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Thanks for trying, but the Green article has been roundly criticized as factually incorrect. Sweden can absolutely charge and try people in absentia, and the prosecutor could question Assange abroad and move the case beyond the "preliminary investigation" stage (strange that you did not notice, but the very document Green cites explicitly disagrees with him on this point). Nor does extradition from Sweden to the United States require permission from the Swedish courts as he claims.

Just practically, the problem with closing the "preliminary investigation" is that it requires the Swedish prosecution to have actual evidence of a crime and file it with the courts. And it starts the clock moving on things like getting the defendant into court once he is in detention, unhappily eliminating the possibility of indefinite detention which is otherwise possible under Swedish law.

But all of this is irrelevant, because YOU HAVE NOT CITED ANY RELEVANT CASE AS REQUESTED. Tossing out aggregate extradition statistics and handwaving about how one category might apply in this case may be evidence of your creativity, but it provides zero evidence that any of these cases are in fact commensurate with the one under discussion. So you fail to support your claim that the handling of this case has been "ordinary". And while you may be used to getting a pass on this sort of thing, I'm going to hold you to your actual argument not only because it is very poor, but because if you actually bother to do the legwork, you will come up with a bunch of extradition cases involving paedophilia and/or armed assault in which the prosecution had ample evidence to convict people of very serious crimes. Despite what you imply, extradition is simply not "ordinarily" used in cases like this. But if I am mistaken, by all means correct me with an actual citation!

On a final note, let us also correct your erroneous statement that the High Court determined that Assange's actions constituted rape under English law. It is highly improbable that Assange would be convicted of anything if he were tried in England. All the High Court ruled is that the warrant Sweden presented was couched in a general enough fashion to pass the dual-crime requirement to constitute a technically valid extradition warrant. There was no finding of facts or even consideration of them.
>>unless there's a strong advantage for a species to reproduce asexually, it's likely not going to appear.

I was under the (perhaps wrong) impression that asexual reproduction predated sexual reproduction in the history of life (prokaryotes predating eukaryote?) so I always thought that organisms "lost" the trait of asexual reproduction somewhere down the line. Probably an assumption without basis.

>>perhaps in reality the lack of diversity in the resulting offspring would be negative to the species' survival.

Yes. I imagine the answer would be something like that, but the question of what is the exact reason still stands.

Like i said I haven't the foggiest idea of the subject matter but always liked to think and speculate about it. Origin and Nature of Life, Physical nature of consciousness and Neuroscience in general are all topics I find fascinating. If anybody know any popular science books they can recommend on any of these topics, it would be great.
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I beg to differ, based on experience. The low-hanging fruit is gone only for the paths mainstream research take. There were some great discoveries recently but since they don't resonate with the "in" crowd it gets mostly ignored.
Have they separated the storage encryption key from the lock screen code yet? I'm still on Kit Kat but you currently need to install a third party app to achieve this (even when using CyanogenMod 11).

Using scrypt won't save you if you're using a 4 digit PIN for device encryption as is currently the default.
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The reply was perhaps worded too quickly, but the ad itself indicates

"If you’ve been programming professionally for around a decade, have a few years of full stack web experience (Rails, Django, PHP, Java Spring, and similar), and love learning, you’ll be a great fit."

I don't understand how any of those listed technologies qualify as "full stack", but that's another discussion. Their main point was someone with 10+ year of experience, and experience with some of those technologies on top of that.
I've got more than 10 years of rails experience. I started with Rails 0.5 in July 2004. So looking at the calendar we're at 10.5 years. There were only like 5 people including DHH when i joined the #rubyonrails irc channel. And on top of that i've done lots of other things in the rails world, like managing people since then. The thing is, rails has changed so much, i'm not sure how much value there is in that. If i were hiring it'd be a red flag that somebody only stayed doing rails for 10 years. A good developer learns new languages and frameworks. A language a year and all that.

Perhaps the hiring drone was saying 10 years of web development experience maybe?
"The participants were instructed to reproduce the source text within thirty minutes."

As a Latex user I would never use it for writing a 30 minutes text. I will use LibreOffice for that.

If the source text is made in Word of course it is going to have errors, defining error as "a different outcome that original word document text generates".

