skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I (as others) think, that the stability reason is bogus. The things that where mentioned, happened 100 years ago. To long for most Germans to remember.

Maybe we are just more traditional thinking, than others.

Some good alternative reasons where given here.

In my experience, the cash workflow is faster in most situations than our CC workflow (maybe in other countries it is the opposite).

I want to give another reason, that is one of mine:

With money in my pocket, I have my expenses under better control. When the money is out before the month ends, I immediately see it.

With CC, it is not so.

And as we Germans are so economical, many of us like to have control over our expenses.

I also think, that there is a good evidence, that it actually works.
It probably helps that they are among the most if not the most popular third-party gaming engine on PC, as well as the de-facto cross-platform (PC and consoles) gaming engine.
Also, the Google memo explicitly did not say that women should not be coders.

Sure. The author just wrote it as a purely informative note about biology and genetics, and intended it to have absolutely no relationship to hiring or evaluation in any way, shape or form.

Hint: people don't write up this kind of thing if they think it shouldn't affect hiring and evaluation.
I wonder what the annual revenues are. I'm skeptical.
"The more comments Instagram posts received, the more likely they were posted by depressed participants"
I don't know that all look alike (there's a bunch), but Unreal, Unity, etc tend to ship with a lot of premade shaders and materials.
It's almost unfortunate they'd hide that the products are made by Amazon. Amazonbasics products have treated me well enough that I am more inclined to buy Amazon brand where the price is right. I remember looking over some tools recently and I might have given Denali more thought if I knew it was them.
Interestingly, if you use a US phone number, you can see a lone bike parked right at the White House on the map.
Did you know all of those brands belonged to Amazon before you read the story?
Amazon Prime will be in half of US households by year's end
Women make up 75% of pediatricians. If I say that this is because men aren't as good at pediatrics, am I saying that men are stupid?
For the Polish pact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_Non-Aggr...

Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJwoygYdTmY is an exchange between Tusk and Putin on the topic. I haven't found a better video.

About the Molotov negotiation, it is in the book by Nikolai Starikov, Who set Hitler against Stalin?, (ISBN 978-5-496-00332-2). It is in Russian, unfortunately. Excerpts have been translated to English, the part I was talking about is here: https://orientalreview.org/2015/04/18/episode-15-poland-betr...
I can't even count the number of times I've been stuck behind someone in Rewe, waiting while they scrounge around in their purse or wallet for those final few cents. It is far from uncommon, at least where I live.

You're right about the cashiers though, they're super quick.

The good thing about the card is that you hand it over, and while the reader is talking to the bank you have a few seconds to continue packing your bags. I've simply found it flows better with card every time, as long as you remember which checkout has the dicky card reader that needs 3 tries.
"Sweet Tooth" Ian McEwan: CIA, MI5 and MI6 are sponsoring many writers, such as some companies sponsor open source devs
I've been looking to do something like this for my own side project.

Unfortunately Yelp is pretty restrictive about working with their review data. (They only give you 3 reviews per business on the APIs, also they're hostile against scrapers)

Hasn't anyone seen projects that do similar things with Facebook/Foursquare/Yelp data?
> Are contactless terminals widespread in Germany?

They are absolutely everywhere since last year more or less, but everybody (esp. cashiers) is always dumbfounded when I use it and it works. Also some of them try to handle your card for you "to insert it in the right way" and since my German is still rather basic I then have to weigh the potential time waste of explaining it's a contactless card with the extra 4-5 seconds for the chip transaction. But I guess that part doesn't really apply to locals.

("kontaktlose karte, nicht einstecken" but they don't listen the first couple times)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitanni-Aryan
Employee gets sexually harassed by manager, tries to retaliate but can't prove anything. S/he leaves the team, but now they can't find any work in town because the manager put them on the blacklist.
But those millennials don't have bags of money. So you would just sell to some foreign investor or domestic wealthy person who probably already owns dozens of properties.

"If you gave me a bag of money, I wouldn't sell" shouldn't be taken literally. If you offered 10 million dollars for 1 million dollar property I'm sure many of those baby boomers would sell.
This makes me so excited. I can't wait until the interiors of cars can change completely due to the safety brought by self driving cars. If all cars were self driving and communicated with each other, the risk of crash would be almost nonexistent (obviously there would still be wildlife and other issues). Given a near 0% chance of crash however, we could remove many of the annoying 'features' of a current car, like seat belts and having all the seats in the car face forward. Maybe you can even order specific types of cars for what you want. Tired? Order a bed car. Just a door and inside is a bunch of mattresses and pillows with windows that can be blacked out. Late for work? Order a work car. Has desks with swiveling chairs etc. Just getting groceries or going shopping? Order a hauler car, etc.
That's not "now". People were doing this in these recent years.

