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Petition text follows, discussion welcomed :)

Every email client in the world except Gmail (yes, including Outlook) supports, to some extent, CSS in tags in the head section of HTML emails. Gmail is the only client in the world that does not, and only supports inline CSS.

As such, while being a very popular client both on the Web and on Android devices, Gmail forces anyone who wants to send HTML emails to try and find workarounds, in order for emails they send to look good across all clients and devices. In effect though, there's no real solution for sending an email that looks good across all devices, while not resorting to very small-fixed-width emails, if you wish them to look good (and then making them not look good on big screens, Web and desktop clients).

And while other clients have their quirks (like Outlook using Word rendering engine), almost everything is possible to achieve with them, including responsive HTML email designs, because they support CSS in the head section of the HTML. Just as a comparison, iOS supports CSS to a maximum degree, including media queries, a fact which makes email templates easy to code and handle, and brilliant to view across iOS devices.

I hereby call upon Google to get with the program, and start supporting non-inlined CSS in emails. If AOL and Yahoo can do it, you can too.
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Yes, in todays technological society, people who understand technology have advantages. I don't see why that is surprising, given the website you're commenting on.

Ultimately this is not about technology, it's about economics. Surely the restaurant should raise their prices until not enough people want to book 2 months in advance to make bots and make this an issue. Or PAX should raise their prices so they don't sell out in 23 minutes but still sell all their tickets before the show. Or either business should increase their capacity. Or perhaps they are capitalising on the fact that they are oversubscribed as some kind of marketing device. Either way, any time there is a limited supply of something people are going to figure out ways to get some, and if the limited supply is available on the web, people who understand the web will have an advantage.
I'm really conflicted about indirect vs direct democracies.

On one hand, indirect democracies allow the ruling few to impose their will rather than the will of the people. On the other hand, many people are ignorant of the facts and could be persuaded to vote poorly (eg against the best interests of the majority) in a direct democracy.
The point is that audio resolution peaked, and additional returns were negligible at best. Video has the same effect occur somewhere around 300 PPI at 6" view distance, 200 PPI at 12", etc - and between 90 and 150hz refresh rate. Color fidelity is also near its limits on some high end IPS panels.

Past those points, most people don't notice the difference, just like how most people don't notice the difference between 16 and 24 bit audio at 44.1 or 48khz sample rate. Once the vast majority of people no longer see a difference, the technology peaks. I think video is (finally) approaching that territory in the next 5 years, at least in 2 dimensions. I feel holographic 3d video will see a boon after that, and not the eye trick 3d crap we have now.
Congress almost passes amendment to end domestic NSA phone surveillance
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I really don't get the outrage against scalpers. They're just buying commodity futures, taking a bet on the future value of the tickets. If the value goes up, they make a profit, if the band suddenly become unpopular or whatever they lose.

We're in a capitalist system, the price you pay the scalpers is the "real" price of the concert: it's the law of supply-and-demand.

Now, if scalpers win every time, this is an issue with the original ticket sellers, not the scalpers!

If Shell started selling petrol at half standard price and some guy comes round to fill up a tank and then sell it to people at 95% standard price, that's Shell's mistake, not evil behaviour on his part.
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Exactly, Scalpers are just buying "seat futures". If venues are selling these future contracts so low that they yield absurd profits, don't blame the scalpers...
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I thought HTTPS doesn't prevent MITM attacks.

> In 2013, the Nokia's Xpress Browser was revealed to be decrypting HTTPS traffic on Nokia's proxy servers, giving the company clear text access to its customers' encrypted browser traffic. Nokia responded by saying that the content was not stored permanently, and that the company had organizational and technical measures to prevent access to private information
I do like the way REQ/REP keeps track of the requests and has RPC semantics, though. Instead of blocking, you could always poll and time out instead.
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Are all the bot reservations actually made with the intention of a human going to the restaurant? I wouldn't be surprised if some people used these bots just to prevent anyone else from making online reservations and screw with the restaurant/customers.

Based on the bot's code [1], it looks like all they ask for is a phone number and an email address. It might be a good idea to at least require a captcha, if not a credit card deposit of a few bucks.

[1] https://gist.github.com/diogomonica/6076911
Turning Information Security into an Epic Battle through Training Gamification
When talking about physical therapy, did you ever consider referred pain patterns [1], like neck/shoulder muscle tension causing pain in the wrist/fingers?

I found the Trigger Point Therapy Workbook [2] quite enlightening in that regard. Maybe you should think about doing some weightlifting or jogging instead of trying to strengthen your hands :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referred_pain

[2] http://www.triggerpointbook.com/
Great tips! Thanks! :)
The Use of Social Media in Schools
And Russians also eat a lot of salty food.

