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So what you are saying is that he had his sentance increased because he hurt a judge's feelings?

That's basically what this comes down to.

Imagine if jay walking was punishable by death but it was only ever enforced against people who mocked Trump.

Inconsistent enforcement just allows the people in power to go after their political oponents for the "real" crime of hurting their feelings.
Well, true; it's completely possible to get through college without picking up anything lasting.

Class-time is a minority of the learning time. The basic idea is to gain a basic familiarization before class, then (during class) hopefully have the professor explain the same ideas in a different way and provide an opportunity to ask clarifying questions. Assignments should be structured to illustrate the concepts and encourage reaching a bit past what was taught. You shouldn't be doing the bulk of the learning in the classroom itself, IMO. Homework is for you. Tests are a final feedback of the result of the learning process.

I guess my point is that learning in the "off-hours" is kind of the intention (and is part of the best-case scenario, as described above). 2 hours of lecture implies 4 hours (or more) of extra work, done outside of the classroom, on your own or with others. School should provide structure and guidance to learning (providing a schedule, and an appropriate order of concepts to learn). Learning itself is a separate process.
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I guess it's cultural, but I have observed many times that especially in America, there is a lot of emphasis on individualism - the cult of the person and their own achievements is placed above all else.

Even if the fix was done by one "dedicated employee" , they still belong to a team of people working together. I feel like singling out one person like this is almost rude to the rest of the team.
Have you read the official docs?

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html

2.3.3 Sending Email To Multiple Recipients

It is possible to send email to one or more recipients in one email (e.g., informing all admins of a new signup) by setting the list of emails to the :to key. The list of emails can be an array of email addresses or a single string with the addresses separated by commas.

class AdminMailer < ApplicationMailer

default to: Proc.new { Admin.pluck(:email) },
from: 'notification@example.com'

def new_registration(user)
@user = user
mail(subject: "New User Signup: #{@user.email}")
end

end

The same format can be used to set carbon copy (Cc:) and blind carbon copy (Bcc:) recipients, by using the :cc and :bcc keys respectively.

As for Devise, it's not a part of Rails, and there are a few alternative auth gems you can use, so it's not really a valid criticism of the framework if the thing you don't like isn't in the actual framework.
Not true per se, the name GraphQL is you are conceptually thinking about your data in terms of a graph. The underlying data store could be parsing a CSV file to resolve your data & graphQL still adds immense value.
I saw a talk with Bill Atkinson in which a surprising number of members of the audience claimed to still maintain old hardware just for running Hypercard. Two of the members said they used it to this day to keep their own financial records and/or run POS at their businesses. They also said unequivocally that they weren't programmers.

In a related talk, Atkinson finally came out and said that the idea for Hypercard came to him during an acid trip on a park bench.
Co-ops are just the same as guilds, oligopolies, etc. They are (usually government-sanctioned or government-protected) producer organizations that set quotas and approval processes to reduce the threat of competition and new entrants, usually relying on official government policy to enable them through import tariffs, "cultural protection" regulation and subsidies (such as tax waivers).

The result is an inefficient system that incentivizes inequality and lowers productivity, protecting the interests of the insiders in detriment to society.

And, from what I hear from Italian friends, they are usually linked to the local mafia group.
This whole thing seems like the justice system struggling to punish someone for doing something that wasn't illegal, finding something else to pin him with (and he was guilty of it, sure), then basing sentencing on that other crime, but using this new charge as a smokescreen. This whole thing reeks of corruption, but the kind of corruption where the people abusing their authority think they're the good guys.
As someone​ currently interviewing for software positions, this x100. I mean, why do I have ask about this every single time?
I think philosophically it has to do with being the agent that causes harm.

If I never existed to give charitable donations, those people in Africa are not in a worse situation because I am not here. My existence, and my possible charity can only improve this situation.

If Martin never existed, those poor people would possibly be much better off, getting a more fair price for their medication instead of paying the theoretical maximum.

The difference is One Thing is pushing a ball up a hill, and the Second Thing is pushing a ball down a hill. You can say, they are the same... both have balls and hills... but you have simplified out the most important distinction.

You are not obligated to make someone else's life better. But you ARE obligated not to make it worse.
> For tactical positions like programming, required skills and optional skills are probably a minimum.

True, but you have to be a little careful with "required skills". At my last job, the CTO asked me to check out a job posting, and the "required skills" list had our entire tech stack (maybe 20 items, including several rare ones). We were literally asking for a single person who knew as much as our entire company did!

