skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kevin Kelly, when the creative director at Wired, said something similar about choosing which stories to write about. He would never write a story himself until a topic had been passed up by too many writers that it began to frustrate him.
If you really believe that, read "Legal Myths about Assange Extradition" at http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-... or Justice for Assange's myth debunker @ https://justice4assange.com .. or go straight to the leaked Swedish police transcripts and make up your own mind.
They agreed to do an interview at the embassy, then the embassy declined.
The "Where Good Ideas Come From in 4 Minutes" video in that link is good.
https://emailprivacytester.com/ by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mike-cardwell
> My wife was out of town so to “celebrate” I treated myself to In-n-Out for lunch!

I love your frugal approach. You deserve everything you got. Nice to see how professionally you both handled the negotiations and it certainly teaches me the virtue of patience!
If only it were that simple. There have been numerous occasions on which the questioning could have taken place, if that was really the point.
> Go's runtime makes no provision for interfacing to code that doesn't play by its own

This alone makes Go really unfit for developing system libraries.
The only framework that makes responsive-email easy
Ask HN: How likely is it quantum computers will become “real” consumer devices?
And if yes, in what time frame?

Or are they more of a fusion energy type thing - always 50 years away.
This is one reason why Spanner [1] uses both Atomic clocks as well as GPS for TrueTime. I wonder if it came into play during this event?

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
NASA engineers to build first integrated-photonics modem
> The command-line is awesome

Actually, a REPL Xerox style is awesome, a pure UNIX style CLI not much.
I had to laugh out loud because I have the exact same files (IDEAS and TODO, both uppercase) sitting in each of my projects as well as my homedir. On a more serious note, I can relate to a lot of the points the article makes about accumulating idea debt. I'm not sure yet whether it is holding me back, since I now have this huge list of things I might want to do, or whether it's giving me the opportunity to make a note of something and move on with daily business for the time being.
Let's Encrypt reaches 500k issued certificates
Programming is nothing but design - a full spec of what needs to happen is a program.

Like any other kind of programming, if parts are trivial you automate them, until you're at a state where what you have to do to accomplish a given task is precisely the amount of thought/uniqueness that that task involves; if you're a programmer then you never need be doing mindless drudge work (you've got a computer for that). When you've automated most of what used to be your job, reaching up or down the stack is a good way to find more things to automate (or you can simply increase throughput, but often that just means other parts of the business become the bottleneck). IME it's if anything easier to get closer to the "full brain all the time" state with web programming, because there's so little external latency, whereas in hardware there's only so much you can do before you're spending most of your time waiting for slow test cycles or actual manufacturing (even if you try to reduce the importance of those by introducing things like formal methods, others will often want to see a few test cycles to prove the effectiveness of those).
Forcing a nation is what war is about, and it rarely works out very well.

Negotiation is about finding a solution to a problem that leaves all parties better off if they follow the solution than if they don't. It is not always easy and sometimes coercion, in the form of sactions within EU and UN, is used to make one party realize what is best for them - but this also tends to work out not very well.

Not forcing people to do what you want is often a more succesful way of getting what you need.
Somewhat anecdotally...

At work, our team isn't the biggest bunch of sports fans so our shoot-the-sh1t talk is primarily fantasy start-up ideas.

We bounce the ideas off each other, critique them, laugh. Just in the last week;

I want to create a VR game that's sync'd to your music and you hook up your exercise machine to to move through the game. (inspired by a DIY post here on HN)

My boss has moved on from a device that will shut down every device in the house for family dinner onto some Medical thing he's 'working on' with a colleague.

It's all good fun, creative & social.
Why did we want Aaron Swartz to go free? He was actually charged with a felony crime.

Or maybe some times things aren't what they seem and their are political motivations, and they require politics to fight them, not just blindly following false justice
As important the issue of minorities/gender in tech is, probably people just do not want it to be brought up in every single topic.
The dark side of online dating: Half of us are lying
> (if the user is a regular user, while the the Chrome shortcuts in the Start Menu et al were installed under elevation, which is the usual case.)

