skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the book is pure text (like fiction), then sure.

But non-fiction often includes plenty of illustrations, sidebars, images, footnotes, and so on, which while EPUB can handle in theory, often wind up with all sorts of bugs in reality, things being out of order or not making sense or being clipped instead of resized when converting to PDF, etc.

I've found PDF's to be generally more reliable overall, and not too much of a problem on my phone for average-sized book pages -- I just hold my phone in landscape mode and pinch to zoom in enough so the phone doesn't waste space on margins on the sides.

The only PDF's that doesn't work for tend to be full-size textbooks (significantly larger than the average book page), but those are also the ones where layout tends to be the most important and I've had the most disastrous experiences with EPUB. Right now I just don't think it's realistic to read most textbooks on your phone in any format. (Plus you want to highlight, annotate in the margins etc., none of which is great on the phone anyways, but is great with a stylus/pencil on your tablet.)
It won't expose them, it will attract them. Colloquially, attracting problems from elsewhere is said to be creating problems for oneself.

In the cat analogy, you are correct because other cities won't go about shipping their stray cats to you (if they round them up they will just kill them). But there has already been numerous cases of cities sending homeless people to other areas. This is where the hungry cat/homeless analogy breaks down.
The free market thing is useful in the right doses and the right topics, but many people confuse it with their own personal identity and take it much too far, as if it were dogma or religion.

In my personal observation, there often seems to be a lot of unaddressed anger involved in that form of extremism. I am not saying this is everybody with such a view.

But when somebody goes on a tirade that people deserve to die, go bankrupt, or be denied care to protect margins of some private sector behemoth because taxation is theft ... When the evidence suggests the public sector tends to do a pretty good job at this. Yeah, there is something a little weird going on there.
> My kids have been coming home from university and are not interested in alcohol when offered, other parents report the same.

I did the same thing as a student, because I didn't want to come off to my parents as a heavy drinker. Refusing a beer in front of them, then getting shitfaced with my friends the next night was a pretty common occurrence. You shouldn't take everything your kids say at face value -- and I don't mean that as a bad thing, kids should keep some secrets from their parents, it helps them grow up and learn to be independent.
Could anybody explain? They look like bootloader options and I see how Spectre mitigations slow down systems. But what about the rest?
Please don't pretend a problem doesn't exist, because you disagree with one of the possible solutions to it (or an extreme caricature of such a solution that you made up on the spot).

I didn't give a definition of free speech (neither its spirit nor the law establishing it). I merely gave an example illustrating how farcical it is to ignore all factors except the government, when evaluating the degree of freedom of speech that people enjoy.
This is just a reminder that no matter how big or successful you are shit like this can always happen. And it’s usually not the fault of a single person, but rather some lack of process/review/control that made it possible in the first place.

I feel terrible for whoever initiated this. I’ve been in that boat and it -really- sucks.
There are numerous sites giving tutorials about how to set up such systems using OSS.
I have similar experience, pipenv is not bad but it's definitely not great. Personally I'm starting to use poetry in new projects and it's being great, much better than pipenv.

Whenever I have time I want to migrate all my pipenv projects to poetry.
I've already argued against your first quote in the post. The privacy acts only apply when the government is getting the data from third parties such as from an email provider or ISP. In this case the image is directly communicating back to their servers and no third parties are involved. Communications between two parties are not subject to the privacy laws when you are one of those two parties.

The target is irrelevant in the case of legality. The only additional protections a journalist has is on not revealing their sources. This doesn't impact or interact with other emails so no sources could be compromised via a tracking pixel. Being "shady" isn't illegal and I wouldn't even say a tracking pixel is shady. The closest approximation of what this tracking pixel is doing is as a read receipt for a piece of mail.

If you want to quote "United States v Jones in 2012" against others you should probably be aware of what the presiding judges actually ruled. It was determined that the action was illegal only because physically attaching the device was considered trespass of private property not because the tracking of the vehicle's location required a search warrant.

If you wanted to make a similar argument you would have to instead refer to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to cover something similar to digital trespass. A tracking pixel does not violate that law under any circumstance that I'm aware of.
Honestly, I write my code like that. It could be because I write in other languages but I find that the right amount of indentation and vertical white space just makes the code infinitely better to read.
So let me get this correct...

The subject area is the SAT, a test, which is imperfect like all tests, with research which indicates that it's actually problematic for such a diverse country like the USA. So a test like the SAT, which boils down to a single number. Yes that's the subject.

And now they're making the results 2 numbers. The test and some, well known summary of information about the student.

And THIS, THIS is the bridge too far?

