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Exactly, but that's Enron style fraud. It's not fraud that caused the financial crisis. It is the excess of leverage, and the complacency in lending and the way balance sheets were funded. I am not saying it wasn't moronic, just not criminal.
India has a huge population and there is a shortage of jobs. Rather than job seekers, India needs more job creators. This initiative will give people incentive to take up entrepreneurship.
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That shouldn't ever be necessary. Why does a medical records system need information loaded from USB sticks by random workers?

Edit: if it is for some reason necessary, it's actually easy to allow. Have separate "import" computers set up with accessible USB ports and write-only access to the system.
Yeah; clearer title would be "Iceland Sentences 26 Corrupt Bankers to Total of 74 Years in Prison" instead of the current "Iceland Sentences 26 Corrupt Bankers to 74 Years in Prison".
Some did, but for a lot if them it was just culture and metaphor. That's why they were always remixing and rebelling the stories.

Edit: just to be clear, I'm not talking about about belief in the existence of the gods, I'm talking about the myths of the gods, which were mixed and matched and changed and definitely were not subject to any kind of orthodoxy.
But does anyone actually do that? Given all the bitcoin speculation and volatility, what percentage of transactions are actually someone paying for goods and services vs trading for hard currency to speculate.
For those outside the US would something like this work in your country? Do you have the equivalent of a dollar store there?
There is already a Lua web framework named Sailor: http://sailorproject.org/ -- since this is a rather closely related problem domain, it might be nice to avoid name collisions.
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So it might be an FAAH inhibitor?
one quick google search later

So one of the things that FAAHs do is handle "endocannabinoids", which are chemicals that activate cannabinoid receptors, which are (as the name implies) also triggered by cannabis. That'd explain why people thought it was a cannabis-based painkiller.
World's first 3D multi-material electronics printer prepares to hit market
This might make a good "Show HN:"

W3's HTML JSON Form Submission: https://www.w3.org/TR/html-json-forms/
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As a Brit in the US I don't feel the pressure is much different here.

It's a little resigned and accepting that in a big city you can't afford it, but it's still expected that eventually you'll move to the suburbs and have a home.

That's not surprising though as owning a home is generally about two things: financial responsibility and stability (obviously desirable), and actually owning the place that you live.

"A place to call your own".

Now we debate if that last one is actually useful but it's not hard to understand it. At this point it's a cultural force too. Also understandable.
Jurassic Park used something like 3 minutes of computer generated effects. Most of the dinosaurs you see on screen are actual puppets and robots.

Edit: the internet says 4 minutes
It's not gambling and failing - it's intentionally manipulating the market and betting against it. And YES I would expect people ESPECIALLY management to go to prison for that.
I always wonder when I read stories like these: what if you had connected your personal laptop to the Internet, and worked on your own projects? You wrote that you had no "work task", so I guess you asked for some and you got none. Why do you have to do something that "looks like work" then, if you're not the one to blame?
The big transaction networks are so heavily invested in their own system and the effort to integrate is such that the likelihood seems quite low. Had the foundations of bitcoin had as a primary goal industry transition to using it, it would have become a stronger disruptive force. Upfront integration costs are on the scale of concretely-estimable billions with the any long-term rewards ambiguously-estimable. The certainty is that is divests control and related control of the transaction network. Where's the value to the existing network that reaps the transaction fees?

It made some inroads, but a future alt-currency alliance would need to find very forward thinking technical leadership from within the entrenched industry willing to put their names into efforts of such an alt-currency alliance. Those players would need buy-in from the business and political wings of their organization. Where are the CEOs at banks and transaction network players who feel moving to a non-sovereign currency makes bottom-line sense?

Finding such value and leaders seems unlikely due to political relationships that the entrenched financial industry has. Put your name on an effort to remove oversight and control of the nations whose central banks you presently need at your own risk.

Unless the banking industry gets burned like the tech industry has in terms of the Snowden revelations and popular movement around privacy, there isn't an obvious self-interested basis for taking on this sort of risk.
You must drink a lot of beer. The maximum unemployment in Massachusetts, for instance, is over $700 a week. Even in New Hampshire it's over $400.
Not everything courts deal with is crime. A divorce case isn't about crime (and I bet they will be major consumers of decrypting devices, looking for nasty pictures or conversations!). The president investigating who in his administration is talking to the press isn't about crime.
Same situation in Norway. But the tax incentives are so many that if you can you should buy, from an economic perspective. of course there is risks. And if mobility / freedom is weighing more than money, maybe you shouldn't buy?
Given the fact, that they basically took "New Hope" script and did the remake, with just some minor details changed, then I can bet that Ep. VIII will be the remake of "Empire Strikes Back", in which we will see a heartbreaking scene where Kylo Ren fights Rey and speaks "I am your brother" :)

