skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah - it's totally awesome a but few things to note to be the devils advocate.

1) It cost around $10 million to get it to this point - that's OK as they have got it working but it's a significant capital spend.
2) It cost $600 USD approx for 1 helmet
3) Once it's deployed, time for another $600 USD - it's a one-use helmet (hey it does save your life)

If they can get the price point down it would be totally awesome and they probably will with time. But until it provides a greater flexion point than the good old $20 bike helmet - it's probably not going to sell to governments etc who would be a huge market for this.
Great explanation, thank you very much.
There is: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-12/imf-says-bailout...
Sometimes the truth is inflammatory.
I'm more intrigued by the complete lack of information about the two women involved in the case. You would think journalists would be trying to speak to them or trying to get their side of the story but theres been complete radio silence.

It's very suspect.
Another source would be much appreciated. I can't take any article that uses the term "banksters" seriously.
I like Matt Hempey's take on the problem:

blog blog blog it all, blog it if it's big or small
blog at the cineplex, blog while you're having sex
blog in the locker room, babies blogging in the womb
blog even if you're wrong, won't you blog about this song?
He does make a good point about the mental structuring you should do for your projects. I remember reading somewhere the VP of Google had a 'line' of criticality. If it was above the line, work on it until it's below the line. Then even if it's unfinished, so long as it's below the line go and pick something else above the line.

If your hosting cost isn't yet an issue, ignore it then optimise when it is.
If Julian Assange is worried about being extradited to the US (which seems to be his main objection to going to Sweden) why is he in the UK in the first place? The UK has an extradition treaty with the US in place and have extradited several people to the US.
This article is not up to the standards that we expect at HN.

I personally agree that Iceland did the right thing, but this article lacks depth and fails to properly put the decisions and motivations in context.

Iceland has 300k people. That is less than Brampton, Ontario, which the vast majority of the people on this board have never heard of.

Iceland could take the risk and follow more libertarian economic advice, but what of the United States? One thousand times the people and the world reserve currency. Wasn't going to happen.

Furthermore, Keynesian approaches may actually work, but part of the Keynesian model is for governments to reign in spending when tax receipts are high, which governments almost never do. But the economic right does have a point when they talk about the ever expanding deficits that end up undermining investor confidence, and that further debt for bailouts will do the same.
This article is unreadable for points others have mentioned nonetheless starting to read it got me thinking...

Is anyone else thinking its about time someone proposed an applicable alternative to the free market system? It seems ridiculous to me that every country strives for economic growth and if there's no growth disaster strikes. Our current system that promotes speculative banking on global catastrophes, coorporate run governments, and an increasing descrepancy in wealth distribution, needs a viable alternative.
I think it's because UK can't extradite someone who may face the death penalty (if Assange is charged with treason or espionage he might).
App Engine teaches you to do things right from the start. While it's true you may have a horrendously sub optimal design if you don't take care, there are nice profiling tools you can use to optimize the hottest paths.

As it would be with any platform, making the wrong assumptions about your data model will bite you, and do so a lot more painfully if you wait too long to correct them.

But, it has to be said setting up a similarity scalable infrastructure on a IaaS would also cost you a lot, even if you are not counting your own hours as the sysadmin.

Finally, if you succeed and your hosting bill starts to cost a fortune, you might as well roll out your own Typhoonae or Appscale.
All bicycle helmets are one-use in that sense - if your helmet is involved in an impact, you're supposed to throw it away.
Additionally, if there is a specific non-profit you want information on, read:

https://thespiritdog.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/how-to-look-up...
I think I misunderstood the "editor" note referring to "this is completely untrue" - I interpreted it as saying it being illegal was untrue. Thanks for the repeated clarification.
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I don't know much about reflective displays but I use an app called f.lux which adjusts the color on your display based on the time of day. Now I can hack away all night with no eye strain!

http://stereopsis.com/flux/
> In a normal sexual assault extradition case, you would never get that level of response from local police.

because no "normal" sexual assault case would have this level of media surrounding it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4388056
That was painful to read.
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I imagined relying on Google accounts for the App Engine application and on https for internode communication. Pushes to subscribers could require a confirmation callback but https would ensure you'd be conforming with the right sender.
I do not believe that this is politically motivated. I just see no evidence for that.

Justice systems are allergic to public disrespect. That alone can completely explain the behavior of the police in Sweden and the UK.

Assange is a self-importent prick, cowardly on the run from pretty serious allegations. He exploits his involvement with Wikileaks to sow doubt. I really think it's as simple as that.
And that post shows exactly why you should never trust a TL;DR: it entirely misses the point.

