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The FBI claims he created malware, an unnamed co-conspirator is charged with selling it

So you generally believe people are guilty until proven innocent, and I always believe people are innocent until they are proven guilty. I never take the government word for anything, and generally assume the government is lying at all times. History supports my position.

I find it extremely alarming how quickly people just believe the FBI's assertions as fact with almost no actual evidence being presented
The git support seems like a mis feature. It's not very modular for your file viewer to randomly have support for one particular VCS. Might seem cool now but in a decade there'll be some other new hotness.
>"Spare me the logic"
Yup, this is hackernews alright.
I can understand limiting feature updates to newer models, particularly if they demand increased resources, but if the core OS remains more or less the same I don't see an undue burden in supporting security updates for more than 2-4 years, particularly for a company with Google's capital.
There's even more [and more unjustifiable] whinging about "double taxation" over inheritance tax, despite inheritances comprising assets that bought with income that in many jurisdictions hasn't been taxed for decades, often with enormous untaxed asset price appreciation in the mean time.

Many of the people making arguments against "double taxes" also favour balancing the books with higher sales taxes - sales taxes not deductible from our income taxes - presumably in the expectation that the incidence of that "double tax" will fall more upon other (usually poorer) people...
Um no one said or even implied either of those things
No, this is a little different. It's not "poorly made", it's that the technologies didn't even exist. Without nails, there wasn't a market for the other materials of the balloon-frame construction world.

I live in a neighborhood of century-old houses (my own house is either 104, 106, or 110 years old - it's unclear from the paperwork). Many of the houses in this neighborhood are in rapid decay, mostly due to inadequate foundations or inadequate maintenance. We're seeing a building boom, with developers buying up battered rentals, tearing them down, and building something new on the lot - trying to look old, but with modern construction and materials.

I wonder how the new houses will hold up in another century, relative to the sturdier of the now-old houses?
> It was kinda sleazy to see the congress question him about his price increases when they knew damn well it was perfectly legal and they haven't done anything to stop it.

Do you have any suggestions on how what exactly they should've done? Passed a law that says "you cannot increase the price of a drug beyond 5x" or something?
There's a video demonstration of the tool we're talking about. Nobody who has watched it is going to for a moment entertain the idea that the author of this tool didn't understand its intention. Its purpose is extracting financial information from botnets.
Sociopaths, in limited circumstances, can sometimes be very charming.
> ...he did some incredible work...

Can you elaborate on this?
I've been hearing more and more about NAD+ lately. It would make sense that the declining NAD+ as we age could cause unhealthy cells.
R and RStudio are actually quite good in this aspect.

- You can evaluate any part of editor in console with keyboard shortcut. The only difference between using console and editor is that your input is easily saved in editor.

- The environment browser make inspecting variables, data structures much easier.

Besides, in R you want to use vectorized functions for better performance, so you search for general functions and combine them, which actually promote good functional programming style instead of a big control block with many processes intertwined.
Yeah, that is definitely fraud. Though as a fraud victim you can't really ask for a better outcome.
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I appreciate that link. I haven't seen that image though. The clarification isn't that inspiring. It seems to be arguing that they do in fact take money, it just isn't quite as much as the image represents. All of them fell back on their concerns that Canadian drugs don't satisfy our "safety standards." Honestly, if it were El Salvador or something, maybe, but Canada, not so much.

"The 13 Democrats did vote against one amendment that was intended to lower drug prices through reimportation of medicines from Canada, and they have each taken money from drugmakers."
There is a significant role for judges in trials as well, especially on complex technical issues. It's up to the judge to decide all "matters of law", for example which conduct would (if it happened) violate a law and which wouldn't. A judge can even throw out the indictment entirely, finding a defendant innocent as a matter of law, if they determine that the conduct alleged isn't actually a violation of any laws, even if it did happen. In complex fraud cases indictments being thrown out (or overturned on appeal) by judges isn't all that uncommon either.

Where it goes to a jury is when there's a dispute of fact rather than law: the judge has determined that whether the defendant violated the law or not depends on a fact disputed between the prosecution and the defense (e.g. whether the defendant actually did or didn't do something, or what the defendant's intent was). The jury then decides whether the facts support conviction, although even then they're typically guided by very specific instructions from the judge about what they would have to find in order to convict.
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Except, of course, this has a natural side-effect of incentivizing people to not be assholes.
Grandpa had a pension and we have Crypto.

