skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could definitely blow up in your face, as "don't ask don't tell" isn't really a thing. I don't know what the probability is, but I know people who explicitly maintain the 183 day records to avoid it.

On your companies side, it could also create all sorts of problems that nobody is really clear how to handle. I suspect this will get a lot more regulated if it becomes more common.
Even if this is the case, it doesn't mean that Stripe should just be able to turn off a 3rd of the guy's business with no warning or reason. If they don't like what he's doing, tell him and give him notice to switch to another provider rather than just tanking his business over night.
No, it's hyper-focused on modern moral failings. Nuggets of truth wrapped in dismissiveness.
The latter - a system that is like e-mail (decentralized) but allows people to send money to each other.

We have many such systems being developed, but you get downvoted on HN for promoting them, since people assume you are a scammer, a criminal, etc.
Updating pattern to support float seems viable no?
Just filed a complaint! I didn't know this form existed, as I've never genuinely wanted to file an antitrust complaint before, but there's a first time for everything and I despise Adobe so it gets the honor of being in my first FTC complaint.
How did you calculate that? (7.8%)
There biggest rival is going to fall apart under the dead hand of Adobe.
This is bad.

There are more and more Stripe horror stories like this, and from an outsider perspective it looks awfully like PayPal behaved back in the day (probably still does but I'd never touch it again as a merchant).

I have positive experiences with using Stripe in my last startup and we're currently building Stripe integration on another, which will process about 50% of our revenue (the other payment method being direct wire transfer).

There might be just a tiny minority of people that end up treated like this, but with every story, I'm less confident about our move.
That's interesting. Thanks for bringing this up. I'm generally of the opinion that "maintaining a community feel" is a fool's errand, especially when it comes to highly desirable locations like Jackson Hole; but it also looks like that most (all?) of your county is some kind of national park, so perhaps the usual approach of allowing the market to build more does not apply.

I share your wariness of government picking the winners, and posit that this Workforce Homes program appears to be maybe a slightly cleverer version of state-imposed price control, which does not escape the core fact that the in-group (those who qualify for the program) gets below-market price housing at the expense of the out-group (those who don't qualify for whatever reason) who either must bid higher than they would have without this program or are priced out entirely. And if belonging to a "disadvantaged group" is one of the qualification criteria, then I'm afraid that the underlying economic facts may exacerbate tensions along racial lines.

That said, this is only one person's opinion from thousands of miles away; and I can only say that I'm jealous of what must be the view from your window. :-)
Perfect summary. Nothing to add.

I find it odd that sometimes, founders want only one thing, to be number 1. At first its a good thing, but if that doesn't work their goal is destroying their company. When you can sell your company for X billions instead of XX billions ... you succeeded in life.

Show me one real thing that you can do with XX billions, that is not possible with X billions. Excluding a star destroyer ;-)
Spam doesn't have to managed by an opinionated central banlist. For email the solution is aliases like anonaddy or SimpleLogin.
They just use Twitter
You should ask OP first for their email; right now anyone can email you claiming to be OP.
It's not a comparison. The fact is that the costs of processing bitcoin transactions are predominantly fixed. This tells us that bitcoin doesn't have economies of scale. The average cost of a bitcoin transaction doesn't decrease as the number of transactions increases. This makes bitcoin uncompetitive in relation to pretty much any other transaction processing technology.
still worth risking for a better life
Uh, yes if you use Circle (centralized), Coinbase (centralized), etc etc. Get your coins off of exchanges and learn how to actually use crypto with the way it was intended.
The post does note that Stripe has been supporting this business and these customers for years.

If for some reason Stripe wants to withdraw that support, they must give their reasons and a proper period for transition to another provider.
I can't believe people are using YT without ublock origin. It is such an improvement.

I'm also surprised that YT hasn't worked around it. It's just a matter of time I guess...
Fill in the blank: YC 2005, Thiel Fellowship 2011, ________
A competitive product in an established, profitable market space? It's not a revelation but you're not wrong.
I don't see how Oracle ruined Java or MySQL for example.
Is it possible to destroy the fog completely via weather engineering?
Aha, thank you! I felt like this change should be visible in some kind of graph somewhere, and you're right, the ETC hashrate has roughly quadrupled in the span of two days:

https://minerstat.com/coin/ETC/network-hashrate

And here is the ETHW hashrate:

https://minerstat.com/coin/ETHW/network-hashrate

EDIT: Better links
That's the trade-off and it's a feature, not a bug.
I think Golf is the “fewest clicks” variation. I haven’t played the “least time” version, but it seems fun too!
That sounds a lot like the stories I heard about Paypal, and their fraud detection team. There was an article interviewing someone about it. Back in the day, Paypal had to build tools to detect fraud because no one else was doing it at scale, at the time. I recall something about investigators outside of Paypal started to use those tools as well. I would not be surprised if Stripe had to create similar tools for themselves as well. Without transparency, it's hard to say what the false positive rates are, or what has changed in internal processes or in the regulatory landscape that might have triggered something different.

