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> The Justice Department levied a $775 million penalty and will install a monitor at the bank for three years to ensure compliance with the terms of the deferred prosecution agreement.

These deferred prosecution agreements are horrible. Every major bank has SEVERAL of them. Deter much? Absolutely not. Here's what a recent editorial in the Financial Times had to say about this [1]:

In the US, the most blatant expression of the failure to rein in the financial industry is the use of deferred prosecution agreements. These are deals which, despite sufficient evidence for criminal prosecutions, allow wrongdoers to pay fines and make commitments to improved conduct in return for avoiding the admission of criminal guilt.

In an important speech last Wednesday, US Senator Elizabeth Warren condemned the widespread use of DPAs against financial industry lawbreakers. Her main argument is that DPAs’ main punitive tool — fines — have far too little deterrent effect. A fine paid by a corporation is essentially a raid on its shareholders’ funds. What is more, the lag from the commission of a financial crime to the implementation of a DPA is long. Both mean that even huge fines (some have been in the billions) are highly unlikely to make much difference to the economic prospects of the responsible individuals when they decide whether or not to break the law.

To put it simply, too many get away with cheating. Criminal prosecutions would stand a better chance of holding culpable individuals to account — and therefore to discourage wrongdoing in the first place. Deterrence aside, there is also an important democratic value in lawbreakers being publicly branded as such.

So Ms Warren is right. DPAs, originally intended to deal with low-stake crimes with little chance of repetition, have become a blight on a financial sector that has proved capable of crimes that are neither low-stake nor one-off.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f26a9acc-e515-11e4-a02d-00144feab7...
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Author here. Hope this is useful: not so much for my own results, but for the techniques you can use to measure this on your own infrastructure.

For example, the distance between your clients and your datacenters will have a large impact on your handshake latency.
Your personality can affect your productivity–and salary
That's funny because JavaScript could be considered a new language (unless you were counting the "JavaScript, HTML, CSS knowledge useful" descriptions). Languages take time, two Golang jobs is already pretty good given how young a language it is.
You really don't have to get caught up in consumerism to enjoy a city hub life, though I know it's hard and I've been there. If you're entirely happy about your small town friends, I'd say staying might be a good idea, but then a big city offers great opportunities for learning and opening your mind that don't depend on getting a fancy car: you'll meet fascinating and diverse people, places and teachers for whatever profession or hobbies you pursue.
They did exactly the same sort of thing with Jobs running things. You can find hundreds of examples.

This sort of thing is business as usual at Apple.
It is a fair point, if you want to keep the playing field level and you want to compete on the basis of coding skill then you need to manage the code on the server. Otherwise simple network latency to the server could skew the playing field, assuming it is real-time.

I must admit I just want to experiment with different AI algorithms like deep learning, genetic programming, rule induction and see how they do. I have much of the code already but I am unlikely to get the time to rewrite it, even if could get it to fit within the game environment. Especially as some of the training is best done on a GPU.
I find it interesting that the Howard Beach stop (where one gets off to go to JFK airport) dropped by 42% since 2013, while the Aqueduct Racetrack stop - which is the immediately prior stop - increased by nearly 200%.

Was the Howard Beach stop closed down for repairs during that time or something?
A lot of labs are very much like this... with the actual science work getting done by the post-grads.

What the author doesn't realise that while the lab heads might not be doing a lot of science on a day to day basis - most are overloaded with a bunch of other stuff that is forced upon them... endless committee meetings, grant writing, teaching and teaching administration etc...
We're using Sandcastle Help File Builder (SHFB) with great success for generating HTML help files.

https://github.com/EWSoftware/SHFB
This is a great article - I feel like I want to read more, and that it should be expanded into a feature.

Nothing is stopping him from writing brutally malicious code, by the way. He is technically still a threat. At any time, he could hand that USB over to his wife with malicious intent.

That's not a judgement of him, but a simple analysis of how cyber crime and punishment is still entirely misunderstood by the majority of the legal system.
Again, pinning is a realistic countermeasure to this.
Academia fucked up by copping an attitude toward the most important, but least glamorous, aspect of the job: teaching. In the 1960s, the U.S. had a strong research culture. Unfortunately, the professoriate took the attitude that research was their real work and that teaching was just grunt work to be sloughed off to the people at the bottom of the heap (graduate students and juniors). Eventually, they turned that work over to low-paid adjunct faculty, occasionally taking on an upper-level undergraduate course.