We DO use Latex for writing 300+ pages books, and Latex is great for it:

-It is not proprietary.

-Very easy to program and use different UI programs to modify the same document. We write using mostly voice, we edit it visually.

-Very easy to interface with our own software, for example for creating automatic graphs from sensors.
That's... actually a really good rule.

SF was the only place I've tried it, but I checked their website and they work in SF, LA, and Seattle. Nowhere near Uber/Lyft, but it's a start.
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Ah, fantastic (hopefully), was just looking for something that improved on the current package. As long as it stops autocompleting `do` to a docstring I'll be happy.
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> there is the option "A cult leader that didn't really claim the be the Lord, but his followers came to believe that he was".

That's what I'd class as 'legend'.
You're more than right. In fact, the paper explicitly mentions 4 correct 5 detect (but fail) doesn't solve the issue because each victim row on either side of the attacker row attains varying levels of multibit (5+) errors.

It doesn't fix systems deployed right now, and could be used for attacking hypervisors and other multitenant systems. Might make an interesting class of local privilege escalation attacks to try probabilistically of otherwise correctly-secured systems too.
> The Swiss bit sounds interesting, but I know nothing about Swiss law ...

Switzerland has already famously succumbed to US law enforcement: http://www.forbes.com/sites/irswatch/2014/02/03/swiss-bank-s...

See also this earlier discussion on Reddit: https://pay.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/25x80h/harvard_and...
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It was critical for my mental model to note that Word applies styles to the trailing carriage return.
Very inspirational! I did not know he was the one to reformulate Maxwell's Eqs. I had a feeling an English person was behind admittance, conductance, impedance, inductance, permittance, reluctance & permeability, but I suppose his naming convention can be forgiven.

definitions do not come first, but later is a great quote, well-put.
This is nothing new. Lizards reproduce asexually in deserts often when the conditions become extremely stable--no new genetic info is needed. One day the whole world, once we've learned how to control it, will become female, or at least ones that can change into male if they wish.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asexual-lizards/
It's just easier not to do something that might, vaguely, break a broadly-drafted law.
"We worried that you took everything too literally and that would make you inflexible in the work environment"
It is very interesting what this app will become. It seems very likely that negativity will prevail unfortunately. Is the plan to introduce guidelines to tackle this? Is it enough to be pointed to a flaw to 'improve'? Perhaps, one needs to really trust the person who utters the criticism to accept it. I think the hardest thing about change is to persevere. To help with that the app could provide a framework for endorsing small changes towards one's goals.
Personally I think it stems from a C influenced culture in terms of array indexing.

People from my age remember programming languages where you index from one, can select the base index or use enumerations as indexes.

Tooling, performance and libraries are much more important than base indexes.

Then again, I favored those C alternatives back when C wasn't an option at all. So I am biased.
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As someone who hasn't really managed to get into TDD (despite a few attempts), do you think this is generally the case? I do feel that TDD encourages a sort of shotgun approach to development, where you just try things until it works, rather than think the problem through thoroughly. Any opinions from people who have done both? I personally find fiddling with tests interrupts my flow of thought too much, so I would rather do it at the end.
Or maybe 10 years between the both of them?
Am I wrong (if you happen to work on processor microcode) or could microcode patches per processor insert a minimum delay where needed based on RAM parameters and organization to prevent this?
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There was a third window that many people tend to forget.

Mesa/Cedar, a interactive environment first done in Mesa, the Modula-2 predecessor and later on improved as Cedar, which was a system programing language with GC!

It was a working environment similar to Interlisp-D and Smalltalk, but using dynamic libraries, an interactive debugger, REPL and lots of nice goodies for an Algol like language. Back when at AT&T green phosphor terminals were being used.

Mesa was the inspiration for Lilith operating system done in Modula-2.

Similarly Cedar was the inspiration for Oberon and its derivatives.

Using Oberon felt to certain extent like Smalltalk, in a strong typed system programming language with a GC.

But Oberon based systems had the bad luck to appear at the same time the world was paying attention to Java and rise of VMs. So just like Plan9, only a few of us enjoyed using such environments.
You're probably being downvoted because you're making accusations in addition to stating facts, but it's true, google does have other priorities more important than serving you that content in a timely fashion. On a desktop browser, blogger sites usually take an extra 10 to 15 seconds to load.

