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Well. The accused has rights, but those rights do not include "being read his rights". They include things like "the right to remain silent" and to a defense attorney. The accused had rights before they invented the Miranda Warning, and said warning's main value is as a procedural guard to make sure that no one's rights were violated because the accused were not aware of their rights.

What he can do when he's tried, and when they're using any of his testimony against him, is that he can say "I was not read my rights" and then the judge can ask "were you aware of your rights?" and if the court determines that he might actually have been unaware of his rights then they can throw that testimony out, or provide other remedies.

I have my suspicions that his own testimony won't be the deciding factor in any criminal proceedings, however, so it may come to nothing in the end.

(No commentary on the appropriateness or inappropriateness of the decision to not-read-him-his-rights is herein advanced by this comment, except that it would have at least avoided the fuss which is currently being made about it, so that is a point against it.)
I've been against open plan office environments since long before it became cool. There are some things that I just don't need to see and hear. It could be anything from a coworker blowing their nose, a conversation, or body language. It's distracting. If a company won't give a programmer a proper office with a door, it tells you a lot about the company, and what it tells me isn't good for productivity.
I wish reporting a review had at least a non-zero chance on the App Store. I've never had a single result or any feedback at all with it.
I guess you would say the same for C, right? So are you saying that Excel works correctly but because its easy to get started with it creates unrealistic confidence? I disagree.
“public exemption in cases of national security.”

This is a huge stretch for the definition of "national security" and not necessarily one that a US Attorney should be making in this case, lest courts rule against them for over-extension and they lose the privilege of invoking this exemption for the future.
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MS is dominating Indian market from the start, infact most people don't know other OS existence.
And cave homes are irreplaceable in optimal human architecture?
Are you referring to backend or frontend applications? Java on the backend seems to be very stable and popular. Though I don't have any experience with it personally, my understanding is that it's probably the most popular backend language for web apps in terms of deployment size and complexity.
An analogy I like to use: imagine you own a Thai restaurant. People come in and love the food. Others don't like it, saying things like "You know, I really prefer sushi, can you serve raw fish?" or "I really like spaghetti, can you use more tomato sauce?"

You have to recognize when criticism means the customer is just not your target market ("Look -- you're in a Thai restaurant!") vs. a real complaint on an issue with your product or service ("Your waiters are rude" or "You are using too much salt.").

Not all criticism is of the 2nd type. We want restaurants to be their best, authentic selves, and not some amalgam of everyone's preferences.
Routers almost NEVER manipulate the transport unless they are doing something very un-Layer3 like NAT or some other encapsulation.
Doesn't matter if you personally like it or not. Don't ever let your personal feelings/attitudes affect your marketing tests. There have been so many times where I thought visitors were going to hate a certain feature and it turned out they didn't care AND resulted in huge conversions.
I don't really think it really helps with stacking.
I was just thinking it seems like she's doing everything she possibly could to make a certain segment of people hate her.
My thoughts: there's good risk and bad risk and, in the technological economy, you need to know the difference.

Good risk: trusting smart people with their own time. Don't take this risk and you will fucking fail because everyone with an IQ over 125 will sabotage you (or, at least, abandon you for better things.)

Bad risk: not backing up your database, skimping on code correctness in safety-critical code, playing with guns.

People who don't know the difference should not be making decisions that affect other people.
This seems like it would be begging for a class-action lawsuit.

That said, I've half-joked that probability of receiving my miner is probably about 0.98^(USDBTC).
That's also not an Excel issue, but a process/"giving VP's whatever they want even when bad" issue.
I'm wary of any system that doesn't list the RAM in the specifications.
I ordered a Jalepeno almost immediately. I chose to pay by wire, and the email i received included "Your order position won't be penalized for any time it takes to send you this payment information. Please send me an email with a copy of the wire confirmation form. Once payment has been received, I'll respond with final confirmation of your order."

I still haven't paid and am going to now. I wonder if they will honor it or not.
selling shovels and pick-axes to miners was always much more lucrative than being a prospector - plus ca change
Once you already know how to use it...
You might also enjoy: http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/
Why any living thing reproduces at all is a much more fundamental question than e.g. why men have nipples or snakes don't have legs.
You should call it as you see it. The comment sure looks, walks, and quacks like a troll.
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We have a declarative ruby file that must include a license ( https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/blob/master/ARAnalytics/1... ) which doesn't have to be OSS ( because we support closed source libraries ) but is nearly always OSS.

