Total noob question here and I apologize in advance. Are these the “actual” pictures or are they “touched up” by an artist ? If they the real pictures then this is truly impressive …
It's the intensity of infrared(-ish) light hitting multiple sensors with different wavelength filters.
If you were to look at it in person it would be a fairly smooth white patch. The colors are artificially assigned, but not by an artist. You pick a specific color for each wavelength. The Hubble palette is spelled out here: https://www.astronomymark.com/hubble_palette.htm
In case of most space photos, they are not what you would see with your eyes. Usually they capture data differently that how an eye would, and then visualize that. They sometimes strive for getting close to naked-eye perception, but usually it's not a goal.
On this Wiki page you can see multiple such images, and the process described:
They're "touched up" in a scientific way to remove flaws in the telescope (light leaking in from the sides, some distracting aspects of the diffraction patterns that from around stars). The colors come from combining several black-and-white images, taken at different frequencies. You can explore the subjectivity of infrared images by opening them in GIMP and playing with the hue slider.
Well since these images are taken in a different part of the EM spectrum than visible light, the colors are false. But the images aren't touched up in the sense that shapes and sizes are altered.
The person who created the gist has this on their website "Available payment methods include PayPal, Bitcoin, and SEPA transfers." http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
Correct. I am one of the seemingly handful of people who actually tries to use cryptocurrencies as currencies (and have been doing so since getting involved as an early adopter).
I can assure you that that has become more and more difficult and risky over the years thanks to speculative vultures and the dynamics described in the gist. If anything, this should tell you that I'm not some armchair complainer who doesn't understand how it works.
I'm also not sure why you seem to be implying some sort of conflict of interest here, since I am arguing against it.
Naive question here.
Is it illegal to build counter surveillance tech, I mean you have companies that specialise in building these things for governments would it be illegal to start a company that does the opposite, build tech that helps people beat this sort of surveillance?
This is an excellent way to learn about how criminal law is not applied equally in the United States, but instead is wielded as a weapon selectively against anyone who would challenge the status quo.
There was a famous case recently where a judge ruled that searching someone's trash didn't require a warrant as they had discarded it and it was no longer "theirs", so cops were within their rights to search through it. Presumably having been granted permission, some journalists then took it upon themselves to inventory and publish the exact contents of the judge's trash, including prescription medicine packaging and such. If I recall correctly, it didn't end well for the journalists.
There are two different sets of laws, for two different sets of people in the US.
Well, of course there are. "Warrantless search" is one category, and "search by random person" is another. The 2nd is closer to harassment, in some opinions.
It's not quite fair to compare actions by an officer of the court with that of the general public. By design.
Huh, seems like this argument doesn't go along with the "trash is no longer your property" conclusion.
If you say the police can do it because he's a police officer [... and because of that does it mean he has better judgement?], then why have a law about warrants?
Lots of possible differences remain. Entering private property to secure the trash - an officer of the court can normally do that without being considered harassment or trespass.
Being an officer of the court is important, and attempts to blur that are disingenuous. Cherry-picking one facet of the incident is not a good argument. What-about-isms likewise.
That could actually fly if the officer had a reasonable belief the trash contained relevant evidence, and the trash collector was going to take it away before a warrant could be acquired.
Do public servants (ostensibly politicians and law enforcement) have any expectations of privacy while on duty? By definition the public ought to have the right to systematically surveille, monitor, and track their behavior - just as governments do their public, and corporations do their employees or equipment.
It's fitting that the past decade has produced a neologism, "souveillance", to describe this approach.
People just need to push for legislation that politicians and their families are allowed to be tracked , wiretapped 24/7. Clearly they are the weakest link, think of the foreign powers, think of the children. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.
I am from Africa and needless to say, we don't have an abundance of VC funds for startups.
I have used products live Revolut and Monzo before and loved them, there is an opportunity being missed in places like Africa and other developing economies that have a huge growing youthful middle class that hates the way the established banks operate and is comfortable with technology.
I spent most of my free time last year building a backend that can handle some core banking functions, I already did research on the licensing and knew I would never be able to raise that money just with an idea and business plan so to keep myself going and also have something to show potential VC's I decided to start small, things like airtime top-up, bill payments etc
Break it down , look at the bits that you can build out and get some initial customers while you look to raise money, you don't have to go all out and build a whole bank, start small, licensing for things like e-wallets and money transfer is not unreasonably expensive, you can then go on to build on top of that
We are in the same boat. Are you from Africa but working in London/Europe? I am from India but I am working in London.
I have identified millennials to be my main market as well. In India whenever I visited the bank with my father, the person at the bank would try to sell a new card. They always want to "sell" you something, we just have to suck less as a digital bank and the millenials will happily help us get rid of the traditional banks. I've discussed Monzo with a lot of friends, and they have loved the idea.
Curious, what part of Africa are you from? What is the cost of the banking license like there?
Congrats to OP for shipping.
I tried to do something not so similar to this and failed miserably :-( https://hnpicks.com . I guess I just got busy and stopped half way at implementing the NLP and sentiment analysis.
It was an interesting weekend :-)
