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Ask HN: Cards rejected by Stripe are accepted by PayPal
In the last 2 weeks, we're encountering too many unsuccessful transactions from the Indian, Mexican users. The same cards are going through Paypal smoothly. Is your business having similar trouble accepting payments through Stripe? How are you making sure the transactions go through from different regions?
None of the main platform client dev tools are lightweight. Xcode and Android Studio are massive and super complex, not just Webpack. Client dev isn't as simple as we like to pretend.
I'm not surprised that it's only 5%. I think it's worth keeping in mind that this is a cryptocurrency company and so that already are within a culture that has strong libertarian leanings. The people that took the severance are very likely just bored with their job and wanted a vacation.
These posts always skip over the problem of the GUI. Compared to macOS, I've never found a Linux desktop even remotely as good, and the problem on the BSDs is even worse.

Then there are the details that everyone seems to miss, like the fact that OpenBSD has no bluetooth support at all.

For 99% of the world, macOS is still the best option.
The difference is that a Microsoft account is just a username and password used to log in to various Microsoft owned services - there's little baggage attached to it otherwise.

In comparison a Facebook account is directly tied to a specific Facebook (the company) owned service - Facebook (the application). You can't just create a Facebook login, you have to also create a (public by default) Facebook profile, probably use your real name and photo to avoid it being banned etc.

Facebook could fix this by letting you create a Facebook (the company) account which is just a username and password, and maybe an email for account recovery reasons. This account would then be used for logging in to all of Facebooks services, Facebook (the application) and Oculus included, while not actually requiring you to ever create a Facebook (the application) profile unless you wanted to.
No need to apologize. That's a totally valid and understandable take on it.
> but if someone down the line once again claims climate change or a pandemic is a hoax, the council would respond with full force using whatever political mechanisms we grant it.

"Whoever disagrees with our priests, shall by severely punished!"

Hahaha.
Route-finding is much simpler than traveling salesperson.

The hard part for real-world directions is getting the cost-function right. Older map systems used to make some very questionable assumptions that made them quite inaccurate (one example; assume all highway miles are equal; some were 55MPH and have traffic lights, railroad crossings and stop-signs others were 65 with no at-grade intersections -- today even higher speed limits are seen as the lingering effects of the national speed-limit have worn off).
You've outed yourself as privileged just by being a user here.
What was the software if you don't mind my asking.
there's also https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/

I like that it rates "factual accuracy" on a separate axis than "bias". If factual accuracy is "high" or greater, then any remaining difference in bias can potentially just be attributed to values/tastes, and "de gustibus non est disputandum"
This reminds me of the TV show Halt and Catch Fire, which kind of portrays something similar!
I had an experience with Facebook locking my account once, and I came to suspect that they were doing it to punish me for logging in on a mobile browser to promote the app. The UX really seemed to be designed to be painful - interfaces where the buttons were just out of reach unless you scrolled a particular way, scary language implying it was unsafe to use the site that way. I felt like someone was getting a bonus based on how many people they could push off the browser into using the app.
Isn’t there a pretty clear power imbalance if one side is being given a platform to espouse these views in front of hundreds of employees while they get endorsed by HR and company leadership?
> A year ago, 80 Google contractors employed by HCL America in Pittsburgh voted to unionize with US Steelworkers—a historic victory for white collar tech workers in the U.S.

According to who?

My wife is a nurse, in a union, and the stuff she tells me about some of her cohorts getting away with then leveraging the union to avoid being reprimanded/ let go is insane.

Additionally there is no incentive to improve, your salary is based on seniority and nothing else. It is literally on a chart, predetermined.

I don't want that for software engineering.

I acknowledge the importance of unions in our history, being labor to where it is today. However I do not want unions for the software engineering field
currently the PCIe card would need some kind of driver to be written on the OS to communicate with it.

There's SoC devices that have a soft processor on it that runs a linux kernel and can communicate with the FPGA.
Excel is perfectly fit for that and is nowhere near the actual issue.

It's lightweight, fast, portable, compatible, and just about everyone can use it regardless of (technical) skill.
I live in Portland. You need to spend less time on the internet.
> The difference is that for installers, you've discovered and been distributed the software by an entity other than Microsoft, and you're not paying for the curation process.

Yes, but that's because Microsoft _allows_ people to install software this way. Apple doesn't give that option for iPhones, and it's kind of strange to think that forbidding that somehow entitles them to a 30% cut.
>This is about Coinbase making an explicit vote for the status quo of American racism, and trying to deflect the heat they’re taking for that by confusing people into thinking that this is about standard political discussion.

