skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Details of fraud and chargebacks aside, I want to point out that this post really doesn't have to do with Stripe Atlas, insomuch as Stripe Atlas doesn't give you carte blanche to commit fraud on the Stripe platform.

FWIW, I'm a pretty happy Stripe Atlas customer, and it's pretty WYSIWYG, for better and for worse.
> People don't want to pay $100 a month for cable TV either, but they did it anyway (for decades)...

In the absence of alternatives, it seemed like what entertainment cost. The alternatives for free or cheap are enough that many, many, many people are opting out.

> ...and continue to do so.

Evidence[0] suggests otherwise.

Leaving evidence aside, I think that each service will likely have something to attract some number of subscribers, yes. Amazon is doing LotR, Disney wants a piece, CBS has Star Trek, etc. I don't think it follows that a large number of people are going to subscribe to more than one or two on an ongoing basis. People subscribe to CBS All-Access for one month, perhaps a trial month, and binge all of ST:D, then cancel. They already have a subscription to Amazon Prime for non-TV reasons. Maybe they share subscriptions with friends, or maybe they turn to piracy, or maybe they just shrug and go back to watching Netflix and YouTube, which is enough. Most people never had all the available channels, including premium channels, anyway. Going without a show or two isn't a problem for most people when the marginal cost is so high.

[0] https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/cord-cutting-2017-high-cos...
That's easy enough. It's finding the right restrictions that are hard. That's the whole point of the article above, it's not a bad read.
Yes, those parts weren't very progressive. Wilsonian Progressive reform, which is one of the things he's most famous for (and creating the League of Nations) was pretty progressive, though. It's why he's historically known as a progressive.
People recall information better through virtual reality
Heroic efforts on futile attempts to keep dying patients alive have a huge cost in human suffering and we, as a society, really ought to stop making them.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/

http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die...
Indeed, approaching 1% is enough to get you kicked off any non-high risk payment platform.
Mechanical Sympathy: Understanding the Hardware Makes You a Better Developer
Rising charges for Google Maps from 16 July 2018
Nice.

I did something simple here awhile back with a CFFI wrapper for OpenCV.

http://tech.magnetic.com/2015/11/real-time-facial-recognitio...
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Why? I use MySQL Workbench occasionally and it's good enough to get the job done and doesn't crash or anything on me.
This is a good take ... the comment I responded to just triggered a bit of melancholy on my part ... thanks for bringing perspective :)
the lion the witch and the wardrobe

was recommended by my mom at a young age (1st grade?), read it a bunch of times in grade school (went to same school K-8 so had access to the same library).

I should probably reread that whole series as an adult
Okay, here is my process:

1. Get a lot of sleep

2. Drink caffeine

3. Take a moment to think about the larger social impact of what you do -- it definitely has some impact

4. Focus on the problem just ahead of you, get absorbed in how interesting it is from a certain perspective

And that's it. If you're doing anything remotely technical, these are usually easy. But this can be done even if you're trading commodity futures.

(Trading commodity futures is an important economic activity, and you're rewarded for reducing demand when its not needed and increasing demand when it is needed).
You keep saying "The government" - we have lots of governments, with a lot of variation in how effective and corrupt they are. I'd expect that in total a lot of people would get the permission to exit CO2, a lot of money would be exchanged and somehow very little CO2 would actually be extracted.

Maybe if we had a single "world government" but then the cure (not to the mention the process required to get to that state) might be worse than the disease!
Carbon pricing is a feature of most interpretations of Georgist economics, a model that proposes fees on the industrial consumption of things that are or should be commonly owned (air, water, the radio spectrum, fossil fuels, etc), and redistributing the income. The Alaska Permanent Fund is an example - companies are charged a hefty fee for extracting Alaskan oil, which goes into a trust fund. That trust is then distributed equally to all Alaskan residents.

This is probably a more effective approach than the usual cap-and-trade carbon tax models.
Yes and shouldn't our first goal to be to examine ourselves for it and understand that sometimes that our culture and times and the systems involved make living in a purely idealistic state either untenable or at least make it incredibly hard for us to have any cultural impact towards the better?

For some, living any part of the system is hypocrisy or cognitive dissonance. For others, it's trying their best to live towards their ideals while also understanding that progress is a constant journey. And for some, it's a mix of both.

