skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To solve problems, first you have to identify the problem, then examine possible solutions to establish how the solutions will solve the problems.

It is not clear to me how a custom system will solve any of the problems of the process. I'm not close enough to know, but the primary problem is probably entrenched bureaucracy that has been given no reason to change and perceives major threats-to-power if they change. A custom system seems more likely to exacerbate the problem than solve it by giving the entrenched bureaucracy even more knobs to demand they can twiddle (and knobs on the knobs, and knobs on those knobs....), though admittedly the fail is flowing so thickly here it would probably be impossible to distinguish the additional fail from the already stratospheric baseline.
Snapchat is acquired for $4+ billion.
I find it really funny that your suggestion is best implemented with Perlin noise.
I live in Boston, MA, and I have not shopped at a Wal-mart except when I was in China. I'm quite optimistic that other supermarkets will be able to fill its shoes if Wal-mart were to fail.

Perhaps Wal-mart is not a good example. My point is that when a 25000 employee company in any other industry fails (size of Lehman Brothers when it failed), the ripple is much smaller, and therefore, capping the number of employees is not a good idea. I do agree, however, that TBTF is bad. No entity should be TBTF and hold the country hostage.
The regulatory environment HSBC is operating in is more or less the regulatory environment you're complaining about. The law requires HSBC to monitor billions of wire transfers, to breathe down the neck of suspicious persons using their banks, and monitor all of its branches for criminal activity, and they basically did that--but not as much as the US demanded. You don't send an executive to jail because a guy several layers down did something wrong, and popular outrage feels the executive should, somehow, be personally and criminally responsible for that.

The idea that HSBC executives are guilty of... violating the article author's feelings about how anti-drug law should work, or something... is why you don't get your financial news from an unbalanced liar in Rolling Stone magazine. But even Taibbi can't seem to identify what precisely the executives are guilty of, an important prerequisite to prosecution in a nation governed by the rule of law.

As for the regulations, they are the reason why you can't open an account or move large amounts of money without giving the bank enough information to know a substantial portion of your entire financial history, and giving the bank permission to freeze your accounts approximately whenever they feel like it or whenever the government demands. You can think this is a good thing or a bad thing, but since you, Mr. Lawyer, complain about you having to burden yourself with the responsibility of knowing your client, surely you feel it's unfair that banks have to do the same thing? Not to mention the privacy implications.
For a host of reasons, including personal and corporate pressure.
Apple releases their next shocking piece of innovation: a tablet or phone that is two inches larger or smaller than the last one they released with number++.
Oh yes, it starts as ThinkOfTheChildren... but then it's an opt-out process. They know people will feel kinda embarrassed to call their ISP and say "I want porn". And of course, this filter will eventually expand to cover more than that. And now, you have those in power censoring the internet in a China-like fashion, but the masses assume it's just porn. Maybe at first they'll put up an error message from the ISP that "This site is blocked by porn filter" but that would make some people curious and ask questions. So eventually, it'll just 404.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/12/20/bt-gives-parents-tool-t...

http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2013/07/uk-internet-filter-wil...

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130107/1119...

>>This very broad, default censorship is disturbing for at least two reasons. First, because many people will be unaware that this kind of "mature content" censorship is taking place at all, and therefore won't ask for it to be stopped. And secondly, even if they are aware, the fact that asking for the filter to be lifted could be seen as tantamount to wanting to access porn -- something that many will understandably be reluctant to have noted down on their Internet access record -- means that they will simply put up with a limited feed
More annoyingly in India as a tourist if you leave the country you are not allowed back in for 60 days unless it's all prearranged with the embassy as deciding to say pop to Thailand or back to London for a week is evidently a terrorist type thing to do. The main problem with terrorism seems not the infinitesimal risk of actually being killed by one but the certainty of massive inconvenience to everyday people so the politicians can be seen as 'doing something'. Funny aside - I got my Indian SIM in a similar way and then it stopped working which turned out to be because the phone exchange had caught on fire and partly burnt down, which I didn't expect. Indian travel eh?
I dont know how it is in the USA but in europe we have multiple organizations that make sure Food (Animals or not) is processed in a sustainable way. They offer a signet (?) and when producers want it on their food they have to play by the rules. Ever heard of FairTrade ?
All vegans i know hardly buy any food without a signet like that, knowing that its more expensive. But the race to the bottom in food prices is one of the worst developments that leads to so much misery for animals and humans producing food.

I eat meat maybe about once a week and pay 3 times as much as i would have to, but i am not willing to support this development any further.
Unless they are worried about the bill, they can do that with SIMs that roam in India.
Documents produced on a home printer are meaningless for identity or address verification. Anyone can open the PDF in inkscape and make it say any name, address or date they like.

