skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"America doesn’t criminalize bad business decisions, even when they lead to business failure; if we did, Silicon Valley would be a penal colony."

This is the crux of the problem. It's very difficult to send someone to jail when they haven't committed a crime, no matter how unpopular they are.

I think most people would regard that as a good thing, personally.

It's worth remembering also that the banks were regulated. Did any regulators lose their jobs?
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-cant-we-fire...

EDIT/Afterthought: I suppose we could bring back lynching.
NLP explained: A good POS tagger in 200 lines of Python
HHVM doesn't permit quite a few things that regular php allows, and it also turns into outright errors "bad" things that regular php treats as warnings because it thinks it can run despite it. I also don't think it supports eval(), although it may have changed since the last time I read about it.

When you remove the "I don't know, maybe, maybe not" part, you can make you code a lot more efficient.

(not making a judgment call here, just clearing things up on how it is possible to be that much faster)
> This very same point could be made against Apple, for instance, but there hasn't been a single comment to that effect in any discussion of this article.

See a couple of months ago (the context is iMessages but the level of implicit trust is the same): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5943778
It is officially recognized in Russia.
Well, the line between bad business decisions and criminal behavior is not that thin in this situation. I'm not an expert on this financial crisis, but here we are talking about hiding the truth to investors and the general public, and make someone else pay for your riksy decisions. Those are not "bad business decisions".
There have been no members of the US Government or the Federal Reserve prosecuted for providing the laws, financing and hyper liquidity that made it all possible. Don't hold your breath on that one either.
Are wifi passwords considered a security issue? I treat it the same way as a flimsy lock on a garden shed - I'd prefer both the shed and wifi to be open, but there's a formal "lock" to keep out teenage pranksters and drunks.
While funny looking, what is the ingenuity behind it?
Reposotory: rep'n positive, so you know my story(code)...

They used "hooked on phonics".

I can see how they forked that (up).
Well, I'm far from being an expert but as soon as the phone grants a root access I think there is a possibility to get it.

Since it's stored on the phone, the print or the print informations are somewhere in your device. Encrypted or not I'm pretty sure someone is going to find out how to retrieve what he wants.
Introducing iPhone 5c - by Appl
> It is for beauty like this that [I believe][I have faith without any evidence] all living things were originally designed by some intelligence, somewhere.

Looks like this for is as in "because", he is telling you why he belives, because of "beauty like this". You can only say you do not believe this evidence implicates that.
Once upon a time back when Visual C++ 5 was the latest version, I had to convert a small application from C++ back to C, due to debugger issues.

The generated code made the debugger bork, and I really needed it for the type of project we were doing, in terms of productivity.

So after the effort it took me to convince our teacher to deliver the project in C++, I ended up doing it in C like everyone else in class.
NSA Mimics Google to Monitor "Target" Web Users
That is the crux of the matter. Before it all fell apart, Fred Goodwin for example was universally regarded as a shrewd and savvy businessman who transformed RBS from a sleepy regional bank into a global powerhouse. He was a titan of business like Jack Welch or Richard Branston.
How is suggesting wealthy people would care about $2 million "mean-spirited"?

I didn't say all wealthy people would also put ethical considerations aside for $2 million. I certainly hope not.
Or, in other words, Google remembers the things that we agree to have it remember.
Where in the Solar System Has Voyager 1 Wound Up?
Does this work for all angles? If I am on the ground looking up, will I see the view behind the building from my point of view?
I think they meant suppository.
I'm not an computer engineer anymore, I'm a code writer!
Wow! What a great idea! We need to make up a name for it!

How about "two-factor authentication"? Think that would ever catch on???
They were doing a story on Github as part of a series of tech startups. They thought explaining what fork and pull request were was relevant to the story. It was not.
It doesn't - therefore, a to-spec USB2.0 host should not give more than 100mA over the condom, but good luck finding such a beast (most hosts will happily serve 500 mA w/o negotiation).
This kind of work in investment banking sector seems quite sad - you are no longer doing work for living, but the other way around.

I have absolutely no experience on what particular type of tasks are done in these positions. Could someone provide more insight? Maybe there could be opportunity to automate this work, at least partially?
I hate auto-starting videos. Hate, hate, hate.

People, don't do that. It's taken me nearly a minute to find the tab creating noise in a quiet, open office.
@pedalpete thanks for feedback. Video is in our roadmap
Don't pretty much all employers ask you to waive that for anything other than the lowest level jobs?
Where where they? Jive's office?
Some attacks do not depend on user interaction ("clicking"); plugging the device in might be sufficient. Thus, hardware air-gap becomes necessary.

