skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am pretty sure clerks are seeing only a fraction of the people who were arrested or convicted, and that that fraction is strongly biased towards people who have money to spend on lawyers.

The bulk of nearly any judge's case load is criminal appeals from run of the mill criminals. They might be pro se, they might have a public defender, they might have a cheap local lawyer, but they're not deep pocketed by any means. Indeed, clerks see a skewed picture of things, but one that is if anything skewed towards seeing fewer actually guilty people, not more, for the obvious reason that actually innocent people are more likely to file an appeal than actually guilty ones.

> I do not know where you got the idea that our criminal justice system is serving its purpose. It may be great at putting criminals in prison, but it is meant to protect innocent.

The purpose of the criminal justice system is to protect the law-abiding public by putting criminals in prison. That is its sole reason for existing. An important constraint in doing so is protecting the innocent, but that's not its purpose. If it were, then you could design the perfect justice system simply by never putting any people in prison. But the world has bad people, lots of them, and that's not a tenable option.

You design a justice system the same way you design any system. You pick a false-positive rate you can live with, then design the rest of the system to maximize throughput while still hitting that false-positive target. It's the only sane way to design something that works as opposed to a non-working platonic ideal.
Sounds like how he ended the War on Terror in 2009 (which basically amounted to asking everyone to stop calling it that). Drug court has always been heavy on treatment for addicts arrested for lesser drug charges in lieu of prison time. I don't see anything new here.
In the UK, that would qualify as destruction of evidence 9/10 times. Source: Looked into doing something similar to protect confidential information and sought legal advice first.
1) Unless you have data to back you up, you're speculating, just like anyone who speculated that his intelligence was lacking.

2) It's "bears," not "bares".
New Jersey ignores Supreme Court in pushing for violent game legislation
In a president specifically, I imagine a "better" goal is one more aligned with the will of the people (even if not specifically in the long-term interest of the people.)
Kickstarter is kosher, precisely because as the parent post said ""Kickstarter is not a store, it's just a website where you give money and get stuff in the mail later."

It's the fact that it's a donation, not the pre-purchase of a physical good, that makes it so.

If you're selling a physical good, you're supposed to deliver or ship it at the time of the transaction.

> where'd you hear that whopper?

Originally from our banker at Chase that handled our merchant account set up, but it's easy enough to confirm if you look:

http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/card-acceptance-guide...

http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0221-billed-merchandise...

> You really think Amazon Payments would have let Kickstarter go this long if they weren't kosher?

It's worth noting that even though Kickstarter is kosher, the area is gray enough that Amazon is not taking on any more Kickstarter-type sites until further notice precisely because of their legal concerns.
This is the opposite of news. The fact that whites actually benefit from affirmative action, to the detriment of Asians and Asian Indians, has been well known and obvious for a long time now.
Can you give a specific example of how being "fully programmable" improves your workflow?
Ah, thanks for clarifying, my mistake.
There is also a Kickstarter for a documentary in progress entitled The Hedgehog & The Hare, about Aaron, Weev, and the CFAA that they were both charged under. I was interviewed for it on Friday. The guys making it are really cool and talented, it's shot really well, and they're only looking to raise $15k (vs the $75k the OP is seeking).

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2120630809/the-hedgehog-and-the-hare-documentary-project-on-t
Please read more closely before replying. You missed rhizome's point entirely.
You can work for multiple employers on an H-1B if you have multiple approved I-129 petitions. Your original comment was in regards to a transfer which falls under AC-21.

edit: Technicalities in immigration law can have large consequences, working outside of one's status, or for an unapproved employer can result in being removed from the US and being banned from return for a number of years depending on the circumstances.
Wow! No trial needed. They are obviously guilty, right? If we forcefully take money from them, we are not robbing them, we are only punishing them, right, comrade?
I love tldr.io and use it frequently. Really amazes me. Of course I think this approach might be more scalable. I agree with adding a rating layer would be a great addition. Thanks!
Isn't Switzerland, on any meaningful account, far more "multicultural" than the rest of Europe? We're talking about what's arguably the most decentralized country in the world here; the one in which four different languages are dominant in different regions.

And, aside from all that, artificially-enforced uniformity seems no less totalitarian than artificially-enforced diversity. Wouldn't you regard any legislative policy that attempts to direct the composition of civil society - toward any goal - to be inherently totalitarian? Certainly it at least creates a sort of circular reference in the mechanism of democracy: how can the state be held accountable to society if it has the power to manipulate society?
"Colleges admissions desire a diverse mix of students."

