skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true for me. I can go from notation to my fingers, faster than I can go from notation to singing a tune. It's a hyper specialized skill. I can sight-read treble clef on flute, and bass clef on the double bass, but it's hard for me to sight-read treble clef music on the double bass, even though the transposition of a couple octaves is no problem at all.
Yes, I know. But having the log base 2^(1/7)-ish built in is useful. If we could just subtract 1 from all the numbers (i.e. what we call a fifth should be 4) then we would have a measure that actually made sense.
uBlock also doesn't engage in the shady practise of selling spots on it's whitelist, as I recall.
> no idea what sort of thing gets you on one

That's the evil nature of them. You don't know how you ended up on one (or how many). You don't even know if you're on one. And if you did, there's no process for getting off it.

There was a story several years ago about how one of the US states (Rhode Island??) was dumping everyone convicted of a felony into the national terrorism watchlist. And didn't care, because {shrug} they're felons.
I've thought the same. It seems like they want it to be cruel. There are clearly better options. even for lethal injection and the recent errors. Why not just morphine or heroin someone up. Rather than this paralyse then administrator more drugs that apparently hurt. There something creepy/evil about current methods.
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One of the design goals is to _not_ be disqus.
Where's the plateau here?
The other day here I saw an Ask HN about how to enter the "$300K club". While I have a low cost of living abroad ($600/mo total), I'd be super happy to enter the $1K/mo club, and over the moon if I could get it up to $2K. For that, I'd need a better understanding of my skill set as well as how to develop a better one.
How gun control was solved elsewhere
well the other option is the TDP or variants.
At the end of both someone dies. Look killing isn't easy. Both of these things are choices our country is making.

You are implying that one way of dying is better than the other but what do you know about the stress of living in Syria or Afghanistan? Have you ever taken a life?
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> You, who have betrayed your nation and its security, will never again enjoy its protection.

Which can also be accomplished by exile instead of killing.
It's a standard-issue joke at this point ;-).
The "kernel" there is written by Microsoft and is kind of wonky. Stuff like FTDI cables don't even work the way you would expect.
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+1. I have found myself completing courses when I can choose my pace. There are times when I am done with project work, and I merrily chomp through a course or some difficult task during the weekend.

I wonder if this schedule is a carry over from how college courses are run. Perhaps there are those who need the discipline of a schedule. It'd have been nice to have a choice between a schedule as well as an "at your pace".
I remember being able to SSH to any host using a PAYG sim on three that had run out of credit a few years ago.

These sorts of slips seem quite common
For anyone comparing options, I've also been using formspree.io for this purpose for quite awhile and it's worked great for me.
I don’t think any country would be stupid enough to do that.

In most countries, you just use your eID and a smartcard reader to login, and fill out an online form.
I'm working on a big c# app right now. All over the code base are areas where we always assumed a call to .first() would always return at least one thing. The business needs have changed and now we have use cases where we return nothing. I've been playing a game of hunting down the many little areas where this could crop up.

I can imagine that in f# this refactor would be a lot simpler and would allow me to have a case of empty that I could propagate around and handle transparently.
Do you have an example that shows this? I'm interested in bringing something like that into my own site.
Common knowledge is: if food falls on the floor and survives the impact you pick it up quickly, wash it, it's ok. If you find it after hours you trash it.
AMD doesn't care about Deep Learning, or ML at all. To quote:

And in the case of the dollars spent on R&D, they seem to be very happy doing stuff in the car industry, and long may that continue—good luck to them. We're spending our dollars the areas we're focused on[1]

To be clear, stuff in the car industry is "just" stuff like self driving cars[2][3].

[1] http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/04/amd-focusing-on-vr-...

[2] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/05/06/self-driving-cars-3...

[3] http://www.nvidia.com/object/drive-px.html
> what makes an email different from a web page, other than that it has been sent to you?

I think it's to do with perceived ownership of the environment in which the information is consumed.

Your website... feel free to style, brand, make pretty or ugly. You can make the experience consistent within your realm.

My inbox... I get to control my workflows, how I consume things, in which order, etc. I choose to make the experience consistent within my realm.

That holds fairly well as a definition for why I prefer chat clients that grant me the ability to make all messages consistent, and that do not allow the sender to dictate terms. It also holds up with things like Netflix, it's their realm they can knock themselves out on their design.

