skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, its scary that PG is morphing into a liberal social media celebrity. Especially with a contextless outraged tone like this. I never understood this kind of easy and emotionally gratifying slacktivism. Considering his wealth and influence, if he cared so much about DP issues, why doesn't he fund or start a think tank or policy lobbyist organization to fight it? Yelling at governors seems incredibly short-sighted and knee-jerk to me.

I don't think this helps matters politically, it just builds echo chambers and extremism. I don't know any liberals, for example, who would remotely consider any conservative view, or vice-versa. There's a real "internet identity poltics" aspect going on here we just take on face value and don't criticize.

Even criticizing the default liberal position on the sites like HN, reddit, etc is just an invitation to downvote hell, no wonder we can't have any kind of interesting discourse on these forums. The majority group can just downvote you into censorship. It sad that if you're into tech sites you have to tolerate and unquestionably deal with angry liberal screeds all the time and never be able to hear a rounded commentary.

We're not building common ground with our political opposites, we're not enlightening anyone, etc. We're just yelling and being angry. What exactly do we expect to happen here? Nothing has happened since John Edwards had complained about the "Two Americas" back in 2004. If anything, things have somehow gotten worse since. I suspect low information twitter, reddit, tumblr, facebook, etc protests are a contributing factor. This is especially worrying as we see the left consistantly lose elections in congress, the senate, the state legislature, and the state governor's offices. As a left-leaning moderate, this is not good and the left and far left are failing to appeal to voters, which means conservatives will continue to win office and implement conservative policies.
Halvar Flake suggested in a talk that some people working for spy agencies are (or kind of might be) addicted to hacking. Or the agencies themselves.

http://www.isaca.org/chapters2/Norway/NordicConference/Docum...
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In addition to what MagnumOpus said, CO2 emissions are irrelevant. I was calling them on a particular statement they made that I found to be ridiculous.
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It's more like movie theaters politely asking patrons to not sneak candy in, except they are only asking when they know someone is doing it.
That font makes reading difficult.
Instantly kill your process if it tries to use any syscall but the ones you have requested.
For yosemite, I have a macbook pro that came with the OS and another macbook pro (nearly identical) upgraded from mavericks. No significant differences. I don't see why it should be like that this time and I would love to read a technical explanation.
> mv malware.app game\ center.app

You can't do that unless you turned it off in the first place. And if you did, you're on your own anyway.
You are also asserting that there is a secret system of successful criminal investigation and punishment of terrorists, INSIDE the US, separate, and vastly more competent the the visible cases the FBI has publicized. You are confusing "24" with reality.
Wonderful! But just think of the guy that had to manually type up these diagrams on on page 22 and 28 (at least I assume the text is done on a typewriter with the arrows and balloons being added later by hand?).
Perhaps "Given what I've seen you up to, I can personally grasp that you're studying intuitionistic logic.".
Oh for christs sake, if your statements are misunderstand-able, there's a word for that: ambiguous, something I already pointed out.

This entire argument would have been over had you clarified what you thought was irrelevant, instead of arguing over stupid minutia.

Now that you clarified, I actually agree with your point, that the data points need to be investigated.
Build Your Own Satellite Ground Station
Not if you exploit the stars gravitational lensing:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.188...

A mobile phone antenna (and power) might be well enough then.
From what I understand of the situation, It's entirely likely that the devs got a rule table from the engine and emissions guys and couldn't actually tell if the metrics were good or sketchy as hell.

It sounds like the main problem is with high fidelity O2 sensors at a cheap enough price point that these lookup tables can be banished. We legislated people carrying a block of platinum around in their car. Maybe $200 O2 sensors is the next step if the manufacturers can't be trusted.
thanks for this insight, I've countered the problem with command line args. Now the C compiler can't guess how many loops will be made and therefore the test shows the same speed as C without using optimisation. But Go keeps having consistent speed, faster than C. I'm curious what kind of optimisation the Go compiler applies. See the update for further details..
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What? Glossip hired a hitman to kill someone. How is that not murder? Just because you're wealthy enough to not do the dirty work means you're somehow above the DP, but poor people who can't should get the DP? That's insane!

There are irregular aspects to this case, but the idea of hitman hirers being immune from the DP is pretty crazy. That's the same as murdering someone with your own hands, both morally and legally.
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no amount of rose colors can change the fact that it is an enterprise product, a delight of middle managers who measure progress by the total percentage of hours logged so far on all the SCRUM tasks across the department.
Somethings are less irreparable than others. In this case, death seems harder to undo.
Reminds me of Perl's taint mode. It is not the same in terms of implementation or the types of limits imposed, of course, but it has some of the same basic ideas...you have to work really hard to make some kinds of stupid mistakes when the code is tainted, and I think the same sort of idea is at play here.