1) YC's "formal application process" isn't some kind of heavily argued constitution that has centuries of tradition behind it and will never be changed. It's what a few people thought was a good idea and has changed with every intake (whether it be the questions that were asked or the way they were reviewed). I suspect YC would say of course the application process it broken, but it is what we have now, and next intake will fix something we saw wrong with this intake.

2) The "new application process" has ALWAYS been to show initiative and that what you have is something that people want.

3) I'm not a HN partner, but I'll tell you a secret way into YC anyway: deliver them 100kg of moon rocks. If you can do that I guarantee they will fund you, and if they don't then I'll do it myself[1].

4) If you wonder what moon rocks have to do with YC then understand this: Instacart did something impossible: they made YC consider accepting them late. In itself that make them interesting to YC. Yes, this is a circular argument, but action when there is incomplete knowledge is something YC has to be comfortable with.

TL;DR: missed the point entirely.

[1] This post has the legal standing of something someone wrote on the internet. That said, if you can give me 100kg of moonrock, then I'll do anything possible to give you $12,000 for 8% of whatever your (appretnyl working!) anti-gravity/space elevator/alien trade port company is. Hell, I'll take 1%.
Sweden also can't.
Only a fool would underestimate sovereignty.
True, but hasn't everyone fallen off of a bicycle without hitting their head? In other words, false positives cost $600 a pop. Perhaps that's totally insignificant. This is without a doubt an amazing accomplishment.
A 'normal' extradition case? Most European Arrest Warrants don't end with the suspect fleeing into a foreign embassy. This case wouldn't be 'normal' regardless of Assange's background.

Assange has finished his speech now - he talks about making a stand for the justice system, but doesn't mention at all anything to do with the rape charges* and how he's depriving the women accusing him of seeing due process.

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.

* And yes, I'm calling it rape: what he is accused of is rape under Sweden's law, and contrary to what many people are saying, it would be rape under English law as well.
Seriously America is huge you could adventure around the states seeing a bunch of different lifestyles, and environments without ever having to get a passport. In that sense perspectives are very, very different between the US and NZ. You've really got to compare it to, moving out of state. How many people in the US move around states for jobs/lifestyles etc ?

When you grow up in New Zealand, it's almost a rite of passage to do your "OE" - overseas experience. It's part of the culture to go and explore the world. And of course young 20 somethings travelling meet other foreign young 20 somethings and it's pretty easy to see where that stat comes from. "Your country or mine? (the girl usually wins)"

I grew up in a small town, lived in Auckland, now live in Toronto, Canada. The Greater Toronto area is the same population as all of New Zealand. Is it any better or worse ? No. It's just different. It all depends on what floats your boat. Are you an adventure sports junkie ? New Zealand is pretty much heaven on earth (I'm guessing Colorado would be awesome if you dug winter and summer sports together). Do you like bustling metropolis ? Well Toronto kinda rocks - Canadian and Kiwi philosophies are very close (although BC is far closer in life style to New Zealand, than over in Ontario)

There is so many factors for what's good in a country - a lot are dependent on the invididual. What will be one persons heaven could be another persons "meh", quality of living, friendships, relationships, career choices, sports, food quality, environment yadda yadda.

As a New Zealander living overseas, in my case, the pull to go home is very strong and ever present. And I will say this when I finally move home, I will never, ever complain that it's freezing in winter.
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> Aside: why, oh why, did 3 mysql forks appear when MySQL AB was bought? Couldn't they coalesce around one alternative?

They had different goals. MariaDB was to maybe make another billion and Drizzle was to be more parallel and remove all the Windows specific code, IIRC.
In the majority of cases where you are deploying your java code on a server you own, having a few dozen or hundred extra classes is not a big deal. Each adds maybe a few kb to the size the jar, and as for loading costs, a class is only loaded into a running JVM once.

The cases in which to worry about stuff like this is if you need to load the code on someone else's machine, like with an applet or Android.
Fantastic list. The only thing I'd add to this is: rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.

I've worked on a couple of projects that had all of that, but didn't come together at the end. People did what they thought was right, but until we tried putting it all together we didn't see the gaps. And then we had no time to recover.

Without rehearsals (or alpha pushes or dry runs or whatever else forces iteration) it's the job of the guy on top to figure out everything that might go wrong and then bug people about it. But if you try it all together and something doesn't work, everybody sees the problem and jumps on fixing it.

I learned this from watching a theater director friend put together a play. Day 1, she got everybody on stage, had them open their scripts to the first page, and they started reading it through. When they got to the end, they went to the beginning and started over. They gradually added motion and props and inflections and pauses and scenery and music, tweaking and tweaking. Opening night was just version 71, and it got rave reviews.
What do you mean by "their side of the story"? The claims they made are their side of the story, what more is there that they could say? I believe their identities are not released because that's Swedish law.

