skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not 100% but I believe that 'Sure name' should be Surname https://www.screencast.com/t/VmRZ1dlH0T https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/surname
If your company is too big to keep its own employees from committing crimes, it's too big.
From the article:

"But even as employees frequently raised alarm, the company’s top leaders did little to prevent Walmart from being involved in bribery and corruption schemes."

Which means the "top leaders" knew of the problem, and choose to ignore it. It would be a different story if they put real effort into self policing and there was evidence they pushed the guilty contractors/etc but again:

"The plea agreement, which was technically related to the company’s improper record-keeping,
...
Federal regulators said Walmart looked the other way as subsidiaries on three continents paid millions of dollars to middlemen who helped the company obtain permits and other government approvals from July 2000 to April 2011."

Which sounds more like a coverup to me.

As an individual citizen, if I intentionally failed to file my taxes properly, report crimes I knew of, or even fire a housekeeper or other low level employee I knew had been committing crimes that benefited me you can be sure I would be getting more than the equivalent of a parking fine.

That is why people are demanding someone be held responsible. It seems those that are reaping the rewards and knew of the crimes are simply being given a free pass.
Emailing each other spreadsheets for two weeks is nothing! Try a year of it combined with angry telephone phone calls between various 'heads'.

Good write-up and very lucid writing to a wide audience. As a new Monzo customer, the customer service I've received has been excellent and far exceeding any service - in retail banking - from a legacy bank that I've had, just to pop that in.
Not really a rebrand or recent. Comcast is the company, Xfinity is a product line.
Here are some example very basic use-cases:

- Ability to show all EC2 instances by creator (e.g. David quits, what servers did he make?)

- Ability to sort EC2 instances by date of creation

- Ability to show instances that seem inactive (< 5% CPU average load).

- Ability for searches on instance names to support partial matching.

- Ability to change PEM file associated with a server

- Option to resize instance HD size and have it immediately extend the FS

- Status indicator on instances that show when the server is under so much load it may not be responding to SSH

- I'm seeing a glitch lately where dialogs follow my cursor.

These are just a few very basic things I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure there are hundreds that other people have come up with.

An organization that cannot successfully direct such requests to the teams to build them, and then make it happen, within a decade is not an organization I would model after.

They may be market successful, because they were the first mover, but they aren't taking basic steps to solidify that dominance imo.
Perhaps, but the rumor is from Ming-Chi Kuo who has a pretty great track record with this kind of stuff.
And/or to Mitt Romney saying "corporations are people, my friend" which happened around the same time and this was a big political topic. The idea of corporate personhood became popularized around this time.
No I didn't. That has nothing to do with them simply not having a way to get profitable, and running out of initial capital. That would've happened invariably of then being raided or not.
Every single Macbook I've ever owned (five to date) has had a defective battery. My 2015 13" MBP had a swollen battery, but no recall for that apparently.

I wonder if they're only offering a 90-day warranty on the replacement. In 2006 I had an MBP with two battery recalls. The third one only had a 90 day warranty (it failed, too, at the four month mark).
Will check on that, thanks
"Not all HR departments" I guess.

My experience with such was apparently unusually good, but "wherever you go, there you are." So perhaps it was partly due to how I handle things.

No clue how to sort that out.
It's the Rumpelstiltskin scenario. If someone is spinning gold from proverbial flax you should goddamn well ask how they're doing it before you start agreeing to things.

Or put less fancifully, receiving stolen goods is a crime. Where's the line between 'too good to be true' and assuming willful ignorance in a corruption case?

There's also the case of the executives claiming responsibility for all of the success of the company. If the success is theirs, not ours, then the rest of us don't want them to cherry pick. The failure and corruption is theirs too. It's a package deal.

