skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The evidence in the HuffPo article amounts to:

1. Testimony from Fight The New Drug (FTND, a non-profit) regarding anecdotes about how non-consensual porn is produced to look as if it's consensual.

2. FTND research that states those who engage in trafficking have watched porn.

3. Testimony from the CEO of FTND regarding interviews of over 20 performers who state that they were forced or coerced to produce porn.

4. Testimony from a professor of sociology that "As an academic, a sociologist, and mother, I believe [increase in demand for trafficking] is the way men are shaped by society".

5. FTND summary of studies (specifics not disclosed by HuffPo, but perhaps available at FTND): "men who go to prostitutes are twice as likely to have watched a porn film in the last year compared to the general population."

6. FTND study "[FTND] cites a 2007 study of 854 women in nine countries that found 49% of women “said that porn had been made of them while they were in prostitution, and 47% said they had been harmed by men who had either forced or tried to force their victims to do things the men had seen in porn."

I find all of this remarkably unconvincing to support "if porn, then trafficking." It might make sense that "if trafficking, then porn" though.
It is inaccurate to use the total 5.6% here. What percentage of the 5.6% depicts Asian males who are an appropriate age to hold a leadership position? I am certain the percentage is drastically lower; 0 - 1% perhaps.
The worst language he used is 'piece-of-shit' and it was directed at a thing someone produced, not at a person. And then the person apologized because the quality of that thing indeed was bad.

You are calling Linus Torvalds a person with 'the emotional maturity of a child' which is a personal attack and far more abusive.
Ask HN: How would a robot bell ringer work?
When you leave the grocery store at xmas time there is a human ringing a bell. If you replace that human with a robot, would the money donated go down?
In both of those cases you mention I'm in agreement with them, but there was a bit of "shock and anger" when I first heard about them.

And I'm treating this the same way. I'm gonna reserve judgement until after Google have spoken about their reasoning.
Would you still do so with two kids to feed in an area where the wage for that job wouldn't even feed you, let alone the rest of your family?
The US has a long and nasty history of racism. We need to collect racial data in order to see if we're fixing it or not. To refuse on principal to collect race data in education or criminal justice would obscure real problems and be akin to burying our head in the sand.
Yes, this is the kind of thing we have to zealously guard against. Formal specs for data exchange are very important!
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Yes, confirmation bias and superstition.
I wonder if someone has collected together the timescales on which professions went from "of course women can't do that, don't be ridiculous" to "of course women can do that". I'd guess some would start earlier than others, and some would make the transition faster than others. Our own profession of programming seems to be one of the laggards in both, potentially even going backwards in its youth. Would probably be interesting to see the data laid out graphically if it could be made objective in some way (first admitted to college, first professor, achievement of parity in numbers perhaps?)
It's gonna be the other way around: They ship the censored version anywhere.
Frege: purely functional programming for the JVM
A two-punch attack from CRISPR knocks out HIV in cells
Not to mention the millions of features that I can't even begin to enumerate that I use on a day-to-day that I wouldn't have the time in my life to master without an integrated uniform method of interaction. Two of the best examples are Eclipse's build system and hot code patching in debug mode.

The build system lets me forget entierly about "how am I going to write my tup/make/cmake/anything file" as it just works when I click go.

The hotpatching debugger support is astounding. Nothing comes close to such a seamless integration as being able to change my code and click "go" and have my new method ready for action to see if it works on the next run.

You also get free autocompletion for everything. Oh god the ease of life autocompletion gives you. I miss it every time I need to tough another language.
>So are they supposed to have a "cooling process" to bring the temp down to a standard temp?

No, just a warning label.
Ask HN: Do you watch vlogs? Which ones? Why?
Love to see what other techno-savvy folks are watching (and who) and why you watch (what specifically makes them enjoyable, etc).
ARPA (before the "D" was added) funded a lot of the preliminary work you discuss (e.g. Engelbart's work at SRI was all government funded). They also essentially paid for the graduate school of all the folks who later did the early ARPANET work (which Bob Kahn at ARPA also paid for).

And consider that "private sector" labs like SRI and MIT are essentially government research facilities. Education is only 16% of MIT's expenditures (and 14% of revenues) and where do you think those revenues come from? Hint: most of it is not corporate grants.

