skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get the amount of grudge towards Apple for the new MBPs. Yeah, they could support 32GB of Ram, more battery would be nice too, and yeah I think almost no one got overwhelmed by he innovation Apple brought to the table with them, but what are the alternatives?

The author mentions in another post why he is done with Apple after his 2013 13" MBP and states he has no use for the Touch Bar. Thats fine, just get the Pro without the bar and with physical function keys.

The build quality of other laptops just isn't on par with Apples. Greg Koenig and many others have analyzed why Apple has a tremendous edge over other vendors when it comes to building computers and gadgets from aluminum[1].

Also if your are used to macOS, its perfect integration of hardware and software, its polish and many of the very nicely crafted ("made with ︎love") 3rd party applications, it might be very hard to switch to a decent Linux distro, let alone Windows.

It may be wise to first try the switch on your current Mac, inside a Virtual Machine …

[1] http://atomicdelights.com/blog/why-your-next-iphone-wont-be-... (Featured on HN ~ 2 weeks ago)
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I think you've misunderstood me. My argument is not against prisons. It is against the logic the OP used which I feel is flawed.
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The death penalty costs more than life in prison? Source?
Funny nobody mentioned MixCloud. I love that service, much better than SoundCloud.

I'm now listening to this:
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I totally recommend exploring different genres for coding:

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Compressed air kills?
The whole idea of a punitive system is broken at the foundation. Jail is not there to remove people from the pool (though in some cases that is a happy side effect), it is there to rehabilitate. In extreme cases this means people will never be released. But executing them makes 'us' just as bad as 'them'.
Because improperly jailed people who are later freed are at least paid some compensation, and at least they can try to live a normal life afterward. It's not great, nor nearly enough, but it's something. None of this is possible with people who are improperly executed.

Don't succumb to the Nirvana fallacy here - for sure, the American justice system has many more serious flaws than just the death penalty, and those won't be fixed right away. But this is a step in the right direction and worth taking even if many other problems still remain.
Is this a troll?
False guess. I recommend reading the books first. It shouldn't take much time to finish the trilogy and you will have more valid points to make.
React’s license: necessary and open?
That is bad, but you can compensate an wrongfully jailed person afterwards. But I think it is a fair point, which is why I am also against harsh prison conditions. I think prison should mainly be about rehabilitation and shielding society from the danger of the person. If prison mainly means losing freedom, you aren't necessarily ruined mentally when you get out.
Feb 2016
Any for iOS?
Hiring companies aren't reading this thread, potential applicants are. This isn't relevant for this thread.
I can see how it could be read that way. I gave a lot of weight to the words "disproportionately likely" in his phrasing ("might be disproportionately likely to cause problems"), and assumed he was suggesting things like the correlations between race and crime or between race and tipping (both things that might be of interest to a taxi driver).

The race and crime correlation comes about because poor people are more likely then middle class or wealthy people to commit the kind of crimes that a taxi driver would worry about, and wealth distribution is not independent of race in the United States, with black people disproportionately represented among the poor.

I have no idea where the race and tipping correlation comes from. It's well known in waiter circles, with both white and black servers complaining about poor tips from black people. There was an interesting literature review and discussion of this topic published by the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration: http://scholarship.sha.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

These and similar correlations raise some interesting questions. Humans naturally generalize from experience and make predictions based on correlations. Since race is visible it gets involved in those correlations. Other factors, like economic status, that are probably closer to the actual cause of whatever behavior one is observing and generalizing from are not directly visible so we don't use them as much in our generalizations.

So one question that comes to mind is can we make those lower level factors more visible? What if an Uber driver got essentially a background check on their potential passenger, giving income level, education level, arrest record, and so on? Would drivers be less likely to generalize based on race if they could instead generalize on those other factors? Then if a driver had 300 white passengers and 100 black passengers in a month and 5 whites and 10 blacks caused problems, instead of generalizing that blacks are problem passengers the driver might notice that all 15 of the problem passengers were involved in gang activity and the generalization becomes "don't pick up people involved in gang activity".

