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"...he can ONLY be extradited from Sweden with the consent of the UK"

Only during the investigation and any subsequent criminal proceeding in Sweden. After these are completed, or abandoned, he could be extradited from Sweden to the US. From the blog post linked in section two of the New Statesman article:

"After the investigation and any criminal proceedings in Sweden end, that restriction also ends and the Swedes can extradite him without reference to the UK government. But neither Sweden and the UK will extradite anyone to a country where the accused is in peril of the death sentence if convicted of an offence, or where prison conditions are so bad as to breach his rights under Article 3 of the ECHR (‘No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’)." [1]

[1] http://ffgqc.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/julian-the-asylum-seek...
I think AngularJS has a very strong 2-way databinding offering (with its many directives and implicit data-change detection).

It is actually possible to just use the databinding features of AngularJS without all the framework stuff. Just need a few lines of Javascript to get yourself a scope.

Or just use my code: https://github.com/julius/AngularLite
It's not even a trial, merely a questioning. And while he has offered to have the questioning take place in London, Swedish law simply doesn't permit it. While that might be ridiculous, it won't just change for this particular case (and Swedish authorities don't make the laws, they enforce them).

Next he wanted guarantees from Swedish authorities that if he were to travel to Sweden, he wouldn't be extradited to the US. Swedes tried to explain that no such guarantees can be made: authorities can only process requests for extradition once made. Giving a guarantee up front would be illegal as it completely circumvents the laws regarding extraditions.

These two things combined meant Assange complained "I can't be questioned here nor be guaranteed I won't be extradited to the US!", both of which are ridiculous complaints when you read the laws involved.
More like house arrest than prison I think. Prison is a whole other ball game.
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You read too much into a "he said, she said" case.
Has anyone used this with Django? If it works well I might replace Ruby with Mypy.

Doing iOS (with Swift) for a while has made me dislike not having static typing.
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That makes a lot of sense!
We put the app out there, and regardless of all the FB posts and my emails. It hasn't gotten any traction (in terms of downloads). The ones who do use it, seem to really enjoy it.

So I was thinking that I just needed to get a couple of thousand downloads, to get more feedback.
Thanks for you time!
The speed/precision trade-off in games is well known and exploited to the max by those that care.
Gnome, Unity, KDE. I couldn't care less. They all let me launch apps and switch between them quickly and easily. That's all I need from a desktop environment. I don't understand why people feel so passionate about them.
I don't see what this has to do with the hiring process, but in response I can say that you're speaking to an institutional difference. At my undergraduate institution most of the mathematics majors aimed to be middle or high school teachers (and now are), and their education was supposedly geared toward that. I say supposedly because the "education track" had lower standards and easier requirements than the other tracks (applied and pure math). So they might not be the same people you call "competent."

Moreover, most of the professors at my institution came from industry. They also did not originally aim for teaching, but switched into it. Many of them happen to have a PhD, but there is no research at my college (it's a polytechnic institute). If high school teachers had the same level of respect and comparable pay (and were similarly sought after), I see no reason why this couldn't also occur in high schools. We do, after all, see so many articles on HN about how there aren't enough jobs for our graduates.
I absolutely adore KnockoutJS, it's completely changed the way I write JS (I'm not a huge fan of or user of javascript) and 3.2 has added component support (with templates) which for me is a huge bonus as I was doing something similar manually.
Regarding 1 - Can this be solved by some sort of a structured data training set - that can be trained by some variant of a classifier. Building the training set will be a giant PITA but would this be some sort of a first step in the data cleansing problem ?
This tutorial is excellent, and Richard Socher has been doing some really fascinating (though complicated) work with deep learning for NLP. I also have a few other good references for people who want to investigate this area.

One of the most insightful comments I have seen about deep learning for NLP is a reddit r/machinelearning comment seen in this post [1]. As the poster in that thread mentioned, much of the theory about using neural networks for NLP tasks was laid out pretty clearly in a paper by Yoshua Bengio from 2003 [2]. At a high level, the basic learner is very similar to many of the other deep architectures for images and audio.

There is also a pretty great blog post [3] by Radim Rehurek (author of gensim) about how he implemented word2vec (a "deep learning"-style model for text) in Python, while also getting a performance improvement over the C version!

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2doi7e/what...

[2] http://jmlr.org/papers/v3/bengio03a.html

[3] http://radimrehurek.com/2014/02/word2vec-tutorial/
This is very interesting, however, I think the paper must be viewed with some skepticism:

- their Scopus queries had tons of problems, some of which they acknowledge. Their model for positive and negative results also seems to be inadequate: a paper can report multiple results, each of which will have its own p-value. How would this show up in their queries? Furthermore, how accurate were their queries (i.e. did they quantify them)?

