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Where did his parent mention unconscious? He specifically called that out, so I responded with "unconscious isn't the only form of rape, and what people might call rape isn't always legally rape".

His question was a fallacy, I just pointed that out.
Wouldn't there be a fee converting to and from bitcoins?
Quoting the author again:

What Assange wants is not a decision from Sweden's
government, but a promise from Sweden's prosecutors [...].
The Swedish Prosecution Service has consistently refused
to promise that Assange wouldn't be extradited to the US
once in Swedish custody; this type of promise is common
in extradition cases and within the power of the Swedish
prosecution service
This, directly from the Swedish High Court ruling, contradicts that:

"7. According to Swedish law, a formal decision to indict may not be
taken at the stage that the criminal process is currently at. Julian
Assange's case is currently at the stage of "preliminary investigation".
It will only be concluded when Julian Assange is surrendered to Sweden
and has been interrogated.
Look at what we know about the case. Look at the girls hanging out with him _after_ the supposed rape. Does that sound like the actions of a rape victim to you?

Add to that the case has already been dropped by the first prosecutor _and_ the girls didn't want to prosecute him for rape (they merely wanted to know if they could force him to take an STD test).

Oh and supposedly the new prosecutor is friends with one of the girls!

Sorry, but this case stinks.
According to Wikipedia The 'Cathedral' and 'Bazaar' are supposed to describe open source project development models. So, how can MS Windows, Office and OS X / iOS be 'Cathedrals' or 'Bazaars'? AFAIK none of them is (fully) open source.

From Wikipedia:
"The Cathedral model, in which source code is available with each software release, but code developed between releases is restricted to an exclusive group of software developers. GNU Emacs and GCC are presented as examples."

Sounds more like Android is a 'Cathedral' and Linux is a 'Bazaar' ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
That's not really the point to the 10,000 hour rule though. It is about practice.

If it takes person A five weeks to learn the study and it takes person B 10,000 hours to learn the study, after the next 10,000 hours of working in the industry, can we consider both individuals masters? Or are you suggesting that mastery is somehow proportional to time to original training completion?
The article mentions some ways they plan to catch bogus data, but I agree that I'm a bit skeptical they can make it work consistently.
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There is an opportunity cost in the US attacking Assange. It's pretty clear that they couldn't "just do it": international condemnation would be huge. So they have to discredit him first; once he's "fallen" and not under the spotlight, then it will be much easier.

Extraditing him now, from the UK, would be seen as a brazen attack on civil liberties, press freedom and whistleblowing, hitting front-pages hard. Extraditing him after he's already been convicted by another country on character-smearing charges would be a page-ten item. (Also, it's an electoral year in the US, and Obama has enough problems with his own base as it is.)

To be honest, their current strategy is working wonders: the entirety of mainstream press (and not just them, even people who should know better like Amnesty International) has clearly decided he's a twat and does not deserve being defended. They are now covering these proceedings as a soap-opera in which he's a delirious dostoevskjian character running like a headless chicken. It doesn't seem to matter that a (idiotic) British government is so angered that is threatening to destroy the holiest diplomatic principle of them all.

Even assuming Assange is guilty, the current position of the Foreign Secretary, Rt. Hon. William Hague (Conservatives) is so appallingly overboard that either he's a complete nutter/idiot/incompetent hack (which he might as well be, to be fair, despite his first-class grammar-school education), or there's more to this story than a common case of rape.
I've noticed that for a surprising number of searches, google trends shows a steep downward decline. If you browse through the categories on the left side of the link in the article (http://www.google.com/finance?q=GOOGLEINDEX_US:COMPUT) you'll see that 9/10 are declining.

It's probably best to take this article with a grain of salt. Even when you think logically about the headline this story doesn't make sense.
You're repeating the same assertion I questioned, verbatim. The author of this blog post quotes an article that itself quotes practically chapter and verse for why this type of promise is not feasible under Swedish law. I then said, if these promises were common, surely there's an example to be found of them somewhere.
Ouch. It never stood a chance. =)
I think this chain just points out that fact that "shit" can be used in many contexts. Still doesn't answer the fact that the way the author used it is ambiguous.
Interesting idea. Google is already doing this (http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home) and they have solid relationship with big publishers. Question to founders -
1. How are you different from Google?
2. As a UX person, I'm not sure what sort of data I will get from these surveys. Is there anyway you can maintain the quality of responses? I assume in most of the cases users will give dummy data for the sake of getting away from surveys.
I'll be honest I've never read his book but the 10,000 hours fits as an analogy to the hard work that one must put in to be an expert.

