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There have been consumer-grade sledless disk "docks" for SATA since practically the day the standard was created.

Here's one: http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=163

I suspect they are prone to vibration issues that would make them inappropriate for enterprise use, but here's a rackable enclosure too:

http://www.serialcables.com/products.asp?cat=305&tier=255
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're not a game console developer. It's really not as simple as you're trying to make it out to be.
Am I understanding this right? These people have been given extreme sentences because the law requires it? If that's true why are the judges in these cases not being called out for not protesting these kinds of convictions?
I worked in the poorest postal code in Canada (http://goo.gl/maps/hzKct here's how bad it gets, this intersection is called Wastings and Pain by many), it's a walk in the park compared to the bad neighbourhoods of many US cities. I've never felt like I was in the 3rd world in Canada, there are parts of the US that make you wonder...

We generally take care of our people and don't use the prison system as part of the social safety net to the degree the US does. Ironically, in Montreal in the winter, you pretty much have to kill someone to get sent to jail if you're homeless.

Also, it's not so much Canada as Stephen Harper.
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In theory, that amount of time should allow for error correction (assuming there are more qubits to work with). The critical factor for computation is this dephasing time divided by the gate operation time (how long it takes to modify the qubit) which should be on the order of at least 10^5.

Single qubit operations have been shown to be on the order of 10's of microseconds for P nuclear spins in Si. (Unfortunately behind paywall, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v496/n7445/full/nature1...)
Oh come on... Speeding clearly implies more risk, in the case of an impact (in the city for example) the end result can be much worse.

On the other hand a guy who has comitted 2-3 non violent crimes in his life because hes probably broke and has mental issues. I am not saying thats ok, but spending the life in prison for that? He wouldnt even have to go to prison for that in the country i live in.
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It's been a while since I did any contributions to libavcodec, but I'm always surprised when someone uses the encoder parts for anything.

They've had no algorithm development for years and nobody has bothered to tune them; it's more like a disassembled Lego box than an encoder.

Of course, if you include FAAC, LAME, or x264 it should be fine. But native libavcodec/x264 with their asm disabled is already considered too slow for use, so running them under a VM must limit it even more.

(In here goes the usual statement that OpenCL is not useful for this kind of work, and SIMD or direct asm is what's needed.)
I don't want to sound like a douche, but... I call bullshit! "[...] master’s degree in sociology" - I really wanted to stop reading after this line. There's a handful of jobs that require only sociological skill and in most cases they don't pay that much. Anyone who doesn't know that should blame only themselves, not the system or the employers. Go google "what can a sociology major do". Even Berkley's (which I find to be a decent school at least) sociology dept's website clearly states that sociology is only an addition to some other skills.

Not sure about other countries but in my homeland sociology studies are piss easy and that's why they are so popular. People just want to have it all with zero effort. To the really small % of people who study it because they truly love it: 1) you either have to be the best at it in that case 2) if you're not, then get a different job. Not everyone can make a living doing what they love the most. I love gaming but I doubt I could ever get to the point where I'd be able to make a living from it.

No jobs for people with a nursing degree, what?? All over Europe there's a shortage of nurses! I'd love to read the whole story of that person. What she tried, what she did, where did she apply etc. It's a hard job, that's why there are shortages, but if you decided to go into a nursing school I'd guess you know that.

No one will hire you only because you have a degree, geez don't people know that? Nowadays everyone can get a degree! Btw. why didn't they mention in the article any university names? Anyway even if you, somehow, graduate from a distinguished uni but did nothing extra, or did not find what you really want to to then again you should only blame yourself.

As a European who did an exchange in France I met many Italians and Spanish during my life. They were usually quite hard working, focused and new what they want from life. And according to them they were the exceptions. Apparently the majority people from those countries recently prefer to party than work hard.

Young people seriously should stop acting like princesses and princes, taking things for granted just because they are special and instead try to do something by themselves.
I can say from experience that the number may still stay the same, once the issuer provides a new card to replace the expired one.
For the skeptics who say Stratfor is just a news organization, consider basic human psychology. These guys consider themselves to be private spies and they have the highest level connections. Unchecked power naturally corrupts people.

Stratefor supports the GWOT and thus supports the defense industry. They may have acted like amateurs but they were actively training people to turn intelligence sources both in the US and overseas and then trading this information with whoever they wanted. You'd think some of their activities would violate federal law.

