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Google doesn't charge for ads, it charges for impressions. If you user doesn't seem it, google doesn't get paid.

It also seems like a very different tech than trying to determine what an ad script will actually show a user. So it's not easy as if they can do A they can do B. Still doesn't excuse the fact that they should be doing their best to block those kind of ads in their ad network.
Getting to Microsoft never took all that long - it was getting home that took forever and sucked the life out of me.
yes, yes and yes ...
The whole situation has nothing to do with the alleged crimes - he would be out of jail by now if he was even convicted. It is all about if he is to be extradited to the USA or not. If Sweden says they won't send him to the USA then he will walk out today.
From what I understand he is accused of having sex without a condom. Girl objected to not using condom but not to having sex. Still, she went with it without being forced physically.

The argument is that it is a pretense to have him detained by US-controlled country to get him sent to US without proper judicial procedure.

Basically, both UK and Sweden said it can't rule out that he is sent over to US if he's detained for this unrelated "crime".
I'm actually a bit surprised that Britain didn't raid the Ecuadorian embassy after all these years (at the behest of the US).

While we're speculating: Could this mean that the US doesn't want Assange anymore?
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The problem is that he's also wanted for leaking secret documents (like Snowden), and there's a high chance that the allegations were only intended so he can be arrested in a country that has an extradition policy with the US. He fears for his life, and given the US's "secret" concentration camps (Guantanamo, secret CIA bases, secret planes waiting to move Snowden, etc), I don't blame him.
Julian Assange is an awarded journalist and one of the most famous hactivists of the 21st century[0]. Wikileaks (founded by him) published documents supplied by Chelsea Manning including the Collateral Murder video[1], the Afghanistan war logs[2], the Iraq war logs[3] and many others.

Who would you call a hero? Have you watched the Manning videos?

[0] Julian Paul Assange (born 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, an organisation which he founded in 2006. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrik...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_documents_leak

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_documents_leak

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The UK or the Swedish government could easily determine his guilt or innocence -- as in questioning him in the embassy and he's said more than once he's willing, if that's really all they wanted to do instead of waste millions of dollars watching him. The burden of proof is never on the accused to prove his innocence. It's after all only an accusation.

If they want to bring formal charges in court and send him a summons and try him in abstention they can do that too. It's just funny how they have played the game while claiming b/s like you are claiming.

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If he has no guilty mind then why should he be willing to be arrested? In fact if he's afraid they will do to him what they did to Chelsea Manning, then he's perfectly in his right mind to attempt to avoid extradition by whatever means necessary.

If a totalitarian government is pursuing you because you stole their secrets and exposed them to the public, and they have already imprisoned one of your partners for life in inhumane conditions. Why should you comply with that request?
What is so wrong with my view? What has reddit to do with it? Just asking you to point it out so I can adjust my opinion.
I would expect an ad blocker to block stuff like this.
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Nobody yet, but the UK police / government already indicated they'd arrest him if he stepped out of the embassy (which is why they had a 24/7 watch on the embassy for two years), so that effectively is detainment.
> The hard part here is that, wherever you'd decide to persist a "don't bug me any more about this" flag,

Build a new binary - offer users to install a "developer" build of Chrome which is exactly the same as the mainstream "release" build, except it allows disabling the protections.
Fans in the U.S. don't take too kindly to it either. See fan reactions to relocations of the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, St. Louis Rams, etc.
IMO that only happens to people with more than N followers, most of us actually would like to engage more and have someone available to discuss about random subjects...
It was a bit more complicated than that. The allegations were of what would definitely be considered statutory rape under swedish law (and probably the laws of most similar countries including the US).
Nation states are run by people. And people, Assange included, more often than not have their interests as their primary concern. I don't share your view of Assange as a whistleblower on a mission for free information and accountability, otherwise he wouldn't turn a blind eye to Russia and Putin's moves over the history of Wikileaks. He IS part of international politics now due to his desire and track record of attacking both the US and western interests more generally.

Regardless my point still stands. He's taken wikileaks from a hub of wistleblowing and transparency to effectively a bullhorn for the Free Julian Assange movement. Wikileaks IS Julian Assange, Assange IS Wikileaks. And that's what saddens me more than anything else. What was once seen as a new paradigm for anonymous whistleblowing has deteriorated into a poorly masqueraded propaganda machine for his personal benefit. I think John Young saw this before anyone else and all considered I think he was right.
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UI design is very complex, because humans are complex. Often you're automating business processes that work based on implicit judgements that are so obvious to the humans performing them that they're not even aware they're making them, making it very difficult for them to explain the rules they follow.

