skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was pressured by Trump partisans in the FBI and elsewhere (in accordance with his obligations) to release that and Obama blocked him from writing an Op-ed about Trump before the election.

I think he genuinely tried to stay neutral but the GOP partisans threatened to leak stuff so he tried to do damage control ineffectually.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/report-obama-re...

> Report: Obama Rejected Comey Op-Ed on Russia’s Election Meddling

http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-reviewing-more-clinton-emails-51...

> The truth is Comey didn’t have a choice. Because the new information followed his sworn testimony about the case, Comey was obligated by Department of Justice rules to keep the relevant committees apprised.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-28/leaked-memo-james-c...

> Now, it is the democrats turn to rage at Comey and the FBI, although Comey likely did not have much choice: had he kept the information secret, it certainly would have leaked as we predicted; as such his best recourse was to come clean, although many have speculated about the cryptic nature of the disclosure.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/james-comey-fbi-direc...

> The story broke in the Daily Mail on September 21, and the F.B.I. seized the laptop on October 3. Within a couple of days, the New York F.B.I. agents, who had a warrant to look only at Weiner-related information, knew there were Clinton e-mails on the laptop, and the prosecutors in D.C. were informed.

> Often, a retired agent says, those in the field are suspicious of Washington. “Dreamland,” they called it in his day, because they believed those who weren’t on the ground investigating cases were clueless. “[Agents] out in the field never want to give a case to D.C., because they believe headquarters is a hindrance to their investigations,” says the agent, who also notes there is a paranoia that politics might interfere at headquarters. New York has an especially dim view of Washington and a reputation for fierce independence. “There is a renegade quality to the New York F.B.I.,” says a former prosecutor, which, he claims, can take the form of agents leaking to the press to advance their own interests or to influence an investigation. “New York leaks like a sieve,” concurs another former prosecutor

> Comey chose Washington because he wanted to be close enough to get daily updates, according to CNN, but he may also have been worried about leaks from New York. A former D.O.J. official says that, as early as 2015, a rumor was floating around that the F.B.I. agents in New York were cracking jokes about seeing Hillary Clinton in handcuffs. “It was widely understood that there was a faction in that office that couldn’t stand her and was out to get her,” this person says.
> and camera-equipped drones are commonplace

In Germany, flying drones over occupied areas is expressly forbidden by law to protect the occupants' privacy.

There are already too many idiots and creeps flying around with drones, we don't need to add Internet publication to the mix.
Sorry I quoted the wrong bit. He was actually fired.

> ut the stubborn Republican FBI Director refused to go voluntarily, finally provoking Bill Clinton to telephone Mr. Sessions on July 20, 1993. The President called twice. The first call was to tell the Director he was fired. The second was to tell the Director it was effective immediately. That’s cold, man.
I'm pretty sure the customary reply from the MAGA camp will be that these are all political appointees, and serve at the President's pleasure.

All that is formally true. But it doesn't make it any less uncanny that such a person would be fired at the very moment he ramps up an investigation into Trump's business activities.
I question your "almost always".

If I buy a home, it's a depreciating asset. That is, I buy a home (via mortgage) for $300,000, and at the end of the mortgage, it's only worth $200,000. So I've paid $300K for an asset that's only worth $200K. But if I rented, at the end of the same time period, I have an asset worth $0, and still have to pay to live somewhere.

But of course it's not that simple. I can often rent for less than I can buy; I can invest the difference. If I don't live in the same house until I pay off the mortgage, I don't wind up with a place to live for free. If I downsize, I can wind up with a place to live for free and a chunk of cash. And so on.

Let's take one specific example. Suppose I have little cash. I could borrow $300K and buy a house. At the end of 30 years, I have a house. I've paid, what, $2000/month in payments. At the end of the deal, I have an asset worth $200K, in which I also can live for free (but I can't do both - I can get the $200K, or I can live in it for free). If I want the same deal putting the money into a mutual fund, I probably can't get it, because nobody's going to lend me $300K to invest in a mutual fund. The deal I can get is to rent for $1000/month, which gives me $1000/month to invest. At the end of the same amount of time, I have nothing to show for the $1000/month in rent except having not been homeless. For the $1000/month I've invested, I have... well, it's hard to say. What's your best guess about the rate of return of the mutual fund, and what's your variance around that best guess?
SEE EDIT

~~ He also fired the federal judge who ruled against him in Hawaii. So it's not like this is new behavior. ~~

Don't worry though, this is fine.

Ed:

I'm likely misremembering bluster as taking action, since I can't find specific citations. So I retract the comment, and would strike through it (I don't like deleting text), but don't know if I can on HN.
Don't count on it. Trump will likely put someone very right wing into the position and the attack on encryption will intensify.
Inflation and deflation do benefit some people, but in general it makes it more difficult to conduct business when the value of a currency is not stable.
Yeah, that was one of my first thoughts about this. I have no love lost for Comey but there's a huge conflict of interest here with Trump and I think the reasons for Trump firing Comey are not the reasons I would want him fired. Comey was doing a balancing act, playing one constituency against another.

