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See my separate comment -- a hold plus a loan is not the same as just not holding the money, from a risk point of view. Although it would look the same to your bank balance, the two look nothing alike to PayPal's accountants and auditors. If you think there's a potential liability between two parties, it's much better to formalize it as a loan agreement than to just carry it as a risk.

This is why, for example, the cable and cell phone companies show up on your credit reports. When you pay them in arrears for your service each month, you are in effect borrowing money from them.
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I'm a huge fan of Stripe but it's disingenuous to imply that that's literally all you need to do to collect money from someone.
And owned by PayPal.
The word you type is not going to be accepted just because it is similar to what it should be. It is double-checked multiple times anyway [0]. People like you just make OCRing slower, just as if you never typed reCAPTCHA at all.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cygfx/4chan_is_using_...
They didn't claim it wasn't automated. They just claimed that it isn't a mistake. The better explanation is that the criteria for a hold and the criteria for a loan are not one and the same.
What about gamma ray bursts? I've read that our position more at the outer rim of the galaxy is beneficial because there are fewer gamma ray bursts compared to more dense regions.
That's not usually the waiter's fault. POS systems are, generally, a POS. Sure, they should have some way to split bills, but "should" does not always mean "does". Or maybe splitting the bill requires spending a few minutes manually building 2 new checks, which may not be something the waiter has time to do in a busy restaurant. Or maybe the waiter would be happy to do it but the restaurant itself has a policy against splitting checks (or at least, splitting checks for parties under a given size; I've definitely been to places that allow you to use 2 credit cards if you have 6 or more people, and never more than 2 cards).
> And your app store contains Android apps (including pirated Google apps).

I think THIS was the issue, not the forked Android.

Amazon has a forked Android. Cyanogen has one.
> Since we were a risky account, they said they needed to hold on to the remaining $20,000 for up to six months.

I would think just about any new business is some flavor of "risky." I don't see why any new business would use paypal knowing that.
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It's sort of tangential, but knowing anything I write can be found by Googling my real name has certainly made me write defensively. It's why my main Twitter account is not public.
The role Ticketmaster plays in the live event business is much bigger than simple middlemen. They provide the previously mentioned marketing, promotion, and discovery. They provide box office management. They provide customer service. They manage the secondary market. They provide business intelligence. They represent artists. They even own their own venues for a complete vertical monopoly.

They are the Amazon Web Services of the live event business. Sure, you will probably have a better experience if you use Backblaze for your storage, but AWS provides so many other services you might need that it makes sense to consolidate your business with them. That is why Ticketmaster is so entrenched. It isn't corruption. There is just a huge barrier to entry when your biggest competitor has such a complete product offering.
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As a person native to russophone online culture: this "explanation" is your fantasy.

It's true ukrainian coments in forums can call russia mordor, but it's not an extension of any previous background. And IMHO it doesn't require explanation. BTW, I have never heard about america = valinor.
That seems to be his goal. To not help.
What is the difference between serving HTTPS and "legitimately" serving HTTPS? Or to put it another way, what qualifies as "illegitimate" HTTPS?
I've been pushing this idea at work lately. We've got a whole network of /28's in IPv4. Provisioning new servers is a nightmare.
Yes, Yum brands has about 7000 restaurants in China — but that's out of about 3 million restaurants in total.
Do you have any evidence that freezing funds is related to lending? Because that's a pretty massive claim, particularly since they are supposedly two completely separate business units on separate budgets and P&Ls (fraud prevention and lending).
>> "I have a feeling that China will surprise us"

>> "And Chinese citizens aren't trained in English to compete for global knowledge worker jobs."

There you go!

Edit: To clarify, I am supposing that perhaps more English-speaking knowledge workers would be trained in the future.
> NB The author of the novel on which the The Cruel Sea is based, Nicholas Monsarrat, wrote a moving account of his own service - Three Corvettes - which is one of the few books that has reduced me to tears. Funnily enough I happened to read the book while flying over the North Atlantic...

Alistair MacLean's HMS Ulysses is another of those. I read it as a teenager and a couple of scenes are as sharp in my mind as the day I read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ulysses_(novel)
I think you missed the first point... the other comment never states that only Chinese firms can serve Chinese customers at all. He/she was more in agreeance with your point about chinese firms not needing to operate outside of china because their domestic market is large enough to serve their needs. Why leave when you have a 1bn+ person market in front of you?

I don't think chinese firms can't get a foothold abroad (see Huawei), it's just that they have less desire to.
Compassion is almost always worth the effort. Very difficult thought.
Rasterization also is of highly-parallelizable nature and this parallelism has been exploited to great effect in the last decade(s). Given that Ray Tracing's only advantage over Rasterization is specular reflection it seems unlikely it is really superior in terms of efficiency. Especially since specular reflections and many other effects can be achieved via cheating in Rasterization.