Being human and flawed isn't unique to any one person or group. It's the default, and I tend to think that those who throw hypocrisy towards others should eliminate it from their lives first.
I have yet to meet a single person who has done that, and even the extreme ascetics or saints engage in some form or other.
Armchair quarterbacking someone else's hypocrisy a few centuries after the fact seems even harder to pull off without at least some level of humility towards our own institutional blindness.
Amen! I was told it would cost me another $10/mo to add HD service, and that I probably wouldn't get any new channels. And I will still be dealing with commercials.

No thanks. It doesn't cost you anything extra to allow me to decrypt the commercials. I'll take my chances with OTA signals if I'm still going to be stuck watching commercials.
The 10,000 Hours Rule Doesn’t Apply to the Single Most Important Skill
You mean like when Kanye said he would in 2015?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9x92nwGf_M

Now that he has seen Trump get elected, I am sure he knows it is possible.
I enjoyed this quote from the above link:

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I have a story about Real Time Systems design that my supervisor told me years ago:

At a presentation on Real Time System design methodologies, during the question and answer period one person complimented the presenter on their talk and methodology but commented that it did not seem to be able to specify adequately the Real Time constraints, especially in their specific application.

So the presenter asked what was their application and assured them that it should only need minor changes to handle whatever made the application special.

The questioner then explained "Our application collects data and then transmits the data to another computer for storage and later analysis. The computer that our application runs on is attached to one end of a one meter long steel rod, the other end of this rod is attached to a nuclear bomb that is about to be detonated in a test. If the application has not completed all its tasks before the blast wave destroys the computer then it fails to meet its requirements. How would this time constraint be shown using your methodology?"

The presenter replied "Oh, I'd never thought of that..."

My supervisor then commented: "That is the difference between Soft Real Time Systems and Hard Real Time Systems".
1 - There are so many articles and such posted here and every other website I read, I honestly would not remember an article by a specific person vs another.

2 - I personally, like to read as much as I can and come to my own opinion / conclusion. Who specifically wrote it, is of little concern to me. I may put more weight behind an article from a big newspaper or such vs some random article on medium, but that doesn't mean both articles / opinions aren't valid (or not valid)

There is so much news lately, so many blog authors or writers - news is pretty dime a dozen IMO. Which goes back to newspapers are dieing and ads are increasing on publications so they can pay writers and blah blah blah. VS music or movies, which while there is a lot of music and a lot of movies / tv shows - I think those leave a bigger impact on people because they effect them emotionally. Most news is not to say it's garbage, but everyone has an opinion and a lot of it is hey let's repost this article about the latest apple product or political dilemma and put some ads on it so we can make some money vs original content, which is what music / movies are (usually).
Well at least they are expensive. So they got that going for them!
Kind of a United Fruit model of economic investing which resulted in the pejorative banana republic and resulting cries of American Imperialism, and subsequent loss in economic growth as AmCos pulled out due to instability.

Wonder if they can avoid a similar fate. Maybe people are wiser on both sides, one can hope.
> Unlike the USA which offers support and aid by offering money to other countries

how is the chinese doing any different than what the USA did/might've done with foreign aid and other strings attached loans? In the end, it's a form of empire building.
It's a pity they didn't offer .net support from the start. I wonder what were the reasons, besides popularity contest.
Thanks for detailed reply.
This is always good advice. One should strive so their code doesn't run into errors in the first place.

However, sometimes the errors are actually part of the fabric of the domain itself. They're expected to occur very frequently. The data it encodes is valuable. The way they're handled is important.

Nevertheless, you're right. More often than not, you're better of using traditional exception handling and preventing errors from occurring in the first place.
Maybe this could be useful in countries with nationalized healthcare, but it seems a terrible idea to deploy in the for-profit monstrosity of American healthcare. Institutions will immediately begin to deferring to the “objective” judgements of such systems to either pull care to save costs, or, as was the case with that hospice provider in Texas, kill sick people for more money:

https://www.cbs19.tv/mobile/article/news/north-texas-hospice...
> unsustainable shadow debt

i keep hearing this term, but what does shadow debt mean?
Probably a mobile app, and probably deployed via the platform tools. They have options for beta releases which users can opt-in themselves, and also phased releases are supported out of the box. Just my guess.
I've pushed $600K through stripe with >7K orders and only had 1 dispute, ever.

OP is definitely in the 'fraudster' category, and deep into it! I am surprised Stripe didn't flag way sooner.
WordPress, and its menagerie of terrible plugins.
Its like if a civil rights violation from one US city on any given day was elevated to the world stage. It would sound like much more of a nightmare than anything going on in the UAE.
Maybe this is just how the economy will work in the future. Paying for curated content - even just selections of free content. It's not a bad model at all.
My business had a 6% chargeback rate at one point because our biggest client's mom didn't recognize us and disputed hundreds of charges. Stripe sent me this same email, but they let me work it out and continue operating.

