skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the CRA as modified by follow-up legislation. Your [2] actually gets its data from an article in the Orange County Register [3] which claims to do an analysis of a database that they do not provide or reference.

A article of history [4] and the numerous WSJ articles provide a pretty clear picture. CRA had some very foolish amendments including some that affected the deployment of ATMs of all things.

It wasn't the single cause, but it was a major player.

Which brings me back to my original question "Were German banks compelled to make bad loans or was it their failed risk judgement?"

3) http://www.ocregister.com/articles/loans-20542-subprime-bank...

4) http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cra-debate-a-users-guide-...
Sort of. But consider: If you wake up tomorrow and the drachma is worth half what it was, then everyone is half as rich. CEO or janitor; you're paid half what you were, you have half as much savings, and you have half as much debt.

If you try and balance things with higher taxes and spending cuts, then the pain will be very unevenly distributed. You can't cut spending very much without hurting the poor; you can't raise taxes very much without sending the rich overseas, which means you have to raise taxes on the middle class instead. What do you call a society that cuts the safety net of the poor while taxing the middle class?

I can think of a lot of negative phrases. But here's one: "likely to elect a bunch of fascists like the Golden Dawn on a platform of doing whatever it takes to stop the pain". Even if you think it's fair, it's not a realistic proposal.

(Politics is about the art of the possible. Greece is in a situation where internal devaluation may no longer be possible.)
This kind of thing happens in math a lot. Any time you use the axiom of choice to prove something exists, it's non-constructive. It exists, but you can't get your hands on it.

I wrote a comment down below about how one could in principle determine a number which is probably BB(n), but you could never be sure. But I just had the crazy thought that if a human brain is really just an N-state Turing machine for some giant N, then any human would either wait forever or give up before finding the true BB(n) for some n. Time for bed!
My hypothesis would be that GMs are much less likely to blunder when there's a winning move on the board. They're generally very good at finding such moves.
Fine. The shills are here, and you're free to accuse people you don't agree with of being puppets of the government, as you have.

What does doing so actually accomplish, besides spreading FUD?
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Thanks for the answer. If there was no political compulsion then the German banks (or their insurers) should have taken the hit. This bail people out for truly dumb judgement (looking at you AEG) has caused more problems then the failure would have.

I do wonder what the political implication would have been if German banks had refused to lend to Greek banks?
Brokenfan, you the man! This is awesome stuff.
Brazil doesn't have a "strong (sometimes authoritarian) central government" and individuals certainly do not have "few rights".
The Deep State model works so well in Turkey, why not replicate it worldwide?
this is horrible and devastates the American information technology industry because there is no chance that any foreign government is going to buy anything from the US that could be infiltrated by the NSA.
Same here, I'd like to understand a bit more about your background.

Also, is the book specific to the web attack only or does it look at the whole environment (ssh, keys in the git repos etc...?)?

Is it focussed on js only, or holes in other language/framework as well?

Thanks.
Skyy Vodka isn't well-level.

And about three seconds' thought would tell you: "GeorgeBeech, no idiot running a 'premium' liquor brand would allow their product to be featured on a bulk purveyor of flavored methanol products manufacturer website."

Brand appearances are tightly controlled. The message is as much about what you want to be known as what you want to be concealed.
Can you expand on the avocado stuff, or do you have a source? Sounds pretty interesting.
Here's what the IMF (a member of the Troika) has to say:

https://systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/quietly-th...

>The IMF said a common figure used by governments was to assume that for each dollar lost in government spending, 50 cents is erased from gross domestic product, an assumption used when creating austerity budgets. But, the fund said, its study of the issue has found that, since the economic collapse that began in 2008, for each dollar cut from government spending, GDP is reduced from 90 cents to $1.70.

i.e. yes it cuts your deficit, but your public debt/GDP gets worse.
Are you aware of another widely-used signifier for mixed drinks that could be used?

I'm aware of some European uses (mostly liqueurs) that may date to earlier. Premium, or even non-premium, alcohol consumption habits really aren't a personal specialty.
This is an excellent 'road map' to the two key theorems of information theory.

The focus on decoding complexity in the noisy coding theorem is particularly welcome. A separate article amplifying just this aspect (error exponent, Pareto complexity, etc) would be welcome.
Yeah, got a reply that indicated I'd been caught in a spam filter (at $EMPLOYER, behind a proxy). All sorted now
The point isn't whether we should be surprised this is the NSA, the interesting thing is that this layered strategy is what you do if you have access to lots of money and talent.
> Grandmasters blunder more often than this.

