skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so happy to hear about your pain with the new banking partner. I thought I was the only one. That alone almost made me abandon them for good.

They just created a new goals system that "locks" off your money more than original goals. It seems like a good system, I need more experience to really say.

I still love Simple. But they made it readily apparent that I need to have funds in multiple banks to stay financially safe.
Yes and no - this was originally developed at UC Santa Barbara, and Uber acquired the company that resulted:

https://tia.ucsb.edu/about-tia/success-stories/shadowmaps/

Then it went dark. So Uber deserves credit for funding the continuing development of this tech, but it isn't open when the pre-acquired company could have provided exactly what you want. I really wish there were different (but still financially rewarding) avenues for technology like this to go down, other than being swallowed whole by BigCorp and disappearing from the world.
> One thing I would say is just talk through problems with candidates as simple as that sounds. Try to grok how they think through software problems. Nothing mind-blowing there, but what I'm saying is how someone codes fizz-buzz tells very little...or to me this is like hiring a driver by taking them out to a parking lot and doing doughnuts.

That's what people do, or should be doing, along with the whiteboarding. I don't think anyone just has them do fizzbuzz and that's it, like you seem to be implying. That won't even fill an entire interview slot.

> it seems like it is much more enlightening to hear about how they organize a schedule...

Sure, and that's also something you ask about, but that doesn't weed out the people who can talk the talk but can't really program, who do exist.

> But even as I type this, I'm wondering if the ability to read people is why this so hard for software interviewers...or maybe it's for lack of that simple skill that our industry has resorted to silly proxies like fizz buzz, etc.

I think it's because people want real evidence of skill, which is pretty easy to detect via whiteboard in most cases, not just the interviewer's gut feeling.
Further information about the smear campaign against Carson is at https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson .

For example, this link says "lauding her efforts to ban DDT and other life-saving chemicals" while the RationalWiki link points out "Silent Spring only called for a limitation on the use of DDT and it has never been completely banned for use in the Third World as it has in the US (and there are even still a few exceptions to the ban in the US)".

Furthermore, RationalWiki says "The book led President John F. Kennedy to order an investigation of the claims by the Science Advisory Committee, which vindicated Carson's work.", quoting https://www.nrdc.org/stories/story-silent-spring .
European Parliament is on stricter regulations on Crypto exchange
wow I'd have guess that was untouchable. Now I'm going to have to try it. Since ShakeShack appeared in Penn station, that and a tall beer or two has been my post-work Acela fare.
Also applies in figuring out the spot to pick up the rider, most people don't move much when requesting a car.
>> In Europe, by now they’d have undoubtedly been broken up or even taken over by the government, with revenues either flowing directly to the government or collected through high tax rates, fees, and fines.

Large companies based in Europe that haven't been "broken up and taken over" by "the government":

Royal Dutch Shell (UK & Netherlands)
BP (UK)
Total (France)
Volkswagen (Germany)
Daimler (Germany)
BNP Paribas (France)
Carrefour (France)
Banco Santander (Spain)
Fiat (Italy)
BMW (Germany)

etc. etc. etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_European_compa...
Do you have a wide range of applications that you need this pre-cut wood for? Or is it one thing? I'm curious
One thing for Westerners to be aware of: In India, your exam scores (SAT-type thingys) are public, very public. They are usually published in a special edition of the local newspaper, in descending order. Meaning that the best kid comes first in a very public way. Couple this with the familial honor system/arranged marriages and I think you'll understand why pressure can be so intense. Even your love-life can be radically changed by these tests.
Looking at that chart...unremarked is the 1991 $1.9 billion merger of Manufacturers Hanover with Chemical...it's more a commentary on the reality than the chart, a $1.9 billion bank merger doesn't make the cut as being important enough in the current post-Glass–Steagall "too big to fail" TARP banks...I interviewed for an IT role with the old Manny Hanny group within Chase Manhattan bank in the late 1990s...they were a bank buried within a larger bank, and soon to merge with JP Morgan and a host of other banks.
Anecdotally, I've noticed the onion uses certain phrases over and over again in articles - "area man" comes to mind.

