skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only Russia, most companies don't, almost everywhere in the world.
I've mentioned this before on one of these threads: I think any focus on the sexual morality of politicians, political point scoring and such is superfluous.

Porn and other "offensive content" has been restricted or banned in pretty much every time and place by various means. Even if an outright ban does not exist in blanket legislation, there are restrictions, codes of practice, industry bodies, laws applying narrowly to certain media channels or something like that.

Basically, porn gets regulated/restricted/banned always by whatever authority has the means to do so. Always. And some authority always has jurisdiction in some way over every mainstream media source. The difference on the internet is that no one could regulate it. There was no authority or industry body. No power that could be appealed to. Now the internet can be regulated, seemingly.

That is the story here. Not "Cameron is a prude" or "Cameron is pro-censorship."

The internet is regulatable now. That's the story. This probably means that the same restrictions that apply elsewhere (TV, radio, print) will apply online.
So now that we can see in real time the ways government tries to censure, control, and surveil the Internet. The speed in which they try to incorporate the Internet under their domain of control is one where we don't need to guess anymore about their intent. Its obvious, clear and show no sign of slowing down. Rather, they are increasing the speed in which censure, control, and surveillance are added.

We can't even claim that this is the initial battle. That fight has already been fought. We had the discussion around common carrier principles when peoples talked about net neutrality. We had the discussion when people discussed piracy. We had them also when wikileaks and SOPA was in the news. Even some of our allies has turned. ICANN is now days dictating under what purpose people are to be privileged to do the simply act of buying a name.

Allowing government to censure, control, and surveillance the Internet produce news article as this one. Expect to see more. Its that, or invent around it in such a way that the censure, control, and surveillance can't be used by the government from an technical standpoint.
meh,how do you copy a line in sublime then ? You are not even using sublime.Spend couple of hours just learning the basic commands of whatever editor you prefer using.If your editor is any good you will have more to learn after the two hours.If you are worried about obscure key combinations learn vim,it's like a language for text processing.You can even activate vintage mode in sublime if you like the look of sublime. just my .02
Reminds me of the great movie "The Last Mimzy" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768212/ totally worth watching!
Ibrahim Balic breaks silence on hacking Apple developer site
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> Dolls are supposed to be for the child to project their own fantasy onto[...]

And not to forget: Dolls are most often initially "brought to life" by parents when playing with their children. They can form a vital path of communication and conveying of culture between parent and child.

You could argue that the parent talks to the bear and the bear talks to the child. But seriously now - I don't want Siri between me and my child, thank you.

Also - I don't want my child to be constantly affected by me. The good thing about a lifeless teddy bear is that they find out that they can change it, completely. If the Siri Bear is molded by me, initially, this now means that the degree to which it is able to be molded by the child is determined by the Siri Bear, not by the child.
I think the book is already being printed:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026365.do
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Please don't do this. The poor bastard who's trying to understand your commit to fix bug #2325634 now has to wade through a load of unrelated crap to find the tiny change that's relevant.

Oh, you've done the clean-up in another commit? But still on the feature branch? Yeah, not helping because now there's two commits to look at instead of one and WHY DO YOU HATE ME?

Do this as part of a clean-up exercise with its own branch. Don't do it as part of generic bug fixing. Your team members will thank you.
It seems like some quite strong claims are being made for the AI side of this here. Especially around things like adaptive understanding/learning. Using language like "aware" and "autonomous" is either inaccurate or potentially amazing/terrifying.

That said, it's a fascinating project, and getting mass backing for these kinds of things is going somewhere I'd like to see the world heading.

(Although I share the feelings that toys are really supposed to be about imagination - I've met so many young people lately with poor problem solving/conceptual skills, and I don't think that's disconnected from the increasing prevalence of highly passive young age play activities over the last couple of decades. I've got nothing scientific with which to back that statement though!)
And given that the role of the filter is likely impossible for them to get fundamentally 'right', the cynic in me wonders how quickly acceptance of temporary blocks of non-pornographic content will happen, and how long before somebody might take advantage of that.
Call me naive, but I do feel that this is a significant subset of the government, but not all that feel this way. The person in question obviously has an agenda (and has posted blatantly incorrect statistics... I wish there was some way of punishing officials who publish lies. Any ideas, legally?) but to play devils advocate, does that mean everyone in office feels this way?
USD prices don't include VAT but EUR prices do though
it's you, who misunderstood him
What's wrong about the "go away" thing? What is the appropriate solution in your opinion - death row for the offender?
Slashdot. News for nerds, stuff that matters.

Dealbreaker. Inside baseball for the Wall Street crowd.

The Wall Street Journal. But just headlines for most articles; I'm too cheap to pay for a subscription.

The New York Times. A very good paper if you ignore the slanted political coverage.