So we have a CI linter that checks every library.
And before Excel, the pencil was the root of all miscalculation evil. Damn you, pencils!
It didn't work, as the suspect was discovered after the curfew was over, by a man who had been inside his house all day. Had the man been outside his house earlier in the day, and seen the cover of his boat, its all but likely the suspect could have been apprehended 8-12 hours earlier.
There's a rather complex relationship between business success and being "better" in any sense other than the mere tautological fact of business success. It is not a very good way to "prove" anything beyond that, without either additional evidence, or axiomatic assumptions.
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I'm writing a Ruby book for sysadmins, any advice or feedback?
Hi all,

As the title says I'm writing a book for sysadmins that want to use Ruby. Any interest in that sort of thing? What would you like to see in it? What problems would you want solved? http://ruby.elevatedintel.com for more info.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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"time it takes to send you this payment information. "

I don't see where it says you won't be penalized for the time it takes for you to make a payment. With that said - I'm curious, did people pay in advance of shipping?
Evolution dictates that we live long enough to reproduce and fight off anything that wants to kill our young. There is no reason to assume that it might somehow be a guide to what an "optimal human diet" (silly expression) might be.
Notice I am not objecting to you making the statements you have made; I'm just saying that with such statements, will come attacks. Justified or not, expect them.
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If you've ever had grass fed beef as opposed to the stuff you normally find in the grocery store, you know that the meat is much tastier, and much better for you. For example, grass fed beef is a good source of omega 3s.

The problem with most livestock in the US is that it is raised on corn, which is not a nutritious food for them (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_shouldn%27t_cows_eat_corn).

However, it does fatten them up. So, while they are fed this unhealthy diet, they are also fed antibiotics to keep them alive long enough to be sold.

You are what you eat. If you want better food and humanely raised livestock, then educate yourself and stop buying the cheap stuff.

The USDA regulates antibiotics for animals, while the FDA regulates them for humans. The USDAs job is to promote agriculture, and they do not appear to be as concerned about the kinds of side effects that the FDA is. Two very different missions.

It's too bad irradiating food has such negative connotations, as it would be safer than the current approach.
>I don't think it's unreasonable.

Given that laws mean whatever those in power say they mean, the test is not whether you find the text reasonable, but rather whether they can find the text to mean something you would find unreasonable.
How can one litigate against an entity beyond the jurisdiction of the US court system, e.g. say the rig manufacturer was the crook and not in the United States? What are the options there?
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This makes me think of this quote:

The only way to avoid criticism, is to not do anything of value.

So expect that it will happen, because it means you created or did something worthwhile.
Where do you draw the line? Would you lock down all of New York City if some mother killed her four children by smothering them with a pillow? Why not? She's armed and dangerous and already has 4 dead to her name!

What happened in Boston was an amateurish overreaction to the task of hunting down and finding someone who had committed a handful of murders -- something that happens every day in the US.
To use the old saying, when all you have is a hammer, everthing begins to look like a nail. To most office workers, Excel is their hammer. You can stretch it to extreme limits by using things like pivot tables, and complicated lookup functions. It's easier for them this way, that is to say they have fluency in excel, but none in programming, which means they fail to realize that a simple well written script could save them from every having to repeat a task.
Email? Or contact info?
Personally, I wonder if this wasn't exactly the right sort of response. They say that severity of punishment is not nearly as effective a deterrent as certainty. If the image of the entirety of Boston so quickly working against these two men isn't the very picture of swiftness and certainty/inevitability, I don't know what is.
I'm talking black box QA. Input is suspect identified. Output is that inside 24 hours they had him alive.

Every particular possible outcome has some set of strategy changes that, in retrospect, would have made apprehension quicker. But this success was reached without the benefit of clairvoyance.
> TL;DR: It is extremely difficult to sustain the needs of a child with a pure vegetarian/vegan diet.

Tripe. I think people forget that even with the naive diet pyramids a lot of us grew up with, eggs (rightly) were counted as meats. It's been well understood for a long time how to function without eating meat, as in, the flesh of animals, if you have eggs available as part of your diet.

Pure veganism requires some actual thought, yes.
I doubt his post-arrest statements will be critical to the government's case. Even if everything he said gets thrown out, it likely won't matter.

At the time he was questioned though, the point wasn't "Let's get a confession we can use in court", it was "Are there any more bombs out there".
You can't spell "autonomy" without "money". Well, yes you can. But the point stands -- replace autonomy with money in that sentence. There are organizational pathologies that lead to big companies not hiring the most talented and independent thinkers, but in so many cases the problem is that they don't want to spend sufficient money for a staff with the skills, experience, and creativity to provide solutions better than "works well enough".
For me this has been the case for the power supplies.

First one (came with the original intel macbook pro) actually caught fire due to a short caused by a break in the wires at the base of the brick.

