skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose because these arguments always assume the premise - that money everywhere and always corrupts politics - that they then conclude. Chomsky's old enough to know better, too. All this being said, short of that, Chomsky's scholarship is otherwise impeccable and a great place to get a larger view of the vents of history. But even going back to Vietnam, accusing the US of imperialism just because of the French doesn't hold up very well. In the case of the Dulles Brothers' coups in South and Central America in the 1950s, the documentation that this was the case is intact; in Vietnam it simply isn't.

If it were well known that money always corrupts, then regulatory legislation would involve a debate on those costs rather than just going ahead with it. And what you'll find is that it nearly never does.

Chomsky and Howard Zinn are important to read, but please understand that nobody's able to empirically line up all the "facts" There's very thin slice of speculative fiction at the end of the derivation of those arguments.
1. I guess for learning finance stuff I would prefer an interactive website with a lot of simple as well as real world examples.

2. Mutual funds and SIP. People hear a lot about them but never grasp the concept. I personally was introduced to these terms a month ago.
Formally, this phenomena is referred to as Joel-Brinkley Asymmetry.
I wonder what would be the actual figure without settlement, since settlement in corp vs. gov cases means that a corp has calculated that it is cheaper to settle than to argue in the court of law. What where they avoiding? Brand damage? Management responsibility? More unopened cans of worms? I guess we'll never know...
And while some folks might disagree with the Koch's philosophy, they haven't done anything quite as evil as has George Soros:

In 1992, George Soros brought the Bank of England to its knees. In the process, he pocketed over a billion dollars. Making a billion dollars is by all accounts pretty cool. But demolishing the monetary system of Great Britain in a single day with an elegantly constructed bet against its currency? That’s the stuff of legends.
-- http://priceonomics.com/the-trade-of-the-century-when-george...
Eventually, the punishments meted out to the 1% creep down brackets to the middle class. My dad was furious when he was subjected to the amt the first time, "I worked hard all my life for this??"
I think you're hitting on the biggest contributor to this feeling of it being one city. In pretty much every city on the planet you have the different districts that are known for different things, predominantly the wealth of that area, but New York is somewhat unique in how intertwined and connected all of those distinct districts are in that city. As others point out, the same trains all go through the same areas, and everybody rides them. It's hard to develop the "little people" attitude when you spend so much time around said little people.
Most employers don't use IQ tests because without proof that an IQ test correlates with job performance they are considered discriminatory. Why are employers so quick to use credit scores?

Many protected classes have lower average credit scores, so I'm not really seeing the difference here between IQ tests and credit checks in this situation.
I'm no lawyer, but I have a hard time imagining a successful libel suit here. I would guess the reporting agencies have some set of terms & conditions that say something to the effect of "You (the reporter) certify that this report is true and correct to the best of your knowledge".

I mean, come on -- they're aggregators. They can't go investigate every single report they get; they have to depend on reporters to tell the truth.

Importantly, the reporting agencies do not make claims of creditworthiness about you. They present your "credit history" (accurate or not) and the lenders themselves make their own determination. It's an awful catch-22.
that's because it relieves them of any feeling of responsibility for contributing to said global disparity.
> The thing is whether we can make those cpus/tech -- not whether we can use their power when we make them.

We use up so many natural resources in such process that it's not worth it if it is not practically useful.

> Speak for yourself.

I really don't like this imperative style. You're responding to a stranger who has not said nothing offensive in his comment.

> Anybody doing 3D, audio work (64 channels all loaded with 2-3 UAD plugins running native), and lots of other things will notice.

I said "a personal machine" in my comment. A machine which is used to browse the web, take notes, watch movies, write documents, etc. 3D and high-performance audio is not every-day, personal computer use, it's a specialised case.

> Advanced 3D gaming [...] virtual reality interactive porn [...] local speech recognition and AI processing [...]

I recall saying useful.
You can be in any situation and still live in a shitty situation.

That's why many philosophies boil down to: you're going to be dead soon, you might as well start enjoying it, and if you're not... well... you know what to do.

