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Having traveled to Thailand I was pretty shocked at how open(ly exploitive) and shameless the sex trade there is.

I've always wondered why the Thai government and King are okay with condoning the massive sex tourism industry there (the majority of which is built to serve foreigners... which stands in contrast to the sex industries in other Asian countries). Don't they know that in the western world, Thais are at the butt of all the stereotypical sucky-sucky-me-so-horny jokes?

I find it unbelievably demeaning culturally... and it seems so contradictory to the otherwise prideful Thai culture...

Any local Thais care to comment?
Autonomous vehicles or high-speed subways that are cheap to build will destroy housing prices. Technology can reduce the cost of transportation increasing the usable land around a city.

Other advances include new construction techniques making it cheaper to build taller buildings. ie prefabs or 3D printing
They don't have to be hang on the wall, maybe only those you like the most. They also should be personalized, like with a monthly goal of yours.

Weekly I mean sent every week, like a service. The thing is, would people pay for this?
India +5:30, Nepal +5:45 to name two.
Amen. Anyone who has spent time setting up Google accounts, pages, authorship/identity details, maps and local, YouTube channels etc etc for SEO or similar purposes soon realises how horribly it's all cobbled together. Apparently they seriously think people will voluntarily use these services as some sort of unified social media platform.

Everybody has done this sort of thing simply for blindly hopeful SEO reasons, surely?
Robustly tracking and localizing very small objects in high clutter environments using computer vision.
Sure, but there are some shops that do their security from a point-of-view of "Attacker can run commands on your server as the user that started whatever-public-service/webapp/api", and go from there. I happen to think that's the best way to think about it.

Now, if an attacker manages to get root access then it's game over[1]. That just shouldn't happen. But nobody should be running their webserver as root. So, whatever that user is should be low-powered with only enough privileges to start the webserver & bind port 8080 (and use iptables or whatever to reroute connections to port 80 --> 8080) and the whole setup should be designed that this account won't be able to escalate things further if someone got a bash shell to it.

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1. You should at least have some way of detecting that it happened and consider all data & files compromised and just wipe the whole machine & start over. Or take that machine offline for investigation into what happened and put a fresh new one in its place.
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The option of calling the Feds isn't that helpful to an immigrant worker with very little English whose last encounter with law enforcement was being returned to their farm in a squad car with accompanying warnings though. When most people's concerns about immigrants begins and ends with the question of "but they're not going to overstay their visa or take jobs away from local people are they?" and there aren't many people around anyway it's not like they're inundated with options. Journalists don't pop by every day.
Your first definition fits exactly with his example. It being legal. Drop the logical fallacy crap.
Darwin, Australia: UTC+9:30h

Others: http://www.timeanddate.com/time/time-zones-interesting.html
> Well, no Google Android, no phones - Google has a massive stronghold on the market, every consumer wants the latest and greatest phone.

It isn't that simple. Although creating a successful smartphone platform from scratch would be very difficult, if enough manufacturers got tired of the terms they might band together are create an app store to rival Play while maintaining Android compatibility. In this case, app developers would only need to change code for in-app purchases, licensing, etc. so a large enough group of manufacturers could draw a significant number of apps to the new store.
There is that, but there is the whole 'coil' thing. Generally conductors have something called the 'skin' effect, which is that as they conduct the electrons move along the outer surface. So the skysphere's outer surface forms a ring where the current will move out to the edge, and then back to the center before going into the ground (or more literally coming from the ground but that is not important here). The change in current in the outer rings will create a magnetic pulse inside the ring that is proportional to the change in current, per Ampere's law. And for conductors that are inside the sphere part, they will experience a very large change in magnetic flux, which will then induce an electric current in any conductors they have inside of them.

It is entirely possible that every piece of electronic equipment inside the sphere will be destroyed by the resulting EMP. Or simply magnetized. But I'd really want to compute flux lines based on the lightning hitting the top, splitting down for four 'rings' (Kirkoff's law) and then going on down via the center into the earth.
I quoted the article but I wasn't responding to it?

k..........if you say so
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Yep, Starfighter was definitely the inspiration for this.

It was super fun dusting off the cobwebs from my EE degree (over a decade ago for me too) and diving back into Assembly.
It's very sad that Lang Long had to go through all the brutal hardship, and it is overwhelmingly tragic for him and his sisters to be in such a horrible misfortune. I came to the U.S. around the age of ten and worked as a night-shift cleaner for parking lots, cleaning up people's feces and urine on the floor of a business complex, getting hit by maggot filled trash bags when trying to pack them into dumpsters, grocery store / restaurant cashier and sweeper, and suffered from depression after parents got divorced, and later in life was devastated after my father committed suicide, in several occasions planned out in detail my own suicide but was too scared to go through with it, but whenever I read articles like these I feel that what I went through was nothing.

