skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you're paying more money via the bid-ask spread

No, you aren't. This is effectively illegal if you think frontrunning is occurring.

> Everytime you make a trade, Robinhood sells that trade to a market maker.

This is true about almost every single discount broker you would use in place of Robinhood.
I don't see why I wouldn't just use Haskell and a native UI library right now, to similar effect, instead of waiting for all this to appear. The language is in a much more stable state than Elm, which already makes it more ideal in a business-context.
TANSTAAFL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain%27t_no_such_thing_as...

Also, people will pay more for a good story.

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> "25.
Maybe this explains what’s so galling to people about the
Folsom & Co. not-really-scam: It simply lays bare the
categorical deception at the heart of all branding and
retail. The different watch values are, in the strictest
sense, speech acts: the watch is $29.99 because someone
said it’s $29.99. It’s $29.99 because a certain person
is wearing it on Instagram; it’s $29.99 because it’s
photographed next to flannel and a Chemex. While “Bradley”
of “Bradley’s men’s shop” may not be the most fleshed-out
character, he – and the entire existence of Folsom & Co.,
Soficoastal, etc. – are examples of the now-household term,
“brand storytelling.” And the internet makes it possible
for anyone to tell any story, about anything, from
anywhere."

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> " thateffingasian: Capitalism is making your own product and selling it. Capitalism isn't buying a piece of shit and telling people they're worth 25x the price, and lying to them about the actual value of the product. Your idea of capitalism is fucked up @soficoastal. Then the idiots blocked me, LOL. "

If Capitalism isn't buying shit and lying about it to sell it for higher, I don't know what Capitalism is. This is only a difference in degree, not kind.
I’ve forgotten many of the leading roles I had in plays during school but I remember in fine detail the first big laugh I got during an improv lesson in drama class.
The geometry of those satellites matters a lot, especially when you have tall buildings in the way. Always having one more or less straight overhead is a pretty big improvement.
I think that the success Tesla has had in building safe cars is evidence that this leap can be made fairly quickly.

But the possibility doesn't imply the inevitability, and I still ultimately agree with your conclusion. I also have been hearing about Chinese cars for about 2 decades now, but I haven't yet seen a serious effort to build quality cars that are suitable for the US market.
There's confusion of terms here. You seem to be using "EULA" to mean "contract". If you look at the FAQ Confluent added, they read "EULA" to mean something more specific.

"End User License Agreement" has no reliable, specific meaning in the industry. "EULA" for short gets thrown away even more willy-nilly, in all kinds of circumstances. I've seen it used for SaaS terms.
The universe is biased in favor of mushrooms.
That hex notebook! I got one of those at his 80th birthday celebration, cool that he is also using it!
I get 3% interest on my checking account at LMCU (up to a balance of $15K). Because of this, I didn't find robinhood's product unbelievable.

https://www.lmcu.org/personal/banking/checking-accounts/max-...
Unlike Dragonfly, that actually launched. There was no reported dissent from Apple employees before or after launch. What are they waiting for?

The workers at Google who protested despite the loss in value of their equity should be commended.
> Many rich people lose their fortunes.

Up to a point. The ultra-rich have so much money now that it would take a monumental disaster for them to become poor again. IIRC only one person in history has ever stopped being a billionaire: J. K. Rowling, and that was due to enormous philanthropic giving.

Mere millionaires come and go, but once you're talking hundreds of millions the positive feedback loop of capital makes it difficult to lose everything.
SVGjs 3.0 Advent Calendar – Day 17
Improv is absolutely wonderful for social anxiety - the point is to say "yes, and" and every time someone just gives a hard "no" the entire scene stops and everyone can feel it. Social anxiety for many is the fear of social/phsycial consequences for expression - its a perfect "safe" environment by which to learn to express yourself.
A comment on the title and not the content.

As a Canadian, I find the American revised spelling of English words to range from helpful and reasonable to needlessly confusing. This is one of those cases where my brain spent a while trying to figure out what exactly Robinhood was checking for before I realized it was about bank accounts.
What are empty or void elements in HTML5?
I thought Kakoune was an interesting experiment: an attempt to embrace vi-like modal editing, but keep it consistent, and go all-in on it.
The linux aio syscalls (io_submit, ...) work well on some filesystems (xfs, ext4, ...) but block on others (btrfs). It limits your file system choices but allows for a single threaded, concurrent web-server. This is what I ended up using for my hobby web-server wwwee [1] as low memory usage and good performance on a single core was an important constraint. It is sort of an opinionated design though.

