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> Guilt is a binary state, but a jury's finding of guilt is a trinary state.

Except in the case of things like the Scottish three-verdict system (which doesn't follow the conditions that you lay out), this is generally not true.

Particularly, in the US, generally "guilty" and "not guilty" are the only possible verdicts in most criminal cases (there are certain cases where "not guilty by reason of insanity" or "guilty but mentally ill" are also available), and there is no verdict that requires proof of innocence beyond a reasonable doubt.
Chrome extensions are just HTML/JavaScript/CSS so there should always be source available. Sometimes it is obfuscated, although that is not the case for this extension.

You can get the source by either installing it or by using this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s... which lets you view the source prior to installing. (And that extension has source available on github.)
If someone doesn't like the "modern" way of building websites, or thinks that it requires so much more work than the old way - then I recommend they try the old way.

The modern way is much more efficient.
'105 GPU system ' it'll be redundant is about a week or two when ASICs hit hard
This is pretty smart, especially with location-specific apps like HotelTonight. I'm assuming an ad-serving app could pass along my location and then display an ad for a hotel room in that city.

It's stuff like this that Groupon should be doing/looking at if they want to become relevant again.
If only "pikachu versus bulbasaur" suggested the best strategy for each. :-D
Retrofitting avoids the problem of needless waste and cost when it comes to the vast quantity of existing bikes out there. I don't want to buy a new bike if I can avoid it so replacing a wheel is quite a bit more appealing. I can't imagine that I'm alone in this.

In fact, I'd argue most people would be willing to try this if only because it only involves replacing a wheel. It probably won't cost nearly as much as a new bike either so folks who couldn't otherwise afford it can purchase.
Gene Crantz is another certified badass flight controller, I highly recommend his book "Failure is not an Option" which is all about his time in the American space program (which stretches from Mercury all the way to the Space Shuttle).
That's... cool I guess? There are a bunch of other sites that already do this though. Serebii, bulbabedia, veekun, pokemondb .etc
I love Erlang. I've been learning elixir and am recording screen casts at http://elixirsips.com. it's so good for concurrency.
You are right. I know the distinction but for some reason I thought this was a grand jury.
I'm not even American and I feel a bit patriotic about that shot of the American flag rising up through the condensation and falling ice.
Always liked WolframAlpha, this is also awesome.

But what i really like, is to match stuff like protein in bananas vs spinach to know what i'm going to (prefer to) eat soon ^^..

So, thanks!
That's incredible! Already got it working on a project, just... wow!
The hubris of the poster and his friend is offensive on its face.

Athletes do not make it to the Olympics through "brute force." Exercise is the least part of Olympic training. Olympic-caliber athletes spend years practicing their specific discipline(s), developing everything from the mechanics of their movement to the interplay of their body with the environment.

Cross-country skiing isn't just something you can "pick up" a few months before the Games and hope to have a shot. It is a grueling physically demanding sport that requires tremendous endurance, technical, and mental preparation.

Also--simply being a citizen of a low-population country is not sufficient to qualify for the Olympics (winter or summer). The Olympics are a competition for the best athletes in the sport--novelty acts don't just get to waltz in. Prior to each Olympics, each sport sets forth the qualifying standards (time, place in qualifying races, etc.). Even the Jamaican bobsled team had to qualify for the Olympics.
Google's new quantum computer
I've never done it, but here's how I would do it off the top of my head.

-Vectorize the image into a set of bezier curves that have endpoints at intersections

-Walk the bezier curves so that the entire image can be represented by a single "strip" of piecewise bezier sections. If there's any overlapping sections from having to rewalk the a curve, maybe apply some offsets/small modifications to those curves to give it a "sketched" look.

-Rasterize the bezier curves in order at your desired resolution into a list of XY coordinates. Make sure the XY coordinates remain in order they were rasterized.

-Split the coordinates of each rasterized pixel so that you have two lists, (t, x) and (t, y), where t is the index of the rasterized pixel. Now you can represent the X and Y coordinates of your sketch on two coordinate planes as a function of t.

-For each coordinate plane X and Y, record the index where the second derivative of the rasterized graph changes. What this does is lets you distinguish subcurves on the line. For this to work it's probably important that the rasterization was done at a relatively high resolution.

-For each subcurve, generate an extremely low frequency trigonometric function that can represent that subcurve. Ideally outside of that subcurve, the trig function should be at or very near zero. This might require layering some additional trig functions in order to eliminate any noise.