Could this analysis be a lower bound? I'm not familiar with Crafty, but given that all the games were annotated in 6 hours of wall-clock time, this analysis can't be going extremely deep into the game-tree. There may be many more moves which would qualify as blunders if analyzed as deeply as Regan's work in the other comment.
Not that famously it seems. He frets about traffic decline and wants to be more widely read, yet his headlines have inside jokes?
That was pure propaganda by the banks:

http://newamericamedia.org/2011/02/loans-to-minorities-did-n...
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In the US, "austerity" was done by the Congress and forced on President Truman from 1946 - 1948. It worked quite well after the war as President Truman wanted to continue spending to reinvigorate the economy (FDR style projects). This lead to some very good years. The modern US has not bothered to reduce its borrowing or spending in a meaningful way.
Hmm, and what about the Saudi government that actually does fund terrorist activities and opposes almost everything that America claims to stand for?

America is fine with propping up that regime, so why is Iran an issue, when from everything that I've read and experienced (12 years in the Middle East) there have been no implications of Iran in modern terrorist activities?

What moral have high ground can you take then?
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You think I am accusing him of being a shill because I don't agree with him? Have you seen his posting history? That's pretty much the definition of a shill who isn't trying very hard. Much more dangerous are the ones who actually make normal posts on stories throughout the year and only turn on the propaganda when the discussion turns to the NSA and government activities. Those ones you can't detect.

I don't understand why you're more upset with me for pointing out propaganda than the propaganda machine itself.
I think that's something that's relatively recent, in the last 10 years or so. Way back then, IPAs weren't as common in Seattle, there were tons of browns, ambers and darker, less hoppy varieties.

Now I'm seeing far more hoppy stuff around, but I'm also not goign to bars in Seattle anymore.
Dare I say it is already here. The mixologist is a pretentious name for a bartender. Though I'd argue there is nothing wrong with bitters, muddling or artisan liquers.

I can go to any number of bars in Sydney where a 'mixologist' can't make a simple Belvedere Vodka, a bit dirty (not slutty). Go to a place that has a bartender, and at least you've got a shot at something half decent.
So out of all the compile-to-javascript languages out there, elm is easily my favorite, despite not being usable outside the browser. This article is one illustration why it is so attractive: app architecture that is blindingly simple (its all just state machines under the cover, which is exactly what a UI is).

Now all we need is an elm that compiles to native code that somehow can do what React Native is doing for the native interface. I would easily pay 3-5x Xamarin's prices to be able to do so. Who's up for it?
But if the machine that stops when it has proven ZFC is inconsistent does not halt, then surely it means there is no proof of the inconsistency of ZFC? Hence ZFC is consistent? Which is contradicted by Godel.

I would think instead ZFC can't prove or disprove that this machine halts, which just means it's undecidable wether it halts or not.

This also implies that for sufficiently large n, we won't be able to prove that BB(n) = N, or even BB(n) < N for any N using the ZFC axioms. Of course, although they can't compute or bound its value, they can still easily prove that BB(n) is finite.
There seem to be two popular but contradictory views on HN.

The first is that technology is creating a rift between those who know how to program, where jobs are being created, and those who don't, where jobs are being destroyed.

The second is that high programmer wages are a good thing, and that attempts to flood the market with programmers, e.g. by teaching everyone to code, are an attack on the middle class.
Humans have had about 10,000 years of interesting & productive history. At best, a human lifespan is about 100 years. That's one hundred 100-year lives back-to-back. That's...not much at all.
Because Anglo-Saxons entirely different (both culturally and ethnically) from modern "whites" had shit jokes at school and teachers molesting children?
If it's not something you think much about, the history can be pretty surprising. I happen to have spent much of the past few years rummaging about in the archive closets of the Industrial Revolution -- its emergence and development. Part of that story is of development of technologies and products, some is how those came to be branded and merchandised.

It's fascinating history.

James Burke in his 1979 series Connections dates modern consumer goods to Wedgwood China in the 18th century.

The first real "personal appliances" -- consumer mechanical products -- were the bicycle and sewing machine, both emerging in the 1880s.

Edward Bernays and principles of modern PR and advertising would make another excellent topic of exploration.

All of which goes over and elucidates a tad more than snark.

But the NYPL link is appreciated.
The routers are written by small teams that don't talk to each other. On the OSM routing mailing list, there was very little / no meaningful discussion in the last 2 or 3 years.
There's not a master plan, but there's several promising lines of work happening. Hopefully 2015 will be a fun year. Tomorrow, I'll be on Federal News Radio in the morning, preaching the gospel to DC commuters.
Do they do work for Diageo? It looks like the list of products, at least on their site, isn't something I really encounter in advertisements, promotions or really at any bars I've gone to.
Probably the most on-point example of a sudden devaluation (rather than the gradual adjustment typical of countries with floating currencies) is the UK leaving the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992 [1]. If you want to judge how that went, I'd note that the UK has done noticeably better than the Euro area post-crisis [2]. Exchange-rate flexibility probably had something to do with that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
[2] http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac...
That's something I'd like to dig into.