1: https://github.com/bwindels/wwwee
It makes me wonder if there's a distance so great in the observable universe that light from an object would spread out so much that it couldn't be recognized as an object.

I'd imagine there are distant stars ejected from galaxies that would render only as single pixel. It seems possible given enough distance that an entire galaxy could render as a single pixel as well, but I wonder if that distance is greater than the observable universe.
It really depends on your project requirements. Most projects have relatively simple requirements for migrations and SQL generation and can easily find tooling in both Golang and other languages by doing a simple Google search.

Similarly for performance you need to assess the needs of your application, prototype, and benchmark to identify bottlenecks. Most people I see asking for performance tips never actually complete enough of the project to experience the performance implications they are so worried about.

To summarize Go has never failed me in a web-oriented project (usually in the context of a REST API). Don't get me wrong, it has plenty of warts. Often you'll feel like you are writing lots of boiler plate. You won't get the advantages (and disadvantages) of "move fast and break things" ecosystems like Node or Rails. I've never regretted choosing Go.

PS: its a more advanced topic but code generation + Golang is transcendant if you find yourself writing lots of boilerplate. Huge boost to productivity when applied correctly.
Almost every village started on a river bank.
It's about use of the term being normalized. Children mimic the behaviour they observe. When they see people using curse words casually/often, they are less likely to see it as something to be avoided. This doesn't apply to all kids, but it does to some, hence the concern some parents have.
Yeah, what I'm saying is that you probably want to farm out 100% of the portfolio to someone like Vanguard.
Proxima Centauri is about 4.24ly away and has a mass of about 0.12x the mass of the sun.

I think that means our sun is the object with the deepest gravity well, out to about (1/1.12)*4.24 = 3.79ly away.

I think that means that there could plausibly be objects out to about 3.79ly away that are in orbit around our sun.

The object from the article is about 0.0019ly away, so there could be quite a lot of new most-distant solar system objects still to be discovered!
No account fees whatsoever

No minimum balances

No minimum debit card purchases

No minimum direct deposits

No minimum bill pays

Free checks

Free wire transfers

ATM fee reimbursements (If you pay $2 to the ATM owner to take out money, you'll see a $2 credit on your account immediately)

No limit to ATM fee reimbursements

FDIC insurance

Paycheck posts a day early (not advertised, but that's been my experience)

It's obviously a loss leader to encourage you to use their brokerage offerings, but no brokerage account is required to open the account.

The only other companies that offer products that are comparable is Schwab (which is another brokerage), and USAA (whose membership is limited to military, veterans, and immediate family)
Pens are the worst, they konk out so quickly! iPad pros are really useful here. I wish my hands were transparent, occlusion is also a real problem (it is hard to write a straight line of text if you can't see what has already been written).
Ask HN: What's a cost effective option for access to academic papers?
I am an undergraduate preparing for graduate studies and am working on a number of extracurricular projects to submit to journals. I have access to Jstor but it is pitifully sparse on the topics I am researching (colonialism, post-colonial societies, conflict & peacekeeping, demographic trends). I'm not looking for a free ride, but I cannot afford the ~$40 per PDF (one of my projects needs access to +30 different papers). Most of what I need seems to be paywalled by individual journals.
QZSS adds one geosynchronous and three tundra orbit satellites so depending on where you are in the city, you could be seeing two or more QZSS satellites. It's not going to replace GPS but its going to help with getting a quicker location solution than not having it.

Something where you have beacons on every major intersection would be a better step for a city to introduce. The beacons would just be sending compatible messages so there is no need for additional hardware. If the roads are straight enough, you could see multiple beacons plus whatever satellite is overhead.
Ugh. There are still a couple of canned food items I buy regularly on Amazon. Supposedly they are from the US and Europe, but, yeah, I guess with Amazon you never know.

But because Amazon is hitting conventional, traditional retailers so hard, now I have to wonder: could Amazon's behavior with regard to counterfeit products and commingling influence my local brick and mortar retailers to do the same thing?
I work at a top 3 bank. The amount of regulators a bank deals with on a regular basis is insane. we have several $200 million applications just in my department to satisfy them.
Try watching a movie version - I really like Branagh's Hamlet and I never expected to (long though)
What aetimmes said. The cost of starting your own group is $0. People form their own hobby groups all the time. Joining your own baseball team, band, acting troupe, choir, carpentry club, etc. are all free; lessons in baseball, music, acting, and carpentry aren't.

> I'd love to see it offered in more high schools, or as a free-or-cheap activity akin to soccer or community theatre.