-With the trig functions generated, return the results as a parametric function.
For all the rhetoric in the article, Mr. Roose never actually refutes this belief:

"For them, government is mostly a hindrance — a regulatory obstacle to the kinds of disruptive start-ups they fund, and an enemy of a looser immigration policy that would allow their portfolio companies to recruit more talented foreign engineers."
Their "Find my iPhone" style tracking and alerting presumably.
I agree with the last phrase, but probably not for the reason the author intends. I admit though I didn't read the article beyond the first page - and your quote, of course - as, frankly, it contained too much wrong from the start that I didn't want to waste any more of my time on it. Reading Ignatiev's profile, he certainly looks like a person way out of the mainstream and with good deal of cookiness in him, so I'm not sure he's a good example of a mainstream academic or writer.

I think also there is confusing equality of possibilities with equality of outcomes. The outcomes are demonstrably unequal. But is this because medical industry or welfare system are racial? From what I see, some systems are now geared to give unfair advantage to minority players willing to game the system (google "Pigford settlement"). However, as I said, the overall outcomes are still very unequal. I think there are institutional causes for it, but I think the causes are not racial now (though historically they were) but viewing it through exclusively racial lens today only makes it worse, as it makes people take wrong decisions (i.e. vote for corrupt and incompetent, but racially suitable politician, instead of honest and competent one of a wrong race). Same with regard to war on drugs - if we decide it's about racism, we should then spend our efforts on ensuring persons of all races are equally punished for equal crimes. Which is exactly wrong thing to do in this situation - instead we should spend our efforts on ensuring nobody is punished for something that should not be a crime in the first place!
This has been done before, not sure why it warrants a kickstarter.

The Copenhagen wheel has been around for around ~5 years and looks identical to this, sans the GPS.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/mits-copenhagen-wheel-tur...
http://www.soullessmachine.com/2013/01/the-copenhagen-wheel-...
How can a neutrino annihilate with another one? Where would the energy go? It can't make a photon, and there is no lighter particle for it.

Or can this only happen with the assistance of another particle?
Any time you hear "profits are X" remember that is the vocabulary used by our aristocrats as shorthand for "standards of living for the proletariat are X."

In other words, we should be grateful for the gifts blessed upon us, rather than greedy children asking for a seventh or eighth serving of ice cream.
Another way to think about it is to ask "Where does the incentive come from to keep members of your family alive, healthy, and happy?"

A government defines a group of people who tend to have some sort of patriotic emotional bond with each other, much like the emotional bond that ties a family together. This is why people all across America felt the pain of the 9/11 attacks despite the fact that realistically the vast majority of us did not have family members or friends that died in the attack.

At a fundamental level this patriotic bond alone seems to make the majority of governments considerably more altruistic toward their citizens than a company would be towards their customers.

After all the leaders of government are also citizens with that bond of shared country and patriotism that they share with other citizens. In a company there is a much larger "us and them" divide between people in the company and people the company is selling to.

So in this light the grandparent's response of "We the People" though short is pretty meaningful and accurate. Governments tend to have interest in their citizens because of this patriotic bond which says that both the leaders and the ordinary citizens are "We the People".
Nothing... you'd still want to lock this up to something. And at $600 for just the wheel that's increasing your chance of it being stolen as well, bikes get stolen far too often.
IIRC it was to do with Cuban never having agreed to receive the information in confidence.
First Time Founder, please read this. I wish I did.
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>Implying US citizenship is one of the most valuable things a person can have

This attitude makes me want to vomit. The American Exceptionalism attitude of "we're the best country on Earth" is the root of so many problems in today's world.

Please check your ego.
"Lots and lots of companies built around a handful of features that matter to almost no one, least of all customers."

The whole point of the lean startup philosophy is to find out how to make a product that customers DO care about and to do it as quickly as possible so you don't lose resources, time, and burnout. This whole article doesn't seem to address the core tenets of the lean startup at all. How does selling your company prematurely have anything to do with the lean startup?
Say you are an executive of a company and learn of certain piece of inside information which will affect the stock price. Say, for example your company just got a new order that will double their profits. If insider trading were permitted you would try to keep this piece of info secret for as long as possible to give you time to buy as many shares as you can. After you buy all you can you will probably want tip off your friends and family to buy all they can. All this takes time, so you would want to keep this secret for as long as possible.

If insider trading is illegal you will want to announce this news as quickly as you can so that your company is viewed as being transparent and shareholder friendly.
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You're on the right path... Multi-node is key, but insufficient itself. The general public in the western world doesn't care enough to make much noise, but each day is one day closer to a lot of upset people demanding answers.

A public media infrastructure is at least as important as Linux. It's coming.
How is it that a guy who calls himself "Mobile Payment Advisor & Strategic Alliances in Mobile at Experian" (the author) fails to understand Square's business.

