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Ask HN: Are non-English YouTube comment threads just as bad?
YouTube comments are notoriously bad/offensive. Unless the video is very targeted, I almost never look at the comments. The bloggers and podcasters I follow usually dismiss them completely as something to be ignored. But the context for this appraisal has always been English-dominated comment threads.

Are non-English comment threads just as bad? I was wondering if there were pockets of the YouTube ecosystem that behaved very differently than what I see in the predominantly English comments.
"These are all tasks that I must do - not doing them would mean that I am simply not doing my job... The utility of that sixtieth work hour is so much higher than the tenth or twentieth because I can use it do my own research."

I don't think he makes a very good case here. The twentieth hour of work could mean the difference between doing his job and failing at it. The sixtieth could make him more prestigious.

There is a good case to be made for increasing marginal work utility, but it's much easier to make in terms of basic numbers in an ordinary market economy: working more hours often leads to a higher average hourly rate. For instance, if you are a consultant, and you spend extra time writing books, you may become a recognized expert and be able to demand much higher rates.

That makes it sound like overwork is logical. But this calculation targets only money, and money has a decreasing marginal utility. And many other aspects of life also have a decreasing marginal utility, which is why people lead varied lives.

So, this problem has more to do with tunnel vision about your goals than with a fundamental curse of life. Keep at least a few goals in mind most of the time, and that will prevent you from falling into this trap.

My list would be something like (not necessarily in this order): health, family, friends, financial security, achievement, helping others, and making improvements for future generations. Usually I'm falling behind in a couple of these areas at any given time, and that helps me see what I need to do to change.
> Tired of your monthly yoga pants subscription? Or a two-week "free" trial that lasted four months? Just deactivate that card number. It's that easy.

I'm a little wary of this functionality. Although most responsible businesses just cancel the subscription after a declined payment, some will sic a debt collection agency on you because they claim you owe them the money. My Google-fu is failing me now, but I know I've read of this happening recently.

I'm also wondering how the magnetic strip on the back works. Does that get changed with each swipe as well? That would be really nice functionality to have, though I understand the complexity of implementation.
My computer is encrypted. It's far more complicated to break into my computer than to use a rock against a window.
I have had this via neteller for many years; one off mastercard numbers.

Too bad they got caught up in the stupid anti-online poker bollocks a while back and can't service US customers.
Yes it is, but as mentioned it gives you daily digest of it in your email inbox..
not sure what you being abc has anything to do w/ your comment
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What's YC's role in companies post demo day?
"Though YC continues after the 3 month cycle, and the alumni network is an increasingly valuable resource, those 11 weeks are still the most important thing"

I'm sure the answer varies company to company, but I'm curious what role Y Combinator plays in companies after their respective cycle? Through YC/HN, there's definately some support for the ongoing needs of graduate companies-- such as hiring (https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs) and alumni networking.

Specifically, does YC provide any support for later stage activities such as additional funding rounds, M&A activities, or operational expansion? With the number of YC companies whom have gone on to successfully execute these later stage activities, it seems like there is some sort of support structure in place for these companies post graduation. Does YC even want to be involved in these later stage activities? I could see the benefit in staying somewhat 'hands off' and just focusing on the core 11 week startup cycle. Anyone with any experience or insight?
Going meta here - I offer the hypothsesis that one of the important though unspoken functions of government is to continually develop criteria by which people can be marginalized and then implement them.

In other words, drug laws don't exist as a solution to a social harm; rather, they exist because even so-called enlightened nations continually perform triage against their populations and need to expand the lists of justifications for doing so.
Ya i noticed that too
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I really, really enjoyed browsing other user animation - especially this individuals: http://animatron.com/users/wps
Love the concept but I don't think I fully understand it. Am I opening a new credit card account with Final or is it a front end to my existing cards.

If it's the former what kind of card is it (Visa, Mastercard, or something different)?
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Hello.

Will Final actually partner with a financial institution to issue a card that I'll have to apply and have its own limits.

OR

I'll be able to use my own credit card, and Final is just a proxy?

Thank you!
I've been using this for many years with my Citicard Mastercard. I go to the Citibank website and get a virtual CC#, where I can set a $ limit and date limit (up to 12 months in the future).
MBNA offered one-time-use, limited-time use, and limited total charge disposable credit card numbers in the early 2000's. It was very handy, then Bank of America took them over and discontinued the feature. Boo.
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How? If everything were free, you hit the same problem that you're not investing into things like infrastructure.
Don't worry, the banks love it when you pay the account in full every month. They make more money from merchant fees than they do from interest payments.

