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Does "existing customers" mean someone (like me) who has a Stripe account set up, but who hasn't (yet) started accepting payments? Am I grandfathered in?
Which is why Apple will do the opposite. Their business model is the old Henry Ford line "if I asked the customer what they wanted they would have said a faster horse". They think they know what you need better than you do. Sometimes this works really well, sometimes not.

Get ready for an underpowered $10k pyramid whose only input is Siri.
Sounds like the mapping software should put a big red timestamp in the middle of the map if the current data is over 1 hour old.

It's unfortunate when programmers overlook something this big.
Somewhat off-topic question, but how do others handle the need to create an invoice that corresponds to a Stripe charge? We've been using Stripe Subscriptions (I guess, now Stripe Billing) to auto-charge customers, and we separately define recurring invoices in QuickBooks Online. It's a clumsy process, but I'm assuming all Stripes Billing users have to solve it. Is there a better way to handle?
I have a Stripe account with several sub-accounts (different apps). If I create an additional sub-account, will it be subject to the new fees?
From reading owner discussions it seems like the general consensus is that they only just recently reached parity with (and slightly surpassed) their previous Mobileye implementation with their own software/sensor stack.
Ah yes, we play using a projector rather than a TV so it wasn't that much of an issue.
Mine have (in the past, may have changed since the last one was issued) permitted both forms.
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Does this mean that it would be dangerous to try to patch patch?
I don’t have ed installed (not a conscious decision), which prevents this from working:

% patch<evil.patch
sh: 1: ed: not found
patch: ed FAILED

patch works just fine for me, though, so ed is not required.
Where did you hear about that story?

TV News, Radio News or the local newspaper?
>Wasn't there a statistic from github recently, that 75% of the PRs created in 2017, were done from Macs?

No, there wasn't. Github posts lots of stats but nothing about OS shares.
Seems like a poor excuse. Just add in modern CPUs with the same TDP, and for the GPUs two Quadro 5000s (I think even the 6000 would work) have lower TDP than the FirePro D700s currently used.
qmake is not the only way to build Qt projects; CMake is quite straightforward and qbs works extremely well, too, though is rarely used in the wild (pity). I'm sure other build systems have sugar for Qt as well; CMake and qmake are just wildly popular.
True.

Also true: we often prefer the fantasy of symbolic action over the realization that we have no power over some situations.

Often, small gains are a wedge that prevents real change. I know that probably needs support with examples for which I don't have time to provide, so let me just say that is just my view and I don't expect other people to share that idea.
As you I don't see why someone should be proud about anything inherited. It can be a gift (or a curse), but it is certainly not an achievement.

That being said, for me the Jewish tradition is immensely powerful, even though I'm not a believer in God. Sitting together with your family at the Seder table and talking about what it means to be free vs. to be slave is an amazing experience. It would be very hard to re-create that experience without the frame given by our Exodus narratives and the surrounding traditions.

I'm sure other cultures have their own powerful traditions for keeping values alive and transporting them across generations. But as you are already very familiar with Jewish traditions (probably much more than me), why not make use of this treasure?
+1 for sacred. It's changed my life.
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From my reading of that page, it doesn't support 32-bit Linux; not that it doesn't support running on Linux.
Yep, I was part of the open-source dev community back in the day. The push by Microsoft and subsequent deal with Negroponte to have the XO laptops also run Windows really disappointed a lot of the open source developers. Back then it felt a little like the last nail in the coffin, for me at least.
Apples uniqueness here is their OS and the applications that run on it. That’s why people would buy a Mac over an HP. Only that. If they want pros to keep using Mac OS for video etc, then they need to have competitive hardware.

Apples other concern is the developer side and the app ecosystem: high end build machines and developer workstations are also relevant for their actual business which is selling apps and phones.

Computer hardware for professionals is just a boring service Apple needs to provide in order to support the rest of their business. It’s not even a visible product like a MacBook or an iMac- it’s designed to be hidden on the floor because it’s huge and noisy (the trash can was a failed attempt at working around that fact)

Edit: to follow up on the “powerful machines are a boring service” idea: If Apple didn’t want to risk the brand damage of launching a boring product, they could simply license dell or hp to sell certain servers and workstations with Mac OS to let the highest end render machines and build servers etc run Mac OS. They could easily charge a 20% premium and people would be happy to buy them.
Hey, Chris! I largely agree with you, and think reading things like the Economist on a weekly basis is salutary - it's weekly, so building a reading habit around it doesn't lead to constant panic. It's broad, covers a lot of what's going on around the world and isn't as obsessed with the trivialities American media focuses on. As a guy who used to work on Google News with you, I always appreciated the effort to get more global news and more global sources integrated into peoples' reading experiences.

