skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of disagree.

I was a huge Monzo fan, converted dozens of friends to it and was one of the first ones to get their beta current account (which I immediately started using as my main and only account despite it being in beta).

Nowadays however they seem to have trouble making profit, but instead of focusing on their existing customers they pour money into more marketing even though they can’t actually support all of them and now customer service response times are measured in days. They feel like a bullshit social media company with no real (aka profitable where people are happy to pay for it) product and are just trying to inflate their customer numbers no matter what.

Now I bank with Starling. They aren’t as “nice” as Monzo used to be but are definitely a lot better than the current Monzo both in terms of support and UI (Monzo redesigned their UI and it’s a shit-show now). They also offer business and Euro accounts if needed.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/reed-solomon/

There are many open source libraries.
Maybe you experience that conflation of concepts because other people have a different idea of what clean code means. IMO readability is just a side effect of clean code, and refactoring is part of the process of achieving it.
Something I have noticied about Firefox team, it's reporting bugs to them do actually means something. They do put effort to solve them.
Understandably there’s a lot of anger directed against the police and administrators that censored Dr Li. Of course they will be convicted of corruption or misconduct or something, but that just makes them victims too. They were doing their jobs exactly the way they were trained and incentivised to do it. I’m not justifying them, actively supporting a corrupt system is a corrupt thing to do, but them being punished by the system they worked for is bullshit.

I just hope Chinese people realise that the censorship of their protests about this is exactly the same as the censorship of Dr Li. It’s the same system run by the same people for the same reasons.

It’s crap like this that the HK protesters are trying to keep out of HK. Most Chinese mainlanders swallowed the party line about HK. I hope this gives them cause to reconsider that attitude.
Revolut is toxic:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/3/18248826/revolut-workplace...

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/revolut-trade-unions-labour-...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/02/28/revolut-fa...

Consider Transferwise as an alternative.
Many cities are in the middle of the desert: Dubai, Cairo, Doha, etc... Bonus point: Land is cheap. No trees to care about.
I do the same, but bi-annually. Less micro-managey for me.

Personally, didn't feel there was enough fluctuation to justify 3 month intervals.
These days there’s been a lot of movement towards cross platform C#, with .NET core etc. Whilst there isn’t any desktop application support (other than Xamarin), there’s a good ecosystem for ASP.NET.
Or in government dictates about scientific truth. The current U.S. administration is working hard to catch up. MAGA!
Asuming your from outside the UK

Id also open a second backup account with one of the high street banks Satandares fairly good on rates and Nationwide has a pretty good Cash ISA

Longer term I would go for ii if you want to get into Shares ISA's
Motion is a design tool like any other and can be abused if it's overused.

A button that's a bright color will draw the eyes to that particular element... until that element is everywhere on the page. At that point it just becomes visual noise. Passively animating icons everywhere are a terrible choice, as it doesn't give the eye any focal point.

Animations for icons are great if it's an ongoing task that will likely be completed shortly, but that's about it. You should use motion to draw the eyes to one specific thing on the page, and in general when doing motion design I try and only animate one thing on the page at once.
Wonder if this will eventually lead to the company splitting into separate consumer and enterprise companies as the overlap between the two halves grows smaller.
Genuinely curious ... do you not assign any value to having a backup outside of Amazon ?

AWS can certainly provide geographical diversity, but on the organizational abstraction layer, all eggs are in one basket, yes ?

Is having organizational redundancy something you assign zero value to, or something whose value conflicts with the egress costs so as to make it a difficult decision ?

Again, genuinely very interested ...
> other specialists can't fairly easily recognize as broken and exploit

Is there any supporting evidence for this claim? If I took an AES library and changed the order of some inner loop wouldn't it require extensive statistical analysis to notice the difference? Which means instead of throwing a bunch of compute at decrypting me, along with the masses 10 years from now, you would need to get a specialist to specifically target me and spend considerable time.
In as much as CAs are a specific type of systolic array, yes, I think we'll move more in that direction towards systolic arrays.
From dev perspective, SVG support on Android is surprisingly bad / hard to get right, same on native iOS
It is really frustrating that Apple does stuff like this.
I wonder what is more to blame: the government structure or the sheer number of citizens.

