skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But he's not being shielded from any charges. The extradition request is for questioning; he simply hasn't been charged yet.

It's his story that, upon extradition to Sweden, the Swedes will turn around and hand him over to the US to be Gitmo'ed with extreme prejudice, but that's all it is thus far: his story. That said, it's certainly plausible; he's mightily pissed off the US government, which does seem to have a habit — particularly lately — of treating people that embarrass it rather less than gently. It would also explain how het-up the Swedes are to have him extradited, and the fact that Britain is willing to violate the Ecuadorian embassy (which, FTR, is not sovereign territory) in order to retrieve him. But idiotically zealous investigation of alleged rape (let alone lesser charges) isn't exactly unheard of, either.

Either way, however much good Assange has done the world by exposing the stuff he and WikiLeaks have exposed, he is an attention-whore, and his motives are pretty broadly suspect. Personally, I'd vastly prefer he not be subject to "extraordinary rendition" — not because of anything he's done, but because I don't think anyone should be shipped off to countries where they "interrogate" with rectally inserted broken beer bottles (to reference just one of the many stories that have bubbled up from that kind of thing). But that's just me.
I don't like Oracle either, but you're coming dangerously close to sounding like a conspiracy theorist. The GPL-not-LGPL issue with the client library hasn't been a problem for years now. The attentive have been linking their non-free mysql-be-using software with libdrizzle, which is a complete, clean-room implemented, Berkeley licensed MySQL client library. Before that they were using the public domain version that MySQL-AB released before Monty decided to get sneaky with the GPL.

I believe that MySQL has become better since Oracle got a hold of it, their stewardship I consider to be much better than Sun's. Since acquiring MySQL, Oracle has put out an extremely solid release, MySQL 5.5, and are making steady progress on 5.6. If you lived through the early releases of MySQL 5.1 you have an idea of what a botched MySQL release is like.

I don't believe you do anyone on HN a service by spreading your gut feeling FUD about Oracle and MySQL.
In case I'm not the only baffled by what an AUM is I think it's the group that carried out the sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo
Neither of us know anything except what we've read in news stories which are filtered through layers of different political interests. Like I said, we've swallowed different propaganda.
Prolific typically implies many things. I have a deep respect for linux and git, but neither are really prolific.

Anyway, I thought the OP meant he was prolific in his tirades, which is very true.
> so much that they are even lobbying for a law passed that would force Google to pay them for indexing their content.

Don't they remember the last time somebody tried to get in the way of Google indexing their content?

As I recall, Google just took them entirely out of the index and then they changed their tune.
In the US, logged into my US Amazon account that is linked to a Kindle I see the price of $2,99
Of course, but it is true that people in Europe tend to trust their governments more than private companies.
Pure FUD. If you click through to the CNN article, you'll see that the ICE has asked companies to help them figure out a way to do it. It is largely based on the idea that they will compile a list of license plates that can be associated with "at-large, convicted criminal aliens". I'm not sure why they need to throw the word "alien" in there when just being able to capture "at-large, convicted criminals" is reason enough. It shouldn't really matter that they were aliens. I'm guessing it is to garner some bias against such a system since specifically targeting illegal aliens seems to be a constant hot button.
So, why does this need to be built on a piece of dirt that costs $1.7M?

Trust me, I love Tesla, and would certainly like to see a museum dedicated to his genius and achievements, but this seems like a waste of money, thrown on whoever the fuck happens to currently hold the deed to that piece of land.
Why not build it wherever, where $1.7M might actually... well, finance a museum, and not just dirt?

Somehow, I can't drop the feeling that this whole thing is somehow started by the current landowner, but I know I sound like a tinfoil hat saying that.
Sometimes I wonder if the US Government will somehow use Facebook photos to track people, even if they themselves don't have a Facebook account. I find the idea of something like that creepy.
Depending upon its definition, you can add a column to a PostgreSQL table without locking it.

