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> the contributors and I have done research to find and decide on the entries on this list

It would be helpful to have a summary of selection criteria at the top of the list, in addition to the longer version on the Contributing file.

If such curated lists were also available in JSON, developers could meta-curate a locally searchable union of all their upstream projects. It would then be easy to update, annotate or cross-reference lists.
That's a common problem with concluding things from automated literature analysis. Often the decision to scan only abstracts isn't an intentional experimental-design decision, but made due to "data of convenience": the researcher has easy access to a machine-processable set of plaintext abstracts, but not easy access to a similarly easy to work with set of full papers. Therefore, abstracts are analyzed!

Another potential confound for longer-term analyses is that the form of abstracts is not constant over the years: abstracts in the 1970s and 2010s aren't written in the same ways, and have different norms for what to include and how to include it. Among other things, the form of abstracts has gotten somewhat more structured/boilerplate, which is one reason I suspect they are finding an increase in all hits for their boilerplate search query.
Sadly no. I told my co-worker about the cable and he told me that he had the same issue with a patch-cable too. He had damaged the cable with his office chair rolls and replaced the cable. So probably he stored it away, and I used his old damaged cable for months until I figured out my upload issue.
I agree with you.

I was just trying to guard people against the false hope (and more often, lock-in due to money constraints) that certification provides.
It's not possible to be guilty of treason against a country that is not your own.
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Well, as others have pointed out: Being in the UK actually makes is _more_ likely to be extradited to the US, since when he's in Sweden, both Sweden and the UK would have to agree to an extradition request. The UK is also not particularly well known for fighting US extradition requests. That's certainly not accounting for extralegal extradition, but that's a different pair of shoes. I don't think that being in Ecuador helps against that any better than being in Sweden.

Given that, I have the feeling that he was actually trying to avoid the trial and using the fear of extradition to the US as a convenient excuse. I may quite well be wrong on that, but that's how I currently feel.
My immediate thought was suicide but I might be reading too much into his "soon".
But it's as black and white as you appear to make it. Just a different kind of black, eh? Why don't we let the court figure that out? Under public scrutiny?
MI5 probably has access to the embassy's CCTV feed and has been monitoring him ;)

I prefer the version where Anonymous sends 1000 Julian Assange lookalikes to flood the embassy's entrance and that allows for Julian to escape through the sewer
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That doesn't make any sense. Why would the US try to get him to Sweden first and not get him extradited directly from the UK? The UK is a way closer partner to the US than Sweden.
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Some more packages are on the LuaForge list: http://luaforge.net/projects/

(though LuaForge looks outdated)

Thanks for curating the list!
In theory, https://www.openhub.net/p?r&q=lua could construct/curate such lists from project activity analytics.
Aww I thought it was going to be videos of people doing amazing parking stunts
I'm sure his case being appealed to the European Court of Justice would do him a lot of good if he was in a US jail at the time.
Point of clarification: What Assange's lawyer did was describe the alleged acts. He was trying to argue that, if the complaint was true, it wasn't technically rape under UK law. Unfortunately for Assange, it was very clearly rape under UK law, and the court so ruled.

"Emmerson went on to provide accounts of the two encounters in question which granted — at least for the purposes of today’s hearing — the validity of Assange’s accusers’ central claims [...] Emmerson is not vouching for the accuracy of these accounts but merely offering them as summaries of the charges against his client."

His lawyer was being quite careful not to say "yeah, my client had sex with a sleeping woman without her consent, but it's okay!", he was saying "if the complaint is true, and he did these things, it would still be okay". Which is lucky for Assange, because the court has ruled that it really would not be okay. :)

Source: http://studentactivism.net/2011/07/12/assange-lawyer-concede...
It's actually pretty easy and quick to write when the data is highly regular (no pun intended!). You can write this kind of expression by taking one of the lines of input:

{"n":"Homewood","i":"inns_suits","p":[33.455237,-86.81964],"s":"AL","c":"1"},

and then making a regular expression that matches that line literally [1]:

m/^{"n":"Homewood","i":"inns_suits","p":\[33.455237,-86.81964\],"s":"AL","c":"1"},/
_ _ _

