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(i)The case was very publicly reopened the week after it had been announced it was being dropped. I mean, it's not like headlines like this would have escaped Assange's notice http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/rape-investig...

Assange spent 26 more days in the country and then flew out hours after his arrest warrant was signed.

(ii) there's nothing particularly unusual about a more senior prosecutor overriding an earlier decision of a more junior prosecutor following an appeal from the alleged victims' lawyer and an interview with the accused. Especially when it's a one-party's word against another's case and the accusing party had initially seemed reluctant to pursue a prosecution.
Or tries to put words you don't even remember into context, or new administration chases you for your older ideas and puts you on a list. Good for you living in centuries-stable country.
Please read the thread before replying: I'm not saying that wasn't true for you, only that it wasn't for me – hence my encouragement to shop around if this is a big deal for you.

No number of comments from random people on the internet is going to outweigh actual price quotes.
Minor nit:

1. I think you have to start with 1975 because emissions requirements are the biggest component of why car performance started to drop in the late 70s. It's really hard to compare a car with and without emissions equipment.

2. Like others have said, model bloat accounts for a lot the weight gain within a specific model. The Accord used to be a small sedan that's grown into a full size. The modern Civic is bigger than the 92 Accord my family had when I was a kid.

3. A Nissan GT-R weighs nearly 2 tons as well and will outhustle the Fiat and the SUV around that mountain :)
Which means nothing unless you are talking about interrogation.

They could just have decided they didn't get good enough questions and kept the case open. They didn't because there isn't a case.
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For lock-free data structures, how does this verification encode the memory model? E.g. high-quality model checkers for the C++11 memory model allow for outcomes inconsistent with the execution order of the code (in addition to outcomes that aren't sequentially consistent, but are consistent with the execution order). They also work on unmodified source. In the past I've seen SPIN/Promela used as a tool for concurrency-checking, but it's silent on memory-models (implicitly sequentially consistent)
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"Homestar Brown" and "Pubic Gray" got me.
I'm sure lots of people drop out, but I stuck with Dutch for 400 days in a row - only 10 to 20 minutes a day. I'm not fluent, but I have a basic vocabulary. Duolingo does a very good job helping you learn. Now I'm working on trying to fix up my high school French, but will be switching to the Japanese.
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I haven't used Xamarin. React Native I have used. You can make some stuff really fast but I feel like some stuff is unfinished at this point. As an example simple navigation does not feel complete with React Native.
> Zurich to Transylvania is 1800km

You forgot to mention: 4 different languages (Swiss dialect, German, Hungarian and Romanian) and one border (Swiss - EU).
I wished we could auto filter HN with certain keywords
As you say, this is not a simple criminal case - criminals don't broadcast their location when skipping bail. So you have to deal with it politically. A reasonable government would have done that a long time ago, getting Sweden to change its stance sooner (as it eventually happened anyway, like most people asked for and predicted, since it had been done before). Once that is sorted, you can liquidate it all as "a big misunderstanding" without losing face.

Unfortunately now it's very late, and I find it hard to believe the person responsible for this stupid position in the first place, currently leading the country, will do anything smart to resolve this for good.
Telegram rolls their own non-standard crypto protocol as I understand it.
This is a bit of a no-no when it comes to security.
More importantly; chat's arent' end-to-end encrypted by default (I can't find a way to enable it in the web-app), which means the telegram-whatsapp comparison makes no sense. Whatsapp is secure, telegram is not.
The last time I looked, Java 8 wasn't available (and probably never will be?) available on Android, which is what this article is talking about.

Edit - http://www.infoworld.com/article/3180758/mobile-development/... it looks like Android is gaining Java 8 support now
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I'm not sure I trust google to support anything properly, I'm glad it's Jetbrain's problem. Atleast their tooling isn't garbage.
You don't have access to this API in Android.

Except maybe if you minAPI is something ludicrously high like 25, but that's not going to be the case for almost all apps in the coming year. Kotlin is useable right now.
He hosted a show on Russia Today; he was literally a mouthpiece of the Kremlin.
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What's with the kotlin hacker news spam this week? Isn't one article enough?
You're talking about fame. I wasn't; I took "interesting" to mean "not boring".
Riot on your phone works ok too for encrypted messaging and a lot more interoperability.
http://www.titus-stahl.de/blog/2016/12/21/encrypted-messenge...
You're right when you say that one person's good deed in one domain don't make him immune to criminal charges for unrelated matters. However, Assange did not just did a 'good deed', he became a very high value political target and most of the time such people are protected from unrelated charges, since it is very easy to false flag them/burden them with bs to keep them from doing their job.
For example in France the president has partial immunity. The case of diplomatic immunity also comes to mind.
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We did that in the past, and it ends with those research institutes then wasting money for everything, as another commenter mentioned.