Sure 10,000 hours isn't going to make you excellent but focused hard work can and most of the time does.

You can become good in under 10,000 hours I just used it for reference. Maybe you would have preferred this: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
Just to state on the record, We do support SIP registration and we dont use FreeSWITCH for that. You can manage all of this via both APIs and UI.

Profig does provide this to businesses in a seamless fashion and eliminates the use of regex etc. They have the capability to support both Desktop and mobile SIP Clients.
What should a series A funding process look like? Step  1 - Introduction
I believe the English law system is based on common law, meaning that cases stack and can use precedents from earlier cases.
I don't follow what you're trying to say at all, but the comment I replied to was edited extensively after I wrote my response (I haven't re-read it).
Key in my mind is a large number of casual walk-bys of people with no hobbyist interest in electronics. That would be Best Buy's competitive advantage in this space.
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This.

Too many people confuse distribution and product development.

While I laud the OPs suggestion that retailers like Best Buy might be more competitive if they could source products that Amazon cannot, there is an existence proof for this called "Pier 1 Imports" whose "special sauce" consisted almost entirely with seeking out niche suppliers, locking up a retail relationship with them, and putting their stuff into stores. Great for craft kinds of things but not so much consumer electronics.

Now if you want to go so far as to say there is an emergent market for 'craft' electronics (and there is some evidence on Kickstart to suggest this looking that the Blink project for example) then perhaps what should really be the point is to create the 'Pier 1' of those electronics. The seeds of that would seem to be in Makershed.
How I learned to...
The Businessman & The Fisherman
(This may not exactly be the right forum for such a little story. But it might help explain those few who are "cursed" with too much contentment.)

One day a rich businessman was surprised to find a fisherman lazily smoking a pipe and lying on the riverbank beside his boat.

"Why aren't you out fishing?" said the businessman.

"Because I caught enough fish for one day," said the fisherman.

"Why don't you catch some more?"

"What would I do with them?"

"Earn more money. With that you could buy a motor for your boat so you could go into deeper waters and catch more fish. Then you would have enough money to buy nets. These would bring you more fish and more money. Soon you would have enough money to own two boats, maybe even a fleet of boats. Then you would be a rich man like me."

"What would I do then?"

"Then you could really enjoy life."

"What do you think I am doing right now?"

-- From Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart, edited by Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield
Indeed! I begrudgingly moved to Austin a few years ago.
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The Infocast was a nice little product. I have one sitting next to me right now. It was not, however, a big sales success. I bought mine on closeout in late 2010.

Part of the problem was that Best Buy didn't know where to put the thing, nor how to market it. The 3.5" model was sitting next to the alarm clocks. The larger 8" model was sitting next to the Sony Dash in the picture frame area. You can figure out the rest from there.
I'll second this, we put together a system that did this around 2008 and while it worked out well initially within less than a year it became a loss for our company. We couldn't charge much for the data as even with large amounts of filters and detection techniques for bogus data and users the results were so bad no one was willing to pay for them any more. Within a year we scrapped the project and ripped it out of our ad system. People are more than happy to answer a survey to get to paid content, they are also more than happy to supply bogus answers to the questions.

That being said, I'll be interested to see what, if anything, makes this different than all of the surveys running in the affiliate marketing/lead generation space.
The creative process of writing, which trends to anything creative which needs "shipping." The difference between an "amateur" who dabbles at writing, and a professional, the power of pushing through and consistency to complete projects (ship). Additionally, a theory on why we try to hard to procrastinate away from the things we either know, or want, we would do.

Very direct, a bit of "muse" hokiness which most readers I've given the book to can deal with or understand (it is a foil for the author, not a belief). He was a man who failed until his late 40's? or some such, and it is extremely motivating and direct in its instructions.

from Amazon:

