skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least before the iPhone era began, Apple has played up the fact that OS X has *nix roots in order to draw hackers to the Mac. Check out this switcher's testimonial from 2002:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021030230932/http://www.apple.c...

And another switcher story explicitly mentioning Unix:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021031010139/http://www.apple.c...

And notice this from the tech specs of the Titanium PowerBook G4 circa 2002:

"Whether you use a Mac, Windows, or UNIX system, your search for the world’s best high performance thin and light notebook computer is over."

"Complementing this performance platform is Mac OS X—a supermodern operating system that combines the power and stability of UNIX with the elegance of Macintosh."

http://web.archive.org/web/20021004151455/http://www.apple.c...

And don't forget about the former NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP users who more than likely migrated to the Mac in order for them to continue using an updated (if with a different UI) version of the operating system they loved.
Yikes. This is just asking for bugs.
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And arguably, considering suicidal ideation of inmates and ex-inmates, may itself create death. I'd be curious to know how the rates compare with wrongful death penalty judgments.
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You should be on top. Just as we have FCC approvals before you connect a device to 3G, landlines or to the power grid, we'll have to have approvals for all devices connected to the internet. And the top test of the list is a penetration test by a preapproved firm.

Note that open-sourcing the firmwares would go great lengths in building a better world: Less spying, more upgradeability, more confidence in the tools, easier pentests and a legacy of new code for future generations.
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> they then voted to impeach the justices of the State Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice, who actively blocked its use after it became law again

nobody was impeached. It was a normal judicial retention election.
You're going to need either hard regulation, or liability for such breaches to change behaviour.

Mostly because, as Mirai shows, the costs are external to the consumer of the broken device.
Interesting point. Isn't the solution to get people to help overturn unjust life sentences as well?
It's the data, stupid
Out of curiosity, what system do you use primarily?

The reason I ask is I suspect you use something very specific that allows you to be very productive.

Also, what kind of work do you generally do?
Sure, it may be more fair to compare to an XPS model. But, even so...big price difference.

Admittedly, if you really love macOS, buying a Mac is a reasonable choice, and the only realistic choice for non-technical folks (building a Hackintosh is non-trivial, and a license violation). But, I'd just be installing Linux on it, anyway.
Honestly, just get a nice Linux laptop from one of several vendors. Laptops with Linux preinstalled don't suffer from the typical issues that users often complain about when switching from Windows. They also have the added benefit of running Linux...

Don't like the desktop environment? Change it.

Want more than four virtual desktops? Add more.

Want/don't want fancy 3D desktop effects? Turn them on/off.

You also don't have to reboot constantly to apply updates and there's literally thousands and thousands of self-updating packages you can install in seconds without having to "search the internet." And they're not just limited to "apps."

Even better: If you're developing software to run on Linux servers you can test your code locally without having to upload it anywhere and you don't have to worry about zillions of platform gotchas.

Lastly, with Linux you get access to all sorts of neat things natively that you just don't get to fool around with in other OSes like cool filesystems, virtualization tricks, networking features up the wazoo, low level access to hardware (many motherboards have GPIO pins you can fiddle with natively!), and lots of other "fun" stuff (well, I have fun playing around with the new toys that are regularly introduced :).
Yes it does and that's not what seems to bother people about the death penalty. It's the act of killing that tugs on their heartstrings. They happily ignore the millions serving decades in prison because they didn't have the basic requirements to lead a good life.

The agenda is:

1. End the death penalty.

2. Assume someone else will help innocent people, which they largely won't.

3. Go bad to enjoying blissful ignorance.
It's neither necessary nor sufficient.

One doesn't have to be affected by rape to oppose it.

I can reflect that there are others whose opinions I value. And thus throw support behind issues that, if left to my own opinion in a vacuum, would be of little concern.
If you like this you might also love the framley examiner http://www.framleyexaminer.com/museum/technology.html (warning - humour)
No, but you can try to make up for it as best you can.
Different things work for different people - here's how it worked for me

I started working at home when my son was born (he's 25 now) ... my partner worked mornings ... what worked for us wasfor me to get up and spend the morning with my son (and later daughter) at 11 when he went down to nap I started work, my partner got home about the time he woke, I worked thru to 7 or 8ish. I arranged child care for the 1 day a week I had to go to work (50 miles away)

Later when they started pre-school and then school I continued to do the morning up and away process

This worked great for us, YMMV
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Yep. Imagine you are a poor, young black man and have been given an overworked public defender who has no time to put together even the most basic defence. You are innocent, but have been found guilty. Do you want to be left to rot in jail for the rest of your life with zero outside support or given a death sentence and have a huge amount of legal effort put into overturning your conviction?

