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I haven't seen anything about the US that I wouldn't expect a broadsheet to turn over as a matter of course. This is why I asked my original question.

Since you seem to know the answer, perhaps you could point me to one of two examples of extreme lies that Assange has helped uncover.
Solar cells are expensive now, but production of them has been going up at something likely 20-30% a year for a decade. You got to figure that a lot of the price of a cell is going to the rapid ramp-up in manufacturing capacity, and that at some point the supply will have increased enough that the price will drop.
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> The fact is, evil is in the heart of man.

Only in the heart of those that commit crimes. And we try to design our society in such a way that we reduce the crime. And the internet is now part of our society, which is very technological in nature.

So we have to design the internet in such a way that we take in to account the reality that some people are not nice.

And that makes it about technology, not about people.
But that’s not what most people are complaining about when they complain about shutter lag. 0.1 seconds doesn’t matter when you want to take photos of your kids, contrast detect AF does.
The age of nations is over. The new urban age has begun.
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Yes, but it is the first time that I see Charles Stross make a mistake like that. Usually he's pixel perfect when it comes to the state of tech.

Well, at least he seems to know that cfront was once the only way to use C++.
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mark cuban is a smart guy & also a billionaire so i tend to listen to his advice.

the part i don't get is why we should be putting our money in the bank. our government is printing money at a record pace and our money is being devalued by the minute. as much as i hate having my money in the stock market, at least it has some protection against inflation.
I'm glad to hear that your violent revenge would stop just short of murder. Brave talk from a man who hasn't lost much

I never said I wouldn't kill you if you killed my friends and family. Murdering random people in response to your actions is not only morally wrong, but also stupid and throughly irrational.

You are apologizing for people who do this because you claim it's "a natural human response". Killing random people is not a natural human response; in my opinion, it's the response of a psychopath.
Thanks a lot. I do the front-end and back-end of the site so I don't really have a designer. Any recommendations for an affordable designer for consultation?
UK is an extreme case of overzealous protection

Which does not work? I am too lazy to look for sources right now, but wasn't there a research wich found that childern in UK are the most unhappy in the world? Not to mention problems with alcohol and teenage pregnancy.
I guess this kind of protection is like trying to protect someone by not allowing him to walk on his feet. When finally let go he'd just collapse at once.
I'm really gobsmacked by the amount of fevered bullshit conspiracy-theorising being spouted by the vast majority of folk on this page! You should be ashamed of yourselves. Fucking laughable. Down-vote away.
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In order to get any satisfaction when looking for programming books you have to head to a book store with some reason to actually pay attention to a difficult market. Powel's Technical in Portland is a reasonable example. Op-AMP in Los Angles is another. There used to be a chain of stores in the Bay Area called Computer Literacy which was a pleasure to shop in. Berkeley had one who's name has escaped me and it has since disappeared, but search the area around the campus--- good exercise and great bibliographic fun. Likewise remember that most of these (if not all) have web sites, so let your browser loose as useful.
Haha yeah, I can imagine that poor tourists coming to Greece from the UK are in for a surprise. We are such shit drivers, but over here (London) if you see a car coming and wait by the sidewalk for it to pass, they stop and let you through. I mean, it'd just be faster for both of us if you continued at normal speed, then I wouldn't have to wait for you to slow down!
Jesus, who would rip off an 8-year-old?
I agree. We're about to face a huge liquidity crisis for additional reasons that he missed here.

In the very near future, cash (different currencies, precious metals) will be king.
Well, keep in mind though that being a recognized champion in some field does not guarantee deep virtue of character.

Remember Charles Lindbergh, the praised aviator, his boy killed by kidnappers? Same Lindy who turned a fan of eugenics and loudmouthed Nazi supporter.

Or as more recent example, Hans Reiser? Am sure that hurt to a lot of fellows here.

Let's just reserve our judgement until we get more facts.
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Prosecutors withdraw warrant for WikiLeaks founder Assange
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I agree the odds are stacked against the individual investor. However, I'm an individual investor who consistently beats the market. I don't do anything special. I just follow the tenets of value investing. IMHO, this is the only way to invest as an individual. Otherwise, stick your money in an index fund and hope for the best.
Yeah, my country has worse drivers than Greece (trust me).

Here is how I cross the road in Japan: I wait at a place that I want to cross, but I turn my body away from the road. That way they think I am just standing there and drive past (instead of awkwardly stopping, etc...).