It does seem to be whether the environment it is presented is "yours" or "mine".
I think what annoys me the most about the phrase ‘collateral damage’ is it sounds like someone bumped into another car more than it sounds like an innocent person was murdered.
Unfortunately, the opposition said that long before we did. Not saying I'm happy with our decisions regarding how to wage a war like this, but I can at least understand how we got to this place.
I don't understand how someone can think this is true. Like, what, you drop your toast with jam on the floor, pick it up in a second, the jam is full of hairs/dust/debris and you figure it's fine?
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You should read about colonialism. India and South Korea had wildly different histories. The equivication that you draw bears little relation to reality.
Ever wondered why they exist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
> I think capital punishment for murderers and traitors is absolutely justified

The set of murderers is not identical to the set of those convicted of murder. Not are they not the same size, many of the elements in the latter are not in the former set.
Wonder how well one would sleep having drones flying above ones head, with say 99% accuracy in targeting and evidence based missions (both which I suspect has much higher failure rates than 1%).

That is to say, how peaceful is it to put Damocles swords over people? Maybe it is similar mine laying which was also promoted as a form of peacekeeping, done by neutral countries during world war 2. Surgical, targeted activity, against combatants that are currently a threat against civilians. Just don't mind how it effected fishermen when 1% of those mines got loose and started to drift.
Or maybe it's their 10 year old son who's lured away by some maniac, abused and killed. It's a complicated issue, and really easy to talk about how revenge doesn't solve anything from a great distance. I could see the absence of a death penalty putting me in a situation where I would end up taking the law into my own hands. Not that I think that's okay, but I could very much see it happening in that situation.
Psssshhhh Mythbusters busted that years ago:

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/five-se...
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>Which might be a good thing. Terrifying visions of AI are all about certainty and the authoritarianism it creates.

Indeed, may the gods protect us all from some things actually being true and other things actually being false. That would be terrible!
The society utilizes a different definition of the word "civilized" than you do.

"The death penalty is bad" is not an a priori conclusion; unless you work it directly into the definition, it doesn't necessarily contradict "civilized society."
..For those that did not know, what that means (such as myself):

No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim ("no Scotsman would do such a thing"), rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing"; i.e., those who perform that action are not part of our group and thus criticism of that action is not criticism of the group).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Not everyone lives in SV, not everyones internet connections can handle uploading then downloading 10s/100s of gigs of media
I'm confused that you point out another person's rhetoric is implying one way of dying is worse than the other, but your original post on the matter also contains rhetoric in which method which the government kills people is more significant than another method which the government kills people.

If you're using that kind of rhetoric itself, why are you pointing it out as if it's a flaw in someone else's reasoning?

(My opinion on the subject is that neither the death penalty nor drone strikes should continue.)
There's a great BBC documentary with Michael Portillo on how to most humanely execute a person:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband...

Hypoxia seems the most kind way. Low pressure is not needed, just a lack of oxygen (by e.g. breathing helium). I suppose it's not enough of a punishment to go out this way, as it's rather pleasant as these things go (there's no feeling of suffocation) and there can even be a mild euphoria.
The two second rule still applies though.
Is private consumption stagnating due to less people wanting to consume or due to less income? Another way to say that consumption is stagnating is to say that savings is going up. Is savings going up in Europe? From what I read a while back, this is not the case.
No, they do not. Not in Australia.
The problem that arises from "collateral damage" of drone strikes is that it makes it easier for the real bad guys to recruit more bad buys.

That has been shown to be true, whether in Yemen, Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Heap based overflow exploitation use case – The macabre dance of memory chunks
Which downplays it.
So I'm curious, then, about how you understand, say, life sentences? Aren't those effectively "death sentences" where men or women are effective paid to live the rest of their lives inside of the prison system—but with no chance to ever rejoin society? They know what exists outside but are doomed to live perhaps 30-60 years in prison cut off from family?

Personally, I think we'd be better off getting rid of life sentences.
It's not even just that. They are only "the same" with equal temperament. If you use proper intervals then they are quite different.
Okular uses poppler for PDF rendering which also has a long and nasty history of security holes. Same with most of the other Linux-based PDF readers.
Why do you think Charles Manson should remain alive?

That's an individual who has gone out of their way to take the lives of multiple innocent people. Why does he get to keep what he took from others? Why do the families of the victims have to suffer him? It's not even a question of innocence.

If Manson was in any way sane, he'd realize that his actions were that of a monster. What is there to rehabilitate? If he's sane, how is living in a cell for decades not horrific punishment? A quick death would be a lot easier for everyone involved.

The death penalty is a harsh, horrible penalty. But everyone dies. I don't see how removing literal mass murderers is a detriment to society, unless we simply don't like the reality of it.

What's the alternative? Do we prefer situations like like Breivik?

