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It's more likely that during interviews it became clear that the jurors knew about nullification and they were excluded from the pool for that reason. It then probably dwindled the size of the pool enough that the Judge became concerned about being able to find jurors that are unaware of nullification.

The Jury selection process, from what I understand, tries to exclude anyone that might know about nullification specifically because they don't like the Jury having more social power than the Judge.
There are US organizations that certify the accreditation of foreign schools and universities, and the equivalence of their diplomas. It's the same system used by foreign students who apply to an American university. I'm not sure how well this system works, but it does exist, so if there is still space for fraud, just fix the system.

Also, once again this is a problem for temp visas with their complex and expensive sponsorship deals; if you just give a green card to any high-skilled worker, if he is incompetent because his education was much below American standards, the guy is fired after the first month, problem solved. (I would support some scheme where such a new GC holder is denied social security benefits in the first X years of residence or Y years of actual employment and tax paying.)
Unfortunately, I don't have data on failure rates in PhD programs broken down by immigrant vs non-immigrant. This data would be clouded by the fact that many "dropouts" are counted as successful MS students, not dropouts (further complicated by the fact that in some cases, this is absolutely true, the student was happier getting an MS and did make this choice!). It could also be clouded by the fact that US citizens can drop out of their STEM programs without jeopoardizing their right to reside in the US, whereas international students may face deportation if they fail or drop out and don't secure some other visa.

I do think that this last part is used - unintentionally - to manipulate international students, and is part of why the appeal of these programs has declined for people who don't need the program to gain US residency.

I would much rather see this problem resolved by empowering the immigrant to choose what field and degree path (or absence of degree path) he or she wishes to pursue than limiting their freedom. But what I can't do is pretend it isn't a factor in how abusive PhD programs can be toward their students. My first order of business in designing a better system would be to strip universities or employers of any control over an individuals immigration/residency status.
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What I thought was, 'do none of them read his blog?' But I suppose they all know already, and that is just the 'official' announcement.
Actually, it's not purely opt-in. Remember when our tax money "rescued" the banks because of their reckless lending/investments less than two years ago?
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I have run a two man development company for the past 2 years. Its had its up's and downs but overal its been great.

Over the last 6 months our money has been nearly the same each month.

We have tried to take on more work and manage the projects between us but that lead to missed deadlines and broken promises... Not our style.

Is it worth taking the risk and employing someone who we can just about afford, hoping we can take on more work?

Or is it better to save and keep money in the bank for a bad month?
I think the only real metric that matters is: Which platform generates the most revenue for developers?
Really? In the age of DIY MVPs?
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Just reading Ikigai by Sebastian Marshall. Very interesting philosophies around life and business.
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Samsung will continue to make SSDs and other products based on its NAND business, but Seagate will gain NAND supplied by Samsung that it needs to launch its own SSD business along with acquiring the entire Samsung HDD business.

This was probably the only way for Seagate to complete the deal. Samsung's NAND business is probably more valuable than the entirety of Seagate.

Here's the rundown: http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=...
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You're right, I was probably frothing a bit too much. I disagree a little bit with the concept of "both sides". Rather, I think there are a multiplicity of viewpoints, and no binary split is possible.

But I did genuinely appreciate the link. As you might gather from my response, I've been seeing mostly a different side, and I think it's good to have contrast. For contrast of contrast, here's Tallbloke's response: http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/winter-solstice-pa...

Reading the two, I'm struck by the difference in tone. I like Tallbloke's better, but am uncertain if that's a subconscious reaction to his message, or simply a preference for different style of prose. ButI agree that the combination is better than any single source.
I don't think its that simple. Wikipedia says

>A trademark is typically a name, word, phrase, logo, symbol, design, image, or a combination of these elements. There is also a range of non-conventional trademarks comprising marks which do not fall into these standard categories, such as those based on color, smell, or sound.

