skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly off topic:

Does Plaid still operate via screen scraping? I'm a little perplexed as to why banks don't have easy to use APIs, especially given recent regulation. It seems against their best interests to allow a third party to screen scrape and provide a service which the banks themselves could easily reproduce.

What am I missing? Is a bank with an easy to use API not a sound business decision from the bank's perspective?

I know Monzo (challenger bank in UK) has/had an API, though I haven't heard of anyone using it.
The signaling from [elite school] doesn't matter as much (to that applicant's competitors) if there aren't enough elite school graduates to fill positions.

A startup can hold out for MIT grads for as long as they want, but they ain't getting one if every other startup is doing the same.

_Someone_ is getting hired at the end of the day. A company that's looking to grow rapidly can't hold out forever.
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I think you're correct. The younger generations are especially feeling pressure to try to take action to reverse climate change and become carbon neutral!

I hope to see more people change their lifestyles to become carbon neutral! At the very least, I hope people will vote with their money and subscribe to something like https://projectwren.com/!
I wonder if we mostly just hear about intelligence failures. Seems successful intelligence is most likely to be kept under wraps so reliable methods are not disclosed.
If I put myself on the other side of the hiring table, I would have the common decency to give someone at least a little bit of feedback if they gave up more than a full day of their time to wrestle themselves through our convoluted hiring process.
> We (the west) are just starting to understand that China seems to be a mafia state in a similar way that Russia is.

Probably because it's evolution into a mafia state has been much slower. President Xi has been slowly accumulating power for 15 years. Since Mao power was purposefully kept defuse, and while corruption has been rampant at least since the free market reforms, it was of a different kind and in some respects served to maintain competing power centers.
No problem. I think

table {
overflow-x: auto;
}

Should do it
Do they have a lower effective resolution at different projections due to light reflected being somehow less direct (more reflections?)?
I really enjoyed building and programming on the Briel Computers Apple I replica, http://www.brielcomputers.com/wordpress/?cat=17
Agreed - I credit my entire career to this. I started watching people trying to solve problems, and then would piece together something "silly" that helped them solve it.

Next thing I was doing a big system implementation. Then consulting.

One note - now that I'm removed from day to day and don't have time to program myself I see how easy it is NOT to pay attention to how anyone will use something.

I imagine this is how windows gets bloated with candy crush saga and all the bloatware even on the "pro" versions. What employer wants this stuff on users computers? It just clutters up menues.
Have you ever read manufacturing consent?

Household products like soap and flour used to be generic and without brands. Brand names were invented to differentiate identical products. The entire history of marketing in the 20th century is appealing to people’s emotions with emotional oversimplifications. Their goal is to creat an uninformed, irrational consumer.

There was a huge campaign against man made global warming, and its worked, a significant amount of people believe its a hoax.

Many people thought Iraq was behind 9/11, or supported Al Queda.

Propaganda is all around us, and it works!
Agreed. Even after Googling "ACH" I had to reconcile the article's usage of "ACH" as a verb, when it appears to be a electronic payment system.
The only problem with trusting PayPal is you can't trust PayPal.
I strongly recommend getting a stone other than diamond. A few months after the engagement no one will ever care for the rest of your life, with the exception of the jewelry sales person who missed out on the commission.
I used to confuse these for a long time.
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> Indeed a number of companies have been successful specifically because they talk like real human beings and readily admit the strengths and weaknesses of their products.

I'm curious - can you name a couple?
Curlie – human-edited web directory
That would be great. I think if they were being aggressive enough, there would probably be less demand for airport expansion, because there would be fewer flights. I don't currently see any way to curtail the carbon from the airline industry that wouldn't involve raising the price so drastically that people would fly less often.
More importantly, it sounds like everyone who's going to actually see the statue got a chance to provide their input. So this method maximizes the number of people happy with that part of the sculpture, anyway!
I think 'exit' (as opposed to 'voice') is an underrated strategy in this case. I have heard of many people being consumed by lawsuits, drawn out conflicts, wasted lives in pursuit of correcting a wrong, driven more by ego than by a desire for justice. Perhaps there is merit in doing that, but any corruption within any system feeds off of sincere people. Imagine, an organization couldn't survive for too long if most of the well meaning people left. Balaji Srinivasan's talk on this was quite insightful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6qqcvl/balaji_srinivas...
In Docker terminology, that would be a service?
Adding onto this, Canada has pretty much the same amount of banks (about 5 big ones that completely dominate the industry) but unlike the US, have worked together for decades to create their own interbank network, Interac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interac). The network handles most ATMs, direct debits, e-transfers and online transactions, and the last two I think have been available for over 10 years now. Every single debit card in Canada is Interac-branded and the network is pretty much ubiquitous for transferring money.