I just visited on a mobile connection and recent webkit browser and got a blank page. I gave it 5 minutes to load after the browser had finished loading the page. No content and no error messages.

Discussing this isn't off topic if the content doesn't show.

Does anyone have a cached version?
This PDF only handles mapping N x N to N and vice versa, though.

For R x R, I would mix the bits of the two numbers

[a0 a1 a2 a3...]
[b0 b1 b2 b3...]

to

[a0 b0 a1 b1 a2 b2 a3 b3...]

I am not sure that is a computable function for infinite-length bit sequences, though. Maybe none of those mapping functions are?
There's a great chapter on Oliver Heaviside in Clifford Pickover's book, Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives Of Eccentric Scientists And Madmen, which portrays his struggles with the scientific establishment in some detail. It includes an illustration by Heaviside of a modern looking recumbent bicycle, an invention not usually attributed to him. How can someone with Heaviside's vast influence be obscure, not at least as well known as Nikola Tesla? Most engineers I've known have no idea that Maxwell's field equations are not the same as the Maxwell's equations they know (and use).
In the 80's there wasn't any opensource, we bought our tools.
I'm surprised no one here has taken him to task for that horrible first sentence. I can only imagine the response on HN if the roles were reversed.
Yup. As clocks increased, traces began to more/less resemble waveguide designs a-la microwave. And if you've ever done microwave RF eng, it's all black magic.
Using GNU Smalltalk doesn't do any justice to what means to use a Smalltalk environment.
Part of me really wants to pay you (or arguably anyone) to provide this kind of summary for every other project posted to Hacker News: this was just such a concise and yet detailed description of this project... you saved me an incredible amount of time.
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> Text is easy, it's simple, it's persistent and platform-agnostic.

You never moved away from cozy 7 bit ASCII in one single human language, I imagine.
Aha, this is interesting =).

So this is basically just an array of booleans, and each element has two states.

But are there equivalent fancy compressed data structures for more than two states? (i.e. like a compressed array of enumerations) Or does that not make sense for some reason?
Yeah, agreed. I just wanted to make clear that you could believe in the historicity of Jesus without having to accept the Liar/Lunatic/Lord dilemma, since Jesus never claimed to be "Lord" in the first place.
Most circuits works probabilistically and come up randomly because of timing and thermal noise, so it's basically impossible to get the same exact running state twice... It's just impossible.

For a small example, Look at the simplest SR latch circuit... It's metastable because it feedsback into itself.
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I never knew much about him but, after reading this article, I will go so far to say that I think he may be one of the most inspirational entrepreneurs of our time. Potentially, on the level of Steve Jobs
Eclipse was Visual Age for Smalltalk reborn.

I miss Visual Age for C++.

Personally I think the biggest problem was the hardware requirements. If memory doesn't fail me, it already required 8 MB when most PCs were still being shipped with 4 MB.

Also I think the version to go for was the OS/2 one, which didn't help as well.

Vague memories now, so I don't recall how it really was.
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OK, but my point was that Dreamweaver CS3 is horribly outdated so why do we speak about this bug ?

Maybe there's something interesting about it, but I fail to see what is so special about this bug.
What's your definition of full stack?
No, the state of the art are commercial versions that still persist like VisualWorks, the Smalltalk I used at the university in the early 90's.

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/products/visualworks/
Serial LVD buses make clock skew and interference mostly irrelevant. It's a reason besides cost that parallel ports and PATA and parallel SCSI are dead and USB, SATA/SAS dominates.
javascript version (faster):

var input = [5, 3, 6, 3, 6, 3, 1, 4, 7];

var timeAxis = [];
// Put every element to the corresponding time point.
// Time point would hold an array, as we can have
// equal elements.
for (var i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
elem = input[i];
timeAxis[elem] = [elem].concat(timeAxis[elem] || []);
}

// skip all empty (UNDEFINED) time points
// and contact all the arrays:
var sorted = timeAxis.reduce(function (accum, cur) {
return cur ? accum.concat(cur) : accum},
[]);
console.log(sorted)
Thanks! I'll fix the post.