Then replace the parts that will vary with regular expressions to capture them. We want to capture the "n" field:

m/^{"n":"(.*?)","i":"inns_suits","p":\[33.455237,-86.81964\],"s":"AL","c":"1"},/
_____

and the "i" field:

m/^{"n":"(.*?)","i":"(.*?)","p":\[33.455237,-86.81964\],"s":"AL","c":"1"},/
_____

and the longitude and latitudes from the "p" field:

m/^{"n":"(.*?)","i":"(.*?)","p":\[(.*?),(.*?)\],"s":"AL","c":"1"},/
_____ _____

and the "s" field:

m/^{"n":"(.*?)","i":"(.*?)","p":\[(.*?),(.*?)\],"s":"(.*?)","c":"1"},/
_____

We don't care about the "c" field, so I'm going to drop it:

m/^{"n":"(.*?)","i":"(.*?)","p":\[(.*?),(.*?)\],"s":"(.*?)"/

If we want to be fancy, we can make sure that the latitude and longitude consist only of digits, decimal points, and minus signs:

m/^{"n":"(.*?)","i":"(.*?)","p":\[([\d.-]*?),([\d.-]*?)\],"s":"(.*?)"/
____ ____

For a one time thing like this, I'd probably deal with this data with a pipe in the shell, rather than use regular expressions:

tr : , < in | tr -d '[]' | cut -d , -f 2,4,6,7,9 > out.csv

[1] I shall use Perl regular expression
Hello. You cite the case where "a young man from France would greet another in English, but upon discovering that his conversation partner is from Italy, would switch to Italian." I'm not sure how frequent such a case would be. The dominance of English has pushed other languages to the sidelines in France.

As an Esperanto speaker, I have no objection to anyone using any language on any occasion, and I'm happ. I have just returned from an Esperanto conference in Dinan, Brittany. I was able to use some basic Breton with a few individuals, but the sky did not fall on my head.

I wish you well with your language learning. You may wish to add Esperanto one day.
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There are a few, and as you can expect, they open some huge legal cans of worms: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/your-money/why-the-web-lac... Posting a picture of a cockroach in the bathroom is one thing, essentially accusing a doctor of malpractice is another entirely. Stepping on local Medical Boards' toes doesn't help either.
There has been no suggestion whatsoever that Assange had been drugged either with or without his knowledge.
That inaccuracy and your statement does nothing to prove that extradition to Sweden will lead to extradition to the US and somehow makes it easier.
He could also just have used his fame to end up in bed with two women and maybe, Swedish women are not as easily intimidated by exterior circumstances (the public shame associated with a rape case etc.) as others. It has been reported before that Assange is not exactly an easy character. It's possible that it's a set up, it's also possible that he's at the same time a person that made an important move with wikileaks and an asshole that coerced two women to have sex with him. It's just something that the courts will have to clear up.

On a related note: It don't believe punishment for the charges brought against him is not severe enough to really warrant such a move from the side of the spy agencies. The damage had already been done, bringing the allegations against him in a public court in Sweden might retroactively damage Assanges credentials a little, but the documents stood quite well on their own and the expected punishment is somewhere between a couple of years on parol and a low prison sentence in a Swedish prison. I just don't buy that. It's not worth the effort.
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The official announcement should appear soon on "Nano Letters", and the link below is what you find there if you search for the names of the two scientists leading the initiative (Vittorio Pellegrini and Bruno Scrosati)

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl502429m
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try infinality from aur (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freetype2-infinality/) way better fonts than ubuntu, and couldn't be easier.
They're probably in talks with the relevant UK government institutions. They talk about a new climate, and that "the plan is for him to leave as soon as the UK government decides to honour its obligations in relation to international agreements and calls off the siege outside - it's as simple as that."
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I suspect you have installed something like the 'HTTPS Everywhere' extension, which is doing that redirection to https for you. github.io certainly doesn't do it by itself.
What would the public do, how would they help (in stopping his extraction to the US)? How much "truth" do you think you receive everyday about the state of the world, through our "public" channels?

Apparently you trust the system, so maybe you can not understand how it feels if you don't trust the system. I hope you'll never have issue to worry about it.

Edit: answering here because HN won't let me reply - The issue is not that you trust the system and want him on trial, that's a fair attitude. The issue is that you assume he is guilty because he avoids the trial (or rather, questioning).

Perhaps it makes logical sense if you assume everybody would trust the system. But perhaps you can accept that not everybody trusts the system, and that therefore their avoiding it doesn't prove guilt.

In fact I think your attitude demonstrates a typical failure of the system. Most people (who represent the system) are prone to jumping to conclusions and illogical assumptions (he runs so he must be guilty).
But then, why was he not extradited from the UK when they had him in custody? That totally makes no sense: Sweden would have no interest at all in such a scheme - they'd go against UK and the EU and their own population while the UK would loose the same in both scenarios. That leaves extrajudicial extradition, but if the US really wanted that, they'd just let Assange fly to Ecuador, nap him there and avoid illegal actions on EU soil.
Maybe he hoped that he could reach an agreement with the UK.