Teaching is important for a number of reasons, but it also functions as a sales front for research. Research is important, but only educated people can see its importance. If 40% of the next generation's leaders learn calculus and 5% learn complex analysis, then they'll have an appreciation for the beauty of mathematics and an understanding of its importance. However, if they're taught by overworked, underpaid adjuncts who've lost all enthusiasm for the subject, then the rising generation will lose sight of why the work is importat.

This is, of course, bad for science but even worse for the humanities, where the transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next (i.e. teaching) is almost the entire point, because commercial applications are nonexistent. I won't call most humanities research unimportant, because I don't understand most of it, but I will say that if you have a leadership class as ignorant of the humanities as the American upper and upper-middle classes are, you're going to have a hard time selling anyone on the importance of it. Most people are quick to decry what they don't understand as useless and unnecessary.

When the research rock stars started de-emphasizing teaching and offloading the work, the rest of society (including university administrators) called their bluff. If they were so ready to slough off the teaching (which is what most of the world sees as the real work) to overworked adjuncts, then why have professors at all? Of course, a few politically adept stars (grant-writing rain-makers) managed to hold on... but the quiet researchers are done.

The injustice of the tenure system is that the people to suffer for this attitude were the young-- not the entrenched tenured professors who created that culture. The jobs got taken away, but not from the people who copped that negative attitude toward teaching. It was the rising generation (from 1985-ish to today) that got fucked. At this point, you have a toxic culture of scarcity and the false poverty mentality (i.e. the "I'm 75% poorer than my friends, so I'm living a life of service and the rules don't apply to me" attitude).
Only devices with services exposed to Internet were hacked. Devices inside LAN, with external access provided by VPN, were not hacked.

This applies to any service or device that you run. NAS is no exception. Your printer could be hacked, if you exposed it to the Net.

Data can be accidentaly deleted anywhere, cloud providers or your own storage. You must make backups anyway.
Surely no one's actually surprised by this?
Meh. Android has come a long way, the Google flavor of it is the most well thought out and put together experience... But all in all, the experience sucks compared to iOS coupled with an iPhone. There are a lot of neat little widgets and gestures that come with Android, but the phones aren't as good. The software is no where near as good. I made the switch, I came crawling back to iOS.
If Twitter was killing an App or Device made by a 3rd party simply because Twitter was entering that market and wished to monopolize the user-share, then yes I'd consider that anti-competitive.

This is exactly what they've done.
181? Where did that come from, idiot?

120 bushels per acre is about 7.5 tons per hectare, which probably makes it a bit low for economic farming.

You have: (120 * 56) pounds per acre
You want: metrictons per hectare
* 7.5321198
/ 0.13276475
I've been using Java for almost 6 years mainly with IntelliJ and I've heard many times that C# is better than Java.
Recently I've got chance to work with C# (on Visual Studio 2012 with Resharper). Oh boy, I don't know how to express my feeling, but in one sentence "It's just suck to the core".

I completely agree, as a language C# is more rounded, but as far as the ecosystem and tooling concerned its literally nowhere near to Java.
Interesting opinions. I just reinvested myself in Dropbox now that CloudApp has hampered their free usage and raised their first tier pricing.

http://getcloudapp.com/plans/

Dropbox's screenshot sharing is working really well and perfect replacement.
> In a lengthy investigation, staffers in the FTC’s bureau of competition found evidence that Google boosted its own services for shopping, travel and local businesses by altering its ranking criteria and “scraping” content from other sites. It also deliberately demoted rivals.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-google-skewed-search-results...

> But at a press conference at the FTC's headquarters, Chairman Jon Leibowitz said that after an "exhaustive" investigation, the commission found there was not enough evidence to conclude Google's search results violate fair-competition laws.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/275429-google-dodges-fe...
This is what happened with Google. The innovated on the UI front multiple times, and I'm really starting to dislike their new design changes on Drive, GMail (by way of Inbox), etc.
> Elixir does not compete with ... Ruby ...

I think it does, actually, though not intentionally. José Valim was a Rails core dev and as far I can tell he took on Elixir to address concerns with performance.

In http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2013/08/08/elixir-design-goals/ he says, "Given my previous background in Ruby, it is natural that some of the constructs added were borrowed from Ruby. However, those additions were a by-product, never a language goal." He follows this with a comparison of Ruby code to Elixir.