What I like about PureScript is the careful typeclass hierarchy - it feels like a rethinking of the Haskell standard library from the ground up. They often end up with a hierarchy of single-method typeclasses, which feels like a first step to something along the lines of http://degoes.net/articles/principled-typeclasses/ . I'd like to combine that with Idris-style full dependent typing but you can't have everything and there's a tension between what's state of the art and what's designed for practical use (I feel like I'd be happier using PureScript in production than Idris). Gradual typing I don't find particularly interesting; YMMV.
Why not to all startups?? Like a proper startups program...
> [...] there's a ton of really useful CLI apps for all kinds of things.

I'm yet to encounter those.
I think we have too many people working on the wrong problem.

Personally, while I like the silicon chip, there were more jobs 50 years ago. I was still a gleam in my father's eye, but in the 70's, their were a lot of jobs. Not working was a choice. Bad jobs were a choice. I'm not completely blaming the microprocessor.

As to B & W t.v., I've always liked it. Don't know why, but just like it. Would watching The Twilight Zone be better in color? I'm partially color blind.
I do the exactly the same. It's a similar principle to kanban/agile, where you have a pool of potential work to do (in your case your ideas list), but you only pull in a fixed amount to work on at any one time (in your case to your TODO list). Otherwise I find I tend to get overwhelmed by my evergrowing todo list and never get anything done. Of course it's key to periodically review the ideas list, but this can just be done whenever your todo list is empty.
and it's for all startups, not just to the cool YC kids.
See [1] for a description of how the tracking works - scroll down to "So how does that tracking work?". It appears to use embedded links to message-specific 0-by-0 pixel remote images.

[1] http://www.ghacks.net/2014/02/22/can-streak-really-track-gma...
What about non-hidden images with a token?
> This seems similar to the idea of a spark file?

Indeed! The concept of a "spark file" describes exactly what I'm doing.

> Also do you have anything written down about using org-mode for todos and ideas?

This is pretty basic Org-mode usage. My To-Do list is just nested headings, each with a TODO or DONE marker (Shift+Left, Shift+Right). My IDEAS list doesn't even have those markers, it is just nested headings and nested lists. The only "advanced thing" that I do is moving items via Mod+Up and Mod+Down. This is very handy, as that moves the whole subtree up and down. And I'm using the "Tab" key for folding and unfolding subtrees.

Org-mode offers much more than what I'm using here. I'm not yet a power-user of Org-mode. For example, the "agenda view" might simplify a lot of what I'm doing (not for IDEAS, but for TODO, meetings, etc). But I didn't find the time to dig deeper into Org-mode yet.
You seem to think Assange gets to make the rules and choose how he gets treated. There's a European arrest warrant, the UK needs to arrest him and he needs to go to Sweden.
He did not say that. If 100 people work on diverse subjects for 10 years because they have a personal interest in them and one of the subjects suddenly becomes a hot topic, then one of the persons is a winner.

It is possible to reverse your argument and say that you are undermining the success of the remaining 99.
Couldn't he have used a diplomatic bag to leave the embassy?
Why should he be allowed to dictate the terms of his questioning? Nobody else would get that treatment, so why should he?
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Strange comment .. He was already arrested in the UK, which has an extremely liberal extradition policy with the US. He spent a week in Wandsworth prison.
and there's a high chance that the allegations were only intended so he can be arrested in a country that has an extradition policy with the US

After leaving Sweden he spent weeks in the UK though. Plenty of time to arrest and extradit him.
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It has not been hacked. It's a marketing campaing on prevetion. Click on one of the mosquitos =)
Relevant Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pnt_uT5YzQ
I am consistently surprised by Azure pricing when I look to spin new stuff up (luckily I'm not paying for it). Not to mention I lose connectivity to some of my v12 sql databases randomly.
> Relevant: https://medium.com/the-lighthouse/is-that-a-threat-1f073e51d....

I don't see how that's relevant. The author of that article has nearly 10,000 of her own Twitter followers. She's a public figure and, unfortunately, that comes with negative reactions.

In the piece, she mentions that "if I wanted to avoid them I had to just log off Twitter all together" as though that's some terrible sacrifice. If you don't want to be famous, just stop being famous (unless your narcism depends on having thousands of people listen to your every word).
No, that doesn't catch it because "float_t" is properly defined as a 'float' by including <math.h>, instead of a 'double' in the local header. But I thought you might be on to something with adding extra warnings, so I tried it out on http://gcc.godbolt.org.

