skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that. Great example.

Delaware Chancery Court on Monday, alleging the firm's practice of allocating nearly 50 percent of revenue to management's compensation constitutes corporate waste.

Note first that this complaint/case is about financial asset managers, who have more specific duties to deal with specific conflicts of interest. IE, the managers can manipulate the risk the company is taking in a way that benefits them personally. In very simple terms, the boss giving himself a very fat bonus. This isn't even close to the boss paying ground floor employees a better wage.

The Plaintiffs’ problems with the compensation plan structure can be
summarized as follows: Goldman’s compensation plan is a positive
feedback loop where employees reap the benefits but the stockholders bear
the losses. Goldman’s plan incentivizes employees to leverage Goldman’s
assets and engage in risky behavior in order to maximize yearly net revenue
and their yearly bonuses. At the end of the year, the remaining revenue that
is not paid as compensation, with the exception of small dividend payments
to stockholders, is funneled back into the company.

This increases the quantity of assets Goldman employees have available to leverage and invest.
Goldman employees then start the process over with a greater asset base,
increase net revenue again, receive even larger paychecks the next year, and
the cycle continues. At the same time, stockholders are only receiving a
small percentage of net revenue as dividends; therefore, the majority of the
stockholders’ assets are simply being cycled back into Goldman for the
Goldman employees to use*

Even in this case, the shareholders were not able to prove that this was anything other than poor
business decisions which are not something the court can make decisions about.

The facts pled in support of these allegations,
however, if true, support only a conclusion that the directors made poor
business decisions. Through the business judgment rule, Delaware law
encourages corporate fiduciaries to attempt to increase stockholder wealth
by engaging in those risks that, in their business judgment, are in the best
interest of the corporation “without the debilitating fear that they will be
held personally liable if the company experiences losses.”

Saying that companies can't raise wages because of fiduciary duty is bollocks. It's just an untruth, from a practical perspective.
NEVER EVER trust the pipes. If you want your communication to be safe, encrypt it yourself.
I agree that cafe babe is sexist (like 'booth babe'). The word babe itself is completely endearing though - my SO and I call one another that all the time.
I'd suggest submitting to http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
> most cases the owner tries to retain the staff hoping next year is back to normal

Any evidence to support that claim? Especially during the crises (when there is not one, but several years), I think it's not very true.

> profits are double taxed for the owner

They are not double taxed if they are reinvested in the company (or saved as insurance for bad years).

> the owners will most likely have to [loan money to a corporation]

Really? Any recent examples?
The potential for abuse goes up faster than the potential for good law enforcement, because more people are innocent than guilty. Data should only be collected when necessary for an active investigation.
Hopefully early next week. We are fixing bugs uncovered during the beta period right now, and we hope to submit it to the App Store at the end of the week.
There's also these toroidal Centroid continuously variable transmissions. But they rely on friction and have small contact surfaces.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/cvt3.htm
Really? Maybe I'm an old-skool kinda guy, but I can't fathom using a tablet or phone to do LaTeX work. I do lots of it, and I can't imagine doing it without a keyboard and vim-latexsuite.

How do you get over all the shifts- and alts- on the Android keyboard to get \ and { and all the other stuff?
I love Ted Nelson. He had a vision of a future that never materialized, and never will, but he's not bitter. Instead, he's keen on showing people that this "future" thing isn't an inevitable train crashing towards us, but the result of many, many choices, none of them neutral.
OpenDoc represented a gigantic attempt to create a document-centric apps-are-just-services framework that consumed hundreds of person-years of the "best and brightest" and produced nothing much useful. And then there was Taligent.

Ted Nelson's vision is attractive and brilliant and fundamentally misguided. I remember reading one of his pieces on hypertext and how there was this idea of everything being, in essence, part of a disambiguated database of information so that any version of, say, Macbeth, would be linked to the canonical Macbeth... And I thought -- hang on, does he not realize that when it comes to almost any creative work there is no canonical version ever? (Actually at the time I thought Shakespeare's works -- where we don't have any of his original manuscripts in most cases and rely on warring fragments of revisions -- was unusual, but in fact almost anything has these issues of provenance, even in the wholly digital world.)
I meant for a non-technical audience.

A game in which participation is to monitor your own data, and to actively play the game you increase your privacy.

A game that educates people as to what your apps are doing and what your phone is doing.

A game that to win (for some local definition of win) means to take control of your privacy.

People like yourself, myself, and most of the HN audience will know how to run firewalls, VPNs, hosts files, rooted phones, disable data, etc. But the layman does not, or is unlikely to do those things as they're scary.