I'm heavy into Ruby but looking forward to Elixir gaining strength.
These are pretty small changes on the whole, no? Adding tuples? A new datatype here and there? That's pretty standard for what's put into new language versions. And the work to port to a completely new language is quite hard; the work to update a codebase to these changes seems tiny in comparison to even rewriting in F# or Java, let alone something radically different (say, a lisp).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_Don%27t_Eat_Quiche
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Yes that would be ideal - in practice it is also not extremely hard as most of these things aren't baked in to the compiler/linker but can be solved with (a lot) of #ifdefs. The harder part is likely getting such thing into the standard: decide what will be deprecated and what not.
Attacks like that are easy to spot and easy to shut down. New exit nodes gain trust over time, so having a bunch of brand-new nodes is not as useful as having a few dozen old, trusted nodes. This looks like an experiment, not an attempt to take over the network.
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Take a look at https://minbox.com/. I use it as a replacement for cloudapp.
>> Nothing to worry about when using VPN.

If you are a services/consulting company and do client work on-site, you often have to sign an agreement from the IT department that prevents you from using a VPN on the client's network. In those cases, your remote workers need web access to files.
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This structured, categorized and quantified content enables users to navigate through large volumes of information quickly and intelligently.

The API(Beta) is available at sentimentsearch.com
www.copy.com gives you 20gb on free account. Has clients for windows, linux and mac. With this refferal [1] you get another 5gb.

https://copy.com?r=WV7J4N
Ahh, that's too bad to hear. I read a little bit of each proposal, but was drawn back to work once a build completed and did not have a chance to exhaustively explore each one.

Well, I hope that they manage to fill out each feature a little more. Fingers crossed!
An alternative to OT is Differential Synchronization. You can find out more here:

https://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/

I wrote this to help me understand the algorithm:

http://dougmart.in/dssimulation/
> it's different than saying "Also on Android" because this is a totally different device. I.e. saying it's on another smartphone doesn't add value to the description

I disagree even with that. If an app runs on other platforms, that means you can use it yourself on other devices you may have lying around, or recommend it to others, which allows you to collaborate in using it socially (actual social features or just discussing how to use it, and so on). Few household and friend groups will be entirely on one platform or another. It also gives you the option of moving to that platform in future. That is useful to many customers. It's obvious that the reason those kind of notices are prevented is to stifle competition.
Great. I think it would be better if you visualize the travelling salesman problem and watermelon problem.
I have to remind you of Excel. A large fraction of office workers today use it to 'code', transforming data given the rules they wrote.
You can't make this shit up:

> Like the hacks that had come before it, Higinio released the information in a web page which contained some ASCII art, a video, and a picture of Kylie from the neck down holding a sign that said "PwNd by wOrmer & CabinCr3w <3 u BiTch's!" The picture was taken with Kylie's iPhone and she had location services turned on. This meant that location data was embedded in every picture she took.
The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: civil and substantial.

The test for substance is a lot like it is for links. Does your comment teach us anything? There are two ways to do that: by pointing out some consideration that hadn't previously been mentioned, and by giving more information about the topic, perhaps from personal experience. Whereas comments like "LOL!" or worse still, "That's retarded!" teach us nothing.

Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." What we especially discourage are comments that are empty and negative—comments that are mere name-calling.

Which brings us to the most important principle on HN: civility. Since long before the web, the anonymity of online conversation has lured people into being much ruder than they'd be in person. So the principle here is: don't say anything you wouldn't say face to face. This doesn't mean you can't disagree. But disagree without calling names. If you're right, your argument will be more convincing without them.
> This is exactly what they've done.

I realize that. If you look at the parent, they were making the argument that it's not the same.
What is going on with that KDE chart? From the code, it seems like the X-axis is hour-of-submission, and density is determined by average points per DOW/hour combo.

So all the chart shows is that the greatest proportion of points from votes on the weekend come from submissions a few hours later than the proportion of weekday votes, which doesn't answer the question "is it better to submit on a weekday or a weekend?"

> Time-related variables explain less than 1% of variation—meaning, unsurprisingly, that the other 99% depend on something else.

Where do you get the 1% figure from? That's not shown anywhere in the code. You could calculate a R^2 from a linear regression, sure, but the data violates all the rules that make linear regression valid.
It's about time the idea of "monopoly" is extended beyond mere market share. With the amount of mobile profits Apple is raking in (70%? 80%?) I'd argue that they have FAR more market power in mobile than all the other players combined.
My rant was about a cultural trend in the US of demonizing politicians for being educated and/or intellectual. FoxNews has worked hard to become a mouth-piece for this viewpoint.

