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I'm not sure if you're serious or not. I think the connection that was being made is that, if you evaluate usage based purely on time, Pandora may have a ton of time in use. But, much (or at least some) of that time may be people who've left it to stream for hours after they've left.

Seconding this. I love my etymotics. You can get a pair these days for about 70 bucks (or less). Take the time to try out different tips to find ones that are most comfortable.

The violin in question belonged to NPR presenter Nina Totenberg's Father. You can hear her report on this story here: http://www.npr.org/2015/08/06/427718240/a-rarity-reclaimed-s...

The author's post immediately before this one was another story about how David Sacks joined Zenefits as COO. So, possibly the author isn't a shill, but she's just scraping her inbox and publishing anything that comes across her desk.

I had a mixed reaction to this blog post. On the one hand it is helpful to understand the risk involved with using Stripe for payment processing. I presume, because Stripe wants to onboard users as fast as possible they back-load some of the review process for new accounts. That's an obvious double-edged sword and clearly impacted these guys negatively.

But, on the other hand, I felt that the tone was a little bit strange. Stripe doesn't have to do business with you, or anybody else. It's not offensive to my sensibilities that Stripe has it's own processes and concerns as it relates to it's customers (not to mention regulatory requirements).

And this bit stuck in my craw "..So overnight without warning Stripe had decided to stop us from using their services after 5 days.."

That email was your warning. You did, in fact, get a warning. You got 5 days to change payment processors.

Upon re-reading my comment, it sounds more critical than I had intended. I really like your site's clean design aesthetic. Great work.

p.s.

Please never come to Arizona. That will remove my last excuse for not going camping (purchasing a bunch of stuff, that I may never use more than once).

Design nitpick: The alert every time you add something to your cart is really annoying. What if I want to add 4 backpacks and 3 water purifiers, etc... I click add, get a pop-up, click ok, then add again, rinse repeat....

Maybe instead just use a floating div to appear, say xyz has been added, and then fade away after a second.

The site looks really sharp, and your product also looks cool. Keep up the good work!

That is a totally fair point, and you might be right.

But I cannot understand the low-grade media backlash here. That was my point. It seems like writing an article with the thesis that "whoever is planning crisis management at Snapchat is horrible an needs to go" isn't wildly beyond the pale.

Um.. That's sort of their job? Why the outrage here? It's not like the story actually calls for Snapchat's CEO's head to really be severed. That might be offensive.

I think the author's point is a good one. If CEO is really so obtuse he should go. If he is being coached to act this way then his coach should be fired[1].

Pretty straight forward business journalism. It's not like the business journalist went on a long diatribe about API security. That would be out of place.

[1]Unless your argument is that in order to criticize a business leader's actions you must outline each of the myriad possible corrective steps between "Do Nothing" and "Terminate".

I don't necessarily think you're wrong, but I don't like this point. Sure, often people stop listening after Yes,... but...

You don't have to accept that. The general excuse, "Managers man... they suck", is something that really bothers me.

Why not stand up for your idea, insist upon the Yes, IF... and hold management accountable?

Document concerns and don't be shy about raising them. In my experience I have seen people make the assumption that management will not listen and therefor not act more often than I've seen management ignore feedback.

That's not to say that management wouldn't ignore you, or dismiss negativity in favor of the "yes", but the defeatist attitude as it relates to 'management' troubles me.

Again, Michh, not to give you a hard time. Maybe I'm naive.

Ditto!

I'd love something like [0]You can't javascript under pressure, but You can't Query under pressure for SQL. :-)

[0]http://games.usvsth3m.com/javascript-under-pressure/

This really is idiotic to me. It seems increasingly popular for someone to take a minority position and then complain about how they are oppressed by the media, or game companies or whatever. The entire argument is pointless. It assumes that 'gamer culture' is somehow imposed by the industry, which is just utter bullshit. The video game industry, like virtually any other, exists to serve it's customers. The industry will do whatever it thinks it needs to do to appeal to it's customers. That's it.

Am I the only one who thought, "so what?", after reading this? A picture of sufficient detail taken under optimal conditions can yield reflected images off of the pupil. Big deal. It has always been the case that in a high resolution image you had more of a chance to see reflected images.

Not that this isn't interesting, but their hypothetical (hostage situation) would have been a much more intriguing test case. But, since those pictures/videos are rarely taken with super high resolution cameras with good lighting, it's unlikely this technique would be helpful.

Edit: Just to be clear, I think anything new in the form of research and development is generally good. Maybe this work will be built upon to create something great. I just don't like the implied promise that pieces like this make. It oversells what technology can actually do and is, I think, misleading.

Matt, I think these posts are valuable. The readers of HN seem to be exactly the type of people who might be early adopters of Coinbase. It's helpful for those people to know how the service works from a customer's perspective.

Then you also have the benefit from the entrepreneurial side. These posts can serve as a cautionary tale to other would be founders as how not to do customer service.

I think where this crosses the line from inane bitching to useful discourse is the gravity of these issues. It's not like these people are posting with complaints about the page layout of the company or <insert minor nitpick here>. The issue is with the core function of the company, and that's work discussion.