Nope. Windows allows deletion of "protected" shortcuts e.g. from your desktop and launch bar.
While that was a regrettable error, you can't really compare repatration with extradition.
Self-preservation is a hell of a drug. I can't bring myself to blame him for hedging his bets.
Google for Entrepreneurs Expands Global Network
According to D-Wave you can already buy one.
Will Amazon dominate our high streets with hundreds of new bookstores?
Having ideas is easy, but actually doing something with them is different story. Ok there is minor difference between a good idea and a bad idea, but going from getting a good-enough idea to actually doing something about it, and following the project through to completion, is the hard part.

Related:

https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-most-ridiculous-startup-...
Abortion pills is not the correct translation of "dagenefterpiller". A literally translation from Swedish to English would be the day-after-pill, but the correct English term would be the morning-after pill, which has the technical name emergency postcoital contraception.

Abortion pills is used to trigger an abortion, or to use the other common term, induced miscarriage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_contraception

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_abortion
... Evading prosecution. The only thing here done is make his extradition order impossible to execute, he hasn't really evaded (ie he didn't break the conditions of his bail)
I discovered it was nearly impossible to set up pip on windows. It required installing virtual environment stuff first which was very difficult. I eventually discovered someone who had a binary wrapper of it.
If it was just for the alleged rape in Sweden then it wouldn't make any sense to hide in the embassy for almost 4 years now, since it is very likely that he would have spent less time in prison in Sweden for this crime.

It's the Supermax prison treatment including solitary confinement for life that he fears in the US.

You just have to look at how they treated Manning.

In face of that risk it certainly would feel like detention to me. Imagine someone would threaten to lock you up for life in solitary confinement and possibly even torture you on top of that if you ever left the room you are sitting in right now.

Wouldn't that feel like detention? Yes, because it is. That threat alone significantly restricts your freedom.
None anymore.
> Since the app performs so consistently and takes so little of my time (~1 hour per month) it needs to make financial sense to give it up…

Can I ask what you did with the rest of your time?
Having Assange holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy and letting the Swedish thing stew and continue to tarnish his reputation is probably just as good for them.
If the US weren't the global hegemon then our actions would resemble those of a rogue state. However, if we weren't a global hegemon, it would be unlikely that the US would be in a position to take these same actions.
She is a physicist though, which reminds me of one "controversial" statement she made in an interview.

Essentially, the interviewer asked her what she liked most about her job as Chancellor, to which she replied "I like that there's interesting new problems every day", which her critics jumped on almost immediately.

Now the thing is, she almost certainly meant that in the way a scientist talks about "problems", but it wasn't interpreted that way by political commentators.

I'm honestly not too concerned about there being a CDU instead of there being just a DU, as long as they're not pushing the Christian angle too strongly. As long as their policy is sound, they could be the Pastafari Democratic Union for all I care. Maybe the Pirate Party will step up to that role, becoming the PPP, which would net them my vote.
Finding a Niche
A relative of mine is building a house right now. They bought a property and they need to start construction within 1 year, or else they loose that property. Not sure if it works that way everywhere in Germany.
You can't seriously be saying that people potentially running into malware because they couldn't figure out with download button was the real one is reasonable?
Mostly because there's more benefit to be gained in making the web usable by non-experts than in preserving the current status quo.

There's a reason the Wild West didn't stay wild.
Google Search SVP Amit Singhal Retiring, Research Head Taking Role
For starters Sweden have laws against extraditing people for crimes where there is a risk of the offender to be executed on a guilty verdict.
Building a $7B Software Company: How to Scale Up
Firstly, this will work on ad networks other than Google, so it''s more broad reaching than anything they could do just within AdSense. This is good.