And it's sort of ... makes sense. You should be allowed to augment your mind with fucking spreadsheets/lists.

It's different if a government/company does it.
Meanwhile, the evidence for unbound WIMPS is sorta growing: http://earthsky.org/space/waterloo-image-dark-matter-cosmic-...
How Chatbots Transform Banking, Healthcare, Retail, and Travel Industries
Well you saved me. I was going to do a 90 day med with them to save a trip to the pharmacy.
Location: Westchester county, NY
Remote: Yes, preferred
Willing to relocate: No (general exception for NY and VT)
Technologies: C#, .Net Core, SQL/Postgresql, html/css/js, jquery, bootstrap, vue
Portfolio: https://www.wetzdev.com/
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Email: pdwetz (gmail)

Full stack dev, but don't have issues with having a role that focuses more on front end or server.
Neat. Thanks for sharing.
I have been waiting for this book to get released, so I'm very excited that its getting released this month. Wolfenstein 3D is why I learned C.
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The way it used to be is you would own a larger house to raise a family. Then your 2 kids would leave and you would sell and buy something smaller and cheaper and often in a warmer climate.
Almost all credit cards are 0 liability to the consumer. Even if someone gets a hold of my card, I can call the credit card company and get all fraud charges reversed. That's why I personally always use a credit card EVERYWHERE. I hate cash and I hate to wait in lines. But sure, they have an electronic trail on me which frankly, I don't care too much about. If the Govt wants to get you, they WILL get you.
I didn't quite understand your reply. Did you mean to say that there are no majorities for infinite sets?

Edit: It sounds elsewhere like the whole point of this may be the distinctive, counterintuitive properties of infinite sets (in this case especially under AC), but I'm continuing to be a bit confused by the presentation and context.
It's so interesting watching Rich talk. He has such a breadth and depth of knowledge and you can tell that he really took his time when designing the language.
The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying and No, Working Longer Hours Didn't Make the List
Legally, sure.

Fairly, under the United Declaration of Human Rights, or if it were a just world, no.

"You could even argue that nothing in the essay was political activity, then, again, your point is moot."

I don't think so. Any topic that has a clear dichotomy between two political parties is in-itself a political issue. Again, the umbrella for political activity is a wide one.
Uber Drivers Hacking the System to Cause Surge Pricing
I also suspect tax avoidance rather than transaction costs
I'm not sure if it is explicitly prohibited, but preventing users from transferring their data would be in conflict with data portability rights so I don't think it would be enforced.
> You don't get that flag-waving, chest-beating attitude here in Britain.

Brit here.

I think we do, just not to the perverse and extreme degree that the USA does.

We have a large section of the population in this country that absolutely refuse to entertain any criticism of the former Empire, its treatment of the former colonies and its effect on thew world as a whole.

To them, Britian is exceptional.
I posted something similar on HN nearly a year ago: https://www.fastcompany.com/3063187/scifutures-probes-your-c...

It's a nice complement to this New Yorker article :-)
Please provide a quote from the article that is a 'debunked biotruth', just one will suffice.
How I made $10,000 per month for 3 months in a row
Well that's just a big oops on my part. It's 19L and 19R I was looking at, not 28L & R
Spotify arrives on Xbox One
Parting with your money shouldn't be easy :)
Looks cool, thanks for supporting GitLab!
And just what would they do with it?

That seems an easy way to get your merchant account cancelled very, very quickly.
In the article, the author clearly provides clickable references in the form of hyperlinked text. I don't think he claims "he dug the proof himself".
That's great (really) but also see:
https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing-disclaimer/

Those prices don't include a bunch of things you'll also need, which makes them a little misleading. Some of those things are predictable, and some, like your housing costs for the duration of your recovery, are not. In a typical hospital setting you're paying to stay in a hospital bed, and they can't tell you how much that'll cost ahead of time.

It's probably a lot easier to determine all of these costs on average rather than per-patient. Medical staff could be paid a salary, and hospitals/etc could set a budget based on average costs and workloads. Then a single-payer system could collect the money needed into one big pool and pay it out based on those budgets.
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Proper citation means that you're not violating academic integrity. That has very little to do with copyright.
One other trick i've used successfully is to not actually go-live on the actual launch date. But go-live much before that and have restricted signup or something. This way you can signup and test around your site in its full production config(even run payments)

You can configure the webserver to show a different landing page if a particular key/cookie doesn't exist. To avoid unauthorized access to the public sections not yet publicly launched
>(random people picked off the street, asked to locate landmarks in another country, then the worst/funniest performers made into a gag reel).