Julian Assange always seemed quite paranoid to me -- maybe rightfully -- so it seems strange that he would have sex with 2 women he met at a conference (I think that's what happened, I'm not 100% sure of the case details as I can't find a detailed summary) if he believed there would be attempts to set him up for crimes, it seems more the behaviour of someone that lives care free.
Most countries prohibit this prior to trial otherwise it will influence the jury pool.
It's intriguing hear Scott echo RMS. Although Scott limits his argument to the consequences of relying on corporations for services, a similar argument can be made regarding the behavior of governments (domain name seizures, for example).

I'd be interested in hearing where/how he draws the line.
I encourage you to post that one as its own submission, it's infinitely better.

(I'd do it myself, but you might already be planning on doing so, and I wouldn't want to steal your imaginary internet points ;])
> I do not believe that this is politically motivated.
> Justice systems are allergic to public disrespect.

For some definitions of "politically motivated," you would have contradicted yourself.
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That article appears to be the original source of the comments, from what I can tell. Other stories citing the comments mention Daria Zakharova (the IMF mission chief for Iceland) giving them in "an interview with Bloomberg", which BusinessWeek is part of.
Agreed. Assange's ego and self importance have really hurt what wikileaks was supposed to be about. By all accounts the guy is a scumbag on a personal level and he is unjustly trying to use wikileaks as a shield.
It's not suspect at all: it's called contempt of court.

Journalists really aren't allowed to go around interviewing either plaintiffs or defendants in criminal trials for fairly obvious reasons. Cases all across the world have been undone by press coverage that has contaminated the jury pool. In many countries victims of sexual assault and rape cases are also entitled to have their identities withheld, again for fairly obvious reasons.

It is not for the court of public opinion to decide the outcome of a criminal case, although that is certainly how this particular one seems to be playing out (unfortunately).
Simon Tabor says it the way it is: https://twitter.com/simon_tabor/status/237180987350609920
Ah no, go ahead...I was just answering a question here - satisfied with that :)
The third paragraph mentions St. Louis in an unabbreviated form. I picked it up almost right away.
I read "The E-Myth" years ago. I hate business books, but loved that one. It was not because of the writing; it could well be the worst-written book I have ever bought. But the guy clearly had a ton of practical experience, and his view of business really helped me think about entrepreneurship as an activity, not a theory.
>tl;dr determination, creativity, and a good product demo.

Sure, but aren't those things that are normally expected of applicants? "Hack" implies a clever trick that routes you around the normal mechanisms. And, quite seriously, the only hack I found was beer.
I guess I don't think that's true. Imo, the best quality comes from companies with happy employees who have good work/life balances, not from the kind of places that expect employees to be chained to the boss.
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Another example of why I hate biology reporting in the media.

-No citation to original article. Check.

-Obligatory image of a kidney cell. Check

-Silly analogy between technology ("social network!") and biology. Check.

-Overstated and even sillier analogy about some cure ("Cyber warfare tactics!"). Check.

-Respinning old knowledge of cancer with a new, glitzy light ("Spy cells! Technology! Internet!"). Check.

Nothing to see here except another fluff piece trying to drum up pageviews.
There was actually quite a bit written about them, and their stories, when all this first came out. Some googling should turn up a few stories.
Strong implies stubborn, and stubborn implies inflexibility.

NO!!!

Strong Opinions, Weakly Held[1][2] is what you want.

[1] http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinio...

[2] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/strong-opinions-wea...
Well, Ed is the standard text editor...

(for those not in the know -- http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html)
If you're wondering how these all-emotion, pure-conjecture, it-must-be-a-conspiracy-theory, the-truth-is-in-me, we-have-the-purfect-solution, and frothing-at-the-mouth posts get upvoted to the front page?...

It's the same way that Kim Dotcom / TorretFreak articles do.

With regard to this one, this comment points it out well...
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11665082/3/iceland-was-right-...
Last Friday I used the Double to sit at the lunch table with the team in San Francisco (I'm in New York). Lunch is not something the team is inclined to open up a regular videocon session on, but lunch conversation is something I miss out a lot on from working remotely. People talk about stuff (work and non work related) a lot more candidly at the lunch table than in conference rooms. There were a lot of nervous giggles and "that's creepy" remarks but I think its just about getting used to the form.
I hate interruptions as well, but if you're going to be a manager, I think you have to learn to live with them.

