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Asset forfeiture suits are structured as in rem proceedings. You are not charging the presumed owner with a crime, nor accusing that person of a civil offense. You are literally accusing an inanimate object of being involved in a crime.

For instance, you might charge a $20 bill with being used to buy methamphetamine. So you take the $20 from the person who was holding it. The identity or presumed innocence of that person is entirely irrelevant. Then you set the $20 bill down at the defendant's table in court and loudly accuse it of being a very, very naughty banknote, who ought to be punished severely, then reformed utterly by being spent for a righteous cause. The judge then casts a severe gaze down upon the money from the bench, and asks the money if it has anything to say in its own defense. Andrew Jackson remains mute.

Meanwhile, everyone else--those who had not been rendered permanently insane by their forfeiture classes in law school--look on and think to themselves "WTF? This is nucking futs."

The (former) owner of the $20 then has to prove that they have standing to represent the $20. Then they have to prove its innocence, because it is not a human, or even a corporate fiction of a person, and therefore does not have the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Everyone outside the existing system sees it like this: the cops stole $20 from some guy, who was never convicted, or even charged with a crime. Then they put him through the legal wringer before even giving him the opportunity to get it back.

A fine has an accused party, and the accuser has to show evidence that the accused was violating a law, regulation, contract, or some other agreement before that fine can be collected. The fine would then be collected after the criminal conviction or civil judgment happened.

The logical place to use forfeiture is where no owner or presumed owner can be found, and there is clear evidence of criminal activity. If you find an abandoned car with stolen plates and a missing VIN, and it had 20kg of cocaine and a stolen AR-15 in the trunk, the state would probably forfeit the car. Anyone coming forward to claim ownership would presumably be charged criminally. You only resort to in rem when no actual person can be found to take responsibility.

That makes some amount of sense.

Unfortunately, forfeiture has warped into a legal mechanism for highway robbery.
Does this still require a usb cable for power? That was a big disappointment in the first iteration.
I'm gonna be all over that 5X with Project Fi.
It's almost like a phone with a 6 inch screen is going to be big!
Eric Cantor lost due to activism by the Tea Party, but no, the EFF is not feared by any candidate (I've never found a reference in any news service of any fear). You would think with all the money in tech and all the lip service to these issues that wouldn't be true.
The original model was 802.11 b/g/n, the new model also supports 802.11ac.
You are late. El Capitan GM which was released mid Sep to developers has been already marked as 10.11.1 (build 15B17c).
New SoC, 5 GHz Wifi, BLE for easier setup from iOS, Chromecast Audio is all new, Chromecast Audio will support multi-zone.
Pretty cool to see Neil DeGrasse Tyson chatting with Snowden. It's like all the internet's heroes got together in one room for a photo op.
Isn't the 5x plastic?
It would help if these politicians stop being re-elected.
That's a little disappointing as now even a few new cars have it available in the tray area.
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Heh, I saw the "Supported Operating Systems" list (w/ Windows and MacOS X) and thought that was the OS that can be installed on device b/c of atom proc or something... but of course it was the supported client OS.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10297879.
They announced $399 for the 16GB and $429 for the 32GB.
As expected, being on the Khronos board doesn't mean anything.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/09/os-x-10-11-el-capitan-t...
Quick example of how TSAN makes it easy to understand and fix races -- here's a commit message which shows its output: https://github.com/cloudera/kudu/commit/e402d5ed79a9c98283b6...

Apparently Google has this same tool for Java internally, but hasn't open sourced it due to their litigation with Oracle over Java stuff.
Re remote: We don't plan to allow students remote for now. If you look at the online program, they have massive drop out. The human factor is very important, and having a “physical” school will provide the kind of social environment that is conductive to sustained engagement and learning. It’s easier to motivate yourself and focus if all your friends are doing the same thing at the same time. Struggle on the same pbs and help each other.

Re grade: It's project base, for each project we have a mandatory core to build, and a lot of options for those who would be faster than others. For each project you will get a % completion, from 0 to 200% (with all options).

At the end you will get a certificate (paper and digital). The digital certificate will be issued in a secure environment (256 bits encryption and 2FA) and inserted into a public blockchain (the technology behind bitcoin) so that any employer can instantly verify the validity of the certificate.

Re well rounded: on top of our curriculum focused on technical skills, we insist a lot on soft skills. Students will also interact with the local community (local startups, mentors, etc...). We also have mentors who will come monthly asking questions like "Does computer science make us better human beings" :)
Yes :(

http://i.imgur.com/SNMwrjd.png
I wonder what prompted the new form factor. I rather liked the simple HDMI stick aesthetic.
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An internal robot will put only your package on the loading ramp and close the interior door before opening the exterior door.
Yes. With only 32GB, the "Use the cloud, Luke" is a bit pushy. The only thing selling me is the desire to get the USB Type C.