Honestly, do you even hear yourself? What should a third party think about your words? Perhaps you could help me and provide a back story of how you've been in opposition to the SAT for a long time, and how this just reinforces a flawed test.

But nope, it sure does seem like you're focusing in on how this test might provide opportunities to black and brown people.

But I'm sure that's not that, because it's hackernews, and we are so polite to each other and reasonable.

So, tell me again why the SAT is good, but SAT + adversity score is bad?
To win online debates, social networks worth a thousand words
The website doesn't look the same for different resolutions. If I set my resolutios to HD, it's fine. If I set it to Full HD, half the screen gets covered by the photo and it's very distracting.
To those interested in machine learning, this idea naturally leads to “deep tensor networks” that are neural networks that can operate on and with high order tensors. I wrote a (non-rigorous) blog post about this: http://outlace.com/TensorNets1.html
Even in less extreme cases, it may be just that you have extremely good salespeople / marketing team. With good enough sales, you can sell any kind of garbage, and in many markets it might be unlikely that complaints of existing users will reach or discourage new ones.
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Musk to review all of Tesla's expenses in new cost cutting plan
Thats the old europe we all know and hate. Dont even search for a solution to a problem, just ban it, until the fad goes away. There are laser projectors, to mark your trajectory ahead of time.. a thousand ways- and instead - the nays.

Like a grumpy old guy, on a bench, envying the still living for his life wasted, hating on the new joys and the joy of the new.
> Buy a 64 or 128GiB flash drive and put your whole collection there.

That's too small for my collection! (I use a 64 gig card for taking my music on the road alone). My music collection is stored on a 1Tb drive.
I’m more curious how a script that does this even made it through review. And if there wasn’t a review... why not?
Compaq is what ruined HP after they ruined themselves by going from a quality-focused builder to pulling parts out of the seconds and thirds bins to cut costs in the early-mid 90s. They absorbed DEC and ruined it then proceeded to infect HP (with Carly's help) with that culture. Not that HP was blameless either. I was done with HP when we received a $10k LH3 Netserver in '99 or '00 with both of its CPUs dangling inside the chassis from their fan cables. If my memory is right, they'd outsourced most of their building to Ingram Micro by that point.
I oversaw the U.S. nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned
at the level of this linked article.
I don't remember if I get the idea elsewhere or what, but:

"Worse than a failed project/business, is a successfully one"

I part of "small scale" projects and one thing that some fear, very much, if that the project GET traction. This have killed some business before.
There are plenty of reasons. Many people use these in their emails to get effectively "read receipts". It's not even clear that this was an official military action or just one officer using a browser extension that embeds these images.

There is very very little information you can get from an individual image being loaded by a user agent.
> reason the Linux Community don't want this sort of thing is that, frankly, they just hate stability

And yet I fearlessly upgrade my Linux system at any time. With OSX you first have to check if the software you use is at all compatible, especially if you use proprietary software..
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I don't think it's for us to decide.

We've been mourning the loss of the Library of Alexandria for circa 1,500 years and I can't notice that we're getting radically wiser during the last 25 ones.

Letting all go is definitely the cheaper and convenient attitude... for us. But we might be leaving nothing to build upon for the future generation. They should have the same opportunity to ignore what they want that we have.
Wholeheartedly agree. While my musical tastes are a bit all over the place, I can say that for the past month or so almost all my generated suggestion playlists consist of music I've not only listened to recently, but many I already liked and saved to my songs.
It’s successful to me as a user. Beats the heck out of that whole “set up an FTP server” recommendation. And how much is their loss due to growth focused investment?
The issue here isn't about knowing whether the the recipient read the email, which is not an interesting thing to spy on.

It's about the sender seeing whoever the recipient forwards the email to, and about the sender seeing the recipient's network information (although that's a hard sell because the recipient already advertised their network presence by using email), and the use of non-HTTPS servers that could be compromised to intercept traffic.
Oh, the post points out that Physically Based Rendering is free now (a 2016 book). I'm not even mad. It was worth the steep price it originally cost. If you're interested in rendering based on physics, it's excellent. If you're interested in "literate coding" where the manuscript and the source code are the same thing, it is stellar as that is the way it was built. I highly recommend it.
ScyllaDB's take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19941425
Reagan left the governorship in 1975. Do you even listen to yourself? Please. Liberals are the ones that got the mental hospitals shut down. Let's not rewrite history. Regardless, there is nothing stopping the California legislature and governor from reversing that 44 year old policy.
Another problem is that the effectiveness of the cloaking devices would have to be extraordinarily high across an extraordinarily large number of instances.
Such a refreshing break from the typical tech newsletters. Cracks me up every week
Looking forward to the ad campaign: "HP is completely Cray now!"
> People who spend thousands of dollars on music tend to be people who buy expensive phones that don't allow SD cards.

