skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if it was short-sighted you could have replied to it (as you did here) rather than downvoting it... Or maybe I understood the concept of karma wrong. shrug

As for what you say I think on a theoretical level I agree with you. But in reality nowadays a lot of shareholders buy and sell for the short term. Just look at all the companies that have very high stocks as they approach the quarterly report, and once they reported an excellent quarter, their prices fall. And that's without considering all the high-frequency trading.

As for being hurt by the gaffes or not, I agree with you that the evidence (as you put it) is not much. But then what evidence do _you_ have that these gaffes are hurting Google? I think (maybe cynically) that a lot of shareholders are very happy with how Google is doing, and they see a lot of profit in front of it: the finer details of "if the CEO had acted differently" maybe then the business would have been a bit different, seems a bit too abstract.

Also, and this is a point I think it's worth making. When I said controlled by a shark many people seemed to have read that as simply meaning someone with no ethics. But that's not the case. I meant someone who gave up ethics to pursue new areas of expansion. So if you will it's a bet. The shareholder has to wonder how much the predatory behaviour of a company are helping it expand (and if it doesn't expand the shares don't go up), and how much its reputation is hurting it.

During the 90s MS was a really big shark, but it's business was flourishing. Same with Facebook: you and I maybe dislike FB's privacy policy, and surely FB is getting a bit of a bad rep. but at the same time at the start FB didn't have a clear business proposition either.

So yeah, maybe Brin and Page would have kept Google as a wonderful place to be, with great ethics, and a lot of geek appeal (and hence amazing employees). But then maybe that same Google would still be concentrating in improving their search algorithm, and maybe having a good mail system. They would not have pursued a FB killer, a Foursquare killer a Twitter killer, an iPhone killer, or any other killer. Then would that company's revenue really been higher than the real Google's? It's not so clear to me.

So yeah, we can all agree that bad reputation can be bad. But putting ethics above profit may be bad too (even for the long-term profit). It's not clear to me what evidence you've shown that the latter would have made Google richer than the former.
That might be true, but on the other hand considering Assange's paranoia it is difficult to accept that he would put himself in this position.
What's that got to do with the price of tea in China, that's just handwaving.

You accused a bunch of people and now you point outside of HN to bolster your non-existent case. Rubbish.

I'm not taking issue with your interpretation of the case against Julian Assange, I'm taking issue with your case of there being paid shills in this thread. Give HN some credit.
That's a very general question, so here's some very general advice:

Start with something you know. Surely, based on your work and life experiences so far, there are some niches that you know better than most people. Think about those niches, and the kinds of problems they have-- possibly the problems they don't know they have.

Don't be blinded by the idea of mainstream, consumer software. You don't need to create software that your mother will use. Businesses are more inclined to spend money on software, especially if you can demonstrate how the software will make them money, save them money, or solve some other problem.
He does not know better because he values a principle above money?
The biggest problem is that a namespace can be declared anywhere, so technically it's impossible to use a streaming reader unless you stream through the document twice. Also xlink and other ways of dynamically composing xml is too complicated.
On what do you base this first claim? Because a little Google search on the subject of Swedish police and corruption turns up quite a number of (recent) hits.

Not to mention the legally dubious raids by the Swedish police on the hosters of the Piratebay, that seemed to have been bought and paid for by Hollywood.

By the way, is it normal police procedure in Sweden to tell the world's media that some dude is wanted for rape within a few hours of the accusation?
Dr. Kelly is just about the worst example to trot out to prove that such stuff is investigated properly.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302640/Dr-Kelly-inv...

And Dr. Kelly was very well known, especially because of the whole 'Sexing up' press coverage.
I disagree. Polymorphism and inheritance are separate concepts.

Yes, some statically typed languages like C++ and Java enforce certain inheritance constraints via classes or explicit interfaces before you can use polymorphism.

But almost all dynamically typed languages allow for ad-hoc polymorphism. For instance, in Python this is called "duck typing". Just because two objects provide a "foo()" method doesn't mean they are in any inheritance relation to each other. But polymorphism should still work.
I perfectly agree. It's a risk Google is taking: Schmidt has its pros and cons. The question is not that having a bad reputation may be a risky and one day hurt their revenues. The question is how that would compare to not having done anything, i.e. a Google where Schmidt was not in command. Would we have had Buzz, AdMob, Android and Facebook killers?

