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Absolutely. So much for "heinous crimes", hey?
I see, thanks for your comment.
They will charge him with jumping bail. Someone contributor here says that carries max 2 years.
I agreed. He does not look good.

Is he being carried out? Yelling "UK must resist".
No, but politically persecuting Assange under pretexts is. Since (I assume) Ecuador protected him not because they oppose persecution for sexual assault, but because they believed that was a pretext for political persecution, I do not see how the circumstances have changed. Except for the Ecuadorian embassy staff reportedly getting fed up with Assange, of course.
Corroborating evidence: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/797188 - "Sweden’s Serial Negligence in Prosecuting Rape Further Highlights the Politics Behind Julian Assange’s Arrest"
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Arrested at London's Ecuadorian Embassy
Id refer you to the Wikipedia list of logical fallacies.
My introduction to bitcoin was due to this https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-m...

2010, about November, when Wikileaks was loved by everyone here on HackerNews. When donations were piling up by PayPal, Visa, Mastercard. When Assange was the postgresql security hacker turned whistlblower-enabler and journalist.

Then suddenly all donations, globaly, halted to Wikileaks. Bitcoin was the only way, and its only real use still possible - censorship resistant transfer of value.
> He may have committed some heinous crimes outside of the actual hacking/leaking

Pretty serious throwaway comment without stating what "heinous crimes" were apparently committed..
I mean....there will be a future in which voice data is processed locally rather than in the cloud. Nobody said this stuff has to be connected to the internet.
Look, I completely understand what you are saying, because it's something I believe as well. However, what I am trying to find out more is whether this belief is correct or not and whether anyone has done any actual studies.
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Trucks driving long-haul routes. That would be one of the easiest things to automate. Not even the pickup or delivery at terminals, just going over the highway.

Probably there is lots of work in this area and it will happen first. It just doesn’t get much press because it isn’t consumer facing and it’s boring.
What does Julian say in the video?
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The UK hasn’t left the EU yet and just negotiated the extension to Brexit to October 31 of this year at the latest. I don’t see why Assange wouldn’t be able to appeal now unless his case never gets there before Brexit.
America could have just as easily extradited him from the UK as from Sweden.
I'd massively disagree with the statement "You don't need to know more than that.", and I'd love to see some sources to back this up.

Randomly spewing "facts" with no evidence to back up your claim can be quite damaging.
You speak about trains as if they are some incredibly exotic things? Maybe they are in US, I don't know. But at least UK trains are almost always faster than driving. I could get to London by train in like 2:50h, or 5 hours of driving(and that's just to outskirts of London, not the city centre). Or to Edinburgh in 1:20h by train, or 3 hours of driving. Not to mention proper European trains, where taking a TGV from Paris to say Brussels, Amsterdam or Berlin is in no way or form comparable to driving - it's just much much faster.

Now the cost is an issue - in the UK driving is almost invariably cheaper than taking the train, even when going solo. When taking any passengers with you driving will win every single time, sometimes it's even worth renting a car for the journey and it will still be cheaper than the train.
Yeah I heard another shill say that a minute ago. No. Disagree all you want. I love dialectic and I'm always ready to change my mind.

It's just that there's a retarded level of corporate love in the world.
What you've heard is false.
The investigation was dropped simply because there was no way to proceed with the investigation with him still hiding away in the embassy. The investigation will be reopened if he returns to Sweden before August 2020 when the statute of limitations expires for the minor rape allegation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39973864
Oh come on. The fact that he has done some good doesn't mean that he is above the law.
There's no evidence. They just used the old intelligence technique where media repeats 24/7 that Assange allegedly has ties to Russia, so that people start taking it as a fact after a while.
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Wow. Do you have a link?
> His stated concern is about extradition to the USA, in which case he should apply for political asylum in the UK.

If I faced extradition to the USA, I am not sure if I would trust the UK to protect me.
I'm not the parent poster, and I'm not sure if these are the regex selectors they had in mind, but nonetheless.

An example use case: the person writing the HTML ≠ the person writing the selectors. Browser extensions like Stylus, for example. If the HTML author did not bother to add a specific class you need, you have to resort to ugly methods.

