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> Which of the two is known to have continued to cooperate in illegal extradition flights long after its own government told the US to stop it (we know thanks to Wikileaks), and have had a history of illegally black-bagging political asylum seekers and handing them to the CIA to be shipped off and tortured? (that would be Sweden, if it wasn't clear)

Except that he stayed in Sweden for months knowing there was an investigation against him and being free to leave, then left on the day he was advised they intended to interview him under caution with intent to charge him. The former makes no sense whatsoever if you fear conspiracies to render you to the US. The latter makes a lot of sense if what you're really trying to avoid is a reputation-damaging trial.

And yes, his reputation isn't exactly unblemished, but making the story about conspiracies against him certainly has a lot more appeal to his natural supporters than making the story about that tearful woman opposite him in the courtroom, even if that tearful woman's testimony amounts to nothing.
That's exactly the problem here, he hasn't been allowed his day in court.

According to the Swedish supreme court being in Sweden isn't a requirement for that, no matter his behaviour he should be allowed his day in court.

That behaviour includes refusing to personally come to Sweden, he has every right to do that. The only thing he has violated during the entire extradition process is his bail.
Why did he flee to the UK? The UK co-founded NATO with the USA. Sweden isn't in NATO.
Seems like they are shifting customer acquisition costs to a per click or per sale model for providers.
I've had this vision for a revolutionary system when I was 12. I think about it every single day. Yet, my only accomplishment is thousands of pages of notes and ideas about possible use cases for this system. I haven't wrote a single line of code. I tried blogging about it, but I can't decide where to start. You can find glimpse of the idea in some of my HN/Reddit posts/comments, but that's about it.

This have never felt satisfied or truly happy since. I don't know what to do next.
The title is beyond editorializing into the factually incorrect territory, as they are not saying they're killing Firefox OS?

The pivot from phones to "connected devices" was already announced before[1] and this is just fleshing out that.

The language sounds a lot more like corporate-speak than what Mozilla's external communications usually are, I wonder if this is standard fare or if this team is coming from different cultures.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10716167
Being Commonwealth citizen he can't be extradited from UK (to US).

Yeah... that's not true.
If you install Adobe Flash plugin for a different browser, Chrome gets bundled with it. Even if you don't want Chrome.
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Other studies show significantly decreased mobility and sperm quality as well (some in-vitro with microscope).

Anecdotally, I'm quite confident this was a factor with our 2nd child. With our 1st, I didn't own a cell phone and he was conceived literally the first try.

I bought a smart phone when he was 1, which I carried in my pocket. A few years later, we wanted another child - tried for 10 months with no results! Frustrating. I randomly found some studies covering this exact subject in mid July. I started putting my phone into my backpack. August, our 2nd was on his way.

For anyone who's having troubles, I would strongly advise to take the phone out of your pocket. It might even be best for everyone to do so - who knows the long term effects.
The article always qualifies it as Firefox OS for smartphones. Is there a non-smartphone version that they're keeping?
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/99020?hl=en

There's been a setting for this stuff forever.
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Did I miss the part that said he didn't tithe?
You want to install Flash for Firefox, it will install Chrome by default.
I wonder where did he got the Bible text from though? Was it a public domain translation?
You seem to misunderstand diplomatic immunity. Host countries are well within their rights to evict diplomats.
Because he has a right to respond to the allegations against him, and being in Sweden isn't necessary (neither from a legal nor a practical point of view) for that.

>Nobody else would get that treatment, so why should he?

Except the 44 people that did, you should do a little research before making such statements in the future.
I always liked the quantum bogo-sort algorithm:

1) Randomise list

2) if list not in correct order, destroy the universe

The universe that's left will have the correct answer.
it's running on TV's too, which seems to be at least slightly more successfull
FWIW, Firefox OS 2.0 is actually pretty dang good. Update policy is still busted of course.
The headline omits the important "for smartphones" clause:

> We will end development on Firefox OS for smartphones

Other uses of the Firefox OS platform (at least the Gecko and Gonk layers) are still being developed, including for television:

> We will continue to assess the stack to determine fit with new projects coming through the innovation process [...] As of today, we have 3 projects that have passed the first gate including SmartTV, and about a dozen more projects are prepping for review.
Yes and they should allow us who want to actually use the capital F.. Free part of the licence to use your own servers for everything. It is really hard to do now with Sync in Firefox for example.
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It is funny how Windows 8 got bad press, but w/ Android it is like if you want to get anything newer than Vista you have to buy a surface.