A lot of Japanese people that I've talked to don't have driving licenses. One person specifically said that it was because she was afraid of hurting others. That is quite different from my country's SUV style entitlement.
Prosecutors withdraw warrant for WikiLeaks founder, say rape claim unfounded
(This response is to JS on the client-side)

Why does the thought of writing view logic in Javascript make me cringe?

I've written very complex client side javascript in the past, and I've become somewhat of a minimalist.

I speak nothing of node.js because I haven't used it, but if this was used on the client side I would barf. If a user is on IE vs Safari vs Firefox, it will perform completely different - which is extremely important when the javascript that is executing renders something to the screen. Users have very little wiggle-room for what they consider "snappy".

IMO, javascript should only be given HTML blocks from the server when rendering larger, more complex partials. This is because if you do it client side (maybe to save the server from rendering HTML and the round trip), you have skattered your view from server-page rendering into javascript CODE. You can test page-renders on the back end, but you need to run a full document emulator (which one, mind you?) to test anything rendered in javascript. I can't count the number of times something in the UI has changed on the backend and we don't find out the javascript fails until later.

I understand the "JS for everything" movement, but I'd be more inclined to bring Ruby into the browser. Javascript is syntax-heavy (especially when creating strings), hard to test, develops slowly, and doesn't provide stack-traces or logs in the event you need to provide end-user support when something goes wrong.

Javascript in my experience is best when used as a conduit - not a swiss army knife.
It works a little better in iTerm, at least it shows more colors, but it still has the blinking problem.
it's the response of a psychopath

Perhaps. But I don't think you are very familiar with history. I've read many accounts of soldiers, including American soldiers, killing random people because their friends were killed. In general, such people do not face discipline. In fact, there are many Americans who urged the killing of completely arbitrary Arabs or Muslims in revenge -- many of these people are politicians.

My point is: this sort of psychopathy is quite common and very well accepted in society provided it is directed against out-groups.
WikiLeaks Julian Assange arrested in absentia in Sweden for rape and molestation
Not if you turn on ANSI color
if you were the innovator that was smarter and faster than the other guys, you could make money [on the long and / or short side of the market] before the imitators and then the idiots flooded the market. - That seems to be a market universal.

Same shit happens with Blogs, SEO and Internet in general.
The story is over:

"Chief prosector Eva Finné has come to the desicion that Julian Assange is not suspected of rape. Considering that, Assange is no longer arrested in his absence."

http://www.aklagare.se/In-English/
[== Swedish prosecutor's office news announcements, swedish version: http://www.aklagare.se/Media/Nyheter/Anhallen-i-sin-franvaro...
WikiLeaks founder no longer suspected of rape
This happened before, when the names of anonymous Wikileaks donors was posted on Wikileaks: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/02/wikileaks-force/

I'm sure that, even if documents incriminate Assange, they will be posted.
Aren't we already closer to "blood in the streets" than "cheery consensus"?

Financial people love to say that the stock market grows at roughly 9% historically, and that is money in the bank. But if you look at any historic chart these days, the massive amount of wealth and trading volume that has been generated over the past 10 years has made it obvious that we are in uncharted waters for future equities growth.

The Internet has been the game changer here. It has allowed access to equities to a class of investors that really never had access purchase these types of assets. This changed the game.

Cuban is probably right when he tells us to be weary of the market, but I think there are different reasons to be weary than those he states.
Despite quantitative easing, we haven't experienced any significant inflation. In fact, we are getting very close to a deflation.

If you have a very pessimistic view of the stock market's future, reducing risk by being in cash make a lot of sense.
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Charges dropped

Jag anser inte att det finns anledning att misstänka att han har begått våldtäkt, säger Eva Finné i ett pressmeddelande från Åklagarmyndigheten.

Quick translation: I dont think there is any reason to suspect that he has comitted rape says prosecutor Eva Finné.

http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/assange-inte-langre-missta...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316
Agreed. I spent a long time looking for a loophole... especially since that's the first level with a broken wall.
Sure. Actually my original comment left out of a lot of context that is important and was against the spirit of your post, so apologies for being pithy.

No problem.

In England "rape" is a crime which requires the criminal to penetrate with a penis. There are many other forms of sexual assault that are punished just as severely as "rape" but are just not known by that name. They can, and are, committed by men and women.

