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I think that's what I was getting at. The whole concept of a "valid excuse" seems arbitrary to me. I worked at a place that had regular office hours and one of the people on the team was regularly late because he had to drop his daughter off at school. He was the only person on the team who had what was considered a "valid excuse" to be late. The single people strongly resented that because they felt they were being forced to work harder for the same pay since they made different life choices.
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People sometimes fails to realise that sometimes little things stand in the way of big things.

A small startup has no momentum and little power.

The smallest obstacle can block progress.

Having to file endless forms and being unable to take on staff due to restrictive hiring regulations can stop a small company dead, unless they cheat at the regulations.

Most people don't understand that, and just say 'why can't they just submit the forms?'.

Sure, some companies have enough momentum and funding they roll right over those things. Those were always going to succeed.

What people don't see is all the promising ideas that stop dead at little blockages, and either die or go elsewhere. Maybe 1/10th of startups are destined for success, no matter what. Maybe 8/10ths are destined for failure, no matter what. The remaining 1/10th is a fragile new thing, and needs help to get rolling. Killing that 1/10th through bad regulation is enough.

Many people talk about the SV advantage being the networks of people and the can-do attitude towards building things. Just that little bit more fertile ground for startups has a big flow-on effect.
This might have to do with his dad more than the kid, the dad [1] might have been under radar for being involved in Sudan elections.

1.http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/why-mohamed-elhassan-the-...
2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0vegPu2iaI
Tilt seems very obviously useful for art, but I've never felt like I had a use for it when using my tablet for CAD.
I'm confused. So they stopped accepting credit cards, but partnered with a credit card payment processor. So what payment methods do they accept if not credit card? Are businesses supposed to send them cash? Wire transfer? It says they stopped accepting credit cards but didn't say what they now accept other than naming the company they're partnered with, which is a credit card processor.

Also:

> It baffles us why a larger sale should cost more than a smaller sale. The storage and transfer of an digit or two on a computer is negligible.

Represents a massive misunderstanding of what a credit card company charges for. A larger payment represents a larger risk if the payment is never received or is received fraudulently. It's one thing if $5 is fraud. It's another if $5000 is fraud and needs to be returned. You're not paying someone to move bits around, you're paying someone to take the risk that someone could issue a chargeback and demand their money returned.
Any tips for how?
There's always this classic with the same sentiment: http://cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/kissedagirl.html
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This seems like a very short-sighted post that mainly serves as a dig on the credit card industry for an ideological reason.

They can use systems like Authorize.net and the fees are very reasonable. There are LOTS of reasons that credit card companies charge you fees based off the transaction: fraud protection costs scale, as do the "cashback bonuses" that they give to customers as an incentive to use credit (can you imagine how many billions are spent on credit that people cant afford on debit??), etc, etc.

The most obvious reason, as they say, is because they mainly work with B2B customers who prefer to pay another way. They just wanted an opportunity to rag on credit cards.
This is why I brought this up. I had the same situation where the only person on the team who had a "valid excuse" was the one who had to take kids to school in the morning. Other people on the team felt they were required to do more work because they had chosen not to have kids. Any method of defining what constitutes a valid excuse is likely to step on someone's toes.
He also called himself Eddie Vedder. That was part of the fun!
My interpretation: Assuming the work was outsourced to cheaper laborers (e.g. in India), OP may have felt that his job was at risk. By sabotaging the efforts of those offshore workers and making them appear incapable, he hoped to discourage management from outsourcing that work.
Very insightful! all things I'm eager to tackle when I land a lead position. I don't mind writing less code if it means I can facilitate larger movements.

Although as others have noted this has a lot of management roles mixed in as well, which is more than what a lead dev might typically do.
Nah, I've had it a few years, so it's out of warranty. I'll probably have to replace the battery eventually. I don't mind if the battery's capacity is decreasing, I just want it to auto-sleep before the battery dies. Maybe there's a way to set the auto-sleep threshold to 25% or something?
It really depends on whether or not Apple can get third parties to produce useful iOS applications.

Recently, I was somewhat surprised to find that Lightroom on the iPad is missing 90% of the desktop application features, including the ability to show RAW files that are sitting on an SD card attached to the iPad. They have a long blog post blaming slow Internet connections (because it would "have" to sync your RAW file and edits to the cloud) and some Apple misfeature (there would have to be two copies of the photo or something) for why the iPad can't do "field triage" from an SD card. I don't buy it, it's clear to me that they have limited resources and they don't care about their iPad app.

