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I'm primarily a Windows user on the desktop/laptop side (though I do also use a lot of Linux/Unix/embedded systems) and my advice to everyone who asks (as the token 'IT advice guy' to lots of friends and family) is just don't install anti-virus software. Modern Windows is better off without it. As far back as XP the best option was to install Microsoft's own Windows Defender and uninstall everything else, now just use what the OS already comes with.

Microsoft's goal with virus elimination is to make Windows work better, 3rd party vendor's goals with virus elimination are to upsell you on a lot of crap you don't need. It isn't difficult to see why the 3rd party stuff is all a bunch of crap that floods you with false positives while bogging your system down in an attempt to seem like it is doing something useful.

Yes, there are occasionally exceptions to the rule, but they all eventually follow a logical progression from useful lightweight tool to bloated piece of shit that is worse than most viruses they could possibly save you from.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10799572
It's a shame, they were so close to seeming not-evil! It's funny, I think Windows 10 kind of got a free pass on some pretty big bullshit (forced updates, extremely bad privacy policies) because people were like "ah, microsoft is harmless now". Those are things that would have been HUGE ten years ago. Like, windows 10 basically defaults you into keylogging. It's not exactly keylogging, but they basically propose uploading your inputs so it's pretty similar. I'm not a hater, but this "new" and "friendly" Microsoft tends to be newer and friendlier when people hold them accountable; they shouldn't be getting a free pass on some of this nonsense they're trying to pull.
This kind of analysis feels flawed because people from different cultures have different body language.
Harvard also has something similar for their OS course (now used outside of Harvard as well) called OS/161.

http://os161.eecs.harvard.edu
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>only in the last 5 years has stood up and said simply "this state of affairs is neither fair nor right, and must change".

I'm not sure what you're trying to stay here. The Civil Rights movement grew out of the 60s.
The application was filed in 2006.
I don't know how much pull you have within your company and with the SoC/etc suppliers that you use, but please please please preach the mainline mainline mainline, upstream upstream upstream mantra.
What's the open source driver situation like for these things? Is it worth supporting nvidia by buying one of these, or are they likely to crack down on developers to keep this thing closed? It is an awfully interesting device, but I'd hate to buy one and find I could only really use it as an android device, especially after reading reviews about that lackluster functionality.
> "one cannot claim that they knew exactly how they got a certain object and then say at a later time that they did not even know such an object exists"

But it can happen in the opposite order. I recall at least one professional athlete [0] getting caught with drugs in his bag at the airport, and having the charges dismissed because (supposedly) his friend had used his bag and left the drugs in it, without his knowledge. The claim "I didn't know that existed" (ie, drugs in the bag -- knowing drugs exist in general is not the same as knowing drugs exist within your bag) is compatible with the later claim "given that it does exist, I'm certain as to where it came from" (knowing someone else had used that bag during the prior week).

In the context of this thread, it's quite possible for (some of) the crew of a ship to be in the dark as to what cargo might be onboard, and therefore to not knowingly possess contraband or be involved in slave trading. "Ignorance of the law is no defense; ignorance of crime is one." [1] As kbenson rightly pointed out, it's not "aiding and abetting" if you don't know crime is happening; it's only "aiding and abetting" if you're trying to help someone commit a crime. As the link you yourself posted says, "It is necessary to show that the defendant has wilfully associated himself with the crime being committed" -- not merely that he helped someone who happened to have committed a crime, but that he intentionally, knowingly, chose to participate in crime.

[0] http://espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1906525

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40709114/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/i...
I've often read in physics communities that explicitly getting a job in "physics" is pretty hard outside academia, is that wrong?
I switched jobs on H1B recently and I don't see what you think the leash is. The process takes about two weeks and as far as I can tell there is no realistic risk of losing the H1B even if your (about to be) former employer fires you and the new company butchers the transfer [1].

As a side-note, me changing jobs fairly dramatically increased my salary. I could presumably (I did not negotiate with old employer but a colleague did when he was about to leave) have gotten the same salary at my old place just by showing the new offer. I don't really see where the difference to a citizen is in this whole exercise.

([1] this is so because even if in the worst case you were kicked out of the country you could still reclaim the remaining time on the H1B so the worst case is still limited and I know of zero such cases.)
https://gist.github.com/bishboria/8326b17bbd652f34566a#gistc...

