skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't very well ridicule my point when you haven't understood it; when you do, I will welcome any genuine and honest criticism you have.

- Ecuador decides to harbor a fugitive from British law. This itself is not 'standard practice' and it may or may not be justified.

- This alone can create a sensitive, high-profile diplomatic situation. There is really no 'standard practice' for when an embassy harbors someone over a rape charge. It is already an international incident.

- That situation easily explains the sharpness of the exchange, including e.g. legal discussion of the UK's rights with respect to embassy closure - and, in reply, public statements to pressure the UK. In both directions, such sharpness is not at all unexpected for a dispute like this. There is no international law principle of 'well, it's only rape so there is nothing we can do about it.'

- So it is not necessary to assume other motives for the UK to explain the UK's actions (whether they are sensible actions or not is a separate issue from whether there are other motives - they can be idiots who are very concerned with some matter of the international relationship or principle far out of proportion with the practical importance of Assange)

- So it cannot serve as the basis to an 'argument to the best explanation' concluding with an ulterior UK motive

That's all I argued in the post you were replying to.

APART from that, you seem to want to talk about other things . I don't want to encourage you to conflate those with the argument I gave above, but it seems rude to ignore your distinct topic, so I'll write a paragraph about it as well.

I can't say that your reasoning makes sense to me: 'it is unreasonable for the UK to be the final arbiter, therefore Ecuador must be the final arbiter.' If this argument has a basis, you haven't stated it; by what principle do you reject 'it is unreasonable for Ecuador to be the final arbiter, therefore the UK must be'? Insofar as they are both sovereign states and one does not start out with partisan assumptions, any legal basis for settlement would lie in the mutually agreed terms for the hosting of the embassy. And the upshot of this is not 100% obvious because sovereign countries do have the right under international treaties to close embassies - although that does not necessarily mean it is a prudent thing to do in any case, or in this case.
Show HN: Visual diff for 3D printable models
Facebook shares slide as lockup period ends
In general yes, but in D* case the team is so small, that core devs do all work including UI and backend. Unless I misunderstood their situation.
Thanks for the input! We have plenty of local/ independent stores signed up, and want to have a huge focus on that.

Baby Registries are coming up soon :)
Let's Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum
Yep, for v1 we don't have support for charts/graphs, but it's on the roadmap. In the meantime, we do have the option to export to PowerPoint for users who want to include graphs, tables, lens flares, or comic sans.
You're still not getting it.

> We're capable of thought, and bacteria aren't.

When the bad-ass aliens come along they'll say "We're capable of faster than light travel, humans aren't."

Think about this from the outside perspective for a second.
Photo printing for me at home is already effortless, its just costly. I prefer a method for far cheaper prints.
Another tiny nit: They don't need those "+" icon interactions. They could've just used the book rotation controls as-is. Popup books usually don't have buttons, at least not from my generation /getoffmylawn.
Could you list some of these?
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So, you are saying that the majority (or, too many? how much is 'too many') of people in Greece and Spain are lazy? I don't understand 'pick up the tab', but the 'dwindling actual [german] workforce' will also become soon lazy? Why is the german workforce dwindling? Because of some 'lazyness' that's catching german workers?

And then these workers will cease doing unpaid work (which e.g. encompasses stuff like running theater groups, looking after the elderlies, ...)? Of course they'll do, because now they have to work on underpaid jobs to 'prove their worth' to society and get enough food on the table for their families.

It is widespread thinking here in Germany that those on welfare are 'keeping the welfare coming in and acquiring luxuries; they don't seem particularly motivated to work'.
It is 'supported' by numerous shows (for whom? for those on welfare?) on TV.

It is on the other hand clearly refuted by a huge range of studies from various disciplines (economics, social studies).
Reminds me of Google Fiber offering free internet forever for a $300 install fee. I would trust that more if they would charge $5/month.
http://www.venturehacks.com is a good resource. There are a number of good books on the topic as well. And there's a lot of good info on Quora. And, of course, search the historical posts here at HN, there's a TON of good stuff here.

BUT... be aware, fundraising is only one aspect of creating a company, and not all companies even want/need to raise outside funding, and of those that do, not all need institutional funding. If you decide to launch something, make sure your focus is on creating something that creates value and has a valid business model... don't just focus on "how do we raise VC money"?
This sort of paranoia is really bizarre to see.

