skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are lots of women who are coerced into prostitution, either directly or structurally.

That's true, but why do you phrase it solely in terms of women? There are a lot of boys/men in the sex industry also.

My personal argument is the criminalisation of prostitution forces prostitutes to associate with criminals, which is where the abuses can happen.

In my country, where prostitution is legal, a prostitute recently took her boss (What do Americans call a man who runs a brothel?) to our Human Rights Tribunal for sexual harassment and won. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm

If you want to minimise harm, legalisation strikes me as the obvious move.
Over 15 years ago, Stanford did a project to 3D scan statues of Michelangelo. http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/

Sad to see this isn't something common nowadays given the proliferation of the 3D ecosystem in general.
DevTools. For Designers
"I will legally be able to pay a professional for their company for a few hours", You just want to fuck, say it.

In any human interaction, in many cultural contexts, it is very possible to be too businesslike and leave the other participants feeling awkward or even a bit abused. This is especially true in any service oriented businesses. Given the nature of the business of prostitution, I would expect this to be especially true there.

I would expect that intelligent and sensitive customers would be more sensitive in this way. I would also expect that the higher paid practitioners of the business would tend to have higher emotional intelligence, and would also be smart enough to arrange their lives to mostly deal with people they mostly like.

I would also posit, that in any situation where one is paying for someone's time, one should modify the expectation of "true friendship" in such a relationship to take the economic relationship into account.

But let's take your admonition and apply it to the cafe, and see what we get:

There is no "love" or "care" in the cafe, only coffee for money. The only thing a barista loves is your money. But that's ok. Just don't romanticize it.

Does that sound strange? Yes it does. There is a certain vehemence that just doesn't apply to coffee, but which does apply to sex. (1) That's kind of weird. Why is it ok to be warm, friendly, and chatty with your barista, but not with a prostitute? I should think it would be creepier to be absolutely mechanical about it.

It's creepy but I bet you like it that way.

Actually, this line sounds emotionally abusive and therefore creepy. Much creepier than anything in the gp comment.

(1 - Most of the time. There was this one time I asked for a decaf at Blue Bottle. Yeah I know, but I was already pretty wired.)
Farming in California is built on trafficked, essentially slave, labor, but I guess the much smaller problems in prostitution are a more romantic target.
The existence of people in the sex industry (yes, it's in fact an industry) who are not women doesn't disqualify the relevance of women's social position in the world to the industries (they are industries, sorry) of prostitution and mainstream pornography, which are primarily oriented toward straight male customers.

I don't know what to tell you if you can't parse the first paragraph of my comment.
So basically, Pascal strings? :)
Can you explain how a man buying sex from a male prostitute is an act of violence against all women? Or a women paying either a man or a women for sex?

Forcing or coercing someone to have sex, whether for money or not, is wrong, and I doubt you'll find anyone on here who disagrees with that. But there are, in fact, people who actually freely choose to have sex for money, and even enjoy it, and enjoy the relationship they have with their clients. Should these people really be treated as criminals and prevented from doing the job they like and can earn a living by doing?

I think there are pros and cons to legal prostitution, and if you're against it, then come up with real reasons to argue against it. Don't try to shut down the debate with a clearly false statement that prostitution is an act of violence against an entire gender.
It's interesting to think about why it is that we are so much more incensed (as we are) by this wanton destruction of historical artefacts than by the destruction of human lives - beheadings, mass murders, etc.

I think both actions, the murders and the destruction, are designed to sully us all, to drag us down to their level of blind hatred. The reason why the destruction of historical artefacts is more effective at achieving this is, perhaps, because while we feel some distant sympathy towards "some foreigners that I don't know" being murdered, we feel personally insulted by what we regard (rightly) as our collective, human historical heritage being destroyed. We feel this affects us personally - I know I feel I do, anyway. It feels like a much more personal and intimate insult.

Ironically, the fact that this is such an effective way to get people upset (and thereby polarise them) guarantees that IS, the Taliban, and other extremist groups that depend on global polarisation will continue to destroy priceless historical artefacts everywhere they find them. They depend on the cycle of getting remote people to get emotionally enraged, getting those same people to mistreat muslims local to them, thereby causing more muslims around the world to feel disenfranchised by western society, thereby making ISIS's recruitment work easier.

As one article pointed out after the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the major issue that ISIS has with the west is that the vast majority of the muslims here have zero interest in what ISIS is doing. By letting ourselves be provoked into making generalist statements about whole population (e.g. someone who reads this, gets pissed off, and then goes and votes on tougher laws against Islam in their country), we do ISIS's work.

