skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of the topics you mentioned require hierarchy.

Benefits: "This is an offer I received from corp X for pension funds. Yay or Nay?"

Vacations: Take as much vacation as you feel like. If you take too much, your peers will fire you.

Sabbaticals: If you are worth it you are always welcome back.

Training: Ms Alice. Meet your mentor Bob. Bob will take care of your first steps within the company and teach you the way we do stuff around here. From here on you will have a variety of mentors for the different areas of work you will be working on. You will receive a full voice within the quorum after period X and after your peers have been satisfied with your indoctrination to the way we do shit around here.

Accounting: I don't know why orders and invoices could not be handled in the way I prescribed. There would still be an "accounting" function. Processing incoming and outgoing payments. You can't have Jack the lorry driver signing the financial reports, can you?
I've seen it some months ago and I would lean to the manipulation side.
There are a lot of heavy-handed comparisons (e.g. to the holocaust) and things like that just to get their point across.

I agree that the imagery is powerful and will most likely haunt a lot of people for days or weeks, but the narration bothered me at a number of points during the documentary
First time I've seen Jimmy Wales jump into a discussion. In Aubrey's defense, in this case:

"I am entirely unconvinced by the quite frankly bizarre claim that the credentialed experts on the board of Mr. De Gray's foundation don't 'count' towards respectability since they are 'conflicted'. Conflicted in that they endorse his work? It makes no sense. Also, be very careful that you are not edging into uncivil personal attack by hinting darkly about his bona fides as a scientist - he has a Phd from Cambridge University based on 'The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging'!"
If every miner would join in, preventing spending would be possible. Reversing the spending is near impossible (it would take cooperation of not just the miners, but also every address that was in a transaction since the offending transaction).
Diagnosing Software Defects from Screenshots
Paid maternity leave world maps for mothers and fathers
Great to hear I drink the same coffee everyday that is served by Michelin starred restaurants. Viva la Nespresso!
You may intend differently but this sounds incredibly passive. And is deleterious to change.

Revolutions like the main stream popularization of the computer or the rapid boom of the iphone seem to 'just happen'. But this obscures the toil of the drivers of said changes. By encouraging us to let 'it just happen' you are encouraging the hacker community to be passive in determining its own outcome.

However, it does seems misleading to serve teaching the recursive solution to fibonacci to students learning recursion as an example of bad practice or of demonstrative of Math's secondary role in computing. Fibonacci's are a very intuitive, and instructive, application of recursion (its efficiency is irrelevant here).

What specific areas of modern computing underutilize mathematics in favor of abstraction despite any tenable reason?
Yes, so what? There is nothing in this wording that suggests that thresholds were set deliberately to facilitate money laundering. It's just a statement of where the threshold was set. Perhaps in retrospect it was too weak, but given the volumes of cash a bank like HSBC processes I'm sure they were trying to strike a balance between appropriate oversight and what's operationally feasible.
Still a good read a few years later.
Point 17: "From 2006 to 2009, 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."

From point 16, CAMP is the "Customer Account Monitoring Program" automated system which monitors wire transfers.

-> Therefore, HSBC Bank USA knowingly took "active steps to disable specific automated countermeasure."

Point 19 "Despite this evidence of the serious money laundering risks associated with doing business in Mexico, from at least 2006 to 2009, HSBC Bank USA rated Mexico as standard risk, its lowest AML risk category. As a result, wire transfers originating from Mexico, including transactions from HSBC Mexico, were generally
not reviewed in the CAMP system." (Point 18 establishes that "Between 2000 and 2009, HSBC Bank USA, and its executives and officers, were aware of numerous publicly available and industry-wide advisories about the money laundering risks inherent to Mexican financial institutions")

-> Therefore, HSBC willfully disabled specific automated countermeasures.

=> Combine these two "therefore"s, and you'll see that milkshakes's statement is confirmed.

