skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I give 0-shits about how M-W defines that word. Why? Because they until very recently defined rape as an act committed by a man against a women and now have added wiggle-words to their definition to make it seem like a less pejorative against men. Their "examples of rape" involves or intimates a male assessor.
I used to get pretty upset at these constant news reports of expanding Internet censorship. Then it occurred to me that it simply means that the reactionary forces are (finally) starting to see it as a threat. And that is a good sign.
>Could you elaborate on why it is so hard to get a SIM? Here in Europe it couldn't be easier, and most providers give you the SIM for free if you buy a certain amount of airtime.

Many people don't have the required ID to get a SIM. So they used to have someone else buy them a prepaid SIM and then use it under that person's ID. In some cases, they'd do something illegal and finding the right person was painful.

There were many cases in the early days where people would use fake ID and buy postpaid phones. They'd use it as long as the operator would let them, without paying the bill. Rinse repeat the fake id. There were a bunch of folks who did this when we were at university - IIRC, they went through a half dozen handsets in 3 months and ran up large bills. There was an black market of sorts for such mobiles - buy it for Rs.500 (reliance), resell it for Rs.1000 and use it for Rs.10000+. People used to call in to one of these phones. the owner of the phone would then conference them on long-distance (expensive then) calls and international calls ;-)

Finally the terrorism thing, where the government said that wanted to avoid giving them an easy way to communicate. they also banned the hiding of one's number in the caller id because people were making too many crank calls and creating trouble.

At the end of it all, the rules mandate official ID proof. Activation needs a background verification to be done. While this does not work in reality, the number of postpaid dine-and-dash type situations have been reduced.
It's basically a non-denial, they don't deny that they took money in exchange for using the backdoored algorithm.

If they took the money and didn't know the algo was backdoored both the original allegation and denial could be factually correct.
I use the new mymail.my.com client. 
I wanna know how the programmers did some of this polish.
You can choose the attachment size when sending, e.g. when you send an email it gives you the choice of several sizes for your attachment.
Pull to refresh - if you drag the message list down, the arc indicator is drawn dynamically, depending on how the list has been pulled.
How is this implemented?
Show me the strawman?
Why is it considered a good thing when the government foists responsibility for the social safety net off on people's employers? Especially when it only applies to sufficiently large employers?
It's not necessary to choose. I'd add that conditions in prisons are horrible, as are conditions in countries the US applies bombs and sanctions to, and the nations the US supports dictators in.

The point is to rethink your assumptions. Chances are if you tolerate any of these abuses it's b/c you have a blind spot in your otherwise rational view of the world.
Well, if 90% of your population is high and unproductive, that makes you ripe for invasion. There's a difference between fixing a problem collapsing society and targeting groups to punish them for your own gain.

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Prohibition_and_conflict_... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/etc/his...
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...
Hum. If someone is saying that men can't take care of children. He or She is not a feminist. You know that not every women is a feminist right ?
Now... the problem is that the judicial system is macho and, yes, thinks that only a woman can take care of a child. That's utterly chauvinistic (in the American sense of chauvinistic).

Actually I'm not answering the rest of your post it's too much hate filled and trollistic to deserve a response. I'm sorry you feel like that.
Stop calling it a "porn filter". It's censorship of the internet.

If it was actually a "porn filter", its purpose would be to filter pornographic material. In reality, there is a list of categories to be censored, and porn is only one of them. Focusing on the words "porn filtering" was a deliberate strategic move by the government, because it makes it more difficult to oppose convincingly.

Those of us who oppose censorship are playing into their hands by referring to this issue using the favourable terms coined by the government. We should all stop referring to it as "porn filtering" and start referring to it as "internet censorship".
Yeah, but that modification is forgery and fraud. In all honesty, I could probably replicate a paper bank statement by doing the same thing. The crime is in the manipulation.

As for me, I continue to print out bank statements on university printers and have everyone from embassies to landlords accept them.

No one I've met believes that going to your bank's website and printing out the PDF they give you is fraudulent.
Collect mail from different email accounts on Android
I need an Android mail client that can collect mail from different accounts and most importantly get push notifications from them. I got tired of installing a million apps only to discover that my battery dies super fast...
I friend recommended Elixir to me, but I would rather learn Erlang properly. Erlang has a small community already, why to learn a language targeting Erlang VM that has even smaller community and much less documentation?
And the law makes the executives responsible for implementation of this, which they clearly did not do effectively. The executives are not guilty of an anti-drug law, but a money laundering law, and the liability is pretty clear. The current maximum sentence is 5 years, although the "Holding Individuals Accountable and Deterring Money Laundering Act" is trying to raise this to 20. All these types of regulation about money laundering and bribery have executive liability.
> In all fairness, if there were a type of algebraic numbers, the calculations would be exact. (But probably not O(1) anymore.)

