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> credit card terms forbid stores from offering two different prices

I don't know about (aboot?) Canada but the Durbin amendment outlawed that restriction in the U.S. So any merchant is free to offer a discount for cash.

But as you rightfully note, consumers are generally happy with the card system. Many receive a 1-2% discount or other benefit via reward programs, so the opportunity to steer consumers to cash via discounts is limited.

See: http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/wp-content/upl...
What happens when you steal a hackers computer
Depends a lot on how the electricity is generated. If most electricity is generated by wind and solar very different from if it was generated by coal.
As one of my favorite musical groups so aptly put it "The Lonely People Are Getting Lonelier"
Stem cells are a part of it, but there is much more to it. For a realistic, comprehensive, and much more informed approach to aging research, see http://www.sens.org.
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Amazon Web Services terms of use: run far away, run fast

11 June 2016
Amazon sells Amazon Web Services (AWS), a collection of cloud-hosting services. Amazon promotes AWS as a way for companies to secure computing capacity quickly and economically, eliminating the need to purchase and maintain physical servers. Thousands of companies, including traditional mainline businesses, internet startups and technology ventures, use AWS to host their software and brands on Amazon servers, including Comcast, Siemens, Reddit and Netflix.

The AWS Customer Agreement (http://aws.amazon.com/agreement/) contains an IP non-assertion clause that is breathtaking in its reach: "During and after the Term, you will not assert, nor will you authorize, assist, or encourage any third party to assert, against us or any of our affiliates, customers, vendors, business partners, or licensors, any patent infringement or other intellectual property infringement claim regarding any Service Offerings you have used." "Service Offerings" are defined as AWS, "(including associated APIs)", the "AWS Content" (which includes software), the "AWS Marks" (which are any marks that Amazon uses now or in the future), and "any other product or service" provided by Amazon under this agreement.

With this clause, Amazon could quite literally copy any of it's customers' software, and their brands, that Amazon hosts on and displays from its servers, fold that into its Amazon Web Services offering, and call it a day.

Each of Amazon's customers has essentially granted to Amazon, and to all of Amazon's customers, vendors, and partners, the equivalent of an unlimited royalty-free IP license, forever, to all the software, content, brands and technology that Amazon hosts for them.

An extensive discussion about this matter and sample contract language (with redlined variations) are available at Redline (redline.net): http://redli.ne/1UIRlO7.

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The article you cite disputes your claim, stating the quote was an unfortunate pre-scheduled pre-designed (it was an image with text) tweet that made no mention of the event whatsoever:

"The post was not done in response to last night's tragedy. The post was designed and scheduled last Thursday."
A line.
> If it were possible to charge the actual cost of transaction to the customer right at the moment of sale as I line item, just like government tax, we'd all be making smarter choices.

> We don't even have to cap the cost, if people could see this, they'd overwhelmingly make a smarter choice possibly even driving the cost down less than the debit card fee cap.

The two problems I have with this are:

1) I'm not a partner in the business. I have zero interest in seeing fees and other costs "deaggregated," especially if I have virtually no control over them. And I am cynical enough to think that, since meaningful control is not really a thing, the marketplace will rapidly descend into "everybody does this and they all charge roughly the same fee so there's really no competition at all," like the random fees on telco stuff. Besides, under the current system, if the cost of taking cards is too onerous, stop taking cards. One of the most annoying trends in business in the last decade or so is the idea that the base price of an item or service almost seems to come out to be the amount of profit the merchant expects to receive and 14 items of below-the-line fees make up the actual cost of doing business. I don't care what a merchant's cost of doing business is. Put a price on the item, preferably the out-the-door price but that's just wishing for a pony, and if I'm willing to pay it, I will.