Did you really train it to detect satire, or just the onion writer's conventions? How does it perform when trained on onion articles and tested against some non-onion satire publication?
Wi-Fi geolocation is very accurate (in urban areas) because there are many Wi-Fi access points which which to triangulate and their range is pretty short. I'm surprised the article didn't mention Wi-Fi at all.
Boycotting Captain Boycott
India’s ATMs Are Running Out of Cash. Again
The drummer who became famous for playing a single show as a fill in
My big box stores will cut lumber no problem. You just have to ask at the service desk.
Methodologies: Why Do We Need Them?
This is purely anecdotal and could easily be PEBKAC, but I created a bunch of xz backups years ago and had to access them a couple of years later after a disc died. To my panicked surprise, when trying to unpack them, I was informed that something was wrong (sorry at this point I don't remember what it was). I never did get it working. From that point on I went back to gzip and have not had a problem since. Yes xz packs efficiently, but a tight archive that doesn't inflate is worse than worthless to me.
> In fact - I believe the only reason that they even have public facing consumer branches is largely to get access to capital as cheaply as possible

I would agree with this. Banks nowadays– maybe not local independent banks or credit unions– leverage your money to purchase investment vehicles on better credit for their higher-profile clientele, and also as liquid capital to dispense as needed.

> If a direct line from improving the customer experience to make more money can't be drawn, the bank won't do it.

Yep. I have an account at a sizable bank, and their mobile app has been broken the half dozen times I've used it, across as many months.

It's the 21st century and a bank cannot figure out how to finance a proper mobile management application.
Unfortunately, I don't know of a good write-up of how the kernel actually deals with file descriptors, aside from the man pages for the various syscalls you're using.

From the kernel's perspective, there's nothing special about file descriptors 0, 1, and 2. The shell did the same pipe/fork/dup2/exec procedure as your code when it launched your program, and hooked the other end of the pipes to the terminal.

When you call fork(), both processes keep all of their open file descriptors, which is why you have to close the ones you're not going to use with either close() or dup2(). If stdout or stderr is already attached to the correct destination when fork() is called, it's perfectly acceptable to leave them alone.

Read-mode file descriptors (like stdin) are more problematic if they're used concurrently by multiple processes. Only one of the processes will read any given piece of data that was written into the pipe, so you need to coordinate the reads between the processes somehow.
My first thought too. :)
On the topic of "tiers," I have found that with Citibank, when my credit card has a small balance, I get really good phone support. If my card has a medium balance (say, $2,000 to $9,000), I get shoved off to a third-world call center. But when my balance climbs over $20,000, I get the good service again.

Yes, my balance fluctuates wildly month-to-month. Travel.
> Needless to say, the UN is not a good lead to follow with respect to nimble regulatory structure.

I'm sure the world is waiting agog for your proposals for an alternative international body able to coordinate communication satellite frequencies and orbits across all nations.
> If we froze a single instance of space & time, we would see a universe sitting still.

I don't believe that mental experiment proves what you think. If you freeze time, there wouldn't be anyone that could make observations. You might as well choose one fixed point in the universe, eliminating space considerations, and think about its whole story from the beginning to the end of time; that would be as real as a frozen universe.

I think of reality as a goo of vibrating stuff, encompassing all matter and energy. Matter creates space, and the vibrations of change create time.
A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost (2017)
The Mercury 13, women who qualified but were blocked from becoming astronauts
That's what happens when you put 10x developer with few 1x and -0.5x ones.
How IBM quietly pushed out 20,000 older workers
New Fashion Toilet Bag Washing Bag Cosmetic Bags,
GDPR is red herring. Current laws already require opt-in when collecting biometric data. From 2011:

> The Hamburg data protection authority on Tuesday ruled that Facebook’s facial recognition feature, which attempts to identify people in photos uploaded to the site, violates German privacy laws.

