence and legal interpretation of the DMCA safe-harbor clause. Maybe you'd argue there would be a different legal interpretation for Apple. I doubt it.

If a company contracted out some code and the contractor stole it from some other copyrighted project, do you really think a court would hold Apple liable, unless there was some pattern of encouraging infringement in the App Store?
sweet, another way for them to have more data on us that can be stolen.
I think that's the function of Stallman and what he will be remembered as: an absolute that's useful to measure your own position against.
Because there are many games, and there is a bigger market of people buying those games.

Since there is more people buying those games, a popular game can be profitable at a lower price now than a popular game could have been profitable at in the past. There is also no mark-up through as many distribution channels. There's no physical shelf space necessary, there's not the same sort of publisher relationships needed. A team (of any size) can create a game and publish it directly.

So because of changes in distribution and an increased market, the price should go down due to reduced expenses. But the other side is that many of these changes also reduce the barrier to entry of new developers. This means that there's more competition which means that the price will go down due to reduced margins from competition.

It's not so much that it's $1-4 for a dumb game and $16 for a quality game. It's that people sell quality games for less than 5 dollars and still make money. It's also the perception that "this game was already made". Chances are the people who are buying it have already played it because these rereleases are generally for fans of the game. So you're paying again for a game that's 20 years old. Does it make sense to pay more than a new game?

That said I'm in total agreement that the biggest thing about it is form factor. People don't buy SNES rpgs on the phone because phones aren't the best way to play SNES rpgs.

Phones have a small screen, long term playing on such a small screen causes eye strain, phones have touch screens, which are great for angry birds, because it's a very intuitive use for touch. Touch screen gamepads are not intuitive, and occlude the screen. Phones are always on you which is very handy for games that you want to pick up or put down, but not so important for marathon sessions. Phones have batteries which need to be considered, so again, you want to avoid the marathon gaming sessions.

The reason we have so many casual games on the phone is because the phone is the ideal target for casual games. Games that you can pick up and put down. Go and play a level of candy crush saga on the toilet. Go and shoot some angry birds waiting for the train. I've tried to play some RPGs this way and you might get through a minor segment of a story line or some plot exposition on the can before your legs start to get numb.

You often find $60 PC games for sale. We haven't moved to a point where games are all $1-4. We just have moved to a point where casual games are $1-4, and bigger games demand a different delivery method than a little phone screen and substandard (compared with the alternatives of a console or PC) hardware. If you're going to pay $60 for a game, you're probably planning on putting some real time aside for it, which means sitting at your desk or on the couch. When you get an app for the phone instead, you do it because you might get some use out of it when you can't spend the time to sit at a desk or on the couch.
> Uber handles this by having a button in their app that initiaates the phone call. You can't find out a driver's number without actually calling them. Similarly, they can't find out yours without actually calling you.

Actually, I think they use some sort of phone proxy service. I once looked at my driver's phone and he had a totally different number listed for me that I did not recognize (same area code though).
A few more (not that they'll necessarily tell you, or offer you the job after you get done asking):

6. What percentage of the company are those XX,000 shares you're giving me?

7. What's the current valuation of the company?

8. How much runway do you have left? (Although you can probably infer this pretty easily by when they last raised.)

9. Since you're giving me a YY% haircut on my market-rate salary, what reasons other than the almost certainly worthless, say, 0.25% of the company you're giving me over four years should I be joining you?

10. I don't believe 60-80 hour weeks are productive, sustainable or healthy. What do you think about that?
I don't feel like the fact that they defrauded the drivers/service because they wanted their information from them makes this any less fraudulent...
Gmail was down
Is gmail down in your country?

Colombia +1
When I finally realized that the FSF is really about being a social movement and that creating useful software is a non-primary goal (or maybe even a non-goal), my level of annoyance with RMS greatly decreased. Of course, along with that, my level of give-a-shit about the FSF and the GNU project decreased proportionally.

Stallman wants you to use Free software because it's free-as-in-ideology, not because it necessarily works well or does what you want.
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Yea, there's no doubt that's true, but it's true everywhere. The people who are doing novel things are of course everywhere, but the filter is harder.

In SF, you can find a lot of people doing novel things, but you need to filter like anywhere else. It's just that the raw number of creatives here makes these groups larger. I still have yet to find the concentration of these types greater than anywhere else in the world.
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Seems like a blackmail-y proposition.
Is this still surprising or non-obvious, after decades of GPL vs BSD flamewars (and, in particular, discussions on which one is truly "free")?

