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The US should have been sensible and just handed the evidence over to the UK courts and said "Look, it's overwhelming, criminal computer use etc etc get the courts moving".

He should be tried in front of a jury of his peers, which amazingly aren't Americans and for a proportional crime which would be unauthorised access to a machine, not criminal computer damage which is ridiculous on the face of it. It's not like he was trashing disks.

Oh, for the people who say he must be a genius or you'd offer him a job, he's admitted repeatedly he's got basic skills and mostly got into where he did through the repeated incompetence of some of the US' biggest security establishments. And he genuinely was after UFO stuff, there's an interview with him on one of the UFO conspiracy websites where he talks about trying to find it.
I had a Russian lecturer at my (British) university, who was fond of telling us that Russian lectures are like the British parliament -- people standing up and shouting all the time -- while British lectures are like the Russian parliament -- everybody sitting in cowed silence.
Is that 3d scrolling thing WebGL?
That experiment you reference was 7 tonnes. The article here is 100 tonnes. I wonder if that's enough to make an impact?
I asked Graydon about this near the release of 0.3. Here's the exchange:

me: so what were the reasons that nobody ever used typestate? was it just too cumbersome?
graydon: combination of incomplete and wound up not often able to benefit from much code-path-distance between site of check and site of constraint-enforcement.
graydon: I'm still unconvinced that could not be overcome
graydon: but the result is that using it has effectively caused all callers to do checks just before they call, which isn't much of a win
me: graydon: was typestate the whole reason you started rust in the first place? I'd be really interested to read a retrospective :)
graydon: no, I started rust because I was sick of hacking in C++ and wanted something with a saner compilation model, grammar, safety properties, concurrency properties ...
graydon: I'd used lots of other languages and kept not being able to use them in an industrial setting, because they failed to be similar-enough to C++ in important ways, usually.
graydon: typestate was just a property that hermes had that I liked because it looked like a way to statically optimize DBC, which I like in languages that have it
graydon: (sather, eiffel, some of the C# derivatives)
graydon: I tend to program over-defensively when left to my own devices. make copies of every datum to be local. make everything const. run a lot of internal consistency self-checks. etc. etc.
graydon: (the one habit I hadn't picked up yet, which I'm still trying to, is adequate unit testing and fuzzing ... sigh)
me: graydon: so are you confident yet that even if someone was forcing you to write rust, you would't be sick of it? :)
graydon: my experiences writing rust so far have been pretty positive. it has a number of the parts I like in other languages. the grammar is simpler, the compilation model is better, it's AOT and static, it has algebraic types, clear integer types, is eager and reasonably fast, doesn't force OO style...
graydon: and crucially: doesn't need to allocate / GC like crazy, so can close that residual gap on inner loops without having to hit the FFI
graydon: there are still odd bits we need to whittle down
graydon: oh also the safe references are lovely. and getting better.
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If it's an ruby hash, that's unintentional. I changed one of the I18n paths in the app at 5am (the competition finished at 8am for us) and changed it in most places around the site. I missed the home page (since it uses image replacement) but in some configurations (e.g. I think Retina MBPs in Chrome) it shows up still.

We can't modify code until post-judging, so it has to wait until then to be fixed. And thanks, the cover animation was the work of our wonderful designer, @levibuzolic on twitter.
While still in alpha (mind you) it is a promising progress on a very cool firmware hack. In short, it is a non-destructive and non-persistent (ie it does not replace the pre-existing firmware) firmware replacement that allows for far more features than the original Canon firmware.

There is a long list of cool features on their site, and it caters not only to cinematographers but has plenty of features useful in still photography as well.

Plus, it's a cool hack, which has value in itself :)
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So following that reasoning, a chinese scientist who made his/her PhD and research work in the USA should be called "an american researcher"? I think you can understand that that is not only not nice, but just wrong. If you think that not respecting her because she was a woman was a terrible thing (I agree), then we should not do the same, and as a sign of respect, at least, we should call her by her real name
I believe it's all CSS3 stuff.
Both are working fine for me (UK).
Is that only me that felt bad when i see that i have to pay to watch?
Just wondering if you played with the hStore column in the postgres ways/nodes tables before diving into ArangoDB?
I see hStore as nosql-on-demand within a relational schema:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hstore.html
>However, it has something more excellent available to it. A potential future as the hero that slayed Java and supplanted it.

