skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those managers and husbands and whoever else are still bound by social rules. Legalizing prostitution doesn't magically make it ok to go out and bang a bunch of hookers if you're married or have elevated social status.

Are they more likely to do it? Maybe. But I think woman can still use their sexuality outside of the legal sex market to achieve the things they want, if that's what they choose to do.
Anything less than life in prison is a miscarriage of justice. She’s a murderer.
Consent. In a proper/safe environment the prostitute has the option of declining a client. Such an environment would hopefully be easier to create if it was legalized.
I once had a lead engineer refer to me as a "resource" during a meeting while I was in the room. As in, my boss was having a discussion with a senior manager and pointed at me, referring to me as "that resource."

That lead engineer was later promoted to VP...
You are of course correct in that prostitution is abhorrent to the women's rights movement. That's because women's rights movements see prostitutes as collateral damage in their war against male oppression: prostitutes should not exist, therefore we can pretend like they don't exist.

Political ideology over reality, this is the sad story of many of the policies pushed both by the conservatives and progressives, and here they agree. The real people are left with the consequences, pushed to the fringes and victimized both by the state and the traffickers.
That's both well put and awfully prescient.
It was an arbitrary estimate. Most would license a single server, but probably a sizable portion who would license it would have a fleet of more than 1.

Mentally, I was thinking of a distribution like this:
($percent_of_users * $usercount) * $license_count, so:

(.8 * 1500) * 1 + (.10 * 1500) * 2 + (.05 * 1500) * 4 + (.03* 1500) * 8 + (.02 * 1500) * 16

As it turns out, that sums up to 2640 -- which is not far off my estimate of 1.8 * 1500 = 2700. :)
Have you seen https://github.com/DenisKolodin/yew?
Apple still does this kind of crap.

Not for users who've opted into two-factor authentication: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915

From the page:

Do I still need to remember any security questions?

No. With two-factor authentication, you don't need to choose or remember any security questions. Your identity is verified exclusively using your password and verification codes sent to your devices and trusted phone numbers. When you enroll in two-factor authentication, we will keep your old security questions on file for two weeks in case you need to return your account to its previous security settings. After that, they will be deleted.
That argument is actually on strong footing in principle, because only one counterexample is required to demonstrate that something isn't universally true a priori.

On the other hand, your argument is weak because 1) you attack a strawman (the commenter did not indicate by their choice of example that it is the most recent), and 2) you did not substantiate why developing military technology then would be different to developing military technology now, in such a way that precludes beneficial use.
Well Soliciting Prostitution is not a federal crime in the US however what the AG and other LE officials do to get around that is go after people under The Travel Act. This is where fifty of the ninety three charges against the Backpage founder where put to nail him "for prostitution" because the Travel Act allows prosecutors to charge people with a Federal crime for violating a state crime if they cross state borders.

That use of the Travel Act to combat prostitution has been used to get any site they wanted to shut down. In other words, since Congress isn't about to reign them in nor the courts prosecutors at the Federal level can do about what they please. This is not to say backpage was innocent, only in how non Federal crimes can become such by stretching intent
And they still do. Look up "Islamic Mortgages". The level of hoops people will jump through to keep some semblance of logical consistency in their nonsense is just absurd.
There's other ways to communicate with other people online, you see? That's overlap! /s
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Terry Crews 2020:

Not the President we need, but the one we deserve.
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The company management doesn't know what they're doing and are looking to grow while magically cutting costs by outsourcing.

It takes years and/or a very solid network to build competent teams.

What went wrong? Your company is managed by amateurs.
It does sound like your ALS (Ambient Light Sensor) isn't connected correctly. I'd suggest reseating all the little connectors!
There's a big difference between the 'regular' crypto market (btc ltc eth) and the shitcoin/ICO market.

Watching 'dominance' of the various coins is an informative indicator (IMO) of the overall health of the system. https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/ (3rd chart down) Obviously market cap is an extremely fraught metric for coins (trade one token for $1.00, with a supply of trillions, and it's 'worth' trillions), but it should average out somewhat.

Bitcoin is recovering a bit of dominance (which I think is a good sign), but that growing 'other' portion suggests that there's a lot of garbage, and that's only growing. So I agree with you; the crypto space is taking on more dubious value, more shitcoins, etc.
I am well-connected to Facebook and I have no impression that employees are transferring or worried in any way. The media's exaggerations of employees' reactions is almost as bad as their exaggerations of what Facebook is doing with data.
I think the law will always encapsulate some idea of morality.

You've already suggested some places where US law restricts contracts that might seem to be between consenting adults. It's a moral choice for the law to restrict you from "selling your organs, selling yourself into slavery, highly dangerous drugs etc."

