skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you think about what HSBC actually did, you realize it really is a joke. Whining about banks is de rigueur nowadays, but what HSBC did is far less nefarious than it's being presented...

Imagine if you faced fines or jailtime if a criminal simply used your product. Let's say I run a McDonalds, and a drug dealer buys a burger from me, then all of I sudden I helped them launder money? Because that's what 'laundering' money really is, simply the legitimizing of illegitimate funds. HSBC is simply being extorted by the US because somewhere along the line a criminal used a bank account (and of course HSBC is one of the most international of all banks, and operates in many countries where law enforcement is poor at best). If every business that ever aided a criminal, or ever did business with a criminal were prosecuted, there wouldn't be any businesses left.

Plenty of you buy and sell bitcoins, imagine if you were prosecuted because your bitcoins where once used to buy drugs? How would you feel then? (and this is actually a fairly probable outcome)

Admissions of guilt on HSBC's part? Doesn't mean they're guilty, only means they plead guilty to avoid worse prosecution/extortion...

Edit - furthermore, I find it hilarious that people will rail against the NSA and American surveillance, yet call for the heads of HSBC execs for not spying on and policing their clients enough...
For those curious, here's a great summary of key JS concepts to know: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2629004/1538708
Plans on porting to other systems?
That's not what philosophy is about, but I have a strange feeling that "it's all personal opinion anyway" really motivates this idea that philosophers do not contribute meaningfully to law and morality.

A lot of it is American anti-intellectualism. We very strongly object to the idea that the challenges and struggles central to our lives are not unique but have actually been fully considered by others, maybe even centuries prior. That would mean we aren't the author and star of a uniquely great story.

Of course, if that person went to Orel Roberts University then we'll gladly listen and believe every dumb thing he has to say.
haha nice. We should definitely look into dogecoin. I honestly didn't take dogecoin seriously until we got so many dogecoin requests today!

Have you tried, 1 Beer (4 USD worth of BTC) or 1 Internet (1.337 USD worth of BTC) ? :P

http://www.tippercoin.com/#/how-it-works/
Could Terry Davis end up being the William Blake of OSes?
While fascinating, I think you've taken the statement far too literally
No cut marks? No pantone color chart for printing?

(seriously, joking! :)

Will print this and play with my godson tomorrow (13)
I shudder at the thought that something like the Civil Rights movement would have been stopped if the police had better non-lethal weapons.
FBI agent tries to copyright torture manual, inadvertently makes it public
Another funny side effect of non-lethal weapons is very likely testimony against the perpetrator, by the victim.
Things Fall Apart also described how Christianity only fixed local forms of inequality and oppression, by replacing it with a much bigger one (colonialism).
Email is not broken. The usage of email is however mishandled.

- Overload of messages

- Email Search / Discovery

- Finding important content

- Unnecessary CCs

- Major contents still live in emails

- Go-to place for everything; filtering important vs non-important

@byoung2, I think you reference a critical problem with email as I listed above. Sorting emails by "Actionable Categorization" by both sender and recipient.

Getting hold of the most important information asap without re-reading the content.

Currently, I am hacking with an idea on Hashtags for Important Email.

- Sender can write hashtag inside contents of the emails to group them appropriately for the recipient.

- Multiple users using hashtag help group important content together; leading to a Sharepoint for Email.

- Long email threads would be summarize to get the most relevant information possible.

Love to get your feedback @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948659
I was following along and agreeing, right up until this part...

"People like John Resig, Jeremy Ashkenas can lay claim to being software engineers..."

Hahahaha. You have got to be kidding me. A couple of 20-something JavaScript hackers who became somewhat well known by memorizing browser quirks and writing tacky, amateurish compilers? If we're going to talk about Software Engineers as compared to Aerospace Engineers, you're going to have to raise the bar quite a bit further than that. Rob Pike is a Software Engineer, Jeremy Ashkenas is the Rasmus Lerdorf of CoffeeScript.

It just goes to show, you can read and agree with hyperbole in principle, right up until the authors of it embarrass themselves by demonstrating just how low their standards are and just how unlikely they are to appreciate the substance of what they're saying.
Pretty much. Submachine guns had been around for years, and WWII saw millions of them, but it apparently never occurred to anyone to scale them up to use rifle cartridges. There were 4.5 million of this weird thing,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten

In street fighting, I can't imagine it being much worse than an AK 47 (at least in close contact)...and they cost 1/8th of an M1 Garand, so presumably a lot cheaper than what an assault rifle would cost.
The difference between shipping containers and small arms is obvious. The potential for causing grave bodily injury and death is part and parcel of the primary intended use of a Kalashnikov. Other uses are simply byproducts.

