skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>having been expressly forbidden from using ANY VC by the CEO

Well that's really fucking stupid of them. Maybe they're worried about evidence of old HIPAA breaches existing after the system gets updated, and doesn't want to explain that logic? On your local development station:

mkdir repo
cd repo
git init --bare
cd ..
git clone repo project_folder
cd project_folder
cp -r ../<path_to_project>/project project

Congratulations, you now have version control for local development that your CEO never has to know about! The only reason I'd suggest an extra folder (horribly named project_folder in the example above) is so that you never accidentally copy the hidden .git files when moving it from your dev station.
To give credit where it's due, I kind of took this and ran with it:

> It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

-- Nathaniel Borenstein

> Why are we like this and how do we change us?

Don't take this the wrong way, because I totally "feel you", to put it briefly, but my first thought is, there is no "us":

> When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

-- Hannah Arendt

For me it's important to not forget that sociopaths are weak rather than strong, and bluffing rather than laughing. Outside of forms of communications they can dictate and manipulate, that is, without some form of violence or dishonesty, on their own and as themselves, they have nothing, and can be made to implode rather easily. A murdering SS officer is not what sums up this phenomenon, Hitler, in his bunker, blowing his brains out, after blaming everyone with words that are obviously garbage once the claqueurs are gone, is.

No, I'm not saying I'm innocent and others are the sole source of evil. But we're still not all the same, it's a spectrum and we're not all in the same spot, and I reject that it's some "average human" doing everything. That's an abstraction, only the actually existing individuals are real, and the worst thing that can happen is not resisting and realizing it was "in vain" (and it never is when it comes to what it makes you as a person), the worst thing that can happen is that we realize we fell for rather mediocre people who faked it until they made it, and that we could have resisted easily (in comparison to the titanium steel gravity well humanity would be in then).
I stopped paying and went to the free Syncthing. My one issue is that the windows client silently fails and doesn't restart. Often. On multiple Windows 10 machines I own. The Apple and Linux clients have been rock solid, but the Windows one not, and since I use(d) this app as a way to get files easily to my partner who uses only a Windows box, this was the hard stop to my use case.
Is it really few? I’ve never had a bank that didn’t. Three university federal credit unions, then later TD Bank.
Yeah, it's the equivalent of being ratio'd on Twitter.
I'm giving serious thought to throwing down money on copper paint to make a faraday cage undercoat next time I feel like a different color scheme. People today are subject to surveillance capabilities that George Orwell and the Stasi could not even have dreamt of.
> Dropbox always works, everywhere.

Nope. My 2-3 windows installs fail way too often. And totally silently. And don't restart. Had to drop from the paid version to bare minimum and move to Syncthing which for me works far better at the cost of more options to config.
You've described any bank worth being a customer of. Monthly fees are a huge red flag (even if you can avoid them with hoop-jumping). USAA (just for ex.) also reimburses ATM fees. I'm not a fan of "overdraft protection" in general, but maybe Schwab provides a relatively non-predatory version of it.

Citi's nickname is "shitty." I forget what put me off about Simple but in general debit cards don't enjoy the strong consumer protections that credit cards do in the US.
Attachment bonds between domestic cats and humans
I'm not good at getting fired. I am personable and don't slack off. Those positive qualities are having a negative impact on my dream. I've wanted to collect unemployment for years.
I contracted somewhere once where a new full time employee had to wait a month before he was issued a machine. I don't know how he stuck it.
I agree, best deal going. Also, I really appreciate the web app versions of the Office apps for use on Linux.

Also getting up to date Office apps on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS is valuable to me even if cumulatively I only use them two or three hours a month.
For brokers that sell order flow, you will never see price improvement based on changes in market conditions (naturally) after you submit your order. For brokers that don't sell order flow, it is still possible that you would see post-submit price improvement.

This effectively means that after you submit your order, you will never see price improvement, if you use a broker that sells order flow. This harms retail investors that may not actively be thinking about this sort of price improvement, but would still matter to them in terms of aggregate transaction costs.
That was an awesome story. Thanks for posting. HIPPA is a huge deal.
Typically, brokerages don't give you any interest on checking. Now, banks haven't really either since 2008, but prior to that you could make a few dollars a year on checking interest.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone... is fascinating if you enjoy this kind of stuff.
People should be able to do whatever they dann well please with their money, including spending it on frivolous and stupid things and painting themselves into a corner. It’s not freedom unless it’s freedom to make bad decisions as well as good ones.

If you believe the first, like you say you do, people do not need to be protected from themselves, as self-inflicted harm is the correct outcome of letting people do as they please.

