skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So let's break these down here.

As a background principle, remember that every company takes measures to make its books look good. Accounting isn't a simple mechanical process, and there is quite a bit of leeway in how to classify various things and treat various assets.

Re: Repo 105 transactions. From Cuomo's lawsuit against E&Y: "E&Y not only approved but consistently supported Lehman's Repo 105 policy, and advised Lehman that it could take advantage of a technical accounting rule, known as FAS 140, to treat these Repo 105
transactions, which in reality were short-term financings, as 'sales,' enabling Lehman to remove the securities from inventory on its financial statements until they were repurchased." Here's a description of the Repo 105 transaction: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/03/repo_105_lehmans_acco.... Essentially, a bond is sold for cash with a short-term agreement to repurchase it. Lehman's accountant signed off on its treating these transactions as sales instead of loans, pursuant to FAS 140 (an accounting standard). This is criminally fraudulent activity?

Re: obfuscations to hide value of stock options. How is this fraudulent? Fraud doesn't just mean lying or misleading. It means basing a transaction on a lie or a misstatement.

Re: hiding bonuses. Again, how is this fraudulent?

Re: the revolving door article, see: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/07/23/robert_khuzam... ("If you manage to unplug from the revolving door narrative for a second, you can see why this makes sense—if you spend your time as a government lawyer being extremely lackadaisical in your prosecutorial efforts that's going to make you look like a bad lawyer who people don't want to hire. If you want to cash in some day, you want to have the reputation of being someone who's really smart and tough and effective and who understands how to make cases.")

Note that article is by Matthew Yglesias, who is hardly some industry shill.
Sophie Wilson is amazing. For those who don't know, she designed the Acorn Micro-Computer, the Firepath processor and biggest of all the Arm chip.
When you think about it, it doesn't even make sense.
One model you should consider is pairing up the poor (but with insight and vision on the issues at hand) with tech talent from around the world. Tech talent can be donated time either remotely or on-site as part of the founding teams. At least in the near term, you can definitely speed up your development cycle and time it takes for your accelerator to get results.
There are Feynman videos online as well, but unfortunately, they require Silverlight. Reading the headline, I was hoping that they'd finally made them available in an open format.
Title: There Is No Homework In Finland

In text: "Finnish students rarely do homework until their teens"

This is an extremely misleading title. In the UK I didn't start doing homework until I started secondary school at 11 (apart from the odd fun project) so it's hardly different to that.
It's certainly a problem. I don't think Google will, or indeed should, do anything about it though.

I'd like to see routers using the passphrase to generate a long lived authentication token. "Good netizens", as the phrase goes, could ensure their routers / client devices didn't store passphrases without inconveniencing the end user.
Roaming, if I understand what you mean by that correctly, is not necessarily the same as working from home. My dad works in sales and travels a lot. He's got to get from point A to point B, and they might be separated by over a hundred miles. And he might have to do that a few times a day and definitely a few times a week. So his time management, although technically under his authority, is really dictated almost completely by where he has to be.
"(Though you shouldn't really buy an iPhone 5c, IMO)"

Why?
Or recoup haha.
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Addiction is not just about the substance (alcohol, cocaine, heroine) or the behavior (Sex, gambling, video games).

A person is an addict even before that person has that first try. There are many other factors that condition someone to become an addict. There are genetic factors, environmental factors, other underlying mental issues, etc.
Wish I had more upvotes.
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Dell has the brand power that they're not totally sunk. Honestly, I'm not happy with my Dell hardware - I have a Dell laptop with a garbage speaker that can no longer charge the battery, and it only lasted just over two years (testing replacement power-supplies and batteries proved it was the port itself that was fried). It looked nice, it was fun to use, but it wasn't built to last.

This wouldn't be such a problem if Dell didn't go out of their way to use proprietary hacks on their hardware.

But there are other industries where this is totally okay. Gaming. Set-top boxes. Stuff like that. People expect those devices to be highly proprietary and not serviceable.

Dell's Ophelia project could be a good move for them - use their brand-name to sell Android-based TV boxes. That's a place where people still do the yearly upgrade treadmill.
I know - I didn't see the difference so clearly before.

Wow, really? "no, you shouldn't drive your car everywhere, bad citizen. hey, you with the private jet - have a tax break!" -- sounds unpopular / depressingly likely.
Yeah I'd also like to see a demo.
There is a crazily entrepreneurial culture in Kenya. My guess is you will have no problem whatsoever in finding potential founders there -- people just need a gentle steer in the right direction and a little positive encouragement.
> Most weeks I just don't have that much to do.
This isn't the same, though, as not having responsibilities.

