skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it worse when a drone follows orders and does this than when a fighter pilot follows orders and does this?
Unless you've got x-ray vision, it can be pretty difficult to verify the quality of work. Is there a proper footing under that wall? Is there gravel under that? Was the mortar mixed to the proper consistency? Is there a second course of brick hidden behind the first one (wait, should there be?) and if so what's the quality of that? That's just what I can think to ask from having had one minor wall built. I'm sure a real bricklayer could do better.
It's a little odd that the last character is 0x20. Does that count as a typo in the short title?
Sounds perfect; you got to pay if a user reads your email. Kinda like Facebook charging a $1 for you to message someone who is not your friend.
The cost of a new domain per e-mail campaign would be trivial.

(and "normal users" do click the show images links)
Of course, a similar state of surveillance exists in the U.S.

Are there any groups in the U.S. that are advocating against the archiving of personal data (browsing histories, call histories, geo-location data, etc.) by phone companies, ISPs, etc.?

Or is it taken for granted at this point that all peoples' histories must be recorded (whether they're currently suspected of a crime or not) to make it easy for the government to track down criminals?
This produces a nice flared tube or "neck"

http://vicapow.github.io/equation-plot-webgl/#0.1*cos%286.28...

0.1cos(6.28x)tan(3.14y)
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I thought that was funny, too.

Specifically, "416d65726963612043616e20436f646520" is the hex representation of the ASCII encoding of "America Can Code ", with a trailing space...
Easy there. I've been doing this for nearly 10 years and have had enormous success at a regional level taking customers from the Big Boys. Now I'm taking it nationally. Don't patronize me I knew a lot about what I'm doing.
It refers to the belief that Americans as a people are specially suited for doing things exceptionally.
Recreated a pointless warfare act ... Man HN has a strong connection to the real world!
Seriously cool but as an ex thermo fluids guy (my first job was a RA at BHRA at cranfield) I would have liked to see a proper write up of the system rather than random close up pics.

Whats the geography of the site like
How much head have you got
What was the design power when compared to the actual system.
Shouldn't we teach the basics to a degree that everyone is passing those instead of wasting money at that level? And I do think it would be a waste.
Sounds great! Let me know if you need any help with that process.
In my opinion, Google doesn't care abut the tiny tracking images. It does care about 2M jpegs. So, while email marketers might be up in arms, this won't affect them at all it appears. If anything, they should be thanking Google for reducing their bandwidth.
My dad taught me to use HyperCard and ResEdit at about that age as well. This idea that it's futile to try to teach young kids to code is bizarre to me. I can only assume that it comes from people trusting their intuitions without actually observing reality.
If google cached them as soon as they were received wouldn't they, in some cases, effectively perform a DoS attack on whatever was hosting the image? I.e. if a spammer sent out 1,000,000 emails w/ images they were hosting, they would immediately receive 1,000,000 requests for the image.
This page shows strikes and fatalities for Pakistan only: http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/ Data is from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
The naming of bills is pretty much always a PR choice. This one is at least a bit creative instead of the "bill does totally the opposite of what the title says" trend.
Exactly, most are proceeding as if the OP is correct while neglecting that the basic example is completely wrong.
According to the rep himself [1] it's so the House could add on "Act".

[1] https://pay.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1sqnj7/416d657...
That's easy, no.
I'm fairly sure sending an email is more expensive than sending a GET, so it should be more effective for an attacker to make the requests directly than trying to use this to get google to proxy an attack.

I also strongly suspect that google's crawling infrastructure is more than capable of fetching a bunch of images for every single message gmail receives.

But even if I'm wrong about the above, google is perfectly capable of throttling their fetching to mitigate. (The problem really ends up looking an awful lot like crawling the internet, which is an area that google seems to have a bit of experience)
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I ran into this issue as well, as it turns out it's 'cause I already had Fallout from a previous giveaway. If you click the little 'x' beside the games you already have from the list shown when checking out, you can uncheck the box that says you're gifting the pack and proceed to check out as normal.
A foreign language helps you translate from your native language to another's native language.

A programming language helps you translate from the logic in your head to computer language. Teaching a programming language if the logic isn't there is useless, but trivial to learn the other way around. Not saying this is a bad thing, but the comparison/approach seems inappropriate to me.
It is just sooo much easier to get credit card information though. You literally give all of it to everyone any time you use it.

I don't really know why credit cards don't have a public/private key situation but they don't, so people are just stealing them constantly or applying for them with a bunch of stolen personal information and then running up your credit in ways that are pretty difficult to detect.

