skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They talk about this a little in part 3:

> An addendum to the ACH protocol to support same-day ACH settlement is something that is almost unanimously desired by the ACH community. The good news is that NACHA, the governing organization behind ACH, has recently announced plans to roll out a same-day ACH protocol. The challenge is coordinating the adoption of the new protocol across all participating banks. Once fully implemented, the same-day ACH system would likely cut one day from the timelines outlined here.

http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...
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> While there are no absolutes in computer security, we design, build and operate Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with the goal to protect customers' code and data.

Cute.
I had an integrator request this so I stood up a nodeJS server that only implements upload, not download. This way if they leaked their own password, a malicious actor is limited to forging data, and no real data can be leaked. Because it didn't work in FileZilla, they didn't want to use it. Worked at another company that shuffled data between big name gyms & health insurance companies, it also used CSV files sent over FTP in all directions, to my dismay. CSV isn't even a well defined format, and you get all kinds of impedance mismatches with different delimiter & escaping mechanisms, character encodings, BOM, etc. Other companies will just give you a SQL user & let you go to town mining their database directly. I don't understand whats so difficult about making an API, but sometimes it seems like no one wants to do it. You can't push back too much or they will just see you as a problem & decide not to integrate with you.
Data point, thank you. It's getting harder for me as well, but not so much that I noticed until you pointed it out.
I have always preferred light-on-dark text on any kind of screen, and havde never quite understood why it wasn't the standard way to do things. But now I see.
> Customer Obsession - Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.

Oh yes? I never asked to be reminded 10 times a day to become a "Prime Member", every single time I purchase something via Amazon using evil dark patterns (make the "skip" option appear as a text link and not a button).

This and the whole concept of selling certains items to Prime members ONLY, and the fact that their prices are far from being as good as they were just 2-3 years ago, I can tell you the obsession now is clearly with profit margins than anything else.
My problem isn't that they couldn't pull off a fully open laptop, it's that they lied and said they would, knowing from the start they were dealing with chips that were impossible to open source. Then, they doubled down and lied again. If I contribute to a campaign that says they will give me something, and they fail to come through not once but twice, I expect my money back. They are scam artists as far as I'm concerned.

If one guy[1] can pull off a truly, fully open hardware and software laptop, you'd think a fully funded startup could do better. It's embarrassing.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena
Unless you perform a proper statistical analysis it's unfair to draw a conclusion from a single run.

Furthermore, when I see a second run that's faster than the first one, I immediately wonder if it's the cache being cold for the first run and warm for the second.

While I have your attention, https://zedshaw.com/archive/programmers-need-to-learn-statis... is worth reading.
I'm sorry but I can't let this one slide. Yes, children have been subjected to a slew of execrable sitcoms but at least in the realm of cartoons children's there is much that is of high quality. Adventure Time, Gravity Falls and Steven Universe roundly refute "universally terrible". Even the 2000s had Avatar, Samurai Jack, early Spongebob and Fairly Odd Parents. Other than nostalgia and smugness, I can't find any justification for claiming that none of it was as "mentally stimulating" as the 90s given how equally rife with garbage the 90s were.
Pretty sure all WebKit-based browsers (including chrome) do this. I'd guess they block if needed, but I'm not sure.
Meat they’ve always been pretty pricy for, that’s true. Mostly because it’s all the more expensive types (grass fed, organic, unusual types, etc).

It’s good value for what it is but more expensive overall.
Yes, you're missing something.
I guess the real answer is probably somewhere in between - restrict at first and loosen restrictions as you see fit. Are there a lot of examples of how to do this effectively? It's a question I wonder about.
That's a bit ridiculous, if people are that sensitive they have different problems. I was simply asking a question about whether they get car sick or not from reading while in the car. It does not assume anything, that is exactly why I asked the question. Based on my experience that is what would happen to me, so I was curious to hear their account.
Part 2:

http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...

Part 3:

http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...

Part 4:

http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...
You don't need to be a more productive widget, you need to own the share of output of an increasing number of productive widgets.
NASA nuclear Dragonfly's drone for search of alien life on Saturn's moon Titan
I agree with you're point, but that quote may not be from Churchill

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001715.h...
Of course they should. Back-end developers usually build APIs. Hell, I'm a front-end developer and I can easily answer that question. The only thing I can think of is that the people you are interviewing do not have web experience. Are they fresh out of university? I've met plenty of CS students who know all the algorithms and everything about C / C++ but nothing about the web.
At least it's secure and usually FTPS...hopefully using TLS 1.2+ cryptographic protocol.

