skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for the US counter part of an Indian company in Illinois for a couple of years. We used to have town hall meetings every quarter. On 2 such meetings, I heard two separate American employees questioning the speaker about outsourcing more. He would be talking about how they are planning to spread out a project with 20% in US, 50% in India, remaining in Europe and some other place. In both the occasions, they asked questions that meant why only 20% in US or something similar. He always replied that's what the customer is willing to pay, that the customer has so and so budget, and this is how we are meeting it.
Java programs are portable. Java is popular.

It feels like the article implies causality, but I fail to see it. My first programming language was Java (version 1.2) and it was the easiest programming language to start with because it had everything that a student would need, in one place: jdk, tutorials, documentation, and language specification. This may not sound like a big deal now, because many other programming languages provide similar resources. You just go to xyzlang.org and you find all the resources, but in those days Java set the standard (or at least that is what I thought) for providing all the resources in place for someone to get started with the language. I did not choose Java at that time because it was portable.
Silicon Valley is broken. Ethics went out the window years ago, replaced by greed. Whether that is Google suddenly wanting to go into China, Facebook lying and spying on everyone and their dog or companies like Uber et al ‘bending the law’. The most recent such bend was now this stock trading company trying to sell customers Checking accounts that were never insured as such.

Time for the old valley of scrappy founders who wanted to change the world for the better to return.
The correct response here would be for Robinhood to cancel the product and apologize, instead of revamping their marketing materials.

They are not offering a "cash management" service. Unless they get insured or find another vehicle to prevent funds from being at risk, they are effectively just borrowing money from their customers.

This is sardonically innovative, as they've invented the retail investor equivalent of a revolver[1].

If they continue to market this without deep protections for consumers, this is effectively a scam and I would encourage anyone originally considering this to scuttle their considerations.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/revolver.asp
Getting captcha correct on google is actually difficult. For some reason they use a different one than they provide for third parties.

As for survey/reviews I routinely one star apps that nag me to leave a review. Some apps have two options "review now" or "remind me later" . Those apps get reviewed, "app is great, but won't stop fucking asking me for a review even though I already have."
Icelandic law should apply equally to people regardless of of nationality. In my country, it’s illegal to murder someone regardless of the perpetrator or victim’s nationality. And bank insurance applies regardless of nationality. Restrictions apply to prevent such systemic problems.

So it’s good to protect Icelandic residents. But the law is inefficient if it allows too much capital that it can’t be managed and insured.
You've never seen someone screw something up, apologize for screwing up, and promise to do better next time? I find that hard to believe.
So, I don't really mind getting downvoted for asking questions that make me look ignorant, as I was in this case.

But when someone else answers the question, (read the rest of the thread) there's no need to answer it again.
It should look just like it does now:

Production:

Lambda handler -> business logic

Test

Test function -> business logic.

Testing a lambda function is no different than testing an controller in an MVC framework.
It’s iMprisonment.

I’m going to delete this comment... No need to reply.
OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code “Has Too Many Swear Words”
If the US foreign policy apparatus hadn't had its head jammed quite so firmly up its ass, they would have accepted the overtures of friendship from both Castro and Ho instead of scorning them. Imagine Vietnam coming out of their war for independence from France with a democratically elected government starting in 1954. Imagine Cuba being the major US ally in the Caribbean and primary vacation destination, with Fidel Castro serving as President from 1960 through 1970 in a constitutional republic.

Both of those scenarios were within the realm of possibility -- but not with the Yale and Harvard asshats ruling the State Department.
Reading the NYT obituary. It includes this gem;

>Mr. Blum repeatedly challenged the idealistic premise of American exceptionalism and argued instead that world hegemony was Washington’s covert goal, for economic, nationalistic, ideological and religious reasons.

You shouldn't try and parse meaning from that sentence without a respirator, goggles and a crochet needle.
I liked seeing the picture of Ken Bowles in the article. A great guy, he passed away this year. I wrote a Go program in UCSD Pascal, and it was my at home hacking language for a few years. It ran surprisingly well on my Apple II with 2 floppy disk drives.
> Am I right in thinking it is impossible to solve an Agatha Christie story before the end, because crucial evidence is always withheld til then? i.e. it's not a "fair puzzle".

I'm not sure about impossible. There was one story, Peril at End House, where I have figured out who the murderer was very early on, in the first few chapters or so. It was a weird feeling of thinking that Poirot was being led astray for a while.

That being said, as your other comments say, this is not really a goal for me. If I was serious, I'd lay out the story carefully with pen and paper. But mostly I'd rather just read the story.
Perhaps, but we were reminded just this week that some Stasi memories are well preserved. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/11/valdimir-putin...
Funny, The Murder at the Vicarage was the book I started with about a year ago and I was _hooked_.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17404287
I'm confused. Are we saying that robinhood is the scrappy kind or not?

