skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Those doubting the degree of ruthlessness Assange can expect should remember the forcing down of the Bolivian president's plane in 2013 - wrongly believed to be carrying Edward Snowden."

If you think of Sweden as ABBA, think again:

"In December 2010, The Independent revealed that the two governments had discussed his onward extradition to the US."

"The rendition and subsequent torture of two Egyptian political refugees in 2001 was condemned by the UN Committee against Torture, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch; the complicity and duplicity of the Swedish state are documented in successful civil litigation"

http://johnpilger.com/articles/assange-the-untold-story-of-a...
Yes, and during the install process, I was presented with a screen and the option to turn this off.
FYI, the transcript kind of mangles what I actually said, so if you have questions, I'm happy to try to answer them.
While some people may use Java "because Android", rest assured that far, far more people do Android development "because Java". The reason Google chose Android was clearly because they needed a large number of people writing many apps as quickly as possible for their platform to compete with the iPhone.

Google got a much better deal out of Java. Sun/Oracle got nothing in return.
I had an idea similar to this that solved the oversaturation issue.

Use 2 cameras. Have them at right angles to the shutter point, separated a few inches. At the T junction where the camera pointing would cross with the shutter area, put a prism there.

The prism would give each camera 1/2 of the available photons. Now use any standard HDR processing technique.
it's a tricky task, but it can be done.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10054060
yes, custom workflows would be the best solution, very good direction to go!
First of all, as others have said, this source may be slightly dubious, but I have seen a handful of similar sources saying similar things, but I have yet to see an extensive reverse engineering effort. For the time being though, because of the variety of similar reports and side effects, I am considering Windows 10 an surveillance state approved operating system.

For example, in another HN submission where someone posted a tool to delete/disable tracking services and add ip lists to the hosts file, a user has reported startup errors. To me this indicates Windows 10 is trying to communicate even during boot without the users knowledge! That's a big deal in my book... I don't know about yall.

The one reason I have suffered the slings and arrows of Windows so long is for gaming purposes, more recently because I wanted to release my hobby side-project, a game in Unreal Engine 4, on Windows and so I have kept one of my computers on Windows 8.1.

Last night that machine was compromised, and despite my fairly extensive malware fighting abilities, I couldn't get rid of it. That means a complete wipe and only moving data over that I must have, and not trusting that data, not to mention never trusting the HDD again (going to have to throw it away). I also question my bios, so I'll need to flash bios too.

I run three main computers, Windows on a Asus laptop, OSX on a Mac Air, and Linux/DragonFlyBSD dual boot on a Macbook Pro 2014. I think Windows 10 just might be the excuse I need to push myself completely away from the MS ecosystem. I've been talking about it for years, but the power of their tie-in is not to be trifled with.

I also fear for the state of linux in the same way though. At >10 million lines of kernel code, I think the many eyes theory has a weakness, namely that complex and huge codebases are antithetical to the many eyes theory working. that's why I personally think the future of computing will be in code simplicity and pairing down existing codebases. A good example of a try at this is Minix 3. <10k loc. (of course lacks many features).

That's also why, even thought I'm a huge GPL/GNU guy, I am increasingly leaning towards the top down ecosystem of the BSD's.

I think there are a lot of fundamental issues in personal computing that many of us just ignore and don't want to discuss because the implications of the conclusions could be uncomfortable. I think it's time for those of us who are considered power users to start having this difficult discussions more often and in more public ways.
This was the runner up prize winning paper, what won?
We collect passwords, password hints, and similar security information used for authentication and account access.

Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.asp...

(Click "Learn More" under "Personal Data We Collect")
Very interesting, thank you.
I always think is is somewhat interesting given the Java trap [1]. In some ways RMS was very prescient (not entirely surprising), but had Sun not released Java under the GPL, we could easily be having this discussion about IceTea.

The "Don't be ridiculous, nobody is going to sue you for using/implementing Java/C#/whatever" attitude was always frustrating, but I have to admit I didn't actually expect it to really happen :-P

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.en.html
Yes you can't store patient data on google drive.

There are plenty of practice management cloud solutions with cloud storage support which are hipaa compliant.
fact checking: in 2014 Ubuntu make the amazon unity thing opt in: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-produc...

but regardless, they've lost too much respect/credibility for including it in the first place, so I wouldn't trust them in general.
Read about something like this on http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.co.uk a while ago - instead of saturating the CMOS when max brightness is exceeded, it just keeps going.

Looking forward to seeing this commercialised.
As a hacker news reader, you should know that defaults are imporant.
We have a shower at my work but I don't use it. I just take it easy for the last mile or two of biking and then spend a few minutes cooling off in the bathroom stall once I get there and I'm fine. Also, I wear workout clothes while I bike. I wouldn't recommend wearing your work clothes during the commute.
Please do not give undue preference to Elixir over Erlang.

