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>Of course, certain censorship is fine. I don't mind certain art, like films or computer games being censored, and think that it is key to keeping a powerful art community when protecting those from harmful images or powerful material.

The author hasn't made a distinction between restriction and censorship. Films unsuitable for children, say Sword of Vengeance have their availability to them restricted. On the other hand, I'm quite sure that the British release of Ichi the Killer has scenes edited from it, ie. it is censored.

I was wondering if this porn filter would block access to the works of the Chapman Brothers.

http://jakeanddinoschapman.com/
Why do spammers continue to do this? Since the panda / penguin updates, I presumed Google no longer counted links from blog comments, even if they were do-follow links.
Good article. Explains exactly what pure mathematics is. My first love was physics so this is exactly the kind of mathematics I have no interest in. To me mathematics is just a language we can use to describe and understand nature. Its good that some of the brightest work on advancing that language but I'm more interested in the territory than the map.
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Also tens of thousands of dollars in fines plus possible jail time.
Because only filthy degenerates and pedophiles don't opt in for censorship. You aren't a pedophile right?
It's open source. You can find the source at their Github: https://github.com/OpenEmu
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At least he managed not to die on his own invention.
1. When you sign up to an ISP, they explicitly ask if you want a filter.
2. Asking your ISP to stop filtering is simple, easy, and immediate.

Seriously. This is a non issue.

Several cellphones have come with filtering enabled by default for years and years. It's not a big deal, you just call them up and say "Yeah when I bought this phone, I wanted to use the internet. So disable your crappy little filter, and we'll say no more about it"
I get you're being rhetorical, but your point deserves challenge, so I'll mutate it by raising the point that, for the question to be sensible, we must ask how many of those killed would not have been were it not for the robust, cheap, easily mass-produceable nature of the gun.

We can assume these individuals would still have wanted to kill each other one way or another, but the availability of such a gun made it "more" feasible.
Like most decisions that society makes as a group, the cost is spread over most of the group, over time, so that more people can benefit from the policy. It's the very nature of how government works. Yes, because it costs everyone, such policies should be given close scrutiny. But merely being paid by everyone through taxes is not reason enough to condemn a policy; the logical conclusion to that is no government at all, which comes with its own costs and benefits.
I am looking forward to that experience :) Besides the technical reasons (nice syntax, pure fp, strong typing, ...) I chose Haskell to learn functional programming because it has a very good community and documentation. It's like the entire Haskell ecosystem's been built to teach FP. Actually that was kind of the intention when Haskell was born as far as I know.
The average thread on PerlMonks (at least when I was a heavy reader) eventually turns to code golf.

The voting system of PerlMonks rewards this.

Trying to force that culture of expression and code gymnastics to write a maintainable codebase just isn't worth it in my opinion.

Don't adopt a voting system like that of PerlMonks in your business, I guess. Or else hire responsible adults. That seems straightforward enough.
I'm in Northern Ireland (so different ISP's to the Republic - not sure which you're referring to) and the reason torrent sites are blocked here is due to a high profile court case in which ISP's were legally required to block specific sites. AFAIK they actually fought against it. When you visit the sites you get a message from your ISP explaining that it's blocked because they "received an order from the Courts requiring us to prevent access to this site in order to help protect against copyright infringement".
Even most automatic firearms are relatively simple, as machines go; what's complicated are the politics of the modern United States on the subject of this particular class of machine.

Is it somehow "conservative" to say that I've never really understood why that should be? One person, who wishes badly enough to kill another, will invariably find some tool to use in the attempt, and firearms are far from the only tools which can be used to inflict lethal injury on a human being. There is no more inherent controversy in this statement than in the statement that, should you find yourself with a nail to drive and no hammer with which to do so, you'll find some other expedient and drive your nail with it -- perhaps you'll hit it with a crowbar, or half a brick, or so forth.

Using a hammer is the easiest way to drive a nail, but the variety of means by which to do so is, if not necessarily infinite, then certainly bounded only by the limits of human ingenuity. If you wish nails not to be driven, why then does it make sense to ban hammers, rather than to place nail-driving beyond the pale of law -- and then enforce that law, as firmly as you find necessary to discourage whatever recalcitrance you encounter on the part of inveterate carpenters?
My experience is that interviews only appear to be wastes of time in hindsight. They are not zero-sum, and due to the nature of the beast there is no way to figure out that you're scoring an "F" rather than a "B+".
And that itself is controversial; apparently the current interpretation of the Constitution requires the bill to be physically signed, although not physically by the president.

