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Stripe No Longer Returning Fees from Refunds
Hi there,

We’re reaching out to let you know that we’re making some updates to Stripe’s pricing for new users. Over the past few years, we've learned a lot about the businesses built on Stripe and this has helped us refine our pricing.
To that end, starting September 14, 2017 we're changing how we handle some of our fees for new Stripe users. Users that signed up prior to September 14, 2017 are unaffected and their fees will remain the same. Since your business utilizes Stripe Connect with Standard accounts, we recommend that you update your team members and website to reflect these changes for new users:

Refunds: We will no longer return Stripe fees when refunding a customer. We currently return all of the Stripe fees from the original charge when a business refunds a customer.
Unfortunately, we still incur costs from the various payment partners we work with when a charge is refunded. Until now, we've absorbed these fees; moving forward, we’ve decided to adjust how refund fees are handled.

International transactions: For US users, all non-US card transactions will now be charged an additional 1% fee. At the same time, we’re lowering our fee for currency conversion in the US from 2% to 1%. This fee applies only if the charge currency differs from the payout currency. For Canadian users, the currency conversion fee will remain unchanged but all non-Canadian card transactions will now be charged an additional 0.6% fee. Other countries are not affected.

All other pricing remains unchanged. Again, the changes above will only be applied to new Stripe users who signed up on or after September 14, 2017. If you have any questions, just let us know.

Thanks,
The Stripe team
Stripe, 185 Berry Street Ste 550, San Francisco, CA 94107
The anonymity and spam problem is really tough. Facebook has a "real name" policy for good reasons.
> As anyone who has racked up legal fees due to lawyers’ mounting billable hours can attest, law firms remain almost surprisingly low-tech operations.

That’s like saying programming remains surprisingly low tech because you walk into a tech company and everyone is hunched over an emacs window.

Even at the fanciest Wall Street law firms, 10-20% of billed time is written off. The largest clients who get sued a lot are demanding things like flat retainers (e.g. we pay a flat $5 million per month and you hanldle all our products liability work). There is a lot of pressure to get things done within certain budget targets, but time is routinely written off because those targets cannot be met. Plus, competition is high. Even at the top of the market there are dozens of firms in direct competition. If there was a magic way to do more with less firms would do it.
The Customization Curve
I recently worked with Python for a couple of months, for the first time. Even though reading code and writing simple parts is fairly easy, I found several details to be quite confusing, like variable scope, or the various underscore conventions/variables. Also, I struggled to find a good free IDE (there was no money for PyCharm), which made debugging a hassle. Also, dependency management with pip feels a bit quirky compared to e.g. Maven or npm.

All in all, I found it neither much more or less fun to program with than e.g. Java, C# or TS. It might be a better fit for small projects than others, though.
> The majority of population growth in the entire south coincided with AC.

That's pretty hard for me to believe. People had been living in the South since before the formation of this country... Do you have any stats to back that up?
The ABA rules are model rules - they provide a framework for state bars to build upon, but they aren't directly enforceable unless a state bar decides the ABA model code is their code.

The state bar of california has their own set of rules. See: http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Attorneys/Conduct-Discipline/Rules/...
The ss program also seems to be missing the feature to show you the username or uid or that the process is running as. It is a useful feature of netstat.
Thank you for your work.

I'd really like to see the web server caddy included in official packages.
This comment breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Please read and follow them from now on.

Insinuating astroturfing and shillage is the short path to internet hell. It's a game of snakes and ladders. Avoid that snake.

I've posted about this many times if anyone wants to read more about why HN has this rule: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
I think it absolutely matters what the charge is. In this case, we are talking about someone who murdered a 4 year old. I don't have too much sympathy for someone who does this.

If you want to talk about people who are in jail for drug charges, that is a different discussion entirely.
Me too. If anyone figures this out, I'd love to hear more.
Big pharma hasn't even begun to peak.

Seriously, nothing happens when pharma gouges their patients other than reaping massive profits. Maybe a tiny slap on the wrist to show them that they need to be more discrete next time.
Sorry. Lack of context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
So, what would I need to change to mine on my account rather than their account. I like their home page top fold but I want to mine for myself. The service must be going through a pool of some sort?
> With churches, there are a few problems that are intellectually repellent, meaning they won't solve for certain personality types.

Unitarian Universalist churches are good for community and avoid most of these negatives in my experience.
Awesome, I've been looking for exactly such tool for ages!
Switching between the browser and device emulators was always irritating me. Side-by-side view is definitely one of the features I like the most out of Blisk. Looks like now it is possible to compare and test mobile, tablet and desktop layout in minutes.
I will definitely give it a try for the next couple weeks and maybe even switch to Blisk instead of Chrome.
I like Sanders as much as anyone else, but can anyone who supports it explain how Single Payer is obviously better than expanding the current system to provide universal healthcare? It seems to me that single payer would require a radical overhaul(more than 100 million people leaving their employer given insurance) and huge tax increases that requires a level of political consensus among the public and Democrat majority in both houses not seen since The New Deal.

