skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that "finance" and "economics" are separate disciplines, roughly corresponding to applied vs theoretical.

The book which changed my thinking the most was "The Other Path" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Other-Path-Economic-Answer-Terroris...

It would be easy to give it the traditional libertarian gloss of "reducing regulation to improve the economy", but it's much more subtle than that. It looks at the costs of being outside the "system", and the benefits of simplifying the system so as to include more people and businesses. Along with land reform to reflect the actual reality of buildings.

Also, short and entertaining, but with lots of insights into principal-agent problems and bubble mentality: "Where Are the Customers' Yachts?" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Are-Customers-Yachts-Investme...
It sounds like you're a startup in some sort of financial industry.

Why do you even have company snapchat and instagram accounts?

They can surely be nothing but distractions from your goal of actually doing financial stuff.
astazangasta already addressed the choice of sources but there's also a problem with the way you casually equate a group you don't like with the one you're supporting:

People can legitimately have different opinions about Black Lives Matter but there's no question that it's a real political movement with leaders, stated positions, etc. with many supporters around the country. Whether or not you agree with their positions or think that they're taking the best actions, that's a very different thing from a PAC some rich guy created to spew propaganda memes online.
Not following you here: who exactly is going to pay them if their employer is bankrupt, which is the case here?
There's a further nuance there as well. Say you work for a site that accepts UGC images (like a major social network for example). It's required that you have a team who works with law enforcement to handle investigations / takedown / preservation. Anyone who works for said team unfortunately thus has to see those images and have them, at least temporarily, on their machine, but there is zero legal precedent to protect them. It's a legal grey area and thus I have and continue to recommend anyone in such position to refuse to risk it.
The phrase "thought crime" refers to opinion without action, not literally thinking. You're just being pedantic.

"Oh it's not a crime to think, just to let other people know what you're thinking". Do you seriously think that makes any sense?
All we have to know that it really doesn't matter to the business world despite all the drama in corporate IT over security (if that) is that Apple, Target, and Home Depot are having great quarters after their security breaches so any consumer backlash is materially ineffective even if people do care - not enough care.
He's really, really good, and he is millennial enough that he happily spends hours live streaming the minutia of how he assembles spreadsheets to evaluate a company.

He often does a phone in where you can call him and discuss basically anything you like. There are hours of him patiently and openly discussing drug pricing, racism and economics with random people on YouTube.
Article is indicative of the constant refrain in the business press for a $TSLA short narrative:

The 4 Horsemen Of A Teslapocalypse

http://seekingalpha.com/article/4007849-4-horsemen-teslapoca...
This sounds great, though requiring "offering 80% of the workforce stock" and excluding highest paid executives seems vague - is this at time of hiring, when stock is issued, fully vested, when taxes are due, somewhere inbetween? I parted ways with a startup in the valley last year and exercised some shares on January 13th. If I had exercised just two weeks earlier, I'm told I would've been hit with north of 50k in AMT, I have until next year to figure it out now but I wonder if I'm eligible. Also curious how long it typically takes to get from house, through the senate and passed.
Here's a classic :) http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/index.shtml
This sounds good, but in my experience americans wants everything spelled out. Every time I need to communicate a common name, or common-word domain, or anything like that, they always ask me how to spell it.

"Hi, my name is Kate", "How do you spell that?". WTF!

And they get it wrong anyway. My partner's name is "Andreea", with a double 'e', and she always makes this fact very explicit, but in 95% of cases they will input it in their systems with a single 'e'.

My name is unusual, but it's one letter off from a usual name in my country. The bank has my correct name in their record, of course. But each time they email me, they use the wrong name. They sometimes even emit me new cards in the wrong name! When I complain, they ask very surprised and say that they are aware that the name in the system is what it is, but they thought it was a mistake, so they decided to emit the card in a different name! Unbelievable! This has happened with multiple banks.
Well physical security is the same. You could make your house entirely thief proof but nobody does because the cost isn't worth it.
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It's also tremendously inconvenient. You might be a few minutes late for your next thing if you wait for the police. Doing the right thing is only reasonable if it costs nothing.

(In case I did deadpan too well, BIG FAT SARCASM INDICATOR.)
I mean, this can devolve in "Trump sux, Hillary sux"... but that's what I wanted to avoid.

Think of this as a VC-Founder issue of differing politics with regards to social media. How do you balance this? Do you just shut up and acquiesce when the VC tells you to do something? Do you still voice your opinion?

