skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, you can be charged in absentia in Sweden. If they interviewed him, and he still refused to return, then that would be a textbook case of a justification for having him charged in absentia.

Secondly, he claims that he will be extradited to the US if he is brought to Sweden. How exactly would he suddenly become more likely to try to flee if they decide to charge him? He is already claiming that going to Sweden means a risk of facing the death penalty in the US.

In that context it seems ludicrous to think that interviewing him and then charging him would somehow increase his resolve try to avoid extradition, or that this has been the case for a very long time.

It is not like he would have considered voluntarily setting foot on Swedish soil from any point over the past year or more. A charge would not have made that more or less likely.

Meanwhile, a formal charge would remove at least some reason to question the motivations of the Swedish prosecutor, and it would make it much harder for Ecuador to justify asylum given that they have publicly used this as part of their process for determining whether or not to give asylum.

As for that. At the moment he is holed up in a small embassy, while the Metropolitan police is outside, waiting for a chance to grab him.

Yet the Swedish police still refuse to interview him, while making up bogus excuses for why they don't. They could have stated the reason you suggest: That if they make the decision to charge him, they want to be able to take him into custody immediately under the circumstances. That reason is still a poor excuse, but they've not even tried to use even that.

If he is a flight risk in his current location, he is a flight risk whether or not they interview or charge him - his only realistic means of escape is if he gets asylum from Ecuador and Ecuador finds a way of getting him on a plane, whether smuggling him in an oversized diplomatic pouch or convincing the UK to give him free passage. Either way, this doesn't become any harder or easier depending on whether or not Swedish authorities interview him.

The Swedish might not be the only ones acting irrationally. But if they're not acting irrationally, it would imply they have a hidden agenda. If their agenda is what they claim it is, then yes, they are acting irrationally. Either alternative is pretty bad.
The tamper-resistant tags're a good idea --the only drawback I can see is that in the process of trying to apply the sticker, the person applying the tags might destroy the tag accidentally --so, on balance they might figure that they'll take the occasional scofflaw in exchange of fewer complaints.
The main problem is that it's a major PITA to sync a db and an external search service. So it's nice to have FTS built-in
I would venture that the losses are much less today than in 1999. Losing a few hundred thousand or even a couple million per startup is a drop in the bucket compared to the craziness of the late 90s.
ACLU files lawsuit against sex-discriminatory West Virginia school
After like an entire year (duh) I figured out how to have InnoDB transactions with MyISAM full-text search...

InnoDB master. MyISAM slaves.
You can make statements about non-explicitly authorized "wake-up sex" in either gender direction. The fact that we're talking about one particular direction does not make one a misogynist.

You seem quite eager to call people misogynists. It sounds to me like you enjoy it.
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Wow, that's an ugly UI. And this is coming from somebody who uses Eclipse.

Visual Studio was nice because it always felt "cosy" and fitted very nicely into Windows. I'm not even sure what this looks like, is it supposed to be Metro? Reminds me more of Java Swing.

The lack of any embossing or clear separation on icons/menus looks like it's going to difficult to mouse with.
installed Win8 Pro on my Lenovo T400 and updated all drivers fully w/DriverMax.

it's a strange experience. while Win7 was smooth, on Win 8 sometimes things take longer than i'm used to and dragging windows sometimes stutters. maybe the WDDM 1.1 drivers for the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 graphics chipset are being glitchy, dunno. other hardware should not be causing the issue - running 8GB Corsair + Intel X25-M 80GB SSD.

btw, to make it usable (also win 7):

http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
Obama Pushing For Renewable Energy As Election Quickly Approaches
Passing patterns of top US women Olympic soccer playmakers
Users make snap judgments in the app stores based off of star ratings, some comments, and possibly looking at a screen shot or two. The interface isn't fully appreciated until after the money is forked over, hence the devaluation of its importance in terms of making a quick sale on a throwaway app.
Facebook’s Forgotten Origins
Awesome price, but worrisome for the state of high quality digital publications. I feel that this is worth much more than $2.99, and I am afraid that it will become a race to the floor .

Does anyone involved in print publications know what the cost distribution is on a book's sticker price?
30 second guide to C pointers, from Alice in Wonderland:

`It's long,' said the Knight, `but very, very beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it -- either it brings the tears into their eyes, or else -- '

`Or else what?' said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.

`Or else it doesn't, you know. The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes."'

`Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?' Alice said, trying to feel interested.

`No, you don't understand,' the Knight said, looking a little vexed. `That's what the name is called. The name really is "The Aged Aged Man."'

`Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called"?' Alice corrected herself.

`No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called "Ways and Means": but that's only what it's called, you know!'

`Well, what is the song, then?' said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.