He clearly states "[square] was a champion of the small merchant" when referring to easing credit card acceptance. But that was just a foot in the door for Square. Square is about tracking and managing money. That's why they created a POS, and allow businesses to track consumer purchases.

Now they are extending into doing more for the consumer. They can already show you your purchases at square merchants, now they are adding in the small exchanges you have between friends, or maybe it's your landlord, etc. etc. Plus, by doing this simple P2P exchange, they are (I think) expanding their sign-ups, as I assume both the sender and receiver need to have square accounts.
> "This isn't actually true."

None of what you just said refutes any of the following: "When your monitor is displaying a white image, lots of white light is coming out. When your monitor is displaying a red image, lots of red light is coming out. F.lux makes white images tinged red. F.lux isn't about removing brightness in general."

Lets get some basics out of the way here, since you seem to be confused about either what "white", "blue", and "red" light is, or you seem to be confused about what f.lux actually does.

"red" light is light that consists largely or entirely of visible light with long wavelengths. "blue" light is light that consists largely or entirely of visible light with short wavelengths. "white light" is light that contains a good but not necessarily perfect mix of all visible wavelengths.

When you decrease the color temperature of an image, you are reducing the amount of short wavelength light, not eliminating it. LCD imperfection is frankly irrelevant as some short wavelength light is still coming through by design. If you removed all short wavelength light you would just be left with reds and blacks. That isn't what f.lux does, or claims to do.

> "So the question becomes, is that leaked white light enough to disrupt your sleep? No one's done any studies on this question"

Many studies have been done on the effects of different intensities of short wavelength light on sleep. This research isn't binary "blue light or zero blue light" For example, any of the studies which include an incandescent bulb cover this. Incandescent bulbs are black body radiators, they emit short wavelength light and long wavelength light, however the proportion of short to long wavelength light that they emit is much different from what florescent bulbs emit. (Specifically, light from incandescent bulbs is said to be "warmer").

By the way, one of polyfractal's links is to a study that used LCDs as the light source. Try reading before making an ass out of yourself.
He's mining litecoin which isn't easily mined by asics. Any GPU bitcoin mining is already very unprofitable.
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this comment is really off point.

there's no guilty/not guilty/innocence distinction here because this wasn't even a criminal case, it was a civil case.

in addition, the statement "the government didn't prove insider trading" is tantamount to the statement "mark cuban did not commit insider trading" because the case boiled down to a disputed question of fact, and what actually happened is unknowable.
"I fail to see what's amoral about trading based on information that other people don't know."

Seeing as how you are moving the goalposts now you probably see very clearly what is amoral about insider trading.
Why do you link "enticing colleague" with "doing whatever with that guy after (instead of) work(ing)"?

So your competitors hire the boring guy and get that feature one week earlier. You hire interesting people and they form a cohesive team, carry each other through tough times and work more passionately overall. At the end, you get N extra, unique features as a byproduct of your more involved workers, shooting months ahead of your competitor.

I know I presented an ideal case, but it makes my point. Working around boring (as in non-interesting) people is boring, and you won't be as productive in that environment. Thus, it makes sense to avoid these people unless you very much need their specific skills and you can't find those anywhere else.
"it can quickly be located and tracked via GPS" but the only radio in it is Bluetooth, so I guess you can track it if you're in the same room...

"36V Lithium" battery, but no spec about how many kWh it stores.

"Top Speed 20mph". Given that it only operates when the human puts in some effort, what does that even mean? I'm guessing this is written down because US Law says if it goes faster than 20, it's no longer a bike.

"In 2011 Niko Klansek introduced the first line of electric bicycles to the USA market." Nope; ebikes have been available in the US for far longer than that.

GAH. There are lots of conversion kits you can buy today. The kickstarter gives no way for you to figure out if this is anything better.
> "Melatonin is a circadian hormone transmitted via suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in the hypothalamus and sympathetic nervous system to the pineal gland. It is a hormone necessary to many human functions such as immune, cardiovascular, neuron and sleep/awake functions. Since melatonin enhancement or suppression is reported to be closely related to the photic information from retina, in this paper, we aim further to study both the lighting condition and the emotional self-regulation in different lighting conditions together with their effects on the production of human melatonin. In this experiment, five participants are in three light exposure conditions by LED backlit computer screen..."

