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I strongly doubt that Britain will take sudden action to arrest Assange in the embassy. What's likely to happen now is a stand off where he can't get out of the embassy because he'll be arrested. The UK and Ecuador will try to negotiate some sort of deal where Assange does go to Sweden to be questioned. Given that European states don't have the death penalty Assange would not be extradited to the US if there was a risk of him facing death there.

If he leaves he'll be arrested, if he manages to get in a diplomatic car the car will be stopped with Assange in it and there'll be a stand off. If Ecuador tries to make him into a diplomat the UK can simply refuse to accept that he is a diplomat. And if they try to use a diplomatic bag then the UK will claim that it's being used for improper purposes and block it. IMHO Assange is stuck there until a deal is worked out.

The granting of asylum is just one step in what will continue to be a tedious soap opera.

My interpretation of the letter that the FO sent to Ecuador is as a statement of a negotiating position given that the FO got wind of the fact that he was going to be offered asylum.
The second point is not true, USB OTG (on-the-go) supports both.
Also interesting is this collection of "poetry" generated by Racter after it was released to the general public: http://www.101bananas.com/poems/racter.html

It's interesting how, long after one is aware of the complete randomness of output like this, one's monkey brain is still prepared — against all rationality — to read profundity into gibberish.
Your blog is awesome! I'd love to try this someday - so jealous. :)
What evidence do you have for your claim that "UK has already blocked Ecuador embassy's supplies"?
Violating the Vienna Convention is the diplomatic equivalent of nuking Teheran. The world would be horrified at the UK, and their embassies worldwide would be physically threatened almost instantaneously. I hope even this amateurish government can understand that.

Whatever happens, and regardless of the man, today has been a sad day for international relations, and hence for peace. I thought this government couldn't get any worse; I was wrong.
There's a lot of speculation about this but I haven't seen actual evidence. Our extradition laws with the UK are actually stronger than with Sweden so why wait for him to be in Sweden?
My understanding is that it's a little more nuanced than that: that the UK believes it has the right to withdraw the diplomatic status of the building used for the Ecuadorian embassy. Ecuadorian diplomats would continue to have diplomatic protection, presumably would be given long notice of the requirement to vacate the embassy, and move goods from it... but Mr Assange would not have any of that protection. I'm not sure which part of the Vienna Convention you think this would violate?
The more I think about this, I get a feeling that bitcoins are solving the wrong problem. The real problem is not of currency (though it is a problem, but just not as big), but of deep flaws in society due to capitalism. Let me explain.

Today there are distinct classes of society, and social mobility is decreasing in the US [1] and is frustratingly slow in the developing world.

The problem we are facing is that the producers are have become extremely productive due to capital and technology and are able crush those who do not have the access to the capital and technology. The people who are not in this privileged group are caught in a vicious cycle are forced to remain consumers and are getting more and more dependent on these super producers.

What money essentially does is facilitates information flow in an economy and enables complex contracts between a number of producers and consumers. The problem is not the information flow is not correct, the problem is that there is terrible inequality.

Bitcoins are seen as a hedge against large scale systemic collapse or slow corrosion of the nation-state. If the collapse / corrosion happens, we really do not know what kind of alternative systems will emerge.

The only way, to prevent such a collapse, in my view is to encourage local products and services in a big way. Bitcoins may not really help.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-to...
So why did west germany and the now unified germany have manditory ID cards then?
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They should take him with a helicopter. What are they going to do? Shoot it down?
Obviously he has every right to be paranoid about the US trying to extradite him but you have to wonder how far he's willing to go on this. I think the Assange story long ago eclipsed the Wikileaks story (look how little attention Bradley Manning gets) and if he was prosecuted and convicted of rape in Sweden and had to do jail time there, I think the story would only be remembered for Assange. No need for a very messy public trial after extradition, no need for the miles of bad press it would generate.
> The world would be horrified at the UK, and their embassies worldwide would be physically threatened almost instantaneously

Funny you should mention Tehran, given that the Iranians recently stormed the British embassy there, and ... the world didn't end!
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The problem with Assange is while he is courageous, he is also morally weak. It's his utter lack of morals that has given his enemies so much ammunition.

I support Assange, although not without reservation, and I refuse to speak out for him in public because of his rape charges (charges which have not been proven).

I doubt he will successfully flee the UK.

To paraphrase the old Radiohead song, Assange, "you did it to yourself".
Barring outside factors (hacking, breach of trust, etc) the price of bitcoin is naturally bullish given the current ways to trade them. Since there is no large scale operation providing a way to short bitcoins, there is no one "investing" in their price decline. This simply means that anyone buying in using USD now needs to cash out at a higher price to make a profit (on most exchanges) and anyone who has coins would not want to make the market tank since that just devalues what they have.

