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I'm going to disagree with you: as someone who has worked in an extensive Python codebase, based on the snippet above, I have zero clue what is actually going on. Those could just be attributes in the object, or they could be properties with arbitrarily complex code to calculate the resulting object. It could be the same object, or a freshly-allocated object, or an object that exists already. The index operator could be on a list, dictionary, or custom class with, again, arbitrarily complex code. All of that code could even be written in pure C for all I know! That single line of code could be a rats nest of a thousand lines of Python, or C, or both. And that's not even getting started with the possibility of metaprogramming or creating new classes by wrapping an existing class at runtime.

Saying that the snippet is obviously not using method calls is naive. Python is too flexible and allows programmers to do too many clever things for that, all hidden under "nice" syntax.

EDIT: Forgot a case for what that code could be doing: it could be accessing a module with globals.
Well, they both pretty obviously committed crimes - if the respective accusations are true. So it's difficult to see the difference between "accused of rape" and "accused of release of classified information".
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I don't know, even Wikipedia seems to agree with me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing

And didn't the GGers "dox" Randi, Anita, Brianna, etc?

But I'm even more old school because I'd just call it skiptracing instead of doxing....
At the bottom of the page "Where do these numbers come from?" explains the methodology.
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I do felt they sold it to the wrong crowd - to the rich dudes instead of geeks. But still, the kind of reactions you described is a really shitty feature of society.
As the example of manufacturing shows, nothing can last forever. There is no principle of morality that says all steel must be forged in Bethlehem PA forever. Self-described "capitalists" (not a shot at you, but I'm sure you know the type) wax poetic about competition and creative destruction, right up until the moment when their complicated financial instruments are rendered worthless by bankrupt counterparties. But this discussion is still a political one. If the government hadn't had the money to spare for these purposes, we would never have heard of 2B2F.
I've edited my comment however still feels it validates the point. The Snowden and Asange cases are not one and the same.
I've never had medicare pay me, it's always been "here is a cheque for the doctor, please take it to him, we cannot send it directly to him because of reasons".

I don't know what they're doing, and I'm not really interested in wading through mygov again after the pain in the arse it made submitting tax last year unless I have to.

If going to the doctor isn't easy, then I'll only go when I have a problem. When I do go, I'll pay full price myself, so I don't have to deal with Medicare.
In the US we have the title PE, Professional Engineer, which requires some additional qualifications (exams, supervised apprenticeship, etc), and of course a state license. Most people don't bother any more, which has lead to a much smaller number of PE-Engineers many of whom are relegated to being mere license-holders who sign drawings for others, who do the actual engineering.

>So basically, don't call yourself an engineer unless you're willing to sign off on something, and be legally bound by it.

I'm sorry to say it (not really); but for a number of reasons, some good and some bad, the title has been co-opted, and there is no going back.

>This implies a strong background in problem solving and structured design processes

As far as that goes, I've met a number of pedigreed folks who can't engineer their way out of a wet paper bag.
Modern 3D game engines need math in the renderer, physics, maybe the AI but the majority of a game engine doesn't. Loading files, reading inputs, displaying UIs, the object system, scripting languages, most tools, font rendering, localization systems, game save system, networking system. Nowadays teams either buy middleware for the parts that need math or else they have specialists on the team for those things.

On top of that lots of game engines aren't 3D. 2D Mario? No serious math in there, at least not the SNES/NES ones. The 2D Zeldas? Even less. 2D Metroid? Probably less than Mario. Those games didn't use real maths for physics which is about the only place they could possibly use anything more than basic arithmetic.
I suspect that "productive use" of capital has simply worn away. What's left is buy and hold of property.

Henry George is credited with land rents taxation as a theory. He built on Ricardo's work to posit a complete theory of taxation based purely on land rents.
Opening a bank account in the EU for an Ukrainian citizen is quite problematic. There are several alternatives.

Open an offshore bank account in British Virgin Islands, etc. You can go the digital citizenship route in Estonia. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/become-e-citizen-estonian-di...

Payoneer. An option used by many freelancers in ex-CIS to get payment from US/EU http://www.payoneer.com/
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Can you study "real science" without knowing the basic facts about atoms, elements/compounds and cells?
Minor car and property crime may not be investigated, but rape and sexual assault are taken seriously.
> It is not at all apparent to me that ISPs have a need to be involved in subjective decisions like [determining when traffic is or should be illegal and blockable]

What makes you think they are or would be under this proposal?