If you want to talk about fixing the quasi-feudalist state we are moving toward and start thinking of companies more like a team, working together, then I'd love to discuss shared responsibilities as part of that reconciliation.
Facebook’s Libra Reveals Silicon Valley’s Naked Ambition
I will preface this by saying I am not defending Wal-Mart. However, it is somewhat a cost of doing business in many countries. I have spoken with close friends from both Brazil, Mexico, and India, and it is very much part of how business is done there. I have also heard from numerous acquaintances that this is the case in China, including people who did business there. This does perhaps not justify Wal-Mart's behavior, but it provides some context and reminds us that companies (even those the size of Wal-Mart) have few options. Besides, promising to bring jobs to a certain area leads to more tax revenue, which in turn leads to fatter pockets for politicians. We delude ourselves to pretend we are perfect.

However, America has the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which does mean this could be more complicated. We recognize that someone else jumping off a bridge does not justify our doing so. And though we still have problems at home, we do try to police them. When a corruption scandal breaks, politicians usually are forced out of office; compared to many other places, this is good.
This is a great venture with such a simple message. When you consider how much a supermarket throws out, it would make a lot of sense to place one 'strategically' near a supermarket. Maybe an employee will take it to heart and supply it.
If a manager knows about an employee bribing a fire inspector, that's equivalent...since the topic is having a priori knowledge of bribery and failing to act (not the bribery itself) and not the simple case of wholesale theft, which is already a crime.
> The touchstone of criminal law is a guilty mind.

Corporate structures are designed to obfuscate decisions by executives which lead to misdeeds by underlings. Carrie Tolstedt, who designed the Wells Fargo incentive systems which led to the creation of umpteen bogus accounts, ended her career tens of millions of dollars ahead, even after clawbacks.

Since it is impractical to hold individuals accountable because it is so difficult to see inside their minds, the collective corporate entity should be punished. Maleficent companies like Wells Fargo should be dismantled.
Dunno, that’s what customers (and Slack) tell us.
What about if he knew the cashier was stealing the money, was intentionally ignoring it, and maybe even cooking the books a little, to cover for that employee? Does lit change if the manager was benefiting from the theft in some way?

That sounds a lot closer to what happened.
> Vast majority of submitters could be cheaply verified and for small number of potential spammers

Yeah, okay sure. I'm sure all the engineers working on this product at google have never considered anything you wrote before.

If there was a cheap, easy way to block spammers and meet all their other constraints, I'm sure they'd have done it by now.

No matter what you do, if there is money involved, the scammers will eventually work around whatever you have in place to stop them. It is a constant, never ending game of whack-a-mole.
The Reason for Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency
Sounds nice, in certain ways.

Which country?
Every single device I've ever owned has had a defective battery eventually.

It Is the Nature of Things
Deviating perhaps ... but I always wonder if having a big house makes a family happier or more efficient?

Small house have their own problems but bigger houses instinctively don't seem to be the right solution to me.
Dude, privacy is the definition of not leaving evidence.
No, we just need to stop letting the ultra rich demonize unions. Unions fixed this problem the first the and are the obvious solution again. There's a reason our quasi sweat shops in America fight them so hard.
>There has be some reason why people don’t write their personal websites in pure HTML. Well, it’s simple:

>>HTML is unpleasant to write.

>This is the only real reason.

This seems like a huge overstatement. His point about each page being a snapshot in time strikes me as a bug, not a feature, but to each his own. My biggest qualm besides this is that working without a template will make nontrivial isomorphic rendering and rehydration way more developer-time intensive, and I think we should be embracing this strategy for any behavior that can be implemented both with and without page reloads -- even if you don't like shwanky JavaScripts, subsequent page loads will be faster if you just have to update the necessary changes rather than the whole page. Finally, raw HTML isn't the cleanest format to write in. I don't want to be tied to a WYSIWYG, I'd rather be able to access my editor from anything with an ssh connection, and I don't want every text file I deal with to start with a bunch of repetitious boilerplate (headers and such). I'd rather write in a cleaner format for data and let the computer deal with fitting it into the template.

