skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get it. Call them out. I hated dealing with the cheating at my school. I hated that their GPA got them the same considerations as mine.

The worst part was the lazy faculty that did nothing. I built a bit of a reputation around publically reprimanding students in class when they acted like brats. This was not my job and it alienated me from much of the of the student body.

Unfortunately I had to do it because my class would have never moved forward. So I guess it's not just my school? Professors have lost control all over and simple things like cheating have some kind of grey area?

FYI: Mostly Americans at my school.
Thank-you. I didn't realise until I tried your tool that gmail is leaking out the fact that I'd opened an email. It runs through a proxy but it is still possible for it to uniquely identify that the email has been opened.
> Imitation is the sincerest form of copyright infringement after all.

FTFY. Also http://artlawjournal.com/mickey-mouse-keeps-changing-copyrig...
Justification doesn't change the amount of text on the paper; it spreads out lines which would otherwise have a ragged right edge (in left-to-right languages) so that the text has a visually appealing right edge. It's done to look good, and succeeds. But it requires work to do right.
Control panel (or whatever it is called) and in Mail, at the end: load remote images. Slide.

IIRC it is disabled by default BUT I MAY BE WRONG.

Sorry for screaming.
that problem is fixable within a week or developer time. I'm very skeptical i can actually find someone to even pay for that week. feel free to prove me wrong
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“You must avenge my death Kimba, .. I mean Simba.”
That quote doesn't quite hold water: the Vitamin industry is a multi-billion dollar one. Maybe it doesn't quite compare with Bayer, but it's still quite profitable.
Oh shoot, someone better tell Rick James err M.C. Hammer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5IxfaDnMaU
This is interesting but not super useful since there's a vast difference even within cities. I live in San Diego and know the areas right along the coast are above even the top of that income distribution but the homes are so expensive even to rent that those people are still probably middle-class.
Just noticed that under Settings > General > Images it is possible to turn off the loading of external images. That fixed it, no longer is it loading the images up.
yes, pypy.org runs crowdfunding. success is moderate at best
I don't understand the cross-platform part, isn't F# .Net? Then how is it cross-platform? Also open source, that's nice, but what's the license? Also Microsoft is not very friendly to open source, why would I trust them to keep it this way?
The fact that Uncle Sam is the ultimate rent seeker is beside the point.

The difference between land and widgets is that widgets are continuously manufactured and sold. Once you sell me a sandwich, you can't take it back. It's mine. Rent is the opposite. They're not making more land, or spectrum, or whatever, and that's not what they're selling. They're selling access to it. And they can revoke that access at any time. The thing I'm paying for isn't mine, it's still theirs the whole time.
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It wasn't a "few" years. It was ~30 years.
Write your username/password combos on paper, in a code that is contained in your will if you don't trust those who could access it. Your next of kin will thank you.
And then go and play Kerbal Space Program to get these concepts become intuitive. Warning: another countless hours sink.
Honestly, looks too complicated. I'm doing AJAX without custom JavaScript right now. The way it looks:

<form action="x" replace="#y">
<!-- .. -->
</form>

<div id="y" />

You submit the form, it loads the result in the background and replaces content of Y div with content of whatever has id="y" on the new page.

splice-result-into takes any CSS selector as its parameter, so you can apply this to multiple elements at once.

The entire library is around 100 lines of code with no dependencies. 100% backwards compatible, degradable and easy to add to existing multipage apps. It could easily be implemented as a standard HTML feature.
Sia supposedly wrote Rihanna's Diamonds in 14 minutes.
I don't see why they would groan in this particular instance (although I can believe it in general). He's not promising anything in the near-term that doesn't already exist in other shipping cars, or that his own people haven't already demoed.
I know alot of people hate "THE MAN" and this is opportunity to do so but you all sound like this to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29wNCH4RBrk

These songs are very extremely similar. There is a fine line between being influenced and covering(or sampling) music. I think this song crosses that line. People get sued all the time for sampling without clearing the sample. To essentially copy distinct percussion and rhythms and keyboard rhythm and melody would definitely fall under infringement in my eyes since as any producers would tell you those elements drive the entire song. Even how the song starts with open percussion elements is the same. Its almost like the Mcdonalds vs Mcdowells absurd argument and just a clever way to steal ideas without paying tribute to the individuals who originated and copyrighted those ideas.
This is an overly extreme opinion. We are not simply born in isolation - totally separate beings from one another. It's in our nature to perpetuate society as we see fit and that is not only through actions as we live but also through your progeny - whether they're students or children.

