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As it happens, the libor rate rigging was due to illiquidity. Specifically, illiquidity in the uncollateralised loan market.

This happened because the broker-dealers stopped believing that their counterparts would still be afloat in 3 months. They required collateral and that gets funded on a daily basis.

As such, the usual flow of longer term loans dried up and so the rate setters effectively had to make up the numbers. The scandal was that swap traders and management influenced their rates, not that they were made up.

I agree with you on the fx rigging though. The allegations are, as i understand it, that there was collusion such that front running became viable.
All international laws, treaties, and agreements are "bossing around foreign [people|companies]"

We have extradition treaties, peace treaties, copyright treaties, trade agreements, etc etc, all of which present restrictions on what private individuals and corporations can and cannot do.

The notion that countries will seek to gain international adherence to its desired rules is anything but absurd. The only absurdity here is what's actually being proposed - so let's talk about that, instead of some notion that countries should not pursue international cooperation.

There's also a bit of hypocrisy when claiming to "speak for America", considering this is a country that has literally gone to war in order to "boss around foreign [people|companies]" - I'm not even talking about Iraq, look up the sordid history of the United Fruit Company and its relationship to Latin American interventionism.
At Igalia (http://www.igalia.com/), we are a worker-owned free software consultancy.
There's a generic presentation of how we work spread among the various sections of http://www.igalia.com/about-us/, but one of us also wrote a series of blog posts that explains us pretty well:
http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/06/05/no-master
http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/06/13/but-that-would-be-an...
http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/06/25/time-for-money

In a nutshell: people who work for Igalia own it (with equal amount of shares, usually after three years in the company) and participate in the assembly (usually after 6 months-a year in the company).
From that premise, our decisions and ways of working are generally very flexible towards employees. Having the same salary (with more for people who live in more expensive countries) or being able to work from wherever you want is just the tip of the iceberg.
OK, agreed. C (and C++) just suck regarding this detail.
Does anyone have any experience using this?
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I don't have much of an opinion one way or another about insider trading laws. That said, I think the single biggest benefit to removing them would be destroying this fictional notion that all investors have equal access to ALL potential investor relevant information. This is simply untrue and anyone investing with the idea that it is true is deluding themselves.

Insider trading laws don't try to make everyone have equal access to information, they try to make everyone have equal access to a very constrained subset of information, because any legal scheme that tried to do more than that would be destined to fail.
Thing about git is that it is relatively easy to get started and harder to learn the more "advanced" stuff. This isn't always true with other technologies because once you get started, you can figure out the advance stuff incrementally. Not true for git in my experience because even if you know the basics of having a branch, committing, pushing it can take a while to really understand how merges, branches, conflicts work.
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Well, it might reflect poorly from the States maybe. I totally agree with the EU, and I'm willing to guess that so do most Europeans.

I'm pretty sure this question could be used as a reasonably reliable predictor of nationality.
Honestly the title sequence is one of the best parts. I get nostalgic for NYC, while I'm watching it in NYC.
It also demonstrates that sometimes, there are additional constraints that you may not understand in choices you may not agree with.
In this situation, it's best to make it impossible for them to pass until it's safe (by riding in the middle of the lane).
There's always Graal - OracleLabs' JVM compiler implemented in Java - for new experiments in compilation
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I understand the need for something like this. The right to delete all Google+, Facebook, and ad tracker network stored data etc. seems reasonable. The right to limit search engine discoverability of 3rd party published information seems to be a step too far. I'm not sure where you draw the line, but there does seem to at least be a line somewhere in there.
Defenders are theoretically entitled to speedy trials, but in reality can be held for years and years without trial based on procedural delays, and, in particular, based on the court's scheduling problems:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/law-3

And a huge flood of criminal trials would certainly not make individual criminal trials any more rigorous, or juries any more likely to carefully weigh evidence.

Finally: people on HN royally fucking hate hearing this, but it's true: most criminal defendants are guilty. We hear about newsworthy cases where there's enough of an interesting narrative to write an interesting lede graf. But for every one of those, there are 100 where the details are completely uninteresting: the defendant was found in his living room with bloody knuckles standing next to his unconscious spouse.