Or look at points 64-66, which establishes that HSBC Bank plc bypassed the automated system which detects funds transfers involving a Sanctioned Entity. They would put a "cautionary note in their SWIFT payment messages" the the messages would "[fall] into what HSBC Europe termed a “repair queue” where HSBC Europe employees manually removed all references to the Sanctioned Entities." HSB know about this since 2000, and their compliance group spoke up about it in 2003.

=> So there were at least two automated systems where "specific automated countermeasures" were "knowingly and willfully" bypassed.

These weren't all that hard to find - I looked for the word "automated".
You can just use cash if you have a key meter like millions of people in the UK.

You don't need an account.
Depends on the intent. If it is user-initiated (like say a mobile formatted version of the site), it wouldn't have to be obey the robots.txt, since it is not a crawler, just another web browser.
'Pester Power' Fuels Mobile And Tablet Sales
That novel has too much Russian mafia inside.
Ah, ok.

So where is the protest?
Oh come on, really? Contrasting caged animals with jews in concentration camps? Meat consumption equals holocaust? People feeding on meat equal Hitler?

I can see the point animal rights activists are tring to make, but the hypocrisy of this movie was already making me sick when I watched it the first time a couple years back.
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MaxStone Kickstarts A Remote iPhone Shutter For Digital Cameras + Bluetooth...
Just a nitpick: there is really no such thing as "EU law". EU directives bind nations and force them to implement them in the local context, but any law you are bound to is the local law.

(The distinction is important in the current political climate, since the excuse "it's EU law" is abused by politicians to steamroll the local electorate into believing they have no say in the matter, and pretend they can not be challenged locally. That's how we got screwed with for instance data retention "laws" that are blatantly unconstitutional in several EU member states.)
I wonder: While Tabibi says that's just several weeks worth to HSBC, then what would have been an appropriate amount without threatening the financial system?

I see the logic of how unfair it is for no jail time for anyone at HSBC. Perhaps this is something that is highly unlikely or too steep a battle to fight. Maybe then, at least the settlement could have been more than the "record $1.92 billion settlement".
Sribe: Copy anything from your Mac to your iPhone
Humans did kill and eat other species to survive. At this point, Americans eat far more animals than needed solely for survival - often so much as to be unhealthy - and it is quite possible to survive and thrive without consuming animals.
> Failure to Maintain an Effective Money Laundering Program, Failure to Conduct Due Diligence on Correspondent Bank Accounts Involving Foreign Persons

Yes, exactly, they are being penalised for weak controls as I said, not for wilful complicity in money laundering

> for knowingly and willfully facilitating prohibited transactions with Iran, Libya, Sudan, and Burma.... for moving money for Cuba

well that's got nothing to do with mexican drug money laundering, and whilst that may well have been in contravnention of US law at a moral or ethical level there's nothing (superficially) wrong here; plenty of reasons for legitimate business with these states which a UK company should be able to conduct if it chooses.
*I meant to say we published over 800 titles in 2013!
Why Microsoft Must Embrace Android to Save Windows
They turned off the money laundering alarm systems for over 200 trillion (yes tr-illion) - much of it from mexico.

Come on - prosecute this one.

I remember an article about the new form of journalism at the end of the Rockefeller/Morgan era, where detailed and specific highlighting of the outrageous crimes brought about notable social change.

Perhaps this is the first story of the new wave - I would like to think so because only corrupt banking can get money cleaned for criminals - and cryptolocker is just the first of a new wave of crime.
Enterprise Software Lessons: Selling Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up
This solution -- O(log n) through repeated squaring -- is a good illustration of usefulness of many areas that "neighbor" computer science, such as linear algebra, combinatorics and graph theory.