Nope, no warnings at all for spectral_contrast.c with GCC, ICC, or Clang even with "-Wall -Wextra -pedantic". Then I thought to try it on MSVC at http://webcompiler.cloudapp.net/. To my surprise, it caught it pretty clearly with /W4:

main.cpp(11): warning C4244: '/=': conversion from 'double'
to 'float_t', possible loss of data

With that hint, I searched for other GCC warnings and found -Wconversion. Indeed, with that (or -Wfloat-conversion) GCC picks up the scent pretty well: http://goo.gl/9xq3fG

In function 'void normalize(float_t*, int)':
11 : warning: conversion to 'float_t {aka float}' from
'double' may alter its value [-Wfloat-conversion]

ICC gives an excellent error message with -Wconversion also, perhaps the clearest of the bunch: http://goo.gl/cjXLjq

warning #2259: non-pointer conversion from "double" to
"float_t={float}" may lose significant bits
for(i = 0; i < length; i++) v[i] /= magnitude;

Clang remained silent with all the options I tried, but perhaps I missed the right one.
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Almost like the better part of a decade of free money tends to create bad debt.
Its even simpler and less code without the library!

Offline Manifests are easy, but i forget all the time about them. I also assume no user would even get the idea to check if my website by chance is available offline. I guess most users never heard about that feature to begin with.
I just checked and the download page on getpaint.net still has a deceptive "Start Download" AdSense ad. That site came to mind because, a few months ago, I tried to be charitable and disabled ad blocking for a few days. That was the site where I decided enough was enough and started blocking again.
>"Nature is perhaps the most prestigious and respected academic journal in existence" implies that this paper was vetted by what is likely the best peer reviewing process that exists on the entirety of Earth.

It would be nice if this were true and we could have a easy to use heuristic. But, as pointed out by others, the evidence seems to point to either no, or even an inverse, relationship between journal prestige/respect and the quality of peer review and journal articles.
Shame on the UK. Shame on Sweden. Shame on the US.

We're with you Julian.
From what I understand their original plan was a tablet and, if anything, the iPhone was a bit of a trojan horse to get people to buy a 'mini-tablet' and experience its benefits while directly having a good use case (who doesn't need a phone?!).
It may be worth pointing out that this is not a court. It's some working group.
Assange is playing by the rules and that's why he's in the Embassy. He's following the rules to the book and so are the authorities.

Why should they, well if they wish to bring justice and save money they should do it. Because if they do not, then the time expires which for the rape warrant is in 4 years. And justice will not be done.
> If Sweden says they won't send him to the USA

So the catch-22 is that he says he is happy to go to Sweden in case he is given guarantees of not being extradited, but no such guarantee is possible under Swedish law.

What swedish authorities could (and should) do in this situation is just make some really broad statements about how even though they have agreements with the USA, no one would ever be extradited from Sweden to any country in case they risked facing the death penalty and/or are whistle blowers.
"Whenever a user opens the email without proper protection" is the caveat here.
Great, but it's still just an accusation. If the UK is willing to spend millions to get Assange back to Sweden so he can be questioned about an accusation... I mean, come on, isn't that a bit too much? There's surely something else going on here the way I see it.
The problem is that he cannot clear himself from rape allegations without risking being extradited to US. Neither Sweden nor UK can't guarantee that he isn't extradited. There is in fact good probability that he will be.

Can you expect somebody to hand himself voluntarily to US "judicial" system when it is known that he has bleak chances of having proper case in US court, that US routinely ignores human rights in such cases?
Ludwik Fleck's "Genesis and development of a scientific fact" goes very much in the line of looking at science as a gradual progress, with many failed attempts. written by winners. (Written pre-WW2; it served as an inspiration for Khun.) Its most eye-opening example is the history of [the concept/knowledge/science/... of] syphilis, from ancient to modern times. PDF (of print from 1979): http://www.evolocus.com/Textbooks/Fleck1979.pdf
Apparently the 24/7 surveillance on the embassy cost £11.1 million ($17.6 million).

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/19...
That article already explains:

They offer no good controls, because we aren’t
working with data from before the accident.

It's rough Geiger counter reading without any effort to determine if those readings are normal, or if there is an increase then which isotopes are causing the reading and where they came from.

That last point is especially important, because when Japan shut down the nuclear reactors after the tsunami, they increased their use of coal, which can be a larger source of radioactive pollution.

Also, while the article doesn't really have enough details to say for certain, using only Geiger readings suggests an analysis based on the incorrect "linear no-threshold" model. The lack of concern for a control suggests they are assuming that any radiation is must be dangerous.

After skimming the paper[1]... I'll have to defer to someone with a better background in statistics. Their modeling seems strange and there seems to be too much focus on P values, but that may be my misunderstanding.

[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-015-1197-2/f...
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Technically, he's not detained; he's free to leave the embassy.

Effectively, he is detained; he won't get far if he leaves.