A plurality of Cook County inmates are in for domestic violence; the majority are incarcerated for violent crime. So the idea that we'd have a fairer system by ensuring that fewer defendants actually faced charges is... suspect.

The injustices in our criminal law system need to be fixed at their source: the law needs to be changed to ratchet down sentences. This is an uncontroversial point. There is broad agreement that sentences were escalated to untenable levels during the nationwide freak-out over crime from the late 1960s through the mid 1990s. That problem needs to be fixed; no cosmetic change will improve our system until it is.
I don't see how that's relevant.

The bug in that CVE is that the function call got the parameter order wrong. The declaration was correct AFAICT, and of course completely irrelevant because you can make that mistake regardless of what the header says.

Parameters in headers are just documentation, by definition. Documentation can be wrong however you write it, but in general it helps to have it instead of not. Would you seriously argue that function parameters should not be given names in documentation?
I switched from WPF, C# dev to Angular JS with Typescript and Web API with relative ease and I'm digging it. Typescript definitely helped though. I know I have plenty more to learn, but it's not as shitty as people make it out to be.
True, there's a plethora of JS tools someone can use. The problem is that they have to be discovered. And there's no standard. I found out about Browserify 2 days ago and realised all the problems it could have solved for me. Now I have to migrate the code I have to it.

JS ecosystem is confusing. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7074307

Utilities should be a part of the language's "battery".

Ambiguous/Unexpected behaviour: I mean I can redirect you to the popular "Wat" talk. Moreover, isn't that the entire premise of "Javascript: The Good Parts" anyway?
- I like the idea. The dashboard view can be really helpful.
- The My Apps UI is lacking for me. The icons look very outdated.

Also, when you first log in, the message "Just now is good time to add your first application" doesn't make sense to me.

Good job, keep it up!
That's valid assuming I have an equal chance of getting hit in both situations.
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The data about you should belong to the person or thing collecting the data unless otherwise specified in an agreement of some sort (say, for instance, self-nominated data shall be owned by the user that input the data)

For example: you walk down the street and I see you (because you were there and you exist) and my memory of you being there might be recounted in a blog at some point. That blog might get indexed on Google.

Who owns that data about you? I would argue the person that made the observation owns it - the fact that you acted to walk down a street does not mean you get to control my recollection of that event, or the fact that it happened.
You present a false dichotomy. I'm dubious that at any point going forward students, learners, and academics in third world countries will have less access to up-to-date information than they do now as a result of this ruling.

Even if we assume that publishers stop producing separate International editions, there is no reason to assume they will price them identically in all regions. More likely, they will price them in a way that they think will maximize their profits. If this price is judged by the international audience to be too high, the market will respond with increased piracy. Eventually, some other publishers will enter the market with a reincarnation of the "International edition" lured by the siren song of potential profit.

In the alternative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_pleading), if the International editions truly contain less content than the standard edition (15-20% of the content), and hence less value, perhaps the international price is simply fair value here in the US as well? And if so, why should sale at this price (plus profit for the importer) be prohibited? I find it more likely that the captive nature of the US audience (required textbook of a specified edition) allows the US edition to be priced at a premium beyond that which the information content itself would justify.
The number of counts charged in CFAA doesn't appear to have much to do with sentencing.

There is a huge problem with CFAA sentencing: the sentence accelerator for damages. The iterator count in someone's "for()" loop can make the difference between probation and 3 years in prison.

Incidentally: you probably can be charged with breaking and entering for checking your neighbors window locks.
IT also encompasses Systems Administration. They could work on a CCNA/ CCNP /MCSE/ Red Hat certs.
As a driver in DC, I can think of many 'almost accidents' and they are about equally distributed between cars and bicyclists. I see a lot fewer bicyclists though when I'm driving. Anecdotally, I find them far more likely to cause a near accident. With cars, they are larger, easier to see and in general behave more predictably. Sure, they may not signal properly a lot, but I leave enough room between cars to let bad behavior not be dangerous. Bicyclists weave through traffic and ignore all signage. It's a lot harder to drive safely around bicyclists. I see them do all the things you're calling out cars for (no signaling, going wrong way down 1 way streets, weaving through traffic and blowing through red lights).