That's not even to mention the fact that more vulnerable Blue seats are up for grabs than Red in 2018. I just don't see the current roster of the GOP supporting anything the Democrats put forward, especially something as radical as medicare-for-all.
It can be a punishment for certain crimes- or as an extended punishment after jail. Things like stalking where a computer was a primary method, valid threats made on a computer, etc.
> This is unsustainable.

It's not just unsustainable, it's absurd! $25,000 USD is most of, if not the entirety, of the TOTAL income taxes many people pay in other OECD nations. How are these other nations providing all of the functions of government, including universal health care, for what Americans are paying just for insurance? This shouldn't be a partisan issue - even the most conservative of Americans should be outraged that we are being ripped off.

https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm - the US spends $9,800/year per capita, clearly an outlier, and yet we still can't cover everyone in a reasonable way?!

I took my child in for a regular 15 minute doctors appointment recently and the cost of seeing the provider (no tests) was $350. Does it really cost $1,400/hour to operate a medical clinic? Google tells me that the average GP salary in the US is $189,000 ($90/hour), average salary for a nurse is $67,000 ($32/hour), and average for a receptionist is $27,000 ($12/hour). Add another nurse for administering shots/drawing blood and the total payroll per hour is about $166/hour. Where is the other $1,234/hour going?

I'm sure there are reasonable explanations for some of it (cost of the building, cost of medical equipment in the clinic, professional insurance, and maintenance on the fish tank) but the ridiculous cost of everything is the elephant in the room that no amount of "cracking down on fraud" or "incentivizing healthy behaviors" will solve.

As an immigrant to the US, it's maddening. It just doesn't have to be this way, there is half a century of evidence showing that alternative systems are cheaper and more effective. I also look at that $9,800/year per capita and wonder what our economy looks like if everyone had an extra $2-4,000/year in their pocket. Or if we eliminated the burden of health care from businesses and individuals trying to start a business.
This is unrelated but I would really love ipfs to be adopted for use cases like these.
The obvious answer to me is the slow trickle down of people from universities as CS programs have migrated from Java/Scheme to Python. This also overlaps with Stack Overflow usage, so I think that explains a lot.
The reason C is so popular is because it's the scripting language of Unix. C++ is the scripting language of Windows. Objective-C, Macs and iOS.

Well, Python is the scripting language of a ton of useful libraries which are relevant to a lot of very interesting fields.

R sits in a similar spot, but Python is a better, friendlier language, which means actual programmers are more apt to recommend it as an offhand solution to a simple problem someone who isn't seen as a programmer is having: "Oh, that's easy. Just copy and paste this Python code, and maybe hack at it until it does something." You can get scientists programming with recommendations like that.
pip2pi makes it really easy to run your own PyPI. All you need is something that can serve static files (Nginx, S3, etc.)

https://github.com/wolever/pip2pi
except development seems to have stalled. Very few devices are still supported, even after a year+ since the first one. For instance my C201P is still not supported even though the C100 which has identical hardware has had support for a long time
Did the coal union know the pension was underfunded?
"comparable in wealth to the US"
Some convicted hackers have been banned from the internet, if ever caught using it they go back to prison.

There have been cases of people being banned from using any personal computer.
Its like saying our universe is a simulation embedded in another universe. The simulation only need to be to the resolution of Plancks quantum of action. We couldnt distinguish any detail finer than that. The other universe could have a much finer resolution than our hbar. The simulator could be using a hundred grid points and time steps for grid point and time step in our universe.
Me too! In 5th grade our teacher had a sister who worked at NASA and she was able to give our class nice laminated artwork showing what it may look like on Titan. They also got everyone's signature which was supposed to be digitized and put on a disc on Cassini (they said they were going to get 1 million signatures or something). Ever since then I have always been excited to watch anything regarding Cassini. I was sort of sad when I heard they were going to crash it into Saturn. What a way to go though!

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/2157/signatures-from-earth-...
#1 - it comes installed on most Linux and on Mac (even though different versions can be a bit of a pain sometimes)

#2 - it's dead simple to do things; the syntax is, to me at least, about as direct and uncomplicated as you can get (and without being overly wordy!)