Stripe abstracts away a lot of the complexities involved in the payment and banking world, but there's a ton of infrastructure there related to detecting fraud and money laundering. Unfortunately, the lack of transparency makes what might be a leaky abstraction look like a Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare.
"politics only for the companies goals" sounds good to me... What's wrong with it?

Eg. A coffee company gets involved in the politics around recyclable cups, labor laws, import taxes on coffee, etc. But they don't get involved with abortion...
That is a convention only commonplace on graphical calculators and modern scientifics with formatted infix entry. A traditional scientific just shows an exponent in a reserved display location.

A large segment of older adults have never used them.
Ironically, email is becoming increasingly centralized. See this story from just a few days go

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715437
> The algorithms don't have to be perfect to stop a sleepy driver from slamming into a minivan.

No, but if they don’t stop for a stopped emergency vehicle, or do stop for no obvious reason, then drivers are stuck closely monitoring the car at all times waiting to take control without warning.

Which, to my mind, is worse than just being in control at all times.
I've had personal experience of someone going to Amsterdam, consuming too many edibles, and spending the night in the hospital hallucinating. Definitely buy the anecdotes of thinking they're in the Matrix or the God of Thunder. Also buy that these hallucinations might cause people to harm themselves or others.

Do not buy pretty much anything else in the article. Schizophrenia is not caused by marijuana and the correlation there is likely Schizophrenics self medicating. Very unlikely there's a causative link there. Although I'd buy that THC is a poor choice of medicine for Schizophrenics and that there might be some exacerbation going on.
They're gonna fucking ruin the only good web design app. Very disappointed about this.
Anorexia ftw.
Make Your Game in 10 Minutes with Godot – Extended Version
requirements for what is the question. "modern requirements" doens't mean that much.
Nobody is being compelled to stand in that line.

They're not shutting the country down, they might shut down part of the Government, of which She was the head.

We have pomp and ceremony when our head of government changes in the US. We also have State funerals for select people.
Self-driving also won’t work in the Sierra desert, but no one expects it to.

I think matching expectations with the varying definitions will be important moving forward.
Agreed, the no intermediary for a payment is a beautiful use case.

However I acknowledge the issue with volatility (to be solved!).
^This is a great piece of advice in any market. Where I do business, loads of potential buyers are hardly willing to paint let alone do more substantial updates, so they continue to rent and believe they are getting priced out of the market. Meanwhile, I could show them dozens of perfectly good starter homes if they were willing to build some sweat equity. Too many people believe their first or even second home purchase should be their "dream home" but that's not a realistic perspective on housing for the majority.
Is 1.5 years of life considered durable for how you use them? That seems kind of short to me, but I don't really know.
Worth noting that he's using Stripe Connect, which is more complicated than just a regular "payment pathway". Having a second provider for that is decent advice, but it's not as simple as your pretty flippant comment would suggest.
1. I think that arrow is backwards.

2. This is sort of why steam locomotives needed about 8 hours of maintenance per day. Back when VHS tapes were "in", one of my favorite tape sets was restored railroad training films (ok, nerd pron, so what). One of which showed a lot of what went on behind the scenes in a locomotive maintenance facility - and why steam locomotives were limited to 8 hours of work per day: 8 hours driving, about 4 hours cooling down, 8 hours maintenance and about 4 hours of heating the water in the boiler. When diesel electric locomotives started becoming "a thing", some people said thing like "they're junk - the wheels fall off". Looking at why the wheels had such "bad" wear problems, it turns out that those locomotives were being driven 24/7, not 1/3 of the time like steam locomotives.
Yes, it matters deeply, because some product categories are so rife with fraud (or are positioned so prominently in the fraud value chain, from carders to cashers) that they can't be served cost-effectively by conventional payment processors.
You’re a nice guy to try and solve OP’s problem. But OP’s problem isn’t really the problem. The problem is that OP’s problem is reposted here weekly by someone new and they have to pray that you or someone else use backchannels to solve their hellish issue. There’s a meta-problem. Can you just dig into that problem instead? Then you won’t have to dig into these sub-problems once a week.
If nobody mines the coin dies. I can imagine people mine to keep coins alive. Probably bounce money between wallets for the same reason.
Why does it have to be a risk? Are you assuming there is no above-board way of doing this?
At one my first corporate jobs, I noticed that most people in my area had a bunch of certifications framed and on their cubicle walls. I thought, "I want one of those!" So I got one, and framed it. Fun. No big deal, though. You can write brilliant, or awful, software with, or without, a certification.
Hint: at this point. Right here. Right now.
Considering the instant response on HN was to upvote the open source competition and the fact many people are probably going to leave to go to a competitor because they hate Adobe. It probably doesn't lessen competition but increases it since a lot of competitors are getting sign ups right now.
Right, so what do you feel as right as the pilot doing it (vs the laws)?