There are 7 billion people on this planet. For every absurd and stupid notion, there are millions of adherents. But people who think that humanity must never colonize other planets don't matter because:

1. They have no power

2. We're not going to colonize anything in the next few decades anyway; sending people to Mars would cost a trillion dollars and no one is interested in paying for that

I mean, you're taking something very simple, namely, a science organization takes some precautions to keep their scientific instrument from ruining the experiment it is going to conduct, and reinterpreting it as part of some vast conspiracy. That's...not healthy.
Are exits not extreme trailing indicators?
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I find it very interesting that I haven't seen anyone refute one amazingly central point in this entire affair: #1. A second interview essentially is a lead-up to being formally charged. If this is true, Assange was one step away from being charged before fleeing the country. I think that context, if true, is important.
2+2=5 for all liberal values of 4

2+2=null for all conservative values of math and science don't matter.
Most merchant agreements prohibit offering a discount for cash purchases. Those jewelers who do it are probably betting that they won't get caught and have their CC processing yanked.
What this means is that in effect everybody pays slightly higher prices in to cover the fees for accepting credit cards.
Contract damages aren't the price paid, they are the value received had the contract been honored. In this case that's probably considerably more.
I'll admit I haven't dealt with wedding registries much at all (really, I watched somebody use a registry kiosk at a store once and that's about it) but I was always under the impression that registries are generally pretty much public.
Almost makes me want to get married....NOT. but cool shtuff.
1. Our decisions will not impact the decisions of aliens

2. I don't see any reason why eradicating non-sentient bacteria is immoral. Outside perspective doesn't matter on this point; see 1.
Not true!

If you can list the street address of the Post Office along with the P.O. Box number the USPS will accept it.

The reason FedEx, UPS, DHL, TNT, etc "don't deliver" to P.O. Boxes is that they don't maintain the same database of "which post office has which P.O. Box for which zip code" that the USPS does. If they don't maintain this mapping, how is the delivery driver supposed to know where to go?
The man knows what to do
the man knows what to do the man knows what to do
What happens to advertising in a world of streams?
It makes me very sad to realize than many would say yes, it is.

Do you have a cite? Or are you talking about very many imaginary people?
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Hope for WebRTC: Google Pitches Tabcasting
Enterprise Software and Employee Satisfaction
This actually tracks w/ my experiences using MacRuby.

The REPL is kind of cool, but then he doesn't remember how to set the label text. There's no statement completion or help for him in the console, so he gives up. He's stuck. He'll spend way more time reading docs and figuring out Cocoa method sigs than just learning the XCode toolset and discovering methods in the editor.

That said, overall it's a good talk and I applaud his efforts at explaining the tool - I just think it's not clear RubyMotion is a net positive in terms of productivity.
Most countries don't make such a big deal of talking about freedom and liberty and democracy etc. Most countries don't call themselves 'the land of the free'.
it should still work with signal repeaters. Did you map the location first? If this is a new location (i.e. someone else hasn't mapped it yet), then what you want to do is select the floorplan in "Browse Floorplans". You should see a button to start mapping, hit it & follow the on-screen instructions (basically walk around and hit the "mark point" button or the volume up/down button after positioning yourself on the map). once you are done, hit stop mapping & hit yes to upload it to our servers for processing. after some time (maybe 2-5 minutes depending on load) you should be able to hit "Where Am I?" on the home screen to have it track your position.

Let us know if it's still not working for you.
Indeed, Antoine de Saint-Exupery said it best: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Unfortunately, as developers, we're always at odds with the reverse tendency, expressed by Zawinski's Law: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Abstract Visualization of Runtime Memory Behavior
This is definitely not free money. The problem I have with rewards cards is that they lead to higher prices (since the banks aren't gonna give back any of their fees to pay for the rewards) and therefore merchants have to raise their prices to compensate. So it becomes a bit of an arms race -where people who don't use reward cards end up paying more (since they pay higher prices without the small discount from the reward).
Excuse my ignorance, but if you're serving up app content through a webview pointing to your own server space, could you not just edit the html5 yourself and have the same effect as this service? is the benefit more to do with tight integration of the native iOS UI components..?
app.environment.corruption = [];
Also: How does the parcel service get into the locker? Are the lockers inside a retail store front or more like a vending machine that could be (outside) anywhere?
I'm going to tell you what I did when I was 14 (I had played with HTML from 12 but nothing else) and was just starting out.

I didn't care what I did as long as it was legal and made money from $0. The result was the first 'venture' I did was "forum boosting" - I literally was paid by forums owners to create fake accounts on their forums, and post on them.

Now, I'm not telling you to go and do forum boosting (even though its profitable some 8 years later) what I'm trying to say is, do you want to make money from it right now?

