skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think it was a co-incidence that a previous prime ministers (Margaret Thatcher) favourite show was "Yes, Minister"?
For a start, the Americans likely don’t finance the royal family or have to accept their tax avoidance.
whilst I strongly disagree with the filtering, it's utter bs, it's also untrue that porn isn't having an affect on younger generations.

The real thing that needs to be happening is an honest and frank discussion about sex and sexuality, which is a pretty tall ask in the UK as we're quite prudish in some respects. We'd rather legislate against smut then talk about it.

As to the affect that I alluded to. When children get their sex education from porn, you get teenage boys thinking that anal's the norm. This isn't just a theoretical, this is something I know teacher friends have had to deal with in school, getting approached for help by teenage girls having to cope with this kind of thing.

Also, I've no idea where you get the idea that children aren't interested in porn. Perhaps not when they're 7, but when they're 12 or 14 they definitely are.
I eat through 100GB a month in gaming and netflixing...
...especially when those cheap calories lead to obesity, diabetes, and other complications.

If you are purchasing too many calories, you are wasting money that could be spent on veggies.

Poor parents raising their children badly is a real problem that should be solved if we want to improve the next generation. One possible solution is to constrain the food choices of the poor - replace food stamps with food boxes and fill the box with only healthy options.
The standard car's internal combustion engine works at a crazy scale, however it still dumps over half of the energy of the fuel as heat through the radiator. Things can work pretty badly and still scale.
Privilege escalation through bugs in Flash and/or browser and/or Java and/or other plugins (approximately in that descending order).
It's clearly not just due to black people, either, though. Atlanta has a large black population, and is a pretty decent city (it has problems, sure, but so do other places). And there are cities with largely-non-black populations which also suck in the same kind of ways as Detroit.

Any city with a massive decline in population (which was probably triggered by racial issues and bad governance in the 1960s, a time when a violent armed revolution, at least at the local level, was quite possible) is going to have problems. Detroit had a heavily union population, reflected in the government as well, so unlike mining/etc. ghost towns, the "hangover" from the massive decline in population was a lot more unsustainable (in a place like Butte, people just left when industry left).

Sure, the decline into a war zone hurt, and compounded all the initial problems, but NYC was a warzone in the 1970s/1980s too, and didn't die. LA and Miami in the 1980s/1990s. I mean, even Oakland is somewhat turning around now (largely on the strength of SFBA overall and an artificially limited housing market in SF, true, not internal improvement.)
I love the fact that Americans, to turn the royal baby news back on, would have to click the button called "Royalist?" - the irony is wonderful.
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How the hell am I supposed to guess the sarcasm or lack thereof behind written form? Your 'good luck trying to guess the tone of this message' could be interpreted as the former sentence being sarcastic, or be interpreted as pure condescension for me "not knowing better" or being coy.
Take another look, if you were moving more than ~6 months ago - their Home::1 service isn't the cheapest, but isn't stupidly priced.
Oh, yes, this is just a gently confusing inversion.

I was expecting him to say the filter would be "on" by default, because it will be. He's describing it as "off" by default - meaning "show me porn? [ ]" instead of "show me porn? [x]".

(Cultural note: 'ticked off' normally means 'unhappy' or 'dissatisfied'.)
absolutely retarded idea, but if they do it:

make it IPv4 only, that would finally speed up IPv6 adoption.
100% agree with your last sentence.

Now, I'm not really replying to you as such, but I don't quite understand the alarmism over, say, a debt of 100% of GDP.

UK tax revenues are 39% of GDP (so, very naïvely, the government's "income") and with a debt of 90% of GDP, that's 2.3x income. Or a typical £25k earner having a long term debt, like a mortgage, of £57.5k.

I confess this is an extremely naïve analysis since personal and government budgets are chalk and cheese, but it doesn't strike me, as a taxpayer, as being a number to get alarmed over. Or am I totally missing something?
The Internet is for Porn. (Ready normal people?)
Both of those are excellent reads. "Dealers of Lightning" is another you might want to check out.

edit: oops
Ah, the liars are releasing a new statement. Very interesting. And their job is tougher now? Interesting. How did they ever fight criminals and terrorists before mass surveillance! Unimaginable.
Agreed! Definitely one of the best things I've seen for a long time.
I think if there isn't a successful legal challenge before 2016, or a successful political challenge in 2014 or 2016, the course is irrevocable. The direction has been negative for a long time, but the pace is accelerating. If it's not improving (or just getting worse much more slowly, but with a good second or third derivative) by midway through 2017, it's pretty much not going to be fixed, and the right choice would be long-term disinvestment and disengagement from the US, to the extent possible. The US started from a great position in 1912, so it's got a long way to fall, but...

