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> Isn't this addressing the symptom and not the cause?

If you can propose an adequate remedy for the cause that negates the need to mitigate the symptoms, please do so.

Otherwise, yes, and so what?

> It sounds like the real issue is a potentially corrupt justice system.

Sure, one of the root problems is the fallibility of the criminal justice system (whether failures are do to corruption or other sources.) This is exacerbated when failures result in executions.

> The death penalty if obviously worse, but you can't exactly give those kids the 15+ years of their life back either.

Well, no, you can't give them the time they spent in prison back. You can give them the rest of their life that would have been taken away had the wrongful sentence been fully executed, and you can potentially give them some, even if imperfect, compensation for the part you can't undo.
yes, south bay LA is very nice and quite liveable.
I think that the author of that comment would say that 'post-mature release' is the second biggest problem.
Hola explicitly say this is why they're able to offer the service for free http://hola.org/faq#in_how_is_free

dchuk beat me to it!
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I completely agree that bishops, including recent popes, and Catholic figures of lesser authority as well, have made statements that stand in contrast to, or even contradict to varying degrees, what has been taught previously regarding the death penalty.

It is part of a larger plight of confusion rife in the modern-day Church. One of the wonders of the Internet is that it's not difficult to access even centuries old sources and compilations of Catholic teaching, and more recent ones as well. Sometimes a paper book is still quite helpful, e.g. the Enchiridion Symbolorum[†].

As a Catholic, I accept everything the Church teaches regarding human sexuality, artificial contraception, the priesthood, etc. More than that, I try to study those teachings and allow them to shape my understanding of God, the world and my fellow human beings. I think it's lamentable when that teaching is distorted, hobbled, or even disregarded and contradicted by those whose very mission it is to transmit it across space and time. Rather than get upset by such events, I see them as a call to action! The Catholic hierarchy, according to the Church's own understanding, is not the ultimate origin of teachings on faith and morals. Their "job" is to hand on and clarify what they've received. They can, for a season or two, fail (even spectacularly) to do so. The ship always gets righted after a time, but not without the prayers and efforts of those who recognize the problem.

Feel free to contact me if you would like to continue the discussion in a different venue.

[†] http://www.ignatius.com/Products/DENZ-H/enchiridion-symbolor...
My immediate gut-feeling after reading it was the same (though perhaps less strong). Through the author's journey, the article seems to suggest there's either guilt or blame, and no possibility of an in-between feeling of "it was out of my control." Still, a very interesting read.
> The UK isn't there yet, but it's getting there

Do you really expect anyone to take you seriously?
I have a side project you might find interesting (http://commits.io). It takes any git hub repo and creates a poster out of it. Then it overlays an image of your choice and colors each letter to represent that image, pixelating it it.
You're right on the approach. One thing to be careful of is that there's no option to add a not-null constraint with the `NOT VALID` flag. That means it'll hold the AccessExclusive lock while it checks every row in the table meets the constraint.

You can work around this by adding a `CHECK` constraint which does the same thing, but it's a little inconvenient. There was some work being done to add this feature to not-null constraints (http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140517155857.GD7857@e...), but unfortunately it looks like it's gone stale.
To determine whether it's reasonable to call life imprisonment "false execution by old age", you could examine the relative life expectancies of people imprisoned for life versus the cohort of people most likely to receive life sentences. If a sentence extends someone's lifetime, and results in a cause of death universally shared by everyone, it's probably not reasonable to refer to it as a form of execution.
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No, the argument against capital punishment is that its existences increases the harms resulting from mistaken legal sentencing without offering any concrete, demonstrable benefit to society to weigh against that increased harm.

(While "any mistaken legal sentencing is bad" is perhaps part of the foundation on which that argument rests, it is not the whole, or even the important part, of the argument.)
The PDFs this produces are simply collections of PNGs, and won't be accessible. It's always a compromise though. If you try to edit the PDF adding black boxes, and remove hidden objects, you may still leak data via the tagged pdf text; it doesn't have to match up to what's on the page exactly. So, converting to PNG isn't a terrible idea, but it would be nice to combine this with something that OCRd the PNG conversion? eg

https://github.com/fritz-hh/OCRmyPDF

(which uses tessaract under the hood). The other thing this is missing, comparing it to commercial redacters I've used, is the ability to assist in the redaction: eg removing SSNs, phone numbers, all occurrences of key phrases.
It's not very interesting to argue that a state might change its mind on some question, because that's always true, and there's no way to rebut or even engage that argument.