It seems like Trump is purging everyone who might provide any level of oversight whatsoever.
Trump is probably laundering money himself.
That is quite surreal: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/politics/senate-russia-investi...

Would there be any collaboration between the FBI and Senate Intelligence committee?
Seemed to be confirmed as real, so here are letters being floated as from Trump, Sessions and Rosenstein firing Comey and blaming the Clinton investigation

Trump:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_apTsDXoAAVKYn.jpg

AG Sessions:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_apUYrXgAAihp2.jpg

Deputy AG Rosenstein:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_apVImXcAIKhfm.jpg

Dear Director Comey:

I have received the attached letters from the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General of the United States recommending your dismissal as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I have accepted their recommendation and you are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately.

While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.

It it essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission.

I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.
40% of stocks don't pay dividends.
I think the biggest change recently is that the civil war inside the bitcoin community has calmed down, a lot. There's still a deadlock, but at least people aren't at eachothers throats 24/7.

It's a reassuring change of pace. I think it's a combination of some people realizing that you can do a LOT with 3 tps (the global gold market is far less than that), and also of many people realizing that Bitcoin's incentive structures protect it even in the face of a miner with >50% hashrate. (Mining costs hundreds of millions in electricity, and hardware costs hundreds of millions as well. If the miners become malicious, either users will hardfork or leave, and those hundreds of millions suddenly can't be recovered by mining a now devalued asset).

And, externally, I think more people are starting to understand the whole decentralization thing. Bitcoin is extremely powerful in that:

It's very difficult to censor transactions

It's very difficult to seize money

There is full immunity to hyperinflation

Nobody controls it. Not the devs (segwit wouldn't be struggling if they did), not the miners (we'd have 2MB or 8MB blocks if they did), not the regulators (drug markets wouldn't be so pervasive if they did). That's powerful, and Bitcoin is basically the only option if you want a money where some central authority (be it the Etherum foundation or the federal reserve) can't decide to enforce some new rule that you aren't expecting and aren't okay with.

No other money can make these claims.
that's not what he did. there already was an investigation. What comey announced right before the elections was that they had found more of clinton's emails in another, unrelated case. That invesigation was into Anthony Weiner, who was married to Clinton's advisor Huma Abedin. Weiner was sexting a 15-year-old, Abedin was forwarding some emails to weiner's computer to be printed out. In investigating weiner's computer they found clinton's emails (forwarded by abedin). That's what Comey announced. I have no idea why he decided to announce that specific information, at that time.
Anyone have a link to the contents of the memo that recommended firing, and contained the reasons for that recommendation?
> "Other crypto-currencies that attempt to have faster transactions are simply trading safety for speed."

This hasn't been true since about 2013. Altcoins don't just twiddle the parameters of BTC anymore. They're all over the place in terms of what algorithms they use, and many of them are clearly better. A lot of what Bitcoin has going for it is inertia, network effects, and price stability. (Yes, compared to alts, Bitcoin is considered stable.)
Oh, this has got to burn. The man that gave him the office......
I've heard, it's usually not in the interest of companies like Google and Facebook to sell raw data. It's much better for them to keep control of the data and sell it's use as a service.
I guess the French and US military using Aonix real time JVMs for weapons control and monitoring are the right set of persons to answer your question.

Also some military think memory leaks are irrelevant on missiles, given the ultimate garbage collector.
You must be joking. The law-and-order MAGA candidate, who attacked Apple repeatedly for not building the FBI backdoor after the San Bernardino shootings, is going to appointment someone who doesn't want encryption backdoors?
Also, old people and seniors who have trouble using small cellphones.

Ever tried using FaceTime or Skype with poor vision/ dexterity?
I'm at a credit union and had no problems whatsoever.
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By that standard all investments made for purely financial gains are scams.
The Comey announcement was certainly one of the decisive factors in the election but it's generally seen as ineptness rather than an attempt to swing the election to Trump.
Our decision to use IPv6 cost us more than 70% of our potential users. Melondream now uses UDP over IPv4.

The previous IPv6 client is no longer compatible with the server.

If you were among the hundreds of people who tried to connect but failed, we invite you to download the new client and try again. Enjoy.

If you succeeded to connect, and plan to connect again, you also must download the new client.
Yeah, this is spot on. SQLite provides DDL and DML commands, but no support for composing programs from these commands. I leaned on T-SQL for the syntax and behavior of variables, basic control structures, procedures, error handling, and some common library functions, but that's all that it takes from T-SQL. I didn't intend to make a judgment about T-SQL, but rather to indicate which parts were implemented in SQL Notebook.
> too volatile for use

Yeah, nobody is using Bitcoin...

