skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If not given any "special" treatment, the most he'd likely face would be a year or two at most in a low security prison.

This is one of the reasons I believe that whether or not he is guilty, he actually himself strongly believe there's something fishy going on.

If he believed nothing else was going on, then it would make very little sense for him to avoid the charges: Chances of being convicted in cases like these are tiny, and if convicted, the punishment in Sweden would be very light. He's likely to suffer more cooped up in that embassy than if convicted in Sweden.

Of course, if he genuinely believes something is fishy does not mean there has to be. And even if there is something fishy, it doesn't need to be US involvement - it could just as well be the prosecutor wanting to push her own agenda.
Have you seen https://www.oysterbooks.com
They are from the book.
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the idea of a nuclear energy startup is slightly frightening. v. interested to see what they're working on.
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What are some advantages of OCaml over Haskell?
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Could someone comment on what instances you would typically apply lambdas and closures in real-world code?

I figure that they are at least more convenient than callbacks with a *userData parameter like in C.
You mean like the ACLU?
Cool, good luck! Disclaimer: some features definitely won't work in older browsers.

I saw your service on HN a while back. It generated some excitement among us here at SmartyStreets, which also uses Papa to process customers' lists without requiring them to send us their whole file. I think these are great use cases.
I'm pretty sure that's not an accident.
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It's interesting to see the contrast between Google, Apple and Microsoft.

Google: Does tons of crazy things, launches a lot of them, many fail.

Apple: Does tons of crazy things, tells nobody, launches a select few that turn into huge hits.

Microsoft: Does tons of crazy things, tells some people, launches almost none of them, instead sells perpetually boring but massively profitable Office + Windows suite.

The few break-out hits that Microsoft has had, Bing and Xbox, are both renegade projects that succeeded only because the teams were exceptionally determined and fought tooth and nail to avoid being sucked into the "Microsoft" world.

Others, like Kin, were given weak support and pulled almost immediately after launch. The rest never see the light of day other than through papers and glimpses in tech demos.
Zechariah Chafee wrote in Freedom of Speech in Wartime -
"To find the boundary line of any right, we must get behind rules of law to human facts. In our problem, we must regard the desires and needs of the individual human being who wants to speak and those of the great group of human beings among whom he speaks. That is, in technical language, there are individual interests and social interests, which must be balanced against each other, if they conflict, in order to determine which interest shall be sacrificed under the circumstances and which shall be protected and become the foundation of a legal right." It must never be forgotten that the balancing cannot be properly done unless all the interests involved are adequately ascertained, and the great evil of all this talk about rights is that each side is so busy denying the other's claim to rights that it entirely overlooks the human desires and needs behind that claim."

You have a free speech right that extends to every corner of the country. Others, however, also have rights. A balance must be sought, and to strike a fair balance you have to look at what is reasonable not from a law perspective but from a be-a-goddamn-human-being perspective.

Is it a balance to restrict freedom of speech rights on a college campus except to limited areas? No. Because the purpose of a college is to increase knowledge, and the campus is semi-public. It is reasonable to expect someone wishing to speak to you about an issue to back off if you tell them you're not interested, but it's not reasonable to proactively prevent them from doing so. And it is reasonable to expect them to stay out of your house (property rights), but not, for instance, reasonable for them to be proactively banned from knocking on your door to see if you are interested (though as an individual you can proactively indicate you are not interested by posting to that effect, putting up a gate, etc).

But I assume you know that and are just being contrary for the sake of it.
Yeah, given how much time I listen to podcasts, I don't mind spending a few bucks twice a year to try new clients.
I like how no one really answered this question, but just pointed out that you asked it incorrectly.

I would like to know this as well...without the ability to create nested rows, I don't really see myself using this tool.
http://www.b3ta.com/features/phalliclogoawards/
From the "About" page: "We want to see a world where everyone gets the mental luxury of an assistant, including the assistant. We are making this future happen. [...] Oh, did we mention every team member gets an assistant?"

So ... there's some kind of cycle of assistants, where X is my assistant, Y is X's assistant, and I'm Y's assistant? Esper currently employs infinity people? Assistants are employees but not, you know, team members?
How do they feel about notepads and mousepads and bachelor pads?
Instacart has been a game changer in Chicago. (I knew peapod existed but have been following instacart since they launched). Nothing like not having a car and needing 24 packs of pop for a party.
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Haskell uses lazy evaluation by default, which makes it hard to reason about the space usage (or termination) of a particular program. OCaml on the other hand is not lazy by default (but supports it if you need it).
At least that is one of the reasons why I chose to learn more OCaml than Haskell.
The two women have not accused Assange of sexual assault. Ever.

