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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. e

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 t…

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, w…

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. The…

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