skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. And seems like it doesn't affect most mobile users since they use a default client, for the most part.
>The complaint I had was with the false equivalence.

No, it wasn't. You inferred that I was stating that ALL republicans put money ahead of the environment by saying:

"carries about as much weight as "all Republicans are racists" or "all Democrats hate the rich"."

I clearly said MOST and corrected you.

You also presented your own useless, anecdotal experience that's in direct odds with the empirical evidence I later presented to you.

>The complaint I had was with the false equivalence.

You then go on to present your own false equivalence with Democrats, how quaint.

>About half of Democrats (48%) say global warming is a very serious problem

Nice false equivalency cherry-picking. You're ignoring the rest of the research that clearly shows that most Republicans are notorious for being deniers of everything from warming itself, to it being caused by human activity, along with impact denial.

You're actually very much using the tactics of global warming deniers as well. Ignore the vast amount of evidence against your argument, while cherry-picking small sections of data in a desperate attempt to fudge the overall point.

>Whether or not Republicans agree on climate change, that does not mean they hate the environment

Once AGAIN, I didn't say ALL republicans. But, the fact that MOST put a corporatist, profiteering point of view ahead of a vast majority of climate scientists doesn't actually show a sincere concern for the environment, either.

Unless, once again, you want to jump into another foray of fantasy.
One of my earliest childhood memories was going to the computer store with my mom to buy my dad an Imagewriter II as a gift. I LOVED that thing and it is probably responsible for much of my love of computing. (I remember the day my dad taught me what PR#6 did… oh boy the paper I wasted after that.)

It was only over a decade later that I realized how crazy it was that she bought that for him, given that it was (a) $600, and (b) she knew absolutely nothing about computers.
That is only possible if the URL is identical. If senders use unique URLs per recipient, Google could guess at which images are identical based on surrounding e-mail content, patterns in URL components, and/or statistical sampling of some of the URLs, but a 100% accurate deduplication would either require identical URLs or a lot of bandwidth to read 100% of URLs.
If they wait until the user opens the email to cache the image, then it's actually BETTER for marketers.

This essentially allows the marketer to track whether the email was opened by default.
Because relative to the quantity of email Gmail has to process, the images returned from tracking links are likely a drop in the bucket, and requesting them all provides their users with even better privacy protection than the "Show Images" toggle did.

If you want to be cynical, you can note that Google will still know which emails you opened and which you did not. Does the current Gmail TOS restrict them from selling that information to advertisers, or (more likely) using it to target ads? Probably not!

I suppose if they're clever, they'll figure out when a sender is serving a million copies of the same image to slightly altered URLs in the same email template, and forgo the requests, but either way, the sender loses the analytics.
Yes, it applies to a roulette wheel in the same way.

But even if you played a special roulette wheel where your odds are fair (100% return), a loss of $X more than offsets a gain of $X because the more money you have, the less happy you feel from gaining a specific amount. Conversely, the less money you have, the worse you will feel about losing a flat amount. So playing a fair (50/50) roulette game is still a losing game, in terms of happiness.

By my estimates (I may be wrong about the estimates, but they're what I'm going by) - Bitcoin is completely different from roulette. It's more like you get to take one chance on a coin flip. Heads, you win some huge multiple (suppose 100x?) of your bet; tails you lose your bet. How much would you bet on this coin?

The only point to argue is what the odds of that coin flip are, and what you'll win if it lands favorably. You may think it's 2x. Others might think it's 10x or 1000x. I believe it will replace the speculation value of gold, so that puts it at a minimum of 350 times its current value. I also believe that it will do way more than replace gold, because of how convenient it is.

I also believe that it takes a long time (months to years) for people to understand how it works, and they won't invest until they understand it, so the current market value is far below these estimates.

Try to understand my logic here, and tell me if you still think it's totally unreasonable. I can't be convinced of different values. I am putting it at a 50% chance of getting to $500k/BTC in 15 years.

