skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, companies create excess value and grow. Tesla pre Model 3 is a very different company than Tesla post Model 3. A drug company is very different if they've patented a new wonder drug. New companies come into existence and offer shares via an IPO.

Investing in the stock market is literally investing in the collective appreciation of the value of the companies that make up it.
If the goal is blackmail, sex is just the means.
A very long time ago, for a job not in the software industry, I had to take one of those multiple-choice exams they use to screen employees. There were probably 100 questions. One of the questions was something like "Have you ever been dishonest?". I probably dishonestly answered that question (with a no) and was thus probably red-flagged by the "Machine" and never proceeded in the interview process.
"scroll down for more"

where is my scroll bar, why don't space or cursor-up/down work, there's no scroll wheel because I use a drawing tablet instead of a mouse, guess I'm not reading this at my desk.
Seems like a weak market to go after, given that people likely to respond to a "cool" financial services brand may be a poorer demographic that maybe doesn't have any prior experience with "legacy" financial services providers. So just because they create accounts @3% doesn't mean they'll also open trading accounts.
> The title is factually incorrect: the iceberg didn't hit the Titanic.

That's just a matter of your chosen frame of reference.
Though fast forward merge commits (where the referenced tree is the same as referenced by the second parent) can be useful because they provide a way for you to group related commits for a feature together (git log merge_commit^..merge_commit^2). There are features that require more than a single commit to implement.
I've noticed there are blogs that will do fake updates so the date in the Google search results will be from last week or something recent, even though the content itself is the same it has been for a couple years.
okay.. still looking at this - you know you've got internet awesome when its :

a) totally "relevant" after being around 4 years

b) has 1000s of github stars and 100+ of forks :)
Scott Helme – What We’ve Learned from Billions of Security Reports
Counter-example: I went to a state university, graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering in '89. I've had a number of jobs over the years - several startups, but also roles at Sun Microsystems, Yahoo!, and (currently) Google. While I don't feel like my choice of university has ever particularly helped me, it also hasn't (that I'm aware) hurt me - I've never gotten an inkling that I was passed over for a role because I didn't go to a top-tier school.
How to Switch Engineering Jobs–And Actually Like Your New Role
You are correct, I was exaggerating a bit.

I feel like most of that sub isn't technically day trading, but it feels like the average time holding a security is less than a week.
Yeah, I just helped someone set up a new Win 10 laptop and I felt so bad for them with how unintuitive and instrusive of a process it was. It pushes you towards making/using an online Microsoft account, and making a non-internet account on the computer is a tiny text button (no outline, just text) which NO computer novice is going to know. Can only guess how many users have their online identity now permanently linked with their home computer usage because they thought they have to. Just seems so predatory and manipulative.

I mean, at the bare minimum, software companies (especially the most prominent and prevalent ones) should be adopting the "principle of least astonishment"[0] and not enabling sketchy crap by default. Also simply starting up a new computer and getting going shouldn't require paging through 5+ pages of inexplicable configuration steps that cannot possibly be effectively summarized by a one-line 12pt-font description.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...
Proposed salad-soup nexus: cucumber soup
Mine is essentially my main account I use for anything money-related. It doesn't mean I use checks.
When I set up an autoresponder in my .sieve file, I specify ":days n", where "n" is the minimum number of days between allowing an autoresponse to be sent to the same address.

This isn't fool proof though. It would fail if the other side of the loop didn't have a similar defense, and also sent each email response from a different address.
AI Helps Detect Disaster Damage from Satellite Imagery
No, they weren't accounted since US Army found them in all the strange places.
>>Google's claim is that they were not notified of the granted name suppression

Yes, that's correct. But Google's policy, as far as I know, is that they publish the information and then, if presented with a court order, they remove it. That's not the right thing for them to do in this case, as once the information is out there it's out there. It's useless to retract it or remove it once it's out there and they've published.

