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The motives of the UK courts aren't really in question, whatever happens. No lawyers with any knowledge of EU law actually expected his appeal to succeed.

I suspect a lot of people here will rush to call some kind of politically motivated conspiracy. I suspect they don't really understand how the UK legal system works.

If you actually read the judgment [0], you'll see it's pretty iron-clad. Very few people in the field thought this appeal was going to succeed. The simple fact is that the UK has obligations to Europe, including turning over those accused of committing crimes in other member states. It is extremely hard to get out of those obligations.

I cannot overstate just how detailed the judgement is. There is very little room for maneuverer by Assange, and his legal defence during the appeal was pretty poor. His entire defence is ripped apart.

People seem to be under the mistaken impression it is somehow up to the English courts to determine whether Assange is guilty or not. It isn't. It's up to the English courts to determine whether the warrant for his arrest was issued properly, and whether it meets the relevant dual-criminality standards. Which it was, and does, on every level.

The issue of whether Assange is at risk of extradition to the US from Sweden is not relevant to this case, in any way, shape, or form.

[0] http://images.newstatesman.com/RC.pdf
The issue is that rape trials are held not in public in Sweden. There is still a record of the trial kept, but the public and press are chucked out. See http://www.thelocal.se/31908/20110208/#
I think John's point is that people are dismissing the actual allegations outright and assuming the conspiracy is true without any evidence at all.

There's no evidence I'm aware of to back up the conspiracy. On the other hand the Swedes obviously believe there is enough evidence for a prosecution given the extradition request.

Why shouldn't the normal legal process occur? If he's got a good defence case then he should present it to the Swedish court. If he doesn't then he deserves the punishment for any crime he's found guilty of.

Edit: I see John has responded himself. See his response :)
It's difficult to tell - the U.K. courts until recently had seemed (following heavy lawyering from Assange) to be allowing him to stay in the country under curfew, but this recent ruling seems to overturn that.

There was a bit of an outcry last year when it turned out that the U.S. had been performing surveillance around their embassies in Norway, and I remember reading some suggestions at the time that there was actually Norwegian co-operation to some extent - but I'd have to dig back in detail to find the reports.

There was also an admission around the same time that similar monitoring had been taking place in Sweden.

And finally, one of the Swedish prosecutors raised very early on the possibility of extraditing Assange to the U.S. following prosecution.

Here are a few reading references to back these up - as mentioned in this thread, it's far from clear without knowing the full details, but here are some pieces to fill out the context:

* Swedish charges leaked

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/wikileaks-sweden/

* U.S. Surveillance in Norway

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2010/11/04/officials-howling-ove...

* Similar surveillance admission in Sweden

http://www.thelocal.se/30062/20101106/#

* Prosecutor's suggestions regarding extradition from Sweden to U.S.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/swedish-prosecut...
Did you follow the story? There are a lot of inconsistencies with what the women are saying. There is little doubt in my mind that they are lying.
Binary files are already diffable, both in how they're stored (in fact, the only thing that Mercurial stores internally are binary diffs), and in terms of sending around patches (that's what the Git patch format is for).

There are two problems that largefiles tries to solve: first, that while binary files are technically diffable, most of the popular ones store large amounts of compressed data, which means that their diffs are insanely poor. Combine that with the second problem, which is that distributed version control systems tend to include the entire history in every repo, and you've got a recipe for disaster: those 200 MB worth of textures that you just color-corrected are now going to be another 200 MB of data that every last developer needs to get whenever they attempt to fetch your repository.

largefiles solves this by saying that certain, user-designated files, are not actually stored in the repository. Instead, stand-ins, which are one-line text files with the SHA-1 hash of the file they represent, are stored instead. Whenever you update (checkout, in Git parlance) to a given revision, largefiles fetches your missing files on-demand, either from the central store, or (if available) from a per-user cache.

