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> You don't have to be forced physically for it to count as rape/sexual assault as far as I am aware.

Modern public opinion != legal opinion. It varies wildly between jurisdictions. And what's on the law books isn't necessarily what's effectively enforced. In some jurisdictions, there is no effective way to prosecute for rape within marriage.

Whereas where I am, it's apparently legally required to continually get positive verbal consent throughout the act (as told to me by a legal student ~2 years ago), though this hasn't been tested in courts, and seems to be written to a fantasy of how humans behave; it doesn't matter how enthusiastic you are about getting consent, if you're not verbalising it constantly, then technically a crime is going on. Tough for you if you are turned off by talking during the act. Of course, take this to court and you're faced with the usual he-said/she-said problem of rape cases.

Legal definitions of rape - the definitions that count - vary considerably.
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I'm still appalled by the fact that Sweden, which seems to be one of the best countries to live in, cannot handle this situation better.
a wider pod means a wider tube means a lot more money to put down in front.
That's the thing: This pod could potentially go 396 km/h given that they are able to lease, buy or expropriate land in a straight enough line allowing them to construct mostly straight tubes miles after miles and given that there are no natural barriers like hills, mountains, rivers etc. that prevent this either. But those same conditions are the main obstacles for traditional trains reaching high speed. It's really hard to find land for straight rails nowadays. Railroads tend to go from city to city, not from one point in an empty desert to the other. So they have to bend and twist and turn or go through tunnels. Most of the efforts on getting higher speed in Europe is about straightening out the rails and laying down modern rails.

Maybe the hyperloop can do sharper turns at high speed, and probably next generation of the pods or the loop allows for higher speed in general. But that the winner of the first attempts promises 396 km/h and not the +1,000 km/h we heard about before, does deflate the whole idea.
Don't be fooled. Both Assange and Snowden would endure the worst treatment a human being can endure if the US had their way. Just because they don't appear to be willing to do everything to get at them does not mean that if these people fell in their lap that they wouldn't commit unspeakable atrocities.
> Microsoft Azure gives hosting to startups under their Bizspark program

My curiosity piqued, I just tried to sign up for BizSpark:

1. I go to http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

2. It's "Down for maintenance"

3. Try again in an hour

4. Still down

5. Lightbulb goes off, check status.azure.com

6. "We're having issues."

7. Hmmmmm... Probably not a coincidence.
>Torvalds in from the Swedish minority in Finland

Torvalds is from the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland.
It's somewhat dated now, but I loved Asimov's Intelligent Man's Guide to Science[1] when I picked it up at a used book sale in junior high. I felt it was great for putting the history of science in context in a way that I never really got from my actual schooling.

Another good one is The Dancing Universe[2], which I got as a textbook for some sort of history/philosophy of science course in undergrad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Man%27s_Guide_...

[2] http://amzn.to/1Sv6qV7
>> a non-significantly higher rate of abnormal sperm concentration was found (47.1% versus 11.1%).

As someone contemplating a vasectomy, that's not quite the result I was hoping for. Sure would be easier to just keep my phone in my front pocket. Though, I suppose I'm not really sure what "abnormal" sperm end up doing. It's kind of implied that means they just don't work when the abstract starts out "Male infertility constitutes 30–40% of all infertility cases." but what if those sperm cause birth defects instead? Seems like that's a far from ideal result as well. As always... "Investigation using large-scale studies is thus needed."
Can this be merged into the other post? This article is just quoting the BBC one.
> I think here the questioning was more of a "placing under arrest" (there was something about how the questioning is mandatory before officially declaring someone a suspect).

The point is that after questioning, they have to make a decision whether to charge him. Either way, this would have moved the case forward.

>And the questioning needed to happen in Sweden for some constitutional thing?

Not true. As shown by the fact that they a) question other suspects abroad and b) have now agreed to have him questioned in the embassy after all.
In the view of the Supreme Court of Canada, being required to pay child support to a child you never wished to father, does not constitute "harm".

It may be worth noting here that child support is considered to be something to which the child is entitled, regardless of to whom the money is in fact paid; there have been cases where rapists have received court-ordered child support payments from their victims.
and do you think the DGSE is some sort of transparent body?

They're obviously both groups you don't want to have as buddies, but the NSA has lost court battles before, and ends up complying with the rulings most of the time.

The French surveillance services openly gloat about working in a "judicial vacuum": basically all the rules of its operations are decided by the Prime Minister and their pals, and basically have no legislative boundaries.
I suspect this is what will come out in the decision tomorrow. It's not about whether Assange is using asylum to dodge being questioned after the case was reopened after political interference (as has been claimed), but whether the countries involved were doing what is required to bring the matter to a legal conclusion or whether they are using the stalemate to effectively keep Assange where he is because it suits political interests.

