skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how people still imagine the government plays by some rule book. They only pretend to. If they so choose, they will make it illegal to design or produce ANY mind altering substance without an express license. Of course, only big pharma will be able to afford such a license. Watch and learn how the fascists work and play in the fields of the lord.
This illustrates nicely the problem that I have with the way Manning and Snowden went about leaking their information. It seems that they grabbed a bunch of information and sent it to reporters without really thinking what information ought to be released. Do I think that the existence of the NSA spying programs should be public knowledge? Yes. Do I think that I really have a need to know the exact methods they use to implement these programs? No. That part is not necessary for us to make an informed decision and whether or not the programs should exist.
I had to read your reply a few times. I thought you were accusing me of having my own sidebar of shame.

So you think the Daily Mail tactic is kinda like, Hide in plain sight?
There is an evil hack that would get around this: pass a law which changes drug scheduling from a black-list to a white-list, with only FDA-approved substances allowed.

I'm uncertain whether this could be successfully passed, though. Support for the War on Drugs is on the bubble as it is.
Probably a "hidden" message about where this is leading America to...
We're all gods now
The narrative in the UK is that some recent official reports, following some specific nasty crimes, established that the offenders used 'extreme pornography', and went from mild criminal records to quite extreme acts.

I'm not going to support or detract from those conclusions, there is an argument to have there in both directions.

But at core, that's the reasoning that is being used to push anti porn laws here much stronger than say a year ago.

The opt-out blocking, which is related, is apparently to an extent driven by mumsnet, the Anonymous of the middle aged.

Personally, I see the whole thing as a way of getting the UK's favorite defense contractor's IP filtering/logging equipment into local telephone exchanges. The story is [see el reg] - UK.gov wanted centralized logging/filtering, but that wouldn't get through parliament, so instead they are putting laws in place to make ISPs fit them. The ISPs are getting paid to do this, but need to be made to for the sake of public relations. But making it about porn rather than enacting EU mandated data retention, and putting government specced DPI equipment in every exchange is much more palatable. But I'm reading a lot between the lines here.
Or! He could save his company and start a video game company!

All jokes aside, unless you have a very good knack or special offering, scaling might not work so well. You have to train people to be just as good as you are, some people go to specific food trucks for the people.
That was broadly true of British obscenity laws for decades (centuries?). You couldn't publish anything that was obscene or that could disturb people but just what that meant was poorly defined and pretty much up to judges and juries.

I actually kinda like that typically British approach though since it allows tastes to move with the times without actually rewriting any laws. What's "obscene" in 2013 is not the same as in 1940, for example, but it does take court cases to set precedents.
The thing that has continually bothered me is that the "publications" section still won't allow you to create papers on which you're anything but first author. No one there must have ever worked in academia at all, since typically you include papers on your resume even if you weren't first author.
> As I understand it, it's either now illegal or will be illegal (in the UK) to sell/possess/something footage of two consenting adults who are not engaged in rape, but are simulating rape. They simulate this through force, words, threats, all that sort of thing.

This is already a really dangerous thing. Rape is sex without consent and rape doesn't always look like a struggle with violent resistance. If enforcement looks only to a violent struggle as a requirement for labeling porn as rape porn, that gov't is reenforcing existing stereotypes about rape and sexual assault.
Banning isn't enough. These new drugs have to be detected somewhow, probably with mass-spectrometry, leading to all sorts of problems with detection, specificity, selectivity and the legal problem of how someone is supposed to know some incense contains these drugs...
What does HN thinks about this idea?
It's not the programs that prevented attacks; it's this magic stone that I have and pray to. It keeps "terrorists and other groups" at bay. But now, since I've divulged its existence, it may not be as effective.
There are already pharmaceutical drugs for that , which are abused at epidemic levels in regions of the U.S.

They're safe and of high quality, though they might still feed a criminal underbelly.

Of course, people who get addicted to synthetic opiates often have their lives ravaged to the same degree as people who get addicted to regular old street heroin, despite the safety and quality of the drugs.
>> Designer drugs are also likely to kill a whole lot of people, bolstering politicians who want to keep the status quo.