They merely went to the police and asked if it was possible to pressurize him to submit to STD testing.

The accusations of rape are done by an overzealous prosecution office that has hijacked the case later; it seems they have the right to do that. That the office chose to make the accusations augmented by descriptive statements from the two women gives the impression that the two are the accusers. Both (or at least one, supported by the other) have since requested that the issue be dropped.

To see the entire arguments of the prosecution and the defense in today's session, read the liveblog[1] by Falkvinge (now ended, of course).

[1] http://falkvinge.net/2014/07/16/live-detention-lift-hearings...

EDIT: Minor nits.
This would be more convincing if Sweden had not been caught out illegally cooperating with CIA renditions - in one instance handing two Egyptian political asylum seekers over to CIA, knowing they'd be handed over to Mubarak for torture.

They insisted it had stopped. Only Wikileaks documents revealed the US ambassador was called in years later because Swedish military intelligence had just caught CIA, assisted by Swedish ground crew, carrying out further illegal rendition flights via Swedish airports.

I don't that's a likely scenario for Assange - he's too well known, and Europe and Sweden would "have to" cause a massive stink if he was illegally abducted that way - it'd be a diplomatic nightmare. But in general, if concerned about being handed over to the US, Sweden would be pretty low on the list of countries I'd want to go to.
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> owning your own books has significant advantages, which I hope need not be restated here.

I had to get rid of several hundred of my books years ago when I went traveling. It was tough since I had a lot of attachment to my physical books, but upon examination I realized there were few advantages and in my case many disadvantages. Exceptions are books you habitually reread or reference, but most novels fail that test.
>> It also uses a lot of private apis from ios6. (I found out running the ios8 beta and looking at stack traces)

Good to know. It completely stopped launching for me on iOS 8 beta 3. Shows the default.png and the freezes and crashes after a few seconds. I'd downgraded to the Apple Podcasts app (which I hate). Tried Overcast this afternoon and I like it. The only probably for me is there is unlikely to ever be an Android app and I occasionally use an Android device so PocketCasts syncing between devices was great.
Ah, fair enough--didn't think to link the original.

JWZ is a brand I can trust. :)
It's really great, usually people around here will tear into any detail of your site that they don't like or find unconventional.
There are some assumptions made. Mainly, that you have an array of arrays or an array of objects to encode as CSV. For an array of arrays, that's easy: each array is a row. For an array of objects, each object is a row keyed by field name.

Data with a varied structure is much trickier, if at all possible, to flatten. I haven't figured out a magic formula for that (yet?).
I think the word "problem" is a bit of a stretch. It may not have as much actual value -- dollar cost of books read in a month/$9.99 -- as the perceived value -- unlimited. However, a successful product is about perceived value, not necessarily actual value. As the parent comment mentions, that convenience of looking something up without worrying about costs or alternate searching, and the freedom to not have to worry about the price of individual books, or having a shared kindle unlimited for a whole family with kids you want to encourage to read, are all worth something to a customer that can't be assessed in dollars. And of course, it's up to the customer to evaluate if they actually have the needs fulfilled by the product.

It's definitely a brilliant business move on Amazon's part.
I don't agree with your 3rd option, I think it encourages the incorrect notion that social status == happiness.
I also suppose it can be depressing to be in shelters. And difficult if you're an introvert.
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I would equally defend their right to present their ideas, as I would defend your right to tell them to fuck off if they get in your face. You can't have freedom by limiting some else's freedom.
First of all, I wouldn't call one specific use case proving that it isn't almost dead. Just because it's being used in one case, for Bollywood wedding songs, does not mean it isn't "almost dead". Secondly, it was by the OPs own admission that the language is dying.
This is a striking example of the amount of work and thought that goes into a design that presents rich data so clearly and cleanly. The casual visitor would likely never have an idea of what it took to build what they are looking at.
You can't put hundreds of kids together with little adult supervision and expect it to be anything but a prison.

Historically kids wouldn't have had an opportunity to be around that many other kids, and they kids they were around were probably extended family.
Hm, I entered in my street address + city in the from, and "SFO" in the destination, and I just got "Problem calculating the route".
As argument to a 'map' function for example.
'Netflix for ebooks' doesn't sound good if it means books that disappear out of availability like programs do on netflix.
The assistants mentioned in the About page are electronic, not real persons, and I suppose that it's the product Esper is building. I'm not affiliated with them in any way but I like the concept.
Economist on game economies and virtual currencies AMA on Reddit
Really great write up of a well thought-out design and iteration process.

Bookmarked for future reference.
How is the actual print / ink quality?

