skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife has a horrible time with HSBC, and I always get a bit aggitated when I see people recommend them, so I'm glad to see other people sharing their horror stories about them.

Her situation is that she visits family in Canada once a year. They won't make a note of her being out of the country if she calls them beforehand. The fraud people then call her if she needs to use her card at unsociable (for Canada) hours and never leave answerphone messages. When they do get her, they require her to answer security questions without identifying themselves first. If she calls them, the person she speaks to has no way of knowning if anyone has been trying to call her for any reason.

They are, in my opinion, the "Worlds worst Bank"
ryan_f, I agree, it's disheartening… and not by design. We've been trying to hire somebody to develop new features for Freckle for some time; we must have gone through 5 freelancers who became flaky or committed broken work. (Note: I don't do ANY development on Freckle any more.) But, if you're still a customer, you'll probably have received some newsletters lately full of improvements & new goodies. My husband/partner Thomas has been working on it.
unrelated, except an HSBC rant:

i opened an account online (US) in ... 2006? Transferred some money in - maybe $500? I don't know for certain because... read on.

In 2008 I went to check my balance. Whoops... can't remember my password. Whoops - you tried 3 times and we locked you out. Whoops - our 'internet banking people' aren't available 24/7. 3 days later - whoops - we'll have to sent you something via the postal mail to reset your password (after I'd already answered 5 ID questions on the phone). 7 weeks later... nothing in the post. Call up - resend via post. 6 weeks later - nothing. "Sorry, there's nothing else we can do for you." "Can I have my money back?" "Sorry, we can't confirm who you are".

2010 - Letter from HSBC closing my account for inactivity. So... they know how to get a physical letter to my house. They know who I am. They know how much money I have (and have reported $1 interest to the IRS for 1099 tax forms filed every year), but they can not see fit to actually deal with me as a customer, even after holding my money for 6 years.
"A commenter mentioned using Dropbox for synchronization as well, which seems attractive, but I’m not sure how clean that would be on headless Linux servers." Dropbox does work pretty nicely on headless Linux servers, you just have a daemon running constantly with none of the GUI extensions. I use it for keeping some code in check.

Nice list of things to try, I don't use vim but I've been putting off doing 3 of them (caps remap, iTerm and zsh).
Yes, I used the search box, which was also a bit misleading as autocomplete had a limited number of auto-choices, none of which were that film. I just searched using the word quest and hit Return to press my luck.
Old Chinese Man Moves Objects with Qi (Chi) Energy
I only knew his content.

A true loss.
This is awesome. I'll have a cheaper ARM-based EC2 host please.

Has anyone considered that this could also be for ARM-based servers instead of just Kindles? :-)
Speaking of good design... I had to scroll down past the entire "first page" of that blog in order to read the content I was after.
Between malloc and garbage collection is obstack. Allocate by pointer bump and free a complete stack at once. For example, used in compilers for AST nodes etc.
Very sad, the few times I chatted with him on IRC he seemed very smart and wise, RIP.
I agree with you about the silent majority - that's the only reason I bother to show up here and argue. To represent. I surely don't believe I'll actually convince one of the aggressors that they're wrong. Ha!

It's still kind of funny, though, to watch them twist and pivot their arguments, moving the goalposts and on moving sands, in order to prove that they are more "rational" than we are, we evil people who sell things.
doesn't instead of dosen't
I know this is uncharitable, but after reading your post, I immediately envisaged a future where locks are web controlled, and the security of people's front doors relies on a shiny Web 2.0 site not having an XSS or CSRF somewhere. Uh oh.

That said, I would be really interested to see a shot at something new in this area.

Most of the current companies follow the OEM -> reseller model. Their customer is actually building and access maintenance companies, not the end user.
No, I think the iPad + optional Logitech keyboard-case is a better solution. The price of a Chromebox is very wrong for what you get out of it. Even a Nexus 7 I'd choose before a Chromebox.
I second this ... every job I've had (with the exception of my first programming job) has come through contacts made at meetups/user groups. Although, secondary to that has been keeping up a laundry list of secondary projects that I work on on my own personal time.
patio11 could make $100k appear -- without strings -- by waving his Magic Product Wand, and producing 10x-20x value for his customers (at least!!), to boot.

Why, then, do you think he should take investment?
Actually I'm not sure which of the twelve requirements are being violated here. They could be compliant with part 3 ("Protect stored cardholder data") in their network. If the cookie is secure and only transmitted via SSL, they have a case for being compliant with part 4 ("Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public networks"). Part 9 doesn't really apply here. Part 6 might or might not.
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>you should not sacrifice your abstractions in favor of performance

I only point out that a list of optimization techniques that advocates nothing will be different than a list of optimization techniques that advocates certain abstractions at the expense of performance. And there's nothing sad about that.
Their (Smile) online banking is "not bad for a financial institution", and if that sounds like damning with faint praise ...