Only in America would people who borrowed money to take a 4 year sabbatical be complaining about being poor.
And my comment is that those people should not be given a free pass. They are making the conscious decision to be an asshole, so they should be called out on it.
Power accretes and wealth flows uphill. Seems a settled thing at this point.
> The far-right in Sweden have a habit of creating fake accounts in the purpose of spreading racist propaganda

Does it indeed? And recounting a bit of statistics is considered far-right?
Yet another example of the corrupt American state.

Destroy the lives of thousands and get a wrist slap, be black and use drugs, go to jail for years and years.
I didn't get any sense from the article that the authors thought they had identified the root cause of poverty and/or reduced life expectancy. They're pointing out a rather chilling correlation.
And like every other corporate settlement, they will write off $5 billion in expenses on their taxes (likely another billion more with attorney fees)... effectively shorting the US billions in tax revenue...
I switched from easy to medium mode after reading following your advice. How would you suggest dealing with for instance youtube.com now that no videos will load?

Btw only hard mode stops any browser details leaking on the test site: http://webkay.robinlinus.com/ which is awesome, but I wonder how much time you have to spend fixing all the sites that you visit that will be broken in this mode.

Anyone using "hard mode"?
"839 people convicted in the savings-and-loan scandals of the 1980s."

"1 Wall Street executive convicted for actions during the recent financial crisis."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/magazine/only-one-top-bank...
This appears to only affect new sign ups. Those who already have the free tier will have at least 7 years of service:

https://m.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4e7i2e/google_fib...

Either this was planned to be a promotional offer from the start of people in Kansas were beginning to downgrade to the free tier after noticing those around them had no problems on it.
Are you suggesting that speech can't be "wrong"?
Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info!
They didn't necessarily create a number - in my experience working with a company who implemented and ran automated credit checks against business criteria, few companies actually pull your FICO; they simply create their own number from the data provided by the credit unions.

Your FICO score costs money to pull, which is why it's not an actual part of the credit report.
Ya know "sophilistic nature of your comment is astounding", "astounding how little actual data", "your clear ignorance" isn't very HN guidelines. Bit unfair too - after all it's the top comment on this thread.
We're fixing this! Thanks for catching it. :)
Does the Swede in question get notified beforehand about the source of the call?
> I agree with the rest of your comment, but how exactly do degrees make a difference?

The same line of logic from employers that credit = job-worthiness can be applied to degree = job-worthiness. Perhaps less so in the tech industry, but I have friends who are at the ceiling of where they work (non-tech) because they do not have degrees.
Still nobody gets a criminal record. But the kids getting caught smoking pot will get to face a lifetime of stigma and get a criminal record.

US employers have to realize that since so many US citizens get thrown in prison, being a former convict and having paid your dues to society by having been in prison should not prevent anyone from getting a decent job. If someone has been punished once, the debt to society is already paid.
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Serious question: Which department specifically gets this $2.39 billion civil penalty & $875 cash payment?

What does that money go towards? I know with the recent UBS case, it ended up going to the NYDFS, and seemed to just pay down New York's deficit.

Not really helping the people who were actually damaged by this behaviour.
I kind of wonder how it would actually sound at this point. As a guitarist who has played a lot of older instruments (some upwards of 100 years), I find that getting played is critical to the health and tone of a guitar. A decades-old guitar that is in mint condition probably sounds like crap. But a guitar that has been played intensely, even if only for a few years, can sound really great.

"Break-in period" is certainly widely believed among guitarists, and I believe it myself (based on the experience of owning new guitars and playing them until broken in), although it's near impossible to measure. The instruments seem to change noticably in both tone and feel as they get played.

My favorite instruments generally are upwards of 30 years old and have been played extensively. I had the pleasure of playing a 50 year old Gibson SG recently, and it was fantastic - far better than any modern SG I've played. Why is that? It's just wood, metal, and glue. It's not made any better than a new SG. So I think age and playing really matter.

