skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you mean the TARP/TALF programs.[1] They were loans with very specific conditions and costs. Meaning banks had to pay interest on those loans to the U.S. government, which was definitely above the U.S. government interest rates. As far as I remember, Goldman was one of the first Wall Street banks to pay those loans back (including interest). The programs ended up being profitable to the Treasury and by implication, the American tax payer. See the linked website for more details.

The reason some banks started using the money from those programs to buy up government debt, is to make their books more solid, or in other words, make the money market believe that they won't go bankrupt any time soon and start lending them money again. For example, if I have $5000 and bet all of it on horse races, and then immediately ask you to loan me $100 more, you'd be sceptical. If, on the other hand, I bet $2500 on horse racing, put the other $2500 in a deposit box, and ask you to loan me $100 for cab fare, the deal would seem a bit more solid, right?

There is another argument, that international banks profited hugely from the AIG bailout, and that the bankers were unprofessional for not foreseeing a possible AIG collapse. That is only partially true. Yes, the bailout money allowed AIG to honour its contracts with the banks.

But AIG was an insurance company and the things it sold to banks (Credit Default Swaps) were insurance against selected companies going bust. For example, if I loan Apple 50 billion dollars, I want to insure the whole deal for the very slim chance Apple goes bust. In 2008 a lot of companies started to go bust, hence AIG had to pay out a lot. So much, in fact, that it would go bankrupt.

If I change the words, and say that American machinery manufacturers insured their factories against possible fires with insurance company A, but due some freak accident all the factories started burning, so the government had to step in and bail out company A, so they could pay out the insurance policies. Doesn't seem so preposterous, does it?

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[1] - https://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/TAR...
s/EPIPE/SIGPIPE/, but otherwise, I agree. :)
This is exactly my point. You're basically telling me that C is a horrible language. Why? Do you think I disagree with you? Do you think that you're giving me new information? Or are you just doing your part in the language war, perhaps repeating talking points that we're frankly a bit tired of? There are better things we could be talking about.
I remember when Intel introduced the Pentium III with a serial number[1] --- something that seems almost innocuous today --- and received a very strong "do not want" response which made them remove it in subsequent models. Now they have put in far scarier features, yet receive nowhere near as much opposition from users.

I think the whole "security culture" is to blame for this. Very abstractly, security is about preventing someone from doing something you don't like. That combined with "default deny" turns into "everything which is not explicitly allowed is forbidden", and it naturally promotes locked-down devices where the user has no control. Users are conditioned to accept this because it's "for their security".

In these environments, one way to regain control is to find weaknesses in the security, e.g. jailbreaking/rooting. This is why I'm actually rather afraid of all the developments in "safer" languages and systems. Maybe some insecurity and imperfection, and accepting the occasional hack/leak due to it, is a good thing after all, if it means a path to freedom. I like to keep this quote in mind:

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Controversy_about_...
Because it is a separate file, which means you will loose it at some point in time.
Interesting, I'm pretty sure it has the little "Netflix" logo for being a Netflix Original series on Netflix Germany.

Follow up: Yes it has.
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I have read a few articles over the past week about sites using too many large frameworks and files etc. Simple content is delivered as a 1MB+ page.

What smaller framework would you use for a responsive site in 2016?
Thank you and agreed. I was going for a joke as I'm also not a fan of clickbait titles. I think the irony was lost. Lessons learned.
This whole topic is probably not inititated by Netflix, but by the contracts they sign with the distributors.

Distributors don't care about this, they care about geographically determined licenses. And apparently they want to see that this is technically enforced to some degree.
And arguing that point is just the language war, nothing more, nothing less. I'd get as much mileage telling people that they shouldn't use Emacs unless they have to.
I can't comment on the rest of your post because I have no interest in DNMs but openbazaar won't work for drug deals since it doesn't work over Tor and the developers have no plans to change it so it can.
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Using calloc instead of malloc, just for checking arithmetic overflow, is superfluous. You can always write a check or a wrapper for malloc that does that automatically. It is so easy I can write it here:

_Bool Check( const size_t a , const size_t b )
{
if( a > SIZE_MAX / b )
{
return false;
}
return true;
}

(If proper warnings are enabled, it also provides extra integer type checking.)
Could this be caused by the phone surveillance that's set up in One New Change? There are (small) notices at the entrances to One New Change that inform you of phone tracking equipment there.
It doesn't work on Tor and the developers have no interest in making it work.
Dennis Crowley quits Foursquare CEO job. Startup’s value “halves”
riotjs + (purecss|getskeleton) here.
Look, nobody cares how clever and talented a programmer you are, or think you are. Please just drop the unsubtle boasting and passive aggressive insults, they only make you sound like an insecure egotist. Concentrate on the actual issue.

