skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one truly knows, but one can guess.

One of the accusers is Anna Ardin... read up on her.

She's a Jihadi-apologising nut job and an left-wing extremist from "Tro och Solidaritet" which does propaganda for Muslim Brotherhood.

Her close friends from MMRK (Swedish CAGE) have been downplaying ISIS rape on children as "American propaganda" until founder Fathima Doubakhil deleted her tweets when Mehmet Kaplan "ISIS are freedom-fighters" got elected in the last election.

Yeah I am aware of the concept "Victim Blaming" but Wikileaks has been tough on Muslim Brotherhood which gives Ardin an angle.

She's a scumbag, regardless of Assanges alleged crime.
I simplified. They did encrypt the routing separately but it was essentially a known plaintext attack because you could see which ships moved after which transmission.
Yeah, my empathy meter registered at about the same level as when people reported their Apple watches malfunctioned when worn on their tattooed wrists.

I presume the yard is small enough that it does not need to be mowed 24x7x365. The simple solution is to unplug the guidance system when it is not guiding the lawnmower.
Gunshots are gunshots. It would be hard for someone listening from a distance to tell who was doing the firing, or if there was two-way fire.
Unfortunately, the 'continuous upgrades in the background' model removes the user's choice of when to upgrade.

In some cases, I want to stay on an older version because a new release breaks compatibility with plugin X, or upgrading would require me to change a workflow that is working well, or because I have muscle memory built around the UI of the existing version, and I don't have to think when I use the app. If an older version still gets security and bug fixes, then I might only upgrade when the benefit (new features and improvements) outweighs the effort/cost required to adopt the new version.

It also encourages frequent, fad-driven UI refreshes, and this is worst seen with web applications like Facebook and Gmail. Every so often, Google Maps plays hide and seek with the terrain view button.

Sometimes, stability and a slower release cycle (while still providing timely security updates) is good. It prevents the developers from playing fast and loose with the UI, and gives them time to work out compatibility issues with the larger ecosystem.

How do you place the decision to upgrade in the user's hands, while avoiding a situation where 17% of computers in the world still run Windows XP [1]?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
Julian is not an idiot. He knows the whole Swedish prosecution is nothing other than a front to get him into Sweden so he can be handed over to the USA. Look at what happened to Chelsea - does anyone think Julian will face anything less?

Edit. I think that if Julian does now come to Sweden then he won't be extradited to the USA, but this is only because he has dragged it out to the point that nobody powerful in the USA cares too much anymore. My guess is he knows this too and will walk out any time now.
Reading about the issue and experience and historical knowledge of European politics, US interventions and the like. It's the same kind of shit that has been played time and again, (especially in the sixties and seventies).

I, like I. F. Stone, also don't start from a middle-class-apolitical assumption that the police are always good guys and governments don't lie and frame people, especially when it comes to activists.

Could I be wrong? Sure, but I don't think so.
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Fair. A response time of 1h15m really isn't something one can reasonably rely on =) I should have thought that one through a bit more.
The actual interesting link is here: http://learnbayes.org/demo/stat-distributions-js/distributio... (a table of distributions).
Oh, you mean blendle.com
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Apple did that too with OS X. And a year later, the forced you to add the application to their store. Opening a third party application that is not blessed from Apple/store shows a warning to the casual end user. It's up to Microsoft to go the same route, or not.
Visual studio 2010 and dotNet surely works fine under wine. But there are lots of small cornerstones in the tools and software companies use that does not work so great.

If there was an real free alternative to windows where all the specialized software worked i am dead sure companies would start to use it. But at this moment there is no such alternative.
Nothing is technically preventing the client to retrieve indexes built client-side beforehand when reading the email. The main problem is everything is currently made to make the client dumb and the server the ultimate source of truth.
Sadly, they're not wrong. End-to-end encryption products are written for expert use and hard to set up by mere mortals.
Cute, but an implementation of the mental poker protocol would be far more valuable.
Martin Fowler's seminal essay on why privacy is important at a societal-change level is also relevant:

http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html
> If they really said that, that's amazingly weak and clumsy.

He did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJdGblrWX9o&t=273
Test error pages (404 and 500).
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> Which is very hard (apparently) to accomplish and I think they get reset now and then. There are other key achievements in WoW such as being the first guild to kill a boss etc.

These are the same thing. When a new raiding tier is released the rankings become relevant to that tier, so the first guild to kill the final boss on the hardest level of difficulty (currently Mythic) becomes the world first guild.
Are you sure this isn't just another way of saying that decentralized authentication is too hard? ;)
Actually, I suspect PGP usage is increasing right now. It's very commonly used in darknet markets, and they are growing very quickly and will probably continue to do so.
Not any more though, you can easily go from 0-100 in a single digit number of days now.
I know who she is. Yes, she is the typical Marxist apologist, I have no ideological sympathies for here cause. And her lawyer is just a dunk left wing opportunistic hack.

