skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Antwerp, Belgium's second largest city.

There are basically only three cities worthy of the name in Belgium. Antwerp kind of hits the sweet spot between big enough to have everything you need, and yet small enough to be liveable.

There isn't much in the way of a tech scene. The Belgian tax man makes startups pretty much non-starters. Wages are taxed to death, so there isn't much in the way of competition for engineers. The vast majority of software engineers are working for the government in one way or another (Belgium has so many governments that this isn't an exaggeration).

As for how I decided where to live: I didn't consciously do so. I basically looked for jobs, found one over here, and moved here.
If they aren't telling you that means it's AML-related and they legally can't. It could be for any number of things ranging from online gambling to your name (or even the name of a family member of your business/employer) appearing on a "watchlist" or being similar to a name that appears on such a list.

You should try to figure out where you're getting flagged because if it's a problem at Fidelity it's only a matter of time before you get the same flag from other financial institutions.
+1 for heat fitted boots. If you find that your feet are hurting, fit is key.
Depends. I know a lot of people who are hooked to convenience they don’t need and are having bigger problems elsewhere as a result.

I helped a person that I mentor figure out that they could literally take 7 years off of student loan repayment by ditching Starbucks and picking up their own pizza (or god forbid picking up the phone and ordering that way).
It's more dangerous than being sued. You can have your broker-dealer license revoked by FINRA and other financial regulatory bodies. Do not pass go, do not execute and clear any further trades.
The K2 Operating System
that's my favorite gag from the Firefly tv show.

Simon: Are you Alliance?

Early: Am I a lion?

Simon: What?

Early: I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well though, I have a mighty roar.

Simon: I said "Alliance."

Early: Oh, I thought...

Simon: No, I was...

Early: That's weird.
Amazon actually marks such reviews as "Verified Purchase". The issue is that the upside of a good review is typically worth more to a vendor than the cost of the product.

Vendors typically will pay above the cost of their product for a single good review.
According to the president of SIPC, it's that they were marketing it as sonething that required no investment. As such, it's not in line with what SIPC covers. As for money market, it might look similar to a money market account, but it isn't one, so it's not covered by FDIC either (money markets are)
The problem is not just, or mainly, leaky abstractions - you can't make a system out of a collection of opaque abstractions. An important part of Knuth's genius is seeing deeply and clearly how they have to interact. Leaky abstractions are just one sort of problem that arises when this doesn't happen.
“I am worried that algorithms are getting too prominent in the world,” he added. “It started out that computer scientists were worried nobody was listening to us. Now I’m worried that too many people are listening.”

cheers!
they've probably done an analysis and there's probably so many hate-commenters that muting them would significantly decrease their DAUs or something
The What’s Next Intermittent Computing Architecture [pdf]
> Robinhood's whole business model is making money from people who think they're getting a free lunch. You're still paying money for the trade. But instead of paying a direct fee, you're paying more money via the bid-ask spread.

This gets brought up in every thread about Robinhood and is simply wrong. Check out this explanation of Robinhood's business model: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-16/carl-i...
Hasn't been a problem at any other financial institution that I'm at, including Vanguard (been there over a decade).

Also, there is some irony in you telling me to figure out why I am getting flagged while also telling me I can't be told what it is.
This is an old trope that gets passed around a lot. It simply isn't true -- you are, in fact, getting a free lunch [1].

If you place a limit order at a given price, you will get that price or better, period. Just as you would at any other retail brokerage. At any other retail brokerage you will get charged fees as well. It is structurally impossible (modulo odd lot requirements that are unlikely to affect you unless you are buying extremely thinly traded stocks) for the price to pass you by while your limit order is active -- if you want to buy at $100, nobody in the US, retail or institutional, trading on any regulated market, will get executed at a better price than $100 while your order is active.

For market orders it is more complex, but you will never do worse than picking up the best price available. Yes, you will cross the spread; market orders are always taking orders, but at any retail brokerage you will also cross the spread, in addition to paying fees.

