skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something which has been brought up here in Sweden by people with legal background:

First the prosecutor at call (Marianne Ny) decided to arrest Julian Assange on the accusations from the two women. Meanwhile the news of his arrest has somehow been leaked to Expressen (a daily newspaper) the same evening.

Next day the chief prosecutor dismisses the case, this should have been the end of it.

However once Assange leaves the country, Marianne Ny (prosecutor on call) brings up the case again, and somehow manages to have Assange arrested on suspicion of rape, sexual assault, and has issued a european arrest order in order to question him.

This makes no sense, Marianne Ny says that the purpose of the international arrest is to 'question him', why couldn't she do that while he was still in Sweden? Why turn down the offers to question him on video conference or at an embassy in England BEFORE extraditing him given that Marianne Ny herself says that she doesn't have enough evidence to prosecute Assange and only wants to hear him at this time? Also given the huge costs that an 'international arrest order' brings along, to do so for questioning a suspect in such a weak case as this is unprecedented.

Yes, this is political.
If this guys thinks having a single 10" screen with no ability to switch between tasks easily and quickly is the wave of the future for developers, I don't want any part of that future.

You can pry my dual 24" monitors + high performance desktop from cold dead body.
How light a workload do teachers need? As it stands now, full time teachers [1] work only 38.5 hours/week (on average).

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf

I'm not sure how increasing pay, further reducing work hours, and completely eliminating accountability will do anything other than buy teacher's loyalties in an election year.

Incidentally, there is also little evidence that postgraduate degrees in education improve student outcomes. They increase teacher pay (according to union-negotiated pay scales), but don't help the students.

[1] Those who work at least 35 hours/week.
I was disappointed too, but if you view the page source, you can see the URL of the actual stream.

For example: mms://proedvid.stanford.edu/videocontent/knuth/cs209/871002/871002-cs209-500.wmv

(just grep for: mms:// )

VLC seems to be able to stream and display those for me.
The battery life of a Macbook Air is pretty damn good. You can get a good 6+ hours of work out of them before needing to plug in. Not quite iPad-scale, but close enough in many cases. Also, the iPad does tend to run out of battery a bit more quickly when using 3G and bluetooth heavily, I believe...
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That looks like a really cool product! That kind of blend of software, hardware and energy efficiency really appeals to me.
Yes, but not necessarily easily integrated into the next release. You can fix it for yourself, but if the project isn't very well maintained, or if the maintainer rejects your patch, etc., etc...
To be honest, when even Naomi Wolf says something's not right about the prosecution of an alleged rape, it's probably worth stepping back and considering that there could be another dimension to it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/jaccuse-sweden-brit...

Choice quote:

In other words: Never in twenty-three years of reporting on and supporting victims of sexual assault around the world have I ever heard of a case of a man sought by two nations, and held in solitary confinement without bail in advance of being questioned -- for any alleged rape, even the most brutal or easily proven. In terms of a case involving the kinds of ambiguities and complexities of the alleged victims' complaints -- sex that began consensually that allegedly became non-consensual when dispute arose around a condom -- please find me, anywhere in the world, another man in prison today without bail on charges of anything comparable.
http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0077/ seems to have been the original article anyway.
When it comes to making international laws/reforms/standards it would be so much better if it is to be regulated by a consortium (I mean a people's body independent of the government) body like (WWWC) consisting of technologists who know what they are talking and are able to make moves without siding/consulting with governments. The other way of looking at is is that compared to bureaucrats, panels/consortiums that publicly discuss topics can be opposed easily and can be requested/demanded to make changes.

For such things, what we need is not closed door meetings that happen in lavish halls, but openly published specs/drafts/RFCs that people can comment upon and voice their opinions about.
For code navigation / completion, you could try eclim / clang_complete.
Seems that everyone gets different questions btw, my q8 was nothing like screwt's, I didn't have that image at all.

It seems to be giving feedback now, 7/9. As others have said, for our own curiousness it would have been nice to know which ones we got wrong!
Article seems to be a rip-off from an Intel article. Original here:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/90-errors-in-open-s...
I haven't got past the first level, but that is the reasoning behind the first link. Short-term memory only lasts for so long and there is only so many things you can keep. Angry Birds is something you can play naturally with only your instincts. For a challenge you have to get three stars.

At its core, both The Impossible Game and Angry Birds are simple, but one is more successful to past to the next level. If you get one star on Angry By Birds, you can pass. On The Impossible game you have to have timing and be aware of what is coming up. I suspect this is the reason why the original Super Mario Bros. became so popular.
The political implications of Assange's extradition and exposure to prosecution are the big story regardless of his innocence or guilt.

