skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, now I've thought about it and I'm going to ridicule your point :).

The situation is that Assange says he's politically persecuted in the UK and therefore his asylum request is legitimate, the UK says he's not and it isn't.

But what else was the UK going to say? It doesn't seem reasonable to me to have the UK be the final arbiter on this point.

Since there's no other authority we can reasonably appeal to, we must accept Ecuador's judgement as final, and consequently, the UK should not override this judgement by force.
people exiting short positions
Well, thanks for all your recent wisdom. Now all you need to do is travel back in time to 2004 and warn everyone that backing Dean Allen's little cottage-industry hosting venture will end in tears.
I know, it's as much a study of techcrunch's sensationalism as anything else - the app has only been available for 6 weeks!

A very interesting case of the freemium model and in-app sales (up to $60) working very well, though.

I know what you mean about sustainability, but with the right publicity (it's all been word of mouth so far) and development it could have its 15 minutes in the limelight and that's really all you need when the ROI is as good as this. I was reading the comments on here by a seasoned app developer earlier today and thought this would be interesting to watch developing over time as a test case (whether they roll it out in other markets/languages/etc).

[Edit: thread I mention http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4389468]
Ha, excellent point. Judging by some of the comments here, much of their traffic may not have a compatible browser version after all, but I'd imagine that they still have a higher tolerance for that sort of thing in the name of advancing the field.
It was of course fundamental to Assange's appeal that the validity of the extradition warrant be examined by the court, with respect to the precedents mentioned. The opinion referenced in the citation examines the claim made by Assange's own lawyers that some or all of these precedents had not been argued in court.

For the suspicious mind, it could be seen that a disinclination to examine in full the very matter presented for examination, is indicative of at worst, bias, and at worst, as argued in the citation, error. Any further avenue of appeal in the UK has been refused.

I also find it ironic that British courts are willing to refuse extradition requests for terrorism suspects, say to Jordan, when an ambiguity regarding their immunity from torture or death arises, but will apparently allow it in other cases.
Never trust 'lifetime' offers
"People use lots of bitcoins on silk road every day with no interest in speculation. Bitcoins are a real currency with value backed by the interest in silk road products."

The existence of some people who use bitcoins as they are intended does not change that goldbugs, speculators, and others are legitimately affecting the currency as capitalism not only allows for, but ENCOURAGES. This is not glib. This is reality.
Yes, I also agree with the advice but not the conclusion.

I suspect the only people in their 30s who can honestly say they spent their entire 20s in full-time pursuit of a career in their passion and got nowhere are PhD graduates. This says more about PhDs and mistaken beliefs surrounding them than anything else.

I feel like I had more options for what to be (i.e. career) than I was aware of, it's just the "how" that was left out.
That looks like a pretty cool looking app. I really like the design of your web site & app. You say you're not focusing on 'boring PowerPoint presentations', it seems that most of your examples are more like photo slideshows. It might help to show some more traditional style presentations in there as well.
Where the competitor to Facebook?
i think facebook is successful because it has no competitor (real one).
and don't say google plus, how you explain to normal people to send a message to someone else on google plus, and how to explain to them putting pages in their circles, it is difficult.
and the friending approach working better than the following approach.

so what do you think?
SSD Hits Growth Pains on the March to Mainstream Use
"As a customer, stop falling for this charade."

No, theres is no reason not to take them at their word.

"lifetime" and "unlimited" need to be protected advertising words. There is no reason whatsoever to tolerate straight up lies in marketing because they are common lies.
There's no evidence that the US even wants Assange.
Tesla Charity Gets "Oatmealed"
Regardless of where you host, if that's a problem for you, just set up a free account at Pingdom to hit it every 1 minute, and get uptime/response time monitoring as a bonus. Easy peasy.
Periodically there are proposed protocol changes. A while back I saw a proposal on creating a set of rules that allowed for crowdsourcing-style transactions. (You could send bitcoin to an address, but the transaction did not become valid until the amount at the address reached a certain amount.) I didn't hang around long enough to see the outcome of this proposal, but what I did notice was that only the major bitcoin mining pools got to vote on it.

This is a factor of bitcoin being "decentralized" that I don't think many people fully internalize. Anybody could change the protocol, and all that will count toward acceptance is the number of nodes acknowledging their transactions. If a change is unpopular or made without widespread consensus, the blockchains split and now you've got two mutually incompatible currencies. In practice this will probably just mean that you're always under threat of a split unless everybody accedes to the changes that mining pools propose, since they control so many transactions. Alternately, new mining pools could be created that let members vote proportionally to the work they've done for the pool. It's both scary and interesting.
If he did the same acts in the UK that the prosecutor alleges that he did in Sweden. In no way is that conduct proven. In fact, it is not even demonstrated that the women in question have alleged he acted that way - at least one of them have stated she is refusing to sign the statements.
Actually, the go implementation is very simple, if a little arcane in the style of C used.
India: A Truly Happy 66th?
Koolhydraatbeperking en afvallen zonder honger
Thanks, that's a great suggestion. We're getting some pretty diverse decks that our users have started to create, we'll start featuring those in the gallery soon.
I know it's newly open sourced but there have been two build releases in the last two days and it seems that it's being pretty actively developed.

