skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nikon AF lenses (which came to market in 1986) don't have built-in autofocus motor; the motor is in the camera body. Those days they were the film cameras, but also modern DSLR cameras have the motor (with the exception of cheapest consumer DLRs, i.e. the D3000 and D5000 series).
What legal process -- or specifically, what court case(s) -- are you referring to? My understanding was that the owners had beat pimping charges [1] using a CDA defense, and I didn't know what else they still have to contend with.

[1] http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/10/backpage-leaders-beat-pimp...
Of course, there are coherent arguments for this. Among other things, it makes organs more available to recipients. But then where do you draw the line from there? If the principle is "my body my rules", why not sell both kidneys?
Looks like the TL;DR conclusion is that "race" is not just a social construct, but actually has genetic markers which are expressed beyond ethnic heritage. As the authors conclude, this could be extremely important in tailoring medical treatments for people for differences in their genetic makeup based on their race. In other words harder sciences are proving that social sciences obsession with identity politics has hindered medical advancements once again.
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The Galaxy Gear is made by Samsung in collaboration with Oculus.
That's true but irrelevant given the argument I'm responding to.
The problem with this argument is that I can compare it easily to any job a person doesn't want to do. This argument is usually formed with circumstances surrounding the action, but not the action itself (abduction, coercion, lack of choice, rapes, drug addictions).

There are also people that argue because there is a transaction of money that it is coercion.

Again, easy to compare this to any job a person doesn't want to do but has to in order to survive (no matter how well paid). Given the alternative to have the thing they want for free or working in whatever form for what they want, many would choose free. Many work to obtain what they desire or what they need to survive.

When I'm in this line of thought I wonder which is better? A pain felt acutely, physically and emotionally. Or one that the masses encourage, are numb to, accepted as way of life, dragged on for 40+ years.
Good for you. I've never owned a MBP, and this thread is about switching from Debian to FreeBSD.
There's a weird divide here.

Some people find the innate ability mindset oppressive and saddening, and are greatly comforted by "you can do whatever you set yourself to!"

Other people find growth mindset oppressive, and greatly prefer "you can't be the next Gauss, so stop feeling bad about his achievements!"

None of which is a strictly relevant to what's true, of course. The answer there seems to be "lots of skill is inherited, skill plus effort is required to truly excel, but skill and effort are often interchangeable except at the highest levels".

But for whatever reason, I'm in the second camp with you on which narrative is depressing. A lot of growth mindset writing is almost physically uncomfortable for me. I appreciate the value of hard work, but believing that everyone is equally capable completely contradicts my life experience, and implies that 99.9% never fulfill our potential in even a single domain.
Window dressing.
Let's not pretend it is as simple as that. By your own logic, of the options "Prostitute and feed myself" and "do not feed myself", they should only be allowed the latter.

Not all states have adequate alternative options as you yourself pointed out. You don't solve coerced prostitution by banning prostitution, they are already being forced to do it so they have no choice anyway. You solve coerced prostitution by solving the various coercions. By giving them adequate alternatives. Be it food programs, housing or other state care. Be it drug rehabilitation or cracking down on pimps and traffickers.

Banning prostitution would be like punishing slaves for working for free. Similarly, banning prostitution for the sake of stopping coerced prostitution is taking away a line of work many individuals are perfectly happy and proud to do.
I would say Emacs + Magit (https://github.com/magit/magit). The legend says that some people started using Emacs for Magit only.

You can also try this https://hackernoon.com/be-125-more-efficient-with-git-60556a... to some point emulate what magit does with plain CLI and a fuzzy finder.
Probably "McMansion"
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I get that it might be hard/impossible to uniquely define a single correct 3D subspace of the full 4D spacetime we're in as simultaneous to a given point in a given frame, but surely simultaneity is a 3D notion, right? This 3D spacelike subset of spacetime is simultaneous in some frame (or set of frames)?

I imagine that if you define everything on the boundary of your past light cone as simultaneous to you, it requires that everything on your future light cone to be simultaneous too, which would mean that everything between them is also simultaneous. That kind of definition defines a 4D subset of spacetime as simultaneous. In that set are points in each others future and past light cones, which we can unambiguously say are not simultaneous to each other. I think that's the heart of the argument everyone's having. I never took GR, so maybe you can shed some light on it (heh) from that perspective?
deep learning is where databases where 20 years ago.

you can easily imagine putting data in a db like server, and querying that data asking things about that model in respect to other things at your disposal in different times.
Can you expand on your comment that individuals have a lot more power?

