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Random thought that popped into my head when reading this (apart from the obvious...stockhappyness): I'm curious and know very little about this topic in general. How does an announcement like this affect 0-day prices? My guess is that IE11- 0-days should skyrocket for a bit but then fall because for a while they'll be really valuable and no patches will come but then eventually too many people migrate to the higher version?
Could 0-day prices actually be a decent way to forecast future adaption?
Banks don't like competition or new ideas. Regulators have an easier time attacking small potatoes than for example JP Morgan, which can generally do whatever they want.
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No downvote from me (no upvote either).

> Most people I know that rent cars absolutely beat the shit out of them.

Most people that I know don't. And when I rent a car I take good care of it, as good or better as if it were my own. I'll use it for what it is made for, not to see if I can contribute to the negative portion of the tragedy of the commons.

Think about it this way: your behavior with a rental car affects everybody renting cars, not just you. So you're not abusing the car, you're abusing the people around you and your net-negative contribution translates into higher rates and a negative expectancy about customer behavior on the part of the rental company. That you and those that you know that do this too can get away with it is no excuse.
It's not broken at all.

It's running exactly the way the entrenched players want it to run, squashing competition with heavy-handed regulators and killing innovation at pretty much every turn.
A similar disruptive bank started in the Netherlands this week. Its a real bank accessible by app only: https://www.bunq.com/
Comments like yours give me reason to look forward to the day humans become extinct.

We're not meant to rule over nature, we're meant to be part of it. We are part of it. Damaging the capacity of the planet to support life will ultimately cause us problems, and that includes draining the oceans of its wildlife.
> As is a library with broken logic or one that throws exceptions randomly. You want Guido and the developers to implement some kind of system that automatically scans all PyPi packages for any kind of errors?

Yes I do, but perfect is the enemy of good; it's ok to do something that makes things better without solving the whole problem. I want the build system to encourage people to do the right thing. E.g. any serious build system already ensures that you run the unit tests as part of the build or at least release process, because it would be just dumb to publish a library release on PyPI if it failed the unit tests.

> I'm sure them solving the halting problem won't take that long.

We already know how to avoid the halting problem, it's called types; see e.g. Idris.

But you don't need to solve the halting problem to check annotations. It's not even hard. Why would you want to not check them? I mean if you're not even going to check them then why bother having annotations in the first place? Comments would provide the same functionality and have less danger of being misleading, because everyone already knows comments often end up being out of date.
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Remember that both aircraft are also moving at very high speed. It can take several seconds depending on range and vectors.

Does anyone know which missile they used?

This is troubling to me. Why didn't they just intercept and escort him out?
No, but that's awesome!
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Or the beatings will continue until morale improves unless you notice the door is unlocked.
The previous poster probably ought to have explained those acronyms for the benefit of physicists, too: I'm a tenured physics professor specializing in high energy theory (with some research experience in relativity and cosmology), and I've never heard of that model. (Most physicists I know are also hesitant to flat out contradict widely accepted and observationally verified models without at least a bit of caution in their language, too: just saying "the universe does not expand" without qualification is unusually bold. To my knowledge I have never met a professional physicist who doesn't buy into at least the basic framework of the Big Bang model.)
Sweden is almost 5,000 km away from Syria. What specifically relates these two countries in your comment?
main reason is very hard to do something manually and at the same time virtually no authoring tools

everything else is just a consequence of those
Oddly, that graph starts after the graph to which I linked. I can't find anything that covers more years (don't have time to search thoroughly now).

BTW I like your choice of adverb.
Completely agree. I don't usually edit things I read, but this paragraph...

I want to examine the details of this large corporate investment surge, and why it matters. Cities are the spaces where those without power get to make a history and a culture, thereby making their powerlessness complex. If the current large-scale buying continues, we will lose this type of making that has given our cities their cosmopolitanism.

...loses absolutely nothing if you lop off the entire first sentence. Whoever was editing this fell asleep at the switch.
I have a similar sentiment. I know nothing's of physics beyond high school stuff and popsci, but to me Dark Matter feels like "aether 2.0". I'm probably wrong.
Could you provide a source for your anecdote? I find it hard to believe that the FDIC would look at a mere six loans when their own guidelines [1] call for at least eight, and that's with a population of a mere ten loans. For a higher level of precision on any decent loan portfolio the sample size will be at least 50.

Furthermore, having dealt with regulators before, there's always an opportunity to provide written responses with requests for data or an appeal process. Not hard for a bank to argue that a sample size of six isn't representative of their overall lending practices.

