skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That might be a concern, but I doubt it. He was very forthcoming while he was in Sweden. He showed up for questioning and was given permission to leave. He's asked to be questioned remotely, and Sweden refuses to charge him or question him. If you've read anything about the incidents, it's a very weak case for something that shouldn't be a crime to begin with.

None of us know what the US is doing, if anything. We do know, by their own admission, that they began an aggressive investigation into whether or not Assange could be charged. We also know that everyone known associated with Wikileaks had their twitter and other social accounts subpoenaed. Manning's lawyer also indicated that the DoJ discussed the possibility of a plea bargain. As recently as a few weeks ago, US officials said they are waiting to see how the UK case plays out before charging him.

It is more probable than not that after such statements and aggressive investigations, that the US will charge him. It is more probable than not that the reason they have not yet done so, is because it's better for them to let this case finish, as they said.

Assange is not under the impression that he is immune to these inevitable charges and extradition in any of the countries involved. He has resigned to the fact that he is likely to face the US DoJ, and an extradition request, one way or another.

Assange believes that he has a tactical advantage in this case if this does not happen in Sweden. I don't know all of the reasons for this, but this is not surprising, and he has obviously been advised to exhaust this route by his legal counsel. It's safe to assume that this has been their decision, not his.

This is not a conspiracy theory, this is just how court cases work. Even in the US, it is common to fight for the most favorable jurisdiction. The presence of an extradition treaty in both countries does not mean that an extradition request is equally difficult to fight in both countries. This could change depending on laws in a specific country, or even be influenced by public perception or even corruption.

When is the last time someone was held for a year and a half in an international dispute to be questioned about a broken or missing condom incident? That makes the least sense.

Edit: It's worth noting that according to the hacked stratfor emails, the US already has a sealed indictment for him:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/28/1069018/-Leaked-Str...
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Of course the classic example of 'build a big building to look good, but so poorly that it will never really be usable' is the North Korean Ryugong Hotel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel

We are in another age now though. I'm not sure anyone will quite reach the same levels of stupidity.
What's with the building height brinksmanship? Someone needs to totally outdo what's been done. Mile High Tower.
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This. Also personal opinion but I'd walk if they blatantly just forgot.
That would makes this VC a douche if true. Nothing wrong with changing your mind but certainly inform the person you're meeting.
I love it, I have no problems presenting to people I know - however vaguely - but a room full of strangers fills me with cold dread.
You're obviously not overweight but you're pretty light for that height, so I wonder if someone with a lower center of gravity would suffer fewer back issues? What if you used a laptop that you could move from standing desk to couch from time to time? Like after every 40 minutes?
It's not like there's this massive base of OpenGL code just waiting to be ported to embedded devices if there were just a few more API calls. Yes, there's glxgears, screensavers, and handful of open source games. You could probably get some old CAD programs to run on your Android.

But if we compare the massive number of newly written OpenGL ES applications to all the old OpenGL 1.x fixed pipeline apps, the latter seem insignificant.

As he so ably demonstrates, it's just not that hard to port the older apps either. This "All you engineers are idiots because I had to work THREE WHOLE DAYS to port this 20 year old code to an iPhone" just sounds childish and silly.

The OpenGL board made the right decision for ES.
In my experience the system is:

Senior representatives from the european and US partnering aerospace companies sit in a big boardroom with their respective legal team and discuss what they can and cannot discuss.

Actually they generally get no further than discussing if they can discuss what they can or can't discuss.

Meanwhile the American and British engineers go for a quiet coffee on their own (preferably off site) and sort out any technical questions between them without anything being written down.

The French engineers from the european company have to sit in the corner and sulk.

German/Dutch engineers sit there looking extremely confused as to why all this is necessary.
Agreed. I thought it could be an option for those that want to gather feedback quickly. So something like $10 for 100 responses or something simple and to the point. If they don't want to pay, they can can spread the link and gather feedback from their network. Who knows...
Does that mean they're not allowed to decide they require him back, and then go through the "proper channels" to do so, if he refuses voluntarily?

It's not a double jeopardy situation.
Most stores above tiny mom-and-pop levels already do run electronic inventory control systems--and they are very particular about their details. Getting them to switch would be a very slow and expensive sales and implementation process.
UVA 2000-2001 budget: http://www.virginia.edu/budget/Docs/Budget%20Summaries/summa... (p. 4)

UVA 2011-2012 budget:
http://www.virginia.edu/budget/Docs/Budget%20Summaries/2011-... (p. 1, 15)

Note that the 2000-2001 budget lists only the UVA academic division, while p. 1 of the 2011-2012 budget includes the UVA medical center. The academic division is broken down on p. 15 of that budget. Thus the pie charts on p. 1 of the first pdf correspond to the pie charts on p. 15 of the second.