Anything can bolster these schmucks. More deaths? We need to fight this scourge. Less deaths? Policy is working. Also at the moment the main causes of drug deaths in the UK are -

> Drinking alcohol

> Smoking tobacco

> Heroin related (could be largely mitigated)

> Mislabelled substances (PMA sold as MDMA, could be completely mitigated)
"Yes thank you for that haircut - hey if you don't mind, I'd like to sweep your entire floor for no particular reason, keeping the hair and do you happen to know a store that sells... tools for... farming, like large knifes and chemicals in large quantities?"
To be clear, I'm not in favor of altering speed limits. Just pointing out how little sense it makes to turn our whole society upside down for terrorism deaths, when we clearly don't do that for non-terrorism deaths.

Thanks for the details though. :)
How the Government Can Get Your Digital Data
Cracking Synergy's Bad Cryptography
What? He said that viewing a picture of a crime doesn't make you complicit. Viewing a picture of a murder doesn't make you a murderer, no.
I'm not disagreeing, just mentioning

"It thereby comes down to circumstance, configuration, and the whims of the people who wrote your compiler as to whether you will get mov+movt or a single ldr pc,.X+data."

Yes, this sums it nicely
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Here's a story about a grandmother selling "Bath Salts". She was arrested for selling some kind of drug. Even though the products she was selling contained the illegal chemicals she avoided a conviction because, well, who knows. It feels a bit random.

(http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Grandmother-s-nightma...)

Some things that aren't obvious from that article: Her shop sells a wide variety of drug paraphernalia (scales, pipes, bongs, cannabis seeds, items with cannabis logos, cannabis magazines and books, etc etc.)
I disagree. The point in either case is to get a cookie of the attacker's choosing accepted as the session identifier for the privileged domain.

But even if we consider them separate techniques, the mitigation strategy is identical anyway.
I think that Cameron supports the idea of asexual reproduction :D
Or maybe that's another way to end internet freedom forever.
I think insurance companies tracking your whereabouts is a very very bad thing, but I think them tracking how safe you drive is a very good thing. If it makes drivers drive safer to save money, and thus makes the roads safer for everyone, I can't imagine this to be a bad thing. These devices can also fine tune your premiums. They track how often you drive (drivers who drive less pay less, which makes sense, someone who drives 5,000 miles a year is less likely to get into an accident than someone who drives 20,000 miles a year).
It would seem like anyone worth their salt in computer science could get a corporate job after 7 years at any school, especially Harvard. It seems like the concept of having a failed career is much less than if the Phd was in Philosophy.
Completely agree. I can't think of a legal precedent, but if the images are illegal I think it's safe to assume a video that includes that image is also, I'd argue worse but again I don't have a precedent to back that up. And there's plenty of legitimate art that can be described as video that includes rape, which isn't remotely reasonable to be banned.

He points one out himself, The Accused which I haven't seen. Obvious other examples are The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Game of Thrones and the BBC's own The White Queen. The BBC censored that programme compared to the Starz cut, and we still see a young girl get raped. None of them should be opt in as far as I'm concerned.

I don't understand what wording can be used here to avoid banning legitimate stuff and can't easily be worked around.
it's the language design. All that dynamism and runtime reflection is really a performance killer.

So why are Lisp and Smalltalk, which are equally dynamic and reflective, even faster?
When science becomes this politicized it ceases to be good science.
Manning, probably. Snowden? Have you been paying any attention at all? It's been extremely clear that he (and the Guardian) have been extremely conservative in what they've released and have spent enormous effort on making sure it doesn't contain information that would harm anyone or anything other than the reputation of the US government.
And what does an American employee do about unexpected (long term) health issues?

(For short term issues there is insurance, whether in the form of savings or actual insurance.)
Sounds like the parable of the mexican fisherman:

An executive from America was standing at the pier of a Mexican village, taking a much needed vacation. It was his first in more than 10 years. He noticed a small boat docked with just one fisherman on board. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The executive complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The fisherman replied, “only a little while.”

The executive then asked, “why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more fish?”

The fisherman replied, “I have enough to support my family for a little while.”

The executive then asked, “but what do you do with the rest of your time?”

The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, and stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life.”

The executive scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing, and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise.”

The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?”

To which the American replied, “15-20 years.”

“But what then?”

The American laughed and said that’s the best part. “When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions.”

“Millions.. Then what?”

The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, and stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos.”
I like the idea. When you free yourself from undue external pressure creativity comes out. This doesn't work for everyone. You have to be very prescient to avoid all advice. Being smart and in computer science allows one great backup plans. (Tell the 7th year English professor not to worry)
The fear of designer drugs existed already in the 1980s. The comic strip Doonesbury even covered it - Uncle Duke hosted a designer drug conference in his 'medical university' in Haiti.

