skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I consistently heard that Monzo's competitors like Revolut are going to be a future case study in scaling before great product/market fit. I don't know how many people have Revolut accounts, but nobody seems to be using their cards in public.

Monzo is a licensed bank in the UK, and Revolut is not.

Still, Revolut has about 30% more customers in the UK than Monzo, and about 3x more in total, since it's available in the entire EU. And, unlike Monzo, which is still losing money, Revolut has been profitable since February 2018.

That's because Revolut does much more than Monzo. It provides multiple premium account types, virtual credit cards for online payments, business accounts with open API access, credit, insurance, and soon – fee-free stock trading like Robinhood.
Campaign season is an outlier, and I've had that happen... well, I can count the number of times on one hand, since a decade ago.
Ask HN: Baby steps for getting a job in the USA
I'm a Canadian with a bootcamp education and about 5 years experience doing web app development.

What is the best way to find employment in the united states? I would love the opportunity to move there for a little while.
Don't write (much)code to test APIs
"Like, I know harvesting organs of prisoners is bad, but can we just talk about Google products for a second"
The MTA will shut down the L train tunnel under the East River for almost two years. There's no talk of automatic trains being introduced as part of that, remarkably long, repair.
A better title for this would have been "Virgin Galactic successfully penetrates space".
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Martingale and Fibonacci Systems are for dummies. Ian Fleming just say bye bye to Casino royale because Hello World! Welcome to newly minted most affordable winning strategies for playing the house. Soon to be published on Amazon. Publishers invited. I am going to term it as Black Jack Strategy tm.
The piece explicitly credits them:

> Workers have also started to replace faulty signals that trigger a train’s emergency brakes at low speeds, a problem investigated by The New York Times and The Village Voice that has also led to slower service.
> people stared blankly out into space on the train or bus or shared van [...] boredom was part of everyday life

I wouldn't necessarily call that boredom, not in all cases anyway. Not having the constant ADHD content/info/distraction feed phones provide can be a boon too.
Plenty of software vendors provide packages that are compatible across releases such as google chrome and mariadb. Checkout Mariadb's releases for Ubuntu: http://mirrors.syringanetworks.net/mariadb//mariadb-10.3.11/...

Just the system packages need to be stable (eg, distro's repos).

Also worth mentioning is snaps and flatpacks (though I'm not personally a fan, they do exist).
Now that's a depressing assumption, that people who want to share their neat experience is just humble-bragging.
They have different design goals. Async in F# works better for F# applications. Tomas Petricek wrote a couple good articles [1][2] comparing both approaches to async computations.

[1] http://tomasp.net/blog/csharp-fsharp-async-intro.aspx/

[2] http://tomasp.net/blog/csharp-async-gotchas.aspx/
I wrote my own c++ framework out of tcp socket.
In these puritanical cycles in our culture the characters keep changing, but the script stays the same.

"Won't somebody please think of the children?"
> The opportunity here for a startup bank is to replace credit card spending in the USA. The potential earnings are huge if you can get consumers to spend on a debit card instead of a credit card (because the rake is higher).

I think the converse is true. Card issuers earn 1 percent points higher interchange rates on credit cards (2.60%) than debit cards (1.60%).
I don’t care that they exist, but it’s pretty annoying to have them showing up in my recommendations all the time.

To a lesser extent I care about them showing up in other people’s recommendations a lot. Propaganda does work.
Right up until the super-AI creates a pet human or two in its own image and a little garden for them to live in.
It's not as atrocious as you think. The united states has its' own fair share of heinous crimes as well.

I feel a lot of people have this perception of China as a Technologically powerful North Korea... Nothing can be further from the truth.

China is like an asian tiger... Japan, Singapore or Taiwan.. or maybe not exactly an asian tiger, but somewhere in-between North Korea and an Asian Tiger but leaning much more closer to an Asian Tiger than it does its' historical regime based roots.

You guys need to visit China to get a more realistic perspective. I recommend Shenzhen.
This year's Christmas spirit brought to you by an AI algorithm (not) near you
No, not quite right. VG is in suborbital tourism business - their current technology allows only short hops to Karman line or so. To get to LEO one has to have a substantially more capable system, here SpaceX with its crewed Dragon would be front runner.

On the other hand, VG is much closer to starting offering suborbital rides than SpaceX is to starting offering interplanetary manned flights.
On the scale of human rights, having your rights restricted in planning children (ie, restricting abortion) and having your organs removed are very far apart.
New models sense human trust in smart machines
I feel like the OP was making a totally reasonable argument. Your comment was a huge overreaction.
Sure, but even locally you can barely walk outside without tripping over an IT services company. If there are a dozen IT services companies within a couple miles of a place (there probably are), what is his focus to bring people in the door? Expertise? Cost?