All retail brokerages eat price improvement above the executed price, and Robinhood is no different except that they don't charge you fees on top of that. Retail flow is by far the most valuable to wholesale market makers; they pay through the teeth for it, but regulation does not permit Robinhood to front run its customers.

[1] There is, of course, no such thing as a free lunch -- your lunch is being paid for by the wholesale market makers and the dark pools of liquidity. More specifically, you are paying for your lunch by expressing a liquidity preference.
The "bottle" part is pretty bad. I heard somewhere a water bottle will last 400 years. I don't know for certain that that's true, but if it is, I can only wonder just who thought it would make an ideal container for someone to use for a few minutes and then throw away?
Yes.

The levels of fraud we see in China were so high that we eventually closed down there. It is objectively the highest level of fraud globally that we encountered.
There's an entire self-help book on this: Improv Wisdom, by a Stanford instructor who teaches improv.
I mean things as simple as rebalancing, to a bit more complicated like tax management, or trading rules. I want the mechanics of portfolio management, but I don't want somebody else's portfolio. You're still choosing from somebody else's portfolio with Motif.

If somebody wants to disrupt, quant hedge fund for retail investors would be the one but I suspect it's never going to happen because of the perverse incentives that exist to not do that. There used to be the Quantopian-Robinhood method but neither side wanted to go in the direction. I don't see these firms as truly disruptive.
I refuse to purchase anything made in China from Amazon anymore. I've bought one too many extremely shitty (and dangerous) products from Amazon for me to get bitten again.
Yeah, they seem to missing the point completely.

The problem, which is hopefully well known, but bears repeating is that our brain learns the structure of the world by repetition and exposure, and typically seem to be quite unbiased apart from this exposure.

Hence, a continuous over-abundance of content that caters to our biases will strongly affect our behavior, often even when we consciously think it's garbage. It is why and how advertising works, and probably why averages of peoples faces are seen as more beautiful than any of the faces in the mix.

In sensor tasks, the vision system ( amongst other ) can be shown to be close to Bayesian perfect in how it recovers information from sensory input, which should give pause to any argument - as those in the article - that only complete filter bubbles should be seen as such.

Even a partial filter bubble could, and anecdotally does, sometimes completely shortcut this information recovery from noisy data, as the basic "assumption" of the brain would have to be that the environment doesn't lie. Which in a bubble is no longer true.

If we were adept at living in a world that lies to us, I imagine neuropathologies that create auditory hallucinations of various forms would not be even remotely as problematic as they are. But assuming a purely statistical interpretation of the environment, it's easy to see that eg a persistent voice in your head is going to cause serious issues over time.

If you boil it all down, that is what a filter bubble becomes, a voice persistently telling lie about how the world looks and works, on average.

This in turn can lead to radicalization, distrust, paranoia, and other forms of unhealthy thought patterns, as similar mechanisms does when "statistical lies" are generated internally by our minds.
I wonder this too. My guess is it could be similar to programming-- there's times when it's just me and my computer-- everything else is a distraction. Other times though, I'm working with others, asking questions, helping people or socializing. I have friends at places where they have offices, and I work on an open-office space: we each like and dislike different aspects of our respective setup.

From my experience in college (anecdotal observations), there's professors who seem to spend a lot of time working with others. They were solving problems with grad-students or at meetings-- though there's some I always found alone in their offices too. I'm sure this varies by person and by field, but I'd be interested in knowing if the open office is working for the faculty here.
Original HLL paper from 2007:
http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/FlFuGaMe07.pdf
right. They will rebrand the offering in a way that will be covered by SIPC, but the offering will still most likely happen
A Foreign Affair: Trump's Dominican Deal
The Trolls from Olgino, the Sabateurs from Menlo Park
A few years ago, while doing a bit of a family history research project (Knuth was my father's PhD advisor at Stanford), I stumbled across a rather awesome t-shirt design. May I humbly submit "Knuth is my homeboy" as my entry to the CompSci t-shirt contest. (not my own design, to be clear, I just came across it on the internet)

