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We dont really have any proof that this is the only code that got executed. Whoever owned the OAuth account had direct access to your information from google's servers, he wouldnt need to go through you as a client to get it.

Even worst: The hacker could have taken a list of lets say the top 1000 banking (or any type of online service) websites accross the globe. The moment the hacker get access to your gmail account, he initiatite a password recovery request on each of those 1000 websites, get the password reset link from the email, reset the password, delete the email. he could now have access to any other online account you have that had its recovery email set to your gmail account.

You'll never get the same performance for the same cost on PC. They showed forza horizon 3 running at 60 FPS/4k on the scorpio, in a stress test with wheather effect + the maximum amount of cars on screen, while only using 66% of the available GPU power. And that was on a version of forza that was not even yet optimized for the scorpio, all they did was spend 2 day updating the engine to run on scorpio. I'm not sure how much the scorpio will cost, but the NVidia 1070 struggle at running forza horizon 3 at 4k at over 50 fps. Getting anything more than a 1070 will likely cost you close to the price of the scorpio just for the GPU.

Specs to specs, PC would seem like a good deal for the price, but with all the optimization that goes into tweaking consoles to make them perform better on games, its rarely the case for a PC to outperform a console for the same price. For example, they announced a hardware implementation of DX12 into scorpio, which isn't available on PC yet. We don't know how much this will affect performance, but its the kind of things that plays in favor of consoles.

There's a big distinction between "surveillance" and anonymous "crash logs/telemetry".

Do you have any data that suggest that the reason Apple's sales are decreasing is because they are loosing markets to competitors, rather than simply because the whole market is not growing as much as it was previously?

I personally tried them and was very impressed. Sure, field of view could be better, but as far as I know they are the only company that have figured out how to do inside out tracking 6 axis tracking. It's also a fully untethered experience, which put them ahead of pretty much all the competition in term of AR (in my opinion).

Microsoft did not sell computers in the 90s...

We are talking about S&P 1500 companies. None of them will be using the "free version" of Google docs that come with their free gmail account. The G Apps suite is pretty close in price to the full Office365 package. I simply cant see any major advantage to pay for G Apps over O365.

PixelSense is a company that Microsoft acquired a couple years ago. It's unrelated to the original "surface" technology they showcased previously (the big coffee table you are talking about), other than sharing the same name. Surface is now just the branding of their whole series of first party touch enabled devices (surface pro, surface studio, surface book, surface hub)

Pretty sure Web only became totally free a couple years ago. All paid version include desktop version too.

You are overly exaggerating the field of view issue. I've tried the hololens twice already (the untethered version they will be shipping). Field of view is definitely smaller that I'd like, but it's MUCH bigger than a 6 inch phablet at arms length. It's closer to the size a 24 inch monitor sitting on your desk at arm length.

Almost all tech journalist that tried it were blown away by the experience. Most of them mentioned the field of view issue, but I haven't read anyone saying that it was such an issue that it made the technology any less impressive.

>I think I'll wait and watch the inevitable backlash before I spend my money.

To the opposite of Kinect, a LOT of tech journalist and enthusiast tried hololens. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, with only issues about the field of view being raised. I personally tried Hololens, I was blown away by the technology. I own an Oculus Rift DK2 and I tried the unreleased consumer version of oculus rift. They are both great technology, and Oculus clearly offer a more immersive gaming experience, but I personally saw more potential with hololens, and generally speaking I thought the technology was cooler. Anyway, if you are genuinely interested, you should definitely try to get at any of the event where they allow people to try it out.

>The proposed change should only be for the non-cap exempt jobs anyway (which tend to be at for profit places).

This still doesn't solve the issue. You are just giving the advantage to high paying industry, rather than give the advantage to companies who actually have a very specific need that they have a hard time fulfilling by hiring locally (which is the point of H1-B).

Let's take for example a very profitable industry, like pharmaceutical research. Let's say for a sec that the average pharma researcher makes $200k a year. Let's also assume that there's a decent pool of people in the US that have the necessary skills to work in pharma research. Now, let's say those pharma companies would rather get foreign researchers and pay them $150k a year. Those pharma companies will still have a much easier time getting those H1-b visa compared to another company that really CAN'T find the employees they need locally due to specific need (but are still not in a industry as profitable as pharma).

For example, let's say you work in a marketing firms that does international projects. For example, you want to promote American sporting apparel in a foreign country. The profile you are searching to fill : Speaking the foreign language, familiar with the foreign culture, experience in sport marketing, management experience.

You can't find someone locally, but it would be pretty easy to find someone with this exact profile in the foreign country you are targeting. Unfortunately, now, you can't get that person except if you are willing to pay him the same wage as someone with a Ph.D in pharmaceutical research, because you are auctioning for the same spot. Now let's say you go for it because it's essential to the success of your project, you might end up having to pay someone 3-4 time his "market" value, making it unfair to his "locally hired" colleague that have the same amount of experience and responsibilities, but don't have the right profile for a specific project.

