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"I wonder why Joyent thinks they can get away with this"

"As long as we exist"

Possession is 9/10ths of the law.

Nobody is going to file a private lawsuit to enforce this (assuming there is even a leg to stand on to enforce it I haven't read the exact contractual promise..) And the other option would be a class action lawsuit where there would have to be enough class members to interest an attorney.

(Not relevant in this case but if a company was acquired the new company may have not acquired all the previous companies legal obligations but simply setup a new entity and assumed some of the assets, liabilities and obligations but not everything. When I sold a company that is how it was handled.).
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For the uninitiated... think rubygems/npm/djangopackages with some extra love to include functionality similar to rvm and bundler. All of this wraps meteor's own executable giving devs a one-stop-shop CLI for a wide range of development needs.
I find the points and counterpoints on the Assange issue rather confusing and it's hard for me, as an observer, to separate fact from fiction. I'm wondering if someone can clear up some points:

1. Apparently there is a two-stage interview process in Sweden with criminal investigations. A first interview, which Assange has done, and a second that is equivalent to being charged. Is this true?

2. It has been argued that Swedish authorities have done interviews in embassies and other countries in other cases but have refused to do so here. In those other cases, are they first or second interviews (assuming (1) is correct)?

3. Has the US formally charged, indicated they would charge, sought extradition or otherwise indicated they would seek extradition of Assange or is it merely assumed?

4. Is there any substantive difference in extradition proceedings from the UK or Sweden? The US could seek extradition from the UK. It is argued by Assange's defenders that it is easier from Sweden and a UK judge may well throw out the request as being politically motivated whereas extradition from Sweden, it is argued, can be done politically rather than through the courts. How true is this?

5. Sweden has refused to not extradite Assange, should he return, to the US. How normal is this? Can Sweden legally do this? I know EU countries have, in the past, as a condition of extradition required the US to guarantee that the death penalty won't be sought or applied. I assume in those cases that is a real issue so it seems like there is some room for movement when it comes to extradition;

6. What is the status of Assange's legal proceedings against extradition to Sweden? The High Court has ruled I believe so the only recourse now is the European Court of Human Rights? Is that still ongoing? Can it make a binding ruling against extradition that the UK must abide by?

7. When it comes to criminal charges in any country I'm familiar with there are two things: how the law is written and how it is applied. Many things are illegal that the authorities don't actively pursue. Partially this is simply convention, partially its policing and partially (IMHO) it's holding things in reserve, meaning if you really want to get someone you have something. Is this also the case for Sweden? Given the facts as (publicly) known regarding the rape allegations, how normal is it to seek criminal charges in this case?

8. With regards to political asylum. How normal is it for a country to offer political asylum to someone in another country who is a citizen of a third country resisting extradition to a fourth? Hell, you can probably add "because of fears of being extradited to a fifth"!

Assange is an Australian citizen. As an Australian citizen myself I'm disappointed but not at all surprised in the silence of the Australian government on this issue and the apparent acquiescence to US demands. It's often pointed out that citizenship is not only a privilege but a responsibility. The government likewise has a responsibility to defend the interests of its citizens and I see that sadly lacking here.
I'm going to charitably believe that I've been unclear and that you've misunderstood me.

What I believe is that two women have made serious allegations which I think deserve to be properly heard and subject to due process.

Whatever else Julian Assange has or has not done (on which I have mixed opinions) and whatever political manoeuvering has gone on around it, there is a serious criminal allegation with two alleged victims and I think that matters.

If the case is that weak, the evidence that circumstantial and the police process that unprofessional, I'm sure his lawyers will do just fine.

Is there a risk to Assange? Maybe, but if the Americans really want him we in the UK have a long history of being America's bitch and I suspect would have handed him over in a trice. I simply can't see how being in Sweden is a greater risk to him than being here.

I believe in due process. Not because it's perfect, but because it's better than all the other stuff that's been tried in these situations. You can call me naive or ill-informed but please don't call me a liar, it adds nothing to the debate and you really haven't enough evidence to back it up.
I personally didn't even have an internet connection when I got my N64 :P

There was no online mode and AFAIK no way to multiplayer across multiple consoles. Multiplayer was 2-4 players slit-screen on one console.
In case anyone is unaware, anything MG Siegler writes about Android should be taken with a grain of salt.

Particularly prescient nearly two years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1675574 (and parent discussion)

> It's really unfortunate that a writer like him gets a voice in an influential
> blog like Techcrunch. I hope he just post things like these on his personal blog.

