skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 Who will decide what counts as ‘pornography’, and how?

Pornography is everything that gives a politician, cleric or judge a boner.

2 Do you understand and acknowledge the difference between pornography, child abuse images and images depicting rape?

See number one.

3 Are you planning to make all pornography illegal?

Only until people find joy in it. When the junior anti sex league is ready we will unban it.

4 What about Page 3?

Don't mess with the freedom of the press to make and break politicians. Yet.

5 What else do you want to censor?

Everything but the truth. There will be special government agency to decide what the truth is today.

6 What happens when people ‘opt-in’?

I will ask daily mail to kindly label them child rapists. Also will suspend the UK libel law for the Daily mail. Then I will offer a ritual sacrifice to the daily mail shrine in my office so the deity will bring more votes to me.

7 What was that letter to the ISPs about?

[Redacted for national security concerns]

8 Are you going to get the ISPs to block Facebook?

Facebook? Book with faces. We hadn't had such things in 1695, haven't kept up with the recent trends.

9 How do you think your plans will go down with US internet companies?

I will delay the tax pressure and they will cave. Too much PITA to chase the money to fund health and education anyway.

10 Do you really think these plans will stop the ‘corrosion’ of childhood?

No but it will give is critical tools in being able to delay or outright prevent developing of critical thinking and free thoughts.

On a serious note - if the kid is able to learn about the Holocaust, WW2, Gulag,Wikipedia pages on torture or Greek mythology with pictures at age of 8 (they won't be censored) and not be scarred for ever, his/her mind is probably strong enough to bear the sight of a consenting women and men having sex few years later. Even if it is in a bit weirder ways.
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I really don't care that much.
Another great writeup on lenses I highly recommend, http://www.haskellforall.com/2013/05/program-imperatively-us....
Just curious... So depictions of violence against men are still going to be okay?

And we think we've come so far with gender equality...
Yes, though of course, the numbers should get their scare value from something more objective. I.e. some kind of study about how much debt is actually harmful (or not?).
How about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism
That´s cool!!, I knew I didn´t have a chance but I wanted to see how far I could go in the selection process (not very far, I was discarded before the first stage).
The requirments in the application form gave the sensation that they were looking for a scientist role over pilot. I suppose you still need somebody that has some piloting skills (spacial orientation, fast assesment and resolution of problems and all that), but is not the main astronaut function anymore.
I was a bit dissapointed about how much of an astronaut work life ( I mean the whole time she is working for the ESA not just the mission specific training and deployment) is around public relationship almost as somekind of scientific embassador for his country.

I am courious about your experiences during the exams. How did it go?, what kind of people did you meet?.I don´t recall the test order very well, the first one was theorical?, then medical then interview?.
I´ll wait till Elon has need of some bigger numbers (and the requirements are lowered or better still plumbeted). A Mars retirement could be cool!
Quitting My Bad Multitasking Habit
Article doesn't describe the most interesting part: Does these abilities appear spontaneously at early age? How child gets in to something so intensively? Was there any training and how much? But another article from Guardian does shade some light on this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/29/boy-paint...

The truth is far more innocent. Two years ago, a serious accident had forced Keith to stop work and turn his hobby – collecting art – into an occupation. The accident also stopped Keith racing around outside with his son. Confined to a flat with no garden, surrounded by paintings and, like any small boy, probably influenced by his dad, Kieron decided to take up drawing. Now, father and son are learning about art together.

At first, Kieron's art was pretty much like any other five-year-old's. But he quickly progressed and was soon asking questions that his parents couldn't answer. "Kieron wanted to know the technicalities of art and how to put a painting together," says Michelle. Hearing of Kieron's promise, one local artist, Carol Ann Pennington, offered him some tips. Since then, he has had lessons with other Norfolk-based painters, including Brian Ryder and his favourite, Tony Garner.

Garner, a professional artist, has taught more than 1,000 adults over the last few decades and Kieron, he says, is head and shoulders above everyone. "He doesn't say very much, he doesn't ask very much, he just looks. He's a very visual learner. If I did a picture with most students, they will copy it but Kieron is different. He will copy it and then he will Kieronise it," he says. "It might be a bit naive at the moment but there's a lovely freshness about what he does. The confidence that this little chap has got – he just doesn't see any danger."
That's a useful site, thanks!
Can I just point out, there's some irony here. HN users are attempting to censor this comment by making it difficult to read because they don't agree with the opinion.
I disagree, I feel that taking responsibility for your past makes things easier to deal with and easier to move on. Four out of six long term serious girlfriends cheated on me. While I feel that reflects badly on those girls personality, I also take responsibility for my behaviour in the relationship, I was a typical Beta male who didn't hold up my end of keeping the relationship stable. Accepting that has lead to me being a stronger happier person, in an excellent stable and above all, well adjusted long term relationship with a girl I'm desperately in love with.

