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Ask HN: What is the need for Neo/Challenger Banks from a user perspective?
Other than a better experience (less time, better customer support, unified access to financial data within the same bank) while dealing with a bank, what is the need of a neo/challenger bank? I mean, I want to interact with my bank as little as possible. As long as I can access my money at any time using whichever means I want, what else do I need?

On the backend, I agree, there's ample much to be done to upgrade legacy banking systems and has its own challenges (opportunities).

What features or products, are you as a user, looking for in a neo/challenger bank that will significantly improve your banking experience? What will create a differentiated banking experience between neo/challenger banks. I cannot seem to think of many, honestly.
What if close people hold you accountable? You tell them: “hey, I’ll clean my room by Friday next week or I owe you (or your favourite organization) 20$.”
On IMDb it is only the rating system that is totally gamed, very warped. I usually look at the distribution of the individual User Review ratings. If they are mostly 10's and 1's the movie is usually crap (a large chunk of Hollywood 'blockbusters' are here), even though the aggregate rating is an 8+. Fairer distributions with 6, 7's and 8's and this might be worth watching. There can be spoilers in the review titles, though.

One thing that is fun to do after watching a totally crap movie - to make up for 2 wasted hours of your life - is read the 1-rated reviews. There is usually some brilliant sarcastic analysis there to make you laugh out loud.
Is Vim Not for You? A Beginner Guide
Playwright – Node Library to Automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit Browsers
"stimulants are a placebo" is a pretty wild take
If you set `yas-triggers-in-field` it will work with multiple nested expansions.
Intel’s 11th Gen Tiger Lake-U specs apparently leak online
Curious to know why MFA is only available in the most expensive category (PRIME)?

It seems like if I don't pay the full amount I don't deserve my budget to be as secure as possible. And this is a no go for me.
The Yang Gang is very active online and offline.

Source: I'm Yang Gang
I'm going to look at it, because I like magenta.
I had no position on Yang.

After a couple very negative experiences with the Yang Gang, where anything less than instant adulation must mean you're anti-Yang, I'm anti-Yang.
Not saying they should at all. Why pay to maintain a product line that isn’t financially viable?
How Safe Is Your Right to Choose – and to Work?
Yep, the McNeil/Lehrer news hour was what I grew up with.
That does make me think, I've only thought to look at it in my parents' old and new dishwashers, but they both had basically 'ads' that the detergent slot had cascade branding on it.

I always wonder how much P&G pays for that sort of placement.
According to the article, it's a classification scheme that doesn't work. It describes categories that real galaxies don't fit in.
Floating point math sucks ;)
Sorry you had a couple bad experiences with folks. I'm biased, but I think Yang's message is more positive than others.

Hopefully over time he can earn back your trust.
> It's something inherent to us as a species that we came together to create a resource for everyone to access and that it has such a high level of quality.

Oh man, if only it were true! If anything, wikipedia should be seen as an overcoming of our terrible human nature in making something good in the world, not as a property of humans. It is SO precious and fragile in our mortal hands.

The story of the Encyclopédie's origins is incredible and a great reminder that works like wikipedia are the exception, not the rule. The Philosophes worked very hard to get the volumes out and were under constant threat of censure. The very idea of the Encyclopédie was a direct threat to the Ancient Regime and it's publication was a direct cause (among many) of the French Revolution. A revolution whose effects we feel until this very day. The Encyclopédie was a lit cigarette in a powder cache. It's head editor, Diderot, is still a controversial person. If you can have haters and lovers nearly 250 years after you dance your last, well kiddo, you've done something right.

Even today wikipedia is vandalized by powerful interests and is routinely censored out of existence for many of the people of the world. Governments are still afraid of the free knowledge that wikipedia gives us. It is still a lit cigarette in a powder cache. But it is a fragile thing.