They could try looking for actual diversity, then, instead of just an aesthetically pleasing mixture of superficial skin colors. Accepting 100 multiracial kids who all attended the same boarding schools is going to be way less diverse than a selection of 100 kids from different levels of income. Actually, I believe income quite dominates race in terms of predicting academic success these days--the interracial achievement gap looks quite small by comparison. (As well it should, in a country currently headed by a black president.)
Kickstarter for documentary about the CFAA / weev
Being an Asian American that fits the model minority stereotype, I already expressed my thoughts on Quora, specifically on affirmative action and racism which you can read here: http://qr.ae/TEVfO

It's fairly obvious to me that colleges do discriminate against Asians, and that this reverse racism does need to stop whether it's intentional or not.

Everyone here talks about how Asians are like this or like that... the reality is that Asians are a pretty diverse group of people, and while you do have your nerdy, book worm types, you also have Asians who were captains of their basketball team or who played football or another major sport. Most people who are at the top of their class are extremely gifted in more ways than one and good parenting isn't the only factor that gets them there. I have cousins who have 'tiger-mom' parents but their grades are still suffering. We need to stop generalizing everyone into the same buckets, that's part of the problem.

I'm all for diversity, I would love to see colleges adopt a race blind admission process and focus on all the criteria that they value and see what happens. I almost guarantee that we will see the Asian acceptance rates rise even with the focus on "diversity". Right now, it seems like it's straight forward discrimination at play that is guised as diversity seeking... since by diversity, what they're really saying is that we want less Asians in our top schools.
Great comment. I had a professor say often that "cash is king." Obviously these companies aren't paying attention to cash at all.
Huh? I've paid a lot of legal fees and never remember seeing sales tax on them. I don't understand what you are saying.
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As previously stated, I have never and would never approach a traditional VC in the first place for a host of reasons, this being one of them. There is no VC game in town for me, and I am perfectly content with that.
Unfortunately it seems that discovery and testimony have become increasingly conflated over time. I don't buy the arguments that compelling someone to decrypt something is discovery rather than testimony. The precedent that tips the scale between discovery and testimony hinges on whether the prosecution "knows" that the data is there, which is bogus to begin with precisely because the supposed data is encrypted. They couldn't possibly "know" what is there without compelling the defendant to decrypt. And if there is already "sufficient evidence" to tie a defendant to supposed encrypted data, as has come up in certain cases, than there is no need to compel the defendant to decrypt in the first place. Provide your "sufficient evidence" to the court and let the judge and jury do their jobs.

I think precedent leaned this way precisely because people understood that otherwise, guilty people would definitely walk. And they couldn't have that, even if it meant that the spirit of the 5th amendment was violated.
"Bush attended public schools in Midland, Texas until the family moved to Houston after he completed seventh grade. He then went to The Kinkaid School, a prep school in Houston, for two years."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Childhood_to_mid...
Actually there are reasonable explanations for these:

> - Spending increases while incurring tax cuts

Regardless of whether you agree politically, this was intentional. The strategy is called "starve the beast" and the goal is to strategically force austerity cuts. As a bonus, you force it to happen when a democrat is in office. And guess what? It appears to have worked (somewhat).

> - The Iraq War + the willful deceiving of the public

It wasn't willful. There were intelligence reports of WMDs. Colin powell got quite pissed about it really. Truth of the matter is that some messed up stuff happened in the intelligence community and Colin was lead to believe there was a real threat in Iraq. How much Bush was involved in the whole deal is unclear. Also, Hussain did try to kill his dad, so it may have been slightly personal.

> - The lack of remorse of any decision made in office

Remorse for what? Politics is politics. There's blood on everyone's hands. For example, policy changes made during the Bush Sr and Clinton administrations appear to have contributed significantly to the housing crash in 2009. Regardless, even if he isn't remorseful, that doesn't make him dumb. Heartless maybe, but not dumb.

Disclaimer: I'm not a republican. I think democrats and republicans alike spend too much time playing politics these days and not enough actually trying to fix things. I also think the worlds problems can be solved without war. The one thing I did like about Bush is that he appears to have really wanted to reduce the size of government, which appeals to my (mostly) libertarian beliefs.
> By what metric are they unequal? Crime rates? Economic output? Level of corruption? Degree of political freedom? What?

Political culture, economic customs and practices, actual membership in the European Union...
Said Twain, "never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."
My Experience With The Ruby on Rails Tutorial
Apple Store Broken CSS?
What do you use for automatic refactoring? Are there good command line tools for renaming methods across an entire source tree for example?
Sounds great. An evidence-based, religion-free, pragmatic approach to minimizing the direct and indirect harm of drug trafficking and abuse (and use) is what has been proven to work in other countries, and our current policy has been proven to be an idiotic catastrophe of epic proportions.

However, Obama says a lot of things: he's said that his feds won't go after pot in states that have legalized it (nope), that he would gonna close Guantanamo (nope), etc etc.