In 99.9% of languages, there is one true magical perfect solution to a question as basic as "what type should I use for integers?", and it's "use the integer type". The fact that C not only has options in this case, but that experienced developers seemingly cannot even agree on best practices, is a very good reason to avoid using the language unless you have to.
c6x has 8-bit bytes.
Drop presents, not bombs
A Comprehensive Formal Security Analysis of OAuth 2.0 [pdf]
If there's a dozen\* small banks it seems less likely that they would all fail at the same time than if there's only three humongous banks. Diversity and all that. Hence, we could limp along with 6/12 small banks rather than being screwed and having no financial system if all 3 major banks go belly up.

\* Specific numbers obviously made up for illustrative purposes only.
Alcohol has been socially acceptable for so long that we often forget how harmful it is to our society, much more so than other hard drugs [0]

All these problems that you state about overprescription and users turning to unsafe harder drugs is all due to the fact that these drugs are illegal. The same concerns were voiced about alcohol during prohibition. Now no one treats alcohol like a medicine and they understand it is a drug. Alcohol is a "hard drug" by any definition as it causes dependence and can have a very negative impact on your life. It was even more dangerous when it was illegal.

The choice isn't between making drugs legal and having a drug free world. The choice is between making it legal or spending resources throwing those who choose to use drugs in jail.

[0] http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...
I really like that idea, it would give the user a sense of how much they use it over time.
And the UK netflix is one of the best one apart from the US one, just imagine the catalogue you have in other countries...

- The French and German Netflix have 3 times less content than the US

- The Italian one, almost 5 times less content.

- The Russian one, almost 8 times less.

(numbers taken from flixsearch.io, not sure how it's accurate)

There are vast difference in catalogue between the different countries.
> But to me, the development process is more important than worrying whether a cloud-based service publishes its source code

And that's basically it (and I agree with him)

Do you have a problem with Github? All the information you need is in your clone of the Git repository.

(Ok, there are bug reports, wiki entries, but apparently those can be obtained using their API as well)
The Dutch don't rely on subtitles or dubs the way the Germans do (in fact, Germany has the largest overdub market in the world!) since the Netherlands is essentially a bilingual nation, so I've found that nearly all shows that are in English in the Dutch subscription (and most of the content is) have a Dutch subtitle option that does nothing... no subtitles.

I have not tried to connect to Netflix from NL using an American proxy, so can't comment on that.
I recently resubscribed, but I had forgotten the lack of content without proxies and since I'm mostly just streaming to Chromecast from my phone I'm not sure I can even use a proxy anymore. I probably should unsubscribe either way. I haven't really watched anything new since I resubscribed
Urg, I really want an antilicense, for SO or any tutorial that is out there.

If I use things off SO I link back to them, out of courtesy to future developers.

This is a problem that needs to be solved though, too many tutorials have code under restrictive licenses, and it doesn't make sense to me.
I just switched my vpn's endpoint to the UK, IPlayer works fine for me (I'm in Australia). Now, time to figure out what the differences between BBC 1, 2, 3 and 4 are.
Recommended app for phones not doing this by default:

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=SnoopSnitch&...
Snowden didn't want to be in a room with a phone, no matter the state of the phone.
Umm, you don't have to buy it though. Noise isn't necessarily a problem unless it stops you finding what you want. Actually, most products (except for the one you want) are just noise. Hence the continuing success of craigslist, ebay, gumtree and so on, despite the low average listing quality.

Actually in a way what whacks me out the most is people's expectation for an "open" marketplace with high average quality.
I think what the discussion about this statement misses is the "unless you need to" part. There are cases where you should use C! It is not "never ever use C".

If the use-case is being able to run on everything from TigerSHARC to x64, you probably should use C. If you want a GUI based Windows App or a webapplication, that might not be a "you need to use C" case.
>Every company I've seen eventually goes this way. When a corporation becomes large enough, they start answering to special interest groups on the left/right and self-censoring content as to not tarnish the reputation of investors or lose valuable market share.

Most of the media you mentioned is a-driven. Netflix doesn't sell ad space, why would they need to answer to any group their than their customers?
Trusting the federal gov't to be the arbiter of truth? Sounds like a rather bad idea.
When Aaron Swartz met Paul Graham his life–& the entire internet–changed forever
This has to do with licensing and rights more than anything else.. not just "the internet"

Just because you have rights to something in one country, does not mean you have rights to that same thing in another country and so on.

Content providers are up against an amazing amount of bureaucracy, and only have limited resources to deal with these things.. especially considering we're talking about different laws and systems for virtually every country on the planet.

I'm certain Netflix would like to offer you as much content as they can, but they also have to respect existing law.
Say you buy a new xbox off me at an agreed price of $500. You lock up $1000 I lock up $500 and send you a used Xbox only worth $250. You believe most people will eat the $500 loss?

