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I agree that 10 days is very short for what he did. But the other part of your comment, "He should serve at least 25 years too", does not sound right to me either.

I think that the primary goal of court scentences should not be revenge, but "justice". Whatever that means. The possibility of punishment should be there to deter people from committing crimes. And they should be there so that after a crime, society can say: "See, we are serious about this. We do not want people to do those things".

So, the "revenge" thinking (with the extreme of "Take one life, and we'll kill you") does not seem right to me. Also, AFAIK, it was not designed into our juridical system - Which was designed to get past the "eye for an eye" system that was there before.

I also think that the primary goal of our prisons should be to re-integrate people into society, not punish them, but this is a completely different topic...

Edit: Clarified "The possibility of punishment should be there to deter"
Are you sure this isn't by design? I mean if you send a link of

https://www.google.com/search?q=computer+language&....&q=python

it should return different results than

https://www.google.com/search?q=snakes&....&q=python

So if people send urls with queries (they should just send actual target urls) then it's quite relevant that the search results are the same for the both links sent.
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It looks really good!

I think the possibility of multiple explanations has a great value beyond just providing a "better" explanation. They also allow a different mental model to be expressed, which in my personal experience was very helpful in learning new concepts in mathematics.

In school, you are often taught a very strict mental model based directly on the books and then hammered with very similar examples hoping you will understand it after the n-th one. But what lead the concepts to "click" in my head were often somewhat different mental models (which I think are different for each person). That initial mental model can then be more refined and adjusted to be more in line with the textbook one.

I'd rather read 10 explanations that are a bit different and the understanding with 10 examples than to read 1 and hammer that in with 100 examples.
One super-grain of salt, to be precise.
See the marvellous http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-a...
(discussed here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10449660)
So recognition doesn't work if it was calibrated while you were wearing different clothing? That kills some of the use cases.
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I don't understand such articles, maybe someone can clarify the issue for me? If a company can do Harmful Things X and Y, and then a law appears that bans it from doing X but for some reason does not cover Y, then how is the rule hurting the victims of that company? How can reducing but not completely eliminating harmful things actually be actively hurting?
Could you grossly explain how reified generics are implemented and how they interoperate with Java's generic types? It would be a good way to defuse pron's claim.
In theory I think it would be possible to detect this situation with SAR imaging techniques (and probably other techniques), you just need to have a large enough bandwidth in your transmission signal and be at a sufficient stand-off distance from the targets...
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What %age extra are you prepared to pay for this?
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TeX4HT is mentioned in the article.
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I would've guessed a lower percentage forthe justice and development party (AKP). I'll keep a watch on your blog, thnx for sharing:)
Separately, Theranos has raised nearly twice as much capital from investors as previously widely reported. As of April, Theranos had raised $752 million, according to other regulatory filings.

Theranos founder and Chief Executive Elizabeth Holmes declined to comment on the higher figure when asked about it at last week’s WSJ.D Live conference, reiterating the company’s prior statements that it has raised “over $400 million.”

That's weird. Why would they low-ball the amount of money they raised?
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memory ordering can get complicated. Here's further discussion from intel's software developer manual:

section 8.2:

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...
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I think this is a great list but what would make it really useful is to have an explanation and opinion with each link.
Just an anecdote, but extremes like this happen too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Durst#Trial
Sounds like a fairly large effort just to get revenge. You certainly are unlikely to find someone like this before a trial.

Did you watch the Sopranos? Tony kills an informant in the programme during a trip to New England with his daughter (looking at colleges). He randomly comes across the guy and recognises him from years earlier. Seems a lot more likely than hiring a bunch of hackers.
I wish they wouldn't withhold information on locating such devices via shodan.io or other methods. The more people look at such issues, the better - and the victim's privacy has been compromised already, so it's unlikely that disclosure would cause so much more damage to them as to justify obstructing further security research.
There was no notification before closing my account. I've just received an email: "Your Amazon Payments account has been closed" and thats it. It happened a good few hours after receiving "Payment initiated" email (about my Humble Bundle payment).

I'm using NordVPN. It's the first time I've used Amazon Payments through VPN. As Amazon writes: "our records indicate that an unauthorized person has logged into your account" - I don't think it can be connected to anything other than using the payments through the vpn from another country.
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And I think many studies have shown that it's the probability of getting caught that dissuades from a crime, much more than the severity of the punishment.

