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If you actually bothered to read the papers Assange's own legal team lodged with the English courts you'd know that both the defence and prosecution accepted what he was accused of would be rape under English law.

@tgasson - unfortunately I can't reply to your next message, but with regards to links: you can view most of the case literature at BAILII and the Supreme Court website. Because Assange made numerous appeals his legal filings are numerous. Link here: http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/sino_search_1.cgi?sort=rank...

A more succint summary can be found at David Allen Green's blog - Assange's legal team did at first try to argue it wouldn't count as rape, but this was rejected by two courts, and when they subsequently appealed to the UK Supreme Court his defence accepted the point and dropped the argument: http://jackofkent.com/2012/06/assange-would-the-rape-allegat...

Assange's legal defence against the extradition was primarily on a matter of procedural law regarding whether Sweden had the judicial authority to extradite him in the first place.

I hope you will forgive my rather blunt tone - I am not a lawyer, but I have the pleasure (perhaps?!) of living with one. As I've said in other posts here, I'm more than happy to believe Assange is the victim of a conspiracy, but I don't think that is an outright certainty. I perhaps naively hold the English legal system in some regard, although I accept others may not!
They definitely couldn't do it secretly, but why couldn't they pull it off? Sure there would be outrage, but governments have faced that before over issues much larger than this. (eg. decisions to go to war and such)
I agree that "medium/long-form writing's future is unthreatened", but I'm less sure that blogs are the answer long-term. They're one particular way of publishing, which has pros and cons. Blogs' strengths are: a relatively low barrier to entry, a convenient way for regular readers to follow updates, and not much overhead in thinking about how to maintain a "website" in the traditional sense. Everything is just a new blog post, and at most you slap a few tags on them. Blogs' weaknesses are a strong focus on recency and lack of content organization. Everything is about the recent blog posts. Archives are often hard to use, and many blogs freely mix long-lasting things like essays, with short-form daily-life types of things or comments on current events with a short shelf-life.

An alternative is to separate out several kinds of writing. Paul Graham has an 'essays' page, for example, which is sort of like a blog, but less focused on timeliness and updates. Only essays get posted there, and the focus is not primarily on which essay is most recent (old essays don't quickly scroll off the main page into the archive, for example).

In my own writing, I've come to the conclusion that if I had a blog, it would contain two main kinds of entries: 1) essays I've written, and 2) references to interesting things I've seen written elsewhere. At least for my personal interests, I would prefer those to be separate, and also would prefer them to take more of the flavor of "building a website" rather than "updating a blog". That is, the focus is on the accumulated content, which you can read in any order, not necessarily the order I happened to add it. This is partly because I suspect most people who will run across it aren't ardent mjn fans waiting for my latest update.

So what I've done is have two sections:

1. Essays, which are organized primarily by subject rather than date, but do also have an RSS feed and show recent additions at the top, for my friends/acquaintances/colleagues who might read regularly: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/

2. Snippets/clippings, where I collect interesting excerpts I've run across. If I had a blog, these would get interspersed with the long-form posts, but I prefer having them separate in a sort of digital scrapbook, for the moment fairly unorganized: http://www.kmjn.org/snippets/

I'm not saying that method is the best organizational method either, but so far I like it more than a blog. I suppose part of it is that my thinking on online writing is still heavily influenced by some of the 80s/90s hypertext ideas, and "maintaining a website" versus "blogging". Websites often had an /updates.html page where you could see what was recently added, but that wasn't the main interface. The main interface had some kind of rational organization, rather than assuming reverse chronological order of addition is the universal organizational framework.
why do you need a database for static text? at the very least why doesn't your site have basic caching so that multiple requests for one page don't take it down?

i'm not just aiming at this post (the series of articles here look good). but web pages are not new tech these days. blog sites particularly. why do we still see so many go down once they have more than zero load?

especially when the article is supposed to be teaching about web dev...

cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C6RrQdO... (first page only)

[edit: there are lots of ways of caching to static files. wordpress has plugins that do it. more recently github has popularised jekyll. you can have comments through javascript and a 3rd party - i've set up a jekyll based blog with discuss comments on bitbucket and it was easy to do. it's not even hard to write your own (my own blog is nothing exciting, sure, but for years was generated as static pages from email using just a few bash scripts).]
"When we drive to the store, when we shop for groceries, at work, at home. We've memorized our lives so well we no longer think about what we do, we just naturally do it on auto-pilot and our minds start to "idle" a lot more that usual."

