skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TIL that most people have no idea how the porn industry operates.

Equating porn to prostitution is like equating a stunt driver to that crazy asshole that ran you off the road.

The porn industry is pretty heavily regulated, requiring std checks, identification, consent forms, and witnesses.

Legal prostitution would attempt to achieve the same level of regulation, but due to the scale it will just result in more trafficing and abuse.
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Which is the direction this stuff should be going: dash display is a simple mirror or GUI client of the app on the phone/device.
They actually DON'T NEED Soylent, that's simply the magic of marketing.

I tip my hat to their marketing skills, however. I never would have thought they could get anywhere selling a bland sludge to affluent consumers as a replacement for food... who would've thought that could work? They did it and did it well for a while at least.
I tried Unified Remote and obviously it is much better having been under developement for so much more time.

Unfortunately it keeps disconnecting from my phone, both WiFi and Bluetooth. The app is very bad at signaling if you're connected or not and at managing the connection parameters, and that doesn't help. They could copy JuiceSSH, which is not supereasy but better, or Syncthing.

Still, it doesn't work so I uninstalled it. Power-touch seems potentially better because it does so little that there is no danger of misconfigurations. It's much more hackable too.
It depends how they're structuring everything. They add Omega-3s derived from algae to their product, so that algae is regulated via the supplement standards. The product making people sick appears to be algal flour, which probably falls on the food guidelines.

In either case, the essential standard is whether or not it's substantially similar to a product already on the market. The standard is "GRAS" or Generally Recognized As Safe. If you want to sell milk or vitamin C or whatever, you don't need to conduct your own safety studies since both have been sold for years without issue. You just have to ensure that your product is similar enough to the GRAS product to qualify.

I actually worked for an Algae Biofuels / Omega-3 company in the Bay Area for a period. The GRAS process wasn't onerous but was actually fairly regimented. We conducted uptake tests and enzyme tests on rats over several different period lengths to ensure that the algal omega-3s we were producing had the same impact as other sources of omega-3. Ours were a slightly different form (Ethyl Esters instead of Triglycerides) so our standard to meet was a little higher.

I was on the business side but have an undergrad science background if anyone has any questions.

EDIT:

Forgot to add a link to the GRAS status of the Algal Flour that Soylent is using:

http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/GRAS/No...

They did a fair amount of safety testing to determine its status.

> In a published 90-day subchronic toxicity study, Hsd:Sprague Dawley rats, (n=10/sex/group) were fed diets of C. protothecoides S106 flour at up to approximately 4,800 mg/kg bw/d for males and 5,400 mg/kg bw/d for females; no adverse effects were observed. In a published 28-day study, Hsd:Sprague Dawley rats, (n=10/sex/group) were fed diets of C. protothecoides S106 flour at up to approximately 7,600 mg/kg bw/d for males and 8,100 mg/kg bw/d for females; no adverse effects were observed. The results of a published bacterial mutation study showed that algal flour (5000 microgram/plate) is neither genotoxic nor mutagenic. Additionally, a published study showed that algal flour did not induce a clastogenic response as evaluated by the bone marrow chromosomal aberration test in mice after a single oral dose (2000 mg/kg bw/d).
Latency is also critical for VR and AR
which is true. You can die just by radio waves alone.

I had a near family member that died from cancer in the army while working for the army near the microwave tower.

Most of the people that worked with him died of the same cancer, the people working before him died of the same cancer.

When we sued the Government on this they did the trick to account the general army population(that was not working near the tower) into the statistics to say it was all normal.
Shape-shifting movie car that can mimic any vehicle
Tesla to charge new owners for Supercharger use after around 1K miles
Maybe they updated the error message. Here is what it said that last time I tried Homebrew:

$ brew info texlive
Installing TeX from source is weird and gross, requires a lot of patches,
and only builds 32-bit (and thus can't use Homebrew deps on Snow Leopard.)

We recommend using a MacTeX distribution: https://www.tug.org/mactex/
Even more confusingly, Zeit's "now" supports Docker deployments.
I was also disappointed by that statement. I would expect much more from the first applications. Let me try to be constructive and think of some:

+ To have a cat even if you can't feed it or clean up (elderly).

+ To find out how it is to have a baby, how to feed it, how to care for it.

+ Dating first with an avatar before going for the real deal.

+ Searching for things without having to open cabinets or boxes.

+ Colored lights etc will be outdated. Colors, paintings, candles, can all be virtual.

+ Augmentation including audio can give a voice to your pets, to inanimate objects, even the food on your plate. Your plant will tell you that it's thirsty.