I don't believe that for a second and that's even ignoring the fact you need everyone to have double the amount of anything they want to transact. A seller needs enough cash to cover the cost of all their stock and buyers will need enough money to buy everything they want twice.
Amazon expands logistics reach with move into ocean shipping
If Stack Overflow wants attribution to happen in practice, they should facilitate it by adding a copy to clipboard button that would automatically add the desired attribution to code blocks. This would have an order of magnitude greater impact on the actual amount of attribution taking place than simply clarifying the licensing terms.

That being said, I am concerned that the requirement for attribution creates significant legal landmines for anyone who doesn't follow the practice and many users of the service will not be aware of the requirement or it's potential legal impact.

It would be safer to move to an MIT license without attribution, but request attribution as a courtesy.
Wikipedia confirms that "embiggens" is a made up word from the Simpsons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Iconoclast#Embiggen_a...
They mixed mortgages which were extremely unlikely to be repaid into packages with enough AAA rated mortgages so that they would meet the credit-rating agencies policy of rating mixed packages as AAA if a certain proportion were AAA.

There is no such thing as a AAA mortgage. AAA is a rating for bonds and other fixed income securities.

However, these bonds would be valueless if any of the securities that made them up defaulted.

This is not how a CDO works.

They sold the packaged bonds a AAA-rated securities without disclosing the likelihood that they would default.

Why don't you show us the CDO prospectus you allege doesn't do this? Once you produce it, I'll show you the exact (mandatory) table where it's done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation

Your comment is the financial equivalent of "The NSA is hacking my pixels in order to break the rot13 encryption." The words kind of suggest computing/finance, but anyone who knows what the words mean recognizes that the content is nonsense.
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The "best rated" sort became useless after vine reviews.

"This impartial review was delivered after I received the product free or for a discount"? Give me a break. Joe or Judy Amazon are realistically going to be perfectly happy plunking five stars down for free stuff.

If Amazon wanted to do it right, they'd set themselves up as a neutral intermediary, companies could register to get some amount of product in the review chain, then Amazon would randomly distribute it to relevant reviewers, and the resulting reviews would be posted anonymously (with a known pattern, e.g. 'TrialUser'). And drop any users from the program that consistently give five stars.

Instead, they seem to have created a star-for-stuff system.
It should be. There are sometimes banners for other things, though, like to announce the Wikimania conference: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar >. There are apparently also smaller fundraisers aimed at different languages/countries at different times of the year, so maybe you remember one of them.
Because unlike debit cards a bank can't reverse a Bitcoin theft and would be on the hook for the losses or would pass them to the customer at which point they're back to square one.
The bzip2 choice is not set in stone. The reason why PNG is built on top of deflate is because back then there was nothing better around for the computing power available.
If you talk about speeds, the more or less only revelant measure is _decompression_ speed, and bzip2 is just fine for that. How long it takes to compress an image is relevant only once. Decompression is another story.

Additionally, in pipelines, you would only decompress your image once and compress it once. Usually, when people build pipelines based on individual tools passing png's to each other, these steps are repeated n times for n elements of the pipeline.
>MAC addresses your later concerns.

What's MAC,, in the context I wrote about? Googled a bit, being a common acronym as well as abbreviation for Macintosh makes it difficult to find the right links.
I don't understand the reasoning of wire.

They claim the darkweb black markets are dead because apparently in their opinion the silk road was some sort of honorable black market where buyers could trust sellers. This is ludicrous.

An anonymous market will only ever be as good as sellers and moderators make it. It has the obvious disadvantage of being anonymous but that's a systematic problem when dealing with this type of darkweb.

The silk road was shutdown amidst murder conspiracy and using a brute force method of simply swiping the laptop from under the nose of the mediocre administrator operating it.

If anything this episode has opened the door for more disciplined and experienced people to operate their own darkweb markets and actually get away with doing so without having to lower themselves to the deeds of their predecessor.

From what I can gather the root problem is not attacks against the anonymity but rather human problems. Human admins, making human mistakes or succumbing to human temptation. So with that in mind, it's only a matter of time before we see proper darkweb marketplaces come into their own.

Parallels can be drawn to the world of software and media piracy, everyone should be familiar with the rate of which piracy sites have been coming and going the last 15 years.
you mean Netflix will TRY to crack down on proxy streaming
Curious, how many Marathons have you run?

I've done 5 and I've never had a plan hold after the 20th mile.
I guess they "crack down" on their prices also then,

I mean I'd love to pay the same price from my eastern-european salary for the fraction of the US content,

if I would be bats#!t crazy.
People are making the (valid) assumption that LE is far more common than BE.