Maybe they changed it in later versions of MySQL, but adding a column to a table become so lengthy for some of our projects that we switched for that reason alone.
But of course, they are not extraditing him for those crimes.
Fair division and the whining philosophers problem
He loved attention yesterday too. He's a viral marketing guy and this is what he does.
IIRC, the low-end ("Professional") MSVS 2010 outside of MSDN still came with some sort of basic access that got you the current Windows; does 2012 still have that? I don't see any mention of it on the store page.
I some how now expect loads of people turning up in anonymous masks outside the embassy with a group of people leaving also in aformentioned masks. There then ensues a combination of the Thomas Crown Affair and a Benny Hill sketch.

Now that possible outcome aside I do wonder if there are more important clear-cut cases of people in the UK wanted for questioning regarding crimes in Switzerland. I'm tending to think that if there was then that would of been made very public already and yet I have seen none. If he is in all effect Sitzerlands number one criminal suspect or wanted criminal in the UK and who's location is known then maybe this isn't as biased with regard to pursuit than any other case and only with the News value is it publicly deemed more impacting.

But thats not realy the issue, the issue if he ends up being shipped to America and lost in a maze of prisons that is the issue realy as if there was a case against him then America would of been granted a extradition from the UK, that did not happen. Now if that happens in Switzerland then that is the concern and the real issue and in that you can respect Mr Assange's concerns upon that matter and why he is taking the approach he is currently as that whole assurance has not been given that it will not happen. If he had that assurance then from my understanding is that this would not be an issue and in the news today. It is this that makes things concerning in how things are being possibly being handled.

RIP Yvonne Fletcher, justice was slow, but we do get there.
Every database out there can be used for evil. Whether if it's facial fingerprint or anything else. I never liked Face.com and facebook's decision to buy them. The ability of a photograph being used to track me anywhere there is a camera is not the future I want to be part of.
Why is Nicaragua stuck in the e-commerce dark ages ?
Stop Creating Explainer Videos, You’re Doing It All Wrong
First of all good job! Here comes my well intented critique :)

first, I'm not into the whole Instagram/photos/social-media thing at all so I can't really say much there. Graphically, I would say the site has a couple of nice features ( reflections even in IE7), etc. But I think overall it needs more of a color/design unity and less clutter, it just works a little spamy/generic for me ie (tiled background). There are still some IE bugs you probably already know need fixing, also loading all the non-minified scripts/css in tandem with the images gave me slower loading times than would otherwise be the case.

Ok, thats it, again good job though :)
Swedish law says that Assange can very well be interviewed over video link, police station and embassy (Even Ecuador offered). Despite this, the Swedish prosecutor is adamant that he should be on Swedish soil to be questioned.

If they did charge him at Ecuadorian embassy and then he refuses to leave, Ecuador would feel a lot more pressure and Assange would lose a lot of support. But now that it's clear that the Swedish prosecutor's blatant disregard for immediately interviewing him in favour of him being disadvantage in Sweden, there's even more support for Assange and Ecuador.
It's very easy to train for eg steel mill work in eg community colleges. Specialized jobs can easily have their training outsourced. When a job pays >minimum wage OTJ training can be paid fr by an apprentice paycut. When a job pays close to minimum wage, this is impossible, so the OTJ training is outsourced and the employee must pay out of pocket. This amounts to a paycut--an innovation of the market in response to the artificial market distorting minimum wage.
Please keep in mind even if (in this case) Verint's solution (software and hardware) may be tapping/intercepting data, whether they are allowed to view the data is a different matter.

In most of those cases, 3rd party solutions are deployed (install, configured, integrated) and supported by the vendors, but they typically don't have direct access to the intercepted data.

Of course, that's not to say that these 3rd parties couldn't get access to intercepted data if they really wanted to. But I want to point out that carrier policies (usually) dictate a strict separation of concerns specifically designed to protect privacy so that such data only available to carrier security teams and law enforcement personnel.
So does Twitter, Flickr, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Craigslist, LinkedIn etc.