I don't think that HTML being unpleasant is a good reason not to write in it. If you're writing in something that compiles to HTML you should probably understand the model directly underneath you.
huh that's funny I could have sworn
> Is there an alternative repository to Thingiverse yet? They're run by notorious bad actor MakerBot, so depending on them to archive our manufacturing knowledge hardly seems prudent.

This is something very close to my heart that I’ve been wanting for a long while now. Thingiverse is not only run by someone I don’t wish to support, but is also a measurably crap site. It’s slow, search barely works, etc etc. Bring up the name to anyone and you’ll instantly hear endless complaints.

But.. there’s nothing better.

The new Prusa site is Gcode only, and very limited in features. Grabcad is a mess of annoying UI and endless low quality models, but kinda works.

We seriously need a Github for 3D designs and electronics. Allow sharing of any filetypes, from STL and OBJ to raw CAD files, as well as wiring diagrams and PCB schematics, richtext assembly descriptions (like Githubs readme files), and a way to preview the model files visually like Thingiverse/Grabcad.

There’s huge demand for a service like this and there’s income to be made by allowing people to get parts printed or PCBs manufactured via referral to appropriate services.
I'm not certain historical events are the right model. This trait of long working hours has appeared in countries with fairly diverse circumstances.

I suspect sometimes it's just a matter of a few large employers setting people's idea of what "normal" is.
I need the notes too. I rarely refer back to them but writing them is an art for me. It almost functions as a memory palace of sorts. I’ve done notes on an iPad Pro but I prefer pencil, colored pens, and paper.
Sure, but I don't think lithium batteries are normally supposed to have a failure mode where they swell. All my Macbooks, save my precious 2008 (imho when Macbook design just about peaked) swelled.
Hey, good to see you mate. Officevibe is great for NPS kind of thing. Karma bot is for daily casual micro-feedback, encouragement and rewards (coffee, movie tickets, Amazon gift cards). Some of the things it does, work well for enterprises, but don’t get that much traction in startups. On the other hand, brick-and-mortar businesses find the idea attractive (pizza place, car-washing and car-leasing services we’ve got). 500 teams use it for free, 98 actually pay us to manage their karma.
As a current IT exec in banking, a thing that keeps me up at night is the “go to” strategy of compromising employees’ ability to use productivity tools for “security”.

If you follow the lock-it-down strategy to the max, you eventually unplug the computer and keep it in a vault. Since you wouldn’t do that, that means you recognize that security can’t be at the expense of all utility.

So what is the right amount of utility to sacrifice in order to achieve security?

I’d argue — try for none. Make infosec the happy path.
Is there something like that, but with more predictable languages like Rust[1], or OCaml? I wouldn't trust my money for dynamic typing. I recently asked the same question[2] to the Futu broker[3]. Sadly no answer. I wish more quant companies would pay attention to the predictability of their own code and external APIs. For example using Imandra[4] to reason about their own code. Using their own protocol language specification[5] they created verified FIX library[6].

P.S. Also you might want to add that framework in Awesome Quant list[7].

[1] https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/proposal-business-applicat...

[2] https://github.com/FutunnOpen/futu-api-doc/issues/2

[3] https://www.futu5.com/en/

[4] https://imandra.ai/

[5] https://docs.imandra.ai/ipl/

[6] https://docs.imandra.ai/fix-engine/

[7] https://github.com/wilsonfreitas/awesome-quant
That’s the problem: we’re not doing that.
This was not called bricking. It was called 'retirement'.
Sidestepping Moore’s Law
EMocha (https://www.emocha.com) appears to be the app for this application.
I imagine they may be talking about the touchbar, the touchpad has never really changed in design apart from being larger.

I could understand a ThinkPad user griping about the new silly flappy trackpads they have, but not a Macbook user.
> No employee is breaking the law...

That's absolutely absurd. Would a teenaged cashier be absolved of all guilt for murdering a troublesome customer? But the CEO should be held accountable?

If I literally cannot break a law as long as I'm working for a company, then why don't bank robbers get a job at Walmart first and claim robbing banks was for the benefit of Walmart? How could you ever convict anyone if the excuse "my boss implied that this might possibly be beneficial" gets you off Scott free?