Although I'm buried in debt now, I'm glad I had the opportunity to go through university and study the sciences which guided me in taking the proper direction in life - the U.S. is definitely one of those few places in the world where opportunities are far more accessible.

My initial reaction to these types of articles is filled with empathy and sorrow and hope that people like Lang Long will have better future, but to be honest and be for real, in certain aspects, and in current era, we depend (in many cases we're not even aware of it) on the labors of people around the world in unfortunate circumstances so that we can benefit from them - the ugly side of this is... that the world is... an unforgiving place - there's gotta be someone out there doing the dirty work for someone else, I'd imagine that even the sea-slave traffickers themselves are trying to survive no different than Lang Long is, albeit in this particular case, they're brutal and inhumane.

I hope for a day when all slaves are treated humanely or slavery completely abolished, and for the day humanoid machines or drones will take the place of humans (in more efficient way) in back-breaking work so that criminals like the traffickers will have less incentives to kidnap and put vulnerable people into inhumane slavery.
After playing with your app for a while, I have following feedback:
1. It could be some kind of niche fun, for example in case of urban/alternate/augmented reality games.
2. Drawing properly recognized tags requires significant skill - about 30% of my drawings weren't recognized at all.
3. Some kind of scanning-progress-bar or other indicator wold be helpful for impatient users :)
Taking into account points 2 and 3, it would be beneficial to improve users onboarding if you think about mass adoption.
I guess that's legitimate.

Let's turn this into a positive. I would love to hear more about how things are improving. Do you have more examples?
Right, my pup's favorite treats are some of the most disgusting to me... Dehydrated lung, trachea,..... bull penis.
Would it be accurate then to say that you don't believe people should have the right to a fair trial?
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>It almost feels like it never got worse, it just got more exposure and that its always been there,

It's harrowing that the 20th century was labeled a century of genocide, when in reality it was the century that started exposing and denouncing it.
I'm curious how widely used this is. The article mentions that the short scale became official in the UK. Any UK hackers around know how common the continued use of the long scale is, both among scientists/engineers and among the general population? Is the short-scale near-universal at this point, or still ambiguous?
Except if the MMS went to an iPhone or other device not affected. Unless you can determine Android/iPhone from just a #, apple/blackberry/MS phones would be full of corrupted MMS messages.
What was your role during growth? From the outside peeking in it sounds like you were possibly pushed out. Nothing wrong with that, as you have accomplished so much regardless.
For global communication, it helps to form a mental model of the other side. When you pick up the phone to call someone else, knowing it's 1am there would typically indicate you should likely think twice before calling.

It's a crutch to enable a more convenient mental model for most people to relate to what time of day it is 'over there'. Otherwise, sure, there's no real point.
I don't disagree with any of this. My objection with this entire subthread has been the assertion that plea deals violate rights. I find that crazy. When presented with the facts of a case, a good prosecutor and defense attorney will be able to reasonably assess probabilities for the possible verdicts. Hammering out a plea that's around the average outcome can be beneficial to everyone.
The very first words of the introduction:

> Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as
trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for
most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model.

The bitcoin whitepaper unambiguously describes a system for deprecating "financial institutions." It doesn't mention the federal reserve only because it is not nation-specific.

Furthermore, of course, the genesis block contains the following text: 'The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks'
Peru Adopts Data Retention Decree: Declares Location Data No Longer Protected
Perhaps they are different for some folks. In my experience most people consider both terms any software that is free to acquire, use, and distribute. Regardless, if wares are acquired and used without charge then the impact on producers and the price expectations of consumers is the same.
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I haven't spent the time to go through and verify their summaries, so I really have no personal reason to trust them. They also seemed to have a lot of advertising for their products on their site, at least it seemed that way, which would be an indication of a conflict of interest. But I've seen the site mentioned on /r/fitness, and on the surface the site seemed to contain more sources and information than Wikipedia. That's why I quoted it here.
I think you're right that the research isn't up to par. But I also think there's a lot of empirical evidence to show that there are some use cases. I don't expect any scientist, chemist or doctor to recommend that I burn plant material and inhale the combustion products. But what about a hospice, end of life situation, to improve quality of life?

You mention psychotic disorders and concentration. I have PTSD and normally cannot concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes. The best my psych can do is something that makes the episodes less intense, but they still happen. I normally cannot sleep unless I am so exhausted from being awake for typically 30+ hours, and then I'm usually awoken by a terrible dream within a few hours. Guess how I cope? I smoke and my tolerance is such that I don't get high anymore, but I still receive other effects that are beneficial. I can concentrate and give attention to myself, my family, and my work. I can go to sleep and wake up at a normal time. Therefore, I think there's some demonstration here that mj can be therapeutic or helpful in at least some cases.

