skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on Google's caching strategy and deduping capabilities, I wonder if longer term any embedded IMG link will start to count towards your quota...

In order to maintain privacy it's been well discussed they would have to cache always and forever. So large images will definitely add up over time.

I also wonder, even if they have a persistent cache, you might still want to check the Last-Modified and Etag of the URI. I don't think many people embed dynamic images like this, and I'm not sure how most clients would handle it, but it's an interesting corner case.

Seems like a safer first step would have been turning on the Silk-like proxy and keeping image display logic the same. Then you have only benefits due to reduced Cookie, Referral, and IP masking, and could also look for corrupt images which are actually JavaScript and that sort of thing. This wouldn't have been a shot across the bow of the golden goose of open tracking, which imputes Google's true motives.

Saying that the proxy is enough to require everyone to opt-out of auto-images may be a bridge too far, especially when there are ways to register your domain so that inline-images ARE automatically displayed, which IMO is what they should be encouraging.

Another way at this would be to find a UI widget which helped users actually understand the possible tracking info they would be giving up to the sender.

Still further putting control in hands of the sender would be a data tag on the IMG which told Google they should cache, and in exchange would result in wider image viewership. Tracking opens, actions, and coverts is the most important metrics to providing feedback to improving copy, it's devious for a display ad company to fuck with this on shaky privacy grounds. I guess at least they do provide an opt-out, which will be used by ~0.1% of users...
> finally builds a brick wall of passable quality [... vs ...] builds a wall of excellent quality.

That is the problem. They can't see it that clearly. Everyone can see a brick wall. "Seeing" good code and from bad is not easy. So another proxy is used -- "apparent effort and time put into it".

So in reality when it comes to software, bricklayer A wins quite often.

Like the article said:

People huddled over screen debugging dangling pointer == GOOD.

Staying Friday night debugging deadlocks in threaded code == GOOD.

Lots of lines of code written == GOOD.

Get stuff done quicker, and then going home on time == BAD.

This is a failure of management, having not insight or understanding into how programming or product works and judging complex machinery and structure by the color of its blinking lights on the console or by the length of haircut of it creator.
So you're (ab?)using this to peg middleware functions on the context object? Why do it like that?
I think our files must have gotten switched at the credit card company. What I don't understand is why Cindy didn't remove the chargeback. That should settle things for you, right?
> but still (in my mind) unsurpassed in writing

I take it you haven't played _Planescape: Torment_ ?
even if you didn't, you'd still have to work 8h a day... that usually pose a problem to things like these.
I do not disagree, but I also do not think that is relevant to this discussion. Employers should be doing or not doing lots of different things, but this discussion is not about them.

If you are certain that location of employment is essential to this discussion, consider that not everybody who commutes through dangerous or vandalized neighborhoods works in those sort of neighborhoods. Some of them instead live in those neighborhoods. A company may choose to locate itself in a clean and affluent neighborhood, but that does not resolve the problems their employees may face.
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This is literally the exact opposite of what is happening. Google is downloading the images when they receive the message and then proxying the images.
Actually the reddit discussion on the paper is much more informative [1].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1sqj63/scientists_d...
What if google just immediately fetches images for all received messages, regardless of deliverability?

I'm trying to work out whether this is more useful as a way to get Google to DoS themselves or as a way to get them to DoS arbitrary web sites of others. Either way, isn't this a gift to trouble-makers?

Of course Google would probably develop an automated defence against such attacks quickly if they happened in practice, but it seems any such defence would necessarily involve not caching all the images in advance, which would defeat the original point.
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It's best to punish people after judicial review. Has he been able to call witnesses on his behalf? No. Has he been able to cross-examine the government's witnesses against him? No. That's the problem.

I have no idea how the legal system in Denmark works, but it seems unfair to punish him in the short-term without judicial review, and in the long-term without a trial by his peers.
What do cryptographers have to say about this?

Also, it is not really triple encrypting anything. For example, lets say we have 3 functions x+7, x3, x/9 and we apply these in turn to a secret value x. Is it triple calculated? Or triple encrypted? Or have we just created a new untested algorithm called (x+7)3 /9? And note that we could simplify this to 1/3 * (x+7).

If you think of encryption as a twisting and tangling process, how do you know that the subsequent steps don't do some untwisted and untangling, in effect canceling out early encryption?
In case you were unaware, another really amazing example of overlapping meainings is in "normal" DNA code, where genes can overlap themselves.

Because a stop codon would kill transcription, these are either on alternate reading frames (i.e. the codons begin on a different one of the three possibilities) or on the antisense side of the gene (the opposite base pairs from those corresponding to the original gene).

