skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The important point here is that this was an extraditional appeal hearing, not a trial. You're right to point out that the burden on Assange's lawyers was not to totally refute the charges or even to mount the best possible defense of Assange.

But you're also mischaracterizing the testimony a little bit, since I don't believe it's the case that everything Assange's lawyers stipulated was directly drawn from the extradition request. "She may have been upset, but she clearly consented" (I've slightly paraphrased) is an argument defending Assange from a valid charge, not an argument that the charge is invalid.

The testimony in this hearing probably does presage the testimony that'll be given in Sweden.
Great points. The only nuance I'd add is that, while it may be a little unfair, the truth is that SOME people can be whatever they want to be. They possess the smarts, confidence, resources, and whatever to barrel through that, with a little bit of luck thrown in they can get that crazy competitive job that combines money and fulfillment perfectly or have enough financial runway to keep fighting until their passion project works. But many can't. And they get burned when the feel good 'follow your dreams' advice can't be realized because of market dynamics and the fact that they lack many of the fundamentals that your article rightly shows are key.
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I can only speak for myself, but if a YC or 500 founder I don't know emails me, I'll make helping them in any way I can my top priority.

I am not altruistic by nature, so this is done purely for self-serving reasons:

1. Everyone I've met through YC or 500 is absolutely brilliant at something in their field. I usually end up gaining much more wisdom than I share.

2. Top tier funds like YC or 500 are very selective, so I know anyone I meet with has a nontrivial chance of being one of the world's top entrepreneurs in a few years. It pays to get to know them before they are famous.

In short, meeting with someone endorsed by YC or 500 is guaranteed to be worthwhile. That removes a lot of risk in choosing to invest time to help them.
Unlike the USA, a lot of jurisdictions allow evidence to be used in court even if it was collected illegally.
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I'll throw them $50, because the world of games I like to play seems to be shrinking, and because I'd like to encourage this model of game development.
Facebook no Longer Saves Your Photos After You've Deleted Them
Another possibility could be that Apple has developed some key feature that infringes an Authentec patent, and only realized it recently.
Beyond the strict money value of those shares, Microsoft gains business value from being a large and influential investor in Facebook. That can make up for quite a bit of strictly monetary opportunity cost.
> SQL is fundamentally about sets,

Nope. "Relational Algebra" / "Relational Calculus" / "The Relational Model" is about sets.

SQL is about bags (orderless like sets, but each item might be repeated multiple times). It's also about order ("ORDER BY" clause) in a horrible inconsistent way.

> SQL is comparable to assembly language. Most people don't need it and wouldn't know how to use it properly anyway

No, SQL is not comparable to assembly in any meaningful way (you could replace "assembly language" with "danish" in your statement and would be equally true)

While assembly language is more verbose, it is more fundamental than everything else in the sense that eventually everything must be expressed in assembly language (machine code, actually, which is equivalent to a proper subset of assembly language) to be executed. Thus, going down to assembly language might be more up-front work, but it is guaranteed that you can match or improve on run-time results from any other language.

SQL is an inconsistent abstraction that makes some things simple, some things hard, and some things essentially impossible -- and many of the things it does do, it does in a way that's inherently inefficient. (And don't tell me about the possible smart query optimizer - it doesn't really exist any more than Intel's Itanium optimizer that makes code properly utilize the VLIW; or a Unicorn).

edit: add the note about machine code.
I think Google maps API on iOS is free to use. Apple foots the bill for usage.
Really like the vision approach to classifying web pages, I've been thinking google should add this to their algo for a while (if they havent already).

Classifying individual parts of pages (as Diffbot seems to be doing) is difficult, but I suspect google could take screenshots of pages reported as spam or whatever as one class and compare those to screenshots of pages w/high pr to get a pretty interesting classifier they could use as an extra datapoint. Could be an interesting experiment anyway, using data they've got lying around.
I love how this is what you have to say when you're in a good mood...
What does a generalized linear model do?
Split the company in two, one with lifetime accounts one without. One with lifetime accounts goes bankrupt immediately. Promise kept, goals achieved!
Sounds like a giant ponzi scheme. All of these posts hyping the "gains" in bincoin's value. Then soon it gets crushed. No way to invest money with this volatility.

Not to mention it is just 1 hack away or some high net worth bitcoin guy from getting their money stolen again from having it go back to almost nothing.