Cherish it: DONATE

https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Landi...
A voicemail. I frequently get calls, some of it may be a high priority, some of it not, no way to know, but I am not going to answer every call. If someone goes through the effort of leaving a voicemail I will interrupt my work and listen to it and decide whether or not it is more important than what I am currently doing.

I think it really depends on related context though. If I am working in an operational capacity then I may need to answer the phone every time it rings. If I am doing project work requiring a great degree of creative problem solving I am going to block off my calendar most of the day and prioritize a lack of distraction. My phone will be on "do not disturb" and I won't be looking at it. Impatience and interruption are the killers of creativity.
Google's giant map of brain connectivity is a beautiful tangled mess
I'd love to find an app that supports my use case. I already know my consistent monthly bills (house, electric, gas, water, sewer, internet, cellphone, student loans, etc etc etc) and I know how much I have left over for varying costs which are basically food/booze/entertainment. I'd like to make a budget for just that and have it let me know how much money I have left to eat/drink/play today, this week, this month. I already use mint and a spreadsheet to see the big picture, I don't want to connect to anything.
Online dashboard for tracking the worldwide spread of the coronavirus outbreak
That's surprising. I'm on Slackware and literally every one of Paradox's strategy games I've tried (Stellaris, HOI4, CK2, EUIV, Imperator, in that order) works flawlessly out-of-the-box.

Granted, I'm on Slackware64-current, so it's possible I've got newer driver/lib versions than Ubuntu 18.04. I'm also using FOSS drivers exclusively (primarily AMD, though I've played Stellaris on Intel GPUs with decent results, too), so if you're using Nvidia graphics, that might be a factor, too.
The thing I love about magit is that it taught me git. You can hit $ and see exactly what I’d bring run and many of the options are in the pop up.
https://www.beeminder.com/ automates this
>> APIs do not need to sign every response, they just need to properly use HTTPS.

> That doesn't make sense. The problem described in the article was that the request documents aren't signed, thus there is no way to verify if a response document was actually outputted by a web service.

Suppose that you ("System 1") is getting data from an intermediary ("System 2") which in turn is getting data from Twitter itself ("System 3").

Even if the intermediary System 2 signs the data, all that proves is that you got it from System 2. It does not prove that it was not tampered with when System 2 got that data from twitter directly, System 3. It would be easy for System 2 to tamper with the data, and come up with it's own signature.

If you, as System 1, want to confirm that the message you got from the intermediary (System 2) is authentically from twitter itself (System 3), you would need to get the signature from twitter directly. You would need to ask for twitter's signature (System 3's signature), not the intermediary's.

So system 1 will need to contact System 3 in order to validate the information it got from System 2. There's no way around this.
that would destroy the main principle of the Web2.x - "on Internet, nobody knows you're a human"
Obviously there are people involved in the process of building these desktop apps who aren't the ones who decide they'll be desktop apps. But somebody is making that decision. I'm asking what leads that person to make that choice. Is it beneficial to the restaurant as a business? How?

I'm not asking about why people are willing to do what their boss asks for or their customers offer to pay for.
Seems like a Mumble server accomplishes the same thing. You can get general channels with an open mic or push-to-talk, and you can also do open mic or push-to-talk with individuals. Mumble is free and open source and runs on a toaster-quality cloud instance with CD quality audio and no latency.

Kudos for someone doing the IRC->Slack but for voice chat/Mumble.
Looks fun but I guess physics based mechanics is what I'm more interested in. And I'm pretty sure this could still potentially be taken away from me on a whim. No DRM and stand-alone servers are a prerequisite, I'm not falling for this shit ever again. This move by Epic was truly the last straw.
There are a litany of lightroom competitors on macOS ATM: CaptureOne and Irridient Developer are probably my favourites, but there's also Luminar and a few I'm forgetting.
Why do orca grandmothers live so long? It's for their grandkids
> everyone but Google

... and the users of Google. Being able to see things like calorie counts directly in search results is awesome. Seriously, if you Google "banana bread" you get recipe ratings, cooking time, and calories right in the list of results. The UX is exceptional.
I think this is a great example of brutalist/ugly design where you go so far to the opposite on the aesthetic spectrum that your design starts to appeal to people.
I tried it out after seeing all the glowing reviews in this thread and it couldn't connect to ally.com.
No, because I can also communicate in real time over IM.

