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by webninja 9y ago
You can become a registered sex offender in many states after a public urination citation. In my home state, you can get a DUI as a 100% sober driver if your alcoholic girlfriend or passenger brought an opened container of alcohol. It'
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You should make a new HN Post with this link. It's quite good.
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Total applications: 192 (including the 65 from 2016) Total phone interviews: 17 Total take-home code challenges: 6 Total technical screens: 5 Total onsites: 3 Total offers: 1 Total time to offer: 6 weeks Success Rate: 0.52% Wow.
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Because Microsoft owns it now. All jokes aside, the important parts of the linkedin pages load in under 2 seconds for me. I'm using chrome without any extensions.
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When you have a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail.
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A lot of articles mention the likes of Intel, Microsoft, Infosys, Samsung, J.P. Morgan etc — are building software using Ethereum or some other blockchain platform. But I wonder if they actually are just forking the code off of Github and c
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by webninja 9y ago
I am a U.S. citizen and I flew last year from America > Qatar > India and from India > Qatar > America on a business trip. I was carrying two laptops. Neither laptop was searched, but they were put in separate trays under the x-
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How about we make a website where it is easier for students to pay back your loans? The healthcare.gov for student loan payback? As one commenter said, it's difficult to pay back your loan when your debt is being passed around to diffe
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Having everything out of date. Servers, computers, software, (people), everything. Many exploits have been published on exploit-db.com targeting software that has already been patched. My fortune top-100 company is the type of company that
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So are you advocating for Artisan Chickens? Also yes America eats too much meat.
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Hmm what should it be named?
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I respectfully disagree.
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IAC's stock just went up by ~19% this morning :O I only wish I owned more of it.
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Enjoyable article. If you liked this article, then you might also like some of Jeff's other articles like this one about Why Do Computers Suck at Math : https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-do-computers-suck-at-math/
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Yes, Robinhood Order Types: https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/208650386-Or... Edit: Now only market buy orders are converted into limit orders. Market sell orders remain as market sell orders. T
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I pray that the quality of textbooks won't go down if they're reduced to free. I know the textbook industry is a racket but I don't know many PH.D.'s who expect to work for free. What if textbooks end up being funded by
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It appears that Antbleed is a proposed temporary denial of service attack. Even without Bitmain being malicious, the API is unauthenticated and would allow any MITM, DNS or domain hijack to shutdown Antminers globally. Additionally the dom
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It could be that I need to work on my writing skills. I'll admit, I'm an systems engineer not a writer. On the other hand, HN commenters tend to convey a healthy dose of cynicism and skepticism. Also it's known that negative
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Day trading is hazardous to your health and your wealth and more-so with the increase in HFTs. But the buy and hold for long-term strategy works very well. Use limit orders and you won't be paying any "hidden" costs. For exam
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My Robinhood margin rate for $6,000 is only 5%/year. It also provides extended pre-market trading, after-market trading, and instant deposits. Interactive brokers charges commissions on trades. Also you don't have to use margin w
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I've been using Robinhood for the past year and made a 14% return which amounted to an extra $1500 in my pocket that I wouldn't otherwise have. There is so much negativity surrounding Robinhood here and I think it's coming fr
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Robinhood makes money off of uninvested capital and margin accounts, not trade commissions. So why would they care what we buy or whether we make purchases rarely or not?
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A historical returns of the stock market calculator: http://www.moneychimp.com/features/market_cagr.htm
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I use Robinhood and NO ONE should use margin if they don't know what a Margin Call is. Having understood that, the effective yearly simple interest rate on my particular Robinhood margin (extra buying power) is only 5%/year so all
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I think it's pretty close to perfect. I made a sample WrapAPI for http://etfdailynews.com/etf/{{symbol}}/ where the symbol is a 3-4 character ETF ticker symbol like VYM. It's one of the only websites I&#
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Yes, you can get the content you want even if it's behind a login page! Expect to create 2 APIs, one for logging in and another for getting the content. An example is provided on their homepage: https://wrapapi.com/v2#&
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This tool is really well thought-out and useful! I made a working API in less than 1 hr. This tool has a much better design & implementation than Kimono and easier than using Python 3 + Beautiful Soup 4 which is how I made my previous w
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Meanwhile, at the Indian contracting company where I currently work, I came across a few lines of code in a phone application that no longer logged data to a log file. I was told that it had been there for a number of years. As I went to in
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One thing a good manager can do to help your engineering team is ask each one: "Is there anything that is getting in the way of you being able to do work now?". Good communication fixes a lot of problems.
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Were your passwords compromised in the many data breaches?(leakedsource.com)
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