skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the radio this morning, the bankers who did this and the LIBOR fixing are facing jail - it's just that their cases are taking time to progress.

I think it's safe to save the scandal for a little longer.
And does the worker at McDonalds and/or Burger King bring his own grease fryer, bun warmers, and soda dispensers?

In contrast, Uber/Lyft drivers own/lease their own cars. Who provides the equipment to do the work is also another IRS factor.[1]

And btw, I don't think sniping with one liners that biases one viewpoint is quality discussion.

[1] see item #14: "FURNISHING OF TOOLS AND MATERIALS."

https://www.mdc.edu/hr/Operations/AFS/IRSFactorTest.pdf
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Uber are testing out a new scheme where they penalize people for not working full-time hours by charging a much higher commission for the first few rides they take every week: http://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-tests-30-fee-its-highest-ye... They obviously don't want people to work for them part time. Lyft are doing the same.
He's not even an asshole who won. So, while that may be how a lot of businesses run, it's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the strategy.
>unlike folk-psychology "carbohydrate addiction".

you should start with basics then. If you think there is no sugar and simple carbs addiction, wow

http://www.webmd.com/diet/ss/slideshow-sugar-addiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_addiction

>Calories absolutely matter

OKOK I agree that calories make you fat of course, but if you are not addicted to cookies, sugar and other carbs you won't over consume calories. Why would you overeat broccoli with olive oil? So in this case, you can eat oil and lard.
Increased regulation in some regards has just driven further consolidation in the banking industry. It also makes it more and more difficult for would-be competitors to try and disrupt these banks.

I'm not sure that increased penalties, sending execs to jail, or more regulation will fix banking. If the banks are "too big to jail/fail" then maybe we should make them smaller...
It is plenty. Up until just a week ago I was using a 13" MBP circa 2011. It had less of a CPU, but I was able to put a 256gb SSD and 16GB Ram in it. I still have the machine and plan to repurpose it because it works great. Of course, the machine your looking at already has the flash storage and you can't upgrade the Ram anymore.

So my 2 cents, the machine you are looking at will work fine, but if you can afford it I'd go for a MBP with 16GB Ram. I found that the RAM levels the performance when I have lots of stuff going on and VM's loaded. As for the Iris Graphics, the 6100 and the Pro are pretty decent, they aren't amazing, but decent and if you aren't doing high end Gaming you'll be just fine. I have the Iris Pro and we have some apps that use OpenCL pretty heavily and it actually does ok, not as good as a DGPU but you can still see an improvement, and I still have decent battery life.
this made up to front page with no comments (discussion), strange.
>The problems in 2008 weren't directly a result of such securitization, the problem was that the risk of the underlying mortgages was not at all correctly estimated, and the way the bonds were traded depended on the pretense that the risk had been estimated nearly perfectly.

The problems in 2008 weren't caused by accidental risk mis-pricing. It was entirely intentional. The securitizers paid the rating agencies for their opinion and the ratings agencies duly delivered an opinion that the securitizers wanted: AAA.

That meant all of the shit could get stuffed into things like retirement portfolios owned by suckers like you and me.

Was anybody punished for this? No.

Will it happen again? Most likely.

>These bonds can do things like list historical occupancy and on time payment rates of the properties, so they don't need to be anywhere as murky as bonds backed by mortgages that were handed out to whoever walked in the door.

The money question is what score did the ratings agencies give these bonds.
My bad, YBS. Getting hard to keep track of acronyms.
Not usually. Final salary schemes were considered normal, not "gold plated", and of course worked ok while average wages were rising, council revenues were rising, the stock market was rising, and interest rates were high (which makes the value of future liabilities lower). Now they are becoming a vast income transfer from poorer young people to well off old people. In the US bankruptcy has been tried, but not sure that is an option in the UK.
Yeah... he is a jerk but he is right, Jobs was way worse and the myriad of people buying iPhone make look like he was right.
I think the article was more focusing on higher level execs that insulate themselves from any criminal charges.
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Securitization is not intrinsically bad, but the fact that we are seeing more than this is indicative of the fact that the country's wealth is being hijacked by owners and monopolists rather than workers and builders.

Imagine how big this market would be if homes were affordable nationwide and Americans could buy them with cash. Not very big, right?

Houses didn't get any more expensive to build over the last 30 years, but they shot up in value thanks to policies basically designed to fuck the poor and transfer wealth directly to the rich (ZIRP, de-taxing land/wealth, etc.). Hence the fact that securitization of rental streams is a thriving market rather than just an idea.
It's a shame you're being downvoted. (I upvoted you, but your comment is still grey.)

The man who made the announcement in the submitted article - Tony Porter (the English surveillance commissioner) has previously said similar things as you.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/06/tony-porter-sur...

