skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people bother closing unlocked doors? Anybody who wants to see or go inside can just open them.

Why do people put passwords on their computers? Anybody who has physical access can just remove the hard drive.

Why do people lock their cars? Anybody who wants to steal something can just smash the window.
In this case, yes they were connected, but I guess that was an isolated case. Banks don't make credit card transaction over the net. Security is not about programming languages. Security is mostly about infrastructure, OS and design.

I honestly don't care about security at all. Arguing a language is not secure, is like saying you can cut yourself with a knife, and still people are stupid enough to hurt themselves with butter knives.

The only language that is truly secure is javascript, and you can't really do everything with it, one time or another, you need to access the hardware and write file.

C/C++ is a tradeoff, it's quite easy to teach, so you're very productive with it, that's one of the most important thing about a language, and it's still fast, but you need to use it carefully. Security has always been a costly, luxury feature that is really better to have in some cases, but if you're a small company and need to get something done, C/C++ is just great. And if you get hacked, most of the time, the guys who did it get caught, so I don't see why the industry should shift to ada or VM languages (which have been showed to have still many vulnerabilities).
Digital watermarks are typically invisible.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_watermarking
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Additionally, some of these libs are unoptimized and performance will change with time.
Either way, since the performance differences are so small, it's probably best to go with what's easiest to work with.
I just did a quick test using Mailgun and recorded the results [1].

The TLDWatch is that Google does give you back the open event and they also give you the email address of the open since this data is encoded in the URL.

The data that is not accurate is what you would expect: IP address, geo-location and user-agent string.

We'll hopefully write a more extensive blog post shortly.

[1] http://blog.mailgun.com/post/gmail-open-tracking-test-at-mai...
The U.S. does maintain dominance, but it's not quite correct to say that it maintains a global empire. Instead, it maintains the status quo where it is at the top, but where it's traditional allies are also in favorable positions.

It's not altruistic, certainly, but it's not entirely selfish either. Obviously as the preeminent world power the U.S. benefits from the status quo. However, so does Europe. And India and China have done pretty well under the worldwide stability that American military power has bankrolled.

Look at history before the rise of the U.S. Was it free of great powers intervening in lesser countries to maintain a particular world order? Of course not. A course in European history is a course in how the great powers of a Europe used military intervention to maintain their status. Today, much of what Europe (and China and India, let's be honest) would otherwise do is subsidized by the U.S. Or do you think that if America pulled out of the Middle East everyone else would just let them do whatever they want?
Which is odd, because Twitter's own Mac client is pretty great at it.
Yeah, that could be. I have to spend a significant part of my time now dealing with spam (sysadmin), and Gmail's handling of spam is years ahead of most of the tools I have available.
This is a very common viewpoint among technical people, sadly. Kind of like how humanists think math is about counting things. I'm not implying Gates is of that variety, but, you know, his kind, our kind. Not that there's much point in reading Shakespeare nowadays, anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_cultures
When the government wishes to make your life miserable and you have a credit card, they can call your credit card company and get your account frozen for reasons.

When the government wishes to make your life miserable and you have a bitcoin wallet, they have to do a lot more work if they want those funds.
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Couldn't agree more. To quote a favourite author, "After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world." I believe this to be true.
They could still post a link before. Or, IIRC (may be wrong), RT from another account and RT that.
But if Google always fetches the images, then there's no way for the marketers to know if the email was actually opened or not.
>>> I don't think teaching computer programming in public schools is silly

No, and neither do I. I, however, think that having the federal government to prescribe what to teach in schools through legislation is silly. Especially if it is done the way everything else is done in public education system, which breeds unintended consequences and is not exactly rigged for pupil's benefit.

>> One approach to teaching a new subject might be to forget about the bottom 25%

You must have never heard anything about US public education system if you think something like that would ever be palatable. Does "No child left behind" ring a bell? But the honorable congressmen know what rings the bell:

Along with redefining computer programming as a critical foreign language, the 416d65726963612043616e20436f646520 Act would create a competitive matching grant program for schools, particularly those in low-income areas, to create new ways to teach computer science and engineering, in tandem with universities and non-profits.

"Particularly those in low-income areas" are those that are bottom 25%. And dumping federal money on them and saying "now teach kids to be best programmers ever!" is doubtful to produce the results you would wish to see.
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Thanks, that was equally informative as it was depressing.

