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Java 8 Features
If you haven’t seen some of the videos or tutorials around Java 8, you’ve probably been super-busy or have a more interesting social life than I do (which isn’t saying much). With new features like lambda expressions and Project Nashorn taking so much of the spotlight, I wanted to focus on some new APIs that have been a bit under the radar, but make Java 8 better in so many ways.
An alternative to all these popular DNS servers is the Swiss Privacy Foundation

http://www.privacyfoundation.ch/de/service/server.html

77.109.138.45
77.109.139.29

No blocking, no logging except for errors (the IP is not logged).
> Since it is not in fact possible to wave a magic wand and get everyone to run LibreSSL

You say that, but it's not as though this is a fundamentally hard problem. How many servers are running nginx today vs. even a few years ago?

Moreover, the biggest problem sits with the biggest, and often most capable, internet companies. So having a reasonable path for them to a more secure TLS implementation, even if it meant hand rolling their own packages or building from source, is potentially a big win for the internet in general.

And, of course, eventually switching from openssl to libressl will become as easy as spending a couple minutes with a package manager.

The fact is that this industry has a track record of keeping up to date technologically. This isn't some corporate IT in the industry gulag saddled with bullshit LoB apps that depend on IE6 in perpetuity. We're talking about the most capable and savvy tech companies in the world. If there's a better option to be had, it'll see high adoption rates.
They didn't pay for the fast lane.
All that this Snowman did is that he confirmed that the API's really exist and that there were requests for weakening of the security protocols.

All in all, direct data access thru API's isn't a bad thing in general because it provides a fast response option but also we should have in mind the human factor error option and the misuse of the API's for the sake of personal interest and that should really make any citizen worried.

Did he endangered the security of the USA ? No. We all had assumptions about it before but they weren't yet confirmed.

Did the weakening of the security protocols endangered the USA/World economy and the security of the USA/World citizens? Absolutely YES. Anyone could reverse-engineer the weakened protocol.

All in all:

Did he did the right thing regarding his employer? No.

Did he did the right thing regarding the rest of us? Yes.
> your only option is to crank up the devPixelsPerPx pref, which is akin to page zoom

Since Firefox 22 you shouldn't need to adjust it manually. See eg this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844604 (Status: RESOLVED FIXED). I'm not sure why you seem to think that "akin page zoom" is not the proper result, what else you expected?

Quoting Anandtech:

> Chrome is scaled 150% as Windows asked, but it is hazy and blurry. Disabling DPI scaling for the application and then scaling to 150% inside Chrome produces crisp, clear text. Firefox also didn’t scale automatically, but it has a setting to adjust to make it follow the Windows DPI scaling rules. Once set, Firefox looks very nice and crisp. For most people, that setting should already be set to follow DPI scaling.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7157/asus-pq321q-ultrahd-4k-mo...

Note that the review predates the release of Firefox 22.

edit: This is the tracking bug for Firefox HiDPI support on Windows: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=82067... . Hardly burying their heads in sand.
I wasn't aware his wife was wealthy.
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> They are complaining that you are just removing it from google. The info is still there!

Which, as far as I can tell, is the point of the ruling.

The idea is to not have one particular thing that the world found interesting or newsworthy at some point in the past cast a shadow over an individual's life, so to speak. Yes, if you're really interested in someone's dirt, all the info is still there for you to dig up. Again, that's the idea.

Your point about google.com being unfiltered is, if true, somewhat valid. But the inability to enforce a good thing globally does not excuse not making an effort locally.

By the way, most countries in the EU do not use a `.co` domain for commercial entities.
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The chart is just about how many DPI you need based on a specific distance to reach the point where the average human eye would stop seeing benefits vs even higher DPI.

Your points are more about refresh rates, video compression and lightning.
For example, in gaming antialising and other "smoothing" techniques are wildy used to improve image quality, but when playing in 4K resolution on a 24inch screen you wouldn't need those anymore because your eye can't see a difference.
It's a shame that the article is behind a paywall, as it is good. And these things are reasonably well documented outside New Scientist.
Interesting - got any pointers? Because I've never seen any feminist who didn't assume omnipresent male power. Feminism's filled with activists who argue, for example, that men don't get to complain about gender-related issues because other men are running the country, or who refuse to listen to men's experiences because the patriarchy has already told them how men experience the world. No feminist ever seems to challenge them on this.

I've even seen various feminists argue that because "the patriarchy hurts men too", anyone who calls out feminists who help perpetuate said patriarchal ideas is a concern troll trying to discredit feminists - who by definition are the ones really trying to help men. No feminist questions that either.
Thank you for the offer. I only read it at 23:45pm because I am traveling. Too bad - but anyway, it's great that you organize it.
So how long till we get 4K touch displays?

