skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strict liability is an old concept in law. I am not buying these claims of innocence involving a low level employee whose activities were not directed by the CEO; this fraud involved thousands of employees responding directly to a clear economic incentive that came down from the executive suite. You don't get to bring about that sort of situation and then disavow any knowledge of it. That's just an invitation to malfeasance. Look up the legal concept of Scienter - someone who knows or who should have known that fraud was taking place shares in the liability. I'm pretty sure the CEO of of a massive bank like Wells Fargo understands that sufficiently tempting/frightening economic incentives are going to drive employee behavior, just as they do consumer behavior.
>I think adapting the original Ender's Game novella rather than the novel would have made a lot of sense and would have made for a much tighter movie.

Was that not what they did? Having read the novella but not
the novel, I don't particularly remember any scenes I didn't recognise...

As to shorter stories being easier to adapt than longer ones, I have often thought the same - though I would strengthen that to "short stories" rather than "novellas", especially when it comes to sci-fi.
Sounds like a case of 'already behind the airtight hatch'. If you have administrative privileges to install an OS upgrade then you have administrative privileges to disable filesystem encryption.

On the other hand, if MS pushes the update to the PC and it self-launches or can be initiated by a non-administrator, then it seems like there is a real security problem here.
Doesn't sound bad, but when one of the factors used to calculate your credit rating is your degree political alignment, it is bad.

That combined with mass surveillance, censorship, and the fact that the People's Liberation Army serves the communist party and not the Chinese people gives them total control over the population.
Ahh. So the difference is illustrating who knew what when.

Good to know, but it's hard to generate much sympathy in an investment BEFORE proof of concept.

I had assumed that would be a civil suit instead of criminal.
What should they ask?
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Slack client for Commodore 64
On a similar note, at a previous job (.edu) we had an intrusion detection system that sat just inside the firewalls that only watched outbound traffic. Overall, we received much more valuable (read: actionable) data from it than the external monitoring systems.
Back in the late 90's on AOL, "cyber" was short for "cybersex."
>Why not?

Because prison is barbaric, and expensive and should be saved for hardened criminals. Nothing personal, but it's people like you who think throwing people in prison some kind of societal solution that we have overflowing prisons of petty criminals.
Interesting cover: 'the advertising revenue would go to privates'.

Aside of the obvious (private) joke, that simply sounds like bold-faced wealth redistribution in the wrong direction: get the gov (at the expense of the taxpayer) to sub the movement of money to the private sector.

Not that consumers really benefit financially either way. Still the rich get richer.
> up from the current $34 per Canadian it currently receives,

they are publicly funded anyway.

edit: They also have a separate recommendation

http://future.cbc.ca/recommendations.html
> Depoliticize CBC/Radio-Canada funding so that it is predictable and stable, tied to the existing five-year licence cycle, indexed to inflation, and separated from the election and annual government budget cycles. This would be similar to how the BBC now operates. Indexation is critical – without it, inflation of just 1.5% per year would erode the new government funding of $150 million to zero in just six years.
Which findings, specifically?

Because I feel like the article makes a pretty good case for the benefits of studying optogenetics. These three paragraphs in particular succinctly outline that case:

Neuroscientists study these patterns of electricity, but they’ve been limited by the imprecision of their tools. Much progress in biology depends on observation, which means scientists need tools to both meddle with an organism’s natural bodily systems and watch what happens. Typical neuroscience techniques rely on electricity, using electrodes on the scalp or implanted inside the brain to stimulate and record from groups of neurons. These electrodes are relatively large and crude, though, and can’t target very specific cells, such as the neurons in the hippocampus that encode distinct memories.

This limitation bothers me. From an engineer’s point of view, the study of living creatures can seem messy. When I’m tinkering with an integrated circuit, I can swap out one transistor and check to see if the chip still works. If it doesn’t, I can be sure the new transistor is responsible for the glitch. In biological systems, it’s far harder to isolate a variable of interest.

With optogenetic technology, we can turn neurons on and off as if they were transistors in a circuit. Geneticists have various ways (which we won’t go into here) to deposit the necessary genes into very specific clusters of cells. With our light-up devices, we can then switch on a particular set of neurons. The neurons react to light within milliseconds, making the result of our tinkering fairly obvious.
There have been some great Canadian shows (e.g. Corner Gas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_Gas )
Give them their own battery though....
> can't do "level three" tasks like "You want to know what percentage of the emails sent by John Smith last month were about sustainability"

10 years of professional programming and I'd have no idea how to do that off the top of my head, I'm guessing the answer would depend more on the email program you're using to see if it's even possible.
I can't speak for all libertarians, but I consider myself a libertarian and I can make some observations about this whole situation..

