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Also, a company that is detecting breaching of this kind has its eyes open. Not only aren't they breached, but they are out there explaining how it happened to a tiny portion of their customer base and warning others who are using poor password management practices.

A hat tip to you Dominos Pizza. Here's the interview:

https://www.marketplace.org/2015/09/24/business/corner-offic...

I registered and am getting a lot of retrys and worker job time outs.

I'll try again later tonight.

“The Chinese won’t sell to us,” said a taxi driver who watched the crowd haul away all that was inside. “So we burn their stores instead.”

You'll eat tonight, but at the cost of the rest of the output of that store - if you even got the food out before you burned it. While I suppose the time to be philosophical is before the starving crowd gathers in front of the grain store, this is still madness.

Further, the mentality and fiscal politics and a connected world matter.

In the US and all developed nations, our quantitative easing programs are an abstracted, less violent but fiscally equivalent analog to burning a store or selling the future for the present. The consequences of these choices will also come to our door in time.

If they gave me the stick, I'd set interest rates at 3% and hold the line through a recession or depression. Far better that then coming to the end of the line, having no options and no way out.

VC is tightening, the job flow is slowing and those two trends were forecast to last longer than their funding sources were willing to stick it out.

Next up to bat are those whose client base is other 90%+ funded startups?

However, never up to bat are start ups producing cash or with the prospects of doing so. I don't think this is going to be a nuclear winter event, but that the gap between "making it" and "not making it" will grow wider. Those that are on the bubble are the bubble that'll burst, and sama will still win his bet. :)

It is only unacceptable if people with the skills to be in management positions didn't get a promotion because of a non-relevant personal attribute.

Otherwise, it is acceptable and in the best long term interests of the company.

I acknowledge that America has equality of opportunity problems. There are strong and just historical reasons why the government has carried the torch on this issue. However, I think its time to let the market work. Companies that place talent above non-relevant personal attributes are at a competitive advantage as they are drawing from a larger talent pool. Letting that market run on a long enough time line means that companies who discriminate will grow weaker, as well they should.

Github has come out and said "we're going to make sure that we meet target quotas for people of X, Y and Z non-relevant personal attributes." I think that's bad business and not the equality we need to be going for.

If you have the skill set, drive and integrity to be a strong contributor to a team, I want to work with you and make wealth with you. If you don't, I don't want to work with you - go get educated, build skills and try again or if I'm wrong about you, prove it by out competing me. This is equality of opportunity and of ideas. What Github is doing isn't, nor does it get us closer to what the idea of America promises us all.

I think that providing the resources to build skills to those whose parents didn't or couldn't provide them is a great idea.

I think shaking up our education system (because the numbers show that investing doesn't produce better results) is a great idea.

I want to be fellow citizens with educated, driven people who are so in part because society ensured it'd happen.

Lets not go too far or go in the wrong direction.

This is a no brainer.

UI wise it'd be nice to click an area of the PDF and be prompted for the kind of input I wish to create on that spot, but I survived.

Admin wise it'd be nice to be able to say "and don't allow them to click OK without having placed at least X signatures".

I pitched this to our IT team and our HIPAA compliance team. Their issue was they don't want NDAs and similar things they sign in the cloud. "If they would open source this or sell us a self hosted version, we'd use it and it'd be better than what we do today."

It'd be nice to be able to get an identifier in the subject line that'd let me parse out documents received back from people by person. I can see how sending this out to 60 people would become unwieldy. Perhaps that's how you "get em" - you allow this for free but you have to create an account to organize all you've sent.

The number of companies who send me a doc file to enter my cc info in and send back to them is endemic. If I as a business owner and credit card holder could turn it into a PDF, use this service to fill it out and securely send it back, it'd be good. I suspect this isn't the killer use case, but I mention it.

This is a legit and useful idea. Have an upvote.

Full time, relocation to Houston, TX.

CPAP.com sells CPAP equipment for the treatment of Sleep Apnea. We help people breathe.

After being frustrated by out of the box warehouse systems, we rolled our own. LAMP stack backend, dashing for the metrics boards and our scanners are Dolphin 70e devices running Android 4.4 which are installed with a custom java application developed using the Android SDK. We continue to build onto the system and are looking for in house help.

Junior candidates are welcome as lead developer mentorship is available.

As it is warehouse dev, it pays to be able to walk out to run packages and build face to face relationships with the warehouse team, hence the on site requirement.

Contact: johnny.goodman@cpap.com

Good onboarding, snappy support replies by smart people, they do what they say they'll do, good transparency when there are mistakes, early heads up on changes. Overall, they are solid people running a solid business. We respect them and enjoy being clients of theirs.

We're a medium sized business and we run charges pretty regularly through out the day. Their status page only reports their larger outages. If you are running charges regularly, expect their end points do go down for 20 secs up to 2 minutes 2-3 times a month. Its to the point where our customer service chat knows what's going on and says things like "ask the customer to wait 2 minutes, it'll be right back". Its frustrating. We've considered setting up a fail over with spreedly and braintree but its juuuust inside the threshold of annoying enough to do all that.