Thats a TERRIBLE retirement strategy!
This is really fun. Suggestion: make it more obvious when someone tags me in a message. Since my tag is always changing, it's hard to tell when someone is talking to specifically _me_. Maybe you could make messages tagged with any of your past tags a different color or highlight or something?

Thanks!
> when we can't even figure out all of the wonders accomplished by our ancestors and to the precision of the way they built so many of structures that still exist today

Err, source?

There are a few surprising examples of advanced stuff (Damascus Steel for example) but almost always they are due to taking advantage of luck/sources (like Damascus Steel) rather than inherent skill or design that was "lost".

Have any examples in mind?
I've been around HN for a while. It went from 2 points to 0 to 1. I had already written the edit. I decided to keep it.

I probably shouldn't have. I thought it would help. I guess it shows I'm human. I don't want to come across as a psychopath. I have a tendency to stick to ideas others feel are wrong (vs actually being wrong). Actually, HN is quite good on that front. Accepting logic.

Edit: Could have lied here. Just took the downvotes.

Edit2: Which is what I just learned. Better to be disliked & be truthful. In most cases. (Would lie to someone trying to murder me, for example. Despite what Kant says).
> There is no early morning flight from SFO to LHR.

It took about 20 seconds to have Google Flights show me a 6:40am departure from SFO to LHR via ORD.
It does seem to be implied if you are invoking human fallibility to bolster an argument that jury trials are bad.
By that logic, shoplifting from sufficiently large stores is ok. Not stealing bread to feed your family, just randomly grabbing stuff because you feel like it (and it isn't locked down).
>> The problems start when things are tightly packed. One object might be in the way of your gripper so you can't take the thing you want.

Simple algorithm for that : Annoy (pun intended) towers :-)
Yeah, and it's really encouraging to see out of an open-source-centric company. OSS tends to get knocked for poor design chops (LibreOffice's and GIMP's UI/iconography comes to mind here) so, as someone who's dabbled in typeface creation, I get excited to see a company spending money to do typography right.

For those who don't notice consciously it'll do something on a subconscious level. For those who do notice the difference between Arial and Helvetica, it can make a world of difference.
"because it creates a much easier environment for an arbitrary court system to throw people in jail who are innocent and removes other protections like jury nullification. You could look at Japan, which tried to solve its problem of innocent people going to jail by introducing a lay-judge system (kind of like jurors who can ask questions during the trial), for a real-life example of some of the problems you might have."

Practically, united states of america have biggest incarceration rate in the world, one of the most expensive legal systems (if not most expensive) and quite long sentences compared to other western countries. Jury nullification is basically never used and majority of jury members don't know about it.

I am not saying that other countries have flawless awesome court system, definitely not. But I have yet to read something that would convince me that jury is better or at least worth additional expenses.
I agree, but only in the sense that more of them should be in jail.
I have no experience in publishing, and I interpreted it in the non-misleading, entirely positive sense.
True, and if it comes out that Turing knowingly blocked people from getting it despite knowing their eligibility, then he deserves derision. But so far he's just pointed out the huge issues and laughed, driving up awareness.

At some point if your system is so terribly busted and no one is fixing it, eh, maybe you lose the right to hate people abusing it. Or maybe his wit and charisma is making me blind to the issue here.
Thanks for sharing that. I've never really gotten on board the Shkreli hate wagon. I've just regarded him with a mixture of skepticism and curiosity. People love banding together and agreeing collectively about what they like and dislike. It tends to make me uneasy to get involved with that so I've tried to stay neutral in my views on him.
> The point the poster was making is that the US happily arrests foreigners who set foot in the US and regardless of your guilt or innocence you get trapped in the US justice system which is essentially a system to tie you up in court and legal processes that you cannot afford so that you accept a plea deal, possibly for something you have not done, because otherwise you face never seeing the outside world again.

Any country that you set foot in, that has reason to arrest you and acts on it, can trap you within their legal/justice system effectively indefinitely. This is not a matter of right or wrong, it's just a fact.

If Argentina has a reason to arrest me, and I go there, I shouldn't be surprised if they do. Germany would do it. Switzerland would do it. Literally every nation.