So it's the benefit of having Schmidt more or less than the disadvantages brought by his gaffes? My feeling is that apart from a people in tech related websites, most people would soon forget about these gaffes. As evidence I pointed out to Google's current share prices, and other companies that have had similar gaffes or actual problems, such as Apple or Facebook.
Why are so quickly defending this guy? What's so special about him?
Given the amount of sympathy these charges have garnered for Assange, it seems he'd have been quite smart if he'd chosen to pay these women to make false claims against him.
I think he did have sex with those women.
I think it was consent.
The women realize they can make money out of this and charge him with rape. No government plots.

This I think this is the most likely scenario. Reference: Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryan, Mike Tyson.
> In my opinion, this guy deserves to be locked up, even if it has nothing to do with this alleged "smear campaign".

I think that if this is a smear campaign that is exactly the sentiment that it was aiming for.
if this was a one time occurrence I might have agreed with you...but 2 rapes within a couple of days? no way.

as far as changing opinion, it's just so that reporters would report on wikileaks as "a whistle blower website whose founder is on the run from the law after being accused of rape" and to report on the guy as "founder of Wikileaks and accused rapist"
It makes all those monumental neoclassical buildings and art look quite funny. Like your idea of beauty was based on a skeleton of some beauty queen of old and you didn't even realize that it's not how she was expected to appear. (Hyperbole, of course. But if you, for example, think about that history shows parodied in Futurama, hey, it seems that we're exactly like that…)
It was reported by the media after an arrest warrant was issued.
Your post might have been sympathetic, but you basically argued that because he has the will to leak information without the consent of those who want to keep it secret, there is a high probability that he would have sex with a woman without her consent, which frankly is ridiculous.

I suppose, if I do something without the consent of my parents, I might also have sex without the consent of a woman? That's just silly.
That was a cynical remark about what most people value. Personally, he is my hero and he is one of the few people I would die for.

Yes, it's extreme, but his integrity has touched me whether it is right or wrong it's for history to judge. What's more important to me is that he has chosen his path and that he has the integrity to stick to it.
Oh, one more thing, this is the exact reason I left my last job -- we were in a place where it took us a whole year to sign a customer up for a free trial... We set the system up for them in October, and they didn't even look at it until February.

I learned at this point to see long sales processes as a "bad smell." Now maybe there are some things that really take a long time to sell (Nuclear power plants, for instance.) but personally I think salespeople are the most hated people on the planet and that they're going to be first ones to go as we approach the singularity. If your product is hard to sell, you should be selling a different product.

I've seen so many enterprise products go by that cost, say $30K, and the sales process is so extensive that it costs them $15K worth of salesperson time to sell the product and it costs the customer another $30K worth of their own time to make a decision. The product is worth $15K, but sales overhead puffs up the cost to $60K to the customer.

This has just got to stop.
In a perfect market you'd be spot on. But the whole point of monopolies and why they may be dangerous to a market, is because they can use harsh measures and people will still need to use/buy their products.

If 60% of the country thinks a government is rubbish, they _can_ be voted out. If 60% of the country thinks a company is abusing its powers but they are a monopoly, then your hands are tide.
I came year wanting to say exactly the same thing.

I walk each day past a primary school and all kids arrive unassisted. There are however teachers welcoming them at the gates and one police officer at the road crossing. But other than that they are on their own.

In Japan, motorcar drivers actually seem scared of pedestrians. I have difficulty crossing the road. In my country you usually stand still beside the road and wait for the cars to pass (for an opening). Here if you even look like you want to cross the road at some point in the future, the cars stop.
What he did was illegal?
That does a disservice to the very large number of rape victims out there.

You are attempting to shut down discussion by asking for sympathy for rape victims. It is logically a non-sequitur and is just an appeal to emotion.

According to the wikipedia summary of the studies, 8% of accusations where the accuser cooperates result in the police concluding they were false.

These numbers explicitly exclude cases where the charges are dropped or where the accuser does not cooperate with the police. Since false accusers are likely to do both those things (to avoid being revealed as a liar), the scenario being studied excludes many false accusations. Additionally, there are likely to be false accusations where the police are unable to determine whether they are false.

8% is almost certainly a lower bound.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape
These all seem pointless next to the inevitable social engineering that led John in accounting to give that Excel spreadsheet of bank info to "Dan" from an "outside auditing firm". PEBKAC!!
Sweden is not the United States, you can't make money out of a rape case there in the same way.

Typically victim compensation is orders of magnitude lower than in the states. Also Europeans are not as litigious as Americans are in situations like this.

Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryan, Mike Tyson are all American cases and have very little if any bearing on this.

If he did have sex with those women and it was consensual then he has a real problem on his hands.
Smaller houses consume less resources and are more efficient. (In most cases.)
I've been thinking about a way to represent RDF namespaces in JSON... I've seen RDF-in-JSON proposals that I don't like, because they involve whole URLs as keys, and I'm afraid that wouldn't work well in every JSON stack that's out there.
When the story mentions "Alternatively, we could get the boot tape out and rebuild the root filesystem" and "VAX", then "a lot of Googling" was out of the question.

I'm too young for the VAX era, but was there "a" hard disk which could be easily swapped and if they had another (which the Ethernet comment suggests they did) then would it have spare connectors? and free disk space? How fast did files copy back then?

If so they'd still be faced with shutting both down (knowing they couldn't start this one up again, and what was the procedure for shutting down / starting the other?) then be without both while they concocted a bodge recovery, then be faced with telling everyone to use the other and how to find their work - assuming if could take that many extra users and they had enough terminals for that.

That's sounding like a day's downtime of two systems and several days of people disruption followed by more disruption when they had to move users back.
It made it’s way in to the world after an arrest warrant was issued. There has been some debate in Sweden over the choice of publishing names or not, this is hardly a unique case.
The two women also know eachother, according to Expressen.
Surely that was Ardit20's whole point. "You can't kill Assange because it's too suspicious. Dr Kelly's death, for example, was suspicious".
Yes, but if that would come out as the truth he's really shot himself in the foot. He might as well pack up then, after that nobody is ever going to believe him.

Scenario 16: Some women get paid to make eyes at Assange, he falls for it, they have sex, they go and accuse him of rape.

Then hope he pulls a Clinton and ends up having to define the meaning of 'is'.

If I was Julian Assange at this point I'd blow the whole thing wide open and document each and every little bit of what happened if anything, even if it makes him look less saintly. That's the best defense against a smear campaign, if anything at all happened he'll look a lot worse if he tries to cover it up.

And he may have to step down from Wikileaks pending the investigation, which is another easy win for the opposition, it would be the prudent thing to do.
Lady Gaga sings about Java programming
I'm going to guess, if they're in use you wont be allowed to delete them, and then you'd be in a similar situation - things like notepad would be missing, various programs wont start due to missing dependencies.

In fact, we can see from Youtube:

Ubuntu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4fzInlyYQo

Windows XP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aSo8-VDS8E

XP appears to hold up slightly better - it doesn't ruin the fonts, and it pops up a System File Protection dialog indicating it has noticed the broken system files and asking for an install CD to recover them from.
If this is discovered as a frame-job, it'd be a god-awful PR disaster. The risks don't merit the rewards.

"All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true within itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying."

- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

"The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous."

- Joseph Goebbels
Because he's someone who has the guts to face the most powerful government in the world, uncover their lies, and give them the finger.
That's why.
This is so true.

Often, people try to circumvent that problem by providing complete specs upfront. But those are doomed if they lack the old problem, i.e. if they were written by people who are missing expertise in either programming or in the domain.

Another way to circumvent the problem is to establish a good communication flow between the domain experts and the software developers. However, that only works when this intense communication eventually makes at least one programmer a domain expert. So that strategy is more a way to reach this state rather than to circumvent it.

Whenever a software project works really well, there'll bee another interesting phenomenon: The developers acquire a deeper, more abstract knowledge about the work practices than the workers themselves.
"Math is a framework for solving problems"

I've never heard a better concise (one-sentence) description of what mathematics is.
The Stock Market Is Still for Suckers
I may want to write a more BASIC scripting language that falls back into Javascript APIs so that IT professionals can write plugins without having to know Javascript to do it. This looks like it was the key I was looking for.

How similar is this to ANTLR - which is my only implementation experience with context-free grammars (although I've studied formal languages in uni)?
Just because there are nuts out there with insane conspiracy theories don't mean there are no such thing as a conspiracy. It's very open what Wikileaks is doing and it's very obvious that a lot of powerful people want it stopped. If you always take everything at face value you're never going to understand politics.
Isn't that what happened with FB?
Of course you can kill Assange in a way that is just as suspicious as this whole story. In fact that would be a lot more effective. Mugging in an alley gone wrong, fatal stab wound. Traffic accident. People die all the time, Assange is not immune to that.

A bullet to the head would be problematic.
Ruby for the website I'm working on.

PHP for websites I need to throw up quickly.

