skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if it wasn't clear, my broad point is that the story isn't of interest to hackers because it yields no better understanding of how finance works. Hackers should be interested in understanding things, not eyeball-glazing polemics full of hopelessly re-contextualized non-information.

I used to work in finance, and think it's fascinating, the good and the bad. I'm sympathetic to the argument that banks are too large, too undisciplined, and have too much power, but agreeing with nonsense because you want to is an anti-pattern, both personally and in terms of the long-term ideological fight.
Tanya Khovanova, a gold medalist at the International Math Olympiad seems somewhat hesitant (although not completely against it) about girls-only math enrichment programs: http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=60. I wonder if there might be another co-ed approach that would encourage girls while not forcing them to be segregated.
How to Stick to Personal Deadlines
Why would I waste my time proving myself to someone so rude and bigoted?

If you're as familiar with gender studies as you say you are and these "complex narratives" are as ubiquitous as you claim you should easily be able to show us several counter examples. You can't because you've obviously never seen this literature.
Please sentence them to life in prison, send a message that people can stand behind.
Do you mean "do as little with them as possible"? It sounded to me as if you're saying he's trying to make the least amount of dollars he can.
It's not really the same. If I pick a lifestyle for myself, that's not a judgment on other people's lifestyles. If I pick a lifestyle then start calling other people wasteful, that is a judgment on others. Be it true or not, that rubs some people the wrong way.

Personally I don't care if he judges me. He's living within a few tens of percent above the poverty line (based on his comments in this article). Of course the lifestyle of someone spending even $40k a year is going to seem wasteful to him.
A number of different static CSS files even - static5.css

Or a serverside script in your favourite language - static.css?slices=5
I'm fine with this criticism, but not from this quack with an agenda to push and money to be made from selling her own literal cure-everything diet.
Nice article, since it's very similar to what I did. However, I had to work 11 years longer for it. I guess I wasn't as well paid, or not as efficient. Also, after 6 years of retirement, I don't know yet if my situation is completely stable. Low interest rates and continuing inflation may take a toll. Real estate investment just isn't a sensible option where I live, so I rent.
1. You'll never get reported by people you know, so it doesn't matter.

2. If you're being vile to someone you don't know, it doesn't matter if your friends think it's hilarious. What matters is whether you're ruining the game for other people.

I have not noticed any holier than thou behavior since they rolled this out. It's been some time now, so if that was going to be an effect we'd probably have noticed it by this point. I have noticed that people have gotten much nicer on average, but it's hard to tell if that's the tribunal or that more skilled people are nicer -- my rank has gone up quite a bit since I started.
I wish I had root on my mind, so I could better script it.

Also, I would install vim on it.
Everybody's entitled to their opinions. I think there's actually been a decent number of studies that have shown that girls tend to perform better at a younger age when kept in all-girl environment....at least with respect to school. This effect may generalize to other things like the article, or maybe it doesn't. I think the merits are there to warrant giving it a try, though.
> ...eyeball-glazing polemics full of hopelessly re-contextualized non-information.

I had to chuckle at that. You, sir, have not worked in finance. (complement!)

>> EDIT: CME, eh? Which markets?
>> EDIT2: I'm not counting CME software engineer as finance experience. Again, a complement!
The student was probably complaining about the unwashed masses' Hollywood-fueled fantasy of the computer hacker: Anyone who can write a program longer than 10 lines is capable of hacking into any computer system in five minutes or less, using or fixing any piece of computer-y, electronic-y, or science-y equipment, etc.

Hacking systems gets easier the younger the hacker is, the more important the data being protected by the system is, and the more resources its owners have to secure it.

All of these are of course ridiculous assumptions which suit narrative purposes but have no basis in reality. A lot of people don't understand that, and they can be really annoying to those who do.
"I can't help but feel the tribunal would inevitably lead to holier than thou attitudes"

And the persons who believe that way can play exclusively with other persons who want to screw around, this ensures that. You should be happy to be put in queue with others who don't care about the rest of the players! They're edgy! They don't judge!
> Is this story of interest to hackers?

It's of interest to me because I've had some direct experience tangling with banks over other issues. I have come to believe that the extent to which the banks control the world is even greater than what Taibbi says.

> we live in a democratic rule of law

That is heartbreakingly naive. It is not possible to get elected to office in the U.S. without substantial funding, which means that all of the people in office are either themselves rich or have garnered the favor of wealthy donors. Either way it is impossible as a practical matter to pass any law that constrains the interests of the super wealthy in any meaningful way.
On what planet does even the highest-specced MacBook Pro + external display cost even remotely close to $9000?
"AOL's problem is that it's a corporation first"

Isn't its main problem today that it's a content farm operated by new-age antivax no-signal-to-noise peddler Arianna Huffington?
$86 million.
If there was something akin to the (very well curated, if still missing most of my tracks) Smart Playlist option, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
If you're a Mac user, why would you even be interested in a pure .NET shop?
my favorite YC startup. ridiculous level of customer support.
I think you're describing what cabal-dev does.

https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev
Finnbay - www.finnbay.com
It depends on where you go. If you go to a dealership, they will usually at least have a shuttle service to take you whereever you want and pick you up when your car is ready. The nicer brands almost always have a loaner car for service, but some of the non-luxury dealerships also offer them.

