No, no! Peter has been kind enough to lend his time (again and again) to the Hacker News community at our request. We appreciate you looking out for good behavior around here and I can tell you that this is extra-good.
This is very good. Someone who really knows taking a chunk of time to give authoritative answers to questions on a topic that a bunch of people really need answers to? This is HN at its best.
Thank you. I don't understand the down voting for simply asking a question in an appropriate manner. It's one of the things that I dislike about the community.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts
Note other AMA's which are typically different:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22AMA%20%22&sort=byPopularity...
Is this allowed because the poster 'does work for YC' meaning if another attorney did the same thing on a regular basis it would get flagged?