skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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What HSBC has been found guilty of

Failure to Maintain an Effective Money Laundering Program, Failure to Conduct Due Diligence on Correspondent Bank Accounts Involving Foreign Persons (for the actions involving Mexican cartels and Saudi linked terrorist organisations), violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (for knowingly and willfully facilitating prohibited transactions with Iran, Libya, Sudan, and Burma), and violating the Trading With the Enemy Act (for moving money for Cuba).

from here - http://www.americancriminallawreview.com/Drupal/blogs/blog-e...

edit - and that's what they pled guilty to as their plea bargain after prosecution was dropped.
1. I think you have a strange idea of what unions are and do.

2. ditto. The 'best case' for a labor union is that their members are highly skilled and hard to replace, with lots of alternative employers.

3. The article clearly states that Agile is not implemented in order to protect developers, but the net effect is the same. Agile team/management relationships cannot be adversarial because Agile.

The point the article makes is that UCD separates the design of the system (the bit that needs management and user contact) from the implementation, which then allows the implementation (as wildgift points out) to be considered a cost and Taylorised (squeezed) into 'efficient' permanent crunch time.
AFAIK they already agreed to that in case of HK. Not that it matters much... There are other ways one can set an example.
It's not mine but I already contacted the author, hopefully he will get on track in time! :)
(I was actually thinking to suggest him to build that in angular! :) )
More interestingly, O2 has not blocked access to its own site. That would be silly. It has, however, blocked access to http://www.giffgaff.co.uk, one of its competitors.

I've seen it claimed that it's blocked access to the Conservative Party's web site. Based on all this, that's a block I'd like to see remain in place.
I really need to ship this sucker, but I'm still feeling a lot of resistance.

I know, I'll write a blog article! That's a useful piece of procrastination...
Is there knowledge here, or heavy-handed emotional manipulation?

I'd attack a water buffalo with a fork and eat his brains out raw if I were starving enough, but I don't know if I'd want to keep videos of it around on YouTube.

Thanks for the heads-up. I love emotionally-powerful messages, just not simple-minded manipulative ones. Sounds like it might be a good flick.
The Fibonacci example is flawed, in that the given definition, in terms of phi = (1 + sqrt 5) / 2.0, is inaccurate even for moderately-sized inputs. A standard, O(n) definition for computing fibonacci numbers is

>> let fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)
>> let fib n = fibs !! fromIntegral n

The constant-time approximation is

>> let fib' n = let phi (1 + sqrt 5) / 2.0 in round (phi^n / sqrt 5)

Around n = 80 the constant-time solution starts giving incorrect results

>> fib 80 -- exact O(n)
23416728348467685
>> fib' 80 -- approximate O(1)
23416728348467676
How can it be constitutional to extract your DNA, and then make you pay for it? That doesn't make any sense to me. What's next? Making you pay for your own jail time? If they want to make you do all of that, then they should pay for it.

It reminds me of this recent story:

http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/woman-probed-cavity-searc...
The concept of laws were invented thousands of years ago to prevent just these tragedies. So we already have a solution. Now we only need to create such laws that pollution is greatly diminished.

This will naturally lead to creation of lots of ecological niches for new startups, that will find the most efficient means to achieve these reductions. Naturally government funded long term research will also play a part in finding good solutions.

The end customer will naturally pay for these changes. For example, it is cheaper to run transport ships with residue heavy fuel oil, the use of which has been banned almost everywhere else already. If we want to prevent that, we make laws that make it illegal. Then the ships will use some other, naturally more expensive fuel. The transport costs will go up and whatever you buy that was imported costs more, or whatever you export potentially pays less.
In 2002, This American Life did a show on a Hamlet performance in prison - available at [1]. It's compelling radio, and I'd highly recommend it.

"Shakespeare may seem like an odd match for a group of hardened criminals, but Jack found that they understand the Bard on a level that most of us might not. It's a play about murder and its consequences, performed by murderers, living out the consequences."

[1]: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/218/a...
Hahaha!

You totally got me, officemonkey :-)!

Going back to it now.
HR is more than hiring: benefits, vacations, sabbaticals, training. Accounting would in particular have to deal with orders being made by employees and invoicing.
A Growth Hustler Holiday (Hashtag Holiday Card)
That seems really easy to circumvent. "No funny business" won't hold anyone back if they need it bad enough.
Show HN: StreetEYE, all the top financial market news in one click
Some people have called StreetEYE 'HN for investors', but it's a little different.

You can go to Bloomberg, Reuters, WSJ, FT and hit a page with the most-read stories, but now everyone shares everything on social networks and blogs, so we can try to make one page with the most popular news across all sites and blogs - find the top people who share news, and combine algorithmic, professional, and crowdsourced curation to make the best front page across financial media.