This model is to ensure Fraunhofer only develops technology that has practical applications (for more theoretical research, there's other research societies).

Also, if it was free, it'd be the German taxpayer subsidizing foreign companies — that wouldn't work in the long term, as German taxes would pay for tech that Google f.e. would use, but Google wouldn't give anything back.

One could make the license fees tax deductible in Germany, though, that would be a good solution.
I studied basic Japanese at school. I've been waiting for this to refresh my skills. I didn't think the speaking and listening part of learning the language was that hard.

Hiragana and Katakana are pretty simple and straight-forward. As for Kanji, I haven't studied the Kanji to deeply, but to me it comes down to pattern recognition and memorization.

My wife is Thai, and I've been trying to learn the language on and off for a few years now. For me it's the complete opposite of Japanese difficulty-wise. The reading and writing part is straight forward once you learn the alphabet and the special rules. The part I have trouble with most is the speaking part since there are multiple pitches and using them correctly is important. For instance "khao khao" is white rice, "now" can mean either means either cold or disgusting. Luckily, if you don't speak or hear the pitch correctly, most of the time you can get by using context.
How well Ada/SPARK suits distributed control algorithms I wonder? As far as I understand contracts are good enough for sequential code, but not well suited for parallel/distributed computation?

Runtime checks are good as to prevent something from happening, but they are not able to guarantee the absence of an error in the first place, right?
> AFAIK they could try and charge him under the Espionage Act but it would be difficult and unlikely to succeed.

So you are saying the US has laws which within US jurisdiction says that it's OK to file for extradition of non-US citizens anywhere in the world, if the US doesn't like what they do?

Good for them, I guess, but why should the rest of the world comply?

If we should comply with this for the US, surely we should do so too for Iran, China and Russia, just to mention a few. Is that a direction which anyone have any illusions about ever ending well?
Ask HN: Which format would be the best for an analytics export?
This is one of the best places to ask this question I guess, because of the technical background a lot of users have in here.

Information: I launched a Twitter account analytics/analysis tool around a month ago (might post it in the Show HN section soon, but no link here). Short description: You can see some basic information like followers, likes & more. On top of that, there are some analysis - of course (for example: most used words, most used hashtags, a graph with the users history (Tweet amount) of the past 12 months, ...).
Now that you have an imagination what I'm talking about: A user suggested to compile a list of links the user, which is been analyzed, posted and provide an export function for those links. I'd like to add an export functionality to every part of the analysis and the analysis as a whole. Are there any "standards" for an exported list of links? Any big applications, which provide a way to import a list of links, where I could orientate at? What about the whole analysis export? Is it all about consistency, all okay as far as I don't change the export structure daily? JSON?

So a couple of questions in my mind, thanks for reading and any kind of suggestion or useful information!
Not really.

You don't have direct access to Android's API with C#, you use a dedicated runtime wrapping your calls and allowing you to interact with the framework. This comes with a very large variety of issues.

With kotlin, you have 100% interop for free.
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True, but the stream API isn't very friendly. You have to get a stream (.stream()), filter, then collect in a collection (.collect(..)) for which you need to find a suitable collector (the stdlib supplies some for lists and maps, but you have to find where they are defined).

These are small things, and easily corrected with a bit of know-how and/or utility methods. But I think it has had a huge impact on the (non-)adoption of streams.

Another obvious API gap: going from an iterator or iterable to a stream requires much more ceremony than it should.
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No, some Java 8 features are available (https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features/java8-...) but streams are only available on Android Nougat
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Also; end-to-end encrypted chats in telegram (they call them "secret chats") won't follow you between devices. A secret chat started on one device, won't be accessible from another. This makes them far less useful, and dissuades users from using them.
Again; comparing whatsapp to telegram in terms of security is apples vs oranges.
That insightful line from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri comes to mind, "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master"
This is pretty common on HN.

A topic gets on the mind and people are ready to chat it out along a series of related comments sections. Nothing new or evil. It just might not be something you personally care about.
Are laws like the French ban on emails after work saving us or burying our jobs?
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Someone in an earlier Kotlin discussion (there has been quite a few just today) was praising how Kotlin solves the "1M$ mistake" having no null. He was also complaining that sadly is day-to-day job involves Go.

