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> Employee time and frustration they didn't come up short

To add to this, back when I was a retail cashier in high school, there was also the threat of having too much money in the register. Either by negligence, due to miscounting a customer's change, or of outright malevolence (by doing the same). Before I even began training at the register, I was told by the store manager that if the cash in my drawer at the end of my shift was over the amount that the transaction history specified I should have (I believe this was > ~$5 lifetime? It's been a few years so I'm foggy as to the exact figure) that I would be let go.

Now, I don't mean to bring this up to debate the point one way or the other, just that it is yet another friction to managing cash as opposed to credit cards.
Yeah but those costs are more or less fixed. The only way to reduce them is to stop accepting cash entirely.

Also just because cash has costs doesn't mean credit card fees aren't insane. They could be close to 0% if they implemented real security to reduce fraud, and there was actual competition (vendors were allowed to pass fees on to customers).
Once you HHKB, you never go back.
Hm, now I'm pretty sad that their site only works with Flash.. Can't even install that on Chrome anymore.
Most credit cards in the UK offer cashback cards, at least amex does.

I am not aware that fees are caped. In fact last time I checked the fees from payment processors (like barclaycard) for a transaction online was in the region of 5%.
The linked methods don't look promising (yet)
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If this was the case then merchants would happily encourage people to use cards rather than cash.
Not quite. A similar thing does surprise me; that quantum theory was discovered when researching particle physics and is only recently making inroads in other fields.

That it applies to physics too is expected, because one way to characterise the quantum language is that it defines what one system can possibly do or say to another system.

The source of those limitations is not yet completely clear, i.e. it hasn't been satisfactorily axiomized. But we can get close and it seems it's a logical restraint based around self-consistency. Assuming the universe must be self-consistent, it must also obey QM.
I think there is room for both. Start with very simple contracts first.
The article claims so, though the generic usage must have died out long ago:

> the company quickly became best known for its electronic switches, particularly its microswitches, which (despite not being first to market) became commonly known as “cherry switches.”
Have you seen Preposterous Machines? Some lunatic made a Mandelbrot renderer in ZZT-OOP: https://museumofzzt.com/file/p/prepostm.zip
> There are also many manuscripts spread out across private basements in Timbuktu, those have survived several threats but who’s to say they will survive more?

-Which reminds me of Joshua Hammer's brilliant book 'The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu', detailing the efforts to save those collections from the latest threat to them - islamic militants.

The title alone was enough to make me want to read the book, I'll admit.
... plus fees.
An explanation here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#Output_padding
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> The only thing that is rock solid and predictable is contract written in programming code.

The only code that's 'rock solid and predictable' is code that's been formally proven. Are smart contracts doing that?

Further, as described above, even if they were perfectly written every time, they'd still be a poor replacement for human law. We are squishy, imperfect and inconstant, we have legal protections and legal wiggle-room for a lot of reasons.
My wife is applying for a PhD and has simply asked professors for a copy of their paper. Nearly all of them have happily obliged.
I’m just reading this and mentally substituting “Twitter” for “Slack” and, uh, yeah.
I use Prompt. I like it since I can have multiple ssh tabs open and flip between them.
Modern long-form articles online are legally required to cut away in the 3rd paragraph to a story about the protagonist's upbringing, then go back to the main story for 4 paragraphs, then 3 paragraphs about the protagonist's parents (or, grandparents if they're Japanese) before returning to the main story for a paragraph or two, which must end by teasing the headline again. Just when the article gets actually informative, the article must tell you about a competing politician/businessman/musician/whatever, which will surprisingly end with an warm endorsement of our protagonist. The article must then on some choice quote, and leave you somewhat surprised you read it all the way through.
Reminds me of 'pulse position modulation' [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-position_modulation
I wonder if kids born today will ever need to learn how to drive.
What service are you using for authentication? We’re using Identity Server 3. On the web we use the implicit grant but on mobile (React Native) were using the Resource Owner (Password) grant which works just fine.
Yeah, the comparison in the article with Facebook looks like trash. Tencent peaked in January, bumbled around a lot and slumped back down to Nov 2017 levels. Facebook meanwhile lost every penny of its value in the last week, but is still as higher than the April low.

These are not at all comparable and putting them on a chart together isn't credible.
Err...he won a nobel prize in economics
Means the simplest explanation is probably the best.