Now, my rights within those nations with respect to duration of arrest, access to legal guidance, etc. may vary, and some will be better than others. But that someone is arrested for violating US law by US authorities while they happen to be in the US should not be a big surprise to anyone.
I used it now for a year (maybe more, I can't remember) and I find it fantastic. It's great, and I can't imagine using plain old ls any more. No matter what people say, I love it.
You don't have to wonder where their money goes - take a look:

https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/2015_Mozilla_Audit...

I think it's disingenuous to imply that commissioning a font and working to keep the web open are somehow mutually exclusive goals.
Surprised to see that your profile says "limited experience working with WebGL" when it looks like you clearly have your hands in deep.
If you don't mind sharing - what kind of equipment/stack is it deployed on, and how is it keeping up with the HN load?
This happened almost 10 yrs ago and I don't anyone who took the deal....I can't imagine anyone would accept such a package, even people who are from India...it was basically just a legal and PR cover, they knew no one was going to take it.
Sometimes ORMs can be very convenient for reducing time to complete complex things as well. I recently did a project which had a graph data model that was mapped to a relational database, and SQLAlchemy saved me a lot of manual query manipulation to get that done. Many ORMs would make it rather difficult to achieve that sort of thing, though. Some are much more robust than others.
To add, I would argue that "charming and unbelievably intelligent" are prerequisites to being a truly great fraudster.

- Charm: a lot of people don't realize this, but the "con" in "con man" is short for "confidence". They work by abusing and exploiting people's confidence in them. A con man has to have enough charm to get people to place their confidence in him, or the scheme isn't going to work.

- Intelligence: fraud isn't something you can pull off by brute strength. You need a sharp mind to plan a scheme and carry it out.

If a con man wasn't "charming and unbelievable intelligent", I'd doubt his efficacy as a con man.

And I'll also add that "charming and unbelievable intelligent" is a good way to describe a number of serial killers. Charm and intelligence doesn't a good person make.
Why did you think his defense was a good one against fraud?
He lied to people who gave him their money. That is what fraud is. The outcome does not matter.
"Martin Shkreli, who gained national notoriety two years ago for jacking up the price of an AIDS drug, was convicted of securities fraud Friday for mismanaging two investment funds." http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/04/news/martin-shkreli-verdict/...
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10% of Basis users are doctors according to their PR director? I'd love to see some sort of citation on that. If that's true, that is pretty incredible.
Sure, the point is there is no perfect system. This is just the best we've been able to come up with over a few millennia, and no we don't execute wonderfully and certainly our voting/jury population is full of interesting ideals, but it's what we have and it's _mostly_ worked over time. I'm not sure where you are but I'm curious to know of other systems considered "better"
How does jury trials being imperfect imply that bench trials are perfect? A being true does not mean B is false...
I guess I am obtuse. I see this as the FBI believes Marcus created and sold/conspired to sell malware. This is illegal. Now we will see evidence and a trial.

The responses are ridiculous.

- Muslim last names ??

- US happily arrests foreigners

- Plea deal or never see the outside world again

- White rich people are favoured

- Rich black people have a tough time

Seriously?
There's less Unreal based games for VR than Unity but some of the most graphically impressive titles are based on Unreal. Robo Recall for example.

Valve's The Lab plumped for Unity because of the state of Unreal's forward renderer at the time but they wrote their own renderer. This was fair while back and both engines have moved on since then.
Different classes of transcription error tend to come from literate vs illiterate transcribers. I believe haplography and dittography (writing a sequence of letters once when it should be written twice, or twice when it should be written once) are more common from illiterate transcribers.
This is false, and the ACLU should take this page down. In fact, in the 1970s, the Border Patrol tried to rely on this notional "sphere of influence", and was smacked down by the Supreme Court. Searches concomitant with the Border Search Exemption must have some nexus to an actual, recent border crossing.
Judges are either appointed or elected, both equates to judges being political creatures.
And you think getting rid of juries would help, or at least not make things worse? One of the reasons it's so high is that most cases are resolved as part of the plea system and never go to trial.
> I'd say Martin's on the right path.

Right into prison.
It depends how you define “research”.

- Weev’s harvesting and publication of iPad owners’ email addresses was far from benevolent, but it also wasn’t exactly hardcore hacking; IIRC he just changed a URL parameter. As you know, it’s not that far from what white hats sometimes do, in terms of probing public websites - with the obvious exception that they’d usually responsibly disclose the vulnerability to the site owner, rather than publishing people’s data!

