skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently, Sweden has performed remote interviews, like Assange has been asking for, many times before.

'Swedish prosecutors have been accused of "victimising" Julian Assange after it was revealed they had interviewed 44 people in the UK but were refusing to question the WikiLeaks founder in the London embassy where he is living.' [1]

[1] https://uk.news.yahoo.com/swedish-prosecutors-slammed-victim...
This is very beautiful. The clock is probably the "killer app" for this.

It would also keep the cats amused; like watching a fishtank for them.
You are utterly delusional
Beautiful! This is exactly what I was looking for. =)
I can imagine there'd be a number of mitigations you could do, like detecting impossibly fast travel times between locations. Although cheating then would be a matter of taking it slowly.
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Certainly, but if the victims in the case don't feel that they've been raped, perhaps that's more important than the technicalities of what the State may or may not do.
The aim was to put a damper on is activities, and for the most part, it's been achieved. The Ecuadorian embassy is practically a jail for him.
Ah, of course you are right. I was confusing the two, and of course in the solar system everything is relative to the Sun. Thanks.
Naturally, if they were following "security best practices", they will have pinned the certificates and made no option of overriding them with your own.

It's all "for your security", of course.
See also: http://imgur.com/Aq0vBpb
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Are the Met Police still spending ~$16k per day on him?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/londons-police-is...
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Sure, photographs will still control aperture and exposure time — this just removes a constraint at one end: if you want shallow depth of field and motion blur, you could use this method (and get extra bits) rather than an ND filter.
scaling animated gifs..?
If well-informed people have voted that way with their wallets, or otherwise, then I agree and of course that's their choice.

However, my big concerns with a lot of modern technologies are firstly that non-geek users don't understand what they are really signing up for and secondly that even if people do understand what they're signing up for it doesn't matter if effectively the only choices available to them all have the same problem.

I've lost track of how many friends and family have said just-plain-wrong things about what social networks do with their data, for example, or think that posting some comment on their Facebook page about how they don't consent to it will actually have any practical or legal effect.

And to pick on another example that's been much discussed recently, it won't matter that you have security and/or privacy objections to your car spying on you and phoning home with your location 24/7, if insurers are all offering car makers serious money to install those features, and since drivers are often required by law to have motor insurance they have no choice but to "opt in" if they want to drive at all. At that point, there is a complete failure of competition in the market, caused by the artificial distortion of having actual laws that constrain even well-informed people from making the choices they might otherwise prefer to make. We are fast heading that way with general computing as well, where for practical or even legal purposes we are required to do some things on-line, yet the only tools being offered to get us on-line come with these strings attached.
> You have several desktop environments you can choose from and you can customize it to make it work exactly like you want it to.

This is not actually a selling point to a lot of people. Some people just want a device to work, and not have to worry about it.

> There are very few reasons nowadays not to use Linux.

One should use the right tool for the right job. Sometimes, that's just not Linux.
The battery factory is going to reduce the cost of the batteries in the vehicles, increasing their profit/reducing their cost to being mass-affordable; on top of this they're turning the battery factory into a product itself, so we could see other companies purchasing and building them further strengthening the ecosystem Elon's trying to create.

He'll be the market leader in both electric vehicles and battery production - they'll be able to undercut everyone perfectly positioned for when "everyone" is buying electric vehicles.
They are forbidden from disclosing confidential data to those services, which is still somewhat under their control, as opposed to the OS deciding to disclose all the data for them.
great and interesting insights! thanks for that!
In my inner-ring suburb of a major metropolitan US city, the 14-17 year old set roam the streets with impunity in gangs of mopeds. Once they can get a drivers' license, the mopeds get passed down to the next generation.
The alleged victims are claiming no rape took place and that the police completely misinterpreted what they said, and later got railroaded by them.

The initial prosecutor dropped the charges, but another prosecutor with a political background and a radical stance on what should be considered rape appealed that decision and got herself appointed to the case. She then declined multiple requests to schedule another interview with Assange (both in-person and via phone/video conference, which Swedish law allows).

I don't understand how anyone could claim, with the facts we now know, that this case has any merit at all and is more than a politically motivated smear campaign.
You've meant to say: "Sweden said that Ecuador requested that ... while Ecuador said on it's website it didn't request this."
> Python 2 only - disappointing.

I think a quote by the SVN developers is appropriate - "patches welcome".
Solar is definitely far better than fossil. It's just not entirely clear that it's better than nuclear, especially with the advanced reactors that get a hundred times as much energy from the same fuel, and produce only a small amount of short-lived waste.
I've had the same experience as you. I've never had a problem upgrading a Drupal site because of the core modules. Everything in the core upgrades fine. It's always a contributed module that breaks stuff.
> We have trouble enough with China trying to hack us literally thousands of times per day

you mean you did "tail -f /var/log/secure".

