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The parent's point is that you don't normally tip on merchandise you buy. If you buy a beer for $10 and a tshirt for $30 from a bartender, a typical tip would be $2 not $8.

That said, it's sort of an arbitrary custom. It's not very much work to fill a glass of beer, find a t-shirt in some cabinet, or hand someone a cup of coffee.

> A polarizing title, The Mind is either a work of minimalist genius or "not even really a game." Essentially, you get a deck of cards with numbers from 1 to 100 on them. Each player gets a certain number of cards each round (it increases each round), and then everyone must play those cards to the table, in ascending order, without speaking or signaling.

As children, my siblings, friends, and I played a game very similar to "The Mind". Starting at one, the group had to count by ones up to as large a number as possible. Anyone could speak at anytime, but if you said a number when someone else was speaking you all lost.

The mechanic is slightly different than "The Mind", but the tension from deciding when to speak was similar to the tension of deciding when to play your card.

To me, "The Mind" feels a bit too simplistic and childish to win game of the year. But perhaps others relish its simplicity.

This is not completely accurate, the FTC has rules against deceptive pricing practices [1]. I'm not sure how often these rules are enforced and what the penalties are though. They specifically give an example where raising a price before a sale is not allowed:

> The following is an example of a price comparison based on a fictitious former price. John Doe is a retailer of Brand X fountain pens, which cost him $5 each. His usual markup is 50 percent over cost; that is, his regular retail price is $7.50. In order subsequently to offer an unusual “bargain”, Doe begins offering Brand X at $10 per pen. He realizes that he will be able to sell no, or very few, pens at this inflated price. But he doesn't care, for he maintains that price for only a few days. Then he “cuts” the price to its usual level—$7.50—and advertises: “Terrific Bargain: X Pens, Were $10, Now Only $7.50!” This is obviously a false claim. The advertised “bargain” is not genuine.

[1]: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=f8c45f090a32596673...

I'm not offended at all by using the word "master" where it makes sense. However, as a role for users, is sounds sort of odd and a bit authoritarian. I think "maintainer" is a nicer choice regardless of any political-correctness driven reasoning.

Not OP, but a couple guesses off the top of my head:

* It becomes a more painful process to upgrade dependencies (have to find/replace across your codebase).

* Many versions of the same library get pulled in. If you depend on package@1.5.3 and a dependency of yours depends on package@1.5.4, that's twice the dependency size as compared to both just using 1.5.4. This matters more in the case of web app bundle size though than running local programs.

I wish the Wikipedia article would elaborate more on some of the strategies and tactics that are unique to three-sided football instead of just recounting previous tournament results. Perhaps a good opportunity to contribute to Wikipedia for some HN reader who's knowledgable?

Locking a discussion with zero-unreasonable responses as "too heated" is bad optics, but I think locking the discussion is a pragmatic decision, as the NPM team has been alerted about the issue and any meaningful comments would get lost in the noise otherwise.

I'm curious what degree of "cultural context" is built into automated cars - I feel that there has to be a lot of locale-specific techniques for driving.

For example, in NYC, there's nothing at all uncommon about a pedestrian beginning to cross the street in front of you and approaching the area of your lane where you will shortly be. Pedestrians typically then stop about a foot away from your lane, let you drive past them, and then continue walking. If a car slammed on the brakes in this situation, it would likely cause more accidents than not braking would cause.

On the contrary, in Tempe, a pedestrian starting to do the exact same thing as above is likely much more a case of them not realizing your car is coming at all, in which case slamming on the brakes is appropriate.

This isn't to defend Uber, clearly their car did do the wrong thing in the Tempe situation (though I make no judgment on who was at fault). And clearly cars need to be able to handle the variety of unwritten, localized driving quirks different regions have. But it seems like a very non-trivial problem to do this correctly.

In addition to large amounts of surveillance, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) has regularly been featured on Cops and Vegas Strip [0]. So pretty much the exact opposite of the Las Vegas slogan.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegas_Strip_(TV_series)

I've done it with a Citi Double Cash card. It's a nice all around card: 2% cash back, price matching, temporary numbers, etc. Don't take my recommendation blindly though, do your own research first of course!

Edit: As a meta-sidenote, it was very difficult for me to write this comment without feeling like it would come across as corporate shilling. I have no connection to Citi and nothing to gain from recommending their card, but there's no way for anybody else to know that, and the issue of selling old accounts is a real one (though don't know about HN specifically). I wonder what the best solutions are to this sort of issue.

> There is no user purchase validation step! I just swipe my phone and transaction is done. I get this is the same as using a CC but in theory there is such a huge opportunity to improve the experience. How about popping up a thing where I confirm the purchase, even add a tip or sign for some purchases? WTF???

I disagree with you here. I want the payment to be as fast and painless as possible. A "tip" screen, a "sign" screen, etc. would all be very annoying. I suppose adding these optionally somehow could work though.

On a technical note, it's not quite the same as swiping a CC. There's some authentication to start - you must authenticate on your phone (via fingerprint or pattern or whatever lock mechanism you have) before you can make a payment. In addition, a one-time token is sent instead of your actual CC number, so the retailer couldn't reuse your payment info. In other words, it's much more secure than "signing" ever was and you get some nice security benefits by using your phone as opposed to swiping a credit card.

"illiteracy-promoting interior design abomination" may be a bit of hyperbole... I won't be shelving my books backwards, but if some designers enjoy the look of backwards books, so be it. Seems like an expensive way to decorate though.

Yep. And although there are many bad things you can say about Amazon, they're known for having excellent customer service in general (at least relative to other popular tech companies).

Some customer service stories might exemplify typical interactions (maybe it is really hard to get customer support from Google), but one-off stories such as this one seem more interesting simply as curious tales than as anything that would shape ones opinions of a corporation's service.

