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In the UK extraditions, especially ones to the US, are usually won or lost in the court of public opinion. I suspect that Assange feels he would have a better chance of resisting extradition in the UK than in Sweden.

See the case of Gary McKinnon as an example (although McKinnon had much stronger grounds to appeal on than I expect Assange would)
i dont like the idea.
Here are some references to explain how data is anonymized:

http://www.caida.org/data/anonymization/index.xml
The Foveon sensor is different - the claimed benefit there has to do with stacked silicon and lack of debayering, and the benefit is having better resolving power with the same pixel count. Sony is now researching similar stacked chips so we'll probably see this idea return.

The innovation with the tech in the article is in the dynamic range, current CMOS sensors have a fairly limited maximum dynamic range because of the well saturation described in the article, usually around 12-14ev DR. For high contrast situations that isn't enough, and photographers will definitely appreciate increased dynamic range, not to mention the other applications they listed, like astronomy.

On the display side most displays also have fairly limited DR and cannot reproduce the dynamic range in HDR images, so we end up having to tonemap images to get the perceived dynamic range back - however I think HDR monitors will break through in the next couple of years as many HDR TVs are hitting the market this year.
Living in a tent during summer in Switzerland is not that bad. A friend of mine did that. And he was far from the only one on the campground.
I'm not savvy enough to discern whether OSX os iOS does this. Does anyone know if iDevices also ping back to Apple?
APIs are pretty much confirmed to be copyrightable, as far as I can tell. The SC denying cert to review this appeal essentially confirms the Federal Circuit's interpretation. All that is left is to decide on fair use, which could still let Google off, but that defense assumes copyrightability.

But I disagree "we're fucked as an industry", though there could be some inconvenience. The Sega etc. cases still hold, and they essentially say that copying interfaces for binary compatibility / interoperability is fine. As far as statically compiled languages are concerned, that's all we need. If some API creator sues, we can always create / adopt a different API and map it to the binary instructions in the SPI.
There is a reason Snowden didn't dump all the data he had into a public file like some meglomaniacle clown.
If Android usage of Java is in violation of Oracle's copyright, than why isn't OpenJDK? I don't code much in Java and when I do I use Oracle's version, so I don't know how different it is, but I guess the "API" should be the same, no?

Also, I don't see how is it better for Google to be sued by Oracle than using OpenJDK just because it is GPL-ed. Why? It doesn't make sense!
I've currently got a system with the Windows 10 downloaded, but I am hesitant to actually proceed with the (up?)grade. Like many people I assumed that it was just the same old Windows with more enhancements, not something with batshit crazy privacy defaults, that even when disabled still leak data.
I haven't yet found a supported Rust answer to goroutines, though -- am I missing something?
What are "Elixir/Erlang" and "Erlang/Elixir" supposed to mean? I understand adding the slash for OTP, as those are shared traits. Perhaps their use of BEAM, though that's secondary.
> 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.

> > God forbid Microsoft give 7 the boot for support like they did XP.
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I wouldn't say Geneva is highly desirable area. There are far nicer places in switzerland if you love nature and all that (IMHO of course).
Little snitch indicates OSX does, but I'm not savvy enough to discern in what capacity or the content
Altitudes are hugely scaled, btw. If it were a ball with radius of 10cm, then difference of ~30km would be: 10cm / 6300km * 30km == .0476cm (i.e. 0.5mm, almost invisible on display scale). Real highest and lowest marks are at ~9km above and ~10km below water line, iirc.

Earth is completely round with and without water.
> Why not at least consider it?

That is a fair question. However, it all depends on your personal use case and because of that Linux just isn't an option for most people. If you value gaming you can fine tune wine till the cow comes home ... it will never feel (always) right. If you're into music production Linux gives you another "screw you!" Then, there is this huge amount of software for which it seems as if Linux offers reasonable alternatives. But if you really consider what a user actually wants Linux doesn't cut it. For example, Word could be replaced with Libre Office or (my personal favorite) an intriguing combination of markdown and pandoc. If, however, Word is what you want to use (even though I do not understand that) then every click that is different poses as a minor frustration that together with all the other minor frustrations adds up to a huge disappointment.
also iftop and iotop to monitor network and file system usage by application
Why should I trust Zemana more than Microsoft? You're already suggesting at least the latest version is compromised. Then the other question becomes how I know the older copy I get is genuine and not also compromised.
You sound like their pretentious managers
Exactly, it takes less than 5 minutes to figure out how to do this with Fiddler or Wireshark...
Ever considered something halfway, like an electric skateboard to save time? Don't you get sweaty after 10k?
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That's unfortunate. I've had a great experience with both the Nexus 5 and 6.
I do see their mission and the message of the article. The concern is founded. However the way it was expressed could be more neutral.
I know right? Competition is famously awful at delivering progress.
> In principle whoever holds TSLA at $238 does so because they think it's worth more than that.

