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Fair enough point. If the test isn't reliable, then no conclusions (positive or negative) can be drawn.

How about his testimony? Even though nothing about 'police integrity' was mentioned in the EDTA test request, he talks about it in his testimony. And he assures that the blood didn't come from the vial for the samples he DID NOT even test. If that is not a proof of bias, I don't know what is.

[I never mentioned the hole in the vial in my comment. I looked in to it and found that it is absolutely possible that the vial has a hole in it. ]

I agree with other comment here where I don't know if Avery is guilty or not. However, the documentary absolutely showed how corrupt and evil the entire justice system can be and how one is at severe disadvantage if they are uneducated and poor.

For me, personally, the ultimate proof of injustice is how Ken proposed two different theories in two trials. For Avery, murder was committed in garage. For Brendan, murder was committed in the bedroom. I have learned that as per the letter of the law, it is legal. However, by doing this, Ken Kratz has confirmed that all he cares about is prosecution and he is not out seeking truth/justice.

Did you see the documentary? The FBI test and related testimony was bullshit. This is only the second time an EDTA test was done so we have to worry about the accuracy of it and more importantly, logic says:

1. If EDTA is found in the blood, blood definitely came from vial. 2. If EDTA is not found in the blood, no conclusion can be made. It is possible that test is not capable of testing for EDTA.

I have a lot of respect for you, so I would love to understand how you came to these conclusions:

* Avery is forensically tied to Halbach's car in ways that do withstand scrutiny

Which ways are this? From the documentary, they messed up the DNA testing and the EDTA test is a bunk (Not being able to test for EDTA does not mean that the blood did not come from vial)

* There is physical evidence that corroborates specific, idiosyncratic details of the story Dassey told investigators

Which are these details? I think even with the slant in the documentary, it is clear that evidence has been tempered with. Combine it with the fact that Brendon has low IQ and didn't know what he was doing, it is entirely possible that they made him say things which matches up with the physical evidence they may have planted.

I vape and I don't know if vaping is safe or not. But here's what I do know. From seeing how my body reacts to it, I think vaping is a better alternative than cigarettes to get nicotine. I am a full advocate for further research in to vaping and identifying the exact side effects.

I am really happy that you are able to quit. Nicotine as an addiction is very difficult to break and one should try every approach and see what works best for them. For those for whom 'quit your job and move somewhere' is not an option, I strongly feel that e-cig provides an alternate which is worth trying. Even if you can't quit it fully, vaping definitely is a better alternative than smoking.

I was a light smoker (a pack in 3 days) and hated that I was addicted to cigarettes. I tried nicotine gum and patch to help me quit but it didn't really work.

Then I realized that I am more addicted to the act of having something in my hand blowing smoke then nicotine. I have switched to e-cigarettes and have moved to juice with 3mg nicotine. I feel much better overall and have quit regular cigarettes.

I haven't looked at all the papers regarding e-cigarette's ill side effects but based on how my body feels, it is definitely better than regular cigarettes, no question about it.

Exactly. Blocking down known VPN/Proxy endpoints gets them 99% mileage with minimal effort. I don't think they are looking for 100% coverage here.

Never heard of this before as I mainly use MS stack.

However, my first impression is very positive.

1. Database First

Great way to distinguish your product from traditional ORMs. I am personally not a fan of code first approach especially as a LOB applications developer. I have been writing code for 15 years and the database/schema has outlived each and every application that I wrote. (I am in full agreement with lukaseder's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10880942) As an experienced developer, they immediately made their value proposition clear to me and I wanted to learn more.

2. Examples

Side by side example comparing jOOQ to SQL. A great way for me to quickly see if I like their DSL design.

3. Convince your manager page.

I absolutely loved this: http://www.jooq.org/why-jOOQ.pdf

We all have worked with 'a technical manager' who isn't really technical. When you need to purchase a tool, you need to convince your manager and this page is as good as I have seen. All commercial software development tool product websites should feature a 'Convince your manager' page.

NYC subway may be better in other aspects but as a New Yorker, I agree with parent that DC system is way cleaner than NYC.

Thanks to software, it is extremely easy to not have spelling error. So if they can't achieve this simple thing, how can I trust them to get the facts right which requires significantly more effort? For an author I don't know, a spelling error is a huge negative signal for me personally.

I was born and brought up in India. When I was going to school in 1990, my dad used to earn around 6,000 INR / month (120$/month, exchange rate was 50 back then). We ate out probably once every few months but even then, the salary was enough to feed family of 5 and send me and my sisters to school. I think you lack the perspective on how poor India and China is.

Couldn't agree more. It is almost impossible to have a staging environment which is EXACTLY like the Production environment. A slightest difference can introduce bug in Production which will get missed out in staging. And if you can run your experiment in Production without any downside, why not?

That is my dream. Right now, many Windows GUIs (SmartGit/SourceTree) use 'git.exe' to manage the actual Git repositories.

