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Based on the DOJ report, it seems that the case never should have even been brought before a grand jury. The prosecutor faced intense political pressure to bring this up before a grand jury - he shouldn't have done so, but he would have been tarred as a racist by the national media if he didn't. It's a bad situation all around.
I'm someone who would probably suck at programming competitions. I also suck at office politics.

Yet my code is decent, maintainable, performs well, and is said by those who review it to be high quality (including well respected and competent team leads who are also hands-on coders and architects of large systems).

And I have made, just my own contribution though it's in a context where other people also contribute, probably hundreds of millions of dollars for companies I have worked for. By creating creative, effective solutions to real-world problems.

In some cases my not being hung up on algorithms like some colleagues has led to me see solutions that they were blind to. Not better algorithms, but completely out of the box solutions. And these solutions have worked well, and made it into products used daily by hundreds of millions of people, with price markups attributable directly to the solution.

All this is to say that from the admittedly biased perspective of a non-competition winner, my experience tends to validate the implied corollary of this headline.
I may be misunderstanding, but that sounds a little off. Suppose that Some Guy has been arrested for having some marijuana, and at the time of his arrest, he also had a plastic ziplock bag in his possession.

This case gets taken to the Grand Jury and they indict the guy for possession of marijuana, and dealing marijuana. At this point, the prosecutor could potentially offer some different plea deals:

-1) "Plead guilty to possession, and we drop the dealing/distribution"
-2) "Plead guilty to both, and we change the sentence from 5 years to 1 year."

Are you suggesting that in case 1, once the prosecutor has offered that deal, that the prosecutor can no longer pursue the dealing/distribution charge, and that in case 2 the prosecutor can no longer pursue a sentence longer than 1 year? At that point, what purpose does a plea deal serve? As the indicted, you'd be a fool to accept the plea deal since you're guaranteeing the (now) worst outcome of the trial for yourself. As a prosecutor who knows that, you probably won't bother to offer any plea deals. I don't know if this is necessarily a problem...but then why not just get rid of the concept of a plea-deal?

The conceptually more pleasing solution would be to see the grand jury not indict for the distribution charge in the first place, because of the lack of real evidence (a plastic baggie does not a dealer make). In that situation, the prosecutor cannot attempt to trump up charges to motivate a plea-deal. Of course, I don't know how you actually fix that...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9319988
I remember when I switched from Amiga to PC. Maybe around 1992-1993. The PC took all the fun I had with the Amiga. Assembly programming, games, demos. It was no longer the same on a PC. Eventually, internet + linux + learning CS at university made things fun again.
Samsung claims the opposite:
NVMe SSD provides low energy consumption to help data centers and enterprises operate more efficiently and reduce expenses. Power-related costs typically represent 31% of total data center costs, with the memory and storage portion of the power (including cooling) consuming 32% of the total data center power. NVMe SSD requires lower power (less than 6W active power) with energy efficiency (IOPS/Watt) that is 2.5x as efficient as SATA.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/product...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2866912/samsungs-ludicrously-...
We do have a kickass theory, two in fact: the standard model and general relativity. We still have a lot to learn about both (which is why we built the LHC) but to suggest that high energy particles with energies and densities many, many orders of magnitude smaller than of our sun can create a black hole (which itself is an order of magnitude too small to collapse into a black hole) requires some serious mental gymnastics falling well outside of observed physics.
Interesting development, to be sure. Here's my poorly considered qualm: a lot of what I prepare with LaTeX are for (hoped) publication of scientific results. Confidentiality is vital lest we get "beat to press". For instance, all editorial boards are sworn to such, (with varying degrees of success). So were I to use 'cloud' document prep, what assurances would I have of security in that regard? Perhaps it would be no worse than the average journal office, but were it proven, it would be seen as a feature.
I'm just happy that for once we got to see standards converge (SATA PHY ditched for PCIe) rather than proliferate.

BTW, does anyone know if NVMe uses the ATA command set for side channel stuff like configuring encryption and the like?
I know a recruiter (at Airbnb actually) who finds that this is the case. Showing what you do with the knowledge is the more important part.
Okay, then it worked correctly. But the "404" would be a bit confusing for normal users.
My daughter is 5 now but when she was 2 we went on many hikes and did a lot of outdoors activities.

Walking on trails and going to parks and long scenic drives were the regular for us.

If you can get her outdoors and in nature all the more better, it opens the door for a lot of bonding and communication.

Find something you can do that gets her talking and asking questions.

Somebody else noted to keep away from the baby talk and I agree, talk to her like you would anybody else and most of all listen to her. My daughter likes going on walks because we can have our "conversation" time.