Additionally the social protocols are different. An email requires (some level of) planning and completeness. An IM can include just one question without reams of context, or it can involve a long detailed back-and-forth.

Questions over IM can be resolved in minutes or hours. Questions over email somehow morph into hideous monstrosities that waste days without anyone being satisfied with the answers.

And of course your mileage may vary, different organizations are different, etc...
> Also, I really can't afford to live in the woods for a few months

Super ADHD dude chiming in. If I went to the woods without meds, I'd just be hyper in the woods.

Very few people can truly manage ADHD without medication. Some say they do but are completely delusional. Psychotherapy is also essential since it helps to cope with the emotional and existential toll of the disorder. But, at least in my experience, it has negligible effects on the actual symptoms.
Public search engine is not an isolated, academic problem to solve - it's a never-ending war against large economic interests that want to undermine it. This dynamic has huge implications.

People imagine Google without ads will be better or paid search makes it better - they are mistaken, since the moment Google (or any top search engines) completely stops serving any ads (or equivalent - everyone using ad block that blocks search ads), all of the companies spending money on ads will instead spend those money on SEO against those search engines. i.e. Selling ads is an effective way to limit the amount of money poured into SEO. As long as the cost of ads is lower than the amount you need to spend on SEO to get the similar amount of traffic through organic results, companies would rather buy ads. This adds more incentive for Google and other search companies to focus on fighting against SEO manipulations also, since a successful SEO effectively lowers the ad price companies are willing to pay. Paid search would make this problem actually worse - people who can afford to pay correlate strongly with the target demographic companies want to show ads, and that means once people starts signing up for paid search, companies will throw more money at SEO.

Now, the doomsday scenario (of SEO winning and all organic results becoming bad) may happen anyway because SEOs end up winning regardless despite Google and other search engines fighting against it. For humanity's sake, we better hope that's not how it ends up. It's less likely given some of the structural advantage search engines have, but SEOs have advantages too, so at this point it's not at all clear one side will necessarily win or lose.
Why Continuous Learning via Training Programs Becomes Crucial?
You should never sign one of those unless your employer provided you with the skills to enter that industry.

But if you started the job already possessing those skills, then that's essentially your profession. Them asking you not to work in the industry for 12 months after leaving the job is akin to asking a lawyer or docter not to practice law or medecine after leaving a firm or clinic. It's a major overreach.
2019-ncov virus spread stats update (Global)!
Any one know if there is a text version of Intel's instruction set reference? Intel does provide a pdf, but I wish I can open a text file in vim and quick search through it.
I struggle with this as well. Now i prioritize all my tasks in my brain. Over the years tried quite a few systems: tiddly wiki, gtd, zero inbox and onenote. Nothing worked for me.
For the lazy who want quick references to each:

https://www.google.com/search?q=color+picker+4A412A

https://www.google.com/search?q=color+picker+FF00FF
> Perhaps try to unplug for some months in the woods and see if the symptoms persist? If they do, I stand corrected

If I break my leg, will you tell me to "think it out"?
The problem for me with changing my diet is that (a) it takes sustained concentration to change habits, and (b) it takes real planning and scheduling to do something like keto. Guess what I'm bad at, since I have ADHD?
The Logitech one I have from 4 years ago felt that way. Bluetooth is getting pretty rock solid now though. Even a cheap MPow Bluetooth audio jack for the Car works pretty well.
if they wanted to make tobacco packaging unattractive, why not have a plain white background crawling with cockroaches, rats, etc.? images of tapeworms?
Profitable companies fail as often as venture backed startups
Losing 250k in one year taught me there's actually something more important than profit...