CHALLENGE: when The Force Awakens gets it's DVD release I challenge you to watch it simultaneously (e.g. in two-monitor setup) with New Hope. I am under impression that some plot parallels can be timed to 20-30 seconds accuracy.
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I would strongly doubt this opinion unless you can back it by hard evidence. I think it is more likely that a bigger company has done this many times and can handle the subtle details of applying and doing it well.
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Here in Norway you have to be a permanent resident to vote in local elections and a citizen to vote in national elections. I think it is broadly similar in the rest of northern Europe.
There were rules that were supposed to prevent such overleveraging that they skirted by hiding their interest in the bank. The holding companies were so transparent about it that they had silly names like Drawercorp and (I shit you not) Twisty (The Icelandic name is Vafningur, it kinda translates)
Why limit your goals to the trappings of power? Speaking at conferences and easier access to venture capital strikes me as setting your sights low.

Furthermore, if you don't aim to be taken as seriously as anyone else even when you don't get speaking engagements and venture capital, you'll find that obtaining access them is an hollow victory.
Also, I didn't want to diminish your point. When you understand the value of mathematical abstractions for any kind of tasks it's a bliss.
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tlenter v0.5 is releasing crowdfunding and IOS App this week.
Perhaps a better way to think about it is that often when reading these sorts of articles, you realize that there's a name, and likely a corresponding rigorous definition and theory, for some concept which you had already understood intuitively. Once you've made that realization, you start to see the pattern yourself in other areas that you hadn't before, and to understand it more deeply.
If your goal with containerization is to run trusted applications that just need bizarre systemwide configuration (possibly mutually-conflicting configuration), and keep that configuration separate from the host, then no, it's not a joke. This is a super useful use case for containers.

There's a strong case to be made that you should not be trusting Docker containers for untrusted code; they're just also for configuration isolation, not security isolation. After all, Docker runs on top of the Linux kernel.... If you want to run untrusted code, put it in a VM (kvm, bhyve, Xen, whatever).
Getting a bit off-topic here, but since I have been wondering about what makes "transpiling" different from the existing word of "compiling", would you say that proper usage would be "reversible compilation with zero loss of information"?
I'm tired of people blaming the bad things in C++ on C. Most of the bad things in C++ came from C++ itself, not from anywhere else. The Modula-3 type system with its inheritance anti-patterns can't be found anywhere in C. "Guru meditation" template error messages can't be found anywhere in C, nor do C programs typically take hours to compile. In C, functions and types that are "static" to a file don't appear in header files... C++ "improved" that so that private types and functions must appear in header files, greatly extending compile times. Global constructors are not in C... you know what order your program will run in when using C.

The set of things in C that were "fixed" by C++ is very small, possibly even the empty set for reasonably modern dialects of C. For example, having the compiler implicitly declare functions as returning "int" was on its way out with or without C++.

Probably the worst thing about C was all the implicit type conversions-- between long and int, and char* and boolean. Of course C++ didn't fix this. They even made it worse by declaring that any C++ constructor that took one argument would be a candidate for implicit type conversion. So if you declared Foo::Foo(int i), in the future any time you have an int the compiler would consider promoting it to a Foo. Later they realized their mistake and added the "explicit" keyword so C++ gurus can avoid this error most of the time (when they remember).
It's typically not the people that were offered the loans that are angry with the banks, it is the people that ended up paying for the bail-outs without having seen any of the benefits. On another note, plenty of people that were offered those loans are still paying them off today, so it is was a portion of the debt that went bad, not all of it.
A bunch of work since 2013 has been in filling out the foundations of the web platform, so that as many new features as possible can be added by web devs first, and standards committees afterwards if necessary. This initiative is called the extensible web: https://www.w3.org/community/nextweb/2013/06/11/the-extensib...

So there's been a bunch of work on Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, ES6 modules, HTML Imports, ES6 proxies, Custom style & layout & paint (this part is still pretty early), etc
>(and I bet they will be major consumers of decrypting devices, looking for nasty pictures or conversations!).

OK, and why would that be a bad thing? if it is done in the context of a case investigation.
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I'd agree that there is objective morality, so people can be wrong about their own goodness or evilness. OP was saying that people are not intentionally evil, but they are often confused about what values are good. Islamic terrorists value Islamic dominion over everybody and fighting those who oppose this system can then be described as good. This is in contrast to Kylo Ren and the villains of saturday morning cartoons that we grew up with.
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You're not a responsible adult until you recognize debt is a tool. You can use the tool well or poorly but it is just a tool.
Would you feel comfortable going to a local shop owned by non Muslims?
Ask HN: A felon has offered to invest in my startup, what are the implications?
I'm in a friends and family round, and a long time friend with a felony drug conviction from 15 years ago has kindly offered to invest in my business. This person never served time, rehabilitated himself and is a small business owner in a very legal and interesting profession.