The problem is that I am unaware of a word or law which specifically defines and names some opposite equivalent, which suggests the concept is absent from our language and therefore absent from our culture. The word "rape" also gets used as a metaphor in non-sexual situations where someone feels violated in an ugly manner. (Someone on HN used this word to describe how they felt about Google Buzz making so much of their personal info public by default when it launched.)
Good tomatoes cost the same as crap tomatoes when they're in season. You're missing the point.
Haha! I hope not, but it would make me giggle if Portal suffered the same slings and arrows as classics of literature.
... And the warrant has been withdrawn. Apparently they were lying. That was quick, I thought we'd have to wait for weeks before getting to the facts.
I think Cuban is comparing vs the March '09 low when the market was down 40% from now. He made several posts during that time about actual purchasing stocks.
Planescape: Torment is significantly longer than Portal. For non-gamers, even, it would be an epic time investment.

* I did not downvote.
The previous sentence was:

>Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.

I think he was building on his joke.
Anyone have ideas as to why they would even bother with making such a charge just to withdraw it so quickly? It looks especially bad in light of Wikileaks' recent activities.
Surely there must be people on HN who were posting while they started up, and went on to be successful? The site's been going three years now...
I'd expect it to be more of a cyclic graph in reality.
Have you used the newer low-flow toilets? They work great. One flush, every time.
Yes, and then he was proven guilty and sent in jail.

What you said is completely pointless. You could just as well have typed a meaningless random word like dgedfgrdgjlkdfgjdflg.

If you want to draw a comparison, to make a point, to disagree with what I say, do so, instead of merely implying something, and letting your readers fill in the blanks.
I want to like Go but recent discussions such as the one about exception/error/panic conditions and handling (and those versus flow control) make me concerned that they have learned the wrong lessons from predecessors. Perhaps still worth learning.
Perhaps. But I don't think you are very familiar with history. I've read many accounts of soldiers, including American soldiers, killing random people because their friends were killed. In general, such people do not face discipline. In fact, there are many Americans who urged the killing of completely arbitrary Arabs or Muslims in revenge -- many of these people are politicians.

Soldiers are court-martialed and arrested for killing civilians.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jul/13/no-prisoner... (scroll to bottom)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/nov/16/usa.iraq1

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-07-09-us-cases_...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222220,00.html

Just because not all are found out and tried does not mean it is condoned by the military or US society. You clearly have your own dogmatic view regarding US foreign policy and attitudes towards Muslims and I can't really argue with someone who has an almost religious belief in a point of view.
This has got to be explained. Issuing such a warrant should not be taken lightly. The fact that it was withdrawn so fast should put some pressure on the prosecutors to explain themselves. I don't know if they have an obligation but this just makes all the conspiracies more believable. As Colbert would say the truthiness of the conspiracies has increased.
Google isn't completely secretive. They just aren't completely open. Google's technical approach to recommendations is described in [http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/] and if you want more recent and detailed info you can find it at [http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html]. Or, if you want something in a more casual style, there are blogs [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/quality-scores-and-ad...]. Or, for some insight into their business strategies [http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html].

Gruber took Schmidt's quote out of WSJ context [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870490110457542...] before applying some sinister spin. The WSJ article conveys the idea that in the future, Google will be better at figuring out what information is relevant and unknown to you at any given moment (so much better that it can be proactive about delivering that info without annoying you).

I don't know why Gruber feels that Google is Apple's enemy, or why he's decided to attack Apple's enemies rather than praise/defend Apple's tech, products, and culture. But, many people seem to be worried about Google and not worried about Apple, despite the fact that the latter is much more secretive. I guess it's because Google seems more important, being involved with so much of "the web's information flow" and not just with making beautiful computers and accessories.
> How does "modern software design" reduce the risk of data inconsistency?

By grouping code by business logic, code manipulating the same set of tables tend to land in the same place. Sometimes it even gets refactored.

> Seriously, we've been solving these performance issues for years.

Who are you?
I'm not married and a year older than you, but I've always been long term relationship man. I imagine that a healthy marriage or long term relationship would only benefit you if she's supportive. It's not much different than being a researcher or resident MD or fighter pilot or any other demanding job, except with a bigger upside.

Kids seem to change everybody's life and would align attitudes towards risk differently etc.
On 10.6, it installs fine.