- Barrett Brown was charged with (among other things) republishing a link to data someone else had leaked. That falls more into the category of journalism than research, and ultimately the charge was dropped, but it still fits a theme of overzealous use of 
the CFAA
.

edit: that wasn’t the CFAA, but same idea.
Fair play - I have just checked this out and my memory wasn't too accurate - it was UA901, which leaves around 12:55 (when it's not cancelled!), and I was probably basing my comment on the fact that I was getting to the airport around 9.30am to allow for returning the rental and security etc., so I would have been on the road to the airport around 8am.
Im powerless to change the situation, but im proud enough to let logic triumph even in this situation.
I shall not write empty justifications for the willkür of those in power out of fear for my loved ones.
No matter how high the priorities, and the hope for the scyth to miss me if i bow low enough.
I shall not hide from reason within emotions.
I shall not prejudge.
I wont give in to hysteria or depression.
Nor shall i rejuvenate in youthfull fervour.

If the world has shown one thing, then it is, that even the most powerful government, is limited in its course of actions, by a thousand citizens voting with there daily actions and feets against them.
The shall not bow my ways, the shall not change my actions.
Long after there palace will fall, there shemes turn to bite the hands that fed them, my hut shall still stand on the river where they drift by.
The only horrible person in that tweet is the rat messaging her that crap so he can write some clickbait garbage for whatever trash site he works for, tbh. Let's be real - we all say stupid shit while drunk.
It's insurance that pays, I believe . So it's a function of price. He changed the price based on market condition.

Agree on the second point. Personally, I don't think that's relavent.
Or the quality of their product may suffer. Or they've come up with a way to automate or 'outsource' garlic-bag-stuffing.
If you're arguing against custom typography, I'd respond that creating a custom typeface is a really worthy thing and exciting to see, especially since they're open sourcing it and sharing it with the world.

But I think your main thrust here is that it comes off as Mozilla acting aimless? It's a fair point, and it makes me a bit sad to think that Fira Sans has completely gone off of their radar now.
Lot of articles re-hashing NIST 800-63 since it came out last month. Here's the original source: https://www.nist.gov/itl/tig/special-publication-800-63-3
Point for debate: Between the extremes of transparency and commodification where should we strike the publication balance?

e.g. If an organization/individual has ulterior motives (of fears) for testifying in a case other than the limited outcome of the legal question, it has the ability to sway their testimony.
The OP was saying that bench trials are much better, not just that jury trials are flawed.
Lots! Raj Rajaratnam, Gabriel & Marco Bitran, Florian Homm, Paul Moore IV, Michael Murphy, Jeffrey Toft, Chad Sloat, etc.

I admit to knowing none of the details in any of these cases, I just googled "hedge fund managers in jail".
Wow. 9-bit words with 1's-complement arithmetic.

I wonder if it still does end-around carry...
Ask HN: Intercom Respond alternative?
Looking for an easy and more cost-effective way to collect user feedback. Any suggestions?
I don't think that's what these researchers are saying. I think they are saying more along the lines of: "Hutchins has shown that he is a security researcher through his work on wannacry. As a security researcher, he probably has researched other problems as well, possibly including Kronos. The fact that he was arrested with little to no evidence could be showing that the DOJ is willing to arrest people who have copies of virus source code on their computers, even if they only accessed it for research purposes. In fact he may have updated Kronos code or written some part of Kronos as part of research to validate a hypothesis or test a theory. Such actions are ordinary actions for researchers, so this puts at risk most computer security research across the world."
Weather and security issue, maybe not, but otherwise, they're liable to pay 600€ in indemnity for a 3h+ delay on such a long flight. I think that should cover a few hours of lounge access.
As a Canadian, I'm just curious: what are the current proposals to regulate pharmaceutical sales in the US?

In most Canadian provinces, the provincial government is the only authorized purchaser for prescribed medication. It is then sold to pharmacies and hospitals, who are in charge of distribution. (in some provinces, such as Quebec, a mix of public or private insurance will then cover most of the purchase of medication; everyone is covered by the public plan, but your employer is mandated to get a private plan if they can)

When Shkreli says "f-- Walmart" (in the Vice interview), it's horrifying, because I know a lot of people in the US who are not covered by insurance, so they buy medication at Walmart.. This is really hard to understand.