In fact, this is a scenario I deal with regularly. I have a Chrome extension for video download sites that scans the current page for metadata (title, performers, release date, etc.) and decorates the download links with `download="…"` attributes, so that I can download a file with a properly formatted filename. I manually adapt this extension to every site I need, and quite often I need things like `a[href^=/model/]` † to distinguish links to performers from other links to get their text content. It's clearly not a situation the site authors worry about, and that's fine as long as I have a way to do this myself.

† This particular selector can be done without jQuery if you don't care about backcompat. In browser extensions, you usually don't. But it's still an answer to your question about when such selectors are needed.

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Since I'm talking about this, that same browser extension can demonstrate some other complications brought on by React and CSS-in-JS:

1. CSS-in-JS turns class names into unreliable gobbledygook, so extracting metadata means more regex selectors and abominable DOM hierarchy selectors (`section>div>div:first-child>div` because nobody bothers with semantic <h2> or even .title anymore).

2. React makes DOM elements vanish and reappear instead of just hiding them, so that `download="…"` attribute I want to add has to go through a MutationObserver instead of just running once on page load.
He is lucky if we have self driving cars by the end of the next decade. I am sorry but false positive and false negative situations are not ok when it comes to self driving cars and most if not all solution exist today are based on technologies that produce false positives and negatives.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/03/feds-investigating-dead...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ml6sjk_8c
Whether anything Assange did was actually decisive in Trump's election is a pretty speculative question, but we do have leaked transcripts of his messages to Donald Trump Jr...
Though given his situation and the quite likely extradition to the US, who wouldn't have done the same? Technically something criminal but..
But on the biggest issue of american politics of the last 50 years, he has found himself (chosen?) on the wrong side of history

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If you hear trump talk for two minutes and you don't immediately realize the danger and what he represents,
you might be too cynical
That's a rather sanitized picture that the British establishment mouthpiece (that's BBC News to you) has on its article.

Doesn't BBC news have reporters on scene in London to give us the pretty picture to go with the articles?
You mean the Mueller report that hasn't been released yet?
He wasn't arrested for that specific video.
The UK is unlikely to extradite without assurances that the death penalty will not be applied, which is doubtful in any case.
>>Why own a car when you can have a self-driving car pick you up from anywhere, bring you anywhere, and drive away to the next customer when it's done.

That's called a taxi and I don't see them replacing personal cars en-masse[0]. Even once autonomous cars are ubiquitous I'd still like to own one, not share it with other people.

[0] Taking an uber to work and back every day would already be cheaper for me than what I'm paying for my car + petrol + insurance + servicing, and yet I prefer to have a vehicle and drive it myself.
It doesn't sound sexy, therefore not good for publicity thus making it harder to get funding.

A less cynical idea would be that the problems are less interesting and easier, so the best people may be reluctant to work in that field?
If you think that self-driving cars are going to take over anytime soon, I have some bitcoin to sell you.
The claim is based on Wikileaks offering up information that portrays the US negatively, but little to nothing that does the same against Russia.

From there, linked with the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory, claims of them supporting the Trump campaign came to be.

Regardless of your opinion on Trump, I’m not sure that offering up one-sided info that benefits or hurts a candidate is or should be an arrestable offense. Entire television news networks do it.
Being stuck in an embassy for 7 years cannot be healthy.
It applies only to cases where death penalty is possible. Even in those cases extradition is possible after prosecutor agrees not to seek death penalty.
Yeah, I remember. A disgrace on several levels. I really wish a European country would have had the spine to give Snowden asylum.

Not the same issue as Assange of course, unless, as Assange claims, this too is the long arm of the US secretly trying to get whistleblowers extradited. I'm not sure that's the case here, though; I think the Swedish rape allegations have merit, and unlike Snowden, I don't think Assange has broken any US laws for which he can be extradited; he's just doing journalist work. Sloppily and with grandstanding megalomania, perhaps, but that's not illegal and thus no basis for extradition.
What law, exactly?
I'm with you that disengaging from the news can be a good idea and make one happier, but I strongly disagree that this is owing to journalism having gotten worse. I think that the point of journalism should be to find things that make people outraged, and while this may not be so healthy for an individual, it is healthy on a societal level. This is how scandals are dug up and the powerful held to account. The print news industry isn't inherently less scandal-oriented than digital (at least if you compare apples to apples), it just isn't as fast.

I had a similar reaction reading Aaron Swartz's post on why he hates the news[1]. I'm sure Thoreau would have had the same view of the news in his time. Sure, you are unquestionably better off and probably happier learning Japanese or PDE instead of the daily newspaper. But it still has an important function.

