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"Such advice for the kernel is even hypocritical, when that code uses size_t and off_t and many others quite liberally"

Did you even read their explanation. Apparently not.

This is an acceptable use of typedefs, as explained there, exactly because a size_t varies between architectures.
I'd have to imagine they have something. It explicitly mentions twice-daily meetings, so there must be some insider knowledge of what went on.

Besides, the collective lawyer-power of these banks is no joke. You don't go against them unless you have them dead-to-rights.

As an aside, if they DO have this kind of info, it will have to set off international investigations of the LIBOR scandal type, no?
1. Feynman explains it best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msN87y-iEx0

3. They approach one another at 30000 mph = 500 miles per minute, so two minutes before they collide they are 1000 miles apart, and who cares that they start out 1317 miles apart?

8. The balloon rushes forward, and gets pulled toward the inside of the curve. The best reasoning is via the equivalence principle: acceleration and gravity feel the same, and the fact that the balloon is buoyant in air means that it should rush away from whatever direction gravity is pointing.

9. It floats at the same location, by Gauss' theorem.
For those not familiar with that particular combination of letters, this FAQ is quite demystifying: http://cqrs.nu/Faq
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I don't care much either way so long as you NEVER VERTICALLY-ALIGN YOUR LINES.

int valueone = 1;

int anothervalue = 2;

float yetmore = 3.;

Aggggh what a waste of time why do people do this
This is sarcasm. Its a direct quote from the movie Casablanca (one of the all time classics).

When ordered to shut down a bar, the police captain uses the excuse that illegal gambling is taking place in the bar. But the Captain is a frequent patron of the illicit gambling.

The exact quote is roughly

"Shocked, I say. Shocked to find that gambling has been going on in this location."

"Your winnings sir."

"Thank you."
Why do people buy broken and buggy games?
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If a bank falls within the remit of the Fed or PRA then yes, KYC rules mean the bank is indeed supposed to figure this out.
Without exaggeration nor sarcasm, I don't think a single person in the US past 5th grade is celebrating Thanksgiving to honor those events. You learn about the pilgrims in elementary school, and the origins of the holiday. Then, once you're a little older, you learn about all the horrible things that happened.

And popular culture doesn't depict it as being about that, either; it's a time to give thanks, and be with friends and family, and eat lots of food, and go shopping soon, but I never see it depicted as even ostensibly being about the history of it.

So in my experience, you're sort of preaching to the choir, and, to extend the metaphor, EVERYBODY is in the choir.

If I'm mistaken, and someone reading this does celebrate Thanksgiving to honor the history of it, I'd be interested to hear from you.
I found this link, which seems much more informative: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-platinum-pallad...

Unfortunately, it's still not clear to me if there's a smoking gun, or if this is all just part of a general move away from manipulatable benchmarks.
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> Meanwhile, Google, Facebook and so on are not keeping active track of the nature your conversations within chat and email in such a tightly controlled way.

The question is, should they? I'm sure banks weren't always as tightly regulated and didn't keep as tight a track of everything as they do now.

Should we ask web giants to start behaving in a more regulated way for various reasons ranging from the ability to get alibi from "I posted this on Facebok at X and couldn't possibly have been where you say I was", to the ability to have court evidence of what people were/are up to. If data isn't kept to a certain standard it becomes too unreliable in such cases.

On the other hand, do we actually need banks to have such a tight control over everything? Yes, we expect it. But do we need it?
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Great resource to do a quick check if your CSS smells.

I've used it to check if a codecanyon / themeforest template is clean enough to start a deeper investigation.

Nice.
It's really useful for testing FEA algorithms/code. Tim Davis has done a ton of work developing numerical algorithms for sparse systems, his code is used by software like MATLAB and also bespoke supercomputer systems.
Legalize insider trading. You can't prevent it.
Thinking about it, it's probably the first thing you should have spare parts for, given that if something breaks you cannot make more ;)
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The Kernel coding style wasn't written a week ago. The first I read it, more than a decade ago, the GNU coding standards did matter and I remember feeling quite hurt by that (in a good way, since I don't think anybody took it that seriously).

Matter of fact, the GNU coding standards still matter (to a certain extent) to many of us, and you would be thankful that they did, since it's the basis that provides consistency among GNU (and non GNU) command line apps, for example.

The GNU coding standards is an extensive document which doesn't only talk about how to write C code, but also how to talks about how to design software consistent with the GNU principles (command line user interfaces, options, stdin/stdout behaviour, etc).

Personally I take the kernel coding style as a whole different thing. It's a short guide on how to write consistent code for the linux kernel. And full of good opinionated choices in my opinion. Its scope is very different from that of the GNU coding standards (which, I'd say, is focused towards writing userland programs which the user will interact with).