I've experienced what you are talking about, every time I get an OTA for the Nexus 5; the performance seems to degrade dramatically.

We're looking at spending $400 every 2 years to stay every other gen Nexus? That isn't horrible (55 cents a day or so). But if we pay for services to avoid storage on the phone, the cost rises.

Nothing about the CPU/Etc makes me think it's time for an upgrade.
This is amazingly good info;

First - I've been seeking insight to how Netflix handles their footprint and what instance types they use. I dealt with these problems on a MUCH smaller scale (1K machines) but the challenges are the same...

Here is what I can derive from this info:

So given just 1500 idle Personalization R3.4xlarge instance for a given month -- if they did not use them, they were losing $265,140 per month on these instances (assuming a 36-month RI on these instances...) If they had these as no-upfront RIs -- then they are wasting $475,200 per month on these instances.

Obviously Netflix gets significant discounts on their RIs -- as far as I am aware the common customer will only get a discount of up to 5% off RIs after your initial $500K RI buy... im sure netflix has even better...

Anyway - as we dont know what the other instance types are that they use, if we were only to assume that the other 12K instances were the same and their utilization was only 50% of the day -- they would be wasting as little as $2MM/mo to as much as $3.8MM per month...

Finally - its great to see them mention specifically that the granularity of AWS is only hourly for instances - but their internal granularity is to the minute. The hourly granularity of AWS has been a thorn for some time. I certainly hope that Netflix will open source their spot manager at some point (Recall that AWS employees went out and started ClusterK with their spot manager, the Balancer, and then AWS came along and bought that little company up)....

There is significant value in being able to manage the spot market (your meta-version, like netflix, and AWS)....

What I would REALLY find interesting is if the Netflix Spot Manager were able to split and combine RIs and move them from zone to zone.

*Disclaimer: the napkin math above obviously does not take into account that the RIs and instances are in all regions - so the pricing will be much different and by region... but it does illustrate, even by those 1500 RIs how much money can be wasted on under-utilized instances.

Netflix could start a service offering batch jobs to other companies to utilize capacity if they wanted. 12K instances unused for even an hour is going to be say, $6,000/hour that could potentially be wasted...
The thing is, I've had 3 different Macbooks, young and old (2011 MBP, retina MBP, macbook air), all on Yosemite, and had none of those issues.

It's not unreasonable to think the reviewers just didn't experience those issues.
He didn't have any right to make the decision to trust those journalists. Giving them access to all his documents was the problem.

There was enough the NSA did that was OBVIOUSLY wrong that he could have stayed well clear of the things too close to the line.
So if you have a current Chromecast nothing worth upgrading for?
Given the microUSB ports in the third and fourth images, I'd say it's likely.
Sounds like entitlement to me. Wash the thing and the smell goes away. Jeez...
If he didn't have the time to do it responsibly, he didn't have the time to do it at all.
Where else would it get power?
128 GB would be enough, but I resent having to pay an extra $150 for it as internal storage when I can find a 128gb memory card for about $60 on Amazon.
Nexus 5x: Now with a slightly better power button that will not fail after the warranty expires.
Because the stick is easy to break, and this has a replaceable cable.
This might seem a dumb question, but can you talk about how this improves on existing productivity workflows? Does it integrate with tasking systems like Jira or is this meant to be a complete a replacement?

It seems high-level (and great) I'm just curious what implementing it "in the field" would look like.
This. Create "MySSID 5" and "MySSID 2.4" (or however), and then rank the two in priority order, 5 over 2.4. Then the OS will prefer the (usually less crowded, but shorter range) 5GHz network and fall back as needed.

I used to have the two on the same SSID, but I found my adapters (or the OS) would gain an 'affinity' for 2.4 as the stronger signal and never use 5.
Kids aren't known for being rational.
Plenty of people work jobs where they are not at home in the evening, so I'm not sure this argument is the most effective. Second and third shift are real things for factory workers, almost everyone in a hospital, grocery store clerks, gas station attendants, janitors almost everywhere, security guards, emergency responders, hell anything that's open after 5pm (which is a ton of stuff).

So yeah, adding a second shift isn't unheard of. My grandpa worked second shift his whole life, and I worked third shift the whole way through college.
Poetic justice.
I mostly like this post, but there's something that troubles me about it.

One of the distinctions I learned from Lean literature was that bureaucracies fall on a spectrum between controlling and supportive. I had honestly only ever experienced the former: rules and mandates to make me do what other people valued. But I came to realize that there are other possibilities. For example, when my team jointly makes a checklist we follow, that's a kind of supportive bureaucracy. I could imagine scaling that up, but it's certainly rare.

