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I would assume that the type of planning done in chess is very different from the skills you would need to do well in a prison environment, even if being good chess often implies a good intelligence baseline. Since I don't know much at all about actual prison life, I can't confirm this hypothesis. In any case, I doubt that the Machiavellian planning that is a familiar sight on TV translates well to the real world of an inmate.
I suspect it depends on why you're learning. As you say learning languages is hard, especially as an adult.

I couldn't imagine learning a language for "fun", but I know others do. I can easily imagine a lot of them dropping-out and giving up, once they've either learned enough to be useful or decided it is not for them.

But me? I've moved from Scotland to Finland. I'm very slowly learning the language. I don't expect I'll ever be fluent, but I need to try. People who move abroad, and avoid learning the language are not so well respected, and rightly so.

Thus far I've managed to have medical treatment, buy a flat, and do lots of complex things in English, but it would still be better for me to learn Finnish. If only so people don't need to switch languages, solely for my benefit, at parties, etc. (That's appreciated, but also a constant reminder of how much I suck!)
https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SoundCodecs
I'd really like to live in that world.

I'm afraid I don't.
>interface Robot { __Robot: true }

I would much prefer if they just added a new keyword to the language, instead of hacks like this.

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/202
"Kotlin is like Java" would be pretty funny.
No, he was on bail when he went in to the embassy, and the maximum penalty (in a Crown court) for skipping bail in the UK is 12 months (which I imagine he would get).

See: http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/a_to_c/bail/#a19
Not sure about 'secret charges' but there are these recent charges. [1]

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/20/politics/julian-assange-wi...
A little aside - does anyone know what's the colorscheme / theme of the editor in that blogpost?
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For the "standard" consumer, saying mp3 is dead will provoke more reaction as in "OMG what will happen to muh pirated music library?", while they do not care about patents.
Can seeking asylum be used as a reason for bringing charges against someone? As far as I understand, exercising legal options cannot ever be interpreted as an illegal act. I think it's much more likely the UK will pick Assange up on behalf of the US, who have threatened to charge him.
Ok, so is it your contention that the UK would not co-operate in similar fashion? And, if so, why? Genuine sense of political autonomy or PR?
Is there a good article -- does even anyone know? -- on how did Wikileaks turn from a whistleblower into a mouthpiece of the Kremlin?

Edit: some examples: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/... https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/03/...
Looks like the US officially going after him changed the circumstances.
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Kotlin is like Swift

Kotlin is like TypeScript

that infer

TypeScript is like Swift

am I getting right? or Is there anything else?
> When was the last time the US kidnapped someone from London's streets?

I don't think that they'd need to really. Much easier to have a quiet word with the co-operative British authorities who would assist with the matter and then hand over the individual in question. All soft language and avoidance of publicity, you see. But the same result.
ahh cool, didnt know, typescript is the main thing that would make me have to emmediatly eject since I use it for all my js projects these days, thanks!
So is suicide, but usually both are colloquially implied to not be an actual choice due to how dire they are.
You mistaken "everyone" with "my bubble". Pretty much everyone in my circle still collects and listens to mp3 as the primary format. Furthermore, if you have more obscure music taste, it's a rare find something interesting on the streaming services.
Assange had a very personal vendetta with Hillary Clinton, the Kremlin were merely another weapon.
> Email in profile.

I don't see any email in your profile.
What base do these have? Assange isn't a US citizen, so he can't be charged for treason like Snowden and Manning. He just gained information and published it.
IANAL, but fleeing from an arrest warrant is very definitely illegal in the UK.
> Ok, so is it your contention that the UK would not co-operate in similar fashion? And, if so, why? Genuine sense of political autonomy or PR?

My contention is that the US would not kidnap him from London's streets.

Word choice is important; I'm sick to the back teeth of hyperbole backed up with "wouldn't be the first time."
I doubt that there are many drivers who can outperform a modern automatic transmission.
Seeing if I can't find the citation at least. Not sure if it's turned up, though several contemporary accounts are interesting in retrospect.

I'm wondering if Egypt has reconsidered its actions...

http://www.worldcat.org/title/introducing-internet-to-egypt-...

It might be John McConnell's Internetworking computer systems : interconnecting networks and systems (1988):

http://www.worldcat.org/title/internetworking-computer-syste...

Prentice Hall seems right for the publisher, though I'm not positive on the title. Date seems a year or three early.

