skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are all great points.

But

Why won't they sell me a screwdriver?
From a security standpoint, I'm actually relieved that 3rd party operated airport lounges don't have direct apis to match passengers to flights.

I'm sure there's some middle ground solution that protects info, but I'd prefer this situation to the polar opposite of unfettered API access.

This seems to be a deliberate case of light protection on purpose...not much is lost if you grant access. I can sneak into a local gym easy enough as well by catching the door before it shuts.
How is that "being cruel to strangers just to enjoy their suffering"?

Also, you've commented in this thread about six times now with snarky remarks, unsubstantiated vitriol, and essentially "Martin Shkreli is a monster." Whether or not there's good reason to dislike him, I think you've successfully made your point.
Climb out and walk to the nearest escape hatch in the hyperloop tunel. Or perhaps sit just sit there for an hour or so and wait to be rescued. It's really not that different from a subway being derailed or a carnival ride breaking down.
As our company grew, so did the roles needed to keep it on the path. Initially it was just the CEO and CTO(me). Then came the CMO. That took us to 6 months and some solid revenue. Then we needed help with raising funds, so our first financier became our CFO. Then we needed help with growing a sales team so a Director of Sales came to being. And a year from that, after hitting 10MM Rev/Yr we need a COO to manage all the customer service issues.
In Shenzhen, China, techs are supposed to be able to put together an iPhone from scrap parts.
Reminds me of the video of monkeys living with dogs. It's a very weird collaboration (in a particular context, based on free food from humans nearby).
The 9th Circuit (an appeals court right below the Supreme Court) puts their cases on youtube also.

https://www.youtube.com/user/9thcirc/videos?flow=grid&sort=p...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObZDipKRH0c is somewhat infamous :-)
It is a refutation of the argument that juries are bad because the US has a lot of people in jail, though.
In my memory they were dying before that but that might just have been my area.
Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties
Yes, the seller would legally be an accessory to the murder, having had knowledge that the crime would be committed and having helped the murderer commit it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)
I stopped reading when I saw this hilarious bad photoshopped first image.
Nice armchair psychology. Do you have more?
Agreed, but I question how smart Shkreli could be if he did not opt for a bench trial given his reputation.
I really wish people would stop slapping the "theft" label on things that aren't. It's intellectual laziness that just cheapens the discussion.

Sitting in an airport lounge you shouldn't have access to isn't stealing. Piracy isn't stealing. Using ad blockers on a site that supports itself through ads isn't stealing.
I didn't down vote you, but it's pretty trivial to use with a mouse if you just use the scroll wheel. Takes 3 scrolls to get into the 1800s.
How to create a token/coin on Ethereum
We didn't throw away Fira Sans, which is the typeface of Firefox. However, we wanted to update the Mozilla brand apart from the Firefox brand, and so Zilla Slab was commissioned.
Inb4 "don't roll your own crypto"
I believe Ken MacLeod was a programmer and he is an great writer (along with Stross and Vinge mentioned in a sibling comment)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_MacLeod
I think that a Black Hat convention that attracts many federal employees who work in computer security should be especially sensitive to "snatch and grab" operations.

The pall which is descending over foreign attendees is a harbinger of either relocation or vastly reduced attendance.
Maybe, as long as you don't touch any of the food or drink. How likely is that, though?
I agree that the use of plea bargains in the system today is deeply troubling. But getting rid of juries doesn't help. You still have a situation where the prosecutor can tell you your choices are going to jail for two years or taking your chances in court and maybe going away for decades, and you still have the inadequacies of the public defender system. The jury system is one of the parts of the system least in need of reform.
Whether it's right or wrong, you don't earn the benefit of the doubt in tenuous cases by being a huge asshole.
> It's fun and pretty easy to give a lecture though, which is why they persist.

o_O!?

Fun and easy? I like to think I'm pretty good at giving a lecture, and it takes me real work to give a good one. Especially when teaching to beginners.

