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Congrats Plaid!

Is Open Banking Standards going to abolish any international market opportunities for Plaid?

- CMA9 Major Banks in the UK are ready to roll out Open Banking Standards.
- In Australia the ACCC is pushing for 1 July 2019 and within 12 months all Australian banks, including the related brands of the big four, will be brought within the scope of open banking.
- Canada too with it's 2020 initiatives.

US would be crazy not to adopt a similar standard but maybe this is where Plaid is specializing in due to the large number of US banks?
Google owns the domain name magicneko.com
HN is generally correct about established computer science and tech stuff. Anything frontier or controversial (e.g. bitcoin) or outside the narrow domain of typical Silicon Valley startups gets the exact same ignorant herd response. The point is that when the topic aligns with the expertise of the community you get quality, whereas when the topic varies you get ignorance and BS spoken just as authoritatively. Always be aware of the latter outcome!
I've seen the same sentiment from other InVision users, including myself. It seems like they spread themselves too thin when they started working on InVision studio. Almost to the point where I wonder how much usability testing they actually do these days on their core product. Which is ironic coming from a company whose whole point of existence is to facilitate that sort of thing.

I was giving them the benefit of doubt for a while and waiting for them to get their act together. But all hope was lost when I got their last survey where they had me categorize a boat load of features into four buckets: must haves, should haves, nice to haves, and I think shouldn't haves. I think I categorized 90% of the features into nice-to-haves, and the rest in should haves. Of course, there was no "don't know, don't care" bucket. And not one of the "features" was "improve the existing user experience".

So I feel like they are falling into the usual trap of piling on features to the product, and they are not listening to their existing users to improve the current (core) product.

But I get it, one must feed the beast in order to raise $115M.
Or, is it interpretable like rice? What about mashed potatoes with a pool of gravy in the center?
AST for read access I find relatively decent. Straightforward and not complicated.

For manipulating code tho (e.g. for code gen or rewriting), yeah - absurdly unfriendly fits pretty well, and comments only kinda sorta mostly work until you actually try to produce anything polished. It kinda feels like they prioritized forward-compatibility at the cost of usability (which could be a decent decision / a fair tradeoff, but it sucks as a user trying to do stuff now).
Selfish response: Why not sell it?

I've worked for larger corps for most of my career but have certainly cultivated the desire to be the maker of my own success. That being said, I've had remarkably little luck in finding any side effort enough traction to get off the ground, and hit my stride the most when I can improve a system with a proven value prop. (Without sugarcoating it, I'm a terrible "idea guy")

Later in my life if I get a degree of financial stability, I'd like to buy or work for a proven small company (working for would be hard but not impossible given the aforementioned desire to be the driver and recipient of the fruits of my labor) and taking over from someone in your situation sounds almost ideal.
Not exactly "incomplete." The core of the article was written before the guideline was formally made and enforced on licencees. This is why the author went to such lengths in designing and documenting a standardized version. In fact, it's funny you should mention it since The Tetris Company actually reached out to this article's author for help in designing the guideline (unfortunately it didn't pan out).
To be fair, there is very little difference between Linux and BSDs these days, and the choice between them is mostly the matter of personal preference. Yes, Linux is more popular and enjoys somewhat better support by third-party vendors (which could in some cases be limited to a small set of distributions), which is why it is usually a safe choice; otherwise there not much reason to choose one over another.
So, we should just "agree to disagree" and stop trying to demonstrate how one approach might be much better over another? How can anything ever get better?

The Complexity Trap didn't accuse anyone of actively trying to make things complex, nor did it imply any "moral failings" on anyone's part, it just gave examples of how common practices can cause accidental complexity. It also dedicates an entire section to defining "complexity" as used throughout, so there's no ambiguity there.
According to this if the federal budget is 4.4 trillion and military budget is 886 billion then that would equate to 20%.

Not saying this is a good or a bad thing, but it isn't 60%.
> Who voted those people into power?

For most of the things they Boomers get blamed for? The Silent and Greatest Generations, mostly.
But toast stops being toast once something other than filling is a top it! Doesn’t matter how toasty the bottom layer is.
Need blind (probably) works the opposite way people think it does. Instead of putting a quota on low income applicants, it means that the only people who meet the standards are high income students whose parents have the cash for all of the extra curricular activities and tutors etc. My alma mater just moved to a system where they consider income, so they could do affirmative action based on income.
Every failure of an SSD feels like an exceptional event. Some harbinger of doom that needs to be shouted from the rooftops. The prions of storage.

