skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is how we go down the road of It Means Whatever You Want It to Mean: "well, when viewed in historical context..."

I'm not some casual observer in this with an agenda. I've previously been a licensed pastor for a denomination you've heard of. Read the texts cover-to-cover more times than you have, studied Koine Greek and Hebrew with professors that have professionally translated texts. I'm not appealing to authority, nor trying to start a dick-waving contest, but a resume can sometimes lend some context of who you're dealing with.

With that out of the way, I'll agree that historical context can be useful. But, man, I've seen that line abused more times than not. A section of text makes you feel a little uncomfortable? Hand-wave it away with, "oh, well, back then it was different..." For example, Jesus speaks of rich people and camels passing through the eyes of needles. I've heard that explained away with, "the wall of Jerusalem had a very short entrance, called the Eye of the Needle, through which a camel would have difficulty passing but it was not impossible." OMG, how many intellectual backflips do I need to do to feel comfortable with my lack of charity and emphasis on obtaining more stuff? How about we take Jesus at his word, and quit being so materialistic?

So I personally come to an impasse: taking the Bible word-for-word literally isn't an option (I can explain why if needed, but I'll assume it's obvious), but one can go the other way with so much "context" that Jesus himself wouldn't recognize the religion you end up with. Hence my conclusion that the canon cannot have been divinely inspired. If there's a divine being who wishes a personal relationship with us as individuals, she needs to do a better job getting to the point. You and I can't even agree on whether or not this divine being thinks slavery is OK or not. That's some pretty crap writing if something so simple isn't made plain.
I wonder how much further humankind would have progressed by now if "because it can be done" were not such a big motivation for intelligent people.

Edit: Since everybody took this post seriously, I will, too: We would be closer to some local maxima, but would have no chance to progress beyond them.
We're bringing capital, resources, and community to people building the future. It actually started because I was trying to get people on-board when I was building Playa (http://getplaya.com) and found my VC friends (even VC strangers https://medium.com/@sinkorswim/launching-at-launch-my-entire...) didn't know what I was talking about, but my technical friends did. So I thought it would be cool to build something that might help people building other cool stuff that might not have/desire the need for traditional funding, and also provides all the tools (newsletters, updates, engagement, shops, knowledge-share) needed to build a real and viable community of supporters for whatever you're sharing/building/selling/crowdfunding.

I see a lot of founders who don't include community through every step of building product, so they have a hard time with distribution and finding reception of their products at launch. We're getting people to understand that without tons of unicorn money it's essential to build an organic following by including their communities in the feedback loop early and often -- simply building alone is itself not enough. :)
I wouldn't characterize it as lying, so much as making an assumption.
Will they even try? WSL isn't installed by default, you have to specifically ask for it, and presumably only a small percentage of Windows 10 installs are developers who'll be doing that. I don't know if malware writers will bother with it.
The people who know how to do that are pulling down the big bucks on the Windows 10 team at Microsoft.
Not death. I'll be fine with whatever the Swedish court system decides.

It is not the role of the victim to determine the punishment. That would make a mockery of the rule of law.

Consider the Amish, who "believe that bringing litigation in a court of law violates their understanding of nonresistance. They view litigation as a coercive means and thus counter to their beliefs against using violence." http://amishamerica.com/why-dont-amish-sue/

Those of other faiths may have similar reasons for not punishing a criminal, like a Buddhist who has made a vow to not to harm others.

Still others believe in an eye-for-an-eye, even if Jesus said to turn the other cheek, and may want a harsher than average punishment.

And of course there are people with no kin who can make that judgement about the punishment due, should they be murdered.

In the court system you envision, you'll end up encouraging people to attack Buddhists, Amish, etc., knowing that they'll be treated more gently than usual give the refusal of their victims to pass any judgement.

To add to that, most child kidnapping by far is done by family members. I do not think that state-mandated death of one of the parents is a reasonable response if that parent should kidnap the child from the other parent.

Yet that seems to be what the Bible verse says is appropriate.

Now that the turned-around question is answered, perhaps you'll care to answer chroma's original question? That being:

"Do you think we should institute the death penalty for the crime of kidnapping? If not, why not? "Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death," is as explicit and unambiguous as it is possible to be.""
This is a helpful graphic, but I think it’s incomplete -- and substantially understates CA's COL. That’s because it measures what AFTER TAX dollars buy (as I understand it). Hence income tax free states have an even bigger “bang for the buck” advantage. I prefer to use the Missouri COL comparison of states:
https://www.missourieconomy.org/indicators/cost_of_living/
They're doing this for entertainment purposes. You could burn out if you're not having fun while working. Perhaps one would just do dumber things, not ones that are more useful?
Show HN: Linux: Notification about any device being plugged or unplugged
>So at age ten or twelve, you are either selected to join Hauptschule, Realschule or Gymnasium. The first school prepares you to become a worker, car mechanic, hair dresser etc.