In this post is a hunger for power that makes me uncomfortable. Sure, any short-term mess can be solved by bossing people around. But I've seen places where centralized quality groups become strongly counterproductive. Every mandate they issue is intended to clean up a mess. But as developers become disempowered, they do less and less cleaning on their own.

Hopefully that won't happen at Twitter; there's a theme of wanting to build trust. But there's also the theme of ripping stuff out, of controlling the chaos, of whipping things into shape. That sounds much better to the person holding the whip than to those getting whipped with it.
> This is a massive lack of imagination. I highly doubt the only motivation from Amazon's perspective is strictly about cost-cutting.

> For example, what about a 5-minute tutorial for a new product you just ordered?

I highly doubt people who are essentially doing low-wage contract piecework will have the motivation or ability to give me an effective 5 minute tutorial on the random gizmo I just researched and ordered. When would they learn that stuff, on the drive to my house?

Also, wasn't there a big story a few years ago about how Amazons treats many of their low-skill workers as easily replaceable automatons (many of which are now being replaced by literal automatons)? I can't see this as being much different.
Why does the phrase "old lady" or "little old lady" pop into your head when you go to speak about an old lady? Because you have heard the phrase many times before.

It's just memory, we recite timeworn phrases because that's what we hear over and over.

Non-native speakers use phrases that "sound wrong" only because they are synthesizing from principle or from their own language, and haven't heard the usual phrases over and over.

This is where rule-based language analysis runs aground.
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But really, how often does the customer actually see the courier? If I have stuff delivered to the office, the receptionist signs for it and drops it off to me. If I have stuff delivered at home, my building's concierge signs for it and I pick it up when I get home. I can't remember the last time I gave any thought to the courier.

I see this becoming more like China -- which has a truly impressive courier system. There there is no branding or uniforms for the most part. Just guys on scooters who ring up and drop off your package. It works great.
I'll have to give this a try. Thanks!
Minor gripe: Who thought it was a good idea to make a charger with a permanent cable attached? https://store.google.com/product/usb_c_charger
Shouldn't they suppose to work for freedom and not war?

Here's an interesting take on that[1][2][3].

Father: You're gonna make the world safe for democracy!

Joe Age 10: What is democracy?

Father: Well it's never bright clear on myself.
Like any other kind government it's got something
to do with young men killing each other I believe.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun_(film)

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKuhMS-N9ns
A good teacher can get all of this for you. I knew all of that stuff because my mother was a violin teacher and she new musical theory in and out. Some of her first lessons are in theory before you get to sight reading so you don't have any questions like that. You had shitty teachers it sounds like and you should never reject formal education just because you had 1 bad experience.
I wanted the 5X but it seems like that only comes with 2 gigs of Ram and gets 32 gigs max storage.
For future proofing I prefer to have more memory and storage.
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> Parsing speed is no longer important inside of compilers, but it still matters inside of text editors and IDEs.

Maybe! I agree with the second half there but I think the first half is not totally spot on. For _small_ projects modern machines will parse through faster than you can perceive but as source code grows a pokey parser will out. Becomes increasingly frustrating as the parser sub-system is tied up with early analysis, making it difficult to modify without getting deeply involved in the rest of the compilation steps.
The price is fine -- in the US. The markup in Germany, and presumably the other EUR-countries, is enormous. The $380 Nexus 5X 16 GB will be sold (when? who knows) for 480 EUR. $380 at today's rates with the 20% VAT added on top is 405 EUR. Maybe I'm missing some massive import duties that go on top of the VAT.

Too bad, I was looking forward to it.
Wasn't there a spec for power over HDMI?
Literate programming.

Though obviously in this case it was ambiguous punctuation.
And the idea that engendering a deep hatred of the US in many corners of the world or seeding anarchic instability does not improve the US's position is likewise not remotely proven. The whole point of representative democracy is that decisions, especially ones like these that require privileged information to really be sure about, are delegated to elected representatives.
You link to something (Fichenaffäre) that happened more than 25 years before...
Two likely reasons. First, the previous form factor didn't fit in all TVs, so they had to include a tiny HDMI extender cable; this form factor has built-in tolerance for tight fits. Second, the new form factor allows more room for hardware bits and heat dissipation.
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Probably the fact that you couldn't plug it into a lot of TVs without using an HDMI extender cable (due to how ports are laid out). That's why the HDMI connector is now on a flexible cable.
Interesting. This basically uses the background word2vec data for the entire Web to provide more information and help with things like disambiguation, synonyms, etc? Am I understanding that correctly?

Maybe nit-picky thought, but its not clear to me that the TF-IDF part is what's doing a lot of extra lifting there.

