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we're kind of starting to walk in circles. Search this one for example for "Maryland" (prosecution's bail denial motion granted by the Judge).

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2013/11/Ross-U...

There is nothing about Force's crimes in the document. So the "honest" Force's testimony based Maryland case (read the description of the other 5 murder-for-hire claims if you don't see how the Maryland was the Force's case, and it was the only claim that made it at least to the indictment stage) was used to deny bail in the New York case where Ulbricht was sentenced to life. Or to "protect" witnesses from him - https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/nysd/422824/107-0.... If you fail to see connection here ... Anyway, i rest my case :)

Edit: in response to your response below - denied bail, denied timely access to witnesses, denied other stuff with that "murder-for-hire" going though a lot of the trial's documents - it is obviously that Judge "gave notice" to that charge and thus the trial was obviously "poisoned". As i already mentioned above, allowing for the after-the-fact calculation of exact gaps and other effects by the "poison" would be a loophole around the "no-poisoning" principle. The trial was materially poisoned, and thus the sentence poisoned too.
this is the best advice ever. Staying debt free is critical to amassing wealth. I wish I would have received this advice sooner in life.
The suggestion at the end of the article that very notion of the Enlightenment has outlived its usefulness is problematic. Clearly something happened in the 18th century that involved the backfooting of faith in favour of reason and empiricism, and the beginning of the end for absolute government in much of the Western world.

Anti-intellectual neo-populism has set its sights on those changes for almost 200 years, and today the enemies of the Enlightenment can be found across the political spectrum, from the post-modern Left to the populist (and equally post-modern) Right.

As such, the division of history into a period we identify as "the Enlightenment" is a useful tool for wrapping up a bundle of related ideas. Sure, we could say we are defending Bayesian decision making against non-Bayesians and anti-Bayesians, but that would be an anachronistic term to apply to Kant or Adam Smith. So keeping the idea of the Enlightenment alive, while recognizing it as the embryo of the Bayesian revolution, is the optimal course.
A complete tangent from the project itself, but it's important to get in the mindset of asking the question in the title about every language you meet. It's a step on the path to enlightenment.

• Ruby: a language; now also a VM. Its language semantics can exist on other VMs and people still consider that "Ruby"; nobody really uses the VM outside of the language. So, we call Ruby a language. However, its language semantics require a lot of the VM (the ability to redefine methods of existing classes, for example), so one could say Ruby has its own Abstract Machine that a lot of VMs just happen to be adequate implementations of already.

• Erlang: a language, and a VM (itself called BEAM.) The VM's semantics are the important part; the language is just an arbitrary syntax. Other languages on the BEAM VM (or rather, the Erlang Abstract Machine, which the BEAM VM implements) all "taste" very strongly like Erlang, because the flavour of Erlang comes from the VM, not the language. (And then "OTP" is the operating system for that VM. You could write your own, but I'm not sure anyone has. All the current BEAM VM languages assume they're running inside OTP.)

• C, C++, Rust: different languages, all for the same Abstract Machine, which has no real name but assumes a "C Runtime" with POSIX-like abstractions is available. You could call it the "C Abstract Machine": it's the effective assumptions of hardware instruction-set that allow one to talk about things like "signed pointer-length integers". When something hits "undefined behaviour" in one of these languages, it's behavior undefined by the C Abstract Machine—likely because different ISAs do different things and it's too costly to try to smooth that over. (Note that the POSIX abstractions could be said to be an "abstract operating system" of sorts, one which is implemented by multiple different real C-AM operating systems.)

• Smalltalk: its own syntax, its own OS, and its own VM. All three are just known as "Smalltalk" in general, with the name of the implementation prefixed. Simple!

• Java, C#: languages that created VMs (the JVM and the CLR) that are now more important than those languages. The JVM has no operating system, just a bunch of libraries. The CLR has an implicit dependency on a lot of Windows to be its operating system; Mono and Wine have a weird relationship because of this.

• Lua: a language. The actual VM is irrelevant (there are multiple), though the "Lua abstract machine" has the interesting requirement of being an embeddable sandbox. No operating system; everything inside the VM comes in along with the application.