In addition, the degree to which spycraft entails placing people in compromising sexual situations, as well as, the explicit actions taken by the US and other wealthy governments in the interest of neutralizing and containing Wikileaks (e.g. trying to cut off funding), when combined with the vast resources available for a counter-espionage operation, certainly make a setup plausible even to people without tinfoil beanies.

Heck, the honeypot meme was even proposed here on HN.

That's not to say Assange didn't violate Swedish law. But as Stallman's rider might be said to illustrate, it can would pretty damn easy to place a couch sleeping nomad in a compromising position.

And although I in no way condone or approve of sexual assault, from a utilitarian standpoint, the ability of Wikileaks to continue its mission is highly likely to curb much worse behavior on a much larger scale. In my opinion, the argument that it is more important to hold governments and corporations accountable for their actions than it is to hold Assange accountable for his deserves the same consideration as arguments regarding the justifications for the wartime actions Assange helped expose.
While I still share the sentiment, it works just fine on Linux and Firefox with a recent version of Moonlight (http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/).
Since we're pimping terminal multiplexers, I quite enjoy tmux (http://tmux.sourceforge.net/). I used to use screen, but found tmux to be faster, smoother, and have more logical key-combos (your mileage may vary).
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The claim that this is the first time an EEG array was used to control something directly with human thoughts is a very bold lie. Also, "true" BCI does not generally mean what they think it means. While it is correct that electrode arrays are some form of brain-computer-interface, they are a very crude tool and have nothing in common with the imagery that is being invoked here for the sake of publicity. A real BCI is supposed to be bidirectional and it's supposed to interface with individual neurons or cortical columns.
Making everyone get through 2 semesters of calculus and a real probability class frankly sounds like a great idea for reforming high school.

Why they can't take kids through "high school" algebra in middle school and have them ready to take more serious math in high school is a mystery to me. From what I gather, a considerably accelerated math curriculum is common in other countries.

Is there any reason other than inertia that we can't do this?
Oh that works. I do not like that, even though I understand the logic behind it. Maybe there is a way to make single click file show the tab
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Scorched earth. If id release an engine at a certain tech level, they put serious competition in the way of other would-be licensors of engines at or about that tech level. That stops smaller software houses from breaking through that tech level to compete at the higher level.

I don't know if it's a conscious policy or not, but it's interesting nonetheless.
I'm not sure it takes into consideration the orientation of the image, I was using that as a short cut - E.G. arrow points to circle and such.

This made about half of them solvable by inspection in under 15 seconds for me. However the result was 1 out of 9. Using this same approach the 8th question was obviously flawed, I wasn't about to go back and try a different method at that point though.
I found it easier to pick and compare opposite faces.

This didn't work for exactly 3 of them (the ones with repeated symbols), so went with educated guesses there.

Curiously, I got 6/9.
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I don't think it's the future for developers, I think it's the future for pretty much everybody else though.

I plug the iPad into large monitors sometimes. When an iPad with double the resolution comes out, this won't seem nearly so silly.
All spatial tests are able to be solved with structural techniques rather than spatial ones.

We have designed this test in response to that flaw so that when it comes to the harder items it is much more difficult to do so than to use the intended mental transformation and rotation techniques.
You could buy a second hard drive and put it behind your other drive and occasionally
copy important files from your front drive up to your back drive.
Holy crap. I thought I was good at this; only got 8 out of 9.
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Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3186471
Neither are sensible for anyone who uses Emacs keybindings (at the shell or in Emacs). I have my prefix key set to C-t, which is tolerable.
Yes, I was really happy that so many open source tools born on such equipment were still around and perfectly tailored for this kind of setup.
7/9... I thought I'd score worse, since they say women have trouble with spatial problems.

A pity the test didn't say which ones I failed, though.
Agreed, same here. SPOILER The consensus seems to be that 8 has more than one answer, I definitely see 8A as different from the others (arrows pointing away from each other as opposed to perpendicular), but perhaps there is another one. Brain is too tired to figure out another possibility right now; thanks for the workout :)

BTW #6 I found most difficult (even more so than #9), and #7 was far too easy for its position.

TO AUTHOR: The answer key for #6 is wrong. It should be A, not C. (The boxes are on the LHS of the frontmost arrow in A; they are on the RHS of the other three.)
> Really, it's a cultural problem.

No, it's an economic one.

> I have a liberal arts degree from an "elite private university".

Ok. Let's make the assumption that you're at least moderately intelligent and would be able to get a job for 40K from the bat.

40K * 4 = 160K

College tuition is 40K itself at an "elite private university". Then you add living expenses, books, food, etc. and you have another 25K. That's 65K.

65K * 4 = 260K

160K + 260K = 420K

Yup. Half a mil to learn about Poetry Writing. Sorry, but that's just silly.