I realize the above is a simplification and there are many other factors (and there could be malicious participants), but overall this will continue to push the price up.
I don't understand the lesson to be about "high-level problems", but about not seeing the forest for all the trees. A debugger can give an invaluably direct view of what is happening, but it can allow be a very narrow view.

But the debugger is not the problem - in fact, when you don't know the code perfectly, a debugger can be very useful in enabling you to form a sufficiently complete model of the code in the first place.

It only becomes a problem if, at that point, you keep looking at details rather than stopping to think about what you've learned.
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How often do you get see governments threatening to revoke the diplomatic status of an embassy for the sake of apprehending a rape suspect? Wow.
I'd love to know what Assange's endgame plan for all of this fuss is.

The States aren't going to extradite him from Sweden nor, evidently, from the UK. It makes me feel like a kiljoy to say it, but there isn't any conspiracy here, and nor will any play out. Let's face it - everything will play out normally and boringly, no matter how many people shout "conspiracy!"

My gut instinct is that one way or another he'll end up in Sweden, either walking free or serving a year or two in jail, and then - what? Sitting in Parisian cafes gazing wistfully upon what once could have been?
Maybe you can release it free as beta and later you can charge customers after lauching.
> Yes, I’m aware that OEMs are supposed to give an option to turn it off, but when has this ever happened?

Not "supposed to". They must. Why would OEMs waste their time implementing Secure Boot for the logo program, and then disqualify themselves by hiding the option to disable it?
There are relatively low volumes but steady price gains over the past month.

This could be a sign that a lot of people want to get into the market quickly without reasoning about the price. When we look in the order book of one of the larger exchanges (mtgox) we see that there is not much market depth on either side[1].

This coincides with large volume peaks when articles are published, for example August 3 when bitcoin broke the $10.00 price this was widely published about (also on HN).

[1]http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html
Could they get a diplomatic charter bus?
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Dozens? Out of 39000 students? Even if there were many dozens this is a small percent of the total student base (390 = 1%).

The number of students cheating at higher institutions is frequently reported to be much higher. For instance:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/is-student-cheating-dr...

The problem is not Coursera. The problem is people who cheat. And I am not sure that this is much of a story at this level.
But you're not supposed to use debuggers. You're supposed to use Test Driven Development.
in Iowa, the tickets they issue are civil citations, not criminal citations. Therefore, you have no right to confront your accuser and there is a lower criterion for guilt. Also, if you want to contest it to an administrative judge, it'll cost you an EXTRA $80
Or, how often do rape suspects having gone through the entire legal system in the UK decide that asking for asylum is the way to go?
And all just to keep a website on/off the internet.
How often do rape suspects claim asylum?
First of all, I'm glad this isn't about the actual course material being plagiarized. That would most definitely hurt Coursera's standing as it tries to be accepted in establishment education.

But I don't know what's sadder: the reported plagiarism by students, or the mindset of these students -- when offered free academic coursework in which the purpose is self-edification without a promise of actual credit -- will try to cheat the "system".

And does that cheating occur because they haven't been instilled with intellectual honesty? Or because they're so used to an educational system that rewards winning the rat race by any means? Or because they simply don't understand what accreditation means?

I don't know which of those three sub-options is saddest.
I'm not bashing Go here, just to clarify - I'm just saying that given Rob Pike's deep knowledge of the language and its libraries, and his heavy design input to it, it doesn't mean much that he's productive in it (well, besides the implied statement that he thinks it's not a toy language any more).
It's also a different thing. He's also wanted in the UK for breaching his bail conditions. So he not only has the extradition hanging over him but he's broken the law in the UK now.
Ecuador grants political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
Whenever I see a new post about this saga I feel compelled to post this mini documentary about it before everyone gets into the same old arguments.

Sex, Lies and Julian Assange
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/07/19/3549280.ht...
Some of his theories fit your description but his overall theories on wireless technologies (not just wireless power transmission) are legitimate.

I'm not sure who "deserves" hero worship but if anyone did, Tesla does.
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My co-worker does the same thing. Thinks instead of opening the debugger. In fact, he never uses a debugger even though he's a hardcore low-level C/C++ guy. Another important thing is to have good logs. Don't log too much, but log the most pertinent info. Next he just looks at the code. If it's really tough, he adds a print statement or two. I've never seen him do more in 3 years of working with him.
How often do you get see governments threatening to revoke the diplomatic status of an embassy for the sake of apprehending a rape suspect?

