skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That education, for a child or an adult, is primarily what one gains from a <$1k trading account. That, alone, is worth more than $1k.

Also, one need not trade a small account intraday. I make small trades, but they are always with a multi-year perspective. Give me limit orders and small commissions, and I am happy.

(N.B. I use a different broker/don't have a first-hand perspective on Robinhood.)
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"Though a pure, unadulterated whiff of outer space is impossible for humans (it's a vacuum after all; we would die if we tried)"

Not immediately. Jim LeBlanc has survived a brief full decompression accident in 1966. Still it's probably not possible to smell anything that way.
And you managed to both completely avoid my point and bring up generational politics.
Also, what is it when everyone owns them (in varying ownership percentages of course) via index ETFs?
The margins in global logistics right now are razor thin. Large companies have been outright failing in the last few years.

Maersk is probably more concerned with survival.
Anything which has been part of our genetic make-up for more than a few million years of evolutionary history can no longer be considered a disease.

See also: our inability to synthesise some vitamins, our (more or less) unmovable ears, and how we can no longer asexually reproduce.
Sure thing. Feel free to contact me via email or twitter DM if I can be of further service.
Different registries have different policies about where the registrants are located. It's least complicated to manage blocks that are in the registry appropriate for your entity's location.

That said, I thought all of the legacy blocks were ARIN blocks, since they actually predate ARIN and the regional registies; but ARIN took responsibility for managing them. (I could easily br wrong)
I'm a QA engineer and this is freaking infuriating. I just went on Linkedin and 0 QA engineers. Just some QA associates that have no tech backgrounds. And one QA Engineer opening. I wonder how long it's been open? How does a trading platform not have a big team of QA engineers? Some dev managers, devs are so freaking arrogant. They think since they aren't coding, they aren't smart and they aren't important.

This isn't the first time that it's happened. Robhinhood should have been prepared. This is unforgiveable.
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My bank lets me download bank statements in several formats, CSV among them - not entirely plain text, although embedded in it; seems like the best choice for the usecase.
First and critical: if you are hearing the information for the first time during your professor's lecture, you don't need to learn how to take better notes, you need to learn how to take a college level class.

1) Before the lecture on a topic, read the text on the topic and highlight the key points;

2) Before the lecture on the topic, transcribe your text book highlights into hand written notes in a notebook you will take to class. Leave space for comments and more notes to be added during class.

3) During class, you already have been exposed to the topic twice, so participate in the lecture! Your notes serve to refresh your memory, where you are asking for clarifications and adding emphasis on the points your professor stresses.

4) The day before the exam, transcribe your hand written notes with in-lecture additions to index cards with a question on one side and the answer on the back. Share these with other classmates and quiz them.

5) Get a 4.0 GPA and live on the Dean's List like I did.
I guess he means before you install the extension.
No it doesn't. You can have as little as few hundred dollars.
This problem is universal. The solution is to use --words instead of -s single letter options. Thankfully, git has a good manual that covers all the options:

https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
I write/edit on Wikipedia most days. I've contributed to over 100 English articles, on topics ranging from science to music to art. In my experience, science/mathematics articles are VERY high level, often graduate-level content, and they can use some softening of jargon and domain-specific verbiage.

In the arts and music, many paintings, musical compositions, etc. don't have much written, or it's poorly written, by a non-English writer, etc.

I tried to write an article about my college a cappella group and it got rejected for not being famous enough. I thought that was a bit silly because my group was just as famous as random tiny towns in the middle of nowhere...shrug.

I'd encourage you all to join Wikipedia and make edits to anything you see that's amiss!
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If I were a Japanese retail investor in 1990 in his 30s, what would have been the best strategy? Just stay out of domestic markets and focus on areas with potential for growth?
Yes, though to explain swinging a referendum (or a single state in a US election), you don't need mind control.

Facebook ran an experiment in 2010 showing they can get out the vote via the news feed:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-a-facebook...

All an advertiser needs to do is have a way of targetting who they want to get out and vote, and get that to happen.

It seems at least possible this happened with the 2016 EU referendum in the UK, and was one of a bunch of factors which swung the result - Dominic Cummings, who ran one of the campaigns, certainly claims that it significantly helped (search for digital in https://beta.spectator.co.uk/article/dominic-cummings-how-th...).