Where I disagree is that I think being citizens of a democracy obligates us to pay attention so we can vote as informed participants, and I don't know how to do that without reading the news.

And it's important to be clear that there's a lot still wrong with the world. The climate is in crisis; more humans are in slavery today than at any time in human history; we're in the midst of one of the great migrant/refugee crises of the modern world. Importantly, many media outlets largely ignore those things, but not all media does.
This comment needs to be stuck to the top of this thread—the thread has already got out of hand wrt/ the confusion on how this affects current customers.

Thanks for clearing up the communication on this! I've been a happy Stripe user for years, now!
An article of frequency of errors http://lambda-diode.com/opinion/ecc-memory-2
True.

Also true: often incremental changes are a bone tossed to radicals who are then expected to be complacent even with fundamentally broken systems.
I disagree with that. For people to be pushed into cryptocurrency, it has a lot more to do with debt and inflation and problems with fiat currencies. I didn’t mention that in my original post because I wanted to focus more on the technology aspects, but I believe the monetary aspects will be the real catalyst that ultimately causes adoption.

The fact is, if you hold your savings in USD in a bank account with close to zero interest rates, your life savings will be worth less every single year (purchasing power, not dollar amount). With a deflationary currency such as gold or bitcoin, that is not the case. I think as people realize this, it will eventually become a self fulfilling prophecy where people are pushed into cryptocurrencies as a hedge against hyperinflation (it is already happening in certain countries such as Venezuela).

It stands to throw off the entire balance of power in the world which is why people in high places are trying to slow it down and prevent it from happening, but I believe it is just putting off the inevitable. That is why I am saying it wont happen today. I said 10 to 20 years as an aggressive estimate, but in reality it could take 50 to 100 years.

I also believe the entire surge in Bitcoin and crypto and subsequent crash may have been orchestrated by big players in order to shake the public’s confidence and trust in these markets to push adoption farther down the road.
Yeah, we messed up in not having this be clearer. Apologies!
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Free speech is important, but like any right it must be balanced against society's interests -- in this case, the interest society has in not going full Nazi. Again, in Germany's case.

Despite having bans on certain kinds of speech, Germany is overall freer than the USA, and scores higher on every free-press index that matters.
You can maybe ratchet your way out of this POV, like so:

Would there ever be a centralized provider without there being an incentive for it? Would such an incentive ever exist without an accompanying incentive to leverage your dominance to keep competing providers out?
Depends on how centralization is framed. Common CPU company (e.g. Intel)? Common cloud company (e.g. AWS)? Common website company(e.g. Facebook)? If we can separate these terms, I think people are asking to not have a common DB store maintained by a common website company. Framed in that way, we should strive to allow people to store things on their desktop computers and treat them as home servers. For nomadic or not-always-on desktop type, a monetization approach for these decentralized networks would be to resell/affiliate with hosting providers (where the user owns and has the AWS account, not you) and do one-click provisions and what not.

People might re-centralize for discovery, but shouldn't need to for storage or other conveniences. And centralized discovery is not that bad of a problem.
RECOVER - worst named command ever. It (AFAIR) was designed to recover data from a failing drive. The way it did this was to turn every disk sector into an individual file or similar. Thus rendering the drive unbootable and in practice had the opposite effect from its name.

Shortly after I took out the 20Mb HDD on my dad's work pc with RECOVER he bought me my own little home computer to wreck instead :)
"build in a weekend"
I'd really like a good tutorial for combining MCTS with NNs, but this tutorial didn't help me at all really. MCTS is easy enough to learn on its own, but the details of connecting it to NN learning is still mysterious to me after having read this.

Of course I could go and study the LeelaZero or minigo code, but I was hoping for a nice readable introduction.
Some hardware questions I'd think working with content creators could help with (disclaimer: not a hardware guy)...

Are external GPUs fast enough? What internal architecture do they need to make them so?

How much L1/L2/Ln memory do they need for serious workflows?

Is Thunderbolt <whatever> fast enough?

How well do professional apps really scale with multiple CPUs? Benchmarks are one thing, seeing people use the software in production is something else.

Anyway, just random speculation.
And a proper freaking keyboard and mouse
Is it possible that this was a planet, but most of the mass was ejected out of the system?
> I guess I'm no longer part of their target market for their computer systems.

I've seen the phrase "not part of their target market" deployed at developers and particular users with increasing frequency for years.

