skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's part of a general trend as civilization progresses to specialize away from activities somebody else can handle. I didn't build my house, weave my clothes, can my vegetables, smith my tools or anything else. I also don't grow my own food plants and raise any livestock.

But I agree that everybody should have some education about all these things so we understand where it all comes from.
Edward Tufte to the rescue!
Well, definitely Powershell.
I get the best out of it by knowing about its -f option, and the fact that the program htop is like top but crazier, and there you can press "s" to jump to a paged strace view of any process you can control.
Oh please! The fines are for disabling the controls that would have automatically flagged money laundering transactions. Source: the link OP posted.

Still, it is a mere slap on the wrist that is guaranteed to have no permanent repercussions to deter such behavior. It's a clusterfuck and I don't see a solution emerging without both the war on drugs ending and multi-year incarceration becoming mandatory for financial crimes.
Sheesh,

To compare that with getting a SIM in Thailand.

You go to one of the three vendors, who set up a stall at BKK hand over your phone and they insert the SIM and configure it (useful if you want Internet access). 5 minutes later and 1'000 bt (ca. 30USD) poorer (depending on the plan) you are on your merry ways.
Have you seen "Baraka"? When it shows people living like sardines, and chicken being put on conveyor belts having their beaks singed off.. how equal do things have to be so they can be compared? Yes, the Nazis were clearly different in their hatred and their torture. Yet when I see chicken in darkness and tiny cages, I do get a similar vibe, that is, some of what appals me about concentration camps, is also present there. Sentient beings suffering in cages for the supposed benefit of others. One is apathic, the other hateful, one is towards animals, the other towards humans ( = the animal we most closely identify with), but otherwise..?

Take this statement for example:

"[..] if one is in touch with one's own unconscious reality, I think one would have to admit that in all of us there is a piece of Eichmann, and if you ask why, on what basis do I say this, then I would ask you wether you have lost your appetite when you read that in India people were starving, or wether you have gone on eating. As soon as you have not lost your appetite, when you knew other people were starving, then your heart has hardened, and in principle, you have done the same which Eichmann did."

-- Erich Fromm ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psVNR51ctdc&t=33m28s )

Do you find this offensive too, or do you agree he has a point? I think the key concept here and elsewhere is "in principle".
Heh, the LISP bullet is the only one with footnotes. Very subtle :)
In my opinion realizing that speciesism is wrong directly leads to veganism. I do think that it's import that point out that veganism is a mere side-product of anti-speciesism.
Ha - there's another post right now that's talking about how tough it is to open bank accounts in the UK due to the "terrorism" protection laws. It's usually the common folk who get screwed with the new processes.

If it gets too hard to do this people just come up with hacks around it. Similar to how a stranger at the hotel just vouched as a reference without knowing me very well.
Getting a SIM card is equally arduous even for Indian citizens. You need to have an ID proof, address proof and of course a photo. If you are a married woman and have changed the middle/last name after marriage, you also need to give a marriage certificate copy! And you have to provide these docs at regular intervals.

Despite this, some unscrupulous people manage to get hundreds of SIM cards activated, some times for crime, some times just to vote on Reality TV shows on behalf of a contestant.

300 for a SIM is too much. Reliance charges INR 10 ($0.16) for SIM.
I know the process in Europe (Germany & Italy, at least) is similar, without the need for a local reference or visa. I was very surprised (and frustrated) to discover the need for a photocopy of my passport, but the need for connectivity and the inexpensiveness of the plans finally won me over.
This is old and does not really demonstrate the importance like a study would.
> I have no problem with animals being killed for food or clothing.

Without knowing what that entails, that is super easy and kinda meaningless to say though.
Website is broken in my Firefox 26 config. (Not due to NoScript. Might be one of the anti-tracking-cookie utils I use ...)