The problem I have with this is: one of these is not like the others. The mental ability needed to be a good mechanic is much greater, I think, than what you need to be a factory worker or a hairdresser. This is especially true with modern cars, which are really technological marvels and highly complex systems. There's a reason they're calling these people "automotive technicians" now instead of just "mechanics". Here in the US, you generally need to go to a rather expensive trade school to learn to be a certified mechanic, and then you have to get the certification (from ASE usually). Most regular office workers would not be able to handle it, I think. Even a lot of scientists and engineers seem to have trouble understanding details of how cars work. It's certainly a more hands-on and dirtier job than the office worker and academic roles, but it's not something you can do if you're a complete idiot, whereas any moron can be trained for a simple factory job, or to wash peoples' hair, or flip burgers.
Yep, exactly. Same with the mountain west.

That's fine with me though, I like the peace and quiet that I'm afforded -- and can do without hysterical urbanites as intolerant as the imagined middle america they fear.
One more concept that I've seen people struggle with is the idea that programs/code don't convey meaning to computers - just behaviors.

For example, new students struggle with the idea that variable names can be changed at will. There's nothing special about a variable named 'personName' - it could be a street address, a function reference, or anything else and the computer just doesn't care.

The idea that there is no such thing as intent in the world of computing can be difficult to grasp. This is closely related with the concept that programs are just data. There are ways to teach this though - I personally love the examples of the programming languages where a bitmap is read, or where only whitespace characters are allowed. It can break students' conception that variable names have any meaning to the computer.
I wonder how much further humankind would have progressed by now if we knew upfront what's useful and didn't have to try a whole bunch of crazy stuff.
Ask HN: How do you encode VP9 or VP8?
If you encode videos in one of the VPx formats, what tool do you use, and on what platform?

Are there any that tap into hardware encoding routines when they're available on the box?

Are there any besides ffmpeg-compiled-with-libvpx that are open-source? Are there any that are available at no cost?
Yeah, all laws are inventions of people intended to express shared morals in a way that prevents vigilantism. I did say copyright is often a useful fiction. But it goes way too far in its present form of 120 year terms and conflation with physical property. As just one hypothetical, we could easily have a system of patronage with a pseudomarket that determines where the patronage is applied, and creators would still get paid, without having to sue single moms and college students.

You're still using words like "theft" and "stealing". Those terms confuse duplication with deprivation. If we had a magic ray gun that could make a copy of any car on the street for basically zero cost, without affecting the original owner of the car, you'd better believe people would use that, and they definitely wouldn't call it stealing.

So when discussing how to reward creators of intangible products for their work (but only if it's actually good -- nobody "deserves" extra money just because they want it), talking about "theft" and "property" is not helping.

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> You would be seeing the productions all over TV (because there's no royalty to pay, right?).

I don't think we can reasonably use our current reality as proof that it's the only possible reality. We see talented people gravitate toward the available market for their talents, yes, but in the absence of that market I don't see how their talents would just evaporate.

Besides, most of us who oppose current copyright aren't talking about total abolition (at least not until society is completely post-scarcity). We want an acknowledgement that current works stand on the shoulders of past works, and that future works should be allowed and encouraged to do the same, as well as an acknowledgement that technology is changing and the conveniences of that technology should be embraced, not hindered with crap like DRM and oppressive lawsuits.
As far as I don't it doesn't and I can't find it for OpenGL.
NVIDIA exposes it via both OpenGL (IIRC NV_viewport_array2) and DX (via NVAPI).
With Pascal NVIDIA has SMP (to MPA) which is adds even more.

There is a reason why the 1060 beats the Fury X in the most demanding VR titles these days.
Yes they both run at 90fps but 90-98% of the time the AMD hardware resorts to reprojection.
Thanks.. is there a setting to re-integrate the left/middle/right into a single list?
Hi,

You don't mention the industry you're in right now, so it's hard to make comparisons.

Perhaps even more importantly, you didn't say what you do.

I think these questions are relevant, because in my experience satisfaction in one's work comes more from what one actually does than from the industry he/she is in.

Boring industries have some very interesting problems, so it is not rare to find a stimulating job in any industry.

How different would your work be at B?
So here's the thing - diversity of ideas is good, diversity of values is what people struggle with. As long as two people agree on where they're trying to go, they can disagree on the details of how to get there and still be perfectly happy - when either of them gets closer, both do.

