skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I don't believe it's necessarily illegal to pay someone "hush money" (though it probably depends! laws are awfully vague). I do believe it's illegal to demand to be paid "hush money", though, normally referred to as "blackmail".

Presumably the reason the accused used structuring, even if a "hush money" payment itself was legal, was that they would have had to explain why they were making such a large withdrawal -- which doesn't really help for keeping things "hushed".
It's not about knowledge of the law, it's about intent.

Ignorance is not an excuse, but it can diminish the crime if the crime is defined in a way that requires intent.

For example, intent can be the difference between murder ("first degree" to Americans) and recklessly causing someone to die. If you poison someone's food and they die, it's murder. If you unwittingly poisoned the food, it's not, but you may be held accountable for a different crime (i.e. recklessness that resulted in death).

This distinction is okay. In fact I'd argue it's expected.

EDIT: Heck, if intent were irrelevant, it'd even be legal to plan to kill or harm people as long as you don't fully follow through. If you caught a terrorist before the act, you'd have to let them go because they haven't yet actually harmed anyone.
Likewise, typing on 2014 Mac Air currently, but my family's first computer was a Commodore VIC20 (I learned BASIC on that) and some years later my dad got me my own computer, an XT (8086) with a 20MB HD (how will I use all that space?!).

I loved both of those computers more than any I've had since.

Now I have a daughter. She won't be getting a Mac. She'll be getting an old box with some flavor of Linux installed and she's going to learn how to really use a computer (only if she's willing and interested, of course). The apps and windows will be there, but I am primarily going to focus teaching her command line and code. Otherwise it's just a gadget and a lot harder to love.
Granting the (problematic) idea that more powerful is always better—to learn the techniques that will be used to build more powerful languages?
I'm pretty sure they only bother prosecuting cases where the act is committed.

I don't think it is so far away from other crimes where intent is evaluated (like murder vs manslaughter).
As the saying goes... every company ever are in one stage or the other: before product-market fit and after product-market fit.
OK, that's fine. Just publish the final results, not the negotiations. But publish the final results with time for us to review it before the Senate votes on it.
This seems to add nothing to the discussion. I downvoted it.
No, Cobaltix was hired by the people who bought 51% of the movie studio
Perhaps they feared the CEO would lock them out of their assets (the servers and render farm).
I'm not a free software fanatic. I'm dual booting elementary OS with Windows. On my Windows installation, I have Office 365, Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, etc. I also have 1TB of space on OneDrive. Everything completely legal of course.

But, I haven't booted to Windows since mid-April (and even then my Windows adventure lasted for like one hour or less, I just got bored and wanted to play one game I haven't played in a long time). elementary just gets the job done and it looks pretty damn sexy while doing it.

My laptop is currently running on 59 degrees Celsius. It's been up for 22 hours now and its running Firefox, Thunderbird, Spotify, Atom text editor, MEGA client, terminal emulator and a .pdf viewer ever since I booted my laptop. Of course, I didn't use it the whole time, but my laptop was still running while I did some other things. I can't even compare that to Windows (8.1) that jumps to 75 degrees as soon as I boot into it.

Plus, elementary looks like 10x as better and I don't have to search the web to find something like a freaking C compiler or a SSH client. I don't have to worry about the registry and I don't have to worry about junkware being bundled with some piece of legit program. I don't have to click on the freaking Next button for 15 times to install something. All I need to do is to enter one command and enter my password.

I don't really consider myself as a programmer.
I've always enjoyed the specification in the instructions for the 1040 form that you must include all sources of income, including illegal income! (Of course, famously, it was on this count that they got Capone.)
I read that to mean that the semantics don't have edge or ad-hoc cases.
But why would you want to?

(FYI: I'm one of those listed as "we weren't in love with the idea/market")
I suppose the government could confiscate a hundred billion and use it to invade a small country for a few weeks.

I'm not going to put down your imagination but it didn't take me long to think of a worse use.
Phosphorus is crucial to human life. It underpins modern agriculture worldwide, and like fresh water, is a finite resource globally. There is disagreement over the exact time frame for reaching "peak phosphorus" as well, estimates range from 15 to 100+ years. So while these fish represent one method of phosphorus recovery, it doesn't address the wastefulness of allowing important resources like nitrogen and phosphorus to runoff into Lake Apopka in the first place.
Updated zlib benchmarks
It is quite poorly written, but you are wrong to allegen numerous felonies.

On Wednesday, we reviewed the articles of incorporation, confirmed the ownership of the company with the CFO, talked to the board, put indemnification and release of liability agreements in place, and agreed on a course of action.