You have a responsibility to build a good product.
You have a responsibility to make your paying customers happy with your product.

It does not have to require a lot of work to meet those responsibilities, but that doesn't mean the responsibilities don't exist.
Hard to know for-sure, but it could be something as basic as redundancy. If one method of information-capture was eventually disallowed, they'd have an alternative. Or if one method of information-capture required more oversight than they wanted - they'd have an alternative.
Although both are American companies operating under the same rules, there is a fundamental difference between Apple and Google's business models.

Apple makes its money from selling you new hardware every year or two - they need to make you lust after slick, shiny things every keynote.

Google makes its money from knowing about you, mining that data and converting that into advertising clicks - they need to collect as much information about you as possible.

Which means that the same pieces of data have different value to the two companies.

(Of course, Facebook follows a similar model to Google)
I can't help but wonder how this guy would go about to fix the lack of white people using public transportation. Reserve special seats in the front of the bus? It's discrimination all the same even though it's well meant.

Please stop portraying the lack of female programmers as a problem caused by males while it's a problem that women just choose to not do it. From what I have seen most United States tech companies are exceptionally welcome to people from all different kinds of backgrounds. All women I ever met were that worked as a programmer or related (UI, QA, etc) always treated with respect. If you're female and you are an awesome programmer you will notice that you have a big advantage in this industry.
I don't understand in this modern times, the need to include your husband last name. That is something my mom did. But today? Makes no sense. You where born John Doe and she was born Jane Smith. She should still be Jane Smith.
it just says "design for failure" ?

[edit] okay i get it refreshing gives another message etc. etc.
She should live in India, all her identification cards will have shortened names automatically because the data entry operator names the citizen here and not parents. I have so much trouble with Isaac and Issac :(
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Plan A is tech, particularly web-tech on mobile, since the whole FirefoxOS/tablet thing looks promising.

We've done a decent amount of training for general entrepreneurship in London, so I'd keep my eyes open for ways to help general entrepreneurs too.
If you look at their Github, they are always coming out with great stuff. They also have their name on the biggest frontend framework out there :)
Unfortunately gov has for the most part been reluctant to adopt such practices so far. However NPS Maps have been using crowdsourced data from OpenStreetMap and park visitors in their map products.
And what makes any smaller providers any more safe?
Solutions or Services?
I assume it's not a reference to responsive ("self-resizing") HTML, but rather things like user input lag (a common problem in apps.) Better to have a zero-lag async calculation than a nominally faster but UI-blocking synchronous calculation or request.
MAC filtering is useless, even in combination with WPA2. An attacker only has to sniff for a MAC your AP is happy to talk to and then changes theirs.
You don't want to call it fraud? Ok, what about criminal negligence then. These executives knew exactly what was going on, and by any reasonable standard should have known the harm they were causing. This is especially applicable if whistleblowers were ignored or silenced.
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> And at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, I wish it didn't require silverlight

That's a very sad requirement indeed.
Did you read the link in cstross' reply? I'm not mocking anything. Some combination of those rules would actually require this type of naming situation.
Does LinkedIn provide an API or was it unapproved web crawling?
I'd do it. (Am already, to an extent).
Two things:

1. The data lines can be very important in regulating power output for different devices, and there are different maximums for different versions of USB. Some devices require data communication to charge. Some require proprietary protocols. Implementing Apple product charging is somewhat convoluted, for example, and has changed over time.

2. A friend of mine is a computer engineer, and tells me that correctly implementing USB in hardware is incredibly difficult. It's possible that devices like these might be skimping on parts of the spec to more easily get a working product out the door.
Unless eval is special-cased to get the evil bit set.
Well, one could always argue that current educational system is much less effective for those with lower IQ and therefore in school only the semblance of equality is assured.
This is evidenced by the number of children failing high school. Approximate figures are: 25% for US, 5% for wealthy northern european countries
We got upgraded to IE8 from IE6 last year! :rollseyes:
It teaches you the funky behavior of JavaScript. For instance, `[]["filter"]` returns an empty function called filter.

In order to get particular characters (for example: f), the script uses "false"[0], where "false" is derived from adding ![] + [], and 0 is derived from +[].

Putting all of that together ($ node):

> (![]+[])[+[]]

'f'
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"Non-blocking is better than blocking."

