skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can't we just get that 4% bad convictions down to 0% for the death penalty? There are many cases where no one disputes the guilt of the perpetrator, like mass shooters or murderers that film themselves in the act. Death penalties could have an even higher standard.

I've noticed a strange pattern where wealthy elites like Paul Graham are obviously very disturbed by things like the death penalty, animal rights, and tragedies they see overseas but can hardly be bothered to care about the great suffering poor people face generally.

The only issues that they care about are ones that directly affect their own conscience and mental well-being.

"The death penalty is bad because it makes me feel bad"

Whereas people who don't live such privileged lives can see so many worse problems in everyday life, like being hungry, suffering from bad/no medical care, to being victimized by street crime.
Jumping on the next-big-thing trend, but: Compilers with an AI that give you zero-cost optimisations. Plus IDE plugins for interpreted languages.

Actually, I'd guess someone is already working on it :)
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Nice handle
Have you seen anything worthwhile on ND? Where I live (near Redwood City, CA) there isn't anything useful. It's mostly people posting about their own/friend's restaurant. Without photos or star ratings, I can't see it taking off—and I say this as a frequent ND user.
EasyEngine would be easier for creating wordpress websites :p

ee site create mysite.com --wpfc --php7 # install wordpress + nginx fastcgi_cache, with php7

ee site create mysite.com --wpredis --php7 # install wordpress + nginx redis_cache with php7

I have yet to see a site of mine, which breaks my limits on a 5$/month droplet.
It's clearly a debate based in philosophy and religion for many, as much as it's a "hacker's debate" on the efficacy of the death penalty. A submission framed as that kind of discussion would be one thing. This post is an appeal to support one of several political choices.

Even as I agree with the principle of the matter, I find it odd that it's allowed on here, except PG posted it.
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To add to that, the FFA caps the maximum battery size to 100 watt-hours, which is probably the main reason why it's limited to 16GB. I posted it here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12841293
If the opinion "the death penalty is bad" can be broadcast on the site, then the opinion "Abortion is bad" should be allowed as well.
The only issues that they care about are ones that directly affect their own conscience

Is it not a prerequisite that a wrong begin to effect your conscience before you want to do something about it?
Good luck getting it passed in California. I voted already to ban it (and against the law proposing to speed up the death penalty), but according to all the major polls done on it, it won't pass.

Californians are, by and large, religious savages. They'll toke up before slaughtering prisoners like farm sows.

3 strikes? You're out. Thank prison lobby!
On death row? Hurry up and die you sow!

Pretty pathetic. Thinking of moving to a more progressive state like Oregon or Washington.
I love places with "Rated on TripAdvisor" stickers. Technically true- they probably ARE rated. not quite a lie, but totally meaningless.
Well it might, but given it doesn’t now in states without the death penalty there is no reason to think it will in the future.

I know if I was innocent and poor and had been convicted of a crime that was either life in prison or death that I would want a death sentence.
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https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5353
Sorry, I meant T-symmetry violation, corrected.

Kaon decay and B mesons decay break CP-symmetry and a CP-symmetry violation is equivalent T symmetry violation (CPT symmetry is preserved only if CP-violation is paired with T-symmetry violation)
Popularity of package managers over time
Huh, surprised to learn CA has death penalty. In "good" company with thirty other states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Unit...
If there were 7 billion copies of me, then the best thing I could do to find out how to sell to them, is to sell to them. Not the best thing would be to ask them. Even more not the best thing would be just to look inside myself.

Garry didn't even relate how pitches he would have said no to got him to say yes - because they 1, used plain-spoken language, or 2, zoomed out, or 3, had a big future, or 4, knew their numbers, or 5, understood something others didn't.

I mean companies he would have said "no" to but these things made him say yes.

Quite simply, these are not the things that make people say yes.

Perhaps a better example might be this picture:

http://www.concept-phones.com/apple/iphone-7-kitchen-sink-pa...

It's a parody, right? But not exactly: many features there were explicitly requested by users.

market research is good and important. Of course I would ask investors what they're interested in, what they think about something, what they would invest in.

But that is not how you get them to invest, and although Garry does know how to get people to invest, he hasn't put it in this article at all.

I suppose the article can be useful if you read it as, "What a YCombinator partner says they want to see from a pitch." Just don't confuse it for the real advise that will get you funded. This isn't it.
At 4% it would be "It is better that twenty five guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer."
I think the biggest problem with YANG is all of the serialization overhead, particularly for large YANG models. For a large SDN network with a centralized controller, I am not convinced that a NETCONF-YANG implementation is really performant. It seems particularly problematic as SDN moves from specifically a Layer2/3 into the optical layer.