Banks work hard to make sure credit card holders are happy. After all, it's fairly easy to switch credit cards.

It's the merchants that have the short end of the stick in the three way relationship between banks, customers and merchants.
Stripe Marketplaces isn't actually a product, there are two products, Stripe Connect and then the Trasnfers API. In the Stripe Connect set up every vendor in the marketplace has their own Stripe account and then each vendor is responsible for things like chargebacks, disputes, etc. The marketplace is just authorized to initiate API calls on behalf of the vendor (so the marketplace can handle the disputes and refunds, but the money comes from the vendor).

With the Transfers API, the marketplace just ACHs funds from their Stripe account to the vendor's bank account, so the Marketplace has to handle all the liability.
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This is awesome! I love the idea and was actually discussing a couple months ago why this doesn't exist yet with current CC companies like AMEX or Visa.

All these all-in-one "supercards" coming out are cool, but this is beyond cool and serves a real purpose.

I imagine they'll add a sharing component to purchases eventually too. This way you just spin up a new credit card number that is split between a group of people (e.g.: at a dinner for the check) and set percentages for everyone. You no longer have to ask waiters to split bills, Venmo friends after, etc.
That's exactly what I meant: a viable profession.

I also disagree with the OP about cost vs. quality. The key difference comes later when you're managing the artist. If the artist has talent then they also have a certain amount of leverage in the relationship. If you make them feel like a slave then they have an ultimate trump card: turning off the juice. (The "Atlas Shrugged" maneuver?) A talentless piece of meat plus auto tune gives you total leverage, which means risk mitigation and a more controllable product.

Right now the environment in the music industry is one of extreme risk aversion, which is something you see when the bottom falls out of an industry. You've arguably seen a much more risk-averse tech industry since the 2001 crash.

I think my points about piracy fit into a broader critique of the concept of "free" that I've been thinking about and that I've heard others talking about. Unlike previous critiques it's more of a liberal/progressive critique.
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Specifically, Gibbs Free Energy (G = Heat - Temp*(Change in Entropy)). Basically, the energy available is the heat in the system minus some chaotic stuff (and no, you can't make it better, because physics).

I have a good physics background and what is most supprising to me is how alive cells are. I initially came into the bio field just as the OP talks about, with the idea that cells are just tiny chemistry machines that are very complicated. I figured that eventually, we'd understand the cell from top to bottom give or take a century. Now.... not so much. Cells, especially eukaryotes like us and yeast, are just so alive to me. They do weird things and act on their own. You would think that with enough constraints in the inputs you would be able to very precisely predict what any one cell would do. Nope. They go off and do their own thing, replicate in some strange way, find some food source you never thought they could digest, eat each other, have sex in some novel way. And it's not just that you are not constraining the system enough either, or that the system is inherently chaotic and you see improbable events because of that. They really are alive and want to stay that way. I know this is not a good explanation, and that real science still has a lot to say about it. But with my background I felt the way OP did, that it was all overlapping Gaussian curves and gradients in N-space that makes it look alive. But now, having seen it up close and watched it all, now I am pretty certain that life is different somehow.
It's repackaged according to person and repo and in your inbox every day. I'm also working on joining it with other data sources (trello, jira, sentry, etc.) to make it more holistic.
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I would if I wanted to go back to school for a PhD.

I don't understand how this question is answerable in any meaningful way.
FB Groups for Schools – Deleted/Down
All the students in my university were using FB Groups for Schools for all the communications between us. (One needs to verify institute email id before joining such groups)

Suddenly from yesterday, all the groups are gone(for all of us). Is this happening for other also who were using this feature?

Try searching for a school on https://www.facebook.com/about/groups/schools .
You will see the nothing comes up. On inspecting the network requests its showing 404.
(cofounder here) after we implemented svg+smil export I was searching for some tool which does it as well, but could not find anything. i am not saying it does not exist, but we just could not find it.

if you know it please let us know, we will stop claiming it :)
No autocomplete for julienne, sautee, carmelize. It seems like this was written without any input from a trained chef.

Hint: http://www.d.umn.edu/~alphanu/cookery/glossary_cooking.html
This is similar to ShopSafe from Bank of America. ShopSafe let you create temporary reoccurring or single use CC number. https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsaf...
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Been beta testing this Mac app. Its a mix of FramerJS, Edge and Quartz Composer/Origami - a timeline based WYSIWYG animation tool.
>I don't think there's sail shape or lift in the simulation..

No. It is a very rough simulation (I am not sure if I can even call that). It only takes into account the force of the wind 'hitting' on the sail and the 'drag reduction'.