Last but not least, DrudgeReport.com. He's been at it for over 15 years. Most sites would kill for just 1% of his pageviews.
The most recent released version of Mesa supports OpenGL 3.1 (which dates back to 2008 or 2009, iirc).

http://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes/9.1.5.html
"Mesa 9.1 implements the OpenGL 3.1 API"

I believe I saw some recent news that 3.2 support was in the works for this fall. I'd really love to see linux intel hw gl support even hit 3.2 or 3.3 compatibility as that gets you glsl 1.5 and a bunch of improvements over 3.1. Not holding my breath for 4.x.
They turned into a quasi-Ponzi scheme earlier this year. Until they shut down, they delaying orders, in some cases by months, and using money from new orders to pay for the old pending orders. Who knows where the money from the old pending orders went.
I am not usually the one who laughs at technologically illiterate, but this is hilarious, not because she is blaming the blogger for hacking, but because her people are the ones who are deciding how the internet behaves, and yet they have no understanding of even basic stuff. So I find the idea of them making the decisions about something they are literally illiterate about amusing, and haunting.
How to make your site navigation responsive
> One space be­tween sentences: Always one — nev­er two. Some top­ics in this book will offer you choic­es. Not this one ...
Or more gen­er­al­ly: put ex­act­ly one space af­ter any punctuation. - http://practicaltypography.com/one-space-between-sentences.h...

Sigh - another source for a rule that shows evidence of thinking like a writer, not as a typographer. We can forgive Bringhurst, but ... the single vs. double space choice is a false dichotomy in a world with proportional fonts, font expansion, stretchable space, and the like, since there is no such thing as the width of a space.

TeX, for instance, allows the space after sentences to stretch more than interword space, and gives inter-sentence space that is 1/3 wider than interword space where there is no space (default for CMR).
Why on hackernews?
Yeah. Me too.

The cookie legislation, with all its pompous righteous "debates" in EU & UK parliament is the perfect example. They basically legislated a nag screen that you need to 'X' on every site you visit.

It gives shoddy "web consultants" a hook to bait clients with (you are required by law to have a cookie compliant website.). It creates extra nonsense work for developers. Stupid bikeshed meeting all around the country. And a very tiny annoyance occurring 10000 time per second to someone user somewhere. Lots of website owners that know they are breaking some law someplace and decide not to bother about it which is corrosive to rule of law.

Naturally, it does absolutely nothing to achieve the goals it set out to achieve (tracking?). Nothing. It's pure incompetence.
Ubuntu Edge lowers prices on IndieGogo
Hi everyone

The last few days have been absolutely incredible -- over $3.5 million in the first 40 hours. We’ve broken records, we’ve attracted the attention of the world, and we’re marching closer and closer to bringing the Ubuntu Edge to life. $32 million is a huge number, and we’ve never danced around this fact. To get there, we’re going to need your help to bring family, friends, fans, and followers to the campaign.

This crowdfunding process has already provided us with a lot of great feedback, especially about our perks -- and we’ve been listening to it all. You told us you want more opportunities to get the Ubuntu Edge at a lower contribution level, so we went back to our spreadsheets and came up with a solution. Today we’re changing our perk levels. We’ll offer a limited number of phones at each level, and as each tier runs out the next ones will be made available, so act quickly to get the best deal!

You’ll only see the first few levels on the campaign page today, but continuing our habit of openness and transparency we want to share the whole plan with you.

Hundreds of you have already contributed $830 for an Ubuntu Edge, but don’t worry. We’ll refund the difference at the end of the campaign so you won’t lose out. We’ll contact you all directly with more information.

We need to keep the campaign momentum going. Please help by sharing the news and, of course, keep pledging!

The Ubuntu Edge team

edit:
Link to project: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge
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It's not that cheap. Maybe it's easier (and free as well) just to learn those things by yourself.
Its not just technical, is all over government. Education ministers usually have no grounding in education, health ministers usually have no grounding in health, armed forces ministers usually have never serves, home secretaries usually have no grounding in law enforcement, and so on. All they know is what their supporters think and they apply that to garner votes. At best, such people only know how to manipulate parliament.

This is democracy......
It sounds like if IBM were serious about getting people skilled up on their platform you'd be able to get access to a system for a bit less than $600/month. $0/month sounds about what they should be shooting for.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I have been to Crete before and loved it. I also plan on getting fit and healthy while I am there so perhaps the fresh fruit and veg from the market off La Rambla in Barcelona will be better for me then all the lovely gyros in Crete.
Gimp yes, Inkscape no, everyone I sit in front of Inkscape loves it and it made me overcome my feeling of "I'm a programmer, I can't do art" thanks to it's great interface and smooth learning curve.
You've missed the point. Making a typo and accessing the page once with the wrong SSN using the submit buttons on the web page provided has absolutely no intent.

