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>The States aren't going to extradite him from Sweden nor, evidently, from the UK.

Adrian Lamo similarly declared that Bradley Manning would do less than 6 months (Manning has been in jail for more than a year and hasn't even been sentenced yet). If the US will extradict low-level software pirates, they'll likely extradict Assange.
In the two reports I've seen, the only evidence of the British threat to enter the embassy are representations by Ecuador. We haven't seen the letter and we haven't heard those suggestions from any British government spokesman.

It shouldn't surprise me to learn the Ecuadorans are making more of some reference than is actually there. I can't see what interest they have in Assange beyond tweaking the US, which is probably great domestic and regional politics for their government.

Nor would it surprise me if the British letter included some clarification of that embassy's status, without suggestion of entry in this matter. The British have had at least one police officer shot dead by a sniper from an embassy and are probably at pains that everyone understands there are limits.

The British aren't going to complicate diplomatic immunities over a two-bit twerp like Assange. They'll be content to let him get moldy in there. Eventually people will lose interest, he'll get bored, and he'll likely emerge of his own will to get back into the papers.
Extradition when there are no charges is unusual.

Unusual yes, but not unheard of.

As a personal anecdote, there is a close friend of my family who has been facing extradition to another country merely for questioning over something that he allegedly did in 1944.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Zentai
That's not the point. This whole case has been just testing the water for the FBI - seeing how far the public (and the NZ government) will let them go. Whether they have grand designs for after Dotcom nobody knows (conspiracy!), but this case is clearly about more than all that money copyright holders supposedly lost (I'm in agreement with you on that - I doubt they would have lost any less without MU).
I'm not faulting Expandrive by any means - you guys are great.

Any intention to EOL the "lifetime" plans on your end?
Noted. The next time a female blogger discusses sexism in the tech industry I'll be sure to look for your comment discussing the post as nothing more than "Fox News argumentation" that breaks everything down to base emotions.
For most small/medium value transactions, you can simply listen for a double-spend transaction for a few seconds. If you see none then you can assume all miners saw the same transaction as you did first and that is what you can assume will be included in the blockchain.
I wouldn't worry too much.

Drawing in CSS like this isn't as simple as dropping jQuery on the page.

If there was a jQuery plugin to automate this process from image to css, then we should worry!
When Bo, XiLai's police chief in ChongQing sought asylum from a US counsulate, the counsulate recognized the issue was less simple political and more a political AND criminal matter and sent Wang, LiJung on his way back into the hands of the Chinese authorities.

Basically, even if the US thought there was a political/persecutorial aspect to this, they recognized the gravity of the situation (that there were overriding factors) and in the spirit of maintaining relations, decided to send Wang, LiJung out on the street.

Had the US not handed him back to China, China would have made things very difficult for the US, in other areas, as they are wont to do. This illustrates, that asylum and Vienna conventions and such are respected to a good degree, but there comes a time when most actors recognize that there can be extreme extenuating circumstances which make it impractical to be strictly principled in cases resemble local disputes. In this case, Ecuador is willing to burn bridges as it were --on the other hand, it's convenient for them. It gains them some cred in their circles and have nothing to lose (immediately, commerce wise). I mean, it's not as though they are the paragon of freedom in LatAm.
For folks who are headscratching here, back in about 2007 (I remember it because I was getting into Rails) Joyent's precursor company TextDrive bootstrapped some hardware purchases by selling a (barely capable of running Rails, fairly rare for the time) shared hosting account. The kicker was that you'd pay about ~18 months upfront and it would be Lifetime. I don't trust my memory for numbers but somewhere between $150 and $300 if I recall correctly.

I actually used them as a hosting provider for a while, and followed the support forums. Supporting the Lifetime offering was a challenge pretty much from the getgo, because some folks were less than neighborly with their usage of system resources, partially out of ignorance, partially out of Rails playing very poorly with shared systems, and partially because you attract an interesting type of customer with this offering. The physical hardware had some faults and probably has not improved much over time.

Meanwhile, shared hosting for Rails is, well, not a very attractive option over the last couple of years, thanks to VPSes, Heroku, Amazon, etc etc. Joyent apparently wants to exit the business.

Of note: I remember somebody asking Slicehost to match the business model and Matt shot them down saying that it was too gimmicky for his taste and wouldn't be mutually beneficial. Slicehost eventually came up with a neat solution towards the same end: they were oversubscribed, so they sorted their waiting list by the amount of non-refundable deposit you were willing to make, giving them much-needed cash flow without committing them to service for forever.
FontFont is going to have no trouble selling this to the market they normally sell things to: independent and corporate professional design shops that have no qualms at all spending (relatively) trivial amounts of money for typefaces.
That certainly isn't the usual way to handle such cases, but this also isn't exactly the usual kind of situation.