People are always responsible for their own actions. As an extreme example, the nazis were all "just following orders". Do you think they are guilty and should be held accountable for their actions, even though someone else asked them to do what they did?
Chandrayaan 2: ‘Rocket Women’ who are leading India’s second moon mission
Ancient, Forgotten Plant Now “Grain of the Future” (1984)
Per the friendly article, Walmart has spent over $1 billion total on this (fine, legal fees, investigation), which is a noticeable number even by megacorp standards.
I just finished a 2 month road trip and used a mixture of Google Maps and Apple Maps and have to agree, Google Maps was surprisingly sub par. This really surprised me.

The largest offender was routing from an Airbnb in Northern California to a restaurant nearby about 14 miles away. Google put us on a path that would take 3 hours! I had to double check to make sure it wasn't on walking or public transit mode. It was the most convoluted thing I've ever seen. Every time I re-entered it gave the same ridiculous route.

Very strange routing like this happened with regularity. Apple Maps had no such issues (and routed properly around closures). Add on the fact that the reviews in Google Maps are worthless because everything gets 5 stars, as we got further into the trip we pretty just only used Apple Maps.
Coinbase Small Claims
May 16 2019 I accidentally Authorized Coinbase to withdraw $200 from my bank account but I thought I didn’t so I opened a support ticket and I gave them a call during discussion over the phone we are able to figure out that I did authorize it. On May 20 2019 my account got blocked. I have tried calling multiple times and emailing multiple times explaining that everything was authorized and my account was not compromised. I was told it would take 10 business days to get my account resolved But it’s been more then 30days and nothing has change beside being told That might account is being reviewed by a specialist. My question is what legal action can I take to get access to my funds?
New to Ruby, veteran Java/C++, while I'm liking what RubyMine adds, it's nowhere near what I get from a simple language with a simple type system like Java.
Good points here. We are shifting away from leaderboards. Stay tuned
Which has more sales: a single long checkout form or a multi-step one?
sometimes you've gotta place your trust in the goodness of others. and when you're proven wrong, trust and trust again.

furthermore, such violations of trust are helpful indicators of the types of structural issues present in one's community.

sure. there might be places in crisis where such a system wouldn't be able to get enough traction to function. in such a place, one should turn one's attention to the big picture.
Also, narcisists and sociopaths don't feel guilt the way the rest of us do.

And what do you find disproportionately represented in the board room?
FDA Overlooked Red Flags in Drugmaker’s Testing of New Depression Medicine
This project is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licensed (NC = non-commercial). I don't think you would be allowed to make income from building products based on the design.
.1% of EBITDA is a “cost of doing business” if it makes them .1% + X. Even if it doesn’t, it’s an annoyance. It doesn’t hurt any more than you or me getting a parking fine. You have to make it really, truly hurt the bottom line, because that’s the only language they speak.
What's holding you back from the backlit Paperwhite?
Real slate? Or hard surface wood with black chalkboard paint? And what can we create with the clear chalkboard paint? Two layers of black, a layer of blue grid marks, two layers of clear chalk paint? What perfect board to do both calc and graphs? Chalk is the yin, but have we found the ultimate boars yang?
This seems pretty good. It makes me wonder whether there's a catch though.
So the part right before your quote says: “For more than a decade, Walmart used middlemen to make dubious payments to governments around the globe in order to open new locations, United States prosecutors and securities regulators said in a settlement agreement on Thursday.”

The parts you quote are the NYT reporting the prosecutor’s allegations as fact. But the passage you quoted also explains everything you need to know about why nobody went to jail.

“The plea agreement, which was technically based on the company’s improper record keeping....”

Wait—so Wal-Mart did all these bad things (they must have, the NYT reported them as fact), but the plea agreement is “technically” based on “improper record keeping?”

