skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's the source of my confusion. I've generally accepted that women's issues are uninteresting to this audience unless it's about a startup disrupting some issue and that's ok. I'm more curious why this particular aspect of this particular issue is so interesting and worth discussing.

Say we legalize prostitution in the United States. What if a sex worker gets pregnant? Does the client have any obligation to support that child? Can the client sue for false advertising of an implied reproduction-free sex organ?

Laws governing social issues are messy and interesting but not technical. My point is it's a frivolous distinction to separate motherhood and women's rights from sex work because at the end of the day they are the same issue.
The surface of the earth is 510,082,000 sq. km. The oceans cover ~70.9% of that, so 510082000 * 0.709 * 0.00001 = 3616.48138 cubic km.?
Generate energy with kites
> The JAWS people didn't answer emails when we reached out to them (admittedly quite a while ago), so we've been focusing on NVDA support. Patches to improve the situation with JAWS are welcome. Note that we may eventually implement UIA as opposed to IAccessible2, but that work is currently going slow.
Has the author ever been to Chernobyl or Fukushima lately?
In your opinion, what makes ANS stand out from ETH?
~$ calc

calc 2.12.4.1

> a=154476802108746166441951315019919837485664325669565431700026634898253202035277999

> b=36875131794129999827197811565225474825492979968971970996283137471637224634055579

> c=4373612677928697257861252602371390152816537558161613618621437993378423467772036

> a/(b+c) + b/(a+c) + c/(a+b)
4

> a/(b+c)
~3.74500615923925922050

> b/(a+c)
~0.23213745990937924275

> c/(a+b)
~0.02285638085136153676
Hey! Excellent Work!
Just found a typo in following sentence:
"I am the wind among the purifiers and Lord Rama among the warriors. I am the crocodile among the fishes and the holy Gariga among the rivers. (10.31)"

I think it should be Ganga. :)
Sure, but why is the person from Ukraine in the loop?

Don't get me started on 3D printing (I have one). It has its uses, and more so (with all the hype) it doesn't have its uses.
Hadn't heard of that before. Personally, I'm rooting for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formulary_apportionment
Alternatively we select for the hardier species. Maybe that'll correlate with sophistication and "intelligence".
The octopode uprising is afoot!
This is very good advice for B2B founders. Groupon is one example of a company that did this as a path to growth. From talking with one of their early salespeople[1], two tactics that worked best for them include:

-build your own lists, don't buy them, and

-get to "no" as quickly as you can -- it will save you time in the long run.

[1] https://www.jenieceprimus.com/5-startup-sales-hacks-from-gro...
I loved my GNOME desktop in 2005, after I finally got it working after a fresh installation of non-graphical Debian/sarge, and now I want to kill it.

I started working on "Linux on the Web" in 2012 (https://linuxontheweb.org), and it is just now turning into a solid, stable prototype.

I'm trying to finally answer the question of why ChromeOS? That is, what makes the Chrome browser, in itself, the most awesome application (don't call them "webapps"!) delivery and execution system ever devised?

My idea is that the Internet of Things paradigm is going to start allowing people to efficiently iterate on the types of interfaces that people really want to use rather than the types that were forced down our throats with the desktop metaphor of the 80's, where all of the elements are screen-based renderings/virtualizations.

Let's take the example of a widget that opens a garage door. When I was growing up in the 80's, those were only physical buttons on devices that we called garage door openers. I'm quite sure that there are apps now that allow people to open their garage doors by tapping their fingers on things that are rendered as buttons.

My claim is that people would much rather have physical objects (perhaps custom 3d printed in their homes in a matter of minutes or even seconds, one day) that posses an aesthetic that suits their personality, than these smartphony gadgets that seem to be all the rage nowadays (I don't have one, my Chromebook is my only communication device).

I further claim that the "Chrome-iverse" (I include Node.js in there), particularly when people start getting a clue about the WebBluetooth and WebUSB APIs, is by far the best place to be when it comes to being able to build startups based on this idea.

All I'm saying is that the GNOME desktop was a godsend back in its day. Nowadays, the (legacy?) desktop metaphor is more of a curse for those of us who are seriously trying to innovate.
yeah... people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwjLCQLSsAw
Lua fully supports scripting in multiple threads i.e. multiple threads can each have a Lua context that runs scripts independent of the other threads.

Within a context you can run multiple coroutines but these are all run on the same thread and are cooperative.

It doesn't natively support sharing across multiple OS threads.
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If something is legal then workers have protection, can form unions and have rights. It's more difficult in a legal environment to have people who are coerced or forced to work.

If prostitution is illegal then it will be run by people who do not obey the law and will happily traffic people and have people people working illegally or forcibly.

http://humantraffickingsgp.weebly.com/amsterdams-red-light-d...
Gallery: Japanese Media Try Bitcoin at Marui Store in Tokyo
Isn't that the usual meaning of accessibility in software?
>Work for Google

You do not work for Google though, you live for Google - work just happens to be the majority of your life.

