skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a perfect example of the US completely getting it wrong. If states can't get it right, I think the ability to arbitrarily punish serious crimes should be dissolved to upper government. Why it makes a difference what state you're in is beyond me. I thought it was something they were phasing out of.

Because if it were all handled at a higher level, there is a very good chance these types of policies would be in place for more people. Also, it would take more effort to change them. Concentration of power is not good, didn't you see star wars?
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Forgive my ignorance, but could someone explain to me the difference between the resume and the experience graph? As far as I'm aware, resumes are not rigid and anything the person wants to include, gets included, eg. In How I Met Your Mother, the protagonists include winning hotdog competitions. Hence, the resume can still include "gaining a certificate from Lynda.com" (using the article's example) alongside her being hired at the company. Or is this experience graph just a fancier way of outlining a specification for resumes so it will be easier for autonomous systems to parse/digest?
I'm sure there will be a next Next Big Thing. I'm also sure that nobody here knows what it is. If you do, tell your stock broker instead of Hacker News, and become a billionaire if you're right. That's what makes geniuses geniuses - going all-in on the right thing at the right time.

People in the 1890s and 1690s and so on probably thought they were plateaued on things too. What are the odds that we're the real plateau? It might not be in consumer tech, but it's out there, waiting for the right person to discover it.
Generally the vtable is not much slower. I believe around the cost of an extra pointer derefence vs the alternative of branching. Also the compiler can sometimes optimize the cost to be the same as a normal call(e.g. final)
Thanks for another example @PaulHoule, just today Australian ABC News are shutting down a service that could be automated "ABC source dries up as transcripts of news and current affairs shows curtailed" ~ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/aug/05/abc-source-dri...
And a youtube vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxR-3Un6WkU
As an extension of that fact, if there was a single true Eve the population would be at extremely high risk for genetic defects.

It's called a population bottleneck, where a near extinction event forces almost all individuals to share a large proportion of their genetic material, and the most recognizable example is in cheetahs.

http://cheetah.org/about-the-cheetah/genetic-diversity/
"So you want to be a CTO?" [1] by Simon Raik-Allen, CTO of MYOB [2].

[1] https://youtu.be/CVLwFYBvX5I

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MYOB_(company) . Basically a provider of accounting software. A household name in Australia.
Just my passport. This was in 2007.
Coming from a country where double-brick-and-tile is the gold standard, the concept of building your houses out of what is essentially cardboard tacked onto scaffolding is mindblowing.

On the other hand, when I realised that was the usual construction method in the U.S. it suddenly made sense of a whole bunch of movie moments when people smash into an damage or are thrown through walls.
Variable compression? So logical next step is variable octane, right? One tank of 87 and one tank of 93, dynamically mixed in response to changing compression ratio. :)
What's pretty interesting is that my understanding of their licensing scheme is that it is not cheap per seat per year. Something on the order of $10-12k. There was a pricing sheet that floated around a few months ago that was released through a FOIA request. So it sounds like they covered their initial development R&D costs through licensing, led with that tool into consulting.

My understanding is that many of the tooling companies who became consulting firms mostly jettisoned the tools along the way. Palantir has just let theirs stagnate.
I call that "tract housing". That describes my house. It's the same 6 floor plans with a few options, with the occasional custom job here and there.
As "engineer" replaced "programmer," "systems programmer" became "systems engineer" (working on platforms for the applications engineers).
absolutely every company has one of those. I'm familiar with the bmw one: VANOS something. from the 90s.

variable compression is nothing new, just very prone to failure. the other downside was it was much harder to work on the engine, but nobody cares about that anymore.
Agreed with ufmace. It's more likely than not that the NBT is something nobody on this thread has mentioned. History proves this point over and over again - smartphones were not the clear NBT in 2006, social media wasn't the NBT in 2003, the sharing economy wasn't the NBT in 2009, etc. etc.

The one area where people's opinions did get the NBT right was probably in 2013, where the NBT was predicted to be enterprise.
not sure if joking or not, but the injection map on your ecu does that.
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> What Apple paid for Beats, it’s largest acquisition ever

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So you must use a Mac to comment on Tim Cook or Apple?
Nobody is pretending that the concept of fracking didn't exist prior to the 1990s. That's a straw-man you set up and knocked down on your own. What changed is the process for fracking was made drastically more economical. Further, we had no idea exactly where the largest shale oil deposits were in 1950; over 3/4 of the currently known major Texas oil deposits were still unknown as of that date, to say nothing of the fact that our understanding of how much shale oil there was in the US, was next to non-existent. Even just 20 years ago our understanding of that was horrible. The Bakken as one example was only briefly described in 1953, and wasn't taken seriously for decades because so little was known about the reserves there.