So I have a chance to flip this coin; 15 years from now it's 500x my bet or zero. How much should I bet on this coin if I really believe this is accurate?
I would hire Bricklayer B on an hourly basis.
I remember it being a big problem in public parks too. (Perhaps more dogs than people)
they could track if an email was opened twice

first one = Google

second one = user
But like ActiveX, it still needs to be supported by the underlying architecture.
That's not what self-relaince is. Nobody is self-reliant by that definition because even people trained for wilderness survival will die from some mundane thing without modern medicine.

Self-reliance is when you can contribute enough to society on your own to get the things required to live in return without hand-outs.
It's the heat pump, at ~5 minutes.
The solution is to provide a strong network of support for people who are on the fringes of being homeless. Make sure people can access this while maintaining their dignity. Remove as many hardships/obstacles from their lives as possible. Find a way to allow them to take risks and fail without losing everything.

Move the political will in a direction that strives to provide affordable places to live, reduce commute times, access to child care, etc. This seems to be totally the opposite of the voting will in SF these days. Everyone is concerned with their real estate value and preventing adequate property development and criminalizing peoples' innovative (and dignified) solutions to community problems (I'm talking about people living in RVs/campers).
Eh, In Philly I used to do my grocery shopping at a Trader Joes, located directly underneath an upscale apartment building, and directly across the street from two porno theaters and a salvation army.

I don't think that it is fair to frame the situation as a problem of people not respecting some sort of informal 'urban decay quarantines'. That seems uncomfortably close to victim blaming to me (yes, the situation is not that simple as clearly the more impoverished are victims, but the well-off are nevertheless also victimized by criminal portion of the impoverished population. This is a difficult topic to discuss without appearing to lack compassion or be tone deaf)
I've also had tickets dropped on the floor (explicitly, actually), and the email reply address bounced. FYI.

Also, I can't find any way to open support tickets any more. FYI.

I really wanted to like you guys, and I field a lot of questions about how to buy these days.
> Google has no way to know that all of those point to the same image.

Try again. :)
It's hard to say that Word is slow "performing x" when the alternative in many cases is not "performing x" at all.

Put another way, even if I never embed spreadsheets in my documents, if Abiword cannot deal with the embeded Excel spreadsheet that my client sends me, then Word's ability to deal with it is not bloat.

And if my alternative to editing the client's input numbers directly in the Word document she sent is to deal with a PDF and manipulate dumb text manually, then Word isn't running slowly.
Honestly I had no idea. I have TMO in the US, and haven't paid for texting (unlimited) in years.
inbound.org seems to be doing well. I've found interesting views on marketing there, also not quite HN, some of the articles are just crap, but there are some quality posts that make it to the top of inbound fairly regularly. Great for a hacker who needs some inside scoop on marketing.
Can someone with an AAAS membership please post the full article?

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6164/1367.full.pdf

$20 for one day access! Fucking obscene.

I should join AAAS, it is only $50 for the year, but I can't swing it just now.
That has got to be a neat trick. If a Google server does the fetch, how would you detect opens other than theirs?
hn is interesting because its the intersection of technology/startup life/entrepreneurship and all the sub genres within those.

Intersections don't translate as well to subreddits.
Because a NYT op-ed about how heartless Rand Paul is is not part of an interesting new phenomenon, or even interesting at all in a hacker sense. I feel like people upvoted it because they agree with it and feel strongly about the issue, but it's just partisan politics. Politicians say crazy things all the time and I enjoy being able to go to HN and NOT see politics plastered everywhere.
Amazingly fun to mess with.
I've been mining these and hanging out in #dogecoin on freenode for the last few days. It's the most fun I've had doing cryptocurrency stuff.
Fixing homelessness in SF is a very complicated problem. Some of it has to do with anti-gentrification. Other issues are zoning laws. In addition, there is a root cause of mental health and/or substance abuse.

