skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure it's a difficult position as a parent, although I have no experience in that department.

That said, have you wondered why you find those things "horrifying"? I might be a bit concerned if it was rape porn, but besides that I am unconvinced that there'such harm to come from children seeing porn, either at an individual or social level.

As I've noted before, if a child is looking at porn, that means they have a desire for it, which I think is difficult for parents to come to terms with. I certainly wouldn't want porn foisted on children, but if they are seeking it out through their own volition, there really isn't much you can do about it; a parent's treatment of a child viewing porn probably has more potential for a negative outcome than the porn itself since it is ultimately blaming human beings for their innate instinct. As if there is something wrong with naked adults having consentual sex, or practicing paraphilias.

I discovered porn when I was 10 through AltaVista image search. Just type in a female name and presto! By this time, there wasn't a whole lot my parents could do because I was going to look at porn one way or another. As with violent video games, parents have no governance over what their kids have access to at their friends' houses. In that case, establishing trust with your children will go a lot further than making them fear something that they innately understand to be practically harmless.

By the way, parents could actually talk to their kids about sex and, yes, even porn. If you're a good parent, your words will likely have an impact even if your kids continue to get their hands on porn.
I would love it if somebody would make a guide to create a "privacy car": disabling OnStar, shutting off all telematics that manufacturers put into the navigation and infotainment systems, changing or disabling the serial numbers in the tire-pressure monitoring system, and similar things. I imagine that this would need to be model-specific, but I'm amenable to choosing a new car based the availability of a privacy hack, the same as developers who choose their computers/phones/routers based on availability of firmware replacement and known jailbreaks.
> Yes audiobooks are expensive

If you get an annual Audible 'subscription' you're looking at something like £7 per audiobook. (Oddly they don't advertise that this package exists, but it does.) Even less than that if you play the game and go for Audible's promotions.

> Let me buy books on the app

I agree this is an odd omission. Could it be something to do with Apple's rules about handing over their cut? They gave Spotify a hard time a while ago - https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/1/12082398/apple-music-spoti...

Edit: apparently the Android app has no such restriction, so I suspect I may be right. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16324731

Edit2: Yup - https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Audible-allow-you-to-purcha...
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http://www.nature.com/news/first-horses-arose-4-million-year...

Methods for extracting aDNA are always improving, oldest full genome sequencing is now over half a million years old.
I told my wife that our 3rd grader had most likely seen porn at school. It turns out I was right. She had several friends in the 5th grade, and about 90% of the fifth graders have smart phones.

My math was simple: if you give 10 twelve-year-olds unfettered internet access, at least one of them will find porn, and that one will show it to their friends. If any of them have an older sibling, the odds just go up.
The renewable energy target is a hyperbola
New comments actually start at the top and fall down over time, or not if they pick up votes quickly enough.
This is super interesting; thanks for the pointer.
I think it is more a matter of recent political events shaping the discussion. They are shaping the discussion because the results were surprising to many people. That surprise has generated interest in understanding what happened™...I don't think political branding is a particularly recent phenomenon.

The other factor of the changing discussion is that there is more data and it is easier to collect. For example measuring cognitive ability (whatever that is) is easier with computers as is administering the experiment of rating people and processing the data for interesting statistics controlled for other variables (such as authoritarianism which apparently was also assessed for the subjects of the experiment).

To put it another way, people often seemed stuck to their long held opinions about the other candidate in light of additional information.
There's enough places for microbes to hide from radiation. On that short of a mission it wouldn't be surprising to see microbes. There are various microbes that can withstand the nominal radiation there. Would be much harder to survive the Van Allen belts and CMEs, but it is possible. If we were talking about a 100 year mission, that would be more surprising. Even hardy microbes don't like extended stays in vacuums and have to go into a hibernation state. There are bacteria that can survive for decades in a vacuum and low temperatures.

Disclaimer: not a biologist
Your 3 year old daughter is definitely the demographic in danger of her school mates introducing her to violent pornography, yes.
Microsoft in the 1990s had a strong penchant for striking the right balance between power users and the average user. Their products remained full-featured but most of things you didn't use day-to-day were quietly tucked away in areas only power users would care about. There wasn't any real notion of compromising usability for simplicity. If you wanted to customise finer aspects of Windows 95, all it would take is a registry entry. If you wanted to use an advanced feature in Office, all it would take is a deep trip inside the menu bar. If you didn't want to do either of these things, they stayed out of your way.