The benefit of this approach is that, if just want the newest revision, you don't have to also fetch all the historical versions of all the assets. The downside of this approach is that a clone doesn't, by default, have the full, reconstructable history of the entire repository. Whether this trade-off works for you will largely depend on who you are and what your workflow is, but we've found many Kiln customers who find it to be an excellent trade-off.
As a Swede, I can tell you we don't give a flying fuck about Assange and neither does the prime minister. If he had just come here and had his trial, he would have had about 95% chance of being acquitted (the courts being rather more cautious on sexual matters than the prosecutors here) and could go back to doing what he does.

As for the secret trials and disappearing thing. Sweden has such a good reputation on freedom that Wikileaks wanted to relocate here before Assange got into trouble. He's certainly no worse off here than in the UK.
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What's odd is that they only want to question him. Can't they question him, and if they don't like the answers, then extradite him? It all sounds a little odd to me.

I would just say, "I'm not going to answer your questions, so save yourself the cost of the flight and arrest me when you get some evidence."
Very nice. Looks fantastic.

Put a second Ethernet port on it and let me use it as a NAS/Router box. That would be really cool. I'd like a NAS, but I'd also desperately like to ditch my DSL router.

What's the average (idle) power draw like? The PSU is rated for 20W (output, I guess). This seems to be just enough, since current 2.5" drives draw up to 4W when starting (are you doing a staggered spinup?). For a single drive, idle consumption should be below 1W. So I guess idle power should be way below 10W? More like 5W? That sounds good for an always-on appliance.

At those loads, I'm sure the system is virtually silent, particularly given the humongous fan. The fan grill looks like it would block a huge amount of the airflow, but I guess it's not much of an issue. Does the fan pull air in or blow it out? It would be really nice if everything could go no-moving-parts during idle periods, ie. fan turned off and all HDDs spun down.

Sadly, even with a second ethernet port, I probably won't be in the market, it's just too expensive for me. But I'm sure you'll be able to sell a few batches to the MBP toting internet nouveaux riches in Berlin. :) As a bonus, it's small enough to bring along to the Wifi equipped coffee shop. SCNR.
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Would've been cooler if it had integration with gocode.
They seem to have fixed the speed issues, which was my main gripe with gmail up to this point.

F'ing terrible in the usability department, though, especially on the default super-spaced view - it makes it much harder to scan quickly, and lets you see half the number of emails in the same vertical space.

The wide open space with no border between panes is also really annoying. Adding a border-right on the folder pane via firebug/whatever brings it almost back to being bearable.
Yeah, they are asking for unique PAN(Permanent Account Number) issued by Income Tax department, Government of India. However, I don't know if PAN issued to individuals will work here. The fourth letter of PAN identifies the type of entity PAN is issued for. For example, my PAN is APUPK3*M.

C — Company

P — Person

H — HUF(Hindu Undivided Family)

F — Firm

A — Association of Persons (AOP)

T — AOP (Trust)

B — Body of Individuals (BOI)

L — Local Authority

J — Artificial Juridical Person

G — Government

I guess they will check PAN to identify if it is "a business entity operating from India".
That's for a court to decide. And a Swedish one at that, since that's where the alleged offences occurred.
Seriously — laptop disks in a server?

It might sound strange, but laptop disks actually have a lot of
advantages for an always-on home server: they use less energy, run
very quiet, and take up little space. Although you pay roughly
double the price per gigabyte compared to 3.5" disks, you pay less
for electricity, and thus save money in the long run.

I seriously doubt the power savings over the lifespan of a hard drive (5-6 years) are greater than paying twice as much per gigabyte. After all, if they were, Backblaze themselves would be using 2.5" disks.

In any event, the disks in a home storage server are going to be spending most of their time spun down, and drawing very little power.
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This doesn't even apply only to software, generally. My company sell specially tailored storage servers, and we almost gave up on cheaper systems ( < 2000 euros) because they concentrate most of the support problems, questions and rants.

In fact, we have one customer buying us cheap systems (1500 euros) by the hundreds. We have very, very little problems with them. We have another customer with a whole bunch of big systems and a couple of small ones for tests, etc. No problem either.

