skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most malware writers test their malware components against AV software before deploying or selling it.
I'd forgotten all about Irreversable - I purchased the DVD, then later on sold it on eBay... does this now mean I'm a 'user' and distributor?

We'll have to see for sure, but it seems to suggest that the legislation only applies to videos that couldn't even get R18 (sex-shop only) rated - but I would have thought possession of those was illegal anyway.

There are a ton of films, legally classified as 18 in the UK, that have scenes that graphically depict simulated rape, torture, murder, and so on.
The info is from the census so they use the same definitions as in their other reports.

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-14.pdf
3 days seems like a long time to alert people. Releasing the news early would be the right thing to do but keeping it secret until you know the extent of the breach was probably better for their brand.
This stinks. I don't want a great firewall of Britain filtering my access to the net China-style, site by site. We let this trend advance and they'll be whitelisting in no time. And when you complain about the extreme surveillance you will be branded a paedophile and a rapist.
You just made a really long excuse why domain is a security sandbox and domain+port is not.

ALL other wb interactions are relying on Origins. Cookies rely on domains solely, trying to fix http/https shadowing cookies with flags. Instead of treating them as different origins
Blogger blogs are published under blogspot.com, and managed under blogger.com; I'm sure being in the public suffix list may help protect against some abuse, but Blogger (Google) is doing the right thing by keeping user content and administration in different domains.
This article is based on a flawed promise: "The goal is to be able to describe the essential skills that programmers need for the coming decade.".

Good luck with that. You might as well attempt to predict the weather for the next decade.

As for the content, it's equally flawed. It's not just one device anymore, and probably not going to be a PC. Well - obviously. And frameworks are apparently a house of cards and things might break down horribly - a bizarre statement if there ever was one as frameworks empower individual programmers and small upstart teams to do amazing things which would simply be impossible without them.

Here's my prediction: Everything is changing, and everything will continue to change. If you're a programmer, you have to change and keep on top of things. It doesn't matter if you're just starting out or if you're like my genius ex-boss and are currently fixing up a software product at the spry age of 80.
That's not a government issue. You're welcome to control your own children's internet use, but it is not your right to control how any other family deals with these situations.

Edit:
You're free to cite examples of children who "aren't that lucky" and had their upbringing maliciously altered by viewing internet pornography.
If governments want to protect poorly parented kids from obscenity (which is not an ignoble cause in itself), there are ways of doing it without building lists of everyone who wants uncrippled access to the Internet.
There have been many contenders, notably Eiffel, Oberon and D. There are many others that I don't immediately remember the names of.

These languages have /great/ technical merit. They offer safety (in various forms) and other interesting technologies that C definitely lacks. They were lauded by academics and industry pundits. So why didn't they take the industry by storm?

Perceived technical merit is a terrible way to choose a language.

Pascal was widely regarded as a great language, a wonderful model, and it was widely used in the 80s by various large companies. Today it is mostly dead. I believe this is because Pascal only did an adequate job of expressing stuff at the hardware and kernel level, and that C was better. Certainly nearly everyone at Apple that I worked with breathed a sigh of relief when it became obvious that it was okay to write C instead of Pascal for new projects. For the most part we'd been writing C for years anyway, just in Pascal. About the only thing that people missed were nested procedures (whereupon, C++).

Your new "adult" language is going to need a set of very compelling offerings over and above "well, it's safer" in order to succeed.

Take a look at things people are doing /to/ C in order to be better:

- "analyze" builds that do control graph analysis and find bugs (not just ones endemic to C, but actual logic bugs, too)

- declarative sugar that helps tools to reason about what things like drivers are trying to do

- control extensions (commonly seen as macros providing 'foreach' like support)

- ways for tools to enforce local conventions (without spending tons of manpower on parsers and so forth)

Come up with a language as good as C at low-level programming, that has great debugger support, offers easy tool plugins, and that has interoperability with the gazillions of libraries already available [take a page from C#'s great interop story here], and you might have something. Go "academic" and just say "this is good for you, use it instead," and the working programmers will see nothing in it for them and ignore you, just as they've ignored or abandoned dozens of other offerings in the last 30 years.
It runs on the SIM card, not the phone.
None that I'm aware of :-), why do you ask?
These laws will not help. Outlawing content will not make it suddenly disappear, it will just be a bit harder to find. Any attempt to filter content will be circumvented. Australia's attempt failed miserably back in 2007[1]. I agree that children are exposed to too much "crap" today, but using children as an excuse to censor material is a political move.

