skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also relevant, from Wikipedia:

"Although most persons with diplomatic immunity carry diplomatic passports, having a diplomatic passport is not the equivalent of having diplomatic immunity. A grant of diplomatic status, a privilege of which is diplomatic immunity, has to come from the government of the country in relation to which diplomatic status is claimed. Also, having a diplomatic passport does not mean visa-free travel. A holder of a diplomatic passport must obtain a non-diplomatic visa when traveling to a country where he is not currently nor is going to be accredited as a diplomat, if visas are required to nationals of his country."

More frequently, I hear of UK embassies not offering full diplomatic protection to their non-political staff in foreign countries. If you're sending someone from your Tourism Board to the British embassy in Thailand, you simply don't want the hassle of having to specifically revoke his diplomatic privilege when he shows up in Pattaya with a dead hooker, where you're happy to give them diplomatic car plates so the traffic police don't try and get 500THB from them for speeding... I assume this is an international trend, rather than something the Brits thought up.
yup, just broke through $20.00 at 10:00am EDT
If you think "enterprise" when someone says "distributed system," then you are not talking about the same kind of thing that jandrewrogers and I are talking about. We're talking about high performance computing (HPC), where the communication patterns among nodes in a cluster can be complex and dominate performance. I disagree with his strong statement that if something like ZMQ works for you, it's not a distributed system, but otherwise, everything he has said is spot on.
> As Western countries have overvalued their currencies
Please explain this chart to me
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Dollar_v...
Angie's List Takes a Wallop on Wall Street
You still need capable developers to build a good product. The goal is to reduce the time they spend on solved problems.
Diaspora’s (YC S12) Next Act: Social Remixing Site Makr.io
I have started to think about it. You just have to consider things like what happens when the lenders want their coins back and users have valid short orders out. Think about the incentive here. The lender is giving his coins to people who he knows are betting the price will drop. This means that when the price does start to drop the lender could want to sell the coins to prevent further loss. However, the other user (the one who got the lent coins) may not be ready to return then.

There was a service that allowed shorting (Bitcoinica). But all that seemed to come to a very abrupt and painful end. While it was running it did serve a valuable purpose.
Interestingly, visiting cloudflare from Germany get's me redirected to de.cloudflare.com, which, being down (according to the site itself) seems quite funny to me.

Wanted to take a look around, encountered site down and tested with chrome (adblock plus and ghostery activated) and firefox 15 (clean).

hope nothing serious. I really love reading these accounts, as they show, what can be done to protect sites from malicious requests.
When I remap my fonts for accessibility reasons I can still see an SVG. However I'm left with tons of little boxes on Github's website where the buttons belong. SVG could be used for those buttons and they would get the same result.
The second question is something I also can't find an answer to.
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Yes, sorry about that. Kernel panic occurred on the www server and it's being brought back up now.
Learning From Rails' Failures
Stop worrying about the financial and regulatory know how and just try out your idea. You might find it goes nowhere and you will have wasted your time thinking about "regulations". No one is going to shut down your website making 10$ a month and if you do start to grow then you will be able to pay the right people to deal with the right problems.
Various media I've read makes the same claim that arresting Assange would violate the Vienna convention, including the linked article from GP. Seems like the main topic is this:

Article 31. The host nation may not enter the consular premises, and must protect the premises from intrusion or damage. [0]

I don't really believe the UK is going to march into the embassy and take Assange; can you imagine the political fiasco that would arise? The letter was probably meant to add pressure to use as a negotiating tactic.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Consular_R...
Actually arguing the opposite as you say "how many embassies offer protection to famous rape suspects" is silly, because he is not being offered asylum because he is a rape suspect so effectively its as meaningful a question as "How many embassies offer protection to people born in Townsville, Queensland".
Megaupload case: New Zealand court wants FBI evidence
$FB dipping below $20
I had really good luck on dribbble and didnt even need to get an account. Prices were reasonable to about $150 a page. How did you contact them?
This is a really relevant article. These days there are legions of programmers who don't think about underlying issues and just throw clever hacks in to get things working and move on. Worse yet, some of these types end up in managerial roles where they expect others to work as quickly and sloppily as they used to.
Age has no effect on Software Liberalism
Drone attack.

Just to clarify, I'm not wearing a tinfoil hat, I just have seen the circumstances of some drone attacks: against US citizens in places where no war was declared and with collateral damage shrugged off. From the US perspective, it is an easy means of getting rid of people they don't like with neither the need for judicial proceedings nor formal declaration of war. The only thing that is really stopping them right now is that Assange is currently in a highly populated part of the UK, and not in the middle of nowhere in Yemen.
Swedish law demands 2 stages of interviews - the second one (the "criminal proceedings" that are "equivalent to being charged" in the words of the High Court) is the one that has to take place in Sweden. If the suspected murderer was the pre-charge interview, that explains the discrepancy - if not that's very significant. Do you happen to know which set they were?
Weird assessment I think. Many people use Google and an Android based mobile device fits much better. For example I get Chrome (the real one) and so on. With an iPad I would have to switch to Safari and iCloud to achieve what I could get more easily with a Nexus 7.