If you actually read the facts section of the SEC submission linked from the article, it’s a real snooze fest. There were issues here and there, people were fired, several rounds of compliance programs were instituted, etc. But little to substantiate the prosecution narrative recounted as fact by the NYT. There is a reason Wal-Mart spent a billion dollars investigating this case but the government agreed to settle for less than $300 million—once prosecutors dug in, there wasn’t much of a story there.

I’ll also add:

> As an individual citizen, if I intentionally failed to file my taxes properly, report crimes I knew of, or even fire a housekeeper or other low level employee I knew had been committing crimes that benefited me you can be sure I would be getting more than the equivalent of a parking fine

The IRS’s response to people who intentionally don’t file tax returns—unless the conduct is really outrageous—almost always is to just tell them to file, and pay the deficiency with interest. Except in special circumstances, such as lawyers reporting on other lawyers, ordinary individuals don’t have an obligation to report crimes they’re aware of. Finally, unless it can be argued that you encouraged your housekeeper to commit crimes, or somehow facilitated them, I don’t think there would be anything illegal about not firing him either. Like, you probably can’t criminally prosecute someone for accepting gifts from someone they know is a drug dealer and purchased the gifts with ill-gotten money.
As a sidenote, as I now recall it, I was just too shocked by the phasing out of framesets in order to recognize the "undeprecation" of <b> and <i>. (I really fail to see where it helps, if future browsers fail to present historic documents in appropriate and meaningful context. Even more so, when 99% of these structures could be easily translated to semantic regions and landmarks, like header/banner, main, footer, aside, etc, even navigations could be inferred with ease by screen readers. Moreover, screen readers now have to support dynamic updates of isolated regions anyway in order to cope with JS frameworks. There was probably never a time, when frames would have posed that small a problem than at this point in time.)
My understanding is as follows:

In a traditional IPO, the company finds a bank to underwrite the deal and that bank gets shares. That bank is then taking on the risk of the shares flopping and tries to sell. The SEC rules protect the underwriting bank from competition during that time.

In a direct listing, the shares are coming from the current shareholders, so there is no need to stop competition because there is no third party to compete against.

A Cynic might say the bank expects a bubble 6 mo out, but I'd assume that's either baked into the fees/cost (4-7% as per the article) or they believe the shares of the company will be worth more eventually.
Ok, but why? You’re effectively saying they like it because they like it.

CS, stats, physics, engineering, etc. classes would all benefit from slowing down and explaining things the way mathematicians are forced to do using chalk.
Prototyping in Java is as fast as prototyping in Ruby once you understand how to use the tools equivalent to Pry in Java, and standard types instead of rolling your own types. JIT isso fast today the 20ms required to JIT what you type is immaterial.
Yes, reporting the misdeeds of contractors has been part of every companie's yearly legal training i've worked for in the past couple decades. The fact that those reports apparently weren't acted upon means that the upper mgmt is responsible.

Of course the whole thing puts companies in a bad place, the law itself is highly problematic. That is why whole thing just sounds like the usual US government trying to get its cut.
Good on them.

I'd probably be a bit nervous about taking my Ferrari to Joe's Ferrari Service though.
What's the reason behind the dislike of MakerBot, and who is that someone you don't wish to support?
ECMO is not sustainable for long. The extra mechanical stress on the platelets and all the precautions you have to take against blood clots forming on any off the artificial surfaces are rather damaging. And since it is an expensive, short-term-only intervention there is no need for it to be particularly mobile. For the few days to weeks you are on ECMO while quite seriously ill, the ICU is the best place for you.

Ventilation on the other hand doesn't interact with your blood, but only has to handle air, which doesn't get damaged by the vent. So it is not impossible to be on a vent for decades. Being locked in the ICU for decades would not be good and luckily is not necessary.
Van Gogh Painted Many ‘Sunflowers.’ But How Different Are They?
> Rust and Go seem to get lumped together because they both came on the scene around the same time

That, and that the golang authors at that time claimed that it was a "systems language". They would later go back on that by attempting to redefine what "systems language" meant.