I'd be surprised if Rovio doesn't consider the general appearance of the birds as a trademark. If you see a game in the app store represented by an angry bird like image, that's clearly going to create consumer confusion about the origin of the game.
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Sugarless is something difference from other libraries, I think we can pass any functions into the Sugarless chain as array.

Seems this example explain how deal with functions as arguments in the Sugarless chain. https://github.com/laktek/SugarlessJS/blob/master/examples/c...
Bitcoin is not a solution today. Your parents are not going to buy something from a website that only accepts payment in a currency they've never heard of and don't have. A website that can only accept BitCoin payments cannot be competitive.
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Considering the number of people currently using an operating system that is over a decade old, I think you don't quite understand the pace at which large, particularly government, projects tend to move.

Eight years for 65% is quite impressive actually.

Regardless, this is quite the tangent...
It probably varies by state (or not), but the last time I was on a jury, the jury selection process went like this:

1. 12 jurors are seated.

2. the prosecution asks questions of the jurors, either as a group (eg, "raise your hand if X") or individually.

3. the defense does the same thing

4. the prosecution can excuse any jurors they think are not suited for the case

5. the defense can do likewise

6. If less than 12 jurors remain, enough new ones are seated to bring the number back to 12, and the process repeats

And the questions the prosecution asks are often framed like "Is there any reason you would fundamentally be unable to return a 'guilty' verdict in this case?" or "is X a reason you would not be able to return a 'guilty' verdict?" etc.

At which point, an honest person who believes jury nullification would apply here, would have to say "Yes, I would refuse to vote guilty in this case because I think the law is wrong" or whatever. Of course if you do that, you're basically asking to be excused.

In my case, they never used the phrase "jury nullification" in the selection process, but they asked questions that roughly corresponded to asking about that.

Also, I'm not sure if there is a limit to how many jurors each side can excuse. In the case where I served, quite a few jurors were excused by one side or the other, but we didn't come close to exhausting the pool of candidates (which was, I believe, somewhere between 50-60 people).
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Before getting selected, they outline the case and ask if you know of any reason you couldn't be a fair and impartial juror on this case. Conflicts of interest, etc. At this point, saying "I won't convict for marijuana possession or use under any circumstances" is allowed, but could easily disqualify you depending on how the judge is feeling. Certainly the prosecutor is gonna feel some pressure to cut a deal.

Yeah, it is a little weird, but it's hard to think of a way to fix it without making it potentially much more abusive.
I mentioned this when stream.js was announced on hacker news a couple months back. I think that it's a good idea for JavaScript project pages to include the actual library in the page. That way, when I visit the project page, I can just pop open a console and start playing around with it, which is always my first instinct.
Nobody can hate something as strongly as somebody who's spend way too much time looking at it. That, in this case, would be me.

Those frameworks and ORMs that you claim as a panacea are generally obfuscatory at best (Symfony2, which is a brilliant example of what you can do with PHP and a cautionary tale of designing a system that makes sense to twelve people, ever) to downright maliciously bad (CodeIgniter, get the hell out of my universe and take Joomla with you).

If you can muddle along with glacially inefficient frameworks (often with APIs that make core PHP seem not all that terrible for a time) and ORMs (personally, I don't use an ORM for anything, and credit where credit's due, PDO is actually a very reasonable solution), more power to you, but some of us (hi) have already been to that dance and realized it wasn't going to work for us. So I do criticize PHP on many fronts, from its psychotic language decisions to it's slapdash internals and it's blatant encouragement of idiotic programming practices. (You can say "nobody in their right mind would use that," but the existence of crapfloods of shitty PHP--hello, Wordpress--suggest that either that's not the case or the biggest PHP projects out there are run by lunatics.)

If I end up writing PHP, invariably I end up grabbing Silex and building the useful bits on top of that. While doing so, I continually wish it was a language where imposing actual application structure wasn't essentially actively discouraged; the outright necessity of shit like call-by-name loses what little error-checking you can otherwise get and the solution to any data storage problem seems to be "MORE ARRAYS!". PHP is a tool where a sufficiently advanced developer finds themselves fighting it as much as using it, and that is a shame. Because it doesn't have to be willfully obnoxious. It just is.

