skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shkreli received 7 years in prison because he was found guilty by a jury for securities fraud. What you refer to as "Here Holmes..." was were SEC civil charges. A criminal investigation was opened in mid-2016 and, as far as we all know, is still underway:

https://www.npr.org/2016/04/19/474868428/innovative-blood-te...
I think what really hurts Apple is the lack of the “reality distortion field” at keynotes and media events.

Those set the tone for products and the company with users and Apple hasn’t been nearly as effective at this without him.
Could that be because most automation is meant to replace workers and lower labor costs in the first place? Basic economics in action.
You could look at it as it increases workers' income as well because it provides new jobs to workers to build and operate the very machines that create automation.
Enforcement of air travel rules is strangely inconsistent. Every person on the plane could have their phone on in their pocket without Airplane Mode and no one would know or check (and because they aren’t going seat to seat demanding proof of Airplane Mode, I always figured it couldn’t really be a safety issue).

Heaven forbid you don’t take off your shoes at security though, what kind of monster are you?
When a person deeply intertwines themselves into their argumentation, you are given the choice to argue around them or at them, or you can just nod at them. It's very hard to attack someone's personal credibility without being "personally insulting", and that especially includes questioning whether true crime tv cuts it for discussion. How does one do that not insultingly?

That's why, whether the effect is desired, the final result is constraining. You cannot lower someone's credibility non-insultingly.
No kidding. He wasn't told either, but easily figured it out. The rest of the executives should by charged with insider trading if they knew, or fired for incompetence if they were unable to figure it out.
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This is why I enjoy hosting my own reader (https://tt-rss.org/). But I do wish I could find one with a CLI interface.
I think some perspective is needed. The idea that medical services you may get could be a fraud and nobody who matters really cares is much more threatening to the average person than some cryptocurrency exchange losing money or other cases of wealthy speculators being defrauded. Lots of news articles were written about the LIBOR scandal too, but even if I read them, I don't believe deep down that it affected me meaningfully.
It's a website listing some of the fastest growing startups, and their net/projected growth.

There's lots of HN threads that give updates on it: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=breakout%20list&sort=byPopular...
And what of the Judicial branch? The bill is trying to ban it from reviewing executive branch actions. The actions of both the legislative and executive branches are subject to the highest law in the land. This bill represents a fundamental attempt to bypass the highest law in the land: The Constitution of the United States of America. The judicial branch enforces a check and balance against illegal acts by the other branches.

So why is this line in here:
“(c) Limitation on judicial review.—A determination or certification made by the Attorney General under subsection (b) shall not be subject to judicial or administrative review.

So why are they attempting to claim their assertions of compliance with the highest law in the land is not subject to judicial review?
You're assuming that an impending major earthquake can be detected before it happens. I don't think that is possible.

All 'early warning' systems rely on having sensors close to the epicenter that detect the waves before they propagate out to populations further away, but by that time the earthquake is already happening.
Yes, I don't know anyone who owns one and actually wears it, that's why I'm asking here :-)
> There's a difference between advancing your political beliefs and not accepting the current status, and participating in antisocial behaviour in response

I'm a little unclear on what you're talking about here. What antisocial behavior in particular? I'm part of that 20%, and wondering at what point does expressing my opinion become "antisocial".

For reference, roughly 6% of the population is vegan[1]. Are they antisocial for protesting what is, in their opinion, murder?

[1] https://www.reportbuyer.com/product/4959853/top-trends-in-pr...
I mean writing a compiler that fulfills the specification. Whether a design complicates the implementation of alias analysis doesn't really change whether it is simple.
I'd like us to take a moment to recognize how excellent his website is:

http://www.hawking.org.uk/

Straight to the point. Easy to navigate. The most modern addition is the facebook like button, but even that is unobtrusive.
Please don't try to change the subject.
Got it. I guess it's a different way to do certain things that you might like better, and you'll stick to it instead of your phone.

Doesn't it bother you to have to recharge it, though?
"No contest" pleas are a policy of the U.S. judicial branch, and are handled on a case-by-case basis [0]. The DOJ is an agency within the U.S. executive branch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolo_contendere#United_States
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First, as you say Amazon is a middleman charging from 3-15% per sale, making many small 3rd party sellers unable to compete (if they pay shipping themselves etc.)

Moreover, they often abuse their position by insta-banning sellers e.g. upon very first listing etc. due to faulty machine learning fraud detection, so using their platform is increasingly risky even for quality sellers.