The design and intended use of a shipping container stands in exactly the opposite relationship to the means of delivering violence.
Climate refugees might be criminalized in the future
and cue the shills...
If they are going to give you half of the internet, they should talk half off your bill. Same goes with NSA I want a discount.
What about the objection that they corrupt our political and legal systems by buying themselves laws like copyright extensions, DMCA and SOPA? They're not going to stop doing that? Well fuck them, they won't get a penny from me. But I'm still going to enjoy the fruits of our creative culture. Deal with it.
Approximately nobody who reads "killed by an AK-47" understands this to mean anything besides "killed by a person firing an AK-47".

And clearly you know what it means, as you proposed that exact interpretation in your comment.

What's the point in arguing about it? It's an idiomatic phrasing that everybody understands.
That's where custom, tradition, and taboo come to the fore. They're somewhat stronger in terms of social signalling over time than mere laws.

Jared Diamond's Collapse explores this, both in positive aspects (Japan and several successful adaptations in Pacific Island and Borneo populations), as well as negative ones (Greenlander's insistence on raising cattle and not adopting Inuit practices).
It's cut and dry that this will empower abusive parents/guardians and even spouses.
Seems like there would be a good opening for a third-party company to offer XP support updates going forward on a subscription basis. If hackers can reverse engineer updates and figure out the weaknesses, couldn't another company do the same but offer the patches?
Yeah, once you see Dr. Masaru Emoto as a reference you know you can stop reading.
There are several insane clauses to this license, but the worst is probably §5f, which states that:

You agree not to use the Work for illegal, immoral or improper purposes,
or on pages containing illegal, immoral or improper material.

Good luck figuring out what that even means.
A potentially interesting counterfactual, to be sure. Can you define it closely enough to support further discussion?

Given that the AK-47 has found its most extensive use in conflicts well below the level of open warfare between nations, and given further that the 20th century saw plenty of people killed with sticks, axes, machetes, or bare hands, merely to conserve ammunition in such conflicts where the AK-47 was available and indeed extensively used, I tend to consider that the null hypothesis involves all or most of those, who died with 7.62x39mm rounds in them, having otherwise still died by whatever means their killers found convenient. I grant that the absence of that particular weapon would have necessitated the use of others; I grant further that this difference, in the aggregate, might have affected the ultimate outcome in at least some cases; I do not grant, however, without compelling argument, that there would be a meaningful difference in the total number killed.
The fact that we are even discussing this as option should be alarming. This is how to erode personal privacy.

You dont just put up cameras on every street corner pointing at citizens. You attach them to traffic signals. You tell them CCDs have become cheaper than other sensors. You tell them you will never actually even record the images- it'll just be processed by a computer to control the lights. Then later you tell them- we have these cameras here, we might as well stop red light runners. Oops the court wants to see the images we'll just turn on the record feature. You know what would be great? Face recognition and software that tracks an individual as they move through the city.

Putting infrastructure in place for "opt-out" filters will lead to mandatory filtering of esoteric materials such as asking the question- why is this country so wealthy yet cannot afford to give their children quality university education the way neighboring nations can?

Living in the UK does not make you an expert. You should ask someone who lives in China. Specifically, find a college aged kid and ask them what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Civilization has made things better but people are still capable of murderous savagery, even when considering themselves Christian. There's a huge list, the Crusades (incredibly abominable[1]), Germany in Belgium, Nazis, European fascism, Inquisitions, Muenster's Anabaptists, Rwanda, Kosovo, heck, even the Mongols had absorbed Nestorian Christianity. Then there's the past century in South and Central America, dirty wars, drug wars, guerrillas, and the corrupt governments that spawned them (both influenced by the meddling of the US.) I'm sure I am missing a ton here, like the colonization of the Americas and the war in the Philippines or all the rape in the prison system that the majority of people appear to find unconcerning.

Take a look on YouTube at nationalist videos posted by Greeks and Turks, and read the comments that show they barely view each other as human. Modern humans are not so different.

[1] Women, even nuns, were raped by the Crusader army, which also sacked churches, monasteries and convents. The very altars of these churches were smashed and torn to pieces for their gold and marble by the warriors who had sworn to fight in service of Christendom without question.
-http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1204...
>I've thought about it, one part of what "shocked" me about it was the hubris inherent in the statement: "...someone I could save by argument.". As though those that cannot be "saved" are merely a passing fascination, not to be bothered with for fear of liability.