NB: My complaint isn't that it's not working, but that it doesn't degrade gracefully to (at least) a brief textual description.
Indeed! In fact, it occurs to me that you can get something of a 'best of both worlds' solution between the elegant mathematical solution and the exactness of the recursive solution very easily in Haskell, by defining the field extension* Q(√5), i.e. the rational numbers extended with the square root of 5

import Data.Ratio

-- The number (a :+ b) represents (a + b √5)
data Q5 = Rational :+ Rational deriving (Show)

instance Num Q5 where
(a :+ b) + (c :+ d) = (a + c) :+ (b + d)
(a :+ b) * (c :+ d) = (a * c + 5 * b * d) :+ (a * d + b * c)

phi = (1 % 2) :+ (1 % 2)

It's now enough to notice that the coefficient of √5 in phi^n is half the n'th fibonacci number, so define

fib n = let a :+ b = phi^n in round (2 * b)

to get

>> fib 10
55
>> fib 20
6765
>> fib 80
23416728348467685 -- exact result in O(log n)!

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_extension
The horizontal lines and y-axis labels were particularly helpful for comparing non-adjacent bars.
So, is the "contrasting" rationally wrong, or merely politically incorrect?

The whole point of anti-speciesism is that humans shouldn't be put on a pedestal. So, in effect, you're arguing that an anti-speciesist movie is wrong because it's anti-speciesist.
>However, I'm not going to sit through another manipulative propaganda film from the anti-meat lobby.

Yes, the billion dollar tofu-industry has created this propaganda film.

>I'm happy being an omnivore, thankyouverymuch, and I have no problem with animals being killed for food or clothing.

Is your argument that you don't want to watch a movie because you don't agree with it before hand? I recommend you to reconsider the function of documentary films.
They compare the way we treat animals in the farm with the concentration camps. No with meat consumption, meat consumption is not bad at all. Animals can be treated in a good way.
It isn't broken and it doesn't need replacing.

There are two main sources of the "email is broken" meme. The first came from the snail mail industry, partly in cahoots with the big telco's. The snail mail industry of course quite rightly identified email as a competitor that completely undermined their business, and the telco's saw an opportunity to charge for more than just the bare wires. Verified and most importantly paid email was touted as the solution for spam, but it was really all about money.

The second source are the post dot-com bust social media generation of start-ups, who recognize that killing an open standard and replacing it with a proprietary communication protocol can be highly profitable. They've already managed to reduce several protocols to small niches (IRC, Usenet), but SMTP is the big prize. Just imagine being the company the whole world uses for their next generation email.

Of course for any of that to happen people have to believe email is broken. So next time you read that "email is broken", I suggest you follow the money. There's always someone behind it looking to profit from it.
There are laws and there are American interests that tend to have precedence. It's about risk assessment - how much of a fallout can be expected. In case of Russia, it's likely to be substantial, so the US don't intervene. If you talk about "colonial" South America - few people will care.

A presidential plane can be grounded en route and searched. And you talk about safety of a former NSA contractor here.
Top App Money Makers for 2013? It’s All About Free Apps
> Perhaps this is the first story of the new wave

Did you see that it's from 2012? (unfortunately only really visible in "20121213" in the URL, and the dates on his links) I guess it's a slow wave, if any.
Looks nice. I'm going to read through all these if I can get them to load. If you are looking for another resource, try https://egghead.io/lessons
O2 own giffgaff, so not exactly a competitor. Which makes it all the more of a facepalm.
Hopefully I won't get down voted for this, but I've never understood why developers use something like Wordpress. Use Jekyll or Middleman. If you have the knowledge to do Angular tutorials you can type middleman build in a command line.

At work I've successfully taught a graphics designer and video editor to use Middleman. We use Github as the CMS(with markdown). They can pull down site with Github application and click a .command file to run it(for more involved changes). When they push it back up, it automatically builds. Just needs one click from there to go live.

Sorry for the little rant. The site does look promising but I can't get the other pages to load.
while nominally the process in Germany is similar, if you do get a SIM from a touristy area, they don't really put you through the paperwork. I went into a store and brought a SIM card and they didn't even ask for an address, the shop assistant put his own store's address into the customer address field on the point of sale system.