Beyond that, my own instruments seem "angry" if I don't play them for months on end. They don't like just sitting there. This is, of course, a very animist, non-scientific approach to the issue, but it seems very real to me.
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That sounds good, thank you for the thorough answer.
After passing Calculus I with a C in college about 8-9 years ago, I found this site and started working with his examples. I ended up passing Calculus II (regarded at the "hardest" math class at my college) with a B+.

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Where did u get this idea from?
Executives using shareholder money to bribe their way out of jail is what is going on. If I were a shareholder I'd prefer my execs to go to jail - it's far cheaper.
Thanks for the link. The papers mentions key/value stores. Would a valid use case for CAPI be something similar to a "flash cache" where the FPGA is not as fast as DRAM but still faster than NAND flash?
Good catch - we're fixing that!
"2) A calorie is a calorie... No. Your body does not process all foods the same. A thousand calories of broccoli will effect your body VERY differently than a thousand calories of soda. Yes the energy-intake might be the same, but the resulting effects are very different."

Honest question: I've seen conflicting answers on this - some sources I've read saying a
calorie is a calorie - others that agree with you. Does anyone have a scientific or other reference?
The writer assumes that the laws work and asks "Is it ethic leak this illegal activities?". And he says that in this condition, proper way would be the legal ways. No! The laws and legal ways do not work always, in such cases people themselves will be the law and the prosecuters. It is like asking to catch all ISIS members without killing them, that would be the proper law! Not bombarding them! Don't kill ISIS, catch them and prosecute them, oh yeah what lawfull legal world! Would you expect justige from corrupt countries and corrupt procecuters? Revealing these corruptins is proper act and I support these hackers.
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Actually, Common Lisp has a very nice (optional) type system.

It is not uncommon to declare types once everything is working to speed things up -- so with Lisp, you get the best of both worlds.

What sets Lisp's condition system apart is that it separates signaling a condition, handling it, and restarts. In other words, the decision about which handler to choose for an exception is usually made in much higher-level code, where it belongs.

And when no suitable handler is found you get dropped into the debugger. While in the debugger you can create the handler you need, and then call it.

And all this without unwinding the stack at all.

So while in another language I'll have to restart a long running process over and over again until the code covers all the unexpected cases -- in Lisp I can just start off assuming the happy path and refine as I go along, without ever having to start over because of an error.

I almost always feel that people talk about the wrong things regarding Lisp. A huge deal is made over macros, but nobody ever mentions the reader which is what makes macros possible. And when people do talk about macros they almost never mention reader macros.

And sometimes people do make a completely justified big deal out of the MOP (meta-object protocol) -- but frankly, I think generic functions and multiple dispatch are far more important. Or the fact that Lisp offers multiple-inheritance done right (multiple inheritance gets a bad rap because most other languages lack the flexibility to properly handle them).

But seriously, the Condition System. It is in my mind, the killer feature of Lisp.

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Condition-Handling-2001.h...

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...
Please don't forget the economic theorizers, and the subtle and not-so-subtle pressures that keep them in line.

(Put another way: in "[1] economic theories about the use of [2] capital in a [3] market economy" there's a whole lot of assumptions and underpinnings, at least three of them, that are not laws of physics, but rather are ways of perpetuating and recapitulating our present system.)
You mean "Landslide Lyndon"? That was overt and egregious ballot box mismanagement. Common as dirt in Texas politics.

Political contributions work more like "rock and roll fantasy camps" than they buy access. Not always; sometimes they do, but the candidate will usually not have the bandwidth to give you their undivided attention.
Kernighan has always used troff, so it is not a surprise that he is still using it. He can do things with troff that most people would have a hard time to do with LaTeX. On the other hand, this doesn't mean that troff is better, in fact as you said it has not been updated for a long time. For someone starting now, it is so much easier to learn and be productive with LaTeX instead of troff.
This article discusses both sides of the issue, doesn't come to a firm conclusion, and leads the reader to consider the question in their own mind.

