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Compensation can never truly compensate somebody for lost time though. No billions of dollars could give you back your 20s, or whatever decade you lost due to wrongful imprisonment.

I fear that if executions were abolished in America, too many people would brush off their hands, declare the system well reformed, and not give further reform more thought. Execution is problematic because of wrongful convictions, not the other way around. I think too many people frame it as "wrongful conviction is problematic because of execution". Abolishing execution does not solve the problem, it merely marginally lessens the impact of the problem.
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We both use laptops, but run headless ubuntu machines with bittorrent sync for backups and staying up to date. It's a terrible system and we should be ashamed, but it works. Soon we'll have a software developer with us (hopefully) and I'm sure the ballgame will change. Maybe github on those 2 headless machines? dunno...
It annoys me that people keep saying in such cases "yeah, but you won't really get 50 years, even if they succeed".

Imagine yourself talking to those prosecutors and being threatened with 50 years, and then given that 3 months deal. What would you do? Would you think "yeah, I'm not really going to get 50 years" - or would you be scared as hell about spending the rest of your life in prison?

So yeah, I think such threats absolutely do matter, and the system should be changed so this doesn't happen anymore. I've also recently heard that something like 98 percent of people charged take the plea deal (I think it was from some documentary). That's INSANE. That's not how the justice system is supposed to work.

Everyone should be getting a fair trial, regardless. I mean, even if the guy is guilty - wouldn't you rather have him in a fair trial to make sure he gets what he deserves, rather than have the prosecutors offer him a much smaller prison time?
So then you're going to take at face value evidence provided by the party who hired the auditor? That sounds just as dubious as the claims of independence asserted by the hiring party itself!

It's entirely possible for one to look up an independent auditors credentials and history out-of-band. If you can't find anything to substantiate Github's claims of the auditor's record/independence, then call that out.
Clicking "learn more" on the "idea guy" side 500s for me:

http://betatype.io/whypost
Why a standard resume is not enough for hiring
While i don't disagree with you, I'd like to share something that recently struck me.

Although I hated the film Tree of Life, there was a pertinent line that has resonated with me since.

"The nuns taught us there were two ways through life - the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow."

"Grace doesn’t try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. … Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it over them. To have its own way."

The penny dropping moment is when you question nature "goodness". Nature is often perceived to be "the pure way", but we often forget that the pure way can be brutal and unforgiving. Nature is the route of the shortest path, highly optimised to survive and flourish often at the cost of others and without compassion. Grace balances nature.

Some of that is quoted from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis (see Book 3, Chapter 54):

http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/imitation/imb3c51-59.html...
Well, you really have a pretty good grasp on the state of journalism affairs. In the five years I spent reporting, I saw newsrooms decline substantially at all the papers I worked at (and was the victim of one layoff).

You're absolutely right in saying that there is just too much demand on journalists now. People really don't know what they actually do. Everything from aggregating (by HAND, nonetheless) public information that isn't available easily online to investigative reporting to daily "fill-the-paper" stories (you know, the stupid stuff that nobody really cares to read anyway). Most of my time was spent writing the boring shit until the exciting stuff came along. And frankly, you can't spend all your time writing the exciting stuff because you still have to have a local product, not to mention the massive amount of time it takes just to do a single investigative report. Investigative articles are really what I consider the heart of journalism as the fourth estate, and is what sells the papers. But you can't have five days of nothing and a day of explosive articles. Or hell, maybe you can, who knows.

In any case, just wanted to pipe in with some props on realizing that journalists are way too overburdened to be effective any more.
There was another test involving anomalous speech patterns, http://www.idt.mdh.se/kurser/ct3340/ht11/MINICONFERENCE/Fina...

it might not be the canonical work.

In the near future most laptops will have the ability to do realtime eye tracking so these kinds of tests could be administered broadly, probably even through a web page.
Yet the numbers are impressive.

My startup is struggling to have profit (we have revenue, but no profits yet, although we have growth of revenue), and many, many, many times we felt tempted to pull that sort of stunt (pyramids, freemium abuse, shady ads, etc...)
I'm not seeing how the fact the teacher is male and the student is female had anything to do with what looks like uninspired teaching methods.

Much of her experience would be equally applicable to any gifted student male or female.

