skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easily the most competent people I've ever hired or worked with worked for adult companies.

Coming back into the "real world" after my time spent in adult was like going back to high school in terms of social dynamics within the workplace (politics and niceness over competence). Everything moves in slow motion comparatively.
A must read article by Mars Society founder Dr. Robert Zubrin. Quite intriguing proposition.
> In professional analyses? Certainly. During election campaigns quoting the numbers spent on budget items? Almost never.

Most of the numbers cited in election campaigns (if they aren't just made up and pulled from thin air, which also happens; but,for those, the allocation of real spending doesn't really matter) come directly from professional analyses, which as you acknowledge do include them.
Hmm...

In America, we find people not guilty. We also uphold the innocent until proven guilty thing. Perhaps your jurisdiction is different?

If they are not found guilty, the presumption is innocence.
Maybe not what you intended, but I see your statement as a dichotomy, while the reality is more nuanced than that. For instance, most mainstream right-wing parties in Europe accept some kind of universal health coverage, which seems almost socialist in the US. Sure, I'd choose the US over Cuba or North Korea without thinking as my home, but several European countries, as well as Canada, before the US.
In terms of hosted video, yeah, you're pretty spot on.

The new hotness, as it were, is cam models with some sort of toy control. There's two common ways this can happen:

- Model uses interactive toy that is controlled by tip amounts/frequency

- Model uses interactive toy that can control other interactive toys that viewers are using

This is not particularly new technology. RealTouch was doing this 6 years ago until they were shut down by a patent suit, see https://www.metafetish.com/2014/04/17/realtouch-the-shutdown..., and there were even cam sync'd toys in the late 90s, as long as you were cool with your 2-3 FPS over a modem. However, with the availability of streaming services and bandwidth now, it's feasible for more players to get involved.
I don't see much of a problem.

You are paid to do a task. Is the task getting done, and at the expected quality level? That is what matters, is it not?

Aside from that, if you can automate your job, you could likely create a service or product to sell that automation to that employer...
You've just told the whole world. Not so hard anymore.
I'm in Canada and I buy from an online grocery store, Grocery Gateway. They're run by one of the local grocery chains and other than a $9.99 delivery fee, it's basically just a regular grocery store as they carry what's in that grocery chain, including the supermarket brand stuff.
I imagine, if you're implying the "special" perks are anything sexual, you'd be disappointed. It's a workplace like any other from what I've read. A job is a job.

A number of Reddit AMA's have supported your idea of immunity to pornography. It all becomes rather boring while on the job. After hours, though, that's a good question.
Is the last paragraph just a poetic ending or a demonstration of wandering mind affected by dementia? The sentence can be parsed and seems to have a discernable meaning but the associative leaps and comparisons seem highly unusual to me.

I honestly can't tell. Perhaps because I'm a non-native English speaker with a lack of subtlety when it comes to literature.
Now it makes more sense. The article did a terrible job of explaining that.
Ask HN: Do domains ever get pulled for not representing the country of the TLD?
For example, I'm in the UK and want to register a business, the name ends in ps, so I'd like to use a .ps domain as the .com is taken, and it'll only be used for email anyway. If you look at http://devo.ps/ that's an example of a non-palestine company using it for branding.

If you read the ToS for .ps domains it states that domains should be used by local businesses, and international companies wanting to have a presence in Palestine.

What's the likelihood of a domain being taken back?
whoa that's messed up, I think google is right in that this is between Equustek and Datalink. This does indeed seem like a bad precedent.
You don't need everyone to have a complete blockchain. Etherium, for example, lets you just do fast syncs that use a fairly fixed amount of storage space.

You need a copy somewhere to have an actual blockchain, but not every node need host that chain. The major players in the economy, however, with the resources to keep around 100GB every couple years of data are incentivized to to maintain the stability of their currency network.

Because blocks are reverse-signed, you can't have a limited pool of old blocks and forge the records. Its a chain for a reason - each blocks signature is dependent on its peer blocks, and we still don't have anything close to breakable sha-256 that would compromise bitcoin.
Poloniex is one of the largest. They don't even deal in fiat.

But as with all things crypto, buyer beware. If you aren't day- trading never keep your money on an exchange.
The thing is that technology and society has progressed much further than our social and economical structures. I think the sharing economy is a great insight into one aspect of where we are going, but it isn't enough.
Interesting, thanks. By this point, I'll bet there's a page somewhere with the codes...in fact, the copy that I downloaded has a file "PROTCODE.TXT" with the codes to look up.

They look like they're just 16-bit values. It tells you to look up things like "A, 5". In the table, there are 16 letters (columns) and 128 numbers (rows). I'll bet it's just checked against some algorithm in the game code.