2) Unless and until the day arrives that the entire value of my transaction account can't be wiped out just because I dared use my plastic payment card at a merchant with less-than-realistic security measures, I flatly refuse to use a debit card. Yes, I know that I am technically not liable for fraudulent purchases on a debit card but the several-day delay between "oh shit this bad thing happened" and "ahh my money is back where it should be" is unacceptable. As is the stunning lack of any other consumer protections on a debit card ("had a problem with a merchant? Sort it out yourself, puny customer," is the reaction on a debit card).

The merchant clearly receives a benefit for taking cards as do I. But our interests are not aligned to the point that I should be the only one picking up the cost of that benefit.

(Oh, and it irritates me out of all proportion to the provocation how a lot of merchants handle the fees. "Your total will be $5.19." presents card "Oh, now your total will be $5.47 because card surcharge that's buried on a label sitting under the till." Grrrrrrrr.)
And those countries include the United States. No idea why that's relevant.
Why do you think you're interesting enough to be gang stalked?
Also, for anyone reading who's interested, he was or still is the editor of the Effective Software Development series of books, which I guess by now spans multiple titles (seen a few), and the series was probably envisioned because of the success of his book.
Last time I did this, I used pip with --download on the build server, and --no-index & --find-links on the deployment target into a virtualenv in /usr/share/<package_name>. It was a pain to get the pre- & post-actions right.

This still required internet access btw, but at least the deployments didn't fail when a host serving packages was unavailable.
Remove "visa" and "mastercard" from the comment I made and the question still stands.
> This is such nonsense.

Not going to discuss why picking a random app from a listing doesn't make all the apps built with a similar technology equally bad.

Next time, before shouting "nonsense" try something built with Angular2/Ionic2.

http://ionicframework.com/docs/v2/components/
Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News?
I'm curious about the hardware used to run Hacker News. My guts tell me that despite its popularity it is running on modest hardware, but I'd like to confirm.
OK, another option is to make it an explicit infinite "loop{...}" which only exits by returning. The "0.." is effectively infinite anyway, because it will overflow freely in release mode. (But surely you'll hit an invalid memory page before that happens.)
In my personal opinion, it's more centered around technology folks
You're projecting. I simply said I cannot tolerate the frequencies of her speaking voice. There are men whose voices are profoundly unpleasant to listen to also - it has no bearing on which variety of wedding tackle they are packing. It's like nails on a chalkboard.
Or - is it possible that they weren't talking generally (that is - if you believe a government can do anything wrong, you're crazy), and they were talking specifically(if you think the US government did 9/11 - you're crazy)?

Just because governments can do bad things isn't proof that a particular bad thing happened from the government.
> or what I like to think of as my cat, if you prefer

Intentional The Restaurant at the End of the Universe reference?
I spent a good deal of time in New York when I was younger -- in Manhattan working for an investment bank in technology. I didn't really explore the other boroughs much, but I did stay in the city for an extended period of time (~6 months in one go). I've also spent a good deal of time in the bay area (San Francisco), so the point where I spent more than half of my time there as opposed to here in Toronto. All of that is to say, I'm making a very conscious comparison between the options.

As far as New York goes, I'd argue it's less liveable than Toronto (or at least it was nearly 10 years go). It's much, much more expensive, much busier (obviously), and probably has the best amenities of any big city anywhere in the world. That being said, I'd also argue that it's less cosmopolitan than Toronto. New York is among the most cosmopolitan cities in the world of course, but I think Toronto beats it. I could be convinced otherwise, but in my experience Toronto is simply the best with respect to diversity, interesting people interacting and getting along, and being a fantastic mix of cultures from literally all over the globe.

Then there's the expense -- the likelihood of me being able to own a 3 bedroom house in Manhattan doing what I currently do is zero. It just isn't happening. In Toronto I live only about 3km from the financial district, and I can get to my office in an Uber in under 10 minutes. I'm at an age where I'm starting a family, and I live in a very family friendly urban area -- there's even an elementary school on my street.