1. Those customers who were stolen from will get to participate in the mother of all class-action lawsuits. The settlement will be outlandish. Juries hate huge corporations that screw the little guy, and the lawyers on both sides know it.

If you don't trust the class action to provide you with an equitable settlement, you can opt out and sue them individually. No doubt many lawyers are already lining up for the easy money here.

I've never known a libertarian who opposes the existence of a legal system.

2. So far, no one has produced evidence that the CEO knew about this or allowed it to happen. Putting him in prison would therefore be unjust. The article claimed that his sales quotas were excessive, but the only source for that is the same employees who knowingly defrauded their employer. Relying on their honesty seems like a bad idea.

What we know for sure is that he had sales targets for his salesmen, which is not unethical or unusual. We also know that the vast majority of Wells Fargo salesmen did not resort to fraud to hit those targets.

Even if the sales targets were high, the employees should either step up to the challenge, request a transfer out of sales, or resign. There are no excuses for defrauding your employer, and claiming "my job was too hard, so I lied!" is cause for termination.
It destroys jobs, and (maybe) creates them elsewhere. This can be devastating to individuals who's jobs are destroyed, and we don't exactly do much to help those left behind who cannot re-skill, move into new jobs etc.

Think of a 55 year old factory worker who's job is outsourced. They may have been damn good at that job, but the industry is now gone, replaced with another. They're far enough away from retirement that they need to find something else. Maybe they have commitments like a very elderly parent, ties to a community etc that make it hard or impossible to leave where they are.

Those 2 stats don't tell the whole story:

Median income can increase simply because the top earners earn a heck of a lot more, while the lesser earners are still earning less. This graph on the page you linked tells that story: (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/US_GDP_per_ca...)

More jobs do not mean jobs that pay as well as previous ones do. They could all be low pay service sector employees to chauffeur the rich people around, or deliver burritos to them at 2AM.

We need to look closer at the devastation that an industry leaving a town can have when there are no ready replacements - its been going on for decades but all people seem to care about are "number of jobs" in most cases.
This is where the Asian culture 'gets it right'. Instead of putting money in a regular envelope, they color it red. Now it's a fancy hong bao, or red envelope.
BennVenn's flashcarts are quite excellent. He's recently released a very cheap SD cart (for the value of cheap: it's way cheaper than an everdrive, though), and his cart readers/flashers, as well as his more traditional carts, are very good.

Unfortunately, he's in Austrailia, so shipments take forever. Even more unfortunately, he's usually out of stock, so you have to wait for things to come back into stock, and then race to grab them. And it's not the cheapest stuff in the world, either.

His store is http://bennvenn.myshopify.com.

You'll have to buy reader/writer for the GBA flashcarts, or the non-sd GB flashcarts. There's nothing external needed for the SD carts, though: they even come with an SD.
As pjmlp said, Go was a partial clone of Oberon-2 per Pike. Modified to suite modern requirements and whatever other designers put in. Oberon's were used in numerous operating systems. Latest was A2 Bluebottle which seemed faster than my Linux desktop despite being a GC language and running in full virtualization on Linux. The original language in that family, Modula-2, was even hosted on a PDP-11 like C.

Therefore Go is closer to that space than people want to admit. A change of its runtime or compiler would let it do operating systems. Even Java (JX) and Haskell (House) do operating systems. I'm sure one could that is derived from and similar to a language designed for implementing OS's. :)
Why that?
From a 2007 article about the cancellation of a critically acclaimed CBC show, http://thetyee.ca/Entertainment/2007/12/03/NoIntelligence/

"The CBC was born out of similar circumstances many years ago when there was a media monopoly and a feeling amongst people that it was necessary to have an alternate source of information and intelligence for the Canadian people. And now in exactly the same times I think it is really essential. The CBC is a threat because it's able to warn us of things that are going on in Canada that some of the other private corporate interests in Canada wouldn't want to warn us of because they may benefit from them.