I can’t get an answer like this. Usually, it’s pivoted to discussing the laws like this vs the accountability of the pilot for the changes in privacy of those they observe (vs someone flying around their own land).

How do you think re: I should/should not do a project like this?

To put a finer point on it, Google Earth and the related ingestion and use is controlled and guided by laws vs a drone pilot and their personal decisions beyond a license requirement. So not apples to apples. Again, candid not critical, I know pilots get a lot of nastiness about this stuff.
I also noticed the suspiciously absent description of OP's business model. That said, though Stripe has never wronged my business, our dependence on them is such a large liability that it obviously has to be treated as such in our business planning. Our integration with Stripe is kept light and somewhat abstract, and we're able to replace it without putting a ton of work into overhauling our billing system. Naturally, this rules out the full use of Stripe's offerings, but the risk/reward trade-off is overwhelmingly in favor of a light integration. I would strongly advise a similar approach for anyone else integrating with any payment processor.

Side note: the cryptocurrency shills in this thread are pathetic.
It definitely sucks for the merchant companies ending up on the pointy end of the TOS. But you also need to consider the payment company side of things. They face a relentless tide of fraud and shady merchants. If they are too transparent about exactly how they detect a problem, that makes it much easier for the criminals, scam artists, and dodgy merchants to get around TOS enforcement.

The real culprits here are the people trying to violate the TOS, plus everybody's desire for cheap services and easy onboarding. The historical alternative was very expensive setup (e.g., spend a few years building a relationship with your local bank branch manager and establishing a financial track record). Making it easy to get started means that most problems will show up down the road, and the lower merchant costs means less money to pay for smart people to carefully untangle the truly dodgy from accounts that just look that way.
I thought it was a McGill only thing, it turns out it's wider spread than that. I'm not an Engineer, so I'm not up on the details.
Ray Tracing in One Weekend:

- Is in C++

- Focuses on spheres

[1]Raytracer Challenge:

- Is Written in pseudocode

- You will be able to render objects composed of polygons not just spheres

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFjmpjPwFEM
We've had purely cosmetic surgery for decades. Is this any different than a boob job or lip implants or hair plugs? It's more painful, sure, and irreversible, but is it morally different because of that?
People don't generally get into fights, go on strike, or demand violence against other parties over a marvel movie trailer.
Given the fact that when the market was hottest where I live, cash offers ruled, it can't just be interest rates.
There's no utility in trying to steel-man the actions of a known bad actor. Avast is a malware company. Would you try to guess at the optimistic reasons a gangster like Al Capone has for buying all the businesses in your neighborhood?
"Majority" doesn't mean anything better than traditional finance when the majority is increasingly a small handful of massive players using their control to avoid the consequences of massive screwups. Instead they make a hard turn towards the same exact "too big to fail" dynamics in traditional finance.

With proof of stake there will be no more abstraction layer to hide this fact any more either. Majority will mean the very small number of organizations holding a majority of ethereum, not the majority of __people__ holding ethereum.

Very roughly by eyeballing the numbers here [1] about 450 walled own about 51% of ethereum. Out of about 0.000225% of ethereum wallets in control of 51%, and that's not even taking into account whales that may control multiple of those largest wallets.

So your what's your definition of "majority" here when it comes to future governance issues, the 450 or the 200,000,000 other holders?

True democratization of crypto would have it be the latter, but that's not where I see things going.

[1] https://etherscan.io/accounts/
The last paragraph is a much better descriptor of the article's premise than the opening paragraph. It's rarely the technology itself that's tiring but the hype around it. I'd also add it's people's odd obsession with tying their egos to that hype around technology.

Far too often in the tech press there's supposedly independent articles that are just warmed over press releases. So you don't just get hype about technology X but the breathless hyperbole or marketing copy. That's bad enough but then people get tribalistic about that marketing copy. They repeat the "this will change everything" mantras and inject that into any discussion of technology X, or even unrelated discussions of technology Y.

It's tiring and frustrating. When it was magazine articles you could put it down and the marketing copy went away. Now it's every other person in a thread bleating out lines from press releases, often not even realizing they're doing so.
[Insert name] from Stripe here... [Insert apology] [Insert vague explanation] [Insert promise to investigate and resolve]
This was already basically Sketch years and years before Sketch even existed. They killed it because Adobe as a company has a complete lack of vision and even understanding of the tools they own.
Agreed on the crappy part.

But proponents (including myself) do need to acknowledge that there are legitimate concerns with abuse and the possibility of harm to certain individuals.