The main advantages of Amazon are centralization of payment information without the need to enter CC etc. at different shops for every single purchase (which blockchain has no issues with by design), fast shipping times with Prime (this might be tricky to reproduce; here is the supply chain efficiency advantage you mention; nevertheless a drop-shipping idea with generic warehouse robotics would commodize it) and returns for any reason (this is people-intense unfortunately and not so easy to automate right now). For us programmers, they also supply state-of-art merchant API services with some interesting things like real-time repricing possibility, observing top sellers for any category to duplicate etc. yet there are quite a few flaws and their API feels dated and could be made much better.

Amazon as a brand name is also trustworthy; here trust-less approach in DApps and observing any seller/buyer's transaction history can obliterate this advantage, though some implications are quite scary.

To replace Amazon, you'd need a marketplace, which seems like the easiest thing for a DApp; another DApp for background checks on sellers/buyers; for Prime you'd need additional robotics (which is no longer so difficult to be honest due to advancements in the past 3 years, especially in confined areas with known environment map), cheap land with pre-fab warehouses that could be owned and ran by individual communities. Obviously, human nature would be biggest risk here (trading illegal goods and services via chains of fully-automated companies, referencing each other), and you might argue that orchestrating all of this might require something like Amazon to exist anyway; I believe though that it only takes for Amazon to make a few hundred capable single programmers to become upset to solve many of coordination problems in automated fashion. Legal and political requirements might be much higher hurdle.
>Normally the way this is done they don't supply the content from the original game you have to provide your own copy which you then mod to use the newer version of the engine

Hell, this is exactly how the Tale of Two Wastelands mod gets the Fallout 3 content into New Vegas. It's not a seamless process, but it's really good. I have to admit, I'm quite saddened by this turn of events.
Yes, that one they kind of _had_ to do it I guess, uh..?
Fair enough! And I'll fully admit my personal reason probably doesn't apply to too many other people, it's just a function of my jeans not being tight enough. Or something.
Such as? I haven't seen him promote anything that wasn't the general consensus among scientists.
I don't need or use any of those things that Google has over the competition. And frankly, the majority of those features are well past what constitutes "mapping" in my opinion. Apple maps are accurate and up to date and their directions are mostly right. Bing maps are accurate and up to date and their directions are mostly right. From my own limited experience, OSM maps are more up to date than Google's in heavily populated areas.
It's a terrible quote. Apple PR is going to be pissed with that guy.
How have the neuroanatomical assumptions behind this article stood up under the focus on replicability which has evolved since its publication? Is there still good reason to believe that those scans imply psychopathy?
The cofounder/CEO of Siri contests the depiction of the scalibility issues in the original Information article:

> This statement, wholly false, was made by the architect and head of the biggest launch disaster in Apple history, Apple Maps. In reality Siri worked great at launch but, like any new platform under unexpectedly massive load, required scaling adjustments and 24 hour workdays.

https://twitter.com/Dagk/status/974047743596404737
"Series 2" added a GPS, brighter screen, and better water resistance compared to the original model.

At the same time, they dropped the original "Apple Watch (1st generation)" and replaced it with "Series 1", which as far as most users were concerned is basically the same thing, but it has a slightly faster processor than the original.

I wouldn't be surprised to see "Series 0" get dropped sooner rather than later. The iPad analogy is a good fit, the very first one is stuck at iOS 5, but anything newer than that gets iOS 9 at a minimum.

Re: terminology, "Series 0" is definitely not an official name for it, just a convenient shorthand that feels easier to understand than its official name to me.
The finance dudes were retarded enough to sell their stock after one of the biggest data leaks in history.

"Three Equifax Inc. senior executives -- Chief Financial Officer John Gamble, and unit presidents Joseph Loughran and Rodolfo Ploder -- sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered the breach."
Exactly like OOP!
After switching from Android to iOS one of the things I missed most was Google Now in comparison to Siri. Before I was far more likely to say "Okay Google" and get surprisingly contextual results.
> Saying it's "obvious and rational" that we want to deter people from committing fraud is not a good defense of those involved with Theranos

Oh, I didn't intend that as a defense of Theranos. I intended that as a justification for punishing Shkreli.

> the important thing is, as you seem to sort of agree, to deter bad actors and encourage good ones.

I think punishment has many societal functions, some of them more rational than others, but all legitimate in their own way.
That's not the point of insider trading laws. The point is to prevent misappropriation of insider knowledge that you acquire as a course of fulfilling your job responsibilities.