The announcement said, "These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services."

It says nothing about unlawful content. If blocking lawful content is illegal, but not-blocking unlawful content is not illegal, obviously ISPs will err on the side of not blocking grey-area content. It will only be obviously unlawful content that is blocked, which is really no different than today's situation.
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The "privacy" issue was not there to cover the privacy of the person with glass but the people around him.

I can totally understand that. Even if I know that there will be (are) ways around but as long as not everybody can do it, it's something.

You forgot one:

9. You look like an idiot.

It's the same thing as the smart watches. Suddenly everybody had one but now they become a joke. As well as the people who wear them to work.

They should throw in some more money and time and go for implants.
Am I correct in my inference that Scala in the browser cannot import Java classes? Meaning this isn't some backdoor to a Java-to-JavaScript compiler?
That javascript code is awful (and yet probably typical). There are three asynchronous readdirs that don't depend on each other (and should be able to run parallel) which now depend on each other and any asynchronous benefit is lost. Maybe haskell is smart enough to run them in parallel. For javascript, Promise.all would be better and avoid the pyramid of doom. Or, just use synchronous code for your, well, synchronous code.
What about a contract like this: the copyright holder declares the value of the copyright (on the quarter; on the year; but the declared value may only increase); we then tax them on that value---say 1%. The flip side is that the copyright may be purchased 'into the public domain' by simply paying the full amount of the copyright to the owner of the copyright. (The owner has no right of refusal; however, they may increase the value of the copyright by paying the difference in taxes.)

For patents, have the tax be $300 for each year of the age of the patent. Surely, a patent is worth $300 in its first year; and, any patent that is still 'interesting' after 10 years is worth at least $3000?

Multinational patents/copyrights are payed to the originating country, so that there's no multiple payment issue.
What I like about phones is that you can put them in your pocket. If you're having a face to face conversation with someone, you can put the phone away, and give them your full attention. But if my phone was part of my glasses, it'd always be on. How annoying!
With US bills, you can use one of these... costs $5.50: http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/548370/Dri-Mark-US-Cou...

Also, on $100 bills, Ben Franklin has a ghost image that can be seen holding up to the light.
This article was initially baffling to me. There's no link to the API or libraries, or functions or whatever the hell the author is talking about, so since I'm not following all this stuff closely, I don't know if this is a proposed change to JavaScript or an external library or what.

So then I go here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... and realize that it's an experimental proprosal for ES6, which means it's going to be a while before I can even think about using this. Then I realize the MDN article actually explained proxies and what they're designed for way better than this article (they're meant as a functional hook when manipulating properties on an object). It has useful, non-contrived examples that illustrate better than this article why you'd want this in the spec.
I'll take a look at these, thanks. :)
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I know you don't need a boat, but it would certainly help. I wouldn't want to rely on someone else to get me on and off the island, especially in an emergency. Even if you don't own a boat, you still need to keep a dock in working condition. Oh, and if you do have a boat, that's another thing to maintain. And a boat isn't going to get you to the grocery store (unless there's a canal. Or an inlet. Or a fjord).

I keep thinking about things like maintenance. If you need a new roof, you've got to find a roofer willing to load up a boat full of shingles, ladders and a roofing crew. That's going to increase the cost.

And then there's insurance. I imagine that standard homeowners insurance isn't going to cover you quite like it would elsewhere.
Seems a false dichotomy. I wouldn't suggest we "let him go free", but when any public service has resource limits, you have assign them reasonably to the public benefit.
As for whether this would happen for another person in the same situation who wasn't a major political bogeyman figure? I suspect not. I suspect they'd wait until intelligence suggested he had left, and apprehend him then. Or he'd just be on general no-travel lists at ports and airports. It strains my belief to think that this kind of theatre isn't in large part because he's Julian Assange, source of significant political embarrassment for the UK and its ally across the pond.
so that the family of a creator who dies young/suddenly are supported for a while

To provide this case, make it "the maximum of [life of author, 10 years]".

IMHO 25 years regardless of author lifetime would be more than enough.
Banks have these operating hours because the accounts on which they make the most money are small and large business accounts. Their profit margins on personal checking and savings accounts are much lower. It's all dictated by the market.

As for barbers, most shops in the U.S. are open until 7 or 8pm and weekends, pretty reasonable.
Heinlein explicitly wrote those books to teach us what he thought we needed to know to get out into space, including attitudes like libertarianism (small l, I believe, because you can't really pigeonhole him).