And "active learning"--that's even MORE work. Teaching a single sophomore CS class with automated testing running on the assignments was about 50 hours per week of time.

In addition, effective active learning requires that the students have a lot more interaction with the teacher and other students. Now it's not a 3 hour lecture, it probably has to be more like 6 hours. And has to be split across multiple days because holding someone's attention for more than about 3 hours is simply not possible (and even that's difficult).

Lectures persist because active learning would cost a lot more.
Ah...perhaps it's just a broken link on their end then. See the Features link at the bottom of this page: http://ktor.io/getting-started
Snapchat, bitch!
The parent post thread is about why researchers were afraid as a result of the arrest. While it might unfold and get a not guilty, in the mean time he's in jail. If you were a malware researcher with good intentions, you might rightly think it's a mistake and one that could get you in the same kind of trouble.
There is a pgAdmin 3 fork by BigSQL that supports new postgres versions. I can't say how it compares to DataGrip, but compared to pgAdmin 4 it's a godsend.

https://www.openscg.com/bigsql/pgadmin3/
Apple's Series Three Apple Watch to Include Cellular Connection
OK, so the argument is that regular people are... more fallible than a judge? I don't understand what you want to say at this point.
It's a rhetorical question.
Repeated, direct verbal harassment, and inciting a mob of sycophants to follow suit is patently disgusting. He may be technically competent, but he completely lacks social intelligence.

Surely he's made his money at this point - the only thing driving his behavior is narcissism.
>I think it's more akin to buying terrible cheap seats to a show and moving into a better yet unoccupied section once it starts.

And GP thinks otherwise.

You are merely stating an opinion.
This is pretty exciting, especially the debugger support :)
Too bad the article doesn't have more technical details on how the locks worked and how it was picked.
Probably has to do with the different nature of the industries: robots versus software
Yep, I'll experiment with it this weekend!
Yeah I need to look into that lol.
I feel left hanging after reading the article. It doesn't really detail much at all about how Hobbs was able to pick the locks.

Further, Mental Floss itself seems to have in place one of those "you can't click back" mechanisms that spams your back button history.
Matt Levine is an excellent read. Even for those without a finance background he makes it easy to understand. Would make an exceptional professor.
Most stores have far fewer controls than they could, because they'd rather be nice to their customers. This changes if the level of fraud/theft increases.

Stores places where few people steal are nice and open, have nobody watching the doors, and basically rely on the honor system to ensure that you pass by a cashier before you leave. Stores in places where theft is common have all sorts of unpleasant security measures.

Society only works because most of us behave. Look around you, and you'll see an incredible number of structures that only work because 99% of people are basically decent and honest. Don't be in the 1% who aren't, and definitely don't encourage that 1% to grow.
Super Hubble
Amazon: When Enough Is Enough?
You may have a point.

So opposing trespass is now rooting for corporations?
Nah that's stupid. It might delay your trial but do you really think they would just say "oh ok we won't bother"? Of course not - they'd just go ahead with the least biased jury they could find.
Thanks! Glad you find it fun~

I'll look into different highlight colors and other ways to improve the UX.
Ever watch a commercial?
Most likely once the garlic guy is fired, the recipe selections will no longer include garlic-lime chicken, or situation extremely similar to this.
> led Apple to create the best-in-class laptops and desktops.

Other than profit for Apple, best at what?
Why would you say so?
You're right the US has a huge incarceration rate, but jury trials have nothing to do with this, since in the US trials functionally do not exist. I don't remember the numbers exactly (and they are changing and they differ by state/federal) but something like 1-5% of people thrown in jail actually go to trial.
Because Congress didn't need to find out any facts. They just wanted to put on a show to sway public opinion.

Remember when they questioned Toyota over unintended acceleration? That made Toyota apologize and generally made the public believe that Toyota was at fault.

