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Right, so Microsoft holding a near-monopoly on desktop operating systems was not found to be illegal, but leveraging that power in anti-competitive ways was. Similarly Amazon doesn't have to control a monopoly on online retail, web service hosting, etc. It just has to be found to use it's dominance in illegal ways and it's not clear to me that it has done so. Similarly with Apple.

One nuance I'm not clear on is power gained through the monopoly ownership of a proprietary technology. So for example Apple was able to exert considerable influence over AT&T and later get unprecedented concessions from carriers in order for them to support the iPhone. Arguably their power over the App Store gives them similar leverage. But is that anti-competitive if it simply flows from the superiority of their proprietary software? Arguably no, it's entirely fair enough. They are not using dominance of the market, but legitimately exploiting their ownership of their platform. But couldn't Microsoft have used the same argument for Windows?

I'm genuinely conflicted on this. Simply gaining advantage by being 'better' can't be enough to be illegal surely? That would create truly bizarre and user-hostile incentives. However when you gain a monopoly position and then exert that power, it becomes anti-competitive. How do we tell when a company crosses the threshold? Nobody in 1997-2010 could argue Apple had monopoly power in the phone market and it had almost exactly the same policies back then. Now maybe it does hold some form of monopoly or at least market dominating power, but applies basically the same policies, so is that now illegal? Maybe policies appropriate for a smaller player can be inappropriate beyond a certain scale.

That might be true, I'm willing to accept that. As a customer in 1998 I chose to by an iPhone and accepted Apple's controls over the platform as beneficial, but a new purchaser now might feel compelled to do so due to Apple's dominance of the App ecosystem and resent the locked down nature of the system. That person might legitimately cry foul and maybe have an honest grievance. How does that work? How are Apple supposed to know that their existing, standing policies have now become a violation of the law where previously they were not? It genuinely perplexes me.
Weirdly I was thinking of cancelling all subscriptions for a while. See how long I go before resubbing and what I resub to.

The real threat to these services is that attention is finite, as is my money. I can't afford to have lots of services with low utility.
Yes in the street. But you’re in their shop, and the horsing around is being done in their property on their equipment. You're a guest there. Either leave or politely comply with what they ask.
For front end developers, this is basically redux @ react
Don't know if anyone from Stripe is listening here but: it'd be amazing to be able to deploy chargeback protection selectively, as a Radar rule. So that for example we could say: charges from the US are protected (and subject to the extra fee) while charges from the UK are not.
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There is a need for continuous rent/mortgage payments, availability of food in the pantry, debt repayments, and health insurance though.

Have you considered that people might not want to lose their jobs in a contraction?
I bet the accounts still say they lost money. If only they didn't have to pay offshore shell corporations hundreds of millions to use their IP ...
At that point simply grabbing a torrent seems easier and more reliable.
Unfortunately, a lot of people have been switching over to using Discord, and that's splitting up a lot of the IRC community who doesn't want to move to a closed, corporate controlled system.
If I look at a white background I get eye strain and headaches. And if I look at a co workers screen while standing I can’t read the text. But with dark background I don’t get eye strain and headaches.
Nice little summary here https://searchengineland.com/digg-v4-how-to-successfully-kil... It was really was an astonishingly cack-handed set of decisions.
You mean Stripe?
When I Stopped Trusting Apple
The original content of Netflix is mediocre at best. It feels the content is analytics driven and commissioned than made out of passion.

I canceled Netflix a month or so back. I just use Hulu and Prime Video.

I replaced some popular shows with DVDs. They’re surprisingly affordable nowadays.
Not an expert in this area, would'nt that flow against the general laws of insurance?
Yeah, what a brain fade. Thanks!
I don't feel sorry for people for being worse. Not everybody is the same, noone is perfect.

But I feel sorry to see them suffer while they might have not if they were able to use smartphone for entertainment.
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Unfortunately trade wars are as real as any other kind of war, where 'no holds barred' is the norm.

I'm still amazed how many people fell for the 'concerns of espionage' pretext. I guess most wars in history have started will equally dumb pretexts.
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China is the first one that comes to mind, especially considering they're currently putting millions of Muslims into reeducation camps
NaN is 'not a number'
A string is not a number
A function is not a number
If 'not a number' === 'not a number' then any string === any function

This is a joke...
I'd say it avoids it, mitigates would work fine.