Perhaps you wish to see the world become less dependent on fossil fuels and you've spent your life building a business and cultural following in green tech. You've shared your opinions on why it's so important with students, twitter followers, employees, as well as your children. Why is it not your prerogative to give those you trust the ability to continue your work?

Obviously there are people who don't leave behind progressive and innovative marks on the world, but perhaps they just want the world to be a little bit less dumb and they believe their children are moving the world in that direction (which I think most parents believe of their children). Why can't them give them every advantage they wish to?

Not all children are parasitic and their wealth isn't unearned. It was earned by their parents and rather than shuffling it into a fund for the "public good" they can choose to leave it to their children. The public (including you and I) are just as undeserving of Marvin Gaye's wealth and intellectual property as his children.

On the other hand, these songs don't sound that similar to me and this lawsuit is bullshit.
I vaguely remember hearing this line of reasoning behind Banks and their password complexity restrictions:

"Users are more likely to forget complex passwords than simple ones. So in order to save resources on providing support to users of lost passwords, we force them to make their passwords relatively simple, and we can afford to do that because we have other more advanced mechanisms in place to secure accounts (secret questions, IP restrictions, log-in pattern heuristics, etc)"

Not that I agree with it. I still see no reason why they couldn't leave the choice of password complexity to the user. A complex password in addition to their "advanced" security mechanisms is always going to be more secure than a simple password in combination with these same mechanisms.

I suppose the real reason is probably something to do with not wanting to upgrade their "battle-tested" legacy systems that simply don't support complex passwords. Which I can sympathize with due to the risks involved in performing such upgrades.

Still, I imagine sooner or later their hands will be forced by a high profile data breach of some kind at a big-name bank that exploits the limited protection these simple passwords can provide.
He said "as a way of attacking them." Are you attacking yourself by posting your personal information? No? Then the answer to your question should be obvious.
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The scope was very limited:

"Our investigation found that bulk collection of American phone metadata"

Also, using "arrests" or case arrests as the sole evidence or set of data is also quite limited. I would imagine, foiled plots don't always result in an arrest.

Details matter, and by the time reports like this hit the media, they get boiled down in to attention grabbing headlines divorced from the original conclusions.
I think the misphrasing of your question provides the answer you're looking for. You don't digest knowledge, you digest information. Knowledge is the internalization of that information.

When you are able to convert information you've digested into knowledge, I'd say it's worth it. The rest of the time, you're just learning and potentially memorizing some information that will likely have little impact on your life.

With knowledge, it becomes something that improves your mental model of the world. Knowledge is a topic of conversation you can bring up or discuss reasonably.

Put another way: knowledge is what makes a person interesting; information is how you win Jeopardy.
Also, didn't Gmail start caching images on google servers such that tracking can't happen even if you display images? (Of course, google could track you but they already run the client so no big loss there.)
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What do you use for antispam?

I ran my own debian-exim for about a decade until I got tired of the care and feeding. opensmtpd does look suitably low-maintenance and I might pick it if I ever wanted to do this again, but it was released after I gave up being an email admin. I still have the mail domain, but having the same email address for sixteen years means ending up on a lot of spam lists.
not everybody has the luxury to change stack - besides, seeing concepts implemented in a familiar language lowers the bar required to understand them
> Personally, I love to see this as a tribute rather than as plagiarism.

Try to create a similar tribute to Disney's intellectual property, then explain it to their lawyers. Here's what happened with deadmau5: http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/09/disney-attempts-to-blo...
So it's made out of Cloud Foundry components, but it's not Cloud Foundry, or part of Cloud Foundry, or a future version of Cloud Foundry? The FAQ actually does a pretty good job of explaining this:

http://lattice.cf/docs/index.html

It seems to me that one way of looking at Lattice is that it's a jig for running the core components of Cloud Foundry on a developer desktop or a developer/test/sandbox/lab slice of a cloud. It makes doing so much easier than running a complete CF. That ease comes from including fewer components, and replacing BOSH with Terraform. As a result, it will make evaluation and development of these components much easier.

That's not to say that Lattice is not suited to production use - i'm sure it is. But i would guess that for a lot of people, it's a means to an end.
West what? US? Europe? Asia? And not according to that page you linked. Green across the board.
Are you sure Mutt's not doing this?

I read my mail with Emacs, but according to https://emailprivacytester.com/ , when I click on a message, Emacs parses the HTML and inserts images into the buffer. This is default behavior with the `notmuch` mail reader

EDIT: Chat with dkg on the #notmuch IRC channel shows there's a patch to fix this that isn't in a release quite yet.

