skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same in Vienna. There are no special school buses, kids just use the same buses and trains as everyone else. In more rural areas (such as where I grew up) kids either get the bus or walk/cycle. In fact, I remember walking home from school together with friends as being quite fun (highlight of the day?), with various adventures to be had along the way. And nobody freaked when it took me twice as long to get home as it should have because we found something exciting in a ditch along the way or decided we needed to climb a tree.

I'm pretty sure any incidents would hit the media pretty quickly. That said, driving your kids to school seems to be much more common now than it was 20 years ago.

My girlfriend, who grew up in the UK, was amazed when she first witnessed the kids on public transport, but then the UK is an extreme case of overzealous protection. These days you apparently can't just pick someone else's kids up from school without special paperwork.
Bugs at YC application form
Does anyone else have found any bugs?

For instance when I write a couple things on the forms like "startup's url" wont save it after "updating" it

I have emailed pg about this but I'd like to know if anyone else is experiencing any kind of problem too.

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Translation of this article:

http://www.nu.nl/tech/2316742/voorman-wikileaks-gezocht-verk...

STOCKHOLM - Julian Assange, the leader of whistleblower website wikileaks is since Friday even in Sweden a fugitive in two rape caes. This has been reported by the public prosecutor on Saturday morning according to the Swedish media.

Two women, aged twenty and thirty have gone to the police on Friday evening to relate their stories.

Against the one Assange is reported to have used sexual violence last weekend in the South of Sweden, the other was reportedly raped on Tuesday morning in the nearby town of Enköping.

According to the justice ministry in Stockholm the reports by the women contain enough substance to issue a warrant. For the moment it is unclear where Julian Assange is right now.

Wikileaks, a website that is running on computers in a safe house in Solna near Stockholm, was recently in the news. The whistleblowers site published tens of thousands of pages of secret American military documents about the war in Afghanistan.
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These kind of "cool" textbooks really interest me. I wonder if it would be comparable to something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whys_(poignant)_Guide_to_Ruby.
Here is the Google translate link for the original article in Swedish.
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...
And I'm not into homeopathy, but I'm a tea addict and I know from personal experience the effects dozens of plants have on my body.

The two aren't comparable. In homeopathic preparation the "medical" ingredient is diluted to the point where it is unlikely that even a single molecule remains. There's no known mechanism (or even chemistry) by which a non-placebo result could be produced, and this has been substantiated by hundreds of studies. In tea, this is clearly not the case.
That’s not shutter lag. The camera just moved between the exposures. It’s impossible to get such a effect with a digital camera or color film in an analog camera. You can only get it when combining different exposures.

Also, digital cameras have no shutter lag, at least not noticeable. The problem is autofocus, that’s what takes time.

Pretty much all non-DSLR cameras use contrast detection for focusing. The lens quickly shifts from the closest possible focus distance to infinity and the camera looks for contrast changes on the picture. If the contrast is high the camera knows that the picture is sharp. (This leads to dismal failures whenever you want to take a photo of something with inherently low contrast like a white wall.) DSLRs use optical phase detectors which give direct distance readings, the lens is then shifted to the correct setting. (As you can imagine, this method is faster than contrast detection.)

This process just takes time. That didn’t happen to you with older cameras because they don’t have autofocus. All you have to do is remember to focus long before you plan on taking the picture, that was the case when you could only manually focus and that is still the case today. Half-press the shutter button and be happy.
Yeah, could be a smear. Could also be true. Let's not have senstional titles on HN.
How convenient.

Translation of this article in nu.nl:

http://www.nu.nl/tech/2316742/voorman-wikileaks-gezocht-verk...

STOCKHOLM - Julian Assange, the leader of whistleblower website wikileaks is since Friday even in Sweden a fugitive in two rape caes. This has been reported by the public prosecutor on Saturday morning according to the Swedish media.

Two women, aged twenty and thirty have gone to the police on Friday evening to relate their stories.

Against the one Assange is reported to have used sexual violence last weekend in the South of Sweden, the other was reportedly raped on Tuesday morning in the nearby town of Enköping.

According to the justice ministry in Stockholm the reports by the women contain enough substance to issue a warrant. For the moment it is unclear where Julian Assange is right now.

Wikileaks, a website that is running on computers in a safe house in Solna near Stockholm, was recently in the news. The whistleblowers site published tens of thousands of pages of secret American military documents about the war in Afghanistan.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/7957665/Wiki...

http://twitter.com/wikileaks

"Julian Assange: the charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing."
The U.S. stands far and beyond any other place in this respect, though I suspect some of the same influence is starting to creep in elsehere as well.

