skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There aren't any criminal prosecutions because it's hard to prove that there was fraud."

That's nonsense. The following exchange takes place in the documentary where Breuer admits the reason these banks aren't prosecuted is because it is basically government policy not to...

"""
MARTIN SMITH: You gave a speech before the New York Bar Association. And in that speech, you made a reference to losing sleep at night, worrying about what a lawsuit might result in at a large financial institution.

LANNY BREUER: Right.

MARTIN SMITH: Is that really the job of a prosecutor, to worry about anything other than simply pursuing justice?

LANNY BREUER: Well, I think I am pursuing justice. And I think the entire responsibility of the department is to pursue justice. But in any given case, I think I and prosecutors around the country, being responsible, should speak to regulators, should speak to experts, because if I bring a case against institution A, and as a result of bringing that case, there’s some huge economic effect — if it creates a ripple effect so that suddenly, counterparties and other financial institutions or other companies that had nothing to do with this are affected badly — it’s a factor we need to know and understand.
"""

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-23/assistant-attorney-...
I did some more investigation and it seems he did copy thier website. Dont know why would he do that - that guy has a lot of freakin clout, hes got an iphone and android app after himself! He even spoke for google india.?!?

Hes 17 - rookie mistake . As runjKe said - stop trying to create drama - surely a ploy to get sales for thesearethings.com .
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http://video.pbs.org/video/2327953844

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageo...
yea for all i know sans personal comments you are all girls.

time for news.ycombinator.com/gonewild methinks
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton

One should need to remind oneself of this every single day.
Is it not fair to ask when Amazon, a company which is 20 years old next year, will start making significant profits if it isn't now?

After all, this isn't some little start up that's only been going a couple of years - by tech standards Amazon is part of the old guard.
We were talking about a US city (my fault for bringing in London), so yes, I'm not sure you can compare the type of government owned organizations that are common in Asia to how our governments and infrastructure work.
I started using data.table [1] as a replacement for data.frame recently and it's hugely improved my productivity in R. On the web front, the Shiny [2] project has a emerged as a possibility for quickly building web frontends for analysis projects in R.

1. http://datatable.r-forge.r-project.org/

2. http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/
How do you think it compares to Crashplan multi backup feature http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/feature/multi_destinat... ?
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Is "invented" really the correct word, given that R started its life as a straight up Open Source re-implementation of the S language.
Yep, that's definitely part of it. Also government funded systems are still built by private companies, but instead of figuring out the best way to save money (as they would do if self-funded) they pad their margins and make the systems incredibly expensive to be built with public dollars.
MongoDB: How to include and exclude the fields you want in results
"industry insiders were ringing the alarm bells"

Just as today many economists are ringing the alarm bells: the governments public debt issues (both in U.S., Japan and many countries in the Eurozone) are going to end up very badly.

Many central banks (including in the U.S.) have basically become bad banks. Anyone holding medium and long-term public government debt (like many insurance products) are basically bankrupt because governments are going to default.

If you think 2008 was bad, wait until the house of cards collapse. It shall make 1929 look like a cute event.

Some economists are predicting a worlwide GDP drop of as much as 25%.

Of course economists that you see on Fox news and CNN like Krugman (sure, lets create a one trillion $ coin, it's a good idea: why not then create 16 of these and be done with our public debt?) either totally lost it or are playing the game that the state asked them to play: propaganda.

Capitalism cannot work if the cost of printing money is zero (quantitative easing).

Actually I don't think we're living in a capitalistic world. I think we live in a socialist world bent on confiscating savings (at the benefit of the state) using inflation. But the system has its limit.

And who are you going to prosecute and hold responsible once everything collapses? The states are basically forcing everyone into buying their junk bonds.

Do you really think anyone would buy government bonds seen the current situation?

The people responsible for this are very very high up the chain. They're desperately trying to prevent the house of socialist cards from falling apart.

"The problem of socialism is that at one point you run out of other people's money". And that's where we're arriving now.