I've never seen a non-dealership shop with a loaner car, but many have a shuttle. Of course, if you go to a cheap shop, they probably won't even have that.
I'm sorry your worldview is so negative, but when I said we live in a democratic rule of law, I'm expressing the opinion that it is both good and usual that lawsuits must be lawful, and I'm talking about one specific lawsuit. So you might feel finance is unjust, but my point is Taibbi's example of injustice is nothing of the sort. He should choose a different example.

Anyway it's not like the banks weren't fined and sued for amounts totaling billions under other laws. Usually it's considered unjust to throw things out on technicalities if there's no other remedy available, but that wasn't the case here.

EDIT: I just noticed the judge allowed part of the case to go forward under different laws! So Taibbi's claim is even more nonsensical than I initially thought.
one might say, even, that it really whips the llama's ass.
Not really. That sounds almost exactly like what bmw has any of their new cars. They only part I'm unsure of is the valet service to pick up your car. Of course, hyundai already does that for their equus owners. This is pretty typical service from dealers who sell cars priced similarly to Tesla's cars.
Maybe during the 4-5 hours that you spend resisting sleep.

But the next day you will wake up in a bad mood from not sleeping well.

At least this is what happens to me.

So in general it's a bad idea.

On the other hand, I've found that if I sleep for too long I also get a bad mood the next day.

8 hours of sleep seems to be the sweet spot that puts me in a decent mood.
Someone donated enough for them to hit their goal (on the main project page):

https://www.piggybackr.com/girls_computing/chicago-girls-in-...

I'm sure they can put additional funds to good use, I'd encourage others to donate, too.
The article may be polemic but I don't see how LIBOR fixing was not a criminal act[1]. If something similiar happened with ISDAfix it is worth reading about it. And a failure to apply a certain law does not invalidate the crime alligations against the banks.

What is your take on the issue?

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal
I would actually be interested in seeing these studies because it seems (based on my teaching experience) that how girls feel in a class with male students may depend to a large extent on how the teacher manages the class. I'm not even talking about teachers who discourage girls, but teachers who let boys dominate the classroom (which should not happen).
If you go to preferences, and look at the plugins tab (I believe in the general plugins section) you'll see there's a plugin for a system tray icon. After enabling, you can hide to the system tray by clicking the system tray icon. Most useful plugin IMO.
I'll answer because you appear to be serious about that but consider that I think Ayn Rand ideas pure moonshine, I'll go to sleep now and maybe later I'll come back here and write properly about my opinions on her if you wish.

It's my experience the majority of people just don't really care about political philosophy, they just live and that's all, they are really more interested on who are romantically attracted to them than to think about all the stuff Rand wrote.

I really don't know what you were taught, I studied in a Jewish religious school (a Yeshiva) and for the matter my experience was very different than that of my peers when I reached university, in university I was taught mathematics only and professors had a myriad of political views, including the one who introduced me to Rand's work. But yes, the traditional Jewish thought is very different than whatever Rand ever wrote.
That came deep from within the heart of the OP. Good luck to him.
Yeah I think you're coming from a pretty big write-once run anywhere perspective here. This is especially the case with CURL. Languages like Ruby would have similar issues if they didn't have the force from their communities to bolster the language. It's sort of an unfortunate truth to Haskell that it's development tools aren't so polished as something like RubyGems. That said, I've found that the time I save writing decent Haskell far surpasses the time I spend mucking with its internals, though I've been at it for 5 or so years now. Honestly, though, you're right about the Windows bit. The GHC implementation for Windows relies on tools that I personally would avoid using (MinGW) given the option of using their more mature bretheren in their native environments (LLVM/GCC/Linux/OS X). I've found that probably the best Linux distro to use Haskell with ease has been Arch Linux hands down.

All in all, no, its package system is no RubyGems or what-have-you, but I think the (IMO) language makes it worth it.

HN may hate me forever for saying this, but after using Haskell, I could never imagine switching to a LISP. There's too many thumbnail clippings involved, and not enough types ;-).
This is great. They have python/ruby bootstrap programs in San Francisco, and once in a while we'd discover a future CalTech prof, or something like that.