You don't live for prostitution, it pays the bills like any other non-life-consuming job.
As a news-stand magazine editor I used to love getting properly targeted press releases for relevant products from small organisations. "Properly targeted" is the key: if you write one release and send the same thing to a thousand publications, of course it won't work.
Nuclear energy is the safest energy source - on the sun.
SoftBank transfers its $5B stake in Nvidia to the Vision Fund
That problem will be fixed once we get robot soldiers.
Maybe because it's easier to solve the immediate problem by writing the UI in the target platform's native fully-accessible toolkit and dropping support for platforms that don't have one.

That said, I suspect the easiest solution nowadays would be writing your UI in electron, or the Gecko-based project that was announced a week or so ago (sorry, I can't remember the name).
There does seem to be a hostility towards people who work in tech on the left. To me this feels like pandering to that by Clintonian types who don't actually have any interest in dealing with class issues.
Some major applications using Guile include: Lilypond, Gnucash, GDB, Guix.
Probably firebase, auth0, cognito or a similar third-party system. To me that fits in with the node ethos, which has always seemed to be to be, roughly, "mash things up".
That's what I got.

And then 1 cubic km of water is ~1 trillion kg.
It's a good read but... I don't see the whole point about "From a Dutch mind-set, climate change is not a hypothetical or a drag on the economy, " is a bit weird.

Climate doesn't matter here. 1/3rd of the country is already under sea level TODAY. The billions we spend on engineering and developing water defense structures have no relation to our believes about climate change. We are ALREADY beneath sea level!

Look at this https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/5a/75/f8/5a75... Gives you a perspective.

Hell, we even have our own little Trump, denying Climate change and blaming all our faults on Moroccans in stead of Mexicans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Wilders

Some more reading for those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control_in_the_Netherlan...
Try this, find the cubic root of 27 by hand. No computer!
Does n^pi = m have any nontrivial integer solutions?

Does the fractional part of e^n tend to zero?
Just FYI, my company's firewall blocks it with the label 'malicious'. Don't know if its the .xyz extension or something in the content
Rhode Islander checking in. I'll share a story I heard from someone downcity many years ago, before this law was reversed in '09.

Buddy's (7-time wiseguy mayor of Providence, and 2-time convicted felon) usual driver was unavailable, and a detective was assigned to escort him. The mayor gives his new driver an address. The detective recognizes it, bit can't quite place it, and gets on his way.

When he gets there, it hits him. "Buddy, this is the address of a known brothel".

Buddy quips back "you must be a detective" and disappears into the building.
Common media narratives like the ones you describe are usually wrong or at least they give misguided view of relative importance of different factors.
Let's consider the lexicographically smallest triplet (x, y, z) such that:

x/(y&z) & y/(x&z) & z/(x&y) is even

That means that x/(y&z) is even, or y/(x&z) is even, or z/(x&y) is even.

If x/(y&z) is even, then x is even too, so x&z is even, so y is even (otherwise y/(x&z) wouldn't be integer).

Similarly, we can conclude that all x, y, z are even.

But if we substitute x=x/2, y=y/2, z=z/2, the value of x/(y&z) & y/(x&z) & z/(x&y) doesn't change.

So the (x, y, z) triplet we considered wasn't the smallest. Contradiction.
Obviously if you need a car/house/refrigerator/whatever to live your life and are not wealthy then replacing that item is not easily done, because it costs weeks of salary (or more) and needing a replacement can be profoundly disruptive to your life.

However, I can see no chain of logic suggesting that means you're forced to live less minimally than a wealthier person is able to.
It isn't the technology that's to blame for how the wealth it creates is distributed. That's just silly. And honestly, an efficient socialist economy is made much more realistic by modern technology. There's a lot that can be done to offset some of the downsides that have been associated with it in the past.
I follow sex worker activist communities peripherally (some friends are sex workers or activists in that area), and I don't know of anyone working toward the goal of government-operated brothels (though many lean socialist on some fronts) or expressing a desire for "constant monitoring".

They just want to be treated like any other sole proprietor. They want the rule of law to apply for them, so when someone cheats them, robs them, or steals from them, they can call the police and be treated with something approaching respect. They want to be able to legally save and spend their money (and pay taxes on it) like everybody else. And, they want to be able to use tools like Backpage to find clients. Oh, and they want to be able to communicate openly with other people in their local industry so they can look out for one another when it comes to dangerous clients.

