skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a way to detect whether user has read an email with the standard Gmail image filter enabled?
Could you translate the sidebar, please? Google Translate seems to say that they want to tax Microsoft on annual income, rather than the transfer itself.

And it gives a surprisingly large amount for the amount that Microsoft is supposed to have earned. (See my comment for details of why it is surprising: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5320784 )
When there's a snazzy infographic like blog post about moving to Oakland to escape the gentrification of San Francisco, you've just jumped from the fire to the frying pan.
Flagged. Submitted by author, a blogpost designed to fan the flames."

First, understand that this is a blog post, a highly prejudiced thing, completely determined by one self-important person's experiences."

Which literally amounts to, uh, "take a vacation from viruses" (no, this really is about 20% of the essay)...
If it was IPv6, I'd assume the routing rule on their blog contained IPv6 addreses, not IPv4 addresses, even if the blog faked the IP addresses.
This is what Overture was doing for advertisers back in the day - relevance based on payment

then Google came along and made pagerank -- so relevance was actually based on relevance and not just ads

but then it acquired overture's patents and made the adwords, which is back to paying if you want to be on top

So I see the same game playing out all over again. Facebook can be the overture and we will be the google :)
Wow, I did not know it. Thanks!
Last I checked, Bastille was broken enough that you could fix it easily (I made a few small patches myself), if you knew what you were doing. Which kind of defeats a lot of the power of Bastille, but at least it was still kind of a handy automated checklist for seasoned sysadmins.
> ... vast majority of the technology related jobs are the modern day equivalent of 'blue collar' work ...

That's certainly how most of tech-workers are treated. However - should they? Even for non-degree bearers (or those like me transitioned from other fields), it's a highly creative non-mechanical work. The notion of treating tech workers as blue-collar ones is I think stemming from the black-box sophisticated nature of work (and perhaps introversion of many in the business) which the industry bike-shed into previously known moulds.
$5 per 392 pieces, not $5 each. So that's 9800 pieces for $125.
There is some idea that this impacts email inbox rates, at least with certain large ISPs. I do something similar, but its based on if the person has not clicked on anything in the e-mail for a while.

If your not on Amazon SES paying tiny 10 cent CPMs, then there is some financial incentive to throttle your sending back a bit too.
Because the big one will not affect the rest of California?
I'm getting server error 500 when I try to upload my project (dbinbox.com) :(

Edit: The developer (thanks Drew!) emailed me within ten minutes of posting this, figured out what the issue was, and pushed a fix. I'm impressed.

Here's my weekend project dbinbox: https://breakpoint.io/144-dbinbox-makes-it-easier-for-people...
> (1) You can sell a car you financed to someone else, even if they buy their gas from a different gas station.

Yes, but you must pay off your loan (the early termination fee) first and then you own the car and can sell it (i.e. as Obama suggested, after your contract ends).
If some form of delegative voting is used, then when someone determines that the technocrat they previously trusted has become corrupted, they move their vote away from that delegate to a new delegate. Or they use their vote them-self. This allows for turn-over in the technocrat pool.
If you have Visual Studio, they have source map debugging for TypeScript working. You can do CoffeeScript dev in Visual Studio [1], but I have no idea if source maps work with that.

[1] http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/2b96d16a-c986-...
I've been doing it for a couple of years now. It's not for everyone. You need the same type of discipline that is required to run your own company.

I still feel like I'm working for myself because of the flexibility and because I have no commute, I can use every minute of the day (I used to waste 2+ hours per day commuting).