At UVA, sponsored programs (i.e. research grants) make up only a quarter of the budget. Tuition and fees and state appropriations make up almost half. From 2001 to 2012, sponsored program revenues are up 60%, but not nearly enough to cover the 80% increase in expenditures. The other revenue sources haven't kept pace with spending growth either. Of the $590m in additional spending, $276m (or about half) has been supported by tuition increases.

Another way to look at it is that if spending had kept pace with inflation (2.5%) and enrollment growth (0.7%), tuition could have been easily held at 2001 levels. Or, alternatively, had tuition revenues increased to track inflation and enrollment growth, university expenditures could have increased a more modest 50% given the growth in other sources of funding, rather than 80% which was achieved by almost tripling tuition.
When Linus uses profanity, it almost always (and in his case, was) accompanied by content.

The polite version of your impersonation is "I disagree." which is a worthless comment; the polite version of Linus' is more or less exactly what he said, minus the hand gestures. He actually said something while you did not.
6'0" and 130 lbs is quite underweight. You have very little muscle and I am not surprised by the back pain. You need to gain about 25 pounds of muscle and then consider a standing desk. You need to hit the weights and fridge really hard for about 6-18 months.
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Hm, I wonder what Douglas Hofstadter's superrational (http://www.gwern.net/docs/1985-hofstadter) strategy would be.
I've been waiting for a stairmaster, myself.
Export laws seem like security theater - it doesn't actually help, and only catches honest people.

If you're from a country that is embargoed, and you need computing power for some nefarious reason, I'm certain you'll find a way. Going to your local apple store dressed in your native clothing while speaking your native language isn't in your game plan.
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It's common for hardware that supports the newer version to have a driver to support the older versions as well, though. Sort of just like the article did, but faking fixed function hardware using programmable hardware.
When you know that the due process (which involves making sure he doesn't have the ability to later claim that due process wasn't followed) requires an in-person interview, then throwing up platitudes (that you know won't, can't be accepted, but which make you look entirely reasonable) is duplicitous at best.

Point me to any country in the world where a telephone interview of a suspect or person of interest in a crime is an acceptable totality of due process or investigation.
I would reasonably suspect that the person might need a phone while they are studying here. Your view of the law seems to be that it is something dictated over you, rather than something we all make up, mostly in court.
One feature that many will overlook is that it also has mouse support built in. Using Citrix or similar apps on an iPad is a waste of time because there's absolutely no support for anything other than the touch screen.
Do you know what my entire experience with the programming community has been? It has been every single asshole in a mile-radius telling me I am an idiot for some ridiculous reason that serves only to demonstrate how utterly retarded they are and how little they understand about my profession. I've had networking programmers try to tell me I'm writing my graphics engine wrong. It would be comical if it wasn't so incredibly aggravating.

So until other programmers stop being giant assholes, I find the rhetoric surrounding Linus' impoliteness to be ridiculous at best, and hypocritical at worst. Linus is simply doing what is necessary to get brick-headed morons to listen to him.
I don't know, read the law that Apple is citing. Apparently, it has to do with relation to Iran, Cuba, and North Korea.
He may be impressive, but he also sounds like an entitled baby boomer who thinks he should get more and more tuition dollars from young people in the name of "academic freedom." His resignation letter is devoid of even a sop to the budget crisis that has forced the Board to cut departments in lieu of raising tuition beyond the 275% the University has raised it in the last decade.
> Now that smartphones and tablets have respectable GPUs in them, is there any reason why they shouldn't implement the full OpenGL spec?

To what benefit?

OpenGL ES is basically OpenGL minus all of the bits you really really should have stopped using over a decade ago. Originally all of that crap was culled out because it was only realistic to write new software for such resource constrained devices anyways, so why burden driver authors and hardware with the need to support crap that should never be used anyways?

Now that mobile device CPU/GPUs are powerful enough to start being appealing as targets for porting OpenGL-based applications, I think the proper response is less "great, slather back on all of the deprecated legacy cruft from the desktop version of OpenGL" and more "for the love of god update your rendering pipeline to reflect the last 15 years of progress".
The fact that there are 5 is important

Your strategy isn't to pick the lowest prime. It's to pick a prime that less than 5 other people would pick lower than - so you will tend to pick a higher number. The larger the group of pickers the higher you should pick.
Always a good source for iOS devs. A (free) Apple developer account is required. Previous years are also available.
There are all kinds of them...

Lightspeed: http://www.lightspeedretail.com/ipad/

Shopkeep: http://www.shopkeep.com

Silver: http://ncrsilver.com/

Verifone MPOS: http://mpos.verifone.com
Edit: Sorry, getting frustrated by the other comments about the south. It's nothing to do with your comment.
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I tried sitting down periodically. It just reinforced how much more comfortable it was to sit than to stand.

