skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have to account for stability of the job as well. How many people can work in sex markets in their 40s.
Me too. Felt guilty, but I changed my job later. Cannot stand this.
If the johns are criminalized, there is still a disincentive to go to the police: if they know you as a prostitute, they'll know to watch you closely to catch some johns and that will impair your business.

Also I think that provides a side effect too: if a john is already committing a crime when going to a prostitute, he may be more likely to do so anonymously and with less trace, making it easier for them to add robbery or assault to their acts.

I think that hypocrisy never helps. If it is illegal to go to a prostitute, it should be illegal to be one, their existence would have no legal justification.
Also for MTAs? That's a bold move :)
>You can say that every sub-group tries to separate oneself from the so called masses

Yes, but in different ways. Punk rockers want to shock, nouveaux riches want to impress.

>This isn't that different from the middle class in Victorian England going crazy for upscale wool products at the time, and I'm pretty sure it you asked them they wouldn't say that they are immitating the wealthy either.

Worsted wool is not upscale, the idea was that it _looked_ like silk. In any case it is pretty obvious that hipsters don't try to imitate the rich. Many of the things they do have nothing at all to do with money, fixed gear hubs, facial hair, obscure bands, tight jeans etc. Even for things that cost a little bit of money, like sour dough bread, artisinal tomatoes and leather saddles, that is not the point, and it's not that expensive - any middle class person can afford them. The point is that you _know_ these obscure bands, you _care_ about how your bread is made. You're not showing off your wealth, you're showing off your sophistication.

But the main point is that most of the things that characterise hipsters they don't even have in common with the wealthy, and when they do I think the influence went the other way as often as not.

> I never could find a "hipster" that managed to define what "longing for authenticity" actually means all in all it feels more like a slogan than a philosophy.

It's simple, it's about buying things that have meaning, that were produced with more love and care than the average mass produced product.
As a German where prostitution is just seen as a regular trade, some general points.
1.) While paid sex is surely available at many places, we still do not live in one big brothel.

2.) Why should people have to film their act of having sex and then publish it (porn is legal in the US...)

3.) There is a problem with human trafficking that has to be dealt with. But dealing with this problem in some manner is surely the better way than making prostitution illegal. As long as there are hormons in this world, prostitution will exist. Learn to live with it.
A solution has been found http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/flesheating-bugs-at-bright...
Usually when conservative governments come to power they try to enforce their way of thinking onto the general populous and they do it in a smart way. Propaganda everywhere, tv adverts etc
I've been made miserable by tcl for the past year and a half. Even after this long I still have to constantly refer to the manual because of what an inconsistent mess it is. There are people at the office who have been dealing with this crap for 20 years and still can't tell me off the top of their head the order of parameters to basic functionality functions. Tcl can burn in hell. I've learnt javascript recently and after a week I didn't need to refer to the manual. I think javascript is horrible but it's super easy to learn and use. Tcl should die and will die within my lifetime - all it's got is existing scripts forcing its continued use. Not a single person here would choose it over python or anything else if they were making the decision today.
> Software dev is generally a scattershot haphazard endeavor that involves trying dozens of angles until one of them works.

Maybe in an agile web startup. SW engineering in a big industry project is a very deliberate process. You start by a requirements engineer writing very precise requirements. Then a SW engineer turns this into a module design and a test specification. These are turned into source code (for which we use code generators to an ever higher degree) and test cases by yet other SW engineers. In the end everything gets reviewed and/or tested.

Trying things until they work is just not done. That would be way too dangerous for SW that controls cars, airplanes, nuclear power plants, rockets etc.
That's extremely surprising to me; I'd have assumed that 19 out of 20 cold calls would be rejected regardless of how good the product is.
>So you're completely right in that hipsters aren't trying to show that they're richer than others. Just that they're better. In that sense, hipsters and the conspicuously wealthy are united.

The author claimed that hipsters do what they do to mimic the wealthy, which is not true. The fact that they, as any human being, strive for some kind of status and exclusivity, is a different question altogether.
HyperTrack | API Engineer | New Delhi | ONSITE, Full-Time | https://www.hypertrack.com/jobs

Our mission is to help developers build anything they can imagine with location. We are a developer-first product with SDK, APIs and map visualizations. Know more about the product here: https://www.hypertrack.com/

We are looking for an experienced software engineer with strong background in DevOps and handling traffic & infrastructure at scale. Here is what we are looking for: https://www.hypertrack.com/jobs