There are tens of thousands of people serving life sentences getting zero legal support and quite a few of them are innocent.
Everybody seems to complain about a 16Gb max ram, but I've yet to see anyone have a laptop with 32Gb of Ram anyway, nevermind actually needed all those 32Gb. It seems lately people are just trying to complain for a sake of complaining, they don't care about a reason, just to say something negative, find a flaw, I recently watched some podcast after a apple and microsoft event, they first blamed apple that macbook has only 16gb of ram max, but at the same time they found excuse in microsoft studio that it has a crappy 965m in a $3200+ machine saying that it takes a long time to develop a product and it's understandable that Microsoft is using an old hardware.

I love new macbook pro, I think it's great, especially its new touch bar, lighter and thinner form and a longer battery life, not much else I wanted honestly.
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The lifetime subscription is currently available for $40 over at TNW deals, ending in 6 hours from the point this message was posted. So if you like the service, this is probably worth it.
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I just checked my phone and I can indeed do that ("3G only"), though if I wanted 4G, the only option is to enable "4G/3G/2G".
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That demand is the equivalent of pressing two buttons. (and yes, in my stats course as an undergrad I was also requested to reload and rerun R sessions to ensure code was correct)
Ask HN: Best website to get a custom logo?
I'd like to pay a designer for the creation of a custom logo. I know how it needs to look. I just need a talented designer to give me the favicon.ico file, PNGs, JPGs etc.

Have you had any experience with having a remote designer create a logo? If so, can you point me to their websites?

Thanks!
If you truly believe that an unborn child of 8, 6 or even 4 months is just a blob, the local 4-D ultrasound center would like to have a word with you.
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I believe he was a pretty "eye for an eye" guy: "This is the right of retaliation (jus [lex] talionis); and, properly understood, it is the only principle which in regulating a public court (as opposed to individuals’ private judgement), can definitely assign both the quality and the quantity of a just penalty." (http://acad.depauw.edu/~jeremyanderson/old/120s05/120z_kant....)

But you have to realize, this is not to be read in isolation as a rehash of Hammurabi''s code. There is significant axiomatic and theoretical foundation that brings Kant to this conclusion, which has significant influence in modern ethics.
I've tried Linux on the desktop in the past and it used to leave me wanting for a lot. It never just worked. How is it these days? Do you still have to constantly tinker with everything to have a UX remotely as nice as OS X or Windows?
Google is developing an open source microkernel based OS code named Fuchsia. It's for x86, ARM and ARM64.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/README.md
I've been trying to answer emails from founders as much as possible, and have been taking a few meetings from cold emails. My schedule is booked out to December as a result, but I'm working through it.
> I always wondered why these things weren't used in prisons.

> Add to the mix the thick walls

Because thick walls do not intercept enough of the radio signal. This only works in really remote locations - but e.g. here in Munich there are a number of jails in the city area. If someone would employ a jammer there, the neighbours would protest and/or sue.
The US practice of locking people up for life is pretty shocking to many people in Europe. In the UK, the number of people who will never be released is somewhere around 50, in the USA it's something like 50,000.

Maybe I'm a limp wristed liberal, but 'Three strikes' has always seemed utterly barbaric to me. Even its name being based on a sports metaphor seems totally inappropriate for something so serious.
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Meh. It'll happen, or it won't. The market's volatile and fickle.
Can you elaborate on the unusability of Terminal.app?

It's one of my most used apps and I have no issue with it.

Also, I didn't know many of these until recently:

http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/09/26/mac-terminal-tips/
Which would be much easier if only we had a static page generator generator generator!
What is the acceptable rate of mistakes for the judiciary system? Death is an irreversible punishment, so I can understand that it seems incompatible with a wrong judge decision, but the alternative, that is for instance perpetual incarceration, is only reversible on a very theoretical basis (if an innocent is in prison, his case will be reviewed only if he's very lucky).

So arguably, any sentencing is unfair when it's wrong. Death only makes it more obvious. Then, what's the acceptable error rate in a judiciary system? The author mentions 4% being unacceptable. What about 0.1%? 0.0001%?

Crime can not be left unpunished, can it? And yet I doubt it is possible to always be absolutely sure of either guilt or innocence.

After all, doesn't the Law talk about "reasonable doubt"? Doesn't that also mean by contraposition that below a certain threshold, it becomes unreasonable to consider unlikely circumstances or extraordinary events that would prove a defendant non-guilty?
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Well, PG's logic doesn't work in the case of abortion. Occasionally a convicted felon is innocent. A fetus, however, is always a fetus.
Yes, this thread is golden, think I just expanded my consciousness ;-)
Depends on if a cloud server in China counts as publishing content. If so, China's massive dragnet of regulation because of their information suppression laws probably gives foreign companies pause at putting up infrastructure in china. I can imagine a DMCA-like law that has no safe harbor and just has liability for accidentally hosting information that is deemed to be needing suppression.
Do you know if there is any good software for windows and/or Linux (Ubuntu specifically) for pinboard? Nothing seems to be actually good, and Pinner seems to be the first client I've seen that actually looks good.