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
Finally some reason. Can't believe all the comments here supporting Assange. I guess they have drunk the wikileaks cool-aid.
He has been a citizen of Ecuador since 2017. This was an extradition.
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He wasn't in the UK.
Nobody would be that stupid to try to arrest him for this.
Sounds like the NYT is preparing for the Democratic party primaries. I presume Wikipedia must contain unflattering facts in the articles for one or more female candidates. Now these can just be dismissed as harassment by bigoted male wikipedians.
I am sure there is also harassment, but many of the examples mentioned in the article are rather bitter divergence of political opinions, not harassment. And I don’t see how it could not be the case, you won’t get people with opposite political opinions to agree on a single narrative, and when one reads an article on any slightly politicized topic on wikipedia, one should always be mindful that one is reading merely some dude’s political opinion, not some absolute truth. The NY times only calls it harassment because it has picked a side.
Okay maybe I should't be joking on this, it's the plot of the movie called "Enemy of the State". Nice movie.
The story was hardly dismantled. A number of people have actually pled guilty and been jailed for crimes as a result. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/20/17031772/m...
It works the other way too. No amount of leftist outrage managed to bring Trump to heel. Checking out of the news cycle and only getting involved when it seems to be particularly relevant seems like the saner strategy, particularly as our time and cognitive resources are the most precious ones we have.

Why blow it all on generating outrage when it'll just get manipulated into a bottom third talking point?
All that just to charge him with skipping bail. It's not even a question on whether he will be extradited to the US.
I wonder if the expense was solely borne by the UK taxpayer or if foreign interests helped finance it.
>no doubt he will be extradited to the US. This has been the game plan all along.

I thought the game plan was to extradite him from Sweden via false rape allegations because it was too difficult to extradite him from the UK?

Assange apologists are remarkably facile at respinning their conspiracy theories to adapt to the circumstances.
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Few if anyone on Sweden care about this. It's a normal rape case albeit with a celebrity in it. It should go through the normal process. Hardly something Putin would discuss with Löfven.
The comments here disgust me. People here used to have some principles, now there's so many people just repeating establishment talking points.
More easily. The UK has extradited people to the US on questionable grounds before. I don't think Sweden has.
Well, they _did_ warn him about the cat litter issue.

All jest aside, I wonder what he could have done differently (not taking sides here, just speculating).

One option would have been to live among the public in the UK, and let himself be extradited to Sweden, then the US. This act alone would have drawn attention to the fact that people in the EU can - under some circumstances - be extradited to the US, which would have been alarming to the general populace in Europe since the US still has the death penalty. The possibility that he would have been imprisoned in Sweden instead would have been weighed against indefinite house arrest in the Ecuadorian embassy - for 7 years in this case.

In any event, I think we'll learn quite a bit about international relations work in practice.
Technically you could implement chess with a single button per player[1], yet it has plenty of depth and a rich competitive scene, so the simplicity of the control scheme is not a good measure as such I think.

That being said I've never heard of competitive pinball before, and it surprised me as well.

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It's called dumbing down.
Of course, he was arrested on completely unrelated bogus charges, so that we never have to have the conversation about whether or not he deserves prison for whistle-blowing.
Why were the charges ridiculous?
> Writing by speaking has quietly revolutionized how I work. It has made my writing more conversational and less precious

I beg to differ.

> I mean a new physical method for the painstaking task of chiseling the formless geologic schists inside my brain into words and sentences crisp and coherent enough to please at least a few of my fellow human beings.
classic cloud announcement. a new service that sorta does something sorta different based on sorta mature sorta open source that is sorta configurable and has no pricing of yet. but sure, let's go ahead and announce it.
> but rather inviting an atmosphere where many voices can be heard.

yes? please do tell that to those sitting in US secret prisons around the world. Or those that have been released innocent from gitmo after many years into banana republics like Kazakhstan without apology and are there under constant surveillance.

of course the US isn't a dictatorship provided that your views are in-line with their propaganda.

Assange gave the sheeple of the US a good look behind the curtain of their own corrupt criminal governments. The public there is too fucking stupid unfortunately and overly brainwashed from their propaganda.