For real GI, Path Tracing, Photon Mapping and so on are the methods of choice and not Ray Tracing.
I believe they made about 30M in 2015. At an evaluation almost 100 times revenue, I think this story isn't done playing out yet.
thanks, fixed everything but the quotes.
Merchant account banks do this ALL THE TIME. It's standard business. See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/320bbd/my_me...

or here: https://chargebacks911.com/knowledge-base/what-is-a-merchant...

or here: http://www.cardfellow.com/merchant-account-holds/
Yes, I am a person of color. The dictionary definition of people of color is any non whites.

Edit: There is a long explanation of why Asians are sometimes excluded. The short answer is racism against Asians.
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The best practice a few years ago was "use the best PBKDF available", which hasn't changed – just what algorithm to use. This isn't different from any other part of crypto – we have a constant algorithm churn as we identify and replace problematic algorithms.

And OAuth is no exception: If you implemented OAuth five years ago, it was OAuth1, which was obsolete and ripe for replacement… four years ago.
I'm not sure about your explaination, but either way the fact is Russia is somewhat frequently compared to Mordor.

This also reminded me there was some drama in late 2014 about lightning the Eye of Sauron above the skyscraper in Moscow (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-30414032) ;)
It might not be his fault, but if he has to do it anyway, why not get paid for it ?
The green padlocks are only for EV certs. Let's Encrypt doesn't do EV certs (nobody automatically issues those). There's a reason why browsers visually distinguish between EV certs and DV certs, and it's because DV certs don't indicate anything at all beyond the fact that the cert owner is able to serve HTTPS at a given domain.
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Every YouTube creator has to do this now as well. They "apologize in advance" or qualify just about everything they say to make sure they don't get eviscerated in comments in case they make a mistake or were even just slightly wrong. It's becoming so common, I see it seeping into every day conversation in younger (like 13yo) kids. Not that everyone should go around spouting ignorant opinion, but being terrified of being incorrect isn't good either.
The thing these speculations about alien life and communicating with them miss is: what if the aliens don't want to talk to us? That's probably why you don't hear so much about UFOs these days like we did a few decades ago: they came, they checked us out, and then they launched some beacons just outside our solar system warning everyone to stay away, along with a Galactic General Order that if we ever develop enough to send manned missions outside our system, we have to be destroyed for the good of the galaxy.
What makes a good standardised test question?
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With such a high monthly churn, you should consider testing out a discounted 1-year pricing plan.

Oh and read everything by Patrick. Here are a few worth reading in your situation [0,1].

[0] https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/free_book...

[1] https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pric...
yescrypt?
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It's usually a bad sign when teams pawn off their maintenance work on new people. It means that they have no intention of actually fixing the system (or replacing it) because it's easier to just keep rolling the shit downhill.

If it doesn't feel better in a couple months, definitely consider quitting. You'd probably be happier on almost any other team.

Edit: downvoted by people who pawn off their crapwork on the newbies :P
Speaking from a nightmarish personal experience moving hundreds of thousands with PayPal over the years, it is astounding to me that it took so long for someone like Stripe to come along.

It is not astounding they have quickly blossomed into a valuable company.

Why did it take so long?

And what about eBay? Someone should consider taking that on.

Letting a huge business being an incumbent without competition for 15+ years in the web world seems so absurd.
I'm sure it's different when contracting, but it's really hard when working in a large organisations. There are a few different kinds of reactions to the inefficiencies and inequalities in $BIGCORP:

* Try to fix everything - this will lead to burnout

* Ignore it, and just work on your stuff - this will work, but you probably won't get promoted

* Play politics and try to fix a few things through the "right channels" - this probably works, but it's really really difficult and can be soul-destroying.

* Do what you can, and update your resume - cynical, but probably the best option if you like eating food.

I mean, you're not always in a position where you can educate your clients. Sometimes doing that would be a career limiting move.
>You may have heard the old saw about marriage: “You can be right, or you can be happy.”

Yeah, I tried that in my marriage. Don't insist on being right, let the wife be happy and it'll make you happy. Instead, it made me broke and miserable and so I asked for a divorce.
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Your "legal analysis" is woefully lacking. Have you, for example, ever glanced at a Contracts Law text book? Or read the Wikipedia articles about contract law? Heck, have you even watched The People's Court? Just you sitting in your armchair and coming up with something that seems reasonable in your mind does not a legal argument make, or refute.