Apple later pioneered the notion of making products so radically simplistic, they sacrificed functionality on the pretense that power users wouldn't be bothered by the absence of features. There was almost no customisation. You got what you bought and liked it. Finder, the worst file manager I've ever used as a developer, endlessly gets in your way in the name of not letting grandma mess up her system.

Microsoft later badly copied Apple, and the result are horrid and unusable "Metro" style applications.
> Telegram Login for Websites

Or in other words: We are ready to sell your private data now. Because that's what actually happens when you login to another website via Telegram login.
International theft ring busted by bike brand big on customer service
It's slower than sublime and it's slower than vim of course... i guess i have high standards
>He's delivering the 3

That is debatable. The goal was to be delivering 5000 by last December. They've currently delivered something like 200 out of a half-million preorders. I like what Tesla is doing but people absolutely should be skeptical of Musk w.r.t. Tesla.
Life on Earth is about 3.5 billion years old. If some other species in the Milky Way had beaten us to intelligence by 1%, even assuming they didn't start out another billion or two earlier, that would give them 35 million years to spread exponentially through our 100,000 light-year-wide galaxy.

It is possible we are first. The Copernican principle, to my eyes, is taking a bit of a beating lately anyhow. It was a fine heuristic for a while, but many people seem to have forgotten it is only a heuristic that seemed to work for a while and not an actual law of the universe. So maybe we are that unique. But it is worth pointing out that would itself be a significant sea change in the current philosophy dominant in science.
I go with “you often”. Or even better, rephrase the entire thing so that it can start with “it seems like” to avoid the accusatory tone altogether.

You never do the dishes vs You often don’t help out with the dishes vs It seems like I’m always the one doing the dishes.
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Thats what we need to save the world
This sounds like the perfect GTD/TODO list device!

> but what isn’t great is annotating an epub file and then changing its display font or font size. The text will automatically adjust its flow and move around to fit the screen, but your annotations won’t, leaving them misplaced and out of context.

No way, that's such a big oversight.

That said, I'm totally buying one of these when they do the next major version bump and hopefully address the above issue and ideally double CPU speeds, as the lag mentioned when writing non-cursive is equally an unacceptable UX IMO.

I also absolutely love my Kindle's and have for years. I don't know how the author can have a preference for reading books on a bright iPad. It must not be something he does daily as I do.

The other great benefit of the reMarkable is the support for ePub documents. This is the biggest annoyance with using the Kindle, I've had to convert hundreds of ePub->Kindle using Calibre over the years.
It's not hard to just guess. What is a spider? Radial lines that move.
I think that would be very hard to crack down on. Hotels are listed on multiple booking sites and have their own site as well. As a property owner I would never want to be stuck with only one rental channel, if one tried to force me I would simply stop using it.
It's better than Verilog. It extends the types system, and makes user defined types easier to use. This helps with a lot with a big design with a lot modules acting as a layer of abstraction. The type system is stronger than verilog to some degree, but still is weakly typed to retain backward compatibility. VHDL still has much stronger type checking.

It also supports direct programming interfaces. For instance you have a chip your designing that needs to run software. Your test bench can call that C function to also test some software at the same time. You can also use it to speed up simulations by just modeling the input and output in C for a module. However, I prefer SystemC for this. It's great for behavior level simulation, and also runs quickly. It also is much easier to interface with any software you want to test with the design.

So I prefer SystemC for behavior models, and VHDL for gate level implementation. However, you can't really ignore verilog. Although, that depends where you are working and who you are working with. System Verilog is kinda of in between SystemC and VHDL.

https://preview.ibb.co/hRz8qc/Screen_Shot_2018_02_07_at_9_21...
> I read some where there was going to be a TLD for porn (.xxx I think).

There were ideas about that for years, maybe even in the late 1990s, and eventually about 5-10 years ago it was set up.

Ironically, many in the "porn industry" were strongly against it; I think more to do with the company running it, though, than the idea of being confined to an online ghetto.

Most porn still remains on .com or on country TLDs and few people have probably even heard of .xxx, let alone visited a .xxx site. Now there are hundreds of new general TLDs, several more are porn related (.sexy, .porn) that basically nobody uses.

> Sadly it creeps into TV shows and movies nowadays.

I'm not a fan of depictions of simulated sex on TV/movies, since it's often for shock/viewing figures and/or holds up the plot, but I think irresponsible gun usage, torture/violence and military propaganda, which occur far more often than sexual content in TV and movies, are much worse for kids in particular to be exposed to.
> Transport-layer encryption that leaves messages totally readable to the service operator should not be classified as "they do encrypt".