I assume the former but would be curious if anyone can make a compelling case for the latter.
Mmm, i would say eshoponcontainers ( Microsoft/microservices ) or Pacco ( devMentors).

Both are for microservices, but just replace microservice with module and it's the same thing. Just less of an devops overhead since it's in one application.

Please take time to familiarize yourself with the concepts first.

Domain events ( = broadcast important changes. Eg. PayPalPaymentConfirmed, CustumerEmailChanged ). Tip: this is important for having a lovely coupled legacy integration ( eg. For an anti-corruption layer )

Cqrs instead of inserts and edits in one IService/ILogic.

Handlers and Mediator ( c# library)

Events for combining logic ( something like Nats supports 5 million messages/ second)

correlationId and excellent logging should be your number #1 priority.

DDD is better for a NoSql backend than a Sql one. Although I prefer MartenDb though, using it by default as NoSql ( BSon) and using duplicated properties for performant searches, so I don't need a Search Service, NoSql allows you to quickly store your Bounded Contexts.

Accepting duplicate data on different domains and handling it with replaying events.

Database per service ( or at least table), do not integrate as you would do before in SQL.

Clean architecture is a good fit ( domain.core, domain.infrastructure, domain.application and if you want a microservice, add domain.api )

Event Storming for discussing new projects with domain experts.

If you want to read about it, try DDD quickly, it's quick to read.

There is one downside and that is that there are a lot of patterns. But coming from a guy that hated the word ( but applied the concepts), it becomes very quick to communicate with other teams and discovering their entire architecture within 10 minutes.

That's just my 2 cents though, since it's literally adapted to fit my needs.
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That doesn't seem to follow, what would prevent someone from doing exactly what you describe after creating a tampered video?
Agree, but I am going to make a prediction about what will happen to the executives of the company responsible for releasing this atrocious API. Absolutely nothing. They are going to continue to operate with nothing more than a slap on the wrist at worst.

And that is why applications dealing with sensitive data are still being produced by people with no clue about security. Because there are never any consequences for leaking sensitive data, there is zero incentive for companies to spend the money on hiring competent developers.
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there is a tradeoff here though: that floppy can be erased and rewritten easily. dna not so much.
Ford has you covered. Literally.

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/feu/en/news/2018/06...
You can generally only copyright the parts you change. Sort of like how Disney can copyright their version of Rapunzel, but they don’t own the fairy tale.

(Edit: that’s assuming you’re asking about a derivative work, which I may have misunderstood)
My daughter has the Osmo, which has a coding challenge. It's very similar to this, except it's just arrow tiles and jump tiles that you lay out in front of the iPad and then the character moves the same way.

I'm going to have her try this (she's five) and see if it's too hard since it requires reading (or perhaps it will force her to improve her reading skills!).
Why I left a comfy Developer job? What’s Next for me?
Yeah that's exactly it. Thanks!
What does it add?
> SVGs in general seem to have had quite a poor adoption rate

I don't know. I'm not sure what the real numbers are but in my experience SVGs are pretty commonly used for app and web icons because they are easily "themeable" (color changes etc.)
Overall a good well written article. I would have like to see some mention of the outdoor activities there, red rocks, Mt. Charleston etc. Also how the residents feel about the looming threat of water shortages(being its a city growing rapidly in the desert), How the city did after the 2008 housing crisis, (I assume pretty well?). Also Tony Hsieh's DTP(downtown project) and what residents think of it and its shortcomings.
hi Pat! I'd love to subscribe to your blog, but couldn't find an RSS feed. Could you add one? Thanks!

