skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is amazing chutzpah, then everyone has it. It's bog standard to claim that complainants don't have standing to sue.

This is what happens when you try to impose narrative on arguments in court filings. They aren't like regular arguments.

You could just as easily write the next story on if Google is so confident that they can't be sued in the UK, why are they making all these other arguments about why the complainants are wrong? It really undermines their argument if they have to take multiple approaches to it!

Edit: if anyone can find the actual filing, please link it. I'm happy to eat crow if I'm wrong :) I found coverage of this in the telegraph as well, but they also don't link to the actual submission to the court.
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Kutcher is being paid by another company to support his Steve Jobs film. It's personal for him, but it's also business. We have to keep that in mind.
AppScale are notorious for spamming the official GAE mailing list, and for that reason alone, I'd be cautious dealing with them
Russian meteor left a dusty mess in the stratosphere
Most of these languages should die. The purpose of a language is to unite groups of people. India's native languages are enmeshed in thousand year old (and older) ethnic, religious and regional ruts. Hindi is not important in the Tamil regions. Nor is Hindi or Tamil important in some other provinces of India. All educated working people will be speaking English plus whatever language they want to speak, and nobody outside or inside India needs to venture any opinion otherwise, as that's the global norm these days. English for business. Your own bloody business what you speak at home and with your friends, and your family.
As long as they are drawing profits internationally they should be subject to laws in those nations. If they don't like the law in a particular country then they shouldn't do business there. After all Google have .co.uk domains and offices in the UK, it's not like a bunch of foreigners just started using their services without their knowledge.

Practically, if Google were to try to dodge UK law, there's now a set of tools in place to block websites. This is essentially what happened to the Pirate Bay. It's not likely it would ever come to that of course.
I submitted a presentation proposal about AppScale for this year's PythonBrasil (no word yet on whether it was approved). Is there anything in special I should highlight?
What's the problem with keeping the accent? Why do you think an accent hinders you?

And which language and universal accent should the world switch to?
Fair enough -- thanks for the reference. On this point their rationale[1] is:

> to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it.

Unambiguously opposed to a NC license being defined as open source.

[1] http://opensource.org/osd-annotated
Is this article not mistaken in referring to Miranda as a "Guardian employee"?
So do the $5 per person per month accounts, apparently.
I suppose that you had better go down and sort out those blatant liars CentOS, ClearOS, OS/4 OpenLinux, SolusOS, PureOS, Chrome OS, Joli OS, Peppermint OS, ZevenOS and PCLinuxOS.

How dare they try to advertise themselves as operating systems.
Which applies not just to integer math, but also to floating point:

http://play.golang.org/p/vEmiqUyPag

Division by zero in floating point is well defined and useful, and does not produce a runtime exception. So why is this a compile time error?

Edit And it produces the wrong result for division by negative zero: http://play.golang.org/p/DKoVG0Vlaf It should be -Inf, not +Inf. Go's floating point math is whack.
Google is hoping the browser will replace your operating system.
Fedex and UPS save a lot by delivering to the USPS distribution hub instead of your door:

http://www.fedex.com/us/smart-post/index.html
http://consumerist.com/2012/11/21/insider-explains-why-fedex...

http://www.upsmailinnovations.com/services/domestic_mail.htm...
Would this be a bad thing? I'm considering this.
if they do business in the UK (which they do), they are subject to UK laws. Quite simple, no?
It would be trivial to build in a sensor that detects when a device that needs charging is within range.
Or maybe he's too pissed-off right now to weigh every word he writes on a golden scale. I know I would be.
"the worst tactical mistake made by any government to date"

Not to worry - I heard an earlier news report that predicted 95% of congressional incumbents will be re-elected. That will get this mess corrected, not.
> PS: Good to know that your sample set for passing judgement on India is a handful of programmers you met in Bangalore.

I wasn't passing judgment on India. I was just pointing out the fact that the majority of programmers in Bangalore speak pretty terrible English. If I were to "pass judgment" on India as a whole, it would be for the lack of sanitation.[1]

I say majority, because I've met some pretty smart programmers through an HN meetup that was held in Bangalore sometime ago.[2] I also personally know a lot of Indians who have excellent English. Generally, I think the level of one's English is directly proportional to how much of a bookworm one is. (This probably applies to native speakers as well.) India has sizable English readership, who probably all can express themselves eloquently in English.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5623809

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5563491
> Golang has a GUI tool kit: the "net/http" and "html/template" packages.