> God forbid Microsoft give 7 the boot for support like they did XP.

god forbid Microsoft try to deprecate OSs after nearly 13 years. note that in 2001, the newest Linux kernel available was in the 2.4 series, with many people still using 2.2.
A few years ago, I would have said it was pure paranoia/conspiracy theory to suspect Sweden would extradite Assange.

However, look at what happened to Snowden, stuck at the Moscow airport, because no country in the world (bar Ecuador and Cuba, I think) was brave enough to take him (fearing US wrath). The pressure from the US was immense.

At some point a plane flying from Moscow to Ecuador (via Paris) was intercepted and forced to land in Vienna, because it was suspected that Snowden was on it. An out-in-your-face violation of international law.

So, it is now completely reasonable to assume that, if "asked", Sweden would extradite Assange to the US, where he is a wanted man.
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Yep. I want to love it (I want to love it so much). I just can't.

Audio still doesn't work on my installation. It can work if I kill Flash or pulseaudio---sometimes---or if I restart my browser or entire machine---sometimes. But it's an atrocious state of affairs to expect end-users to debug basic functionality like that, and they end up having to because there isn't a "Geek Squad" local-service ecosystem to take a malfunctioning Linux machine to (with your own customized distro install) where they can just "make it work."

It's not just a software problem---it's an ecosystem problem. Both in terms of the service / support sector and in terms of the software creation sector (the fact that there isn't just one answer to "How do I do audio on Linux" is absolutely maddening to someone used to writing software on a Mac / Win monoculture [http://braid-game.com/news/2008/08/misc-linux-questions/]).
I didn't expect this to get so much attention or I'd have written some context. I came across this while researching solutions to the old thumbnails problem. It doesn't look like it took off or is maintained but I thought it was interesting.

Image resizing is a hard problem. At a place I used to work at we wrote a custom distributed image thumbnail generation system for user supplied images. It was pretty complex and used a database and pub/sub message queueing to propagate changes from a SAN file system. The main issue was that the underlying image libraries weren't suited to running on a web server. It leaked memory like mad. This resulted in layers of sophisticated monitoring and automatic restart systems being built on top.

It shouldn't have to be this hard. If a progressive format like JPEG2000 or WebP takes off then browsers can just download enough data to fill whatever pixels they need to fill.

I have a lot of other thoughts on this but they can wait for a blog post. If anyone is interested?
> I'm curious: Are doctors, psychologists, and anyone under an NDA forbidden from using the Google search engine or Android voice recognition under a logged-in account?

Android voice recognition might raise similar problems; the Google search engine less so. You can use Google Search without putting any protected information into it; OTOH, if an OS is capturing all of your typing and inking and sending it to another party, anything you do by typing or inking that involves protected information is being sent, so (in the HIPAA case) unless you have a BAA in place, and both parties have both the technical and administrative safeguards required under HIPAA, using it for PHI is going to involve regular illegal disclosures.
> bicycles are a superior option.

Except when you need to carry your vehicle on public transportation. Then it becomes a hassle. This was the original purpose of the foldable Razor scooter for use among Japanese commuters. I always thought they were a silly compromise for suburban children to use in light of the classic, larger wheeled scooters.
Not for gaming (yet! vulcan will change that), but for everything else I think it's absolutely ready. It does internet perfectly through Firefox, and libre office for document things, plays all file types through VLC, and it's free and can run securely right off a USB stick. What else do I need a computer for? Apps? I have my phone for that.

Once it gets increased adoption more niche and paid for software will naturally migrate.

I say this as a Linux hating Windows lover who lasted 3 hours before reverting Win 10 back to 8.1 on my gaming machine and changing my wifi password, and I plan to never go to Win 10 or any Windows products again.
I am using the setup you describe since about two years now. I mean, my Arch-Linux machine is bugging me off sometimes, especially when a update cracked something, and I have to downgrade again. But everytime I read news like that, I am glad to have it as my primary machine (where I know exactly what goes on under the hood)...
Nice one for that, I didn't know this existed!

seems I pass this one ok,
https://thisaintnews.com/view/picture/138385/downscale-test

Thanks to https://metacpan.org/pod/Imager

Although I passed this one no problems, I find animated gifs to be the worst thing to resize, especially the ones where the changes are part of a layer over another layer

e.g. look at this one in gimp/photoshop

https://thisaintnews.com/static/user/pics/1218067200/1218395...

layer two is just enough to cover layer one and make the hand move, the rest is transparent. but at least the layers are the same size

some animated gifs have the new layer not the same canvas size as the layer underneath, so you have to adjust the layer offsets correctly or they end up all over the place