My wife has a consulting business, so forwarded your practical list of service to her.
https://fullfact.org/health/food-poisoning-US-UK/
The main (new) thing is that it was 100% CIA and German Intelligence owned, followed by 100% CIA owned. Not sure exactly how big of deal that really is...

(Edit: other than being a longtime profit center for CIA slush money.)

It's all a bit fishy, especially since it's admittedly sourced from within the agency. A lot depends on if it was an approved leak or not. With the divestment in 2018, and no other really new information, I would suspect sanctioned leak, as there was nothing to lose.

The question is what was gained by whom? And why the timing? There's nothing in the story that's pressing topical information.

Between the Amazon government cloud contract lawsuit, and being 1 week post impeachment, there's quite a few opposing angles that would all seem plausible. Wapo reward for some Agency cooperation maybe? Rabbit holes in every direction.
Maybe something that was quickly coded up in the beginning to allow testing by team members and later forgotten. Happens all the time, that’s why you do code review and have at least two people approve changes to master.
Cashback is very low in Europe (thankfully) due to the interchange fees being capped by law.

Frankly even in the US I personally wouldn’t bother using credit cards. The management overhead of maintaining one (you have to pay it off on time, have 2 balances to look at, etc) is IMO not worth the money.
Possible to use this type of service with another webhook / API a la Hubot for other services? (Say, Mattermost, for example?)

I was tinkering with an NLU-style chat bot (Rasa framework) that allowed for efficient querying of this kind of data via Github Wikis (and a mapping of where this stuff might sit), but quick storage is also a piece that would need to be fixed as lessons were learned. Definitely a problem area for us that is not just solved with auto-responder regex.
Given that:

a) Flying is basically the only practical option for long-distance travel (edit: by which I mean humans travelling to be at a destination, not cargo/goods).

b) Travel is a hugely important good for society (debatable, but consider: experience of diverse cultures, being able to visit friends / have relationships, generation of economic value by skill sharing / conferences / etc).

I would argue that anything that increases the amount people are flying / lowers barriers to travel is a good thing.

Obviously if we can lower carbon emissions from airlines then we should, but I'd much rather curtail ANY other industry that produces huge amounts of emissions before trying to cut down on human travel.
Are there places where you can use a debit card but not a credit card (or vice versa)? I've been to places that may only accept a particular card vendor (e.g. AmEx or VISA only), and places that are cash only, but never to one that disallowed only one type of card.
Conservatives and liberals have similar physiological responses to threats
Due to PSD2 every bank in Germany/EU has to offer APIs for 3rd parties to access the data, but they all do it in their own way so the open banking standards like the UK has are still better, but it's something.
The trust can get irreparably broken, though. This happened in eastern Europe, resistance was not an option so the result was widespread apathy and stagnation instead.
Curious, what’s card alias?
It wasn't intending to rhyme though.
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs164/

They have a game called "midterm" every few weeks where you can earn points towards a final score. :)

But more seriously, would gamification really help you at that point?
I don't think that's true. If you're familiar with functional programming concepts- nothing in C# is really that new. In my experience, C# is just getting easier to use as they add more language support for things you'd normally have to implement on your own.
GPT2 does have a goal in mind, namely an idea akin to "minimal surprise". The problem is that it doesn't have a model of the world its talking about, so it quickly says things that are locally sensible but globally inconsistent.
Best-practice Python tooling by comparing popular project templates
“I'd like Apple to add a native QWERTY keyboard to watchOS 7”
What is the baseline comparison here? If you asked a random 100 people on the street this question?
There's no "ISA debt". There's no interest racking up. You may not even pay anything if you don't get a well paying job.

