skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would be amazed if you knew the amount of people who consider a high quality standard the existence of prostitutes both high and low profile.

Also, this weird notion that prostitutes clientele are not family men... Where did this came from?! I would say that it's predominantly married, family-men (whatever that is).

As another commentator said, you're making too many, extremely naive assumptions about a complex topic.
Reading this first I thought they want to stop Dr. Who again. Need to get off my heart attack now. I'm out drinking a tea.
SAP announces new partnership with Apple
I find this true of most company taglines. "We have the highest rated customer service" = We have shitty customer service.

I think the people who write this stuff are usually presented with "Here's the bad parts of our reputation. Make sure your blurb fixes that"
Improving Python performance from the inside-out at Intel [audio]
Amazon poaches AI guru from Xerox PARC to work on Alexa virtual assistant
Sure but insurance companies have already determined and society has accepted the value of human life. If I recall it averages out to 1.3 million (looking for evidence now) EPA has it listed at 7.4 mil

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#Life_Value_in_th...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-epa-has-tabulated-the-val...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/weekinreview/09marsh.html
Ultra-cute bugbots cooperate to climb a step together
The best guide I've managed to find was by Simpson Strongtie. They manufacture loads of structural bracketry used in building construction and seismic retofits.

As far as I could tell, the most important components are to make sure your sill plates are firmly attached to the foundation (with big washers on the bolts going through the sill plates or the Simpson UFP or some other plate), shear walls, and post caps. I talked to a Simpson field engineer (they actually answer the phone) that essentially confirmed this.

http://www.strongtie.com/resources/literature/seismic-retrof...
But "smoking isn't allowed" or "smoking is prohibited" is a clearer way of putting it...
soggy peas have their place as well.
This is one of the oldest "profession" on this planet. IMO, it is still active today is a sufficient proof that it serve some folks well (on both sides), and shouldn't be labelled as crime or illegal.
Sure, there are irregularities in this trade, but don't they exist in other professions as well? Underpaid waiters, underpaid workers, etc. Similarly it has its own poisonous weeds - pimps, trafficking, etc. That needs to be eradicated, not the industry per se.
Crystal 0.16.0 Released
ah i didn't get it.
I thought maybe it was like "load/stress testing" and was using curl to get that across.
In short: my generation grew up without the concept of a tea break because Margaret Thatcher (who else) and massive marketing of coffee happened. Coffee is an acceptable drug and it wakes us up in the morning for our crappy commute to our crappy job on a crappy contract and we hate our lives.
I didn't know this, absolutely great. Now I have some of my "always open tabs" as separate windows without the bookmarks and omnibox.
Yes, I used The Games Factory for many years! It would also create stand-alone installers that would fit in a floppy.
From another article on it:

>Lyft officials said the initial tests will be done with human drivers who will take control if they are needed.
Absolutely not. There is too much regulation as it is. Cigarette smoking harms, the smoker and others. Prostitution does not.
Having metadata (i.e. who communicates with who at which time etc.) still has lots of value for the three-letter agencies (some even say it's even more important then the content of the messages itself). As far as I know Signal does nothing to avoid this kind of metadata (but please correct me if I'm wrong).
Microsoft and Ford back Pivotal in $253M round at $2.8B valuation
Why is paying for sex any different from bribery ('dates') for potential sex?
Honest question: What's the difference? I have no idea.
I don't understand why people consider sex a moral issue. This is a deeply personal issue and when done between consenting adults affects no one else. Why should it matter with whom one has sex with if all parties consent? It seems to me that people that want to put limits on this are simply overstepping their bounds because they can and they want to force their ideas onto others in an effort to control and dominate others. I mean the stated purpose of Amnesty International, according to some members, "should be to end demand for prostitution, not condone it." These people must be delusional, even more delusional than the anti-drug warriors who love to kill, imprison, and enslave. Interestingly enough, the outcome of both is the same.

These delusional people are the ones who need to be regulated as making sex a moral issue has indeed led to horrors that would have otherwise been avoided. I wouldn't even say they have good intentions in this case as it's obvious what happens when sex is made into a moral issue. We have the evidence and we know. We also know what happens when it's not and people are allowed to have sex with whomever they want for whatever they want. To still want to control who people have sex with and under what terms after knowing all this is to intentionally support all the negatives of having sex be a moral issue and outlawed in most places: human trafficking, slavery, etc.