I find it completely implausible that being thin would making extended standing harder. Flies in the face of everything I've ever read about back problems, which overwhelmingly afflict people with higher BMI. Also, I'm quite young, and have no history of back or muscle pains of any sort outside of what was brought on by the standing desk experiment.
When did Slashdot get TV?
I would agree with you about the drop in sales and in the share price, those being related of course. Also, I think everyone agrees, BBOS is old, antiquated, and dead. The executive shakeups were likely all related to this, and hopefully just a chance to clean house. I agree though, it's entirely possible they left because they don't see BB10 succeeding.

I would disagree about the lack of developer interest, especially with BB10. Most of the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour events are sold out, and have been sold out in a matter of days. There's are also a lot of open-source developers moving their stuff over to the PlayBook because of the ease of doing so. RIM has been pushing HTML5 on the platform, with a number of projects touting support for it (PhoneGap/Cordova, Titanium, jQuery Mobile, Sencha, just to name a few). I haven't even talked about the support for native C/C++/Python3.2, Adobe AIR, and Android apps.

Also, RIM is working hard to engage with developers. They've been very active via their @BlackBerryDev twitter account, and you can easily reach anyone on the Developers Relations team. Heck, you can e-mail Alec Saunders, VP of Dev Relations, directly yourself.

However, until the device launches, we won't really know what to make of this. We don't have hard numbers about how many developers are actually actively developing for the platform.

Let me turn it around:

What would it take to get you to buy a BlackBerry? What would it take to get you to develop for it?
Check out webfaction, their virtualenv support is a _little_ wonky but the python environment is per-app so you don't really need it.

I run half a dozen Django apps for less than $10/mo but they support any WSGI system, postgres or MySQL and their platform also handles your mail & DNS.
Pragmatism is running Windows. Or Mac OS X. There's people that prefer it this way on Linux.
Virginia -- particularly Charlottesville and Richmond -- is not some Southern stereotype.

That being said, I think the people most interested in this news are those with vested interests in Virginia higher education -- alums, donors, etc. -- and that tends to raise the average level of discourse.
Rob Walling's blog is pretty good. http://www.softwarebyrob.com/
Broadcom OTOH still has crappy ARM SoCs that require binary blobs. Just like most ARM GPUs that run on Linux.
i've seen this recommended as an alternative before, is this close enough?

http://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Health-Services-Inc-Saddle/dp...
The virus is pretty remarkable and impressive. It was safe to assume that we and Israel worked together, but I was leaning more to Israel operating alone. Israel has been quite rouge for the past two years.
China has many large buildings. Of this very large set a few turned out to need demolition.

The article accuses China of paying the morning crew to dig a ditch and the evening crew to fill it up. I dislike communist in-efficiencies just as much as any other capitalist, but I do not think the situation is occurring quite to the severity implied in the parent's article.
> since my cutoff is pretty much at "any nuclear waste"

Really? So I guess there is not much point in talking to you further. (Although I guess other people are also reading these threads.)

It might help your case if you explained why, but I'm betting it's irrational fear, not anything you could explain.

Me, I prefer to measure my pollution in terms of damage caused, not fear. There is a pollution action day in my city right now because of people like you, and I'm not happy about it. I want them to shut down all hydrocarbon electric plants (save the hydrocarbons for cars), and switch everything to nuclear.
I'm sorry, maybe you can explain it like I'm five.

What does the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the public or private sector have to do with a centrally-planned economy?

Or, let me be charitable (because I think I know what you were getting at...) and instead put it to you this way:

Let's say government-financed or government-run health care is more efficient or more cost-effective than privately-run health care, because there's no privately-run insurance company that exists to extract a bit of dosh from every doctor-patient transaction.

(And safe money's on government-financed/run health care buying better health care for its citizens, dollar for dollar and measuring on a variety of health outcomes. I've seen a lot of arguments from theory that "more free markets, less regulation" would do as good a job, or better, but I haven't seen evidence of that, just arguments from theory.)

Does this mean that a country that adopts a single-payer or government-run health care system for its citizens has _also_ adopted a centrally planned--or in your words, "government-directed"--economy?
There actually are PDFs out there for the various GPU IPs on how to write best for them (Adreno, PowerVR, etc.). Sometimes they even disagree, so using triangle strips with degenerate triangles to connect separate portions can be better than using all separate triangles on another, depending on their optimizations. Apple also has recommendations:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/3DDraw...

Although I don't recall off hand if any of them have mentioned sorting commands by state and deduping, which I suppose is one of the most basic optimizations for OpenGL * APIs.
Agreed. I do about 50%/50%. It's improved my posture tremendously.
I was trying to imply that conceptually there is no difference between 1kg and 10000kg of nuclear waste if the only that we do about it is to sit and cry that it would kill as all -- this way it certainly will finally end up smuggled and dumped on a random landfill. And it is just impossible to make humanity stop using any radioactive material.

