skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I overwhelming majority of child porn sites either require payment

I honestly doubt that but even then the money would go to the site owners, not to child rapists directly.
Anyhow, as I said in another post we could simply also hold accountable these who pay for it - after all the act of paying for it would cause the harm, not the data by itself.

> one to provide some child porn of their own as a barrier to entry

Create their own or just post some of what they have collected? Only the first one causes harm.

> the knowledge that their abuse is being watched by people for sexual pleasure all around the world years after it happened is a profound source of psychological trauma

I fail to see how they would know that they are being watched or how watching it being illegal eases their thoughts.

> It harms them.

No, only physical actions like rape could harm them, distributing data on the dark web does not.
By chance, I stumbled upon this same article a few weeks ago while re-learning React and learning Redux.

I didn't get much out of the article since gripes 1-5 are all solved by Redux, and 6 is a complaint about Redux having too much boilerplate.

It also seemed to me that mapStateToProps and mapDispatchToProps aren't given a fair representation in this article (especially with the "selector" pattern emerging within them). If your Redux store is denormalized already, then yes, mapStateToProps will seem quite redundant. However, if you're working with multiple sets of async data, it's much easier to organize your store by fetch method and denormalize inside mapStateToProps.
Even if your product is software, it doesn't matter at all if nobody knows about it and/or buys it. How do people learn about a product? Marketing teams. How do people buy a product? Sales teams. Neither of which report to a CTO customarily.

As someone who has been a VP of Eng and/or CTO in multiple startups, I'd love+ to say my value was the most important, but the truth is that simply isn't correct. It's a team effort and everyone has to be putting in effort to succeed.

+ - actually, I wouldn't, but you get my point hopefully ;)
Glad you like it!

On the issues - what you listed is the eternal dilemma of cross-platform software. Balancing cross-platform behavior vs. platform-compliance.

There are choices that are just "Firefox-specific" like the shortcut to open private window.
Other items like "Gecko menus vs MacOS menus" are tradeoffs of productivity. Having one set of menus for all platforms is easier to maintain than separate for each.

Those choices are hard to make perfect. I've been recently fixing the drop-down menu lists styling [0] to allow websites to style some of it, while keeping it looking native when they don't. It's pretty tricky to get it right :)

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1386015
Hutter, Schmidhuber, et al. have done some very interesting work on this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3329
Great article. Online harrasement and hate are tough subjects. Setting a simple standard that telling people to kill themselves is unacceptable -- and trying to do something about it -- is great to see.

Such hate could devestate a very depressed person and we shouldn't treat it as if the issue is that people don't understand the internet; this isn't an issue of culture or communication.
> I'm able to hack you, therefore there's nothing wrong with doing so?

Yes

> What about in the physical world?

Actions in the physical world actually harm people, something which is not true for the virtual world and can be trivially be avoided.
I'd be interested in what you think of my approach elsewhere in the replies.

In some ways it is a search through program space. But then I think we as intelligences do a guided search through program space as we develop. It seems important to use what information you can to guide you e.g. culture and copying other people who have already been navigating the space of programs to be.
Generally you have to pay or provide some child porn of your own to access those sites. And they have forums for them, talking about the best way to find a child to molest, etc.

Plus there's the torment of the victim, knowing that there are people out there to this day jerking off to video of the worst experience of their lives.
fun fun function is a great one too :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q/vid...
I don't see how pointing this out helps advance the goal of web anonymity. Unless you are suggesting we somehow find a way to change human nature.
I might give it a try again as usual every year at least once, but I always end up with conclusion Firefox is unresponsive, freezing and has problems with rendering compared to smooth experience with Chrome. I would be very happy to ditch app from Google, but if it's crashing, freezing and has basic problems I am not gonna waste time with firefox, Chrome just works.

So I hope I will be surprised and Firefox finally made some revolutionary changes.

Btw. it's even worse on Android, you will hardly find slower browser + there is no pull down to refresh page which is showstopper for me and even with plugins there was no way to implement it.
I did most of my branding by myself (using Sketch), but my family, and a community of students[1] always give me feedback on my projects. I do not have multiple HN profiles (although I have a throwaway account made a while back). However, I do have friends that usually are the first comments on my posts.

Also, while Moon was on Github in 2016, I started playing around with it locally in late 2015 before publishing anything online.

[1] https://feathrd.co
It might be possible, but quite difficult in practice given that a voter can show up at any time to any number of voting stations.
> Only the first one causes harm.

Untrue. We know from interviews of the children, now adults, featured in the images of child sexual abuse that the distribution of those images in itself causes harm.

> No, only physical actions like rape could harm them, distributing data on the dark web does not.