If you are interested in a long-term career, it's not as nice. Out-of-sight really is out-of-mind. You will most likely get passed over for promotions.
I thought they only cover IPOs or huge private companies. Go to their home page and see their "articles" (Featured Research). Scroll through - no way any of those huge companies are yours. You created that "onetimecomment" anonymously and made it up and then disappeared. That's not intelligent discussion, that's a provable defamatory lie. Where would your little company "without resources to sue" be exactly? Facebook? Palo Alto Networks IPO? Twitter? Where? Liar.
Yeah I work for a daily email site and we do this too. We just don't send another email letting them know - that's more spam! I was surprised that this was considered newsworthy... Most people in the industry do this. It's definitely considered best-practice - it reduces costs, improves metrics, and probably doesn't subtract much value compared how much it costs to keep sending them emails.
Tripartism [1] and neo-corporatism [2], for the win again.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartism

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
Facebook posts are seen by only a woeful fraction of a company’s total fans or subscribers (often less than 15 percent). And conveniently, that percentage is controlled by Facebook, while the site simultaneously offers an expensive “service” that allows companies to pay to reach its own fans. This throttling quickly became a source of millions of dollars of revenue for the social network.

It’s about as plain and malignant a case of conflict of interest can get. One that only Facebook would dare to try.

It's less malignant than Google, Google also claims that they are impartial.

Google updates the algorithm or adds another 5-6 ads a page, you lose traffic; you have to advertise; they make money. They have a conflict of interests in wanting to have sites advertise and judging by Google's earnings it's working, for them
The tea party isn't a great example at arguing against the effectiveness of money in politics, as the entire movement was partially founded on astroturfing done by Koch Industries and big tobacco. Now I wouldn't go so far as to write the movement off as an example of "democracy not working" or what have you, as the tea party had it's share of honest grassroots self-organization, but it isn't fair to say it developed independently from moneyed interests.
Has desktop Linux been a failure? By what measure, adoption of people who are not in it's niche market? Would it stop being a "failure" if we got a bunch of laymen using it?

Compare community desktop linux distros with community distros of something more oriented towards the masses... say.. Android.

The Debian Project is a well oiled machine, coherent and consistent. Everything has a well defined process. Technically capable users don't have to sort through piles of crap to get work done.

Cyanogenmod on the other hand is an utter shitfest. Standard operating procedure there is wading through clusterfucked forums looking for undocumented unofficial fixes (in prebuild binaries mind, no source) in threads thousands of posts long filled with idiots saying "hurr durr, I dropped my phone in the toilet, now this patch doesn't work". They cannot handle the size of their technologically illiterate community, and everyone attempting to use their software, technical or otherwise, suffers as a result. (This isn't even touching the issue of shittier hardware support than you would ever expect to see with desktop linux...)

If piles of unwashed masses were really what desktop Linux is "missing", then community maintained Android distributions should, far from being a nightmare, be the promised land. This is plainly not the case.
They were the major ones touting Wayland for a while, it seems unlikely that they "haven't investigated".
Hi, one of the developers here. Not all servers run CGI. Sure, while there are wrappers that can do it, for example for nginx, it isn't pretty. The purpose for REBIN is a clear and concise serving of executables without the overhead of say Apache. I think the readme is rather verbose... Call me surprised :)
Thanks for your honesty, it's appreciated! That amount of rent is indeed a lot higher than I expected it to be. I checked craigslit to get a feel, and there were some affordable houses, but I know from previous visits that good neighborhoods in SF border to really bad ones, and it's hard for me to judge what's an acceptable location.

I feel that SV would be better for my family, although being the sole earner would require a very, very frugal lifestyle. Definetely something to keep in consideration, thanks!
Well root is the default full access account. It is a bit easier to root@serveraddress and brute force in that way than needing to guess which account in the system has sudo access.

It also becomes easier to detect when someone is attempting to break in when you can see logs of common user names in a row fail to log in.
While I understand your point, it shouldn't be. It's a pretty obvious references to well-off white people, which is the stigma we get (and certainly one of the reasons I paid for almost all of my education despite being a national merit scholar finalist).

