skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBH if you mean the fine then there's not an awful lot to think about. All the big banks have been taking fines on this sort of scale for their mortgage securitisation activity.

As the article says, this is more or less what was expected hence it didn't have much impact on share price.

From the bank's POV it's better to have the fines over with, even though they're large, as there is a tendency to over compensate on the balance sheet when it's uncertain.

The situation today is very different from what it was back then primarily as a consequence of the regulatory changes. As we've not had a equivalent shock since, it's difficult to say whether the changes have been sufficient.

I have a bit of a concern that one of the big changes: moving to a predominantly cleared model in preference to bilaterals. It definitely reduces exposure but puts an awful lot of concentration onto a small number of clearing houses and exchanges.
Just wanted to share a sentiment from a living luthier that I like.

Samuel Zygmuntowicz (a modern maker) has remarked, Strad made new violins. It's a reminder that age has little to do with the quality in some fine antique instruments. Strad's craft to fabricate brand-spanking-new violins made him quite a wealthy man (because they were fine instruments then, as they are now).
> Also, it is not like LaTeX et al are standing still in time.

Indeed -- XeTeX (and XeLaTeX) support Unicode and OpenType fonts natively (including system installed fonts). It's a pleasure to use.
A hefty savings and checking account with a national chain bank could also help you land a no fee credit card. They consider it collateral.
We're in 64th place for crime, just behind UK and Australia and way behind the US (obviously). But Japan is absolutely great if you're looking for low crime rates, and the food is fantastic too.

http://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp
Nature follows the path of least resistance.

If the easiest way to make money is to spy then it will happen.

Whoever does it successfully once will be rewarded, and that reward will reshape their behavior.
In my experience, the more popular american cheeses are quite mild and have a low melting temperature to get a good melt and stretch on warm food. I don't find them particularly interesting to just slice and put on a piece of bread. It is often easy enough to find good but expensive imported cheeses.
Getting to write articles like this to make prosecutors look good, and for people feel like big bad Goldman Sachs is getting hurt.

Here's another thing to grind your gears: much of the fine will be paid in "consumer relief," which so far has meant a tax writeoff upfront, then negligible consumer relief.
Android and iOS Review Notifications in Slack
Cruise at Night , making beautiful Golden reflections in sea
You could very well be a shareholder of a bankrupt company if execs start going to jail.
No, they excplicitly address the hypothesis and reject it:

The findings underscore public health research showing that healthy habits matter. The JAMA paper found that several measures of access to medical care had no clear relationship with longevity among the poor. But there were correlations with smoking, exercise and obesity.

“There remains this misconception in our society that health is determined by health care,” said Dr. Steven Woolf, a professor and director of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, who wrote an editorial commending the research but offering some methodological criticisms. “Behaviors have a huge influence on health outcomes.”
To be fair putting a title and an item id is nearly as easy to code, just the "overhead" of a rewrite rule.
argument, meet counterexample
He has great notes. I have to thank him sometime for helping me test out of Linear Algebra and help skip a class.
Introducing Global CSS Property Usage – Microsoft Platform Data
If people wouldn't link to garbage there wouldn't be a need for TL;DR because a high quality news article is already minimized and compact. This is a cultural problem on HN, since a year or so we've seen a massive increase in "bla bla" articles reaching the top (at least it feels that way).
>It also means your documents are locked to a proprietary standard that isn't that widely used (compared to say MS Word)

HTML and CSS?
Thanks. I have edited my post :)
Initially built this service because there was no easy way to get Android app review updates in Slack. It's been expanded to included iOS App store reviews and email notifications are coming soon.

I'd appreciate any constructive feedback.
> Imagine if McCain/Palin had been elected in 2008 and/or Romney/Ryan had been elected in 2012 - I can imagine this 5B "slap on the wrist" turning into a "pat on the back" for this vaunted job creator (i.e. Goldman Sachs).

This says more about your preconceptions than it does about anything in the real world, where John McCain joined Elizabeth Warren in introducing a bill to bring back Glass-Steagall and Mitt Romney has pointed out that Dodd-Frank was a gigantic gift to the New York banks.
Unions Threaten Verizon with Strike
I am totally with you, I can not stand to be in debt or having any outstanding credit card debt. But that said, I maintain a Costco AmEx (soon to be Visa I guess) and use it for everything. At the end of the month I just pay it off. To be honest I don't much care about my credit, it's under my wife's name any way. The reasons I use the Credit Card is to protect my self against fraud. Cash is king, of course, but not always convenient to pay with. And for online purchases you are forced to use either a Debit or a Credit card. With a Debit card, if someone steals your account, it's your money on the line. With Credit Card, it's the banks. They created the shitty system that is so easy to hack, let them pay for the fraud and deal with it. My credit card has been stolen 3 times in the last 2 years alone. One time by an AT&T rap, they actually caught and prosecuted her. But the point is, I never had to stress about having money missing from my account. It's a good idea even if you don't care about credit.
In past cycles, when I've gotten rejected it's been through a polite e-mail. Haven't heard anything (either way) this cycle yet.
For everyone asking why or cynically pointing out that no one went to jail over this, you need to have people agree on what caused all of this before any of that happens.
>We would not accept shitty ingredients in our food, being told it was a grade beef, when it turned out it was actually alley cat, sewer rat and suchlike mixed in.