Mass schooling is very seldom individually tailored and this is it's major failing point, it always seems to gravitate towards a production line education model. So that late developers are left behind and early developers are left bored and inevitably under achieve.
Shamless plug: My (now quite old) library Gazel puts a Redis-like API on top of IndexedDB making it pleasant to use: http://gazeljs.org/
I'm looking forward to getting mine. I ordered it back in October and they recently said the Zynq-2010 based boards would be shipped in mid-May. I wish they would have been more up front about the delays. There were long periods where there was no communication from the company. I didn't order through Kickstarter but directly from Adapteva.
Ask HN: Have you used Famo.us yet? What are your thoughts?
Been reading about it, I guess I should just dive in to find out. But I'm curious if anyone has already started using Famo.us framework to build either web site/application (I've seen examples on their website, but would love to hear from other developers!).
Interesting. I tend to believe it for some reason, although I don't know why myself. Does somebody really check if such promises are true? Are they trustworthy? It reminds me, that case with collecting wifi traffic — how did it get revealed at all?
A message to developers gone wanna-be startup founders – Must Read
Lots of developers love coding. But they never really make any income from their side projects because, that's all they are, side projects.
It's a nice site ... what's your strategy for solving the chicken-and-egg marketplace problem?
The real estate requirement with autonomous vehicles is only the difference between the off-peak maximum required parks and the peak (no cars will be parked). Currently, the real estate required for non-autonomous vehicles is typically more than two spots for each car. (one at home, one at the office, and a fraction of the public parking)
Do the epiphany cores have storage and network I/O access, or are they something more similar to a GPU?

In other words, could I write an epiphany webserver?
Or, "Human life is like walking into a movie halfway through, and having to walk out again two minutes later. You’ll have no idea what’s going on when you walk in. And chances are, just as you begin to get a clue, you’ll be kicked out.

So unless you are lucky enough to walk in during a scene that is satisfying without any longer narrative context (think sex or violence), your ability to derive satisfaction from your two-minute glimpse will depend partly on your ability to construct meaning out of it... [so], approach your limited two-minute glimpse of the movie as though you’ve been watching all along, and as though you might stick around to see how it all ends" (source: http://goo.gl/kLeWxw)
It hasn't. In the past, service providers have paid for transit to the internet at large, not to connect to specific ISPs offering competing services. It used to be up to the ISP to make sure they had sufficient connectivity to the data that their customers wanted.
Thanks for the hugs.

I learned over 37 different programming languages on many different operating systems over the years. Some might be old and outdated but thanks to open source projects they got compilers for modern systems. So I can do COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, Turbo C, Ada, and a lot of other misc languages that the current graduates and drop-outs don't even know. I can do legacy programming for that and convert code from one language to another. I can even do that with SQL databases and convert flat files and DBF files to SQL databases.

Many of my jobs for which I got paid $150K/year was upscaling a database from Excel, Access, etc formats to MS-SQL server and turning VBA code into Visual BASIC code. I used to write the program that would read the file, and then sync it up with SQL Server and then modify the Visual BASIC code to pull the data from SQL Server.

Yeah I know I got laughed at for using Visual BASIC, but it paid very well. I used quicksort and heapsort algorithms to speed up the code that coworkers write that was just too slow. It went from 15 minutes to generate a report to just 15 seconds. Most problems in Visual BASIC is due to the programer using a slow algorithm and if you know how to rewrite it, then it runs faster. most Visual BASIC programmers use the bubble sort, don't know why it is called a bubble sort or why it is so slow.

I do security and quality checks, read some stuff by Schnermann and Deming. I almost always write a function named SQLFilter that filters out control codes and SQL codes to prevent SQL injection attacks in order to sanitize inputs. I also write one named HTMLfilter that filters out HTML codes, because you don't want someone to exploit you by adding in HTML tags that do something nasty. Ask Pesico about that Name your own Dew contest and they didn't filter out HTML tags and how "Hitler did nothing wrong" won the contest due to some hackers and trolls on 4Chan and Reddit. Well if they used my HTMLFilter function, that would not have happened. I see spammers exploit Facebook using HTML codes and Javascript to automatically like posts and tag friends in a new post with an embedded video. If only they sanitized out HTML codes and rejected Javascript in the forms, spammers could not even do that.

Well maybe now you see how important what I do really is, most if not all of the 90% of startups that fail, don't do quality checks and security checks, because it 'takes too long' and they are in a hurry to get that code released so they can get a paycheck and start up that IPO.

I am a super debugger, you see, I fix the mistakes the rookies make. Most high school and college dropouts are rookies who make these rookie mistakes. I debug those mistakes and correct them.