A lot of the fraud that is occurring today is because the systems we are using to transmit wealth digitally are inherently very insecure.
Can't really do that, cause I'm new and working on the engineering side of things. We don't usually communicate with sales people. Shoot them an email yourself.
A more cynical person might think that this was intentional -- to keep the pipeline full.
> "American exceptionalism" does not mean "America is an exception to rules" (whatever those rules might be)

The term was first used by Stalin to describe and condemn the position of the prominent voice in the Communist Party of the United States of America about how, precisely, the US was an exception to the rule of inevitability of revolution. While usage has shifted in terms of exactly what rule is at issue, what you reject is exactly what American Exceptionalism has always meant.

(The idea of "American Exceptionalism", though not the term itself, is generally tied back to an older quote [EDIT: by de Toqueville -- not sure how I missed including that originally] in which particular traits were identified which made America exceptional as opposed to being an example through which democratic nations in general should be viewed -- or, IOW, that America broke rather than made the rules for democracies. Which, while from a different perspective than Stalin's use of the term, also is an instance of America being an exception to rules.)
Sweet! Good to see the idea spread.
So many confuse mean with median. It's why lotteries work. The mean return might be positive. But the median is always $0.
Thanks, I'll file the request Monday.
I don't think snippets are really related to this particular problem.

Ultimately, at Google, the results are what matter: Did you implement a system to do something? Are people using it?

In that case, both teams demonstrated look fine: people are able to provision analog and digital channels. If the digital team is doing the same work with a smaller team, then that just makes the team look like they might be working at a higher level, which is good at promotion time.
More anecdata:

We've actually had exactly this problem on a team, where our manager had a rudimentary understanding of database design and became very insistent that the team should do things his way. It eventually got to the point where the team would have to spend 2 hours explaining a design decision to the manager, instead of spending 15 minutes to implement it. It was particularly irksome, because the manager would refuse to read any best practices or take any advice, and became defensive about decisions he didn't understand instead of asking them to be explained more clearly.

That said, I think this issue was caused by 10% technical ineptitude and 90% ego.
Instead of having a debate between the pot and kettle, perhaps you'd listen to the stove?

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

"The most dangerous form of stupid comment is not the
long but mistaken argument, but the dumb joke. [...]

Bad comments are like kudzu: they take over rapidly.
Comments have much more effect on new comments than
submissions have on new submissions. If someone submits
a lame article, the other submissions don't all become
lame. But if someone posts a stupid comment on a thread,
that sets the tone for the region around it. People
reply to dumb jokes with dumb jokes."

By writing a dumb joke, you are signaling to new members that it's okay to rehash old, lame memes for nothing more than the lulz.
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My sketch of the math back when BTC was $1,000 was that BS had a 1 year put at a $100 strike valued at about a nickel. At that price, assuming availability in quantity and acceptable levels of risk caused by factors other than BTC being worth more than $100 in a year, I'd be buying.
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I wouldn't go so far as to call it wrong. It's a pretty safe assumption that they are using ASCII as an encoding. And thank goodness ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, since that means if you are using either one of the two most dominant character sets to encode that string of text, you'll be able to translate the act's title with no problem.
it seemed to work after logging in a few times.

great deal - Fallout 1 (and 2) were amazingly well written and really sucked you into their marvelous world.

I never got the same feeling with the rest of the series - something about the first person view broke the fantasy for me and I was always 'playing a game' rather than exploring a wasteland.
I'd be interested to know more about the rationale behind this.

As I see it, the change means:

1) The blocked person doesn't know that they're blocked, so they cannot be certain as to whether their tweets are being seen

2) The blocked person can now mention the username of the person who has blocked them (obviously this is required by #1 - if they couldn't mention them, then the existence of the block would be obvious)

3) The person who places the block cannot see any tweets by the blocked person, except in search results or by visiting that person's profile page

So, it seems like a trade-off between the old situation in which blocking someone would prevent them from mentioning your username, but would also inform them of the block, and the new situation where the blocked person is not informed. There's really no way of secretly blocking someone unless you allow that person to continue tweeting at you, because if that were prevented then the block would be revealed.

I may lack the necessary perspective on this, but to me this looks like a not-unreasonable trade-off to make. If you inform someone that they're blocked, they will know that they need to sign up another account in order to follow you. Informing someone of the existence of a block may also be a trigger for escalating harassment. On the flip side, if someone can mention your username then they can make it appear as if they're engaging you in conversation and you're actively choosing not to reciprocate, where in fact you have blocked them.