However Assange is not the innocent person that some people want him to be either.
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I think the biggest problem I have with the App Store model is that it seems to go hand in hand with planned obsolescence. Older versions of programs are no longer available for download (maybe not true for all app stores?) and older hardware gets quickly forgotten.

I still use an iPhone4 and my biggest mistake was upgrading to iOS7 (I suppose I could jail break it and downgrade it but doesn't that make it more of a pain for development?). It would be nice if there was an option to downgrade via Apple, but all old versions seem to get thrown out. That would not have been be a problem with the previous models of updating because I would have a physical copy of the software.

I understand that they just want to support the latest hardware because it makes things a lot easier for them and keeps costs down a lot, but it just seems so wasteful to purposefully break hardware with an upgrade.

If there was a choice between paid upgrades (with access to previous versions) and free forced upgrades, I would pick the former, but it seems like things are moving toward the latter.

Edit: "That would be a problem..." corrected to "That would not have been a problem..."
Totally agree. The fact we happily send so much data around :/ clear text has always irked me. The only layer of protection is that there's probably no one interested enough to look
Isn't it pretty likely that Pakistan, or more specifically the ISI, used some of that money to fund the Taliban? Sandy Gall mention this in his book "War Against the Taliban" - here is a review:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9042196...
'This is why we can't have nice things'
I wonder how the edits could be pre-review by an image analysis tool, that will auto detect if the submitted path is a text or a logo.
Might speed up the manual process.
For what it's worth, I spoke at re:publica right after Eric, and commented a bit on Google's privacy goals.

Video: http://youtu.be/pbF0sVdOjRw
Why the down vote? This is a perfectly acceptable approach! If you're going to down vote at least respond with an argument why
I couldn't agree more. Another thing to keep in mind is that it can be really hard to continue pulling off the confidence game you need when you're being groped and propositioned.

What I'm wondering about most though is how YC is handling these issues. If I'm not correct they once issued a warning to investors that bad behavior like this would mean they're out.

Did the groping during Demo Day get reported? And is that investor now indeed no longer welcome to YC? And what about YC-related investors proposing dates with founders... are they still in?
Excel is used as a RDBMS. It is used as an analytics system. It is used as a workflow management tool. It is used as a templating system - I've even seen it used to print credit card statements with z/OS on the backend (so it is not like developers or budget are lacking). It is really easy to use, and everyone uses it. It can easily conform to the Agile method for creating dashboards and reports.

If you're concerned, perhaps write (or get someone to write) modules for it that you can import. A lot of proprietary stuff gets done in C++ modules, from investment to HR. These modules are pretty easy to break down complexity and testing, and are defacto in my industry (banking).

Excel is, simply, not going away.
More on the 'most recent incident': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9432504
This was posted yesterday, too - previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519535
It's kind of ironic that Marc Andreessen dismissed the New Yorker several times in the past as an 'elitist east coast literary magazine' yet this profile is absolutely fantastic, and very generous as well.

I'd be curious to hear what he thinks of it!

I also wish the article touched on Andreessen's thoughts about publicly financed science. Basic scientific research is something that the government puts a lot of money in too, and that should be robustly defended.
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No prof then?
Paper envelopes dating back to 2300 years ago in China at least provides evidence for you being wrong.

User-unfriendliness ≠ "not meant for"
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> This is how this reads to me...

Right, except I think that the analogy to germs is more apt because sexism -- like germs -- has been verified, proven and measured in countless experiments and studies done by qualified researchers, whereas sin is dogma.

> I mean that the school of thought does not seem to be grounded in a (social) science.

No, that's just total rubbish. Sexism has been studied by hundreds if not thousands of historians, sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists for decades now. It's just as grounded in science as our understanding of the industrial revolution. It's much more scientific than cryonics, I can assure you that.

> It's motivated by an ideology and a theory of how the world is/works.

Like all fields of study, it's motivated by the desire to understand how the world works, possibly with the hope that understanding will help make the world a better place. If you somehow wish to portray the desire to make some people suffer less as an ideology that's somehow controversial, so be it. I'm sure everyone involved will be happy to accept your categorization.

> they try to pass it off as gospel.

That's the same kind of nonsense all evolution deniers say ("that's not science", "it's another belief" and so forth). There is a vast body of knowledge accumulated by meticulous researchers following as scientific a process as possible in those fields over the past four decades. It's just knowledge you don't want to learn, and there are plenty of psychological studies explaining that behavior, too.

