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This is a good point you raise. Violating Craigslist's terms, playing business hardline, and the other issues presented on that wiki section are indeed controversial. But I'm pretty okay with letting them slide in pursuit of Airbnb's broader mission. What I'm not okay with is calling out other groups of people. Airbnb is about opening your home up to others, but their latest actions are the very antithesis of that spirit. Intergroup attacks are a new low for Airbnb.

"If you don't want to do something stupid, you probably don't want to have higher expectations of your abilities than you should..." I disagree with this statement. I believe that enlightenment, not stupidity, results from pushing our expectations. I think modesty is more important when it comes to understanding the factors that contributed to an outcome, "stupid" or not.

I don't think the ad is that bad in the world of smear campaigns. But it is a smear campaign, which is very unlike Airbnb. All I hope is that they return to their higher standards of respect for the community - it's a principal that enables a business like theirs in the first place.

Beautiful site, but their call to action at the bottom leaves a lot to be desired. I want to "join" something that feels broader than what is projected at the bottom (a text-invite w/ a tweet link).

An aside: I've never seen a Google search using encrypted.google.com - very cool! Apparently it prevents the referrer/query data from getting passed along to wherever you click.

The last time I tried to use StartSSL, I kept getting an SSL failure on https://auth.startssl.com/... Go figure.

I ended up paying $10 on namecheap instead.

I wonder why they picked L-Theanine for their first experiment - the effects are commonly known (caffeinated tea vs caffeinated coffee). Maybe this knowledge was used deliberately so people "feel" a drug the first time around, and want to keep going.

Is there much of a difference between freelancing and software contracting? I've met a handful people who are part of a company (read: agency) of 1-5 and making really good money ($60/hr+). But they're also in the Bay Area.

tl;dr:

Hersh’s most consequential claim was about how bin Laden was found in the first place. It was not years of painstaking intelligence-gathering, he wrote, that led the United States to the courier and, ultimately, to bin Laden. Instead, the location was revealed by a ‘‘walk-in’’ — a retired Pakistani intelligence officer who was after the $25 million reward that the United States had promised anyone who helped locate him. For that matter, bin Laden was hardly ‘‘in hiding’’ at all; his compound in Abbottabad was actually a safe house, maintained by the Pakistani intelligence service. When the United States confronted Pakistani intelligence officials with this information, Hersh wrote, they eventually acknowledged it was true and even conceded to provide a DNA sample to prove it.

YouTube is a huge domain - the potential for audio indexing could bring vast improvements to search relevancy. What other audio domains are you experimenting with?

I wonder how often fallen-out relationships between cofounders get reconciled. It seems like the force driving change needs to be pretty compelling... something much larger than the two individuals.

As someone new to this idea, the README helped clarify the workflow: https://github.com/github/git-lfs/blob/master/docs/api/READM...

Come Tuesday it won't be an exact quote anymore.

In the future everyone will be producing content - not just the people that currently do it for a living. Brand-name publishers simply will not be able to compete against the masses. It began with TypePad blogging, and now platforms like Medium are taking social publishing even more mainstream.

Which raises more interesting questions: how will this next generation of content producers monetize content, and will they be doing it for a living like the publishers of today?

This is a really good question. It's funny, a little digging led me back to the same blog.

https://remysharp.com/2014/12/30/vatmoss-proof

I could see the location information being supplied using a Bitcoin service provider (Coinbase?), but whether it is accepted as "proof," is questionable.

JS Bin is a service that appeals to techies. As such, it should see moderate success accepting Bitcoin! Bitcoin transactions are non-reversible, which would solve the fraud complications.

If public schools are going to succeed, then many states need to "catch up" when it comes to funding. More funding will attract more teachers, creating a stronger candidate pool.

If you look at the average funding per student by state, Texas isn't doing so hot [1], especially for being the second largest state [2]. There's definitely more to it than just funding, but I think that would be a good starting point.

[1] http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/may0...

[2] http://www.ipl.org/div/stateknow/popchart.html

(edit) More recent funding figures, from 2013: http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-educa...

The best solution I could find for reading was

http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/#/item/10223645

But there is no commenting, upvoting, etc (b/c of CSRF).

I tried rendering Hacker News in an iframe on a page with zoom set but they set X-FRAME-OPTIONS: DENY which destroys any hope of cross-origin css magic.

[edit] just tested zoom with a site that can be iframe-d and my css hopes were squashed - the size of the iframe is zoomed, but not its contents.

As you mentioned, small incentives definitely don't cut it. In comapanies where thriving in high stress environments is part of the culture, detoxifying that stress should equally be part of the culture. Sadly, it often isn't, and the imbalance leads to burnout.

Half-baked response: I like the goal, but I worry that an opt-in system would be too easy to ignore. I imagine the exploiters working for Access Funding could come up with a pretty convincing pitch as to why their client should bypass such a service.

Personally, I wish that there was more due process around this sort of thing. So, for instance, as part of the settlement a lawyer had to be there to advise the recipient throughout the process.

So much cheese. My favorite:

IF YOU STUDY THE MATERIAL ON THIS WEBSITE YOU WILL HOPEFULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR PURPOSE HERE ON EARTH HAS BEEN.

Nope! All payouts are funded by advertisers paying to be featured on the interstitial page. The only data that we allow advertisers to target is the destination domain.

One problem I encountered when backtesting a futures algorithm was fill rate. In real world scenarios, getting your orders filled can be a slippery slope. Latency can be a huge bust, especially as the market price accelerates away. Accounting for this is more important with HFT, where a position will only be held for a few pips.

This trend has been very apparent to me, starting a couple years after Steve Jobs passed. I waited until July 2015 to upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite because of all the bugs I kept hearing about.

I think there's an opportunity for individuals to reclaim some of this power, and therefore value. I'm working on a solution in the form of a url shortener. We pair advertisers with the links people share. So when an individual shares a link to a piece of content, i.e. a blog, they can monetize the process.

Considering turning my text-logo into one of these!

Particularly for mobile, the latest video-ad rendering is happening in JS [0]. This is because autoplay video is disabled by default on mobile, but video rendering in ASM JS / WebGL bypasses such restrictions. Yahoo [1] is doing this, for instance.

[0] https://github.com/brion/ogv.js

[1] https://hpto.yahoo.com/review/mobile/npte/a-haunted.html

I'm minimizing the complexity of the extra step with a browser extension. When you open the extension, it hits an API with the current URL and gives you the short URL. Ultimately, the goal is to make the service accessible on every site, alongside the Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest buttons common in social widgets.

I'm using tools similar to what social platforms use to aggregate metadata, and embedding this information in the page, specifically for crawlers. Facebook still gets the metadata, except it comes from my service and not the original site.

If PGP was used, I wonder with what security each party guarded their PGP key. I could imagine DPR's PGP key getting compromised following his arrest. This would reveal half of the conversation -- likely enough to spawn an investigation of the DEA agent.

AdFly is a competitor, but it is oriented toward publishers and advertisers. Everyday people who share content can still use the service, but they will have a difficult time clearing the $5 minimum payout amount.