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If a person appears, offering me a solution to get me to my destination, leads me down their ally, taking my time and attention and meaning I lose the opportunity to check other solutions, and at the end of the ally I fall into a muddy riverbank and see a sign saying 'TODO: build bridge', we wouldn't call that a gift, we'd call it deceitful and cruel (or worse).

You don't owe me your work, but I don't owe you gratitude for it either. It's not a gift, it's not even that transactional. (Although that's no excuse for being nasty or threatening!)
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There's always promise for the future in minimalist mobile device setups like this, but always pain in the present too.

I'm sure our kids will find exercises like this with our early tablets to be laughable.

I'm jealous you got django/python on the tablet! Even if the keyboard proved unworkable.

I'd love to be able to write even a little Objective-C from the iPad. Also, I would find a certain humorous irony to have the xCode IDE simulating an iPhone on my iPad. Oh well.
yeah
that's too bad others already lost that war
even if IE, FF, Opera, etc became 2x better than Chrome overnight it wouldn't change a thing. The machine' rolling and advertised on 99% of the most visited pages, bundled with most software with default opt-in.

In 5 years from now we'll probably start saying how "maybe its not a good thing for ANY company to have 90%+ market share in something as important as the browser" and how "Yeah well Google didn't play fair, but that' ok cause we hated MS, and no one cared much about brand-fanboism for Opera or Firefox"
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This could actually give Mercurial a big edge over Git for development environments where large binary files are a core part of your workflow - like game development. Products like Perforce are a big hit in games precisely because they are really good at handling this specific class of file.

It's a shame, because I hate using Mercurial, but this would give me a very strong reason to use it for my game projects instead of Git.
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That makes variables scope over far more than they need to, opening up a pretty frequent bug avenue of using the wrong variable that you did not intend to use.
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Partners include FISME(Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises), a not-for-profit that has a lot of pull within the government and a really popular bank - ICICI (that has access to PAN numbers anyway); so an internal service to verify PAN numbers would be quite possible.

PS - PAN numbers are like SSNs over here.
I'd also be very interested in knowing the average power consumption, especially for a device designed to be always on.
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What do you mean? You can rename files/folders with sublime text 2.

I myself started seriously using it a month back for some PHP dev (in before the hate) and I'm loving it. This editor is amazing.
I'm in favor of legalizing/decriminalizing drugs (and heading down to the reform conference in a few hours, in LA -- http://www.reformconference.org/ )

It's crazy that we fight a war in Afghanistan where the enemy is largely financed by two of our addictions (oil via Saudi contributions to AQ, and opiates via the Taliban), and our own logistical footprint (10% of the logistics budget of the US presence goes indirectly to the Taliban!).

The war on drugs, in addition to being ineffective, is racist and immoral.

However, even though drugs is how they started, there are criminal/terrorist organizations, like MS13 and Los Zetas, which are a threat to the stability of some fairly weak states, a source of violence in US and foreign communities, etc., which need to be destroyed even after drug funding is cut off.

The relevancy of all of this to Hacker News is becoming really strained, though.
They can't verify the validity and authenticity of a PAN. Only a government/legal agency will be able to do it. So for this purpose I can just enter any arbitrary number that appears like a valid PAN and get through.
It really depends on the target market, regardless. Plenty of people will be quick to tell you how many enterprise companies are still stuck with IE6. And most of them are willing to write fat checks to maintain that status quo.
It is always hard to grasp the nuances of the political system in other countries.

The prime minister is not the head of the parliament; he is the head of the government. The head of the parliament is called "talman" (the "speaker" if I would hazard a guess at translating it). You are right in that it is the parliament that make the laws.

What the Swedish prime minister has done is defending the Swedish judicial system which, at least to me, seem like a reasonable thing for him to do. You can read more about it here for example

http://www.swedishwire.com/politics/8437-swedish-pm-slams-ju....

I can not find any reputable sources where he is quoted as saying that Assange is guilty.

Regarding the media they have written the same gossip/sensationalistic crap the media of all western countries seem to write in these circumstances, varying wildly between "totally innocent" and "guilty" with a lot of erroneous reporting and misunderstandings in between.

Oh, now I understand what you mean with "secret trials", a better way of putting it is "trials that are closed to the public" which is often done here in Sweden in trials concerning rape or children. That is put in place to protect the victims and although I don't know for sure I can't image that we are the only country in the world to practice it.

All affected parties are of course allowed in to the court room, but you and I ("the public") are not. The verdict is made public as usual.
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At least for FI, all users count towards your user cap. I've asked about this before because it really sucks. For 100 projects we might have 200+ users that don't really need access, but could use it. Since the prices don't get better at the higher levels, it creates and incentive to limit access which reduces the usability of GH in the first place.
The other advantages he mentioned (reduced heat, vibration, and as a consequence noise) would outweigh the price difference for a "living room" storage server.

