skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suicide related materials actually makes some sense, depending on how extreme the censorship is. There's research (I don't have the reference handy, but it's described in Cialdini's "Influence") that estimates that in the US, each well published suicide results in an additional 48 deaths through suicides and murder-suicides, as people who are suicidal at the time appears to be more likely to go through with it in those conditions.

So if you are to censor something, suicide descriptions would be far more morally defensible to censor than porn, as to my knowledge there's little to no evidence that increased access to porn leads to increases in harm to other people.
> - Violent crimes is worst in EU.

Why would that be Britain's problem ?
What's an easy way an end-user can check for this?
Keep Calm As A Service
kcaas.herokuapp.com

There are 3 endpoints:
/

custom/:message (lots of easter eggs here e.g. below)

trending/:provider

keep calm!
Not in the billion range, but they were acquired by NeXT for negative $404m (in 1997), they acquired PA Semi for $278m, Quattro Wireless for $275m, C3 Tech for $267m, Anobit for $390m and AuthenTec for $356m. They are clearly willing to pay hundreds of millions if they think it's worth the price.
Before I started building my first web app in Rails, I didn't even know how to write Rails! I had only previously been a front-end developer, but I can say I learned a TON. Am I a Ruby on Rails guru? Nope, but I know how to traverse the stack with the knowledge I do have and get as much done as possible.
Assholes who just like kicking anthills, assholes who seek to get peoples' accounts for profit, and assholes who like kicking anthills for profit.
None of the things he mentioned addressed socializing, or even physical activity.
http://kcaas.herokuapp.com/custom/prosper
Thanks for your response. Say I create a standalone java application in university and think it has business application.

If it fulfills a critical pain point within a business could they integrate that into their environment?

I guess my question is: do enterprise ready applications _have_ to be written in Enterprise Java?

Thanks
OK, here is the difference. I know, I know - censorship generally is bad. What will they (the government) consider "harmful" next? information right? political opinion, it's book burning, this is a slippery slope ETC.

The aforementioned things do not have the consensus of psychologists and other professionals in the world agreeing that the content in question can cause psychological harm to a certain percent of society (particularly children).

That is the difference. The legal guardians of those who know that the potential is higher that their children may be affected negatively by pornography should be able to have the ability to make it harder for them to access it.

I see a lot of posts here talking about parents putting filtering software on their computer. Well, there is always easy ways around those. How many kids have iPhones today with unfettered internet access? how many kids use a public library? how many kids know computers better than their parents or grandparents and can get around any filtering software that may be installed on their home computer?

I remember the uproar at the proposition that porn content be delivered over an .xxx domain. Why was there such an uproar? How was it censorship to classify content that could be dangerous to some? Are movie ratings censorship? Are 8 year old kids legally allowed to buy tickets to NC-17 movies? It seems like the precedent had already been set.

It was all about money of course. The porn industry knows that the younger a person watches porn for the first time, the more likely they are to continue watching/purchasing porn indefinitely. The porn industry WANTS minors to view the porn. They do everything they possibly can to entice them at the earliest age possible. Does anyone think that the porn industry is high on the ethical and moral hill and would never take advantage of children to make more money?

Why should anyone outside the home have the power to do this? Why do parents have such little power and so little and ineffective tools to limit their child's exposure to pornographic material?

This is no more censorship than current laws requiring that porn mags be put on shelves a certain distance from the ground in retail stores so that 8 year old kids generally cannot reach them.
http://files.zachlatta.com/VtdK
If by "no time", you mean minutes or hours on a typical laptop - hashcat will rip through vbulletin hashes almost as fast as to goes through plain MD5.

A journalist[1] got 45% of a list of 17,000 MD5 hashed passwords on his MacBook Air (just CPU hashing no GPU) - in 90 seconds. It's entirely justifiable to expect vbulletin hashes to fall no slower than twice that time.