Possibly John Quartman's The Matrix, 1990, which sounds closer to the right date:

https://www.amazon.com/Matrix-Computer-Networks-Conferencing...
Isn't it the case that the offline resources are considered "caches" and thus might be cleaned up if there's not much storage left?
Fascinating read, thanks for sharing!
They don't specifically state what they are charging him with in that article, just that they "seek to put him in jail".
I didn't follow this whole mp3 story deeper than headlines, so can somebody explain to me, how expiring patents and becoming royalty free, public format equates to dead? In my book, that's pretty much the opposite as everyone can use it now.
What makes you think that WL is a mouthpiece of the Kremlin?
"The Egyptians built some beautiful pyramids, but they did that with hundreds of thousands of slaves over decades."

This is now actually disproved. Made me doubt quite a bit about if the rest of the article (and his book) is actually based on any evidence or just the author's personal views.
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Same here and, yeah, it really does. When preparing for upgrading a server recently I took a lvm snapshot of the disk and copied MySQL from it (to test in a VM that the server upgrade would work) assuming it would start just fine after running recovery, but instead it complained some about corruption and then segfaulted. So at least that version of MySQL cannot be trusted with your data in case of a power outage or kernel panic.
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Type script is like c#?
Scala is like c#?

Is go like scala?

Everything is C (or lisp).
Dunno, may be you are right. With the advance of flexbox there finally would be a possibility to do good old delphi-like anchors for responsive UI. In a WYSIWYG editor. Without spitting out hardly maintable brittle javascript which simply manages layout (something which is framer.com/other designer tools can do right now).

So far the facebook stack and react-desktop seems to be the best candidate for that description, but I don't neceserily think people would focus on getting it to the desktop styling. Universal Material UI (or similar?) probably would overtake that approach.
David Allen Green‏, Law and policy commentator at @FT:

>It is now easier for US to obtain Assange's extradition, if they (ever) wanted it.

>Now only UK's consent required, not UK and Sweden.

https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/86550564980685619...
And support is available in new Android versions (since 5.0).

The harder task would be to get an ASIC that accelerates decoding. Know of any?
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AFAIK they could try and charge him under the Espionage Act but it would be difficult and unlikely to succeed. I think there are one or two other possible charges but both are also unlikely to succeed. As long as they can make his life a living hell though (long trial, loss of freedoms until found innocent) that would hopefully (from the USG perspective) discourage other leakers.
Well - he will certainly be charged in the UK for breach of bail conditions if he steps out of that embassy.
It should be noted that the prosecutor had three options:

1: Drop the charges.

2: Drop the arrest order but continue the investigation. To do so require a plan which would progress the investigation.

3: Charge Assange with rape, arguing that the evidence collected so far is enough for a case.

And we got the first option, and thus we can conclude that the prosecutor don't have enough evidence to go to court and have no plans on how to further the investigation.
Chess players on a screen and over the Internet feels a lot like video game sessions (in fact it literally is a video game, just that it's usually not perceived that way). OVer the board chess in a social setting feels completely different though.
Since he skipped bail for something which is now dropped, doesn't that move back up and nullify his wanted status as well?

Or is there a process that he could now start, like "remove my wanted status because there is no point now", and that would then get decided by some organization?
>Not really. It could be that the universe has existed for an infinite amount of time, and the big bang was an event that occurs from time to time.

That is a scenario where there is no ultimate explanation.
Assange agenda was always anti-Americanism at expense of everyone else, so he just stayed true to himself. Many of his then liberal supporters were turning a blind eye to this, until it spectacularly bit them in the ass.
No. It must be felt--emotionally.
Is there any reason for you to believe that Wikileaks is "a mouthpiece of the Kremlin"?
Yes, but I still do not think it will be easy, just easier than it used to be. The support added here seems to be more aimed at people who want to only replicate certain tables.
At the very least, if God gives us commands, we can understand the commands and obey them. I don't see how you could doubt that's possible (on the hypothesis that God does exist).
> Is there any advantage to using one of these devices?

Yes, you can get the fully processed 3D model within minutes of capture, no cloud or desktop computer required. Plus our file format is very compressed so you can share scans right from the field over your mobile connection.
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This is same click baiting as the tech news "MP3 is dead" stories.

There is no proof that Fraunhofer did what they did because they are also a licensor of AAC.
In essence he is in prison for 5 years.
They just reported on the news (ABC, aussie) that the UK police are seeking to arrest him for skipping bail.
I really wonder whether something like electrino.js solves the problem of apps being a memory hog. So far just a demo preview AFAIK, but they nailed the problem of binary size pretty well.

I guess the question boils down to whether a single tab in a browser which is properly managed by OS can compete with a good old native desktop app.
Well if you cannot question the accused, it sort of limits what evidence you can collect...
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> Assange was basically, from his POV, defending his future freedom and poasibly his life, and still is.