I mean, I went back to Java for my own projects, over continued bashing at PHP. That is a low bar. (But, to be fair, Play makes Java tolerable.)
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If you look at the top comment, I was originally responding to "Would it be possible to be a beggar if everyone who passed you on the street did their utmost to help you out?", and the answer is clearly "yes". Furthermore, if everyone who passed a beggar on the street did their utmost to help out, there would be an explosion of beggars, as I demonstrated in my previous comment.

Also, it does not require everyone to think the same way for this to happen; in fact, very few people have to think this way. Therefore, in response to your first post, I am not making the common mistake of assuming that everyone else thinks the same way I do.

I don't mind other people giving to beggars, but one thing I have noticed is that beggar-friendly cities tend to attract far more beggars (San Francisco and Vancouver are two that come to mind).
This is certainly good of Scribd, but I suspect this is more about "Hey, we've got a billion pages!" than it's about "Let's stop SOPA!"
I've been working for some time (solo) on a concept that could manage to alleviate some of your concerns. There are ways around them today (API), but who knows if they'll be foreclosed upon in the future.

Like many old farts, I imagine, I see your post in terms of the thick-client/thin-client battles of years past. I don't think FB will ever see it in their interests to completely close their garden, which would really be remaking the mistakes of the past, but stranger things have happened.
But surely if you've demonstrated the ability to print money by covering your CoCA in 6-12 months with a LTV of 24-36 months or whatever, you have additional options beyond selling off a big chunk of your business. Isn't this the ideal scenario for debt financing?

What about doing creative deals with your first few enterprise customers, where you give them a 50% discount in exchange for a larger upfront payment, which you can then plow back into sales and marketing for the next group of customers. You cut your profits down for those customers, maybe even to zero, but you get the cashflow immediately. What about doing sales distribution deals with companies in a similar space, so you can piggyback on their sales and marketing efforts, thus reducing your need for upfront CoCA?

Come on, you're so creative at finding ways around these kinds of things that I have a hard time believing all that's left is to take a pile of VC like everyone else does.
The difference is that with a stream of websocket messages every so often you need to deal with the framing. With a stream of bytes you don't. This precludes the use case that was the basis of the argument for 63 byte messages if you ever have to 'stream' a 'message' that needs to be longer... Sure you can send it as multiple fragments but then you can't do the 'here's a file handle, read the stream' thing that was proposed.
Juries are to be impartial

But selecting juries based on that trait (or any trait for that matter) is in direct conflict with one's right to trial by a jury of his peers (presumably defined as the general populace). Once you predicate the selection process, you skew a uniform sampling of "peers" and the jurors selected are no longer representative of one's "peers".

(Not arguing, just trying to understand.)
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I mean, it's not even halfway through the article:

"There have been unfortunate instances of nullification. Racist juries in the South, for example, refused to convict people who committed violent acts against civil-rights activists, and nullification has been used in cases involving the use of excessive force by the police. But nullification is like any other democratic power; some people may try to misuse it, but that does not mean it should be taken away from everyone else."
I don't know where you're getting ~36%? Borrower in OP had a 3% interest rate, and the article stated an industry average of 10-20%.

With that aside, I don't entirely disagree with your argument.
I thought the article was informative, those clauses in the contract did seem pretty unusual although I agree with them for the city's sake. Good job.
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These aren't issues with nullification, they are issues with the "jury of your peers" system in general.

Of course that, like democracy, is often deemed to be off limits for criticism simply because a few hundred years ago we agreed it was the best idea around.
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Where does such extreme deference to authority come from in the first place?