(of course, this just shifts the problem around: now you need to trust the "usb condom"; but given its simplicity, it should be much harder to put anything nefarious there)
Manipulating Libor was completely illegal, and whilst banks have been fined, where are the individual prosecutions?
>Google's business model is based on aggregating that information and gaining value out of the data, mostly in the form of advertising. As soon as it lets a major secret out, even just once, it's game over, and no-one will ever trust a secret to Google again.

Really? Because from what I've seen, the general public (including companies) would just continue using it without caring.
Clearly nobody even proofread it. Look again, there is spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, and the formatting is inconsistent. Nobody cared when they put it together. Nobody from a non-tech background needs to know what forking is, unless you had an interest in software development.
Referencing the video here: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2667694577001/writing-new-dic...

I think the part that gets people most fired up about this is the complete lack of attention to detail and the "wow this is complicated stuff for smart people we're never going to understand this so let's not even try" attitude. I immediately did a mental flashback to some of the educational videos I loved growing up: documentaries by the Discovery Channel, PBS, and the like, where learning was actually encouraged, not mocked.

The interviewer's style of rapid-firing the questions and not really paying attention to his answers is grating as well. She spoke like she had researched the subject for about 10 seconds, maximum.

I'm surprised nobody in the office started laughing after her opening line.

In the twitter photo, the really shameful part is not the fact that they got the definitions wrong, although that's pretty bad. It's the spelling errors and the THREE different ways of writing a word and definition:

* word: definition

* "word"--definition

* "word"-- definition (also, "e-note"?)

It's just lazy. Incredibly lazy. It's done with an attitude that shows that nobody there cares much for their work.
I don't see the point of HH. There are valid reasons to use php. IMO they are: A existing codebase and the fact it is installed everywhere.

But HH is neither installed everywhere nor will the old codebase be compatible. Why not use a proper language right from the start? There are tons of alternatives that do not suffer from the shortcomings hh tries to fix.
Indeed. I can't find anything really interesting about this conference other than a ton of self published links to social media sites (an obvious SEO/media campaign?).
Did you mean Methanol which is like alcohol but toxic.
That comment was meant to be humorous, not serious.
Nobody may be thinking twice about the head of internal medicine being a woman. But they do about just regular physicians.

> We find that the median female (but not male) primary-care physician would have been
financially better off becoming a physician assistant. This result is partially due to a gender-wage gap in medicine. However, it is mostly driven by the fact that the median female physician simply doesn’t work enough hours to amortize her upfront investment in medical school.[1]

Anyway, I think ibanking is in line before tech.

[1] http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/keith.chen/papers/Gende...
How are the performance impacts?
What? A patched-together table is much uglier than a bare PCB, particularly with nice layout.
who says they need to use wifi. i expect a significant proportion of those passwords are shared with other systems, or may allow access to other corporate services - most likely VPN.
It could be like leaving your bank account password in the open.
Your bank account password could be sniffed probably very easily by someone who is connected to your network. Now imagine somebody exposes some way to get the password of your home network from the google servers.
Can the Internet of Everything Bring Back the High-Growth Economy? [pdf]
Huh? Tweet data is not free for public use (well, less than 1% is), although the public provides the very data that they are monetizing.

We have a client who's willing to pay $10K/month for real-time tweet data pertaining to 20 search terms in the pharmaceutical industry, which is a small-time job for Gnip and Datasift. Check their pricing and tell me if you think Twitter is giving this data away for free. More likely they're taking a decent piece of the pie in exchange for access to the data.

Social media data is crucial for companies to stay on top of current (and past) trends -- Twitter knows this, and are profiting, presumably hugely as they have the market cornered with deep pocket clients willing to pay, repeatedly, month after month.
I have to wonder whether the MACs are "globally" unique - what's stopping an OEM using the same MAC? Also, I've seen router firmware features that will autogenerate a MAC for a guest network.
No, it is fair to assume nothing without any information.
Google having all the WIFI passwords is about as worrying as a government having a 3 day cache of everything - not very worrying unless they do stuff with it.

Since Google has misused access to WIFI hotspots to slurp data it's a little bit more worrying.

Since it's probably personal information it's also probably covered by data protection laws in some countries.
With all these NSA revelations and Richard Stallman being right all along. there is no such thing as being secure or encrypted unless you have encrypted it yourself.
by far the best explanation I've read in this thread
On Android(rooted) we can see all the saved WIFI passwords in /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf file.
For the series something went wrong: The CPUs inside this spacecraft run at just 0.25Mhz.

