skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, further questions:

1. When you mention planner, etc, does this imply the cloud service is involved not just in a prep phase, but actively during the control loop while the device is cutting? The latter would be worrisome to me.

2. Will you be able to elaborate at all on the functionality of the firmware (and/or provide protocol documentation for it) prior to ship? I'm not sure how comfortable I am pre-ordering without understanding just how much work there is between the device as delivered and an actual, functional, standalone cutter.

I see on the blog that modifying the firmware invalidates warranty coverage. This seems like another argument for protocol docs and/or ability to usefully have at least one cut path that does not tie you to an online service or nuke your warranty.
The governor of Oklahoma can delay the execution or commute his sentence (which she seems disinclined to do), but not the president of the US. POTUS can only commute/pardon federal crimes.

I not sure about the court side.
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However, time is shackled to space. Therefore, all programmers need to understand space.
Agree with you 100%
You ask "Is that seriously the point PG is making here?"

I think that is indeed the case.

I also suggest that your writing doesn't make any kind of valuable argument against that suggestion. Yes, of course, "because the system is not perfect, we should remove death penalty altogether." That's the way it is.

When you write "There should be strong consequences for murder and certainly Death Row has its place as well," well, maybe you need some more time to think about what those "strong consequences" are?! My impression is that you'll have a difficult time coming up with reasons to support your choices.

I always find people who worry about the death penalty have some kind of delusion, are somehow obsessed with the question, for no good reason. Unable to cope with the world as it is.
This may be more helpful. AB is apache benchmark - you can read about it here:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html

Tutorial to use it here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...

Do not use this on a shared server.
If you want to make a mathematician sweat, just ask them whether ((a, b), c) is the same as (a, b, c).
You wouldnt have to tamper with existing data comming from site visitors, you could just simply generate fake visits. That would be much much harder to check for. You could of course do that with the current model, but it requires a lot more resources (distributed IP addreses to come from being the largest issue).

Since this is specificly targeted at getting around adblocking, the ad networks wouldnt be able to rely on cookies etc because the same types of visitors will often block/clear them.
The purpose of a jury isn't necessarily to make the best, most legally correct decision. The purpose of a jury is to put the people in control of the state.

One could argue, perhaps from the experience of China, that elections aren't the most effective means of choosing political leaders. But this misses the point of elections.
This is great! I like the idea, excited to test it on on a project.

Also, massive props for MIT licensing it.
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You don't know what should be in the API until you've had a couple clients built on top of it. Users will surprise you; oftentimes that little UI detail (the one that's really hard to fit into your API) is what will make them buy.
I think pay differential is only a potential source of discord if you are unable to articulate why one person is paid more than another. If somebody asks why Bob is paid more than somebody else with the same title and your answer is, "Bob negotiated harder" then you're likely to get some discord. If your answer is, "Bob provides more values because he has this knowledge, or these client relationships, or has demonstrated that he is reliably successful" discord is much less likely.
Isn't this already the case? Our police force, the ones with the motto of "protect and serve" are in the news nearly every day with some sort of gun crime against the citizenry [1].

We literally pay these people to put their lives on the line for us, but it seems to have become OK for them to "shoot first and ask questions later". They have lighter restrictions on the use of force than we had in a war zone in the Army.

Perhaps it's time that we DO say that they're too incompetent to protect our lives. Perhaps it's time to vote for an actual change while we still have time.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
For me, it comes down to this: why should the state have the right to rob an absolutely powerless individual of their life? What possible reason can anyone provide for not keeping them alive?
One officer charged out of hundreds of Americans killed by police every year. Statistically, that's still effective blanket immunity.
Albert Einstein:

"I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure."
Not really. It boils down way closer to procedural than anything else. The three links he has at the bottom are very relevant.
No. Because the data structures he is referring to need not be immutable. Think "C struct". Structs in C are more closely aligned with components and lend themselves to composition much easier than a tower of inheritance. If you ever try Unity after bashing your head in with C++, you'll know what a godsend components are.
'Sprint' also implies something unsustainable.

That does not seem to be how it is used in the popular / consultantified version of scrum. Which is the most likely source of hearing it used within context.
I'm genuinely not sure why they are trying to compete with the likes of Mesos or Kubernetes, or what they are really trying to achieve here. There is simply no way they'll build a community around nomad 1/2 as big as either of the aforementioned even if the software is really good.
> If Richard Glossip wasn't sentenced to death, he would likely have languished in prison as long as he lived.