The sum of the authentication credentials passed to the application is different for each site. with 2FA you submit password + token. so an attacker who is replaying compromised credentials can't gain unauthorised access with them alone.
I’m the PM on Chargeback Protection. Startups told us they don’t want to deal with the hassle and unpredictability of chargebacks; that’s why we built this. Happy to answer any questions you have.
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There are absolutely differences between different cultures, so an American millennial or Gen-Xer might be totally different from a European one, and countries that weren't involved in WW2 probably didn't experience the baby boom at the end of the war, but at the same time, thanks to the internet, culture is getting more global, and if there's any generation that's likely to be a global generation, it's the millennials.
> Plus pirates get 4K streams vs Netflix which serves you quality based on what you pay.

And based on your operating system and browser. Even FullHD is hard (might still be impossible even) to get if you run a free software stack. Netflix wants you to run the heaviest DRM stack possible (even though their content is available in 4K from your local friendly neighbourhood torrent site).
I'm merely assuming that housing benefits is the mechanism through which they are able to pay rent. Or a combination between a housing subsidy and other allowances.
Even if you don’t want users last 10 passwords to be “similar” (by whatever your definition of similar is), you can still hash the similar variants when you hash the original and check them.

I’m not saying whether this is a good idea or not. I haven’t thought through it.
Oh, wow. Never knew about this. This is most certainly worth checking out.
Ok, that makes sense: apparently, I don't understand what is meant by "smooth algorithm". I assumed that it simply means you don't have to stop the manipulator on the path from A to B, but if it's something different, that might be helpful indeed. I'm failing to find a clear definition of what it actually meant when used like that, though.
Great product! Will this be rolling out in Hong Kong at some point in the future?
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If I could edit the submission I'd change the title to your suggestion but I thought it was good custom on HN to use the same title as the article itself uses (you'll notice I omitted the miracle-bit) which I've assumed makes it easier to detect dupes (although, of course, that could be done on a URL-basis)
But this isn't the product I want.

I don't want to ever fight chargebacks. Because my policy is to never take money from people who don't want to give it to me. I want to automatically refund every chargeback attempt without it affecting my ability to charge credit cards.

One of my businesses targets consumers, who have this amazing ability to "forget to cancel" or to have "cancelled 3 months ago, but for some reason we're still billing them" or to just plain decide that the last six months of charges were fraudulent and that their bank should get them reversed.

All of that is fine with me, and in fact every invoice I send out says as much: We'll happily refund every penny you ever paid us if you simply ask. But lots of people aren't comfortable asking for their money back. They are, however, plenty comfortable asking their bank to ask for their money back.

I just want a way to streamline that process that doesn't involve me having to handle fighting disputes that I'd prefer to lose. And of course to not have those lost "disputes" count against me.

Any ideas on how to do that, Stripe?
US law says that an Ericsson 5G researcher from Sweden cannot have his paper reviewed by a Huawei employee, who could be the most knowledgeable expert in the sub-domain.

Justifying this kind of unjust law is like saying Google should comply with Chinese censorship request to suppress dissent opinions in Sweden.
>Once Netflix is gone, Disney+ would then jack up its price to $40/month.

Yes, Disney can charge whatever they want and people will pay it even if they don't want to and/or can't afford it because economics do not apply...

...right?
"Don't Fuck With Paste"

http://browserengine.net/dont-fuck-with-paste-for-chrome-and...
That’s exactly what we’d like. 95% of our transactions come from trusted customers which have ~0% chance of a chargeback. We’d like to apply this check and insurance on only the transactions that we are not sure about.

Requiring it to be all or nothing makes the feature useless (not cost effective) for merchants with a low fraud rates.
How long has gravity existed?
As I've noted here before[1], Newport is on a 3-book contract on more or less the same topic with minor tweaks. And is likely to subtly market them to the hilt at every opportunity.

Besides unsound fundamentals (relying too much "third party stories", and other issues noted elsewhere), he focuses too much on "quantity" and "productivity" than on quality and effectiveness.

Sure, he has something of value to say, but he should absolutely have compressed it into one book, and avoid the filler content. But my (uncharitable?) conjecture is, as he values "productivity", he happily gives into the demand of publishers to have X number of pages in a book, to sell, lest it looks like a pamphlet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19047303
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYfkOtYYlg
Just take the premium that
you'd be willing to pay and
put it in the bank

In my country, when companies are hired to do overnight rail maintenance, they face very stiff fines if they over-run and delay trains the next morning.

The fines are large enough that (for example) companies will have a heavy plant mechanic on site who does nothing on the vast majority of jobs - they're just standing by, to mitigate the risk of a breakdown leading to such a fine. Some business analyst with a spreadsheet has worked out the heavy plant breakdown rate, the typical resulting delays, the expected fines, and the cost of having the mechanic on standby... and they've worked out it's a good business decision.

The purpose of having an SLA isn't to get yourself money when your provider fails. The purpose is to make costly risk mitigation a rational investment for your suppliers.
> A cylinder that lasts for an hour near the surface will only last for a couple of minutes at 100m

And unfortunately for saturation divers, you can't pressurize cylinders on-site to make up for the difference.