It blows my mind that such an incredible amount of stuff could go wrong if there is just a single mutation, and that such an incredibly delicate system arose through evolution and survived billions of years of natural selection.
Money can make people do things they are 'not known for', and I'm talking about completely made-up crimes because for them it's way smarter:

1) Avoid tarnishing the public view of their media company where PR is very important.

2) Supporters seem conflicted ("is about other thing!").

3) The penalty of those crimes is not controversial (in this case: security information theft)

4) Therefore it doesn't cause a big media fuzz

5) Legislation about the crimes he is being charged with are not likely to change in the future so no new laws with retroactive repercussions will set him free.

6) It still inflicts fear upon similar enemies, because he's still know as "the pirate bay guy who is in jail" not the "the cracker who stole confidential data who is in jail"
Some other technical aspects of this:

GMail serves all images from a datacenter in Mountain View, CA, so if your email's images were served from multiple datacenters or a CDN, there is a good chance they will load more slowly, depending on your caching headers. They optimize images on the fly, which may introduce more latency. Their optimizer doesn't take into account whether the optimized image is smaller than the original, so the image they serve is occasionally larger (and/or looks worse) than the original. The maximum image size seems to be about 10MB.
Does anyone know approximately how close we are to 0.12? I know 0.11.9 came out a few weeks ago, but I don't follow the community close enough to get a feel for how near the next stable branch is.
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Instagram's beauty was its simplicity. You took photos, edited them, and shared them with friends.

Post-facebook acquire they've introduced "features" that add very little to the service, copy competitors, and degrade the overall experience of Instagram.
The bar that I was watching the game in exploded when that happened. You wouldn't believe the number of people calling him all sorts of names for making that call. And, I think it was a good call too. The point is that being risk averse is the right way for a coach to keep his job.
I wasn't describing a new tactic for spamming, I was describing possible new tactics for targeted attacks. They're different things.
Reading this at the moment, and I found this quote:

> Amiga, Inc. didn't have a lot of money left over for shipping its prototype to the show, and the engineers were understandably nervous about putting such a delicate device through the rigors of commercial package transport. Instead, RJ Mical and Dale Luck purchased an extra airline seat between the two of them and wrapped the fledgling Amiga in pillows for extra security. According to airline regulations, the extra "passenger" required a name on the ticket, so the Lorraine became "Joe Pillow," and the engineers drew a happy face on the front pillowcase and added a tie! They even tried to get an extra meal for Joe, but the flight attendants refused to feed the already-stuffed passenger.

Somehow I can't imagine that working on a modern airline...
Except the lower limit is pretty close to the cost of electricity too, since there are lots of opportunistic miners interested in bringing more capacity online if there's a profit to be made.

So, if the upper bound and lower bound are pretty close, what's wrong with saying "pegged"?
This also seems to misunderstand evolution. You can think of evolution as a hill climbing optimization algorithm, with a complicated and constantly changing fitness metric. While it is true that any given change is random, and even 'good' changes still only succeed with some probability, over a long time period we see a series of incremental improvements. If there is an opportunity to increase efficiency it is likely that evolution would have found it, given how long the process has been running. Of course, this become less likely when we are discussing new features (the thumb is less optimized than DNA because it is so recent), and as the benefit of these optimizations becomes less. They also become less likely if their are fewer evolutionary paths that might lead to them.
Now Bing copies WolframAlpha, after Google.
Yeah. The author of this article apparently didn't read the GMail announcement carefully enough. Email marketers can no longer track when email is opened on GMail accounts because every single image is opened whether the user reads the email or not.

Edit: Some other discussions about this on HN suggest it only fetches the email if the user opens the email so I guess the jury is still out.
An attack that relies on the possibility of being able to send millions of emails without being detected as spam; so it is unlikely to succeed.
As others have pointed out, I don't think it's that difficult for you to enumerate valid gmail email addresses at the moment.
Adjusting for time (takes a while to build the company), it seems like about 15-20% of YC's startups will eventually hit that number.
DNA is a machine. It encodes information, but it also lives and breathes through interaction with various TFs, methylation events, packing, etc. There many types of epigenetic "state information".

We've known this for a looong time, it's just that it's so damned complex that we have trouble grappling with it.

And let's not forget the rest of the cell and all of the information encoded at the protein/messenger level.
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Yes it should. I surf HN on my phone and google likes to auto correct stuff in weird ways. I mean, hoe did they even know I'd been classified?

And, yes, I do mean "how" and not "hoe". Autocorrect. More like automistake.
Just be aware this sort of stuff is not about being environmentally friendly.

It might be a fine solution given the situation but this is about hacking the place you live not so much saving the world, eniromently friendly solution it is not.