What I'm saying, is the OP is blaming Social Media for her own issues,in my opinion anyway.
That would have been standard 10 years ago, but these days, it's not very effective and, unfortunately, it's still a very common scheme. You're better off with:

function rHash( $rounds, $data, $salt ) {
$data = $data . $salt;
while( $rounds > 0 ) {
$data = hash( 'tiger160,4', $data );
$rounds--;
}
}

And call $stored = rHash( ( registered month + year ), $password );

Or even the trusty old...

$stored = crypt( $password, '$2y$14$' . $salt . '$' );

If you're on PHP > 5.4 ( some hosts are still on older versions ), you should check out password_hash() : http://php.net/manual/en/function.password-hash.php

Edit: Fixed some typos.
Coming up with some statistical filtering beyond `grep' shouldn't be too hard..
For example: I personally prefer the standard form here, as (to me) it reads a bit more like English:

over (location.x) (+ 10) $ player1

"over location's x, add 10"
This article doesn't make the distinction between "porn" and "illegal content" half clear enough. Porn is not illegal (and in my view not necessarily immoral) to make or to watch. Using child abuse arguments to legitimise legislation about porn is just disgusting.
I might be wrong, but the concept of partial application implies existence of lexical closures and environment model of evaluation, so partially applied function becomes a closure over its argument. This is how currying is useful. This article, then, describes dome nice hack, but I can't see how it is related to partial application as we know it.
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This parody video (Caught in a Bad Project) really drove home the difficulties of Biology to me as a CS PhD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl4L4M8m4d0

Talk about stress.
The world's biggest data breaches visualised
I thought that function composition (.) arises from the category instance for (->)?

Actually on checking it seems that Prelude re-exports (.) from Data.Function. I'm sure I read somewhere that these had been unified, was I wrong?
GDP is a measure of the size of the economy to allow comparison between different years and different countries. Putting things in fractions of GDP allows the same comparison to be made meaningfully.

> Putting it mathematically correct "11 months" sounds much less scary.

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.

Anyway, 90% debt is only scary if we decide that there is a threshold below 90% that is un-scary. If the threshold was 150%, then Greece is scary but UK isn't. If it's 10% then everywhere is scary.

Personally, I'm more scared and/or outraged by the way the money is wasted than by the exact size of the debt.
Big Data and wine drinking habits
Questions ISPs must answer about Internet filtering
Why Twitter Ads May Not Work for Your Startup (but not the reason you expect)
I grew up in a country with mandatory web filtering. ("For pornography", but naturally, dissent forums always end up in that list.) Virtually every kid I knew was comfortable using Tor, Bittorrent, or a plain old web proxy (in the early days) to get around it.

These filters are just an inconvenience, and if your child is too stupid to work around them then you've got worse problems.
Oh dear, that sounds stressful. You mean all your money?
You forgot the most important question

0) How will you do it?

The internet is HUGE. Detecting porn is a non-trivial task, but even if you solve it, you will still need insane infrastructure to crawl the internet and apply your magical algorithm to every image on every website.
The following video completely redeems Bob Ross:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLO7tCdBVrA
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Awesome, how are you able to know that, is there any clear branch of your family that is traceable to that time or just by locating your last name´s origin?
I don't think Struts is nearly as popular with the HN community as RoR
I think the delay in starting a family is also a big factor. Anecdotal evidence (including personal experience) suggests that older parents are more anxious about their kids since, from a purely biological perspective, replacing a lost one is no longer possible. That makes people paranoid about the dangers to the kids they have. The paedo-paranoia and (my pet peeve) endless stories of dead children in the media only go fuel parental anxiety further.

So if Cameron want to stop the "corrosion of childhood", a crackdown on media outlets eliciting emotional responses to boost readership would be a better place to start.
I disagree, in part.

AdBlock punishes ALL websites equally (assuming you use the standard blacklist), not just those who have obnoxious content. But you can be assured that it is punishment as it impacts their revenue when ads are not loaded.
I did just that as Google kept replacing my youtube profile image with a random snapshot from a video I once uploaded. A blank white .png did the job.
I think the biggest hurdle isn't the hardware - it's designing things at home. Doing this is really non-trivial.
I started a website for sharing models ( http://www.fabfabbers.com) - but so many have, and now thinking I've wasted my time. I think there's more of an opportunity in making software to make the 3D design process easier.
This isn't the impression that the campaign website[0] gives - see the "Our Plans" section. It sounds as if new customers will be opted in by default, and existing customers will be enabled, and then have to disable the filter.

[0]: http://protectingourchildren.co.uk/
"So I'm not just being polite when I thank you instead; I have these
thoughts either way, but actually being heard means more to me than I
would have thought."