I'm reasonably sure they were using ML to work out a set of factors for who voted which way on the referendum from other data (answers to the Euro football contest), then targetted ads at those factors. It was pretty clever.
One of the main features of the product I work on is data extraction from a specific type of PDF. If you want to build something similar these are my recommendations for you:

- Use https://github.com/flexpaper/pdf2json to convert the PDF in an array of (x, y, text) tuples

- Use a good text parsing library. Regexes are probably not enough for your use case. In case you are not aware of the limitations of regexes you may want to learn about Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages.

Here is the section of our Dockerfile that builds pdf2json for those of you that might need it:

# Download and install pdf2json
ARG PDF2JSON_VERSION=0.70
RUN mkdir -p $HOME/pdf2json-$PDF2JSON_VERSION \
&& cd $HOME/pdf2json-$PDF2JSON_VERSION \
&& wget -q https://github.com/flexpaper/pdf2json/releases/download/$PDF... \
&& tar xzf pdf2json-$PDF2JSON_VERSION.tar.gz \
&& ./configure > /dev/null 2>&1 \
&& make > /dev/null 2>&1 \
&& make install > /dev/null \
&& rm -Rf $HOME/pdf2json-$PDF2JSON_VERSION \
&& cd
I don’t actively trade stocks but I’ve looked at it. What exactly does robinhood do that etrade didn’t? (Other than the shiny app and front running being a formal part of the business model.)
I recently amazed several non-tech friends by mentioning that I, personally, have edited Wikipedia. It's not something a lot of people think of as something they can even do. They're not fixing typos, let alone making substantive edits or writing new articles.

I realize "do most people edit Wikipedia" is different from "are most Wikipedia edits from casual users", but it was an eye-opening interaction for me.
I actually don't think any sort of gatekeeping to do whatever the hell you want to do with your money is the broker's business. Sure, don't allow naked calls and other margin shenanigans, but for the most part - these are fully functional adults - if they decide to gamble with their money, so be it. Let them do it.
See https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v...

> The median incubation period was 3.0 days (range, 0 to 24.0 days)

Edited my post to include that source
This is good, but I wish we aren't so dependent on the largesse of billionaires for every major, planet threatening problem there is to solve
Typically such a protein would be delivered via infusion (IV), I believe.
honestly, it the question shouldn't matter. no matter what aging really "is", it is still a universally horrible affliction that leads to nothing but increasing lower qualities of life those who are afflicted by it, and so should be dealt with as such
Given that it is politics, there could not be no scandal at all, however it be framed. I can't read it, so I won't say there were none present, though.
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They lowered this to 2k a while back though.

EDIT: It seems it's completely removed now.
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=4969
so again

you want me to risk > $1000 when I don't know what I'm doing with a real brokerage that I don't know what their benefit is over something like Robinhood because.... ?

I'm willing to loose a couple hundred to learn and understand something vs giving someone I don't know thousands and "trusting" their opinion.

More so - testing the waters myself may not make me as good as someone who does this for a living - but maybe after a few hundred and a few months, at least I have a better understanding of what a real brokerage tells me to buy than to just blindly say take my money and quadruple it.
What I'm most interested in is the hospitalisation rate and if we can slow down infections enough for hospitals to be able to cope.

I think the death rate will ultimately depend on whether everyone who needs hospital treatment can get it. And that's why I think the Diamond Princess may not be representative of what happens in the real world.
The fallout will either fall on a second term or during someone else's first term. Either way the administration doesn't care.
Brokers make little of their profit from commissions. Even legacy brokers like Schwab. They make their money on advisory services and margin lending.
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Not sure if arguing for plan9 simplicity by pointing out bashisms designed to emulate how one might use sockets on plan9/rc is the best strategy.
According to this the range is 0-24 days with a median of 3 days. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v...
I'm at a small ~500 attendee conference today and I'd say only about 2/3 of everyone bothered to show up. We're here in NYC where we just had our first covid19 cases.

People are scared.
When you go to the grocery store, allow a few extra minutes, take them out of the cart and have them help you.

I need three apples. Thanks, that's one. How many more do we need? Now we have three. One Two Three.

It gets you talking with your child more. It gives them confidence that they are contributing to a real task. Kids love to be useful. It's up to you to pick and choose those tasks in the supermarket, and everywhere else where they will be successful. Be patient, step back, and let them do as much as they can.
Like the Judiciary is independent of the Executive and provides a check and balance to its power?
Bingo. We have a winner.
I used to hand write all my notes and then never even look at them. The act of writing them was what was helpful.
Bank of Japan had been achieving new heights of monetary policy year after year for the last 30 years with little impact on real economy.
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Hey HN!