You either have this deadlock continuing indefinitely with nobody getting justice, or Sweden takes the more pragmatic approach and questions Assange in London (by flying whatever people would've been questioning him in Sweden there).
actually pretty common for high net worth individuals. If you earn 300k a year but have stock worth $10m then yeah banks will lend you way, way above what your income alone would support (ot at least they did prior to the credit crisis. One of the lehman bosses had loans of nearly 50m collaterised with his stock... which went to zero)
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And what does that have to do with ageism?

The thing that keeps a 40-something like me from wanting to be in an SV type of startups relate more to priorities. I've been through the grind from the first bubble, and would rather not go through it again.

I'm talking about:

* Giving up salary for equity/options/signing bonuses. No thanks.

* Working stupid long hours that bring my effective hourly rate down to a fast-food restaurant manager's hourly rate. Because of this, I'd probably be flagged as someone who has "no passion" for what I do. No, I just like a balanced life.

* Working in a "frat house" environment. I've been there and had fun in those environments, but I'm past it, and prefer a more diverse workplace.

* Working in a VC-funded company - at least in my past experience - usually means the focus shifts from ramping up quickly vs. building value and/or a solid business model
No, I don't believe that. Or more specifically, I don't believe anyone who has spent any time looking into this case can honestly deny that it's a politically motivated prosecution, as you just did.

One can reasonably believe that persecuting journalists who expose government wrongdoing is good or bad, of course, but to deny that political motivations exist here is simply lying. It's not a position that can be honestly held.

But for whatever reason, lying about this case appears to be important to you - as if the Hacker News discussion is somehow going to affect the course of world events - so go right ahead.
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You've just discovered Hollywood's big secret. They buy most exterior shots from stock houses, edit them into an opener for any scene, and you think the scene happens in the location.

Your idea is good, but how do you suggest the different directors handle sharing the single starring actor of this imagined video?
The downside is that you lose $400. Just because the last transaction of that option was at $4 doesn't mean you can buy it at $4. Options are relatively illiquid.
Note that this is not actual sexual assault. Sexual assault must be committed without consent. However Assange had consensual sex. The definition of rape in Sweden is badly broken.
Some Senators or whoever said he should be killed. That has been accepted as proof that once he's in the US, he'll be killed.
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It is written using dojo. It showcases a rather rich, albiet rather slow, web app done using dojo.
I recently did a project using Dojo (1.7) and my coworker told me that it 'lost the war' against jQuery. Having worked with it, the documentation was absolutely horrid (which they no claim to have somewhat resolved). As for popularity, it is a Catch-22 - it's not used very often and so no one is willing to learn it and people don't learn it, so it's not used very often. From the same website showing jQuery is on 50% of websites now, you can see that Dojo is absolutely abysmal in popularity and usage:

http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library/...
Do you think Chinese authorities don't brand their actions "simple criminal matters" in most cases? Of course they do. There is no such thing as a "political crime" in undemocratic countries; they're all "internal criminal matters".

Even the UK has engaged in this renaming of terrorist/paramilitary actions as "criminals", especially in their own country. Just look at the recent history of "political status" for prisoners in Northern Ireland ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Irish_hunger_strike )
On the other hand, people with a spouse that can pay the bills can afford to be less risk-averse, and they are usually older.
It's clearly a move by Microsoft to try to further their monopoly, and stifle migration to other systems.

Bullshit. I'll provide my reason supporting my statement: they require that it can be turned off. Now you provide your reasons.
It's an RTM. As I understand RTM's, this means it is a reference for how Win8 will behave, but it is not the final build, and they doubtless want to ensure you only run the final build once it's released. Supporting/updating development builds is extra overhead with little payoff.
I totally agree. It's a cool proof-of-concept but shouldn't be used beyond that IMHO. I think that just as CSS should only be used for presentation, fonts should only be used to render text.

Not only does it create accessibility and cross-platform issues but there are already dozens of other and cheaper ways to create nice looking graphs.
How about you stick to the facts and you reword your statement to:

"Is it common practice to grant asylum to a man wanted for questioning over accusations that he sexually assaulted two women?"

Not as much punch?

What's with all the miss-leading statements? Is it safe to assume they're intentional? After all, this is Hacker News, and people wouldn't just pipe in on a topic without having at least a tiny bit of information on the subject right?
To me, this just demonstrates the problems that arise when you say you're trying to tackle this huge gigantic problem. There's a ton of building hype, and then people are disappointed/scornful when you can't deliver. It reminds me a bit of the Thiel Fellowship.

