skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started my career as a trader at a bank and then moved on to quant/trading/PM roles at extremely cost sensitive firms. Not a single one of them used IBKR.

> There are no hedge fund managers I respect who don’t run their personal accounts on IB.

This thread is about institutional customers rather than personal accounts.

I know at least one former hedge fund manager who ran a high 10 figure hedge fund whose personal account is not at IBKR. I respect him a lot.

> I see many hedge funds -especially smaller ones - going with IB as a prime solution.

Are they cost sensitive? The fact that you have hedge fund structure set up does not mean that you are cost sensitive.
They can charge any subscription or per use fee that they want, but not if the payment is personal data not necessary for the service.
More interesting than cave dwellers and nearby to them are cliff burials. This is an ancient prehistoric practice and AFAIK there is only one remaining practicing group, the Ku, in all of continental Eurasia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_coffins
>I’m confused on the actual risk for meat eaters and if they could really tell the difference.

It's not about "risk," it's about quality.

This kind of beef is usually marked "utility grade," which is one step above dog food. It gets sent to those prisons that still serve meat, or to ultra-low-end restaurants like the one under the L tracks in Chicago that offers a full steak meal with garlic bread, a side, and a salad for eight bucks.

I'm not being critical. It's an awesome option for the working poor.* I've probably eaten the steak special at that place a dozen times. But you've got to know what you're getting into ahead of time.

*In days of yore, there were thousands of cheap, quick steak joints in Chicago. Office and factory workers who didn't bring their own lunches would always hit a low-end steakhouse. They were like the McDonald's of the 1890-1940's.
Yes. It was deprecated in 1.5(!) and finally removed in 2.5:

https://docs.python.org/release/1.5.1/lib/module-regex.html

https://docs.python.org/2/whatsnew/2.5.html#new-improved-and...
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Just redirect your A record to youdonthaveipv6.com
> The point is that we complicate so many shit today that is not needed

Isn't your site making the opposite point? That without all the "complicated shit that is not needed", websites would look as awful as they did in the 1990s. Any website-maker is of course free to make their site as "shit" as they want, but 99% of users are not going to visit it a 2nd time.
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This is an English speaking forum, so it's better to post in English in spite the content is for Spanish speakers. I recommend to link to the English version of the post
https://us.pycon.org/2018/hatchery/charlas/#eningles and try to use a title that is meaningful and as close to the original as possible and use some part of the article, something like "PyCon Charlas - Conference Talks in Spanish"
As a Robinhood user, no fees is a big draw because while I don't buy/sell stocks that often, I might still be saving $50 a year. That extra $50 can be invested.

But beyond that, Robinhood has a really easy to use UI compared to platforms like TDAmeritrade. It's not only much easier to make trades but also see information like how much dividends I've earned, whether a company has hit their earnings, etc.

Robinhood also lets me invest any money I transfer from my bank immediately. There's no 3-5 business day wait. That said, I'm not sure if this is feature available to everyone or only those on Robinhood Gold.
90 Billion a year of dirty laundered money goes through the UK - mostly into the (London) property market - and stopping that flow is likely to cause a housing collapse

I really recommend Ed Milibands podcast "reasons to be cheerful" - the above fun fact came from the episode on money laundering. It is a hell of a surprise to find out how easily we could stop the dirty money - and how close we came. Another thing brexit scupperdd
I could idle I traffic for fifteen minutes and use more power in total. I mean honestly if you're concerned about energy use and environmental issues, then it's more effective to stop using mobile devices all together, and encourage the use of desktop.
From my experience in Japan and C# Unity. Japanese don’t know English well to be able to communicate. But they’re still good at coding.
My mentor didn’t know any English but he bought English books and looked at the code rather than reading it.
People who don’t know English can do the job but communication would be a problem.
This is true. On the other hand, just because it is well publicized the Russians are promoting one movement to disrupt California is not a definitive argument that they aren't involved in another. The pattern has been to promote multiple sides of any possible conflict. Draper was reportedly going to get some assistance[1] from Nigel Farage, of Brexit fame, and Farage has been denying[2] Russian connections recently.

[1] http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert...

[2] http://www.newsweek.com/trump-russia-jewish-farage-brexit-69...
You would be allowed to track IP addresses to prevent fraud. This is from Recital 47 of the GDPR:

"The processing of personal data strictly necessary for the purposes of preventing fraud also constitutes a legitimate interest of the data controller concerned."

