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I checked it out although admittedly only very briefly. My impression of it was that I couldn't really complain about the language, library, or docs. It felt like a language that abstracted away all the details about HTML5+JS and turned Javascript and DOM into higher level constructs.

I think that is both its blessing and its curse, because it distances you from what you are actually working with. Convenient, sure, but now there's a disconnect, and you will inevitably work with other Javascript code, so that this disconnect will then affect you.

I think TypeScript had the better idea here and ultimately what might have largely stopped Dart in its tracks. TypeScript being a superset of Javascript makes it easy to progressively port your apps to an often more sane, safe, and productive language, while still not creating a disconnect on the level of Dart. It even has a solution for third party JS code out of your control via type definitions.
Illegal, yes, but is it still prosecutable if/after the arrest warrant has been dropped?
Yes, he would be looking at 12 months in prison for that http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/a_to_c/bail/#a32

I'm not sure why the parent thinks he would be looking at 10 years?
Allow me to balance the narrative here:

http://www.dailyo.in/variety/kerala-dogs-stray-animal-abuse-...
Your audience is asleep before they even got to "limitations."
chicken and egg, without people using opus, safari users will never notice Safari not supporting it.
Also he is still not free, UK made it clear that they would arrest him in first opportunity.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-sweden-assange-bri...
There were many cases when USA kidnapped citizens of other countries and put them to jail.
Of course it does. Not wanting to interview him, not having any valid evidence, dubious victims, etc.
That does not limit the amount of evidence that can be collected.
Don't you need to charge someone with a crime for an arrest warrant (except for "material witness" and other shenanigans)?

Because, in that case, wouldn't you want to keep that information under wraps in quite a few cases, and completely legitimately? Preparing to arrest a foreign drug dealer when he's expected to come to the US comes to mind.

Just because it's "secret" doesn't make an evil conspiracy against democracy. The accused's rights are protected at trial, where the public cannot be excluded except in extreme circumstances. But they don't get to watch the investigations on C-SPAN.
What you're missing is that collecting mp3's is your bubble. The vast majority of people is streaming, not collecting mp3.
Cyanoacrylate can't handle nonporous materials - as you're seeing, it dries so brittle that an incautious glance will snap it.

Try epoxy instead; it's slower to cure and smells funny, but produces a much stronger bond, and doesn't have the same problems bearing mechanical loads. I like J-B Weld and J-B Kwik, which are strong and resilient as hell (you can fix tractor engines with them!) and double as a low-temperature casting material for additive repairs, but for what you're dealing with here, the cheap Loctite stuff on the drugstore blister card should do you.
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That question was tested by the Swedish court, and they found that the prosecutor was able to continue the investigation by questioning Assange in the embassy through an agreement between the Ecuador and Sweden. This decision to drop the case was partial because of the result of that interview.
> For example, let's say you deploy a new version of your code: What happens to all the in-progress sessions?

This is a problem inherent to long-running processes, no matter the implementation. We had the same problem in our business process engine using jbpm (implemented as an interpreter serializing state to database every step).

Ultimately you have to decide if you bind functions/subroutines/subprocesses/whatever you call them early (so when you call them later and there's a new version - they still use old version), or late - so they are always calling the newest version. And you have to adjust your coding assumptions and the way you update your software to new version basing on that decision.

Neither way is always the correct one.
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Do you have a source for this verdict?
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But gradle doesn’t build on top of maven. Gradle replaces maven.

That’s the issue I have with npm, webpack, create-react-app.

They just pile more and more layers of abstraction on top, instead of improving or replacing what is below.
Well, in most countries there's a legal way to fight a legal action you consider incorrect. Fighting the legal action in another way is a new crime. It's like if someone owes you money, you cannot go and rob him. Even if your payment claim is considered valid robbing is illegal.
Strangely, the women's lawyers had a slightly different view of their desire to pursue the matter through the court than the Assange campaign to prevent the matter going to trial.

It stretches credulity to argue that responsibility for the affair lies more with the "big powers" than the decision of two apparently major fans to report him to the police after comparing notes on his sexual behaviour. And suggesting the "bad apple" most at fault for the whole affair is somehow the second prosecutor to look at the case is just unhinged.

Ultimately it was pursued then dropped then pursued then dropped because murky allegations of sexual impropriety are difficult to make up stand up in court, even when the alleged perpetrator isn't an articulate celebrity with an excellent defence team and the accusers desperately want him off the streets. If the state wanted to railroad Assange, he'd have been in jail a lot quicker on much more straightforward charges without the opportunity to change jurisdictions and identify new angles to try to dismiss the whole thing on a technicality.
I tried Duolingo for French and Russian, and dropped both after a week.