And yes, bay area level salaries are hard to come by here -- I was earning one when the exchange rate was closer to parity a few years back, and subsequent pay adjustments have not kept up with the weakness of the Canadian dollar since the collapse of the oil market. The salaries are lower, but they're nowhere near half. And that's fine, as I'm still paid very well, and my standard of living is unobtainable in New York or San Francisco without earning substantially above market rates in either market.
What drove the choice to the larger instance types instead of more of the small ones? Not questioning your judgment I'm just curious.
A couple pistachio suppliers stopped selling pistachios because they were upset they needed to start tracking where their pistachios were coming from so the FDA can keep track of foodborne illness.
Enemy nations can then go rampant.

Let them. I've never been to I dunno, North Korea, I have no plans to go there, let them know whatever they like about me. It's a problem however when a government that DOES have some say over my life does it.
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These area are huge. Switzerland is 41,285 km^2, Belgium is 30,528 km^2, The Netherlands is 41,543 km^2.
If we wanted an OO shell we'd be using one. It's not like Unix has a shortage of interpreted languages. The simple fact is that these languages are too high-level to be even remotely useful as a system shell.
Apache Kudu 0.9.0 storage engine for structured data low-latency random access
One simple trick for writing shitty headlines.
People who can't get visas to the US
True, but my point is that up until recently, American Express charged higher annual fees and higher merchant fees than Visa, Discover, and Mastercard. 10-15 years ago there were many smaller retailers who would not take AmEx. Now they have several products that are "no-fee" to the consumer, though of course still with merchant fees.
You're right, I think this version is a bit clearer:

https://is.gd/lck8c7
finishing school
Thanks for the link.

Couple of points:

- it goes into a loop for me, after a few minutes, and back to the start, or so it seems.

- I get put off by overhyped self-acclamations (if that's the right word), like: "This is the most important programming video you will ever watch" - which occurs in it.

- it even stays on that above claim, for a lot longer than it takes to read it.

Some amount of claims is fine (without that, no one might bother checking it out), but after that they should let us check out and judge for ourselves.

Edit: typo
In fact, it may be just me but the whole WebView/Electron/whatnot thing feels like a tool that may have been intended for internal prototyping but got sneaked into a user-facing release, and now everyone is pretending they meant for that to happen..
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H-1B, O-1, L-1, and perhaps more.
Yes, but with the job market the way it is, it's not too risky.

Here's how it would play out if I left my job.

I'd fly to Toronto on Canada's visa waiver, wait there until the E3 expired.

Fly back to NYC on the USA's visa waiver program. This gives me 90 days to find an employer who will sponsor an E3.

Fly back to Toronto to get the E3 done.

Fly back to NYC to start the job.

It'd be a silly shuffle of about a month, and more disruptive and expensive than it would be for someone holding a green card or citizenship. But in no sense would it be a game-over disaster.
"China aims to have 100 gigawatts (GW) of wind power capacity by 2020, and the nation’s leaders plan to expand installed solar capacity to 20 GW during the same period. These are truly astonishing goals, and, if China even comes close to accomplishing them, it will become the world’s renewable energy leader. But there is a problem. Total Chinese electricity generation capacity is 900 GW currently; with seven percent [GDP] growth, that means the nation’s electricity demand in 2020 will be something like 1800 GW. Wind and solar together would supply less than seven percent of that. The only thing likely to boost that percentage much would be a dramatic reduction in growth of energy demand to, say, two percent annually."

I like this from The End of Growth (2011) by Richard Heinberg.

As much as the numbers are incredible we are really undermining the amount of energy produced by fossil sources.

Similar problem with nuclear.

Are we really on the exponential road to sustainability? I hope so.
I don't think the city decided to ban Uber and Lyft. They decided to leave as a means of pressure. Kind of blackmail.
I visualize not only discrete amounts of time like months or days as some sort of circular (or rather elliptic) strip but also pretty much any kind of sequence of contiguous numbers.

I almost can't believe it's really that uncommon because - from my point of view - it just makes sense. How would you imagine time or numbers if not in a visual, spatial manner?

