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This is a common misconception around the definition of legal tender.

A shop is perfectly within their rights to refuse to sell you something if you are not willing to use their accepted payment methods.

Legal tender simply means they can't sue you if you offer to settle their debt using a legal tender currency. If they have refused to sell you the item, there is no debt, therefore no obligation to accept any particular instrument

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/what-is-legal-ten...

You are protected against credential stuffing attacks

Can we please do something about hacker news being used for customer support? It's getting tiresome to see these appearing on a regular basis

He even talked about it in his book Accidental Superpower nearly 10 years ago. His writings/videos have been instrumental in helping me to make some sense of what's going on in Ukraine

Is there a viable alternative to Audible out there?

I use hledger-flow [1]. It's an opinionated way of importing csvs into the hledger format. Works really well for me, just export the csvs, write a mapping and you are good to go.

It supports preprocessing the csvs if you need to clean the data or compute some new fields which is really powerful. Once you are up and running it only needs some minor updates each month to map unidentifiable transactions I can do this in under an hour these days.

[1] https://github.com/apauley/hledger-flow

JP Morgan purchased Nutmeg last year [0]

[0] https://media.chase.com/news/jpmorgan-chase-enters-agreement...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/rkrjwv/londo...

London is right after South Africa at the vanguard of Omicron. It seems it's hospitalisation rates are only now starting to emerge.

https://i.redd.it/92wwp9jp8q681.png

Java records are out of preview now in Java 16

The Financial Times is my main news source. It seems to be the only one that I've found which doesn't have sensationalist stories/click baity headlines

Always happy to chat with people about this space, contact info is in my profile if you want to reach out

Nice idea, having worked in a similar problem space for a number of years, I have some questions.

- How are you managing rebalancing, what might trigger a rebalance and how do you manage the tax implications of that?

- With a rebalance/deposit/withdrawal are you always a taker in the market?

- What's the custody side of this look like? i.e where do the stocks sit, are they in my brokerage account or are you custodian.

- How are you accounting for dividends in the portfolios do they get reinvested/included in returns?

- Can you manage all types of corporate action like splits, mergers, delisting, halts etc.?

Native Finance | London | Onsite | Software Engineer, Data Engineer

Native Finance (https://nativefinance.co.uk) is a B2B platform, building a suite of tools to help brokers source the best lenders for Commercial Real Estate projects and track CRE market activity.

We are based near Liverpool Street/Moorgate in the City. We are backed by Passion Capital, one of Europe’s leading venture capital funds, and a number of influential angel investors.

We are a small product-focussed team, you will be reporting directly to the CTO and working very closely with other members of the business in the Sales and Lending engagement teams.

Our immediate needs are mostly within the data processing space, however taking a more long term view we would love to find someone who is interested in working on the API as well.

Some of the things currently on the roadmap that are relevant for this role:

* Reassess the tooling for our data processing pipelines - is DBT the right tool for the job.

* Move our data pipelines to real time ingestion using streaming data.

* Improve the quality of our data ingestion/matching processes.

* Integrate additional data sources into the pipeline to increase coverage.

* Enhance the API to expose the data to the other parts of the system to support the launch of our 'Pro' Product later in the year

* Develop Machine Learning models to extract semantic information from PDFs/Images

Technology Stack

* Everything is deployed in containers to our k8s cluster in Google Cloud

* Fully reactive api build on Java 13, Spring Boot 2, Webflux + R2DBC

* Making extensive use of event sourcing

* Data pipelines built with DBT (http://getdbt.com)

* ReactJS for the frontend

If this interests you then get in touch directly by emailing me - aidan[at]nativefinance.co.uk

Site seems to be struggling under the load - a list of what it contains - https://twitter.com/DDoSecrets/status/1198595114618241024

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These options were also backported to Java 8 in update 131 - https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/java-se-support...

Barry Cranford of Recworks in London is one of the few good guys. He started the London Java Community and his approach is much more about engaing with the tech community and definitely adds value to the process.

+1 for sklanskys stuff, particularly his Theory of Poker book

I did some similar analysis on gauging the quality of a user from their retweet behaviour [1]

[1] http://bit.ly/Pzea7o

I found the writings of Samuel Colbert invaluable when I took on a management role http://www.performancepreview.com/ It was the first piece of management advice that rang true with my own personal experience.

In a similar vein I'm currently reading Frederic Laloux's Reinventing Organisations which is great although may be difficult to enact depending on your company.

Specifically around managing software engineers I would do some reading on bricolage and how to cultivate that mindset, I've found adopting it in my teams sees motivation soar. I don't have any specific reading material to point you at on that though.

Great read, I spent years trying to sort out a US visa but gave up in the end, kudos for your determination!

There are energy efficient ways of securing a block chain. Proof of Stake does not rely on vast energy consumption and in fact is better at securing the network, something one of the newer currencies Peercoin takes advantage of.

Presumably something from the java.lang.instrument package will allow you to solve this

You may be doing this already as it seems pretty obvious to me, but you could give more weight to comments based on their length. In general the most insightful comments are longer than poorer dumb comments. Also be more firm on the shouldn't appear on mainstream news sites rule

Fair point, I just took the link title from the article, but your right, it should read DeviantART data compromised.

I made an attempt to implement bCrypt on the last web app I built. The problem I found with it is that there was no robust implemention of the algorithm for the tech stack I was using (J2EE) - I'm not sure whether that is the case outside of Java. jbCrypt was the only thing I could find, and if you look at the source, it really is a poor implementation. I could have gone ahead and rolled my own implementation, however I'm no security expert, and much prefer to rely on something more robustt then my own implementation which in all likelihood would have bugs in it.

I am amazed R didn't make it to the list.

Tend to agree with alot of what Matt says. It's why I don't comment often, and simply use HN as a source of news and posting anything I find myself that I think is of interest.

I use an enhancement on the PE ratio where I take the average earnings over the past X years (between 5 and 7 usually) instead of just the most recent. That can accommodate short term fluctuations in an otherwise stable business.

Also the rate at which the dividend changes is important.