skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The publishers of these games might not be terribly into making trouble.

Copyrighted music and video however (stuff that MPAA is interested in) is not available online, and you actually have to go to the physical Archive in SF to access them. In that sense it works kind of like a library.
While 3% is a good deal, there have been internet-only banks for quite some time now, all of whom look pretty much like this. Radius and Axos are two examples that have been around for a while.
It is definitely not Waterfall. Waterfall's distinguishing characteristic is that the total plan is known before any material action happens. For the Empire State Building example, that emphatically isn't true.

And that's one of the parts that is fantasy: total knowability. Bosses want that so they can indulge another fantasy: complete control. Perfect plan, perfect, obedience, perfect outcome.

> I've never built one myself, but I suspect that the constraints

Right. Note that here you are indulging in fantasy, in the face of me pointing to expert practitioners saying otherwise. This too is a characteristic of the adoption of waterfall. As the original article says, the paper that defined it said it was a naive, bad idea. But that stopped nothing. People ignored that and made it a template, ignoring the experts.
Because OCR is expensive (to write as software and to process for the end user) and very error prone, especially if your text is anything other than a 12 point black font in on a white background with no formatting (italics, underlines, etc.). If my document's information is valuable, I'm not going to be willing to rely on the quality of my recipient's OCR software to get a digitally readable copy of my work. I mean, at the very least, what if they're blind?

The general hatred for PDFs in the tech community is almost completely rooted in Adobe's initial decision to make PDF editing and creation cost $500. You have access to a document that want to make changes to, but you can't because it's a PDF and don't have access to the document source because the owner/publisher didn't provide that. It's a PDF because PDFs make documents that look the same everywhere, even when printed, which is and will remain critical to the purpose of publishing documents. Well, images don't solve this problem, either, because you still can't edit text in an image, and now you lose the ability to be sure about how they'll print (margins, scaling, etc.).

Furthermore, images, even compressed, are significantly larger than a well made PDF. For example, I've got a 6,700 page document of special ed student progress reports that include detailed, full-color charts and graphs of student progress with respect to goals. It's 60 MB. 8.5 KiB per page.

Then again, I imagine it won't be long before someone mentions LaTeX as a viable alternative, even though the one thing LaTeX isn't is portable. But LaTeX is primarily popular in the tech community because it lets programmers pretend to write code while they're actually writing documentation. Nowhere else will you find people telling you to use a set of programs that require a build environment when someone asks about the best home office application to use. (Yes, I know that LaTeX is a typesetting language. My cynicism is that some tech people tell others to use LaTeX when they're asked what word processor someone should use.)

Edit: Clarified second paragraph.
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This exactly. Companies exist to make money, and that's of course a good thing. But the way that some tech companies choose to go about that (growth at all costs, maximizing attention by clickbait, and ultimately selling whitespace for advertisments) may not be the best long-term way to do things.

It's like the real-world option between choosing to publish your own little newspaper versus writing a small column in someone's else newspaper, where you have no control over.
Not to come across like this is an attack, but do you have any evidence/rationale behind that fear? I've never heard of ATMs mishandling money, although I haven't researched it before.
A breakdown of the Shell Sky scenario, who funded the research, how much Shell was involved, and the background of reviewers: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/11/30/the-shell-sky-scenario-...
Unless I'm completely ignorant of what's out there, 3% interest on a free personal checking account is absolutely bonkers.

I can only imagine everyone in /r/churning jumping on this if they have an invite.
I've using their brokerage services -- no fee on stock and option trading -- and I'm ready to move my primary ETrade account to Robinhood soon.

Capital One currently offers 5-yr CD for 3.15%. I just signed up for Citi Priority to save a few pennies on "foreign transaction fees," but it pays paltry 0.03%. That 3% sounds to good to be true, but it's probably not impossible.
I've done a ton of writing and system description. I've got kit in Illustrator, I've bought tools on the mac like Scrivener[0] and Scrapple for writing fiction and technical documentation. I can really move with Omnigraffle. I've bridged that gap with writing my own tools in Python with JS web display layers. I am a competent developer in a few languages and I have known about emacs and org-mode for going on a decade.

I take big stabs at it becoming my goto. I feel like I've done a lifetime of development to just dance around figuring out this tool.

Do you have any suggestions for making it stick? I'm making 2019 my year to really get emacs and put some time into fun Lisp. Any tips relating specifically to org-mode and not just "how to not quit using emacs" would be greatly appreciated.