In The Best Country in the World(*), I used to walk to first grade by myself and thereafter rode buses/subway/trains by myself or with schoolmates - just like everyone else here. Most of us even came home to an empty house and had to manage to feed ourselves before the parents got home some hours later.

This used to be the norm about a decade ago still when my younger brother was in that age range, but recently based on public discussion it seems the bubblewrap parents are gaining a foothold.
Assange is more than likely aware that he is a 'target of opportunity' to many institutions, which would make him very circumspect about doing stuff that could endanger either his reputation or the reputation of wikileaks.

The timing of this is just too convenient to ignore.

For now, until there is some hard evidence I'm in the 'smear' corner. But I still agree with you about the title, that's an opinion.
Let's hope we remember innocence until proven guilty. The timing is suspect though.
Smear campaign? Only according to the accused rapist.

Scenario 1: Two Swedish women really are pressing charges against Mr. Assange.

Scenario 2: The U.S. Pentagon is so upset by Wikileaks that they've convinced a Swedish prosecutor to file baseless rape charges, without actual victims, against the Wikileaks spokesman.

The simplest explanation is the most likely.
Your forgetting string literals which are part of the language.
Well, that certainly sounds convenient at the very least. Two women in two towns, with Assange charged in absentia.

Of course it could be true, but somehow that doesn't seem the most reasonable explanation.
Of course if you want a smear campaign, you choose a charge that ensures that the innocence before proven guilty principle is immediately dropped.

I wonder why it's not child pornography, that would allow the authorities to go after every data system he ever touched, and it's way easier to make up stuff.
C++ hasn't been compiled to C in any production compiler for a rather long time.
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I reckon this is a Wikileaks "cookup" to prove how hounded and persecuted they are.

But then, what do I know.

I don't think we can jump to any conclusions yet

Edit: for the down voters, thie point being made is - we have no idea of thetruth, take care speculating. Grr
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It’s funny that the exact same process the photographer uses (multiple exposures with different color filters) is still used by space probes and telescopes. The reason for that is flexibility. Astronomers can use a whole array of different filters to get exactly the light they want, they are not limited to a 'hard coded’ Bayer Array [+]. It’s more useful for precise data collection. (Also, stars and planets hold relatively still, at least compared to humans.)

If you look closely you can even see this effect on astronomical photos. Look at the edges of the shadows on this photo from the Mars Phoenix Mission: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images/gallery/md_5669.jpg

[+] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
Odd conflict, I did not find this [Funny] even though the title promised such.
Shouldn't Verilog/VHDL be on top? :)
>>>would make him very circumspect about doing stuff that could endanger either his reputation or the reputation of wikileaks.<<<

Exactly.

He is just too smart and just too obsessed about the cause to do something as stupid as that. Let's assume he did it once in a fit of mental incapacitation under the pressure, but then he walks out and does it again a few days later in another town? Even the average wannabe Criminal Joe would lie low for a while unless he was on a Bonnie-&-Clyde-esque rampage, which is a bit of a stretch to imagine with him.

I am willing to bet that he has been through far worse strain in the process of fighting against the Australian govt. for his son (see: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/07/100607fa_fact_...). It's unlikely that this would be the straw that broke the camel's back. Distantly possible, yes. Likely. No.
Hehe, good point. How about the soldering iron then? Or the wire-wrap gun?
Agree with all your points except the private military part...

One day I'm going to write about the many ways by which people conflate joint, conditional probability and probability spaces... It is true that the chance of a random individual to become a billionaire is extremely small but at any given point a particular individual is conditioned in a particular set of events that make it more or less likely. The chance of flipping 8 heads in a row is 0.39% but given you have already flipped 7 heads the chance is now 50%.

The space for becoming successful is not directly predicated on the number of people attempting to or have already become successful, it is predicated on a whole set of traits, events and actions out of and in your control. Your chance in succeeding is not 1% or some other stupid number, it is an unknown quantity conditioned on your circumstances. By tweaking those in your control you can increase you chance of success to a higher (or lower) number.

As you state, to become a billionaire for the sake of having some power of 10 of an abstract quantity tied to your name is a pretty empty way of life. Not to mention the justification for such a disproportionate distribution of wealth (unless you can argue that such an allocation allows a more efficient redistribution than otherwise, rarely the case) is frankly, unnecessary and possibly detrimental.

Anyways, seems to me that the solution is to have your definition of success be more meaningful than an arbitrary number and to realize that at any given point there are a set of goals that are more realizable than others, picking those which maximize some short term p(success) which also taking you closest to your long term definition of success is all it takes. It is the journey and not the destination that is important.