It's not exactly something that is winning the hearts and minds of people in the middle east. I guess the western powers are passed that now, and are engaged in a crusade.
As you say, the fact that a program won't benefit 100% of students shouldn't count against the program. That said, do you have any thoughts on preventing top quartile students from becoming bored with middle-half education and turning into bottom quartile students?
Google gets huge benefits from it but I think in the end this helps advertisers as well as still being able to track via the image url and a unique url/id. Good deals usually help both parties with some give and take.

Pros:

- Since all images flow through google, phishing and other malware attacks could be subverted.

- Images will be hosted faster in many cases (possibly less cost to run newsletters).

- Less connections on your server/cdn from multiples sources but google singularly.

- Still able to identify users legitimately but new users and newsletters will have more trouble getting your information initially.

Cons:

- Re-views later will not be tracked if out of cache, it will come from google the second time if is hasn't been purged (re-views are not big on newsletters anyways)

- Google getting all this data as well as your company

- The obvious 'national security' reasons

- Limited location and meta information
I'm not that familiar with Cloudflare and unsure how well it would work with a Drupal-based site. They do appear to have a module ( https://drupal.org/project/cloudflare ) but it seems like it is a beta and hasn't been developed in a few months. It does seem like it would be more expensive for the level with an SLA ($200 for business plan) than the CDN we use now (which is $79 a month for our images and includes 1TB of bandwidth, about what we need. excluding binary downloads, of course). Do you have any direct experience with CloudFlare?
Only businesses that want to take other peoples code, modify and distribute it, and the go and sue any user who themselves want to further modify or share the software.

That type of business use is incompatible with GPL. Thankfully, it is not the common case, as often businesses just want to use the software privately. That is always compatible with the GPL.
That's not what he said. Fixed supply means deflation, regardless of how many units exist as long as population and economies grow. Economists generally consider deflation a very bad thing that kills economic growth and creates artificial recessions.
Was wondering how long it would take before someone built something like this.
The difference here is that with a car loan, even if you drive off the car lot and right into the ocean and leave it there you still legally owe the full price of the car to the bank and they can come after you if need be. Cellphone companies make money off of you from the 2 years of data/voice plan service. If I go sign up with AT&T for a $200 iPhone5 then unlock it and go to T-Mobile the next day, AT&T got screwed. Maybe smartphones should just be sold at full price and you either pay it in full or get a bank loan, like cars & houses. But we know if we did that, a whole bunch of people suddenly wouldn't be able to afford the phones and the whole market around cellphones would have to change dramatically.
No offence, but where have you been getting news on his perception in the last few years? He's proven probably the most significant philanthropist in history, this isn't new.
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Probably the cutest thing I've ever seen.
Is that theory supported by any evidence? My guess is that under Obama and drones, fewer civilians have been accidentally killed then under say Clinton and cruise missiles.
There's an interesting tradeoff -- marketers no longer know your location, browser, client or how many times you've opened the email. However, any spammer now instantly knows that the email address is valid.

It's probably an improvement, but not all the way there. For actual privacy, what GMail needs to do (and I realize this is slightly unfeasible due to the amount of email they receive) is instantly open and cache every single email to every single email address (including non-existent addresses).
"Non-bricklayers can make relatively accurate comparisons between two wall-building projects. "

I would dispute the 'relatively accurate' assumption. My father works in construction and it's often the case that what me (as a non-construction worker) sees as a beautiful kitchen, he'll see as a nice-looking kitchen that's been cheaply made with quality and craftsmanship problems.

I would imagine that a bricklayer has a better chance of telling you whether a wall is likely to start cracking within five years than your average person off the street would, for example. You're assuming that non-bricklayers would know what to look for to assess the quality of the wall properly or that brick walls are so simple that any untrained person off the street could figure out what all those hidden factors are.

I think this is actually the exact same thinking mistake that people make when they assume that programming must be easy. It's seeing only what's on the surface and not realising there are deeper things (a previous poster mentioned 'hidden processes' when talking about laying down a hardwood floor, which is exactly what I mean here).
['416D65726963612043616E20436F646520'].pack('H*')
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Huh. I haven't heard that take on "junk DNA" in a long time.

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Noncodi...
That's how it works in the government - precise to the last detail. They'll fix it in the amendments. Probably will turn out as "Amer1cA can_c0dde" in the final version of the bill and would include $180M in corn subsidies.
I fall into the camp that believes that patents shouldn't exist at all, but if we could at least stop granting vague and abusable patents for software and business processes, I'll take it.