Given the maven nature of its users (including myself), I can see TextMate being developed actively and productively into the foreseeable future
My point was (and still is) that standard SQL is horrible, and there are way better solutions.

Real world usage makes SQL vendors extend SQL to make it less sucky; some of these extensions were later encoded into standard, and some are still proprietary.

Windowing functions are nice and all, but are a complex solution to a problem that would hardly exist if you actually embraced order as fundamental.

Ok, how about the most useful kdb+ extension (which I forgot about earlier): foreign key chasing: if table t has field a which has a foreign key reference to table s (which has field b which has a foreign key reference to table r (which has field c which has a foreign key ...)

in kdb+, you do:

select a.b.c from t

Does pgsql have something similar? Or do you have to spell out all the joins?
ARM is different from x86, as Apple has proven. Apple has enforced secure boot on ARM since 2007, and it still hasn't hit OSX. And Apple is a lot more locked down than Microsoft is, in any market.
I think you are seriously under-estimating the complexity of terraforming if you think this NASA policy might be a big hurdle...
Thanks! We started from the ground when designing this app, especially because we know people use their mobile phones in very different ways (vs their computers).
Options are really cool since they are so well named. They really do give you a ton of options to adjust your risk to exactly what you want.

On one hand, you can have infinite risk strategies, on the other, you can lock in a stock price almost exactly, with little market risk. And then everything in between (ie, you can easily build something that's like: "I think this stock will go up a few bucks, but nothing crazy", or maybe: "I'm worried about a horrible plunge, but a minor decline is fine, I'll buy a put out of the money and have coverage for the plunge".)

And really, it's fairly simple, a lot of the stuff I said about "time value" and such was related to how you value options, not the actual complexity of the thing itself. "How much is this worth" is always tricky, even for something as easy to understand as a bond.

Organized markets, and bubbles, and derivatives are all old. And they aren't inherently bad either.

You have to look at futures & options as a way to sell or buy risk. If you're willing to pay somebody, they'll take your risk away. And the other way, if you want to take on some risk in exchange for money, you can do that.

(note, that last thing sounds scary, but how about this: sell a put [ie, promise to buy a stock at a certain price] right near where you want to buy the stock anyway [with a traditional limit order]. If it gets to below that level, you get 'assigned' the stock, which you wanted anyway, at the price you wanted anyway. If it doesn't hit that, then you wouldn't have bought the stock anyway. The counterparty gets insurance against their stock dropping. You take on the "risk" of it dropping, but you've set yourself up so that it works out for everybody involved).

(note that last strategy doesn't work if the stock temporarily dips, then pops back up. You probably won't get assigned in that situation, where a limit order would have triggered. That risk is what you get in exchange for getting paid for selling the put).
It's utterly obnoxious to see this touted as "Leveling the playing field" and then see all the rules and restrictions make this a gamble and a marginal savings at best. But the swinging price tag is nice.
Yeah, not much you can do about the service ending.
A fall when a bunch of people can suddenly sell is a normal thing.

And those insiders should sell parts of their positions. They are very heavily invested in FB and need to diversify, even if they believe FB is a very wise investment. Many insiders probably have more than 90% of their portfolio in FB stock.
It is indeed similar in the UK:

"You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence."
He specifically says 'The Cairo Declaration subordinates all human rights to sharia law, and almost every islamic country in the world has signed the Cairo Declaration. ....It beggars belief that Amnesty can simply ignore it when the islamic world rejects universal human rights.".

'Islamic world' does not equate to 'all Muslims'. The 'Catholic Church' does not equate to all those who are Catholic Christians etc.,
One correction - TechCrunch claim Big Fish would be "the first time a real-money gambling game will be available on the app store". That's simply not true: there are several real-money games already available in jurisdictions where online gambling is legal. The large betting exchange BetFair, for example, have a casino games app with real money: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/betfair-casino/id505191581?mt...
Yes, the S&P is diversified in the stock portfolios. What I meant was diversify into things like fixed income vehicles, first mortgage securities, real estate income trusts etc.

And yes again, most investors came out much worse over the past decade that -1.5%, but even the theoretical return is dismal enough to illustrate the point.