I like this because it reinforces my belief that time moves subjectively slower in the immediate period following significant environmental changes. The first few days of a vacation, for example, pass very slowly in my mind but the longer you remain on vacation the faster the days go by. Same goes for the first few days of college classes, or the days following a relocation to a new area.

I disagree with the original article because the rate of the passage of time seems to correspond more with the amount of new stimuli we experience, which (in most cases) just so happens to become less with age.
But in this case at least you are using PostgreSQL outside of anything even remotely purely relational. It is at least object-relational, and often key-value-id (like hstore) or document store (JSON or XML).

The power of PostgreSQL occurs from the power to ignore the relational model and take other approaches when it is helpful.
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It think the difference between 0.1s and 1s, as I imagine it would be, is quite irrelevant. The immediacy comes from the push, adding another hop for a federated server does not have to add a significant latency.
It's unlikely to happen to him now, but if he hadn't've made a fuss and drawn so much media there wouldn't be such a spotlight on them.

As someone else said on this issue: it's safe for you to say 'it wouldn't happen'. If you're wrong, nothing happens to you. You get to shrug and say 'hey, I was wrong', and then only if you're feeling magnanimous.

And even then, even if Sweden were to do it by the book, it may just be that it's easier to fight extradition in the UK than in Sweden, just like certain courts are more favourable to business in the US.
I think that there's no such thing as a country that "is" good. There are those which do good and those which do not.

There are plenty of atrocities to go around, almost every one of them justified by people hating whoever was at the other end of the atrocity.
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Has it really been two years? Tubalr was actually the inspiration for this. I really loved it, particularly the old UI (the new ones great too).

Thanks for the link to the js to avoid blocked youtube vids. It'll definitely be a lot of help.
The UX is really good a nice to the eyes, some suggestions:

I searched for "The Who" and almost 90% of the songs weren't by The Who, but instead song titles with "who".
"Bob Dylan" worked fine.

Please, add support for lyrics, that would be simply awesome, and something Grooveshark is lacking.

Some songs just don't play, not sure why.

The search box is like "broken", I can't select with the mouse.

But it's great!
Sorry I wasn't aware of that. Do you have a link? Best I can find is [1] which states

In respect of Offence 4, Mr Assange contended that whilst rape was a Framework Offence and therefore didn't require dual criminality, the conduct described in the EAW was not fairly and accurately described and that if it had it would not be rape.

[1]: http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgment...

edit: Thanks for clarification.
Well, the fact is that human interactions are rarely reductionist or logical. Courtship and dating are especially that way. You have social expectations, hormones, and so forth that together more or less create these elaborate emergant ritualistic dances where nothing is what it seems.
Decent xcution, but rather slow :/
Hiding the video and letting users download the music or the video is against Youtube's TOS.
Look, I generally buy into the theory that the simplest explanation is probably the most likely.

I am more than happy to concede that maybe these charges are politically motivated, and they are complete and utter trash: if that's the case, then clearly you could argue Assange is totally right to seek asylum. Good on him.

However, there is a chance these charges are genuine. I really hope nobody would try to argue otherwise. I don't pretend to know how large or small this chance is. As long as there is a chance I think Assange's actions do nobody any favors whatsoever.
Actually, the Chancellor is elected by the bundestag and not directly by voters.
And yes, it is required that more than half of the bundestag votes for the candidate.
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Or just use XMPP.
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I have been looking for something like this for a long time. Youtube has pretty much all the music that I listen to but it's playlist handling is borderline unusable. Sometimes I wonder if this is something they do on purpose so users can not convert Youtube into a personal jukebox. Overall, great project and kudos to the developer!
Yup, Sept 12, 2010 will be the 2 year mark o_O

No prob, shoot me an email cjstewart88@gmail.com if you need anything.
Has anybody used a telepresence robot? I'm wondering what the experience is like in real life.
Please stop putting words in my mouth.

The British justice system is motivated to get him because he is behaving like a prick in public and managed to escape them. That's all. Not really politically motivated at all.
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I am not sure I agree with failure as a sign of mediocrity
I can identify few empirical evidence to defy this

But then he is using the term "mediocre entrepreneur" to mean not Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg! So ... heh

I think anyone who eventually succeed in creating a wonderful and successful business cannot be called mediocre

But I actually believe it is a good list to ponder upon ( to criticize, to agree and disagree with)
I noticed a similar usage in my case too. that's two different type of writings. 1. Medium sized thoughts/posts(not really essays, just a few connections i made while reading.around 500 words or so.) and 2. Pithy 1 or 2 sentence comment along with a link. The latter cases tend to be posted usually from my phone.