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Make sure you understand economics and scalability.

The general lack of awareness of how traditional currencies are established and maintained is just shocking.

Also, make sure you understand scalability. As much as the crypto community likes to poo poo the Visa network; the Visa network handles an order of magnitude more transactions per second than the current cryptocurrencies can handle.
...and it is an extremely late patent. Patents for this type of innovation first appeared 25+ years ago when IP video was first happening.
In fact, the lateness of this filing smells like it is purely for the creation of outrage articles such as what we are discussing.
Another growing architectural trend in American cities is what is often called a "Texas Doughnut" or "Dallas Doughnut": a multi-level parking garage wrapped in apartments. Ground-floor commercial space may be included as well.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RDQh277PWAY/UXx7Ya3u-ZI/AAAAAAAAA-...
> Much of this would be semi-public anyway, they could be analysing HTTPS traffic to find most if not all of these conclusions.

I'm not sure I understand this sentence. What about analyzing HTTPS traffic is analogous to analyzing "semi-public" data? By design and convention, HTTPS traffic is considered private data. Portions are by technical necessity still public, such as the hostname and IP addresses. In order to produce these findings, private data (which is certainly not public or semi-public) such as full URLs and user-agents needed to be analyzed.
Anyone know of similar (short term) rates over here in Europe? Gotta be lucky to snatch up 1% for the first 6 months after signing up...
Where is this “Orchestration” thing going?
They put excess money from brokerage accounts in treasury bonds (And get to keep the returns from that) in addition to robinhood gold. I suspect much of their money is made my selling their order flow to big banks along with robinhood gold.

This also makes it much easier for them to hawk their brokerage services to those who already have money in their checking accounts.
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What is the real estate impact? Should one buy real estate in "North Austin"?
No mention of Alan Kay, who used cell metaphor for computing for several decades and used it in programming talks/presentations dating to at least to mid-80s?
>With Robinhood, you’ll earn 3% on your money in both Checking & Savings, and interest compounds and is paid out daily. That’s an extra $240 a year for the average American household with $8,000 in the bank

Does not compute. If it compounds daily then yearly total is above 3%
It's not very common on checking accounts though, even for online banks. 3% interest on online savings though is a different story!
Are you sure it's not the Google building too? They have had constant construction for the past 2 years.
Just a wild guess, but in those cases, "nonprofit" means a lot. There are often different copyright laws for nonprofits.
> They don't rely on goodwill at all.

Wow, of course they do.

> The odds of any one person having an attention span long enough to hold a grudge

So... that's why people draw attention to issues like this. To try to organize users just enough to encourage a company to change its behavior.

Or, failing that, to get government to lean on companies to get them to change their behavior.

> I prefer this explanation, because you can see that it meshes very well with what happens in practice.

Companies have been successfully boycotted before. Advertisers leave when consumers get mad enough. Maybe not all of them. But at some point, the platform does actually make some changes, sometimes.
That is true its more expensive up front, but they also last a lot longer than an ICE car and the gas/maintenance savings add quite a bit to that: https://electrek.co/2018/07/17/tesla-model-s-holds-up-400000...
In my experience, they are primarily a communication tool like my well-worn paperback copy of The Fellowship of the Ring is a communication tool. A way of communicating a beloved fantasy.
I miss the brushed metal theme too, but Tiger never looked quite right. There is way too much white space in that finder window, especially compared to the way the dock packs them so close together. The icons on the side bar not matching the folder icons is also annoying, when the document icons already don’t match the application icons on the dock. There are three different symbols on the screen for music, and that doesn’t make visual sense.
Dallas did something just as stupid for Hunt Oil several years ago. At the same time they were cutting wages for city employees. It's short sighted in the extreme.
50+ years.
What’s the story here?
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> the concept of using rendered notebook as the input/data source of another notebook

Isn't that essentially what a spreadsheet does? Each table contains the results of a previous computation, intertwined with input and configuration data, and you just keep chaining more and more programs through a single unifying metaphor (the cell coordinate system plus function expressions). This model also gets you reactive recomputation for free.

