skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better way to think about this is to look at what they will do with the capital they are raising. If they can put it to work in very high return-on-capital projects that have a return that is higher than their cost of capital, then the net impact will be to increase their earnings per share, which presumably will lead to a still higher valuation for the stock.
Is Sweden a member of "Five Eyes" ?
Just use GNU/Linux already!
This reminds me I haven't updated my Perl fuse interface to a Git repo in a long, long while… https://github.com/mfontani/git-fuse-perl
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interesting to see this! the first thing that came to mind was irmin, from the good folks at MirageOS. unikernels provide an interesting opportunity to rethink block storage, as you're no longer bound the rest of your operating system.

curious to see how gitfs and irmin develop.

https://github.com/mirage/irmin
Yeah me too, but not really. You make absolutely no difference when you buy a few shares of stock. Can you buy the car? I believe consumers can make a big difference by helping new technologies. (e.g buy LED lights, hybrids, EV's). We can also help by supporting Kickstarter projects that make a difference. VR was Kickstarted. Maybe home solar or robotics will be next.
What's with the completely useless thumbnail at the bottom?

That said, the technological explanation sounds simple and solid. Why aren't cameras doing that already?
50-60 minutes for me.
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I'm amazed with that kind of release. Ember didn't do the same thing like Angular, CakePHP, Python, etc. That ensure that the documentation and all the Stack Overflow questions will stay relevant.
As a hacker news reader you should know that this is extremely simple to disable / uninstall. Ubuntu is ok for a desktop, because you will find a lot of software ready to be installed on Ubuntu without having to dig into details of software packaging / compilation etc. This is especially true for all kinds of media software.
It doesn't surprise me. Moves in this direction were likely as soon as Nadella was chosen to be the new CEO and all but certain as soon as they announced the free upgrade push for Windows 10.

It does disappoint me, though. 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. Instead, they seem to be throwing good money after bad in what I'm already expecting to be a repeat of Vista/8 level failure. They have about as much chance of actually out-Googling Google as Mozilla do with Firefox, yet like Mozilla they persist in trying and in doing so alienating the substantial user base who valued their products precisely because they weren't like that.
I wondered the same; it takes two hyperlinks to get to the project's home page where they have a larger version.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~hangzhao/modulo.html
Intrinsic value is something of a misnomer; in reality it simply means: I've done some sort of analysis, looked at the future cash flows, and discounted them back to the present at some rate. In reality there is nothing intrinsic about it; your valuation is your opinion about the future based on a multitude of assumptions, nothing more.

But even if your valuation is remarkably different than the public markets it does not then follow that you should short; this ignores the importance of time in making a good investment decision. This is compounded by the fact that shorts and options are incredibly effective means of losing lots of money in a short amount of time.
Wonderful how Assange wants everything done on his terms, if I was accused of a serious crime I'd want to be questioned from somewhere they couldn't extract me from too.
This.

Even though you always hear about the mobile web, web devs simply aren't trying hard enough to make the mobile web experience pleasant. They'd rather complain about mobile safari or mobile chrome than actually look at their own product.

(Yes, this is a generalization, but generally, the mobile web sucks.)
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This is spot on.

Regarding the last paragraph, I was once in a meeting at a very large company in which an AVP asked me and several other experienced engineers: "Ignore the technical details; is there any reason we shouldn't purchase this large suite of Oracle products?" That was the litmus test, so yes, it's purely a safety play for many.
Under Windows click "learn more" and then read under "Input Personalization".

I'm considering using a secondary computer (linux) for all of my personal internet activity and making my windows box purely game dev / gaming.
How sure are you that the non-stick coating left on the pan is more carcinogenic than browned hash browns?
FWIW if you go to an IKEA, my experience is that the prices at the store are significantly reduced from what is listed on their website.
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It's how it has always worked.
If you already own x percent of the company (a sizeable enough percentage to influence voting) then you buy in. You probably were a shareholder consulted about the plan anyway.

If you weren't, your shares are still worth the same amount, so even though your voting percentage has gone down you still have the same value of stock, so it shouldn't affect you materially anyway.
I know Superfish was not included on Thinkpads. I am not sure about this latest breach. But that's not terribly important; the company showed that it can't be trusted. If they're so eager to sell out some of their customers, what's to stop them from going a step further in the future?

Much as I love Thinkpads, the only reasonable stance from here on out is to presume that every Lenovo computer is compromised by default.
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It's interesting to compare different systems. Here's one for a small part of the UK. Our tap water (from thefaucet) is vety high quality.

http://www.thameswater.co.uk/cycles/accessible/water_treatme...