If you had to stay on the JVM platform (for argument's sake) and supplant the Java language - would you choose a particular language ? I have read your comments above on Clojure and was wondering what you thought about Scala ?
The official explanation of catastrophe was hitting the birch during landing attempt... while the airplane was at about 30 meters of altitude (yes, it was a birch not sequoia).
Data scientist: in many companies, this means a software engineer with an additional credibility that gives him dibs on the most interesting projects. A lot of data scientists end up working on distributed systems problems that would typically be considered closer to hard-line engineering than machine learning or data analysis.

It's an XWP vs. JAP issue: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/xwp-vs-jap/

Once you're at or near 30, you realize that you won't be able to stand the software career unless you get an edge in picking projects, because the vast majority of the engineering workload is line-of-business bullshit that you don't learn much from. To grow as a programmer, you have to beat (or cheat) the project allocation game. One avenue is to go into management, but that doesn't work because bosses who take all the interesting work for themselves get undermined. An alternative is the "architect" designation, but becoming an "architect" is even more political than moving into management. Right now, "data science" is a title that has enough of a "+1" to it that it gives engineers the ability to put themselves on the most interesting projects.
Whilst I agree this is the correct decision, I'm having trouble reconciling how someone who has admitted to accessing a US government network illegally won't be extradited, whereas someone denying an accusation of domestic crime was to be extradited to Sweden?

EDIT: Apologies, forgot the part about Assange not being a British citizen.
The character of debates in the British parliament changed when it was Televised. Prior to that, it wasn't usual to see MPs having a nap, a bit like during many lectures I went to...
> I think you missed that note [2] above.

I think you need to edit your posts more carefully. Clarity matters, particularly when you're discussing things in written form.
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Presuming that you're talking about Assange, there are hugely different considerations when Assange isn't a British citizen.
Now a political debate hopefully starts around the subject of extraditions from the UK. Hopefully, things like this, the Assange extradition, and other high publicity cases will put some political pressure on the process, and improves them.
OK, you flip it around and say if you're Iran, are you happy with the US investigating and prosecuting the Stuxnet attack?

I'm not saying I have answers, just that the blanket statement no extradition for computer crimes seems wrong (as most blanket statements are).
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I have been following this for many years. Nobody in England wanted him to be extradited. Most Americans seemed to be against extradition. The rest of the world didn't want it either.

I am surprised this went on for so long.

EDIT: My bad. UK, not England!
Is "Probabilistic Graphical Models" a good course? Do I need to buy the $95 book it links to?
Aside from both cases being extremely political, the reasons that both were/are fighting extradition are quite different (mental illness vs. political machinations). Extradition to EU countries is also often viewed differently to the US by the public and politicians, as we both fall under EU law and it is perhaps more like transferring a suspect between states in the US.

In neither case is our (UK) government acting in a fair, impartial and democratic way. /sweeping statement
The screenshots look great. I like that you support Euro (and will hopefully do dollar and other currencies too) - just make sure you get the commas and periods localized well ( http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/10/jquery-glo... ). The bootstrap UI looks sleek but I recommend styling the buttons to make it look slightly more customized than the default bootstrap CSS.

Also, you should check out my free app: https://zetabee.com/cashflow/ (see the demo and update the dates/amounts to play around). It has similar features and is very much like the original spreadsheet I used myself. It has burn rate (balance), monthly (income vs. expense), and many other views/lists.

My biggest feature request has been multiple simulations/forecasts so users can do what-if scenarios. Also the ability to easily ignore/disable rules with one-click to help with this. Either I get the new car or don't. Check/uncheck to see how it impacts the future. I've been very busy with my other projects and have not updated this app in over two years. I hope you guys can incorporate these features into your app so I can forward the heavy users to you. Good luck!
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At that price point, it's not clear to me which market they're trying to break in to.
I'm not. They had to make sure they could get some terrorists and bankers extradited before they could cave on this and change the rules.
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Please note that we were mostly under Russian or German occupation during the last 200 years, so it is not our fault many bright units have been kicked or run abroad. Skłodowska was rejected by Russians, so blame them for intolerance.
The court made the same decision in both cases. Home Secretary did not make any decision (in favor or against) Assange extradition: Who in the political branches in the UK has the power to overrule the court in regard to Assange.
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She's used the Human Rights act, which she broadly despises, to get herself off the hook.

While it is public pressure I suspect that the pressure from the Daily Mail (a paper which with two exceptions - of which this is one - has been on the wrong side of pretty much every significant issue up to and including it's support for Hitler) might have been a major factor.