It's a powerful system, but quite old; I'd say the only radical thing is convincing classic developers that there's a better model than their beloved imperative, one-step-at-a-time idea of what running a program means.
Kuro5hin was built by Rusty on slashdot's codebase so I don't think it could have been prior
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They are offering this as a brokerage and not a bank so the accounts are not FDIC insured but SIPC insured instead https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001469903
I guess I'm a bit naive, why is this?
"Robinhood expects to turn a profit thanks to a lean 300-employee operation, earning a margin on investing your money in US treasuries, and a revenue share with Mastercard on interchange fees charged to merchants when you swipe"
ahh, much better. Thanks for the pointer!
I think this is a great idea - only thing missing is the thing that makes HN HN: discussions! Without that it seems just like an RSS feed. Also, groupings like Ask HN or Show HN. A lot of fitness/nutrition stuff is controversial and the discussions help separate the chaff.

The design is good enough... I guess it's not optimized but it's by no means a deal-breaker. I'm sure it can be optimized as you go.
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The only fine print at the bottom of their signup page simple says;

“Users of Robinhood Checking and Savings earn 3% interest annually on each of their Checking and Savings balances.”

I would have thought a more precise disclosure would be required. But it certainly does not say anything about fixed, guaranteed, etc.

Presumably when you get to actually creating an account there will be more specific terms which must allow them to adjust the rate in the future.

But it does not seem to be a kind of “teaser” rate. It seems like, I’m guessing, that everyone with a Robinhood Checking account will get the same rate, if they change it in the future it would be a product-wide adjustment.
Like another commenter mentioned, I would also love to learn more about your rsync / backup system if you are willing to share.
Watch this 6-minute instructional video from 1984 attempt to explain email
UK fintech unicorn Revolut granted European banking license
There was a mention of a partnership with Sutton bank based in Ohio. I’m sure that’s where the FDIC insurance comes from.
I don't think this is the issue. As the article talks about, architecture is shaped by regulation. Of course, you can usually construct exotic buildings if you have the money and the will to do so, but building codes explicitly approving a specific design will create a monoculture.

That's not to say this is necessarily bad. It allows for safety and environmental standards in buildings people are able to afford because of minimal marginal compliance cost.
I think the "Mythical Man-Month" does a great job accounting for the process and implementation of a mega-project. But as Brooks even stated, there's "No Silver Bullet."
Arch and Ubuntu. I'm a long time Ubuntu user and fell in love with Arch the last few years. I'd only be running Arch if I had a little more free time. I just split my system this year into two computers. For the last 3.5 years I've been running Arch as my base system to manage VMs and the storage fabric with my primary desktop being an Ubuntu VM instance with GPU passthrough for accelerated graphics. The setup was pretty slick, my desktop could see a single raw drive for example that was actually a well managed NVME cache accelerated triple layer encrypted mirrored logical volume.
It's a library. They explicitly define themselves as a library.

It's a really awesome place to visit if you ever get the chance!
3% on checking sounds too good to be true. What's the catch?

For example, I didn't see anything about how funds are insured. If Robinhood were to somehow lose depositor funds, what recourse would account holders have?
I wouldn't take advice from me since I post very infrequently and no one really reads the posts that I do write. However, I'll throw out one other option which is posting on both Medium and your own domain. Medium allows you to set the canonical URL so you shouldn't take an SEO hit.
Its not too good to be true. These are simply the effects of true non crony capitalism at work. Decentralisation of everything is forcing the crony status quo capitalistic system to change, thus pushing the boundaries of progress further than before. This is simply the beginning.
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>" I'll bet the costs you speak of are covered by income taxes and the corporate tax, with a little leftover per employee (so - a large pot of extra money at the end of the day)."

So you believe all local governments run a budget surplus? You can't be serious. You realize there operating expenses and capital expenses right? Maintaining an existing bridge and building aa new bridge are very different budgetary consideration.
In case people don’t have the direct link to sign up :

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Interest rates for banking accounts for quite some time have been low. 3% is very high for the USA so it'
s a pleasant surprise for many people.
Agreed, there's a bit of survivorship bias. For an idea of poor construction in the 19th century, look at some of the streets pre-Hausmann's renovation of Paris:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...
This is anecdotal, and not explicitly about ATMs, but I have had those "Pay your bills here" machines at 7/11 and other convenience stores mishandle my money a couple times. It would report I paid $150 instead of $200, missing a single $50 note.

This was resolved after about 2 hours on the phone with the company who manages the machines, but I still don't use them anymore.
Years ago depositing cash into envelopes which would slide into the machine, once or twice I had the deposit amount “adjusted” after the fact.

How can you prove if it was you or them that miscounted?

Modern “envelope-less” machines do not have this risk.

Counting cash by hand is surprisingly error prone. I ran a snack bar in high school and I would hand-count a large pile of grubby $1s before bringing to the bank. About once a week the total from their counting machine would not match my tally. I think even once it was the machine that got it wrong.