I think there's good reason for the law to be protective, because merely allowing some contracts to be valid, will allow large power-discrepancies to effectively force people into them.

Whether prostitution falls into this category is a question of culture/morality.
Small quibble, The Silmarillion is more of a Bible-esque summary of thousands of years of history than an easy to read Cliff's Notes, lest anyone be surprised by how difficult it is to read when they pick it up :-)
> 9% of the students showed a significant change of 15 points or more in IQ scores

I had the opposite experience. I've had various IQ tests at age 5, then 9, then 16, then again in my mid-late 30s. 7 tests in all. They have various scores and scales, but in every case, I was within spitting distance of the same spot on the various scales of each test. In some cases, I didn't know I was going to be tested - no prep. In other cases, I'd planned the tests, so ... I can't say I "studied" as such, but I got good sleep, was relatively(!) calm, not anxious, etc.

I don't doubt that over time intelligence capacity changes some, based on a variety of factors. My own experience is that it doesn't change much - both with myself and people I know. It may be that I already tend to know people of above average intelligence, and there's less room for them to grow in the first place?
There's so many "I need to get back to you on that".
The way Cambridge Analytica's got its data was a little nefarious...as I understand it, they obtained data through ways Facebook discouraged (but still enabled).

Whether you consider that an 'exploit' or not is subjective. It's certainly not an 'exploit' in the more common infosec sense.

But the real issue here is that Facebook was complicit in electing Donald Trump. It's political.
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To be fair, Wikipedia knows a lot more than me, too.
Well that at least gives me a good idea of why `:=` cropped up in Go. Having never studied anything older than C, it caught me by surprise.
Weird because he does everything he can to protect his monopoly by buying promising social companies while they're young.
Why? What makes it well-designed? To me, it looks like a sort of especially clunky marriage of SRP and one of those deterministic password managers, with an off-putting extra QR code step.
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I've heard that just asking for the leagal department's address to send a small claims summons will get your issue resolved right away.
When you change the state, does that trigger a full rerender?
I tried my best but the session timed out before I had even finished one movie.
If you cannot leave (which is a lot harder than some folks believe), then documentation is basically your main answer. E-mail eventually hangs a lot of people. Sadly, a lot of this stuff is solved by the exit interviews with HR, but then its generally too late.
There’s also <-, most commonly seen in R but draws it’s heritage from the APL keyboard
That's why I am going to wait till next year to start learning JQuery. Should be stable and mature by then.
he could theoretically go to jail for "contempt of Congress".

Oh shit, I’m a criminal.
I'm writing my own webserver in python, my only purpose to this is to learn python and to force myself to do TDD and to write more functional code instead of OO or procedural code with side effects.
I would like to have a fully working webserver with threads and serving full html pages.
The cynic in you is obviously right about this one.

The best case scenario here is many people simply didn't ever consider the actual ethics of the business that was paying them until everyone else started talking about it.

Not thinking about it until someone makes you doesn't make you a terrible person of course, but I won't be throwing any admiration your way.
> The great thing about writing resumes is that you can leave things off.

Sure, but then you're diminishing the value of what you did. If someone asks you want you did at Facebook, it would be odd if you said "I'd rather not say", as would it if you had five years of blank in your resume.

> Give us legal protections and resources to stand up and to and report unethical behavior by companies then.

I do agree that this is an issue that should be addressed.
How many full time lobbyists do you get for that money? One? :-)
Classical liberals, pioneering class theory, have shown that business and government often partner to serve the interests of the powerful, to create a favorable environment for well-connected industries and companies....

Hear hear. But to know that means knowing a little history - about places like the Caribbean and Hawaii - and law - like when US corporations gained personhood in the late 1800s. Knowing history, it's self-evident. Which is why smearing and disappearing history has so important to these folks for soooooo long.
Correct, right now it's only Windows/Mac/Linux. That leaves the whole mobile & console platforms without it, so it's not like our IL2CPP stuff is "not needed anymore".
Maybe it's because the a large portion of the population started to care and it changed their minds
I don't know what part of "more public arts funding" made you think that, but whatevs.
I specifically said, "It's fine to choose to have a kid."

My point is that if a person is concerned about the environment and the toll humanity is taking on it, recognize the affect your personal choice is having.
He bought Instagram because they are talented developers, not because they are a competitor. /sarcasm
I would not be surprised if Zuckerberg were given a script of certain senators questions prior to this hearing.

A majority of the questioning seems targeted at inspiring consumer confidence in facebook.

This isn't about serving the American people, this is about protecting corporation's ability to sell citizens personal data.
It does! Even though, Martin Richards' homepage [0] hasn't been updated in a while you can try it out with a small amount of fuss [1].

