skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Scandinavian judiciaries in general are far less aggressive about being independent than UK judges are. There's very much an attitude that authorities are more trustworthy that ordinary people in the Scandinavian judiciaries, and a reluctance of the courts to seriously question the police or political decisions.

It's a paradox that the Scandinavian penal systems are far more gentle than the British system (after reforms in the last half a century - they used to be atrocious), and sentences tend to be far shorter, but the police and especially court system are in many respects far more authoritarian, and far more elitist (e.g. Norway is experimenting with more "normal" juries now but is still dominated by a system of "lay judges" picked from a jury pool - I really like the overall system however the jury pool is not regular people as most places, but picked from a pool of candidates nominated by the political parties)

And unlike the UK, which have repeatedly frustrated US authorities by allowing lengthy court proceedings over extraditions, Sweden has kidnapped and black bagged political asylum seekers to illegally hand them over to the CIA, knowing they'd be handed over to the regime they were seeking asylum from.

I'm Norwegian, living in the UK, and I'd be worried about Norwegian courts in a situation like this, but I'd be terrified of Swedish courts if I believed there was a chance of extradition to the US, because in part I'd see it as far less likely I'd get a fair hearing than in the UK, and I'd see it as far more likely that I'd simply get black bagged without the involvement of a court at all.

The big question to me is whether or not Assange genuinely fears that, or if that's been an excuse to avoid going to Sweden.

The longer he's staid in the embassy, the more genuine his fear seems to me - he'd likely have been out if he went to Sweden and was convicted. Unless he'd get extradited. Of course that doesn't need to mean his fear is rational.
Getting a push notification on your phone for every Gumroad sale
Apple announces creation of two 20-megawatt solar farms to power stores in China
In fairness, the ecosystem around Excel is more than 30 years old and the community's expectations reflect that. There's nothing stopping someone from writing a test harness for Excel files...it's all automatable. There's nothing preventing a person from storing Excel files in version control or running a diff on the underlying XML.

The reason it isn't done is because by the time end users care about those things enough to get around to implementing them, they're probably ready for a process that already addresses those problems with baked in functionality...e.g. an RDBMS and application layer. When there's a business case for something better than Excel there are products and services and consultants that serve that business case.
The original poster is called "abritishguy". Assuming this translates to information about his location then his country according to that article (and according to it's lack of formal Constitution) has no such protection.
I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap.

Few people are willing to pay for quality web services which leads us on this cyclical path of new more friendly services coming out followed by monetization or shutdown of said services. These changes never benefit the users (i.e. product) of the services.

I think an example of this outside of Google is imgur.com. It started out as an extremely lightweight image sharing site for social networks. It's now morphed into an incredibly featured social network of its own.
Whether one believes biological evolution or not, one can always download a program for testing generic programming algorithms and see programs evolve with one's own eyes. Evolution definitely is intelligence borne of pure randomness. You could make some code evolve to list out values for parabolas, for example. Check this video out, someone used evolution to produce an AI playing tetris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nklY5lFZAY
That's a feature of the Lisp IDE.

File mode lines described language, the syntax (which Lisp dialect), the Package, the numeric base, the encoding, ...

Example:

;;; -*- Mode: lisp; Syntax: ANSI-Common-Lisp; Package: http; Base: 10 -*-

But to implement compiler directives in Common Lisp, this is not needed. That can already be done with macros and reader macros. If you for example use a macro in source code, the compiler will need to expand it. That allows arbitrary code execution during compilation.
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Reminds me of a moment in Blue Mars when two of the First Hundred are watching the sun set out in the open years after the terraforming efforts have begun, and for just a moment the iron ochre tinged sky bleeds through into blue, a blue so familiar and surreal, that Maya grabs Saxifrage's arm, nails digging deep into aged skin, and points at something they had left far behind on a wet, green planet trapped in the darkening sky.
Make it twenty then, I am not picky.
Groping is not OK, but an invitation to a date? How are people going to get together in the future, matchmaking by computer is the only "form" allowed? I suppose that would be good news for her startup...

It's sleazy to invite somebody hoping to date them but giving the impression that you want to invest in them. But the guy mentioned explicitly stated "it's a personal invitation", meaning it would be a date. What is so horrible about that? Can women not even say "no thanks" by email anymore, is that too much of an ordeal (or, if that is too hard, just ignore an email - too hard?)?
What I _can't_ understand is why does Google rave all day about "material design" and such when they have dog crap all over their own doorstep?
It is a welcome move if they are able to figure out a solution to retain quality. This problem exits more prominently in Google translate where people game the system and I guess that the translation is supposed to correct itself over a period of time with people fixing the mistake.
My experience is the same.