The lack of an SD card slot is a dealbreaker in a phone for me, regardless of price.
As I understand, there is no 'out-weighing' - holding other factors constant, their adversity score would be even higher if their neighborhood had more crime, or spoke worse english.
Ouch! I've worked for hp since 1999 just about when we spun out Agilent and it was definitely a painful cultural transition to a consumer business.

However, on the more profitable inkjet side of the business we've been doing a lot of R&D and I don't think we've sold a single vacuum cleaner.
"The Salesforce Technology team is investigating an issue impacting Salesforce customers who use Pardot, or have used Pardot in the past. The deployment of a database script resulted in granting users broader data access than intended. To protect our customers, we have blocked access to all instances that contain impacted customers until we can complete the removal of the inadvertent permissions in the impacted customer orgs. As a result, customers who were not impacted may experience service disruption. In parallel, we are working to restore the original permissions as quickly as possible. Customers should continue to check Trust for updates."
And be careful if you have an overnight layover (or just crossing midnight), or some airlines will attempt to charge you baggage fees per leg.

Delta tried to do that to me until a helpful baggage claims person assisted.
> If your manager and team value deep work

What are some good strategies if they don't?
> The tracking pixel doesn't provide any material information

https://www.dol.gov/general/ppii

Email addresses are considered Personally-Identifiable Information even in the United States (and certainly in the EU too).

Deduction of who downloaded the image is obscene and a violation of that person's privacy.

Any correlation of email address information with any other information at all could be considered a violation of that person's privacy: the IP address and user-agent information alone is sufficient enough to point in the direction of a malicious attack. And there are people who have some serious safety concerns: people who've been abused by significant others and are prone to being victim to stalking or hacking is just one example.
Wrong. Compaq had much higher DOA and other defects in the mid 90s. They relied on customer institutional memory from the 80s when they really were the best.
How many people need to die until Tesla is made accountable for lying to the public about the capability of their auto pilot?

Maybe a bus full of dead children?
In addition to the above, many tracking services log your location and some even measure how long you read the message for. They can also make a good guess at whether you forwarded the message to someone else.

Even if you turn off images it's not always good enough: some trackers try to load any external resource they can, like sounds and fonts.
Level is a pretty well designed product. Tried it briefly and I really did like it. My team was already using other communication tools (not Slack, but email and other options) and using Level might have become an eventuality if I or someone else on my team pushed for it harder.

That said, as someone who also creates and launch products, I think it's hard to MVP into a space like this. It's better to wedge yourself into some aspect of that space and eventually branch out once you have a paying user base that already likes your product.

Good luck on your next endeavour.
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Precisely. Some people. Which means other people didn't have to go to jail because of better police protocols. People are released to await trial all the time. The fact that they weren't says a lot about policing in some places in America.
It ups it entirely another level in that it also was received by defense counsel. That really isn't going to look good for them.From the article: "In the judicial part of this equation, tracking devices give the user an unfair advantage in court proceedings. If you know who your opposing counsel is contacting, you can divine how they are building their case and find ways to counter it."

They can also do discovery to find out the intent behind the pixel -- if they find anything about tracking to find the source of the journalist or learn about the defense, they risk having the entire case thrown out.

This could get really, really interesting. If I was the defense lawyer I would push this as far as I possibly could.
As a non-American, shows like King of Queens puzzled me because it paired a massively overweight delivery guy with a svelte, stylish wife.

I originally thought it was an opposites-attract kind of show, but the same template is there in Family Guy, According to Jim, The Honeymooners, Two and a Half Men, etc....all highly successful shows that ran for many season and continue to rake in the cash on syndication. Conventionally unattractive, cartoonishly dumb middle-to-lower class white man with fashionable spouse with witty one-liners and putdowns.

Initially I thought these shows were simply lampooning the "working stiff", but as time went on, I think the "lampoon" bit was lost, and the audience actually began to see the show as symbolic of the reality they feel they should be experiencing.
>One could argue that attaching this tracking pixel to an email is similar to attaching a GPS tracker to a vehicle. In United States v Jones in 2012, the supreme court ruled that placing a GPS device on violated the 4th amendment.

