jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape." (Swedish Chief Public Prosecutor Eva Finné).

That quote comes from before the EAW was issued. If it had any legal significance Assange's lawyers would have referred to it. I'm not sure why you are referring to it, since you must know all this.

>Try the actual court ruling. Section 142 is relevant, as are the closing remarks.

Did you mean to refer to a different section? Section 142 mostly just contains the submission from the Swedish prosecutor explaining why Assange can't be charged until he's arrested. It certainly doesn't say anything to indicate that the investigation could move beyond the "preliminary investigation" stage without an arrest. This claim of yours remains unsourced.

>The British courts never ruled that Assange's behavior constituted rape.

I said they ruled that Assange's alleged actions constitute rape, as indeed they did. It is not their business to rule on whether his actual actions constituted rape, as they're determining whether or not he is to be extradited, not putting him on trial for rape. (See 71 of the High Court judgment for a very clear explanation of this.)

> There was no examination of whether the description seemed reasonable

This is simply false and I'm kind of surprised that you'd make this claim. Part 72: "Nonetheless...we will express our view on what difference it would have made if we had taken [the material in the prosecution file] into account in determining whether the description of the conduct was fair and accurate." Section 77: "It must therefore follow in respect of offence 1 that the challenge made fails, even if the extraneous material was taken into account." In other words, the court considered this issue and decided that (a) the description was reasonable and (b) that it didn't matter in any case whether it was or it wasn't. You may not like conclusion (b), but you should not let this obscure the fact that the court also drew conclusion (a).

>The person you are citing as an expert is either confused or malicious.

Again, you're getting mixed up. Greenwald pointed out that the Swedish government can veto extradition requests. He did not say that they can authorize extradition requests without the approval of the Swedish courts. In your previous post you said "...extradition from Sweden to the United States [does not] require permission from the Swedish courts". This claim false, so far as I can see, and unsourced. Neither Greenwald not the experts he cites say anything to support it.

> If you want to convince me that this is an "ordinary" prosecution

I'm not sure why you keep going off on this tangent. I think it's a legally and morally justified prosecution, and so "ordinary" in that sense. I don't know (and cannot know) whether Assange's public profile is part of the reason that the EAW was issued. Perhaps it was, perhaps it wasn't. Either way, the EAW remains legitimate on its own terms.

> extradited for allegedly not wearing a condom

You must know this is a dishonest summary of Assange's alleged conduct, so I suppose there is no point in correcting it (the High Court judgment has the details).
Doubtful. I know people in the ICANN registrar constituency, and to the best of my knowledge there have been no discussions of this.

Now, what is the case is that there's been a crackdown, due to pressure from law enforcement agencies, on incorrect details being set on domains. However, this actually has no effect on what's published in WHOIS because the only actual requirement is that the registrar have the correct details for the domain on record and escrowed. So long as the registrar has correct details, the registrar can mask the detail in WHOIS however is applicable, so long as it's clear that WHOIS privacy is in place.
Thanks man, glad you like it!
The sustainability is a good point! Within the US there are around 11k new borns per day and the average age of first time parents is 25.6 years old. Worldwide there are everyday around 370k new borns and the average age for first time parents is even younger (22.8 years old). That in combination with how much money first time parents spend for their new borns can be an interesting market.
We are right now working on the next update. If you have any additional thoughts please let us know. Happy holidays!
>It's like the other irony that we use tariffs to 'protect' domestic industry and embargoes to 'punish' foreign industry, yet they are merely different words for the same thing.

And the tragedy is that the majority of voters don't understand this, when it would only take a few hours of econ 101 to teach.
> Is it possible to make a hundred accounts and make them upvote a post?

Yes

> Would those upvotes count?

Nah. The details are not clear because it's part of the secret sauce, but the system has some voting ring detectors. Also, users smells most of that attempts and will flag the post and notify the mods.

> Is it considered white-hat to try this myself?