"Drawing on his many years' experience as a writer, Pressfield (The Legend of Bagger Vance) presents his first nonfiction work, which aims to inspire other writers, artists, musicians, or anyone else attempting to channel his or her creative energies. The focus is on combating resistance and living the destiny that Pressfield believes is gifted to each person by an all-powerful deity. While certainly of great value to frustrated writers struggling with writer's block, Pressfield's highly personal philosophy, soundly rooted in his own significant life challenges, has merit for anyone frustrated in fulfilling his or her life purpose. Successful photographer Ulrich (photography chair, Art Inst. of Boston; coeditor, The Visualization Manual) explores the creative impulse and presents an approach to developing creativity that, like Pressfield's, will be relevant to artists and others. He identifies and explains seven distinct stages of the creative process: discovery and encounter, passion and commitment, crisis and creative frustration, retreat and withdrawal, epiphany and insight, discipline and completion, and responsibility and release. He also develops his view of the three principles of the creative impulse, which include creative courage, being in the right place at the right time, and deepening connections with others. Rooted in Eastern philosophy, Ulrich's fully developed treatise nicely updates the solid works of Brewster Ghiselin (The Creative Process), Rollo May (The Courage To Create), and Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way). It also supplements Pressfield's inspirational thoughts on overcoming resistance through introspective questions and practical exercises that further elaborate the creative process. Both books are recommended for public libraries needing additional works on creativity."
Agreed. Also stating svbtle is a tool that "improves and simplify the experience for writing and creating content online" made me quietly chuckle, knowing it's invite only.
These look great! Thanks for sharing.

One thing - I know the intent is that they can be easily customized, but it might be nice to have smaller options out of the box. I think I've been spoiled by Twitter Bootstrap, though, where they have a few preset sizes. My first thought was that they looked a little large.
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Any thoughts on why the ages of 26 and 27 appear to be the mode (especially for "social" startups)?
Non-YC founder here as well. Please don't read results like this and think there is no way you will have success as a founder if you do not get into an incubator by this age.

Not sure if that was meant for me, or just for everyone else reading this thread, but I definitely don't think that way. When I say "it's now or never," I mean "it's now or never to launch this startup, and make it work by hook or by crook." YC isn't even on our radar now, for various reasons, but we're confident we'll succeed with or without any given incubator, or anybody else, aside from the only people who matter - customers.
You're being a presumptive jerk. Several people throughout this thread have told you so and you keep digging yourself deeper.

The writing is on the wall.
+1 for shipping code
Not to fork this discussion further, but it bears repeating how much things changed after SL.

In fact, it actually reminds me a lot of the change from FreeBSD 4.x to 5.x ... things worked, people were happy ... and then boom.

That was when all of my desktops and laptops stopped running FreeBSD and I "switched" to the mac. I am fairly certain that once running SL stops being practical, I will switch again.
This may be difficult for you to hear tptacek, but the world doesn't run on logic.

If you want to survive, you have to join the dots. People lie. People cheat. And if you fail to infer their motives from their actions, then you will be eaten alive.
No.

You probably don't need a degree in experimental psychology to understand that forced recruitment gives you invalid/biased/low quality data. These surveys are annoying to the users; more importantly, the data provided has little if at all value to the organization behind the survey. No matter how well you design your survey.

I don't even want to start on how bad/biased some surveys are designed.

The only way the survey business is still in business is because it is so distant from the revenue. If your ad campaign doesn't boost sale, you pull your ad away. Bad survey's uselessness are not so explicit so people still trust that "something can be gained".

No, stop creating useless data from online user. If you want insights on usage, do analytics on server logs. If you want feedback on user experience, do a serious experiments and plan to spend some ten thousand bucks on it.
This is a YC company that finally really excites me.

The best technology removes problems from the equation all together. Profig (which is kind of a silly name despite its amazing core service) provides a virtual phone system that can be developed like web infrastructure.

Once their account creation is automated (which it sounds like that's their main to-do based on yabbadabbadoo's responses and product description), build-up and tear-down of virtual communication infastructure would be like going to pick up pens and pencils for your business (a trip that might take 20 minutes).

The faster and cheaper critical business infrastructure (e-mail, "productivity", research, communication) can be integrated into an organization the more market opportunities exist for smaller players, as new or temporary opportunities could be capitalized on with much less foresight or risk.

YC companies like this that use other YC companies as initial users sounds like something Xhibit would do, but what PG is essentially doing is actively researching into building virtual companies at increasingly marginal rates, directly on the market itself with real companies.

I will be watching this one more closely for sure!
English common law operates on precedent.
Thanks! Looks like this one has a 'www.' whereas the earlier one does not. It's still a good though.
"Retina" takes into account viewing distance. HiDPI (whatever that may be) does not.
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I suspect that the decline has something to do with Microsoft and Apple getting their games together and releasing products that actually work. Windows 7 has never given me trouble except for when I had hardware problems and OSX seems to do the same,
There are still outstanding accessibility issues with icon fonts. Until there is standards coverage for icon fonts, widespread browser support, and accessibility tool (like screen reader) awareness of those standards, I consider it a backward step for the web.
>> Frankly I don't care what kind of clout you have around here, your condescending tone is unwarranted.