I wasn't commenting on his political views, party, or human rights background, which I know nothing about.
reading a bit more, they did mention in the "optimizations" section "Closed hierarchies enable the compiler to detect when a set of matches are complete". I really hope they don't leave this to an optimization, and make it a core part of the feature!
The worst thing for me is not being able to sync only 1 folder instead of the whole thing. When you are syncing a mobile phone, you don't want to be downloading GBs of stuff, maybe only 1 folder with your resized pictures...
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I had a great time doing the "Planet Wars" version of the "AI Challenge" a few years ago. I kind of wish there were more of them going on. http://aichallenge.org/
Yeah I had to see the bbc.com label to understand the title
At this point, web app (desktop/mobile) and possibly an ios app in the near future. You are completely right though, this info is missing from the homepage.
> In the US, when you open a cell phone contract, you get a new phone at a discounted price.

This has definitely been a thing in Germany in the past. In fact, I don't think I've seen ever the "pay $(x+y)/month for 24 months for the plan and phone, then pay only $x/month" model. Usually after 24 months you'd be offered a new phone (again for "free" or a radically "discounted" price). This may have changed since I stopped paying attention to long-term plans but you're wrong in thinking we never had what you have in the US.

> There is no variation of speeds, you either have data or you dont.

We also had hard data caps very early on. We just replaced that with "unlimited" plans with a cap on "high-speed" data at some point.

That said, the low-speed data might as well not be available at all -- most people I know buy extra if they hit their high-speed cap. It's barely sufficient for checking your e-mail.
I disagree about Android. It's helpful to know whether some particular app you're purchasing is going to lock you into one platform or the other. Why should you have to leave the app store to investigate? What's the point of suppressing interoperability? Companies should be rewarded for interop efforts, not punished for it.
I don't know man, boycotting companies you don't agree with seems a bit extreme. What's next, protesting against unfair laws? Lets not fly off the handle. We have an economy to run...
>But in this research, the intent is to let the embryos develop into full human beings

As clearly stated in the article, they used embryos with too many chromosomes to be viable.

>the main ethical issue is "messing" with creation, however you believe creation happened

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
So then they are simply a co-opted mouth piece of the political incumbents. Yet I would tend to argue that most of their reporting tends toward the left, yet that could be a factor of being in NYC which is primarily left wing.
We'll still be stuck running everything on some iteration of Unix.
Exploiting your position as gatekeeper by selling lots of apps inside that ecosystem is one thing, unfairly misusing that position to imply the support for a rival product in a different market is lacking by rejecting apps in your ecosystem because they mention the rival product so you can take a share of that different market is entirely another rather more illegal thing.
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In the USA the service would probably be called Amazon Trunk or something like that. (I can already see the Elephant-delivery-logo.png)
"Great Firewall of Belgium only allows ingress traffic from non-Belgian source addresses" wouldn't prevent IP spoofing inside or outside Belgium. Nor would doing it the other way around. If such national firewalls existed in all countries and forced all IP traffic to flow through them, it might help some.
I like Apple, but like any big company, not everything they do is good. I hope the reaction to this gets them to realize it.
Most of my packages end up on my front door, right out in the open. Putting them in my car would be less obvious and more secure. It's a nice compromise between them having access to my house (more secure for the package, but less secure for my house), and leaving the packages on the front door step.
I would imagine there's already a system like this for the Amazon Locker.
Did not agree with the title initially due to my current position being set, and my promotions are automatic.

However after reading the article, I realized that how I got to where I am was from my networking, and my productive dedicated work ethic. So my personality helped me land my current stable job and allowed me to earn more.
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>If Twitter was killing an App or Device made by a 3rd party simply because Twitter was entering that market and wished to monopolize the user-share, then yes I'd consider that anti-competitive.

Don't they have long history of doing exactly that?
That's just great. Capitalism without a free market.
Legally, yes. And they would rightly get pilloried for it by users & the press.

I'm not saying what Apple is doing is right, I'm saying it's not illegal.
I think one of the best places to start with C#, if you have prior programming experience, is Jeffrey Richter's book "CLR via C#". I think it's a great book because it teaches you the specifics of the CLR as you are learning the language. You'll come away from it with a much deeper understanding of the C#/CLR system than you'd get from starting with a regular tutorial; C# is a lot like Java in that learning the language is only half the battle, you also need to understand the virtual machine.
Very cool write-up, enjoyed reading the whole thing again.
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They have? Can you cite sources?

The only mention of anyone possibly going to jail I can find (rather than just the general idea that someone might go to jail) is [0] (and another mention in RT). No names; no final sentencing. As if it never happened.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/07/banker-plead...
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The bank as a whole has thousands or millions of counterparties.
See also https://github.com/galoisinc/halvm and http://openmirage.org