The cost of using fracking to extract a barrel of oil has dropped by over 90% in 15 years. The cost in 1950 would have been so astronomical as to be silly. It's like pretending deep ocean drilling would have been viable in 1900, just because they had theories about how to do it.
You sound dismissive and petulant. Objective moral truths have to be real (or at least tractable if you're, e.g., a utilitarian) unless you're willing to make some very dubious concessions, such as: it's not morally and objectively wrong to hurt someone for no good reason.

Of course, some DO make such concessions (Singer being one of them), but I think that's just throwing the baby with the bath water.
Why is never having ridden the subway a point of pride.
The term "community broadband" here seems misleading.

As far as I can tell, most of the ISP objections to such efforts involve a local government effectively creating its own ISP. Objecting to that doesn't seem particularly unreasonable; a government ISP has inherent anti-competitive properties (such as tax funding), even if it doesn't go even further and ignore regulations it applies to everyone else. Imagine trying to compete with a competitor that everyone has to pay for (in whole or in part) whether they use it or not, and that gets to set the rules you have to follow but that it can choose not to.

I don't think any of the ISP objections or court cases would hold up against an actual community effort, as opposed to a government effort. If a group of people got together and decided to start a community ISP, nothing should stop them.
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There are better ways to critique McMansions.

The article's approach is to list a series of hard aesthetic rules, then show how some McMansions break them.

That would be a valid critique, but the article never fully establishes that those aesthetic rules are universally desirable. In aesthetics, rules are made to be broken.

If standards are broken haphazardly or unintentionally, that may be a sign of poor aesthetics. But I'm convinced McMansions intentionally break several of those rules.

Breaking those rules is the only way to convey something that the author somehow completely fails to notice.

A better aesthetic test of McMansions would only involve two questions:

1) Are McMansions effectively conveying some idea, and,

2) Is that idea is worth conveying?

Setting (2) aside for the moment, I think McMansions meet (1) very well, primarily by breaking the author's "rules."

Think about who buys these. The architects and the purchasers are not ultra-rich, but are still in a class that wants to display wealth.

When purchasers in this group compare several homes, they are most likely to buy the one that makes them feel like they're displaying the most wealth and power for their price point.

Wait, why would a tangled mess of asymmetrical nonsense achieve that?

Because the aesthetic McMansions are shooting for is "this is more than one house."

Bits crop up all over the place and the masses are obscured so that the building gives the appearance of multiple dwellings.

What does it look most like? Villages that have cropped up around a central castle, organically growing in different heights and orientations without much central planning. (Maybe more from fairy tales than real world villages.)

The image the McMansion tries to convey is one of dominion over a territory or a population. I think McMansions succeed, primarily through the subversion of the author's favored aesthetic tropes.

But even if McMansions successfully evoke small villages, part (2) is the more important question.

Is mimicry of an order of magnitude of wealth and power beyond one's reach aesthetically appealing, or desperate and ostentatious?

I'd find a critique along those lines far more compelling. The fact that some buildings fail to satisfy some arbitrary checklist is not the more important thing, what the building says about the owner's character and insecurity is far more interesting.
SFML is a C++ library, so it provides some of the abstractions C++ has. If that's your cup of tea, I'd recommend SFML.
2/3 of Americans are considered to be overweight/obese. And before you say, 'that's even more of reason to own one,' no matter how sleek the advertising campaign to peddle a broadly useless piece of technojunk, you're never going to convince the populous that exercising is fun. Unless it detects cancer, it's just a toy.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...
> Kanji + kana are much more compact, and things like the conjugation of a verb and doubled letters which are common in the language are immediately obvious - because the writing system is designed to accommodate them.

My grasp of Japanese is virtually non-existent, but I noticed this as well. Taking an example from the post, I find something like しっけ easier to parse than the romaji shikke. The latter form just feels clumsy for reasons I can't really articulate.

It also makes the pronunciation a little easier at times. If I read "desu", I read it with a fairly pronounced "u" sound. Reading です, on the other hand, I know without really thinking about it that the う sound is typically very short.
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> You'll still never return lost years and decades of someone's life any more than you could return life to a dead man. You can't restore the fractured relationships, undo the pain of imprisonment.

No, but you also can't make a completely perfect criminal justice system. It is infinitely more possible to free a person from prison, pay that person many millions of dollars (or do other things to make the remainder of that person's life very easy), and otherwise let that person go back to having some kind of life...than it is to raise the dead.

> Honestly, I think a quick death (not the insane decades-of-imprisonment-followed-by-ritualistic-execution we have now) is far more humane than life in prison.