I think it's kinda the same thinking that leads to outlawing some kinds of sex work and/or equating all sex work with human trafficking (there's a whole category of so-called feminism that treats all sex work as human trafficking, which is just weird). Infantilizing the people who participate, as though they can't run their own small business without constant monitoring, and can't make their own decisions about the sort of work they want to do. There are good discussions to be had about health and legality and human trafficking, etc. But, I can't think of any good arguments for not acknowledging the basic autonomy of the workers themselves.
Yes, thank you for brining this up, sincerely. I'd read about this too. Even though it isn't statistically significant, it is a fascinating result. This study should be performed again while collecting more precise data on a bigger swath of engineers.
>If "we" want to provide support to any group, it can be done through charity.

It's funny. Propertiarians frequently use the argument against Socialism that it's "human nature" to be greedy, while simultaneously relegating social support to charity, supposedly out of the goodness of human hearts :)
I see.

The whole up or out principle sounded rather efficient to me.
Thanks for reading my post. I am building a database of complete known works across the most important art and artists of the twentieth century. Currently no such database exists. Hoping to work with folks much sharper than I am to build out meaningful analytics around art and artists using this new data.
I wonder when the rise will begin to affect ocean-side property prices?
I would recommend starting a code peer review circle with your fellow domain experts and never allowing yourself to push to your repo without someone reviewing.
You seem to have missed the thrust of the article which isn't that The Bell Curve proves Murray to be a racist (although it certainly has him winking strongly in that direction) but that his other book, "Human Accomplishment" is flagrantly and defiantly racist.

> A far more illuminating piece of evidence about the Murray racial worldview is found in his little-read 2003 book Human Accomplishment, the text that substantiates point 2 on the above List Of Racist Charles Murray Beliefs: Black cultural achievements are almost negligible.

> And what do you know, shockingly enough, out of hundreds of significant figures in Western music, there are almost no black people on the list. (Duke Ellington makes it.) Now, remember, this is a list of the objectively highest human accomplishments in music, and it doesn’t cut off until 1950.

> Do I have to explain why Murray’s framework is racist? Because Charles Murray thinks classical English composers were rooted in human experience and had intellectual depth (which we know, because they showed up more in the encyclopedias he picked), while black American composers (for that is what they are) were not.

etc.etc.
Yes, but those systems are engineered in the exact same processes. Just with less testing and fewer documents.
Testing with Selenium: Covering an Enterprise Web Application
Software Programming != Computer Science
Software Programming and Science != Engineering

While we're drawing distinctions stop calling yourself an engineer unless you're legally licenced as one. Programming may share similarities with engineering but it lacks the professional accreditation and liability.
Show HN: Scam Stamp Token on Ethereum. Scammed? get your ether back
There are only people who think they understand the body because they don't know what a p-value means. As indicated by the replication crisis, where over 50% of results are not even repeatable, the majority of this info is incorrect. And that is the tip of the iceberg because even if an experiment/observation is consistent that does not mean you interpreted the results correctly.

Actually, I bet there are very few people who actually have a better understanding of the human body than me, just because I have the appropriate skepticism.
> Is the public shown only false news?

There is no need for false news to shape opinion. Think of one's picture of reality as a point-cloud, each point one news report. By choosing which news they promote, and which they bury, the media can paint almost any picture they wish, without uttering a single falsehood.
Peer groups are what matter. If I hadn't had a friend whose parents were programmers back in the early 90s I'd be some plce else entirely.
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> There is no good reason why every random Joe should be able to type in my mum's, daughter's or son's email address in HIBP and see whether one of them has been signed up on a Cannabis website, gambles online, or trades with bitcoin or is signed up with an organisation that tries to help people with a certain condition.

Not only that, but seeing what pastes their email can be found in is an issue. Just last week was a post on the front page of HN where someone did exactly that: found what paste a friend's email was in, downloaded the paste, and using a few extra steps recovered the hashed password [0]. While it's possible to find all the leaked information and search it manually, aggregating in a single place adds convenience for those with legitimate uses but also for nefarious purposes.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919845
I think that's culturally impossible. Amazon's a bit of a snake-pit and there's no way such behavior could exist in that environment: it'd be painting a giant target on your back.
Nice :) Laughed at http://startuperlife.xyz/38
Are they accessible? I know a lot of web toolkits and component libraries are not.
Perhaps the solution then is not redistribution of money, but common control over the means of production, the way by which people sustain themselves.
"If you have trusted services available, you may not need a blockchain" assuming you can actually trust those services. In the U.S., among people in lower economic strata, this is not actually the case.

Matt Taibbi's recent book The Divide has a chapter on the abuses of our credit collections system. People are getting taken to court of debts they never actually owed in the first place, or already paid off. The lender has sold the loan to someone else, the records are lost, the borrower get "served" at an old address and never actually hears about the case, then loses to a default judgement for not showing up at court...and finds out about it when wages are garnished.