Only it's not like that. You can ask random people yourself to verify, or you can trust one of several surveys and/or studies in the subject. E.g:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/0502_060502_...

>It shits me because it's so hypocritical. I'm not from the U.S. and I have no idea where your capital city is (let alone state capitals and whatnot) and I really don't give a crap, so why should you care about mine?

Well, it's exactly the "don't know, don't care" attitude we're arguing against here.

A basic knowledge of geography is not only essential in the modern, globalized world, but also indicative of a lack of knowledge in other areas, including history and current world affairs. And that, for a country that's intervening left and right, and whose citizens are trusted to vote, rally for, or oppose parties that will perform such international interventions, diplomatic actions, etc, a lack of such knowledge is shameful.

Not as if lack of knowledge was ever some kind of badge of honor.
New Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera by Andrew Ng
Yeah, well... we all make our choices. We, as Americans, have made the choice to live in a market economy, replete with all its pros and cons.
Its intetesting how in the last couple years bigot has been redefined from "someone who is not tolerant of the opinions of others" to "anyone who disagrees with leftist moral thought"
I'll agree to disagree. For example, github certainly did use a chunk of capital.

Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett spent quite a bit. You may not care about the amount here on YC, but it's a non-trivial barrier, regardless.
After a 23-Year Wait, WebVR Ships Today
> Google has enough money to survive everything for decades.

How much money they have, and how long it'd be possible to survive on that, is not relevant to the point I was making.
Americans are used to entering PINs on debit cards, but not credit. However, in my recent experience in Iceland & Germany, most POS don't ask for a PIN on credit transactions either. The only time I was asked for a PIN on a credit card was at a gas pump.
Overpopulation is a problem which needs to be taken seriously but it's mostly a problem in developing world (Africa, Asia etc). US / Europe don't have overpopulation problems.

I think "Something has to give" is a little bit dangerous thing to say as private property ownership is one of main pillars of western free market societies. Why would land be different to property?
Sign up now should work - hope you'll try the app one more time :D

Cheers and thanks for your feedback.
Scala has implicit parameters. For examples, see http://daily-scala.blogspot.nl/2010/04/implicit-parameters.h... (simple examples) or https://stackoverflow.com/a/9538177 (more useful ones)
Thank you. Normally I'd enjoy the "pointless gifs" but they make it hard for me to read your article at work.
FWIW, for my NFC debit card the maximum for a single transaction is 25 EUR, and the card will require a PIN occasionally anyway (I assume the more often NFC is used).
Startup Neurable Unveils the World's First Brain-Controlled VR Game
Civilized Discourse: But How? (Jeff Atwood)
If I put a watermark in a movie which properly cites the original does that allow me to redistribute the derivative work? Same applies here.
Or make sure to read them right when you are in a position to make the leap!
I wonder if longer term this current trend of "desirable" places becoming more and more expensive will ruin them and currently cheaper places will become desirable? What made those areas desirable in the first place? Can those places stay desirable if they contain only old rich people? What's fun about a NYC without kookie artists?
I don't think Talos I was ever released. They created a backlash last time by hyping an unavailable and unaffordable product so maybe the low-key approach is better.
In general I call this the Magarshak score:

How many comments vs shares does a content post have?

Comments - disagree with it, want to correct something, controversy

Shares - agree with it, want to spread it more widely, echo chamber
So awesome. I just completed Andrew's excellent 2011 Machine Learning coursera course, and was looking where to go next. I am trying to go through the courses on fast.ai, but I don't enjoy them nearly as much compared to Andrew's teaching style and structure. Will be signing up for this!
The word "neurotic" was the single thing that got this blown up. Had that not been used this would have skated by mostly unnoticed. I guess also got the author would also have been added to these blacklists. The author might as well have used the "B" word with all the SJW's around at Google.
Increased blood flow in areas of the brain in women
They do have PINs, just most people don't know what they are. You can use the PIN to withdraw cash from an ATM at a ridiculous interest rate. I recently was using my credit card in Iceland at a gas pump where I was prompted for a PIN.
Mail-order pharmacies are the worst. I understand what they're trying to accomplish WRT costs, but I've never encountered one that could actually deliver consistently and on-time. Frequent delays for no good reason, no express shipping, lost paperwork, etc. It's a mess.
https://www.google.com/diversity/

But you can google search for articles from previous years (google controls the comparisons so you can't free query the data).
I thought this would be about allometric scaling of organs. But if we're on the topic of metabolism, I wonder what the rate of cancer is for shrews vs. elephants, once the metabolism and lifespan are somehow accounted for.
This whole thing to me is a great example of why the "Facts don't care about feels" crowd is so disingenuous. Supporters of the memo writer talk about how scientific and logical he was being, yet he draws lines that are not supported by science at all. We barely know what things contribute to success of software teams at all, let alone the implications of evopsych biotruths on them. And all this pseudo-scientific reaching is for the grand purpose of saying current employees who came to the company maybe from outreach programs shouldn't have been reached out to. Which, objectively and logically, is a dead-stupid thing to argue in an internal company-wide memo.
Adidas Group own the Adidas brandmark, and they license it to anyone willing to pay enough. Seeing "Adidas" on an item is not an indication that the thing was made by Adidas, designed by Adidas or has anything to do with Adidas beyond a fee to use the logo.