Perhaps it is for the actually-guilty. But for the actually-innocent, I do not agree because they will always have the hope and possibility of someday being freed again.
For smaller projects (say, what an engineer might run and manage by themselves), there's always Microsoft Project. That's the lower level default for making/managing schedules.

For much larger projects, or projects of projects (think large engineering systems of systems that take years to design/build/test/deploy), there's all kinds of software available. My company uses Oracle Primavera for this sort of thing.

Also, don't forget Excel. Excel is everywhere and used for all sorts of things it probably shouldn't be used for.
This seems to be an unpopular opinion - but I agree.

The word 'energy' doesn't appear anywhere in the original article, and only a couple of times, en passant, on the HN discussion. However the wanton misuse of materials (including energy) and on-going misuse of same, is the thing I find least attractive about these structures. Sure, it's not a purely aesthetic response, but it's hard to look at one of those things going up in the neighbourhood and not think about these aspects.

They all face the street, too. (Thoughtfully designed structures would be aligned, as appropriate for the region, with north / south.) It's a weak line, but the owners aren't the ones who have to look at the outside all the time, so they aren't as impacted.
You are framing your argument, even if you don't recognize you're doing it. You response is evidence of the framing and your blindness to it.

I agree completely with most of what you have said. It's obvious that it's harder to make a decentralized solution as convenient as a centralized platform. Yes, it would be great if decentralized solution could also offer a new feature that made them able to compete on the market on their own merits. This is yet another example of a situation that becomes pathological in an unregulated market.

What you seem to be missing is that the centralized solution is not safe for the user, and therefor shouldn't be an option. There are many products that could be made much easier to use if we removed their safety features. When profit motive conflicts with user safety is when regulations are added to the market to correct that imbalance. I'm suggesting that the makers of networked software might want to add their own regulations - such as preserving an open web - before governments decide to get involved with poorly designed legislation.
Why does the popularity of a form of punishment matter so much?

If the death penalty is unjust, inhumane, and unequally applied, isn't it also then both crual and unusual?

The standard we apply in our justice system is not one of popular opinion.
That's interesting. I did drink more water but I did not give any consideration to salt. What's the best way to get that salt balance right?
Woodworking. Got started by just doing. Learned a lot from YouTube and r/woodworking, and refined my skills by doing more projects.
In this case, I was using eyes as a shorthand, but yes, you are correct.
> with someone whom you know to own and carry a firearm could result in a death

In modern Texas with its 'carry' laws, this could be anyone.

Besides, given the gun lobby rhetoric, 'guns don't kill people', so a death is 'just as likely' with a knife or any other tool to hand - even stuff already in the shop. After all, if someone is intent on killing you, 'they're going to do it whether or not they have a gun'.
No, that's totally different. That's just variable cams(e.g. what Honda calls VTEC).

This is actually changing the combustion chamber geometry.
The way you worded it, I'd say we have that already: See Google's relatively public self-driving car project, already logging lots of fully autonomous miles on public streets https://youtu.be/bDOnn0-4Nq8

I do think it'll be more like 50 years to get self-driving cars being sold to the general public that can drive autonomously anywhere though.
From the (much better) Reuters article [0]:

> The higher the ratio, the more efficiently the engine works, producing better fuel economy and, with the addition of a turbo-charger, more power.

> Traditionally, design engineers had to fix a gasoline engine's combustion compression ratio, essentially deciding whether to go for power or economy.

Everything gets better with higher compression ratio, so where's the compromise? As I understand it, the only reason engine makers don't crank the ratio as high as possible is to avoid knocking.

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-japan-nissan-engine-...
This isn't working for me, I'm not getting an upgrade header back from the server, it just stalls. Hm.

Did you have to do anything special to get this to work?
There's always CSFML, an official binding of C to SFML. I don't know C++.
I am finding C to be a break from all of the new PLs I've been playing with. A sort of return to basics for me. It was my first language (well, after BASIC ;)).
Mostly ease of use. It's a rock. I have a special place in my heart for BSD, but that aside, when the SystemD battles started and I was on Ubuntu, I was interested in using ZFS for a few things. So the choices were ZFS on Linux, or go back to BSD. After about an hour of playing around, I ended up back on FreeBSD.

So, it's partly personal, as all things are. But it's mostly how easy it is to use, especially for someone that wouldn't describe themselves as a server admin of any special level of skill. There are a few core tenets of design in BSD/FreeBSD that are both beautiful and very easy to understand. So I can ignore the OS a lot of the time and just get to work on the app side.
Right, showing a budget obviously can't be accomplished without reselling the data to hedge funds, etc.
The same could be argued for any jargon outside of one's own field.
Interesting to see New Zealand so high up on that list.

