We’re hiring. :)

(And we’re fixing many of these things, but worth noting this happened at a third party vendor, not in our lab)

Could you add any detail on why Google uses (used?) Irregular? I wouldve thought that type of service would be a core competency that Google needs internally.

Even if you had it internally (which we do), there is so much surface area and it’s such a novel space that you’d want as much testing on it as possible. There aren’t many vendors, and irregular is one.

There aren’t many to choose from, and admittedly these all occurred around the same time.

It happened in May; it just wasn’t public until now, it seems.

T1, in both cases.

That is not true. This hasn’t been the law for many years.

That is not true: https://www.lawpay.com/about/blog/credit-card-surcharge-rule...

It used to be true, but this changed many years ago.

Dan was a spectacular brain, and made contributions that still echo today.

He is one of two friends to have passed from DKA. Miss you, Zach. RIP.

Miss pwning with you.

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Indeed.

hack the planet.

If you’re talking purely financial benefit: yes, it is still good advice, as most white collar jobs still require a degree.

If you’re talking about a place to mature, around others who are at a similar phase of life, also yes.

It is where most people meet their cofounders, for example, even if they don’t found anything until much later.

But it is not true financially, it really depends.

Plenty of blue collar workers make more than white collar ones, and have a huge debt free head start in life.

A plumber or electrician will make significantly more than the average bank employee or translator or nurse or teacher.

And they will also have an easier time starting a business as many trade workers are self employed and make much more than hired ones.

Going to college is worth it for basically everyone other than those that are choosing between a mediocre college / mediocre degree and a blue collar route. AND if college is going to put you into debt.

Financially, intellectually, socially, it’s a good idea - college is a formative period of life in American culture. That is more and more true the better the college gets. At the upper tier (Ivy League, etc.) you don’t really have to pay anything if your family isn’t already wealthy, and the connections and degree you’ll make more than pay for themselves.

Geberal college degree is good for mediocre white collar jobs but higher education is required for anything more. The richest drop out of college win a business lottery.

Sheriffs are elected (except in New York City, Rhode Island and Hawaii) and responsible for a county whereas a police chief manages law enforcement in a city or town and is appointed by its local government.

There are a lot of sheriffs.

Flags also require a minimum karma, and members with yet higher karma can also undead posts, if needed.

HN is actually surprisingly good about this, so I disagree with your assertion.

What does “high karma” have to do with less emotionally driven voting behavior?

You acquire karma through posting things that are interesting or curious enough that others upvote them.

Thus, you build reputation by acquiring karma.

It isn’t perfect, but the fact that folks with higher karma can “fix” the emotional flags of folks with lower karma, it helps.

Also, I’d recommend re-reading the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

All that does is reinforce the existing biases. If you post a lot of things other HN users agree with, you get the ability to silence things HN users don't like.

You just explained the mechanism by which the karma number goes up, not explained your theory why you think higher number means less emotional voting.

Almost all of my karma is from a single post link that blew up randomly. I think this is the case for most users' karma here.