I know nothing about Michelle Lee, but if she spent time at Google, there's no way she doesn't have some understanding of how bad the patent ecosystem has become. The only question is whether the bad publicity around patent trolls has created enough political will to push back against bad patents, given that granting as many patents as possible is effectively the business model of the USPTO.
Ehh. Arcanum tried, but its ambitions were pretty high and it didn't really fulfill them. Neat game, but not nearly up to the level of either Fallout title, IMO.
Hopefully she sets up a system so only a tiny fraction of those 600,000 backlogged patents get accepted by USPTO employees, while the others get discarded as the useless patents that they are. Then USPTO will have time to pass the patents that really matter, right on schedule, too.
These may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I think they are pretty close:

1. EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) (https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy)

2. EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) (https://epic.org/privacy/)

3. ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) (https://www.aclu.org/protecting-civil-liberties-digital-age)

All three organisations are actively involved in significant legal actions to challenge privacy violations.
Thanks! Sent you a note. Anyone else have suggestions?
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So it's kinda like Snapchat, except your images can be viewed forever?
The terms of service are an agreement with their users, not with third parties who are emailing their users.
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I'm being told a patent reexamination fee is $6000: http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/5587/method-to-re...

Is this accurate?
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Abolish intellectual property.
One of my coworkers has a Occulus dev kit.. I'm pretty sure it's just a single screen in there so 1080p Occulus would only require a single 1080p stream as far as I know, which current consoles are more then capable of.
The blog post is optimistic, but it will have an effect e.g. https://mailchimp.com/assets/images/features/main_segmented....
Suddenly they don't know the location, OS, browser and referrer. They only know the refined open rate. Good.
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think copyright law allows for Bob to pass on that right.
yes, but the more tedious the ux made it to do so, the fewer people would do it
Or until, years and years from now, someone buys Google.
How exactly? You're still in a 2 year contract. Whether you're using T-mobile's SIM or not is completely irrelevant. You signed a 2 year contract with AT&T and you're paying them every last time until that period expires. Unlocking the phone changes nothing.

Unless, you actually interrupt the contract with AT&T, but in that case it's not much different than it is today, and you just pay the ETF and you're on your merry way.
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I think you need to differentiate between unlocking the phone and breaking the service contract. Just because you want the former doesn't necessarily mean you want the latter.

For example, you might want to make sure your phone is unlocked so when you take a week trip overseas you can pop in another sim card to use in another country, but you might keep your existing contract with AT&T active because you'll keep using it when you come home.

I don't really see any logical reason why having a service contract with a cell company should prevent you from doing this.
I would hope that they cache the images before delivery to any inbox regardless of whether the inbox exists or not.
How about "Former Google corporate attorney becomes Deputy Director of US Patent Office"?

EDIT: (commenting on the article title; not the HN title)
> There's an interesting tradeoff -- marketers no longer know your location, browser, or how many times you've opened the email. However, any spammer instantly knows that the email address is valid.

Before, however, if you never clicked on "show images" then spammers knew nothing at all.
Seriously... So much for adaptive bit rate.

Makes sense that Cisco would be using CBP after seeing this
on Wikipedia:

"this profile is most typically used in videoconferencing and mobile applications"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Profiles
Who would you rather buy shoes from: someone who obsesses over making great shoes, or someone who obsesses over making money by any means possible, and has decided that shoes are the optimal means to that end?

At best, pure business type are a necessary evil, doing the dirty work that enables people to make a living by offering genuine value. But at worst, they are soulless parasites leeching out every ounce of passion and creativity for a cold, hard buck.

"People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it." http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspi...
Because the contract isn't the same as a bank loan. They're suppose to be making money on the voice/data usage for 2 years, but you're not using the AT&T sim card anymore. I thought the person I was replying to wasn't happy with the ETF fee since he was debating with the mikestew who said he just paid ETF to make the carrier switch.
If we're all in agreement that the current business model needs the ETF fee before unlocking, then I guess I have nothing to say. But anyone who wants their phone unlocked without paying ETF is missing the part where carriers would get screwed on high-end phones.

Get a $200 iphone5 from AT&T, next day unlock it without paying ETF and get a cheap prepaid T-Mobile sim and never use the AT&T sim again; thus not paying AT&T's voice/data fees(and we all know they get you on overages). That'd be a problem for the current business model. To make up for the lack of overage-charges they'd have to make the phones more expensive or raise the monthly minimum charge.