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7636066
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I have to question the morality of a corporate ethos like this. It sounds like the flip-side of "in the interest of shareholder value", which can result in collateral damage to the environment, communities, politics, etc.

Amazon has arm-twisted competitors like Zappos into sub-optimal acquisitions by selling goods at a loss, and it's a fair question to ask if less or no competition really benefits consumers in the long-run.

I'm starting to wonder if all large successful corporations are just a type of legal sociopath, driven to crazy extremes via corporate zealotry.
I agree they do that in many ways, but the pervasive issue of counterfeits on Amazon greatly erodes my trust of buying from Amazon, and has made me buy a lot of things off Amazon, even if it's a higher cost.
In Canada we have this thing called the CRTC. It's kind of like the FTC but much much worse. Basically, it's our communications commission but it's heavily staffed by ex oligopoly employees. Canada is in a tough situation where Rogers, Bell and Telus are the major 3 players and they effectively collude on prices. They've reached a happy state where they are more or less satisfied with their customer base or share of the pie in the respective markets (Telus in the West, Bell in the East and Rogers everywhere). What this has created is the highest ARPU in the world for mobile services. We also have one of the most unfriendly regulatory environments for third parties and foreign investors. There's only 3 provinces with a viable 4th telecom that's competing and you'll notice subscription rates are much much lower there (almost 50%). This being said, unless the crony run CRTC actually does something to allow MVNO's to be legally mandated (i.e. force the big three to sell their bandwidth) we'll never have the type of market the rest of the world enjoys. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way I can create a pseudo-mvno where it's basically a collective bargaining group that can actually negotiate real discounted rates for consumers...it's tough.
The truth is a decent restaurant has almost no margin on the main course food. The money is made on selling wine, cocktails and to an extent on starters and deserts.

You're paying a premium for food that is expensive to produce. Good restaurants buy the highest quality foods and this cuts deeply into the margin.

So yes, buying high quality food and cooking it at home will cost about what a restaurant charges you. You simply can not have it both ways. Either you want high quality food and will pay for it or you're buying low quality food at a premium with a nice brand on it or you're just buying cheap food which is of poor quality.
Letter to the Uber Board from Shervin Pishevar
A good story on ACH: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...

They mention that other regions' inter-bank money-transfer systems (e.g. the EU's) have been sped up to be same-day, or in some cases nearly instantaneous. The US ACH system lags behind, due to the sheer number of institutions that would be involved in a modernization effort. (There are a lot more US banks than there are UK/French/Canadian/Australian/etc. banks; I think in part because a bank that operates in 50 states is technically—and legally—50 banks, and each one maintains its own ACH infrastructure?)
We agree that this is an important use case, and is something we considered during the design. It is now supported by placing a Web Application Firewall in front of the App Engine application. We chose to limit the initial set of firewall features to IP address range blocking only — in part because that's sufficient to enable a WAF to front an App Engine Application.

-Tad Hunt
(Manager on the App Engine team that brought you this firewall)
https://golang.org/ref/spec#Iota ?
So, anyone try Firefox Nightly lately, with Stylo finally landed in there? The browser actually feels fast now, I think I've finally made my decision to dump Chrome.
It may be ridiculous, but language use can affect how it's interpreted. And given on a forum like this the text is the only channel of information. It's communication bereft of body language and intonation, which makes it even more of a challenge. For example, do you discern a difference between the following?

> "Do they not get car sick from reading books while driving?"

> "Do they get car sick from reading books while driving?"

If so, what is it? Why would a person choose one over the other?

I hope this is coming across as useful. How communication is understood on the web is interesting to me, and understanding how to communicate effectively means also learning how we come across and how that squares with what we intend, and I fear I may not be doing a good job here. Without a response from the people who actually down voted, all we can do is try to look at how people might interpret what was written.
Start a company...
FWIW, I found hang gliders really enjoying this site (alongside some other obscure wind estimation sites) for planning whether to go flying.
There is nothing special about learning to code. Learn the fundamentals, learn the math, learn how a computer works,practice, success. Seriously, if you want to be good at anything, it's always the same analogous steps.
In the menu it has a link explaining it:
https://community.windy.com/topic/12/what-source-of-weather-...
If you don't think a fair playing field is achievable then why pretend you care more and are working harder to achieve it than others, instead of admitting that you're focusing your energy elsewhere?
I love how at least half of the Childrens Illustrated Best sellers are all old books.
You can run debian on android today. You can make android look however you want it to look. What they are losing is doze, app standby, the compiler tech, they will have to redo wakelocks, the resource manager, etc.