Secondly, and arguably more importantly, the way to stop these adverts is for them to cost the advertiser (in either money or time) without giving them the reward of revenue. If the ads stop working then people won't have a reason to make them. By stopping the ads in AdSense rogue advertisers would just change to a different ad network. The problem wouldn't stop.

This is a good move by Google.
These allegations of sexual assault really should be investigated in good faith. The time is coincidental, I'll grant that, with the allegations being levied against Assange shortly after WikiLeaks published something so prominent, but non-consensual sexual activity is a horrible thing to do to a person, and the impact of such should not be mitigated.
Autodesk announces 925 layoffs
Of course he broke the conditions of his bail. He was ordered to surrender himself to the court after he lost his Supreme Court hearing. He skipped bail (leaving his supporters £100k out of pocket).
Because the alternative is no questioning. The Swedish prosecutor has, by refusing to arrange to question him in London when it became clear she was unlikely to get him to Sweden, effectively denied justice both to Assange and to the women in question.
They are probably too dangerous to be out in the public as consumer devices if certain cryptographic realms are not updated to using post-quantum techniques. I am sure that will be up for debate soon.
The Air Force Is Finally Getting the Flying Arsenal Ship It Badly Needs
> The first layer is the literal meaning of the words: I lack the knowledge and understanding to figure this out. But the second, intended meaning is the opposite: I am such a superior moral being that I cannot even imagine the cognitive errors or moral turpitude that could lead someone to such obviously wrong conclusions. And yet, the third, true meaning is actually more like the first: I lack the empathy, moral imagination or analytical skills to attempt even a basic understanding of the people who disagree with me.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-12/only-stupid...
The UK is not, however, compelled to use this extraordinary level of resources on a single person. As we can clearly see since it has been drastically scaled back. The only reason for this kind of resource usage was because of Assange's profile.
it is illegal to kiss your sleeping wife
a man who lies about using birth control

Aren't you a Canadian citizen? What are you doing to fight such insane laws?
Why don't you donate a large % of your winnings to the Church? You know, the ones who made this all possible?
"Down for Maintenance" - not the greatest advert for Azure!
Those download buttons look always the same. Oh wait, they changed their color. After years of blue buttons they are now green. So Goolge can detect your face in a crowd on a photo, but can not detect a download button on small ad?
Auto Loans Fair Credit Score: Stack the Odds in Your Favor
Entrepreneur Matt Barrie on Sydney's night-time lockout laws
> Not objecting is the same as saying no effectively. You need active positive consent to be safe.

Very few countries have such laws. In most Western countries sexual intercourse without objection between two adults that are capable of consenting/objecting (no abuse of authority, no threat, no force) will not be regarded as rape.

This would be a very extreme definition of rape, because when you think about it, who would actually commit the rape if both persons did not object? Did both persons rape each other?
Ooo I love the idea of using those nefarious techniques to build positive habits! As soon as I saw the buildfocus my brain went "I want a massive city" :)
They are still there. Now in green instead of blue.
Habits of cell phone usage and sperm quality
How does one become so great and intelligent?
The Swedish prosecutor has been heavily criticised in Sweden for the failure to interview him, and finally did agree to negotiate terms to question him in the embassy, so clearly they can. They just didn't want to.
PlanGrid (YC W12) Is Hiring Product Managers
I'm not sure where you're getting 'by a single person' from, or 12 days,
and us$500/day seems generous for a 1 man shop.

But given the cladding and roofing in the photo's, I'd imagine a 2 man crew could build a house in roughly that many working days. Probably less.

When I was working as a builders labourer, we'd show up on-site with the concrete pad already set. Take ~ 1 day to stand-up the frames. ~ another day to stand up the roof trusses, ~1-2 days to put the roof purlins and any internal gutters in (the buildings shown won't have those). And another day or two for putting tar-paper on the roof, tyvek around the frames, and general tidy up

A contractor would take ~2 days to put the roof on.