Thanks for the response - I think your thoughts on tax increases are quite reasonable. I agree that it's much harder to swallow a tax increase when it seems as if the money is going towards causes you disagree with, and I also feel that way with this tax bill personally.

Not sure if I understand the double taxation argument though. Say local/state/federal tax is 1%/5%/20%. Without the SALT deduction of any form, you get taxed 26% on each dollar which seems intuitive and fair. I think this model makes more sense than exempting certain amounts of money from each subsequent tax-level, but discounting the actual economic implications, I suppose which model seems more intuitive is somewhat subjective.

First, this article would've been much better off using medians instead of means. High earner outliers tend to skew stats like these.

Second, it's interesting to see people who were in favor of tax increases suddenly change their mind when it hits them. While I agree that tax cuts for the rich seem unnecessary, some tax hikes for the upper middle-class aren't out of line compared with a Democrat led tax plan. I wonder how much our own personal interests in our money affects how we view tax plans? Most people, no matter how rich they are, seem to want those just richer than them to be taxed more.

Finally, although the removal of the SALT deduction will cost me significantly, I'm not sure I understand how the deduction makes sense. Why should a state raising their taxes mean you have less of a federal obligation? It only makes sense to me if states with higher taxes use less federal resources.

Being able to wear contacts is extremely convenient for athletic activity and times when you want to wear standard sunglasses. I personally like a hybrid approach - glasses most of the time but contacts once in awhile. I would guess that wearing contacts occasionally is fine, but feel free to disagree if you do!

Summary of the study available here: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/19/to-type-or-not-to-type-q...

Speed bumps can be painful for those with back injuries (and likely other injuries). An elderly relative of mine would have to get out of vehicles at curbs or speed bumps and get back in the car on the other side. A smarter speed bump could presumably reduce this pain as long as one goes over the speed bump at a slow speed.

Agreed 100%. I found that on my phone (Galaxy S8, Android N), having the wifi location service enabled doubles or triples idle battery drain. So regardless of privacy concerns, I'm basically forced to have GPS-only location updating. It irks me to no end that Google incessantly bugs me to enable its service, which in turn changes my location mode back to GPS+Wifi and ills my battery life.

Ha, don't worry about the CS degree - lifetimes are plenty confusing to people with a CS degree too! I think it'd take a combination of reading the theory and actually using Rust for most people to get a good grasp on them.

Hidden in the notes at the bottom is a pretty useful improvement to 'git stash':

> 'git stash save' now accepts pathspecs. You can use this to create a stash of part of your working tree, which is handy when picking apart changes to turn into clean commits.

I believe there may be a slight error in the GitHub blog post I quoted above: from what I can tell, it's actually the 'git stash push' command that now accepts pathspecs. But either way, still a neat new feature!

> [The lawsuit] asserts that by allowing Islamic State militants to spread propaganda freely on social media, the three companies provided "material support" to the group and enabled attacks such as the one in San Bernardino.

> A number of lawsuits have been filed in recent years seeking to hold social media companies responsible for terror attacks, but none has advanced beyond the preliminary phases.

Here's another recent example of this [0]. At first glance of the definition for material support [1], these lawsuits might seem (legally) reasonable. Luckily though, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act [2] makes these lawsuits fairly baseless. I can't imagine the consequences if social media providers were liable for all content posted on them... (Disclaimer: IANAL in the least)

[0]: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-lawsuits...

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339A

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...

My apologies, I didn't mean to imply that you dislike rich people, or anything about you personally! My comments were just reflecting on my own experiences of feeling antipathy towards those with more and trying to figure out what's productive and what's unhealthy.

I think it's a parody account, right?

> I'd rather be on a yacht out of touch with reality. We all our preferences; some just are unable to have them

> Just bc I'm rich doesn't mean I don't have problems. In fact I've been devastated about the furniture my decorator chose

> I'm funemloyed, much better than actually being employed. Try it sometime...if you can

Regardless, in general, disliking people just because they're rich seems unhelpful and a quick way to jealously and discontentment. Being angered by wealthy individuals who actively abuse those with less is an entirely different story though.

The current infrastructure for transit between Manhattan and NJ is quite lacking, an additional tunnel for trains and bridge for bikes/cars seems like a great idea. (This also allows the current aging infrastructure to be closed for repairs.)

As far as I know, there's no reasonable way to bike between middle/lower Manhattan and New Jersey. A new tunnel / bridge should definitely add some bike lanes!

What es6 features were you looking for that TS didn't support? In general, it supports most stage 3 and higher ES proposals. (Note that TS doesn't polyfill methods; it only adds support for syntactic elements)

I'm being a touch quarrelsome, but wouldn't a data center job often inherently require working on weekends and holidays? Curious here about the nature of data center jobs in general and in what specific ways Amazon would be worse than normal (if any).

Also called "structuring" - intentionally making small transactions to avoid the oversight that comes with large ones [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring

I've found this exact same thing as well - the FF awesome bar always seems to give me the results I want, whereas I have to do a lot more specific and manual typing to find what I want in the Chrome bar. This could be an interesting blog post I'd think: comparing the implementations of the matching algorithms of Chrome vs. FF vs. possible others.

geofft is likely right, and it doesn't seem to be a particularly controversial topic amongst different strains of Christianity topic at that. (I've seen conservative and more liberal sources that think Saul/Paul was a sort of dual name.) The most concrete verse on the matter seems to be Acts 13:9:

  > But Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze on him

That's not to say that name changes are never indicative of internal change in the Bible, and it's possible that Saul started using the name Paul more intentionally to represent his change. But there doesn't seem to be much concrete evidence of that.