- the results they got from Scopus depended heavily on what they queried for (as mentioned in a previous comment). (This was acknowledged in the paper)

- what about all the other p-values? They only looked at 0.04-0.049 and 0.051 and 0.06. What about 0.5? What about < 0.04? What about > 0.06? I can't understand why they don't report results for these other ranges, especially when they were already doing automated analysis. This makes me extremely suspicious.

- results before 1996 are suspect because the Scopus data is incomplete; this is assumed to not matter because "no discontinuity appears in Figs. 3 & 5." I.e., the authors have no idea what the results of the query would look like across the full data set.
That's the whole point of Genius. I get that you highlight for reading (me too), but it's like asking Wikipedia to ban editing.
Most of spaniards (like me) think it's a waste of time learning minor languages than will increase our number of potential interlocutors in exactly ZERO: because we already have the spanish languaje that is well understood in the whole Spain among with more than 20 countries.

No. The problem in Spain is politic, no linguistic.
I'm in favour of encryption for protecting sensitive data (TripIt is violating this principle), but don't think it should be needed for publicly accessible information. The centralised CA model is probably one of my biggest gripes about using HTTPS.
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Nah, it's not that hard. There's three parts:

* KDE Frameworks 5, which is a modularized, tiered set of libraries and runtime components that complement Qt with functionality useful to building apps and shells.

* KDE Plasma 5, a set of shells implemented using Frameworks 5. Plasma Desktop is the most prominent of those. KWin is part of Plasma, FWIW, so sure, it's at 5 now.

* KDE Applications. Not yet at 5, but will increasingly ship ports of individual applications to KF5 over the next releases.

Contrast this with KDE 4 development. KDE 4.0 (which contained all of these things in one) came years after the last major release of KDE 3, thus stopping the world cold for its entire development cycle, and e.g. preventing apps from doing feature releases. Separating these things and releasing them independently means that Plasma continued to make 4.x releases during ramp-up of Frameworks 5 development, KDE Applications kept doing feature releases while Plasma 5 is materializing, and so on. It's just a lesson learned from the last round. It's certainly more complex from a "SKU" perspective, but the net effect on users is not leaving them stranded for years. The effect on developers has actually been increased productivity: Plasma 5 development happening against already somewhat-stable Frameworks 5 instead of starting out at the same time, for example.
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I can't believe someone solved this. Champion effort.
I certainly didn't expect this, but he is right.
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Here's some for you (it's an old ad so thinks it's ok here) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RHXg5s7wv8
Why are we all indebted to Assange? Nobody has any idea whether what he did had a net positive or negative affect on ours or other people's lives. There's doesn't appear to be a reason behind a lot of the leaks, and worst of all there has been little effort made to ensure people don't get killed as a result of what is being leaked. Overall I don't feel indebted to him at all.
So they go lower level ? some kind of `UDP` usb packets ?
I take it you mean LUKS/dm_crypt, which is what has any real world use. Could you elaborate? Amateurish good, amateurish bad?
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> There has been no suggestion whatsoever

Well, until now.
They probably meant to say "for those undecided on the desktop's future".
Not if you're in a competing country to both US and China. The world is bigger than the US :-)
Have a look at http://www.bravenewgeek.com/dissecting-message-queues/
The good side of it is that this hole doesn't seem to be actively exploited on a significant scale. Feed urls cannot be harvested without sniffing traffic for each and every user, and profit is very indirect.

The bad side of it is that TripIt/Concur don't seem very responsive on the issue. It often feels like TripIt is on life support, really, which is a shame -- I use it extensively because of its wonderful "just forward to plans@tripit.com" feature.
I suspect it has to do with gnome trying to get more and more functionality into the kernel/closer to the kernel. Things like systemd/logind for example are kernel level functionality.
Its important to note that they're pointing the finger at the MIT PGP keyserver, which has long been notorious for being poor in the security department. This is not even the worst of their crimes; for a long time (perhaps still?) they were ignoring key revocations. Meaning, if your key was stolen and you sent out a message declaring it void, people using pgp.mit.edu would never get the message. >.<

tl;dr don't use pgp.mit.edu .
There is a nice tutorial here [1] about max-ent classifiers. Ultimately in neural networks there are usually a number of cost functions you can use for the last layer - softmax or cross-entropy are other possibilities that may be easier to understand, though possibly less performant for NLP tasks.

I thought the introduction to neural networks from Andrew Ng's coursera course (even though it meant writing MATLAB) was quite good, and allows you to implement backprop, cost functions, etc. while still having some other helper code to make things easier. I highly recommend working through that course if you are intersted in ML in general [2].

[1] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~klein/papers/maxent-tutorial-sli...