I would much rather my kid spend his time working in a small business and learning about entrepreneurship hands-on, than pissing away untold fortunes to sleep in a class about poetry. You can slip the kid some Robert Frost after work.

Trust me, if he has an inquisitive mind, he'll explore all the weird and strange subjects on his own time. With the internet, he can even be challenged by greater minds.

The best argument for college is the social environment, which can't be replicated outside of it. Not education. The kids get that. That's why they don't go to class.
No need to ascribe malice; the Google web experience is bad on Android too.
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> He did the XBox and Zune.

I'm not sure on the timing, but these may have been in 2002 or more recent. At least from my experiences in DevDiv, that's around the time that BillG pretty much checked out.

I think that point and the first versions of both of those products prove my point. The former really took a full generation before they figured out the market. Zune has a fantastic music service and the sharing gimmick worked quite well, but they never really managed to figure out a way for the device itself to become more than me-too in the eye of the consumer.

I somehow love the idea of SteveB asking 2012-BillG to channel 1998-BillG and him just tearing into Allard, old-school review style. Particularly for some of the hippie free love divisions that don't have any former BillG TAs or the exec review culture, it would've been a bloodbath.
Ask HN: Potential service that connects fans to musicians for financial support?
Hi guys,<p>I am playing with the idea of setting up a site where fans can start and maintain a direct relationship to musicians in exchange for financial support.
The idea is that musicians might have a lot of value that they might not realize that their fans might be interested in paying for. We would help provide the tools to monazite the relationship and make it worthwhile for both parties. It would have elements of crowed sourcing mixed with a personal relationship features.<p>So I am wondering, do you guys see any possibilities in this? Would you give an artist some money if, for example, you could access restricted content, allowed you to have conversation with them, perhaps allowed you to post on their Facebook wall etc...
Do you see people interested in developing a lasting relationship with the artists they listen to and most importantly would people pay for this?<p>Any thoughts/comments would be appreciated.<p>Thanks,<p>kSeudo
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Anyone who thinks Google Docs is better on Android due to anti-Apple conspiracy clearly has never used Google Docs on Android.

Also, outside of Google Docs, Google has first rate support for iOS on the web. Gmail, Voice, Reader, everything runs brilliantly on iOS. In fact, usually better than Android, as they clearly see web as their primary in to iOS compared to Android (example: Voice is the snazzy HTML5 newness on iOS, while Android has the spartan 1995 grad student webpage styling).
I saw two people below who say they prefer tmux over Screen, so I just looked it up. What I care about most is persistence; I use multiple terminal sessions if I want to have multiple windows. Did you find any difference for that feature?
I originally uploaded the incorrect items, of which one contained a flaw (I scored it as correct for everyone in that early group).

In the easy questions you can indeed use those structural techniques, but in the harder ones you couldn't.

In the 'gold standard' spatial tests that currently exist you can use these kinds of queues for almost every item very easily, which is why we introduced this method.

Also, we need to take into account the vastly higher than average intelligence at HN compared to the general population; you guys are outrageously outperforming undergraduate psych students so far :-)
How is Doom 3 a top quality engine? I would say CryEngine 2 or Frostbite 2 are.
Not just lack of screen space but looking "down" to your screen even tilted on a table will wreak havoc on our neck/spine which extends to your extremities (and head) quickly. Simply slouching and tilting your head up pinches nerves in your neck which leads quickly to wrist/arm pain.
at this point, i only trade in privately held companies. public markets are for losers.
Nah, it's was the same guy that posted that. It's an infomercial, not a real article, perhaps codeproject took it down when they realised.

Though kinda interesting anyway if a little blandly written.
I use google reader everyday at work on Internet Explorer 7.0 ( bank-mandated browser, don't ask ). Worked fine until this new layout change. Today I login. It says "Your browser is not supported" ! Hmmm...never happened before.
Now I get 3 vertical scrollbars, 1 horizontal scrollbar and lots of whitespace. 3 vertical scrollbars to scroll thru an article ? Which one do I scroll ? There are weird color artifacts - like when I click on an item in LHS, its a little bit red, then white, then red again. There's a black dropdown "View in Reader Play" what is that...click...I get a new fullscreen window with a whole lot of high contrast white on black text with large fonts...WTF...Dude gimme back my old google reader. This one is definitely broken on IE7. I'm all for ui redesign, but pls don't break what works well on older browsers.
This seems to be fixed now (on C they point perpendicularly), but I'm still getting 8/9. ('course it's possible I missed another one...)
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I'm curious about this, how does the price of education increase because of increased enrollment? I just figure when lot's of people go to Walmart that doesn't increase the cost of their goods.