`I was coming to that,' the Knight said. `The song really is "A-sitting On A Gate": and the tune's my own invention.'

The song that the Knight is referring to is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haddocks%27_Eyes
Postgresql cannot be fast as Lucene because of its not a "search engine". Postgresql full-text is fast enough for most cases but it doesn't have support for facet queries which is important for a search engine.
Well what do you mean, that's a perfectly legitimate retort to the notion that the right to an attorney is a positive right. You might as well call the right to a trial as a positive right if you're going to call the right to a free attorney a positive right.
a link to an official Russian propaganda TV channel is kinda silly.
This is neat. As I was reading the description I started thinking about Total Annihilation and when I got to the bottom I happily discovered that some of the team worked on TA. I loved that game - felt it was more fun than Starcraft.
shared_ptr isn't necessary for containers, it's only necessary for bad containers.

Edit: Of course I'm being a bit stupidly snarky here, obviously if you have a standard container you need a shared_ptr, or an intrusive_ptr, or some other pointer, the moral of the story is that std containers aren't good for holding owned pointers in C++03.

I don't think boost ptr_containers are particularly good either, but that's mostly because of the huge cost of putting the string '#include "boost/' in your code.
You should come to NZ: It's 2.99 here.
The problem with auto_ptr is that it put these ownership-transfer semantics in the copy constructor instead of something more explicit. A scoped_ptr type that has a release() method is far more useful and safer than auto_ptr.
This link was showing up as 404 so I found the correct one and re-posted it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4389813
does that happen on all browsers?
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You can email me at inlith@gmail.com if you like my work.
According to the state ruling, the "device" in question is an "I phone" https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/408509-massachusetts...

It uses some technology (circa 1978) called "GPS".

We're living in the future!
thanks a bunch, this will be very helpful.
LoL and SC2 as Olympic Sports?
If you shop around you can find units that work. The regulation only requires disabling if the device is both high and moving fast, although most manufacturers disable if it is high or fast.

The manufacturers often don't say in their specs which way they implemented this, so best practice is to go with a model that others have had success with in high altitude ballooning.
I'm waiting for one of these legal actions to cause a company like Facebook to just shut down their service in the local area, and leave a landing page with the email addresses of all the politicians who provoked the outage.

This would be really interesting. But judging by the notorious German copycat startup industry, they would most likely develop a replica of that site.

On a more serious note: I noticed recently that a massive amount of music related videos are blocked on YouTube for all German IP addresses. Instead they show a notice, that the German music-rights organization is preventing this video to be played, i.e. Google has already entered the naming and shaming game. But there seems to be relatively little outcry and people apparently just accept it.

I guess people from outside of the US are already used to the fact that US based companies are often not acting in their best interest.
I think we are about to witness the only real rape in this whole sad story.
Tried using it in a virtual machine, but was an endlessly frustrating experience in Windows 8 (Metro) UI.

It's like going from an iPhone to a Blackberry -- you want to touch the screen, but can't.

Be prepared to be your family's help desk if they're buying a new machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU
Netflix Provides 'Knock-offs' After Contract With Disney Ends
Ask HN: Invoicing directly to my bank account?
As a sole proprietary business, are there any risks associated with invoicing a customer with my personal bank account details?
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A warning, spacechem is crack for programmers.
Translating Groupon’s earnings call into plain English
Being a EE, I bought the Nov'72 issue at one of the Printer's Row Book Fairs, guy asked only about $3 for it, probably didn't know the significance.

Never learned the back stories of other famous images that may be older than "Lenna", e.g. "Girl" and "Cameraman".
+1.

However, note that successfully capturing $50M/yr of an underserved market does notify entrenched players that "their" customers are shopping elsewhere for an emerging niche. Response will vary. Some may be better equipped or more inclined to directly address the niche than others.

The infrastructure required to run a $50M/yr ecommerce business does not make for an attractive acquisition target when the entrenched+scaled company can simply reposition existing products to compete.
Ask HN: Competitor smear campaign. What to do?
*Using a one time account to hide my name/company name (but I am very active on HN).

One of our competitors decided to start attacking us using Google and Bing ads.

So if you search for our company name (company or company.com) it will show their ad saying that our main product has many issues and linking to their site where they criticize us and try to sell their own product.

Most of the ads are very aggressive in tone, which I didn't think Google/Bing would even allow (Company X product is flawed or Company X product won't do what it promised, Company X is lying and similar things).

Have anyone dealt with such a situation? What can we do? They are a smaller company and trying to use our name to gain attention..