Moreover, they will have looked into whether his human rights have been violated. I suspect that they will have formally found that Assange's right to enjoy asylum, which was granted by Ecuador, has been violated and whether appropriate accommodations have been made to ensure that Assange's medical and other human rights have been violated.

The UK has consistently said they would arrest Assange even if he came out of the embassy for medical reasons, effectively denying him the right to asylum in the event of a medical emergency.

I can't see how the UN could set any other precedent here. Regardless of the merits or lack thereof of the Swedish case, the UK and Sweden have allegedly conspired to violate Assange's rights and there appears to be ample reason to suspect that based on leaked documentation to date.
Generally that involves declaring them a persona non grata and expelling them.
> Religion is more like a hobby

As a religious person I would say you are seeing these values as extrinsic, but MOST religious people see religion as intrinsic (AKA essential to who they are). If you reject religion of people you devalue who they are and not some "Hobby." I would warn you that that statement was more hurtful then you meant it to be.
But in the end they are not able to pay the same amount of attention to 2000 startups vs 200. Or having really a hard time providing the same quality team.

Does that in the end mean that it doesn't really matter for the success of a YCombinator startup that they can just walk randomly into Paul Graham's office and ask for advice?
And if, like me, you didn't knew what this contest was about, the explanation is one click away [1]:

"a competition that challenges coders to solve a simple data processing problem by writing innocent-looking C code that is as readable, clear, and seemingly trustworthy as possible, yet covertly implements a malicious function."

[1] http://underhanded-c.org/_page_id_5.html
No it'd be a revolution. An ion thruster with comparable performance to chemical rockets would be revolutionary and is by no means a logical extension of any technology.
I just tested gmail with emailprivacytester and it didn't fall for any of them (and only fell for the image tags when I clicked a button to allow images in the e-mail to be displayed) so they may have beefed things up in response to that site
That comment might be in the context of Germany, where people generally don't seem to get wrapped up in religious identity to the extent that they do in the US.

From what I saw living there, many Germans don't set foot in a church outside of Christmas and Easter. I sure would like to have federal holidays for all those Catholic saint's days like they do in Bavaria, though...
Account created 50 minutes ago; comment posted 47 minutes ago.

Someone's feelin' salty.
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I tried to compile it, and I also couldn't find any other flag, than -Wconversion, that would detect this:

for(i = 0; i < length; i++) sum += a[i] * b[i];
^

I managed to hide the error if return values, which are double, are replaced with float_t. I believe in that case the bug stays in, but -Wconversion doesn't detect it.

Of course the warning can always be silenced by doing something like:

for(i = 0; i < length; i++) sum += ( double )( a[i] * b[i] );

and adding a misleading comment about the explicit cast.
Hah, I've done this for years! I'm glad it has a name now. I call mine "halfbakery.txt", but it's not very catchy.
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Would need to see the full article to find out the size of their sample, but their confidence intervals are quite tight for a study of this nature, and they add in the caveat of further research being needed. This should be a least a warning correlation for cell phone users, and will make me rethink some of my usage habits.
To be fair it's high profile because it's known where he is and that he's attempting to avoid capture. Not because he's from wikileaks and he might get extradited, those merely gave him the celebrity clout to pull the stunt in the first place.

If they actually gave up and he popped up in Ecuador and he's suddenly like 'haha, the british police, usually bunch of pricks', it would be embarrassing for the whole of the UK.

So it's a bit of a catch-22 position.

EDIT: Whoops, wrote wikipedia instead of wikileaks
When will the final competition happen?
Those Oregon protestors should try that. "We're being illegally detained, because we'll be arrested if we leave!"
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Yeah, I often get annoyed when DigitalOcean doesn’t keep with with Ubuntu kernels. One of my DigitalOcean servers is running Ubuntu 15.04 and kernel 3.19.0-21. The newest kernel from Ubuntu is -49, which DigitalOcean does not have. I also have -26 in my /lib/modules, but they don’t have that either. So now I have to explicitly install -30, the latest they support, or remember to update later.

Is there a good reason they can’t automatically add all new kernels from the major distributions?
IMHO the problem is talking. When you talk about your idea you receive big part of gratification for almost no effort.
It was often TIM(e)-1212 in many exchanges. Good fun for kids in pre-electronic days.

Here's more details from AT&T about the service.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/aug/29/business/fi-lazarus2...
The article that Reuters refers to:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35490910

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention:

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Detention/Pages/WGADIndex.asp...

Apparently their report is to be published tomorrow.

