skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how Inman criticizes Edison for not actually inventing the light bulb, just making it practical. However, if you make the same observation about Tesla and AC, then you better keep an eye out for the bear-love posse.
I know I'm going to get downvoted like hell for this, but..

In short, because Sweden is a feminist-dominated country which would love nothing more to lock up Assange for life and throw away the key because a couple of women regretted sleeping with him afterwards.

Seriously, they are trying to prosecute him not for rape but for something called "unexpected sex" http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/06/assange-rape-accuser-c...
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I worked on VS2010 on a team that provided functionality delivered inside the shell. It's very hard to say how many people actually work on VS as a whole, but it's a whole heck of a lot of people. Pretty much all of DevDiv has at least something to do with VS. Then there are teams outside of DevDiv that also contribute (such as mine, I was on a SQL Server team). I do agree the team responsible for the shell itself is probably not too big.
Think of a "crowd sourced" tracking system. Most people these days have phones that are capable of taking pictures, OCRing, GPSing and uploading this data in real time. It wouldn't be hard to build a system based on volunteers that maps most cars most of the time. And with facial recognition, mapping people as well.

And it's not even illegal.

Speaking of which -- anyone know a good open source ocr that can run reasonably on a mobile phone?
Actually, the Tesla museum in Belgrade, Serbia, is quite good. Here, Tesla is a kind of national hero, or at least a God of science. I even remember a child song about Tesla inventing electricity back from the early school days, so he's not quite unsung.
Thanks for the explanation, I understand the logistics of it now.
> The market has settled at $ZERO.

No. It is in the process of settling at $WHATEVER_WE_CAN_MAKE_YOU_PAY

These guys correctly observed that free apps + IAP are getting the most REVENUE. Not installs, revenue. What they failed to understand is that this only happens when you do exactly the one thing they absolutely did not want to do: milking each customer for what he/she is worth aka "capturing the consumer surplus".
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Its interesting that around all this talk about rape allegation, no actually allegation was made by the suggested victims called so by reporters. The two women were seeking advice on the possibility to force Assange to take a STD test after unprotected sex, and a prosecutor independently decided to start the prosecution after reading the report. One of the victims has gotten so tired of it all that she now refuses to testify, and refuses to sign any old statements she made in regards to the whole affair. The other woman, as far as I know, has left the country. If in a fantasy world this would go to trial in Sweden on rape charges, it would be unlikely to see either one of the two "victims" in court.
That's lovely, but you're not paying attention. It doesn't matter how it's set up. It matters how it preforms.

To the non-enthusiast / casual user, closing the lid, pressing the power button, doing a system shutdown, inactivity sleep timeout, and the battery running out are all the same thing: the computer was "on", now it's "off". Asking someone like this to think about how the reason it came to be "off" affects how fast it will be ready for them later is a fool's errand. It needs to be fast in every circumstance.

Normal people just want to get something done. They judge their computer by how easy it is to use and how fast it responds to what they do. That included cold boots, launching program, and downloading webpages. Even if they're doing something "the wrong way", they will still judge it with the same criteria and the same harshness. I want my grandfather to use linux because I can quickly help him and fix things from afar, and because there are very few ways for him to mess it up. He uses it because he really thinks it's better then windows, and that's purely because it's fast and easy, every way he uses it.

For the record, I set it up so the power button does a shutdown, and everything else results in a hybrid sleep. What he understands that he can shut it down if he wants, otherwise no matter what happens (lid closed or not) everything will be the way he left it, even if he forgets about it for a few days or doesn't charge it.

That kind of simplicity is what allows people to think of linux as something they can use, not just some super complicated tool for "hackers" and "computer geniuses". I'm not saying it should be dumbed down or have options removed, but I am saying that making it enjoyable for everyone results in more people using it, and that benefits us all.
That's why i wrote 'zoom in'
>> if he's not guilty why doesn't he go back to Sweden and face the questions?

If he's not guilty, AND this isn't politically motivated, why not just go back? If this is actually politically motivated, then your question is fundamentally no different from "if you're not a terrorist, why don't you just submit to wiretaps / TSA body scans / etc..."

If I was him and I was innocent, I would probably not expect to face fair questions if I went back. The being said, I know almost nothing about the Swedish government so maybe I am being too much of a conspiracy theorist.
Spot on. I clearly state in the description field that it is only an experiment.
Whether or not it is legal would be pretty much irrelevant, I'd think - it would be something every regime that dislikes Britain would pay close attention to for the purpose of pointing to the moment they decide they want to pick someone up from a British embassy.

I can't imagine Britain would be willing to risk the integrity of its own embassies in that way over Assange. It sounds like sabre-rattling, nothing more.

