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Compare this statement:

> "Interns get a lot of experience," says Ahmad Fawzi, head of the UN's information service in Geneva. "First-hand knowledge about how the international system works: it's invaluable for them, and they have fun."

(while not paying your interns) to Article 23 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

> (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
What is it lately with Windows 10 privacy issues blowing up in Hacker-news since windows 10 came out? I know most of you guys are Apple/Linux guys (I myself love Linux like the rest of you) but come on, Apple does this, your smartphone does this, most services you use do this. Just getting tired of the big bad M$ hate bandwagon. This isn't even a credible article and people are already going off about it. This is no different than Yosemite which logs your location and searches that you make with Spotlight and Safari. Yet, I don't recall seeing articles constantly on the front page about that? Seems a little biased to me.

NOTE: Not that I condone what Microsoft is doing, just a little hypocritical to think that big bad Microsoft is doing anything new in the industry, especially when the products you guys are talking about jumping ship to, have the same problems. This is nothing new
I'm not one to demand that people start every sentence with "IMO", but that second sentence really needed it...
Generally speaking you don't need to go to such lengths to intercept client/server communication from your own device. You can even have your wireless devices use your local WiFi, computer and Fiddler (which I think is roughly equivalent to Charles on Linux/iOS) as a proxy to intercept SSL and decrypt communication.

You don't need to bust open the codebase itself to figure out what comms are occurring. You can stage your own MITM attack against yourself with a couple of home made SSL certificates and a router you have the ability to install your own software on.
I have done similar things for no good reason at all. I wanted to know what it was like to study CS at a university, so I put up my tent on a nearby campsite and walked into some random classes. For medium-term solutions, it beats staying in hotels or hunting apartments. You simply put up your tent or caravan and have your own private place.
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I hope these aren't enthusiast-only. The idea of a 311 type service for a community with craigslist type services, job postings, city info and social aspects would be great for low income people. You could put all of wikipedia on it and partner with Khan Academy to give free access to learning to every kid in the city.
>> Microsoft was one of the few major players in IT that could realistically have offered an antidote to the always-online, spy-on-everything, everything-is-a-service, subscribe-not-buy, force-updates-you-don't-want madness of recent years.

I felt the same way after they came out and said they really believe in protecting data and people's privacy. This is the exact opposite of all the big talk over the past few years. Disappointing for sure.

I tried upgrading to Win 10 this past weekend and it was a disaster. My 3 year old video card wasn't supported (no dual monitors) and then after I reverted back to 7, it killed all my network adapters so I couldn't connect to the internet. I had to nuke my entire OS and start fresh. I'm not upgrading anytime soon.

Here's some of those articles:

http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2013/12/04/protecting-custom...

http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2014/07/01/advancin...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/microsoft-...
games, games, games, just 3 reasons, very good for quite a few.

and let's not forget the whole corporate global space, where Exchange+Office suite rules unchallenged. whenever i try to see some excel in what gmail has for previews, i cry and run away (and those are simple excels out there, without any complex scripts for example).
Imagine someone who goes to Africa for a summer to help with, say, lions. They pay to do that. Same with other 'exotic' programs I'd assume.
That makes sense if the businesses are unrelated, but that's not the case here. Batteries are critical to both Tesla's cars and energy storage products. Even before the Powerwall announcement, a lot of people called Tesla a battery company that just happened to sell cars.

Tesla has always been a bet on batteries. And if you're going to bet on batteries, why not expand that bet?

Regarding "gobs of cash," Tesla would be profitable now if it weren't pouring money into future expansion. The Model S sells well (given Tesla's size) and has high prices and margins. But that money (and more) is being put into design and production of a new model, and a gigantic battery factory.

I don't think Jobs is a good comparison to Musk. Jobs's recipe for success was to take products that existed and were popular in a niche, and refine them so that they appealed to a wider audience. The Apple II was a friendlier PC (used in the generic sense, not "IBM PC compatible," of course) with mass-market appeal, the Macintosh took existing GUIs and refined them to the limit, the iPod did nothing that existing MP3 players didn't do, but was made to have far greater appeal, and on and on.

Musk, on the other hand, is pushing the envelope. First electric car with a long range. First electric car capable of long-distance travel. First electric car that can compete with gas cars on its own merits. First reusable rocket (still trying).