One of my favorite things about this new type of political activism is that words no longer mean what we all understood them to mean in ages past. "Explicit" would mean something along the lines of Coinbase or Armstrong saying "we support the status quo of American racism", as you have alleged. Alas, I've read all these blog posts and there is no sentence that matches or even could be remotely construed to resemble the one you have wrote.
People forget that many places are extremely lenient when it comes to things like vacation and dress code, etc. They think that when they unionize, the base level of working conditions is what they are currently experiencing and they can only go up from there. But that would be seriously mistaken and I would totally expect employers to play hardball if employees take their benefits for granted and want to play hardball as well.

There are definitely environments where unions are needed and have made working conditions better but unionizing in tech where most jobs are cushy is a mistake that only puts money in the hands of union bureaucrats that don’t do anything except complicate everyone’s lives.
> highly variable and arbitrary

I think it might be that a few upvotes around submission time might be the deciding factor.

It would be interesting if there was an algorithm that would statistically separate upvotes from "number of eyeballs on the site" somehow.

maybe something like:

- 100 people saw this subject
- maybe toward top of page = more likely count as "see"
- of that x% upvoted it
- make it more visible
FYI, your objections here don't make sense. Developers of any kind can benefit from better horsepower.

Whether it's having to run a lot of Docker containers, a large C++ project, or a large Webpack project.

Nitpicking and criticizing someone's dev environment is irrelevant.

If you don't like their example, I'm working on a JS project where I run a lot of local VMs to locally test the web client in different configurations. It would continue to be a bizarre response if you thought it was time to tell me to "just use browserstack.com" or something. Software isn't as easy as we think.
When a group of employees demand that their employers engage in political activism, what they are asking for is the ability to commandeer the resources of the company, whether it be its reputation, money, or labor to advance their political objective. They want to amplify their impact beyond what they can accomplish with their personal resources. I wonder how these same people feel about the political contributions of companies from the opposing end of the spectrum. Would they say "Get corporate power out of politics!"?
i misread this title never again: science based government i thought it was advocating for the opposite of what the post is about
Dasung Paperlike eink monitor! Super expensive unfortunately but they're pretty amazing.

https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/dasung-paperlike-3-hd-r...
Wow 20% of asian kids are in the top decile (10%) academically but only 0.9% of black kids. Would be super stupid not to adjust this for race in admissions. FBI conveniently leaves this stats of their table on page 23. I copied the data to Google Sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZveGWVtsmd66F84uit3b...
Inflation by definition is a result of supply/demand disequilibrium, in another words to much many is chasing to few goods. I agree that root problem is optimization, this is evident in natural living systems too. Furthermore, in general world is growing, there always will be error between actual world growth and expected one.
> this kind of one-size-fits-all approach to teaching.

It's not so much that there's a one size fits all learning method, but rather that there are certain constants in language learning. Namely one must actually hear and speak the language.

Learning the grammar and syntax of the target language entirely in ones native language may provide some value for some people, but in and of itself doesn't teach anyone a language and is entirely optional. In general formal study of grammar is an advanced topic.
Yeah, successfully vertically integrated companies like Apple choose very carefully which things they integrate vertically and which things they don't. Apple silicon for example isn't truly apple silicon. They still cooperate with a company for the manufacturing. Apple still buys gorilla glass from Corning, etc.

And in the areas where they do compete, they pour in top dollar to make actually competitive products.
Maybe for stuff that never can be externally accessed, const should be inferred as an optimization pass.
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Just to give another anecdote. I went all the way to the onsite and within a couple of days I was given a few notes from each separate interview and a fairly clear reason for not proceeding with the hire at the time. They also did this in a video call. This was in either late 2016 or 2017.
That doesn't mean your evidence against/assessment of NPR/BBC isn't flawed. I have certainly never thought of the BBC as biased, and NPR only slightly to the left. What do you think of The Guardian?
No, it’s not called COINTELPRO. That was a program from half a century ago. Nobody left at the current FBI even worked there when that program existed.
> 1) This new digital currency is now the dominant currency. 2) Everyone trades goods and services based off of this new currency 3) People outside your country respect that everyone inside the country values this at some specific value and honours trade in that currency.

All you have to do is convince your recipient that there is at least one other person who would trade the crypto for something else valuable. Then you can send it to your recipient and they can convert it into whatever they want. You don't have to convince them that everyone finds it valuable.
Which caste is looting India? https://www.quora.com/Which-caste-is-looting-India/answers/2...
Is file format copyrightable? That's a cookbook how to extract data.

Is binary API copyrightable? That's a cookbook too.

Is API as build target copyrightable? I just want this code to run.

Is processor ISA copyrightable?

I have to put gas in tank, oil in engine, water in cooling system for car to run. I have to press clutch, turn a key for engine to start. Is this copyrightable?

Every thing is creative. There are many ways to make same thing. Sometimes we care not about creativity but compatibility. Qemu runs x86, ARM. Open Office opens Microsoft Word files. Google Cloud Storage is interoperable with Amazon S3 [1]. I can construct my own client.