If Apple wants to make a first-party photo editor for the iPad that beats Lightroom, fine, that will help the iPad Pro catch on. I would be happy to buy one. (OK, it needs photoshop too.) But the path of least resistance is to get a Surface and have every Windows app ever made running on your tablet. The fact that the Apple Pencil is better than other pen input devices doesn't really matter; if all you can do is adjust the brightness of the image with said pencil, it's all moot.

(That said, I've never used a pen-on-screen interface. I don't mind having my pen away from the screen, and it's cheaper. But I don't use computers for drawing, where that might matter.)
I really like this idea from a historical preservation perspective.

HN comments contain a lot of a value in aggregate, and it would be a shame to lose necessary context to exploit this value due to simple link-rot.

However, I can see issues arising with paywalled links. The HN cache would likely display a rather useless paywall for many of the most popular stories. Navigating around the paywall by technical means may present an IP issue.
Can someone address her points? She should know the strengths and weaknesses of both products. Did she gets the iPad's strengths (e.g latency) right? Did she omit any cases where the Cintq wins?
Again, they didn't actually have anything bad happen. Bad: processes couldn't get memory. Not bad: I was using 3 GB of memory.
It really depends on your target customer. If you're selling one off to businesses with POs/invoices like directory wizards apparently is, your customers don't want long payment terms, and your invoices values are high (> $x000) then credit cards probably don't make sense.

It's silly to pretend checks, wire transfers, and dwolla don't have costs. You're asking the customer to pay a month or two earlier than they would credit cards - many businesses will then ask for net 30 terms (or 60 or 90!). If you're providing terms, you have to run an accounts receivable department and make sure customers pay on time. You're also now in the position of tying up your own working capital providing vendor financing. With credit cards, these things are included in the price.
Perhaps you're thinking of Byzantine Paxos (not regular Paxos)? I'll have to read up on that to determine its relevance to the double-spend problem. One concern I'd have is how parliament membership is determined (e.g. what about Sybil attacks?).
"a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot"

(A language is a dialect with an army and a navy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...
My point is that offering up IQ as an explanatory variable which alleviates any obligation to help another group is cowardice. Even accepting that IQ difference is an irrevocable consequence of genetics (which I don't), the next step is not "so it's their fault and we should not help them because they don't help themselves".

Which is the point of the DS analogy. It was an appeal to what I consider fundamental humanity. Perhaps it was a waste of time as an argument. Perhaps I should have just stuck to pointing out how fundamentally flawed the idea is; of formulating social policy on a metric as flexible as IQ.
One of this accounts only comments is on the thread "Business Credit Card for Startup".

They wrote:

"Can't recommend AMEX highly enough. Did the online application and got the card fedex'ed to me the next morning. Never an issue and points tie to Amazon directly. Best decision I've ever made."

And they wonder why there are fees...
there clearly isnt one. this is a bad post.
DING! DING! DING! WE HAVE A WINNER!!

The answer is: Nothing, other than increase costs of maintenance and support.
He drank a bit too much of the class warfare kool-aid.
If they're storing credit cards they're doing something wrong.
Ads subsidise the internet for the people that cant afford it. Subscription models will kill off the web/internet as we have it. I don't care for ads either specially those that hamper with the viewing of the content. If you dont want to see ads just visit the sites.
If you haven't seen it you might enjoy Algorithm which you can watch free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qpudAhYhpc
With Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and similar inexpensive grassroots platforms, programming has never been more accessible. Contrast this with the 80s when a PC cost a month's paycheck or more. "I can't program my iPhone exactly the way I want" really is a first-world problem.
Pretty cool - anyway to be able to save the playlist to my own Spotify?
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There are some outliers (tsla).
how would "on-demand"aspect have a unique effect on the potential savings?
Honestly I don't think developers get access to the SD card, that would defeat the whole 'there is no file system for users to worry about' thing.

I wouldn't be surprised if it simply shows up as a second photo stream, where they'd have to pull the images off edit them and save them back again as a new image.

I can understand why you wouldn't really want to trust Adobe, but I'm pretty sure they're actually correct on this one.

You're right that getting good software that is sustainable price is going to be what causes the iPad pro to live or tie. It's too expensive for a general tablet for students who might want normal notetaking, but if it doesn't have the software than pros might not want to use it and would stick with the surface or other laptops with Cintiques.
Yea, I always brag up the companies I've left...
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Oh, my comment was purely about your claim that there were no changes in teaching in the last 1000 years, and especially no technologically induced changes.
Hackers was one of the first movies I bought on DVD. I still have it around here somewhere..
> You're not paying someone to move bits around, you're paying someone to take the risk that someone could issue a chargeback and demand their money returned.