These people making moral judgements about an amoral topic are the ones providing the foundation for the global sex trade. Shame on them indeed.
From timing attack point of view its nice . A more practical solution to check if devtools is open might be checking

window.outerHeight - window.innerHeight
So who will do an equivalent of QBasic for the web? It seems that the language is simple enough to be implemented entirely in Javascript. Then you wouldn't have to deal with the hassle of installing.
Here's the video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWp0JBrl8rQ
When I saw the title my heart jumped thinking it might be referring to "humour". Thank God it's only about tea...
It should definitely be decriminalized (i.e. people engaged in it should not be persecuted by law). However, legalizing it does not necessarily eliminate issues like human trafficking/people being forced into prostitution.
If each component have 3 files, how can 10 folders (with 3 files inside) be a more mess than list of 30 files with prefixes?
Continuous Lifecycle London Recap: Teams, Not Tools
node.js does have it's advantages, but it's possible to be very fast with php.

For example, the advantage of the "warm app" with node is often approximated by using a shared memory kv store in php.

And, while an async io approach scales in a simpler way, you can typically find an optimum tuning for fastcgi that scales very well.

Looking at this benchmark: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=...

There are php-fpm implementations running at the same clip as node, and an hhvm implementation trouncing it.

Yes, benchmarks are sometimes bullshit, but the idea that node's approach is somehow light years ahead just doesn't pan out in the real world.
>It's not meant to be a payment system

That's why it makes the front page of HackerNews when some random company starts accepting Bitcoin payments?
Decriminalizing means reducing the penalties for the crime, but it's still illegal. So it might mean you only pay a fine for offending, rather than jail time.
What kind of throughput & latency do you usually see?

I imagine this is a lot better than hitting an exit node.
I thought this would be about the EU referendum and the death of government-by-consent...
How an Architect Created a Crowdsourcing Platform for Interior Design
The gear head in me had a slight moment of panic "they're killing the Mini??"
> Other interesting proposal by Eliezer Yudkowsky made in "Three Worlds Collide" novella was legalising rape.

Ohhh. It is satire. You had me ಠ_ಠ for a moment.
I see more or less this same question on every Hacker News thread about automation: "How will humans stay employed when machines can do everything better and cheaper?"

And the answer I most often see is to have a universal basic income, which makes sense to me.

The main argument against basic income in the United States is that it discourages people from working. I think that's probably true, and in this country we see work as a virtue and an obligation. But I don't think the only thing we should seek from automation is to increase profits for business owners; we should also see it as improving human life in general by making work less necessary. And if work isn't necessary, shouldn't we provide a replacement for income that workers lose out on by the decreased availability of employment?

I guess that's not the only solution to the problem. I could also see the government taxing automated labor to artificially inflate its cost and thus encourage businesses to employ humans. I don't think it's as good of a solution, but it would solve the problem too.
The cost estimates for road construction the author uses are probably roughly the same across the country. Property taxes, on the other hand, vary widely. So at most, he's proving that in Iowa—where property prices are relatively low—there may be an imbalance. But this tells us very little about whether there is a widespread problem. Go to a higher cost of living area, or an area with higher population density, and the math looks very different.
> What makes sexual labor so horrid?

It's generally exploitive of women.
That's explained in painstaking detail in the Github issue I linked to.
It's mixed, see here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8844848

If you're looking for a job, I'd want to know way more than percentages. Companies, positions, salaries, etc.

I do recruiting and have seen a number of boot camp grads, and their first job is usually an (unpaid?) internship. Boot camps are at most 6 months of study (often compressed to 3). That's not a lot, compared to BS or MS in CS. You may want to look at remote masters programs, like Georgia Tech's.
Coming from Australia, it amazes me how big a deal this is in the United States.
The only real problems are disease and abuse.

You answered your own question.

I have no doubt there are plenty of folks out there who are willing and eager participants in prostitution. Since it seems to be heavily associated with abuse, drug addiction and violence, society has put effort into stamping it out.
I meant roughly half by page count. I stopped after that point because I was bored.
One of the things that has really changed my thinking about an entire cluster of related questions, and informs this one, is a Bloomberg article from a law professor about a year and a half ago.[1]

If you followed the link, skimmed through the article, and are now back at this comment going "what the hell are you talking about," go back to it and reread the first two paragraphs. It's really short, and it packs a punch, even if you're not a libertarian (I'm certainly not).

If you don't want to click through: Don't support a law unless you accept that it will kill some of the perpetrators. A law needs to survive its collateral damage. It is always a strong, non-theoretical possibility that due to some law, and whatever dynamics are available at the time, that someone will die as a result of it. It just requires a pimp or prostitute (in this case) who is being apprehended to accidentally move in just the wrong way, show just the wrong disrespect, that some police officer thinks they're in imminent danger of being attacked or shot. And, are you going to be comfortable with it?

The linked article points out that this is true in the case of Eric Garner's crime of selling loose cigarettes: nobody really thinks that this is something anyone should potentially die over. Similarly, I would say, for the act of selling one's body -- perhaps it might come with fines, to discourage it, but jail time seems insane. And one of the reasons is that it puts a threat on the lives of the women who are presumably already being trafficked.