"So I think we are really on that train. But I do think that there are a lot of people out there who are passionate about the CBC and curious about what's going on too because there have been so many changes, a lot of them not for the better. And we frankly need to figure out some way to get more funding back into the corporation while at the same time looking who in the CBC is making the big decisions."
Can she and other senators question and bring down Trump if he does something illegal?
Arent these kinds of updates pushed out my Central IT? Just because they can push it out, there are still a lot of employees watching the update run that probably don't have admin access.
The government already gives the CBC much more than 400M/year. And so far it seems to be fine.
I really cant offer advice because I lack the necessary context. What I aim to do is to serve as a fresh set of ears and eyes that have previous experience selling shit online. Ive helped others discover things that later down the line helped them sell or market better. So, I really like your comment because it brings transparency to the whole thing. I feel thats something we could all potentially benefit from.
Simple, don't buy this crap.
Thanks - I am ignorant of the .ca market/regulation space...
If you want to have an open dialogue about it, I have one question. What do you think the downsides of such a law would be?
The real reason governments would ever adopt this: to remove the cash-in-hand economy.
Where did you read that? The TALOS machine uses POWER8 which is 64 bit.
EDIT: Ah right there are two different links above
I'd like both. SPARK's stuff was ported to Ada 2012. It can be done for Rust as well. The trick is to make it optional so people don't have to pay attention to it. Maybe even have editors filter it out for people not paying attention to it. At the least, it being used in standard library and OS API's would let it enforce correct usage of those in debug/testing mode. 80/20 rule says that should have some impact given how much damage we've seen C and Java developers do misusing the foundational stuff.
Thanks - completely ignorant to the situation there...
CBC is also a premium quality television channel and news/media website. I believe CBC Radio is already ad free. The only ads I hear on it are ads for its own programming.
There is also the roboroach if you want to have a taste of this on your hand, with a cockroach. https://backyardbrains.com/products/roboroach

In the neuroscience conference they also showed a DIY optogenetic fruitfly kit, but it's a pity the channelrhodopsin transgenic fly is not available outside a neuroscience lab.
Wouldn't that make every ad funded newspaper and TV channel a paid mouthpiece of its advertisers?
> Phone number for a non-traveller, is pretty static and unlikely to be changed by the user often. However Email is more disposable

I entirely disagree. Even without traveling outside the US - my US phone-number has changed several times (change of carrier etc.); while it is possible to spin-up and shutdown email accounts (e.g. dummy accounts for services requiring registration) -- by this time most individuals should have a single serious account (and a larger percentage in the future): online bank statements, online bills, online shopping -- do you really not have a single primary account?
The economy still works if banks go down, it just gets messy. How many companies & people use gmail to communicate, google apps for biz, android, search.

40% of the internet hitting Bing would potentially overwhelm it. Keep in mind the subprime mortgage crisis was several banks. Add microsoft and google, the world would panic.

Facebook sees 1/3 traffic of google. Just like a run on banks, people desperate for info would prob level news sites maybe even FB.

Consider that outside of content/services we have providers. Verizon down. At&t down. Overwhelm the other towers or broadband failure.

Leaving aside how disgusting it is that these are actively encouraged monopolies and kill innovation & competition, it is dangerous.

1% of Germany lost internet TODAY. Deutsche telkom hit with ddos. 5 Banks in Russia 2 weeks ago. Oct 21 we all remember what happened to dyn.

This isn't even hypothetical, literally getting worse daily.
> Ideally, the usage of `unsafe` should be discouraged by the compiler via friction.

This is enforced via tools: you have to say 'unsafe' to use something unsafe. That's the speed bump.

In addition, there's a lint that you can on to fail the build if you use `unsafe`. This won't apply to your dependencies, but you can make it apply to your code.
I didn't log in for a while and my account was deleted circa 1999, I was pissed, since I'd had it since about 93, although there was little I could do about it. What a great mud though. :)
There is NTP the protocol[1], and there is NTP the implementation[2].

While the implementation is popular, there are alternatives. There is also OpenNTPd, chrony and ntimed for instance.

There are also alternatives to the NTP protocol too, such as PTP and SNTP.

[1]https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5905.txt
[2]http://www.ntp.org/
Thanks for reminding me. Their "Cyber Monday" sale ends in just a few hours.
Except that's not how prison exists today. You steal a TV you go to prison. You steal a car you go to prison. You defraud society to the tune of 500 million you pay a fine and you keep your life of luxury? The double standard is unjustifiable.
My biggest issue with NTP is little control over who runs the servers. Unlike the CA system that has checks in place against bad actors, practically anyone can run an NTP pool.

It was discovered a while ago for example that some part of the Linux default NTP servers are run by shodan. So when your machine gets the time it lets shodan know you've got a server running so they can port scan you.