You don't say.
And to think this was only posted an hour ago:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
There are plenty of European family names that have one or more spaces in the middle. Some examples:

de la Chapelle

von Braun

zu Guttenberg

af Slestad

A computer system that assumes that Wernher von Braun's middle name was "von" is ridiculous.
Google+ currently even chooses to disbelieve that a person's first and last names can be the same. Oddly, this wasn't the case a few years ago, since I managed to create an account with my real name, then. Trying to consolidate all my accounts under one failed recently, though.
A smaller provider with fewer clients probably provides a lower ROI for the NSA because of the economy of scale, although if they are specifically targeting you, it may still not make a meaningful difference.
Essentially it just builds a new function of a given body text, then eval's it. You could easily check out that source code before eval'ing with a log statement.
Antitrust enforcement was gutted under Reagan and never recovered.
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I don't know if the stuff mentioned here isn't reversable. I never tried it (just with images), wouldn't this not just show a big blob in the HTML file?
Not sure if you are talking about production or only development environments, but Vagrant seems to provide a good solution for that: http://www.vagrantup.com/
Note to self: never hire a Hawaiian to write code!

I can just picture it now:
function convertThisDecimalDeclaredByMyCoworkerTimToBackWhenWeStartedThisCompanyThreeYearsAgoAnInteger() {}
The timing might be fine. There's a lot of pre-investment groundwork I'll need to do, and ideally run an MVP, before there's an established investment opportunity. Things going a bit mental atm, but I'm looking forward to getting back to you on email! Thx!
Similar pain here.

As Portuguese that lived in a few European countries, I already had my share of having to choose names to leave out of cards due to lack of space.

Additionally it is always fun (not) when you need to use one of those cards together with the ID card, while trying to convince the clerk or police that although some names are missing it is your card.
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I am completely in agreement with this. I am very tired of the emphasis on drinking. Most of the best engineers i know aren't heavy drinkers and conferences would be way better if the heavy drinkers had to get their fixes off-premises.
Hopefully it will work with moonlight but somehow I doubt it. It's most likely for silly DRM reasons :(
This. Whether for this specific case or in general, the rigidity of these sort of governmental/administrative systems dehumanize us. We are engaged in a conversation about the standardization of names, about applying limits to our given, or chosen names because of? What? Suppressing cultural or personal identities...why? So everyone can parse your name on an ID?

For a community that routinely cries out against national ID laws and champions the right to anonymity, many of the comments on this thread surprise me.
This is a great idea! Remote techies could get projects off the ground faster, and then act as technical mentors to enable the local founders to progress faster.
Spoofing MAC addresses is trivial.
phpBB sports zero. Hopefully this will encourage a migration away from that mess and phpBB will end up on the dustbin of history. Please? Pretty-please?

Drupal's success is nice. I've run a Drupal site for a hobby project and performance wasn't stellar, so it's nice to know that Drupal might run well on HHVM.
Software companies knowingly ship software chock full of bugs that results in millions if not billions of dollars of lost profits, lost time, etc. Does that rise to the level of criminally negligent?
Google can also install anything on my phone remotely.
I don't buy the "rewards accumulate upwards, so surely blame should too" argument.

This argument hinges on the idea that the executive is earning rewards that are vastly disproportionate to the risks he faces for making mistakes.

Since the executive is compensated orders of magnitude more than any individual rank and file employee, it's easy to think that his reward is too large. However, on deeper examination you find that this isn't as clear as one might think it is.

Doesn't every employee enjoy the benefits of the company's success? Individually their pay is small compared to the executive's, but taken together their collective reward dwarfs what the executive takes home. When taken in the context of the entire company, the pay of the executive seems more reasonable.

As for risk, remember that however all-powerful the executive's role is portrayed to be in popular culture, he is ultimately a servant of the shareholders and the employees. He acts according to pressure from the owners of the company to transform an existing business into a more profitable business. Morality can and certainly does enter into it, but only in such a capacity where it doesn't interfere too severely with this mission.

When viewed from this angle, it's clear that putting in place laws that would allow you to prosecute CEOs that execute this mission in good faith is foolish. It would be incompatible with our legal principles because it would assume that all leaders of faltering companies are criminals unless proven otherwise, simply by virtue of being at the helm during bad times. Worse, it would transform the role of the CEO from that of the responsibly careful and reasonably bold leader to a timid sheep who lives in fear of mob justice for impossible-to-foresee consequences of his innumerable, seemingly innocent, decisions.
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is a really good password that people can remember easily.
Guy goes into the wilderness unprepared. Dies. People say he is a dumb ass. Most agree.

