kjackson2012

Why are people even posting on HN? The easy answer is do an ACH chargeback and be done with it. Do it quickly as well since the price has plummeted. Don't even bother with contacting customer support.

Hopefully you are selling him the BTC at today's rate, and not at $868. This post is an admission of guilt on your part, so if you don't, he likely has a great case when he sues you (which I would, if I suffered a $12k loss like he just did).

Do an ACH chargeback as quickly as possible, don't be an idiot and wait for a response, otherwise you may miss your opportunity to walk away without losing $10k.

Incorrect. If you have self-driving cars, the entire flow of traffic could be much more efficient, virtually eliminating traffic jams.

You could drive at the speed limit with a lot smaller distance between cars, etc, packing in a greater density of people without sacrificing speed.

If I remember correctly from another article yesterday, the company went through 7 more rounds of funding after the founders were kicked out. Most of the heavy lifting was done after their ouster, so quite frankly they don't deserve anything from the sale. The company could have easily folded and everyone could have gotten zero.

What's poisonous about it? It's the blunt truth. In stack ranking, you don't have to be the best employee, you just can't be in the bottom 15%. If you get laid off, it means you're in the bottom 15%. There's nothing poisonous about that assertion.

It's like they say about escaping a hungry bear, you don't have the be the fastest runner to survive, you just have to be the second slowest runner.

What it means is of your team, you were in the bottom 15% and maybe you weren't a bad employee, but you weren't even in the top half of your team.

No reference to the stoned virus? I remember that being extremely widespread, despite not having the Internet to easily propagate it.

I absolutely despise Perl with every ounce of my body.

I'm not saying that it's a bad programming language. I'm also not saying it can't be used to create extremely useful software, or that you're not a great programmer if you only use Perl. I respect great Perl programmers just like every other great programmer. I worked at Yahoo, and from the code that I saw, there were only a few great programmers there. The rest wrote a piles of steaming code/shit that was almost impossible to understand.

However, the nuances about the language really rub me the wrong way and offend my own personal beliefs on how programming languages should be. I hate the array vs. scalar concept, the different ways to access them with various brackets and @/$, etc, and I especially hate that they have separate namespaces. I also hate things like "or" and "||" have different precedences. I did my best to learn perl, and wrote scripts at home to help me gain better knowledge, but once I discovered python, I ditched it and will never go back.

It depends on your down payment and your salary. Does your wife work? Are you open to sending your kids to a mediocre school or do you want them to attend a private a school?

All areas with good schools will run you over 1M for a house. A place that isn't ghetto with mediocre to bad schools will run you about 750k.

Isn't it strange that one arm of the government, ie the NSA, can get PRISM and all their extremely complex surveillance and correlation programs up and running but these much simpler and more straightforward web sites are generally failures? If anything it speaks to the quality of work that Palantir does, and the government should get them to do all the work as opposed to IBM Global Services or Accenture. Imagine if IBM or Accenture developed PRISM? We would have nothing to worry about then since it would be a complete failures.

Having actually worked on vCenter, I can tell you that it is at best adequate for what it does, but the code is amongst the shittiest I have ever worked on.

I find it hard to believe. In 1995 people barely knew what the internet was. I was accessing the internet through Trumpet Winsock on Windows 3.11 and had a 14.4k modem.

The idea that Time Warner already had a sophisticated Web division smells like BS to me. I would accept 1997 or 1998, but not 1995.

If there is a bubble, it's most certainly not starting, it's ending. With the Fed tapering imminent, and interest rates starting to rise, there's no way that a bubble will be starting at this point. If anything, it will pop a bunch of near-bubbles, like Bay Area real estate, rent prices, stock market, etc.

Ditching BBOS and using Android is exactly what SGI tried to do by ditching IRIX and going with Windows NT. It destroyed the company. Not that BBM has any hope at this point, but getting rid of BBOS is not the solution, because they will lose their current fans, and they will not migrate over any existing Android users.

That's comparing apples to oranges. All the other data used to create the original graph o calculate temperature such as tree rings, etc do not take into account the temperature of the oceans, etc. There may be perfectly good explanations as to why the temperature may be flat, but those same explanations are not being fed into the graph that the OP posted.