Maybe this YC class is just a result of many lessons learned. It does seem the problems they tackle are, for lack of a better word, lame, but that doesn't mean they can't grow into something really big.

I guess time will tell, but best of luck to Makr.io. My only wish is that they share everything they must have learned through the process of Diaspora.
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Come on, think. What would the Chinese gain by seriously pissing off their biggest trading partner, who is the cornerstone of their economy? Compare to the UK who has to weigh up pleasing their longtime ally the US and pissing off Ecuador.

If you're holding up the Chinese not violating the sanctity of the US embassy as a noble example, surely the annexing the entire nation of Tibet should counter that. Tibet was small fry. The US has the largest economy, military, and set of military allies in the world.

EDIT: Also, the "Freedom Fries" period in the last decade caused some damage to the French economy over a preceived slight that didn't even exist. Having China march into the US embassy would have a ton of ramifications from the US public pulling business, not just the government.
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I've spent almost a year combined working with dojo on a large project and I have to say that in some ways I totally disagree with you and in some ways, man are you right. In general dojo is clunky and unintuitive compared with jquery and their docs royally sucks. Also there are real api inconsistensies. On the other hand jquery-ui, backbone views, etc all pale in comparison to how badass dojo's dijits are. I really want someone to write something like dijits for jquery so we can all have our cake and eat it too.
Someone stole my copy of Comer, so I'll have to go from memory, but HTTP would best correspond to layers 5-7 IIRC.

On the other hand it's stupid to use OSI layers when talking about the internet since the internet has its own, well defined, terminology for layers. In that case HTTP is clearly at the Application layer.
Yes, I recognize this. A piece of code may be ugly (visual) but it may also be solid (kinesthetic). Or beautiful/brittle.
Nope. Joyent is working with us to move the lifetime customers to some newer infrastructure, but they will be taken care of. Lifetime is a somewhat better story for storage, as you can consolidate 8U of power-hungry X4500 thumpers using 500GB disks down to a couple U of modern machines with 12x3TB arrays and a lot of RAM.
When I was looking at Disqus I had to logout/in to post from a different account. With WordPress native comments all I have to do is put in a different email/url and it's on a different profile.

I do like that you can see comments from many sites with Disqus though.
I agree. I have seen rounded corners in Apps before but there were a lot other variables for usability.
The beauty of rape as an accusation is that it is so reviled that people tend to suspend their objectivity and take the view of guilty until proven innocent. Even people who are cleared of rape charges are viewed in a highly negative light, by virtue of association.

Even if the people who set this up drop everything and don't try for an extradition to the united states, they will have succeeded in thoroughly sliming Julian. They don't need to kill him or imprison him (that would probably backfire anyhow), they only need to classically condition people to associate JULIAN ASSANGE and RAPIST. You realize that the central intelligence agency actually had plans to make Castro's beard fall out because they believed that Cubans would view him as less virile and thus easier to depose? Or that they wanted to dose him with LSD so he would act crazy during a major speech? You really think the United States intelligence apparatus wouldn't try to break someone that burned them very hard by playing on views like "Personally I'd class it as the second most significant crime against the person that the law recognises after murder"???? Particularly given that rape can be her word versus his, and that can be sufficient to get a conviction? With murder, you need a body, and that can be hard to produce.
Your characterization of Julian Assange as a "two-bit twerp" is weird. You are aware he is an extraordinarily high profile figure on the world stage, yes?
I don't quite see the courage in leaking classified documents.

In fact, it's rather easy in this information age.
Point is not the absolute "liberalism" value but that relative values are the same through all ages. And if you'll reword the quiz than picture will be the same - age is irrelevant (for this topic).
Burton Malkiel, the Princeton economist and author of “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” says: “Index funds are so popular now that it’s easy to forget how courageous and tenacious Jack Bogle was in starting them. They were called Bogle’s Folly because all they did was replicate the returns of the market. But, of course, that’s a great deal. In the academic world many people saw the wisdom of this — but Jack is the guy who actually made it happen.”

Vanguard is really an inspiring company, which is all the more remarkable because of the industry they're in.

Apart from pioneering index funds, and from their strategy of observing a Nader-esque duty of loyalty to their customers, Vanguard is also unique because of its ownership structure, which is upside-down from what every other big mutual fund company uses: the funds themselves own The Vanguard Group (the company, which provides services to the funds), which mitigates an obvious principal/agent problem at financial firms.
Could you elaborate on why that is the best thing for most people?

