skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the old saw about the drunk looking under the light post for his keys, when he probably lost them in the alley; the light's better over here.

If you make laws that can't be verified then you can't enforce them. So you test for things you think you can actually test and hope everything works out.

Wiring up an exhaust sensor to everybody's car every time they need to renew their tabs and having them drive around the city is so infeasible as to be laughable. So they put your car on a dyno or even have you put it in neutral with the parking brake on and have you rev the engine a little bit and see if the tailpipe is a mess.

Nevermind that a lot of cars belch smoke only under load.
I am opposed to the death penalty for various unpopular reasons and PG is usually very eloquent, I am not sure why that was not the case here. It is all very vague. Calling for a boycott of OK would have made it seem less like slacktivism.
It's not hard to disable. Restart holding down command R to get recovery mode, launch the terminal, type "csrutil disable".
Sorted.
We had Burroughs mainframes at college (not sure why, although there was a Burroughs factory about 20 miles away so that might have been the reason).
Algol 68. Good times..
There's a tendency to assume that because newer languages are safer than C that they are "safe". I suspect people would be unlikely to think about the problem in the same way for, say, Go or Rust, even though there are still security gotchas that can happen when dealing with system calls from those languages.

But, then again, a lot of the kinds of security bugs tame() is addressing really are already unlikely in Go or Rust. But, now that I think about it, I would like to see examples of priv-sep in Go or Rust. It's a challenging problem in C, and one that I never implemented (I was moving away from working on any C projects within a couple of years of priv-sep being introduced into OpenSSH), and one of the things that is neat about tame() is that is seems to abstract some of those difficult aspects. So, seeing best practices for priv-sep in a modern language would be really cool...I wouldn't even know where to start to figure it out, since I'm so new to both Rust and Go.
Glossip's first lawyer claims that the police made this up and convinced Sneed to say Glossip hired him. The lawyer says the full interrogation wasn't showed, but a redacted version where the police first prime Sneed then start recording his "good" answers.

It is troubling that there's zero evidence other than the word of a "hitman".
Which is silly....honestly companies need to start opening offices in more affordable areas. Colorado (Blouder, Denver, The Springs), Texas (Austin, San Antonio), Missouri (Kansas City, Saint Louis)....there are so many places you can put your employees that saves them money as well as your company a lot of money not only in Salaries because you'll be able to employees less but your rent/power/etc.
I would suggest that your 3,4 and 5 are actually just questioning 1 and 2 in specific ways.
> I wonder what this would look like in other languages?

The exact same. It's a syscall to restrict available syscalls. It would probably be more fraught with issues in other languages as the runtime might issue somewhat unexpected syscalls in the course of its operation.
Many people are against the death penalty not because there aren't people who deserve it, but because it's possible to make a mistake. I wonder if that's what PG means here by "mistake."
DAmn. looks like a pretty sweet deal.
Also you'll note that when you push the button as a pedestrian it can take up to 3 minutes for it to change. I find this exceptionally inefficient. You get pedestrians chancing to cross and then the lights change.
Having a working CDN still seems to be a challenge for apple, meh
I am not, have not, and shall not assert any such thing. I bid you good day.
Great post. I've always thought a good metric on how much founders really care about culture is to see how many early employees still work at mature companies. Retaining somebody for 1 year is easy, but retaining somebody for 5 years is really really hard.

I found that an unnamed founder (to protect his ego) had a great statement on this topic:

> And the other thing worth mentioning is, on the first ten people on the culture and team topic, I think everyone doesn't realize until they go through it themselves, how important it is because in life and media people focus too much on founders. Here we are and we are reinforcing the structural narrative that Stripe is about John and Patrick and Pinterest is about Ben. When the vast majority of what our companies do, 99.9% are done by people that are not us, right? It's obvious when you say it but it's very much not the macro narrative. These are abstracts and you associate them with certain people. For companies like Apple and others, Steve Jobs was a tiny, tiny part at the end.

> Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Dl8rZ6qwE&feature=youtu.be...

If I were looking to join a company, these are the kind of statements that would make me want to work for that founder.
"Death penalty aside"
Imagine those who don't work on tech.
By the "natural notes" I just mean the notes that would make up an octave in that key, like "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do" in whatever key you like. On a piano, the long (white) keys are tuned to C for that. If you start on a D and just play the white notes up, it won't sound right.

If you're asking "why is it tuned to C", it's probably because C is the key that historically was assigned the letters without any sharps or flats. There's no physical reason for this, it's just a convention (as opposed to, say, octaves, where each octave is half the frequency of the previous).

If you're asking why C got the letters without sharps or flats, I believe you have the Romans to blame for that. They did start with A for their scale without sharps or flats, but it was what we would now call "A minor". Which leaves C as the major scale.
I have just two things to say about this sad event:

1) A quote:

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."
~ Dostoyevsky

2) This link:
http://brainsontrial.com/

For me, the conversation that Alan Alda has walking on the campus of Stanford Uni with Robert Sapolsky is quite possibly the most intelligent and paradigm shifting exchange ever!

Edit: Direct link: http://brainsontrial.com/watch-videos/video/alan-alda-with-r...
Not only do I think there is a lack of accountability for negligent or mistaken judges, etc., but I've seen no concern for accuracy on their part. For example, if you were designing a system that made determinations about reality, wouldn't you study its accuracy, including false-positive and false-negative rates? If I was just an individual judge or DA, I'd like to think I'd implment it. Such quality control should be the norm but I've never seen it outside of academic studies.

A couple of more tangential points:

> police officers are universally judged for decisions they have to take in split seconds

I think the objection that many people (certainly not all) have is that police escape judgment; they act with impunity. Recently there's been media coverage of some incidents, but that is the exception.

> judges, attorneys (and ultimately the governor) do not have any repercussions at all

The state, on whose behalf those people are acting, does have repercussions in the form of large payments due to civil lawsuits. I do think that there is not enough accountability for ne
That's ok. When Airbnb, Square, and Stripe IPO in 12-36 months, all of the people currently flooding into SF to work for them will surely be able to sell their pre-IPO shares to ... Well, I don't know, honestly. I doubt that employee #1000 at Square would even be able to pay the down payment on a SF condo with their earnings.

Also, just FYI: Seattle isn't that much cheaper than SF, the people are way meaner, traffic is awful, and the weather really sucks. So I highly recommend against moving up here.

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edit: Since people are apparently missing the joke, I've lived in Seattle for 12 years, consider it home, and can't imagine living anywhere else.
It's rather odd that the idea that the software business changes rapidly is still the conventional wisdom. After all most of the really big ideas were created by people of my generation and the one before (I'll be sixty shortly and I wrote my first programs in Leasco time sharing Basic in 1969 at the age of fourteen). I still see and hear people talking about object orientation as something new yet it wasn't new even in the late 1980s when Turbo Pascal got objects, after all Simula was released in the mid 1960s and had pretty much all the basics of objects and classes.
Lyft is moving its customer service team to Nashville due to the cost of SF rent.

SFBA companies! Get it together! Learn to be remote teams. It makes you a better company in the end.

EDIT: And you're not slaving your employees by forcing them to spend so much of their income on the unnecessary expense of SFBA housing.
It looks like he has gotten some more time.

https://twitter.com/willrdupree/status/649328519596503040

https://twitter.com/EJUSA/status/649328136849629184
Google and Microsoft make patent peace
Everything is complicated, and we live in a world of high causal density, but that does not mean we should throw up our hands in dismay and self-pity.