I really like it when tools do the work of preventing me from doing dumb stuff. Security, in particular, is such a difficult task with so much knowledge required (particularly in a language like C) that it's almost surprising that software has as few vulnerabilities as it does.

I'm unlikely to ever start a new project in C again, but if I do find myself in a networked C project maintenance or patching situation, I certainly would consider pulling this in.
If an imprisoned man is later found innocent, you release him.

If an executed man is later found innocent, you can... uh...
Makes sense, I was wondering where that number came from. Of course it all goes nonlinear when you take the reciprocal.
User with Homebrew here! No problems upgrading this time (took ~15 minutes), had ~2hr upgrade last time.
Are you driving your car with a large mass of snow on the roof? Please don't, it's dangerous.
I'm surprised I had to scroll so far down to see what this was about.
The Age of the Cockroach
Tor Developer Suspects NSA Interception of Amazon Purchase (2014)
> It's not base 16 encoded, which was his point.

I didn't understand it that way.

Also, your whole <pedantry> block and the paragraph above is based on misunderstanding my comment (probably because I'm not a native speaker and you caught me inbetween edits).

I think you're the only one making an "unpleasant conversation".
Because it is not about "removing" the car, but making it the most difficult thing to use vs any other type of transport. For example, you can make the most direct route to a place via bike or walking, but if you use a car you have to use the ring road to get from one side of the city to the other. You enable cars to go into a city, but not through a city.

The other issue is that people equate the idea that people can walk and cycle together. This is really uncomfortable for walkers. You need to segregate space for each type of transport.
Yes. I am disabling/removing shitty bloatware and removing apple phone home gor privacy.
LA and Long Beach may also be hampered somewhat in that we apply pollution regulations to them, do these other ports have those restrictions?

Effectively, "it's complicated".
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> One of the most crucial aspects of the death penalty is that it is reserved for people that physically kill other human beings. The mere fact that the laws of a US state even allowed the possibility of a death sentence for someone that did not personally kill someone else is a serious problem.

Death penalty aside, the boss that order to kill people should be given a lighter punishment because he didn't execute the evil action directly? I think he should have an heavier sentence instead.
> Just because you're wealthy enough to not do the dirty work means you're somehow above the DP, but poor people who can't should get the DP?

This is actually not a good argument at all in-favor of the death penalty for this person but rather another great argument for its elimination entirely.
Thanks for the 1990 ipcc link. The graph (page 7) of northern and southern hemisphere sea ice extent anomalies is interesting - they appear to have moved in rough opposition in most of the period from the early 1970s to 1990, as they are today.
Yes, execution does prevent the same person committing more crimes... or any crimes at all in the case of the innocent. Prison also does that, somewhat less effectively, simply by denying them the opportunity, though it's significantly less final and it's not exactly perfect because they could still hurt other guards/inmates, escape, etc.

The real problem with them is whether there are better ways of accomplishing the goal of reducing crime.
> Imagine every interaction you’ve ever had suddenly open to the scrutiny of the Internet public.

I think in some cases this has happened to people, and I'm not sure that it ended up being good for them or anyone involved. For now it doesn't seem like they'll post bad reviews of people if you don't sign up; however, I can see how an app like this might be subject to brigading / trolling if you happen to have a disagreement with someone / some community online.

Beyond that, I can see this being used as a shitty hiring metric (hell, some companies hire partly based on your Facebook profile), and quite frankly I don't want to have to seek employment in that sort of environment.
What high profile Silicon Valley tech personalities are Christian?
Jenkins Integration with iOS (Part 2 of 3)
Yes, as well as a volume control! You can also hit [tab] as a shortcut to toggle the sidepane with the active playlist.
Neural technologies could become the next battleground
A lifesaving smartphone app inspired by a brush with tragedy
The problem is complete irreparability. If someone is falsely imprisoned, you can't undo that, but you can free them, pay them some kind of reparations, publicly exonerate them, etc. If someone is found to be wrongfully convicted after death, what do you do? Essentially nothing.
"I'm unlikely to ever start a new project in C again"

I wonder what this would look like in other languages? It would be interesting to try this out in another language.
Clearly you don't invest much time in your comments, as you failed to see the other 13 tweets he's made about it in the past few days as well as the blog post.
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You're right, but the "base52" part isn't what you're right about, it's the 'encoded' part. "base52" is accurate, it is a series of base52 characters, however it doesn't appear to be the product of an encoding.
Citation needed. I'm not aware of people who have been persuasively shown to be innocent post-execution.