Managers exist to support the managed. Front-line employees are the ones doing the actual work, and I think the actual work should always have the highest priority.

As Derek demonstrates, the way to reduce interruptive employee questions isn't to hide them by driving people away. (If you do that, people will just make shit up or dither, and both are terrible habits.) It's to keep improving things until they don't need to ask.
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Their identities are public and have been publicly reported in international media:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-12-09/us/28...
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i used GAE for a project. never again. i learned the hard way there that you are going to use a PAAS service, choose one like Heroku that presents a standard application model and doesn't lock you in.
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The actual speech in "text":
Part 1: https://twitter.com/RTLondonBureau/status/237180703266205697...
Part 2: https://twitter.com/RTLondonBureau/status/237180872229543936...
The interesting part for me is the self-serving marketing that the writer is doing. As a precious metals investor, it is in his best economic interests for people to believe this view as it can only speed the flight to gold.
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Sigh. I knew someone would say something stupid like that.

We all know what was meant with politically motivated in the comment I was responding to. Don't be a pedantic ass when I was perfectly understandable.
Doesn't this just mean that when you need to look up something by searching your localized terms, you won't get any hits?
The source article is much more informative, and less of a rant:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-12/imf-says-bailout...
Any connection with Hiveminder (hiveminder.com)? Both are ToDo lists with reminders etc, both have a bee icon, and the names are all but identical.
Ah, turns out it was posted 22 hours ago, and only got a couple of points. I'll be upmodding that one over this one, then.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4401355
Very cool! Is there a way to make the video larger if you want to actually view the video instead of just using the site as a music player?

Perhaps make the area below the video player clickable so that it makes the video appear in a larger area above the song list.

I am very impressed. Great work Ashraful!
Sounds reasonable, but at the same time, Sweden's stated aim and actions haven't been consistent. They claim they only want to interview Assange, but (IIRC) he offered to be interviewed by Swedish police in the UK.
Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks 'witch-hunt'
Sweden has a proven track record of handing people over to the CIA for rendition, who were subsequently handed over to the Mubarak regime where they were tortured. The victims had no chance of legal recourse, as the time between being nabbed and handed over was only a few hours. Whether or not Sweden's laws allow it to do this, the fact of the matter is that Sweden has done this.

In comparison, the UK has a proven track record of standing up to the US on similar issues, given that it demanded the return of its citizens from gitmo. If extradition was requested in the UK, from past experience Assange would at least have a chance to fight it in the courts, instead of being unceremoniously handed over.
Left out of that story are all the sacrifices people had to make to conserve power. That said, Thorium is a promising power source. Just don't tell anyone that it's nuclear power.
It was entirely just the version numbers. 3.0.0 is what 2.6.40 would have been; there were no meaningful process changes in that release, and the list of new features was entirely in keeping with all the other recent releases. They simply popped a minor version number off the stack for simplicity.
There's some great high-tech, hacker, and startup stuff going on in Saint Louis:

Yearly

The Strange Loop Conference:
https://thestrangeloop.com/

Monthly

Lambda Lounge:
http://lambdalounge.org/

Saint Louis JavaScript Meetup (STLJS):
http://www.stljs.org/
http://vimeo.com/stljs

STLRuby:
http://stlruby.org

Code Until Dawn:
http://www.meetup.com/allnightlong/

StartLouis:
http://startlouis.com/

Build Guild in St. Louis:
http://saintlouis.buildguild.org/

There's lots more too, those are just ones I'm either involved in or hear about frequently.
This is an interesting topic as well.
I'm not yet sure how to value the incredible services you get against the lock in.
Sad (and worrying) to hear, that it did'nt work out for you.
"I don't have time to blog" "I don't know what I'd write about".. yet they end up posting lots of content casually on various social networks/forums.

But status updates, tweets, etc. are usually short, disconnected thoughts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#Sweden
"I’m convinced that medium/long-form writing’s future is unthreatened; but remain puzzled that nobody in new media has really figured out the elite-curation story and created a place that you go, and then subscribe to with real money, because that’s where you have a high chance of being entertained, influenced, and informed."

It seems like Svbtle may be going after exactly what you describe here, although it's unclear whether it will be free or paid at this point.
That comment won't load for me; could you summarize?
In addition to the obligatory "wow, that was horrible", I think there's value in saying that throwing the media under the bus, in this case, isn't particularly fair.

I'm no fan of modern-day news-making, but both sides have been well represented by the media. In particular, Paul Krguman has been all over this like a fat kid on a popsicle.
It's going to be hard to understand what you mean if your definition of "politically motivated" does not include pissing off the authorities.
Sincerely amazing.
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