"Legitimate interest" is one of the legal bases for processing personal data under the new regulation.
I'd say the onus is on the cryptocurrency people to show that "the many ways [...] in which they are wildly inferior" are fixable.
No, there are very stric planning rules in London. It’s not just about not touching listed properties (though a lot of the city is listed) but also there is a web of line of sights from different view points which are protected and results in an invisible ceiling to new constructions. Add to that a very lengthy planning process and locals hostile to the densification of the area despite the crumbling transportation system, and you get the current odd situation where most of the city is made of low rise, 2 floors high tiny houses converted into even tinier apartments, and a few spots where you have a massive concentration of some of the highest residential skyscrapers in Europe.
"Please verify all input fields."

You just missed out on $2.99

Does this work outside of the land of the 'free'?
> Advertise on a dog community site is probably pretty spot on if you want to target dog owners...

That would probably target dog enthusiasts or dog hobbyists or dog fanatics, which are all subsets of dog owners.

I think that one of the things that makes social media ad targeting so attractive to advertisers is that they can target the dog owners, instead of just the enthusiasts/hobbyists/fanatics.
$2,317.50 for the paperback.

Probably reason enough to disable one-click ordering.
Out of curiosity, if there are no fees, why not? That lets you theoretically diversifying your risk by investing $1,000 in 30 companies rather than say $5,000 in 6 companies.
The backtick is just a problematic character. Python 3 had good reasons to drop it, so I'm surprised when anyone else starts to use it.

Among the reasons Python devs cited were that it was hard to get printed correctly in books, and hard for users to write in general, depending on keyboard layout.
Finally, multi line strings and inferred types. It only took 10 years.

Can’t wait what next 10 will bring - native json and html/jsx/xml perhaps?
>Bees-as-a-service

This is a thing. It's actually a huge industry and growing with all the problems we're having with bees these days.

Billions of bees from Utah (The Beehive State) are rented out to farmers in California each year.
I kinda finished my personal space: https://hackernews.hypertext.town/~kuba

I didn't touch any web development in at least 10 years so it was a lot of fun. I hope even more interesting towns will appear!
Freek Wiedijk's Most Functional winner of the 2014 International Obfuscated C Code Contest is an obvious candidate.:

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2014/wiedijk/prog.c

[2] https://www.ioccc.org/2014/wiedijk/hint.html
I never thought code could make me feel like this.
React in it's stated goal IS quite easy, but I agree, to become a master, you should learn a few patterns quickly.

I don't feel like react's docs are misleading - like anything - mastery requires investment.
It's ~3.3X the price. It seems like an introductory price for early adopters.
Sorry, but that’s just not true:

and just this past year real scientific proof (and even medical products) coming out confirming it's true.

Your story is interesting, but it’s a lot more compelling since you claim it’s backed by scientific proof, so any kind of link or reference would be appreciated.
In some places, like Colorado, harvesting rainwater is actually illegal because the groundwater table needs to be replenished.
Considering it had $100+ million in funding, a lot of people apparently listened to that same exact pitch and thought it was brilliant lol
For a local business on a 2.2m city this is quite a success! wow. " I knew nothing about business and taught myself everything I know from masterminds, Youtube, avid reading and using SAAS products / training. We built the company organically so I had time to learn as I went. But we made a LOT of mistakes. Probably the most important breakthrough was gaining financial clarity in the business and understanding the financial scorecards and how the margins and ratios functioned. Then the second breakthrough was SEO and learning inbound marketing." Way to go, hats off man
Google and the Rise of 'Digital Well-Being'
Ah thanks! I recall you work for one of the commercial lisp vendors. I assume you use their IDE environment that is similar to emacs? How do you describe using it?
> It also weeds out people who have better things to do than cram two weeks for your pretend-meritocratic little exam.

All interviewing techniques have to make precision-recall style trade offs. The mere fact that an interview method has false negatives surely doesn't disqualify it. It has to be compared against the available alternatives. What are the alternatives?

- White boarding? Algorithmic knowledge is often tangential to the actual job.

- Take home assignments/mini projects? High relevance to job, but in my experience takes the most time for the candidate.

- Trial period? Most people can't just drop everything they are doing to come hang out at your company.

- Conversational interview. Like white-boarding, tangential to actual job. My experience on the interviewing side is that it is often hard to learn much about the candidate.

- Read their code on github / blog. Lots of candidates don't have the time or inclination to code outside of work.

- Something else?

So what's your preference? I've done them all and find them all to be lacking in different ways.

