skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is already done through the WIC program. If you look at the shelves in the grocery store, you'll see the WIC label on certain foods. It does not stop poor food choices. The only way to make it work would be to shutdown all fast food restaurant and pull all crap off the shelves in the store, and that will never happen. Anything that can be abused to get more caloric intake for less money will be abused.
Haven't you seen them? I hear they're everywhere.
Note to Americans: "Republican" in the U.K. refers to the "movement which seeks to remove the British monarchy and replace it with a republic that has a non-hereditary head of state" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism_in_the_United_Ki...
Extracting Tables from PDFs in Javascript with PDF.js
I know of no other ISP that designs routers from scratch - electronics & software, including OS.
To create a robot with common sense, mimic a toddler
David Cameron just reignited the new wave of interest to online porn of all sorts.
Way to go!
OpenDNS.

Either use categories or pick your own domains to block. If you want to block IPs, use a firewall or the hosts file.
I know that those notifications are annoying, especially when they get mixed up with important e-mail and send you scrambling for your phone, however...

How 'bout you just set a profile photo? It doesn't need to be your face, doesn't even need to be photo. Actually, a distinct avatar would probably work better than a photo.

But put something there. It's tiresome to try to follow a conversation without an easy way to distinguish participants.

So fire up GIMP, put your initials over your favourite shade of pink and upload it to Twitter/Google+/GitHub/Gravatar/whatever. Or pick a picture from Flickr with a permissive license.

Don't punish others with a generic icon.

/PSA
Do you also think that normal people are a little bit racist, too?
Yawn...I just want to be safe from all the bad people - hang on a sec, I've got to go check & see if my Gov. check is in the mail.
> And if all ISPs are to be legally obliged to "provide" this filtering, A&A will not be an exception

This is what they are doing: http://revk.www.me.uk/2013/07/active-choice.html

I suspect they'll get away with it because they're not a popular consumer option. Not sure if Virgin would.
I think it is great that David Cameron is trying to protect his country.

But, I think the implementation of anything that restricts the internet before content gets to the client will take things down a bad road, which is why similar efforts keep getting struck down in the U.S. When you give the power of restricting communication to the government or even to a contractor for the government, how will that not be abused? You may as well let them open every bit of mail and every parcel and check to see what you are wearing each morning to ensure it is appropriate.
> HTTPS end to end isn't really worth it for some things.

Don't agree. Serving HTTPS is cheap now, and it's easier just to put _everything_ on SSL and avoid the mental effort of deciding what goes where.
Great, and I can't figure out how to change my apple password because it asks me some "security questions" before allowing me to change the pwd (such as "what was your favorite band in high school).
>Get the right music, right now
>Listen to millions of songs for free.

Nah.
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Talent War: Exploring the State of Recruiting Top Tech Talent
> Sensitive personal information was encrypted

sigh Tell us exactly what was and what wasn't encrypted.
@bcambel decorators_part1.html refers to time_me "As you see time_me is a function which..." . Should probably be "intercept_me". So yeah, there's a bit of suck in there ;-)
http://tomdale.net/2012/01/amd-is-not-the-answer/
Since the definition of "terrorism" has been watered down to the point where it can mean almost anything, a "terrorist" can therefore be almost anyone .. or, to be a little kinder to our lords and masters, the number of people to whom the term "terrorist" can potentially be applied has increased dramatically.

If enough people have changed their behaviour as a result of the surveillance / nascent police-state scandal, then this statement is statistically plausible, so I am not calling out "B.S." just yet - although the usual warnings about rampant language-lawyering apply as per normal.
Really interesting post which I enjoyed immensely, and a good point about being able to create custom renderers with DirectCompute/OpenCL and skip all the legacy baggage while harnessing the ultimate powah of modern GPUs. (Reckon we'll see a bit of this sort of stuff in some PS4 games later on in the console generation.)

Not a new idea, but one I'm glad to be reminded of.

I'm totally going to put some time into playing with this. Anyone here already doing something cool in the custom GPU renderer space?
We forked this internally for a while https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
They've already done that bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_%28content_blocking_s...

This move is to please middle England since they read all the headlines about '1/3 of kids addicted to porn' and stories about teenage rapists heavily implying porn made them that way.
If you can describe projects in the language of HN as opposed to Flippr, you could do very well.

i.e. For a SaaS project I care about the problem you are solving, the market you are addressing and what you know about it, MRR, LCV, churn, and a historical record about what you've done while trying to reduce churn / increase MRR / whatever.

I don't care about Adsense revenue or GA uniques (unless they are exceptionally good).
Quite agreed that this is much easier to understand than the usual academic presentation of these topics.
My one true love programming language is Pascal (mainly because when I was exposed to it I'd only every used BASIC) and later Object Pascal.