It is community theatre. Those are the same thing.
> Because running a bank isn't easy (...) For example, you have to maintain a fraction of your total deposits in a cash account.

What is hard keeping a fraction of not-your-money in a cash account?
Yep I'm going to buy it, but unfortunately there's no 3D version available
>"It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain. Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used, " said Herbert, 42, an early employee of Cisco Systems who says he solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead – who were among the many artists inspired by LSD.

>"When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing," said Herbert who intervened to ban drug testing of technologists at Cisco Systems.

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I can't find the original article I read years ago, but there was one article where they claimed they came up with BGP on LSD...

https://www.wired.com/2006/01/lsd-the-geeks-wonder-drug/
Exploring Quantum Neural Networks
I refer to beverage cans as "micro kegs."
Branson looks ahead to beginning commercial SpaceShipTwo flights – SpaceNews.com
> But with a given Jacobian function there's no finite differences or forward mode.

Right, but instantiating an entire Jacobian is always going to scale at least quadratically with time. The point I was trying to make is that the existing non-adjoint approaches were never going to scale to large systems with millions of parameters. This is the main attraction of reverse-mode, and it appeared to me that this was a major obstacle for fitting large models using existing packages (excepting CasADi).

> I'm surprised you'd attempt to solve the equation backwards like that because it's known to not be stable.

> it's a well-known result that the method drifts from the true solution doing a backwards integration, so the values so z(t) needs to computed with forward passes in order to be correct.

I agree that a purely reverse-mode gradient solve will diverge from the forward trajectory to some degree. But to say the gradients are 'correct' or not seems a bit strange to me. Every numerical solve introduces some degree of error, and I think the most useful discussion to have is the tradeoff between computation cost and numerical error. Re-solving the system forwards is one strategy to reduce error at the cost of computation. Another strategy would be reducing the error tolerance of the reverse solve. There are situations where our strategy might give worse precision wrt the parameter gradients for a given computational budget, but I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand. Especially since it's about as computationally cheap as one could hope for - O(1) memory and similar time cost as the forward solve. Also, it worked for our applications.

> Any statement on it is too broad to be useful.

I appreciate the detailed reply. But is there anything you can say about when to try implicit methods over explicit? What was the motivation for developing implicit methods in the first place?
As a socially anxious person who took improv classes in my 20s, I found them hugely useful. The biggest thing I took away were specific attitudes. Like "yes and", where you accept what the person you're talking to starts with and then build on it. Or the the way to succeed is to make many attempts to start something going (what improv calls offers), to follow up on the ones that show promise, and not to worry about the ones that fall by the wayside. Or to not get in your head, to stay present in the moment.

And yes, it definitely trains you that there is no "right" way to have a conversation.

I think the main difficulty is that normal conversational success can be different than improv success. In improv, you want funny. Funny can be good in normal conversations, but most people are after other things. Understanding, support, connection, reflection. New improv people can be fantastically annoying if they use it as just another way to hide and deflect.
What's wrong with this picture let me count the ways.

- Packagers are free volunteer labor that make your software available to the multitude of platforms your software could potentially run on. On a lot of platforms the work required to turn your source into a useful package is work your end users wont do if someone doesn't package it for them. If you want people to do this laborious chore you at least speak to them kindly. After all they only get your and your users thanks for their work.

- Not being able to work without a very specific set of libraries and versions isn't necessarily broken but not being able to and not being able to express that in the build is highly suggestive that it is a huge pile of hacks. Reading their own words thereafter it is indeed a huge pile of hacks.

- The repo is a staging area for development of instructions to build software not a means to distribute software to end users. The makefile is a textual description of steps to build the software and other required libraries. On the one hand its dubious that it is copyrightable on the other if it is then copyright would lie with the github user developing openbsd. Further almost all of the code to be built strictly speaking belongs to the mozilla foundation. They are in fact asserting their trademark as a way to try to block people distributing machine readable instructions for building mozillas software.

Trademark exists to keep merchants from distributing confusingly branded goods. This is actually machine instructions for building their actual goods from their actual sources with settings they don't approve of.

To distribute the combined work would require rebranding. To distribute instructions to build their sources no more requires permission than saying the word palemoon here.

- They do not possess the wherewithal to pursue legal action especially legal action that would cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect imaginary rights that they misunderstand. They have no revenue to speak of. Anyone can send a strongly worded letter and write cease and desist along the top in bold all caps printing. It doesn't make them a credible threat. When anyone can see the threat has no teeth it makes you look poor to make it.

- It's incredibly predictable that someone with no investment or gain in helping you distribute your software will simply stop helping you if you threaten them with lawyers or talk shit. Since this is a negative outcome why do it? 10 seconds to pause and speak respectfully would be such a small investment.