A power supply bought last year is starting to split near the magsafe connector.
I started writing a reply and then I just remembered I wrote about how I felt about it a little while back.

http://eksith.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/gpl-vs-bsd/

On three separate occasions so far, I've come across a situation where someone has rejected a GPL piece (with basically nothing wrong technically; which is a damn shame) only to go with BSD the first time, ISC the second and, to my surprise, a closed source solution the third. Now 3 may not seem like a statistically significant number, but from the type of projects these were, my feeling is that the GPL seems to actively repel adoption to the point where even a closed source binary is more preferable.

The premise is to ensure quality code gets returned to the community, and I understand that, but quality code isn't what we usually get back. When the issue is forced, by and large, I feel people reject participation entirely, return the bare minimum necessary to comply (let's say an API which is GPL licensed while the rest of the library/application is under a different one) or, of course, non-compliance.

It's hard not to be a cynic these days, but I do think most people are basically good. And if you give good people the choice of doing good, they will not only do it, but also do it more earnestly. This earnestness in turn will produce, I believe, code of the best quality.
I followed one extra Twitter user (guy from Global Grind) and listened to a police scanner. That was enough to get me much more information than he was in a boat. There was information about movement, a negotiator, things being called out to him, flashbangs being announced, info about thermal images from a chopper, talk of robots and explosives teams being involved or considered, etc.

I didn't need to know all of this, but I found following it all very gripping and wanted to hear the capture played out.
Mmmm, I wonder how "oops, it was caught in the spam filter" would work out? At least with mail delivery you can have confirmation of receipt. With email what's the guarantee that the person in charge would look at it?
You can actual show formulas in excel, instead of the values.

But that's not to say that it'd be easy to spot the one that is different. This is why excel has a little tooltip that pops up and says 'inconsistent formula' when it finds a cell that doesn't seem to belong.
Worked === Intended outcome achieved

At the point when the lockdown started, the intended outcome was likely to catch the suspect without any more death, injury or destruction. It worked. You can speculate as to whether it would have also worked with a different approach, but you can't say the selected approach didn't work.
Ironic that the broad regulations you're advocating wouldn't address the issue at hand, that you mentioned in the previous paragraph.

How about to make it illegal to give antibiotics to animals that are not sick, or making new antibiotics illegal for animal use for a number of years?
oh no! i read that wrong everytime. In my said it said "it takes you to send this payment".

but yes, they have been taking pre-orders for like 9 months and people have been paying.
"Boston is probably the only major city that if you fuck with them, they will shut down the city, stop everything, and find you."

Happy Gilmore
I thought they had been ripped off by their suppliers and they just never got wise to it.
Couldn't you just use some online faxing service? That would prevent the 360 request/day limit you mentioned. I don't think any place sending mass DMCA take downs would be sending faxes themselves.
This is a great point. Excel is a great tool, but it's the Blub of non-technical business people.
I see it as a futures contract on the value of the BTC. Selling a mining ASIC locks in profit for the seller, betting that this will exceed the time-value generated from the rig itself. Buying a rig locks in a loss, betting that it will pay for itself. We can't be certain whether the BTC will be at US$1,000 or US$1 a year from now. You could make a case for either side, that's why the contract exists.
> Something to consider: it worked.

Damn right it worked.

INPUT: pressure cookers and gunpowder

OUTPUT: front page headlines around the world; whole city gets shut down

That's pretty damn effective. And it's all thanks to the multiplying effect of hysterical overreaction.

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EDIT: Updated my description of the bomb, in response to comments below.
These actions went far far beyond martial law powers, and yet martial law was not declared. I don't know what legal authority there was to do this, I assume it exists and comes from some recent Patriot Act like bill. Whatever it is, we see that its power is greater than that of martial law and it is something that doesn't have to be activated in an emergency, the power exists at all times.

That in itself is terrifying and that undeclared power is not what I want for a country that I live in.

The detail that the police ordered everyone to shut down even train service, but with the sole exception being that they requested Dunkin Donuts shops stay open and continue providing free donuts for police is straight out of feudalism.
Yes, but we live with that all the time, don't we? At a certain point, we have to just trust that it will be used as intended, and then trust that we can improve the law later if it's abused.
Excel is not garbage. I'm not a MSFT fan at all but it's a great product. It is not, however,

* a database,

* a high-performance computation framework,

* a good programming model for long-lived "code" or multiple-writer projects.
There's really no logical comparison between your fictional scenario and what occurred in Boston.

The Boston Marathon is a world renowned event, and the apprehension of the perpetrators of the attacks was a necessary thing, because, as someone else has mentioned here, sending a message of "We'll catch you" to any would-be criminals is of the utmost importance.

