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Just goes to show reputation isn't the end all, be all, solution to everything. It's so often championed by the Linux kernel team as a reason why the distributed model works, and it's evident that in that case it certainly does. Here though, much outcry about how you can't setup a box and instantly be as respected as established boxes that have earned rep over time. This post just comes off way too butt hurt for my taste.
At present SMTP is so broken that arbitrary servers are allowed to send mail for any domain, with fake headers, there is no proper verification of sending server or sending identity, the mail is accepted (along with legitimate mail), and put in spam folders (sometimes, as is real mail sometimes). SPF/DKIM are an attempt to solve that of course, but they are not enforced rigorously or universally, and tactics like IP reputation and email content sniffing still seem to be widely used too (the problem reported in the article). Compared to the web, email seems pretty behind on verifying server identity.
Sorry be frank, but reading that I really didn't get the feeling this company was doing things right and "just missed."

The premise seems wrong. I thought the current thinking that building a group you as the "social accountability" of your goals just produces anxiety and procrastination.

And I don't see offline sync as a "nice to have." I (and others) have dropped products when they dropped the feature.
I think you are right about the use case being almost ideal for manufacturing, but I have a feeling the general best practice will remain to keep control systems air-gapped. It's the norm for many organizations (as policy, unfortunately not always as implementation), and is the recommendation of ICS-CERT, but there are still way too many jumping onto internet connected controls due to cost savings, convenience or whatever else. Often times the business arm wants data from control systems and are either too cheap or just can't be bothered to implement things like data-diodes and other one-way access that can provide feedback without exposing controls.

The increasing vulnerability isn't so much from networked automation -- PLCs have been networked for decades. The danger lies in dangerous jumping onto the the IIoT ("Industrial Internet of Things") and exposing of SCADA systems to the Internet, or thinking things like VPNs are secure. We are also seeing in a much higher focus of state-actors in controls. Industrial hacking is seeing a big shift away from espionage and IP theft to gaining access/control of processes. It's scary how many PLCs are the number that are freely exposed to the internet and browsable through sites like shodan. Even scarier is the number of infrastructure-critical control systems have already been found to be compromised and phoning home just waiting for a command by some unknown entity.

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Google's killed access to various accounts of mine at different times for:

1. Accessing an account one time over Tor. Subsequent reconnect attempts from the same device I'd previously used, same IP, etc., failed. Took a couple of weeks to get back.

2. Accessing accounts from different IPs while travelling. Ultimately ending up at the same IP as one of the email accounts I'd previously corresponded heavily with.

3. Accessing accounts from new device(s). Old (Android) devices could access email but not Web-based account recovery tools.

"Who are you" is the most expensive question in technology. No matter how you get it wrong, you're fucked.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3mo7l6/that_go...
Thats actually a good idea. You don't even have to make it a fixed value. The receiver uses how much money was paid as a (spam) signal.

The bitcoin transaction can just go to /dev/null with a hash of the message as data, so don't have to pay somebody ( ;) ) and you cannot track who sent data to whom via tracking the bitcoin transactions.
$51million or $51billion? $51million isn't worth mentioning.
Are those APS-H sensors? I thought Hasselblad specialized in medium format (6 cm x 4.5 cm sensors), and for their compact cameras, just rebadged other manufacturers' equipment.
I do it the opposite way actually. No social media at all. I call, text, and email a whole host of people on a regular basis.

Social media is honestly a hindrance of friendships. If you want to know about an old friend you haven't talked to in a while, punch up their facebook/instagram/twitter. All caught up. No need to interact whatsoever. I call, email, and text, to maintain that sense of a personal connection.

Technology helps with having relationships not atrophy, I completely agree. Social media however, I see it as a hindrance to sincere connections with people more than a boon to preserving relationships.
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Link to the code?
I hope you guys have a good abuse team to handle the incoming reports.
This has been a thing for a while:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8439383

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9019580

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9044063

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224814

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10369468

It's not uncommon now for sites to produce 95% junk with a high-quality 5%. Of course it's the latter HN is looking for.
The lack of named arguments is problematic. It looks nice for tiny, trivial, toy problems. Becomes a readability nightmare in production and public libraries.
Because spammers can't afford a couple of TB of disk space?
The "ads" are an opt-in recommendation feature of the Store and/or Cortana.

On my Windows 10 machine, the "recommendations" were enabled by default. And they sure look/behave like advertisements to me.
It's unfortunate that potential LPs can't be trusted to keep these kinds of things secret, because it makes it harder for founders to trust them in the future.