How many prosecutors would hide evidence if they had even a 10% chance of getting caught, going to jail for 10 days and loose their career, like it happened in this case? That's what's important in my opinion.
what a brain-f#* of inconsistent behavior.

this is the result of one side of the architects wanting fast click and the other side wanting double tap-zoom. and then the group just giving up and accepting the worst middle ground possible just to quit the pointless discussion.

Good UI is consistent. this is as annoying as writing in a office application before disabling all the "smart" text replacement helpers
"Scary" really depends on the clinical situation. It's much more difficult to define clearly than it seems. Too much NSAID or local anesthetic is usually worse than too much of a short acting, easily countered drug like phenylephrine or labetalol.
How does customer need to counteract if he needs a time sensitive ride? Lets say, I need to go to Airport at time x. Neither I can book earlier to guarantee a ride nor can I wait out the surge.
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I agree that tls/ssl is really old complicated system with lots of cornercases in implementation. It's okay, but only if it's implemented in a proper way.
I, as app developer, tend to skip to ‘what should I do’ section, and it’s good this time!
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It sounds like it would have been more precise to say "for hardware that relies on branch prediction, speculative execution, and prefetching".
It's not just that - it allows you to update your credit card over unencrypted http.
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Yet Tex is slow as hell
one unbecomes such a customer and perhaps utilizes a service of a lesser price, or sucks it up and pays the extra fee
Wow Joseph Zbukvic is impressive.

Brings back my horror art lessons in school. We had a watercolour artist as an art teacher and we had to use those big hair brushes too. Too bad I sucked completely with this brush and hated going to art class.

But it's really impressive watching what this guys doing ! Thank you for the link.
See also Pocket Spacecraft:

http://pocketspacecraft.com/

These are mylar disks about the size of a CD with circuitry and solar panels printed directly onto them, with a metal stiffening wire around the edge that doubles as the antenna. They're planning on launching hundreds via a three-unit cubesat mothership. Last year they ran a Kickstarter to try and get a swarm of these into lunar orbit; they didn't make their goal, but they're going ahead anyway.

They mass substantially less than a gram each!

They're so light they reckon that they'll survive reentry into Earth's atmosphere; if you buy one, you get your name and address printed on it so that if someone finds it they can post it back to you...
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Uh! This is making things worse, not better!!!!

1. You now acknowledge you intentionally lied to customers by saying you were redirecting them to a "partner", but it's the same company under a different name.

2. You don't hold that data under a payment provider like Stripe, and yet you claim to have PCI-DSS compliance but are violating it and risking a lot of customer credit card data!

You now say you have deleted that data, but how are we meant to believe you? Where was that data stored? Locally or with Stripe? Why didn't you encrypt it?

How did you "acquire Homejoy’s domain and customer information through an ABC process"? How does that even work?!
I paint. A large proportion of the pigments I use are indeed toxic, as the non-toxic substitutes are markedly inferior in both lightfastness and saturation. Lead is now quite uncommon thanks to zinc and titanium oxide pigments, but cadmium, cobalt, chromium and manganese compounds are widely used in high quality paints. In practice, this toxicity is a non-issue if you're sensible enough not to lick your brushes.

Chinese painters are probably less likely to use toxic pigments than their western peers for reasons of cost - a good quality cadmium paint is two to three times more expensive than a non-toxic substitute.
My thoughts exactly. The launcher is one of my favourite parts of Windows Mobile and I'd love to have it on Android. This is actually really nice (I've been using it for nearly a day now) but not at all what I was expecting when I read the announcement.
Because you can't buy (1) an OpenSPARC?

1:for a reasonable amount of money, paying for a custom ASIC is quite expensive.
> Community service, ten days in jail, and losing his law license.

500 hours of community service. In the US what does that mean, 3 months of picking litter by the road in an orange jumpsuit? Or does it mean that he can work for the prosecutors office for free for that time (obviously, he has a lot of experience there)

He also lost his law licence. What does that mean, how old was the guy? I don't know how it works in the US but if it effectively means forced retirement then he will be on a reduced pension, and moreover can't go for any cushy positions normally available for a retired prosecutor.

This also showed that judges ought to be asking this question of prosecutors.. I wonder if the defence can ask this question in the court and ask for similar sanctions if it were proved later that the prosecutor knew something they didn't disclose.

I wonder what has he been doing in the two years since this article was written?
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I feel like physics and calculus has to be more intricately linked together. Due to how the recursive disjoint partitioning works, science and math gets disconnected right off the bat.