Also, remember that GNU wanted (wants?) to create an OS, not just a kernel, so I guess we can read their guidelines as something similar to Apple's human interface guidelines for devs :)
It wasn't made on demand, it was made as a demonstration and to have a spare.
My friend tried committing code and getting involved, but they seem to be a tight-knit group of friends. It's hard for outsiders to do anything.
Sure. It seems that this feature fits well in a playback plugin. You can see some examples at our github repository. Regarding the concatenation of buffers you'll need to use Media Source Extensions API (http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/media-source.html) but you should take care of the support of it on current browsers.
We used to use your service in one point of time and I must say we loved it.

Actually, a colleague of mine was asking me what services I could recommend for his new venture and all I was able to come up at the time was:

- Want to manage it yourself? Use Redmine on DigitalOcean

- SaaS?, then Planio will get you covered.
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We expect and demand that banks monitor billions of transactions between 100s of millions of customers for evidence of money laundering and terrorism financing

I most certainly don't expect that from my bank.

I expect most us agree that banks _should_ be held accountable for the legitimacy of their customers behaviour.

I disagree. Banks are not law enforcement.
You mean the concept of a sparse matrix ? Well, for e.g. if you use FEM (Finite Element method) you usually end up with a huge linear system which has the nice property that more than 90% of his coefficients are zeros. A sparse matrix will store only the non-zero elements, this is a huge gain from the point of view of memory usage.

Similar considerations applies for using Finite Difference methods.
Youtube actively does the same thing with people directly making money using 'pirated' content.

Note: They currently remove specific content when requested and even automate the process. But, you can still find plenty of 'pirated' content where the owner has yet to complain.
> It explicitly mentions twice-daily meetings, so there must be some insider knowledge of what went on.

Not at all.

"The fixing process is governed by a set of Rules for the Administration and Conduct of The London Platinum and Palladium Market Fixings (the Fixing Rules).The current version of the Fixing Rules, made under Article 74 of The London Platinum and Palladium Fixing Company Limited’s Articles of Association, became effective on 29 July 2014.

Pursuant to the Fixing Rules, representatives of the four members of The London Platinum and Palladium Fixing Company Limited (the Company) dial in to a secure conference facility to determine the single trading prices for platinum and palladium at 9.45 am and 2.00 pm London time on each London business day. The price for platinum is determined first, followed by the price for palladium."

That's a quote from here: http://www.lppm.com/contentitem.aspx?cid=19

And it refers to how (at the moment) the price of platinum and palladium is officially reported. The allegation is not that the twice-daily meetings occurred, it's that the results of those meetings was rigged.
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In what way? This was true when YouTube first launched (I've heard stories that the founders uploaded copyrighted movies and tv shows themselves) but YouTube has a system in place now that removes copyrighted content automatically and it works pretty well (some say too well).
This is fucking ridiculous. Scandal after scandal. How long are we going to put up with this?

In America, the political climate disgusts me. When it comes to the poor and the front-line workers, we're all about the strictest forms of accountability. Drug tests for basic aid. Punitive oversight of educators. But our richest, most powerful institutions are robbing us blind on the regular and getting away with it.
Best place to look is the webhostingtalk.com forums. There are a ton of providers who are active there, and people also often post reviews and outage reports.
You've argued that they're breaking the law, not that they cause significant damage. It's a fair point in and of itself but it's not the one you made two posts earlier and it's not the one you need to defend. Laws are notorious for inefficiently spending large amounts of resources to chase after marginal returns (which often go negative without anyone realizing).

For instance: cameras might not have nearly as good of a value proposition in a situation where the identity of the passenger is recorded up front. Extra training might not be necessary if customers have a functioning mechanism to share their intuitive judgements about dangerous drivers.
Hi, trsohmers,

have you ever heard of Epiphany[1] ? They claim to achieve 70 GFLOPS/WATT. Also the processor seems to be fairly fast and they manage to put 4096 cores on a chip. Though no activity in recent time. Maybe you could find some collaboration points with them..

[1] http://www.adapteva.com/epiphany-multicore-intellectual-prop...
Surely there is a reason these taxi regulations are in place. Or not. In any case, is it fair?

My opinion of Uber was something like "great for competition". But of course they can only compete because they're doing so not quite legally, and to great benefits compared to normal taxi drivers.

A normal taxi company might've gotten this large by releasing a good app with some funding, but I doubt it because of the huge advantage Uber has compared to everyone else.
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This keeps all the packets of a TCP stream on the same link, avoiding out-of-order delivery.