The last stage of the process is to add chlorine to the water.
Keeping the same voting rights as before would mean the new shares would be issued with no voting rights. Which is possible, but would then discount the price people are willing to pay for them.
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Reminds me of the implementation of the TRNG from yesterday's front page.
I don't want the OS to talk to anywhere except for a clearly defined, lean, verifiable process that fetches security updates.

That's why I use Debian. And hope they do the right thing.
For an open source alternative written in Go, with a Dockerfile to make deployments super easy see: https://github.com/pressly/imgry

We use it to scale 10million images / day across 3 c3.large boxes with ave response time of 120ms.
If Ecuador had just opened the doors imminently when the Swedish prosecution changed their mind, Ecuador role in this would had been mostly ignored by media. They would be like invisible administrators just doing what others tell them to do.
[citation-needed]
I honestly believe that Xubuntu is the best Desktop operating system.
The VMs aren't even close to "high performance" (although they are very wonderfully compatible), and the UI toolkit is not one (it's a document markup toolkit with buttons and such glued on, it's pretty awful compared to Mac OS's Interface Builder).

And any computer can run just about any kind of code now. Ask someone to download Python or LuaJIT and they can run your code.

Security models? In Lua, you can empty the environment and start fresh. You have a perfect sandbox with the flip of a switch.

I don't think the grandparent comment is sneering. I think he has an opinion that disagrees with yours.
Python 2 only - disappointing.
Quoting myself:

>"it's right that information that is factually wrong gets separated" //

Addressing your second para, they'll find that the information doesn't tally, that doesn't mean the library is wrong necessarily - if you compare 2 websites you're as likely to find a conflict. Looking at publication dates and other indicators is an important part of research; realising a 1970s book won't have the latest info on Mars is a very important part of research and part of the process that children should go through. Insulating kids from the issues of verifying sources is right at some level (hence my comment quoted above) but ultimately one wants to have pupils finding conflicting sources.
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The following isn't snark:

So, is that a "yes" to my question? A "sort of"? A "it's too complicated to summarize"?
The extradition hearing took three days, which is hardly a "very lengthy process". And it didn't validate the Swedish judicial process because that isn't its function. An EAW extradition hearing in the UK is merely to establish that an extraditable offence is alleged, that the party requesting the extradition has standing, and that there are no Human Rights Act issues [1]. Persons facing extradition on an EAW don't get to argue about the merits of the allegations they're facing: that happens when they arrive in the extraditing country.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/extradition-processes-and-review
Genuine question: What are the equivalent easy to use development tools that map to sysinternals tools such as procexp, procmon, tcpview, ....? If it is just lsof, ps, top, netstat then I'm seriously missing some thing. It is one of my personal pain points with linux.
Yes, it can be scary, but usually this is the safest strategy. You can implement your own strategy and use it very easily (https://github.com/PressLabs/gitfs/tree/master/gitfs/merges).

Also, you can see how conflicts are solved, directly in the implementation (https://github.com/PressLabs/gitfs/blob/master/gitfs/merges/...).

Do you want to know something more specific?
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> His best strategy is therefore to stay in the embassy for now.

Of course his best strategy is to avoid prosecution. That should mean we condemn him as a hypocrite, instead he has actual supporters blaming the victims!
There is no Java inside an Android handset. Dalvik isn't Java. Dalvik bytecode isn't Java. The two Android runtimes have similar semantics to Java, but there is no Java technology in either one. There is no JavaCompiler API in Android.

Google "uses" Java in the toolchain, for some definition of "use." But They don't sell anyone any Java. It will be tough sledding for anyone trying to show there is Java IP inside Android.
Oracle has had a really fundamental impact on databases, being one of the first relational DBs and the first one in widespread use. I think it'd take a lot more than suing Google over Android to make Elison a "net negative" to the world. It's like Google Seach. Google could launch a bullshit patent war against Facebook to help Google+, but the negative effect of that wouldn't outweigh the positive contribution of Google Search.

I note this not to defend Oracle so much as point out that the history of computing is long and a lot of important stuff happened before this latest Android/Twitter/Facebook era.
Besides the obvious problems of building very expensive machines like ITER with a limited budget, there are multiple routes that might lead to commercial fusion. Magnetic confinement is just one of them. Currently it's the only one that gets any significant funding. If we had unlimited money we could pursue all options simultaneously.

That's how it worked in the Manhattan Project. They tried all ways to a working nuke in parallel. So they came up with Little Boy (gun type assembly) and Fat Man (implosion type assembly).
Spoofing was an issue for cheating but so was GPS data quality: spend enough time in a metro area and you're ready to tear your hair out because of constant drift.

