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> That seems unlikely with a complacent and apathetic populace.

The majority of Americans didn't support the American Revolution (either loyalists, or neutral).

Not that I'm saying we are anywhere near a revolution, but I don't believe it's unthinkable that someday the government could do something so repugnant that 1/3 of the people want to start fresh.
Do you understand what a subpoena is? It isn't armed agents rifling through your stuff. It's a document compelling production of documents or of testimony. If you don't feel like complying with the subpoena, you don't, and the agency takes you to court.
Which leaves us only to assume there will be a second step.
Without specific reference to the income of any particular individuals, particularly individuals with HN accounts, there is an important lesson here for folks who think that being world-class in programming is the primary rewarding career path for "programmers."
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If he did, who in their right mind would admit that in a public forum?
Ever dealt with local stuff--building inspections and the like?
disclaimer: I work for eBay Inc.

David Marcus was CEO of Zong, a small mobile payment startup who got bought by PayPal last year. When buying the company, the CEO of eBay Inc. asked him to change quiet a few things in the company culture. This email is one of the first step to improve customer service. Will he succeed I don't know, but you gotta give him the credit of trying.
I am not saying all subpoenas are reasonable. I'm saying that they almost by definition can't be extrajudicial, because they are in effect court orders. The only way to enforce them is to take them to court.

I recognize that the Wired article raises multiple issues with Administrative Subpoenas. What I'm saying is that one of those issues --- the fact that they can be issued without warrants --- is probably a red herring. Agencies can demand whatever they want. The only thing that gives subpoenas force is a court of law.
Have you ever bribed a building inspector?
You seriously think he bribed a congressperson?
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The email mentions that this CEO took over only five months ago.
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When it comes to people who aren't as well educated or who aren't members of the reality-based community,

Please. This is america. We don't need to talk down to people like this.

200/84000 = 0.24%. EPA doesn't have a clue about 99.76% of the registered chemicals for sale? Experts?

It doesn't take a rocket scientis or a member of the tea party to figure out something is odd-ball with that?

It would seem more politically feasible to say, here is some tax money. Lets test this stuff.

Because it looks like the original CA regs. requiring these chemicals was also written to "protect" the public? who's protecting the people from the protectors?

Ya know? its just kind of weird all around.
NAB in Australia allows you to open up multi currency merchant accounts. I believe they charge around 4% but, it will do the job until you have enough traction to setup a US entity.
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The most effective way to show displeasure with a business is to stop being a customer. Period. You can't blame the CEO here - he's simply trying to stop the bleeding before Hacker News reopens it with a machete.

I've briefly worked for a payment processor - and I'm not overstating here - but this industry doesn't give 1/2 a st about your feelings of them, their customer service, or what you think of their CEOs. They only care about getting as much money as possible. Period.

Peteris, keep posting of your experience and let's see if the CEO follows through. If he doesn't he'll lose twice as much respect and twice as many customers. If he does, then know you got some very expensive customer service, my friend.
The article makes a fleeting mention that Byron Sebastian had been working more on the Salesforce side of things than on Heroku. With that knowledge, I'm not at all surprised that he left. This leaving isn't a mark against Heroku.
This article makes it sound as if Heroku is about to be shut down but being the leader in PaaS offerings (at least for non enterprise type environments) I highly doubt this is going to happen. I can't imagine the stress Byron Sebastian has been through and I think taking a break is more then legitimate
> Could you still consider posting a mashup scary?

Phobias, shyness, etc. don't go away just because you did something else scary. I know at least one soldier who's been through Iraq who still finds spiders terrifying.
I agree, that people should give him the chance to fix Paypal if he wants to try. There is always a starting point for change and if this it, he should be applauded and not ridiculed.
doesn't the musicbrainz schema cover most/some of this? http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database/Schema

also, given the ubiquity of UTF-8, why the need for ASCII?
Assuming this isn't a just a rumor, this reeks of corporate politics. Loren creates an app that gets peoples' attention. Loren leaves. Twitter for Mac slowly dies. I don't doubt that someone has a rationalization for this, but I have to question the motivations behind such a move. This sounds more like someone trying to get rid of someone else's "legacy", or at a minimum some "new guard" trying to get rid of the "old guard". The Twitter Mac App is well-designed and popular. What good reason could twitter have for killing this?

It sounds like twitter's attempts to "reinvent" itself are going to just push them further into irrelevance.

Of course, if this is just a rumor, then you can pretty much ignore the entirety of my rant.
Ironic, considering how he dismisses Samsung as "as innovative as the spec sheet allows", when Samsung is the one making those Retina displays.