Using an automated script bypassing the webform to cycle through as many as possible clearly shows intent to access something you're not supposed to.

People don't just access urls at random, they will never type a url with query strings into the browser.

They click links or submit forms.

Someone pen testing a website will be deliberately circumventing those methods.

It's like running wireshark on a public unsecured network, there's likely no good reason for you to be doing it and you know what you're doing if you're running that tool.

That's intent.

Note: I'm personally very pleased that they're fighting this. Just wanted to clarify what they mean by intent.
Bone density is a solved problem. Daily usage of exercise machines for about 1-2 hours keeps the same density; tested on ISS astronauts.

I agree that one-way trip is the best, because of difficulty to acquire fuel.
It's funny if a top politician is clueless about the web.

Unfortunately, this particularly clueless politician is the UK's Secretary of State for Defence. She has nuclear submarines....
Reminds me of "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" movie, it had the coolest talking bear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDgecjYaCCA
Embrace the desire to make money
Some of the best coders in the world have taught themselves - but just as many (if not more) have failed because of the inefficiency of trying to learn something you know absolutely nothing about. Should beginners start with Objective-C? If they're completely new, there's no way to know where to start.
> Sleep - “Play rain effect for 25 minutes”
A perfect way to get wet sheets!
That is false from a global perspective.

Sex and nudity as "offensive content" is mostly an US-centric concept. Maybe they learned it from the UK, or UK from the US, but many European countries during the 1950-2000 did not share it. Sweden as an example, showed many movies on national paid TV that was deemed too sexual for movie theaters in the US. They had a teen age show called "bullen", broadcasting during family prime time, which included everything from nudity to instructions around masturbation. The movie Showgirls was shown not once but twice and both times the uncensored version. Nudity and sex was not discussed in censorship discussions as it was just not an issue in peoples mind.

However, in contrast to US culture, Sweden had a heavy ban on violence. The cartoon show Darkwing Duck was deemed as "video nasty", and banned mid season. The move theaters had a state censure policy which got only as recent as 2001 got abolished.
Well, it's true. They record everything and upload it to their (US) servers to analyze the data in order to respond with the corresponding text and that's exactly how Siri works too.

It would not be evil, if they made the software independant of the cloud, but I suspect they cannot due to a) the amount of data+processing speed required or b) in order to bind their customers.

An evil teddy bear could subvert your kid to murder xyz, let your parents buy xyz or do other things. That's why all highly intelligent AI robots in Films are independent agile forces and sometimes even able to additionally connect to the hive (collective mind), but they very rarely operate on the command of the hive (exclude the borg, they ought to be like Seven of Nine).
Indeed - and this is not even a hypothecial (i.e. it is more than that): this is what happened in Denmark, m. ore or less, afaik. [references may appear later.] This mode of thought cannot be construed as a hyperbole.
This risk premium is an important part of that equation.

"So out of the original $4R, we’re left with $0.1R in profit. That’s 1/40th of the revenue making its way to actual bottom-line profitability, and even that takes 4 years to achieve", Jason Cohen.

That a very tight profit margin, but still could be valid business mode. Especially when you hope that over time 'brand' grows in strength and average customer acquisition costs may lower, conversions can be optimised, R&D costs will be shared across a larger user base. You might even 'max-out' the customer base.

The issue is that revenue is at risk. You might spend $300m acquiring customers for that $0.1R profit 4 years down-the-line. 2 years into that 4 year, a competitor suddenly innovates and steals the customer before you've realised the required revenue.

It doesn't even need a massive innovation. A margin that tight is very sensitive to very small changes. A competitor enters the market and your annual retention drops from 75% to 66.7% and that will probably be enough to destroy any hope of profitability.
> the most rudimentary technical chops

Working as a high school teacher, I can tell you that it is far less common among kids to have those chops than you imagine...
The catch is that signing a key does not usually convey "trust", just "identity". In Debian, trust is assigned at the end of a successful application process to becoming a Debian Maintainer or Developer, and this trust is conveyed for a particular identity with presence in the official Debian keyring. So in Debian, trust is centralized.

However, it doesn't have to be exactly like this. I can imagine a decentralized system built on the same tooling. For example: you could require three certifications from existing members in the set, bootstrapped from Guido, for inclusion in the trusted keychain. (You might additionally limit the maximum degrees of separation from Guido to assist with auditability).
Giving the opportunity to learn with the same high standards Makers Academy provides on location to everyone without having to move to London is fantastic. Totally legit!
CIA 'black bag' operations hacked Chinese computers
Ah OK. If we're talking definitions then indeed; as far as I'm concerned discriminating based on cultural norms of a specific country is still racism.