I think it’s ok for people who make bad decisions to go deep into debt. There’s no debtors prison in the USA, recourse against default on the extreme low end is pretty minimal. It may stress them out (as unpaid debt should, to some extent) but they likely won’t die over it.
If your day trading millions of dollars of shares, it could matter. Retail rarely make trades that can’t be filled with one order. Even if your moving large amount of shares, you can always do limit orders .
Credit unions are usually more consumer friendly than for-profit banks.
"they figured hey, what better way for him to find all the pain points and automate them"

So, I'm not clear on why you haven't been able to do that?

I got to where I hated the developer culture, and got a job that was outside of it, where I had access to nothing except MS Office, and had the epiphany that it's Turing complete, I can do anything!
Ok cool, so I'm allowed to be a man again? Or is that still unacceptable according to PC rules?
Something is very, very wrong then. rsync will use 100% of the bandwidth provided. It won't be any slower than anything else you might try over the same network. If you found that to be the case, it's almost certainly something else.
Discover Meteor was promoted by MDG because they thought it was a good resource, but it was never part of MDG itself, it was wholly independent even if one of the authors did go on to work for MDG afterwards.

Source: I wrote that book.
USBank is awful, dump that shit. I don't have any quelms with USAA, but I happened to luck into their 2.5% everything credit card while it was still being offered and will stick with them as long as they don't discontinue that.
I've merged it into your comment above so the whole thing is one piece.
Also run for all the other stuff you said before that.
What's interesting is how fast the evolution is compared to the decades in the Jargon file. The other interesting bit is how bandwidth and RAM costs would change the architecture today.
Renewable energy now cheaper, reduces emissions faster, than nuclear
All I can say is that I'm glad I don't have a bunch of "orthocode" t-shirts…
Title reads like David just bought Goliath :)
This is really cool, but is it really only for iOS? I have about 6 years worth of screenshot that I would love to be able to text search, but they are files on a Linux box rather than iOS.
I've worked for Fortune 500 and even Fortune 50 companies that acquired tech companies with no due diligence (usually in a panic) and I've had to clean up the mess. And the acquired folks usually leave in exactly a year and one day, after vesting.

And, even in 2019, I've gotten calls to clean up messes from people that have hired a software developer (for a company whose business isn't software) who doesn't use source control. Amazing!
No, no one uses this bloated crapware. Want to throw efficiency out the window and code yourself into a corner? Meteor is perfect for that.

I like to be more thoughtful about my QPS and payload sizes.
I would keep USAA, I've always had good experiences with them. They've even implemented a suggestion I had into their app (talked with customer service who said they would forward it to the appropriate team).

Also one time when I had an issue with MobileDeposit, the first person I spoke with immediately forwarded me to the right person who could see the image of the check I tried to submit and suggested I turn the check upside down and take the picture (that worked btw, the routing and account numbers were printed on the page border).

They also had Coinbase integration for several years now (fwiw).
Then don't.

First: Have a very direct conversation where you state that after-hours work, and being on-call, are not the job you took. Also state that you really like the job you have, and that you'd like to continue to work where you're working.

Next: Make sure your value to the company is clearly established. What important things have you done that were vital to the company? (If the decision makers think they can replace you, then you're better off switching jobs now.)

Finally: Figure out how to telegraph that you're considering other offers without actually telling anyone that you're considering other offers. In the late 1990s - early 2000s, showing up very late one day in a suit did it. In my case, I just started leaving at random times to meet people for coffee, or taking phone calls behind the office. Later, I didn't pick up the phone for an "important" call with my boss, and his boss, because I was at an interview. They figured it out and the problem was solved very quickly.
They're certainly one of the two best for-profit brokerages (the other being Fidelity). Vanguard is inherently customer-focused, unlike the for-profits. Schwab and Fidelity are great today, but a future CEO/board could come in and decide to squeeze customers, and then you're somewhat stuck. Moving funds is difficult and if ERs are bumped, you have to balance taking a capital gain against the ongoing ER cost.
Not sure where you're getting that from. My Fidelity cash management account sweeps any idle balance into a money-market fund. I don't have any first-hand experience with Charles Schwab, but their website indicates that their checking accounts likewise accrue interest with no minimum balance.

Of course, interest rates are currently so low that it's basically a moot point. And I hardly ever have let any idle cash sit around without sweeping it into a short-term bond fund, or something better than the money market default.
Yeah that’s seriously unhealthy. I’ve been in that situation. Get out, you’ll immediately be happier for it.
I do, but I need some filler on my resume so I'm toughing it out as long as I can.