Google needs to change it's policy--or at least they should be proactive and be aware of court orders like this. It's not like the court order was hidden?
Show HN: Stock Trading with Insomnia REST Client and Alpaca API
I've created an Insomnia workspace to make it easier to debug your stock trading code and learn the Alpaca API. You can read about how here:
https://medium.com/automation-generation/using-alpacas-stock...

The actual workspace JSON for you to import into Insomnia can be found here: https://github.com/alpacahq/insomnia-workspace
I think the part about this that is truly successful, is the use of slack significantly lowers the transaction cost of adding the documentation. In a wiki, where there is a certain level of quality expected, you might make the decision to just move on with your life once you find the answer you need, as you've already wasted enough time. With this, however, it's so cheap to leave a breadcrumb it's just polite to do so.
What if I told you, Neo, that you can read the article, in an incognito/private window?
> Even better, use `git commit -p` and skip the staging area entirely.

If you end up staging the wrong hunk, then you will have to reset and recommit. With git add -p, you would only need to reset the hunk.
Cryptocurrencies: Proof of Stake Will Kill Proof of Work
One of the causes of this is the 1031 tax exchanges (allows a person/company to roll over a gain on real estate into a "like-kind" asset, again: real estate). I have a friend that has rolled over a few houses and duplexes into ever more valuable property (he's done well, but he's levered 3-4x). I've often asked him, "when will you cash out?" His answer, "I can't, I don't want to pay the capital gains tax." "Are you worried about a crash?" "No, because even if rents dip 20% I can make the mortgage payments and repairs and wait for the market to recover." I don't know how much this has driven real estate speculation in my area (Denver, CO), but if there is a semi-serious market turn, enough to cross some sort of pain threshold for speculators, there's got to be some forced selling.
This ignores the leverage applied to a typical primary residence purchase via fixed rate debt. With 20% down, your return is 5x inflation, and housing indeed is a perfectly reasonable investment when you amortize transaction costs over an extended period of time.
Yeah the adoption of open source and getting involved in that community is great, but then all the user-hostile product decisions have me like "make up your mind!"
The RISC-V spec does claim that "many overflow checks can be cheaply implemented using branches" and then provides recommended instruction sequences. One could definitely imagine a RV implementation where e.g. macro-op fusion is used to systematically turn some of these recommended sequences into hardware-assisted branches.

(Ref: search for the "Integer Computational Instructions" section in the RISC-V "user mode" reference. It should be section 2.4)
Or use a new name for the new interface whilst not breaking your old one. If your api is private then break it all you want, but if it's public and you want a large grateful user base then you should only grow. See rich hickeys talk "speculation" for a much better explanation of this.
Interactive Latent Space Exploration Through a Spreadsheet Interface
Voting should be the only way to influence government. Emailing representatives, posting comments on message boards, and protesting in the streets all give an unfair voice to people who have more free time.
NMS regulations do not apply to "odd lots" (orders <100 shares). This likely constitutes 99.9999999999% of trades done on Robinhood (and most retail trading, to be fair).
The caffeine content claims about hojicha are apocryphal and in my subjective experience it has as much caffeine as other teas.
It's not interceptor, it's a multi-role stealth fighter.

And still I'd say - yes, it's better.
Back when I was working at an SMS related company I managed to accidentally infinite loop sending myself text messages. The aggregator and AT&T had no issues, but my iPhone became completely unresponsive to touch as I saw the notification badge quickly ramp up from 1 to tens of thousands. If I remember correctly I had to wait a few hours for the messages to be delivered and processed by the phone and then wiped my device.
Verifying money inputs on the web a la personal checks
Millennials may not have money now, but they'll accumulate more wealth as they get older. If you can convert them now, the friction to changing again is high enough that you'll probably still have them when they're worth something.
Rooibos brother,

This is my favorite blend I randomly found outside of the Schönefeld Airport in Berlin and have been importing the states ever since:

https://shop.tgtea.com/Rooibush-Cream-Caramel-001312-100/561...
IT services companies are everywhere. Why would Joe Schmo entrust his entire business to you, and not someone else (with a more established history, larger business, etc.)? What is your selling point? Is this a single-person business (and intended to stay that way), or are you looking to hire people and expand?
What country do you live in?

