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Your understanding is incorrect. Apple also allows opting in to their AGPS service, Find my Friends service, etc.; each of which implies sending location data to Apple.

If you don't opt in on Android, everything that doesn't require background location reporting continues to work. You lose no functionality compared to not opting in on iOS.

You can look at the privacy policies and learn that neither company divulges the data to other companies. In both cases, opting in provides exactly the same loss in privacy (to the company the device talks to). The only difference is that one provides better services with that data.
Any number of services support ths - I believe Wallet, Venmo, Paypal and Square all offer some form of fee-less peer-to-peer transfer, because it has such a high value for organic growth as people send money to friends.
Hey, if you check our family table here:
http://emoji.codes/family

The "native" column shows what your device will show by default just using the unicode characters, and in chrome on windows (fairly high demographic) they almost entirely display as black boxes. Every device is going to interpret them differently.

We're aiming to provide a full color set that closely follows the unicode standards, translates well to Twitter, Apple, Microsoft etc's proprietary sets and is freely available and modifiable to anyone who wants to implement them into their web or mobile app.
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> An A player is productive and brilliant regardless the environment.

So, you're telling me that at least one person exists who can be productive in any environment? I don't believe that for a nanosecond.
I see many other high end watches as waste of money, but not rolex. If you buy a Gold Rolex they actually appreciate with time or at the least you won't loose much value when you do sell it. I agree the reasons you have suggested are primary reasons people do buy high end watches.
There is no universe in which $42-$69 is remotely possible, unless there's something along the order of $20 surcharge for airport dropoff.

I do this bimonthly, and it's ~$25, with tip.

I hate to think of the nefarious reasons for overquoting taxis like this...
How does this get away with not using the client secret? I thought OAuth 2.0 always required a three-way handshake (client is sent to provider, provider sends client back to service, service exchanges grant token with the provider).

Does this mean in Facebook, Google etc the grant token and the access token are identical?
1 dot = 1 person. Zooming in and out doesn't expose any particularly bad distortion of the underlying data at the lower zoom levels.
It seems to work really well to me, is there region in particular where you see a problem?
Greg Baugues from Twilio gave a powerful talk titled "Devs and Depression" at Laracon this year. He talks about his personal experience, and about breaking out from the underneath the stigma of mental health issues for developers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6x9wmlFz_c
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Sure enough, when I log out, my comment is gone! I didn't know HN was doing this.
So, just want to make sure it's clear to folks reading (because it's been a source of confusion for prospective customers in the past) that "card account updaters" and a service like Churn Buster are not mutually exclusive. For example, we have customers who utilize "card account updaters" like what you're talking about, and they still have a substantial number of customers failing payments even after that process has run it's course. That's where Churn Buster comes in.

Normally you'd expect Churn Buster to implement this background behind-the-scenes card account updating itself, but the reason we don't is that the trend and expectation in the industry is, or is becoming, that the actual payment gateway themselves provide this service, because they're by far in the best position to do it at scale. For example, Braintree already does this and I think you'll see more and more payment providers doing it down the road, including Stripe. (I could be wrong, but I don't think so.)
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The banking system in the US is terrible and stuck in the stone age.
In my personal experience, large corporations are particularly demotivating to almost everyone, so it's not a surprise that there are a lot of so-called B, C, or even D players there.
Nice article, enjoyed that.

We humans seem to have an intrinsically elitist point of view which leads to the idea that people are intrinsically better or worse. Hence class/caste systems institutional racism etc... oh and A/B players ;-)

However there is a plenty of evidence to the contrary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/18/161159263/teacher...
Well, if the customer with the expired payment information is still using and valuing the service, he will soon realize that he needs to update his payment information without any outside intervention or he will lose access to the service. If the user no longer cares about the service and just forgot to cancel or was to lazy to do so, why not just let him go instead of continuing to sell him something he does no longer need?

UPDATE: I probably got the wrong first impression - I thought the service was kind of last resort if the user did not respond to the normal notifications that he will lose his service; I missed that you can completely outsource this.
I was making a simple observation that the headline clashed with the article.
Indeed.

> P.S - We’re hiring :)

After getting acquired by one of the most hated corporations in America? No thanks.
Being an A or B player isn't something that happens at birth. Your performance at work depends on a lot of factors.

But there are B players out there, and A players are doing better work than them. This is irrefutable if you've ever worked on a team of significant size. It's not supposed to be some personality-damning attribute that implies a B player is forever doomed, or always brings less utility to the table than an A player. It is specific to their current role, work, etc.
Oh man. I still use my Palm Vx, and I'm going to put this on there as soon as I get home. Thank you so much!
That's quite an amazingly strong claim of biological essentialism. Got any data to back it up?