> The only way I would trust bitcoin for anything would be for short-term holding to transfer value from point a to b, and then convert it back into a stable currency.

So use Bitcoin that way yourself. And as more and more people with this mindset use Bitcoin, the price will rise due to increased demand, even if only to hold for a short duration.
It's linked in the sidebar on the NYT article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/politics/james-comey-f...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/09/us/politics/d...
when it comes to getting software, we've stopped including the price of the required computer since like… 1995?
This article is not only a great intro to BBR, but an excellent introduction the history of flow control.

Congrats to Geoff and his team.
> Peeling off the front 8 or 16 elements should be no harder than peeling off the front 1, though naively you might have to handle each partial case from 1 to 15.

I think I under-specified my requirement. :-) By "16 bytes at a time," I mean, "run a single CPU instruction on those 16 bytes."

But yeah, I get your drift. I can see how it might be theoretically possible. I suppose the key gains might be in how much confidence a programmer can have that their code compiles down to the right set of instructions.
I'd give you 10 for 1 on that bet. No one running in the last election (or in office & with real power in recent memory) was any sort of real civil libertarian and I would be stunned if the current powers that be put someone of that ilk up for the position.
Can someone clarify if comey is pro trump or not?
I cannot find any evidence of this claim.
> For a merchant a CC transaction can take up to 30 days. A customer can initiate a charge back any time between when they txed and when they pay their bill.

Customers don't care how long a transaction takes for the merchant.

Have you ever tried selling anything for bitcoin? Nearly no one will use it even when being told of all the "benefits". They don't want to wait 30+ minutes. When they see they need to give some exchange a scan of their passport and wait 3-5 days to link their bank account, and losing the ability to do a chargeback, they never think about using Bitcoin again.
When I watched the hearing I think I heard Comey say that he + the intelligence community did not want encryption backdoors, but instead wanted to look for 'alternatives' (w/e that would mean).

However, I would imagine Trump would be the opposite, and be calling for backdoors. I wouldn't be surprised if he compared encryption to suspicion of terrorism..
Anyone who believes OSGi is good is either (a) deluded or (b) ignorant.

Having just implemented a plugin solution using it I can safely say that in the past 20+ years of software development it is the most awful technology I've ever seen. The complexity and over engineering is simply breath taking. It is worse than EJB 1.0, worse than the crazy abuses I have seen with Spring and DI, worse than than dark days of J2EE.

I have lost a lot of respect for Red Hat and IBM after this.
Maybe Trump is a genius painter in the closet. A dyslexic Dali channeling is talent through tweets and EOs.
Brian from Backblaze here.

We are deploying a few 10 TByte drives within a couple of weeks, so you should see some stats on them the very next quarterly drive stats (3 months from now).

We start by deploying one full "pod" (60 drives) plus an entire "tome" (20 drives spread across 20 separate machines in our datacenter which makes up a "vault" all working together) to sanity check this is a good idea. So there will be 80 drives minimum plus any spares we swap in.

If it all checks out (like they don't fail catastrophically) then they get entered into the price spreadsheet. In other words, each month when seeing which drives we should purchase, we take into account the larger density means we have to rent less data center space but the drives cost more, plus take into account the best known failure rates and what the warranty is (some drives are not in warranty so we will pay cash for the replacements), and then get quotes from our drive vendors and an answer pops out as to the least expensive drive (over a 5 year lifetime of ownership).

> are they still too expensive?

SO FAR the answer has been "too expensive" but it is worth pre-qualifying the drives as "not terrible in our environment" in case that changes. The moment we decide they have a reasonable chance of being the most cost effective we might need to buy several million dollars worth at once. And that can happen suddenly for reasons totally mysterious to us. It might be the manufacturers have problems producing enough of them, and then suddenly get the manufacturing stabilized and can produce enough. Or maybe they are just gouging the early adopters? Either way, there are SUDDEN price fluctuations we don't understand.
So I googled the claim that Trump fired the Federal judge in Hawaii and the answer seems to be that the President cannot fire Federal judges. https://www.quora.com/Can-Donald-Trump-fire-a-federal-judge-...
Flashbacks to Nixon's downfall.
It's a stupid idea. People who advocate it likely have something to sell you.
I built PartsBox (https://partsbox.io/) using Clojure and ClojureScript. Would be very difficult without them.
I respect Brendan, and although it is an interesting article, I have to disagree with him: The OS tells you about OS CPU utilization, not CPU micro-architecture functional unit utilization. So if the OS uses a CPU for running code until a physical interrupt or a software trap happens, in that period the CPU has been doing work. Unless the CPU could be able to do a "free" context switch to a cached area not having to wait for e.g. a cache miss (hint: SMT/"hyperthreading" was invented exactly for that use case), the CPU would be actually busy.