Of course they're going to pretend that it's not the states that created the state debt but "evil" capitalists. What a joke : (
At the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi you can sit in the cone of this engine. They have a couple of the Saturn and Space Shuttle engines on display in front of the museum. The Stennis Space Center was considered the life blood of the NASA program by Wernher Von Braun where his office was located. The rocket testing platforms are really impressive.
The suggestions at the end of the article to remedy this are pretty lame. The author misses his own point IMHO. Do away with the whole war on drugs and legalize them, and you'll have far fewer cases crowding courtrooms. That will in turn pave the way for reform of the plea bargaining process, which becomes feasible once the case pressure is off.
Hypothesis: The radio and X-ray pulses occur at the same time at the star but the interstellar media transmits radio and X-rays at a slightly different rates so the X-ray and radio pulses are out of phase by the time they reach the earth.
Indeed. Is the language the second most famous scientific 'R' from NZ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford
Well, at least the device is no longer likely to spy on you.
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In 2010 he said he had arsehole like tendencies. That's some time ago, I think it's a stretch to say that it makes him one. I've agreed with you right up to this point!
Tornado - the best Python web framework
this post explains authors opinion why WSGI is not sufficient and present Tornado, which handles ideal web frameworks problems greatly.
If you like data.table, but use python, take a look a pytables.
Nokia CEO: Google is making Android more closed
I remember reading somewhere that everyone should always demand a jury trial as an act of non-violent protest. Currently, as I recall, only 5% of eligible cases go to juries. So obviously if everyone did it (or even if it only went to 10% or 15%) it would bring the criminal justice system to a screeching halt.

As I recall it was aimed at the War on Drugs, but as this article points out, unintended consequences have bleed out all over the justice system like the death scene in a B-movie.
You can already implement Curry in R: https://github.com/hadley/pryr/blob/master/R/curry.r :)
You can buy alcohol on the internet (wine.com etc.) and those guys seem to have no problems checking IDs.
Sorry, I'd rather remain pseudonymous on HN. I can send you links to the apps via email if you want.
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I'm very distant from Java-land right now and equally distant from desktop development so I know next to nothing about the matter, but one of my co-workers is using PyCharm and is praising it every single day (as a former vim user, at that). So I can't help but wonder - how did Java fail, in your opinion, and what other framework "won", if any?
The article is suggesting R has become popular for data analysis projects, not as a general purpose programming language.
Internet Explorer causation
I got a wart on my index finger when i was about 7. It was removed within a month or so but the rough skin from doing so was around a while more.

As soon as I knew it was on my right hand, it stayed for life :)
The StoreVault's key problems: artificial limitations, awful 'consumer' AI, and lack of SAN experience in their target audience.

The StoreVault ran a modified version of ONTAP, but still generally had most of the ONTAP features. Unfortunately, these were hidden by the special StoreVault System Manager. Even if you were familiar with NetApp, it was a major struggle to perform your typical tasks. The System Manager was buggy, slow, and only had the most basic workflows available. If you manually connected in to FilerView, you received a nasty warning about how dangerous/unsupported it was. But from FilerView, you could actually manage your filer the right way.

Non-savvy users struggled with the software and were steered in the wrong direction. It was incredibly frustrating being limited by the System Manager.

Now, the low-end filers like the 2040 occupy the same space, and are "full" NetApps so you don't have to worry about an abrupt EOL notice.
And who designs the algorithms? ;)
R is essentially for statistics, it is not a general purpose programming language
I hope such research get traction, as it clearly is needed to move the discussion forward in regard to gender equality in the software industry/community. Its surely something I would read if published.

I wonder if the effect of public Q&A setting follow for every area of education, or if its worse in IT. Comparing my own knowledge of say history classes (place where gender equality is quite good) vs computer classes, my initial thought brings to mind that history classes puts Q&A and social discussion through out all the day, but in a computer class, all the Q&A is put to the end of the day where students compete to answers most and best. I could easily see how one of those settings would interact differently with current culture and social gender norms.
Paypal's Merchant Services net Total Payment Volume was $28 billion in Q4 2012, up 28 percent year over year. PayPal revenues for Q4 2012 were $1.54 billion, growing 24 percent year over year.
It is also one of the things that are bad about Dropbox: even if you delete your files, someone else still has a copy. Worse, it's almost never encrypted client-side.

That is often not an issue of course, Dropbox is great.
In addition to a huge loss of corporate knowledge concerning the construction, use, and maintenance of the engine, one of SpaceX's primary goals is turning raw materials into rockets at the lowest possible cost. The F-1 is not in the solution space for a lot of the technical challenges facing SpaceX.
Code is ignorant of gender. Coders are not. Code doesn't answer questions. Coders do. Code doesn't post on forums. Coders do. Code doesn't answer differently based on the perceived gender of the questioner. (Some) coders do.