I read a completely different meaning from that statement. "not someone I could save _by argument_". I.e. no point arguing, even though there might be other ways to help them.
I am so surprised that dogecoin took off! haha
Are you really so lacking in perspective that you don't understand how guns lower the bar of "badly wishing to kill another" significantly?
This creates a false dichotomy between climate science and physics. Researchers studying the climate use physical models to do so. And their accuracy is not bad--100 years ago they predicted that burning fossil fuels would warm the climate, and that matches what we measure today.

The precision is low, though. That is a result of the chaos created by the immense complexity of the systems involved. We can't predict the precise path of an individual electron through a bar of copper either.
The thing is, you can't just censor it away until it's gone. It doesn't fight the root of the cause and in the long run will only hurt the society as a whole.

We all know that it doesn't matter how illegal something is; if it can be found, the person looking for it will find it. That's especially true for the internet. Obstacles always bear the chance of making it worse for the wrong people.
Total lies by RSA. What would you say if overnight everyone lost confidence in your products because of your secret cooperation with the NSA? Your company's reputation is doomed...$10 million was a cheap price to sell out RSA.
At that point, what isn't practical?
> anyone downvoting actually live in the UK? Any of
> you actually have any hard facts? Or are you just
> regurgitating the crap you read on the internet.

I haven't downvoted you, but I do live in the UK, and I am informed by at least three colleagues that their sites are now being blocked whereas they previously were not blocked. Further, they are reporting serious difficulties getting them unblocked, one spending over 40 minutes on the phone trying to get the person on the other end to understand that they are the site owner, and not simply someone wanting to get access to the site.

So yes, I can confirm that I live in the UK, and am not just "regurgitating the crap [I] read on the internet."
"Dark Money" Funds Climate Change Denial Effort
The beautiful thing is that tipping real money kind of doesn't feel right. Like, "hey ryan bates, good job on the railscast, here is a dollar"

But, personally, when it is in cryptocurrency it feels very different.
Being cheap and easy to make while still being an effective weapon of war is what makes it a masterpiece.
Boy do those images remind me of the early days of ClockworkMod Recovery for Android[1].

[1] http://www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tum...
Depends on the war. As I understand matters from the perspective of a civilian who reads a lot of history, the purpose of an assault rifle is to combine at least decent accuracy at medium to long range, so that on a battlefield you can shoot the fellow who's trying to shoot you while he's still a couple hundred meters thataway, with the sort of concentrated firepower previously only available from a machine gun proper, so that you can clear rooms in house-to-house fighting and otherwise deal with close-in situations which call for more firepower than a semi-automatic battle rifle can provide.
I wonder what the big picture is here, who is really behind it.
There has to have been some company lobbying their asses off, a company either already in this business or a company expanding.

Is it true that its Huawei?
Interestingly, "front end doctor" is a real term (referring to people who work with cars.)
These days, "Sane person vs. Conspiracy nut" is a false dichotomy.
Some people will be embarrassed to make that phone call. Some people won't be able to do it because they don't have a credit card (if they're on PAYG, for example) and will have to go into a store, which is inconvenient, time consuming, and potentially embarrassing. For others, in the case of a wireline internet connection, the account might not be in their name and they will be unable to do it. I've had situations where the internet connection wasn't under my name but my housemate's name, and, of course, I couldn't have just called up or clicky clickied and disabled the censorship. I'm not someone that embarrasses easily but there are those that might not want to have that conversation with their housemate. What if those housemates decided that they didn't want porn going over the household's internet connection, or were too embarrassed themselves?

The next few generations are going to grow up with the idea that nanny filters and censorship is fine, or that porn is something shameful that you have to ask permission from a CSR to see. Then there's the sophisticated central apparatus in place for the government to trivially block any sites that they deem unsuitable, content they might deem exempt from their opt-out procedures.

Just because O2 and other UK mobile operators have been censoring for a while doesn't make it okay. Now you're arguing that censorship-by-default is fine because it's been going on in some capacity for a while already! See how this works?
I'm using Firefox OS 1.3 on my ZTE Open and I've got to tell you that this is soooo much better than the version that shipped (1.0). There are some still frustrating issues, especially with the touch recognition but for an $80 smartphone it's not so bad. I'm glad there's finally an official version.

These instructions worked for me to install Firefox OS 1.3: https://blog.non.co.il/index.php/zte-open-phone-upgrading-to...
We used shipping containers to kill captured Afghans via asphyxiation in 2001 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/07/13/the-convoy-of-de...

from the linked newyorktimes article:

Survivors and witnesses told The New York Times and Newsweek in 2002
that over a three-day period, Taliban prisoners were stuffed into closed
metal shipping containers and given no food or water; many suffocated
while being trucked to the prison. Other prisoners were killed when
guards shot into the containers. The bodies were said to have been
buried in a mass grave in Dasht-i-Leili, a stretch of desert just
outside Shibarghan.

