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It's not just for online transactions - it says "debit cards, credit cards, bank transfers and ecommerce".

Don't despair, it's going to improve eventually but it takes time. Those companies need to put effort into training their services specifically for accented speech - in the same wa…

True, some people use a different address for each service (ie. yourservice@mydomain.com), and they tend to be the the kind of people one would want to hire as engineers! I wonder …

from HN's FAQ: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might b…

I also liked how Heidi Roizen tried not to extrapolate on her own experience now that she is a VC. When you get older, more assertive and less of a 'target', it's too easy to forge…

Thanks for saying that. Still, it may not be how applicants see it. For instance my take from PG's "How to apply" ( http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html ) was that posting here c…

I can't downvote yet so I'm not one of those who did - I was trying to give an explanation. I don't know the exact rules for downvoting but I assume some use it to say " not helpfu…

That some of us don't find these resources that useful or relevant?

I don't see how that would be a rebuttal, but from what you say it could be interesting to read.

Right - I also find it helpful to judge them for their actions in general, and not just for one stupid thing they may say.

Come on, I'm European too and that's not an excuse for hurting people's feelings or worse.

Seems killing HR and management is not always a good idea... Nor is pretending that hierarchy doesn't exist when it still does (i.e. Theresa Preston-Werner's "I was the wife of the…

Infant mortality is definitely one. There's a team from Stanford who developed a baby warmer for areas where electricity is an issue http://blog.ted.com/2010/07/09/fellows_friday_4…

India would be a good place to test it: "Of the 37 million people across the globe who are blind, over 15 million are from India."( http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-h…

> "innocence and naivety are really no excuse for robbing other people of their paycheck." Says the guy who once failed to pay contributors... http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012…