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> I'm torn. The part of me that believes in the right to a strong defense wants to assist, not necessarily because I support the defendant, but because the prosecutor shouldn't be a rubber stamp. The other part is wondering what happens if I help defendant get off and he hurts someone else.

If the defendant has committed the crime, but the verdict is not guilty; then there was insufficient evidence to meet the burden of proof, and the system worked as designed. You have done your part as a defense expert witness to help the system work as designed. It may also be the case that the prosecutor does a poor job of presenting evidence, or law enforcement did a poor job of collecting or preserving evidence.

The goal of a criminal case is not to determine if a defendant is guilty or innocent or not guilty; it's to determine if the evidence shows if the defendant is guilty, beyond any reasonable doubt, and if not, to acquit the defendant of the specific charges and leave the matter closed. It's not quite the same. You don't always get one of those results though, if you have a hung jury, or other exception.

Even if the defendant is guilty, he should have a strong defense -- the system (and the state) must be kept honest.
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Thanks. I agree that the product description is not elaborate but I wanted to keep it short. Maybe we should make it more clear about what the product offers.
A recent report by Ericsson[1] showed that 20% of current Windows Phone users want to stay within the platform for their next phone. Compared to ~80% on Android and iOS.

That plus the small market share (~1-2%) makes it look pretty bleak (which is sad, I would have preferred more competition between mobile operating systems, e.g. with Firefox OS and Windows in the mix too).

[1] http://www.ericsson.com/mobility-report
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I sat on a civil jury trial between a boilermaker in the Navy that had been exposed to asbestos and developed mesothelioma, and a company that made asbestos insulation.

Neither side could actually put the man and the company or its insulation in the same room at any point in the past. Lots and lots of companies made this type of insulation. (In an "accidental" outbust from one of the attorneys that we were instructed to ignore, we learned that he was in fact suing most of them.) The Navy kept meticulous records about where he had worked, and both the Navy and the company did the same about work orders and where the insulation had been installed. The best evidence the man had was "I saw their truck in the parking lot once".

This type of civil trial only required a 9/12 majority and the other jurors really only saw this as a chance to stick it to the company. "Of course this man should be repaid for the damage done to him!" Any sort of nuance like, "okay sure but should this company be the one to pay it?" was totally lost. He's hurt, so somebody should pay up. That was it. That was their justice. The jury instructions like the actual claims to damages were totally ignored.

I sure hope I never have a jury deciding my fate.
Not trying to be snarky, but if the goal was to show why you shouldn't do something like this, you've succeeded.

Would you consider rewriting something like this in rust or go, and doing a comparison? I think you would have found things to combat XSS in either of those languages (safe templating), would be interested to see the differences... And if any of those languages deliver on their promise to be safer than C
Ok, 37 comments so far and NOT ONE is about the talk itself? Come on, people!

I went to the talk and frankly I didn't follow most of it. I also didn't get any connection to trees. But it was interesting to learn that people have studied sequences (codes) and have proven theorems about properties of such codes. I had no idea that this was an area of study.

Tidbits:

Knuth's Commafree Eastman prover is written in C (actually CWEB, a literate programming toolset).

Knuth has memorized a bunch of digits of pi in binary using a mnemonic for remembering pi in octal.
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In the documentary "Black Power Mixtape" Kweli mentions that he's called in to chat with the FBI because he listened to Stokely Carmichael speeches:

"Carmichael’s words continue to resonate 40 years later, says Kweli, who was stopped in an airport after 9/11, by “the FBI, the CIA, and the TSA,” because the government knew that he had been listening to Carmichael’s speeches. What these agencies and other authorities who remain fearful of black power miss, says Kweli, is that Carmichael, a “fiery speaker, “was “just a regular dude.” Exhibit A, for Kweli, is the interview with Mabel Carmichael, where the son respects his mother’s strength and dignity."

http://www.popmatters.com/review/148310-the-black-power-mixt...

(Highly recommend the movie, as a wonderful window into the recent past)
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As the sun's energy keeps us warm and entropy increases a lot when the temperature rises, getting rid of the sun would reduce Earth's entropy.
> you have to learn what "+" does, so why not remove that and just have "-" since you can subtract negative numbers to add.

Because "-" is part of the domain language (mathematics).

> The concept of incrementing or decrementing a value is trivial.