Part of it is that I have nothing invested in either language and was just curious, but I also think Duolingo itself is a bit flawed; it repeats way too much material and makes you jump through too many hoops. I was busy and it was a hassle.

I think if you're going to study a language, a textbook + Anki is the way to go. If you tell Anki you know something, the algorithm believes you and shows it to you less often so you have more time to focus on what matters. It doesn't make you translate "the black cat" five times in one sitting.
I believe as long as a technology is truly open source, you can fork, build and use it independently, your risk is minimal - be it Dart or any of its alternatives. Worst case: you have a stack that can operate for several years, long enough time for a business product to get migrated. If it is hobby project, you may be compelled to explore a new tech stack soon enough anyway.

As I mentioned in my longer post, I have considered alternatives. Dart's position was strengthened because the code analyzer is very advanced and easy to use. On the low-probability scenario where Dart development would cease, and I'm left with an important Dart codebase, I would have good chances that I could automatically transpile most of my app to a new stack (assuming I'm using enough type annotations).

However, as I follow Dart development and community closely, I believe there is very little risk of getting it abandoned anytime soon.
It makes me so, so angry that people would put a big brother in their homes VOLUNTARILY!

A device that records you and sends the data to a corporation! In 1984 people were freakin' forced to have one. In 2017 people WANT to have one.

Sorry for this short rant, but I just struggle with understanding what's wrong with people these days.
It is worth saying it's an extremely difficult language to learn because most people are not prepared for what awaits them even if they learned another language before. Anyone can pick up how to read kana in a week or so, so it's easy to assume that you're almost there, and you'll be reading manga or whatever in no time. But it's just the beginning. The language is completely different. You must commit a huge amount of time every day and change the way you think. One must be mentally prepared to give up a chunk of their free time for the foreseeable future (years!), because it won't be easy.

Also IME, you barely need to speak any Japanese to wander around Japan and read the signs (because they're all in English anyway). Definitely recommended regardless of language proficiency.
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Sweden has an extradition treaty with the US. Also, the Swedes are unlike Germans, in that they are more eager to be seen to be doing the right thing and helping other countries than upholding principles. So it's quite likely they would have eagerly extradited him if the US asked politely.
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Because he skipped bail, which is against the law.

They would arrest anybody who did the same thing.
The closest thing to 'secret charges' is a secret indictment. This is a normal grand jury indictment, except its existence is not made public.

"Prosecutors may request a secret indictment if they are concerned that someone may flee if he or she becomes aware that trial proceedings are being set in motion. It is also possible to ask for one to protect witnesses and other people involved with the case. "

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-a-secret-indictment.htm
So why did they not ring him up and asked him?
I absolutely understand he coordinates with Russia, just that it wasn't some surprising development. He has a long history cooperating with dictatorships, just that it wasn't objectionable to his then fans. Nothing has changed, except the pro-liberty, pro-privacy, Guy Fawkes mask-wearing crowd is on the receiving end of his treatment now.
Exactly, Fraunhofer is blameless in this. They did in no way even suggest that MP3 was dead. Maybe the press release was a bit lacking in detail so that complete doofuses with no knowledge of the matter could misinterpret it, but that’s more on them.
Apple's devices have no support for OPUS(or Vorbis, or VP8/9).
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How does one say "hggghghghgghgghggghghg" such that Google Home would understand it?
Damn you! I wrote a bloody essay in a reply[1] to explain, in superfluous detail, what you summarized in one sentence. Anyone with basic knowledge of the topic would know what you mean. I need to figure out this magic people like you possess. I'm tired of rambling, when nobody will read it. Thank you for the incentive to improve.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14374031
Fraunhofer never said that. Not in the press release, no anywhere.
Honest question: does she have much choice? How large is the extent Japanese royalty (post war)? Is her only alternative to remain unmarried?
That's even worse imo. They can't find something he has done wrong but still want to imprison him.
Yes. Failure to surrender is a separate offence. The Met has already said that he's still wanted in connection with that charge, but they'll be scaling back resources as it's a much less serious offence than rape.
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Most people just find it convenient and don't want to think further. It's so disheartening, I've thought for hours and hours about how to fix this but can't come up with anything. People will be people.
Not being a NATO member doesn't mean they don't collaborate with the CIA:

Swedish officials handed over al-Zari and another Egyptian, Ahmed Agiza, to CIA operatives on December 18, 2001 for transfer from Stockholm to Cairo. Both men were asylum seekers in Sweden, and suspected of terrorist activities in Egypt, where torture of such suspects is commonplace. (...) Despite post-return monitoring by Swedish diplomats, both men were tortured in Egypt.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-...
Out of interest, when was the last time the UK secret service did this?
Neither Snowden nor Manning was charged with treason.
The press release from Fraunhofer is extremely misleading:

> mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has been terminated

This gives the impression that the patents are valid but will no longer be available for licensing, and you can't buy licensing rights to build your mp3 player - in reality, the patents expired, making them free.

