skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/02/all-of-your-attempts-...

> For some reason, recently a number of writers seem to have taken it upon themselves to salvage Martin Shkreli’s reputation. Previously, there had been a rough consensus that Shkreli, the oily, simpering pharmaceutical executive who raised the price of HIV drugs by 5000 percent before being indicted on fraud charges, was one of the most cretinous human beings alive. This seemed utterly uncontroversial, in fact so self-evident as to render debate unnecessary. [...] But a miniature genre of article has sprung up recently: the Martin Skhreli Is Not As Bad As You Think hot take. From Vanity Fair to The Washington Post to The New Yorker, authors have issued the provocative thesis that, far from being the mealy, smirking, patronizing little snot he appears to be both at a distance and up close, Shkreli is anything from a blameless cog in a vast dysfunctional apparatus to a sweet and tender do-gooder unfairly disparaged by a society too stupid and hateful to appreciate his genius.

> And the Vice profile, while questioning a number of Shkreli’s claims and containing numerous criticisms, calls Shkreli a “finance wunderkind” and “a Horatio Alger story” and sympathetically relays Shkreli’s claim that his unapologetically money-grubbing attitude is merely an exaggerated caricature that he plays for the public to entertain himself. [...] Let’s be clear: these reporters are dupes.

> One of Shkreli’s ex-girlfriends has confirmed that he is a manipulative, psychologically abusive habitual liar with zero capacity for empathy. As she explained: It soon became obvious that Martin was a pathological liar, would pretend to cheat on me and brag about it to raise his value in my eyes, so I’d always feel like I was hanging on by a thread, could be replaced, would vie for his approval and forgiveness.

> Shkreli’s ex-girlfriend also displayed screenshots of conversations in which Shkreli offered to pay her ten thousand dollars for sex, a proposition that revolted her.

> His menacing behavior has been noted elsewhere: he has been accused of waging a harassment campaign against an ex-employee, writing in an email that “I hope to see you and your four children homeless and will do whatever I can to assure this.”
The original article that this is reporting is discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918567 .
Great. They convicted one low level autistic freak with no connections over a couple million dollars. Brave day for justice.

What about the daughter of a senator who is the CEO of the company that quadrupled the price of epipens? Yeah, right, mission accomplished, nothing to see there.
I’m based in Belgium. Definitely not perfect, but different countries use different systems. In general, juries are only used when dealing with murder cases. All other issues are ruled upon directly by judges, who makes a direct interpretation of the law. If you’re dealing with a tax case, you will generally be assigned a judge somewhat familiar with tax law. Same if you’re dealing with a contract or a commercial issue, etc.

One can expect any judge to be an individual with above average intellectual ability.
Investing money with some knowledge and control of the outcome vs. gambling with house stakes are two completely different categories of risk.
He is live-streaming right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvArpDQHf-Y
The original article that this is largely repeating is discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918567 .
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There's a Sanskrit to English Dictionary project (An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sanskrit on Historical Principles) going on at Deccan College, Pune — it started in 1948, and as of 2010 was still on the first letter "a" (either 8[1] or 30[2] volumes published already though). If it keeps up the pace it may take longer than the Swedish dictionary :-) There's a sample (part of an) entry from it available online[3].

[1] http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/60-years-later-sanskri...

[2] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Now-refer-to-an...

[3] http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/awork/homepag...
Correct, I don't think the FBI is making up evidence about Marcus and they actually believe he's the creator of Kronos. Sounds crazy, I know.
Everyone has choices to make. Martin could have easily not been an asshole to cancer patients or investors at his fund. You want to let him off the hook just because he said "yup I'm a dick" while he was making the choice to be a dick and profited massively from being a dick?

Acknowledging the fact that what you're doing is wrong does not suddenly make that thing right. It's still wrong. And you're still an asshole for doing it.
The Golgafrincham Ark B passengers here on Earth took it as a HOWTO manual. I'm sure some managers at Dell are asking if consumers are interested in fire that can be fitted nasally?
Okay, I'll take it at face value. Can you name a few competent programmers who are also competent book / story writers ?
I would rather no-more-displays by way of voice command.

If Siri advanced enough, I would love to leave my phone at home and bring only my Apple watch.
Got one of those to play with that others left for dead. Ended up gluing the bit to a long pencil and it worked!
what does it even mean to "disassemble" a soccer ball?
Until the trash-bin Mac Pro, most of that line has been pretty user serviceable. People are still getting really good money in resale for 2010-2012 Mac Pros, while the trash can units aren't doing nearly as well (accounting for age).