It blew my mind going from that to what the US has.
Totally agree. From whatever I have read Tripp was the real villain there. What kind of person behaves like that?
That's not quite the same though - that's legible after reflection, ambigrams are rotations.
Sometimes banning ads for scams is just banning ads for scams. Note that Google had a similar ban and they haven't announced their own cryptocurrency.
>If we're talking steak in particular, it's going to be faster than any palatable vegetable based dish every time. Total cook time is about five minutes

Maybe with very thin, low quality grocery store steaks. When I eat meat I buy steaks from a butcher that are over an inch thick, and require 5-7 minutes minimum per side for medium rare. Sometimes even more for thicker cuts

>prep is less than a minute. Also in particular, stir frying isn't a great example of a vegetable preparation which is fast. Prep is usually at least twice the amount of time as the frying.

A lot of people think vegetables are difficult because they don't have knife skills so it takes multiple minutes to cut a piece of produce. With practice, prep for cooking vegetables should be just as fast. Also, even if it does take an extra couple minutes of my time, its worth it for my own health and morals by not supporting industrialized farming
Of course. The software engineering grads lack the essential skill of willing to be paid peanuts.
What country volunteers to be the first to disband its intelligence services?
This isn't about manufacturing.
TWO practical software development classes. One for hard skills, and one for soft skills.

The latter is another complaint I've heard from company owners. Too many graduates who just don't know how to work with a company's non-engineers, as they've told me.
That's an intensely newspeak usage of "liberalizes".
Came here to reccommend Diamonds are Bullshit. It's a fantastic piece.
It could be that schools cater to large companies' needs because they pay their employees the most and offer the highest number of jobs, and thus offer the best graduation statistics for those schools?
I don't disagree - but when you start your budget is so small that you worry overly much about price "if you get big".

Then when you have a budget you are used to other systems -> so it's a learning curve to get back and switching costs are higher.
European and GFS hurricane models show Dorian hitting opposite Florida costs
The chart shows a 20% drop within 2 weeks.
The long and the short of it is that lisp, for all its faults, is superior to commonly used programming languages in most cases.

It's almost as fast and way, way more expressive than C, C++ and Java.

It's still more expressive and 100x faster than Perl, Python, Ruby.

It's the expressivity that hooks you in, in my experience. Once you've gotten used to programming with macros (code rewriting programs), the thought of programming without them seems almost as bad as programming without functions.
That's a good point! This might be a good way to go about it
Most flash drives and SD cards are still FAT formatted by default.
It's possible to do this.

The price paid is immense.

Norbert Wiener, following WWII, noted that the secure classified treatment of military R&D proved a bigger impediment for the Allies than its enemies. There were multiple independent efforts investigating the same or similar technologies who didn't know of one another and could not share experiences. At the same time, much of the information either leaked out or was available to Axis forces (or Soviets), though development lead-time made this a fairly minor concern.

J. Robert Oppenheimer had similar observations over the Manhattan Project, and there's a famous anecdote by Richard Feynman of travelling to Oak Ridge, where uranium processing and enrichment was occurring, and realising that plant practices were at severe risk of resulting in critical masses of refined material. That wouldn't have vapourised the plant, but could have resulted in deaths, meltdowns, and extensive radioactive contamination. Feynman had to fight to make this information available to plant management and workers, so that the US wouldn't unintentionally sabotage its own efforts.
The problem with waiting for another president is that both Democrats and Republicans hate China alike. And China can't afford to wait because they are sitting on a demographic time bomb due to 1 child policy (10 years left or so). So I do think Xi's approach is going to undo a lot of progress that China has made under previous presidents (when they still had a concept of term limits).

I'm really rooting for India here, the largest democracy with fast growing economy and very young population. Even if 21st century is going to be dominated by Asia I'd rather see India take the leading role than China. Among other things it would also make sure that East Asian disdain for darker skinned people and China's obsession with surveillance won't become a dominant global culture.
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I never understood this logic. We’ll hand process your check for free, but if you want to use this website we set up, it’ll be a $20 “convenience fee.” I get passing the debit/credit fee onto the consumer, but it’s there even when I were to choose ACH.
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SDCards, USB sticks...
And they probably swear more than he does.
I've been using UDF formatted flash drives for a long time (10 years?) and they've been working on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X all this time.
I googled "is a Lexus just a fancy toyota" and found this...

https://www.quora.com/Arent-Lexus-cars-just-Toyotas-with-fan...

My takeaway is that between two similar products, once people discover what is really going on, will they feel misled? And can people become informed in the first place?

In the case of Lexus vs Gotta, I'd guess informed consumers won't feel mislead. In the case of quality Camry vs a junky FauxCamry, it's more about being marketing in the FauxCamry that deceptively over promises is on a car that under delivers.