In the UK there are vending machines at the airport.
EU law is a term used for all regulation from the EU and sometimes for EU court rulings as well. Most EU legislation is issued as "directives" (such as the EU directive on money laundering), which are to be implemented by the member states in their local laws, or "regulations", which apply directly without any need for national implementation. Now, this distinction is blurred by the fact that directives also have direct effects in certain situations (so that the provisions of the directive can be invoked even if they are not implementer), for example when a member state fails to implement it on time or correctly.
The url to Teespring in the header is broken:

"Editor’s note: Evan Stites-Clayton is Co-Founder at Teespring. Eric Koslow is Lead Developer at Teespring."

=> hhttp://www.teespring.com/
The looming end of XP comes up periodically, usually with some mention of needed enterprise and small business software that does not run on anything else. (I recently noticed that my dentist's systems were running XP; and wondered, without asking, if she could upgrade even if she wanted to.)

But I think part of the problem is that it's so inconvenient for an individual to move from an XP machine even if (s)he can--even moving to another XP machine is a pain. I remember our VP turning down a laptop upgrade (this was 2006 or so) because she didn't want to fuss with the settings on a new machine. Coming from a VMS/Unix/Linux background, this just struck me as out-of-place (though, of course, I'd gone through the same difficulty at home).
That's surprising. I'd think locals would know where to go and who to talk to get everything working. As a foreigner it's tough to know what to expect and different places will tell you different things.

I guess the 300 rupees was the foreigner tax.
The procedure is same for Indian citizens too. All operators ask for address proof, ID proof and a passport size photo. You'll immediately get SIM card and it would be activated after 24 hours, sometimes much sooner. Moreover, if you're buying a postpaid or Internet connection, then operators send somebody to the address you've given during purchase to verify if it's genuine.

All these steps are in place to prevent criminals/terrorists getting SIM cards with fake identities:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-17/hyder...

This link has some info for travelers:

http://www.indiamike.com/india-articles/buying-a-prepaid-sim...
Oh Please! Matt Taibbi is in no way a credible source.

> Disabling

Or alternatively, just not enabling tougher controls. There's no evidence, or indeed suggestion by prosecutors, that controls were deliberately set low to deliberatly faciliate money laundering.
This is a class on agriculture in our local high schools. They teach exactly what you list. But it's elective. It was very instructive for my daughter and she gave up hotdogs as a result. (She gave them up because of the "random junk" ingredients.)
A lot of kids shows had a mass exodus to Amazon a few months ago. So they don't even have those anymore.
Grieving Italian dad turns dead son into diamond
How is it specisist to eat things that an omnivore naturally eats in Nature?
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I think there is a large transitional zone between veganism and, well, non-veganism. I don't see anything wrong with my neighbour's hobby chicken farm (of 4) for example. It's the industrialized setting, designed to be opaque to its consumers, that one should be opposed to.
Ask HN: Any time tracking apps that also track IPs?
I’m constantly hiring contractors from Odesk and finding out later that they are outsourcing the work I am giving them to contractors who are far less skilled. Odesk has a time tracking app that also shows work screenshots but you cannot get any data to determine if the contractor you hired is actually performing the work.
So, I’m trying to find an app similar to the Odesk time tracking app that also has IP tracking. Thanks for any help.
Yikes, 1000THB? You can just go to 7-11 and buy a SIM card for 50 baht ($1.50). They have 3G capable ones too.
It works fine with it without any tricks. You must use Nightly builds for this http://5digits.org/nightlies
"The Department alleges, and HSBC Bank USA admits, that HSBC Bank USA’s conduct, as described herein, violated the BSA. Specifically, HSBC Bank USA violated Title 31, United States Code, Section 5318(h)(1), which makes it a crime to willfully fail to establish and maintain an effective AML program, and Title 31, United States Code, Section 5318(i)(1), which makes it a crime to willfully fail to establish due diligence for foreign correspondent accounts."

http://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/hsbc/dpa-attachment-a.p...
Calculating recurrences is a very common problem in CS. We have an entire toolset -- dynamic programming -- built around it.