It's an open secret in the wine industry, though, that a large quantity of grapes for California wine -- even of Napa Valley product (though I'm not sure how strict the rules are for appellations) are sourced from elsewhere in the state, much of it from near Fresno and Clovis. There simply isn't enough acreage within Napa Valley to supply production.

How much individualized production Frank-Lin does would be quite interesting to establish.
Good point, although this problem involves only integers, so I'm not sure if "convergence" makes sense. Pi, of course, is a computable number, implying that there is a terminating algorithm that, given input n, outputs the nth digit of pi's decimal representation.
I don't think posting political groups is helpful and Rep. Barney Frank's opinion of how economics works has been argued in a lot of forums.
I think not. I agree with the OP's general thesis, but he gets a lot of details wrong.
The notation that a debate on the rules of digital warfare will do anything is questionable.

Arms control limitations (SALT,START), the hague convention, etc, work because there are means of verifying countries adhere to what they agree on (and ostensibly punishing those who don't).

Given the difficulty of attributing cyber attacks (e.g. Sony), much less cyber espionage, there's little reason to think this is possible in this case. And that's just for direct action.

If we're talking about tactics and capabilities, it's impossible. How are you going to make sure there aren't 30 people somewhere writing malware for a government? You can't, at least absent far more invasive spying or some kind of DRM that makes writing malware illegal.
well, in TFA it's a little easier for the NSA than embedding a mole, NSA just tells WD they want to buy drives, but need to audit all the source code including firmware for security issues, then modifies firmware, then intercepts hardware orders from targets and replaces them with ones with compromised firmware.
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>Sort of. But consider: If you wake up tomorrow and the drachma is worth half what it was, then everyone is half as rich. CEO or janitor; you're paid half what you were, you have half as much savings, and you have half as much debt.

If the CEO wakes up to find the drachma is worth half what it is, he's likely to be only slightly affected. That's because he's unlikely to have large parts of his savings in cash.
I think the "sizable group of technically competent citizens" realizes that espionage between nation-states is as old as nation-states themselves, and that because of the nature of humanity, it's not going away anytime soon.
It seems to me that the article overlooks one glaringly obvious issue: that the two blunders may not be independent events.

In this case, it seems quite likely that the second player's blunder was made much more likely by the fact that the first player had just blundered. To be more specific, white moved the king which appeared (at first glance) to prevent black from using a check threat to attack white's rook. The blunder was in not realizing that the check threat could still be used to attack white's rook, albeit in a more complicated fashion.

Black responded to this with another "blunder" -- failing to attack the rook and moving elsewhere instead. But this blunder was NOT independent of the first -- it is quite likely (I believe) that black saw the move and assumed white had successfully prevented the attack on the rook. He assumed that such a top-level player would never make such a mistake, and that caused him to not look closely enough at it. The first blunder helped cause the second.

(Thanks to stolio for linking to the game analysis I used here.)

One could test this hypothesis of mine using the same data set. Instead of looking just at single errors, look at error pairs (one error occurring in the move following another error). If the probability of a blunder is significantly higher on the move immediately after a blunder than it is at any other time, then my hypothesis (that the events are not independent, but correlated) is supported.
And that's JavaScript's fundamental problem: it's full of attractive nuisances that have the nasty property of silently doing the wrong thing. 'this', 0=='0'==false==[]!=[], global variables by default, objects that are almost-but-not-quite maps, for-in-oops-forgot-hasOwnProperty, etc, etc.
I think this[0] is a good formalization of what I'm trying to say.

[0] http://math.stackexchange.com/a/614017/215039
> dump the firmware and compare it to firmware dumps from other hard drives of the same model

And then ponder the unstated assumption that said other hard drives may or may not have been exploited already. Dealing with a state level actor is hard, in the "trusting trust" sense.
That is certainly a valid response.

Being able to convince others of the value of one's contributions tends to create an expectation for even greater contributions - this driving force can easily be directed toward improvement as a programmer.
"Globalization" really wasn't much of a thing in the 1950s.

Mass-merchandising, mass-media, a consumer economy, TV and radio advertising, and expendable income were all things, however.
Mathematician Edward Nelson has a very interesting take on "big" numbers. He claims that the exponential function is not necessarily total, and a number like 2^1000000000000 might not actually exist. The reason he singles out exponentiation is that the reasoning that exponential numbers are "real" numbers, is circular (impredicative). According to Nelson, speaking about such numbers might lead to condradictions, just like speaking about "the set of all sets that don't contain themselves" leads to a contradiction.

He also relates these issues to Christian philosophy, which I find very interesting. In particular, he claims that the a priori belief in the objects defined by Peano Arithmetic, is equivalent to worshipping numbers, as the Pythagoreans did.