From http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/3/obama-uses-au...:

> The OLC said in 2005 that Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution allows the president to use the autopen to sign legislation, stating “the president need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it.”
pr0n. pr0nblem solved.
Looks great here: http://i.imgur.com/Wmh9oel.png

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"I buried my gold in the forest because I didn't want the government to get their grubby mitts on it. I came back later, after only telling a few folks where it was, and I'm upset to see it gone. Can the government help me?"
The fundamental question on climate change is whether you trust the academic- and government-funded ecosystem of scientific research. Structurally, it's not substantially different for research into the climate than it is for research into any other scientific subject.

If you believe such a structure is incapable of producing objectively supportable results on climate, then you must at least be skeptical of other scientific results.

If you feel different levels of trust for the results of different areas of scientific research, then you should engage in some introspection about the criteria you're using to make those distinctions. Is it because you have a deep working familiarity with those areas of research? Or because of some other factors?
so it's ok to be able to opt in to blocking child line, stonewall and samaritans? or sites that "promote gay and lesbian lifestyles"? it's not like it's hard for abusive parents/partners to opt in.

also, the filesharing filters are very much not opt-in, and you can't disable them at all. I'm extremely worried about all these filters being rolled into that
Totally depends on the ISP.

Any mobile phone bought on O2 for instance in the last 10 or so years, had filtering enabled by default.

You just call them up and ask them to disable it. It's not a big deal.

I don't buy the ridiculous notion that the only means a child has to report child abuse is via the internet...
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There's no way to know the answer to this, of course. But something important to recognize about the AK is the high number of civilians killed by its fire. It was designed for street fighting. At least 4 out of 5 infantrymen bearing AKs don't even bother to aim the rifle. Probably 90% of deaths by AK are civilian.
While I respect Kalashnikov and his rifle (very simple, among the best weapons in the world IMHO), the design was taken from the Germans, just like it was with the Makarov pistol.

The MP43 and MP44 saw action right at the end of WW2, when the Russians stormed Berlin. Just like the Walther PP, Russians basically copied and (slightly) improved upon the design.

Gotta give credit where it's due...
Now even I understood it.
That was due to the Starz agreement.

Now you can find them at obscure websites like:

http://www.starzplay.com

http://instant.warnerarchive.com/

etc.

All not exactly well-crafted and promoted as a new source of revenue.

Meanwhile Netflix beats on and is hitting all-time highs in the stock market.
You JS cretins are the worst. I never ceases to amaze me how seriously you take syntax bikeshedding and browser quirks over the big picture. No other community even comes close to the pedantry and nitpicking I've observed among most JavaScript developers.
The thought comes to mind: why isn't filtering an add-on that costs extra? "You want kid- and church-safe internet access? Order our CleanStream product."
Well, ok, the people reading the text that respect it more are doing cargo cult... But that's a huge piece of non-news. We already know that people don't act rationally, and that if we try to sell something, it must fit our irrationality.

Using the font because it looks respectable isn't cargo cult at all. That's the rational thing to do... That is, once you verify that the effect is real.
Near the end, Blockbuster was getting the new release DVDs literally for free from the studios in return for a piece of the revenue.

New Release rentals became another line item in a movie's total income.
Everything I'm reading at the moment suggest that this is not the case in the UK. Apparently as of about now, ISPs are turning on filtering by default without asking, and you must explicitly contact them to get it turned off. People I know who use O2 are, without being asked or contacted, finding that sites are getting blocked.

Some ISPs are, apparently, asking for explicit confirmation with a phrase such as "So you are requesting access to sites that carry pornographical material", and if you want to access anything that the Government has decided to block, you must reply "Yes."

I have no doubt that lists of people who have opted-out will, at some point, be leaked.
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Or just avoid using `this` unless you're sure about what it does in a particular context.
I didn't make the claim that it was "the only means," though I don't necessarily think such a scenario is ridiculous.

I do wonder why anyone would want to make it more difficult to report child abuse, though.
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I have to wonder: there are very competent "old technology/mainframe" programmers. They debugged complex programs using very primitive tools when we were all in diapers. Obviously, there are also very mediocre old programmers, but for the sake of this discussion, consider the best practitioners of their generation.

How is it that they mostly find themselves stuck in horrible jobs, maintaining legacy software on their old platforms? Surely, for a programmer with experience in assembly and Basic (as an example), becoming proficient in most modern languages shouldn't be a problem. But I strongly suspect that even the minority of the old programmers who bother learning a new language, can't find employment utilizing their new knowledge. Any thoughts?
I thought about how I'd add a tip action on HN via a Chrome plugin, but it's hard since HN users don't usually disclose contact info, so you can't onboard them when they receive a tip. Many HN users use their twitter handles, so that's something, but it would be nice if there were some simple OAuth API to get a user's e-mail. Or, pg could implement bit/dogecoin tipping :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsZMbs5PC64
On my UK cellphone provider to remove the "adult content" filter I am required to provide my 44 digit passport number. Needless to say this IMHO rates as significantly more than "just a couple of clicks".