I suggest responding to this with sadness rather than anger.
To be honest, your views sound textbook liberal. And quite rational.
Smaller? By what metric?
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Ruby and Elixir: Polyglottin' FTW
There is no "social stigma" to prostitution afaik.

https://www.google.com/search?q=social+stigma+prostution+nor...

EDIT: "Social stigma" that looks like, sounds like, and feels like social stigma passes the "duck test." It essentially is social stigma. It doesn't matter so much for the question of its existence who in particular it originates with.
craigsmitham meant straight male johns using the prostitution industry. You know this, and yet act like you don't. This is called "intellectual dishonesty".

craigsmitham seems to endorse the Nordic model, where prostitutes are not in fact "treated as criminals". It's useful to read the material that people link, even if you disagree with them.
How To Design Programs http://htdp.org

Many people consider it essential reading similar on its importance to SICP.

Re the original poster's list: most of those books are terrible, in my opinion.
It's fascinating that some founders will always post things like this, "I don’t think true work/life balance is possible in the day-to-day reality of startups" and yet others say that there's really no need to sacrifice work life balance even at a start up, and that if you are working yourself to death, you aren't working smart.

I suppose there's not necessarily a right answer.
come to say this. code complete is basically a free ticket to obtain 10 years of working experience in one go. I read it after 3 years of career, and still found the content insightful

I'd also add the mythical man month. being a programmer is good, but overspecializing as the technical guy cause a certain degree of blindness to other software requirements (cost, time, quality). some part of that books can't really work in today work environment because external constraint, like the surgical team, but every word of it is gold.
I thought it'd be faster to accept it. I was trying to catch my next flight.

Counter-trolling only happened when it was obvious that I had already missed it.
Another one from Section 8

> Bug-elimination research, like other user-interface research, is highly nonmathematical.
The goal is to have users, in this case programmers, make as few
mistakes as possible in achieving their desired effects. We don’t have any way
to model this—to model human psychology—except by experiment. We can’t
even recognize mistakes without a human’s help. (If you can write a program
to recognize a class of mistakes, great—we’ll incorporate your program into
the user interface, eliminating those mistakes—but we still won’t be able to
recognize the remaining mistakes.) I’ve seen many mathematicians bothered by
this lack of formalization; they ask nonsensical questions like “How can you prove
that you don’t have any bugs?” So I sneak out of the department, take off my
mathematician’s hat, and continue making progress towards the goal.
out of curiosity, I wonder what would happen if an app was made to lock the phone down for a period of time or some other future forward criteria. Can they charge you when you don't actually know the password.
Teflon is bad too[1]. It's quite horrible IMO.

Additional source: I know a lawyer that worked for DuPont. Their job was ensuring that DuPont would never be held accountable for problems caused by Teflon. That was enough evidence for me to throw away all of my teflon pans.

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2007/05/teflon-foreve...
I guess Baghdadi doesn't just want to be the next Abu Bakr, but also the next Qin Shi Huang.
If you are talking about the date, it's documented how to parse it :

> cat current | tai64nlocal
For algorithms, I like Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual. That's a practical-oriented book, where theoretical learning is mixed with anecdotes about real life problems solved.

The same cannot be said for TAOCP, but it certainly looks very good on a shelf. Practical usage? Limited. You don't need Knuth to learn basics of time complexity.
See kkrieger. 96KB doom3-like fps-demo
Infographic: the U.S. job market
They have introduced a new machine called the "clover" that supposedly makes better coffee.

I remember all the cool coffee shops used to have a Clover machine 5 or 6 years ago. I also remember it making pretty great coffee. Then they kind of disappeared and everybody went back to espresso based coffee drinks.

I actually kind of miss the Clover and the french press style coffee it made, and would be happy to frequent any coffee shop that reintroduced it.
By structurally, I mean due to economic or social structures that leave some people with little alternative to this type of informal economic transaction (the downsides of informality being a lack of access to legal and financial resources that support workers in other sectors, albeit imperfectly or in untimely fashion). If it's the best option because of some lack of educational opportunities or social policy that puts people at a disadvantage (eg by creating a ghetto) then that's a problem.

No, not really. Almost all sex is transactional at some level. Women who don't sell it for cash don't want to compete with professionals in the same way manufacturers try to keep out low-priced imports.