~1/2 day for the electrical pre-wire.
~1 day for the plumbers and drainlayers to pre-place everything

1-2 days to fit the windows and doors.

The style of exterior cladding shown is comparable to the roof, so another 2 days. (Most of the houses I worked on had brick cladding over a timber frame, which took ~4 days for a single story house)

Plastering, (2 days) Painting (1 day), electrical post (~1/2 day) plumbing post (~1/2 day). Cabinet work (1 day) carpet (2 days)

So ~19.5 days to build a conventional house.

We can eliminate the carpet straight off.

If we use structural insulated panels we can eliminate the cladding, roofing, papering, and time to install the purlins. That's ~7 days saved right off the bat.

The depicted houses are on concrete block stilts, which will need a day or 2 to build, and there needs to be some extra time allocated to building and insulating the elevated floor, but I don't really see why that has to be hugely expensive.

The depicted structure is small, and doesn't appear to have AC. the foundation, plumbing and drainage don't look like they require extensive use of excavators (although you will need some for the drainlayers at least).

So with 2 people, plus the drainlayer contractor and his baby excavator, I don't think they're all that far off a reasonable construction cost.
Very interesting!! thanks for sharing
Hubness-aware kNN in Python
As for the detailed design , i think ET3 had patents on that, since 1999.
Pretty much every "why don't they do this" argument in this case usually forgets the Swedish law aspect.

For example , 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). And the questioning needed to happen in Sweden for some constitutional thing?

So I don't remember the Swedish law stuff too sell either but there were legal barriers to questioning in the embassy

Not to mention that the whole "This is to bring him to the US" thing ignores that:

- extradition from the UK to the US requires going through UK courts

-Extradition from the UK to the US through Sweden requires goig through Swedish AND UK courts. Its strictly harder

"But they'll kidnap him or something": is Sweden easier to be kidnapped him from?

The whole Swedish side of the story is bizarre but any argument about US influence in the prosecution seems to not make any sense except if to commit character attacks. Because it made US extradition harder, not easier
sorry can you be more explicit on what would be hard when scaling with DO?

also, it's mainly just for your app hosting, right? You can use DO and RDS / Dynamo DB / Lambda etc...
Assuming, of course, the Hyperloop will be able to build a sufficient rail/tube network.

Given that assumption, existing trains could also sustain something in the vicinity of 400 km/h by your own words.

Germany rebuilt and supplemented some of its railroad network for the ICE, at enormous cost (e.g. Wikipedia says the 250 km from Hannover to Berlin cost around 2.5 billion EUR, not adjusting for inflation). Of course that's nothing compared to rebuilding an entire transit network from scratch. I'm not sure any western country has even attempted to do that post-WW2, I guess China's recent investment into high speed rail is the closest modern example.

Another interesting point of comparison with existing rail networks aside from average speed is efficiency. A well utilised high speed train is more efficient than a car, but it still uses a heck of a lot of energy (with corresponding emissions, somewhere). Given the reductions in drag, I'd assume -- hope -- that a Hyperloop train will use less energy per passenger kilometer than existing trains.
Ridiculous. If you don't want other people do read or use your stuff don't put it on the web.
OVH is well known here in Europe, they were the counterpart to USA's "The Planet" (merged with SoftLayer). If you wanted dedicated servers in the EU during the early 2000s, the preferred option was always OVH...
Migrating Postgres to RDS without downtime
Show HN: TDD Screencast #1: Introduction
Here's how we'll terraform in the future
Thanks for the correction, I'm not really well-versed in that area (should have asked the missus!)

Tack!
Elixir Programming Language
This isn't quite a relevant xkcd, but I do think it's relevant. Whilst it'd be cool to be able to apply models from physics to economics, there may be issues in applicability.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2556
I forgot to add, use http://prose.io to access your Notes repo on Github anywhere.
I find it amazing how many of the ideas from my vault exist in some form or other in the real world now.
Show HN: TDD Screencast #2: Implementing Sort
Relevant paper preprint at http://real.mtak.hu/26128/1/hubness_aware_regression.pdf
Show HN: TDD Screencast #3: Implementing Kind Sort
Thanks for the algorithm. But...