Also I did not say people should do their own research, I actually said the opposite, that even having done that most people will generally be their own worst enemies when it comes to investing as they are unable to remain impartial about their own money. I'm also admitting it can be hard, even impossible to get good advice at for a fee that makes sense. However the lack of the right service does not mitigate the need for it.
"Across the country, home values fell 15% to 60%, peak to bottom, depending on the area and how badly it was affected by foreclosures — most of San Francisco got off comparatively lightly with declines in the 15% to 25% range." In SF, the bubble was effectively flattened. Other areas saw loss of value beyond pre-bubble prices.

Quote from one of many available sources, this one comes with graphs: http://www.maureenterris.com/?p=2557

SF/Silicon Valley was insulated against the rest of the country's housing crisis largely due to its strong tech sector, which didn't suffer the recession as severely.

I don't know about people using pre-IPO stock to get loans, but the connection is less tenuous than you might expect.
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And then these banks get together to form a banking system, and then this banking system decides it needs a central governing authority to be able to make important collective decisions efficient and implement them effectively and seamlessly.

And then they decide to call it the Federal Reserve Bitcoin Bank
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To be convicted he'd first have to be charged; the swedes are insisting that he is only wanted for questioning and will not be charged with anything (which seems somewhat at odds with the amount of effort they're putting into this).
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The prices were considerably higher than you mention - $500 or $1000 - here's a post about moving between "lifetime" plans from 2007:

http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?id=13148
Sure, but the problem is not finding the bug, it's using your users to find it. You can't rapidly deploy and iterate in minutes on the Apple App Store like you could with a web app.
This is somewhat better on Google Play.
http://www.justice4assange.com (Obviously biased but has the best presentation of details of the case I have found.)
Point 1. is indeed a "uncomfortable" part of dojo. Getting started is difficult. For a lot of demo and hello world like apps CDN version is fine, assuming they are only using the modules packaged into dojo.js on CDN. If you start using other modules, then you will soon see a escalating number of HTTP requests, and for this reason using CDN version for production is bad idea.

Its just not that easy to get started with and get a sane production build from dojo yet. Hope all of this will change by the time 2.0 is out.
This is all besides the point I was trying to make. It doesn't matter if and how government can stop Bitcoin trades or whatever. It's about what happens when governments simply deem Bitcoins illegal, preventing legitimate use. It will undermine trust, and people will start converting their wealth into something else. In terms of wealth preservation, Bitcoins are just like any other forms of currency, except that there really isn't anything protecting it from becoming worthless.

I don't think there is any kind of currency that survived for more than a few hundred years, there have probably been hundreds if not thousands. Stamps, sticks with carvings on them, silver coins when fiat coins where still actually made of gold (can you believe it?), seashhells, etc. The ones that survived the longest have been government-controlled fiat currencies.

Once again, just to make myself clear, I'm not saying this is a good thing, just making the observation.
I think risk might be the opposite. Very young people might have no risk... unless they don't want to move back in with their parents.

But older people might have the least risk if their kids are grown and don't need help, their own parents gone, and they have enough money saved not to worry about failing.

Thus over 50 could have less risk than 25 and under.
It has a variety of meanings, but it is used here to mean speculator. In the UK, it can have a meaning similar to the US's "John" in terms of someone availing of the services of a brothel or prostitute.
I see 20 comments saying this is wrong; instead of endlessly rehashing let's flag this and get it off the front page.
Except app.net is neither distributed nor open source.
You're coming from the assumption that Germany got better rather than the US got worse. There are still many freer countries than Germany.
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Cloud cloud cloud, what a load of crap. Most of these benefits are benefits to the cloud providers. The expense of a usable linode is more than a dedicated server in colocation, and that colocation server will be 4-8x more powerful. And these guys are multiples more expensive? The cloud is a sham. Creating one's own "cloud" is easy. Don't be duped into paying for "cloud servers" when that same money gets you a physical server in colocation multiple times more powerful. Oh, you can't spin up more servers? Do you need to when your server is 4-8x times more powerful? Plus, you can run your own virtual machines if want to be able to brag about spinning up servers.
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There is evidence that she actually claimed she was "half-asleep".
And the bubble deflation barely touched the silicon valley, thanks to employees in the valley engaged in bidding wars on homes. Yes it deflated a little, but that's peanuts compared to other parts of California where people literally lost their entire net worth. Combine Facebook employees, Apple employees and investors from China and you have another bubble.
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Looking at my email I saw my Textdrive Lifetime hosting account was made in Sept 2005. I'm pretty sure I wasn't in on the first round either and I was second round "VC".

They also offered a lifetime package known as "Mixed Grill" and "3 Martini Lunch" that bundled the hosting, Strongspace (a file storage solution based on SFTP/rsync -- now spun off to a different company) and some collaboration suite (from Joyent).