As a Tory you don't want to mess with the Mail, it's the paper of much of your core vote and you don't want it rounding on you and it's been very anti-extradition.
I recently discovered that you can get some interesting results by pointing the iOS6 panorama camera out the window of moving vehicles...

https://www.icloud.com/photostream/en-gb/#A25oqs3qSfZoE
Ah yes, I stand corrected.
Sabotage seems incredibly unlikely as the pilot made repeated passes in heavy fog - attempting to land.
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Developing extension packages for VS2005-2012 using C# with real-life samples
Creating extension packages (plug-ins) for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE appears as quite an easy task at the first sight. There exist an excellent MSDN documentation, as well as various articles, examples and a lot of other additional sources on this topic. But, at the same time, it could also appear as a difficult task when an unexpected behavior is encountered along the way. Although it can be said that such issues are quite common to any programming task, the subject of IDE plug-in development is still not thoroughly covered at this moment.

We develop PVS-Studio static code analyzer. Although the tool itself is intended for C++ developers, quite a large fragment of it is written in C#. When we just had been starting the development of our plug-in, Visual Studio 2005 had been considered as modern state-of-the-art IDE. Although, at this moment of Visual Studio 2012 release, some could say that Visual Studio 2005 is not relevant anymore, we still provide support for this version in our tool. During our time supporting various Visual Studio versions and exploring capabilities of the environment, we've accumulated a large practical experience on how to correctly (and even more so incorrectly!) develop IDE plug-ins. As holding all of this knowledge inside us was becoming unbearable, we've decided to publish it here. Some of our solutions that seem quite obvious right now were discovered in the course of several years. And the same issues could still haunt other plug-in developers.

By publishing this collection of small articles we wish to contribute to this area of software development. We hope that developers interested in this topic will discover something new for themselves or at least will use the articles as a collection of how-to's and recipes for Visual Studio extension development.
Probably not directly, but that's implied in the word merit, and in the higher pay and better conditions afforded to programmers.
So with a price similar to the iPad it's obvious MS doesn't want to compete on price but rather on features. Well good luck on that.
Part N1. Creating, debugging and deploying extension packages for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012. http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0166/

I invite you to my twitter. You will not miss new articles on this topic. https://twitter.com/Code_Analysis
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And I have a ticket. I love awesome people.
> The bootstrap UI looks sleek but I recommend styling the buttons to make it look slightly more customized than the default bootstrap CSS.

I'd think it'd be a much better use of their time to improve the product, especially seeing as how they don't think it's ready to be released.

The number of people who have any idea what bootstrap is or looks like is dwarfed, by orders of magnitude, by people involved with small businesses and freelancing. So unless you're targeting snooty design folks who get offended that someone would sully their site with bootstrap, get on with the features!
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Hooray. Ignoring his mental illness, he committed a crime under UK law on UK soil and should be prosecuted in the UK for that.
Just out of interest, how did you discover this?
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That's a major version change. You expect API compatibility typically with patch-level and minor releases.
How does one go from speculations about explosions on the aircraft to claims of assassination? How about applying an Occam's razor every once in a while?
Well, they may be the only party able to do that. While Google and its herd of OEMs play catch up, MS is actually trying to think different...
Check out http://theat.me/. Something very similar and 'designy'. And they also index movies on crackle etc. A lot of free to watch sources. (usually only if you are in the US though ...)
Now can we have the same for Richard O'Dwyer please.
Really hoped that it will be priced lower than that. Now it's very uncertain if this will be a hit with the Windows Store Apps so few and developers still not convinced about the platform as well.

It's still $100 cheaper than the 32GB iPad but storage is useless if you don't have Apps to fill it.
My guess would be 'very'. Dead plankton will fall to the floor of the ocean and will be removed from circulation that way. After all, that is how the oceans were cleared from iron sulphate in the first place.
I think he may have read the code that makes up hackernews. If I remember correctly its open source.
I think you need a remote employment option.
I think (and this could be self-limiting) that powering through a lack of motivation is a limited process, but if you can line up the motivation (in the fulfilling sense, not a pep-talk) then there's no real limit.

I think this lines up with Marissa Meyer's thoughts on why burnout isn't "real", i.e. that burnout, in the pervasive "abandon all hope ye who enter" form, is not over-exertion but under-motivation. This matches my own experience where I feel energised by working hard on things I care about, and worn out by working even trivially on things I don't.
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I had to move the Daily Mail off a seat on the bus the other week and it literally made my skin crawl. A childish and visceral reaction perhaps, but not an unusual one for anyone with an ounce of empathy for others I think.