Well, it's like a hug, having someone that really sees you and shares
your feelings. :)
We've had similar attempts in several countries before, mostly argued for with the fight against child pornography. This has nothing to do with pornography, Cameron wants a censorship infrastructure so he can prevent access to sensitive "leaks" and other content that his regime might find dangerous.

Just don't get dragged into a for/against pornography discussion, it's pointless in this context. Even if you're naive enough to believe Cameron is actually trying to censor pornography, ask yourself whether such an infrastructure can and consequently will be abused.
I had to check that that was a real letter.
Soon you will be required to have a title, register your computer annually and be insured against liabilities just to surf the net.
I've read and throughly enjoyed "The Conquest of America" and "The Defense of Enlightenment", but these are topics I already liked. Todorov goes really deep into the topics he's writing about, so I'd chose something I'm familiar with. It remains accessible, but he is obsessive towards comparing how different parties perceive the same event and it could get tiresome if you chose unwisely

"Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps" is still on my reading list, but I suspect it might be his most accessible book. This reviewer explains Todorov better than I ever could:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R25MOQCFS574VO/
The key to cleaning up the net is tackling the darknets, not censorship
You may be looking for us in the wrong places.

I'm an MIT Physics PhD who aimed at teaching from early on. I agree that we're in the minority, but folks like us aren't typically looking for jobs at R1 universities but instead at small schools where teaching is actually valued. Unless you're part of that culture, we may not be the PhDs that you know.

I have a number of PhD friends like me, teaching at small liberal arts colleges and community colleges. It's a career path that doesn't typically have the sexy budgets and bright city lights, but IMHO can still lead to an academically rigorous and balanced life.
Exactly and with all the massive cuts they're making because we spend far too much, is this really what they should be spending money on? The NHS is in shambles (visibly worse than under Labour), people having to pay for the extra room whilst their children are away fighting in Afghanistan and many pensioners much less than well off and the government wants to fund a porn blocking filter that's undoubtedly going to cost tonnes? I do not like my government.
Nobody is prevented reaching porn

I think we need to stop thinking of censorship as an on off switch. Total prevention of information transfer to motivated parties is not possible in this day and age. What is possible is making content more marginal, less likely to be stumbled onto, etc.. That doesn't mean it's not powerful though. It's a different type of power. You will not prevent hardcore political dissidents from learning relevant news through internet censorship. You can however influence mainstream views. You can increase the publics exposures to one view and decrease exposure to another view. You can make certain positions feel safe, mainstream. This works particularly well within the context of a "tribe" you identify with.

Censorship's influence on political opinions is similar to its influence on sexual morality. The influence is strongest near the mainstream, weakest at the extreme. If you have to call up and request access to porn, use special software, etc., it will feel like you are doing something slightly abnormal. Like walking into an adult cinema in the 70s.
The problem with that is that it's very hard to get a substantial body of empirical evidence in which you can isolate the variable. There was incredibly high debt during and after WW2, and the UK survived that, but then there's the elephant in the room of the uniquely united nation having just fought off a very real and direct existential threat. We don't exactly have that level of common sense of purpose today.
> These declarations will only be used to shame public figures once the list is leaked.

LOL. On my Twitter account I have a public list for porn. It used to be a private list but most of those girls are pretty cool so there's no reason to be ashamed.

I'm not a public figure of course but I think this shame toward sexuality is a generational thing. It's only taboo for older people.
'Family filter', what a crock of shit, similar to the crock of shit verdict that GCHQ's use of PRISM was deemed legal (by whom exactly?). We know you want to spy on us, don't use the bleeding hearts at mum's net to get your agenda passed.
> Oh, and the most popular online computer shop.

No, they don't. Amazon is bigger.
In the U.S. at least, you don't usually have a choice to opt-out of chasing tenure if you want to continue teaching. Barring some unusual situations, there are either non-tenure-track fixed-length jobs, like a two-year visiting professorship; or tenure-track jobs where you have six to seven years to get tenure in order to stay. Non-tenure-track but permanent positions are quite rare, and in a tenure-track position you can't choose to simply remain at the untenured Assistant level indefinitely—you'll be fired after six or seven years if you don't successfully go up for tenure. It's a classic "up or out" style job in that sense.

