skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the other side of the argument, that he wasn't enough of an asshole to win...
That is a very dumb statement. I think it might even be a joke. In a zero sum game of housing speculation where there is no wealth creation of any kind then by definition if you win it's at the expense of someone else.

They are achieving financial freedom by stepping on the throats of their brothers and sisters. If you want to "achieve" financial freedom that way fine, but I'll rest easier on my (cheap) death bed rather than surrounded by trinkets bought after exploiting the poor and needy.

Your comment is so wrong it's hard to comprehend the mindset.
Could someone explain the dynamics and incentives of this aggressive prosecution to a non-US person? One could draw the conclusion that the prosecutors are after political points for going after "easy prey" in an impressive sounding case but I have no idea if this 'opportunist prosecutor' model represents any practical facet of reality.
This is why I put "only mainstream". Every time I put that someone like you who thinks options are a way to show financial intelligence comes along.
Most people will not do that; they (sensibly) expect automatic updates.
That's a big question. It depends on how you plan to monetize your product and in what space it sits. Also, open doesn't have to mean unregulated. You can (and IMO should) have people register for the rights to use your API, and the licensing terms should be that you can revoke their license under certain circumstances. Think of it like Apple vs Android. Apple is super closed off, (wouldn't personally go there for my own product), but Android for a long time was the wild west, some argue it still is. So if you are too open you can actually hurt your products success because too many people provide a poor experience around your product and your product starts to take the blame not the app developer. Whereas with Apple, they try to control so much that it is sometimes impossible to get legitimate apps published timely or at all, even defect fixes can take too much time to get released.

I know, I didn't answer really. That's because I really think it depends. However, I would always side on the openness, but openness with some controls to make sure users have a good experience. As for concern over someone writing a better app then you do, I like the attitude overall. If someone does, buy it from them, hire them or use it as motivation to make yours better. Competition is good, it can generally make good things great in the hands of motivated people.

As for competitors, execution is what beats competitors. But that doesn't mean you should allow them a front row seat to your party either, hence open but not unrestricted.
Eich was judged on the merit of his work and found wanting. At the time he was ousted, he was the CEO of Mozilla, which is both a leadership and a PR job. His views made it difficult for a number of talented people to work for him, and even more, those views made him a liability to the company's brand.
I'm not surprised. I was about to say "What else would you expect from NPR?"

People need to start realizing that journalism as reporting is dead and it's now journalism as consumption and thought control.

Some further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary_Illusions
Did you read the report?
http://im.ft-static.com/content/images/ee8b6f40-fef5-11e4-84...
The sort of profits the regulator mentions is $16,000, $14,270, $59,000. Even if they did that every day for 10 years, it is still pocket money compared to the fine.
Are you suggesting Obama should go to jail if a GI commits a crime in Irak?
No, they aren't. But they don't need to be. Just because they aren't directly controlled on paper by the US gov't, it doesn't mean that they aren't just a tool for US gov't propaganda.

Distrust of the media is more crucial than ever for independent thought.
> Years after the suicide of two hacker geniuses, Jonathan James and Aaron Swartz, one question is still circling the online community: How come those two hackers both committed suicide after being charged by the FBI, and what is even more interesting, they had to deal with the same federal prosecutor? Two obituaries one prosecutor?

In America one person dies by suicide every 13 minutes.

I'm kind of surprised that only two people being prosecuted by her have died by suicide. The computer industry is mostly people with some risk factors (male; single), although they do have some protective factors (ability to solve problems; money; health insurance).

https://www.afsp.org/understanding-suicide/facts-and-figures

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/Suicide-DataSheet-...

http://www.cdc.gov/Features/PreventingSuicide/

I am particularly interested in anything that can help men seek help, especially for suicide or other mental health problems. (Please do send me email if you're aware of good work). I like these Australian sites:

They don't censor the word on their website: http://softenthefckup.com.au/

http://www.beyondblue.org.au/
The UK public I'm afraid will never wake up. They just take everything.