Through the 70s the boundaries between corporate and government R&D were often fuzzy. True, Bell Labs wasn't "miliary-driven" but there were close formal and informal ties and remember that they were under a tight consent decree up into the 1980s. It wasn't today's "revolving door" -- think of it as a permeable membrane. This was thought to enable corruption and in the wake of the Viet Nam war some separation was put into place. Of course the resulting separation hasn't cleaned things up as expected; in many ways it's worse by shifting out of the technical and into the political domains.
The article states the indigenous people _did_ negotiate for themselves:

"Yolanda Cruz, one of the leaders of the village of Catua, said she signed the contract with Minera Exar but now regrets it. At the time, she valued the opportunity to create jobs for her village. But she now worries “we are going to be left with nothing,” she said."
If it was only three months, I wouldn't list the burger-flipping job on my resume. I think I'd be fine leaving any gap less than a year in duration on my resume. A year or more, I'd want to account for.
They didn't need a cooling process. The coffee was brewed and left in a pot on a warmer. They just needed to turn down the temperature on the warmer. They were literally selling a drink that was hot enough to burn/melt flesh. They were told this practice was dangerous several times and multiple people were injured, yet McDonald's still refused to decrease the temperature. Sometimes a lawsuit is the only way to get a business to stop dangerous behavior.
Hold up an object in front of three people. Ask all three to describe the object and what it can do. You'll get three different answers.

The fundamental difficulty with APIs is that they force clients and servers to use the same domain model. Humans are necessary because only humans have the intelligence to reconcile differences in domain models.

The idea of inventing some kind of discovery language is just deferring the difficult work of reconciliation. Computers will need to be as good at induction as the human brain before it will be possible to eliminate humans from the process.
So the government will now decide which media sources the public is allowed to consume.

That'll end well.
I mostly jumped to the bottom of the bug discussion thread there, but there doesn't seem to be much opposition to adding this, just comments deferring this to other releases. Are they just requesting that patch submitters do some extra work to get it in there?
I'm confused, you think 12 is a better base unit to use than 10? Do you think we should all be counting in hexadecimal too?
I have never seen a coffee served drinkable in my life.
I think what's particularly great about this in a way is that it's not too remarkable. I'm not knocking it, but it's awesome to be around when creating an natural language, speech controlled, available anywhere system with face recognition to automate your own home is something that can be done in 100 hours.
Fake news stories about Clinton running a child sex ring out of a DC pizza parlor isn't a matter of "degree" or "perspective"
There ARE jobs in biology. I have one. But IME, in fields like this, or creative fields like writing, graphic design, etc, students should know what they're getting into: extremely competitive fields where you can do very well if you're excellent at what you do, and can easily find yourself unemployed if you're only "good".

It's like planning on the NBA or acting as a career: a high-risk proposition that requires total dedication in exchange for an uncertain chance of success. There are some people who are OK with that.

I think the conclusion is that only very dedicated students should go into these fields, which would simultaneously reduce the supply of people trying to go into them, and reduce the number of unemployed people with these degrees. I have little sympathy for someone who chose a high-risk degree like biology and then complains it didn't work out (at least the author of the article didn't make THAT mistake). People who think they are guaranteed a job in any given field simply because they have a degree, or that all careers have equal odds of finding steady employment, are completely out of touch with reality.
Of course this case is settled. But my question is not about this articular case but rather a more general question. And also assuming that cases and precedents can be overturned. Or simply have different outcomes in different jurisdictions.

Let say I prepared my own coffee at home -and let's say I made it scalding not expecting to have to drink it till I got to the office 5 minutes later... but as I step out my door someone runs by and knocks the coffee out of my hand and spills it onto themselves and me ... Am I at fault, is anyone?
Wow, I'm totally digging that interpretation in a shock of recognition for what it articulates; characterizes a great deal.
Did you read the article? The contracts were voluntarily signed and negotiated. No one was coerced.
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security [2005]
Where where your users be physically at when using your service? What will they be doing? How much engagement do they need to get something from your site?

In your case, will it be a quick decision (swipe Tinder style for a Zipcar-like deal), or a long term rental with lots of legal and terms to go through?

Will your users be sitting at work, or will they be on the go, like calling an Uber?
I mean, this isn't new. When you make a POST request in JS a bad network may mean that it gets delivered but errors out on your end. You need to code your application to be robust to this anyway.
How can the access log help you? Presumably only the sysadmin and the EMR application should have SQL accounts; the only person this guards against is the sysadmin, unless the application passes through the user ID it's querying on behalf of somehow? Otherwise, you know that a query happened but not who ran it.
> Today's ALPHA result is the first observation of a spectral line in an antihydrogen atom, allowing the light spectrum of matter and antimatter to be compared for the first time. Within experimental limits, the result shows no difference compared to the equivalent spectral line in hydrogen. This is consistent with the Standard Model of particle physics
Next up: people start getting into Zuckerberg’s home by holding up a life size picture of Andrea’s face.
Here's the paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar... I don't know if I just missed it, but I didn't see a direct link anywhere. It lays out the study design and results on the first page.
I used to love DSLs. But recently I've become a fan of code I can look at and follow with my eyes. Debugging a nil error deep down in some nested macro magic isn't really as fun as it used to be (looking at you ActiveModel validations).