Javascript for browser scripting.

Bash for scripting on linux/osx.

Applescript for automating stuff on my mac that can't be done with bash.
Is there anywhere a quick summary of the most extreme lies [edit: made by the US] that Assange has uncovered?

As far as I've seen (and I've only really read stories about Assange that have been posted here) what he's demonstrated is "war is horrible, and it's not going very well". That's important for us to know, but it's hardly ground-breaking.
Well talking from what I know of cases involving celebs and being accused of rape, this seems most likely.

Yes it is an interesting situation if he did have consensual sex with those women.
Ruby: Backend web application development (work)

Javascript: Front end UI and plugin API development (work)

C: How fast can I do this? (whenever needed)

C++/Java/Flash: Games (made a good 3D game in a Java applet - check out arcade.connersc.com)

PHP: Freelance client work

(edit: formatting)
Is it conceivable an organization like the CIA has deeply 'undercover' operatives, who are living in foreign countries, as citizens of those countries, working as teachers, doctors, milkmen, etc., but who could be pressed into service when circumstances required?
His files are closed for 70 years! So it is not a good example, hence the added details about being the dawn of the war in Iraq and although he was on the news, not quite known in the way the wikileaks founder is.

This government appears to be thinking of reopening the files however. People have come out saying that there are doubts about the inquiry, that its conclusions are not plausable. My point was therefore that we live in a democracy where the death of someone, even where mighty powers are concerned, is not simply shrugged under the carpet.
I've seen that done on live remote Windows servers at work - lag causing someone to hit disable on the network, causing someone to hit 'bridge' on the network card, causing someone to hit 'shutdown' instead of 'restart'.

One reason I really prefer text commands, as the sequence is preferred, so they can be typed and "queued" to execute in order when they arrive.
C++ at work for the new code

C at work for supporting the old code (and at my last job for embedded systems)

Matlab at work 'cause the science phds I'm collaborating with don't know anything else

Python for most random tasks (and some analysis for myself using numpy)

Lua for extending my window manager

Haskell (just starting) for fun

Spice at my last job for circuit analysis
I've been raped. And was molested for 2 1/2 years as a kid. I read lots of books and articles on the topic, did tons of therapy...yadda yadda. Child molestation or even adult cases of rape don't typically start with physical assault, they culminate in it. They start with a myriad of subtler forms of disrespecting one's boundaries and one's wishes. When I had kids, I never taught them "there are scary people in the world who will want to do unspeakable things to you and scream if anyone touches your private parts" (which is essentially what a lot of parents teach their kids). I felt that would rob them of their innocence and burden them with a lot of baggage concerning their sexuality. Instead, I taught them that affection had to be by mutual consent, it was their decision and if someone disrespected their decision, then come to mom and mom will back your decision (no questions asked). Most kids get molested by someone hugging on them and kissing on them even though they aren't comfortable with it and, in most cases, the parents side with the adult who is violating their child's wishes. This is so common that you see it in movies: Some aunt is visiting who pinches the kid's cheek red and slobbers all over him with her kisses. The parents not only won't protect their kid, they find it funny. So the kid tries to hide from her as his only defense. I didn't worry about my kids either being molested or committing date rape. I knew they wouldn't give such situations an opening to happen.

I think if you want a better government, you need to make better people since government is run by people. I think if you want a government that places a high value on respecting the rights of its citizens, you need to foster a population of people that really respect each other. I think spitting in the face of the current government doesn't foster such an environment. It fosters something else, something I don't want in my world. You cannot compel others to be respectful. You can only teach them to do so. The best way to teach it is to model it, to live it. So I believe the antidote to the scary stuff going on is to just go through life having compassion for others and doing my best to treat them with respect. It's sort of like "the broken windows theory". Yeah, I know, the way the theory is written has serious flaws. But it's the best model I know to reference which is well-known and might be a concept people here will be familiar with.

Anyway, I'm just trying to clarify my view as to why I think wikileaks isn't necessarily here nor there in the grand scheme of things. My original point: Shit happens. This isn't necessarily about the government framing him and it isn't necessarily about him being a bad dude and serial rapist. There are other possible explanations and too little info to really go on.

Have a good day. I'm going offline now.

Thanks.
You also get diverted to it if you tap "Why?" when the "Battery < 15%" notification appears, for what it's worth.

Took me ages to notice that since it's next to "Okay", and poorly-designed dialogs have me trained to assume that that's a "Cancel" button that does nothing.