Not really, more like:

- Investors holding TSLA think its fair priced at 238.

- Investors buying TSLA think its worth more than 238.

- Investors selling TSLA think its overpriced

Obviously these roles can overlap, but if you are a shareholder whos thinks TSLA its worth more than 238 you should take part in this offering and buy more stocks - even just to avoid the dilution.
I think my last link describes the problem accurately from the ground up.

TL;DR the raw pixel values are typically not linearly proportional to the luminescence of the color channels. But a cone cell in the eye actually averages the luminescence of different areas if you look at a fine structured image from far away, so if you want to emulate the perception of the eye then you have to average luminescence values instead of raw pixel values. The conversion is well defined by the colorspaces in use. Most pictures on the Internet uses the sRGB colorspace, which is not linear.

Color perception and colorspaces are actually not straightforward in the sense that naive algorithms often fail. But the basics are not that hard.
You make a great point. In retrospect, I think this is in the same state as remote work policies - techies can't see any reason it wouldn't work in theory, but practical implementation eludes us today.
> they are easy to install, can be updated automatically, they are easy to uninstall

I generally don't have problems with any of those things.

> they are more controlled than Win32 apps

Not necessarily a good thing for power users.

> and they run sandboxed, so they are more secure.

Already got my own solution for this.

> If a ModernUI app does what you need, it would be sensible to run the app rather than a traditional desktop program.

That's what I'm saying. In my experience they generally are inferior to most desktop applications that already exist and are far more powerful and featureful. It's been this way since Windows 8 debuted the Windows Store.

If at some point in the future that changes then I'll consider switching over to them properly. Until then, I'll stick with Win32 programs that are...well, better in both UI (in my opinion, they are easier to navigate) and features.

ModernUI apps are just Microsoft's foray into the walled garden ecosystem. I can't blame them for doing it this way, there is a lot of money to be made and Apple and Google are both doing it so they run the risk of being left behind.

I still like control over how my operating system and the applications on it run though. I'm not an error-prone casual user. I don't need the use of my OS and programs dictated to me., nor do I like my applications to be delivered through a single vendor-controlled portal.
Yet, I believe he has a point, and he had pointed to the very core problem.

If you hadn't read the EULA/ToS/Privacy Policy/etc, but had consented to those (by clicked "agree" in case of click-wrap packaging thingy), the fact is Microsoft is very unlikely to be held accountable if their actions are perfectly conforming to the agreement you had agreed without even reading. Something is surely not right with this whole situation.
I understand your frustration, I've been there too.

However, I think it's very important to understand, and go into it with the mindset as follows:

You're not going to have the same programs. You'll have similar programs and very good alternatives (Photoshop/GIMP, 1Password/KeePass, etc.)

Once I realized that I probably shouldn't try to shoehorn a program written for only a specific OS into what I was doing, I found the experience much better.

Sure, some of the alternatives aren't as good. If you really need them, then you should re-evaulate why you're switiching.
There are products in niche spaces (Higher Ed, for instance) that are built entirely on the Oracle platform. The one we run has a front-end that was built on the old Oracle Forms product and still runs that code on the Oracle WebLogic server and, at its core, are thousands of pl/sql functions and procedures. The companies that have owned this product have had numerous (unsuccessful) projects to migrate the system away from its dependency on Oracle technology.

The database is a solid product, but there is a lot of stuff bolted on and configuration and management is more complicated that it should be and too many features that should be part of the core are expensive extra-cost options. I have a love/hate thing with this company - decent support, over-priced products, and a horrid sleazy sales team that I avoid like the plague.
Well, if we're going to be pedantic, "juvenile" includes 20-somethings. Also, pointless has nothing to do with a person's choosing something.
Oh now I can finally install the OS that will try everything to unearth what I do on my computer... Oh wait, of course I wont.

This is such nonsense. It is like saying 'Hey, there is no problem with living in a glass house where everyone can see you go to the bathroom, you can just put up some curtains.'
My car has a timer that shuts things down after 15min (or so). Regardless of battery voltage.
Facebook cancels internship of student who exposed Messenger privacy flaw
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From BSD errno manpage:

14	EFAULT Bad address. The system	detected an invalid address in
attempting to use an argument of a call.

Is that an example of a misguided operating system? The kernel should kill the offending process instead of sweeping the bug under the rug with an errno code that might not be examined.