If in the future (TM) using CPU performance counters for every process becomes really "free" (as in "gratis" or "cheap"), the OS could report bad performing processes because the reasons exposed in the article (low IPC indicating poor memory access patterns, unoptimized code, code using too small buffers for I/O -causing system performance degradation because excessive kernel processing time because-, etc.), showing the user that despite having high CPU usage, the CPU is not getting enough work done (in that sense I could agree with the article).
Only if you implying that people that wrote operating systems before C was designed, were lazy and didn't care about performance, in spite of having less powerful hardware at their disposal.
What kind of tooling are you speaking of? Honest question.
Oh, wow, so this is where they are going. Call me cynical, but it sounds like a distraction tactic from the current investigation into Trump's campaign ties to Russian interests.

EDIT: adding to that thought, Trump's team had to add "although you've informed me that there's no investigation"... while Comey himself has said in public hearings there are investigations. Wow, this stinks to high heavens.
I would assume @kyledrake knows the benefits of bitcoin. He wrote a bitcoin wallet back in the day ;-)
>The core SQL language I dislike because it's
>verbose, backwards, and restricts sane forms of reuse.

I can appreciate the verbosity and "backwardness" argument you make, but can you cite some examples of its restrictions. (Serious question)
He can't fire a federal judge. There is a due process for impeaching a federal judge from the bench. Neither can Department of Justice (which is part of the executive branch), it is one of the best preserved traditions of our Checks and Balances, despite some of rulings are not agreed by majority (do I have to bring up the stupid ruling of Judge Persky on the People vs Turner case). Therefore, we can't fire or replace a Supreme Court judge except the Congress.

You are probably mistaken that for the firing of the acting AOG Sally Yates for mandating Department of Justice to not to defend Trump's travel ban executive order during her tenure, and the termination of New York-based U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara who was known for going after Wall Street scandals (and who, according to Trump, did not return Trump's calls multiple calls).

--Edit--

I found [1] to be an interesting article on whether impeachment of a judge is limited to Congress.

[1]: http://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/removing-federal-judges-...
Trump just wanted to be sure that Comey's statement last year about the iPhone hack cost was true.

"more than I will make in the remainder of this job, [...]"
The one professional prognosticator who came closest to predicting a Trump win at 33% agrees with the letter playing an outsize role - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probab...
Maybe you meant "he also fired [tweets at] the federal judge".
The age isn't relevant, what's relevant is whether the patent/copyright currently exists and who holds said patent/copyright.

And before you continue with this silly argument about age, copyright and patents can be invalidated 2 days after the claim is made. The law doesn't ask how old they are, the law asks if the copyright/patent is still in effect.

You want it to be about the age because you're pushing an agenda, but the law doesn't care about age.

Google isn't going after Uber on the basis of the tech being new, they're going after Uber on the basis of their existing intellectual property.
Screenshot? My version of htop does not show stalls. The only top I've seen that uses PMCs is tiptop.

htop should add PMC support, and a lot more things too. I might even start using it then. :)
The trade cap of Ripple, especially, is sketchy since it was pre mined.

If I create a krisCoin with 1 million total coins and sell 1 kCoin to you for $10 the market cap of krisCoin is suddenly $10 million.
The man at the FBI leading the investigation into the Trump / Russia connection was fired upon recommendation from Sessions who said he was recusing himself from all Russia / Trump investigations.

Looking corrupt as hell? Most certainly.
"Conflict of interest" is practically the man's middle name. Not only does he not avoid them, he seems to actively seek them out.
Hah, I should have mentioned, yea we have no matching. Good catch!

We do have options though. Those will vest into millions... one day.... any day now....
Say what you want about the politics, but it's inarguable that Comey, whether he wanted to or not, had become a partisan lightning rod for both sides. The unbiased credibility of the FBI was at stake with Comey at the helm, and this is probably a good move for the country.
> ... the startup procedure must rapidly converge to the available bandwidth irrespective of its capacity

It seems to me that you'd be able to make a rough guesstimate by noting the ip address; whether it's on the same LAN, or continent/AS.

It wouldn't matter if you got it very wrong as long as you converged quickly to a better one (as you have to do anyway)
Bitcoin has value because it can do things that no other money can do. It won't drop to zero because people need it for things they can't get anywhere else.

If you want money that can't be seized, can't be frozen, can't be manipulated, Bitcoin is your asset. If you want to be able to send money across continents, bitcoin is your asset. If you want to hedge against USD risk, bitcoin is a great choice (very very different fundamentals, and almost always rises with political instability). Some people want that badly enough for at least some of their portfolio that they are willing to accept the volatility risks.

The volatility is a detractor, but that definitely doesn't mean it's good only for speculation. Bitcoin keeps coming back crash after crash because there is real value in owning some.