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> I don't understand how exactly he shaped America?

You answered that right below. That way that he lived is something that a lot of Americans dream of (myself included), just to have a little plot of land all to yourself and be with nature for a while.

> Thoreau is forgotten

Maybe in Europe, but not here. Thoreau is seen as having outlined a very idyllic life, especially for modern times, of living semi-lazily "off the grid".

> I'm quite sure that he would condemn the mark of being one of these who shaped the America (or world), because this is not what he wanted.

Such is the life of a reclusive artist :)

N.B. - Walden Pond is not some mystical place out in the middle of nowhere, it's just outside of Concord, NH[0], site of one of the first battles of the American Revolution just 70 years prior. So, while it was idyllic, it was not like Thoreau was that far away from civilization. The middle of Concord is less than 1.5 miles (2.4km) away from the north shore where Thoreau lived.

[0] - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Walden+Pond,+Concord,+MA+0...
Is Microsoft paying for that traffic?
Would you mind sharing some detail about the issues you had with tmp dirs and availability? I deployed Thumbor a few months ago and it's been pretty much install and forget. I'm curious about what issues I might have in future as it scales.
This isn't irony, it's hypocrisy.
He was at more risk of extradition to the US from the UK than he was from Sweden
Consultants that sell Oracle to customers on a regular basis get personal bonuses from Oracle. These could be personal vacation trips or cash.
My acid test for resizing (downscaling to be more precise):

http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma-1.0-or-2.2.png

The resize.ly version (2x downscaled):

http://resize.ly/256x128/http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/ga...

It fails horribly for me. Most software fails too (try to downscale the original in your favorite browser!), but this somehow ruins the base background gray too somehow.

Sorry for the test image being a little harsh, it's not mine (also some reading material how downscaling should be implemented):

http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html
That Sweden recognise his asylum claim in Ecuador as valid, which the Swedish prosecutor does not have the legal authority to do.

There is a good writeup from a British legal blogger at http://jackofkent.com/2015/08/assange-the-law-of-limitation-...

It's worth picking out as well that Assange faces British legal issues from breaching his bail conditions. The bail set during his very lengthy legal process which validated the Swedish process as just. The British legal system isn't perfect but when you're a high profile individual with access to plenty of fine legal minds it's about as good as you're going to get.
They don't forget. They leave it out on purpose because it destroys their argument.

Oh. If only he'd have done this thing that I'm telling you, without mentioning the well known reason why he is against doing that thing!
It's going to be fantastic when all synergistic factors are fully in play.
The Oracle/Sun perspective (let's not forget that the whole argument predates the acquisition, although it hadn't reached the court yet) is that Google "stole" Java and should pay something for it. They want a piece of the Android action, preferably a lot of money.

In order to do that, in pure Ellison style, they will use any tactic, no matter how ruthless or disparaging. Ellison does not care about style or manners, he only cares about winning and cashing in; in many ways he's very similar to his great friend Jobs (who did not care about anything but his products, basically).

(Not that Google comes out squeaky-clean, from all this. They clearly piggybacked on the java ecosystem while explicitly avoiding to grant any attribution...)
Yup they do so where is your evidence he was going to be extradited from Sweden to the US?
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Here in Zürich it's one of the main means of getting about in the city. People have them everywhere.

You can also get Mountain Trottys: http://www.druesberghuette.ch/Druesberghuette/Trotty.html

I haven't tried one of those (I want to live).
Imagine that instead of writing "javac file.java" every time you wanted to recompile you had to hire workers and buy materials to build the program using cogs and levers. Development would obviously slow down a lot if you had to ration your recompiles because of funding. Also, a project has an optimal amount of employees. I'm pretty sure ITER and the like has less than that number right now. Throwing money at the problem seems like an excellent way to speed things up.
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It's not like you have to use all or any of them. It's more of a problem if you're a front-end dev looking for work and feel obliged to learn whatever is trending at the moment.
I was hoping they were behind some kind of protective barrier, though later heard they were livestreaming. The destruction is incredible.
BTRFS is a next-gen filesystem for Linux, if you've heard about ZFS it is sort of similar to that, but with a Linux friendly license.

It will probably start to be the default in Linux distros "shortly".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#Features
Turning off that hideous beep was always the first thing I did when I got a new Thinkpad.

You know, back in the day when buying a new Thinkpad was a thing I would consider doing.
The Metropolitan Police have had "forward intelligence teams" (FIT) filming demonstrations for some time in order to identify people.

Note that, as people are increasingly demanding that police wear body cameras to record evidence of possible police abuse, these cameras can also be fed to image recognition systems.
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Why does the penny transaction have to confirm in 10 mins? Currently, and for at least a couple of years, you will likely still be able to send 0 fee transactions. The time for them to appear in a block will increase however.