I recently took advantage of the Flickr 10 year (feels old man) anniversary to print a bunch of books and was disappointed with the quality of the pictures.
This is basically the second half of the Robustness Principle[1]:

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

If you use both halves things get even better. For example this is why digital electronics work — circuits are forgiving about the voltage ranges of their inputs but very precise about their outputs.

It's also a nice way to live life :'(

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
Why not? My wife and really enjoy Netflix. We can't always watch a particular program, but we can always find something worth watching.

In fact, sometimes it's the very fact that the show we were "looking for" isn't currently available that pushes us to try something new.
The most impressive 'stat' about these stats is how little most of the startups were when they were accepted into YC. And the average goes on to raise ~$40M(taken from a existing comment on this thread). Take Airbnb as an example...probably no VC, and hardly any angels, would have ever invested in them at the stage YC did.
It is legal to be a dick. That doesn't mean that you should not try to abstain from being a dick.

Not all anti-social behavior needs to be, or should be, banned.
I think the link to the original is sufficient alas http://greylocku.com/hackfest/
They have one of the most atrocious title tags I have ever seen: "Beautifully digital reading for everyone"
Dealing with burnout
I've been freelance / contracting for the past 5 years and recently feel like I'm well and truly burnt out. I'm struggling to work, having problems concentrating on the easiest task and have the feeling of wanting to sell/burn everything and live in the woods. With no savings(currently living invoice to invoice while trying to pay off debts) I can't take a break from the work. To put it succinctly I think I still enjoy programming - don't enjoy building software anymore.

What would HN do (preferably has done) to minimise the impact it is having in my day to day work, and also get back to a point where I can stop being burnt out?
I think Google cares about privacy in the abstract, but I'm concerned that there are some fundamental mismatches between what Google considers acceptable disclosure and what I consider acceptable disclosure. I don't really understand why a "real enough" name like John Smith or something would be consistent with what they said again and again was the goal of the "real names" policy, which was that they wanted you to have a reputation to maintain so people wouldn't "act out" online. What you're saying is that they just wanted you to have western-style names, and that's all that matters?

In any case, Google Plus perfectly shows what I'm talking about, because it has had serious mission creep since the beginning. If they want to have some community where everyone is forced to use their real names, fine, I'll never join that community because it's not something that interests me. What happened then was that they became downright aggressive in trying to get people to join Google Plus by making it part of the "unified" platform with "one sign in" (and no control over what you're signed in to, mind you). Now your android reviews are all on your Google Plus account, so if you want to review an app you downloaded, you have to join their forced little "community". It's heartening that after Google Buzz they've mostly been preserving some forward secrecy (i.e. "from now on all your comments will be with your real name, stop commenting if you don't like it"), but it's clear that they're deliberately making these "tradeoffs" for you, and they clearly just don't have a corporate mindset that cares about what many people care about, so I'm deeply concerned that they'll make some serious mistakes in the future just because they don't understand what people outside their culture care about, and they don't mind taking unilateral action.
Isn't that the ACLU? (and perhaps the ACLJ?)

The need for the parenthetical is telling - various groups fight vehemently against some restrictions while accepting or promoting others. Some progressives advocate restriction on offensive or "hate" speech, while some conservatives, as mentioned in the article, advocate restrictions on speech perceived as threatening to national security or social mores (explicit lyrics or imagery, for example).
If it also has non-fiction books - which usually are very amenable to skimming , or to reading just interesting parts , it's a very good value for $10.
Free is not always better. Sometimes giving up resources increases people's engagement and perception of value with books and other media.
This is truly a arm asm gem :)
first impression of logo: it nauseates me. It makes me uneasy. I don't know why, it looks like too random to me, to doodled. And their initiative to people draw it by themselves make this even worse.

I ain't no designer, or any kind of expert, but I keep looking at it and it confounds my eyes. Terribly.
I think the thing he actually fears is once in Sweden, having the US bring out some espionage charges, and then pressing the Swedish government to extradite him while he is in custody, after the Swedish charges play out.
Question. Does this run in Linux on arm? Or does it run on the CPU (be it hardware or emulated)?

Bonus question: How can I answer that question for myself in the future when looking at similar source? Said differently: What am I looking at here? :)
Having a high social status may not bring happiness by itself but it certainly won't hurt.
Interesting. I've always had to activate a specific modem MAC with my cable provider.
I've found the padding/margin issues annoying, too. But I'm only ever a few StackOverflow searches away from finding the right CSS to use to override the defaults. Also, it's helped playing around in Chrome devtools to inspect where particular CSS values are coming from. But on balance, I like Bootstrap. :-)
You might want to have something as a grid with three columns on the desktop but as full width boxes on a phone.