Fun fact: the medication I'm prescribed is new and was discovered empirically and its mechanism of action is unknown. I know I am risking cancer and two lungs full of thick tar by smoking. But for the medication, all they have is "we haven't seen it hurt anyone yet." I think maybe the community knows more about pot than this one.

Edit: Before I started smoking I was on Xanax, which I think carries a greater risk from daily use than smoking.
What I also thought was interesting as I was reading it (surprisingly my first time being exposed to this piece) was how strange the rituals described sounded, even though it was supposed to be a lighthearted parody of ordinary life. For example, "When pregnant, women dress so as to hide their condition." A quote comes to mind: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
I think you are being downvoted because the parent comment was about the situation in the US, and asking if the FBI ignores it.

Your comment about embassies doesn't make a lot of sense in that context.
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Awesome anecdotes. Reminds me of map making and frag videos in Quake, Unreal Tournament, etc. Super Meat Boy's replay feature was a blast through and through. You have good taste!
I'm not sure how Fiber Reinforced Plastic helps. Seriously, if you want to be understood, define acronyms.
I agree that the situation you describe is slavery. But I think your definition of slavery is far too narrow. By your argument, a country in which slavery has been banned and law enforcement agents are enforcing this ban, by definition has no slavery.

Victims do not always have the option of appealing to authorities, even in countries like the United States. Victims can be threatened or restrained. And, like any other abusive relationship, that may not even occur to the victim as an option.

Slavery is defined as the treatment on human beings as property, in that people are bought and sold. Whether or not the country condones this practice is irrelevant.
Debt slavery[1] doesn't involve kidnapping (by any conventional definition). It's probably the most common kind of slavery these days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage
Ethereum is a global transaction computer that provides a platform for decentralized applications, like Augur (http://augur.net).

Today's systems have a centralized source of truth: corporate databases. There was no other way to build applications that involve multiple users interacting with each other, so companies built those systems and profited from providing a solution.

With Ethereum, we can write simple programs that run on thousands of computers and come to a consensus on the result. Nasdaq doesn't need to tell us the result of a trade or who owns what. We can build equivalent systems that no one controls. The result is a transfer of profits from middlemen to the rest of humanity.

Finance is easy to think about in a decentralized manner since it's all information that computers control. But these systems can apply to real world interactions as well by building reputation systems on top of this global computer. If you don't abide by the rules of the decentralized system you're participating in, your reputation score will go down and people will stop interacting with you.

In this manner, Ethereum can be used to replace every marketplace startup. Uber and Airbnb are so successful because they benefit from strong network effects. Decentralized applications also benefit from strong network effects: every new decentralized Uber application will use the data from the ones that already exist to bootstrap themselves. The user base will never splinter like it does when new centralized competitors attempt to enter the market.

Ethereum gives mankind the ability to coordinate interactions between ourselves more powerfully than ever before. Social systems that once seemed too unwieldy or too anarchic to work out might now be feasible, and they could make us wealthier and more free.
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Me (the user), I just want to tell you that I'm meeting John at PayPal next Tuesday. You (service): consider it done.

I don't want to deal with opening a LinkedIn ad account and figuring it out.
well you've any credible reports that suggest otherwise ?
Tear apart my Service as a Service
Any idea why the auto retrieve mms checkbox would be checked and disabled so I can't uncheck it?
Certainly that is a benefit for the consumer. But my regrets are because I am a producer. When others can use one's work to resell updated copies without compensation then I doubt one would feel motivated to keep working on it.
As title says - I'd love for some people to tear apart our SaaS (service as a service) and our site. What sucks, what do you like, what would you never want to see again.

Before anyone mentions anything - yes I used the 7 day startup book to start a competitor to the authors business. I actually used their services with a previous business and was far from impressed towards the end (although they seem like great guys). What better motivation than to beat someone at their own game.

URL is linked or can be found at https://wpnexus.io
Guy buys lifetime first class pass ticket, pass terminated, cost airlines $21 MM
The question was about forced polygamy groups, not South Africa.
LaGuardia Airport to be torn down, rebuilt
Custom Themes for the PSVita are a reality
Why do you pay $2.56 for every error found in your books?
If HN is like other tech sites, then it'll be more like 20% than 80%.

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-percentage-of-Internet-user...