I realize that giving the aforementioned information to drivers would be a big loss of privacy for passengers. Maybe there is an inherent conflict between privacy and reducing race-based generalizations, much like the conflict between privacy and security.

I bet a good writer could make an interesting science fiction story around that idea and its implications.
sort of different use cases. I love pinboard and use it heavily, but it does nothing for the reading experience afaik (that's not a knock, i love pinboard, but it doesn't do what pocket or instapaper do for making anything more readable).
> - Homebrew is a shim to get Linux-like packages to work in the limited terminal/shell environment of OSX (at least IMO). I would take `apt-get` over `homebrew` in a heartbeat.

Having a package manager that mostly keeps its hands off my core system is something I didn't realize I wanted until I tried Mac package managers (now using Homebrew). Keeping "update all the junk I've installed" and "update the system itself" separate is pretty nice, though it'd be trickier in Linux since the two concepts aren't as distinct, especially in GUI-space.
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Given that systemd is the latest iteration of the freedesktop kits (powerkit/powerd now talks to logind to do suspend and hibernate), it will be increasingly hard to do if one want to use any of the major DEs or their relevant toolkits.
Suggestion: It would be neat if the job listing didn't just specify the things that you're looking for, but also the things that you're offering.

As a collaboration of travel companies, maybe you're offering travel-at-cost perks or team retreats? Even if not, you'll likely get substantially more applicants if you talk about your office culture, MO of collaborating, health benefits, flexible vacation policies (for travelling!) etc., maybe even salary expectations if you're unexpectedly awesome.
The ultra shallow keyboard. I don't get how people would use that willingly for coding.
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You don't need to restart nginx; reloading suffices. Moreover, it's good to test the configuration before restarting/reloading:

nginx -t && sudo service nginx reload
Plenty of articles if you google. Gist of it is that the repeals process and such take many years and often end up costing more. Most people are on death row for >10 years
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Exactly. I am astonished that there is no debate around this. Drone killing ought to be regarded as a war crime. When you go around performing targeted killing of people in peace time, then that is unlawful execution.
That's the single best argument. The single best reason is the immorality of killing.

If you want to gouge a society's level of civilization, look at their prisons. What sets humanity apart is the ability of reason to control instinct. It has taken us from beast to philosopher to The Weather Channel, and its measure is how we treat those everyone hates.
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Sounds awesome, is there a way to get access to the beta?
wat. He said he has been doing it for a bit now, and is just looking for advice on how to keep doing it?
Well, okay, when you are wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison you can request execution. For every other innocent person that's wrongly convicted let's not murder them against their will, eh?

(Also, let's fix the jails and prisons!)
Right this is exactly what the Letsencrypt folks are trying to solve. Thank you for your work Josh! SSL has been a pain in the ass for decades! Generating certs, deploying them, maintaining them. This is why we are not at 100% SSL on the web. The LE folks are trying to fix this. Please send a few dollars their way on their fund raising page to help this goal along.

It's not unobtainable to make using certs MUCH easier and automated, their work should be supported by us all.
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I don't believe it. Bringing up Charles Manson and using loaded language to describe his avoidance of it clearly makes an argument for the death penalty.
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Dos does NOTHING for sound cards, there are no dos drivers, every single program needs to talk to raw low level hardware to make a sound.
You can get HP x360 with the same config for about $1300. And don't forget to check laptop for coil whine (high pitch noise) issue buying Dell XPS laptops, they still do ship laptops with that annoying problem.
From my experience, they weren't puzzles. They were pretty straightforward to do if you are familiar with arrays and hashes/dictionaries and when to use which.
Good point! I haven't had any Wayland distros work long enough to plug in a 2nd monitor. :)
Use Tor. Use Signal.
This kind of post isn't going to change anybody's mind, and isn't intended to (Paul Graham is a fine persuasive writer, and good persuasive writing tends not to include appeals like "a child could answer that one for you").