Other than that, I agree.
Windows 10 and previous versions are known to be SIGINT enabled either by design, or by accident. It would be very cloak and dagger to say by design, but certainly more plausible to say by accident. There are numerous ways to harden Windows however, and depending on how much time and money you're willing to invest; you can get a pretty robust setup. Personally I use Zemana Antilogger (try to get an older copy - the new one is possibly backdoored). Download this: http://hardenwindows8forsecurity.com/ (Some of the settings still apply on Win10 I think). And buy the new version of Glasswire: https://www.glasswire.com/ (Super handy utility that stops all the phone behavior of Win10 that can get quite intrusive/invasive). There are many other hacks to harden Windows but I won't go into them here. But you can have those ones for free...

Here's Antilogger: https://www.zemana.com/AntiLoggerFree Please avoid the new version, as it's probably weakened by ICs. I'm sure an older copy is lying around the net somewhere.
Can't you just redirect all that stuff it sends to 127.0.0.1 by editing your hosts file?
That's just really a completely misguided statement. No mater how much you fumble with aperture and shutter speed there's simply no way to expand the camera sensor dynamic range without taking multiple exposures.

Besides I have never seen "ordinary people" fumble with aperture size and exposure length so that's a solved problem. Sometimes it gives "wrong" results, like exposing for the highlights rather than the shadows, that's what this technology solves.
That doesn't make it okay
In fact some would say the stock is trading at these levels due to a prolonged 2-year short squeeze. The initial squeeze brought in new retail (and institution) investors forcing margin calls which in turned raised the price more creating more short sellers and retail longs.

I bought stock and options when this was trading at 35 and sold at around 140 as I put my fair market value at about 125 for this company. Would gladly reenter at that price.
Wtf are you talking about. There is no such thing as an 'intrinsic' value vs the price of a share. The market determines the value of each share. Just because that represents a higher p/e than you like just means you don't want to pay.
I was a fan of its predecessor Durandal for providing a good set of conventions for a SPA built with Knockout. Once Knockout added components, however, I started switching back to raw Knockout and maybe a router library.

Aurelia to me is interesting. I appreciate that it's still modular and well architected like Durandal. In that regard I trust Aurelia more than I would trust, say, Angular (1.0 or 2.0). I like that Aurelia is encouraging people towards JSPM (and SystemJS), which I've been recommending as well.

That said, I don't think I would actually use Aurelia in a project. For applications that need a deep legacy support it's clearly still the best option to use Knockout and Knockout Components (and maybe Durandal, but maybe not). For applications targeting the "evergreen" browsers I've been leaning towards CycleJS, not just because the "Reactive" frameworks are the new hotness, but because even in my use of data-binding frameworks like Knockout I've been slowly leaning more towards the "Reactive ideal" anyway and now that CycleJS is 1.0 and stable that looks like a good place to start these days.
Halos are a problem, but they can mostly be removed with good post-processing. Note they're not a fundamental aspect of tone mapping. Tone mapping is just whatever algorithm you chose to compress the HDR information into a low dynamic range we have for displays. The great thing about this camera compared to multi-exposure HDR (apart from the halo effect you mentioned) is you can actually take pictures of moving objects or even make HDR movies (the temporal variation should actually help with better phase unwrapping). That would be amazing for the film industry I think.
The other thing to note is that they've changed the terms during an automatic update.

The terms that they changed had several opt-out (as opposed to off-by-default opt-in) features that are mentioned in OP's article.
I'm not surprised that MS is making it harder to disable these things. It should be possible to patch them out completely, but then you also have to deal with signing, system file protection, and updates which could re-enable them again... MS is putting up a much stronger fight now than they did with the previous versions of Windows.
I ditched Ubuntu when it became clear that their goals did not align with mine. I care about privacy, so I will not support an operating system which leaks personal data by default, on purpose.
The question is how many false positives the systems has and whether it will be used as "probably cause" for stuff. Also, eventually they might connected to body cameras and public security cameras and start tracking everyone. If it seems to far fetch, read up on license plate scanning databases used today.
Let me sum it up, removing the usual layer of intimidation and mockery:
- This is crap but humf yeah it can work on principles
- Reactors are not designed to make bomb but humf yeah a couple of country have these around. Oh you know, details on the map like India, Russia, France,...
- And anyway, we have 70 years of experience doing this, trust us.

I have witnessed this attitude all too much as I grew up in the heart of French Nuclear industry. Arrogance is the reason why after 70 years, despite superb technological feats, Nuclear industry has failed to convince anyone that it is safe.