My developer-oriented sites don't see abnormally high rates of ad blockers either.
Crazy that they advertise their own stuff. They should start growing money trees in their backyard like the rest of us.
"the dose makes the poison" - Nice, I've always wanted a concise way of wording that same basic idea. Thanks!
Well darn; I guess now I can't run Debian on my Sun Fire T2000.

Not that I particularly care, since I've found OpenBSD to be much better on non-x86 (particularly SPARC and PowerPC) hardware than pretty much every GNU/Linux distro I've tried (Debian included), but it's still unfortunate; diversity is nice to have in a platform, even if I'm pretty happy in BSD-land.

Oh well. Perhaps if us SPARC users are lucky, more illumos distros will start supporting SPARC. Tribblix looks interesting; if I can ever get my Blade 1500 running again, I'll have to try that one out on it.
I'd say the biggest advantage if you take out memory access is not latency (since most of the time latency gets hidden via pipelining), but power consumption.

When developing kernels the amount of times memory is accessed has huge impact on power-efficiency, less on actual computational throughput (especially on GPUs), unless you hit bandwidth limitations (which right now Ethash does).

EDIT: NVM - you're asking about the comparison of FNV1 vs Siphash. I haven't analyzed Siphash but I can say that FNV1 is exactly 5 clock cycles on a modern GPU (4 for a 32 bit multiply and 1 for an XOR).
I've most certainly struggled with 'Friend Request' interface and strongly believe that it's an inappropriate way to begin a conversation with people.

Request.to is an attempt to address that challenge. I've put together an early prototype. Looking to build it with the collective intelligence of people who connect with the problem.
> If the richest nation can send their robots to rape and pillage other countries with no threat to their own population, why wouldn't they?

You're basically describing the US's drone war in the Middle East today. And think of how little resistance there is to that.
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Yeah, I thought the atmel sounded familiar for what they were doing, then noticed the interface looked quite a bit similar to microcorruption (well, a debugger interface in general I guess), and then I saw the blurb in the about box about starfighter.

I'm definitely excited about starfighter. My first impression from the descriptive tidbits I've heard so far make it sound like a close relative to Notch/Mojang's 0x10C[1], which I was sad to see cancelled.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c
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> Do you have to have the "Hangouts" app installed for this security vulnerability?

No. The flaw is present in the extraction of the image data from the MMS message. Anything that uses the system standard way of doing this, including but not limited to Hangouts, will be vulnerable.

Hangouts retrieves MMS messages by default. This can be disabled under Settings => SMS. Turning this off disables the automatic processing and thus the passive exploit, but opening an MMS message containing the exploit can still be done by hand.
Actually, when I see MeshTags I assume "they're" just trying to sell me an cumbersome url shortening serivce.

By the way, the assumption that people don't/won't use QR codes is wrong. Here's one example: Chinese associate QR codes with product information (ex.: scanning a code on a bottle of soda).

Many people don't use QR codes but I think your assumption (QR codes will evermore be perceived as commercials) is totally off base.
Yes, it does. And to be clear, I'm not saying that sanctions were ineffective in this case: as you say, they'd be much more effective against a nation like Iran with a relatively open economy and society. However, that same factor makes most other nations much less eager to keep the sanctions, because they're losing the money they could make by trading with such a nation. So at the first chance to make a fig-leaf deal and abandon the sanctions, of course they jumped on it.
You are forgetting about the pressure from investor's friends to check out the candidate's profile. This is what caused this hack to be a success.
I'm pretty sure you would be much better off on either coast. The vast majority of game servers at least tend to be split between LA and the northeast.
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http://onlive.com/ tried it
I never played at the pro level but I did play competitively and I would never use wireless internet, mice, or keyboards. These days there are some great mice, keyboards, and headphones but most people I know won't leave it up to chance and always go with wires.
>But the agency’s records clearly show that efforts to review the permit were initiated between 1999 and 2003. Then those efforts suddenly stopped, and nothing in the records indicates exactly why.

>Gene Zimmerman, the forest supervisor who was in charge at the time, retired in 2005. He now does paid consulting work for Nestle.

>Zimmerman has said he doesn’t see any conflict in working for Nestle in his retirement.

I wonder if he sees any conflict working for Nestle before retirement.
The problem is not that the time waiting on a code review can't be used in some other way. It's that the constant interruptions seriously hurt straight-line productivity. "OK, done with this minor patch. Now, uhhh, while I wait for code review, I guess I'll go review this other thing... And then start a new patch.... Code review is done now? Better context-switch back."

I'm not strictly opposed to pre-commit reviews, but I think it's incorrect to be dismissive of their cost.
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Hahahahah! Good one, dennisgorelik!
''The answer to 99 out of 100 questions is money.''