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> As long as vaping without nicotine exists, there's no reason to go after the other version.

That's not true. I find nicotine quite useful for hackathons and the like where I don't want to sleep, but also don't want to visit the restroom as often as red bull or other caffeine options would make me.
Oh yeah totally, just more for context who might not be aware that there's still some practical benefits along with the historical aspect.
On the one hand...

“a small startup in the infoservices space” is very vague. I wouldn’t be surprised if Stripe had some reason to be concerned. I’m not sure if it was explicitly mentioned in the post; how many chargebacks did you get, and how many refunds did you have to issue?

To me, without more background, the post strikes me as being overly sensational.

On the other hand...

It concerns me, assuming the references to Stripes T&Cs are accurate, that it is stacked so heavily in Stripe’s favor. At the very least, Stripe should be paying reasonable interest (say, the Prime rate) on the funds that it is holding.

It is getting tiring to see stories of incidents like this. Of T&Cs with draconian provisions, little transparency, and no followup. But I don’t mean that to say the stories should be removed from HN.
Yeah, and I smoked for more than a decade for the great taste and flavor. People vape for nicotine. It’s habit forming, pleasant, either compatible with or actively helpful for normal social and working.

Like caffeine. People say they don’t drink tea or coffee for caffeine but there might be one person who drinks decaf or no caffeine tea or coffee with the regularity of all the addicts who know perfectly well that they drink it most every day and feel crap if they don’t.
I spend 3 minutes to find out this has nothing to do with German language.
You don’t need kubernetes to do it, any cloud provider has api that will make it possible. Kube main point is declarative model, which comes with a big price (like sql had). Yaml - is error prone way to achieve anything.

Will see if history repeats itself and we will see be imperative systems.
> won't get hit by some speedboat pirates and decide OK, we're gonna arm up

No. What will happen is that the authorities will arrest the pirates, or whoever.

All of this is being done within the bounds of the law. So I am not sure why people are bringing up ridiculous hypotheticals.

Special economic zones are not a new thing. And they have worked out fine in many places.
You are not wrong, and FWIW I am a force for sanity on the boards I am on. I am a comp realist and I will always pay for quality, I am strong advocate for that.

The behavior of startups is not intrinsic, it is the product of incentives. If I created a startup tomorrow, I am confident that I could pull world-class engineers out of FAANG. But to your point, I would not play games with compensation. I hire the people I would hire because they are clever, they aren't going to be fooled by bullshit nor would they respect me if I tried that. That is an essential quality of good startups that should not be lost in this mix.
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At some point we do, and that time is now. How qualified are you to give them a pass?
If you have to use the command line, those "gosh darn it git" sites have some good recipes. Because if the problem is "I accidentally committed to the wrong branch!" who is going to remember all this off the top of their head:

# undo the last commit, but leave the changes available
git reset HEAD~ --soft
git stash
# move to the correct branch
git checkout name-of-the-correct-branch
git stash pop
git add . # or add individual files
git commit -m "your message here";
# now your changes are on the correct branch

Or you can use a powerful GUI like SmartGit. Then you don't have to memorize anything or look up a recipe. For the situation above, you simply drag your branch markers to where you want them in the log. Done!

Similarly, for situations where you would look up hashes in the reflog, just click the Recyclable Commits checkbox, and everything in the reflog shows up as ordinary commits in the same commit tree as everything else. You can even see diffs between the reflog commits and your regular commits without having to do any temporary checkouts.

I know many developers like the command line and don't want to consider using a GUI. But I encourage you to give SmartGit a try. It works in conjunction with the command line, so you you're not locked into the GUI, you can use either one whenever you want.
It doesn’t take 1000 years to make sand. You take a rock and crush it. You’ve got sand.

It just happens to be easier and cheaper to dredge where there aren’t any environmental laws.
Come on, this is the worst kind of drama boosting. An account named "stripesucks" posts a link to an article written today, discussing the author's individual billing dispute with Skype and urging everyone to use a specific named competitor, and it's on the front page?
You may want to think twice before marketing this to anyone who speaks Dutch.
I like Frontier but I was stunned to learn that even after paying for all of their upgrades to get seated in the front row, I would still have to pay extra for water.
What is “artificial” sand?

Sand is just a classification of grain size of soil. We make sand all the time at quarries by crushing rocks. Most of the aggregate used in construction is made this way or taken from a pit/dredged.
> The widely regarded truism that project companies cannot be transformed into product companies exists for a reason.

A lot of the best SaaS companies have actually come from consulting businesses that were productized. C.f.: https://startupsocials.wistia.com/medias/e6ttk04b9e?fbclid=I...

