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The "facts" of the event are going to be presented if you go to trial. Prosecution presumably will do its best to paint you in a bad light. What do you have to say in your defense? "I feel terrible and I made a huge mistake" isn't a defense, it's a plea for clemency.

I suppose it is possible that you might get lenient treatment if you were exceptionally remorseful and contrite. Maybe. Or maybe the judge or jury will feel that "We Need To Send a Message."

You claim that you "didn't take anything." But (apparently) you are not being charged with the robbery. So you are in agreement with the Cops / Prosecutor on this. You seem perhaps to think that the assault charge is about the robbery (yes?) but it looks to me that the assault charge is about the threat to use deadly force ("I have a gun!") You should get this clarified with your lawyer. You should also know the differences in sentencing levels between "Assault 3" and "Assault 4."

Even if you did not really have a gun and did not physically harm anyone, the law may still consider that you committed Assault. It sounds like you are not being charged with the robbery... well, that's something good for you. But you were "involved" in a robbery and when the victims of that robbery pursued you, you shouted out that you had a gun. Have you gone on record agreeing to that?

If you haven't gone on record admitting that you shouted out that you had a gun, you could try lying under oath and claim that you did NOT say such a thing. And face two witnesses who will swear that you did say that. That might not work out well for you.

If you did claim to have a gun (even though you did not), in that situation the law might assume that the victims felt (or any ordinary person would feel) threatened. Such a threat might be classified as Assault.

The fact that you were charged with (felony) THIRD degree assault, with an offer to reduce it to "Assault 4 gross misdemeanor" suggests that somebody either is willing to give you a bit of a break (!?), or they figure that going to trial, and succeeding, with the 3rd degree assault charge might be difficult. (Why not charge you with FIRST, or SECOND degree assault... hey, you could be in a worse position than you are!)

So...

Go to trial and lose: you have a felony on your record. I think this is Bad.

Go to trial and get more leniency than the reduced charge offer... you'd be ahead. What would need to happen for you to get that better deal? How likely is that to happen?

If you take the offer: you have a "gross misdemeanor" on your record. (I'm guessing that's less bad than a felony but I don't actually understand the difference.)

Does your lawyer think you have any additional wiggle room? If you overflow with remorse, contrition and abject apologies... could you get 6 months of community service instead? Or something?

That's all I have for now.
But so what? Why is google selling phones -- to promote android and google as a brand, or to make money? If it's to make money, fine, then eek every penny out of that BOM. But they claim it's the former, and cheap cables are apparently a brand image problem, so they should solve it by not cheaping out on the large investment they've already made.
Reading the other comments re: support being a top priority, if I were Stripe, I would try to recruit him for a position as Head of support :) he's been contributing more to the community than Stripe employees it seems..
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> Say what you want about Jet in particular but there's a real market opportunity here. Nobody but Amazon has much of a business in the "everything store" category, and Amazon's prices have gotten high.

But, on the things I just spot checked, still the same or lower than Jet.com has for the same items.

> Compare almost anything there to the price at your local Wal-Mart, Target, etc. and there's a significant gap. Significant enough that you could buy it at retail prices, sell it at Amazon prices, ship it from UPS, and still break even.

IME, even recently, when I've checked Amazon prices online while standing in the stores, the gap usually went in the other direction.
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weed is maybe a bad example. I think heroin would be more apt here, since that is usually grown and processed overseas before being imported.

where I'm from, growing and processing (curing and trimming) your own weed is very common.

this time of year is harvest season in fact.

plenty of odd jobs trimming marijuana pop up seasonally around here because of it.
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I also work on Kubernetes.

To expand on what Brendan wrote, Kubernetes does a lot more than just run containers. It provides container-centric infrastructure and a platform for building robust automation.

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/wh...

http://www.slideshare.net/BrianGrant11/wso2con-us-2015-kuber...

In a VM-centric world, one wouldn't just use raw VMs in production, but would also use managed groups, load balancing, autoscaling, DNS, Spinnaker, etc. If one manually pins specific containers to specific hosts, IaaS APIs and tools can still be used directly. When dynamically scheduling containers, that doesn't work.
Torvalds paraphrasing Niklas Wirth.
Done: "Colloquial salutational oral gesticulations in Ibero-Romance languages".
Speaking from experience, I guarantee you that anyone who starts saying "centis" instead of "percent equals," whether in the context of Hoon or Haskell lenses or anything, will never go back. I have to force myself to "code-switch" when speaking to the uninitiated, even in a technical context that has nothing to do with Urbit. And I'm not the only one.