IMO if this questionable post is the worst story out there about Stripe, it shows that Stripe is doing a great job.
That sounds like Citizens Climate Lobby, which supports a carbon tax with a tax on imports from countries that don't implement a similar carbon tax.
Oops - should have been "(QR code or similar)" - too late for me to edit.

Completely agree - I'd want the same thing, not a crappy version of the same product you sold 2 years ago for the same price - which I suspect rules out a lot of clothes retailers.
Don't work at Stripe, but each business unit/product in our company has their own separate Stripe account.
I mean, if you're selling branded products that you don't actually have available to give to the customer, aren't able to get quickly, and don't even have the legal rights to sell anyway, and then customers start filing chargebacks... that's kind of entirely on you.

Also keep in mind that for such a large number of users to go through the trouble of filing the chargebacks, it means that A) it's been long enough that they seriously believe your shop is fraudulent and you have no intention of shipping them what they paid for, and B) your communication and customer support is so terrible that they felt this was their only recourse.
Also a "Solo dev for an app with hundreds of thousands of users"

I just test everything myself. On one OS (Mac). The worst part is having to run VMWare with older OS versions sometimes, but not usually.

I find that bugs are almost never OS specific, and are rather just logic errors.

I find that having other people test my code adds little value, as I can literally just test it myself in the OS that I write it in most the time.

I know that this goes against all advice that you read, and all the "common knowledge" that is out there... but I've been doing this for 15 years and have got over 1 million users in total probably, and I almost never get support emails regarding bug reports. So, in my experience, I really find that everything I have heard is wrong. I realize that other people may have other experiences but found this point of reference interesting.
The free market has never been used to address global warming (it's badly used in general in fact, possibly in part because few people seem to actually understand what it is or even internalize that it's a tool at all, not an end, and like any tool there are applications it is a poor fit for). Amongst the foundational requirements for a free market to work at all is that the price should embody all costs. There are some problems of course where this simply isn't very practical, particularly ones that are heavily non-linear/non-reversible. But that's not the case for carbon emissions, in fact it's a pretty good fit. The problem is "release of fossil/long term stored carbon into the atmosphere", it's easy to measure at various points at the fuel level, and since it's a gas that will evenly diffuse worldwide and is uniform removal from the atmosphere can take place anywhere in the world by anyone using any method. That makes it well suited to abstraction, with a market system on each side of the equation and government acting as a pivot. Wouldn't even require global buy-in to make a difference given that the energy market is primarily globalized anyway, if a few major polities decided to require it and also made access to their own markets take it into account it'd have a major effect no matter what anyone else wanted.
I bring up anti-vaxxers as a clear example. There are any number of other examples I could bring up, including from content area experts. For examples, the current medical experiment ethics are in place because of a history of experts more interested in the research results than in people. Eugenics, infamously, was part of established science, but more recently we have found many cases where there have been innumerable wrong convictions based the false science of bite marks, flame patterns, etc., all made by content area experts.

There are also innumerable cases where people - domain experts - react to protect their institution over protecting people. Just look at the reaction of the forensics field to those who have identified major structural problems in forensics. Or look at how universities protect researchers over the many students who have filed sexual harassment claims. Or look to how co-workers often shun whistle blowers who highlight real problems.

As an historical example, a century ago more than 30 Brooklyn physicians opposed the Bureau of Child Health because "If we’re going to save the lives of all the women and children at public expense, what incentive will there be for a young man to go into medicine?” - http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/sara-josephi... .

So I don't mean specifically that this argument style is only used to discredit established science, but rather to give an example of how downplaying might look.

As for how to discuss this without using abstractions, that isn't quite my point. Abstractions are fine. What I didn't like was how your abstractions moved the topic away from the concrete details of what appears to be horrible treatment, and into a region where there is no real controversy - abstractions which the article itself used as the baseline for judging what might be unacceptable.

Personally speaking, and here I switch to an abstraction, after reading the many articles where police justify a shooting because they were worried about being attacked - at rates far higher than elsewhere in the world, and with department policies which seem to be biased towards an aggressive style - and stories of police using forced medical exams, and the stories of supposed 'content area experts' in forensics using false science for decades to reinforce police power, my presumption has become more that there is a systemic bias towards the use of power to enforce a level of compliance which is inhumane.