If I were to do it again, I'd use autonomous drones with buggy firmware, or just change the Rules of Engagement so that it was a free fire zone until I decided it wasn't.
Wow, just wow. Can you really not see that guns are horrible tools which easily allow us to slaughter each other?

I felt horrible just reading your comments, and I've never been shot at by someone wielding an AK-47. Do you really have absolutely no compassion for your fellow humans?
Whether you are defending or attacking a gun's function is to fire rounds and kill or injure the target. With the exception of certain scenarios like riots, it gets that job done, and that's why armed forces, swat teams, and gangbangers all use them.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3183694188

Skövde, Sweden

Down 90.32 Mbps

Up 10.02 Mbps

That's over my Wifi, I could probably get it up to 100 Mbps (that's what I pay for) if I connected a cable to my router.
>>Of course it’s impossible to see what’s been blocked other than through tedious trial and error. One website owner (@pseudomonas) asked BT on Twitter for information about whether their site was blocked, and their experience was something like talking to a brick wall who only speaks French.

Oooohhhh, don't you worry about that. The folks over at dslreports.com, who revealed the comcast torrent tampering[1], and HN and slashdot and neogaf.com and even Reddit will be sure to keep an eye on any sites access mismatches. In today's world where we can spin up a linux cloud server in almost every first-world country for less than the cost of a family dinner at a nice restaurant, it'll be noticed. I think even Google made a tool to test your internet-connection for tampering. There will be a site where you can put in a URL and see what it shows from all kinds of ISPs around the world. And proxies sites like http://hidemyass.com/proxy-list/. Then they'll have to ban those too, and then other blogs will also start posting info about what's blocked by who... then those sites will be blocked... and eventually... the internet will look something like this: http://feross.org/images/tiered-internet-service-fail.png ...with an addition for adult-content that cause 2x your regular bill.

(HINT: Focus on checking any sites that wouldn't align with conservative values & beliefs. Those will be blocked first, as proven in this article)

1. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r18323368-Comcast-is-using-S...
Anybody who says something like that these days hasn't been paying attention.
" 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."

1. Just to be clear, they didn't put the anti money laundering people who were literally in charge of verifying compliance with these laws in jail either, even though they knew they were laundering money for the drug cartels. The government alleged, and HSBC never denied, that they had actual knowledge of what the money was being used for. It's not a case of "oh, well, i had no idea bob at the teller window was doing this".

This isn't "the guys several layers down did something wrong"

This is "We knew were laundering money for the drug cartels. We intentionally flouted the law (government's words) to keep it that way."

2. It's not "wrong", it's criminal. What HSBC did is criminal. They were charged criminally. This is a deferred prosecution agreement. They knew they were laundering money for drug cartels. "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." This isn't even close to right. You should try reading the charging documents that led to this settlement. The prosecutors make very clear what they are guilty of, and lay out a case that makes clear the executives knew exactly what was going on. They even created fake banking products to get around the law, too.
Building an app for Frank Sinatra on Sinatra
The site has 5 MB of png files which show... well nothing relevant to the topic. And the content of the page is mostly unfiltered output of some strangely presented program pieces.

I would be glad to read that Sanmayce reads this or some similar input and then starts to think about making his output really more accessible. But I guess he likes it as it is. Bon Appétit.
From what I understand they didn't limit DMCA compliance, which would be an obvious violation. They limited the use of a custom takedown tool.

> People know what his sites were used for.

Yeah, but how do you decide responsibility? Outside of a minority of incidents he's only providing infrastructure. Trying to enforce legality there is a can of worms. How many steps away do you go? What about his ISP? Surely they noticed the huge amount of traffic, and have some idea what the site is for. What about the people that sold him servers? They're contributing even more than the ISP to the ability of the site to run.

>His action was to use unfairness in the law to exploit it for his own financial gain. What the big companies did was use their unfair advantage with politics to pull some strings and do things that are arguably legal or illegal?

In my mind, unaccountable political manipulation is worse than exploiting a loophole in a law. It's much easier to fix a law.
Right - that helps. Thanks for the clarification - very helpful.
If a stack of AK47's fell on someone and killed them, would you attribute that death to the AK47s?
Might be the pattern writer having some fun? Given the braces and bars, they wouldn't even result in any patterns in the output.
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Looks very cool! Good job Troy!

I'm not quite sure how the battles go down.

You pick an attack method, and the # is subtracted from your opponents HP score (possibly x2), and then they do the same?

What happens if they are still both "alive" afterwards? You just move to the next player?

And how do you win? Just be the last player with a live character?
I'd suggest you read A Modest Proposal. Or watch The Colbert Report.