"The Voyager spacecraft computers are interrupt driven computer, similar to processors used in general purpose computers with a few special instructions for increased efficiency. The programming is a form of assembly language."

"The master clock runs at 4 MHz but the CPU’s clock runs at only 250 KHz. A typical instruction takes 80 microseconds, that is about 8,000 instructions per second. To put this in perspective, a 2013 top-of-the-line smartphone runs at 1.5 GHz with four or more processors yielding over 14 billion instructions per second."

Source: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/faq.html
But that may not end up like that in say China which is forecast to buy much of the world cars.
Of Flying Pigs and TOFU
Stuff like telling your customers to invest in stuff you know is going to crash is not illegal?
> I immediately did a mental flashback to some of the educational videos I loved growing up: documentaries by the Discovery Channel, PBS, and the like, where learning was actually encouraged, not mocked.

Those great, factual documentaries that make learning interesting still exist. The mistake you're making is confusion most news channels for anything other than opinion based claptrap.
Not to be snarky but in my original comment I said that I did use BigLumber without much success.
Like Ikea, the world's biggest "nonprofit"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stichting_Ingka_Foundation
> (not making a judgment call here, just clearing things up on how it is possible to be that much faster)

It's probably possible to be that much faster (on average and in good cases) even without throwing out huge swathes of the language.

See: javascript runtimes, they don't throw out the parts which bother them but they do deoptimize (or not optimize in the first place) code making use of specific constructs (e.g. `eval` or `with`, I believe V8 also used not to optimize functions using `try/except`, not sure if that's changed).

That means pathological code will run no faster on the fast runtime than on a standard interpreter, but it'll still run. And non-pathological code will run significantly faster.
Yeah, there are several studies showing we tend to over-buy, taking into consideration infrequent or even outright imaginary needs.
> The arithmetic I did is a tool illustrating the scale that is needed to make metric expansion operative.

You might revisit the wording then. As it's written it implies that with arbitrarily increased measurement precision, we could measure an effect of the Hubble Flow on Voyager's movement. But even with arbitrary precision we'd never measure an effect from the Hubble Flow on Voyager's motion because the expansion of the Universe isn't contributing to the relative motion between Earth and Voyager.
Agree. Maybe calling them "computer programs" makes more sense.

Just from the frame in the picture, it appears that they are just trying to decribe to their viewers why Github has such a high valuation. To answer that question, they probably should just say something like: "Github is a web company that allows programmers to collaborate on writing new software." When it comes down to it, all versioning systems basically enable 2 things:
1. Versioning
2. User tracking
I think you are right about the first one, versioning is a very simple idea but difficult to communicate in a Fox sidebar, so when talking about the core value delivered by Github to a layman, it is that many people can edit code in a controllable way.

The reason I say programmers and not developers is that I think developers is another word that the majority of society might get hung up on.
News used to do that, and sometimes still does. As special segments, they would show curious documentaries that explore interesting corners of the world and culture. But they feel like a dying breed.
I emailed them to recommend Persona. Would get rid of the separate email verification step, too.
Show HN: Craigslist meets Pinterest
> Ask a doctor what they think of a medical story, or scientist about a story on their field of study. It is always the same - terrible

And yet, they still trust the news to be accurate with regards to everything else :(
It took me a while, but I'm finally quite proud having done this all by myself, during my free time, aside my job.

Living at the border of 4 countries (Luxembourg, France, Belgium & Germany), I was tired of our local ads websites: one different by country (even if the next country is 10min away), ugly, not working properly on mobile, requiring an endless signup form filling before submit any content, and for most of them, not free to use.

I hope you will enjoy it, maybe even use it and perhaps share it... after all, I launched on Friday the 13th (which is programmers' day as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_day), I could get lucky!

Some details:
- Fully responsive design
- On PC, drop files anywhere to create new content instantly (pictures, or even text and XML)
- Compatible browsers will re-size pictures before upload them, minimizing the waiting time
- Content is geolocated: means that you can search by distance from anywhere (city, neighborhood, address or even company name, school, ...)
- Dynamic search criteria by category (will add more soon)

Tips:
Some of you will end up in an empty page, as there is no content in your country.
You will find some in Luxembourg, Bruxelles, Montreal or even San Francisco & New York.
It's only been in the last few years that home wifi routers came with passwords by default. Before that, they defaulted to open access with no password.
exactly. fill the most solipsistic company in the world w/ self-exalting geeks & you're bound to get more than a few creeps who don't understand social boundaries.
Early versions of Aero Peek: Aladdin, Bat Signal, and Squeegee
The internet, my friends, is a series of tubes. We must not forget this.
Though it's a counterpoint to the argument that U.S. doesn't prosecute business decisions.
"The General Assumption of Security is:

The attacker is smarter than you, he has a bigger computer, he knows your own software better than you, and he is after you, specifically."[1]

[1]: http://security.stackexchange.com/a/19000
The problem with this line of thinking is that "bad business decisions" in most cases only hurt the business. But the banks have gotten so big, and so interconnected -- "too big to fail" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_big_to_fail) -- that their bad business decisions hurt everybody.

A business whose failure could jeopardize the entire global economy demands a different standard of responsibility for management than a photo-sharing website. When you're running something that critical, you're at least in part a de facto public servant, even if you're nominally a private businessperson.

It's an awkward position for a CEO to be in, to be sure. But they could always get out of it by scaling down their businesses to a size where they're not a single point of failure for the economic health of billions of people anymore.

Somehow I doubt they will be rushing to do that voluntarily, though.
Your name is way too long for your ID
There is a difference between "free time" freedom and "autonomy" freedom. You may actually have a lot of free time at a 9 to 5 job but you have little autonomy. Your boss can dictate working hours, schedules, tools, etc. As an entrepreneur you may have less free time but you have significant autonomy to decide you're going to work on Sunday and head to the beach on Tuesday.
If anyone should be prosecuted, it's politicians like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW5qKYfqALE Their policies encouraged banks to relax lending standards and lend to people that could not afford it. Bottom line, they presided over one of the largest collapses of wealth in American history with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
My response is probably more emotional than logical and I think you raise good points but let me try to respond.

How much did he actually pay out himself in the end? Mozilo's worth ~$600M according to some quick googling. $67M represents ~10% of his net worth (some of which was gained illicitly). From a risk perspective this looks like a great deal! Cheat yourself up to a big fortune and if you get caught so what? You've made it! So I do think the fine should be on the same order of magnitude as the net worth of the individual to really send a message -- and it should not be tax deductible (if it is for individuals, I believe companies can).

I also think there should be a more serve and general ban from the securities industry.
The media does indeed explain /everything/ terribly, but for some reason we're conditioned to trust it by default and forgive it when wrong. Perhaps we do that because it tells us to?
ihihihih...
neat
how it deals with gzip?
No, the bigger challenge is coming up with something that is significantly worse. Try it, it's much harder.
That's a very different meaning of "thinking twice" than the one rayiner used.
They also created an operative system (sure, it builds on existing tech but they added a lot more than just fluff).
Hi Andrew, thanks for the explanation.

Could Dropbox perhaps let me disable this feature? I almost never use the web interface so I wouldn't miss it and I prefer that my documents are not opened after being synched.
Local network host discovery example using HTML5 WebRTC
It's not just you ... it is fascinating. I would love to have a good chat over some beers or coffee with some of the engineers and scientists that built this :)
Arrington gives Disrupt award to startup he invested in
Fed monopoly/hegemony over printing our dollars is undesirable.
Local Linux User Groups often have people willing to sign the keys of other members in exchange for a signature on their key.
First-Class NULL Search Expert - sounds pretty awesome to me!
Diving into WordPress errors
On top of that, there are no such things as happy programmers. Why didn't anyone point that out?
> Ours is a male-dominated industry – and weaker for it

Has this ever actually been shown? I hear it a lot but have never heard any evidence either way. (the latter part)
Er, surely the whole point of the article is that they are making it so that more of the existing codebase will run.

Their roadmap also includes making it easy to install on Linux and other platforms, so it may make inroads into "everywhere".

If they can even achieve the first objective, then people can continue with the normal PHP runtime as usual in most places and switch to HHVM when they need better performance.

Also, I find PHP a delight to program in. YMMV.
There have been prosecutions in the US and UK.
> Just out of curiosity, how would we know even if a secret was let out to, say, the NSA

And the smartest thing to do, whether you are the NSA or some other foreign government or any entity that holds that information, is to keep quiet about it. The less others know that you know something, the more power you have.

For that reason, it is unlikely that we will see these powers used by the NSA, or other government. It is in their best interest to hold on to that data as secretly as possible and as restrictively as possible, to avoid the chance of others getting a hold of the data. Snowden if anything has only given the NSA and all others who hold the information that we do not know about reason to be careful open even mentioning that they have the data, to anyone.