Here's an article on it. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-struggles-to-help-e...
PNaCl is closer to a modernized Java than it is to ActiveX. In particular, a pnacl binary is theoretically write-once-run-anywhere and doesn't depend on any aspects of the client OS other than a limited browser interaction API.
Its funny, i havent had more fun doing crypto since bitcoin ;) Its actually kinda amazing how popular it is already.
I'm tired of this same old implication. My parents made ~25k. They did not buy my first computer, and they did not pay for me to go to college. Is that what you are looking for?
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"The score is four/And next time more!"

Yes, I know it's a counterfactual, but I can never resist the opportunity to toss out that old chestnut, because just about every time I do so, it meets two or three people who not only have never heard of it, but never imagined it possible.
Not picking on you in particular, but you are what you eat. Who is to say that people shouldn't eat what they want to eat, unless it is some part of you? Isn't it their responsibility to consume what they like?

Eating sweets makes people fat. You can eat what you want and live with the consequences, just the same as everyone else.
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It's been, many years...IIR the serial port was built into the motherboard.
This is totally true, and as the original article mentions:

"Unless you can afford to have two or more competing teams solving the same problem, and c’mon, who would do that, you will never know."

So, the above metaphor is almost always impractical, and it's hard to tell what the alternative is to the one bricklayer you have.
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> which they will sell ...

Citation? I was not aware of this.
I guarantee you that San Francisco does not adequately prosecute people who poop on the street or shout dirty comments at passers-by. And I guarantee you that complaining about the homeless problem does not mean a lack of compassion for an "already marginalized group". And SF is so politically correct that prosecuting members of this "already marginalized group" is a political challenge (although California has no problem throwing large numbers of black guys in jail without adequate due process). Nor do SF police consider street pooping a high priority. You do not get a homeless problem with effective policing and effective social services.

I really don't know what you're trying to get at with your comment. It seems to consist mostly of straw-man arguments and a lack of interest in confronting a real problem.
Apparently it didn't gain much traction here.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6011094
You'd expect hiring to be touchy-feely work that couldn't be done by machines. But, ironically, that seems not to be the case, as companies outsource to "recruiters" with computer-driven systems.
Indeed, the Wikipedia page on the Vortex Tube mentions it has been successfully used with water when input at high pressure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube

In 1988 R.T.Balmer applied liquid water as the working medium. It was found that when the inlet pressure is high, for instance 20-50 bar, the heat energy separation process exists in incompressible (liquids) vortex flow as well.

I hadn't heard of this before, interesting stuff!
I feel like "compatible with all modern browsers" is a little dishonest as long as Apple keeps dragging their feet with WebGL in iOS. I know that this isn't an asm.js problem, but the implication is that you can make a game like this which runs in all modern browsers, and that's simply not true yet.
yes. they are lazy. that's why they are good programmers.
Brute force gives me about 2287/2288. Trying each number 1,000,000 times (distribute X balls in 365 bins, count number times all bins are filled) so it seems reliable, but maybe I have bug somewhere:

import java.util.Random;

public class Birthday {

private static Random rand = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis());

public static void main(String... args) {

final int n = 365;
boolean[] bins = new boolean[n];

final float maxNumberOfAttempts = 1000000;
for (int numberOfBalls = 2285; numberOfBalls <= 2400; ++numberOfBalls) {

int attempts = 0;
int numberOfTimesAllBinsFilled = 0;

while (attempts < maxNumberOfAttempts) {
if (distribute_X_Balls_in_N_bins_randomly_and_return_the_number_of_filled_bins(
numberOfBalls, bins) == n) {
numberOfTimesAllBinsFilled++;
}
++attempts;
}

float prob = numberOfTimesAllBinsFilled / maxNumberOfAttempts;
System.out.println((prob > .5 ? "PASSED:" : "FAILED:") + numberOfBalls + ":" + prob);