And I suspect, his reputation/good name. If he'd gone to trial, and lost, he'd be called a "convicted rapist" for the rest of his life.
All he had to do was answer some questions to the Swedish prosecutor.

I still fail to understand why Sweden, NOT a NATO member, would have been more dangerous than the UK. Also, Sweden is not exactly the worst place in the world to spend prison time (which was only the worst case scenario.)

Answer the questions, clarify everything, and walk free. He chose himself not to answer. He chose to dump all the rich people who paid for his bail.

He was always able to leave the embassy to go to Sweden for an interview.
Have you heard of ToroDB? FWIW they have benchmarks that claim it's running faster on top of Postgres than MongoDB does natively.

"ToroDB Server

It is a MongoDB-compatible server that supports speaks the MongoDB Wire Protocol (and therefore can be used with the same drivers used to connect to any standard MongoDB server) but stores your data into a reliable and trusted ACID database."

https://github.com/torodb/server
Now, are there languages for which that doesn't hold true?
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Your stream of consciousness is interrupted when you sleep, so with that logic you technically die every night.

> But most people don't have that sort of objectivity.

Where did you get that idea from?

> If you're comfortable dying so that a copy of you can live the rest of your life, that's your business.

You will eventually die and (hopefully) a partial copy of you(children) will continue living on and you don't even have a choice about it.
Or the UK secret service can do it. Wouldn't be the first time.
That is very very bad for Sweden because it proves that it was a low class political game so Sweden cannot be viewed as an independent state.
I used SQLite in my side project few years ago. It was very simple (like 2 tables/collections), but a lot of updates every day. I eventually switched to MongoDB because SQLite was too slow (and also I wanted to play with NoSQL stuff).
"UK police say WikiLeaks' Assange will be arrested if he leaves Ecuador's embassy" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-sweden-assange-bri...

So while we don't know yet about the US, the intention of the UK is clear.
No. He gave his bonded word that he would give himself up, which is what the bail was about, then went back on it. That has consequences that are not automatically overlooked.
The defendant could choose not to answer any questions, so would it change anything?
It is universally applicable. Their pricing is order(s) of magnitude more affordable.

It's not a secret. Everyone who has to dealt with both of them knows that.
As a guy from Belgium, who lives half the year in the bay area, I can confirm.
Maybe because Belgium is so small, but when I'm in the US I have no problem driving an hour just to get to a walmart. In Belgium, this crosses half the country and I only do it on very select occasions. In the US I even drive from SF to LA and back every month, when in Europe I wouldn't even consider driving that far.

Each time I spend some time in the US, I'm thinking: 'I should drive to more places in Europe', but as soon as I'm back, my European stay-at-home mood kicks in.
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Held both in Swedish and English
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Seems reasonable to me even if I don't agree.
It's not pretty, but it makes sense so that you actually think about whether you need an array vs list vs ? instead of just going for whatever datastructure [] is going to give you because it's most convenient.

In practice, it's something I stopped caring about within the first hour.

Then again, mikeash's comment pitches a more interesting idea: [] as generic collection literal syntax that depends on inference / annotation to pick a concrete implementation. Best of both worlds. I'd just remove the Array default.
There is already a discussion about this topic with currently 70+ comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14373951
disclaimer: ex-Googler, on-and-off developing in Dart in the past 5 years (mostly on).

I had a choice last year where I could have chosen any stack for a new independent product. I've done an exhaustive research, did everything to detox myself from the Google cool-aid, got myself up-to-date with other languages and platforms, did my benchmarking and comparison using real code for the product I was to develop. In the end I've selected Dart for several reasons:

I can start coding using only a few types, and as the code gets its final shape, strengthen it with type annotations and turn on strong mode. This is an interesting productivity boost, because I can draft a quick script if needed, and when it becomes more complex, the toolchain is there to refactor and make more structure around it. People migrating from JS to TypeScript advocate the same process, only Dart is much better in both refactoring, and long-term safety (see the bad parts of JS).

I like the Dart VM. It is not as robust and fast as the Java VM, but close enough, and it is much faster than V8 (Node.js), Python or Ruby. Of course your results may vary on your benchmark, but for my workload it was a perfect match. One benefit compared to the JVM was that I didn't need to specify the max heap memory in DartVM, the program scaled up using 12G easily and almost effortlessly in a single isolate (which is a fine plus if you have several server processes, and need this boost only for a couple of minutes per day). Haven't tried larger heap sizes, but for a single-isolate memory use this was OK for me.