If you want to know more write to us at knock.knock@hypertrack.com.
Speaking of various models of legislating sex, I found this TED talk quite informative: https://www.ted.com/talks/juno_mac_the_laws_that_sex_workers...
Introducing the Unity ARKit Remote
Porting a Chrome Extension to Firefox
And I'd argue that for a whole bunch of applications and software systems these days correctness has no business value.
Tell me once more how I should be approaching my profession. I'm all ears.
Doesn't LinkedIn currently compute a similar n-degree of separation metric, or am I conflating two different features?
Lua extensions use coroutines instead of preemptive multithreading which is usually good enough.
> The low labor share in the 1980's is then out of line with the rest of our results. However, it is compatible with the fact that wage growth and labor share started to fall early in the 1970's, caused by factors not present in our study. Political factors such as laws to weaken unions, automation, outsourcing, and globalization were operative even before the rise of monopoly power in the 1980's. Hence, by the time monopoly power came into play, wages and labor share were already low. Hence, apart from rising monopoly power, other factors had an impact on the dynamics of wages and labor share which are not examined here.

Indeed when we compare the inequality present in different industrialized nations with varying degrees of unionization, nations with stronger unions seem to have lower inequality despite experiencing an increase in automation. As stated in an IMF report [1]:

Traditional explanations for the rise of inequality in advanced economies are skill-biased technological change and globalization, which have increased the relative demand for skilled workers, benefiting top earners relative to average earners. But technology and globalization foster economic growth, and there is little policymakers can or are willing to do to reverse these trends. Moreover, while high-income countries have been similarly affected by technological change and globalization, inequality in these economies has risen at different speeds and magnitudes.

So perhaps the combination of automation together with weakened unions is responsible for inequality in industrialized nations?

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2015/03/pdf/jaumo...
I've now read several studies about successful long term weight loss maintenance. And none of them mention speed of weight loss as a factor. The Wikipedia article on it doesn't mention it.

Also here's a study that suggests the exact opposite, that rapid weight loss is correlated with long term success.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780395/
Absolutely. But that's not, as I understand it, why it's called a spectrum. It's called a spectrum because it covers conditions as different as Asperger syndrome (which often isn't diagnosed until adulthood, and may never get diagnosed at all) and childhood disintegrative disorder, where the onset of symptoms is so sudden and dramatic that the child themselves may notice and ask what is happening to them.

Being "nerdy, introverted and eccentric" doesn't necessarily mean you are on the spectrum. It may do: you may have an ASD, diagnosed or undiagnosed. But it may just mean you are nerdy, introverted or eccentric.
Concurrent ML
RMS actually looked into Python after someone said to him that it's an accetable Lisp. Turns out he didn't concur - as do I. I did some years of professional Python development and it's a very nice language compared to most - but I do prefer Lisp as does RMS. Building an adaptable application container like Emacs in Python would be very hard to do.
You can't compare to yourself with computers earlier: you have to compare to a hypothetical yourself that never had a computer. I am pretty confident I would be doing an insanely large amount of writing were I to not able to type.
The USA moralises issues more than any other Western democracy as far as I can tell. To a large portion of the electorate, it's not a question of what's [better for women, better for the planet, better for x], it's a question of what's right and what's wrong. Prostitution is obviously wrong, therefore nobody good should be doing it, therefore criminalising it only affects bad people, which is fine, they're bad and they deserve punishment (maybe they'll see the error of their ways and become good people).

Or that's how it seems from over here anyway. The UK's better, but not much.
As someone from a country where all form of prostitution is legal and regulated it did not really ever come up as something odd when I grew up. Prostitution is becoming less prominent in recent years because families move into places traditionally frequented by prostitutes but the industry is healthy as ever as far as I can see.
> That change is at least 2 years out if you're running Testing on your servers or 4 years with Stable. I think that's a reasonable goal.

That's not how the Debian release process works. If everything goes well, that package may hit testing next week[0]; and it may very well be that the next stable release will be in two years.

[0] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openssl
It's not necessarily inauthentic to fit in with a group, most everyone wants to do that, and hopefully you find a group that suits your taste.

But with "longing for authenticity" I was mostly referring to hipster consumption, most of it can be characterised this way, from fixed gear bikes to hand roasted pour over coffee.

Of course the whole thing can tend to devolve into obscurity for the sake of obscurity, and it also is hijacked by consumerism like everything else, but it's pretty clear that a strong common factor is "genuineness".
You're right! @ Knuth. I knew that but it got overwritten by PG's point about scaling prematurely.

Like a good astrologer, I'm going read into your comment to assume support for my larger point - know your tools.
The assumption which seems to underly this statement (that failing to keep up signifies some kind of personal inferiority) is fallacious. The fact of the matter is that around 40% of Americans end up in the same income quintile as their parents. Extreme moves in either direction are rare; 4% in the bottom quintile will move to the top and 8% in the top will fall to the bottom. So in fact a large part of someone's ability to "keep up" (e.g., not be poor) depends on whether they were born into wealth in the first place. No matter what level they're born at, most people don't move very far.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...
Check out the "non-governmental solutions" section of that article. If you can manage to form a community around a common resource, you can establish rules and procedures to govern its use.

