skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if 2. were true, you can also easily argue that the prevelance of child pornography is going to increase the amount of people attracted to this "fetish", so can still increase the risk of child abuse. The problem is not one-dimensional

Not to mention that considering viewing to be socially acceptable , in itself, damages society (by lowering social norms). And I'd say it's gotten to a strange level in "internet" society. Think of all child porn jokes out there. Replace it with something else (say, necrophilia), and it's just weird.
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I'd say that a clear goal of that post is to emphasize that it was a choice. To me Spothawk is rubbing in the fact that it was a decision.
It'd be good, but words like that need to come from the Attorney General or a Circuit Court to have any weight.

The most I would expect any company to do is donate matching funds to a legal defense.
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12 years, you say? Where was the rule of law and fundamental civil rights when 80 000 citizens where sent to internment camps based solely on the nationality of their parents?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment
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Great quote from George Leonard's Mastery:

"In his book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Zen master Shunryu Suzuki approaches the question of fast and slow learners in terms of horses. “In our scriptures, it is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. The best horse will run slow and fast, right and left, at the driver’s will, before it sees the shadow of the whip; the second will run as well as the first one, just before the whip reaches its skin; the third one will run when it feels pain on its body; the fourth will run after the pain penetrates to the marrow of its bones. You can imagine how difficult it is for the fourth one to learn to run.

When we hear this story, almost all of us want to be the best horse. If it is impossible to be the best one, we want to be the second best.” But this is a mistake, Master Suzuki says. When you learn too easily, you’re tempted not to work hard, not to penetrate to the marrow of a practice.

“If you study calligraphy, you will find that those who are not so clever usually become the best calligraphers. Those who are very clever with their hands often encounter great difficulty after they have reached a certain stage. This is also true in art, and in life.” The best horse, according to Suzuki, may be the worst horse. And the worst horse can be the best, for if it perseveres, it will have learned whatever it is practicing all the way to the marrow of its bones."

(Shameless self-plug - I wrote a blog post about this a while ago: http://i.saac.me/post/lurning-cearves/)
"I'm not just thinking of the country's dysfunctional Congress, pathological infatuation with firearms, addiction to litigation, crazy healthcare arrangements, engorged prison system, chronic inequality, 50-year-old military-industrial complex and out-of-control security services. There is also its strange irrationality about the use and abuse of computers."

Wow. He pretty much summed all what's wrong. He didn't mention rampant software patents and copyright explicitely but I guess that can be in the "irrationality about the use and abuse of computers".
Mind the stopgaps?
Personally I like this idea. If it's urgent it will come up again on return
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This is a good way to deal with emails while vacationing. I've often tempted to just delete all emails after a vacation. The rational being that if it's important, they will send it again. This sounds like a better approach. Let them know ahead of time that emails during the time will be gone for good. They can send again after the vacation if it's important for you to read.
The problem is, regex flavors differ, and RegexPal uses JavaScript - whose regex flavor is really limited compared to most others (including Python). You should always try to find a tool that uses the regex flavor you are targeting.
IIRC DMA was designed to allow peripherals (floppy drives, parallell ports, etc.) to move data from their input lines to regular memory without having to bother the CPU. Uncompressed, full resolution video wasn't too much of a real concern back in the days of the 80286 :-)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're saying the ethically questionable work will not be the most serious from an engineering perspective and thus less interesting for a hard-core security engineer. If that's your position then I think it needs to be fleshed out more than just saying you can amorally and categorically reject contracts from Narus or the US Govt. What is fundamentally uninteresting about their systems? I'm sure a lot of engineers working on PRISM et al found it to be very technically challenging and rewarding work.
So wait. Is this guy actually a child pornographer, or does he simply run an anonymizing service which is incidentally used to distribute child porn? The first would appear to me to be just, the second would be a perversion of justice with a good pretext.
1) Wouldn't it be more correct to bounce all emails with an appropriate message, rather than accept and then delete them?

2) I would be worried about automatically generated emails getting deleted. I guess this depends on the type of email you receive, but if you ever receive important emails generated by a machine, any kind of auto-delete feature seems unwise.
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In areas with low light pollution and a clear sky it really does look like that. Even without the moon there is plenty of light to walk around without a flashlight and the sky is really breathtaking. Granted, while you do get some color perception things look a little more black and white than those photos and you get a little low light static.

