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Okay so I invested 15 minutes of my life into reading your post, you mention "account" 23 times and yet you haven't said even once actually what you were selling, so that anyone can give you any hint (to be honest, I think there is good reason you are not revealing what was your product; otherwise most likely the whole post wouldn't make sense).

> I was losing potential sales and my eyes were permanently fixed on my email app, waiting for the email from the account specialist.

You have to put yourself in Amazon's shoes:

As a legitimate selling platform, every day they were losing credibility offering your product on their OWN platform under their OWN brand.

> “Your desired use of Amazon Payments MAY BE in violation of our Acceptable Use Policy or User Agreement”

Its an oldest trick in a book: they cannot deny they cannot confirm. Its a lawyers talk in case you didn't notice. Speaking of...

> Since I used FBA, my stock is now stuck in Amazon FBA warehouses. The email did not mention how to retrieve my stock or when I would get the funds in my Amazon account.

If you don't get yours back in 6 months, find a lawyer.

> They say don’t put your eggs in one basket.

Yepp, you nailed it. Same thing happened to me when we hit the wall with Sendgrid (currently only offers spamming services to those who can payout - seriously I receive plenty of spam from Sendgrid and they always "investigate" but never get anywhere). We were sending out 10,000 legitimate double opts a day and were banned out by.. one user clicking spam complaint 3 times. No joke. By the time the dev switched and implemented new email engine, I had to let go 6 people to stay financially afloat. It sucks, certainly I feel your pain.

> You need to work on multiple revenue channels so if an issue happens on one you can stay afloat.

Great advice but ask yourself honestly - would you ever sell as much as you did without Amazon?? The good advice would be get customers from amazon but collect their emails and steer them off to your website for a tiny bit of savings. This way you could depart from Amazon at any given point - whether out of your free will, or like you did - forced out.

> Really do not know where to go from here...

You are stubborn which is a good trait, but maybe the best way at this point is to.. move on. Ask yourself do you really need Amazon to fulfill your business. If you do and they don't want you (As a private company they had a right to deny anyone), its time to move on to the next big thing on your list.
The pathway for cocaine synthesis is known. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KC140149 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4281001/ I'd be surprised if drug cartels with all their money hadn't tried to modify plants or yeast to reduce their risks.
You're describing fiat currency, a subset of currency. Historically, a nation state is not a prerequisite for currencies to exist.
Doesn't need to be an app. A mobile web app would be fine.
The issue here is that the majority of Mac users are not as savvy as HN readers. Apple rightly avoids popping up these kinds of prompts because the typical user has no idea what the request means, much less the security implications of allowing it. If you're going to sandbox, what Apple's doing makes (some) sense - the issue is whether sandboxing needs more granularity, more capabilities and better support from Apple on the developer side. Then again, some things would still be impossible unless Apple granted special exceptions somehow. It's a tradeoff - Apple has to choose a line somewhere - they've chosen it where they have, knowing that it limits what developers can do and completely blocks certain classes of apps. When sandboxing was first introduced and I objected, I was told that Apple was willing to accept some "collateral damage" in return for what they perceived as better security.
I am not sure what you mean by a moral issue. Money and goods exchange hands (or not) in a mutually agreed on transaction. I don't think there is an issue so long as there is no intentionally targeted discrimination.

If someone is unhappy with their purchase and lets me know, I nearly always give a refund (where possible; the App Store prevents this). Sometimes I've given my software away for free if someone asks nicely.

I have never had any backlash to running pricing A/B tests.

About once a year I will run prices at 0.5 and 1.5 the normal price for a week or two to make sure I am still on the right point of the demand curve. Sometimes it moves and I will stick with a new price.
Or is that what they want us to think
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Serious question... should I spend time in 2017 on Prolog? It seems like another case of "everything old is new again"...
Yes, using Activity Monitor, as a sibling mentioned. I have done this regularly over the years and my conclusion is that virtually no app distributed outside the App Store does this. Even when they have an App Store counterpart (example: 1Password).

Hence, I have decided to always purchase the App Store version of an application when available and to think twice if there is no App Store version. I do not want to give a random developer full access to my filesystem.
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Wow, I believe it. We didn't have so much a rogue situation, but you really do have to constrain their actions to just what you wanted. I tried to find the source but there was some YouTube video I watched where the guy made this good comment about creating GUIs where you have to put a real emphasis on preventing users from doing things you do not want them to do. You can't always focus on features but also constraints. I really took that message to heart after experiencing some of the human unpredictability found in building up training data. It made for some interesting payment debates to ask them to redo some work that was incomplete. Fun stuff.
> Rendering with motion blur is known to be a technical challenge

Ok, I'm not a rendering person, but didn't Ravi Ramamoorthi have a series of papers that solved motion blur?
I feel like I've been digging a metaphorical hole for the entirety of the time that I've learned about programming. Often times, I'll look up at the surface where I started and feel pretty impressed with myself at the depth and the breadth of my hole. Then someone will pop his/her head up from the bottom of my hole to show me a nugget he/she has unearthed from miles below me. And while it's undoubtedly cool and interesting, it makes me realize just how much farther I can keep digging. It's both inspiring and ego-crushing.
Obviously using a throw away for privacy reasons.

