skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution is to build a system in which people who are forced into sex slavery are able to be identified and helped and their traffickers prosecuted. The current system, which assumes that every sex worker is there by force, muddies the waters heavily and ensures that people are not going to get the individual support they need to get out of sex work.

I know a number of independent sex workers as part of my communities, and for the most part they do it because they consider it less demoralising than working at McDonald's. (Sorry, but that's the truth - sex isn't sacred to some people, and being somewhat independent, being able to choose their clients, not being subject to wage slavery, and being able to keep the proceeds of most of the value they provide is appealing to them.)

Yes, there's a large amount of sex workers who are there by force, or perform sex work because they're ineligible for benefits and can't survive without it. But criminalising sex work doesn't actually help those people in the slightest, in much the same way that criminalising drugs doesn't help addicts. They're going to keep doing it because they're forced by their circumstances to, and in fact it prevents them from getting the help they need, on top of adding another socially unacceptable label which can make it difficult to access housing and other necessary services.

Criminalise pimps and traffickers all you want, they're the scum of the earth. But support sex workers.
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Wouldn't be better if that protection was provided by the police?
biggerfisch is not talking about a Proof-Of-Life with the PGP key, but a statement to confirm that the key is safe right now, it isn't compromised, and why WikiLeaks don't sign messages anymore
This is advice for sadness, not depression. This is the opening quote in the article: "Sadness is when you feel down because things aren’t going your way. Depression is when you feel down even when all is going well."

Depression may be affected by real life problems but it is more life-enveloping than that. I've been the most depressed at times in my life when things were going objectively great. The people who asked "what's making you sad?" or tried to "fix" my "problems" were the least helpful.
Where do they get household income from?
Ooof. Like many of the previous comments, this "solve depression with creativity" isn't for all.

I'm recovering from 2 years of clinical depression, and lemme tell you, trying to write songs while you doubt every single goddamned thought, bone, and instinct in you is a bad idea.

Creativity requires a modicum of self-trust and curiosity. Major depression is so mentally engulfing that there's no room for those two things.
How exactly do mobile phones make it easier for sex workers to avoid being victimized by pimps?
It's a valid concern, but on the cases I have seen, convictions don't come from one piece of evidence, the initial evidence leads to far more.

But even a dead end investigation (from a mistaken or false pretenses) can be a large burden on the accused
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I do, but I work from home and need to get out of my apartment from time-to-time. I think there are a lot of people in that boat.
Actually the genetic differences between races are far smaller and more blurry than most people would imagine (based on differences in appearance).

The Atlantic had an article about exactly the kind of thing you're taking about, and how this kind of pseudoscience is being pushed by neo-nazis and the alt-right: http://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/510962/
John Gatto also wrote an essay titled 'Against School'. Various writers keep pointing out the futility of 'education', but the school industry is now a sacred cow that can't be killed.

Against school: How public education cripples our kids, and why

http://harpers.org/archive/2003/09/against-school/ (September 2003 - free copies available at other sites)
Why not? You stupid to sell both kidneys you die. How is that your problem?? If I have a need to help other people to the extend that it will kill me, let it be!
How did you come up with that? Did you even understand the article? It is quite literally saying social/cultural changes leave an impact on genetic transcription of DNA through methylation and epigenetic markup. In fact, this proves just the opposite. That social factors are intricately tied to genetic output. What this proves false are the hardliners of each side of the debate that espouse race is a purely social construct, and the other end that naively call race a simple set of genetic traits.
My university - IIT Mumbai - is not far from where this photo was taken.

we had leopards in the dorm at night.
> Beyond the obvious example of people forced into it by violence, there is also a huge population of people that are trying to feed themselves, or their kids, or their addictions with very few options to achieve those ends. That is not liberty.

Couldn't you same the same for work => slavery?
Marissa herself is really, really pointless and sad.

you're all idiots.
In an article that has obviously been well thought out and reasoned, it's disappointing to see the author using the current accident rates as reported by self driving car developers as if they were a representative sample and subsequently used as a lemma for further arguments.

Simply put, the current rates reported aren't a representative sample. In fact they aren't even naively semi-representative. They are deliberately skewed by development patterns, and that happens to give them an optimistic accident rate.