You don't want to learn even the gist of it -- that's fine, but it's you who are being motivated by dogmatism, except that I don't even understand what your ideology is: keep things as they are?
Great list. How did you come to choose these components?
Yeah you're right, my bad, I vaguely remembered it but it was a framework I was using, not the language itself. Still stupid anyway.
I'm so fucking sick of seeing people spout this, like it's something that would 100% happen.

Yes, Swedens' intelligence community collaborates with their US counterpart.

Sweden has also in the past extradited suspected terrorists. But there's a huge caveat there; they did so in /secret/ — and most importantly — the people involved were not Swedish citizens.

Understand that if Julian were to come to Sweden, and get extradited to the US it would be a HUGE deal.

The protests would be so massive it's not even funny.

The only reason why the current situation hasn't been a bigger thing in Sweden is that it clashes with the semi-radical feministic narrative driven by the media.
"explains why Traditional Cities generally feel more pleasant than American cities."

Fine, I'll call them out. Is there a culturally significant rate of immigration from American Sprawl Cities to ancient Euro Cities, or for that matter a culturally significant immigration from american sprawl cities to non-sprawl cities? Culturally significant means property values are imploding in emptying sprawl areas, not five guys on HN echo chamber each other's love for that style.
Finding investors is a weird affair, really. Ultimately you're asking someone to part with their own money.

Of course you would hope it's based on the merit of your startup, but a lot of it is also 'seduction' (even for guys). Taking them to golf, dinner, building a slow relationship - winning them over.

We're not talking about a company's hiring policy here. This is an individual with a lot of money, and you happen to want it. I do think that warrants a different set of standards.

You're entirely right to deny the older creepy guys your business, but it's not a problem in the tech business. People work hard to get these rich people into one place so they can be swooned over. There isn't much of a filtering process there except for "they have money".
> Capitalism is actually a pretty efficient antidote to that.

Ehh I'm not really sure how that applies here, especially since the market of "javascript libraries" is probably about as free as you can get (in many senses of the word).

There isn't much going on in the way of financial return in that market, probably because people are seeing the benefit of implicit financial return (via the "office politicking" we're discussing here) and banking on that.

In which case, I'm not sure how capitalism will help.
Keep in mind this was in 2006, before the first expansion pack, when it was a more balanced game from level 1 to level 60. I started playing in 2005, and it took me the better part of a year to hit 60 with my main.

There are other factors to consider as well; as someone else said, it could be about server ranking. It could also be about "completing" the end game by defeating all of the instances and dominating the arenas on his server. Considering there is no way to truly "beat" WoW, as the end game changes with every new expansion, I'd say he set a goal for himself and accomplished that goal, and was ready to move on to the next (real world) challenge. I certainly grew bored with the game after spending my second year playing the same instances over and over.
I'm a little confused. I'd say that an anti-pattern is something one can avoid. Sure, I can think about every optimization I'm doing, and if I already know well enough that I'll need it and doing it right. But I can't really avoid discussing about something that is unimportant in my eyes, because the person who will discuss about it usually thinks it's important. I'd say that in the "bike shedding" regard my anti-pattern would be that I ignore some complaint as unimportant because I still don't understand it well enough.

Other things are also hard to avoid by myself, like

- God Classes (I could refactor here, but then the anti-pattern is fear of refactoring)

- Management by Numbers (I'm not a manager, what can I do about it? Actually I'm happy if my management is already that good that they have numbers. Nothing is more horrible than management who doesn't tell you explicitly what they want and then complains about details for half a year, then starts with the next project without declaring the last one to be finished or anything. I'd say numbers are good, finding the right ones is tricky, though.)

- Useless classes are avoided by simply not writing them? No, they develop when code gets refactored and nobody had looked at the responsibility of that specific class for some time. Nobody writes classes without having a goal for them in mind. Mostly calling methods of another class is fine. It happens in design patterns like Observer, Delegator, or Compositor.
What would be the Swedish law that would be used for extradition? (and indeed what would the US law be that Assange would be charged under - and why has that not happened yet?)