The difference between the Civil War and WW2/FDR was that those had fairly clear end states, and the end of the war/change of leadership was sufficient to fix. Obama was about as distinct from GWB as a politician can be, on the way in, and has essentially been the third and fourth terms in every meaningful way.
He will do the latter and prevent larger problems (protests, growing opposition) with his new censorship infrastructure. Which, in my opinion, is his main motivation.
Haha. :-)

Localtunnel and PageKite overlap, but the focus of the two projects is actually very different. Localtunnel is just for quick one-off tests. Although PageKite can do that as well, our (I am the author) real goal was to make self-hosting easy for folks who don't necessarily have full control over their networking infrastructure or are using primarily mobile devices.

The two projects started at roughly the same time though, in fact I think localtunnel predates PageKite by a few months.
I 100% feel you on this! I have actually just closed out my tabs in frustration and did not watch any videos. The thing that really pissed me off was the wording, they intentionally make it really ambiguous so that you can screw up. Eeverytime i choose an option, i am just hoping that it is not to use my real name, i find that really sleazy. My youtube viewing has also decreased by about 80% because the new home page is too cluttered and the recommendations are just so off, if you make the mistake to watch a 60sec video of something silly, be prepared to get a whole lot of recommendations for that crap. This is actually the main reason why in the last two months my viewing has dropped so much, it doesn't even seem like they take into account my saved lists, favorites or watch later.

Bonus complaint: Lately I have been feeling that google just doesn't care or they have too much going on to pay attention to detail. I have been really disappointed with their social products as well as services since google checkout. I downloaded the google now app a while ago and was shocked at how it killed my battery and never used it again, yesterday I decided to test it out, a few hours later I wanted to use instagram but my power was at 3%, I smiled and just disabled the app. This disregard for winning at both the first & second moment of truth is what is killing google's ability to diversify their revenue from just search.
I honestly have no problems wit this as long as the default is unfiltered, and any blocks and filters are opt in. No reason this cant be a tick box in the router. Just an option for parents if they want it.

I have 6 kids. My two daughters have suffered grooming attempts online. No one can stop grooming online. I would never filter. No point.

Camoron is pandering to the anti gay marriage lobby and the Daily Wail nut jobs, while distracting from his disastrous policies of austerity.
California being in debt to the gills is the result of the right wing? Meh. Dem politicians rule CA now and have for quite some time. Jerry Brown ring a bell?

California’s budget woes combined with poor economic results have long made it a poster child for poor fiscal management. The state’s credit rating has been downgraded to an A- by S&P, the lowest rating for any U.S. state, and its budget and pension shortfalls are infamous. How long has it been since CA had any GOP hegemony again? I'm no Republican, but shifting the blame won't work in a fact-rich environment.
Not certain if you are disagreeing, so to clarify: you can either do a load like that or two moves. The load requires one instruction word and one data word, so two words. The moves require two instruction words, so also two words. The load however, requires a data fetch. This fetch has to come from somewhere nearby, as the load instruction cannot offset very far, and so is going to be in the same segment as the code (called "text", for historic reasons: this has nothing to do with strings, which will be stored in the "data" segment, or sometimes even a "strings" segment), and most of the time will be directly after (or, for long functions, inside) of the code for that function. This is a trade off: moves are fast (cycle counts of instructions are not all the same, so "single step" doesn't mean much), have better guarantees that they will always have the same result (code changing has much heavier penalties than data changing), and might use up an asynchronous memory access that other parts of your code might be saturating (although I honestly am not certain if ARM does this like other architectures do). 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.
> how is it, being atheistic and being married to a religious person?

You didn't direct the question to me, but I was an agnostic married (then and now) to a fairly-serious Christian. These days I'm sort of in the believer camp, for reasons that I think are intellectually defensible [0]. I still don't subscribe to many of the official tenets of Christianity [1].

The key to that aspect of our marriage seems to be mutual love and -admiration --- which dictate respectful behavior --- while agreeing to disagree about certain matters theological. We each recognize that for all we know, both of us could be wrong.

We see the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin's approach: Concerning the divinity of Jesus, Franklin wrote, a few weeks before his death at age 84, that, "it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, ... and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble." [2].

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> Isn't it difficult to work things out, when the other believes that you're destined to hell?

Your premise won't always be true. I can't speak to what Muslims, Jews, etc., would believe, but most traditional Christians claim that even a deathbed conversion will be rewarded with eternal salvation. Such a Christian, married to an atheist, can thus hope that the loved one will still make it to heaven.

