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I'd argue that the only reason "only Internet nerds" find affiliate links sleazy is that they're the only ones who know what they are. If the average Joe realized that merely clicking on a link and going shopping might monetarily reward the person who published the link, he'd find that sleazy too.

Affiliate link defenders: Imagine this scenario. One of your family members or a close friend has been sending you "links to a few cool/funny sites" every few weeks for the last 5 years. Your friend can find such great web sites! That last one with cats swimming in a pool was hilarious! Then all of a sudden you learn that all this time he was getting paid every time you clicked on one of those links, but never disclosed this to you. Wouldn't you feel like that was just a tiny bit sleazy?
Hi Mike - can you clarify this sentence from near the end of the article? I'm only seeing two payments to Amazon.

It’s now gotten to the point where it’s quite easy to pay Amazon three times in one order: for shipping, which you get access to through Prime, and for a product that’s actually just an Amazon-made product.
Always thought Aldi & Lidl mostly do private-label deals (so essentially you have the same product in the package).

Seems AZ builds products from scratch: „...decide to work with manufacturers to make the product itself...“.

edit: spelling
None of that would have been tolerable. He'd still have been fired. Let's not pretend otherwise.
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CCP (the EVE Online people) have a whole team of economists also.

My favorite story, though, is still epidemiologists studying the Corrupted Blood plague in WoW for real world lessons on bioterrorism.
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I don't think he said that Google's sourcing programs themselves lower the bar. He seems to make two separate arguments:

1. Sourcing programs with race/gender restrictions are unfair to those excluded, and bad for business because they restrict the funnel of participants. (The same criticism would apply if Google had a while-males-only program -- it would be bad business since it would restrict the funnel without a good business reason.)

2. Google's hiring process gives special treatment to certain "diversity" candidates. He doesn't give any details, and I don't know the context, but he linked to an internal discussion which seems to imply that a "more accurate" process might be applied with the intention of reducing false negatives. (Of course anyone reading a public copy won't see this.)
I lived in Austria and Switzerland. I never really experienced this. For me this is as rare as faulty credit cards which have the same annoyance levels.

In Austria people often just hand over more and say 'bast scho' (tip). Or otherwise pay a little bigger and take the change. In switzerland it's only the latter and less tipping but again nobody even looks at their own small coins.

Nearly everyone I know just has a glass at home where they throw the small coins in but never would really use them.
He doesn't use it to essentialize each individual. He's pretty explicit about that, if you read his memo. He's clear about the fact many women are exceptions to these patterns, just as are many men. The point he's making is that, perhaps, in aggregate, these differences explain the relative proportion of women in technical jobs. He isn't saying women shouldn't do technical work. He's not saying Google shouldn't hire women. He's not even saying that the women working at Google don't deserve their jobs, or aren't good at them. Far from it. What he's saying is that efforts to actively recruit women in tech, in an attempt to achieve gender parity may be misguided, because part of the reason for the proportionality difference may be biological. That's the essential point he makes, and whether or not you agree, I think its fairly clear that his point is at least not crazy and worthy of firing.
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Which card is that, that takes away the incentive? I use Apple Pay pretty frequently and still get my cashback rate, or double points incentives on the cards that I use.
This is the right answer
This startup learned the hard way you do not piss off open-source programmers
I moved from Stuttgart to the US 5 years ago. I am always delighted to come back and see that I need less and less cash.
It blew my mind when even Aldi and Lidl jumped on the credit card train.

Looking forward to the day when I can visit Germany without having to go to the ATM.
Its not backed up until its at least on an external system, ideally in triplicate off-box, off-site, and cold storage. Cloning and replication makes it easier to backup but is no substitute.
The poetic interpretation makes the most sense to me. These were a nomadic people living thousands of years ago with no concept of our modern scientific method, the big bang, or evolution. To interpret it literally, exclude the cultural context, and expect it to be a scientifically accurate description is a disservice to them.
So would a valid tl;dr be, "modify the compiled program to catch any invocations not evaluated at compile time and make them return the correct value?"
It seems that it lacks the "or (at your option) any later version" part. Which is quite sad.
But sane people, generally, do not attain positions of power. If they did, our system would usurp them in favor of someone "insane". Its something that is fundamental to how some humans operate.

If I'm President and I don't wake up at 4am to handle a crisis in Syria, I am showcasing a pattern that will probably mean I won't be re-elected. What I've described is horribly unhealthy, if done consistently. Yet, we need people like that if we want to scale and grow as a species. We need crazy Presidents, crazy CEOs, crazy engineers, crazy doctors, crazy lawyers, etc.