This is America. Some percentage of the population not only would accept it but get pretty bitter about government overreach if you proposed that more be done about food safety, and refuse to believe you if you said that selling rat meat is already illegal...
Researchers help shut down spam botnet that enslaved 4,000 Linux machines
I guess I knew in general about wheels but didn't see how it would solve "usability" problems like this one.

Does `pip install lxml` fail in a similarly perplexing way if you don't have `build-essential` (`gcc` et al) installed? If so maybe the difference is that the posix/linux crowd is more likely to have installed a compiler at this point.

Here's hoping MSFT's Linux ABI support evolves into the norm for a port target.
Microsoft – Ensuring equal pay for equal work
It seems more likely that the people making hiring decisions for a living do these checks for jobs where it turns out they're useful.
Sounds like you accidentally embarked on a high-protein diet instead of a ketogenic diet, which is defined as "high fat, very low carb, moderate/sufficient protein".

High-protein diets (ie over 50% of kcals from protein) are neither healthy nor sustainable over more than 1-3 weeks.
Saw botpages.com on Product Hunt last week. It looks like they're free to submit.
IBM seems to be pushing on power chips but Intel seems to have the performance end of the market and ARM seems to have the low power end of the market. Does anyone think IBM can come back with the power chips?
the canadian os
And here I was thinking this was a Brazillian invention (they are wildly popular in Brazil, everywhere you go in Brazil, even the middle of nowhere, like Amazon Rainforest, you will find someone that owns one).
Currently using Google Keep.
It isn't much like dumping in the US, where local monopolies are the rule. I pay $120/month for 150/30 cable service in Portland OR, which is pretty terrible compared to many other parts of the world. I can't imagine Google is really interested in becoming another regional monopoly, they are clearly trying to drive the existing ISPs to improve their offerings (since GOOG makes money when more people are online). If killing the competition was their plan, they are certainly doing it very slowly (I'd happily pay them for fiber).
>What you forget is that some jobs just cannot pay enough to make it worth for non-impoverished people.

Of course they can pay enough. Just not when there is competition from other farms using illegal immigrant labor.

You know as well as I that if all illegal immigrant labor simply disappeared, the American farming industry would not just shut down and leave everyone to starve. They'd pay as much as they needed to hire Americans, and consumers would pay as much as needed to sustain that.
He talks about the height of the camera, and loading additional images, in the first post of the series.
And I bet like Tony Benn they also have parents who changed there wills to manage in heritance tax and have ISA's with more in then David Cameron's tiny little offshore holding.

You know when your grown up when you have a discussion with your parents about their wills and inheritance tax.
>And have prudently concluded

It's really hard to take an argument seriously when the person making it, regardless of who they are, opens with "I have made a prudent conclusion."
> What would a dev have failed at simply because they built a code generator?

Creating an understandable API and making stuff easily extensible.

I often have the feeling these code generators try to hide bad design decisions, which resulted in a huge amount of boilerplate code, that wouldn't be needed if things were designed different.

And you can't even blame most frameworks for it. Ember has so much history that you can't simply throw every thing out, because "now animations or server-rendering is a PITA", so devs maneuver around it with code generators.

There are valid reasons to have them. But when I have to choose frameworks for a new project, code generators are definitely red flags for me.

I don't have much of a problem with this controller/route/model generation stuff, that you mentioned. I wouldn't use it, but I can see why people save a few minutes.
Another case of malware blocking gone wrong. Well, it’s not malware, but if you don’t trust it, you can probably use the archive.org version of the site.
A Legitimate Website to Earn Prizes for Free
Also worth noting that Microsoft wanted to pay half in shares which were worth on Feb 1st 2008 27.20 (post announcement - a huge drop!) - today they are worth 54.42 - almost exactly double.

This means that today if the deal had have gone through (and people kept their MS shares) in 2008, Y! shareholders would have assets worth ~$66bn.
Ratings on sovereign debt seem kind of irrelevant to me. I don't see why the agencies would have any sort of edge.