But, say you're a gun nut and the people surrounding you are decidedly anti-gun-ownership - there's no shared goal, and no obvious resolution to your differences. If the people surrounding you make progress towards their goal, it goes against yours. There's nothing to do but fight. And fighting is exhausting.
$5k seems low for the amount of troubleshooting and work he did.
Why not just use a virtual env?
Nope. Houston housing costs are less than California cities. Indeed, the median home cost in the whole state of Texas is 1/3 of California.
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If I were gay or trans, I'd actually be more worried about Boston than Atlanta. Boston is pretty provincial. And there is a very large and public LGBT population in Atlanta.
lost $200k (payroll out of pocket) - lost confidence that I could ever recover
I think in both cases, yes, they should reveal that they got the stuff for free.

I don't really see any ambiguity here. Just ask, "Would I want to know about this if the celebrity's actions were a factor in my purchase?"
It's bad enough when people say "buggy" instead of "cart" or "coke" or "soda" instead of "pop".

I can only imagine how much faster my social stamina would be depleted if everyone around me were constantly arguing about whether it would be better if I didn't exist at all, or if I just went far away, never to return.
I have family who are lawyers.

They and a great many of their colleagues can barely type without looking at the keyboard. You're suggesting that the kind of person who still double-clicks on hyperlinks can learn git?

I'm an aerospace engineer and I can barely use git. Git's UI/UX is a fucking disaster that just happens to suck less than what came before it.
This is kind of crazy but I'm looking for this fascinating blog I found ages ago via HN. It was someone who was posting their father's diary online, as a blog -- he was an engineer and kept a diary, which was full of fascinating minutiae. Does that ring any bells for anyone? No worries if not, I'm finding this blog hook or by crook.
Europe has the highest online piracy rates
BS by a party that can not cross even 1% in support. Now if you are in IT you generally work as private entrepreneur and pay basically flat 3% tax.
Yeah, AR/VR was my first though.
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Very much depends what you are actually doing in the cloud.
He has a decent point. He is, perhaps, not saying it very well. It generally doesn't work to use imperatives, like "Find a new city." His point might go over better if it were framed more like 'Artistic youth need a new option."

I totally get where he is coming from when he says you just need to move to someplace cheap. I am a big fan of doing what is within my means, regardless of whatever is going on in the world. But you have to be careful with how you frame such thoughts. Framing in a way that can be read as "It is your fault your life sucks" instead of "It sucks that places like New York and San Francisco aren't what they were a few decades ago. But maybe the piece within your hands is picking a new place to live that meets your needs better."
Are paid endorsements really puffery? Basketball players sponsored by Nike don't wear Nike shoes ironically.

(A comedy advert, like the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker campaign, seems closer to puffery)
This is the first time I hear about PeARS project. (Quick search on HN shows nothing relevant.) Its goals look great and ambitious. Wonder why it doesn't get more publicity?

P.S. And they should consider changing the project name.
As others have said, similar to DO. It has a few more options available, though, including better support for booting your own OSes if you don't want to use a prepackaged one, and dedicated instances (last I checked DO didn't do either, but haven't looked for a bit, might be out of date). I've also found their support to be more willing to work with me to get things running how I want, but that's obviously just anecdotal.
you want that in NY now you move to crown heights. And there will be some myopic look back in 25 years saying the same shit about that place too

I smiled when I read this because I remember having a gay co-worker describing his neighborhood as "I live in controversy-ridden Crown Heights" about 27 years ago.

Holy crap, I'm old!
Github uses pdf.js for that, so it's not more or less secure than viewing it with Firefox's built-in viewer.
To add on to your #1 - There's no desire/impetus to bridge that particular gap. It's very easy to just tell prospective employees to show up. I wonder how long rent will have to increase before prospective employees stop showing up.
While the current SoC may not be, the interconnect between the card and the rest is.

http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA-68
Well, it uses Firefox' PDF renderer - they just copied the code into the page itself.
Still, 1% of a very large number (I don't know Reddit's server costs) can be a large enough number to be worth pursuing.
Cool, thanks, anything to re-integrate left/middle/right into a single list again?
True. Also, aluminum parts are stronger than plastics. And magnesium parts are stronger than aluminum. But we don't make everything out of magnesium.

The question is not "could it be stronger?", to which the answer is always yes until you've hit the extreme end with some kind of inconel/titanium/carbon nanotube mix, but "is it strong enough?". Also cost to manufacture, including tooling costs, is an important factor in choosing the best manufacturing method for a given part.
>...my own favorite, "<-", but somehow they have never caught on.