> Johannes Caspar, the head of the authority, said Facebook should not be collecting users’ biometric data – such as their face shape and the distance between their eyes – without getting their explicit consent. He has demanded that the social networking site change or disable the feature. All data collected so far should be deleted.

> Mr Caspar has given Facebook two weeks to respond. If the company is unable to make changes, Mr Caspar said the Hamburg authority would consider bringing legal action against it.
Amazon just invented and released the 'Internet'
Watch as robots build a $25 Ikea chair in minutes
Big Oil was broken up by anti trust legislation. It's possible this comes back around. Currently reading a biography on Brandeis who was one of the titans of anti-trust in the 30s and 40s. I'm hoping that kind of regulation comes back around.
One such is Jack Henry. I just interviewed with them (but didn't get the job, which is too bad as I really wanted to work there). They offer everything you need to start a bank or credit union, at a couple of different complexity levels.
The constants should at least be generics. As is, you can't instantiate two with different behavior. Some would also be better just as input signals to permit runtime configurability. Any that don't need to change can be tied to constant values for the same result as the current circuit.
You've never heard "alcohol is the most common date rape drug?"
That makes it sound they're running Lua on embedded. In that case, is the JS-to-Lua transpiling done on-device as well?
Prepack is doing much more than GCC can because it effectively evaluates the whole code and then serialises its heap. This is both its biggest strength and weakness.

Unlike GCC, it can unroll any kind of metaprogramming, but it needs to have a model of the environment (e.g. it won’t execute code relying on DOM) and it can produce larger code (in terms of absolute size).
I gave up on Wells Fargo over 15 years ago and have never regretted it for a moment. Small credit unions are just fine. I'll never again use a big bank.
I guess I just don't care enough to ruin my life over it. It's a pretty interesting thing to think about, actually. To think that a bloody revolution was sparked over much less than what we put up with today... It's almost like Stockholm Syndrome.
Study: Bitcoin Ransomware’s Economic Impact Doesn’t Merit Media Hype
IBM has stopped innovating a long time ago, I would guess sometime in the late 1980s

IBM is also the biggest Patent Troll on the planet[1]. I met a Patent and IP Lawyer at a Code Camp in San Luis Obispo. He said he did Legal Patent and Licensing work for IBM for many years and claimed that they generated over 1 Billion $ / year just from their Licensing deals and patent enforcement alone, and that it was their biggest source of income.
I tried to see if those # in his claim were true, and it looks like they are, even to this day.

> Between 2008 and 2012 IBM’s patent portfolio generated between $1.1 and $1.2 billion per year.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2016/01/19/if-patent...

[1] Source: https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs...
Until people start going to jail for their illegal activity rather than just paying out nominal fines I wouldn't expect their behavior to change. This is at least the 3rd major fine Wells Fargo has paid in the last few years.

If only people remembered that the second half of the expression about "a few bad apples" is that they "spoil the bunch."
I'd hardly consider networking support to be irrelevant to a desktop app.
Because its a good practice in this industry to get rid of sub-par employees as potato-torpedos for the comeptition to hire- by praising them in the highest register?
> When did you last get 100Mbit+ speeds with 4G?

Any time I'm not over the 5GB data limit on my plan, really. I can speed test and get values like 102 Mbps down / 35Mbps up on TMobile US, on an old device (iPhone 6). Newer devices have better radios/basebands that support fancier air interface features and thus get even faster speeds.
#deletemint
Thank you.

Is this a fallacy with a established name?

("nobody is doing it right but it's obviously must be their fault")

People do this with programming languages as well.