If I don't press the open door button on the train then the door doesn't open; if I press the button, then the door opens. One of my train start locations is at the end of the line. The train idles there for 10-15 minutes and because of supposed placebo buttons I've actually used this time to experiment and see if the doors will trigger based on anything other than the button and they do not.

In the same vain, I'm sure there are city intersections that always trigger regardless of pressing the button, but when I've had the time, I've waited patiently through up to three full rotations of intersection lights without getting a pedestrian crossing in either direction. But, lo-and-behold, when I finally press the button, I'll get the pedestrian light in my direction and the the other one still doesn't trigger.
I can relate to this. I transfer my files via SSH/SFTP when I have to because MTP is just completely unreliable, sometimes it works but most of the time it's just unpredictable.
“It’s an ego game, where you want to believe you’re changing the world. But how can you write a check to Fab and believe that giving people discounted tchotchkes is changing the world?”

I don't feel that the article succumbed too much to that rhetoric, unlike most media both closer and further from the tech industry. But in an article with supposedly real talk from VCs, Bryce's is the realest.

Should've also pushed harder against the "push a button to work" Uber-utopia.
> Because they don't have a choice

Then set up a company that make fresh PC with windows installs without crapware and you have a business model right there. Choice is just a matter of people starting doing it. Or you know, buy a Linux computer (sure, the choice is not great there either, but it's something that a few manufacturers offer online: Lenovo, System75 and a couple others).
As much as I hate almost everything, I always ask myself what's the baseline for those assumptions? How easy should it be to do the mentioned tasks?

Back in the days, we needed a camera and film, took pictures and get them developed, got a envelope and a stamp and finally sent the pictures to Mom. Obviously this is way more work than using the web, even if it's shitty.

I think we assume we could do things better and are used to things that work better without realizing the differences in their details which causes some tasks to be much more laborious than others.
"but the dating space is not as guaranteed as you think"

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."
Just a reminder that this is the same guy that calls snowden a traitor
Windows 10 will be last version of Microsoft OS
Show HN: Nametiles – Your digital identity, embedded in your blog
Here is a more critical (and much shorter) viewpoint from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/upshot/andreessen-horowitz...
Being attractive must be very hard. Men (especially the ones in IT) are so lucky that few of them will ever have to experience that affliction.
Modern macbooks still have altitude limitation. Probably it's because cooling is less effective at low atmospheric pressure.
Acoustic treatments also involve sound insulation. An acoustically poor room can also accentuate environmental noise through excessive reflection and transmission.
FCC refuses to delay net neutrality rules
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Because she is a movie star investors are not interested in having sex with her anymore?
> I have no idea what the benefit of MTP over USB mass storage was imagined to be.

Not having to unmount the phone when disconnecting, IIRC.
I read some of the literature about RSI and this is a pretty common experience, which certainly does shake your faith in the medical establishment a bit. RSI is not even very rare.

I guess now people think I'm a crank; I posted here that I thought doctors just don't spend enough time with their patients and it's worrying and I was downvoted and mocked pretty hard.

Unfortunately I'm not confident that online resources would allow better decisions. I'm not convinced that patients would, by and large, do a much better job evaluating the quality of their doctors' care. The doctor who just gave patients antibiotics whenever they asked for them, whether or not it was appropriate, would probably be more popular in such a service than the doctor who took the time to understand their condition and explain that that wasn't an appopriate treatment.
> am sharing them in hopes that others in similar situations might benefit

I think what would help others in similar situations would be advice how to get out of those situations.
I doubt that there will ever be a Go 2.

EDIT: For the downvoters, quoting Rob Pike in one of his presentations, "Go's design is done".
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Famously they used the outlines of military areas, as mapped in OSM, to decide where to blur their satellite imagery...
PyCon 2015: Are we still changing the world?
Rust Discovery, Or: How I Figure Things Out
Awesome. Thanks again for the write up. I love reading well written Javascript.
I was right behind you in 1985 with a 300 baud Mitey Mo Modem on my Commodore 64.

The opportunities that my parents created for me when they saved money for months to get me that system are incalculable. It's one of my biggest struggles today - how do I provide the same level of opportunity to my three children that my parents provided to me?
Given how prolific he is on Twitter [0] I'm curious if he writes his own tweets.

[0] https://twitter.com/pmarca
Presumably he doesn't want someone to come along and take away his lawnmower.