It is clear that the union is exploiting its monopoly on the supply of port labor, to decrease efficiency, and increase costs and union membership. For some reason, most people are less likely to attribute high costs to monopoly unions, but more than happy to do so for monopoly corporations.
Or not open offices (shameless remote work soap-boxing)
Well if it's economical to recycle now, with comparatively tiny and hugely varied laptop and cellphone batteries, I can only imagine it would be more cost-effective to do with very large and regularized car batteries.
This is not surprising at all. We keep complaining about it here and elsewhere but it's not going to change any time soon. The more people flock to SF the worse it will become.

When I left SF my studio "jr. one-bedroom" in SOMA was $3100 a month. I'd walk or muni to work by the ballpark and usually saw at least one person smoking meth, shooting up heroin, or pissing on the street. I pay less than half of that now for a 2 bedroom house in Michigan and have a stress-free 20 minute commute to the FarmLogs office.
To answer my own questions:

* Yes, Sneed has a motive for lying (reduced sentence).
* Yes, Sneed has a motive (loss of job). So does Glossip.
* Sneed could have known this info without Glossip.
* Yes, Sneed got lots of money. The judgement was not clear
about how much we know about where it came from or Glossip's
connection to it.
* Robbery doesn't make a lot of sense as a motive: Sneed had
access to the other rooms to steal and better targets. But
Sneed had other possible motives than robbery, too.
* Someone else mentioned Sneed was a meth addict, but this wans't
mentioned in this ruling that I saw.
* There are several big lies in Glossip's story that he has no
good explanation for. Him avoiding letting others into room 102
is highly suspect.
* There's also evidence that someone lied to protect him, given the
story from the woman who was sleeping with him. I'm not clear on
what her relationship to Glossip is, only that the testimony puts
both of them into the same bed that night.

So, we do have good reason to believe that he's covering something up here. This could be further substantiated with physical evidence tying him to the envelope of money, etc. In particular, to the curtain covering the body. But there are also problems with Sneed's story.

I'd say they should, if they haven't already done so, gather physical evidence that corroborates Sneed's story. If he's being honest, I don't think Glossip was so perfect as to have left nothing behind. I suppose they'd explain that away by saying that he managed the motel and might have touched any random thing, but having his fingerprints/hair/etc. on something connected to the body would make this a lot harder to explain away.

It looks to me like he's lying and the juries appear to have agreed. I wouldn't care to execute someone on a case like that, however.
>the co-opting of doctors against their Hippocratic Oath to see the end of another human being's life

So you want to ban abortion? Assisted suicide?
I don't think I'm alone in being unable to compute the suggestion that someone who orders a murder is not guilty of any crime...
I'd have to guess that it's a more profitable market. I'd assume far more people are likely to be persuaded to try their hand trading since they can make a million dollars in only a couple weeks with little risk and only $1000 down! A lot of shops have introducing broker or similar programs where you sign-up clients for them and get a cut of the spread for every trade or commission or similar. Has the benefit of not being illegal, and, free money!
There was also a commercial Mac-Toolbox-on-UNIX layer created: Quorum Latitude. Adobe used it to bring Photoshop 3, Illustrator 5.5, and Premiere to SGI IRIX.
They were later purchased by Metrowerks, and saw an opportunity to be a porting layer to bring classic Mac apps to Rhapsody. Of course Apple later relented, and created Carbon to be that transitionary layer.

The MacTech archives have some interesting historical info:

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.13/13.06/Jun97Fa...
http://www.macmod.com/articles/mactech/Vol.14/14.01/Jan98Fac...
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.14/14.02/Feb98Fa...
330 exonerations and counting, so #3 isn't always a yes - and there's a likely no on #1 and #2. For #4 and #5 I usually say no - mainly because we can't get 1-3 right.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/
> If his subordinate didn't actually pull a trigger then no crime would be committed.