I see no reason to be hostile toward them. I think they're undercutting buy fees. It sounds like they announced something and had to retract, but that doesn't hurt anyone. And I bet whatever they do come up with will put pressure on banks to be more competitive.
Typewriter Cartography
Not really. The point of the gag is to reduce the number of people who hear the news of his conviction, or who are influenced by full-blown emotionally charged commentary and public discussion about it.

From what I can see the gag has been successful at ensuring it will be possible to find a group of competent jurors who haven't been tainted by the news or the commentary.
Tim May has died
Have you played Depression Quest? http://www.depressionquest.com/dqfinal.html
I think it's becoming increasingly clear what happened.

As whitepoplar noted here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691477) other similar services are FDIC insured because the funds are swept into FDIC bank accounts behind the scenes. But FDIC insured bank accounts pay very, very little interest, and Robinhood wanted to offer a high interest rate.

Their innovation was, instead of sweeping the funds into FDIC bank accounts, to sweep the funds into treasuries, which pay more. And as a bonus, bonds held on your behalf by a brokerage are insured via SIPC, which is a little bit like having your funds be insured by FDIC, which makes for good marketing.

The problem here is:

1) SIPC insurance makes sure you get your bonds back if a brokerage goes under. It doesn't make sure that they're worth what you were promised, just that if the broker goes under, whatever they were holding on your behalf gets returned to you. That's valuable, but it does mean there's no guarantee that you'll get all your money back. Money market funds are covered by SIPC insurance, and that didn't stop investors from losing money during the crisis when some funds "broke the buck" and became less worth than what investors had paid.

2) It's not actually clear that SIPC insurance actually covers this sort of thing. If I buy $5k of treasuries with a broker, it clearly would. If I deposit $5k cash with my broker (not for use in buying securities, but just to hold onto for me so I can pay my rent, as you would with a bank account), it clearly does not. If I deposit $5k cash and my broker uses it to buy $5k of treasuries then...I dunno, maybe? It does cover money market funds, and money market funds are a lot like what Robinhood was planning, but there are some obvious differences.

In short, Robinhood has done two things: They have marketed a vaguely money market like product as a bank account, but elided the difference in protection a money market and a bank account enjoys (very naughty). And they seem to have possibly contemplated launching a money market like product without getting the SIPC to sign off on it being covered, although it's very possible that the SIPC is reacting to the confusion caused by Robinhood's marketing. (Eg, the SIPC may have confirmed with Robinhood that a money market like product would be covered, but had no idea that this bank account product Robinhood was marketing was the same underlying product.)

In any case: In the US, bank accounts are covered by FDIC, Robinhood marketed this as a bank account, it isn't covered by FDIC, and even if Robinhood is right and the SIPC is wrong and it is covered by SIPC, that type of coverage is fundamentally different (and weaker) than FDIC coverage, making Robinhood's marketing fundamentally misleading. The core issue here isn't the dispute with the SIPC, it's that this was never going to work how Robinhood implied it was.
Lock in is a massive problem with FAAS, but it certainly isn't about lock-in [1]. It's all about reduction of developer ops - not having to provision (or even scale) servers is quite nice.

[1] In fact, for FAAS start-ups (such as my own - PiCloud), the lock-in fear was one of the biggest hurdles.
Yes, I agree, then it should fall on the CEO, who is responsible for signing off on all of this activity, like financials.

You’re right that we don’t want the guys in the trucks getting busted for fraud, but that shouldn’t mean that we allow the upper management to get off.
Is it just me or is this site literally completely unreadable? Its font color is too similar to the background for me. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/KFzMuaF.jpg
I grew up in a small town in Ohio[0], and my first job out of school was in Pittsburgh, late 2009. After slowly going through 2 other jobs, I found a place with a team that feels like family (and pays well). I've been living in the South Hills area for 3 years, and I wouldn't dare live anywhere else.

The T is awesome. I love days when I don't use my car to go to work, and they allow bikes on the T, so I hit the trails downtown during spring/summer/fall weekends.

[0] Not near Cleveland, much closer to Columbus. I learned pretty quickly that Ohio equals Cleveland to people from Pittsburgh.
You've convinced me of your point, but I only understood about 25% of what you said. How can I get more educated on this subject? I'm not really interested in actually executing any of these strategies you mentioned, just learning about them.