I personally don't see how is he "detained" when he himself decided to sit in the Embassy. Maybe because the UK by waiting on him to exit the embassy doesn't recognize his status of having political asylum granted by Ecuador? I'd like to read the (as the article says, legally directly non-binding for the UK) report of the UN Working Group myself to adjust my opinion.

Up to then it's just media making noise, still no new information, except that the report is expected to be published.

I believe he's with reasonable probability in danger of being extradited to the US and there having the fate similar to Manning's. As far as I understand there is also some kind of "working group" formed in the US that specially works on his case, and the US really successfully does such things as demanding the extradition of people they want to prosecute and then getting them.

Edit:

If somebody wants to try to guess what the arguments of the Working Group can be, the starting point should be:

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/FactSheet26en.pd...

"according to the Group, deprivation of liberty is
arbitrary if a case falls into one of the following three categories:

A) When it is clearly impossible to invoke any legal basis justifying the deprivation of liberty (as when a
person is kept in detention after the completion of his sentence or despite an amnesty law applicable to
him)(Category I);

B) When the deprivation of liberty results from the exercise of the rights or freedoms guaranteed by articles
7, 13, 14, 18, 19, 10 and 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, insofar as States parties are
concerned, by articles 12, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (Category II);

C) When the total or partial non-observance of the international norms relating to the right to a fair trial,
spelled out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the relevant international instruments
accepted by the States concerned, is of such gravity as to give the deprivation of liberty an arbitrary
character (Category III)."

It's not about the "detention" but about the "deprivation of liberty." That has more sense.
And extend to other fields. "Awesome Politicians". "Awesome car dealers in SF".
Ask HN: Why don't more web projects start with a JVM stack?
There seems to be a real advantage to using the JVM. It has practical-to-use, interoperable implementations of a wide variety of programming languages: from statically typed OO and OO/FP languages (Java, Kotlin, Ceylon, Scala, OCaml-Java) to Lisps (Clojure, ABCL, Kawa) to GIL-less ports of popular scripting languages (JRuby, Jython). You can call Java from a slower language like JRuby for the performance-critical bits instead of having to either write an interpreter extension in C or bite the microservice bullet. Deployment is simple. There is a lot of high-quality open source libraries. The price for this, slower application startup, greater memory usage and, in JRuby's case, a degree of incompatibility with the reference implementation, seems worth paying.

Still, I don't see a great number of startups or side projects that get featured on HN using the JVM from the get-go. What are the technical and the nontechnical reasons behind this?
Huh, that last part sounds kinda interesting. Pardon my scientific ignorance, but is that 'self-containing plasma' phenomena the reason why our Sun hasn't exploded yet?
I am still holding my breath for Windows 10 to start including more and more Unix tools. We finally have ssh to be included with Windows 10 and having tools awk, sed, grep on Windows seems like a logical move for Microsoft EVENTUALLY.

For now I use vagrant all the time when I am on Windows.
“We will end development on Firefox OS for smartphones after the 2.6 release”
So safe browsing is now blocking pages where the adverts are "often not distinguishable from the rest of the page"?

IMO that covers all of Google's search result pages. Most users don't seem to realise that the top results are paid advertising...
> "But they'll kidnap him or something": is Sweden easier to be kidnapped him from?

It's not that many years ago that Swedish police cooperated in illegally black-bagging two asylum seekers and illegally handed them over to the CIA who shipped them off to Egypt - the regime they'd fleed - where they were promptly tortured by Mubaraks secret police.

If Swedish police was willing to effectively kidnap political asylum seekers and hand them off to a foreign government, in violation of Swedish law and international treaties, and not punish anyone for it, why should Assange trust them?

We know that CIA rendition flights continued for years after the above became publicly known and the Swedish government promised rendition flights would end. We know this because of Wikileaks documents. So why should Assange trust the Swedish and US governments not to conspire?

Whether or not there actually is some conspiracy (I don't believe there is), Assange has plenty of reasons to be paranoid about it.
Isn't slack basically just IRC over port 80?

(I realize that it has other features, like automatic logging. But, on the one hand, to suggest that people making meaningful and useful patches to open source projects would be incapable of figuring out IRC is absurd, and on the other hand, to suggest that putting a typical IRC client in a web browser with few other UI changes is some kind of major ease of use shift is equally absurd.)
Where was the diatribe? You invoke some kind of slippery slope argument, but it seems you are ultimately railing against an opinion you disagree with. What does PUA have to do with sexual discrimination in the workplace?

A better way to keep a high signal-to-noise ratio is chasing off poor arguments - banning certain topics or tangents from the OP is clumsy moderation.

> The degree to which my, yours, or anybody else’s knee-jerk reactions

exp's post is "a knee jerk reaction", but you aren't judging it invalid? It certainly sounds like you are...
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EU VAT action
Clearly it's possible for the Swedish prosecutor to find a means to interview him in the embassy. They could use the telephone. They could use a videoconferencing system. They could get on a plane.

