skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So because doing X would only solve x% of the problem (without significant cost, as noted by another poster) for x < 100, we shouldn't do it? That's an absolutely insane argument. Apply it to business, software development, or whatever field you work in. The real key here is that commuting every death sentence to life in prison would cost almost nothing. So if it saves even one life, there isn't even a callous cost-benefit argument in favor of the death penalty! I myself am swayed by the moral arguments, no cost-benefit needed, but that's just me.
Same tactics everywhere,

Mandatory internet Filters on every ISP as a precaution against pornography or child pornography. Same crippled laws as Turkey. Nobody is prevented reaching porn. But most of the time filters are used against so called "piracy", "extremist" political or "regional" views and these kinds of political agendas. Currently websites pro-evolution are struggling censorship.
I have to say, that my graduate degree was salvaged because I took the advice of a grad student, a postdoc, and an assistant professor (and totally blew off my advisors/committee). So, not all advice is bad.
GNU+Linux Build Framework in Emacs Lisp?
I am totally down with investing in any company that can deliver the goods with zero employees :-) But more seriously this sort of stuff is just startup-porn as far as I can tell. Kind of like guessing the outfits folks will wear on the red carpet on Oscar night.
I have the same problem on my slightly aging Windows laptop too, but I get the same thing on Youtube, so it's not just this page for me.
Another thing: I remember disassembling and re-assembling my G.I. Joe action figures as a kid (mixing and matching arms, torsos, heads and hips/legs). I haven't seen any models for such simple action figures yet -- but they really shouldn't be to hard to make -- all you'd need to assemble one was a single screw and a rubber band to hold them together.

Couple it with the strides made in 3d character (facial) modelling -- and you could print out parts, paint with hobby/miniature paint and have your very own action series...
> In one study surveying 471 Dutch teens ages 13 to 18, the researchers found that the more often young people sought out online porn, the more likely they were to have a "recreational" attitude toward sex--specifically, to view sex as a purely physical function like eating or drinking.

> [T]he team also found a relationship between porn use and the feeling that it wasn't necessary to have affection for people to have sex with them.

However,

> [R]esearchers can't say for sure whether access to Internet porn causes certain attitudes and behaviors.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov07/webporn.aspx
Agree with you that the market isn't able to pick out value, especially value that isn't easily exchangeable for money. Social work is of indispensable value from a particular perspective, and social workers are in short supply in many countries including my own (Singapore).

However the market does not exist by itself, it exists in a structure put in place by governments, with many other players such as non-profits, interest groups, etc. At this point in time, social workers, teachers, etc. have to be supported by funding from governments and donors.

Short of having a more enlightened economic system, what we can hope for right now is for governments to better reward professions that provide such value.
Slingshot Dynamics for Self-Replicating Alien Probes
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.1648v1
Yes, but do the currently available CNC machines fail to fill that need? How will 3D printing fill that need better?
I'm glad to hear that. Yes I did not understand about those scare quotes, nor the scare quotes around "mixed blood".

What could you say besides interracial? Interpopulational? Intercultural?
>How do I know I'm a good enough hacker to start a startup?

You try it and see.
> If you can't at least talk about last Sunday's football games or play a game of pickup basketball after work, you are going to be excluded from a lot of networks.

This may be true, but I'm curious what you feel the value of these "networks" has been or will be in the future.

I can only relate my own experience, which is that of supreme disinterest in just about every American team sport. I'm quite capable of following last Sunday's game, I just don't give a damn.

Thus far in my adult life I haven't felt the need to slither my way into a social group. Should I start? If so, why? I obviously haven't felt significant pressure to do so yet, or I would have already. This is actually a genuine question, although I'm obviously biased towards my own answer.
In one way we got what we asked for. Whenever the argument was made that Google, British Telecom, et al, had a "moral duty" to censor pornography, we were able to simply say that this was an empty argument and that the only duty the companies had was to follow the law of the land.

Now, by changing the law, the companies have a legal duty.

That is what I and others have wanted, censorship is something we are able to attack through established channels. The politicians are of the view that this wins votes, now we find out whether they are right or wrong.
It's extremely difficult to quantify negative impacts or get people to accurately recall what they may or may not have seen. It's almost as difficult to approve studies on children.