https://geekz.co.uk/shop/store/show/knuth-tshirt.html

And here is a shot of the recursive shirt in action: https://laughingsquid.com/jacob-appelbaum-donald-knuth-demon...
Slightly off topic, but is there any research going on regarding how to manage all the satellites being pushed into orbit? What happens when these things start to collide with other satellites or other trash accumulating in orbit? Is there a practical limit to what we can throw up into orbit before we start to see some adverse consequences?
Yeah, "those guys" who try to enforce their software's license. The nerve.
> how anyone would object to it

OpenBSD is objecting to it like so[1]:

> [...] In particular, if you use code under the Apache 2 license, some of your rights will terminate if you claim in court that the code violates a patent.

> A license can only be considered fully permissive if it allows use by anyone for all the future without giving up any of their rights. If there are conditions that might terminate any rights in the future, or if you have to give up a right that you would otherwise have, even if exercising that right could reasonably be regarded as morally objectionable, the code is not free.

> In addition, the clause about the patent license is problematic because a patent license cannot be granted under Copyright law, but only under contract law, which drags the whole license into the domain of contract law. But while Copyright law is somewhat standardized by international agreements, contract law differs wildly among jurisdictions. So what the license means in different jurisdictions may vary and is hard to predict.

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
Wow, thanks for that. An infrared laser, I stand corrected.

>To detect whether there is something in front of the iPhone X, it is believed that the phone uses a "time-of-flight" (TOF) sensor, powered by an LED-based infrared illuminator... If the TOF sensor detects an object, it triggers the iPhone X's True Depth camera to take a picture. If that reveals a face, the phone activates its dot projector, shining a single infrared VCSEL through an optical system to create 30,000 spots while its infrared camera captures an image. It sends both regular and spottily illuminated IR face images to an application-processing unit (APU) that can recognize the owner and therefore unlock the phone.
Does xi have any Vim/modal like features?
An Open-Source Doomsday Sim Murdered Me Repeatedly and Sucked Me into Its Code
This account has been around for ages; Schwab has one too.

The difference here is Robinhood was offering a 3% interest rate without a balance limit, without any minimums or minimum activities (direct deposits, debit card purchases). That interest rate with no requirements was the selling point, nobody else offers that.
What separation of concerns?

// RenderComponent.js
export default props => (
<div class="foo">
<button ...>...</button>
</div>
)

// RenderComponent.scss
.foo {
button {
...
}
}

It looks to me like your stylesheet pretty much has the exact same structure as the component/template does. When you change one, by necessity, you change the other. Don't seem to be separate concerns to me. Only separate technologies.

Now, lets say you want your component's styling to adjust based on properties passed into the component... It's going to be easier, more consistent and less of a problem to make these kinds of variants with CSS in JS techniques. You can still inherent styling values directly or through theme injection.
Why? Sorry but the page doesn't explain it and I can't imagine for the life of me why you would want pre-Servo Firefox.
> I recently ordered ~$100 of cables from Monoprice

Wow, how did your 3,918 cables arrive? Was it a full-sized goods truck or a couple of crates?