Isn't it more fraudulent to give the bank home-made documents than to give them nothing? At least when you give then nothing you're being honest about what you're giving them.
Is this something that happen often? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-t...
Was it for an iPad? Those seem to be especially difficult.

I went to five AT&T shops before giving up. I also went to two T-Mobile shops before someone would help me.

Other challenges: AT&T only allows prepaid SIM cards to be activated using a US credit card that is linked to an address. So foreign or prepaid credit cards don't work.
I believe it's $3k per child, up to $6k max.
One thing this article does not cover is that, even if a comparison function doesn't do anything slow, there is still the fact that it still has to do a Perl function call O(n log n) times. At least in the equivalent with Python, I think it is advised to use the key function rather than comparison funtion for this reason, for speed. Though I guess a key function needs to take more space if it is to memoize.
Accepting regular daily cash deposits of hundreds of thousands of dollars at HSBC branches in Mexico without question shows assistance and complicity.

The only people making cash deposits of this size, in Mexico especially, are drug cartels. The HSBC employees at the branch knew what this money was.
I can't upvote this comment enough. A lucid application of group theory to derive an operationally-efficient algorithm.
From TFA: " I don't mind certain art, like films or computer games being censored"

Right. He doesn't mind censorship, he just disagrees with where the line is drawn. Which is what a lot of debate seems to boil down to these days: we don't care about anything unless it affects us personally.

And, as others have said, trying to keep teenage boys away from porn can only fail in the most spectacular way possible.
Looks good. I am right now learning from http://www.thinkster.io/ and prefer that to angularjshub. It has a well laid out structure.
There is dependent care FSAs however your employer must offer you one. FSAs are really just a load of bullshit anyways, they are too confusing for most people to use.
Everyone here seems really eager to take the DOJ at face value. Wow. Quite a reversal.

In order to get anywhere, the DOJ has to charge HSBC with willful violations. So of course the government alleges that the violations were willful. Everyone here seems perfectly willing to accept those accusations, and every allegation in the DPA, regardless of the level of evidence presented in court.

The knee-jerk reaction here seems to be that if someone running a corporation is alleged to have a subpar compliance program, it's all part of a giant willful conspiracy.

This DPA raises the interesting question of what constitutes sufficient AML/KYC compliance. Fine. It looks like HSBC had a subpar program, which is illegal, even though there aren't precisely defined standards for AML/KYC in terms of what's adequate at scale. But people here are still really eager to criminally prosecute people for failing to prevent money laundering.

This is hugely different from knowingly helping drug cartels, which is what HSBC is being accused of in the media.
Lesser males having their reproductive chances lessened?
In the UK no substantive government moves have yet been made (open to correction) against those usually unemployed feckless not over-bright males who casually father many children by a number of different women.
I think it's worth bearing in mind that I was explicitly discussing a future "worst case scenario" for the upper-class culinary culture, and that ultimately nothing in the forseeable future actually prevents you from treating food with whatever set of values you want to. No matter how roboticized "The Best Restaurant In Paris" is, you'll still be able to buy a free-range chicken from your grocery store and pan-sear on your over to your tastes, nor will anything stop you from trying to open a restaurant with those values. (Said restaurant may fail, but new restaurants face an uphill battle in the best of circumstances.) The practices of "The Best Restaurant In Paris" probably have very little impact on $YOUR cooking today, after all, for $YOUR being all readers of this (late) comment.
> I think it's a travesty as well as a remnant of patriarchy that you can deduct a steakhouse lunch as the "cost of doing business" but not deduct daycare as a cost of being able to work.

You can't deduct the full amount of a steakhouse lunch as a "cost of doing business." You can deduct 50% of the amount. And if you have a significant number of these deductions, don't be surprised when they are challenged.

As for the suggestion that daycare be a deductible expense "as a cost of being able to work", I think you'd have more success arguing for structural tax reform than new deductions targeted to a specific group of people. After all, there are a whole host of other items that aren't currently deductible, such as regular commute expenses, that one might argue are "a cost of being able to work."
> Colin Percival has credentials and experience in the cryptoworld. When he makes "new" crypto like scrypt he publishes it and it's been thoroughly reviewed. It also has distinct advantages over previous technologies, it's not just new for the sake of being new.

He also, AFAICR, did not appear over confident, he was clear in delineating what his application does and does not protect against, and what his goals are (that is one reason why he deserves these crypto credentials).

He published his entire source code.

And when he launched a contest, it was in the form of a bug bounty, he accepted any kind of bugs (up to and including spelling errors in his code comments :) ).
FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD and provides great platform (allowing you to use such awesome features like ZFS, BSD/Linux Jails virtualization and many others)for self made NAS appliances made out of any hardware available, but also for very solid business product (like TrueNAS), when proper hardware is used. Personally, I've switched to FreeNAS after being in love with Synology for many years.
Tech Hangout by Innovecs: Flex layout mode
I agree that the lives of farm workers is a more pressing issue than animals. But America's general scorn for vegans is not helping either of those situations, and strikes me as self-conscious more than anything.
I'd add "inverted", where small, cross-functional teams make critical decisions and an organizational hierarchy above them make less and less important ones.

