skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had very similar experience at one of the large banks, no one cared about helping me, everyone just directed me to go online on their website to call the 1-800 number. What's the point of Physical Banking Centers anymore. Not the mention the horrendous wait for the customer care to answer the phone when called.
In his case Bank of America attempted to forclose on a house he bought after he bought it.
In California (pre-recreational use) I got the impression that it was entirely outside of the health system. To get your recommendation you saw a doctor that only handles cannabis recommendations, and often that's via video conferencing. There's a cursory health check (blood pressure, pulse, etc.), but nothing too in-depth and it was done by a technician. Insurance doesn't cover it, so you pay out of pocket and you're done.

Doctors either only did cannabis recommendations, or they didn't do them at all, so conventional doctors weren't bogged down by this.
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I live in Europe an sadly only viable option to treat chronic pain is to use black market. This is tragic. I wish I had quality of life people can have in legal states. But drugs are immoral heads in the TV say. Sometimes I question what is the point to live in this world.
This is just a re-sorted version of producthunt. Wouldn't be too hard to sort it with some stupid deep-learning model then upload the links to the bitcoin blockchain in that order.
Universities make computer scientists, not software engineers. Hence why domain specific courses are offered.
Hangouts has all that. What's wrong with hangouts? Why should it be replaced with something "newer"? Why does Google HO keep getting worse?
The way to achieve that, in my opinion, is to try to align the person's career objectives with the company's objectives. Find out what motivates them, money, recognition, etc and illustrate how they can achieve those goals by achieving the company's goals. Then people motivate themselves.

The other part is being a good coach, which is not about giving advice, it's about helping someone take responsibility for their tasks and helping them learn how to improve.

That's just my opinion, and I'm not a manager so maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about.
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Hey, just playing devil's advocate here. Some banks come pretty close to what you're asking for. I go to a small, community bank in flyover country that uses Jack Henry as a SAAS for its online services. Most of the things you asked for are already being offered.

> I should be able to partition my money into several lightweight accounts - one for groceries, one for home expenses, investment, etc

You can open multiple checking accounts at most banks. I've made partitioned checking accounts like this before.

> automatically have fractions of my deposits sent to those accounts so my budgeting and money management are handled without any effort on my part.

Money transfers can be scheduled but they're usually by set amounts instead of fractions (e.g. add $100 on the first of the month). I use this myself.

> I should have lightweight cards available for each of those accounts with online card management (request/terminate cards, track per-card spending)

Should be able to open debit cards for each account but you'll probably need to be in person to request/terminate them. Maybe you could do it over the phone by authenticating yourself, not sure. I haven't heard of per-card tracking but at least you know what you spent on your card.

> multiple cards per account so I can give my wife full use of "grocery" card

You can tie multiple debit cards to the same account for a husband and wife. Try explaining what you're doing and a banker should set that up for you.

> alerts/notifications when I am spending too much in an account/not efficiently allocating the full amount/potentially using a card improperly

There are account alerts that can be set up for exactly this. I have it shoot me an email with the alert message when something gets triggered.

> financial projections

Account history can be downloaded in common formats like csv. There are already tools you could use to create the projection and do fancy data visualization things for yourself. You could scrape your account data periodically using your online banking credentials. Might be dangerous to automate though.
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Long work hours and abusive environment.

Furthermore, it's a fairly specialized field - only a few companies in the US (or heck, the world) hire such people. So you can't just up and leave.
That's awesome! I'd probably follow up that, since I generally interview for real time, firmware jobs, we try to clearly bound execution time, and therefore frown against more functional techniques like that. But you clearly know how to program well and would most likely get a thumbs up. : )
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What is this conspiracy? First I've heard of it.
Surprised Korea wasnt mentioned, I believe they have the highest suical rates if Im not mistaken. The kids starting from elementary start school at 7am and comes back home around midnight. Which is really gross and atrocious to hear, almost as bad as labor camps if you ask me.
> the overhead cost of providing services is absolutely sky high

That is an advantage for big banks.

Insane setup/maintenance costs and low marginal costs disadvantages small banks or startups.
Yes without a reservation. However, the first half of dinner hour was for reservations then they took people in without reservations. By the time we were called, anyone with reservations would have long been accommodated. I understand that food might run out but they could have atleast asked us about drinks.
That belongs to the realm of graduate courses where theory and rigor are more emphasized.
I think he probably didn't really, he was just dead weight on his team.
Now that's how it's done. Nice.
Exactly the same, hence the intense curiosity. I love a good conspiracy theory, if only because I also love spy/espionage novels and geopolitical thriller movies.