Particular nits are:
- pressing the browser 'back' button triggers an immediate logout
- they don't use email for anything except to tell you they've sent you a "secure message" that you have to log in and read
- no data export (though there are greasemonkey scripts)

Their customer service I've found to be fine unless you want anything usual, complicated, or to be done in a timely fashion. Much like any large company, really
Nobel Prize (Economics) for matching kidneys to donors and students to schools
I would think it's in Amazon's overall interest, not necessarily in Amazon.com's interest, to further ingratiate themselves in the developers community.

That being said, much of the TI development kits are sold at-cost, or even nearly below (see the launchpad series, $5 development boards), so it may not be as economically feasible for Amazon to match that pricing, giving that selling bulk chips aren't their business.
Ditto. I have had an account with them for some years, and have always been incredibly pleased with their customer service.

As another commenter wrote, their online banking is "primitive", but it's usable.
I'm curious as to how Referly is able to link commissions off of Amazon purchases to their users. AFAIK, Amazon doesn't let you do sub-id tracking, only site-wide affiliate tracking (amazon.com/123/?tag=referly-20)
It was, though.

I loved hearing your experience and I thank you for sharing. There is a difference between saying "your experience is wrong" and saying, as you did, "your experience is incomplete." You have evidence that her experience is incomplete: your own experience contradicts it.

We should care about your experience. Any theory of the world that fails to entertain it as possible is, at best, incomplete. I don't see anything wrong with saying so.
I just tried this, and it doesn't work as expected. With a stroke it might, but with fill, it leaks.
I don't think it was aggressive, but if you did, I apologize.

Some beliefs are so wrong that they need to be put down -- not violently, but with a wave of proof so it's clear that they are false.

The belief, for example, that people don't need or want help implementing is one of those. It's just so wrong, it can't possibly be allowed to live.
I've done a few skydives so I can speak from experience - the rig that your canopy / emergency reserve is attached to resembles a giant backpack with a chest strap, and two straps that go around your thighs, and when you deploy the main canopy, you will feel the rig exerting a braking force on your chest, shoulders, and thighs. It's a lot like slamming on the brakes in your car at 60mph+. If your jeans are too tight-fitting you may get a rash, or it may just be really uncomfortable.
I can confirm this.
I have used Angellist successfully. Both talking to several startups as well as getting hired.
The hidden (and incredibly expensive) relics of gaming's golden age
The hidden (and incredibly expensive) relics of gaming's golden age
Actually, you aren't meant to store credit card data when it's not necessary. And credit cards are meant to be encrypted at rest - in other words, on encrypted storage, with a split key management system.

None of these things are being done.
Hello Dasher.
> eating meat on the well-done side

I'd rather be dead
In our industry, I've seen labor arbitrage ratios as low as 150% and as high as 2000%, so that's not a very good way to gauge pay - it depends on your market, your niche in the industry, and the risk that your employer takes on.

You're making a reasonable wage assuming a below average cost of living.
What would we do without government committees, and how did we ever survive without them?
This post is partisan and too short on supporting facts. The author claims that a couple of goofy public statements by 3 lawmakers mean they don't "get science". That's 3 members on a committee of 40. Also, the scientific debate over climate change is far from settled.
That's easy to solve, if they get confused when you ask for proof, just ask them for a number you can call them back on and the reason they're calling. However, it's easy enough to type, but harder to remember to do in practice though.
This is a worthy attempt, but the horse has already left the barn. Programmers everywhere understand big-O to mean what big-Theta should mean. And since O is easier to type than Θ and Θ is the more useful concept, this will not change.

Given that language is defined by usage, you need to figure out what usage the other person likely has, and work with that. I will happily use the correct notation with people who understand it, but don't bother complaining about incorrect use of the notation from people who will never have reason to care.
> It is arrogant to assume a single countries path is correct vs a much older civilisation, given that single country has not stood the same test of time.

Once again, the point flew over your head. This has nothing to do with correctness, it has to do with maintaining America's global hegemony.

And Arab "civilization" is a tenuous concept. Many modern Arab countries didn't exist until less than a century ago. Given the horrific exploitation the Arab peoples suffered at the hands of Europeans, I'd say that their countries haven't withstood the test of time very well.

> Only that a meaningful debate could only be made with you, were you open to learning the full history and reasons behind the current problems. After reading your comments so far it is apparent you aren't open to learning these things.

