skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the police were acting on very little else than Goldmans assertion

That's a fair statement by the OP. The external criticism has always been there was a lack of a full investigation from a neutral position by the state, as investigators depended on Goldman Sachs people to determine the crime.

Outside neutral parties weren't consulted AFAIK. Which is typically the case when sophisticated crimes take place - such as bringing in private industry experts.

Whether or not that would have resulted in different charges or handling by the police is up for debate. But it is certain that the worst of the original charges were found to be baseless, prosecutors were over-aggressive, and most of the evidence was thrown out because they didn't have a proper basis to conduct search warrants.
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If the profit is guaranteed (which it seems like, with the government restrictions), investment firms should be able to simply borrow the money to buy the newly issued shares.
If this article is supposed to be showing that Rake is useful for plain C development, it's not doing a very good job of it since this particular thing is quite trivial with GNU Make (just add -MMD to gcc's arguments and `-include *.d` to the Makefile). A more compelling argument would be something that shows Rake easily handling something that is very awkward in Make.
I don't know if this a playful inside joke you and Rayiner share, but if it's a jab, it's a pretty annoying and superficial one.
Last week I tried my hand at putting vim functionality into servo, a la pentadactyl.

It's not even close to being ready. Even rendering a simple page like hackernews is broken.

That's not to say I am not excited for this. I think servo will be huge and I think it will see widespread adoption. It's just that with all the news we hear about it, you might be lead to think that today it's competing with webkit. It's not. Soon, though.
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It's one thing to commit a crime, and another to be put on trial* for it. The crime is his own, but I'm pretty sure the two trials are of Goldmans making. You don't get two trials and a law to boot from a single fervorous prosecutor.

They would have probably already dropped this case the moment most of the evidence was ruled out and called it a day.

* was sentenced
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It was a reference to this drama from a couple years back: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/21/how-dongle-jok...
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I would just assume let the system generate one... usually it's as random/long as anything I would create and people in general create short/weak passwords... if the password requirements where 16+ characters, upper, lower, number and other characters that would piss people off too. In this case, if you didn't copy/paste it into your app/service... generate a new password, and revoke the old one.

The only flaw here is when you aren't able to label your prior passwords and are only given the option to nuke them all. That ticks me off more than anything. I've got 2fa enabled most places that allow it now, and use Authy too. The only times it's been a real pita is when I've had to setup email on a new phone with a generated passphrase (I'm trying to stop using the "password"). Other than that has been one day where I forgot my phone at home and didn't go back to get it after I was in my car...
Yes. Thank you. I wish I could upvote your comment more than once.
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What you're saying doesn't seem to be the case, given the lack of confusion taking place here.
There are extensions to do this, but it compromises security.
Also conservation of energy. Thrust can't vary by velocity because there's no such thing as absolute velocity. So your velocity (relative to whatever) keeps increasing linearly, while kinetic energy increases quadratically. At some point you start getting more energy out than you put in.

For some reason, this disturbs a lot of people more than violating conservation of momentum.

The alternative is that there really is absolute velocity, so the basic assumption of relativity is false. But that makes it a pretty big coincidence that atomic bombs work.

Still can't say I mind them checking just to be sure.
The big issue is why did he hide his tracks after taking it. The criminal intent thing is always the primary question.
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He hasn't been sentenced for this conviction yet, right?
>It's my belief that exposing crimes committed by the government, which is charged with both obeying the law and enforcing it, is the right thing to do.

I believe you should get automatic, blanket immunity for crimes that directly produce tangible evidence of government wrongdoing.
wrong Baofeng, and wrong 'great Baofeng radio' :), the great one is b5
http://www.brickolore.com/2013/01/baofeng-uv-b5-best-kept-se...
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Exactly, the title is a little misleading.
PBS has a great documentary covering the rise of Silicon Valley:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/
Again, I do not think it was right to air any of this publicly.