[1] (Warning: PDF) https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/compliance/manual/11/XI-10....
> Think about it this way:...

That's how rational adults act. The US is very short on rational adults under 40 nowadays.
It's cool that PyCharm added support for this -- the point of the typing module and the type hinting PEP is for IDEs to adopt it for linting purposes.

For those of you using vim, emacs, and the standard UNIX editing toolchain, the mypy linter provides command-line support. This blog post from April 2015 describes the first version of mypy that includes support for the official typing library.

http://mypy-lang.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/mypy-02-released.htm...
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Yes, you'd think they knew about that before they made that policy. It really baffles me how someone might think this was a good enough idea to actually implement and that nobody stopped it baffles me even more.
Just to get an impression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_at_the_Summer_Olympic...

Don't make the assumption that everything air-powered is nonlethal. Indeed in history we find:
"In the late 1700's, powerful pneumatic guns even found their way into the ranks of the military. The Austrian Army had an entire regiment armed with .44 caliber repeating air rifles. All surviving accounts indicate that the Austrians used those airguns with deadly effectiveness against Napoleon's army. So feared, any Austrian soldier captured with an air rifle was summarily executed as an assassin!"
(http://www.airguns.net/general_airgun_history.php)
> Current mobile software really sucks in pretty much every way and there's nothing more to be said

I don't know what perspective you are coming at this from, but from my experience with non-technical iOS users, installing/managing/removing mobile software in a safe manner is a much better experience than compared to their PC's. My grandparents are fully capable of managing software on their iPhones - if I asked them to do the same on Linux...
From what I gather, Rightscorp sent Cox a list of repeatedly infringing customers (presumably as IP addresses and time of infringement) and requested that those Cox customers be notified that they should pay $20 per song or face lawsuits. Cox declined to notify the customers.

There is no monitoring involved here, nor any technical difficulty for that matter : any ISP should know what customer owned which IP at a given point in time, and have contact information on file for that customer.

The real question here is a legal one: is the list provided by Rightscorp really "identifying repeat infringers" in the sense of the DMCA (in which case, refusal to act would void the DMCA safe harbor for Cox)?
True, but we've come to seek more than just predictive models, we want understanding and "truth".
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I picked Chrome because it is, as far as I know, the most standards-compliant browser in wide use at the moment. Firefox is quite good, Safari quite less good, and IE 11 and Edge are okay. Nobody really uses Opera... Depending on which set of stats you like, Chrome might already have a majority share.

I just wish that there was one unambiguous spec that they all supported. How many man-hours on aggregate have been wasted tweaking CSS and futzing with javascript to try to achieve identical results across browsers that have all these slight and not-so-slight differences of opinion about the HTML, CSS and ECMAScript specs?

A whole other world of pain is when you get into browsers that are embedded in GUI frameworks, or as extension points in other products. You really have no idea what they support, until you try something and see it is broken. Does this browserPanel object use the system version of IE, or some other version, or an old, forked version of WebKit, or some other Lovecraftian monstrosity?
> And their info security guy

Who? Oh, that guy? We let him go six years ago when we couldn't figure out what he did.
Is this some kind of subtle self-referential joke? I can't read the article without subscribing...

In case you hit the same issue:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vua-bfQ...
One of the hardest problems with this would be getting connections to customers. I wonder how effective wireless connections could be. I know of a couple companies that do it for whole apartment buildings but I've never heard of it for just one house.
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as far as I know there is only one authoring tool which can export to animated svg (svg+smil) - Animatron [0]

disclaimer: I work there

[0] https://www.animatron.com
I get a 404 from the page posted there, what was it?
> The fact that he, Srivastava and Spielman were able to solve it “says something about what I hope will be the future of mathematics,” he said. When mathematicians import ideas across fields, “that’s when I think these really interesting jumps in knowledge happen.”

So much yes.

Academia is hyper-focused, over specializing everywhere. There is little incentive to spending time making one's work understandable to a wider audience. I would argue that this is actually dis-incentivised as the downside to "making it look easy" is very bad indeed. But it's worse than this: the typical academic seems to have little ability to even explain their work to others within the same micro-field. Once again, the emphasis is on making it look as complicated as possible, in the interests of securing prestige (and funding).
The primary motivation was lending, as mentioned several times in the article.
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But that could only be the case if those laws are very, very complicated. So far physical laws have been on the side of "understandable if you invest a couple years of study as a reaonably intelligent person".
I'd say the opposite; we've come to realise that accurate predictions are the truest benchmark and notions of understanding can often be misleading.