[1]: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/08/australian_por...
I'm sure Apple has the resources to hire enough sysadmins to keep their systems up to date. The question is why it isn't happening.
I wish he would have at least nodded his head to the idea that creating censorship infrastructure today, even for the right reasons, might lead to problems tomorrow. Also I wish whatever reporter wrote the story had asked his take on that.
I'll have to dig out and destroy my copy of Death Wish.
Anyone know if this was illegal, then? Or will his status as a security researcher (albeit one with poor judgement) protect him?
Yeah kinda heard about pages thing.

And the other thing is nothing new to me.

If you mean how cookies can be set on subdomains while Origins are completely different you are right. One more badly described in standards feature (sorts by path making cookie tossing very easy)
I do and I am definitely not ok with censorship of any kind.
I do all of those things (well, I already know integration), but I also love playing all sports, cycling running, triathlons. I am not sure what point I am making, then I am not sure what point you were making.
Don't know why this was downvoted, I couldn't have put my thoughts into better words than this. But to to the narrow-minded, let me put it another way: We have contraceptives, we can have sex whenever we damn choose to, with whoever we fancy.
Don't get me wrong, dataflow programming has its own gotchas– explicitly guaranteeing proper order can be tricky – and it's very hard for people from a traditional background to switch over

Author of NoFlo here. You're right in that Flow-Based Programming requires a bit of a context switch when compared to traditional programming.

In general things are stateless, and information sharing happens only through information packets (which in NoFlo can be anything you can use as a value in JS... objects, arrays, functions, numbers, etc).

For synchronization we have quite a lot of tools in NoFlo. Information packets can be annotated with metadata ("groups"), which can be used to merge data together, for sorting packets, to synchronize flows, and for routing things to different parts of the graph.

I just launched the new NoFlo website at http://noflojs.org yesterday. Now the next big task is to write more documentation and examples there on how to do different things. And of course there is Paul Morrison's book on FBP that talks a lot about things like synchronization, looping, and deadlocks.

In general FBP does provide a lot more power to the developer. Being able to see visually where and how things in your software are connected makes it a lot easier to understand the system, and to find potential flaws in your logic.
Alternative programming paradigms - what the original article _should have been_. Absolutely exciting and needed.

Do you have examples of products you have built with one of these multi media coordination languages?

I am familiar with flow based and rule based programming, but in my experience these were very high level abstraction systems which were then used to solve specialized problems they were well suited for. While you could use them for any kind of programming - they were turing complete - it wasn't fun, or easy, or made any sense.
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Who holds them? (Slightly outdated)

Stratasys -506+ patents. no expirations.

Z Corp--150+ patents. I think 3d systems bought them out....

3D Systems- 930+ patents. I counted a few expirations as well.

VoxelJet- 100+ patents.

Links to relevant cases:

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2013/06/24/formlabs-3d-systems...

http://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/18e009/3d_printi...

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/05/3-d-printing-patent-law

3D systems patent here: http://bit.ly/15avC8e
3D systems vs formlabs and kickstarter seems to be the most popular litigation case.

I'd be curious to know the royalties as well. The patents/companies have prevented individuals from building/sharing files. It's not clear about industry though.
> if they had a guarantee that there was no other way people could find out

Do you believe this is unique to corporations? Would "real people" always do the right thing even if they had a guarantee nobody would e able to tell?
I second this decision. Porn should not be enabled by default from ISP. I have families ruined because of porn watching children/dads! They know how to bypass URL filtering etc.,
You are suggesting online chat and forums are equivalent to socialising in groups at school. You also seem to gloss over the health benefits of staying active in sports.
Having kids is no excuse to let your brain check out when someone tells you they're in vague, amorphous danger. When those kids grow up, they'll be inheriting a world where civil liberties can be (and have been) eroded by cynical lawmakers playing on their parents' fears of children seeing things that they consider inappropriate.
Thanks for the link to the chart. I see you read correctly down the correct column of Table 7 in your previous reply. I knew Hawaii was higher, but I was not aware so many other states were higher. The local newspaper report I read some years ago about the issue may have been referring to something else ("white"-"black" marriages?) but I have no source, so I'll refer to the source you kindly shared from now on.
Not true, two pretty different techniques. Forcing is about dropping HTTP cookies to https using mitm
Fixation is session riding
Now it's the duty of the people to pressure their government from making these absurd tools for Fascism.
Same for most user interfaces. I am writing client side iOS apps and frankly doing most of that stuff in Obj-C, or any text based language - seems to make very little sense. It's a tool that seems ill suited to the task.
oh shit. Hadn't thought much about that.
Unable to hunt up a link right now, but literally every single ISP in the UK currently offers an opt-in filter for 'adult material'. Maybe the legislation should've just been to force more effective marketing of this.
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These guys are usually known as the BBM and are can[sic] appear to be awesome

BBM, aside from the somewhat dated reference Blackberry Messenger, can be a reference to African-Americans, which many (including myself) find offensive.
> UEFI is meant to replace the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware interface

Hence firmware to replace BIOS, with the same purpose as BIOS.