In that case, you should consider WhatsApp's group security issue as severe.
Some "old ways" are healthier and some are less healthy. They have to be evaluated individually. Saying across the board, as you are, that pre-industrial lifestyles were universally less healthy in every way, is just as false as saying the opposite.
How do you know that this isn't correlation as opposed to causation? Addictive practices are common avoidance strategies.
That's an incomplete description.
I am not even tall, just a normal healthy build. Even slightly overweight. But everything 'my size' fits like a tent. I get it, americans are fat. But the other side of the coin is just as bad, if I want fitted jeans, they think I have no calves, or huge boots, with no in between.

Clothes are now made for the new 'normal', which appears to be 245lbs and 5'8, size 10-E.
Is he anywhere between 13 and 17? Because that behavior sounds like about 60% of boys between those ages. Testosterone makes people quick to anger, often unjustifiably, and until they learn to control it they aren't fun to be around.

Teenagers are also famously self-absorbed, and this age is also marked with a shift from reliance on parents for guidance to outside sources like peers.

This was all the case before the internet, before video, before printed media. Porn isn't the cause.
Do you see much smoke during the first few minutes after lighting? After it gets up to proper operating temperature then the combustion should be more efficient, with a lot less smoke visible, but as it warms up it could be belching out a lot of smoke. I see large quantities of initial smoke from mine (and a few other houses in my old, rural street). The type of wood used will also affect it, of course.

BTW, given that you bought an exempted stove you could probably burn this sort of thing as well:

https://solidfuelcentre.co.uk/homefire-olive-briquettes
No. Though I am implying that we can get asymptotically close to omniscience (to the extent it's allowed by physics; full omniscience would probably have infinite energy requirements anywy) through the systems we build - which include mental frameworks, organizational structures and computing devices.
You can self host it for free. ZeroTier looks to charge $100/mo just to let you self host.
Whatever definition. Telegram leaves messages exposed to the operator, and so did WhatsApp's group security flaw.

True or not?
I suspect Homepod is just the first in a series of products. I would not be surprised if Apple releases a soundbar type solution (maybe even with a built in Apple TV) in the future.
I found that pandas is great for data exploration and data that you know is small (few 100s MB). Other than that, Python builtins and numpy arrays are a better alternative.
Saving the earth, more so
Well, sure, but ReasonML also natively supports JSX, has am included reason-react package and has Facebook behind it. To me that signals not just that it targets JS, but that it targets JS in a way and with tooling and abilities that convey advantages to using it for web development.

Some or all of the other languages you mentioned might as well, but if they do I'm unaware of it.
Experimental evidence shows light can stop electrons
There's a huge gap between a company like Turner Broadcasting and Facebook, despite the fact that on paper, they are both advertising companies. The one that isn't sucking in huge amounts of data is a clearly better to me.
This is one of the key shortcomings of Mr Zuckerberg. If he was actually willing to behave like a normal, vulnerable human being that lives and learns over time more people would start liking him (no pun intended). But no, he has to be awkward about everything even after all those years.
Not remotely true; practically a non-sequitur.
plenty of recent studies show that pornography use is manifestly harmful to our brains, especially developing brains. Cursory searching yielded these articles, but there are many studies to be found.

http://yournewswire.com/this-is-how-pornography-addiction-is...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2642712/Does-...

https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/porn-debate/

Pornography is a harmful drug and can have many of the same psychological and physiological effects as other addictive substances.
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I am curious, having recently found out I am not able to visualize in my head, "see with my mind's eye", are you similarly unable to see pictures in your head?

When reading about Aphantasia[1], one of the questions people with Aphantasia get is "how do you masturbate?".

My main motivation has been because of doing the course Learning How to Learn and Barbara Oakley talking about visualization being an effective study tool and I finally realized other people can really summon flying donkeys in their head with air sounds, which I cannot. That they really picture these moving scenes in their heads.

But it occurs to me this might drive some people to use more porn than others.

[1] which I don't have, I can very, very occasionally summon extremely brief pictures and with some practice I seem to be starting to get somewhere.
Gig economy is the mass exploitation of millennials
Rust RFC: Stabilize SIMD
"The world is strange, let's keep it that way." I like that.
Moreover, people with a very specific fetish. What she did is that she gathered some personal experiences with men who are into older women and compared it with what she remembers happening 30 years ago. This is actually more a study about her rather than online porn.
Given how cyclical fashion trends are those people wearing bell bottoms today might be seen as especially fashion forward in a couple of years. Who knows?
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There is more to it, and it's hard to pinpoint cause and effect. He did have issues that existed before the pornography habit. But they worsened significantly since the month he started looking at pornography regularly. I do believe that his pornography habit has lowered his mental and emotional intelligence by a noticeable factor. I also look back at when I was his same age, and see my own struggles as very similar to his. So I could be mistaken with some of the internal presumptions I've made about him, but the external ones match up almost exactly.
I wonder if the fontSettings section of the Chrome extensions API[1] can be used to defend against that. By randomly and deliberately poisoning that info for when in Incognito mode (or even regular browsing).