Not necessarily. If Sneed, the guy who actually committed the murder, had not faced the death penalty then would he still have tried to claim that Glossip put him up to it?
Ok, we'll use that.
I remember often ending up on his blog when looking up various Wordpress and web development topics back in the 2000s. The about page (http://alexking.org/about) on his website reveals an exciting and accomplished career, no doubt he would have kept doing ever greater things. Rest in peace!
You can't know that without knowing how many would have been charged had they not been police officers.
I think I'll stick with Vagrant and Ansible.

I'm not going to trade it for magic to be honest. Unless there is a compelling reason to do so that I'm not seeing/reading.
It depends on how much you want the job and how much risk you're willing to take. I usually tell the truth on comp, but add "I'm only willing to leave for X".
thanks! the problem templates are pretty simple but i think we can do better now :) as you progress through the concepts, we introduce more challenging problems.

we used http://www.skulpt.org/ to run python in the browser. i resurrected the site to get some screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/xbpat

i would love to chat some more about your ideas, you can email me at hurshal.patel/berkeley/edu
I doubt that the level of life succeeding enough to damage our ability to determine if there was already life there is on the same order as "terraforming a planet". I doubt there would be much upside.
Harvard and Yale both have need-blind admissions and generous tuition grants for median-and-lower-income families. Those policies are quite affordable for institutions with their endowments. Do you really think they'll stop admitting median-income students as soon as state schools return to low tuition?
This is somewhat true, but you structure the code in a way so that rewriting any one part is easy. You keep your modules fairly large, your abstractions thin, and the code very literal. It's much easier to do a total rewrite on code that's like this than when you abstract it out a great deal.

It's very quick to write code like this, and the maintenance cost of this isn't as large as you might think (honestly, after you get used to it, you often end up preferring it. It's very, uh, blunt, for lack of a better term).

Edit: Worth noting that these rewrites aren't always due to a change in creative direction. There are often ones for technical reasons.
> powerless individual of their life

Let's not make the butchers the victims. When you kill several people, what kind of redemption do you expect?

> why should the state have the right

Just as the State has the right to kill innocent people overseas. If you are worried about saving innocent lives, it's way more effective to prevent your state from going to war than to save the unfortunate innocents stuck in the death row. There are WAY more innocents killed in conflicts.
>None of them have subpixel rendering at the moment AFAIK
Actually, most Rust projects end up using Freetype for glyph rendering, which does support subpixel rendering.

Signed distance fields are great for animated text, but they also have a couple of disadvantages - they generally produce lower quality output than Freetype at small glyph sizes, and the signed distance field is more complex to generate at start, which slows down initial page rendering. Given that 99% of web pages are static, it's a harder sell. Maybe some sort of heuristic based switching would work.
just be confident with nothing to lose and assess what the currency is with people around your experience level and ask for that amount.
Someone should propose a new element to the w3c

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> It’s so precise, he says, that if scientists were using it to measure the age of the universe — roughly 15 billion years — the clock in Ye’s office would only be off by about a second.

that's about two femto seconds per second
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> I think that is indeed the case.

Then why is that PG article coming up now? It's not like it's a newsflash that we have innocent people dying in the Death Row. it's been happening for years. Is it an epidermic reaction of some sort ? The news effect, just like people who can't fall asleep for 15 mins because they saw something horrible on TV and then forget it and go on with their lives the next day ?

If you are revolted against something, that should be on your agenda every single day of your life, not just when the news talk about it.
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Link to part 2: http://electrek.co/2015/09/28/i-rode-in-a-model-s-equipped-w...
Yes, but it can take quite some time to do so. Especially if you want it to spread geographically; by itself, wealth does have a tendency to concentrate.
Central Prison (where death row is for the state of NC) is right by NC State's campus. While I was there I was a heavy metal radio host for WKNC, and received a lot of letters from death row inmates.

Very few letters were of the type I was expecting at the time: "Play this Cradle of Filth song for me, or I will file down shards of my broken mirror in order to kill you". Along with very entertaining, if graphic, pieces of artwork.

Most of the letters were cordial, but gruff. Hard criticism of songs each inmate did not like, glorified praise for the songs they did like. Rarely, they would describe why a particular song was important to them and it was not anything alien to my freshman self: lost love, old buddies, family, trying times.

There was one I replied to and carried on a brief written correspondence with: Tilmon Golphin. Make no mistake, there is no excuse for his actions. But what I found fascinating was the attitude he decided to show in his letters; how true his words were I cannot accurately judge. He showed me major regret of brutally murdering officers of the law and provided no excuses, instead showing acceptance of what he had done with his brother.