I don't follow. The merchant pays the credit card fees AND is on the hook for fraud. The card processors even charge you a $15 or more fuck-you fee on top of clawing back the money when a customer does a chargeback on you.
If you're ever looking for something that captures the Sneakers spirit then I very highly recommend the TV show Rubicon that was on AMC a few years back. Unfortunately cancelled after one season but if you look around you can find it.
Latency is definitely the issue with all the pen tablets I've tried, so I hope the iPad is at good as this article says it is. In my opinion, latency is the #1 design mistake in hardware interfaces and GUIs in software. For example, useless animation takes time and disrupts the hand-eye coordination required for skillful workflow of a text editor or window manager.
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At this point I'm not sure there are many people who know and could talk. Apple people in any third parties would be under NDAs, and any reviewers who have one also wouldn't be allowed to talk about it until whatever the embargo date is.
> Banks borrow money for less than they lend it effectively guaranteeing a profit if properly [...]

Competition should erode that risk free profit pretty quickly..
The Manhattan Project is pretty great too -- similar era and vibe to War Games. More of a social engineering hack than a computer hack, but still...
For a less absurdist but similar idea, it would actually be really neat to have a tool that can take a group of your photos and match them with one popular CC-licensed one that adds more context to the scene.

e.g. you and your friends at the base of the Eiffel Tower, and the album automatically has a suitably well-framed picture of the landmark as a whole added as a backdrop, that kind of thing.
I've been polishing a game jam game from last weekend. We won best art style, but having lost our lead programmer half way through we barely got a working build finished to present.

2D Split-Screen Capture the Flag. One player assumes role of Firewall, robotic-security guard, other assumes role of the androgynous Cracker. Cracker has to break into the corporate system and take down the mainframe to start the cyber-revolution, while Firewall has to catch them before they do so and escape. We have some fantastic Darude-esque electronic music and a cartoony art style.
The points about the quality of the screens are good ones though. Even if the latency isn't great and is only comparable to other tablets, simply having such a high-quality screen could make a difference (assuming software is available).
The hands on that Techcrunch had with it affirms what she said.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/09/apple-pencil-hands-on-with-...
Sure, just follow the playlist and it should show up in your playlists like you made it
Unfortunately, if Apple made a first-party photo editor for iPad that was as good or better as Lightroom, I'd still get a Surface (looking to do just this in a few months before a big trip, very interested in how well the pen works for local adjustments).

Why? Because I was an Aperture user before I was a Lightroom user. It'll take a long time to convince me I wouldn't just be buying into the wrong system for a second time.
> it needs to be fun and have immediate feedback involved (ideally visual)

This is so huge - it's not just that it's exciting for students and a more rewarding way to show friends & family what you're studying. It's also a great overview of the field: AI, graphics, data structures, performance, network programming, discrete mathematics, concurrency, on and on. You never know what's going to resonate with someone and get them excited about pursuing CS further.

But it's also hard to get through to the CS academia establishment on this. I worked with a professor who struggled for years to get a game programming course accepted by his department. They kept rebuffing him because "games aren't serious." (He eventually left and started a very successful game programming track at a different school).

This was an Ivy League school, and they also seemed overly fixated on theory over practice. I think they had the mentality that in depth hands-on experience equals vocational school. I hope more of the teaching programs coming online now understand how engaging it is to just make fun things with code - and how it can still be a great learning experience as well.
Ok, that's an interesting hypothesis. How can we falsify / verify it?

(One competing hypothesis is `nukes kept the peace'.)
What's a diversity coordinator going to do then? Ask a group of minorities to travel the desert for 10 days to meet a quota?

You can only address an issue so far as an organization before it becomes a problem too large for the org alone to solve (societal-wide issues).
What do you think about HN auto-submitting to archive.org?

Archive.org does follow some rules (e.g. robots.txt and passwords as you mentioned), so not everything would be guaranteed.

It could be a good start for a lot of the content here, though.

EDIT: Forgot to add that I'm not sure how much it'd help with sites going down from the HN attention. I could easily see archive.org moving a bit slower than HN's users.
> My guess is that he's attracted a following of libertarian college students who pollsters probably (rightly) don't give much weight.

;_;

No really, why is it right to not give people like me much credence? Ron Paul made a lot of ground there.
Yeah, they say something to the effect of having to make a copy of the "Camera Roll" photo in order to edit it. Yes, that uses twice as much storage.