It would be stupid not to run a bunch of NTP servers if you wanted a to run a bot net. A free list of every running Linux server and countless IoT devices! Without having to actively scan IP space at all
The truth is that the vast majority of people will not be affected by this law passing, despite it having serious ethical issues. We live in a post-Snowden world and nothing has changed much for common people. This combined with the justification to "catch terrorists" presented to a non-technical audience means that hardly anyone will care.
Fire the board and all the senior executives, announce a one-month grace period during which no new internal policies will be promulgated, seek a temporary continuance in any ongoing legal cases, and require the firm to undergo a total audit by a new external auditor. Set up a new firm, raise money through an IPO, do a mandatory buyback of all outstanding shares in the original company, and shut it down.

Since the bank isn't actually insolvent, this is much less drastic than winding it up. Of course it's far more complex than I'm outlining here and might take 6 months or a year. But if corporations can always rely on 'too big to fail' then what good is enforcement? A corporate charter that can't ever be withdrawn is basically a license to commit crime in perpetuity by shuffling the personnel.

If we're giving out personal rights without any of the accompanying responsibilities then how do you expect people to maintain any respect for the legal system? It's rather obviously in decline, not least through episodes such as this.
On CTV, a private network.
Yeah, you don't really want free markets - you want well-designed markets. It just happens that some of the easiest ways to wind up with a poorly designed or implemented market is by doing the things that the free-market folks rail against. For example, making the regulations for interacting with a market so onerous that participants can't engage in the amount of market behavior that they need to fill their needs.

On the other hand, a lack of enforcement against fraud and deception can also ruin a market. For a good example of this, American consumers do not have to check for counterfeit rice, while Chinese consumers do.
Part of me loves the idea of a commercial free CBC, but I wonder whether it will make them just another bloated bureaucracy - less hungry and also much less likely to bite the hand that feeds them.
Then you get into the "not my responsibility" paradigm. What do you actually do to help the people who's industry you've replaced? What CAN one company even do? The usual libertarian response seems to be that people need to look out for themselves and keep their skillsets fresh - ignoring the larger forces at play here. Maybe someone else has a more cogent argument for how a person can avoid getting caught up randomly in what amounts to a broader economic trend.
There's probably a house down the road from you with similarly valuable stuff, no need to go to Kuwait!

Hot tip - Art museum traditionally can't afford the security to value ratio of their goods.

They are often orders of magnitude off. Check out smaller ones who have had significant donations from rich people due to their ties to where they grew up.
It provides close to zero value to me, I don't listen to radio at all.

What's your proposal to me? I'm supposed to pay $45.71 so other people can listen to the radio ad-free? When they can already listen with ads and basically pay for it themselves?
I definitely should have gone for a different metaphor on that. I thought a lot about how to do that, and in retrospect, I didn't pick the right choice. Hindsight truly is 20/20.

But no doubt a big part of why I got downed so much is because dang reprimanded me (and rightfully so!). If the admins have something, anything bad to say about it, most people don't want to say anything good.
> Because many dangerous things have significant utility

Yes, it certainly makes sense to distinguish based on utility, which was the whole point of the second part of my comment, and is why a comparison to gas stations and hardware stores is invalid. Utility is completely orthogonal to "defect vs design".

> It's not a toy just because you say it is

It's a toy because it fits the definition of the word, regardless of how they market it. If it has some purpose other than entertainment, I would love to understand what it is. From my viewpoint, the utility, and therefore the harm caused to society by it being banned, is low. Note how this is different for gasoline and power tools.
Personally I think this is great and I think CBC does a pretty good (loved DNTO) job. However, the comments section of that CBC article seem to drastically disagree unfortunately. :(
HPE unveils prototype of next gen computer ‘The Machine’
It's common for purist libertarians to believe that contracts are very important, and their enforcement to be one of the main duties of the state.

I don't think that adequately handles situations where the CEO creates an environment where the emergent behavior of low level employees is to create fake accounts, but it would possibly address the liability of the financial of the victims.
Did not see that coming.
Most libertarians agree that fraud should be illegal, and that customers should be able to press criminal and civil charges if fraud is perpetrated against them.

In this case, the bank charged customers for services they never requested. That is fraud. It has nothing to do with "free markets" as defined by libertarians.

If you find some libertarian scholarship, you will also notice that libertarians see contract enforcement as a vital role of government. This would also be a breach of contract.

Libertarian != Anarchist :)
> Because Earth moves around the sun faster than Voyager 1 is traveling from Earth, the distance between Earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of the year.

So obvious yet so mind blowing.
Cooking a turkey by dropping it
Intel and AMD publish programming guides that would help you producing more optimized code.

Then there are some aspects that compilers might not optimize a lot for. I like this guide: http://www.farbrausch.com/~fg/seminars/lightspeed_download.p...

It's old, dated, whatever you want, but covers the basics.

edit: it seems that link got the "HN hug of death".