In America, the barebones basic place to keep your money is referred to as a 'checking account'.
This is a marketing bait and switch. One of two things must happen:

1) They lower the interest rate down the line after they've acquired a bunch of customers

2) They limit the offer to certain customers who are lucrative

If they sustain this offer for the general public, they will 100% go out of business.

The 5 year treasury rate is currently set at 2.75%. Traditionally, people use treasury bonds as a place to park safe money, but the SIPC insurance makes this just as safe (up to $250K).
Stories from the Internet
> what's the science behind this?

The same: in both cases the vessel is falling toward earth accelerating at 1g, so for the passenger that are also experiencing 1g of gravity it feels like they're floating
The first point is a worrying one despite the sarcasm. They are attaching themselves to a lot of major open source platforms and projects. I don’t think this is the old embrace, extend, extinguish approach but something new and unknown.

They’re doing too well and doing bad things too often for me to feel sorry for them.
haha -- I actually opened up inspector to check hn localstorage ;) ;)
> You are never getting returns for free

Sure, but you can buy US treasury bills, and then your risk is "lose some money if the US government defaults", which is very low.

We all live every day with risks far greater than that risk level.

If you look at the current treasury yields, they are very close to 3%. Add the interchange revenue, and RobinHood can pull a 3% guarantee while still making a (narrow) profit.

If treasury yields go down, then no problem: RobinHood can instantly adjust their returns downward. If they go bankrupt because of an unlikely combination of events - lots of deposits coupled with a very sharp and unexpected decline in treasury yields - SIPC will pick up the pieces and make sure you get your cash and securities up to $500k.

My understanding is that any cash and securities you own when they go out of business is covered up to the limit. So if you have $250k in your RobinHood checking/saving, that will be guaranteed by SIPC.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a financial adviser and nothing I ever post is financial advice.
Have done Zero G, it's fun if you have money to burn. The floating is fun but I got sick towards the end.
German Stock Exchange to Launch Crypto Trading Platform in 2019
Where some here argue that Medium is the goto platform, I’d say it’s already in decline. I’ve seen engagement rates plummet over the last year or so.

Side argument: complaining about services you use for free is kinda futile and never sticks. I’m as guilty for that as the dude from the article.
In 2018 I'm still not being paid for my data.
Anybody have a sense of how other countries have minimized these problems? I've read about Denmark controlling rents by private landlords, and Sweden helping people finance land in exchange for controlling the sales price. But, really, I'm wondering what things are being tried.
https://www.opencompute.org/membership/membership-organizati...
The accounts are only insured to $250k, so putting in 7 figures could be risky.
I'd save my money for a trip in the BFR
What the Hack 2018?
Which is only a problem because its... entirely beyond the analysis or oversight of the vast majority of citizens, completely connected realtime to various other systems, automated, eternally slurping up data for indefinite storage..

It wouldn’t be as concerning if it was only being stored in a local sqlite db.
I just did this. My options were:

1. Buy a new Lenovo laptop.

2. Buy a new Apple laptop.

I went for 2 and paid for Little Snitch and it is literally dead and works flawlessly.

Once my family’s windows 10 laptops are off (even if they’re doing nothing but charging them with lid open), my home network is silent.
Does this permanently change to a new Mac every time you run it?
California’s Multibillion-Dollar Private-Equity Boondoggle
Ask HN: Hacker News like community for active trading?
Are there any high quality communities that discuss trading especially swing trading?

There is /r/wallstreetbets which while funny but is full of too much noise.

My friends and I have a Whatsapp group to discuss our trading. We share our trading ideas but we mostly share other topics related to trading (promotions, tutorials, news, brokerages, books). We are pretty exclusive and try not to let anyone in who will be too easily excited.