On days you can't go out I find that most kids Love boxes and if you give them a few that will entertain them for along time. You can build forts, robots or whatever else she can imagine.

Music is also good all children like to dance and you could have a "dance off" or a karaoke competition.
And as far as I understand, isn't NVMe SSD just a "different name" for PCIe SSD? PCIe being the protocol (that's already being used for graphics cards), and NVMe the standard for SSDs to understand that protocol.
A large part of my 'solution' has to be to listen to the radio for non-tech news. It's become part of my "don't stare into screens right before you want to go to sleep" ritual, with a nice side-effect of helping me regulate my bedtime.

Pick a source you're comfortable with (being british, I listen to the bbc world service - it's quite international but with a british bias, which suits me fine). Listen to it on their schedule, not yours (no podcasts, live broadcasts). This way you get a 30 minute summary, select few comments from people with basic literacy, with no "you might also be interested in", no sidebars, no opening a few tangents in tabs, etc.
What none of these tests, contest or not, can filter for is long term work ethic, dedication and creativity. Of course, these may not be important for all jobs. It is easy for some personality tyles to get excited and focused in the context of an event. It is a very different story to dedicate yourself intensely to a project or a codebase for years. I know people who suck at tests who blow away just about anyone due to the intense dedication to the job they can deliver on a consistent basis.
Interesting idea, but the backwards compatibility of ES6 means that you can refactor a project piece by piece as you work on it - IMO that's a better approach.
As a operations person, this is the wrong way to go. The VPN becomes a single point of failure. Attempts at HA fail in my experience.

Also solutions like stunnel create a separate process that has to be managed. If I have one for redis, and then one for something else it is harder to tell them apart, because both will be named stunnel.
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To be quite honest, with attitudes like that, I'm glad you stay home on voting day.

I'm no rah-rah booster of American politics by any means--I think they're corrupted almost beyond recognition, especially at the federal level--but I still don't see any better way to enact a government by and for the people than to cast a vote for how we feel every so often.

And from where I sit, it's working, in fits and starts, to make a better world:

* In my state, and the neighboring state, cannabis is now legal, and you can go buy yourself some pot at a retail store with nothing but cash and an ID to verify age

* Across the country, freelancers like me can now buy health insurance, where before it was so ridiculously expensive, it felt like throwing away thousands (or tens of thousands) of dollars every year

* At the local level, a nearby jurisdiction is working to ban criminal background checks on job applications, to reduce the barriers for ex-cons to re-enter the workforce

* Minimum wage laws in municipalities along the west coast are helping lift up the always-hard-working, always-underpaid lowest class of workers

This is all stuff that comes either from direct citizen participation, or for voting for someone who had that as a part of their policy platform.

Can I vote to end American meddling in the middle east? No, and that's frustrating. Can I vote to get some national recognition on the science of climate change? No, though I can vote for people who acknowledge it (and I do).

But can voting change the world you live in? Oh yes.
Willpower is a finite resource, I'd rather use it as little as possible and keep it for more important matters.

So ideally, in cases that you know before hand that you are going to need your willpower, like reading HN, you'd be better off arranging your life so that you don't have the option to spend as much time, and reserve your willpower for cases you cannot predict or control.
Oh, there is the try-reflex readme.

https://github.com/ryantrinkle/try-reflex/blob/master/README...
In addition to the scene links posted here, I highly recommend reading the Ars articles from the beginning. I have the ToC bookmarked because the entirety of it is like a love letter to the Amiga: http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/
18 is too young to pick a career

Pretty much everyone throughout human history, outside of recent Western history, would probably disagree with that. By 18 you were expected to be a self-supporting adult.

I think 18 is too young to pick a career only if you wait until you're 18 to start thinking about it. If you're encouraged and allowed to explore your interests earlier, you should have a pretty good idea of what you'd like to do by the time you're 18.
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In normal circumstances, it makes sense that grand juries would always indict - because prosecutors would not bother to bring a case before a grand jury if they didn't think they would get an indictment. All you need to bring up charges is probable cause, which is a pretty low standard, and it should be pretty obvious to a prosecutor if they have it. So the cases are all pre-filtered just because the system is in place. Even if the grand jury system approved 100% of indictments, it doesn't mean that it isn't preventing bad indictments from getting through.

The same reasoning holds true for high rates of approval for warrants and 0% of airline luggage going through screening contaning bombs.

Trials are different because they have an extremely high standard - beyond a reasonable doubt. A prosecutor can be completely convinced in their own mind that someone is guilty of a crime and they have no choice but to bring them up on trial if they think they even have a chance of meeting the high standard, even though they may fail.
My grandfather was an engineer who suffered from a degenerative muscle disease. This exo bears a resemblance to the brace he wore to hike around the southwestern desert.
> Are you sure that you'd be able to do that? supervised education helps you to pace yourself, focus on what is important and to keep motivated over the long run. The actual content is maybe the least important.