I can't fault Haskellers for their daring in pushing the limits of programming languages as a UI. For instance, the idea of custom, library-specific "line noise" terrifies me. Hoon has no macros, no custom syntax, no operator overloading, etc. Once you've learned the line noise you've learned it.

The lens library in particular is a DSL by anyone's definition. Arguably (well, I'd argue it anyway), the ease of constructing DSLs is a trap that's impeded adoption of both major families of FP, Lisp and Haskell/ML. Plenty of people have made the "DSL == write-only" argument, so hopefully it's sufficient to just reference it.

Lens is in a sense the quintessential expression of Haskell; I don't know how anyone grounded in reality could expect the average Java programmer to learn and master it. And yet, everything it's doing is beautiful and true and right. Basically, resolving this contradiction strikes me as the essential problem of functional programming, if not just programming, in the next decade. I personally am very far from being the most qualified person to solve this problem. But I feel not enough people are working on it.
1200something now. I agree; this seems interesting enough to be on the homepage for a bit, but not vastly more so than many other stories. Not sure what's going on!
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The amount of battery storage required for a household on-grid is much smaller when you can think of the grid as a load balancing device.

Of course we'd need to get away from the huge mismatch between feed-in tariffs and consumption tariffs.

Ideally the difference would be a small spread (like in a currency exchange rate) and a nominal daily connection fee.

In which case a 10KW Tesla powerwall is a pretty handy size.
No one wants to compete on price -- because that means you don't have market (pricing) power and will have margins squeezed.
OK, I'll bite.

Most girls/women have a very sensitive detector of social status or it's various proxies, because that's what they sexually select for. (It's kind of similar to how boys/men are attuned to detect physically attractive women.) And many of them are quite self-aware and honest about this capability, and they will confirm that having money is related power and status. Some will even openly admit that they're attracted to wealthy and powerful people.

So I was merely suggesting, if the GP doesn't personally believe there is a strong connection, he should find a honest girl and ask her, she will probably confirm that, it shouldn't be too hard. (Actually, Piketty makes a similar point indirectly by quoting various Jane Austen's works, where people are just obsessed with the question how to marry to wealth).

To clarify, it doesn't mean that men don't want to gain social status; men can do the detection too of course, but it's less of a concern for them, so they're probably less skilled at it (they are interested only indirectly).

Of course, this is not even remotely sexist, because I am not talking about anyone's preferences to begin with. But I was worried that explaining my point could cause derail of the discussion (not necessarily by you).
> 1. Household consumption is 5,000 kWh/year. (About right for Western Europe, low for the US, high for most of the rest of the world.)

So, to stick with HN's tradition of making negative comments about articles: This author is totally clueless, that's not at all how you size a PV system (and the battery to go with it). Battery power in a solar system is not used to offset seasonal variation but the day/night cycle and a possible overcast day (or two).

Then the first line listing the assumptions made starts from the average household but a PV system designer that is designing an actual system rather than a theoretical one will start with throwing everything out that you can miss, the household will be anything but 'average'. Electric heat, AC and a whole raft of other big consumers get thrown right out before you even start to think about what your consumption will be. No romantic array of incandescent spots for you, and no baseboard heat. Everything you can save you won't have to generate and store and that's your first gain. This will cut the consumption in half or even better and then you can start wondering about how much PV you need, if you're going to have wind or water to augment that, what size you genset will have to be (in case all of the above aren't available for a longer period) and what kind of storage battery you need. (And of course what size inverter(s) to convert your DC back to AC tied into the distribution panel of your house, you really don't want to run your household on DC)

A good rule of thumb for battery storage for a system that is off-grid and totally self-reliant is to have 5 days worth of consumption leading to 33% or 20% of battery discharge depending on how nice you want to be to your batteries. That's a whopping large battery, most likely larger than what your friendly car company can sell you in one chunk so you'll need multiple units ganged together via some kind of bus system.

When you go off-grid your life can depend on the working of the system, if you're snowed in and you can't get fuel, the sun lets you down and there is no wind then you fire up your trusty genset (preferably a diesel, you might be running it for a week straight in an emergency) to put some much needed charge into your batteries. Of course you anticipated this and you have two weeks worth of fuel stored.

Also, in very cold weather battery capacity tends to be reduced.

So, in short design your house and your life around your energy budget and even then you'll find you need a rather very large battery.
thanks, I did not go on record saying I had a gun. In the file it showed that I did not say it but the witness heard me say it both of them.
My team at IBM is developing a tool that integrates several key data science open source technologies all in one. It's called the Data Scientist Workbench (http://datascientistworkbench.com). It doesn't currently support SystemML yet, but it already integrates iPython/R/Scala with Spark, for example. The idea is to have all the tools you'll need for data analysis and visualization, in the cloud, directly accessible anytime from your browser. We plan to include SystemML in the future.
Does the background show Singapore's Marina Bay for everyone else, or is it based on IP geo-location? (obligatory "I can see our house from here!")
Good, they should accelerate it.