After hacking out the PIL check in /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/fabulous-0.1.5-py2.6.egg/fabulous/{test,image}.py and fixing the imports to import Image, the demo runs okay.

Which is to say Terminal.app fails to render; when using xterm and X11 locally, or ssh-ing from Linux into OS X, 'fabulous' looks fine.
that's partly because the fed plays all sorts of tricks to hide the real amount of inflation they are causing. regardless of whether that inflation is visible now, it's inevitably coming. it's the only option we have to deal with that 13.3 trillion debt that we can't afford to pay.
Right, it was a great time to buy. I do tend to think that we will see DOW 14000 before DOW 7000, barring some unforeseen crisis. And I guess that's market confidence, right? What investors think the chances of something unforeseen popping up are.
While an interesting read, this article as well as the others arguing the opposite, are all anecdotal. What needs to be done is a proper statistical study on Android _and_ on the iOS and the results compared.
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Wow. This is simply amazing.
my guess is that they were following standard operating procedure with the warrant(i.e. no matter how vague...everything has to be investigated)...but then decided to use common sense for a change.

+ the warrant was issued by an on duty prosecutor and dropped by the chief prosecutor. So could just be the case of someone trying to make a name for himself...only to get smacked down by his boss who had to deal with the controversy on their day off.
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http://www.aklagare.se/In-English/

> The status of the profession has gradually increased, and becoming a prosecutor is today a very attractive proposition for young lawyers.

They are probably hinting to a noob mistake.
>They /can/ shoot him though. All it takes is an angry war widow who feels their life is forfeit without their partner.

That is a terrible idea from the perspective of the US government.

"You'll find a live saint much easier to handle than a dead one." Assange is in himself not that powerful, he represents an idea, and his followers are scarier than 4Chan, because they're a superset of 4Chan, and they don't just do what they do "for the lulz." They do so because they believe in it. Killing Assange would mobilize them like nothing before. It doesn't matter who did it. Accusing him of rape sows discord among moderates. They want to kill the movement, not Assange.
Yeah, you are right. I retract my comment. Shame on me and my nine upvoters :)

– edit: no irony
I think Scott's recommendation would be to buy a used bike. The analogy is to not build a new house, but to move into an old one. (This of course has its limits.)
Thanks, enjoyed your response.

Your "tackling nastier problems" point is well-taken, and one reason I have a great deal of sympathy for work in these research areas.

I think that you're painting an overly-rosy picture of the benchmark situation, but you're right in that I was likely too critical. The attention paid to synthetic fitness landscapes, for example, is also a positive sign that that many researchers do care about issues of comparison and analysis.

(That said, I obviously believe that the field can and must do much better---and, since it relies so heavily on empirical evidence, its need for consistent methodology is somewhat higher.)
She might hate that someone's guts, or just find it convenient for some other reason: http://www.aolnews.com/story/biurny-peguero-recants-rape-cha...

Not that it happens often, but sometimes it really does.
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java is my default for server work, with eclipse and 12 years experience (has it really been so long??) I'm pretty quick.

javascript + jquery for front end work.

sometimes AS3 but not lately.

working on erlang as couchdb has become increasingly important to my work.
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In all of these instances, you're assuming that this was some sort of back-alley rape that they're alleging... at best, you'd prove that some sort of sexual contact had taken place. It doesn't go to prove thought or intent, which is the whole point the parent was trying to make.
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Can you truly imagine what his life is like if he believes he is the last man on earth? You must be really strong to live through it.
Screw 24 - this thing is getting way more interesting!

I'm sure Julian is going nuts about all of this craziness, and my thoughts are with him - but seriously, he's now attained "International Man of Mystery" status.
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This sounds like a great strategy of using local customer and authoritative references to increase social proof to close sales.

However, the "bowling pin/alley" strategy mentioned in the articles applies in the slightly different context of a disruptive product. A peep hole is not a disruptive product.
I'm not disputing that "most" is unproven. I'm just pointing out your appeal to emotion.

At least 1 in 10 rape accusers are liars. Pointing out this fact does not do a disservice to actual rape victims. It simply gives us a prior for determining whether these women are actually rape victims.

(I.e., before knowing any facts about this case, we can conclude that a rape accuser is 92% likely to deserve sympathy and 8% likely to deserve jail time.)