How long do these mowers run for? Do they run continuously or for one hour every month?
The space at the end of the password entry was found in QA testing. Since we are an agile shop and run two week sprints that bug was left in and put on the backlog to be prioritized later. Gotta release every two weeks, even if it's utter crap. As long as the PBIs are completed, who cares about the users?

It's a sad day when I have to sneak bug fixes that annoy me in on my free time, but this seems to be the norm in an agile driven software world, at least my experience with it for the last ten years.
>> 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.

Some of those should not be invited back to YC. Isn't that one of the things YC does, bring in quality investors? What about the drunk at demo day? These are examples of the investors not taking the founders and what they're doing seriously. Has YC passed its peak?
Exactly. If they're willing to do this, why would an embassy provide protection ? As several recent incidents illustrated, it is in fact quite possible for armed men to walk into an embassy and do whatever the hell they want inside.

Would Ecuador go to war over such an act ? No way.
Trying to get this simple lock-free dictionary to appear in Show HN.
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I looked at that but have you seen the permissions required. Wow. Change my contact list? I'm sure they have good reasons but I'm struggling with that for something I'm going to use for copying files.

While I've gotten MTP to work ok its not a first class experience. Folders with many files (like photos) can take a long time to even start copying. I assumed that MTP was done due avoid patents over FAT32 with Microsoft or something.
That's right -- the article is saying that white guys (especially tall and handsome ones -- remember that short guys oh wait you already know) have less difficulty than many other people in the funding game. But in this discussion, the claim a few posts above was that the article says that white guys have it easy. Different.

It's like claiming A greater than B means A very large, if we're talking about, say, real numbers. But just because a .5 percent chance is bigger than a .2 percent chance doesn't imply that either of these numbers is very large.

In particular, it's useful to play with numbers because it reminds you that a very small difference in funding rates at the beginning may compound, leading to big differences later. If a few important investors get distracted by the idea of dating you or don't take you seriously because of small biases, that may have a substantial long-term impact.
This is the correct answer. The article already shows a bunch of pictures from Freiburg, and this something they also do, especially in its relatively new "eco quarter" Vauban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauban,_Freiburg

Essentially, you have a big shared car park at one of the "entrances", and lots of narrow streets otherwise. It works pretty well, really.

edit: Some bigger blocks also have their own underground car park.
Oh my god I hear this, so much! I am so SICK of the horrid usability in favor of stupid fancy shit on the web! I'm so glad I'm not the only one!
Funny that you mention it, but Rust also checks all code in comments/documentation for validity, and runs test on your comments and catches if any of them fails to compile/return appropriate result.
Can't check now, but wasn't the story of the second victim similar to that of the first?

Sure, you can have consensual sex before and rape after. It's the definition of rape that makes me doubtful in this case. You can't decide a sexual intercourse was actually rape some days after the fact; a rape should involve physical coercion or heavy psychological abuse. The rapist and the victim generally don't part in good terms as apparently happened in this case.
Could you elaborate on this? Before you reply, let us pretend you have uploaded--from your computer--128 GB of photos and videos to iCloud. Let me know.
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The difference is, nobody is arguing that their luxury handbag can carry more stuff and than acheap handbag. On the other hand audiophiles will swear that they are systems sounds better than others.
Saying OSX is UNIX compliant is technically correct, but just as misleading as saying that since OSX and (say) Ubuntu all all unixes, that they are just as good. Does Ubuntu have the same UI & UX features as OSX?
Be glad that google is not the perfect company, all other would have no chance ;)
It took longer, but it was not nerve wrecking.

There is little thought given to quality and usability. We're churning out features and half-cooked solutions and moving on to the next fun thing. It might be OK in the past but today we depend much more on these systems and there is no way back.
How exactly does paying come into the picture here. I'd bet that, for example, FoundationDB's customers would disagree with you.
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Damn. I never thought I'd be happy about my usually behind-the-curve bank, but my bank's app has me type in my user code, password and then identify with my fingerprint. Now, someone could still steal my phone and login to the banks website -- but that'd also require my fingerprint or cracking the very long passphrase, which while it can be done, if that's what I'm up against I've probably got bigger issues than my bank account being raided...
Isn't SF public transport decent though ? I only went there once and I felt it was rather comparable to my European home town.
The optimist in me says that this announcement is prelude to Google opening up their map data like you describe. Probably not, though.
Assange walked freely around the country for 27 days after Marianne Ny - the present prosecutor - announced that the investigation needed to be reopened, and was then allowed to leave the country.