There's a comment with a curl command for that on the repository.
The RasPi still needs a GPU blob to boot right?
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When I'm finished with HtDP I think I'll try to code some projects and then take a look at it, thanks.
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Don't they have feeders that do this for dogs and cats? What's wrong with those?
Bought it for my beautiful wife for Christmas! And she's enjoying it.
Sure, but suing Corel is ongoing now. It's an expensive, active process Microsoft is engaging in
> Without any kind of protection, anyone who has a greater means of production/marketing than you will always steal your ideas and profit more from them than you can.

Since you're an artist shouldn't you only care about copyright and trademarks? What's a patent going to do for you? If someone steals your designs then you can sue them through means other than patents. If they copied your idea but executed differently then well I guess that sucks to a degree but if it's an obvious evolution then more than likely it happened independent of you anyway.

I would imagine artists would have the least issue with just abolishing patents entirely so I'm curious why you do.
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NVIDIA has opensource Linux support for its SoCs in the form of L4T - Linux for Tegra.

Also checkout Tegra Shield Tablet running Ubuntu natively.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tablet/development/ru...
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Happy reading, dude.

FWIW, I've found the Postgres documentation to be a little less easy for a novice to wrap their head around, but substantially higher quality than the MySQL documentation. Just remember that the Postgres documentation has sections that are purely reference material and sections that are mostly tutorials.

When in doubt, play around and make notes on what you did so when you accidentally burn it all down you can remember to not do the same thing twice. ;)
You do realize that Jews were actually forbidden to enter and as a result millions died. Or that as early as 1965 when immigration and nationality act was enacted lifting country based caps to certain extent. Several US Congressman reassurred the public that the country won't be overrun by "dirty hindoos" (No kidding) if you are naive enough to thing that the current immigration and H1B logjam is not result of those past laws and you ought to not argue or even offer an opinon. Well then good luck with your career with this attitude one day you will wake up with your boss screwing you and you would be a nice sheep docile and ready for sacrifice.
Sure, but the litigation is recent.
See my EDIT above. I am no economist to parse all this information, but in my experience and people I know the wage argument for "genuine" H1B applicants is hyperbole.
Big fallacy here... The Japanese built a world-class technology industry with local labor. German companies are still best in class using local labor. Israel has a thriving technology industry based on local labor. Why would the US companies be any different from what they are right now? 90%+ of Google/FB/Apple software development is US based. The only real difference is that they would have to pay higher salaries, which doesn't seem to be a big burden, since their owners are multibillionaires -- that is, these companies are clearly not counting pennies to survive.
>Ormandy's no hack. That didn't happen.

Like I said, I don't want to speculate on why he published it.

>You can clearly look at the bug report and see that Mr. Ormandy thinks that the issue he reported is resolved. I don't know what you do for a living, but Ormandy does security research for a living. Have you looked into his credentials, reputation, and employer yet? :)

I'm aware this is for Google, and have mentioned that in comments in this thread. I'm not sure why I should believe his implication that everything was resolved over "my own lying eyes". Perhaps if he'd said "this XSS is not an issue" without explanation, I'd be happy, but he doesn't even acknowledge the point in what I can see.

Whether the bug report implies everything is resolved: I'm not so sure. Maybe he considers it resolved because every issue in the original was fixed, and AVG didn't acknowledge the last issue? I have no idea, and he hasn't given enough information for me to have an idea.

I'd sooner believe that something's wrong with the closing of the bug report than something's wrong with my understanding of how this is still a bug. Note that nobody yet has given me any explanation of how it might not be a bug, and HN is probably full of people who could explain it if it was the case.
> The JVM is already open source.

I can picture Google's lawyers using that in court against Oracle.

> then the litigious organization issue might have been too

That might is a big MIGHT, the same kind that keeps browser vendors from shipping various media codecs and news companies from using various media streaming protocols.

> WebAssembly doesn't have a GC

The GC all browsers currently have and will not get rid of that I was referring to was the JavaScript VM.

> It also doesn't have ~20 years of performance tuning on different microarchitectures the way the JVM does.

And the JVM doesn't have the start up performance of any JS VM. I would estimate the number of exploits to be significantly higher for the JVM, but worth less.

> Benefits include getting scala, clojure, jython, jruby, and about 30 other languages working client side in the browser for free.

JS is the most compiled to language in existence. Also, my point has been none of this would be free. How do you integrate JVM with DOM? Who's going to rewrite all that? Who's GC cleans up around here?

> Not to mention the languages that have been statically compiled will run way faster than the equivalent JS.