The point I wish were more widely accepted is that its alright to not be in these positions. I've heard people say "Its unacceptable that we haven't had a female President because I want my daughter to grow up in a world where she could be President." Two things: First, yeah! If that's what your daughter wants, then she should have that option, and having precedence and a role model helps. But, more importantly: You as a parent don't understand what it takes to be President. You should want your daughter to be happy, not powerful.
So, using your logic, I assume nothing in the NYT holds much value to you, because they have run stories (without proving any evidence) about "Trump and the prostitutes" in Moscow?
Why would old people voluntarily move out of their nice old houses and move to some remote lower quality house?
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German here as well:

In addition to a.), I like having full control of my money and not be dependent on some third party when making purchases.
Do you recall the German Boehmermann who was almost jailed because he made fun of a _foreign_ leader?

That limits free speech. It's not hateful but it's political.
There was another article on HN this week that was attempting to predict when the stock market was going to crash. https://isthestockmarketgoingtocrash.com/

There's also been a number of suggestions of the kind of economy that we're existing in. The most alarming to me is that we're in a debt economy.

Germany struggled to pay it's abhorrent war debt and reparations after WWI, and I'm curious if rather than the government facing that problem if the population in the US, or China will instead? What is the big picture these pieces of information are trying to tell us?

Should we be taking a more cautious approach when it comes to using debt? (This commentor has no debt, and wants to keep it that way)
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> these are discussed in the first paragraphs of the WP article he referenced

Where? It doesn't say anything about one sex's aptitude for leading there.
This is better than RAID patrol reads only in that it also verifies file system structure periodically.
And you do not necessarily have to bring down the filesystem to check even when data is in flight as long as it's driver supports online scan functionality. More than one FS does so. (XFS, btrfs and probably JFS. Not ext4 though.)

Not that online scanning makes to much sense anyway. The good filesystems verify sanity of the structure they traverse, so might as well put in a full FS read in cron. Most kinds of damage cannot be repaired on a live filesystem anyway. Even in ZFS.
What would be a better comparison is someone in the NFL saying racial diversity is stupid, black people tend to be better at sports. Stop trying to bring in Japanese and Chinese men to meet a quota.

The QB is gonna get sacked (and possibly injured) because you are using metrics that don't apply to the job to judge fitness for the job.
I'd need more information to say, but I bet it's not actually constant. I had trouble digging up any concrete info on the nature of this cave's wind.
Capped at 0.2% now aren't they?
People just collect them at home and bring them to the bank when they make holidays or so. Usually I don't see small coins used by anyone except cashiers for return money.

Personally I just throw them in those collection boxes for good things at airports and train stations when I leave the country.
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If you want to read a concrete example rather than the generic relevant novels mentioned in the article the Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts, National Defence Canada, commissioned Karl Schroeder [1] in 2005 to write an SF novel to help explore them future doctrine and concepts. PDF is available at [2]. He wrote a second (post 2010) but I don't have the reference now (a 'friend' never returned it). I recall that it involved a CAF unit operating in a trans-national mega city (somewhere in Asia) having to subvert the all pervasive city AR so that they could complete their mission. I was impressed!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Schroeder

[2] http://www.kschroeder.com/foresight-consulting/crisis-in-zef...
I mean, yea. I guess I left out the details of how the car service you were renting from would clean things between uses. Didn't think that was necessary to spell out. There are public 'nap rental' places now that have that particular problem pretty well sorted out.
Edeka is (despite its appearance) not a chain but just a common brand used by lots of independent merchants without many rules[0]. Some Edeka stores therefore introduced contactless payments years ago, some never will. Best is to talk to the owner (they usually just have one or a few stores) – I have been successful with "mine".

[0]: In contrast to e.g. Rewe which is also mostly operated by independent merchants but has strict rules for those.
Eh? I thought it was commissioned by a book publisher, which is pretty different - they're buying it as a product, but these companies seem to be hiring authors as consultants. Or am I missing some interesting history on Neuromancer?
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There's a huge logical fallacy in this debate that is constantly overlooked (or suppressed) ... it's that the older houses owned by these boomers tend to get converted into rentals. When they do get sold, the amount of work needed to get them livable is just too much. So they go to local "Property Management Companies (PMCs) looking to up their rental income portfolio while simultaneously making the supply artificially scarce.

Here's their typical MO:

1) Buy the house from the boomer.
2) Put the cheapest shiny sheen over the decrepit and crumbling bones of an aging house, hiding as best as possible infrastructure problems.
3) Put the house back on the market as a "remodel". Use a realtor or some other salesperson to create a false sense of scarcity and urgency related to the perception of "supply / demand", thus increasing the "market value" of the house. Create bidding wars among individuals and private REITs/landlord companies.
4) End up selling it to another private REIT (whose pocketbooks are bottomless) and set the base rent of the hyperinflated value of the house accordingly, thus increasing market rents.