(The article contains a bunch of other gems from a book it recommends: for example if you're having the "I don't need privacy; I've done nothing wrong" thing, you can be like, "statistically according to this book there's a 70% chance you have -- you probably just don't know it yet. Have you read the 3,000+ federal laws and do you know the 300,000+ federal regulations to be sure of that?")

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-12-04/law-puts-u...
Even if they're given a court order to take a version down? It may be their policy, but I guarantee it will happen at some point.
the constant adjustments are also needed for influences of wind, temperature and or weather elements.
No doubt. After all, it plainly doesn't suit your prejudice on the matter.
Suppose Craig just took a rational bet that did not pay off.

Craig, hoping Satoshi to be alive, provided an opportunity for Satoshi to move some of his own Bitcoin and have Craig become Satoshi in the public mind. But Satoshi, did not bite.
Yes, religion (especially Christianity) comes, once again, to mess things up. It is the cause of many problems we have today, and it affect us all, as it is deeply ingrained in politics and government.

I can go and sell blood, or work ten hours a day, or eat until I explode, yet I have someone dictating what I can or cannot do with my sex life?

Certainly more than a few remnants from the dark ages.
A question that comes to mind: How cheap is it for companies that hire STEM workers to add their voice to the general "Bring more people into STEM" thing, potentially increasing the supply of STEM workers and decreasing the cost/difficulty of hiring STEM workers of a given skill; and how does that compare to the cost of offering a higher wage?
One important thing about QBasic that's often overlooked is that it's a community of 100% amateurs.

I learned to program in 2004 in QBasic, although I very rarely fire it up anymore. By then it was not considered a "serious" language and we all knew it. But that meant the stakes were a lot lower. It's a lot of newbies and a few old-timers who do things for fun. This makes things a lot less intimidating for the non-coder. There are no conferences, no corporate sponsors, no polarizing big-shot Twitter personalities. It's a realm surprisingly insulated from the pissing contest of modern engineering culture and technical progress, where things that are acknowledged to be easy in other languages are nonetheless praised as impressive when done in QBasic.

Another thing is that QBasic has no decent library functionality for code reuse (QB4.5 has a linker but no one knows how to use it). This means people constantly reinvent the wheel, and they aren't told not to. People copy and paste snippets of code and learn how they work, but they don't build ever more complex mashups every year. Thus, you're not on the framework treadmill or starting 5 years behind the curve. Things are done simply and idiosyncratically, pretty much the same way they were done in 1995 or 1988.

Makes me nostalgic just thinking about it.
> WTF has everybody been doing for the past 10-20 years?

They have mostly been touching and stroking themselves by inventing a new programming language every 15 minutes, rather than sitting their asses down for ten years, mastering one language properly, and then squeezing the living daylights out of it in performance, simplicity and efficiency... nope, that requires actual work, it's much cooler to invent yet another way of doing the exact same thing: wheee! Look at me, I invented yet another language!!!

THAT is what they've been doing.
Why not just run Chrome in app (or kiosk) mode?

I use this for reading my gmail. I use the --user-data-dir flag to prevent the "app" from interfering with my other browsers.
Adding my voice to the chorus.

The Microsoft Windows ecosystem is a god send for those wanting to enforce single sign on, roaming profiles and group policy to control things deploy Chrome, 7-Zip or all manner of apps straight to the desktop or lock down access for say the demo room machines but give full access to engineering notebooks and enforce things like password policy, mapped network drives, etc.

It honestly just works and is fantastic in practise for companies wanting to enforce good IT policies with 10+ employees (in comparison try doing the above with Mac OS X + Mac OS X Server - like pulling teeth).

However Microsoft's licensing is absolutely fracking byzantine.

* I first need a server license - is it per socket or per core?

* Then I need my desktop licenses - do I need Pro or Enterprise? Or heck, maybe Ultimate only has the regional language options I need?

* Then I apparently need a fracking Client Access License for not only Windows Server to Windows Desktop services but for god damn DNS and DHCP services too! Like seriously MS - are you kidding me? So every iOS or Android device which pops up on our Windows DHCP/DNS needs a CAL apparently.

Now the whole cluster fudge above would be barely tolerable for any well funded startup or company IF Microsoft made buying these licenses easy.

If the above nightmare sounds bad however, just try getting licensed for it all and ensuring you're compliant.

It's seriously, a real damn shame because Microsoft Windows Server + Windows desktop is fantastic. When put together it really does work beautifully. It's just such a shame that MS seems to shoot itself in the foot consistently when it comes to figuring out their licensing.
Obviously paying people to maybe have sex with you isn't any better than paying them to just do it. But that's not how most people understand the term 'date'.
My point is that "not passing on the error message" could make life harder for downstream users too, depending on who those users are. (Sorry if my reply was arrogant or harsh - I got burned by this in the past, that's why I'm telling it)

If you're developing a project and use SLF4J by yourself, and use a third-party-dependency that already includes a logger implementation, this dependency can override your logging and cause all sorts of havoc. This can be a frustrating and hard to find bug.