Those who live in glass houses ...
I always wondered if it would be possible. I think it would be pretty cool.
I'm sure Microsoft care very much about their business customers, which is why this seems such an odd strategic move. As you say, why try to copy a company like Google's business model when they have their own well-established one?

I'm half-wondering whether the plan has always been to prioritise the consumer market with Windows 10, and they're taking a reasonable punt on the fact that most businesses won't upgrade for a considerable time anyway, giving them enough opportunity to push out updates that address those businesses' concerns based on the early feedback before it really makes much difference. If that is the case then it's still possible that they have misjudged their market and they'll never fully recover from the negative initial reaction they've been receiving in recent weeks, but the strategy itself would be reasonably logical.
> I definitely recommend using Free Software only if you want to be absolutely sure of confidentiality.

So, has anybody ever audited build farms for Debian, Ubuntu, etc? Have we ever seen a breakdown of their income sources? How do you know that the binaries you install are built from the sources you can browse or download from the net?

Do you compile everything yourself?
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I think jump servers are like app pools in IIS - they're not necessarily a good idea anymore, and can introduce problems, but they're not "considered harmful" yet.
I think you mean, during the install process you selected the tiny "Customize settings" and manually disabled this option, after scrolling down on the page that (on my smaller screen) doesn't have a scrollbar enabled:

ref: https://jonathan.porta.codes/2015/07/30/windows-10-seems-to-...

Also, it seems that Win10 ignores some of these settings:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3gm1e3/what_wind...
We switched to imgix recently (after using pre-processed versions using carrierwave / ImageMagick / cloudfront), and it works pretty well for us. There were a few odd glitches setting up, but once it's up and running it seems to do really well.

One neat feature of imgix is its auto format, which converts images to webp/progressive Jpeg on-the-fly based on the browser headers[0].

I'm not associated in any way with imgix, just a fairly new customer.

[0]http://blog.imgix.com/post/90838796454/webp-jpeg-xr-progress...
Except the Swedish appeal courts have had several opportunities to review the warrant, and whilst they have reduced the severity of the allegations in 2010 they upheld it. Again in 2014 Assange went to the Swedish courts to try and get the warrant overturned and failed.

So the Swedish courts certainly don't agree that this is a case without merit.
That is the point. People are tricked into this and most of them did not read the terms or just ignored them.

But Microsoft is on the secure side, because you confirmed the terms -- and not many judges in the world will blame Microsoft in this situation, even when you argue, that you haven't read the terms. When you sign an other contract, you also can not argue, you haven't read the terms (even when they are in very small letters).
I may be alone here, but I feel a little uncomfortable trading stocks solely on a mobile device. Maybe I'm just having an old man moment, but I'd rather do something like this on the desktop with easier simultaneous access to data and research.
std::uv ? lightweight threads similar to go-routines, greenlets of gevent (Python), or Node.js.

EDIT: Mea culpa, it used to have. (ref. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29428318/why-did-rust-rem...)

Well, you can always build your own interfaces to achieve a similar result. But why do you need go-routines ?

By the way, at least, Rust tries to handle concurrency the most he can (by analyzing if data race can occur, at compile-time for example).

What do you need more ?
Harvard student loses Facebook internship after pointing out FB privacy flaws
I accidentally upvoted your comment which is annoying as I think your attitude stinks. This is a useful project, what language it was or wasn't written in should be irrelevant. You'd already pointed out that it disappointed you, a pointless comment but fair enough, then you went on to rub it in further - was there a need for that? No.
It's not just Android. Google is a massive Java shop and a lot of their stuff is written in it. They have plenty of Java expertise in all areas.

It's also the main language taught at universities, which helps with hiring. I've heard that Google's public use of Python is more for PR. If you want to change this then the way is to change what educators are teaching.

Java is probably one of the reasons why they acquired Android. Possibly even one of the reasons Android is written in Java.

I once knew a senior Java architect who turned down a job at Google. This was back in the "who needs another Yahoo!" days. Needless to say they regretted that decision.
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If they're using DNS to resolve the name of the "mothership" just put a bogus record (or zone) in your DNS. If they're not using any name resolution protocol and you can isolate the IP addresses they're talking to just blackhole them at your border.
Apparently you don't know many police officers. This, in fact, was inevitable, following specifically from the circumstance that many police officers are also reserve soldiers and spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan using those tools. I'd estimate the vast majority of law enforcement organizations in the US have personnel that are also in the reserves or guard. I deployed with many police officers, and heard many of those police officers talk specifically about getting a hold of these biometrics tools for use in law enforcement back home.