I later learned that particular case of his and his brother's is one where the US Supreme Court's ruling in Roper v. Simmons divided the sentences of the brothers. Tilmon was 19, and his brother 17, so while both were sentenced to death, the SCOTUS ruling means Tilmon is still on death row while his brother is not.

I never would have thought I would learn so much from being a heavy metal radio show host.
"What should I do? I'm afraid that giving my current compensation away to my future employer will jeopardise my chances of negotiating and potentially getting a better offer than what I could get otherwise."

Your gut feeling is absolutely right. If you name your current compensation you'll get X + 10k, cause why not? Isn't that enough? Aren't you grateful to have a wonderful opportunity to work at Google? Don't you know there is a line at the door, just take the offer already!

Thats what the recruiter is going to say, and likely not through the email - but on the phone, so they have you on the spot. I'd recommend telling them you accept market based compensation for the position you're getting hired to + 10k instead. If they push - make it big. 150k. 200k. why not? If they like you enough to hire you, telling them a big figure won't jeopardize your offer.
>My guess is that fixing Detroit would start with a massive cash infusion from the state or federal government to address crime and crumbling infrastructure. Nobody wants to live in a city that is unsafe and has no quality housing or reliable transportation.

I don't see any reason we should spend federal dollars to rescue a city that's responsible, in large part, for its own plight. And it's not like we've imposed a visa system on Detroit residents, trapping them there.
You can't have one process consume more power and the other process produce more heat. Power is converted to heat at 100% efficiency so more heat must mean more power.
>"they will ever earn back $57million"

>"Why is medium so popular"

These things might be related.

>"almost any of the HN readers could create a similar service"

Same could be said about Airbnb. There's more to a business than the technology.
Even this image has Bret listed as author: http://aprt.us/editor/?load=doc/examples/Star.json
I hadn't kept up with Alex, but I do remember interacting with him and looking up to him while I was in college and even after. He was always so impressive.

While I always admired him, I'm even more in awe now. It takes someone really special and thoughtful to create the kind of lasting impression he has left on his site for his daughter, his wife, and his family and friends. You can get a taste here: http://alexking.org/blog/2015/08/24/rememberances

To all his friends and family, so sorry for your loss. Alex impacted so many people, many who will never know, but all of whom benefit from his far-reaching technical work and his community-building efforts.
The author has done some really cool talks as a guest speaker at Mozilla HQ before: https://air.mozilla.org/higgs-jit/ I think about meta-circular interpreters, IIRC. The JIT being discussed is written in D.
Your can differentiate with a list of object SHA hashes you blacklist based on ad blocker user feedback. You'll still need to fetch the object, but you can dump it before rendering.
Sure - by 'terraforming' I just meant 'replacing Martian life with Earth life'; terraforming from the microorganisms perspective perhaps, not from the perspective of humans. There's a lot of work involved in that, way beyond our current engineering capacity.

I'll make my thinking more explicit ...

The best case is that we either a) don't introduce microbial life, or b) it just flat-out dies. Then we can examine Mars for signs of life (current or historical).

The worst case is that we contaminate Mars with microbes that flourish there, forever destroying our ability to examine Mars for signs of life.

I'm assuming we can't explore Mars without risking the worst case. So it seems worthwhile to try; the very worst case is that we replace a Martian microbial ecosystem with one from Earth.
> just that it works with JavaScript disabled

My point is, the whole point of React is to use JavaScript. Otherwise it just becomes yet another template language. Which every static site generator already has.

It's also easy to screw up React and end up with JS on the client side. Because that's the selling point of React (or isomorphic, to be exact)... JS freely travels between backend and frontend without the developer really caring much.
First three links and fifth are all talking about ice, not liquid flowing water.

Fourth link isn't conclusive

These results are the closest scientists have come to finding evidence of liquid water on the planet's surface today.

The last link summarises that liquid water has not been conclusively found yet, and it is the most recent:

While recent orbiter missions have confirmed the presence of subsurface ice, and melting ground-ice is believed to have formed some geomorphologic features on Mars, this study used meteorites of different ages to show that significant ground water-ice may have existed relatively intact over time.

Curiosity’s observations in a lakebed, in an area called Mount Sharp, indicate Mars lost its water in a gradual process over a significant period of time.

