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Midnight assassination squads? They could start digging through laws looking for anything they can make stick (parking violations, jaywalking, etc...), but IMHO the most likely scenario is that nothing further happens to Chelsea Manning. She is yesterday's news. She is never going to work in a government position again, but somehow I don't think that's going to be relevant to her future plans.
Given the number and scope of misnomers in astronomy, astronaut seems downright sensical. Those dark patches on the moon? They're bone dry, but we call them seas. Those beautiful planetary nebulae? They're the tombs of dead stars; any planets there are coincidental. Those small, mountain sized rocks floating in space? We say call them starlike.

If it helps, I think of an astronaut as someone who sails among the stars, rather than to the stars. In that sense, it's just as accurate as cosmonaut. But, given that every living thing on Earth can rightfully be called an astronaut or cosmonaut, neither term is very precise. It is more precise to identify a person as human than to identify him as a cosmonaut, since cosmonaut can also refer to monkeys, rabbits, dogs, insects... :)
Yes, the President can only pardon/commute federal offenses. (That's what 'Offences Against the United States' means here). The President cannot pardon/commute prisoners who have been convicted of state crimes - only the relevant state governors can do that. Manning was convicted of federal crimes.
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Important distinction, +1 for linking to the wikipedia articles!
Ironically you avoid technical debt by slowly killing and rebirthing parts of your product.

The class that is no longer appropriate for new requirements gets canned for a better abstraction etc.

In aggregate, over time, you may kill the product to avoid technical debt!
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The Constitution explicitly grants the President the power to issue pardons. (And states similarly grant that power to governors, typically.)

The President in in charge of federal law enforcement; the risk of non-enforcement is already greater than the risk of random pardons.
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This quote by a spokesperson in the article supports that:
“Chelsea Manning is somebody who went through the military criminal justice process, was exposed to due process, was found guilty, was sentenced for her crimes, and she acknowledged wrongdoing,”

A criminal that's being granted a shorter sentence, not the "support" for someones actions a pardon would be.
Not for the same crimes, of course.
A pardon would allow him a valid passport to travel to a different country that would be willing to house him without having to ignore extradition requests. He would not need to return to the US if he felt endangered there.
Worked like a charm on my iPhone 6 FWIW
They put that in a headline - A small, fast, native Lisp. It's missleading/clickbaity.
I'm generally in demand of small, quick startup, easy-to-embed languages that aren't Lua (I can't stand Lua; I feel like every time I've had to deal with Lua code was far more painful than reasonably possible). There's mruby and maybe a couple others. I was hoping Pixie might be another contender in that space, but it doesn't seem to be after all (or if it is, it's very poorly documented to that effect).

I've been tinkering with some ideas for another language in that space (the Crafting Interpreters book is looking to be pretty helpful in getting me there: http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/), but it'd be really nice if there were enough options for me to not feel the need to create my own.
It's covered pretty well in depth here:

http://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/7674/why-is-the-...

Some of the finer points:

- A presidential pardon is for federal crimes. The president cannot pardon someone for a state crime (or a crime committed subject to a local jurisdiction whose power is derived from a state).

- Presidential pardons are reinforced by the constitutional prohibitions against double jeopardy and ex post facto laws. Once a person has been pardoned for a federal crime, the federal government (and any territories or districts that derive their power from the federal government) cannot re-try the pardonee for that crime.

As pointed by another person in the same thread which really answers your question:

- Fourth major benefit of pardons: Presidential pardons are about checks and balances. The legislative system has determined a law, the judicial system has determined an infraction of that law, and with a pardon the presidential system can react to a mistake made by either the legislative or judicial branch.
We lost a good chunk of Tintin (I think) when someone tried to use the OSX migration assistant to upgrade a Macbook that had some production volumes NFS mounted. It was trying in vain to copy several PB of data (I am convinced that nobody at Apple has ever seen or heard of NFS), and because it was so slow the user hit cancelled and it somehow tried to undo the copy and started deleting all the files on the NFS servers.

There was another incident where there was a script that ran out of cron to cleanup old files in /tmp, and someone NFS mounted a production volume into /tmp...

Eventually we put tarpit directories at the top of each filesystem (a directory with 1000 subdirectories each with 1000 subdirectories, several layers deep) to try and catch deletes like the one you saw, then we would alert if any directories in there were deleted so we could frantically try and figure out which workstation was doing the damage.
Whistle blowing requires the knowledge of wrong doing, and exposing these wrong doings.

As far as I am aware that guy leaked the data in bulk without looking at it, and without any knowledge of the US diplomacy, and the leaks didn't expose any major wrongdoing. Only some gory videos, that don't really teach us anything (everyone knows bombs make "collateral damages", the US army even maintains statistics on them). And everything I read from people who reviewed the diplomatic cables suggest that US diplomats are doing rather well their jobs.