I think this is the best starting point if you're interested in reading about his ideas: https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/papers/warn.pdf
If it was unavoidable, what made it "misuse"?
This is factually incorrect, the extensive documentation of the era makes it clear that the east India company and British rule made it a point to destroy native industry, vaccum raw material, on top of introducing laws and acts which penalized you for being a particular race.

All of those economic structures were destroyed and perverted by the conquerors.
It's also where the money is. Getting paid to do the wrong thing is also an old trait of humankind.

Remember Google's original motto? Whatever happened to that?
Blitz games? Is your data from Blitz games played on an online server?

I like the idea of your research, but blitz games are garbage and online ratings are frequently meaningless due to abuse.

You should also look at replacing Crafty with Stockfish. Stockfish is still open source and it's around 350 points higher than Crafty which is a huge amount at this level.
> "Do you really think these extensive intelligences do stop terror?"

I was under the impression that stuxnet had a demonstrably negative impact on the capacity of the Iranian nuclear program to enrich uranium. Of course, there's a whole different argument on whether or not that's in support of "terror".
> Due to cost limitations we had to limit crafty to 2 seconds of analysis time per move

A grandmaster with standard time controls could defeat a 2-second limited Crafty. So how do you know you're finding true blunders, and not simply positions that the engine evaluates incorrectly?
He seems legit, unless this page is just a pack of lies, which is quite possible I suppose: https://sagecreek.wordpress.com/about/
Why run an overt colony system when you can achieve the same control by destabilizing existing governments?

The CIA is known for its activities in countries like, gee, Iran, where they overthrew the existing DEMOCRATICALLY elected government and installed a monarch instead.

Or see the case of Guatemala, where on the advice of businessmen the democratic government was overthrown on charges of 'communism' with lots of help from the US.

Benevolent superpower my ass.
There are limits on resource management processes that are far too frequently ignored. "The computer could build it's own weapons!" -- but that would requires secretly taking over mines and building factories and processing ores and running power plants, etc. All of which require human direction. And even if they didn't, we'd need a good reason to network all these systems together, fail to build kill switches, and fail to monitor them, and fail to notice when our resources were being redirected to other purposes, and not have any backup systems in place whatsoever.

There are just so many obstacles in place, that we'd all already have to be brain-dead for computers to have the ability to kill us.
I'd make a small clarification: While it is true that everyone can't devalue at once in terms of relative exchange rates, everyone trying to devalue at once can still be useful. In that case you'd get worldwide inflation (arguably currencies devaluing vs goods), which is exactly what a depressed global economy would need.
Yes, and using precisely the same logic, Starbucks invented the coffee shop.
You guys really need better quality microphones. I appreciate the idea that you have, and I think you're generally a funny bunch, but I can't hear what you're saying if your laughing overcomes that one quiet guy's audio. Other suggestions would be to introduce yourselves at the start, and keep topicality more. I enjoyed listening though!
Who said anything about "whites"? I never mentioned that word in my post. I was talking about people who specifically refer to "Anglo-Saxons" in a derogatory way. Are those people using the wrong word?

EDIT: also, in my school we would make jokes about teachers being "pervs" although I'm pretty sure no teacher of mine actually was. This sort of thing happens in every culture, the article was about the jokes, not the actual act.
There are of course entities hostile to the United States in every country, including the United States.
FTA: "the spies made a technological breakthrough by figuring out how to lodge malicious software in the obscure code called firmware"

Is this really a breakthrough? Hasn't this type of attack been around for a long time? Yeah, Reuters. It is interesting that likely a state actor is using this type of attack in a coordinated way. Interesting, but is this really surprising?

In other news, Apple and Google now make a device you can connect right to you skin 24/7.
Which part of the study referenced did you take issue with?

http://econpapers.repec.org/article/ucpjlawec/doi_3a10.1086_...

"On average, the CRA appears to have had little impact on mortgage lending, even during the mid-2000s, when lending to lower income areas nevertheless soared."
It is unreasonable to do nothing to stop the loss of innocent lives.

However the war on terror is a media beat-up that sells papers, keeps eyes glued on tv's and serves to support the agenda of politicians who capitalise on the state of fear to get elected.

This is particularly evident in the United states- as a visitor there over the past several years the level of discourse on terrorism is completely out of keeping with the actual threat, or the level of fear in my own country (australia) despite our proximity on all cultural datapoints

how many terrorists in a cave have the sort of it infrastructure that require the equivalent of a Manhattan-project of cyber-espionage? (I mean, re-writing manufacturers hdd firmware?! Wow!)
That's a ridiculous argument. By that benchmark any country has a responsibility to stop any other country's nuclear program because it is a potential threat to the world.