Just my $0.02.

No. I think the idea of inverted totalitarianism ridiculously abdicates the individual's role in our society, but I don't care to argue that point.

The point I was making is that you cannot use the election of Obama as confirmation that racism is dead. If the argument you make is that "Obama isn't elected if racism exists" you have zero facts behind you.

Giving you the greatest benefit of the doubt you could assert as fact that 28% of the voting eligible population isn't racist. Again, being as generous as possible to your (in my opinion horrible) argument 72% of the voting aged populous may or may not be racist.

That's a FAR cry from "no racism to see here, move along". You simply provide no facts at all to support your position. I grant you that racism is a difficult and nuanced issue, but dismissing it cavalierly is sad.

I think there is a lot wrong with this comment. Perhaps since you're an immigrant you're not familiar with the concept of institutional racism[1].

Regarding Obama's 2012 Election: according to [2]and[3], 62 million of 221 million possible voters cast their ballot for Obama. ~28% of citizens voting for you does not really signal the end of racism in the US.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism#Institutio... [2]http://elections.gmu.edu/Turnout_2012G.html [3]http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/common/pop_vote.h...

I don't understand how your comment relates to mine. Your scale seems somewhat accurate in terms of situations in which a person is killed, but would seem to have next to nothing to do with the case in point.

In what percentage of cases of vandalism that could be called tagging could the person be said to have committed the crime accidentally? Virtually none[1]. This crime is more or less always committed on purpose. Not always with journalistic intent, but still.

The author was punished more harshly because (it seems) he embarrassed people. That is unjust.

Not to mention the generally deplorable conditions in the holding cell where he was kept, filled with other people who presumably were guilty of nothing.

[1]Please. I understand that you could create any scenario in which anything happens. But the vast majority of people who commit a similar crime (spray paint on unowned surface) certainly are doing it on purpose.

Not sure why this has been down-voted. I think you're obviously right about this case. We know for a fact that the author presents no great threat to society. So, in this case we can say that the officers that witnessed his conduct were correct in their assessment that he was no threat.

The problem is that the only people who seem to benefit from laws being enforced based on their spirit not their letter are white people. Minorities on the other hand don't seem to enjoy the same benefits.

And getting past the issue of faulty heuristics, the authors experience post-arrest was pretty ridiculous.

How is anyone or anything served by treating arrested people like that?

Keeping in mind that hypothetically you are innocent until proven guilty. You should not be punished until you've been convicted of something.

I figured I might get downvoted, but when I read the headline the konami code stuck in my head and I couldn't resist. It made me laugh, and I thought it might make others laugh. Which to me has (a little) value.

But now, you are pot and I am kettle (or vice versa). Your comment adds no value or, I'd argue less value, because at least I was trying to be funny. </derail>

The second code is:

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Thanks for the interesting perspective. This doesn't help you since you already have a catalog of photos, but I wonder if you might get around this rule if you took pictures of <part> on a backdrop with your logo repeated. That way, sure, I could try to crop it to get rid of your logo, but if it's an irregular shape I'd have to Photoshop your stuff out. Or maybe a sticker with your logo on an unimportant part of the product.

Thank you for the added context. Sadly, it appears that DUI is treated rather lightly in Florida, it's not just in cases of juveniles. For example: [1]Person driving with BAC greater than twice the legal limit kills a pedestrian. They got 1 year house arrest and then probation. [1]http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/pedestrian-deaths-...

More Detail: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/blogs/gone-viral/os-...

Why is suggestion caution the same thing as 'blaming the victim'?

This is ridiculous. A very good solution to the "revenge porn" problem is for people to not cavalierly take naked pictures of themselves.

So, I take a naked picture, share it, sharee shares again, <step>, <step>, revenge porn upload.

I am appropriate in my action, and then the propriety drops as the chain goes on. But why is it unfair to say, don't take the pic in the first place and you can avoid what (may) come next.

Why? If you can get your data out as CSV? How are you locked in at all, or at least, any more than with Microsoft?

p.s. According to a sheet I have saved I can download my info as: .xlsx .ods (OpenDocument Format) .pdf .csv .txt .html

First: Good for you all for doing something. It's great that, rather than just talking about how you're going to make the next 'instatwitairpalbook' you hustled and produced something.

Second: But..... You produced something that you all don't seem to really care about. I don't think that you have to be an evangelist to work on a project, but I guess I just don't care as much because this is just an exercise for it's own sake.

Third: and.... I'm reminded of how, in grade school (Primary school...Brits?), we would have contests to sell cheap crap. Either wrapping paper, or knives, or whatever. The entire point of these exercises is to have small children hit up their family and neighbors to sell a bunch of crap so that the kid can win a Huffy. This mainly relies on people feeling bad saying no to a cute (not in my case, but generally) kid. Or like multi-level marketing. Basically you hit up your personal network and then peter out.

Fantastic. This is really an excellent post. I particularly enjoy the code snippets along with each example.

I think you're misunderstanding. The point was that they would test their thesis quickly and with available means to validate their idea.

The actual product wouldn't involve burning a bunch of fossil fuels.