They care, but they don't have a concept on how bad it is and what they can do to improve their lot.
And the update to the article says they were competing with Google, Facebook, Baidu... could be google was getting rid of the competition for talent; and gaining ability to attract more talent.

Though if they're expected to do wonderful things, and they've been doing things for years... it seems a certainty that they have already done some of those wonderful things. And hence have something concrete worth acquiring. Which would explain the valuation.
It's an awesome idea. I'd give it some money if it was kick-started.
Is anything safe anymore?
At least on the site liked in the OP they are sprite maps* saved in gif format not animated gifs.

For example: http://www.animatedengines.com/jets.html

The custom player takes the class of the div container (http://www.animatedengines.com/img/tprop_fl.gif) "aeplayer aepframes_6" to determine the number of frames (6) and offsets the background-position vertically for each frame by the amount of the individual frame height which equals the div container height, thus appearing animated.

*see this example with a sprite map in png format http://jsfiddle.net/simurai/CGmCe/
As usual arguments against free market ideologies are based on misunderstanding.

They don't assume an idealized market model and don't derive conclusions from it. I don't see why I should elaborate when you're happy with simple contradictions and patronizing comments like "you fell for a simple trick".
I'm playing Devil's advocate in at least half of what I write on political issues; often I don't have a strong personal opinion, since I'm reasonably aware of my ignorance.
HTTP 2.0 started with the SPDY spec and has been smoothed and refined during the IETF process, so yeah, it is planned to completely replace SPDY.
According to the article they did not look at the other data in the database until they had a warrant to do so. And they didn't obtain a warrant until a different investigation pointed at a tormail account.

That honestly doesn't sound too ridiculous.
The craziest bug you never heard about from 2008: A Linux threading regression
If you read the article, it's clear the FBI got a warrant before reading any seized email.
Even though the language is a bit dated ( also, English is not my native language) this essay is well worth reading and insightful. Didn't know about this Thoreau fellow before reading this though so really thank you for posting.

One thing i keep thinking about is the stark contradiction between the high standard of living of western society and ever increasing depression rates ( I don't have a list of sources at hand, but I believe this to be somewhat common knowledge ), so I think that this essay strikes right at the heart of the problem, in the sense that we are almost living for making a living( Or some such phrasing ), or at least hints at a deeper, more underlying and worrying phenomenon .
Quite a few black people use the term „nigger” between themselves, and I know at least one couple that adopted „asshole” as an affectionate term. Not to mention completely ridiculous yet popular terms like „pumpkin”.

Just because some people adopted the word in some narrow context doesn’t change its meaning outside of it. There’s many behaviors that are common and acceptable towards your significant other and yet completely demeaning when applied to a barista (that doesn’t happen to be your significant other). So, whatever people call each other while watching Star Wars reruns is utterly irrelevant here.
Did You Know that Internet Users Prefer Self-Service?
Assuming it's sexist is sexist, babe is a gender neutral term of endearment.
So, yeah, one thing that I learned about these CDNs

They will stop working eventually

So you may try to load from them, but always have a fallback. In your website

An example: what if code.jquery.org gets compromised?
Even for a small company/project, I've stopped using external CDN.

The gain is not significant enough to balance problems like this one. It's not often than a consumer ISP does this mistake, but that's pretty common for a user behind a corporate proxy.
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You assume they don't. But often times the lean years go on longer than expected or are more severe than expected. Individuals should do this too; many don't, or don't save enough in their "rainy day" funds.
For people interested in a high-level overview of HTTP 2.0 and why an update to HTTP 1.1 is needed, the chair of the relevant IETF working group gave a talk a couple of weeks ago at linux.conf.au called "HTTP 2.0 And You":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiWEu6f65VE
Inspiration for Web Developers
Maybe they would have been better off buying stock instead of paying union dues?
Referral rewards are hardly spam. Adding a signature to every email certainly is.
Sweden here:

Last vacations I'd had I've taken small periods like 5-days since almost every time I've been joining a new company. I usually travel or work on side projects / learn something new.

This year, I will take a longer period I think 4 weeks in a row would suite me just perfectly.
(A response also to jkaljundi)

> Could you elaborate

Since you get a PIN card with a private key, someone else generated it. Whoever did it could impersonate me. I guess it would be done by a private company, so at least that company can do it. But I'm pretty certain that something of this importance would be accessible to a government (no real arguments here, merely armchair discussion)

It's true that only concerned parties know about the transaction... until the transaction is made public (or shared with other interests). Again, I'm pretty sure this will be one way or another visible to the government.

You could say I'm paranoid and anti-government. I just think that being paranoid is a necessary thing when doing anything related to security, and this falls exactly in this topic. The very least, as iwwr points out, is that anyone could create their own private key in this system (ie associate the generated public key with the id given by the government). The secrecy of the transactions is yet another problem which basically boils down to "how much do you trust other parties", and has little to do with technology.