• JavaScript: a language that spawned an abstract machine with three choices of operating system: a very small one (Node), a very large one (the browser runtime), and one in the middle (Macromedia Flash.) Node-Webkit and Electron are examples of a non-embedded instance of the JavaScript abstract machine running the browser OS.
Not likely. High startup valuations are about protecting previous investors' money. We may see fewer deals or earlier IPOs as some of the funding for startups finds other investment opportunities, but the changing rate shouldn't fundamentally alter investors' desire to protect their investment.
In which case you should either pick a provider that doesn't intentionally break your network, or failing that, tunnel your traffic.
You don't need to do anything inside the Schengen area in order to be allowed to "reside permanently". For the citizenship, it's a different issue I guess.
> take photo or choose from library

I choose wrong.. Every time.
if you change the assessment every so often, you could permit people to release their work eventually.
"free" and "ad-supported" are mutually exclusive if you ask me.
I use it purely for image hosting/no ads/no public gallery. It's amaaaazing haha
> What happens when more and more of us abandon fiat currencies for cryptocurrencies?

Short answer: Pigs will fly.

Long answer, in order for this to happen, the high transactional costs of cryptocurrencies (FX costs, electricity, blockchain rewards, transaction fees, etc.) will have to look reasonable compared to the cost of doing business in "fiat" currency. This is currently only true for illegal activity, such as drug dealing or evading currency controls, but if the world changes enough to make cryptocurrencies a reasonable alternative to the majority of people, something terrible has happened to the world.
I thought it had no outside ;0)
Well how are his kids?

Edit: Seriously, he seems like a fun parent.
Backtracking is required in a lot of cases. Consider matching the pattern /^(AA|AB)*$/ against the string "AAAAAAAAB". Before it can come up with the answer (it doesn't match) the engine has to backtrack all the way from right to left.
I can also recommend the rest of the Numberphile videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A - as well as the other channels by the same person.
There's no way to show that but to do it. I welcome such an experiment.
No, it really isn't.

There isn't anything resembling scientific consensus on huge swathes of this stuff. Anything as straightforward as the claim I was responding to is an extraordinary claim. As such it requires support.

Where I'm coming from is this:

- If you do any sort medical research you quickly learn that demonstrating even simple causal relationships is difficult. Demonstrating it for something as difficult to control for properly as diet is extremely difficult, and it mostly fails.

- The vast majority of information on dietary effects easily available to the lay public is, to put it bluntly, mostly marketing B.S. of various kinds.

- I was probably being unfair to the original comment but find it frustrating the number of times you see "Oh, I'll apply flavor-of-the-year, wave my hands about the mechanism, and voila, the answer is probably X".

I probably shouldn't have said anything, as it's unlikely to be productive.
That's destruction, not wiping. If you are buying new servers as part of rebuilding you don't exactly need all the data downloaded in a 10 hour window.
posted about the same time you posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9765025
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heh yeah ok sorry - changed to 'botched design execution'
The U.S. puts about 600,000 people per year in prison: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p12tar9112.pdf. In Canada, it's 90,000: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2014001/article/11918/.... The definitions of "custody" might not be quite the same, but on a per capita basis that's roughly 50% more in Canada.

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23pri... ("If lists were compiled based on annual admissions to prison per capita, several European countries would outpace the United States.")

What differs is that we keep them there much longer. Cocaine trafficking will get you a few years in Canada in most provinces, versus 5 years minimum in the U.S. and potential 10 or 20 depending on quantity and prior convictions. There is no three strikes law in Canada. In the U.S. many states will give you a life sentence for three violent felonies (in California, even three non-violent felonies).
Follow up to: We came up with a cure to cancer and no VC wants to fund us
Well, quite a bit has happened in the last few weeks since I posted here. For one, we got a response from investors, but none of the ones I expected.

I had six meetings lined up with some top VC firms, but really none of them focused on the bio space so I decided to cancel and focus on the firms that do. If they don't focus on biotech what could they contribute if our goal is to do clinical trials after all.

I have had some key investors come up and share their input, and their personal problems in relation to the research we are pursuing, which was good to see that even investors are prone to the realities of cancer.

Another thing I found in going back and doing research is that most firms I took a look at have not invested in something as interesting as us, which is quite encouraging.

In looking for a startup facing challenges like us, only one start up stood out, Juno Therapeutics, which started in 2013, went IPO soon after and is now worth 4.5 B. So that is good news to see that we are probably in the same realm as they are, as we have a potential cure on our hands too, which not only works on blood but other types of cancer too.

Most importantly, someone from here, who I won't name but came to the rescue and has been helping us out quite a bit lended a hand in giving me very much needed and insightful advice (such as seeking investors who focus in the biospace vs. chasing all investors) although I would like more commitment and possibly funding.

I am still looking to see if there are others out there, hopefully reading this, who would like to help us, and work with us most of all, in fundraising among other things.

Our target is at least 15-20 million for series A, which should not be hard to achieve considering we will be using it to fund our first clinical trial that was extremely positive in results.
Everything is probability. Why since out some statements as deserving of qualification?