They acted with permission of the beneficial owners of the company. The CEO and CTO mentioned at the end were presumably minority shareholders,a nd were leveraging their custody of the security keys to negotiate a better deal in their own interests, and were thus in breach of their fiduciary obligations.
This seems all sorts of shades of unethical.
I assumed the original founders were holding access to the servers hostage. A prolonged litigation could have soured the $100M Sony deal.
Oh, I get you. Just adding my two cents, basically if the only thing VSO really does well is use git as a source code system... I would suggest most people just use git, github, bitbucket, etc...
I don't mind using Pocket as the backend, but I want it to work more like Android's Reading List (and the reading list that was available briefly in desktop Nightly).

I want articles to

• be readable (and savable) offline;

• open in Firefox's Reader View, not Pocket's site;

• sync with Android Fx's Reading List, not (just) the Android Pocket app.
It hasn't even been triaged yet. I'd wait to see what the devs' initial response is before worrying that it's not getting attention.

Edit: ah, here we go https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172126#c2
If they had a deal in writing, and the partners were trying to squeeze more out by threatening, that's certainly unethical on their part.

This company was just doing their job.
Hacking Marriage
I use soylent when I have appetite issues because drinking is easier than eating when I don't feel hungry.
Thanks, it makes much more sense sense now.
Also, it's a false dichotomy that we must have either no development, or a building everyone (other than the architect himself) hates.

For most of history, architects sought a graceful balance between art and practical considerations. It seems to be a recent development that they have split into separate groups, one of which focuses solely on cutting costs, and the other of which focuses solely on building monuments to their own genius.
Don't be so patronizing. The film visualizes a possible society where the line between genetic therapy and genetic enhancement is crossed.

From a bioethical perspective, this isn't "Anti-vaxxing", it deals with misconceptions of genetic predeterminism in humans. Sure you can minimize harm by preventing a child born with tay sachs (genetic therapy) - but you're not minimizing harm by picking a child that will be taller and have blue eyes (enhancement) just because they're statistically likely to be more successful in life.

The main character's roommate provided this contrast as a "failed" olympic athlete, whose life was chosen before he was born.
So, presumably this was all "okay" (or legal at all), because "the client" owned 51% of the company.

Would it have all suddenly been illegal if "the client" only owned 49%? I'm very curious about how this all works.
Thanks. Admittedly a favourable example for protobufs but it shows the point: the names aren't data.
Don't forget UCSD Pascal! (Or maybe we should)
That's ridiculous, but it is poorly written. The article should explain the legal situation clearly at the outset, before going on to the entertaining business of how it conducted its digital repossession operation.
I always get devoted when I support chrome on here but I think history will prove me right.
And yet that doesn't speak to your parent's actual question, which is a good one: how does an organization balance transparency and the necessity to get things done despite potentially awful conditions on the ground? Certainly organizations doing longer-term work can afford to spend time finding ways to route around corruption, but that could be incredibly difficult in many emergency situations, and incredibly damaging for an organization's reputation when shady dealings come to light.
> they also abandoned the idea of a high-density sustainable city

Paris is very dense. All of the places in the top 30 mentioned below are actually neighborhoods of Paris:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popula...
The built-in Reader view is based on code from Readability http://readability.com/ If you install the actual Readability add-on, it has a "Read Later" feature. This addresses abrowne's first two bullet points.
If I recall correctly Joxa is Lisp-1 and LFE is a Lisp-2.
I want all of those same things too. I imagine that this is just the first step to getting all of those things working, since doing basically any of that well requires sync working. Now that Pocket is providing the sync (which is the hardest part), the rest is much easier to implement.
I think it might be a little different this time. I remember when they "open sourced" code in the past they used some freaky restrictive license of their own that nobody wanted to touch[1]. Now they appear to be using accepted open source licenses like MIT and Apache.

I agree with apalmer and worry that as soon as they get some leverage over you, you are still in trouble. I can't predict the future, but I've found past behavior to be one of the best predictors, for better or worse.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source
I'm Rails developer - so this all comes to mentioned Unix and set of console tools. Ok, there are workarounds, one can use docker, vagrant, or whatever. I like to work in console as well - and as for now, this is a deal breaker for me.
Ask HN: Finding remote work as a half/full-time student?
I am a 6th year Software Engineering major, taking school slowly to support myself. I have been trying to find remote work for a few weeks through GitHub, StackExchange Careers, and WeWorkRemotely. I have managed past the second interview at one place but haven't even received rejection e-mails from the other eight.

I feel I am a prime candidate for remote work... Passionate about CSC since middle school, raised on IRC, have superb internet access, and am very self motivated. I have 10+ yrs experience with Arch Linux (Desktop, Debian servers), C++ (mostly C for class now), SQL (MySQL, but starting to move to PostgresSQL), PHP (less so, I prefer Node.js, Lua, Python, Ruby, or * in that order now), and HTML/CSS. I tend to master the languages/tools I prefer when possible, but I am also a quick learner who loves experimenting with new toys and am very interested in DevOps--sounds fun as much as I love Linux.