#3 - so many handy libraries... it's good for full projects, and it's great for integrating and gluing things together

I wouldn't call programming in Python fun, per se, but I do call "getting things done quickly and easily" fun.
>But you can't really see all the game's content because so much territory is controlled by hostile teams

There's not that much to see out in those systems. You're definitely not missing any major story lines or lore because of it and the planets and suns are similar as everywhere else.
Worth noting that for the particular case you've cited, you can just use make, even without a makefile:

~ cat test.cpp
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
cout << "hi\n";
return 0;
}
~ stat Makefile
stat: cannot stat 'Makefile': No such file or directory
~ 1 make test
g++ test.cpp -o test
~ ./test
hi
> I used to think that all dynamic languages (Ruby/Python/Javascript/Perl/…) were of a par

Try Lua, Common Lisp, Julia, and Racket, for a surprise.
> Doesn't matter how long you've been using a GNU/Linux shell

Or a Unix shell, even.
Can you cite the parts of the treaties that say that?

The reality is that in the treaties the EU very explicitly does not have control over tax. In fact, this was a key issue in the last Irish referendum on the EU treaty changes. The Irish rejected the treaty until they received explicit assurances from the EU that they'd never lose any control over local tax and the EU wouldn't attempt to undermine their local corporate tax rates.

But as it turns out, the EU's assurances on such things were useless and the Irish people were misled.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8288181.stm

Irish opinion is thought to have swung behind the "Yes" vote this time because of the severity of the economic downturn, as well as the legal "guarantees" on Irish sovereignty that the EU pledged after the first referendum. The legally binding "guarantees" state that Lisbon will not affect key areas of Irish sovereignty, such as taxation, military neutrality and family matters such as abortion - significant issues in last year's campaign in Ireland. But they have not yet been attached to the treaty.
I have a Samsung Chromebook 3, and in the time I've owned it, Android Support has moved from Dev channel to Beta channel. Seems like development is active from where I'm sitting, anyway.
IDE? Visual Studio Code.

Python is not perfect but the final code is simple to write and understand years later.
I think they were trying to say that if this person was not a minority there would have been no way they would even be considered.
Every time bitcoin slips a little, the anti-bitcoin crowd claims victory and it's kinda hilarious. The summer of 2015 BTC was around $200, it's now over $3,000- so up 15X in a bit over 2 years. This is failure? Why is down $500 failure but up 15X in less than 30 months not success?

There are about 11 million millionaires in America. There are only ever going to be 21 million bitcoins total. That means, even just among American millionaires, they will never be able to all own two bitcoins. How many will try to put %5-%10 of their net worth into bitcoin when they become convinced of its reliability?

Bitcoin has been under various forms of attack, by state level actors and by hackers for the past 8 years and it has done quite well. I am unaware of any software project that has captured this much value with this little vulnerability.

The value of all the gold in the world is about $8T. Bitcoin as a store of value has a lot of advantages over gold:

- Its terminal supply is absolutely fixed, unlike gold, and its rate of inflation is rapidly decreasing to below golds.

- It's easy to store wealth in without being obvious to others.

- It is easier to transport bitcoin than any significant amount of wealth

- It is easier to protect bitcoin than gold. Gold has to be guarded, Bitcoin can be split in to an n-of-m key and encrypted and replicated, securing it from fire, theft, etc.

So given all that, what is the ultimate intrinsic value of bitcoin? Lets say it is half that of gold. Then what's the intrinsic value of a single bitcoin?

That's something we can calculate: $4T / 21,000,000 = $190,476

Bitcoin is better than gold at gold's primary purpose. Yet its current value is much less than that of gold. This makes sense given that bitcoin has not yet crossed the chasm-- but gold is also something very rare for people to hold. People have a negative net worth and not a lot of them hold gold.

Bitcoin is the very definition of a disruptive technology that will revolutionize society for the better and hackers are embracing it. You should too.
Ask HN: Best backpack for everyday use?
I've been looking for the perfect backpack for a few weeks now and really I am going nowhere. So many options, so fewer reviews, and no answer.

I am currently carrying a cheap backpack every day for the past years and now I want to buy one of a better quality.

What I (think I) need is:

- A small backpack. To fit a 13'' laptop. I would be happy if it could fit a bigger one too but I want the backpack to be slim, light and relatively small. 15'' backpacks tend to be big. I want a small backpack.

- Usually, I carry a 13'' MBP laptop, a shirt and a few gadgets like a powerbank, cables, etc. And ofc IDs, business cards, and smaller stuff.

- Good quality, to handle the sweat on the back and not be easily scratched, get dirt etc. I will use it every day going to and coming back from the office and after work, I may still do a walk before going back home. I do have another bigger backpack for traveling but this one I want for everyday use.

- Nice to have an easily accessible pocket without getting the backpack off my shoulders to put a key, a wallet, a phone etc.

Regarding budget, I would say between 80$-120$.