On the other hand, I thought maybe you were suggesting that Congress could pass a law relying on the "Godel inconsistency" of Filburn to usurp state authority. Well, no, they can't; they're bound by the judicial precedents that fence Commerce Power authority in.
I wonder if there are patterns that makes A* take unruly amount of time when there is an "obvious" solution from human point of view.
To be honest, the repositioning isn't really a response to the brain drain -- it's a reflection of a changing culture at Basho that was the cause of the brain drain in the first place.

The primary reason I left Basho is that I felt the company was turning into a "don't invent here" culture, the polar opposite of "not invented here". The goal was no longer to solve hard distributed systems problems and build amazing technology, but to just integrate various "trendy" technologies and make an enterprise simplification play.

The problem is that most of these other technologies have major failings and/or punt on the corner cases that us old time Basho engineers obsessed over.

The whole point of Riak was to be the most highly available, fault tolerant, trusted database you could use. You can't just integrate Riak with arbitrary products X, Y, and Z without compromising on those core tenants.

I really hope Basho can deliver on the promises they're making about this data platform product. I really do. But, for various reasons I can't really talk about, I'd say I'm extremely skeptical.

(BTW, for those that don't know me: I'm a former Principal Engineer at Basho and was the lead developer on a variety of sub-systems in Riak over the last four years)
Anyone else remember the "Big Brother" episode from "Yes Minister"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXqmmdIuZJA

If you have not seen, you are in for a treat.

I can't believe that us/america/world would go down this path after we have been clearly warned about these things so many times.

When will the govt get it once and for all that overarching warrantless surveillance is illegal and stop trying for it?
There is no such thing as total security, there is only what we know and then what we do not know.
The article twice mentions that the emulator would use analog circuits. So there must be some reason why digital circuits would not work.
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"she spent most of her life west of Hollywood"

Yes, this is just not a very well-informed article. It's pitched as kind of a pithy survey of the city, but it works better as some impressions from the viewpoint of a teen who grew up there.

The author appears to have graduated Brown in 2011 and been in Brooklyn since then. In her childhood and teen years here, it's unfortunate she didn't get to visit more of the city. ("All I ever did was drive the familiar loop of surface streets I knew, smoking cigarettes, blasting the heat with the windows down on winter nights.")

That's all ok as far as it goes, but what mars the article to the point of profound irritation is that she seems to have taken on a lot of tired and dated viewpoints. (Hollywood as an over-riding explanation, the freeways, hauling Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht up from their graves for one more anecdote, the remarks about Downtown.) The article sounds like the way stereotypical older Westside residents talk.
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A more charitable interpretation is that she is sharing her experience because she felt like no one she spoke to had a similar experience and wants to reach out to other people in the same boat. She writes the first part ("no member’s situation was similar to mine") but the second part is speculation.

If you look carefully, you'll see that it's a post on a blog that deals with end of life issues, so rest assured that it's not a newspaper and every entry probably deals with dirty laundry about dead people in some way.
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that's sneaky and some one needs to point out for this!
I ditched my car for a bicycle, and I've never been happier. Except when I almost get hit by a car. But that's mostly rare. Mostly.
We've been over this before.

If you communicate, by any signal, including the lack of sending a signal, or any prearranged protocol, that you received a warrant when you were ordered not to talk about it, then you are in violation of the order.

No amount of technical trickery changes that; courts are run by humans.

The page includes a note about warrant canaries never having been tested in a court of law, but you shouldn't be hopeful.
by next year with the opening of the expo line, public transit will surpass that of the bay area, and within the next 15 years will be in the same league as new york. a lot of money is being spent on it.

blue is being extended next year, then purple:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Rail_%28Los_Angeles_Count...
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I'm that person. For me it's all about cost.
I rent a room in a house in the suburbs for $400mo where if I wanted to live in the city where I work it would cost me around $1k. I don't make a lot of money so even though my time is valuable, it isn't helping my bank account. Until I get a better job it just isn't an option to move into the city.
I can't help but feel canary's are missing the 'spirit of the law' (I don't like calling it that, but the phrase fits) of the gag order, and will ultimately not stand up in court.

The gag order says you can't do anything to notify people that you're received one. By having the canary expire, you're alerting them. No questions, end of story.

I get the concept of 'they can't force you to sign a false document because of the First Amendment' line of thinking, but the gag orders themselves don't respect your constitutional rights, why would you expect it's different in regards to canaries?
>At one time I was in a physics program at university until I discovered that I couldn't understand physics. I changed to computer science ;-). My experience, though, was that most people I talked to had only a cursory understanding of actual physics. What they really understood was the math.