Clearly bollocks.
ISTM one could use TOR to contact an open relay? The server would just think it was talking to the TOR exit node, right?
From what I've read, the Wright brother's main innovation was that 3-axis control was needed to maintain flight, which they also copied from birds.

Which means that copying birds is fine, you just have to know what parts to copy (mechanisms to control direction in all 3 axes) and which to ignore (flapping wings isn't practical given the power sources and construction materials we have, but soaring on stationary wings is a good place to start).

Which in turn means that saying "Just copy nature, they've been doing this for 1bn years" or "don't bother copying nature, we need different stuff" both aren't very useful.
you've got `let x = if y {100} else {99};`, which IMO is more readable than `let x = y ? 100 : 99`.
'Fresh Guacamole' is the shortest film ever nominated for an Oscar
IMHO: If an AGI from the future came back to 2017, it could almost certainly create a new AGI from scratch on current hardware.

What would it type into its terminal?
I'm trying to figure out what actually happened, technically:

> Some officials use a software programme such as Photoshop to paste a black patch over secret text, obscuring it but not removing it. When documents are edited in this way, normal home or office software can disclose the obscured text

They probably mean Adobe Acrobat, to modify pdf documents.

> The names of officials and outside experts involved had simply been blacked out with a marker pen, and could be read by printing the document and holding the paper up to the light.

Not sure, here - a /software/ "marking pen" that obscured the text, but the underlying text, presumably in a different shade, would be printed by a printer?

Interesting.
Fixed-wing flight isn't unknown to the natural world.[0]

Flagella use propeller motion for propulsion.[1]

Lots of animals use jets.[2]

I'd consider the combustion engine to be the most novel 'human' design with regards to aircraft propulsion -- or the way we achieve jet propulsion; that's pretty unique.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_soaring_birds

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellum

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_propulsion
I love that we came to the same conclusion. https://github.com/kurocha/async
...and it funds journalism by sending drones to the Waffle House to workshop my ephemeral stuff while doing some mending and meeting other drones to trade, to share litecoin, or to fix up their rides; sometimes even tell whether a carrot is seeding true. They do mad backbeats and end up with tips.
Honest question: If you aren't going to share data between/among threads, why use threads at all? Why not just fork-abd-exec?
I was in North Eastern Idaho and there is a similar looking contrail visible in my wide angle shots at totality so if the point of image capture happened to be just right it would be possible to have it in the frame with the sun.
What does "pretentious" even mean in this context?

And what does depression / mental illness even have to do with the survey and what the article discusses?

The article is about how happy/satisfied with their life people IN GENERAL are at various stages. It explicitly says "1.3 million randomly sampled people from 51 countries". All kinds of people, not just depressed or non-depressed alone.
The irradiance is determined by the aperture, which is measured relative to the focal length. So with e.g. f/2 you get the same heating of a given area of the sensor regardless of the focal length (i.e. "zoom").

Put differently, longer lenses typically also have bigger absolute apertures, collecting incident light from a larger cross-section. This compensates for the fact that a given solid angle of incident light is spread over a larger area of the sensor.
Fatal AI mistakes could be prevented by having human teachers
Do you have a link you can share?
> In a few years lots of the edgier stuff will just be very realistic computer-generated imagery, but I expect the puritans will be making the same argument? In fact, even if the government set up some sort of bureau of approved CP (maybe they would enforce that all legal CP could be built from source?) lots of people would still want it outlawed...

I lack a citation, but I believe even mock child porn is already illegal in the US.
Comment on and/or CC yourself to bug 1195138 [0] which is this.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1195138
Reposting what a few 2nd level comments have already said: voting is still done on paper in Norway; the counting if what is being done electronically.
Countries like the UK and Canada already consider drawn pornography of characters that look underage illegal. Most Japanese anime and manga pornography (even extremely unrealistic hand-drawn instances of it) is already illegal in these countries, see http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/anime-fan-co... for example.
Traversy Media has been uploading great contents too. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC29ju8bIPH5as8OGnQzwJyA
I drive on London every day. Uber drivers are perpetually distracted. Either looking for a pickup or aimlessly meandering waiting for their next job. There are some serious negative externalities, much like the article.
>Guess I'll have to wait another 30 years or so to not feel miserable every night.

Or you know, take some other steps to change things around you and for you (including seeking some help if its a clinical issue).

Those are averages. Happiness and/or being miserable are not absolute functions of time, and they also don't have to be even relative functions of time.
On the other hand, the most comment complaint I've seen in the wild about FF for Android is "the UI looks weird / doesn't fit in with the rest of Android". You can't please everyone.
I was unaware that political appointees were good at judging scientific merit. That's why previous administrations (Republican and Democratic) have generally not messed with research grants.
> Actions in the physical world actually harm people, something which is not true for the virtual world

I can drain your bank accounts by hacking you, how is that not actual harm?