My father wants an iPad but on the other hand, he uses Windows with Firefox. You can't sync your bookmarks or anything with that combination.

I wonder if people think about those things when buying an iPad and wondering what to do, when they at home and can't access their bookmarks or anything?
No: Ecuador inflamed the situation by deliberately posting a bad translation of the letter sent to them by the UK. Britain never said they would 'storm' the embassy. They merely reminded Ecuador that their lawyers believed they could legally enter the embassy given appropriate notice (7 days). That is hardly 'storming'.
Except, it's actually a lot easier than stopping global piracy. All you have to do is invest enough money into mining equipment to overpower 50% of the network and then you have the ability to stop all transactions. The cost of this is well within the ability of probably any government and will be for some time to come.
Mental models. They underlie everything.
Windows 8 review: Yes, it's that bad
The UK's already "suggested" that they're willing to revoke Ecuador's diplomatic privilege. Discarding the question of if they can legally or politically do so for the moment, what difference would it make to them if Assange is in Ecuador's embassy or a crate with their flag stamped on it?
> I think the UK is working on a technicality.

It's not a technicality, diplomatic ties are broken and restarted all the time.

> The UK risks it's ties with Ecuador

Arguably, Ecuador risked it's ties with the UK first by habouring a wanted suspect.

> Ecuador pretty much has to give him asylum or risk looking to be diplomatically weak.

If they can't spin "no, he's wanted for rape, he should go on trial", they ARE weak, and not just diplomatically.

> except for leaks of Ecuadorian issues

How.. convenient for Ecuador. http://www.hrw.org/americas/ecuador
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Wow. I guess they hope they will have stabalized things after a few more quarters.
Relevant text from Vienna Convention on Consular Relations:

1. The premises of the mission shall be inviolable. The agents of the receiving State may not enter them, except with the consent of the head of the mission.

2. The receiving State is under a special duty to take all appropriate steps to protect the premises of the mission against any intrusion or damage and to prevent any disturbance of the peace of the mission or impairment of its dignity.

3. The premises of the mission, their furnishings and other property thereon and the means of transport of the mission shall be immune from search, requisition, attachment or execution.
A Mutual Fund Master, Too Worried to Rest
At which point other technological measures will be taken, whether that be improved client software or what have you. You can't fundamentally stop people from exchanging hashes, which is what bitcoin is.
Mendeley HTTP bug tricks visitors into adding papers
You do know the UK has its hands tied here? The European Union requires member states to respond to EU Arrest Warrants. Sweden issued one, the UK must respond to it. Failing to appropriately enforce such a warrant would be a very serious matter.
I didn't notice any part of that being "so slow". Sure, the system UI isn't quite as snappy as it could be, but Mozilla has several months to work on it. Usually most of the visible performance optimizations happen near then end, and I bet they'll get it pretty smooth.
Is it just no flight for helicopters? How about blimps? There's really got to be a solution here. It's a technical problem and we're technical people.
>Where "various forces" is furious handwaving for the sheer randomness that made that set available to you.

You keep using that word, random. I don't think it means what you think it means.

A coin toss is random. C picking up for the stuff we did in the eighties is not random. Lisp losing traction after the AI winter is not random. Javascript gaining traction with the web is not random.

That the creation of C was effected by random events (the experiences of Ken Thompson, the position of AT&T, the decision to provide the source, etc), does not mean that the success was random.

The success was logical and repeatable given the needs of the era and how the language came to be. To put it in another way, if another language had taken the role of C in the industry at the time, it would have been pretty similar to C, and with external qualifications (availability of source, portability, etc) similar to C.

From this aspect, the (random) fact that it was C after all and not some other C-like language, doesn't matter at all. The language that would have filled C's role would have quacked like C, and that is the non-random, and substantial part.

Read the "Worse is better" for some background.
doesn't work under Chrome Version 20.0.1132.57 :(
The embassy doesn't have a paved space large enough for the first 5 feet of the bus to fit?
I'm pretty sure nearly anybody who seeks asylum is breaking some law in their home country.

The whole point of asylum is to protect against persecution, which is usually justified in the home country under some law.
The author is an accomplished computer scientist in his own right but he's recently become more (in)famous for his critiques of Haskell in his new blog: http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/

Here's a recent HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4380900
Immediately crashes iPad Safari :-(
Singapore team grabs grant prize recent Box hackathon, excites Box's CEO
Have you taken a taxi outside the U.S. ? :) . In Peru, you had to haggle how much you wish to pay for your ride.

http://goperu.about.com/od/gettingaroundperu/qt/Taxis-In-Per...