As in, Wikileaks isn't an evil Russian agent

Assange/Wikileaks leaked the Podesta emails in the most effective way possible to generate interest and subsequently damage the Clinton campaign since Clinton in particular is not fond of him (eg https://us-east-1.tchyn.io/snopes-production/uploads/2016/10...)
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If you sit right over the wings the effects of turbulence will be less pronounced
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You have any lines or ideas you use to do that?
On the other hand in Poland we have some items named after a brand, like the word for sneakers being "adidasy" or for bicycle being "rower". But "ksero" might be the only one after an American brand.
Considering Wikileaks is said to have a dead mans switch, there's likely to be at least some unpublished material

Wha it includes is really anyone's guess
wow that's some whacky camera mount. For a second there I thought this was the world's steepest desert 0_o
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You know, someone made a real cavalier sounding remark about how you need to break a few eggs to make an omelette. I replied to that with saying, basically, I understand that attitude for making peace with training deaths in the military but I don't think it's justified for driverless cars. I tried to make it clear later that part of the difference in my mind is that people die in military training because people are being trained to do dangerous things. But if you are training a driverless vehicle, there's really no reason that absolutely has to involve endangering anyone's life.

And, wow, has that gotten tons of push back while people go to great lengths to frame me like I'm some extremist lunatic. Meanwhile, the person cavalierly brushing off training deaths is making rather extreme comments about how driverless vehicles can completely replace all human drivers, etc and most people are not arguing with that. No, I am the one being argued with.

It's starting to look to me like people are basically looking for some silly reason to argue with me in specific. Because I really did not assert a lot of the stuff being hung on me here.

Again, yes, if we can save 40k lives. That's a very big if. It assumes a 100% reduction in mortality. That implies that you expect driverless vehicles to not merely be better than human drivers, you expect them to be perfect and to have flawless performance.

And it's that sort of ridiculous unstated assumption that has me rolling my eyes and going "Wow, people on HN sure are just looking for crazy reasons to argue with me." Because I don't think that's a remotely defensible position.
No, you typically transfer cash from a store once a day, and if 95% of your transactions are card, then you now have only 5% of your takings in your till at the end of the day.
This is insightful. 15 bytes is not a lot.
I wonder what are other narural limits on information density? For example, magnetic field. Is there a least measurable difference?
MNG is a dead format. APNG won. Not really sure why MNG is here on HN now.
I agree. However, keep in mind that personal property is considered as the root of all evil by some ideologies.
I agree. I've noticed that too. That's why I sometimes joke, that we could really use the threat of impending alien invasion right about now - even if completely fabricated. This feels like the only way for the world to get its shit together.

(And on the smaller scale, I think that the perceived decay and ennui in western countries stems from the fact that there's no unifying goal for the nation; everyone just fends for themselves.)
I've personally made a wedding cake (once, and never again - too much work), and they were correct: The softer cakes cannot be used that way. The cake itself needs structural integrity. Even with supports, you run the risk of the cake collapsing on itself if it does not.. No one wants that. Most box cake mixes won't do, though I know folks use them. I wouldn't take the risk.

That said, I still don't actually understand why some are so tasteless.
Those screenshots are extremely slick. What terminal is that, and what styling options is it using?
Maybe the british don't consider it sporting?
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Can confirm for Thailand and Cambodia as well. Honeymoon pictures are typically of the couple being photoshopped on pictures all around the world as well.

(Got married in Cambodia, got fake cake and said pictures as well)
Ugh, I’m sure content like this is always fake but that third sample about Google position zero written as a fake conversation between the fake author and a fake colleague is gross.

I’m hoping the answer is no, but out of interest can you write deeply technical pieces?
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In fact, any lossless compression algorithm has the property that the output is (on average) at least as long as the input. The best you can hope for is an algorithm that compresses the kind of data that humans want to store, at the expense of making other data a bit longer. If you're trying to compress random data then you just can't do it.

Here's a proof: consider the strings of length n or less, suppose there are M of them in total. Their average length is just the sum of all their lengths divided by M, and the average length of their compressed versions is just the total length of the compressed versions divided by M. Since the compression is lossless the compressed strings must all be different.

Since there are M strings, if any of them mapped to a string of length more than n then there must be some string of length at most n not being mapped to, so the average length can be improved by instead mapping that string to the shorter string. So any optimal compression method must map only to the strings of length at most n.

So the M outputs are just the M inputs, possibly permuted. So their total length is the same, and hence their average length is the same.
>takeoff seems to be a time of maximum stress on the engines

This is true, 'band A' throttle is used for takeoff and the first minutes of flight. Perhaps a pilot could chime in here, but I don't think there's any other non-emergency situation that band A would be used in flight.