Here is a great idea! Create a currency convince a small amount of people to buy in and those people are incentivized to get more people on board and so on and so on. Instant marketing team for your scheme.
Think about it. Nintendo 64 was released around 15 years ago. Its CPU was somewhat slower than the CPUs that typically run modern browsers.
To resume or not to resume?
I've been doing independent consulting work off and on for the last couple of years while trying to build my business. All of my consulting gigs have kinda landed in my lap, so I've never had to really look for work since quitting my full-time job two years ago. However, now I'm finding myself down to 20 hours a week, and needing to venture out for the first time to find clients.

What's the general consensus from people who do contract/consulting work? I feel like sending a full-blown resume to a potential client for a consulting gig seems weird.

Right now I'm leaning towards using LinkedIn as my resume, and basically hitting up potential clients with an email summarizing my experience and my interest, with a link to my LinkedIn profile.

What is the general consensus from others who do consulting/contract work?
Ridejoy looks great, but Canadians out there should really take a look at LiveRides (http://liverides.com)

Their app does what Ridejoy does and more - it even lets you securely communicate and track where a driver is when he/she is on his/her way to pick you up.

I'm really glad to see people in this space. I'm fed up of big oil and driving my car alone. Driving should be a social experience with friendly people that doesn't hurt the planet needlessly.
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I think the real issue is that Joyent no longer provides any form of shared hosting and they don't want to. So they have no equivalent service to migrate the old lifetime customers to. They'd probably lose quite a bit of money if they migrate lifetime customers to their cloud.
Aha. That would indeed make a difference. ;)
Thanks.
This is from testimony given by Assange's lawyer where he is stipulating to the statements provided by the prosecution for the purposes of an extradition hearing where the court will view the evidence as favorable as reasonable to the prosecution.

In other words, this is Assange's lawyers presentation of the prosecutions claims followed by his attempt at making the claim there is no case even if the facts are entirely as alleged by the opposing party.

Presenting this as Assange's lawyers somehow agreeing that these are the facts is misleading at best. His lawyer goes on to specifically state that for the purposes of the hearing it is irrelevant whether or not Assange agrees with this version of events.
Outraged, too. Any suitable alternatives in sight?
Contract legal tips for software developers (2011)
Where is Dean Allen now that we need him?
FxOS could very well add GPIO. Bluetooth is currently in the works for FxOS v1 (it'll be certified apps only for v1, but it should expose RFCOMM sockets all the way up through JS, so the potential is there), and host-mode USB has been talked about for later versions. Basically, the idea is "if it's the phone, we should be able to access it". As things branch out, hopefully that'll morph into "if it's on the hardware, we should be able to access it"
There are limits (it's still _revolutionary_ for an industry that loves to nickle & dime, though)

Up to $400 per any single transaction and up to $250,000 in total transactions per year—or approximately $21,000 per month. Swiped transactions over these limits simply cost 2.75% per swipe.

$21,000 * .0275 = $577.5 in fees.

I would love to see more Square adoption. In Charleston, lots of cart vendors (hot dogs, popsicles) use Square, as well as many vendors at the farmers market.
This was the same service that had an outage last year which took over two days to recover from, for which their answer was basically "what did you expect, we're neglecting that server"? Sad thing is, putting the bottom line before responsibility is probably an effective strategy because the market does not penalize it sufficiently.
Lol Big Fish seeking real-money whales
So this is a mash up of the iPhones places view of my pictures and what Color.com was originally trying to do.

Now we have a places photo-map of shared photos with the ability to filter stuff out...

Sounds interesting, and surely they will be far more successful than color.com was... But I don't yet know how useful this will be.

I am sure this will be mildly interesting for a long time... But it still doesn't solve my photo problem.
Press Release: https://squareup.com/news/releases/2012/square-introduces-on...
I switched across to the Mixed Grill in May 2006 (right around when John Gruber quit Joyent to do Daring Fireball full-time, I remember). It cost $499USD.

Did I expect more than 6 years? Yeah, I took them at their word - "as long as we exist".
The competitive value of time
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>> Either way, there should be no way they can retrieve your password to send it to you.

I don't disagree with that, but the headline leads one to a particular conclusion despite the set of facts that the OP provided.
Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations
I think it's the perfect response to the Starbucks deal. It shows that Square is still keeping small businesses as their top priority.
We built Haiku Deck because we hated boring PowerPoint presentations. We stripped out most of the features of a traditional presentation software and built it from the ground up to be optimized for content-creation on a tablet. Decks can be shared online, and also exported to PowerPoint or pdf for offline viewing.

To get a sense of what a typical deck looks like, here's a sample presentation that showcases some of my favorite quotes from the amazing @shit_hn_says twitter account: http://www.haikudeck.com/p/aP4taPvt7w/shit-hn-says

Would love to hear what you guys think.
I doubt there is a conspiracy behind this; I just left the comment (too?) open to the possibility.
It's important to note that they didn't open on Wall Street, instead they started in Valley Forge, PA. At the time it was seen as another bullet point which could be used against Vanguard ever becoming successful.