And I would imagine that most of those wouldn't tolerate any issues with data integrity.
I've followed snapjoy since they first came out, one of my favorite YC companies. They'd been radio silent for quite some time and I was afraid they'd faded away, so this is great news.

Now if they can get facial recognition and geotagging options working, they will replace iPhoto for me.
I’d like to give you a yellow card for your tired and sexist casual and nonsensical dismissal of a claim made by a woman about an actual experience she had.

With all the shit women get whenever they raise their voice on these matters, they truly have near-zero incentive to conjure up lies.

Worse, her example of the cards is hardly the worst, most inconceivable thing to be suggested as something that really does happen. Rape and assault really do happen, it's far less difficult to imagine that some guys don't understand how a bingo card with "get a woman to flash her tits at you" is a massive problem and not “just a bit of fun.”
Wow. I don't like this comment at all. I have been following Patrick's online participation when there was no Hacker News and all geeks (including Patrick) used to hang out at Business of Software forum (at JOS). I can definitely say that he genuinely likes to share his knowledge and help others out. I really don't think he is getting any BCC or AR customers through his participation in these forums.
I can pay whatever I want, but typically unless I'm motivated enough to pay above average, I don't participate. Just because I can pay virtually nothing and get virtually nothing doesn't mean I want to do that. I would rather just not buy it.

HIB V also had Super Meat Boy, Braid, Amnesia and Limbo which is why it did so well. Also it had two titles released this year. It had as many amazing, critically acclaimed titles as this bundle has titles, period. I didn't buy it for the same reason, but I can see why it did so well. One older title had no chance of sinking it, especially one as good as Psychonauts.

The only notable part about the Android bundles tend to be the Android ports themselves. Everything else is old hat. This bundle will most likely struggle to break $1 million in sales if it even makes it there, like all the Android-focused Humble Indie Bundles. That isn't a coincidence.
Red box on Chrome 21 on Snow Leopard
Calling them idiots is not a conspiracy theory.
India formally announced its Mars mission
But yet every major website chooses MySQL over PostgreSQL.

Why is that ?
How do they identify the driver?
Naturally, I'm a fan of online commerce, but Kahneman told us the underlying reason all ecommerce is just a tiny fraction of retail: WYSIATI.

Today, physical shops are so much better at showing me things that weren't on my list, but now I really ought to buy. I load up my cart far more in Target/Safeway/Carrefour than I do at Amazon. What needs to happen for online to do 10x more volume?
If I get a few good laughs a month out of giving the guy some attention, I'm okay with that.
It was reporting a price of $31.47 for me in Canada as well. I jumped on a US proxy and saw $2.99, then attempted to purchase. It wouldn't let me, and suggested I change the country associated with my Kindle application.

I changed the address to a US one, and the purchase went through. One of the positives of living in a border city with multiple shipping addresses, I guess.
This reminds me of the other big revenue-farming issue in driving which also masquerades as public safety: traffic light cameras. IIRC, there were cases of municipalities shortening the duration of the yellow light to below legal limits in an attempt to increase ticket revenues, and increased numbers of rear-ending accidents due to drivers stopping suddenly to avoid running the red & getting a ticket.
You know, that's the problem. They want Tesla's life and legacy to be known -- you don't do that in the middle of nowhere. Much as I would love to go visit this myself, it's dooming it to the geeks, largely.
I wonder how long before they just put mandatory tracking chips in cars, rather than monkey patching it with expensive OCR machines on the road and in patrols vehicles.
It's weird that the forbes article(and that the guy from the oatmeal agrees) thinks that radar would be useless for tracking u-boats in the 1st world war. They couldn't stay underwater for very long at all(because they had to operate on batteries as there was no way to vent diesel exhaust), radar should have been able to see the uboat before it went underwater to attack, and then saw that it had disapeared.
The exit-closing bit is a sign: if you have to "worsen" your infrastructure to enforce your new system, you're doing it wrong.
Opensource UI design for a principled election info and vote sharing platform
I've been using it for the last 5 months or so. Honestly, it's 15 labels at the top, all of which I know the positioning of. They could be cryptic/obscure symbols from The 5th Element, and I'd still know what each one does based on their position. Yea, it takes a couple more seconds to parse the menus the first time you look at it, but after a while you memorize what they are anyway. If menu readability is the worst thing people can find about VS2012, then I'd say they did an OK job with it.
Regrunts. Brilliant!
if one were a rude asshole, one would make the comment you just made
That's just it -- they can't. Better not let someone else drive your car; if it's registered under your name, you're responsible for the fine!