Or are you inferring that colleges could fallback on their endowments with fewer students? I'm not sure many institutions could rely on this.
I'd suggest that 9 times out of 8 many STEMs have contextual biases that fail to account for general knowledge that otherwise would strengthen their argumentative position.
Same author. Looks more like a repost.
Http://hardbodiespersonaltraining.com/article/2011/11/02/478/
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9/9... but with submitting twice (first try: 7/9)

The tests that have only different symbols are much easier than the ones where symbols are repeated.

For example for question 1, without actually building the whole of the cube in one's head, it's quite obvious that the circle is always on the left side of the heart, except in one case where it will be at the top, and since the cubes have to be absolutely identical one doesn't need to look further than the first difference.

(Edit: if the test is different for each taker, the above example is meaningless, of course.)
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A tiling window manager can definitely be a huge productivity booster. Perhaps even more than adding an extra display, which is often said to be the cheapest way to improve productivity. A tiling WM costs nothing.

I've even started working comfortably using just one display now that I've changed to using a tiling WM. With a floating wm, I needed at least two large displays to work comfortably. Lots of that screen area was wasted just by showing a little desktop in between of poorly arranged windows. I'll never go back to floating windows with frames and decorations.
And anyone who uses GNU screen ought to know about Byobu, which makes screen a bit more visual and easy to navigate. Especially perfect for headless instances.

Not wanting to leave it is why I've not spent much time with tmux. Is there something similar for it?
So, this is something i worry about.

I'm using time machine for backups, so i don't think i'll lose much ... but i'm sorta hazy about how i should be using svn for all these little incremental steps. I'm uncomfortable with committing code that's going to break the whole system.

Should i be creating a branch for projects longer than an afternoon, and just committing that fairly often? I feel like eclipse's history is working okay but i have a vague paranoia i'm doing something dumb when i see comments like this.
The tab will also open if you start editing the file.
The numbers I used are from WD's spec sheet. The Storage Review discrepancy is too large to easily explain. Either something is wrong with that test, or WD has posted fictitious numbers.

The $1/year/watt rule is for the United States with a $0.12/kwHr cost. Even in the US the cost varies wildly, but just getting people within one order a magnitude on their electricity reasoning is worthwhile.

I had no idea German electric rates were so high, but it does help explain why large solar power projects are feasible there despite the less than exciting insolation.
Thanks for sharing. Did you consider switching to a smaller laptop like a Macbook Air / Netbook?
Here's a very quick crash course in GNU screen, getting you up to speed with the core components: https://github.com/cdzombak/crashcourse/blob/master/courses/...
That 'mistake' is part of the test isn't it ;)
https://www.tin-nsdl.com/pan-verify/pan-verification-overvie...

Yes. It can be. Since the NSDL service is available to banks.

And since this program works in conjunction with ICICI. it's very possible
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Most of what you just said is irrelevant. The question is not just whether Microsoft is in a weaker position, but whether software-only has become a weaker position. Microsoft's antitrust scrutiny, GHz barrier, open formats, etc. What do any of these have to do with the software-only strategy? Antitrust scrutiny? Well, that would only get tighter for Microsoft if they started selling hardware. GHz barrier? Affects everyone whether they sell hardware or not. Open formats? Seems irrelevant, and Microsoft generally supports widely-popular open formats.

I also don't think the environment has changed as much as you say. We've still got numerous PC manufacturers selling "IBM compatibles" running Windows. On the phone front, we've got a similar situation, with Android in the lead. On tablets, it's likely just a matter of time before someone dethrones Apple. Really, when you talk about historical context being gone, I think you're just talking about Apple becoming so huge. And that is a big deal. I'm not sure it fundamentally changes the software-only strategy, though.

I would personally (and this is just me, and obviously has no relation to Microsoft's plans) love to see Microsoft sell hardware. I would love to buy a sleek tablet, phone, and laptop made by Microsoft. I'd love it if we sold a premium product designed exclusively in-house. But would this be a good strategic move for Microsoft? Honestly probably not.
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>Half a mil to learn about Poetry Writing. Sorry, but that's just silly.

Half a mil so that when you apply for a job at $MEGA-CORP or in government the hirer says "Oh you went to %SCHOOL%, same as me" welcome to our management fast-track program, followed by promotion and VP-dom.

As opposed to "Oh you got a CS degree", well programmers get to sit in this cubicle and get paid $50k until we outsource the whole thing to India.
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Sounds very interesting. I think the major downside would be that you can't really do any development while offline. I've done some of my most productive programming during flights and train rides, so that would be a downside for me.

Maybe Android could give a little more of the "local productivity" option?
Check the element's class/id. Create a user stylesheet for your browser. Set the element to display:none. Profit.
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Anyone know of another IPv6 cloud firewall? (i.e: API driven and distributed). Is it the first?

(Full disclosure: I'm a Brightboxer btw)