Also I think screens are definitely not outdated. I look forward to have a screen the size of a wall and "wormhole" functionality so I can virtually couple it to a similar wall somewhere else. Then I will feel much closer to my grandma for example. Or my wife to her loved ones at the other side of the ocean.
Right, however segmented stacks are have high overhead and stack copying is not very easy in C/C++. Thus, for now uThreads only support fixed size stacks, I know it makes it harder to be used in production, and in the future I might provide optional segmented stacks.
As for why not using `boost::context`, I am implementing uThreads as part of my research in uwaterloo, I wanted to have full control over the code and be able to optimize for performance as much as I can. Thus, tried to avoid relying on any third party code when I started :)
A laudable attitude! Are we going to extend this caution to all things, or just to scary-sounding new-ish things like GMOs?

Because we have people doing profoundly unnatural things right now like growing rice in Texas, and we cannot know the full extent of the downstream effects of that either.
In the last few years, since the Walking Dead series came out, my sister has gotten into videogames for the first time really in her life and we play together. This was not the case when we were kids. It is not the case for most videogames. But games like that, games that are simple and playable by players with virtually no controller skill, games with depth, story, and character appeal to some non-gamers like my sister in ways that no game before has. They appeal to me more than any other type of game and I've been gaming for decades.

The biggest factor, I'd say, is how frustrating a game is and how easy it is for someone who doesn't regularly play games to pick up. If a game requires a lot of hand-eye coordination, a lot of repetition, a lot of dying, it will not work. Period. I have no doubt you can do tons of studies to prove it. People like my sister are not interested in trying to find the skeleton key inside the blue ruby inside the giant book inside the treasure chest so that they can open some door to get a battery to operate an elevator so they can continue the game. The more nonsensical the gameplay, the less non gamers are interested in it. This pretty much eliminates 95-99% of videogames as frustrating garbage (and let's face it, for people without controller skills, they are nothing more than that).

It's amazing to me to see how many games fit into that remaining 1-5% of games and how fun they can be. I'm not interested in being frustrated anymore either, so other than sports games, those are mostly the only games I play or have played in the last few years. Some companies are realizing this and making great games for a variety of people. Others are making the same old garbage that even videogame veterans like me are frankly sick and tired of. Then they wonder why people hate their videogames. Like with most things, the answer is obvious.
That's exactly what I ran into. I needed to learn how to write cgi scripts and I didn't know much about coding at all. Almost nothing.

I suppose we came in hordes and stormed their gates but all they really had to do was provide us with a space and that didn't happen.

Ironically, they did the same thing with the Raspberry Pi foundation reached out to them. No one responded.

I even went back to the "Perl Beginner's" mailing list and told them about the RPi Foundation and that Perl was being reviewed for the languages they would support with their Edu projects. No one responded.

At that point I don't think Larry Wall was involved much with Perl 5. And I know a few years before that he was frustrated with with lack of a cohesive path for Perl 6, and that not long ago he talked about how the Perl 6 Community had to reach out to educators and get involved with programs for kids.

The Python community did respond To the RPi Foundation when they reached out, and in a big way too. That's paid off big for them and the Foundation. Kids are growing up with Python now and will know it well and use it.

This evolution of languages has been interesting to observe.
www.c0dereview3rs.com (I mangled this to avoid having this comment associated with the domain).

Boutique consultancy providing professional code reviews. Could be run by a coder who likes to do reviews and writes well or by a project manager who contracts the work out to experts with the appropriate skills. I have done projects both ways. I have some good reports to give to prospective clients and have found that customers who reach out are usually serious.

It has been completely ignored for many years. It used to get a good lead every month, but I haven’t checked the inbound email address in years. I joined a trading group in 2007, loved the work and quit doing side projects.
I believe prostitution should be legal, but I think the issue is still tied to trafficking.

It's a lot more difficult to ensure that people are there consensually when brothels are driven underground. How can we possibly police every single 'massage parlour'.

On the other hand, legal brothels could have an extra tax that paid for social workers that ensured the brothels were compliant - that sex workers weren't intimidated by their customers or bosses.

It will also lead to healthier outcomes - we can then test people to make sure diseases weren't being spread.

Unfortunately people learn nothing from sex-ed stats - 'abstinence only' makes thing worse.
Part of the problem is that object-oriented programming is now out of fashion. If objects only allow one active thread inside the object at a time, you have a conceptual model of how to deal with concurrency. Rust takes this route, and Java has "synchronized". It's done formally, with object invariants, in Spec#. Objects in C++ are often used this way in multi-thread programs.

If you don't have some organized way of managing concurrency, you're going to have problems. Without OOP, what? "Critical sections" lock relative to the code, not the data. "Which lock covers what data?" is a big issue, and the cause of many race conditions.

(The dislike of OOP seems to stem from the problems of getting objects into and out of databases in web services. One anti-OOP article suggests stored procedures as an alternative. Many database-oriented programs effectively use the database as their concurrency management tool. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't help if your problem isn't database driven.)