Edit: Though I have noticed some people have really poor night vision so your mileage may vary.
Well, seeing everyone saying how good ember is, here is a counter-argument:

http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/getting-started-with-ember-js-i...
Difference between Military Press & Overhead Press?
"This is your bank/IRS. There's a problem with you account/taxes. If you don't respond by date X we'll close/fine your account/you. This is the only notice you will get."
I have pretty much always done this for mail I am just CC'd on while on holiday for more than a couple of days. I don't auto delete email sent just to me though. Works well and makes the return to the office a simpler task. Anything I need to know about I am told about or copied in on the messages that are important on my return. Much easier than going through 3,000+ emails in the morning all the while getting told about the important things anyway.
Section 7, paragraph 2.

Haskell's IO system is built around a somewhat daunting mathematical foundation: the monad. ... Rather, monads are a conceptual structure into which I/O happens to fit. ...

... For now, we will avoid the term monad and concentrate on the use of I/O system. It's best to think of the I/O monad as simply an abstract data type.

To those who still want to fight - ADT is a concept form an implementation realm, and the only way to implement a monad is to define an abstract data type.

Your lovely algebraic types are.. guess what?)
We will see how the Bitcoin experiment goes.

Maybe fiat money is the worst form of currency except all those other forms that have been tried.
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This seems like a valid approach, though in some cases it isn't very useful. In some cases you get notes on meetings, etc. Lets assume that all of your company's meetings are fruitful (haha) you'd maybe want the notes on the last 2 meetings you missed. You can replace 'meeting' here with some other important announcement.

It would go a bit far to let some employee somewhere keep track of who has and has not received which announcements yet.

Then again, one might wonder if e-mail is a valid medium for things like announcements. Maybe a sort of in-house social network like at Deutsche Bank (and other companies) is more suited for this purpose.
Whether or not you own a Galaxy or an iPhone, this decision is the right one. The ITC failed to take into consideration Samsung's FRAND obligations that encumber the patents in question, which made their decision just plain wrong.
I agree with your points. I think to succeed they need a higher kickstarter goal to have the economies of scales.

honestly, i foresaw that ubuntu edge would fail when they introduced the new price tiers. If all the discounted price tiers would have sold out it would have generated a few extra million. Once those are sold out - the people would not buy a $825 phone and the campaign would be stuck

I would relaunch the campaign after knowing the elasticity of the curve.
There was a time I deleted my emails while away from work, but after one particular incident, I swore never to do it again.

I had gone to visit my folks and while away, an old friend had sent me an email, which I deleted along with my regular cleanup. I came back to discover he had passed away (aged 26) and the last message he sent was to me along with an image of him in hospital. He had made arrangements with his family and we had access to all his accounts, including email, and the photo itself was still on his phone. So the message wasn't lost forever. But what if he hadn't?

After that, I decided to never delete anything unless I confirm it's of no further use.

In fact, every message I've ever received, except for spam, has been backed up on a local server, my laptop and the desktop as well as external USB(4) for the last 2 years or so.

I doubt something like that will happen again, but some things don't feel trivial though still intangible. Besides, storage is cheap (if we're not talking hi-res images/video).
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Compare this to Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people (overwhelmingly teenagers). He got 21 years in prison with the possibility of indefinite custody if psychiatrists conclude he is still a danger to society at the end of it. And most Norwegians appear to agree to this sentence, which is the maximum permitted by law. There were few calls for harsher sentencing laws when he was convicted.

Now imagine how stealing and revealing a few documents which don't harm anyone is multitudes worse than this. US criminal law is just insane.
Then is a reason they call this "anonymous" tips.
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I agree that people who have been sexually abused as children often harbour sexual fantasies involving elements of their abuse. I've read numerous case studies supporting this and heard personal accounts.

For example, a friend of mine was molested by her uncle between an age of 7 to 11 years old. The thing that sexually arouses her the most, but also creates in her the strongest feelings of guilt and revulsion after orgasm, is the thought of children of that age being sexually abused by middle-aged men. Except that in her fantasies, the children are actually enjoying and wanting it.

Child sexual abuse can imprint the abusee for life.
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Kinda moot; that thread is a discussion of what happens if it isn't explicitly in the standard.
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Interesting fact: How evidence was obtained is only important in the US. For example, in Austria where I live, it doesn't matter how the evidence was obtained.

In Austria, if someone illegally spies on you, the information they collect can be freely used in court. It is not important where the evidence comes from, it is only important if the evidence is credible or not.

This doesn't mean that the police can do whatever they want; if they torture someone, a potential confession would be worthless because it wouldn't be credible. And if the police used illegal means, that would bring about a separate trial (in theory).