You could argue the opposite side: how many embassies offer protection to famous rape suspects?

This is not an ordinary occurrence.
I'm not sure if stripcoin.com is helping or hurting the situation either.
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I loved TA and all, but unless this has two features I'm skeptical it will have lasting interest for me:

- More than two races. There just isn't enough variety.

- Balanced units that are useful through out the game. I'd rather have 15 total units that are all useful in late game than having 200 units and only 10 are good and only 5 of those in late game.

I do really like the idea of no edges on the map. It would be cool to have Starcraft 3 with maps on a small planet like this with no edges.
I'm renouncing my Amnesty International-funding credit card on this. The silence on their part, when this charade goes on on their doorstep in London, is deafening.

The same goes for LibDems and Labour, but I've given up on them a long time ago (and to be fair, Labour are not even in power). Human/civil rights was just about the last platform where LibDems had a shred of credibility, and now it's shot. To maintain a few perks, they will let the Tories destroy centuries of civilisation - the Vienna Convention is a cornerstone of international relations, and hence, of world peace; threatening it over a silly man is just irresponsible. Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador and old-time LibDem, is just about as shocked as I am, and it's the only reasonable voice I've heard in the last 24 hours: http://pastebin.com/s98KhnYD

Supporting journalists in Belarus, China, Syria, Iran without supporting Assange is not grassroot activism: it's cynical, masqueraded foreign policy.
And here's what really bugs me about Apple. We have had multiple expedite requests approved the last few months, so it's clear there is no hard fast rule. The lack of hard rules is what is so annoying. One (or many) submission pass and suddenly an update will get tripped up by some trivial item that has been there since the beginning.
Where are they going to get him into the helicopter?
Reminded of this incredible Ars Technica article on why it's so hard to build a good emulator. In short, you need to emulate all of the hardware features and all of the bugs, which have now become features that some games depend on.

"It is possible for a well-optimized, speed-oriented SNES emulator to run at full speed using only 300MHz of processing power. You will also end up with hundreds of obscure bugs.

What typically happens is that the problems are specifically hacked around. Both ZSNES and Snes9X contain internal lists of the most popular fifty or so games. When you load those games, the emulators tweak their timing values and patch out certain areas of code to get these games running. It's an improvement over the Nesticle days of the games themselves being hacked externally, but it is still cheating, regardless of the visual end results.

The casual gamer who only plays the most popular twenty or so titles will see no visible differences between an emulator requiring 300MHz and another requiring 3GHz, so they will of course go with the former. Although I do respect and appreciate speed-oriented emulators, one concerned with accuracy can't help but lament the way this approach stalls progress. Without more players using the more accurate emulators, we won't find the bugs in all the games the emulator supports. The more people we have playing the games in the way they were intended, the better the emulator can become as issues are found and stomped out—not by fixing specific code for each game, but by fixing the accuracy of the emulator."

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-o...
Sweden doesn't have the best of records wrt extraditions in cases where the US has an interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...
Is it allowed for all books? I've a few physical books that don't have digital versions, it would be nice to scan them and give the physical ones away.
I've never had an issue plugging in micro-usb chargers in the dark at all, in fact I find it easier than doing the same for my iPad. I think it may be more subjective than objective.
I doubt if that will work. As per http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_2...
"If the giver and the recipient do not live in the same country, the book may not available to the recipient due to copyright restrictions. In these cases the recipient will be given the option to request an exchange for gift credit on their Amazon.com account during the redemption process, or they may contact Customer Service for assistance in exchanging the book."
I would say this site is too nice to mysql. For stored procedures, mysql had those later whereas postgresql got those right early on. Mysql stored procedures suck donkey balls compared to postgres. Postgres in general just feels better designed, from the beginning.

re: replication, slony is horrible yet they focus on that. The slony author says you can daisy chain things, but that's a setup nightmare. Also, slony's n^2 communication gives you consistency guarantees, something I'm pretty sure mysql can't do, but most people don't need that. I much prefer bucardo. It's simple, easier to configure, fewer guarantees, but replicates much faster. I just wouldn't run a bank on that. However, how many people design bank software.
i thought this so i googled "UEFI laptop" since i have not seen one and it pulled up nothing definitive. sounds like there are very few on the market?
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They'd have to get across the pavement from the embassy into the bus. The British have every right to arrest him there (either for violating the conditions of bail or on grounds there is an outstanding European warrant for him).
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> [..] bitcoin needs to increase the amount of users using it to be more useful. Inevitably, this means the price of bitcoin will rise.