But supposing you're right, so what? Unless you'd prefer a more understandable but inaccurate model, there's still no better alternative to dark matter or dark energy.
Until you have a better predictive model there's no way to tell what you had before wasn't the "truth".
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It's actually just a wireless network that you connect to and send commands to the Parrot. It makes it really easy to control it from your laptop. There is a library for it that makes it possible to be up and running in under 5 minutes.

Library: https://github.com/felixge/node-ar-drone
Is it that they "don't have the guts" or that they just don't have a product offering enough value to support itself on a subscription model?
It would be structured as a loan.
Corporate ownership may have it's downside, but in my hometown[1], at least we got a Whole Foods in the bargain.

[1]http://wiki.southpark.cc.com/wiki/Historic_Shi_Tpa_Town
Did you try runC? It's the low-level container runtime of Docker, extracted into a simple and reliable binary. It supports all the low-level APIs, you just drop a directory and json config and run it. We donated it to the Linux Foundation so it's under open governance. https://github.com/opencontainers/runc
And the metaphors for relativity hold up longer than a few seconds once you start asking questions.
I have checking and savings accounts at the Internet Credit Union but I don't use them.

- I'm in NYC. ATMs that don't take a surcharge are few and far between. There are two near my house, at a McDonald's and a bodega. According to the locator, only one ATM in all of Manhattan takes check deposits. An iPhone app called CU24 ATMs can find them (be sure to switch the filter to "surcharge-free ATMs" because by default it shows all ATMs), which is nice.

- Online banking is done through a website called It's Me 247 (https://obc.itsme247.com/237/). It's frustrating to use — to log in you enter your account number, password, and the answer to a security question (it can't remember your browser). There are no mobile apps, and it doesn't work with Mint. There is a mobile site, but like the desktop site you have to log in with your account number, password, and a security question every time you use it.

- Their main website is actively broken on my phone (it's locked to 1x zoom and you can't scroll horizontally) due to an incorrectly-used <meta> tag. Jordan himself wrote back to my email after a few days to say that he was working on mobile support, but the website was never fixed. (This was >1 year ago.)

- I can't direct deposit into my savings account because it shares an account number with my checking account.

- There's no way to pay bills or send checks online.

- I called to order checks when I signed up. I never heard back and never got any checks.

In the end, I was never able to switch from Chase, which has clearly-marked ATMs all over the city (most of which accept checks) and a nice mobile app. If I were going to use another bank, it'd probably be Simple, which prides itself on being easy to use.

I wanted to love the IAFCU but day-to-day banking was too frustrating.

On the other hand, I had no idea they had all of these regulatory difficulties, and their mission to provide banking to the under-served sounds an order of magnitude more important than keeping people like me happy.
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They could have just called up iD and asked John Carmack how it worked. He loved the Jaguar (Atari's last console) and I'm sure he would have loved to talk and maybe even give them some insight on it's development.
The law changed in the early 2000's. About a year after I discovered this they changed the ID numbers on the grades to the last 4 digits and shortly after that they moved away from SSNs.
Sure, I really meant always use some library that will do whatever is needed to pass potential unsafe characters over to SQL and that sanitization doesn't mean you have to delete these characters. Obviously relying on yourself to properly escape everything is going to fail.
It doesn't have to be ill will, or even will. Something like JACK is a component of a system. Maintaining this component as open source is fairly simple -- but capturing and sharing the understanding the complex interplay of components and the tradeoff needed to achieve certain ends in the wider system is really, really hard.

Linux might be free and open source software, but it's not a failure of anything that it doesn't come with a free systems administrator education.
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This titles man are worst than FB. Why not just "Click here!"?. Or could just copy and paste the title: "A suggestion to Open Source project maintainers"
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Same story for me. I run an open source project used by hospitals and I think I'm stuck supporting IE8 for another year or two.
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You made me suddenly aware of the fact that I do not actually know how other people use their phones.
Later on in the article Cox says it does process other companies requests, it's just Rightscorp that they have issue with because they don't provide enough proof and spam them with requests.
I believe if dang (and perhaps others) finds a submission that would probably be interesting to a lot of HNers but didn't get much/any traction when initially posted it is "resubmitted" to give it another chance.
Do you not believe that responsible lending can be a community benefit?
Why do I have a feeling that you are the "boss" in this picture? :)
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They are probably XP users. You can create a small notification on top of your website, notifying them that they should move to Firefox or Chrome because their browser is not safe anymore...
Genocide has always been a thing. The Romans wiped out god knows how many tribes. I'd say a 100% death rate for a particular tribe or nation is much bloodier than, say, 50%, wouldn't you?
My guess is that, given the choice, practically everyone would prefer to bank with a member-owned cooperative, i.e. a credit union, than a for-profit bank owned by outside shareholders. I mean, think about it: sneaky fees and outrageous surcharges are anathema, because it's more important for members to be satisfied with their experience than to wring out every nickel and dime of profit at the expense of customer satisfaction. And credit unions have been around a long time, so we know the model works.