StreetEYE is more like a mashup of HN, Techmeme, Google News, Flipboard, Buzzfeed.

For now, no comments or submissions to avoid spam, but will add them.

A longer manifesto here - http://blog.streeteye.com/blog/2013/10/the-streeteye-manifesto/

Been around for a couple of years in various iterations, has a bit of traction among financial journos/twitterati.

Never submitted before because the typical HN reader is not the target, but just did a relaunch and there was a lot of interest in this thread where it was mentioned -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844565

Other sites in similar space
http://boredbanker.com
http://filll.com
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/
http://www.businessinsider.com/clusterstock/thehive
http://www.usv.com for VC (of course)
http://www.trejdify.com for broader business news

Would love to hear feedback, suggestions, any issues let me know! Be gentle, still MVP/POC.

Platform is Django on back end, Bootstrap + crude jQuery on front end. It's not an x86 emulator/Riemann hypothesis solver in Javascript/Haskell but it's been a fun project and I hope people find it useful.

If it has product/market fit, would look to build a team, do a startup accelerator.
I saw this a few years ago.. it turned my stomach, but I'm glad I saw it. Maybe I should watch it again. The disconnect between things we buy/do and what goes into them can be so huge, and it's so easy to get lulled back to sleep.

I have no idea what this is doing on HN, but if you can stand it, do watch it. You might be sad/angry after you did, or have nightmares, or become veg(etari)an. It is not pleasant and will not leave you cold. If you already are depressed because of the season or something, bookmark it for later maybe.
Or just use HSBC, apparently.
In my reading, I get the same feeling of being disingenuous. The 4pt SSL key emphasizes that.

My best interpretation is that he had already decided that the only solution was to shut the company down - which I'm certain the government wasn't expecting - and given that he was likely to fail was using delay tactics.

However, my interpretation fails because he said he would do the tap if the government paid him enough money. (OTOH, he could have decided to shut it down in that case as well.)
I think you missed the part where they chose not to indict HSBC and the reasons for doing so. There doesn't seem to be much ambiguity about the actual money-laundering. The linked NY Times post has more info.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2012/12/10/hsbc-sai...
One templating approach that takes HTML's tree structure more seriously is Haml. Its syntax (mostly) enforces valid output, so you don't have to worry about closing/matching tags etc. This also makes it very concise, and (since its indentation matches the HTML tree) extremely easy to scan & read. It's basically a DSL optimized for markup trees like HTML.

Composing a DOM by instantiating objects for each node sounds awful, but I think you're right that flat plain-text templates miss an opportunity to leverage HTML's tree-like structure. Haml does a great job exploiting that structure.
A clever way to hide emails in plain sight
Creator / submitter here - Some people have called StreetEYE 'HN for investors', but it's a little different.

You can go to Bloomberg, Reuters, WSJ, FT and hit a page with the most-read stories, but now everyone shares everything on social networks and blogs, so we can try to make one page with the most popular news across all sites and blogs - find the top people who share news, and combine algorithmic, professional, and crowdsourced curation to make the best front page across financial media.

StreetEYE is more like a mashup of HN, Techmeme, Google News, Flipboard, Buzzfeed. Basically the goal is to make the best flippin' front page of the financial Intertubes, by all means necessary.

For now, no comments or submissions to avoid spam, but plan to add them.

A longer manifesto here - http://blog.streeteye.com/blog/2013/10/the-streeteye-manifes...

Been around for a couple of years in various iterations, has a bit of traction among financial journos/twitterati.

Never submitted before because the typical HN reader is not the target, but did an October relaunch, and there was a lot of interest in this thread where it was mentioned -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844565

Other sites in similar space

http://boredbanker.com

http://filll.com

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/

http://www.businessinsider.com/clusterstock/thehive

http://www.usv.com for VC (of course)

http://www.trejdify.com for broader business news

Would love to hear feedback, suggestions, any issues let me know! Please be gentle, still MVP/POC!

Platform is Django on back end, Bootstrap + crude jQuery on front end.

It's not an x86 emulator/Riemann hypothesis solution in Javascript/Haskell but it's been a fun project and I hope people find it useful.

If it has product/market fit, would look to build a team, do a startup accelerator.

druce (at) streeteye.com
> Is there knowledge here, or heavy-handed emotional manipulation?

Elements of both, sure. There's a lot of truth in there, but there's also a number of events that occur in the minority but presented as common. (Not to say it's not uncommon, but not necessarily common either). As in: I'm Australian, but the movie is very US American-centric. Not all of it applies 1:1 to my life, but there's a lot that comes close and hits far too close to home. So even with that, I had a lot of hard questions to ask myself after seeing it. (Spoiler: I've been vegan pretty much since then.)

I'd say for all of the movies out there in this niche, it's probably the best of them, but ymmv.
Except that the "better" solution posted isn't better in many programming languages.