If they were in the same market (and if Jobs were still alive), Musk's companies and products are the sort of ones Jobs would have been appropriating and refining a few years down the line once the concept is proven and demand is demonstrated.
I've been trying to use a software firewall and here's what I've blocked so far...

https://up1.ca/#JQqL3y0xqLZnxaOlYQ0s6A

And this is on a machine running Enterprise with privacy settings cranked, and most stuff disabled via group policy.

I'm trying to avoid blocking updates, but svchost is still out there talking to random microsoft servers. The worst part is that I can't differentiate between the servers used for tracking and the ones used for updates. I might have already blocked necessary stuff for updates.

At this point I'm really tempted to just wipe the machine and go back to 7, I've never felt so little trust in a machine I own. Even when I've run malware, at least I knew or could easily find out what was happening. This is just a big unknown to me. I'm seeing claims that it sends idle mic data even with Cortana disabled too, which is making me very paranoid even though the claims look sketchy at best.
Thank you for the clarification!

Swinging back to topic: Microsoft has traditionally had a good rapport with the business / government space, so I'll be shocked if they don't already have a plan for addressing the need to protect private data. Maybe the enterprise solution version of Windows 10 will have this feature off by default?
I'm not defending M$ here at all. I'm just saying if people are going to use WinAll, there are rudimentary and basic things to install before using it. Otherwise it's like sex without a condom...
I have an HTC One ( the first one ) and this app is listed as incompatible. How do I find out why?
It's not he said she said. She had screencaps of messages.
Might've thought "synergistic" was being sarcastic.
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"Anyone remember the MS "gmail man" ads mocking the way Google inspects your email when MS doesn't?"

Did anyone actually fall for that?

Intelligent systems need information to function, and when the intelligence is personalized, it needs personal information. One of the reasons Google has succeeded is because of that personal information, providing services that have enough context that they are three quarters of the way to my destination before I've even started.

It is enormously jarring how over the top Microsoft went with Windows 10, with insane defaults and little justification, but this is the manifestation of the whole "cloud like" platform. Increasingly we expect a world where a device is just a terminal into a platform, and we can jump to different devices and form factors and the world is almost the same. That is what Microsoft is trying for, clumsily.
No, it definitely isn't. I'm a software engineer and I've used it as my primary desktop OS for years. A year ago I went and paid $300 for a windows 8.1 box and migrated my whole system back to windows. There were just too many problems that got in the way of my work, things breaking after updates, graphics and printer driver issues, etc. I was spending more time debugging that stuff than a windows license costs. I don't like windows, especially windows 8, but it's stable. I did have to buy a start menu add-on, because Microsoft lost their mind with windows 8. I keep my Ubuntu machines in a VM now, where I can easily back them up, roll them back, or throw them away without affecting my productivity. It's not quite as fluid running an Ubuntu desktop at 4K inside a VM, but still quite usable.

If it's not ready for a seasoned software engineer, it's definitely not ready for my mom.
These sort of things can spook investors, but Elon purchased $20M of the offering himself as a show of good faith. That's a big insider buy! TSLA is currently trading up 2.5% so apparently it was also quite a convincing play.
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As stated above, you need to read the UK Court Ruling at a minimum, since there is no point in discussion if you are not familiar with even the basic legal issues involved. And once you are done that you should read up on Swedish extradition policies.

The fact that extradition is legally possible and the Swedish prosecution is proceeding against all common reason and established judicial practice in the only way that keeps it possible is very much "probable cause" as regards the motives of the Swedish prosecution and thus constitutes reasonable grounds to believe that Assange's concerns about extradition to the United States are sensible.
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I had never heard of bitsavers [0] until just now. They've got two sections: documents and software.

I have so far found blueprints associated with the PDP-1 [1] in the documents portion, but mostly image files in the software section.

[0] = http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/
[1] = http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp1/blueprints/
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If you think the current price is fair, why would you hold the stock? Unless you think they're going to declare a dividend (not likely) then you might as well sell while the price is at a fair level and keep the cash.
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Please link to the actual article, not the snippet on a blog: http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/the-future-of-work-w...
It's new for Microsoft, which is what makes it news. MS seems to be finding its way into the consumer-level big-data world slower than its competitors, but now that they're going in that direction---yeah, people should care that their assumption that the OS they use at home (the OS itself, not the myriad applications they run atop it) isn't keyboard-logging them might very well be false.
Why is it unusable for those people? Will they be held legally liable if something were to leak? Seems like Windows 10 is one of many services collecting anonymous information, what makes it different?
Awww, I love this idea... I am sitting in a cafe in Brooklyn reading the article. I checked the available networks and found an "nycmesh" ssid. Went to ev.mesh and got the "this is not the internet"! So cool, but I tried to create an account but got "Error message: can't send email", and I can't log in.