Good stuff. Needs more work, though. Thanks Swombat!
Adding words to this concise, clear, and convincing visual argument would be the equivalent of adding the chartjunk back to the graph.
The UK immigration authority does not recognize printed online statements. I had to print 100 pages from my bank's website, take the paper to my bank branch, and have each page stamped by the bank to make it "original." This is a true story.
GitHub uses its Linguist project to detect languages and index them as far as I know. I've used the list of languages from this file: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

I did pick an older version as they don't always run the latest release. Handy as you can filter out items flagged as "markup". Plus, have to watch out for languages like Mirah that are oddly indexed (same repo count as Ruby).
Building a better brainstorm
I found the doco Blackfish to be pretty thought provoking, its about the keeping of animals in captivity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfish_(film)
>> No, it is the difference between eating with joy and eating because you're hungry, and also the difference between getting the point and completely missing it.

So whether you eat on with no appetite or stop eating is the difference between whether you're as bad as a genocidal nazi or not?

The distinction is trivial and beside the point.

>> Are you even familiar with Eichmann? Your statements ("deliberate Genocide") make it clear you're simply not getting the point Fromm is making. Eichmann "just" followed his orders, he lacked empathy, but he didn't so much care about genocide as about being a good bureaucrat. To go from "Eichmann" to "Nazi" and from there to any aspect of the Nazis you equate them with, instead of going by what Fromm means in context, is such a waste of time. You're offended over your own strawman.

Eichmann was directly involved in shipping tens or hundreds of thousands of Jewish people to Auschwitz. I'm not sure what's not Nazi or genocidal about that. Either way I didn't say I was offended, I said the comparison was hyperbolic to the point of the ridiculous.

>> If you heat something by 0.5 degrees celsius, or 500000000 degrees, is the same, "in principle".

You have not demonstrated that keeping your appetite and committing genocide start from the same principle, which you would need to do for your analogy to hold here. It's not a simple matter of degree. The first is a demand that someone show empathy in a specific way, which may or may not hold for all people. The second is one of the worst crimes against humanity we can think of. There is a difference in nature, motivation and scale here, not simply scale.

>> Of course, one is hardly noticeable, while the other explodes the solar system or something... that's why analogies are hard to follow sometimes.

The analogy isn't hard to follow, it's nonsense.

>> If there wasn't something you could point to and claim "Preposterous! There is a difference!", there would be no way to make an analogy in the first place.

But I can point to all parts of it, and say none of it is anything like what you're trying to compare it to.

>> Childish? You said he said it's "the same", so I felt it was warranted.

No, I said "much the same", not "the same". If we're going to play this game then maybe you should work on your reading comprehension before you decide to be condescending.
Planning on learning enough Erlang to understand BEAM and the OTP ecosystem, and potentially picking up Elixir if it makes sense to do so.

I think there's a lot of interesting ideas around high availability and fault tolerance to explore in the Erlang world, and I'd like to tap into that.
M-W defines "patriarchy" as: "a family, group, or government controlled by a man or a group of men."

90% of Congressmen, 95% of Fortune 500 CEO's, and 90% of Forbes 400 are men. The government and the most important corporations that people work for, along with the richest people in the country, are overwhelmingly controlled by men. That's the literal definition of patriarchy.
Colin, I'm curious about your take on the essay. I have to admit that while I did read it, I did not engage with it deeply because I felt that the author created strawman views, particularly with regards to the people mentioned and the "Lisp school of programming." Since I found the premises so confused, I didn't have the energy to disentangle the real point from them.

(Part of my curiosity on your take comes from the fact that you commented on a similarly themed essay I wrote some time back.)
The coin may be more stable from that point of view but the issue here is that it's value is fluctuating because of it's relation to BTC.
If LTC would get it's own value instead of being tied up to BTC's value then that would make it stable indeed.
Threads like this are not the problem.
CustomInk.com is worth looking at as a comparison - similar approach started 10+ years ago, now apparently selling several hundred million dollars of T-shirts.
Indian here and also work in telecom core tech. So more info below

1. about 1/2 year back getting SIM was like getting oxygen. It was like Rs5 or even free some times. It started causing lots of issues. Its way for cheap advertising actually you know Indians tend to spend less, specially in business. Following are some of the consequences

i. Marketing SMS from these free/cheap SIM cards

ii. Perverts start irritating ladies(yes, this is true)

iii. Of course lots of marketing calls.

iv. The worst part is its used for all kinds of illegal activity, when police wanted traces, the SIM card vanishes without any proofs.

v. The biggest problem TERRORISTS.