Have you heard of Lightning (https://lightning.network)?
Been a while, but from what I remember, upgrading Drupal itself usually worked okay, but you couldn't because most sites relied on 3-4 contributed modules, and it would take another half year-year for them to also upgrade, if ever.
Show HN: QOTR –  Go off-the record, quickly
I have a feeling that there is a grain of truth in some of it, however the wholesale keylogging and what is basically searching for pirated content after keywords are typed is probably not real.
Why not run an operating system which doesn't do this instead? I.e, any major non-Ubuntu Linux distro. Debian's pretty good.
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I know that they maintain a nice museum over there. Thoreau's books were translated into most European languages and frankly, his writing influenced me a lot during my early twenties.
Thanks, it does seem a slightly strange request
The problem is that it's TLS encrypted traffic going from a black box component to a remote black box service so it's pretty hard to determine what is going over the channel. Without extensive and complex reverse engineering, you can only infer what is going over it and draw some hypotheses that need to be tested. I think that the article is spot on with respect to that.

And of course there is no word from the horse's mouth (Microsoft) at all on ANYTHING related to this. Silence is always worrying.
They swiped away their CEO. :P
Why there are so many vid lectures in online learning,why there shouldn’t be
I think you're right, and it must be because this is from the Library of Congress, which is a repository of books published in the US. A slightly less contentious example would be de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America
This is a timely announcement following chatter about Tesla's cash flow problems[1][2].

[1] http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1846965/tesla...

[2]Flagged HN thread from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030101
The fact is that he was questioned before, stayed in the country and left after they allowed him to leave. Later Sweden decided to change it's mind and requested an extradition - just for questioning him, which they could easily have done locally (and, by the way, other countries do this) - which is, perhaps, not very common. And _coincidently_ this happened while Wikileaks was all over the media and the US was infuriated. I can't blame him for being worried.
Frankly Tesla would be stupid not to issue as much stock as possible when it's trading far above its intrinsic value.
Then one has to accept the salary they get then.
So at this point, what stops them from giving digital copies of the soundtrack/artbook out? Bandwidth costs a hell of a lot less than postage/packaging, and it'd be a nice gesture to backers.
I'd like to know the difference between free upgrades and Win10 installs with a real product key
Says who? Sweden? The UK? Assange? The US?
CEO for scumbag company appears to also be a scumbag. News at 11.
I would stop trying to beat nature and instead try to play along with it. There is no need to waste that much water on farming in California. It is ridiculous to do this when you have a population density like the US has. There is just so much more suitable space all over the country.
This setting has nothing to do with the question the OP did
I am not too familiar with financing stuff. So is this a dilution? Does it mean that current shares will be devalued?
Obviously he couldn't. He needed refuge from oppressive governments which he now has at the Ecuadorian embassy.
About information source: Aeronet.cz is known Russian propaganda website in Czech. Nothing close to credible source. I don't judge content, but this should be noted.

Just try

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
A couple of stupid questions: (1) Aren't there already several providers of this kind of service? (2) If so, what does this service claim to do better? (3) How is image scaling hard enough to justify a business model?
Taking into account it is Windows, even if it the traffic is "encrypted", I suppose the part of the OS that encrypts it is not obfuscated in any way, so it should be easy to know what it really is doing.
I'd be interested if they made a clock out of this, somehow.
I see the challenge for the 2000's is for the human species is to take on planetary stewardship in a real way.

Or "Planetary Management" from Wikipedia "The term has been around in science fiction novels since the 1970s." The future has arrived whether we like it or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_management

Another less fatalistic way to look at it is to see how far humans will go to protect/manage/revive nature itself.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/resurrections/

Let's learn how to Live in the Anthropocene...
Shameless plug: Might be interesting to combine this with client-side encrypted remotes, a feature of https://github.com/lucas-clemente/git-cr :)
I imagine it's extremely rare that someone comes to HN regularly would choose to buy Oracle with alternative options on the table.

Here is the cynical view: the majority of "enterprise" S/W development happens in companies whose CTOs knows very little about software development other than the powerpoint slides they saw from sales or consultants. And all their CEOs can do to improve their technology is to throw more money to those CTOs, who in most cases can only spend those money by buying expensive services/support, hiring AAA brand consultants and hiring as many managers as it takes to "improve the productivity." Well, what else can they do, good engineers don't want to work there.
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In short two things according to the Swedish department of Justice.
1. Ecuador require the Swedish prosecutors to grant Assange refugee status, but only the Migration Agency can do that, not the department of Justice or the prosecutors office.
2. Ecuador want guarantees that Assange will not be extradited to the US in the future. In Sweden extradition requests are handled by the supreme court and the prosecutor-general and a promise in advance never to extradite someone cannot be given.