These displays are fantastic, but I'd worry about touch models being released in a couple of years. If you use Windows, or OS X gets good touch support, you might regret the purchase.
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You are completely free to pay for links.

Google is completely free to have their algorithm work however they want to provide the best possible results.

(Personally I think using paid links as a signal for good websites is unlikely to improve results. You may not agree with this, but that is separate to the issue as to if they should be free to implement their algorithm however they like)
I also agree that for reasons such as this (deleting an unwanted account) the ruling is useful. The real problem is demanding Google or other services like theirs to delete data that appears from other services, that Google has nothing to do with, other than indexing them. Of course you'd have to believe that once the data is gone from the parent host, it disappears from Google's cache, too, automatically.

But just asking Google to get rid of it doesn't make a lot of sense to me, and I think it unnecessarily punishes them, too. Think about the tens of millions of such requests they'd have to respond to every year in the future.
Cubelab.
So much argument... I can't believe some people get this offended by simple words. In this case, Miley doesn't even deny it, she's trying hard to give that image, so it's really childish to complain about it.

I hate this attitude that makes people watch their words. It may be true of public and influential personalities, but who cares your choice of words as long as you convey the message? I believe that everything and everyone can be laughed at.

Sure, you may feel offended inside. But you should at least understand that it makes no sense and refrain from sharing your "I'm offended" feelings. Same thing goes for the other end of the spectrum by the way: you can be sexist but as long as you don't act on it, I don't see a problem. That's what freedom is about.
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Same here... I wonder what's up with that.
Fair enough. You weren't wrong.
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then I think what would be best here is a command line tool to manage your routes on .htaccess or nginx configs.
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The Interminable Pursuit of Best Practices
Don't blame it on bad intentions. It just happens to be four 1920x1080 screens for scaling purposes. Much like bytes and kibibytes. I'm okay with this.
As a counter-point, every time I get sent to a "Look - I have an amazing new service!" that just sends me to a sign-up page I do two things:

* Note never, ever, to sign up for it

* Leave.

I'm starting to hate this tactic with a passion. Probably you don't want my business anyway, but if you claim to have a facility and then send me to a non-functioning sign-up page I will actively take steps never to use your service.
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Control Firefox to Scroll/Refresh/Close from Emacs
It’s very common for me to program while read documents in a web browser, and I think it’s annoying to switch between the browser and the text editor constantly.

Here I have a few Elisp functions defined, which allow me to control Firefox to scroll, close tabs and so on.
The trick is to perform damping around the edges in a hidden border around the heightmap.
Say you wanted to simulate a 500x500 heightmap. You would actually calculate the results for a 700x700 heightmap, (which contains a hidden border of width 100 around each edge). The hidden edges are slowly damped away by multiplying by a factor interpolated between 1 (on the inner edge of the visible part of the heightmap) 0 (on the very outside of the heightmap).

This works remarkably well; you can see this approach in action in http://www.falstad.com/ripple/ for instance. Source code is included on the page.
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@natsu was right, I only had the email in "email" and not "about". Just fixed that, sorry about that.
Yes, and I think OP was trying to point out Google Adsense allows "paid links" to be displayed on the same website: "You own a website, I own a website, I pay $100 to Google who decides when to show my ad on your website and keep $60 for itself."

In other words, if you pay Google (30% more money) to display the links on another website, you are alright. However, if you directly pay the website owners (roughly 30% less money) for them to add a paid link on the same site at the same spot, you are running afoul of Google's rules.
So, as a business owner, to be in the good books of Google, you incur 30% extra expenses.

I am not trying to criticize Google here (I use multiple Google services), just pointing out how many small business owners see this.
Bad publicity on the most popular video website? Nice thinking for countering anti-net neutrality ISP's :)
Ask HN: Solo founders, how do you take vacations?
I am wondering how solo founders, who run a web business on their own (=no employees), take vacations.

Are remote islands or other places without internet connection just not an option?

Or do you temporarily hire someone? (I think Maciej from pinboard did something like this last year: https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/04/seeking_a_summer_pintern/)

I am asking since I want to start a small web business, but would not want to miss my yearly 3-4 weeks vacation at remote places.

Thanks
Judges and juries aren't ignorant. They just don't give a shit about the things that are important to you. To your typical juror off the street, "hacking" into a computer for ostensibly "white hat" reasons is no different than breaking into a store to "test the alarm system." The reaction is not "oh yes, we have to make sure our legal system is flexible enough to accommodate this sort of 'security research'" but rather, first, "I don't believe you" or, at best, "didn't your mother ever tell you it is wrong to mess with other peoples' things without permission?"
Post-Microsoft Bill Gates*

I will never completely excuse him in my mind for what he did as the CEO of Microsoft in the 90s in the name of profit. No matter how much he gives back. After all, we still suffer from it today.
The thing is the consumer displays are just reaching the resolutions that the cinema world has been working with for years and they always referred to the horizontal pixel count.