Ask the mods. The contact link is at the bottom.
I tried looking for more information, but all I can see without logging in is the basics put up on the front page. So, I'll ask my questions here.

Is expiration monitoring done solely through certificate transparency logs or also by connecting to the host? I assume both, but I couldn't find a confirmation of this.

Can the service monitor hosts that aren't accessible publicly? For example, using an agent running inside a company's internal network.

If the answer above is "Yes" then a follow up question is:
Does this service support certificate checking for certificates that aren't on certificate transparency logs? That is, certificates generated from a company's internal certificate authority.
Gyroflow[0] is a free & open-source video stabilization software using gyroscope data.

[0] https://gyroflow.xyz/
This reminds me of Dan Abramov's post about identifying when not to be smart. https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/
A significant improvement is to instead use

tar -c files | gzip > ../foo.tgz

No messing around with flags, just a single one saying that you want to create an archive rather than extract one. No messing around with filename parameters—that's what the shell is there for.
What's your point? They can afford to switch from Islamic calendar to Gregorian, because the majority already use Gregorian. It doesn't mean that it will be easy to make a country switch to a 13-month calendar that nobody else use
Does 8 cups of coffee should count as "under the influence"?
You're right, of course, but as you say a lot of what we see in the show is for the sake of the drama. I think there's no way to put the genie back in the bottle when it comes to our technology enabling ubiquitous surveillance: How can you be sure that everyone is obeying policy (around how to use the collected info) unless you have a surveillance system to watch them in the first place?

It doesn't matter what we think the policy is if we can't control the "root" of the system, and we can't be sure we control the "root" without being able to check on people (ourselves) to make sure they haven't somehow wrested control from us.

"Trusting trust" gets even more crucial once nanotech starts to hit.

I don't like it but as far as my analysis has proceeded I can only imagine a humane-but-totalistic system being workable, and the best most widely-known image of such is (I think) Star Trek. ;-)
And quite a few of the 'stars' are galaxies themselves. Lots of red-shifted spirals.
First place I published it after thinking about it. Didn't know if it would get any attention at all, so just went ahead and did the simplest thing by posting the FB link.

I'll fill out the README a bit more now, thanks for the feedback :)
I'd love to make this happen, but it won't be possible unless they support open federation, which is currently impossible when using your phone number as the identifier. I do plan to support Axolotl in conjunction with our provider-agnostic push solution, which could potentially provide a bridge between the two platforms.
Carrying ballast is generally a PR move used to sell superlight bicycles to amateurs. What has happened more generally is that the minimum weight has led to innovation, as reducing the importance of weight brings a lot of other factors into consideration.

The most significant change has been the shift towards aerodynamics. Component shapes have been optimised in ways that are far from ideal structurally, but provide considerable aerodynamic benefit.

A Cervelo S5 frame (optimised for aero) is 300g heavier than an R5 frame (optimised for weight). A set of 60mm-deep wheel rims might add 400g over a 30mm-deep pair, but pay for itself in drag reduction.

Weight reduction is still significant, but not purely for its own sake - saving weight allows you to 'spend' it on aero improvements. Notably, most time trial bikes are still well over the UCI minimum weight, because drag reduction is much more valuable than weight savings on relatively flat TT stages.
Not easy isn't equal to not possible. Math isn't easy for most people, that doesn't disprove math. If the claims of EHM cannot be tested, then EMH is obviously nonsense.
Without wishing to belittle the privacy concerns of my fellow HNers, I wonder how long it will take for people to just be ok with being tracked in this way? This seems like one of those social changes that feels strange and uncomfortable at first, but over time becomes the accepted norm.
No, it's a Sinatra-inspired framework for .NET ...and it's quite good!