There was a lot of discussion a few years ago about their relatively poor productivity. I suspect the key to lowering those hours worked, is exactly that specific issue:

http://www.productivity.govt.nz/working-paper/an-internation...
I... Completely agree. I honestly have no idea why we're arguing at this point.
An algorithm has limits that humans don't, as Godel's incompleteness theorems prove.

The study of mathematics is communicating some deep logic, but it doesn't end there as you trivialize. It's not just some poetry that we memorize, but it's a new insight to the nature of everything.
There is no reason for SpaceX to reduce launch costs for customers who insist on freshly minted launchers.

Charge the sustainable rate for all launches, except those who demand new rockets.

Eventually customers will stop demanding new rockets.
Nope. Any two organisms have a unique MCRA of either gender. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
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Because sympathy invokes inclusion and empathy. And reciprocity is human nature.

This assumes said CEO is mindful and doesn't suffer from a mental disorder, like narcissism.
Only if you want to be the good kind of biased, the kind we can get behind here at HN.
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I have a lot of respect for Nissan's engineers, but somewhat less respect for their lawyers, who hounded Uzi Nissan for a decade trying to get him to turn over his domain.

http://www.nissan.com/Lawsuit/The_Story.php

Cybersquatting is obnoxious, but once they found out it was the guy's actual name, and that he was using it to run his own business, they should have just accepted he had a right to the site and worked to buy it from him or moved on.
The thesis was "some aspects of Larry Page's life are unenviable." Not "Larry Page's life is as hard as a poor single working mother."

If you dismiss difficult aspects of a person's life because somebody else has it worse, then nobody actually has a hard life except for starving children in Africa. Maybe not even them: captives who suffer regular torture and indignity probably have it worse. Or modern-day slaves.
Morality is "real" to the extent that we acknowledge that all humans express (or are capable of expressing) moral intuition. You can't hold the emotion of happiness or the feeling of hunger in your hand, but I would wager that you have strong intuitions about their existence as "real" things.

Utilitarianism isn't the end-all-be-all of moral philosophy. By modern standards, it isn't even particularly popular, compared to hybrid (partially deontological) theories. I think you would also be hard-pressed to find a philosopher who thinks that moral theories can be derived from science alone. Scientific knowledge is often used by philosophers to explain an intuition or support a theory, but few are likely to advocate for cannibalism because we have observed it in other species (and some remote uncontacted groups). That would be an appeal to naturalism or the mere state of things, neither of which is compelling in theories that are meant to explain how we ought to behave.

Thinking about morality as a nonabsolute lands you squarely in the land of relativism. That's a very comfortable place to be, until you meet someone who likes to burn the paws of cats for fun (to borrow Singer's analogy) and have no recourse against their unambiguously immoral behavior.

To wrap up, the goal of moral philosophy is not to "anchor" your preexisting morals and make yourself more comfortable - it is to take (all) moral principles to their logical limits, exploring inconsistencies and gaps that would be unacceptable if applied consistently.
The drawback is that higher compression ratios require higher octane fuels. Nissan claims to have solved this by some kind of intelligent feedback system that allows them to control compression ratios on the fly. Presumably the compromise there is that it will require more moving parts, be expensive, and may come with issues of its own.

Variability in something like a combustion chamber is a cool idea, so is variability in the angle of turbo vanes. The issue is how you do it, affordably, and in a way that lasts the way that consumers expect from their cars.
As to your first point, I said "many," not most, dislike the death penalty. Even at its most pessimistic, 19% strongly opposed, that's 4 million voters who are opposed. I think that qualifies as many, though perhaps it is a distinction without a difference for you. I might should not have said it.

On your second, I don't know how my personal actions are relevant here, but I will recite them for you because I am on a rebutting-of-presumptions mode today:

- You said I "chose to live in a way" that supports the death penalty. I should point out that though I am native to Texas, I no longer live in Texas. I even reincorporated my small consulting business in another state, away from Texas.

- I have provided volunteer support to the Innocence Project of Texas (I decline to specify when or what kind because I am being anonymous here).

- When I lived in State Senator Jane Nelson's district, I know that I had a reputation among her staff for writing several anti-death penalty letters and being one of the most vociferous. I know this because I became friends with a former staffer of hers and that person told me.

- I have participated in and volunteered for the political campaigns of candidates who are endorsed by the Texas Moratorium Network, a group opposed to the death penalty.

Is that sufficient? Have you packed your bags to move to Texas and vote against proponents of the death penalty yet? My vote is missing, perhaps you can take up the slack for me.
I'm a pretty big fan of Scott Hanselman!

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/