This kind of solution won't work for all shared resources, but it's at least worth considering: the people using the resource usually know better how to manage it than a centralized government body, and these communities can think longer-term than a market which tends toward short-term exploitation.
Austria has lax gun laws and lose border controls and legal prostitution. You can also learn from us.
One can signal status be consuming less rather than more.

Being thin doesn't mean necessarily consuming less; see the millions spent on diet books, courses, coaches, etc.
So this is something I found interesting:

The number of rules is listed in the TFA as O(sqrt(n)/log(sqrt(n)), which is the same as O(sqrt(n)/log(n)), and slightly better than O(sqrt(n)), which is the number of rules needed if you have rules for the composites as well. That means that in this case, the constant factor is much more important than the complexity, in terms of how many rules we need.
Thanks for this. I’d love to see a video with the full presentation but it appears there is none.

Gnome is going an interesting direction nowadays. The team managed to invent a desktop environment that is very easy to use, looks good, and is novel – that is to say, not a direct copy of Windows or OS X conventions.

It’s very different from previous versions but there’s always MATE and the likes for that.

One downside about current Gnome for me is that it seems to eat screen space. Looking at the old screenshots it strikes me how compact it is. I feel the same about classic Windows apps versus Windows Store apps. For example, compare Control Panel’s Add/Remove Programs with the new Settings version.
"I think that hypocrisy never helps. If it is illegal to go to a prostitute, it should be illegal to be one, their existence would have no legal justification."

I disagree.

Few are forced to visit and hire a prostitute. But we know people are forced to be a prostitute (trafficking), some do it for drugs, and some feel they have no other way to survive. While society understands not every prostitute is in one of these categories, it seems a cruel punishment to charge them with a crime. MOstly because it would be charging a rape victim with the crime of being raped.
You ought to familiarize yourself with the social contract. Rich people do not create their wealth in a vacuum. Everybody contributes to the creation of an environment whereby wealth creation is possible. This includes everything from basic utilities, infrastructure (roads & rail), health and safety, education, food security, military etc.

If you want to try your hand at creating wealth without "forcing" others to provide for you, there are plenty of lawless regions in places like Somalia, Syria, and Afghanistan for you to test your mettle. Sound unappealing? There you go.
Not at all. Most prostitutes in Austria are foreigners.
Non-Sales Daily Habits That’ll Improve Your Sales Skills
Yes this would put me off immediately.
The question asks for positive solutions, which turns out to be a bit harder!
> Most machine learning techniques focus on problems where the signal is very strong, but the structure is very complex. For instance, take the problem of recognizing whether a picture is a picture of a bird. A human will do well on this task, which shows that there is very little intrinsic noise. However, the correlation of any given pixel with the class of the image is essentially 0. The "noise" is in discovering the unknown relationship between pixels and class, not in the actual output.

Could it be that by looking only at the prices timeseries we are not looking at the actual information but only at the output of a irreversible function and that for effectively predicting the prices we need a model that captures what actually happens in the real world?
I agree. It's kind of a focus thing. When I'm writing code, I do it because I want stuff to happen - in real life, in our physical reality. Any concept of code-as-a-proof is not even on my radar, unless I'd be writing life-critical software for NASA or a hospital, or something.

Here I also thing that 'Turing_Machine is both wrong in details and correct in the general point with their recipe example:

> Examining the measurements, timing, and the production chain doesn't tell you anything about whether the recipe is delicious or inedible.

You could, in principle, apply the knowledge of medicine, chemistry and biology, coupled with process engineering and wide-scale people studies, to construct a theory of tasty foods, which could lead to the situation in which you could evaluate any recipe on a theoretical basis. But getting to that state would require tons of up-front work to be done (some of which is being done for unrelated reasons, so maybe in the future a "food theory" will assemble itself) - and in the meantime, getting a piece of tasty food is done much faster and cheaper by finding the solution instead of deriving it. This search is done through iteration.

Similarly, in software, 99% of the time we find a solution, not derive it from first principles - because the former is much cheaper when we care about the solution, and not solving the entire general class of a problem at the same time.
How Financial Risk Management Software Can Benefit from Big Data Analytics
Either as a society we accept that some people will trade sexual favors for money or we refuse it. I can see arguments both ways. In the end, that is a stance on how you weight two values:

1. The morality to add financial consideration in the decision to provide consent to a sex act.

2. The amount of freewill that a person has within the job market.

What is interesting is that you can have different liberal or conservative position on both of these considerations and still be unsure about the side the scale weights in:

As a conservative:

1. Social conservatives tend to consider sex like a serious matter, set apart from the rest, so they will say that consent is not to be sold.

