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Frequently it is. Interfering with a police investigation is illegal, taking action against someone who the courts have found innocent can be grounds for a lawsuit.

Frankly it strikes me that things would be significantly better if jurisdiction was always exclusive.
Probably not as much effort as you think....
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7119301
>I, too, agree that nearly every other nation's justice system is similarly ethically primitive.

Huh? Who said that? There are far better justice systems in some european countries -- and far more pragmatism than puritanism in pursuing the spirit of the law too.
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Like anywhere, it can help to stand out a bit, and being a straight white guy without tons of money who works with computers is about as far from 'standing out' as you can get in that area, from my experience. I was a lot happier from that point of view when I got out of there and moved to Italy, where I ended up meeting and marrying a very smart and beautiful woman.

On the subject of "gay", something that I liked about the bay area was that gay is pretty common, and of course accepted and so it's just something that is, rather than someone's "defining attribute", so it's not this big deal. That's how things should be.
I have gone the exact opposite path, from a life pretty entrenched in Christianity, to skepticism, to a conclusion that led me towards hard atheism.
I feel like I am sure there is no supernatural creator, and the only love we receive is from people. I now thank people for their good, not God, and get angry at them for their bad, not at Satan.
Religion starts off by lifting your responsibilities, and that is the worst part in my opinion.

That said, it has improved my outlook on death too. I think there is no point worrying about an inevitable event that has no consequences other than the disappearance of a, maybe loved, person.

No one knows what you feel, and no one ever has come back from it. That makes death pretty unconsequential, as there is NOTHING you can do about it.
You have clearly never been to NYC or LA. One can get a absolutely get a date in SF, but the ratio is terrible compared to other US cities.

A single friend of mine in SF (who actually does quite well for himself) is fond of saying "any single man who moves to SF either is gay, has an asian fetish, or is crazy." It's crass and hyperbolic, but there's an germ of truth in there somewhere (FWIW, he's crazy).
Corroboration is a safeguard against flawed accusations being given more credence than they deserve. There needs to be something to support an allegation other than simply 'me' accusing 'you' of a criminal act.

While this is perhaps not called 'corroboration' in the way it is enshrined in current Scottish legislation, it is generally required - indeed, the Grand Jury in this case are, as I understand it, tasked with considering the allegation and any evidence the police have in order to consider if the allegation has merit before the case can proceed. To my mind, this sounds like a corroboration requirement by a different name.

While Scotland has it's share of miscarriages of justice, corroboration does act as a safeguard against some of the circumstances where a miscarriage can happen. The concentration on various 'straw men' - typically involving cases of uncorroborated claims of sexual assaults as these are highly emotive - in the debate is a disservice which is setting Scotland up to become little more than a series of kangaroo courts (in my opinion).

In the particular cases of [extremely rare] uncorroborated sexual assaults, convictions are often obtainable via the Moorov Doctrine where the same accused has often engaged in multiple independent acts which, as a whole, are considered corroboration. [In "American": the same MO points to the single suspect.]

[Sexual assaults often have forensic evidence as corroboration so unlike the emotive arguments put forward, they do not actually always end up as he-said, she-said credibility competitions.]
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I think it's because Israel has free universal healthcare, so there is no problem getting medical treatment at any hospital. The situation is similar in the UK.

But, in the US the university is probably going to be providing health insurance to the students, and is therefore actually responsible for providing medical services to them.
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I have a Samsung NP700G7C, a gamer laptop, it comes with optimus disabled, even the GPU supports it (GTX675M). It cannot be enabled, computer is unaware of Intel HD4000 inside. As I have seen from a friend with another gamer laptop, he always have problems when launching games, they sometimes want to use Intel HD4000. And it goes on even if you explicitly state that "open this with nvidia gpu". So sad.
What is so interesting about this? It's not like the NSA helped to man to clean his name. The cameras were his private surveillance of his private property, I understand. That's what the surveillance is for, to provide proofs.
It generates a 3D model, its purpose is not to just show around.
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Many doctors also don't have a nuanced understanding of statistics. They can quote you the survival numbers you can read elsewhere and they can quote you other people's interpretation of them, but if you have a question that deviates from the literature they are familiar with they may not be able to provide additional interpretation.