"Taxi Prices in Peru

Peruvian taxis don't run on meters, so you need to arrange a price with the driver before accepting the ride. Taxi drivers usually try to overcharge, especially when confronted by a foreign tourist. If you have no idea how much the fare should be, try reducing the driver's price by a small amount (if the driver says 12 nuevos soles, offer 10). It's always a good idea to ask someone beforehand, such as a hotel receptionist, how much a taxi to your destination should cost."
Several times I've been a company that says "the way the rest of the industry does X is stupid."

Sometimes we broke the rest of the market, sometimes we captured a really big piece, sometimes we had to give up and do what they all do.
Didn't he already create Vista?
amazing!
adding symmetry allows to create nice pictures easily.
Anecdotally, it seems to be working. When I asked my Boston Uber driver last night about his workload recently he said that it's been much, much higher in the last week. He also attributed it to people hearing about the service for the first time due to the controversy and increased media coverage. He expects it to increase even more as the college students return over the next few weeks.
I wonder if building these mental models has become more difficult with the rise of multi-layered/full-featured programming frameworks. I'm thinking of things like Spring or Rails. A given webapp might involve a dozen layers or so: a database language (SQL), a database wrapper (Hibernate or ActiveRecord), a server side language, templating languages, client side languages (javascript), CSS, HTML, etc... etc...

Understanding all of that seems overwhelming. IOW, being a "full stack" generalist is getting harder, imho.
What you meant to say was you can't stop people from broadcasting transactions. Which is true. But you can stop transactions from getting into the blockchain which is "what bitcoin is". A technologically savy attacker could forsee any counter measures and account for them in their initial attack. I haven't seen any counter measures proposed which would be a foolproof way to subvert a well planned 51% attack to stop legitimate transaction processing.
Well they are trying to hit Assange with the Espionage Act, though the exact punishment for that hasn't readily turned up in my searches. If they could nail him with treason, he would certainly be up for the death penalty, however, since Assange is not a US citizen and therefore doesn't owe allegiance to the US, I don't think he would be able to be charged with it (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381)
Capturing the flag isn't everyone who participates' goal.

In the first Stripe CTF, I played for the first 3 levels, learned some things, then stopped. But I considered it a success for myself. I'm sure others did similar things.

Capturing the flag wasn't something most people could do in a short time, so having 250/12k even accomplish it I'd think was a rather high conversion rate.
it isn't solving any real problem for the user. It is only creating nuisance.

And what makes you think they give two shits about what users want? Anyone who has been paying any attention at all to the computer industry for the last three decades would have learned by now that Microsoft doesn't serve "users"; they have always been the "safe" choice for "business" ("no one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft!"), and recently they have become dogs in the laps of the crony capitalist cartels of the entertainment industry. Microsoft has always been about anti-competition and locking the user to their platform; this recent offensive of "secure boot" just gives a bonus of the DRM that the entertainment racketeers so badly want.
At what point in a neophyte programmer's life should he/she switch from the "immediate & non-stop coding" Khan Academy approach recently discussed here on HN to this Ken Thompson "take a moment and think first" approach? Isn't there the danger that they might not be able or motivated to make the switch?
I'm dissapointed that YC isn't more focused on teaching strategy - how to attack an entrenched competitor by being different in a meaningful way. Southwest is one of the great strategy stories of all time. Touch of Modern may be hard working decent folks, but they have no apparent strategy.

I understand the intent. You're hoping that New York Times picks this up and writes a trend piece. Yeah, I know, all is fair in love and war.

I just hate to see YC turn into a more self-righteous version of the Samwer brothers. At least the Samwers have the good taste to keep their public pronouncements to a minimum. I've never heard the Samwers claim to be victimized.
Why is this utter shocking nonsense being voted up? Windows 8 boots and installs on systems without UEFI. Does OSX?
Hurt his credibility? Well, I'd say a man who's modus operadi is exposing 'corruption' in government and then seeks asylum in a country with a terrible freedom of speech record does damage his credibility somewhat.
What an interesting idea. Surely this must take advantage of some in-font scripting… if I remember correctly there is some type of ECMAScript variant inside OpenType.
Amnesty International != The UK government
Bitcoinica sued for $460,000 by 'out-of-pocket' punters
One should always try to write well modularized code with lots of good abstraction barriers so that you only ever have to have a fraction of the complexity of the system in your head at a time. If you had to understand everything down to the transistor level you could never even understand a Hello World program. That's because the language you use gives you good abstractions so you don't have to worry about linking, operating systems, memory allocation, etc. When writing complex systems you should strive to create such good abstractions yourself.
Getting 12 miles into the North Sea or English Channel without getting intercepted is a non-trivial undertaking.
In terms of the asylum principal, this move actually undermines it somewhat. It's intended for politically motivated charges, not simple criminal ones such as the one faced by Assange.