It would be naive to imagine that there is no "fundamental nature" element to people. That your genes or early childhood experiences or whatever do not make some people more prone to antisocial behavior, and indeed do not make some people guaranteed to be extremely antisocial. Some people who are now criminals connected with the drug trade would, in a counter-factual world of legalized drugs, find other outlets for their antisocial tendencies.

But it's just as naive, perhaps more so, to imagine that the circumstances that people find themselves in do not also affect their social/antisocial behavior. A hundred and sixty years ago, millions of people in the United States actively participated in a monstrous crime perpetrated against an entire race of people, the equivalent of what in the modern world would be multiple felonies per day across their lifetimes. It was certainly antisocial. Was that destiny? Were all those people just inherently bad? If so, what happened to them? Why doesn't modern Georgia have most whites being serial felons?
Ah, that makes a bit more sense. But I've never heard of anyone calling AT&T or Verizon or Comcast a "platform" that a developer might choose to build a business on.

BTW even if you like the ideas of Net neutrality, it makes sense to look very carefully at the methods of bringing it about that are being proposed at the FCC.

Daniel Berninger at VCXC.org earlier this week put it better than I could:

"The communicating public needs a 'voice' in the future of communication, but expanding FCC authority over IP networks via Title II does not achieve this goal.

"First - Internet access is not 'slow' - we near a one million fold expansion of bandwidth from the days of 300 baud modems.

"Second - The advocacy for FCC regulation reflects a theory of regulatory virtue not achieved in practice.

"Third - New regulation of IP networks threatens the Moore Law driven forces responsible for progress to date."
> I wonder why Black women aren't married out.

There is in much of Black American culture a significant taboo against Black women marrying (or dating) "out", which I think is significantly influenced by a very long history of black women being viewed as acceptable for casual use, but not marriage, by white men, and the resulting accumulated history of experiences with "dating out". (There are other cultural factors that feed into this, as well.)
Yes. Or in the case of some airlines, slowly turning the brightness down until the screen doesn't render anything (until the next announcement starts and I have to do it again).
I understand and reject that reasoning. When you're mapping diversity, put me and my pasty-white Anglo-Dutch ancestry and my neighbors who grew up in Mexico in different categories.
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It only has the `client_id` on the page. The `client_secret` is not disclosed to the user, although using it apparently requires using the "OAuth proxy".

I'm baffled this actually works. The entire idea is that the `client_id` can be disclosed to the user (via the login redirect) because the `client_secret` is required to verify the application's identity.
It's all here https://manage.churnbuster.io/pricing
Ideas on what kind of price tag, if any?
Just out of curiosity... you need four different iPhones to test?

How many different O/S and model variants do you need, to feel safe on Android? Or does your app not do anything complex with the graphics?
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And joining the Google+ team? I guess I have to admire that Google is still pushing on this rope.
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I gave a talk at pagerduty about how this has been done for the last few years:
https://blog.pagerduty.com/2014/03/injecting-failure-at-netf...
I think you've hit on a big part of it. It seems Apple works more closely with their iOS developers than Amazon does with their Android developers. The Fire OS itself is very nice, fluid, responsive, and makes sense when you treat it as a purely consumption oriented device. That's why it's such a shame that third party apps and games can look awkward on the larger tablet; the user experience should matter more but it seems Amazon doesn't want to put in the same effort to support their third party developers.
Curious for my own sake, do you just pick from random trees you find? Do you worry about property rights at all, or is this on public land?
Spreedly here. That's not a bad idea although in reality the better idea might be for ChurnBuster to build on top of Spreedly and solve this problem across 70 gateways? That way too if Stripe ever rolled out something similar all your eggs aren't in one basket.
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/

I think these emojis are cute, but I'm not really sure this is a problem that really needs to be solved... Although I'd love a way to specify a set of emojis that I actually want to see on all my platforms. I dunno.
Isn't that 0,7 in http://www.emojione.com/images/carousel_slide1.png?
Yep, I think the base model iPhone 6 is going to be $600 off contract.
You are correct, but the pricing was the entire point of the statement I made.
He specifically states that the straps are unusually high quality for the $350 price point.
In article he mentioned 1242px by 2208px with 462ppi as 3x of 163ppi (original iPhone). Shouldn't it be 489ppi ?

Really confusing.
I wholeheartedly agree. I would never expect this unless it was explicitly disclosed up front, and I got an email around expiry time.
This looks promising -- or I was misled by another one of those "weird techniques".
That might be confusing cause and effect. It's not that homeless people are more likely to be mentally ill, it's that the mentally ill are often homeless.