Infact I have a few evil gifs for testing this

https://thisaintnews.com/view/picture/138386/test-gif-1

https://thisaintnews.com/view/picture/137264/test-gif-2

https://thisaintnews.com/view/picture/137265/test-gif-3

https://thisaintnews.com/view/picture/138387/test-gif-4

I can't remember the exact differences, but I do remember they go from easy to hard to resize correctly
This would be too big an oversight for a company trying to get more business adoption. According to Microsoft, the data is anonymized and run through a virtual shredder before being sent. Here's their statement on it:

“Some of this data is stored on your device and some is sent to Microsoft to help improve these services. Data sent to Microsoft for product improvement is put through rigorous, multi-pass scrubs to remove sensitive or identifiable fields (such as email addresses, passwords and alphanumeric data) and strings are chopped into very small bits and stripped of sequence data to prevent the information from being identified or put back together.”

http://blog.laptopmag.com/windows-10-privacy-issues-exaggera...

It amazes me that this information isn't easier to find and I end up being the one defending Microsoft. I definitely recommend using Free Software only if you want to be absolutely sure of confidentiality.
These work well for wired networks, but not for ad hoc wireless networks. Mesh networks are on of the many areas of CS that produces endless conference proceedings but no working systems because the DOD has the hots for it.
He's saying there are organizations that "pay negative salary": interns must PAY to be there. Paid internships is reasonable (especially in a culture of compulsory minimum wages), unpaid internships are also reasonable (when the two agree it's the work & experience which is traded, and they agree to forego money transfer), but there are questionable groups requiring the intern pay for the privilege/experience of working there.
Your graphics on the home-page confused me into thinking that you are using Raspberry Pi's as the bridge (yeah, I didn't look carefully enough). But that would be a good idea as that could be easier than having to dedicate a phone to the task (especially if you make a downloadable image that just runs your code automatically).

The "noble" node.js package is quite nice: https://github.com/sandeepmistry/noble

Sadly Bluetooth LE on Linux (at least with noble) is not terribly good (compared to iOS) though it may have improved since I last tried...
That explains a possible UK -> Sweden extradition, not a Sweden -> US extradition.
This could be useful, especially with extended "gits" that allow for easy manipulation of large binaries, when working with creative departments who aren't used to source-code control workflows. (Even in 2015, most art departments are still a mess of external drives and drop boxes)
You certainly write Android apps using the Java API, which is Sun/Oracle IP. The argument there is no "real" Java in Android actually hurts Google's case. Because Dalvik uses non-Java byte code, these apps are not interoperable with "real" Java apps. This completely undermines some of Google's legal arguments as a defense for API copyrightability, because the cases they cited (Sega etc) explicitly held that copying certain things was OK for maintaining binary interoperability.
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Two different senses of the word ‘saturation’. The subtitle of the article (current title here) is unfortunate.
And it really is a valley of death, because every Tom, Dick, and Harry thinks he can strike gold where no one else could.
So would a logged-in search for, say, "rheumatoid arthritis" or specific drug names be out of the question if it's in the context of finding treatments for a patient? And does HIPAA also block a family practitioner from using Drive to track patient histories?
What you wanted to say: "Sweden claims Ecuador starts causing ... "
It's a concern anywhere with caps, which increasingly includes much of the US as well. FWIW I'm in Canada and recently my provider (Cogeco) switching my 120Mbps plan to unlimited data per month, which is nice.

This actually brings up a great point which is that systems need some sort of bandwidth conservation setting. We recently were traveling and had a couple of laptops and pads with us. Having no data connection at the hotel we were at, I enabled tethering on my smartphone.

Last than an hour later I got a warning that they had blown through my 5GB. This wasn't active use, but literally was largely laptops auto downloading patches (they hadn't been turned on in a couple of weeks, backlogging GBs) and browser updates, pads pulling a tonne of updates, etc. It is becoming completely unmanageable.
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Slippery slope argument, meet Reality. Reality, this is Slippery slope!
> Would a rewrite in (say) Go even be possible?

The problem isn't rewriting Dalvik in Go or language X,Y,Z.The problem is the APIs used by Google -- and Oracle copyright claims on them.

Furthermore Dalvik supports most languages of the JVM so do you really want to impose a single language in place of Java, Clojure, Kotlin, Scala, Jruby, Jython and many more ? do you think all the programmers using these languages would be happy if forced to migrate to Go ?

Ask yourself that question.
Exactly. This is huge, and I was wondering why people didn't do it already. Or, for example, why don't cameras currently take multiple snapshots of the sensor? For example, if I'm exposing for 2 seconds, read the sensor at 0.1 sec (for the very bright lights) and again at 2 seconds, for the darker parts. That way, I can make an HDR image without having to take another photo.