And yet we have PNG, OGG, AV1, RISC-V — there are some issues with MP3 (patent), GIF (patent), H.264 (patent), x86 (patent), ARM.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/interoperability
The false positive rate is the whole point of hypothesizing a mad bomber with stringent data practices.

If you’re relying on circumstantial web searches for “bomb” or “fertilizer” or “SubUrban Mall map” that correlate with cell phone records of who was there on that day, you’re pulling in farmers, and people who wanted bug bombs to kill spiders, and people who wanted to know how to make a Jaeger Bomb, and people who wanted to know the fastest way to get to Clothing, Ltd. in that mall, etc. And you’re totally missing the nutjob who printed out “bomb-making-101.pdf” a year ago and left his phone at home (or in a friend’s car) when he struck.

In an area with 100k nearby people, which is a reasonable search metric since we have cars and malls live in populous areas, if the false positive rate is 1% you now have 1000 people as suspects.

What’s your success rate on guessing 1/1000? What tools do you think law enforcement has to further narrow this down?
I have seen prior articles indicating that Covid-19 can have post viral affects. I suffered from post viral affects after glandular fever and brain fog is one of the main symptoms, the other being post exercise malaise. There is already an established history of viral illness causing these same symptoms
I'd like one for geometric algebra!
Well and the whole story with multi-tasking is pretty interesting. Does one application get exclusive use, with the thing able to somehow cache its state on a context switch?
FBI is essentially saying Yale should admit 20 Asian kids for each Black if they think table 23 should be adopted unadjusted.
He's not saying its conservative, he dislikes business leaders using their influence to pursue ideological change in society.
I suppose you'd have to find a good argument for why the protester isn't exercising their Second Amendment right alongside you exercising your First Amendment right.

I'm not going to be the guy who says it's ok to bring a pipe-bomb to a peaceful protest, but there are plenty of people bringing semi-automatic rifles and handguns out to the protests and for better or worse, that's legal depending on local law.

I'm not sure what the legality of a pipe-bomb is. For example, in some states Tannerite is perfectly legal for ordinary folks to possess and carry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannerite
Yes, there must be some few primitive APIs within a given language. An example is base types and their most essential methods for internal constructs that aren’t meant to be exposed.

Unfortunately, Java is just such a perfect for this legal fight. It is proprietary and exists in this nebulous universe of wanting to make everything Java. It’s like Microsoft of the 90s.
From the article:

> While they are not employed directly by Google, many of them work as analysts on Google Shopping.

I highly doubt these were workers with great working conditions and benefits.
I too, form my entire world view on anecdotal evidence.
Just tried checking it out and the site appears to be down.
I certainly agree that the mission of a company can (and preferably) be more than just for profit. However, "to be political" is still a pretty wide range of possible missions. Who calls the shots about what you're going to be political about, and which side you take? And when a group of employees disagree with the shots being called, what kinds of reactions are appropriate or not?

I'll take a shot:
- I think compelled activism is inappropriate. You know, the "silence is violence" stuff.
- I think expecting to have power to set a company's political agenda and expressing anger when you don't get your way is inappropriate. That power belongs to the board. Employment and stock-options are not "fractions of board seats".
Copy+paste won't trigger keyboard events to my knowledge. So if the page was just simulating a text input field, paste wouldn't work. (Which would cause issues e.g. pasting account numbers to be fair.)
Don’t want what, a leg to stand on? A seat at the table to bargain with your betters? How is some random data point about your wife’s experience evidence against collective bargaining? What do you see as the downside? “Gee, sure we have a say in our benefits and my salary is way higher, but there’s this one coworker who doesn’t pull their weight.”

As opposed to life in a non-union shop, where it’s a workers paradise and everyone shows up ecstatic to hit the code mines first thing on Monday.
Are many of those devices actually reprogramming the FPGA at runtime from the OS running on the soft processor, though?

My impression was that you tended to define pretty static blocks of functionality (you know, hash calculators for your bitcoin mining or whatever), and then just communicate to those from the OS using interrupts and a shared memory interface like any other peripheral.
There's no formal verification that uses of unsafe in the standard library are correct and there are no bugs. (Of course goes for other libs too). So this justification doesn't really feel robust.
Seems like a lot could go wrong here...
"union bureaucrats that don’t do anything except complicate everyone’s lives" is an interesting assertion to make in this case where the union hasn't even had an opportunity to do anything bad yet. Why does unionizing have to be treated as "hardball" if the union hasn't even made any demands yet? Does the status quo have to be "employees have to do what I want, no questions, even if it's illegal"? Lots of employer misbehavior is widespread in the US - wage theft, for one, is absolutely rampant - and unionizing is one possible option for combating it because it allows you to collectively bargain to resolve your grievances with the employer instead of dragging them into court or trying to get law enforcement to go after them. It's interesting to me that the mere act of unionizing is somehow justification for an employer to get out the baseball bat and go to town on your knees "because you took your benefits for granted". If things were really so good, why did they unionize?
That's totally fair, and I appreciate your thoughts!
I upgraded for Crusader Kings and, especially, Stellaris on large galaxies. Simulations are a great example of needing CPU.
I think Yelp is trying to do the right thing with this but can't help but feel this might be crossing a line.