The article is written from the point of view of a game developer. He means UIKit or WPF. Most games used to write their own UI controls.
While I don't think that native SDKs are going away any time soon, there are huge classes of applications where those additional features aren't needed, and even more that can us in between solutions like phonegap. I think that very few applications outside of games really need features that a web-based UI can't provide on modern mobile devices.
I've heard the palm-pixi charging stand (which can be easily hacked to charge many other cell phones[1]) gets roughly 70% efficiency.

[1] http://hackaday.com/2013/06/19/adding-wireless-charging-to-a...
'RyJones made an argument in response to you that is at least something to think about; another that I have heard is that without cameras, if you get arrested, then your lawyer at least has the chance to clean you up and get you in a suit before the court and jury see you. No such chance if your arrest was recorded.
At some point you have to draw a line in the sand, no matter the cost. (The consequences of not drawing a line, might be far more costly, not economically per se.)
Yes, because punitive damages aren't a thing in the UK.
I can understand the use case of having a personal & corporate Gmail. However, thats still a solved problem; Google has a multi-user account signin option.

This incessant integration of google specific features into the browser is essentially the same thing as vendor-lockin.
You're making an assumption there.
Um, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but pot really does cause some young men to "give up on life" (whatever that means) and not get jobs or girlfriends and just play video games all day.

There actually is a such thing as a stoner. I don't hate them or want to outlaw them or anything, but they do exist. Nancy Reagan didn't invent them.
This is interesting for its main points, but also just to look at a familiar argument from an unfamiliar viewpoint.

There are some places where the analogy to color didn't ring true for me, but it was still worth reading.

Like the difference between the reality of a digital file and the "color" of it -- how these particular bits were obtained -- there's a hard line that you can draw between the reality of any situation and the many layers of stuff that we construct on top of it.

There are lots of concepts that we think of as "reality" when they're pretty much just conventions that we've built on top.

Arguments about ownership get fuzzy and confusing because ownership itself is not real; it's a complicated set of rules we generally agree on, but the details vary among cultures. If you observe a group of people without knowing their language, there's almost no way you can figure out who "owns" all of the things they interact with, and even asking the people themselves you'll get varying answers.

Human rights are an invention. They aren't a thing, they can't be inherent to anyone, and you can't even have them in the first place, though we talk about them as if they worked that way. Rights are rules that one person can agree to follow respecting another person.

If you're alone on Earth, your "human rights" are meaningless, aren't they? You need at least two people before one can violate/respect the human rights of the other -- by following the rules or not. And of course the rules are not universally agreed upon, because they are not real things to be discovered; they are constructions.

The flip side of learning where that line goes (between reality and our constructed ideas on top of it) is the realization that a lot of this "fake" stuff is still really, really important.
Politically, he can't say based on recent leaks we are reconsidering policiy as it suggests wrongdoing.
> I've been in Bangalore, and the English of the majority of programmers I've met here is utterly atrocious.

Bangalore is a melting pot, of sorts. Having worked here for donkey's years, I have come across colleagues from various parts of India. Colleagues who grew up in bit cities speak perfectly grammatical English; colleagues from towns often bring in their regionalisms. Looking back, I'd say that less than 10% of my colleagues were raised in cities. Perhaps this is what led you to believe that the people of Bangalore butcher English. We generally don't.

> hadn't been coupled with appallingly bad coding skills

This could be a reflection on their attitude towards learning, in general.

> They can actually get good at the language.

Oh yeah? Try learning Hindi. Its grammatical gender drives me nuts.

The rest of your comments (this, and others) are just wild(!) speculation. I'll leave it at that.
In this case, I think we can agree he was both grumpy and a jerk ?
Much agreement on smart people doing clever things.

In 5-10 years, Bitcoin (or similar systems) will end up being adopted by enough individuals and businesses that critical mass of usage will be achieved and digital currencies will no longer seem novel or strange. We saw the same dynamic at play with the internet itself not that long ago and here we are already seriously considering the effects of the first viable digital currency.

Sidenote: A gentle reminder to folks to back up the efforts of indie Bitcoin developers with whatever can be spared.
but antennas have been miniaturized very well. (Frequencies have gotten somewhat higher, but it doesn't explain everything.)
I love this, it reminded me of Crime Cops [1]. The best part is that actual screenwriters might come across this while searching for tech dialog and not realise it's satire. Then again, it wouldn't be much different from the stuff Hollywood currently uses.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF_qQYrCcns
http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/8/8e/GraalJVMSummit2011...