As far as profiting from hypothetical things that never happened, see Joe Jamail:

http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-man-who-crushed-tex...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_performance
I agree this is key. I am using an INSTEON system, which doesn't use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, and it's got an interface to my PC. Any control of any module of my house, therefore, goes through my PC.
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The only thing better about that car is hearing John Hindhaugh of Radio Le Mans start talking about it during a race and he says "1000 Brake Horsepower" (Gasoline Engine + Super Capacitor Hybrid System). you can hear the smile on his face as he says it.
Remember you can run a local server with all your locally-installed packages and exactly the correct version of the core Go packages with:

godoc -http=127.0.0.1:9000 &

(or local OS equivalent), which make them available at http://localhost:9000.

Godoc is more useful for the searching for packages you do not currently have than the docs themselves, because you ought to be running a local server. (I have noticed if you add new packages the server will need to be restarted, but it picks up on changes to existing packages as you change them.)
Hashing .exe names is way too much work. Since Vista Microsoft has provided an opt-in way for a game installer to optionally flag "Hey, I'm a game". This was used for the mostly useless "Games Explorer", but also little bits of other functionality.

Also, the Microsoft Store has an entire category called "Game" and can just use that.

Worst case though, by "game" it might just use the Window's Xbox app's determinant for shortcuts like Win+G which is essentially, from what I gather, "Does it use DirectX? y/n".
This is a good article that many would call "Customer Service 101." The author seemed to have been weak in that area. Good the author realized how important it is to overall earnings.

On blogs or whatever, I can be pretty blunt and harsh. With my customers, I walk a tight rope between being aggressive and being gentle almost always moderate. I'm quick to concede something to customer if the overall value proposition is still good for long-term or it's a little thing that can't hurt my image. Past that, I might try to shift blame from them or I to the circumstances of the situation while portraying us as a team handling it. Pissing them off is the last thing you want to do, though, given long-term is more important.

Author either skimmed over or didn't mention two things, though. One is that customers often talk to other potential customers. Even those you "fire" you should separate from on good terms or not too harshly if possible. They can spread word fast through other clients who are then more likely to turn down contracts.

The other issue is the clients asking too much: many do it on purpose. There's so many hustlers out there who play proper capitalist by always getting as much as possible while giving as little as possible. So, you need to determine ahead of time what's your willing to commit to, possible extras, possible compromises, and absolute upper-bounds for any given job/client. Then, stick to it and politely if people are pushing it too much. Give those types an inch, they'll take a mile: you go from profitable, independent consultant to many to practically under-paid employee of one.

Things to remember.
It's a long time since MySQL was faster than Postgres.

Back in the early 2000s, LAMP people on Slashdot were benchmarking MyISAM tables to Postgres' 6.5/7.x's fully transactional engine. Unfortunately, the reputation as being slow stuck among developers.

Postgres particularly shines on multicore systems, thanks to some clever internal design choices. Having a sophisticated cost-based query planner also helps.

As for unfriendly: Care to amplify? In my work, I've found the opposite to be true.

For example, the very first thing you tend to encounter as a new developer is "how to create a user". For MySQL, it turns out that using GRANT to grant a permission creates a user, which is counterintuitive; GRANT also sets the password, and promotes the use of cleartext passwords. By comparison, Postgres has "createuser", as well as a full-featured set of ALTER USER commands. The difference between "mysql" and "mysqladmin" is also completely unclear.

The almost complete lack of warts and legacy cruft in Postgres significantly removes the possibility of confusion, uncertainty and information overload. MySQL's manuals are littered with "if X is enabled then this behavior is different, and in versions since 5.7.3.5 this behavior has been changed slightly, and 5.7.3.6 has a bug that silently swallows errors", etc. MySQL's historical date and NULL handling alone is worth a chapter of any book.

Postgres also has a level of strictness above MySQL, which is in itself instructive. You know when you're doing something wrong. Postgres never accepts bad input. It always requires a strictly correct configuration setup.

Plus: Just type \h in psql. It has a complete reference of the entire SQL syntax.
Eleven years ago, a particularly prescient individual might have said

The future: Phones, Tablets, Laptops with Intel Processors, Watches. Apple's weaknesses and Microsoft's strengths.

I have no great love for Apple. I hate their UX and have a deep skepticism about their build quality. Yet, even I recognize that Apple can jump on any rising bandwagon and get into a leading position with some clever marketing.

Heck, they're already a consumer electronics company. They'll take to robots like a fish to water.
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Two things to come to mind. First, if you're actually holding a waiter's tip hostage over the ability to split checks, you're a shitty person. And the kind of person that threatens to leave a bad tip if the waiter doesn't do something is the kind of person that probably tips badly to begin with.