Being the second customer is an enormously risky proposition for any potential customer, and I'm not joking when I said picking your IT services company is deciding who to entrust your entire business with.

Which is to say, yes, I don't think a lot of advertising/marketing strategies are going to be that useful, the parent needs direct referrals.
The era of talking buildings has arrived
This would be easy to confirm. How many heart transplants took place in China in 2017? Then find an explanation for the source.
Yeah, the younger crowd doesn't trade, not because "the maaaan" is keeping them from it, but because it's a very complicated way of making money, and they typically don't want to learn how to do it right. What this startup is doing is telling the younger crowd that it's the former, while also saying "Look how easy this is!" and deliberately oversimplifying complex systems.
> If a doctor tells patients that going for a run a few times a week is a good way to increase their stamina, but most patients are too lazy or busy to do it, do you blame the method of running then?

Yes, if a medical intervention largely fails in real-world practice, whether or not it is through non-compliance, that's a strike against it as an intervention. On which is more successful in practice, even if worse in the ideal case of perfect compliance, is a better intervention.

Similarly, a development methodology which fails with real world orgs, even if the failure is due to “incorrect” implementation, is a worse methodology than one which produces better results in practice.
Pastebin links are better for this kind of thing
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An acquaintance of mine became a photographer and also made a collection of people with phones on the streets.

But instead of going for the easy societal critic, he got a more diverse use of phones into his photos.

You can see several occasions where phones were being used as a tool for social, presential, phisycal-world connection between people having a good time.

Worth taking a look:

http://www.thomasfreier.com/fotografia-celular-eles/
To me it takes away all the life from the photo, makes everyone look dead.

It's fine for landscapes, but not for people.

It's you've ever seen a dead body, it's very pale, like a black and white photo.

(It's understandable for old photos before color was possible, but there's really no reason to do it today.)
That seems plausible to me. They had evidence and witnesses, and don't seem to claim exhaustive knowledge of scope or every detail of implementation. Did it happen? Y/N ... three days, 30 witnesses, and evidence, to determine 1 bit of information. Y or N. We got Y. That does not seem far-fetched or necessarily slipshod.
It's only dramatic change if the purpose of the system is to identify as many people as possible (i.e., data mining the crowd), rather than to scan for a fixed set of known individuals (which is what guards already do). It's like the difference between checking IDs for entry vs scanning and saving IDs for entry.
Outside the US mathematics is a science. (Because deduction is part of the scientific method.)
I'm sure they are quite happy not having to paying for a free product to sell.
Shakir is a force of nature. He is one of the organizers of the Deep Learning Indaba - an incredible effort to strengthen machine learning in Africa. Unfortunately the 2018 videos aren't out yet (Shakir gave an amazing talk on deep learning fundamentals and some of the tricks from his blog) but everyone should be aware of Shakir and the Deep Learning Indaba: http://www.deeplearningindaba.com/
The labels are incorrect (we combined the charts in the final draft)--fix incoming. GCP was much worse than AWS on this test.
Why do that? There is color large format film.

It's one thing if it made the end result better, but it doesn't.
Eh, they're actually going for both millenials and younger. A lot of their advertising is in YouTube ads and YouTube podcasts, which is definitely aimed at a younger audience than millenials.
I think the OPis asking for something that can be used for internal debate/procedures, not the reason communicated to candidates.
A better title might have been "package a standalone PyQT GUI application in minutes".

I like that the project supports AppImage. I don't suppose fman supports displaying AppImage icons? I've been keeping my eye out for any filemanager that does.
The pop culture definition of algorithm is basically any process by which a computer makes a decision without human intervention.
It is not a false comparison just because you say it is.

I also disagree that China would try to conquer the world.

Sure, they invaded India. So did the British. Are you saying if the UK became a superpower again, they would try to conquer the world like they did before?
The Prime branding on products that don’t deliver next day is a killer for me. (Note I’m in the U.K. where next day delivery is common and Prime started out with that as it’s pitch)

Amazons point of view seems to be that the products aren’t in stock, so when they do come in stock will be delivered next day, but as a customer I don’t care about stock levels or when it ships, it’s only the delivery date that matters.

I only really care about Prime over Christmas, when I could just shop in stores anyway, some will price match Amazon if necessary, and Amazon is no longer cheap anyway. I do care about Prime at work, but we have Amazon for Businesses for that.