Stop being an ass.
Accountability to the electorate isn't just theoretical. Politicians are faced with elections every 2, 4 or 6 years. No, this isn't a perfectly efficient model of accountability, but there's been this meme going around recently that electoral accountability simply doesn't exist, which is just ridiculous. You don't even have to go hunting for examples: the dramatic shift in who held the power in the recent debt ceiling/shutdown hostage negotiations was 100% because of the way polls were shaping up. Contrast that with the 2011 shutdown when 1) Obama was facing an election and thus had to tread more carefully and 2) public opinion was split roughly equally against both sides. In that case Republicans were able to extract relatively significant concessions based entirely on the fact that Obama didn't want to blow up the world economy (depending on your level of cynicism, perhaps because he knew that he'd get flak for it in the upcoming election).

tl;dr: Gov't isn't assumed to care about the people's needs "because it's chartered to do so", but rather because they have specific and explicit dependencies on public approval. By contrast, companies have an explicit dependency on their customers (and shareholders). Everyone else and the externalities that they face are completely irrelevant as far as incentive structures for a company.
California? Lower tier is 10 cents, next one is 30 cents, and there are 74 and 95 cents ones in peak days.
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Via bluetooth? I think not...
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I can't speak for the jury.

Perhaps if you disagree that it's "clear cut", you at least agree that it was plausible. It wasn't simply bullying, that seems certain.

His defense was not that he didn't trade based on a tip, but that he never agreed to keep the tip confidential, and he challenged the definition of what an insider is.

This is a technicality. That's the problem with insider trading laws - "insider" isn't really defined. So, although it's often common sense and most people can make a judgment call on the spirit of the law, this often won't be sufficient for a trial. Still, this doesn't mean the SEC is wrong to pursue such cases.
Most private car sales are just like that.
What specific power(s) do you object to companies having? The power to voluntarily exchange with others?

Companies don't make money killing people, they make money improving the lives of customers and employees by offering them something they value more than their money/labor. If someone is working under poor working conditions, it's because their next best alternative is even worse.
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That kind of average person would be better off just using squarespace.com or similar SaaS. It's what they were designed for.
Good job, but I have one small suggestion: the name colors should be seeded by the name value, so people are always the same color. That's what IRC clients do so you remember people a little better.
It looks like this wheel is using a standard quick release. If that's the case it would be fairly easy to take out. Couple of options though:

- When locking the bike, run the lock through the wheel. Yes, someone could still cut the spokes and steal the main hub, but this is going to take q fair amount of effort.

- Have a bolt on version, lots of older bikes, or bikes which use a horizontal dropout design already have this. Typically they use 15mm wrenches, but there are some alternative sizes (some even use hex keys).

Looks like a pretty cool concept. I personally would prefer a model which only gained energy from the rider when coasting down hills or braking, then could release the energy at the riders discretion. Plugging a bike into an external power source isn't something that interests me.
Employees and employer form a market like any other. Societal norms around "wage privacy" sabotages this market at the cost of employees.
Not if you consume a lot of power. Once higher tiers kick in, 30 cents is not even the worst one.
The "Lean Startup" is about risk mitigation, and proof of market.

If you are trying to get something going, so that it can be acquired this is a good model. "Hey Amazon would be way better if it were more social, and the products were in a Magazine layout, let's be an Amazon affiliate and mock up how it looks, and get a bunch of users.... " (Pinterest)

Sometimes (like pinterest) the feature becomes enough of a draw the Lean model becomes a company, but even if it fails to reach profitability, a company could acquire it to get the user base, and avoid looking like they just knocked off a smaller site.

Occasionally the Lean Model works because a startup starts as a hobby, and the founders just need to raise marketing dollars because they have day jobs.

But if you are a company building something with a significant amount of IP, and is truly going to be disruptive the model should be hybrid. Start Lean, then go big.

My company, http://www.stremor.com is building something much bigger than what an MVP would do. Our product is like a Siri, that actually does what SRI promised Siri would do. And does it for every device with a speaker and a mic.

That's a pretty fricking huge MVP. So we put out http://tldrstuff.com to get feed back on summarization, and http://samuru.com to get feed back on search. We even had some short lived experiments to test other parts of the technology that were public, but when we learned all that we could from them, killed them so that they didn't cost money.

After our next round we will change modes. We will leave the "Lean Startup" model and move in to a model that favors fully developed product, has a heavy marketing budget, and focuses on not just being "an interesting take" on the space, but a "Serious competitor" with "Industry leading technology". (These are in quotes because because that is the kind of stuff you see in press about MVPs and Full products respectively.)

The real challenge for a startup is knowing if the MVP is 1000 lines of code, 10k lines of code or 400k lines of code.

You can't have an MVP that competes with Facebook with out having most of Facebook's features plus some new features. But you can an an MVP that changes the way people schedule Dog Poop removal from their lawn with very little code because it is a Business model start up not an IP start up.

I guess to really sum it up, You need to know if you are an IP company, A Feature Company, An Innovative business model company, and how mature your competition is, because the maturity of the space determines how Minimal your MVP can be.