It's also why jet engines are overhauled on a takeoff schedule. ie some parts have a lifetime of 20,000 cycles (takeoffs/aborted landings)
Reminds me of the starting quote of "The Toxoplasma Of Rage"[0] - "Nobody makes an IRC channel for no reason. Who are we doing this versus?".

--

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
I don't think Wikileaks has ever claimed that they publish everything they receive.

Maybe they couldn't verify it's legitimacy.

Maybe they didn't find the texts of someone's daughter particularly interesting.

Maybe they haven't finished reviewing them yet.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water just yet.
Hey but on the bright side all the unnatural farming did kill the largest locust brood of all time.

http://www.historynet.com/1874-the-year-of-the-locust.htm
Nothing todo with the cake, but i would like to see, that the people who prepare my cake are taking all the right steps, beginning with a hair net when its over 50cms long.
Any interest in pulsar support?
Growing alfalfa has the added benefit of fertilizing the soil. Many farmers are willing to accept a small loss on hay production because it means less fossil-fuel derived fertilizer they need to buy for next year's cash crops and higher yields on those cash crops.
Whether a function body is implemented in a header or implementation source file doesn't matter much these days where LTO/LTCG is common. If the compiler/linker thinks a function is fit for inlining it will do so.
They drink a decent bit, but most of the calculated water usage comes from the water used to grow alfalfa and feed.
Bpfilter (and user-mode blobs) for 4.18
There's a whole open source toolkit for managing and sharing BMC avail on http://toolkit.builders/ which would profit a lot from your sneaky interface.
Surely there's some order in this "reading list" where new discoveries can take priority based on circumstantial factors of the digging site alone.
Yeah. Capitalism hates it when YOU have personal property. Only ME, ME, ME is allowed to have that.

Or did you have some other ideology in mind?
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Same in the UK. I think people would ask for their money back if the cake wasn't real (and they hadn't asked for it on purpose). I even had to store a tier of my friends cake as they couldn't fit it in their own fridge!
Those journals do a lot less. I'm not saying that the other stuff is worth doing, but at least it's something they're doing - there's no need to brush that aside.
Very interesting quote from Musk: “saying you like moats is another way of saying you like oligopolies”.

I like Musk’s focus on innovation, and I also thought this was interesting because it came from one of the PayPal+ group.
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> Update: There was a typo in the original post -- the word "word" was misspelled as "world." Thank you to the commenters for bringing it to our attention.

How appropriate. :) I'm trying to come up with a phrase where this typo could mean all the difference.
It depends on who you know and what you can do yourself.

I had a simple courthouse wedding both times. My sister, though, wanted a "fancy" wedding.

She was able to have the ceremony in the church she attended and use their place for the reception, all pretty cheap. All the formal wear was rented save for one bridesmaid that decided to buy hers for herself: She was using the same dress for another formal event. I personally made the cake, though my sister paid for supplies (that was my wedding gift). My mother did most of the simple decorating.

The reception was mid-afternoon, between lunch and dinner. No food beyond cake and non-alcoholic drinks were served.
> But it's still just a membuf library, without any string support.

Just like the strings in the C and C++ standard library.
Does that include IBM Model F/M? You haven’t really typed until you’ve typed on the original clickity-clackity keyboard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K5rGPJ9RjY
Wikipedia definitely it not cheap, the donations that it receives are not a little, and web hosting are not its only costs.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. We've already had to warn you about breaking the site guidelines; please don't keep doing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, they're comparing the cost structures, which both do not consist only of web hosting.
Here in The Netherlands you basically can't use credit cards for offline purchases. Everyone uses the European debit cards with chip/pin. The fees are very low too, it's cheaper to process than cash is.
And my point is — how do you, as a startup founder, judge whether .NET — or any other platform, for that matter — increases your developers’ productivity by N percent? You certainly don’t have the time or resources to build the MVP on every major platform and measure. More often than not, startups go with whatever their first few developers are comfortable with.

And, once you have started with Java/Python, why would you want to spend your money on licensing costs AND .NET developers who, from personal experience, often tend to be more expensive and harder to hire than Java/Python/Go developers?

Licensing costs don’t matter a lot if you already have a team that is proficient in .NET. It’s a Catch-22 situation. Why would want to spend money on building a team of .NET developers in the first place unless you have some hard evidence that using .NET is going to help your business significantly?
Apple isn't a plucky start up, they're a tanker. They don't change directions quickly. Apple could start putting out rubbish hardware where even the most basic input devices don't work, not admit their mistake for 3 years, double down and roll that out on their entire product line and it would take years to impact sales & revenue.