Negative returns, while a simple concept, can be a real jaw dropper for many a DIY investors. If you invest $100.00 and lose 10%, you'll have $90. But $10 out of $90 is 11%. So you'd need to return more in the positive just to make your money back. And the greater the negative return, the greater the positive required. If you lost 20%, you'd need 25% etc.
Mobox - Build tool for Phonegap w/ Sprockets
Efficient Research: The Lean VC Way
That's really interesting. The two folks from Facebook contradict each other when talking about joins. Aditya says "No joins in production.", while Mark says "Some of the stories I read about sharded SQL state that you don't do joins when you have sharded MySQL, and that has never been the case for the workloads that I watch. You're always doing some complex query processing within a shard."

Anyway, I can see how you might have come away with the notion that MySQL is a glorified key value store by watching the first video which only briefly touches on their MySQL usage.
> How is that relevant? OSX has at best around 10% global market share? I'm talking market dominance here.

Fine, I'm familiar with OS X, but I'm sure there's equivalent stupidity in Windows.

> The arguments here are invariant - they must not be null. I don't need a comment that may or may not be written in precisely the same format between 100 developers maintaining the codebase. I simply look for the one call to Argument.NotNull that all developers use in this case. The code is MUCH more readable than if the constructor had a comment explaining that each should not be null, mixed in with explaining what each should do.

No, it's not much more readable, because if properly commented, I WOULDN'T HAVE TO READ THIS CODE AT ALL. Instead, my IDE or documentation browser would tell me, inline, exactly what I needed to know.

> If readers want to know what this API is and what it can do they need only look to the interface, or the implementation of it's methods in the class.

If you have to look at code's implementation, you've failed. Why isn't that code a black box to me? Why do I care at all how it's implemented?

Why on earth would I want to waste time doing that instead of instant access to high-level API documentation?

Moreover, it's a contrived example, because nullable/not-nullable is the least of an API.

> Not to mention that your stated opinion is that comments should explain the inner workings of things so that consumers can be well informed. This has the potential for exponential maintenance as really low level changes are made.

No, my stated opinion is that comments that are externally visible should document externally relevant invariants.

Comments that are internally visible should document internally relevant invariants (if the code does not adequately express those, as it often does not).

> A well structured codebase comes from developers making the conscious decision that any reliance on the crutch of a comment is a failure to write proper self-documenting code.

A well-structured code base comes from writing good code. Comments are part of writing good code. Self-documenting code isn't fully documented code, unless it's literally a literate programming language. Claiming otherwise is just an excuse for you to be lazy and not write comments under the misguided auspices of being much too smart to need them.
"perhaps the greatest contribution the Bitcoin experiment will make to humankind is to teach you and me and our neighbors more about the realities of economics"

I most certainly wish this was the case, however the cycle of booms and busts rarely teach anyone anything. Think about how they were documented in the 1800s, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds specifically, they STILL teach that book in plenty of schools, and yet the same idiots believe this time, things'll be different.
Did we contaminate the moon? I think if we can can put people on Mars, we'll like that more than not contaminating Mars.
"The writing is on the wall"
Many articles today had this saying.
Thoughts on Jack Dorsey, by Steve Jobs
Last year's pycon was great, hearing pg, stormy peters, david beazley and the benevolent guido talk was a great experience, especially for someone who is still in school like I am. In fact, I'm wearing the pycon t-shirt right now!
For abuse, which seems somewhat reasonable. And for the other people, they offered their money back, which is probably the best way to solve this kind of thing.
It's a country that have admitted to having handed political asylum seekers over to the CIA so they could ship them back to the regime they were fleeing in order for them to be tortured.

While it did cause an uproar, it took a couple of months before Swedish military intelligence uncovered that illegal CIA rendition were still ongoing, with the involvement of Swedish airport staff.

Sweden has an extensive history of various services violating Swedish law in order to bend over for the US behind the scenes.
It would be nice if square automatically chose the cheaper option.

So I pay per swipe until I reach $275 in fees. After that, it holds steady until I reach the next point.
Making Peace With Food
Nice comeback, I almost forgot Dojo exists but I have to admit, if you put aside style / coolness, Dojo get's you going out of the box with most UI needs without searching for plugins, and has a great mobile library
Gravity wells don't spring leaks.
They try to make it seem like we are a couple of dozen duffers who never really use the service anyway. What a gimmick.
Ecuador falls into the same category as the US in the current Press Freedom Index.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index
The user group explicitly rejected multithreading at the OCaml Users conference a couple of years back. (There was a working implementation called oc4mc).

The reasons were that it will slow down single-threaded performance, and threads as a programming model is not robust (compared to, eg. forking, message passing, MPI etc). Also actual graphs of 4- and 8-way SMP performance showed pretty poor scaling for real problems, so the benefits aren't that great compared to going for full MPI, which you have to do for NUMA anyhow.
> society does generally believe that you are entitled to at least a basic living (food/shelter/healthcare)

That and the OA "The market doesn’t care what you love" are why I'm very socialist very anti the attitude/mantra "free market solves everything!!!".