My admittedly anecdotal evidence shows that individuals are feeling more impotent with voices washed out in a wave a noise and an inability to affect anything.
Yes. You're not unconscious when you're asleep, you're just in an altered state of consciousness. Being actually unconscious is a very different experience; if you'd ever been through surgery with general anaesthesia you'd know about this.
The same "service" they've always provided: mafia-style protection. Sex workers didn't suddenly become less vulnerable simply because they're posting Craigslist ads.
Yeah, those 100/0 districts are not going to be "in play", as the saying is - they're not going to be a competitive race, ever. That means that all the action will be in the primary. (Of course, with a 100/0 district, maybe that's appropriate...)
Backpage offered prostitution arrangements. Sugar babies, in spite of what people think, aren't prostitutes. It's just that girls that don't sleep with their sponsors tend to lose their sponsors.

Also, think about what type of men can have sugar babies vs. what type of men engage in regular prostitution and there's a class based argument that emerges.
Amen... It must have been Jony that hated the skeumorphism. I just remember a very heated debate and, frankly, my memory tends to conflate different events together when they're similar. Steve sided with Jony in a lot of design arguments so when then big change away from skeumorphism came, I seemed to remember Steve agreeing that, while it was great for initial adoption of the platform, computers were mainstream enough to not need that analog appeal. I'm probably wrong, but seeing the rapid shift away from it at Apple makes me feel like it wasn't an isolated incident/debate.
Sugar babies are wealthier and whiter?
Java provides an easy way for tracing control flow during program execution:
when I join a new contract and am responsible for maintaining legacy java code, I use AspectJ with logging aspects with before and after pointcuts. This helps me figure out the application control flow.

I wonder if something similar is available for C/C++.
>So I guess I'm trying to understand the statement "it is freedom not to have a car"?

It's the freedom to be able to get around without having to babysit a tonne of metal, and then find somewhere to put it when you get near where you're going, and then have to go back for it later.

>How is it freedom not to have faster, longer distance personal transport?

Decent public transport is faster and much more comfortable over long distances.
There's a bit about Mumbai's leopards in BBC's awesome new Planet Earth 2 documentary (S1E6):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbScW81yYKU
Apache Beam graduates to a top-level project
It is not the only option.

Removing it changes the value balance. If it is not quite so easy, the other options become relatively more desirable.

Not only that, assuming more people who would normally get by on selling their sexual services turn to public assistance for help, their problem becomes more visible and the rest of us in better positions can react rather than ignore what is not being measured.
The whole repair process is fraught with liability whether the customer is the target of a criminal investigation or not. In either case, you'd probably need to image the drive as a first step, and then date stamp, hash, and then sign the date and hash. Or use something like dm-verity.

Maybe the physical handling of drive removal and putting it on a docking station for imaging is video'd and that video is also verifiable (mainly you'd want a system that ensures whole frames aren't deleted..i.e. oh hey I see 5 seconds were yanked here and over here, so conceivably the drive was removed and returned to the docking station and altered prior to imaging).

Also, as COW filesystems become more common (ReFS, AFS, ZFS, Btrfs) there will be a lot of stale metadata that is non-trivial to fake. Basically snapshots are constantly being taken, even if they are not preserved for very long. On an SSD ostensibly these unused blocks get trimmed and should immediately return zeros, but there might be modes were they return stale data instead if it's before erase block GC/erasure happens.

Edit: And now you have this copy of the customer's drive... itself a liablity for it to exist for very long, or deleted too soon. dm-verity at least does produce a read-only encrypted image so the liability is both access to the image and the security of that image's passphrase.
"Takes a Selfie" is disingenuous at best - the cat was caught on a motion-sensing camera. It seems like Wired was just trying to put a buzzword in the headline.

@garblegarble it seems pretty clear that the photographer would own the copyright.
There are so many assumptions in this that I don't even know where to begin.
Thanks for the update, I was under the impression the court case was still ongoing. Looks like the judge threw it out on safe harbor (Section 230) grounds.
Pick a subject without much difficult craftsmanship or creativity. One where you can just execute. Grow carrots. You won't worry about there being larger or nicer looking carrots grown by others.

I restore old bikes. It's easy mechanically, cheap, and projects are short enough to never be overwhelming (unlike e.g a car project). It's a nice analog change from computers.
Variety is the spice of life. Even if 5 people answer a question with somewhat the same answer, they will all be slightly different. Sometimes, it takes something worded a little bit differently to click for someone.

I would not consider this a bug - but a feature.
> Do you think It's too late to bring them "back to port?"

Probably, yes.

> Yeah, sensors will be added to cars (like seat belts were) and cars will be aware of other vehicles.