The science fiction author, Jerry Pournelle, who has a measured IQ of 180, once complained to Richard Feynman, "I don't understand quantum mechanics." Feynman replied, "That's okay, Jerry; neither do I."
Mostly because I could. There are use cases for statistically independent hashes, such as Bloom filters, though these can sometimes be satisfied by other means. Having two independent functions for each gives people flexibility and also serves as a (trivial) proof of capability.

It would be a small thing to generate a dozen statistically independent versions of each hash algorithm, primarily because the generation process is so straightforward. This by itself is unique for popular hash functions. One possible use case for random generation of these functions is security through obscurity by having every hash table implementation using a different function to make them more difficult to attack.
And that somehow makes what they're doing OK?
This made me laugh--I wonder how many innocent people are going to have the FBI kick their doors down for things that past through their "exit nodes" that they hosted.
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Those limits were created by the federal government itself.

Sure, by SCOTUS. If you are just arguing that SCOTUS can reverse itself, why even invoke Filburn? Its superfluous to the argument.
Of the $64K surreptitiously spent on liver abuse, I suspect that acetaminophen accounted for less than $500.
I've worked at a few companies including a several startups and my current company is the only place where summer fridays are a thing. Even then, last year, the tech department was usually the last to leave. Keep in mind that at some companies, summer fridays just means that you can dress down and wear shorts.

The companies that do summer fridays are companies where developers are working ~40 hour work weeks. These companies are usually places where they expect employees to last several years and often are profitable.

Why do companies do summer fridays? In the northeast, you typically have about 2-3 months where the weather is nice enough to go to the beach. If you've got kids, this is their summer vacation. Plus in many metro areas there are a lot of concerts and events going on during the summer. It's a nice way of letting your people enjoy their lives instead of just living for work.
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Have you received latest updates. I would say I'm on the higher end of usage with all notifications from personal and work emails, messaging services, calendar updates.. and mine easily lasts a day and half. I don't need always on, as its really pointless for me to have it on, if I'm not actively looking at it.
Yes. I think Ruby is losing popularity or already has long ago, my guess is a lot of those guys moved to Go or JS on Node.
Python isn't really losing popularity, it's probably gaining as many users as it's losing right now. It's just that a lot of people including myself are completely turned off by Python3, so if we're going to break our old code and take on a ton of testing- may as well do rewrites in a new, potentially better language/platform.

For me, Go has problems (as Python does) but thus far I find it the most appealing of all choices. I tend to be attracted to simpler things (worse is better).
That works if you want to pretend you're from a different country.

It doesn't work if you want to anonymize yourself.
If sleep is actually unnecessary, how do you account for it having evolved in almost all species? It seems highly implausible, given that a predator that didn't need sleep would seem to have a great advantage over prey that do.
Waaa! ... I just did that using 2.7 idle and it worked. This is new for me.

I got stuck for a while trying to back out. Finally figured the way to reverse is to use del(): del(True) del(False).
and this is why marijuana is a superior alternative for chemically-induced escapism
> Always selling features we do not have or things we cannot do.

Oh, hey VMware! What's up?
you obviously don't understand this :)
Most people think my first gen pebble is an apple watch, too.
Exactly. And even when you're working on the known issues, they tend to be non-trivial. Its hard.
Yup! I dislike how it is being sold as some thing new.. it is a Paxos/Viewstamp-Replication step by step guide, if you want to replicate a log where there is a strong causal relation between updates. If you want to replicate entities that are independent there many simplifications that can be made for failover.

The good thing that has come out of this is that in internal meetings with folks who have read the Google Paxos paper (not my fav paper, leads to blind pessimism about the prospects of implementing paxos without understanding how to contextualize) you can still sell the same solution by calling it raft.
These studies do show a deterrence effect with the death penalty. They're links to actual academic studies, not from a website that has an explicit agenda.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1018533

http://m.aler.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/2/344.short?rss=1...
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I've never seen that explained so succinctly. Thank you.
I mean, I probably couldn't disagree with you more strongly, but that's a gutsy thing to type out on this particular forum, so, mash'Allah!
It's comments like this that shame people talking about hard times in their life, and help perpetuate the problem. The author even leads off with how she's shamed into not talking about the problem.