As an occasional LP myself, I always consider financial documents like this just as secret as my own bank statements and health records.
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Algorithms are much more primitive than people by definition. You seem to have intended to convey the opposite, a preference for relying on primitives over complicated persons.
Yes. And the answer wasn't about that. Quoting the end of the essay:

> So if this question was a homework assignment... the answer is O(N): do a linear search through the list and examine every single item.

> If this question is an honest request... put down the keyboard. Get off your ass and walk down the hall. Talk to all the people that are involved and figure out what real need is and re-examine whether the "largest value" is actually needed, how it is needed, and whether the entire process can be improved by looking at it end-to-end.

> Get out of your silo. Talk to people. You'll always get better results.
But not all drivers/network cards are bugfree :/
If I can't reasonably get it, then how is it a step forward?
Saying 50 concurrent agents is no big deal for most websites is kinda flippant. It all adds up and not every popular website can handle loads of traffic. By using a headless browser to gain a proper version of a webpage, you also strain a webserver with serving static files costing them bandwidth as well.
One is a catalog of images with description.

The other forces login or an app download.
Ask Bill Gates : http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/bill-gates-proposes-c...
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Yes, I agree. I should have specified that I meant the first job.
More overcomplicated than the complex system of headers and whitelists trying to bolt some basic security and authenticity features onto SMTP?

The latter didn't win because it was "better" just because it was easier to implement. Like a car with no brakes or seatbelts.
What if the bot had an allowance and periodically bought music (on iTunes, if they were using Apple Music) OR if the bot had a 'premium' Spotify account.

What is the difference then?

Also, what is worse? A bot with a premium account or a human with a free account?
There's a script for that, actually:

http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ec2-scripts.html
I have to wonder why 10gig, why don't the make an intermediate step ? Like 5gig ?
I think it's exaggerated. I am happily running a private mail server on a tiny vserver. My emails get through to whomever I might mail and I do so a lot.

I once heard that my email got flagged as spam.

Of course, if you don't set up your mail server correctly it might be that it's flagged as spam, but it's not really harder than setting up various other things correctly.

It sounds like it was set up correctly by the author. Most people use SpamAssassin, also big companies do. So it should be good.

Maybe the network itself wasn't considered to be good by the mentioned big companies.
The strict Diesel emissions standards for passenger vehicles in North America are presumably an anti-competitive measure. US car makers have been notoriously behind in Diesel technology.
Reducing context switches is probably just as important.
Very nice.
I prefer using the built in command line ec2 scripts packages with all Spark versions.

https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ec2-scripts.html

You can even specify the spot instance price, instance type, number of nodes, etc.

e.g.

./spark-ec2 --key-pair=awskey --identity-file=awskey.pem --region=us-west-1 --zone=us-west-1a --spot-price=0.2 --instance-type=m4.4xlarge launch my-spark-cluster
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UK's black cabs are arguably quite bigger, yellow cabs in Asia in places like Hong Kong are also very big.

Many places that historically had town cars and carriages seem to kept large cabin taxis because it was more attractive to people to ride in comfort (not having to crouch to get in for example) as well as allow you to easily pick 3 passengers with enough room that they don't have to be touching.

You also forget that more than 50% of NYC's taxi's are hybrid these days, with the Prius being one of the most popular models to be converted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_taxi
Yes, that's my point. It doesn't really solve any issues that SPF/DKIM don't already solve -- pointing to certs isn't a new solution, it's a rehash of the same solution.

And yes, the concept of relays should disappear along with much of the other cruft SMTP brings. (And while we're at it, can we fix/replace IMAP, or at least make the spec say that message ids are eternal and can't be invalidated?)
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I see what you did there, kudos :)
Those sound like jobs amenable to design by contract and information flow control, not necessarily type systems and type theory, per se (though there is some overlap).
> For the people /within that empire/.

Nope, for the "citizens" of the empire. Almost everybody else suffers, inside or outside.

And don't expect the meaning of "citizen" to agree with the one we are used to (although, the next meaning should be clear enough by now).
A blog post cannot be a Show HN. Please read the rules.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
It's probably more accurate to say that predicting earthquakes from salmon populations is far outside our current modeling capabilities. Undoubtedly the seismic stresses and crustal movements leading up to earthquakes have numerous weak causal links to the salmon population: most obviously, they alter the slopes and flow rates of streams leading into the ocean, altering the nutrient balance available to the algae there, but also they alter the distances flown by migratory birds by centimeters per year, and those birds will consequently eat very slightly different fish, etc. There might not even be a way to analyze the salmon population in such a way as to tell you how far the continents have drifted — but declaring that postulating the existence of such a thing is "madness" seems like being far too sure of yourself.