But courts in Austria never have to pretend that some evidence doesn't exist.
And the "library" ecosystem. Most science, technology and other things of worldwide significance are conducted in English.
Reading that stuff in other languages feels like using a crappy wrapper library.
It's SIX blogs.

Come on, that's hardly an epic migration. Why would you let them blog on a platform you hate and that you consider insecure.
A native Mac app for this stuff: http://brettterpstra.com/2013/07/01/mac-app-review-oyster/
That link says nothing about how good or bad Ember is, it refers to a lack of Getting Started documentation.

Last time I checked (which was a few weeks to two months ago) the documentation was mostly of an 'intermediate' level, ie. hardly any documentation on the easy parts and hardly any documentation on the hard parts. It looks like it's gotten tons better since, eg. http://emberjs.com/guides/getting-started/
I own neither, ask yourself this: even given that, do you think that the intervention would have been the same had the situation been reversed?
On one hand I agree with you, but playing devil's advocate - isn't this a discussion board, precisely the place where people would pay attention to such things? Applying your same logic, one could say "He's just expressing his opinion. If you don't like his comment, don't pay attention to it"
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Hi HN,

I'm stuck with PRISM and Gmail... Gmail yet has a killer feature I didn't yet find any alternative too:

Merging multiple inboxes (as accounts from spam adresses) into one inbox and replying over their origin SMTP connection.

Anyone here who knows an alternative too? I don't even yet how to call this... I don't need a mail address - it's just for not setting up 10+ accounts on each device and syncing all those accounts from mobile.
I believe you were downvoted because your comment sounds like you are trolling. You have not said what it is about Playdoh that you would like to see in an AngularJS/NodeJS/CoreOS/etc stack. By the nature of Playdoh being a Django template, you cannot simply swap in NodeJS. You would be starting over from scratch with the goal producing (some of) the features of Playdoh with different technologies.
What actual overhead (other than developer resources) is there for simply providing DOM hooks?
s/Zeeland/Zealand/ please :)
I have multiple accounts on multiple servers. A few of those servers began to suffer from a little bit too much downtime and I didn't get a satisfactory response from Webfaction.
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I'm categorically against deleting any email. Email is a track record, a way to prove stuff, a way to disprove stuff.

Deleting email can sometimes be construed as destruction of evidence. And having email can sometimes win you court cases.

The only kind of email I delete is spam, everything else gets archived. Just a heads up, in case anybody wants to send me self-incriminating email :)
It seems like the whole extent of the internet's education is based on articles about the US from the UK newspaper, "The Guardian".
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OK. It is a concept from the category theory.)
That's not true. Where did you get your information?
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Gmail has a "basic HTML" view which works fine without JS, though.
That's why most people keep separate account for work and personal messages.
I imagine you are talking about the US. Just to show the EU side of things. I have been in business (around 10 businesses; most of them sold) for over 20 years now, I have been threatened with lawsuits over 500 times in that time. But the legal system in the Netherlands works in such a way that you won't gain anything on either side, so threats almost never pan out to real cases.

A few of them did and in total I spent a few E100 on them in 20 years. Here, even if your ToS or disclaimers and whatever suck, there is not really money to get. A lawsuit is lost money wise for both parties. Which I like. I can just say; bring it on, whatever they are saying. Which usually is a good deterrent.

Thought I would say this here as the US seems quite the opposite. I cannot imagine the feeling defending yourself for $10k+ to some troll. Your hard work punished by some moron with deep pockets and no morals. Seems like a horrible way to be; I would always incorporate here and have a sibling company in the US, all contracts stating that Dutch law applies and that any suits have to be fought out in the court of Utrecht, NL.
Engineers need to learn the art of building social and political capital. Also patience.
Just the finances, scientific mindset and a moral conscience doesn't get you real change. I have seen too many bright people "rant and run" when confronted with morally ambiguous/uncomfortable situations. The only way to deal with this, if you really believe in something, is to stick around and convince others in the group, one by one, over the long term. There are no shortcuts or hacks to this process.
Thunderbolt devices are currently a joke. The use case would be being able to push a laptop's GPU out to an external display card, so when you're docked you can run whatever desktop GPU you want.

But the cheapest connectors for that sort of thing can't to x16, and cost $800. Which, for the price, would let you buy an entire desktop.
And it's a lot of people's 'decision' to bury their heads in the sand about the implications of Snowden's leaks. In that light, why isn't it also directed at everyone who doesn't care, rather than one guy who does?