By the way, if you want to pick up a book on cool applications of linear algebra, I recommend this one (PDF available for free):

Jiří Matoušek - Thirty-three miniatures (Mathematical and algorithmic applications of linear algebra) http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~matousek/la-ams.html
Python has this with the "key" argument to "sort".

list.sort(key=lambda x: x.lower())
Agreed until it removed the numbers in y-axis. I want to see the scale, minimum, and maximum points in evenly spaced lines, whether logarithmic or linear space is used. This way, these details slightly disappear, or become harder to interpret.
You'll pay a hefty premium for that though - it's just one of the ways life is more expensive for the poor than for the wealthy.
>>> Meat consumption equals holocaust? People feeding on meat equal Hitler?

There's no such affirmations in the documentary. Not even close.
Why the share button running away from my cursor?
Taking a closer look at badBIOS
I think Microsoft's issue is that it tries to do too much under one umbrella. If MS were multiple companies, the fact that these very same projects lived and died wouldn't be notable.

This sort of stuff happens in the FOSS world all the time: projects grow, live, and die over the course of time. There is the argument that FOSS means "The Community" can take it over and maintain it if it wants, but consumers are not necessarily cut from the same cloth as producers, the skills don't necessarily translate.

I would actually like to see MS do it more often, release more things to the public at much earlier stages, because I think it's their primary differentiator over a company like Apple. Apple has dug themselves into an extremely R&D-intensive process that requires products be sprung fully formed from the head of Zeus. Let's talk about the Newton, the Pippin, the iTunes Phone, the Apple TV, etc. When MS tries to do this (Zune, Windows Phone), they get mocked and people ignore their products, even though in many cases they are technically superior products. MS needs to understand that the tech culture views them as unhip and should stop spending money on trying to change that perception.

The anti-MS sentiment also seems to suggest a scenario in which a programmer would learn a particular programming language once, then live off of that for the rest of his life. We have an excellent example of where that leads, and it's called COBOL. I don't think it's at all unreasonable to expect programmers to learn how to learn. A particular MS or FOSS tech stalling out and dying is not going to be a huge impact on you if you're not betting the farm on one thing.

MS writes good software. You can't keep blaming the size and breadth of the company on anti-competitive behavior from the early 90s that they had already curbed by the time the DOJ tagged them for it. You can arm-chair quarterback and say that a particular example sucks compared to another particular thing, but in most of those cases it's missing the ecosystem and context of the times. Windows was the best home desktop operating system; it had its problems but every OS had problems back then. Internet Explorer really was better than Netscape Navigator (when IE6 was released in 2001, for the times it was good. The five year resting-on-laurels period was the mistake). At any period in time, regardless of how bad the latest version of Visual Studio has been, not comparing it against itself, it has been the best full-featured development IDE on the market (even the first VS.NET in 2002 was better than any non-VS product).

Then someone hired Ballmer to take over and he treated the company like a Detroit manufacturing behemoth. Any successes post-Ballmer were a result of R&D efforts that started before he took over that were too obviously going to succeed for even Ballmer to give them the axe.
your argument might carry more credibility if the rest of the document did not go on to extensively document the backdrop against which this and similar decisions were made. in fact, that's the entire point of this document.
You sure are very naïve. Just Google for: HSBC crime history
as usual the public is given only one side of the story. No one mentions the fact that this die off happens exclusively in Navy testing areas like FL, Virginia, etc. No journalist bothered to dig deeper and learn a thing or two about morbillivirus. Morbillivirus is a convenient scapegoat because it is naturally present in wild populations. In fact there have been several studies documenting virus presence in wild dolphins without any die offs. It is like herpes in humans.

Additionally, no one mentions that die off includes offshore species like humpback, pygmy sperm whales, common dolphins that not only do not mingle with coastal bottlenose dolphins, but rarely mingle with each other. Kogias (pygmy sperm whales) are solitary cetaceans and do not come in close contact with anyone to get a virus that needs proximity to get infection.

This whole thing is one giant cover-up for the Navy as they are the ones causing this. It will continue, as they just got awarded another permit to decimate marine life for next 5 years. There is a severe ecocide going on out there, and virus gets the blame.