High end cars have had auto steering and auto throttle for at least a couple of years. One of my friends took me in a ride two years ago in a Mercedes that keeps a safe distance between the nearest car, and steers itself on curvy roads. You can set cruise control and go from Sacramento to Reno on I-80 with little intervention.

I drove most of the new compact SUVs on the market over the weekend, and bought a 2017 Honda CRV. All of them have sensors to warn about nearby traffic. Half of them have some form of automated steering, usually called "Lane departure mitigation". The CRV will try to steer itself to stay in the lane. (It's not great, I wouldn't trust it for very long, but it is there.) It has "Active Cruise Control" where it follows the car in front with a preset time gap you can set. I let it drive me through the city yesterday, it comes to stop at a light as long as there's a car in front of me. (Which, incidentally makes it seem dangerous to use this way since it doesn't read stoplights.) The car has anti-collision automation, it will slam on the brakes and possibly steer if a crash is imminent, and it has "Vehicle stability assist" mean anti-roll and anti-slide measures that will take over brakes or steering or both.

The CRV is a mass market car, not something high end or experimental, so yeah I think a high and growing level of automation is on the road already and will not go away.

Fully driverless, I'd agree, that seems unlikely right now, and I wouldn't be surprised either if lawmakers or the public decided to make that illegal for now.
>Most historical sites are completely safe

I'd contend literally every site of historical interest in the NL is safe. Which would you consider unsafe?

Neglecting, of course, pickpockets; they're not really a threat to personal safety, they're in every city with lots of tourists, and among big tourism destinations in Europe (Paris, Rome, Barcelona, etc.) the pickpocket issue is anecdotally much less severe.
You should read this article and discussion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164925

"Sane Thinking about Mental Health Issues" - it discusses the phenomenon where in some cultures 'getting professional help' before reaching out to friends or family is absolutely necessary, and that 'abnormal' mental health related feelings should not be shared or discussed.

Your comment reminded me of that attitude. Maybe it would be enlightening for you to read about other perspectives
Assume we do that.

When someone asks for public assistance, do we then tell them "Well, you can have a job over here at the brothel"?
I feel obliged to mention this talk by Zed Shaw: https://vimeo.com/53062800

It gives an overview and interpretation of a body of neuroscience research in the context of teaching programming. I can't quite summarize the whole talk succinctly (and don't want to lure anyone with catchy titles either) — but my takeaway from it is that those "visual" programming tools are mostly useless and not going to help significantly.

The reason for that being how the brain works: switching back and forth between "visual" and "linguistic" cognition is hard, and requires specific training to do efficiently. Please turn to the talk for references.
There are cultural and legal dimensions here, though. Will some countries prefer partial autonomy/incrementalism in legalizing autonomous cars? Will some people feel more comfortable getting used to autonomous cars while they are still able to drive them when they feel like it?
Thanks for these facts! The article has somewhat of a different spin on it.
No, really, it's what part of America again? The _North_, you say?
Mobile phones are part of the equation! I don't think this is an either/or scenario. Sites like Craigslist and Backpages make it a lot easier for those who do sex work to do it without a pimp. Legal brothels and want-ad based sex work is a lot safer for the people involved than street trafficking. Want-ads are a part of the puzzle just like phones are.

I'm not convinced that this is doing any more good than harm to the majority of the people out there who are engaged in this sort of work.
"They never had a lot of success in media, at least not past their early properties like Finance and Autos."

News was launched in 1996, roughly a year after Yahoo became Yahoo and only four months after the IPO. News is most definitely an early success.

Yahoo's problem (or one of them) is that they've failed to have any significant new successes in well over a decade (that I can recall at least). The best they've done is maintain their early wins, but those have been eroded, as they completely lost search and mail to Google, much of the news/finance/autos/sports traffic to dozens of competitors, etc.
paywall...
Hang on. The CEO and two board members were arrested and charged with pimping three months ago, and they're just now taking down the ads? That is some dedication to free speech, I guess...

(The rationale was that, since the site has tools to help posters write their posts, the site owners were in a "conspiracy" with the authors of illegal posts. (Edit - that's not very accurate, see below))
No.

If anything, I'd want the opposite - an anonymous social network.

Things like requiring ID only lead to harassment and suppression of free speech. There are so many examples of Trump supporters losing their jobs because of their political beliefs, it's not funny.
Mainstream Media Should Research Before Publishing Bitcoin Reports
Nothing! This is a completely natural process - ice builds up over time in the shelf and it has to be lost somehow. The calving of the iceberg is, in itself, not a result of human activity.