http://java.sys-con.com/node/2166548

http://www.slideshare.net/vinayhulgar/java-8-selected-update... - Just a brief reference on the item list for possible upcoming features
FIFA 2001 with Paul Scholes on the cover. Spent many days playing 10+ hours till computer access was taken away :) Fond memories!
I don't think it would be a bad thing. It would definitely bring balance and another perspective, which would be in my opinion much more helpful to someone contemplating their life direction.
Would love to see a design for a height adjustable sit/standing desk.
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ScriptEd is a New York based nonprofit that brings computer programming classes to students in low income high schools and places students in summer internships with tech firms.
This could be due to them receiving D-Notices.
I'd be okay with this. So, who is the Nikola Tesla of computers?
HN is a smart bunch, so I'm going to ask:

Why do people think the security state is being rammed through with such a sense of urgency right now? Are they expecting something? A war? An economic crisis? Ecological meltdown? Invasion from outer space?

I ask because I get the impression that there is a top-down (from the executive branch) full-court-press on this, and that the gloves are coming off. That leads me to wonder if there's something driving this, some sense of urgency.
bloat.
FB should pay him double - or more - no telling how much he's saved the company by revealing the incompetence within the sec team.

Too bad FB doesn't have the graciousness to be thankful that the researcher didn't exploit what its security team deemed as dismissive.
There's this as well, for those of you with showdead http://www.appscale.com/
I imagine they presumed that due to the Guardian paying for the flights, and Guardian lawyers being involved in trying to resolve the detention. It seems that while he is working with/for the Guardian in some paid capacity, "employee" is probably not the correct word for the relationship.
I know... I'm just taking the man at his word. My bad ;)

Either those changes are due to Snowden and then he should own up and show some of that transparency he's promised or he's lying through his teeth. Either way it is not looking good.
But shouldn't it be the case that if police is given a search warrant, we (as people, in general) want them to notice anything and everything there is to notice?

This is also something I would reply to your sibling comment as well, I think many would prefer a footage of their state instead of a description of it from a police officer who might be confused/distracted/filling-up-the-gaps. It is both more objective and more just. Jury should be allowed to see as it was and not just as it is displayed during the trial.
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For people who use go in production; what do you use for database abstraction and mapping ? I found several "ORM" but either they throw static typing out the window, or they seem to be way overblown in what they try to do (ending up dictating how some of the data has to look in the database), I look only for a database abstraction (which db/sql doesn't provide), does a good one exists ?
We could ask the NSA for verification I guess but there is no mention anywhere on the Guardian sites or elsewhere that he's an employee so it is possible this is indeed mistaken.
Amplifying the Voice of Youth in Africa via Text Analytics
I hope to write that essay in the coming weeks (although I'm looking at smaller startups).
The crowdfunding-first approach only works if you have a physical product to sell or if you can ride a hype wave of hope for the future.

Gullible crowdfunding as proxy for traction or accomplishment is an intriguing trend though. Who knows how wacky things will keep getting?
Smartest Guys in the Room (about Enron)
Cocaine Cowboys (about the drug boom in Miami during the 70's)
> See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGtP6ZQ6Lt8

Wrong link? This video has to do with healthcare. (I didn't watch the whole thing though.)
This NYT article says the trip was paid for by the Guardian: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/world/europe/britain-detai...
Ah, I was under the impression they had deprecated those
Oh wow, under title 7 in the UK it is a criminal offense to refuse to answer questions for any reason during that 9 hour period.

Looks like a total travel boycott of the UK is prudent. In addition to compelled disclosure of keys, it is worse than the US for this reason too.
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I've known kids that give up on life, not get jobs and play video games all day without weed.

Weed isn't the problem here. The kid and/or his family is generally the problem.
Multi-login doesn't solve the problem of separate bookmarks, extensions, saved passwords, etc.

What exactly is "google specific" about it? Firefox supports multiple profiles, too. I'm sure they can add a supervised account feature if they think their users want it.
This has nothing to do with preferences. The world is full of rich groups and governments that got there thorough favors and exercise of power if not violence.
While Amnesty is doing the right thing here, the organization shouldn't be supported as a whole. They for example refuse[1] to defend historians who go to jail for politically incorrect opinions. Therefore they don't advocate for freedom of speech but rather opinions that fit their own world view.

1. http://www.jta.org/1999/08/05/news-opinion/amnesty-internati...
Funny, but it's just a mad lib. Saw another one for mathematics jargon: http://theproofistrivial.com/

Would be more interesting to see if you could do this by feeding a learning algorithm the terrible one-liners from real movies.
Somewhere in the middle they talk about creating iOS apps in-situ to archive and teach going-extinct native languages. Pretty neat.
Then again, it would probably just generate "zoom and enhance!" over an over again.
If you're not familiar with IRC, it probably won't make much sense. It made sense to some people before the downvotes, though.
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I really think it should be about the technology first... I have seen a lot of the same sort of opinions hold back adoption of Mono for projects, because .Net itself came out of Microsoft. Java is now owned by Oracle... so does that mean we should get to migrating all those Java applications off of that stack too?