Pressurizing your tank to 210 bar (which puts the same stress on the cylinder walls as 200 bar at the surface) doesn't change the factor-of-10 increase on the other side of your P1V1=P2V2 balance.

Not to mention that you need even more air for decompression time...
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Engineering, unlike fundamental physics, involves worrying about the competitiveness of what you're trying to do, compared to the other ways of solving the problem.

Freeman Dyson pointed out that in engineering, unlike science, competing ways of approaching a problem rarely coexist. The better (including economically better) solutions drive the others to extinction.

Nuclear right now is on the losing end of this competition. Levelized cost of power from new nuclear power plants is not competitive, and it's not competitive by a wide margin. Nuclear is dead tech walking and, absent some a near-miracle that changes this, will go the way of the zeppelin, the reciprocating steam engine, and the vacuum tube. It could persist in niche markets, but for general use it will be dead.
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Why isn't this a feature of _every_ merchant account?
My bank uses the mobile app as 2FA when you call in. You first have to login to your mobile app and then have to verify it. That alleviates the stolen phone number issue.
I really love to read articles like this one.

Maybe because I hoard junk. It's nice to see it sometimes pays off.
You mentioning that reminded me that iOS and macOS don't have a high-contrast mode like what Windows has had literally for decades.
It'd still be enabled prior to the original charge being made. The details in the link suggest that some charges would be exempted anyway (eg ones that don't use the new Checkout, ones over a certain threshold). So it's a question of whether or not a given individual charge is insured, not a question of whether your Stripe account as a whole is insured.
This article is full of ad hominems and doesn't present any challenges to ideas. Rather poor in my opinion
Thanks, I guess that answers the question. I'll have to spend some time reading to actually understand, though. Any reading/video-lecture suggestions that I should go through besides the links in the article?
Is it a 0% chance, or a 0.4% chance?
Thanks for the feedback! Our first priority at the moment is seeing how this performs and then rolling out additional integration options, but we might explore giving users additional control over the mechanics as time goes on.
No, the biggest problem with nuclear is that it isn't economically competitive.
Disclosure: Kayvon and I were office mates, and I've supported his research while at Google (and the wchrichton's research as well).

Amusingly, most of the papers highlighted come from industry experience / application. Part of this is self selection (Kayvon knows these people and these papers). But I believe an unstated component is one of the challenge of academic systems research: access to the seriously interesting challenges. Thus isn't specific to graphics, as many of my favorite papers from ISCA, NSDI, etc. are also industry-led backwards looking systems papers (though many, if not most, of the authors previously went to grad school).

Industry/Academia partnerships often produce the best systems work, precisely because industry can offer the challenge, while academics can step back and see how they might solve the problem completely differently. The natural tendency in most companies is to keep stringing along some small improvements that last you another six months. While it's true that every once in a while, someone does a big rewrite, they are often rare and for good reason. My favorite example came from a talk Jeff Dean gave at Stanford, where he explained you should design a system to scale 10x but not 100x, because by then it should be redone.
Would be lovely to get my hands on such metal :)
I wonder how Linux thread scheduling scales on multi-CPU machines. To keep things simple, I specifically chose to go with a single-core machine to benchmark all architectures.
I wonder whether much of the difference in severity of autism symptoms, rather than being differences in the underlying condition are explained by differences in comfort. Symptoms used to differentiate sever cases such as irritability, inattention, repetitive behaviour, mood changes, sleep disruption, and hyporeactivity are all exhibited by neurotypical people when in pain / discomfort / stress.

A core feature of autism is sensory abnormality, so perhaps the symptoms present in severe cases can be explained by increased sensitivity to these negative internal stimuli.

Additionally, I think it's important to note that we would discount many of these symptoms from a diagnosis, if a more observable and salient cause (e.g. an itchy skin condition) were seen. Gastrointestinal discomfort being poorly observable creates a bias.
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> Shifting from passwords to more secure systems such as MFA ignores the elephant in the room about passwords that no-one wants to acknowledge: People share passwords.

In real life, people share keys too. So in some cases the "key" should probably be the metaphor, and it could be implemented by a dongle.
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It looks a bit like alpine meadows which have their own odd communication system in yodeling.

>Most experts agree that yodeling was used in the Central Alps by herders calling their stock or to communicate between Alpine villages (wikipedia)
>There are some gems here and there (the last two Peele movies) but they are getting really far and few between.

What do you consider "Hollywood"? Get Out and Us were both independent movies, were they not?