Do medical schools teach stats? I know a couple of doctors(General Practitioners) that never took a stats class as an undergrad. My brother is a PhD in Cellular Biology and he learned stats as he went and never had a formal class.
My insults? I didn't insult anyone. Why do you think I did?
> (As a side note, this way of dividing up the region also has a significant effect on the City's infamous crime statistics, for reasons that should be pretty obvious with a little bit of thought. That is to say, if you define almost any city as only its most inner core, then you're going to end up with much higher crime rates than if you include its suburbs. And if you're comparing one city that doesn't include its suburbs with cities that predominantly do, then, well, you get the idea.)

This applies to many cities in the Northeast as well. The cities are tiny compared to cities in other parts of the country.
There was a guy on reddit who was actually a winner in the 18+ category who still has his with its label

If this one is worth 90k then his must be double that
There are many unvaccinated people who are not unvaccinated by choice, such as children who are too young to be vaccinated, and people who are allergic to the vaccine.
Whilst the site is down here's a link to their successful Kickstarter from last year that gives a bit more information about the project - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marser/owl-programmable...
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yeah, go is fun.

i'm always surprised to find out who's good at go. i've known some video game developers to be better than some grad students.

so to return to the article, being good at these games, like any other skill, is, in part, a matter of practice. i don't think gates need (or does, actually) feel, "intellectually inadequate," unless he's been practicing chess almost full-time for the past 10 years.
St. Louis seems to be one of the more attractive places if you can swing security clearance. A lot of defense contractors in the area due to being a larger city plus having a couple large bases nearby.
Yes but fortunately it is only with policemen who give tickets in the streets, roads...
I do believe that the cartridge from the 94 Nintendo PowerFest is even more rare. Something like only 2 being left as they weren't given out to winners. It's for the SNES though. I remember winning a round of this competition and getting a shirt I still have, a Virtual Boy hat, and some other Nintendo swag. Maybe the shirt is worth something these days.
It's poor strategy to do so, as it gives other people a chance to decide whether they want to outbid you.

Best strategy is to bid your maximum amount in the dying seconds, if that's still enough - if someone was happily sat below their max, and didn't increase because they were "winning", you can grab it off them for less than if you had both fought for top spot throughout the auction.

Of course, if everyone bids their maximum amount when they notice the auction, sniping like this becomes irrelevant. But people don't, because they're people. I like that they're acting like people when I'm selling things. I dislike it when I'm buying things (because they push the price up by fighting for the top spot days before the end.)
Outlook.com is an acceptable replacement for Gmail.

It's not.

I've tried for days to login to Outlook.com, and verification text messages aren't coming through.

I finally had to start the email recovery procedure, which requires a mandatory 30 day waiting period. Sigh.
I don't think he conflates anything in his mind.

He merely uses the name of the tool as a shorthand to how it's used 99% of the time -- which is a very common language practice.
The bible makes as much sense as most ancient literature.

Key difference is that rational people in 2014 aren't claiming that Zeus may strike you down with a lightning bolt or thinking that Gilgamesh was divinely inspired.

The old testament is very into offspring and private property

Really? It just seems like a mish-mash of things nobody today would find acceptable. It advocates slavery in many places. Example:

http://biblehub.com/genesis/16-8.htm

http://biblehub.com/genesis/16-9.htm

Giving up your virgin daughters for men to do as they want:

http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-8.htm

And then there's this:

http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/23-19.htm

http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/23-20.htm

There is some wacky stuff in The Holy Bible. The New Testament isn't much better. It's a little better. But not much.
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This is just my opinion, but if one is writing dependecy-injected frameworks in Clojure, then they're missing the point of Clojure.
The Nintendo World Championships gold cartridges are more rare than the grey ones (only 26 of them were made). The Nerd also covered it some time ago in an avgn episode. Having seen it's not a "super rare elusive game", he smashes the overglorified cartridges with a hammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2wczJXETM
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> How many of these exist?

90 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_World_Championships#Ca...
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W520, with nVidia Optimus. What they didn't tell me was that the external VGA port is hard-wired to the nVidia GPU, so I can't use it at all when on the Intel GPU. Choice: battery life or external VGA? To make matters worse, it's a reboot to switch between them, and since I use Ubuntu which isn't supported (although props to the Bumblebee people for the progress they've made) it's hit-and-miss if even that will work.

If the rest of the W520 wasn't such an awesome laptop, I'd be really quite upset. As it is, I just live with it and boot into Windows if I want to use a projector.
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People with mental illness are far more likely to be the. I tim of violence than the perpetrator of violence.