I suspect I’ll let me Prime subscription lapse.
Larger brokerages have the same problem. I've lost money using Fidelity twice because their site was down for an hour.
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Maybe so, but please don't post shallow dismissals to HN. A good critical comment teaches us something.
True. I was trying to give some benefit of the doubt, since 2%/day compounded is obviously ridiculous.
As a resident of the Triangle, it sure doesn't feel like a big loss to me. Do we actually benefit by handing out tax breaks to a megacorp just so it can relocate a few thousand jobs to the area?

We've got our own problems related to growth already, we surely don't need to grow even faster - especially not by adding companies that effectively contribute nothing back financially to support all the needed infrastructure (after all the tax breaks).
I agree. All this “bad” news about China recently seems odd.
Could we all just calm down a little bit with the rhetoric?

The United States has serious and growing problems around its global support for human rights. The domestic policies it exhibits mirror that; there are clearly long-term problems that are deeply worrying.

But support for human rights is not a binary state. The United States has the rule of law, freedom of speech and religion, a functioning judicial system, and an army of human rights specialists who operate freely. It supports many of these initiatives in other countries, both as a society and a government. The fact that the country does many awful things does not mean that other countries should have a free pass to implement arbitrary policies free of criticism.

No country in the world has a perfect record of protecting human rights, but that should not prevent them calling for change elsewhere. I hope deeply that the US fixes its problems soon, but that does not stop me from being aware that organ harvesting and political assassinations are also bad.
Here I dug this up from 2006.

https://www.space.com/3097-virgin-galactic-anatomy-business-...

There’s probably more. I’ll leave the rest as an exercise for you.

I’m not sure why you can’t use your own imagination. I can easily see this being a catalyst for many other businesses.
Anonymous transactions with large quantities of cash are illegal in most first world countries - there are exceptions for small amounts of cash, but in general, doing the same things as with Bitcoin with cash would also violate anti-money-laundering laws.
The Model S is now over 6 years old so we still have a few years to hit your time benchmark.

My bigger concern is that Tesla's manufacturing has been repeating the mistakes of the American auto industry from the 1970s which nearly doomed them. Poor quality control, high rates of rework from defects discovered at the end of production. This keeps the per vehicle cost too high to be sustainable against more effective competition.

These are, at this point, well-understood principles of project/production management that they just don't seem to understand. I'm invested in them (already sold off a chunk of my stake), and I don't plan to sell the remainder any time soon. But I have only middling confidence in them over the next several years. They have to learn how to run a Lean production environment if they really want to take over. Otherwise, Toyota or Honda or someone else will flip a factory to all-electric production one day and wreck Tesla.
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> It is illegal not to tell the tax
man anything you do not want
him to know, but legal not to
tell him information you do not
mind him knowing.

> Not quite

> This appears to be a simplification of
the Tax Avoidance Schemes
Regulations 2006. This requires the
disclosure of arrangements securing
a tax advantage where those
benefiting wish to keep it confidential
in order to facilitate repeated benefits:
the desire for confidentiality is
regarded as a hallmark of an
unacceptable tax arrangement.

IANAL, but this seems to be bordering on "If you think it's illegal, it is! If you think it's not illegal, it isn't!"

Apparently the tax code is now so difficult that we can no longer decide what is and isn't legal, and have to resort to deciding based on whether the defendant thinks it is.

I'm all for tougher laws on tax avoidance, but I don't think "Look! He tried to hide it! He must be guilty of something!" is a valid argument.
No.

First: A penny is a lot for a search. Maybe not in First world countries, but in the developing world where average annual income can be a few hundred dollars, a penny per search could add up to a discernible % of your income.

Second: Even granting the premise that the cost wouldn't be a factor, this would add too much friction to the user experience. Given any alternative, much less one that returned halfway decent results, most people wouldn't bother with the hassle of setting up a payment account.

Think about how Craigslist demolished the newspaper Classifieds business in an incredibly short period of time. They were pretty cheap, the local paper might charge $5 to start, but everyone used them for services, for job listings, etc., so you got lots of eyeballs on your ad. In aggregate these used to be roughly 40% of ad revenue for a paper. It's estimated that by 2000, there was nearly $20billion in such revenue. There was, however, a lot (relatively) of friction for the average user: Fill out a form, get a check or money order, mail it in... Then came Craigslist. It was free. You didn't even need to login, you just typed and hit enter. When it went nationwide in the early 00's, it went viral fast, and in a matter of about 2 years it was all but over for printed classifieds. (Ebay was of course the other murderer, but "For Sale" classifieds were only a fraction of the volume, so I attribute this primarily to Craigslist. It's the story of how a company that even today grosses under $1billion in revenue killed a market that was 20x that size in the US alone.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

> Because China lacks an organized organ matching and allocation system, and in order to satisfy expectations for very short wait times, it is rare that multiple organs are harvested from the same donor.
Maybe they don't care about their protein intake.
Nitpicking here, but the trajectory would be approximately elliptical, not parabolic. A parabolic trajectory would require a uniform gravitational field.
You're assuming that the idea is so sticky that you can't avoid it if you hear it.