Just finished four months of overtime to meet an arbitrary executive-decision deadline. Now I'm on a new project, and I'm finding out just how horrible the other teams had it: legacy systems from the dark ages of tech that are being shoved into the cloud, critical account access is shared with everyone, everything was built by hand two years ago by people who are no longer here, nothing is documented, and 4am maintenance windows are a weekly thing. There's aloof parent companies imposing draconian pointless restrictions, finance has a strangle hold over everything (hiring, new hardware, new software, etc) and kills any funding no matter how much we need it, but somehow execs will buy a giant pointless thing that we never use, all the bosses refuse to take responsibility to push back or even fix problems we can control, and we have to go through three different teams to get changes made outside a single cloud account. Developers don't want to have any responsibility whatsoever for how their code actually runs or is supported, scrum masters impose ridiculous process requirements that have nothing to do with productivity, we never actually see a single customer/client until we launch a product, we have almost no tests, and almost no plans for what to do if we can't just build more cloud stuff to fix any problem. There are 10 architects whose sole job is to tell you to use arbitrary technology with absolutely no context or consultation, security is one guy who doesn't know what metasploit is, and the people building shared services for internal use don't want to actually support the users using them. I'm the only one trying to improve anything because I'm new. Everyone else is either job hunting or is super green and in love with the constant free food and beer.
> around for the next "it" device but creating nothing that is truly revolutionary.

I hate people who talk like this, as if there is something magical that people should be working on.
That doesn't mean the annecdotes don't represent a significant problem, it may just not be one that is universal. It may be endemic to certain states or school districts.
I'm not sure if this really warrants a reply, but I did want to correct the record. Even if you think Meteor "crashed and burned", it was definitely not a flash in the pan. It was launched in 2012 and seven years later there's still a small but active community. Many successful companies have used Meteor at some point, and many still do.

I think that the fact you think it was a "framework du jour" just highlights how much potential –and yes, hype– it had in its heyday. It may not quite have lived up to that hype, but it certainly accomplished more than the vast majority of web frameworks.
How do you plan on having cell coverage or even WiFi inside your home?
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A good friend of mine worked for a small company whose CEO also tried hard to convince him that introducing version control was wrong.

Of course, this same CEO also didn't see any problem with the fact that the password field in the login form was never checked against the database, because who would know someone else's login name?
This is already done in Gaussian process classification / regression
I'm guessing the vast majority goes through the digestive tract without any issues, and whatever ends up in our bloodstream gets filtered out like anything else in our system. Personally, I'm not worried about it.

I definitely think it's something that should be studied more though.
The extra-secret White House computer system, explained
Depending on the study, 30%-85% of young people who identify as trans will desist by adulthood if not medically transitioned. Do their brains change back to their birth sex when that happens?
I don't know if I read the forms, but so what? Many if not most people don't do their own taxes, but they know generally what the IRS is and what it does.
HIPAA is lovely in that it is worded strongly enough to get your coworkers to stop writing their password on a Post-It stuck to their computer. Fabulous read!
I'm with you. I just had to study really hard to get successful and my teachers didn't contribute very much to that. What did help was having peers who also wanted to do really well and having parents who pushed me hard.

And besides, we have that old HN saw: "If you can't hire anyone, you aren't paying enough.". Well, that coin has another side: "If you're hiring lots of people, you're paying enough.".
Basically you’re saying that they selected their data to fit the hypothesis?
Is this really a story? After reading the story it seems that the results are the same just with a wider error bound.
I haven't watched the videos, but I have listened to a bunch of songs from pop music stars who seem to alternate telling me how terrific I am and how much they love me with guilt-ridden confessions of how they've been disloyal, followed by impassioned pleas for me to give them one more chance, before slamming me with a brutal goodbye and telling me that we are never (ever, ever) getting back together.
Demand is a scary thing.
We have lots of anti-abuse measures, and they catch things. But of course we don't know what we don't know.

The issue with unfounded accusations is not that real abuse doesn't exist (it does); it's that internet users are overwhelmingly too quick to believe that they're seeing organized manipulation when really all they're seeing is something they dislike or find annoying. Such accusations need to clear some bar or they flood the forum and do more damage to it than the abuses they're imagining would do.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> For instance, consider a scenario in which law enforcement has a video footage of a robbery. They suspect that the robber is hiding inside a house. Can a pair of WiFi transceivers outside the house determine if the person inside the house is the same as the one in the robbery video? Questions such as this have motivated this new technology.

Goodbye 4th Amendment.

Would be cool if these intelligent folks but their efforts towards improving privacy.
Any thoughts on fcc compliant countermeasures? Maybe some pocket sized metalic radar reflectors to ruin the snr?
This model always reminds me of Nelson's parking problem:

https://rigtriv.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/parallel-parking/
Not sure if this is the case in the US, but here in SEA we had an unbelievably hard time getting corporate credit cards.