In android, nothing is ever actually running other than background services and the foreground app.

Since I assume they don't want to tell their users "never start a second app" I wonder where all this infrastructure is going to come from. They will have to reinvent a whole new app paradigm.
Right, but in a market, if loans allowed to fluctuate with propensity of it being paid off, the student who'd be about to enroll in a good-for-nothing school would be facing far, far higher rates... which would tighten that feedback loop.
A bit more irritating to fellow publishers (sour grapes) because this publisher didn’t have to fork out actual cash for their own books. Feel sorry for the stores taking the orders with no hope of actual sales.
Which also raises the question about how the map projection / scaling affecs the percieved size and data layout.
Totally more secure, less error prone, and faster than a blockchain. /s
Trouble with who? The Church? I'm familiar with their weirdo bullying tactics but you can't really take them seriously - they have no power.
Apple could announce the next iPhone on September 12
When "type safe" is mentioned without qualification, it almost always refers to static type safety. This is one of those times. So no, the sync.Map container is not typesafe like a regular map is.
I wouldn't hire this guy just based on his attitude. The only one I agree with here is skipping meetings is rude
But if student loans existed in a competitive market, there would exist huge incentive for loan providers to do everything they could to really figure these things out. I completely take your point that this feedback would never be exact, but with federal student loans, the current feedback is about as worse as it could be. In a true market system, loan providers -- who would care a lot about being paid back! -- would require higher rates for schools with more dubious success, and would therefore tighten the feedback loop between school quality and student enrollment.
Unfortunately this is still susceptible to attacks like this: http://jantsch.se/AxelJantsch/papers/2016/ChristianKrieg-ICC...

Which is focused on attacking an FPGA, however the general idea of injecting hard to detect hardware via the tools themselves is a real problem.
That is understandable and I'm not a back end Engineer either. But I had an interview with a back end Engineer with like six years of experience. And I really thought that a simple question like this would make them feel at ease because they would know it right away.
I believe that top quality ingredients will be strictly reserved for better restaurants and home cooks that are willing to pay for it. There just is not possible production capacity for this level of ingredient that the common person can freely buy which is what Amazons strategy is here.

They can make a splash by lowering the price of a few ingredients with shocking price tags, like avocados. But will be impossible due to supply lines and cost of production for Amazon to turn Whole Foods into a high end merchant of top quality ingredients while maintaining any kind of margin.

If they want to play the Amazon loss game they can for awhile but eventually when a financial crisis hits and they have to rely on cash reserves, this cash poor company relative to their peers will be in trouble.

VC's subsidize Uber rides. Amazon investors subsidize these types of ventures. For now.
Specifically calling out the Deep Work book, I recall after the 6 months of promo, talks, and general marketing of the book the author wrote a blog post calling for participants to actually, well, you know, help test if the ideas in the book actually had any scientific merit.

I was already pretty disillusioned with the self help crowd (even those who claimed a scientific background), but that was the nail in the coffin.
The GP is using it as an insult.

Handgun training and competence varies tremendously between different cities and departments. Overall, I think most departments gotten drastically better over the last twenty years.

Handgun skills decline quickly without use. For a long time most American police departments only required officers to qualify once a year, and the test was easy.

Your average civilian handgun shooting enthusiast who shoots once or twice a month is probably better than your average police officer at hitting targets, simply because or the range time difference.

An oft quoted number that I can't source says that the average officer fires six shots per hit.

However, your average police officer should be able to handle stress better, should be used to fighting back at people trying to hurt them, and should be able to work with other officers as a team.
This won't be more user friendly than android. Google has invested a ton in ui r&d. They will have done very well if it doesn't crash frequently and you don't have to endure long waits to do stuff.
Yes, I understand that it should be metaphorical but in this case it's quite literal. This story demonstrates more of a user acquisition exercise and dresses it up as a SaaS business exercise. You will have different problems charging $1 once versus $10 per month. This story is really not about SaaS products.
Bose QC35. Best money I have spent on any audio equipment so far as it always puts me into that "hyperfocus" silent mode.
Docker, Rancher, EFS, Glusterfs, Minikube, SNS, SQS, Microservices and Containerd
As a paying Prime customer, I've never asked for Amazon to restrict Prime Video to only tablets, phones, and specifically Sony Bravia Android TVs. They eventually added AppleTV support, I guess? But I have a friend who doesn't have an AppleTV and so she can't watch Prime Video on her TV.