(This is, for the unaware, a joke on how inexpensive-yet-still-excellent Monoprice's cables are. Every time I order a clutch of Ethernet or USB cables, I wind up ordering three times as many just to make the order total greater than the shipping total and to have spares for later use.)
For avant-garde poets, audio recording was both a breakthrough and a threat
Compare ReactJS and VueJS
There is no trademark on "Open Source", whats trademarked is "OSI Certified".
Then why the hate for just one side's supporters if both sides are guilty? That's part of the point that I was trying to make...
I'm curious why you would want to do that. I have an IRA/brokerage with Fidelity but haven't yet understood the value prop for their cash management product.
Seems like a rather ugly hack to reverse-render values out.
I don't understand how licenses that make claims about patent lawsuits (GPLv3, apache) can be re-using code from licenses that don't make patent claims (BSD, etc.). I didn't promise not to sue anyone for royalties.
Isn't aluminium supposed to be toxic? Probably the amount absorbed from drinking from aluminium bottles wouldn't be enough to cause concern, but I'm not sure I would risk drinking from them all the time.
Lightbeam – Book trips with friends in real-time, no more links and screenshots
You really should. I got schnookered into joining a drama club in high school and it was probably one of the best school experiences that I ever had.

The ability to stand in front of a big room and not be anxious was both liberating to me and profoundly useful. I cannot even imagine the opportunity that I would have missed had I not had that confidence.

As a side benefit, it’s alot of fun, I wish I had kept it up!
My understanding is that you can use Confluent's software to run your own stack and offer a service, and you can do that for free. You just can't offer a service that competes directly with theirs. It's like if Google said, "Here's our search algorithm. You are free to use it on your website behind your paywall to give your users a better experience, but you are NOT allowed to use it to establish a competing search service on the broader internet.

I don't really have a problem with it- I think it's fair. I think the question of whether it should be allowed on Github is fair- can someone accidentally find themselves legally bound? But it's probably an edge case.
Littlewood's Law and the Global Media
If that's the case there should be no problem changing the wording to assuage developers' fears, right?

I've been very seriously thinking of moving back (to the point of starting to dispose of things like my car) but now am wary. This is not what Australia needs.
You can definitely handle potentially cascading issues with styling...

const styles = theme => ({
myComponent: {
...theme.typography.body1
},
});
I have seen this reference before, but if you look at Figure 5, it does not seem to agree with the statement that 0 is the only safe amount. Am I missing something?
What kind of headphones do you have? Is it some crummy gamer brand headset like Audio Technica, Corsair, Steelseries, etc.? It's not like Overwatch has a lot of sound nuance, but CS does, so I'd recommend against not wearing some kind of headphones, but having uncomfortable headphones might be why you feel that you're performing better without them.
Gorilla Marketing at its finest. Way to hack society Robinhood
I just wish Amazon offered a "verified brand" tag. Sometimes I'm willing to take a gamble on a third party seller to save money or on something that's just for me, but when I'm buying gifts, I want to KNOW the thing I'm buying is really being sold by the manufacturer (or someone they've got a relationship with). It's obscenely difficult to figure this out on Amazon, which has driven me to buy from Walmart.com more often than I would otherwise.
I'm all for capitalism. But punitive taxation can be used very effectively to reign in unbridled capitalism.

Taxing plastic production, and properly rewarding recycling or reuse schemes would be have a pretty big impact to the bottom lines of some companies and I think we'd be amazed by how quick they solved the problem.
Sony inadvertently leaks player counts for PS4 titles
Sure, yes. Disruption, freeing us once and for all from, like, the shackles of deposit insurance?
That's not at all what he said, and nothing you've said answers my question -- why is Jeff Bezos in particular "very very important"?
The reason why MMs pay more for RH is there are no toxic clients in there. RH's flow is almost entirely a bunch of little guys.

Toxic flow would be something like a huge institution that just keeps buying a stock they like. Once the market maker has sold them a few portions, he realises the price has moved against them.

With a bunch of little guys the MM combines:

- Benefit from the two-way nature of the flow. Some little guys are buying, some selling.

- Hedge against other pools of liquidity. Either find a similar stock (stocks are highly correlated) to sell, or an index.

- Hold on to the risk until it relaxes and goes the other way.