I am a libertarian, pro-pardoning Snowden, who did expose deliberately major wrong doings. But I am struggling to call Manning a whistleblower.
There are multiple ways for firms and employees to value contributions. The 'how much can the employee command on the market' method that you outline is a commodity model of valuation, and it seems to have been a poor fit for this situation on the part of the firm, since the employee held enormous non-commodity value to the firm.

Employees aren't worth the market value of their job title on the open market. They are worth the cost of replacing their contributions to the company's bottom line plus any gap in contribution that the market is unable to replace. Often early employees (regardless of objective skill level) hold tremendous non-commodity value to fast growing companies. It is ultimately very costly behavior to think of these employees as commodities.

[late note: the bottom line oriented valuation method that I outline, can of course be negative. If we take the gp's assertions as given, then the employee in question is clearly worth more to the firm than his/her 'commodity' price on the market. But it is possible for the commodity value to be higher than the value of a given employee, even once the transactional turnover costs are taken into account. In such cases, it may be preferable to allow the employee to seek his/her fortunes elsewhere. I note this to make it clear that this sort of valuation model doesn't unduly bias the firm toward retaining low or negative producing employees. By the same token, it frees the firm to recognize value in excess of 'replacement value', as any reasonable worker productivity model should]
It has been argued that the diplomatic cables had a strong influence on the uprising in Tunisia after they spread on Facebook and when Bouazizi lit himself on fire the stage was set for their revolution, which was the first domino of what we later called the Arab Spring, which Syria became a part of, but has not resolved for six years.
I'll +1 this. Dismissing the block-chain concept because the current implementations are not good replacement pour our best existing techs is like saying to not investigate electrical powered transportations because the solar plane projects we tried sucked.
This sounds like a recipe for disaster. Aluminum doesn't last very long near Gallium:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HKpMYJ-6go

Did he apply it directly to the top of the chip die or to one of those aluminum package covers? Did he use a copper heat-sink? Is somebody's leg being pulled?
Good lord, even after all this time, ggvis' demo is still rather a disaster on mobile. Oh well, it simply isn't possible for everything to be top priority. Rstudio has done some amazing work, I'm afraid ggvis is not yet up to the standards of their other projects.
Classifying material should not be a way for the Government to hide corruption and wrongdoing. Whistle blowing is the only way that prevents that.

Chelsea Manning acted on her conscience, which is the best we can expect anyone to do. The governments punishment was to prevent that happening again.
Okay, so there is punishment say, as some others have said here. Is 7 years enough? She was sentenced to rot in jail till 2045, how can that be just?
Well the executive branch (which the President heads) is responsible for "[executing and enforcing] orders of the court through federal law enforcement" (wikipedia). So, the courts decide how the law is applied, but the executive branch enacts the orders as given by the judicial branch, and is thus also responsible for determining when exceptions are to be made to the enactment of those orders.
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Humility and contrition weren't exactly the route the Republicans used to get the pendulum to swing back their way again.

In UK politics Labour is a veritable orgy of soul-searching about what they did wrong after a slightly-less-narrow-than expected election defeat, which Brexit hasn't exactly improved. The SNP has a clear "voters were cheated by the lies of the London media" grievance narrative and hasn't shifted an inch on the desirability of an independent Scotland. One of these parties has seen the political pendulum swing back towards them.

Ultimately, if the Democrats are to win office again they'll do it from capturing votes from people angry enough about Trump to change their voting intention (and from having a different candidate) not from conceding he was right about a huge number of things. Sure, it might be a comfort blanket for their own mistakes, but the "Trump and his supporters deceived voters!" narrative is also at least as likely to succeed at winning over disaffected Trump/non-voters than trying to reinvent themselves by borrowing his policies or tone.
The easiest way, and i say that with a big pinch of salt because migrating to the US is not easy in any way, is to come here for school, get a graduate degree, get a job through the academic environment (job fairs etc.) and then get that company to sponsor your H1-B visa.

Having a company sponsor you for a work visa while you are not physically present in the US is quite difficult, unless you are an expert in your field. In that case you can look at O1 visa which is meant for special talent.

Coming to the US and then looking for a job here is pretty much impossible (assuming you still want to be legal). L1 visas work for transferring from your existing employer to the same employer in the US but they are short term visas, not meant for migrant intent.

Even H1B and O1 are short term visas with no migrant intent. Depending on your country of origin, it could take anything between 2yrs to 9yrs to get a green card, which is the migrant "visa". During that time you have to maintain full-time, gainful employment in the US.