This can be especially problematic because not everyone sees "required" the same way: https://hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-dont-apply-for-jobs-unless...
Do you mean that FB only has one single dedicated person looking at Whitehat tickets or that a single developer made the fix?
Any progress on genetically engineering chicken so that only female chicks are produced, or even better artificially producing eggs without any chickens at all?
I remember how weird it felt the first time I visited Hawaii, where the sun year round comes up around 6am and goes down around 6pm. You could feel the cultural response to this. People were waking up earlier then I was used to, out shopping earlier then i was used to, and eating dinner earlier then I was used to.

Nowadays it makes sense to me how much our schedules have been dictated by the effects of daylight savings. Going to work at 9am, eating dinner at 8pm, going to sleep at 1am. It feels now like we need DST to function correctly.
How much expense goes into software which needs to support daylight savings? How many bugs have occurred because of it?

Personally I deal with this problem a lot. It is a pain and expensive. Of course this is a problem because the time data my software ingests often doesn’t include the offset or zone. So I have to work around it. All for subtracting then add one hour for the year.
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> In 99/100 outcomes

In other news, in 99/100 occurrences of the phrase "99 times out of 100" the person stating it is pulling numbers out of their ass to sound authoritative.

If you think the vast majority of the time the extra developer helps that company succeed and outperform the other company, then perhaps you should start with "I think the vast majority of the time..." instead of making up magical numbers. Sure, we all know the numbers are bullshit, but that's not excuse where there are perfectly normal ways to express what you mean that don't masquerade as fact.

> Security is an overhead and a drag on company resources.. until it's not.

And sometimes that "until it's not" could be from the very beginning, if it's used for market differentiation. As soon a you talk about competition and businesses it becomes about a whole lot more than technical merit and features. Things like current market position, advertising, strategic partnerships, etc start having an impact, and sometimes it's a large one.
The news may have moved on but the people are smarter than most give them credit for. They do remember this stuff, just gotta jog their memories a little bit.
It's also important to be honest about what tech makes up most of your stack. Lots of companies say "We use a mix of {sexy_tech} {sexy_tech} and {unsexy_tech}", when 90+% of their codebase is in {unsexy_tech}. I see this frequently, and it's misleading.
So, the consistency of the argument is just that, "I spend more for this, therefore it gives a better impression to people who also choose to pay more."

Can't argue with that.
I see. Yes, misstated was probably the wrong word. Here is what he got convicted of fraud for:

...the fund was managing $35 million in assets and had an independent auditor.

He said he later learned both of those claims were false

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli/investo...

That is a lie and therefore fraud, but the 7 year sentence seems out of line with the actual fraud committed (there are degrees).

Shkreli lied to him repeatedly, although he eventually made millions of dollars from the investment.

He made the defrauded investors money. In this crazy country, I'm not sure that giving someone shares in another company to cover other losses is illegal (Retrophin Inc). It seems like a Ponzi, but who knows. Fund managers are given a hell of a lot of leeway.

So to summarize, 7 years seem harsh for lying about the size of the assets and an independent auditor, given the fact that the investors made money. To me this seems more in line that he was punished for the press he got, and embarrassing Congress when they called him in for his perfectly legal monopolistic practices. I would much rather him be convicted for that.
What are some of the SAAS apps that they have built?
I recently had to unfreeze my credit, but I was traveling so I did not have the PIN that they gave to me when I froze my credit.

Experian was fairly difficult to do, and required I prove things in a pretty non-trivial way. It involved sending a fax, which was annoying, but not exactly horrible.

Equifax, the company that got hacked, let me unfreeze it discouragingly easily. They asked me some questions on the phone that I figure were likely available in the leaked data, with only one or two questions needing a little more access.

The two questions that needed more access were frightening to me, though. They asked me to confirm an up-to-the-minute balance on either my bank accounts or the cost of a few things I purchased very recently (I forget which it was). Either way, why do they have that data? Why does the company that got hacked have that? I certainly never gave them permissions to have it, and I would like to revoke their permission to have this information.
This used to be called MetaCard! I can't believe it's still around; I must have used this thing fifteen years ago.
> Hans Reiser would likely never kill another person in his life if he was free.

Why not? He killed one already for no good reason. His high IQ just means he has less of an excuse. It doesn't make him a better person.
Is your question if lawns can brown out from too much daylight? Because they certainly can, and e.g. in South Korea they were brown most of the summer. (in reality, it's probably more a mix dry, warmth and light).
It's cheap to point out the problems of a system with making a case for something that might work better. Answer my question: What should be done about the 20 year old man who robs someone at gunpoint or drags a woman into an alley and rapes her?
> Posting ads

Advertisement is Facebook's #1 revenue model, its literally why they exist. I wish everyone who's used FB would sign up for a business page and place an ad; it's illuminating to see just how detailed their tools are.