No one likes failures, but they're part of the journey in building a business. I thought we got everything right, but somehow in-and-out of cash got the best of us

So a few months back, after picking up the pieces, we decided to build out a stupid simple product to remove complexities in financial data.

I wanted to make data talk to me like I was a puppy

So we landed on https://cenario.co, a new product we've just launched to solve my problem and hopefully yours

If you've got a moment, check us out, but also share your journey so far in business, because i'm eager to hear!
I still play quite a bit of SC2, but using bootcamp, the performance on my 15" MBP 2016 is wayyyyyy better than macos. (I've tried fiddling with settings on macOS, tried the Metal rendering API, and still it's not close).
The U.S. May Soon Have an Early Warning System for Active Volcanoes
I think the bigger thing for Open Source Chips is going to be the expiration of a ton of the x86 patents next year. That is going to free up a whole host of people to take a look at trying to build A better open x86 processor. Maybe then we can finally get to having a truly open source server from chip through software.
Is this now a positive metric? They could have had 6 million 5 years ago if they didn't delete quite so many.
I stayed at a Cottage that had Sonos installed in the whole house. Don't know why people would do that, felt so counterintuitive
If the design brief was to make something unappealing, that does indeed look like a total failure. The restrained typography and muted color give the product a more upmarket look.

What this really called for was the Impact font, Microsoft WordArt, gradients, drop shadows, and maybe some stock photography.

[Update: I have answered the call: http://presteign.com/files/skruf.jpg]
> So you cannot use HTTPs to prove to a third party a response or a request when using client certificates is genuine.

HTTPS is not sufficient for such third-party exchange, but they are necessary.

If you (say "System 1") ask for a twitter feed from an intermediary (say "System 2"), which in turn scrapes the data from twitter itself (say "System 3"), then HTTPS can indeed help. You can't rely on any hash or signature produced by System 2, because they could modify the data and make up a new hash. Instead, you would need to rely on the hash from System 3, to confirm that what you received from System 2 is authentic. Only tools like HTTPS, with their pre-installed security certificates, can do that.
Who was your instructor? Do you remember any of the old guard there? What project did you get into after training?

I got stuffed into Windows 95/98 and then sucked into XP when it blew up.

XP manager was Rohn Eloul (originally from Palestine.)

The only person I keep in touch with is Pablo Bley.

Don't remember names of anyone else. We must have worked on that same floor though.
This is sadly the case with lots of Linux tools, but it's not really man's fault. Next time you need help with a UNIX tool, try reading the OpenBSD man page instead and see how it compares.
> this was a _brilliant_ hack of the system

Jesus fucking christ. He fucking ran MD5 on some shit he pulled down from a web crawler.