Yes I'm very exciting at parties :)
A service to match people with jobs based on their Signature Strengths[1]

1. https://www.viacharacter.org/www/Research/What-the-Research-...
Well, seems like you have identified an unserved niche. I wish I could make this company for you.
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Or, I suspect the quote is mistranscribed or was spoken with a mental "shortcut" and should be:

They’re not [in]capable of understanding a brilliant language, but we want to use them to build good software.

i.e. they're smart people, but we don't want them to focus those smarts on the language itself, but on writing software with the language...
I don't think SBT is in any way officially endorsed in the first place? Many popular libraries use it, but there are plenty of other options. If you're not maintaining a public library that has to cross-build against multiple versions of Scala, IME there's no reason not to just use Maven, which gives you simple and well-documented builds.
So... Your alternative to banks is banks, but public sector, and you expect this to improve the bureaucracy level?
Previous discussion [1], 71 comments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13977554
In some jurisdictions that is a taxable event. However isn't a gain only a gain when it is realised? If I have 10 BTC worth a $1000 and then they are worth $100000, do I need to report a gain if I don't sell them? My assumption is that I only have a taxable gain when I turn it into USD.
Is it an optimization when it makes things slower?
Like the look - but lacking in depth before it can be used on real projects I think.
I think the issue is they want too hard to be seen as entrepreneurs. They are always reinventing the same products rather than just improving what they have.

I'd go so far as to say, Google would benefit from a two-year ban on any new product releases. Engineers should spend that time focused on adding value to their current products.
I don't like having to give up full type inference, but it's much better than having to give up HKT.
It's not mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but Burr's trial for treason was the earliest legal case in the United States questioning whether a defendant can be compelled to decrypt their documents. In Burr's case his secretary knew his encryption keys and because the secretary was not a defendant, it was ruled that the secretary could be compelled to divulge them.

Here are a few articles about it:

http://volokh.com/posts/1198712224.shtml

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2016/03/19/tim-coo...

http://jolt.richmond.edu/files/2017/02/David-Ries-Background...
> as a dev

I've had a number of devs, when receiving feedback, tell me that I should instead seek out their bug tracker, register with their feedback system, open a support ticket, give detailed instructions about how to identify and fix my problem, and then wait for a decision about how I'm wrong.

I've done that maybe twice.
It's a great option of travel. It's good for us to have a variety of ways to travel. Sure, the government doesn't subsidize train travel as much as it does for air and road, but I believe it's important, and so do others.

"Yes, Amtrak is subsidized. So are all competing forms of transportation. Highways cover only 51 percent of their costs from all user fees, including the gas tax. The rest is paid by subsidies of one form or another, especially from local property taxes. Airlines receive massive subsidies in the form of airports and the air traffic control system. The day after 9/11, the airlines ran to Capitol Hill and were immediately given billions of dollars in additional taxpayer money, no questions asked."

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/dont-railroa...
Is opposing accessibility the hill you want to die on?

Do you have a ballpark for the financial and human cost of making our basic infrastructure not-accessible?
The article discusses one of the major problems: "React component statically depend on their children." There are workarounds, sure, but there are all kinds of pitfalls with the dynamic workarounds, to the extent that I find myself breaking the react model regularly in applications (e.g. utilizing state outside of redux and forceUpdate)
From what I understand, in Peergos the friend list is stored on certain node. Which means software running on that node can see your friend list - which is essentially what happened in CA case, except maybe Peergos does not allow to run third-party apps on private node, but even if they didn't currently, I see nothing preventing from this happening in the future. What happened in CA case, AFAIK, is that users allowed the software to access their social graph data, and that software compiled it into a database that was used for purposes the users didn't intend to. If we assume that the users can run third-party plugins on a Peergos node, why isn't that possible with Peergos?
How can there be interference between different carriers, if each is using their own spectrum?
This is exciting! I've long believed that Flickr should have doubled down on their existing users instead of trying to become another Instagram.

A longtime fan of Flickr, MacAskill says before making any decisions, he plans to collect feedback from employees and users.

Hey Don - I used to pay money for Flickr, and I'm happy to start paying again if there is evidence of forward motion. I want to have a place to securely store my RAW files in addition to my edited photographs, and I want to see a focus on community again.
Hamilton is a rare piece of music that is musically wonderfull, and impressively cerebral at the same time. The only musical that comes close is Jesus Christ Superstar, and it loses (in my books). A hip hop musical that won a pulitzer - and it's firing on all cylinders musically and in literary form the whole time.

Lin Manuel Miranda worried for years for individual pieces and you can hear it. Several pieces are near perfect and I could listen it over and over.