Python has the threading model of C - no language constructs for threads. It's all done in libraries. There's no protection against race conditions in user code. The underlying memory model is protected, by making operations that could break the memory model atomic, but that's all. CPython also has some major thread performance problems due to the Global Interpreter Lock. Having more CPUs doesn't speed things up; it makes programs slower, due to lock contention inefficiencies. So the use of real threads is discouraged in Python.

There's a suggested workaround with the "multiprocessing" module. This creates ultra-heavyweight threads, with a process for each thread, and talks to them with inefficient message passing. It's used mostly to run other programs from Python programs, and doesn't scale well.

So Python needed something to be competitive. There are armies of Javascript programmers with no experience in locking, but familiarity with a callback model. This seems to be the source of the push to put it in Python. Like many language retrofits, it's painful.

Does this imply that the major libraries will all have to be overhauled to make them async-compatible?
I believe /usr/local/bin is empty on a fresh install.
The species in general have. I think you'll find most modern strains have not been double-blind tested for a century.

Modern dwarf wheat strains, for instance, date from the 70s or so.
Thanks for detailed response. After a quick reading, I admit Perl 6 grammars and slang look amazing. Appears to give the language a LISP-like flexibility for creating DSL's.

I discovered that Perl 6 Supply is basically the same as Streams/Sequences which is great for handling async activities and work units.

Also discovered that perl 6 has optional typing. This is terrific since it makes for better maintenance and refactoring tools possible.

I do hope the performance improves! There are so many competitive languages for the backend today that without excellent performance, memory management and scaling characteristics, it is difficult for any new language to gain traction just on features alone.
Question for those of you who use Spark: Is it possible to use with Go, Rust, Nim or C++?

I'm not a fan of those other languages, and I'm also trying to reduce the amount of context switching these days.
I think the attention received is relative to the attention solicited. Soylent has been everywhere in the news talking up their revolutionary product. It's not unlike Apple's Macbook debacle. They launched a product and made a big deal about it, it had a flaw and everyone latched onto it to complain.
This is true enough, but even decades is a far different time frame from the average GMO. 30 years of directed breeding generally means a one-off cultivar being bred into something new and then popularized. The current GMO cycle involves a 1-5 years of test plantings, followed by national distribution.

So agreed, the evolutionary scale isn't applicable here, but it's still worth noting that GMOs represent a substantial acceleration from the directed-breeding scale.
My answer from a similar thread a couple of months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12285392

StartOpz (http://www.startopz.com):

Workday-lite (really lite) for small businesses. Individual components such as time-off tracking and expense reports all have sites on there dedicated to them individually that seem to do well. This covers all of them and could use somebody who has time to dedicate to (content) marketing.

Moviestud.io (http://www.moviestud.io):

Production management for independent filmmakers. The blog has a lot of epic length blog posts that can use somebody who can spend some time promoting them.
> L2 PRIVATE NETWORK

I'm pretty sure they mean Layer 3, I mean the effort to have a SDN network/VPLS and reconfigure routes, etc for every client seems to be too off for me.
I. Can. Hardly. Wait. /s

We're already dealing with issues of sensory and information overload without having this layer of immersion.
As someone who is pretty badly lactose intolerant, the idea that you are using frequency to make my plight somehow sound worse than that of my friend whom I had to drive to the ER to get a shot of epinephrine while his throat closed up and he started to have a hard to breathing, or of the aunt of someone else I know who has Celiac disease, or to someone whose heart medication will become less effective... the reason we don't fret about lactose in food is because the harm scales with the dose (making it hard to even hide enough lactose in something to make a difference without the person eating realizing it and stopping) and even the worst case harm of spending an entire day doing nothing but drinking milk is, on the whole, nowhere near as bad as the violently ill symptoms being described by people who were eating these batches of Soylent (which included stuff like "uncontrollable vomiting").
This article has a clearer image of the Florida 2000 ballot: http://www.asktog.com/columns/042ButterflyBallot.html

Also, good podcast interview about the post-vote legal wrangling https://soundcloud.com/candidate-confessional/the-man-who-tr...

And another podcast specifically on the issue of ballot design: https://www.relay.fm/presentable/11
Personally, I don't think something as old and as widespread as DSGE can be called "cutting-edge".

Introductory macro, like any other introductory course, is always at least twenty years lagging behind standard theory, as used by large economic organizations (e.g. central banks, international agencies), and at least some twenty five to thirty behind the cutting-edge stuff. At least, that's the rule of thumb that I was taught. It's unfortunate for undergraduate students, who really don't get a taste of the hardcore econ. But I guess that's just how it is.