The only thing that's apparent is that you're completely misunderstanding the purpose of my initial comment. It wasn't intended as a normative dismissal of Arab or Muslim culture, it was intended to be a suggested improvement of America's geopolitical current strategy.
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It irrationally aggravates me when people say this, but: This. Rights are inherent to people, not something granted to them by the whim of people with power.
May be one should put it different: If connection lines get interrupted by tornadoes, storms, what ever, would this topic then qualify your subjective criteria? Or even more to the point, would you support a HTTP error code 456 indicating service interrupted by climate change?
Try listening?

If you are wrong because of things you cannot know from personal experience, as long as your opinions are formed from personal experience they will be incorrect. So, seek out other people's experiences even if, especially if, they conflict with your own.

Though now I'm starting to sound like a stoner. "Broaden your mind, dude..."
That's a nice approach. Not suitable for all situations but definitely a good way to bag your dream job.
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All that for being mentioned in the same breath as Neil Armstrong..
Why this EU meeting on FRAND in open source?
I would imagine they publish papers that are reviewed by other academics. It is possible to use their algorithm on a dataset without entering a contest to do so.

It's a little like asking why Electrical Engineering PhDs are not designing the new iPhone (probably some are involved somewhere, I know). Research and applications are two separate endeavors.
Also agree on side projects. In my opinion both show eagerness and give people the opportunity to get to know you/your work so it lessens the risk of hiring.
> All the evidence from kaggle indicates that deep domain knowledge is not required

That's irrelevant, data scientists don't do data mining contests for a living. In my experience finding the right question to answer is a large chunk of data science, and that is never spelled out for you like it is in a contest.
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Hell with the whole idea of getting out of the gondola, its getting in the damn thing in the first place that would have stopped me.
Actually, a classic ad hominem would be "you shouldn't listen to gavanwoolery because he is a terrible human being." "You shouldn't listen to gavanwoolery because he is not engaging in good faith. His commenting history demonstrates a pattern of unsubstantiated opinions posted with the apparent intention of provoking a reaction and add no value" isn't ad hominem at all. It is a substantiated opinion based solely on the work presented and makes no judgements of his character.
Once again, my point flies right over your head.

> It's not irrelevant. Without math we wouldn't have a modern society.

Correct, but who made those discoveries has no relevance to modern geopolitical strategy.

> But if you insist that it's irrelevant than Arabs being desert nomads is irrelevant to modern geopolitics too.

I already stated how that fact is relevant, but you chose to ignore it. If the Arabs weren't desert nomads, they might be a credible threat to the US even without oil.

It seems that everyone here is taking offense at the fact that I called Arabs "desert nomads". The point I was trying to make is that without oil, the Arabs don't pose a threat to America.
Calatrava -- cross-platform mobile framework
Caps remap is my favorite. My pinky is much happier.
We had kings to make our laws unilaterally without parliamentary scrutiny.
I don't know what the hell you do in real life, but you need to write books. Seriously your 2 comments were engaging, hilarious, and just fun to read. It's like a mini-story in a comment.
within the constraints of by the competition, the optimal method of winning is almost always to use well known existing algorithms and methods. academic research, however, is extremely time consuming and is of uncertain value ex ante. but without it we would not have many of the most popular machine learning tools used today...
Right, but if I keep attending on meetups my network will keep growing and then it won't be exhausted.
This is great news for the people who are building the raspberry pi-powered vaporizer - http://raspberryhigh.wikia.com/wiki/Raspberryhigh_Wiki
Kickstarter vs. Quirky: How Crowdsourcing Can Impact Intellectual Property
When chemistry is outlawed, only outlaws will do chemistry [2007]
As you're UK based, check out our site next time (if there is a next time) http://hackerjobs.co.uk
Fair point. But when I jump from 3 km, I bask in the knowledge that plenty of people have done it in the past and landed alive (not that it says anything about how _my_ jump will go). But jumping from 30km, I know that no one else has done it.

No idea how many people died when skydiving began, but I'm guessing there were a few deaths, and I would hate to be part of a similar statistic. Having said that, skydiving is definitely on my list of things to do before 2014.
I wrote a long post about job boards for programmers that was on HN a while ago:

http://www.maxmasnick.com/articles/jobs/
apart from the massive loan (£40 million) they have given to the Labour Party.
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>He never said he doesn't advocate performance.

Agreed. But Guido didn't advocate performance, or anything, so fijal is trying to disagree with him about a topic he didn't state an opinion on. There's no need to make up a disagreement. Imagine if fijal instead said:

"This is a fine list of techniques if you are willing to sacrifice your abstractions. At PyPy, we're not willing to do that, and we still achieve sufficiently high performance by..."
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Not a complete success: One high-altitude balloon record is ...This discrepancy is likely caused by the fact that Baumgartner achieved significantly higher speeds than Kittinger, and so the free fall phase ended quicker than expected.