On x86 swapping endianness is one instruction (BSWAP), but AFAIK it can't be SIMD'd easily. Given that SIMD is one of the things that can greatly speed up image processing, I don't think it "won't hurt performance too much"...
Ah yeah, excuse me please. I've used errno too often today :P It's corrected now.
Since forever. A parity stripe is a checksum. To use it for data integrity, perform a regular scrub, just like recommended practice for ZFS.
For bluray movies I simply use JBOD and a worldwide distributed network of peers who keep hashed pieces of the files...
Sure, but in a way C is the JavaScript of systems programming languages, in a deep need of a "The Good Parts" book as well.
Saying "just pick the right tool" is a worthless statement when the question is the difficulty of doing that. Would you enter a discussion about curing cancer or depression and announce "just pick the right cure for the disease" and then get upset when people don't agree with you?
Get photos straight from friend’s phones that aren’t even posted online
I am responding from the perspective that this is in the US. If you are in a different country the customs may be different.

In my opinion, never, ever tell your manager or colleagues you are leaving until you are actually giving notice. It is an unfortunate nature of the modern working world that you have to sneak around to interview, etc, but that is the way it is.

It is bad for morale to tell your colleagues, and telling your manager you are planning to leave comes across as a vague and non-direct way to ask for improvements.

You may choose to give more than the customary two weeks, but surprisingly two weeks is always enough time to transfer crucial responsibilities. Shorter than two weeks comes across as unprofessional, and longer than that always seems to be too much time.
The logic of drug criminalization is weird if you think about it.

Yes, drugs may be bad for you, but so is prison. So because drugs aren't bad enough for you to want to dissuade you from doing them, the government wants to make a bigger incentive by throwing the user into prison.

Penn Jillette encapsulates this logic pretty well:

> Do we believe, even for a second, that if Obama had been busted for marijuana -- under the laws that he condones -- would his life have been better? If Obama had been caught with the marijuana that he says he uses, and 'maybe a little blow'... if he had been busted under his laws, he would have done hard fcking time. And if he had done time in prison, time in federal prison, time for his 'weed' and 'a little blow,' he would not be President of the United States of America. He would not have gone to his fancy-a* college, he would not have sold books that sold millions and millions of copies and made millions and millions of dollars, he would not have a beautiful, smart wife, he would not have a great job. He would have been in f*cking prison, and it's not a god damn joke. People who smoke marijuana must be set free. It is insane to lock people up. [0]

Its really quite incredible the lack of irony among politicians

[0]http://bigthink.com/think-tank/penn-jillette-obama-is-a-hypo...
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I think you're wrong. It's valid to discuss the pros and cons of languages, and it's valid to discuss whether a language is a good tool for any job.

But your thoughts are still valid and contribute to the conversation.
So the threat to sue is an attempt to weasel out of paying you money they owe.

And the person you disclosed your decision to quit to is part of the company, and unlikely to be someone you are excluded from disclosing information to under a confidentiality agreement.
Yeah right...
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/graphics/TargaImage/TargaImage...
The grandparent was looking for concrete evidence/examples for the "high performance" label, not just another assertion of high performance.
Of course, but that is an issue of implementation availability not language quality.

I remember the days when using C meant getting an account to the university (or work) UNIX system.
Why doesn't this get any attention? Has it been on HN before?
It's possible for translator understand headers and macros and generate bindings for them. Even for function macros. For example, GNAT has macro binding although it's not
complete.

Btw. There is nothing "pet" in X to C translators. You pay good money for a good Ada to C compiler.
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Get your happy on with science at the Museum of Happiness
Since they have a data center in Frankfurt we use it for some stuff. But on the edge for Hetzner vServers.
It's not just that a few people haven't acknowledged the technical issue though - it's also that 95% of mining capacity is now held by a handful of people and they don't want to change it either.
I saw a hydrogen one the other day.
One problem is both methane and hydrogen are low density gasses and require pressure vessels = linits load.
You could fuel with liquid methane or Hydrogen, as a small dewar flask of superinsulated pod would be light in weight, but would have limited shelf life.
Catalytic break down of alcohol to Hydrogen might work?
You could easily live in a 3-bedroom and pay $1700 a month in rent. You'll only have $3000 a month to pay for food and transportation - oh my god, the privation, how is anyone supposed to make it?
I'm not sure why we would need GitHub's source code either. It's their business model and they're able to run this behemoth of a service with that. For free. I think that's amazing and shouldn't be taken for granted.
That's true if bank failures are uncorrelated, which is so far from reality as to be an irrelevant assumption.

If this were true, then the US banks should have weathered the financial crisis far better than Canada's (highly consolidated). That's the complete opposite of reality.
The average price of electricity in the US is $0.13. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cf... And you would have to be somewhere really remote to pay $0.40.