I'm not so sure if this is 'inevitable' since bitcoins in itself have no value at all. I know the same can be said about fiat money, but at least that's what everyone agrees is legal tender, as opposed to just a bunch of idealists or people who need a way to pay for shady stuff. But bitcoins are not like commodities, or labour, or whatever else has limited supply and non-zero utility.

Personally I'm not even touching bitcoins with a 10-foot pole. The day some government decides bitcoins are becoming a real alternative or even a threat to government-controlled money, they will shut the whole gig down and all your bitcoins will be worth nothing.

One thing I never understood about bitcoins, is what other problem they solve besides scratching some ideological itch some people have with money controlled by central bankers and governments (which I can imagine are valid concerns for some people). Effectively bitcoins are just like fiat money; worthless tokens that have no intrinsic value besides the trust that some people have in them to hold their value. Trust that is not actually based on anything either. At least the dollar has a government with a big military behind it that can assert their influence on areas where real wealth is concentrated. I'm not saying this is a good thing, just making the observation.
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If the Kindle is registered to a UK device it blocks it at that point.

I used a proxy so I looked like I was in the US, registered a new account and it was all fine but it wouldn't let me gift it to a UK Kindle.
It's priced at 34 USD in India. :(
The UK Judge in his first extradition trial said he would be guilty of rape or sexual assault in the UK.

Also, the crusader for freedom has fled to a regime that is demonstrably un-free.
Is this a joke?
It looks real - but can anyone comment on real life applications of Coherent anti-Stokes-Raman spectroscopy (and other techniques listed below)

Yes, I can beleive it works in the lab, on static samples,. But a dust fragment on a lapel as someone walks through the airport?

I mean, otherwise, they just invented the Star Trek Tricorder.

The company seems real and serious:
http://www.geniaphotonics.com/business-markets/defense-and-s...

Edit:

I think I would like to see the following law: Any scanning, recording, tracking (etc) done in a public location or place of work must make the results public and interrogatable in (real/reasonable) time.

We will never stop these technologies, and frankly some of them seem massively beneficial (this could test blood samples on your doctors desk). But we should not allow the results to be hidden, kept by the police or our employers.

A general law of freedom, much like to general law of net neutralitry we want as well.
What about famous killers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Allen_Davis_incident
I read that entire site as:

PostgresSQL has feature X, Y, Z

MySQL had X, recently introduced Y, and does not always have Z.

It's always MySQL catching up to postgres. And lots of it's db engines are not ACID. Its not the DB I thought it was.
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Bitcoin price will continue to rise unless something happens causing confidence in the currency to collapse. It is designed to never inflate, and as more blocks are confirmed, we see that it deflates.
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I guess if there's a children's song about a guy, you pretty much have to admit that he's not an unsung hero...
> The States aren't going to extradite him from Sweden nor, evidently, from the UK. It makes me feel like a kiljoy to say it, but there isn't any conspiracy here, and nor will any play out. Let's face it - everything will play out normally and boringly, no matter how many people shout "conspiracy!"

Why not? It seems a fair number of powerful people in the US would love to extradite him.
Human rights of rape victims? What about those?
I don't think many consider Sweden to be that. Maybe he is just trying to escape his accusations in Sweden?
He may had been granted asylum, but there's almsot no way they'll be able to get him out of there. And seeing as how it's regarded as the UK is a pet to the US it's highly unlikely there'll be a chance of any trade.
I second that. This is amazing. Don't let "practical talk" dissuade you.

Can you comment on the slowness? I feel like other issues (unimplemented features) can be resolved over time but do you think that the slowness can be resolved over time or are these games simply too much for javascript and the games will always be slow?

Thanks!
Secure Boot is probably one of the lamest systems in place. It's clearly a move by Microsoft to try to further their monopoly, and stifle migration to other systems. That's why you should only buy laptops from https://www.system76.com/, or http://zareason.com/, or http://www.emperorlinux.com/. You wouldn't have to deal with Microsoft's BS, and you would get a pretty kickass computer in the process.
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> Except it stifles innovation in other sectors

this is intentional. the point is we want wind and solar to succeed because they have lower negative externalities. the competing sectors we want to not succeed are things like oil and coal. its a pretty reasonable assumption to make that even with innovations that increase the pollution efficiency of coal and oil, its still not going to be as good as solar and wind.

of course, you might also be referring to alternative sectors like hydroelectric or nuclear or whatever. in that case, i agree with you. that's why a carbon tax is better than subsidies.
That is not all, there is also a distinct lack of contrast in both brightness and color all over, also all icons look pretty much the same so they're essentially useless.

In an effort to "focus on the content" everything else have taken a back seat, to hell with useability and a visually pleasing experience.
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