Also within each topic, having a directed acyclic graph of concepts is useful for modeling how one might encounter them in school. But outside of formal mathematical proofs (where something must be true before it can be used to prove something else), the way people learn things is a lot of more circular and definitely not a DAG. For example, I understand arithmetic which let's me understand the purpose of peano axioms which let's me "understand" arithmetic. If it is a DAG then it's only a DAG of the atomic units of knowledge. After forming clusters of these units, the edges between two cluster aren't uniformly in a single direction anymore (even if they are mostly going in one direction).

Sidenote: You guys don't seem to have anything on graph theory. Is this only aimed at highschool level?

Anyway, just thought the topic of how to model how people understand science/math topics can go beyond simple taxonomy by committee or traditional course syllabus prerequisites.
But what you have definitely works and is a very practical first step!
http://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/loci/joma/subject-taxon...

EDIT: Khan Academy has a very similar knowledge map that somewhat clusters in terms of layout, without explicitly partitioning or labeling the clusters of topics: https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard.
And here's another example that clusters, but don't hide or merge intercluster edges: http://math.stackexchange.com/a/127182
This whole thread should be cited on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good

Fully open hardware is never going to be quite as achievable as open source software because the manufacturing and distribution costs cannot be driven to zero in the same way. Furthermore, ASICs can't be rebuilt by the end user in the same way as software. You're always going to be dependent on a device coming out of someone else's factory.

Openness remains a minority interest, and therefore the NRE cost amortized in every unit is going to be higher. Signs of people being willing to pay for open hardware (the original designers who did the development, not the cloners who didn't) are scarce.

And when someone does offer something like this to the community, what do they get? Negativity.

It's not even an unachievable amount of money that would be required to do a fully open CPU+GPU by paid professionals. $10m at the bottom end. Much smaller than, say, the Star Citizen kickstarter. What's unachievable is the community unity of purpose behind it.
There's a libertarian argument that I've always found interesting. If you convict someone you are liable to receive X% (usually X>=100) of the exact punishment if it somehow turns out the conviction was wrong. I couldn't see this working on a large scale but it's an interesting thought experiment (would there be a death penalty, would there be any convictions at all etc.). It's usually linked to the idea that only victims should be able to sue and that there is no such thing as a victimless crime.

I've always thought that a probabilistic justice system of sorts would be interesting. Something along the lines of "the default punishment for this is 10 years however we are only 60% certain about the conviction thus the verdict is X years (maybe something logarithmic, certainly not 6 years)"
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I'm running several non-profit websites where I donate 100% of my ad revenue and people still treat me like I'm the scum of the earth.
Well, there you go; problem solved. Change the board of directors - simple!
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DOM is a tree of hodes, HTML is used to define the tree. Each DOM node generates a box. Different node types generate different types of boxes by default. CSS controls visual formatting of the boxes, including changing the box type.

The CSS 2.1 visual formatting model specification no longer covers everything CSS can do, but I found it useful when trying to get a feel for what was going on back in the day: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html
If only the registrar holding a domain can issue certs, and for example you don't trust CNNIC or the .cn TLD operator (which also happens to be CNNIC in this case), then you can simply avoid .cn domains and register your domain elsewhere, at a registrar that you trust not to issue fake certificates.

If you cannot trust the TLD operator, then you have already lost, as the TLD operator could arbitrarily fake data in WHOIS if only for a second, and obtain a DV certificate from any CA right now, since a WHOIS lookup for an email address is usually what powers the DV. But at least then you'd eliminate the risk of third parties (not the TLD operators) obtaining a parallel certificate that you don't even know about. Right now, I don't think there's anything stopping CNNIC (or any other root CA) from issuing certs for yourdomain.com, and you wouldn't even know it.

Might bring some value back into the reputation of TLDs and registrars, as a bonus :)
TeX itself is quite fast, it's loading all the extra packages that slows things down.
To add further, IBM's biggest revenue source is not technology and software, but its IT/business services & consulting wing which is no different than most IT outsourcing companies in the world. Of course their products do influence some of the work done by these.
Bob Lutz is as stupid as they come. His opinions on climate change alone shows that he is completely immune to evidence.
Well at least that means he also had to give up his license to practice law.
I really wonder what is the point of OpenRISC/RISC-V, isn't there already open SPARC?
I know that they removed quite a lot of things (too much IMHO) in the RISC-V ISA to reduce the number of gates needed, but this has a price: there is probably much more support for SPARC in compilers/applications than for RISC-V.
Use a transfer service, which offers pre-orders. Uber is losing all my airport rides because they don't have it.
> Why doesn't OP move to Boston? If your daughters are the most important thing in your life, then moving across the US to be close to them seems like a no-brainer.