Even using random passwords - which means "non-dictionary words (including guessable letter/symbol substitution and leading/trailing digits)" - you still need to be aware of the abilities of modern password cracking tools.

Hashcat with a modern gaming video card can do almost 7billion MD5 hashes per second, which'll search the entire 7char password space in something like 90- seconds - or the entire 9char password space in under 9 days. 11 characters gets you up to a _probably_ acceptable 194 years - against a single GPU attacker, the hashcat code will run on 128GPUs at once, which drops that to only ~18months against a well funded attacker (probably "criminal enterprise" level well funded, well short of "nation state" level).

With the Apple password breach - you'd be foolish to not assume criminals could muster hundreds of GPUs to crack passwords that'd give them working iTunes accounts (you give me a couple of tens of thousands of active credit card linked iTunes accounts, and I could think of many ways to turn that into many hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue for some unscrupulous app developer.) I'm hoping Apples passwords were more securely hashed than salted MD5, but if you were using a less than 10 char password, I'd be changing it immedialtely. Even less that 12 chars might not be safe in a 12 month timeframe...

But you aren't going to remember 11char random passwords anyway, so use a tool (1Password/Lastpass/Keypass/etc) and then there's no point _not_ using 16 or 20 or 25char or longer passwords.

Anything less than 9 random chars pretty much _can_ be cracked "in no time" - any valuable passwords less than 12 chars should be considered "weak".

1. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/how-i-became-a-passw...
Thanks. Do you know any resources (sites or books) where I can learn more about this?
it was indeed complete sarcasm.
OT: Nice article and nice pictures, but hijacking the up/down arrow keys is a really bad UI design. You don't know what are all the screen sizes out there and changing the behavior of the up/down arrow keys make viewing the pictures very frustrating on a smaller screen computers.
Unfortunately the Daily Mail is one of the most read newspapers in the U.K.

How the D.M gets away with preaching about this kind of thing baffles me though, especially because of their "side-bar of shame"
Nothing. Most probably you won't even need VPN.

Some time ago all UK ISPs blocked pirate bay. Next day hundreds of pirate bay proxies appeared. This law is just another propaganda...

On another note, some mobile providers in UK (O2 for instance) already block adult content by default, and you need to prove to them that you are 18 and above to have filter removed.
I think you read that wrong. That Britain has the worst violent crimes in the EU is definitively Britain's problem.
It is even more irritating with Youtube. If I am logged in to any Google account it pesters me to select my Real name every time I watch a video. And every time I end up opening the video in another browser.
If they say X wasn't leaked while it was, they will open themselves for litigation. A company of Apple's size cannot afford to make mistakes there. So, they have to put in weasel words such as "such as".

Also, this isn't a postmortem (yes, we may never see one, it is premature to comment on that _now_)
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%6b%69%64%64%79%20%70%6f%72%6e">Funny Cat Video!</a>

Or use of any url shortener.
You should parse that sentence as "Britain has the highest occurrence of violent crime in the EU," which is very much our problem.
I call this sort of thing a "singing frog".
Regardless of if you opt in or out, the ISP already knows if you watch adult content or not, I don't this makes much of a difference in that regard.
dead link bro..
Hahahahahah

Yes, and they should be given the right to judge and execute people, because they are in this special uncorruptable position that has the most information so it is best for society that they be able to weed out predators and parasites. They were voted for by the public majority, the voters have chosen! It's only natural!
I think what OP meant was that Britan has the highest rate of violent crimes in the EU. This was all over the news a few years ago, and it's still fairly high, but it's important to note that the UK is very lax in what it considers "violent crime". Whether that's a good thing or not is another matter.
Please don't compare 1080p Dolby digital Pan and zoom, multi camera 3d porn to a still of a stick figure drawn on a cave wall by the light of a weak flame. (Okay I am being a bit dramatic but really...)
He wasn't saying that their online services aren't big or aren't profitable, he was saying that they aren't very good. And I would have to agree with him on that. I don't think I've ever heard anyone argue that either iCloud or iTunes are good pieces of engineering.
Or its less than 8chars against an attacker with a single laptop, or 10 chars against an attacker with a modern GPU, or 12 chars against a criminal gang with access to a few hundred GPUs, and I suspect you want at least 15 or 16 chars to feel reasonably future-proof against a nation-state level attacker, and I'm guessing 20chars is enough to ensure the NSA gets out the $5 wrench instead of powering up the supercluster to crack your password.