My point: Be careful, even if you're using a "dumb" mail client! :)
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While the article was focused on why LEDs are bad, it did briefly touch on the history of signage but missed an important point: The masses were until relatively recently illiterate, and a sign had much power.

"Where shall we meet?" "The White Swan." Which could be identified by a picture of a while swan hanging outside.

I can't help but feel signage still achieves these purposes of association (which the author also touched on, but didn't elaborate on): A tacky neon sign can be recognized instantly from 100 meters or more: size, colours, rough silhouette, instant recognition of what it means, an assurance of the level of quality (i.e. average, run-of-the-mill, but probably good enough).
That last bit is precisely how it is. The hardware is there on all cars sold after mid-September 2014. The software features are divided semi-arbitrarily into "convenience" and "safety" features. All cars get "safety" features, but you have to pay extra for the tech package to get "convenience" features.
Hey I wrote a sentence once with the same feel of yours, MY LAWYER WILL CALL YOUR LAWYER
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Been to 100+ shows/concerts and my favorite was the one I set up with a friend's band who played the cramped kitchen in our party house. I was only making $5/hr working part-time so I offered them gas money and beer, but they said they would do it for free it I couldn't spare it. More recently I offered a rap group to play a local park for my birthday for $150 bucks and they loved the idea.
Yes, but it also funds Odersky's work on Scala and Akka.
Seems to have affected NPM: http://status.npmjs.org/
Yep, no time is the right time (except maybe waiting until after college). It will be hard no matter what. All you can do is hold on and enjoy the ride. Good luck. Father of 3 speaking.
author here. we do sell commercial support for pypy and python performance problems at baroquesoftware.com. let's say it has not been a spectacular success so far and it's not enough to fund someone to do more boring infrastructure stuff for pypy like buildbot maintenance. one commercial thing we're working on is vmprof, which is a multi vm profiler and we plan on selling it as a service to your existing infrastructure. Feel free to ask me anything
also Nickelback - How You Remind Me was written in 15
S-class is a high end Merc, but these features are also on the new 2014 C-class.
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AFAIK they do this for all images. Not just commonly embedded images.
Vocals were included in falcolas's analysis.
To me, the Sam Smith "Won't Back Down" case was much more straight-forward: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkcZV97O3pw

But that's a very simple chord progression with common vocal hits, whereas this case seems to hinge on a very distinctive bass line and percussive style.
Mono today for Linux and Xamarin for Android, iOS, & Mac, and Core .NET http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-i... will soon be a viable choice on the other platforms, and only get better with time. There are builds of the F# language for all these platforms.
Password manager?

Hargreaves Lansdown, a UK broker big enough to hold people's pensions, asks you for eg the first, third and eighth letter of your password.

So not only no password manager but they are almost certainly storing my password in plain text.

They supplement this "security" by asking for a username in the format <name><2 digit number> and your date of birth...
What are the odds the incoming administration (be it Democrat or Republican) will keep these high profile IT people around after Obama exits?
I feel that OpenSUSE has had the best KDE default settings and Kubuntu had the worst defaults.
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WTF? Posting public information is now considered doxxing?

You don't get much more public than a LinkedIn page.
> 7:23 AM PDT We are investigating networking connectivity issues for some instances in the US-WEST-2 Region.

They should really change the color of the checkmark if they're having issues.
Oracle, Google, Microsoft, all of them do open source stuff.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Oregon): 7:23 AM PDT We are investigating networking connectivity issues for some instances in the US-WEST-2 Region.
When AI becomes sufficiently advanced, it will get its revenge.
thise initiatives tend to be winner takes all. i think i make like 3usd per week there
>Cloudflare

You mean the company that provides caching services for pay DDOS services?
A bank I once used had the online banking system tied to the card's PIN. Change the PIN, online banking password has changed. Change the online banking password and card PIN is changed. And yes, the password/PIN was limited to 6 numerical digits.
Your statement reads, to me admittedly, that since you put your public info out there that no one should care if someone else outs their info to the public. In context of the discussion.

But you can't dox yourself, in the usual meaning of the term.
The question you should be answering is: What can we do that HHVM can't do?

Support? Sell a turn key solution? Partner with hosting companies?

You (count on) having a thing that runs PHP faster, and you're not going to have a product/service only with that.
Who has not seen any of those guys at their meetings?
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"Do open source stuff" is very different from "being open source companies".

I actually do think that the 'sweet spot' is to use open source as infrastructure, and make money with something proprietary, but that's not something that makes purists happy.
I feel bad for you. But I think you have a few choices:

a) Forget about doing difficult things and focus on something easy like dating, swipe left/swipe right app. It is not that Europe does the hard things like compilers, it is that America does the easy things like dating or cat apps or farting and stuff. However, there is hope. Look at what Slack is doing with yet another messaging app. Is there another app that is simply "a bad solution" which you can come up with a better, easier, more delightful alternative?