I certainly wouldn't want multiple 3.5" HDDs in my living room...
Yes this is obviously politically motivated. Not only are the allegations insanely hard to believe, night after the 'alledged rape' the 'victim' went to a party with Assange and was seen enjoying herself in his company. Then later she and her best friend (who also had sex with Julian Assange during his visit in Sweden, go figure!) decided to go to the police and press charges. Then the case was dismissed by a chief prosecutor, brought up again by another prosecutor, dismissed and then brought up again, just as if there was some 'pressure' from somewhere to take this to court. After that, swedish high-profile lawyer Claes Borgström suddenly takes the case on behalf of the women. Non-political my ass.

What Assange claims to fear, and with our spineless government here in Sweden I can't blame him, is that he will be extradited from Sweden to the US.
It doesn't sound like he's been very careful. Between sleeping with random women who his supporters claim are CIA agents of some sort, and using the same password for different secret files...

But truthfully how hard would it be to honeytrap this guy? Suppose you go with my child pornography scenario, your sexy blonde Swedish secret agent only has to get close enough to slip a USB key into Assange's luggage so that when he flies through LHR customs can stop him and discover it. And if he checked any luggage it would be even easier.
Have you looked at git-annex?

http://git-annex.branchable.com/
Plus, most of the criminal activities organized crime goes into which aren't drugs have non-consenting victims -- like extortion, theft of vehicle cargoes, human smuggling (vs. domestic labor), etc. So it's easier for the law enforcement groups to ally with those victims against the organized crime groups.
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Great point and I would expect copy editors to be the real losers if things were to change, since people assume anyone could be an editor, even their 10 year old daughter.
Honest question - will this change anything? I mean, they lost, they'll probably pay up the fine and move on, no? What'll stop them from suing/trolling someone else in future, without any basis?
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With an open source project, it's unlikely that a person will appear and offer you anything and lead you down any alley. If you're trying to cross a river and come by a raft and start whining about the lack of a bridge, let alone saying that someone wasted your time, you're ungrateful.

"TODO: build bridge" means that the author thought that it's a good idea to build a bridge, however the author has other priorities and has postponed the bridge building to the time that it's actually needed (perhaps by someone else). Now you stumble by in need of a bridge, what should you do? Build the damn bridge, of course.

You're not owing any gratitude to anyone, but badmouthing someone for not doing exactly what you want is plain bad behavior.
Here's a clickable link:

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The Prime Minister creates law. The press influence the courts through criticism and informing public opinion. The courts have already been subjected to almost a year of media coverage influencing them, and the politicians influencing them.

There is a reason why the politicians are not supposed to comment on criminal cases. There is also a reason why people are supposed to make their decisions on the evidence and arguments in the court rather than being influenced by the media.

Search on the internet for "Julian Assange is a rapist" on google.se and you will find countless claims that he is guilty coming from people in Sweden. Julian Assange är en våldtäktsman, brings up 1.5 million results on google.se.

Having a secret trial, in a country proven to declare the guilt of the accused - without hearing the evidence - is not a fair trial.

The whole thing makes a mockery of justice. He should be given a fair trial - as should anyone else on this planet.

Let's try and flip nationalism around for the moment. Assume You personally were accused of something by the prosecutors of Finland, or the USA. Then the president of the USA comes out and says that you are "an enemy of the people", and states that you have bad ideas on committing crimes. Then you are going to be shipped off to the USA for a trial - but of course the evidence will not be made public, people will just have to trust the courts.

There is a great risk of an unfair trial in Sweden for this case(not all cases). There is also a high risk that he will be sent to the USA and face execution once in Sweden - as stated by the Swedish prosecution.

International law, and human rights should apply. This should be taken to a higher court in the UK.
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I talked to Peter Vesterbacka (the Mighty Eagle/marketing guy) some 10-15 minutes ago about this. He said that looking back, it's easy to state that they've done all their marketing acts differently from everyone else and that is probably, according to him, the main reason that they are seen something different from similar games.
From the UK e-petitions website:

I love this one!

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The twitter approach is broken

That maybe fixed now? - http://twitter.com/#!/prepanorg/status/131677501289271296
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Yep, you are right, but imho the fastest way to have read-write support is to use sshfs. Anyway thank you for pointing it out.
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Take a look at this: http://www.reddit.com/r/aiclass/comments/lqm0e/an_easy_comma...
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Even when visiting, the entire entry process with all the yelling to stay in line and complete your paperwork and fingerprinting and photographing is bad enough, then all the security theatre on the way back out again. You come away with the distinct feeling of being tolerated but not welcome, and that saying the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time could see you detained for a period of time.