You're right that not everyone shares my somewhat unique perspective, and so to those who have no relationship with police officers and are therefore ignorant of the facts, it may seem fallacious. And also it's fun to make those quippy accusations, so I understand the impulse.
history, that's what
The technology is agnostic and can be used in ways not originally envisioned. What happens when every police appearance is captured and then run through say social media scans for 'ID' purposes?
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I like this idea. Any pointers for some lambda scripts that do this?
Thanks, an other question: what happens when the remote can't fast-forward merge? I assume it doesn't force push.
Ask HN: Recruiter took my money, what to do?
So the story goes: Somewhere in UK, I was hired through a recruiter a long time ago...
I have not signed or accepted any contract from the recruiter beyond period and day rate for the work.
My understanding is that the client did sign a contract with the recruiter, details of which I don't know.

Fast forward a while.

The client approached me directly, asking If im available to do more work, which I was and we agreed a day rate and a period with the client.
As the contract finished, the recruiter found out that I was working directly to the client and swiftly got in touch with them.

From what I hear they are planning to/have inflated my agreed rate with the client and charged them for my work.
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Now I understand that the client has breached the contract they had with the recruiter by hiring me directly, which opens the client up for legal action - not a great position to be in.
I can sympathetic they just want the problem to go away and get on with their life.
However, this leaves me with in a difficult situation as well, with my earnings for the past 2 months gone.

Client now maintains radio silence, not answering emails or phone calls. I have not spoken to the recruiter yet, wanted to get some advice on HN before I do so.

My understanding is that client and recruiter can settle the broken contract through legal means or settle out of court.
The recruiter however should not be able to charge for my work (correct me if im wrong), an agreement that was made between me and the client irrespective of their previous contract, as that would constitute as fraud.

Not sure what do now, any advice would be greatly appreciated!
What KPIs can be get from Google Analytics for marketing team?
In many cases the decision to go with Oracle was made decades ago, and the cost of migrating large, legacy databases and codebases away from Oracle is higher than the cost of continuing to use Oracle. Oracle licenses can be very expensive, but migrating and rewriting and retesting working code can be even more expensive!

Also, Oracle is pretty good at achieving vendor lock-in. For example they introduced a rapid web application development platform called "Apex" [1] about a decade ago and shipped it with every Oracle database (even the "free" Oracle Express Edition). In my experience, developers who use it tend to like it, it does achieve rapid development, and there's really nothing else like it outside of Oracle. Once an organization has Apex apps, though, there's no migration path to Postgres that doesn't involve completely redeveloping the Apex applications from scratch.

Finally, despite all of the ways in which Oracle seems to be business and developer unfriendly, for a developer or DBA trained and experienced and entrenched in the Oracle ecosystem (and for whom license costs and sales tactics are not a concern), it's really not such a bad place to be IMHO. I personally would not choose Oracle for my own ventures but in the cases where Oracle has been chosen for me, I enjoy working in the ecosystem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Application_Express
I know, I just don't see how it solves this issue. You couldn't solve the issue before "fumbling with aperture size and exposure length"

The only thing I would consider that solves "fumble with aperture size and exposure length" would be huge ISO range (both ways) without any noise.

> No more will photographers or even ordinary people have to fumble with aperture size and exposure length.
So, Microsoft did unethical but legal move.

That's almost exactly what he said - Legally, user is at MS' mercy, ethically that's not OK.
You're technically correct, but:

Do you type passwords and other private information directly into GDocs? What about other things you type on your keyboard?

There's a difference between knowingly entering information into a 'cloud' system, and having a core OS collecting all keystrokes.
That is hilarious, straight out of an SNL/Onion skit. And these are the folks who run the world.
The book Beautiful Code from O'Reilly Associates aims to do that. A glance into the book shows C, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Scheme.
Or sedition and lese majesty. This technology can be used to enforce laws hostile to the masses as well as it can help enforce laws friendly to us. Since we do not control it, it will inevitably be used for both.

In areas where violent and property crimes are high, it will be a blessing. In places where law enforcement is used mainly for supplementing municipal revenue, it will be a curse. And where the government uses the law as a weapon against dissent, it will be a nightmare.
It's not giving up; it's embracing a set of risks for a reward. The question is whether one feels the set of risks and the reward are too ill-defined to make the trade worth it.

Microsoft appears to be in the business of trying to build a fully-functioning virtual assistant. If they're solving that problem with big data, they need a full stream of the user's behavior to operate on. But the tradeoff---an actual, working virtual assistant---could very well be worth it to people for whom that personal information is not worth hiding from a corporation with no vested interest in undermining their customer base by irresponsibly divulging that data.

If anything's sad, it's that we live in a world where some people do not have the freedom to treat their private info so loosely. That's a true tragedy, because there will increasingly be technologies they can't take advantage of.
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The older version is blacklisted by the NSA. They don't like people using it. Leaked Snowden documents prove this.