How do you know they aren't on the bus? Or a passenger in a car? What if they have GPS turned off?
The Clinton System
This blog post is not talking about those Adsense Download buttons, is it?
It's off topic but... Personally I'm the guy who ticks "prefer not to say" when a form requests my "ethnic origin" so I don't particularly like that method of measuring diversity.
The british have a "Queen" and a "Kingdom" as well, what's your point.
Probably has tons of idea debt but he is also very single minded in what he wants to achieve so it's probably easier for him to discard ideas and only do the ones no-one else can do that will go some way towards saving humanity.
Is Julian Assange a whistle blower or a reporter on whistleblowers?
Yes, I am a Canadian. I'm not doing anything to actively fight these laws, but I do try to educate people when the opportunity arises; the first step to fixing bad law is to make people aware of the problems.
Cisco spends $1.4B on IoT connectivity startup
Sweden also has a history of, in violation of Swedish law and international treaties, black bagging political asylum seekers and handing them over to CIA to have them shipped off to be tortured. Years later Swedish military intelligence uncovered that CIA rendition flights via Sweden were still ungoing.

Conveniently we know of the latter thanks to Wikileaks, seeing as the Swedish government kept quiet about it.

I don't think Assange's case is a US conspiracy, but I also am not that surprised if Assange does genuinely believe it, and the bizarre behaviour of the Swedish prosecutor (which my personal theory is down to domestic politics - both the prosecutor and the appointed attorney for the women have a history of pushing for radical tightening of the application of Swedish laws on rape and sexual abuse) certainly would give him more reason to hold on to such a belief.
Awe man guess I can't use chrome to browse The Pirate Bay anymore...
A DNA-Based Archival Storage System [pdf]
> "But they'll kidnap him or something": is Sweden easier to be kidnapped him from?

Yes. Sweden has a history of just handing people over to the CIA.
The fighter avionics computer isn't running Java and 20 layers of poorly optimized cruft though.
Did you try with -Weverything on Clang? That will enable more warnings than -Wall and -Wextra.
Indeed, I bought a "handyman's delight" (i.e. money pit) for $43k just outside Atlanta during the recession in 2009, and to get it to roughly the same condition as my neighbor's house, I'd have to spend another $40k. It's mostly cosmetic work that it needs, but there are some structural and functional issues that need to be addressed as well. We're still debating whether we should hold onto it and fix it up (it currently appraises for $80k with the few improvements we've done, mostly due to the location) or just sell it for what we owe and buy a better house.
> > they derive their view that human dignity is worthy of protection as it is given by God

> q.e.d.

Why would you use q.e.d. with out a reference. I know I am strange in that I studied Greek and know a decent amount of Latin but how were you using q.e.d.?

Also can we please not lump ALL Christians into the same boat it feels kind of like calling all Muslims terrorist. For Global warming the Bible is very clear that we are to protect the Earth which many Bible Global Warming protesters claim to upheld.
Congress sets the rate for federal student loans, they are not based on their risk.
Codes are largely reactionary. Sometime, somewhere, doing a certain thing caused a problem and somebody got injured or killed. Maybe the corrugated roof that got nailed down blew off under certain conditions and the investigation revealed that it wouldn't have happened if they used certain screws instead of nails. Hence, the code gets updated to require those screws.

It's mostly driven by the insurance industry. They don't want to pay out claims, so they write the codes to make the buildings as robust as possible.
Did both persons rape each other?

Legally, yes. The same applies if both persons are too intoxicated to be able to consent; and in some states without "romeo and juliet" laws, if two underage persons have sex.

Of course, it's up to prosecutors in such circumstances to decide whether to prosecute none, one, or both parties...