This study:

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cpb.2005.8.473

Showed a correlation between children who seek out porn on the internet and delinquency. However, there's no indication of causation.
Citation, please? Everything I've seen suggests that porn is pretty socially debilitating, especially for the current generation which has grown up with almost ubiquitous access to it (see for example http://www.internetsafety101.org/upload/file/Social%20Costs%...). And that's not even the really nasty stuff.
Yep. Or it's for "national security purposes". One of many beautiful euphemisms they employ.
This is completely absurd. Do people believe in a free and open Internet, or do they not? Government asking us to make "declarations" over the content we want access to or what we may or may not search for is an absurdly dangerous precedent.
IMO, imposing morality typically tends to make whatever problem worse.
"going to want to install Xcode" is maybe a little strong. I think you're going to have to install Xcode, but that doesn't mean you'll want to.
This sounds suspiciously like PROLOG...
Also, I know it's outside the scope of this research, but it's yet to be demonstrated that a recreational attitude toward sex leads to lower well-being.
Given that the people I (and the startup scene in general) selfishly want in the Bay Area are largely younger, immigrant (from abroad or other parts of the country), or otherwise don't have a long credit history, and haven't been living in rent controlled apartments for a long time, it seems pretty clear where self interest lies, here, too.

Of course, Prop 13 screws the same people -- a 55 year old state worker who has lived in his house for 25 years pays ~nothing in property taxes, where a startup person (or really any 23 year old without family property) either pays inflated property tax rates (on a recent purchase; both the percentage rate and dollar value of property are high) directly, or pays them in rent (a person who has owned a house for 40 years can still rent it on the market at the prevailing rate, which is high due to supply constraint and any new supply needing to reflect current purchase and thus tax levels).

I'm all for tenants, in general, vs. landlords, and generally for people beginning their careers vs. incumbents, but rent control doesn't help new households.
Teen pregnancy is also way down: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db89.pdf
There is a law that requires them to notify people immediately. I suppose their excuse for waiting three days will be that they did not know for sure whether any personal data was acquired by the intruder. There's going to be a debate on what they needed to know to "reasonably believe" that data had be accessed.
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_13...

(b) Any person or business that maintains computerized data that
includes personal information that the person or business does not
own shall notify the owner or licensee of the information of any
breach of the security of the data immediately following discovery,
if the personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have
been, acquired by an unauthorized person.

(c) The notification required by this section may be delayed if a
law enforcement agency determines that the notification will impede a
criminal investigation. The notification required by this section
shall be made after the law enforcement agency determines that it
will not compromise the investigation.
How do you avoid exploits? You don't use any exploitable browsers like Chrome, Firefox or Opera, or do you run them inside an virtual OS?
Think of the children
Interesting. Anyone want to weigh in on the ethicality of this? (Either side.)

Downloading 100k userdata records seems quite extreme, but is it unethical for a security researcher to do so?
There is an awful lot of populist policies coming out of the UK for the last couple of years. Is the current state of the economy really that bad?

Usually that's when politicians concentrate on less demanding, more emotional issues.

Also, nice power-grab right there - cause you never know!

"Sorry Angela, I can't open that WikiLeaks link you told me about." "Nigel, could it be that you forgot to let your porn filter be lifted?"

This is bad and as always not only for UK citizens because politicians like to look at other countries for inspiration and validation. Clearly in Austria some pundits will applaud this.
It surprises me how different is the astronaut profile between the NASA and the ESA. Herein Europe they don't look for pilots at all, they mostly look for scientist that have published a lot and that have good public relationship skills (90% of european astronaut's work seems to be PR, they don't get much spacetime)
It was a disapointment when I learned that, I never had a chance anyway as my courriculum is really really far from being as good as these!. But being a pilot I hoped I had a chance some how. Personally, I think that it makes more sense to have scientists on board, the times when there was a pilot skill needed are long gone.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-sunny-s...

> For most people, pornography use has no negative effects—and it may even deter sexual violence
Towards optimization-safe systems [pdf]
Online Hair and Beauty shop.
> On frameworks: "Why should we use computers like this, simultaneously building a house of cards and confining computing power to that which the programmer can fit in their head? Is there a way to hit reset on this view of software?"

I'm not entirely with him on the evils of frameworks. Software is built on software the way knowledge is built on knowledge. I'm happy to stand on the shoulders of giants. It means I don't have to rewrite what's already been well written (and well tested). There are tradeoffs, sure, and it's really important to understand the hows and whys of the frameworks you select (this is where open source really matters). Still, I think narrowing the problem scope so you can "execute the program you’re writing inside your head"—and inside the ambitious timeline of your startup—is the great gift of modern computing, not its curse.
That's nothing.

Ever wonder why GitHub Pages were moved from username.github.com to username.github.io, citing security concerns, but username.blogspot.com continues to be available?

Ever wonder why www.example.co.uk can set cookies on example.co.uk, but not on co.uk?

The answer is that browsers ship something called the Public Suffix List: http://publicsuffix.org/list/, which includes blogspot.com and *.uk, but not github.com.
> challenging the eroticisation of violence against women and girls

I wonder what the legal tests for that are here? Non-consensual fantasies are very popular among women who don't actually want to be victims of crimes. Will they ban romance novels?