I think this strategy has a bad reputation because it usually fails, but what people forget is that startups usually fail anyway.
It wasn't a "procedural" AD, it was an "EMERGENCY" AD. It says so right at the top:

https://theaircurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/B737-MA...

Put another way, would you want to board an airplane where the pilot did not take EMERGENCY instructions seriously? I wouldn't.

> distracted

Pretty much 100% of the popular media (and its repeated appearances on HN) has been on the MCAS design shortcomings. Which distract from dealing with the other causes of the accidents.

As I mentioned previously, the AD was issued as a stopgap measure while Boeing worked on an MCAS fix.
Hiya. I work at Stripe. Mind emailing patio11@stripe.com and humming a few bars so we can look into this for you?
That wouldn't hold any hot matter in place. It's in log g scale, which apparently is log_10 of acceleration at equator but in cm/s².

Earth gravity is about 3 log g units, while this stars 5.5 gives two decimal places (and half) more. Wolf 359 has between 100 and 1000 times stronger surface gravity than Earth.
Not far? It's fascism without the middleman and a laughable veneer of neoliberal extremism - for legitimacy.
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Slightly sad to hear you dropped it — that sounds like fun!
> There's certainly an increasingly-popular argument that publicly-funded research work should be publicly accessible

JSTOR. Because you should pay for it twice.
It's sad that Ramsey died so young. It's also sad that it has taken nearly a century for the wider culture/society to begin embracing the concept of 'degrees of belief' in any significant way (I could definitely be wrong, but it seems to me that it is being embraced more). A number of public intellectuals have said probabilistic reasoning is king for the forseeable future (of course, such reasoning is a bit different from the ground being covered by degrees of belief). I know some professors who are even moving away from the emphasis on deductive reasoning in introductory logic courses.
Ask HN: Should I get Apache Spark certification?
Hello all,
I am currently enrolled in MSc in Data Science and came across the concept of Hadoop. This interests me and I want to be good at it. I am wondering if anyone can advise me on:
1. Is it worth to have Apache Spark certification with MSc in DS? Should I invest my time in AWS or GCP certification instead?
2. Which certification is good in your opinion (data bricks or Cloudera)?
3. How long does it take someone to prepare for their exam? I only code in R.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Just an anecdotal data point, but some places have a vibrant tech scene despite paying jack shit. Salt Lake City, where I live, is one of them.

FAANG don't have offices here and don't offer remote positions, so no one is competing with them. As a result senior developers are getting like $130k or something, and seem to be happy with that.

Some people (myself included) don't want to move anywhere else even for $500k. So it seems like a nice little arbitrage.
If you don't get hooked to start, no habit forming needed. Isn't the point to stop the cycle? You also have to remember that these are teens as young as 9th grade that are doing it for social reasons. Let them play around with some flavored vapor (which seems safe so far, needing more regulation) and walk away without an addition.
Just to clarify for the developer, thasian, because you have all rights in the code you can license it differently to different users. The version on github will be gpl; you presumably could have different license for app store purchasers. I think the ios port of Vim is done this way, it's github link is https://github.com/terrychou/iVim . Not sure if that's actually the way terrychou did it, but surely you could ask him about it.
I did state "a small startup in the infoservices space" within the first couple of sentences, but I apologize if that was insufficient. If you'd really like granular details, it was a vehicle history report website. Completely mundane and most certainly not on the prohibited businesses list.

And I wasn't complaining about the documentation requirements. I was complaining about the fact that they weren't reviewing the documents, and used them as an additional barrier to block payouts.

As for the bank point -- I work for a consulting firm, and the client I'm on is a large US bank. I do not work anywhere near their merchant services division. I don't receive any sort of commission when someone signs up for their services, and I didn't mention them specifically here. Really don't know what else there is to say on that point.
It isn't just sand. What is also happening is that China is building an endless supply of hydrodam's along the Mekong (and other) rivers in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. I've seen this first hand. This is screwing up the natural flow, which is also affecting the sand 'production'.

This is all part of China taking over the whole region by providing power and thus building a silkroad all the way to Sihanoukville, where they ship goods south to Jakarta and west to Africa. Google what is happening there and you'll see it.

This is me driving a motorbike across what is now a totally dry riverbed in northern VN all because of unseasonably dry weather and hydrodam's upstream... https://imgur.com/a/7hfxRD7
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Those aren’t REST APIs to gather data about songs or your history. They are native APIs to control Spotify app on that machine etc.