The UK is a turnkey fascist state. Just waiting for the right psycho.
I encourage all people to check their website. On our checker (http://security.uwsoftware.be/logjam) we see that 59% is still vulnerable (<= 1024 key). Even after checking most people don't upgrade. Note: the solution isn't that difficult (see https://weakdh.org/sysadmin.html)
Which is why the BRIC's want their own bank. If robbery is happening the playing field should be level.
The federal tax code has to work for literally hundreds of millions of people and billions of situations. The presence of grey areas is a design feature not a bug, IMO.

Yes, it can be annoying and frustrating to not know with a bright line test of executable English law code the outcome, but I can only imagine how much worse it would be if we tried to reduce every situation down to exhaustively testable 0/1 pure-white/pure-black codification.

The disambiguation is lazily evaluated (sometimes at significant expense) by the tax courts, or you can request an evaluation ahead of time in a private letter ruling (at very reasonable expense). I believe this is still better than eager/greedy evaluation of all situations.

Almost irrelevantly, I also think that Uber drivers are significantly more ICs than employees.
A huge amount of cash from councils goes straight into funding their disgusting defined benefit pension schemes.

28% of council tax bills according to this:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2048574/Town...

Perhaps it's time for a boomer pension haircut before making further cuts on services that effect our kids.
A good man, beat me to it. Boomer pension haircut time.
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This is probably not a fair comparison because the illegal gains obtained from their bad behaviour was likely a very small fraction of their overall revenue. From the link I posted [0] in my other comment:

"The CFTC and OCC orders for Citi have no profit figures at all. So we have one case of Citi making $99,000. The FCA order covers conduct over a six-year period, though that might be a bit generous. Figure 250 trading days a year and you get $150 million of profits for Citi if every single day was as "impressive" and "lovely" as the day singled out by the FCA as, one assumes, a particularly egregious example of manipulation. That's not the case: The CFTC order, for instance, recounts a fixing in which "the Citibank trader reported that he was 'hosed.'" The manipulation was not foolproof, and fools abounded. But take $150 million as an upper bound, and Citi paid about an order of magnitude more in fines than it made in manipulative profits."

0. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-12/banks-manip...
So... they exhausted their entropy pool?
Yup. The sort of leadership Obama and Bush have demonstrated when things go wrong. It flows down the food chain.
> vast income transfer from poorer young people to well off old

Hooray someone who gets it. How on earth did you escape the UK hive-mind?

Do you like how they put all the UK pension costs under the main "welfare" heading then demand benefit cuts (excluding pensions) because the welfare bill is too high?

Do you know anyone else in the UK who knows or cares about any of this?
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You're correct, being the CEO, he has a higher level of stringency and scruples to adhere to.

But then, there are a lot of Republican CEO's for publicly traded stock companies. Frankly there are also one's that attend campaign dinners and go to yacht clubs. I highly doubt that prevents people from working for them. In America, workers are focused on the task at hand, CEO's don't have any care (to judge against) the private lives of their own talent.

If you are reading this and are this or that - don't be dissuaded from working for a corporation just because the CEO's political beliefs. People are blowing this totally out of proportion.

Unless you're directly in contact with the CEO and he's spewing hate (rare) you are ok.

(I upvoted you.)
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Exactly.

If data on specific cameras remains publicly unavailable, then the threat from the majority of cameras remaining online serves to keep the fear of getting caught essentially as high.
Yikes, 1,670KB for generated javascript alone, that's kind of a deal breaker.

GHCJS has a ways to go methinks. Js_of_ocaml and Scala.js are far better suited for production use today as the type safety "tax" is much smaller (i.e. binary is at most 1/4 the size for equivalent functionality).

EDIT:

didn't realize you cannot yet call into Haskell from GHCJS, and even Haskell to GHCJS requires going through FFI[1]

Meh, might as well use Fay or Haste if that's the caste.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29967135/how-to-call-hask...
"In America one person dies by suicide every 13 minutes."