0: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/

1: https://gist.github.com/seaneshbaugh/e09abd748ccc07c5463f253....
Maybe educated emploers pay more taxes?
Doubtful you would care about theoretical physics in the first place if your IQ was 90.
Mark has always thought his primary competitor is email. Let that kind of hubris sink in for a moment.

He's smart and capable but I don't think he has perspective. Perhaps he never did.
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Are you confusing the DivX codec with the DIVX DVD format? I don't know how accurate to it is to say that the cracked MPEG4 decoder had nothing to do with DivX the company. Gej (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Rota) was the guy that created the DivX ;) crack, and definitely worked at DivX, Inc. from the very beginning.

Source: worked at DivX
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I think the issue they are talking about is called fingerprinting.
There are degrees of exploitation and levels of compulsion throughout all society. This doesn't mean that people have to be either okay with all exploitation and compulsion or none at all.
Do you mean that you agree with him?
If you really take the 1% (not just those billionaires) then a lot of that is IRAs (which are stocks and bonds) as well as personal real estate. If you have an IRA plus a house worth a million bucks combined, congratulations, you're in the 1%.

By the way, it's nonsense to think that those 1% control that wealth. They'll be lucky to save more than half of it when the next stock market correction is coming in, or when the Fed prints the value of long-term bonds into oblivion. Yeah, maybe they get to vote on some shareholder meeting, or they get to shoot trespassers on their lawn, that's their level of control.
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Is the plasticity update guaranteed to reach equilibrium assuming the network is run on iid data (as in do the H_{ij} values reach a fixed point)?

Edit: Seems like it should be reached eventually as the equilibrium point is H_ij = y_i * y_j and they keep doing a weighted average of the former with the latter (this is not a proof ofc as y_i * y_j keeps changing with each sample).
BitKeeper guy here (predecessor to Git and Hg). If you think about the capabilities of a distributed source management system you can quickly see it's an enabler for out-sourcing.

As a commercial DSCM provider, we got to watch a lot of out-sourcing attempts.

In 18 years of doing that, I've only seen one really successful one. Which was a Portland based dev team and a Singapore based test team. Every day, the dev team would check in their stuff (or make it available in a test tree) and the Singapore team would wake up, pull it, test it, document the failures, the Portland team would wake up fix and dev some more, lather, rinse, repeat.

As I recall, the Singapore team was out-sourced, different company, but they had a stable group of people dedicated to working with the Portland guys. It was more like two teams working on the same project.

I've seen countless efforts based on "I can get 3 guys in India for what I have to pay one junior guy here" fail. The time difference makes communication hard, you have to send someone to manage the India guys and communicate what you want, there is zero loyalty, if a better gig comes along all the time you put into onboarding those guys is lost, the quality of the code is pretty crappy, etc.

Pretty quickly it becomes not worth it.
I don't know why you got downvoted for questioning this line, I think the original commenter needed more support for that claim.

Statistics I can found show that human trafficking rates actually increase when legalization happens, since demand increases: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-...

I might argue though that the countries who have legalized it so far are not taking enough steps to regulate it safely though. If Netherlands and the like can fix their system to actually reduce trafficking while allowing sex work, then this claim could be made one day. But there isn't research available that I could find which supports that this is the case in any legalized country today.
Here's a PDF about running BCPL on a Raspberry Pi: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/bcpl4raspi.pdf

It's aimed at teaching programming to 10 year olds no prior experience. One of the first examples is implementing RSA.
Wow, what would cause you to be IQ tested without knowing that in advance?
Another interesting way to think about it is as "match". That is try to match the stuff on the right with the stuff on the left.

Take Erlang for example:

1> X = 1.
1
2> X = 2.
** exception error: no match of right hand side value 2

Notice variables are immutable (not just values themselves). Once X becomes 1, it can only match with 1 after that. You might think this is silly or annoying, why not just allow reassignment and instead have to sprinkle X1, X2 everywhere. But it turns out is can be nice because it makes state updates very explicit. In complicated applications that helps understand what is happening. And it behaves like you'd expect in math, in the sense that X = X + 1 doesn't make sense here either:

1> X = 1.
1
2> X = X + 1.
** exception error: no match of right hand side value 2
3>

It does pattern matching very well too, that is, it matches based on the shape of data:

1> {X,Y} = {1,2}.
{1,2}
2> X.
1
3> Y.
2
4>

In other languages we might say we have assignment and destructuring but here it is rather simple it's just pattern matching.
DNA can be harvested from dead hair, skin or spit even, so anyone with access to your physical environment could obtain your DNA.
> There's a concept called first mover disadvantage

A failed concept that has been proven wrong again and again. At this point it's a cliché coming out of people who got MBA's from bad schools.

