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- Sweden refused to promise Ecuador that he would not be extradited to the US

- Sweden issued police alerts more befitting of an international terrorist suspect

- Assange was hit by these charges coincidentally just at the the time when he'd provoked the wrath of the US

- the charge they'd managed to conjure up is one for which there can be basically no exhonerating witnesses and no physical evidence, so they simply 'must' question him in person

- the supposed victims were tweeting about how excited they were to be with Assange seemingly after the alleged crime and also did not report it until later as if they were prompted by some other motivation

I'd put the odds of this being a legitimate criminal case at something like 0.0000034%
We may can meet in November, because I move over :) (I'm in Germany right now)
And it was a scandal. And it happened in secret. And it happened to people no one knew or cared about.

It's disgusting shit alright, but that won't happen to Julian Assange. Never ever. That's completely ridicoulos.

No one inside the Swedish government can or will want to pull something like this with Assange. I'm not sure how you can even begin to believe that.
Brazil, with a ~200m population, used a Keynesian approach after the crisis, investing in infra-structure, lowering interest rates and stimulating the consumer economy. Result: the country sailed through and kept growing.

I don't think the size of a country is much of an excuse for it can or can't do (see: China).
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Wow - compelling points here, hard to refute.
900MM-users div 180KK-servers = 5000 users/server

Considering only a fraction of that is concurrent users at any given time (maybe 10%), it still seem a bit excessive, but they're not running a web server, they're pushing data around so it's a bit different.

They also have to handle peak times and have redundancy.
Whatever the case about the political motivations, the police presence has nothing to do with it.

They're there to manage the crowds.
If someone cites some of your programming work 50 years after you finished working on it then you must have done something right.

From what I have heard from my father and others, editing punch cards was hell itself. The fact that TECO managed to bridge the punch card and hard disk storage eras could be viewed as some sort of miracle.

On another note, it it seems that Dan Murphy, who created TECO at DEC in 1962 - 1963, is still going strong. In 2009 The IEEE Annals of Computing History published this article authored by him (warning: pdf): http://tenex.opost.com/anhc-31-4-anec.pdf and earlier this year he updated his personal website: http://www.opost.com/dlm/
Why haven't you applied for a permanent residence?
Like the idea of having a Spotify-like UI for the vast amount of music on Youtube.

Not so much like the fact that it's pretty much Spotify's interface copied to the smallest detail.
Sigh.

Just one thing. no country will promise not to extradite someone. They can't. It's just not possible to promise something like that. How is that supposed to work? If (hypothetically) the US were to request Assange's extradition and if they had (hypothetically) evidence and valid reasons for doing so, Sweden would have to break their treaty.

Why do you believe it's possible to promise something like that? That's crazy.
From his speech:

"The next time somebody tells you that it is pointless to defend those rights that we hold dear [...] remind them how, in the morning, the sun came up on a different world, and a courageous Latin American nation took a stand for justice"

I am not sure a country with a pretty bad human rights record[1] (not the worst record in the world, but neither a very good one), with a government that has very limited free speech and where corruption is widespread, should be held up as a shining beacon of justice.

It is particularly ironic that Assange would directly criticise the US for posing a threat to freedom of speech and conveniently ignore that fact that the country he wants to seek asylum in has shut down radio stations and imprisoned newspaper editors who are critical of the current regime[2].

[1]:http://www.hrw.org/americas/ecuador
[2]:http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i8AIK9t2y...
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Politically motivated in this context clearly means related to Wikileaks and nothing else. All I want to say that it isn't.

That's why comments like yours are pedantic self-importance that only want to derail the discussion.
Thanks! I forgot to add it here in my post :)
You'll find that these facts are now irrelevant because they are temporarily sheltering Assange!

(I obviously don't endorse this but this is the revisionist perspective being used)
Solid execution. Looks beautiful, easy to use. Works. Thumbs up.
Yes - I think a good locker system is a more feasible solution.
> as we get older we tend to immediately place things we experience into categories and then move onto processing these abstractions rather than continuously observing reality directly and unfiltered.

Wow, this makes so much sense, and accounts for why (in general) people get less receptive to new ideas as they get older: no categories to place the abstractions in.
Please clarify how reliable government-issued ID impacts personal freedom. You're making an awfully big leap here.

This argument seems to be based on an assumption of the right to anonymously take out loans, make bank transactions, and conduct business with the government. That right simply doesn't exist. People don't have a right to passable fake ID either, which is all this system really prevents.