There already exist several ways to handle derivatives and analogues in drug prohibitions and restricted compound sales. Quoting from Wikipedia: "This then led the Health Committee of the League of Nations to pass several resolutions attempting to bring these new drugs under control, ultimately leading in 1930 to the first broad analogues provisions extending legal control to all esters of morphine, oxycodone, and hydromorphone."
Anti-virus protection is a mediocre "solution", or a "decent component in a larger security system" at best. It's marketed as being a silver bullet; "all you need to stay 100% safe." Understandable--it makes it a much easier sell to people who aren't tech-savvy. It also makes it completely understandable that the AV industry is almost universally reviled among people who are.
The animal rights movement and anarchists have been referred to as 'domestic terrorists' by the FBI for quite a while now, and Occupy has gotten that mention once or twice. Not to mention the whole Tartan thing: http://rt.com/usa/trapwire-abraxas-cubic-surveillance-251/
Blanket prohibitions against have run up against legal infirmities. It's the reason the drug laws are drafted the way they are.

A whitelist law violates the requirement that the statute must be on its face clear enough that a defendant could know whether his conduct was in violation of the law. Most such blanket prohibitions are ruled void for vagueness.

Other statutes that run up against this problem frequently are the low level but extremely broad harassment and terroristic threat statutes.
No you're right... Still, I find it hard to believe that they built the entire iPhone SDK and App Store in less then a year. I'm going to guess it was part of the original idea, just delayed for some reasons.
I hoped that I was not the only one that had that vision of the future. Seems like we need some more open hardware urgent.
Even if you can trust your government, what about the people in other nations who may have a different concept of privacy that have no influence over your government? What about authoritarian and criminal governments?
Poll: What payment provider is used by your company online?
I know the list is probably very US specific (pardon my knowledge otherwise), but really wondering where we are in 2013 in terms of accepting payments online ?

Also, if you can add a comment as to what has worked vs what has not, that would be awesome.
Own merchant account. Custom payment solution.
Google checkout/wallet
I sense someone who does not like guns...

I'm sure it was hyperbole, but how many guns do you really need at the grocery store? If it's not a zombie apocalypse, my vote is on a maximum of one, assuming you are licensed to carry it, of course.
Be careful. If this gets out they'll shut it down. :-)
Youthwork magazine responds to "corrosion" of childhood
Strangely enough, this idea has gone through my mind a couple of times, for a completely different reasons though.

Mortality is closely connected with the hours we spend sitting each day. So that's one reason.

The other one is that after working so hard and saving up enough for the rest of your life, you need something that is much more stress-free. And selling something so basic as food is exactly that.
I'm not sure what you're getting at (higher standard of opacity?) but in general, the consensus has been shifting toward open data and more open publishing (eg, ArXiv).

But regardless of the level of openness, it's quite possible for Science to be wrong, badly wrong, for years. Check out the story of Dr Moniz, for example:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/19...
The game programmer part is a bit of a juxtaposition.

Hearing that a good living can be made selling traditional street food in China is interesting though. That's some sort of sign.
The article isn't about performance difference, it's about ease of distribution.
The difference between murder and manslaughter is primarily intent. I'm asking if the contents of the offenders mind mean nothing to him, what is the difference between murder and manslaughter? If you kill someone by accident when you were negligent is that the same as actively plotting and killing that person intentionally?
Interesting read from a youthworker re Paul Bernal's point #10: http://youthwork-magazine.co.uk/main/blogs/internetporn
Ruby without dynamism runs a bit faster: http://rubyluwak.com/pages/benchmarks
I'm not actually sure how to search with this. Does it only support cities in the UK? I live in the US, and I've tried: [city], [state]; [state], US; just my zip code; [zip code], US and according to the console, they're all returning 500 errors.
A white list of everything that's for sale in every shop in every part of the economy?

That seems both authoritarian and highly ambitious.
China To Lift Console Ban
Ah that's interesting. I for some reason assumed that the C# implementation was an addition to the language.
The first voice of reason I've read on this issue so far ...
The GA real-time view does really work well now, but I think I'll have to give Piwik a try; looks like a fantastic alternative!
There are another 20 good technical and legal questions on the issues here:
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/isp-filtering-qs
> There is one more important thing to consider: it collects IP addresses of all your visitors out of the box, which might be in conflict with your local laws. Be sure to check that out before adding it to the site.

Is there an way to disable this?
Yes mitigation is identical
In defence of this comment, apparently the book describes the drugging and raping of two ten year olds from the record shop, which is changed in the film to be a consensual encounter with girls his own age.