In November 2012, Breivik wrote a 27-page letter of complaint to the prison authorities about the security restrictions he was being held under, claiming that the prison director personally wanted to punish him. Among his complaints were that his cell is not adequately heated and he has to wear three layers of clothing to stay warm, guards interfere with his strictly-planned daily schedule, his cell is poorly decorated and has no view, his reading lamp is inadequate, guards supervise him while he is brushing his teeth and shaving and put indirect mental pressure on him to finish quickly by tapping their feet while waiting, he is "not having candy" and he is served cold coffee, and he is strip-searched daily, sometimes by female guards. Authorities only lifted one minor restriction against Breivik; his rubber safety pen, which he described as an "almost indescribable manifestation of sadism," was replaced with an ordinary pen.[137]

In letters to foreign media outlets he told about his demands (in 2013) to prison authorities "including easier communication with the outside world and a PlayStation 3 to replace the current PlayStation 2, because it offers more suitable games"; media reported in 2014 about demands that he would starve himself to death if refused "access to a sofa and a bigger gym"; furthermore he said that "Other inmates have access to adult games while I only have the right to play less interesting kids’ games. One example is ‘Rayman Revolution,’ a game aimed at 3-year-olds," Breivik complained to prison officials."[138][139]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik
Personally, the biggest issues is the CMS backend part of the process. I'm fine writing content for an SSG, but the marketing department is not. What I really want is a fast, open, and simple CMS BE that has a publishing workflow where the output is a static site. I've yet to fine the perfect candidate. The ones that are close are SaaS platforms and that is unfortunately unacceptable. I'm perfectly ok paying for software, at least if I get the source. If anyone has some suggestions, I'm all ears.

Edit: Just to add, I have multiple needs here that aren't enumerated, one of which is full translation support for the source content to support multi-linguale/multi-locale sites.
No, no one thinks that way with regards to any kind of food item with stickiness and the 5 second rule.

The thought revolves around dry foods and the (mistaken) impression they're unlikely to accumulate any kind of debris and dust. Peanuts, pretzels, etc.
You are believing the propaganda that drone strikes are clean and surgical. In reality there will be people who survive with serious burns, limbs cut off and other horrific injuries.
I thought what he meant was you could erase a disk when you wanted to eject it (oops!)
I'm sure marauders would thank you (nicely of course) for all of your hard work to supply them with your booty.
You can train a racehorse without being one.
Going through the trial itself could be a traumatic experience. You have to face a prosecutor who wants to kill you and a jury that you must beg for your life to.

Then you also have the process of appeals which slowly torture you with uncertainty until you are finally executed.

In the end, somebody die of course.
Do you want to get into a a great university?

Because making things like his post is how you great university.

This isn't a large technological feat, but the curiosity and writing ability on display would certainly have me ticking the [yes] box were I in admissions. (Though I am not.)
It's a dick move to revert and not tell the person why it was done even after they ask.
"In order to avoid jams" is a popular story but it's credibility has been challenged [1]. It may be worth noted that Qwerty was made before people used all fingers and touch-typed---they were likely to use just two fingers and typing speed might be quite slow in today's standard.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/qwertys-origin-story-is-a-big-fat-lie-493... (This is just a first one I found in English, but Prof. Yasuoka referred in the article publishes quite a few articles about early typewriters in Japanese, in which he lists several evidences that "jamming" wasn't the reason.)
We've been testing out Cloud Cannon on our website - www.cloudcannon.com. Different approach from forestry - definitely going to check that one out as well.
Let me know when you've created an ideal criminal legal justice system.

Fix the problems with wrongful conviction, lack of appeals, etc etc, and we can come back and abolish capital punishment.

But right now, it's naiive to advocate for abolishing capital punishment, because in the absence of other reforms, it simply makes the current system worse.
> After much contemplation, I became convinced that, on a moral level, life was either hallowed or it wasn’t. And I wanted it to be.

Also

> I could not see that execution did anything to enhance public safety.
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I have strong anecdotal evidence that 'Five Second Rule' does not work on cat hair.
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Rewriting the Future
It doesn't completely solve the problem, but if you set CS1998 to be a compile time error rather than a warning it will help. This means methods marked "async" must have at least one "await".
TLDR: A summary of the Swedish model for gun control. AFAIK this is pretty similar to the Norwegian model which the people around here seems to be pretty content with.

I always think of this whenever I see Americans discussing weapons.