I think a fair amount of their business relies on gathering data from people and recommending music. They don’t let 3rd parties to do that.
git’s problem to newcomers - even people without any prior experience with diff-paradigm systems like SVN and TFS - is the idea of a commit representing a snapshot of a file system is difficult to comprehend because it feels so crazy and impractical (especially as CS101 makes a huge deal about computational complexity). The fact that git internally is actually quite efficient is buried in heavy articles about git’s plumbing.

Oh, and the fact that a ‘git checkout’ is an unrelated concept to ‘svn checkout’ - and how SVN branches are “spatial” compared to git’s “parallel-universes” model is also a source of confusion.

If I could go back in time to 2005 (in addition to getting in super early on bitcoin) I’d beg Linus to not reuse SVN terminology. Personally I’d go with “git switch” instead of checkout, and “timeline” or “line” for short instead of “branch”. The fact that git branches are not 1-connected graph routes is enough reason not to call them “branches”.

I’d also convince him to include a “gitd” mode that would automatically fetch from upstream and automatically add commits when it detects file-move/rename changes. (I understand why git doesn’t have an exact “rename” op, but tooling today still isn’t good enough to detect rename-then-edit or rename-then-split operations without an intermediate rename-only commit. My dream “gitd” would also make auto-commits every 30 seconds just to give me a powerful filesystem undo feature. If you had hours of work that resulted in new files before you staged them and you accidentally did a hard reset then you’re sol - and this has happened to me already :/
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The Washington Post article was hearsay, and this article adds nothing new. No real sources are cited except for Dennis Franks, an ex-FBI agent, who somehow can't fathom how anyone could use "stolen credentials to conduct intrusions of 150 or more confidential university accounts in the United States" without the Russian government's involvement. As if leaked university credentials were difficult to get. Most university's put their journal access behind a single sign-on proxy server or vpn and access to most of these journals is available by IP address authentication. It is ridiculously easy to get access to leaked university credentials, and in some cases, users have donated their login and password to sci-hub. Students at universities rarely face consequences for having had their account compromised (if it's even detected) other than having their account temporarily locked until they change their password.
That's an active choice for a specific use case, mind you one that's not healthy to have regularly. If people want nicotine, let's sell its on its own. There is literally no reason to package it into vaping unless you're coming from smoking or are simply trying to hook your customers.
I agree with you that the tone is suspicious, but what I don’t understand is why Stripe is holding the money. If the transaction was prohibited it should refund the money to the customers rather than holding it for itself. Having Stripe hold the money indefinitely shouldn’t the solution.
I didn't use a specifically named competitor. I simply stated "direct merchant account." Authorize.net is not a Stripe competitor, it's a gateway, not a processor.
This. I would even go so far as to say that if you can’t get the founder salaries up to market rate based on MRR you should either bootstrap some more if you’re really into the IP or product...or close the place down before you hire someone under what they should be paid.
And how would minors be filling prescriptions for nicotine juice? Presumably it wouldn't be prescribed to minors, and doctors doing that would risk serious consequences.
If the police are outside your house waiting to take you to jail, you are not yet in jail. Your house does not count as jail just because the police are waiting outside to take you there. It's really not that hard of a concept to understand. If you walk outside, are arrested, and brought to jail, then you're in jail.
Well, certainly not "catch on fire". Just emitting enough smoke to maybe set off a smoke alarm (but otherwise not really harmful in my experience). Light smoking is fine (and is good for gauging temperature), but heavy smoke will have a burnt taste and is an indicator that you were "cooking too hot".

I don't cook with olive oil too often, so I can't say I remember the brand. I looked a few things up, and it seems like different olive-oils have different smoke points.

https://www.jonbarron.org/diet-and-nutrition/healthiest-cook...

According to this, some olive oil has a smoke point of 320F / 160C, but other olive-oils can have a smoke point as high as 468F. I don't know why olive oil has such a different range.

I guess I'll experiment with olive oil more. It is quite possible that olive oil here in the USA is of lower-quality perhaps?
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Thank you for those important details.
I spend every day on Freenode but it’s important to mention that Freenode is now operated by London Trust Media aka Private Internet Access, a beloved VPN service that was just bought by people with a shady past involving malware. Something to consider here.
In that case we may as well use the alphabet tbh
My time in China suggested to me that a lot of people wanted to leave but were afraid to say it anywhere or any way that could hold them accountable.

With systems like the social score, can you trust any public opinion from a member of the Chinese state?
> we moved from Neo4j

Strange, why even use graph databases for this kind of service? It does not seem like it would be needed for this use case.
My personal controversial opinion is that life doesn't work like that half million people math. In reality, one either can meet a billionaire with very little effort, or won't meet one regardless of effort. Another controversial opinion: that ability to get the desired results with little effort is something that needs to be earned, it's not a casino.
Imagine if it had taken out the ISS. Oopsie.
I work for startups because generally there's not useless word docs and red tape. You can have a fully reproducible engineering cycle without all the nasty forms.