If you acknowledge what it is, how it went wrong and the interactions with it go on. You can teach people how to spot it.
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People have never been "in touch" with reality, they're characters in a drama play of their own imagination. Every drama needs villains and heroes.
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While that situation is often the case, effect is used correctly as a verb in this context. From your link:

> When used as a verb effect means ‘to bring something about as a result’. It’s most often used in a formal context as oppose to everyday English:

> Growth in the economy can only be effected by stringent economic controls.

> The new policies did little to effect change.

> The prime minister effected many policy changes.

Edit: there are two places were effect is used as a verb in that comment. I'm referring to the last one.
Who would challenge it? FINRA is a private organization, and I'm sure the SEC or FTC has no interest in trying to get them to change that rule.
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Ah, I see. You aren't talking about housing.

But assuming you're not being sarcastic, you should know that the price of a share of stock, in isolation, says nothing about whether or not it is cheap.
It's the same reason why everyone wants everyone else to fix climate change: The negative effects from supporting China won't affect the people who actually make the decision to support China.
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I've been doing this regularly for years, and it's always taken a few days - so I wouldn't describe it as "very fast", but I've never seen it take more than a week.
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> Too frequently, the people writing about this and the politicians talking about it really just want to be the ones to set the line on what is "toxic" and "offensive" and have a very strong desire to influence what Google and these other companies should censor.

I've definitely seen this pattern from people. It's rarely overt, but I do see demands that others "punch down" or that "toxic" things be treated a certain way. This is always coupled with an implicit assumption that there's some clearly understood definition of what those mean that just happens to be exactly what the person using those idioms would offer.

Like you, I think this pattern suggests people trying to grab for the privilege of writing definitions.
>People who watched video A and also watched video B and were very likely to comment and interact with it, therefore people watching video A should be presented with video B.

I don't think this is how YouTube's recommendation algorithm has worked in a long time. I won't argue that the current recommendation algorithm is somehow nefarious in nature, but I'm willing to bet there are factors that are weighed a lot heavier than the fact "I watched A so I should watch B". Your recommendations hardly change based on what video you are watching at the current moment.

My personal theory is that YouTube overemphasizes watch time to a point where any long video gets suggested as long as it has a high completion time. You could be "batshit liberal" and still be stuck in the "alt-right recommendation loop" simply because YouTube thinks you will finish those videos regardless of your political orientation.
"The young Tesla engineer was excited. Ecstatic, in fact. It was a Saturday in October 2017, and he was working at the Gigafactory, Tesla’s enormous battery manufacturing plant in Nevada. Over the previous year, he had been living out of a suitcase, putting in 13-hour days, seven days a week. This was his first real job. And now a colleague had tracked him down to say that Elon Musk—Elon Musk!—needed his personal help..."
Author / analyst interview here:

https://audioboom.com/posts/5900201-university-of-california...
“But it’s better in the long run not to.”

This is a textbook example of how to butcher someone’s intent.
Also anecdotally, Prime has become inconsistent and unreliable since I moved to DC a couple of months ago. It's gotten better as we've moved closed to the holidays, but for a while it was taking 3-7 days for Prime-qualified items to arrive.

I heard that there may have been some disruptions in service due to the tornado hitting an Amazon warehouse in Baltimore, but never in my contact with customer service was this mentioned.

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/9xebhs/any_up...
Robinhood's checking account only holds your cash, just like any other checking account. I'm not sure why you think you can hold securities in a checking account, or why you keep calling it a "checking" account. It's just a normal checking account, FDIC and SIPC are the same protection when you are holding cash.
Thanks, I was looking at the hands and wondering this myself. I would have been a lot more impressed if these were candid shots and then the photographer got images of hands or close likenesses and photographed them in the same positions and then photoshopped them in.
Not to mention the biggest problem with Instacart—the prices they charge you are completely made up and not the grocery's price. I understand paying a flat fee for delivery, but certainly not random and opaque markups.