It's tough to see where some of the code comes from, though. The game copies chunks of the binary around within itself, and constructs function calls "by hand" (pushing a memory address byte-by-byte, then "returning" to it). It's not horrendous to trace, but more than a half-hour job for me.
ZeroKit for Realm: Easy End-To-End Encryption
This.

As sysadmin, 90% of my job is automated. I am available 24/7 if anything goes wrong. But then OTH, I can run errands, watch movies, play video games at work. This is true for almost every sysadmin I know.

My bosses know this, they don't care as long as I am available when needed. Also they prefer that we as sysadmins don't advertise our free time to the rest of company.
> As such, value of the products doesn't come into it at all, but rather only the minimum value required to keep the worker. What is this value equal to? The amount required to sustain the worker...

Partially. The employee is paid the minimum amount that the employer can pay, but (again in this fantasy no-air-resistance world) if an employee can produce x units of value for either employer a or employer b, they'll go with whichever will pay more, and both employer a and employer b profit while paying up to x-1 units of value in wages.

And thus, over long periods of time and disregarding practical realities, compensation approaches the point at which compensation = value created, despite employers attempting to pay the minimum possible.
Piecework is perfectly legal in the US: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/industrialhomework
It's still not entirely accurate, or at least conclusive, that WhatsApp effectively protects people against mass surveillance. It might be that there's enough other sources, messages aren't that valuable in the first place or even that mass surveillance itself, between target surveillance and everyone being a public person, isn't that important to protect people against.

I think it's much easier to conclude that WhatsApp protects peoples messages from leaking or being abused by providers and other "softer" merits.
I can use all of those today or develop a new implementation if I want.
This isn't quite right. Even with SR and the speed of light its possible to build consistent systems and achieve consensus. Not-eventually-consistent doesn't mean instantaneous. The SoL just sets a lower bound on the speed of consensus.

It's important to not overstate the importance of that bound, though.
>Do they have to pay society a fee for being able to claim it as their own?

In most areas, yes. There is a property tax that is charged as a percentage of the land's value. If the owner fails to pay this fee to society, society revokes his ownership, forcefully seizes the land if necessary, and resells the property to another person who is willing to pay the imposed fee.
Well, for example, even poor people can get antibiotics. Quite a few kings of old died from not having them.
The problem with piece work (in an agricultural context, at least) is that is reveals a wide discrepancy in productivity between workers. The most productive workers are usually about 8x as productive as the average. Employers balk at the prospect of paying that much extra, so they create various kinds of mixed schemes that cap the worker's pay regardless of how much actual work they do. So the practical result of piece work is simply to punish below-average workers, without actually doing anything to incentivize above-average work.
Downvoting in the name of diverse perspectives is... not something to aspire to.
Nobody gonna finish it?. fine

No good sir I'm on the level..
You are mixing social class with quality of life. Despite being at at the top of the social pyramid, kings of the past did not have many things that most of today's poor (in the US) do, like electricity, running water, air con, motor vehicles, antibiotics, the Internet etc.
"Turns out that if you had invested $100 in Bitcoin in July 2010, it would be worth over $5,000,000 today."

Actually if you had invested $100 three months earlier, in April 2010 (when BTC started trading at $0.003 on BitcoinMarket.com) it would be worth $87M today.
> Mine is a criticism of the actual article.

No it wasn't. You literally claimed the author had a mental break down. That's not an attack on the article, it was a direct attack on him. I literally formed my comment exactly as you did to relay that point.

You seemed to have taken such issue with the idea that the guy is lucky, you attacked him personally rather than attack his point. I don't entirely agree with the author. I don't entirely disagree with him. But if you want to make a point, attack his conclusions, not him.
they are correct for two of the above - given a warrant from a court - FB Messenger and Hangouts messages are readable by Facebook and Google.
Fair enough, we're not mid-cycle so I don't have any numbers to readily double check easily.

I still cannot recall a single instance of those numbers including EITC when quoted during election cycles, but I'll certainly concede the point and pay closer attention. I've noticed when the numbers do include them in reports and such, because it's so amazing to me someone is actually showing the data honestly in those cases.
Agreed. If we care about diverse perspectives, we can't imply that there's only one way to care about people.
> It's not meaningless at all, it's a close approximation of light absorption that happens to be measurably and perceptually indistinguishable from the physical spectral absorption process, save for a few corner cases that are being worked on. If the result is 99.9% accurate physically, and 100% perceptually indistinguishable to humans, then it's a valid predictive physical model.

> Subsurface scattering, for example, is modeling absorption more phyically, and replacing the simple multiplication with a simulation process, because we now have the computational power to do so.

Surely everyone has to accept that whatever we do here is always going to be an approximation to arrive at a similar looking result to reality that won't be following what's really going on to a low level? We're not going to be able to model individual photons, atoms, electrons, quantum effects etc. so it's always going to be an approximation/abstraction.