Then next they could go after the female fandoms for Loki from the Avengers movie, yandere characters, and those girls who write love letters to serial killers. Okay, maybe the last ones could use some help.
It happens when an event of a certain size occurs. Heck, the whole of HN was filled with Aaron Swartz stories not too long ago. It'll pass.
Having out of date packages on production servers is also dangerous. It really depends what you consider your biggest risk to be: downtime vs getting hacked due to an out-of-date packages? I personally would take downtime, but every place is different.
> > The possession of "extreme pornography", which includes scenes of simulated rape, is to be outlawed.

> Video footage of two consenting adults, acting out a scene, will be illegal to own. With this on the books, it seems a short hop to outlaw videos of simulated murder.

Even without such an extension, aren't there plenty of Hollywood movies which include "scenes of simulated rape"?
The UK economy is in abysmal shape, in large part due to the failure of Cameron's austerity measures. But there can be no admission of error, just deflection: hey look, porn!

More info: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/magazine/god-save-the-brit...
Post-Leveson our media are too acquiescent and too afraid to take on the government. Exposing z-list celebrity affairs is still fair game, but with dwindling revenue, most newspapers don't want to rock the boat.

The BBC's been mostly the same since Gilligan and the dodgy dossier, if not earlier.
The only place my wife and I might have gotten stares in new york was a very fobby area we went to do noraebang in.
I prefer the desktop version of OneNote, the app store version is neat, but missing some essential features. The type cover is not that great, but mostly I'm "docked", so it's not that big of a problem.
I can't speak to Hollywood, but this presumably means it will be illegal to watch "Irreversable" online.

Still, it's a handy way to tar anyone complaining about online survellience as a rape-loving pedophile.
TL;DR - "Yea I guess, but..."

Personally I don't have huge a problem with the default filtering; most households (with or without kids) don't have the knowledge to effectively enable filtering for all their devices - giving them 'protection' by default, and allowing the option to have full access is currently what most - maybe all - mobile phone operators do in the UK anyway in 3G/GSM connections.

However, its important that the opt-out is incredibly straight forward - an online form for example (ideally during signup with a new provider) - no need for 'humiliating' phone calls where you have to explain why you want to see Super Army of Boob 2, for example.

I do wonder what this will mean when accessing sites like The Pirate Bay - which often have boobs-a-plenty in the sidebar ads. Does it mean that people who visit sites that happen to have 'pornographic' ads ALSO need the filtering off.

My bigger concern here is that these measures will very likely do nothing to stem child pornography (and I would hazard a guess sexual abuse in general); my reasoning is that I don't imagine your average paedophile just opens their vanilla browser in the morning and Googles for '[child related sex terms]' - surely this kind of activity hides behind systems such as Tor?

One other thing that springs to mind; presumably, unless there is explicit legislation against this, ISPs can now sell your filter preferences for marketing purposes; perhaps putting you in some 'boxes' you wouldn't want to be in.
> > The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) is to draw up a blacklist of "abhorrent" internet search terms to identify and prevent paedophiles searching for illegal material.

> A single search can now land you on a government list of accused pedophiles.

Also, I foresee a sudden rise in rickrolling along the line of:

<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=kiddy+porn">Funny Cat Video!</a>
If you want to try and do something about this, donate to the UK equivalent to the EFF, the Open Rights Group[1]. See their rather sane and well thought out views on this here[2]

[1] - http://www.openrightsgroup.org/

[2] - https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/cameron-demands-ac...
At least in embedded systems, this looks like something that can be done the open source way. The success of the arduino and the mbed in building popular ecosystems has shown us that.

I can see some better version of the .net micro framework, being improved by the open source community(1), and benefiting from the ms ecosystems and tools, becoming fit for some large part of embedded systems work.

Also I can see this getting adopted since it let's embedded developers in small companies, who has some power on which tools to use, learn another skill that can better their employment opportunities.

(1)improved speed could be achieved through using the cito compiler project, which might be good enough for many projects. And for making the language hard real time, it could be done using specific implementation of reference counting, although at some speed/memory cost.
I think they have taken a good step in the right direction.
Kids are exposed to too much crap these days. Kids growing up with involved parents and teachers turn out alright, but there are a whole lot of kids who aren't that lucky.
You're too kind.

Frameworks are the reason I can go and build a top class product in 6 months all on my own. If we didn't have them, each new product would require an army of programmers re-inventing wheels, and only big corporations with lots of money could afford to even attempt it.

Frameworks rock. Abstraction also rocks. Whenever I need something more than once, I make it abstract. I automate it, abstract it, make it re-usable. And 99% of the time - I am not kidding, it's really that high - I will re-use that piece of software, re-run that script, etc.

A senseless article, all in all.
How is this going to work if people https to sites outside the UK?
Team Sports Suck.