Hashcat is _fast_. It's unlikely the NSA is many of orders of magnitude faster though. I'm happy enough with my 25 random char passwords generated and stored in 1Password.
There is always a maximum amount of hours that anybody can spent on anything. She just draws the line in the sand where she wants it to be so that she has time for other things as well. I admire her for doing it so explicitly.
MD5 is so fast on GPUs, you can do some pretty ridiculous dictionary attacks in a matter of minutes (like trying every combination of words that has ever been written in a book or posted online - using google's n-gram corpus for example). Then you have plenty of time to try letter substitutions (3 for e), combinations such as word + number + word, etc.
This doesn't apply of course, if your password is a long string of random characters.
WebObjects. Essentially a legacy from NeXT, almost 20 years old, and even Apple abandoned it for everyone except internal use. Finding competent people for that is...nontrivial.

They also use a lot of Sun/Oracle in general (especially in the early 2000s). Look how well that worked out for eBay.

Given the runaway success of the iPhone for hardware reasons (and I guess iOS, and third party developers), you can't really claim the success of the App Store is due to the quality of the App Store. The iPhone was successful first, then demand for apps, then Apple built the App Store once regular people were jailbreaking their devices and doing their own development.

I'll concede iTunes was successful for music on its own, but that's more for licensing reasons than anything else; I find what.cd a vastly superior experience as a user, even independent of money, and Gazelle/BT are open source. Both are better than what the RIAA came up with for sure. Arguably Spotify, Rdio, Pandora, etc. are better.

Netflix has done a way better job on video than Apple, too.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6078588
http://kcaas.herokuapp.com/custom/these%20are%20not%20the%20...
Another possibility, avoiding Hanlon's razor: They honestly have trouble understanding how or why someone could in good conscience disagree. They don't want control or censorship in the abstract; they just want to legislate morality on this one issue because their position is so "obviously" right. Using laws like this to censor things that don't harm kids would be unthinkable, but harming kids is clearly bad, so this law neither is nor opens up the door for censorship. They don't see the slope because the motives look completely different.
And people seem to think kids can't separate fantasy and reality, which amazes me given that everyone after all have been children themselves, and many of them do have their own.

My son is four. He watches a lot of stuff I was never allowed to as a child. He acts out scenes of decapitations with swords, for example, while playing. When his mom and I occasionally gasp or ask him to tone it down because we think it's going a bit far he goes "it's only pretend" with a condescending voice, as if we must be the stupidest people around to not realise that these things are just fantasy.

But if we as much as raise our voices to each other, he gets upset, tells us off and demands an explanation and wants to know who is angry at whom and why. Once we had an argument before his bedtime, and I left the room. The following night he wanted assurances from me that we were not going to argue again before I was allowed to sit down by his bed. He also understands well enough that so much as raising a hand at someone is unacceptable to the extent that when he is really upset, he has experimented with using the threat of it to try to get a reaction out of us (e.g. sitting on the sofa and calmly saying "I am going to hit you"). None of the stuff he's seeing in movies or his cartoons etc. has ever "crossed over" to non-play/fantasy situations.

I don't worry about movies. I worry about advertising. He can tell movies are fantasy because of how it is portrayed, but advertising makes claims intended to be believed, and from what I see it's effect is far stronger. Thankfully he's learned to detest advertising, and now get upset if we watch live TV because he wants to fast forward past it...
He did. It'll be interesting to see how sophisticated this attack is compared to the AT&T one. It looks like there's Java code used to dump this, rather than just using wget.