Anyways, I'd rather sit in a room for the rest of my life than to face what could await him in the US:

Solitary confinement for the rest of his life (if not, maybe being raped), torture, forcing him to answer prison wards every 30 minutes - even during nights - to make sure he doesn't commit suicide (that's what they did to Manning)

I'd probably even prefer suicide to that treatment.
The UK spends $12 million [0] of tax payer money just to monitor this 1 person. I do think that's stupid, but they are probably not stupid enough to let him slip through, after all this.

[0] http://rt.com/news/178276-assange-police-cost-embassy/
Personally i think human curation is much better than curation by activity analytics, and it can offer better context.
Thanks for trying it out!

Sorry, I've been taking a few days off and have had very limited internet access. Would you please open a support ticket so that we can help you figure out what's happening with your connection?
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A lot of maybes and no proof. If the women had been sexually assaulted, and if these assumptions are to be taken seriously (e.g. that they are not easily intimidated by exterior circumstances) then much of what happened after the alleged rape would make no sense whatsoever (their friendly behaviour, their tweets, their comments with other friends/witnesses). In fact, there is so much that has been put into question that it's ridiculous how the swedish government even took the case seriously.

And let's all remember that he hasn't been charged with rape and he's only wanted for questioning. I believe that this is what they are saying because it's impossible to justify any other stance based on the lack of evidence...
Thanks for the kind words. We've fixed the problem with the default Ubuntu theme and also have a bunch more design improvements, as well as general bug fixes which you can find in git (stable-0.8 and HEAD).

Not being able to resolve tracks at all sounds strange, though. Right now I would guess it's either a corrupted database or index. Could you try and see if you can reproduce the issue after wiping your settings / database? (~/.local/share/Tomahawk and ~/.config/Tomahawk)
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You can find pre-packaged versions of all our resolvers (updated nightly) here: http://teom.org/axes/nightly/ - just use "Install from file" in Tomahawk's settings and pick the .axe file.
If your definition of "fun" is arriving at a parking lot not knowing if there will be a spot or how much you will be paying then yes, sure - mountains of fun.
so uber and lyft[0] have "disproportionate power" because they operate a marketplace of drivers, and some of these drivers have a sense of entitlement that they should be paid X, but actually there are even less fortunate individuals that these companies are empowering because they aren't as entitled and are willing to be paid X - δ. Are these X - δ drivers victims or villains?

Keep in mind that uber and lyft aren't so powerful that they can force drivers to drive pro bono.

[0]sidecar lets drivers effectively set their own rates, so the effects of being too entitled about what you're owed become clear pretty rapidly if you're counting on it for a steady income.

you have no power to dictate the terms for which you'll work (e.g., you couldn't demand an extra $5/hr)

That's right. And if there is zero market on the passenger side, you can't demand squat. Maybe Uber and Lyft should unilaterally raise their rates to $10/mile and $100/hour for the benefit of their drivers. What Uber and Lyft are doing is just price discovery. Now that may seem unfair to the driver, but the flip side is if you charge too much, people don't use the service as much, and start getting into drunk accidents.
> The guy lived 40 years with no sex charges

He also lived 40 years without being a major international celebrity. He wouldn't exactly be the first person in history to be corrupted by fame and the (oftentimes imagined) power that comes with it.

Correlation != causation.
Lots of things are impossible under EU law, yet Poland and other EU countries had CIA black sites on their territory, where kidnapped suspects were tortured.
The Lua language and LuaJIT are great.

The user base is fragmented (version 4, 5.1 (LuaJIT) vs 5.2), as Lua is usually used as embedded language (alongside C, C++, ...) for video games (World of Warcraft, Far Cry, ...), applications (Adobe Lightroom, ...), etc.

And the http://lua.org website is a bit too minimalistic to offer community features. The project only hosts a mailing list and a old-school wiki. The additional libraries are/were hosted on http://luaforge.net , an outdated sourceforge clone. The documentation is static and the development process itself is not so open. The Lua language standard library is lacking functions almost every other language ship with their default package (so everyone has to either find & download additional libraries or reinvent the wheel).

Other languages like PHP have a documentation that allows the community to add comments and code samples.
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I wonder if we can ever look forward to a day when unencrypted http just doesn't exist. When the only option is https?
I assume it just wasn't accessible enough for the average user to gain a bigger user-base. The technology behind it is still alive in Tomahawk, though, and you'll be able to use Tomahawk as a headless daemon (which you can control through a restful JSON-API) in the near future.
But this is orthogonal, and 'good design' should give us a DE independent way to ensure the right fonts are there with good font rendering settings.
The last time the CIA picked up targets in Sweden it was a quick job with an unmarked private jet headed for Egypt.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05...