For example: Python. It has infinite-precision integers. As such, although his "better" formula starts to diverge from the actual answer at n=71 (308061521170130 versus 308061521170129) while only getting worse from there, the "naive" solution keeps working - albeit with O(n) behavior.

def fib(n):
return round((pow(0.5 + 0.5 * pow(5.0, 1/2), n) -
pow(0.5 - 0.5 * pow(5.0, 1/2), n)) /
pow(5.0, 1/2))
def fib(n):
a, b = 0, 1
for i in range(n):
a, b = b, a + b
return a

You can do it with the decimal library as well, but you have to adjust precision on-the-fly to get the required precision.

This is a better solution if you're willing to allow the additional complexity: http://willwhim.wpengine.com/2013/04/02/a-fibonacci-a-day-fi...
Somehow I prefer the Ruby solution to add another method to do the unary variant. Compare

["A","b","C"].sort {|a, b| a.downcase <=> b.downcase }

to

["A","b","C"].sort_by {|k| k.downcase }

(or equivalently)

["A","b","C"].sort_by &:downcase
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They generally have them -- You won't find many scale startups without a General Counsel, for example.

What I've observed for the most part is that these are anchored in key hires. Then that key hire builds a team and function around them.
It's broken because people want to be secure in sending messages however it's design is contrary to that. The metadata prevents it from being truly secure for one.

Encrypting emails is also another very complicated thing for users.

It needs a make over of sorts so we can get something that all users can reasonably use securely.
Across the political spectrum, considerable anger, frustration and range is directed either at big business or at big government. Clearly, the thing that unites these viewpoints is the presence of inhuman and impersonal scale, together with the inequitable concentration of power that this scale implies. For comedy effect, I shall conflate Mammoth and Mammon and term this fear of large organisations "Mammonthophobia". To this fear of the very big, I would add a second phobia, that of long-lived organisations; (Geriatrophobia?) for corruption comes to us all, and the longer lived an institution, the more deeply embedded the rot. The Peter principle captures the gist, but fails to convey the seriousness of the message, nor the sinister nature of the disease.

Other commentators have pointed out that size is difficult to measure. This is true. To these cautions I would add the ever-pertinent one that legislation breeds corruption. Too many people already make a living by exploiting tax loopholes & legislative weaknesses (Private Equity, I am looking at you).

Placing these practical concerns to one side, I think I would be rather more radical than you in my goals. Team sports give us a good idea of what a human-scale team looks like - between 5 and 20 individuals. I am less sure what the longevity of a business should be: between 2 and 8 years seems like as good a guess as any. The ability to invest in the long term and to take on big projects is less inhibited by these restrictions than you might think: even the largest of today's businesses still need to raise outside finance and work together with other businesses to solve large problems; placing severe restrictions on the size of businesses will only help to increase the level of automation and systematic discipline when it comes to organising the crowd of small business-teams to take on large projects. In any case, we could hardly do any worse than our current economy on long-term planning and investment.

I am not sure how a government could encourage the formation of an economy formed largely of small, young businesses, I am only sure that it should.
I have been entertaining this idea a lot, and I think it makes a lot of sense, and not just because of the potential failure. When a company becomes too big, the virtue of free market economy disappear more and more the bigger the company. This and their undue influence on governments due to their sheer size. Don't allow them to become too big, this will create a healthy free market economy because of all the added competition. Some would argue "economy of scale" etc. but I argue that more healthy competition is what helps customers, not giving more power to these monsters.
Is there a REST API for this (perhaps with keywords, images, etc all available thru it)?
You need to prove where you lived for the last 3 years. Oh, you don't have paper bills? Your country is very progressive, too bad. Moved around? Well, you need a UK address or at least a rental agreement.

Also showing your current bank account statements will help.

But we'd rather refuse to open this simple checking account just because (...we're busy laundering money :-)...).

And no one gives you the exact goddamn reason or a simple solution.
Do you need more rebels in your business?
You obviously do not have any domain knowledge about financial regulations nor the banking business at large. Accounting isn't rocket surgery, this level of activity is easy to spot, especially with software.(0) Plus requirements for tracking and reporting large cash deposits of this sort have been on the law books for years. (Not to mention the newer anti-terrorism requirements.)

(0) I've been working in the software side of the financial analysis for over a decade. While not trivial, transaction analysis is very common for various purposes including compliance.
I'm not sure that is a very good comparison. That big US software company was practicing monopolistic behaviour in the EU. If IE was only forced on Mexico-based customers, do you think it would have ever even come to trial in the first place (in the EU)?
Here you go:

"HSBC Bank USA knowingly set the
thresholds in CAMP so that wire transfers by customers located
in countries categorized as standard or medium risk, including
foreign financial institutions with correspondent accounts,
would not be subject to automated monitoring unless the
customers were otherwise classified as high risk."
I recently wrote about a way for developers to find "good enough" names in a short period of time.

http://blog.plague-dev.de/an-algorithmic-name-finding-proces...

