skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people may believe he is innocent but what I said is that there may not be enough evidence to bring a case, as I imagine is common in sexual molestation cases, and this is a good explanation for why he has not been questioned.

Sweden is less safe than the UK primarily because it is a far smaller country that is more susceptible to American influence, because there is less support for Assange there than the UK (and therefore it would politically easier to extradite him) and because the UK has a history of resisting extradition (e.g. McKinnon) while the best example of Sweden's willingness to comply were the rendition cases and that Sweden has complied with essentially every extradition request in the previous few years.

The arguments for why he would be as safe in Sweden are essentially that extradition requests are subject to judicial review in Sweden. I would expect the UK's judicial's system to be more refined that Sweden's but putting that aside we would expect the Swedish judiciary to be less reliable for the reasons of outside influence given above. The idea that any judiciary is immune from political pressure or not influenced by current political views is naive. In addition the judiciary can be overridden by the executive branch. The argument for why they wouldn't abuse that power is that the Swedish executive would be violating international law. However this is not an effective deterrent because Assange likely cannot afford to pay for such legal proceedings, the extradition would probably occur before the legal challenge anyway (after which it is game over anyway), and the penalty for violating international law is negligible when the US/UK are on your side. Even when Sweden lost in the rendition cases they only had to pay a fine. The US would gladly pay several millions of dollars to get custody of Assange. Policing the embassy alone is costing the UK something like a million dollars a day.

Finally one must consider that thinking Sweden is comparably safe to the UK and being wrong is almost certainly many many years in US prison if not life.
Ideas for 1Password
Just think pragmatically.

Whilst the desire to strive for perfection is in any craftsmen, ultimately what matters is getting the product to the customers and solving their needs.

Only after solving their needs should you start to indulge in the craft for what the customer cannot see, the internal quality.

I also sometimes describe this as "be lazy"... don't do anything that doesn't need to be done (for the benefit of the business and your customers).
"the most important open question in it revolves around the computer equivalent of spotting a fake ID"

I am pretty sure the most important open question in cryptography is whether or not one-way functions exist...
When my dad was my age, a statement like "The entire global economy will soon be managed by a publicly-accessible world-wide computer network" would have seemed similarly ridiculous. Computers are way too slow for that.

The problems we have now will be fixed in ways we haven't yet thought of. We will have new problems, but not the ones we're thinking of. Fundamental changes are always coming.
This article is very poorly written. Few things:
author even did not mention the common name "one-time pad" for the technique he explained.
one-time pad(OTP) uses the key same length as the data.
the key has to come from a true random source that is resistant to side-channel attacks.
key transport/exchange is a big issue.

Diffie–Hellman key exchange uses keys shorter than message length using prime field arithmetic. DH key exchange is not really paired with OTP. So author tossing the name of DH key exchange is odd.
Good intro about OTP and DH Key exchange is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch...
You simply commission a company for doing that... In the countryside neighbours might help each other
Was Zippy in the room?

"So, guys, what should we nanoprint? A cat meme? A Portal core?"

"Actually, what I'd like is a little toy spaceship!!"

"Perfect! Done."
You can patent things other than methods. For example, If you invent a novel chemical you can patent it - that's the basis of the pharma industry business model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_matter
int res = (*fn[(n < 2)])(n);

As stated by others, "n < 2" is a conditional or comparison or whatever (let's just say it's cheating :P) let's call it "m".

So we choose our function pointer with:

int res = (*fn[m])(n);

where

uint32_t m = n < 2?1:0;

and let's assume n is non-negative...

uint32_t top_bits = n & 0xFFFFFFFEu;
uint32_t p = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 32; i++){
p |= (top_bits & (1u << i)) >> i;
}
uint32_t m = 1 - p;

Edit:

You can do the for loop to check if any bits are set in logarithmic time. For general comparisons see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10096599/bitwise-operatio...

Oh and the "i < 32" doesn't count as you could just unroll it...
Cool, I learned something. I guess the boot partition is likely to be inactive, and with a ffs-derived file system you can simply overwrite some file in place with your own functionality. E.g., replace some unused driver code with your rootkit, which loads itself on probe.
Use of Semantic Information to Interpret Thematic Information in an SOV Language
Although I agree with your idea in principle, there are only so many times you can just hack something on top before you start to wonder if the refactoring technique is actually the better way to go. You could just end up with a hacky system held together with sticky tape.

With forethought, you should have built your system originally with method C in mind. If he had done this at the beginning instead of just hacking it together then all this work after wouldn't have been needed!
Maybe the agent didn't have time to change clothes.
Or the Agency can't afford colorful clothes :D
I love the arsclassica latex style!

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/arsclas...
There's lots of information on how to do backups. For starters, back up your data and back up your code. If you're using a VPS, see if you can take a snapshot as a backup.