Ex MM / HFT guy.
The DOM has styling primatives... many CSS in JS libraries use them... others compute CSS from the JS object structure used to define (based on JS DOM interfaces for styles).
All of those things are available on Firefox, which is why I asked. There are a diminishing number of features not available to Firefox users at this point.
No big surprise here. I worked on a project for a fintech startup. They were dealing with small business bank accounts in the US and were missing some basic security. Had there been a data breach someone could have come in and cleaned out their customers accounts. Unlike consumer accounts, US banks have no legal obligation to make a business customer whole under that circumstance. Some small businesses have gone out of business over things like this.

When I brought it to the founders attention they blew it off so I immediately told them that I'm rolling off the project. I'm all for disrupting the industry, but not at the expense of knowingly putting your customers in harms way.
So only trade stocks in increments of at least $5,000? That precludes, for example, dollar cost averaging.
History is littered with laws that “would never be abused” that... er... were.

Look up the Stansted 15 sometime.
It’s all about the topology: what FaaS can learn from stream processing
> But the West wing is an order of magnitude more enjoyable to watch

I totally agree, which probably means that public life has become a lot less enjoyable to watch since “West Wing” used to air. As they say: ars imitatur naturam.
Is that at all relevant? This is an opinion piece.
That's because the article is primarily about Cornell Tech HELPING make New York appealing, not Cornell Tech as the causal reason. The piece is much more about Cornell Tech than about Amazon's decision.
Virtually all brokerages do that, including the ones which make you pay all the traditional trading fees.
I'm a believer in these findings. I do wish that the model for learning improv in the private sector was different. As it is, adults have to move to cities where theaters are offering classes, then pay out for the classes (which can run up to $300-400 per 8-week class in the bigger schools). It's expensive, is the point, and this creates a barrier for people of a certain class. I'd love to see it offered in more high schools, or as a free-or-cheap activity akin to soccer or community theatre.

Don't even get me started on the level of privilege needed to pay through enough class levels to let one of the theaters audition you for their non-paying staff performer spots.
Ambient Cruelty
https://github.com/instaclustr/cassandra-operator :)
I agree this could be very interesting.
The smoke and explosion effects are amazing, better than any other FSG I've tried. Very cool.
While I agree, that macOS is a UNIX, backup tends to be a very sensitive form of software (think scalpell, not hammer) and I would not dare to use it on a platform without certification by its vendor (in this case an "OK" by the author).

We do not live in a perfect world. But backups can have exactly zero errors.

But thanks for pointing out, that a mac brew exists. I did not see this.
We're still trying to figure out the best way to implement those. There's a prototype, but it hasn't landed in master. It's definitely on the roadmap though.
Bringing machine learning to JavaScript ecosystem with TensorFlow.js
> If you want to learn about thermodynamics, build a small Stirling engine
Do people really do that? I am a chemical engineer but I have never heard anyone do that, though it sounds fun.
Afghan grins in mugshot after beating up Swedish elderly woman
I'm sure that if you tried, you could come up with good faith exceptions. The parable of Chesterton's fence comes to mind.
At my previous security consulting firm, the leadership team kicked off a massive hiring effort of DoD veterans, driven by the idea that "cyber warfare is similar to real warfare, so veterans are a natural fit for cybersecurity jobs". Blech.

Based on my experience working with those ex-DoD folks, I echo your sentiment. Anyone who was known to be a part of the veteran hiring initiative became a black sheep among the other rank-and-file at my company, because everyone knew that the DoD folks could hardly do anything more complex than a follow a 5-step "how to install metasploit" guide without having their hand held (and even then...). They also had very little familiarity with basic security tools like MFA, IDS, IDM softwares (which makes sense after reading the article).

The worst part still was that they were very cocky about their abilities. I heard way too many times about how "I have experience with 'real war' at the pentagon, I know what I'm talking about", when in reality they certainly did not. If the actual DoD is anything like their ex-infosec employees that I worked with, I can only imagine that this article is just the tip of the iceberg.
https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-enduring-art-of-computer-p... contains images from his Mad Magazine article.
Is it just me or is the number of clicks required to get a feel for the project ridiculously high? I gave up