Probably you will not care, but your last statement is frightening and wrong. If your Tech can kill 100000 people, then 70 years of procedures and experiences will not be sufficient to convince any assessor applying recent safety certification standards. If you have learned so much about the dangers of using this technology, then design one machine that is fail safe under very adverse Human behavior. And demonstrate why in understandable words. Gen 4 reactors so far have failed to do that and they are not even working yet.
god forbid Microsoft try to deprecate OSs after nearly 13 years.

You seem to have invented a decade. Windows 8 RTM was just over 3 years ago.

Also, while I have some sympathy with both the idea that software isn't perfect and the idea that Microsoft need a viable business model, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a product like Windows 7 to come with essential support for a significant period of time, perhaps based on the expected working lifetime of devices where the software is normally installed.

It's true that we don't know how to make perfect software yet, but it's also still the case that those security and bug fixes are only necessary because the product as originally provided was defective. If you're making as much money from a product as Microsoft do from Windows, and if defects in your product cause harm on the scale that bugs in Windows do, I think it's fair to expect you to make good your mistakes for a reasonable period as well.

It also seems to me that Microsoft could do very well from stating a reasonable period of guaranteed support with the purchase but then offering reasonably-priced ongoing support afterwards so it have a real revenue stream to fund long-term maintenance if it turns out that devices running Windows 7 are in use for a long time. This also conveniently removes the incentive to ship successive products that are seen to be worse than what people had before.
With such an argumentation, you could just trash any terms. As long as they are not against any law, they are valid, as long as they do not contain something that is totally unexpected (for example that you must pay Microsoft additional fees above the normal price).

I also think, that Microsoft should be held accountable -- but it starts with those terms!

I think, many people just rushed into Windows 10, because it was free. But free, seldom means free in deed. A clever trick of Microsoft to trick people into this.

As long the privacy terms are not effectively changed and the OS stops to send coded data to servers, this OS can not be trusted.
Wait who does that? I've never heard such a thing.
A sensor with per-pixel reset to zero on readout would seem to be ideal — then you could get cumulative counts without wasting valuable photon landing space on the die.
Will I need to update ember-cli or will it automagically use Ember 2.0?
Exactly! Why do the Linux people try to "take over" every Windows thread? The Windows folks don't barge into every Linux thread.

Windows 10 is excellent. We moved our all-mac company (~20 developers) off Macs and onto Windows over the past year, because Apple no longer supports the high end. We do GPGPU programming, and you can't plug a high end NVIDIA card into a MacPro. (The Mac Apologists will say you can, but you can't -- not in any useful performant reliable way.)
How long until someone turns this into a facebook quiz? "Click to see how many of the books that shaped America you have read."

(12, for the record)
FWIW, I believe they try to do these things however, I'm not sure how its technically possible.

Various security measures rename sensitive fields into things that are basically random strings that are stored in a session. [e.g. Fields to change your password? They are set to something like 2ajefklaj23324rk]

There is also the issue of people who write erotica for fun. Or doctors writing down notes for patients.
So I wanted to try it out, being a nodejs newbie I tried:

sudo npm install -g ember-cli

And it gave me:

$ ember -v
version: 1.13.8
Could not find watchman, falling back to NodeWatcher for file system events.
Visit http://www.ember-cli.com/user-guide/#watchman for more info.
node: 0.12.7
npm: 2.13.4
os: linux x64

Is cli still 1.x?
I've been running it for months without issues. Yes every so often it fills up the /tmp directory - setup a cronjob or something, but it is basically install and forget.

(My install gets maybe 10-20 requests a second, so maybe I'm at the low end of usage I don't know, but it works fine for me).
No, the difference is that, unlike the "last couple thousands of years", we actually understand out environment very, very well, to the point where out predictions of climate have not been failing, and when they do, it's because we have underestimated everything.

I would call finding the positive side of seeing the end of the planet as you know it a serious case of delusion, at the very least, and at worst the sort of attitude that's gotten us here.
"On the day Marianne Ny reactivated the case, the head of Sweden's military intelligence service - which has the acronym MUST -- publicly denounced WikiLeaks in an article entitled "WikiLeaks [is] a threat to our soldiers." Assange was warned that the Swedish intelligence service, SAPO, had been told by its US counterparts that US-Sweden intelligence-sharing arrangements would be "cut off" if Sweden sheltered him."

http://johnpilger.com/articles/assange-the-untold-story-of-a...
I imagine the UK courts would hold that a rape charge in the UK is similar to a rape charge in Sweden. That makes sense. However, there's a difference between acknowledging that and ruling on whether the allegations have merit.

They specifically didn't look at anything other than the allegations made on the European Arrest Warrant. From the High Court decision:

> In respect of each offence, Mr Assange contended that the court should examine the underlying material from the prosecution file... [W]hat was provided contained the principal statements of the complainants and other material which made it obvious that the conduct of which he was accused was not fairly and accurately described in the EAW. [...]