Hamilton himself as a historical character is unebelievable. It is an astounding story however you look at it. A - in the literate sense - a poor bastard born in the middle of nowhere in Caribia ends up one of the founders of the greatest political experiments of his time.

While his endeavours lacked mathematical and scientific output he is actually the prototypical historical super geek. He was a product of englightenment and book printing. He engorged himself on the literature of the time and deviced systems in his head which he then implemented with great vigour. While obviously skimping on historical details, the musical celebrates this victory of pure gumption again and again while not forgetting the critical human weaknesses of his character
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> One one company maintains it, so the others are relying on that company to keep it up. This isn't easy. If that database goes down for some reason the other companies can only wait while the database is fixed.

Or you could use a system with a well designed replication mechanism and designed to work offline. For example http://couchdb.apache.org/ should provide the same functionality you're after. If you have multiple entities that don't trust each other 100%, you can structure the data to be essentially an event log and filter the replication to reject modification/deletion.
No! Clojure is da best! jk...
I took the california zephyr after 2 harsh years (professionally); from Chicago to SF.

So many inner demons were vanquished on that trip. That train route is truly a love-letter to America - the Colorado river, the Sierra Nevada, beautiful life-changing stuff.
> Eventually, they told me I would just have to find a different bank, and they were closing my account in 7 days, and they were going to keep any money left in the account at that point.

Is that even legal? If so it sounds like an extraordinary loophole.
I don't disagree with your comment, but the thing that often gets lost in these discussions is that at least for the Empire Builder, people generally aren't using it to go from Chicago to Portland or Seattle.

Sure, a flight from Chicago to Seattle would be much faster and cheaper. But what about getting from Minot to Whitefish? Or Spokane to Wenatchee?

I personally use it 2-3 times a week to go between Bingen and Portland. Most of the people I ride with eastbound are going to Pasco or Sandpoint or Spokane, not Chicago.
> There, the company's lawyers draft a contract that is as favorable to them as is legal.

In fact, they will frequently put in clauses that are known to be invalid, hoping that customers simply cave in when shown the clause.
it's a wonder that Googlers bother to maintain any existing products at all.

My understanding is that not everybody there knows where the corporate ladders are. If you don't (yet) know the terms of promotion at the GOOG, you'll be happy to knock out bugs and tweaks day in and day out. You're a Googler!
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Ah, I had used it couple of years ago. At that point, I could get to my bank account with it at a major bank, authentication with smaller credit unions was restricted until I graduated from the dev environment.

I'm glad to hear that's not the case anymore.
I suppose "professional field" here, even though the other interpretation seems more fun.
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Throw me on the pile of people who don't love that tip. I'll go a step further and say, if that's the best remediation policy a large bank can offer, they're in a really bad spot.

As a consumer, I like my financial services to come in one of two flavors: Completely automated and self-service, or very personal.

Because I want to either never have to pick up the phone, or I want to know that, when I pick up the phone, ring straight through to a knowledgeable and empowered professional, instead of waiting on hold for 30m before getting some call center drone.

Any company where keeping a handle on customer service involves a signal having to filter through a CRM system and multiple layers of whatever-else-is-going-on-in-there is in neither of those camps: They aren't sufficiently automated and streamlined to give the hands-off experience, but they are also too bureaucratic to allow their customer-facing staff to offer a good hands-on experience.

And I just ain't got time for wallowing in some Goodhart's Law quagmire like that.
Default are powerful, but you are always one "Please click this to enable new exciting ways to play Candy Crush" away from any non-default setting. It may be true that FB users value their privacy, but reflecting these values in minute-to-minute behavior is a much more complex question. People are not always vigilant or realize what exactly is the consequence of their actions.
Taxpayers (and freight customers) shouldn't be subsidizing a novelty form of transportation for rail fans. If there's a subset of people who want this service, they should pay sufficient fares to cover the cost of service. Amtrak isn't doing that.
Graduate students unionizing is the norm in public universities. As the article points out, it's only recently (2016) that the NLRB ruled that graduate students at private universities are to be considered employees, which opened the door for students to vote whether they wanted to unionize, prior to this they had no legal standing to even consider unionization.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_student_employee_unio...
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> I still find it hard to picture an immutable OO language.

Picture an object-oriented procedural language like Java, and then make everything immutable; for every 'void' method, return an updated copy of 'this'; for every non-void function, return a tuple of the updated copy and the value you were going to return. No change to const methods, obviously. And you're done, and you can still take advantage of encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance without any hoops. You can even do it in Java itself as a style thing without too much effort and only a modest amount of boilerplate. Alternatively, it's not that much work to build this same thing out of lambdas and dictionaries, if your language has those but not objects (adding mutation into that object system would then be trivial) (and of course, you can build dictionaries out of lambdas and lambdas out of objects, if need be).
That is a fair point.