[2] https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
I remembered a discussion about this before, once in 2010 and once in 2013. Already in 2010 Lorum Ipsum was translated to random words that are very prevalent on the internet: "hello world", "learn more" and "free on": http://www.xefer.com/2010/10/lorem-ipsum

Therefor I don't think that Google Translate is used by spies to communicate plans about China. Even if all translated words were insidious, then still Occam's Razor tells us it is unlikely that a public translating service is used as a modern-day number station.

The 2013 discussion had translations like: "Cisco Security" and "Corporate Japan": http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/06/lorem-ipsum-google-...

That's statistical machine translation for you.
What's there to talk about? He's wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations. He doesn't get to have "talks" about that. He's not the messiah.
You can see them straining, gritting their teeth saying "Must ... not ... report ... p-value ... must ... report ... CONFIDENCE INTERVAL"
I used to be a 'believer' of DE, but now I stopped craving for applications, menus, widgets and wallpaper settings. It's 99% timewaste.

I think people still like DE because they try to make mouse UX fancy. If you're used to keyboards, dmenu is almost all you need. I'm sure even casual users or noobs would love it.
The need for the UK's agreement to an extradition from Sweden to the USA only applies while the investigation in Sweden is active. After it is over, Assange can be extradited without the UK's approval. See [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8192145
this is cool, but it's a bit misleading to declare something 'lightweight' if it has 5 dependencies including jquery and underscore
As has been said many times, that is not a legitimate concern.

The rules are much harder to extradite from Sweden than from the UK. Why the elaborate set up to make things harder?

And the current situation makes it even more absurd. They would first need to extradite him back to the UK, and then to the US. No one has so far been able to show how it could be done in any other way.
So, this is nothing new. People in the parking industry have been grappling with this problem for years (I'm in that industry). Parking technology has just rocketed ahead from where it was even 5 years ago. From license plate recognition (LPR - allows parking without having a physical permit) to being able to forecast and adjust prices based on historical demand, parking people have a vast wealth of knowledge on their hands.

The only problem is, most vendors of parking management software have enterprise products spanning millions of lines of code that have to be maintained, and it's hard to keep adding new features like "performance parking" while keeping basic features like selling permits and interfacing with accounting and bursar systems up-to-date.

It's definitely a challenging (yet exciting!) time to be in the parking technology industry.

Edit: Ooh, I'm forgetting about smart meters, mobile apps (both for the parker and the parking operation), and more. Mobile apps are the rage now for parking operations, as they replace expensive ($5000+) industrial handhelds for parking enforcement agents.
CAs are unfortunate, but the reality is that all data is sensitive to some degree. TripIt's data is more sensitive than, say, which Wikipedia article I'm reading, but that still gives away a huge amount of information about what my current thought process is and where its going.

The only way to avoid the dragnet surveillance we're currently experiencing is to take away the opportunity.
The case of using the info at a hotel to get your room key is pretty reasonable. On the home break-in story however there's a lot of evidence that this hardly ever happens if it happens at all. There are plenty analog ways in which criminals scout for homes where the occupants are on vacation. These ways are often much more efficient than their digital counterparts.

I'm not saying this article should be disregarded, however if you're on holiday and you used TripIt's feed on public WiFi, the chance that you're house was broken into because of this is negligible.
Mice and Keyboards use the "Human Interface Device" (HID) USB class.

MIDI devices use their own special class instead of HID: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/midi10.pdf

Same as how printers or scanners aren't HID, MIDI is different enough that it needs its own protocol.
Gnome doesn't let you switch easily (alt-tab is somewhat bad). Gnome doesn't let you see your apps well (huge waste of space for candy graphics). [and the list with Gnome goes on and on]; KDE doesn't let you launch them easily (yay for ignoring super-key). KDE is super unstable. I'm sure there are caveats with Unity as well. Simply, there is still reason to chose one or the other, these systems are not interchangeable in looks, feel, or functionality.
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Maybe he is not a citizen of the US and therefore believes that the main aim of the NSA is	industrial espionage.
Why would they need UK agreement to extradition if he's in Sweden???
Im 32 trapped in a management quagmire. Long tunnel ahead and clocks ticking
I Code at night but struggling to stay focussed.

Business ears distract more.
It's also a bit of a peculiar demand to make. Both Assange and his lawyer can not possibly believe they could get any extralegal guarantees.
I quite like the idea but it's a little too buggy at the moment :
- Wildly varying performance (and thus difficulty) depending on which system/GPU combo is being used
- Key input stops responding on slow machines sometimes.