Every shift started with a passdown where the departing shift would go section by section to brief the incoming shift on key events and ongoing operations.

You'd get your workstation up and quickly coordinate with your departing shift counterpart, then take control of the mission.

Your actual work for the day depended heavily on what shift you were assigned because here it could be day and there it could be night, etc.

Sometimes, you'd need to knock out required training related to intelligence analysis, foreign intelligence collection, and general professional office related things.

You'd usually eat lunch at your desk unless it was a slow day and then you'd have time to eat in the cafeteria.

Eventually you'd reach the end of your shift and do the passdown as the departing shift.

Caveats, this was a contractor, but when I worked for the NSA as a soldier in the army, my day included normal military things like formations and physical training.

Another caveat, they didn't much like me poking around in VMs or writing arbitrary python scripts to improve my workflow as those weren't authorized under my contract. Our entire company got an email that luckily didn't name names.

Note that the downtime was spent improving work skills and increasing cultural knowledge related to our Area of Responsibility.
I remember reading a poll where European Parliament members claimed that encryption (esp. HTTPS and E2E) was the biggest obstacle to espionage. I'm glad to see that this is a widespread sentiment.
I always opt for the last row.
Okay, I'm all for protecting intellectual property and dissuading employees from taking IP with them. But if this injunction delays self-driving cars by even a little bit, it'll cost thousands of lives. If the deaths were going to happen tomorrow, no judge would allow it. But because they'll happen seven years from now, no one considers it.
A problem with using emoji in passwords is the emoji special character keyboard shows your recently used emoji. Brute forcing a password using the recent emoji list certainly gives you a much smaller set to work. Also, the Chrome browser doesn't let you enter emoji directly, but you can paste them in (which show as two dots •• ).
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Why don't you make something cooler/useful?
I'm an engineer and been thinking about Picking up a law degree. Any thoughts? Good idea? Bad idea? What would you do differently?

Also at google,btw.
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Yes, you surely should, even if it is just wasting a few hours over a few weekends.

Getting to grasp logic programming would improve your skills, even if you never use Prolog again.

Use SWI-Prolog, one of the best free implementations out there.

http://www.swi-prolog.org/
That's a good approach overall. Thanks for sharing. There are a couple of problems with sales however:

1. In a way they address a different psychological need for people. It's about getting a good deal or a discount over the "normal" price, rather than considering the price itself... So you're testing different things that in some way conflict.

2. Over time, if people see there's always a sale, they might hold-off from buying?

3. It just gives a slightly "cheap" reputation (think shared hosting as a rather extreme example that comes to mind, or any site that always has tons of coupons on coupon-hunting sites).
Are there any good resources to start in this field for non-biology majors? It seems they have now full end-to-end simulation so one can program yeast and even test it out at some extent with nothing but just a computer.
this is a very lenghty way of saying program top-down, not bottom-up, unless your are targeting the metal :)
Actually, GP is discussing legal tender, which is not the same thing as fiat currency. Commodity (both specie or representational) currencies have historically been legal tender, in addition to fiat money (which is the modern norm for legal tender.)
I guess one way would be to use one of the mini kanren variants.

http://minikanren.org/

There is also a F# implementation, https://github.com/palladin/logic
> how we made -rendering- motion blur 10x faster
I dunno about all that. "For the greater good" "Ends justify the means" all come to mind. If it's theft, it's theft. If it's within the law to stop them from continuing to develop off of allegedly stolen IP, then that's the right decision.

It's not like pharma companies have a free for all where everyone can steal from everyone because the more development on cancer treatment eleventy billion the better.

To put it differently, there's no guarantee that preventing Uber from working on this technology will cost lives in the future (Uber might not exist in 7 years and the technology might be a dead end), therefore it shouldn't be a factor.
It's a unix system, it has unix permissions, and required privilege escalation to write to locations the user is not allowed to.