EDIT: I stand corrected; apparently, this is not the case in AU, and may not be the case in certain states in the US. That's the last time I don't fact-check my posts... =P
Not when it comes to politics or copyright.

Two known events:

CIA extraordinary rendition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#Sweden

The Pirate Bay

Pirate Bay Judge Exposed as Member of Pro-Copyright Groups http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/pirateconflict/

Aftermath of The Pirate Bay Trial: Peter Sunde’s Plea http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/06/aftermath-of-the-pirate-bay-...

Pro-Copyright Judges Never Drop Cases Over Conflicts, So Why Does Megaupload Judge Have To Step Down? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120718/00503119739/pro-co...
If the Swedish government legitimately wanted to question Assange about the risible "rape" charges (that they didn't even bother with while he was in Sweden), why didn't they give a guarantee not to extradite him to the US?

Because they want to extradite him and the "rape" case is an excuse.
Have a look at OpenPhoto (self installed or hosted, a la Wordpress). Lets you select where you want your photos to be stored (Dropbox, S3, etc) and provides web and mobile apps to access them. Also, completely open source[1].

http://theopenphotoproject.org

Disclaimer: I'm the lead dev on OpenPhoto

[1] https://github.com/openphoto/frontend
obscure++
Probably not too long, especially if they offered insurance premium discounts for willing early-adopter participants.
> Sincere asylum is not "Plan B."

I do not see why this is always the case, care to elaborate?
Welcome To The New Internet: Simple Design, Short Names, No Ads
Not really a bait and switch but yeah I imagine they are trying to do just that. The referral code sets a cookie that lasts for anything that you buy for 24hrs from amazon.
Happy to help!

One thing that you'll love about VMs is snapshots. The ability to revert to a point in time gives you the ability to mess up without consequences. Take full advantage of this.
Because up until recently PostgreSQL replication didn't really exist, and you had to choose between 10 different trigger-be-using unscalable bag-on-the-side technologies to fill that void.
Any non-trivial distributed system will exhibit pathological feedback loops due to random events throughout the system synchronizing on each other and interacting in strange ways. It is a very common design problem for parallel systems. It manifests as suboptimal throughput in the best cases and total meltdown in the worst.

The "cost" of a message operation is not fixed, and pathological operations are much more expensive by definition, so always selecting the least expensive operation that can be run at any point in time from the perspective of the node maximizes the aggregate throughput of the system. Of course, it also has the side effect of applying negative feedback to pathological positive feedback loops.

This is actually a mathematics consequence, so there are limited workarounds. Nor is it intuitive. Making parts of the system slower, with no other changes, can increase the aggregate throughput of the distributed system. For non-trivial distributed systems, you are unlikely to produce a robustly optimal design by accident.
"embassy is stuck there until "

Or of course they need medical attention that can't be taken care of inside the embassy.
Maybe they meant to type 29.95 or similar but somehow typed something like 2.995?
Thanks! That is quite the discount.
How could they not have known this prior to staging a "sting" and issuing a cease and desist?

Just sounds like a politicking to me.
Oh, now it's ok to alter the titles. Awesome
It is worth pointing out that the women in question did not go to the police to file a complaint. Nor have charges been taken out (there is an arrest warrant for questioning on suspicion).

This case was pursued by the prosecutor at the instigation of Swedish police, after a previous prosecutor had initially closed the case stating that there was no indication anything illegal had taken place.