Requiring ID for activities that shouldn't require it (prepaid cell phones, flight, all electronic forms of US dollars) is an invasion of privacy. Having more secure ID for activities that do isn't.
As an aside:

>When Plutarch wrote 2,000 years ago "an imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all Republics," he was not parroting socialist dogma (1,500 years before the birth of Socialism).

While it may not have been named or had a lot of the modern dogma attached, what could best be described as "egalitarian socialism" is the natural organization of hunter-gatherer bands. Which is why, though it works poorly for anything larger than a band, various "socialisms" regularly re-emerge throughout history.
Long article, but the best one I've run across explaining the inputs used to choose design tolerances, the advances in those methods over the years, and where the Fukushima design and later maintenance was and wasn't in accordance with best practices.

The overall conclusion is that it was known by the early 2000s that the plant's worst-case tsunami estimate, used as its design basis, was no longer sufficient, given improved understanding of tsunamis. At that time, a significant upgrade should have been initiated, since the original design-basis tsunami of 3.1 meters was no longer believed to be a good estimate of the worst case. But those reports basically got buried and nothing was acted on.

Side note: I was wary of submitting, because we've just had a big round of Fukushima and nuclear discussion/debate, and rehashing the same debate in another thread doesn't seem productive. But imo this article is quite informative and worth a read.
Exactly - you get this sort of level of response from police in high profile cases in the UK, such as those involving murderers or child abuse, where public tension might be high. The key difference is that normally in those cases the media scrum is between the prison and the court. The accused is not normally seeking refuge in an embassy.
Neat, I made http://www.tubalr.com about 2 years ago and have been working on it every since. It made its way onto Mashable, Techcrunch, and several other blogs this past Dec/Jan.

Something to keep in mind, eventually YouTube will start blocking certain videos from being played on your site. This took a while and mainly started happening when traffic picked up. Theres no good way to pickout blocked videos, heres a function I use to weed through some of the blocked videos: https://github.com/cjstewart88/Tubalr/blob/master/app/assets...

Also, all of Tubalr's codes in github if you're interested: http://www.github.com/cjstewart88/Tubalr

Good Luck!
Another reason us to create a diary of sorts. At least for me I wish I had a record of things learnt I could read over some years later and if some other people can also read and discuss all the better..
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This story continues to be more and more about Assange and less and less about principles. Assange goes out and makes great speeches about freedom and openness and all of that, but these ideas don't require him to carry them around. He's a little speck of dust somewhere.

I say the more we keep talking about Assange the less we're actually using our brains to figure out the fine details of what works and what doesn't work in democracies. For the media, this is becoming a story of drama and conflict. I'd ask them politely to please go peddle it somewhere else.

I have no opinion on whether Assange was set up or not, but I will say this: he is purposely using his publicity as a self-aggrandizing tool. He has been doing this since long before the charges were brought. The more we buy into this narrative of one-man causes, the more we harm our ability to make a better world. Instead we just head down the road of civil unrest and conflict. Assange is not my hero, even if there were no criminal charges. The things I believe are more important than one man, and I refuse to have my principles owned by somebody else besides me.
Pretty simple, they ask the US if they wish to have Assange extradited or not. If they don't, then Sweden can say to Ecuador that Assange will not face extradition to the US for anything he has hitherto committed. If they do, then Sweden should just fucking admit it.
I've never seen Spotify and thought it was just like iTunes, but with the controls at the bottom.
The US has committed atrocity's just as bad as most countries. EX: Slavery, Bio warfare vs American Indians along with the 'trail of tears' etc. (Many died, including 4,000 of the 15,000 relocated Cherokee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears) The Atlantic Slave Trade actually killed ~16 million	which is several times more people than all the Nazi concentration camps put together.

But, IMO it's not meaningful to look at a country and say their good or evil. You look at individual acts and say that's good or that's evil.
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Please watch this[1]. It's not a rape charge, it's sexual molestation. And it's not being pursued by the victims but by a prosecutor.
[1] http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/07/19/3549280.ht...
wow, archeoware... put it on github pls!
This is a service I would really like. There's also youtify[1], but neither work for me (with youtify Soundcloud works but not YouTube). The music simply never starts.

That's too bad because such a "music mode" is something I would love to see on YouTube. It's not that I constantly listen to music on YouTube, that would be a waste of bandwidth, but I use YouTube almost exclusively as a music/artist discovery platform, then I download the musics I like once and for all. But I would still appreciate a lot to be able to actually have a working playlist/queue feature on YouTube, and also to be able to desactivate the video display (and download) to only keep the sound.