Any help or suggestion is appreciated.
The Easy Way to Get Started With PostgreSQL on a Mac: Postgres.app and Induction
What are your usual use cases for Uber? MBTA covers pretty much everywhere I go, but I think MBTA coverage has also shaped where I tend to go (and where I live).
Hmm. Went to click buy but it was still $31.99.
It's currently $31.47 in Canada.
If you play it on a tablet in public you should get the "Swordfish" achievement.
Lest we forget, Bradley Manning was not given his right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment. Though the federal government hasn't imposed capital punishment for espionage/treason officially, who's to say solitary confinement isn't just as bad (or worse)?
Why include the referral code?
Water channels around blood vessels... looks like the channels might be powered by heartbeats as well.
This is exactly how I run VS 2012. The VSCommands addon[1][2], allows auto-hide of the main menu, fixing case, and some other nifty UI fixes. I expect the author will do quite well just by fixing the stuff people are pissed off about.

1: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a83505c6-77b3-...

2: http://vscommands.squaredinfinity.com/
This is why you should build for Android first, like I do. You can make changes and push the update as often as you want. It doesn't get you the 'cool' crowd (as here in SF nobody installs my app as they all have iPhones) but it does let you iterate... once the product works, then I'll build for iPhone.
"One is the result of millenia of systematic oppression, while the other is the result of people refusing to get help for themselves even when it is offered for free. "

Have you wondered why so many of the homeless are people of color?

I used to live in upstate New York. By chance I happened to venture into a local reservation. I was shocked to see the conditions they were living in; especially given the fact that the area gets pretty darn cold in the winter.

Both of these groups (blacks, as well as native Americans) have been the victims of discrimination for centuries.

But people don't waive this fact all over HN any time the topic of NASA comes up.
This is gods work...

Make sure you build out a great API!
Your anecdote reminds me of a summer internship I did for a mid-sized financial firm a few years ago. I was "officially" hired to work on the mobile web team which I quickly found out consisted only of me: the college intern.

I actually ended up working on a completely different project but I had to periodically build a useless calculator using jQuery Mobile in the corporate colors and present it to our completely useless VP of IT.

He had sold the company's leadership on the absolute necessity of a mobile presence, that this effort needed to be completed post-haste and how it would dramatically increase sales (most of the company's business was selling insurance to other financial firms, almost no consumer products in their portfolio).

In my first meeting with him he told me he wanted "MSN Mobile for an insurance company" and offered no other instruction. He literally pulled up m.msn.com on his iPhone and said to make a version of that as their mobile presence. After that meeting I just hid in my cube and laughed for a few minutes. That was when I realized what a farce this effort was.

Basically the entire development team knew how pointless this was but the VP had sold it to the rest of the execs and now they needed to build it. No one wanted to put in the effort. The created the internship position so they could foist the actual coding off to an unsuspecting college student (me) while actually having him work on an unrelated but useful project.

Didn't learn much about coding (VB.NET, ugh) but the experience in how a bad company works? Invaluable.
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I think it has _2_ (base 10) orders of magnitude more specificity. That's 10 times more specificity (than a single order)!
Klout improves usability at the expense of marketers
> Especially when those people purport to represent the company that made the mistake

The comment you're quoting specifically asserts that it does not represent the company:

> (I work at Microsoft) but my opinion does not represent that of my company.

For the record, I also work for Microsoft, and my comments also do not represent the company.
My favorite feature was a combination of dynamic way points that you could adjust on the fly, and the automatic nature of transport units. Combining the two allowed me to build complex deployment strategies, and then with a few clicks launch a complex invasion. It really did a lot for advancing RTS gaming.
I agree that it isn't sensible necessarily, but I also don't blame him for believing it may happen. The US has taken a surprisingly cavalier attitude to the rights of citizens and foreign nationals as of late.
We actually blogged about this[1].

Dropbox isn't really optimized for photos. It does a great job backing up and syncing across devices but that's about where it stops in relation to photos.

We provide a layer on top of Dropbox. You can better organize your photos using albums or tags. Metadata from your photos are automatically extracted (title, tags, geolocation). There's a proper photo API for creating and using additional apps. There's plenty more but the blog post[1] covers it well if you're curious or ping me :).

http://blog.theopenphotoproject.org/post/27569670276/all-you...
The zoom was great. Shift-queuing was good as well. The mechanics and UI of the game is probably still one of the best of any RTS.

I just didn't like the actual gameplay that much. It didn't feel like TA at all. The factions, the units, the maps, etc. It wasn't as fun to play. To me the whole feel was much too serious and a lot of the units I really liked weren't in SC.

That combined with the performance issues early resulted in me not playing it as much. I just continued to play TA: Spring. And if I remember correctly they dumbed down the resource model in the sequel.