Not a network engineer, but I had thought that TCP handles ordering itself? Packets can travel completely different routes from origin to destination, so one can't expect them to arrive in order. Destination's TCP stack can deal with it.

Again, IANANE, but ISTM that those who first designed the network introduced an untested complication with their LIFO setup. Nearly anything would have worked, including not pooling at all. They just chose something weird for the hell of it. Later FB needed more performance out of the system, and this harmful complication was hidden from sight.
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I would argue that many programmers can deliver that value directly. However, most corporate management filters get in the way.

The percentage of managers in technology/software who add more than they take away is small: maybe 5 percent. Another 15 percent or so are essentially neutral, and the other 80 percent do more damage than they add.
In that a WebDAV implementation wouldn't make use of them? I assumed that a WebDAV implemenation would use them, but the WebDAV spec doesn't need to define them because the HTTP spec it references already did...
And it cost $15 million.

The annual cost of product failures in the US is $100 billion.

Big whoop. PlayPump is 0.1% of that. Your share of the PlayPump (assuming equal cost to everyone in the US)? A nickel. You don't just fund a PlayPump. You fund a thousand PlayPumps. Nine hundred fail, and one hundred have impact.

Someone tried to do good. Perhaps they didn't succeed. What happened as a result? They got ridiculed. That's the failure of PlayPump. Not the folks who did it, but the folks in 2010 mocking them. It brings about a culture which doesn't take risks, and that's a culture which cannot bring about change in the world.
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There's something 'regular citizens' wrestle with that the elites never seem to: a sense of moral duty.
In terms of court evidence, I believe internet companies are responsive to warrants (although some fight requests they consider unreasonable with more vigor than others.)

My reading of the article suggests this is more about active and ongoing surveillance, which gets into greyer areas (the feasibility of such monitoring, potential bias in algorithms, as well as issues like the concept of "pre-crime" and the legal concept of "prior restraint"...)
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Well even if you don't, regulators certainly do!
That's not true at all. I can find dozens of full length movies and hundreds of full length albums on YT, all uploaded illegally.
Why not go for a part-time Phd and continue working. Might be a hassle for 5 years but you get the financial security for your family and follow your dream.
To be honest, I could (for lack of interest I didn't) find you sources which show that Uber could be safer than average taxi companies. The reasoning:

- After riding with Uber you get a map sent to you, this could help in proving that a taxi driver tried to rape a woman customer in a dark ally. (this has happened, driver got fired and charged) With a regular taxi it's your word against theirs.

- With Uber you are 100% sure the driver is working for Uber, since you ordered it through the app and the app shows you the license plate. With regular taxis you have to trust that the taxi license is real if you hail a cab on the street.

- With Uber you rate the driver after the ride, which makes sure that bad drivers get detected very quickly. With regular taxis you have to file a complaint, which most people don't because it's too much of a bother.

- With Uber you don't need to have anything representing money on you to get a ride. With regular taxis you need either cash or a credit card on you to pay for the ride, which is a safety issue before, during and after the ride.

I agree with you that there are some issues with a company like Uber just doing whatever they want. However, there are some pretty big issues with the current taxi industry and Uber is doing a prety good job at highlighting them and providing alternatives.
Here's my solution to that. Gather all the information possible, including things you've purchased so that I know whether or not you actually have those games or any of your friends do (and whether you actually play them). Assess, whether any major life changes have occurred for you based on all my data-mining and algos and assign a risk-factor for that particular statement. Monitor/filter your subsequent (or even previous?) communications (SMS, calls) for anything that might increase the risk-factor. If it's above a certain threshold, dispatch a discrete drone to follow you around 'just to be sure' (it's ok, you won't even know it's there). Maybe one day, I might decide to have armed drones, you know, 'just in case'. Oh, and make all of this automated because software is eating the world and what not (bugs? what bugs?).

Obviously, I say all of the above tongue-in-cheek but it wouldn't surprise me if there are people in government (or the security services) who actually think that way.
Without commenting on the merit of the recent suit I'll just point out that an illegal scheme to rig aluminum prices might look the same. These are smart people. It would be ridiculous to expect to find incriminating emails with subjects like: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Our illegal scheme to rig prices and make mad bucks LOL or contracts with clauses that spell out the entire details of a scheme in a simple manner.
but looks nice....
This is one of three HN links on the front page that uses this new fad where the landing consists of nothing but a full screen image, no content and a less than obvious notification that you should scroll down to see something actually useful. Stahp.
I used to follow Kim back in the late 90's early 2000's when he ran Kimble.org. At the time it was a Flash website that was pushing the boundaries of what you could do on the web. It incorporated 3D, particle emissions from your mouse, mouse pointer following and a few other Flash techniques that no one was doing at the time. He also had another site called Monkeybank which was another amazing Flash website. One of the first that I saw which used 3D models rotating with correct shadowing.