I always want to say 'OK, I get it, you don't want me here, sorry for trying to do business with your citizens'. But of course I just shut up and smile for the camera.
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Thanks a lot for this link. When I was trying to quit smoking, I would always have a full pack and would rationalize "Well, it would be a waste of money to throw this pack out now."

I knew there must be a name for this irrational thinking, and that article taught me a lot.

Thanks again.
With the new pricing, using Go on app engine is likely to be costly until they add concurrency support.

I'd think they'd do that soon given Go's built-in concurrency, but last I heard Google wasn't making any promises.
Historically it's been a strength. Apple's resurgence is a pretty recent thing

The historical context in which it was a strength is gone.

It was a strength during personal computation's ramp-up to ubiquity. It was a strength while Moore's Law allowed Microsoft to confidently add features in anticipation of more Mhz for less money in the nick of time. It was a strength while the margins for hardware vendors were fat and Microsoft could benefit from their race to the bottom as they competed with each other. That is when the hardware vendors were the most innovative. It was a strength before various governments around the world grew weary of its monopoly position on operating systems. And, frankly, it was a strength back when consumers were willing to eschew quality in favor of a cheaper, safer choice.

Those days are over. Computers are ubiquitous now. We've hit the Ghz barrier. The race to the bottom is over, and hardware vendors have razor-thin margins. Their corporate structures and cultures were formed around making things cheaper. Microsoft can no longer tie products together without legal hassles. And perhaps most importantly, humans have figured out open data formats and protocols.

Biology is replete with strategies that were historically strengths until environmental changes turned them into liabilities. For well over a billion years being an anaerobe was the best game in town. Then cyanobacteria gave us photosynthesis and free oxygen, rendering anaerobes' dominance an edge-case at the dawn of life.

Microsoft's dominance is literally the edge-case at the dawn of personal computers. They are now in a position where they have to look to concept videos to inspire ossified and margin-starved cost-cutters to innovate.

Anaerobes probably thought the first air-breathers were an anomaly, too.
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I can tell you with absolute conviction that the vast majority of the 'swedes' (being as I'm one of them) do not believe there is enough evidence for a prosecution. This is unprecedented, the original dismissal of these allegations by the chief prosecutor would have been the end of it had there not been political pressure (gee, I wonder from where?) to bring this to trial.
It agrees with my view that programming and mathematics are no different. I build models with my toolkit. End of story.
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not sure if it is of interest to you anymore but there are a couple of scripts around the internet to scrape ai-class.org & youtube to get you offline videos.

FWIW, I'd _love_ if you could download a single file "something" (mhtml, swf, pdf or heck even one of those new wolfram document format) including both all video lectures for a single db/ml units, subtitles and quizzes.
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given the volumes, would not be too hard to do a manual verification with a 2-3 day turnaround
Is Glen Beck really the best source of information on this? I prefer wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Judicial_Authority_v_Ju...
That's kind of strange reasoning. iPad was the first tablet to deliver good experience, and this was exactly because UI was tailored for touch. This does little to assure that dual UI can be successful.
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Unless they ran the company incorrectly (in certain ways), in which case the veil may be pierced.
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Not sure how many of those were the 'Lite' (free version). My guess is that once Angry Birds started getting rave reviews, lots of people started downloading the Lite version. Still that is a lot of downloads =)
You are assuming a great deal, based on one line of text.

You're convinced it's BS. Fine. My experience says that it's not. Actual expertise trumps ignorance and anecdotes, always.

it's just the data that I have

That's not data, those are stories that you were told.
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So, what platform are we gonna port this to? :)
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I can't open the site. First I cot a server error, now it loads forever. =) HN strikes again.
Anybody else a bit sad that it's all in English rather than Hindi and Bengali? I can't read either, but having an option to read/create it in your native language would certainly speed up acceptance...
Fascinating...on one hand, it's disheartening to see the vast array of errors that can go undetected and how easy they are missed even in retrospect. On the other, it's nice to know I'm not the only one :)
You seem to be saying the Swedish laws and the Swedish court system are ridiculous.

That's a fine opinion, but when you visit another country you have to obey by its laws regardless of your opinion on them.
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I wonder whether Kiln will end up using this.
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well, it partly depends on the local electricity rate you are paying .... which is probably a little higher here in europe than in the states, i guess. haven't really calculated the amortization time yet, though.
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In my personal experience, international government conspiracies are pretty rare and so a more mundane explanation is more likely to be correct.
The kind of kids who will get high on guard duty in Israel won't ever join the military in the US.

I'd love to say otherwise, but it just isn't so.
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Disgraceful, and I'm sure illegal. Now that Romania is in the EU, you should see how much of the EU Customer rights laws have been implemented into your national law. Since Romania joined the EU recently, most of these laws are probably new, and hence companies probably not be aware of them.

(Probably no help to you now in this case, but for future reference)
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