No, at that point it would be the crime of attempted murder.
Because subordinates may be less qualified to judge whether the action is a crime or not. This would basically place the onus on the lowest level of the hierarchy in determining whether an action is ethically acceptable. People are frequently trained not to question their superiors judgment and to just follow orders. I'm not saying this is right, especially when in some cases the person executing the order may be in a better position to understand the implications, but it puts a conflict between expecting subordinates to second guess every order they're given, which isn't healthy for a well functioning organizational hierarchy. It also puts the person who would otherwise be "just following orders" at risk if they make a misjudgment, discouraging them from disobeying even if they suspect what they're doing is unethical.
Fuck it, lets communicate with Gov. Fallin the way she understands.. creating a super pac to fund any opponent against the execution.
This is not a great analysis. What they measured was average salary compared to average rent in the neighborhood where the company is located, not what their employees are actually paying. At Weebly I would estimate less than 10% of employees live in Soma where our office is.
Beats Spotify.
>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.

You're joking, right? It should be legal to hire a hitman to kill someone? Or convince someone else to burn down my competitor's building? That's madness.
I have no interest in moving to SF mostly because of the rent. Spending 33%+ of your paycheck on rent is absurd. I'd rather get a remote job and live somewhere cheap enough to where I could potentially put a down payment on my own place.
Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’
It appears a stay has been issued by the Governor: https://twitter.com/grahambrewer/status/649327710699831296
So making 100k+/year doesn't allow you to live comfortably in SF nowdays?
> All events are irreparable.

But some events are more reparable than others. Releasing a falsely accused man from prison after 20 years doesn't give him those 20 years back, but it gives him back the rest of his life.

And suggesting that because all events are irreparable, all events are thus morally equivalent is morally reprehensible.
If all the pro-life crowd took that stance, it wouldn't take long until the death penalty was abolished in the USA.
if you're aiming for high production values that you might find in a feature length film, then yeah. But you can find things on YouTube that are just a camera and a guy, that qualify as being a "short". Depends on what you want to achieve.
In London it is more like 80%
Seattle is way, way cheaper, the people seem nice to me, and we've had like 9 months of sun, so much so that we were declared officially in drought.

Just saying. Might not be Seattle that's the problem.

As to traffic, I commute via boat, which is rad, since there are dolphins and orcas sometimes. Seriously!
Seriously, the number of companies still not hiring remotes is ridiculous. We work in the most flexible industry out there yet most companies still want you sitting in a chair in some downtown office of a giant and expensive city. No thank you. No you don't need to make your entire team remote but you can easily augment a large portion with talented remotes. Keep your high living costs and horrendous commutes, been there done that. There are other options.
The problem is they explicitly had to create something like Bay Area.
They needed the engineers to be @ place. And the same can happen anywhere if you recreate the Bay Area.

Solution: remote work

Honestly...160k salaries for some sw roles are silly. But there is need for them because the costs of living are so high. That's plain bs.
Employees at these companies don't mind paying 50% of their salary for rent because their salary is at most only 60% of their total compensation. Lot of people are getting 1M + deals paid out over 4 years.
ssh! You're not supposed to tell!
I can barely see a lot of important UI now with the 'light look' (e.g. lots of buttons in task description...how do I add a follower?). How do you even pass accessibility guidelines with this?
As silly as these seem it raises an important point, I can't see the point in almost any of them, .horse isn't much worse than more well known ones such as .info. No company would use .info if they have the .com. They're going to put the info at example.com/info.
I am spending 50% of my after-tax income on rent. The 50% I have remaining is more in SF than what I was making in Phoenix or Little Rock or Lincoln.

The amount of choice in employer I have as an individual is also much greater here.

Still, I'll probably head back to one of those "small" towns soon. Not really worth it here for me personally, despite the employer-choice and the $.
Forgot to say thanks for the link.
I was immediately stuck by the technical report name format 70-09-04, very nearly an ISO-8601 date.
This article makes the rather flawed assumption that all the housing in SF is being taken up by people who work at startups, and not by people who work at Facebook/Google but live in the city and commute, who likely are both more numerous and have even greater salaries.