(Thus the name. Frank Sinatra's daughter is named Nancy Sinatra)
This is where your analogy retreats into a kind of magic that distracts from the issue. You magically assume that $1000 compensates the company, the distribution pipeline, and the store for all of the lost opportunity of a missing item. This cost varies depending on how many items there are, what space the item is taking up in the store, where the store is located, the time that the item is being sold, etc. The assumption that this is supposedly all wrapped up in a sum 1/10th of the sticker price, while at the same time trying to use the disparity between that sum and the sticker price as moral leverage for the analogy, makes the analogy seem very dishonest.
Thanks! I did so.
Not my money :)

Look, it's very easy. Just like those Steorn guys, you either produce something that's big and does something really strange -- or you don't. What usually happens, as you know, is that the experimenter creates something that is basically reproducible lab error. So it's there, but it's small, and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to make it macro-sized. They run out of money, still convinced they're on to something. At that point you have the newspaper articles, the full-page ads, and so on.

It's a well-trodden path, no doubt. But I don't see any of these guys appealing to mysticism or supernatural forces. All of them think that either they'll make something of wonder or it will fail. So both the people in question and the audience share some common framework. Just like watching people argue politics, it makes for a nice example of how really smart people can fool themselves. That's something we all can learn from.

Plus I have unshakable faith that some sort of field propulsion possible, although I have no idea how far away it might be. I base this on many years of watching science fiction shows on TV <g>
One issue is that once you find your level, Elo should keep you around a 50/50 win rate. So it doesn’t feel like you’re making progress or improving even if in a real sense you are.

It’s also a bad fit for team games. But ranking individual contribution to a team is hard. Even for something like the NBA where there’s obviously a ton of incentive to do this, statistical methods rely on a large sample size and often need to be taken with a grain of salt.
> It's definitely not possible. These have to be rewritten with the specific autodiff /ML framework in mind.

I don't understand why it's not possible. You're asking if it's possible in the language. I don't see anything stopping you from, as you say, writing your own framework, or simply doing it in TF. Perhaps my ignorance of Julia is showing :)
This depends on the OS. Solaris and Windows both do strict accounting by default, and overcommit is opt-in at a fine-grain API level. Linux is relatively extreme in its embrace of overcommit. So extreme that strict accounting isn't even possible--even if you disable overcommit in Linux, there are too many corner cases in the kernel where a process (including innocent processes) will be shot down under memory pressure. Too many Linux kernel programmers designed their subsystems with the overcommit mentality. That said, I still always disable overcommit as it makes it less likely for innocent processes to be killed when under heavy load.

An example of a split-the-difference approach is macOS, which AFAIU implements overcommit but also dynamically instantiates swap so that overcommit-induced OOM killing won't occur until your disk is full.

Also, it's worth mentioning that on all these systems process limits (see, e.g., setrlimit(2)) can still result in malloc returning NULL.
Long live Python!
I think I would have dismissed the amazon ad immediately without a second thought. Reads like all the other low-quality postings I see today.
> But computers don’t process images the way humans do, Yosinski said.

This means that come the singularity AIs will have to use AI specific CAPTCHAs in order to distinguish between humans (aided by dumb computers) and other AIs.
I rarely see these, "playing the victim" arguments shut down. I'll frequently see them deconstructed, explained away, dismissed, but not forcefully and cunningly defused.

Here's my attempt: Academic environments have historically been places of cultural experimentation diametrically opposed to the stifling culture of the workplace.

How desperate and bereft of sensitivity and creativity must you be to emulate the corporate model of HR in your classroom?
More correct.

It really bugs me that software engineers claim that they're "overpaid" at $120k. Now, $120k isn't poor by any stretch of the imagination, not even in New York or San Francisco. For a talented entry-level programmer, it's about fair. We're not exactly Mr. Moneybags, though. We work a lot harder than most people in technology, and while some of us get a decent payout (those who are decent negotiators) there are many who are terrible at representing their interests, and they bring the whole market down.

We have a tendency to negotiate against ourselves and it hurts us. Right now, we're still able to get fair-ish salaries in a booming market, but we (as a tribe) get so little in terms of equity, cultural control, autonomy, and general respect, compared to what we could. Many programmers still have to deal with "user stories" and "Scrum tickets" when they have 5+ years of experience! That's fucking nuts. This is supposed to be an R&D job in which we advance the state of human knowledge, technology, automation and processes.

