skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not 100% decided yet, as I'm still in the "gauging interest" stage, but I'm planning to make it free for anyone to join, and clients pay a small fee to list a project, mostly to stop some of the crap posts.

I realise that by encouraging clients and freelancers to work directly after the first project is bad for Bamboo itself, but I'm hoping that by staying lean and bootstrapped, the listing and transaction fees should be enough to keep the site going.
For things like transporting people across state lines to kill them...

I know all the arguments against the death penalty, but I just can't manage to get myself upset that there is a death penalty for such things.
I wish you could get the hi-res display as a non-touch screen; unless that's an option, my personal search for a MBP replacement will continue.
Back in the day, there was a serial killer named Ted Bundy. He killed a number of women, was imprisoned, escaped (twice) and killed at least three more people.

That kind of incident makes the problem much more complicated. The typical argument against the death penalty is that sometimes innocent people are executed. And it's true, and it's horrible. But if you don't execute them, then the alternative is that they should be in prison for the rest of their life. If they're innocent, that's still pretty horrible. The real objective is to keep innocent people from being convicted in the first place.

But like many other situations, the false positive rate and the false negative rate are inversely correlated. How many guilty people should we free to avoid sending one innocent person to prison? The obvious answer is "as many as we have to" - it's not acceptable to have innocent people in prison. But if we're talking about serial killers, that question becomes "How many innocent people do we want to see dead on the streets to avoid sending one innocent person to prison?"

Back to the death penalty. Sometimes guilty people escape, too, and sometimes they kill people after they escape. Executed people don't kill anyone ever again. So, how many innocent people are you willing to execute in order to prevent innocent people dying on the streets?

This stuff is very difficult. But given less-than-perfect prisons, I can see a case for keeping the death penalty for serial killers.
Thank you, pg, for this essay, and for putting money towards Prop 62. This is such an important issue.
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> This resulted in killers like Charles Mason being relieved from execution and denying many victim's family member from obtaining a measure of justice they wanted.

That qualifies more as 'revenge' than as 'justice'.
isnt building an official lua script an option (like https://github.com/torhve/lua-resty-letsencrypt)
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I think it's cultural, not a matter of translation. Readers in the west will have less access to stereotypes and tropes that all authors rely on, to some extent.
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I recently converted my hackingtosh into a Windows 10 machine when the Windows Subsystem for Linux came out, and can testify to this. Windows nowadays really is a hyper-responsive OS, on the same machine/specs it outperforms OSX in every way. It took a bit to get my workflow back on track on the new OS, but since then I have not looked back, I don't miss it in the least.
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I fixed a few, can you tell me if it works now?
> Most drives stay in their host machine until they die.

Or until the host machine dies, in which case they have to be readable in another machine.

(Happened to me recently: the laptop's motherboard stopped working, I used its disk with an external case and an older operating system version while I waited for the warranty replacement.)
What if it was you? What if you were framed for a crime? Would you prefer the death penalty then or only if it's someone else's head on the line?

State murder is an ugly business that has no part in any modern society.
I'll post to this thread because this is very relevant for the hiring companies.

Hunter and Schmidt did a meta-study of 85 years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing employees in intellectual fields.

- General mental ability (Are they generally smart)
Use WAIS or if there are artifacts of GMA(Complex work they've done themselves) available use them as proxies.
Using IQ is effectively illegal[2] in the US, so you'll have to find a test that acts as a good proxy.

- Work sample test. NOT HAZING! As close as possible to the actual work they'd be doing. Try to make it apples-to-apples comparison across candidates. Also, try and make accomidations for candidates not knowing your company shibboleth.

- Integrity. The first two won't matter if you hire dishonest people or politicians.
There are existing tests available for this, you can purchase for < $50 per use.

This alone will get you > 65% hit rate [1], and can be done inside of three hours.

There's no need for day long (or multi-day) gladiator style gauntlets. Apply this process to EVERYONE, including that elite cool kid. You don't want to exclude part of your sample population!

[1] http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...