And god, I have horrible memories of GPGNet. There were so many technical issues with the game when it came out.
What I'd like is TA++ + a sophisticated macro/AI system where you could give orders to a "task force commander" unit and maybe where multiplayer would allow some other humans to stand in for "task force commander".

Like, "take this expansion" or "assault this base" or "harass harvesters" as a high-level goal, with OOB specified (units or output of specific factories). More strategy, less APM. People could still micro or do strategy at the Group level, but not at the battlefield level.
Thanks, that makes far more sense to me.
That's awesome. I was doing similar 1.5 hours away at the time, and it can be hard to find local tech folks; wish I'd known about you. :)
I don't think most people are honestly saying "oh dear, how will I ever find the Debug menu".

They're objecting to an obviously annoying move with no clear rationale. The VS beta had an entirely different set of text in all caps. The fact that they had to hunt around capitalizing stuff in order to "Metro-ize" it just shows its mainly a political move. (Office 2013 has also gone the route of randomly capitalizing things; there is apparently no motivating rationale for which parts of the UI on a desktop app deserve caps.)

Users are rightly annoyed that Microsoft's making these silly changes, and because they're so visible, of course there will be a lot of vocal feedback.

A more cynical person might even think this was by design: Make one really prominent annoying feature, and drown out concerns on anything else.
Does anyone else hate these livestream things? I feel like a lot of the people who do them are purposefully antagonistic rather than reasonable. It's all re/action with very little result... or am I missing something?
They're now Top 200 Grossing on iPad- seems like they managed to trip their way into one hell of a marketing strategy.

1) Bitch about not making enough money because you boned your conversion funnel.

2) Get an article written about how you don't make enough money

3) Make money!

Don't try this at home.
The web frontend is functional.. took 2 weeks. Yesod rules.

(Still many weeks more polish and additional functionality, but kickstarter funded me for a whole year!)
even if you wanted to manufacture some cause to imprison him, you wouldn't go for fabricating a rape charge in Sweden

I would absolutely go for something like that, if I were clever enough to think of it. Look at how effectively it's split his support on the left by pitting civil libertarians against feminists, even on this thread.
Free draft: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/plbook/book.pdf

(Get it while you can... Publishers often require authors to take down drafts once the book is published.)
Yet another broken C pointers guide out there to confuse people.
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I'm up to 15 mb :/
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Actually, it does, which is why tools like PostGIS are built for it. In the most recent versions of PostgreSQL (I believe 9.1) they even added k-nearest-neighbor multi-dimensional index support to GiST.
Your disapproval of "shovelware" business model and the related shallowness of design does make sense; however, failing fast and often does not imply the malicious intent as you imply. Think of this as a search for an anchor point, a good business, so that the whole enterprise can take a breath. If you hit the spot in the first try, all power to you! Chances are even when you have a good hunch, some unlikely/unforeseen thing will block the way to success. Why feel sorry for having all the eggs in one basket, when there are many things in place that would make it possible for you to do otherwise, e.g. several easy ways to reach customers, in several countries, and relatively untapped markets etc. This may not be valid for big companies with lots of spare money to cover the losses until the app has the power to take off, or developers who are in love with an idea to the point that they will sacrifice themselves until giving it a real push.
I'd contend that discovery is a problem faced only by app creators, not app consumers. This makes solving the "problem" difficult, since it's hard to convince the consumer to venture out into non-app store venues to look for hidden gems.
Twitter live feed of Assange getting arrested
What is broken about it? I am happy to make corrections.
anywhere past 1230am. anywhere in south boston (some mbta stops, but easier to use uber with friends and hailing a cab can suck if youre not near bars)
Yes, obviously they'd create as much publicity as possible around the issue, that way the disappearance would be as suspicious as possible.
In a few months RFID chips will start to be installed in all vehicles in Brazil, reaching 100% of the fleet in 2014. It seems like a much more reliable way to track cars and will hopefully bring enhancements in traffic control. The transit authorities also say it will "help fight vehicle theft" but I can't imagine how, since a tag on the windscreen it's pretty easy to remove...

We've also had plate scanning in highway patrol checkpoints for many years, they will probably be shut down in the next year or so. Any reason this is not being considered in the US?
We've been using TestFlight to distribute new builds to multiple clients around the world, distributed to their user's iPads with a notification through mail, during their user acceptance testing phase and it just works great! None of our users complained about Test Flight's UI for sure!
Here's another one with more information on pointers in C.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/01/advanced-c-pointers/
You might be able to trust an autonomous agent to act more consistently, which would add value to certain services.
He's already written why that'll never happen, but I'm on his mailing list and I suspect him of building up the steam to leverage that financially. It'll likely be repeat-sales oriented and have a greater-than-$10 customer lifetime value. I can't wait to be fleeced, because at least we know he'll be focused on providing me with value.