Here's a simple idea I came up with to fix that:

http://www.blunderingcode.com/ethereum-credit-cards/

It still uses the courts to enforce payment, but it uses the public blockchain to stop this nonsense about lost records and fraudulent attestations that they exist, while still protecting borrower privacy.
I'd like to start a "Don't bring water out of our gravity well" association.
Do you really think you're funny asshole?
>I assume you mean mandatory charity through taxation teaches people to be charitable?). That certainly isn't a given; how do you know whether people have been taught to be charitable by the threat of violence/imprisonment [so] they're only paying taxes to avoid being imprisoned?

It's not about knowing what each individual motives are though, it's about society setting X (we help the disabled) as a norm, rather as something that one may or may not decide to do.

In the end, some people might not like it, but more people will see it as a default/norm/baseline than in an opt-in society.

>Is a good deed a good deed if done unwillingly?

Yes, since again, the good is not in what it means for the one doing it, but in the good it does to the one receiving it.

>If people are free to donate as they choose and none chose to support the disabled, wouldn't that in fact show that society doesn't really care about helping the disabled anyway?

Yes, but there's nothing fatalistic about how a society "feels" (statistically) and what it cares about. Societies can be changed, and having helping as the default (and someone can always opt-in to help more), helps in establishing that kind of "help is good" change in my opinion.

>In which case what's the justification for a law forcing something that few in society want?

Well, what if few, including the black votes, (say, 10% of the 80% whites + 20% of blacks, so 70 vs 30) wanted the blacks to be free?

I would still justify such a law that goes again what the majority wants. Who gets to decide in general in such cases? That's a tricky question, but if it was up to my to decide, I'd decide in favor of that in that case.

>Conversely, given so many people do seem to care about the welfare of the disabled, why wouldn't they express this through charity?

Well, there's nothing stopping them to do so on top of state and structural assistance.
I upvoted you. But completely disagree. Qt does have serious shortcomings, but it is the only library I have seen could come this far.
There's also an official software (not necessarily better, of course): http://ldd.lego.com/
The same is true for math. It is the same thing, because of the Curry-Howard isomorphism.

The reason for all the confusion is that programmers are already doing math. They just don't realize it and reinvent the wheels invented by the math community in the past century. It's a matter of semiotics.
These are the things that are super low priority for commercial projects, and those don't usually want to leave money on the table. They're super low priority for OSS.

If I recall correctly Sun paid a long time ago for usability and accessibility studies for GTK 2 and Gnome 2. And I'd guess most of their work was thrown way during the transition to GTK 3/Gnome 3 (somebody can correct me on this, I'm not really certain). Basically: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
> be me

> read powerful article on Qt being shit on accessibility

> "Sorry for claiming Free Software would be a good thing for the world."

> I shall no longer let Free Software oppress the world

> uninstall Firefox, Chromium

> launch Internet Explorer

> browse literally anywhere

> All data is now held by ransomware, must pay my savings to bigd1ckd4ddy0

> The world is now a better place
Is WebRTC Safe?
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They can be important. It's important to know if you're flying to LHR or LGW (for London), esp if you're at an airport where planes of the same airline leave to both. Identifying the flight by flight number is often problematic if it's a codeshare flight (displays at the airport only show one or switch infrequently), so identifying by airport and flight time is easier.
Because that's also a mistake: the problem there is, you cannot keep a person doing something they're optimal for if you need to continually promote them.

One of the holy grails of effectiveness at doing stuff is having some comprehension of your boundaries. To categorically disavow even the concept of boundaries is catastrophically silly.
I have reluctantly accepted that my colleagues are unlikely to ever "grok" Tcl. So they they wont accept me using Tcl for production code that someone else might need to maintain in future. However they are happy to use various development utilities that I can hack together in Tcl much more productively than with anything else :-)
>In the US, the police require probable cause to even stop or question someone

They do not need probable cause, they need "reasonable suspicion"[1].

The same standard Aus had until around a decade ago (now reduced). There were nearly 700K stop and searches in NYC in 2011 alone[2] (vastly reduced now) which undermines your suggestion that the BoR provides solid protection in this particular respect. Although I agree there are some protections offered by codified rights.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_stop

2. http://www.nyclu.org/content/stop-and-frisk-data
Awesome! I have some Khan Academy courses queued up to learn linear algebra, but this is more targeted and useful.
I don't buy that argument. Referencing work doesn't mean you just slap a bunch of links and call it good. Build up of context; heck even just mention Google Project Aristole. Are you saying Gizmodo stripped links and all paragraphs that provided reference context and explanation of said material?

Sorry, I think perhaps to me his writing style came off as amateur at best to me. It seemed rushed, wavering, and made irrelevant arguments without proper build up or context. It wasn't until the very end that he even decided to state the context of mountain view to begin with. Reading it made it sound like over generalizations and frankly just a long reddit rant.

Reading through this article linked here, nothing came off as especially controversial to me. Seeing that the author of the memo seems to have some professional background in the field of biology I would of expected better; at least check for typos.