That doesn't just hurt us. It hurts society because a bunch of self-promoting charlatans come in, get those VC bucks, and make Snapchats and Clinkles when we could be doing so much more.
Nice. If I was starting this project today (it's pretty mature at this point) that'd definitely be something I'd look into.

That being said, when Kinesis previewed it had only Java bindings for KCL. Not sure if that's still the case, but that'd be a limiting factor for our shop unfortunately.
The consequences of the lexer hack are hard on humans (typename, most vexing parse, order of declarations being significant, weird function type syntax), not just compiler writers.
> there were forums well before SNs were a thing, and while they were contentious at times, they weren't constantly at the brink of explosion/tribal wars.

The ones I was on were sure tribal and it was just a gaming forum that could get pretty ridiculous over just Xbox vs PS2 vs Gamecube. Because humans are viscously tribal.

I think the like-button is a distraction from a reality we don't want to admit.
I'm not sure this is the reason, but function types look better if you put the return type after the parameter types. Compare C to Kotlin:

float (* f)(int);
val f : (int) -> float;
float[] (* map)(int[], float (*)(int));
val map : (int[], (int) -> float) -> float[]

You could put the return type before the function, but then the type will look inconsistent with the function declaration:

float[] map(int[] arr, (int) -> float f)
fun map(arr : int[], f : (int) -> float) : float[]

So if you're passing functions around, it tends to look nicer if you always put the type after the variable/argument/function
A few years ago I heard people talking about Apple over-metric-ing. I think even Tim Cook was touting how few kernel panics and crashes there were in modern macOS. They had been tracking crashes and putting effort to reduce them. However, the the new tallest poppy were bugs without metrics, like unexpected behaviors, performance regressions, etc.
Removing the heated swear words it's down to "technology X is bad". Can you list arguments? Otherwise readers without scala and spark knowledge won't learn.
Bug report: drag and drop does not work in Firefox. Nothing works in Safari.

Looks very nice in Chrome though.
> The tech shortage is present more than ever in every level of the industry.

At every level of the web and mobile sectors of the industry, maybe.
This utopian concept has been exaggerated by Ayn Rand in "Atlas Shrugged" when many successful entrepreneurs has moved away to start their own country.
Can't agree more. I don't intend to complain about my job at all, my colleagues are great and I earn enough, but I cannot put my creativity into it.
I'd love to do new things, actually write (Python) code, solve interesting problems, work with huge distributed systems and optimize performance and scalability. But also doing more on the creative and user experience side.
Now I'm just making minor fixes and adding minor features, and the most challenging aspect is avoiding stepping on mines in a big minefield of poorly written tightly coupled legacy code. Even the simplest things take days, and then there's the bureaucracy...
This makes those 8 hours a day seem a bit wasted, time flies and when I get home I'm too tired to do much constructive. Too bad I'm a fucking wuss and too scared to start freelancing :/
Thanks for the clarification Chris; my worst fear would have been you trading a few years in exchange for your university tuition. But seems like that wasn't the case.

Enjoy your journey, don't forget to keep hacking :-)

Cheers!
Oh, don't get greedy when taking supposed insider tips about a stock :)
Wait, you lived in/on Sealand? I'd love to know how you ended up living there.
I was Eric Schmidt, I would be delighted by this article because it's evidence that people no longer treat Google as a search engine that finds relevant webpages, but as an oracle that gives you the best advice and recommendations. And that is obviously more monetizable.

Unfortunately for us, the consumers, it can't actually deliver that service yet, anymore than city authorities can ensure the best retailers rent the best locations.
Backblaze, a ReadyNAS as a Time Machine server and JungleDisk. I know I could drop Backblaze or Jungledisk, but I never got around to deciding between them.
It looks like it may be difficult to mount & balance yourself on this if your mobility is limited.