I wanted to share a library that I’ve been working on for a few months now called midori. This library was built with three.js and uses WebGL. It allows users to use their own images as animated backgrounds for their websites.

The primary features supported by the library are:

- Configurable camera
- Animated transitions between backgrounds
- Post-processing effects & particles

Implementation-wise, there's a lot of interesting stuff accomplished via camera manipulation, shaders, and tweening.

I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks for taking a look, it means a lot!
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So every safety in our country and economy is now disabled, air and water regulations food regulations,taxes cut to flatline levels for industry, all in the name of profit. Now the monetary system is being tampered with further.

All reserves are gone. Imagine trying to climb out of this ditch if something really bad happened (like say a million people die).
> what would have been the best strategy?

Put your money into the USA.
Erlang is like Bugman from the Nightmare Before Christmas. It is literally made out of microservices at every level.

Microservices are a design philosophy that people confuse as a deployment strategy.
I really hope this got laughed out of court as hard as possible. It should only be a trademark issue when they're likely to be confused. That's not remotely likely here.
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TIL that when astronauts are outside the ISS, space-borne compounds adhere to their suits causing a distinctive scent when they return to the station. The smell is so unusual that NASA reached out to a top fragrance maker to re-create the odor for its training simulations.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/fcjqgx/til_t...
Hey now! SPY is up 0.01% at the news!
A free paper trading account seems more useful for that.
It can't test hosts that aren't on 443 though, regardless of access to the relevant port, e.g. (obvs. elided mydomain here.)

$ curl -XPOST -d 'fqdn=pop3.mydomain:995' https://unboundtest.com/caaproblem/checkhost
invalid name pop3.mydomain:995
404 page not found

$ openssl s_client -connect pop3.mydomain:995 -showcerts </dev/null 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -text -noout | grep -A 1 Serial\ Number | tr -d :
Serial Number
0325f31485b9c0f393e27b00e4678e881e3c
Yeah, classic seagull management. Come in, flaps and make lots of noise only to fly off before the shit happens. An issue that plays out in many ways. Been something I've noticed happen for a couple of decades now.

But it's just short-term thinking allowed to play out as it looks good on the balance sheet and dividends. Death by accountant is a thing.

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Ok, so if we switch to glass for everything, how much extra fuel do we burn, and how much carbon do we pump into the atmosphere, to move all that extra weight around? Glass is really, really heavy compared to plastic. Does the savings from being able to easily reuse glass more than offset all that extra fuel burned? What about broken glass and recycling? Do we still not bother recycling the glass? Glass requires extremely high temperatures to create and form, far higher than plastic. Making those high temperatures means burning more fuel. If we're too stupid to recycle glass effectively, just like we are with plastic, then that means we need to create all virgin glass, and we also need a lot of sand to do it. From what I've read, the world is running out of usable sand.
Smugmug?
Correct, here is their Kafka-based stream processing package that presumably ties everything together: https://faust.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
People have faith in the Fed? You are right though, this is political to slow a market correction to where it actually should be. We just keep spinning more plates. What we really need if fiscal policy plans, not monetary. We have so many zombie companies that are on life support and we need to let them die but it won't happen with 0% rates.
Buy as many levered Japanese Government Bonds (JGBS) as possible!

0.67 Sharpe Ratio from government bonds in local currency from 1990 to 2000.
The cruse ship had 135 infected on February 10th, jumping to 634 on February 20th. So, most of those 700 are recent infections. The actual long term death total for the cruse ship is unknown, but should include people who died in their home country after returning.

The good news is assuming you trust China’s numbers new infections are down massively from a February 2nd peak. Deaths in China are also down significantly but less so, again assuming you trust their numbers.
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Yes. That's what firewalls are for!
This is a pretty naive take on the subject, I think it's a much deeper problem on many level (moral, philosophical, economical, &c.), if we "cure" ageing tomorrow it'll concern everyone, even the people who don't want to be part of it. It's as if oil and fracking companies told you to shut up about pollution and just "keep your decisions for yourself".

People would be much better off by focusing on their quality of life rather than their lifespan. One is a very actionable thing, the other one is a pure gamble (and ""curing"" it is 100% sci-fi for now). Or as Seneca would put it "But tell me, pray, do you consider it fairer that you should obey Nature, or that Nature should obey you? And what difference does it make how soon you depart from a place which you must depart from sooner or later? We should strive, not to live long, but to live rightly; for to achieve long life you have need of Fate only, but for right living you need the soul."
> Depends on your definition of 'hypnosis'.