> Also, the Swedes are not Swiss. Europe is tricky, I know.

Let's talk about silly. As of this post, you've commented in this thread 31 times. Just let it go man.
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I'm interested in knowing why an openbsd developer is using linux for a server. Wouldn't netbsd be more comfortable/familiar?
Home wifi could be used for emergency responders
Yes, and the EU court determined that such a requirement does not waive the right to appeal a sentence. Which means somebody can actually be charged in absentia without legal repercussions, so it doesn't really matter whether they're present or not. From what I've heard, France is currently changing its system to reflect these rulings.

Btw, your own appeal to authority is pointless: I'm sure the courts of China are also always right in their decisions.

We're all human, we all make mistakes, we all suffer from external pressures. The UK High Court is as highly politicised as any similar body around the world, and has quite an appalling record on civil liberties in general (from libel laws to Pinochet). It's not unthinkable that they might have ruled as they did because the UK establishment is aligned to US interests -- they are even adopting names from the US system! We now have a Supreme Court and a number of Secretaires who used to be Ministers...
+1. I heard about those theories, so I once did an upside-down drawing as well. As promised, it turned out substantially better than a regular copy of mine. (I thought this was impressive, but I didn't have any real need to learn to draw well, so I left it at that.)
This was a weekend project, and the first code I've ever shipped in my life. I made it on conjunction with a special need teacher who was having trouble teaching numerical concepts to students with certain disabilities.

It has some rough edges, but I wanted to share the idea with the HN community and see what constructive feedback they might have.
"I suspect the objective for Lion was "make OSX look kind of like iOS and get rid of all of that GPLv3 software" and that's basically what was achieved. I guess bug-free software isn't good business, Microsoft were printing money for decades."

You can say that again. Frankly, after using Mac for 10 years, this is my last one.
Why would you look at "Home » About the Online Helpline » How Safe Helpline Can Help You" instead of the home page? https://www.safehelpline.org/
I had noticed that images in my news feed on the Facebook app on my iPad 2 were displaying weirdly, but it hadn't occurred to me that it was likely a HiDPI problem.

("weirdly" = some images are blown up 2x bigger than you'd expect them to be with the full vertical dimension showing, but the right half of the image being cut off by the instant messenger window)

Now it makes sense, assuming that in the iPad app the News Feed is just HTML and that they probably didn't test the new HiDPI News Feed on older, non-retina iPads. I make that assumption with a healthy dose of doubt because I have no way of knowing how the Facebook app is designed or tested.

The takeaway for me is that there is now an even larger pool of devices/browsers/resolutions for which we need to test our designs. Choosing to go the HiDPI route, a noble decision in my opinion, comes with an even greater testing burden.
I cannot quite follow that logic. The way I read it, the argument is "Yes, we keep stealing the things you build, but hey, look how good you have become at building new things! Even better: the world gets better from it. You have no reason to complain"

Should one really cheer one side because it is in one's best interest?
The original essay is about how you build a cathedral versus how you build a bazaar, not what you use them for.
Wrong. If you are raped, you call 911. It's buried at the bottom.
You're reading in what's not there. Yes, I noted that Google have countermeasures to address sites being more highly ranked than they should be because, whilst they have a lot of inbound links, the inbound links are of low quality (from low trust domains).

But none of that presupposes any knowledge of "spam sites", nor of the particular instances you note of spam sites with lots of inbound links (ie the claimed far more than wikipedia [per IP address]).

But it seems you don't have any examples so I'm not sure why you're persisting. Even if I did know about specific spam sites with lots of incoming links I don't see the relevance of my knowing that to you answering the question of if you can give any examples of sites with your claimed characteristics. The points are orthogonal. Your pre-knowledge of such sites is not in any way bound by my knowledge of such sites.

I daren't ask if you can answer the question again. But just suppose you could then a response would still be of interest.
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It's probably a bit late to respond to this... However, given that this work is likely only to be undertaken when the stakes are high, I would think that blinded communication between the original researchers and those replicating the work would be a good idea. If they are going to shoot it down, they probably don't want the original people to know that they did so.
Yours, olifante's and others' arguments for why Assange is more vulnerable in Sweden, as far as I can tell, are basically: "because I can concoct a scenario in which it is so." That is, it's based on speculation, not evidence.

In other words, it's a standard conspiracy theory.
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The precedent that you are referring to here is what? That Assange, as a foreign head of state, is immune to extradition?
Survata, how about a sticky to the top of the site? Just a thought - it'll be easier on the mobile crowd.
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