I disagree, and think your view is overly reductionist and overly simplistic. Sex work involves a much more diverse set of situations than your stereotypical and rather cynical appraisal of gender-economic relations. It's not that the popular social structures like monogamy don't have any economic dimension, but the assumption that this is the only thing that motivates anyone is as much a denial of agency as the notion that all prostitutes are helpless victims of evil patriarchy.
You could also say that adultery has a social stigma, but you see it everywhere, even from the most conservative of men. I would argue that this is not "social stigma", but rather a different conception of controlling women. To the aging, minority group of conservative men who are supposedly "against" prostitution, women are supposed to be private property, not public property.
Perhaps property taxes in this area are not high enough? There needs to be more than just 'opportunity cost' for squatting on valuable space.
But note that the line of reasoning used to make it legal was that the person paying for the sex wasn't actually involved in the sex. So essentially you have a situation in which two adults engage in consensual sex and are paid by a third party for the performance.

What if there was a "registration fee" that went to the website, and it just so happened that this was more than the payment to both "film actors?"

In order to qualify as "speech" I would imagine a court would require some external purpose for the performance.

What if the website posted the video for members?
FREAK in all versions of Windows
Yes, it's broken.

It's an employers market and each employer has ridiculous demands. They expect homework, code tests and phone interviews with various team members. All that just to get your foot in the door. They don't value your time or efforts. You don't get any respect at any point. And if you do make it through their process, you will just get an insulting low-ball offer. Some companies are not like that. But the vast majority is.

IT is becoming more and more a robot-slave market. Companies are hiring profiles and specs, not people. They don't care about what you can do. All that matters is how you fit in their factory and how low their cost will be.

And the best part is, none of that is happening in the other areas. We're engineers. We could have easily become bankers, doctors, lawyers, rocket scientists or whatever else we wanted. We can still make the change if we want to start from scratch. The pay is better, you get infinitely more respect and nobody treats you like a criminal when trying to find work.

So stop pouring your energy into an IT job. Nobody cares. And you're definitely not going to be rewarded for it. Instead, you should leech off of any company and focus your attention on yourself and your future. That's what your manager does. That's what your CEO is doing. And that's how most people think. Juggle some simple office politics, work as little as you can and go build a startup in your spare time.

Fuck the IT job market. Start working for yourself.
Its better than nothing as a supplement to the funding some OSS software already gets. It would be nice for the internet community to be able to fund the internet infrastructure without having to have any idea about all the projects that make it possible. I'm not saying it will work as a sole source of funding but may of these projects are desperately underfunded and could do with some revenue. I think may users would be happy to donate to the projects that make the internet possible.
> Internet Explorer people have expressed that they intend to also support the new protocol without TLS, but when they shipped their first test version as part of the Windows 10 tech preview, that browser also only supported HTTP/2 over TLS. As of this writing, there has been no browser released to the public that speaks clear text HTTP/2. Most existing servers only speak HTTP/2 over TLS.

I'm hoping it will stay this way. Defaults are important, so it's the platforms' responsibility to support and enforce the "safer" options.

> The fact that it didn’t get in the spec as mandatory was because quite simply there was never a consensus that it was a good idea for the protocol. A large enough part of the working group’s participants spoke up against the notion of mandatory TLS for HTTP/2. TLS was not mandatory before so the starting point was without mandatory TLS and we didn’t manage to get to another stand-point.

Which is interesting, because I remember quite clearly the "Snowden discussion" at the IETF, and there were consensus for an "encrypt everything Internet".

> There is a claimed “need” to inspect or intercept HTTP traffic for various reasons. Prisons, schools, anti-virus, IPR-protection, local law requirements, whatever are mentioned.

Right. So IETF made it non-mandatory so law enforcement can get their "master keys" in a way. Also this "anti-virus" kind of protection, is basically what Superfish was. I'd rather that kind of behavior was stopped.

IETF would better start actually becoming useful and come up with ways to replace the CA system over the next few years, instead of taking protocols from others and ruining them as they standardize them. Otherwise we should rethink a new model for standardization if IETF is as useless/malicious as it is right now.
I don't think he was asking for an entitlement program to pay for hookers.
Only because of the comment a few levels above that characterized prostitution as fundamentally violent towards women. I agree sex work as a whole is much more diverse and complex than can be summed up in a simple stereotype.
Ok yes, but why 3?
That story is from May 2014.
Once the Conservancy has sorted out this GPL situation, perhaps they can investigate the legality of the commercial GPL-using ecosystem around WordPress.
Make a list of the top VCs in your country --> Check their website. It usually lists the startups they have invested in --> choose the startups you are interested in --> visit their website --> contact the people in your startup(s) of choice.
>In other words the legal outcome of GPL violations is not necessarily being forced to release the rest of the code as GPL.