[1] http://www.youtify.com/

EDIT: I guess the best service of this type I've seen yet is http://roll.io/ (which works for me on top of that). I was discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2665090
don't think it would be popular
Rape accusations make a convenient ad hominem. Oh, he doesn't deserve to be listened to, he's an accused rapist. He doesn't even care about the women. What a jerk!

There is nothing wrong or sinister about an accused person taking every legal step to defend himself, including seeking asylum. This is the whole point of a justice system. Assange is not depriving anyone of due process by defending himself. Due process is to protect the accused, not the accusers.
Okay. What about the other four points?
Cool, my last two web apps (http://beepmunk.com and http://choruzz.com) are somewhat similar to this.

I love the UI but search results can be improved IMO. Maybe you could utilize Last.fm API for search?
Thanks a lot.

I finally decided to try my hand at coding and this is the result of about 2 weeks of learning. I decided to skip the tutorials and books and jumped straight into coding. The code's mess but it works and that's great.

I still have a lot to learn, but I do plan on adding three features:

1. Have new searches not interrupt the current song.
2. Make the video resizable.
3. Add playlists. I actually asked a fellow HN-ers to help out with this because I don't think I'll be able to handle databases yet.

Glad you liked it.
Confusing UX. I assumed that "top 100 hits" button would give me the top 100 hits for my search term, rather than the search button only being implicit. The placeholder text is a bad position for instruction (as a rule, not just in this case) because it's gone when you are in need of the signpost of what to do.
This isn't eloquence. It's angst.
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Yes, please. And if the protocol doesn't turn out to be too horrid to work with, this will allow interoperable implementations. The last thing we need is another messaging protocol that only works with one vendor's products.

However, FaceTime was supposed to be submitted to be made into a standard, but I haven't heard much about that, and with the percentage of time that FaceTime breaks for me, I'm guessing that it's a pretty nasty protocol and they're too embarrassed to follow through. Hopefully iMessage is better.
Yes, that's a closer description than what I recall. My understanding is based on a book I read several years ago:
http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507...
Politics isn't as clear cut as you are making it. What treaty (specifically) are you referring to? Its extradition treaty? Well yeah, it'd need to break that.

But why is that completely out of the question?
You may want to set cursor:pointer in your css. At first I didn't think I could click on a track to play it because it just showed the default cursor or, worse, a text-selector cursor.
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Wikileaks itself was flagrant disrespect for the political system, whose secrets it exposed. I don't see how you can say it's this kind of politically motivated but not that.

I see that you've retreated with that "and nothing else" part though, admitting that it is, in fact, a factor.
Nicely done, but I would love a separate column for the bitrage/quality of the music. Most of the music on YouTube is subpar bitrate, and music should usually be heard in decent quality. :)
I use Last.FM to find similar songs. It appears in the right sidebar when you play any song.

I didn't use Last.FM for the main search, because I couldn't get the album name directly from the keyword search (the JSON has the title and artist only). Getting the album name would require querying the API for each search result which again I tried but takes about 30 sec for the results to appear.

I am considering using Spotify's API though since iTunes gives strange results sometimes.
"and how he's depriving the women accusing him of seeing due process"

By definition, only the arbiters of the legal system itself, i.e., the government can deprive someone of due process. The fact that Sweden and the UK are making a sincere effort to extradite Assange is, at this point, all the "due process" the women are entitled to. Assange's actions have nothing to do with it.

"He said "Wikileaks stands under threat" - that's not true at all, at least not in the way he thinks. Wikileaks is not Assange. Assange is under threat. He is conflating the two."

Buying the argument that the charges are politically motivated, the fact that they are attacking Assange due to his association with wikileaks mean that wikileaks is under attack. If this sets a precedent that high profile persons leading the push for the release of extremely sensitive information can be rubbed out so easily puts a chilling effect on whoever steps into Assange's place. And that's assuming anyone really can just step up as Assange didn't just start with wikileaks. He's been involved in uncovering suppressed information since he was a kid growing up in Australia and even co-wrote the Rubberhose deniable encryption program.