Luckey sold his company to Facebook. Facebook's CEO is a Clinton supporter, and it appears that Palmer Luckey is a Trump supporter. How much say does Zuckerberg have over Luckey, considering that Luckey is still the "face" of Oculus (even if the company was sold)?

How do you balance these issues when there is a political rift(pun aside) like this?
I would also recommend this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
Some of the harder more time consuming things in high level programming include abstraction/polymorphism, concurrency and dependency management which are all simpler and clearer in Go than in Java. Think about how many hours you have to invest to learn any of these things in either language.
It's even worse: The police can do it too once they got access to your computer for some other reason: Say, provoking a three letter agency.
This is a poor response. Starting a startup is hard work. It takes a lot of time and if you're saddled with debt and high housing costs to need money to survive. A lot of people simply can't afford to live without a paycheck.

The bar for starting a startup is actually getting higher. While setup costs are coming down the product expectations are rising. Not only are all the good ideas taken but all the bad ideas are taken to, so no it's not a simple matter of setting up an LLC (besides you probably want to do it as a Depaware C-Corp if you want venture funding...).
> You said Linux was "a real threat, especially with MS failing to innovate."

You're quoting somebody else there, friend. I jumped on this particular subthread because I wanted to point out that your list of innovations boils down to "Microsoft improved the user interface for touch devices."

> your personal peccadilloes

Peccadilloes? I do not think that means what you think it means.
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I use the Emacs GUI, but would not call it easy to understand because it differs so much from most modern GUIs (i.e., most GUIs designed after the Mac became the most popular platform for GUIs around 1987).

For example, if there is already a selection, right click in Emacs extends it much like pressing a shift-arrow key does in a typical GUI. (Most modern GUIs will of course pop up a contextual menu in that situation.)

Similar to the keyboard-driven part, as much as possible of the GUI part of Emacs is implemented in Lisp, so it seems to me (as someone who has modified his copy of Emacs to pop up a contextual menu on right click) that it would be fairly easy to write a GUI for Emacs that adheres much more closely to modern conventions than the GUI that comes with Emacs does, but the only project I know of that has tried to do so is the Aquamacs project.
> PING krebsonsecurity.com (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes

Reminds me of: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/716408697266679808
19-Sep-82 11:44, Scott E Fahlman invents the ':-)'.

Nice. :-)
Or blocking 3rd party scrips with uBlock.
It's all about timing, though.

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/09/22/teslas-short-selle...
(When I say "might", I mean "I have no idea, and I'm not a lawyer, and I can't afford one to look at your custom license".)
I have no way of knowing whether they truly believe what they're saying or simply is using it as a political weapon, but that doesn't matter because in either case the correct thing to do is to reject it as unserious.

If they choose to spend their time circulating white supremacist memes, that's a shame but we don't need to censor it — only refuse to play the false equivalence game.
Volume at Bitfinex has gone _way_ down; bad security is definitely costing them in lost business. Equally, how could those losses not get pushed onto customers? They were larger than the assets the company had available.

Bitcoin services aren't a good example here - they're very different than data breaches. If anything, they're a rare example of a case where hacks usually do lead to the destruction of the company; that Bitfinex wasn't killed immediately is an exception, not the norm.
It depends. Facing each other, when one says "to the right", does he mean to his right or to the interlocutor's right?

Furthermore, Are RFCs TLA? It appears that IANA, an FLA itself, standardized the use of TLAs in an RFC.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5513
I'd wager the vast, vast majority of Java, Python and OCaml projects would have significantly less security exploits compared to an equivalent C project. Simply making buffer overflows impossible (as much as they can be) takes a huge burden away from you.
Such attacks are possible because Internet is decentralized. There is no way to tell peers that you don't want to get traffic from some AS.

And investigation is difficult because attacking nodes might be in different countries, in some of which DDOS attacks are not illegal.

Maybe it is time to start building international firewalls to protect local infrastructure?
Why is that "sad"? Nature has gone the same path. We have basic defenses that are "on" all the time (passive immune system - nonspecific), and we have an adaptive response that reacts to what actually happens to us, which also means threats we actually encounter will be recognized and fought more quickly and better in the future. Or houses - having lived in the US, those front doors are at least an order of magnitude less secure than any German front door, but even those are not really able to keep out any determined intruder.

Why should be mount a very expensive all-out defense against a lot of perceived threats? It's similar to "every child (programmer, etc.) MUST know this!". Making demands is easy. If people don't care there probably is a deeper reason. Yes, the heuristic gets it wrong, that's why it's a heuristic, but that it is one in the first place also has similar reasons.