> ...there are more efficient audio codecs with advanced features available today

Assert that mp3 is dead today

> However, most state-of-the-art media services such as streaming or TV and radio broadcasting use modern ISO-MPEG codecs such as the AAC family or in the future MPEG-H. Those can deliver more features and a higher audio quality at much lower bitrates compared to mp3

Reiterate that mp3 is dead today

I'm not surprised that the media took this as "mp3 is dead" and ran with it. The blame lies as much with Fraunhofer for their misleading statements as with the rest of the media.
> with things like kanji it only teaches you the sound and not the meaning

Damn, that's precisely the opposite of how you should learn them.

My Japanese ability pretty much exploded after I set aside two months to study the kanji divorced from their readings with James Heisig's method. Totally worth it. The readings come with time.
Maybe people need an alternative that is as good, yet not spying on you? A device that won't ever record anything permanently, that won't ever call home / to the cloud.

I don't think we can revert the trend, but maybe at least try and redirect the stream to a solution that is concerned with privacy.
TL;DR - The film was playing in the wrong aspect ratio for 10 minutes, people booed, and they restarted it with the correct aspect ratio. The Netflix logo did draw some boos on both starts... but people cheered the technical problem getting fixed, and the film received warm applause at the end.

Sheesh, even the BBC is using clickbait headlines now?!? I've lived too long.
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> The audience booed the Netflix logo, which appeared before the film started, and it then became clear the film was playing in the wrong aspect ratio.

> "The second time around the audience booed the Netflix logo again. But there was also some cheering at the same time and a warm round of applause at the end."

Ok, so they weren’t disappointed by the quality of the movie but rather had trouble with the projector and some hate for the Netflix as a brand. The headline feels a bit click-baity...
I think it's less Assange having a specific pro-Russian agenda and more him rather enjoying the opportunity to make trouble for politicians and Russian affiliates being more than happy to assist him with that. The traditional Russian term for political radicals whose agitation tended to serve their state's agenda despite very different ideals is popularly translated as "useful idiot"
They are not secret in that sense. Assange will know them when they are filed with the court.

I have a feeling that there's enough material to put him on trial in USA and he has gone tit-tat with many three-letter agencies. They have a long memory and don't like challengers. Whether he gets convicted or not that's another thing.
Is ASIC audio decoding really common these days? I assumed it would be handled on "general purpose" DSPs most of the time, not hardwired ASICs.

Audio decoding is really not a challenging task nowadays in my experience, when your average "embedded" processor runs at hundreds of MHz. There's still power consumption to factor in but that's never really been a limiting factor for me in the past decade at least. Maybe I've just been spoiled with powerful SoCs.
There is quite an outrage on Twitter in French against the people that booed the Netflix logo.

This is clearly a generational problem; we have a lot of rules in France that were designed to protect theaters against early TV diffusion of blockbusters (« Chronologie des médias » [0]), but it is not designed for Netflix model at all.

Most of the film makers and the public understand the need for a change of that regulation, but of course theaters associations are lobbying against it.

[0]: https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pre...
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> So, will the police presence now simply disappear?

No. He is wanted by the UK courts for failing to appear when on bail and so will be arrested if he leaves the embassy.
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In a given person's life, there might be plenty of reasons why they can't be one or the other, but that's just me being a pedant.

However, as I see it you can choose to invest time and resources into being 'useful' or 'interesting', but the one will usually divert said time and resources away from the other. E.g. you can do deep science, and help the scientific progress of humankind, or you can be 'interesting' like Nye or Tyson.