CRTs of course never had meaningful horizontal pixel counts but had very meaningful line numbers so that was what was used in the TV industry.

The broadband situation is sort of similar and has always historically been measured in bits.

With hard drives I don't know if there is a reason they can't put 1000GiB on their "terabyte" hard drives which might be reasonable.
There is a potential for abuse with everything.
He would make such a great Bond villain, I wonder if one day they will name equipment for him? A common trope of science fiction is the naming of ships, propulsion systems, and other devices, for people from history.
> So much argument... I can't believe some people get this offended by simple words.

I'm a man, I can walk down the street without being wolf whistled, leered at or otherwise feeling threatened.

Every single woman I know has been hassled in public by men with sexist, threatening language like this. walking down the street they will get an unwanted comments about their appearance, if they ignore them or complain, they get called the kind of things you call "simple words".

Because this kind of language is in the everyday lexicon of of some men, it's used to hurt, threaten and intimidate women.

but y'know, please don't get upset by my simple words yeah.
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I "nofollow" the links. Also that is additional work and unnecessary burden for webmasters.
I guess those targeted would be the ones not selling vulnerabilities to the government?
I'd buy one if I knew it would work. Heck, I'd buy two or four for a multimonitor setup. The process of figuring out whether a given laptop or graphics card will drive 4k over a particular standard is daunting. Knowing if it will work with Ubuntu, in particular, is beyond me.

I wish there was a standard -- perhaps over USB -- where ordinary people who don't play games and just want a machine to work on (emacs, xterms, web browsers, word processors, rather than gaming) could make many monitors and large monitors work plug-and-play.
I second that, thanks Sebastian
The search engines aren't the ones losing out. This will not impact their bottom line.

We, the users, are missing out on the completeness of our search results. You already have no control over information about you. It has always been like that, people have been gossiping since the dawn of language. If something was published, then it should be in the index.

If you don't like it, take it up with the publisher. This is just like those ridiculous rulings on copyright infringement by linking to a copyrighted work.

And yes, everyone who downvotes you is a shill for Google at 0.2$/downvote. There's just no other explanation.
Android widgets..unless I'm missing something here.
> Why does a multi-millionaire company get to decide that my HTML markup is `wrong` if there is no "nofollow" in my HTML?

They don't "get to decide" anything. It's just that _you_ don't get to decide either. After all there are many others who also want to be listed at the top for a particular query.

Simply, their algorithm works in a particular way. Other tags might also affect the ranking, such as h1 tags, for example. There has to be _some_ mechanism.

Why is this so difficult to understand?
So far there isn't any derived code. The truecrypt.ch domain seems a reasonable place for people to regroup. If/when a new release comes out, the community can think about a new name and register a new domain.
What does a ring on your pinky do?
Good to see the price of big high resolution screens coming down, after so many stagnant years.

> The one thing that may freeze you from pulling the trigger right now on the PB287Q is, oddly enough for the monitor market, the promise of better things coming soon.

Any guesses about how the market will progress in the next year or two?
I have an old 30" 2560x1600, bought for £1200 6 years ago - good enough for my uses (coding). Would like to get a second similar screen, when they are cheap. At the moment I see e.g. 27" 2560x1440 for £420 [1] - would buy it today, except maybe I can get something cheaper and better soon ...

[1] http://www.cclonline.com/product/95902/U2713HM/Monitors/Dell...
Well; even among HN commenters, you routinely see an astonishingly naïve, civics-class knee-jerk tendency to outright ridicule any suggestion of extra-legality, duplicity or wrongdoing on the part of security agencies as tinfoil blather[1]. You would have thought people's priors would have changed in light of what we know today, but that would discount the enduring effect of some deeply-rooted notions about trust, benignness and law prevalent in many well-meaning circles in the US. So maybe this is part of that.

[1] See for instance the recent discussion on TrueCrypt, with some commenters refusing to believe any agency would force the developers to install a backdoor, due to the ostensible lack of any known explicit legal precedent or authority in the public domain, etc.
If we're going to go by the rule of law, let's start with the offenders in this administration, the last administration, and in the intelligence and law enforcement community.
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If that's your main problem, don't start.
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Anonymous development on a security relevant Project is no longer an option.

Why not?
Copying my previous answer here (and more explanation at the end): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7821157

Yes, and I think OP was trying to point out Google Adsense allows "paid links" to be displayed on the same website: "You own a website, I own a website, I pay $100 to Google who decides when to show my ad on your website and keep $60 for itself."