It's a difficult balance to get right. An alternative long-term solution might be to have different privacy levels per-tweet, or to allow a person to have multiple personas, with one being private and another public, so that you can have some tweets which are for everyone and some which are for family and friends only, which would prevent a third-party harasser from hijacking personal conversations. But any move in that direction dilutes the simplicity and directness which is what differentiates Twitter from, say, email or IRC, and also raises the stakes in situations where people mistakenly tweet something to the wrong persona or privacy level.

EDIT: When I said that I may lack the necessary perspective, I was correct. It seems that the main benefit of the old block system was that, if you have a follower who actively dislikes you, you could prevent them from seeing your tweets in real-time in their main account, which is often enough to stop them responding, or retweeting you in order to encourage others to respond. It's not entirely rational, but then abusing people on Twitter isn't rational either, so perhaps this is one of those situations where behaviour of the wetware nodes on the network needs greater consideration.
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The only question that really puzzles me and probably should puzzle USA citizens is:

Why is a USA drone flying in Yemen anyway?
As with many things it seems like knowing how an H264 codec works before reading the code is essential. I don't someone has an approachable reference for the standard?
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Many ESPs already have a workaround in place for ensuring that open % stats are not affected. Here's Campaign Monitor's take on the issue: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/4118/how-gmails-ima...

Also, a postmaster's version: http://emailexpert.org/gmail-tracking-changes-the-fix-what-y...

Disclosure that I'm from Campaign Monitor and wrote that first post. As you can imagine, we've been getting a fair few enquiries about image tracking and opens today...!
Otoh, this makes it harder for email marketers and generally other people to see if I'm reading their mail.

+1
> Shouldn't we teach the basics to a degree that everyone is passing those instead of wasting money at that level?

I don't think "teach the basics to a a degree that everyone is passing" and "wasting money" are a fair description of the relevant options.
This will continue to be happening until a wedding or anything in US will be destroyed by the drones, by mistake. Until then, the public opinion in this country won't take these events with all seriousness.
thank you, thank you, thank you.
Basically In hydro power to generate power you can go for a small amount of water falling a long distance or a large amount of water falling a small distance

Its a classic high head low flow pelton wheel installation.
I'm getting "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'getExtension' of null" in Chrome 32.0.1700.55 beta - anyone know what that's about? My chrome://flags/ are all set to default.
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> "On the flip side, I've also heard the authenticity of those reports called into question. If a Taliban lieutenant and his posse are drone-struck, the local warlord can claim it was a peaceful civilian wedding and score some PR points."

Either way, for some purposes it does not matter. Either the surviving community members are being lied to and told the victims were civilians, or the victims really were civilians, but in both cases they walk away with the notion that America is blowing up civilians. That is how you "make more terrorists".

If America wants to avoid getting caught in that sort of situation, they need to make it seem implausible that that they were involved. As long as America is droning 'baddies', the possibility that they are nailing some civilians too remains.
I think that's needlessly nitpicky in this case. The hexadecimal title is a PR shtick to grab attention; the technical details of why calling it a direct hexadecimal translation is inaccurate don't really matter.
I've got a couple invites if you want. I didn't realise it was still invite only. :)
GOG is great, but their lack of Linux support is the only thing which makes them falling behind competition.
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I'm probably an outlier, but I learned BASIC at 4 years old (under my own initiative), and began to grasp essential concepts well enough that I was programming 6502 assembly on my C-64 with an EPYX FastLoad cartridge, at the age of 6.

Why shouldn't kids be presented with the opportunity to learn these things at an early age?
This isn't necessary. Just notify your immediate manager every time you hit a milestone (e.g. complete a piece of assigned work), and notify them every time you've run out of work.

Part of the issue with the perception of developer effort seems to be the fact that the developers aren't communicating their success to the manager. The manager sees the failures (admittedly he fails to recognise them as failures), because they're working late and looking stressed. The manager doesn't see the successes, because he fails to understand what success looks like.

The solution isn't to emulate a failure, the solution is to educate the manager (through gentle notifications of work done) as to what success looks like.
1. A publically available demo/sandbox, so people who are curious but lazy can take it for a spin.

2. Native mobile clients.
I'm only an amateur photographer so I'm really surprised that the OP describes the state of pro sports photography as being overly reliant on autofocus. Some of it obviously has to be -- that is, for cameras set up at the finish line or near the basketball hoop -- and triggered by remote...and in any normal sports situation, autofocus on the professional camera bodies is going to be more reliable than manual focus.