If Amazon is trying to use Prime Video as a bonus selling point, I don't see any point in restricting their own 'TV' shows to 'anything except a TV'. Pretty sure my friend didn't ask for that.
Thanks and please check this proposal for go2: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19814
Thumbs up if you like it.
All your examples are characteristics, not preferences. The model gets the data 'there aren't many women in STEM (end of pipeline)' so it doesn't allocate resources to girls who are interested at the start of the pipeline. The prediction -> action cycle generates a self fulfilling prediction that winds up at a bad local minimum (maybe the model needed better leakyREU functions).

This is the same problem why your netflix recommendations just show you either the stuff everyone else is watching or the stuff super similar to the stuff you've already liked, it's hard to make predictions that are both novel and useful. There has to be room for exploring new domain space.
> The current autopilot already appears to be materially safer, in certain circumstances

It depends on how you measure this. We always talk about humans being bad at driving. Humans are actually amazingly good drivers conditioned upon being alert, awake, and sober. Unfortunately a good fraction of people are in fact not alert. If you don't condition on this, than yes, humans suck.

(Put another way, the culture we, including companies such as Tesla, foster of working people overtime is probably more responsible for car accident deaths than anything else.)

The FAA takes pilot rest time seriously. Considering car accident deaths exceed airplane deaths by a few orders of magnitude, it's about time the rest of the world take rest equally seriously as well.
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Which is a bit like saying, at least the 70mph mountain pass road has a guard rail.
In my opinion they both should have the same reaction. If someone asked me that in person or by text I see no reason why I'd be upset by that. It's a simple question and nothing else I said in the comment would suggest I was trying to be rude, so why take it that way? Why be offended when you don't need to be. Seems a bit silly to me.
Yep, that's exactly it. There are a bunch of possible permutations/optimizations, like initially keeping the original header with the max age changed to 1 for a shorter period of time (until you're confident that the number of user reports will be small enough not to get on anyone important's radar before it's too late, and/or maybe you have some more complicated logic to track which clients do and don't have the altered header); but in any case the general point we made in the talk was just that enabling HPKP (among a few other things) was a net positive if you were worried about getting hit by RansomPKP today, not that it would entirely prevent the attack.
I'm an embedded hardware/software developer with only a lightweight exposure to web programming, and I feel that I could answer that question adequately.

I'd be curious to hear the types of responses you're actually getting. I've had to do a lot of interviewing in my career and I've encountered "simple" questions that throw nervous candidates off of their game simply because of a misunderstanding. Sometimes the simplest questions can be the worst because the candidates expect something harder and overthink it. So, you might play with the phrasing a bit, or have different ways of asking it in case they seem to freeze up. For example, "could you name and describe some of the defining properties of a REST API?" or "could you tell me what makes a REST API different from a [SOAP, etc.--pick your favorite alternative] API?"

That said, I would expect a reasonably bright, experienced candidate to understand what you're asking fairly quickly. If you have to re-phrase it 3 times and they're still stuck, they're probably not a good fit.
Fun fact incoming: there is a mini-magnetosphere centered around Mare Crisium on the Moon.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2009GL041721/abst...

It's only 360km across though...
Still, the topic isn't strictly on people's interactions with a screen. The biggest difference is availability. You couldn't carry your T.V. with you everywhere you go, and it can't do even close to as much as a mobile phone can.

I'll agree that there's imperfect information because of how new the technology is, and how it's difficult to study the long-term effects because of that. However, erring on the side of caution while doing something as non-deterministic as raising a child because you don't know the consequences is not an incorrect course of action.
Ugh, reminds me of the time I had to integrate with a bunch of school software. They used csv over ftp (no auth). You just had to connect to the server and get the personal information of a district's students. Worse is you could google the URLs... I built a system that solved the problem but left shortly after it began to be integrated nationwide.
I always find it interesting how people learn so differently. Personally, I learn a language by building something in it. I want a feel for it, before digging deep and learning about theory. I only do that stuff much later, after I'm relatively proficient in the language.

This is probably why I wasn't very good at picking up musical instruments. I was never satisfied learning at a slow pace and only being able to play "twinkle twinkle little star". Programming is perfect for me because you can build things before you really know what you are doing.
It could be used for that exactly, getting the public interested in new development projects. Not sure it would be worth the cost though.