I mean who in their right mind started a company creating investment vehicles that wasn't at least in New York City?!!?
You Had A Typo In The Package Name. Ticket Closed.
Break even point is $120,000 of transactions per year, if I'm doing my math correctly.
Nothing said about multithreading and parallel processing? Seems like a big omission if you're comparing languages.
...because there has been nothing but accusations and guilt for any party has not been resolved?
For example, styling the same unique block based on context. If it's a mainpage, I want it red, otherwise it's green.
some thoughts:

isn't S&P index by definition diversified?

And the the other question is, yes the S&P had a rate of -1.5% but considering the crashes of the past decade, would you be lucky to achieve -1.5% return rather than something much, much worse?
yeah the "whale" terminology cracks me up too
I don't think that's entirely true, but it's perhaps more true than not. I addressed it upthread.

The only issue being litigated in this thread and in UK court is "is this rape charge so ridiculous that the UK should refuse to honor its extradition treaty with Sweden over it". I don't see any reasonable argument for that assertion here.

Sweden is not an Orwellian dystopia. It's an especially enlightened and socially conscious state, even (perhaps especially) compared to the US.
This may be true. But, if you have a site running with older technology, I wouldn't want to use new technology just for the sake of using new technology.

When something works, why take the risk? Especially if it involves money.
Actually not a bad strategy assuming the venue is convenient.

A corporation has to be defended by an attorney while an individual can be pro se.

As a result the corporation would typically want to settle rather than spend money to go to defend in court. My guess is as long as the person filing the suit didn't blog about it and bring attention to the action beforehand there would be incentive to settle this out of small claims court. The amount settled for could easily be the value over time of the "lifetime" benefit. If the company choose to go to small claims court and lost it would certainly not be to their benefit as it would show others what was possible and set some precedent.

Keep in mind that even if the company feels their contract is airtight they might decide to settle simply to not have to pay legal fees in many cases.
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Html5 handwriting recognition on mobile. Very, very slow from my test... And glitchy with the pinch zoom in and out.
I had one of the original Tivos in the UK, and I bought a lifetime subscription.

They ended this service in 2011.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo#United_Kingdom

They no longer honour this deal in UK (which sucks, because I loved it).
Yet, Joyent still exists.
Both in the UK and the US we have this term...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=muppet
My pleasure, thank you for believing in us.
Are you implying that Assange is a political prisoner?
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It was $500. Here's an archive of their site:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060203030930/http://www.textdri...

>One-time payment of $499

>We're pleased to announce a special offer that combines three great products in our family — TextDrive, Strongspace and Joyent — available for a one-time payment of just $499.

>What do you get?

>TextDrive's spectacularly feature-rich web, mail and data hosting; oceans of backup room at Strongspace; early access to the future of web-based organization, communication and productivity through the Joyent suite of interconnected applications. Perfect for a smart small business or smart individuals of any size.

>How long is it good for?

>As long as we exist.
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That sounds pretty awesome at first but I guess it would require some math to figure out if you really are saving much compared to normal CC processing.
Or that they had developed some features based on an Authentec license that they only recently decided to make into differentiation points by buying Authentec and thus making it more difficult for competitors to keep/catch up.
Or, really, "An iOS game that had a single $12M month"

Sustaining that through the year is mathematically impossible.
I bet they're going to lose more in bad PR. People here usually do not forget fuck ups.
You realize that 'money', in whatever form, shares that property with gold, right? Money only exists because it isn't really convenient to barter bushels of wheat for sheep, just so you can barter said sheep for the apples you need, but the sheep farm doesn't have. The only value money has, is what people will assign to it.

With that said, I'd recommend you to lookup some history of monetary systems, and see what systems survived for how long, and how they came to collapse. Just because bitcoins are digital, a product of technology, doesn't make them any different from tally sticks. It's just a way to exchange stuff without having to barter. Maybe bitcoins are much harder to counterfeit then tally sticks, but then again, it is probably also much easier to sabotage the systems required to trade them. In the end, the currency that sticks around the longest when all the other systems fail, will be the most reliable one to preserve wealth. It's a self-reinforcing process even.