[2] Technically IQ tests aren't "illegal", but the bar courts have decided companies have to climb is so high it effectively means they are. I have spoken to a lawyer about this. You should speak with yours too, before you decide to try IQ testing.
It did strike me as odd while researching this that they spent so much time getting around ad blockers when they own the ad server as well as the content..

They could leverage the kind of stuff Facebook does already by serving the ads as regular content.
I'm not sure that you need a kernel per-core. However, it would be nice for the microkernel to provide reliably per-cpu data structures to userspace. For example, via per-cpu replicated receive capabilities. That way, a capability send request from a client program would get routed to the same CPU's capability in the server. That would provide some very cache-friendly superfast machine-local IPC.
According to this review at least, the Razer Blade has half the battery life of a high-end MBP:

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My thought is that pinterest has a solid model for monetization for people who bookmark & read things they find on the internet.

That doesn't involve premium accounts but requires many many more users.. so maybe do a huge push by making the instapaper features free in a PR push, and work to get their active monthly users way up.

Do you think that's possible?
> the institution will suffer serious harm

The republic is experiencing significant harm. If it was not, people would not be talking about it.

> How will you know if an electronic voting system produces a wrong result, except by running a paper voting system in parallel?

Audits? Open Source? Checksums? Hashes? We have many tools to verify the integrity of electronic data (I also never claimed it had to 100% digital)

> Do municipalities choosing voting machine contractors have incentives aligned to promote election integrity? Can they critically evaluate security properties of what they're being sold

If the choice is federally verified company A or federally verified company B, then yes.
I think A is probably true. But I think you may be wrong on the B. Very few companies that I'm aware of forces someone to use a Mac. If you use one it's because you asked for it. If you stop asking for it you'll get something else.
There are. If that was my only issue, I'd happily have put up with Gentoo's compile times.
"Lifetime" subscription? What does that mean? The lifetime of brain.fm?
In your particular case it would be:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime

The first value is a name since we aren't mounting a device, the source is implied to be ram because of the tmpfs filesystem.
They lose value quickly because they're liable to break.
Would you count WhatsApp amongst that list of apps?
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> I wonder how many employees quit instead

I thought I read that it was just a team of three, all of whom chose to move.
Most of the laptops in the linked article are in the same price range, and most of the brands listed have quality issues.
Someone may have misspelled "prestigious" at the bottom.
The herd mentality I am seeing regarding recent Apple announcements, from a supposedly intelligent, introspective group of people on HN, is frankly disappointing.
As someone who is concerned with where Instapaper is heading, how well does your site compete with the likes of Instapaper or Pocket?
It would actually be just as useful to use consul with the upstream resolv available on nginx (paid)

A demo of this can be found here[0]

0: https://github.com/nginxinc/NGINX-Demos/tree/master/consul-d...
Actually, they sound like the people that GOOG/FB currently hire.
So if somebody sets off a nuclear bomb, the feds are fine with it as long as it does not hurt interstate commerce?

I know, constitution and all. But still, that sounds a bit mercantile.
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Hi there,

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I just subscribed. Very nice and simple service, love it. The only bad thing I can say is that the "popular" tab seems to be HN delayed by half a week or so.
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prison is a place for people who can't be trusted in the general public. We add layers of protections in case we are wrong (juries, appeals). There is no CTRL-Z for the death penalty.
> Systemd's binary mess now

On the contrary, Systemd has brought a standard, a replacement for messy scripts and logs used before.

Ubuntu is not a best choice despite of the popularity, I'd recommend Manjaro (XFCE edition since it's simpler - so not a lot of things can be broken, not the Gnome/KDE version), or Debian stable if you need stable system. Gnome itself is shitty thing in my opinion, KDE is too complex, XFCE is nice.
I just remarked the other day that I haven't had an automatic renewal work yet with tiny-acme. In theory, it should be ok, but for the first renewal the intermediate certificate changed, requiring manual intervention. For the second renewal, the Let's Encrypt terms of service changed, again requiring manual intervention.