No doubt because "<-" is two characters and requires the shift key, whereas "=" is only one, unshifted character.
The idea is that all the major ports etc will be covered by a shell going around the card.
PeARS – Distributed P2P web search engine
Taken on its own, unconsciousness is a massive evolutionary setback--an explanation like "conserves energy" doesn't cut it, when there are plenty of nocturnal predators around. Why didn't humans evolve to lie down at night, with their heartrate and breathing slow, but remain fully aware of their surroundings? That would make survival to reproduction age a lot simpler.
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Hmm... possibly a core replacement for Android/ChromeOS.
I would wager humankind would have progressed quite a bit less personally.
I can tell you've never experienced the "Robbery next door", because you'd have been deeply underwhelmed with the response. Certainly canvassing the neighborhood isn't a part of it! Now putting aside that fantasy, in the real world most of us encounter police in one of three broad situations:

1.) Traffic stops and accidents.

2.) "Public order" issues (protests, large events, etc)

3.) As victims or perpetrators of a violent crime.

Most of us won't be either side of the equation in #3, virtually all of us will experience #1, and a large proportion will experience #2.

It's also possible that some of us understand that while many good LEO's exist, the bad ones are too damned dangerous and protected by the silence of the good ones. There are also competence, "War on Drugs" and other issues.

edit: Also, just ask literally any attorney what you should say, including those who have nothing at all to do with criminal defense. Then ask them why they all give the same answer as my original post...
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I didn't attend MIT -- why do you think it's copying MIT, because it's from MIT press? I believe that's the closest thing there is to a "standard" algorithms textbook but things may have changed since my college days...
I don't like Atom, 'cause it's still as unstable as it was a year ago and memory hungry, so I'd say - try Sublime Text, if you haven't before. Matter of taste though.

https://kapeli.com/dash

https://www.mediaatelier.com/CheatSheet/ - cheatsheet for (almost) any app. Know your hotkeys!

http://brew.sh/ - your package manager

https://www.iterm2.com/ - best terminal replacement, most likely

http://happenapps.com/#quiver - evernote for your code (dash has similar functionality build-in though)
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the post is how he's returning a favor, which he explains in the post, in the "returning the favor" section
That and being able to trivially resize/reshape BTRFS storage volumes after adding/removing devices makes it more suitable for my personal home use.
1-3 hours? Do you have a source for that advice? Everything I've read, and my personal experience with it, suggests taking it (as you say, .5 to 1mg) 30 minutes before you want to fall asleep.
Or maybe they have a friend or relative who dated a cop, or maybe they're black in the US in general, be disturbed by the trend of violent policing and excessive imprisonment, worried by the 'blue wall of silence' and its nasty persistence, maybe they went to law school or know someone who did... Lots of reasons that aren't comedy routines to use as strawmen you know.
Not just a Black Hat presentation, but from Azimuth, who are among the coolest of the cool kids. This is Mark Dowd and John McDonald's company. The people giving this talk are... not the "B" team.
Be that as it may, a consequence of piracy is that Hollywood is forced to the bargaining table. Protesting against that feeling of entitlement to better prices is a common theme on HN, but it ignores the (current) reality that if someone wants to watch the latest Hollywood blockbuster for free, there is nothing to stop them from doing so.
I must complain the slides are chalk full of text with very few visuals. It becomes a paper reading instead of a talk at this point.
The flip side of that argument is that people aren't stupid. They think of just that problem: "if I lose/don't like my job, where else can I find work?"

If the answer is "two hours east," then most applicants will pass on the "opportunity."
FYI, I'm a chronic insomnia sufferer, and I also found melatonin was a "miracle cure". Even if/when it didn't help me get to sleep on time, I would still wake up feeling mostly rested and able to function the next day.

Flash forward a couple of years, and it started to catch up to me. In retrospect, I guess it was NOT working a lot more often than it WAS, but I was still able to get up at my normal time and slog through another day... until all of a sudden I wasn't.

I started having a really hard time concentrating, remembering things, etc. I went from being proud I had memorized the first 40 digits of pi, to not being able to remember my own damned zip code.

Frankly, I thought it was early onset Alzheimer's, and I started putting my affairs in order. Initial tests were inconclusive, but that's not necessarily surprising: the simple cognitive tests are only useful for spotting advanced decline if you are even remotely non- "neuro-typical". Fancier (and noisier) brain scans showed nothing unusual.

Anyway, long story short: on medical advice I threw away the melatonin, and practically overnight my symptoms evaporated.

This is all highly anecdotal, I know - and you would be foolish not to be skeptical. But I would suggest that if you are using melatonin regularly, and especially if you have been for a long time... You might want to casually start tracking your actual sleeping hours, and verify that you are really getting enough - and not just "compensating."
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