Foo.bar(args) is preferable to bar(args) to me.
> This is extremely sexist.

Not necessarily, no.

> ... you can be any gender you like or believe without it effecting your professional competence.

Yep, but if one gender has a natural advantage then we should absolutely research into why, shouldn't we?

This time it is about women doing better, other times it is about men.

How about we stop saying sexism every time? Both when men seems to thrive/do better in certain jobs and when women do?

Edit: yelling->saying
> Are they reporting what is a mis-identification of automated vulnerability scanning?

If DHS doesn't have approval/authority, isn't an automated vulnerability scan a cyberattack?
No github/bitbucket/gitlab/etc.?
How about you bump into someone at Starbucks who just got his fresh coffee and coffee spills over you? My expectation wouldn't be that the coffee is so hot that I get 3rd degree burns.
Ask HN: Mods: why is every story about a major news event getting flagged?
I've seen 5 different stories about the fact of the Russian ambassador being shot dead get flagged off HN in the last hour despite many upvotes. If this isn't considered suitable for HN, then a little guidance to that effect would be welcome.
What security benefit does TDE provide over full disk encryption on the database server?
I do it from time to time - and I like it. Works well for small functions/procedures.

But try to use python beyond the pythonic way on a large scale and your in for a design challenge. But Im sure it'll be beautiful and you'll get much hate, as well as praise for it, heh.

Usually though, when I write python, I keep it pythonic, mainly for the support and debugging efforts.

The community's large code Base is pythonic and is designed to stitch together pythonically. Aslong as the API is pythonic, what lies underneath can be functional.
Whooaaaa that was apparently a powerful dog-whistle. Why'd you air-quote "gathered"? Doximity pulls data from NPI, this is not some "flying by the seams of our pants" industry, health care has a lot of controls and thus, a lot of hard data.
Driverless cars for all by 2021?
By the same author, lots of techical details about early Emacs, Multics, and the Arpanet:

Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation
by Bernard S. Greenberg 1979, 1996
http://multicians.org/mepap.html
I get the feeling Amazon aren't very good at consumer-facing platforms. My experience with everything Fire related has been poor, their Android apps are 2nd rate and the Kindle is good despite their software. I wouldn't write off the competition yet. Apple, Microsoft and Google have good voice products and the ability to forge partnerships.

Also (cliche warning) I only know one person who owns an Alexa or has even expressed an interest in buying one.
What if the interviewer saw you flipping burgers a month ago?
True or not, it's still Ad Hominem. Address the argument, not the organization making it.
What I took away from this is some people will spin anything into a wild government cover-up conspiracy. Really, what the U.S. government gain by to this day expending even an ounce of effort to "cover up" what "really" happened to Amelia Earheart all those years ago?

The most likely truth is they sank into the ocean that covers 99.9% of the area they were flying through.
I didn't get the sense it was a hit piece really, just seemed informative to me. The only employees who are going to give interviews I guess have a negative slant though and that shines through.
Kind of like when I'm cooking at home and I don't expect children to bump into me while I'm cooking hot meals? I mean, accidents happen. I don't expect that to happen but it very well could.

To make a more obvious case, a hotpot restaurant. You cannot get around having a very hot plate. Accidents will happen. People get burned. Should we close them down or else ensure the plates are not sizzling?
What you're not understanding is that the Mr. Coffee's and percolators you are using are not serving you coffee that is as hot as McDonald's was at the time of the lawsuit. The coffee scalded the woman instantly--she would have been injured whether it spilled on her or she tried to drink it. Indeed, at the levels served, she could have suffered far worse injuries if she had just tried to drink it, from the coffee scalding her throat and trachea.

Companies changed their behavior after the lawsuit. Now they serve coffee hot, but not scaldingly hot.
> The types of accidents we’ll face in this automated future, in which these cars are meant to run together in proximity at high speed, may be fewer, but they’ll be new, different, unpredictable and, on occasion, larger and more grisly than the ones we know today.

There's absolutely no evidence to support this, is there? How would self-driving cars result in larger and more grisly accidents?
This article briefly covers Google Home's advantages in the conclusion, but I think they are pretty understated.

The fact that I can have roughly the same experience as Alexa on my phone at anytime is huge. I know that you can get the Alexa app for your phone, but having Google Assistant as a first class citizen is huge. I think it is a matter of time before Google catches up and surpasses Alexa here.
Because my containers use the exact same mechanisms a privsep scheme would use.
Where are those social app systems that process your grocery receipts and show where the savings on things you buy are at the moment? I remember a Mixergy interview from years ago where a Techstars team was working on processing receipts to share, but then they pivoted. If they captured all the data and gave me back a detailed breakdown of what I bought in machine readable format (the stores aren't going to do that), I'd be happy if they used the collected data to rate stores on prices, rate my purchases on healthiness, etc. Basically, I want your wife's brain and memory in an app.
My concern is that they'll quickly try to rebrand unsavoury news as "fake news" and criminalize that.