Sure, an ISA from a bad program is not good. But at least you're not paying unless you get a well compensated job.
Big time, I use Firefox for dev work because the Safari tools kinda suck, but for everything else its amazing
Pretty good at having their feelings hurt also.
Wrong statement. Both btc and bsv are forks. But the latter just follows the whitepaper while btc core introduced anti-patterns like block size or segwit.
Sure you are. I often criticize both. But what you have to say needs to be based in something resembling actual fact, and it helps a lot if you avoid stating opinion as fact.

It also helps to be even-handed and call out when Mozilla and/or Firefox does something right as well as when they do something wrong.
Not anymore...
Can confirm on Monzo being awesome

1) Sign-up quick and painless (You need a UK address though)

2) Card arrived in a few days

3) Activation just requires tapping it to your phone

Going to have to check out these meetups, sounds like fun.
React is the frontend winner, Vue is good if you look for work in startups, Angular if you're more into enterprise work.

Backend... matter of taste. And each local / regional market is different. PHP has always been big and it has been making good strides technically (use Symfony or Laravel as a first framework).

Python is also a safe bet, Django and Flask are good framework options. Java Spring Boot and C# are good options if you want to work with larger companies. Node is also a good choice in terms of marketability, but I personally prefer one of the "conventional" back end frameworks.

Rust, Go, Haskell, Svelte, Phoenix / Elixir might be exciting, but in terms of market opportunities, it's still relatively small compared to the above. Maybe for when you have more expertise in 2 or 3 of the above.
Windows 10 does the same for most newly released executables.
> I just hope Chinese people realise that the censorship of their protests about this is exactly the same as the censorship of Dr Li. It’s the same system run by the same people for the same reasons.

They are so brain washed into believing that China is the greatest country ever. Even Chinese citizens in the US, despite seeing the drastic differences in the governance, human rights, free speech etc. still believe China can do no wrong.
I acknowledge the issues in the dataset and that it has a lot of stars on github because it's from Udacity; but calling it 'a popular self-driving car dataset' is misleading as it implies this dataset is popularly used for self-driving cars when it is in fact only a small dataset Udacity uses to teach the basics of training neural networks for self-driving cars.

I've been involved in the autonomous vehicle industry for a while and have been focused on perception for most of it. Most research papers will test their models on popular datasets for self-driving cars and show the results as a sort of benchmark. I've never seen this dataset mentioned anywhere. Heck the size of the dataset is an order of magnitude smaller than most of the popular ones as well.

This is just a github repo. That's it.
The German equivalent would be p. Adr. (although I haver never seen that much in the wild). z. Hd. is used in the opposite way, i.e. you write the actual recipient after it, not the address provider.
This isn't a work of utility, at least not for musicians. It is a probe of the legal concepts surrounding copyright law of music. Everyone agrees it is not right to copy another song note for note for the whole song, or to just make "small" changes to it. On the other end, everyone agrees that one can't copy a single note, or a pair of notes.

So considering a court case where party A wins a claim against party B for having the same sequence of four descending notes in roughly similar rhythms, is that really sufficient? These lawyers are essentially creating a thought experiment to help highlight flaws with the existing wording of court rulings concerning music.
Problem is that Revolut is an electronic money institution while Monzo is a bank. If they go bust with the former you’re out of money, with the latter the government will refund your money up to 85k£.
Really, QC was one of the cooler things Apple has done since HyperCard.

I wrote a video editor that allowed you to use it to build plugins with it: https://vimeo.com/121663242

Unfortunately, life got in the way of finishing it.
Is the retainer for a specific amount of time? I know my knowledge of systems I no longer work on fades pretty quickly once I no longer am actively working on it.
There’s the Gingery book series that starts by describing how to build a charcoal foundry and goes all the way to a complete machine shop.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Gingery
Wikis work pretty well for this, provided you use them.

If you can't be bothered to put together documentation as you build the software (sometimes I can't be bothered), you should at least make sure to document as you troubleshoot later so you don't keep making the same mistake. We store these as "Flight Rules" for our application (or error signatures, etc - whatever you want to call them) which provides the team a single location to start their search when things go belly up.