In my previous company we were actually building credit card authentication systems for banks and schemes, a private company with years of operation. And still - we werent approved for a card! Never-mind being provided a solution for managing them correctly.

In the end, like everyone else, we had to take out personal cards. The problem was, the company was so prompt repaying our personal cards we could never get approved for credit limit increases. Apparently you have to rack up some accruing debt...

PS Obviously not related to valuation (perhaps?) but Brex has the most refreshingly clear description on the list "Brex does corporate credit cards."
I'd say China is probably closer to Taiwan or South Korea, who followed a similar development model.
While accurate, your post only serves to underscore Tesla’s strategic advantage here.
Sounds like cognitive dissonance. Your coworkers felt like they are nice people, but nice people don’t steel from the poor, so their brain didn’t know what to do.
Is this like Quora? I don’t quite get it.
That's true for the ocean at large, this is about California's coastal areas.
“We’ve never needed it before, so why do we need it now?” (actual argument against it at my current workplace)
Are they competing with robinhood or are they trying to put pressure on E*TRADE and ameritrade? Why did they do this?
Interesting. My email was from 2.5 months ago, so maybe this changed recently.
I've seen this oft repeated bit about only margin account holdings can be lent out to shorts. Do you happen to know the regulation or law that says this is the case? Or is this another instance of drinking 8 glasses of water a day?
Then coast. Just do the minimum to keep your job until your vesting date.

The way to signal that you're unhappy is to give your notice the day of your vesting date. (Or give your notice so that you leave on your vesting date.)

I've seen worse. One CTO that I know of, after acquisition into a public company, got stuck with an idea guy who just monopolized his time pushing for dumb ideas that had nothing to do with what the company wanted. From reading between the lines, it sounds like there was a lot of verbal abuse going on.
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I'm not an Airbus historian but a quick scan of the Wikipedia page[1] suggests that at least some of your understanding is incorrect.

As far as I can tell Airbus started as a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers to allow them to compete with US manufacturers. Several of the cooperating companies that became Airbus such as VFW-Fokker and Aérospatiale were themselves the result of mergers.

The history of mergers at Airbus doesn't look much different from that of Boeing. Concorde was one of the first designs but Airbus was not created specifically to build it. It appears Airbus was instead created to build what the industry called an "airbus" which seems to mean "airliner".

> Are you suggesting that this storytelling is rather reversed, and that Airbus was the result of a natural, organic merge of several companies?

Yes, it appears that Airbus is the result of a natural, organic merge of several companies. Over many years and many layers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Airbus#Origins
I'm a little late to this thread, but given Adams is my favorite author and one who I've thought quite a lot about over the past 40 years, here's some observations:

The core theme to all his books is infinity. Adams instinctively understood what an infinite universe would mean, and used it liberally as a plot device that incorporated deus-ex-machina into the story itself. The original H2G2 story explored the fact that probabilities mean nothing when infinity comes into play, and his last examined an infinite multiverse in which "luck" is taken to its logical extreme, where changing the future means manipulating the various divergent paths of the past so that just the right thing happens at the right time and place in the present.

His talent was in following ideas to their absurd conclusions. The original series was supposed to be a bunch of different vignettes in which the Earth was destroyed at the end of each. But after writing the first, he thought, "What comes next?", and continued to flesh out the rest of story. This is a fundamental Adams hallmark, and the part of his writing I love most.

Douglas was incredibly prescient, but not in an Arthur C. Clarke sort of way. He was a gadget freak without doubt, but he didn't really understand technology at a deep level. What he did was to take what was already common knowledge - from quantum mechanics to evolution to computers - and extrapolated their concepts to their logical conclusions. If you were to have a computerized "book", then it would need to be such and such a size, and look and sound like so, and get regular updates over an pervasive wireless network, etc. It just made sense, and history has born him out. What's amazing is that he did this with a variety topics including Artificial Intelligence, and it looks like his thoughts are still incredibly applicable almost 20 years after his death.

It's sad that as times goes by, Adams work will eventually be shelved and as irrelevant as Jules Verne. Even today, the Guide is so like a modern smartphone, it doesn't feel to new readers as if there's anything novel or futuristic about it (like it was in 1978), which is too bad. But I guess that's the fate of anyone who writes stories incorporating technology.
"Fees apply for customers from outside El Cerrito"

I wonder why? Sounds like it's impractical to recycle.
Caster and trail are interesting concepts which make it so the steering automatically returns to straight. It is confusing that the casters on office chairs use trail, not caster. It should be intuitive why one can ride a bike hands free, but good luck on a bird/lime.