"haha everyone's making stupid mistakes using this language .. it can't be the language so we should blame the people"
Does it absolutely have to be wood?

https://www.onlinemetals.com/
We didn't have a landline in rural US until I was 14. We had point-to-point long distance maser and WISP by the time I was 21. If anyone wants it, they can get it, of they pay for it. If somebody doesn't want to pay for it, why should the despits of various people's urban states compel their denizens to do so?
In a private meeting of a task force called G.S.M.A. North America this year, AT&T and Verizon pushed for the ability to lock phones to their networks, bypassing the purpose of eSIM technology, said Harold Feld, a senior vice president of Public Knowledge, a nonprofit consumer group, who was briefed on the meeting. Verizon has said it needed to be able to lock down phones to prevent theft and fraud.

To prevent theft and fraud?! They literally have no shame, and I hope the government throws the book at them. Telecoms and ISP’s are just the worst of the worst, along with banks, and both need aggressive oversight to stop them from outright robbing us all and calling it “holding your money for safekeeping.”
oh good another article where I get to read about people doing more interesting things than I will ever get to do.

I hate my life.
I regularly see 150-200 Mbps (testing with fast.com in London on EE) but it can drop to 50-odd even with a good signal (I'm guessing due to contention) and the drop off with a low signal (1/2 bars) is dramatic.

If 5G gives 100+ on two bars and increases capacity enough to keep the speeds up at busy times, it's worth it.
Without diminishing the author's efforts, I would say that he quickly teaches his AI how to recognize The Onion articles, instead of satire articles in general.

I would be curious to see results with 3-4 news sources for each groups.
> Full trains are a bigger problem than fresh food for Amtrak.

And upgrading their network to Positive Train Control should be a higher priority than full trains and food. They've had several fatal crashes recently that PTC might have avoided.
Loved how that was framed. I'm going to start assessing the interest rate. Which to me is the interest leadership has on fixing vs new features.
What do they think of people without public or linked or clear-named accounts?
Same EXACT thing with Sprint, however at the oligopoly Sprint, you have little choice.

This appears to happen with any proto-monopolistic entity. The problem is, unlike government protected 'businesses' like cell phone and cable companies, there is no monopoly in the Banking sector.

So, WHY, why are people still drawn to the lowest common denominator big banks for their accounts? It makes not sense.

I'm leaving this month from my own big bank, after their "FREE" online banking as long as you don't bother us, e-checking account, went from free to $12 a month.
I sincerely hope I detect sarcasm. Reminds me of tulips. takes shot for cryptocurrency bingo How's that beanie baby investment working out for everyone? ;p
Community of jerks usually easily accept another jerks, so it's quite possible to find yourself among jerks even if you're not jerk.
See the above list: those are all current projects. Granted, that's about 3 years' backlog because I can't actually get the needed lumber - so maybe once a year or so. Another actual application from the past would be blocks of 2x6 to prop up a bed frame by a couple extra inches. I rather enjoy basic carpentry, so I might do more small projects (lap desk? monitor stand?) with better access to materials.
I'm not a CPA either but considering it income on the day of the fork is assured not a burden on you.

That means you have tax obligations on all potential future forks, regardless of whether you know it or do anything with that information.

IIRC the suggestion I found online was to pay capital gains tax on the full amount you sold or exchanged the coin for.
Perhaps a more pertinent question is whether or not Lindsey Graham understands and expects every American citizen and resident to have read all 51 titles of the US Code and all of the Code of Federal Regulations which carry the force of statutory law by inclusion.
Google talk was brilliant and it was a sad day when they shuttered it.
Exactly. A bit of an exaggerated headline, no? The first paragraph basically refutes the headline. What was built was an Onion article detector.
Proper Task Management
> If a scientist offers subjects $10 for participating, the scientist must pay that $10 to anyone who declines the consent form.

Any resources I can learn more about this? An acquaintance of mine runs a research group at a university, designing and executing survey instruments for other groups. Periodically asks me to help her with leveraging Facebook Ads for participant recruitment when her traditional targeting means falls short (generally surveys that need participants less than ~35, but sometimes for other unique targeting requirements).