}
}

public static int distribute_X_Balls_in_N_bins_randomly_and_return_the_number_of_filled_bins(
int x, boolean[] bins) {
for (int inx = 0; inx < bins.length; ++inx) {
bins[inx] = false;
}

int whichBin = 0;
int total = 0;

while (--x >= 0) {
whichBin = rand.nextInt(bins.length);

if (!bins[whichBin]) {
bins[whichBin] = true;
++total;

if (total == bins.length) {
return total;
}
}
}

return total;

}

}
Yes. I co-founded a business that:

1) Had a few competitors
2) Had web savvy customers
3) Had non web savvy providers

So with a nice website and a small adwords budget ($10 per day), we got $500,000 in orders in 4 weeks.

And if you're curious ... We install floor and wall tiles in the bathrooms of large hotels. Everyone laughs at our faces when we tell them what it's about.
Something that differentiates reddit with the set of HN clones is the discovery: on any subreddit you have a list of other subreddits and you can search for them if you want to explore about a new thing.
Every HN clone is its own little island and can only count traffic from Google to build a community after the initial HN announcement. They should try to link to each other, or at least there should be a wiki page somewhere that lists all HN for X.
Images are the "ping" marketers use to track opens. So you'd have an image link back to `http://mysite.com/tracking?email=joe@stuff.com` which will alert them that Joe actually opened the email. This can give them a conversion rate: for the 5000 people we emailed, 230 of them opened the email, and 67 actually followed the link back to the site.
I interpreted it as saying the only way you can expect more than 8 hours of productivity constantly from programmers is if they do multiple tasks. And not saying that it would be ideal to have programmers do everything.
>Except banks hire employees, pay taxes, provide a service, build ATMs, offer lines of credit, provide consumer protections, etc.

And all of those things are consuming real resources, far more than bitcoin ever will consume in electricity or "neckbeards going through garbage dumps". Building a bank is probably way worse for the environment, man-hours/wages spent for employees, armored cars transporting physical cash, etc.

Not to mention the other criticisms of banks which are way more significant than this.
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He didn't earn any stock options during the 2009-2010 fiscal years, hence why I said total compensation instead of salary.
Très intéressant! I wonder why the UK domain is being sent to the new range...
I guess you could say that email marketers are getting Scroogled by Microsoft's ads. ;)
> This essentially allows the marketer to track whether the email was opened by default.

And the spammer. Unless they decide to not load images by default from untrusted senders.
> I would not say that "no PII gets disclosed".

And I would say you don't know what PII means.

You might consider this to be a violation of privacy but you're not disclosing any PII that the sender didn't already have. And in fact it's decreasing the amount of PII that's being disclosed because you're not longer sending any browser information when the image is loaded.
My sense is the issue has a lot to do with mental health and/or substance abuse. When people have severe issues, it no longer becomes an issue of laziness. The heartbreaking thing is in many cases efforts to help out makes things worse.
Are we sure they won't programmatically/statistically detect these tracking URLs and start skipping the request after the first dozen or so retrievals out of 10,000,000?
My statement "on the expectation that he would be paid only if Apple would perform well" meant "paid in bonuses", which includes the shares and perks. Also, I never stated that Jobs made less than Pandit -- You said first: We are not arguing about compensation here.

Point being: Jobs accepted a new position and would earn money only if he would deliver. Pandit in the other hand would make money regardless what was the outcome, staying on the position he was before. He screwed it up, got bail-out by the government, reduced his salary to $1 as a mea-culpa, then made a bunch of money and left. Is this what a good CEO would do?
Even if you do have a background in software, evaluating talent is difficult; it's why the interview process can be so convoluted.
> I cannot for the life of me understand why "techies" have been flocking to areas of San Francisco where the average person would likely not feel safe the minute the sun goes down

Because the rent's cheap there! -- in a city where office space averages $500 per square foot per month [1], renting an ex-body-shop next to a porn store's going to be a lot easier on the ol' shoestring, don't you think?