Same with Google PPC and Bing etc etc.

I shudder to think at just how detailed the profiles are that FB, AMZN et al keep on each of its users.
If Martin never existed, those poor people would possibly be much better off

Well maybe. One of the reasons that drugs get invented is because people are willing to buy the rights to manufacture and distribute them. If Shkreli, and other people like him, didn't exist the drug might not be there in the first place.

But you ARE obligated not to make it worse.

I can think of lots of places that people make my life worse[1] and that's fine. People raise prices on things I want to buy. I've been fired before. I've been dumped by romantic partners. I've been spurned in various personal or business dealings.

I honestly think that people have a very unusual set of rules that they think should apply to medicine and health care services. They don't see these goods as typical products but as moral totems worthy of special rules.

1. This is not to say that my life is unusually bad. I think these things are pretty typical for most people.
The price of the drugs is amortized over everyone with insurance. The drug in question has a total potential audience of around 2000 people in the United States, if I remember correctly, so that means the cost of the treatment will be spread very widely.

Also, the drug he raised the price on was a horrible 50-year-old drug. Shkreli raised the price with the explicit aim of getting funds to research a new drug, with less terrible side-effects.
There are other people who enjoy morning sunlight based on life according to solar time (noon is at or near solar noon).

Why should your odd preference for reduced morning sunlight be enforced by law on everybody else?
If you make it punishable by prison time to charge more than some unknowable fair amount of money to make drugs, then nobody will make drugs.

If you make it not a crime to deceive investors and misuse their money, then rich people won't invest their money, they will keep it in vaults.

I consider "a world in which people who don't want to risk prison are still able to make drugs" and "a world in which capital is invested instead of hoarded" to be noble goals.
Use what you want, but by default there is a browsable menu for those commands in emacs. They'll (just like any other decent application) show you both the command and the shortcut. And if you're on the command line (not the GUI version) just use F10 to access it (whether it's initially visible or not).
Ugly in "style" or ugly in appearance?
You bothered to respond, but didn't give the info I was looking for and said "I'll tell you next week."

Hmmm... makes sense that you're in the insurance business.
Ha! I actually remember reading that comment.

I really hated 2001, except for the 2nd act with HAL. All the rest of it just seemed so pretentious and devoid of story. I remember when they were landing on the moon for instance, that scene was insanely drawn out. I don't mind a slower pace for a movie, but I like to watch youtube film making critics [1]. Something I hear from them all the time is that everything in your film must serve a purpose. So much of 2001 seemed to serve no purpose at all, if it did, the purpose was so unclear it was akin to having a fever dream.

Full Metal Jacket on the other hand was brilliant, and while I enjoyed the 1st half more than the second (as I tend to like more light hearted media), the tone shift was incredible. I think that kind of shift really did say something about the experience of soldiers. Bootcamp was still safe, they were home, then when they were about to actually leave, it really sunk in for them what they were about to go through.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5h8yHSUS4n7zPnh0dG0SA I find this guy to be particularly interesting/funny and relatively unknown
In Scandinavia we use thick, dark shades and curtains, and children sleep well in all seasons. Is that option not available in your country?
And you realize that that's a reference to General Montgomery right?
Thanks. I guess if you're using cloudfront then it's best to use a seperate sub-domain and link to them directly because you don't want to redirect it through the Api gateway/lambda as it will add to the load time and exhaust your quota.

You're right about JWT. It does seem like a better solution for handling sessions and I'm sure somebody must have already written the wrapper for it, so it's just a matter of integrating. Though with JWT is there a limit on the session data length? Because right now it can be anything. If iirc with Jwt the cookie contains the entire session data, right?
> What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS?

We have data residency requirements to keep things in Canada. This actually forced us to migrate off AWS, first to IBM, then eventually to Azure.
You’re forgetting the difference between cargo.toml and cargo.lock. In order to solve this, cargo would have to parse your source code.

Another way to think of it is, Cargo.toml contains all metadata about the build, and this is fundamentally metadata.
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I think there is something different here.

We at Private Internet Access have walked away from countless buyout offers over the past years for hundreds of millions. Every time it happens, we turn around and donate to another non profit org we appreciate.

I think it’s better advice to say that your threat model should take many things into consideration. Some people are better with a commercial VPN. Some are not. To each person in their own individual circumstance there are different needs. Your blanket advice is dangerous. It is important for everyone to do due diligence, remain skeptical, and do what is right for your threat model.