I mainly notice as I've been considering getting one of the older models and upgrading cpu, maxing ram, newer gtx1080 etc.
I was coincidentally looking at Ktor yesterday. I quickly ran into pages which are linked from the Getting Started guide (such at http://ktor.io/Features) which don't exist. Doesn't give the best first impression, but I gather it's a very new framework so I'm sure it'll be corrected soon...
I always wondered about this and would love to know more about it. Back in the 80s when I used to read the ZX Spectrum games mags in the UK, one magazine ("Your Spectrum") always had crisper screenshots than any of the others, clearer than seemed possible to me using a camera pointed at a TV screen. I always wondered what they did and what the difference was.
Yes, I write intentionally click-baity blog posts. You got me.
Having access to raw data is bad because people could intentionally misinterpret it?
Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14915123 .
The implication is that the FBI may believe him to be the creator of Kronos based on something he did as part of security research, eg. gaining access to a control panel or taking over a CnC server.
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>Martin put a face to all this, pointed out a huge flaw in this system and made money doing it.

Martin did not "point out a huge flaw", he got caught exploiting a huge flaw and is narcissistic enough to believe that he could sell that exploitation as something other than it is. The sad thing is that because he's "computer nerdy" a bunch of other "computer nerdy" people have fallen for the con.

>I'd imagine the roadblocks are there to prevent people abusing the system.

He could not have roadblocks and let the drug be cheap just like it was for decades. This is on Shkreli.

>But I'm hardly going to take the word of biased medical professionals on it.

Medical professionals are biased but the guy jacking up drug prices 5000% isn't? We're taking him at face value? pfft.
Sounds suspiciously like Embrace, Extend...
If you wrote some malware and people were passing around copies of it, wouldn't you want to see the source of what they were passing around?
If I write open source code for research, share it with the community, and someone wants to license it for "further research" and pays me – am I responsible if their adapted software is then used / stolen / re-applied to kill people or hack a bank?

In this scenario I both wrote and explicitly sold the software with no idea of what the later applied tech would do. The computer laws referenced in the article seem to require direct knowledge of malicious intent of the software in the sale.
I agree, that was a considerable factor in my purchase of it - in general though, all of the modular V8 engines have the alternator right on top of the sucker, and all of them are easyish to work on.
Vernor Vinge and Charles Stross spring immediately to mind. Also James Tiptree, Jr. was a CIA analyst in the 50s and 60s so probably was a regular user of the early government mainframe systems.
I'll keep it. I'm going to try & not do it it again. At the very least wait before saying anything!
They have no ethics while exploiting you for as much money as possible, so you should be nice to them and treat them as you would another human?

Edit: sorry, this was kind of a flippant remark that I made without thinking a lot.
Ask HN: Good example Node.js projects?
I'm finding it difficult to locate good Node project examples on Github (particularly using ES6). It's hard in general to get a sense of best practices around architecting a Node app and writing 'proper' Node code, so any tips would be greatly appreciated.
I understand a risk was taken, but gambling has a less than 50% chance of return (by design) while buying a Pharma company that you control is conceivably less risk.

Let me add to this: Buying a company you have a government mandated monopoly on (patent) that owns a product that people will die if they don't take (inelastic demand), and has a huge barrier to entry for new, competing entrants (FDA) is conceivably less risk than throwing chips on a roulette wheel.
As a Colombian who remembers how things were nine years ago (I was sixteen and just starting college)[1], I have to admit that the thing I found most shocking was that he wasn't just kidnapped by the rebels. That non-sequitur of mine aside, good story.

[1]: Although that's for the publication of the article; the events described happened before then. But that's even more understandable as the closer one gets to the nineties (and the actual nineties), the worse the painting of Colombia is.
Yeah, way ahead of you on that one. http://infiniteundo.com/post/87172935713/first-rule-of-hacke...
There have also been some multi-socket configurations where TSC will gradually become desynchronized across sockets.
It's not even about someone being faster but just different. That together with some people being dominant I would probably contribute nothing to the group because my approach is often different.
I keep meaning to do that someday, just so I can say I've done it, but if you think about it the hassle of traveling to the airport, going through security, paying $12 for a cocktail in a sterile room full of strangers, etc. would probably make for an overall crappy experience.

Edit: Oh, now that I clicked the link I see he got to eat for free. Hmmm...
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Yes, but business for doing what?
Stealing physical items for fun != exploiting ineptitude to have a less terrible layover. It's also harder to even begin to measure the economic cost.

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.

The internet has always seemed to have a lot more moralists than the real world.
> while a senator's daughter was in the middle of one of the most egregious price gouging schemes in recent memory.