In other words, if you pay Google (30% more money)[1] to display the links on another website, you are alright. However, if you directly pay the website owners (roughly 30% less money) for them to add a paid link on the same site at the same spot, you are running afoul of Google's rules. So, as a business owner, to be in the good books of Google, you incur 30% extra expenses.
I am not trying to criticize Google here (I use multiple Google services), just pointing out how many small business owners see this.

More explanation:

<a class="rhtitle" href="http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?longurl" target="_top" title="google.com/Chromecast"><span>Online Content Now on TV</span></a>

The code above is an actual Adsense advertisement (I have removed/changed the code and id everywhere). There is no no-follow anywhere there. So, it appears as if it is alright to insert a link with no no-follow as long as you are paying Google. Correct me if I am wrong.

[1] https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/180195?hl=en
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As users become more proficient with interfaces, it's nice to see functionality evolve from a simple "off | on" to a gradient between "less and more".
The correct pronoun is "they".
I'm honestly really surprised at the choice of touch screens; traditionally, for safety reasons, launches of other spacecraft have involved crew in bulky pressurized suits that A) don't feel like they fit those seats and B) probably aren't conducive to the use of touch controls.

I'd be incredibly surprised if they had a suit with the level of fine motor control in the fingers that touch would require, but I'd also be incredibly surprised to see crew at launch not in suits.
>> "If something was published, then it should be in the index."

We already make exceptions for certain things (illegal content). Obviously a line has to be drawn somewhere - it's just a matter of where we draw it.

>> "We, the users, are missing out on the completeness of our search results."

With this law AFAIK content cannot be removed if that would be against the public good. So, for example, a politician can't have an article that makes the look bad but is true removed. Technically, although no longer 'complete', the quality of your search results should not be hit. The only results being removed are ones which are incorrect and damaging to someone.

>> "If you don't like it, take it up with the publisher."

AFAIK with this law the publisher has to remove it too. Google is involved because they cache pages which can include deleted content.
They're widgets without:

- the need to install something explicitly (separate from the app)

- the need to name them "widgets" (to the user they're just a fancier icon), which reduces the apparent complexity to the user

- they are completely invisible unless invoked by the user, thus preserving the simplicity iOS

- they have a natural and fixed size that helps preserve the visual aesthetic of the grid layout, without special efforts by the user

...and probably more - that's just off the top of my head.

I don't know if they're a good idea, by the way. But it's not good to just dismiss them as "android widgets".
Paid Ads = OK
Paid links that look organic = bad.

You are not allowed to pay to increase your ranking.
You can buy ads on Google or another site and that's ok as long as they are marked as ads.
I don't think it is justifiable. Google's policies are a bandage for gaps in their algorithms, rather than fix their algorithms (admittedly, this is hard and it's not like they aren't trying) they have reached a point where they can use their monopoly power to dictate how websites act. They punish behaviour which hurts their main business - adwords.

I would expect an anti-trust case in the coming few years.
They certainly didn't tell the eng staff about it until then.
Try defending your assertion that the word 'whore' is not gendered instead of giving up after a single comment.
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The developer(s?) who made TrueCrypt did it for their own reasons.

They didn't necessarily do it because they wanted to "stop teh NSA." A lot of people who wanted to "stop teh NSA" started using TrueCrypt, and so they assumed that their goals lined up with TrueCrypt's. But maybe they didn't.

Maybe the developer using TrueCrypt was perfectly happy with "defend against anyone short of the NSA, especially since the NSA would need to expose their ability to break into this in order to do anything bad to me." There are millions of people who legitimately share that threat model.

We can parse out each comment in the source code like lawyers fighting about a comma before SCOTUS or biblical scholars debating on the definition of a word in Hebrew. We will never know. But there is a really big possibility that the developer(s) consider BitLocker acceptable, even if it's closed-source by Microsoft.

EDIT replaced an instance of "BitLocker" with "TrueCrypt" in second paragraph, whooops!
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Indicating, that its a shortcoming in Google's search algorithm that makes anybody who wish to get listed on it's index to follow these `Rules`?
She played Darlene in Modern Family! Some hilarious episodes!
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Obligatory videos on how hard you can break tetris:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIy7xF68H1w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQvVjC3xr4M
This is a good starting point for anyone interested in the Eudyptula Challenge [1].

[1] http://eudyptula-challenge.org/
For starters and people who miss their R sample sets there is a pretty good maintained archive of 731 of them available as CSV at http://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/

Index: http://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/datasets.html

Github: https://github.com/vincentarelbundock/Rdatasets
These ads are pulled in via JS, in an iframe, so it's not quite the same thing - they don't pass link juice.