I think part of weev's downfall was the subsequent conversation he had discussing what he could hypothetically do with the data though.
I hope it leads to more people being open about their adult content consumption, personally.
Neat, an interesting concept
Oh my god; I'm getting old. That was about 8 or 9 years ago :)

Just to be clear, 95% of people sitting at McDonalds would just be eating their schlep, while these couples would sit starry eyed between them.

Also, if you're talking about Prague: that's not Czech Republic as many Czechs like to say ... it's a different world all unto itself.
He means that Britain has the worst level of violent crimes of any country in the EU.
What do you think is easier for Cameron:

To fix the above, or to push through moralistic laws that will keep the media busy and get positive treatment in papers like Daily Mail to draw attention away from the problems?
Penetration "testing" networks you have no permission to use looks identical to a real attack. I doubt Apple will look at him any differently than an attacker if they decide to pursue him.

He refers to Facebook's whitehat list too. Facebook does allow people to try to break parts of their application if they're responsible about the disclosure. To my knowledge Apple doesn't have such a policy so can't have given any implied permission to attempt to attack them.
I liked Radhika, and I was sad I couldn't take any of her classes.

> Given this I fail to understand why being a professor remains such an attractive career path.

I know a lot of students who made the very concrete decision between immediate grad school, a job followed by grad school, only a job, self-employment, self-teaching, vacation, etc. Guys and girls.

All I learned is everyone's different.
This particular law is hurting people far more than it's protecting them, but in general, laws are framed as trying to protect people because the purpose of laws in general is to protect people.
All-in-one solutions (Nitrous, RunKite) provide cloud IDEs and servers, letting you get up and running fast.

PaaS providers (Heroku, DotCloud) host your app, so you don't even have to worry about servers.

Virtual machine tools (Vagrant, VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion) let you run your production setup locally without having to SSH into a remote host.

Laptop configuration (GitHub's Boxen, Pivotal's sprout) let you configure your laptops just like servers.

I'm also working on a project (http://www.stackmachine.com) to solve some of these problems.
The news here is not the moral sentiments of the legislators. Porn (and sex generally) has been banned or restricted in pretty much every time and place. Think of TV. Different countries have different standards of what is allowable but the internet's median porn sites' contents would not be allowed anywhere near television.

The news here is more subtle. What the internet is, was, how it works and how its changing. It no longer feels like an anarchy that no one can control. We can argue about the why and how but I don't think we can dispute that the internet is no longer unregulatable, anonymous anarchy. That is the news here.

Governments, large corporations and other traditional power sources feel they can exercise influence and control over the internet. It's within their jurisdiction and physical capabilities.
hopefully it's not {password}ubuntuforums.org and {password}google.com ...
oclhashcat-plus [1] claims to perform 6.9 billion MD5 hashes per second on an AMD hd6990 ($900 from Amazon).

Assuming the password is eight lower case letters, you can try them all in (26^8)/(6.9 billion) = 30 seconds.

Even if the password is eight alphanumeric digits, you can try them all in ((26+26+10)^8)/(6.9 billion) = 8.7 hours.

Now admittedly, many users will have more than 8 characters in their passwords, and 8 hours to crack a single account isn't that bad I mean it could be a lot worse, and it's only a forum so no exactly critical infrastructure. However, by the standards of security systems (where we're used to hearing that brute force attacks will take longer than the age of the universe) MD5 is pretty weak.

[1] http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat-plus/
I guess we would live in a wonderful world if there was no children and terrorists.
Apple Took Three Days to Tell Developers About a Site Hack
It's not (only) to keep them out of the hands of kids; it's to embarrass the pornhound into reaching for it in public.