I like Android M, it fixes many of the regressions that were in Android L.
Europe also has NemCV.com. Already in Denmark it is the largest resume provider and has now expanded into Sweden, UK, and Germany soon
"based on facts that are no longer true" I don't think each successive wave is necessarily thinking about facts that were true but are no longer true. I think being opinionated about the tech stack you have to work with is often not all that rational. Trying to substitute concrete rational behaviour on the desires of new waves of employees might seem nice, or at least politically correct — but there is often no specific technical translation for "what idiot wrote this"; it's a cultural thing.
Not an expert on critical analysis of research, but seems like there's a bit of selection bias given the population studied wanted to reproduce and was referred to the study based on being unable to do so.
I just use Gmail. At work, I use the Office 365 web mail client. I absolutely hate it, but it gets the job done.
Yes, that's what the "connected devices"/IoT story is about. AFAIK there is right now a push in direction of Smart TVs (at least they asked people that made apps for phones if they don't want to make TV apps)
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What a great story! I want more stories like these. The author Trevor, really gave us so many behind-the-curtain information, at some point I even thought it was so much that he could get in trouble for it if the buyers read the story. (he mentions later in the post that he got it covered)

Thank you!
Offshore wind power is also cheaper than tidal generators. Neither of your sources show that the reason our electricity rates are higher than the US rates, is due to offshore wind.
> His "crime" would be no crime at all in every other country.

One of the requirements of extradition treaties is that the person is accused of something that's a crime in both countries. Assanges lawyers argued in the UK High and Supreme Courts that what he wanted for wasn't a crime in the UK. They lost. It's the opinion of the UK courts that what Assange is accused of, would count as a crime in the UK.
I'm not sure if that's better or worse... I think worse.
He's accused of 4 acts. One is holding someone down and penetrating her. Another is having sex with someone who was asleep.
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Only rules Assange has violated are UK rules, for which he may face repercussions in the UK. Not Sweden.

Assange has unquestionably been playing by the Swedish rules, as has been confirmed by the Swedish supreme court.

Assange has no duty to return to Sweden, but the prosecutor does have a duty to give him a chance to respond to the allegations against him.
I've always loved Mozilla products, having been a non-stop Firefox user since beta (if anyone reads this at Mozilla, never ever kill the toolbar RSS feed support!). Netscape prior, of course.
I was hopeful for FirefoxOS and kept waiting for it to land in the US.

I've always felt that Mozilla should rebrand Firefox as simply 'Mozilla'. The Mozilla browser. Using their dinosaur logo as the mascot. It just sounds hipper, more catchy, marketing matters. Normals seem to consistently mangle Firefox as 'Foxfire' among other oddities. I think this would help progress the Mozilla foundation/corporation's efforts.

For interesting mobile initiatives, we still have Ubuntu Touch to keep an eye on. Their phone->PC docking idea is pretty good and makes a lot of sense.
YC offers funding, advice, and a network.

This can scale to 2000 companies. If YC does they will make more money and have more global impact.

They don't build your business, team or really do anything to guarantee your growth or success.

Success has to come from founders.
It really is disgusting how temporary cellphones are built. Where are the modular personal computers?
FWIW, that ignorant bit of Wikipedia vs Wikileaks confusion has resulted in causing harm to people affiliated with Wikipedia when US customs officers have suffered from it.
Assange would not face the death penalty, unless he voluntarily travelled to the US. Most extradition agreements prevent that.
Note, unintentionally -- When an influential voice on HN albeit unintentionally spreads false and damaging innuendo, then says he should not be challenged, what is the appropriate way to say that, yes, in fact he should be challenged?

(His view that I called him a liar does not make it so.)
There's a huge funnel effect. Most (99%?) of the YC companies don't IPO. A lot get bought out on the way, and many fizzle out. There's an enormous Power Law effect happening. (DropBox and AirBnB at one point accounted for 2/3 of the valuation)

Here is some more data from the source: http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-portfolio-stats
What did the women go through? I understand he's been charged with sexual assault, but from what I understand the Swedish laws about sexual assault are quite different from those elsewhere, seems to be somewhat more demanding about what is classed as consent, but I could be wrong on that.
> Neither Sweden nor UK can't guarantee that he isn't extradited.

Can the US President give a guarantee that the Supreme Court will decide a case in a certain manner? Can the UK Prime Minister guarantee that a court case in the UK will end a certain way? Because that's what that means.

Sweden is a country with laws, and an independent judiciary. Sweden has extradition treaty with the US (as do many countries). If the USA follows a procedure, then the Swedish courts must hand someone over (and vice versa). That's what the (Swedish) law says. You're asking the Swedish government to guarantee that the Swedish courts won't decide a particular case in a particular manner.
Debt is an obligation of repayment in the future. So technically it is money that we owe our future selves and others. Of course, the future is uncertain, which is what makes debt risky (and profitable). If we enter another recession, much of that debt could default.