Readability is important. I've several examples where people were able to get quickly productive using Dart without former experience in it. I've applied for jobs (and got offers) using Dart as the interview language, and even though the companies were not using it, the interviewers were always able to get what I'm up to. A friend's company will soon train their HRs/recruiters in Dart, because they want to shorten the hiring process.

I could go on, but in short: it is a language and platform which, at least for me, combines the benefits of Java, Erlang, Python and JavaScript, while keeping it sane and useful.

I think you should evaluate any language and platform for your needs, and rely less on internet popularity scores.
AAC does has some advantages comparing with MP3. You can find them in this article http://bit.ly/2rypx5B
No it does not prove any such thing.
They have, but it's in the middle of python notebook spaghetti
By that logic, you could say that leiningen and gradle hide the very awful maven build system, and maybe if they didn't exist, the daily pain of working with maven would be enough that it would actually be improved.

But it's been well over a decade. Maven is maven, npm is npm, make is make. Yarn is doing a good job now of being the new and improved build system for JS projects, and create-react-app seems to be using it under the hood.

Eventually I may care about what compilation flags lein passes to maven in order for it to compile my clojure project into jvm bytecode, but that day hasn't happened yet and I've been glad not to have to set those up with every clojure project I start. The same now applies to react apps.
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IMHO it is more about values, and not so much about intelligence.
What about the "Macron leak"?
AAC does has some advantages comparing with MP3.It is smaller with better qulaity. You can find them in this article http://bit.ly/2rypx5B
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It's very interesting that certain people are so tightly wound about Russia for the last six months. You barely heard a peep in previous years, when they were fighting rebellions in border regions or launching an invasion of a prospective NATO member. But suddenly they're the big bad boogieman of the world, like it's 1949 again and we're anticipating the Red Army pouring through the Fulda Gap to the Atlantic.
Google put up a code lab for Flutter:

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/flutter/inde...

It's a super simple UI but you can just pretend it's Java and read through the code samples to get a feel for how things are structured/organized. As a web dev with a strong preference for functional programming I find it unpleasant but I don't think I'm the target audience.
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Until they get sued for patent infringement.
He'll probably be on Hillary's kill list, at least.
The "knowledge set" would be a small matrix - the one that allows to decode whatever encoder has put into compressed data. I guess it will be in volume range of 8x8 16-bit floats or so. Maybe three to six such matrices per channel.
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He skipped bail. Just like others do, he needs to face the consequences of his own actions.
One of the problems with ORMs is that because it lets people forget about the annoying details of their databases, it also makes the forget the useful details of their databases.
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Other legal commentators in the thread pointing out that he is still wanted for "failing to surrender" to his bail which can face up to 12 months in prison. This is what the arrest warrant will be for, not some secret US extradition request.

Prosecution guidance on the offence: http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/a_to_c/bail/#a32
Absolutely. Right tool for the right job. Mixed content (perhaps a paragraph with bold and italics) is absolutely horrible in JSON because it lacks the complexity that XML has to cope with this.
Congratulations Julian! It's been a long time coming.

On a related note, for those unaware, the asylum seekers who helped Snowden escape Hong Kong are currently under threat of being sent back to their own countries (which they left for various reasons including violence, torture and rape). Snowden has called for people to help them. 56% of the €100k goal has been raised so far.

https://www.gofundme.com/snowdenguardians
I can´t help to think this was not a business as usual I/O, it feels like the concretization of the exponential nature of technology development, sported nowadays a good deal by deep learning. Notice that a good portion of the products presented in I/O weren't just a result of many people grinding away on a problem (say, iterating on a new version of a operating system), but where "machines" worked/trained on a problem in order to do something useful for us.

This is not news to me nor anyone here I am sure, but seeing it realized on a keynote where a company gives us an update on what was accomplished in roughly a year and seeing it realized in a more wholesome approach/platform (Google Assistant), instead of scattered along different products, just made me realize that a fundamental mindshift is happening on a more global scale. From makers ("I will make this machine/software so that it can help with X") to leaders of machines ("I will give the necessary conditions for the machine to help with X").
It's one of the fundamentals of the Swedish legal system, you can't be sentenced in your absence or at least not without being heard
That's the main issue ;) Either an ASIC or that uses HW Accel in the processor

And yes, the industry is stupid in standardizing in proprietary formats
Interesting. So, they are not trying to charge him for publishing documents, but for helping Snowden.
I believe the US traditionally sidesteps this legal thorn by detaining people without charge at gitmo for as long as they like. Non-US citizens have minimal to no rights under US law, so it's all just peachy
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And so he should, after all at that point he would be a convicted rapist, no?