For anyone curious, CEO of Epipen manufacturer Mylar is Heather Bresch . She is the daughter of senator Joe Manchin, who has introduced bills in the Senate to change FDA regulations to favor his daughter's company.
I believe that Falcor's JSON Graph[1] supports recursion rather well.

[1]: https://netflix.github.io/falcor/documentation/jsongraph.htm...
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
I am. Its very easy and I actually make a lot of money. I love it.
I follow what you're saying, but look at these cases: Aurenheimer was confronted with IRC logs in which he discussed selling the information he got from the website, and Barrett Brown was accused of actively assisting the people who breached Stratfor.

What ever you think of the actual prosecutions here, neither of those are cases of security research being mistaken for something else. The most you can say, for instance, about Brown is that he is not as closely connected to an extraordinarily serious crime as the DOJ believed he was.
There are no serious proposals on the table with any chance of becoming law. The ruling party believes that government should not be involved in healthcare in any way and would rather move in the direction of less regulation instead of more.

The minority party has several plans, but are still divided.
The problem is, in most cases, historically the type of actions Shkreli tried often ends in disaster (often done by someone intentionally being malicious, I might add).

Shkreli may have been able to work his pseudo-Ponzi-ish scheme to investors' benefit. But it is pretty easy to look up the sordid history of the vast majority of Ponzi-type schemes, to see why this type of activity is generally illegal.
I'd go with a very useful It Depends.

ORMs are great for smoothing over some of the rough spots between SQL and OOP. It's kind of a drag to manually hard-code all of the cascade behavior for your whole class hierarchy. Hand-rolling your own caching isn't so great either. Most languages have a lot of boilerplate around setting up SQL queries and working with the results, particularly if you want to convert the rows into objects.

Flip side, some of them have a ton of their own boilerplate and confusing setup, and can generate strange errors and poor behavior. I still haven't figured out how to use Entity Framework well, despite working with C# for years. They're good enough for like 90% of things, but the other 10%, you can get big savings writing your own SQL.

Nowadays, I think Ruby ActiveRecord is my favorite. It handles everything that's reasonable for an ORM to do without a ton of complex setup, supports some more complex stuff easily, and makes it easy to drop to SQL when you need to.

FWIW, I've never actually seen any company try to switch to a different type of database.
Someone at Ebay messed up
I'd still rather have a device I can upgrade the ram and storage on, as well as replace the battery... I miss my prior mbp (stolen)
Al Capone wouldn't have had to evade taxes if he wasn't obtaining his income through illegal means.

I also see a distinction between Capone and Shkreli in that Capone's other actions which may have influenced his trial were myriad illegal activities that they couldn't get evidence for. Shkreli is just believed to be an asshole.
Outch yes, it was early this morning, on my phone. Sorry :(
> The truth is, nearly every single profession is misrepresented by Hollywood.

True and it doesn't stop there. They don't even get love right.
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If you know the person licensing it from you is going to use it to steal financial information, and the clear purpose of the tool you've built is to steal financial information, then I would say you should definitely make sure you have a criminal defense lawyer you trust and can afford.
Opposing stealing is now rooting for corporations?
Because watching someone mess around with VIM for 17 hours of realtime while eating junk food only to scream "aha the semicolon is four spaces off" is not must see TV
And who pays insurance?
The Crown Victoria was the go-to for police forces across North America for decades. Maybe the key to getting a repairable car is getting one that is commonly used in fleets? (I know nothing about repairing cars, but would be interested in getting a repairable car if only to avoid the need for dealer repairs)
Hey you saved everyone a click!

I am the author of the post and I approve this summary :)
He pivoted from running a hedge fund worth -33 cents to creating a pharmaceutical company currently worth $800 million.
> So you generally believe people are guilty until proven innocent, and I always believe people are innocent until they are proven guilty.

“Innocent until proven guilty” is a legal standard applied where “guilty” means having one’s liberty taken away. And in that context it’s a perfectly appropriate standard. But as mere spectators, where the harm caused by mistakenly believing he’s guilty is minimal, I think we should feel free to simply believe in the most likely possibility (aka preponderance of the evidence). You may disagree on that point, and that’s your right. However, if we agree to apply that standard, I don’t think it’s reasonable to believe that the FBI’s allegations being false is actually more likely than the alternative.

> I never take the government word for anything, and generally assume the government is lying at all times. History supports my position.

[citation needed]
Actual prosecutions of malware creators are exceedingly rare to almost none existent. As such I believe there are extreme pressure on law enforcement to "Make an example" of some malware creator, or anyone they can even remotely connect to the creation of malware.

This pressure I believe will lead them to over reach on CFAA like they have in the past in other "hacking" cases

https://www.wired.com/2015/10/cfaa-computer-fraud-abuse-act-...