With constant engagement, feeling of moving forward and a wholesome but necessarily subjective notion of value then at any time you will be successful while at the same time becoming more successful. This to me seems to be pretty obvious and I have seen this advice in multiple forms in many places. Yet the original post and many others suggest this is not commonly held sense. This I do not understand.
Fortunately point A on Linux can be substituted with
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The way programmers see each other was especially good in the "language matrix" :
http://i.imgur.com/1gF1j.jpg
http://www.google.com/support/insights/bin/answer.py?answer=...

I'd guess that the normalization process also applies over time as well, i.e. they compare the number of searches you're interested in vs. the total number of searches within that population.
Yep, surprised that it's not child porn. Wikileaks hosts quite a lot of pointers to child porn resources in the form of country-wise website banlists.
It was a joke, hence the smiley.
Scenario 1a, two Swedish women get a bunch of cash in return for filing a bogus charge of rape (edit: which is just as hard to prove as it is to disprove, causing a lot of smoke absent any fire at a time when wikileaks needs to be seen as 'clean' and on the moral high ground).

It's not as if governments haven't been doing shit like this for ages.

Indeed, the simplest explanation is the most likely.

Until this hit the wires I figured Assange is just a bit too paranoid, this charge is so over the top that I'm no longer convinced he's paranoid but that he was right all along.

After all, not one but two rape cases out of the blue reported by two women that know each other just when wikileaks is about to release a bunch of incriminating material after refusing to budge under pressure?

It's technically possible, but that's the only thing this charge has going for it at this point in time, evidence is what it is all about.
The smart wikileaks-supporting and not-believing cyber warrior would not talk about it. Even by criticising like this, you are giving attention and spread the accusations.
The simplest explanation is this: the US paid two Swedish women to accuse Mr. Assange of rape.

This isn't unusual - most rape accusations are false, since there are a lot of sociopaths out there (who have no shame), and the real victims are too ashamed to step forward.
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Huh, not quite what I expected for what Portal could have been used for. In my mind, Portal (especially in the commentary mode) would serve better as a model of quality assurance, testing, and architectural design than as a work about the human condition.
Yes, that's true. They are supposed to be stored in 'unmutable' memory though, and will cause a segfault if you try to write to them.

jam@jam-desktop:~$ cat y.c
main()

{
char * s = "abc";

*s = 'c';
}
jam@jam-desktop:~$ ./y
Segmentation fault

But you're right that they are a part of the language.
The Local usually is the best source for Swedish news in English. http://www.thelocal.se/28496/20100821/

Isn't wikileaks hosted in Sweden btw? I don't think it would be affected, but still a thing to keep in mind.
One cannot really make the judgment on this being a "smear" or not at this point: to include it in the title is irresponsible at best.

The circumstances seem a bit odd (two assaults so close to eachother without a previous history) which could suggest framing either by an external entity or the women involved.

According to http://expressen.se, the women apparently do know eachother and have at some point been reluctant to co-operate with the investigators expressing either "being scared to death" or "being in fear for their lives" because of Assange's high status (the meaning being a bit unclear from the context).

Still, the accusations are serious and need to be investigated - which should have happened without publicity but that tends to be utopic when a public figure is concerned.
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Scenario 2 should be 'The pentagon payed two women to file a credible suit based on their most accurate Intel about his whereabouts.'
Woah! An anecdote! Now, that sure is convincing!

bad_user, say hi to the Placebo effect. It’s so awesome, it even works when you believe it doesn’t.
Scenario 1.1: Two women file false reports of one rape and one sexual harassment; possibly on behalf of the US government (or someone else who doesn't like Wikileaks)

Scenario 1.2: Someone who knows his every move is being watched (by the media, if nothing else) rapes one woman and sexually harasses another one in under two weeks.

The simplest explanation is often the correct one, but that doesn't mean we should restrict ourselves to just two possible explanations.

Also your second scenario doesn't match the currently known facts: the women who filed the reports aren't made up, regardless of whether the charges are.
No, the distorted body image is absolutely a part of it. But it's just one part of several that make anorexia what it is. It is a complex problem, and not well reduced to one element.
Properly not, but the fact is that it can, and has been. Therefore it is still possible to do so today, which means that his claim still stand.
I don't want to pressure anyone and the new site sure looks great but... Android, pretty please?

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> You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proven to work?

That's debatable ...

There are lots of drugs whose effects aren't well known , being sold just because the tests on animals and humans have been positive. Here's one example ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotretinoin

Hence, every 5 years or so drugs are pulled off the market because of newly discovered side-effects, like this one ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamizole

The Placebo effect is also used in the farmaceutical industry to sell old drugs under new names. There are dozens and dozens of products based on a combination of Paracetamol and Vitamin C. When speaking of the common cold, nothing new happened in the last 10 years.