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/fontSettings
Every time I thought I needed einsum or similar arcane ops, I found that a Numba optimization for loop did the job.
> Porn is just like an action movie, only it's about sex instead of guns and martial arts. It's fun, but it usually has very little to do with real sex.

Except in action movies, people don't take real ideas back to the bedroom and end up wanting to act them out. Porn modifies brain chemistry[0] to alter how we think about sex. Porn is a common thread in serial murderers[1].

In my own life, I've had to reprogram myself to get away from ideas that haunted me for 10+ years that hurt myself and others.

Pornography is a plague.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/26/brain-...

[1]: https://www.netnanny.com/blog/what-serial-killers-and-murder...
I posted that after viewing this[1] from the article. I would say there's quite a bit more there going on that gives me the heebie jeebies than just radial lines that move.

1: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/02/06/science/06OBS-ARA...
Congrats Luke and team. I'm curious, what did you learn at ClusterHQ with Flocker that made you want to start dotmesh?
>> HomePod might not be a success, and it definitely has some shortcomings.

Well, it is early days. I wouldn't judge HomePod's success until it's been around for a year or more. Let's not forget all the criticism of the original iPhone. Apple's MVP products tend to be open to criticism on release, but over time, as they add wishlist functionality, silence a lot of the critics too.
I would love to see this as well. My workflow would benefit greatly from this.
As always, depends on how this data is being measured.

Unemployment is low, but the labor force participation rate is also low. Are the jobs good quality?

Wages are rebounding? I haven’t seen any evidence of this. There’s many people asking if the Phillips curve even works any more. If there had been any uptick in wages it’s a very recent uptick and hardly a trend yet.
That only works if you have a SO, which isn't even necessarily what everyone wants.
There's a world of a difference between VAX and today's modern operating systems. Twenty years in the future, I predict user interaction will largely be predicated on artificial intelligence. I can certainly see an older version of myself, frustrated at trying to figure out what sentences will trick the machine into doing what I want it to do rather than simply speaking to it.
I agree. I do buy clothes towards the higher end of the cost spectrum, but they routinely last 4-5 years, after which the old T-shirt’s simply get cycled into the “wear at home and for sleeping” set.
> Whatever definition. Telegram leaves messages exposed to the operator, and so did WhatsApp's group security flaw.

No, WhatsApp did not.

Messages are not exposed to the operator. If you exploited this vulnerability, you could not read messages that had already been sent.

Instead, what happens is, everyone is notified of a new arrival, and then can decide whether or not to keep communicating through that channel.

That is NOT the same thing as "leave messages exposed to the operator" in any stretch of the imagination.
> without totally understanding

Hee! Good one.
Overall, female and male Uber drivers behave remarkably similarly but small differences aggregated over large samples produce a small but systematic gender gap in wages of about 7%. The gap, however, is an artifact, a social construct that has no implications for “social justice,” drivers are treated equally.

Ouch. To the contrary, I'd say that this study does have significant implications for "social justice", namely that not all pay gaps are caused by the issues that fall under heading of "social justice".

There are some interesting thoughts within the comments of that piece. One was whether the "costs" of male and female drivers were the same. Since the evidence shows that males drove faster on average than females, one might guess that they would also receive more speeding tickets. Presumably there would also be differences in accident rates, and hence differences in insurance rates. Does the pay gap close further once these increased/reduced costs are taken into account?
I used OwnersDirect once (part of the same group). I just visited it, HomeAway and Vrbo and they all look like Airbnb clones now. At the time I had to pay for the villa by a bank transfer directly, they didn't handle any of that (and I had to pay the international fees which was rubbish) but I'm guessing they've probably got the same payment experience now too.
When I look at the things that I am most grateful to have experienced in my life, none of the decisions that would have been motivated by optimization processes would have led to them coming about.

So what, then, is the point of optimization criteria, if they wouldn't actually enable any possible decision making that accomplishes the "goal"?

Sorry to be so down on this, Kent, but this line of reasoning is such a fail on so many levels. Once in a while--maybe often!--we should just turn off the optimizer and let life unfold.