One can't make this arguments based on the Jones ruling because Jones doesn't apply in this situation. The entire reason why the court ruled that physically attaching a GPS tracker to a car is against the fourth amendment is because attaching the device involves physical trespass on a suspect's vehicle which they considered part of his "personal effects." A tracking pixel doesn't have the physical intrusion bit that the court found unconstitutional. In Jones the court only addressed the physical intrusion, not the GPS data itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones

>Also left unanswered was the broader question surrounding the privacy implications of a warrantless use of GPS data absent a physical intrusion – as might occur, for example, with the electronic collection of GPS data from wireless service providers or factory-installed vehicle tracking and navigation services.[27] The Court left this to be decided in some future case, saying, "It may be that achieving the same result through electronic means, without an accompanying trespass, is an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, but the present case does not require us to answer that question."[36]
I had a quarrel with my girlfriend. It is a problem, I do not know what to do. And tech couldn't help me with it.

Could you be a little more specific? What kind of a problem you need?
Do you know of any anything more recent on that? It cites the German privacy working group which has no direct influence on the actual laws, and predates GDPR/DSGVO (local German version).
The reference kilogram is estimated to have lost 50 micrograms over it's lifetime. I think it's safe to say that a reference gram would have lost a similar amount of mass. This would have caused a larger change in the definition of a gram/kilogram over time because the ratio of mass lost in the reference would have been greater.

Not much, but still.
What sort of sequencing data are you planning to process? Are you planning to re-implement algorithms used by bwa/samtools or come up with something on your own? NGS is a very specialized field, so its very easy to get stuck in the weeds.
The Rotten Library is the first thing that comes to mind.
Ah yes, this is a good reason to use text-based MUAs. Though it's not the reason I use text-based MUAs. Another good reason is that HTML for e-mail is horrible.
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Discovery on Spotify isn't terrible, but I think Pandora is just really good at that since that was part of its original purpose with the music genome stuff. Plus it aims for more variety, avoiding playing a single artist too heavily.
FYI you're replying to a joke from The Office (US)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K-L9uhsBLM
Glad that it worked for you, really. But, for the sake of argument, this can't be the proof that they are better than placebo, right?
Show HN: Go Implementation of Redis MemoLock – Distributed Caching with Promises
Rosalind, a Platform for Learning Bioinformatics
I'd much rather have a PDF. I can open it in Documents (from Readdle), which is super-fast and lets me quickly page through large documents, which is essential for reference-type material or textbooks.

I am also sensitive to bad typography and sadly most ePub readers fail miserably at this. I don't want a "blob of text" with random font sizes.
Powerfully familiar. I have learned similar lessons. In my mind “The Mom Test” is the most important business book for high-tech entrepreneurs, and I wish it existed a few years before it was released.
It's a little bizarre that they didn't get in touch with you at all.
A tensor product of two matrices is just this, with 4 loose ends:

---A---
---B---

A_ab B_cd = (A⊗B)_acbd. If a,c=1...N then you can think of (ac) as being an index with N^2 possible values, which is what the double line now means... if you like, you may compact it a bit:

===(A⊗B)===
https://imgur.com/a/CLxSFIq this is the 'gap' between .1MJup and .2 MJup - you can see it passes neatly between the islands you've observed.
Weight is a measurement of force. Mass isn't.
1. It's noisy
2. The coupling and uncoupling effort is significant
3. The anticlimax of having to go down to the basement and empty out the canister after having completed vacuuming
Or Hewlett Packard-Cray, so they can literally be synonymous and homonymous with "HPC".
I wonder how could we (as in humans) learn that fast to associate glasses with intelligence?
my goal is simply to be better able to navigate the legal system, rather than to pontificate.

>You won't make much progress with the attitude that you can just learn general principles and be slightly better at reading; you have to get comfortable diving right down to details and coming up for air later.

it's a little presumptuous of you to imagine that 1 i intend to be so cavalier 2 that i don't already know how to be detail oriented. fwiw i took the lsat and scored 97% - while not exactly translatable to writing a summary brief i think i'm quite capable of diving into the details (if we're to believe lsac).

>Torts books are good because they start with the creation of torts and build, they don't have to assume too much knowledge.

suggestion for a good one? should i also get the e&e?
Given the poor state of Apples PC hardware, I would be weary of investing in the platform as a developer or user.
Can you point to some HP products that are still great? As a student of computing history this is interesting to me.
Tesla PR on this incident:
"our data shows that, when used properly by an attentive driver who is prepared to take control at all times, drivers supported by Autopilot are safer than those operating without assistance" [1]

Elon: Let's call it "Autopilot," also "Full self-driving capability is there" [2], and "We already have full-self driving capability on highways" [3]

Tesla's driver assistance software is extremely cool, but the Elon-driven hype is ridiculous, especially when compared to how Tesla PR has to describe it.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/05/feds-autopilot-was-acti...
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18204427/tesla-autopilot-...
[3] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-elon-musk-full-self-driving-...