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Isn't this service plagued by the same issues that brought down Homejoy? If I find a local dog walker that I like through this service I'd just get their phone number and pay them in cash.

Don't think it would be a huge loss. Most common use case is for unicode characters to render font icons (i.e. font-awesome).

The hackerrank site is terribly coded. Going between the problem and submission pages takes several seconds and hangs any browser I use about 25% of the time.

+1 to the incorrect solutions

Do low karma users not have access to this option? Don't see anything in me settings.

I can only think of a couple of retailers that have asked me for an email address here in Canada (coincidentally both were US companies).

I do get asked for my postal code fairly often but that's hardly a personal detail.

I have the same setup with Deluge and minidlna. Dump a magnet link and the torrent is downloaded and moved to the DLNA library directory for easy access. I watch most non-Netflix shows like this.

An added bonus is the ability to schedule downloads for 2AM-8AM only, when I have unlimited bandwidth.

What about drop bears?

>My advice to future tourists: Never leave valuables in the car or trunk.

That's general advice for anyone who's ever been in a car.

Did you have travel insurance? I've never had to use it but this seems like something that would be covered.

I assume "Make this a monthly donation" can be cancelled via a link that you send to the donator's email? Maybe that should be mentioned to assure the user they can easily cancel monthly payments.

Possibly something to do with oil?

They provide a convenient, affordable service that people need. I doubt any significant number of their users care or even know about the company's shady and unethical doings.

>When I first met Meredith Perry she was 24. That was three months ago this week.

Well isn't that just the oddest way to start an article.

I really hope the recent crashes don't sway public opinion on private space flight.

Failures were always going to happen in an undertaking that's still very much in its infancy.

Been posted several times on HN but April Zero always deserves a shout.

http://aprilzero.com

>He added: "In raising that massive [funding] round, any investor who wanted to even look at Uber's books to decide whether they wanted to make an investment had to sign an agreement which specifically named us, as well as Lyft, and restricting them from having any ability to even talk to us for at least a year.

I'm not very familiar with venture capitalism. This reads to me as if prospective investors wanted to gauge Uber's finances by looking at their books but were forced to sign the agreement first. Is this not the case?

These rankings rely so heavily on research and reputation for scoring that you shouldn't look at it as an indicator of a university's academic quality.

That would be the reason U of T is ranked so highly; they are even amongst competitive Ivy League schools!

When I was applying for university (2007/08) U of T was handing out acceptance letters to everyone. Instead of rejecting you they would offer a place at a "lesser" campus (Mississauga or Scarborough) or defer you to a less competitive but related program. They are the largest university system in the nation with lots of spaces to fill so the scenario you described (getting accepted by the "#1 ranked school in Canada" and rejected by another") actually happens quite a lot.

As for Waterloo, they're hardly a well rounded school. Yes, their engineering and computer science departments are internationally renown, but otherwise they are 2nd tier.

Whatever the metric for rankings, I still think U of T is the best school in Canada. Just maybe not top 20 in the world.

Opposing sentiment for this is usually seen in cities where the proportion of foreign real estate investment is significantly higher than the national level. For example, Toronto (or Vancouver) as a market has a much higher percentage of Asian owned real estate than Canada as a whole.

This laser focus on one specific area for investment raises the value of real estate in that area to out of reach for most of its native residents. This is where the "emphasis on it [foreign investment] being bad" comes from.

It's good for those who already own real estate, bad for those who want to.

Ditto on the vertigo. Shocking to think this effect was deliberate.

Also, I'm not sure what pictures of young people (at a cottage?) has to do with their product.

And here I thought he was making a joke about his address being j.appleseed@example.com.

Doh!

I don't think you get the point of that site.

Not sure what to make of a pricing product that doesn't show its own pricing without signing up for an account first.

Just wondering, is there a reason flickr doesn't bother alerting users on IE7 and below that their browser is out of date? This page degrades down to IE8 (where it just seems to drop all scrolling effects and animations), but is entirely broken in IE7.

I know Twitter does this and goes as far as showing the mobile version of their site instead.