Have you used a backpack that fits that description? Some other recommendation/advice?
The real answer is: data scientist everywhere

They usually don't know better
Charger networks. There are a few big players out there now, (ChargePoint, EVGo, and SemaConnect), but none of them have, to me, really captured the market.
So if rsync is only for Linux then how does everyone else do any work? On Linux it is the preferred option, there is delete mode, ability to ignore folders and differential compression. It just works. Plus you don't have to move a mouse around.

The other common way for me to upload or download files is with version control. Imagine if we integrated git into the browser and server to have something vastly more sensible.
Hey justin, good stuff, two questions for you.

A- How is your approach different than Axiom Law [1]

B- Why did you decide to target lawyers vs. directly to startups like Clerky [2]

[1] https://www.axiomlaw.com/

[2] https://www.clerky.com/
Yep. An order of magnitude more time is spent reading and maintaining a line of code than is spent writing it. Readability adds a tiny amount of time to the writing, but makes reading and maintainability so much better.
For sure - but it's been good enough for a while. Consider the McDonnell Douglas DC-X in 1993: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
Typical features for non-single-payer and non-nationalized European healthcare systems include: insurance mandate, "public option", price lists/controls, insurers must be non-profit, insurance must not suck (see: many expensive plans in the US that are, nonetheless, terrible, even post-Obamacare). IIRC Switzerland and Germany's systems both have some or all of those features.
Better battery usage for laptops is always a goal but I was thinking more in the sense that mobile OS have patterns to reduce battery usage. Android Oreo is even moving away from wakelocks. I guess it's not good enough and Linux apps don't even use that.
Was it underfunded before the split?
lsof -i -n -P | grep ESTABLISHED
Lack of braces is visually appealing, but I really miss brace hopping in Vi - % to bounce between open and close brace. That also applies to languages with do/end instead of braces.
Kevin Mitnick, famously, ages ago. Not sure if anyone else has ever had that.
>unless you have bizarre constraints that force you to make such concessions

Like true software freedom? An ARM chromebook with Coreboot and Linux puts me squarely in Richard Stallman approved territory. Living the dream; No binary blobs on modern hardware. Freedom software for everything. I'm watching industry slowly boil the rest of you with firmware blobs, locked bootloaders, and curated app stores.
This is an honest question, what's the size of projects you have written in Python? For me, once a project gets beyond some size, the aggravation only grows of debugging old code and adding new. Mostly, I see this is as a lack of compilation and types in Python. How do others overcome this and enjoy large Python projects?
Google Maps is crowd sourcing business and location data. I wonder if YouTube couldn't do the same, rewarding (like Maps does) YouTube Red subscriptions for enough effort.

Then they could have more granular controls in clients, like saying "Block videos where at least half of the crowd say there is sexual content".
As someone who has largely moved from Python to Node: it's not the concept of project-local packages that is the problem. It's virtualenv's awful implementation and UI.
also, useful to know - zsh supports tab-completion for curly brace expansion.
'South Park' Episode Triggers Viewers' Amazon Alexa and Google Home
How can existing protocols help fix the broken Bitcoin community?
Regardless of legal precedent, dogs are known to be a way to manufacture probable cause -- if the officer wants to search, they can find a way to make the dog "alert", or claim that it did.
I don't subscribe to your second paragraph at all. "Extract wealth" how? I'm from the third world and I can instantly tell you the great value that people derive from applications like What's App and the like. To someone in EU or US it's easy to deride these silly applications, but to those who lack the infrastructure it gives new possibilities.

Take for instance the case of using what's app as a little store where people can offer services/goods. My mother in law dedicates her account on what's app to sell hand knitted baby clothes, and it provides her with reliable communication to clients.

Such applications are a NET BENEFIT to everyone involved and it's clear why What's App was given such a high price tag!

If I might ask what/where you are from that you think this way? I can tell you from personal experience and fundamental Adam Smith basic economics that these companies offer vastly more benefits to consumers and society as a whole than what little money can be taxed from them.

Also note, that Latin American countries and 99% of other countries don't propose to tax the tech companies and they still have vast benefits.
Germany has 200 private insurance companies. They cover the state mandated minimum. You can get better coverage over the base price if you want. Many Scandinavian countries have cohorts or risk pools that are not the whole country. You pay into those pools. You get care anywhere. Kinda like a coop system. True single payer like Medicare or the British system are actually rare.
Why is this called "GitFund"?

Do you somehow think all open source projects just git?

Are you aware that the git project generally forbids use of the term "git" as part of a project name?
All European countries have universal healthcare, but not necessarily single payer. Germany(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany) has a multiplayer system that allows self-employed and high income people to have private insurance, though all others must take public insurance.

And this varies, but a lot of countries have some form of public + private option, though it's usually universal.