Then using another size as xs let's you define the grid for bigger sreens while on small screens the content is just stacked vertically.
Each time you want to write such callback, you'll need a special userData struct right ? otherwise you'll have a generic bag and lose typechecking.

Let's say Closures are free typed anonymously defined structs.
true - except when that one usecase is a billion people. I'm just pointing out that there is a skewed worldview of asian countries.

My previous comment was in jest, but was fairly accurate in its portrayal of impact.

a far more cut and dry statistic is this [1] and this [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_India_by_Urdu_speaker...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Jang
I think the best logos aren't immediately trivially apparent like the FedEx arrow, Tostitos dip bowl, Amazon A to Z, etc.
This is exactly right. Also, the selection of ebooks at my local library is terrible. I always look for an ebook first, but I've never yet found an ebook version of a book I actually wanted to read in my library's catalog.
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Growing up decades ago, my dad had this to say--schoolyard bullies and fights happened, and worst case parents were brought in or kids sent home. Sometimes, the gym coach would just drag the kids over and give them gloves and let them go at it. This was at a public school.

Currently, zero-tolerance policies have removed a long-standing safety-valve for this kind of torment. As a result, we see things like this, like Columbine, like many other things--and feed the school to prison pipeline.
i'd argue "think like a patient" and be scrappy, tenacious, seek dozens of opinions from different schools of thought and be laser focused on a tangible (business value or human health) outcome.... not IT concepts at all

security - do you know how many unencrypted phi emails i get from clinic staff despite all the expensive encrypted email and secure web tools? dozens a day. want to know where your doc really keeps your "shadow" emr record? not in epic - dropbox or google docs if you are lucky - a paper print out with handwritten notes behind their closet door most likely.

integration - even if you wanted to integrate with epic/allscripts/ge you need to sign contracts and pay through the nose --- just try licensing HL7 or FDB --- and even after you do, guess what - the clinician prints the record to pdf and emails it to their google account so now you have forked copies of the data anyway. oh and it gets stale really quick. and is anyone actually checking the accuracy of those meds in the epic record? especially when it forces the user to select a dosage even when the patient has no clue?

scalabilty - getting docs in an OR to agree on a simple thing is like herding cats...let alone departments...let alone campus leadership...let alone systemwide initiatives...state IHEs...fed registries...oh my! look at IHEs...10+ years of Frameworks(tm) and the best candidate i see is SMTP based...yep, email. definitely scalable! so i concede that argument (though i guess i would say that anything that is not email or maybe simple web pages is doomed to small scale use regardless of architecture)

so on the positive side, my suggestions from 8 years in healhtcare it markets: deliver value first, tech afterwards. streamline something, save time or money, save lives, substitute actions for inactivity, show data and peer review empirical evidence...and above all... let the data speak for itself.

(it also doesnt hurt to have deep pockets and a 10 year time horizon either)

your results may vary
It's important to criticize venture capital for the right reasons. VCs correctly care about value, not revenue or profit, but by itself this isn't a problem because the few most valuable companies typically dominate the returns, and they are virtually always insanely profitable in the long run. VCs thus don't deserve derision for not caring about revenue or profit in the short term.

On the other hand, because only the top few companies matter to a VC's returns, the VC's incentives are not always well-aligned with the interests of the founders. This is because VCs can invest in a large number of companies and thus realize the expected value of their investments (due to the law of large numbers [2]). Founders, on the other hand, even if they are insanely prolific, can probably only start a handful of companies in a lifetime, and are thus exposed to a much higher variance in outcomes.

For example, if the founders have a choice between a 50% chance of making a $50m company (expected value $25m) and a 1% chance of making a $10b company (expected value $100m), VCs have a strong incentive to push for the latter, even though most founders would prefer the former. This mismatch of incentives, not a lack of focus on revenue or profit, is the real problem with VC (at least from a founder's point of view).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_present_value

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
Jul 16 18:08 - VERDICT: Julian Assange is to REMAIN in detention in absentia. Just announced.

Looks like an overzealous persecutor found himself in front of an overzealous judge. Combined with the English courts agreeing as well that he be extradited. Quite an international conspiracy!

Or maybe professionals doing their job can see enough evidence exists supporting the accusation that he raped and assaulted women to bring him before a court for trial.

>The two women have not accused Assange of sexual assault. Ever.

The two victims described sex crimes for which the Swedish government has chosen to accuse Assange of committing.

>They merely went to the police and asked if it was possible to pressurize him to submit to STD testing.

If merely walked into a police station and said someone stabbed me with a dirty syringe and I'd really just like to know if he's HIV positive it wouldn't be up to me if the police device to go find him and the prosecutor decides to charge him with assault. Replace dirty syringe with penis.

Victims don't get to dictate justice.