Hell, NodeJS is backed by Joynet.. does that mean I shouldn't use that platform since I don't plan on hosting with Joyent?

I think it's pretty important to at least try to keep the politics out of certain technology decisions. Sometimes it may well become important, sometimes it is less so.
Combine those responses with Michael Grunwald's "I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange" and we can see the lines being drawn right before our eyes.
> Oh yeah? Try learning Hindi. Its grammatical gender drives me nuts.

Okay, you have a good point here. I don't actually speak any Hindi, and I was under the impression that it was easy to pick up. I've not yet tried to learn Hindi -- been putting it off as I don't see any immediate use to it. (I won't be in India for long.) I didn't know it had grammatical gender. I remember taking some French in high school, and being pissed off at the gender assigned to every object. I don't know why languages do this.

Perhaps a language research institute should be set up to construct a simple easy-to-learn language that sort-of meshes together the major Indo-Aryan tongues (Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, etc.) -- something that would be easy for the speakers of those languages to learn; but also not too hard for speakers of Dravidian languages. :)
If you know anything about China's history, it cost them tens of millions of lives to surgically implement uniformity. Not just in language but in every thread of society.

Now give me an example of a country as diverse and massive as India whose lingual diversity was a hindrance to growth. I will just go ahead and respond. There is none. India is unique and there is no evidence it's current model won't work.

Languages evolve all the time>
Incorrect. Languages evolve over centuries due to several geopolitical reasons like: land topography, availability of food, neighboring tribes. Each language and it's multiple dialects are an imprint of the struggle their speakers went through over hundreds or thousands of years. In case of India, the frequency is so high since it has been a melting pot of the world for a very large period of time.

>Global society Contrary to what you believe it's not synonymous with a central society. The ultimate goal of the human race is a moving target. Adopting a common language so that we can do better trade, better science and produce more is fallacious since we don't know that's we are supposed to do. Maybe we need to slow down so that we don't kill ourselves off by becoming too powerful and cocky. I don't know. Neither do you.
Well it hasn't stopped the Guardian or even the Daily Mail, it seems ;-) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396745/Edward-Snowd... .. I could never have thought I could hold up the Mail as a good source :-)
Damn. Wozniak should be a movie critic. I'd watch.
Paying for a ticket != signing an employment contract. That doesn't mean there is no such thing. I'd assume that the people that wrote that had some more information than what's in the media elsewhere but still it is as of yet unverified. And it would make a serious difference in this case.
How long until the organizations that protect us meet the definition of terrorists themselves?
Verb the Adjective Noun euphemism/quest generator
Is new metric the same thing that "metric inches" comes from?

Or is that just an aircraft manufacturing oddity?

Also, eww. But we americans do need to get on the metric train eventually.
Also lots of people from all nations will be travelling to Brazil soon for the Olympics, and more importantly, the World Cup.
Exactly.

Maybe this makes sense on Chrome OS. But for other main stream OSes like Windows, User accounts should be best left on OS. maybe a quick way to change profiles but that should be limit. Any further than this would be just reinventing the wheel & duplicating the features(parental control for example) that are already present in Modern Operating System.

on a related note, has anyone noticed memory usage of Google Chrome? Its crazy bonkers?
I'm not Canadian, but do you think that Canada is participating in a particularly more extreme manner than non-engligh speaking countries?

Language is not the binding factor here.
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Darwin was created using portions of FreeBSD's kernel and the work done for Mach at Carnegie Mellon. It's not Apple's sole creation in the slightest.
It is -- but you still do have to be aware if the objects in your collection are also immutable... if so, you may end up with an "immutable" list of 5 objects, and down the line it will still have those 5 objects, but the objects themselves may have completely different internal data.

Referring partly to your parent comment... it's instructive to look at the String implementation.

It's immutable, but they have to jump through a few hoops to do it properly... internally, a String has a private char array. An array is not immutable, so the code has to be very careful to never expose that char array externally.

Because of that, calling toCharArray() will copy the internal array and return the copy -- that one's fairly obvious. But less obviously, a String constructed with a char array must also make a copy... otherwise the calling code might then modify the array after creating the String with it.

So sure, immutable objects are possible, and widely encouraged in Java, but they're easy to do wrongly/incompletely.