But I agree one of the most dumfounding facts of the present situation are that these rating agencies are still in business. I think the argument is that they were transparent about what methodologies they used to produce these ratings. But regardless of that, the blatant conflict of interest means this whole business model should be dead. I think Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies made the point that it's the buyers who should pay for stuff to be rated, not the issuers. Possibly it may have worked like that in the past until the government stepped in and changed it... can't quite remember.
Compared to what they could make in another job, they make a lot wherever they are.

e.g. here it's hundreds per hour for a girl who would barely beat minimum wage otherwise.

$5 in South Asia is mostly mythical, but even where it would be true, that's a large multiple over what they could make otherwise.
I get part of the "creep" factor, but anyone walking down the street has a much higher resolution image of your house - and with real-time "video", to boot! Maybe people just don't think about that very often?
That's a fairly specific search term though. I'm not sure I'd use that as the only evidence that it doesn't matter.
Programs must be written for people to read
Just tried it. Works really well. Got everything hooked up in under a minute.
Disclosure: self-submission.
It really shouldn't be illegal, it should be protected, like free speech, as noted in the article, "It's like raiding the mailman's house for delivering an illegal letter with no return address"

In fact I think that's why they withheld the fact that he runs a TOR node from the judge.
Yes, and I highly recommend back-to-back listens! It's simply gorgeous and a relatively poorly tapped part of Bach's (admittedly massive) catalogue.
Ahead of Google I/O, Google previews new Android N Multi-Window support
I think you're right that Rymbolic + sympy are good comparisons as well.
Do you mean Sam or Dave - Davesa pauper compared to Samcam
Is it essential that a wife must know how to cook?
I have two slicers, a really good one and a bad one both from IKEA. Consistent quality is not really their thing.
I have no idea what effect the walking is having, but would point out that wealthy non-new Yorkers have other routes to attain the benefits of walking, such as gym time and hiking trips. You can't say the same of poor non-new Yorkers.
If there was no other source of clothing, you'd be willing to spend crab money.

In fact, this was the case during the industrial revolution. A pair of pants would cost a full week's wages. This is why people back then owned like 2 to 4 outfits.

It's amazing how many people just can't comprehend how the world can realign so different things become 'normal'. Like, "nobody would ever pay that for clothes". What, you think they'd go naked if there was no alternative?
I can only praise the idea and wish it to be an initiative that others follow. It sure helps connect people around the globe.
I was reading my reply and this does not sound right:

>We have a manufacturer that sponsor's us with space and tools but not money.

We love our primary sponsor. Without space and tools we could not do our work. While we need to raise funds also the space is big and the tools amazing (CNC, welding, grinding, bandsaw, lathe and a lot more).

https://www.powertraincontrolsolutions.com/ Powertrain Control Solution has been and we hope will continue to be the primary sponsor of choice for us.
Show HN: AIRA – AI Chat Bot for Shoe Shopping
Waiting impatiently. Please could someone give me some feedback on my idea and the name. Is someone working on something similar? Any ideas on what features I should try to implement on day one. Thanks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11448299
As the person who wrote the code for the SEO part of the reddit URL, I can tell you that there is definitely an impact. It made a huge difference at the time, because reddit wasn't really on Google's radar. Today I suspect it would have less impact for reddit.

For HN, I get the impression that they don't really want to be all that optimized for Google, so it probably hits their goals just fine, but it probably does hurt them a little bit. But since the words are in an H1 right at the top, probably not all that much.

Edit: The code in case anyone is interested:

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/cfd979fa0119191257eadc...
Nobody has mentioned the language issue yet?

Unfortunately what I've seen implies they talk in English. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But my son has been taking French language class in school and this provides the obvious extension to their idea of "talk to a random French-speaking person" or whatever other language someone wants to learn. Something like that probably already exists anyway. I suppose there would be the predictable issues with most foreign language learners being minors.
In the early years, they could claim (with some basis) to be "neither left nor right", but somewhat off the generally conceived political grid altogether. Appealing equally to peaceniks and potheads as to entrepreneurs and laissez-faire economists, and all that.

But in recent decades they've basically thrown their lot (solidly) with the political far right in the U.S., both ideologically and strategically. This shift was already in place well before their paramount candidate actually chose to run under the GOP ticket (and libertarians started to register Republican en masse), but by now the tacit alliance is pretty obvious, and fundamental to their strategy.

As to sentimental platitudes I mean of course "the state is inherently corrupt" and all the other anti-state rhetoric. They can say that all they want, but when they go so far as to (overtly) align themselves with Republican Party and everything it stands for -- I just don't buy it.
compilation terminated.

