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>By making it as difficult and dangerous as possible for everyone involved.

This ends up causing more problems than the prostitution caused.
So why do those "cheap USB to parallel port converters" only work with printers?
> The author never made the case that a property owner is SUPPOSED to pay for the cost of the street, so I'm not even motivated to figure out whether the analysis is correct or not.

It's worth reading up on Joseph Stiglitz's work in the 1970s that demonstrated how government spending in public goods is transformed exactly into land rents under many conditions.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem
Now I'm wondering what the actual most British thing is. Something very common in Britain, but rare elsewhere, presumably, but not actually definitional.
>> "USB to serial" worked

Somewhat. The combination of vendors sunsetting older chipsets (Prolific HX), and their reaction to counterfeit chips makes the USB-to-Serial world a huge pain in the ass.

I'm hopeful the CH340 chipset eases the pain of supporting non-tech end users with these things.
I found out about the CNC thing recently while trying to get a hobbyist CNC machine set up. My immediate reaction was "Parallel ports? What is this, 1985?" Turns out, there isn't really any getting around it. It's parallel port or GTFO.

This is how I also learned that dirt-cheap PC motherboards still have parallel ports built in. The higher-end ones generally don't.
The tinkering void left by the parallel port is pretty much filled by microcontroller-based systems-on-a-chip that are smaller than the plastic casing of a parallel connector.

Progress giveth, progress taketh away.
One of the things about OAuth is that the user needs to check the website url where he is giving his credentials. Amusingly, many mobile apps seems to forget this important bit. The redirect me to a web ui inside the app itself and expect me to enter my password inside the app. I guess they thought this was a better user experience than handing over control to the browser :/
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USB to serial worked because he could do larger transfers of data to the AVR which would then do low latency byte by byte writes to the device when polled.
It should either get rid of groups or make them useful. Maybe I'm the stupid one here, but this is the one feature I always thought was freaking useless. Never engaged anybody in a group, never got engaged, nothing. Groups are just there, they exist, and that's it.
If the collapsing part of the system is the one containing middlemen who earn millions taking advantage of free labor from academicians, it will be a success. The only current effect of sci-hub is that research is really open.
Your keys are actually louder than the microwave itself? :o.

(At least every microwave I ever operated was pretty loud when cooking.)
Not unless you make it so. No one who's ever determined to educate themselves or earn their way to a better position has ever been stuck as a janitor their whole lives.
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What would be really nice is if there were a system like how debian, ubuntu, etc. does it, and allow for official (and unofficial) mirrors
How can anyone verify a hash of the private key without having it? Anyway, see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/HiddenServ...
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Putting thousands of chickens in a single pen (industrial mass food production) is also a really effective way to spread some terrible diseases (antibiotic resistance), and incubate new ones (avian flu).

Suffice to say, while this is a valid effect, it is not the actual reason the public has such a moral aversion to legalized prostitution.
No but I have been a busboy. And I did work my way through college while working a lot of other so-called "dead-end jobs".
seconding your anecdote. I use an ecig myself, and I live next to a college campus -- I'd probably say I see about five people a day using them. I have never seen someone using one of the cig-like disposable types.
I was talking about speaking to a person of interest instead of directly with their counsel (counsel without a case isn't legal counsel, in many US contexts depending on local legislation and interpretation).
It wouldn't be if it were legal and the women in question had access to legal recourses to protect themselves from exploitation.
You don't think women take that into account before they go into that line of work? I don't see the exploitation - I see someone choosing a line of work with advantages and disadvantages.
> Either you use a 3rd party or you get to automate things. There doesn't appear to be any middle ground.

Have you seen Let's Encrypt?

https://letsencrypt.org/
that type of disadvantage doesn't typically live with you long after you've stopped a profession. I see someone who needs money and may not be able to see the long term implications.
St. Louis City also has a problem with its beloved "earnings tax".