Edit: Android fragmentation affects different types of apps to different degrees; games have the toughest time from what I understand.
I usually like figuring out future plans while riding the caltrain to minimize wasting high-opportunity-cost-time on such things like logistics. Thanks for bringing it to mobile! The fact that it's gorgeous is just icing.
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Have to agree... at $200, and AMD E-350 ITX board + 8GB of ram is cheaper, and more capable.
Allow me to paraphrase your point (not to ridicule it, just to (i) make sure I understand and (ii) maybe help someone else follow it):

"Yes, it absolutely would be common practice to raid an embassy over (what started as) a rape charge, in the unlikely event that the accused and the embassy had both been silly enough to escalate it into a faux diplomatic immunity situation by unreasonably seeking and unreasonably granting asylum."
One of those punters was the original developer of Mt Gox.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/first-...
>Why do people still insist on doing this?

HTTP requests. 'silly font+glyph combo' is the vector version of sprites.

And it's also nice to be able to change the colour of your monochrome vector graphics.
Yes to all of that. But the central question this story is going to answer is "What happens to people who embarrass the U.S. Government in the 21st century?" The answer to that question answers the fate of Wikileaks, which is ultimately just a collection of people. And it's going to inform the behavior of anyone else down the line who might embarrass the U.S. Government.
The folks who read the offer are probably surprised.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060203030930/http://www.textdri...

Q: How long is it good for? A: As long as we exist.
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I don't think regulation helped any of the banks with high profile credit card hacks recently. Don't confuse regulation with security. Regulation is not necessarily in place to provide security for the end user, only barriers to entry. Once you do start to grow obviously the correct precautions should be taken.
Someone already started a Google group for people to discuss where to move their hosting: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ex-joyeurs
Joyent specified the length of "lifetime" as "as long as we exist" in the offer.
I see this as a designer-friendly graphing library. In the video he demonstrates how to use the font using InDesign. And last I checked InDesign doesn't have graphing tools that are this simple.
I believe for (3) it is politicians grandstanding (and not even ones in the current US administration) saying he should be tried in the US.

For (6), I'm not sure if the case is with the ECHR, but yes they can make binding decisions over the UK government.
I recommend taking the time to use it, especially with friends. When you're not just passively sitting and staring, but contributing to the content, it turns it something else. You become part of a conversation that's surprisingly addictive, and not something you come across in 'post random pictures here' sites.
90% of the time a SWAT team is used, you don't need a SWAT team. Overzealous law enforcement is a problem, but it's a problem that predates, and is largely separate from, the even-more-exceptional counterterrorism measures. It's not useful to conflate the two issues. Kim Dotcom wasn't "treated as a terror suspect" any more than the "don't tase me bro" kid. Not to say that it isn't an issue, just not the same issue.
> good for time-series data, but I (personally) think that it shouldn't be a first-class part of a relational query language;

First of all, there's some tautology here - a "relational database" (and similarly, relational calculus, relational algebra, etc), BY DEFINITION deal with sets of tuples ("relations") which are (again, by definition) unordered. So let's just ignore the word "relational" in this discussion.

> I think most databases do support the ROW_NUMBER() function now though.

Many do. But do compare (sql 2005):

SELECT * FROM
( SELECT
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY sort_key ASC) AS ROW_NUMBER,
COLUMNS
FROM tablename
) foo
WHERE ROW_NUMBER <= 10

To (kdb+ / q):

select from tablename orderby asc sort_key where i<10;

And usefulness of order goes why beyond time-series data (and sorting): let's say you have a tiered pricing scheme for widgets you sell:

order_size | per_widget_cost
----------------------------
1-9 | $2
10-49 | $1.9
50-199 | $1.8

Without embracing order, you:

a) duplicate the range data (have a "from-count", "to-count" fields for each record, risking that you might have holes or overlaps)

b) not duplicate data, but have crazy subselects (among all with count > from_count, select the one with maximum to_count) or stuff like that.

When you actually have order, you have operator that embrace that order - e.g. kdb+/q's "bin" which finds the "bin" (as in "bucket", not as in binray) something fits in:

select unit_price[from_count bin order_count] from table

There are many other use cases involving running sums (e.g, you have a table of weights and priority; select the list of highest priority items whose weight sums to 100lbs or less).

Order is really really missing in SQL, but it's one of those things people are not aware of because they've never used anything that does support it properly.

nested columns just means what it sounds like: that you can put anything in a cell (including lists, tables, lists of tables, lists of lists of lists of tables). Many one-to-many relationships in sql that need additional tables can just be done within the same table in kdb+/q

regarding Common Table Expressions - I wasn't aware of them, they do help a lot. The syntax is horrible, but I guess they do work...

edit: more info on kdb+/q can be found in http://kx.com/q/d/kdb+1.htm - you have to get to section 8 before they start discussing the query language, but it's short and to the point. There's a lot more in http://kx.com/q/d/ if you are interested.
I can reverse the same advice at you - just give your app away for free. What? you want to charge for it?