I once tried to implement a library for exact Euclidean geometry, and I couldn't find any way to implement even the constructible numbers with reasonable efficiency.

For the less mathematically trained: constructible numbers are the smallest set containing the integers which is closed under addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square roots. If you start with a line segment from (0, 0) to (0, 1), and use only compass and straightedge constructions, the points you can construct (i.e., that are the intersection either of two lines, two circles, or a circle and a line) are exactly those whose coordinates are constructible. This is how one proves that trisecting angles with compass and straightedge is impossible, BTW.
I think many mathematicians would argue that there's an additional component of aesthetics at play. It's not just that you want to know whether a theorem is true (in fact, nobody cares whether the theorem is true). You want to know why, and you want the proof to be so trivial that in hindsight it's obvious.

This is why people build up grand theories, so that when they get to the mean value theorem they can just say "Tilt your head and apply Rolle's theorem!" It's proofs that mathematicians are after, not answers, and beautiful proofs at that.
The uncontroversial answer to "what is porn anyway?" that underpins the UK ban is "something children shouldn't watch".

On the list of things children should not watch people having sex should really not be close to the top. It is just sex. After breathing, drinking and eating it is one of the most natural and common activities on earth. A coyote trying to smash a bird with an anvil seems a way less appropriate thing for children to watch.
I liked it as an example of the positive effect of pure education without a vocational component. Too much emphasis is placed on vocational training for vocational reasons. Education improves your entire life, training merely improves your job performance. Or education makes life worth living, where training merely makes it easier to earn money.

There was a bit of journalistic make believe in the story. Anyone who's actually read great human literature would not remotely be surprised that all humans like it, especially hard core types like people who teach the subject, so the first line or so about pretending to be surprised black and brown people would like human literature is just ridiculous journalism.

(edited to add: It was an interesting article, worth the time to read, and shows linkbait doesn't have to be as icky and stereotypical as the worst linkbait out there. If you must have advertising supported content, let it be this good.)
Please point me to the law that the executives broke that would send them to jail. Cross-reference it with the government's charges.

If you read the DOJ's side of things, HSBC is guilty of things like "we said Mexico is high-risk, HSBC disagreed and so failed to automatically monitor a bunch of transactions," in more legalistic language.
> and the rest of his books

I find his books to be a bit too light on the content. All of them combined would've made a great book that would still be of a reasonable thickness, but he is self-published and he makes his living from lectures and book sales, so he's probably not too interested in that.
Revolutionary artificial heart transplanted
That's a wrong way of looking at things. The right way is to see how a language adapts per your thinking for writing complex functions. When you look at things from such an angle, its highly restrictive if a language expects you to always bend towards its one true ideology.

A nice language will offer you enough creative ammunition and will do as you wish while you are busy at more important things.
These solutions are highly customizable. I'm not a defender of SAP/Oracle, but I don't see how writing your own package would be any more likely to succeed than paying an ERP vendor.

An ancient and creaky administrative regime like what the military has is nearly impossible to manage financially. The GAO has tried and essentially given up on trying to audit.
Your argument skips over some very important subtleties that the film elaborates on. In fact, there is little in your argument to disagree with.

The bigger issue is about the widespread view of animals by the public. Most people don't know what kinds of techniques are used by factory farms, animal trainers, etc., so it's not possible to really think rationally when dipping your McNuggets in barbecue sauce about the situation you are consenting to.

Just as war is sterilized for public consumption ("smart" bombs, etc.) animal abuse in entertainment and food production is hidden from view and stories about the farm down the street are substituted for reality.
Don't forget the government....
If people don't know what math can do they don't know when they need it.

Case in point: will a blue or green button increase conversions? Lots of people still don't apply the simple math that will resolve this issue, and instead resort to meetings, consensus building, user stories and dick swinging.
Russia's National Police singing Daft Punk's Get Lucky is hilarious
Pingdom Year In Review 2013
The existence of a skilled work force is the greatest resource that any country has. Companies exist to exploit this resource; are you saying that they should be able exploit this resource without being responsible for maintaining it?
http://www.amazon.com/Graph-Design-Mind-Stephen-Kosslyn/dp/0...
And makes an attempt to force all OSX developers to deliver via the App store.
Imgur gets acquired, either by Yahoo, Reddit, or someone with reason to hurt those companies by keeping Imgur out of their hands.