If you’re face to face with a human you can error correct before the pile of cash disappears.
It's not fixed. Right now it is 3%, but may fall or rise anytime as much as they decide (or how market and competition will decide).
I mean we are talking about Sony and Nintendo here. You can download the full PS1 and PS2 catalog. Or N64 and Gamecube. I just don't understand how is that possible when Nintendo goes after every single ROM site
Maybe it's a daily interest rate of 1.03^(1/365)-1 ?
Might be some companies really wanting to know what high rollers on Robinhood are buying.

Could be a bit of both.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong but the "no foreign transaction fees" is just as exciting. Using my BofA card on trips always results in a welcome home set of charges I could do without.
Slashdot is the first "big" site I can remember...

But in 1996 or so there were a few gaming sites whose names I can't rememeber who had a sort of negative karma... I remember it being described as a "douchiness factor" a couple of times...
It looks like both FDIC and SIPC have a 250K protection, are there any other differences between the two that would matter to an average consumer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_illegal_State_aid_case_agai...
DuPont is not gonna enjoy this.
Out of curiosity, why would you want to update the date on your posts beyond SEO? Wouldn't that be kinda misleading readers of said content?
I knew Walter developed some strategy game, but this is the first time I realized how big it was in the 80s. Definitely will try it out.

Also, I second the comment about using games like that in AI research. I don't have time now to explain it in detail, bit I believe it would be much more interesting/useful than playing Star Craft or any MOBAs. It has to do with the fact how short-term decisions affect long-term gameplay. Also, it would me much easier for non-gamers to understand what exactly researchers achieved.

Another game I would love to see played by AI is M.A.X. It's rules aren't any more complex than StarCraft, but the core gameplay is much deeper without diving into weir meta-gaming scenarios.
Yes, but is the F-35 a better interceptor than any of the contemporary fast jets that are in use by China or Russia?
They aren't part of FDIC but they have SIPC insurance

https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001469903

Is my money insured?

Your cash in Robinhood is insured up to $250,000 by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). SIPC protects cash deposits in your account in the unlikely event that Robinhood fails.

Up to what amount?

SIPC insurance covers your checking, savings and investments. Your cash and securities in Robinhood are protected up to a total of $500,000 by the SIPC, $250,000 of which can be in cash, the rest in securities. SIPC insurance provides protection for your cash balance and securities holdings if Robinhood fails financially, but does not cover investment losses due to declines in the value of securities themselves.

Is this different from bank insurance?

Similar to FDIC insurance, SIPC protects cash in your account if the financial firm fails. FDIC insurance covers deposits in FDIC-insured federal banks. SIPC insurance covers cash and securities at SIPC-member brokerage firms. Robinhood Securities, LLC is a member of SIPC. Additional information can be found at sipc.org.
Not at all, the matter is of falsifying hypotheses, and just as one can falsify hypotheses in physics, one can also falsify them in astrology. Popper said:

>“statements or systems of statements, in order to be ranked as scientific, must be capable of conflicting with possible, or conceivable observations”

But this excludes the possibility that there is a pseudoscientific claim that is refutable. One such claim from astrology might be that the position of the planets decide our fate to die on a particular day etc. But this can be and has been falsified. According to Popper, if it can't be tested then it's not science, but if it can be tested and shown to be correct or incorrect then it is science. Popper confirms this interpretation later:

>“A sentence (or a theory) is empirical-scientific if and only if it is falsifiable.”
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My checking / current account pays less than 1% and that's only on the first £2500 (I think), after that the interest is zero.

I'd love a checking account, with no fees that pays 3% on the whole balance.

My average balance on my current account is around £20k. My interest would be £600 a year at 3%, as opposed to £25 or so I get now.
Quality construction still occurs... You just need to pay for it!
https://youtu.be/WC5Bo9UdI2w

The main advantage is higher IPC -> better performance since there is less idle time spent waiting for slow stuff like reading from disk.
Eh, with any maintenance those buildings will last at least 50 years.

In the US the bigger issue is, in 50 years will it make any sense for the building owner to pay to maintain the building? Putting up a long lasting building in certain places in Detroit 50 years ago may have made sense... but now it could be in a completely worthless ghetto, everybody has moved from the area.

Or, as the saying goes "In the US, 100 years is a long time"
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I missed LiberKey , there has been no active development going on it.

Its a kind of portable application provider that gives all sorts of small/big apps to your catalog.
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