For a normal function (i.e. something that could be implemented as library functionality) then I agree with you. But for a language-level operator, it's a special case. It probably has its own precedence. It definitely complicates the metamodel.

> If you're going to campaign against "++", might as well go all the way back to BASIC days and only allow "x = x + 1"

I would. How many times do you need to add 1 to something anyway?
Besides not addressing the points that EFF raised, one of my serious problems with Google Apps (as a user) is data leakage across services and accounts.

Some examples:

- Google Hangouts is one of the covered apps. But to be actually useful (e.g. if you want to share images), you had to turn on Google+. Images end up in Google+ photo albums, which are not covered by the Google Apps agreement and the data can be mined for advertising purposes.

- Google Drive is also covered, which means that data on Drive is not mined for ads. However, in a realistic work environment, you have to share files outside your organisation. If you share a file and someone ends up opening it on a non-Apps Google account, your document has been leaked to an ad-mined Drive account.

- When Google Photos was introduced, suddenly all my Drive photos were there as well. Google Photos is not covered, which means that the photos can be mined for ads. Luckily, this problem seems to have been resolved.

- Google Mail is covered by the terms of apps. But if I go to Google Plus, people I communicated with via e-mail are suggested as circle additions. Since Google Plus is not covered by the Apps terms, why does data from e-mail end up there?

My impression is that (perhaps driven by the consumer apps) data isolation is a real problem within Google and there is a certain amount of data shared between apps that are covered by the Google Apps terms and those that aren't. This seriously undermines my trust in Google Apps and its suitability for business/education.

Of course, I could switch off every Google service in Apps outside what is covered. But then you need two Google accounts, which is really inconvenient.
The way he used the word “vicarious” is not idiomatically correct usage.

I don’t want to put words in his mouth, but I think he might have been trying to say that the author’s description was so vivid that he could vicariously experience the jury process through reading it.
> countable

Maybe you have in mind countable dense?
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As a potential customer I'd find the story part very useful because it tells me two things - 1. Its not just a random idea that someone thought but a byproduct of a problem that a fellow android developer faced 2. Its not a just "beta" beta but a tool which is currently used in production by the very people who developed it.
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You already sounds like you are thinking about the right things. I would say that there is no correct answer, because it all depends on deadlines and how busy the senior developers are, but in general:

you can't ask too many questions, BUT when you do get an answer, write it down!

There is nothing that shows lack of effort when you have to spend your time as a senior developer repeating yourself because the junior developer did not write it down or could not remember it.

That is the only thing I would say to you!

And good luck and keep hacking!
> you're the reason why everyone hates vegans.

You've broken the HN guidelines repeatedly in this thread. Personal attacks are not allowed, even when someone else sounds smug to you.
It is completely different.
Think of Focault's pendulum as an intellectual and noble ancestor of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, better written, better researched and much more intellectually rewarding. The story is beautifully twined in extremely fascinating scenarios and the general topic was much more relevant when the book came out.

Numero zero, on the other hand, reads like some long form notes hastily out together to resemble a short novel. The book is fast, lacks action (as noted by the review) and in the end really seems unfinished or unproperly edited.
It certainly wasn't something you'd expect from someone like Professor Eco. Plus, the plot and the setting are completely out off time and focus on a period - the 90's, or the late Wild West of media control by Berlusconi and his accolades - that's obsessing Eco for some time, along with the fact that he's more comfortable writing about the mechanics of old media that he, on some level, misses dearly.
Maybe because his company (like google, etc) has a history of tax avoidance ? And paying tax is the first thing we do as good citizen.

Why believe a company like this ? Or the man at his head ? ( He has absolute control over FB so any decision made is under his control/responsibility. )
Perhaps they have never had to decipher lengthy cryptic code written by others, nor code written by themselves in the distant past. Maybe you could throw some ugly, cryptic code at them and let them experience firsthand what it's like dealing with vague, ambiguous code.
Did you look at the screenshots in the linked post? They took the copy and the layout of the original site and did little more than to change the background color. To then state in interviews that their's is an original idea is plagiarism. If an author did this they would lose their credibility as an author and likely end up in a lawyer-on-lawyer situation that doesn't get sexy at any point. This isn't a minor differentiation in an otherwise obvious trade like plumbing or selling books, it is something else.