I get what you're saying, but I still do not agree that I should never disobey the law when I feel it is morally justified.
World of Warcraft: When Alliance member said "lol", the Horde member saw it as "kek". Imitation of different languages.
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Happens the other way too. In the 80s high-temperature superconductors were discovered, which were 'impossible' by previous understanding. The theory is still catching up to that.
Well you need some way to pay for the tax subsidies.
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> Tesla has had zero impact on my life

Replacing pouluting cars has had and impact, if infinitesimal at this moment. Point is you don't have to physically own/use any of their products to benefit from the better world their products create.
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There's a product called the Efergy True Power meter that does exactly that. It measures mains electricity, wirelessly reports to a central server and shows you real time and historical graphs of energy usage at sub-minute resolution. http://efergy.com/us/elite-true-power-meter
Hey, don't forget the British. We tried to build them that super-gun thingy.
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No mention of prior work on memristors? From http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor :

"Leon Chua ..argued that the memristor is the oldest known circuit element, with its effects predating the resistor, capacitor and inductor. In 2008, a team at HP Labs claimed to have found Chua's missing memristor.."

Imagine an alternate universe where Bell Labs decided to use transistors to build "A Machine", instead of enabling others to construct many possible machines.

Hopefully HP research on memristors will inspire the worldwide scientific community.
>I think with tractors you need some heft so they have sufficient traction to pull the equipment behind them.

Good point. Analysis of vehicle and applicable torque would be a primary issue.

> Also with ten small units you have 10x the parts which can break down.

Indeed. However, I'm looking at using automotive lines already in production for replacement parts. That way, farmers would only have to go to XYZ local automotive place. It's foolish to not use already well engineered parts in a nationwide distribution.

Also, the other big problem is the John Deere issue: proprietariness. If I designed the tractor, this system would be open and easy for the farmer to repair. That would be the next goal. So yes, there would be 10x the parts that could die. It also means that your production is spread across that many machines. One machine down means you still have 90% production capacity.

> But maybe there ate mitigating factors and maybe crops like beans could be planted with smaller tractors.

Smaller, and autonomous. That's the goal here. There's little reason we couldn't have a fully autonomous tractor. We already have cars that can do the similar on roads. But also, a farmer could delineate different parts of the field for different crops. And then the tractor network could farm them each appropriately.
It's an important question because the article claims "The applications for a device that functions as these appear to would basically replace every form of transportation and thrust invented by humans to date. Such a device would easily be used to make cars, planes, bikes, boats, etc., all more efficient, clean, and cheap." Given that the thrust required for a car would be something like 40,000N, unless the device scales far better than linearly, you'll need a 25GW power station in your car to even make it go.
Could you share those exercises? Are they something one could do at an office without doing full on planks?
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I am a SendGrid customer and received no notification from them about this. I only found out about it via Hacker News. Very poor form.
This is also Amazon's strategy with AWS (in terms of servers, not batteries)
interesting, so essentially a giant memristor blob store which a bunch of compute nodes can simultaneously leverage?
If the memristor promises are to be realized, TB if not PB levels of storage at >SSD speeds, accessed by many compute nodes as shown in diagram, which could also be many cores by themselves. Think of like a hadoop style cluster, self-contained on amphetamines?

If any of this is true, why not start in phases where you have memristor replacing SSD/existing system memory.. why this monster design? unless they are trying to leverage their new fancy technology to disrupt the cisco/dell/supermicro enterprise server market?
This seems a little bit "fanatic" itself, though I've not read what they're responding to so maybe that's even worse.

I'm glad someone is coming up with the ideas, even if the right answer is "not yet" or "we need to fix X and Y first".
That was taken very seriously at the time. I went to a well-attended talk at Stanford by a Stanford physicist who was trying to replicate the Pons/Fleischman experiment. When they first set up the apparatus, they had radiation detectors with alarms, in case it started generating a dangerous level of neutrons. After some initial tests where not much happened, they moved the radiation alarm gear back a bit.

Total measured neutron output, best case, appeared to be twice background. That's small enough that people moving around (people are mostly water) was enough to cause such variation. So they moved the experiment to a "neutron cube", a big box built of lead bricks where few background neutrons penetrated. Then there was no significant difference in neutron levels between "off" and "on".

They also tried heat generation measurement. Because you have to put power into the Pons/Fleischman apparatus to get anything to happen (it's not self-sustaining) it's a difficult experiment to do accurately. It requires water jackets, insulation, and lots of measurements. They were unable to detect any heat output above measurement noise.
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Being blackout drunk doesn't feel like anything. You just can't remember anything after a certain point the night before. And while I appreciate the moralizing, I don't hang out with those people anymore, but for a lot of people it is "normal" in the sense that it is what they do habitually and with the tacit approval of their social circle.