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&art...
And they did when the time bar was about to approach. At that point Ecuador conveniently starts causing problems, quite why the Swedes would lie about Ecuador's demands when they could have just waited for the time bar to expire doesn't get explained.

Prior to that they were dealing with an obstructive, bail jumping individual thumbing their nose at the legal systems of two countries (the UK and Sweden). Assange appealed extradition all the way to the UK Supreme Court then decided he didn't like the outcome, quite why the responsibility is on Sweden to cave to his demands has yet to be explained.
It's in the privacy policy. I didn't believe what I was reading. Windows 10 is unusable for anyone handling any sensitive data. Think doctors, psychologists, anyone under an NDA.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.asp...
You're right hence the extensive reverse engineering. I think you can expose call graphs and assembly with SoftICE or some product like that and infer which windows API calls are used so that's a starting point. However some of the things that talk are going to be heavily optimised binaries, code signed and difficult to poke inside.
Seriously. I know lists like this are always subjective and there's some great (and awful literature, but mainly great) in this list. But omitting "Slaughterhouse-Five" not only for its content but the post modern aesthetic (which was a big deal at the time) it used, is confusing.

And although I wouldn't expect it, there should be some Bukowski on this list too. Also, Gravity's Rainbow?
It seems we (they) still have the right gut instinct, but the timespan before the blast hit their building is just long enough so curiosity wins back.
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Use case also matters. If you're delivering 1mb of javascript for your ecommerce website, that's too much.
Why do you think it is trading far above its intrinsic value? How much is a share currently worth?
Did you stop watching before the one-minute mark? Or are you asking about an analog clock?
I haven't done much direct frontend work for a while, but I like the sound of the Bourbon/Neat/Bitters[1] stuff - compared to stuff like Bootstrap it seems like less of a sledge-hammer and more like a toolbox with multiple hammers, screw drivers etc for the various tasks you need to achieve.

[1] http://bourbon.io
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Since it is a fuse filesystem you don't mount it with mount but with the command gitfs (note that there is no single instruction on the main page how to mount, not even in the demo), then unmount with fusermount -u.
Off-topic, and please believe me I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I'm really concerned about this and I think it could be time to switch -- is OS X any better in this regard? I had heard it has been phoning Apple since forever. (I'm not going to consider Linux for a desktop)
Robert gave a talk about this at Ember.js NYC last month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltzN4v-ymo4
I'd like to ask a short diversion question: why specifically not Ubuntu?
Does this make implementation of other language compiled for V8 easier?
To first order, current shares should be worth a smaller fraction of the company, but should be worth the same dollar amount as they currently are.

This process is meant to increase the size of Tesla by $500M, by simply putting $500M into its bank account. The people who are providing this money are getting new shares in return. In theory, the value of the new shares should be $500M, and the value of the old shares should add up to the old market cap of the company, and the sum of the new shares and the old shares will naturally add up to the company's new market cap.

There are second-order effects, though. If there is only a fixed demand for Tesla shares, this may reduce the price of shares (and so devalue the shares of existing shareholders.) Conversely, if people think that Tesla is going to make very good use of any new money, then existing shareholders may end up better off.
There's also Calca which runs on Windows, Mac and iOS:

http://calca.io/
Well he became afraid of extradition conveniently at the point at which he was facing extradition. Before then he was quite happy to spend lots of time in the West apparently unconcerned by the threat. Something that is often left out...

The UK was happy to extradite him to Sweden, we extradite people to the US as long as they aren't going to be executed. So quite why the UK extraditing him to Sweden who would then extradite him to the US is a plausible conspiracy never really gets explained.
I for one feel very uncomfortable using other OSes due to the lack of text UIs. And it seems pretty likely that a vast majority of linux devs feel similarly, considering how few softwares start out with just a GUI instead of the other way around.
Could you point in what part they explicitly say so? I just skimmed through the text and couldn't find any reference to keylogging, in whatever "legal terms-friendly" way they could write it.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEJb1VZxRoE
It took me a second to know what book you were referring to. I've never seen it called that. Every mention I've ever seen of it (and I live in the US), it's Das Kapital.
Anybody still wondering why users are scared to upgrade stuff?
Or stop using Windows and we can put the final nail in once and for all.

Linux, through Ubuntu, is (IMO) now ready for the prime time.
Just in case anybody wants to know:

If you want a Windows 10 without Cortana, simply disable the sound card during installation (BIOS or physically).