However, I wish that Microsoft made it extremely clear in these announcements that root certificates are not subject to SHA-1 collision attacks. Certain people [1] have misunderstood the situation and removed trust for SHA-1 signed roots (and that project is definitely not alone). Mozilla's announcement [2] does draw a distinction, but it's quite easy to miss. CAs like Entrust are much more clear about this, since their business relies on it.

It is security theater [3] to tell users that they shouldn't use a SHA-1 signed root if they want their connections to be secure. Security vulnerabilities need to be very simply and clearly communicated -- otherwise you get solutions based on preconceived notions and simplistic "X is always BAD" thinking that do more harm than good.

In this instance, people have spent days debugging connectivity issues and opening tickets with service providers. And the reasoning behind the move is not based in fact -- Mozilla has NOT removed SHA1 certs from their trusted roots [4] and they have announced no timetable in which to do so. It's simply because someone heard "SHA-1 is bad" and acted accordingly.

The current SHA-1 deprecation push applies only to chain and end certificates, not to roots -- removing trust for SHA-1 signed roots is not necessary to prevent these sorts of attacks and it is much too soon to take that step in any environment that talks to systems which you don't control on the public Internet.

[1] http://certifiio.readthedocs.org/

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/10/20/continuing-to-p...

[3] https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi/issues/26#issuecom...

[4] https://mozillacaprogram.secure.force.com/CA/IncludedCACerti...
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How many 9s of reliability do you want to pay for?

Speaking only regarding residential energy: In North America, other than Hawaii as of a couple weeks ago, solar generation banks credit for electricity exported to the grid. In effect, a 100% efficient, and free, battery. In Austrlia, exported power receives credit only equal to the offset generation -- less than 1/3 of the total price of electricity. In those cases, there is an economic evaluation.

Otherwise, batteries are for reliability. And apparently there are more residential backup generators in the US than there are residential rooftop solar.
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When a company or a business owner turns to video and puts a face alongside their brand, products or services, they achieve two things no other form of advertising or outreach can. First, they prove they are genuinely committed to their products and services and are willing to stand behind what they offer. Second, it shows the company truly cares about the customer and takes them seriously as a person who deserves engagement and information.
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There is no evidence of a pump currently happening. This is not a pump and dump.
What I want is the ability to reserve multiple options at once, the first one who says yes is booked and the rest automatically get cancelled. Most cities have quite a number of good options so I'm pretty indifferent to the one I get, what I'm worried about is spending a day each time to hear no and slowly running out of options.
One of the most interesting writers I've read. His theories of acquisitive mimesis and scapegoating are towering ideas.

I have no idea how they could be made falsifiable but it would be interesting if they could. Even if they are not falsifiable, as a theory of literature - or just storytelling - they're still quite powerful.
I agree. I only used the word because it was the apparent original title (according to the person you responded to).

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I suppose you'd like to take FDA-unapproved medication? I wouldn't.
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I think it's a good start, but of course, everything lies in the details of the implementation.

I've been considering how to do something like this for awhile. Almost ready to start up work on the prototype :)
Actually, hoon syntax reminds me of a coffescriptish set of M-expressions for a language designed by APL developers who were told to use digraphs to get around the users' use of teletypes (edited after juped replied to add: I think juped did, but everybody else, please do read that as if said with an indulgent smile rather than a sneer, I -am- a perl hacker after all).

If anything, I could probably do fine with an S-expr-ish form -

[ gate [a=@] [
[nil? a
[ error %decrement-underflow ]
[ let [b=@] [
[runtrap [cast-to @]]
[if [= [+ b 1] a ]
b
[ recur b=[+ b 1] ]
]
] ]
] ]

but what's perhaps more interesting to you is the fact that I'd managed to remember 'wutcol' for ?:, which then meant that when I saw %wtcl in the output I immediately identified that branch and my brain started reverse engineering it without any real 'wtf' time, leading me to wonder if forcing people into the pronounced names earlier somehow might also help.

A more actually M-expression style might be

gate {{a @}} {
nil? a {
error %decrement-underflow
} {
set b @
runtrap [cast-to @]
if {inc(b) == a} {
b
} {
recur a=inc(b)
}
}
}

which would probably be quite trivial to implement in Tcl, though I think losing the tall/wide principle would be an impediment to learning in a way that named runes I suspect wouldn't be.