If you have material information about a company that others don't, you're more than welcome to trade based on it. The profit incentivizes accurately pricing securities. If you know that some other company is concealing massive fraud, feel free to short the daylights out of it and write an exposé.
Aaron Swartz (most likely) broke the law. The problem there was that many people disliked the law.
Slightly OT but since we are on HN I wanted to share my belief that coding turns from science to art when you start seeing possibilities in the algorithms that you didn't see before. Maybe a model that can best be described as an actual object when it adheres to the principles of quantum physics, for example.
For a laptop/desktop, click on the apple in the upper left, then About this Mac, and it says something like "Mac mini (Late 2012)".

Which, if you google it, is actually a model name. You can find repair guides, guides on upgrading, teardowns, etc using that phrase.
This seems to me like an attempt to get into the small end of SME space and also those simpler cases where there is

a) No stock involved

b) A small number of expenses (like items on a credit card)

I guess a saas startup or a freelancer tend to be relatively naive to finance so generally hire an accountant. This is not just to do their books of course, in the UK they are looking for someone to advise on structure, and this often means forming a corporation, which they will do for you. Then there is the issue of VAT (sales tax) which people don't find easy and are scared of. The accountant will do all of this for you for a fee. To save you money they might suggest that you post your expenses to some kind of portal based on xero or quickbooks. Typing in the few expenses of these kind of businesses is absolutely the most trivial of thing to any bookkeeper. They might also use this system to raise invoices from if they are a free lancer.

In a small Saas business the sales are most likely automated, the Stripe charges are a one liner, and the expenses are often all on a credit card (hosting etc). Payroll is a doddle if you are on fixed salaries and a complete PITA if variable hours no matter what the accounting system. If I was to do the monthly bookkeeping for one of these businesses I would spend more time opening the files and administering my billing to them than I would doing the books. My point here is you either a) know what you are doing and could use a spreadsheet or intuit or xero or Sage or b) need an accountant for advice beyond 'what code do I post hosting costs to'. Maybe this fills a particular niche in the US, but I don't see it troubling the accounts world in general.

I work in a different space. We have stock, and an ERP keeping count of sales, cos etc. This is the space your Oracle, Sage, SAP are operating in with big money implementations, and i don't see anything to trouble that here.
The government is slow and misses a lot, but they are methodical, and if they smell something they will pursue it. They have unlimited resources and their only limit is the statute. Never underestimate them.
"but of an arse" is pretty generous for behavior that would cost him his job today.
Exactly this—a particular anecdote from the biography describes his motivation. Apparently when the HP Touchpad failed, Steve Jobs viewed it as a tragedy more than a triumph:

> "Hewlett and Packard built a great company, and they thought they had left it in good hands, but now it's being dismembered and destroyed. It's tragic. I hope I've left a stronger legacy so that will never happen at Apple."

In creating Apple University he was really trying to instill a legacy that would outlast him. That said, when pulling out the "Steve Jobs never would have let this happen" card, it's also important to remember that MobileMe happened on Steve's watch, as did the iPod HiFi.
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Agreed. Co-founder with majority shareholding is into 3rd year of divorce proceedings after starting an affair with a client. His personality and behavior has been cited as the reason for every single one of our employees that has left the company. Recently had a breakdown and might stand-down. Good times.
Where is it not rampant?
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Sure but for me, even on a solo project git works so much better than svn because I can create multiple branches and easily rebase or merge them as needed.

When exploring ideas I might have 3 or 4 possible paths and it’s really nice to have the option of breaking them into different branches until I figure out the right path.
It's really true that everyone is different, I spend most of my efforts in trying to _mute_ notifications...
It ends the Wiretap Act for all foreign powers at the pleasure of the President. It will try to end privacy afforded by the 4th Amendment. It will try to prevent Judicial review of Executive branch acts.

It is as obvious as need be.
Why do I get downvoted for saying I didn't understand why someone downvoted a post?

Is it the way I phrased my comment that is downvoted? Or my lack of understanding?
Huh, cool.

I wonder if/when they'll start slipping in machine-generated headlines for a small % of the audience to train clickbait bots.
http://origami.ca

We're a small business all-in-one, flat fee, bookkeeping/accounting service operating in the Canadian space.

We solve a similar problem space for Canadian business.
Short version: they did not push updates to Siri often enough, waiting for major versions of iOS.
Your doubtless correct. To the degree there’s a trade off between management and investors getting the max cash-out and Uber operating as a profitable business we all know which will take priority.
Something always make me scratch my head. Is there any proof that actual people use and value Google and Amazon assistant more than Siri? Or is the leadership only designed by autoproclaimed experts and funky ad-hoc metrics?