Alas, I don't really want to use the official client. It seems messy and complex, and docker kind of contributes to that impression. I wish there was a tool that was simple, clean and elegant.
Most people do not feel the same way. Also, the death penalty does not allow an inmate to choose death over life in prison; this decision is forced upon them.
Is this for the UK only?
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Brian from Instapaper here. It was three of us, and two came along with the acquisition. We all agreed to it before making the decision.
I suppose one starting point would be to allow executions in the case where the defendant confesses under oath in a courtroom.

Though it might be considered poor policy, since it would discourage people from accepting a plea bargain or confessing.
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There is also this I saw last month https://whoishiring.io that parses these posts.
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Point me towards a single modern academic prescriptive linguist with publicly-available writing in english, and I will be grateful and fascinated.

Even just a single modern prescriptive linguist, without any of those other qualifiers. I would genuinely love to see it.
Instapaper used to feel like that when Marco still owned it. What is different to me is that because it was primarily an iOS-revenue driven app, it feel like it caught up in the Apple-inspired race to the bottom revenue-wise. Pinboard feels decidedly more indie-web and therefore perhaps less popular but more stable.
There are also apps that can tell you when you are connected to a new unknown tower.
> Is it better to kill an innocent or let them spend their life in jail? Given the states of our jails, I'm not sure but I think I'd prefer death.

We can't undo killing them. We can't give them back their years, either. But depriving someone of their life entirely is worse than depriving them of a portion of their life. At least in the latter case they have a chance to go out and do something, reconnect, however painfully, with loved ones, or make new connections.
at some point in the past they were free, then to continue the normal service you had to sign up for a paid plan. So I stopped using their service. This is a "too little too late" for me as far as my customer experience goes.

Apparently that gets you downvotes on HN.
I was in New York several months ago. I'm by no means familiar with the city, but came across a new development area Hudson Yards.

There was an initiative to leave alot of room for new subway. To start with, this is more NJ to NY. But still.

https://nec.amtrak.com/content/hudson-tunnel-project
http://www.hudsontunnelproject.com/

From what I was reading, alot of the area or new buildings is elevated. To allow for new subway and rail lines.

http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/hudson-yards-city-on-stilts/

There are also new units in this area. But what is the price, and how afforadble will they be. There are new apartments coming up. But how many are bare essential without amenties. Where they push forward cheap living. Rather than a lavish experience.

http://www.hudsonyardsnewyork.com/live/

Even with all this I look at Amtrak, and I don't see it. I mean it feels upscale compared to public transit. By that I mean there are bathrooms, cafe, business class, more comfortable chairs etc. This is priced as premium service to me. So when I look at Amtrak it's great, but it's priced out of line for a daily commute option. Daily commute, high transit is a sardine can. Pack people in tight, ship em as quickly as you can from A -> B.

Some Quick Points One Way to Philadelphia

* Public Transit 8$ @ 1 -> 1.5 hours
* Amtrak Peak Hours 10 Minutes 50$(NE Regional) 75$(Acela)
* Amtrak Non Peak 10 Minutes 100$(NE Regional) 125$(Acela)

This is not New York, but I saw similar prices NYC to Phil.

Look at their Monthly pass about 700$. For me DE -> Philadelphia I pay 250$ a month in transit fares. If we look at either of those numbers my base house rent is 1k in DE. I add in the cheap public transit option. I can get a no frills apartment, 15 to 20 minutes from work, compared to a 2.5 hour ride. Add in the premium frills travel package. I can get something fancier closer to center city.

This is completely barring the constant budgetary issues with the public transit. That they're not making enough to support their employees. Risking constant strikes. It's cyclical. The cost of living goes up, the public transit employees need more money to live. Fares go up, and people are pushed further away.

https://www.amtrak.com/take-the-trains-across-america-with-u...

This is not dismissing public transit, or high speed rail. I would love to see it. But the infrastructure investment and end cost, is difficult to figure out. When I add in the cost for a monthly pass/frequent rider program. The time to travel, and everything else. Why not pay just a bit more and live near work.
Brian from Instapaper here. We have no plans to shut the app down, and a big part of the value the app provides (parser improvements, aggregate information on links) requires the ongoing operation of the service.