I suppose for humans arranging objects that come after another in a spatial order that expresses this relation comes pretty naturally, given that we're very visual creatures and we're used to the 3 dimensions of space we perceive.
A Drumbeat of Multiple Shootings, but America Isn’t Listening
Yeah, I'm in NYC, having lived also in Toronto and SF before. No way I'd choose Toronto over NYC - larger tech scene (both BigCo and startups), diverse economy, working transit, huge cultural hub (many times greater than Toronto), and tremendous food scene (again, many times greater than TO).

Having recently taken a poke around the Toronto tech market, "half" salary in Toronto is being generous. Where I'm at right now (~SDE3 in most companies) the pay in Toronto is 1/3 to 1/4 what you can get in the Bay Area or NYC.
> The naive version looks just as good in C, frankly better, because what is this "0.." offset nonsense.

I'm pretty sure "for i in 0.." is clearer (to a reader unfamiliar with either) than whatever it is you'd do in C. In C it would be something like "for(int i=0;;i++)", right?
I wonder what is the benefit of rewriting the libc in Rust, as most of the functions are actually unsafe. Implementing memcpy in Rust won't make memcpy any safer.

As far as I understand, the main selling point of Rust is safety, so if we don't get any safety, why bother? Am I missing something? (Other than having some fun with Rust, which is obviously welcome :) )
All of the listed reasons relate to the experience of software development, not the user experience. Of course it's harder to maintain native apps plus a web front end to a service. Users don't know or care how many developers were involved or how much money it cost or how much of a pain it was to keep everything consistent across multiple code bases. They just want the least terrible experience possible.

I don't think there was ever a myth that needed to be debunked that everything should be native, both approaches have their pros and cons. All that really matters is how aware you are of what those pros and cons are, and how you weight the ones that you are aware of given your context. Collectively that determines if you need a native app or not. Most likely neither approach will be ideal (i.e., pros == 1.0 and cons == 0.0), so the real question is what heuristics do you use when choosing your poison for your project and for your team.

Towards the end it seems like that's the point that was being made (i.e., "nothing's perfect but here's why this was the best approach for us in this particular case"). That's the opposite of what was promised up front though.
Microsoft Talks to the Plants
> $2200 per instance, does someone only running a couple of boxes even need your services?

The reinsurance company I used to work for could be run on about 5 aws servers compute wise... they do about $3 trillion in in force life insurance policies a year.
Great comment. Can you recommend any further reading?
Why do you have to be like AMD - why can't you be like Apple, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, or, well, about any successful/large chip maker other than Intel and Samsung?

Regarding the edge of technology - Intel doesn't beat others to a new node by making both chips and fabs, it would beat others even if it was only building fabs. And it's not like TSMC is that much behind Intel. Grandparent who mentioned 28nm could mention 16nm except that there the masks will costs much more but it's still millions, not billions.
The sense that I got from the article is that unlike "normal" TBIs, this type of brain trauma is very difficult if not impossible to see on a scan.

The symptoms, on the other hand seem very very similar. The progressive degradation in cognitive ability with exposure to explosions is (to my admittedly untrained eye) exactly the same as that of multiple concussions.

Which is not to say I didn't find this article interesting. I think the key difference between TBIs caused by explosions and those due to physical trauma is purely because there's no obvious lesion on the brain visible in a scan. As a result, the military treated it differently, which the article points out was a fundamental error that the military has now taken steps to correct.
Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo are both healthy, vibrant startup hubs, but are distinct regions IMO. They are 120km apart and it takes ~90min to drive from Communitech to MARS https://goo.gl/maps/vRJqc7JsNcp.

Both positively influence each other, compete for resources. Waterloo has some more affordable suburban housing, and less vibrant city/'downtown'. Toronto is more expensive, is bigger and better in many respects.