Some people are happy hiding who they are so they can get a decent answer. Some people are not.
I think the best thing that could happen would be the development of a competing R implementation. In my mind this would include the definition of a minimal R language implemented in something like Riposte (http://www.justintalbot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/pact0...), and the majority of base code written either in R, or the sort of C++ that Rcpp makes very natural.
You're absolutely correct: it's perfectly legal to download free articles. But this is why I made my "semantics matter" argument a few days ago: He said "download and free," free being a verb and intending to mean "set them free."

Yes, there appears to be an allusion to Aaron's particular case. However, one could certainly see where a particular journal publisher holds the copyright on many excellent articles made available online for a fee having to protect their copyright from some unscrupulous academician using their paid acces to liberate those writings. And how, given the predilection of prosecutors to scare would-be defendants, automating that task might see the threat of criminal charges.

To actually respond to your comment, it may be legal to download free articles (and it's probably legal to download articles for which you've paid), but is it legal to distribute someone else's copyrighted work without their permission? Price doesn't matter.
Several companies have been using BitTorrent this way to move data in between machines (backups, builds, etc.). This may be inspired by such anecdotes.
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Ask HN: Review my startup PrintMosaic
My wife and I are at a point where we want to do some travel this year, are not picky where we go, don't mind spending money, but don't want to waste money (read: find good bargains).

This type of search is really what I'm looking for. I love that you can type in "somewhere warm" and give general time frames. I don't know if something this flexible has been implemented elsewhere (maybe without the natural language search) but I haven't seen something this flexible before.

I'll have to try this out a few times along with my standard travel search to see how the results quality compares but I'm hoping this provides insights into deals and locations that were previously much harder to find.
Try to type in: {}]]]
and press Enter...
M2M technology meets product design - say hello to the Good Night Lamp
Oracle Java is still a real pain to install on Linux. I still get it though the third party repository "webup8" when I set up a new install.

I wish JetBrains was compatible with OpenJDK, it's the only reason why I still bother installing Oracle Java.
In my admittedly anecdotal experience, long-terms San Franciscans can't stand anyone outside SF period. SF does everything it can to make the experience of visiting and doing business in that city as miserable as possible.

1. Affordable short-term housing or hotels? Yeah, you're going to be staying across the bay.
2. Parking is miserable and parking enforcement are total fascists. You can't even refill a meter.
3. Pandhandlers everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I'm not talking about just homeless, I'm talking about scientologists, 9/11 truthers, people raising money for Africa or the cat shelter or whatever. I've never been as harassed on the streets as I've been in SF. Just because I stopped for 3 seconds does not mean I want a pamphlet, dude.

SF loves being a self-imposed alternaculture concentration camp which is fine with me when I don't have to go there on business.
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Hello, OP here. I launched in August 2012, and have since slowly built some traffic.

PrintMosaic allows people to create mosaics from any photos from Facebook, Instagram or Dropbox. The results can be unique gift for special occasions like weddings, the arrival of a baby, return from a trip or birthdays.

Users can create as many mosaics as they want, and optionally purchase a high resolution image (12000x9000) for $4.95 or a photo-quality poster for $39.95 (+shipping).

For the hackers here, you can embed the mosaics on your own site and there is also an api if you want to use photos which are not on FB/Instagram/Dropbox.

It has been shared by quite a lot of blogs last year, but the momentum has not continued as much as I had hoped. So for all marketers out here, I am more than happy to here from you if you have good advices. I am also open for collaboration, feel free to pm me if you are interested.
Recreating iOS’s UISwitch with web technologies - Some code, some thoughts
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For what it's worth I'm always installing Java on Linux servers without using root rights (so no rpm, no .deb: rpms but good old tarballs).

Certainly no "apt-get install whatever-jdk" for me. No, thank you very much. I want to be in control.

So I install the JRE (or JDK) in a user account and, once the .tar.gz file is decompressed/dearchived I do remove the unnecessary crap (examples, applets, etc.).

That's one big advantage right there about not needing to have admin rights to install: you know where all the files have been installed (in the user account, it's not possible to write anywhere else without being root) and you have more control on the crap.

That's not really possible to do as conveniently on Windows seen that you must have admin rights to install Java on Windows.
For once, reading with showdead on made me laugh!
Ok, looks like you found a bug which sends things into an infinite loop.
"Tough and Competent" - Gene Kranz, Monday following Apollo 1 to other flight controllers.