Consider that they did not even try to enter an embassy over the killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher by someone at the Libyan embassy - a murder that achieved infamy in Britain. The Metropolitain Police laid siege to the Libyan embassy for 11 days and the government severed all diplomatic ties with Libya. But they did not try to enter.

If Thatcher was not prepared to do it, I very much doubt the current government would be willing to deal with the fallout.
If the publishers continue down this road, we're closing in on ebooks becoming time-based licenses to view content instead of things you "own."
I'm no pro in politics but what I have read Ecuador has pretty strong relationship with Venezuela. And at least the later one is happy to get USA "angry" when possible.
11 seconds to start editing code, for starters. I don't remember VS6 being anywhere near that slow.
Why shouldn't it happen in Sweden? If they have the legal power to arrest him and question him, why should they bend over backwards and do it his way instead?
Any reading recommendations for someone who isn't?
Not only. Over-use of shared_ptr is sloppy, and may cause reference leaks which are no easier to solve than memory leaks. Its use is recommended only when sharing semantics are actually required.
this approach to networks blows my mind.. how can someone break into this field, already having some programming knowledge?
E-commerce startups
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Pretty sure electrocuting animals to death was not commomplace, I agree with everything else. :P

Telsa: Hey guys all this stuff I've been talking about, I figured out a way to get it all for free! Guys?... Hellooooo? Son of a...
It isn't Ecuadorian territory, it's still British territory. UK law allows the UK to declare that it won't abide by the convention that embassies enjoy special legal status in law.
Couldn't agree more with this sentiment. We need less "social" and more useful.
Your phone's accelerometer is used to charge per hop. But competitive risks include a secret self-jumping PoGoogleStick project.
http://www.snapjoy.com/pricing
Sounds pretty dysfunctional. Surely, being able to try something for free before buying it is a positive thing? A shame that it's being done badly then.
General opinion seems to think that he'll be questioned in Sweden and then extradited to the US, likely to sit in solitary confinement a la Bradley Manning. Now I'm not saying one way or the other, but it is definitely a possibility.
It wasn't the novel word usage, it was the writing style in general. I can generally recognize what reasoned, researched, well-thought-out arguments look like.

Usually they do not include whole paragraphs in capital letters, or multiple instances of words in caps for emotional affect. Perhaps less telling but still strange was the reference to a user 'ZOMGitscriss' - this, combined with the repeated 'doxx' usage, lends me to believe the writer has about the intellectual level of a script kiddie on irc, which I am extremely familiar with due to spending years wasting my life with people who say things like "oh dongues. i been doxxd by a fed. ZOMG"

Reading the whole article after I left my comment, and reading HN's subsequent comments, it became clear this was some kind of off the cuff rant about the consequences of the DMCA-related censors built into youtube, and a misunderstanding of their policy. In other words, I was right.
For what it is worth, I have historically taken pains to avoid selling on HN.
A few facts about the case:

* The "rape" case against Assange is basically made up, with both of the women he had sex with sending celebratory texts after the events. http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/when-it-comes-to-assange...

* Feminist-biased Sweden = possible long sentence for Assange.

* Sweden has an extradition treaty with the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extraditi...), which means there is a possibility he can be shipped out to the US.

* The US has extremely intelligent politicians (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334341/WikiLeaks-Sa...) who demand that Assange be hunted down like a terrorist.

Is it a surprise he doesn't want to "go back to Sweden to face the charges"?
This isn't about hardware accelerated graphics for Java; that's already available.
Actually, if you'll look at the wikipedia article about the term and its history, you'll see that it has several meanings. Dying isn't always required.
It's not a slur it's pretty obvious going by some comments in r/fitness, but like I said I gave up reading r/fitness.
If you aren't trying to make such a comparison, why did you state that in the first place? It's meaningless to state everyone has it difficult when talking about how a specific group has it a bit more difficult.

Yes, men have problems too, but we're not talking about them right now. This is about how women are treated in tech.
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THE MENUS ARE STILL SCREAMING AT US, I REALLY WISH THEY'D CHANGED THAT BACK, SINCE IT MAKES IT A LOT HARDER TO READ.

Edit: there are actually studies on this. See, for example, this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_caps#Readability

Edit 2: Also considering that, once upon a time, I was the Program Manager who would've owned implementation of this misfeature, I feel entitled to complain.
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So countries should only respond to requests for asylum when they themselves benefit from it?