That way, when you run your post-mortem (you run these, right?) you have a place to store the error notes which eventually builds up into a really useful document.

Lastly, I'd say having a team norm that when one person does something the others should also be able to test it (and therefore have the right instructions to do so) is a good one for continuity.

EDIT: COuple other things that have worked:
- Checked-in ".dot" file GraphViz context diagrams alongside your repos are nice and easy to update
- Creating decision documents for a quick run-through of options with your technical team is a great way to run an effective process while also creating a searchable artifact for later, which is great for context / lessons learned.
And that tax would be absorbed unnoticed in the businesses' expense again right next to the reciepts for over-priced steak dinners and strip clubs. The whole reason airlines can get away with charging so much for business class is because businesses don't generally give a shit if their sales personal are charging them for in-flight champagne when they go to close a billion dollar contract. The truth is that you'll have to be more strategic than randomly throwing a tax at the problem if you want to change the behavior of entities who already dump hundreds of thousands on maintaing a private jet fleet so that a C-level doesn't have to wait in line at security.
I had nothing but good experiences with the DMV when I lived in North Dakota. Walk in, no wait, cheerful employees, walk out ten minutes later with a renewed driver's license.

Minnesota is the complete opposite. Walk in, wait an hour, every employee hates their job, then wait a month for the new license to come in the mail.
Tesla invents new aluminum alloys for die casting electric car parts
https://beautifulracket.com
Hmm, good to know!

According to their site 100% of my funds should be covered since they are required to hold any client funds in a separate account which they cannot use for anything at all.

https://support.monese.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115002002229-Is...

Not sure what the implications are with that vs being a "real bank"
no, it is targeting any type of accelerators & incubator. my fault, forgot it. Thanks a lot for reminding me!
> I think most of us would be fine with the NSA doing what they do if it was targeted

You think wrong. That fact that there are opposing world states engaging in this nefarious, oppressive, terrible acts and they're not all aligned doesn't legitimize any of these states' activities.

The NSA should essentially be shut down, or cut down to a small agency operating in public with a much more limited mandate. And no secret FISA courts all of that spy-movie crap. That should just stop, period.
Real Typing on an Apple Watch Display
Guess they didn't get the memo when they gave Houston 713 (though that used to cover a large area of Texas, so perhaps Houston had a much smaller rank then)
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Might be the same as I saw.

I debugged something similar in Angular about 18 months ago, didn't have time to report it and blamed it on Google not testing in other browsers.
Oh man, my current project is to automate accounting for my cryptocurrency trades in GnuCash. I trade very high volume, futures and options, so being able to run a cron job to automatically pull the data from APIs, calculate gains, and load it into the GnuCash schema will literally save me hundreds of hours per year in accounting overhead. Once it’s done I bet I could easily sell it for $100s to other crypto traders.
"The majority of Android devices" is a very wide net to cast.
A bit late but: instant money transfer are now possible at almost every bank in Germany.
Being built with the Catalyst framework which is only available in Catalina seems like a pretty good reason to only have this available in Catalina.
Thanks HN I just got my job at Apple without a college degree
Burlington VT Police Chief Resigns over “Misuse” of Social Media
That wasn't obvious by virtue of being a communist nation that censors free speech?

Edit: LOL at anyone that downvotes a post criticizing actual communism in 2020.
The thing is -- computers ARE event driven at the low levels.

Problem is most systems are designed to completely hide the event-driven nature of things.

The "nightmare to read, understand, debug and modify" is happily abstracted away and we have a nice safe environment to work with.

... and it then becomes much harder to support parallelism, error handling and responsiveness.

I think there may be a more nuanced solution.
Is that a firefox problem, or has lastpass just not made their extension mobile-capable?
Any way to add a "legitimacy" metric, whether that's notable companies, company success rate, total market cap of graduated companies, etc.
The flex/grid stuff in Firefox's dev tools is really nice.