Yelp has always seemed to me, to be a sort of protection racket for businesses' reputations. Now they are going to flag certain business as possible racists during a time of social unrest? How long will it take before one of these places gets targeted and burned down after a "Peaceful Protest" due to the Yelp warning? In civil law it is a balance of probabilities so wether or not it can be proven 100% that the flag made them a target, Yelp may still be found partially liable in court.
One thing that often gets overlooked with respect to payments is consumer preference (and this is actually the primary driver of cost).

Why do credit cards cost 2-3% to process? Because of expensive rewards programs given to the consumers who use the card. Why are there expensive rewards programs? Because consumers like them! And they insist on paying with a credit card because of them. Except in edge cases, merchants have no choice but to accept credit cards despite the cost.

While Visa, Mastercard & Amex frequently get the blame, the lions share of the processing fee flows to the issuing bank of the card, and the lions share of that fee goes to fund rewards programs. (There are other perks to credit cards that encourage consumer usage, including chargeback protections, free 30 days of float, near universal acceptance, etc)

Payment costs won't materially decrease unless someone invents a form of payment that consumers prefer which doesn't have these cost burdens. Or if you, as the merchant, have such market power that you can mandate a less preferred but cheaper form of payment (like cash or debit card or ACH - this is why you often can't use your credit card to pay a parking ticket or your taxes)
If anyone else gets frustrated with Google Cloud Functions, I'd highly recommend trying Cloudflare Workers. The start time and developer experience are amazing.

(Note I'm not affiliated with Cloudflare in any way. Just a satisfied developer.)
During WWII, IBM supplied the Nazis with mainframe computers and were responsible for untold deaths in exchange for money.

It's not that black and white.
If there's rising fascism in a country, then a "neutral" position in effect is supporting it indirectly. There are sometimes you just shouldn't stand on the sidelines for. If the brownshirts and jackboots are filling the streets, silence is tacit approval.

Additionally, I find it real strange that a cryptocurrency company is pretending to have an 'apolitical' mission. Cryptocurrencies were created for political reasons. A lot of the pre-cursor developers (and suspected inventors) and early proponents are anti-government libertarians/crypto-anarchists. Even before Bitcoin, cypherpunks were heavily invested into digital cash techniques, that although used centralized servers, were nevertheless, blinded and federated, again with the desire to have untraceable cash like transactions that could be sent through unbreakable channels, and untouchable by government taxation and regulation.
“accused”
Apologies, I didn't express myself well when writing that. I meant that all API code is embodied practice. Thus API code itself is in no way different from ledger templates at issue in Baker.

Reproduction of an API in its entirety is no different from reproduction of an embedded practice. Any arguments I've seen so far that argued for parts of API code not being embedded practice were not taking into account how API code is used by software engineers.
I think this is a very simplistic take. The reason we’re seeing a crackdown on this is not because companies are making a political move to support the status quo. It’s because they’re trying to weed out and get rid of legitimately problematic and toxic people who abused the previous culture.

For instance, there was an instance not too long ago at Facebook where one engineer publicly attacked another completely peaceful coworker on Twitter because the latter declined to put a BLM statement on the landing page of an open source project they maintained. The former employee was eventually fired. These kinds of antics are deeply divisive and destructive to the workplace.
Maybe I overlooked it, but what’s to prevent a person (or group of people) from filing false claims of racist behavior? They noted it had to be a “first hand experience”, but what sort of proof does that entail?

In a perfect world this is a noble endeavor, but we don’t live in a perfect world and this could just as easily be leveraged by trolls and/or competing businesses.
I think my biggest complaint about what you've written here is that you just shunt these "complexities" you wield against SPA to the back-end and then gloss over them.

I strongly disagree that "formatting database data into a JSON string is not significantly less CPU intensive than formatting it into an HTML string" - business logic is always the most expensive code to inject. This means you're either, again, not really making full-blown applications, or they're exceedingly simple. Postgres can craft nice JSON output straight from the horse's mouth. Can't say the same for HTML.

> Yes, an irony of my life is

The code looks great. Congrats on finding a development path that suits your tastes.
this will be abused. How does one verify a business is indeed practice racism? How does the business owner rectify the allegations?