Even if she couldn't have intervened in earlier decisions that went the other way, this doesn't seem like the course of action that a prosecutor motivated by the desire to restrict Assange's freedom of movement would take...
> The same as on Wikipedia or any other collaborative "wiki"-like tool.

But that's not unlike what Google has and that did not help :(
It's a result of having no other options. It seems like 80% of websites suck in one way or another to the point where it's refreshing and impressive when a company's website actually meets your needs. "Oh my god! Look at that! I can actually click "remember this next time" and that actually works!" "What??! I can tab through this form in correct order and actually use my keyboard to select my DOB?" "Oh my god, that actually filled in information for me based on the account that I'm logged into? What is this? 2080?!"
The "factors" in 2FA are most commonly, something you know (a username/password) combination and something you have (your phone).

Even if you log on on your phone, it's still something you know and something you have, this does not diminish the 2FA.
One day we'll all laugh at sentences like: "Disrupt to differentiate by becoming a dream-execution machine."
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Somehow we've gotten to a point in society where it is relatively accepted that me saying to a student, "Come to my office for a... personal meeting..." or "I'd like to have beers with you after class alone -- it's a personal invite. is wrong. This is not offering a date no-strings-attached, simply because of our jobs.
well they sure fixed that it's now a snap to install.
> How is it worse than people meeting you so they can steal technical details about your product?

It's not. It's in addition to.
Guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E

"You are sitting in a chair, IN THE SKY."
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I'd really like a kind of local dropbox, to make the sending and syncing of files directly from one computer/smartphone to another incredibly easy. I suppose that's what bluetooth is supposed to do, but 90% of the time I try to use it for that purpose it fails, either because of glitches or lack of speed.
It's natively supported in typescript and iojs, and babel (prev. 6to5) + other libs enable it in browsers.
To make things worse, people half ass the "mobile web" even harder! This is to the point where, when you click through a search engine result to a website and DON'T get forwarded to their garbage mobile site you are impressed!

Also, don't forget the zip code or phone number boxes that have the format as a "placeholder" type text in the textboxes on mobile that repeatedly force your keyboard to reset so that they can format you phone number for you.
Should I proceede to by this product, I am not a avid user of ruby, but think it can make a lot of ios programing easier. What are your thoughts.
They can handle those using the classic google support pipeline.
ie straigth to the garbage bin.
The problem is that voices or crying babies will be more audible in a noisy environment when using active noise cancelling headphones because they only effectively attenuate low frequencies.
The problem with Go is that, while the language and
compiler are excellent, Google doesn't a lot care about
tooling & ecosystem. Why? They have their own in-house
tooling (which is of course both highly specific to
Google's use case and closed of for the public).

This is the most bizarre criticism of go I have ever heard. Go has the best tooling of any language I have ever used bar none. A cursory look at: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd shows a list of tools I've been wanting in Java and C# for years and they practically come out of the box for go.

* Automated refactoring that is editor agnostic? check.

* Editor agnostic built in documentation tool/server? check.

* Editor agnostic Code analyzers/oracles? check.

Go's core dev team is many things but saying they don't care about tooling and ecosystem is a gross misrepresentation. They may not care about your specific IDE or preferred language design but they most definitely care about making tooling available to everyone regardless of IDE/editor choice.
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Yep. I'm a current student and the thought of a professor doing some of the things listed here is comical.

I'm an adjunct now and was a grad student, and doing some of these things is actually dangerous: http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Angel-Novel-Francine-Prose/dp/006... or http://chronicle.com/article/Sexual-Paranoia/190351/. Most of the time of course they won't be dangerous, but it only takes one person to really fuck up a career.
2FA means something [only] you know and something [only] you have (the phone number), the 3rd factor is usually something you are (biometric).

So using a password and the SMS on the phone is still 2FA as far as I know.

However, I also consider my home PC to be safe enough that I don't want 2FA on it. Nope, banks apparently don't want to waste money on considering this user story. Or that what about registering multiple tokens/phone numbers. Got a new phone? Just burn the old one, you can't have backup login methods!
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I don't know enough of the matter to have an informed view, but I think it's worth noting that there is precedent for this sort of thing. Take from one of my Python scripts:

#!/usr/bin/env python

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29
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He is like he was asleep for last 10 years and only at the time he woke up and suddenly Microsoft sucks
"It seems that perfection is attained, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away."

Great quote - It reminds me of the story of when Michelangelo unveiled the statue of David, someone asked him how he managed to create such a masterpiece and Michelangelo answered "It was simple, I just chipped away all the rock that wasn't David".
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