Unline Kotlin, Go does support len() (.length in Kotlin) on nil: https://play.golang.org/p/koqYbIdltw

In Kotlin, b.length can throw a NPE, only a b?.length won't (it will return zero or null, I have not understood that).

Together with the var/val debacle, it seems like it is designed to be very terse, which can lead to easier errors.

I don't think it solves the 1M$ mistake at all. And how could it, while maintaining full compatiblity with Java?
My favorite approach is after the third or fourth why I turn it around on the child - "well, why do you think?" If they are young enough, they usually contemplate it for a few seconds and then just start on a new line of questioning, but I hope in those precious few seconds of silence they are trying figure it out themselves.
Even after 10,000 armchair lawyer discussions about the Google-Oracle lawsuit, I feel like 99% of developers still do not grok that Android's "Java" isn't really Java.

They wrote their own implementation of an earlier version, and at this point will probably never update its API to fully match Java 8 or beyond. Android devs who want advancements will have to add "shims", like retrolambda or (quite frankly) Kotlin.
I highly recommend trying a Duolingo language, especially if there is a country you want to visit. If you set your daily goal for 10 points (maybe 5 - 10 minutes) and build a 10 day streak there is a pretty good chance you will be hooked on it. (Dutch level 16, French level 7).
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This is something else the UK could outsource to China - these guys have the state-of-the-art on monitoring and blocking technology. Something is very wrong here.
Maybe the OP meant using C++ without at least a Application dispatcher/container object written in Java. This has only been possible with the introduction of NativeActivity (which you don't need to derive from, but only refer to via the Manifest).
Thanks for the link, I don't doubt that. But I meant specifically on the point of data-handling. Some Russian hackers or spooks vs American hackers and the NSA, etc

The UK sucks just as bad. The current PM has just announced plans to regulate the web if they win the next election.
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Automatic, yes. Semi-automatic, no. With semi, the driver makes the decision, and the system execute it (the best in class is within 10ms IIRC).
Xamarin got bought by Microsoft, and they opened almost everything from Xamarin, except Xamarin Studio which got rebranded as Visual Studio for Mac.
Shameless plug: I made a small webapp to memorize Japanese vocabulary through spaced repetition and a Tinder-like interface: https://core.cards/

I made it for myself, but someone else might find it useful. It is the alternative of carrying a huge stack of cards as I used to do. Requires Github login though to syncronize through devices.
> will work even harder to ensure there is no "safe space for terrorists to be able to communicate online"

Why just online? Isn't it about time we stop letting car-makers and construction companies get away with helping terrorists? I say all cars and rooms in houses should be fitted with mandatory listening devices, constantly transmitting to government servers. Encrypted, of course, with a court warrant required for the police to decrypt the data. That should put those privacy extremists' fears to rest.

Edit: In case of misunderstanding - this was sarcasm, meant to illustrate where we'll get to if we pass laws solely using the metric of "might save a few lives".
Should the Swedish authorities chase after everyone they want to interview and do it where it pleases that person? If someone is wanted for rape and travels to Thailand, should Swedish prosecutor and police fly to Thailand to question them? What if the interview leads to them wanting to arrest that person, should they arrest them while in another country?
Define "better". If all your friends use one, then that is probably better for you. There is also functionality differences between the two (mentioned by others), which might force your hand.

That said, there are other quantifiable measures. In terms of security, Telegram has two main drawbacks:

1) it supports insecure chats - which means that for many (especially non-technical) users, they won't use the end-to-end encrypted messaging at all

2) whilst the encryption algorithms they use are standardised, the protocol they uses to transfer the messages is not well understood by the cryptographic community - and when it has been analysed, well-known flaws have been found [1].

In comparison, WhatsApp also makes use of standardised encryption algorithms, but also uses the Signal protocol - which has been studied by multiple groups, with better outcomes (such as [2]). One drawback to WhatsApp is they will generally make security decisions that are primarily based around avoiding sacrificing usability - if that is a problem, then perhaps Signal[3] or Wire[4] is a better choice.

On the encryption debate, using Russian algorithms vs US (Belgian) algorithms is somewhat academic - I believe that both are considered by the wider academic community to be strong when correctly used. I don't believe there is any evidence that Telegram or WhatsApp are incorrectly using them (beyond the attack found against Telegram, which may have been fixed by now?). This is the mostly the same for considerations about data storage location - if end-to-end encryption is enabled in Telegram, they are roughly equivalent.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013.pdf

[3] https://whispersystems.org/

[4] https://app.wire.com/
> ii) there's nothing particularly unusual about a more senior prosecutor overriding an earlier decision of a more junior prosecutor

The prosecutor who dismissed the case was senior, and not junior in any sense of the word, rank or age.