> and can be trivially be avoided

Leaving aside the argument about whether securing yourself is "trivial", that doesn't make it OK! If you leave your door unlocked, that doesn't mean it's OK for me to come in and steal your TV.
Information Technology Doesn’t Matter (2003)
So DDoSing a hospital is OK because the computers don't have feelings?

Computers are used by humans for a purpose. If you harm the computer there is a decent chance tncauses problems (inconvenience and up) to people.
Ethereum launch in review:

- Investment Prospectus: https://www.ethereum.org/pdfs/TermsAndConditionsOfTheEthereu...

- Premine Part I: Anyone can buy ETH in exchange for BTC for the next 42 days

- Premine Part II: On top of Premine Part I, +10% of the total ETH allocated during Premine Part I will be distributed to "early contributors"

- Premine Part III: On top of Premine Part I and Premine Part II, +10% of the total ETH allocated during Premine Part I will be distributed to the Ethereum Foundation

- The supply of ETH is uncapped and inflationary at a rate of +25% per year

- The premine is being conducted by "EthSuisse", a Swiss entity which will be prompty dissolved after the premining period ends. The Ethereum team makes no guarantee that development of Ethereum will continue after the dissolution of "EthSuisse"

- Regardless of how many BTCs are raised during the premine period, ~4000 BTC is explicitly reserved to pay for "Expenses incurred prior to and related to Genesis Sale". Translation: they are pocketing the first 4000-5000 BTC

> The Ethereum Platform is being developed primarily by a volunteer contributor team - many of whom will be receiving gifts of ETH in acknowledgement of their dedication - and will continue to be developed on a volunteer basis by some developers as well as under a more formalized contracting or employment relationship for other developers. The group of developers and other personnel that is now, or will be, employed by, or contracted with, Ethereum Switzerland GmbH ("EthSuisse") is termed the "Ethereum Team." EthSuisse will be liquidated shortly after creation of genesis block, and EthSuisse anticipates (but does not guarantee) that after it is dissolved the Ethereum Platform will continue to be developed by persons and entities who support Ethereum, including both volunteers and developers who are paid by nonprofit entities interested in supporting the Ethereum Platform.

via Cyther606 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8072947 )
Glad to see this issue discussed. I work in edtech and have been somewhat uncomfortable with the way things work. There's a lot of paid-but-undisclosed promotion going on, and some people feel that "it's just the way business gets done."

As an entrepreneur, I feel that companies bear the primary responsibility for keeping their noses clean. If you're paying someone to promote your product, and it's not clear to others that there's a quid pro quo, that should set off warning bells that there may be an ethical problem.

I've actually had long discussions with other entrepreneurs who insisted — even after seeing the FTC regulations on undisclosed promotions — that it was ok to do. Why? Because they'd seen kickbacks in other industries, so it must be ok here. And after all, we're helping kids, right?

But teachers bear some of the responsibility as well — especially the ones who heavily monetize their social media presence. I've been approached by teacher bloggers who allegedly write both product reviews and sponsored posts. When I replied asking about their product review process (and noting the many awards that my company's products had won), they sent back only a rate card. In reality, there were no unpaid product reviews — every post was bought and paid for. This particular teacher actually added a disclaimer to her site, indicating that some posts might be paid for. But there was no indication of which posts those were — probably because then it would be obvious that they were all sponsored.

I hope this article sparks a conversation in edtech and education circles. In the context of the recent NYT article on the lack of efficacy of many edtech tools, the rampant quid pro quo is even more disturbing.
With regards to "Contemporary fish consumption versus major depression", there are most likely strong cultural factors at play this chart does account for.

Having lived in Japan and the US, I can say with some certainty Americans are vastly more likely to see a mental health care professional and therefore are vastly more likely to be diagnosed with depression. To this day it is still fairly taboo to see a psychiatrist. Furthermore, given the chart labels one of its data points "West Germany" I am imagining this data is from the late eighties at best, when it was even more taboo to see a mental health care provider.

I would imagine the cultures in Korea and Taiwan may be similar in this regard.
I think you misunderstood his point, which was: there is no more energy coming from the sun at any given point during the eclipse than in a clear day. The sun isn't "sending" more energy on the path that aren't blocked, nor is the energy blocked going around the obstacle and concentrating on the areas still visibles.