True. I have met many people who didn't make that connection. They had this idea that if they found GPL code inside a commercial, closed source product, that it would be completely okay to start distributing this software themselves. Because in their minds, "GPL is in there, so the entire thing automatically becomes GPL licensed and everybody can distribute GPL licensed code and even charge money for it".

I had to explain to them that is doesn't work that way. And if they found such a component, all they would have found was a GPL violation which they can report and which then would be an issue between the software's developers to resolve. Which may either end in them actually releasing their entire product under GPL or simply paying a fine. Out of those options I am pretty sure most would rather pay a fine than to give up their own IP to the GPL.
BBC Documentary “Nirbhaya” India's Daughter
The Boring Choice
I do agree with you, that is the general scientific consensus.
I made that statement vague because new data is emerging about the telomere network,so I'm not sure what is the current correct way to think about telomere's.

Some new research papers are emerging that question the existing model we have about telomeres.
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2015.00...

Quote from that paper "summarizing recent research findings, Trusina (2014) conclude that recently obtained knowledge ‘shift the telomere paradigm from a simple clock counting cell divisions to a more complex process recording the history of stress exposure within a cell lineage.’ "

So I find it reasonable to think that telomeres could be more than just padding, like a clock or history of stress exposure in a cell lineage.
Yeah, it's pretty obvious that the author is completely misinformed, he knows it and he doesn't care. He is just trying to be controversial to gain notoriety, too many people doing it these days. It's enough to see the post's title.
Integrating Slack with GitHub Enterprise
I think it gets dicey when you ask him to define "harm". That has the potential to hit pretty much anywhere on the spectra.
Well, yes, a lot of people make tons of money, doing terrible things.
This looks great, and I'm willing to pay the $500, but there's no release date. If I'm am being charged immediately, you have to have a release date - or otherwise communicate how the pre-order period works.
Frequency of piecework? I bet there are a lot more instances of "picking a fruit" per year by trafficked farm worker than there are instances of sex by a trafficked sex worker.
No, JavaScript is not valid TypeScript. This might be a silly example but there are dozens of similar, small JavaScript programs that are not legal TypeScript (for good reason!).

http://crystae.net/2015/01/22/typescript-is-not-a-superset-o...

Try running jQuery's source through the TypeScript compiler some time.
The default accountability rules say 3 years (or maybe "minimum 3 years"). Therefore older hardware is assumed to have no value, unless someone takes the time to think about it.
Its ideas have 'leaked out into the culture'. I doubt it was all so obvious when it first came out.
I think craigsmitham meant women as a class, not individual women. Prostitution (which includes porn) is fundamentally harmful to women as a class. I think this should be obvious, but those to whom it is not can see the work of Gail Dines and related feminists.
I guess I will never make something popular because I am apparently on the different side than all those people who are happy eating shit (playing games that try to rip them off).
Run your app on Nitrous.io
Generally speaking newer kernels are considerably more stable than older kernels - the main reason Redhat and variants have such old Kernels is because of the proprietary driver compatibility and patches for 'enterprise' hardware such as RAID controllers.

Additionally - there is also a trap where software is deployed that has been developed without the idea of being modernised (and in some cases maintained) over time - Vendors will often charge large amounts of money to modernise and test these applications.

I've observed this as both a means of increasing profitability, out of lack of quality engineering / development skills or practices or by misinforming customers to think that risk aversion and a slow rate of change is the least costly option over time which leads to or is caused by pathological or bureaucratic organisational culture.
For context, I recommend http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2014/11/wahhabism-...
Euclid's algorithm in the Shell
If you're interested in this kind of thing, Sherry and Rob Walling have been doing a nice podcast here: http://zenfounder.com/

Highly recommended, although I hope that sooner or later they'll add a transcript.
Why are you referring to rape as "sex"? Rape is a violent crime every time it happens. I think we can recognize one issue as valuable without putting down the other.
'CSAPP' = ?
Android and iPhone Users Need to Pay Attention to the Latest Hot Vulnerability
"Social stigma" that looks like, sounds like, and feels like social stigma passes the "duck test." It essentially is social stigma. It doesn't matter so much for the question of its existence who in particular it originates with. I've met way too many young people who have strong feelings against prostitution to think you are correct, however.
If you're not trolling then you're painfully naive. I find it impossible to reconcile this with your other comment elsewhere in this subthread.
Why everything I have is broken
The most puzzling aspect for me is the reason being given : to fight "Idolatry". Seriously how many people are still adoring Sumerian gods? It would makes some sense if it was still an active religion, but there it sounds absolutely irrational. I know that I am trying to find logic where this is none. This is both infuriating and disconcerting.