You said all knowledge is inductively reached, why didn't you say "probably"?!
2. I know this is anecdotal, but when I was unemployed I often didn't socialize because I simply couldn't afford the luxury. Many social activities are fairly expensive, depending on your area, friends, and preferences.
There is a pretty simple order of operation you can target if you want:

1) As you onboard and get your environment setup simultaneously write a Vagrantfile so that you can provision a local dev environment in an automatic fashion.

2) Set up an automatic monitoring solution. This shouldn't take longer than 30 mins but will be all it takes to provide proof that lack of tests and deploys directly from local to prod are endangering the stability. It will also allow you to pinpoint outages coinciding with deploys.

3) Write an extremely basic test script. Even if it is nothing but a bash script that uses curl commands to do auth, the top 5 transactions, and that's it it will still be better than nothing. You don't need 100% coverage for tests to be useful. Most of the time there are a key ten to twenty tests that can cover 80% of the core stuff that you don't want to break.

4) Any time you figure out how an endpoint works, or have to ask one of the other engineers something take 5 minutes to commit this meatspace knowledge you just learned to a bitspace markdown file somewhere in your repo.

The nice thing is that these are all things that take minimal time, but have a huge multiplicative effect on your productivity and that of others. You should be able write better code faster than your coworkers and the results will speak for themselves.
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Sound logic, but it is not an automatically enforced one.

Take waste collectors, for example:

Very few people want to do it, very few people actually do it. And it is necessary. By our sound logic, their salaries should be soaring, but they're not.

On the other hand, take lawyers in the U.S. A huge number of people want to do it. A huge number of people ends up doing it (I think the number of lawyers tripled in 30 years, for a 40% increase in population), and compared to waste collection, it is not that necessary a profession. But the salaries don't follow. They have probably dropped compared to what a lawyer used to make in the 60's (I'm not sure), but those who end up doing it still make good money.

So it doesn't seem to be a law of nature that is enforced automatically.

What do you think?
I 100% plan to do that. It's a very exciting idea
Probably - duplicate from actual reddit article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9766565
How many board seats do they still have?
Our exercise can't be cheated on because we discuss it with the candidate during the in-person interview and even ask them to change the code in a simple way.

Also, the exercise is designed to be original and so a solution can't be Googled.
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> Reddit, who was struggling at the time.

This is totally incorrect, BTW. Our traffic was already double Digg's at that point. Their v4 failure caused a noticeable but small bump in traffic.
A late April 1st repost (http://itsfoss.com/microsoft-announces-linux-os/)
No, that's an immigrant enforcing the affidavit of support as a third party beneficiary against the sponsor, I've heard of cases like that, though they are relatively rare.

What I was talking about was where a government agency sues to recoup funds when a beneficiary uses in a means tested program. That I've never seen and google doesn't seem to come up with any examples.
The voice in that book seems different from the voice in the video, but what do I know :). Cliff turned me on to the "peoples republic of berkley" Does anyone call it that anymore?
another interesting fact is that reddit just last week released api functionality to access reddits cache of all thumbnails and native resolution of post images on their own infrastructure.

Of course they've must have cached thumbnails before but this seems like a giant expansion that must consume rather much resources... or maybe they did this before and just didn't expose the functionality, but it seems tied to their new mobile webpage
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Most of the problems of coding interviews can be solved by good reference checking. Code problems in isolation will never expose how a developer will do when faced with real-world issues, users, QA, and teammates.

Why are people so afraid to pick up the phone and talk to references? I'm always happy to give out my references, and always delighted to talk about the good devs I've worked with, with specifics about what they've done.

Standardized tests don't work for schools and don't work for jobs.
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I feel that if you are asking a company to invest $100k/yr on you, it is not unreasonable for them to ask for a few hours of your time.
I am between asciidoc and org-mode. Org-mode has nice note-taking features. Asciidoc has the best export (html and pdf) I've seen.

With the calc package, emacs can even do basic symbolic math (e.g calculate a derivative function)!
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You're supposed to put the year the material was copyrighted, not the current year.
This is how Docker actually plans to make money
Isn't that also how Pandora (free tier) works?
What about personality? Just because you can code, does not mean you can work well with others.
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I am curious why you have that requirement. What is the fairness you are striving for?
True, I see your point, but you also can't just hand-wave away our results. I've been on many development teams that did not have a strong technical screen like this, and those teams suffered from having some technically weak members (people would would always be breaking the build, would write unmaintainable code, or would just plod along and always need help). Our team of six has none of those problems: every one of us is a strong and disciplined programmer.