For example, with their reluctance of reporting criminals' ethnicities/ethnic crime, they might label such articles "fake news" and do cenzorship with impunity.
> When you make it at home you know you are not to allow it to spill over yourself.

She was served coffee, they got in a car and drove a few minutes, the car pulled over and she burnt herself so severely she needed several surgeries and her life was at risk.

I suspect that most coffee made at home would be at a lower temperature after the same length of time. Mostly because mugs and metal teaspoons conduct heat better, and people use chilled milk, and mugs don't have lids.

And while we all know "coffee is hot" we don't expect it to cause life threatening injury. That's the thing that really bugs me about this case, is that people don't understand just how serious full thickness burns are.

In England if you get a full thickness burn, especially on any joints or the face or neck or genital regions you make your way to your nearest A&E department or MIU, and that hospital then transfers you, by ambulance, to a more specialist burns unit.

Having been inside several burns units (Bristol Frenchay; Salisbury; Birmingham Selly Oak; and Chelsea & Westminster) I know they're not fucking around when it comes to burns.

> but how were they at fault for her injury?

Several safety organisations had called for coffee to be served at a reduced temperature. That's still too hot to drink, and will still cause burns. It just reduces the risk of severe burns. McDonalds decided to ignore that request to reduce temperature.

And no-one is asking them to stop serving extra hot coffee. They just asking them to only serve it on request.
They only looked at hospital visits, which they assume are pretty randomly distributed based on the physicians' work schedules. The patients don't get to pick their doctors in that case.
I think the point the gp was making is that 14% is over-representation given the demographics of the country at large. That doesn't discount that they are relatively under-represented given the demographics of the company.
How is this racist? Pretty much all of us Asians resemble Chairman Mao near the end of his life if you catch us early enough in the morning. (Especially if hung over.) It's much the same as pretty much almost all babies resembling Winston Churchill. You can't draw any comedic comparisons with any famous Asian, or it's racist?

You know, Asians are normal, ordinary, "default" people too.
> In every company I've been in that uses open offices, the executives get closed door offices.

That's a relic of the past! Silicon Valley has almost entirely embraced the HP culture where even the CEOs are in cubicles or open desks just like everyone else.

Though it is true that some conference rooms seem perpetually unbookable...

(This was true of Hewlett and Packard as well -- they had cubicles like everyone else, but they also had dedicated "meeting rooms" which are still preserved today, not the HP really survives...).

BTW I agree with your assessment: "reads like a poorly crafted hit piece against the CEO."
Change into running clothes, go to a trail/track, and shower afterwards and you easily add that much overhead.
Thanks for your feedback. I never really thought about the skills transferring but looking at it the low level optimization that would occur when researching compilers would give me a leg up on positions that would require that kind of work.
What does this even mean? You realize people of Asian descent can be born in here in the U.S. right?
How would it be less of a Monad than the IO Monad? That's the part I'm not getting. It would make sense to me if neither were considered monads.
> My hope is that Trump Twitter fatigue sets in very early.

I've been hoping that for a year now :(
That's fair, it's better than the usual business that surrounds resource extraction in indigenous communities. I'll concede that. But I won't concede that "a contract was signed" => "it was ethical". The asymmetry of information, the inadequate accounting of externalities, and the duress of poverty all can make something legal unethical.

In any case, I think you're wrong saying that the article is biased. One of the quotes in the article is even a remark that there is a good and bad side to mining. It's not incorrect for the article to say that "Native people are left poor as..." because resource extraction doesn't create lasting wealth. Once the lithium is gone, the communities will still be poor while the West benefits far more from the resource inputs into its industries on a long term scale.

It is not hard to construct an argument that resource extraction is fundamentally unethical on grounds like this. Whether or not one agrees with it is another matter. I don't think making this argument is more biased than the presumption that companies negotiating with communities with far fewer resources than them is ethical until proven otherwise because there's plenty of historical evidence that it's rarely the case.
One thing I've heard of from other sources is that managers who offer menial jobs like burger flipping and supermarket checkout will not actually employ someone who can get a better job.

Doesn't sound like the guy in the article has tried, but he may find his situation is a lot worse when it gets to that level of desperation.

The reason is of course that if you're running a McDonalds or supermarket, you don't want a guy who you know is actively searching for something else and will leave immediately when he finds it. There's a cost to finding and training people, even if it's a lot less than finding a dev.