It works for me and my colleagues pretty well. You could give it a try if you want.
In all fairness, if there were a type of algebraic numbers, the calculations would be exact. (But probably not O(1) anymore.)

And of course the sane solution is to use exponentiation by squaring on the 2x2 matrix whose elements are all 1s, except the right-bottom one, which is 0. Not surprisingly, (1 + phi) is an eigenvalue of that matrix.
Getting a SIM card in India
This was a necessary post

I am appalled by the relative "distance" several programmers have in relation to math

You can sometimes feel the pain when the person that made something doesn't know math (especially when it involves math, of course).

But the most people know is "how to calculate fibonacci with a recursive function". yawn

Math may be part of the "intelligence" of the business. Getting a CRUD interface unfortunately is usually part of the problem, but several companies have an automated intelligence that is based on a math background (even if you can use an existing library)
>Just let it happen: If it's needed, it's needed. It's not a matter of principle. It's a matter of practicality.

There's underlying premise behind what you suggest, which is that things turn out optimally by themselves with no need for any human effort and supervision in getting them a certain way.

I don't thing this idea is true to history.
Species kill and eat other species in order to survive, but the way we have automated the killing so that we have a total disconnect from the awareness of what we are actually eating is very distressing.
This thing lets non programmers, like marketing folk, write an app. This is very good.
Not apps don't require a real programmer, we can do real work.
This level of activity is easy to detect if the institution wants to detect it and compile with the law. Chances are the business analyst(s) that did detect it were told to shut up.
I'll look into it, I'm getting the same error while the page loads as well however it should work after it's loaded, and you select genres and then click 'Go'.

I probably will add functionality for IMDB/Letterboxd and other services, this was just a quick put-together :)
I'm glad to see this defined as organisational structures instead of the usual "no managers" nonsense.

"No managers" makes just as much sense as "no receptionists". Whether you need them depends mostly on context, not philosophy. People tend to confuse management as job (as in a person who does certain stuff so you don't have to, just like a receptionist) with management as a tier in a hierarchical structure.
Could the bitcoin network reverse spends into the attacker's address(es) if everyone came together and agreed to do so? Or at least prevent spending out of it?
This Is What It's Like To Be A Tech Geek ... In Prison
There is a basic REST API, basically the tastypie Django plugin. If you (or anyone) wants to try to do something cool with it, would be happy to explore it!
Counting Stars on GitHub
Bob Marley in inkscape
I'm not deep in Lisp's culture, but his claim might still very much hold.

The fact that you can name two math-related Lisp projects doesn't mean that those play a big role in "Lisp culture" in general.

How important are Maxima and Axiom for the average Lisper?

Are they pillars of the Lisp culture or outliers? There very well might be a thriving 1% math-loving Lisp community and a 99% who are hostile to math.

Those are the right questions to ask, not if counter-examples merely exist.
My personal feelings are that mankind needs to evolve a new common morality of how to deal with animals.

But -- and this is a big caveat -- that might take 20-80 years. We'll at least need to be able to generate laboratory animal protein first, and many questions involving animals will only have compromises for answers. Unfortunately for many who remain upset about animal welfare, humans are an intricate part of the ecosystem of Earth. As much as we would like to live in a vacuum, we're at the top of the food chain and the rest of the planet exists to feed and sustain us (at least in a functional sense)

There's also a tendency with artists to confuse "things I can get really upset about" with art. So, frankly, we have a lot of stupid and shallow-minded folks who self-stimulate by getting upset over all kinds of stuff. There are a lot of people making a really good living staying in a state of outrage -- and they tend to want to bring the rest of us along with them. Not healthy for a media consumer.

By no means am I implying that this film or these film-makers fit that pattern. I haven't watched it. I'm simply stating the nature of modern art as I currently understand it. Ranting, emotional manipulation, and groupthink wins out over thoughtful reflection every time.

And, also frankly, as much as we like to be self-centered about these things, there's really nothing much to say that man is all that special in the big scheme of things. Having us treat the rest of the animal kingdom poorly, burn lots of fossil fuels, change the acidity of the ocean, and pollute the air? It may be no more unnatural across the universe than a lion eating a gazelle. In fact, to a civilization advanced just a few thousand years ahead of us, none of this would even be a blip on the radar of things they'd be concerned about. It'd be like trying to lecture a cow not to eat grass. We tend to be very narrow-minded, even when we're trying explicitly not to be.
Did you manage to download the whole database that way?
Edit: Also, why didn't you use the "start" (offset) parameter?
Because quality datasets are hard to get. E.g. on reddit you would just get cats and memes.