What really gets be is how fame, or 'interestingness' at times cloud our judgment so that the individuals who focus on that path are more recognized (often for much less actual useful work) than the sticklers who are actually doing most of the useful work.
I certainly don't want big brother in my home. But my friends and relations visit my home, bringing their ever-listening AI assistants with them? Dare I be rude and ask them to leave big brother behind?
There's one that I know of, but as usual, less developed. Still, probably worth checking out: https://mycroft.ai/
He was heard at the embassy, back in November.
Is this one of those "Fraunhofer lines" I keep hearing about?
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BBC have been clickbaiting for a while now. I used to use it as my only legitimate news source when other agencies started to clickbait, but now, I'm not sure where to go.
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It was blindingly obvious that it was. Sweden's reputation took a huge hit because of this incident, and rightly so. They should have resolved the matter within 6 months. But it became such a hot potato that they were willing to sacrifice a man's live, and demonstrated to the world that principles and truth is inconsequential when the bully is sitting on your chest. The stench of this shit will cling to Sweden for generations.
> no evidence that driving is any less safe for young people

Glad you checked all that evidence for us, saves us the hassle.
Was my thought too after reading the article. The BBC! Clickbait! Where do we even go from here?
That assessment, though, is based on an assumption that Swedish authorities would have complied with Swedish law. Part of Assanges fear of going to Sweden, whether justified or not, is presumably that Sweden had a history of letting Swedish police get away with blatantly violating Swedish law in support of US rendition. One could argue that this risk is not real in his case, but that is/was not relevant to whether or not it affected Assange's concern about which country seemed safer.

Part of that fear was presumably based in the unusual persistence of the Swedish prosecutor, which implied something odd was going on. But that "something odd" might simply have been the prosecutors ambitions.

In any case, UK courts have a history of taking extradition hearings very seriously, and there are ample opportunities to appeal both to UK courts, the ECHR, and (for the time being) to the ECJ, so it'd by no means be easy to get him from the UK direct.
The hydroelectric generation is cheap in Ontario, but not overly abundant. The majority of the power in the province comes from much more costly nuclear sources.
Objecting to sexual harassment got me fired, says ex-Uber employee
Yet another uber thread
"they're expected to finance their research with patent licenses"

Why they cannot be funded 100% with public money? At least the "public" would get some free technology back.
How does this compare with https://github.com/movio/kasper ?
Hashing it on the client side will make the hash the password. So the stored hash can be used as password by turning off the client side hashing, for instance by turning off javascript. You use https to avoid sending the password in cleartext over the network
Allow me to balance it here.
Stray dog is a big issue in Kerala. Daily you read about an attack where a person is attacked brutally by stray dogs. And peak summer time is when they also carry rabies virus too. Most of the places kids are not allowed to play outside for fear of dog attack. With little support from the government, people are left with no other option than to kill them. Not sure why western media is so concerned about the life of a dog than a life of Chicken or goat or cow that are regularly killed.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/85-yr-old-mauled-to...

http://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/stray-dog-attacks...
I really don't think ROI of individual cases should be a benchmark for the justice system (or, actually, a lot of the processes of democracy).

There are endless reasons against, but just to state an obvious one: prosecution should not depend on the subject's ability to raise the costs for the government–both because it would create an incentive for such shenanigans, as well further tilting the justice system in favour of the rich.
But at this point, it would be either A) limited in function, B) prohibitively expensive or C) too technically complex since you can't mine the data for advertising money.

The same goes for the Whatsapp dilemma.
My guess is that most of the people who said they dislike dart probably never used the language, but still have this opinion because of the whole brouhaha when dart first introduced with the possibility of replacing Javascript in Chrome.

Now that dart is also evolved into something else (A nice language that compiles to Javascript and runs on its VM for mobile devices) I wish that this bad blood goes away and people could take a fresh look. I really like the language and appreciate the hard work of developers of Dart ecosystem.
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Currying is also a means for adapting a function for memoization. I blogged about this a while back:

https://taylodl.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/functional-javascri...
So they should have waited until they had more Kanji before releasing it?
I'm personally looking forward to their "Inside America's mass media war on Russia" counterpiece.
I will try to post something.
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The page works on our phone too, which is better.

I think this allows noise elimination by averaging though, it distills the key elements of a doodle of a bird, cat, car, etc.
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Can I use this to work out if something is a hot dog? I've got a killer app idea...
...assuming you can get your hands on a large set of pictures of babies along with their names, to train your NN on.
I actually quite like the name of that!
So where is Google "Blend" for ChromeOS?
Whether Swedens's reputation took a hit is a matter of opinion.

If he was innocent why didn't he go back to Sweden and face the charges?

All the stuff about the risk of US extraditing him in nonsense, they'd find it easier to do from the UK.

All he did is use political asylum to avoid facing charges of a sexual assault.
Only you can know if you want to do it or not. But at least when you are with your family or alone at home, you know you are not being spied on (at least not knowingly / voluntarily).
Tests and TDD are different things.

I view TDD as a workaround for a lack of a REPL.

When the code is finished, the tests can be written or polished but writing them before any code is just one variation of testing.
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"AAC Licensors" as a new title does not tell much.

A better title would have been:

"MP3 promoted as "dead", Fraunhofer will get money from AAC patents now"