My intention was certainly not to offend. My ex-fiancee came from a very poor white area in the midwest, and I also have friends from similar backgrounds in the south... the problem with "acceptable" terms is that they limit your discourse. If you grew up somewhere with serious problems, you should be concentrating on solving the problems, not changing the way people talk about them so others will think about it less.
Thanks for that! Added to my comment. I meant to mention WebKit initially, but I got so focused on double-checking that my Firefox information was current that I just stopped afterward.
That is part of the problem. But largely it's just because it's a desirable place to live. Manhattan has plenty of residential skyscrapers and that hasn't made rent go down.
yup, what not start more companies and keep them in Oakland area
Facebook does a "trick" by playing an empty sound file.

http://pandodaily.com/2012/03/06/facebook-knows-when-you-ope...
No, but it means they aren't choosing freedom of speech over child abuse, like GP was insinuating.

And I find the accusation of supporting child abuse rather unfair, unless one plans to accuse Tor and Freenet node operators (like me) of the same; after all, we all know actual child porn, not just talk, probably goes through our machine. The obfuscation just offloads our moral dillemas, it doesn't change the facts.
Everyone wants feedback, nobody wants to give it. I'm gonna' try and go through a bunch here in a minute. This is a beautiful site to navigate.
Not that realistic for low numbers of particles. Those guys would get their asses kicked for being jerks running around and crashing into people like that!
So this variation on advertising is just a consequence of Facebook using an algorithm to fill your "top stories" feed as opposed to a chronological feed. The NYT article that the OP refers to:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/disruptions-when-sh...

-- implies that Twitter has a better model because you still see the same tweets in the same order even with a sponsored tweet up top, because tweets always come in a chronological order.

Maybe that works for Twitter, but I know I don't check my own tweetstream as often as I do my Facebook newsfeed. If FB showed me everything my friends and acquaintances did by default, including everytime they did something in Farmville2, I'd be less inclined to check FB.

And it's not a fair comparison because the FB newsfeed shows a variety of actions, from wall posts, to a posted picture, to entirely new photo albums...Twitter shows, for the most part, one kind of content: tweets.

I'm not saying that the OP isn't right here, that FB's model at its core could be problematic. I'm just pointing out that it's an advertising system that is a consequence of "weighting" the importance of each feed item.
Evernote defends MD5 password hash storage (2011)
:) ...
What happens to the X windows forwarded over ssh when the connection drops? Can you reattach afterwards?
Many thanks Barry. Much appreciated.
The example of the burning incense doesn't look it exceeds the threshold around the ember while simultaneously showing the man's face as lit, so I'd assume you are right about the increased dynamic range.
Your comment was worded in a way I found a little more abrasive and harsh when I replied to it. I think your edit here better expresses your curiosity.
>Tailored towards an EGL/GL(ES) world.

Oh no. Enabling compositing in metacity lets my accu die one hole hour earlier (about 30% earlier). In the age of mobile you please stop assuming "There is enough GPU/CPU power anyway"? Yes there is, but it consumes electricity.

On the other hand I'm looking forward to a x11 replacement. A display server in the spirit of x11 with lots of features thrown out. Fonts are rendered in the program anyway today. And less network round-trips. And allow me the change the output server or even just the display of a running program.
Jane’s F/A-18 Simulator Revisited
The concept of "WebKit's implementation quirks" implies that WebKit is a single thing when in fact it's (already) a huge diversity of different things.

http://paulirish.com/2013/webkit-for-developers/

WebKit is also constantly changing, so even the current (small) set of "implementation quirks" that really are 100% identical in all products that use WebKit will not stay the same very long.
That bit is nice to see, but I'm pretty suspicious of it. They're going to have to write _a lot_ of software to fill the gaps, now, if they mean to have Qt everywhere. GNOME provides a lot of functionality beyond the UI toolkit and the shell, including myriads of small applications we take for granted. I'm curious where Canonical is going to find the engineering resources to handle all of this.
You should check your math there.

They talk about the filament ending up $5/kg.
So the cost is $5/kg * 25 kg = $125.

392 pieces/kg * 25 kg = 9800 pieces.