Edit: Yes, that deserved the down-votes. I think there is perhaps a more constructive comment that better puts the emotional and physical responses a particular brand associated with a particular line of thinking can elicit, but I can't think of that comment right now.
Value semantics are the only sensible default in a language like C++. If you need reference semantics, store (smart) pointers explicitly.
That functionality is not present in the release of Hacker News that goes with arc here: http://arclanguage.org/install
Its also $100 more expensive than an iPad 2 (or the same price if you assume 16 GB = $100). The resolution of the Surface is similar to the iPad 2 (if you care about that), but I'm not sure if the screen is somehow otherwise better (e.g., IPS?).
Typically they blow a hole in the side when the capsule is released to parachute down. Generally the balloon lands not too far from the payload.
Except that the original definition fits the current situation in IT very well.
Wasn't this rumor debunked quite early in the investigation?
There was only one landing attempt.
I believe willpower is tied to blood sugar. I have a more difficult time focusing on difficult problems and getting started on projects when my blood sugar is low. I think many people incorrectly believe the concept of "blood sugar levels" is something only diabetics have to worry about.

Our brains are using about 1/5 of the calories we eat, ~400 calories per day for most of us. Most people are probably unaware of how their sugar-to-blood ratio naturally varies during the day, in response to eating, exercise, sleep patterns, etc -- but most of us have experienced feeling cranky and tired, having a meal, and feeling much more decisive and energized. This is a good example of how a meal raises one's blood sugar levels.
How would you run it?

The houses actually run fairly well, and part of the reason why is traditions like this. I would happily take this over the American system for example, where there is no back and forward because people have to go to a microphone to talk...
Until relatively recently two collapsible opera hats were maintained for the use of members who wished to raise a point of order. I think even the Reverend Dogson might have considered that a little peculiar.
There would be traces of explosives.

"But the tree impact that supposedly precipitated the crash wouldn't have caused enough wing damage to down the plane, said Binienda ... It's absolutely impossible that the wing sheared and then it crashed the way [government investigators] described" - that's all they have, an opinion of a conspiracy nut. I don't buy this for a second, and here's why:

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19550616-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freckleton_Air_Disaster

EDIT:

Oh, and the explosion would be heard by both people on the ground (some random guy was right next to the crash scene, he even put a video on youtube), and on the black box recording (transcript available).
I wonder if this will sour relations between the UK and the USA.
Interesting to hear that even government voices is critical to the view to have a mutually respect for every other countries laws.
It's $1M signing bonus + $600K a year + $36M in stock options: first, he has to stay at least for four years for the options to fully vest and then he has to hope Yahoo's stock won't completely tank during those years.

Considering his position and the impact on company he could have, compensating him in stock options is very reasonable.
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At which companies are developers paid more than executives?
Wow, that is a beautiful design :)

I wrote something similar for http://giby.tv, though it's not really a core feature for me and it doesn't recognize geographical restrictions, which seems to be a primary motivation for you guys.

You guys make it look easy, but I think there are a lot of subtle gotchas that others might not realize about this sort of TV data, for example:

Different sources of data (Netflix, Wikipedia, Network sites, iTunes, etc) often disagree about what's correct, and there isn't really an easily accessible canonical source. Sometimes an episode will release weeks earlier in one country than another (e.x. Fox recently delayed a new episode of House, despite it airing weeks earlier on another network in another country). Sometimes iTunes will just give completely incorrect information about dates.

Lots of series names are reused by remakes. String matching by series name will often lead to mismatching, for example, the 1961 series of 'The Defenders' with the 2010 series of the same name. Or the US version of The Office with the UK. Sometimes sources will disambiguate for you and append something like (US) or (UK) at the end. Sometimes they only carry one version and don't bother.

Sometimes a series will rename itself after airing a few episodes/seasons, like 'Gold Rush Alaska' -> 'Gold Rush' after the first season. Not all content providers will have the new name.

And episode titles are even worse. If you thought an episode had a single name that everyone always agreed on, you would be sorely mistaken.

Anyway, if you're interested in this sort of thing you might also be interested in tracking new episodes of tv shows at http://giby.tv, or finding links for specific episodes i.e. http://giby.tv/series/House or http://giby.tv/series/The%20Office%20(US) :)
We built it to jumpstart some ideas for 1-day hacks and brainstorming.

Lots of jibberish, but some gems every once in a while. Sounds like a fun starting point: "solar, project, & mars" or "moon, water, iphone"
Everybody is judged by their looks. Einstein is famously nerdy-looking - we celebrate that. I enjoy the photographs of Curie - words like formidable, determined spring to mind.
Aircraft pilots, even highly trained ones, overreact in non standard situations. The simulation argues that the plane could not have been significantly damaged by the tree. The simulation doesn't say anything about pilot's reaction to the collision event. An attempt by the pilot to compensate for impact is more likely to have caused damaged than the impact itself.
I also like browsing the site in classic mode http://news.ycombinator.com/classic for submissions upvoted by long term members