Now go try and see how many bushels of wheat you can get your hands on with just exchanging tally sticks. Then try to buy some using gold.
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A movie script couldn't do better: Assange's lawyer is Baltazar Garzon, the Spanish ex-judge who asked London for the extradition of Pinochet.
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ilya, it's great to have folks like you in 500 and YC :)
Which is almost nothing if you're any sort of business.
One thing to consider is that their target audience is attendees of the Front-trends conference, a conference specifically for front end developers. I think it's a safe bet that a majority of the traffic will have a compatible browser.
More likely that this is a defensive move then a last minute reaction. They want to own the patent, control it and box out their competitors from the authentication side of NFC.
For the record, do you believe this fiasco isn't politically motivated?
> If they were to go through with it, dictatorships everywhere would instantly ensure every dissident who as much as looks towards a foreign embassy will get slapped with criminal charges so they can use it to justify entering the embassy to pull them out.

Unnecessary. As I pointed out the last time you made this argument, dictatorships already have more effective ways of doing this: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/world/asia/chen-guangcheng...
Personally, as an optimist, I don't like this because I feel like there is always an exception to the rule. Don't get me wrong, this article has good points, in general, but I just don't like the pessimistic view of the title -- "Why you can't be anything you want to be."
Maximum savings for a business is capped at $3,575/yr and if they sell less than $120k/yr, businesses will actually be losing money.

It sounds more like a safe customer acquisition strategy for Square (with acquisition cost maxed at that value) then a huge savings for small businesses (min swipe cost would be at 1.32% compared to 2.75%).
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not to say you should preclude a user from choosing long passwords but hex != string...

ruby -rdigest/sha2 -e "puts Digest::SHA512.digest('foo').length" = 64
Measuring performance benefits of hyper-threading
Break even is at $10k / month
To be fair, options/futures are pretty simple and have uses that most people would count as legitimate. A farmer buying oil futures to mitigate the cost of a potential spike in fuel prices (and thus his costs) is basically just him buying insurance; trying to smooth out any crazy volatility his business may face is a fairly legitimate and straightforward application of finance.

This is, of course, in contrast to a lot of financial instruments (particularly in the last couple of decades) that are needlessly complex (where at least some of the value for the issuer is in obfuscating the actual implications of the security from the buyer).
uh-huh.

To state that another way, some bad-ass aliens come along and decide to terraform Earth to their liking. It turns out they breathe 100% Helium, so they convert Earth's atmosphere to that.

How do you feel about terra-forming now?
Essentially, a 1.32% transaction fee for all revenue under $250,000, 2.75% on all revenue over.

Deal gets worse for the business the further your revenues are from the $250K limit.

Definitely a big deal though.
Not to mention they're generally nice, interesting people. I love the number of people I meet in YC that I would enjoy having a drink with - the ratio has been unmatched anywhere else so far.
Don't forget the up-front fee of $275, so max savings are more like $300. Break-even is $10k per month.

It's a nice idea, though I don't know how many companies are in the $10k-$21k/month revenue bucket that would see a benefit. All companies processing over $250k per year can save a max of $300 per month by signing up to the fixed rate plan and then paying the normal fee thereafter.

The new fee band gives savings to those processing more than ~$10k/month, but provides no savings for smaller users.
I have two small servers from them. Highly recommended (if you don't mind getting your hands dirty).
But capped at 250k / year
How did Facebook's IPO go so badly? (It's generally agreed upon that it went horrifically for Facebook and its shareholders, right?) Is it, in a very stylized way, Wall Street in just wanting to extract as much money as possible from a target and not really serving the interests of the client?

If so... how can that market be disrupted?
And now, let's watch as Square gets implemented at bars everywhere.
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The reason is that neither OCaml nor SML support language-level parallelism or concurrency.

These features are /somewhat/ available as 3rd party libs (OCaml), but you won't see GHC or Erlang-style thread use.
The best advice I had (from a theoretician) was that I should not try to randomly fix my code but I should understand why it does not work. How to do that?

Can you prove (in the mathematical sense) that it always does what you want?
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Just for those who didn't do the math: for this to break even, you would have to do over $10,000 every month in Square transactions for this to make sense. I'm not sure what percentage of the Square market that is.
And onward we march towards the Bingo Event Horizon...
http://www.whatgamesare.com/2012/06/the-bingo-event-horizon-...
Show me one example, post 1960, of such a punishment being sought.

Further, no such charges have been brought in the US, and more importantly, even several prosecutors have claimed such a charge will be difficult to produce, given the protections we provide the press here.

Finally, this whole "fear of death," is completely manufactured. He will get a much fairer shake than all of the Chinese dissidents whose names he released unredacted.
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Terraforming is pointless anyway. Space-based habitats are a much more efficient way to expand our living space, and most importantly, when living in one, you don't need to live at the bottom of a gravity well.