So it confirms that it's not so much the cheap system per se than the cheap customer which comes with problems.
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Regarding the circuit board, I find it intellectually satisfying to see that he placed the date that he made the clock onto it (8/8/1970). How many times have you opened something up and asked, "I wonder when this was made?"
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If you've got a website and look at the logs, you'll notice dozens of badly behaved bots, spam farms etc that follow any and every get or post link, fill in forms with spam and submit them, and ignore robots.txt. If your site is deleting comments based on an unauthenticated POST, you've already got a broken site.
The design is nice, but why buy this thing for €429 excl. disks if you can buy a Synology DS211 with 2x2GB for the same price including the great diskstation software? Ok, the design is nice, but hey, it's a NAS, you can just go ahead and hide it somewhere, there's no real need for it to be on a desk or in a living room.
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That's exactly what it doesn't do. It versions the checksum referring to a largefile along with the rest of your repository, meaning it's little more than sugar for a fancy "network symlink".

However this should be enough in most circumstances, e.g. to allow representing the complete state of a Debian package repository, without causing Mercurial to slow to a crawl. (Note I just made this use case up, it's just an example)
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I've been with Host Gator for years without issue. Support is good etc. However you will get suspended for excessive usage on those shared 'unlimited' plans. They might have the exact limits in the fine print, or you could ask a live chat assistant.
"Clare Montgomery QC, for the Swedish authorities, said evidence from a trial would be heard in private but the arguments would be made in public." That is a secret trial.

The Swedish Prime Minister has declared the man guilty, as well major Swedish news sources have declared his guilt. Those are the best evidence I can give - elected members, and the press. I can only give anecdotal evidence of the Swedish people accusing him of being a misogynist and a rapist - without hearing evidence. There is even an element of racism, as he is an Australia, so obviously he must have done it. My experience based on friends, and friends of friends in Sweden is that many of them think he is guilty.

There have been many instances of secret trials in Sweden. Not including the old Swedish Nazi trials of course, but more recently. See the quote from the prosecuting QC as evidence that the trial will not be public.

The Swedish Parliament make the laws, and the Prime Minister has proclaimed the man guilty. Do you not see the lack of justice there?
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You are wrong. The Swedish Prime minister has made public statements that the man is guilty. So has the Swedish press.
Why is this news worth getting published for every update?
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I'd strongly recommend these, if you are interested in these kinds of things. I look forward eagerly to watching the annual Christmas Tree lecture every year (this year on on Bayesian trees and BDDs, to be held December 8, probably posted online a few days later).

One year Knuth offhandedly mentioned a question I had posed in an email a few days earlier (regarding TAOCP), which was a big thrill, and indicates that despite the warning that email may take 6 months to reach him, it is often much quicker.
You will have to sign up to view it. It's probably the most in-depth Jobs interview I've seen and it's 75 minutes long.
Gotta respect anyone using a graph of entropy in a chemical reaction on a business post. Nice!
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"our government bends over and gives the US anyone they want"

I'm pretty sure the UK doesn't hand over people who may face the death penalty - although it wouldn't surprise me if there was an exclusion to this sensible rule for the US.

http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/fact_sheets/extradition/
Or even a proper rape with strong, consistent stories.
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Please explain. (Citations to sources you like would be kind to onlookers.)
Has reddit quality gotten this bad? The highest rated comments are by people who obviously never really used coffeescript. Saying that debugging is an issue is a completely ignorant stance to take.

Until you actually try a language, you really aren't in any position to make any claims about it.
It's not a problem of understanding the patents. The problem is determining novelty and non-obviousness. There are so many open-source jQuery plugins coming out all the time that a web/UI patent's novelty is going to be very hard to determine. Similarly, this ongoing flood of progress will help give new ideas to ordinary skilled programmers, rendering lots of potential "inventions" obvious.

I still contend that this is a serious problem in a legal system that includes presumption of validity.
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The uber-conservatives driving the anti-immigration movement don't want WASPy Canadians or Europeans because they are very likely liberal, and therefore outsiders to the "real America" that they are trying to defend.
It is nice to see Twitter Bootstrap in action. You are from switzerland?
Probably obvious for the server folks, but can you tell how you created the enclosure? Is there a company in Berlin?
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I agree, yet this case is unproportional. It is not normal in sweden that crime victims are given this huge service when suspects escape abroad. There are long lists of worse cases that have simply been dropped because the suspect escaped sweden.