Look at it another way, if this were two video games, which would you buy and which would you take a dim view of? The one with the original dialog and voice acting and story-line, or the one that ripped it off?
I feel the same way. The three times I served on a jury were all the same. Very few people bothered to read or try to understand the jury instructions. Few considered the evidence that was presented. Most were utterly clueless, totally lacking the ability to perform any logical reasoning. Most just voted their biases.

Although, if you have a sharp attorney he could very well get a hung jury for you even if the evidence is slam dunk for a conviction. He just needs to be really good at jury selection.
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Also for renewing. Otherwise they can't be sure you still actually control the domain.
Nearly everything you're posting is ideological and inflammatory. That's emphatically not what HN is for, and you're abusing it. Please stop.
Until Google says it is the new king, most customers won't green light it.
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Italian expat, here. Maybe I can help (even if I haven't read it - yet: I have read the Italian reviews when it was published).

You are correct in mentioning that it is "not too different" from Focault's Pendulum. Let say that while F.P. was mostly about esoteric sects and the people who believe in supernatural, this one is more about conspiracy theories (Italian post-war history and politics are full of events that have never been explained in a satisfactory manner) and how media can use "information" no matter if it real or fabricated, to bargain for power.

The meta-themes about real and fake might be universally interesting, but I wonder if the book can really be enjoyed by readers that have not been living in Italy for at least two decades.
When Google starts to state that the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) agrees with their policies, you know that something's amiss. Looking at fpf.org, they present themselves as a Thinktank, but it's probably more honest to describe them as industry lobbyists.

(i) Pages like https://fpf.org/issues/ad-tracking/ don't present a critical and balanced view on ad tracking but put forward the view of ad companies.

(ii) A random quote from the page on big data: "In Big Data: Catalyst for a Privacy Change, Joseph Jerome discusses the rise of big data and the role of privacy in both the Fourth Amendment and consumer contexts, and argues that the future of privacy will have the be built upon a foundation of trust." The future of privacy needs to be built on a foundation of trust? Well, you can state that, but it indicates that you're not an independent thinktank but try to advance policies that are beneficial to your supporters

(iii) Supporters (https://fpf.org/about/supporters/) all big shots, but also including Facebook, ComScore, ad companies and so on.

So take it with a grain of salt that the Forum for the Future of Privacy states that Google has done nothing wrong.
I upvoted you because you definitely made a better job than me in trying to explain things :)
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> Jury's are representatives of what the society things happened. ... Of course [juries aren't] fool prouf...

http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=299 (The author is a rather competent defense attorney.)
I was thinking of the other figma.
In what sense are you fighting for your morality, then? It isn't contradictory to hold that view, but if you hold that view, then inherently you would not fight for it.
For a more in-depth look at the nature of the circus: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=299
Staying on the platform is pretty difficult when there are no new phones to buy.

Microsoft's new Lumia models are all basically "last year's $120 model, now for $100". Which is fine if you're in the precise market for a $100 phone, but then you also have lots of options from cheapo Android vendors... Windows Phone has long enjoyed a performance advantage on the low end, but that gap is closing. Meanwhile even the low-end market has come to demand a full range of 3rd party software, so Windows is losing there too.

For high-end consumers, Microsoft doesn't have anything. The Lumia 950 is barely ok, but won't stop the bleeding.

My last Lumia was a 1520 which I bought two years ago. It's nearly equivalent to the brand new 950XL -- and my old phone has a nicer design. (How did Microsoft mess that up? Don't they understand that when their fans have waited two years for a flagship phone, it needs to look attractive?)

So I'm probably not getting another Windows phone ever again. The effort of returning to the platform would be too great at this point. (I had three different WP7/8 phones over the years, so I was fairly committed to it.)
Also sampling bias, since the wacky or loud geniuses may get more publicity.
That isn't fighting for your morality, though. That's just making crypto software.
Not sure if it has to be dense. It can still hold any information if it's not finite.
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Probably biased by the physicist I mostly listen to because they have a lot of lectures and talks online, Leonard Susskind and Nima Arkani-Hamed.

The idea that space is quantized is pretty unlikely to be true because of relativity, i.e. because of length contraction the size of those space quanta depends on the motion of the observer. So if you find those space quanta have a specific size in your reference frame I can just go to a reference frame moving relative to yours and I will see length contracted space quanta and we will therefore disagree on their size.