Right now I am learning Haskell, I got my own GNU/Linux distro but I also use Lubuntu. I also know C++, Java, Python, PHP, C# and feel like given enough time I could learn any language and find ways to translate code from one language to another. Sort of a Polyglot for computer languages I suppose?
Ask HN: Is my 'blog' worth putting on my CV?
http://int-a.github.io

I started this blog a bit ago while I was taking an Android Dev coursera course. I'm looking for some criticism on it. I'm trying to get started with Android Development. Right now I feel like there is no "meat" to it, not much in the way of technical content. Do you think it is worth putting on my CV? Any feed back is appreciated!
An Open Microsoft
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Also, cars could park on big parking lots, which don't necessarily have to be near someone's home.
Do you have any examples? Just curious..
> The Google car can now recognize temporary stop signs, making it less reliant on pre-programmed maps

1. Obtain handheld stop sign

2. Troll self-driving cars

My point is, a human would know when a kid is just messing with you by holding up a stop sign; a self-driving car would slam its brakes?
Since the original link seems to be down: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:daniel...
"What We Offer"
"I'll write this when I have time."

Looking forward to this.
Or rather, the effects will be tainted because it's not a double-blind experiment with a randomized group.
I was more talking about being able to control memory layout.
What is your contact information? Can you email me at imtu80 at hotmail.
As a male human, I got much the same response from some teachers. It's unfortunate it happens to anyone.
Fortunately, grades don't really matter, and my parents didn't mind the occasional B.
This is amazing. Hope the jetpack really makes it. Doesnt seem plausible for commercial use though
It says $3,500 now. (Maybe somebody read your comment and fixed it?)
When I look back on the objective history of nutrition and chronic disease, I get extremely passed off. The entire field has been driven by egos and check books, even as good studies have shown how wrong those egos were.

While we still have huge holes in our knowledge, there is a lot of good, rigorously tested information available today. The decision I've come to is that I'm going to trust nobody but myself. There are no authorities I trust, but there are people whose science I will read before others (people who've shown integrity and the ability to design and carry out good science (not very many, unfortunately)). Unfortunately, it's places like schizophrenia where our knowledge gaps are most pronounced. I hope some day we will understand the brain and, more importantly, be able to fix it.

Good luck with your own issues. So many people don't take responsibility for their own health, and that's when this go really bad. Our society believes doctors are the beginning and end of our health. They may be the end[1], but we, individually, are the beginning.

1. I'm referring to chronic conditions here. Doctors have done some amazing things for infectious and acute disorders.
What do you intend to use it for? Is there a hobbyist application for these?
Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile, which enables people to find local restaurants or get directions. His request prompted us to re-examine everything we have been collecting, and during our review we discovered that a statement made in a blog post on April 27 was incorrect.

In that blog post, and in a technical note sent to data protection authorities the same day, we said that while Google did collect publicly broadcast SSID information (the WiFi network name) and MAC addresses (the unique number given to a device like a WiFi router) using Street View cars, we did not collect payload data (information sent over the network). But it’s now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks, even though we never used that data in any Google products.

-- http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/wifi-data-collectio...
> Too bad though, because I've worked in alot of offices and from home, contracting etc.. Clearly at least two hours out of eight are wasted every day. People take smoke breaks, people chit chat, go to lunch, browse the web, stay in meetings too long, and on and on. I could see people really trying to be productive knowing they are only on a six hour day.

Very valid point.

I saw a doco, years ago, about Americans who'd moved to France for work. A constant comment was the astonishment at how much more productive the French were per hour in their office environment. They were coming from US workplaces where the norm was to have a big commute, work an hour or more a day of unpaid overtime, to one where the sub-40 hour work week was rigidly enforced. The main thing that went away was zoned-out office workers spending their days talking about TV and office gossip. (YMMV, of course).
What would be the selective advantage of pain resistance in the context of a lab environment? It seems to me like the rodent's chance of passing on it's genes would have no correlation with resistance to pain.
Why Americans Are Moving Less: New Jobs Aren't Worth It
an "investigation"

hired investigator finds employer innocent. I'm shocked!
IMO, Netflix management caving in here, while at the same time RAISING prices, shows just how strong their management feels their market position is. Hello monopoly.

It may be non-intuitive, but this kind of 'tax' is actually to Netflix's benefit. From now on, it'll be much more expensive and difficult for any other competitors to enter the on-demand video market. Regulation/taxes often help solidify the status-quo. Look at the healthcare/finance/education industries...
For me, when I work has a much, much bigger impact on how much stuff I get done than the number of hours I work.