I actually just wrote about this yesterday: http://jimkeener.com/posts/tough-and-competent

EDIT: Attribution
No, this is about Go functioning as an Erlang node using the Erlang node communication protocol, and my objection is precisely that this is not using "different layers of approaches"; it is simply smashing one model up against another without an intervening layer, which is likely to produce unhappy consequences on both sides. You need an intervening layer between Go and Erlang because despite their superficial similarities, they are very different.

You can not do Erlang-style communication with Go processes. The channel-process id gulf is fairly large (though potentially crossable in Go if you just throw away a great deal of the style of the language and really jam in the idea that channels are instead untyped channels for which only one goroutine will receive, every clause of which is false at the language level and you will be enforcing it strictly manually), and the synchronous-asynchronous barrier is effectively uncrossable. If you try to program Erlang in Go, Go will deadlock. Frequently. (Although if you are foolish enough to try to simulate it with extensive use of buffered channels, it will only deadlock "frequently" in production, rather than in testing. Buffered channels are still synchronous, in the end.)

It may be a useful tool in conjunction with an abstraction layer, but the affordance of using this directly is dangerous.
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It will, put
export SDL_AUDIODRIVER="alsa"
in your .bashrc and relogin
How would you know? They are all closed source.
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My use of Mathematica is usually reading some data (generated from a simulation, say) from a CSV file and then doing something with it and plotting it.
What I dislike is that simple things like aggregation, slicing and dicing the data is kind of pain when everything is a list and using Table[], Map[] etc. It often occurs to me that it'd be much quicker to express what I want with an SQL query. Also, with Mathematica's lists header information is lost, so I always have to remember which column in the list of lists is what. It's kind of a pain. Basically, whereas in SQL I can tell it what I want (declarative), in Mathematica I actually have to implement it (functional).

Then, in the plotting phase I'm constantly looking up Mathematica's plot options because I don't use it often enough to remember them. By default almost everything looks like crap in Mathematica, and you have to put in 10+ options to try to make it look good, but even so I'm usually dissatisfied with the result. Often I want something and then I find someone on a message board saying that it doesn't support that, and then he shares his 100 line program which gets Mathematica to do that. Then I usually give up. Getting programs from the Internet to work with Mathematica is a pain because Wolfram pushes out a new version every year and they keep changing small things which break backwards compatibility. Compare to the (much less powerful) Google Charts library, where everything looks much better and easier to comprehend by default.

One of my startup ideas is to write something like Mathematica, much simpler, runs on the web as a service, you can program it in Javascript, has embedded SQL, and it uses something like Google Chart for simple plotting, or you can pull in your favorite plotting library. Let's you share your work by sending around a link.

PS: I played around with R, but it seemed even more cryptic than Mathematica. Admittedly I didn't spend much time in it.
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It's funny how different the implementations are, I could never understand on my trips to Canada how a mobile phone could have an area code.

Now, we have our own peccadilloes in the UK. "Free-phone" numbers are expensive from a mobile. Special cheap 'local rate' phone numbers for businesses cost a fortune.

But yeah, that seemed just nuts.
I feel like Aleksey Vayner got hit by a confluence of factors.

Most of us do stupid things in our early 20s to establish ourselves. The problem for him is that he applied to jobs in investment banking. In 2006, IBD analyst programs were the destination career for 25th-percentile graduates of elite colleges. So there was this huge crowd of douchebags that wanted to be bankers and were falling over themselves to get in the door.

So when Aleksey Vayner's video resume was leaked, he was immediately typecast as a douchebag and ridiculed. People no longer saw him as a person, but just as some pathetic, arrogant pre-banker. In retrospect, it's evident that he didn't deserve that.

I have the sense that being ridiculed on the Internet is becoming "just a thing" that almost everyone goes through on the way to accomplishment. It's like being heckled for stand-up comedians. The first time it happens, it's extremely unsettling. Then you figure out a way to deal with it-- there are the Jimmy Carr, George Carlin, Louis CK, and Steve Hofstetter approaches-- but it takes some time to get good at that.
Could this be a signal from an alien civilization? Has anyone tried to decode it?

(I know it sounds ridiculous but that's the premise behind SETI, right? And we really should keep an open mind with these kind of things)
Awesome tool. I remember seeing jquery plugins doing this. Would like to see a list of extensions like this.
Matt Taibbi isn't what I would call the most distinguished journalist to be getting your info from. He's a bit sensationalist for my taste. For that matter, he seems to enjoy picking a position to write from before he really has all the facts.