Looking at Ada I see a lot of similarities, it looks like "home" to me.
the daily bread and butter work of govt keeping the streets clean and cities functioning gets forgotten and sidelined.

These functions are only a small portion of government spending - it's mostly just wealth redistribution.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2011_US_total
Not that it's particularly expensive either. A single domain cert can be found for a few bucks, a wildcard for under 100.
Exactly what I was thinking. This is just a "hook" for them to find their way "in".
I still don't get how people can claim that functional programming is inituative when mutating a nested struct requires a separate package and metaprogramming hacks.
Except "rich people trying to influence politics" is an easy attack line for those that disagree with the changes you are trying to make.

Mr Feeney is clearly someone who prefers operating out of the limelight, which is the exact opposite of the kind of personality who can use money to drive political change.

It also, in a very Carnegie fashion, shows the other way rich people can influence state spending. Offering money if the state does something (usually give money as well) in return. Carnegie used to give money for a town library if the town would pay for it's upkeep, Feeney offers money for universities and tech parks if the state chips in as well.

Much better than running a nebulous "I think government should be like this" campaign.
I guess the closest thing we have would be a confederate flag button in the U.S. That flag still seems to be embraced by the area of the country that most wishes to seceed (part of South Carolina).

As for a U.S. "Republican" button, Google basically already has that of sorts in their news; it attempts to determines that you don't respond well to certain news and won't show those items. I don't read Google news much anymore though, because I feel like they intentionally or otherwise are influencing my world-view.
I'm not a redittor, so forgive me, but is this supposed to work around the problem where so many "Show HN's" don't make it onto the front page?
It's only for now.
Choosing the right Minimum Viable Technology
Don't joke about it. This sort of thing is all to plausible. Think about the data collected by fitness-tracking devices. What about when these are mandated by your insurance provider? After all, some car insurance companies are already promoting the use of tracking devices in your car. There are all sorts of ways that we can be induced to buy and install the infrastructure that facilitates an Orwellian police state. This book does a good job of laying out how it could (all to plausibly) come about: http://amzn.com/1841499390
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The majority of my HN comments are multi-paragraph, needlessly thought-out statements. But on this one all I can muster is:

Boo Fucking Hoo.
I was musing on if U.S. news sources did this with particularly partisan content it might promote a less partisan news-space.

Countering that was my reaction upon seeing this: "they really ought to be able to predict who would click that link and default the page to the correct setting". Creating echo chambers minimises friction by relieving consumers of having to continuously re-evaluate their positions given the other sides' points.
The name for the US republican party has always surprised me, especially because the other party is "democrat". Here in France too, "republican" mostly means "a non royalist administration". Democratic then precises what kind of organization. So, it kind of sounds like US republicans do not stand for democracy.
First off, it's inspiring and courageous to write candidly about such a topic. Including the epiphany: That what I can do, is try to be the best whole person that I can be. That mindset would be helpful outside academia too.

But the more I read through stories like this the more I become convinced it's important to fool yourself: to convince yourself there's no pressure. As if the act itself unblocks some kind of neural pathways that allow you to do things you wouldn't have let yourself do otherwise.

The author might be a lot more courageous that they think, even if they hadn't realized it at the time: "But its not because I have extra courage. Rather, by demoting the prize, the risk becomes less."

Anecdotally, a professor once told me (when they look back on their tenure track) that it now seems irresponsible to them that they were devoting such little time to revising journal papers or writing such few grand proposals. (I got the feeling they were doing things that don't scale). Another said they were sure upfront they'd fire them at the end, so they tried to enjoy they ride while it lasted. Both of them got tenure.

Another thing this story shows is how logistics become manageable if you try. Like the approach to give the other person a weekend day off as counter-balance to you going on an extra trip is probably what prevents you from going astray. It's the right sort of tension. You pay twice for a workday like that (one for the trip, one for parent duty), so you now have a concrete measure to make that decision rather the vagueness of "it will help my career".
I believe there is also a link that countries have the lowest tax rates have the highest levels of philanthropy.

That would be an interesting relationship to read something about. Some brief searching doesn't turn up any good studies either way.

If we limit it to developed countries, the hypothesis would be that philanthropy is highest in low-tax places like Hong Kong, Singapore, and Chile; at a middle level in middle-tax places like Canada, the USA, and South Korea; and at the lowest level in high-tax places like Germany, France, and Sweden. I suppose there might be some confounding cultural differences between N. America, S. America, Asia, and Europe as well. Also may look different depending on whether you're looking at large donors, or at typical contribution by the median household.

(The list above chosen fairly arbitrarily, based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu... as the metric for general tax levels in a country.)
Does this mean we should.expect a flood of novelty plastic trinkets?
In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters
This "response" is not funny, smart or anything. Why does it even got posted here?
Also the pure online hardware buying part is by far the weakest part of the argument.