Combine that with Niantic's shift from freely giving equipment away to forcing players to "glyph hack" (repeat back a series of proprietary symbols) and casual players dropped out of the game.
Given the list of things you need to do to ensure security, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that "configured and managed properly" is something that does not happen in reality. Until there is something more fundamental making breaches impossible, you're never going to be sure that there isn't something that you've missed.

It's ok that Docker containers are not yet secure sandboxes, and it would be a great if that changed.
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Developers have an itch to scratch. That itch is that they enjoy making stuff. If that itch isn't getting scratched at their day job, they will come home and develop a framework they will then blog about. Other devs will read about it, and their itch to work on the latest technology isn't getting scratched so they will start to use it. This cycle continues until the internet crumbles under the weight of all this crap.
And then it runs out quicker than ever and we all die. Soooo.... I think we better just take some of the scariest fear messages with a grain of salt, especially when it leads back to the status quo. I think that we need to be the best stewards of our planet that we can be and that means there is a sort of moral imperative to move to the cleanest methods of energy production as soon as possible. We are making strides, the whole world is. Maybe not as fast as some would like, but the progress is there and will continue because the economics are finally starting to come around.
C# exists, in part, because Sun sued over Visual J++.
Well don't forget PayPal which innovated like crazy and is super profitable. But for modern day Musk I think you're forgetting his businesses are by definition very capital intensive. He has to build out the entire means of production as well as the end product. It would be awesome in some ways if he could just pay Foxconn and have them shoulder all that infrastructure build out cost to build him some more Teslas but it doesn't work that way with what he's doing. The flip side is if he pulls this off he can hit a tipping point where he's the AWS of batteries for a whole range of industries and becomes a huge profit machine.
The title here is terrible because over-saturation is an effect of poor tone mapping, which is inevitable if you want to display an HDR image in a low dynamic range display. An accurate title would be the end of over-exposed images, but why not just keep the original?
Yeah...we know, but there is a plan of rewriting / refactoring some parts and we hope to port as much as we can from Python 2 to 3 by the end of this summer.

Thanks for reminding us ^_^
> Saying that a share is overvalued against its "intrinsic" value is not saying the share is overvalued

It is exactly what it means [1]

> or will go down.

The intrinsic value of a lottery ticket is below the price you pay, it doesn't mean you can never win. That said, nobody knows the intrinsic value. In the case of TSLA you have a range of sell-side analysts telling you it's somewhere between $178 and $400. (Edit: to be fair, probably they are using multiples [2] and not a proper intrinsic value calculation. A DCF doesn't get you very far in the current market, much less so in companies like Tesla. For a discussion based on fundamentals see [3]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_value_(finance)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valuation_using_multiples

[3] http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.ch/2014/03/return-to-firing-...
I say the following as a Linux enthusiast: Ubuntu is absolutely not "ready for the prime time," as you put it.

It's not ready for home users, it's not ready for most businesses, it's not ready for anyone except a small number of users.
You act like that's an unreasonable demand. Questioning is not arrest, and does not need the ability to arrest.
If this is true, then it really does flabber my gaster.

I've no problem with them doing this sort of thing, but it must be opt-in rather than opt-out. Like you say, this isn't just about individual privacy concerns, it's about important legal obligations that people may unwittingly be violating if they use Windows 10.
Let me tighten up my argument a bit. Assume two businesses with an 80% chance of success, where success is worth $1000, and a 20% chance of failure, where failure is worth -$2000. But of course these are stocks, so they can't be worth less than zero, so the expected value of each is $800.

But the expected value of the combined company (where all outcomes are floored at zero) is only $1280 (not $1600), because there's a real chance that one business blows through the profits of the other.
We have an enterprise edition VM in test and it appears to react the same as Pro at least. Haven't tried home.

What is scary is the lack of GPOs to turn this stuff off which you'd expect in an enterprise product. Technically we can't apply policy to make this compliant with our data protection requirements.

Their funeral to be honest.
Ecuadorian embassy invited Swedish prosecutors in 2012 for the first time. Yet Sweden has not replied for nearly a year - maybe Ecuador is not playing fair,but Sweden is not exactly trying.
Looks to be more related to exposure than saturation but still, it's an interesting new take on dynamic range. I'm more a hobbyist than an expert but current tone mapping techniques (at least anything mostly automated) can often leave you with "halos" around objects where the software has feathered the edges between lighter and darker areas. Then the article mentions the issues with using multiple shots for tone mapping.