I just wish our community was a bit bigger because sometimes for example I am looking for a new book to read on trading but no one has any suggestions.
I bought the one that RTL-SDR.com sells with the dipole antenna kit (see: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/). They make a good point about avoiding counterfeit dongles, plus I'd like to support them for making a useful centralized resource.
We've opened https://gitlab.com/charts/gitlab/issues/1015 to discuss this comment. I don't believe the db migrations are what are holding us back, as much as the other parts of the backup/restore.

For number 2, that sounds unexpected, and we would love for you to give us more details. https://gitlab.com/charts/gitlab/issues
> It probably takes a lot of effort to develop Windows driver, libraries, support for many kernel version etc.

That's easy to solve: "We only support Linux. Testing has only been done on kernel 4.13."
How does this approach compare to Tensor Comprehensions, or TF XLA, or whatever are the best DNN compilers these days?
> The trick to buy an array of better companies

Congratulations, you just reinvented the S&P 500.
Back when themes we're actually good. I started on Windows 3.1 as a kid. Every update from 3.1 through 7 was an improvement on the theme. After that it went downhill.
You can't truly experience freefall except in a vacuum or in an object that is producing an accelerating force to counteract the force of air resistance (like a really fast elevator, or a vomit comet plane).

The reason is that the air itself is imparting substantial acceleration upon you from you hitting it, which leads to terminal velocity. Once you reach terminal velocity the air pressure is imparting exactly the same kind of force against you to repel gravity as the floor would be at ground level, so you experience one full g. You only really feel weightless the moment you jump off a surface, before you've accumulated any velocity and thus before you're being accelerated by air resistance.
You claimed that waterfall worked considerably better. I am offering you proof that it doesn't. Your one example is a store in a mall that you spent 30 minutes discussing. My example is the Empire State Building, which a process expert spent significant time researching.

I'm open to the notion that waterfall processes work well somewhere. But my experience is generally that person in industry A says, "Oh, it really works in industry B." When I talk to somebody in industry B, they say, "Oh, I'm sure it works better in industry C." (Or, often, "industry A".)

Your theory seems to be that the fact that waterfall is the now-dominant paradigm means it must be good. That was the theory in software, and still often is, despite theoretical and practical demonstrations otherwise. So it shouldn't be inconceivable that it dominates in other industries even though it doesn't work well there either.
I actually liked it and might have the articles on "Microsoft Systems Journal" about theme customization still stored somewhere.
> So just because they create accounts @3% doesn't mean they'll also open trading accounts.

From the Robinhood website fine print “Robinhood Checking and Savings is an added feature to existing Robinhood accounts and is not a separate account or a bank account.”

So, yes, opening a Robinhood Checking & Savings account does mean that they will open a trading account, because they aren't actually different accounts. (And it's a waitlisted feature where you get moved up the waitlisted by referring others to RobinHood, so it's a clear way of getting the overall service in front of more users.)
Pretty common misconception, but what you're implying is not how/why you have 0G in space. So for instance the space station still experiences about 90% of Earth's gravity. Orbit is about going really fast, horizontally. If you flew straight up to the ISS, you'd fall right back down. This is why when you see a rocket take off their course looks extremely bent - it's not an optical illusion.

So why horizontally? Imagine there was no air resistance on Earth. If you shot a bullet that bullet would keep going until the force of gravity pulled it down and it hit the Earth. But now imagine that you shoot it fast enough that the vertical distance gravity is pulling it down is less than the vertical distance it gains due to the curvature of the Earth. That equilibrium is exactly what orbit is. It also leads to the highly counter intuitive fact that the height of a given circular orbit is determined exclusively by how fast an object is moving relative to the body it's orbiting. Mass doesn't matter.