And that's by choice - we've decided that we'd rather not give a shit about mentally ill people, because it might cost money. (Cf. the killing of the Mental Health Systems Act)
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Very true. Sadly, the reality of the structure of our government is such that rural areas have a greater representation in our governance than denser more urban areas.
I haven't either, but all signs point to "yes". I have a friend eyeing the 6 Plus as an upgrade from his Note 3, so I may get a hands-on soon enough.
That's because the author made a calculation mistake. He wrote "412" instead of "414".
ecdavis notices this inconsistency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8303845 plus has a second source to back it up.

Otherwise, just look around at densely populated areas. Like this asian-heavy area: http://cl.ly/image/1z0Q1T1V2V0N (edit 2: turned off smoothing, that's actual pixels) note that immediately-surrounding areas have blue dots, but not that one. Meanwhile, you can see less than one dot sized dots for orange and blue poking out, but no orange or blue complete dots on top of the red. Look at other dense areas, you'll see the same thing - some colors are exclusively on top of others, and it's always the same ones. (edit: for context, that block is in the middle here, in San Francisco: http://cl.ly/image/3m3N3f423S0M)

There isn't enough room for them to have fit one person per pixel, so they're stacked (somewhat). This favors the ones stacked on top.
Neither of those show up in Chrome on OS X, but they do show up in Safari.
Because that is not how people work. We forget things. Today I got a reminder that one of my hosting accounts expired. I happily put down the $90 for the account and even sent an email to my contact there, because loosing that account would be a major headache for me.
I need that account, I just didn't remember to update my CC
> EDIT: Adjusting newlines, forgot that newfags can't triforce.

Seriously? I get that it's a 4chan reference but really I thought HN was better than using slurs like that even in jest.
Treating depression like an illness makes it into a medical problem, and medical treatment is simply not the best recourse for a large number of people with even 'clinical depression'. The huge variety of causes and its transience makes it much less like other medical diseases, and so trying to treat it like a medical disease often won't work.

While I agree that medication is for many people an appropriate way to treat some forms of depression, it's certainly not a panacea. You don't treat diabetes by just taking medicine; you also don't eat crap that fucks with your blood sugar. If you have scoliosis, you don't just wear a back brace during childhood; you also avoid trying out for the football team. If your family has a history of melanomas, you stay out of the sun and put on sun lotion.

It's important to note that some of these treatments are not strictly 'medical treatments' - they're ways of living your life that reduce the impact of the disease. Just talking about disease is incredibly morbid. So to my mind, thinking of yourself as having a disease is actually the opposite of what you want to treat depression. Sure, it's comforting to have a way to define oneself in order to understand what's going wrong. But a negative focus on yourself is really the wrong way to go about reducing the impact of depression.

Yes, studies and medications and non-medication therapies and prescribed treatments are all useful in 'combating the disease', until you realize that it isn't one single disease. It's a human condition that varies in cause from chemical imbalances to unexpected life changes, and is incredibly difficult to diagnose the root cause of, not to mention find a workable treatment for. Relating the emotional state of humans to the working of their organs is a bit like relating an Indy 500 race's lap stats to the engines in the cars on the track.

So until we establish an actual field of science that focuses on every conceivable treatment of every form of depression, could we all please stop being so clinical about the whole thing?
Not sure about the first part, but this part I like:

>But yes, there are B and C players. And they do drag down teams. If you have a good manager, they're able to coach the B players, and they'll shed the C players. If you have a bad manager, they try "A only", or they don't care.

>"A only" doesn't work. There are not enough A players to make that possible. "Don't care" results in your typical dysfunctional corporate environment.
Happens to me too. I don't like the :P emoji variants either. And i could never find an emoji replacement for xD

An emoji version of the Awesome Face† would be a welcomed addition too, for trolling or denoting friendly sarcasm mostly.

† http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/awesome-face-epic-smiley
I don't see any reason why it would need random numbers for OAuth 2.0. Part of the reasoning that went into the OAuth 2.0 spec is that not all applications might have access to encryption, so encryption should only be used at the protocol level (i.e. HTTPS).

As it requires an "OAuth proxy" for OAuth 1.0a and some implementations of OAuth 2.0, it seems that it offloads the crypto (and secret API key) to that proxy.
Yep, another error. He also wrote 412px instead of 414px in some other location.
It's basically the same problem as picking a type face. The style of type can support the sentiment of the text, or it can clash with it (sometimes intentionally), and so on. So designers end up picking type faces with intent. It's reasonable assume document authors/designers want the same level of control over the rendition of a "sad" code point. So you'll see a similar ecosystem of emoji fonts.

