skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I tend to question the accusations (though I think it's pretty clear Assange acted like a total asshole whether or not he went over a legal line), it is not unusual for a rape victim to continue to associate with a rapist after being raped. Most rapes are conducted by persons the victim knows, and often the victim may feel like they have no other choice than to put on a brave face and try to move past it. You can't discount the possibility of a rape from that alone.

Also keep in mind that a UK judge too agreed that assuming that the allegations are as described by the Swedish prosecutor, and that these allegations are true it would be a crime in the UK too.

So what the prosecutors allege certainly goes beyond regret and second thought. Whether or not the prosecutors can substantiate those allegations in any way, is another matter.
While at Cambridge, Thomas Fink wrote "The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie: The Science and Aesthetics of Tie Knots" (2001)

http://www.amazon.com/The-85-Ways-Tie-Aesthetics/dp/18411556...

He connects his model of neckties to statistaical mechanics and invents a few new styles.

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/85ways.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_85_Ways_to_Tie_a_Tie
Yeah. That line was like, WTF. I don't think anyone considers WoW the same game as Warcraft. I think the author meant Starcraft 2.
There are so many things a good API would have to do...

Different types of decks, handling of a discard, shuffling a card into the deck, shuffling the discard pile into the deck, handling hands, milling a card from the deck, multiple decks acting as one...

Though the simplicity of this api currently just having a deck that you take cards from is neat.
Your passion is a good thing. I should have been less crass, but as Betteridge's law is new to me I rather childishly pointed and exclaimed.

I thought that observation about systematic humanization was fucking awesome. That would appear to be a concrete way to normalize interactions between strangers. For the record, I really don't like the police as an institution... but I recognize that that is a bias I maintain.

Maybe cops should have a monthly pot luck get together. Watching the citizenry eat and play might foster a bit of that empathy.
Self-Driving Cars Getting Dinged in California
My experience has been the exact opposite. Minimal effort in backing up the digital copies makes them easier to access than the film I have from the same period since it's slowly decaying in a box 1,000 miles away.
I posted this comment elsewhere here:

Below is from http://caseysoftware.com/blog/working-for-a-dating-website

"Let’s think about their model again:

If someone joins the site and is unsuccessful, the site loses one customer.

If someone joins the site and is successful, the site loses two customers.

Wait, what?

That’s right. Making you successful can be bad for them. Now obviously, they need success stories to promote and recruit new customers but too many success stories and.. they lose."
Like many things, it's a fantastic idea for people and a poor idea for business. The main advantage is that it keeps business out exactly opposite of how facebook invites it in and ruins everything.

email is a fan-fucking-tastic protocol stack BTW. It's detractors all want to do something the user doesn't want or need.
If they looked like that, then run the ClearType tuner. On most LCD panels for everyone I've showed it to, they were pretty impressed with the improved clarity.

ClearType was also the subject of some stupid partner-level politics inside of MS, actual end user experience be damned.
I can't even get Airdrop working between my iPhone (latest model) and MBP (recent model, latest software). It's infuriating.
I used to take the train everyday out of London (SW trains). As an optimisation geek I wanted to know the fastest way to get the doors open at the station. If you just keep the button held down from before you arrive into the station the door will open as soon as the conductor flips the switch.

Though there's a weird awkward social thing, because you know the people behind you are staring at you thinking "take your finger off and push it again and the doors will open, idiot!"

I go through pedestrian crossings regularly when you absolutely need to push the button or they never trigger. You can tell if someone hasn't been through for a while because the crossing changes straight away.
I'm upvoting this so hopefully it gets more attention. You won't believe how many apps I've seen running on DO without TLS between their droplets. Setting TLS up right also is quite a bit of work when compared to Amazon's VPC which you can setup in just a few clicks.
It's way faster at responding to incorrect edits (be they errors/mistakes/vandalism), in my experience. Spam etc. is unavoidable, as with any wiki-type project, but there are (well documented) mechanisms for dealing with it (as opposed to Google's "just drop us a note, and we might take a look, eventually, maybe").

Anecdote: I have tagged a street as "private access only" - and within hours, another mapper contacted me, asked if I took pedestrians into account (I didn't - the access restriction was actually for vehicles), and corrected my edit. Another time I have noticed that a street nearby changed type from "residential" to "secondary" (which does have real-life impacts, e.g. maximum allowed speed); checked IRL and with the mapper, and edited the map to better reflect the actual state.
Its been a few months since I used the Android calendar app, but I'm pretty sure if you turn the device into Landscape it'll change to month view.
An active community of equals and map enthusiasts, who feel like they are participating in and sharing in creating something for everyone.
An investor should not be inviting people actively seeking funding from their VC to a VC backed event as a date. It's unprofessional (it sets up an obvious conflict of interest for both parties) and it's unethical (it sends very mixed signals and it could be viewed as coercive). Asking her out to dinner or a non-corporate event would have been much more appropriate, but frankly even that would have been somewhat questionable.
Lights can still be switched off/on without the ninja blocks cloud, it still works through your LAN even if internet is down. You lose the rules engine though. I like this feature on my NB. I use it for lamps around house, triggered from buttons on wall and in phone app. Bypasses cloud and the switch response time is very fast because of this. Hasn't missed a beat for a long time, the Ninja Block is a great little device.