In that case you have done very little research and cannot really be trusted to have an informed opinion on the matter.
First he lost his wife and kids in a tragic fire. Then he was arrested and charged with their murder. Then, using investigative techniques that have been scientifically proven to be inaccurate, he was convicted and sentenced to death. Then he was executed.

If the state can inflict this kind of nightmare on one person, it could do it to any one of us.
One of the most crucial aspects of the death penalty is that it is reserved for people that physically kill other human beings.

It should be highlighted that this is actually a relatively recent understanding, and still by no means a universal one.
> There is simply no logical reason to be in favor of the death penalty, at least in the US, but there are plenty of reasons to oppose it.

It is cruel and absolutely horrific to keep a human being in isolation. It is against our nature in every way and people literally lose their minds.

This is a fate worse than death.

So what do you do when an inmate is a clear danger to other inmates? When an inmate has clearly shown that he will murder those who are imprisoned with him?

You have two choices. Isolation or death.

There are other reasons for the death "penalty", but I certainly agree that it should never be used as a penalty, but as a measure of last resort.
Well, taken to its logical conclusion, this argument supports abolishing jail, prison and all forms of punishment, since the crime is irreparable, therefore there's no point.
The problem is he may have not hired that hitman and whole this may have been made up by other convict to get lower sentence...
Yeah it looks HUGE in the opening pic. They goofed on that.
I don't really understand. How is it that they make so much money?
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Then why describe being pedantic (extremely specific) as being "obtuse" (annoyingly insensitive)?
And you are correct.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-accidentally-issued-a...
No, what's insane is the collective desire, the organised process, the co-opting of doctors against their Hippocratic Oath to see the end of another human being's life. Guilty or not, the idea of "punishing" by killing is barbaric, illogical and uneducated.

The field of neuroscience based psychiatry and the works of the great minds like Robert Sapolsky must prevail. This has to stop.
This is only taking "registered union members" into consideration, and many of those working lots of overtime. A good portion of longshore work is done by "casuals" who are paid less and work less hours as they gain the work experience to get into the union. There are no "entry level" positions for union members, almost everyone starts out as a non-union casual making ~25/hour for unpredictable work.

I think when all is said and done, the average longshore worker's salary is actually around 70-80k, with the average age being 45-50, but it depends on the year, agreements, etc.

As for the extra "benefits", that's just health insurance + pension, which nobody else ever calculates into your salary for any other job.

The Oakland numbers you're giving are per capita, not per household. If you cut out households making nothing, 80k isn't particularly remarkable for an Oakland income.
"Soft on Crime" is a catastrophic label for politicians in the US. This came to the fore recently with Francisco Sanchez, the illegal immigrant who murdered the girl on the pier in SF in July... everyone was outraged that he was let free, he was a "multiple felon" after all.. Except his felonies were all nonviolent, namely entering the country illegally and selling marijuana.

When people express their dissatisfaction with Obama's progress on freeing non-violent criminals, remember how much nuance was granted to those responsible for San Francisco's and California's decisions to show restraint in imprisoning Mr. Sanchez or how much nuance was granted to Dukakis. The teams working on commuting nonviolent Federal sentences spend an enormous amount of time vetting prisoners and are extraordinarily conservative.

It's probably good due diligence, but freeing one Willie Horton or one Francisco Sanchez is enough to severely damage a candidate, a party, or even the concept of criminal justice reform.
Fwiw, the increased scrutiny that goes with death penalty cases raises uncomfortable questions about the justice system in general.

Would this case be acceptable if Glossip had only received a life sentence? I'm not sure either way. But it does seem that the justice system should have more accommodation for uncertainty than a complicated appeals process that seems to focus on procedural issues.

What form would an uncertainty-conscious justice system take? Economists might suggest that you can account for uncertainty merely by lowering punishment accordingly to account for "risk," (e.g. we will lower punishment by X percent because we're only Y percent sure you are guilty) but that doesn't seem to work here. On the other hand we clearly can't have a justice system that never acts for fear of wrongful incarceration.
Doing it manually is one way but not scalable. You can aggregate data either using available APIs or by scraping websites. You can list books on Amazon that are available on Half.com and give you a decent profit margin. It doesn't matter if books are already listed on Amazon. Just make sure your offer price is a little bit cheaper than the cheapest available copy.
Disclaimer: I wrote this. It’s neither an announcement nor a blog post, just gives some insight into how Keybase does what it does.
The only evidence he hired anyone is from the testimony of the already convicted murderer in exchange for not going to death row himself. How many people would readily lie to avoid the death penalty, especially when there is no doubt he comitted murder?
The best terrain I've ever ridden a bike on was a well-paved path of little resistance over forrested dunes. You start on top of a dune, pedal a little on the way down (not a lot of effort) and arrive on the top of the next dune with nearly zero speed. Perfect coasting and a cool breeze most of the time.
I would like to point to a very interesting Ask HN from a few months ago. Shipping and logistics came up and was the most up voted discussion. Lots of great discussion there.

"Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007
> I think he should have an heavier sentence instead.

That's quite debatable.

I'm not sure I even believe that the boss who ordered a kill is even guilty of a crime. If his subordinate didn't actually pull a trigger then no crime would be committed. How can one person's crime be a function of another person's actions. It just doesn't compute.
Try an e-bike. It should let you coast into work at 15-20mph without working a sweat. Rent one if you can to try it out.
My week as an Amazon insider (2013)
Breakthrough rectenna converts light into DC current
You can call tame() from other languages, I assume it would offer just as much benefit in python or ruby.
It's actually neither square nor cubed, but you can use those approximations with varying success for different car shapes and Reynolds numbers. There are several different physical effects that together create drag: you have form drag, skin drag, interference drag, and even lift-induced drag (the last one essentially only on sports cars).
I believe it's likely more a benefit of clearing out the cruft that has accumulated over time rather than problems with the update itself. A lot of stuff gets installed over the years, and upgrading in place keeps the majority of that in place. Doing a fresh install and putting back only what you're currently using will probably result in fewer programs, daemons, drivers, etc that the system has to deal with.
Agree 100%
I have a really hard time listening to pro-life people say how great the death penalty is, and then hear abortion supporters protest over the death penalty. Both acts grossly dehumanize the deceased whether they are guilty of doing the same thing, or haven't even been given the chance. As a civilized society, we are better than that.
Where do I download the petrol app?
I was watching the whole intro, expecting some background music to come out of nowhere in time with the text ...
http://www.innocenceproject.org/
At the time, then-governor Bill Clinton's execution of Ricky Ray Rector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ray_Rector was a big deal.
I feel like there's a massive disconnect between these pieces.

1.) New law/proposition/whatever gets proposed.
2.) Article is published detailing how (1) can be abused.
3.) Article is published detailing why we need (1).

I feel like if I was trying to get a law/proposition/whatever passed, my focus would be on these articles and knee-capping them by either amending my whatever to prevent abuse, or point out why those abuses are impossible (not unlikely, im-pos-sible).

Until then, all I see is "I want MY problem fixed with my bad solution, and I don't care who it hurts."
>Citation needed. I'm not aware of people who have been persuasively shown to be innocent post-execution.

The size of the US list is concerning - and it isn't even complete. There's also the possibility of executions that haven't been further looked into where the person may have also been innocent.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution
Google, Microsoft Resolve Global Patent Fight Over Phones, Xbox
Both are well-known TLDs that can't be acquired without verification by the US government. Presumably the assumption is that these URLs can be guaranteed to never exist.
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http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man2/...

Whitelist syscalls. Any non-whitelisted syscall being invoked causes the process to be terminated with SIGKILL (or a non-blockable SIGABRT if `abort` it set). Further tame(2) calls can only further restrict the whitelist. The whitelisting can get down to just _exit(2).
The problem is that in this case the union is the one standing in the way of other people making more money. Longshoremen's unions are notoriously corrupt and exclusive. I have no idea what the situation is today but traditionally it was nearly impossible to gain entry into a longshoremen's union unless your father was in one, or you had some similar connection.
Please take a break when you can!
> If someone doesn't have to spend $1000 on new appliances, it's not like that thousand dollars disappears from the economy.

Yes it does. Modern economic systems are built on consumerism. Saving large sums of money acts like a vacuum on currency and brings markets to a halt. Flowing money lubricates the economy.

That's basically the sum total of the most recent economic crisis, money wasn't moving, so two presidential administrations through gigantic sums of money at the economy, like spraying it down with WD-40, until it started moving again.

> Either the person spends that money on something else or sticks it in their savings account and the bank loans some of it out for someone else to spend.

The problem is that in aggregate, if nobody is spending money, it doesn't move around at all. If nobody takes out a loan, then that money just sits in the bank. Sitting money means nobody needs to manufacture anything because nobody is buying anything, which means there's no reason to employ anybody, so nobody makes money. Because times are bad, they save what they have even more and spending continues to go down.

Fairly quickly the economy goes into a death spiral, and while plenty of people may have money, there's nothing to spend it on anyway.

China is using the same economic trick that's been used time and time again, in the U.S., Japan, other places, to kickstart their economy. It's dumping money into the economy in huge works projects, mostly construction related, and letting that money slosh around. Japan did it in the 80s, but it's no longer working as well as it once did, because pretty much everything they need to build is built, and the population is shrinking so they need even less things.
You're setting an example of your own grievance.