Odd statistic to cite. Could you help us out and tell us what percentage of young people commit suicide?
That's really not a fair comparison...
Not necessarily. If you are near the top of Mont Blanc, there's no way to go up far in small steps. If you are confident Mount Everest exists, you can decide to go walk there, but you certainly won't see progress for quite some time.

There are equivalents in software, for example the removal of the GIL in Python (never done sucesfully in the sense that the majority of users started using it) or, equivalently, the effective GIL in OS kernels (done successfully a couple of times, AFAIK, even though it theoretically requires inspection of all driver source code)

A JIT-ted Python similarly may eventually be the better choice, but the road getting there may be long and harsh.
Pizza delivery drivers bring their own vehicles and are still considered employees.
The thing is, only keyboards and mice run without any confirmation. Pendrives normally open a explorer/finder window etc, no?
Companies like Uber are much worse than that. They're a glorified web app profiting off of hundreds of thousands of people who do all the work and bear all the risk while the only people getting rich are the scum at the top and their reprehensible backers.

Uber, Airbnb, etc. should make their slogan "Loopholes 101: Exploitation on a global scale. You do the work, we make the money. Fuck you, we don't care!"
Medallion cab companies don't have a rating system where unpopular drivers are dismissed. Uber spends a lot of effort monitoring and controlling how their drivers do their jobs, which is not something I've ever heard of a cab company doing.
Even if some "hacker" hadn't located the security issues, but some employee from NASA had located the security issues, it still costs NASA money to fix the code.

Also read "That doesn't excuse messing around in other people's systems of course." stephen_g isn't blaming the victim. But blaming the intruder as if he created the lack of security is just as disingenuous. Imagine a business that's generally open to the public at specific hours. The owner installs the doors himself without any consideration for locks. When reviewing security camera footage from non-business hours, he discovers someone open the door, walk in, look around, and leave. Sure, this person is indeed trespassing. But blaming the trespasser for the cost of putting locks on the door is asinine.
> rating agencies (S&P, Moody's etc) didn't do a good enough job of rating the credit worthiness of these borrowers and then buyers who took on the risk of buying the loans of the borrowers based on the judgement of these rating agencies got hammered.

I'd argue the real issue was ratings agencies giving the securitized debts AAA ratings when in fact the holdings were toxic. When things went sour, the risk premia just weren't there to cover the impact.
It will be fine. Just be sure to have the SSD :)
You are not helping.

Are there useful lists (metadata, hah) on publishers, sites, channels, journalists and co. that help navigate these murky waters? What's the best practice on dealing with this problem? How should one inform oneself and decide on how much time to spend on cross-checking communications for these conscious or unconscious biases and influences?
One SEC commissioner has issued a "Dissenting Statement" as she was furious that the SEC has made a mockery of "recidivist criminal behavior" by banks

https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/stein-waivers-granted-dis...
Oh those poor government agencies with their millions of dollars in funding. Who will defend them from those teenage hackers that are causing them "trillions" in damages tm.
This Eric Raymond?
"Pederasty, at least, remains a common behavior among modern homosexuals. The `twink’ or compliant teenage boy (usually blond, usually muscled, depicted in the first dewy flush of postpubescence) is the standard fantasy object of gay porn."[0]

Or this Eric Raymond?
"I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for essentially political reasons".[1]

Or this one,. Eric Raymond?
"You picked an extremely bad example there; Turing was atypical in a way that damages your case. If you examine the actual circumstances of Turing’s exposure, you’ll discover that he was remarkably and willfully self-destructive about it. Outed himself, under circumstances where he could easily have covered and (as I read it) the cop was trying to look the other way. Still, I’m not “pro” Turing’s suicide, just refusing to blame anyone else for it. He made his choice and died. End of story."[2]

Such hacker ethic, so much aspiration for meritocracy.