I'm not a morning person, yet my job has me coming in before 8:30 so I can attend morning standups (ugh). Right after lunch though, I can easily get in the "zone" and do a ton of good work.
Go's strengths are tooling and libraries. Especially when you see the well written libraries all revolving around internet protocols, encodings, and content generation. It makes it extremely easy to write performant web sites and http API endpoints which many people do daily.

All that said I hope Go adds D like compile time code generation and static typing or [D,Rust] gains better tooling and HTTP service oriented libraries and APIs that are as well written as the Go standard library packages are. Secondly I hope [D,Rust] sees how awesome having a common automatic format, build, and test tool is. In so few language is the testing package as simple as Go's. In so few languages is the build process as easy as Go's.
I'm really impressed by the level of documentation in the code[0]. Makes it fun to read.

[0]https://github.com/julianshapiro/velocity/blob/master/jquery...
Ask HN: My Cofounder has decided to pursue another venture
I'm presenting to angel investors in 2 weeks and my cofounder decided to head across the street to a venture that just got funded. He's got kids, and isn't exactly the visionary type, and so the security of VC being involved was enough to soothe his anxiety. I adored working with him and thought we were going to conquer the world together, but it seems that his short term financial concerns were deeper than I thought.

We're close enough on our prototype that I think I can finish it on my own, but what the heck do I tell these angels? They are expecting two guys.

As hurt as I am that he totally ditched me in my moment of need, I have absolutely no hard feelings towards him. I want him to be successful.

I keep reading Paul Graham's note about what he looks for and I have read about what others are looking for. It's always the founding team. I'm not McGyver or Rambo, and don't present myself that way. I am terrified that if I reschedule these meetings that 1) they won't have another one or 2) they'll see it as a major red flag and lose interest in the deal.

Please comrades, help me think about how to handle this.
Everything that I'd expect to 404 gives me 500s.
Beddit – A new kind of sleep tracker
C++ Range Comprehensions
Interesting thing about that law is that it's probably there due to the limitations of human drivers. An autonomous vehicle that is fully aware of objects on every side probably doesn't need the precaution that the law requires. It will only turn when there is no cyclist coming.
>It annoys me that people keep saying in such cases "yeah, but you won't really get 50 years, even if they succeed".

If convicted you can certainly get 50 years because the of minimum sentencing rules. This is where you get juries saying after the trial "I had no idea he would be sentenced to 50 years - I thought he would only get a couple of months".

As a defendant your lawyer can't tell the jury the sentence you face if convicted - apparently if the jury knows you face a minimum of 50 years for a minor crime they might not be so keen to convict you!
For Ruby I definitely recommend RPush: https://github.com/rpush/rpush. Helios hasn't been updated in a very long time and has a massive list of unresolved issues.
Interesting concept, now I'm wondering how to apply it to a typical advert where the screening is done by HR using keywords on the resume.
I go to a school with a highly ranked computer science program, and it's not too uncommon for nontechnical "entrepreneurs" to post openings for developer positions for some vague startup idea. Usually, these openings don't come with much (if any) pay, equity, or a co-founder credit. Needless to say, these people don't get a lot of applicants. I'm sure there have been a few that have actually taken off, but I can't name any.
I imagine that with hill climbing you will get stuck at a local maximum, however, with MCMC you will eventually explore the entire space. Put another way, MCMC will tend to sample mostly from the low lying parts of the cost function with fluctuations that will take it to other regions of the problem space.
Pardon the ignorance but are all 64 cores available to the OS -- as in, if I run htop, will I see 64 little bars at the top of the terminal? I would think not if I'm understanding this architecture correctly...
>We built Google Public DNS to make the web faster and to retain as little information about usage as we could, while still being able to detect and fix problems. Google Public DNS does not permanently store personally identifiable information.

This may actually be true, as google believe's that if you arrive faster to a website after searching on Google you will use Google more
Prosecutors know they all won't stick, but some of them will. So maybe not 50. But with minimum sentences for the ones that do, 15 years.

How about if someone takes a plea, that there still has to be a trial with corroborating evidence besides the person taking that plea that shows their guilt. The defendant can assist the prosecution, but cannot testify against themselves since they would no longer be a credible witness.
> As part of our screening, we'll help clients flesh out their idea into a clear list of requirements.

At market rate for an experienced contract product manager or developer with product management chops, the process of defining functional requirements for a new product will usually entail more than $3,500 worth of work.