When you say "proven" ... does that mean from a statistical point of view?

Yes, they do lots of tests on humans and animals, increasing the chances that the drug actually works with no really bad (observable) side-effect. But that's not "proven" to me ;)
> most rape accusations are false

That does a disservice to the very large number of rape victims out there.

Some rape accusations are false, but to claim the majority of them is false would require a citation I think.

For instance:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166281.php

reports that most of the 'good' (as in done in a scientific setting) studies report 8 to 10% of rape accusations are false.

See also:

http://www.slate.com/id/2231012/
Haha, yeah, maybe it is Placebo :)
but "ultraviolet light" is a contradiction in terms
This reminds me of the faithful day when I finally stopped working as root all the time.

That happened right after typing

cp backup.tar.gz /dev/sda

That was fun. Also, back then I had no idea how easy it would have been to at least get the contents of that backup file back using dd
Indeed. I was always curious - if the RIAA/MPAA could flex international muscle to get ThePirateBay raided, why not the Pentagon/CIA?
"Clinton/Hurd/Any number of politicians/civil servants/CEOs is more than likely aware that he is a 'target of opportunity' to many institutions, which would make him very circumspect about doing stuff that could endanger either his reputation or the reputation of <whatever>."
How can you say that the placebo effect doesn't work and then clam that water works, but only when it has a special label?

From your link: The preparation is derived from duck liver and heart, diluted to 200C—a ratio of one part duck offal to 100200 parts water.[2] This is such a high dilution that the final product likely contains not even one molecule of the original liver.
I disagree. What are the probabilities that:

(1) an average man is accused of rape (say in a year)

(2) a person who a government would very much like to bring down is the subject of made-up allegations

Regarding (1), i don't have figures for Sweden but in the UK there are c. 14k reported rapes a year versus 25M adult males, so P = 14k/25M = 0.00056

Regarding (2), I don't have figures but suggest off the top of my head that 0.01 is reasonable.

0.00056/(0.00056+0.01) = 0.053

So Bayes' theorem suggests a roughly 5% probability that the accusations are real and 95% that they are concocted by the US or some other government.
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That's the cowards way out, not the smart way out.

It's all over the news, from China to the Netherlands and further.

The smart wikileaks supporting and skeptical cyber warrior would do best to reserve judgement but to show that there is a reason why there is probably more than meets the eye here.
Oops my analysis was wrong -- there are two rape cases.

Probability of two unrelated rape cases coming to light just at a time convenient for the US authorities -- about as likely as me getting pocket aces in every hand during a poker evening.
I don't know why you got downvoted for this. Many seem to be happy with the idea that an unfriendly government paid these women to smear Assange's name.

It seems to me equally credible that Assange or a friend set up these false allegations, which once easily dismissed, will indeed show the world how "persecuted" Wikileaks is.
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I would caution commentators not to make false dichotomies here. It is not necessarily a choice between Assange committing a crime and Assange being framed. Both may be true. Neither may be true.

I understand that this fits a narrative, and perhaps it turns out he was framed. Or perhaps it turns out he is has criminal tendencies and the west used those tendencies to frame him. Or he's innocent. Or he's innocent and nobody framed him.

Simply because it fits easily into a narrative does not mean that the most likely scenario is the narrative. You could make a case that having a criminal trial would be a terrible thing for intelligence agencies. It'd just give him a bigger microphone and also put the agencies at risk of being discovered. In fact, if it is a setup, it's one of the most bone-headed setups I've ever seen. Better to just kill him. If this is discovered as a frame-job, it'd be a god-awful PR disaster. The risks don't merit the rewards.
I see that sort of comment trotted out here frequently, but Clinton/Hurd/and any number of politicians/civil servants and CEOS were not about to release a massive set of secret documents.

The timing is just too convenient.

Assange would have to have reasoned that a charge against him at this point in time would be so unbelievable that he could get away with this. And that is something that I find unbelievable.

Evidence. Not just 'a charge'. So, in the case of Clinton, a dress, in the case of Hurd falsified expense reports.
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> If this is discovered as a frame-job, it'd be a god-awful PR disaster. The risks don't merit the rewards.

That's the strongest argument against this being a frame-up so far. On the other hand breaking in to the Democratic party's offices wasn't very smart either and that definitely happened, and I can think of a few more cases like that.

Government agencies are definitely not above doing really stupid things that turn in to PR disasters.