See the few seconds starting at 1:13 in the video.
I know this is totally unrelated, but this is a sports thread, and you recently recommended _Inner Game of Tennis_ to me. I just wanted to let you know that I read it and loved it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1435488
it is a big topic. it might help if you specified what platform/languages you are using.
I think the point is that few people carry their passport around with them on a day to day basis even in countries where they are very common.

I've lived in the UK and Oz and in both countries my drivers license stays in my wallet ready for when an over eager bouncer to ask me to prove my age or for when I sign up to a new video store on a whim. My passport pretty much stays at home unless I'm going to the airport.
Remember, most restrictions apply only if you want to distribute the resulting code.
In general, if you don't distribute your code (or the open source code you incorporate), there are no restrictions to what you can do. For instance, you're free to modify the Linux kernel for internal use in your company without ever publishing your modifications.
If you are to redo it all over, I sure hope you won't reinvent the custom ad solution bit again.

You can thank the plethora of open RESTful APIs for that :)

I've just finished implementing the Trafficspaces ad server API and oh boy does it create all sorts of new possibilities.
Should it be called matter if it's mass-less? Or is the article wrong and did this have a mass?
It is "turkey" not "Turkey" - the country. This headline seems to capitalize all the words and this changes the meaning.
IPS monitor here - completely illegible. Not all monitors have the same subpixel properties?
The period when the USA experienced the greatest growth relative to other nations was the period from 1893 to 1929. When that era started the USA had a trade deficit and there was major public outcry about the amount of debt that the USA owed to Britain. But the deficit and the debt didn't hold back the USA.
Actually, they are not the same. See the trivia question in the lunk article.
30 hrs/week * 4.3 weeks = 130 hours in a month.
$2000/130 hours = $15/hour

You can take on freelance writing gigs that pay the equivalent of $15/hour pretty easily. And these have the extra benefits of being incredibly flexible in regards to work hours, can start pretty much immediately, with no real sales effort required.
Bad boy!

>hello|goodbye
>|
>>Result is 'hello|goodbye'

>That's a nice dog you have there.
>.
>>Result is ''

I usually handle this with:

my $pattern = '\\'.substr($in,0,1);
$in =~ s/$pattern//g;

but it still doesn't feel safe. String operations in perl usually do what you want, but be careful with them!
Yeah, well. I don't get it. Could somebody summarize it in terms a 9 year old like myself can understand?
Since c is a velocity, 1/c doesn't have units of time; it has units of time/distance.

Special and general relativity (at least, as commonly formulated) also assume that space and time are isotropic and continuous, which means there is no "granule", no "smallest increment" in the field equations. That may or may not be true; we're still trying to figure out if spacetime is quantized or not.
This question was answered by Armin Ronacher three days ago.[0]

"Why for instance is it not a good idea to write a library in Go? The reason for this is that Go for needs quite a heavy runtime that does garbage collection and provides a scheduler for it's coroutines."

[0] http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/8/18/beautiful-native-libraries...
1/2 OT:

Navigating to La Cucaracha, i.e., literally to The Cockroach?

Is there really a place called La Cucaracha? I would have expected Google to show ads for exterminator services or maybe a link to a YouTube video featuring the La Cucaracha song … ;)
I was ready to discount this as one of the most meaningless and vapid things I had ever read, but then I realized that she wasn't referring to economics bubbles.
Women and men have distinctly different energies, even over text-based mediums. While this wouldn't necessarily stop them from doing this, it's not how I'd design the service.
One of which groups sorry? Not sure which post you were replying to.
Isn't the burden of proof on the police to prove that you are lying? So if neither side has proof it must be assumed that you did indeed just happen to lose it.
Even attempting to implement such a rule could have benefits. We could end up with formalized proofs of how those are are objectively contradictory, which in turn could be factored into the design of future laws as a preventative measure. Imagine "test-driven legislation," if you will.