But not everything has to be about saving the world.
Agreed...it is scary to imagine what would happen if another country did this to the United States. The fact that we are doing it and getting away with it is just plain wrong.
I thought "Don't display images automatically by default" was a response to porn images.
I had a IIe with the dual disk drive. The right side drive didn't work and the left one's door had to be held closed with a large eraser. Ah, the memories.
Actually, Amazon has turned Amazon into this experience. For the few cents of savings, these ship-to-USPS services are really the worst of all worlds, and USPS seems to get shafted with the entire blame because "derp derp the post office is obsolete" (you know, ignoring the actual increase in amount of general package traffic).

Anything I've had shipped Priority Mail has been handled well and on-time. The people at the counter at my local post office are fantastic. The actual letter carrier seems to be somewhat lazy when it comes to actually taking outgoing mail (and getting this fixed doesn't seem easy), but for the most part USPS works and has become my preferred shipping option.

Unlike UPS/Fedex, when you've got to ship something out, you can do it for a reasonable rate rather than the ridiculously jacked-up rates for people without a pre-negotiated shipping account. And you're in for a surprise when you end up missing a UPS/Fedex package and find out how out of the way their pickup centers actually are. (Also, there are plenty of remote addresses UPS/Fedex simply won't service.)

I completely agree in scaling back government, but the negative focus on USPS is yet another example of the entrenched unaccountable bureaucracy redirecting your anger away from itself and towards cuts of real infrastructure and services (which you'll eventually cry uncle for and re-fund). Please, don't fall for it.
Very odd that supposedly advanced Denmark would impose barbaric solitary confinement. How we as a species still get away with this tactic is beyond me.
Quite the contrary, I believe, and I'm sure your original parent comment was making the opposite point of what you think.

As far as I remember from grade school, newspapers in the US started doing legitimate work around the time of "muckrakers," early investigative journalists. It seems we've returned to the days of yellow journalism, when sensationalist articles were written just to push up circulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker
Some of the UX interactions here are brilliant, switching tabs fades the music in and out, swipe to control video playback, transition animations are sweet
Users would have to have previously agreed to "Always load images from domain.com"
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The Machinery of Life [1] is a fantastic book, I was one of those curious laymen and boy did it saturate my thirst for learning about microbiology. I think it's close to the time I read it again.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Machinery-Life-David-Goodsell/dp/0...

Edit: Whoops, no Markdown support. Revised link to use footnote.
Difficulty level of jamming the HF uplink Predator and Global Hawk drones use?

EDIT: 5 minutes with Google:

http://uscrow.org/2013/08/05/how-to-kill-predator-drones-uav...

"Predator Drone UAVs communicate with line of sight radio in Mil C-Band 500-1000 MHz. Communication between the UAV Operator and the Predator Drone, which can be jammed with a spark-gap (the space between electrical terminals that allows for the transient discharge pass) radio. A spark-gap transmitter is a device for generating radio frequency and electromagnetic waves using a spark gap. Surprisingly, 90% of all military ops are performed using C-Band."

"If you weren’t paying attention, this means the predator drones utilize the same commercial civilian technology used to transmit television signals. Using simple commercial equipment such as Skygrabber you can jam the communications, blinding the operator and sending a signal to the UAV to return back to base or engage a holding pattern until retrieved. This entirely assumes the SSAAS system hasn’t been fully implemented highlighted in the article previously mentioned. You can read more about Skygrabber by clicking here."

The insanity of nonchalant accidental drone killings of foreign nationals has got to stop.
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Maybe get a few 5 years old together, give them about 60 seconds of instruction and watch the infringement begin.
While it is wise not to believe everything we read in the news, it does not follow that there is nothing we can trust. The key may be to have a healthy skepticism, while keeping an open mind.
Anyone sufficiently paranoid must consider the possibility that it has something to do with TPB, and the charges are just made up.
They shouldn't measure either of those things: they should find a valid proxy for those things, such as the output you produce. Frankly, if they're measuring the process instead of the output, then they're likely to just ultimately be micro-managing.

A decent manager should make themselves available to the team, but not interfere with the team unless something's going wrong, or appears to be going down the path of 'going wrong'. They should measure the team by their output, and use that to determine whether things are going wrong, or are about to go wrong.

Attempting to measure a team by their process makes the assumption that the manager is capable of understanding both the current process, and the maximally optimal process against which to compare the current process. It's far safer for both the manager and the team for the manager to avoid such endeavours, and instead measure the output itself against the optimal version of the output, because the output should meet business/product goals against which it can be assessed.
This is one thing that microsoft is very at.....COPY AND PASTE !!
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No idea, and I don't think so. Just spitballing.
Can you imagine the holy hell if a foreign government did that in a US city?