Although i should point out that 9yrs is only for Indians and Chinese but you are still looking at a multi-year process before being a full-time migrant worker in the US.
The original version did have Woody being stolen by a toy collector and being rescued by the other toys. I don't think many of the specifics beyond that survived the rewrite, but I don't know for sure. There are links elsewhere in this thread to claimed versions of the original story, but I can't vouch for their authenticity. I never saw any of the in-progress story reels.
SFMTA needs to have someone come in and roust the people that did this. I mean, I'm frankly amazed 2G has worked in the last 4-5 years much less since 2012. Upgrading to a 3G modem which is likely already obsolete is kinda ridiculous.
I can't say that I have any links, just personal experience.

I've seen the same therapist for 5+ years. He helped me get through my divorce and grow into a much better person. Recently, I've started trying to use him as an accountability mechanism for improving the still remaining ~5% of my life that I wish to continue improving. I've found it to be less effective that I had hoped b/c he's not really serving a function he's trained at nor are our meetings frequent enough to be just-in-time useful (~once/mo.).

I suspect a mastermind group of like-minded strangers that meet on a weekly basis would be more effective (and cheaper!).
Do you ever need to schedule a VMware or Hyper-V Snapshot?
I agree. I switched to working remotely for a Silicon Valley division of a major company, and I definitely feel the difference in appreciation. I'm not by any means treated as a special snowflake, but rather I very much feel it's a two way street, I feel lucky to work there, they feel lucky to have me.

This is in stark contrast to when I was consulting in LA/OC, where I was constantly having to justify my not so high hourly rates/fixed bid projects.
Commuting Manning's sentence without pardoning Snowden feels like politics to me.

Manning's actions embarrassed the Bush administration so Obama will commute.

Snowden's actions embarrassed the Obama administration so Obama won't pardon.
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Obama doesn't seem to completely disagree, since he didn't pardon her. He instead commuted the sentence from 35 years to 7 years' imprisonment. In my personal opinion that's still too long for the crime, but it's at least less completely insane than 35 years.
Snowden was very selective, and look where that got him...
Editorial bias omits some facts and leaves other on the table, thus providing some source of facts. If you had several sources with different editorial biases you could get a good set of facts to work with. This isn't as good as "objective" reporting, if there was ever such a thing, but it's still quite workable. It worked rather well for a long time.

To say "they both accomplish the same thing" is to omit a very important distinction - while both can mislead, one can still be used to advance the discussion and the other cannot.
Let's estimate.

Assume that the company loses 10 employees and loses $1.57M as a result.

This means that it would be better off if it spent less than $157k on each employee, on the average, to prevent the loss.

$157k is a yearly salary of a senior developer, or maybe the entire yearly cost of a senior employee outside the hotbeds like SV or NYC.

We can cautiously suppose that a company could retain the employees with measures less drastic than paying them twice as much for a year. OTOH paying them +20% for 5 years would be the same. So, if they can keep hiring cheaper developers, even while losing productivity due to onboarding issues, maybe they can actually save money!
You are really good at trolling.
Sorry, but the economy exists to get returns on capital. Employment is a happy side-effect.

If, in the far future, there are greater returns from employing robots than humans, then those humans who need to work will starve.
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7 years isolation, not just 7 years
'Against the US' is broad and imprecise. From the DOJ's web page on executive clemency.

> “The President . . . shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” Thus, the President’s authority to grant clemency is limited to federal offenses and offenses prosecuted by the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia in the name of the United States in the D.C. Superior Court. An offense that violates a state law is not an offense against the United States.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/frequently-asked-questions-co...
Alternate hypothesis: population mobility is caused by fewer career opportunities overall and clustering of what opportunities exist in urban areas. Move or starve.
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There were quite a number of data breaches attributed to a theft of a back up tape from the storage.
And thousands of them lose their money due to bugs or simple mistakes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/search?q=lost+wallet+help&r...
And his support for LGBT issues
IN RE DE PUY, the court found that a prisoner pardoned by the previous administration could have his pardon revoked by the following administration so long as the pardon had not yet been delivered and accepted by the prisoner.
CNN said “it’s illegal to possess these stolen documents [the Hilary emails from wikileaks]. It’s different for the media. So everything you learn about this, you’re learning from us.”

Thats fake and a lie, and they were exposed quickly about that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
From prior discussions, both the DOD[0] and intelligence communities[1] have whistleblower programs. This inevitably leads to questions of whether the DOD/IC IGs can be trusted to investigate the DOD/IC without the forcing function of a public release, but the programs are in place.