Although strictly true, Unix DAC is a security model that stems from the 60/70ies. When a malicious actor gets read (or write) access to your home directory, it is pretty much game over (think cryptolocker, identity theft, loss of sensitive files, etc.). With vulnerabilities in internet-facing software being a fact of life, you want compromises to be restricted to their own little sandbox, not all the files in your home directory.
I just wanted to say that be careful about lowering your price just because you can. You should charge a price that maximizes your profit. Don't charge low just because you can, unless you have a reason (company philosophy, growth, etc.). Business usually exists to maximize profit. If you are priced a lot lower than your competition, double check whether your price is too low.
Apple built App Store for 30% cut in vendors' sales.

Sandboxing is just a side-effect of Apple not wanting to deal with any support issues stemming from selling apps that brick users machines.
Thanks a lot dang.

I thought that this post was flagged because of something I did. Didn't realise that the flag was because of a nasty comment on Aaron. Feels bad to let that take away our HN #2 glory though :(

Another time!
Would this mean that, while you will not get punished for not disclosing the best mode, you can not call it a trade secret either (since you were expected to disclose it in the first place)?
I am on the "cool" camp, because I am all for the advance of the programming concepts on mainstream languages.

Just because a language allows for doing cool stuff, kind of newspaper quiz, doesn't mean we should write code daily like that.

It is up to us to make the better judgement, according to the team skills and project complexity, about what should be used.
Best practices !== detailed designs

Best practices are not 9.7 gigs of data, designs, and calculations.

Edit: I am assuming that the 9.7 gigs was data, designs and calculations. Could have been the best cat pictures ever. I just don't know.
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As always when I see this kind of comment on HN: any references you recommend for someone who's looking to read some philosophy?

(Eek, weird sentence. No awkward grammar fixes welcome.)
This goes back to the days of newspapers, classified ads, and late night infomercials detailing how you can get rich from thousands of tiny little ads. One trick was to advertise a product at a specific price, saying "Send in your check or money order for $99 to P.O. Box..." and state that delivery was in 6 to 8 weeks. If you got enough orders, then purchase the product at a bulk rate and fulfill the orders. If not, send the payments back to everyone with some apology. Rinse and repeat with different ads at different price points until you find what generates the most profit.
Don't take the jewels with you.
I haven't used UAC, so I can't comment about it, but permissions on iOS work fine. I'm asked only once, usually the first time I use an app, or access certain functionality in an app, not constantly.
Compilation time is a consequence of lack of modules.

In C++11 you can pre-instantiate common used templates (extern template)and hopefully C++20 will finally get modules.

Until then, those that are able to use just VS C++ 2015 and 2017, can make use of incremental linking and experimental modules, to ease the pain a bit.
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Great to hear that you have the good tester mentality. My text was indeed meant to be a bit tongue in the cheek. But none the less it is completely correct.

The ego thing depends on the relationship you have with your colleagues. Sometimes I have very professional relationships with them, but other times they really become friends. And in that case, the "I'm smarter than you" really get's said, but more in a fun way.
I don't see how the technology stolen by Uber/Otto is going to slow down the pace of innovation in the industry. It might slow Uber down, but that's their fault for playing fast and loose with the rules - which seems to be their modus operandi.
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Talk to a millennial sometime. They don't teach these things in school any more. Talk about the presumption of innocence or the right to a fair trial and they look at you like you're from outer space.
Sadly they have started with bakers yeast so any beer will probably taste bad.
> The bill blithely disclaims conflict with genetic nondiscrimination law; such disclaimer would almost certainly be held invalid if tested.

Actually, no, a later enactment explicitly stating that things it allows are not prohibited by an earlier enactment, by that explicit statement, limits the earlier enactment.
I spoke to them, and was offered a consultancy-based service (5 digits). They do have some tools, but I don't think that's their main offering. Maybe I missed something though. I wasn't offered any SaaS tool however.

I think you do definitely care, because of the initial cost/commitment. I'd be happy to try a <=3 digit/month service for a few months and see how it performs. It's a whole different ballpark to bring in consultants for a 5 digits project though...

To clarify, I don't say anything about the value they bring. It could easily pay for itself in lots of cases. But it's still a much harder decision to make, and you need to have pretty good faith that it's really going to pay for itself.
Your ROI is from profit, not revenue. You can easily get $400 in sales for $10 in ads if you don't care about profit.
The article mentions WhatsApp multiple times as a service that successfully made the transition to end-to-end encryption, but it always seemed to me that this claim is rather meaningless when we don't have the possibility of auditing their source code.
Did you mean the xkcd "crypto nerd" wrench, or is this a reference to something else?

E: ah, TIL.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
Google already uses their self driving technology on vehicles such as the Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/12/waymo-shows-off-its-new...