The article doesn't mention studio prices at all, which are high but not stupid high.
Or you know, if it bothers you then find a job elsewhere. A mass exodus will help reduce rents and/or raise wages.
I've been struggling against boredom for the last 3 months. The reason for the constant context switching is to fight off boredom for a few minutes or a few hours to get something done, anything done at all.

Even when carving out time at work for what I want to do, it feels tiring.

When our time is owned by someone else or when our creativity is ignored by someone else we can feel boredom and we can feel tired. I thought it would be fun to hack on Python all day and to explore a new JavaScript web framework; instead I've felt tired and just waiting for 5 or 6pm to just leave and then come home and avoid computers completely.

Maybe we're just feeling like burnt out Colin Laney from All Tomorrow's Parties?
Ah so a way for BAE system BT, Halliburton and Booz Ma kidney to recruit DV/TS cleared staff :-)

This actually Happened when unions where banned at GCHQ - they lost a huge proportion of staff to the private sector.
Sockpuppet comments and votes will eventually get you and your accounts and your sites banned from Hacker News.
I have issued a 37 day stay for Richard Glossip
The likes of Hoare, Dijkstra and Knuth hacked on these Burroughs machines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems#Langua...

Pardon my slip; Dijkstra didn't "hack", of course.
A 37 day stay for Richard Glossip
Very interesting project, but intro is way too slow.
I have used Asana for years always wanting to like it. It's almost what I want and it's nearly done right.

I think this is it for me though. Don't think I can look at those serifs for very long. Overall the design just feels way overwrought and without any clear organizing idea. The margins are all over the place, there are lots of controls that are way too small. The page looks messy and difficult to focus on. To what end?

For me getting things done is closely linked with focus. Shouldn't the design thinking of a company that helps people get things done reflect that? Spare me the gradients I have shit to do.
> One of the most crucial aspects of the death penalty is that it is reserved for people that physically kill other human beings.

I disagree with this. It shouldn't matter whether your murder weapon is a baseball bat or a person you've hired, in both cases you're equally guilty. It's similar to the case of a bomber: the fact that they didn't personally perform a violent act, just built a machine, doesn't absolve them of guilt. (For the record, I don't support the death penalty, but I think that murder and hiring a hitman should carry the same penalty).

> making life in prison a far worse punishment than the death penalty

Your second paragraph seems to contradict itself. If life in prison is worse than the death penalty, then the possibility of wrongful convictions should make the death penalty more appealing, since some of those we imprison for life will be innocent.
How can you see that he commented?
How to Print a Struct in Rust
Good advice, I plan on running a quick rsync:

rsync -rtvpl /usr/local ~/usr.local.backup
It's actually sadly even worse for women for another reason - they cannot date "down" for natural psychological reasons and the pool of "marriageable" men is shrinking due to less men getting education (which is perceived as "high-status" regardless of income, unless the latter is unusually high):

http://www.vice.com/read/youre-single-because-there-arent-en...
Hypothetically: if I were to create a random website with ads and then have clickbots click those ads, would that make me money?
Really? That's awesome! I don't mind waiting but that always annoyed me.
WTF? "No evidence" connecting him to the crime? He admitted to covering up the murder!

There's no evidence that he "masterminded" the crime, but there's still his own admission linking him to the murder.

It seems he's facing the death penalty due to ordering the murder, and that part shouldn't stick because of one person's testimony. But throwing that part out, he wouldn't have been found innocent by anyone.
with that font and words like seperation, priviledge .... and the navigation! (would it have killed you to add just a tiny bit of javascript for a right and left arrow, or space, or page-down or...something) - it just comes off as just too unpolished. I rarely complain about form over substance but I didn't make it all the way through.
Revenge killings are irrelevant. Nobody is saying instead of death penalty we should just free them. They'd be in prison. And if after 30 years someone gets parole, I highly doubt anyone will notice.