Other guy climbs a mountain that others have climbed, also unprepared -- hero, pushing the boundaries, expanding humanity's reach. Please...
going to an island 26km across the sea by bike, that's an interesting proposition :)

good luck
Schools attempt this sort of thing all the time, but on a small scale. When I was in school I suffered through an incredible array of tactics. I was held back in kindergarten... moved to the "gifted" school afterwards... then officially diagnosed with dyslexia around the 4th grade. Through middle school I was still in the gifted program, but I refused to work almost across the board. This lead to my placement in classes for students with disabilities, where I effectively became a second teacher in the room. These moves took place constantly, each placement clearly not being the right fit. The impact that it did have was humiliating. The gifted program saved my life, I really cannot imagine how screwed up the average "normal" students experience is, but being singled out and placed among students that could barely function was deeply painful for me.

Its taken me a very long time to undo these lessons. To learn that my ability was not confined to their definitions has taken years of success and self determination. I really cannot imagine just how many students are truly beaten by this, how many creative and intelligent minds are directed towards self doubt and self loathing. I do feel that being placed into the gifted program saved me from the public school experience, but I also know that the collateral damage is very real.
So wait, you're telling me that Facebook's PHP interpreter moves fast and breaks things?
"people just need a gentle steer in the right direction and a little positive encouragement" I'm interested in what you mean by that. To help me better understand, are there particular stories you're thinking of behind that advice?
I can tell you this: anyone who thinks that artificially shrinking the pool of experts which you can pick to speak at a conference won't affect the quality of the presentations is deluding themselves.

Whether this is true or not, the parent commenter is right - quotas seem to be the direction that Westernized societies are heading for in the 21st century. I remember last year reading that the European Commission put forth a proposal requiring that publicly traded companies must have 40% of their non-executive board posts filled by women by 2020 [1]. Whether that ends up getting approved or not, it seems like a bellwether for how these issues are going to be framed.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/european-commissi...
What are the odds!?

1:7 was my guess, but quick check from 1990 to 2200 shows it's much higher, in 60 out of 210 years it will be Friday on Programmers' Day, with all days occurring 29, 31, 30, 0, 60, 30 and 30 times for Monday through Sunday respectively.
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That may be your experience, but it's not universal. My surname is 'Van den Brande' (yes, capitalized like that please). It's a very, very common name, pages and pages of it in the local phonebook. My daughter's surname is 'Van den Brande - Isaacson'. It would be nice if programmers could get it right, it's just a string after all.

(PS Not our actual names, but they follow that pattern).
FWIW this is not a statement about programming (node.js vs ruby or whatever)
That's not a nitpick. Zeroconf isn't even "Apple's thing" … Bonjour is just one implementation.

That guy is ranting because ranting makes him feel important.
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The main difference in my eyes is that its relatively easy to evaluate a business that bases revenue off sales of tangible goods. Twitter and Facebook are a much harder valuation because there isn't a clear standard way of evaluating them.

Evaluating them is not the same as evaluating google, even though they are both in the online advertising biz...
Yes, who cares about those ridiculous cultures. Why can't they just use normal names that can be represented by 10 or fewer ASCII characters like the rest of us? They're just being difficult.
I think it's actually meant to encourage putting up things like spinners, page transitions, etc. Make the user feel that something is happening, and they won't feel slowed down.
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meh. i prefer Acme::EyeDrops

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-EyeDrops/lib/Acme/EyeDrops....

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That would have surprised me as well. I would've thought that at least any combination of ascii letters and spaces up to a certain length would be fine. It might piss me off enough to change banks.
How can you be sure? Just curious, not saying you're wrong.
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UI Engineer?

Web Engineer?

/I kid because it's true.
The article links to another article about names in New Zealand, which need government approval.

(http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/01/world/asia/new-zealand-sta...)

I thought that some people were just sending comedy names because, well, that's what some people do.

But some parents aren't joking around:

> Four years ago, a 9-year-old girl was taken away from her parents by the state so that her name could be changed from "Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii."

(http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/24/familyan...)

> A family court judge, Rob Murfitt, gave the order after hearing that the child was embarrassed about her name and had refused to reveal it to friends. "She told people her name was K because she feared being mocked and teased," the child's lawyer, Colleen MacLeod, told the court.

> The judge criticised parents who give their offspring bizarre names, saying it exposed children to ridicule among their peers.

> "The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment that this child's parents have shown in choosing this name. It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap, unnecessarily," he said.
>Flash memory isn't going to get any cheaper for another decade

That doesn't seem to be what the article is saying.
nice try, but data are by definition intangible