SDCs in testing do not drive the same miles that humans drive. They don't drive in the same conditions, in the same traffic, and not on the same roads...and they have engineers ready to take over at any time, which is a luxury that the baseline does not have. Engineers carefully select the scenarios where they do drive by taking the scenarios that they know the cars can handle well and then slowly pushing the upper bound of that range. In other words, they choose the easy and work up to the hard. It is yet to be demonstrated how well they will perform once they are closer to driving the miles that humans drive.
> Next, Afiniti wants to take its technology from the call center to the retail world. It is working on facial-recognition software to identify customers when they walk into a store so the system can send the best agent over to talk with them.

That's super creepy. I'm kinda glad I habitually wave away store workers who proactively approach me. The only response I can think of to stuff subtle manipulation like this is increased skepticism of these kinds of day to day interactions, which is pretty sad.

I wonder if some kind of anti-discrimination/racial profiling case could be made against such systems, to get them banned or at least curtailed?
Signed up and ... it's a news letter. sigh
Apple products are immune from criticism. You can be a life long mac owner and buy all the latest releases. But if you have a problem with the 2016 macbook pro well then, "you're just a hater". OK mac community. I'm a hater, I bought max mac products for years, praised these devices for many years, biding my time, waiting for the perfect moment to shit on a new mac release!
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I visited Amsterdam almost 20 years ago. I'm very square. I struggled to find a place to just buy a coffee!

Re: Comments about crime, things may have changed but I found it to be very safe. Perhaps not as safe as Tokyo, but better than the South side of Chicago or the tenderloin in SF.
I think in that example, i would move the bar to exactly what you cited. I think there's an implicit understanding in the OPs statement that means "better than average competent humans".

Although, another way to look at is: If you fall below the bar for the average human, including drunks/etc, aren't you by definition more safe using this AI system?

If your question/argument is: What about those who are safer than average - then i think the answer is, they shouldn't use self driving, only the "poor" drivers should. Of course the next question is how do you determine that.

Perhaps infractions on your driving record would inhibit you from driving. If you get caught for drunk driving, that's it, no more license, purely automated driving (even if that means no rain driving, etc). If you're above 70, or etc.
FWIW I tried it on a relatively new 10K line project and gave up, because it doesn't play well with metaprogramming. I consider metaprogramming to be part of Python, so mypy and statically typed Python are really different languages with less power IMO. And of course the mypy author knew that -- that's why he gave it a different name.

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/30.html

update here: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/06.html

I'm not claiming my experience generalizes... if you have a lot of Java-like code you can probably use mypy. Bizarrely, some people do actually have a lot of Java-like Python code.
Use Bitsquare. It is completely decentralised and all traffic is routed over Tor, so quite secure.

If you can send/receive International bank transfers then you should be good to go.

The only condition is that it requires that you already own a small amount of bitcoin used as security deposit..
They should figure out how track the number of times someone has asked to speak to a manager or supervisor in the past. If the caller is an outlier and shows habitual tendencies towards doing so, the call could be routed directly to the call center's elite special operations division.
Your comment only makes sense if you equivocate on the definition of debugger. Debugging by printf is not the same thing as not using a debugger.
I think people should be able to sell their organs, too /if/ they are perfectly free to make that choice and in no way coerced, actively or passively, to do so.

But, in a world where one can sell their organs, would we refuse public assistance to people who still have both of their kidneys? Would we say to the poor "Why are you asking for help? You have $50,000 buried in your back! Come back when you are truly desperate."
Your case is considered consent by law, but the jurisprudence is wrong. You are ruled to have "consent" even though you know you could be shot and killed for not consenting.
My suggestion is that this question boils down to the one that I identified.

If the search was executed only because the supervisor was effectively acting on behalf of the FBI, then the evidence was probably illegally obtained.

Prosecution will argue that the search would've happened and been reported regardless of the supervisor's relationship to the FBI. So that the relationship, while perhaps shady, actually had zero bearing on the events that took place.

The judge will have to decide which of those is more likely to be true. The conduct of the supervisor and the FBI is probably going to be a huge PITA for the prosecutor to explain away.
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Can these gloves replace the gaming controllers in the future?
Instead of fluoridated water, you can always just use fluoride mouthwash/rinse which many dentists now recommend to be used daily.

Personally I only drink RO water as tap water tastes bad to me, but I use a fluoride mouthwash (Crest) every night after brushing and flossing.
There's something weird happening.

imgur shows straight red on my 2015 Macbook Pro, but my iPhone 7 shows the logo.