> In our view, it is not apposite to take into account the material in the prosecution file. [...]
You can, but we have 450 workstations and about 600 servers.

That somewhat multiplies the problems.
I did not say that, but I wanted to make clear, how people are tricked into this situation, where they can not trust even the OS.
Honestly I think they should have showed that way sooner, because that's what turned my interest from "That's kind of cool" to "Whoa! Now I want it!".
> If you think the stock is worth $1000/share, and expected them to do a secondary at some point, you're probably happy they're doing it now as opposed to later, when you suspect the price will be converging to your value.

The only reason I see to be happy with the new shares being issued sooner rather than later is if I'm going to keep buying shares, they won't be diluted because it already happened. Otherwise I don't get why would I prefer the new shares to be issued at a lower price. If they raise $500mn at $250 it will take longer to get to $1000 than if they can wait until the stock trades at $500 (because the dilution would be lower in the second case).
Want to reduce CO2? Stop eating meat. Want to seem edgy and cool without doing anything requiring effort? Claim we are doomed.
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I thought the options to turn off defaults were pretty clear during the installation process. Requests to make options more explicit and visual are reasonable, but it bothers me that Mozilla and others are acting like "choose my default programs" or "custom settings" are too obscure for anyone to understand. You also have the option to delete your history.
> is this implementation very different from having a 16-bit ADC in normal sensors

16-bit ADCs increases tonal granularity in the readout, which can help in the darker tones. A sensor site may be capable of differentiating about 12 bits worth of meaningful information, hence there's a good argument for overshooting that in the ADC. Our eyes, even if not sensitive to more than 8 bits worth of tonal gradation, are perceiving in a logarithmic space (vs. the sensor recording in a linear space), hence extra information in the shadows can be quite good. Plus the extra bits give more room in which to tune a captured image. An article such as http://www.scantips.com/basics14.html gives a rundown on this.

The extra bits don't help if the incoming light exceeds the sensor's recording capacity, hence the interest of this "modulo" discussion for over-exposed images.
Until recently Microsoft had taken a far more reasonable approach to privacy than say Google. Anyone remember the MS "gmail man" ads mocking the way Google inspects your email when MS doesn't? It seems that MS under Nadella has taken a decidedly Google-like turn away from privacy with Windows 10. MS seems as hell-bent as Google and Facebook to collect as much data about you as possible, even if it is for seemingly innocuous purposes.
Since when does TLS warrant scare quotes around the word "encrypted"?
It sounds from the implementation summary that it's equivalent to a higher bit-depth ADC, but that the higher-value bits are inferred by software somehow. I don't think it would properly recover an image with a dark field with the exception of a single pixel with a value of 10^7 above the dark noise.

What would truly solve the dynamic-range problem is a logarithmic readout CCD.

(Thanks for the Foveon pointer; it's an elegant approach to color.)
Maybe? We've incrementally come a long way from when we were executing people for stealing, trying blacks with all white juries, etc. What makes you think we're headed incrementally in another direction?
> "You certainly write Android apps using the Java API"

So Oracle should go after Eclipse and other IDEs? Or Apache Harmony?

> *" 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."

That binary compatibility is required by javac, which is in the toolchain. Then the Java bytecode gets translated to Dalvik bytecode and packaged as an APK.
> somewhat

Yes I can see how that would complicate things a little :)
Isn't this cat-and-mouse issue between extension vetting and new Firefox versions always present when running Firefox beta? I assumed it was one of the tradeoffs, i.e., parts may be broken...?
Your example is spot-on, but unfortunately that is the way America works in 2015.
:ED: to clarify, they are not held to the same accountability standard as we are.
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> there's simply no way to expand the camera sensor dynamic range without taking multiple exposures

That's the point of this paper†. They expand dynamic range by having the detectors wrap around (discarding high bits) and then recover the high bits computationally.

† here http://web.media.mit.edu/~hangzhao/modulo.html (linked by putterson in another comment)
As you perfectly expressed, "efficient market" is nothing more than an hypothesis. In fact, it has been proven essentially false repeatedly, theoretically by Kahneman among others, and in practive through many a crisis, bubble, etc.

Arguably "mainstream economics" could be nothing more than a religion, and a very dangerous one by its very high though undeserved power.
If you are a Hacker, there are very few reasons nowadays not to have access to Linux. I run my development profile as a VM on my Windows machine. It's nice to have the distro packages to pull in any esoteric tool I need to solve problems.

But I play too many videogames to run it as my primary machine.
I used both, Elixir/Erlang and Erlang/Elixir. And Both variants exactly one time. The only small preference is that I used the Elixir/Erlang variant as the first one, but hey, one could argue that coming from Go/Node, elixir may be easier to get started. :)
I've read somewhere that it ignores the hosts file for its microsoft communication.