While some Calvinist-style Christians believe in pre-destination [3], they're in the minority. As I understand it, Calvinists don't claim to know who will go to heaven or to hell.

In liberal Christianity, there's a strain of universalist thought that says God would not punish finite sin with eternal damnation; therefore, everyone will make it to heaven eventually.

Finally, not all religious people believe in heaven or hell; some (like me) simply don't know what happens after death.

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[0] Self-cite: http://www.questioningchristian.com/2005/05/why_i_call_myse....

[1] http://www.questioningchristian.com/2004/11/redacting_the_n....

[2] http://www.questioningchristian.com/2004/11/benjamin_frankl....

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination
Yeah, I set a bit of a trap for you. That was kind of mean. Rest assured that if we were having this conversation in person everybody would be laughing.
I wonder if there would be a way to run retargeting on likely jurors and then just follow them around the web.
When I switch to the UK edition and select "Republican?", the lead story in the right column changes from "Duchess of Cambridge admitted to hospital in early stages of labour" to "The world's best swimming pools." I can't really decide which is more newsworthy.
And a book -- The Billionaire Who Wasn't
We know what frameworks and other tools they use. Those suck (which is a personal evaluation, sure, but the marketplace has pretty much validated my opinion on this). The performance/feature characteristics visible to the end user also suck.

Apple's developer and support forums are pretty worthless compared to other vendors. A lot of information is missing or hidden, and finding anything worthwhile requires a lot more clicks than finding something at Google.

The whole iOS approval process is...Kafkaesque.
IIRC when YAML exploits were announced it was quite popular to call rubyists incompetent amateurs.
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"You have seen concrete proof that maybe places where you used to be able to listen to are now silent?"

"We have concrete proof that terrorist groups and others are taking action, making changes, and it's gonna make our job tougher."

Although the lead-in mentions that intelligence collection has been hindered (in the past tense), Keith Alexander is only willing to say that it will be hindered in the future.
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For development boxes I'd say the best best is vagrant. (http://www.vagrantup.com)

For prototyping perhaps a public PaaS with a free tier like Heroku would be great (https://www.heroku.com)

For a production setup you can use Cloud 66 (https://www.cloud66.com)
Oh wow, I never thought about the tax avoidance part.
Just a minor typo; it's "Dealers of Lightning".
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They have pretty comprehensive notifications settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/notifications (you have to be logged in, obviously).

Just untick everything. Super simple (unlike, say, Facebook).
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not sure if they are on par with coursera, udacity, and edX though.
As I explained, indeed it is not the risk of an attack, it is the (biological) value of women that led to this culture of protecting them. Men are much more expendable than women - number of women available is the main limiting factor in creating more humans.

Of course I fear for the life of my friends, but only men are expected to risk their life to protect the life of women. It's kind of funny that feminists (or genderists? Or what?) envy men for that "privilege".

Yes clearly I am not the target group for that song, which seems to be about people where friends don't fear for their male friends. Or what is it's point? I am not "guessing at other people's intentions", I interpret the song which clearly seems to state that only women get offered company for going home.

In any case I also feel that "my friends want to make sure I get home safely" as a complaint is firmly in "first world problems" territory.
"Not to hide it from you. But to hide it from those AMONG you who are trying to kill you."

Oh, well that makes me feel safe...
I can't guarantee there's no risk. But in Europe there are hundreds of virtual network operators - dozens in most countries - and I've never heard of any cases of operators (or anyone working for them) "messing with" sim cards, and people here newer think twice about switching sims.
Patents aren't copyright, it's perfectly legal to publish plans or explanations on how to build a patented device. You can even patent an improvement on a patent you don't own.
There are a lot of shapes that milling alone can't do. For example, anything with a complex internal structure has to be cast, which comes with a few of it's own trade-offs. 3d printing can make complex objects without limitations(other than materials and time).
Ah, of course! Thank you, I'll amend the post.
As long as you do it before they are selected. Mark Schmidter got imprisoned for distributing jury nullification information to empaneled jurors; I'm not really into finding out what the worst possible judge things is contempt anywhere in the US.

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/02/jury-nullification-activ...
I don't quite understand the appeal of everything is a file philosophy. Neither everything is an object for that matter. It makes the world look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPeattKV74A
As I always note in threads like this, this is not a problem of censorship or defining what is "pornography". These are all distractions from the real problem: a legalized violence employed by people calling themselves "government" to achieve their ends.

"Anti-porn law" in plain words means this: if you happen to provide an internet connection to some people, you will have to do what we say, or we will bring people with guns to make you to or give up your property (and maybe put you in jail too). We may ask for suggestions in form of "petitions" and "voting", but only within the imposed framework which you are not allowed to bypass. E.g. you are not allowed to vote for not sponsoring this whole mess by not paying your taxes. And even if you can, there's a mob rule: 50%+1 will overrule you.