> How about requiring that candiates comment their code using quotes from Classical Chinese poetry? They are proven timeless classics that an intelligent person can apply to any situation. This test would weed out the fakers who can't refresh their caches while also honoring an ancient tradition of stupid job interviews, the Chinese imperial examination.

This seems like the fallacy of grey to me [1]. When hiring, for example, a web developer, yes, algorithmic knowledge is a somewhat arbitrary indicator to use, but it is not completely arbitrary. Not all things are equally unlike.

If I were hiring for a basketball team, and had to choose between two candidates neither of whom had experience playing basketball and were alike in all ways except that one was an avid soccer player and one was equally fervent about pottery, I would choose the soccer player. The logic of course being basketball and soccer have more in common (athleticism at the least) than basketball and pottery.

Likewise, algorithmic thinking shares some common points with almost any kind of engineering task.

Interviewing is just a hard problem where you are trying to predict future performance based on a few hours worth of data. I don't think most of the popular the techniques we have are obviously stupid. Companies have strong incentives to make hiring efficient, but there just isn't a lot of low hanging fruit. Of course there are the occasional ego maniac interviewers, but an ego-maniac is going to be able to ruin any type of interview. Let't not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

1. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallac...
Yeah, it pretty much doesn't work well. The unit economics is something like "pay 50 cents a click and hope your funnel can monetize that effectively". More if you have more specific/desirable targeting, less if it's broader, but anything you save on the targeting end you lose in funnel effectiveness. If you've got solid data all the way through to conversions and lifetime value, that can either justify dialing ad spend up or down, and it's usually going to be down.
This article contains some glaring mistakes e.g. the statement of the Riemann hypothesis is wrong. I suspect the author tried to edit the mathematics for the sake of comprehensibility and, due to their unfamiliarity with the area, failed.
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Is this the position for all platforms?
These things all exist, but a lot of them seem like a library from one author as opposed to what is built-in to Java or .NET and had lots of people and money thrown at it. I'm sure the author is a wizard, but how good can the quality be? I don't have any proof here, but my suspicion is bugs and sparse documentation.
The metamorphosis of Escher
Where do you need to give your transaction history? I have both Schwab and RH and don’t recall it ever asking for such permissions. I only have a linked checking account for ACH deposits and transfers.
>GDPR should only apply to businesses with a physical nexus in Europe, anything else is an attempt to assert extraterritorial jurisdiction.

It covers the personal data of EU citizens. Similar laws exist going the other way. Betfair can't (or couldn't) give accounts to US citizens. IIRC, various poker sites had to close US citizens' accounts. The US even arrested a CEO of a UK company who was only changing planes on his way home to Costa Rica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carruthers#Arrest_during...

>anything else is an attempt to assert extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Good. The EU should grasp the nettle and fulfil it's role as the leading global hegemony.
what would you use instead??
> A programmer is someone who can learn these on the fly for any problem of any domain

Do you really believe in this? I would maybe call it an Ex Machina droid...
Type Bombs
Expectations and norms are clearly different than they used to be a few decades ago. When I was a pre-teen in the late 80s, and my family got an SUV, it had seating for five passengers like modern vehicles, bucket seats in the front and ones that folded down in the rear...but four doors were not an option. In fact of the several competitors only one offered rear doors.
Classic example of dumb money and herd mentality among investors. See also: Theranos, Ubeam.
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If you didn't like any of the people around you, I will point out the one thing in common across all of those relationships.

I mean, I get it; I grew up in an extremely conservative area, while being very liberal. I had to rub shoulders with kids of farmers who didn't value education and etc. But if I wanted any sort of social life, I had to make due with the people there, find those who I shared -something- with, and I did. I found those with an interest in gaming, those who wanted something more out of life than just staying there doing what their parents did, those who read, etc, and in doing so I had to work harder, be more intentional, and expand in ways I wouldn't have had I been able to just switch social circles easily until I found one more palatable.
Plaid provides account aggregation features so it definitely do access your transaction history. Is your issue with Robinhood collecting this data or Plaid.. or is the issue with sharing your transaction history.

What do other people think about sharing this type of information?
You don't need a heliocentric system to predict an eclipse. The moon rotates around the Earth. It's the one causing the eclipse.
The Man Who Promised Too Much (2014)
If You're Collecting Rocks, Might as Well Find Ones That Look Like Meat
No. Every EU country is required to implement GDPR as a law. All government bodies have to abide their own countries laws.