In my view Thrift is probably a better approach. Thrift files are still human readable and strongly typed. Since they are native C structs, there is no need for serialization. Those structs automatically show up as objects in something like Python. With Yang there's all this middle code that people use that is not doing anything but mapping the Yang data model to objects. Seems to be that this adds a lot of unnecessary bloat and the potential for lots of buggy behavior.
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I think that's a good idea, offering to hook them up with a freelancer. Or maybe I could even help train a coworker on the basics?
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Good point, I should've been more precise. Edited the comment accordingly.
I agree I need to stand my ground. This feels like a test to see if I'll give up my vacation.
Generally, I imagine that anti-death-penalty voters will vote Yes on 66 and No on 62 and vice versa for pro-death-penalty voters. However, it's possible that a voter is simply motivated to clear death row by any means necessary because of all the extra costs it involves. Maintaining death row is expensive.

In that case, voting Yes on both makes sense. Either death row will get cleared out by getting rid of the death penalty or it will get cleared out by killing them faster. Either way, it's a cost savings. I find that logic to be cold and impersonal, but I imagine there are plenty of people who think that way.
I must live in a parallel dimension. I never got why people like OSX to develop web apps, it's a different system from the server, lots of tricks are needed to make it work invisibly (either with a VM or a lighter equivalent), there's the Control/Command non-standard placement, the different keyboard layout, Terminal.app which is borderline unusable (almost as bad as cmd.exe), no package manager and the shell commands which all seem (very) outdated.

I'm not making any comments on the UI itself because it's subjective but I also find the UI a bit strange and not very intuitive myself.

Yeah sure, you can configure all of this and have something which works but why not using a Linux (whatever flavour you prefer?), everything is just there already.

Every time I use my colleagues Macs, I just feel completely powerless and I feel that everything is getting in my way to prevent me to do something.
Forget about what's more or less effective. How does this extend one's colonial reach at all?
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I can confirm that that is possible. I have it running on my locked-down employer-issued windows machine.
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> Premiums go down the more secure your site

That shit will bring out the snake-oil men harder than anything. It means those peeps will do all they can to get the auditors to think you are more secure.

Instead, have a requirement of some compliance, with penalties for breaking compliance.
I think the programmer happiness is more about the language itself than tools or whatever. For example, I've been doing exercism.io in Ruby and a couple of other languages. I find that because of the the syntax and extensive standard library Ruby offers, I can almost always write the most concise and readable solutions in Ruby.
You win the thread, even though it'll get buried by middle-class liberals who never have to live with the consequences of getting rid of the death penalty in their neighborhoods. Nor, for that matter, will they live with the consequences of killing innocent pre-born children.

I especially loved the smooth smarminess of how 'we' can end the death penalty. Well done, Paul.
Time to make a static page generator generator!
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Apple has reduced the battery from 74.9 to 54.5-watt-hour(27%). This makes the new macbook pro very thin.

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Kant did not appear to grapple with the fallibility of the judicial system in the way that we do now, and I neither intend to defend his views or put words into his mouth on that point (though I welcome someone more knowledgeable in his work than I to do otherwise and cite). My point is that there aren't easy answers to these questions, which is why I upvoted the OP comment, because it implies a mature understanding that fallibility is also a value judgment.

(Edited for grammar. I hate typing on a smartphone.)
Maybe there's a misunderstanding here, but how could you have gotten advice about APFS in a "previous job", when APFS was only announced a few months ago (and doesn't even have a stable release yet)?
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Except you literally just stated what there is to be grumpy about.

> "..I just got something for free and .."

What you're saying is now that they got it for free they have no right to complain about the fear of it being unstable. Which is EXACTLY why people are having an issue here. They are fearing that the fact that it is free means it also won't be able to be relied upon and you just proved why they are saying that. If you pay for something you have some recourse. If it's 100% free for everyone and shuts down, well shit. Guess all of your stuff is gone and you have to go elsewhere.
I find interesting that you in the US are thinking in banning the death penalty.

Here in Colombia death penalty was banned about a century ago, unfortunately, it has done more harm than good, because criminals (even very bad ones, the kid rapists and stuff) are not scared of prison, prisons are so crowded that sentences are short (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Garavito is a good example, I don't think a lifetime of prison would forgive all he did, he should be condemned for 1800 years) and this has led to crime rise.