A bigger problem here is user control because the font stacks on all of the big platforms don't support "mixin" style font use well.

You can illustrate this with an example outside emoji, even: Imagine you're an English speaker occassionally reading documents mixing Latin and Hangul (Korean) alphabets, and the app you're reading the doc in lets you set a preferred font. Most likely that font will only contain Latin glyphs - so where do you get the Hangul from? All of the stacks do support glyph substitution to fetch them from a different font, but users usually have no easy control over what font that will be. On Linux and Windows it works by specifying aliases (i.e. font Y is an alias for font X, so when font X doesn't have a glyph, we go look in font Y instead), but you can only do it in config files and the registry, there's no GUI control (both Linux distros and Windows try to provide some reasonable default aliases) so the user effectively can't pick a font anymore.

The same problem happens with emoji - it's hard for users to pick their "emoji font".
Couldn't disagree more. I've forgotten these things all the time and actually appreciate a reminder from the service that I need to do something about it. It's so much easier than keeping track of what's stored where and updating it
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This is great and the pricing seems reasonable (and not too low, like tarsnap). I will be signing up once we launch our full online training courses. Our monthly revenues are around ~$150/month per user, so definitely worth it for us.

As someone else said, though, a free plan that is limited to a very small number of people might be helpful. I'd sign up for that with our small group of clients right now just to test and trust the service. 10-20 users or something would be enough for testing purposes but obviously not nearly enough that you are cannibalizing your product. Something to think about - since now I have to bookmark your site, remember that I need it in six months, and come back and sign up. Even though I KNOW it's something that will save me thousands of dollars per year.
Thank you guys for the great feedback, I never considered that my dirt looking design could be the source of my problems, plus the embarrassing typo errors.
I agree.

I would say we all can be A or B players depending on a huge mixture of psychological factors including what people think of us, what we think of ourselves, what we think of the job we do ... and countless more.

If someone's company is full of 'B players' in reality they're saying their company is full of under motivated people. Why they are under motivated is a different matter and can be a complex affair usually combining internal and external factors.
I'm telling you that this person will be, on average, more productive than other people in any given environment.

If the system keeps the output net-negative, no, you can't change that. "A player" or not.

And of course, environment as related to the chosen profession. It's not like somebody who's good in one field is automatically good in another.
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Think about a system that gives you, as a customer, piece of mind, but doesn't actively intrude on your life. For example, something like Pingdom. They tell you about problems with your systems but don't actively tell you anything if nothing is going wrong.

Let's assume you're happy not thinking about Pingdom when nothing is going wrong, and happy with their service when something does happen. Would you appreciate Pingdom silently ending your service when your credit card expires? Would you consider that good customer service? If they do contact you, would you consider it "sales" to get a gentle reminder?
Funny. I was writing something along the same lines but Daniel does a much better job of wording it. The essence is spot on, it's the organization that makes people excel or fail.

Dysfunctional organizations happen much more frequently than dysfunctional people do.

Once upon a time I was a 'B' player too (after starting out as an 'A' one I quickly got demotivated to the point where I didn't want to go to work at all, this was at a big bank). I'm happy they didn't take Daniel out back and shot him.

A good company will mentor and will teach as well as empower, maximizing the contribution its employees make by rewarding their input and by respecting them as human beings first and employees second. That's a very hard trick but the most successful companies know how to do this well.

And it's that part - the corporate culture - that is the hardest to shape and nurture. Lose it and you've lost your momentum, if not your future.
I think it's too sad.
Like most advice, it's not literal.

Only hire A players! Fire the B players!

The subtext that you seem to be overlooking here is that you shouldn't settle for 'good enough' and instead, raise your hiring standards.

>There are no B players, only people whose potential is not being brought to life, fish which are made to climb trees and then told they suck.

As uncouth as it may be, there are plenty of people who just simply aren't good enough to do a particular job. I'm sure you've worked with more than one engineer who, despite any help provided, was just not cut out to be a good programmer.

Your overall message will help someone to be a better person. I don't necessarily believe it will make them a better employer.
True. Also depression seems to be an illness human beings may inherit.

Physical exercises are known to help depression. Sitting in front of a computer screen all day long without much social interaction seems to make it worse (at least for me).
With this I completely agree. Professionalism is just that — being productive, doing your job and not behaving like a princess in the absence of ideal conditions and stuff.

In "right environment", given great code in a most beautiful and readable language, two hours a week with a coffee break in the middle — everyone can be a pro. Sadly, reality is not like that.
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