For example, imagine what a jumpstart it would be for the new Digg.
It wouldnt matter if it failed, someone could buy it from bankruptcy and restart it. There are no real consequences.
haskell + scala + racket
"yeah baby..."
The system is a fraud.
It's not like other retailers wouldn't move in pretty quickly if WalMart suddenly vanished for some reason. They are big, but they are not the only game in retail.
EMC owns RSA -- Can we trust EMC?
The case against Kim Dotcom, finally revealed
What if people massively "opt in", thus dismantling many social taboos around the subject?
You also don't guard your country from harm, yet that does not mean that you would tolerate a genocide done on your "behalf".
Basically, its anything that FreeBSD can run on (and that's a lot, on its own: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/hardware.html) and that will at the same time fill your needs (in terms of platform architecture, power consumption, number of available/supported IO/storage options, size and so on). If you're still unsure, there's a great community and forum available, and some general hardware guide can be found here (it covers entire NAS appliance): http://forums.freenas.org/threads/so-you-want-some-hardware-...
The decade-long quest to stop "Spamford" Wallace
not dealing with the cost and hassle is a crime.
You miss the point. They don't care about a 10% of elite children which will find ways around it, they want to censor and restrict the majority.

Also, quite importantly it's about delegitimising and criminalising whatever future content that might make them uncomfortable. It ensures that if you do get around the filter you are de facto purposefully breaking the rules (and can be judged as the miscreant you reveal yourself to be.)
Yeah, they were rock stars for sure. I remember going to @lantacon in 2001 and seeing Rasterman do a demo of some of the e17/evas features they were working on. Everyone in the room was blown away and extremely excited.
http://www.atlantacon.org/events_2001.html

Can't wait to setup e18 on my system later!
This has already happened.

The Internet Watch Foundation already tell ISPs to block child pornography, and the court system can tell ISPs to block file-sharing/streaming sites.

It is a myth that the internet is uncensored in the UK at the moment.
sure, drop me an email, my username at gmail.com
Usually those statements or bills have a lovely big DUPLICATE watermarked across them which invalidates them for identification purposes.
Most worker protections in the US apply to companies with more than some fixed number (I think it's 50) of employees.

http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html

About 1/6 of the working population is at employers with less than 20 employees, and so wouldn't be covered anyway. Another 1/6 is at employers with 20 to 99 employees, and many of them would also not be covered.

Why should the social safety net exclude 20% of the population?
This is wise. It's not govs or corps that are too blame. It's the "too big" part.
>Why don't more people post videos and articles about the mistreatment of migrant farm workers in America?

Lots of people do? Why do you imply that people caring about animals and people caring about people are mutually exclusive?

>My ex was a vegan. She always complained about the mistreatment of animals used for food but never thought twice about how the people were treated who picked all the vegetables she ate.

Do you think twice about how the people were treated who killed all those animals you ate? The meat industry is much worse than what migrant farm workers face. That is why they have to import immigrants from south america to be slaves in the meat industry.
I'd like to see you go on to the streets and ask 10 random women with children if they would like the fathers of their children to have the same amount of parental leave as them (or more!). Outside of exceptional circumstances the answer would be a strong, resounding yes.
First crowd-sourced politician.
I don't think he's saying that.

I think he's making an abstract argument about the symbolism of blocking access to sexuality.
Gmail - Find Emails That Never Got a Reply
That's correct, but we should still not allow them to misdirect our attention while they tighten the screws.
SF's tech industry organizes some sort of campaign to get residents to realize that the solution to high rent is not to burn effigies of corporate shuttles, but rather to build more housing.
A non-CALEA US sponsored hardware backdoor is discovered in actual equipment.
Sometimes we feel bad. But finding exact terrorist out of 1200000000 many people is not so easy job :)
SSD prices down to 25c/GB by 14Q3.

The advent of the Steam cube will probably increase sales for microatx/itx (I want to shove $2,400 in hardware in a portable computer too).

Academics will still rely on Perl instead of GPUs.

Potentially the rebirth of engines. There has been a large amount of media revolving around electric vehicles and conventional engine waste. Sometimes, media can get the cogs flowing for the right person.

A large amount of misinformed HR reps during the reenrollment period!

144hz monitors utilizing Nvidia's GSYNC will be a huge game changer for gamers (aha). Variable refresh will probably get us extremely close of the beauty of the good ole 22inch CRT monitors.

Rift will hopefully be the iPhone of VR. Not the 'everyone needs one', but the 'this is something you have to see to believe' factor. We have been stale for a bit on the electronic wow factor.
I just built one recently. Motherboard-wise you should get one that supports ECC ram. Other than that it doesn't matter that much. You typically don't use the onboard SATA ports either, so the motherboard specs aren't very important. I built one recently. A bit of CPU overkill, but otherwise a pretty standard build. You can see the hardware list here:

http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/58-Building-a-NAS.html
"due to our inability to curb our breeding habits."