In this very case she didn't harm any other person but was assaulted herself!

So a few high profile lawsuits from rare events have skewed the perception of mental illness, and now someone with zero intent to harm other people is treated as being a risk to other people? To me that feels like a sub optimal but obvious happening.

It feels like stigma is increased, not decreased.
Tell us, oh wise one, how we may enter Breakfast Nirvana with you. Teach us, oh enlightened Breakfast Master, how to enter into the Kingdom of Breakfast Heaven.

I eat two pieces of toast in the morning for breakfast because I want to eat two pieces of toast in the morning for breakfast. Just like I haven't eaten red meat in 26 years because I don't like red meat. I am not starving myself, I am not sacrificing my tastes, I am eating exactly what I want to eat.

Should I list other things I enjoy doing that happen to be healthful that you can disparage?
bizarre timing, I've just spent the entire day moving my laptop to Debian XFCE, and the vast majority of that time was spent trying to get the bloody Nvidia card to work, which it won't because of Optimus, so that I can play with WebGl. Then I find out that it'll never work because any hybrid rig is excluded from WebGl (presumably because of Optimus randomly deciding that browsers don't need GPUs). And of course I can't disable the Intel graphics chipset from the BIOS. sigh
This looks really interesting and potentially very useful. I skimmed the docs and took a look at the source code. This is no small project. I could not find a high level doc about how it works, though. There seems to be contenteditable element as a user events (writing) receptacle from which it generates appropriate DOM manipulation. Since ODF is a complex format, the XML is complex too, so probably editing elements directly won't be feasible.

There is even a desktop version. I'd really like to try if this could work as a LightTable plugin. Code looks like straight forward JavaScript and it's build with Google Closure, like LT is. I'll how to dive through the code at some point and see how hard it could be to support different XML formats, like DocBook.
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And then they have your entire history of internet activity, matched to you name, address and CC number. Fine if all you want is reliablility. For those who want to imped surveillance it is as bad as the ISP.
I just type "mail." and it autocompletes to "mail.google.com".

EDIT: in fact, just typing "m" autocompletes to that...
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It was indeed, embarrassing to read.
There's no good story about switchable graphics still, even after all these years. My 2010 HP Envy had both an integrated GPU and discrete ATI Radeon, and a custom driver from HP/ATI that gave you a tray icon to switch between them. Worked great in 2010, but the fact that a custom driver was required meant in the following years I had trouble with newer games, and the computer barely functioned at all in Windows 8, often booting to a black screen even in safe mode.

As for the "who buys an i7 for battery?" -- well, I do. You don't have to choose between battery and performance with Haswell CPUs. I finally gave up on discrete graphics to get an ASUS UX301LA -- an i7-4558u that gives me 8 hours of battery life in an ultra-thin ultrabook form factor, yet the Intel Iris* GPU is faster than the discrete Radeon of my 2010 laptop. Games like Starcraft/Diablo that don't push boundaries run perfectly at the native 2560x1440.

If Intel's integrated GPUs keep improving as much as they did this generation over the last, the days of discrete mobile GPUs are numbered.
Any idea why it needs a reboot? Some MacBook Pro models have that kind of switching (integrated Intel + discrete nVidia) but don't need a reboot to switch between them. Is it some architectural thing, an issue with the nVidia drivers, an issue with Windows, ...?
First of all thanks for sharing. I would like to study machine learning.
I have a good code and math background.
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>You do realize most of those features didn't come from the Mac? Apple ripped all of the features you describe straight from the Amiga.

Good try, but no. Graphics and DTP professionals used the Mac. Heck, Photoshop debutted there -- it took several years to even be released for Windows, and several more to be used by proffesional studios on that platform.

Very few used the Amiga. It was mostly used for title work in small TV/video productions in Europe.
Having bought a laptop with a ATI Intel hybrid graphics solution in 2011:

- I'm still stuck on the driver version from 2011, can't install a newer one.

- Only works for DirectX, with OpenGL you can only use the Intel graphics.
I don't know about other PC laptops but I do know this is the case with macbooks, as soon as you plug in an external display you are kicked off the internal GPU and placed on the discrete one.
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My understanding is that the nVidia GPU doesn't actually have access to the screen; when you turn on Optimus mode, the nVidia GPU draws its output into a texture or frame-buffer on the Intel GPU, which actually pushes the pixels out to the display.