Do you know of any good evaluations between using vector space data and other methods for summarization?
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This is fascinating. It would be neat to see a list of applications where non-visible light has been used to portray non-visible data in visible light. I wonder all too often what things I'm not seeing by only being able to capture a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. Actually, what would be really neat is to see how far away we can go. Photos of the sun with an x-ray camera[1], for example, are a really neat application!

[1] http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141229.html
I find it reasonable to assume the program was never folded, only rearranged. Much like Total Information Awareness.
> The other billionaire is Trump, of course.

I understood that you were referring to Trump. I was (and still am) uncertain if you were referring to Paul Graham as the (other) "other billionaire", or whether this role was being played by a third party. I haven't previously seen Paul referred to as a billionaire on this site, although I suppose he might be one.

> For example, switching to the Japanese criminal justice system:

Whether a good or bad idea, I don't think there is a reasonable mechanism for switching our justice system in a wholesale manner. Alex Kozinsky (a US 9th circuit judge) has an excellent paper (mentioned in another comment and previously discussed here) on possible ways to improve rather than replace the system: http://georgetownlawjournal.org/files/2015/06/Kozinski_Prefa...

> Judging by comparative crime rates, this would probably
> save 10,000 to 15,000 innocent lives per year.

There is a great deal of confounding between societal norms and criminal behavior. I'd expect (for example) that if we somehow transplanted the US system to Japan, that crime rates would remain low. I don't know what the effect would be if we somehow switched the US to a Japanese system of justice while leaving the other elements of US society in place.

> Of course, it would be a reform in more or less exactly the
> opposite direction than you and everyone on this thread is
> suggesting. That's why I posted this under a throwaway.

I think you underestimate the degree of diversity of opinion on HN, and that your sense of "you and everyone" is misguided. Consider your own example of serving on a jury: the visible average opinion may not adequately reflect the individual views. I'm also surprised that you would feel that posting this under a throwaway account is necessary.

> Which raises the question: if minimizing the number of
> innocent lives taken unjustly isn't the source of the
> general concern for Glossip, what is?

I don't have a particular concern for Glossip, and had not heard of him before reading the parent article and the counter-article that you posted (which I appreciated). My concern is not for preserving the lives of murderers (if they are) but for preserving societal faith in the expectation of an impartial and fair system of justice.

Having such an expectation is today commonly considered naivetee, but I think a lot of the progress made in America in previous generations was because there was a belief that such a system was possible. I'd like to try to restore some of that faith, and avoiding high profile miscarriages of justice (I don't know if this is one) is an important part of that restoration.
Yes, I feel this is a fair deal.
The 'original' version comes with a flexible adaptor.
Multi-room support is really neat feature that will compete with hardware like Sonos. With Chromecast audio you can use existing speakers to create a multi-room listening experience.
It's a promise they really can't keep.
Minor gripe: Who thought it was a good idea to make a charger with a permanent cable attached? https://store.google.com/product/usb_c_charger

Also, does anyone have full specs? I don't see it anywhere.
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More importantly, original model supported only 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n which can be a very very congested band in cities.
Well, if a site displays ads, the expectation is that you will view them, or if not view them, they will at least be presented. I think to say otherwise is disingenuous.

Yes, sites should block users that use ad-block if they care, but the ecosystem isn't to the point that something like that is tenable for most sites. I'm not fighting against ad-blockers here, I'm fighting against the entitlement that I see exhibited. I think it's counter-productive.
Most TVs don't implement it.
This, absolutely this!
The internal memory is much faster than SD cards, and potentially more reliable. I think Google and Samsung have decided to ditch sd cards to prevent the user having a shitty experience.

Also, Google is offering 128GB, which is pretty decent. And their pricing is much less than Samsung's for 64gb vs 32gb.
That's true, but also kind of the point. If reviewers can't figure out a review process that illustrates the issues, how useful are they, really, other than a look at features?
I'm not gonna buy a phone that is bigger than my current phone (a Nexus 5), so no Nexus 6 for me.
According to Twilio, IVR is

> IVRs (interactive voice response) are automated phone systems that can facilitate communication between callers and businesses. If you've ever dialed your credit card company to check on a balance after responding to a series of automated prompts, you've used an IVR.

So this is the term for the prompts you have to suffer through while you're pressing "0" over and over again.

Are you sure you want to make it easier for people to build these awful things?

Why not instead invest in making your website better, training your telephone support staff to be more efficient, and polishing your product so it doesn't require your customers to call you so much?
I also agree that you need a mix for optimal learning. I noticed myself that when trying to really grok something, most of the work happens after I both know the formal description and the intuitive idea behind it - it's figuring out how exactly the two fit together that leads to actual understanding.
> There's strong speculation that there was an ocean on Mars, many years ago.

Yep. Here's a great book on the topic:

http://www.amazon.com/Travelers-Guide-Mars-William-Hartmann/...