But about Ricardian comparative advantage: it's a bad model. It's a gem of economic thinking, just like Ricardo's differential theory of rent. But as model, it just ignores so many things (pretty much all that you've pointed out) that it really isn't useful beyond a "first-order approximation" (much like IS/LM models).

Ironically, it's a fine short-run model. You've asked about what the long-run is. Well, the long-run is when all inputs can be changed by the firms, whereas the short-run is when they can only change some of the inputs (e.g. labor and raw materials, as opposed to machinery). It doesn't really have a direct relationship with time, but the idea behind is that the varible inputs can be changed in a shorter time scale than the fixed inputs. But when everything but labor is fixed, that's just when comparative advantages kick in.

On the other hand, comparative advantage simply can't handle stuff like technological advance, resource exhaustion, or pretty much anything which might change the productivity in any of the countries we're looking at. It wasn't conceived to deal with any of that, either. It was pretty much Ricardo's counter-example to the issue of whether trade would be profitable in the presence of absolute advantage, and one of his pet arguments against the Corn Laws.
To be quite clear, personally I'm 100% pro-GMO. But that's because I believe the benefits that can be realized outweigh the risks. However, in this case I'm simply curious from both a packaging/product design and regulatory point of view: how would this work? I agree it would have to stop somewhere.

Part of my biggest issue is that a company can patent the gene modifications they make and then say, "You're eating our proprietary cucumber now." I understand their business model, but I think if anything should be "open source", it should be our food.
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despite numerous border incidents

And, oh, more than a few attempts to kill the head of the government of South Korea? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangoon_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_House_raid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuk_Young-soo#Assassination), naval combat ... this is a most hot "cease-fire", just look through the grab bag of topics here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:North_Korea%E2%80%93S...

I count it as an abandoned armistice, which is what it started out as (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Armistice_Agreement), abandoned through the deeds and words of the North. Which, without another huge helping of "Chinese volunteers" simply lacks the military strength to do a whole lot more without retaliation they, or rather their nomenklatura, aren't willing to bear.
> I've always wanted to find a therapist who is genuinely interested and can provide more insight than I can learn on my own

There are TONS of professional, licensed therapists that can help you with this! Definitely try modern psychotherapy. google "find a therapist" and try the site from psychologytoday.com magazine. Hopefully you live in an area they serve. Most of them do not use meds, and even if they can prescribe them they only go for them as a last resort (some people have such severe anxiety that they cannot even function outside of their house, for instance).

> I suspect professionals are just throwing drugs because they're overwhelmed by the constant wave of misery and depression they're confronted with.

I disagree. I think your medical doctor (rather, anyone's MD) simply doesn't have hours upon hours to listen to your life story and find the perfect formula of lifestyle and attitude changes to help you. A psychologist does, in fact thats (sort of) what therapy is. "sort-of" because therapists generally dont give advice like a sage elder. They do their work by listening to you, reflecting what you're feeling, and letting you discover the problem and solution. I would say try it, and make it clear from the start that you will not take any meds (simply to weed out any therapist who might lead you that way). The only caveat is, every therapist has his/her own style and personality. There is no formula that works for everyone, so try a few sessions (typically one hr/week) and if it's not working for you, try another one until you find someone you can connect with.
International waters are still subject to the rule of law of "states" that exist on land. Unless you plan to live your whole life on sea you have to dock somewhere.

Also these people are only respecting the rules they have already interiorised from living in developed economies. If you look at history, individual private property does not show up as something innate. Tribes owned areas and fought for them, but they didn't have much individual property within themselves (neither did they have barter economies).
Is that true -- that the proof (if we produce one) will be verifiable in polynomial time?
as with drugs, the illegality ends up driving more crime (in many cases violent crime) than straight legalization.

would human trafficking be so prevalent if it were easy to sell your own body?
I doubt the general public is qualified to decide which practices are better than others. For example, I grew up on a farm, but I couldn't tell you if free-range eggs are safer or healthier than eggs from caged birds. Nor could I tell you if chemical-free produce is safer than organic. Nor could I tell you if antibiotic-free meat is safer or healthier than "regular" meat. I can tell you what I've heard from my pro-GMO family and my anti-GMO friends, but without diving deeply into the studies and counter studies, it would be hard to draw an informed conclusion.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, if provided with a random oracle A, P^A != NP^A with probability 1. It's not clear though what this actually buys you, intuition wise, since it's already sort of intuitively clear that nondeterministic oracle queries are much more powerful (then again, I guess you could say the same about nondeterministic computing...)

http://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/0210008

Edit: For those who are interested, the oracle separation gives you one of the few properties we can prove about the nature of any proof of P ?= NP, that it must be 'non-relativizing'. We know a few other properties of any possible proof, described here: http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/alg.pdf