2. Fiscal conservatives tend to consider freewill in the job market is close to absolute: you are always free to refuse a job, so people deciding to go into prostitution really chose it without constraints.

Depending on how you weight sex-is-special vs job-market-is-free, you can be against or for prostitution as a conservative.

As a liberal:

1. Social liberals will tend to consider that consent is important in every part of life but that sex is (or can be chosen to be) an activity like any other. If someone is really willing to sell sexual favors, under what principle forbidding it? (and it turns to be a fetish too)

2. "Fiscal liberals" (is that an expression? Not sure, non-native here, I mean the opposite of "fiscal conservative) tend to consider wages and employment to be a tool of oppression and control. In that respect, they will be less likely to consider that someone who works for money chooses to do so freely.

Depending on how you weight you-are-free-to-sex-as-you-want vs wage-is-a-way-to-control you can be a liberal and be for or against prostitution.
Internet of Thing and the Scope for Digital Marketing
I really thought it was corrupt politicians giving away public resources to private mega corporations, irresponsible financing systems, wall street selling lel bonds, the undermining of the national working class, bogus copyright laws that are designed to squish small and upcoming competition, and people purchasing garbage degrees instead of useful ones with money they don't have guaranteeing they'll be indebted for at least two or three decades.

But no, it's just IT. How wrong I was.
>There should be a limit on the tax break for hybrids, since you still get it on a Porsche 918 Spyder, and I very much doubt that that car will help reduce greenhouse gasses as much as I doubt that whoever is buying it needs a tax break

Without the tax break they'd surely buy a similar car with a combustion engine so it still makes sense if the purpose is to reduce pollution.
Bitten teen's dad films sea fleas eating meat at Australian beach
The system definitely experiences hysteresis.(if you drop and regain weight you're metabolism will be slower) But I haven't seen any evidence that the rate of weight loss has any influence on it. I can see the intuitive appeal, but I haven't seen theoretical, epidemiological, or any other empirical evidence for it.
Please tell us the name of the dude who "stole" all of your girlfriends' neatly-prepared CS college applications and forced them into psychology, sociology and art history instead. Sounds like some kind of dark patriarchy superhero I'd like to meet (he still didn't manage to steal the spot of the most talented computer scientist amongst my friends, who is a woman)

Actually, there must be a similar female superhero stealing all of the boys' medical school applications as well (and overall college applications, which are majority female)

Or... could this all be the result of decades of encouraging young people to follow their heart when thinking careers ?

People, Occam's razor please.
So... just another example of how the AirBnB system offloads risk onto the unsuspecting, then?
Where do you have that number from?

The numbers in the Wikipedia link is a couple of magnitudes lower.
You still need to be able to transfer the loan from party to party, and allow parties to prove ownership of the loan. That's not a complex contract obviously, but it's important.
Problem is, `onscroll` is not bad per se. I really like those progress indicators that some sites implement, esp. on mobile where the scrollbar is not permanently visible. That's the (IMO) legitimate use-case for `onscroll`.
> They just do a 9-5

I agree. How is working hours defined in your contract (9-5) nowadays considered coasting? And why couldn't I get promoted by not working overtime?

That sounds unfair. When you sign a contract it doesn't say you need to work overtime and burn yourself out to get promoted.

There has been a worrying trend in our industry I have observed when working normal hours is not considered enough anymore and unless you put in hours of overtime every week you are considered a slacker.
Yes, it's not about eating less, and definitely not about spending less on food. It's about showing that you have the leisure to worry about such things.
Do you have some examples for this type of service? I understand if someone needs, say, a gardener or cleaner or (if per email) translator, this would work.
Sounds good, so do I need to delete this submission after post a 'Show HN'?
That sounds nice, but as far as I can tell, in America even most above-board jobs aren't required by government to provide those kinds of protections. Prostitution needs it more than simple things like plumber or electrician, especially things like health checks and accident insurance, but legalizing without those around is kind of a half-baked scheme which could be more harmful than the present state of being illegal.
They need to all be positive. FTA (on the solution x = 4, y = -1, y = 11) :

> This solution is not easy to see by hand, but it’s also not hard to discover with some patience without all the machinery we are reviewing here. It’s the positive solutions that are the lair of dragons.
What is there to prove in most cases though? I spend half my time redefining requirements.

I like Idris, and there's room for these languages. I think you give them too much credit though, programs written in them still have bugs. Your spec can be wrong. But above all else, they can't help you with scale, performance, recovering from hardware faults, and delivering what users wants.

The languages are still new, they'll gain traction, and for certain use cases they'll make sense, for others they won't.