It's telling that someone like Assange who is undergoing such a massive level of scrutiny that these rape allegations are the best they can do. The guy must practically be a saint.
"From someone who did this for a living at one point"

I'm curious: was this as an independent contractor or for an established company? I really enjoy driver programming and low level stuff for some reason (OSX & Linux and game consoles so far) and would rather like to specialise my contract work on that kind of thing. Beyond people stumbling across my work online, I really don't know who to approach and where to look for that kind of work. It's rather a lot easier to get referrals for more mainstream development work.
About Spotify, a friend of mine using it sent me a link to their website yesterday, and by visiting this link I was logged into her account, could see her personal informations and even change her password. I tweeted[1,2] about it as soon as I realized it. It's really a shame such a big website is so low on security…

I guess it might be a link from their desktop app to their website that she followed, but at least they could redirect to a clean url after having authenticated the user, it's okay that she sent that link to me (it was just to show me the prices of Spotify's monthly subscriptions), but what if she shared it publicly on Twitter or Facebook?

[1] https://twitter.com/p4bl0/status/236967984319590400

[2] https://twitter.com/p4bl0/status/236969256187731968
Sending people to be tortured is a scandal.

Complying with a morally questionable extradition order is a little different...
I think Assange is a self-important twit. I have no knowledge of what happened so I have no idea whether he is really guilty or now.

I also think he's right to be afraid. The two pieces of evidence that make me fill that way are, first, that the prosecutor that wants the questioning is not the prosecutor that spoke with the women and, second, they won't question him anywhere but Sweden, even though Sweden has done remote interviews in the past. Couple this with one of the accusers refusing to sign her statement and it gets very fishy.
Don't forget Sweden itself is depriving the women accusing him of seeing due process, having been offered numerous options of interviewing Assange, both in the UK and within Sweden itself.

It's also worth pointing out that:

* Sweden initially dropped the case: senior prosecutor Eva Finné reversed the arrest order and found there were no grounds for the 'rape' allegations. [1]

* Assange was questioned by police in Sweden 10 days later

* Assange spent weeks in Sweden after the accusations

* the case was picked up again two weeks later by prosecutor Marianne Ny

* Sweden is seeking Assange's extradition not to charge him (as some articles and commentators suggest as a matter of Swedish law) but merely to question him.

* the Swedish Supreme Court has ruled that it is appropriate to conduct a videoconference with a suspect who is co-operative and abroad. The same ruling stated that it is disproportionate to issue an arrest warrant for a person who is cooperating with the judicial authorities at the preliminary investigation stage, before a decision has been made whether to prosecute. [2]

It's a case that's so transparently political that arguing against it is nothing more than wilful ignorance of readily available facts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_A...

[2] http://justice4assange.com/Prosecution.html#QUE
Iceland did the same as Argentina did back in the early 00's. With all the internal problems Argentina faces, with a gov that not everybody likes and a lot of etcs, their economy grows strong and they are paying the debts without asking for money anywhere.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57323068/comeback-cou...

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Argentina-celebrates...
I would also recommend hiding the auto-suggest right hand side bar until everything is loaded and then sliding it into view when ready. I suggest this for 2 reasons,

1. I initially clicked the song and the first thing I noticed, before I the music played was the "this might take 90 seconds dialog" and I was ready to kill the tab thinking.

2. Just the fact that it says this might take a long time, is a 'downer', its better to make that view visible when it is ready so that user doesn't have to ever know of the fact that you have a process that takes 90 seconds.
couldn't get song to play from ipad2. everything else seemed to work, the search is surprisingly good, and I like the UI.
> but that won't happen to Julian Assange.

Why not? They hate the guy. Can he really bet his life that they wouldn't go "oops, it happened again."? The fact that they've done this before makes it far more likely that they will do it again. That's how track records work.
Simple, really. They don't want to respond to Assange's every whim. You can't expect governments to respond to every stupid request. Do you really think Sweden would break an extradition treaty over one person? Most certainly not. They can't predict the future, they won't make promises like that.
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Ask HN: GF cheated on me, so packing up and moving to UK, advice plesase :(
Hey Guys,

Long story short, I'm moving to UK in the next few days, just found out my girlfriend has cheated on me and aswell as this I just need a change of scene.

Questions for the UK guys.

* Where is the best place to move to that is cheap so I can get myself settled in, anywhere at all in the country but possibly just outside London?.

* Where is free wifi and some place I can work throughout the day that is fairly cheap? (I am a web designer/developer).

* Any tips on moving over? I'm just gonna bring a duffel bag and laptop.

I don't mind if I don't get any offers but sure It can't harm to ask. Would anyone have a spare couch so I can crash on for a day or 2? :( Thanks..