[0]http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26
[1]http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=184
[2]http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1046&cpage=1#comment-236592
The total costs of keeping everyone out of prison:

http://i.imgur.com/16KcuHu.jpg
Securitization & Need for yield are two diffetent concepts. I can reach for yield by taking on more risk (e.g. get into financing late state internet companies) and not just buy high risk securitization products.

Securitization has existed in high interest environments as well.

However- securitization offers a framework to slice up risk in such a way to meet the demand for more yield. E.g.the Z tranches & CDOs of the 2004-2008 era.

It could be that rental checks could be a higher risk product & they are being securitzed in such a way to meet the need for yield. But- I am not sure how much exactly.
This article doesn't really do justice to Haskell's type system, but the main benefit I achieve is that with a properly defined type, it is often impossible to put the internal state of the program in a inconsistent state, eliminating a large class of bugs and crashes.
Yes, agreed. Reading the Patriot Act, in light of Snowden disclosures, makes it easy to see how they justify collecting all content from every American.

The USA Freedom Act re-authorizes the Patriot Act as is with the exception that in many cases specific selectors are needed for surveillance (and I'm sure a CSV of 300 million SSNs or millions of IP addresses would do).

Below are the sections that would expire unless the USA Freedom Act passes or they re-up the Patriot Act.

Section 201 -- Wiretapping in terrorism cases. This added crimes to the list of when wiretapping may be done. It's used to target journalists, activists, or anyone else who can be suspected of "providing material support to terrorists".

Section 202 -- Wiretapping in computer fraud and abuse felony cases. Used to harass and intimidate whistleblowers, such as Drake.

Section 203(b) -- Sharing wiretap information. Enables parallel reconstruction and lets all federal agencies share in the surveillance.

Section 203(d) -- Sharing foreign intelligence information. Like the above section but lets intel be shared with local officials. This is how you end up with local police mining Facebook chats for Occupy Wallstreet plans.

Section 204 -- FISA pen register/trap and trace exceptions. Lets NSA tap into the internet backbone. Justification for implanting malware into Xcode, cell phones, routers, etc.

Section 206 -- FISA roving wiretaps. General search warrants for companies, facilities, etc (and their millions of customers/employees/students/users).

Section 209 -- Seizure of voicemail messages pursuant to warrants. Lets voicemail content be harvested as easily as e-mail and internet traffic.

Section 212 -- Emergency disclosure of electronic surveillance. Immunity to internet/phone companies for helping run the surveillance state.

Section 214 -- FISA pen register/trap and trace authority. Lets all internet, phone lines, and devices be tapped, including inside the US.

Section 215 -- FISA access to tangible items. Like the above section but compels companies to assist in the surveillance.

Section 217 -- Interception of computer trespasser communications. Like the above section but it explicitly authorizes collecting full content.

Section 218 -- Purpose for FISA orders. Declares every American subject to surveillance, whether for petty crime, serious crime, terrorism, pre-crime, or juicy gossip.

Section 220 -- Nationwide service of search warrants for electronic evidence. Ensures that a few judges near D.C. can rubberstamp paperwork and have their orders apply anywhere in the country.

Section 223 -- Civil liability and discipline for privacy violations. This sections suggests that government liability for surveillance sunsets too.

Section 225 -- Provider immunity for FISA wiretap assistance. Immunity for all companies helping run the surveillance state.

... And in case that's not enough to go full Orwell, there's also the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which is also re-authorized in the USA Freedom Act.
Whipping the team harder in the wrong direction wouldn't have worked any better.

It was the wrong product. Even if it had worked perfectly and been delivered in a day instead of nine months, it would still have been the wrong product.