You need to really dig in to the background of where something comes from to understand what you're actually paying for.
This is why paying more for brand name goods is often a bit silly.
I thought Yonatan Zunger's essay Tolerance is not a moral precept [1] -- linked off his response to the "manifesto" -- did a good job of addressing this scenario.

[1] https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...
Ionic Framework: Getting Started
> The dogma that needs to be questioned (not least because the scientific evidence against it is overwhelming) is the idea that the gender imbalance in STEM fields (and in nursing/care/humanities) is more likely the undesirable outcome of sexism, discrimination and hostile environments, rather than the desirable result of free choices made by liberated western women following their hearts

The dogma that needs to be questioned is the idea that, in a society where women were only given the vote in the last 100 years, were still relegated to the kitchen until after WWII and - to this day - are considered second-class citizens who can't determine what to do with their own bodies, we should be talking about them being in a "position of equality."

> How about just letting people be whatever they want to be ?

Is anyone forcing women to become engineers? I wasn't aware of that. Maybe you just have a pre-conception of what women "should do" and seeing them in your field strikes you as "someone must have forced them"?

> on one side we have a very straightforward biology/hormonal influence-based theory supported by evidence. On the other hand we have something much more complex, bordering on conspiracy theory : "the patriarchy"

No. Stop trying to make this some conspiracy theory. The "evidence" you are presenting as to why women behave one way is just a step above phrenology, which was wildly popular in the early 1900s and proven to be completely bogus since. You can't discount societal context when talking about behavior. Why do Norwegian and Swedish women behave differently than American women, if biology should explain everything?
Or why not order a groceries shop car instead?

https://techxplore.com/news/2017-06-convenience-mart-wheels-...
Well doh

People who don't hang out with other people are more at risk for depression AND they are less likely to have group photos.

This is called a latent variable.
Strange. In Austria it's pretty popular now.

Some stores have fucked up the speed of it though by first checking for your store membership account on the card which ruins the flow of the transaction. Often forcing the whole thing to be repeated. It's infuriating.
Yes. That's exactly what I meant by referring to competitive advantage.
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I've had the opposite experience. I had one electronic item from Basics and it was so crappy that I swore off the brand forever.
I've never lived in Germany, only visited as a tourist a few times to several different cities.

I've never had to sign in the last couple of years when using my credit card. Fewer smaller shops would take it than in the UK, but otherwise I never noticed any difference.
Visualizing and communicating how things will be used is very powerful and important.

My memory may be faulty, but I think it's Alan Cooper's "About Face" that basically advised not just describing the interface and how it'll be used, but how Bob the 73 year old luddite who hates all computers is going to interact with it (context in flight movie systems). Creating characters and having them interact with technology that doesn't exist yet is what SF writers DO.
How Adding Iodine to Salt Boosted Americans’ IQ (2013)
6 Questions to Ask If You've Been Instagram Shadowbanned
Wasn't there something about Clancy being working with the CIA to massage their image?

Military and intelligence and politics have always manipulated media...

Also, recall "Americans army" was being ostensibly used as a recruiting/psyche-molding tool...

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Finally: look at cyberpunk, and the top five writers in that category, as well as anime (ghost in the shell, etc) which have in-formed modern reality with all the millions of tech-workers from around the globe have worked since their childhoods to create aspects of those worlds into current reality...

Is the totalitarian police-surveillance state an emergent feature of such a reality?

All crazy military capability comes from able-minded imaginations saying "wouldn't it be cool if..." without the discernment of the far-reaching implications...
Well, before that they were eating that oppression from the British, French, etc.
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I'm sure I've used this in Germany many times at Lidl and other supermarkets.
Of course. But you do have do look at any particular situation in its broader context. If there wasn't a huge and ongoing sexism problem, it might be easier to ignore the warts and give people the benefit of the doubt sometimes. But given how things are, those kinds of warts contribute to a hostile workplace and can't be overlooked because they contribute to toxicity. They aren't simply outlier views that can be harmlessly ignored.