Having constant interval timing in your game engine is an absolute must have.
Even Starbucks are doing it

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/wayoflife/01/06/i.spy.ste...
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This might be a silly question but what's the difference between Front-End UX Design, Full-Stack JavaScript, Web Design and Front-end Web development? are these all the same terminologies or do they all have different aspects of the WWW. To me it seems like there is a lot of overlapping between these terminologies so how can they be different.
Ask HN: Web Design vs. Front-end?
This might be a silly question but what's the difference between Front-End UX Design, Full-Stack JavaScript, Web Design and Front-end Web development? are these all the same terminologies or do they all have different aspects of the WWW. To me it seems like there is a lot of overlapping between these terminologies so how can they be different.

I've always had a thing for Javascript and if I may want to become a Javascript developer do I need to know Web design as far as Photoshop and color and things like that? I'm more of a coder not a designer.
It appears this article is a confirmation of that.

https://sites.google.com/site/pinczakko/nsa-bios-backdoor-a-...

It took a while to find the original, it's a PDF rather than a web page and it was plagiarized within days of being published, google picked up on the plagiarized copy before it ever saw the original by the looks of it.
As far as I understand your main assumption is that vocabulary acquisition is a smaller problem than grammar (i.e., how to express your idea). I have to disagree.

While this might be a problem for some people, for others acquiring thousands of vocabs is a huge problem in itself. Beside personal problems and preferences there are also big differences depending on the language you are learning and the languages you already know. An English native speaker learning French has much less vocabs to learn than an English native learning Chinese.

Additionally to memorizing huge amounts of vocabs I also find that learning phrases is very helpful, but more as a second step. At least for me it works like this. "Memorizing a bunch of vocabulary" is exactly what got me started to finally improve my Chinese.
Yes. I use the Awesome window manager[1] which is a tiling window manager, and that's all I need. I start programs using ALT-R then typing the executable name (there is tab completion) and though you can set up menus I never use them. I don't end up using the mouse much and while I don't know if it's actually more efficient it feels more productive to me to keep my hands on the keyboard.

[1] http://awesome.naquadah.org/
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I took another look at the wikipedia entry [1], and it's inconclusive. Hitler had tipped his hand in Mein Kampf by describing war with the Soviets, and the Germans needed the oilfields at Baku, so completely avoiding war might have appeared impossible to Hitler. If one accepts that war was inevitable, then it probably was better sooner than later from the German standpoint: the Soviets began upgrading their tactics in response to Germany's from the first German action in the war, so the Soviets were becoming stronger adversaries. On the other hand, German observers with cooler heads could see that the odds of success were low and the action was foolhardy. But then, why pick on one aspect when the entire war was foolhardy?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa
Probably because there would be a big public outcry in the UK, in the event of a direct extradition to the US. Both because Wikileaks has a lot of support in the UK, and because the general public feels extradition laws are unfairly tilted to US advantage.

Much simpler for the British government to pass Assange on to a third party, and then claim ignorance about any eventual extradition.
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I couldn't find the price for the taxi license in Berlin, but some Hamburg Taxi driver summarizes about 600-700 Euro for all costs included [1]. It's for an extension, so that doesn't include the health check and the special driver license you need, but all in all that should be a low 4-digit investment. There are 7000 medallions in Berlin, so that already shows it's not a mortgage-like investment. You'll have to pay the actual cab, though :)

There's an app for regular cabs in germany (mytaxi) that gives you ratings, reviews, payments and the user interface improvement you wish for while still being fully legal. They basically replace the callcenter and take a commission, like a call center would do.

[1] http://taxi-magazin.de/taxi/topics/buerokratie-huerden-und-k...
A lot of these Russia-specific drugs are scams. The papers glorifying their magical properties have no scientific basis, but rather published for bribes. There are serious papers in Russian medical journals describing healing properties of holy water. There are very popular anti-flu drugs like Arbidol that actually do nothing. This is the country where pseudoscience reigns supreme.
let's all remember that he hasn't been charged with rape

This has been discussed over and over again. Under the procedures and terminology used in Swedish law a person cannot be charged until he's been placed in custody and formally questioned. He his however "på sannolika skäl misstänkt för brott" which is basically means that the court believes there is enough evidence to make it worthwhile to charge the person and bring him to trial.
> Much simpler for the British government to pass Assange on to a third party, and then claim ignorance about any eventual extradition.

But they couldn't, that's the whole point.
Me too. maybe you could just post them here?
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You can also use the "touch ./-filename" syntax.
That depends on what you class as 'disproportionally high' and what was written into the contract governing the investment. As long as the founders have 51% or more and there are no blocking terms in the contracts written prior to an acquisition offer there is nothing that can stop the founders from selling their stock.

Savvy founders will retain control of their company even after an investment, if only because you will never get a 100% alignment of goals between investors and founders.
This. Running Debian with the infinality patches and it's a big difference. It's easy to build as well.
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