Now, consider that at the time Congress questioned Toyota they were the largest shareholder in Toyota's biggest competitor (GM) and, when NASA examined the evidence, they found no issues in Toyota's products.

If you want to talk about securities fraud, that Congressional hearing should be at the top of the list.
What someone will pay & what someone will sell @. Normal basic econ.

Edit: (I can't seem to reply) I think non-gov monopolies are ok. You'd make a ton of money in your example, & then be able to create more drugs. Generally, I think it's good for talented people to get resources. Superior resource allocation.
Crysis & CryEngine used LUA so I don't think the AAA argument makes sense.
Instead of doubt, can you give us concrete reasons?
CALO – Cognitive Assistant That Learns and Organizes
> Many Lisp traditionalists are bothered by the use of curly braces for maps and square brackets for vectors, however I'm a fan. Without this bit of syntax, you have to add verbosity to the language to differentiate defining a map from doing a lookup, etc.

I agree with you, in the sense that they are useful, however the complain of "Lisp traditionalists" will be that in any case, if you need them, you can add them to Common Lisp by using reader macros. So in CL the curly braces and brackets are "free" to be used (i.e. define what they should do) in any way you want; on Clojure they are already taken, so it feels a bit uncomfortable.
Advise HN: If auto-detecting language, provide a way to change it
A frustrating UI pattern when traveling around the world. It's great if websites auto-detect your location and set the language on your first visit. But a shocking number do not allow you to change it afterwards, or the implementation is buggy/isn't saved across sessions.

VPNs help solve this problem, but it's an easy to fix UI flaw.
Hmm, I'm skeptical. Beyond meaning they'd need to be reclassified as color-vision with a unique mechanism (in itself interesting), it doesn't really address how the camouflage on the top of the squid matches what's below in (where its eyes can't see).

BTW: a press release and Science paper is not "the current theory".
This is true in cities perhaps, but there are many lonely places still.
Agreed, my friend who installs software and OS' on companies' computers as a job, usually installs OpenOffice. He never heard of LibreOffice and was shocked when I told him that nobody uses OpenOffice anymore.
You didn't really rebut at all, you just googled it and pasted a link here...

I think here even Sowell would agree that it exists. Basically price gouging can't exist if we use a simplified view of a perfectly competitive market. If we move over to a market with only one seller then we could probably define price gouging as when the monopoly firm charges a price higher (or much higher) than what we would see in a competitive equilibrium. AKA exactly what Shkreli did.
Oh wow! Hey Miguel! Thanks for the info. Parenthetically: you're a pretty hep cat. Thanks for all your hard work on these projects :)
> when they actually have the skills to do it more honestly.

That crossed my mind. That's why I think accepting failer is an inherant factor in business. Risk/reward. May win. Could lose.
Apparently it's ok to create fake barcodes.
> I mean, everybody came out okay - Shkreli really made his investors a lot of money! Yeah, he lied, but he did some incredible work: typical fraudsters take your money and run - he doesn't fit that mold.

I think it's nice everyone came out okay, besides Shkreli in this case I guess. I still think what he did was wrong though because if you don't punish that kind of behavior, then you're encouraging people to do things that are wrong in the hopes they will succeed, and it won't always work out as it happened to do so here.
This is apparently a Brahma lock key: https://img0.etsystatic.com/113/0/11210336/il_fullxfull.9705...

(or at least a replication of one)

Which I found interesting because it suggests the 'tube' key was well known in the 19th century and all this time I thought it was a 20th century invention.
Could you be thinking of Misappropriation of funds? I'm not a lawyer and I haven't spent a lot of time looking it up but from the few places I looked it doesn't seem that it would fit.
[0] is an interesting article about this. It doesn't matter where it is, if they want you they will get you. They have done this private plane on the runway thing a few times now.