I'm afraid you're in error about 'use English' though - to many of us it absolutely does clash with the sensibilities of the language and frankly I find it intensely grating (please do reconsider my words in that light to see if they change meaning to you, if you have a moment to do so). I would fully expect somebody who knows hoon reasonable well to find this just as grating, in the same way I'm sure a trick cyclist would find riding a bike with training wheels grating. But that doesn't mean training wheels can't be useful, even so.
It doesn't ignore long lines, but you can use the .agingore file to ignore *.min.js, node_modules, and other patterns.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/wiki/Advanced-...
> It's riddled with policy mistakes (see: Impeachment, where the Vice President would cast the deciding vote in his own trial should there be a tie)

As mistakes go, this one is purely cosmetic. It has no actual implications; there would be nothing even minorly surprising about saying "the impeached party wins ties".
Noob question, I suppose anthropology is a descriptive science, did it lead to theories about transcending human nature ? for instance avoiding (or at least attempting) social scapegoating.
Going off-grid when the grid is present and reliable is dumb. Even without net-metering being 100% as long as you cover your own use 90% of the time it is still much cheaper than battery power (charge/discharge costs more than what power from the grid costs, batteries have a life-span).

So in that situation you try to cut your consumption when you generate little power or you take the hit by paying for grid power.

The larger chunk of your bill in that case will be the termination fees, the electricity bill typically has two components, one where you pay a fixed fee for the connection whether you use it or not and another you pay per used KWh. The first component can handily outstrip the second making those very expensive KWs, especially when you're close to running of your own power most of the time.

Still, if you think of it as a replacement for both your genset and your very large battery it may make economic sense to do this anyway. It all depends on the location and reliability of the grid. Where I lived our PV system was many times more reliable than the local grid so we ended up ditching the hookup but that's a very exceptional situation.
I'd love for someone to explain what you get from using a secret management service other than encrypted at rest blobs.

Ex. You store your AWS Master key in a config file, and you have Microservice A that reads that key from the file. Microservice A is compromised (or its VM is compromised). How does having a secret store help you here? Couldn't the attacker just inspect the code of Microservice A and see that you are just reading from disk/reading from Vault?

In short, what do services like this protect from me (other than accidentally checking in my code to a public repo?)
In this hypothetical scenario, instead of investing so much in batteries, why not just double the size of your solar array so you're not storing 6 months worth of power in batteries? That would only cost ~20K instead of the ~500K for batteries.
Try this then: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008LTIYN2 toaster and egg maker in one, and it can synchronize them.
I had been experimenting with eggs when this article first came out trying to recreate the results.

A found no difference between bringing eggs to the boil and dropping them in boiling water.

I did find a difference between running cold water into the pot and dropping the eggs in cold water. Putting the eggs straight into cold water gave me rounder eggs that were easier to peel.
Morality aside, I think widespread drug legalization will greatly increase usage rates. It could lead to a more dystopic future where a very large portion of people are using various drugs.
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Tangentially, I recently bought Kenji's new book [1], and my friends and I have been having tremendous fun reading through and trying out the recipes therein. Kenji's empirical approach and attention to the science behind cooking (not to mention sassy writing) really appeals to our inner geeks.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Food-Lab-Cooking-Through/dp/039308...
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I have a genuine question, why not use S3 alone for secret management?

One selling point of Confidant is using IAM roles to bootstrap authentication to the secret store. You can also do that with S3, put each secret into an individual text file and give each IAM role permission to access the secrets it needs. Set the S3 bucket to encrypt the data at rest, it uses KMS behind the scenes and automatically rotates encryption keys.

Rotation of the secrets themselves could be scripted or manual, that part would be basically the same process as using Confidant or any other tool. And I believe S3 access can even be auditable with CloudWatch logs.

Also, S3 now offers either eventually consistent or read-after-write consistency. EDIT: actually, it looks like new object PUTS can be read-after-write consistent but updates are not. So this could be a downside, if you rotate a key getting the new one is eventually consistent. In practice this might not be a big deal though, there's already going to be a gap between when you activate the new key and when your app gets reconfigured to start using the new key.

I'm very curious what the downsides might be of doing this. For all the various secret management tools that have been released in the past year or two, I'm kind of surprised I've never heard anyone talk about using raw S3.
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They let you not check secrets into repos, they let you update and rotate them in a centralized place, they let you easily share them between services, and they let you store them encrypted at rest.

Also, in this particular case, thanks to KMS you can also keep the stored at-rest on microservice A, and decrypt them only in memory as well.

Note that you don't store a master key in a config file, but instead you use the KMS master key to encrypt/decrypt things. You never get direct access to the master key.