We try to create an incentive for people to share code - we publish both free and commercial code components, and we leave the licensing decisions to the authors. Who are you to say everyone must give their code away for free? their work has no value if it's not free? I'm a big fan of free open-source (cause really, who doesn't like to get stuff for free), but you shouldn't deride people who decide to make a business out of it.

In fact, I would argue that the code has more value from the application, since it can be used by others to create their own businesses. So why should it always be given away for free?

Many successful commercial open-source companies are the forefront of the open-source ecosystem (redhat, MySQL, Magento). They support it as much as free open-source does, and you need both for good balance.
Second hit on the Google results for "linode bitcoin incident" is this: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cloud-service-linode-hacke...
> The argument was rather that the barriers to entry are too high (very high capital costs etc.)

Really? You are saying this on Hacker News? Where we gather to assemble and identify our comparative advantages and engage in entrepreneurship with capital on the order of thousands of dollars?

You can also be a agricultural entrepreneur or a mining entrepreneur or steel entrepreneur. Admittedly, the competition in these arenas is indeed very stiff, and they have invested a lot of money in efficient production. As an individual, you have little comparative advantage in such industries. But if you have some insight into how to make these industries even more efficient, then you will have no problems securing income or even starting a consulting business.

> This creates self-perpetuating oligopolies.

I disagree. The bigger they are, and especially once the economies of scale diminish as the market is saturated, the harder they fall. Waste and communication issues provide a natural limit. We run into problems when the state intervenes to keep dinosaurs alive. What's good for GM is good for the country, and all that.

> By the way, the whole point of the economy is to enable consumption.

Yep, consumption is enabled by production. Human needs and wants are limitless. If we actually lived in a world of abundance and not scarcity, people would not need jobs and there would be no need for production. We would lounge around all day in the land of milk and honey.

> If there was no consumption, there would be no point to economic activity.

Consumption will never go away. We consume food, water, shelter, etc. The only way consumption goes away is if humans go away. And when humans (or preference-satisfying agents, to be clear) go away, then economic activity ceases.
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I'm not forgetting. The make tools are not part if the language and irrelevant. Most C developers I know avoid extensions for portability reasons. The cruft part doesn't matter much for this discussion either, you can start from scratch if you want like TCC. The language definition of Go requires some things that C does not for any reasonable implementation. I think it is much more reasonable to think a C implementation will be much simpler.
For perspective, Bradly Manning his under 24 hour gaurd and observation. He must strip nude every morning before his female and male guards. He is allowed no mail. He never sees the sky or breathes fresh air.

Some of this is for his protection they say.

Assange is wise to fear the wrath of the USA and its special friend the UK.
So I'll get down voted for this but it needs to be said: this is very cool and is a great proof of concept for the direction things are going. However, if you're promoting a commercial product, event, etc., you could have just used flash--it would be trivialish to implement, perform better, and have no cross browser issues--although no iOS to be fair...

As it stands, how many people will hit the site, see it's not working because they have the wrong browser version, and leave?
I just think that if they're really worried about such lawsuit, they would make secure boot also optional on ARM platforms.

The way it's currently done just looks like a setup for making a claim on windows 9 release "see, there's nothing wrong with enforcing it on ARM, we're going to enforce it on x86 too".
What I was inferring from your comment was

What about the americans who move to berlin because they can hardly breathe in the USA anymore? Since this happens, it shows that Berlin is a haven for people who feel oppressed.

That was my interpretation. You also said that the assumption of German strictness was outdated, implying that Germans have become more relaxed. Working with that interpretation, my point was that maybe Germany didn't get better, but the US got worse which by default makes Germany look better. I then implied that using Berlin as the capital of the free doesn't work, since there are more free places even in the EU. Basically: maybe Germany hasn't become more relaxed, but other places have become more strict. If I was looking to escape the tyranny of the US, I wouldn't think of going back home to Germany. The authoritarian nature of the US vs Germany reside on two entirely different and almost incomparable planes.
NearlyFreeSpeech is very cheap and they even give you a shell with gcc (and I've run uploaded and run Go apps). They do require the applications to be static or CGI, though.
Should you use delayed execution, materialization, or memoization?
Agree with this. App discovery is rough for devs and users. From a dev perspective, it's hard to stick out. There's some fantastic apps out there that get lost in all the noise.

From a user perspective, the goal of discovery is to find the best apps that match my interests. This goal is hard to reach because of a poor user experience paired with inefficiencies in search and the download process.

It's this culmination of factors that makes app discovery a headache.
The "shared limited resource" is the pool of buyers.
"He is not being pursued for bravely standing up to an oppressive regime. He is being pursued for taking sexual advantage of two women."