But magnetic hard drives failed all the time. I have a giant stack in my office closet just from my dev machines over the years. But it wasn't new and scary -- it was just a hard drive failing -- so it was just normal. Some had controllers fail, suddenly blinking out of existence. Another had cache memory corrupt so it just gave ridiculous readings occasionally. Others had physical failures.

I don't know where to begin relative to prior flash memory (e.g. CF cards) which were absolutely notorious trash.

It is worth noting that every smartphone the world over has an "SSD" in it. We spend remarkably little of our mental power concerned about the flash storage. It is the cause of a negligible amount of device failures.
https://www.thebalance.com/current-u-s-federal-government-sp...
Paid Masters programs are not worthless, because employers pay for masters degree holders.
Wow I actually like this better. Didn't know about these features in either browser though.
This gets us classifications all the way from "no starch at all" (i.e. soup) to "non-starch surrounded on all sides by the starch" (i.e. calzone). But I posit the existence of an eighth category... that is to say the inverse of the calzone, which would be "starch surrounded on all sides by a non-starch"? An anti-calzone, if you will. Seems rather rare, but not impossible (e.g. turkey with stuffing).
Has anyone else ever played "New Tetris" for N64 [0]? The major gameplay difference was that you could make large 4x4 squares made up of four pieces - gold if the 4x4 was made of all the same piece, silver if it was heterogeneous. Then you'd get 4 extra points for clearing a line that crossed a silver 4x4 and 10 extra points for a gold one (IIRC). And then there were bonuses if you managed to clear 4 lines containing one (or two!) complete 4x4.

That plus competitive multiplayer meant you were incentivized to stack things uncomfortably high while you waited for the right pieces to complete your gold 4x4's, and THEN clear lines containing the 4x4's.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Tetris
Sandwiches are like fascism. In Ur-Fascism, Umberto Eco talks about the difficulty of defining the "know it when you see it" category of fascism. We start with a set of concrete examples and we seek to define the category based on the qualities shared by those examples. One example might have qualities A and B, a second B and C and a third, C and D. The first thing shares no qualities with the last, but they all belong to the same category by a kind of transitivity. Sandwich is an agglomeration of qualities that tend to cluster together.
Hand Roles

Effector/manipulator on the world? Data interface with keyboard/mouse? Surrogate life partner?
https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/646592/australia-bi...

"The ACCC envisages that the first tranche of open banking rules will come into effect from 1 July 2019. Within 12 months, all Australian banks, including the related brands of the big four, will be brought within the scope of open banking."
That's funny because I have become, and observe the exact opposite.

The notion of trying to make things more complex than they need to be I find deeply problematic.

Junior engineers often end up devising solutions which are in fact too complex as they try to over engineer everything.

The more experience I have, the more I accept that code is complexity and cost and that it should be avoided.

Always take the easy path unless there are very good reasons not to ... because you'll never know where you need to actually pivot when you get there.

To your point (not more complex than they actually are) - yes, there is sometimes inherent complexity in the problem space that can't be avoided - but that doesn't mean the solution actually needs to be complicated. Domain complexity might possibly be well encapsulated, leaving the rest of the system fairly straight forward.
Topologically a toast is the same as a taco and a bread bowl. And a burrito or wrap for that matter.
~54% according to the breakdown on wiki[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_federal_bud...
Not just legacy-aware, they grant admission in exchange for large donations.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/18/day-three-harv...
The IRS has a $12,000,000,000 to spend, and we're worried about a few millionaires not paying their taxes? I'm much more concerned about the first part, how on earth did we give that astronomical amount of funding to that agency and what in the heck are they doing with $12b that couldn't be done with $12m?
Germany's welfare experiment: Sanction-free 'basic security'
Egeria is in-memory for performance reasons. Egeria can recompute millions cells per second. To do so cells are grouped into chunks and stored in binary form. Relational databases are much slower. It is possible to have a relational backend sometime in the future, but for now using a key value store also meant less implementation effort.
I bounced around hosting providers for years until I landed on DO. I have nothing but good things to say about them.
That's not accounting for payroll taxes like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid -- right?

Because those, combined with debt service, make up a HUGE portion of the federal budget.
Mos Burger [0] would like to have a word.

[0] https://goo.gl/images/zK3YJs
I'm a sandwich descriptivist rather than a prescriptivist.
I know what a sandwich is, and any definition that say that a hot dog is a sandwich or that a sub/hero/hoagie is not a sandwich is a definition that I do not accept.