I am not a physicist or have experience with sailing. I am just a freelance programmer (currently out of work) from India, which means I even haven't seen a real life sail boat. I made this using the stuff I got from Wikipedia and a bit of intuition. So I guess it shows.

But I have a question regarding the boat traveling faster than the wind. Isn't it due to the fact that the lift is a constant force, regardless of the speed at which the boat is traveling? But a boat that is using the force of wind hitting the sails, can only sail as fast as the wind, because at that point, there is no wind hitting the sails.
See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8313720
I can read Japanese. Youtube makes me wish I couldn't.
Looks very cool. Few questions off the top of my head:

1) I presume since you'll be an actual credit card, there's an issuing bank behind you somewhere. Are you an actual startup, or is this a "division" of some huge bank trying to appeal to the tech set? Can you talk about who your issuing bank is?

2) ApplePay?

Thanks! (I signed up.)
Not quite - many ATMs I've seen size the slot so the raised numbers only go in one place so you can't insert the card the wrong way around.
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I buy games because I support the developers. I've spent full price money online on games that could've been bought for cheaper in physical form (amazon.fr is almost always cheaper than steam prices actually unless Steam is going through a sale. Regular prices on steam are always more expensive than getting the box delivered at your door). So, no. I wouldn't trade my privacy for cheaper prices, since the one reason that makes me "honest" and buy games in the first place is spending my money on things I like. I bought all the classic RPG I liked, and already owned in physical forms, on gog.com, just to show an interest in what I saw as a dying genre. Plus the fact that they are the only gaming platform that is DRM-free. Then I supported the kickstarter renaissance (Wasteland, Torment etc).

I've put my steam profile on private, but if you could see it, you would see almost no game past 1hour of play because I never play games from steam. I only buy them on steam, then I download a copy that will not violate my privacy. Because for as long as I breath I will not let anyone intrude on my privacy. Also, when given the choice between steam and gog, I obviously chose gog.com.
Sorry to hear. I am not in the know but what happenned to that company that pissed you off?
BOA had this. I used to buy MP3s off a russian site that I didn't trust. It makes a temp credit card number (a pop up basically) with an expiry date you can set, and an amount you can set. So I would do 30 day credit cards with like $20 on them. I think it was called shopsafe.
> Ice skating is impossible with just one leg ...

Not true, it's just a little more difficult because it requires better balance. You can fairly easily do a swizzle on one foot shifting from your inside edge to your outside edge, similar to how a boat would tack. Yes, the blade of skate is acting similar to a keel, but no, you don't need two legs to feel the effect.
You can also try using gfycat.com to do this automatically.
I seem to recall that people complained constantly. Reddit at least, if you click the "more" link, at least half the time you would get "there doesn't seem to be anything here." And you bet people complained about that one.
Just to be sure: You are aware that you have to measure the voltage drop under load? Even with rather thick wires, 20m should give you some noticable voltage drop with any non-minimal load.
Agreed. In many retail locations they often type in the last 4 digits shown on the physical card even if it's not the entire card number, even when the PoS card scanner is working.
It's true, if you sign up for something, you're on the hook for paying for it. If your credit card doesn't work, that doesn't mean you're not in debt.
EMV has been out in the wild since the late 90s. So far all the attacks I've read about (and some of them are very serious attacks!) are to do with the protocol between card, terminal and acquirer. None that I'm aware of has yet exposed a private key, with the possible exception of one that required an electron microscope.

They are famous last words, but in this case they seem justified.
It's Adam Lisagor whose video production company Sandwich Video works on lots of startup videos http://sandwichvideo.com/
I definitely want the the second 30 as of 20 minutes ago. If I wanted the fresh thirty, I'd refresh the page.
I watched the video only after I saw your remark and I have to agree. It's the first advertisement in ages that nearly got me interested into what they have to sell. I usually can't stand a classic video presentation.
Do you actually know, for a fact, that you can generate arbitrary card numbers? Meaning have you got an agreement with visa, mastercard, or similar where they allow you to do that.

Is there a limit on how many customers/unique card numbers you can have, and is there an inherent cost in gaining a new number (e.g. will accounts be capped at X disposable numbers per Y period).

Once you delete a card number how quickly is it returned to the "pool?" And do you re-assign it to a new user requesting a number?

Do you think third party web-sites will break because a card number is used twice for two different users (e.g. user 1 and user 2 both have the same number on their accounts, because user 1 let it expire, and then user 2 received it and utilised it).