Above all - I learned this the hard way - make sure you can restore from your backups. Try a full rebuild from your backups. You'll learn a lot.
Huh. I saw no such tutorial on either my desktop or the Surface. The Surface just gave me a "swipe up to get started" animation and that was that. I was at the Start menu.

So I guess I avoided it by not seeing it at all.

Once you know it--the close swipe--it seems obvious enough. But just randomly swiping this way and that, I didn't stumble upon the long-swipe-from-top, which is not to be confused with the short-swipe-from-top which opens the context menu at the bottom of the screen.
Gosh, I like you a lot.
There are a few types of schizophrenia - paranoid schizophrenia being one of them.
As several posters said, nothing will beat matlab with its long list of tool boxes. It would be nice if there is more open source work in building more tool boxes for Octave(octave is open source compatible to matlab).
This happens to me often as well. Although, I am not certain I would describe it as something I need to fix. All my practical experience, going back 15+ years has formed this way.

As a recent example, I just spent a long time on a tiny plugin for CarrierWave (the Ruby/Rails file uploading gem). This took me through most of their source code (always good to read code, and I could probably PR on their project now), new Rails internals and techniques, and mocking and stubbing with RSpec (in the process, I turned up a bug with RSpec, which they promptly fixed; and I have a better understanding of mocking best practices and clean RSpec).

I do empathize with feeling I'm "not getting enough done/shipped" (if you feel that way?). To alleviate it, I try to cut corners and just get something out.

Time-boxing helps me do this -- "accomplish X in 1 hour". This doesn't happen too often, however. I know, like you, I prefer the learning itself; and, I view all my spent time as building experience and a critical mass to accomplish work faster in the future.

Also, I find pair programming helps immensely. I am sensitive to the other person's time, and thus naturally refrain from digression when pairing.

As for motivating myself to "schlep". I'm not sure what you mean -- menial tasks? I do those when I'm tired or having down time.

Finally, as in your case, I do this on personal projects and not on "work". That said, it can make it hard to get your startup and product launched - your own "work". Again, disciplined time-boxing helps. I have not mastered this, and find myself regularly looking for good time-boxing tools.
Looks like at least half of his alleged Mac benefits actually stem from ditching Windows and switching to Unix-based OS.
Yes, command line and ncurses (rbcurse / highline, ffi-ncurses).
The Startup Hacks – Strategies and implementation
Do not try to learn JavaScript the first time from bits of unrelated or related JavaScript tutorials online—this is the worst way to learn a programming language.

Is this really true, from my experience the people who were self educated had a remarkable perseverance to get the job done and were particularly good at mastering the non-programming parts of the work such as client relations, math, science. I think its the best way to learn, because it also teaches you how to learn.
Stop Focusing On Your Performance
I disagree. Monsanto's original business model was: "We have a patent on a herbicide called Round Up, if we can find a way to create seeds that result in plants resistant to our own chemical herbicide then we can sell the seeds too! If we convince farmers using our seeds and chemicals results in better yields and profits we can increase our market share of both." That was the original reason to create the modified seeds.

Do you think they are researching and investing in finding seeds/plants that don't have a tie-in to their chemicals?

EDIT: Their problem is that the patent on Round Up expired so we have other companies that can make and sell the herbicide generically now. Their original business model made sense and was reason enough for them to innovate and create GMO seeds.

Question: Can we now say that modifying genes to make organisms resistant to certain chemicals is no longer non-intuitive?
I'll strongly agree with that: The foundational problem with our public education system is that its primary utility to us is not education, but dealing with issues with poverty and parenting that shouldn't exist in the first place.

I remember reading during the Chicago teachers' strike that with public schools closed, many poor kids would not eat lunch, or possibly at all. That is messed up in a way that transcends any thoughts we might have about the best way to educate.
> Basically the problem is, in order to extend your monitor, you need to hook them from your mini displayport to the monitor. But Macbook airs only have a single mini-displayport and from my research, there aren’t any mini-dp hubs as you’d have with usbs (i know some exists but they sell for $300+).

Modern Macs use Thunderbolt instead of Mini-DisplayPort, which Wikipedia says can be connected to a hub or daisy chained with up to six devices. I can't find any hubs or daisy-chainable adapters online, though. :/
Sure. While I don't want to start a witch hunt, I often wonder while reading discussions who it is behind the handle. To the point where I can't help but think that a little careful observation might uncover an army of sockpuppets.