Highly illegal, and had our foreign minister not been murdered, she would have been held accountable as there was a huge outrage over the whole debacle. To me this says two things: 1) "the law" didn't mean much last time, so Assange is right to be careful 2) his public profile together with the last incident in fresh memory means he is probably at very little risk to be treated illegally in Sweden, especially as elections are coming up in September.

My guess: he'll go to Sweden, he'll be questioned by police, then let go. Seeing as he spent a couple of years hiding to avoid this, he will probably find this surprising, and no one else will.
Just curious, I am unable to see what was the hard part in creating the solution to entail a bounty of $500?
There are places that do that; at my first job we knew that the ETL code was core business functionality, and version-controlled it appropriately. And we knew that our ability to store raw data reliably was a competitive advantage.

But in many cases it's a technical debt issue. In the early startup stages when you're struggling for product-market fit, cleaning or auditing your data is not a good use of time. When a business like that starts to get traction, it finds itself with clients that now want more reliability, scaling issues, and a bunch of data that no-one really remembers where it all came from or how it was generated. A lot of the big-data startups are hitting that stage now.
As a portuguese, that's how it's used here. A sanitized version of slang.
Yes, I do trust the system in general. There's a need for public scrutiny, but in general - while imperfect and certainly in need of some fixing - it's the best system we have had for the last couple of hundred years.

It's understandable that Assange might not trust the system, but that does not mean that I have to support that. It's obviously not a better system if everybody on his own gets to decide which parts of the legal system apply to him or not. It's not an opt-out system.

Given that, even if that were not the case: I trust the UK less than Sweden. The alleged scheme makes no sense: It would be the same for the UK and Sweden could only loose. Unless somebody gives me a credible reason what Sweden has to gain from allowing extralegal action of the US under its legal system, I'm sticking with my opinion.
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Except the case went to the UK Supreme Court and the extradition was found to be justified. The English legal system has a very good track record of standing up to the government so unless you're suggesting that they too have somehow "been got at" as well...

Given Wikileaks et al have recently shown quite how poor governments are at keeping secrets I do love the blind belief that Assange is the victim of a highly successful multi-government conspiracy over a number of years.
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>but the documents stood quite well on their own and the expected punishment is somewhere between a couple of years on parol and a low prison sentence in a Swedish prison.

The concern has not been the sexual assault changes. The concern been that once Assange is in Swedish hands, the U.S. will unveil a warrant for his arrest, and Sweden will happily extradite him. And then he's tortured and rots in a maximum security prison.

That's the concern.

Given the lengths the U.S. has gone to in order to obtain people associated with intelligence leaks, including forcing a presidential plane to the ground, I don't think that's an unreasonable concern.
Isn't that the normal state of affairs already? Or rather, usually you know that there won't be a spot unless you go hunting for half an hour or so.

The idea would of course be to book the spot in advance, so you WOULD know that there is a parking lot waiting for you.
If you find this interesting you might also like:

http://biostatistics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/0...

the paper was discussed by several leading statisticians including Andrew Gelman, D.R. Cox and Yoav Benjamini:

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It's a fine line between cleaning data and quantizing data. Spelling mistakes, format error correction, consistent formatting are all "janitorial".

However categorizing data into correct groups, removing what you consider is "non-essential", or simply rounding off decimal numbers all can have impact on the analysis down-stream.

In some ways data science is pretty much all about learning best practices for quantizing data.
Alex Gaynor, one of the PyPy developers said (on the mailing-list where Guido proposed this):

You're right. None of this would provide any value for PyPy.

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How gracious!

You might have missed that the venue of a trial is usually pre-determined, certainly not chosen at the whim of the defendant.
As with all headlines on Ars Technica, and similar sites, it has to do with getting you to click the link.
This one should be safe for German keyboards, it only uses A and Z as far as I see.

For French keyboards, the common WASD layout is completely broken, but this game manages to stay quite usable since it's just two keys.
I bet the author heard that "Linux is the kernel" and thinks the two terms are interchangeable.
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Does anybody know a stable Lua package for HTML scraping, preferrably similar to Nokogiri or Beautiful Soup?
Wow - I've been a huge advocate for TripIt in the past - definitely need to pause using it though until they get this sorted :/
The other pages on this site are pretty good: Little Snitch, Scribd, PGP..
No question. But it usually doesn't last, as people move onto other projects. Even within this thread, the new list is replacing a similarly named, now unmaintained list.

DMOZ/Wikipedia at least try to provide long-term continuity and a standardized ontology for discovery. This github list is depending on the searcher already knowing that they should preface their dev discovery queries with "awesome".

If this list format were standardized, it could be dynamically merged with data from OpenHub. Or GitHub could add analytics features (similar to OpenHub) to assist the human curator editing this GitHub repo.