Second, time is a zero sum game. If the waiter has to spend several minutes wrestling with the POS to split a check, that's several minutes they can't be serving other tables, which if the restaurant is busy can mean a degraded experience for other diners (and of course if this leads to someone being unhappy with the service that will likely mean a reduced tip). Of course if the restaurant isn't busy and the waiter can afford to spend several minutes on this, then nobody else has to suffer, but if that's the case I wouldn't expect the waiter to balk at splitting the check (assuming they're capable of doing so at all, which as I said before may not be true depending on the POS or on restaurant policy).
>I know I've had many and extensive (and quite good) conversations with my fiancee as to how she was brought up in a family that valued emotional reasoning over logical reasoning.

Yeah, I tried marrying someone like that. It didn't turn out well. I recommend breaking off the engagement while you still can, or else you're in for years of misery.
Check out the inverted pendulum on a cart problem, or go balance a couple bats on your hand. When near vertical the inertia of the pendulum mass helps you out, it's the inertia of the cart the motors need to overcome. The better the control loop the fewer and smaller the corrections will be, tending towards zero.
They may not lie, but they will attempt to dodge the question. You may also be deemed a troublemaker if you probe too much. (Which is probably OK, as you don't want to work in such an environment)

They want the docile job candidate who will sign anything with no questions asked.
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Noam Chomsky doesn't have the answer. You'd need a PhD on the subject of a single conflict in order to talk about it with authority. He does not have that, though he is a gifted linguist.

You're talking about conflicts that legitimately have roots to the beginning of human history.
Amazon Payments has to be the most under-utilized payment method of the decade. It's insane – everyone and their dog have an Amazon account and you'd have massive user acceptance, yet it's used nowhere.
Another possibility is that the writer doesn't actually know if something is certain or not.
It's especially bad on mobile, but desktop can be a problem too. I know I've misclicked a downvote on rare occasion, to my regret.
The problem is, I don't have time to work on the DIY angle. I'm using INSTEON, which is closed/proprietary from a hardware sense, but has a documented API that's relatively simple to program for, and there are many available programs to control it.

I applaud your position though. I find the popularity of Wi-Fi/Cloud-connected IoT devices to be a trend doomed to disaster.
Yes, because paywalls have worked so well historically.
That was more than incredible! Simply amazing, especially for someone like me working in digital but not so much on the UX part.
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"then it disappears"
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Users and programmers. It is trivial to mistakenly execute a command on the shell which is subject to this issue.

I'd call the behaviour "dangerous by default." You need specific training to be aware of, and overcome the issue, without the training you're likely executing commands which can be taken advantage of (in particular recursive commands over files and directories you yourself don't control).
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You could say that Australia's in the same position. We dig up stuff and export it to China. We had a chance to extract some tax from the mining companies but blew it.

I don't think things are going to be very nice here in 10 years.
I live in California but grew up on the East Coast, and I go back fairly often. I'm honestly baffled by your comment here. The main difference I see is in the diversity of people you will find in CA -- it seems that few people are really 'from' California, we all migrated here from somewhere else. But otherwise I don't see many cultural differences.
I am fairly new to Y-Combinators Hacker News. Unfortunately, I've run head-long into this very issue on this forum. It ruins the experience.

There is value in communicating figuratively and/or with metaphors. When creatively solving problems, looking for trends or drawing a hypothesis out of the ether, it is often desirable to avoid specifics.

In my opinion, one's inability to comprehend and respond to any given statement at multiple levels limits their upward mobility.
Isn't 10-20 years a while? PS thanks for the linked article.
I've always wondered about this as well. Heavy investments in new cities, when there was no demand for them, just for the sake of "increased growth" was always a red flag to me. Interested in any correlation.
Totally uncalled for.
"The cost of content creation is extremely low, and Snapchat makes it fun to think about what aspects of what I’m doing every day might be cool for other people to see."

But what is the reward of content creation?

Honest question. How do a user feel their effort in posting was worthy?
I never used Snapchat, so I don't get it much. Although I'm for sure not dismissive as some, I just never tried it.
> But in retrospect I can see that my touchiness in that moment probably cost me tens of thousands of dollars.

I don't know if it's a side effect of living in a western society, but I see people make this kind of mistake all the time in the corporate world -- i.e. assuming that behind it all there's some neutral arbiter who will square any conflicts that arise in the workplace. In reality, if you make your self look like an ass in front of the wrong person, at the wrong point in the fiscal year, it affects your bonus / promotion / etc., and you never get that back, plus it's used to factor into every reward you get until you leave that company. Definitely better to be diplomatic.
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It sounds like you're saying it's fine to be racist against whites, but offensive to do the same thing to your personal "in-group." Little ironic, lol.
Right on!

I'll bring my towel.
Awesome for Nat & Zach!