That minor gripe said, I still have the Stripe afterglow because we suffered through the Auth.net days and the AMEX domination days. Stripe set us, and everybody else, free from that jazz. We're still grateful and probably always will be.

Lastly I note, if your volume merits, they will discuss alternative rates within reason.

You should go with Stripe.

No one talks about it but the Supreme Court neutered the disruptive power of the Internet with this foolish decision.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leegin_Creative_Leather_Prod....

Unlike 98% of the industry, we sell CPAP equipment for cash prices. This means that you, not the insurance company, are the respected and valued customer.

The "cash CPAP" space means:

1. A market incentive to build people first instead of billing code first products.

2. A market comfort items that would never be produced in a billing code world.

3. A system where it pays to pick up the phone and know all about the product you are selling, which is different from the model where I ship it, bill it and don't get paid to support it.

4. $189 CPAPs (way cheaper than your copay and deductible through insurance) and $1000 machines (way better than what an insurance provider could give you profitably). The best of both worlds, whatever you need it available.

Insurance is great for heart surgery and awful for OTC and sub $1000 medical products. We don't think that change is understood in our healthcare debate and we've built a sustainable market that is the change we want to see.

When we're done, people with Sleep Apnea will have access to buy CPAP stuff like they buy Amazon stuff and they won't think twice about it. It'll "just" work and be nothing special. That may not be as sexy as building a drone or going to Mars, but fixing a chunk of healthcare is difficult and worth it. If we can do it, and we will do it, we'll have a huge and lasting impact.

They are the CEO of a large company and so they should be in prison because this is "felt"?

"We present this project to help expose crimes masquerading as commerce."

Bernie seems like a good man and that makes him tempting because he sticks out from the other front runners. But his policies, as well flavored as you can make them, do come down to stuff like this, which is...mindless.

Can we agree that the policies and structure should change to incentivize good behavior? Can we work on that instead of putting 20 faces on the wall and screaming "evil!". Let's have a government, not a mob.

As a younger guy I traveled to El Salvador and heard a comment in passing "well, here its 51% communist and 49% capitalist, the next election could go either way" and I thought "thank god for all of the problems we have in America, we don't have this one." Well...now we do.

Full time, relocation to Houston, TX.

CPAP.com sells CPAP equipment for the treatment of Sleep Apnea. We help people breathe.

After being frustrated by out of the box warehouse systems, we rolled our own. LAMP stack backend, dashing for the metrics boards and our scanners are Dolphin 70e devices running Android 4.4 which are installed with a custom java application developed using the Android SDK. We continue to build onto the system and are looking for in house help.

Junior candidates are welcome as lead developer mentorship is available.

As it is warehouse dev, it pays to be able to walk out to run packages and build face to face relationships with the warehouse team, hence the on site requirement.

Contact: johnny.goodman@cpap.com

The other day I was driving down the road and thinking about how people are.

It was 33 years coming but here's what hit me: people do what they want, even in the face of devastating consequences.

See that long line outside any burger joint? See the stats on the amount of hard drugs guaranteed to destroy your world we consume? See that person cheating? See that DA wanting a win?

If you want a burger, a high, an orgasm or a conviction, you generally will get it at some price that's ultimately...above market.

How much more prone to excess is someone in the heat of a moment? How unlike the event does its moment by moment reconstruction during a trial appear? The mismatch has always struck me as unjust. As people judging an event whose experience they haven't had and haven't attempted to recreate. Though a jury is a good idea and the best we've got, the process they run through seems ripe for reform.

An eye for an eye has its place. If you walk into a school, start shooting and are captured alive - I think you just forfeited any claim on life or potential rehabilitation.

Any shade of grey zooming out from that seems too hard for any government system to decide well. I hear people say things in passing like "he only got 20 years". 20 years is a huge and devastating amount of time, as is one year. As we've ramped up the time on these sentences and made it an all or nothing proposition. Unfortunately, I don't think 20 years will do it if 1 year hasn't and I don't think death will do it if 20 years hasn't.

Regarding Richard Glossip. I don't know him or his case. I don't know the victim and while they won't return, there's a debt owed that I don't know how to pay. I want Richard Glossip to live. I don't think taking another life will pay the debt of the first. What I want most of all is for someone to tell me how to pay that debt.

They are all concerned that this will ultimately end up as just another dole and the mother of all doles. They ask questions I don't have good answers to like:

1. This includes healthcare?

2. This includes disability?

When I say...well, I don't know about healthcare, its curtains.

Can you tell us how long it has been since you sent the email?

There must be some level of fraud prevention in any financial platform. You didn't give many details as to the type of charges you made or evidence past "no one charged back" as to how you made them. This is a public platform and I understand less than full disclosure but your narrative that:

1. You signed up

2. You charged people legitimately

3. You were cut off without notice

4. No one responded to multiple attempts over more than 1 business day

5. You were forced to take this action

Seems unlikely to be the full and absolute time line of events.

If it is, ok, post to HN and troll them. If not, is this really the medium? Doesn't stripe get a say on which transactions will and won't process on their own network?

If your expectation is "everything charges all the time period" then use bitcoin. These are credit cards. There are rules. :-)

Several months in, I have a lot of energy and am really enjoying the physical changes.