The number of people on food stamps went from around 15M in 2001 to about 45M in 2013. I think many people need good stamps but the point of eligibility of food stamps is a good point, in that there are probably a lot of able-bodied people like Angie who are living on food stamps that shouldn't be. I'm all for the food stamp program but I do believe we need to tighten eligibility requirements.

I know several people who lost their jobs from the 2008 financial crisis. But instead of trying to find a job, they spent 2 years on fun-employment where they didn't need to work because of the generous unemployment benefits. If they found jobs that money could have gone to truly needy people in the mid-west. I now believe the same thing is happening with the food stamp program.

Global temperatures are basically flat for the last 17 years, and below every single computer model of climate change. This is even more stark given the fact that the most co2 has been produced in the last 17 years. I think the theory is pretty much broken and they need to figure a better model.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420783/Worlds-clima...

I've been programming in C/C++ for 15+ years and I enjoy it. Personally I think the C++11 extensions are not useful and could bloat/kill the language. It feels like they are trying to make it a scripting language, which isn't why people use C++.

However, I recently started using Python and I absolutely love it. Using python, I can usually whip up a proof of concept within minutes because things just work. I wrote a OCR program using a mix of OpenCV and Tesseract in Python, and I was able to get a proof of concept up in about an hour. Of course, the performance isn't nearly what I want it to be (on the order of seconds, which is too slow for my application), but the fact I could get something working so quickly is why I love Python so much.

I'm politically centrist, supporting neither the Republicans nor the Democrats. I was opposed to the recent $40B food stamp cuts that the Republicans passed in the House, until I read this article. Angie appears to be collecting food stamps, instead of trying to find a real job, which it sounds like he could get. The premise of the Food Stamp cuts were that eligibility was too broad, and people were abusing the system, which I didn't believe until just now. Now I support the cuts.

You likely won't get high interest rates like 8% unless you have higher inflation rates. So someone who makes 2000/month right now, by the time the Interest rates increase to 8%, their salary would have Also increased.

I think the takeaway is that founders with strong accents will have a hard time getting acceptance in YC, just like single founders. Not because PG is racist, but just like single founders, the empirical evidence shows that they aren't as good of an investment.

Poverty in the US is nothing like poverty in other countries. Poor people in the US mostly still have tvs, etc. Poor people in true Third world countries wash themselves in puddle water, and poor children play in garbage dumps. I've seen both with my own eyes.

I don't agree that Americans need a basic income guarantee whatsoever. The idea might work in other countries, but certainly not in the US.

Does "almost everyone" mean the retail brokerages, like E-trade, TDAmeritrade, etc, or just the HFTs, hedge funds, etc?

The first $5M is exempt.

Oh, so NSA laptops aren't encrypted?

Your post was about a supposedly "sexist" comment in Bootstrap, not Aaron Swartz. Aaron Swartz is completely irrelevant. That comment in the Bootstrap code is not sexist, instead you are a hypersensitive alarmist. You are hurting whatever cause you are trying to advance. I suggest you drop this and take a deep look at yourself and figure out why you are behaving this way.

Do a twitter search for "one fine body". You tell me if it's used only by males or if there's an equal distribution between males and females. You are a hyper-sensitive alarmist that only pollutes real sexist issues with your garbage.

This is not sexist. Females say this just as often as males.

Oh you mean unconstitutional, like executing an American citizen without due process, like Obama has already done?

Being a member of the US military is completely irrelevant, you really have no education on this topic. I suggest you read up on the NDAA, and the other crimes against the Constitution that have been committed by Bush and Obama. Whether or not they transfer citizens to Guantanamo is irrelevant, they could send him to some military prison indefinitely, which is the real crime.

If you don't feel like participating in this discussion, and spreading your "hypobolic" poison, then feel free to completely drop out.

And unlike you, I don't have a defeatist attitude. Even though people such as yourself refuse to be educated, I think there is a real chance, especially after the anti-NDA vote, that people will get their message across to the politicians. My hope is that politicians that actual believe in things, like Rand Paul, will get voted to lead this country, as opposed to phonies and shysters that want a fat pension.