Are you suggesting the government should create a new visa category for each possible positions in each possible industry? And how do you suggest they decide of the number of visa to allocate to each category? In what category would you put very specialize positions?

That would be incredibly unfair for companies in less profitable markets. H1-B is about being able to bring in individual with skills that you have a hard time finding in the US, not necessarily about finding "incredibly profitable software engineers that we can afford to pay $150k".

Let's say an university want to bring in a Vietnamese teacher to teach about South-East Asian's studies. The university simply could not find someone with that kind of knowledge in the US, hence they want to bring in someone from a foreign country to take the role, and that person is very qualified for that role. Should their application just be dismissed because they can't offer wages that compete with big tech companies offering $200k salaries to foreign engineers?

When comparing h1-b applications to fulfill jobs that are of similar position in similar markets, then comparing salaries make sense, but it doesn't make sense to compare wages across different markets and positions, as it gives a HUGE advantage to profession in more profitable markets like big tech/big pharma.

To be fair, MBP are pretty heavy for their size.

The original iPhone was 400$ without contract (it was locked to AT&T though). However, it could be jail broken by simply going on a website using the built in browser. Unlocking it wasn't much more complicated too (within the launch week, you could unlock it with a turbo sim, and couple months later software unlock were released).

Right, because pushing major updates to hundreds of millions of users, each using different hardware, with different OS versions, different level of customization on that OS and different software installed is SUCH a trivial thing to do. No room for small (repairable) errors that might affect a handful of people under certain circumstances.

There isn't any "ads" in the music app. Don't know where you saw this, but it wasn't in the built-in Music app in Windows 10.

Well that might be because you are only looking at web development jobs. There's more to software development than making websites. Anyone making drivers/firmware will probably have to work on a Windows machine since a lot of hardware need to be compatible with Windows. The whole gaming industry is purely Windows. Most engineering software are written to run on Windows. Any "internal tool" in non-tech enteprise will probably be written for Windows.

C/C++ are still some of the most used language in the world, and a significant share of all c++/c software have been written on Windows machine.

It's one of the option during the first experience configuration of Windows 10. If you had another browser installed, one of the toggle is : do you want to use Edge as default browser. Hopefully, people that feel that strongly about their browser choice don't just use "Express settings" when installing a whole operating system.

No it doesn't. Only works on win10 (phone, PC, tablet & surface hub for the moment, but they are expanding it to hololens and xbox one).

Can you expand on why you say the usability is terrible? I understand people didn't like the Win8 start menu, since it was only accessible in full screen and would hide your desktop entirely, however I never heard any one give a reason why they would think tiles in general are terrible.

I personally love the concept. I spent some time on Windows Phone too and the live tiles were the best thing about the OS. Also, you can unpin all of them on windows 10 and resize the start menu to only keep the app list (but I have no idea would anyone would do that).

>There doesn't seem to be full hand tracking (as suggested by the demo on stage)

The demo on stage clearly mentioned that you used your gaze to select and then tapped with your finger. Which is also exactly what we saw the lady on stage doing.

Thanks for that, you're awesome. Pull request sent :)

Hey really cool tool! I am one of the dev behind codebrew.io, and we are really happy that you are using it :)

Just a small comment, in the about page, you are giving credit to Scalakata (made by Guillaume). ScalaKata is an older project, Guillaume is now part of the new Codebrew.io team. His old site is redirecting to our new Codebrew.io website. (SkalaKata doesn't exist anymore). I believe the engine you are using is the Codebrew engine, not the ScalaKata engine. We would appreciate if you credit the Codebrew.io team (we are 5 devs!) instead of ScalaKata. Again, it's not a big deal at all, we really appreciate that you are giving us some credit here on HN. :)

Thanks again and awesome job on the website!

This might be true for startups, but the IRS certainly have more than 10 computers.

There's a lot more to the cost of upgrading than the price of the license. Licenses for Win7 are nothing compared to the price of upgrading all the custom software they developed over the years to insure compatibility with a new OS. The reason almost no business or organism decided to leave XP for Linux is because it's not economically advantageous to do so. When talking about an investment as big as this, you can be sure that almost every options have been evaluated.

The issue is clearly not about the price of the licenses. The IRS is paying 200$ per machine to extend XP support (which is more in a single year than what they would have paid for new Win7 licenses).

The expensive part is upgrading the hardware to support Win7, rewriting all the software that aren't compatible with Win7, training the personnel to use Win7 (and all the newly re-written software). Now, imagine if they were actually trying to upgrade to Linux. They'd pay much more to train the personnel, they'd have to re-write almost every single software they have been using. On top of that, they'd still pay for custom support (and Linux support is considerably more expensive than Windows support).

Nokia is clearly aiming the low end market in emerging country. I am not sure that market needs the play store as much as you seem to insinuate. Most of the services offered by the play store apps dont even work in a lot of developping countries.