I've known a fair number of intelligence employees and contractors. In one strange area of aerospace, I witnessed some unbelievable things. Some things involving fraud. A lot with ego and bravado, using their connections for business deals and other favors. In one instance, I reported these activities to an investigator at the ODNI.

My experience with this is limited but from what I've seen, these types of individuals can do what they want with little concern of scrutiny. They're on "our" side after all.

This is an old e-mail from Stratfor's CEO. However, I can't see how anyone could defend them as being a "news organization" after reading it. This is from George Friedman to Reva Bhalla (a young attractive woman) regarding an alleged Israeli intelligence source:

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"If this is a source you suspect may have value, you have to take control od him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control to the point where he would reveal his sourcing and be tasked. This is difficult to do when you are known to be affiliated with an intelligence organization.

The decision on approach would not come from you but from your handler. This is because you're position is too close to the source and your judgment by definition suspect. Each meeting would be planned between you and your handler and each meeting would have a specific goal not built around discussing the topic of interest which would ideally be hidden but in analyzing him personally and moving toward control.

The justification for the op would be specific classes of information and on gaining control the first step would be determining his access. If he failed the test contact would be terminated.

the problem of analysts in the field is that they tend to want to discuss the topic, which raises the targets awareness, rather than focus on establishing the control relationship.

So from a professional point of view this target knows your affiliation, understands your interests and you have not established any control which is defined as a high confidence in his obedience.

So washington is filled with gossip with people whose access is not established.

Just laying this out so you understand the core challenge. To be effective your goal is the person and not the subject. Otherwise its gossip which is information that you cannot definitively confirm.

This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase."

http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/201031_.html
A few hundred? Hundred thousand, maybe. Here are several sites where volunteers run computer chess tournaments 24x7 and publish the resultant rating lists.

http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/
http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/
http://ssdf.bosjo.net/list.htm

There are more but these are the reliable and longest running that I know of.
Since the recession hit here in Spain, I have had my wages cut 7% for two years running. That's to basically to pay for the cock ups the bankers made, through bailouts, and their crap investments. No one went to jail there, but I have lost money an order of magnitude bigger than if I had had my wallet stolen.
MAn. I threw the cake on the floor. I don't need your cake.
You know what it costs to imprison a human being for 40-50 years?
I doubt it outweighs a couple of stolen wallets...
it's the same distinction as setting up a shop selling pirated movies with fake dvd boxes vs using piratebay ocassionaly.
I did not switch yet. I use screen often, and each time I checked the diff with tmux it seemed to be the same thing with slightly different defaults.
This brings up an interesting question...

Is the BTC -> USD rise due to the loss of USD liquidity? Has it become too difficult for people to exchange BTC into USD?

All this article says to me... is that the BTC -> USD conversion is becoming harder and harder. Are there any economists out there who can muse upon theory and tell me what will happen as BTC -> USD conversion becomes harder?
Profiting from the deaths of others is morally wrong, and it should be illegal. Judging by the number of up votes my parent comment has, there are lots of people that agree.

>I'm pretty sure there's no law against any of that.

You're right, there is no law against it, yet.

There also didn't used to be laws against a ton of morally wrong things, but at some point, enough people thought it was wrong and a law was made.

We should be looking to make the world a better place, not saying "there's no law against that, they can do it". The status quo needs improvement.
UI != UX.

UX is a side effect of UI execution.
I read political stories here, as the responses are generally a lot better thought out than the kind you will get on Reddit. (To be fair you get decent responses on Reddit, but they are tucked away amongst a lot more noise).
this is not some tin-hat conspiracy, banks, unlike the bitcoin bucket shops have to abide by a metric tonne of regulations, rules and laws (which are constantly changing)