I think I've stretched this analysis about as much as I can.
All the examples that you say are quite old. What huge propaganda campaign is going on underhandedly in 2019?
Yes the software interview process is broken; the skills evaluated are rarely the ones that measure the success of an individual at an startup. I prefer to ask system design questions.
> ACH is not a common jargon term

It’s not jargon at all, is it? It’s just literally the proper name for the specific payment network. I thought jargon is industry-specific slang terms for concepts that could otherwise be described with less industry-specific terms. There is no simpler or clearer way I’m aware of to refer specifically to ACH.

As for it being common, if you work as a developer on any web products that accept or send significant payments in the US, you’ve almost certainly heard of ACH. If you haven’t, then this article probably won’t be of any interest or use to you even if it had an extensive introduction about what ACH is.
No - it’s more dangerous with a phone number, which is how I usually send/receive.

Much, much safer way to use Zelle is to ask the receiver to request a payment from you and then accept the request.
This study suggests that tolerance is around 18% in South Asia, and that it originated in the Middle-east, not Europe:

https://sciencelife.uchospitals.edu/2011/09/14/lactose-toler...
Can you explain more about how Ryanair refusing to fly to far-flung airports without a subsidy is an externality?
Can we call a function a googol times?
Other phone makers manage to manufacture phones in China without handing all Chinese customer data to the Chinese government. It is possible to manufacture in China without selling to Chinese consumers.
No. The OIN promise only applies to Linux-based systems.
Thank you! That paints a very clear (and clearly stressful) picture.

Hope it all works out for you and yours in the end!
John Baez is one of the most qualified people in the world to talk about mathematical physics. Who are you?
You’re going to register a new company for every employee? That would be an insane admin overhead
This seems obvious to me since most of the jobs seem to be in web dev, maybe I'm wearing blinders but there doesn't seem to be much out there that isn't CRUD work. Computer science is almost a different field, to me its like masonry vs geology
That's a rotation in 3D ;-)
Without the REX the two cars aren't really comparable anymore. (Also, wow! That's expensive. How much of that is tax?)
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Because going after Palantir is ultimately futile, even if they were to agree to cease all contracts with ICE very little would change. It is my suspicion that people who think otherwise are doing so out of a misunderstanding of what Palantir's technology actually does.
what it must be like to be in the c-suite at facebook.
Cameras. High capacity removable flash media used by digital still and video cameras is often formatted as exFAT. Despite MS' licensing, FAT/FAT32/exFAT are essentially the "file systems of interchange" for removable flash media.

More info at: https://fossbytes.com/fat32-vs-ntfs-vs-exfat-difference-thre...
This is essentially what has happened to Chinese iPhone users except not just one zipcode but the entire country.
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> signal to the outside world that you have nothing to hide

This only matters if the outside cares very deeply about that, which it doesn't seem to, not enough to outweigh the benefit of not having to deal with incidents in the first place. You have to consider the real opportunity cost: signalling is less effective than silence.
MIT's was (is?) heavy on theory, light on coding practice. I still think it was a pretty good program, they just expected that you'd learn to program outside of class.
Might I recommend Peter Green's biography of Alexander the Great. Green's Alexander to Actium also covers the "funeral games" that Alexander predicted his generals would hold, and goes on to cover the Hellenistic age in some detail.
USB flash disks are almost always exfat formatted.
In Arrow's version the inputs are continuous rather than discrete, so I don't know if NP-hard is the right criterion. There is a discrete version that is NP-hard, but I'm not sure you even have existence for that case. The continuous version of general equilibrium is as hard as solving an arbitrary continuous system of equations, which is probably pretty hard.

There are a bunch of criticisms of general equilibrium. Some of these were begun by Arrow himself. If you have prices that are out of equilibrium, can you adjust them to be in equilibrium? If you see the whole demand curve, then you could. But imagine you just know that there is unfulfilled demand for some goods, and excess supply for other goods. If you just make small adjustments in prices to lower excess demand or supply, will you eventually converge on market-clearing prices? Arrow showed that the answer is: it depends.
They managed to overtake Apple’s market cap. Seems to me they’re quite a top dog still.
I did not realize common lisp was still in use and was therefore planning on learning Clojure instead. Which is better to learn then?
Over activemq using a logback openwire plugin, then off to graylog using an activemq input plugin.

Works great, can handle thousands of messages per second on modest hardware.
Or they could prevent the drivers from being loaded, like I did :)
I'm guessing, but I think most people probably give the electric company permission to pull the money from their account (direct debit) rather than reviewing the bill and "pushing" the money every time.