Yes, if you take the simplest recurrence and say "calculate it" it may sound artificial. But all the tools that can be used for this example -- direct formula, repeated squaring, dynamic programming -- can be used for more complicated recurrences also.
> User experience while crashing improved; some users have reported over a 200% improvement here

lolwut?

> Directory listing is now more accurate

It was inaccurate before?
Interesting. In Australia, you go to any store or 7-11/newsagent, buy a SIM starter kit, show photo ID and sign a document saying you're not a terrorist, then out in the SIM and activate it online or over the phone.
Bureaucracy ( where success is measured in how confidentially a PowerPoint can be presented and how well you can say "synergy" with a straight face ) can't design and manage software creation.

This is not going to change because why would the bureaucrats give power to the technocrats?

It's not like they're going bankrupt. Incompetent middle mangers, management by crisis of the month, accountants and contractors running the systems would mean bankruptcy in the business world. In government, it's more muddle to manage and "a budget increase would fix the problem".
I remember when Enlightenment was the bloated and slow eyecandy environment for only the latest and greatest. Now it's the minimal and lean environment for limited hardware. It's funny how the times change.
I don't need a bank account for utilities in the US. The easiest way to pay is by check my mail or credit card online but if you did not have a bank account you can pay in person or get a money order or maybe even a prepaid debit card?
somebody got good websites on best practice visualization?
They could have used horizontal bars instead of vertical. It takes up much less space and easier to place the labels. This GIF shows a similar animation, but with a 90 degree rotation and a little more information.

http://blog.bissantz.com/images/2008/01/tod_der_businessgraf...

I wonder why they add the table grid at the end. A grid could have been useful if there were a lot of columns, but certainly not in this case.

This is a similar idea I was working on
http://vpj.svbtle.com/variable-length-underlining-to-help-se...
It used to be relatively hassle free until the terrorist attacks of recent years (they used cellphones to coordinate movement). Indian KYC (know your customer) rules are the counterpart of having to take your shoes off at the airport in the US.
What marvellous hyperbole!

Absolutely, if you read about starving people and don't stop eating, that must be much the same as planning and executing a racially motivated campaign of genocide!

I don't think it's offensive. I think it's ridiculous, and no, not the same in principle at all.
I also had a clerk use the store's address. As well as allow me to use my DL# as ID, now that I remember.

I wasn't necessarily trying to equate the two, but it's definitely different from the days of "buy a prepaid phone for cash", a la, Bourne. :)
There are definitely plenty of ex-gamers lurking on HN. I played under the nickname Daler in the United States. Mostly played Quake and Doom tournaments, but have competed on a variety of other games.

Unfortunately during the time I competed, there were many companies that would spring up and run tournaments with prizes that they ultimately could not pay out on. Or at best, the money would eventually get paid out months/years later. It was very hard for companies to make return on investment when running these gaming sites and tournaments. Overall, it was the work done by volunteers and "teenagers" that made the best events/sites/tournaments...

I always found it very unfortunate that the gaming scene was full of exploitation for these companies. What happened to the GGL (similarly the CPL), comes at no surprise.
Actually Clinton is allergic to smoke, and was well known on campus for making hash cookies which is why he said 'never inhaled' because he ate weed instead. Too bad he went on to throw countless people in prison for doing exactly what he used to do.
Ask HN: Let's predict. What's your prediction for 2014?
ok, so as usual, bloggers are starting to write their usual "My prediction for 2014" pieces.

e.g.
http://readwrite.com/2013/12/20/mobile-smartwatches-google-glass-apple-android-ios-2014-predictions

Wanted to do something similar here and ask what others think 2014 will bring in startups/tech industry.