With the help of the HN api, you could probably fingerprint a lot of users.
As someone who is merely a worker in SV, not a shill for a flood of cheap labor to inflate corporate profits and increase income inequality, god bless Gutierrez. I know it pains the VPs and VCs in SV when they see the high salaries they have to pay me and my wife, so I am sure every single one of them is lobbying hard for this.
It seems like everybody starts out, just like I did, with "The Good Parts" only to realize that the book is much too abstract for practical purposes. With that said, there IS a reason as to why the book is so highly rated. It might not help you directly write your first JS application but it prepare the reader produce what the world really needs - good code.
I don't think that buying a weapon and a bulletproof jacket is logical in his situation. Seems quite counterproductive to me when dealing with officials.
Dynamically-typed languages can be fast when run with a jit -- for example, Lua+luajit is close to Go in your microbenchmark. On my computer, for n=40, Go is 0m2.156s and luajit is 0m3.199s.
Are you referring to the black handwriting panel that you can switch to from the virtual keyboard? If so, yes, someone else pointed that out and that's nearly what I had in mind. I'm going to have to give it a test run to see if I can use it efficiently enough.

That said, my delusional/fictional Onenote--the application I had in mind when I thought, "Surface Pro pen + note application = awesome" was one that converted text scribbled on the page into digital text in-place as I wrote.

It may end up being a mostly academic difference, of course. I look forward to testing the black handwriting panel.
As I said in my response to you below there would be essentially no practical repercussions.
My comparison is iPad Mini Chrome to Nexus 7 Chrome, have to agree that Chrome on Nexus 7 is not up to par with iOS. But I do strongly prefer Chrome's UX over Safari's.

Primary issues with Chrome on Nexus 7:

- Scrolling performance is much slower, especially while loading larger pages.

- I have a much harder time opening links on the N7 on pages like HN front page where there are clusters of links with fairly small text. The pointer algorithm seems to be all wrong.

- Android Chrome's popup bubble when clicking links seems cool, and seems like it would solve the previous issue, but it's completely erratic for me. Often doesn't come up at all, unlike the article which says it always comes up.
> It's hard to generalize.

It's actually very easy to generalize.

The answer is endorphins. The harder the problem that you solve, the bigger the fix you get. Hacky solution is not the solution, you know it, so you don't get much. If you realize and accept this as the cause, the solution to your problem (which I think is very common between the programmers) is obvious.
It's interesting to contrast this design with what Rob Pike presented in his talk on the Go template lexer. Some differences:

(1) Pike's is more static: there is no Machine struct and states are identified with handlers so that there is no table lookup in the loop.

(2) Pike chose to go with a modifiable lexer struct rather than threading a cargo value through the machine.

(3) Pike used nil for all end states.

The main design questions are probably:

(a) Do you need to construct machines at runtime?

(b) Do you need state names available at runtime?
I think grid-lock like that described in the article is the best thing we can expect out of Washington. Otherwise, we seem to get one of the two extremes, with no rational thought, much less the hope of a consensus.

So the less that happens in D.C. ... the less pain for the citizens of the U.S.
I agree partially and really this wouldn't be a bad article at all if it wasn't for the link-bait title they used.
I agree with this. I do theoretical CS research, and whenever I find a general problem that I feel must have been solved by someone but seemingly hasn't, the only way I can get the problem off my head is phrase it as a StackExchange question (usually on cstheory) and ask it.

First, it forces me to write down clearly the question that's obsessing me, occasionally leading me to realize that doesn't actually make sense or isn't that interesting -- all the more so because it is published so my standards are higher that if I just wrote it in a text file of mine. Second, it gives me the impression that people will work on it now so I can stop thinking about it for a while (even if no one actually cares about the question). Third, in any case the question is documented so it won't be lost.

In some cases I get insightful answers (sometimes, brilliant answers) that save me the time to hunt down a solution in an unfamiliar field or to work it out by myself, other times I end up replying to my own question because I stumbled on the solution later. In any case, it totally defuses the urge to think compulsively about a problem.
Since Go has goroutines, I wonder if you can do something like this:

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/08/29/co-routines-as-an-al...

Basically use stack state and goroutines to avoid explicit states. Unlike Python, Go might take multiple threads to do this?
Show HN: FakeWebGL, WebGL for iOS (and Android soon)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/killer-seeds-the-devastating-im...

Killer Seeds

The irony is GM seeds have not been effective in India and the consequences are not as rosy as what Monsanto had promised to deliver. Scathing reports of mass suicides of Indian farmers broke out as recently as three years ago when scores of farmers took their own lives in order to escape the burden of high prices and failure of Monsanto’s GM seeds.

Monsanto offered its GM seeds to the farmers of India with hopes of reaping plentiful crops. Plain and mostly uneducated farmers thought Monsanto had come to provide a “magic” formula that would transform their lives. They had no idea what was coming.

Monsanto’s seeds in India did not produce what the company had promised and farmers hoped. The expensive seeds piled up debts and destroyed farming fields. In many instances, the crops simply failed to materialize. The farmers were not aware that the GM seeds required more water than the traditional seeds. And lack of rain in many parts of India exacerbated the crop failure.
Wikileaks doesn't just publish something because it is a secret.