There are very strong guarantees in the individual's favour if the company makes a mistake.
You should verify that the amount entered is not a negative number. Noticed that it took those in.
No one knows what you're talking about. I'll hazard a guess. Is it the SINGLE INCIDENT ONE YEAR AGO where someone broke the rules by not folding their wheelchair because they didn't know how to do it? Something that no one else has ever complained about because people typically know how to fold their own wheelchair? Something that WASN'T EVEN A PROBLEM because the woman was later able to figure it out and was rebooked to the flight the next day for free?
Install an accelerometer in the keyboard. When heavy impacts are detected from someone smashing their face into it repeatedly, pop up a dialog box asking them if there is something wrong and would they like assistance? Extensive feedback will be forthcoming.

A bit more helpfully, MS were asked repeatedly not to fuck with the menus but they replaced it with the ribbon. Ditto that terrible new interface that was nothing like windows 7. They could have allowed the choice of new interface but they did not. MS got plenty of info and chose to discard it.

MS is now in a position where it doesn't need to care.
No kidding. When I hear about long grueling hiring processes like this, I wonder what the hiring company is finding out in the 8th hour of interviews that they didn't in the 7th. Or in the case of one job my sister applied to: the 8th interview!

In this case, maybe that one person, at the end of a long day, who didn't feel the spark?
Check out Project Wren (https://projectwren.com/), you can offset your carbon footprint for about $20 a month in a few minutes!

They also do a great job of educating users about what they can do to reduce their carbon footprint!
It's a concept design / art piece. Vantablack is highly carcinogenic and fragile. However, this thing would make a great solar oven.
Yes, and if academia was a fantasy land where everyone worked with the proper scientific process as a goal and no one needed more grant funding this would be great.

I've gotten a lot of downvotes, and I'm not really sure why. This isn't my opinion of how things should be, it's based on what I observed in university. I knew a guy who tried the suing the university for messing up his graduate education thing -- life did not turn out well for him. The highest paid state employees are college football coaches, because they make the most money. Funds that used to help professors are pouring into middle management and image consultants. Modern universities are run with all of the techniques and moral flexibility of multinational corporations, and no amount of downvotes will change that.
Sounds like premature optimization.
Black Hole evaporation is incredibly slow in the 1+ Solar Mass range (~2.1 * 10^67+ years). http://xaonon.dyndns.org/hawking/

Also, another astrophysics took the other side of the bet as a 50/50. So, it was not considered all that unlikely.

PS: There is normally a limit to how fast black holes can eat, but that’s irrelevant when two black holes collide.
Followers of Jainism have been doing this for hundreds of years. There are multiple variations of intermittent fasting. For example, you can fast one day, feed once the next day or fast one day and feed twice the next day.

During the fasting days, people only consume boiled water between sunrise and sunset. No foods or drinks of any other kind are consumed. On feeding days, there are restrictions on the types of foods you can consume as well.

As a Jain, it's interesting to see research and studies being done around religious practices we've been following for years and more importantly, what the data and outcome shows.

For a bit more info, I recommend taking a look at this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5240069/
I think Google, as most do, underestimated the time and effort it takes to build a recruiting suite, even for the SMB market. I've spent 5 years SmartRecruiters as PM and in partnerships. It's taken 80 engineers a good 5+ years to build a clean solution that can scale globally with different local customs, job boards, assessments, and regulations.
I agree, I think doing a deep dive interview with a small set of users is better than just collecting telemetry. Ask them questions, carry on conversations, notice when they become frustrated trying to do something.

All the users could be using the right-click context menu to copy text not out of preference but instead ignorance - telemetry can tell you what's wrong but you miss out on most of the chance to tell why.
“They” say that Stalin believed Germany was not ready for war yet and would only attack the next year, so he didn’t want to tip his hand by visibly preparing for war too early.

In a way he was right on the first point - Germany wasn’t ready for a protracted winter-time conflict. However they attacked anyway, brazenly confident they would be finished before the winter cold sets in, and also maybe desperate to strike before Stalin has a chance to strike first.

Nothing to do with friends and betrayals, just a series of miscalculations on all sides.

Or so “they” say.
I see, you were challenging the "The only way" part of the statement. Yes, any metal alloy or hollow body with a density matching gold could be used to pass density based tests. The natural choice is the cheapest metal of sufficient density -- tungsten.

Platinum was historically used to dilute gold by alloying before it became valuable in its own right and chemical tests improved.

"Gone Platinum: Contraband and Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century Colombia"

https://www.vianolavie.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/0...
I didn't even know schools had 'Software Engineering programs. I've met plenty of Computer Science grads, though. It's truly different. Engineering is more like trade school, Computer Science is foundational.

I'll probably hire you with a CS degree, but I know I'm going to need to teach you how to be a software engineer.
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