So if you could disable the Intel GPU from the BIOS, you'd wind up with no video output at all.
Any class I had in college, I self-imposed that constraint on myself. Well, more 'no words'. And yes, I think it helped tremendously.

That said, my more general rule of thumb is "Is this something I would have bothered to make a colored transparency, costs and all, if this was thirty years ago?"

If it -is-, by all means, make a slide.

If it isn't, don't make a slide of it.

If you're not certain, because it's something like an outline that you feel is necessary to follow your logic, or similar, make a handout of it, so that users can look at it -if they need to-, and it doesn't steal your focus.
Thank you for sharing.

I have had a few bouts with depression, and they are absolutely dreadful. The faux-happy persona so many people work so hard to project is extremely tiring, and mediums like Facebook only serve to indirectly perpetuate the stigma that mental illness is a rare thing. One thing I became very good at from my episodes is being able to tell who is actually nice, and who just plays nice. There's a huge difference in these types of individuals. If you're susceptible to mental illness, you don't want ANYTHING to do with the latter category. Not being able to do this caused a lot of heartache.

I am me because of mental illness. I would not wish anyone to go through it, but I wouldn't remove it. It's made me much more empathetic, kind, and helped to focus on things far more important than the cheap trinkets of power that most people fall for.
I have owned 4 or 5 Optimus laptops and have never gotten a practical benefit from Optimus. At best I leave it switched to the fast GPU permanently. At worst, something goes wrong.

The state of Windows laptops these days is really kind of embarrassing. Nobody knows how to build something of quality. Everything appears to be driven by bullet-point features with a goal of providing USPs, but nobody really cares if the features work or if the overall product is good.

This extends to everything (keyboard and trackpad design, screen, preloaded software, function key mappings, etc).

I buy 2 or 3 laptops a year; traditionally the case has been that most laptops were kind of bad but if you looked hard you could find something good. Now it has gotten to the point that the something good no longer seems to exist at all.

I dread the idea of buying a new laptop now. This can't be the high-level result that these OEMs really want.
nice ui and fast, but the search results could improve

Test: Search for a "story" about "Firefox" "today"

Result:

http://i.imgur.com/xQwc7WP.png
This just leads to survivorship bias. Its a shitty hack. A good review systems needs to encourage honesty, not discretion (selective revelation). The substitution of selective revelation for "honesty" is not a more honest or more reliable system. This is a common mistake, and one that marketers like to promote. As it works to their advantage: to manipulate the selection and revelation process, it helps to have a system in place such as the one you describe.
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At least with Postgres (and MySQL to some degree, but Postgres is probably a better launching point), you could hack the query optimizer to handle situations like this if you really wanted to. I like to think this is how Postgres would like you to approach the problem, instead of creating a less comprehensible query.
Your snark is unwarranted and unfair. Few people have been to a Tufte conference, but many more are (at least vaguely) aware of his distaste for PowerPoint. Making the tool/use distinction explicit will help more people think critically about what is good and bad about PowerPoint specifically and presenting data generally.
Wow, no, 1000 times no. You are officially part of the problem.

Saying this is a murky situation, saying some girls like it (I don't care if you qualified it as "some" girls)... not ok. The only time it's ok is if you know the woman and know she's ok with it. It's NEVER ok when it's a stranger.

Yes, someone else should have spoken up about it and said "Hey, dude, WTF are you doing? Leave her alone." The fact that no one did, when it was probably pretty obvious she didn't know the guy, is part of the problem.

Yes, she should try to make it clear she's not interested, but it also shouldn't be her responsibility to make sure she's not sexually harassed. Just like it's not my responsibility to make sure I'm not mugged. A tech meetup is not a place where you should have to worry about that sort of thing.
Modern Mac OS X is a bit smarter about things, but I believe the original versions of Mac OS X that supported Optimus required you to restart the windowing system when switching GPUs. That required quitting all your apps, logging out, and logging back in, which is effectively a reboot for people who stick to GUI interaction.
Normally DNS is on port 53, but if your ISP is preventing you from DNS requests to servers other than theirs on port 53 you can use the other one.

'DNSSEC' means DNSSEC is supported by the server if your resolver can use it - it's a digital signature regime to prevent DNS forgery (disclaimer: look up criticisms of it as well as selling points).
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