The article is also not the hatchet-job you're painting it as. She's not abusive towards her late husband, but talking about how the alcoholism screwed them both over. By shaming people into not talking about this, you're also preventing people from finding parallels in their own life, or finding out about support groups.
I guess I'm old. I remember most of that, and I didn't work for DEC.
Many judges are former trial lawyers. I don't think there is some vast conspiracy, but many of these laws are in the interest of trial lawyers, so many judges probably have at least some subconscious bias towards interpreting laws in their direction.
Probably has something to do with the determinism of digital systems.
Yea, GlusterFS is terrible at PHP, or anything involving lots of small files. Like, static sites or say git repos.
Virus writers
instead of writing a virus that hurts every one. perfect linux!
You could also setup tinyproxy (https://banu.com/tinyproxy/) to proxy http/https via your linux VPS (and limit connections to only your ip)

or

even better just run socks5 thru ssh
http://straightedgelinux.com/blog/howto/socks.html

Tho I recommend using autossh to maintain the ssh tunnel which could be flaky at times

http://www.debianadmin.com/autossh-automatically-restart-ssh...
Please do not ever use PPTP — it has been broken for years. Instead use OpenVPN.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/47518/is-pptp-v...
A glimpse of his recent work...

http://imgur.com/odBEeLF
http://imgur.com/Zdpik68
Sorry, that's quite right. I should have said "through an attorney" to avoid the possible interpretation that you could personally write and file a brief.

That rule is stricter than other Supreme Court rules related to filings by parties. If you're a natural person and not a corporation, you can file pro se pleadings before the Supreme Court in your own cases. Just not in other people's cases.
There's a good explanation of the players involved at https://kver.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/making-sense-of-the-ku...
You can do severe liver damage with under $10 of acetaminophen if you take the wrong dose with alcohol.
I am never going to be able to look at that and not read it as "Did not finish"...
That's what I meant when I said "despite having options within 5-10 minutes"; I very much meant "viable options within their price range". When you're constrained by cost, you may have to trade time for money.
That's why I linked the brief - Donald Verrilli Jr. is Solicitor General of the US, an Obama appointee.
I can only speak for myself. I haven't had the super high clearances that Ellsberg talks about, but I do understand the feeling because of the work I do. I am paranoid about winding up like the "wisdom of years" version of Ellsberg though.
Perhaps, but this has been the case for a long time. Maxwell-Faraday Equations, differential geometry and curvature tensors for general relativity, matrix mechanics and operators for quantum mechanics.

Most of the past physics seems much simpler partly because the teaching methods and more direct derivations have been developed in the large span of time since they were discovered.

For a background about the physics discussed, check out The Pool-Table Analogy with Axion Physics
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9506229
I'm not sure I understand your logic here. They've come up with a clever way to create a sustainable, free vpn service, with the ability to easily opt-out for a still reasonable price. All the while clearly stating how it all works in their FAQ.

What more do you want them to do?
Except that as a method of escapism, alcohol is much more effective than hemp. Alcohol numbs emotion, hemp simply slightly dissociates the user from it.
I already linked to an academic study says there's a deterrence effect with the death penalty above. We should rely on empirical research, not links to websites that have agendas.
I'd strongly encourage anyone who is upset or intrigued by this post to attend an open Al-Anon meeting[1]. (AA is for alcoholics, Al-Anon is for friends and family members of alcoholics. "Open" meetings mean that anyone curious is welcome to attend; otherwise you're expected to be affected by a friend or family member's drinking.)

TBH, the author seems remarkably nonjudgemental, given that her husband undeniably drank himself to death a few years ago. Alcoholism's pretty shitty all around.

[1]: http://www.al-anon.org/how-to-find-a-meeting

edit: "drinking" originally was "alcoholism" but I edited it after posting. It's a small but important difference --- you don't have to believe that your family member is an alcoholic to attend an Al-Anon meeting; you just have to feel that their drinking is affecting you.

And, to be clear, this comment only reflects my opinion.
Use Tor if you want to anonymize yourself, not a VPN ffs.
What happens when the Feds are knocking on your door because someone routed kiddie pr0n or drug deals through your connection?
I'm still not seeing a lack of privilege in your discoverable profiles. As someone who has had privilege, I'm pretty sure I've never been that angry, and I've been very angry. Perhaps it's worth considering that you have not being either.
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In the spirit of what others have said, why not take it a step further? Say: "we have not received 1 request," "we have not received 2 requests" etc etc. Somehow, I think this won't work.
Don't be too harsh, you don't know what the commenter's going through either. :)
I'm not sure why you assume that people are or will be rational. It's not about their rationality or what's productive. It almost never is for "normal" people.
Huh. Well, I don't really have a problem with any of those except maybe location, and that's behind a privacy setting in iOS. Pebble also provides an option to opt out of sending the anonymized data, which puts them on better footing than most apps and websites these days. Thanks for actually posting info though :)
It could be said that nobody truly understands quantum mechanics, for the simple reason that human beings evolved to live under classical physics. Like any other scientific field, however, this doesn't preclude us from conducting experiments and studying the mathematical laws that model the results. In this respect, it doesn't make any difference if we have an intuitive understanding or not.