The dropbox thumbnail link (with ?dl=0) shows the logo. Opening the link with ?dl=1 in Preview shows straight red. I think Dropbox is doing some weird thumbnail processing.
Someone has to make Apple great again.
I had that problem a lot as well. I removed Siri and now I just accidentally mute my machine. That being said, my typing accuracy has improved as I've gotten used to the keyboard, so accidental touches are pretty infrequent now. My girlfriend just received her TB machine and she does it all the time, so I think it is something that improves over time.
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Validate your idea first. You do not need an MVP or any software for this. Go to businesses/consumers, pitch the product and find if there is a fit. See if they would be willing to sign up for it, what features they need, what makes it compelling to them (is it cost savings, revenue generation etc).

If you can find say 20-30 businesses that say yes then you probably have an idea. If it is consumer focused spend some money on advertising it on social media see what the response is. You can setup a signup page without any technical know how, just some clicking around on a website that generates/hosts landing pages.

Once you have this you have an idea. Then, personally, mock up the idea in some wireframe tool, take it back to users and see what they say. Does it make sense, is it easy to follow are they more likely to buy now. Go back to ones that said no thanks, they are even more important then the ones that said yes. Redesign and evolve this features/wireframe model to something people seem excited about.

So if you do that, by now you have a basic design, an initial feature set and you have defined a market opportunity with real feedback. If you have this you will find people that want to help you make it real.

My 2 cents, do not focus on learning how to write code. Sorry, I love what I do, but almost every time I started a company/project by writing code it fails. When I start with market, people and opportunity I have had 10000 times more success. You can hire your weaknesses. Amazingly engineered products wind up on the floor going no where more then they go somewhere. Why? Simple, they didn't do the market and research first, they built something before understanding the opportunity.
This is a gorgeous photo, but wired is a horrible site.
Ceteris paribus (though remember there's a long and ugly history of the police victimizing sex workers as well).

But all things aren't equal. Most importantly: so long as prostitution is formally illegal, men and women can't be pressured by social norms to participate in sex work. Once prostitution is legalized, the stage is set for that to change: perhaps body integrity isn't nearly as important as bootstrapping oneself to self-reliance, or providing for vulnerable family members.

Usually in economic analyses we stop and ask ourselves if normal people would prefer the choice rather than having it foisted on them: for instance, maybe we'd rather allow ticket scalping because someone with a valuable ticket would probably prefer the option of being able to sell it for a steep profit and pay for health care rather than just having the experience promised by the ticket. But here we have a case where most normal people probably do not want the choice deregulation would allow.
This is so funny. I just boxed mine up and shipped it via UPS back to apple not 5 minutes ago and was thinking to post something here on hacker news!

I did not like the touch bar for programming. Maybe when my ide supports the touch bar it will be better. But the clincher was the poor battery life.

I've been a mac user since the mac plus days. First time I retuned one.
No, I think the buyer and seller should agree on what the being currency traded is, and how it's valued. I bid 40 quatloos for the newcomer.
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Absolutely. I was investigating this last week. Most articles have suffered bit rot where nearly all linked sites that once allowed non-verified accounts now require verification.
Wired isn't a publication I'm that pleased with anymore.
Perhaps something like Visual Studio Code? Which editor do you use?
I would not be surprised if the Wall Street Journal has changed its 'bypass' algorithm to recognize patterns of 'social sharing' and tuned its paywall accordingly.

For example by querying browser history or looking at frequency of Google referrals or via some other dark art of SEO.
Driving while impaired is not a non-driving-operation decision. It's an ongoing driving decision. The driver is poorly assessing their ability to safely complete upcoming operations. Over and over.

I also expect that automatic systems will greatly improve the level of maintenance of vehicles (for example, mandatory tire pressure monitoring already does...).
Then, should people be allowed to accept money to "perform" in snuff films? Or is it only OK to sell ones life if there's some material net benefit to other people that results from it?
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I seriously miss gChat/Talk. It was an app that did one thing and did it well, with no other BS. It served the user, not the company. And of course we can't have that, now can we?
To put another way: Do the ends justify the means?
Very professionally done. Hope all goes well for everyone involved.

Anyone know what this "opportunity in another space" is?
Reading the thoughts of middle class, white collar, programmers on crime are always entertaining.
Yes. To all of that. The second kidney would be a death sentence. If they sell it, they can do it for whatever reason they want. It is theirs. Life is not something to be held on to at all costs. Perhaps selling two kidneys would end that person's suffering and the resulting funds would end their children's or their friends'.

People make calculated risks all of the time. My parents are not cool with me starting my own company that sells software services. They think that is a terrible risk. It is. I could lose everything. But I'm free to do that under the law.