EDIT: WE have been tracking strandings worldwide and can say that many whales and dolphins deaths are caused by human activities like Big Oil explorations and Navy exercises and tests. What is worse, the new field of deep sea mining will pose even more danger to marine life. We can use any help we can get, if someone wants to help us, please get in touch with me.
I love meat, it's an important and delicious part of the human omnivorous diet.

That being said, I wouldn't object to the periods wasted on home economics in middle school being turned into a "sources of food" education class that included trips to farms, food processors, factories, sausage-makers and slaughterhouses. It should be on par with "sex education" in terms of parental consent, but should be a necessary and important part of every child's education. It should include information on nutrition, vitamin and mineral sources, discussions on food chain contamination and concentrations of heavy metals and contaminants in the upper ends of the food chain and what that means (and why we as a species tend not to eat animals like apex hunters). Oddball foods that kids wouldn't normally eat at home like yeast paste, soy products and seaweed/kelp/sea vegetables should be included.

I grew up pretty rural in my teens so a class like this would have been a bit superfluous -- there's a cattle farm not 10 minutes from my parent's house. Growing up around farms, you get to know the birth-to-dinner plate process for food stock animals pretty quick. Many of my neighbors were too poor to buy meat, but filled a couple chest freezers every year with meat during deer season. It's not unusual to see a deer being processed in somebody's yard where I grew up. Deer are very good eating.

But before that I was a city kid (until my parents fled to the boondocks), and had I finished growing up in the city, would have needed an education like this to understand better what I'm eating and why.

I wouldn't even object to two films being shown as part of the curriculum, industry standard humane practices for food stock animal handling, and PETA style shock videos of unethical and deplorable conditions...leaving it open for the students to reach their own conclusions about what it means and what to do about it.
I don't think this illustrates the practical usefulness of mathematics. This is not a practical problem, it's a mathematical problem. It's no surprise that maths is useful for solving it. A better case for math can be made with machine learning, image and audio processing, etc.
Look promising.

As others have said, it's too slow to be of any use. Also, I agree that the animations on the front page are terrible and need to go.
Losers Gonna Lose
The fact that the landing page immediately suggests going vegan is a turn-off for me.

I'm all for the humane treatment of animals, and I'll gladly pay several times more for my meat and eat considerably less off it. In fact I think most of the mass meat production methods should be completely outlawed.

However, I'm not going to sit through another manipulative propaganda film from the anti-meat lobby. I'm happy being an omnivore, thankyouverymuch, and I have no problem with animals being killed for food or clothing.
I haven't heard anyone talk about the death penalty for Snowden. Manning got 35 years. I'm sure the US gov would be happy to lock Snowden up for the rest of his life (instead of the death penalty) if it meant they could get him back on US soil.
Why the Pentagon’s many campaigns to clean up its accounts are failing
Perl 6 has three comparisons: "<=>" for numeric, "leg" for string (stands for less equal greater), and "cmp" as described above.
CyanogenMod downloaded 10 million times as it begins to go legit
We can already feed everyone. The problem is distribution, not production.
Is 4K BS?
ORCA: Bringing Digital Sight to the Vision Impaired
This is a wonderful way to say it.

My further extrapolation is to turn the full might of the market to advertise and sell poverty relief without treating it like charity but instead treating it like a product. None of the moralizing, just focus on what the purchaser will get out of the exchange, like any other product.
IOS 6.1.3/6.1.5 Untethered Jailbreak Released
Porn is not the problem — you are[0].

[0]: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201305/p...
(a) There are "EU Regulation" which are actual laws. But "Directives" are more common.

(b) Regardless, an EU Directive is essentially an "EU law". It's a distinction without much of a difference.

(c) Some countries' constitutions say "All EU law/directives/whatever are binding and constitutional, unless the country leaves the EU". The Irish constitution has this sort of clause.