Markets should not dictate how our society operates. Society should not value efficiency and profit over all else. Society should provide everyone with minimum food/shelter/health/education and let them choose what else to do. Whether that's make assloads of money as investment banker or play drums at love ins.
Facebook stock hits record low as early investors drop stock
You are correct, as you know. That was a C++ example, as you know.
Growl, meet Bark.
That is my preferred way to communicate.
Sounds good :) Whatever the scenario is, I am rooting for you guys (with my hard-earned dollars!), and I hope you guys get a comfortable budget to work with.
My account's server runs snv_121, so more like 3 years old, but still ancient. There was an attempt to upgrade us in December/January which was partially completed and finally "put on hold indefinitely". http://wiki.joyent.com/display/shared/Shared+Hosting+Mainten...
This mainly means that small businesses get a lower rate (1.32%) on their first $250k in sales. Meanwhile, it builds up good will and is great press. Seems like a sensibile move from Square.
Nah, the tragedy of the commons describes more specific things. Like catching all the tuna until they are extinct. This is more game theory. Pretty simple game theory, but still information/coordination related game theory.
I found out about you guys from the last "The Best Thing This Year" email. Really awesome app!
Food, Bikes & Life: HollyApp, Task Tracking for Nerds
awh do you really find this narrative tedious? because now I feel silly, like I just got caught watching Jersey Shore
Helium is an inert gas, so is extremely unlikely to be part of any chemical reaction (much less a bio-chemical reaction like breathing).

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Methane or ammonia appear to be much more likely alternative, and no I wouldn't like Earth's atmosphere to be replaced with it.

While I'm being a nitpicker Terra-form means roughly "to make like Earth" so it specifically refers to making a planet more like Earth.
I somehow doubt the people in rural Africa struggle because they just aren't working hard enough or aren't committed enough to reaching the "American dream". Though I do agree that some people miss out on opportunities as a result of not taking advantage of those qualities.
How can I declare dependencies on node packages?
Beyond the Millennium Development Goals
Of course it matters. If the answer to the question you were asked - and evaded - is yes, then the answer to your question is pretty much automatically no.

The suggestion that Sweden can't handle basic criminal law when they have political motivations for their actions has been well demonstrated by the fact that Swedish police have in the past violated Swedish law and international treaties by handing political asylum seekers over to the CIA without due process. In fact, without any process at all. In order for them to be shipped off to be tortured.

How many of these people faced charges?
People had unreasonable expectations because it was one of those Big Silicon Valley IPOs, which have traditionally paid off very well. I suspect that most people thought (without evidence) that Facebook had some magic revenue device up their sleeves. Perhaps Facebook also thought they would be given more time to produce on the investment.
Just to be clear, all of you geeks out there watching the space travel develop and dreaming of a science-fiction type future where people can visit multiple planets and space travel is common? Paging Elon Musk?

Guess what? There are factions that are actively moving to make sure that doesn't happen. As it turns out, many believe that we need to be so cautious that even if we could get in a rocket tomorrow and go to Mars for ten bucks that we shouldn't be allowed to do that. At least not without a few committees meeting first and some ever-growing regulations being consulted. Some, I'm willing to believe, already feel very adamantly that mankind is a pestilence and should be prevented from spreading.

And each year those efforts get more and more organized.

In NASA's defense, this looks like something they've set up in order to head this issue off at the pass. So when somebody says "But what about us contaminating the Solar System!" they can point to some processes and rules that makes sure that the matter was considered appropriately.

But when folks ask me what mankind's future is, to me it looks a lot stagnation by our own hand. Pages like this do not do much to persuade me otherwise.
Valve's new TOS denies users the right to a class action lawsuit.
Bitcoins are a real currency with value backed by the interest in silk road products.

Why isn't one bitcoin fixed to dollar or euro by some conversion factor? That would remove the question of the value of a bitcoin. There are lot of currencies that are permanently fixed to an other.

The novel thing is the theory that you can cryptographically make anonymous transactions unique. It doesn't imply being a separate currency. Or am I missing something?
What software aside from Adobe products would allow me to use the font like this?
Is it wrong to contaminate a space that has no life/use otherwise? I'm not saying Mars as it stands has no use, but if we find no life there, surely spreading life to another planet is "good" right?
Hans Camenzind, inventor of the 555 timer, has died
Correct, this is not the first real-money gambling app on iOS. However, it is the first existing iOS game wholly owned by a third party that has implemented Betable to facilitate real-money bets. So that's pretty big news for us :)
Since 1.6, everything uses data-dojo-*, which is the HTML5 recommended approach for toolkits.