If YES, then who cares if someone else has done it or if its better. Look at Betamax Vs. VHS (amongst a ton of other examples) just build something that makes money and ensure everyone knows about it, who cares if its not as good or even just as good because if everyone knows about yours and not about the other just as good/better service, you win.

If NO, then get involved in some open source project(s) and when something you seem interested in appears, then do that.

If the answer is a mixture of the two, then you still probably should get involved in some open source project(s) so then when something does come along you find interesting then you can just do that.

Who cares if someone else has done it or you don't think you can do it better right now because, you may actually be undervaluing yourself and can actually do it better than those guys.
Hard to imagine that any life that formed independently on Mars would ever be confused with life tranplanted there from Earth...... unless life on Earth came from Mars to begin with?
But to match user queries, you need to have scraped the craigslist content, right? Isn't that against their TOU?
Some, I'm willing to believe, already feel very adamantly that mankind is a pestilence and should be prevented from spreading.

Oh rubbish. It's basic lab protocol that you don't contaminate your samples, and we're at the very early stages of sample-gathering. We're just at the stage of figuring out whether Mars has ever had liquid water or not, so your worries about budget interplanetary travel being held up by interfering bureaucrats are almost comically premature.
You can discern those through thinking, too. "Well, it got to this point and broke... hm... well, what do I know about this environment at this point. What assumptions am I making? Since this assumption isn't being fulfilled, it must be this issue... and that was caused here"

Also, this was pair-programming, both people are making sure that what's written is what's intended to be written and so those issues should be (mostly) gone.
I asked for a full refund. They came back with "half".
10 successful entrepreneurs share the apps that boost their biz productivity
Any of these on your top apps list?
Ask HN: Anonymous vs. real identities for your communities?
I'm not sure whether we've seen this argument before, but I am curious what people's thoughts are regarding online communities (whether they be blogs, chatrooms, websites, forums) and your identity on them?

Chris Poole (founder of 4chan) had this awesome talk about the fact that your identity, not your audience identifies the context and substance of online interaction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Zs74IH0mc

Perhaps Chris isn't absolutely right - but I know, from experience, that I've struggled not conforming to one way of interacting online when my identity is public (I can only be one kind of 'Joe', but I can make many people when I am 'spez', 'tsurantino', etc). There is an additional struggle to get the attention of certain people when they can easily identify your background (vs. you being an anonymous name).

I'd like to stir up the discussion in light of Facebook/Twitter integration into site user authentication becoming more prominent. Communities like reddit, Hacker News and the discrete forum on topic X thrive on anonymity.

I'd like to hear thoughts people have about how they designed their user systems, communities and what thoughts they've had in regards to the identities of their users (if they even thought about it).
Literally die the hour you lose your job? No. But lose a job and become homeless? Or desperately find another job that barely supports your family and you end up living in poverty in a neighborhood with high crime? Almost every major US city.
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In addition to the post you linked to, here are two additional lists of popular low end VPS providers that were posted at LowEndBox:

http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/top-providers-2011q1/

http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/top-low-end-vps-providers-2012...

Here's a list of popular low end VPS providers at the LowEndTalk Wiki that is based on the same data used for the above lists:

http://www.lowendtalk.com/wiki/top-providers

Here are the popular low end VPS providers I made note of when I researched this subject recently:

http://buyvm.net/ (limited availability; see http://doesbuyvmhavestock.com/)

https://hostigation.com/

http://www.ramhost.us/ (owns http://tinyvz.com/ and http://tinykvm.com/)

http://www.securedragon.net/

In addition to LowEndBox and LowEndTalk, the following two sites had some good info about low end VPSs:

http://www.vpsadvice.com/

http://freevps.us/

I didn't end up playing with any low end VPSs because none of the providers I evaluated offer users the ability to clone VPSs, which is one of my requirements.
Yeah, I dunno, I'm not getting it. It's a synchronous experience, but none of the pictures I've seen so far are funny. Not one iota of this whole discussion matters if it's not entertaining.
Founder of 4chan on the importance of your online identity (2011)
There is no objective way to answer this. You are probably talking about rapid prototyping languages. The most popular ones in use today are Python and possibly Java (?). Dialects of Lisp have a strong tradition of being good rapid prototyping languages and there is potential in languages like Haskell. I'm obviously talking about general purpose languages here and therein lies the problem. Different languages have different resources, different communities and perform better at different tasks. It not possible to go in more detail. However this is not a question that you should be asking yourself because the answer will come naturally with time. Try to experience and learn as much and with time you'll have a preference for a language when you just want to hack something together. That's your answer.
How Transportation Costs Affect Home Affordability
oops didn't mean to use the tracking link. Here is where the article lives: http://mashable.com/2012/08/15/tablet-mobile-apps-business/
That is not a reason for early dismissal of the charges, however
Instagram bought for $250 million, not $1 Billion
I agree also. I primarily work in Ruby but was pleasantly surprised with the updates for iOS 5. ARC support and the addition of storyboards really helped with the parts I disliked working with.