What's stopping credit unions from being competitive against traditional banks are the regulatory hurdles. For instance, all credit unions' members must have some common affiliation, such as a small geographic area, or a common employer or alma mater. So you can't just create a credit union that competes with the likes of Capital One 360 or other online banks, even though it would be beneficial for that to happen, because the law says it can't be open to just anyone.

Although credit unions are perhaps the most successful and widespread example of cooperative businesses in the U.S., we Americans have not really embraced cooperatives, and that's a shame. Look at the U.K., where one of the most popular grocery chains is a co-op, or at Mondragon in Spain. Wouldn't it be awesome to have something like Walmart, but entirely member-owned? Instead of all those profits going to a relatively few wealthy shareholders, they'd go back to the members in the form of lower prices.

Technology has made it easier to gather like-minded people to start cooperatives. I would love to see a Kickstarter-like service take it to the next level.
When I read your comment, I thought they had inserted happy smileys in their text. It made me curious enough to open the page and see the regular marketing faces for Microsoft. That was a bit of a bummer. It would have made my day to see real smileys on that page! ;-)
This is a superb article, and points out how serious this problem is. The Canadian police should be ashamed for not taking this more seriously.
Am I missing something? They say they have "$1 million in donations spent ... and $1 million in the bank to back any bad loans". For a bank/CU this sounds like pocket change. Later they say they have "almost unlimited capital". What gives?
My take on drugs is that kids should not use them. Not because I say so or because some of them are dangerous. But because I hope they really don't need to self medicate broken psyche.

So the best way to dump addiction is not to ban alcohol from yourself. It's finding some meaning for your life before you turn into chronic alcoholic.

...and here I am, browsing HN because I'm absolutely terrified to make few phone calls. Not because of the calls themselves, but because I don't know what will happen afterwards.
In short: http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s19e08-sponsored-conte...
He mentioned that he didn't want to start a predatory subprime loan shop.

He wanted to offer non-predatory lower interest loans to higher risk clients, in concert with banking services that are difficult to provide to higher risk immigrant clients like checking and savings accounts and debit cards.

But the NCUA wouldn't allow him to set interest rates lower or offer checking/debit accounts.
I wonder why, given they call it 'type hints', they didn't go for Haskell-like type comments:

#greeting :: (str, int) -> str
def greeting(name, age):

In fact, I wonder why more languages don't adopt this syntax, since it greatly simplifies functions with very large types.
Or he mean't fortune 500... Apple is not likely given the other conditions of what he cannot say.
With their brand equity, is it possible for them to innovate?

It isnt hip enough to be cool, it's not big enough to be Facebook or google, it's a $30billion company that some how has the branding of the internets AOL. If yahoo "innovates" it will immediately be uncool.

Morale issues definitely can make things more difficult but are things really that dire there? Best thing I can see they've got going for them is the analysts are still foolish enough to rate Amazon as a tech company and not as a Walmart competitor that does some tech; they don't have great ways to classify these companies. It doesnt seem like yahoo is doing foolish things, it might be more of a bellwether for the free everything and monetize the traffic industry.
It was an anecdote from Bill Goedken at the 2015 CUNA CFO Conference. It was from the session "Mining Gold – New Trends and Discoveries in ‘Big Data’ That Will Help Your Credit Union Compete". I've linked to the slides ([1]) but there was no mention of the anecdote in them.

[1] - http://www.cunacouncils.org/cuna/assets/files/144820_Goedken...
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It was pointed out in the article and he did consider it.

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Now, could I have finished it quicker and moved on my way if I’d just done it myself? Of course. But that’s not what it’s all about as an open source contributor. It’s fun delivering good software that helps other people, but also realize that there are tons of people out there who just don’t know where to get started.

Some of you may be asking yourself, “what if I (and other lib users) don’t want to wait days for the feature?” From my experience, people are eager to try it out. At least one PR (sometimes several) is submitted, iterated on, and merged within a matter of a few hours.
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