The Apple Retail Stores are innovative (sort of; not that uncommon outside of computers, even in design, but bringing that to computers, sure). The Apple Online Store is pretty boring and simple -- limited SKUs, wasn't international for a fair bit, etc. The backend infrastructure to customize orders and manage manufacturing is somewhat less advanced than Dell was. It's just a question of making amazing hardware that people will do anything to buy. I don't think a random startup would have a hard time with the online store portion.
Huawei working to develop 5G technology
- there's no locking unless you introduce it

- snapshots are create implicitly when using a reading stream. there isn't yet an api that exposes them directly.

- if you need transactions, write a node module that implements them

- create{Key,Value,Read}Stream uses snapshots internally

- createWriteStream is aggregating some of its values into batches for performance reasons, but not locking

- levelup/multilevel streams behave the way node.js streams should behave
Nice way to try and Jedi mind trick it. It's a ridiculous idea that has so many flaws that'll cause it to fall apart in large exposure, add on the fact that ISPs will require a new set of processes and administration and kick the cost back onto customers, which always helps drive internet usage when people who can barely afford it now won't be able to afford it at all.

Anyone vaguely intelligent enough to search 'hide connection' will be able to find out how to setup a VPN pretty damn quickly, thus rendering it moot. Unless using a VPN becomes an act of suspicion and puts you under monitoring, because surely you must have something to hide then. Next up, a war on curtains.
You'll be able to trivially circumvent this, and the first people to figure that out will be teenage boys.

And then what? Well hey, we can try to block the encryption and tunneling protocols they use and make those opt-in too.

Inevitably someone who "opts in to use encryption" will have to answer for it in a criminal trial.
Yes, they put the choice up-front on their order page. https://order.aa.net.uk/h1order.cgi
Yeah, sure, fantasies come true.
Ocean canoes: How ancient navigation methods are again being used in the Pacific
Now NSA is terrorizing American public, shame on them! or wait they are shameless.
SAD.
won't register on spotify to listen to that...
I like the cartoons used, but why set the bar high with chunky bacon:

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/images/the.foxes-4...
Google seems to have started on a mission to annoy the fuck out of me the past 6 months or so. For instance through the neverending popups and dialogs that enthusiastically tell me about some feature and require a response from me to ask them to please fuck off.

Not to talk about the amazingly stupid animations on Google+ that makes it impossible to scroll fast on an iPhone 4. I was making an effort to use Google+ more ... and then Google gives me that shit.

Look Googlers, I know that you suffered under the reign of the Cupcake Princess and were unable to release anything cool because dealing with her was more painful than watching an entire episode of Sex and the City. I know that. But that doesn't mean you have to go out of your fucking way to add frivolous, pointless, wankery to your UIs.

If you want to do something productive: fix the Gmail UI.
Oh I know about cleanfeed, ever since the wikipedia debacle. The issue is that they think it actually solves anything!

I wish it was only one side of the house that was into this rubbish, but various Labour front-benchers have come out with very similar nonsense. Also the last labour government seemed to be full of "All Porn is Rape" style feminists * .

( * please note, I consider myself a feminist in as much as believe in absolute equality and free self determination for all humans, I just disagree with some aspects of some feminist philosophy. As do a lot of prominent feminists AFAICT)
OP should provide his login for his link.
I don't really understand the amazement of everyone after looking at this video. He's Turkish (I think), not bound by U.S law and published this video as some kind of demonstration of his capabilities as a security consultant hoping to secure a nice gig or two.

Not the brightest idea he had there but neither are the responses here auto-assuming that if the video is in English then that person must be bound by U.S law.
To be honest, they'd have to regulate "computer networking" for that to work. It's not just VPNs, I can open an SSH tunnel to any number of machines to make web requests on my behalf.
So, Cameron decided to block something that about 60% of women like?

He forgot to research about it or something?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-sex/201001/wom...

(I know psychology today has some issues... but the article cite its sources)
Um could have this wrong, but as far as I am aware, most ISP are against this filtering. This came up a few weeks ago, and they basically said no. This is why now Camoron is banging on about threatening legislation to make them do it.

That said, the ISPs objections are likely cost, rather than protecting freedom. Much like Camoron, this is pandering and nanny stare, rather than really caring about children. To him this is a tick box ticked which costs the treasury nothing, he gets the ISPs to pay for his votes.

All quite seedy.
I find this article overly critical. Leaving the feasibility issues aside, I don't think most parents will just rely on this measure and totally forget about their own responsibilities. What, do people not teach their kids against taking drugs, just because they're illegal?
Also, assuming that the NSA will use the list to find terrorists or child pornographers is also ridiculous. If there's a porn site the ISP's keep track of (so they can "opt" it in the program), chances are that the site does not have illegal porn on it, so why the fuck would they care? Even if it could be used for public shaming, who the hell still cares about who watches and who doesn't watch porn?