This idea of basically seeing into the future, pricing risk/rewards was what always drew me to study finance. Sounds cool on paper, but the reality is much messier and morally ambiguous.
I am a fan of the JVM.

One definite problem I see is that (i) the Oracle JVM works better than Open JDK if you are doing anything demanding, and (ii) the Oracle JVM installer wants manual confirmation that you accept the license when you install it. (There is an answer for (ii) but that is all I will say about it.)

I think Java might be a harder platform to pick up than some other platforms. I have been programming in Java since Java was in beta, but today you need to know about Maven, probably Spring and also you need to have an IDE that provides more solutions than problems.
> And stop attacking the Linux distros for the Firefox trademark (forcing them to create the Iceweasel fork)

Debian's rules don't allow things that aren't free-free, and blocked the copyright-encumbered logo. Mozilla was protecting it's trademark and branding. Debian calling it iceweasel basically replaced the branding so that it could be used under Debian's rules. It turned out to be a fairly amicable result - debian still gets the software with full utility, and mozilla keeps their branding coherent (branding is important to making money with any model, but especially freemium).

Also, this licensing stoush was ten years ago; it's not like it's fresh wounds.
There are quite a few versions of the bible in the public domain - http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/16377/what-m...
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As a kiwi (Christchurch) that moved to Australia, oh how I miss New Zealand's Internet, the quality and speed of Internet connectivity is a tremendous problem in Australia, I remember when I moved from NZ 4 or so years ago I went from having 150/40Mbit fibre to realising that all I could get in my brand new apartment in Melbourne was 6-12Mbit of unreliable ADSL if I was lucky, i hadn't had ADSL speeds since perhaps back in my high school days. On the flip side it's fantastic to see so many adorable mobile providers compared to NZ, while the speeds may not be great it's more than enough for people in need to find the services they need.
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Interesting how they make a distinction, I find that used android phones loaded with Cyanogenmod are great IoT devices, dirt cheap, equipped with GPS, camera, screens, etc...
Wouldn't this only sap the global economy if all those bad loans were backed by average Joes, who were then hurt by the loss of return? If instead they were backed by governments and multi-national conglomerates who already had hoardes of (free?) cash, then the effect on the economy would be limited.
> I've always felt that Mozilla should rebrand Firefox as simply 'Mozilla'.

You're about ten years too late: http://www-archive.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
Because the Swedish authorities have actively prevented him from having a chance to defend himself in court.
Japan isn't just buying F-35s, they are building them at Nagoya.
> or including proprietary services (e.g. Pocket) forcing the creation of the Icecat fork.

Your timeline is off by about a decade. IceCat was first released in 2008 and the GNUzilla project has existed since 2005. Firefox added Pocket support in 2015.
Extradition treaties require that the act be a crime in both countries. Assanges lawyers argued in the UK courts that what he was wanted for wouldn't be a crime in the UK. They lost. The courts found that those acts would be illegal in the UK.
What do you mean about Thunderbird (beside getting rid of it)?
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"...quod erat demonstrandum, meaning "which is what had to be proven". The phrase is traditionally placed in its abbreviated form at the end of a mathematical proof or philosophical argument when what was specified in the enunciation—and in the setting-out—has been exactly restated as the conclusion of the demonstration." from Wikipedia[0].

I've seen this kind of answer between computer engineering/sciences people as some sort of "you haven't explained anything" response, though in a more thorough reading of OP and response, I can't really say what was the intention. The downvotes on the response would seem to support that interpretation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D.
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It's extremely common in the US.
1. Cause it's not trendy or cool.

2. People are more familiar with other languages and their ecosystems (Javascript) ?

3. For reasons (real or imaginary), they don't like Java or whichever JVM language you've listed.
You can get it free here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10

There is an aspect to be considered about making money on this topic.
this study is virtually useless from statistical point of view. Sampling bias, lack of control for confounding effects and other issues mean you should not in any way use this study as a guide for any changes in behavior. Sure, I understand, they did add a caveat that more study is needed. Just saying, do not use this study as a reason to do anything differently
I don't think it's quite there yet. Google Maps for Mobile still has a ways to go in terms of feature completeness & accuracy, and there are a ton of additional ways search & profile data can be mined & surfaced in Maps results.
The long term effects _could_ be lower rates of cancer, so taking this advice would be a bad idea.

I've pretty much always had my phone in my pocket for the last 15 years. Two years ago, my wife and I had a child - no problems. I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but you need a much greater pool of data before making claims.
>For the chief reason that there's probably nothing better.