This is not a solution, but a workaround for those having no other choice. Tested with Windows 10 Pro N.
Why would you not recommend Ubuntu? It's been several years since last time I use desktop version but it was pretty good then.
Not quite. Ecuador made the offer to Sweden to interview Assange in the embassy as early as 2012. The Swedish prosecutor did nothing until March this year when she was prompted to do something by higher ups due to the statute of limitations. Sweden then made the formal request in June which led to what you describe.

If Sweden was serious about getting this sorted out then they could have done so years ago. Instead they've been unusually inflexible about the whole affair which makes the whole thing smell even more than it did at the beginning.
I don't, but I'm not sure that's relevant to the hypothesis that cast iron pans are less toxic than teflon pans.
I guess we're talking cross-purpose. I'm not trying to say Oracle is "good" or "evil" or weigh in on their moral value to the world. I'm just pointing out that business decisions they make, that seem to be illogical or self-harming, never appear to actually harm their overall business long term.
This has a gigantic pop-over and then redirects to some other page not the article.
SQL Injection Attacks, Visually Explained
I am sticking with Windows 7 until I get out of college and after that I am ditching Windows forever.
actually for failing to adhere to his bail conditions his surety is forefit however there are unlikely to be any other significant effects of this action.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am...

I assume the same sort of stuff is happening on Ubuntu today, but I stopped using Ubuntu on the desktop/laptop when this came out and started using Debian instead.
The .ical export is super convenient!
"Merges with upstream by automatically accepting local changes"

For some reason, this scares me. Is there more info on that somewhere?
Interns being unpaid is still better than most organizations working with volunteers that they also expect to pay a fairly large sum for the privilege of volunteering.
> Cortana is your personal assistant. Cortana works best when it can learn about you and your activities by using data from your device, your Microsoft account, third-party services and other Microsoft services. You can choose whether to enable Cortana, and you can turn Cortana off at any time.

> Windows 10, rather than residing as a static software program on your device, key components of Windows are cloud-based, and both cloud and local elements of Windows are updated regularly, providing you with the latest improvements and features. In order to provide this computing experience, we collect data about you, your device, and the way you use Windows. And because Windows is personal to you, we give you choices about the personal data we collect and how we use it.
The problem is specifically the ultraviolet photons in the sunlight, which photoactivate the reaction between bromine ions and ozone to form bromate [1].

The visible color shouldn't matter as much as strong absorbance or reflectance in the UV band. I would guess that they're using a plastic that absorbs UV, or contains a dye that does so.

1: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18290477
Sounds like where I grew up (also rural Georgia). I think I'm a couple of years younger than you, but I distinctly remember when I hit the 6th grade in 1988 and suddenly had access to an encyclopedia that was newer than 1964.

That said, I did enjoy the antiquated references for what they were.
Ubuntu implemented the Amazon lens by default a few years ago. People got cranky about it.
Ozone purification is cheap but could allow for future contamination if there is backflow or possibly a leak in the water mains. Chlorination prevents anything from growing in the water from the filtration plant to your home.

One problem that major coastal cities have is that they collect water from streams that have already been polluted and are on their way out to the ocean. The US has a lot of these cities, 40% of the population occupy the coasts which is only 10% of the country. The cities in the US that typically are regarded as having the best tap water are midwestern cities, ones that do not have a coastline and tend to get cleaner water from natural sources. Switzerland, Austria, and Germany are exactly the same. They are very central countries with nearby access to Alpine runoff water, the water they get is pretty unmolested when compared to what the Potomac River supplies to Washington DC.
It used to (not sure if it still does) send stuff which you typed into the Dash, to Amazon - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am...
In canada that's a big concern
I'm not sure of that, they could even be C# binaries, which are usually easy to disassemble and follow.
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So here's a thought. If I have lots of businesses with a high chance of failure, and I bring them under one roof, any one business is more likely to destroy my entire company. So if I have two high-risk businesses (electric cars and energy storage) having both in the same company greatly increase the total company's chance of insolvency and failure.

On a higher level, I LOVE Elon Musk, but what made Steve Jobs so great is that he could innovate like crazy and make gobs of cash. Right now, Elon is innovating, but his companies are really struggling to even sniff profitability.
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And why isn't everyone who knows that shorting it?
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The CCC is an fascinating organization that hosts really interesting talks (among other things). Where else can you see talks titled "Mexican Botnet Dirty Wars", "Encrypted Email for Planet Earth", and "Basics of hydroponics" in one place?

I can spend all day just poking around their YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/CCCen
I would not call it beautiful. Color choices are appalling. False relief is way overdone. Arbitrary circles splotched everywhere cannot be real data, but statistical? Needs a designer to completely redo it.