So you end up with about 306 (9800/32 pieces) chess sets for $125. That's less than a dollar a set. I don't know what you'd need with that many sets but it really does change things.
Can source maps handle source files in a different location than the compiled JS file? In my few minutes after installing, I didn't immediately see a way to do this.
I think the name of the project is more important than who posted it. Maybe switch the username for the Title, under each submission?
Cookie sale for $4.99, $2 cash back if 2000 sales
Sorry to break it to you, but this response is completely in line with the rule of law - the Administration is bound to follow the laws passed by Congress, even if they disagree with those laws.
Who gives half a shit about Oakland? This is not Hacker News— it's Bay Area Real Estate News.
I've lived in Oakland since 2001. It's great. It's gritty. It's awesome and seeing huge growth in downtown. BUT! It is now the #3 most expensive city for rent in the US. I know, crazy right? But rent went up 11% last year alone. Oakland won't be the cheaper alternative for long. Indeed, most of my SF friends who moved to the Beast (East Bay is pig latin for Beast) recently are actually moving to Alameda Island.

Still, Oakland is the only city in the Americas with a dedicated, open to the public Videogame museum! http://www.themade.org
They definitely wouldn't be wandering around semi-randomly like they do with a low density of particles.

Depending on the genre, they'd probably end up towards the front pushing a few black circles into the stage.
The HTML Hard Disk Filler bug was (and still is) present in all versions of WebKit.
Hey, I'm on the marketing team at Fab. We send our email through Sailthru. Like most email providers tracking is done through image pixels. So we're able to pull data on which users have not opened certain emails over a given time period.
Run bash scripts on Heroku
Absolutely awesome! Am working on support for Errbit, so we can finally have usable JavaScript exception reporting.
Thanks; I'm aware of Debian's release cycle, but am not entirely sure how "non-Linux-person-friendly" the stable release is. Which is my own fault, since I've settled for Ubuntu for so long.

It's great to hear it installs well on netbooks! I'm typing this on an Ubuntu Aspire One, though I always use OpenBox to replace whatever Ubuntu comes with since I'm comfortable with it. Will definitely check out Debian stable as an alternative (which is a bit funny coming from Ubuntu... an alternative to an alternative).
I disagree. If you made an agreement not to unlock the phone as a condition of purchasing it, then people should honor their agreements!

Buy from a carrier that lets you unlock the phone. If that carrier does not exist, and there truly is a market demand for this, then start a cell phone carrier.
That sucks. My nephew managed to get out of it by calling his manager at Tesco "fucking spineless arse licking cunt". Worked wonders. He now fixes laptops at the local computer shop for a reasonable amount of cash.
I'll see you down in Arizona Bay, I guess. Though the Bay Area does have the recent earthquake track record that Southern California doesn't.

The brute fact of the matter is that it's the height of human folly that people are moving into this area: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/ucerf/
Prebuilt AMI now available for CloudFlare Railgun
Uhh, okay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Why I Don't Like Pair Programming (and Why I Left Pivotal) (2009)
But what you're talking about are clearly socio-economic problems. Calling them "white people problems" is just wrong even if it wasn't offensive. Which it is.
KOREA WARNS USA, OUR NUKES CAN HIT USA
Nice idea. I think it's a great way to discover what other people are working on as well
Introducing BitNami Launchpad
Hey, I'm on the marketing team at Fab. We figured for us this would be an edge case since our emails are made up almost entirely of images.
I'm actually far more impressed (or stunned) that there is a paper for "Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts". Does this qualify as science?!

Edit: Ah well, i always thought a paper would be like a diploma or similar, turns out it is a 2 and a half page article written by 4(!) people who watched youtube to simulate red dots in a mass of black dots. Anyway, i'm underwhelmed.
-> grandiloquent? (it's designed just to be simple) like the message :)
Peter W. Singer On The Robot Revolution
The UK version has a much worse design:

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/departments

Responses are guaranteed after 10k signatures, which is a bit more achievable than the (current) 100k in the US. If they get to 100k then they have to be debated in parliament.