[0] - http://www.dodig.mil/programs/whistleblower/index.html

[1] - https://www.dni.gov/index.php/about-this-site/contact-the-ig...
I believe that we would definitely have been told if there was.
She. Not they. Chelsea Manning identifies as female.
Oh, is it time to talk about cowardly people and the Iraq/Afghanistan war?
> Plumbers, electricians - just don't see it happening.

There may not be robot plumbers, but that's not the only possible outcome.

I've seen tradespeople complaining about others who don't really know what they're doing and just look things up on YouTube in the van outside.

If we had an AI system that could look at images/lidar of plumbing and interact with you to diagnose issues and fast self-driving part delivery, that could result in a system where routine plumbing work gets done by people who would otherwise call a plumber.

I'm not saying this will likely happen soon, but there are other ways this could have an impact besides full-on robotic automation.
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> Isn't it a risk, that the president can pardon whoever he wants?

You're probably too young to remember the kerfuffle when Ford pardoned Nixon. Lots of allegations that it had been planned in advance. And it is likely a big reason why Ford lost his election campaign in 1976.

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

The interesting thing in that article is that a pardon carries an implication of guilt, and accepting a pardon carries a confession of guilt (Burdick v. United States). So if Chelsea had offered and accepted a pardon, her reputation would have been negatively affected, unlike if she had been found innocent at the courts martial.
Well given Trump's recent skirting around the emoluments clause...

Let's hope he doesn't do that.
From the article, not exactly the statistic you're looking for but close:

> in 2012 suicide was overall the most common cause of death in Colorado among those age 10 to 44
These types of posts validate my concern about the people entering my field right now.

Data science, as a line of work, is distinct from other technical roles in its focus on creating business value using machine learning and statistics. This quality is easily observed in the most successful data scientists I've worked with (whether at unicorn startups, big companies like my current employer, or "mission-driven" companies).

Implicit in this definition is avoiding the destruction of business value by misapplying ML/statistics. In that sense, I am concerned about blog posts like these (which list 50 libraries and zero textbooks or papers) and those who comment arguing the relevance of "real math" in the era of computers.

Speaking bluntly: if you are a "data scientist" that can't derive a posterior distribution or explain the architecture of a neural network in rigorous detail, you're only going to solve easy problems amenable to black-box approaches. This is code for "toss things into pandas and throw sklearn at it". I would look for a separate line of work.
Chelsea Manning stood trial. Edward Snowden did not.
Technology is also a force multiplier, removing the need to keep soldiers happy. The future is a couple billionaires with a drone army to keep the rest of us at bay while we thankfully starve.
Why wouldn't they? I mean, they'll do whatever DNC tells them to do. Once DNC told them they didn't want Bernie, they decided they want one of the most corrupt candidates in recent history (what a bizarre coincidence, BTW: Clinton Global Initiative is shutting down).

If Zuck plugs himself into the DNC really well (something he has the money and power to do), the rubes can be convinced he's the anointed heir to the throne and "it's his turn". It's not like the Democratic bench is otherwise rich in candidates right now. There's just no way he'd win the election, especially the one in 2020 which will be MMA-like in sheer savagery.
But whistle blowing on what? That the US diplomacy has secret conversations with every one, negiciates deals, and collect information locally in confidence? That's pretty much their job description. What did Manning whistlebow on?

Leaking confidential information isn't whistleblowing.
Oh yeah, for sure. You aren't getting around the nasty governmental environment towards whistleblowsers. Just improving your image in the eye of some people and your odds if it does come down to a legal matter, really.

Running, like Snowden did is really your best bet there I think. He's pretty much the textbook example of how to do this in the most correct way possible and still keep some degree of freedom for yourself. If you're willing to be a martyr, then you can stand up for that. Some people insist you must.

But I'm more than willing to accept both that someone finds something egregiously offensive that needs to be publicized, but also wants to keep their freedom.
> I oppose state secrets and the Hillary e-mails are actually very chilling when you start reading through them.

Weren't they from the DNC leak? The DNC is not affiliated with the US state. I read some of the mails, and I found nothing chilling so I'm curious to know what chilling mails you found.
If this is a major concern for you, there are several clojurescript projects--Planck and Lumo--that have very fast startup. JVM Clojure is a bit faster than jsc/node clojurescript (~2x IIRC) but that shouldn't matter much for scripting/automation and lambda functions or equivalent on other clouds.
The people who read these books, and the companies who come up with these contrived interviews deserve each other.
"How could they not punish Manning?"

But she was punished. With 7 years that she already spent in jail. I don't think that reducing her sentence from 35 years to 7 years "encourage others to leak".
Or it's Obama recognizing that someone with mental health issues the military is ill-equipped to address who has been in custody for seven years has been punished enough. Lawfare is not a bastion of liberalism, but has suggested enough is enough. Let's save the life sentences for the Walkers.