Still, I love the idea though - feels like a secret internet club!
Why whenever anyone quote anything someone replies criticising them for using "scare quotes?" People commonly use quotations (in English) to emphasise, or to distinguish. It is like a poor man's italics.

Look at the context to decide if someone is using it to imply something is bad/evil/scary, in this case you cannot draw that conclusion. The OP is clearly just using it instead of italics.
Nobody knows what the intrinsic value actually is -- you can try to model it with historic cash flows, but it's very inaccurate to do that with a company without a solid cash flow trend. But because its enterprise value to revenue multiple is way, way out of whack with respect to normal companies, it's a pretty safe bet that there's a lot of expectations priced in to the stock. That's not inherently a bad thing, and in fact it is normal for young companies, but what it really means is that much of the growth potential of Tesla is "priced in" to the share price, meaning that if you buy TSLA at current prices, it may not rise all that much in the event they are wildly successful. If they are anything less than that, the share price could drop dramatically.

Tesla right now is a bet that their battery technology will be insanely profitable and have some sustainable advantage over competing technologies. It's an interesting stock to play with as part of an algo strategy because it's so volatile (again, this is typical of young companies), but I wouldn't own TSLA as a buy-and-hold right now. The share price is just too expensive, and they're going to need massive, continued infusions of capital to continue (as evidenced by the article).

Basically, the risk with Tesla is that if they are crazy profitable, their share price likely won't rise all that much because investor expectations are high. If they are not crazy profitable, the share price will drop over time.
But is still a close ally of the US when it comes to intelligence.
yet one more reason why encryption and private communications are necessary.
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I bought a new MacBook 2 days ago, and setting it up has never been easier.

Almost all of my development takes place in a Docker environment now, and the Docker ToolBox makes installing that a breeze.

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I sometimes wonder if people who talk about the "efficient market hypothesis" understand what the third word in that phrase actually means....
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I have a hard time trusting either Glasswire and Antilogger without seeing the source (especially since you mentioned possible backdoors in the same breath as your recommendation).

Your first link looks like it's just a pack of local policies, so I suppose there's some value, if that's the case, for people who don't want to go through with learning how to set that up.
How exactly do non-normal folk do math? am i missing something?
The way they market this app makes me pretty concerned. It seems like they're advocating short-term trading -- pretty risky behavior. I guess they don't explicitly do this, but the nature of a mobile-only platform, with what looks like no portfolio/risk analysis tools screams short term. Also, the only real reason a commission-free account would be helpful is if you're trading pretty frequently or in very small amounts. I'd rather pay $10/trade for something like Fidelity, Etrade, or the like, and have access to some mediocre portfolio analysis, risk analysis, and research tools, than have only a Buy/Sell button. However, I'd bet that uninformed investors would see this deal and jump right in without considering these things.

I guess my TLDR here is that a trading platform's selling point (for the general public) should be tools first, price second; not price first, aesthetics second.
I hear this for last 15 years, and few things changed. Showstoppers - 100% compatibility with Office will probably never happen, which is deal breaker for most business customers actually paying for licences. second issue is device drivers. users don't care who-what is responsible, they just want to see their strange printer working with scans. Again, in many cases not there
Turning those things off still doesn't prevent Windows 10 from sending tracking and usage data to Microsoft though, even when you're only using a Local Account instead of a Microsoft Account.
Here's an idea, instead of separately tracking the number of "resets" we just add those bits on to the left hand side of the measurement. We could call it... having more bits in the ADC. Expose for the highlights and then pull more detail out of the shadows with your extra bits of ADC precision.