The ads usually advertise a gift card for qualifying and participating, and the only branch of the survey that includes the gift card portion is the one where participants both complete the survey and don't get routed out by the initial qualifier questions. The recruitment ad copy, the survey instruments, etc all have to go through IRB approval, so I assumed that process was all above board.
Loud Sound from Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center
American also born to an education-focused set of parents.

I've been out of school well over a decade and still have those nightmares. Usually correlates with work-stress for me now, but at least once or twice a year I wake up terrified out of a dream where I'm walking around my highschool (always highschool, never college, oddly, despite my college courses being MUCH harder; I think because the artificial stakes and utter lack of autonomy) trying to find the classroom for some test I didn't realize I had.

I had this same conversation with my wife recently as well. It still blows me away that I'm hard pressed to think of situations where I felt as stressed/panicked as I was in parts of highschool, and I've not shirked challenges by any means. I both respect and would not want to be a kid growing up nowadays.
American rail is built for cargo, so there are no sections as fast as a freeway.

Also there are several sections that are particularly slow. The track through the Rockies is the original 1869 route, with original curvy single track and original tunnels. Speed there is around 20mph. Sometimes you come close to I-70, where cars are going 60-80mph. The Sierras also have slow sections. That said, those were my favorite parts of the trip.
How many of the 51 titles of the United States Code am I, as a citizen, expected to have read and understood? Isn't Mr. Graham being a little hypocritical?
I would agree with these additions. This is basically the crony capitalism playbook.
I didn't have a good experience the last time I took Amtrak and had dining on board. It was the only time in my life I felt I was discriminated against in a dining setting. It was near the end of dinner time and food was likely running low so i didn't expect much. However after seating us, she took on two other groups and continued to fully serve them drinks and meal before coming back to our table for drinks. And by this time, nearly every item we wanted of interest was out of stock. With this kind of service, I rather they just serve premade airline quality food.
Why cannot we, as consumers, gang up and define a kind of universal and fair ‘reverse contract’ that defines rights and duties that a potential service provider needs to conform to? If they don’t, we just don’t use their service.
"You know it's time to sell when shoeshine boys give you stock tips. This bull market is over." (Joe Kennedy)
Staffing Firm Adecco Buys General Assembly for $412.5M
>The investigation was opened about five months ago after at least one device maker and one wireless carrier filed formal complaints with the Justice Department, two of the people said.

Betting it's Apple. They're probably eager to get rid of SIM slots.
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The optimization is transforming all code that matches the pattern independent from whether the code is hot or not.

The transformation comes with cognitive cost for the developer as it can turn correct code into incorrect code (sparse arrays).

By enabling this one trades complexity for potential performance gains.

This is how I understand premature.
I think you're implying that the GDPR is a money-grabbing scheme that the poor, cash-strapped EU pulled to fill its coffers with much needed cash.

The EU as a whole is the world’s second largest economy. However, the GDPR is up for unique enforcement strategies and legal interpretations in the courts of 28 different EU countries. Having users intentionally set up a company to be subject to fines under such a broadly written law is a trivial matter.

Picture this: A local government attorney simply looks for technical violations of GDPR according to their own country’s strict interpretation of it that even the corporation themselves couldn’t have envisioned. Then they simply have a government agent sign up for the site and take screenshots as proof of the “violation” that the specific country has invented. They put the matter in front of a patriotic local judge who is aware of how much his town could use a new park and is tired of reading about how rich US internet entrepreneurs are getting. Boom, instant millions - they might even name the town’s new park after the judge.

The poor EU countries will use this to suck up as much revenue as they can from what to them are faceless US corporations. The larger ones will use this to give local competitors a leg up by fining international competitors to death. It’s a smart strategy I suppose, but as with most heavy-handed government attempts to control and exploit the free market, it is quite likely to backfire.