I loved propellers and floating vehicles although I didn't have a pool to test it out back then.
That's a very good code. Succinct and readable. You clearly now your C well :)
Check it again mate, it has nothing, and I said NOTHING, to do with sicilian mafia. Saviano's Gomorra narrates stories about "camorra", a criminal organization based in Campania, Naples' region. Both are criminal organizations, but are radically different from their origins to their criminal methodologies.
Well, it's not just "git"... it's any of the tools people use to compare and collaborate on text files. Throw it in a Rietveld instance or Gerrit, and you can review changes and make comments like with any other code review. If you prefer just throwing it into kdiff3 or something, you can do that, too. If you like Word's "Track Changes", LyX has that (though that means everyone has to use LyX as their editor).

The point is that a simple text-based source format opens up the possibility for lots of different collaboration models that the Word software monoculture prevents.
Actually, there are a variety of LaTex editors which I think must meet most people's standards. When I decided to write a book last year, I couldn't face doing it in Word (or anything which would not allow me to view the formatting codes). I was spoiled for choice when it came to LaTex editors. I settled for TexMaker, and within 6 months I had produced a 500 page book, complete with tables, charts and several thousand footnotes.

I'd never used LaTex before in my life. But I wanted the book output as PDF and it was important that the book looked professionally produced. I was really quite happy with the results. Before biting the bullet and using LaTex itself, I had looked at pandoc and other technologies which could output to PDF (e.g. python's ReST). But after some initial tests, I realised they were quite limited in their ability to output a complex PDF document.

TexMaker allows one to have the LaTex source and the PDF end result open in adjacent windows. MikTex/TexWorks was another editor which functioned in a similar fashion. With TexMaker I could jump from a line in the PDF to the originating line in the LaTex file (and vice versa). One can go to images.google.com and search for screenshots of LaTex editors to see the variety available.

The only major enhancement I would like, is if the LaTex editor would allow one to hide all the LaTex codes (perhaps colour-coding the text in the editor to indicate that a paragraph section contains hidden formatting codes). I do find the Latex markup distracting as I try to read the text. However, being able to read the PDF output and then jump to the LaTex source does mitigate this to some extent (I have a large monitor which permits me to have 2 A4 document windows open side by side).
But declining birth rates don't lead to stable populations, they lead to shrinking populations. So if we don't manage to restore birth rates, this would be an example of 'Great Filter ahead of us'.
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> The thing is, rails has changed so much, i'm not sure how
> much value there is in that.

To corroborate this point: I've been doing Rust for over three years now, but if you think that knowing Rust circa Oct 2011 gives you any friggin clue how to write the language today, you're extremely out of the loop.

The same can be said for C++ (which is pivoting toward a massively different style with C++11), Java (unless, like so many I've encountered, you think the language and its surrounding ecosystem hasn't changed a whit since 2002), Python... heck even PHP is changing its basic character over time, if slowly.
I would like to share your optimism. But then I read about things like the US nuclear launch codes being set to 00000000 for quite a few years, or an incident when survival versus Armageddon depended on the judgment of one man [1], and I have to conclude that human governments should not be in possession of nuclear weapons.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Well... any inclusion of front-end technologies - that list is server side web app frameworks.
What was the motivation to lie? One common argument is that nearly all of Jesus' closest disciples were martyred and would have had no motivation to die for something they knew to be a lie.
That's a neat trick but it requires a lot of underwater stuff that can break and will to some extent defeat the original purpose (speed).
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> "A cult leader that didn't really claim the be the Lord, but his followers came to believe that he was"

I'm curious, what are this position's ideas on how his followers came to believe this? One common response to the general argument is that most of Jesus' disciples were martyred and would have had no motivation to die for a lie.
And what, exactly, is rock paper scissors sort?
Dawkins' books, especially the earlier ones (e.g. Blind Watchmaker), are quite a good and gentle introduction.

Yes, you are right that life originally started as asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction appeared later; my answer was more about the likelihood of a species that already reproduces sexually moving towards asexual reproduction.

Regarding the question of why the asexual->sexual shift happened in the first place, the wikipedia article on asexual reproduction has this to say:

Current hypotheses [2] suggest that asexual reproduction may have short term benefits when rapid population growth is important or in stable environments, while sexual reproduction offers a net advantage by allowing more rapid generation of genetic diversity, allowing adaptation to changing environments.