> Seleznev, the identity thief who is the son of the Duma deputy, chose to vacation at a five-star resort in the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of the Maldives in 2014 precisely because it has no extradition treaty with the United States. U.S. officials got word and persuaded Maldives authorities to intercept Seleznev at the airport, where in a fast-paced operation he was bundled on a private plane to Guam

Personally - I think in this Hutchins case they just wanted a new hire.

http://hamodia.com/2017/04/02/u-s-sweeping-russian-hackers-b...
and while XNA is technically dead, Monogame lives on top of the bones if you want to code from scratch in C#.
This isn't normal basic econ. This is a monopoly market.

Let's say I create a cure for a truly horrible disease like Huntington's. Let's say it cost me absolutely zero dollars of R&D, I just happened upon it in some weird stroke of happenstance and the FDA does a rush approval and gives me a grant for even those costs, basically fantasyworld but $0 expenditure by me so everything I make is pure profit. And let's say I bring this drug to market and I give it a very controversial price. Which is that I will cure you of Huntington's if and only if you pay me 1 million dollars or all of your worldly possessions, whichever is higher. Do you believe I should be able to do this?
"FWIW, I've never actually seen any company try to switch to a different type of database."

The active record pattern, where you have objects like RoR's ActiveRecord or Django's Model that directly wrap a row in a table in a database, has a nasty hidden trap that rears its head once your app is complex enough.

By tightly coupling your database backend to your application models, it all but guarantees you can't switch to another database without a major rewrite of your application.

This is probably why you don't see companies switching databases. They can't.
Indeed, and this is more or less how it is already. Hybrid and EV drivers report their brakes lasting far, far longer.
What about the food and drink that are offered in these lounges?
It's funny how incredibly susceptible HN seems to be to the smooth talkers.

Yeah, I know this person is technically being charged with being a Russian double agent and committing treason, but he just seems so down to earth, relatable, and smart! Swoon!
People can’t grasp complex matters and lawyers specifically choose the least intelligent easiest to sway and manipulate people to serve on juries.
> That said, I agree that my analogy was bad, and I wasn't trying to assert that Shkrelli deliberately set the house on fire

Yeah, I was just trying to add more information to it, and point out what I thought were interesting portions of the case. Less a rebuttal and more an clarification and addition. :)

The case itself is very interesting because the situation is very interesting, and that's only compounded by his public persona, which is reviled by many because of prior media attention.
Frankly, the only reason I heard about LibreOffice is because I upgraded Ubuntu that one time
His mistake was taking money from rich people. If he had stuck to stealing from and killing poor people, nothing would have happened to him.
react and firebase~
> I used an intermittent fasting and ketogenic diet approach, and several supplements.

Can't speak for the supplements, but I'm down 45 pounds in 6 months following the same procedure. Going back to a sugar-based diet is frankly kind of horrifying to me at this point.
Besides being extremely disruptive to jurors' lives, you also have many of the same problems of an all-judge system (people becoming too close to prosecutors and wanting to the rule the "right" way, etc.) without the mitigation provided by the bar and full legal training.
> You don't need to look for Clojurians, you just need to look for developers.

One of the best comments in HN in a long time, deserves its own article.

So true. A programmer should be able to learn any other new language quickly.
you can already do similar things with filters, you don't need any exotic biology to do it.
I can disassemble my 20 year old Apple Newton, or nearly any other handheld device of similar age. No reason I shouldn't be able to replace parts on my modern phone either!
Jupyter and Tensorflow and Nvidia GPU and Docker and Google Compute Engine
I watched a few of his early stock evaluation videos, really informative. Shkreli's a bit sociopathic, but he's wickedly smart, in his spare time he teaches himself javascript and organic chemistry.
If they advertise a software as an "Anonymous Discussion Platform", the minimum standard that I think of is a P2P network built on top of GNUnet, Tor, or other similar networks.
Resolution doesn't matter.
Well, @eunoia seems to think so. I happen to disagree. But at least now we can discuss it without the emotional baggage of calling someone a thief. For whatever reason, people get worked up over that label more than "trespasser" or "squatter" or "moocher" ;)
Your blog archive (where the title links to) seems to be broken.
Why do you say that? People seem to still be buying Apple products regardless. I'd argue the strategy seems to be working for them because now you're both paying for services and new devices.
THIS!