EDIT: Windows would be the main win for me if a good client exists, as that's my main OS. I only use Ubuntu at work.
Does this entire chain of comments have any purpose or goal other than the same old tired "shame the rich" meme that gets so much play?

PG thinks the death penalty is bad, but PG isn't worried enough about other things you think are worse, therefore PG is wrong? (???)

I honestly don't see where you're going with this other than cheap sniping.
It's easy in Xcode to pop up a simulation of the Touch Bar for Macs that don't have them. Obviously not as good as the real thing, but I expect we'll see at least basic Touch Bar use become a standard feature very rapidly.
The real solution would be to give the poor adequate legal representation so that innocent people are not convicted.

In every case of a death penalty that was later overturned that I have examined there was an overworked public defender failing to put together even the most basic defence. For every person on death row there are dozens who went through the same process and drew the life sentence straw and who nobody cares about.
The death sentence was banned in my neighbourhood decades ago. It seemed to work out pretty well.
There are no take-backs with imprisonment either: you can't restore lost decades any more than you can restore lost life. You can even, really, compensate for it: prison changes someone's psyche permanently.

If we're worried about punishing innocents, we should address that problem, not proxies for it. If the justice system can't be trusted with execution, then it can't be trusted with imprisonment or even fines.

The other question is if execution of an actually-guilty person is just. I hold that it is, and that not to execute certain criminals is a miscarriage of justice, just as not imprisoning certain criminals is a miscarriage of justice.

Certainly, we should err on the side of the innocent, but at the end of the day we're going to have some people who must be isolated from others, and we're going to have some people who must be killed.
>I've always seen design patterns principally as a way of communicating what you are doing to other programmers who come later.

I've seen a big project with heavy emphasis on patterns, and it was a hell for new programmers. Take a month debugging 50 levels of method calls trough the facades and the framework, just to find code that does the business logic.
Agree, that's a real issue, just like managers who treat agile as a religion and sadly give a fundamentally good thing a bad name.

Good programmers know the importance of YAGNI and the root of all evil that is premature optimisation. They should be well equipped to avoid over-engineering while still getting the learning benefits of patterns.

Chain of responsibility, for example, is a pattern I learned via GoF, have found it to be useful on several occasions. I quite possibly never would have known about it otherwise. At best, it would be left to chance for me to stumble on it or refactor into it enough times to recognise the pattern.
I am not sure, but it might be that it is difficult to gain 'standing' in a civil suit.

It is really hard to show you were directly hurt, and even harder to show whom by.
I previously blogged here about the general application process. You should definitely apply. YC is basically one of the few places where anyone in the world can apply and have a real fair shake at having their application be read and voted upon by smart YC alums and partners. Just as the SAT helped normalize access to higher education, the YC app process is as valuable and rare and serves a similar purpose to help great teams and startups rise.

Here was my article from before:

http://blog.garrytan.com/last-minute-advice-for-yc-applicant...
You oppose rape because you know it's wrong. Why do you know it's wrong? Because you know the effect it has on its victims. How does that wrongness translate into a moral stance on your part?

Empathy springs, in part, from conscience.
Fiverr is popular on the low end and 99designs in the middle, but quality is very hit or miss. The approach I recommend is going to this page on Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/search?q=logo&s=latest and then contacting the designers whose work you like. They will give you a proposal and a quote based on your initial request.
As others have mentioned the new logos don't glow but even when they do glow the important thing is that it's on the back of the screen. So I as the user am not really aware of it when I'm working.

It's kind of a shame they've re-added the "MacBook Pro" text below the screen, I loved the debranded look of business end of a MacBook Pro.

On my late 2013 MacBook Pro the only Apple branding I can see is the small Apple in the menu bar. That's really cool.
It's not your body; It's not your choice; the glob of goo is not a person. Pretty clear. You wouldn't call a zygote a human being would you? A sperm? An egg? The "pro-life" position is purely based on Abrahamic religions. They then covertly deny this when you talk with them.

This is just more patriarchy determining how a woman can or cannot use and live with her body. It's so wrong.
Look at every possible two particle collision. To simplify, consider one of the particles as the initial frame of refernce so you now just have impact angle, which is random.

Now play back time by looking at that particle's post collision path as the frame of reference and play time backwards. You will find a bias in input angles for these collisions.
What's your email so I can reach you directly?
18th March 2005 APPL: $6.14
Today APPL: $111.49

I hope his father bought the shares this time!
I bought a Dell Dimension N-Series in 2007 that came with FreeDOS. It is my understanding that Microsoft signed discount deals with PC makers that required them to sell all their computers with an operating system (no bare hardware) and this was a way to meet the requirement.

The Wikipedia article seems to have the same impression:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_n_Series
I mean, lots of people can't read for crap, but at some point, some of the failure to communicate has to fall on the one doing the talking.
If you're willing to give up service when connecting to an untrusted source, then just use an always-on VPN and VOIP for voice + some tcp based messenger for SMS.
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