In reality, of course, the house is actually crap, needs tons of work, is constantly experiencing electrical or plumbing issues. The renters, though, have no recourse as they've already signed a year-long lease trapping them in the company's investment. Sometimes a family does end up buying the "remodel" only to discover that the work has been done shoddily and to hide flaws rather than to extend longevity.

It sucks and is evil on about every level. But nobody is reporting it: regional news stations and newspapers won't let investigative journalists expose the fraud either... because the "real estate" section is their lifeblood in terms of ad revenue.
Aren't something approaching 100% of those stories pulled from the headlines? (Not disagreeing with you that they would also make good training cases.)
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This is full of misunderstandings about monetary policy and money creation.

Currencies that are not designed to lose value over time can not be stable.
Intrinsically worthless tokens engineered to have better than market risk adjusted, liquidity adjusted, real returns compared to real productive investment will always be unstable and fluctuate increasingly wildly as they get more popular. This is a result of physical limits of production. As people hoard worthless tokens, their price increases which causes more people to hoard them instead of investing in real businesses with real production capacity.

This eventually causes production capacity to drop. That's right, when enough people do it, token hoarding displaces investment in businesses and factories and lowers global production capacity. This means token hoarding causes a future drop in things available to buy with these tokens.

Eventually there will be people who want to buy real things with their stock of tokens. The tokens will be chasing fewer goods which means prices for stuff will rise (tokens will lose value). This might happen suddenly when people with large stockpiles of tokens notice that value is dropping and that there are tons of other tokens waiting on the sideline to make it drop even further. Hoarders might rush to get rid of their stockpile all at the same time before they're worthless which will cause their fall to worthlessness. This drop will bring the tokens closer to their natural intrinsic value of zero. The cycle can then start again, such is aggregate economics.

The 1920s and 1930s suffered from this type of cycle but with gold tied currencies instead of cryptocoins. It happened to a lesser extent in 2007 when western world central banks failed to keep inflation rates high enough. It's important for the world's sake to not let deflationary currencies become too popular.

When savings or financial promises are insufficiently tied to future production or to accumulation of real goods, there will be disappointment when many people try to exchange them for real stuff. That is true for crypto currencies as well as government currencies (that is why the system is designed to make banks invest people's money in real businesses and minimize the proportion of money that is stockpiled idly).

It's true that crypto currencies are currently not sufficiently widely held to significantly affect the macroeconomy but speculation already keeps them rather volatile and the knowledge that as they get more popular you get additional volatility pressures, will keep the speculation wild and the deflationary cryptocoins unstable.
So much respect lost for google. If you're gonna be bigoted and fire people that don't have the same views as you, fine.

But at least own up to what you are.
And if you take it a step further, you learn that debt and IOU's are at the very heart of human transactions, going back as far as society has existed. The currency needs to reflect the lossy nature of payments that people make between each other.
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Depends on how you're shipping, but if you do overnight/expedited shipping, you still have to pay for that on top of the cost of your Prime membership.
Why is this a problem, as long as everyone is not worse off? Growth should go to the people who make it possible - in 1960s it were highly qualified, unionized industrial plant workers. Now these are people like us. Not some imaginary predatory capitalists.
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Hardly surprising that a rare form of payment isn't terribly fast. When you have cashiers who work with actual cash all day, and customers who know the process of taking a quick inventory of their change reservoir while their goods are being scanned so that they can very quickly decide between giving precise change (in addition to the uprounded sum in paper) or not once the final sum is known. Mirror picture in Germany, many people are still wasting time engaging in some kind of mini-negotiation with the cashier before paying in plastic (usually a debit card, which is quickly taking over most cash transactions that happen at a register).

Also, American banknotes with their identical size and color over all denominations are just incredibly impractical for anything but building those nice tidy stacks of drug money depicted in the movies. Cash payments in the United States are a terrible benchmark.
Can anyone with experience comment on the FABRIK algorithm [1] for solving IK? There's an online demo here [2]
Basically, do you think the FABRIK method would be better than the Jacobian methods for a use-case in 3-dimensional space only (e.g. being used on a robotic arm)? There's a project I am interested in joining that involves IK and just want to know a 3rd-party opinion.