And, yeah, they were very influential on me as well, and the experiences of life also prompted me to adjust some of those beliefs. But that's a pretty normal thing, I think.
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Law is littered with unwanted precedents. They are not, generally, compelling reasons to act in a sane and thoughtful way, and rarely (especially with such obvious edge cases as this) inform future decisions.

Is there actually an arrest warrant in Sweden for Assange? It's a highly convoluted arrangement between the UK (ostensibly keen to arrest, to satisfy their Swedish colleagues) and Sweden (who wish to question).

UK's position to extradite a person from another country into Sweden would not be weakened by any actions in this particular case. There's no precedent for that kind of prevarication.

Finally, you seem to imply that Assange would rather metaphorically 'wither and rot' (asserting facts not in evidence) in an embassy, rather than wither and rot (almost definitely guaranteed to be in the near-literal interpretation in a much more restrictive US-funded establishment), with the rather ambiguous phrase of 'deal with charges against him'. The charges, which haven't technically been made by the Swedes, and, on the face of it, are a smidge dubious, aren't what he's avoiding - it's the non-made charges that would occur once Sweden shipped him off to NOT 'deal with the charges against him' likely to be levelled by the US.

Do you think Snowden, Manning, et al are 'paranoid' (quotes to reflect implied inappropriate concern for self-wellbeing).
Didn't they change the spec for Proxies and as of Chrome v40 Proxy doesnt exist in the devtools? I tried it in my Chrome/Canary and it wasn't there however it did work in Firefox v35
Thanks for the reply. My solutions to the problem of not having anyone to reach out to have been to make friends with mathematicians, and to hire grad students as tutors.
Whether or not you have to pay taxes on the proceeds of the endeavor is an orthogonal question to whether or not you need a business license to engage in the endeavor.
The real question in all of this is why does Sweden have an extradition treaty with a country infamous the world over for torture of detainees?
We need a more nuanced copyright system, that takes into account the on going use of a work. I can completely understand the Disney should still have a copyright on the image of Mickey Mouse. But only b/c it is still relevant to their on-going business. The idea of somehow putting a value on a copyright, so the public could conceivably buy it out once it's value falls into an affordable range, that makes a lot of sense, but how to do that fairly?
Personally I'm in favour of him being extradited and charged under normal UK and Swedish law and treaties.

I'm not in favour of the scale of the operation to enforce that, which I think is primarily a function of the accused's political status.
People most vulnerable to house price changes are people who own the title deeds to a house and an obligation to make mortgage repayments which may end up vastly exceeding the future value of the house. And the banks which see rising default rates from owners in negative equity, repossessed houses they can't sell. And anyone whose pension fund bought the wrong tranche of CDOs. Not to mention property developers, and workers in construction industries that support it, assuming the house price fall is generalised.

People least likely to be positively affected by a house price crash include people that don't have houses, the majority of whom face considerably more difficulty and up-front expense in obtaining a mortgage in an environment of falling or unstable property prices.

Sure, there are some beneficiaries from a house price crash, just like some people make money shorting a failing company. That doesn't mean there isn't a deadweight loss, and if your conception of people who are "most vulnerable" to property prices prioritizes the welfare of those with no significant exposure to property but plenty of liquid funds and a long term investment horizon, it's a very strange conception.

Much of the world is still suffering from the after-effects of a major house price crash in the US several years later; I'm genuinely quite saddened that some people are so adamant the effects of that must have been "zero sum" they feel obliged to reach for the downvote button when HN commenters have the temerity to suggest otherwise.
I'm painfully aware of 2008, but the martial law piece is a stretch. It's like the folks who answer every question with "Let's get back on the gold standard."
Traceur (ES6 compiler) itself has a runtime of several hundreds kb. Nothing you can't avoid at some point. There is an overhead for sure. But in most cases, execution time is spent in native calls (Dom rendering especially).
For a criminal prosecution to be successful the prosecutor needs to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the accused did it.

But to bring a prosecution the English prosecutors use a "balance of probabilities" test. As a random member of the public I want to know that the evidence they have is at least balance of probabilities before they bring a prosecution. The higher burden of proof is for the people at court to test. It's not for me to test the evidence against that higher burden of proof.
This one has a major steel company planning to start production in one year.
You're pretending like human shelters are somehow different.
Interesting insight, thank you.