Now govt wanted control over these problems.

Govt took few good steps like DND(Do Notcall Directory) where a customer registers himself/herself to this service do not get any unwanted calls. If such calls comes then the operator will be heavily penalized.

2. Since they wanted tracking of the the valid users of the SIM, strict rules followed to give govt provided photo id for Indians and passport for non-Indians. And also took strict activation mechanism that a voice call is made from operator to verify the user details given.

3. now the tech part :). You know since India is one of the biggest countries and due to business and competition we have around 17 operators. Even complex part is although Airtel(in your case) in Delhi and Bombay, technically both work as different operators(yes its true). 404-10 Airtel Delhi and 404-92 AIRTEL Mumbai. refer this link http://modmymobile.com/forums/70-slvr-l9-l72/555395-mcc-mnc-...
This means if your Delhi user and make call from Bombay the original authentication happens in Delhi itself(in telecom language its called Home Location Register HLR in short). And when you visit Bombay/Mumbai you are in a location called Visitor Location Register in short VLR. Since your card is not yet activated the VLR rejects you,Hope this helps.

P.S: India does not allow location based services as of now. and TRAI(Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) expects your calls SMS etc are stored for 36 months. So if you have done something wrong using mobile phone in India, beware that govt has 3 years to get hold of you :)

HAPPY MOBILING IN INDIA :)
Experimenting with Test Driven Development for Docker
Even Lloyds is hit and miss. A general strategy that seems to work is to gather as much documentation as you can (work contract, flat lease, any government paperwork, something that documents your address and status where you come from, anything with the address you live at, even if it doesn't have your name on it etc) and hit the main street banks from one end, eventually one will bite. Don't worry which one you get, you can easily change it later - all you need is for any bank to send you a statement.
Among the list of things about the United States that are incomprehensible to me (a Canadian), the absence of paid maternal (let alone parental) leave ranks pretty close to the top.
My prediction is that I will buy a new laptop, probably a MacBook Pro 13 retina. :)
A Short History of Computers in the Movies
It's not actually hard. It's just that the SIM cards not pre-activated. One needs to provide address and ID proof as per DoT (Department of Telecom, India) regulations, and SIM would be activated 24 hours later. The cost of SIM card itself is negligible.

Check chapter 1 here:

http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/file/measures...
All of that straw!

Always the exactly same unsubstantiated ridiculous MRA delusions. Please stop spreading lies. If you think you don't spread lies please examine your beliefs and why you have them.
Is there a recommended motherboard or cpu to use this in a house?
I downloaded a new mail client for iOS MyMail 
Interesting how they've implemented several slick features:
1) Status bar - when you open the folder list, the status bar at the top goes away along with the message list. MyMail and mailbox have this. Nice polish.
2) Quick action menu - when you swipe with your finger, the menu appears and follows your finger!
Looks awesome, only one downside so far--is the code boxes they should be resizable by drag and drop, or a little wider/taller, hard to see and read all the code. Just a suggestion.
For fuck sake. What claptrap do you have to explain every other fucking country banning opium?
This is one of the most profound, consciousness-altering films I've seen. I'm not vegan. It's one of those films that anyone who aspires to be truly rational ought to watch.
Microsoft is going to live in "interesting times" in 2014 after XP support expires in April. A lot of owners will demand Windows 7 computers over Windows 8. No one will be happy.
How to stay productive during the holiday season
Good analysis here: http://betterposters.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/link-roundup-for...

If you don't have the y-axis, then a) there's no point in having it as a graph and b) there's the possibility for manipulative display.
Hey, guys. Is there a MyMail developer on here? I've got a question
Did you implement support for multiple attachments? The system doesn't even know how to do this!
I like this and would probably use it. I find that a lot of these sites like Bloomberg or Yahoo Finance are a mess of linkbait, intrusive ads, and auto-playing videos. Could you include market stats like Dow Jones, NASDAQ, etc? I'd be looking for that if this were my one stop shop for financial news.
This caught my eye as well. As a Python programmer who never learned Perl, this validates some stereotypes. Or maybe it's the budding Haskell programmer in me. "smart enough"? Sounds pretty dangerous to me.
Trying to silence a feminist by shooting down things that they say that don't align with your out of whack view of feminism isn't going to do one single thing to help with the problems you're talking about.
It has nothing to do with blocking porn and has more to do with creating a database of people who have no fears of making it known that they don't want filters on the Internet connection.

Of course later on they government can label them has people who are happy to view porn or visit terrorist websites.
It is a way of creating a database of people who can be labelled in a negative manner in relation to some government agenda.
I don't think people who want to switch or run Linux does a search for "linux desktop" more likely they've heard of some and do a search for that.

For comparison:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22linux%20desktop%22...