There are many good and realistic ideas how to use nuclear material way better than now and how to inactive and store it in a perfectly safe way, but this science is marginally supported (compared with "green" competitor) and decision makers are intimidated to avoid its implementation.
Except that Assange said he did exactly what they said he did: http://studentactivism.net/2011/07/12/assange-lawyer-concede... This isn't even a case of he-said-she-said; I don't know where the fanatical skepticism is coming from.

It's not called rape in Sweden either, it is sexual misconduct. It is a crime. Even in countries where it is not a crime, it is still a terrible thing to do.

I can support WikiLeaks and also think he did these things, just like I can admire Hans Reiser's file systems. These acts are the product of thinking your desires are important enough to disregard someone else's rights to control their own body. That does not even seem out of character for Assange.
yeah, that's totally the biggest news here for me. Is there actually a decent half hour video program of technology news that's not just a beauty pageant for new consumer electronics?
Matthew Inman: "It's interesting to watch..."
I believe that ARM's Mali GPU is fairly open source friendly?
My view of the law is:

p(get caught) * p(jury will believe excuse) * f(society thinks offense is serious) * f(punishment)

Consider:

1: I though I could park here

2: She looked 18

3: Whats so bad about exporting restricted technology to Iran?
This post was awesome. Thank you. I've often wondered whether every human uptakes calories from food in the same way. In the same vein, and at the risk of being too graphic, is it true that all human excrement is non-caloric? That is to say, are we really uptaking all of the calories available in the food we eat?
Um from the article The iPad was to be a gift for her cousin who lives in Iran

In other words they were actually going to break export restrictions. Perhaps they accidentally mentioned this to the Apple associate, but not to the reporter? Because "I'm getting this for my cousin in Iran" may sound innocent but would actually force the associate to not sell the item.
Green text on a black background is very readable in normal lighting, yet doesn't assault the eyes if you are reading in a darkened room.

In addition, there are still people using CRTs. Green on black is often clearer than white on black or black on white, especially in a small font, on CRTs because it is essentially monochrome, and so cannot suffer from fuzziness due to color misalignment.
Just call him demagogue ;) . Read what I wrote above :P Too long to repeat.
Most of the south isn't a southern stereotype. The DC metro is more like a new england city than either of the two you mentioned. This paper is based out of southeastern VA, in the VA Beach and Norfolk area.
http://www.onstartups.com by dharmesh shah.
Yes. It is definitely possible. Remember the 5 minutes blog that Rails used to have on their website?

The timeline can be something like these:
- 2 weeks: basic programming knowledge(just Ruby, not Rails)
- 2 weeks: basic website knowledge(html/css/js)
- 2 weeks: basic rails knowledge(modal/view/controller)
- 2 weeks(final): a final project to do whatever you want?

Most importantly, there is a huge difference between learning it yourself and learning it under the guidance of someone else who already knows a lot about teaching others programming.
Yeah, it wasn't a very good demo. The RIM guy wasn't very good. He's apparently the inventor of BBM, so maybe he's a bit more like your atypical engineer.

It seems RIM is keeping all of this very close to their chest, just showing enough to show people that they're working hard on something. We just don't know what exactly.

Ultimately, it will all boil down to what the final product is. Apparently this will happen before year end, but we don't have an exact date. I agree, not having an exact date is frustrating.

I think we need to wait a bit less than 6 months before we start chanting that RIM is dead.
This guy needs to get over himself. The world doesn't revolve around his pet project.

His rant is stupid for at least four reasons.

First, OpenGL ES is not regular OpenGL. If it were, it would just be called "OpenGL". It's a different thing, based on OpenGL, but targeted at mobile phones and "small" devices. It's almost like complaining that DirectX and OpenGL have different interfaces. They're different things, therefore they will be different. At the time of OpenGL ES's release there was no backwards compatibility to consider, because it was a new thing.

Second, few applications or games used the immediate mode drawing code in regular OpenGL. It's slow and inconvenient to use for the data formats used in real life. It might be great for the OpenGL equivalent of "Hello, World", but other than that nobody uses it.

Third, there was a lot of discussion about what should be in OpenGL ES, and he could have contributed his opinion when the spec was being drafted. Where was his outcry then, when he could have made an impact? Honestly, though, it probably would have been ignored, because immediate mode is so lame.

Fourth, immediate mode is deprecated even in regular desktop OpenGL, as of version 3.0.
If you think that your project is going to grow into a substantial code base, I would NOT recommend Propel.

A lot about their active record implementation violates POLA with various gotchas and code generation gets tedious and unwieldy with models that contain many fields or relations.
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