I can imagine that in the US racism more commonly concerns the traditional notion of race but in Europe, where race and nationality are usually synonymous for all intents and purposes, a workable definition needs to be a bit broader.

I double checked it on Wikipedia just to get a second opinion and this is what they have to say about it:

> Some definitions of racism also include discriminatory behaviors and beliefs based on cultural, national, ethnic, caste, or religious stereotypes
Pink flamingos send message to NC Republican legislators
I'm not sure this is true. Oh, I don't argue with your point about the historical facts of restriction, but I do think that the internet is still far from regulatable. The story is still really that politicians believe it is - it isn't, but they don't have the expertise to comprehend why that's the case. The internet is a mass publishing medium, not just a mass consumption one.

Legislation has historically successfully targeted only publishers, and you can do this when the number is fairly small, but not when that target is "everyone" because of the work required in monitoring (which is still not amenable to automation, despite what politicians may believe - it's still just too hard for the software technology we have).
Wow. You didn't make that up. That's past ridiculous ...
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Thankfully she's only the PPS to the Secretary of State for Defense. The actual SSD is the far more capable Philip Hammond... (Hmmm.)
Government ministers don't even need to be elected MPs. For a UK example: Peter Mandelson in 2008. It's the parties who decide who becomes minister, and as such they _could_ pick and choose domain experts, if they wished.
The article states that the website is back up but as of now 24/07 11:08GMT that is not the case.

This is terrible timing for me since I came back from travelling on Thursday and haven't been able to get on with working in iOS 7. I really wish Apple were able to provide us with more information on time-scales.
Linus, Sarah and the Linux Civil Code | LinuxInsider
Also, use MySQL instead of sqlite
(This applies to ownCloud servers in general, too)
Ask HN: Looking for ideas for my portfolio
I've been a developer for about 10 years now, and have built some apps that have had moderate success, but they've all been either rather large systems which have been shut-down or internal business tools (for other businesses).

I've got a few apps I'm working on, but they are still rather large projects, nothing that I can just bang out quickly.

I'm looking for suggestions on some simple example apps I can build for a portfolio.

Any suggestions?

Not that it matters, but I've got experience with PHP, Ruby/Rails and am learning Python and Node, I've also got lots of javascript experience and am learning angular.
Yes. That's exactly what they emailed me to suggest, but I haven't gotten the new layout yet for it to matter.
That changes nothing at all. One space is correct and nothing else.

This particular document doesn't even touch on more advanced tings like this so it makes sense to leave it out and keep it to the simplified but still correct statement: One space, nothing else. That's it. If you do something else you are wrong.
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Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level
To play devil's advocate....Why would government not seek to control the internet? They control everything else, and if something goes wrong the public slaughter government for it, saying they should have done something. In the end, doesn't an ignorant frightened government just represent an ignorant frightened electorate?

Surely it has to be up to the tech savvy to educate the wider population, so that we end up with politicians who understand. Forget the politicians and focus on the general public.
Why isn't Mozilla working with standard bodies on this and instead trying to pushing their proprietary, developed in secret APIs on everyone?

Do they think they can just implement new web APIs without first discussing them with W3C and other browser vendors like Microsoft or Apple?
The Last GUADEC?
At a certain point customers will find your product without the SaaS company having to put money into it. This is where you become profitable.
> "Honest and flexible pricing for your needs"

I don't find it that honest to require $39.72 from your customers that pays with EUR, and $29.99 from customers that pays with USD.

Steam does the same.
I found using cheerio with request and phantom.js makes anything possible.

https://github.com/mikeal/request
https://github.com/sgentle/phantomjs-node
Did you read that? I seriously doubt your reading comprehension skills if you characterize what he wrote as "hating all over Times New Roman".
When is assembler faster than C?
I don't know how the video demonstration compares to Siri because I have never used it, but even if its performance is similar to Siri, the lag in that video is truly horrible. It would be especially horrible for a toy that is supposed to talk back.

Imagine every human you talked to had a 6 second ping.

"Bear, do you like me?"

One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, four Mississippi, five Mississippi, six Mississippi.

"Yes, I like you."
Not participating in the state religion was banned in pretty much every time and every place, and here we are no longer buying in that mythology.

Change happens. It is for good.
I can't disagree with that, but being from the self-taught category myself, I would probably recommend to try learning stuff by yourself at first. A good coder has to be a fast and independent learner anyways. So, if one can't master something alone maybe programming is just not for him/her.
Amazed at her lack of understanding... I think that incompetence at that level should be punished.
> Google's remembrance of Cesar Chavez instead of Easter on Easter made me switch to Bing

Why?
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Shouldn't this be a link to the campaign?
Libel and blackmail from an MP, why am I not surprised. Does anyone know if Kickstarter allows funding of legal actions? I would be willing to donate some money into putting her in the dock for this.
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