I'm 100% sure. The motivation is all there. Why would I be in this class if I had to be coaxed into learning about it?

I think I can learn more in one long sitting than piecing away at any given topic. That's my personal experience. Instead I get distracted taking 5 courses at once and learn comparatively little.

> Besides, going through lex and yacc sources sounds like a huge waste of time for someone who wants to learn about compilation. There may be some value in this, but it should be last on your priority list.

I'm sorry but no. Compared to what we're actually doing, it's far far far better.

What am I going to come away with from the class? I guess I'll be a rock star interviewer, but I don't think I'll be much else.

Implementing something using only common tools and doing it without any code from the instructor would certainly result in more skills moving forward.
In other words...you've already decided that every defendant is guilty.

"A defendant is a person or entity accused of a crime in criminal prosecution or a person or entity against whom some type of civil relief is being sought in a civil case." [0]

I wouldn't say what he said is untrue, you're just refuting his statement based on the definition of a defendant (whether a defendant is someone charged with a crime vs being prosecuted against). Sounds like you have different definitions that lead to slightly different relations of the same situation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defendant
He is not saying they are acting entitled. Just saying it is a change from the past when they were ok accepting what we would consider lower standards as they didn't have much choice.
Hmm. How smart is it? Can it detect when some usage of prototypes is not class-like and not convert it to an ES6 class?
Successful recruiters are efficient. By that, I mean they want the shortest route possible from getting a job to fill to filling the job. Filling as many jobs as possible with qualified candidates is how they pay their bills. They don't have all day to go over the life stories of candidates and why they didn't want to pursue a 4 year degree. The bottom line is that 4 year degrees show a consistent effort toward acquiring a domain-specific set of knowledge that is favorable to most hiring managers.

Is it possible that a non-degreed candidate with no work experience is the best of a pool? Sure. Is it worth a recruiter's time and energy sourcing candidates to put THAT guy in front of a hiring manager if he's only got a few spots available (because he probably isn't the only recruiter in communication with said hiring manager)?

IMO, no. As someone who has worked both sides of that aisle (currently a developer), unless a recruit has serious experience, he's not in the final pool of qualified applicants. Let someone else take that risk. I've got to worry about my next paycheck. This is a sales job, after all.
Osmosis: Web scraper for Node.js
Exactly this! The problem is entirely because of convict at all costs DAs.
>“Nothing forces us to funnel students into a tournament that bankrupts the losers and turns the winners into conformists.”

So the Bahaus was conformist. Strikes me as a myopic opinion of someone that hasn't studied the history of art movements and schools.

>“The same kids would probably enjoy a wage premium even if they spent four years in the Peace Corps instead.”

“Would probably” is telling of privilege here. Perhaps Mr. Thiel would probably do well to study some post secondary sociology or anthropology?

>“But what if higher education is really just the final stage of a competitive tournament?”

Curious how many HN people have degrees outside of their career. Was it relevant to your worldview? Is it possible that higher education isn't mired in capitalist competition?

>“Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg aren’t famous because of the similar ways in which they left school. We know their names because of what each of them did differently from everybody else.”

Seems to me that at least part of the formula here, if he is choosing to cite these people, is to be white and male. Many would do well to skip higher education and perhaps chase that.

>“You need to figure it out for yourself.”

“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.”
Nope! Cosmic radiation causes much higher energy collisions in our atmosphere every microsecond of every day. Even if those collisions form black holes, our continued existence as non-singularities is evidence enough that they're not an issue.
> You're forgetting that many people are poor because they never got proper financial education.

No, that's not right. You sound like someone who has not known a lot of actual poor people. Of course maybe you have.
Tried this, bricked my car. :(
Currently they support both - il2cpp isn't done yet. But as the blogpost calls it, it is the future of scripting in Unity.

Also, yes, this is a replacement for the VM and AOT, but the libraries in Mono are still very useful. Many of them are currently being replaced by Microsoft code as well, though, so it looks like .NET, Mono and il2cpp will share lots of code that way. Just not the VMs.
Exactly, the energy of one particle is the same as how much a mosquito puts out if I remember correctly. The black holes formed from this, and this is presuming its possible to do so mind, wouldn't have enough energy to pull in other matter.