I'm in the process of taking on funds for my own business and I really need money, but I don't want to screw up anything down the line.

He will not have a board seat, will not actively participate in the business.

Do investors care about backgrounds of other investors if the F&F have no say?
Looks useful!

There are some issues with the port detection on my IP address though: HTTP was 'disabled' (whatever that means, but it's open and apache is listening) and SMTP was incorrectly labeled 'closed'. Https detection was correct, and ssh was 'closed', which could be correct if it means 'RST returned' rather than 'firewalled'.

Also I'd prefer seeing an OpenStreetMap tile rather than having Google log my visit, but that is probably just me. On the positive side, Piwik instead of GA :)

Another small point: I'm not sure which address you're looking for, but the whois info of my IP definitely contains an abuse address (80.100.131.150).
If you downvote my scientific comments, please provide a coherent rebuttal. For example, the Great Oxygenation Event happened 2.3Bya (billion years ago), but tardigrades are animals, and animals date back to only 1Bya (modern phyla are 500Mya), so at least one mass extinction event (the GOE) predated tardigrades.
You can get a free trial, but it's most definitely not free (on the contrary, the price is a lot higher than i would've expected).
> programming language VMs (lua, j2me)

Since these are garbage collected languages, wouldn't it make more sense compile to plain JavaScript, treating that as VM-bytecode, and avoid doing things that slows down JavaScript VMs?
A quick google search didn't turn up anything, but I'd suspect that water spontaneously liberating oxygen is a very rare occurrence.

Oxygen is in a high oxidation state and once reduced to water is quite stable. In order for oxygen to form from water, you'd need an oxidizer of considerable power (e.g. ozone?).
Thanks for the suggestion. I may well follow your example!
Ahem to Innovation centers and research parks. A lot of them can easily become institutions who get govt. money for doing nothing basically.

My university was next to one research park and as far as I could tell nothing ever came out of the ruddy place. Point is - for research park & innovation centers to function you need people dedicated to research. In current state India does not have that many researchers to spread across this many institutions.
An Englishman's home is his castle?

Maybe it's simply that owning a home lets you do more with than renting one. You can add extensions, remodel much of it, potentially demolish the entire thing and rebuild it, that sort of thing.
This is referencing an official press release[0] which itself references a lifecycle fact sheet[1]. The real story here is that Windows 8/8.1 mainstream support is ending 6 months early, and that maybe extended support is really actually different than mainstream support this time.

[0] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/01/15/windo...

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle
Let's make sure we're comparing apples to apples. Most, if not all, of these convictions were for plain-vanilla securities fraud. Executives using company funds to buy stock for their own accounts on insider information. Or hiding their earnings from tax authorities in Tortola. These actions are clearly illegal and regularly prosecuted in the United States. Comparing these cases to the lack of prosecution of, e.g., Lehman Brothers's Dick Fuld is disingenuous. No laws were clearly broken there.
"New York" doesn't want anything - it's a state, not a person. This bill was introduced by Assemblyman Matthew Titone - mentioned in the 7th paragraph of the article. Gee whiz I wonder who's paying his election bills?

"The fact is that, although the new software may enhance privacy for some users, it severely hampers law enforcement’s ability to aid victims."

This is actually an argument against privacy itself. Astounding.
sailor's goal is definitely not to bring security, we all perfectly know chroot is not the way of isolating a host filesystem from attackers. Instead, sailor provides a convenient way of testing environments without compromising your workstation / dev station filesystem.
So I know that a concept of "entropy" is used in both information theory and thermodynamics. Is there any significant overlap?
I've never argued against the model of containerization for configuration isolation.

I'm arguing against this piece of software and examples it ships. Giving root to a trusted web app is not something sane.
I fail to see how it's a closely related problem domain.
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As far as I can tell, you've hit the bullseye here! This looks amazing. The Nature of Code looks exactly like the kind of thing I'm interested in. Thanks very much.
To your point, USA citizens did not want to pay for the bankers, but here is speech on the congress floor:

- http://youtube.com/watch?v=HVOuK_KB9ew
Random User DO, I think.
Interesting. From what I've heard, past a certain (large) size, some companies build their own frameworks that allow much more customization to fit their problem domain.