For perhaps the starkest contrast in prison treatment, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfEsz812Q1I . (Haldane is likely the most extreme example of a humane prison, and not typical of European prisons, so this isn't quite fair.)

Do you have an idea of what people in your position do in other countries, like those in Western Europe? We rarely hear about British police throwing flash grenades by accident into a baby's occupied crib. On the same lines, do you think your European counterparts would be doing the same things you do?
>>[...] requires the owner to have an address inside of the union.

This would bode well for programs like the Estonian e-residency[1] initiative as I believe they also provide an EU address, although it might mean having to legally transfer ownership of the .eu domains from UK entities to the Estonian entity if any businesses are thinking of going through with this.

[1] https://e-resident.gov.ee/
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Audi CEO behind bars due to dieselgate emission scandal
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This is what happens when management mandates crazy requirements. Same sort of rubbish happens in tech. Manager comes in and demands "100% code coverage of unit tests" Or every developer to write at least 100 lines of code each day. Push enough and you will get what you ask for, but lift the veil and you will find out that the participants are gaming the system.
So if you ever wondered, this shows you how random reviews are and how little attention they really pay to them.
Virtual Reality: Past, Present, and Future
Bold words for a private company that lives off NASA.
There is no requirement for me to have an agreement to sell a branded product (first sale doctrine). If I go buy a cargo container full of North Face gear on clearance, there is nothing North Face can do to stop me from legally selling that gear.

Agree with the shipping delay points.
I don't understand what you're saying here, could you clarify? Why would an operation want to be prevented from bidding on collecting the money from carbon removal?
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17337682
You've missed the way that it's done absent state intervention, which is perhaps a modification of #3:

Decide on a per-patient basis, treating the illness when the individual or their family can afford the cost of treatment.
And entire FBI divisions devoted to investigation of these rules
Basically helping small businesses answer these kinds of questions and then helping them do things with the answers.
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@shoo thanks, I'm quite new posting comments here. How can I know if my comment has been killed? Or was it the question itself?
Yep. Java’s strawman implementation of OOP lead most of the world to never learn OOP’s potential. In Smalltalk, if was a virtual method of Boolean! Sounds horrible for performance, eh? Despite that, the Strongtalk spin off of Smalltalk was used as the internals of Java’s Hotspot JIT.
The difference is that know the rest of the world is aware of it it whereas in the past, they were not as aware.

I know that may not be the answer you want to hear but " image " is huge in China.
> Sequoia's Michael Moritz who has a decent amount of credibility

but you have to also think whether he's biased in wanting to push the view that the next big tech hub is in China, because he's invested in the region. Making the hype machine so that when time comes to exit, there's plenty of doofus who will believe the hype and buy into the market.

it's very hard to know what to believe, and even more effort to do research. Most people won't be doing it, so it's an effective method to generate hype.
"our biggest client's mom"

What are you selling?
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If you are interested in automated, transparent optimization of AWS resources, you may want to check out FittedCloud (https://www.fittedcloud.com/).
To be fair to the small number of posh people I've known who have been in the British Army they all had led troops on the ground - probably desperately trying to live up to the reputations of their ancestors at Waterloo/Culloden/Hastings...
So basically Roadkill if Roadkill was sponsored by Motel 6 and Waffle House instead of Dodge?
"We regret that we are unable to supply descriptive details for this record at present"

Which wrecks actually have info?
Of course they get to keep their gains. Why wouldn't they? None of them broke the law.
not had a chance to properly try yet, but https://goreplay.org/ does exactly what you are asking. Alternatively, in the container world, tools such as Istio (https://istio.io/) allow traffic shadowing - you can duplicate traffic and route it somewhere else
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I asked something similar in a reddit AMA[1] with Mark Blaskovich, from Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery. His answer wasn't super satisfying, but for what it's worth:

> The resistance genes will likely remain, but be 'switched off', so resistance would re-emerge quickly. The cycling approach could theoretically work to some extent, but the logistics on a worldwide scale would be impractical. Mark B

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3k32wi/american_ch...
... or stop allowing these mega-mega-mega-mega mergers :)
> A solid 90% of AI is data munging

What's the other 10%?

I'm serious - I've got a better-than-average understanding of statistics, and everything I've seen referred to as "AI" seems to really be just a statical model with a thin layer of code over the top to make decisions based upon it on the fly. Is there more to the state of the art that isn't apparent from the outside?

In fact, the only thing that comes to mind that doesn't fit that description would be genetic algorithms, but I don't hear much about them these days.
With regards to England, it is slowly going that direction. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/often-does-snow-...