We are honest and go to work everyday with the challenge of your privacy and the increasing national surveillance state in mind. We could log, but we don't. We are against the concept and our actions have shown we do everything we can to fight the system that would try to have us log, too.

In an open world where software is open source and all users and skeptics can check the source code, you can't say that the McAfee security team is a better team than the entire open source community.

Currently, commercial VPN providers do require trust; and we recognize that. That is why PIA is working to disintermediate that trust - this is our end goal and we are VERY close.

Stay tuned.
How dare he post on YouTube! 7 years in jail!

This is clearly giving an unpopular person an unnecessarily harsh penalty. This is a corruption of justice.
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I am confused. It is titled as "New robocaller recordings". The newest ones under that section are from October 25, 2017. However, the "Most active robocallers (Past 24 hours)" has records from later than October 25, 2017.
Glad to see many comments here denouncing this harsh sentencing. Good to know HN also has folks who do their own individual research and not just abide by the mainstream narrative.
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Daraprim is not patented.
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>Coops give low pay to workers and they can because workers are considered company members.

How is this the case? I was under the impression that since workers were company members they would exert more pressure to increase wages.
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shameful of humans
> “Fake” isn’t a neutral word because it’s not intended to be - some people actually do prefer natural diamonds, just as some people really do prefer non-GMO food.

"Fake" means something isn't what it's claimed to be.

A piece of glass cut to look like a diamond is a fake. You make like it or not, but it isn't a diamond. A diamond is a mass of carbon in a particular structure, and glass isn't.

A lab-grown diamond is not fake. It is, in fact, a diamond.

If people want to distinguish between "natural" vs "synthetic" or "mined" vs "grown" diamonds, fine. But "fake" is truly a misleading term here.
The drug he was selling is used to treat a pretty rare disease, so it made little to no effect on the overall cost of insurance. And even at a higher price it was a good deal to insurance companies who would have to spend massively more if this drug wasn’t available at all.
This, by far. I can't tell you how many times I've had to listen to my significant other (a roadway engineer) talk about new types of asphalt designed to reduce noise pollution, last longer, or fulfil some sort of edge-case requirement.

Surprisingly, for as bad as roadway construction is in the states (and it's absolutely awful), the US apparently leads the rest of the world in the study of roadway materials.
Did anyone actually suggest that anywhere here?
I cannot for the life of me remember the context, but I remember reading about skills that can't be taught; only learned; chicken-sexing was one of these.
Are judges Kings now and if we hurt their ity bity feelings, they will send men with guns to arrest us for it?

This is exactly the same thing as when Kings used to kill people because they insulted their honor or something.
I refuse to believe that people actually though the government was literally altering time itself.
Do we really need to insult the non-neurotypical?
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Yeah, I know all that. I used Emacs for years. I'm glad better tools came along.
Martin Shkreli Scammed by Indian IRS Scammer
This may sound controversial, but politicians should also limit credit reporting agencies to finite, fixed number of players. Like two or maximum three.

Sometime after Equifax hack, I froze our credit on TransUnion, Experian and Equifax. But wasn't aware that e.g. Innovis exists.

So ok, I will now go there to put a freeze in place. But now that I realized there maybe other CRAs, DDG tells me I should maybe do something about FICO[1] and PRBC[2] too.

Or of course we could do the smart thing, and tell our elected representatives to work towards abolishing/repealing whole CRA industry. I'd wager that what ever rises from those ashes, could not possibly be the horror CRA industry is today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICO
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRBC
I make no claim that they were not paid back and in excess of their initial investment (which was not in pharmaceuticals)

If I lose your money, lie to you, but then I give you 10X your money because I had that in a bank account somewhere because I won the lottery doesn't mean that I didn't commit fraud in relation to your original investment.

Just because your "investment" was repaid at a greater amount doesn't mean you weren't defrauded. He made money because of a settlement, NOT because the investment was in pharma. From your own source article:

...largely through an agreement in which Shkreli gave him shares in his drug company Retrophin Inc.

Shkreli committed fraud, got caught, investors realized they were defrauded, Shkreli then settled privately and paid them above their initial investments with funds completely unrelated to their investments.

He made millions because Shkreli got lucky and was able to settle with them privately. That does not absolve him from the criminal actions he committed just because he settled the civil cases. If Shkreli didn't get lucky with his pharma scheme those investors would not get paid back because their original investment funds were all gone long ago, and again, were not involved in the pharma scheme.

You seem to lack the understanding of the facts in this case.