If you mean more broadly how can we help prevent the loss of ice from Antarctica, then I'm not a climate policy expert, but https://350.org/ is a good place to start.
Rules of ML [pdf]
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I wasn't trying to upset anyone. I came across the example in the cited document a few years ago and had an epiphany. What I find elegant is that it does not have all the conceptual overhead of a 'real' database even today. In historical context it does not have all the overhead of the primary alternative COBOL (there weren't widely available relational database systems in 1978). The other thing I found striking was that it was code I could write myself without reference to a pile of documentation.

I mean the parser is something like:

(defun appt:appointment-date (appt)
(first (first (appt)))
(defun appt:appointment-start-time (appt)
(first (first (rest appt))))
(defun ...

In fairness, I don't really worry about winning the language war. Partly because I don't draw a big distinction between Clojure and 'Lisp', or at least not one that comes down to more than choosing one or the other based on the runtime that makes sense and the skills of the people writing the code.

Anyway, what I found interesting about the code years ago and yesterday was how lightweight it was. There's nothing inherently wrong with storing appointments in Zulu time, but if I'm talking with Lundstrom it's easier if we both say '10:45'. Reflecting that business logic in the data may make sense in the context. In other contexts it might not.
"For example, nearly 1/3 of fatal collisions in the US involve a driver with a BAC of 0.08 or higher."

This is a flawed comparison because failing to update your software or keep your tires inflated or clean off your sensors would also be human decisions that could lead to adverse outcomes with self-driving cars.

Non-driving-operation decisions like that are applicable to both regular and self-driving cars.
And it would, except that Charter communications owns rights to the cellular spectrum there. So once such a system were in place Charter would no doubt come in and take it away from you and then operate it at a profit if they could.
When did tripping IR sensors become 'taking a selfie'? By that logic, every time I'm on a security camera it'd be a selfie - and by extension that would be my copyrightable imagery.

Ridiculous article, ridiculous headline. Click-bait...
Shouldn't it boil down to fruit of the poisonous tree, and the illegally obtained evidence is inadmissible regardless of how it could have been parallel constructed?
You are making the all too common and incorrect assumption that banning an in-demand good or service is a good way to prevent it from being bought and sold.

Making prostitution illegal doesn't stop it, it just pushes it underground where it becomes a massive revenue stream for organized crime and the state is powerless to regulate the industry and protect its workers. To top it off, the increase in price caused by illegality becomes a strong incentive for human traffickers, making worse the problem you were trying to solve in the first place.
Thanks for your opinion, really appreciate it.
So 1/4 is just a seat of the pants estimate?

I sloppily implied causation above, but I didn't actually say 1/3 of crashes are attributable to alcohol, I said that a "big chunk" are attributable to poor decisions and separately pointed out the large percentage of fatal crashes involving alcohol.
ND Bill Would Classify Your Internet Device as a “Pornographic Vending Machine”
So then it is on the FBI to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the files were placed on the computer by the owner. Not by the technician.

Which in court will effectively end up being computer forensic expert vs computer forensic expert lecturing a jury of people who don't understand computers.
I don't necessarily disagree with you. While autonomous vehicles can be tremendously valuable tool, if we let narrow self interest and unfettered capitalism determine how they're implemented, they'll cause as many problems as they solve.
Hear Alan Watts’s 1960s Predicted That Automation Will Necessitate Basic Income
IDN homograph attack – URLs that look the same, yet are different – Wikipedia
You don’t need an app for that (yet)
Flagged until we have a paywall bypass.
That is correct. H1B is for highly skilled workers. If the new grad isn't the highest skilled worker, then the visa isn't for them.
There is also the fact that a lot of junk can end up in unallocated space.

For instance images and resources cached by Firefox while in use tend to end up on the HDD. If you browse around porn sites you know sometime some of the thumbnails etc do look like CP from time to time.

Now should that cached resource from a random website be considered evidence of CP?

Or what if it's a photo of your own family and it is intimate but not in a CP kind of way. I've hard of many cases where a random family photo was reported as CP.
Note that Consumer Reports and Apple apparently had a pow wow and it was discovered that the settings they were using in Safari (to disable all caching) exposed some bug that was causing the fast run-down rates in those tests. (their tests on Chrome were consistent and long lasting)

They are doing a retest this week.

So on the battery front it seems not all is lost.
Wow I have this problem and didn't realize it was so widespread. I assumed it was my fault!!! Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention. Just signed up for an appointment.
I don't "draw a line" with someone elses body. Why would you? This is why the government can get so deep in our lives because people want to "Care" for other people's own bodies.

If someone needs money to pay for their mother's surgery (on out of billion possible examples), then yes let them sell their kidney!