If libgit2 is fully mature, I can imagine more GUIs/tools will be built to manage/analyze the git repositories.

I am originally from India and came to the US 10 years ago. I still can't believe that you can not call up a doctor/clinic/hospital in US and get a price quote for something routine.

Chris's experience is representative of what one can expect from the Indian health care system. If you are a working, middle class person, the free market health care works extremely well.

I would echo the same sentiments as others. The watch design looks great, however, it does look like a photoshop render than an actual watch. If this was not posted on HN, I would have immediately ignored it as a scam. Have you shipped the watch to any customers?

Eric Lippert did a great series on covariance and contravariance and how they are implemented in C# and various design decisions which went in to it. I would highly recommend it if you use C#.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/tags/covariance+...

As a free resource, I would highly recommend http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/

If you know C# well, this article should definitely open your eyes about what F# brings to the table:

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/is-your-language-unre...

I hear you however that's shortsighted on part of the employer. As an employer, you have a projects/tasks which needs to be done, you set up estimates on how long it should take. If the employee does it within those estimates, what he/she does in their spare time should not matter at all.

Personally, I would love to hire a person who is doing side projects to keep learning. I feel very confident that they will be able to take care of the regular tasks assigned as part of the job.

Your website is extremely well done.

1. Great typography. 2. Useful illustrations and 3. A great single column layout, which is easy on the eyes. 4. No annoying popups asking me to subscribe to mailing list. 5. Loads super fast.

And to top it all, the actual content is amazing. I am subscribed!

As I replied to the parent comment, this is not how H1B works. H1B is given for a given LCA which is location specific.

Actually, H1B already addresses that. H1B is based on Labor Condition Application (LCA) which is location specific. If the employee changes location (even for the same employer), they are required to file an LCA with USCIS (They don't have to go through the whole H1B process). However, this rule is very poorly enforced. I have personally seen cases where USCIS has rejected the H1B renewal if they found out that you changed your location without filing a new LCA.

I have spent 10 years in American Immigration system (became permanent resident 2 years ago) and it goes without saying that the immigration process has been the most frustrating part of my stay here.

Here's something funny. In last few years, all the reputed lawyers (Murthy, Ron Gotcher and others) have setup an online portal where you, as a client, fill in everything online. This includes scanning various documents and uploading them. The online portal provides a great workflow which minimizes data entry and avoids data errors. The same portal allows you to chat with your lawyer/paralegal if you have any questions. At the end of this process, the lawyer firm will generate correctly filled in immigration documents which they will print and send it to you. You sign them and send it back so that they can forward it to USCIS! I know it's not practical or possible, but when I was working through this portal, I wished USCIS would just buy this system so that I don't have to pay thousands of dollars to laywers.

I am not sure how you can reform the labor certification process when the goal of the process is to find 'whether there are qualified Americans' to do this job.

Other than a very few cases, I guarantee you that there is not a single job where you can't find an American to do the job if you are willing to pay the price.

I spent 10 years on H1B and my experience (and many of my other friends) does not match yours. Two things:

1. H1B involves a lot of paper work/legal work. There are not that many companies who are familiar with the process and are willing to spend time and energy to sponsor your H1B. This reduces the potential employer pool drastically. (Personal anecdote: I used to do contracting when I was on H1B and could not accept many potential job offers due to H1B)

2. While it's true that you are not subject to H1B quota, you are still subject to the process and can get your petition rejected. (Persona anecdote: My friend tried to switch companies on H1B and found that the LCA was rejected because company lawyer made a mistake)

I don't know why you are getting downvoted, I upvoted you. A big positive for using condom is that it's easily verifiable by the other partner. However, I can imagine that there is another big market where partners are in a trusted relationship (either marriage or live in partner) and would like to use male contraception.

I had never heard of Prestodb. That looks very interesting. Any other solutions that you are familiar with?

For me, the most interesting part is SPICE. To implement a data warehouse, one creates a star schema (OLAP) database from a regular OLTP database. This involves massive amount of work. It looks like SPICE aims to replace the need for OLAP database and produce similar data directly from OLTP systems. I would love to know more about this engine. I hope Amazon open sources the engine (I highly doubt that they will do it).

That is AWESOME. I wish I had your sense of humor. You should start a Tumblr with these emails.

What's your development experience? I am guessing that you haven't worked on line of business applications for big companies which takes years to develop.

I think it's a mistake to think that Jira and FogBugz are only used for tracking 'bugs'. They are obviously used for that but everyone I know uses them to track everything related to their software. Track features/support questions/infrastructure changes etc.

To give you an example, I am part of 50+ developer team implementing straight through processing for a large hedge fund. This involves developing variety of systems which are highly dependent on each other. Jira tells me that I have 120 items which I need to implement by this year end. Mind you, this is just one system. There are at least 10 more systems like that. I can confidently say that there at least 1000 items in our overall list which we need to work on. You absolutely need a tool like FogBugz or Jira to track them properly.