Physical activity has much to recommend it but I never gave a shit about watching or playing team sports and my various school's focus on team sports over any other physical exercise put me off exercise for a long, long time. If all of your experience of "exercise" is that it is one or all of boring, unpleasant or full of wankers it does rather put one off it.

I'm glad I found jogging and later weightlifting and if my friends are going to be drinking while watching some sports game, awesome, I'll come to the pub too. But I'm not going to pretend interest in sports for the same reason I do not moderate my political opinions though I do censor them. I do not care about this shit and am unwilling to pretend to care, and if you prod me I will tell you I. just. do. not. care.

EDIT: If you feel like taking part or you enjoy it, fine, whatever. Exercise and bonding are both generally good. I'm just glad my father gave up when he saw I was more interested in seeing the gravel trickle through my fingers than watching the rugby game he was watching. Forcing people who are not interested in team sports to play or watch just leads to many having a negative association with exercise, which is a pity.
It isn't about iOS at all. Your iPhone might be vulnerable, mine as well.
> (ie, fetching keys from keyservers, encrypting automatically, etc)

No no no no no! The keyservers have no authentication for key addition. Anybody can put up a key for any email address and effectively wedge themselves man in the middle.
> The possession of "extreme pornography", which includes scenes of simulated rape, is to be outlawed.

Certain scenes in Game of Thrones might trip this rule. More interestingly, the show is partly filmed in the UK.

I guess Martin, Benioff, and Weiss are all a bunch of criminals. But all those scenes of people stabbing, slashing, and killing each other with all kinds of blades are not a major THREAT TO CHILDREN in a country with a knife-crime problem.
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> either pays inflated property tax rates (on a recent purchase; both the percentage rate and dollar value of property are high)

Under Prop 13, property tax rates in California are limited to 1% of assessed value. Its true that a new purchaser will pay this on something like the actual current value, unlike someone who has owned for a long time with real appreciation faster than the limited rate of increase of assessed value, but the rate won't be any higher for the recent purchaser.
It seems it would be better to have an opt-in list instead of forcing everyone into it by default and making a list of those that didn't want it.
Well, for the PTY example above, the reason is backward compatibility. Eventually we need to decide to rid ourselves of the limitations that backward compatibility (with, e.g., bash) brings and clean up the implementation.
How about he does something productive and bans 50 shades of grey.
Germany and Japan were rebuilt from the ground up after 1945, France is now on the fifth republic, Spain, Portugal, and Greece shed dictatorships in the 1970s, some of Eastern Bloc now qualify as first world and have undergone a major change in 1989-91...
I think at least some Chromebooks use it. It finds use in HPC clusters and embedded/industrial settings as well.
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> All police forces will work with a single secure database of illegal images of children to help "close the net on paedophiles".

Let me guess, David Cameron is going to appoint himself to head some special committee to dole out who gets to access to said database…

This is going go down well in history…
> I'd /love/ to see a native Erlang system, soup to nuts.

I see where you are coming from but I don't see how assembly and a layer of C drivers is going to disappear. That is the whole idea behind having layers of abstraction. It is what makes one plug in a mouse and it works and then another mouse made by another company and it also works. There is a lot of firmware, assembly, kernel driver, kernel syscalls taking place but it support you moving your hand and a pointer moves on the screen correspondingly. We take that for granted but it is built on an existing infrastructure. It took years and it wasn't always the same. I remember older DOS days having to fish for mouse drivers.

Same with Erlang. Erlang itself is built with C. Beam VM is mostly C (maybe with some assembly). It runs on standard hardware with a few standard operating systems.

Now if we dream of the future. I can see architectures perhaps that do something like you suggest. There is one for instance: Erlang on Xen. The idea is that Erlang runs on a very small hardware footprint, without an OS (since Erlang's standard library pretty much provides large number of OS like features). Now they picked Xen and you can say perhaps "ha that's cheating, there is also Dom0 running!". But it isn't practical otherwise. Maybe they could have picked a particular motherboard and CPU combination but now it is hard to reproduce that, test it and lots thing have to be rewritten.

Take a look anyway, I think you'll be surprised:

http://erlangonxen.org/
> HTML5 is really interesting. The example there would be somewhat limited- without exploit it can't escape it's little sandbox, meaning it would be great for things like DDoS but not for stealing private information.

May I suggest you take a look at http://www.beefproject.com/ and see what can be done without escaping it's little sandbox. Also if the goal is compromising a host, there will generally be an exploit as part of the toolkit, not necessarily an easily detectable one. At CanSecWest earlier this year there was an interesting Chrome-based pwn2own from the guys at MWR.
It is absolutely, unquestionably unethical to do that. There's a huge, huge difference between proving a concept and stealing user data -- no matter what your end goal is. What possible positive outcome could he be looking for in taking this data?