Just to be clear: I'm not implying that smoking, drinking, or eating salty food was the cause of his stomach cancer, I'm just generalizing based on stereotypes that I know.
Stephen Fry is tickled by Ticckle’s online video debate platform
Best HN app for iOS
Which are you using? the app store seems cluttered with low-quality apps based on rss feed, with no login support..
While platitudes generally go over well on hacker news, I'm curious how one can "make life proud that you are a part of it." Should one also try to "make time notice that you exist" or "make gravity work for it?"
Why Apple should provide a way to contact customers
Apple’s Jordan Hubbard Joins iXsystems
trust me. this man knows his stuff when it comes to reservations. :-)

hi jordan.
> I realise it's twice the price, but an Apple TV will be much simpler to use

But it's made by Apple and will require you to install iTunes and iCloud on everything you own and it will only work if you throw away all the equipment you already own and replace them with Apple-made devices.

That's potentially quite a grab of money.

But that's just the smallest cost: The only reason ever to buy Apple is if you're willing to go all in. Choosing Apple is trading away your freedom. And as a guy who likes having options, that's a cost I will never be willing to pay.
Very sad if someone passes at such a (relativly) young age. Even more so when he made the world a better place for so many people.
That's correct even for the first 25. I was talking about the meanings of maintaining multi-domain certs from scaling point of view.
"Just raise the price" is an appropriate response to demand for a commodity, but it's an inappropriate response to these scenarios.

For example: PAX is trying to build a community event. The target demographic is not "wealthy people who love games", it's "people who love games" Changing the price results in a different convention.

Similarly, a popular $20 restaurant can't double their prices to keep demand manageable, because a great $20 dinner that costs $40 will reduce the perceived quality of the restaurant.
WARNING: Watch out for laptops. Since they are so portable, people don't tend to do the careful ergonomic adjustments they often do with immovable desktops. You can end up regularly using a laptop for long periods in dangerous postures that feel quite comfortable (until the pain gradually emerges).

I gave myself a nasty case of tennis elbow, for example, with a few hours a day of 2-finger "natural direction" (pushing away from you) scrolling on a MacBook when I wasn't at a desk.

Just be careful with a laptop and doubly careful if the laptop is actually in your lap.
> On desktop Linux, Mono's direct competition is not C++, but rather Python.

And the IDE support still sucks and the bindings are patchy at best (but admittedly better now because there is only 1 person working on GTK compared to the ten or fifteen who contributed back in the day and they release a lot less).

> Also, Mono apps were replaced in Ubuntu/Debian because of Mono's large footprint, both in memory and in disk usage

Thinly veiled bullshit if you ask me. If they were worried about package sizes, there were a lot of other things (like sample photos, movies, music, Open Office bloat, shipping multiple library versions, etc) that they could have cut back on if they got serious.

Regardless, the FOSS community shot themselves in the foot by jettisoning one of the most complete platforms that actually had decent developer tools.
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> One of the better ways is simply to have it run, but in a safe way which do nothing. That would solve the issues the article describes, and would not be harmful.

I'd argue it would be worse. I'd rather have the program not run at all than have it preconfigured in a way that contradicts its regular operation and having to reconfigure it to make it work normally.
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The article states that "Security breaks caching" but doesn't seem to give anything on the topic. Would a kind soukd elaborate or point me to tips on how to improve performance under these conditions ?
> Apple TV lets you do the same thing with AirPlay, and it works great.

With Apple-devices only. The majority of the market has non-Apple devices. And that's across a range of product-classes: Desktops, Laptops and mobile devices.

To be able to take advantage of AirPlay you need to be all in all across all those classes. That brings the effective market-share which can use AirPlay (in developed countries) down from around 20% to much less than 5%. In less developed countries, AirPlay is dead code.

This will be a device people can actually use. Do you seriously not consider that a factor in being disruptive?
I will love for this to get featured again on the main page when the video is available
Why cancel? You should have gone there and told everybody about it, then made them get your whife into the building or not speaking one word anymore.
Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?
Does Xiph have an official position on objective metrics for video codecs?

I'd imagine that what you choose to measure might make a big difference at this early design stage, and from a purely practical point of view, an "outsider" codec needs to prove itself against the incumbents via benchmarks unless it is night and day better (and even then the incumbents can muddy the waters with carefully chosen benchmarks).

The online peanut gallery debate on this seems to have degenerated into a sports fan like clash between SSIM afficiandos and people who think PNSR is good enough. But since the two measures are highly correlated with each other and both are based on treating video as a series of still images it sometimes it seems like two very short twins arguing about who is taller. The Xiph write-ups have a good track record of cutting through the BS and illuminating good engineering practice so I'd be interested in hearing their take.