And the RAZR MAXX is somehow a "wasted opportunity", when Motorola fit a 3300mAh battery in the same profile as the iPhone(9.3mm)
> I think it's fair to say they discontinued development the day Loren quit the company.

Pretty fair yes, same with the iPad client which has only seen anemic update, and at the same time they're trying to kill third-party clients.

Unless the strategy is to burn the ship to the keel, I really don't get what they're doing.
I am always wiery of these maneuvers because they can swing both ways. I must say, good for the CEO to response; smart man who realizes the company is going to get hit, hard, and soon.

The only question left is: to trust or not to trust?

Let's see if PP makes any official announcements on policy to combat this.
You can't backtrack a specific cancer to a specific source. Skin cancer and lung cancer have famous "causes" but there statistical in nature with some people getting skin cancer despite minimal exposure to sunlight. Expose a billion people to low doses of a well known carcinogen and you expect a statistical increase in cancers, but there only estimates and it's impossible to track down specific people affected.
Come now, you know what I mean. You're being obtuse. :|

Anyways, what would you consider the lobbyist mechanism and campaign donations if not an authorized de-facto form of bribery?
We must see the first step. He is trying to stop the bleeding. My guess is that the signs are there that the bleeding has started, it just hasn't hit mainstream yet.
You seriously think someone hasn't?
They redefined it as lobbying. Convenient, eh?
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Maybe he just decided, "Ya know, I've got enough financial security to just not worry about this any more." and executed on that insight.

Given his position and the acquisition, I would not be surprised if this move left a lot of money on the table but for many the difference between $25M and $50M [1] isn't $25M, its three years of not sleeping well because of the stress.

[1] Pulled out of my hat, I have no insights into Byron's situation.
I've ordered glasses from the internet here in Georgia maybe a dozen times without them requiring verification of prescription.

Contacts do require one though.

Don't know if the company is just skirting regulation or if it doesn't exist, however.
Did you read the same note I did? He says explicitly that he's new in the CEO spot and would like to use this story as a tool for redoing how they handle holds, and how they deal with customers.

You can't win by solving just one person's problems. But you also can't win unless you start by solving one person's problems. And then fix the system, so that the kind of problem is less likely to recur.

This, IMHO, is exactly the right way to do it. As contrasted with the wrong way, which is for employees to sit in their comfy offices and avoid all direct contact with customers, making up bureaucratic solutions to imagined problems.
It's pretty simple why Twitter would discontinue this app. They want to have a consistent user experience across all their clients and they will continue to introduce more rich content (such as Cards) from their brand partners. It's a lot easier for them to manage this consistency of experience by sticking to HTML5 for the client experience rather than maintaining and updating a set of native clients each time newer content features are released.
Step 1. Attract geeks / nerds / hackers.

Step 2. Get sourcecode

Step 3. Win!
I wonder how often a bit exact copy of one song appears... Sure the songs might have the same title and duration, but some very trivial edits might be done. You need to be extra careful when identifying these songs as identical if you don't want to lose any information.

Of course, from a listener point of view it might not mean much, but how would you decide at which level of non-similarity a track is the same as another one?

It's a bit like choosing a lossy codec quality, it's very subjective, and for indexation this might not be the best way.
That is exactly the kind of experience that forces one to understand the interactions of complex systems and learn how to debug them.
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If you don't think bribery goes on in local government you've never been involved too closely. A city official in my town was just convicted of voter fraud. Imagine how many people go uncaught.
Is there statistical evidence of any sort correlating an increase in the specific kinds of cancer attributed to chlorinated tris to the phase-in of flameproofing in upholstered furniture?

The chronic carcinogenicity data for chlorinated tris is specific.
Never heard of hellbanning, but I'll keep that in mind. Cheers
One wronged customer down; thousands more, including myself, to go.
I don't think this has been established. But regardless, wazoox is saying that even eight hours a day (of real, focused work that doesn't involve checking Hacker News or Facebook all the time) is too much for most people over a long period of time.

It's all anecdotal evidence - I guess you could pull off a bit more if your job is your life. I've never met anyone who meets this criterion, but maybe someone else has.
> The site works just fine

For low values of fine, it takes a huge amount of resources, is pretty slow (especially on older hardware or browsers), doesn't — as far as I know — remember where you were in your timeline and what you have or have not read yet (and yes, I do like seeing all the tweets of the people I'm following), etc...

> The built in sharing and that thingy that swipes out from the right of the screen and lets you Tweet work fine for making posts

Except if you want to make arbitrary tweets or discuss things.

> the site itself is just fine for consuming them.

It does not.