this is why 3 banks do not go under every week, unlike bitcoin shops
Of course ;) I know there are way more important issues. But I thought I should point it out, maybe others think like me. And maybe one person uses the list to write better descriptions.
I especially love the "recruit a second person to help break into a big circle". It's hard/awkward to break into a big circle solo.
That's interesting, actually. So logs would be good candidates for these kinds of DBSs?
They have protection against explosion. This doesn't work besides getting them hot and catching on fire, maybe.
Nope. I heard LuaJIT does in some cases. So bring some numbers. I want to check it out.
Building a Google Calendar Booking App with MEAN - Part 2
Who sees the US as a leader in any measure of what it's like to live there? No one I know.
Very cool! Thank's! So the eighties where not that awesome, but since about 1993 the world is getting more and more awesome :)
I really like the animated sentence at the top--it gave me a good idea of what the service does pretty quickly. It was clearer than reading through the actual copy.
More likely to ban Axe body spray and similarly pressurized canisters. Those were used in all of the combustibles.
Yay, glad you liked it!
You can do it with a razor blade and a lot of patience, or as the author shows, using a small pipe cutter that you could easily get into the airport with a carry-on.
I have the Costco Amex too, but how often are you going to Costco that you're carrying it around everyday?
Here's a woman who was sentenced to life in prison for having a 13 year old touch her breast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-xEdbEubjs
They are demos. Did you ever think what would happen if you made a canister bomb with 12x the ingredients?
Ask HN: if you can learn only 1 programming language to make a living...
To make a living over next 10yrs, what would it be and why did you choose it?
Many people don't appreciate how much a solid social net does to reduce crime. Even the poorest Canadians have access to good health care and education.

In America, I have no doubt in my mind I'd steal to pay for an operation on my kids. Hell, I'd rob a bank at gunpoint if it came down to it.

In Canada, I just walk into a Hospital.
Party of the first part: If condition C holds, response R is called for.

Party of the second part (indignant): But condition C holds!

What's your point?
Bootstrap is a black box: I don't really care what it was implemented in (LESS as someone else pointed out). I include bootstrap.min.js, and then customize it as necessary in my SASS file, compiled during deployment to CSS. No conflict here.
"insider trading -traumatic to no one."

When the whole Enron thing went down a few years back, my flatmate at the time lost her job, as an accountant in the UK as a result of that.
> What country that claims to be a leader in human rights can justify this kind of justice?

They claim to be the leader in a lot of things when it's plainly not true. Unfortunately, the only people that believe the marketing spin are those inside, or those in the poorest of countries. Everyone else knows it's a crock of shit.
D provides a little bit more control.

http://qznc.github.io/d-tut/memory.html
The takeaway? If you're considering a life of crime, be a freakin super-villain because they're going to sentence you like one anyway.
Are we talking about Saas? You can use placeholders to deal with that.

http://sass-lang.com/documentation/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#...
Devs/designers descend on NYC hackathon for Typhoon Yolanda Relief Efforts
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You're being ridiculous.

Employers have stopped hiring excessive numbers of people to sit of their asses because companies can now get get more work for less pay from their young, bright employees, as well as outsource and automate other tasks with software.

Bottom line: today, there are simply too many educated potential laborers to expect jobs to keep up with demand.
You are right. The world is getting more awesome. And the language changes and gets simpler.

Maybe that's just the normal run of things and should stop complaining about it :)
> I don't understand this one at all. Shouldn't the truck owner have testified on his behalf? Declined to press charges?

in most cases, i think details are pretty important. here, not really.

let's say he straight up stole the truck. does he deserve life in prison? doubtful

> Declined to press charges?

Also, i'm pretty sure this isn't a thing. Only prosecutors can decide whether they want to press charges in criminal cases.
Ah, a proponent of another Great Depression.
Very true, sometimes I wish some mathematics was taught this way.

It's great to see it once one way, but if you can throw in that real life factor of "you'll see something like this again but not exactly like this".
Agreed. The death penalty is much better in that situation.
Obj-C/iOS SDK or Java/Android SDK, unfortunately...

At least, if you want to do non-web development.
Criticism of government has it's limits. Snowden is questionable because what he said was not public knowledge and had crippling negative effects towards security of the state, but say, expressing your criticism of government by blowing up a federal building...
You are right, I do not know you.

Anyways, let's agree to disagree on this.
Well, we seem to be going all out defending the other amendments these days. I guess its time to add the 8th to our efforts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
If the sole purported benefit of HTML5/WebGL was cross platform then you may (debatable still) have a point. Cross-platform or no, these tools can be incredibly efficient for developing UI.
> If the cost of keeping him out of it exceeds the cost he inflicts by his presence

You do realize that it costs $40,000+ per year to incarcerate someone, right? So to meet your justification for imprisonment, this guy would have to be an excellent criminal. Why not just give him $40,000 per year and let him be free? He'd probably not need to burgle anymore.
You want per capita, otherwise you'd think China is wealthier than Switzerland. And you want PPP (though it doesn't make that much difference) since that reflects what people can actually afford. If you made $1M a month but the prices in your country were such that it would only buy dry bread and water, you'd still be poor.
They also don't know how.