A recent paper suggested that all such frame-based metrics heavily underestimated the improvements between H264 and HEVC compared with subjective MOS ratings. As an "odd" codec design that intentionally strays from the MPEG orthodoxy it seems like Daala could have a correspondence between objective and subjective quality measures that differs radically from existing codecs.
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Sure. In my defense, the real world doesn't require great poetic academic writing skills either. Specs and email are quite different. Life is quite different when you are writing code to have something to write about.
As I mentioned - people's votes aren't always sane. That being said the Minaret thing was a non sensical outcome, yes, but it doesn't really change that much. Mosks are still allowed and the Muslim community didn't seem to bother too much. I'm convinced that if the initiative were to forbid mosks or any essential part of Muslim religion, the result would have been completely different.
This is also the reason not to forward your ssh-agent (in my view, one of the most poorly considered features of ssh).
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OpenFab: A Programmable Pipeline for Multi-Material Fabrication
I dislike rerere because it's very difficult to get it to stop remembering your mistakes. I've always found it causes more hassle than it solves.
"Minami District" — 24K polygon city in 1KB of JS
Genetic programming experiment with Brainf***
After searching for practical tutorials on the subject months ago, today I suddenly stumbled upon this one.
After searching for practical tutorials on the subject months ago, today I suddenly stumbled upon this one (it was recommended by github automatically).
Thank you. Here it is again, the 'US isn't homogeneous' excuse.
I'm kind of surprised that we've not heard more from Google about machine learning applied to video codecs. After all some people claim compression is basically AI, and other people claim that Google is basically an AI company so you'd expect some fruitful collaboration is possible. Or maybe they're just keeping quiet about it?
How to recreate the Gmail send button
Would it matter?

Unless you plug into the matrix, you'll end up living your life eventually if you have all the time in the universe to do it.
The games and utilities are there because of Office, not the other way around, and both were made in huge amounts for other systems, then retreated, and are getting ported back to e.g. macs only now (think Autodesk stuff), and this is more due to Office becoming less relevant than anything else.
Reminds me South Park episode 'Imagination land'

Eric Cartman: Look, maybe they're all part of the same thing - Santa and Jesus and hell and leprechauns. Maybe they're all real in the same way, right?
Tom: Santa Claus and leprechauns are imaginary, but Jesus and hell are real.
Technician #1: Well then what about Buddha?
Tom: Well, of course, he's imaginary.
Technician #1: Aw, see? Now, you're being intolerant, Tom.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995579/quotes?item=qt0391524
Ask HN: Spagetti Sauce and A/B Testing
Was wondering if similar to food industry's pursuit of perfection[1](but, there is no one taste that everybody likes) , website visitors might have varied preferences for layouts and colors.

With A/B Testing we try to find which is that one layout/color of widget that attracts more people, but are we loosing out on people who actually preferred the original layout ?.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce.html
With stories like this, I have found it to be the opposite. People that would usually question this, won't because they are terrified of being called sexist which is (exactly what you have done and) one of those things that hangs around you and can ruin your career very quickly.

This style of marketing is becoming very popular. The young, disadvantaged, novice, whatever does something extraordinary through sheer brilliance and dedication [1][2][3] and when their claims don't really match reality [4], nobody cares. The marketing has already succeeded. It is exactly the kind of marketing that is taylor made for social media and if we don't want to be inundated with it in the future, we need to question it every time it appears so that only the truly deserving reap its benefits. Extraordinary claims (should) require extraordinary evidence.

[1] - http://gigaom.com/2011/12/13/meet-the-internets-newest-boy-g...

[2] - http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/22/18-year-old-invents-unde...

[3] - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2335195/Meet-Madis...

[4] - http://www.businessinsider.com/the-17-year-old-yahoo-paid-30...
Quiet nice!
How?

As I said in the other discussion, MP's and ministers have no working or practical knowledge of any department they run or over see. That's because we vote for them.

When was the last time a Doctor (of medicine) running Health? Or a teacher or headmaster running Education. Then, would you really like a policeman running the home office? Imagine all the power the police would be flooded with.

Or why is tech different? Why get that right and not the other areas?

Advisers? Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. Not going so well either, is it? Take drugs, we have a whole panel of advisers which both this and the last government just plain ignored because the moron voters are too stupid and screamish to take their advice.

Again, as I have said before, and been called a trite anarchist for saying so, the problem is democracy. We vote in idiots, usually lawyers, expect them to be experts in every area of life, then blame them when things go wrong.

As some point the electorate need to grow up and take some responsibility. Which clearly they can't do because the moron-o-sphere rules.

Like the poor Yanks, we too have the idiot government we deserve, and voted for.

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That's apparently trite anarchy
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That was a study. And I understand perfectly.