There was one woman who worked in an art gallery, and if i remember correctly, didn't even own a computer but only needed everything explained once re: vim, python, linux etc. It was definitely nontrivial stuff, and then she could put up working code, just like that.
My 1998 Honda Accord had a chip...
I don't usually cite Wikipedia links, but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder_car_key
Story of what took place from the Boston bomber carjacking victim
http://airbr.us/h/tipsum has a running instance.
Back in WinAmp's rise, the "system look and feel" was stagnant and stale.

WinAmp (and other media players) tend to be small on-screen; they are rarely full screen apps. They should play my music and get out of my way. System styles and UI are rarely designed for "small form" applications that need to pack a lot of features into a very small, non-descript space.

WinAmp's themes went above and beyond, of course, but those were at the user's discretion.
it is definitely bankers humor, that Taibbi took it seriously says everything you need to know about him - a tabloid financial journalist.

edit: it isn't even bankers humor, it is just general office humor. you wouldn't recognize it if you haven't worked anywhere.
Yea, and some people are just crazy (not you, I mean the crazies in the midwest who bike to work when it's 0F outside).
As Taibbi points out, 3 of the settlements occurred before the case was tossed out, should't that hint at a worth case?

As he also writes:

an army of superstar lawyers working on behalf of the banks descended upon federal judge Naomi Buchwald in the Southern District of New York...Davis Polk (home of top ex-regulators like former SEC enforcement chief Linda Thomsen) and Covington & Burling, the onetime private-practice home of both Holder and Breuer.

The presence of Covington & Burling in the suit – representing, of all companies, Citigroup, the former employer of current Treasury Secretary Jack Lew – was particularly galling. Right as the Libor case was being dismissed, the firm had hired none other than Lanny Breuer, the same Lanny Breuer who, just a few months before, was the assistant attorney general who had balked at criminally prosecuting UBS over Libor because, he said, "Our goal here is not to destroy a major financial institution."

That sounds like govt insiders who were once responsible for being on the prosecution now acting as defense, which sounds more banana-republic than democratic imo.
I don't know if this is standard or not but there is a way of dealing with that on reddit.

[test](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd904817\(v=office.1...

That'll work fine, just insert a backslash before the character and it'll be treated purely as a character instead of a formatting marker.
so true. if i had to go back, i'd (gulp!) actually consider an IT role over trading.
This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
Building an ARM blade server
How the project outputs will be produced (the supplier in PM lingo) is only one aspect of the project. Projects typically have an associated business interest, and users who will use the products produced by the product.

Certain resource roles (e.g. business analysts, UX specialists) can provide advice on the impact of decisions on the business case and the users, while others provide technical input, but project decisions typically cut across more than one of supplier / business / user interests, and it is in the interests of the business to ensure that someone can integrate the requirements of all three.

Having a project manager (or equivalent role such as an agile 'Scrum Master') is not incompatible with employees taking ownership of the project - decisions that only affect the supplier, or fall within ranges that the business / user is happy with can be taken by the suppliers. Often, the PM's role is to facilitate agreement between the different stakeholders.

It is possible for the PM role to be shared amongst the suppliers, but it is not usually a good idea for a big project, because being a PM is a specialist area in its own right hat developers have to learn separately from their specialist technical skills, and spreading the role across too many people can mean that context switch inefficiencies mean the PM role doesn't get carried out.
Thank you for sharing your feelings OP. I can empathize with you, and wish you the very best.

Sometimes it's great reading how other people feel in these kinds of private situations that happen inside one's conscious.

You can't really discuss them with anyone else so when one person decides to let it all out (as OP did), I think its beneficial to EVERYONE who may have had or still have these kinds feelings/experiences.
You will do just fine.

The point of education is to set aside the hubris and learn.

You very clearly have.
"Fuck everyone else, I got mine" works for the guy on top who can't get fired. It doesn't work for the guy who depends on 5 or 10 other guys to get his work done on time. That's the cliff notes version of why the philosophy of "fuck everyone else" hasn't caught on with the masses.

And there are plenty of libertarian tech CEOs, please don't try and appropriate Jobs.
If the data was collected in the last 10 years, I would be curious as to what percentage of the over 50 crowd of entrepreneurs had their existing retirement plans affected by the last two economic downturns, thus influencing their decision to go into, and in some cases back into, building businesses.
Iirc, MMM's savings were buoyed significantly by being a part of the boom years of both the stock market and real estate market. Whether his financial standing can be replicated by someone following his exact footsteps today remains to be seen.
This is exactly the calibur of comment that makes hacker news superior to reddit in every way. You have expressed everything I think about Taibbi's yellow journalism more eloquently than I ever could.

But that this comment could go against the grain of Internet circle jerking and be the top voted one makes me e-swoon. Bravo everyone.