Edit: What about the employer's choices to go ahead with it? No anger directed that way? This guy should have fallen on his sword but his company gets a pass?
But are usb plugs now a noticeably different width to ethernet ports?
1) This is one of the best things BruceS has written in years - and Bruce is still one of the best commentators on the Future we have. Clear, unflinching, and simultaneously hopeful and horrified.

2) Medium got Bruce Sterling? OK, fine, guess I'm reluctantly supporting them. Where goes the guy who wrote the Viridian Manifesto, there goeth my nation.
Not legal in sane jurisdictions. There is no guaranteed delivery of email. Important stuff still needs to be sent by confirmed fax, or snail mail with various options to confirm delivery to the recipient.
Once a project gets big I switch to the Publisher/Subscriber pattern through a main Mediator rather than using the default Model/Collection change events.

That is to say that I cannot relate to your 4th/any hell level.
[] is a list, yes (not a pair). I explicitly mentioned it as an example of a monad which is an algebraic data type. Then I also mentioned (->) which isn't.

Why does the fact that pure code can be executed in all those ways relate to the object files? Same object file can have code of both kinds, and different pieces of code within it can run in different ways/threads/etc.
Neither banks nor the IRS use email for that. You know who does? Rackspace, which sent me a pair of emails recently informing me of tickets they had opened which I should probably look at. It turns out if you don't respond to an Acceptable Use Policy violation they'll turn off your servers and close your account.

They sent one reminder, which I also missed. By happiest of coincidences, I logged into their ticketing system to look up a Linux command a support rep had taught me once, and saw the tickets.

(The AUP violation was a server getting hacked, probably via a WordPress blog, and being used to attack SSH on other servers. I nearly had a heart attack, until I realized "Hey wait, that is not actually an IP I own." Turns out they had the wrong account. "Sorry about the mistake!" I don't think that would have cut it, honestly, if they had actually gone through on the deactivation threat.)
People don't always follow categories like that. I have quite a few addresses, but he sent it to the one he remembered to type in and hoped I got it. I did, but didn't keep it.
I wouldn't see why not. There was widespread support from Intel, ATT, BSA, Oracle etc against import bans for FRAND patents. Had Obama not intervened it would have sent a devastating precedent that is in nobody's interest.
The IO monad (a particular instance) is an abstract data type (not an Algebraic data type, by the way).

Other monads (e.g: the State monad from Control.Monad.Trans.State) are not abstract data types (or algebraic for that matter).

Specifically, for something to be an "abstract data type", it must not expose its internal representation, but only relevant operations. IO is indeed such an abstract data type which happens to be a Monad instance. State and [] are monads that do expose their internal representation: ergo, they aren't abstract data types.

You seem to be confusing algebraic and abstract data types (different things!) and taking a statement about a specific monad instance (IO) as if it was about the general concept of Monads (it's not).
In the U.S., as soon as the caller hangs up, the call is disconnected. There's a delay only after the callee hangs up.
Each time I'm looking at the code of my previous web apps which are built with jQuery, I think how many boilerplate code here, could be replaced by Angular-code in 3-4 times less amount of lines and without many bugs (copy-paste is their reason and it's my sin, but because of often repeated boilerplate code).
But it's not enough reason to rewrite them :)
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Left vs right is a smokescreen. To see where the newspapers really lean, look to what they don't publish at all.
Apple threw the first punch in this patent war. I don't blame Samsung at all for fighting back. Now Apple has the nerve to make statements like this:

“We applaud the administration for standing up for innovation in this landmark case. Samsung was wrong to abuse the patent system in this way”

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Banks do use email for that and for everything else if you told them to do so because you care for the environment.
I understand the point you are making. The only problem with picking up a relatively less mature/complete framework is that I intend to use it in production.
Since I am starting up as a novice, I cannot afford to sacrifice maturity for the high of being on the edge. I realize there's benefit for me in being on the edge as you mentioned( and I would love to play with the newest toy), but in my case, I unfortunately can't do that. Thanks for stopping by! :-)
Milky Way is never visible so clearly to the naked eye, its just the high exposure shot that makes it visible.
One reason to protect Apple may be the fact that the NSA has access to Apple and their users' data, which is certainly very valuable to them.
Eric Schmidt was also at that dinner and was in favour of Samsung's import ban.
Say you delete it, then don't.
Or just say it will be automatically archived and you won't read it.
This is exactly what I meant. War is about logistics first, efficiency second, and capita third.
You don't have to delete your email to 'not look at the backlog'. Just siphon it off to a different folder.