In any case, Assange's done time at this point is more than he can expect to be sentenced to if that happens, and so if convicted he should be promptly released anyway.
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Chrome 15 is right now in the process of claiming the most used version from IE 8.

But like the combined version share, what you can use is often more about the people holding you back on IE 6,7,8 than the ones pushing you forward.
Neither of them have any control of the courts, though. And of course our press will latch on to a juicy story, as would any.
True, but there is another thing. With big deals you normally define support very clear in the contract. With smaller deals companies don't feel the urge to do this.

But it's very simple to say: "This product is cheap because it lacks quick response times for support".
Most customers won't have a problem with that.
Considering Assange has probably been pretty careful and paranoid, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the strongest thing "they" could find.
I started off thinking this was going to be an intelligent article. But this line pretty much sums up all of it:

"I have a friend who went to an Ivy League college after graduating from a typically mediocre public high school. One of the values of going to such a school, she once said, is that it teaches you to relate to stupid people."

That could have been the whole article.
> He is going to go into a secret trial, and possibly just disappear

Ironically, had his defense been able to show any of that was vaguely true, he probably would have been able to resist the extradition request.
Yes, I'm based in Zurich, Switzerland and very willing to relocate.
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Who cares? Whatever browser is the market leader doesn't matter because you will still need to support IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari for the foreseeable future. Nobody has ever made a (significant) profit from a browser. In fact, Microsoft lost billions for their efforts (see U.S. vs. MSFT).

Can someone please explain to me why this matters?
Their basic goal is to make an example out of him. Since this will obviously not put the cat back in the bag, it is just about setting an example and revenge. They are doing this to Manning as well. But it is harder to get a hold of Assange directly but they can use Sweden. Swedes, are surprisingly friendly with US govt (see jka's post above).
Ask HN: Iteration 1 of Android App released, ideas for Iteration 2?
I have released the first iteration of an Android app which you can download from https://market.android.com/details?id=com.xqoob.flow

It is a marker-based augmented Reality app and at the moment doesn't do much other than work out the distance between two markers.

This is very much a novelty feature, my main aim was to get something released, and then iterate multiple times. I have an idea where I want to go with this app, and what gap it fills (a personal itch).

However I want to ask you guys two questions -
1) What would be a potential problem the technology in this app could be applied to?
2) Given the functionality that it currently has, what feature would be a good next step to implement?

I'll disclose where I want to get to with this app, and what niche it fills, but would like to hear some of your ideas first.
Hi fezzl,

Not too familiar with the UserVoice story. What product did they start with?

Thanks for the input.
I'm from Basel, Switzerland. Could you give a short description of what the idea behind this is and where you want to go with it?
I think Eric Hanushek and Paul Peterson do a better job of showing their work any time they write than Fareed Zakaria, and they point out that the top students in the United States are laggards by international standards, because they are underchallenged by the meager United States curriculum.

http://educationnext.org/teaching-math-to-the-talented/

I can verify that statement because I have seen mathematics curriculum materials from other countries. (I read Chinese, and own dozens of Chinese-language mathematics textbooks from China and Taiwan, and I have found English translations of textbooks from several other countries in academic libraries in my town.) Doing thorough research on this subject, not the kind of research that a weekly magazine columnist or blogger does, but THOROUGH research, puts the lie to the idea that it is mainly demographic characteristics of the United States population that put the United States so far behind the top-performing countries. Review just how stark the differences in performance levels are,

http://pirls.bc.edu/timss2007/PDF/T07_M_IR_Chapter1.pdf

and then check the work of researchers who are analyzing where the problem really is in the United States.

There is a problem of a bottom-performing group in the United States, but it is a problem of a bottom-performing group of teachers who are unable to teach primary school subjects. Encouraging the bottom 5 percent of teachers in the United States year on year to find new occupations would help enormously,

http://edpro.stanford.edu/hanushek/admin/pages/files/uploads...

but meanwhile some people are showing the courage and research orientation to identify ways to help the learners in the United States who need the most help to learn more mathematics and other subjects.

http://www.teachingasleadership.org/
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