Hollywood has always been Hollywood.
By telling you they would likely defeat the purpose of those actions.
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I'd speculate that there's a lot of people who can relate to it. It's easy to see the phenomenon as a hyperbole for the general self-alienation, hyper-individuality and social insecurity that is so common these days.
There is a certain degree of oxymoron in the term 'public intellectual'.

Reality is complex. Terrifyingly so. The academics I have the most respect for walk a tightrope in a state of barely contained vertigo. It is very difficult to make a strong point, almost impossible to make it both correct and understandable, and (IMO) definitely impossible to make the tightrope accessible for others to walk. To make the point, all nuance needs to be stripped; ambiguity calcified into surety; counterpoints strawmanned for easier demolition.

Ideally the person doing that simplification does so knowingly for the purpose of education. But that is entirely opaque to public view.

So it is no surprise that those who gain most recognition are those most willing to misrepresent the nuance of their field. Or to caricature the opponents of the viewpoint they wish to espouse. How do even informed members of the public tell? A PhD from Harvard as a shibboleth, sounds about right.

I'm not saying the public is dumb. Just that none of us have the expertise or the dedication or the time. We rely on tribal signalling. So we are primed for intellectual hucksterism.
> Features like "Dark Mode" are not about brightness, but contrast.

Exactly.

Something that the article doesn’t seem to pick up on is how we read and dark modes effect on that depends on what we’re reading. (The musician example doesn’t quite do it justice).

AKAIK We see the shapes of words first, then some of the letters, then we understand the word. Hence why if y-u blank -ut s-me /etters, y-u can sti// read a sentence.

I find light on dark easier to navigate with code because the “shapes” are easier to determine.

Code is highly structured - even different variable names have different shapes.

Having said that...

Reading a full on research paper or something has to be dark on light for me. I’m reading something with less structure, where the words are one after the other.

So... yeah. It’s context and task dependent. So it’s a good thing there’s a choice.
> And with very skewed distribution, this hypothetical point is way further into the future than with even distribution.

Yeah, but this is very different from saying growth is only necessary because of uneven wealth.
Free crawlers barely work.

Unless you have a block account on a separate network, most files you download will have missing articles.

Most articles are out of date and slightly wrong. Having to piece together bits from various places.

Single click installers are good when they work for your platform. For most people I agree that’ll be fine. On some NAS boxes, totally not.

Do you use sabnz? Radarr? Sonarr? Couch Potato? What’s an API key? Auth?

For technical people it might not seem complicated. It is miles away from being approachable for a large majority of people.
Show HN: Personal Sticker Maker for WhatsApp (Android App)
Hey guys,

My name is Mark & I am an app developer with love for developing utility apps. Till date, I have launched about 25 apps for the play store.

Lately, I have been amused to see a lot of my friends & family members using WhatsApp Stickers. I built a Personal Sticker Maker App that would allow users to make personal stickers for WhatsApp and also added some cool/trending collection of WhatsApp Stickers. The sticker collection is fetched from backend and I am constantly updating it with stickers that I think users would like. Also, adding new sticker packs based on user feedback.

The app is available here - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wa.stickermake...

Happy to take feedback.Thank you for taking out time to read this :)
Fair enough, thanks for the clarification, and the link to the data.
I had a security guy that checked for drugs telling me "This is Germany, why don't you speak German!" when I told him if he could explain what he wants me to do in English. (put down my bag on the table and show my phone so they can check it for chemicals)

Yep, this happened. In Airport. International Berlin airport.

I didn't say anything because I did not wanted to be detained for longer and miss my connection flight. But WTF.
(I work at Stripe on Radar.)
We see Chargeback Protection mostly as a way to prevent our users from burning too much founder attention doing chargeback management. Managing abusive use of the credit card rails, both by fraudulent businesses and by people attempting to defraud legitimate businesses, is something that we have substantial experience with. We have had years to tune our machine learning models; this both helps every user of Stripe (through blocking transactions likely to be fraud-y) and gives us the confidence we need to roll out a new product like Chargeback Protection widely.

We will, of course, monitor it during the rollout and adjust as we go.
Had a quick glance and while the content seems worthwhile I am a little saddened by the code.

There are numerous calls to strcpy() which is a buffer overflow waiting to happen. I know this is not production code but it's just as important. This code is to be used as a learning tool so I think it's important to use correct idioms.

Apologies for nitpicking, but code gets copied, often in a hurry and you get bugs all over the place.

One more comment: in the intro you mention that while the code is mostly tested on Linux, it's likely it works on other Unixes such as Free/OpenBSD. You might want to remind the reader that epoll() is Linux-only (bonus points if you mention the BSDs have something similar called kqueue() :)).
You can't really blame Netflix for not having access to the most popular content. I'm pretty sure they'd love to pay if it meant being authorized to distribute it.