There is a common belief that politicians banned death penalty long ago to be able to be corrupt without any risk, in the long run if they're not dying, they could steal a lot of money and then use half of it to get out of prison early.

I know US corruption is not as bad as Colombian corruption. Unfortunately we have to deal with our system, and the ban of death penalty has kept terrible people in our country for a long time. It may be unethical to kill someone, but in the end is the lesser evil, because it will never compare to the harm that this person does to the society. As a Colombian I feel that corruption and crime is going down now, and we are proud for it, but I also feel that if we took the 'evil' decision earlier, we would be much better now.
someone needs to bring negligence suits against some IoT vendors, wholesalers, and retailers

IANAL, so I wonder if that would actually work. Especially since everyone always attaches the standard no-warranty disclaimers to software (and we're talking about vulnerabilities in the software on these devices).

Maybe we need to give the FCC power similar to the CPSC.. they can issue recalls of unsafe products (or in the case of the FCC, products that interfere with our communications infrastructure), and they can even have them stopped at the border by customs.

Losing the ability to sell your product in the US is a pretty powerful incentive to get it right
Holy shit talk about perverse incentives. Giving away free food avoids negative yelp reviews.
> Don't you think that it's rather stuff on top of Darwin (e. g. Cocoa and the default apps) and the hardware support that make "things work" on macOS?

You're right. I have never actually used a BSD OS that is no OS X, but I have a suspicion that a lot of the stability in OS X is due to BSD.

> What Linux distributions / desktop environments have you tried so far? Setting up dual-boot on a Macbook is rather good supported IIRC.

A few years ago I spent quite a bit of time playing with Ubuntu. I grew up with Windows, but after 8 came out, I had essentially no desire to ever touch Windows again. People claim Windows 10 is not that bad, but not that bad isn't good enough. Linux Mint was pretty nice as well. Elementary OS seems cool. CrunchBang was nice for a super lightweight system.
Well a death penalty that does not get applied in practice is really just a life sentence with a lot more judicial oversight.

I am not in favour of the death penalty myself, but until the poor are given adequate legal representation it might be the best way of avoiding miscarriages of justice. The quality of legal representation poor people on death row get is orders of magnitude better than those serving life sentences.
Maybe. And that would be awesome, I think, because one of them would likely be better than what we have now and worth using.
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I also was/am certain death penalty is obviously incorrect thing to do. But not cause society has not cause for sanctioned murder (it does). But rather there are no "take backs" with death penalty. We make too many mistakes. Our punishments should take that fact into account
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Name conflict?
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System76 seems cool, but their hardware is just kind of clunky to me. I would much rather by an old Thinkpad, but even still that doesn't fully solve my OS dilemma.
By "locally" I think they mean something like "entropy will decrease within what looks like a closed system, and it might not be immediately obvious where else in the universe the corresponding increase in entropy is occurring".

So not actually "free energy", but perhaps it could be used to stage a convincing demo to potential investors.
Worked on my version of Verizon. Wow is that ever cool.
Miscarriage of justice is something that mostly affects poor people who can't afford good lawyers.
I'm not saying we shouldn't teach people who aren't "smart enough". I'm not saying that there should be a rite of passage of "learn Emacs/VIM, learn bash, learn to hate bash, learn zsh/fish, ..." that everyone MUST go through in order to be considered worthy of learning anything. Nor should messing around with $PATH be a requirement to get started.

But I think that the tools used in the education should neatly transition into tools that they can use for personal stuff, both during their education, and after they finish it. And it definitely shouldn't be using any "Educational" editions that time-bomb as soon as you leave school.

Sadly, I'm not sure of anything that offers this in a turnkey package today. To me, the closest seems to be IntelliJ IDEA (community edition, of course) which apparently ships an embedded JDK these days, and the instructor can ship a Maven/Gradle project definition that handles the rest of the environment that should be available.
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Genode OS framework lets you use Linux drivers with L4 kernels, including seL4.
Stop trying to equate a glob of goo with a person. Please stop. It's nonsensical.
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Yes but if you live in an elite life bubble you'll only care about things that make it through that bubble.

Why are so many rich celebrities obsessed with animal rights, the death penalty, and climate change?

Because those issues affect them personally in some way. They gnaw at their conscience in a way that the extreme suffering of hundreds of millions of their fellow citizens does not.