I still try to just expose "properly" for the effect I want and shoot RAW to give me a little leeway in tweaking shadows and highlights but I'd be interested in trying out software that uses this technique if only for something new to mess with.
I don't even lock my doors... more rural area, but not out in the forest rural. Now, when I go to a more urban area, or a city, or a place less familiar then I lock my car doors. Lots of it depends on where you are.
I don't see a reason why they wouldn't be able to scale on Google's could. So I don't think that has anything to do with the spinoff.
If by "contribution toward our future", you mean giving money to Tesla, buying their stock in the secondary market (i.e. the "stock market") doesn't transfer any money to them. You'd have to get in on the IPO or a secondary offering to have that effect.

However, supporting the existing stock price could have an effect - typically the market price influences the price of a secondary offering like this.
What makes you think no one is using Squeak as an application server?
I wonder why, after downloading and installing the GitHub Desktop application I should use my GitHub account and password to connect the client to GitHub (with no other way available)?

Would it not have been better if GitHub Desktop was a seperate application that gets permissions (for example via OAuth 2.0) as an application in the "Authorized applications" section of the GitHub profile?

Or am I missing something here?
It seems like this would make big glass even more important. This solution protects for over exposure, but doesn't address under exposure on a scene that moves (think indoor bar photography). So it isn't a end all solution that will everyone capture reality with their cell phones, but it is an awesome step in that direction.
Well, large parts of operating costs of a fission nuclear power plant is getting rid of the radioactive waste and shutting it down safely.

With fusion, due to nature of the process, and the fact that the reaction isn't self sustaining the prices could be lower.

The big reason is that fusion produces less radioactive waste and doesn't cause a meltdown when a breach happens. Yes, neutron bombardment happens, and it makes stuff more radioactive but IIRC the half time is lower and the shielding could be optimized to have low half-life time.
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I run into this. Files are only partially synced.

You end up with broken code. If you are lucky it has a syntax error. If you are not lucky you get mysterious bugs.

The work around is to go back and try re-editing the file to retrigger a sync.

There are lots recommendations to try Fusion over Vbox but I think this issue makes it a wash.
The whole "Python 2 only" thing feels pretty 2012.
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Sounds like my situation.

I have been able to put Unity on the back-shelf because it's just a hobby for me. I have been experimenting with Phaser / PIXI / P2 + ScalaJS in the meantime while I wait for the Editor to come to Linux, which will hopefully happen in the near future [1].

As for actually playing games, a surprising amount of the ones I try have been ported over to Linux already. For the rest, I use Steam Live Streaming from a Windows 7 box which works pretty well. Steam can even stream non-Steam games (blizzard ones for example). I tried using it to stream the Unity Editor, but it was just too clunky for my tastes.

1: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/07/01/the-state-of-unity-on-li...
The same happened to me, though I think his point would have made more strongly if he had acknowledged at any point that he was running a beta version. So normal people still have some time (6 weeks or so?) before this is an issue for them.
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Sweden has questioned many people in London. For some reason, they wanted to make a special exception for Assange. Why?
Agreed, but voices of reason like yours will be "lost in the flood" once the East River starts lapping at sidewalks of Wall St. Geoengineering to avert climate disaster will be attempted by governments and even private individuals everywhere once the shit really begins to hit the fan. So, we might as well get good at it.
Well, no, not really. I mean, I'm sure some small farmers do care, but they're a vocal minority in the same way people posting on Hacker News about various computer-related ills most people are unconcerned about are a vocal minority.
I'm keeping an eye on http://aurelia.io/ - I like the way it's going. There's no doubt Rob Eisenberg is smart; whether they can build a community & get traction around Aurelia remains to be seen.
> No more will photographers or even ordinary people have to fumble with aperture size and exposure length.

This is a "computer scientists" understanding of photography, and this phrase alone can even be seen as "dangerous" by photographers. There's more to aperture size and exposure length than "how much light reaches the sensor", like focus, depth of field, motion blur and bokeh, to name a few, that is not aknowledged by that understanding. The technology is good, but it won't change the way photographers deal with photography, at best, it will give them a better tool to work with.

I also wonder how much impact this could have. Foveon Inc. had developed a great sensor that was going to be revolutionary, about 20 years ago. Today only Sigma uses it, and the UX is so bad in those cameras that the (very good) technology they had their hands on never got a chance to shine.

Also, is this implementation very different from having a 16-bit ADC in normal sensors? The end results would be the same: higher dynamic range. And the increase in bits seems a lot closer (because it would mean little changes to the current manufacture processes) than a whole new type of sensor being use in cameras.
VMware Fusion has fine performance on shared folders. I use it all the time with docker-machine.