I will partially counter that a much simpler class of regulations can cover more things in deregulation.

For example, if I just make fraud illegal, if you misrepresent what your evil I don't care what it is under deregulation I can get you. If you are honest about your evil it will be harder (but not impossible!) to sell it.

Deregulation also allows the "small guy" a better chance because to compete, and so with more choice the customer is likely to be more aware of choice.

Again, the above is not complete. There are big holes in this as well. Fundamentally there are always a subset of people who are willing to do evil to get ahead, if they can do their evil while being in the letter of the law they will. Society needs a way to deal with it, and nothing is perfect.
Sorry if this is off-topic, but I hate the trend of needing to "read" the TLD.

ubere.ng

To me, that reads as some company called Ubere from a country code I'm not familiar with. Took a minute to read it as Uber Engineering.
do you have to delete any data on someone, or just data they entered?

A discussion of derivative data and models was sadly and sorely missing from Zuck's recent Congressional testimony.
Anecdotally, yes. My grandfather worked at IBM, retired comfortably, had many hobbies, and notoriously packed the christmas tree every year. I was shocked to find, only this year, that despite a basement full of oscilloscopes and tape equipment, his role had been... customer support? Maybe this was less "call center" and more "embedded engineer". I'll never know.

How much of this effect was IBM, how much was the economics of America at the time, and how much was specific to this one man is debatable. But he definitely appeared to live well, whatever it was.
Totally agree, I used to pay Flickr for years, but stopped paying a while back. Would be happy to pay again if I can store original files there.
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Counterpoint:

The thing is, how can anyone who has stayed at IBM for 30 years be anything other than a deadweight who is just there to collect a paycheck?

I mean, come on. IBM is kind of corporation where people go in hopes of slipping through the cracks and being forgotten (while the automatic payroll deposits keep coming).

Can then not be pardoned for indulging in a little tree shaking?

Employment at the same place until death isn't some kind of constitutional right.
You're correct - taxpayers should be subsidizing an improved form of rail transit instead (see china, europe, japan.)
Costco also allows non-members to buy from their pharmacy.
One of the weirder episodes of early American history -- which is saying something!

Burr's trial set the precedent for an extraordinarily high evidentary bar for a treason conviction -- which, in the long run, turns out to have been an Amazingly Good Thing.
To be fair, it's a link shortener. The actual domain is about as normal as it can be (eng.uber.com)
You expect substance from the comments while these articles lack any form of evidence? Stop muting every kind of discourse. Sometimes civil unrest (in the form of these rants) is needed. As I already stated above, the WSJ has a large audience and provides no evidence for serious claims. Claims that could be enough for someone like Trump to start a war on a nation (even nuclear).
First Republic really isn't any different than Wells Fargo. They talk a big game about personal service but it's the same bullshit. (Speaking from firsthand experience of moving from WF to FRB.) You'll talk to a different person every time you go in, their website isn't great (though the recent upgrade has helped), and their mortgage products require absurdly high down payments (20-30%) to be rate competitive with WF/Citi/Chase (as of 2017/Q4). They also have absurdly high minimums for many accounts (3-4k), though they do have nice features like fee-free out-of-network ATM use.

I really want to believe there's something better. But I think the real choice is between "local bank" -- shitty website, hard-to-use ATMs that require putting checks in envelopes, bad hours OR a big national bank, where you're a number, but the software is good, there are branches everywhere, they have a good mobile app/good ATMs, etc.

My personal philosophy has become, "I'm ok being a number because I'm pretty average personally, but I want a local bank for business banking." It's worked so far.
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Does anyone have experience working with Amazon as a startup founder? Are they a good partner / investor to have in your business?
More like designing very long Medium posts.

Is there any substance to this "we invented 'enhance', a reverse dependency pattern" thing or is it just old wine in new, javascripty bottles?
That's a fair point. As uneconomical as it is for Amtrak, there really isn't much in the way of long-distance transportation options for people in some of these small towns.
As I understand it, you need a brokerage account to get this; it's called the "High Yield Investor checking and savings account". It's not intended for most people, though apparently they don't care if you get the brokerage account and don't use it. On the other hand, Schwab has effectively zero physical branches, and apparently don't accept most ways of depositing money to your account, which makes it awkward to deal with cash and checks that end up in your hands for whatever reason.
Don't you think the concept of "motion" presupposes time? For that matter, every verb in existence presupposes time.

A fascinating book on this topic is "Philosophy in the Flesh" by George Lakoff:

https://amzn.to/2vCkS9s