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error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

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Cleaning up...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_test/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-QEyvN6-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_test/lxml
Storing debug log for failure in /home/test/.pip/pip.log

There is some stuff above in the log, but the nothing about build-essentials. And a new dev would likely have to hit google/stackoverflow.
openbsd has great art
>Full title in the url helps readers know what they're clicking.

Almost every website I've seen lets you re-write the url. For example,

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4eaqjb/something

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4eaqjb/anything

both go to the same link.
The lower right-hand of that image, where they use the symbols for when a glyph is missing was seriously clever.

I'd kill for this t-shirt too. Let's gang up on someone and take their shirts.
Isn't that exactly what those agencies want?
Why is advancement desirable? Giving people more responsibility when they prove they can handle it is one thing. It's entirely another to equate advancement with monetary compensation.

In general, I believe people should be incentivized with responsibility, which is in everyone's interest. Cash compensation only benefits one person; doubly so when considering the rate of tax avoidance in the upper echelons of income.
Dark Web Drug Dealers Are Making Sloppy Mistakes
nice! wanted to install mysql-python and was stuck here!! Thanks.
How do you spend your free time? Are you part of a community? I'm thinking of things like a charity, or a rock climbing group, or a choir, whatever interests you. Spending time in a social setting like that is a sure way to get to know new people, and I know many people who met their partners like this (and even if doesn't work, you'll spend your time doing things you like anyway)
I have two broad arrows, but they’re not Speedmasters :)

https://omegaforums.net/attachments/img_0405-jpg.125750/
Nope nothing, what time do emails typically get sent out?
HN doesnt really care.
Even if slugs didn't provide any SEO benefit, I would implement them purely for usability reasons. xyz.com/learn-seo looks much better to a user compared to xyz.com/46765475
"There is no logical reason, if the capability exists to automatically produce sufficient basic necessities for every human being, why every human being should still have to do a make-work job in order to prove they "deserve" those things. And you could still have all the capitalism you like for anything that isn't a basic necessity; the basic life doesn't have to be one of luxury, just one free from worry about things like food and shelter; the currency of such a society would need to be tied to something other than control of basic-necessity resources, but finding alternative bases for currency is something people already do for fun."

Well, let the people who live on welfare invent and create the machines that will give them free food, water, heat and living space. They surely have a lot of time to devote to that, not having to work for a living.
I wasn't arguing for lowering the top end, I think it's fine as is.

A broader bottom end may mean that it gets a bit harder to make it to that point, but in practice that's not where most of the resources for providing more/better housing would come from anyway. Ambitious people will find a way to make it to the top, while putting their wealth into self-directed charities and moonshot companies instead of government-controlled tax revenue. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and it can and will continue either way.

In the end it's the decision of the broad public, the "middle class" if you will, to determine how much we want to collectively spend on housing security, and how to create mixed-income communities to facilitate upward mobility and avoid creating poor-people slums or monocultural wealth enclaves. The main ingredient for that is (valuable city) land, so I don't believe technology can do much about improving things too much. Nonetheless we always have the option to contribute to affordable housing, universal basic income, yadda yadda. I don't think that's mutually exclusive with high-profile billionaire projects.
Assuming best intentions on the part of everyone involved (Which, let's face it, is being too charitable):

No, it was white people pretending to be black people, with the intent of caricaturing them, without having any sense of propriety or mindfullness.

This is white people pretending to be of Arabic origin, with the intent of caricaturing them, without any sense of propriety or mindfullness.

Since when is calling a racist spade a spade white guilt?
A newspapers finances aren't going to be managed by its editorial team, and bringing themselves up is a distraction from what the editorial team is trying to achieve.

Furthermore there's no general hypocrisy involved in advocating for stricter government policy A while following the loose current law to do B because 1) You gain nothing from changing these things on the individual rather than policy level and 2) if you do A instead of B you're at a competitive disadvantage.
Is friendship reflexive?
> What's hard for me to understand and believe is that a company like GS would be willing to pay out that much money when no crime had occurred.

The settlement is for a civil action under the FIRREA: http://www.jonesday.com/firrea-civil-money-penalties-the-gov.... That Act provides for the government to bring a civil action for violations of 14 specific criminal statutes. While the government must prove the elements of these crimes, the burden of proof is only the "civil preponderance" of the evidence standard, not the criminal "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard.
Google released more information about Android N (referring to N as Not the real name). The preview of the mobile operating system gives the impression of a more in-depth system and user-level polish that has been Google’s obsession since Android 4.4 Kitkat.
Landing an F-15 with only one wing
I consider any moral axiom system a religion. If that bothers you, pretend I said "strongly held personal belief" instead.