It is actually believed that neither space nor time are fundamental but that they emerge from something more fundamental because spacetime, relativity and quantum physics taken together are not really compatible, see for example "Space-time is doomed. What replaces it?" [1]. Susskind explores the idea that entanglement is what holds space together under the name "ER = EPR" [2].

[1] http://www.cornell.edu/video/nima-arkani-hamed-spacetime-is-...

[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=OBPpRqxY8Uw
I think that line is meant to refer to water rather than wood.
really? There are places in Texas or California, for example, where the population is over 50% latino. In that case having only 1 of 12 Latino jurors would be sign of something, right?
But you want any obscure or local app, and, guess what... it's Android and iOS only.

Local food delivery? Only Android or iOS. Local bus routes? Android or iOS. And so on.

And lemevi has a point, there are some cool games amidst that sea of crap which are simply not available on WP.

I've said before that WP has been doing a great work in their low-end phones (though they've gotten stale lately), but they're still losing the battle.
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The sneaker itself contains a general white and pink build which certainly stands out and grabs the attention of on-lookers without delay. It looks like Jeremy Scott hasn't let a spot of debate decelerate his spirited patterns. Here is a look at his upcoming adidas JS Pink Poodle and it undoubtedly provides with regards to quirk. Having a poodle directly the tongue rocking a couple of shades these are generally definitely one of his more stand out models.As a result, you can be well assured at the time you see Murray or Tsonga in the competition.

has become known for being bold as well as wild in the styles, so no-one was amazed at the cheeky Jeremy Scott x adidas JS Pink Poodle. Here we tend to find a nearer look at these puppies. It's like walking into Build-A-Bear and leaving with a pair of sneakers.If the poodle head on the tongue wasn't currently wagging, those shades can certainly be opened up to reveal their pretty little eyes. And yes, you will discover a tail on the heel of this shoe.A word to explain Jeremy Scott designs? Crazy! As if the poodle head on the tongue was not enough, the dog is really rocking a set of shades.

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I am not Italian, and have never lived in Italy, and have enjoyed Numero Zero very much (and all other novels from U.E.) Of course, everyone's understanding is influenced by his/her own personal experiences, and I may have missed subtleties that an Italian resident would have interpreted in a different way. But nonetheless, I really liked the book.
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Background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10663026.

Interesting that this was posted here 6 months ago but was overlooked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9707636.
I almost sat on a similar trial with a similar "accidental" outburst from the defendants lawyers. Did this trial happen to be in Los Angeles?
I searched for the medicines I get from my GP and it turns out I'm the only one getting them. You can see the blips in the graph from zero when I got the prescriptions!
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Haliburton comes to mind, their subsidiary, KBR (Cheney's old haunt) made 39.5 billion USD on Iraq War v2.0. Fluor, a Texas based engineering firm, made 1.5 billion USD on logistics and reconstruction.

Security (Dyncorp 4.1 billion USD), transport (Combat Support Associates 3.8 billion USD), and food services (Agility 7.4 billion USD), were all needed for the above operations.

138 billion USD went to private contractors during and after the war in Iraq.
This looks great, thanks for sharing. Have you used it?
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I wouldn't say they do it because they feel threatened—how often do bureaucrats genuinely feel threatened? Most likely they are just legitimately trying to do their jobs, and the natural tendency will be to seek any power available that seems relevant to that task. Does any individual or organization ever voluntarily cede power?
Another vote for React + Redux here.

I'm using a mix of ES6 and JSX with Babel.

My favorite aspect is that it seems like there is less mental overhead/stress - that makes coding easier and more enjoyable for me - but there's no way to quantify that other than I don't feel drained at the end of the week. It seems to me there is a lot less you have to keep in your head (state) once you "get it" vs. ng directives (state+behavior+scope) or 2-way backbone data binding (kitchen sink). Personally not a big fan of Webpack only because it doesn't have all the nice plugins and addons available for grunt/gulp.

The React developer add-on for chrome is pretty impressive, better than the ones for ng. When things go really bad (white page of death), it's much much faster to find and fix the issue than with other frameworks using the chrome extension. It provides better insight into what your code is doing/try to do.

The hardest part I found when starting React was deciding to Flux or not to Flux; and then which router to use. A couple hours to kicking around a few starter kits should be expected.