I was honestly more amazed by Kim's online persona, because I never had any idea what he did. To be honest, I just saw awesome websites and a guy that looked like he was having fun being a software engineer/hacker. Then he launched the Ultimate Rally, a competitor to the Gumball 3000 race, which was all about fast cars driving across different countries in the world (Another awesome website). I think that was in the early 2000's and after that I've been watching him. Since the internet was largely anonymous, I never knew who he was or that he was falsifying his lifestyle.

His websites have long since been taken down, but they are still vivid in my mind.
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

It's not really a disadvantage, it's more about economic parity. As a simple example, I pay more than 2.50 dollars for a loaf of bread in the US, but no way would anyone pay 80 baht for the same loaf in Bangkok.
It's called layering.

Nothing is 100% secure.
Regulators want more power. That surprises no one.
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Those policies aren't there to enforce some kind of state monopoly on the distribution of aid, they're there because rich people don't want to be reminded homeless people exist.
It's unfortunate, but these days when I hear about rapid price fluctuations my "knee jerk" reaction is:

1) Who HAS the market in 'X' cornered, and is working to drive prices up so they can unload their shares.

2) Who is WORKING to corner the market in 'X' by driving prices down.

The fortunate thing (I think) is that removing barriers from access to data will eventually make schemes like this all but extinct. It will no longer be how rich people get richer. It will be how crooks end up in jail.
Thanks for adding the link, it is quite a letter combination. :)
Do you really think your life will be better if they stop doing things like that?
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/quantu...

All they need is an authorised certificate.
Finding connections is not what I am talking about. The issue is no specific example is universal.

Even pain might seem universal, but some people simply lack that sensation. As in antithetic while getting a cavity filled would be pointless.

This might all seem pedantic, but it's really important to remember that people don't necessarily think the way you do.
> I'd love a boiled egg

> Me too, I could murder some soldiers
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Type in the search terms "full album" and then tell me their automatic removal of copyrighted material is working pretty well.
Initial commit was by Linus[0], but it looks like most of the other commits[1] have been small amends by other people (apart from a couple of new chapters)

[0] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....

[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
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Legalize insider trading. You can't prevent it.

Why can't we first try actively prosecuting the individuals who take part in these frauds?

That seems to be the one action missing from the recent banking scandals.
Seems like 'regular citizens' have a problem then...
You're not wrong, but it's only because that content hasn't been entered into their system or because the copyright holder isn't actively requesting content be removed.
- Highly doubt it's purely a money decision

- Vapnik is joining a number of people he previously worked with

- Getting huge computational resources and seeing your ideas applied to real data is rewarding
Question about #5. Does the statement "I was at my private repo limit and removed it" mean you deleted all the history AND code for the project?

That seems sad if true.
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Given that there are only 4 members that decide on the price, it seems like it's rigged by design.
I do this at Xmas - since my parents split acrimoniously, it was too difficult to do a 'family' holiday. So I see both a weekend around Xmas, then have friends over for Xmas - other people with split families, Aussies and Kiwis who can't get home this year etc. It beats a family Xmas hands down.

(British here, so no Thanksgiving)
If a result of this "pointless crusade" is for Mozilla to start applying better security to its plugin archive, it's a huge win.

Why commercial enterprises still aren't providing even a fraction of the level of archive integrity assurance completely volunteer free software projects were decades ago is utterly beyond reason.
Not only you can't prevent it

There are many crimes that can't be 100% prevented, whether burglary, rape or murder.

Why should we give up on entirely?
> If the ruling had gone the other way, a lot of manufacturing would have moved out of the USA as the manufacturers would have had a lot more control over resale.

This is a gross overstatement. Most manufacturing does not involve copyright and so this ruling would have no bearing on that at all. The simplest way I can put this from my non-lawyer understanding is, "copyright law does not trump first sale doctrine".
Yeah totally, I thought they had a virtual Jobs, cracking the whip. This is not the color I asked for! Whip!
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Legalize [crime]. You can't prevent it.
Maybe this time they'll fine them at least 10 weeks of profits!
The largest example I can think of is Codex Seraphinianus, which is clearly inspired by the Voynich Manuscript.

It's fairly obviously gibberish; so much so that you can tell just by looking. But the author wasn't really trying to make it have statistical characteristics that resemble natural language.
I agree, the weird unconsistent capitalization of titles is pretty bad. The worst I've seen so far here on HN was:

> Yosemite Sends Spotlight, Safari Searches to Apple, Third Parties

But I got downvoted for complaining, so it's apparently pretty clear to others.
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