> The increasing use of surveillance technology – including body-worn video, drones and number plate recognition systems – risks changing the “psyche of the community” by reducing individuals to trackable numbers in a database, the government’s CCTV watchdog has warned.

> In his full first interview as surveillance commissioner, Tony Porter – a former senior counter-terrorism officer – said the public was complacent about encroaching surveillance and urged public bodies, including the police, to be more transparent about how they are increasingly using smart cameras to monitor people.

Opinion polls differ, but it seems that most people in England just don't care about CCTV and that is worrying.
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This article feels very imbalanced. Does anyone have a more legitimate source that tackles this issue?
This is the most delusional piece of self-justification I have read in years. Your use of words like culling and optimise makes me suspect you need to work on your social skills, a lot.

No one likes braggers, no one. Sometimes braggarts who have power or some other use are tolerated, but only as long as they have to be.
On Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20150522211938/http://expdev.bye...
If a UPS truck driver drives drunk, do you expect the CEO to go to jail?
So you're saying the uber driver is an employee of the passenger? I often tell them which route to take. I guess passengers also have control over whether the driver keeps his job (via ratings) too.
Looking at the stock price on this one is interesting. RIM's market cap hit its peek in 2008. So it didn't instantly crater. It took a bit for people to see the effects of the iPhone.
The theoritical benefit of securitization is to sell the exact type of risk to whoever wants that risk.

For example - say you take part in a peer to peer lending market and give a loan to 100 people. You go through a life changing event (e.g. have a kid) and suddenly want to reduce the risk of lending to 100 people over the internet and prefer to put it in government bonds. What do you do now?

You can resell your loans to another party who will take on the risk and the resulting coupon payments from those 100 borrowers. That is in simplistic terms the process of securitization.

However- this process became badly mauled in the 2004 to 2008 period when 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 am simplifying what was the issue of 2004-2008 crisis. But this is just to give you a very quick idea.
You can do this using the AWS library or cli tools, combine that with Ansible etc and it works nice. Also, have you checked out Netflix for all their open source tools for AWS? They have a couple that dig into AWS and inventory what you have and allow you to make changes etc.

IIRC, Ansible has an inventory command, you just have to run it per AZ. I don't do the Ansible work everyday so it may be slightly different now.

For our configuration we use Ansible alone with the AWS API library and cli tools. So for example, we have backups scripted via cli tools and shell scripts but those scripts are configured and deployed using Ansible. In other places we have tools deployed via Ansible that use the Node API into AWS to get more information and make some minor setting changes.
The company has a duty of care (which varies across legislations).
I'm a big fan of static typing, including sum types. But can someone explain to me what's so great here?

The highlight of the article is having a unique Action sum type instead of a myriad of separate functions. But the action still has to be processed by a myriad of separate equations (is that the correct Haskell term? Not familiar with the language):

apply ClearCompleted tds = over todosItems (Map.filter (\x -> view itemStatus x /= Completed)) tds
apply (DeleteItem x) tds = over todosItems (Map.delete x) tds
apply (EditItem x) tds = set todosEditing (Just x) tds
...

"Only one of the 68 frameworks defined an Action" is probably because it's simpler to directly call the right function, rather than over-engineering things with a short-lived intermediary representation.

If actions need to "be serialized, recorded for later analytics, and generated automatically" then it makes much more sense. But this is a TODO sample app. YAGNI.

And if we really need it, it's not like JS cannot do it:

function apply(action, todos) {
switch (action.type) {
case 'ClearCompleted':
return todos.filter(todo => !todo.completed);
case 'DeleteItem':
return todos.filter(todo => todo !== action.todo);
...
}
}

The above has probably been done a billion times in one form or another. Of course it's not safe from typos in the case strings or missing cases, but that's a broader issue with JS in general, not specifically related to sum types.

I'm not trying to shoot down Haskell here, I really wish someone will point to something I'm missing and make it click. But right now it just looks like over-engineering that JS could do but chooses not to.

(Regarding footnote #4: Swift also has sum types and is fairly popular.)
Why wouldn't you flip green for the first case? If it's even you find a counter example.

I'd say this system a bijective mapping of color=parity is simple (to learn) compared to a partially injective and partially surjective one. Common card games tend to employ simple rules, therefore it seems a fair assumption for this one. Additionally most sets have either a single back image or an equal amount of either of two back images, implying a bijection.

The experience with cards is different than with the social contract, while the consequences of loosing at cards is less severe than in social games. That's no mumbo-jumbo.
This shows a misconception. Bad evidence may be perfectly reproducible. Being reproducible seems to mostly be an issue about statistics and experimental methodology, but your reproducible findings may not be good evidence for any deeper finding.