Similarly, a bagel with cream cheese (that is, both halves of the bagel sandwiching cream cheese) is not a sandwich (despite the use of the word "sandwiching" in the definition), but a bagel with turkey inside is a sandwich.

I'm comfortable without a definition, though I look forward to hearing the reports of the intrepid theoreticians that can yield definitions that satisfy these criteria, much as I laud the efforts of the adjective-ordering folk in descriptive grammar.

My rule of thumb is that if I went into a restaurant and asked the waiter "I want a sandwich, but I don't care what kind -- surprise me!" and they brought me an object, how angry would I be at the waiter who brought me that object.
The Apple ][ disk encoding was not done to allow "for a few extra sectors per track". Since the Apple ][ did not have a disk controller, the encoding from magnetic flux to bits was handled in software. A 1Mhz 6502 cannot handle the "standard" encoding (things like M2FM) in software as the disc was rotating. Woz's encoding allowed the encoding.
That system would be ripe for abuse. Just tell schools that your parents have disowned you and you need a full ride.
Is a hard shell taco that has split a sandwich?
We need open source smartphones now more than ever
deb/rpm source packages are a bit weird.

AUR and Gentoo Portage are very closely inspired by Ports though.
It's not 60% of federal taxes: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

It's 60% of discretionary spending or around 18% of all federal spending. The biggest programs are entitlements: social security and medicare.
That's the point.. since you probably woulnd't argue for taking away background and text color, you already "trust" web devs with those. If a website is unreadable, the scrollbar doesn't matter. If it's readable, the scrollbar will look great, too. Also see other comment.
I was co-maintainer of PhpWiki those times. Jimbo contacted us in 2001 with this crazy idea, if he could use our software. We were all pretty active around Ward's wiki and the UseModWiki meta site, with thousands of articles, and established standards.
But Jimbo was a newbie and demanded totally crazy things from us, which we denied. Like representing a space in a title as _. You cannot just break the 1:1 relationship of titles to 1:n. Every legal page can only start with an uppercase char. Totally silly ideas. But we still liked the crazy idea of these folks. eg one of their first pages was PoliTics, explaining that this consists of two words, the first meaning Many and the seconds Blood Sucking Insects.

Eventually they took our diff implementation written by Jeff Dairiki, but unfortunately not our much better page, template and plugin solutions, which was extremely safe to use and to extend, not as horrible as their adhoc written MediaWiki SW. This was more like the Sourceforge SW.
Well, another example of Worse is better.
Not really. The research is expensive. The education isn't. Grad students are employees of research labs, not guests.
Good number of companies using it already https://www.openbankproject.com/apps/ and they claim 10K developers.
I don't know. Seriously.
Would be happy to hear any thoughts.

It just seems to me that spending more than half of the budget on military is somewhat wrong.
No, just those that literally pay to get citizenship. Vinod didn't marry an American, but instead was awarded his citizenship based on his wealth.

I'm supportive of loosening the immigration and naturalization laws, but we shouldn't allow people to bypass almost the entire process by spending money. As is, people like Pramila Jayapal and Vinod are only getting citizenship as its easily purchaseable, rather than going through the naturalization process.
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Moving tabs-between-windows (Tree Style Tabs, OSX) is probably my least favourite part of Firefox presently.

That and the keep-consuming-all-memory-until-all-memory-is-consumed switch, and the killing of GCLI (see: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/77a57160cf470136d1540218b70db...) which makes restarting FF far more fraught. Quite honestly, a "force quit" seems to be the most effective approach.
Cones are obviously quiches/bowls.

> Some crepes.

Crepes are not trivial to classify: obviously a plain flat crepe with some topping is a toast, a "walkaround" (usually sweet) crepe is a quiche and sushi/wrap crepes exist (e.g. galette-saucisse[0]) but what about the "complète" where the crèpe is folded back on the filling but not entirely? Functionally it's closer to a calzone or a toast (it's not eaten from the "opening") but technically it looks more like a quiche.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galette-saucisse
Our development agency has switched completely to Figma. As a developer there are only a couple things I like about it better (invision completely breaks the back button), but the biggest gains seem to come from our designers as well as the collaboration its enabled with clients.
I would love to hear your thoughts on the infamous melt versus grilled cheese debate.
"millennials continue to have the lowest voter turnout of any age group. Only about 46 percent voted in the last presidential election; compared to 72 percent of the Silent Generation" [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2016/05/16/478237882/millennials-now-riv...
>Immigration with out assimilation is an invasion.

lol
+100 points for that analogy. "Your prose reads like a Markov Chain". That is Gold. I'm putting that on a T-Shirt.
Wow nice, I can easily imagine using this to manage my custom keymaps.