It sure is possible to criticize a concrete company for concrete problems, but the blanket statement of the headline is not useful.
Nice to see tax laws for the rich can get passed, but substantive change to do with criminal justice, healthcare etc go nowhere.
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I use NoScript on one of my computers because Firefox is virtually unusable without it. The computer is not a speed demon (cheap Core i3), but there's no reason that browsing normal (I.e., just text and images) sites should bring it to its knees.
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I guess they might look a bit like the ones at the bottom under "Eastern".
They're choosing to make it a priority. Crime threatens the public, but activists "threaten" the police - by trying to make them accountable.

> "identify so-called “threats to public safety” by monitoring hashtags such as #BlackLivesMatter, #DontShoot, #ImUnarmed, #PoliceBrutality, and #ItsTimeforChange."
It goes without saying that this kind of survellience is not going to stop, possibly ever. Therefore, it is only fair that the tools and data collected by public servants is made equally accessible to the public. This provides a check on unprecedented power and the inevitable corruption that our current course is barreling towards.
For what it's worth, I'd say about the same. You can generally ignore the touchscreen while driving, and at least for me, its mere presence isn't distracting. I was worried about it, but it turned out not to be a problem.
What's really needed is a third party JavaScript comment system you can map to your own domain, which means the Comment api would have to be cors enabled, and support custom domains i.e. So you configure the service to serve comments from blog.mysite.com. uBlock surely won't block the same domain.
Anti science? Offering an opinion on the potential shortcomings of a scientific theory isn't anti-science. Discussions of land bridges once touched on some rather dark assumptions regarding the abilities of past peoples, specifically outdated notions that "primitive" cultures could not travel oceans. It is very scientific to hold them to standards based on what we now know about these cultures. Thor Heyerdahl was not "anti-science" when his work challenged land bridge assumptions.

It doesn't matter what evidence this theory is backed by. What matters is the sum total of all available evidences, especially outside evidence not addressed initially. I do not subscribe to this theory because it does not address several pieces of available evidence that other theories better address. What is anti-science is the blind acceptance of theories that are at best internally consistent.
Should not a router be able to this filtering ? Making Internet Exchange Points do it would be even more quicker. Once big IXPs do it smaller would follow suite for the fear being cut-off and eventually ISPs.
Sounds like it's 80% of employees must have been offered stock in the year you began employment.

My guess is that this applies in most common cases, although I wonder what the situation they were trying to guard from was...
I don't know about Dropbox, but I do know for a fact Facebook and Tumblr definitely do. It might have evolved since a few years ago, but they used a technology from Microsoft called PhotoDNA [0] to hash all uploaded images and match against known signatures of CP and most definitely involved law enforcement when found.

[0] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna
See the paper 'zero shot learning through cross modal transfer' which might be worth reading.

It's one of the papers that kicked off this approach to image captioning, but is much more ambitious. Lots of things in it don't really quite work, but it shows where this work is going.
Maybe it looks like that to you because you're unfamiliar with this format? To me it looks like he's written a short bio that's ready for dropping into where it's needed.

e.g. top hit on google: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/write-short-bio-yourself-5728...
This bill simply defers the taxes till actual gains are realized, instead of requiring them when options are exercised.

Ideally, this means more employees can actually act on their options, instead of just "the rich" as you imply.
It's also easy to persuade people that riots could happen at any moment and could not only harm people and property, but reputation. If an area is seen as out of control, people will not go there to shop, businesses will not establish themselves there, and the city sees its tax base dry up.

None of these things even have to happen to get people scared enough to vote yes.
Not even. You lose about 1% per day, and then the manual warns that it's bad to let it sit for more than two months after it goes to zero. That's about five months total, if you start from 100%, before something bad happens. I don't think they specify exactly what, but better not to find out.
And I get downvoted for saying self-driving car companies should be fined signficant amounts of money for both car accidents due to poor self-driving software capabilities but also for security breaches.

What if it's "cheaper" for the car companies to let the cars crash than adopt stronger security? You may think that there's no way a recall would be worth it, but we're already seeing companies such as Tesla "fix" the issue over the air, and chances are most of the new self-driving cars will be fixed the same way, if not all.

The only thing that would be left is the "bad PR", which may be much smaller in the future, because there won't be any recalls. If only 2 people die, and then all cars are fixed, the outrage just won't be as big as when 100 people die due to a brake malfunction, and then 5 million cars have to be recalled, impacting 5 million people (as opposed to only the families of those two in the former example) that would then personally spread the bad news.