Okay so back to the plane. If it's not intuitive yet imagine throwing a ball. It works exactly the same as our bullet, but we can visualize one important part easier. The ball's trajectory will be a parabola. And at the highest point of that parabola the net vertical force on the ball is zero. It's where the force you exerted on it to send it up, and the force of gravity pulling it down eventually reach an equilibrium. Something inside of that ball would experience 0g at the moment when it was at its parabolic peak. And that's exactly what these planes do. They simply 'throw' the planes into a parabolic path, and the passengers experience near 0 g while traveling through the parabolic peak.
How Facebook Made a Universal Open Source Language for the Web
> To big to fail doesn’t really protect them if they lose their costumers.

In fact, if they lose their customers they will no longer be "too big to fail".
Developer friendly, consumer hostile is a pretty solid stance if they can make devs feel like they're on the same side and insulated from business.

I mean how many devs here can say they have any more control over the analytics used on the things they make.
> You could get a person to space with a small sounding rocket the size of a telephone pole.

This is in fact the goal of Copenhagen Suborbitals: https://copenhagensuborbitals.com/missions/spica/
Question, do flights like this generate a sonic boom that can impact those in the area?
They have to normalize interest rates after years of ZIRP. Now is the best time to do it when the economy is very strong.
Thanks for keeping track. Quite fascinating how algorithms employing so much randomization can arrive at such structure and symmetry.

Finally got a < 376.0 from my own code using simulated annealing method...

375.998672775885

[[13 20 7 18 5 10]
[ 9 15 2 23 12 16]
[ 4 22 24 1 3 21]
[17 11 6 19 14 8]]

...only to realise it's the same as yours, but with the rows reversed! Rather surprised, but I now wonder if there is only a small number of very-low-scoring solutions. So perhaps this is less of a coincidence than it first appears.

I'm now using a much more aggressive temperature drop-off to find decent candidates early, followed by a tempering phase to search for nearby solutions, and a final cool-off to refine the final answer. I'm still using only random pair swaps in Python, so probably wasting a lot of cycles, but I'm still quite surprised how quickly it converges to some pretty decent scores. Beyond that I'm just going to try lots of random starting layouts.

I'm interested to see if my method can find any of the other posted solutions or (fingers crossed!) any new ones, but I may need to crunch through a lot more candidates... I will have to translate from Python into something faster to up my game!
This is evil, I love it
My co-founder is leaving my startup, what should I do?
Coal fuel can't melt steel ships.
The news is the FBI investigation. The NYT is completely shut out of the data, but apparently it's drawn enough attention to get some actual muscle behind it finally.
I've done a lot of traveling in the Vegas area (and, sadly, into Vegas itself). In addition to BLM land (Vegas runs right up to Red Rock Canyon these days) and all the military and other federal/state land,you just can't use a lot of land in a way that's unfamiliar to people in a lot of areas. You look outside Las Vegas in a number of directions and there's literally nothing there because it's undeveloped desert with no water source and Vegas is already using too much water itself.
I never saw anything even close in European cities I've lived in and visited. There's definitely more homeless in American cities, but the West coast is by far the worst I've seen and San Fran was considerably worse than other places.
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

NOT!!!!
Pronunciation and grammar are much harder in English than Chinese though. Each language has many facets. The author is missing the forest for the trees.

Chinese grammar is ridiculously simple. There is no tense and no gender. Subject can be dropped from the sentence. Phonetically, pronunciation is always the same for a particular character. The language is like Legos, where you snap together a limited subset of sounds.

Memorizing characters is not the only aspect to the language.
Agile software development practices. Nobody created a user story for 'respect user's settings during upgrades'. If I had to guess, the settings were renamed/refactored and default values were enabled by default. Or perhaps the 'system upgrade service' doesn't talk to the 'system user setting services' and has no way to discover those settings.

There's so many innovative ways to write terrible software, Microsoft is truly a pioneer in this area.
I love these sorts of stories. This is also one of the things that HN seems to aggregate and bubble up better than any other forum/aggregator for me.

Thank you for the link, and for the post on your site.