There are not 1 million ADC units in a 1-megapixel camera, there's a few ADCs (a Canon 7D has 2 image processors with 4 ADCs each) that are iterated across the CCD sites to progressively read them out. To make this new sensor, you need to cram 50 million sets (50mp is state of the art) of voltage comparator/charge reset/digital counter circuits onto the CCD, and for N bits of rollover accuracy they need to be able to trigger, erase the charge, and resume exposure at least N times during the exposure time E (which is say 1/500th of a second, since they're complaining about movement during multiple HDR exposures). Practically speaking the trigger/operation/resume period must be significantly less than E/N since I see no way to retain the exposure during the period when the charge well is being drained to zero. If this time is non-trivial, that translates to losing the fine bits of your ADC accuracy.

In their image they compare a 13-stop exposure (the current state of the art) to an 8-stop exposure (state of the art in 1900). So assuming they didn't just pull a photoshop out of their ass, they are overall claiming a 5 stop increase from state of the art. That's 5 extra bits of recovery (1 stop is double the range, i.e. an extra bit), so they think they can trigger the reset circuit 5 times during an exposure. That implies this circuit must have a minimum cycle time of 1/2500th of a second (practically speaking a lot less to give time for the actual exposure). With this math I'm also assuming that the comparator is perfect and doesn't lose any accuracy - variance in trigger threshold or trigger time translates to losing some of your accuracy again. They also need to generate little enough waste heat to avoid hot pixels (this is a major reason the ADC is on the image processor rather than the CCD), and you need 50 million sets of these on the CCD.

If you can do it then go for it. It's a nice idea on paper but I think there's a lot of physical obstacles to overcome. If it were that easy someone would have done it already. It's especially difficult given that reading out the sensor is destructive - measuring it wipes the charge, so I'm not sure how any of this would work at all given that.

Now what would actually be interesting is to apply the image-processing techniques to dual-DR imaging, as they mention in their "related works" section. The open-source Magic Lantern firmware for Canon DSLRs allows you to scan alternating rows at different ISOs, so effectively you can capture a lot more dynamic range at the expense of your vertical resolution. It's all volunteers and they probably haven't applied all the fancy image-processing magic with the convolutions and the hippity-hop rap music. How about reconstructing those overexposed lines instead? Or working on some of the sensors with physical implementations of dual-DR?
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I don't necessarily disagree with your points here, but for completeness you should note that DO-178B has been moving to DO-178C for a few years now, which includes references to formal methods for systems verification, specifically DO-333. Also, that paper by Denney is 10 years old, and some strides have been made since then to improve formal method tools for viable verification.
Wasn't there a news article about how in Ferguson there was an average of more than one outstanding "warrant" per person?
So, let's say you do that. Then what?
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Debian and others realize that this is a problem, and you absolutely shouldn't trust anyone at their word. There's an ongoing effort at Debian to make all builds reproducible so that you can verify that they were built from the sources they provide for inspection. This should be completed soon.

For the situation I'm talking about where absolute confidentiality is required, the right way to do it would absolutely be auditing all code and compiling from source, assuming you're working in an organization that has that kind of capacity.

But for most cases, just dealing with an organization you trust is enough, whether they provide source or not.
Looking at it from another perspective, this is exactly why you want to incorporate if you start a business, instead of just going as a sole proprietorship. That way you have two entities (your person and your business) and if one fails (your business goes under) the assets of the other are protected (they can't take your house).
Civilization does not function on the personal responsibility level. But keep claiming that, that's a very big part of the rhetorical frame of laissez faire capitalism. The responsible thing to do would be reduce population, reduce consumption, and stop pursing endless creative destruction. But that's too far out there man!
No. This is a new feature that disables all unsigned extensions. It will be in the next version of the normal Firefox. The setting to allow unsigned extensions will be removed in the version after that (or so I've read).

Chrome has done something similar for a few years now, but (unlike Firefox) Chrome allows white-listing extensions via Group Policy.
I think for voting power in large companies, 200 shares and 2000 shares compare as approximately equal (probably 20,000 too).
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The underlying OS is actually decent, the dev tools they provide are good and the dedication to backwards compatibility is better than anyone else.

Unfortunately, the OS is then loaded with so much extra crud, like all the privacy snooping problems, the crapware (even an ISO downloaded from MS contains junk adware-loaded 3rd party games and software), and so on.

From a technology standpoint, the base OS is far more than lipstick-on-a-pig. Windows XP -> 7 -> 10 has been a decent progression.

I'd still never recommend Windows 10 to anyone though. The evil outweighs the good.