Still, on balance I think it is better to have a leader who at least knows how to say the right things (as opposed to insane, anti-science things), even if saying them doesn't always mean he will actually get them implemented.
Not the OP, but demand for software engineers in my third-world home is quite abysmal.
And what about Obama's SAT scores and other academic history... oh that's right, he's never released them.
Alex: in case one goes for a team of advisors rather than VCs, what kind of compensation should I plan for them to have? equity? monthly fee? friendship points?
Natural gas is booming too. I think that employs a fair number of geologists and various types of engineers.
But race combined with other factors can be a predictor of leadership skills, which is the only thing that really matters. Talk of qualifications and merit are muddying the issue. The question is about probability that this person will obtain significant power in the future, and thus increase the brand of the university they came from. Race is a legitimate factor in such a discussion. It's up to those who don't like it to prove that its inherently wrong to consider race in their calculation.
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...just as every politician learns to create a persona.

"The caricature of President Bush is that of a good ol’ boy from Texas who is principled and tough, but just not that bright."

Whether genuine or not, that was the caricature he cultivated and embraced, further distancing himself from the "elite" in the minds of most Americans. Whether a voter found this to be charming or not went a long way to how those voters cast their ballot.
Here is what I see: http://imgur.com/jLk9TT5
How would you differentiate a "great" dev, a "good" dev, and a shit one? Not being snarky, genuinely curious.
Cubby apparently also completely broken when it comes to symbolic links.

http://help.cubby.com/forums/169907-general/suggestions/3529...
In 2010, the Sienna Presidential poll — which is very well respected — ranked George W. Bush as the 42 most intelligent president (only Harding ranked lower). [1, pdf file]. 14 of the 19 categories have W. in the bottom 5. These categories are: Communication ability, Court Appointments, Handling of U.S Economy, Ability to Compromise, Executive Appointments, Overall Ability, Imagination, Domestic Accomplishments, Integrity, Executive Ability, Foreign Policy Accomplishments, Leadership Ability, Intelligence, and Avoid Crucial Mistakes. The 4 categories that he is not in the bottom 5 of are: Background (he is the 7th worst), Party Leadership, Luck, and "Willing to Take Risks". Luck is the only category in which he is in the second quartile.

The article states:

"And while my job involved juggling a lot of balls, I only had to worry about economic issues. In addition to all of those, at any given point in time he was making enormous decisions on Iraq and Afghanistan, on hunting al Qaeda and keeping America safe. He was making choices not just on taxes and spending and trade and energy and climate and health care and agriculture and Social Security and Medicare, but also on education and immigration, on crime and justice issues, on environmental policy and social policy and politics. Being able to handle such substantive breadth and depth, on such huge decisions, in parallel, requires not just enormous strength of character but tremendous intellectual power. President Bush has both."

Important criticisms of his presidency are not about his lambdacisms or rhotacisms. The criticisms of his presidency are not that he couldn't make decisions but that the decisions that he made were wrong, harmful, or showed a stubbornness to consider the fact that he was wrong. His presidency was marked by decisions to ignore nonpartisan reports contrary to the party line: when a international terrorism report that had been published annually for 19 years said that terror was increasing, not decreasing, his administration cancelled the reports. [2]

[1] http://siena.edu/uploadedfiles/home/parents_and_community/co...

[2] http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2002243262_terror16...
Bush seems pretty smart, after all he got away with warcrimes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/16/us-torture-priso...
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If this was an exam for a freshman/sophomore course, I might believe it since lower-div classes at Berkeley have an exceptionally wide audience with non-uniform levels of prior mathematical experience. However, if this was an upper-div course, I highly doubt your anecdotal experience holds true in general. Source: majored in math at Berkeley, went to MIT for grad school.
The Iranian regime is not more repressive than the DPRK. Neither is Saudi Arabia.
HMC academically is as strong as the Ivies in engineering fields. Not really a good school to make your point with.
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>People do display distinct genetic clustering based on ancestral geography.

For sure! But I suspect the most meaningful coarse clusters might end up being some large number of divisions of sub-saharan africa and then everyone else. Definitely not the "White", "Black", "Asian" categories people in the states take for granted. And even ignoring the amazing diversity of Africa (compared with the rest of the world), did the Irish become more genetically white when they became culturally accepted as white? Did Latin Americans of European descent become less genetically white when people further North stopped viewing them that way? Why do some races trump others (i.e., why is Barack Obama considered black)? The boundaries of these categories seem very arbitrary and not derived by any rigorous means at all.
And here's Espenshade himself tearing down his research being used like this:

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/the-white-anxiet...