Seems inevitable that eventually people will go somewhere else.
I believe git uses its own implementation for applying deltas sucked down by `git pull`

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/patch-delta.c

There's also `git apply` that applies user supplied patchfiles but if I'm reading this correctly it also uses an internal implementation:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/apply.c
I don't think it's true at all that paying attention to the news once/month would render you informed enough to vote for more than 1-2 offices. (If in US:) President, Congress, sure. But probably not Governor, Mayor or any local issues.
I thought they were getting out of IoT because of how bad they did with the Raspberry Pi.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/21/first_look_windows_...
Ignoring the GP, most of the comments in this thread are people begging for an overpriced commodity tower. People are happy to pay the Apple premium, but they expect the latest specs.
Does `git apply` actually farm out to /usr/bin/patch? I kind of assumed it reimplemented the patching itself.
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We'll make sure you're taken care of here. (If you're just running test subscription charges right now, you're still grandfathered. You can ping me any time if you have questions.)
I'm just trying to point out that you don't have to share genes with an ethnic group to belong to it.
The email sent by Stripe says "Since you used Stripe Subscriptions in the past year, the Stripe Billing Starter plan is included in your current pricing."

So... based on that, it seems that "existing customers" means "customers that have actually used the product we're replacing".

I think we'd all appreciate a confirmation or clarification, though. :)
Why does patch call ed? What did anyone ever actually use this for?
How do you give your card to someone else to purchase something?
Gentoo!

ducks
I like to do it passively if the person doesn't already expect it. Like asking overly specific questions about past events they posted. 'how was dj dickhead in January?' 'the girl you were with didn't she go to (put school I surely shouldn't know anything about here)' just making random creeper comments and getting worse until I explain my intention. For the best effect stretch this process over a evening or more.

We had a overly 'social' secretary which didn't understand privacy implications until she met our team :) we pointed out every joint, cheap vodka bottle, or even slightly awkward things found in mirror selfies until she started to really rethink her privacy.

Or there is a old social network many people in my country kept for the email. They encouraged to write or at least post poems. Lot of awkward lines to be found there to make some heads red.
There's nothing on the VRP which effectively covers business logic vulnerabilities. Realistically, this would be precisely why such a category would be needed.

Closest I can fit it into within their existing scheme is:

> Logic flaw bugs leaking or bypassing significant security controls -- Other highly sensitive applications [2] -- Vulnerabilities giving direct access to Google servers

But that's a stretch, and the payout is still atrociously low for the value you could've squeezed out of it, potentially legitimately (millions).

TomAnthony, in your position, I'd keep making a stink here and possibly even see what other quirks you might find in PageRank and just pocket them for now. I've reached out to some old members of the VRP team to see if they can shed any light on whether the VRP can be tuned a bit in response to this, but you certainly should've gotten more.
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HN's bubble is a bit more tone-sensitive, where rowdy rabble-rousing from any side usually gets squashed...but the thresholds of tolerance are a bit skewed with softly-worded comments.

Carefully crafted traditional/conservative comments do get voted up, particularly if written knowing that they're addressing a potentially hostile audience. Those posting progressive viewpoints can generally get away with more blunt/aggressive language.
The only reasons I spent that kind of money on workstations back then were that I wanted my desktop to be Unix and I wanted good 3D graphics performance. The only way to get those in one compact box was to make a deal with SGI.

These days I get astoundingly better performance than whatever that low volume hardware did back then out of a $700 desktop with a $800 graphics card and a $500 monitor.

$5000 is probably still too high, unless you see the Apple product line as your only option.
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> but the need for the connection to not suck

Many ISPs already satisfy this need for most decentralization uses. Unless I'm really popular (at which point the network might make it easy for me to grab a virtual instance somewhere), my up speed should be fine to serve most social networking needs.
For that to be viable, we'd need an unprecedented compression algorithm to work around bandwidth and storage limits. But yeah, then we could basically have a second, decentralized internet.
Well, if you want the actual production use cases, here are some of them:

French radar system for ballistic missile tracking and measurement.

http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2009/03/thales-cho...

Aegis Weapon naval defence system, deployed across US Navy cruisers

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Lockheed_Martin_Selects_Aoni...

USS Bunker Hill ballistic missile defence system weapons control

http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2010/04/aonix-perc...
Thank you for sharing this. I have a few college friends that seem to be in the same situation as your WoW buddies that haven't managed to fill in the social gaps. Is there anything that I can do to encourage them to be more social or do you think you had to find that motivation within yourself?
This is bad and should be fixed, but there are fairly few circumstances where it actually creates a new vulnerability. The majority of uses of patch are applied to source code by someone who's going to end up running that code anyways, so applying patches you haven't read closely from sources you don't trust is already unsafe.
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This is mostly disappointing. I'd assumed this was a very special benefit, and meant 8-10 weeks off per year!