The idea of being able to do everything, including voting, with your computer is an amazing thing, but to date very little has been done to make sure that citizens can expect the same as today in terms of secrecy, privacy and ease of use. Again, a matter of how much you are paranoid and how much you are wanting to give up security in order to make things simpler.

Thanks for the link, I will have a look.

> So strangers are very welcome to apply for a personal ID code in Estonia

Well, that's very good news :)
There's a graph out there, or several, showing annual real median income plotted against productivity gains. Income has lagged in the aggregate, significantly. It's also lagged when plotted against GDP. Both since the early 80s.

Volatility's a red herring. Look at the 3-decade trendline.
I don't usually quote the bible, but this has stayed with me since childhood:

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Psalms-130-3/

> If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

Also this, from a somewhat similar source, Cardinal Richlieu:

http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19331/

> If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

And finally, this:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870447150...

> The average citizen commits three felonies a day.

... I'm not sure anyone can survive perfect application of the law.
You shouldn't assume that I think regulations are bad from what I wrote; I didn't say it was my position.
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I believe that countries that block Google block all their domains, including their CDN. This was actually an issue once when one of my "projects" was used by co-workers in China.

Regardless of which CDN you use, having a fallback is a must (see rmrfrmrf's post). Also, if you are making a website (as opposed to a web app), it really shouldn't "break" without JavaScript/jQuery.
> Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated investigations.

Wait - can they do that? Why can they do that?! Isn't that like a fishing expedition? Now they're just looking for crimes from that database trove? I've never used TorMail but screw everything about that!

This is why we need to pass some strict laws against mass collection of data, and against using data in "unrelated investigations".
PC is based on a perversion and subverting of the Constitution. There's no way to argue around that.

Among the reasons I argue so strongly against it is because I've seen how very similar methods work, myself, direct personal experience. Oh, and I was the party benefiting from the disclosure. Turns out that virtually all of what we had was in fact legitimately obtained.

As for the insurance argument: what state do you live in? Do you have your car smogged? Are you aware that your smog data, which comprises a rather detailed data record, is sold in several large states (California and Washington, off the top of my head, along with a few others) to ISO, the Insurance Services Office (descriptive name, no?), a division of Verisk, to rate your auto insurance. See:

http://www.verisk.com/underwriting/

http://www.iso.com/Products/QPC/Quality-Planning-Corporation...

So, the question is: were you made aware of this when you brought your vehicle in for smogging? Did you realize that the dataset was 1) being collected, 2) being sold, and 3) could materially impact your insurance costs?

Moreover: what's the equity here? Yes, as it turns out, miles driven is a significant statistically correlated risk factor in insurance costs. But what is the social purpose of insurance, how should those costs be allocated (often it's the less financially able who drive further to work because they cannot afford to live nearer their jobs), and what are the social equity effects of a hidden pricing and rating factor?

Yes, insurance companies can perform useful functions. They're among the leading business voices for climate change risks, as the underwriting costs directly affect them. Insurance underwriting has either directly or indirectly supported huge improvements in workplace and product safety. Where it used to be possible for companies to argue that negative outcomes were "accidents" and "acts of God", comprehensively compiled incident statistics correlated with causal factors showed that specific patterns of behavior, design, use, etc., were predictably associated with accidents, damage, injury, and/or death.

But gathering that information in a covert fashion strikes me as fundamentally unjust.
I think the word you are looking for is "sophistry".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophistry#Modern_usage
After being bummed by the removal of 'bundle' in pip and writing an article about how we moved to using wheel for faster deployments[1], we moved to using Packer for server builds for our cloud infrastructure. Now we can backup to using a simple 'requirements.txt' file and not worrying about install and compile speeds.

Removing 'bundle' was painful for us, and I even contributed a bunch of code to 'pip2pi' [2] to make it easy to set up an S3 bucket as a "local" pip mirror for our EC2 infrastructure, but it was all bandaid after bandaid.

So far, Packer has felt much more elegant (despite the effort it took to put it in to our workflow) than wheel, pip2pi, or any other solution.