Are you worried that these numbers could be used for fraud or abuse (e.g. unlimited trials).
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425501
We make money when our customers are happy. Yes, we still make money the traditional way - via transaction fees and interest on debt. But we make a lot more money if we have millions of happy customers - we can't win this market if we treat our customers like every other bank.

We're building this product for ourselves and for our friends first. And many of them are unhappy with how banks treat customers and optimize for fees and increasing debt.

We don't think encouraging conspicuous consumption is the only way to be a successful credit card company.
They are leaking potentially confidential information to a third party company running the service, in this case Slack. For all you know they could be doing stock trades based on all the insider info they can glean from their chat traffic as their business model.

If the communication includes material insider information, like companies/products they are considering buying, and they are flinging it all over the internet so third parties can read and act on it the SEC can charge them.

If you use cloud services for company communication then you at least need to have provably secure encryption so only the people you want to see the conversation can.

Of course this criticism applies to all the suckers who use Google and Microsoft cloud services for their business.
New construction is being built taller than previous (but not necessarily 10 stories).

The problem is that getting around in that part of the Bay Area still requires a car, so units with no available parking are much less desirable. Having 1 parking spot per unit, and 1 level of parking, effectively limits the height to ~4 floors of marketable residential units (a second level of parking would be more expensive than the first, and allow for ~8 floors of marketable units).
Sorry about this.
The system learns. i.e. new keywords get added regularly via new recipes. I’ll add this to the repository.
This was a very well-written article. Though I haven't followed any of this person's journey that she's recounting and can't simply trust her retelling of what happened (based on the fact that I really don't know anything about weev or Kathy or their online presences), she hits on something important. It's shocking how numb a lot of internet culture is toward "trolling" or otherwise hateful statements.

Nobody goes around in public threatening to rape or murder strangers. This might seem naive, but honestly, why is this tolerable by so many people if the words are said on the internet rather than on the streets?

It's not pretend. These are REAL people that are being subjected to threats that at least aren't innocent and at worst are also real. People's intuition of "free speech" seems to be warped here. Should it be okay to type these things to someone? Would it be okay if you called them and said it over the phone? What if you said it to their face? Mailed it to them in a letter? Does the medium change the message?

I'm just tired of the "nut up or shut up" attitude that a lot of the internet seems to overflow with.
No, I wouldn't say you're wrong.

I have made the same observations in the past when traveling.
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Put my credit card on charge ? Really ? No, I'm out.
I like this a lot. Obviously a lot of work and research went into this. Congratulations for the directed effort and the amazing results.

On top of that, I'd like to thank you for helping rid the internet of HTML+CSS+JS. I can't wait for this madness to go away. This triple of hell is woefully inadequate (abstraction-level wise) for a programmer to communicate to a computer what they want an animation to do.

Moreover, this is a contribution to the animation field, which is an incredibly powerful way to communicate ideas, stifled only by the barrier of entry of the existing tools. Any new tool that lowers that barrier deserves praise.

In other words, nice going!
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You can e-mail help@onlycoin.com with your order number & cancel.

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Sure, just need your Microsoft account email so I can add you to the beta list.
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What happens when your generated number matches an existing number? Is there a finite amount of possible CC numbers?
Many devices (ATM in particular) have motorised readers that swallow the whole card.

And the other poster pointed out correctly that for chip reading effectively 50% of the card needs to be that thin. You'd end up with a huge lump in the lower right of the card if you were going to play that game...
A similar thing happened to me a while back - except it was for a UX-focused front-end development position. When I turned it around and asked the interviewer why it would be a waste of time in nearly every use case to implement linked lists in Javascript, I got nothing, he just moved on to quizzing me about binary trees. This was the point at which I decided that, despite it being an interesting company tackling a great challenge, I just wouldn't be able to come in to work with people like this every day. Catch ya later, second-tier application performance monitoring startup!
shouldn't it be classified because it would warn the terrorists their plan is revealed ?
i would rather go with this : https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf for much better in depth coverage...
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Seems like it huh? But it's not racism, it's population. Asia just plain has more people, that they happen to have a historical association with being seen as 'lesser' is the fault of the US here. Those people in Asia are just like the people in the US. Geniuses and idiots occur with the same probability here as there. But there are just more people there than here, so you see more of them at the top universities.
The same video production company is being used all over for startups like this. It does not imply any relationship to coin or any others. http://sandwichvideo.com/
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I lived on $1000/month two years ago. My rent right now is $300/month.

My current standard of living, which I blow through money, has me go through $1500/month. I save the rest (which is about the same amount). I have about $13,000 saved but am hesitant to put them in RRSPs (Canadian 401k) because I may need to pull that money for surgery.