Over-training a model on the validation set would be a lot more "brilliant", and even that is a dumb script kiddie level hack. Maybe finding an algorithm that computes weights s.t. the preimage of the training algorithm on the training set matches the result of training with truly random weights using the validation set. That could be a "clever hack". And even then _brilliant_ would be.... a real fucking stretch.
Yep, I don't disagree with any of that. What I really meant was that we'd be much better off if every kid had at least the baseline quality of parenting in upper-middle-class suburbs. Competition for even better parenting would still exist at the margins, albeit with diminishing returns.
I have ADD and consider myself somewhat successful (top 2% income earner) but always beat myself up for what I could achieve. My career has mostly been a long string of failures with me being extremely “lazy” but with a few home runs which is what I’m known for. I don’t really “work” more than 8 hours a week until I get passionate about something and then I crank on it without break until the kindling has been lit where then I hand it to others for the day to day. ADD has been very hard on my marriage too.
I mean, Greenwald has a lot of followers online and tons of liberal leaders supported him against this charge when they could have ignored it. I think some of the most vocal people are the most deluded... and the upper class Dem establishment incentivizes focus away from them and punishes focus on them. So you get a magnified effect
As far as I know, after working for more than 180 days in a tax year they become an employee.
It is a great thing they are not racists, or loaded with fake content. Viva!
Could be a malicious browser extension or virus trying to steal your payment or bank login credentials in a seemingly innocuous way.
he does but I am not sold on the benefits. A slack message "can we talk, call me" would be async and non-distracting (just turn off slack alerts when you want to focus). Using an online call rather than on/off (like a walkie talkie) then seems much of a muchness.
Rocket League Loses Mac and Linux Support
I don’t think that startup will succeed to the same degree as Wikipedia. Making an successful online encyclopedia isn’t a tech problem, it’s more of a community problem. And it’s stupidly hard to maintain such a vibrant community, moreso if for-profit entities are involved. I’ve seen so many cases where the contributors leave the website due to clashes with corporate members (see StackExchange for an example) In a for-profit service where content is made by contributors without any pay, there’s an inherent power imbalance between the contributors and the platform owners, and it’s natural that tensions will arise.
That's why these FANG company pay outrageous salary.
I have always found this type of behavior perplexing as well. I had a Kickstarter campaign a few years ago and one of my backers latched onto me like glue, he was repping and praising my product like it was god's gift to man, incessantly for weeks on end. It was flattering but also a bit confusing. I scrolled through his FB wall the other day and see that over the years he's done this pretty much over everything that's gained some traction in the media.

He became a "bitcoin zealot" when that was popular, he became a AI fearmongerer, now he's a Trumpian provocateur. There is no cohesion between any of these identities other than the fact that they are reflections of what's popular at any one point. To me it's facade he's constantly draping over himself but to him that is identity.

I think humans are evolutionarily tribal and naturally some members are going to be more dogmatic than others. Myself not exhibiting that behavior, it's somewhat odd to observe from the outside.
Yeah but Windows isn't inherently better at gaming because it gives something the other platforms don't (DirectX12 can easily be replaced with Vulkan)
It's a matter of the market choosing it's main Target and sticking to that
Not to be a jerk but... why? At a certain point none of your customers are running 32 bit hardware, so which parts of your toolchain/dependency tree are so ancient or difficult to alter that you remain compiling to 32 bit?

And while you're right it was deprecated immediately, I do recall universal binaries were soft and then hard deprecated some years ago but I could tell you the exact date. I know there's a lot of vintage software that would never be updated, but like, a good chunk of stuff seems to have been new development or continued support.
I wasn’t calling out progressives in particular, just using that as an example. Feel free to swap out progressive with Trumpster or libertarian. This isn’t a critique of political manipulation or abuse. It’s a comment on where we’re going as a society. We’ll gladly accept things like this for just a bit more convenience and dopamine.
The 2020 State of Independent SaaS
Facebook Training Robots to Navigate Without a Map
I use CLion almost exclusively and I use shift-shift to find things so often that I have basically no idea what file anything is in.

Is there anything free that even begins to approach the quality and accuracy of the JetBrains Rust analysis plugin? If so, I’d love to know about it and start using vim.
Security engineer here. Why?

US soldiers fight in combat knowing failure to obey orders can land them in jail for years. The US Code of Military Justice is not fun, and you sign up for it when you join implicitly. Is there an armed service staffing problem?

Our general US legal system is flawed, but cops can go to jail for ethical violations and criminal behavior for actions that are integral parts of their job function. Is there a cop staffing shortage?

I have argued this, ironically, about US Congresspeople: if we have a volunteer army with stringent legal codes with special punishment by virtue of their job, serving us, why are other classes of people not worthy of higher standards and why do we suspect people will shy away from that? How can we pay others more for higher probability of incompetence and less repercussions?

I am not trolling. When I suggested this shows the power of commitment in volunteer armies and I wish Congress had that kind of self respect people tell me I'm nuts. I would like a CTO and security industry jobs to mean something.
It's true developers and so started supporting Linux and macOS more and more
But considering Epic used to be a Linux supporter it's sad to see it get outright removed from RL