The startup I have been with for the past 5 years is having funding issues, and I am getting nervous about renewing a lease without a good opportunity. Not the worst outcome, but free rent, food, and getting to focus on my own projects living with my parents while finishing my education doesn't seem worth the hour commute both ways from class, peers, friends, and downgrading to a much lower quality/reliable internet and power.

My skills and toolset have increased and have become fairly polished... I have rejected interview requests from Amazon (quite a few, they offered to fly me to Seattle), Google, Netflix (dream job), and Etsy because of required relocation within the last 6 months.

I know I could be a major asset to someone; I just haven't had any luck finding them. Has anyone had a similar experience, what did you do? Where can I find remote jobs that will at least let me know I am not a good fit? Am I marketing myself incorrectly?

http://selby.io

http://www.selby.io/resume-safe.pdf

https://github.com/selbyk

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/selby

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/selby-kendrick/50/289/650

Thanks for any advice!

-Selby
Despite some well-publicized departures, I'm still bullish on Mozilla. As javascript becomes more capable, Mozilla's open-web mission becomes more attainable. Public awareness of widespread government surveillance increases the demand for trustworthy communication tools. Concretely, FirefoxOS is quietly reaching maturity, and Servo has a great deal of promise.

I think that Mozilla's strange position, being a non-profit that is at various times either in competition or in cooperation with the world's largest tech companies, makes employee departures all that more press-worthy that the typical corporate churn. I wouldn't read too much into it.
I don't see how that begs the question at all. If an algorithm exists to make such a decision it is a given that the code would exist to allow it to make that decision.

Without the code a more simple scenario plays out. The car continues along its current trajectory and kills whichever pedestrian was in front of the vehicle, which could be both of them.
Actually, Treasuries have a vocabulary for them.

* "Bills" are any Treasury that is shorter than 1 year.

* "Notes" are 2-years, 3-years, 5-years, and 10-years.

* "Bonds" are any Treasury that is longer than 10 years.

They are all "bonds". But the vocabulary is a bit more precise than "short-term" vs "long term".
One thought on this...

If startup success is mostly random then how can someone like Elon Musk create startup-after-startup shooting for a goal against-all-odds, but always come out on top?

Does he define the "mostly" in the argument?
Too bad I'm reading this after commenting.

I saw the CC list, but I assumed this would subscribe me to email notifications about this bug, which I don't want to receive.

I'd like to fix this, but it seems like cutting-edge bugzilla doesn't have a "delete comment" feature...
No, the essence of the offense is to be aware of a certain type of scrutiny and arrange your affairs specifically to avoid it.
To make money.
Neither Hello nor Pocket will add performance bloat AFAICT. Hello leverages existing web features (webrtc), and Pocket I just an API call.

With the customizable UI you can put these things out of sight too.

Firefox does have bloat, but these two are very minor compared to the bloaty bits.
Interesting - thanks for posting. Will grab a copy of that.

I seem to collect mathematics books. However this is still my favourite book on mathematics and only because it was written by a surgeon rather than a mathematician: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/383087.Mathematics

Warning: Took me a couple of years to get through.

Oh and 1946 copy of Calculus for the Practical Man by J E Thompson.
Are you suggesting to make your dietary plans around something that will end in nutritional deficiency in some number of years? That doesn't sound like a good plan to me, not to mention the cost of doing something like soylent instead of OJ and cheddar cheese is pretty low. I think I'll take that sacrifice.
Yeah, Rust controls much more than C++ RAII does.
Or, if your first language is anything other than English, take English as your foreign language. If you want a second foreign language, consider Mandarin.

"Skip the reception; spend it on the honeymoon" implies that the boys aren't going to listen to "Boys, don't get married, ever". But that second one is bad advice anyway - getting married was incredibly good for me. Instead, I'd say "Wait forever rather than marry the wrong person."
Right, I read it quick. I thought they were talking about closing the initial deal to buy the company. It sounded like some off-boarding of the original contract, I realized (on second read) that this was the sale-prep for the second deal.
>Those 8 million will essentially have their greatest fears and worries removed and replaced with joy and freedom.

well, for a while. then the money runs out.
In Sweden, they have created a similar system but which simply limits withdraws to $1,500 a week unless you visit a bank and ask for permission, for which takes a minimum of 2 bank days. Withdrawing $1.7 million in increments would simply be too impractical.
Mozilla employee here: That is incorrect. There is limited public information available about this deal, but the best quote so far is in this article:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2930532/reading-service-pocke...
I studied* Humanities Computer Science, as it was called at my university at the time. Behind closed doors, the professor was fairly explicit about it not being as world-changing, innovative or new as it was presented whenever they were seeking funding. Their work ranged from metadata tagging to version control to long-term digital archives.