The goal should be whether it looks indistinguishable not if it is indistinguishable.
Rust isn't one of those languages you need to include in a distro. Binary rust is just so's and elf's. It has no runtime, so its compile once and run anywhere with a C linker.

Its development tools are spread like wildfire, but in part that is because of their isolation - you only need rustup to bootstrap your own local Rust ecosystem.

Compared to many other recent native languages, the lack of a runtime absolutely helps Rust in adoption.
There is a large gap between "really poor" and "not born into wealth", though.
The title of this post is misleading. Based on the content of the article, it could have just as easily been titled "Facebook Censorship Protect Black Women from Hate Speech but Not White Children". But I am guessing that would not have baited as many clicks.
What editor do racketeers commonly use? I like the idea, but this seems like a burden for code editing in most normal editors except for perhaps emacs picture mode.
> All you'd have to do

Again, there's no silver bullet here :)

The approach we're taking here is basically the opposite of what you're advocating; I am not aware of any open source projects that email people asking them to contribute. I would find it extremely odd if someone did that to me. Putting out a call for contributors, on the other hand, is pretty usual.
> Are women really put off of computing because [people use male pronouns for programmers, assuming they're male]?

This doesn't need to be a hypothetical question. You could find a woman programmer and ask her. (A woman might even chime in on this thread, although given the ridiculous level of toxicity on this thread, if I were anything other than a het cis white man, I'd be staying the hell away from here.)

Or you could even Google it, and find some woman programmers talking about this. Here are a few references to get you started. https://geekfeminism.org/tag/pronouns/
ask HN: Jobs that work somewhat like Uber/lyft for cs students?
All:
I am a totally blind computer science student, and as I near the end of my college years I find myself with a lot of extra time because of the way my school works and their schedules.

Finding web development work has prooven to be really tough, but perhaps that's just because I don't know where to look. My question though is if there is any kind of skills or jobs I could undertake that would allow me to work when I can, as my schedule permits (some weeks are more busy than others) and earn a moderately decent income. I'm happy earning minimum wage or slightly above if I can work from home for now, it would be extra income. There are various things I'd love to get/bills to pay and I'd love to have some goals.

I started thinking about this question as I take Lyft and Uber a lot, and a lot of the drivers say something like "I like this job because I can work as much as I want whenever I want."

Thanks,
There is also a liiiiitle difference between RP's and SA's [i] and [ɪ] (IPA sounds are "areas", not "points"), as well as a difference in tenseness (British is generally more tense).

So yeah, IPA doesn't completely specify how things sound.
> Go yell fire in a theater right now. You will be charge with a variety of fun charges.

Most likely, you'll just be thrown out of the theater.

If you actually dircectly provoke a riot by doing that, then you'll be subject to criminal sanction. Without inciting imminent lawless action, it's protected speech.

> All speech has limits.

Free speech has limits, but the “fire in a crowded theater” example (and the “clear and present danger” rule it came along with) is not an valid example of the limits (or the operative rule).
IIRC, IANAC, the context: Plants keep their leaf pores open to get CO2 inside the leaf for photosynthesis. On the other hand, they lose water if they keep them open. With more CO2 in the atmosphere, they can keep the stomata a little bit more closed and grow the same with less water loss, meaning drier areas could get greener, droughts might not hurt so much etc.

But now it seems this effect might have been overestimated.
Could using printed fonts that look like hand-writing to advertise count as willful deception?

You're trying to trick the consumer into thinking a human made the sign (and by extension the product as well), which was actually made my machines.

I don't see a difference. When I buy a product, there is no disclosure of the manufacturing process.

I could only see a good lawyer losing this case if OP signed a contract that explicitly stated the process in which his work must be produced.
He should approach management and offer to automate this process for a lump sum of x-years pay. If they plan on using this method for 5 years then offer 4 years of salary for this tool.

Everyone wins. They save a years salary and don't have to deal with data entry errors. He wins because he is paid and can continue to earn more.

This is an example of automation and capitalism revealing their best features.
Thanks - I like the idea of the talent getting paid, this seems a good way for this to happen.. the sensory eye candy person controlling some sort of remote stimulation. I can see this being huge in the VR industry and a good one to few model that might supersede the 'all you can consume' ripped off content sites that currently have massive page views...
Why is the status quo a problem?

I'm not saying it isn't; I don't know. I just don't see why should we assume that it is.

Have a read-through on http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki, or any of the other excellent references online.
I'm surprised this thinking isn't more prevalent. When I have lots of free time at work with few interesting problems I know it's time to find a new job.

I agree with the guy in that I'd like to have more time with my family, but I can't imagine effectively not working and growing at all. He seems in the ideal position to search for a dream job. What he has is not a dream job.
Yes! It did take some effort to untrain myself from matching on color.
Market economies don't function on value but on price.