When I'm walking in DC, I don't actually find cars that threatening, I've never been nearly hit by one living here 29 years. Bicyclists here have a dont give a fuck attitude towards every other user of the road/sidewalks though and I've nearly been hit on many occasions .
I'm a grandma, and my coding career is just getting started
>>heroku compatible PaaS

Are you based on Cloud Foundry?
See also: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/technology/valve-a-video-g... - "The few employees who’ve put titles on business cards do so to satisfy outsiders apprehensive about working with people without labels. The same applies to Gabe Newell, one of Valve’s founders."

(no idea whether this is the case here...)

One of my former colleagues had this sort of experience at one job, where his job title was "programmer" (you got this title if you were a programmer; there weren't any others available). He was finding it sometimes difficult to get people to return emails, presumably because he didn't sound important enough. Apparently the last straw was being roundly ignored in a particular meeting with one external company! A swift title upgrade (no changes in responsibility...) fixed all of this.
At 4-way stops in heavy traffic, it's difficult at best to tell the order in which people should go. If there's more than one lane in each direction, it becomes practically impossible.

Imho, 4-way stops are terrible no matter how you slice it: in heavy traffic they're really inefficient not to mention difficult to navigate, and should be replaced with a traffic light. In light traffic they're also inefficient, and should be replaced with a yield from the non-dominant direction.

In Sweden the default rule at an unsigned intersection is that you yield to the right. This means there's a well-defined algorithm for conflict resolution without putting stop signs at every little intersection. Apparently the idea that you could possibly navigate an intersection without signage is absurd to Americans, though.
There's not really a whole lot of manufacturing left in this country to move out.
Facebook rightly puts the burden of compliance on the developers, not the users. Spam scores would just lead to user experience and customer service nightmares. "Why does it say I'm spamming?! I'm just playing a game! Fix it!"
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Instead, we should do a better job of understanding what rights entitle us to, and then simply afford those rights to all people, whether or not they belong to a majority class, a protected class, or an unpopular minority.

This is just a first step. We also need to understand what the actual barriers are to progress, and address them.

Let me give a good example. A few years ago there was a fascinating longitudinal study that started with an equivalent group of blacks and whites. All educated, young, middle class professionals in similar jobs. Following them forward 15 years, the whites by and large were still middle class professionals, but a large portion of the blacks were living in poverty. Proof of racism, right?

Not at all! Their data had more detail in it. One of the factors that they were able to control for was fiscal planning. One was whether people understood the value of creating savings for themselves so that they could handle short-term challenges like a layoff. When they controlled for this factor, blacks and whites were identical. But more whites knew to do this, so they did better.

The solution to this particular problem is NOT to give blacks more opportunities and preferences. It is to make an effort to educate the black community the importance of always living within your means.
You're trying to oversolve the problem. Most of the legitimate right to be forgotten requests concern things like "I don't want my status as rape survivor to come up when an employer Googles me". If someone wants to doc they're doing to dox, regardless of any right to be forgotten. But a name change is good enough for 90% of folks.
How exactly does plea-bargaining do that? Prosecutors don't determine sentences; judges do, and the sentences they choose are circumscribed by very detailed guidelines.
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I'm trying to understand why the bias would be a cause for concern in this case. What consequence could it have on the reading of an article that is tag-lined as "[One Side] is a rebel without a pause..." which seems to indicate some bias immediately to me.

Is there any person who can write without bias? I don't know anything about journalism, I'm just trying to understand the concern in this case (and in general). To what degree can we really expect reporters to be unbiased? (Another question for you: What examples do we have of completely unbiased reporting?)
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Seems down, archive link still works: http://web.archive.org/web/20141021121813/http://www.alex-bu...
Usually when people say stuff like this, they haven't programmed anything as complex and performant as the thing they are criticizing, so the comments can and should be disregarded as noise.
> Of course, there's always a race condition and potential for deadlock when two cars arrive simultaneously at an empty intersection, and waving people through is a safe and necessary way to solve that.

There are very clear right-of-way rules for this situation, and if both drivers can manage to remember those simple rules, no hand signals will be needed.
Uh oh, Wordpress problems.

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Hm. This is the kind of thing where a compiler warning could be useful. I took a quick look at gcc's manual, but it does not seem to have a warning for this particular mistake (argument names do not match between declaration and definition).