Highest number of signatures is for saving badgers. Which seems very English :)

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38257

Started by (now Dr) Brian May.
Interesting that they decided to "reimplement" stuff again. Nice to see them going with Qt though.
well, someone had to have put that phrase in there deliberately. your contract is an agreement to pay the cellphone carrier a certain monthly fee for a certain number of months, with early termination fees written in, all of which you are already bound to by civil law. it should have nothing to do with phone unlocking.
Here's a good video explaining some of X's problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44

Long story short: the X11 protocol (which Xorg/X is an implementation of) was created in 1980, and was made for drawing stuff like this: http://xawm.sourceforge.net/Xaw.gif

The important distinction between X and any modern display server is that nowadays we separate compositor (that which composites application content into what you see on the display) and toolkit (that which draws text boxes, buttons, progress bars etc.) into two. X was designed to do both these things. This isn't practical for several reasons. So far people have worked around this issue, but many feel it's time to stop working around it (since the X codebase is a complete mess due to this "working around"), and develop something from scratch that does what we want for a modern desktop in 2013.
I know it's TPB so I should have known this, but beware of this link at the office. If you don't have a good ad-blocker installed it will throw up some non-HR friendly popups!
Just wanted to mention that the news of Mir has hit wayland's mailing list[1]. I'm very curious to see what the wayland developers think of all this.

A lot of work has already went into wayland and in making things work with it (gtk3, qt5, clutter etc). This is truly an ambitious project and I doubt that ubuntu engineers would needlessly want to write all of this from scratch if there weren't legitimate shortcomings in wayland's architecture.

Personally, I'm looking forward to my wayland powered, fedora 20 desktop running the yet to be invented WMonad tiling window compositor.

[1]: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-Mar...
Working Remotely != Working from home. Often when I'm working remotely, I'm either in a coffee shop or a co-working location, vary rarely at home. I don't like driving, so being able to control when and where I drive is huge.

The big issue is that of being able to control my own environment. If it's too hot, I can work someplace where it's not, same if it's too loud. When you require everyone to work in one shared area, this control disappears and you're often left to the whims of either the weak common denominator, the highest paid person, or the loudest (ie the small thin woman that keeps the office incredibly hot)

If you want dedicated employees, don't run a shitty company.
Are You Living in a Fourth Amendment Exclusion Zone?
There are a few sneaky ways in addition to the per-user URL tracking image people have mentioned. There was some internet drama about facebook (ab)using bgsound attribute of html mail to detect even when people have disabled image viewing.

ReadNotify (as reviewed by jgrahamc[2]) also seems to use similar tricks, including loading remote resources via css url() and similar.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-uses-bgsound-to-...

[2] http://blog.jgc.org/2006/10/peek-inside-readnotify.html
The tax situation for startups in Oakland is pretty similar to the incentives that SF created in mid-market. Office space is cheaper and more plentiful. There are less resources available like other startups, but they are only a 20 minute Bart ride away.
Zip code? I'm not from the united states..
As the DMCA is a federal statute, what the White House should have said at the end, is, quite simply .. we will not be enforcing any related complaints. Unlock away.
Same with San Mateo now, and I think Foster City.
Jacob Zuma's (the South African President) rape trail would seem relevant here.
Hey, on the marketing team at Fab. Honestly for us we never really considered the cost savings or have had to worry about being blacklisted. The decision wasn't almost entirely jump-started by anecdotal evidence from customer service that it would be a good idea. Obviously there are plenty of financial and operational reasons to do this, but ultimately if it's good for the customer then it's good for us and the brand.
There's not that many because most people don't care about doing big things. Most of the wealthy are more concerned with protecting their wealth, status and success than risking looking like a fool trying to change the world.
how is it "slightly more open"? from what i can see, all the code in ubuntu is open-source to the fullest extent of any accepted definition out there, including the full freedom to fork and start a distro that pulls from both ubuntu and third-party patches if you feel that canonical is not accepting said third-party patches readily enough.