skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not normally rant, but tip4commit and its ilk are some of the most infuriating people in the world to deal with, since they're opting other people's projects into something that has all sorts of legal/taxation consequences and think that "we have no way to remove you once you get opted in" is an acceptable answer.

I'd push complaints further up to GitHub, since I'm sure something in the way this works violates their ToS, but ultimately that wouldn't do anything except cause them to self-host their code and keep running the "service".
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I understand the sentiment but strongly disagree with the cure.

We all agree that what happens in the remote past where you possibly were a different person should not affect your present (and future) you. The better solution is to have people actually think about you and put your old actions in perspective. The proposed solution is to hide your old actions under the rug, in hope that it will not affect other people's judgements. In short, make it so that critical thinking is not needed.

And _this_ is what the law will allow: Have people believe in what they see, because it has been curated for them. Whether it's a misrepresentation (Person A has been "involved" in a murder according to newspaper, where "involved" actually means "witnessed") or just hiding opinion (like the article). People shouldn't need to think. This is a really dangerous path we're following (and I'm speaking as a EU citizen)
The tobacco taxes aren't that huge a source of revenue:

http://taxfoundation.org/blog/monday-map-tobacco-tax-revenue...

Significant, but not huge. Federal seems to be around 0.6% (the way I rounded, should be somewhere close to but lower than that).
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This is problematic in many different ways. Tax reasons are one. Noncompete agreements with exempts for non commercial / open source work another.

Having a balance on this site, even if it's zero, can have severe implications for the maintainer(s).
If minimum donation was say $5 and it notified you one time when you had $25, I do see the people who this would bother being edge cases.

The tax thing is a good point, but I think it would be entirely reasonable and ethical to simply ignore any donations you got if you didn't want them, and not declare them. Perhaps Tip4Commit could auto forward any unclaimed tips to a charity if they are not claimed in a month.

Email spam is another good point, but if it was simply reduced to a one time email when you had accumulated $25 USD I don't see it as unreasonable.

If they implemented the above I'd probably defend them. Right now not so much perhaps, micro cents of tips and lots of emails are understandably pretty annoying.
Wow, my pro-Sweden bias just got another boost, that guy is quite talented. I usually don't like chiptunes, but he managed to make a pretty good one: http://www.linusakesson.net/music/sidstuff/chipful-of-love.p...
tip4commit is one of a number of services which, without asking for permission or notifying you, opt your projects into a BitCoin-based crowdfunding system. Even if your project doesn't want it, even if your project has its own donation/support system you'd like to send people to.

Historically they spammed committers of force-opted-in repositories with an email on every commit to tell them what their new BTC donation balance was after the commit. And they insist that once a repository has been added to their system, they do not have the ability to remove it.

This has legal and tax consequences they seem to be blissfully unaware of, and the best they'll offer is to stop sending you an email every time you make a commit.

We (meaning the Django project) went a few rounds with them a while back and ultimately had to resort to threatening spam complaints against their ISP just to get the damn emails turned off. We still have been unable to get removed from the list of projects they "helpfully" collect donations for:

https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/111

The link in this thread is another major developer also attempting to get his repositories removed from their "service", and being stonewalled just as we were.
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CNES probably will on November 12 between 15:30 and 19:30 CET. I would check the Planetary Society blog too that day for other links.
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I'm not sure those two mean real downside protection - but your point is correct - the VCs are betting on the very small chance that Slack is actually adopted by a huge number of businesses. Right now I'd guess it has a fairly narrow adoption among leading edge companies and SF/Valley natives. I'm sure there are exceptions to this - or maybe they truly have moved beyond that core audience and that's what is driving the valuation.

But that's what VCs do - make a large number of bets that will fail and one that blows it out the park.

Their valuation is a reflection of the growth in Slack's business - meaning they have strong enough growth that they can command that kind of valuation on a huge raise. It is also like a reflection on the limited number of companies that have that kind of growth.

But these kind of valuations also create a high-wire act for the companies in my experience. Growth must be maintained at all costs to justify the valuation. They spend like they're going out of style because of this.
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From the FAQ:

> What happens to unclaimed tips (if recipient doesn't sign in and specify his/her bitcoin address)?
Funds that are not claimed during 30 days get returned back to the project.

Presumably "the project" in the answer refers to tip4commit? If so, isn't tip4commit committing fraud by advertising that tips go to the intended recipient, when in fact, if the recipient does not participate, they go into tip4commit's coffers?

(Or is "the project" a mistake and should read "the donor"?)
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This is gross to read because it's really about consent.
The fact that they have a site on which they solicit donations for specific projects by name, without the permission of the projects involved, raises legal concerns both for them and for the projects if someone succumbs to the reasonable confusion that projects listed on tip4commit have some sort of fundraising agreement with tip4commit.

I've considered a few times figuring out what it would cost to give them a good once-over with an attorney, just because it seems historically that existential threats to their "service" are the only way they ever give even the minimal response to complaints.
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I'm confused to why this project is a good idea. It seems like they are collecting funds on behalf of a third party without that third parties consent and then distributing those funds, again without third parties knowledge or consent.

As much as the project seems to have good intentions, insisting that It's BitCoin, BitCoin is different doesn't mean your product is actually exempt from rules and law. Or that Bitcoin is all that different.

There is no reason someone couldn't build a similar project using traditional currency. But then they would run afoul of the many laws designed to protect depositors, investors, and the financial system writ-large. As someone remarks in TFA, holding the amount of currency on ones balance sheets this project would, if successful, is a terrible idea. It's ripe for fraud and abuse. There is a reason services like Gittip assist in transferring fund, and act as the debiter and depositor.

This whole thing is emblematic of the problems with Bitcoin culture, which seems to think it doesn't have to follow any of the rules. Sorry lads, if Bitcoin is currency, you have to behave like banks and investment firms if you are going to act like banks and investment firms.
Been playing with Pelican and S3 intending to re-launch my old blogging habits. Python is my "goto" so this is a no brainer. Nice overview on your install experience. Too bad someone doesn't wrap this up into a plug and play install - but then it wouldn't be as much fun!
Have you tried generating content with lyX?
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If open source parasites like tip4commit don't learn, the next logical step is to trademark projects and send DMCA notices without wasting any further time.

Also, with this kind of sleazy behavior, the advertising clause in the BSD license suddenly becomes very appealing again.
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Generating SQL statements always involves string manipulation at some stage, doesn't it? I mean at some point even PDO has to send query strings to the SQL server.

The question is whether Drupal really needed to implement their own engine for this, though.
The idea behind Tip4Commit seems sound to me, it just seems like they've executed it really poorly which is a shame.

Unfortunately can't seem to access their site, but if you're right and they are intentionally creating confusion then that is obviously a bad thing.