Could our theories be wrong here? Sure, but worrying about this is just like the scientists worried we would ignite our atmosphere with nuclear testing. That is, its unlikely at best and needless worry in general.
I think this is awesome just for the sake of doing it. I'm always impressed with how these kinds of projects are implemented.
No I dont think so, it has a new command set.
There's also this one https://github.com/mping/5to6
Last time I looked at the SATA PHY it seemed pretty wasteful. During every transaction the back channel was running at full speed blasting "R_OK R_OK R_OK" to the transmitting party. Not a checksum, mind you, just a bunch of magic DWORDs indicating that the drive was receiving (it would use a checksum too once the transmission was over, of course). I guess it's an easy way to keep the PLLs locked but it seemed like a pretty huge piece of low-hanging fruit towards the goal of reducing power consumption.

In comparison, PCIe is a much more sophisticated serial protocol. It's an entire damned packet network with addresses, subnets (so to speak), routing, retry, a credit system for bandwidth sharing. Unlike ethernet, which typically tops out at achieving ~75% of its theoretical bandwidth, PCIe typically tops out at ~95% of its theoretical bandwidth. Crazy stuff.

I'd bet good money that the PCIe PHY can beat the crap out of the SATA PHY on energy/bit and that the disparity will only widen with time.
A different angle - from someone averse to competitions and trading of most kinds: both have simple cost functions, unlike most of the rest of life. Yeah, it will tend to simplify politics which I think is a good thing. But in other areas a large part of one's effort goes into figuring out what to do - what the cost function actually is, into expanding the understanding of what it is.

Incidentally, much of human intelligence and talent in many areas manifests in understanding what to do; it's what machine intelligence is worst at right now; and it's the thing without which machines often beat people (board games are a simple example.)

So there are downsides to "simple politics" or rather simple cost functions; I for one don't care about such problems very much.
> For more info or to apply for early access

You can't make something a Show HN until there is something people can actually try out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I agree, if you consider such question I don't see any relation either. What I meant was a general competition (not strictly programming). If you participate, it means that you want to achieve something, hence self motivation. Of course self motivated employees are great for the company, no doubt about it. But I feel that too much of it may conflict with the interest of the company.
Ask HN: Where do the startup folk hang out in Groningen, NL?
I know you're out there. I'm a student at RUG. Just wanted to hang out and see what's up.

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How does Google deal with code refactoring? If one splits the code file into two files, how does the algorithms deals with its former repository commits scoring? Sure splitting classes in Java is hard (one file per class), but in languages like C++, C#, PHP with namespaces it's trivial and happens all the time. (disclaimer: I read ~80% of the article and comments, and used the browser search function, but found no answer)
JSettlers Is Open Source, First Alpha Released (Settlers 3 Clone)
The numbers in the article are all wrong. SATA's ceiling is 600 MBps (megabytes per second), not 600 Gpbs (gigabits per second). SAS goes up to 12Gbps, not 12GBps, which is actually the same thing as 1.5GBps. At least the PCIe numbers look right.
I'm curious where in the country gas costs $9/gal now. In 2008, it was around $3 across the country.

I'm also curious where in the county a loaf of bread is now $3-4, and I mean the cheap white/wheat bread that used to cost a buck and change (and still does here).

Housing, I know it's gone up a lot, but even so, 3x?

Can you provide any hard numbers on the 3x increase in gas, housing, and food?
In case you said, it can discern non-class-like function as nothing is assigned to its prototype.

Bu on the whole I cannot really tell you how smart it is because it is in alpha stage. We need more users to test it.
The NVMe command set is pretty close to the existing SCSI spec though. In case of security the commands are the SCSI Security Protocol IN/OUT.

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Oh, man, this old classic.

Somewhat related, A = B is also a great book:

http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html

It's a very beautiful book that demonstrates how you can prove certain identities such as sin(a+b) = sin(a)cos(b) + cos(a)sin(b) by merely verifying them at a few select values of a and b.
Nice one. Similar to http://rockiger.com/en/akiee/, which implements org-mode with Markdown.
Most current PCIe SSDs behave to the PCI bus & operating system like an AHCI controller with a SATA SSD attached to it. Advantage of this is that it's well supported by firmware (BIOS/EFI) and operating systems (stock drivers). Such SSDs inherit the limitations of that architecture, which was designed for spinning platters. NVMe is a fresh start in that regard.
Many cars, especially the smarter kind, have multiple CAN buses. A CAN bus is relatively low bandwidth by today's standards, so manufacturers have had to resort to splitting them up to increase effective utilization, (which also leads to its own problems when a device on Bus 1 needs to talk to a device on Bus 2).

I would expect this user-accessible (give-or-take the connector) bus is only the monitor/dashboard bus, to avoid possibly fucking up the timings on the more loaded and critical buses.