So they're clearly a practicing entity.
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Agreed. The Fatali is my favorite, as well. The strong citrus flavor that comes through the blazing heat is something that clicks for me.
Then today's your lucky day. Mythbusters did a bit on exactly this, i.e. if you're holding a hammer and about to fall into water, whether throwing it ahead of you will break the surface tension and save your life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCSQExxWulU
Not only are Millennials I know as likely to be aware of those things as older people I know, Millennials are among the most passionate about protecting them.
Please don't call others trolls, it is not constructive. It can violate my privacy in multiple ways:

- Some app developers are collecting data and sending it to Google Analytics already (Little Snitch tells me). Why wouldn't they also peek at what competitor's apps are installed? Or what other things I am interested in? This is not paranoia, a lot of Android apps they already do this (the flashlight app that wants access to your SMSes is an extreme example).

- Vulnerabilities are a matter of life. If some application is compromised, I don't want the attacker to have unfettered access to all my data. Again, this is scenario not far-fetched, from regular vulnerabilities in applications to hacked download sites where applications are infected with malware [1] [2].

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/06/mac-ransomware-transmis...
[2] https://transmissionbt.com/keydnap_qa/
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That path — pursuing a JD toward the end of helping open source projects — has appealed very strongly to me on and off over many years, but I've always been dubious it's something sustainable.

Neither law school, nor living in areas where you'd probably need to, in order to have access to the most relevant courts and highest densities of potential clients are cheap.

I'm sure the occasional settlement wrung out of non-compliant companies or whatever would help, but I'm also pretty sure "occasional" is very much the operative word there.

I'm really glad to hear it's more of a thing than I'd thought it was, though I will admit to some skepticism that working for someone like Google or whomever wouldn't somehow subtly taint one's motivations and efforts towards their goals, rather than what's best for Open Source writ large.

Then again, I was recently reminded of the Chade-Meng Tan quote about doing "what's best for the world," and then "wait[ing] to get fired," so maybe my cynicism isn't entirely warranted here, at least in the specific.
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It seems unethical because it is. Making what appears to be a genuine offer to sell at a given price then saying "haha, sorry, just wasting your time to help me but without paying you for it, I'm not selling" is unequivocally a dick move.
He was my my college professor teaching calulus: my first class of my first day of freshman year.
> when and where did the federal government get the power to set the time?

Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution lists the powers of Congress. One of the enumerated powers is to "fix the Standard of Weights and Measures".
> As the person above said, why not just use date instead of "what time is it?"

Then what would be the difference between using the assistant or using the CLI?
I think GitHub intends to have approximately every software developer in the world use GitHub, which is not the planned endgame for most software companies.

I do not think, if your customers number less than hundreds of thousands, that getting the custom of folks for whom $9 is a lot of money is a worthwhile use of your time. Devs consistently overestimate the impact on their marketing/etc of having cheapskates use them, and underestimate the real operational costs. (These customers are disproportionately pathological; they contact support rudely, with inane questions, at a rate orders of magnitude higher than good customers.)
Those people in the comments that want permanent daylight saving: it's easy - leave you clocks on standard time and just get up an hour earlier every day!

(One day I'm going to move to the country and set my clocks to local mean time, and rise at dawn, go to bed soon after sunset, and adopt a biphasic sleep pattern where I get up in the middle of the night to watch the stars.)
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> Make sure to go back to your home country as fast as possible, and then just ignore the bills. They'll have a very difficult time collecting on a debt in a foreign country. Don't come back to the US as a tourist after that.

Actually if you have a credit card, you might have a travel insurance as well. So no need to ignore the bills. And in France it's not like in US where the first thing they ask you is the name of your insurance company, even if you're bleeding to death.
I have to say I had a very similar experience as you did in my interviews as well. I felt like I did at least decent, if not pretty good, and not getting the offer from 2 of them. The place I did land, may only be because it's a small team and half the team were people I knew from a previous job (i.e. friends).
Maybe, but I do actually talk to both sexed colleagues outside of the workplace and ask how they're finding work. I find it difficult to believe they would lie to me, especially the gruntles we do share.

I think we can assume that even if this is the case, it's not the case everywhere. It's going to not be standard across the globe.

Also, if they share a customer - she may just be bad at her job. It's entirely possible that she is treated badly because she isn't very good.

It's also entirely possible that this company has shitty customers. Perhaps an all male company attracts a certain type of customer, that doesn't represent how all women are treated.
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You realize that it would be trivial to change this right and utterly impossible to prove right?
A WebRTC based app which solves certain problems which Google Hangouts or other similar tools is not solving.
(Though the New York Times might represent the leading edge of the change in popular opinion.)

Note this is an AP article.