There's a science-fiction story that may be useful in gaining perspective on the limits of prediction at http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/.

The problem with earthquakes, as I see it, is not so much that they are non-differentiable as that they (like a bird eating or not eating a particular fish) have very large local derivatives with respect to their precipitating conditions.
I doubt it. No-one wants to pay to send an email. Even if they did, it'd involve waiting 10+ minutes for a payment to go through and limit the global email rate to a maximum of 5 messages per second. Bitcoin is not a good fit.
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There is no obligation to accept email, from anybody.
There's one in the slides linked from the talk
Yes the parent comment you were replying to was off base and you were right to correct him. You didn't seem rude to me. I was being a little bit sarcastic about Spotify riding a fraud-wave to a public offering based on inflated numbers.
There is another paper linked in another HN thread at the moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10405143

It's worth a read for anyone interested in this topic. I'm not sure why all the downvotes, but it seems like typing in general is not a concept that has stabilized among languages, is the point I'm trying to make. That languages are often adding or loosening typing notions is an interesting indication to me that it is a bit fickle.

But as the article I linked here points out, a lot depends also on what your particular definition of "type" is.
What are the theoretical economics of yeast based or synthetic food based nutrition on a global scale? The chemicals need to come from somewhere. The synthesis equipment needs to come from somwhere. As I understand it growing things in dirt is pretty efficient? Where is the cut-off point when test tube grown food is economically more viable than dirt based alimenation?

I am not saying these things wont happen. But we are not there yet. How soon? It took a few hundreds of years of tweaking for steam engines to actually make an economic difference. It took a hundred years for the offspring of babbages difference engine to become the instruments of the cultural and economic transformation they are today.

Today, we are locked to dirt. In five years, most food is dirt based. Probably still a decade or two from now.

Most analysts predicitions turn out to be pretty bad - but it's their 'editorial view' of current events that I find most educating if done well.
Our software system currently uses Redis as a central bus, and around that we have a dozen apps that send a hashmap back and forth among themselves. We use Carmine/Nippy to serialize and deserialize the hashmap, so we never have to think about anything other than a hashmap. All the bugs we face are because of missing or misused fields in the hashmap. For us, a combination of structural typing and Nippy could potentially protect us from 90% of the bugs we have seen so far.
interesting. very suprised to see "viper" at the very top.
I wonder if Uber has poisoned the well for transit startups - there is so much more awareness among both the public and the local governments of the law, that it might never work for a brand new company to follow their "do it and just let them sue you" model, because the lawsuits will arrive before they have enough cash to fight it.
Yes, but if the email is digitally signed I can be certain who sent it (at least the address) and, unlike postal mail, I can electronically sort it. Email from folks I know would receive the highest priority.

Are folks afraid of bitcoin? What can be worse than just having a 16 digit number printed on a card -- that is a 1000x more vulnerable.
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> The Democratic nomination has basically always been guaranteed for Clinton.

That may or may not be, but second candidate with good numbers would have strong chances of getting a VP berth (for himself or a protégé). I don't see it as a conspiracy.

> Support for people who aren't likely to win the general election at least shows what issues are important to voters

Undoubtedly, but I think what Lessig is proving is that voters don't give a rat's ass about his issues. By continuing on this road I fear he's doing more harm than good to his cause. Even Nader's bid, which was much more realistic than Lessig's, did more harm than good to his movement in the long run.

> Supporting someone you disagree with more just because they're likely to win is truly "throwing your vote away"

The hard truth of First-Past-The-Post systems is that purism doesn't pay. A slightly-shaky alliance taking you to 40% trumps a purist core of 10% every day. That is an objective fact. It sucks, but you can't wish it away.
I once heard someone say "You can give everyone else but yourself a soul." While I don't really know what that means, I think of it whenever I'm by myself for long durations (3-4 months on average).
Fair enough, but our work doesn't just impact us...
Until recently Ethernet only increased in speed by factors of 10. This made sense when it was increasing 10x every 5 years, because it takes years for standards and products to be developed. But now there are intermediate speeds like 2.5G, 5G, 25G, and 40G.
I get far more spam than legitimate mail in the US Postal mail.
I read no form of endorsement in the comment, but rather a sense that this is a very common tactic in realpolitik throughout history and should not be surprising.
I'm very interested in ways we can expand LDA (and other topic models) to retain more of the meaning of the documents, especially for small feedback (like reviews), such that a human could explore the results and find impactful, actionable data.

Using N-grams increases the dimensionality way too much.

I've thought about word-vectors as an option, but am unsure how similar terms could be grouped internally in LDA.