Currently I store everything in Excel. All the modifiers and modifier-combinations (lctrl, lalt, lshift, lctrl+lalt, lctrl+ralt+lshift ...) correspond to columns, all the modified keys (a-z, 0-9, ...) column to rows.

But being limited to 2 dimensions can be very inconvenient. For example since you have at least 6 modifier keys (ctrl, alt, shift keys on both left and right, 8 if you include windows keys, 9 if you include remapped capslock), trying to cover all the modifier combinations (e.g. lctrl+ralt+lshift) leads to combinatorial explosion and make the number of columns totally unmanagable. (It becomes even trickier when you want to define vim style sequences)

This looks like it's designed just for that purpose!!
people are conflating the total budget with the discretionary budget.
haha, loved the random-agent bit :) they are so cute.
In your opinion, are there government agencies that spend there budget well? If so, then please share some examples.
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My only objection is the somewhat capricious way the rule is reapplied based on serving. The author classifies pumpkin pie as an instance of toast, not quiche, because the photo they found was of a single slice, while cheesecake, deep-dish pizza, and key lime pie are all labeled quiches because the photos are of an entire pie. An Uncrustable is even labeled a calzone only when “unbitten” because it apparently becomes a quiche the moment you bite into it!

While this may be topologically consistent, it’s not useful as a taxonomy to have foods dynamically change categorization as you serve or eat them.
I prefer fission burritos.

They are easier to split.
Apologies for my lack of originality.
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Those controls are not part of the content, they are part of the application or operating environment itself, and I have configured them the way that I want them.

As such, they should be off limits to web designer's whims.

As an aside, my experience with web sites over the years (particularly recently) doesn't exactly give me a great deal of confidence that they would make appropriate choices for the appearance of these controls.
Much less? If you're asking the internet for raw numbers on budget allocation it's a bit of a silly question to throw out.

I don't, myself, object purely to the proportion... but more to the fact that military spending tends to disappear into defense contractor's pockets and being spent on more lobbying to increase spending on the military more.

I also have a moral objection to the nation being such a war monger and would love to see our military spending drop by the effect of needing to blow less things up.

So, I'll state clearly and without _any trace of sarcasm_ military spending should be 75rad% of our budget, which is a reduction of 4rad%.

Also the 60% number in the grand parent is... I have no idea where that's from, in 2012 DoD spending was ~15% of the budget and it has always, within recent history, been below the amount allocated for social security.
Oopsie!

You are right and I am wrong.
:o(
Check out the album he did with Kimya Dawson (The Uncluded - Hokey Fright). Kimya is pretty matter-of-fact in a lot of the songs and seems to reign Aes in (or at least offer a point of reference for when he starts getting out-there). Its one of my favorite albums. "Earthquake" is beautiful
This reminds me of the "grilled cheese" v. "melt" debate from Reddit a few years back.

I really enjoy this kind of "ridiculous topic" + "hyper-analysis" humor.
this is definitely the kind of things I'd love to teach them, and showing them is probably the best way to, but I keep wondering if there's something else I can actively do...
As Musk quoted Roosevelt in the podcast: "Comparison Is the Thief of Joy".
Cells are grouped into chunks (similar to Minecraft) and stored in binary form. There is a complex algorithm which decides how the data is partitioned. All the operations are done in memory and the KV store is only used as data storage.
HMC appears to be exploiting Tragedy of the Commons for profit: they'll have the most land and the deepest wells while homeowners run dry as they rush to suck everything they can out of the ground as fast as possible.
And non of that is used as an argument. You just yell Ubuntu 18.04 with an unspecified desktop and conclude that you like none of the Linuxes with whatever Desktop and decide without argument that you do like FreeBSD.
My advise to you is to be more specific because it still doesn't make any sense.
I’d agree with that. It’s an investment in the sense of currency speculation (which is a bit of a big bet now at this size it’s a fairly legitimate currency). It is really just a hedge and a cash position, and maybe part protest, not so much an investment. Store of value.... maybe.

I don’t think it has failed as a medium of exchange though. I used it yesterday as one. That said, it hasn’t filled as niches there, specifically the major ones.
Thank you. Video-autoplay-on-reatart is absolutely maddening.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm.

As long as you're transparent about it in a 30 page ToS then it's all good. Because when you go to checkout at a cash register, you're going to stop and hold the line for an hour or more and read that page.

Not an exaggeration btw, my print dialog estimates that page to be 27 pages printed.