Is reading the sensor destructive to the data, somehow?
It depends whether those warrants are for offenses like armed robbery and rape or drug offenses and parking tickets.
Worth noting that two of the people fairly heavily quoted on the shortcomings of XMPP both serve on the XMPP technical Council at the moment. (One of them is me, the other is Philipp Hancke).
Yes. Its better than losing your investment. If you don't like it, buy 51% or cash out.

You aren't forced to "accept" it.
They are trying to get control of and/or money from Android, as well as prevent other people from creating similar Java-alike but not Java-by-Oracle's-terms platforms.
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The "aim", by who?
Newsflash: young adult learns the harsh reality that living in highly desirable area is expensive, and adapts without whining by finding a pleasant and affordable alternative; local media freaks out.

Heck, I'd like to spend a summer working in Geneva (paid or not) and living in a tent on a mountain lake. Kudos to the kid for making it work in a way he'll long remember fondly.
Presumably he would also face some sanction by British authorities for breaching his bail conditions.
It was required and included by one of our vendors in their product. We pay the vendor and they pass on to Oracle the yearly licensing fee. Oracle does support their products and quite a lot of people know how they work. I'm not sure why the vendor chose Oracle.
"A Freedom of Information request by the Hazel Press news organisation revealed that Sweden has been granted 44 requests to interview a witness or suspect in the UK since 2010."

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/swedish-prosecutors-slammed-victim...
Thanks for the feedback.

There's a command line client in the works that sits on top of noble that should work on the Pi - hoping to get it finished this weekend.
I don't believe they have unstated biases on an institutional scale. Individual author may have biases but all of them do.
There are people who can walk in, demand a raise and get what they want. I know I ain't one of them. There are people who can play it close to the vest and go home with someone else's shirt, boots, and wallet. Maybe that's you.

What is your company's policy on employee reviews?

Do they conduct them according to schedule?

Seeing as you've been there about six months, an informal review is the way to gain information for when the formal review happens. Find out how your boss is coping with turnover...maybe it's intentional, maybe not. Find out how he perceives the motivations of the people who left. If it's framed as disloyalty, that's a bad thing. If it's framed as natural progression, then that suggests how much leverage you have in regard to framing compensation to future growth. Negotiations are all about information.

Maybe your boss thinks you're underpaid but can't give you a raise until you ask. Maybe your boss can only give raises at reviews and according to a formula...that formality is actually good so long as the process is reasonably fair (and if it's not reasonably fair then the formality isn't worse).

Even if you are the demand a raise and get it type, more information doesn't hurt. But you can't demand unless you're ready to walk. Don't fool yourself into believing that your boss hasn't already read the tells that you are happy and unlikely to leave even without a raise.

Good luck.
Good luck.
While I agree with you a lot more than the parent comment this brings to mind one my my favorite quotes. Larry Summers on the EMH:

"THERE ARE IDIOTS. Look around."
Very few people will read the privacy terms. Just because they have a document people clicked 'agree' below without reading doesn't mean that MS should not be held to account for what Windows 10 is leaking. For many users not using Windows isn't an option.
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Readout of a CCD is destructive. There are types of sensors that have non-destructive readout (Charge Injection Devices being one example: https://www.cis.rit.edu/research/CID/a_cid_is.htm).
How do you think Apple gets their spell-check data, or improves Siri's voice recognition?

In any event, during the installation process, you do see a screen where you can turn all this off. It's not off by default, but viewing these settings was part of my Windows 10 installation experience.
No problem, I only know this because I had to use it yesterday. It's not fully supported yet, but it's good enough as long as you keep using src as a fallback

http://caniuse.com/#feat=srcset
There is also a more recent take on this, a series called Psychopass. In many ways it's more disturbing, because it highlights the most problematic parts of such centralized non-transparent systems. Worth watching.
they clearly don't care about their business customers, since this kind of childish behavior is a strict no-go for most companies with at least slightly decent IT.

Fair enough, they actually create big holes in the market that startups can eventually fill in. Albeit it won't be easy (replacing Active directory, Exchange and Office suites), rewards are worth it. With that, Microsoft as desktop and server solution provider is a history.

Still not getting why they want to copy Google's revenue stream, when they have solid base in vastly different areas...
Having a handbrake is comforting to many people. Also I see what happens to long boarders shoes. Wouldn't want that to happen if I were in anything but my cheap sneakers.
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> [...] the United Nations practice (one it shares with big business and some European Union institutions) of employing interns on an unpaid basis.

It's only bad when private businesses do it, of course.
I think the point was that he earned his money with the business he's doing. In your analogy, the person did not earn by raping, they are two different things.