Vancouver and Montreal are also decent startup ecosystems. I've been writing a researching Canadian cities/startup ecosystems for a book. Lots of stats and resources here if you're really into this topic: https://github.com/DeBraid/ham-innov-essay
> Sanders' actions may not put him in the same category as Clinton and Trump

I'm pretty sure that's all I said. Please stop insisting that I defend Sanders' policies, or assuming that I support him. A major problem with spectator politics is listening to people only to the extent that it takes to place them in or out of the tribe, and then responding in a reflexive way.
Show HN: Delete-trump – automatically tell Trump to delete his account
You start with a false premise, several of them actually. You posit that drugs are the one and only defense against delusional behavior. And you assume that the drugs mentioned do in fact work as advertised. I've seen with my own eyes, and other people have reported many instances as well, when they've absolutely caused more harm, by enhancing rather than suppressing delusions and hallucinations.

The reality is a lot more complicated. For some people these drugs help. For others it makes things worse. For yet others it's somewhere in between. And measuring the results accurately is incredibly difficult due to the difficulty of objectively determining someone else's cognitive state. Which is difficult enough even when it's something comparatively straightforward, when there are layers of mental illness, trauma, and complex drug interactions at play it becomes a herculean effort. And one that the medical establishment generally lacks the resources and commitment to follow through on. Some people are lucky enough to have loved ones or family members around who can accurately judge what's "normal" and what isn't in someone else's behavior and also put in the effort to find what treatments help or not and maybe shepherd someone to improved health. Many other people only have a few minutes spent on their care and most of their treatment comes out of a generic manual which might as well be a flow chart of "if X prescribe Y". This isn't helped by the widespread stigma, misunderstanding, and misinformation about mental illness that permeates society.

Right now our approach to these issues is like trying to tune a malfunctioning jet engine without any knowledge of how it works and experimenting via trial and error by dumping liquid oxygen or coal dust into the intake. The fact that some people are helped leads us to the incorrect conclusion that we actually know what we're doing instead of just occasionally getting incredibly lucky.
googler 2.5 (cmdline Google search utility) released
Happiness Is a Choice – The Real Story
Yes, we know what to expect from Clinton, and I don't particularly like it, but it's still way, way, way, way better than Trump. If she wins it'll be because a lot of people share that opinion, not because the masses actually like her.
Parents worried Amazon Echo is conditioning kids to be rude
One thing that mystifies me is a common pattern of attitudes I see regarding capturing knowledge.

Clicking around you'll find repeated references to Leibniz and Descartes dreaming of a way to capture all of human knowledge via axiomatic statements, lemmas, and conclusions; then easily dismissed as impractical.

This article talks about the Semantic Web, which is then immediately made fun of with derisive references to Rudolf Carnap and the urge to "Pokemonize" all of human knowledge.

What I want to know is, even if it is impossible to capture all of human wisdom/conclusions, why does that by definition mean the effort is worthless? After all, when looking at information rather than conclusions - wikipedia isn't complete, will never be complete, but it is still useful for what is there.
> This is now on every student's resume, as a project for their computer architecture class.

AFAICS the point is not to create the bestest fastest microarchitecture ever; I'm sure nobody, including the guys behind this jcore project, harbors any illusions of competing with high-performance cores from the likes of Intel or IBM on a shoestring budget.

But rather, the point was to pick a decent ISA (for instance, SuperH is apparently the basis for ARM Thumb, so code density is quite good) with a (hopefully!) patent-free implementation. And with an ecosystem so you can actually use it. I'm pretty sure "every student's comp arch class project" doesn't include upstreamed support in the Linux kernel, GCC, binutils, GDB, strace etc.
Thanks for posting. (1) I strongly agree that the problems of rigorous computational mathematics are far, far deeper than anything I even begin to hint at in my talk. It's daunting. (2) I think http://www.numfocus.org/ -- a new org I think Travis Oliphant co-founded -- may be an attempt to solve some of the accounting organization issues. What do you think of what they are doing? Maybe the best thing is to work with them.