There are other rape scenes in the movie though. Fun fact: one of the actresses involved quit because of the difficulty of filming them.

One other movie with a rape scene: American History X.
In what has been publicly released, I agree with you. I'm also sure he has a lot of information on his pen drive that is being circulated around back channels, whether he really wanted it to or not.
The role of sharing: advertising in the age of social media
No, of course it won't, you know that it won't, and your attempt to try to misrepresent the proposed bill by suggesting that it will is petty and dangerous.
Composition order is the weirdest thing about Control.Lens.
I do want to note that some of these drugs have dramatically worse side effects than the illegal drugs for which they substitute.

MDPV, in particular, has lead to a range of terrible effects, including psychotic states leading to cannibalistic attacks.

Even the strong and broad legalization proposals, in which I can see the wisdom, acknowledge the need to control substances which regularly cause users to behave violently toward persons or property. To me, the designer MDPV and PCP would be the poster drugs for this category.
This is actually not changing the files on production but for using a development server. In my case, we don't have local servers. We have development servers that are identical to production servers.

I manage my changes from my local so I can use any editor I want in the mean time this script uploads all my changes to development server.

I think this is the general use case.
Well then maybe people shouldn't have deliberately dismantled social democracy to the thunderous cry of "MUH FREEDOMZ!"
> It's highly unlikely someone accessing rape porn is doing it because they are aroused by the idea of simulated rape.

Do you have some evidence to support your opinion?
> This is true as you say for a wide of variety of topics, but criminalizing those kinds of echo chambers is absolutely useless. Giving a person or agency the ability to criminalize those echo chambers in general creates a method of censorship backed by the law for any group of people.

In this case it's not the echo chambers that would be criminalised, but the intention is to block the media that may influence people to seek out these echo chambers. I'm not convinced it will work but that is at least the logic used.

> This flies in the face of all statistical evidence we have. Violent crime rates are generally lowering even as violent media, including rape porn, is more accessible.

There are many theories on this but I am aware of no well controlled study into violent pornography. If the research exists I would love to read it.

> I don't disagree. The media we watch and consume affects us as a society, but banning media because of the fact that it does so isn't a solution. Stopping rape won't happen just because you banned legal depictions of it.

I don't claim that it's a complete solution, but to deny it could solve problems at all requires evidence. I can understand the logic behind prohibiting it, and have seen some (relatively weak) evidence to support the idea that pornography can alter a young person's behaviour significantly based on them trying to emulate what they see as desirable.
Blog author here. Long story short I got frustrated with distributing Ruby cli apps and decided to switch to Go for speed and distribution.

I also created a nice cli library built on top of the Go flag package. I've been having a lot of fun in Go so far and encourage anyone who hasn't given it a shot to try it out.

https://github.com/codegangsta/cli
What are other promising businesses programmers in the US can start?
It's an intentional exploration of the concept, from TFA:

"... thus bringing this absurdist tirade to a close and showing the law for what it really is: Propaganda codified as law."

The clue is in the "absurdist tirade" -- this is a reduction of the current media coverage of the law into implications which seem technically plausible.
And I'd disagree with it 100%.

Think of this scenario - you own a warehouse, and have a security system installed, with cameras on all sides of the building. A couple of nights later, you get a call from the police - a rape was reported outside your building from the night before. Your security footage would be useful evidence, they say - so you hand it over, not bothering to consult a lawyer first. The next week, you accidentally cut off the county prosecutor driving to work, and he files charges for "possession of rape video", based on the footage you handed over to police. The law has no provision for Mens Rea, so you are quickly convicted and are now labelled a felon and sex offender.

And that's just one of the reasons you shouldn't ban the possession of images/videos of an illegal act.
The fact that even with all that they are better than a game programmer is really sad.

Game programmers are the equivalent of children workers in a sweatshop.
I believe the evidence exists and I will spend the time to collate it for you if you can reasonably address the rest of my post.
Did you know Twitter will send you an archive of all your tweets?
You forgot Pepé Le Pew [1]. This law is obviously intended to ban such filth.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep%C3%A9_Le_Pew
Letters to a young mathematician
It's likely that this will be an extension of s63 of existing 'extreme pornography' ban in s63 etc. of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/4/part/5/crossheadi...

That only covers images (including video) and does not cover films that have been classified as a 15, 18 etc., i.e. most commercial/cinema films.
UK to block all online porn by default later this year