At one point as our office space lease renewal was approaching I plotted all of our 100+ employees at the time on a map, almost all software engineers, about 2/3 of them lived west of the city and 1/3 lived east, and only a single one lived in the city, and he was in a temporary apartment immediately post divorce, didn't get the house. To me that says 99+% of professionals don't want to live in the city. Our first office plan had been to put one in the city, but the earnings tax on our side and the employee's side was a deal breaker for a business with payroll as its predominant expense. So instead we got an office on each side of the river and teleported across the city as needed with the interstate highway system.
It's still a bit unclear to me how a client generates his certificates and somehow links it to his bank account. The demo shows a web-UI generating it, but would a mobile user have to visit the website to fetch a certificate?
I don't think that's true. Over the years prostitution has been legal and even celebrated by different cultures. The religious reaction to the downsides is no different than that of the prohibition of pork.
I should of said it wouldn't surprise me if it had positive effects. It would surprise if we hadn't evolved as you said to tolerate low doses. I can't think of anything else all land creatures evolved exposed to that is really harmful.
Microsoft isn't the only guy doing this. I understand enterprise/professional customers have gotten exceptions for years, but for everyone else this is common practice on almost all other platforms. I still think it's a bad practice.

Microsoft is just following the other companies that are winning and somehow doing so without pissing their userbases off. Their main asset, as I see it, are people that cannot or will not switch. So as it is for most companies with a semi-loyal userbase: lock it down before the garden empties too much.

IOS has an appstore, Android has an appstore, Mac has an appstore, Chrome has an appstore, Firefox has an appstore, Ubuntu kind of has an appstore. Firefox, iOS and Chrome don't allow you to install outside of their appstore without running different builds. Android makes it difficult, removing it is even more difficult and you lose half your phone in the process. Sure there's homebrew, f-droid, cydia and chocolatey for hackers, but that's a tiny subset. Windows really wants control like everyone else. The internet has changed a lot since the decentralized software and hardware days Microsoft is used to. Microsoft doesn't get to sell their user metrics, control what users install on their systems or where they're installing from. They don't get to charge uploaders or put fees on downloaders/purchasers. The Windows store is pretty much a flop at this point, but they want it to be the canonical way to install software on Windows like every other platform.

Not a Windows problem really, they just get the negative press that every system should get for trying to force people into a garden. If it gains steam years down the road, I could see them pull a Firefox and lock down external installs without 'approval' for security.

Just a few weeks ago I bought a Microsoft Miracast dongle, OS independent or so it claimed. Only way to configure it was to have a Windows10 computer and download the driver/configuration software from their Appstore. I no longer own it. I really don't think this is an isolated problem though.

Edit: Clarification
which is sad because soda and even diet sodas are especially bad on the kidneys. Tea and coffee are much better
I live on an unpaved street surrounded by paved streets. I think it means we have more foot traffic and less car traffic.

Portland Oregon has a fun policy to encourage neighbors to turn unpaved roads into linear parks. https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/63612
If that is how you understand dating, I would recommend that no one date you, at least until that understanding of yours changes.
There are different kinds of conservatives. Social conservatives make up only about 30% of "right-wing republicans". Most of us are more interested in the fiscal side.
I think its the state violating individual human rights if what consenting adults do with themselves without violating anyone else's rights is considered illegal. I am curious to understand how it is not or counter arguments if any.
Great point. I find myself reminding people about this all too often.
Perhaps it could have been phrased more clearly: It seems like more and more [the force (and consequence to the citizen) of the government's authority] is based on "rules" issued by unelected officials, and less based on actual laws passed by [elected members of] Congress.
This is not something you should think about writing code. Unless that code comprises a compiler :)

SSA is a program representation which is easy for compilers to analyze and optimize. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form for more.
The laws re: brothels do make this appear like a partial decriminalization effort. For instance, operating an unlicensed brothel only causes you to incur a $10k fine rather than prison time. The same with health violations, where "not promoting safer sex practices" i.e. using condoms in sex acts, is a fine-able offense.
o no
Ha! Hey, I always appreciate it when someone explains things clearly - thanks for doing so :-)
I wonder if this is correlated with the huge immigration there. The last few times I've been to London and Oxford, I found it hard to even spot a native Brit when walking down the street.
Women are frequently debased as potential romantic sexual partners. By rape, date rape, child molestation and a thousand other things. Your framing suggests you do not actually care about the quality of life of women. It implies that you think men deserve to have the cleanliness of women preserved.

In my experience as a woman, the cure here is to give women agency over their own sexuality. Decriminalizing prostitution plays well with that idea.
As a .NET developer, and lover of all things C#, I couldn't be more happy. There's always been that nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I'm pigeonholed with a language I can't easily use on other platforms (Mono's been around for a while and I've used it but I ran into a variety of problems the last time I targeted it[1]).

"Officially" supporting alternative platforms gives me the opportunity to write code in a language I prefer for the handful of Linux boxen I've had here. I'm looking forward to poking around with this in NetBSD. I've had a box doing virtually nothing here for a while running an old version -- guess it's time to upgrade!

