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Are you Jim? I am honored to read your comments here, and would love to hear where I got things wrong, if you're willing to point them out.

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I always thought it odd that the most common TaskRabbit job was assembling Ikea furniture. Do people really need to outsource that job?

Amazing that the company lasted so long.

Awesome code review, even more valuable than the plugin itself. Thanks :)

That's why Yahoo made the point of blaming a "state-sponsored actor". You would expect a giant tech company to be able to defend itself against random hackers, but what if it was the government of Russia?? That's why Sony Pictures blamed North Korea for what was, in the opinions of security experts, the work of an insider.

Unfortunately, lawsuits are rare unless a user can demonstrate that the hack led to measurable harm.

Palantir and Skype are in Downtown Palo Alto. Paypal was founded there, and so was Google.

If investors think it's theft, they should call the authorities.

The suspect (not "thief", because "theft" is determined in a court of law) can then be convicted via due process, which is a constitutional right.

After the Mt. Gox hack, users contacted authorities. The Mt. Gox hack lost $600M worth of bitcoin. They are now recovering some of their funds.

Now say, you took out a mortgage and came up with 5 million dollars. Another 100 people don't have any dollars, so they would like to seize your 5 million dollars with a patch. There's a clear majority vote to take your 5 million dollars. Should they be allowed to do that?

nope, that's exactly correct. They even use the term "trustees".

Yes, that is a more accurate description. The Ethereum community was very quick to call the guy a thief, without due process.

DAO failed, but it controls about 15% of the total ether supply, so it was too big to fail, and the fork will save it.

Thanks for the link, I didn't know people were doing this. I had only seen EthereumClassic, which seems prone to attack, and a nightmare for exchanges.

Was he unmasked, or did he just voluntarily disclose his identity? Seems like he went to Bloomberg and offered them a scoop.

I think it was just an excuse used as a cover-up. Sounds like cultural issues were at play with the split.

Recruiters could use this to find engineers...

Can self-driving cars use bots to automatically fight traffic/parking tickets?

look at the post just below this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11134798

I think journalists like to predict doom because imminent disasters scare people and get pageviews.

Google doesn't demand anything. If your paywalled website is not accessible by Google's crawler, then Google will not index it. Publishers want Google to index their pages and drive potential paying visitors, which is why they open the loophole themselves.

For the second point, Google does require that publishers specify "registration required" in their sitemap.

that's a good analogy.

try deleting cookies, then hit refresh.

Haha! Thanks for catching that :)

I don't disagree with you. But, given the nature of this forum, I think that the information content has merit.

What people choose to do with the information is another story...

Google is not okay with cloaking, but they will whitelist publishers if the publisher specifically includes a parameter that declares if the site requires registration or subscription. This is done in the sitemap.

https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/74288?hl=en

Okay, I added a field to manually paste in the HTML! Thanks for the suggestion :)

Sorry, it was LinkedIn's rate limiting :( try again!

oy, that would actually have been a much better way of doing it. I was trying to be clever and keep the UI simple, and totally didn't expect to hit rate limits so quickly.

Can I plead ignorance? :X

Usually it goes away if you wait a little bit. I think they do some rate-limiting. Also they'll probably block requests from my server soon ;)

That would actually be a really great idea. I wonder if it would be tough to get race/gender/age just from the linkedin profile.