For any of this IOT stuff, a reliable cloud service is essential. Apparently there are ways to have my own "mini cloud" for my Ninja Block, so I'll be following that up before the official one shuts down.
Good point - OSM is not just this one map; I've now used it for offline (!) geocoding, online and offline (!) maps (shared tiles, customized tiles, own tiles, vectors), offline POI searches etc.

Most of this is not even possible with proprietary maps, let alone allowed (if you have nothing better to do, go take a look at Google Maps T&C, it forbids you many things - need a route on a device which can only display text? Sorry, no can do, either you must show a Google Map, or you can't use Google's routing).
Living in germany I often times have to raise eyebrows at the basic assumptions american coders often have with regards to encoding, timezone awareness and other common defaults.

An american friend with french heritage noticed happily after moving to germany that the accent de gue on his last name was finally printed correctly on his mail and packages.
And it was the 500,001st that got us.
Julia will always be open source
OSM beginners guide: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide

Bing has allowed OSM to trace from their aerial imagery, so you can use that as well as uploading GPX traces.
What does the tool do exactly?
Adding to brudgers comment:

Rather than "Excel dangerously overused", I feel that technology is generally overused in an undisciplined unmindful inefficient way. Excel is often presented as the exemplary to such overuse.

I think that's because people who are motivated to come up with a solution to their common or more pressing problems of the day will naturally reach for the immediately accessible tools, and the more familiar the tool the better. In the usual corporate environment, Excel is already available for use.

Such people will be subjected to annual reviews that will not explicitly include any acquired or proven computer savviness. Instead they will be measured against the expectations of their job roles, which is likely not "applications developer". If they manage to create custom tools (via Excel or the many other manifestations of Microsoft Office) that have empirically demonstrated their worth to somehow become part of the production environment, then so much the better as far as the department or business is concerned (at least at first).

These people are not looking to become programmers. And besides, corporate desktops have gotten tremendously locked down since the late 1990's. It would take a fair bit of effort to make a business case to allow for some other computing environment (or tool) to be put on a corporate device. Which means experimentation would have to be done at home on their own time. Has it been mentioned that these people are not looking to become programmers?

We should put this sort of situation in perspective, and celebrate that there were and are folks willing to really learn a tool sufficiently as part of their problem solving in becoming more effective in their job roles. At some point of course the home-grown Excel-based solution will hit its limitations, which is where we as the truly expert computing professional types step in and get to work. If you really understand Excel and VBA and COM, you can really tease out quite a bit of the user story and business logic out the Excel "prototype" and come up with the more elegant solution.

And we can do this because we should be well versed at using this sort of technology in a more disciplined mindful efficient way.
Funding a $9 computer on Kickstarter
Agreed: Languages can evolve.

Perl has been around since 1987. I would expect Go (first released in 2009) to have learned valuable lessons from earlier failures. This particular set of features doesn't appear to be very thoughtful.
I was really happy with my nexus 4, but after the last update the phone started acting up. I was really happy with my Toshiba CB2, but after the last update the laptop started acting up. The only reason I haven't lost my mind is that my Macbook Pro, after the last three updates, has been acting up. :(
I was going to say it's the only one Python 2 has, AFAIK. So they've kept it reaosnable there, but then I remembered this:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#id24

Which is pretty scary, IMHO.

Python is productive, but I always questioned some of the choices in the language design (broken lambdas, etc -- though the implementation of list comprehensions were great so I just learned to love them) -- but it seems to take some of the same decisions Go is taking in terms of inconsistencies now.

The Go stuff, however, seems much more worse.

The phrase "nothing but Perl can parse Perl" comes to mind :)
Introducing Passcards, Your Digital Identity
It's because you can edit contacts(edit, add, etc) from their web interface.

I use it exclusively to transfer files, much faster then connecting a cable.
Also tobacco and alcohol are big moneymakers, but there is a large consensus about their negative effects, and that's why their use (or abuse) is discouraged, by doctors and governments alike.

So either:

- The coffee "lobby" is more effective than the tobacco and alcohol lobbies.