Ah, there's where we have to part ways. I believe that's willful ignorance of the situation.
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Although it still wouldn't be a cost-effective use of time, a sufficiently peeved customer could file a small-claims suit for a return of the fee (or some portion of it).
At the time, though, most people were just happy to find an easy solution to Rails hosting. I think TextDrive was the first provider in that price range that actually supported Rails. (Remember, this was before Passenger and all that made it easy to host Rails.)
According to michaelhoffman, the FAQ said this: "Q: How long is it good for? A: As long as we exist."

Seems pretty clear cut to me.

(Not sure this is accurate, though. I did find it repeated in a forum discussing Joyent in 2006.)
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> "...and noticed that you are one of the few customers that are still on our early products..."

One of the few? Cool. It's not costing you that much to keep them on their lifetime plan. Surely its not worth the negative PR?

Not sure what Joyent is thinking.
What does it matter why gold and silver became 2 of the most reliable stores of value. Fact is they are both in limited supply, they both are labour intensive to 'produce', they both have a tradition desirabilty, and they both have been used as a medium of wealth for as long as people have had access to them.

> There is nothing actually valuable about some rotten piece of metal, or at least, their industrial uses can't back up their price.

Not valuable compared to what? A string of bits identifying some kind of cryptographic hash? Give me a break. If you really think it will be Bitcoins that will provide for your well-being after a complete monetary collapse, sooner than tangible, hard assets such as gold, you should get your head checked.

Forgetting about gold for a moment, go check how many proven, explorable reserves of silver there are right now, and at what rate they are being dug up for industrial use.

> Good luck when the gold bubble pops.

People have been saying this since as long as I can remember. Wait until the bubble pops... It just shows a complete lack of understanding of what actually constitutes a bubble, in economic terms. But feel free to disagree, who am I to tell you how to manage whatever fortune you have managed to gather.

That said, anyone with a brain will make sure they diversify into different asset classes. Apparently you seem to think I'm a goldbug or something, but this couldn't be farther from the truth.
It generates auto-docs, which are useful. It's just a ridiculously verbose way to do it, and it would be preferable if the documentation could be generated without the repetitive comment.
Unless we're talking about American Airlines' Lifetime Pass.
Ridejoy levels-up. Awesome jobs guys! It looks fantastic.
MS and other underwriters destroyed over 50B in capital in last 3 big IPOs. This is economic terrorism.
I wrote the article to discuss two things - first, my personal issue with VCs backed apps that could've been great small businesses instead, and second, to answer the point made by the article I reference at the beginning, which cites long and closed development cycle as the cause to the failure of many mobile apps.

Maybe I didn't make the transition between the two as good as it could've been, I'm not a professional writer. Thanks for the positive feedback though :)
Nuclear power generation isn't extremely practical for NZ, because it normally comes in large chunks which we don't have the population to support in most places.

Plus we've got like 70% hydro or something anyway, so we're already doing relatively well as far as burning fossil fuels for power goes.
> traces aid debugging, profiling and obviate logging.

As a heavy Common Lisp user, coming from an environment where this sort of functionality has been standard for decades, I can easily say that it certainly does not "obviate logging," and it's entirely inappropriate for profiling. I hope the code's better than the ad copy.
This is my next: Windows 8
This misses the point so ridiculously badly. As I said on twitter yesterday.

Is there a chance in hell that he is being extradited for these crimes if the US didn't want him for leaking documents? Once you realize the answer is a firm no, this whole side story becomes irrelevant. There is no way Sweden is extraditing a rapist from the UK UNLESS someone like the US puts on pressure because of something else.
This is similar to a realization I had a few years ago about my own career and training. I got it in my head that my company should provide training to use the newest technologies for their benefit. It only took a few years of the "it's not broken so don't fix it" culture to realize they don't care how it works, as long as it works. And that I am responsible for my own growth. The cost is using my own free time and resources, the value (aside from learning) is that I get to choose what I will learn, hello JQuery/Ruby/MongoDB/Heroku.

TLDR: Growing on your own is more fun and enriching than being dependent on others.
I really like working with Bluehost (http://www.bluehost.com/). They are amazingly cheap shared hosting plans targeted at non-administrators, but if you are willing to provide a copy of your government ID (as insurance against naughtiness) they will provide shell access. Their admins are very accommodating about letting me run my own stuff as long as it won't impact other users of the server.
Much suckage. Lifetime means lifetime. It wouldn't be too much out of the way to provide a small host for "lifetime" users. I have complained to joyent.
There are already thin client wallets. These connect to "blockchain servers" and grab the relevant transactions for your accounts from those. You still maintain control of your address(es) and thus your funds. No need to download the whole blockchain. That is really only needed for those that _want_ to or those that run services. The point is that you _can_ be a full participant in the network if you want.
Is there a limit to how tall buildings can get?