Reminder: We have curbed our breeding habits. Industrialized societies now generally face more pressing underpopulation problems than overpopulation problems, and the global population is now predicted to peak within this century, then start going back down.

You may wish they had been curbed at a lower number, you may still be concerned that we may still pass a carrying capacity before we quite peak, but a fashionably misanthropic "woe, woe, we just keep breeding forever" is not currently a valid concern based on facts.
Ehm, you're being pretty vague here. As far as I can tell, none of what you're saying applies to Belgium, a Western European country if any is, and our tax collection agency is not even close to the IRS when it comes to bullying people and businesses. And the European Union really has very little say over tax collection practices, so I imagine it's different everywhere. So what countries and what practices are you talking about exactly?
Open Source Analytics Library MADlib Receives Site Relaunch, v1.4 Release
I believe Spark [1] might take the place of Storm as it unifies streaming and batch processing.

[1] http://spark.incubator.apache.org/
I have admire the careful wording: "We also categorically state that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA's products, or introducing potential 'backdoors' into our products for anyone's use."

This leaves the door open for a lot of things, including them having weakened their products and added backdoors. They just deny having entered a contract with the intention of doing so.

Though one has to wonder how exactly that deal went down. You wouldn't have to pay RSA anything to implement a good crypto algorithm because they'd do that out of pure business interest. Did the NSA call and ask "Here's a new RNG algorithm, it's slower than others and mathematically dubious. Would you implement it for $10 million?"
Why would I need to choose an attachment size? What possible purpose would that serve, other than to add random extra padding to fit a container?

That seems like really lazy coding to me. Just grab the file size when it's attached if the program needs to know that for user reporting. Email in general doesn't care what size the file is, though hosted services might care a little since larger files means more bandwidth used.

Pull to refresh is nice for mobile. Most asynchronous applications use it by now, though Android browsers seem to lack that. (I think I see a fun coding project ahead!)
I never like this "want to solve equations" narrative. Maybe some equations just don't have a solution; advanced mathematicians know why it's nice to work with an algebraically closed field, but it's not at all obvious. The example about convergent sequences is much more useful; intuitively it seems wrong that we should be able to write a "smooth" function like sqrt(x - 2) and see that it's above zero for some values of x, below zero for other values of x, and never pass through zero.

The historical invention of complex numbers wasn't to solve equations that had no solution; it was as an intermediate step, a tool, when applying the cubic formula. Likewise I suspect that fractions and negative numbers were invented not to solve equations that couldn't be solved, but so that the rules of arithmetic worked for expressions like "5 + 3 - 6".

(I actually agree with the main idea, but I don't think these examples support it)
How about basic decency? You have to admit that there is a parallel here with many "everyday" drug cases, and that the punishment of ordinary people in parallel situations is drastically disproportionate to the punishment of HSBC.
"You don't send an executive to jail because a guy several layers down did something wrong"

Why not? You PAY him based on what that guy several layers down does...
Not to mention that when Factory LMP programs have sold customer cars there are pretty strict restrictions. From my understanding When Audi sold R8 LMPs as Customer cars. they put pretty strict restrictions on them. They could not start the engine with out a Audi Sport Engineer present. Even now that those cars have made it into the hands of collectors, Audi does not allow them to plug into the engine management system.
Indeed, somebody could add (2009) to the post?

Also, I have .uk blocked, I could read it at:

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
> If someone is saying that men can't take care of children. He or She is not a feminist.

I find it extremely difficult to talk about feminism because it means different things to different people. More than once I have heard statements about feminism from women who self-identify as feminist that contradict one another.

How can I answer the question "are you a feminist?" when the term may mean something very different to the questioner than to myself? Indeed, it may mean something to them that I find incorrect or immoral.
Pasteboard - a quick and simple image sharing web app
I didn't say it was anything more than a symbolic act, or perhaps an unconscious throwback to a primitive sociological drive. I seriously doubt that those who crusade for a restrictive moral code have the self-awareness to recognise their motivation for what it is.
I use simplenote app, whenever I have to.
I'm just waiting for Lloyds and Barclays to figure out I'm a US citizen and then close out my accounts due to FATCA.

I think the easiest way to get a UK bank account as a foreign national is to be a student.
Oh. Duh. You're right. Thank you.
Presumably pre-paid credit/debit card (bought with cash a at gas station, grocery store, etc.).
Facebook releases another phone, and this time, it actually does pretty well.
It's extremely hard to send drug kingpins to jail, and these are people who are actually breaking the law.

I'm sure, however, that the US government can try to prosecute mid-level HSBC managers and maybe some random bank tellers in Jersey and Mexico and wherever. Somehow I doubt this is what the article author actually wants to happen.