The thing that still makes me hang on to other languages is uptake. I haven't looked in a little while, but back when Mono was "it", the number of applications available outside of Windows was pretty small. Basing an application on Mono tended to come with grief lobbed at the developer[2]. Has any of that changed or shown signs of changing since CoreCLR was released?

[1] I'll be the first to admit that these problems had workarounds I wasn't familiar with at the time and though I had no similar problems with a handful of CoreCLR apps I've written, I was far more researched at my second attempt and would have probably been successful with either had I bothered to try.

[2] I tried to find examples - my memory is not serving me well but I thought a component of OpenSUSE or something along those lines was written targeting Mono and was later scrapped for another technology due to weak community support. The best example of complaints I could find is http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/features/mono-a-gratuitous-risk-t...
First it's the NSA, then FBI. Now it's totally fine for local police to hack without repercussions. How is this even remotely legal?
User control is, by definition, security. The goal of security is to keep control in the hands of the owner. To remove control in the name of security is at best deceptive and self-defeating.
slf4j API should be in the compile group. At minimum, logback-classic should be runtime, as should jul-to-slf4j.
Regulation will improve purity, quality, and consistency of dosage, as well as verify what manufacturers say.

For safety, there is more to it than the ingredients:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11637086
What are they trying to fix? Apple is deleting content that is not associated with content in iTunes. They think it an accurate delete but are 100% wrong and have no DR or backup plan for this.... It would be simple enough for them to use a shazzam like algorithm to verify what they are deleting matches what is in iTunes and if not leave it.

I might be misunderstanding what you are stating though?
Purely a compiler hacker thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form
I've survived for 48 years eating too much steak, drinking too much beer, and exercising too little. In your opinion, does this give us useful information that tells us that I should keep doing these things, because obviously, I will live forever?
I've been in the US for ~2 years now. The tea isle at Safeway has done nothing but grow.

There are even loose leaf pay-per-pound options now!
I find the moral outrage against sex by my fellow Christians to be a perversion of the teachings of Jesus.

Two C.S. Lewis quotes on the subject:

"The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins."

"...a cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute."

The desire for sex is ingrained in human nature, and so long as people can pay for things, sex will be one of the things they pay for. If we can reduce the number of victims by making it legal and regulating it, then I'm all for it. But, at the same time, I'd consider myself a failure as a moral guide if my daughter chose it as a career.
I don't find that article very persuasive in that she's making blanket assertions about large groups of people. Do "we" really consider sex sacred? I don't.
Nope. And why would I bother learning when I can just click a few buttons to get Slack? I'm pretty lazy and have no interest spending the weekend learning all the features of IRC.

Also:

> This is all on the free plan obviously, but guess what the next wave of tech startups are going to use
Machine learning is still far from automating most services. If anything, machine learning will create as many jobs as it will destroy.
Many readers want it to be satire. That doesn't mean that it is.
>I have walked around assembly row and it isn't terrible but it certainly doesn't feel like downtown Boston.

A new development shouldn't feel like the downtown from one of the oldest cities in the country. Age, architecture, construction materials, land and building re-use, and about a thousand other things can't be faked.

That doesn't mean they didn't build with these principles in mind.
In an office situation, especially when doing rounds, it makes sense to have tea over coffee.

Unless you have a nice coffee machine, you're left to deal with a French press (too much effort, difficult for large rounds), or (gasp) instant coffee.

When out and about, if your drink is being made by a professional, it makes sense to have coffee over tea. Less faffing about removing tea bags, etc.
What we really need to bring back is the BeBox Geekport: http://www.hardwarebook.info/GeekPort
Oddly at the same time, as the article mentions, tea consumption in the US has exploded. I switched completely to tea from coffee, and I was a 6+ cups a morning coffee drinker.

My stomach problems have gone from unmanageable to generally good since, but I do feel less alert around lunch and beyond at the office.
Good point. That's why it's likely the youth and the not-yet-born will pay a higher percent of their lifetime incomes in taxes while probably receiving less benefit. Americans have a history of voting wealth transfers to themselves from their grandchildren.
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>Your framing suggests you do not actually care about the quality of life of women. It implies that you think men deserve to have the cleanliness of women preserved.

There's no need to play amateur psychologist in policy debates. You can make your argument without attacking someone.
Personally I think the idea has merit. But I also see several issues:

* Open access favours individuals, companies and universities who currently can't afford the high subscription fees. The well off universities wield consider power and would resist such attempts. You have to remember Bill Gates does support Harvard.