So none of your links contradict what the person you are replying to said.
This reminds me of other interesting observations about bacteria. First, our human DNA sequence is shorter than the aggregate DNA sequence of bacteria in our guts etc. Second, bacteria are ubiquitous, found as deep as a few km. Third, global bacterial biomass is arguably comparable to total animal and plant biomass. Fourth, only about 1% of the bacteria in random samples from the environment have ever been cultured and cataloged, so about 99% are known only through DNA sequence analysis.
I suspect most of the marketing money goes to drugs drugs you might want but don't actually need. Allergy medications, pain pills, and pecker perkers.
I was thinking more about passing the reference test suites. Or in the case this case failing since GPUs won't all render identically.
That is not the logical next step.

The logical next step is, "so the government should not be in the business of killing people."

Life in prison? Sure, though I'm personally not sure depriving someone of their freedom for the rest of their natural life isn't also unacceptably cruel.
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OK, I spent some time looking and according to the latest survey I could find (from 2014, http://mepag.nasa.gov/reports/Rummel_et_al_Astrobiology_14-S...), here is the state of knowledge:

[Sec. 6]

"Strong interest exists among various countries and private industries to send humans to Mars, both for short-term exploration and long-term colonization." (and on for 3 dense pages).

So, private ventures are part of their deliberations.

[Sec. 8, end]

"It will be impossible for all human-associated processes and operations to be conducted within entirely closed systems, so protocols need to be established so (1) human missions to Mars will not contaminate Special Regions nor be contaminated by materials (or possibly organisms) from them and (2) human activities on Mars will avoid converting Non-Special Regions to Special Regions and thus help control the spread of terrestrial microorganisms on Mars."

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The basic strategy is to identify and avoid "Special Regions".
Not really...

AFAIK(I'm no Haskell guru) Haskell doesn't let you specify memory layout explicitly. Without that you won't see the massive gains that come from data-oriented design.

The second half of this talk from Herb Sutter covers is succinctly:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-661
That's too much work ;)
'Become a Contributor' seems to mean 'please give us your email address to be added to our mailing list.'

This seems moderately suspect.
Does it cost? What do you do with my resume? What's in it for you? Why does your privacy page throw a 500?
The government failing to protect a life is not the same as, or even similar to, the government erroneously taking a life.
If I click "Get Feedback" without doing anything else on the page then I see "internal server error"

Are you just testing out the concept? I didn't see pricing anywhere on the page. Even if it's free you should probably mention the price.
Detroit collapsed, long ago. It was walled off, long ago. It was stripped, and the educated people moved outward, long ago.

I worked at the Madison Building downtown while rapt.fm was part of the Bizdom accelerator program so I saw a lot of this gentrifying effect happening.

Dan Gilbert / Detroit Venture Partners / Bizdom have been establishing a tech ecosystem to help with the revitalization downtown. There were dozens of small companies at the Madison Building, a really nice place to have events on the rooftop, an auditorium, etc. And the urban area right around it has a lot of great restaurants and places to live.

This startup scene was moderately big, but way, way bigger was the moving of Quicken Loans back downtown. Plus the updating of the sports stadiums. Plus the general hipsters from UMich building interesting stuff throughout the region. Plus the huge bailout of GM and other kinds of Federal support of industry in Michigan during the Great R.

All of that is why Detroit's collapse is in the past tense, not to say that it is in good shape or anything.

It was an interesting situation on the ground, it had the feel of re-taking, re-building, re-connecting. Downtown and the Wayne State area were way better off than the rest of town, in a highly visible way. But all kinds of folks who held on through the real decline were around, with stories to tell.

One key thing that happened while I was there, and this is was the intention of key people at Bizdom I believe, was that business connected quite a bit with the outer community (i.e. across the freeway-moat around the gentrifying downtown). Lots of people got involved with the startups in the Madison, and were often introduced to us by Bizdom's leaders.

Our company, which combined freestyle rap music with real-time web technology, collaborated with maybe a dozen or two people from around the area. Some were graphic designers, techies, or artists, others were local rappers or promoters.

The town's presence was constant, it was there in the huge windows. You could drive down any major stretch at night, and randomly take a right into a post-industrial wasteland. A kid might zip by on a bike in the pitch dark. Because everywhere, nearby, there were also some homes with families inside.

I can't even describe how much city there is, outside of downtown. Miles of infrastructure basically sits fallow or highly depreciated, and thousands mire in poverty, due to poor urban design, poor leadership, and historic fear.

By hosting companies that draw from Detroit's huge creative energy and then bringing tech and business people to the core of the city, Gilbert will have a major positive effect in the long run.

Call this effect gentrification while the city collapses, but you can also call it the shaky beginnings of a return to normalcy.