In fact, he said the field had been renamed several times, largely to make it seem like a new field when it wasn't. Digital Humanities, Humanities Computer Science, and so on all refer to the same loosely defined field.

Although there certainly is something in it that isn't entirely nebulous, I'm not convinced "Digital Humanities" in itself, really is a thing or that the definition has any practical use other than providing a label when you seek funding.

*note: I was enrolled for a lengthy period of time and spent most of my time in university with their department and in the student association but I left without a degree.
Id happily take a chance on HS grad with a strong portfolio.

I think the issue here is where does a HS grad get the time to focus on building a strong portfolio? A strong portfolio is maybe 1500 hours of work, and includes projects undertaken as part of a team.

At a pace of 10 hours a week it would take a HS student almost three years to build a good enough portfolio. I'm sure some students could do this.... But it would take a lot of dedication.
Actually the "vote" link should be used for endorsement.
A few years back I would have agreed with it, but IMHO it doesn't look so bleak right now. tons of connections are rolled out as dual stack, some providers run IPv6-only links to their customers, the vast majority of new devices supports it, ...
> I do believe it's illegal to demand to be paid "hush money", though, normally referred to as "blackmail".

Depends on the jurisdiction. If the act being covered up is illegal, then someone knowing about it is obligated to report it or be an accomplice after the fact, regardless of money changing hands. On the other hand, if the act being covered up is not illegal, merely embarrassing (classic example: an extramarital affair), then it would depend on whether blackmail itself is a crime in itself or only an extension of some other crime.

The description at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail would suggest that, in the US, blackmail would be a crime only when some other crime is being covered up. I don't know if that's accurate or complete.
New technology enables 3d Display of images in air
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Hello is just a thin wrapper around WebRTC. That's why Chrome can receive Hello calls without an extension. There's barely anything to add on in that case.
Thanks for doing this!! (I'm one of the folks mentioned).

Something I've noticed when discussing failure is there's a class of people who are real assholes about other people's failures (focusing on blame, using very negative phrases, trying to second guess founders for who knows what reason, etc). I notice some comments in this thread are along those lines.

I'd love it if you kept that in mind as you build this, esp since some of the comments/suggestions in this thread are quite, em, unpleasant.
Firefox makes extensive use of lazy initialization for a lot of its code. You typically don't pay the price for those features unless you actually use them.
A button that does an API call consumes very less resources until clicked.
I would assume so? I remember my grandfather doing something like that with fish in South Dakota caught from lakes that had similar problems with fertilizer run-off.
CHIP's “9$ computer” will sell for 39$ after the Kickstarter.
Boeing just patented a drone that can fly forever
Thanks for putting this together
I've found that I have a tendency to not drink enough water with Soylent. Is it possible you were dehydrated?
They are paying 3.85% on their 30 year debt and 2.4% on the ten year, so it is costing them on the longer maturities.
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Why Samuel Adams supports its competitors
Not necessarily. The purpose of some laws are entrapment, getting the ability to harass, prosecute, or in general make life difficult for certain people. Some function as catch-alls to be able to slap arbitrarily high number of charges onto someone.
Publishing Docker Images with Automated Builds
When you add yourself to a bug's CC list, every other person CC'd on the bug is sent a "bugmail" notification that you are now CC'd. If you just vote for the bug, you can receive bugmail notification without spamming all the other CCs. That's what I do. :)
I personally would rather not have sexist cars that would hit a same-aged man over a same-aged woman.

Women and children first is not a policy of who is most valuable. It is a policy of who is most vulnerable. In disasters it is presumed that the women and children cannot fend for themselves (and while there is a biological aspect to women being on average weaker than men the presumption of women and children first is still painfully sexist) and that the men coming up behind are more likely to survive than any alternative, where men go first and "the vulnerable" take up the rear.

Even besides that, how do you know if a child is more valuable than an elderly person?

Its not as simple a problem as yesteryears well intentioned sexism and ageism. But the real answer is much simpler:

The car would, in the situation where it could not avoid hitting a person, hit whomever it computes to be most likely to survive.
I answered this on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/388ryl/pocket_and_h...
The thing is, once you've had a success, you now have enough money to buy your way over certain hurdles or attack industries that can't be tackled with $5 VPS and a MacBook Air. Plus VCs are 10x more likely to give you their money.

Could Elon have started Tesla if he didn't previously make $165M from PayPal? I say "unlikely". Could he have started X.com/PayPal if he didn't make $22M from Zip2? I don't know. Was Zip2's success partly due to luck? I don't know but I'm sure it played a part.
They already have phone calls for that. Why would they need Facebook?
Machine learning, programmers, and cats. What a great time to be alive!