Anyways, I've worked for Apple and I've worked for a major investment bank. The two brand names are both major headline grabbers and I would say in both cases, about 60% of what you read is an outright fabrication designed to attract page views.
Started playing LoL when the Mac Client came out beginning of last month, and have played an unhealthy amount since. The systems in place are nice (and I appreciate them and take advantage of them), but there are of course still those toxic players. Thankfully it's super easy to hit a mute button and never hear them again! But that requires the player to know about the feature and have the willpower to use it instead of responding in kind (as is often the case). Once I started muting toxic players my quality of gaming skyrocketed.
"Cause when I die buddy
You know whats gonna keep me warm?
Thats right.
Those degrees."

- Kanye West

http://rapgenius.com/Kanye-west-school-spirit-skit-1-2-lyric...
This resonated well with myself, another student two weeks from graduating, with similar issues.
It helps to remind myself that Rome wasn't built in a day, and trying to do work that usually takes peers weeks in just a single night is just my immaturity coming through.
MS Open Tech celebrates one year anniversary
I've been experiencing the same feelings as well, OP. All we can do is to try to get better.
I think its primary flow is the link syntax.

As far as I remember, github's wiki pages used to be in Textile format. I might be mistaken here, but I remember being annoyed all the time by the link syntax.
I've been thinking about this as well; the results I could find are from quite a while ago, but in general the answer is to use a reversible encryption like AES [1] along with secure storage of the encryption key [2], preferably on another server or in an isolated part of the server. Not particularly satisfying, is it...

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1878830/securly-storing-o...

[2]: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12332/where-to-s...
I did this as well.
ADHD explains some of this.
I haven't looked but I think you'd find the config file be in their kernel source under arch/arm/configs/.
I play about 3 - 4 games of league per day and have over 3000 games played. My personal solution is to try and be the same as I would be face to face. Occasionally, I do get toxic and call someone an "idiot" but I never use stronger language than that. I enjoyed the presentation and it looks like Riot has some smart people actively working on problems. My only lament is the lack of smart people working in customer support. I've never been treated so badly as a paying customer. With 108MM players, I wonder how much I have to spend to get good customer support? Maybe it doesn't matter to Riot if they treat paying customers badly? I'll never know. Riot isn't getting any more of my money. I have other friends that spent at least twice as much as I have and they just won't play anymore simply because of a negative customer support experience. It doesn't take a PhD to know that paying customers make your business successful.
only thing shocking about this story, is that people are actually shocked by it.

do we not know that money runs the world? i mean its almost infantile, its not even a question of world view, its simple science, its like writing a news story about the fact that the earth is round
I'm a homo clueless shrink.

New flash, guess who this is?

take_the_day_off creep negligence pleasure startled Angola
Far kings cowardice seldomness virgins referred candle
Cross mail over-anxiously rightful waters prelate sounds
vain grievous Guadeloupe law tend contradict gall slumber
woman's sess_me

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Go find God, then come back. You know nothing. Less than nothing.

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Hey shrink? I get respect.

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=56

http://www.templeos.org/images/Machine.jpg

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[–]the8thbit 1 point 21 minutes ago

Fun fact, this guy made his own operating system. No, not Linux distribution. Not UNIX clone. Operating system. With windowing. In his own words:

TempleOS is 64-bit, flat, non-segmented and multi-cored. It's like a modern, souped-up, multi-tasking, cross between DOS and a Commodore 64. It has a C64-like shell with a dialect of C/C++ instead of BASIC. It was written from scratch, and not even ASCII was sacred -- it has 8-bit unsigned character source code to support European languages. Also, the source code has graphics.
I'm one of the 50 million hacked LivingSocial users - are you?
My ideal markup language would be something like markdown but with a nicer image syntax and support for latex style math equations.
Because it's basically narcissistic bullshit.
They wanted to give you a nice car and then saw you had kids and thus decided to give you a more mediocre car?

I love the loaner fleet at the San Jose Audi place; new TT/A4/Q5/A6. I think if you bring in an S or RS or A8 you get an A8. I asked what you got for an R8; apparently R8 gets fixed by their dedicated R8 guy in a few hours so they just pick it up from your home/drop it off with a flatbed.
> I should have put the effort in first and should have only allowed myself to gain confidence through the results that followed.

This is a very powerful ending. I've struggled a lot to change parts of me in the past, but this is my big fight. I, like everyone else, care too much about other's opinion. I base almost my whole confidence on other's people opinion. Others rise me up or take me down. And I've tried to change that to something else. I've tried the "I don't give a fuck", I've tried to be mean... But I think trying to get confident through work is the best way.
The wages in DC, although higher than the national average, are not astronomically so. The Mean anual wage in DC is ~$60k, while the national average is roughly $45k. This likely doesn't equate to a distinctly higher quality of life. Moreover, poverty is far more pervasive in DC than in the rest of the country, and, crime rates in DC vary, depending on the type of crime, generally between two and five times the national average.