Let's keep it simple by only writing ONE prediction at a time. I'm thinking it might be slightly easier to discuss, share links and vote.
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This used to be the case in India too. Criminals used prepaid SIM cards for their communication and if memory serves me right it was also used to orchestrate a terrorist act.
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There may be a point on optionally blocking pure, meant to be porn, sites. But when you block wikipedia, youtube, art galleries, xkcd, social sites and so on because it could show somewhere some skin or talk about life as it is, you are forcing people to skip your filters in the best case, and get disconnected to good part of the digital world in the worst with all that could come after that.
Show HN: The Termcat Markup Language
So you can't have a client who's illegally in the country, like asylum seekers, or any ID will do fine? I always thought defending someone in court was like being a doctor, you should help them no matter what.
Looks like you re-posted your own old submission. Nothing wrong with it I guess since people are still interested judging from upvotes. But that would be one of the reasons "the quality of HN threads is going down" as many complain. Some older users don't even want to comment anymore, since it's all the same thing re-posted all over again. Well that and bitcoin/NSA "news".
Of course it's failing. Screwed up accounting allows for easier stealing and harder to pinpoint who/when/where money ended up.
According to Wikipedia: "Speciesism involves the assignment of different values, rights, or special consideration to individuals solely on the basis of their species membership."

A non-speciesist who kills other animals to eat them would be a priori okay with killing humans to eating them.
Yeah, @retube has a political agenda. Why even bother with those shills?
In my area (Midwest), Walmart, Costco and Home Depot have some competition that would love to pick up that slack. Meijer is a super store challenger to Walmart, with Spartan Stores/D&W/Family Fare and Kroger challenging Walmart for food. Home Depot has Lowes (pretty sure they're nationwide). Costco has Sams Club (part of Walmart) for general merchandise and GFS Marketplace for food. The real monopoly in my mind is Best Buy. I don't know how they stay open, but I certainly don't see any competitors in my area.

Walmart may drive out mom and pop stores, but there are plenty of regional chains still around.
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

http://www.perceptualedge.com/

I've read books by both these authors and they were very good. Their websites cover most of the important content found in the books.
Not everywhere in Europe – from my experience to get a prepaid SIM card in Austria, France, Sweden, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and most likely many other countries you just need to plop some cash on the counter and be on your merry way. Documentation is generally only required for a card with a contract.
This is something I created when I was attending Hacker School. Our batch just ended last Friday and so I felt now was a good time to show it here and get some more feedback.

I realize many features are still missing. However, I do believe I have created solid foundations to build on and I'd say a sizable subset of the missing features are low hanging fruit. Perhaps most importantly, I'm using Termcat right now and I'm already finding it useful in it's present state.
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Does Brazil forbid extradition in particular cases that might bring the death penalty, or does it flat forbid all extradition to countries that have the death penalty at all?
Comparing the Cost of Different Multiple-return Techniques in C
I reject the very idea that omnivorous diet is in any way or form connected with speciesism.

As humans, we have the ability (through not uniquely) to consider the acts we do in a third-party perspective. We can think about the consequences of our actions, and how our actions will effect nature. We can think rational about fishing, hunting, and even keeping a healthy sized population of farm animals. One can respect animals while at the same time making sure that a population of fast breeding animals are kept to a size which is healthy.
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So a non-speciesist also considers every act of animal-on-animal violence in the natural world to be tantamount to murder and cannibalism?
I'm not sure if lumping Zappos (1500 employees) with GitHub (100 employees) makes much sense. I don't believe the organizational structure has an impact until you get over a few hundred employees.

It's kind of like sports. If you are playing in a niche sport that only has 3 teams then you don't really need committees to maintain the rulebook, a referee union, a centralized body to represent the teams or a players' union.

When you're small enough everything just either works or doesn't. The owners of the company are personally involved, you feel responsible for the success and there's a great deal of transparency.

With that said I do believe most smaller companies should be flatter, and that it starts at the top, like not having a CTO, CIO, VP Technology, Director Technology, Director of IS for a 20 person company.