[1] http://www.andreasaristidou.com/FABRIK.html

[2] https://weffe.github.io/InverseKinematics/
be as helpful as you can to others.

don't take anything personal, this is a very large diverse community with different viewpoints.
Board games like scrabble and boggle are great for spelling and vocabulary development. Try to get them to say the definitions for the words (at least a brief one) rather than accept that they know them. Play with a dictionary at hand. Also ask them the meaning of the words you play so it seems that getting at the definitions isn't meant to just criticize/challenge their plays (which it isn't, the purpose is to develop their understanding).

Card games like Rook, Spades, Cribbage (mentioned elsewhere), Casino are great for math and pattern matching, planning ahead. These just require a standard deck of playing cards, maybe two (habit from playing Bridge, have one deck in play and one shuffled and ready for the next hand).

24 Game was a good one for arithmetic (4 numbers, put any of +, -, *, / between them and try to get the result to be 24).

Mastermind is another good strategy, logic type game. It can also be played with pencil and paper which makes it a very fun one to teach kids so they can play it anywhere.

Dots and Boxes is a nice abstract strategy game to play on paper, which can serve as a good gateway to other abstract strategy games.

Guess Who was a good game of logical deduction. Shades of 20 Questions where you ask for features of the person and mark off people who don't qualify. Clue, of course, is strictly a game of logical deduction if you can get past the movement mechanics and all (always frustrated me to get low dice rolls and not have a chance to win even when I knew or was very close to the answer). From Clue, books of logic puzzles that practice deductive reasoning from a set of facts (along the lines of Einstein's puzzle).

Others mentioned RPGs, these can be good with kids. Particularly if you focus the emphasis on teamwork (discourage showboating and hogging the limelight), storytelling (goes back to vocabulary, but also thinking about complex situations), planning and strategy. You can incorporate lots of puzzles into the game that emphasize wordplay (riddles and such) or math (numeric puzzles) or logic (colors, connecting their actions with specific effects) or just general problem solving.
> Nebraska had its own banks

I thought North Dakota was the only state with its own bank. Did Nebraska create one?

To add to your point, many cities have "Christmas Cash" as a form of local currency for holiday spending to help local businesses.
Uh huh, there are potential other explanations, yes. Are they evidenced? Not to my knowledge.

> I personally think it's naïve to dismiss inherent biological preferences entirely...

"naïve", huh...

So, Adam Grant is one of the world's foremost experts in this area. Did you read his fully-sourced article, linked from my parent post, that refutes this exact "biological" point?
Any stories of fellow HNers with their startups doing this?
This seems to be what y'all fighting for - a chance to rise through the ranks by being a SJW (via Monday's SF chronicle):
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/slack-senior-engineer-erica-ba...
This is only true for big chain things. Pretty much everywhere in Europe I've been.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/neal-stephenson-meta...

Basically it talking about how much his book has shaped what companies even today are chasing got me thinking about the idea of how culture shapes tech shapes culture. I should have considered it sooner since this dates back so much farther.
My idea for teaching it is to start with just a function that calls the library function:

(defun our-member (item list)
(cond
(t (member item list))))

Now everyone in the class should quickly agree that this function works. Next say "our goal is to write our own implementation of member, so we will handle one special case at a time until we don't need to call member anymore"

so step 1:

(defun our-member (item list)
(cond
((atom list) nil) ;; if it's not a non-empty list, it can't be a list containing item
(t (member item (cdr list)))))

step 2:

(defun our-member (item list)
(cond
((atom list) nil) ;; if it's not a non-empty list, it can't be a list containing item
((eql (car list) item) list) ;; if the first element of the list is our item,
;; we have a match and return the whole list
(t (member item list))))

step 3:

(defun our-member (item list)
(cond
((atom list) nil) ;; if it's not a non-empty list, it can't be a list containing item
((eql (car list) item) list) ;; if the first element of the list is our item,
;; we have a match and return the whole list
(t (member item (cdr list))))) ;; we already know that the first item is not a match, so we can just run
;; member on the tail of the list

And now demonstrate that replacing member with our-member will still be correct.

[edit]

derp (atom nil) => T
I'm honestly not sure ! It could've been a CMS thing — will need to enquire.
Before even reading the link, I somehow knew that this was going to be a topic about "diversity" or workplace "harassment" against minorities or something closely-related to this agenda; my predictive knowledge is so advanced I feel like a genius, or maybe perhaps this propaganda is so prevalent in our society it has reached critical levels? In any case I am not reading a single sentence; the headline "diversity" already tests my patience.
It comes down to the card, not store. Many German cards require you to sign (actually stores bypass the card entirely and just use it to read your account number and make you sign a SEPA direct debit mandate).
figure out the best place to be in terms of commute and eating out.
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