Well, yeah.

The best book on hypnosis I know of opens with one of the co-authors stating that "there's no such thing as hypnosis" and the other stating "everything is hypnosis".

> The former is ridiculous ...

The "clearly and repeatably demonstrable" definitions are ridiculous?
According to my fancy math based on numbers from Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard[0][1], we're closer to a 7% mortality rate

[0] direct link: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...

[1] posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475060
As someone else alluded to, so you don't have to move later as you grow. Moving isn't the end of the world (although from what I understand RH charges $75), but it's just one more thing that's annoying to do.

If you want to use one of the better tools, see TDA with ToS. Schwab has great service and is a great bank for a one stop shop kind of experience. IB is one of the least expensive ways to trade if you meet their minimums.

RH OTOH has shown time and again they play a bit too fast and loose for comfort when money is involved. They have had to pull their entry into banking a couple of times now. The app seems to have issues at the worst times. From what I have read, support is abysmal. Not someone I want to deal with when it comes to my money.
I always try to translate into my own words what the person said when they take a break. This way I make sure I understand and also have questions if I misunderstood something.
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It is weird for me to read this. On the surface, it is factually correct, but I am not absolutely certain the conclusions drawn are valid.

Your initial paragraph seeks to address point raised by others that FED is running out of ammunition and you list of Japan as an example with other pointing out the price Japan paid for that pollicy.

I suppose FED could buy all US equities on national credit card ( and if you think about it, something similar to it happened only few months ago ), but do you think it is a prudent move?
Well, I am using it. In the 90's, anyone could register an IP block.
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They may be insured. However they may also have a large deductible and need to eat quite a few costs.
Neat! interesting to see your context management system. Thanks for sharing your notes. I like to sketch ideas, so use pencil so that I can erase and refine. Curious, how do you manage information from digital content, e.g., notes from reading technical/research articles or blog posts?
At this point Wayland is nothing more than a 10 year old, over-hyped, tech-demo. Why should Nvidia care about sub 1% of a sub 1% market?
I'm 100% understanding of brain farts. It's just that to do so on something as fundamental and basic as monetary versus fiscal policy, to me feels like, a mistake a non-layman wouldn't make.

It's not like you can chalk it up to an issue with similar spelling either. 'Monetary' and 'fiscal' are written completely differently.
Aren't significantly fewer (tens of millions?) people taking the mortgage interest deduction due to tax reform that doubled the standard deduction? Doesn't seem to have driven a collapse in housing costs.

We need more density in low-density areas of cities. Allow people to have multi-family homes if they choose it.
I was honestly amazed to hear that it's still going on. Everybody knows that conferences are giant petri dishes. I know some people who just book time to get sick after a major conference.

I'm sure that a ton of people have bet money on SXSW, of course, so doing the right global thing could be very painful personally. But I think that's exactly the kind of thing government should step in and solve. However bad not doing SXSW would be for the local economy, a pandemic would be way worse.
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I strongly encourage people to reduce / remove news consumption as well.

News is not a good way to learn about the world - news is precisely what is unusual. Consuming news gives you a distorted sense of what real life is like.
I tend to agree with allowing people to do whatever they want with their own money, but I just cant picture a broker like IB for example allowing this sort of thing without much more serious vetting of the client.
It reduces volatility due to a unknown and unquantifiable risk in the short term to prevent panic. Obviously if the apocalypse hits the market will still tank, but if catastrophe doesn’t happen then the unneeded loss is prevented.
Prudent move? It's the only move. If it's either that or a recession, then they will do it, consequences be damned.
Related: I noticed Vanguard's site was having trouble handling requests last week. It was generally slow and would frequently error out or log out. The site is running well now and it appears at least part of the solution was to switch back to a previous version of the UI. Maybe two years ago they switched to a more responsive, web 2.0-ish interface (which, to my eyes, significantly reduce the information density of their pages in favor of large text and looser spacing). This says to me that someone implemented a poorly performing UI on top of a well-performing backend. Would be interesting, though unlikely, to get a technical response from Vanguard on what happened.

My company's 401(k) provider's site was also experiencing significant issues. Seems like last week would have been a fun one to be a system administrator in the investment/brokerage sector.
Oh my goodness, this whole thread is deja vu from some code I wrote to parse my bank statements. I arrived at exactly the same solution of "pdftotext -layout" followed by a custom parser in Python. And ran into the same difficulty with tables: I wrote a custom table parser that uses heuristics to decide where column breaks are.
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