No, this is just an update, for Graham's California readers, most of whom can safely be assumed to agree with him, that they should take special care to vote this year.

I'm glad California has a chance to end the death penalty this year. You'll catch up to Illinois soon enough, Silicon Valley!

But this isn't the kind of post that finds a good home here on HN. This is the kind thing you want to post (repeatedly) to Twitter. Here, it's just more flame war stimulus.

I flagged this post --- and, because it's a PG post, did so vocally this time. You should too!
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Nothing is 100% certain. If you perform a heart operation, there's a chance you'll kill the patient. Does that mean we should get rid of heart operations?

If you put a serial killer to death, you can be 100% sure they won't kill any more people. If you put him in prison, you can't. He may escape, or he may get released early and kill again. Or as often happens, he'll kill other prisoners whilst in prison.

It's a question of whether you value potential victims, or potential falsely convicted innocent people. IMHO the former is a far bigger problem.
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Readable in another machine, sure, but readable in another machine running an ancient version of Windows?
I haven't used dplyr much, is is not similar to pandas?
I've held most of these in my hands and typed in apps. They are not even from the same universe as the Macbook 12".

Razor? Dell? Not even close when they are in the hand.
Is virtualization good alternative for macbook focus decline?
I need to use Mac for some things but i am getting sick of the hardware. I am considering Linux+virtualization with something like vmware. Would it be usable or its overhead too big?
Alternative to new MacBook
> Is it possible to fix it more generally?

It's a good question. I'm not sure. It is, however, a caveat of the Let's Encrypt experience for me - whether or not it is possible to fix.

> You need to make the renewal request somehow, and that means there has to be an outbound request at some point.

Agreed. It would be nice if there were some way to set up an (external) IP-based firewall such that the Let's Encrypt API calls can go through, but nothing else.

One way might be to declare publish destination IPs as static (rather than dynamically through DNS), but of course this would be rather brittle for them from a service perspective.

Another way might be to get a port number assigned for the ACME protocol, rather than overloading HTTPS. ACME services could operate on both an official ACME port number as well as the HTTPS port for backwards compatibility. The protocol could remain HTTPS-based. Then firewalls could explicitly allow ACME through, while blocking outbound HTTPS for anything else that may be an attempt to exploit a general HTTPS server rather than being known to be ACME-specific.
I find even the Declaration of Independence is difficult to read - and I, too, learned cursive in school. Heck, I've even written essays in cursive about the declaration and the constitution!

The main thing with the Declaration and Constitution is that we know what they say - we've seen it in print, in books, and so on. When we go to read the cursive, we know what to expect.

That aspect is lacking in other documents. For old documents, even the beautiful writing takes some time to decifer. I can only imagine the effort in piecing together the scribbles.

I generally liken the lamentating folks to the folks that think that we should go back to teaching "Reading, writing, and 'rithmatic" in schools because back in the day, that's how it was done and (insert rosy thing about the past here).
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Not to mention all of the people who give false confessions.

False confessions are a common cause of incorrect convictions.

https://courses2.cit.cornell.edu/sociallaw/student_projects/...
It's not a bad idea. I hadn't considered that. But it looks like the going rate for 8GB is > $300 which represents over 30% of what I paid originally. I'll probably consider it as it ages, though.
My point is that the way drives are typically used means that the original decision doesn't have to be set in stone. A new format could be added, one which requires a recent version of Windows to read and which therefore can take advantage of recent hardware, and that would work just fine.
How is that supposed to parse?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_declension#First_and_sec... gives the declension for adjectives such as obscurus.

I think the web site gets it wrong because of "camera obscura" (Latin for "dark room"). Camera (modern French: "la chambre") is feminine so takes the feminine form of the adjective.