This kind of subject is probably worth a PHD thesis, honestly.
Well there is also a fair amount of supportive opinion on the contrary, that "better" is a system without types altogether, hence dynamic languages.
I sometimes see similar tales of woe, and I can only say that this does not match my experience. I’ve done this many times, you set up the mail server, configure DNS correctly (including reverse lookup), and that’s it. Never had problems being blacklisted or mail getting classified as spam.

I suspect that people having trouble are sending a lot of mail, like “newletters”, etc. But I can’t prove this hypothesis.
Bernstein is an incredibly smart guy. But he's also an example of how the social stuff matters. His software would run the internet if he put a little more effort into the social/political side of things.

The big problem with IM2000 is that it doesn't solve the real problems. It's focused on the economics of storage of mail, which, yeah, are a thing for a few mail administrators, but generally is considered less important than the spam-filtering problem in general.

I mean, I'm not willing to pay for infinite storage, but I certainly would be willing to pay the cost of receiving 100x my current monthly spam load if I didn't have to read any of it. Maybe even 1000x.

The major benefit of the IM2000 standard is that if you can squash the spammer's mail servers, you squash the mail in question, which actually could change things, because it would mean that spammers would need to control the servers they use to send for longer than they do now.
Important to note that this isn't STATIC typing (which detects errors at compile-time), rather this is more like a validation library to make sure structures have certain properties at run-time.

Not saying it isn't useful, in fact I have a project in which this would be a very good fit and I might even implement it there.
Bill Gates and Elon Musk are wrong: AI is not going to take over the world
The problem goes both ways.

Spam needs to stop and so too does the convergence of Internet services in general (not just email).

Frankly, the solution already exists, and just like how billion-dollar companies start with the tech community, techies need to embrace the idea of decentralization by adopting some trust-based model.

Frankly, I do not see why encrypted emails cannot be accepted by users through some peer-sharing agreement where the public-key is online.

There's tons of solutions that are easy for tech people and if this community embraces it, it trickles down, like how a lot of other things do in tech.
I have one thought, which is that no one really needs you saving them via insulting HN comments.
Is the c|net link broken? I remember Bill Gates bringing this up -- I would to like read what the issues would be with technology today.
I drastically prefer the interface over 3DS Max and Maya. Maybe i'm weird.
There's no good reason a company should prevent their users from receiving email from their self-hosted friends.
If you prefer blurry images such as the author seems to, you can use parameters to your cubic filter to add more blur than the (probably mitchell or catrom) parameters that gimp is using. I'd bet most people would find the result superior to this filter.
In the end I feel we need better captcha options.. images for most people with options for the impared. In the end stuff that's relatively easy for a person (click the picture of a cat), but harder for a computer to do...

Another option might be regular challenge-response that makes interaction harder and more costly for a fake listener.. having to run a pbfdk, scrypt or other result on a given input at regular intervals... (the service could have a pre-computed pool to randomly serve out, so they wouldn't have the same costs).

They could also flag accounts that get my than N hours of play in a day, or number of days that's much higher than a typical listener... or who plays more artists/songs outside the top 10k songs the previous month. Asking them to login to their account, or validate their email address at that point... Anything that makes the process much more complicatied to automate but would affect a very low number of real people.

Yes, it's an arms race, but there are a lot of things that could be done that could keep the barbarians out of the gates... Not to mention other suggestions that split per-user royalties to artists, instead of the pool as a whole... That combined with other models could go a long way here.
Apple seems to favor apps with a good design, or simply a good use of some new feature in iOS. I'd guess it was something along those lines.

Obviously design was a high priority, as they said, even inter-office documents had a high standard.

I think when you have a designer leading the team, design becomes the most important thing. When you have a programmer leading the team, the code becomes the most important thing. When you have a business person leading the team, it's the metrics, etc, etc. in reality the customer is the most important thing.
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More primitive, in the sense of less complex, yes. But also more reliable. Algorithms do what they do, and never anything else.
I used a trial version of houdini once and the procedural workflow is amazing and I loved it. But I can't justify the cost and at the time the limitations of the community edition were prohibitive even for a hobbyist.
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I suspect many of my messages are getting flagged as spam as well. Is there an easy way of checking whether emails are going through?
I did most of the stuff on 2.7 and late 2.6. I believe what you say is true though, the interface is built on top of Python, so every button in the UI corresponds to a Python function. That has both pros and cons, I guess.
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Why the X protocols didn’t win is up for debate, but a good reason why they shouldn’t win, ever, is that, aside from being complicated and over-engineered, they are incredibly centralized in their design.