I personally don't care, I will just upload it to A Real Computer when I get home and then delete it from the iPad. I look at it like a cache, not a permanent home for the photograph.
I am sure that you cannot back with any credible evidence the assumption than downvoting comments makes HN a better place. You can add flagging and that will do better, but downvoting is unhealthy. The fixed -4 threshold is random and wrong as well. The loyalty to Paul Graham's original decisions is misunderstood loyalty and there are a lot of missed opportunities here, because of these repeated mistakes.
Surface 2's are harder to come by. Surface 3 has lag that the surface 2 didn't have. And lag is killer for creation.
I really enjoyed reading the paper.

The author's focus is in the right place (IMO).

Technical ability is perhaps common but having the right focus is, sadly, rare. It's the difference between someone who says they could do or did something many years ago versus the the person who actually does it, _now_, when it is sorely needed.

Computing today is in dire need of _true_ minimalism, IMHO.
Starting a blog is on my unfinished projects list...
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Companies which do higher volumes pay significantly less. It's not uncommon for very high volume merchants to get very close to 1%, some even less.
Hi!

My name is Dan. This is my first submission so forgive me if I'm awkward. A couple of friends and I are building an app for students (and other awesome people) so they can save segments of any video they find on the internet.

We're really excited about the implications for search because instead of searching for whole videos, people can search for parts of videos that other people have personally curated. If I may, it's sort of like Google's crawler being able to read the text on the webpage rather than just the meta-tags. It's a much more powerful way to find interesting content.

Anyway, it's in private beta at the moment, but there is a video tutorial. Any feedback is super appreciated!
Ie if you know all players, you could store your transactions in git instead of the blockchain.
Something interesting that might change your view of 300. The movie is a story being told by a narrator who wasn't present for much of the events. The first bit of the story was fairly realistic, or at least plausible, but then his eye gets injured and he's sent back to town to get reinforcements. After he leaves things start to get more fantastical.
The biggest thing I like about WarGames as a geek/hacker movie is that it has one of the more realistic depictions I've seen of the critical skill required for security research (or doing many other worthwhile things): a giant pile of research, trying many different things, most of which don't work, eventually leading to success. All shown in an montage cutting between a library and a computer, with this awesome music to accompany it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFAGE4rs71M

It's not exactly a sophisticated effort (using a wardialer and guessing a backdoor password), but it's far better and more realistic than the majority of movie-style "hacking" scenes.

Sneakers, by contrast, has some interesting depictions of social engineering, as well as the amusingly low-tech yet effective approach of "point a camera at someone's hands while they type a password" (which remains a realistic danger today).

Hackers is dripping in 80s cheese, but that was what made it fun. And it captures how people thought hacking worked and what kinds of things people thought it could do: type something into a computer and take over a city's streetlights.
There's just something so hilarious about the idea of a single person resenting a married-with-children person on the basis of the amount of work they have to do.
right, but GP was implying that profit is guaranteed because of the interest rate differential. If you have any costs at all (even just operating costs), then that profit is not guaranteed

I'm not a fan of banks nor of the amount of money they get for their services, but there's no "guaranteed profit"
We worked on something like this for a while last year (code name "the archivist") with the intention of making Readability-style versions of stories with plain text, major images and no cruft. The purpose of the experiment was to see if it would speed up moderation. If we kept it, we hoped to share it with everybody (where by "hoped" I mean "would have unless we couldn't"). In the end, we didn't keep it because it didn't speed up moderation and it is one of those problems that turns out to be increasingly nontrivial the closer you get.

If we did anything like it again, I'd still hope to share it with everybody, but perhaps not by adding a third link. I already feel bad for adding two.
I don't follow. A shell is just a software interface and interpreter like any other. You learn it by reading its manuals, documentation and proceeding to experiment. Whether you acquire the information directly or indirectly via tutorials, examples and other third-party sources is of little relevance to the point. It's an activity divorced from the scope of public education.

I do agree schooling is starting to disintegrate.
And Diamond Rio has not yet released a competitor to the iPod. We don't evaluate what could be, we evaluate what is.
If they have high dollar value deals that are just as easily paid via low-cost bank debit, Stripe's 2.9% can be expensive. A $5,000 invoice paid through Stripe (at default rates) is $145.30. If you are billing a recurring $50/mo for a service, the fee makes sense. But one-time PO payments may not over a certain $$ figure.
Banks don't actually borrow the money. They create it. The fact that people don't understand and are completely unaware of this is THE problem with the banking system:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/18/truth-m...
Don't you need to keep the card number for processing refunds?
Or even decentralized.