My contract gives me 6 weeks, which is pretty standard in Denmark, and fairly standard in Europe. I use all 30 days, every year. I spread it around, not more than 2 weeks at once, but others take 3-4 weeks off during the summer.

I can only see one comment (praneshp) where more than 30 days has been taken, and many where 4 weeks was the unwritten limit. There's no country in Europe with less than 4 weeks holiday entitlement! [1]

(If I'm sick, that's separate, and has no effect on my holidays. Except if I'm sick on holiday, then I get the holidays back to use some other time. I would need a note from my doctor to do this.)

Has anyone worked in Europe and then at an American company with the unlimited vacation policy, and taken more holiday than they were previously entitled to in Europe?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...
"Would forcing users to verify their identities and post with their full names have any effect on the toxicity?"

Probably not. Often time people are just as terrible in person and social media just gives them more reach.

"What if filters were used to prevent the most egregious words of hatred?"

It's too easy to come up with new (((slurs))) to get around such censorship but still spread the same message.

"Is it at all possible to have something like twitter that isn't as toxic, given the right features?"

Social media often makes people more toxic by exposing them more directly to the opinions of others and they find that intolerable. A lot of the time, the nuances of certain kinds speech are different in different communities and those nuances are lost on social media and people become more toxic as a result.

I suspect that carefully considered features could reduce toxicity of discussion, but I don't think that it is just a matter of features. Ultimately it's a people problem and people cannot just be automated around.
Does anyone know if the GNU tools, the coreutils, have been through security audits and fuzzing? They’re the most used tools on the planet, I’d say, and relying on the 90’s “many eyes make all bugs shallow” doesn’t seem to cut it anymore...
This is unbelievable. How can you advertise your hospital after such a tragedy?
Do you feel it's effective to assess candidates with focused research a week or so before voting? Or do you think it's necessary to always stay up to date on the news to be a good participant in democracy?
Security guide is for RHEL6? Nobody is actually running K8s on RHEL6 without systemd, are they? Are they?!?!
You're correct, git has its own patch implementation (plus, it's a bit stricter than the patch program, because it doesn't have to deal with various patch formats--only "unified" patches).
It's almost what you might expect from an executive team whose vision/talent is focused on manufacturing efficiencies and the aesthetic side of industrial design...
Might help to give the context that suppressors can save target shooters' hearing.
Tara as a forewarning gmail marked your message as spam in my inbox. I would expect a lot of people to have the same experience. Second the messaging is not clear if you are indeed offering a grandfather clause for existing customers you need to state that clearly. Using the term "included" is ambiguous and I interpreted it in the same manner as a tip being included on a check. (meaning we've already added it, not that we didn't charge you)
No thanks. When that "random freezing" happens your entire subscription business model is at PayPal's mercy.
No, thank you for getting in front of this, clarifying your messaging, and responding to questions as quickly and actively as you have!

Stuff like this is part of the reason I love Stripe so much.
I'll add https://github.com/nccgroup/kube-auto-analyzer to that list (disclaimer, I for my sins, wrote it :) )
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This is, of course, a vulnerability. But let's not get too crazy. Once you are applying a patch, either you trust the patch or not.

If you blindly apply patches, you will be in risk as soon as you run or try to compile the patched command. This attack is just a bit faster because it happens as soon as you apply the patch.
I think “perseve” == perceive.
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And yet that product is absolutely critical for them to keep selling their iPhones, iWatches, and iEverythings.

They might not make a single dollar on the sale of the pro machines - and it would still be worth every dollar of engineering put into the project to keep the devs happy in order to keep their other markets healthy.
You should have seen what long distance phone calls cost before the 90's (i.e. cellphones).

I made a $100 phone call to a girl I met on vacation in 1990.
If you're interested in Kubernetes security, I'd recommend looking at the CIS benchmark https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/kubernetes/ which is relatively well maintained and has a lot of information about possible Kubernetes security configuration.
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In "Refactoring", Martin Fowler says that "comments are bugs".
This hole needs a fancy name. Patchowned? Pwneded ?
"This site is blocked due to a security threat."

First time I'm seeing this message so I doubt it's a case of over-sensitive Cisco firewall. Chrome also blocked it as a threat.
But then the problem is just that Apple makes component choices with very poor value. A Threadripper CPU is not the same thing as the Xeon in the Mac Pro, but who cares? You can still build a way faster machine (with ECC) for half the price.