Well done Boston.
My condolences to those adversely affected by this tragedy.
I am intrigued, this is a lot of work it seems, what inspired you to create this engine?
any piece of software that needs an MTA in order to run

What distro doesn't already have an MTA installed?

Create product: Click the "new product" link then type in "My New Software Project" enter.

Create components: Under your new product, click the "new component" linke then type in "Miscellaneous", press enter. There, you have your product and a catch-all component for all your new issues. Divide into more meaningful components as time goes on.

What if you don't have a server?

Now I see the misunderstanding here. I was referring to professional software projects where I've had to work with other people, some of whom here and there wished to track bugs in spreadsheets. Any such project that I work on has at least one server available. Hell, for small consulting projects I just use one of the servers running in my house to bootstrap things.

You know, you can get a RaspberryPi and plenty of flash storage space for running as a server (with Bugzilla, an MTA, and everything) for projects for less than $50.

If you're referring to small personal projects then sure. Use a text file or a spreadsheet or strings tied to your fingers to remind you of things.
Awesome that fixed it.
1. I'm getting really good at predicting what the intellectual hipster perspective on a particular issue will be. I knew yesterday we would see op eds like this.

2. Not Hacker News. Flagged.
If you read the Wikipedia article, then you would realize that not everyone thinks the situation is as obvious as you do. I tend to agree with David Hubel's opinion referenced in that article.

OTOH, this seems like obvious animal cruelty to me, although you apparently support it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-j-winograd/peta-kills-p...
It all started as play coding. The deeper I went the funner it became =)
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Like many laws, CISPA would have an effect on people who are not citizens of the U.S. That is why many laws use terms like "consumer" in the context of business, "patient" in the context of health care, or often just "person" otherwise.

Words matter; "citizen" is a more restrictive class of people than "consumer."
I don't know if you've ever been in management, but if not I think that would be the wall you'd run into.

Imagine if a manager had tons of advice for programmers, ie; 'listen to what management says, build what we want not what you think we want, pay attention when we interrupt your coding!'

If you've already done the whole management thing also and it worked out well then good luck to you.
Part of the value of Bitcoin (if any) is that it's decentralized. It should be more profitable to sell the miners out than to hoard them because if they're distributed the cryptographic safety of Bitcoin is greater.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.

I like animated disagreement. My wife and I argue constantly. It's great, because although I have a lot of good ideas, I have plenty of bad ones. Ideas are best tempered with fire. Let's beat the damn thing until we have something good. It's a difficult, chaotic process and it takes a lot of passionate minds. Corporate processes tend toward creative mediocrity by default because no one cares. Well, if no one cares, then why are we having this fucking meeting? Just go off and do it, then.

Ad hominem attacks piss me off because they're just so fucking useless. They add nothing, but they change the discussion to a toxic one quickly.

Maybe he wasn't making an ad hominem attack. Maybe I'm just insecure because so much of my career has been wasted on manager-blessed bullshit and I'm finally waking up. I lost someone last winter, so the value of time has really been impressed on me of late.
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The profitability of ASICs is going to decrease at a rapid rate once they start shipping to consumers. Additionally, in a few months the market is going to be flooded with cheap ASICs.

From BFL's perspective if they don't release first they're dead in the water. They don't know where their competitors are compared to them but they recognize it's a winner take all situation. The natural thing to do would be to take pre-orders to fund the manufacturing and start realizing profits now. Also, if your competitors are offering pre-orders you should be too.
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I'd like to see evidence that the police shut down the city with martial power. I'm inclined to think the Governor said, "Everybody should stay home today", and the author of this article embellished a little.
A mixture of not understanding the article and wanting to rail on CISPA?

Where does it mention that the government views citizens as consumers? From what I understand, it says that government would have access to data about consumers, as in 'consumers/customers of private businesses'.

Anyone can misunderstand or misread something, I don't blame the author. What's irritating is how many upvotes this has and how many people have piled on.
Ugh. Promotes (or, at least, inadequately rebukes) the bad and common misunderstanding that quantum computing provides a _general_ exponential speedup. It does not. QC is only even theorized to provide a exponential speedup for a few things, for other things QC cannot provide a better than sqrt() speedup (and this is tightly bounded for general non-linear search).

I strongly recommend Scott Aaronson's thesis http://www.scottaaronson.com/thesis.pdf for anyone who doesn't want to be made QC-stupid by articles like this. The beginning is interesting and generally accessible as it goes into the details you need to be comfortable with linear algebra to follow along.
Did they collect the money in advance? If not, it seems to me that the shipping time is almost irrelevant.