And what documented history?
nope, he had a technical cofounder, Nathan Blecharczyk
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I've worked as a developer for online gambling games for 6 years. We never shuffled the deck of cards. Instead, as player requests another card(s), they are generated using hardware RNG and returned to player. Deck only knows which cards are left in it, but their order is undefined until that call to RNG.
What do you mean "Go's official convention"? Go is a language; it has a spec. Is it in the spec? No. What is this "Go" that this is an official convention of, and where is it standartised beyond your comment?
This is probably one of the worst responses Google could take - who is going to enjoy waiting weeks/months for their change to be reviewed and added to a map when the whole point of community editing was to enable near-realtime changes to map observed by people living in the area? Throwing out the baby with the bath water. One prank and the whole community suffers beyond reasonable limits.
I left it running in another tab and then it started beeping. Thought my PC was about to die.
Yeah, but I read her story and got the complete opposite view. Do you think it's acceptable the guys hitting on her and her colleagues? I think there is a boat load of evidence there that she's been treated really badly and I can see the dating space for this blurring lines more than other spaces.

You can just jump in and shout sour grapes if you like but I think you would say the same thing if that shit was happening to you over a sustained period; there are lots of shit companies getting investment too, why not hers?
Most of the 20th Century was an ongoing war against prejudice in one form or another, with prejudice constantly losing ground.
Excel can be a great prototyping tool. I'm a statistician/programmer, and yet, I sometimes like to explore some ideas quickly in excel. It has a reactivity that many programming languages like... it's very nice to change a parameter and see an entire computational graph update and a chart change in real time. The optimizer is actually decent and allows you to fit a lot of models. Excel is actually really cool.

BUT

using excel for ANY business critical purpose is insanity. Some desks in some banks rely on crappy old buggy spreadsheets to track the p&l of some large transactions, it's horrible. Academics use excel models and have been bitten because the models they produce are very hard to audit and to check for bugs.

So by all mean, use excel to play around with data if you would like to, and when you get a feeling of what you want, build a clean, well documented script with python tied to a database.
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> In theory the companies that discriminate should suffer from a lack of talent or have to pay more for their workers, because they're recruiting from a smaller pool.

Part of the problem is that if there is a systematic bias in place, then they won't suffer relative to their competitors, who are mostly also biased in the same way.

> The sad part is that many of the women who step forward behave like self-entitled spoiled brats, so it becomes hard to tell if they where reject due to gender or personality.

If more money was actually being put into female-founded companies, I'd be more inclined to believe that it is the latter. But it's not like the startup world is filled with success stories of quiet female founders while the loud ones all end up as bitter bloggers.
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Sweden’s Supreme Court upholds Assange detention order
Probably the prank cost them too much. We don't know what happened behind the scenes. They might have just dodged a lawsuit.
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Why, exactly?

Is it because Google asked for a bunch of free work to support its commercial interests without providing any oversight at all? And now they won't provide the resources to fix their problem?

Doesn't it seem likely that one of Google's goals here was just to compete with and thus extinguish existing free services? Is that why we can't have nice things?
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The biggest disservice that YCombinator and other famous top-tier investors have done for entrepreneurs is to somehow convince us that the typical investor is a good person who will support you through good and bad.

They're not. Typical investors turn out to be horrible, lazy, horrible people, versus what you expect from them initially.

Keep that in mind from the start, no matter your gender, and you'll manage far better.
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Let's say for the sake of argument that you are completely, 100% right about the difficulty of fundraising and how 'banal' their product is. Even given that, the kind of shady behaviour that the investors tried to pull (groping, conversations with dates attached, etc) is absolutely intolerable and should be dealt with incredibly harshly.
You would be surprised at the number of Millennials and Digital Natives who only ever heard of Microsoft's fumbles in the past 20 years. For me (born in 1977) it was Apple who was the red-headed stepchild of the computer world when I was growing up; if you had a Mac in the 90s you were a know-nothing "luser" with a toy computer. Every generation has its heroes and villains, and for the current teen-to-twenties hipster crowd, Apple is king and Microsoft is lame. And I suppose GNU/Linux is that weirdly interesting know-it-all uncle your parents don't want you hanging out with.
What do you mean by explained and proved in depth?
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Isn't it blasphemy to quote Greenspun's tenth rule right after insisting in two consecutive rules that people create enough classes?
And Façade. Depending on whether you need a bridge between APIs or between an API and a developer, I guess :-)
Probably because not only is the proposed API not REST it isn't even HTTP.
The reason why the streets are car centric is because public transport is lacking.

London has narrow and wide streets, but you can get to anywhere by public transport, at a reasonable cost, within 1 hour more or less.

Holland has segregated roads for cycles and cars, and brilliant public transport
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Currently I have make it down in-order to fix one small issue. I will inform once it is up...
Are you sure it was such a clear-cut separation of responsibility?
I'd agree, but its so very, very common to mansplain womens' complaints as trivial ("self-entitled spoiled brats") while men in the same situation would have their response interpreted with some kind of respect.
The UK has laws that make it very easy to extradite people to the US.