As an example; the implementation of GDPR in The Netherlands is called AVG, and it's currently discussed that the tax authorities might be the first to receive a warning or fine.
Container gardening: The rules to know, and the rules to break
With respect to cp and mv, I've found that rsync is often a good alternative for anything more than trivial moves and copies.
aren't early adopters supposed to get a better deal, not worse?
What's the cost? (for the app:)
Even where ISP's support IPv6, hardware is often the impediment. I've finally enabled IPv6 at home now that Ubiquiti has enabled support.

My office is on Meraki hardware, which is not yet IPv6-ready. Can't quite wrap my mind around the latter. I didn't pay for the hardware or initial 3 years, and I certainly won't be extending the license if support isn't ready.

As a side note, I'd look closely at router implementations as you deploy in home and other small networks. Too many consumer-grade hardware companies rely on NAT versus proper firewall rules to restrict inbound traffic. I don't expect the majority of them to get the basic protections right as we move to publicly addressed IPv6 networks.
It is because the sex ratio is close to 1:1 at birth yet there need not be 1:1 men:women in adulthood. If men get themselves killed, it doesn't really matter.
For a long time I've been saying that we can do better with online advertising and revenue generation - and that there's a wide open market for the startup providing the solution.

There are a lot of practices that are distasteful that simply don't provide value that overrides their distastefulness.

But quite simply the revenue is there to be had, and nobody is going to venture off in a new direction when you can make easy money doing exactly what everybody else is doing.

The market may shift with GDPR, or it may just shift in europe. Or maybe the market doesn't shift at all, but some company policies change. I think in the end what causes the current incarnation of internet advertising to go away is going to just be a better idea.
It's statically typed, but with basically no type inference (the diamond operator is something, I guess, but not much). So you end up putting a lot of time into manually managing types. That creates friction when writing code, since you need to remember the name of the return type of every method you call in order to keep the compiler happy. Worse, it creates friction when refactoring code, since any change that involves splitting or merging two types, or tweaking a method's return type, ends up forcing a multitude of edits to other files in order to propitiate the compiler. I've seen 100-file pull requests where only one of those file changes was actually interesting.

Then, to add insult to injury, its static type system is very weak. A combination of type erasure, a failure to unify arrays with generic types, and poor type checking in the reflection system means that Java's static typing doesn't give you particularly much help with writing well-factored code compared to most other modern high-level languages.

Speaking of generics, the compiler's handling of generics often leaves me feeling like I'm talking to the police station receptionist from Twin Peaks. Every time I have to explicitly pass "Foo.class" as an explicit argument when the compiler should already have all the information it needs to know what type of result I expect, I cry a little inside.

Long story short, if I could name a type system to be the poster child for useless bureaucratic work for the sake of work, it would be Java's.
I actually find the practicalities of algorithm choice even more fascinating. For example, Strassen's algorithm is asymptotically the fastest known algorithm for dense matrix multiplication in certain situations (medium sized matrices), but it is rarely used because it is complicated to implement and less numerically stable.
I don't think the regex package implements this. At least the hex notation is not supported:

>>> import regex
>>> regex.compile(r'\u{3040}')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/regex.py", line 345, in compile
return _compile(pattern, flags, kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/regex.py", line 507, in _compile
caught_exception.pos)
_regex_core.error: incomplete escape \u at position 2
For giggles, I have a novelty twitter account that advertises this sort of enterprise: https://twitter.com/MakingQuillions
If you can afford that watch the servicing costs will not be your main concern in life.
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Assigning variables through a switch-statement is really nice. Looks almost exactly like Elixir does it.
On macOS you can monitor the progress of many commands with Ctrl-T. With cp for example:

$ cp Test Test2
^T
load: 3.42 cmd: cp 86526 running 0.01u 4.36s
Test -> Test2 6%
Every single venture backed company in SV since 2000 was built with ad money.
This is certainly an interesting case study in the pitfalls of behavioral design, but one important detail that the story glosses over is how rare these incidents are:

More than two dozen people [have been] killed by carbon monoxide nationwide since 2006 after a keyless-ignition vehicle was inadvertently left running in a garage.

On average, that's two deaths a year in a country of more than 260 million passenger vehicles.[1] These accidental deaths are tragic, but it's actually impressive how infrequently they occur.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unit...
At the same time some properties are being held purely for speculative reasons and going derelict. I would much rather have a new construction rather than a rotting 'historic' building.

Point in case: The luxury Principal Tower [1] and buildings just across it [2].

[1] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5213362,-0.0786701,3a,75y,...

[2] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5213362,-0.0786701,3a,75y,...