From there, it gets more complicated. Is that effective-but-technically-not detainment lawful, and even if it's not lawful, doesn't he have the option of lawful detainment by choosing to leave the embassy? After that, though, he's likely on the hook for a bit more than just a bit of questioning in Sweden. It's a very complicated situation, which is probably why the UN chose to be involved.
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He's not willing to be arrested in the Ecuadorean embassy which - as ruled by a UK court more informed on Swedish legal processes than you are - is the purpose of the formal questioning process the Swedish government wishes to undertake. Assange's position is broadly equivalent to a fugitive insisting that the state's unwillingness to mail him his Miranda rights proves that it's them and not him trying to evade justice.

Strangely, I have never heard it suggested that it represents a major failing of judicial systems for not trying and convicting other alleged rapists whilst they're on the run. The point of a trial, is after all to ensure that criminals are not only fairly treated, but also given the legally mandated punishment.
Ask HN: Worth working on a project that you have no direct relationship with?
My current scenario is that I have an idea for a project. The next logical step is to validate that the idea solves an actual problem and that people would actually pay for it.

The problem is that the idea isn't really something which I can validate by myself or by asking people that I know. I'd need to go out and find the target audience and ask them.

Is this worth doing or would it be better to focus on an idea which I know is a problem myself or which someone I have a relationship with knows is a problem?
I share your feeling. We are running our cloud platform on AWS, and it's hard to offer competitive prices when you are not founded and the AWS bills kick your ass.
We are in an university incubator that gives us the office space (we pay a 'friendly' rent) and that's it.
I realize it's a petty feeling, but...
Not in the UK. Under the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987, diplomatic status can be revoked and the police could enter the embassy. (Doing so would be pretty foolish, since it would make UK embassies around the world unsafe, but the law is there). It is certainly not "sovereign territory" .. that's a myth.
I wanted to write it under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11030593, but posted in in a different tab. Sorry for that.
You don't actually have to go that far; there are plenty of Chrome settings controlled by command-line options, and that's usually safe enough—it's actually really hard for malware to "sneak in" command-line options (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.) There's a command-line option to Chrome that entirely disables the sandboxing protections, for instance.

My distinction was just that there's absolutely no way to have a UI-based mechanism for disabling nags, since behind any UI is a persisted flag. If you're up for editing your shortcuts to add command-line options, that's fine.
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Google can't block elements on sites it does not control.

Warning users of phishing and warning users of speech that it finds objectionable are 2 different things entirely.
He's subject to a European Arrest Warrant. It's not the UK police's job to question him. The procedure in an EAW is that the receiving country checks that the warrant is valid (which is procedural, and doesn't assess the merits of the case). If it is, then they arrest the suspect and hand him over to the requesting country. Julian Assange had every opportunity to argue against this, and was able to take it all the way to the UK Supreme Court. They ruled against him, which is when he skipped bail.
Why are Americans so angry?
As a European country Sweden does not extradite in case the extradited person faces the death penalty.
So your logic is that this was all contrived in an effort to get Assange to a country with an extradition treaty in the US, when he was already in Britain? Because Britain is well known for its cold relationship with the US and repeated refusal to extradite people to the US, right?

Not buying it. (Also EU law would prevent Sweden from extraditing him to the US without British consent anyhow. So either Britain is okay with his extradition and there's no need to get him to Sweden, or they're not and there's no point. And that's not even touching on the fact that Sweden couldn't extradite him to the US without an assurance that he could not face execution, which is politically very unlikely to happen. I don't doubt the US would love to grab Assange, but the legal extradition question is a complete red herring.)

Edit: Fix dumb typos, too tired.
They left out current building codes. I have a general contractor's licence. To build anything involves so many rules/codes it's rediculious.

Every year the building department in your town/city usually includes the latest codes, and prohibits so many things. It all sounds great until you are paying someone to build something. The various building code manuals take up at least two feet of space on my shelf.

Where I live, I couldn't build a cabin with wood stove. It would need a electric plug every 6'. I couldn't even use logs to build it without approved man made insulation. And forget the wood stove. They are illegial.
I think you're right about the embassy bit. It wouldn't surprise me if the UN decision doesn't make any noise about the European Arrest Warrant or any of the the charges agains Assange. I'm guessing that they will state that since he has requested and received asylum by the Ecuador government, the UK should let him go there.
This makes some sense from a general perspective as well. If someone applies and gets asylum at an embassy somewhere, the UN may not want to set the precedent that the host nation could block it by not allowing the person to leave the country.

I find it a bit humorous though, that Assange said he would honor the UN panels decision just moments before that decision is leaked to the press. Funny how he didn't make that promise when he first applied for the ruling...
What Swedish authorities should do is just interview him remotely and then decide whether to prosecute. Case closed.