I literally cried when I watched 9/11 unfold (and I'm not American). Next time this happens I won't waste my empathy.
> after the stupid Russian collusion story was dismantled by the recent Mueller report

Hardly anyone has actually read the full 400 page report. And "collusion" has a specific legal meaning which can easily be skirted by a whole raft of plausible deniability methods - Mueller is a stickler; he's almost certainly not going to say "collusion" happened unless he has definitive proof that would hold up in court.
They believed Snowden was on-board, and to make the plane go to Wien, the Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian governments were pressured to deny Morales right of passage and pressured him to allow the plane to be searched. The governments of half of Europe fold like a cheap suit to the interests of the US intelligence services.
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The state can't be seen to wink at skipping bail, or everyone would be doing it. I don't think you need to look for any deeper explanation than that.
I will refer you to reading TFA. Also: rape.
> "Many of the products are unscientific (and fortunately don't do any harm) but abound with rejuvenation property claims."

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He is now.
This was widely reported back when the case was hot. It’s not exactly news.

https://www.rawstory.com/2010/12/assange-rape-accuser-cia-ti...
So how did you update your view after reading the article?
Yes have you seen as lot of websites these days
> [..] but then dropped the charges so I guess it was false.

There are many reasons for dropping charges besides "she obviously lied". One of the reason might be that nobody wants to get all this attention and ensuing insults and death threats.

In this specific case, there wasn't even much debate over facts, only law. She refused to have sex without a condom, then woke up to him having sex with her, without a condom.
"Seeking asylum" is not tbe same as "above the law" as the BBC would have you think.
Lets see if he ends up in the states.
I don't particularly classify that as a heinous crime.
Hi, I've had a quick look. For background I am a long time YNAB classic user so I have some skin in the game. Some thoughts here:

1. Looks like you have a decent build process and a .travis.yml so some kind of CI setup. Very nice for a side project.

2. I love that it's open source, desktop, UI based. This has piqued my interest because the alternatives are either dated, proprietory and/or cloud or console based.

3. Download is rather big - 157Mb takes a while to download on my average speed internet and this might put people off. If it is Electron doing that maybe moving to https://nwjs.io/ would help?

4. Minor point, but it is odd to have an msi in a zip file. Just direct link to an msi would be nicer. Just giving people an msi would reduce friction.

5. The first screen says 'passphrase' but it is a bit confusing. What happens when I pick one. Am I locked out if I forget it. Can I continue without one? Would be nice to add a sentence explaining that.

6. I'm out of space if I add 3 categories. No scroll bar to help me. So have a think about the UI for that.

7. There is a bit of wasted space on the screen so have a think about:

* reduce wasted whitespace
* header fonts could be smaller
* sub categories could be in expanders, e.g. click an arrow to expand and see them.

8. It is not clear where the data is saved and how I back it up.

9. This app does the basic budget thing of tracking expenses, but for people with multiple accounts, you want to have transactions across accounts, balances and reconciliation to make sure you haven't lost track of some expenditure. That is a lot of extra functionality and may not be for your target audience, so I leave that up to you.

10. Readme.md could do with some screenshots.

11. To finish on a positive - well done for making this and shipping it. It is not easy to make something like this alone. A lot of developers will have the grunt work of build pipelines and such things set up in their job and never think about setting it all up for themselves. Good stuff. I hope this project does well.
The rape charges were dropped and incredibly suspicious as well.
Failing to surrender to court (ie breaching terms of bail).
This is to avoid facing the allegations in Sweden.

Feigning ignorance of the obvious doesn't help anyone
Obviously the tax payer. If there was any payments from foreign interests, they're more likely to end up in a Cayman Island bank account than HMRC's coffers.
I should've been more specific: unrecoverable using the old procedures

And I'll be honest I'm rather an armchair expert here, so I don't have any citations to back up above claims.
The charges were suspended under Swedish law, however they can be brought back, they haven't been outright dropped.
All good points. But not sure why "unlike kinds" should actually be featured - lets be honest your not exactly a household name in publishing.

Its hard enough getting a major publishing brand accepted by google as a news publisher.
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If you spent a decade hiding in the basement because you're afraid of the neighbour's cat...

...it's not the cat's fault, and the cat doesn't have to prove that it is a vicious killer one needs to hide from.
As it happens I only have vision in one eye. In her position would I want the headlines to begin 'Visually-impaired scientist..'? Personally I would find this patronising.