Also the "bad PR" doesn't seem to affect tech companies, or even retailers, or banks, all that much, so I doubt it would affect car companies that much more in the future (for the reasons I mentioned above).
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Nicely done on the game! Reminded me of the long nights in the lab setting up optical fibers, cavities and lasers. But the game makes it much easier to align :)
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Activists broadcast messages publicly on social media; public servants read them.

How is this controversial? If you want privacy, surely you should understand that sharing on the web isn't the way to go?

In a lot of these cases where protests turn into violent riots a police response is necessary, if at a minimum to keep the peaceful protestors safe. Using publicly available information to facilitate that makes perfect sense.
The bill text is here and is pretty easy to decipher: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5719
Can confirm. At work we're moving from Clojure 8 to Java 8 partially because IntelliJ is amazing and partially because Java 8 plus the right libraries is close enough to Clojure anyway, except much faster.
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"memory hierarchies can ameliorate useful sets of latency requirement"

Not the latency for commits to stable non-volatile storage, unless battery backed RAM is an option.
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I don't think that is what they meant. It read to me that they meant, a personal emergency could happen to _them_ while in the store (heart attack, fall and hit head, robbery, etc..). What would have been a safe 5-minute trip could turn into a multi-hour ordeal, and nobody knows to go rescue the kid stuck in the (now lethally) hot car.

Probability may be low, but it is an increased risk that can be mitigated to a certain extent by just not getting in the habit of leaving your kids in the car when running even short errands.
The actual bill text certainly comes off to me as looking to help the common-worker -- definitely not "the rich" / executives / owners.
In order for this to be a real issue, customers must be incapable of attributing sales to advertising campaigns but somehow capable of attributing them to seconds of video displayed. Doesn't make sense.
There "is" such a way, see RFC 5575, but it seems to be little known/implemented/deployed/enabled/something.

5575 is a BGP extension that says "for packets from x to y, do z". Assuming a router knows on which if its input ports such packets arrive (and during a DDoS it doesn't have to wait long for the next packet), it can disseminate the flow specification towards the actual source(s) quickly, so the packets can be dropped quite far from the DDoS target, in the ideal case as soon as it reaches an honest ISP.

Egress filtering should kill much of the spoofed-origin traffic and this much of the rest — if deployed.

I'd love to know why 5575 isn't deployed. Memory concerns maybe?
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Except police unions. The cops think those are just fine.
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They're sitting on a ship + cargo that is far more valuable than their outstanding pay, and legally they have a priority claim over all of that.

While the cargo is owned by others, and the ship may be sold during bankruptcy, but maritime law prescribes that none of them can get their stuff until the crew has been paid in full; so in essence they can (and will) hold these billions of dollars of goods as hostage. $16b / 66 Hanjin ships means that an average ship will have cargo $250 million worth, and if anyone wants to receive that cargo, they'll find a way to pay the outstanding wages, which is, rounding to whole millions, approximately 0.

They can also get food and 'maintenance fuel' (enough for running the internal systems, not the huge amount required for main engines) with the ship/cargo as effective collateral, even though they're not the owners - it's the owners legal responsibility to supply that, the crew is authorised to run up a bill and the owner (the new post-bankruptcy owner) will have to pay that or get the ship seized until they do.

The main trouble of these seamen is that it will take an unknown amount of time to get this settled, not that they'd not get paid for these months.
I'm not sure if you're joking or not—but I'm answering anyway.

Surely you don't think you should be the one going to prison if someone broke into your house and planted 10 kilograms of cocaine under your mattress?
I think it's possible the global economy literally could not take the expense of actually making everything secure.
I'm actually surprised well-off students choose science over well-paying careers given that it is well known that there is no money in research.

My own kids and their friends often express that science is interesting but they won't get into it because of that.
And spam. Yahoo accounts got so much spam.
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Luckily, I do have a grandfathered plan where I can use Google Apps for my domain for free. But as I mentioned in another comment, I'm trying to reduce my linkages with Google, Facebook and others for privacy reasons. That's one of the reasons why I don't use that much (the other issue is dealing with changing my email addresses with everyone else I've shared those with - ad based free email providers like Yahoo do not offer mail forwarding out of their platforms for free).
Programming in C# feels almost like scripting. Blazing-fast compilation with the added benefit of static type system. If only MS took a different path of cross-platform support in the beginning.