I had to activate grown-up mode on my giffgaff data (to buy swimmies, which were bogusly blocked by a bad filter). Even though I'm a sleazebag, I still felt a little squeamish asking for porn mode.

...now if that comes in on the monthly bills, "Data mode: Adult", then you have to explain it to your partner...
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There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums
Not at a 100% level, but we know the Chinese government (and I suspect the UK government) are capable of deploying faked google.com SSL certs which'll pass unnoticed by just about anyone who's not using a certificate-pinning version of Chrome. And China(/Iran/Egypt) clearly has national-border level firewalls capable of using such faked SSL certs to MITM and deep packet inspect entire countries worth of internet traffic on the fly.
According to the guardian's article at [1] it appears the system will actually be opt-in. From a leaked letter sent from the Department of Education to the ISPs:

"Without changing what you will be offering (ie active-choice +), the prime minister would like to be able to refer to your solutions [as] 'default-on'"

active-choice+ is a set of filters that may be enabled on request.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/21/david-ca...
Questions about Cameron’s ‘new’ porn-blocking
Meh. I'm sure it's fairly easy to turn off their indexer for a specific period of time, say, the 3 hours the protest is going on.
I'm a PhD who wants to pursue academia, and I want to do so not to teach, but to be able to continue research.

Teaching is a pleasure - at the moment I supervise undergrads for both research projects and as an advisor, and it is very intellectually rewarding (at least at Cambridge - at my previous institution not so much). I look forward to more of it as an academic, it's just not my primary motivation.
I uploaded a white square.
I see a few reasons why this problem has been hard to crack:

1. A week or so of struggling to get a new box set up is acceptable if you're prepared to use it for at least a few months

2. Developers are very particular about environment choices, example: choosing between rbenv, rvm, chruby

3. Mac OS X and Windows developers lag behind in solid package managers, and virtualized dev environments have little (albeit growing) mindshare

I think the right solution will look something like containers/VMs via tools like Docker/Vagrant combined with configuration management tools like Chef/Puppet/Salt/Ansible. Configuration management hasn't taken off though yet among developers and is still mostly perceived as a sysadmin skillset.
The filter on a well known website for popular file sharing from the main UK ISP is a complete joke: only lesser gifted users are blocked by from getting their daily dose of freebies. Drawing from this experience, one can predict that circumventing this new filter will be a kid's play. If one can be a bit paranoid, one would think this in only a way to expand and investigate the practicality to check the UK population habits on the interweb in order to later on, "direct it".
>The root comment said "This administration is walking all over civil liberties and constitutionally protected freedoms", and, later, that USG was "tossing away the constitutional protections we've grown far too accustomed to taking for granted". Rayiner's interpretation wasn't just fair but also the most obvious one.

It's only "the most obvious one", if one is blind to the discussion and intent, and mistakes the parent to mean:

"This administration is walking all over civil liberties and constitutionally protected freedoms -- and by these words I only mean the protection of the press sources and nothing else this administration has walked all over".

Which of course is a completely bogus interpretation.
There is a big possibility.
Except the Daily Mail has not only taken on the government, they've bent them over a barrel and given them a right good seeing to until they've given them exactly what they want.

Not just on this, either, but on other "holy quests" like the Liverpool Care Pathway.
If that VM is in the same house hold, there would be little point.
Why was bandushrew's reply to this killed?

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bandushrew 36 minutes ago | link [dead]

There are not enough studies into the effect of pornography consumption:

This one claims no effect - ie, that consumption of pornography does not appear to increase the likelihood of rape: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2032762

The one mentioned here claims that cases of rape are decreasing with the availability of pornography: http://voices.yahoo.com/online-pornography-helping-lower-rap....

Clearly nobody likes to think of perverts masturbating to pictures of children, but so long as no children are harmed to make that possible, who really cares?

I would love to see more studies done on the effects of pornography on violent crime - if we can decrease actual cases of child abuse by allowing, for instance, computer generated pornography of that type, then why not?