I don't remember learning how to run a simple little business for myself in school and I studied International Business.
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Similarly to how China would react to someone talking about Tianamen Square which isn't public knowledge but knowledge of it would cause a massive shit storm that would undermine the security of the state.

It's not what happened, it's the idea of one man standing up to the state that strikes fear into their hearts.
Yep! It's so much more powerful to show vs. tell.
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It's a different CC account: I just don't take it out for use unless my primary one is out of commission.
Show HN: We build this simple service for this shopping season
it's likely the manifistation of the anti pattern "stringly typed".

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?StringlyTyped
If these kids (and their parents) begin to not be able to afford to eat or house themselves, they'll likely riot and steal/destroy their countries.

At that point, what will they have to lose?
> Only prosecutors can decide whether they want to press charges in criminal cases.

Yes, but it generally helps if they can produce someone who says "yes, my truck was stolen".

> in most cases, i think details are pretty important. here, not really. let's say he straight up stole the truck. does he deserve life in prison? doubtful

This is reasonable, but I think the details I wondered about are important to another issue, that of "how the heck was this guy jailed at all?"

Lacking any other evidence, I tend to lean toward the theory that he did straight up steal the truck, and the ACLU is whitewashing him, which (a) is weird, since they're not apologizing for much less sympathetic prisoners, and (b) implicates a third important issue, "can we trust the ACLU to describe its own cases?"
I agree but just as good as is not the same as. Death sentence is a very specific thing.
Profiting from the deaths of others? They're a news organization. I don't understand what you're accusing them of that CNN isn't also guilty of, save some tasteless emails with bad jokes in them.
In the world of branding, tarnished but ubiquitously known is better than greenfield.

Tarnished can be polished back into good silver.
> Why not just give him $40,000 per year and let him be free? He'd probably not need to burgle anymore.

If we did this, I suspect we'd see a sharp rise in burglaries.

As to the figure itself, another commenter noted that the low end of prison costs seemed to be Lousisiana, in which operating a prison cost $13K / year. That would make the per-prisoner cost much, much lower than that.
Without knowing Rust, I think it would nice if the sigils were replaced with keywords.

Eg.

x: owned mut Type

x: mut Type

x: Type

Reasoning: My memory is not what it used to be. I hate having to constantly look stuff up to remind myself what what this or that sigil means in this or that language.
How much did this cost the city? It's adorable but blocking streets off and crowd control costs money.
And cars and solar power
A lot of scam only proves that there is a lot of genuine demand. Instead of respecting consumers and really protecting them from scammers, government simply says them to fuck off. It's like with bad parents: child wants to ride a bike, but instead of helping him with safety, he's denied to have a bike.
Learning to program is always an option for anyone with an internet connection. It beats spending six years and $100,000 on a sociology Masters and then stocking shelves like the women in the article.

Speaking of which, these characters kinda deserve their fates by choosing such pointless career paths. Hopefully others will learn from their mistakes.
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One thing that disturbs me, after reading the comments here, and after hearing attitudes expressed by people in general: I think normal citizens massively underestimate how harsh these sentences are. Look around at your life and picture how much damage might be done by just a 6 month stint in jail. You would likely lose your job, you might lose your house, your kids. Even a month in jail would be a serious bummer for most of the people posting here.

Now, think, really picture, what a 3 year sentence would do. How hard it would be to recover from losing those years.

Now picture a 5 year, 7 year, 10 year, 15 year sentence. There is a reason Norway generally restricts its sentences to 21 years for even the most heinous crimes. The sentencing here in the US is truly draconian. It only seems proportional because we are measuring relative to what is already going on, so in context this stuff seems "not that bad."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Norway
So did you ship it?

Also, remember that the punch line to your quote was that the dad was high and it didn't mean shit :P
+1, that's another angle to it for sure.
Canadian senators are political cronies with expense accounts. It is unclear what, if anything, they contribute to democracy. Note that they have essentially no power. Just assume that Canada has one house in the legislative assembly, and then also a hole that we pour money into. The Canadian system has several.... "quirks". It is therefore astounding to me that it appears to work better in practice than the US system, which to my eye looks better-in-theory.