- They never realized their error and acknowledged their mistake.

- Normal behavior for people that build your software in an unapproved way is to refuse to support users using unapproved configuration. This is a social norm.

- Openbsd devs seem to have had good reason for their configuration choices that are perfectly reasonable.

Do we need 7 more bullet points?
Show HN: Snapshare, easily share osx snapshots
> As regards health, I have nothing useful to say as I have little experience of illness.

I interpreted this sentence as a disclaimer that what follows is explicitly not advice.
The difference is that training wheels are intended to be a temporary assistance until you've learned to operate without them, while development tools are meant to be a productivity boost. If you're working with a toolchain and aren't leaning on it, you're not working to your full potential.

Whether being able to work without the chain is also important is an independent issue. (I happen to prefer vim+scripting languages over IDEs+compiled. But I recognize it as a personal preference, and not a question of moral superiority.)
My own brain’s refusal to integrate the seriousness of climate change
I'd take an improv class as an adult if it weren't so nerve wracking.
Sorry, but you completely missed the mark on this one. Are you in UX or have you led design thinking sessions? It's successful because the product stops being something the designer created and starts being a product the whole team created. It gives everyone, no matter your role, a voice in the product and the creativity to build what you think the product should be.
The differences between how music and movies are paid for is not driven by bandwidth, but by the fact that an average movie is 2 hours long and an average song is 4 minutes long.

Taking 2 minutes to switch from Netflix to Amazon to watch a 2 hour movie is no big deal. Taking 2 minutes to switch from Apple Music to Spotify to listen to a 4 minute song completely recks the experience.
Same here. I didn't know what the elevator pitch is.

On the other hand, when I looked it up, this sounds like a really interesting project, exposing DBs as application resources.

There is something I remember from CloudFoundry (though I don't know if this is working anymore), and that is with adding in dependencies like databases into the specs for an application.

I kinda wonder if that could be done: add an annotation on a pod spec which the operator can look for and set up the database (if it doesn't exist) and provision credentials.
Apple Offering 10% Bonus When Adding Funds Directly to Apple ID
What exactly do you mean by "render only as a single pixel"? With a low enough resolution sensor, the sun would render as a single pixel when observed from earth.
Wasn't he funding a group that was posting fake news and memes online?
Unqualified does not mean incorrect or wrong, and somebody who is unqualified can employ the services of somebody who is in order to overcome that deficiency.
It's all about the change to extensions isn't it? Some people just couldn't let it go.
Even in a terrible thread, personal attacks have no business on Hacker News. You've been breaking the guidelines a whole lot, so we have to ask you to please re-read them and comment only civilly and substantively. We ban accounts that won't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Knuth with the original "git gud".
Planning to give 23andMe or AncestryDNA kits this Christmas? Read this first
Alternative to Building a Socket.IO Chat App
Please don't play moderator.
With JS disabled, the page loaded in under a second on public WiFi and displayed just fine.
Running Wifi Microcontrollers on Battery
Ah! I didn't even notice I was not on the front page!
Whether an object falls on to a sensor as a single pixel depends on the magnification (assuming it's correctly focused).

Is there a physical limit on how much magnification is possible?
Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?
Here's some more evidence for the central conceit of this article:

Every legitimate long term study of major non surgical weight loss shows that it doesn't happen for the vast, vast majority of people. It's basically freakish when succesful in the long term.

1) ["In controlled settings, participants who remain in weight loss programs usually lose approximately 10% of their weight. However, one third to two thirds of the weight is regained within 1 year, and almost all is regained within 5 years. "](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1580453)

2) Giant meta study of long term weight loss: ["Five years after completing structured weight-loss programs, the average individual maintained a weight loss of >3% of initial body weight."](http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/579.full)

3) Less Scientific: [Weight Watcher's Failure - "about two out of a thousand Weight Watchers participants who reached goal weight stayed there for more than five years."](https://fatfu.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/weight-watchers/)

4) [The reason why it's impossible seems to be that although calories in < calories out works, the body of a fat person makes it extremely difficult psychologically to eat less.](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-...) This is borne out by the above data.

5) [The only thing that does seem to work in the long term is gastric surgery.](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1421028/)

Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.
It's not a novel to read through, front to back.

Even Dr. Knuth says to skip around and read relevant chapters.
Open shift no longer free
Open shift has removed its ongoing free tier replacing it with 60 day limit. Noe thief is no free host anywhere. Pass is not worth it I may as well go aws!!!