I totally confess that I use Siri for only 3 things:

-Desactivating all wake up alarm during my morning poo

-Setting timers while baking

-Sending a « I’m coming » text to my loved one before riding my bike home

Yes, this is a very dumb and limited usage. But I don’t see Android users around me doing incredible things that I could be jealous of with their voice assistant. I am missing something? Or maybe it’s because I’m not in the US and we still have to catch up with the trend of using voice assistant more?
Per my first paragraph, I was commenting on your first paragraph about "competition" (or lack of it), I agreed about marketing not being a zero sum game.

My point is that marketing expenses are far from just informative - e.g., in the case of Acthar and Epipen, they go towards convincing doctors and policy makers that a specific brand is superior or magical, when no such evidence exists; and it is my opinion (which would take me forever to find the facts for, I admit) is that a significant part of the marketing budget, perhaps upward of 50%, goes to such deceitful practices; another one that comes to mind is Oxycontin[0], which was marketed deceitfully, and is a major contributor to the opioid epidemic.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/11/17001926/oxycontin-purdue...
Yeah, it's getting closer. With fast enough sensor they could probably do HDR+ on video too, like HDRx on RED cameras. If they had a 10bit HEVC video profile for recording, they could store more of that extended DR too.

Some things will be out of reach with a single small lens phone - depth of field on video, and selection of focal lengths/fov. And small sensors always have worse noise performance (quantum efficiency)
Sacrificial goat comes to mind.
You can perform a Heimlich maneuver on yourself
Since there is no 03/14/2018 in that format, yes. :)
Private property rights might be the first casualties of the apocalypse.
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Other variations:

"How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa"

"Why Siri is so dumb"
Lou Pai famously sold his Enron stock in a divorce settlement, after his wife left him because of an affair with a stripper. He got away with $280 million and no insider trading charges.

He and the stripper are now married and spend their time training dressage horses.
It's sort of sad to read a story about a story, and not be able to figure out which problems were created in the source vs. the retelling.

Mashable: "Right now, it looks like Siri won't be blown up and a [sp] rebuilt". Yeah, well, that'd most likely be a huge mistake[1] depending on your definition of "blown up" and "rebuilt", and also Siri's already been rebuilt twice.[2]

The Information: "One of Apple’s original plans was to launch its speaker without Siri included, according to a source." Of course — there are always contingency plans. To me, this is a much more damning comment about the Siri team than Apple's "vision".

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

[2] Mesosphere blog post, definitely reviewed and approved by Apple: http://archive.is/YNMLh
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He was fired in 2012 https://www.cultofmac.com/203032/apple-svp-eddy-cue-fires-ri...
> Our civilized world can turn itself upside in a hurry, via natural disasters or man-made causes.

Is this true? It sounds more like doomsday prepper propaganda.

Katrina, Sandy, LA riots, what other situations am I missing?
Not having to wear a watch is the best thing mobile phones did to me. Thanks, but no thanks.
Equifax is still around? :-(
Sure but does this have anything to do with a strict educational requirement or a practical requirement to somehow reduce the candidate pool? I have put out public job requests and had literally thousands of applicants. I have at times picked a lot of arbitrary methods for reducing the candidate pool to something useful.
So your SSN is your national id card
This is the crux:

> they needed to be convinced that curation and management of source history was one of their job responsibilities, which was tough because it really wasn't previously, at least not in any meaningful way.

Getting people to be responsible for the whole is hard.
But when you express doubt, there is always a good explanation and you will feel guilty for doubting afterwards.

This.

I think it's important to emphasize that those "good explanations" are usually lies, as lies are at the foundation of all the harm that psychopaths cause.

Normal people avoid lying if possible, psychopaths on the other hand are master liars and they make use of lies just whenever a lie serves them better than the truth.

The manipulation tactics that psychopaths use to reach their goals are also just based on lies. You can't be manipulated if you don't believe the lies. Of course psychopaths will primarily serve you lies that you want to believe but that doesn't make them more truthful.

Bottom line, if you want to stay safe from psychopaths, keep it like Reagan: "Trust but verify". And at the first sign of things not adding up, end the relationship and any contact.
about as much as it bothers me to recharge my phone and computer

(a little, but it’s fine; i’m asleep)
WebAssembly is a dead end. I don't get the hype nor the interest. People tend to forget the huge number of systems out there with tons of active development in C and early versions of C++. Those systems is what Rust would be good for, not "WebAssembly". The vast majority of workhorse code is on the backend, not the front end and UI. I think the only people interested in WebAssembly are former PHP/javascript coders wanting to actually make their code something that runs properly rather than crawls.