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IANAL, but in general a business in the US can deny service to anyone as long as they are not in violation of very specific civil rights protections.

Looking at it more, it seems pretty easy, but perhaps consider that your audience might only have a cursory knowledge of their Graphite implementation. Maybe point to a couple of the important fields in dashboards.js, like graphite_url and the bits inside metrics?

Looks great! We've been having a rough time keeping our homegrown dashboard stable. My only suggestion so far is to build out the configuration/installation docs in the README.md, 'see dashboard.js' isn't very helpful.

At the risk of offending the rah-rah YC back-patting... the entire Tech section is full of people who run or founded companies. Those all could fall into the Media, Social, or Marketing sections. It just seems like they're piling all the big-named startup dudes in wherever they can.

Shouldn't people blazing trails of real, new technologies get some recognition here? Those who bootstrapped this year's hundredth social-local-mobile app are rarely the ones creating new technologies and platforms that change the way we use technology. And yes, there are exceptions, but lets be honest here. Heaven forbid some academics or open-source maintainers get some attention. They went that route quite a bit before this boom.

It's pretty amazing how few California, or even Bay Area, natives there are working in tech in that same area. People have always flocked here for jobs and money, but the scale is just so much larger this boom. It's pretty shocking when your company of 100+ has only half a dozen native Californians.

Not necessarily a bad or a good thing, it's simply quite the surprise compared to almost every other career in the area. The flock out of state isn't much of a surprise either, considering the massive spikes in rent and cost of living even in the historically lower income areas.

Even I'll admit to considering a move, despite being a native for more than a few generations. It's just getting too crowded, feels even more so than just 15 years ago, and the cost premium is starting to look less appealing...

It's not a temporary thing, and in fact had been going on for a few years now. We are currently in the phase of blatant link bait self posted blogs gaming the front page. Prior to this tend for the past year or so, there was the "rah-rah look at this cool startup and secretly plug my own" phase. The current one will likely continue until a big bust or something else comes along. Likely the latter.

Yes, though the problem they likely saw was he virtually has no product, business plan, nor seems interested in selling it as much as himself. Its a trope you see here in the post mortem after every YC season selection.

"I hacked the process and all I got was this stinking blog post."

Edit: This front-paging HN will more than likely land him a job somewhere, for better of for worse, and was likely his real goal in writing it.

Has this post been moderated away? I'm not seeing it anywhere, even 5+ pages deep. If so... is that really necessary; is someone threatened or offended? This is a real article with just as valuable a point as all the self-posted 300-word blogspam that occupies the front page daily.

But does it provide multitouch comparable to OS X in execution and function? If so, I'd switch tomorrow.

Sorry but there is a difference between the two out there in the real world.

Chill out. This has nothing to do with skilled/unskilled, illegal/legal. Its about reform for all of immigration policy, not just those who can already make a living for themselves anywhere. Plus, and I hate to say it, but there's very clearly much greater need (not demand, need) for the sorts of jobs 'unskilled illegals' end up doing than the high-skill (read: class) jobs that this piece of legislation addresses.

And stop this immigrants-voting-schtick conspiracy theory. The impact their inclusion would make would doubtly even be within the margin of error. People have much better things to do.

THIS. This absolutely works. To clarify, copy-paste this script in the address bar of the browser when you are on your cart's page. Don't forget to add javascript: in front of the one-liner.

This sort of hacking is why no one else can order it. :P

Notice in big red letters on the top of the page:

"Google Play is currently experiencing very high traffic. Nexus 4 is not sold out and will still be available for purchase. Please try again shortly. Thank you for your patience."

Apples, meet oranges.

Check out Torque, tiny torrent client in the browser written in Javascript:

https://github.com/bittorrenttorque/btapp

They opened?

You could probably get funding for that next round.

YC W13: "The X for Y class"

> the fundamental rule of startups: ideas & strategies are worthless, execution is everything.

Oh boy... I agree with the whole "idea-guys are hacks" thing but this phrasing is no less alarming. Don't worry about the product, we can always jut pivot!

Well, there are certainly reasons to believe it might be an Interpol/FBI trap. :)

Unfortunately, Sublime's vintage-mode is very deficient in even the intermediate level Vim bindings. I'll fire it up every week or so, frown after a few minutes, and go back to MacVim.

US public policy is an incredibly important factor to the global technical industry; this includes arguably most 'hackers.' That cannot be denied.

Its no simpler now than it used to be. People have been saying that (and citing the whole 14yo trope) since the 80's. It does require skill, even if you're just using scripts.

What would give them more technical credibility in you eyes? If they wrote the attack themselves? In C? In Assembly? We all automate the hell out of things and lean toward the highest level languages for server automation anyway, why demean them when everything is a 'simpler game now with scripts that any regular Joe can run.' Have you seen Chef or Puppet, Flask or Rails?

I suggest removing the direct link to the crack if you want to avoid being flagged for deletion.

Let's be honest here, speed isn't as fast as WiFi all the time. It's as fast as WiFi, with much higher latency, in the times you're within good range of the proper cell tower. Sorry, but its not the same as WiFi when you're sitting on the can in the windowless bathroom on the 8th floor of a big office building.

Have detailed specs of the Nexus 4's components been released yet? One of the most surprising features of the Nexus S was the superb Wolfson DAC audio, which is almost unheard of in a phone. If the Nexus 4's compares I'll preorder today.

If you're going to act like a jerk in all your posts, which I actually have no problem with, I'd suggest removing your full name and bio from your HN account 'about' section.

Now that this has been out for a few days, can anyone speak to the performance?

As long as Team Fortress 2 runs, I'll be happy :)

Probably did it mostly as an excuse to learn HTML5 in depth. Cashing in is clearly not the goal, so how you deploy it matters little.