However. The typewriter factory output and productivity in the soviet union was also measured solely by weight. This did not fare so well. :-)

Thankfully this ceramics teacher didn't run an entire industry of a global superpower :-)
The thing is, these spiteful naysayers are talking about her, nobody is talking about them, and probably never will.
Smoking definitely is one of the causes (around 20% in the UK).

As is (sadly) eating smoked foods.
If the request and response are encrypted, how does the cache know what to cache?
AND because of the inconvenience and $$$ involved a lot of applications use a self signed cert and just skip checking the validity of the CA. I have written a few apps like that myself, so I suppose it is a common pattern.
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Out of curiosity, (I'm genuinely not attempting to incite a political debate) what would you consider a more effective alternative to the current structure?

I don't have any solid opinion one way or the other apart from knowing that the current structure is ineffective.
Lotus notes and Windows Mobile 7 also don't support it:
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The claims are that no one looks at it unless they are specifically chasing down a lead - c.f. their redefinition of "collecT" from "acquire" to "look it up in the database of acquired data." Presumably they would have just as many analysts working cases without this database.
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To the average fan, the comparison between a ticket to see Act X on a specific date in their town is nowhere near the same as pork bellies or orange juice. They're called 'commodities' because they're interchangeable. Tickets are extremely specific to a single date and location and act.
How likely is it that a majority of a modern society would agree to something crazy like this, vs. just the ruling party of an indirect democracy? Unfortunately we don't have much statistical evidence, since there's basically only Switzerland having such a system nationwide, but at least we know that in the history of this republic since 1848 there hasn't been such an incident, while the Weimarer Republic, culturally close to a majority of Swiss and under an indirect democratic rule, managed to elect a ruling party that went haywire.
No, it's 20 GB (for free accounts). https://www.dropbox.com/help/45/en
Mono is Windows encroachment onto nix. It's a square peg forced into a round hole. It's trying to force fit its tools, something that works good for Windows, onto nix but *nix tools are superior in every way.

I wish I could go on but I've had this argument before.
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This case isn't the best reference for why the laws are stupid. Publicly accusing someone of a crime without any sort of evidence just because they're reporting on it _should_ bloody well be libel.
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But that is exactly the point - that LLVM IR is not platform independent.

The fronted must choose which specific integer type that "int" in C maps to. At that point, the IR is no longer machine independent - if you pick 32 bit signed ints to represent C "int", your program will not match the C ABI on any platform using 16 bit unsigned int as C "int" and you won't be able to directly make calls to libraries on that platform, for example.
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That's not file type icons, that's extension icons? Windows has extensions hidden by default, so a lot of users might not know them.
How exactly? Pretty much all of the functionality in MacPaint is in SuperPaint, which predated it by 6 years (I'm assuming you're not confusing them, but this is the Xerox SuperPaint, not the later Mac application of the same name).

There are some superficial UI similarities between MacPaint and DPaint in how they both switched from a big separate panel of tools to toolbars along the side, but that's pretty much the only similarities I can see between the two that were not already present in SuperPaint, and it's line with a general trend, and even there it's not all that obvious where DPaint draws most of its inspiration.

They differed substantially in that DPaint is geared towards making the entire screen available as a canvas, and most people I know who used DPaint spent most of the time with the UI hidden, only turning it on briefly to pick colours etc., or when using the split screen zoom (to date I hate the way most paint apps do zoom with a vengeance - DPaint had it right).

In many ways the UI of SuperPaint is closer to the UI of DPaint than MacPaint is. The windowed interface with multiple toolbars of MacPaint was totally foreign to Amiga paint apps that for years followed the Deluxe Paint model of putting tools firmly at the screen edges and making them easy to hide.

I don't see much influence from MacPaint that matters frankly, though I'm sure you're right there was some - MacPaint did after all make it out the door sooner and it'd be silly of them not to look at what was well received. But in the overall design, the influence from SuperPaint is plain - all the functionality shared between MacPaint and DPaint was there in Xerox' SuperPaint years before.

Other than their shared heritage with SuperPaint and superficial UI stuff, to me the two are fundamentally different - the "some innovations" is what makes DPaint interesting at all: MacPaint is not usable as a paint application; DPaint is. By the time DPaint came out, the market was flooded with MacPaint clones. But pretty much all of them lacked the paint tools that made DPaint exciting.

I'm not sure where Studio/x comes in - they post-date DPaint by several years as far as I can tell (wow - that's a hard product line to Google; I'd never heard of them before); the field was extremely crowded by then.
Anything involving penetrative sex or an erect penis.

Children in the UK see softcore porn in corner stores every day - eye-level newspapers display models wearing thongs with the camera zoomed in to their ass crack on their covers, and there's a bare breasted woman inside.