You say it's not unusual (in Sweden). I've never seen a single example of another rape case which was dismissed and reopened in this manner. Can you give a few examples of other re-opened Swedish rape cases, seeing that it's "not unusual" from your point of view.
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Absolutely disgusting. Even if, which I don't, I supported the Tories I could never vote for them with this policy.
Kotlin is simply a much more modern option than Java in general, and doubly so for the old version of Java used for Android. Giving Kotlin some official backing gives it a lot of credibility. The big argument favour of using Java over Kotlin until now has been that Kotlin was seen as more of a fringe language than the one (Java) officially endorsed by Google. Now that has changed. As a Scala developer I'm quite happy that Kotlin is getting this much attention as I see it as Scala-lite. I doubt there's a campaign of any sort, just lots of excited developers who are sick of Java and excited about Kotlin.
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Onto the app icon too?
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Currently the legal definitions around the uses of power such as search and seizure rely upon determining if a situation had an expectation of privacy. Police need a warrant to search your home because most people expect the home to be "private".

One particularly interesting example of this Kyllo v United States[1], where the use of infrared cameras to find grow lights inside a home was ruled a search (and thus needed a warrant) because infrared cameras were not common so the general public did not in practice see infrared emissions as "available to the public". The opinion of the court, however, did point out that their decision would be defunct when infrared cameras became generally available and used by the public. At that point the public would no longer expect infrared emissions to be private. (Presumably this expectation might create a market for e.g. ir-blocking paint? If that's even possible?)

Installing microphones that regularly send data to unknown 3rd parties normalizes the expectation that spoken word in the home is no longer private. When perceptions change, so will warrant requirements.

> We're not living in a violent, single-party totalitarian regime.

If that's you're criteria for when to act, you are always going to be too late to do anything. Some of us prefer the idea of detecting problems early - hopefully before the become violent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
It's hard to compare Lichess-rated players to e.g. FIDE or USCF rated players, since they have different populations. It's much easier to play on Lichess than in tournaments, so Lichess probably gives higher ratings. But one could get a sample of people rated on both sites to get an idea of the rating conversion.
>Either we're damaging our cars or you're wasting money and oil.

The latter.

Most manufacturers recommend 10,000 miles now, some as high as 15,000 (Jaguar, known for being unreliable):

https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/tips-advice/stop-changing-y...

Being as how manufacturers have to cover the warranty issues that could be related to lack of oil changes, I go with what they recommend.
It does make me laugh as a British citizen when the government touts the use of evidence-based frameworks and its ' nudge' unit and then employs a blunt instrument such as this which is purely legislative and flies in the face of all available evidence.

Since the advent of the internet and the accompanying rise of internet porn, sexual irresponsibility, teen sex, rape and divorce have all been in decline. That's to say nothing of the arguments for encryption and against backdoors, which have been well trailed in these parts before.

Luckily, as the Chinese example shows, it just doesn't work, though I did find it amusing the time I caught a long haul China Air flight from Beijing with 'Free Wifi' where there was only one website available, and it was the website for China Air.
Web components are essentially syntactic sugar. It's not so much a technology in and of itself as a way to help web developers avoid copy & paste strain..

So of course they work with anything and are "natural". There is nothing in them! It's a macro or preprocessor system if you want..
The NativeActivity class was introduced in Android 2.3, released in December 2010, almost 7 years ago!
Heh, of course it can't go without "terrorists" trump card:

"the government will work even harder to ensure there is no "safe space for terrorists to be able to communicate online"."

It's very sad to see UK becoming closed, police state.
Replaced mine twice after it's not replaceable anymore (overheated I think) - need to replace whole mainboard.
People are just excited. Articles I have seen so far don't sound like PR. People are just excited that they will have an alternative to Java.

This is the same kind of an excitement as the one when Apple announced that Swift will be a first class citizen of iOS development. I rarely get excited with programming languages, but this one went straight to my heart. Maybe I am biased because I like JetBrains as a company.
Assange's bid for asylum does not give him immunity, under British law, from normal criminal charges (which is how they view the Swedish charges). Witness their promises to arrest Assange if he left the Ecuadorian embassy, regardless of his subsequent right to leave for Ecuador after being tried.
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What about real CPUs (much more complex than 'Forth CPU'), network adapters (has its own CPU), memory controllers, real OS kernels, POSIX library (which is sometimes loosely specified) and so on?

As far as I understand modern truly reliable system (commerical avionics-like) still must be relatively simple to be verified up to hardware level.
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