There are plenty of high-value activities that go undervalued -- a general class of these are termed public goods. There's also the confusion of financial value with economic value.

If a good cannot either capture the value it creates (nonrivalousness, non-excludability), or if it creates economic value, but not to a class of direct users who have what Adam Smith called "expressed demand", that is, discretionary or available liquidity, then it produces no financial value, and, in a market system, is underprovisioned.

At the micro level, your decisionmaking is going to be determined by financial aspects. At a macro level, we should focus far more on overall economic value. Alternatively, structuring the micro world to reflect the macro more appropriately (basic income, employer of last resort, generalised support of public goods) might work.

Both are exceedingly difficult politically.
> Ever try to use a dbus service from the shell? From any language that _doesn't_ rely on a binding to the C library Therein lies your answer.

There are many libraries that do not bind to libdbus. GLib’s, QT’s and outside of C/C++ you have native python (txdbus), native javascript (node-dbus, which is btw powering the dbusfs you linked) and native C#/mono. That’s just off the top of my head, I’m sure there are many more.

As for shell, I am not a fan, obviously, but qt-dbus (and the glib one) has existed for a long time and busctl is even nicer. Works just fine if you just need the client functionality.

DBus lends itself to something much more powerful like Microsoft’s Powershell (but without the CLR). Bash is obviously designed for filesystem interface, it also is not a great fit for SQL. Doesn’t mean SQL is shit.

> Which goes to show how flexible the open/read/write/close model truly is.

It‘s useless, not flexible.

Everything has some ad-hoc implied interface, documented who knows where, if at all, and this giant hack is somehow something to admire?

Garbage-in, garbage-out. I’ll take DBus any day.

> Theoretically you could expose dbus through the filesystem namespace using something like FUSE.

You can expose the filesystem via DBus as well (e.g. org.gtk.vfs). Shows you how flexible DBus is.
this comment is so tone deaf... just because you don't care doesn't mean that the non-inclusive communities surrounding Rust / programming in general is a significant barrier to entry for many people
No irony to it, freedom of speech is way more limited in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_Canada

My journalism teacher used to say that legally speaking, there is no such thing as free speech here.

Either way, I'm sure the Supreme Court has considered this.
There are services like Upwork
I got the parent’s point; you missed mine ;)

I was talking about the second part of the comment: $1 doesn’t provide you shelter/food/etc.
It's a bit purple, but it reads fairly cogently to me; it's just a very long run-on sentence.

That might be attributable to dementia, or a deliberate style choice; I'd kind of lean towards the latter given that plenty of the preceding article is expressed in clipped, curt statements without much excessive detail.

It is sad, though. The writing of Terry Pratchett puts this on somewhat depressing display, with many of his later novels lacking the punchy dialogue and tight focus of his early and mid-career works. They feel a bit more floaty, out-of-focus, and characters are more likely to pontificate than demonstrate a point through action or indirect reference.

They're still good stories written by a very talented and creative author, but you can tell that he was having more difficulty with it towards the end.
are we though? Our alliance with Saudi Arabia was a calculation of that nature back around WWII. Recently though did the revolution in Iran cause a problem for our oil supplies? Is there a scenario in which a middle east war or lack of such war affects our access to oil?
Diversity is quite literally the reason life still exists after billions of years and five mass extinction catastrophes. It is the foundation for the predominant economic system in human society as well as all of the technological and scientific progress we've made. Hell, you can't even really have cultural (in the broadest sense) progress without a diversity of ideas and opinions, let alone a functioning, stable democracy.

I'm skeptical of race- and gender-inclusive policies because they're often blindly implemented and detrimental to their goals but diversity has shown itself to be not just important, but vital, to the long term success of any large, complex system, whether it be the Apollo program or our planet's ecosystem. I'd love to hear rational arguments against, however.
It's good for reading (certain) code. Without the syntax actually be functional, there's no reason to build editor support for it; editor support that makes it cobvenient to write should be expected to be a trailing, rather than leading, feature.

EDIT: incidentally, the documentation for the syntax also refers to the built-in support for it in DrRacket.
You're confusing murder and manslaughter. Murder requires a level of intent. Manslaughter does not.
I enjoy reading descriptions such as these that start with easily detectable problems and go into a level of debugging far beyond my skill level. Helps to illuminate some of those "unknown unknowns" that I didn't even ever consider before.
Except that under most contracts, the company already owns the code currently used to automate the job.
It wasn't their site. From the article:

"Equustek Solutions based in Burnaby B.C., which manufacturers networking technology. Equustek had successfully sued another company for relabelling its products and passing them off as their own."

When the evil corp lost in Canada, it moved out of the country and continued the same practice.

Frankly, I'm disappointed in Google for fighting this in the first place. SMH. Imagine if this were Apple rebranding Samsung Galaxies as Apple devices. Of course Google should remove those product listings.