It was always about censorship and suppression of ideas. A revamped Section 28 for the digital age.
I do not wish to seem disrespectful or presumptuous in arguing with one who has so much more experience in these matters than I. But does it matter, to a dead man, precisely how his carcass came to be rendered inanimate? Does it matter to the man who killed him, beyond perhaps the degree of effort required, what sort of tool he used to do so?
At a civilian level, AIUI law enforcement and the like tend to prefer shorter-range, more accurate weapons than the AK47. In a war situation I'm not sure how much difference there is.
These are the key points to me.

"The government, on the other hand, demands real-time data, and wants to install a real-time device which captures all metadata, which is then filtered so that agents only receive what's in the pen order (p121). This requires the full SSL keys.

The judge agrees with the government that this is reasonable. (line 18, p121).

Previously (p56), Levinson asked the court if it was possible to do an audit of the pen register. The judge responded that any request for extra monitoring would be denied."

Who knows what all these little black boxes do? Just because they say it will only transmit what is in the order, how can one know otherwise? Hence the request for audit, which is denied... very, very suspicious.
Has anyone successfully written a FreeNAS plugin? My experience is with Linux, not FreeBSD, and I'm struggling to figure out how to package up my server as a FreeNAS plugin.
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It shouldn't be either/or. It shouldn't be either Western or Eastern. It's shouldn't be literature or non-fiction. It shouldn't be arts or sciences.

It's possible to study the Odyssey and Tales of Genji, and learn facts about the historical context of both.

For better or worse, my undergrad was more a case of "neither" and I've been in catch-up mode ever since. Perhaps that was a lot due to my own short-sightedness in course selection.
Have you ever been abused? Children in abusive situations are scared; the internet provides some mild form of anonymous comfort, and is most likely where a child would report abuse. That or to their school, but often they feel that the school is "in on it" and the internet is safer because they are "an outside authority."

Source: I know a few adults who have been abused in the past. Anecdotal.
Rest assured, regardless which if any NSA reforms are enacted, they will never stop collecting the quantity of data needed to justify that data center. If mass collection is retained, but imperceptibly reformed by having the carriers collect and "store" the data, then the Utah center will be made available as a "public service" to implement the physical storage.
In days gone by, such events were described as "acts of God"; today, they might be called the result of random chance, or of emergent behavior in a system seeking the lowest energy state available to it. Either way, they are not germane to the point under discussion here.
This is an important reason why it's important to study the historical context of when novels were written.
well, my point is a person needs to determine on their own if learning something like haskell really makes them a better carpenter, or if they are just going leveling up their "number of programming languages" XP because that's the main XP they are familiar with.

If I had to pick a point of leverage with which to increase programming skill in minimal time, "learn a new programming language" would be far down the list if two or three for various contexts were already well mastered. "Learn Haskell", almost universally, would be near the bottom.
Wow.

Edit: To put it in context, this was in response to someone suggesting I re-read my last sentence and decide if I'm a sane person or a conspiracy nut.
I think most of the issues relies on the searching for emails as you explained. After you file them into labels/folders, to retrieve emails became pretty cumbersome as well.

Currently, I am hacking on an idea using Hashtags for Email, love to get your feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948659
> I think x86 lets you return in eax and edx, but only if you're returning a single 64-bit value, not a struct with 2 32-bits.

Depends entirely on the platform ABI. Under the OS X calling conventions 2x32b is returned in eax:edx (even if the 32b values are floats, which is annoying).
I am not an expert on this area, but I have got impression, that the German WW2-era assault rifles had quite complex design and they were expensive to manufacture. I think AK47 was exactly the opposite.
You need to talk to more actual scientists.
In that first graph is says X 4 (Artist's Royalty Rate). So it is based on market share, and some rate, which they would have simply said is Y had it been the same for everyone.
Great idea! I believe that teachers feel like data is mostly about grading them and their students, and not about improving the educational experience. Some "Get it" but most either lack the tools, the support, or the mindset.
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No, FreeNAS uses ZFS for RAID. Generally, you want to disable any RAID features in your card so it presents the disks as JBOD to the OS to avoid incompatibilities, which he did.
However, pride in his invention was tempered with sadness at its use by criminals

This makes me wonder if when I am 94, people will look at me, a data scientist, in much the same way: "well of course AK-47 was not only used to defend Russia's border but also by criminals and militant countries to kill a ton of people"

:s/AK-47/your favorite AI algorithm/

:s/defend Russia's borders/some harmless ad targeting platform/

:s/criminals and militant countries/aggressive BigCo/

:s/kill a ton of people/something really evil/

Clearly, it's a lot easier to see the evil consequences when you design a rifle. And yet, maybe I'm just being blind too.