People take calculated risks when logging. Dismemberment is a real threat. Yet the funds they could make are worth it to them. Who are you to tell them they can't?

I mean it when I ask, "Who are you to tell the they can't?" On what moral or ethical grounds do you restrict a person's liberty? If the worst that can happen is they die, why does that give you the authority to intervene against their wishes?
Think it's quite obvious by now, being a popular chat service for power users (gChat) or even pretty popular with a grab bag of users because you're a cleaner experience than Skype (Hangouts) isn't enough for them. They want to be the Gmail of the chat world and will keep having do-overs until it happens.
That's a good cite but really mostly relevant to curves. If a cipher design had any of this kind of flexibility with regards to its parameters or inputs, nobody would use that cipher.
If you know the static address of the seed in memory it's trivial.

E.g. the commit replaced the secure SHA1 with a 256bit key in
net/ipv4/syncookies.c with a less secure siphash with a 128bit key.
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next....

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next....
talks about siphash being more secure than MD5 and SHA1.
It's only more secure than trivial fast hash functions, like
DJB33* or FNV1, but not MD5.
These guys want to maintain your networking code!

The new Documentation/siphash.txt on the other hand is correct. But it simply refers to the siphash pdf without refuting the wrong chapter 6 parts, which lead to the wide-spread hash table insecurity amongst most popular dynamic languages.
It's pretty cool, you'll have fun! It's "practical" not "theoretical", so the focus is on getting code working and understanding bare minimum of math you need.
My guess is from sources like credit card or loan applications.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/report-income-c...
Well, as you might already imagine, that is an unrealistic attitude to have. One of the points of these creative endeavors is to have fun and improve yourself, little by little.

The expectation that you must "dunk over Michael Jordan" to do so is a bit absurd.
As pointed somewhere in this thread, the Arch linux wiki is a good resource for hardware compatibility issues. It doesn't really matter if it focus in one particular distro, it's the same kernel after all.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Category:Hardware

To my limited knowledge, intel hardware has excellent linux support. If you need a little more muscle in the GPU go for nvidia rather than AMD.
Aren't there bidding networks for expiring domains that practically guarantee you won't get the domain unless you pay one of them?
Incognito mode under chrome using the WEB link above doesn't seem to work anymore. Am I doing something wrong?
Bitcoin went from the "hype" stage to the "adoption" (although of the niche kind) stage with a couple of hyped spin-offs such as "blockchain everywhere" so it's less of a hyped up novelty more of a "fact of life" type thing now.

Adoption is still niche, there are technical issues to be taken care of and there are "existential" threats based on the uncertain legal implications but by and large both Bitcoin as "currency" and bitcoin as "p2p network" are doing ok as far as I'm concerned.
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The rationale is that they needed something to replace the low-end Air models that they are phasing out of the line-up.
>The distinction here is that the methods used to develop proof theory look exceedingly similar to how mathematics is developed, and quite alien to the methods of philosophy both of that time and now.

Logical reasoning has always been one of the methods of philosophy. It seems quite bizarre to say that the development of proof theory has nothing to do with philosophy, which for millennia prior had been interested in the question of what distinguishes good arguments from bad arguments and which arguments are formally valid.

Also, proof theory does not look that much like the rest of math. It certainly doesn't look much like the math that people were doing in Frege's time. So I don't really buy the argument that proof theory is distinctively "mathematical" as opposed to "philosophical" (to the extent that these terms are meaningful in the first place).

>Frege didn't develop his proof theory by spending years doing literary reviews of previous philosophers,

I'm not exactly sure what "doing literary reviews" is supposed to refer to, or why you think that this is more characteristic of philosophy than logical argumentation, but Frege certainly read previous philosophers. To a significant extent Frege's work is a reaction to the limitations of Aristotelean logic. And it's pretty clear from reading Aristotle that he didn't think of the study of logic as a branch of mathematics.

>But looking at the successes of these branches as evidence that you should read old philosophy or engage in the mainstream methods of contemporary philosophy when their methods are worlds apart does not make much sense.

Could you elaborate? I'm not sure which methods you're referring to.
In what sense? If we can't reach some specific space/time coordinate, it's for all intents and purposes unreachable.
Yes, that's actually the way I remember it around that time. People were just generally excited about hacking on Linux and the community as a whole had a sense of popularity about it that began in the 90s.

OTOH, I'm willing to accept the notion that, given all that, the big players still pushed the industry direction.