> I've never understood needing a desktop client for most websites really.

Because there are situations and services for which a desktop client simply works better.

> To me they're just a waste of space

Great, here's an idea, don't use them if you don't like them. Others don't agree and will just keep using them. Deal?
I've had many building inspections done and I've never even been tempted to bribe anyone. The allusion the parent comment is making is to societies in which bribes are practically required.

Dollars to donuts, if I tried to bribe an Oak Park building inspector, I'd end up in administrative court.

I have bribed someone: a municipal impound lot that had towed my car, many years ago. Impound lots are the kind of skeezy places where you can kind of tell that the opportunity exists to bribe your way out of a problem. To me, that's the kind of exception that proves the rule; I could tell the difference between the impound lot and, say, a building inspector because there is a difference. Most officials are dangerous to try to bribe.
I've seen a number of fire videos as part of a training class. It is astonishing how fast a couch + room full of furnishings will burn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ult6Biaf7oM. From ignition to flashover/fully-involved in 2-3 minutes. In a major urban area like SF, 5-10 minutes is a good response time for the first units on scene, not to mention the time to coordinate a fire attack, ventilate and flow water.

I don't know whether the claims in the article are well-supported or not (or what type of treatment the couch in the video had, as the videos are from the late 80s/early 90s), but I think most people don't realize just how dangerous a working fire in a single room full of ordinary furnishings can be.
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I think the thing that is reflexively offensive about this whole thing is that the government has taken a risk that is reasonably easy for a responsible adult to avoid (setting their couch on fire) and implemented a measure that is harmful and difficult or almost impossible to avoid. It's as if we are all made to pay for the morons who can't resist playing with matches in their couch.
I agree that they should always try to give you a reason. But that's not as easy as it sounds.

Put yourself in the position of somebody who is trying to commit massive fraud. E.g., by purporting to sell a bunch of stuff on-line. Every bit of information you have about how PayPal combats fraud is helpful. Every time PayPal gives somebody a reason, it helps fraudsters avoid that particular wall or trap, letting them probe the defenses elsewhere.

It's a hard problem. PayPal solved it the wrong way, but they'll never get to full transparency.
The two main attack vectors according to the article are IE and Flash. I think I read here in HN a while ago that using Windows boxes was highly controlled in Google nowadays, and even some kind of permission was needed. Strong correlation here, it seems that Google was indeed hit and probably hard.
How about this: good design lets you see the forest in spite of the trees.
> You just shared a comment with THE ENTIRE world. For all you know, it could be picked up by this Twitter account that has 7k followers

Myself included. It's a great account.

That said, commenting and participating in a public forum is something I've done for a long time and which I'm comfortable with. This is Steve's first attempt at a mashup. Things are far scarier the first time around.

Also, scary doesn't have to be relative. Sure, going and fighting a war is something most people would find scary. A lot of people would feel the same way about walking down a strange dark alley. Are an active war zone and a poorly-lit space AT ALL similar? No. Yet they're both scary. Others still find meeting new people scary. That doesn't mean that they have "thin skin" or that they live a "sheltered life".

Scary is subjective, not objective, and you don't get to be the person who chooses what other people are and aren't wary of.
I feel your pain. I have also stopped caring about music classifying, for much the same reasons you listed. Nowadays I use only Spotify, and I trust in their tagging abilities, and in Last.FM's auto-correcting ability.

My main concern when I used foobar used to be how to handle multiple artists on the same album, which always resulted in the album being split up when displayed in a list. I was unbelievably happy when I discovered the "Album artist"-tag, which unites all songs in an album under the same banner, while still preserving (and scrobbling) the original artist name.
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It is not particularly easy to avoid setting your couch on fire. The problem with flaming couches is not just those cases where the couch is the primary contributor to the fire; it's also the cases where couches rapidly accelerate the intensity of a smaller fire, like from an electrical malfunction.
Now he needs to write the other 100k innocent people PayPal has completely screwed with.
I think you're overthinking this.
The innovation was bringing a screen with that high of a DPI to millions of users without an incredibly high cost, and pushing their competitors to follow suit.

"Innovate" and "invent" are not synonyms.
Looks more like he is trying to buy direct outside expertise and opinion, without it being filtered through the company, in return for personally looking after this account. The problem from there on in is whether that person can actually continue to be useful as they will no longer be having the experience of a normal customer and might start being less critical in their approach. Picking someone who is absolutely furious probably helps in this as they are likely to be very upfront about their experiences.
While on the subject, what tools do you use to support your JS styling ? Linter / checker / autoindenter ...