By the time revenue starts dropping it's probably too late to fix.
Not a coincidence -- he links to the OP's link in yesterday's column when discussing precisely that similar problem. It is likely how the OP found this older article; I know I read it earlier today due to Matt's link.
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Outside the US merchants almost invariably encourage the use of cards. Zero places here are cash only (not even a hot dog stand) but tons are explicitly cash free. [edit: in some places.]

The big savings come when you have zero cash to deal with. Then you have no counting/change/armed transport/security issues at all.
Ah that explains why I was put on hold for 1 hour and 20 minutes when I called Visa Customer Service in France.
These systems are designed to be addictive based on our current best understandings of what drives addictive behavior in humans. Is it debatable that they are actually addictive - sure, lots of things are debatable even if debating it would be sort of silly.

I don't think Spotify tries to addict people in the same way Facebook and its subsidiary companies do.
Seems like it's probably slightly Photoshopped, however Hyper (https://hyper.is/) comes really close.
Original link (a 404 now): http://rubyhacker.com/blog2/20150917.html

Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/93doii/compute...
Also depends on the length of the metal rod, doesn't it?
You should also factor in the fact that the average buffalo are bigger than the average cow. Buffalo are around the size of a holstein cow, the most common dairy cow, but most of the meat cattle we raise are near half the size/weight of them.
Some people do call very good (but not good enough) chinese clones cherry switches too. Or mostly anything that is mechanically identical to a cherry (though in 9 out of 10 times, quality will be poor if not from cherry themselves)
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IMHO the absolute best thing about Blink is that it lets you use caps lock as control. Since doing this remapping on my laptop it is now a part of my muscle memory but no bluetooth keyboards support this in hardware and iOS does not support it in software; Blink manages to support this in the app and it makes my SSH sessions and remote editing so much easier.
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scuffed.
Xerography is the name of the technique that made Xerox's career, so I'm not sure about the last one
See also

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09883

which is a newer paper using the same imaging method (X-ray phase-contrast tomography) plus an algorithm to separate the rolled-up layers from the 3D scan data. Results are better, though still far from being able to decode substantial portions of text.

edit: I also found an article in Smithsonian Magazine from just last month, about someone else's even more recent attempts:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-s...
Because anything reaching the courts that would benefit individuals at the expense of some big industry, seems to always end up with consumers getting the short end of the stick. That’s at the core of so many US issues.
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I think the reason is it's easy to do without a fishing license. That's why poachers would use this technique - if they get caught by the authorities there's no incriminating equipment, they just claim they were going for a walk.

Fishing rights in the UK are very strictly protected. The are many places where the public can walk along a river but are not allowed to fish.
Matlab works on linux.

Premier or Final cut don't but
DaVinci Resolve and Lightworks do.

Obviously if your workflow and thus your livelihood depends on a particular tool you should run a platform that runs it but I would question why someone with money would pick windows over mac.
I don't see any functions in the OP's library that would require dedicated UTF-8 handling. The string length is given in bytes, not characters or codepoints. There's no functionality to give you the character at n-th location etc... you can easily implement all UNICODE-specific functionality in a separate library and use it together with the OPs library. IMHO that's even preferable.
Jeez, yes. All the people in this part of the thread lamenting that self-driving cars will drive safely around pedestrians.
But isn't the tradability of a technology orthogonal to whether it's a bubble?

Maybe I should've called it "signs the second AI winter" is coming?
35,000 miles on the road. Crow flys is clearly far less.

Only 24 people have been more than 10000 miles from a McDonald's.
Generally what you're looking for is "research reports" of the team. These are the original versions of the published papers, before details have been cut out to fit a page limit.

If you're into brevity, you can also search for PhD theses of one of the co-authors within a similar time period as the interesting article. I believe in vast majority of papers the footwork is done by a PhD student, that will then incorporate the thing into a thesis.

If all else fails, email the authors.
Wow, almost every (recent) HN post about "Higher Order Functions" has 0 comments - not just one or two, but zero!

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=higher%20order%20functions&sor...

... except this one now :)

Maybe it should be called an "HN whack": a search term for HN that has (some >n) matches, but the total number of comments on all those posts is zero.
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These are called eponyms, we also have "adidasi" in Romania to reference any kind of sports shoes. :)

Most languages have eponyms, an English example would be
"hoover" which is sometimes used instead of "vacuum cleaner", especially in USA.