Background: Shooting is some kind of unofficial national sport here and there is also many hunters here. Until recently a lot of people also stored their service assault rifles (G3) with ammo at home.
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Some people won't believe it unless a professor says so.
Which requires ActiveX :(
I find this technique to be one of applications of X Macro pattern[1]. It's a very effective way to get around the rigidness of C language, but the price is sometimes you have to look at pre-processed source code to make sense of it. For gcc, this can be generated using -E flag.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Macro
> body {width:100%; max-width:1120px;...

Is this good?
Is a life spent imprisoned within a cell a more civilized punishment?
lol, do people really believe that bugs are going "hold up! wait 5 seconds before attacking!?"
Two I know of, Sternberg's and Gardner's, both have no real evidence for. I think it's part of the difficulty when you try to come up with a model of learning that ignores the g-factor.
That's my impression too. You explain the rule to children, so they can pick up peanuts they drop on the floor, but don't go eating peanuts they find dropped by other people a long time ago.
There is a new edition which was published this year (2016). I was able to get it via Amazon - maybe the review is a bit old? I haven’t read much of it so far as I have a few other books on the go but the internet and mobile phones are certainly mentioned.

Edit: Revised edition still has the original author.

Edit 2: Amazon link (not affiliate link): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674737261/ref=oh_aui_deta...
Varies depending on the floor type, I believe.
Really interesting write up. I'd love for you to port to swift and gives us your thoughts! :)
This is all about to change, think of Github as a database, with a server side rendered page hooked up to it. There exist databases that work like git, and React/virtual dom does server-side rendering, so coming soon are frameworks that give you proper database apps, coded in javascript, that are CDN compatible. I've actually built this already but we haven't launched it publicly yet. If interested, you can give us your email at http://www.hypercrud.com
The difficulty with trying to argue down the death penalty is that you end up arguing on so many levels.

This article mentions the dollars and cents expense of the death penalty; this is an empirical fact, either it is cheaper to execute someone or cheaper to imprison them.

This article mentions the ineffectiveness in protecting society; this is also an empirical question, although it is harder to measure than the monetary cost.

Finally, the article speaks of the emotional and moral cost to those employed to carry out the execution.

But the article only devotes a single sentence to the core of the argument, at the very beginning: the author has come to believe that life is either hallowed or not, and he prefers to believe that it is always hallow, and killing always wrong.

This is the core of the problem. Some people believe killing is always wrong. Some people believe justice requires the execution of those convicted of a capital crime. Heck, sometimes these contradictory beliefs are held by the same person.

All the other arguments don't matter. If killing is always wrong, you pay the cost of life imprisonment and don't execute people to save money. If justice requires a life for a life, you don't scrimp on that, either. You pay whatever monetary, emotional, and moral costs are necessary for justice to be done.
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F1 marshal nearly gets run over at Singapore Grand Prix
1. Go isn't a functional language

2. I didn't say noisy fans don't exist, only that it's unfair to automatically lump people with preference for functional approach into this category
That's why you brush or rinse it off first depending on the food in question.
Can a Poker Site Ban You for Using Excel?
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Harmony Explained:
Progress Towards A Scientific Theory of Music

https://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v1/
so while gummy bears are least likely to gather germs, how about hard candy? also, what are the differences compared to your hands? what about a communal candy jar or shared food space?

while I understand the five second rule is just some silly fun I am still not convinced that much else is better. unless your using a completely sanitary environment with sterilized equipment you will always get some bacteria
Admins don't even understand their own policies.
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"Study finds" Implies this is new knowledge and somehow news.
I've known that this is crap for a pretty long time, as I hope have other people. A more accurate title for this article might have been "Study confirms that 5 second rule makes no sense"
We knew its going to take long.

Progress is steady though. For example, KDE's Neon project [0] turned Wayland on as default [1] in developer edition.

Wayland will slowly crawl into distributions near you.

[0] https://neon.kde.org

[1] https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/09/kde-neon-devu...
> * when you look for concurrent haskell you're directed towards the corresponding paper, "tackling the awkward squad" and a world of Async, MVar, ThreadId, STM and various types of Chan, and at that point you still can't write a line of concurrent haskell

I was directed here:
http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/pcph/

And after reading the first few chapters, I'd place go's options under the Rich Hickey quote of simple versus easy. Additionally I sped up a simulated annealing program with the accelerate framework in Haskell by typing "Acc " twice. From 1 000 iterations/minute to about 500 000. I'd call that an easy win. Haskell also allows for more than simply concurrent programming. I always ended up with locks in go and wondering why I was using it over c with an event loop and threads at that point.
Sure. Just save it as the terrible HTML that Word generates on its own.
They need a study to figure this one out?