The only issue is that I would prefer to work with another editor. XCode just doesn't have some of the editor features I am used to with other IDEs.
HybridAuth: PHP Social Sign-on
I also forgot to mention - one might also make the argument that you are more likely to "own" your identity through anonymous registration (vs. Facebook/Twitter/Google). I'm not sure how valid that is - or whether that's even appropriate for this thread.
I don't think delirium was suggesting someone would keel over and die after N weeks without a job. Rather, not having a job makes paying for healthcare, eating well, owning or renting a home difficult or impossible (these are difficult for many people with jobs!). All of these are significant factors in increasing both life expectancy and quality of life.

While working solely to live longer and live decently doesn't have quite the same ring as working solely to avoid dying, the meaning of his statement seems clear.
Yes but if your small business only does $60k in CC transactions it's likely on its last legs to begin with. You would need more to cover your expenses also...unless your business is very cash-heavy. At $200k in transactions that $3300 yearly fee is 1.65% which is a lot lower than what most retailers are getting (which is in the area of 3% to my understanding).
Organizing Go code
Perhaps given a full blown xenobiology laboratory staffed with hundreds of the world's top scientists and every instrument money can buy, it would be easy to distinguish earth-borne bacteria from non-earth-borne bacteria. But since we've only got a car-sized rover with a handful of instruments and no scientists on site, we need to be more careful.

In any event, how exactly do you differentiate earth-borne bacteria from non-earth-borne bacteria? What's your rubric?
What's at Stake in Putin’s Culture War
Airport VPN hacked using Citadel malware | The Hacker News
Is there a credible report of that?
This is only possibly true if the 20 year old made his sole contribution in 1999. The more reasonable case is the 20 year old made his first contribution in 1999, and now has 13 years of contributions plus gains.

It's highly unlikely that 3 years of gains from 2008-present would outstrip 13 years of contributions + gains + reinvested dividends.
Or not:

"Update: This is a bit different than we thought. As it turns out, the shares Accel intends to sell are a majority of what it is now eligible to sell. Its total holdings exceeded 150 million shares. TNW apologizes for the confusion."
Every time I have a question like this, I like to just do a reset session on my life goals and what is I want to accomplish in the next 6 mo to a year. When doing this I try to let my brain roam free with ideas and not get caught up in the 'how' or 'what's possible' thoughts. Hopefully after a good hour session, some really great stuff will surface for you. Best o luck!
yes, its on the roadmap. a full photo api is next.
Mystery malware wreaks havoc on energy sector computers
Based on the above, I'm pretty sure you've never actually read the Space Trilogy. Lewis isn't advocating for or against anything. The stories are allegorical.

Setting them on planets other than Earth (although the third book takes place exclusively on Earth) provides an opportunity to examine closely-held beliefs commonly taken for granted.
These are STL files, which are used commonly in 3D printing. The models were generated by OpenSCAD (programming language for 3d modeling). As I've worked more on 3D models for 3D printing, I've been wishing for visual diffs in order to make it easier to collaborate with others.

Right now, it's a pre-populated demo of a robokitty (because the internet needs more cats). But soon, you'll be able to push to your own repos using git.

Let me know if you have some feedback. Thanks!
Read the submission guidelines:

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You want the actual court documents on the site? That is not going to happen.
I don't expect them to keep providing a shared hosting service in general. They do, however, have a unique obligation to provide something like it to lifetime customers.

Yes, it was a good deal, for which I got far most hosting than I paid - that was the entire point of the promotion. They needed money up front, I provided it in return for a lifetime account. It was absolutely supposed to be a good deal worth far more than was being paid. I have received more than $200 worth of hosting in 8 years.

I don't disagree that shared hosting is crappy. In fact, Joyent hosting was always crappy, truth be told. After the first couple of years, I moved my sites elsewhere. It was slow and unreliable. I didn't care because it was a good deal, but I needed better hosting for my sites.

How would I rate the service I received before the message? Poor. I don't host anything with Joyent - the quality isn't there.

I don't care about the hosting, in practical terms. I care about the weaseling and dishonesty towards the very people who backed them from the start.