But I'm guessing that 95% of companies who are data-driven do use a third party tool like Optimizely or VWO.
I wrote a few tools when I found myself in a similar position, and was rewarded with being told that writing code (while not technically a developer) was a "security risk"[0]; and I was then given a bunch of useless Sisyphus-type jobs that management never quite agreed were finished (they were gold). To this day I think they were surprised, but not sad, to see me go. Only managers I've ever had who didn't absolutely love me and my work ethic. Easily the worst job I've ever had. Took me awhile at my next job to shake off the "bad vibes".

[0]I'm still kinda baffled by this one. I had root access to everything already and could easily have written any malicious code I wanted to introduce at home.

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From hovering over the (?) next to Disabled:
> Due to Conficker Sinkholes, the server got listed a few times on blacklists, so I decided to disable the HTTP check
WebAssembly is still work in progress, isn't it? There are proposals to have 2 text formats: low level one (Asm.js like) and more high level representation [1]. So, I'm dead sure the way out will be found. If not, community will create workaround-ish solutions in a form of "WASM -> language of your choice" decompilers.

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/pull/457
Docker has kernel support from cgroups (and other features). Vastly different from a simple chroot. Maybe not as strong as full virtualization, but if we're worried about kernel bugs that allow privilege escalation, we have to worry about everything running on the system, because it is all surface area for attacking kernel privilege escalation bugs.

Comparing Docker (or any Linux container using cgroups, like LXC) to chroot is not accurate.
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That's a pretty sloppily run place if nobody notices structural behavior like that. And even if nobody notices, that's pretty bad behavior. I've worked in a place once long ago where people did everything they could to avoid actually working and I left simply because of that. Being told to 'slow down because you're making us look bad' is extremely de-motivating.
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What was Color's idea? I had heard of it at the time, including the talk about the high funding for what may have been a simple idea, but did not check (partly due to reading about it being overhyped, probably). Something to with color and photos?
Yeah, I did try that, but performance was lacking. Java, if you stick with primitives and use a C-like programming style (miniminal objects) was pretty close to C performance when I tried it, except for this one gap.
Thank you for the substantive reply. I love github and I do appreciate the macro level of community it provides. If no other community platform sprung up it's demise would certainly be a regression for open source. In that sense, I agree with what your saying.

The last line is where we fundamentally disagree, but that's ok. I think open source would be able to recover from the death of github without much long-term difficulty. It would be a painful transition, like all transitions, but I don't think it would be an overwhelming problem or disaster. Maybe I'm just optimistic.
> There were rules that were supposed to prevent such overleveraging that they skirted by hiding their interest in the bank.

To clarify, executives at Bank created a Holding Company. Bank lent Holding Company $100. Bank then sold Holding Company Bank stock for $100, thereby manufacturing $100 in "equity". This "equity" makes Bank's debt/equity, and other equity-based leverage ratios, look rosier than they are.

I recall a similar shit show going down around Karzai's cronies in Afghanistan.
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FIs are very interested in Bitcoin, except for the Bitcoin part, which leads to lots of talk about trying to use blockchains for various unconvincing purposes. The problem is that btc isn't suitable for large financial products, because it's an illiquid, volatile virtual asset with a market-wide price floor of zero. If FIs thought there was a bounded-risk revenue stream to be extracted from Bitcoin, rest assured they'd be doing it -- you'd see efforts to increase liquidity (more than one Bitcoin millionaire, I think, would be willing to pay ten to fifteen points to convert significant fractions of their cryptotokens to fiat currency), hedge products, and so on. The fact that you don't see that suggests that FIs can't figure out how to value btc in a way that the downside doesn't far outstrip the upside potential. Theoretically btc could become so commonly-held and widespread enough that they gain stability through ubiquity (like gold and gems), but I think the problems outlined in the original post -- specifically the fact that a small number of maintainers control the protocol, and, more damningly, that almost all the hashing power in the system is controlled by set of individuals who could trivially collude -- make that less likely than it seemed a few years ago.
Until one of those people turns out to be malicious. There is no way to tell what anyone is thinking, or whether they've been spending their time outside of work being slowly corrupted by certain influences.
There is a stress in renting too. You never know if your landlord might want to change things resulting in a request for you to move out. eg he wants relatives to have the apartment, etc.
In fact those situations are pretty rare, it was the first time it happened to me that a mathematical concept helped me to understand how to write a certain algorithm that isn't specifically mathy (as opposite to implement something purely math related), so I would that, sadly, your previous comment is on the point.
Bankers are managing other peoples money not there own. Which is why banks get bailed out and people have such hate for bankers.
The moral of that cartoon is that we should all become beggars I guess.

It's a funny way to represent it, but there is one person missing from that cartoon. The person that refuses to go into debt, saves until they have the money to spend on whatever it is they want to buy. Another useful addition would be someone with a mortgage that they actually pay off on, their net worth would likely dwarf the net worth of the beggar.