Moreover, while I'm not impressed with the evidence of this study, finding out what people say when you ask them to remember X is a perfectly legitimate thing to collect data on, as long you recognize its limitations.
It's really increadible. 3% of one year profits, for multiple year huge scale robery. Not surprising, given the industry track record, but still mind blowing when you think about the big picture.
It's kind of a cycle. Being a local councillor is a part time position with almost no pay, so you basically have to be retired with an interest in meddling. Local news is terrible at holding them to account and also has no money. Voters care mostly about issues that affect them directly (bins, and whichever planning policy is closest).

If the position of council chief exec (which is often very well paid) were elected, things would be different.

Oh, and the funding situation for councils is a mess.
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Yes, if he new about it and didn't stop it, or even in some way condoned it then he is certainly has responsibility.
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Because Cascading does not break your apps by changing the API every minor release, that would be one. Also, being production grade software for many years is another.
> FDroid's fork is now a move against binary blobs. And copious tracking. They are taking back firefox (pun intended). From the announce: "It removes the proprietary binaries out of the official builds." [emphasis mine]

What's the nearest thing for general Linux? I'm guessing Tor Browser without Tor?

I didn't see anything specific in Arch/AUR repositories.
>Rather, they are value judgments that one person labels another with.

Not quite. Reputation is collective, not individual. If enough people agree that someone is self-absorbed and arrogant, that person has a problem.

Now, it could be a problem with the collective, not the individual. Most collectives have a reversion-to-the-mean feedback loop which punishes outliers - with a possible get-out where they demonstrate exceptional effectiveness and value.

But that doesn't mean there isn't an objective reputation consensus, with objective consequences.

So the "That's just your opinion, man" defence isn't always going to work.
You can always go to Tools -> Add-ons and mass-update all your add-ons manually at once (Click on the gear icon drop down and select "Check for Updates"). These rules will not block that.
LOL.. mine is a 2009 Core2Duo 2.5Ghz and it runs XCode, PyCharm, and all other dev tools just fine. You can buy them on craigs list for $300-$400.
Here is a better explanation of what these traders did:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-12/banks-manip...

Some additional reading:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-20/bank-fine-s...

Quote: "They also got together in chat rooms to, essentially, lay off some of their client risk to one another prior to the fixing. That laying off of client risk, again, looks a bit conspiratorial, but it probably made markets more efficient, and is not obviously bad or illegal. Then they went beyond that efficient laying off of risk, trying to move the price in their favor. They seem to have made some money doing this, at the expense of their clients, but my suspicion was that they were "tinkering at the edges of real supply and demand," optimizing how they made money trading their combined customer order book rather than truly rigging the FX market."

This is an alternative viewpoint:
https://medium.com/bull-market/oranges-and-lemons-the-fx-sca...

Quote: "Although there was some behaviour that was clearly on the other side of the line, the regulators also made clear that lots of the practices involved were not intrinsically criminal; this was an investigation into a grey area, not a straightforward case of lying. Of course, the industry has less than zero claim to the benefit of anyone’s doubt, and people will be instantly suspicious of claims that “it’s more complicated than that”, so maybe I can explain what went on in the FX market through the medium of a series of examples..."
"Why I won't mourn Mozilla" by Eric Raymond

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6688
> basic logic is hard to do without proper study

It's not, as exemplified by the counter example given in the article, about age of drinking.
The question is whether it's a precondition, or enhancer, of success in this sort of field. Not whether some particularly well-known business leader happened to share the property.
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There are some really strange ideas here -

> "He was accused of stealing the International Space Station’s source code controlling critical life-sustaining elements worth $ 1.7 million."

This makes for an exciting sentence, but doesn't make sense - as far as I can tell he didn't deprive them of their $1.7 million dollar code (I assume he just made a copy), and there is absolutely no opportunity cost here - it's not like he had a space station or was going to give it to someone else with a space station, stopping NASA getting revenue that they may had...

I find it very hard to see any way that that could be called 'stealing' or why the $1.7 million figure is relevant at all...

That doesn't excuse messing around in other people's systems of course.

> "His actions put NASA on hold for three weeks, costing them $41,000 because they had to check and of course fix the system."

Surely it was NASA's bad security practices that cost them $41,000 - do they really think if he hadn't found the problem, they wouldn't ever have had to fix their insecure systems?
It's operational cost, already factored in, and paid for by clients.
Well, it depends if driver can crash Worlds economy or not. And if it can, there is something wrong with economy, UPS, UPSs CEO, truck and a driver.
Sounds like the boss was a fan of Jack Welch's vitality curve, with his strategy of firing the bottom 10% each year. Which can have repercussions when those guys aren't slackers, just merely average.
>borderline illegal

It's only illegal when someone is willing to prosecute you for that.
Frankly, the mere 1% equity and no cash they're offering if you stay is more insulting than the initial internship.