I advocate for the legalization of all drugs, but that has concerns too. That doesn't mean it shouldn't happen, just that there are negatives to address as well.
I've never used a dating app, but I can only imagine all the women showing up with measuring tapes and the men wearing inconspicuous platform shoes.
I understand what the responses are saying, I think I am not communicating my position clearly, which ultimately is a matter of values and opinion. I personally don't believe that housing should be an investment vehicle, or at least, not the primary investment for individuals.

I am not an expert by any means, and perhaps I am overlooking details.

Housing is currently viewed as an asset, however the system in place provides an asymmetrical risk/reward profile between buyer and bank.
Whether a bank finances a house at low price/high interest rate versus high price/low interest rate is of little consequence to their cash flow, in the end, they will make the same amount on interest. The buyer will pay the same amount month over month.

Once the homebuyer pays off the home and owns it, when they go to rent or sell, do they benefit from a changing interest rate? No. If the interest rate is now higher, then their list price is now lower. If the interest rate is lower, then their house price goes up yes, but the buyer demand now decreases.

The bank has the interest rate as a tool to mitigate their risk, but the individual does not have that tool, so they are exposed to the risk of changing rates, with no upside.

If appraisal values were regulated from increasing rapidly, then the bank would be taking some risk away from the buyer. The home seller in that situation would sell for less, but the result would be smoother and more stable of an asset for all individuals.

In the current system, the individual is more at risk of over leveraging than the bank, who should know better. The risk of over leveraging should be shifted to the bank, as they have significantly more resources and wisdom to mitigate that.
It is not. A company like Stripe is free to decide it does not want to be associated with certain services. You may disagree with that, and I would certainly agree they should at least be upfront about it, but it is not beside the point.
Bless Edwin for being here for us, always, time after time, but what a sad state of affairs.
I always heard it, and remember it as "a six-four father", but I looked up the lyrics and the lyrics sites are all saying "Impala", which makes way less sense to me than "Father". Impala like the car? Like the animal? How do either of those help with a height problem? If you had a six-four father however, you would also likely be tall.

Which lead me to make this: https://imgflip.com/i/6tigza
This happened to NewProject2 awhile ago - but the owners were hated for being political dissidents, so no one helped them. Now that it's happening to you... Sucks, doesn't it?
> Natural selection is pretty cruel.

Is it? I think this is just the fallacious conclusion that results from a lack of humility and from a sense of entitlement. If you believe you're entitled to X, but you don't have what it takes for X, then you set yourself up for self-pity, envy, and grievance as if you've been wronged somehow by not getting what you (falsely) believe you are entitled to. But neither our qualities nor what those qualities can bring us are things we are owed. The solution is to recognize the truth about ourselves, here the immutable truth, and play with those cards instead of wishing we were someone else or had different cards, or hating those with better cards. The latter is a waste of time and ultimately self-destructive.

There is also a kind of dualism at work here. We see ourselves as somehow separate from our qualities. But we are those qualities! They are part of who and what we are. You could not have been otherwise without being someone else.

Egocentrism is a recipe for misery and no amount of manipulation or make believe will ever address the underlying mental and spiritual problem. It's much healthier to accept what you are and be grateful and work with what you have. Occupy your niche. If you're a tortoise, be a tortoise instead of fantasizing about being a cheetah.

Furthermore, surgery like this is essentially a form of lying. You are falsely advertising about your qualities. Whatever benefits you receive because of the mere appearance of having such qualities instead of the genuine thing is a species of fraud. Anything you receive through fraud will taste like ash in your mouth in the end.

And these traits won't be communicated to your children. In this way, you subvert natural selection.

Note also the incoherence. If the trait matters, then your deception is made worse. If the trait doesn't matter, yet people seem to value it anyway (a common form of denial among the have-nots), then why cater to those with a bad sense of value? Any appreciation you receive is fake anyway.
Yes the maximally centralized form of a protocol like email is the one we have now where a few large actors can collude to cut you off from large swaths of the network.

However, that’s different than a singular actor, but more importantly, nothing is stopping a counterforce from coming in and correcting that regime. It’s possible we may see email revert to a less centralized form over time as various people choose to prioritize working that problem (and can make headway, because of how email works.)
D’oh! Missed that.

I’m sure the number of links would have been the same, but it would take much longer…
Yes, this would not be true:

> On a million dollar house - you'd get paid $100k per year to live there.
Someone reaching out in this case is nice but what about folks who can't get their complaint to the top of the HN front page? I'm hopeful the OP gets everything sorted out but these no-warning, no-explanation, no-recourse suspensions need to be prohibited when the only thing a company says is "TOS violation."
The TOS can be updated/changed/clarified over time and they could end up falling outside of what they cover as a result. It's not great and sucks as a customer but it can happen.
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