Are you talking about WebAssembly here? Cause it sounds like you are.
Oooooooh... just thought of something that would be cool, would be if the mirror could detect who is in front of it... say as a bathroom mirror, and display the calendar of the person there... minimal facial recognition, wouldn't be too hard to do.
That's not how fractional reserve banking works.

Say I deposit $100 in a bank. The bank has $100. Now, say the law requires a 10% reserve. They can lend $90--which they actually have. That person takes the loan, and deposits it in their bank. Now, there are $190 in deposits from the original $100. But the bank never lent money it didn't have. Instead, the money creation comes from the fact I get to treat my $100 deposit as good as cash on hand, even though 90% of it has been lent to another person.
Actually, a Bitcoin-based system would, wouldn't it? (just thinking). So far I think people have hard time to figure out all the side effects of 100% reserves. I'm tentatively for it, though humans are great at "unintended consequences"...
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So standard police practice, isnt it?
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Android would be a smaller display and potentially a camera/microphone for some environment detection.
Not to nitpick, but M.2 is just a form factor. The big gains come from being NVMe PCIe, not the form factor. You get the same gains with NVMe PCIe in 2.5" drive form factor.
How is code supposed to determine user intent? The AVG developers would no doubt say the user intended to install their software and didn't want to have to learn all of the details, just like every other malware / adware vendor claims; the Chrome developers would say that users want to be secure but if you ask, millions of people will be insecure because they made a mistake or were encouraged to believe something was safer than it actually is.

There simply isn't a simple solution to this problem.
Are you fucking trolling us? Are you actually literally so young as to not remember Java Applets?

I don't think you have any idea of what you want, nor do you realize what you're asking for. You... want... WebAssembly.
Microsoft filed this lawsuit against Corel 10 days ago (December 18, 2015), claiming all profits to Corel Home Office.
Guess there won't be a royalty check for me this year.

http://tinyurl.com/hmwpf8e

I'm totally fine with having our book available for free; actually, I prefer it that way. Yet I find it a bit odd that Springer never even notified any of the authors. I suppose as copyright owners, they can do that.
Arguably if lawyers are to be replaced by AI wouldn't the AI work quicker, file more lawsuits and seek faster judgements? Seems like AI making a literal interpretation of many things would make this problem far worse :)
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Seriously. I thought the "Microsoft is evil" stance has become outdated and we'd rather look at Facebook and Apple, now. But it's like they've been trying to catch up, recently. The Windows 10 fiasco is textbook Microsoft bullshit, amplified to 11. Now this little pearl is another amazing example.
a silly patent (even by design patent stds), but the complaint illustrates that this patent is a pretty small part of a [smallish] thicket of patents on the ribbon concept, as well corel pretty brazenly trying to capitalize on the Office UI (whether that is a legit claim or not is up for debate) back when MS was pushing it (and of course MS allegedly meeting with Corel to "resolve" it after finding out). personal opinion is that it may have been a compelling claim in 2007/2008, but now just gives you that slimy feeling again. another good fact (probably irrelevant) is that microsoft is now (and has been) encouraging people to use the ribbon metaphor (as far as i can tell).
What's interesting though is that debugging hyperparameters like this is much more at the level of human thought, rather than the nitty-gritty of programming. It's much closer to the Star Trek concept of programming

"Computer, create fake chinese characters. These don't look right, stop drawing earlier. Ok, cut out all that are outside a one inch by one inch square."
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> WebAssembly doesn't have a GC, and probably won't for some time.

Yeah... because it's assembly. That's the whole point. You don't WANT a GC. It would be the wrong layer to place a GC in. Ask most professional game developers if they would consider using a platform with a GC. They won't, because you can't build a realtime system without stuttering if you're dealing with a GC.
Putting aside whether Microsoft’s design was actually new and not obvious in 2006 (when Microsoft filed its application)

UI sliders were certainly not novel in 2006. And I'd be surprised if Corel did anything other than use the stock slider in Microsoft's UI library. Maybe they implemented their own and it looks too much like Microsoft's?
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Why didn't we get "Stupid Patent of the Month" HN posts when Apple patented "electronic devices with rounded corners?"
Here's a writeup on a few approaches: http://slides.com/shirleywu/deck#/
Wikipedia says L4T contains proprietary drivers, but nvidia's having a third party make experimental open source drivers for mainline linux. Is that information out of date? The sources are from 2012 and very well could be. I'm trying to look for info but there's a lot of uninformative crap out there.
Microsoft's lawyers have most likely been working on this case for a while so who knows how recently this process started.