- Maybe all drugs cannot be dumped in the same bin, and we should treat them case by case, critically.
Solutions are easy when time and money is no object.
I watch Tom Scott's "The Problem WIth Time And Time Zones" from time to time just as a reminder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
I think that's bullshit. Rich people are not allowed to date anymore? Actually there was recently a study that showed that upward mobility has severely decreased because fewer women are marrying richer men (used to be a major way to become richer). So this is yet another example of feminism harming women.

By "protecting" the supposed victims of powerful men you deprive women of the option to date powerful men. And what if a student is interested in dating a professor?

Running a startup is not such a dire situation that it forces you to become a sex slave.

Edit: in reply to the comment below: The corollary of the statistic is that men don't have a lot of upward mobility. So often the unspoken assumptions that go along with feminism are simply wrong. Being able to marry upwards is a "privilege" of women mostly. It doesn't imply that they can not try other routes like everybody else.

YC doesn't allow me to comment further atm, so good bye.
Just a reminder that not everyone agrees with you
"To clarify, add detail" - E. Tufte

I don't think reduction only leads to perfection. If it would be, then our starting point must always be the right one. But in practice you start somewhere, reduce, move forward, add stuff, move sideways, try out and test. Sometimes you need to add stuff to make it clearer to your users.
I don't like it. This article looks to me like an ad piece. It has very little substance.

There is something bothering me in this article and the "startup culture" in general. Everyone thinks they make the world a better place. Silicon Valley's (the TV series) satire is spot on this. No matter what half brain dead app someone creates, it's supposed to revolutionize and "disrupt" some meaningless aspect of our lives. Of course technology helps the man overcome many problems, be smarter, healthier etc. But it is no panacea. We have the technology of the 21st century with the education of 1500 as to what to do with it. So everyone is making apps for cats or creates a temporary and indivudual-based solution for "problems" that we shouldn't have all along (creating additional problems). This is a huge waste of potential. If you really want to make the world a better place focus on the things that matter. At the very least be honest with what you are doing. Someone wants to make money and that's fine. The probability that the the world will benefit from it is most of the times incidental.

In some weird way am glad this was on HN.

</rant>
"go for a walk"

I've been in this game since '81 and when I talk to other "old people" we all seem to agree that the hardest technical challenges were solved out on the trail, over a beer with fellow programmers, while lifting weights, while posting to HN, while playing games with the kids... while younger people automatically assume the only way to work on a problem is by sitting in front of a screen while typing as fast as possible.

This does not only apply to problems that are knowledge/skill limited. Error rates explode on grunt manual labor beyond a certain number of hours. Ops suggestions probably do help increase the number of hours slightly, but almost certainly not to 100+ hours or whatever op is claiming. If you're just going to have to redo all the work tomorrow morning, or are too sleepy to see a way to turn 10 hours of grunt labor into 30 seconds of automation, then stop anyway because you probably will have a better faster idea tomorrow.
Just for file transfers, I really like SuperBeam. It does just one thing, it's really fast (the WiFi direct connection is fantastic) and the PC software is just a file that you run, no installation or other crap necessary.
OpenStreetMap is a free wiki map (which I'd say in some areas is a the better mapping service technically). You can update the map yourself, and it's shown immediatly. You can meet up and discuss with local mappers on how to map something. You don't need to wait for Google.
Sweden does not do kidnapping on foreign soil so it is way more likely that someone abuses the Swedish bureaucracy to illegally extradite someone. Sweden has done it before under the flag of the war on terror. Now I have no idea if this may happen to Assange but the his fear is not entirely unfounded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_and...
Even though sometimes you look like a tpurise (on the London underground for example), in the London Overground you do need to press the button or your specific door will not open...

I think knowing which buttons are placebo, and which work does give you a happy sense of smugness similar to knowing exactly the door to get in and off the train when you need it.
Awesome REST: architecture, development, and test resources for RESTful APIs
It's interesting to see how Google is consistently missing those local things. In Iceland http://en.ja.is/kort has way better satellite imagery and OSM has better maps. In Poland most transit data is missing from Google Maps and only available on local apps (e.g. Jakdojade.pl). People catch on sooner or later.
Can't understand why everything in lollipop is so white and bright, complely degraded the UX. Android was dark-ish from the start.. now all apps are following the same trend, which will only worsen the situation

If I could, I would downgrade to 4.x ..
New Linux rootkit leverages GPUs for stealth
Blowing up pixel art on the Web
Everything you need to design Android Wear apps
OSM is full of local people mapping their area, and people care about the map (rather than helping out a big corporation).
It's still frustrating ,because google did the hard part(storing 8 gb plus data) and mess up the easy part it's angering.
Well it was in writing so I'm not sure what more you want, it isn't really an subjective thing.
> Does Microsoft use OSM data for anything?

Ensuring Google Maps has a compeditor?
The tone doesn't seem to reflect 0.2 -> 0.5, more like 0.1 -> "sure thing, impossible not to get funded"
18 Core CPUs?
Lollipop is just a bad, bad update. Tap the square button and close two apps at the same time. If you did everything right, now your phone says that Android UI failed. This has been going on since day one. Day one. Which was sometime in November.