(I'd say the fact that this can happen at all is a design flaw in it's own, partly caused by Maven's way of dependency resolution, partly by SLF4J. But I don't see that changing in the near future...)

I think it's important to consider how your project will be used. if it's really just for exploratory use in a REPL/a few scripts, then including a logger is fine. If you think this project could be used in larger projects, you should consider leaving it as it is or restructuring.

If you do include a logger, leave a note about it in the documentation. This way, users can at least exclude it again if they have to.
A previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11060101
Driverless cars solve this problem pretty soon

The end result is going to be about ~80% fewer cars in existence.
I'm tired of this argument. A john pays a prostitute for their services for their own enjoyment. A porn actor isn't paid by their costar, they're paid by the production company so it can sell the recording.

It's like comparing filming a romantic comedy to a lonely guy paying an escort to hang out with him. There's a bigger difference than just the fact that a camera is involved.

Also not really into the contract angle either. Why can't a consenting adult sell their vote?
I wonder if at some point we'll look back at the 20th century for what it was: a complete disaster of urban planning as sacrifice to the Church of the Car.

I live in NYC. It still befuddles me when I see people driving around Manhattan (why??). On a Saturday you can see traffic backed up half a mile to get to the Holland Tunnel. How was any of this not entirely foreseeable? Why do people endure it?

Anyway I discussed with someone how much space is allocated to free or highly subsidized parking. The going rate for land in Manhattan is >$600/sq ft now. Back-of-the-envelope estimates of the land dedicated to parking below 125th street puts the value of these parking spots at around $2 billion. A parking spot in prime real estate would be close to $100k. It's maintained by the city, chokes traffic and is given away for free (in a lot of cases). Why doesn't it generate revenues of $10k/year or roughly $30/day at the very minimum?

In most parts of the US living without a car is nigh-on-impossible. The dismantling of streetcars is many cities at the behest of the auto industry has been well-covered.

Something else I find interesting: the gun debate is contentious. Some argue guns make crime more likely. Others argue it's people not guns that are the problem.

Why isn't there this same debate about cars? I don't think they're inherently bad but you have to consider that the car made a lot of crimes possible that previously weren't (or at least weren't practical). Kidnappings, serial killings, bank robberies, burglaries, smuggling (eg cigarettes/alcohol across state lines) often feature a car or truck as a necessary component of the crime.

When people talk about crime getting worse over time, how much of this can be correlated with the ease and propensity of car ownership?

Anyway, as for urban planning, it's amazing how much people expect the city, state and Federal governments to subsidize their lifestyle choices with infrastructure like roads, sewer lines, water and the like. Rarely do these developments pay for their own infrastructure (it's at least subsidized to some degree).

How quickly society changes to where car ownership and all the infrastructure required became viewed as some God given right.
Yeah, thinking about the same. But then I saw the OP mentioned somewhere in the comments below that he's only thinking about server to server scenario (2LO/client credentials), so its those comments above discussing fake login UIs confused me that it was about 3-legged flow.
Every time they release a new open-source product, everyone jumps up and down saying "look, they've totally changed!"

No, unfortunately they haven't. They're just putting on a new coat of paint. They have improved, sure, but rising one or two levels when you've dug yourself down twenty isn't actually that much of an improvement.
Why wouldn't they price at a rate that would generate some sales? Given that nearly all of the costs associated with the book would have already been paid?
We will comply with the law where required.
Open Source Drives a Virtuous Loop for Innovation
Wouldn't that proposal be less regulation than what there currently is?
I too was thinking of this comic strip... http://dilbert.com/strip/2006-10-18

(related to caffeine's use as an OTC anti-depressant)
The effect of the pimping laws making it illegal to rent apartments to sex workers in Oslo has in fact made life a lot more difficult for sex workers.

The Oslo police has had a long-running operation called "Operation Houseless" (official name), where the police threaten landlords with prosecution unless they evict suspected sex workers from their home.

Just thought I'd share that tidbit - the left's rhetoric has the sex worker laws painted as protecting women from exploitation, but the enforcement of the law doesn't support this goal at all. (Not to mention that enforcement of these laws when the sex workers are male, is non-existent). My skeptic view is that the criminalization of the purchase of sexual services came about mostly because there were a lot of Nigerian prostitutes in the main street outside of Parliament in 2008, and that the politicians needed a palatable legal excuse for getting rid of what seemed like a disgraceful situation.
Plus multiple times sciencedirect was down for me.