After the events of the last year, I don't have that much trouble imagining the US government doing that in a US city.
Does anyone keep a tally on how many civilians the US has murdered with drones?
The alternative to "OK" is "Settings," with a link that just dumps you into the main settings view… leaving you to find the Images section to change it back. Quite an opt-in.
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Can you imagine the holy hell if a foreign government did that in a US city?

You've just stepped into that intellectual minefield that's called "American Exceptionalism". Enjoy your stay.
Not really a specific tool. We write all our analytics out and then do some rollups in the database and use Highcharts to display them on the website. Not super fancy, but effective. For our setup its more about the process to rollup the data than a specific toolset. We wrote all our own metrics and tracking using a middleware concept with Express in node.js. That's probably not totally relevant to your use case.

Hopefully that helps a little. Let me know if I can help you any more, happy to share whatever I can.
I would argue solitary is the only rationale option for non-violent crime like this - anything less requires the person to respect limitations on communication they can circumvent if they want.
similar but different solution from bougainville

http://lfongroka.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/hydro-electricity-b...
From what I understand, Daala is aimed at the generation after VP9/H.265, eg https://lwn.net/Articles/571978/

But I suspect you're right about VP9/H.265 decisions being made now, and royalty free alternatives keeping prices down even when the alternatives don't win a lot of market share (could say the same about the never-winning "linux desktop" -- it gets negligible seats, but may have shifted $$$ from Microsoft profit to consumers over the years).
While I am not a biologist myself, I did work 2 years at the NASA Astrobiology Institute in a supporting role, where I learned all about the science surrounding this stuff. I don't know any astrobiologist who seriously believes that whatever microbes might exist in the comfort of Europa's inner ocean might survive free-floating in the harsh Jupiter radiation belts, where it takes hours or days (not millions of years) to sterilize all but the most extreme life forms.
Yes, so much bullshit has been published over the last decade as a result of artifacts in the measurement of TFBS that you have to be skeptical.
Wasteland 2 is going to come out soon. By the same guy who made Fallout.
Blocking people on Twitter now just mutes them
"be just sustainable to make a reasonable living(lifestyle business)"

Pure speculation and just throwing this out there to see if others agree but somehow I don't feel that YC is spinning off lifestyle businesses. Not to mention that it's hard to believe that some of the founders (and supporting people) that get involved in and strive to be in YC will stay put at what ends up amounting to a lifestyle business.
...instead of meaning "everybody is guilty of something", I interpret the message as warning about the dangers of relying on a quote taken out of context.

It's not a concerned person's warning, it's a gloating celebration of ruthlessness, of power, and of the inconsequentiality of facts. It's bragging.

If your every statement is recorded, it will be possible to find something in that record to make trouble for you, should powerful parties feel the need. "Guilt" and "innocence" are, in this context, meaningless abstractions.
> it is an educational tool so one would expect one to read the getting started pages first

This is the opposite of how it should be. You'd expect learners to be less likely to read a "getting started" page than an expert.

For example, saying to a beginner, "Oh, the tables are all prefixed with cd.tablename" will likely result in a look of confusion because the beginner didn't understand any of the words you used or the way in which you combined them. Is that period special, for example? You said prefix, so if I type "cd.tablenamefacilities" will that work? What are tables and how do I know what their "name" is? Why is the error message talking about "relations?" And so on.
This title and article are not accurate.

It's not whenever you want - just are just clearly documenting when they will let you. For the actual info read here:

http://www.ctia.org/docs/default-source/fcc-filings/ctia-let...

In short:

Prepaid: 1 year.

Postpaid: When your contact is up.

Military: Upon deployment.
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Do we have free access to this paper? I would like to read it, if possible.
You're right. I wasn't aware of the specific technical reasons only knew the power wattage difference.
That's a Nobel prize imho. Good going :-)
I agree -- I don't mean we need a complete police state. Homeless people have just as much right to be in a public space as anyone. But as an example, in my city a bunch of aggressive panhandlers will taunt and intimidate you between the entrance to a hospital near me and one of the parking areas.

When my sister worked at this hospital, it was very intimidating to have to run through a gauntlet of these people, it was really scary to be running a gauntlet of deranged drunks.
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While we all know that ruby gems have a couple of issues I think one thing was done exactly the way it should be - somehow enforced standard structure: NAME.gemspec, bin, ext, lib, lib/NAME.rb. I don't know if this is specific to only ruby community but there is at least some level of consistency which makes everyone lifes easier.

I will have to carefully read all arguments agains enforcing such structure in bower.