There may be a risk of an extradition request from the US but that can't override the fact that there is a serious crime that needs to be properly investigated and that Assange appears to have questions to answer.

And it's not as if he's being sent to somewhere with a shitty human rights record or a dodgy judicial system. It's Sweden. Even if he doesn't trust them as a member of the Council of Europe they're signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights so he has the right of appeal all the way up to the European Court of Human Rights. I honestly can't think of too many places I'd rather be if I wanted my rights respected. It's certainly way above Ecuador on my list.
Steve Yegge - Programming Politically Part 2
7 astuces pour améliorer la Protection de son ordinateur
On my old Kindle, I found pdfs in general were pretty bad--how was it on a computer?
The problem with this argument is nobody has produced any evidence to show Assange is 'persecuted'. Sweden issued a legitimate European Arrest Warrant, and the UK allowed Assange to appeal that to the highest court.

There is no evidence that he is being persecuted by the US in this matter: if Ecuador has some they should publish it.
This is a really cute hack.

That said, the pricing is absurd. There are numerous data analysis and graphing programs that produce better looking, more customizable charts and graphs with a simpler UI, most of which cost significantly less than $129 despite being much more powerful.
Mandela wasn't accused of rape last time I checked. I think there's a somewhat different level of self interest involved.
No he is not. He is accused.
git-annex doesnt currently support windows, but changing that is on the roadmap provided on kickstarter
He's not a UK citizen so that's not it. The Australians aren't calling for his extradition or arrest so that's not it either.

It could just be that he had bail terms set and broke them and the Swedes want a chat about those pesky rape allegations. Don't invent something where it doesn't exist.
I interpret the article in a way that these stocks CAN be sold from today on but don't have to.
The front page of your site does not do the rest of the site justice. The page you show in forrst is significantly better looking than what I see when I go to your home page. Oh wait..do you still have the old design in place?
There's nothing stopping someone from making a website, putting up pictures of you and putting your name next to them. Whether you have a facebook account or not.
I'd say Dojo is much closer to YUI in scope and purpose.

As to why it's not more popular? Likely marketing. Dojo isn't sexy. It's been around for a very long time.

You'll notice that a lot of discussions around things like module loading reference Dojo as an inspiration.
If you're only a suspect, and haven't been charged, you don't have to talk to the police at all. Picking a venue seems minor in comparison.
Everything seems so extreme about this saga: a "leaker" is accused of not using contraception (i.e., leaking) in a (possibly) covert plot by the US to subject him to the very same treatment his leaks so shockingly revealed. Then he turns himself into a public target for the US and its allies, thus rendering their actual disregard for human rights and tendency for over-the-top aggressiveness explicit and embarrassing, in a manner which is actually much more effective and public than his site's leaks.

A bona fide political circus, in which the main performer, Assange, turns out to be an extremely talented clown.
Interesting. So how does this affect people who have non-beating pacemakers?
Respecting a minor treaty on european police procedures is not worth jeopardising the Vienna Convention -- which is the cornerstone of any such treaty in the first place.

European rules can and will be broken whenever national governments see fit, often without real consequences. You should know by now, after years of haggling on broken treaties about economy, national budgets etc.
Besides, the UK government could simply broker an agreement between Sweden and Ecuador, where Sweden renounces the warrant in exchange for something else. Obviously, they are not even trying. This is what Amnesty should complain about, and loudly.

So no, the UK government has not had its hands tied. Craig Murray states that Foreign Office civil servants rightly opposed the decision to pressure the embassy, and were overruled by William Hague. This is because they know what they're doing, whereas Hague is just the last of a long list of amateurish Tory hacks.
How to make Twitter "speak"
It certainly didn't a few weeks ago when I tried it.
I'd venture to say that for a blind non-participant the difference isn't necessarily that large.

Meanwhile, aggression covers a lot of ground, which includes clubbing someone over the head, and generally being a jerk. But the fact that someone uses this word with two "g"s and two "s"s to describe some part of the process of building a happy family does not mean that other people are going to automatically know how to build a happy family after having read the paragraph that uses those words...
The "embassy" is not a compound, it's just an apartment in a normal building.
People who thought the IPO was 100% overpriced.
Why Zero Raised to the Zero Power Is One
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I'm a web app developer, mostly. I've recently wrote about my setup & toolbox (http://goshakkk.name/my-toolbox/). Shortly:

Macbook Air 13" (OS X ML) + Thunderbolt Display 27".

Terminal: Terminal.app, zsh, oh-my-zsh. Solarized theme.

Editor: Vim, Janus, bunch of plugins. With Solarized theme too.

Technologies: Ruby, Rails. MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, Backbone, CoffeeScript.

Deployment: Heroku.