That way, you could repeat yourself safely, since the repetition would be checked by the compiler.
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Are tps reports still a thing?
The "right to be forgotten" is based on the principle that people can be wronged both by true and false statements about them.

Here is the best sense I can make of the dispute here: It is obvious that there are many true things you can say about most people that would be harmful to them. Part of the purpose of the law is to give people a recourse outside of violence against people who wrong them. So the question is, when you say harmful-but-true things about somebody, is there a greater concern that overrides their ability to seek recourse? The US would generally (but certainly not always) say "yes," while the EU tends to say "maybe."
I’d say a safe bet is Javascript, there are plenty of online resources, good courses online and whatnots. Although it’s true that self learning is possible, I guess the _fastest_ way would be to join few coding meet-ups (there are many here in London and they are free) and learn together with other people.

They should keep a blog/github with their progress too. They basically need to prove they can “do”, having a CV saying “Javascript: 3 month online course” won’t work.

Are they prepared to move away from Barcelona or Vienna? Cities like London and Berlin are great place to look for a job in IT.

best of luck
"How did you debug applications on it? "

With this bad boy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftICE
I was wondering that too. Seems like it would be useful info.
This has zero chance. Zero. Hopefully they are just grandstanding for their home audience and are not as clueless as they sound.
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I think the ability to write code is universally useful and pertinent in a programming job. A shocking number of people fail FizzBuzz. That's what I mean by "wet paper bag".
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The system also does a pretty good job of ensuring the masses are distracted. E.g. plenty of hype & reporting surrounding things like celebrities, sports, movies, and games.

To contrast that very little substantive reporting occurs on issues that matter. Then when finally a crisis ends (like the cold war) and we can hope to focus on improving justice and social issues we end up entering a new period to distract us like the drug.

More recently we can use the war on terror as a distraction from the financial crisis--note our preoccupation with ISIS instead of a focus on the social issues that are becoming an increasing drag on the US economy.
Sounds like we need longer light phases to keep cars out of the way of trolley riders. People first.
I'd suggest web development. The barrier to entry is extremely low, it's such a big deal that there are a bunch of libraries and communities ready to be taken advantage of, and it pays so well that sometimes you feel like a scam artist charging as much as you do.
It depends.

If you don't know the git data model (DAG) and learn it by using commands, you have to explicitly learn the 'advanced' stuff.

If you learn the git data model and fully understand how everything is simply a DAG, there is nothing advanced about it. However, grokking the git data model may take sometime.
hackerNews and BBC
I think I speak for the rest of the world when I say that America should stop bossing around foreign companies and forcing them to turn over foreign personal data to American secret spy agencies.
What are you studying? Could it not be argued to be part of your studies if you are doing a computer science course of some description?
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There are a lot of big-name crooks who would like to rewrite history. I see this regularly on Wikipedia's conflict of interest notice board. In the last year, four different rich guys with old felony convictions have paid editors trying to make their criminal history go away. In each case, they've failed on Wikipedia.

With a "right to be forgotten", they could litigate over that. Even if they had a weak case, it could become dangerous to refer to the criminal history of anyone with money. There's already been one lawsuit on Wikipedia, alleging defamation for going over someone's past rather than merely echoing what came out of their PR firm. I was one of the people listed in the lawsuit, but the plaintiff backed down after a threat of a countersuit.
The fact that that exercise of the "right to be forgotten" won't completely protect you from facts about the past is a red herring. Security is almost never perfect. Security is mostly about making something generally impractical to do. This is similar — a dedicated snoop will probably be able to find the dirt, but it won't be readily apparent to everyone who types your name into the world's most typed-into box.
I'm not arguing against the idea of mixed economies, but I don't find the argument that a bunch of countries produce happy citizens and the same countries have mixed economies very compelling. For instance, you don't mention the inverse. How do mixed economies due on the unhappiness scale? Is there some bare standard of mixed economy (for instance the US does have a mixed economy with a social support system at many levels)? Is there something else that is more related than their economic model for happiness?

I personally look at that data set and find it telling that those are all small countries by population size, wealthy and have lots of mineral resources per capita. For instance, are people in Iceland more happy than people in Corpus Cristi, Tx (which gets routinely rated as a happy US city and is bigger than Iceland).
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