Once you get tenure, then the advancement ladder does become somewhat optional; an Associate Professor can stay at that level for the rest of their career, with no requirement that they ever seek promotion to full Professor. Some universities are starting to put pressure in various ways on insufficiently productive tenured faculty, but there is at least more insulation from the advancement ladder at that point. But before then it's non-optional if you want to stay.
Reading this made me feel good. I feel like not enough hackers in my generation appreciate some of the history surrounding hacker culture. I read Levy's books a million times as an adolescent, and am currently going through "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff. A dream of mine has been to write a follow-up to Hackers someday. A book of the same style picking up where Hackers left off in the mid-1980s. It could cover NeXT, GNU/Linux, Netscape/Mosaic, Valve, Google, Facebook, up to modern hacking on the frontier of biology, education, and the rebirth of hardware hacking. I feel like every generation should have a volume similar to Hackers.
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Oh, that bit's simple, in two parts -

1. You draw up a blocklist of offending domain names and IP addresses for child porn websites and get ISPs to block them

2. Force google not to return results for people searching for child porn.

Because politicians and their advisers really do seem to think it's that easy and that if it's not listed on google it's not on the internet. It's stunningly ignorant.
Kids aren't exposed to anything on the internet. It is not a push medium. I have used the internet for 20 years now and I don't think I have ever involuntarily encountered a porn site.
I created r/SideProject. A few minutes ago I realized many of the submitted links were being caught in Reddit's auto spam filter. I manually approved them, so now they are appearing on r/SideProject. My apologies if this happened to a link you submitted.

Please let me know if you have any feedback on ways to improve r/SideProject.
NSA Chief: Terrorists Using Leaked Info [video]
According to the BBC news it is, at least that's where I copied it from. It does read like satire though - Jim Hacker News, perhaps.
Aw, that's cute. Just 65 tweets and 7 Facebook likes, not exactly the most successful social media campaign...
Definitely an interesting service. A bit of a shame that after repeatedly encouraging the use of encryption, their site doesn't support HTTPS.
This reminds me of the last days of Napster when they started filtering on lists of artists' names and you had to iterate over various misspellings to find the "consensus" on how to "properly misspell" names.
I never said this before on any occasion, but I really hope you get banned for this and the other things you have done in this thread.

> answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6082643

bandushrew didn't ask you a question, nor can I think of a case where mindlessly posting links to one's other posts in the same thread like you did could ever be considered OK. The post you linked to does not answer anything, it's just your way of pointing people to the inane things you already said. Clearly you believe people will have to agree with you if only you repeat yourself often enough.

Furthermore, you posted this exceedingly stupid "Do you have kids?" one-liner at least four times in this thread, simultaneously managing to portray yourself as accusatory, lazy, superior, and spammy at the same time.

This thread has degraded in quality due to your participation, both in form as well as in content. You mastered the invoking of the infamous "won't someone think of the children" rationale and somehow topped it by assuming only people with children should have a voice in these censorship discussions and this voice would somehow automatically be bound to agree with you. While I find your opinion personally disagreeable it's really your (to use the term broadly) discussion style and tactics that are offensive in the extreme.
What is meant by 'non-free' is software that is not open-source and licensed in such a way that it must legally remain so.

It's fairly simple to follow from there, isn't it? If the software you use falls under such definition, then you are (unless handy with advanced debuggers) mostly blind to what it is doing. To claim as much is the very opposite of "closed-mindedness".

Now, according to the credit at least, Stallman didn't write this article (though you are obviously correct in suggesting that his ethos drives the point). But can we really in this PRISM era point to Stallman, whose historical warnings were obviously prescient beyond the basic measure of sense held by the dominant digerati, and dismiss him as 'preachy'?
Britain’s Digital economy 40 per cent bigger than official statistics suggest
Nope. I have a monochrome image. I don't receive any notification.
And like usual, we'll find the public figures responsible for pushing such regulations on morality will be those most likely to be the biggest offenders.

But this isn't about "protecting the children" from porn, is it?

I'm on the wrong side of 40, and I've been online for 28 years. Professionally involved in the software and bitplumbing of "the web" for all of my adult life. I saw jwz's camo cube and montulli's fish tank with my own eyes, and years before that, wrote software alongside visionaries guided by the promise of building online communities and the freedom of information.

It wasn't supposed to turn out like this.

The people making these rules are incapable of building the surveillance apparatus without our involvement. Take this opportunity to look hard at what you're creating, and examine the motives of the people you're building it for.
Your headline needs some work: "Do I suck at this?"

Reduce the negativity; other than that the resources are good.
> an average software developer in India gets about 320,000 INR per year, which equates to roughly 5700 USD. Compare that to the price of a malware analyst or systems security analyst, which is 60,000 USD before insurance, pension and other benefit costs are tacked on. That means that for every analyst that an AV company hires, the bad guys can hire 10 developers.

I doubt an average developer from India is capable of writing a polymorphic virus. Or not from India.

Most developers I know only know a few technologies and stay within that bubble, and rarely do any side projects, or code for fun.
Come on. We all know the ThinkPad wiki is full of Pornographic terms: http://xkcd.com/243/