GPL is restrictive and defending users' freedoms is the exact reason for this. If you care about that, welcome to the GPL side; if you don't want the imposed restrictions but also ready to stop enforcing (through restrictions) GPL-granted freedoms - BSD and company await you.
I'm not sure if that fact implies what you think it implies. There are many effects in NYC in particular that keep the poor from riding taxis:

- A highly effective and heavily taxpayer-supported mass transit system (aka the subway) that gets people around marginally slower than taxis, and actually faster than taxis during peak hours. Rides are $2.50, less when purchased in bulk.

- A restricted supply of taxis has meant supply concentrates in the southern portion of Manhattan where fares are frequent and relatively short (maximizing profitability as there is a $3.50 meter drop immediately when taking a new passenger). Taxi drivers strongly avoid areas where fares are less frequent, and rides are longer - and surprise, that's where poor people are.

These have nothing to do with higher fees - enforced supply has resulted in lack of taxi availability to the poor, but not because of high fees. Cab drivers are incentivized to min-max their fares, regardless of how much their medallions cost.

There is actually a program out right now: boro taxis, which are only allowed to operate in the outer boroughs - away from the wealthy parts of Manhattan. This program was specifically started to offset the supply crowding and allow people in more far-flung neighborhoods (read: poorer) accessibility to cabs. They charge the same rates as every other taxi in the city.
He also got a million dollar grant from the McArthur Foundation, and another one from the Takeda Foundation, and doesn't really understand that most programmers operate in a very different economic reality than his bubble.
Yep - can't access even my business apps
...after what they were doing was exposed.
Depends on who the end users are. The end users of clang might care about source code.
That's a pretty inane line of argument. Let's generalise it:

Xs don't care about Y, except for those Xs that do.

Insightful stuff.
This seems like a good way to read it to me. Hawking does put forth some meaningful arguments in there that deserve attention (or else it wouldn't be worth listening, even if this is Hawking), but he hasn't proven any new theorems or shown an explicit counterexample to previously accepted physics.

This firewall issue is just complicated, and it has stubbornly resisted consensus from the physics community despite a year or so of intense interest. I think we're in the market for crazy new ideas at this point.
ESR, is that you?

All you did was repeat "free market" a bunch of times. Congratulations.
Confirmed by my own email not working.... Probably limited to a small subset of users though.
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"if you take reasonable steps to remove the illegal content when informed of its existence?"

In this case, no steps were taken - though some claimed he was willing to remove content "for a fee". Usually, though, requesting content removal got you front page publicity, and the site sharing your content further with other similar sites.

"if you have the right to host whatever legal content you wish"

Said legal content is actually of fairly dubious legality when you pay someone to hack email accounts to get some of it.
Statistically, this was bound to happen. What's the surprise?
Slight wave of hand There is no porn Filter.

These aren't the droids you're looking for.

You can go about your business.

Move along.
Also confirming down for me and my co-workers.
Another commenter below said he knows an Uber employee in Boston where they not only employ the same tactics with other competitors but also have names for it such as ShopLyfting and SideSwiping.

It looks like this is Uber's culture and not just a few employees in one office behaving unethically. The article also mentions that everyone from the General Manager down were involved in this. The GM is basically the head for a given city. That tells you how far up the chain the lack of ethics goes.
> Or you can just let it die as llvm and clang become more and more efficient.

That's my plan.
the BSD license is a free software license.

It's not a copyleft license, or a GNU license, but its a free software license.

The 2 and 3 clause BSD licenses are GPL-compatible free software licenses. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD

Even the original 4-clause BSD license is a free software license, although the 'advertising' clause is GPL-incompatible. It's also not used much any more. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
He even announces a refusal to use Skype because it's not free software.

Which is a valid complaint given the nature of Skype. There's also tons of other reasons, though. Primarily technical ones.

Either way, software freedom is an important goal and even though I don't necessarily agree with RMS in this case, I understand where he's coming from. So many people seem to have some phobia of accentuating the ethical, freedom and community contexts that the term "free software" implies, preferring the more bitterly pragmatic "open source".

That and this is a very typical RMS rant. This is probably the umpteenth one of the same variation, only with $SOFTWARE being Clang/LLVM in this case.

For the record, I love Clang/LLVM and support BSD licensing. For a lot of software, having an open source development model without the deeper freedom contexts is good enough.
Down for us as well
Oh boy, here we go again.
End users that don't want to modify the source code them selves still have the option to use a forked version made by somebody else.
An accident that kills someone vs. an accident that I'm surprised got an article written about it.
Dead at my end too... :-)
I'm not seeing any red on that status page, but the service is definitely down for me.

It is a firm reminder that Google is not bullet-proof.