Having said that yeah this is pretty disappointing behavior but I wouldn't be surprised if it's simply part of the company doing things others don't know about; maybe if enough attention is drawn to it it'll be dropped? Yeah that's probably unlikely but so many of their groups are full of awesome people and it sucks when a company does something stupid to tarnish its image.
US domination of technology development doesn't mean exporting jobs or importing foreign labor. The US has 300 million people, many of them college educated. There is nothing preventing the US from dominating technology even if it doesn't have an H1B program. Such arguments are so easy disprove, you just need to look how silly they are.
I'm confused if there ever was a field at the intersection of Physics and Informatics, EE has got to be it. Shannon literally invented information theory....
Nice! Just added to -> https://github.com/realpython/list-of-python-api-wrappers#sl...
I thought that was always a possibility - the punitive damages could even MORE than eat up any profits. Sort of a "crime doesn't pay" attitude. Isn't that so for utility patents?

Otherwise people would "go ahead and execute" their idea, and sell a lot before getting sued, then simply pay a "fair and reasonable price" for a patent license. Which is it?
Thanks. I did feel that my interpretation wasn't enough.
Wow, that should get them a whole couple million dollars! Is Corel still big?
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But the government is not a single actor with agency, from the outside it might as well be random. +1 Zappa.
I've got an extra Kinect laying around that would be cool to tie into one of these mirror builds.

Has anyone had any success hooking a Kinect up to a Raspberry Pi? I've seen threads that discuss a few libraries that are available for depth and image data, but I don't recall ever seeing anyone successfully use a Kinect "controller" (gestures to move a pointer).
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I know Harry Connick Jr. holds at least one patent to do with performing his music.

Imogen Heap has also been working with some guys to develop their Mimu Gloves. Which probably have some proprietry software & engineering.

So there are at least a couple of people wanting to protect ideas.
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from the actual lawsuit, it is more about corel creating a "Microsoft word mode" to mimic the UI/style of MS Word.

this slider is just part of it.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2006/11/21/licensing...

edit: fixed link, thank commenter below for identifying error
As someone living in Tokyo, Japan.. These numbers are all kind of mind boggling. And not in a good way.
Well, pretty much it would slam the door on growth and debt financing of anything. Want a house or a car? You will have to pay cash because nobody will have any money to lend.

Alternatively, to encourage more deposits so they can make more loans, interest rates will have to go way up. That will depress the stock market, eviscerating the other normal way that businesses finance growth.
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It is the broken window fallacy:

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fal...
Possibly no infringement. Design patents are easy to design around. Just change the design.

The real threat is when the plaintiff can get back damages for pre-suit infringement. You can't do anything about your previous use of the design, and the exposure for infringement is much higher that utility patents: loss of profits, rather than just a reasonable royalty.

Whether you can get pre-suit damages depends, usually, on whether you gave some kind of notice, e.g., a letter to the defendant or marked your product "protected by patent XYZ."
Doesn't QT's QSlider predate this patent by a few years?
At the risk of sounding overly negative, what value does this bring exactly? The existing CLI does exactly the same thing except one just prefixes the command with 'aws'...
Put another way, if everyone tried to withdraw all of their money from the bank at the same point, 90% (100% - 10% = 90%) of people's cash assets would be wiped out[0].

This is known as a bank run, or (when it happens to lots of banks simultaneously) a bank panic. During the Great Depression, banks were frozen, and people were barred from withdrawing money from the bank for a certain period of time. The motivation for doing this was to halt the bank panics that were occurring.

Raising the required reserve ratio has very far-reaching implications. Broadly speaking, it tightens liquidity, making loans more difficult to come by, which decreases investment in infrastructure. This slows economic growth, because it's harder to find capital with which to start businesses, and it's harder for people to obtain money to purchase a home, further their education, etc.

[0] in the aggregate; not everyone would lose 90%, but 90% of aggregate cash assets would be.
I didn't say that the number of users is irrelevant. There needs to be a minimum user base to make a language viable, however beyond that it's just tradeoffs.

While you might be cutting down the job market, you're also focusing on companies that are forward thinking, get to work with great technology, and get perks such as remote work. The most exciting part for me is that you get to shape the future of the ecosystem. Being on the ground floor of a new technology means that you get a lot of say in how it will evolve. For me the tradeoff was absolutely worth it, but I can understand how it's not for everyone.
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I've never had a problem with browser geolocation via navigator.geolocation. What issues are you seeing?