[1] http://www.loopnet.com/San-Francisco_California_Market-Trend...
Yes, but context. They're not likely to have evolved inside the relative oasis of Europa's oceans (or put differently, they're not likely to have retained any extremophile traits they might have once had).
Yeah, I am not sure where the original claim is coming from. It isn't that hard for Google to simply follow the links and compare the files as part of the caching process. So unless marketers start customizing the images in addition to the links, there isn't any reason why Google can't cache the images together.

And even if marketers do start customizing images, hasn't Google gotten pretty good at comparing very similar files? Isn't that how Google Music works without having a copy of every single individual upload?
Wow this is really dreadful.
Don't carry any encrypted data on your person, download it over the internettubes which pass right through customs.

Hardware can easily travel separately from bits.
The key word in "Data Science" is not Data, it is Science
I was an Aztec C user. That was the second compiler I ever purchased (after Abacus C for the C64). Damn... I'm still buying compilers today thanks to Microsoft.
Do you know more about this? Are they, say, MD5ing images that are served, or can this be circumvented by changing a pixel for each request?
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Renaissance men have awesome websites these days, instead of you never hearing about them!
That's the ErgoDox, which is periodically sold in a parts kit by MassDrop https://www.massdrop.com/buy/ergodox

Registration is required for MassDrop, which is unfortunate - but they have to do that to be classified as something other than a retailer so they can offer lower prices.

I did a write-up of my year with an ErgoDox here: http://jjt.io/2013/11/25/why-any-developer-should-check-out-...
... before making the requests. And then it's too late.

(Also, they might not actually point to the same image, it's very easy to make the images themselves unique if required.)
These two statements of yours seem at odds with each other:

"The privacy and security protections are about preventing other information (like ip, browser headers, cookies) from leaking, rather than read notifications."

"If you care about maintaining your privacy, I would recommend disabling the new functionality."
There is similar Java based solution http://restsql.org/doc/Overview.html with MIT license. I only used it to create quick back end server to present database driven testing framework at local JUG and it worked very well for that purpose.
Be fair! The woman was such a godawful writer that it's hard to get to grips with any of her ideas for their own sake.
Google could retrieve and cache a random sample of the images and hash them. Then they could note which image links go to the same images. And they could identify image links by noting that a bunch of emails have the same structure except for one image link that's different for every recipient.

So I think they actually could take a pretty good stab a deduping images with unique tracking URLs. It might not be perfect, but even if it works 95% of the time they could still kill the profitability of the unique tracking image technique.
No it wouldn't. You can't tell anything about what's on the other end of random_unique_number_65984654.jpg
Well of course it has a way. It can fetch the image. Then it will see it's the same - but now that means that the mail is 'reported' as delivered, possibly before the person receiving it has ever opened the message. This is an issue both for individuals (I don't want this information reported) and marketers (false positives).
Oh wow, I guess I'm in your two or three this time. I am not really sure what to make of that.

Clearly not all 'mob grievances' are legitimate.
wow! many coins. such crypto. must buy. wow. very cheap. instant millionaire
Once they followed the links, the tracking has already happened. Any deduplication after that only helps to reduce Google's storage costs.
I am not calling all financial services inefficient/useless. Obviously there is value in providing loans, customer support, etc.

But at least some activities of the traditional financial sector can be made more efficient by crypto-currencies, hence the value they provide to society. (Again I refer you to this one example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6782706)
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Paywall... please summarize.
How would that happen? Like my server saves your searches and quickly registers them before you?

Wouldn't I have to have a load of money for that to be viable on my part?
How could they know prior to fetching the image? Sure, after fetching they could determine it but that is too late for privacy.
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Even if they hashed every image returned, they'd have still made the request.
Easy: Make the "Dear <username>" part of the email an image. Boom, deduplication fooled.

(Also, they don't currently seem to do anything like you're suggesting.)