So do you re-program your UEFI firmware?

And since when is x86-64 an ARM system, since that was my remark?
People love talking themselves up, especially when it comes to,their kids. The fact is it is not even up to this guy, his kids could see their upbringing completely differently.
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Furthermore they will be sent to https but where set on http hacked page. Most of website don't implement protection from forcing
I see your point. But I wouldn't accept that space itself must expand to move them apart in the current scenario, since that leads to the flatness problem and also creates a new problem as to what causes space itself to expand. It would be cleaner to reject the expanding space idea, letting the flatness problem vanish, and then assume that some other unknown physical phenomenon moved the galaxies apart. The expanding space idea also leads to the horizon problem and the dark energy mystery, the blog shows.
Even a opt-in filter on an infrastructure level would imply DPI, and therefore would enable the ability for traffic analysis. And besides it creates a national 'watches porn' list.
That's a fallacy question!

Having NO kids puts you in a better position to judge, because you are not emotionally attached. You should however impact the effect things have on your children.

And the only way to do that is to expose them to it ... You are not a bad parent are you?(Fallacy: Attacking the man).

The only ones remotely able to say 'think of the kids' are shrink that deals with children with issues/research.
Hilarious. In which fantasy land is every outcome of a law predictable before it gets issued.
I really like this project. For alot of writing, say a README, Markdown is probably preferable. But I've been taking notes for a Coursera course using IPython notebook. It's been good, but I've felt the limitations of markdown (no easy sub/superscript is a big one for math). Quaint looks like it would make that very easy, and my personal notes are not a domain where I'm concerned with using a new format.
Well, she you see a dozen every day you step outside, you are probably going to stop being shocked or amazed or whatever it is.
These ideas are not new. And _general_ click and drag programming has been "just around the corner" since GUIs became popular.

Now in specific domain, industrial & control system, signal processing, even designing GUIs themselves, click and drag has worked. It lets non-programmers but subject matter experts get stuff done.

But for generic stuff it hasn't worked too well. UML was one such push. Managers were just going to draw a diagram on the screen, click, "Generate Code" and bam, no need for silly code monkeys anymore. Well it hasn't quite worked that way. Now the "Generate Code" button just does an SMTP send to a .ch or .in domain some place.

There is another such system. Quite exotic called DRAKON.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON

It comes the Soviet space shuttle program. Yes they had a successful space shuttle once that few unmanned and even landed itself (before US space shuttles could even do that). Some of the people working on that wanted to bring programming down to non-programming engineers. And created that system. There was some interested in it lately as well. But can't say it exactly took over the world.
>Or will his status as a security researcher (albeit one with poor judgement) protect him?

It usually doesn't protect you even if you don't take anything.

That's why there's a huge backlash against "responsible disclosure".
I find it really weird that this is so often an argument. If anything, not having kids and hence not having a vested interest in the matter makes a person's opinion more objective, not less.
Or 0x0 iframes injected into well trafficked of sites/forums.
I would contraceptive usage would play a much larger part then internet porn.
> Having worked with a slew of severely developmentally delayed crack babies and alcohol syndrome kids, I am going to have to go with my own eyes.

How many healthy kids born to crack-using mothers and severely messed up kids born to non-crack-using mothers did you work with to make a basis for comparison?
If the filter is opt-in, it's a "doesn't want to watch porn" list :)
Call me cynical, but this exudes the intellectual aroma of Fuller's "Synergetics". In the words of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and remembering everything to which it referred): "Mostly harmless."
Considering my mobile ISP (GiffGaff) thinks that the ThinkPad wiki is pornographic, I genuinely can say all this is going to do is break the internet.

The last thing we need is a broken Internet here. The economy is fucked enough already.

Add to that the whole is censorship right debate (it's not unless it's opt-in), the pre-crime list this generates and we're right into blatant fascism.

Where do we even start at fixing all this? I think we're helpless.
I meant that for the same total property tax collection, if it were applied to all property at the current value, the rate would be less than 1% for everyone, since "old" properties would have higher assessed values. (although 1% as a property tax isn't inherently bad; I'd prefer 1-2% property tax or a higher rate as LVT, and correspondingly lower income, corporate, and capital gains taxes, and/or better quality state services)
Apple apparently doesn't agree that, in context of the data they have on you, your name, mailing address or email address qualifies as sensitive.
Couldn't you run a custom variant of unattended-upgrades on your dev servers, then if all the test pass, automatically ask a human to pull the trigger on the production servers? In some extreme cases, it might even make sense to let the "all-tests-pass" condition force a security update on the live server.
> Are there any arguments against an opt-in filter? The legislation is for an opt-out filter.