Their Hangouts app sucks. I don't know how people in the U.S. use it, but here people use it only for SMS, and they crammed everything in that so it's hard to do the main function. But not to worry, they made Messenger too. So, if you're a sane person, you disable Hangouts, install Messenger and all is good, right? Of course not. Because since the 5.1 update, every few minutes you get a nice message that says "Hangouts has stopped unexpectedly". You know, the app that you supposedly disabled because you have no use for. So you enable it again, and the message goes away, and the app just stands there, unused, taking up space and memory. And by the way, why do they feel the need to make two or three different apps for doing the same thing? Photos and Gallery? Why not. What about Email, Gmail and Inbox? Sure, my app drawer was a bit too empty anyway...

There's so much more that could be said about Google "products" (I hate this word) and their problems, but my blood pressure is already acting up, so I better leave it for another day.
About 2 months ago, I went to my grandma's funeral, and snapped some pics of family and friends with my new DSLR.

After two weeks, I realized that I wanted to share all these photos. I discovered OneDrive has a ridiculously easy interface for photos: upload folders of jpegs. I thought the web interface for looking at them was sexy too, with the photos featured prominently (not much text, no comments). It even has a "Download All" button! I sent a public view link to everyone. Damn, Microsoft is getting things right these days.
their github page is https://github.com/x0r1/jellyfish
Designing Obviously (Developer Tea Podcast)
Completely agree. I've been an iOS developer for about five years now, and they really do respond to radar reports. One of the better companies on that front.
They could never get design right. First it was complete shit because they didn't care, then they copied Microsoft's metro and called it Holo, then they came up with Cards UI and now they have Material. Not one of these was properly implemented in their own apps, which should tell you a lot about their inner workings.
On the one hand, the difference can be explained like this: sound engineers want to hear the defects in the source material, home listeners don't.

On the other hand, as a home listener, if you choose a pair of speakers that transform the sound in some way which appears to sound better, how can you be confident that everything you'll ever listen to on them will actually suite this "betterness" that the speakers provide?

On the functional side, there's certainly not as many factors at play with speakers as with headphones, but there are a few: Smaller studio speakers sometimes are expected to be transported, and their surface finish being scuff-resistant is more important than the polished oak finish or whatever that the home listener market might want. Another case is that broadcasters are often very concerned with the support lifetime of the speakers, it's not unheard of for replacement drivers to still be available 20 years after purchase, for example.
Your response is reasonable, but what's frustrating is not that software has bugs. What frustrating is when something that worked well enough before gets a whole slew of bugs that could have been avoided by simply not adding unwanted features.

Here's an update to the piece of software that you had enjoyed using and had incorporated into your daily workflow. It has a whole bunch of features you didn't want and the new interface is so complicated and intrusive and buggy that it renders the whole thing nearly worthless. Something that worked well for you before has been taken away for no discernible reason. Becoming enraged at this may not be rational, but it is human nature.
Coffee itself might not have anything to do with it; rather, coffee follows a certain lifestyle which is healthier than that of non-drinkers. I.e. it is perhaps quite good for you to get up every morning at 9am and go to work. Active lifestyle, continuous stimuli etc. Coffee just so happens to be very ingrained in that culture.

It might not be the actual chemicals and nutrients of coffee that helps you, but the fact that it "forces" you to be active, mentally. It kickstarts your brain. The biggest killers are staying still and loneliness.
Testing their skills on California roads, self-driving cars have had 4 accidents
Going through the list of complaints, it really sound as it should have been a criminal procedure, not civil. One then wonder why that isn't the case here.
Private asciicasts, for everyone
I imagine it was to reach Rank 14 in PvP rather than to hit the level cap. Even at the very start of the game, it took only 11-15 days in-game time to reach level 60.
you're treating "chemical" as a four letter word
Because its a bunch of overpaid managers measuring dicks and talking about small design choices that will inevitably trickle down to the average programming intern to implement.
I too like the idea that comments are more than blabber. I do use comments like //BUG: //TODO: and //HOT:

My argument is semantic? Yes it is! In my optinion thats the reason my argument is so strong.

Please dont tell me you dont see a problem between //go: foor and //todo: bar - the first instructing some tool to change stuff in your build, the later merly mention that there is something left to do here.

A directive like #todo: bar - is a great example for a great tool in the chain. the go tool could look for a "todo" command and this todo command could print out a warning that the code should not be released because XX todos arn't done. If the go tool would'nt find a "todo" command it could warn me that a tool in the chain is missing. I could evaluate in decide to use get this tool, or choose to ignore it.

This would be imposible if comments are missused as directives!