The extent of my knowledge just comes from reading /r/wallstreetbets for entertainment, while doing passive index fund investing for personal finance.
It's been widely reported [0]. And as I said I feel like it's still a fair deal. Some HFT's get my orders and they know I purchased 2 AMZN yesterday a few seconds before it executed. In return I get to trade for free on their platform.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-15/robinhood...
I mean, isn't that essentially a metaphor for Donald Trump's presidency and his devotees' response?
actually modern C and Algol68 (which doesn't have objects) are roughly equivalent in complexity .... probably the obly thing that C doesn't have is the type-case (algol68 unions have a hidden small enumerator that describes the actual type stored within the union)
Problem is there is a class of mediocre programmers who do get results - it's just that they are productive building things that appear to work just long enough for them to be able to move on to the next task, but their work either doesn't scale or falls over in production.
California SB901 makes suing PGE a bit more complicated.
As someone working in cosmological astrophysics, I think that is a very misleading summary of what the big bang theory is... However, luckily for us, people who go around misunderstanding the big bang theory because of bad tweet-length explanations (by experts or non-experts) are not a great danger to the rest of us. They aren't basing their politics or personal finance decisions on that misunderstanding.

The thing with topics like the ones covered in Debt, is that they have been weaponised by our leaders to facilitate social stratification and very unjust economic disparities. I believe this has largely been made possible through simplification of these concepts and making bite-sized claims about how "basic economics" works, where all the detail and nuance has been thrown out. These kinds of 3 sentence summaries can be very dangerous.
World’s nations agree on rules to implement Paris climate deal
It’s more surprising when everyone lets them try a second, third, or fourth time
Exactly. Most people who suffered trauma at an early age cannot identify it without working through it with a therapist.
The Accidental Room
Học văn bằng 2 cao đẳng y dược là lựa chọn sáng suốt
Huh.

(to be clear, I'm no more qualified than you, probably less, I'm just a computer technician speculating about how the brain works;)

I always felt like trying to fit my feelings into a logical model that had to do with other feelings was a losing game. As far as I can tell, how healthy I am in other ways matters more to my feelings than anything else; when I'm doing badly, little bad things seem huge; when I'm depressed, it feels like I've always been depressed. When I'm doing well? the opposite is true. Feelings just... they aren't logic. they don't seem to operate under the rules of logic.

I guess I think of bad feelings like any other kind of difficult to pinpoint bodily pain... something is wrong with me, but the thing that is wrong is often not the thing that hurts.

I personally think there's way too much stigma associated with drugs; I mean, for me, fitness levels have a lot to do with mood, and goddamn, it's hard to get myself to work out when I'm depressed, so I can get in this sort of negative feedback loop. For me? short term antidepressent use is hugely useful for getting out of those negative loops. And really? I don't see a problem with long term medication use, if it's safe and if it helps.
Oil dropped in the 80's because of the OPEC embargo leading to a surge in production outside OPEC. Then Saudi Arabia realized they could no longer support the market and so flooded the market instead to cripple the competition (they are the lowest cost producers).

They tried the same playbook in 2014, but shale is too short cycle to be knocked out long term. Further they were able to secure help from Russia so they cut production afterwards.
Ask HN: Help me weave in STEM topics for a children's book
I have been working on a collection of short children’ stories with my farm as the hub. The main characters are all critters and creatures and trees in the farm. The guardian is a crone witch that is the spirit of the Elderberry tree known as The ElderMother. It has a certain magical quality to it, but I really want it to be enjoyable reading for everyone. I would also like to use it as a platform to explain STEM concepts(I am from the bookshelf encyclopedia generation with giant illustrations). So far, I have little stories (less than 5000 words) that includes ‘human concepts’ like how to a stock taking of a pantry(sorry..I started out as an accountant. That’s what grabbed me first as subject), an enchanted nestery run by a pigeon who puts magical spells on birds nests to illustrate different kinds of nests and eggs of various birds, a Beauty Salon for insects whose markings fade...again, to illustrate markings on ladybugs, butterflies and cleaning bee pollen baskets etc. It’s turning out to be more of a picture book. I would like to introduce subjects that teach something of the natural world and the physics in it. My favourite has always been time and the uni directional arrow of time. I also want to write a story that explains why we are carbon based life forms. About the night skies. Also..photosynthesis, on soil biology, migration, hibernation etc are easy to include in a farm setting. How to weave in hardcore STEM topics into a plot?
That's exactly what I think happens to Pandora after the end of Avatar.
As if checking account insurance is effective altruism? And are you saying offering a neo-bank service involving skirting what's possible and passing the value on to customers isn't scrappy? And finally, did someone force you to move your money? Ethically speaking optionality and customer empowerment is good, and forced insurance is fraud.
"Cracking the Coding Interview" The name itself suggesting a book to prepare for coding interviews. I clearly mentioned System Interview.
I'm 41 and I have still not managed to really confront the question of having children despite my wife being in her late 30s.

> I'm sure lots of guys I've seen refuse to make babies did so because they knew it was the end of a side of them.