The only thing that they should be looking at, is whether or not his case for asylum is valid under their rules.
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> the British authorities don’t want to look like idiots in front of the whole world

...they're looking like idiots right now.
See also: http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/
As much as any private individual has the right to collect. No more, no less.
Sorry, but which war are you referring to?
The Libyan case doesn't really apply - the suspected gunman was a diplomat and a Libyan national and there's a whole extra set of legal issues involved that don't apply to someone seeking asylum in an embassy for a non-political crime.
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Well how do you think common sense is formed? Seems like years of Nazi and Soviet control would push common sense in that direction.
Why on earth would a group of people pool money to create an app.net account when they could post a tweet for free? Statements like that make me feel like we are super, super out of touch. We're not talking can't afford to eat at Benu 5 nights a week poor, we're talking can't afford their next meal poor. When its food to keep you alive or a part of an app.net account to broadcast whats going on to americans, the choice is going to be pretty easy.
Who knew the DMCA banned porn? Not me, that's for sure!
I'm not sure how you arrived at that belief, unless perhaps you think everything should be (visibly to the programmer) type-free? Care to elaborate? I think it would be nice if C and C++ supported more type semantics than `typedef` and `class`, say something as powerful as Haskell's system...
That was bad and you should feel bad.

But damnit, I giggled like an idiot.
The original article was talking about a woman who was groped and assaulted.

To quote the parent:

> It sounds like a lot of this stuff happens at bars during events, not at the events themselves.

No one started talking about specifically being hit on until you brought it up, so either you were talking about what the woman went through and mistakingly called it "hitting on", which is what I assumed, or you're talking about something unrelated to this discussion, which is apparently what happened. Don't get upset when someone tries to bring your unrelated argument back on topic.

Either way, people don't always go to bars with the intent to get some. Assuming everyone is there for that reason is ridiculous.
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Yes, I don't know if he's guilty of rape or not (there seems to be a whiff of women scorned about it) but the Swedish justice system has as good a reputation as any.
Given the way the US government has behaved over the past ten years, the fear is not irrational. Also, we're talking about the possibility of extradition to the US from Sweden, not from the UK.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/20/julian-a...
Precedent for storming another country's embassy?

Sure. Tehran, November 4, 1979.
It is important to notice that when someone started shooting from Libyan embassy in the 80s and killed a British policewoman the UK's government did not enter the embassy. However, now in a case of far less importance(basically a case whether a condom broke on its own or did Assange do it on purpose) they consider doing it? Something is seriously not right here.
It's the automation of privacy-invading technologies that gets me. I feel more and more like I'm being governed by computers and machines, not humans. I think that society is accustomed to a certain kind of slack when it comes to authority. We can get away with things sometimes. We can make mistakes and not come home with a ticket or citation every time.

With all of these automated enforcement measures, we're all going to end up with rap sheets a mile long. There will be no such thing as someone having a clean record.
I'm a big fan of knowing my systems will initialize properly as well.

AT&T ran into a little restart issue, as I recall, in 1990 when a software upgrade gone wrong crashed much of the phone network. Among the problems were that most of the switches had been upgraded in place, many over decades, and there had never been a cold-boot restart. There was some uncertainty as to whether the system would start up properly or not.

While long uptimes are nice, I generally prefer seeing a few reboots annually just to be sure things will come up right. There's a balance between "restart for every change" and "restart regularly enough to not be surprised at 3am".

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/9.62.html#subj2
The numbers say that yours is the minority view. Like it or not, IAP works really, really well.

And it can be done in a way that does not compromise the game design. These guys tried to do the most simple variant of that (try before you buy), they just executed very, very badly.

Heck, I wouldn't mind DLC at all if it provided decent value for money instead of costing $10 for a measly 1.5 hours of gameplay compared to the $60 for 40+ hours in the main game.
I'm not entirely sure what this is, but from what I've seen so far it appears to be wunderlist in orange.
> Unit tests validate invariants, but they don't express them in a concise form

I'd be more in line to say that if your Unit Tests aren't concise, then it's a problem with your Unit Tests, or at least, your implementation.

> and they're not a suitable form of documentation

Well, the output that you can generate form unit tests can easily be documentation, explaining in great detail exactly what can be done with what is being tested, without any hand waving either.

Still, that doesn't take away from everything else I said. In the end, if you rely on comments to explain your code, your code is probably lacking.
Probably a remote shutdown exploit by now, too.
Seems like you answered your own question there. Why would Google make a good maps app? So that people on ios use it and they can show them sponsored places.
I especially like the VS2012 web inspector - it's like having Firebug or Chrome Inspector plugged into the live code, html, and css, so any changes you make are saved.
I have said this in another comment. [edit: I see you are the same person :)] I did say I have seen it work, but that does not mean I envy them. I am not saying weather something is right or wrong. I am just putting forward what I have seen and trying to make sense of it.

They need to step way back and think about why they find themselves in this position without blaming women for not wanting them as they are.