[1] http://tech.flyclops.com/replacing-pip-bundle-374

[2] https://github.com/wolever/pip2pi

(Edited for grammar.)
Ah, that's a mistake on your part because everyone is, of course.
A connector like MXM isn't enough to handle the sort of bandwidth those cards need to move. They need PCI-e and multiple DisplayPort channels as the ports are not on the video cards, but instead on the back panel.
Have you considered that the US mobile market may be less competitive because of other regulations? Who assigns spectrum and shuts down unlicensed providers?
Also maven. It may require an XML manifest, but it's robust, easy to use, and has come to be a solid standard. Python may be a (mostly) nice language, but the infrastructure and tooling badly lags the Java world.
You're missing the point here. Some parents are not tech-savy and thus depend on the controls given to them by their ISP (etc) to help manage the level of access their kids have to the internet. Suggesting they simply turn off the parental controls doesn't actually fix the problem, it just shifts the problem (ie the problem is shifted from sites not functioning properly to kids having access to everything).

While I do agree that parental controls are not foolproof; occasionally legitimate sites get caught up in the blacklist and kids will usually find a way around many blocks, suggesting parents completely disable such censors is a little like throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Tell the truth? What are they going to say, "Yes, we purposefully cloned this game."? Lying about it certainly isn't helping, but I don't think being truthful here would be help them.
Question from someone ignorant on the subject: if we can select and breed friendlier and friendlier animals (has been easily done with wild foxes and other wild animals, not to mention dogs), why would it be hard to creat AIs with friendliness and non-violence at its core?
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Google and Facebook aren't buying off-the-shelf servers in bulk, they're rolling their own. Facebook, and others, are open-sourcing their designs.

The "automobile" here is being able to source systems like that without having to pay a premium for Dell or HP.
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It varies, but for the past 2 years it's been around 6%. So yes increases are necessitated, but the unions generally start off with ridiculous demands like 15% increases and benefits and they have no problem with striking for days on end.

The problem really is that when you have 25% unemployment, where those 25% are almost all unskilled then you work to eat and not much more. You don't have much bargaining power there. So again, if you're unskilled, oversupplied and are replaceable by machines, you should be very careful about what sort of demands you throw around. I'm not sure if unions are really conscious of this fact or just trying to appease the workers demands.
Isn't that basically docker?
Former BBC technology boss sacked over failed project
The police already used shotguns, loaded with metal slugs for door breaching (!).
Absolutely not.

The future of advertising, such as it is, should absolutely not involve intrusive content of any kind. This includes what the article states as "It does not give me five different messages, it gives me one message. It is actually asking me to do something." I do not want to be asked to do anything. I want to see what I've asked for, and no more.

Users do not want popups, inline ads, redirects, overlays, or anything that gets in the way of the content they explicitly request. The arms race mentioned in the article, where users constantly find ways around ads and advertisers have to find new ways to push content to them, is going to continue. There will always be ways around intrusive content, and finding new ways to intrude is not going to solve the advertising problem. Rather, finding new ways to intrude is the same thing as finding new ways to annoy potential customers. Sure, it'll increase brand awareness, but wouldn't it be better to do so without them thinking "Oh come on not another freaking ad" in the process?

What will work, and has to work for advertising to remain relevant and continue into the future, is to integrate marketing into content that I explicitly request.

In practice, this means that companies should make products that are liked by people I respect, so that when they mention it on twitter or facebook I pay attention. This does not include "share and like this", because I hate that stuff, and it's obviously a stunt.

As a distant second place, I'm also happy to see ads that consist of well-crafted and entertaining or educational content. This is very difficult, and is what we know as "viral marketing". However, it's such a common trope these days that it's easy to see a viral ad as an ad, and that feels like it's cheating. The article says "The very best ads are very emotional and funny. If you make advertisements that one can relate to, that changes the ads. People will allow it." While that is true, it's also true that they're still seen as ads, and that provides a psychological hurdle to people who have grown to dislike advertisements for what they are.

Rather than advertise blatantly, provide some sort of supported content that I want to go to see that happens to include product placement or a demonstration of features as an incidental characteristic of the content, rather than as the key point.

In short, to get the attention of future customers, give them content that they want to see so much that they explicitly request it, and don't intrude on other content.
Because doubling your exposure to the risks in a business by both working for it and tying up your savings in it as well is such a brilliant idea?
Actually, if they owned up, explained how they would do things differently in future, and then followed through on that, I might be prepared to be a customer of theirs again in future.
Who goes to the hassle of using Tormail and then doesn't use PGP? Tormail only kills off metadata.
Ancient video of Steve Jobs launching the first Apple Mac found
> I'd go for Andrews & Arnold if I could afford idealism at the moment.

I've heard Xilo are quite good regarding filtering, quality, etc., and they're cheaper than A&A.
and does it matter? I mean, since it's a copy, to your biological "you", it's just no different as if they put some other random person in VR and told you it was you in there.

I find the 'upload your brain to a hard drive' thing silly unless they figure out how to have your biological consciousness seamlessly move to the VR, like it was taking some bus ride and ended up in this new place.