I know of http://jslint.com/ and http://www.jshint.com/, any other one ? What is you're usual configuration for those tools ?
>This is the main difference between consumer-grade and enterprise-grade drives firmware. Take the HGST Deskstar and Ultrastar, or Seagate Constellation ES and Barracuda 2 TB; they are physically exactly the same, but behave very differently when encountering an error. Basically the enterprise drive will fail shortly BUT recover (because it's probably RAID-backed), while the desktop drive will try to read the data when asked at all prices (because it's probably NOT RAID-backed), therefore suffering from extremely long time-outs.

That is, in fact, why I pay the huge premium for 'enterprise' sata.

And yes, Usually 'enterprise' drives fail rather than just getting really slow.

But not always. 'enterprise' drives sometimes get shitty rather than just failing outright, too. I mean, it's usually like 1/3rd to 1/5th expected performance rather than 1/100th, but this is disk. It's already on the edge of unacceptably slow. just cutting performance in half means I'm getting complaints.

Overall? reducing this problem from twice a month to twice a year is worth the premium, but all spinning rust is shit. The 'enterprise' stuff is only slightly less shit.

It bothers me that RAID controllers don't handle this more intelligently.
> What’s more, as Ars Technica’s Peter Bright points out, that release date is looking shaky because Microsoft has been delaying the release of its SDK for third-party developers to build apps for the phone.

That's perhaps the scariest portion to me- Windows Phone 8 is a fairly significant change from WP7 (whole new OS, many new APIs). Normally the SDK is released a good number of months ahead of the release to allow time to incorporate bug fixes from developers.

If they are to release in late October then they go into serious lockdown by late September. Almost no time for any developer feedback. Plus, slipping past late October puts holiday devices at significant risk.

Unless they are withholding it to keep new features under wrap, but this makes no sense as it is sure to impact the quality of the release.
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There is a distinction, and it is important - campaign donations go to keeping them in office, whereas a bribe goes into their pocket directly. Whether it is a sufficient distinction is a separate question, and the real question is if-and-how we can change things so that they function better.
I agree whole-heartedly. I have a personal and business account. I stopped usin PayPal when it froze my account after they made a refund to to an eBay customer who stole my merchandise but demanded a refund after claiming to have not received the item. I produced the receipt signature from the USPS but was simply told that it was not good enough. I told their customer service rep that I would never use them again and that I look forward to PayPal suing me so I could have my day in court. they never sued me, but they also never unfroze my account. Totally unprofessional! -G. King
I didn't mean to rag on conservatives, though I guess my wording made it sound that way. I just mean people who aren't susceptible to argument with numbers and facts, the kind of argument you would be comfortable making, the kind of argument scientists are good at making.

It would seem more politically feasible to say, here is some tax money. Lets test this stuff.

You're suggesting the most politically appealing pitch would be science and government spending (on something that doesn't create working-class jobs.) I'm not an expert on politics, but luckily we do have an expert opinion to compare that to. The million dollar industry lobbyists thought the most effective appeal would be a scare campaign in newspapers and a venal doctor talking about imaginary suffering babies. They won. I think I'll trust them.

Because it looks like the original CA regs. requiring these chemicals was also written to "protect" the public? who's protecting the people from the protectors?

Whenever we let science affect policy, policy is open to revision, just like science is. We got seat belts right, we got a lot of emissions and pollution laws right, but we're never going to get everything right. It will always be a process of revise, revise, revise as we learn more about the science.
It would be interesting to make an analysis on how MusicBrainz deals with all these problems, I admit I didn't look much into this. But AFAICT it wouldn't really solve the file system problem, except if you decide to name your files with a hash. Also, you might still want at some point to keep extra information MusicBrainz wouldn't handle, even if you have a MusicBrainz ID stored in the file to identify the music.

About the ASCII, my point was just all about the fact that you can't actually keep only the international name and you need to store the name in different language version. Obviously, I don't have any problem with using UTF-8.

PS: note that UTF-8 won't be able to represent properly mathematical formula... :)
How do you think a mechanism like that gets created?

Do it in one go and you're talking a department of tens or hundreds of people, most of them newly hired. Turn them loose without careful thought and at the very least you create massive chaos in your organization. But you also probably create substantial losses as fraudsters use the chaos to take a lot of money.

I think the only way you can get to the customer service experience you want is by starting with one customer's problems, solving them, and then changing the organization a bit so it's less dumb. Then you rinse and repeat for years.

It's an organization of thousands of people across the globe, with a zillion lines of code and, a ton of procedures and habits, and a lot of institutional inertia. The way to solve it is by starting now in a manageable way, and that's what he claims he's doing.
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