On blog, not being a good place for long-form writing. I have begun to realize that, i should write the long-forms without thinking about the publishing medium to pay attention to the meaningful long-form.
Infact hate a MS Word s/w for the same reason. and even writing on my 750words page is mostly just a brain dump not coherent. Think vim might be best chance at focused long-form writing.

-- Disclaimer: not an expert in long form essay writings.
The search results are sometimes quite weird. For example I can search for "The Who" now and get all the songs for the artists. I'll change the iTunes API I use now to Spotify's (or Last.FM's) soon.

Sometimes if you click on a song before the javascript for the music player loads it doesn't work. I'll do my best to fix it soon.
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Maybe that's just what it's like developing Web Applications with Clojure... ;-)
I agree but how would you implement this?

Aside from your caching remark, how would you design a dynamic content system like a blog? Should blog engines like Wordpress produce and maintain a series of static files to prevent db lookups for each page?
It's too close for comfort. I'm not saying any layout with Helvetica and a sidebar is automatically a Svbtle clone, but this is clearly stolen design, and that doesn't sit well with me.
I like this. It's simple to use, looks good, and the sliders adjust appropriately as the button's size changes.

Edit: One complaint. It should really be a <button>, not an <a>. (Edit 2: It works just the same as a <button>, though)
The "and nothing else" part was a direct quote from your post as of the time I read it. If there have been edits, I have yet to notice them.

I believe the distinction you are trying to draw lacks a difference. You may consider that pedantry, but being able to communicate precisely what you mean is important, particularly on a story like this where tensions run high.
Well, it appears to me we still somewhat disagree about the nature of use case for admin site—IMO not only Django admin is a data browser, but also a rarely needed one. Admin staff should only have to access it when looking into some problem. In that case lack of view mode probably wouldn't matter much, and fixing other minor inconveniences may not be worth it.

Meanwhile, if there's some ‘legitimate’ use case involving browsing your data—well, Django makes building a dedicated UI for that quick and easy enough. Take class-based list/detail views[0], throw in a couple of templates, and you're done—and the result is easier to customize than the admin site.

This, of course, depends on a project—the amount of maintenance involved, possibility of change in requirements, and other factors.

[0] By the way, class-based view documentation got a neat update recently, now easier to read and navigate: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/class-based-views/
you can't have a content system (like a blog) without a database. (At least you can't have an easy to manage one)
This is great! Maybe add an option to adjust the font-family, but other than that this is just what I needed.
Not to mention that if you have a Mac that isn't compatible with Mountain Lion (like the first Xeon Mac Pro) you can't use iMessage unless you kept a copy of the iMessage Beta.
God says...

of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not
her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven
images, and with strange vanities? 8:20 The harvest is past, the
summer is ended, and we are not saved.

8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black;
astonishment hath taken hold on me.

8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then
is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? 9:1 Oh that
my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might
weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 9:2 Oh
that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I
might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers,
an assembly of treacherous men.

----

God says...
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It's not unreasonable. e.g. https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll and http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/
I think you misunderstood; he wants to avoid doing mundane tasks.

There's a couple of extensible preprocessors that aim to do exactly this. They're called 'clojure', 'scala', and 'kawa'.
"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."

If that was you camped out in the Ecuadorean embassy with cops standing out in the lobby you wouldn't be saying that. I'll also note that if you were in Bradley Manning's shoes sitting in a supermax somewhere with 23 hours a day to do nothing but stare at the walls you wouldn't be saying that either. Principles don't mean shit without people standing behind them and putting everything on the line. And contrary to your naive view, less dedicated people will rally around a "comrade" in need long before they will even begin to give credence to anybody sitting behind their computer lecturing them on principles coughDanielBMarkhamcough.
There's a rumor that FaceTime wasn't supposed to be a standard -- when Jobs announced on-stage that it was going to be, it (supposedly) surprised the FaceTime developers. http://zachholman.com/posts/steve-jobs-sometimes-lies/
Is London your only option?

I only ask because it's an expensive city and if I were to pick and relocate my choice would bar none be Berlin. It's been discussed on HN before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221799

On a personal note, life events like this almost universally often become positive events, because they force you to question your assumptions and leave the safety of the familiar.