The point I was trying to make is that people are expected to adhere to "rules" that either don't exist or not well defined and hence subject to change from person to person. Generalizing is not an option because such thing are usually complicated and the accused might not have don't it intentionally. It is sometimes simply not clear where to draw the line.
No diaspora in that list? What happened to them?
I'm American and I just got back from 5 weeks backpacking in Southeast Asia. I through my trip was long until I met legions of Brits on gap years...
How rapidly people forget their history. Britain has a specific law on the subject because of an incident that occurred in Britain within my memory, a shooting of a police officer from within the grounds of the Libyan embassy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher

No, harboring Julian Assange is not just like shooting at police officers outside the embassy, but preventing the host country from continuing to follow the steps of its agreements about accused defendants with another country is also not the normal activity of a diplomatic representative. There is a long tradition of dissidents seeking asylum in foreign embassies, and that tradition seems to be longest in Latin America, but that can also have consequences for the embassy's relationship with the host country.

AFTER EDIT:

By the way, it has been a very, very long time (since before I was born) since the United States federal government has imposed capital punishment for the crimes of treason or espionage (which, yes, could be a basis for capital punishment under federal law).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_Unite...

http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/tit...

Nowadays, it is routine for persons who revealed secret information to the harm of the United States to be imprisoned, sometimes for a term of years rather than for life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_spies#American...

Simply put, even IF Julian Assange were to have to leave Sweden after going from Britain to Sweden for questioning, and even IF Julian Assange were then charged with espionage by the United States, and even IF he were then convicted of espionage, it is quite doubtful that Assange would be executed. Most likely, he would just (if ALL of the hypothetical events happened) end up spending a lot of time in the Supermax prison in Colorado.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Penitentiary,_Flo...
Yup. It would be trivial to add an explanation right between the first two sentences.

"I’m super happy to announce Cheddar for Mac is now in public beta. [Explanation Here] You can download it here."
It depends on the transit system. MUNI (San Francisco's transit system) buses are horribly off schedule during rush hours, to the point where if you rely on them, you often end up waiting longer than if you randomly show up at your stop. Tracking is really the only reliable method for this. Compare this to BART, where the trains are almost always on time, or within 1 minute of the schedule.
I think that you probably get 50% at the generation introduction and another 50% over 10 years as the encoders are improved (and more hardware is thrown at the problem).

Double track on licensing makes some sense for a profile that can be served or provided free but I expect the efficiency benefits would mean that for commercial uses you would pay. That would mean that most hardware will support both so really I think most decodes will support both.

Maybe people will use the non free for mobile.
"if Apple can spend $60 million putting an iPad trademark dispute to rest, then why wouldn’t Microsoft spend what it needs to keep the brand that’s heralding the new area of desktop and mobile application development on their flagship platforms."

Maybe because there's a difference between a small Chinese company fighting to stay solvent and a multi-billion dollar retail entity with a presence in much of Europe and Asia?
If you don't cross-compile, I would say it's not an embedded platform.
I have to wonder how much of this is about Tesla (who was obviously a staggering genius and unjustly forgotten in the US and much of the rest of the world), and how much of it is about The Oatmeal's publicity.

I guess good can come of anything though.

edit: Having read more closely, the IndieGoGo project is to raise funds directly for an existing organisation, which is a great use of media profile. I think I'm all out of reservations on this.
Sounds like that state needs to implement anti-tamper stickers like you see in retail stores. They're scored in several places, so if you try to unpeel them once they've been stuck to something, they'll come off in pieces.
He isn't charged AFAIK.
A nonoptimizing C compiler is pretty easy (a friend of mine wrote one in high school), and that's all you need to bootstrap GCC.

He didn't even finish his parser for C++ though.
I've been through phases where I've done frequent reboots. As noted above, hardware POSTs are usually the bulk of the cycle. There used to be other annoyances (Sendmail's 2-3 minute timeout on non-networked hosts was a real PITA).

Now it's other stuff. With chef and automated system management, repeat 'apt-get update' runs, which even with local caches and other tricks give about 120-150s per startup.
I like him. I guess we've probably swallowed different propaganda.
It must depend on the data they're given. I can see bus lines in Toronto, but not in Waterloo, ON, for example.
What appears to be the text of the communication:

http://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/images/eltelegrafo/banners/201...
Very true, but were I to wear a helmet or neck airbag helmet I probably wouldn't wear one that was objectively worse at protection than another. I figure if I'm going to look like a dork either way, might as well go with the safest option?

If there's data to prove it's just as safe as regular helmets (which right now aren't tested very well either, if memory serves me correctly the only test required is to drop a weight on the helmet at height) then I might be less critical, but I still think the forehead protection looks a little shoddy on the surface.