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by patio11 8y ago
Suppose you have a data source and business logic which you want to run periodically on the data source. Here are two scenarios which you could reasonably implement this as: Method one: You write a SQL query and some Python. You put a stick
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by patio11 8y ago
Twilio apps really shine for this sort of thing. You can imagine all sorts of UX for a private emergency number: Forward the call to your primary cell number directly. If you only have a small number of potential counterparties, blow up all
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by patio11 8y ago
In some cases it is worse than doing essentially nothing: you're made to, e.g., perform some data processing task on a newspaper (e.g. write the readings of every kanji in this newspaper; that will take you about a day) and then, at th
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by patio11 8y ago
Between the DCs they use 18 wheelers; they’re then taken on a smaller truck to a local site and take to the end user by a truck or handcart. It’s partially because of different relative distribution of supply and demand and partially becaus
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by patio11 8y ago
You can feel free to forward anything you have to my HN name at stripe.com ; we'll look things up from there.
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by patio11 8y ago
I'm sorry that happened. For clarity, was it related to this specifically? I'd like to look into what went wrong there.
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by patio11 8y ago
That's an interesting thought. To expand on it: there exists an ecosystem of regulated RIAs, which are largely sales agents for investment opportunities who have some advisory and custodial functions. (Most would not describe themselve
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by patio11 8y ago
A slightly more optimistic take is that it's legal to offer this investment opportunity to non-millionaires. You have two choices: 1) Don't solicit publicly (i.e. don't make a business out of convincing non-affiliated retai
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by patio11 8y ago
Thanks! We know that the infrastructure we build sits in really important parts of our customers' businesses and do our best to avoid both breaking changes and, especially, surprise breaking changes. (A related topic: we go to fairly s
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by patio11 8y ago
(I work at Stripe.) You might wonder "Hmm, is my Stripe integration affected?" (I sure did!) and the answer is "Almost certainly not." (We've been watching the number of users with outdated versions of TLS on a dash
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by patio11 8y ago
No, they're voracious recruiting machines. It is certainly possible to get hired by writing into a webform; it's not a particularly effective way relative to others, but it works enough to justify them sending those leads to rec
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To your first question: this is simply the cost-of-doing-business here, driven (largely) by Japan's expectation that the company is the primary interface between a citizen and the government, and therefore the company bears responsibil
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by patio11 8y ago
Do you want to continue operating a business? If so, then you probably want accountants to handle the paperwork / filings part of running the business for you. You should expect to pay about ~$10k a year for this all in, including the
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by patio11 8y ago
Technically correct but misleading; the thing that most people mean when they say Tokyo is "the 23 wards" (compare: the five burroughs; the canonical definition of New York which even kids growing up in Chicago learn the names of
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by patio11 8y ago
This gets perilously close to ask a lawyer / ask an accountant, but the non-legal-advice version is "What motivates the question of whether a US-hosted website is 'an American business'?" If a hypothetical entrepren
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nightmares from HIPAA compliance spring to horrifying life There was once a case where a healthcare provider was found liable under HIPAA for discussing reproductive care of an adult woman with another adult who lived with her, failing to
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by patio11 8y ago
Some experiences with this in my personal capacity: You want someone who has a working style which is compatible with your working style. There are a surprising number of accountants who cannot reliably receive a folder that has been Dropbo
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by patio11 8y ago
Email hn@ycombinator.com and ask them to do that for you.
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You are one of the fairly few companies in the world who a) can use $3 billion and b) do not have ready access to the capital markets. I happen to be one of the fairly few people in the world with $3 billion and virtually unlimited flexibil
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by patio11 8y ago
This is a deep topic. Here's an answer to it, which might not be everyone's go-to answer: Consider the case where you know either the software or the system which is the target. Consider also the case where your goal is "get
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by patio11 8y ago
I don't think you are interpreting that comment in this context the way I would. It is possible for an employee of a Japanese company to have a $91k salary and, also, a high internal status, resulting in non-pecuniary benefits as descr
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by patio11 8y ago
I mean there are a lot of causational arrows. In central Japan, for example, there exists an ultimate monopsony consumer of all engineering labor. Their salary scale is known to middle schoolers. All engineering labor is priced against that
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by patio11 8y ago
Securitization of mortgage debt is why you can buy a house with a 30 year fixed rate mortgage at 4.5% (and a non-trivial reason why 30 year fixed is available at any price). > What risk are these institutions really taking? Default risk,
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by patio11 8y ago
The reason is that large firms are legally obligated to make sure that insiders aren't exfiltrating protected or confidential information. If it makes people feel better about this, the same countermeasures also help with the case
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While this is a common view among engineers, in e.g. retail, you can trivially pay 13 different prices for bitwise identical copies of the same Chinese sock. See also how many different prices you can find for e.g. a Starbucks latte. If you
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Human rights, emotions, and desires are relatively distant to why Europe fined Microsoft about a billion dollars. The thing which got them very vexed was, per the extensive written record of administrative actions, bundling Windows Media Pl
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by patio11 8y ago
Presumably Zuckerberg has learned the lesson of Bill Gates: Europe periodically discovers a reason to fine American tech companies large-but-relatively-immaterial amounts of money. Then you eventually graduate to being Old Money, and Europe
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by patio11 8y ago
Delaware entities are extraordinarily popular for startups doing business in California, including e.g. many YC companies. Both the IRS and California them happily process tax returns from many Delaware LLCs. (Stripe Atlas can introduce you
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(I work at Stripe, on Atlas.) We're building Stripe to be useful to anyone building internet businesses. This occasionally is a balancing act; we are a regulated financial institution and we do have commitments to partners, and sometim
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Here, let me rephrase: the expensive part about car ownership is purchasing cars, not gas, insurance, or maintenance.

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