The paper "Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled" noted that generative models don't suffer from this flaw.
This is a great start.

However, I love to attach narratives to problems, and have always enjoyed the coding competition questions where they tell a little scenario (albeit contrived) that usually have to do with something like a farmer and her cows in a barn or bees flying to pollen.

It seems to somehow engage my mind more with the problem.

Anyways, It would be great if there was some sort of 'problem description' and a background story context to really get the learner excited about applying the machine learning tool to solve real (fictional) life problems that are affecting real (fictional) people.

And just to dream, maybe a comic edition like codecomics does with react, or learning mysql with nostarchpress manga comics.
Because he has no need to go to ECHR, Swedish supreme court already sided with him.
If USA didn't do anything illegal/scandalous/unethical/violate_their_own_constitution, then there wouldn't be incentive for anyone to leak anything if at least there was proper channels to go through to point errors and correct the system.

Instead of correcting the system, those in power are trying to going after whistle blowers. The system is no longer a democracy.
The UK High court judgement lays out the charges as well:

1. Unlawful coercion

On 13-14 August 2010, in the home of the injured party [AA] in Stockholm. Assange, by using violence. forced the injured party to endure his restricting her freedom of movement. The violence consisted in a firm hold of the injured party's arms and a forceful spreading of her legs whilst lying on top of her and with his body weight preventing her from moving or shifting.

2. Sexual molestation

On 13-14 August 2010, in the home of the injured party [AA] in Stockholm, Assange deliberately molested the injured party by acting in a manner designed to violate her sexual integrity. Assange, who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used, consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her without her knowledge.

3. Sexual molestation

On 18 August 2010 or on any of the days before or after that date, in the home of the injured party [AA] in Stockholm, Assange deliberately molested the injured party by acting in a manner designed to violate her sexual integrity i.e. lying next to her and pressing his naked, erect penis to her body.

4. Rape

On 17 August 2010, in the home of the injured party [SW] in Enkoping, Assange deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep. was in a helpless state.

It is an aggravating circumstance that Assange. who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used. still consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her. The sexual act was designed to violate the injured party's sexual integrity."

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/2849.html
Fertility decreases with age, especially in women. That your second child took longer to conceive than the first is no evidence of anything and even less of the influence of cell phone ownership. You might just as well claim that having your first child decreased your fertility, or anything else that happened to you in between. (Bought a new car? A new TV? Different brand toothpaste?)
I suspect he's waiting for the next US president. At that point what US politician is going to want to extradite him and drag up all that old mud?
I think it's great that YC is thinking big and taking a risk by doing something no one has done before. The US economy wins whether they succeed or fail at this experiment, and the value creation if they succeed will be huge.
We're an Australian based organisation and our data and target audience is Australia wide at present, we are doing other work in New Zealand and potentially South Africa - more on this soon.
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To be fair there are quite a lot of Scala based projects and startups.
Do you mind sharing the tech stack .. i mean how are you fetching all this data?
I tried to use mesos to setup a test spark cluster. I figured I would install mesos, then use it to deploy spark, cassandra, etc. In practice using mesos turned out to be a major pain. Several blogs online made it seem trivial; however, I kept finding out that much of what I thought was mesos was actually a commercial product from mesosphere.

We ended up abandoning mesos just to get our prototype going.
A lot depends on what you do during those hours, and what the work expectations are.

At one point in my life I lived a block from work, and put in 12-14 hours every day and fielded calls 2-3 times a week at 2-3am. That's no different than an 8-10 hour a day job with a 4 hour commute and pager duty.

When I was single it was ok - I had many friends at work and that was our life. I wouldn't try to do it with a family.

When introverts read or are productive on their commute, why not? But I currently struggle with a 30 min commute and have become a podcast addict.
I sold my company (Verrus PayByPhone.com ) several years ago and so much of this resonates with me. Thanks to the author for his candid sharing. It was cathartic to read, even.

> ... over 7 months, hundreds of emails, ... psychologically exhausting and definitely the hardest part of the 3.5 years I ran the business.

This. The hardest part for me and my cofounders was keeping the business operating, and growing, while spending what seemed like full time on the "distraction" of a sale process with several potential buyers.

> I always assumed it was dead until the cash was finally in the bank. ... various levels of depression occurred throughout the sales process.

Yet, in the end:

> The deal made a ton of sense and I’m glad it got done.

Amen and congrats to you!
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There could be an over-represented subgroup of the general population who are more susceptible to the cell phone radiation, but selecting from that group would not necessarily obscure the relationship between the amount of cell phone use and any resulting biological impact.

They don't go very far out on the limb, they say that it probably justifies a bigger study, which is pretty mild.