Working for free can be a valuable lesson, but working for free for a team whose offer suggests they have no regard whatsoever for your ability (or are completely clueless) is unlikely to teach you things you want to learn.
That's because banks do a lot of things other than FX trading. It's a much bigger chunk if you use a more relevant denominator: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-20/bank-fine-s...
> Surely it was NASA's bad security practices that cost them $41,000 - do they really think if he hadn't found the problem, they wouldn't ever have had to fix their insecure

Why is blaming the victim so uniquely acceptable when we're talking about hackers?
True. But it's even more amazing how the masses just keep swallowing that shit. Of course, it's understandable too, considering people have been trained to be obedient cattle.
The six million number comes from this study: http://www.securitynewsdesk.com/bsia-attempts-to-clarify-que...

Note that six million is the high end of the estimate, with the low being a (still rather high) four million.

This study included things like hospitals, prisons and sewage works. When talking about council-operated CCTV it does not make sense to use the six million figure.

The study estimates 1 in 70 of these cameras are controlled by the local government.
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As a sidenote, whoever downvoted this and the other related post is allergic to thinking.
You're not missing anything. What you and the author are describing (in terms of pattern/architecture) has existed for quite a while but was widely popularized recently by Facebook's [Flux](https://facebook.github.io/flux). The author is either naive towards current state of the JavaScript landscape or their just being arrogant about what is actually unique to 'functional' programming.
> where did he get the money to buy rental properties in his early thirties?

Errr...leveraged debt, at a guess.
The reason we are seeing more securitization is that the marketplace demands it. There are lots and lots of market participants that are looking for low risk, small fixed return style investments.

This financial product, at least for the latter half of the last century, was almost entirely provided by US governmental debt. The monetary policy of the last decade+ has caused that debt to no longer be an acceptable investment for this. Coupled with the increase in number of investors looking for this style of vehicle (from China and other developing nations) and there is a huge market need.

Of course, in the face of a huge market need financial product offerers are going to try new and possibly dodgy means to fill the gap.
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No - we are seeing an increase in credit but not wages. Asset prices are running ahead of wealth creation so the young must pledge to work for longer for the same pile of bricks (and land).

Yes there is foreign money but still most buying is domestic. Foreign money is a convenient bogey man. It's the same in Canada and the stats do not bear it out.
One challenge not mentioned in the article is house maintenance. If you do not maintain your house properly its value can decrease dramatically (worst case is land value less demolition cost). If they contract out maintenance to a good firm and have good oversight then no problem... but if they contract out to the cheapest firm, one that's shady, with poor oversight then in a decade or so the value of the home could be significantly lower. Not only that, but a poorly maintained home will be harder to rent and bring in less rent.

And then you've also got legal issues (various landlord and tenant acts, homeowners associations) that will vary by jurisdiction that could make things like eviction and rent raising more difficult than expected.

That 95% tenancy number could well drop by a lot, making the investment a real stinker (also even if they lower rents to increase tenancy the underlying measure isn't really tenancy rate it's monthly average rent).
This seems a little more like the CEO entering a lucrative shipping deal with a mexican drug cartel and then having the driver go to jail for trafficking when caught.
Please forgive me if this presumissious of me, but you wouldn't happen to know of some of these areas that need more quality software? The only one that I'm aware of its medical, which usually has regulations and long leads before making money.
So because costs are hypothetically increasing, you prefer to live in a fantasy land where 512-bit keys are actually sane?

I am not arguing that there isn't a cost associated with crypto. For almost all uses[1], the price of crypto part of the cost of making something that connects to the internet. If you leave it out, you're creating an attractive nuisance and potential liability for someone. If you use the bad defaults of 512-bit crypto, I suggest that any claim of a product being "secure" or "using SSL" is a lie.

> smartcard

A smartcard isn't plugging into the internet on its own. Whatever it reads the card can wrap everything in proper crypto.

> mobile phone

You have far more CPU than you need.

[1] The exceptions are limited, such as a device that literally cannot do the crypto (I'm thinking an old 1MHz micro), Note that these devices shouldn't be directly on the internet, either.
The risks haven't materialized so far; what exactly are you thinking is going to happen?
Happy land speculation. I thought Hacker News was full of actual entrepreneurs but it seems not, we have good old fashioned usurers and their foot-soldier landlords.

It's the American dream!
> Increased regulation in some regards has just driven further consolidation in the banking industry.

This a million times.

As regulation increases, you make sure only the big guys follow it to their satisfaction.

And of course in the end there will be a lot of "hows, ifs, buts" falling through the cracks.

Some regulation of course is needed, but it seems the best regulation is not giving anyone the advantage to be the dominant player.