The reason for the damage is entirely due to the receiver behaving/being differently, be it your eyes or your camera, because they get tricked into thinking it's dark and they act like it, being much more receptive and then overwhelmed.
Here's the deal: Tenants have rights because it's extremely easy for slumlords to take advantage of tenants - the power is completely in the landlord's hands without regulations. Poor tenant protections often leads to very serious negative externalities to society as a whole. History is filled with examples.

Unfortunately, tenants do take advantage of landlord-tenant laws sometimes, and that is terrible. Savvy swindlers can use the system to their advantage.

Being hard to recover money from individuals has absolutely nothing to do with landlord-tenant law and everything to do with the fact most individual people don't have tens of thousands of dollars sitting around to pay legal judgements. You'd have these sorts of issues anytime you sue someone else for anything. Best case scenario is that the person who you are suing has the proper liability insurance that will pay the judgement for them. (Liability is included with homeowners insurance and renters insurance but doesn't usually cover intentional actions)
Is there a video of your giving the talk? Or at least audio?
I'll second your Gergel recommendation. Gergel's book is not quite as good as "Ignition" because he brags a little more and gets specific a little less, but it's still good. The place it's better than "Ignition" is in the descriptions of the insane risks which early chemists took - with their own lives, their neighbors' lives, and the lives of anyone living there afterwards. It's a fascinating piece of anthropology.
> but some powerful psychoactive substances like MDMA or psychedelics might be able to grant them access to their subconscious and to learn to be aware of emotions they've either been unaware of before or have denied.

Sorry, with the end of your sentence you discredit yourself.

In a psychopath there is no brain activity in some parts of the brain. See story of James Fallon as mentioned in numerous sources on the subject, including this article. Psychopaths don't 'deny' themselves emotions. Psychopaths are unable to experience the full spectrum of emotions. Examples of emotions include love, empathy, anger, despair, fear. They learned to mimic the emotions they're unable to experience, in detail, so a psychopath will seemingly be able to experience fear (acting as if they do often referred to as 'wearing the mask'). They're like predators in a land of prey, constantly on the hunt, yet well disguised (I attribute that sentence to Hintjens' theories on the subject). Neurotypicals normally do not detect them. A person who denies themselves emotions is someone with deep-rooted psychological problems. That's not a psychopath as psychopaths are unable to experience the full spectrum; that's someone who likely has a personality disorder or (if a young person) is developing one. Personality disorders cannot be cured. A personality disorder is for life. It may become worse or better, therapy such as CBT or drugs can make the personality disorder bearable, but it never fully goes away. That theory makes it unlikely full-blown psychopaths can be cured, while the corner cases stay in disguise.

As for being 'unaware' of their emotions. There's evidence psychopaths can recognise emotions better than neurotypicals [1].

We should also seriously consider the long-term effects of MDMA in relation to health. E.g. neurotoxicity. Quora contains an entry on this subject [2].

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/surprise...

[2] https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-long-term-side-effects-fr...
This makes me so happy in so many ways!
Twitter opened theirs up but it's really just a queue for a denial email. You can meet all of their requirements and still be denied.
Only the portion that changes will be rerendered because of the way Clojure shares nested data structures when there are changes.
>What about people with illnesses (physical and mental) or simply genuine misfortune who have overcome it?

What about them?

>The author apparently doesn't care about them.

Why should they? They report on a specific survey/study, they don't try to pander on some every set of people that did X or Y.

Second, their subject is totally different -- how people in general, and statistically, feel about their lives at various ages. Not about what happened to some people and what they did about it.
Yeah, but eventually it will have to be cleared. This day my car was being driven by XX, or my apt was being leased to John Smith.

While landlords can be more proactive, this goes against all common sense and fairness. If my tenant grows weed or kills a person in the basement, should I go to jail?
GE should look into IOTA. They seem to have solved the issue of scaling rather well.
The Browser Architecture team at Mozilla [0] is investigating stripping XUL(/XBL) out of Firefox, among other things, but it's more complex than you might expect.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-browser-architecture
> So DDoSing a hospital is OK because the computers don't have feelings?

No, we were talking about hacking, not things like DDoSing.

I would support the stance that DDoSing should be illegal because it only causes harm and can't be defended against easily.
And at this point I am tempted to believe him. Apparently he's tried to enter the password for the FBI and has been unsuccessful.
Luckily I bought mine from Amazon and due to the ISO certification debacle they refunded my money and allowed me to keep it.
I switched to FF nightly after reading a comment here in HN. I had tried FF stable with electrolysis and still went back to chrome. FF nightly is SERIOUSLY fast and snappy, like ridiculously so. I recommend it to everyone.
What I wouldn't give for a dead tree version...

is the set of all things worth more than about £10.
The telemetry probably shows that all the power users opted out of telemetry.