This discrepancy is likely caused by Felix showing great respect for Joe by allowing him to keep one record.
You're still making an originalist argument. Who cares what Alexander Hamilton had to say about anything? He's dead.

To steal a quote from the Economist article I linked to above, suppose we fast forward this conversation fifty years. Do we really care what James Madison might have thought about which privately cloned human-animal hybrids could use viral DNA material drawn from public health databanks?

No, of course not. This is a conversation to have amongst the living. How big should the government be? Is a complex question with many stakeholders.

> Having the FDIC encourages commercial banks to be much riskier.

No, it doesn't - because when a commercial bank became an investment bank, that insurance only applied to deposited accounts. If we define the risk holders to be the people with deposits, then sure.

However, most people would define the bank investors to be the ones willing to take risks. The shareholders, accordingly, were not protected by the FDIC and got wiped out when these banks failed or merged into larger banks.

>I think the housing bubble was entirely avoidable had the government taken different action.

Yes, but that's a tautology for a lot of things in the economy.

The financial crash was far too complex for me to try to recount here. There is a wide range of incentives that could have been tweaked; but the bottom line is people took far too many risks across far too many levels of the economy. The end result was not caused by an industry forced into bad decisions due to poor regulation. Investment banks were allowed to borrow too much money relative to their capital holdings, and they were allowed to pour their money into financial instruments that are computationally impossible to accurately judge.

Removing the FDIC and the SEC would exacerbate the problem.

Here's some very accessible reading material, that I think you ought to brush up on:

http://www.npr.org/series/124587240/planet-money-s-toxic-ass...
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/t...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short
I have never really looked for a job honestly, but if I were going to here's what I would do.

Find the type of company you want to work for. Narrow your list down to about 5 of those companies you'd like to work at.

Now sit down and write a personalized cover letter for each of these companies and the role you'd like to play in said organization.

Now email each of the companies hiring depts, founders, etc with said letter and sit back. If you wrote a truly compelling cover letter (you should have if you are actually passionate about working for the company) you will most likely get some sort of response.

Rinse and repeat if no success.

As a multi-time founder and hiring decision-maker I always enjoyed a good cover letter and great interview more than a resume. Even when it comes to technical knowledge the most important thing to me is that if you did not know it you were smart enough and capable of learning it.

If you can knock it out of the park on a cover letter and show why you're excited to be a part of said company then they would be foolish not to hire you.

EDIT: Obviously you should still send a resume as well. But sending one without a cover letter in my opinion is the equivalent of career suicide.
If you have something that needs to be private don't put it on a web site. And certainly don't put it on a web site that is designed for sharing things with the people you are connected to.
What tiresome bullshit. Just because you wrap it into elaborate sentences doesn't change the fact that you (or who ever started this) called for a dismissal of his arguments not because of the contents of the arguments, but because of his alleged bad personality.
Your console is not useless. When you are permabanned they will mess up your NAND and make your saves invalid, and you won't be able to connect to live again without modifying the keyvault on your console (on ones where this is possible). They used to just ban your console and not your account, so you could keep your account and just go buy a new console, mod it, and be playing again within a week (after the ban wave was over).

A friend of mine actually figured out how much he was paying for the console every year, about $200-$300, and then figured out how many games he had pirated (at what would be $60, roughly, a piece) and came to the conclusion that it was worth pirating all of his Xbox 360 games and face being banned every November. If you own 5 games that were purchased new, that's a console's worth of money right there. We did that for a couple of years until they started banning our accounts for the JTAG exploit.

Microsoft is unethical in what they do when they ban people on Live and corrupt their NAND, but they've probably got legal powers to do that based on the Live EULA.
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You're saying kaggle is fundamentally different to what data scientists do? I don't understand that. The right question is usually how do I increase profits (or score this essay/image etc). So simply set up your problems that way.
I repeat, I see nothing there that says "don't optimize for performance".

It says "if you want performance don't do X because X is not a reasonable sacrifice". Then he linked to some better ones.

If you watch the linked talk, "write simple code when given the choice between simple and complex code" seems like fijal's main suggestion (and in my limited experience with PyPy has worked for me). The other main suggestion that I assume is underlying is "if you want performance try PyPy". Neither of those require sacrificing abstraction. Some of Guido's suggestions do.
Winning a kaggle contest and how a particular statistical model performed under normal business conditions are totally different. (metrics of interest for evaluating the model - how much money was saved, did the model bring about requisite behavior change, etc.) And performance under real life business conditions is what matters, not who won the contest. And to get good models for a specific business need, you do need domain knowledge.

Does kaggle publish how the models performed under normal business conditions?