I can't find the link but a while ago hacker news how to link to an article about useless jobs at large companies. Reminds me a lot of this.
Pretty sure the whole point of all of this is that it is voluntary.

People are free to leave, if they don't like living in the special economic zone.
the Dutch equivalent of the c-word in English.
If by 'they', you mean the blackhats for discovering and abusing the exploits then yes.

I imagine MS/Chrome will treat this as an emergency out-of-cycle patch which I don't think many people would disagree with :)
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One need look no further than the marketing material corporations like Juul are putting out. Are the ads playing up fears of climate change, or are the ads about making the product look cool?

It's the later, obviously. Anybody who says otherwise is either deluded or trying to delude you.
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I've employed this Kahan summation in a different physics simulation that was giving parallel vs serial discrepancies due to global sums that sum in different orders in parallel. It did help, but I ultimately concluded that it isn't a complete solution for this issue... in short, I think it just bumps the problem several orders of magnitude down.

For what it's worth, and in the event that your issue was indeed the differing order of summing-- there is a solution that /does/ work, which is to cast the numbers to a large (eg, 256 or 512 bit) fixed point representation and leverage the reproducibility of integer sums.
Would you say the same of candy, alcohol, or videogames?
That you would have to communicate this to a customer via HN is pretty damning.
Thanks, added insights I wasn't aware of and balance.

> Even PayPal (yes, even PayPal) caps their holds at 180 days.

I imagine if PayPal held the account because of KYC or PA the 180 cap wouldn't apply...
Where did you get the idea from that you or anybody else should get to make people’s decisions for them?

With smoking, the government decided that the affects were so grievously harmful that they should put serious restrictions in place regulating their sale. You can agree with that or not, but at least there’s some logic to it. Nicotine is not the harmful part of the cigarette, and unless some new information comes to light, vaping isn’t anywhere as harmful as smoking. Where’s your justification for trying to remove people freedom to do it? Because following your line of reasoning to it’s logical conclusion, we’d end up with government mandated lifestyles.
Everyone wants to believe that they know how other people should be living their lives. And everybody believes that they themselves know where to draw the line between freedom and order.

Freedom means something different to every person on the planet, and that makes it difficult to protect.
I'm not a concrete mix design expert by any means, but I disagree with this post on a few levels. Concrete strength is derived from multiple sources, and grain interlocking is just one of them. I think recent research has shown that grain interlocking does not play a large role in concrete strength. It's unclear to me if your post is talking about grain interlocking or cement/aggregate bonding. I'm not up to speed on research in this area, but I do not believe that you can have a rounded sand that is so smooth that bonding doesn't occur and the idea that the concrete "turns to dust" under any serious load is something that I personally have never heard of.

In fact, the more angular the aggregate is the less workable the concrete becomes. There is a sweet spot of angularity that is desired. I believe the main advantage to increased angularity is in durability (which is due to interlocking, I think, as well as increased void ratio leading to better air entrainment).

Also - the size of the grains is more important than angularity, so I also disagree with the statement that sand "as fine as possible" can be useful for construction work in the context of concrete. While tautologically true because anything too fine (passing #200) would be classified as a silt instead of a sand, the way that it's written is deceptive.
Salt Lake isn't nearly as bad as Denver yet, but it's on its way.
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Won't the differences be more subtle and difficult if you use a language that's syntactically Ruby-like but not actually Ruby?
> This generation is not special. Everyone has to deal with shit.

Everyone has to deal with shit, but as long as the global population continues growing every subsequent generation is relatively special.

I hope for the day when this trend reverses and our economies are no longer dependent on continuous growth. But until then, I'm afraid every new generation really is dealing with a tougher problem.
It’s also worth remembering that running to social media and blaming ‘big bad Stripe/PayPal/Monzo’ for holding funds is part of the MO of fraudsters so it’s right that posts like these are treated with at least a reasonable degree of suspicion.

Having worked with companies in the fraud monitoring space I’d say that it’s likely that your case (new Stripe account starts taking loads of money for digital infoproduct) has fallen foul of an AML flag. The timeline for that is largely out of Stripe’s hands, but there are certain (legal) limitations on what you can be told about your case.

Rest assured though, it’s more trouble than it’s worth for Stripe to arbitrarily hold your money for no reason.
One question to ask might be, can I make this at home?

Just about anyone can make beer, grind flour, churn butter, or bake bread. Even make tofu.
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