</technophobic comment. back to work on some convolutional neural network implementation, and back to job hunting at companies that promise "don't be evil", rather than "won't be evil">

Its comparative simplicity made it cheap to manufacture, as well as reliable and easy to maintain

"ayy

Edit: typos (thanks herge)
france does that stupid appointment crap too
I'm pretty sure it didn't have anything to do with the money, but his desire to improve production rather than destruction. Here's an article with the lawn-mower comment you're thinking of: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/30/russia.kateconn...

Another comment of his (quoted in the thestar.com article above) suggests that he didn't think much of making money from inventions: "At that time in our country patenting inventions wasn't an issue. We worked for Socialist society, for the good of the people, which I never regret".
I think people just like to be called engineers because they think it entitles them somehow.

Next thing we'll see front-end doctors?
Could you expand "defines Fibonacci numbers as an element of its endomorphism ring Z[x]/(x^2 - x - 1)" in a few more words? Are you saying that Fibonacci numbers are themselves an element of its endomorphism ring (despite not obviously being a morphism)? What does "Z[x]" mean (I have a feeling it is mathematical notation forced into plain text)?

Thanks.
Piracy:

- free

- watch on any device you want, keep the file(s)

- no advertisements

- content producer does not get your money

- excellent content selection

- no regional restrictions

- not instant (must download first, then watch) - but: easy to automate auto downloads, can watch offline

Streaming:

- not free, but cheap

- extremely limited selection

- requires proprietary software (OK if you are Windows/Mac/Android/iOS user; not acceptable for Linux/BSD user)

- instant, no need to wait for download

- content creator gets paid

- regional restrictions

- other arbitrary restrictions (i.e. can't watch on Hulu Xbox app, can watch on Hulu in browser, wat do?)

- advertisements on some services

- network connection necessary for viewing

Piracy is a better deal for the consumer. If you do not care about the entertainment industry's profits, it is hard to justify paying for something inferior to the free option.

edit, formatting.
I like the idea that pure math is pure problem solving, for it's own sake. This quote captures it nicely: It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

But isn't this still somewhat practical? Proving things gives us a mental workout, even if there is not apparent use. (Not the pure mathematicians would say, "Yes, though it's still worth doing in the absence of this.")
You are correct that this code uses "Russian Peasant Multiplication." The question is: what is being exponentiated? One choice is the matrix A = [0 1; 1 1], whose powers are A^n = [F_{n-1} F_n; F_n F_{n+1] if we compute those powers treating A as a matrix. This involves some redundant computations since F_n is being computed twice.

An alternative method is to use the following identity:

(aA + b)(cA + d) = acA^2 + (ad + bc)A + bd
= (ad + bc + ac)A + (bd + ac)
= ((a + b)(c + d) - bd)A + (bd + ac)

(In fact, A^n = F_n A + F_{n-1} I_2). This step requires 3 multiplications and 4 additions and is more-or-less equivalent to the "fast doubling" algorithm in reference [11], which is more optimized. But this derivation is completely generic---it just relies on the characteristic polynomial of A, namely A^2 - A - 1 = 0.

In the case where A is not the Fibonacci matrix but something much larger, working with polynomials modulo the characteristic polynomial of A is much faster than working with A as a matrix.
A simple upgrade to your algorithm would be bidirectional search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_search

This image from Norvig's AI may help explain it better than the wiki page: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~a159302/lesson3/fig03_17.gif
I own all of his books and have read through them several times. I see them as filling a role somewhere between a guide and a listing taken together. It's easy enough to get 95% of the practical value by just reading one of them, but the remaining 3 provide a number of examples which can help to provide a broad perspective on Tufte's ideas while inspiring your own interpretation of them.

If you just want to make better charts, buy, a from memory guess, Envisioning Information. It provides most of the basics of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information but develops the ideas a little further and provides better, more modern examples. If you think it's a cool topic then buy them all because they're all pretty nice books.
Downloading now for my 9yo son and I to play...
Request: dogecoin support. (seriously) It's better for tipping due to the fact that to tip someone a nickel right now with BTC I have to type out a long decimal.
Why didn't you go for monte carlo tree search? Wouldn't that have been more robust to handle different games?
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I don't 100% see the relevance to this article, but your post is a timely reminder that rich elites are more likely to be engaging in progressive forms of social engineering. The Koch brothers are notable because they are an exception.
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