2) If you already did the hard stuff, what about packaging it with other elements of the stack and providing a fully optimized stack? Then you can offer it as a solution to enterprises. It is hard though. Enterprise sales.

3) Don't open source. Get paid for what you do.

4) Open Source but charge for the services around it. Consulting services. But you are already doing something along these lines.

I am sure there are others.
Exactly. Few dozen hours spent in that game will teach you more about space than... pretty much anything.
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I was hoping to see the snopes link as a rebuttal.
> Specifically, they know when you’ve opened an email sent by one of their clients, where you are, what sort of device you’re on, and whether you’ve clicked a link, all without your awareness or consent.

No they don't, I don't do HTML mail.
Intentional or otherwise, the waveform certainly clips— you can see it in any audio editor, eg: http://imgur.com/a/WacOy

Since the drums sounds all started life as hi-fi samples, the detail is certainly there in the original Logic sessions. It would be an interesting experiment to do a listening test comparing the CD versions of the tracks against versions mastered with more headroom, either less loudly or to a 64-bit format.

It may well be that a certain degree of the grunge is artistic versus technical, but I suspect that in a blind test I would still prefer a version with slightly less muddy drums.
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Who doesn't like theatre? There's no business like show business... jazz hands! :P
I worked at a company with an anonymous suggestion box. I put a suggestion that we should donate some money to some of the open source projects we used. For many of those projects even a few hundred dollars is a big help. I wasn't expecting anything but the VP, who was the one that read those things, thought it was a great idea and that year we donated several thousand dollars from our budget surplus to a couple of the prominent open source projects we used. It may not happen, but it doesn't hurt to suggest it in your company.
I'm all for the government not spending any money on any sites.
Previously, TD online passwords were only a maximum of eight characters and you were not allowed special characters. Also, I heard that letters were case insensitive.

This is their current password requirements:
Password tips:

* Your password must include at least one letter, one number, and be 8-32 characters long. To make it stronger, include upper and lower case letters and special characters.

* Your password should be unique. Memorize it and do not disclose it to anyone else

* Avoid using names, dates or numbers tied to your identity (such as birthday, family name, pets, street)

* Use a password that differs from your other banking, email and social media accounts. Change it periodically, ideally every 90 days
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Creation of legitimate new art through the "proper" channels, as opposed to back-alley off-the-radar art where artists get compensated by the goodwill of an audience.

As we've seen with the growth of media content on the web, creators gonna create. Whether compensation for one's creation is something shared among many creators fairly in the light of day or consolidated in the hands of a few (while the rest scrape at charity) is really the question that this sort of legal decision raises.
On Openmailbox, I have "Message queued. Attempting delivery" even after reading the mail, so I guess it's fine
Interesting. Very though-provoking comment. Have not heard that one before but it makes sense. I agree there is probably something to that.
The US and many other countries have laws establishing the idea of a "compulsory license", which is (legally) required any time you cover someone else's song: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license
It's "Yesware" - sloppy. This has been done for years and years such that it's pretty much common practice with any service that sends email now. And any half-decent mail client asks you before loading external resources. I guess it'd be nice if they specified why it matters.
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From what I understand, it's all private, raised from Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Juniper Networks and Francois Stieger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typesafe_Inc.#Investors
It's not rude; it just ideally needs its own section or priority setting so they don't appear on par with bug fixes and the like.
Worked for years in music biz -- saw numerous cases of this level of "copying" -- the groove, a similar bass line etc -- this was never, ever enough to sue much less win.

The standard in my mind for actual musical theft is George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" vs Spector's "He's So Fine" -- a clear rip-off, chords, melody, both verse and chorus. But Lines vs Gaye, it's just not enough.

The jury must be tone deaf.
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A place to share insights and humorous moments from working in the startup world.

This is my first dev project (and just for fun), so there's bound to be some mistakes or things I could have done better. Next steps include tweeting each submission and adding a Twitter share button (preferably that shares a photo card of the current quote). Feedback welcomed.
I was wgetting all my http requests until about 2 years ago. Curl's undeniable coolness won me over after 15 years. Now I practically live in curl when I'm setting up webservices, and libcurl for PHP does something on nearly every page request I have.

For PHP people, curl_multi_exec is the new event loop.
How else do you keep your 99.9999% availability metrics?
Not all same old!

Same old = copyright laws are broken

New = this decision makes it even further broken
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