I'm sure that she's the victim in her own story.
Watching it right now and it's fascinating. He has just been explaining to a Daily News reporter why his company charges what it charges for the various drugs it sells. More people should watch this before they make up their mind.

It's only a live stream now, I hope it's going to stay on YT after it's done. (They're now arguing about what he considers distorted coverage of him in the press.)
True, but the fact is that people are already toying with the idea of bring such runtimes back into the browser.

Also if you bother to read the meeting minutes from WebAssembly meetings, developers from .NET team are present in such meetings.
Then I guess it is fortunate that neither the defense nor the prosecution get to just select whichever jurors they want without input from the other side.
Well, I guess my point is that it wouldn't have added or taken anything away from the experience. I notice color and contrast a lot more than I notice typeface. The number of times I've said to myself "this font choice is awful" is pretty small, and is limited to relatively crazy fonts. I wouldn't notice the difference between Zilla Slab and any other slab font, other than the special colon/i thing they did. I don't even know what a slab font is, and I couldn't pick one out of a lineup of random fonts.
This is definitely a trend but it is one I do not suspect will change any time soon. Just to put things in perspectives for people who have not experienced medical school:

> 50% of students I knew (secretly) spent thousands of dollars on recorded medical lectures

While this may be indeed be true for the students you know, this is also a common practice, in general. The pay-to-play nature of board exam preparation has existed much longer than the active-learning trend. There's no way to know whether these students would have purchased additional materials in another educational system.

> thus did well on the tests (and MCATs) anyway.

You seem to be conflating a couple of things. The MCAT (the Medical College Admission Test) is taken before medical school. There, just as for later examinations there has been a proliferation of prep materials, for which students pay dearly. This is in no way related to curriculum change in medical schools.

Again, you are correct that students who pay more do better.

> "objective peer-reviewed studies" of this learning style won't show score/testing degradation -- because the students are so self-sufficient that they work around the failing format with supplemental lecture materials purchased online

I understand the sentiment, but if students do better after the adoption of this new system, aren't they learning better? Eventually, medical students move from Wikipedia to more authoritative sources like UpToDate or primary literature. If they, themselves, are motivated to expand their knowledge - and as a result do better on tests - this intervention would have been beneficial.

I think you're implying that the huge industry behind medical test preparation materials is new, but this is decidedly not the case.
I had an Audi that required the engine to be removed to replace the starter. Good thing it was almost new and thus covered by warranty. People wonder why German cars are so cheap used. High cost and frequency of repairs make their value evaporate the moment the warranty is up.
Here's the text from the QR code in the YouTube video:

> M1SIMPSON/BARTHOLOMEWMEXYZ123 ISTLGWTK 1965 099C005A0015 100

Looks like XYZ123 is the PNR and TK 1965 is the flight number. I haven't looked at how the 099... field is encoded yet, but it appears to be date + class of service + checkin sequence number.
This is from memory, but it's been discussed on HN before, so you can also consult the search bar. Schwartz had a contract to do sysadmin work for Intel. In the course of doing that work, he backdoored some of the systems he worked on. After his employment with the firm that had staffed him at Intel concluded, he continued to use those backdoors to access Intel's systems. His claim is that it was necessary to do so, in order to complete work Intel had asked him to do. But from what I recall, he was caught using those backdoors after any relationship he'd had with Intel had been severed.

It's not the crime of the century, but it's not a case of someone doing benevolent security research getting caught. Nobody practicing today would backdoor a client computer, use the backdoor after their engagement had ended, and expect anyone to find that action defensible.
Reminds me of the common joke life pro-tip: you can get stuff without paying for it by going to a store, picking something up, and just walking out with it!