My (future ex-)wife is the same. She says she loves her 3 children more than anything, and she misses them when she's abroad for work, but still, she chooses not to be with them.

Either they love their work more than anything, but don't want to admit it, or they love their children but don't feel the need to be with them as much as any other person.

Maybe it was a mistake for such a person to have children.

Sorry if I sound too harsh, but being recently in the same situation, but on the other end, is pretty rough :(.
Your 2nd idea is a fascinating one. The legal system has a weird binary concept of "proof" that doesn't exist anywhere else except perhaps maths. It might still need some threshold of certainty to stop harassment or gaming the system with a lot of low-probability cases that are easy to fabricate.

Your first idea would have a problem in that people who's job is to convict people will accumulate that risk the longer they work. By chance, they're bound to get it wrong from time to time so it would unfairly punish those with the longest careers.
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I gave links to the funding situation for charter schools in two different states. I can give more if you want. I don't think you can claim that I have not spent some time reading up on where charter schools get funding.

You consistently respond by pointing to a single charter school. No one has ever claimed that there aren't some excellent charter schools. But why should I believe that Success Academy Charter Schools is characteristic of charter schools as a whole?

Of course a school's method's can make a difference on the students. There's a entire genre of movies on the topic. I mentioned "Blackboard Jungle". Another example is the turn-around at George Washington Preparatory High School, which was portrayed in the movie 'Hard Lessons'. There's "Dead Poets Society" based in part on the teaching impact of Samuel Pickering, and "Lean on Me" is based on principal Joe Clark and Eastside High School. As a New Yorker, you should well know of NYC's history with alternative schools, which includes public alternative high schools like 'The High School of Performing Arts', which was the basis for the movie 'Fame'.

But the choice of pedagogy has very little to do with the the complaints about 1) extra opportunity for graft in charter schools, 2) a general funding preference for charter schools over public schools, and 3) charter schools which are held to lower minimum standards than public schools.
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Sorry for jumping like that before reading your blog post carefully but did you consider the fake user factor on your results? There are tons of accounts on Twitter posting 1-2 exactly the same or 2-3 character altered tweets from an unknown database per week. Those fake accounts mostly support AKP. I believe those are the ones that make your prediction inaccurate.
There are 52 pubs/bars/clubs with 24 hours licenses in London, according to [1]. Many will only use them occasionally — my university student union had one, but only used it a couple of times a year.

There are lots of 24 hour off-licenses in London [2], though I don't think many are actually open 24 hours.

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Nope.

This doesn't work.

I've walked more than a couple of miles, and waited more than an hour.. the surge stays between 4X to 5X.
As I understand, Americans vote for their local prosecutors or at least judges (this guy ended up as a judge). So keep in mind that the blame ultimately lies with the people of that locality who let such things happen even when they're discovered.
The sample size is really small but still, a nice analysis!
The wall being made of reinforced concrete also kills a few use cases. But human detection isn't hopeless in general. You can do pretty well (even gender distinction) by having a physically based model of what you're expecting, e.g. humans, on the ground level instead of at some angle, within a certain range, potentially moving but you can detect heartbeats too, and there are models of how the human body behaves at rest and while moving. (Edit: the assumption of movement really helps a lot since you can diff samples and subtract out all the static bits. So even if clothing attenuates the signal by x%, x < 100, if the human's the only thing in the scene that's moving you're ok.)

(I'm actually impressed/jealous with what they accomplished since it was something I tried and failed to do alone for a school project based on http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-ll-003-build-a-small-radar-...)
He also lost his license and presumably his job which is probably the more serious consequence than the 10 days.
He also lost his license to practice law and this case now serves as a sentencing precedent for such crimes committed in the future. Anderson, being in his 60's, probably wouldn't be practicing for too much longer anyway. The next important step is to get judges to issue standing 'ethical rule orders' as mentioned in the article. That way other malicious prosecutors can be help accountable and removed from practicing much earlier.

Also, I'd be shocked if this didn't open Anderson up to civil liability. That's where Morton can seek damages; not in criminal court.
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