Chin up lad, the whole world is ahead of you!
A lot of people are talking about this and maybe austerity isn't the way to go for Greece. But the main difference is that Iceland has the krona and Greece has the euro. So it's much easier for Iceland to control the currency. Greece has so little control of the euro. I think the better answer for Greece would be to leave the EU and bring back the drachmar.

I believe that they would benefit greatly with having their own currency. Their major industries are Shipping, Agriculture (export), and tourism. With a low value drachmar (relative to the EURO), this industries would do very well.

Personally, I'm a big proponent of holding your own currency. Iceland is tiny and has it's own currency. Disney world has a bigger economy than them (and their own currency). Why shouldn't greece? Argentina once tried to peg it's currency to the US and it was a disaster. I think Greece is doing the same except with Germany.
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It's one class per use of this technique. It's not redefined every time the code runs.
Collection literals for inclusion in JDK8:

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=337
I don't think it's really relevant. The point is not that there is a way to have safe nuclear energy, the point is that the worst case scenario is catastrophic, and that I don't trust any company or government to do what's necessary, especially if they're strapped for cash.
"You'll find that these facts are now irrelevant because they are temporarily sheltering Assange!"

I find these facts irrelevant (to the issue at hand) because these facts are irrelevant. There isn't a country under the sun that hasn't done something somebody would find objectionable. What would you have Assange do? Shop your definition of more "enlightened" soveriegnties until one of them decides to grant him asylum? What would you do in his shoes?
Yeah the lack of a story for how to charge the thing without someone nearby is a deal breaker for a lot of use cases. If they sort that out reasonably I can see a few places I've worked at picking up some of these for remote teams.
The search delays get annoying. Have you thought about caching search results on the server? It seems that would be especially useful if everyone is listening to the same playlist (as is the case now.)
Just a heads up, "view new releases" is misspelt as "view new realeases".
It's worth considering the wider context of Ecuadorian politics, media and power before immediately signing on to the "Assange is a hypocrite, Correa is a Dictator" line that is clearly being sung from many media sheets.

The private media's relationship to foreign power, interests that align with financial elites, and hostility to policies which prioritise the public good mean any politician who is trying to diminish the influence of media owners will be painted as an 'enemy of free speech'.

If Obama revisited the legislation that allowed the truthiness of Fox News to flourish, he would also be painted as an 'enemy of free speech'. The problem with concentrated private media ownership is that it's a special type of free speech, curated and promoted by a handful of special-interest media owners, like our very own Rupert Murdoch.

Correa talks about this in his interview with Assange, mentioning that 4 of the 5 private media owners are bankers, and that it makes it incredibly difficult to pass financial legislation that benefits Ecuador at the expense of financial interests.

From the tidbits I've heard of his policies:

* striving for a mix of 30% private media, 30% government, and 30% local / non-profit is a far more balanced media mix than many Western countries.

* requiring media organisations not to have other interests is just a sane way to ensure conflicted situations in reporting don't arise.

However I'd agree with you that there are definitely elements that paint a picture of a typical politician rather than a shining free speech advocate: see treatment of indigenous people opposing mining developments, his actions against publication of a book revealing contracts his brother has etc.

Even considering this, much of the international reporting criticising Correa conflates his actions which clearly do involve improving the Ecuadorian media environment with actions which are clearly about suppressing dissent.
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Personally, I mostly got the feeling that he was just publically congratulating himself - showing off.

I live in Cape Town, none of my alumni could put me in contact with any SV VC's, even in 24 days. He reinforced the idea of 'it's who you know in the v(V)alley'.

Due to the success of his application, the OP is applauded for his tenacity, his unwillingness to give up. If he had failed though, he would've seemed a little more like the annoying guy who just doesn't get the message. His post, and process isn't particularly helpful to most others.

But I appreciate the insight given by YC, or those connected with the process. My take-away (play intended) from the post and comments is:
1.) If you believe in your product, and you feel it's commercially viable, build it before you even start asking for money, and
2.) Use your product as the pitch. Yeah, everyone demos their product during a sales call, but using it directly on the client even before an introduction seems like a nice differentiator. Not very easy in the Enterprise, or if your clients are anonymous, but a targeted start might work - warrants further thought.

Anyway, good luck to the OP!
To me, this was what stood out that I had never thought of:

"“When you’re on the other side of the world and you see all these pictures of your wife or husband with a new group of people, new friends, it becomes really concerning,” Karimkhani said. “They would become depressed and paranoid and end up in psychiatry, saying, ‘I’m going to kill myself.’ ”
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This is the first thing you ever coded? That's fantastic, it's a great product.