But can't most photographers at this level focus nearly by instinct? I'll admit that I often forget which way to turn the focus ring...but it's not my job to take good photos :). In any case, if you're shooting an event similar to events you've shot hundreds of times before, you generally know what distance things will be from you initially, and then can predict (with some accuracy) to where they will be, enough that you can manually tune the focus to adjust. For example, with a player running at you, just make sure to turn the focus ring in the proper direction relative to his speed.

Yes, your human reflexes will not be perfect...but pro digital camera bodies are terrific...you can shoot 10 - 12 frames a second so even if your first few shots were off in focus, the next few may be good enough to use. And even shooting at RAW, with a few 32GB cards, you will have thousands of photos to work with.

The photos turned out great, just kind of surprised that catching them was a big deal, technique-wise. It'd be like a site developer recounting how, when their front-end admin interface was acting up, managed to fix some data entries by writing and executing raw SQL on production. Non-optimal, and hairy, but something most (professional) site developers should do when the occasion arises.
This has less to do with drones or technology or intelligence or mistakes than it has to do with war. The issue is should we be at war with Al Qaeda or not.

Assuming we are at war and okay with bombing the enemy, civilians will die. That is how war works. A drone (Even one pointed at the wrong target) does a lot less damage than the traditional carpet bombing. Civilians die either way, but a lot less die with modern technology.
I think such a behavior is really easily spotted and filtered, if not already blocked by spam filters.

Google has the technology to do that, the question is whether they want to put in the investment of storage required to actually guarantee users privacy, of if they just want to spend the least amount they can get away with...
Yea, I agree with you. I am trying to make a different point though - there is reserve demand in both dollars and bitcoin, but if the bulk of the pricing set for bitcoin is by transactions founded in speculation (ie, not tied to a physical good or service), then it would seem there is a very limited ability to increase value in the system (aside from new users coming into the market). A currency like USD is different - you can easily and reliably exchange USD for goods and services which increase in value independent of the currency instrument itself. That, and the fact that you can amplify demand by introducing credit, creates a different dynamic, which is why I think the ratio of liquidity created by "speculative" investments versus transactions tied to something external is an interesting indicator.
First of all, let's be clear that risk of fraud to an individual is often as harmful, if not more harmful, than risk of violence to an individual. Fraud that takes out a person's entire life savings, even if the victim doesn't commit suicide, typically does more lasting damage than, say, the average case of assault and battery. And that's not just true with identity theft. Stealing money alone can cause people to commit suicide as in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

So then the question becomes which type of criminal is more likely to commit more crimes if not in solitary confinement. Obviously it depends on the specific kind of criminal but in general, I'd say perpetrators of fraud if they have Internet access and violent criminals if they don't have Internet access.
No problem. I am as well. I believe you need to include prior art with the re-examination request. I will be submitting yoga videos, at least from the 90s, such as (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUgtMaAZzW0) that certainly raise questions whether the patent is valid or not.
Aggregate all the clones and you'll have it.
They show this on TV in your country ? they don't have anything else to talk about ?
What's a mind-hack?
Digital Ocean locks my account and want social media and personal details
It also disallows the blockee following the blocker and blocks the blocker from seeing the blockees tweets.

I think the reasoning is that if someone @'s your username, you can see it. If you block them, you can’t see their tweets and thus can’t see their @'s and won’t be bothered by them. If your tweets are not private and if blocking prevented a user from seeing your tweets, they could simply log out and see your tweets; therefore any coded functionality that would block them from seeing your tweets is useless.

It's been like this for at least six months. It used to be you could tell that you had been blocked by getting an error when you try to expand a tweet, but now you can’t even tell that you have been blocked unless you try to follow the blocker.
The way I read the comment, I think you are correct about it being a boon and not a bane. However, it is because the request was timed at the same time as the message read, not the other way around.

It seems the commenter functionally tested an external URL being requested by Gmail, and found that the request was coincident with when the commenter opened the email. This essentially "leaks" that you've opened the email as the image URL could be unique to your email message.
If you're in the US, it was very do-able before Black Friday (when the 3 major websites got banned), but nowadays it's way tougher since the sites that you can actually play in the US don't have as much action. In the past, you could basically multi-table at the medium-high stakes, break even, and make 60k+ on the rakeback + bonuses the sites give you (like comps from a casino).

But overall, from what I hear, it's just a grueling "job". Especially if you don't have the mindset to handle it, as in you'd have to handle being unlucky for a long time (downswings) and not tilt.

But if you have the right attitude and truly enjoy the game, then yes, you can make a living playing poker online, although you may lose a lot of money initially until you have the skills to consistently out play your opponents.