When Apple censors porn on App Store, no one really cares because Apple does not point guns at people. You may use any other device, any other distribution platform. You can build one on your own. Apple only tries to be nice to people and attract customers voluntarily. This 180º opposite from how government operates. Government does not really try to please people, that's only for decoration. Underlying principle is to force everyone to obey.
Forget Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, Xbox, PS will CERTAINLY not be supported if this is a Windows app.
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.
So if that's illegal, even though it's provably not an actual rape (depending on who made it, obviously, but in theory we could call up the participants to check, or if they let the cameras keep running someone will shout "Cut" and they stop and go for a coffee), what protects similar scenes of simulated rape in books (if indeed they should be protected)?

I must say the idea of FSoG being banned does make me think there's an upside to this :p
This seems odd to be. I honestly think I would have figured this out in a few seconds at most, even if I'm not usually very good at this bind of trick puzzle.
Larry Summers was forcing faculty members to show up for work. Worse than that, he was forcing some of them to change offices and move to the other side of the river!

They would have gotten him somehow, it's only a question of how.
Unless every fast food restaurant is outlawed and shutdown and all crap food is outlawed and removed from the shelves of every store in the U.S., you are not going to stop anyone (low income or not) from eating it.

In fact, the U.S. actually provides incentives for companies to use high fructose corn syrup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5795478

And for those on WIC, while many crap items aren't on the WIC list, parents can still abuse it by buying things like only Cheerios for their kids to eat instead of veggies, etc. And yes, regardless of welfare, Obesity and diabetes are going to remain very common among the poor in the U.S.
Twitter respect their own rules but justify sending more e-mails by frequently changing the rules.

If you opt-out of every e-mail type, they just add more e-mail types and automatically opt you in - check the settings again.

I find this behaviour somehow more dishonest than the others.
A government mandated crude filter applied by the ISPs by default, controllable by the account owner, would probably be acceptable to enough people in England for it to go through without much fuss.

But even with that there are obvious problems. Ann wants to turn the filter off, but Bob is the account owner, and Ann doesn't want Bob to know. Chas is their 15 year old child and he finds it trivially easy to bypass the filter.

And now Cameron has announced much wider plans, with many more flaws.

I'm annoyed and disturbed that Cameron is mixing in some measures against images of child sexual abuse and measures against normal pornography. They are very different problems[1] and should be dealt with very differently.

It would be great if image search engines could make reporting images to the Internet Watch Foundation[2] easier. That might go someway to appeasing the politicians. I doubt it would get much use. I search for a lot of images, every day, and I go down the long tail of the search, and I have never seen any images of child sexual abuse.

Perhaps search engines could provide some statistics of searches for certain words associated with child sexual abuse. This would have to be done carefully, but I'm not thinking of normal terms that every day people might use (someone doing research, or a child who has been abused) but some very specific terms that only people involved in trading images of child sexual abuse would know. I'm sure they have their own lingo.

[1] I say problem because that's the word they use, not because I think regular pornography is a problem.

[2] IWF are the regulators in the UK for this kind of thing and they coordinate with law enforcement world wide. http://www.iwf.org.uk/
When I viewed this article last night the "Sidebar of Shame" had an article about one of the Kardashians babies wearing a string bikini, of course they were outraged "Is this appropriate?" but that didn't stop them publishing it.

Bunch of utter hypocrites
> Yes, and for exactly this reason it's dishonest: It implies that you could, if you wanted, repay the debt in 11 months - which is impossible.

It does not imply that. It's simply the mathematical truth of the units. I'm arguing that using percent is factually _false_, with as aim scaring people. I prefer truthful facts with explanation. Feel free to use a different thing than debt/GDP, but don't use something that's equivalent to claiming that 1+1=3.
Because clearly our entire legal framework should be designed around making the NSA's job easier. Why not put surveillance cameras in everyone's houses? Why not implant everyone with tracking chips? Why not have TSA agents look up our assholes with a flashlight at airport security? All these things would certainly make the country safer.

Just as concerning as the programs themselves are these kinds of idiotic arguments that their proponents make to justify them. I'm not hugely keen on trusting someone who can't avoid extremely simplistic logical fallacies in his reasoning to oversee the surveillance of all humanity.
Haha I see titties (.)(.)
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The filtering is almost certainly applied on the ISP end, with a web interface to a control panel.

I have no idea what Cameron means when he says it will be on all new computers by the end of the year, but he mentioned iPads. I suspect it's just his confusion about client / server, and that the OS will have no effect.
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