"Wikileaks will accept restricted or censored material of political, ethical, diplomatic or historical significance."

Most of your examples clearly don't meet that criteria and it would be a stretch for any of them.
Under Sweden's laws, he can't be questioned until he appears in person to be charged. They didn't make that law up to screw Assange; they did it because it's part of how Sweden protects the rights of the accused.

Basically every assertion you made in this comment is wrong:

* The UK is a closer ally of the US's than Sweden.

* The UK has cooperated more with the US in "renditioning" subjects than Sweden, which stopped cooperation in 2006.

* The UK is governed by a coalition led by political conservatives, and Sweden by liberals.

* The UK's extradition system is substantially the same as that of Sweden, and both inherit the protections of the ECHR.

* The judiciary of Sweden is exactly as accountable to local politics as that of the UK.

* By treaty, Sweden is required to obtain the consent of the UK to further extradite Assange.
Dolphin isn't great IMO. There are some real good ideas in it from a usability standpoint, and then others that are just face-slappingly aggravating.

Chrome is the best browser I've used for Android and it has problems that annoy me to no end as well. I don't think the author mentioned this, but one huge annoyance is that the tab bar is always visible no matter where you're scrolled on the page. Vertical screen real estate in landscape mode is really precious and having chrome stuck on top of the view at all times is pretty frustrating. I love how iOS Safari handles this--you see the tab and URL chrome when you're at the top of the page, and you can tap to quickly scroll to the top of the page if you need it.

I agree completely with the author. One of my primary uses of a tablet is using a web browser, and there just aren't really any excellent options on Android right now.
I'm php on rails and here is another thing: if ur concerned about going down the rabbit hole with ur weird little project you gotta understand that someone has already figured it out before you really all you gotta do is sit down shut ur mouth and go on ruby gems or even wordpress and find the person that already made the thing u want to make ... if it is a personal project, well, 3js is a wonderful library and it gets a lot done for a lot of ppl every day and if ur a CSS guy stop stealing sheep learn how typography on the web works helvetica is fine for everything it isn't that hard and for u math guys out there guess what nobody uses erlang or haskel.. i mean if ur wasting time writing lisp in one of those things then i'd call u monad ..... if ur writing a song trying to get soundcloud up and going well try the real fakebook i mean a lot of songs were written in the 20th century nobody really cares...... and if u are worried about writing a message to a girl on okcupid who is into wicca just as much as ur into star trek the next generation well........ just get back to the node.

peace
>>> Apple doesn't allow any other choice of browser except for those using it's core WebKit engine

1) Not true. http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/mobile/ios.html

2) "Its".
Bought two nexus 7 over christmas, one for me and one as a present. I've only read good things about them.

Ended up returning them both due to the bad surfing experience. Laggy, bad scrolling. Sometimes it felt like it missed my swipe as a whole and just got stuck. Switched back to my ipad1 which is much better in that regard.

I liked the rest... but surfing is what I do most on a pad, so that has to be perfect.
Having a non-diverse gene pool increases the likelihood of a species getting wiped out.

How does have a large majority of our food coming from the same gene pool help secure our future?

If anything it puts us all at greater risk. While in the short term GMO seeds might help, in the long term it appears we are increasing unnecessary risks. Typical current day view: shortsightedness and sacrificing the future for gaining today.
I have a scary thought. What if you set out to prove they didn't exist and turns out they do? I'm not saying that would necessarily happen but what if it does? Men and women have serious differences both biologically and psychologically... What if it turns out that, for example, statistically female musicians are more temperamental?
I would have agreed with this article 6 months ago, before I found X-Scope Pro, which brings the features to Android that I had missed in iOS, including natural full screen mode options, copy/paste tools, and more.

See http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sui.mRelease...

That said the default Android browsers need a lot of work.
To inject a bit of treacle, here... man am I ever glad I chose you as the father of my children. :-)
I have had similar periods of time in my own life, but even these have begun to fade over many years. Luckily, there are plenty of techniques to avoid this and many are not new. E.g., Diarists have used writing to remember day-by-day for centuries. For travelers like you, remembering or recoding locations by date definitely helps to organize memories.

Unlike a written diary, which is conceptual, I like how Cesar is systematically compiling small visual queues using a discipline amounting to a form of sampling or measurement. I'm not sure how a video beats a photo-of-the-day, but perhaps it simplifies the overall process of selecting images?

I'm also guessing that his daily sampling method might control for the natural tendency of sensational moments and aspects of life to eclipse the less sensational parts over time.
Assuming that the open source version is at least as good as a doctor, how is it not a Pareto improvement?

"Social justice" is a typically poorly defined, loftily written way of replacing "I'm jealous" with "it's not faaaiir".
Prominent open access researcher's essay against IEEE and ACM