The only legitimate complaints are those regarding feasibility, like what counts as porn (do sites that allow it, but are not really about it, count, like reddit? or to a lesser extent, as already mentioned in the article, facebook) but hell, might as well just ask why all politicians make promises they can't keep. The article would have been way more credible if it kept to sane arguments, rather than trying to throw around random criticisms like #2, which makes references to porn that is already illegal, or #3 and #4, which would obviously never come to fruition.
As for #10, which is a legitimate question, definitely not, but it's an aid towards it, with a significance in the long term that is yet to be discovered.
Yeah, I suggested as much but loose politician lips can sink ships. Especially ignorant ones. A poorly drafted law can have unpredictable consequences and later be impossible to change with the "My opponent wants your kid to be sodomized on the internet by copyright pirate, terrorist, porn industry magnates, blasphemers,{scary moral panic subculture of the month}" argument.
They're really not all that pricey, I think - you're paying for an upgraded service and bandwidth off-peak is cheap. If you don't want to pay for that upgraded service (£10-20 per month?), it's probably not all that important to you.
So I have to create an account to see whatever this article is about? No thanks.
Why not tell it how it really is and allow us to switch between "news" and "gossip".

Or perhaps leave gossip to the gossip rags?
To save people the trouble (since, bizarrely, Spotify doesn't show you where the link is going until you log in), it's just the Avenue Q soundtrack.
It's funny. It's just making fun of something we all use daily (the Internet). There is no denying that porn isn't a large part of the internet, and that there are probably plenty of people out there who only use the Internet for that particular purpose, just as there are plenty of people that have never found themselves on an XXX website.
As much as I'd love to explore require.js more, the documentation web site just doesn't seem to be compatible with my mind. I don't have a lot of time to test it out and there's something about the docs that just isn't making me feel like I'd know how to use it.
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> confederate flag

That's comparing Apples and Cactuses and doesn't strike me as equivalent at all.
Given there market cap at the time of the deal, NeXT was a huge buy.
Chances of Ending Up in the Top Fifth, For a Child ...
... Raised in the Bottom Fifth

The top 3 cities are: San Jose, San Francisco and Seattle.
Why this hacker stood up against 'verbal abuse' in Linux land
Sorry to be cynical and grumpy, but.....

Careful folks, come high karma folks here will accuses you of trite anarchy for these comments.
Ah, but part of their argument is that it is always worth it so that when it is worth it, that content doesn't stand out. So, by their own argument, they should enable https even for the static content pages.
Well, doubting that leaks of information won't have a negative impact on our security is pretty obtuse also. I'm not afraid, but I also wouldn't be surprised if we have a greater number of terrorist attacks in the coming years. It's in their interest to complain for multiple reasons.
Whoops, so used to the web links in spotify didn't realise that you needed to be logged in (sure this is a change)

Try it on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc
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I'm assuming this is primarily meant for apps that get deployed to in-house servers rather than being submitted to the public Debian repositories, whose packing guidelines are indeed quite strict.
Do you have kids?

If it offends your sensibilities censorship is always an option :)
Being an anti-royalist was a good thing in early American politics.
Here's the default profile icon: https://ssl.gstatic.com/s2/profiles/images/silhouette28.png You can change "28" to any size you want. Just download that, then upload it as your profile image :)
Always go one level deeper
As someone who has felt mostly sour grapes toward Microsoft for introducing D3D in the first place instead of adopting OpenGL, it's nice to read a convincing rationalization for why that wasn't done initially, coming from someone who was involved in the process.
Yes, they are more expensive than the main stream providers. And they're worth it, just like it is worth paying more for a good chair and a good keyboard if you use those a lot.

I use the internet a lot and I care about it, so I gladly pay a little more to get a good one that isn't throttled, censored, monitored (at least not at ISP level) and poorly run. I also like to support an ISP that campaigns (and acts) for things that matter to me, such as net neutrality.

My only worry is that A&A is without equal in the UK, and if they ever go away, I'd be forced to lower my expectations a lot. Most other ISPs have caved in to the creeping censorship and offer pretty awful service/support to boot (when I was on BeO2fonica it took them 10 days to fix a broken DSL line, which is how I ended up with A&A).
Heh, I'm massively pro Royal. But I really don't give a toss about tittle tattle stories like babies, etc. Even I would click "republican".
Shame they're not tracking its use, at least just for fun: I can't see an HTTP request going out when I click the toggly link. The Wikipedia page quoted elsewhere here cites a Guardian and Observer (same company) poll reporting 54% support for the abolition of the monarchy.