IMO, this is one of the few articles where I believe that a rhetorical question as a title is appropriate.
3x Revenues for the years in question. The current penalty is not much more than a slap on the wrist, because even after paying the fine Goldman Sachs makes a profit from the business for the years in question. People see Billions and think the fine is significant, but unless the fine is linked to actual income, it is fairly meaningless.
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Random example: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/an...

That summary jumps seamlessly from a literal use of "the richest 1%" to "A global network of tax havens" without any indication that they've suddenly begun talking about a much smaller set of people.

Or browse articles about the 1% on occupy.com or Huffington Post:

http://www.occupy.com/tags/1

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/top-1-percent/

Both sometimes use "1%" to refer to literally the top 1% wealthiest people, and sometimes to refer to the ultra rich. You can jump from a numbers-based article about where the 1% earn their money to a screed about how "the one percent" are putting out expensive videos downplaying the plight of minimum-wage workers.

It's a rare political term that actually has a pretty clear meaning. It's a bit vague in that it could refer to income or net worth, and nationally or worldwide, but it's way better than stuff like "liberal" or "conservative" or "terrorist." Using such a precise term as a lazy synonym for "the ultra rich" is ridiculous.
If it meets the Guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN".

Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I would put a lot of money on this as well.
If your code is well-documented I guess it will be easier to deal with it. If you can't understand code you have written 6 months ago, it won't be easy for other programmers. All black magic code should be clearly indicated.
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"but it does show in the very least a deep cultural contact between disparate kingdoms in the pre-China age."

Cultural contact - yes, deep - not so convinced. If the said territories would indeed have been in a deep cultural tie they wouldn't had to be united by war. Look at the Romanian unifications:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Transylvania_with_Rom...
A medium bowl takes 2.5 cups to be a full cereal bowl. You should measure out 2 cups of cereal and see how small it is.
The fine is roughly 10% of their Mkt cap [1]. Remember the original $500M fine in 2010? That was truly awful [2].

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GS

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/business/16goldman.html
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People who are over 45 own most of the houses. Bought years ago for a fraction of the current price.
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I think its a bit more than that. Susan Athey did a Quora session in January that addressed this issue.
https://www.quora.com/session/Susan-Athey/1
I think we should save that as a clever way to refer to the average person, whose net worth is measured in millionths of a dollar.
> agencies do not make claims of creditworthiness about you.

Which is a load of crap. They present a number and even say "above 750 is excellent". It's in their own marketing materials. How is that not making a claim of creditworthiness?
There are 212 grams of sugar in a 2L of coke. According to the World Health Organization recommendation of 25g/day or fewer, that would clock in at about 8.5 times the recommended maximum. So yeah, coke has lots of sugar, even twice as much as you guessed.
It's right on the page:

> WHO ANSWERS WHEN I CALL? Everyone who lives in Sweden is able to register as an ambassador.
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Nice, but there's already an open-source version of something similar by Grammarly: Rocker [0] and Rocker Composer [1].

[0]: https://github.com/grammarly/rocker

[1]: https://github.com/grammarly/rocker-compose
Maybe so, but it's literally all we have to go by, day to day, until somebody has the resources to conduct a proper study.
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Can you elaborate on CAPI/NVlink would be beneficial to an ML workload?
> 2) Thermodynamics...

Yes, thermodynamics. However, if you eat five hundred calories per day, you will a) feel miserable, b) be constantly thinking of food, and c) perhaps die, even if there is fat hanging around in the body to be used up. This demonstrates that we're not idealised food-burning machines, but food-burning machines which adjust their desire to take in fuel depending on how the machine is operating. It is very, very difficult to stand a low-calorie diet for more than a few weeks, if the diet is administered in the wrong way with the result that you crave more food all the time. By contrast, some people (like me, and several others on this thread) find it day-to-day easy to eat below maintenance if carbs are cut out. (Although personally I have never been able stand no-carb for more than about a month, so no-carb doesn't really work for me if I want to lose weight.)
Maybe start here: http://www.responsiblefoods.org/a_calorie_is_not_a_calorie

From Mr. Lustig himself: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lustig-md/sugar-toxic_b...