* Elsvier is just one of several academic publishers, Springer also comes to mind. And the numerous professional associations also profit from big subscription fees, e.g. IEEE

* To the non-academic, most papers are impenetrable. Thus on a general education level, they might not be of much value.

* Although people from industry often decry the difficulty in accessing academic papers, those who do have access, e.g. through university research collaboration, find that they are often of limited value.

Caveat: my views are based on experiences in engineering field, specifically in the areas of electronics, computer, communications and software.
This article from 10/2015 in AAAS is also interesting:

"Humans are worse than radiation for Chernobyl animals, study finds"

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/humans-are-worse-radi...
Which came first, the moral aversion or the danger?
of course: http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/ chipmunk basic
I smoke ecigs and the ones I buy already have the dangerous warning labels on them advising against using nicotine.
Are there no male prostitutes where you live?

Heteronormative much?
I watched "Deadpool" on a flight the other day. It warned me that it was edited for content, and I thought "hrm, that's a shame, but given that there may be children around me on a flight, I suppose that's reasonable."

I then watched an entire human body literally splatter against a wall without censorship, followed later by a heavily injured protagonist standing up facing away, presumably nude because they blurred out his butt.
I think the general idea is that software will certainly be in the history books, but it is so flexible that we don't know yet if it will be described as plague or panacea.

I recommend reading or re-reading https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html (...remember the part about asteroid mining? It's near this part: "In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the postscarcity world [...]")

And there are in fact a lot of documents on this topic available here: https://www.gnu.org/server/sitemap.html#directory-philosophy
You're right, and I wasn't saying this article is groundbreaking, or that the progress is tremendous. I was just defending the figure/comparison as a reasonable one to make us aware of the progress in this early stage of EV adoption.
Timing mostly. These kinds of devices are using the parallel port to "bitbang" everything. Because of that they need rather precise control of timing in order for things to happen when they expect. The USB devices usually just let you send a stream of bytes and they go out without much control over how fast they change.

There's apparently some people making usb devices for things like Mach3 and they have some links to them: http://www.cncrouterparts.com/my-computer-doesnt-have-a-para...
Here's some living proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kg4vVYKc90

This lady is bitten by a radioactive ant, live on camera.... near Chernobyl.
check out namecoin. they are attempting that, afaik.
We have the same problem with things being "in NP". It's clear that all of P is in NP, but not clear whether all of NP is in P. But people often say "NP" with the implication of "(apparently, as far as we know) not in P", which is not actually correct based on the meanings of those terms.

(In this case the problem is probably made worse by the mental interpretation of "NP" as "Not Polynomial", when it really means "Nondeterministic machine can solve in Polynomial time", and if a deterministic machine can solve something in polynomial time, a nondeterministic machine can do so as well!)
It isn't intended as a personal attack. But I think the distinction matters. If everything is done for the sake of what men want and what women want has zero role in the debate, ultimately, it doesn't really matter what conclusion is drawn. It will still harm women.
They are regulating the hardware as well? What is to differentiate between an ecig battery and a flashlight battery? Are Tesla vehicles now going to be considered nicotine devices? That's absolutely ridiculous.
Ask HN: What is the new king of the transaction email world?
Now that Mandrill is dead (http://www.dangrossman.info/2016/02/28/mandrills-betrayal/) what is a suitable replacement?

I'm looking for a system that has email templates with injected variables, a simple to integrate with API, and a reasonable cost structure. Do you guys know of any decent offerings?
My view is that there is a ton of noise of HN, and HN has this problem where threads devolve into tangents/pedantry/really nitpicky arguments where people start arguing over little logical details. And rather than just go down the rabbit hole of this morass of noise, I'd rather just downvote.
“OMG please don’t teach him GOTOs!!”

GOTOs are easy to abuse, but they would really come in handy sometimes.
You could use a hash-based password generator and write the input seed, plus the constraints for the password. Or keep the password verbatim, it's not like the site is really secure anyway.
We ssh into a box and run unix "talk" ...

More seriously, is there a reason for native? Just it's a fairly arbitrary request without more detail, since a network connection is needed anyway. eg. WhatsApp web client is good enough that it 'feels' native.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, what you say is similar for applied math. Since a couple of years ago some publishers are asking the LaTeX source and the figures to avoid their own typesetting (save for the journal's LaTeX style).

Journals do publish a lot of work by academicians, many of them funded, in the US, by NSF grants (taxpayer money).