(d) EU law/directives/regulation is created by the EU. Which we vote on. European Parliament elections are coming up in 2014. If you think you have no say in the EU, vote in the EP elections and vote in your national elections. Those 2 directly elected bodies control EU law.
I found this article so stimulating when it first came out that it led to me writing an alternative analysis: http://lee-phillips.org/lispmath/
Also remember that RSA was initially deceptive to their customers regarding the extent of the SecureID compromise a couple of years ago. Their conduct during that compromise makes it difficult to trust statements they make now.
I think this is really where the current issue with the extremely wealthy lies.

I don't have an issue with anyone accumulating wealth, but I do take issue with people who are able to use that wealth to circumvent the law and increase their wealth through illegal means.

Maybe I should have become a banker instead of a software developer.
> First off, to get a SIM card as a foreigner in India, you need to have a copy of your passport and visa, a passport sized photo, and a local to act as a reference

Except the local reference part, you go through a similar procedure in Saudi Arabia... in fact.. you need to supply your Iqama (work permit) or passport number over the phone every time you need to topup your SIM. All this in the name of curbing "terrorism"
This is an excellent documentary but I'm surprised on how many people simply don't get the point.

This documentary is not about being vegan, is about give the animals a decent live and improve the way we treat them. Also talks about speciesism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism comparing it to racism.

The documentary shows crude images, but this is how it is. Closing the eyes to the reality won't make it better.
Nothing in that article is a reason why they are introducing the porn filters in the UK
There is 35 years old book surprisingly relevant even today

http://books.google.gr/books?id=cG6f-mxkJo0C&lpg=PA59&ots=Vz...
In Tech Buying, U.S. Still Stuck in Last Century
First Colonialism and Hitler scenes starting at 3:08. What do these two have to do with the consumption of animals? The intention is obviously "hey look it's the basically same".
I think the issue is, in order to actually prosecute specific individuals criminally, the government would have had to prove that they indeed intended to launder money, as opposed to say make it easier for Mexican factories to pay suppliers in the US. Criminal burden of proof is much higher than the one required for a civil prosecution. The fact that the bank very openly subverted the money laundering controls probably makes it HARDER to prosecute, not easier since they probably also had legal language describing all the legitimate reasons for doing so, etc.
I respectfully prefer Elive as a vehicle to show Enlightenment to a person who may or may not be a Linux newbie.

The stable release is a bit old (lenny) but you don't have to use the stable release, and in fact if you don't, you are not harassed by the installer module to pay $5 or $15.

The hard part these days isn't compiling, it's showing folks in a way that convinced them they should install, without leaving them in the dark about what that means, and not taking their $5. It's very easy to just take the $5 and do it for them, if they can stand to use Firefox 3.0.6.

All of this is not germane to E18, since even current developer releases of Elive are still on E17.
I've started to play with Nimrod and I will definitively continue in 2014. Macros are not always easy to use but they are clean and powerful (I'm mostly a C programmer ...)
> There's a reason for the word "tragedy" in the phrase, "the tragedy of the commons"

Small but important clarification: as Garrett Hardin later said, he should have called it the tragedy of the unregulated commons. The problem is not the fact that the ocean doesn't have a private owner but rather that the legal framework does not presently cover its responsible access and use.
"What is Porn Anyway?" is a philosophical question. So you're actually misfiring in your claim of irrelevancy.

OP opened a can of worms. Seriously. (No, really: seriously.)

Arguing that it's art? That it is in itself valuable to culture as "low art" is? This isn't a question restricted to the UK, and it's one we need to get philosophically astute about pretty fast. So, again: Porn is not the problem — you are.

Whatever it is, analogies to automobile accidents and art, in any sense, is a stretch beyond palatability, and makes this entire discussion look entirely intellectually one-sided. I think such talk is a disservice to the discussion, and maybe porn should be blocked on those grounds alone, for I am quite sure OP's aesthetics are common.
No idea why this comment is being downvoted. Although s/Americans/most-of-the-first-world.