So while I can not point to an example right now, that is simply because there is a general lack of case law in the field to begin with, nor does that support a position that the FBI is correct in this case, or would never go after a innocent security research, their history defies that completely.
>The court case should be public, so we'll be able to judge the evidence ourselves.

Well this is still the United States, so by law it will be. People are blowing this way out of proportion as if he were disappeared by the secret police or something.
This really reminds me of "The stranger" by Albert Camus.
Oh- that's really old. Will update, thanks!
If there is one thing HN commenters are, by and large, not very good at... it's understanding that they are NOT the average consumer.

It's been true of all hacker/tech forums since well before the "no wifi, less space than a Nomad. Lame" era.
Thank you for saying this. I feel like this is a major problem with a lot of services. If they care that little to send me an email from a no-reply then how do they expect to keep customers who want to reply to the same person. There is absolutely nothing more frustrating then having 5 different people work on a similar ticket and repeat yourself over and over.
Isn't the main issue with a jury that is inherently unpredictable, and some people would prefer taking a decent plea over a bad verdict? People that aren't guilty shouldn't be forced to take a plea because the alternative could be worse. That is just wrong in every single way.
Ola, Lucas from Unity here,

Xamarin and Unity never did a renewed licensing deal. That doesn't make the lovely xamarin people nor us jerks :)

Licensing issues aside, for an ecosystem like Unity to upgrade its runtime, c# language, and base class libraries is an enormous undertaking. While we are not perfect, we take backward compatibility very seriously.
All of mono and coreclr has been available under MIT licensing for a very long time now. In Unity2017.1 we now ship an experimental option to use modern .net. this uses a new mono (not using sgen), new c# compiler (still mcs for now, so c#6, not c#7, and .net4.6 class libraries).

In a future unity version (won't burn my fingers on exactly which one) this new .net experience will become default. (depends on how many problems you find! :)

the xamarin (and microsoft .net) team are wonderful folks, and it's great to work closely with them to make .net in unity, and .net in general solid.

next up on the list is improving the garbage collection story, which is in the works, but we're first focussing on shipping a new runtime+c#+.net base class libraries.

While there are some very valid areas to point out that make c# challenging to be "the language of an entire game", we believe that c# is a great controlling language for Unity. We're working on some really interesting (imho) compilation pipeline for a restricted compute subset of c# that I think will completely turn around people's expectations and opinions of c# in gaming. stay tuned, this is one of the most interesting projects happnening inside of Unity today.
better != perfect
I feel like no one here remembers when Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested under similar circumstances. The US government has no obligation to seek out every potential arrestee no matter where they are in the world for every single crime that the US has laws for. But if the target of an investigation (whether they know it or not) sets foot in the US, then we shouldn't be surprised when they are arrested. And this is just another case with Def Con (so no, it's probably not moving out of the US, it didn't 15 years ago), I'm quite certain that these sorts of things happen frequently for other crimes of (relatively) low priority that are just outside our primary focus on this forum (technology).

And is the US any worse for this than other nations? Probably not. They just get more publicity when it happens. But every nation that has a legal system will do the same thing. If the Russians or the Brits or the Germans or the Swiss decide that Jtsummers is a suspect in a crime, and I visit and they realize it, I shouldn't be surprised to find myself arrested and barred from leaving the country.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/g00/news/russian-crypto-expert-arrested... - may not be the best article, it's the first one that came up on Google for me.
Thanks for the link. I was going to ask myself how i missed this, then realized I have one of the first comments :)
He's not indicted for doing security research, he's indicted for stealing people's bank accounts.

The indictment may end up being bullshit, but it has not been for any of his white-hat, or grey-hat activities.
Perl 6 (aka Rakudo) book choices
Even then, since Vista, most versions of windows tend to run about as well on the same hardware, sometimes better.
Just to throw something out there to start, I would limit price hikes over time, say 10% a year. I'm open to any alternatives.
"can we name anyone who has been prosecuted for what turned out to clearly be benevolent research work?"

Randal Schwartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz
It bears mentioning that accused does not mean convicted. The DOJ record as far as accusations turning out to be grounded in reality is not unblemished.

>Hutchins is accused of creating the Kronos trojan, and of working closely with someone who sold the trojan. The lines the DOJ is saying were crossed are pretty bright.

You say that as though you are contradicting NateJay.

But the fear NateJay is highlighting is exactly that a white hat is being accused. And that (whether ultimately borne out in this case, or not) this kind of thing could happen to people who are conducting innocent security research.
What will pro se prisoners do? I assume there's some provision for that. If not, they can't even appeal the rule itself!