In a recent article, Ross Douthat claims that America’s elite private colleges and universities are discriminating against white, rural, working-class applicants, especially those from “Red” states, and he cites work that Alexandria Radford and I did on college admissions to support his argument. Douthat seizes on one relatively minor finding in the entire book to push an interpretation that goes far beyond the bounds of the actual evidence.

We find that applicants who demonstrate a strong commitment to career-oriented extracurricular activities while in high school have a slightly lower chance of being admitted to a top school. This outcome affects only students who have won awards or assumed leadership positions in these activities, not those known for their extensive involvement. These extracurriculars might include 4-H clubs or Future Famers of America, as Douthat mentions, but they could also include junior ROTC, co-op work programs, and many other types of career-oriented endeavors. Participating in these activities does not necessarily mean that applicants come from rural backgrounds. The weak negative association with admission chances could just as well suggest that these students are somewhat ambivalent about their academic futures.

... students who apply from “Red” states appear to have an advantage in the process. Compared to otherwise similar applicants from California, those from Utah are 45 times as likely to be admitted to one of our elite colleges or universities. The advantage for applicants from West Virginia or Montana is 25 times greater, and nearly 10 times greater for students from Alabama. Because top private schools seek geographic diversity, and students from America’s vast middle are less likely to apply, it stands to reason that their admission chances are higher. On the other hand, coming from such “Blue” states as Virginia or Colorado lowers the odds of admission.
Similar experience in UK (Edinburgh, at least). Startup companies are dying to hire great devs, but the vast amount of people applying for tech jobs lack the necessary skills.
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100% agreed. People take "well rounded" to mean "better person." In most cases, what it actually means is a person who has never known what it's like to feel hunger.
Why not charge all the time but give it away free for a week when a friend sends you the link?
Idea Analysis Week 7: Bhumiputra
"We lose money on every deal, but we will make it up on volume"
While there are some US states that have considered taxing legal fees, this is certainly not the norm. Services are typically exempt from sales tax. From page 19 of California's guide to sales/use tax exemptions:

> SERVICES—The sale of services where no tangible personal property is transferred or where the transfer of property is incidental, are not subject to sales and use taxes.

Source: http://www.boe.ca.gov/pdf/pub61.pdf
But I think that misses my point... I don't think we get to complain about a lack of good developers without trying to do something to make the bottom 50% of developers better. Taken in the context of the general population, that bottom 50% is still highly intelligent and generally very capable group of individuals.

IMO we're starved of great devs because we don't make bad devs better.
This Luxury Laptop Costs $1 Million
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the fact that colleges always say they're looking for "diversity" is a blunt admission that they're their reason for looking at race is "diversity" (a.k.a. affirmative action), not to determine leadership skill.

Even if that's a goal, it doesn't seem to be the main one. Frankly, I've never heard a college admissions official say they look at race to determine leadership skills, even if they really do do that.

If they do that, then it's fine for them to do so, but that just doesn't seem to be the issue here. And to the best of my knowledge, it didn't seem to be the issue in the Bakke case either, which nevertheless got the Supreme Court's nod toward promoting "diversity".
A simple "No, SF has no bike lanes" would suffice, unless the idea of a bike line is foreign to you.
While some people attribute their luck in the stock market to skill, it is still possible for someone to have actual skill in making money in the stock market. Some high-profile billionaires and numerous quants have demonstrated this. The fact that you made money doesn't mean your income is solely, or even primarily, attributable to luck.

Likewise, it's possible the grandparent has been lucky that the projects they've forecasted aligned well with their areas of knowledge and hit no problematic snags. It's also possible, however, that one can develop the ability to make mostly-correct predictions about project timelines. Being a rarity doesn't mean it's flat-out impossible, or even unbelievably improbable.
iPython Notebook is really cool and the emacs client is extremely well done. I highly recommend checking it out.

http://tkf.github.io/emacs-ipython-notebook/
I heard that they are still reviewing the late applications.
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This story isn't that worse than the story of any other starving child. This story didn't take place in a concentration camp where a six year old girl was beaten repeatedly over the head for stealing five kernels of corn until she hemorrhaged to death. The people in this story didn't talk about how being beaten to death for stealing corn was just punishment. Nobody in this story was knocked unconscious by a hail of rocks thrown from prison guards. Nobody hung any 12 years olds from a ceiling in this story and then winched them down over burning charcoal to get them to "confess" their crimes, or watched their mother hung to death thinking she deserved to die.

But all of those things did happen, in another recent story about North Korea, the worst country on the planet.
I can't imagine XML anything being pleasant to work with to be honest.
It used to be that employers trained less skilled individuals and there was more incentive to stay with employers for a long time. Now there is very little loyalty between employees or employers. I think this is a significant part of the problem.
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