The other benefit of the coding exercise is that it might filter out a certain level of impatience. We don't have coders who can't be bothered to follow [insert team process convention here].
How did Obama's AMA impact the site's traffic? Aside from that AMA completely bringing the site down, it seemed to result in a longer term increase in users.
So stop teaching and start pet sitting.
If you regard your privacy that highly that the very small change that the NSA will bug your Amazon Echo, then sure, don't buy it.

But the NSA/FBI/Virgina Police can:

get my emails from google

get my emails from my work

get my emails off my phone

read my texts, pix, and other cell phone information

listen to my phone calls

hack my shittily exposed to teh internet home server

get my facebook information

tap my ISP

search my house when I'm not there

bug my house

If they can force Amazon to record me against my will, they can force apple to. Or leveno to record on my laptop. Or the Xbox Kinect on my TV. If I were plotting to join ISIS, yea probably a bad move. Otherwise it's a very minor threat.
Exactly, I saying they are larger than even the "huge" numbers let on.
Mostly the one with my car. For example, in the car all my Itunes Radio channels show up. So I don't have to use my phone to select those channels. I wouldn't care as much if at least ONE of those millions of music apps would provide a landscape mode.
Creativity may be good for human satisfaction and happiness, but it, too, will likely fall to automation.

More and more I'm convinced that computational creativity will be able to better and more finely translate resonant emotion into consumable art than humans.
"First of all, Sir Tim’s comments are based on his personal experiences, and are therefore incontrovertible." This is actually true. When women complain about 'rampant sexism', or black people complain about 'constant racism' because of their 'personal experience' it is inappropriate to disagree with/question their experience. Tim Hunt comments on his experience, how is it different? Are people still allowed to their opinions based on their own experience?

"sometimes I have to work on my astrology charts from home when I’m menstruating or have leprosy, just so I can let the men in my lab focus on doing real science." Well, apparently this is a thing: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2857096/Forget-mat...

"Tim Hunt also mentions that men and women are constantly falling in love with each other within the lab." The workplace is one of the top places where people meet their spouse. More couples meet at work than in college.

All in all, this post perfectly highlights part of the Nobel Prize Winner's quote: "when you criticize them, they cry."
Interview environments are always stressful, but so are other common workplace situations. Being unable to manage stress effectively might contribute to poor on-the-job performance, even for people with great pure coding ability.

The process right now seems focused on finding people who are the best at only coding. In the future, do you intend to also consider communication skills? Senior developers act as mentors for junior employees, and often need to coordinate projects across multiple teams.
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I said to go with Spotify OR Apple music (if it is any good). I also said that Google Play music is fine, but not for me.
Nah, that's ok. Thanks!
In high school I read a book about this idea, "The Creative Economy", solidified my decision to go into a creative and knowledge based industry.
Are you trying to suggest that I could pay my rent with a song?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster (the Cymraeg language F is an aspirated English V sound).
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Professional licencing processes establish minimum standards of competence, training and education. They do not guarantee excellence and a license represents that its holder is no worse than the worst legally allowable practitioner. Half of all surgeons are below average. You don't want one of them if you have a choice.
Yeah, this came to mind as well. A night at the pub can easily run even a conservative drinker $20+, doing this every night (even when working) would be hard. And those costs appear in other activites as well - renting a field/equipment to play ball, renting a bowling lane, green fees for golf, tickets for events...
GDP is a weak measure of prosperity/utility. War had very high GDP, but has very low utility. It doesn't burn banknotes, but it burns everything banknotes buy, so the result is similar. The only thing economically good about war is that it gives political cover for deficit spending, which encourages productive activity (which GDP measures poorly)
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Measuring job performance is hard. A good analogy is measuring intelligence. The IQ test is clearly bullshit (it does not come close to reflecting the complexity and high dimensionality of human intelligence). That said, it's a useful research tool. Across a large number of people in aggregate, it can be used to learn things (like that leaded gas was a really bad idea). We'll be doing the same sort of (very imperfect) measurement of job performance.
One of the most enjoyable and mutually effective interviews I had included a one-hour pairing session which was language agnostic that required me to describe how I'd implement a basic data structure. The interviewer drove and implemented. This was then followed by a day long session of pairing on real problems with a number of different interviewers. Lunch was spent with some of the other team members, where we discussed basic things like culture, day-to-day affairs, and each of our histories.

This was a great approach to me, because it didn't particularly focus on anything outside of the present. We worked on solving real problems, and contributing to the project. It's a great, low-stress, method of gauging if someone has the chops for what is typically the "day-to-day" life at the given shop.
In reality though, Snapchat seems to be the better contender for that title.
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