That's what a management failure looks like. Turning up the assholery wouldn't have fixed anything.
The invisible hand, was nowhere to be seen...
Why don't we have an Air BnB or Uber for the rental market?
An interesting use of Core Erlang is LuvvieScript that compiles Erlang code to Javascript.

http://luvv.ie/toolchain.html
I typically use ccache on Linux, which does the headline feature of this. If there's a Zapcc rep here, how does Zapcc compare? Is the precompiled header feature a big improvement?
And if only the government weren't making this stuff illegal, there wouldn't be any crimes committed by bankers.
wow, that pretty much sums it up. We have more than enough regs on the book to reign in banks. We just choose not to enforce them.
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NLP/Search in Haskell: SDK for Textocat API Is Out
Yes - I think we are roughly saying the same thing. Misjudged ratings on 1) Underlying borrowers 2) Securitized tranches (e.g. Credit rating of Z tranches and lower tranches) 3) Re-securitized tranches (e.g.CDOs)
the invisible hand left banking a long time ago when the banks consolidated into mega banks. For capitalism to work you need a high degree of competition...
When he pressed on a digital key, the entire
screen clicked down like a giant button, replicating
the tactile feel of tapping a BlackBerry keyboard.

That sounds tone-deaf to me. The appeal of the physical keyboard is that you can feel where the keys are, and not as RIM apparently thought, the joy of tapping on something that depresses by half a millimeter without any tactile position feedback at all. A touch screen that you have to physically press combines the worst aspects of keyboards and touch screens, doesn't it?
Appointing her as a CEO was such a great idea. Reddit thrives on censorship and social justice.
Resume building. A better annual review.

We are merely resources to those in law enforcement, sources of tickets, arrests, asset seisure, prosecution and incarceration.
For some reason, Bloomberg seemed amazed that the public yawned at the guilty plea:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-20/once-unthi...

Quote: "For all the muted response to Wednesday’s news, Donaldson Capital Management LLC’s Greg Donaldson expressed concern that criminal charges may now become routine. “Once you cross that line and admit you’ve done something bad, you open up Pandora’s box,” said Donaldson, chairman of the Evansville, Indiana-based firm that manages about $1.1 billion. “This settlement just moved the goal post.”

If convictions become too commonplace, the government may have to pursue even tougher penalties. "

No wonder the public yawns at this though. Here's Zerohedge listing all confirmed rigged markets:

Libor - interest rates: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/shocking-details-barclays-epic...

ISDAfix - swaps: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-14/banks-drop...

Platts - oil prices: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-09/libor-gate-comes-cr...

JP Morgan / BP - FX: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-30/rigging-triangle-ex...

WM/Reuters - FX: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-11/wmreuters-busted-la...

High-Frequency Trading - equities: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-11/hft-stock-manipulat...

UBS - gold: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-09/another-conspiracy-...
How did you get hired in spite of that, and how was it such a big problem that it needed a firing?
The first link had some age-based information [1]. The rate for people 15 to 24 is 10.9 per 100,000. The highest rate is people 45 to 64, at 19.1. The next age bracket they use is 25 to 44, a much broader range which includes both Jonathan James (25) and Aaron Swartz (27), it's rate appears to be 15.something.

[1] https://www.afsp.org/understanding-suicide/facts-and-figures...
These are just short term hacks. The problems we are dealing with are third or fourth order consequences of the size of the defense budget.
These issues will disappear if budgets shrink or get reallocated towards "peace" goals rather than "defense" goals.
You don't have to sign in to use an iPhone as a dumbphone with a nice camera.

There is not even one Apple account that rules the system - you can use different Apple IDs each for the App Store, iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime and Game Center (and probably TestFlight now). Apple even keeps bugging you about signing up for Game Center if you are "only" logged into all the other services with your Apple ID. I think it's quite messy, but at least it is easy to selectively share an Apple ID with your SO (e.g. shared purchases and photos, but separate iMessage).
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> There is a difference between bragging and letting people know when something good happens to you.

Yes, and about 87% of that difference lies in the listener: for instance, in how much of a small, insecure and self-loathing person they are.
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I think that's a dead on comparison.