NOTE: I understand the awkward issue of travel though. I made the mistake of using my AT&T sim in Nigeria once. Maybe smartphones should accept difference SIMs after it determines its in a country other than where it was bought. But of course, then I go to amazon.co.uk and order an iPhone5 to be sent to America. ;)
How much of this is that most millennial women have not yet had children (and have not temporarily or permanently exited the workforce)?
A side effect of this is you will never be able to send images to someone as a cut/paste if they are behind http auth since google can't log in and see them.
So how does it compare to companies borne out of Y Combinator? That would be interesting to see.
I'm not sure what they used for 286 era machines for hard drives but I suspect it was plain old IDE, which you could probably connect directly to a more modern machine. I was still in Amiga land until the 486.

Incidentally, the only 286 I ever owned was actually a board that I got for the Amiga that plugged into the CPU socket with the unholy alliance of a 286 + Motorola CPU. You could use them at the same time to run PC stuff and Amiga stuff. It was a hack of hacks. But it worked!
But on the other hand I think it's more salient to understand that, say, the students shot down at Kent State were murdered and the general population of the country was on the side of the National Guard.... that's the kind of complicity that most people live under, the same complicity that believes people executed by police for non-compliance deserve their fates.

If you actually read the thread up your position on it, you'd know that you were equating an unwilling to challenge tanks rolling through your streets due a fear of getting shot with an approval of such tanks rolling through your streets.

It seems to me that intellectuals spouting this kind of nonsense wide-up complicit to power and not in a it's-OK-cause-everyone-is, kind of way.
They already did. Now they know less about who opened the email.
I think you're confusing 2 issues here:

1) unlocking the phone

2) killing the contract with AT&T

Until now to "unlock your phone", you had to kill your contract with AT&T, and then move over to T-Mobile. But now you'll be able to unlock the phone for free - while maintaining the contract with AT&T - and still be able to use T-mobile. So you'll be paying both contracts (if for some reason you want to use both - like say you have family on AT&T's network, etc).

This is very common in Europe. People use 2 networks on the same phone all the time, by switching the SIMs. And I think in Asia, too, because in both these regions dual-SIM phones are on the rise.
You can sell the business. Or you can put work into automating it and hire someone to manage it.

The point was that it's not "Be Airbnb or have nothing to show for it". You can join YC, aim for the moon, but maybe end up with something pretty decent for your efforts even if you fail at the big one.
Reading fiction tends to be the best way to train the habit of seeing the world through someone else's eyes, and a little empathy goes a long way in many life situations indeed.
Good. I subscribe to the idea that blocking is the right reaction to people who draw you into pointless arguments or who are a net drag on your experience. I block a lot of people. But Twitter's old behavior was needlessly punitive; it was just stupid to pretend that they could bidirectionally sever my connection with someone else on the network, and so instead they were just annoying people for no reason.

Net result: I can block more people now, and not feel guilty about it.
To be fair, MS's "new image format" (JPEG XR) actually seems quite a bit better than Google's "new image format" (WebP)...

JPEG XR actually adds significant features like OpenEXR- and radiance-compatible HDR encoding, whereas WebP is basically the same old 1980s functionality with better compression.

So while there's something slightly sketchy about doing this, I'd say the world would benefit more from MS doing it than from Google doing it...

[I use gmail and other Google stuff, and have an Android phone, and generally hate MS, but it's very hard to be enthusiastic about WebP...]
Tell me two books that'll teach me so much. Please.
One obvious reason is that Millennial women (especially professionals) have not had babies yet.

The effect of taking time of work for children is not immediate, it creates a pay gap for the rest of somebody's career.

If we imagine somebody's pay over their career as an upward sloping line eg.

year 1 40k

year 2 42k

year 3 44k

etc...

When a woman takes 6-24 months of work to have a kid or two then that pauses their pay increases for that time and they are 1-4k worse off than somebody who didn't take time off at all when they get back. Add to that that women do more of the school runs and other caring when they DO return to work...
According to this page, most 6 year olds are still figuring out the whole "counting" thing, and only have some basic addition and subtraction. Logo seems like it would be a good fit for a typical 6 year old, but not much more. You seem like an incredibly exceptional outlier.

http://www.pbs.org/parents/childdevelopmenttracker/six/mathe...
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Storing and guarding gold is a pain in the ass. Transaction fees for tiny positions in the entire Russell 2000 index would be prohibitive. These are the kinds of things people use ETFs to buy. Why would I want to buy into an ETF that holds BTC rather than buying BTC myself, is it easier to write options or loan into short interest that way?