Well, yeah...that sounds plausible. So how do they solve this?
I think a modified version of Hanlon's razor could be applied here: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by hubris.
On a lower level, I think Intel did the same for 8086 assembly. Their documentation was volumes and included everything you ever needed to know, including all operating system integrations (IRQs, syscalls, etc)
> what happens if policymakers suddenly decide to shut geoengineering down

Why would anyone propose that? Sulfate aerosols injection would be tapered unless they had extremely serious and unanticipated side effects.
Sports, gyms and group activities ( Meetup)
The same PG&E responsible for drinking water contamination with hexavalent chromium? Interesting. At some point monopolies and mismanaged companies should probably be dissolved and negligent management directly responsible imprisoned.
I think this is an example that shows many corporations have their own interests at heart. They care about making money. They do not care about the national interests of their home country.

To be honest, it's difficult for multinational corporations to satisfy all sides. If they want to chase profits and growth (which their shareholders demand as a foundational requirement to agree to not vote to change the Board of Directors and CEO), they need to seek growth where it exists. If they don't, their share price will suffer. The incentives point them in this direction. I'm not justifying it, I'm saying the system sucks.

So culture matters at a company. A strong culture can help keep a company's values to be true to itself. Employees matter. That's why stories like employee pushback at Google against Project Maven and Project Dragonfly are interesting. But those examples are probably few and far between. Ultimately, the incentives for profits and growth trump all else. These examples are probably more common.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ciscos-latest-attempt-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

It's easy to complain when corporations do things you don't morally agree with. But where there's an opportunity for money to be made, that problem will not disappear. Western nations need to decide whether they care more about their values (and put their money where their mouth is for which stocks their people buy, as well as enact laws that prevent economic activity that they believe should be prevented) or economic growth (these corporations do employ a lot of people and do in fact create a lot of economic value).

Can't have your cake and eat it too. Google employees are lucky in that they serve a market where they can afford to stand up for what they believe is right. McKinsey, I honestly don't know how much they have to grow without completely changing themselves. They may not have the freedom that Google has to stand for what they believe is right, besides facing the temptation of money.

edit: Actually, I think Chinese companies do care about their home country (especially given government involvement and partial ownership in some of them). If I think about it, they look like they have a patriotic feeling similar to how American companies probably had a patriotic feeling back in the 1950s. But in the 1950s, American companies were not yet multinational enough to face a lot of conflicting incentives. It would be interesting to see if Chinese companies also lose their patriotic feeling as they grow more multinational over the next 70 years.
I would be interested to see how they and others go about setting up mass numbers of accounts. I imagine it’s probably something boring like a partnership.
Tim was pretty much why I got interested in crypto. I'm glad I got to meet him in person once a few years ago, but lots of great interactions online over the years.
> And I bet whatever they do come up with will put pressure on banks to be more competitive.

More competitive how, exactly? Robinhood isn't "innovative." They haven't done anything fundamentally different from any other financial institution except skirt regulatory protections for retail investors. You'd think by now we would learn to ask "if this platform is free, how are they making their money?" Robinhood is cutting compliance corners. Period. That doesn't "pressure" other banks to be more competitive. That hurts consumers.
PUMA flaunts it’s classic high-tech smart-shoe
Lol then continue to keep your topic of study less accessible.

"A car is a small vehicle that has a motor that turns energy into motion".

"Ummm well ackshually there are smaller vehicles than that, and cars can be electric or oil, so clearly you don't understand the topic unless you start with the factory blueprints first instead of the dictionary definition."
C'mon, man. It's an analysis.
Started reading Stand on Zanzibar recently. Alphabet/Google could be an obvious mirror to General Technics, but perhaps a management consulting firm would be a better fit of a globetrotting corporation meddling in the policies of developing world countries to build them up.
I don't have enough first hand experience to back this up, but I think I read someone claim that the early JVM was very close to the p-machine. I think a lot of mid era (late 70's early 80's) programmers learned the p-machine in school. Wouldn't be a stretch that it was the informal template.

Reason p-code didn't take off was because it was too slow on personal computers.
It's different in the expectations from such a society by adherents. Ancaps believe that private property can exist in the absence of a state protecting it at scale. Anarcho-socialists think that private property is a social construct that requires the state to prop it up, and that would disappear if you removed the state.

There is a book by Ursula Le Guin, "The Dispossessed", that describes an utopian (to some extent; the book subtitle is "an ambiguous utopia" for a reason) anarcho-socialist society. Anarcho-syndicalist, to be precise. It's fiction, of course - but if you wanted to get the gist of how people who believe in this sort of thing imagine such a society would work, it's a great introductory crash course; kinda like "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is for ancap.