I wonder what the material difference is for Sweden between continuing to not question him, and to question him on site at the embassy is, given the end result would seem to be identical (viz. they don't get to formally charge him and force him to face trial within Sweden in either scenario).
That's what I assumed. It was written like such an amateur that I assume he's day trading.
Banks basically don't need to innovate on their hours. If all banks are open similar hours, none of them feel the need to impact their costs by opening longer knowing that it will just force their competitors to do the same and level the playing field again, with everyone (banks not customers) losing out.

Barbers, all the ones I've known in a few UK cities have always had at least a couple of evenings they would open for, if not all evenings (though I generally go during the day anyway). Presumably because there's so many more than there are major banks, and because it's a key decision making factor for consumers - people are more likely to think "I'll get my hair cut at X instead of Z because it's open when I want a haircut" than "I'll bank with X instead of Z because some day I may prefer the opening hours". Not sure if my different experience is based on location or the fact that I generally go to not-cheap places which wouldn't use the term "barbers" to promote themselves.
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I completely agree. We should drive more women into suicide.
Define 'crooked" ;) I certainly see kids in the EU with teeth that would be "corrected" in the US. I get the impression that the aesthetics vs clinical need / risk line is drawn differently.
This sounds great. I have not really used Scala before. 3 questions:

- How good do IDEs understand Scala these days? Compared to C#/Java, where IDEs instantly know a crazy lot about your code. I am looking at features like IntelliSense, marking wrong code, marking typos, marking unused code, telling me about unhandled Exceptions etc.

- Is there any difference, on the IDE side, between Scala support and Scala.JS support?

- Is a development cycle possible, where I save and I can instantly reload the page in my browser to see the differences?

- (Bonus Question) How well does it integrate with React. If my memory is not fooling me, Scala supports something like Inline-XML. Can I write React-Code, like I write JSX code with it? Any examples?
Fair enough, the investigation rate is obviously at neither extreme, and I'd still argue that "reasonably expect to get away with" is pretty loaded, but if you mean there's a greater > 50% chance then, sure, I can believe that!
The project was interesting, but the technology nowadays is just not quite there yet. I've heard people talk about HoloLens, which might have been a point to consider as Google was basically the only people in this game, although the thing was falling anyway.
Re coffeescript and shadowing: I don't like it because I dislike the mismatch in semantics with JavaScript and am used to Python, but beyond that, I'm not sure it's wrong.

Re set: it would slightly complicate your grammar, but I don't think detecting "word space* = ..." would create any ambiguities.

Partially this issue is just about how much you value explicitness/regularity vs. concision.
Same boat
>How is what someone who DOESN'T know Python would think relevant?

Because most of the people that complain about Perl don't know it either.

I have no problem reading perl code of any kind (because I know it). Perl is a beautiful language IMHO.
I think you underestimate the anger he's caused in the bureaucracy. Governments see him as a security threat, which means they'll spend military-level amounts to keep him under as much control as they can, and will justify that spending as a show of force against other would-be threats.
> A person holding a land in the city for 25 years didn't make anything new

Of course they did. When they took out their mortgage, none of that 'money' existed. They had to participate in the creation of wealth in order to pay back mortgage + interest.

I've finally paid-off my mortgage. If someone has a more 'productive' use for my land and building, they are welcome to make me a financial offer.
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Google is developing SoundScript

Aren't they doing Dart as well? That has optional typing. Plus they have GWT, which is Java to JS.

Don't get me wrong, I'm super grateful to receive their fruits of labor for free, but this looks like a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.
Something tells me that if it were the chief of Police's motorcycle stolen, the bobbies might be a bit more energetic in recovering it. Probably what the GP expects is some subset of what they would do for the chief.
Disney has a trademark on Mickey Mouse, which is more than enough to protect it even if the copyright had expired on the original Steamboat Willy.
That's exactly it. Partly because of homeschooling, I've been instilled with an, I think, rather healthy skepticism to 'normal' things.

Furthermore, being in a public school doesn't just mean conforming to 'local culture', it means conforming to the local culture of those in a small age range. I'd say conformism coupled with being a teen is significantly worse than just having to adapt to 'local culture'.
Every time this comes up a lot of people question whether Britain is making a special case out of Assange. But the European arrest warrant system has been around for a while, and been criticised for the burden it places on the police when dealing with minor crimes.

There was a fuss sometime ago about Poles being extradited for chicken theft and the like. http://www.economist.com/node/15179470
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