The women in question does not under Swedish law legally have any say in whether or not the case is pursued or not - if a prosecutor believes a crime has taken place, it is their duty to pursue the case in the interest of the state, not on behalf of the women.

(What does make this case stink, though, is that one of the women in question at one point prior to the case against Assange published a blog post about leveraging this exact method to "legally" take revenge against a lover who she found had was involved with someone else)
For the second time:

If the Swedish government legitimately wanted to question Assange about the risible "rape" charges (that they didn't even bother with while he was in Sweden), why didn't they give a guarantee not to extradite him to the US?

Because they want to extradite him and the "rape" case is an excuse.
No, it's been around for years AFAIK -- I guess we're just now getting around to making a stink about it.
You know, I thought I did.
BIT.TRIP BEAT and Uplink are also brought to Android using Apportable.

The Apportable games previous Humble Bundles are Osmos, EDGE, Cogs, Avadon: the Black Fortress, Zen Bound 2, Swords and Soldiers.
Crysis 3 trailer shows off Crytek's CryENGINE 3, blows your mind in the process
jere is suggesting that it led to Iraq declaring war on Iran, as mentioned here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis#Aftermath
and detect those messages in plain sight.

http://www.outguess.org/detection.php/
it would not take too many tickets before that stretch of highway started to flow at the posted speed

Actually, it would have to flow quite a bit below the posted speed to be sure you didn't accidentally go above and get a ticket. An officer would probably decide that that was not a serious enough violation to warrant a ticket, but an automated system has no such discretion.

I haven't seen any statistics on whether automated speed enforcement actually lowers the accident rate. It seems perfectly plausible to me that it would be counterproductive, because getting rid of the small number of seriously unsafe speeders would be counterbalanced by the fact that people in general will be much more paranoid about their speed and direct more attention to that to the detriment of paying attention to more important things like what's happening down the road.
IMO, a Maps app with ads or ‘sponsored places’ is a shitty app. I will always choose a paid app without ads over a ‘free’ app with ads. That's also the main reason why I backed App.net.

When I wrote about a ‘good Google Maps app for iOS’ I meant one that has feature parity with Google Maps on Android and contains no ads. Up until two years a go, the Maps app on iOS was such an app.
The notion that once a woman is naked and in someone's bed, they have the right to do whatever they want to her regardless of her consent is pure misogyny. It outright justifies rape. I'm not going to give you a pass on making comments like that out of politeness. Ideas like that need to be called out for what they are.
Be warned that this is a very clunky e-book port -- they don't make much effort to adapt the sidebars and quotes to .mobi format, so you end up reading into the middle of them without realizing it.
grnthphhh!
I assumed driving meant moving on land with a (most likely) combustion-powered platform that was connected to the land with wheels.
No wheels and no ground contact sounds like hovering to me.
Germany had a green party movement from the early 80s.
How does that even nearly meet the "guilty beyond reasonable doubt" criterion? I don't see how that could ever hold up in court.
This is cool, but I can't help thinking that it's unambitious, for Google. Let's imagine:

The product is not called 'Google Transit', but 'Google Teleport'. It is an auction-based system, like adwords. You click where you want to be, instantly a variety of costed journey options are listed, each of which can include segments using anything from walking to taxis to public transport to international flights.
Google takes it seriously as a product, because it generates revenue. Over time, the system allows new, cheaper, faster, more energy-efficient transport options develop, such as minibus-taxis, which pick up and drop multiple passengers whose routes coincide.

Well, it's nice to dream. I think that it will happen eventually, probably as an outgrowth of one of the taxi-based startups.
> That's nonsense.

that's rude. You may not have intended it, but that's how that sounds.

on a related note, I'm feeling HN is getting increasely overwhelmed by rude comments. something about the culture and the kind of people it attracts, perhaps an increasingly young male techie demographic, dunno.
This is called stalking, and I would imagine that there is a law against it.