The govt has no business telling Google/Bing/Yahoo what their development targets are.

If you want an opt-in filter just search for it.
What do you think his intention is, to do the right thing?

He knows what he's doing and there's no reason to expect him to acknowledge the "side-effects" of an evil regulation.

And the reporter is not responsible for realizing this; you are.
The land which the politicians don't want.

They're not ignorant to the outcome here - it's exactly what they want and has been planned that way.

This is a serious fucking power grab.
When you connect to an HTTPS site, your browser send the domain (hostname) unencrypted, so that the server can select the right certificate. If it doesn't/didn't, the server could only have one site per IP, so you could identify the site by doing a reverse DNS query.

In any case, blocking access to an HTTPS site is not a significant technical problem.
There's a reason for the Reddit truism:

"Hire a lawyer, hit the gym, delete from Facebook."

Far be it from me to say how someone else should deal with their exes, but if their presence on social media makes you uncomfortable, there's a quick and dirty solution just a click of a button away.
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Perhaps we should get together and pay for signage to be made up promoting this?

After all, that's what they want for us.
A 2011 survey found that 80% of 18-24 males in the UK had watched porn online[1]. I'm comfortable assuming that a significant percentage of Tories have or do watch it as well.

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12918531
At the risk of dragging on a thread, I would suggest that a job function that requires "the best" before it adds significant value, and otherwise is anecdotally a -1 sounds like a job function it's risky to hire for.
My brief-ish stint at NASA was a lot of work, dotted with the realization that the guy who prepared the .ppt slides for your project is going to get more recognition than you. I wouldn't do it again but it was totally worth it, we got to shoot some stuff into space :D
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Interesting article and I like the motivation behind it, which seems to be owning your own data and keeping it private. It does get a little preachy for me though with sentiments such as this "...which is bad like any nonfree program". Why is any (or every) non-free program bad? That remark displays close mindedness, but I realize that Stallman is the free software guy so I guess it's to be expected. Just a little too idealistic and old fashioned sounding for my taste.
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I have a copy of A Clockwork Orange, so I would be an abhorrent pervert owning illegal extreme pornography?
In fairness, the parent poster said "There is absolutely no advantage to the death penalty" and (s)he retorted. Not sure it is a 100% defense as much as refuting the "absolutely no advantage".
Everypix looks interesting. I will look into that :) Thanks
About the "being perceived as fragile" thing: women are not being offered a walk home because they are fragile, but because they are more valuable than men. Men are in fact more endangered on the street than women, but nobody cares. Does she/he really prefer a life in which nobody cares about her well being?

Also, is it disputed that on average women are physically less strong than men? And even if they were the same on average, suppose the women is pregnant (you can't always know) - should a pregnant woman get into kung fu fights with street thugs? What I mean is: this is not just perception, just reality.

For the second part I also don't have a lot of patience. Just ignore the neighbor and do what you want? You can always find somebody who disagrees with whatever you do, so that can't be a criterion.
top image is a bit NSFW even though it's blurred, just FYI.
i tried watching this on my work laptop which forces me to use IE8. i got a grey screen, without even any text
Hi, kid here. A world where I don't worry about the swat busting into my house at 3AM to arrest me for my playboy collection[0] is preferable to the one where I see pop up ads with double penetration in them when I'm 8. (Which I did, I'm fine.)

[0]: Or the government censors whatever they like with their filtering infrastructure.
Targeted ads would be the least of my worries. What concerns me is fascist governments deciding they get to filter whatever they're contempt with. Such censorship doesn't fit well with civil liberties, we know this from other countries which already have nation-wide filtering.
I wish I could send this article back in time 20 years. All the prophecies of how the internet would change the social dynamic, and now we see how it has all played out.
There is no such thing as "status as a security researcher". If you want to research security, I suggest you do it in your lab or with consenting adults.
Damn, was hoping this was an article about how to encode Windows executables into text.
And on top of this, they want to create a database of all of child porn. ( What could possibly go wrong?)
And 20% lie about not watching it...
The people will truly be able to be trusted with the ability to do their democratic duty....

You know, when 20% of the population of Canada elects a Majority government that can do whatever it wants for 4 years because of voter apathy, I'm wary of the trust that should be placed in the people. But where the hell is it supposed to go?!
I wonder where my kid is supposed to get his porn once he get's older. Did anybody think of that?
Thanks.

I have heard some republican state governors are pushing exchange setup to the Feds as part of their "gum it up" strategy, which may be pushing setup costs up. That said, as strange as it is to say, 5 billion is a relatively small number for the US government or the US economy.