Gilles Deleuze said it comes from a desire to be led.
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If Microsoft gave Office away with Windows there would be a bit of litigation showing up at their door.
Court-appointed counsel isn't known for its quality, and when your own lawyer is apparently contemptuous of jury nullifications ("silly leaflets"), it's not looking too good.
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but did you read the article before commenting? Your exact example is mentioned in the article and the author gives their opinion; they would rather we have jury nullification with the potential downfalls than not have it.
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You're thinking way too tin hat.

I very, very rarely resort to ad hominem, least of all on HN, but your nickname says it all (if indeed VB refers to Visual Basic). Far too many computer problems of yore were created by VB programmers not being nearly "tin hat" enough. When engineering systems which can damage other systems or cause bodily harm, one's responsibility is to anticipate, mitigate, and prevent the worst case scenario to the maximum extent possible.
Thanks for sharing so much, Patrick. So much of people's professional lives is either a company secret or shared only in a distorted form for the purposes of self-promotion. One feeling I've always gotten from reading your blog is that despite your message of marketing, you're consistently coming a place of honesty.
Shouldn't editorialize the title.

The article kind of suggest the question: "If the general citizenry is smarter than general elected official, then how come you keep choosing the latter?"
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At one Beijing-based start-up I've been working with full-time fewer than 30% of the senior iOS dev web dev applicants who have already passed the resume screen were able to complete FizzBuzz within an hour. Of those that could, only about half could code a fibonacci function.

On the other hand, there are lots of applicants and a few are very talented people who will work for under 2k USD per month. In your terminology, there's "a wee bit" of human capital here.
Thanks. I've never been on a jury so I'm totally unaware of the selection process. It seems less unfair that both sides get to excuse jurors; still, on average, it seems it would drastically skew the pool of jurors away from a random sample of the general populace.
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Of course it's market driven. My point was that the cost structure for a STEM degree for someone who did K-12 in the US is different from someone who went to a good program in, say, Poland, where I'm told that until recently they would skip calculus and directly teach real analysis in high school. So the cost/benefit ratio is high for the US citizen, but that's not an argument against allowing qualified STEM immigration as a stopgap measure until K-12 is fixed. This problem doesn't exist for fields outside of science and tech, where US pre-college education does a much better job.
I applaud all of these anti-SOPA efforts. What I can't figure out is why our legislators are hell bent on passing this thing.

I've not heard of a single rational person being individually in favor of this bill. Now, that certainly doesn't mean there aren't any, but by and large I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of US citizens are either ambivalent or in opposition when it comes to SOPA. The only groups that are for this bill, so far as I can tell, are big content providers and their lobbies.

If almost no one is in favor of a piece of legislation, and there are millions vehemently opposed to it, why in God's name is it still being considered? Is it really just so certain Congressman can collect money from the proponents of the bill? That seems far too cynical to be accurate. If there's more truth in that statement than false, I think we owe it to ourselves to never re-elect a single sitting member of this Congress.

The longer I live, the more ashamed I become of the United States government.
BTW, Google seems to be pretty open with what they know about you. Here are two links where they display an explicit list: https://www.google.com/dashboard/ and http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
I've never really understood how SOPA will deal with websites that are indisputably multi-use

There is no such thing to a smaller mind, such as a Congressperson's. The people who argue and vote for these laws are not big computery people, they are lawyers, and exceedingly lazy ones at that. The subtlety you describe, that some websites can be multi-use, is lost on people who can't understand how Reddit in not just a den of kiddie porn after hearing the stories over the summer.
Don't worry, its not as bad as all that. WebSockets doesn't actually break message boundaries, it just might fragment a message without telling you the full size up front. The basic "problem" is that if you receive a 1kb fragment with no size indication, and you expose an API that is entirely based on messages and events, then you have to start buffering. But what if the message is a 5gb .iso file of your favorite DVD? Well, there's no way to predict that so you might have to dynamically allocate a monstrous buffer, which is just painful.

There's two ways to respond to this: 1) claim that websockets is broken and all client APIs should be streaming or 2) not unexpectedly send multi-gigabyte messages.
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