Why should they?

They have a valid arrest warrant for a fugitive. Their usual process is for the fugitive to be brought to a convenient location in Sweden for questioning. Why does this fugitive have the right to insist a public servant comes to see them? (Assange's fears about extradition to the US aren't relevant to the Swedish prosecutor if they aren't intending to do that).

If I were a prosecutor dealing with a busy case load I might well do the same: especially when I can leave the whole mess for the UK to deal with!
A whistleblower is a reporter.
I was also rather confused at this. Why would he be liable for anything that happens with the app after it's been sold? Is this standard practise in such deals?
I think you're missing the whole point.

The Swedish prosecutor has failed to her their duty (as confirmed by the Swedish supreme court) to in refusing to accept Assanges statement from the UK/Ecuadorian embassy.

Had the prosecutor done her job Assanges case would have already gone through the courts, but now he has been unnecessarily detained (essentially in investigative custody, by whom isn't relevant here) for several years.

Edit: I'm not sure why this is getting downvotes, Sweden has already admitted that there's no need to have Assange in Sweden unless he's sentenced. Therefore forcing Assange to stay in the Embassy under the threat of (unnecessary) extradition to Sweden can undoubtedly be considered detainment.

Had the prosecutor done their job Assange would've been charged, got his trial and potentially (very likely, considering the evidence) found not guilty.

Of course, a guilty sentence would completely change the situation.
in my country this is the most common form of renting. the cooperatives benefit from legal protections which prevent for profits from entering the market. however it means there is no competition and prices are artificially high. also a huge amount of corruption scandals involving the higher-ups of housing cooperatives.
Of course it is. 'The rules' include things like "committing rape can cause rape allegations", "proving a rape allegation false causes criminal proceedings against the accuser", "skipping bail causes the authorities to pursue", "breaking/revoking diplomatic status damages foreign relations", etc.

The whole point of 'the rules' is that they apply to criminals; the only way to force something on criminals (or anyone) is to make them unavoidable, i.e. make it impossible to not play by the rules.

It's not like a game of chess, where the rules don't account for the use of tanks; or DRM, where "the rules" only apply to those with legal copies. It's more like Nomic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic), where the rules allow the rules to change. The difference is that Nomic's initial set of rules require unanimous agreement to rule changes (so any unfortunate consequences are ultimately a player's 'own fault' for agreeing to something long ago); the real world's initial rules were natural selection, which is a horrific way to live.
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There was a company in Poland that was building houses like that - they went bust. The main problem is cultural. People look at it and see a shed and they want a "proper" house. "Can I retire here?" "Is it an investment?". What is more, there is a segway syndrome (you like a dork). You will be that weird guy that lives in this weird house. And there is a liquidity problem.
> Some of my best current ideas are old ideas that have been tweaked by experience or external change so they are now relevant.

I can't find the reference right now but it reminds me from a scheme from Feynman.

He would keep a few ideas he's very familiar with in mind. Then every time he would be exposed to a new concept, he would consider each of his "core" ideas in light of this new concept.
The trick of "proper" GTD is not what to use, but what not: focus on eliminating inboxes. You've got too many.

Triage everything that comes into your (e)mailbox, Slack, whatever. It's the deciding what's actionable and what's not that makes your GTD work. Get the info you need from those inboxes into a single filing system, and stick to it.

Mine is OmniFocus, your mileage most likely will vary.
It is unfair, but you are still liable for child support. The argument is that the child is your responsibility - if you don't want to risk having a child, don't have sex.

Women have been known to take sperm from a used condom and impregnate themselves. If that happened to you, you would still be liable for child support.
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It is just spin (so is almost everything you read in the press, fwiw) and as such represents PR people doing their job well. You only realize the spinness when you have inside information that contradicts it.

Congratulations to jg regardless. He's very smart and I'm sure has picked up enough understanding of current AI techniques in the past couple of years. Disclosure: I've known him for 30 years or so..
But practically they are, there's nothing preventing the .se prosecutor from interviewing Assange in the embassy.

Edit: I wouldn't mind if the downvoter explained why they did so, I can't fathom that anyone familiar with the case would think I am wrong. Even the Swedish supreme court agrees with me.
Two key points:

> From 1 Jan 2015, as a seller, you have to pay VAT in any EU buyer’s country, at that country’s VAT rate, even if you aren’t in the EU.

> To prove where the buyer is, you need two non-contradictory pieces of information, which you need to store for 10 years.

Holy crap. How didn't I hear about this before?
Migrants at least use condoms when they rape Swedish girls. /s