>if your competitors aren't making the same moves they're gaining in the short term over you

This assumes your target market doesn't differentiate between your product and competitor's products on anything other than price. Apple, and others, have repeatedly proven this wrong.

> most CEOs don't have the kind of power to tell shareholders to settle down

Tim Cook is already on record saying that Apple is committed to doing what it sees as the right thing, and the investors can pound sand if they're not on board.

There are a number of other very large companies that are also run this way. The notion of a corporate board that only listens to its shareholders is a gross oversimplification and not based in a thorough study of modern business.
$3000 a month is incredibly low for Bay Area even if you live in Oakland.
> Since assignment is about twice as frequent as equality testing in typical programs, it’s appropriate that the operator be half as long.

Ken Thompson on why '=' is assignment and '==' the equality check.

It's this kind of mindset that puts me off Go. But I can totally see that many who want a better C getting into Go exactly for reasons like this.
This is just you trying to get an answer you knew you wouldn't get.

"Connecting the world!" is indeed the job of almost all employees at Facebook. You can have a large majority of the company focus on this one goal, and also know that the byproduct of that goal allows you to expand another part of a bigger goal: to make more money on ads.

A company in a capitalist economy must make money, of course. No one is arguing that and no one is saying that Facebook doesn't want - indeed must - make money.

It's like asking an Uber driver what is job is: "to transport people!". Of course, that much is obvious. If you ask someone in the "growth" department (or whatever) what their job is - the description will necessarily be much different.
I did some googling around and seems like spectral rendering is escaping the research labs; Weta is reported to be using spectral rendering and Wikipedia lists several renderers in the "Spectral rendering" page:

> For example, Arion,[1] FluidRay[2] Indigo Renderer,[3] LuxRender,[4] mental ray,[5] Mitsuba,[6] Octane Render,[7] Spectral Studio,[8] Thea Render[9] and Ocean[10] describe themselves as spectral renderers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_rendering

Of those, LuxRender is of special interest considering that it is FOSS and as such freely available.
Interesting. That's a radically different view on what a project should strive for than my own. My own FLOSS work focuses on getting work closer to the system's metal in order to have a responsive low-latency/realtime configuration (realtime being in the realtime signal processing sense).

In this area in particular people doing the same things results in reasonable breadth of work, but insufficient depth. So plenty of options, but all of them not good enough to compete with larger development teams.
Honestly you need a better password manager if it doesn’t allow you to store arbitrary notes or secret question/answer pairs.
> low doses are more effective than high doses

Can you expand on that?
Alternative, fully correct logical perspective that you might have subtly missed:

"Nobody forces you to post drunken racist rants on your wall or dickpics on Instagram. You control and own the content you post on Facebook."
> Websites should not be immune to prosecution for intentionally facilitating criminal activity.

They are not immune from that and Section 230 doesn't make them immune to that.

What section 230 means is that "implementing any moderation or filtering of user content does not automatically make you an editor and thus liable for all content on your site".

Without section 230, Dang cannot do moderation on HN without HN becoming liable for EVERYTHING that is posted to the site. Facebook, Google and Twitter will be economically forced to stop filtering abhorrent content to avoid massive legal liabilities.

The missing discussion is that people need to stop jumping into the discussion without understanding the historical and legal context of section 230.
The length of symbols should roughly be negatively correlated with its frequency.

Since in procedural language, assignment is a much more common operation than equality check, it is reasonable to favor "=" over ":=" or even "<-".
Let's say is a regulated profession where you register to the state, have a certificate, get tested, the client can pay with their phone/credit-card.

Sounds like it would be way harder to exploit trafficking victims in that environment than in one where prostitution stays in the shadows.
Often, we look at the negative in what Ms. Holmes wrought (rightfully so).

Instead, for a sec, look at one positive point in what Tyler Shultz brought forth through his heroic actions against Theranos[0]. His story showed us what SV is and what it can be. Though never guaranteed, he has a happy ending as he recently launched Flux Biosciences in 2017[1].

Remember: Be like Tyler Shultz.

[0]https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/explosive-new-detail...

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/elliekincaid/2017/10/03/after-b...
I don't understand the LISP line at all. I would have said "LET", "SET", and "EQUAL" (since it's talking about numbers). Is there something I'm missing?

EDIT: It's since been changed to "let", "set", "equal" (but still lower-case).
That's why the answers to the security questions are always random strings, and the answers to the quiz questions are always "your mother."

e.g. I learned to drive stick-shift on your mother.
My first pet was your mother.
My special furry friend is your mother.
And so forth.
Learn to argue without fallacies.