skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've run into similar issues with a similar setup. It's frustrating. You can convince gmail user A to whitelist your messages, and so they'll get through to user A, but gmail user B probably still won't see messages from you unless you tell him to dig them out of the spam trap. And your messages to A might still be classified as spam if they have attachments or hyperlinks in them. (Even if you've been corresponding with A for several years!)

Once upon a time, to send email, you needed to use SMTP. Now, you must use SMTP, from a IP block that isn't categorized as residential, and which has never before had any association with outgoing spam, and you also must implement several ad-hoc identification protocols like SPF and reverse DNS. You should also use a domain name that you've owned for some time and which is not expiring soon. Every system to which you want to send mail will give different weights to all these signals. If they don't like you, their behavior is to report successful delivery and then silently hide messages from their intended recipients.

Spam is no fun, but the present situation is pretty weak too.
The UX Dark Patterns
Absolutely. As a codebase grows and a larger and larger number of users depend on it, you want to be able to statically verify things like "I never compare an experiment ID to a customer ID" or "timeouts are always precisely specified with their units" or "I never issue a MySQL query from a retriable Redis transaction" or "this unit test is 100% deterministic" or "all code handles the case that this optional field is missing", just to pick a few specific examples that I've run into.
Losing Sight: Podcast Interview with Leonie Watson
Um, how do you precisely think the rational of the american leadership actually goes then? No country as large as USA operates without holding it's own power as the main goal. What else would the main goal of the foreign policy of USA be then?
Another thing for the http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/ app :-)
You seem to have missed kornish's point completely.
> I'm emphatically talking about the last [category], which is absolutely massive. I used to work at a company where a significant proportion of our userbase was composed of this type of person. Lots of money is wasted on this problem, which is so easy to fix.

I see what you mean but still, an opt-out button would pretty much solve everything. Forcing everyone is just a bad move I think.
Point-in-fact, 10G-base-T is exactly where Intel is trying to take the market.
Contrary to the implications of the beginning of the piece, Mr. Bell had connections, he had the potential for relationships, he even had friends who tried.

I'm an introvert, who recently moved to another city for graduate school. I don't get out very often unless it's to a solitary place (my own spot in a coffee shop, for instance), so I can relate to Bell's desire to be solitary most of the time. However, if anyone reading this thinks his death was a wrong, know that he had ample opportunity to at least have one or two people to "be around his death bed" so to speak. The end of the piece talks about "the Dude", not to mention the possible wife who it seems loved him even towards the end.

If there is any take away, it is to cherish our relationships with others. There are extreme cases in which people really are alone, but for those of us who can at least count on our hands the ones we love, or at least like, (even if it takes us a few minutes to enumerate them), we should continue to develop those friendships and not force people out who could otherwise enrich us. As the "investigators" put it, we don't live forever. We need to use the time we have to enrich others, because only the rest of society will out-survive us as individuals.
When did you use Blender? Its UI used to be a complete mess, but since 2.6 or so it's much better. Once you learn the shortcuts (or customize them to your own suiting), it's actually really quick to use. I gave up on Blender almost right away when I first used it, but when I came back to it a few years later, I had much more success.
What would he need congress for? Some people run just to change the conversation, not to win.
"Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie."

Often said in that industry, and technically/semantically true - just highly misleading and a thin excuse. A whole lot of people in Hollywood are pretty much indifferent to quality as opposed to flash. What they are, is highly focused on the marketing and star-vehicle issues which will determine their paychecks (at least in the short term.) The result is still all too predictable, and lamentable. They set out to do a great many things - it's just that making a really fine movie that people will want to watch twenty years from now wasn't one of them.

Almost all programmers like to solve problems. It's why they took the job. But very few programmers really enjoy to re-solving problems, only better. The results of the latter activity aren't exactly highly visible, so the rewards aren't as obvious.

Narcissists don't actively try to do the job badly or to cause future problems, this is just an inevitable and profound side effect of their relentless focus on getting superficially good-looking results now. Their indifference - even to human life - is not praiseworthy, or the absence of a flaw.
Awesome, thank you. They do look interesting, but their pricing confuses me. Are they just selling individual proxies? Or does $1.80 get you single exit nodes or threads basically?
Just a modified driver and a NIC that supports 'rings'.
I would have liked the article to come to some from of conclusion.
That's a blob driver.
Is it my tone then?

Rereading my posts I do seem like a braggadocios douche, but I'm not incorrect at all I don't think; the comment I'm replying to is incorrect though.

That I genuinely feel is true.
I've looked into this a bunch as we've been building Nylas. Our backend is essentially a cloud mail user agent (MUA), but can have similar issues to a MTA or mailbox provider.

It turns out that creating a successful product in the email space requires you to build relationships and partnerships with the existing vendors/providers. It takes a lot of work, and is part of what you pay for when using Mailgun/Mandrill/etc.

These "greylists" and systems that drop mail from unknown IPs have been pretty carefully designed and tuned to combat the insane amount of spam out there. They work remarkably well, and for most of today's email users, spam is no longer an issue. (The current state of email abuse innovation is promotions/marketing/etc. which is a more subtle challenge.)

At the end of this article, the author writes, "This isn't how the internet is supposed to work." Ironically this system of obscure reputation-based email is a direct result of how the email system was actually designed to work, with a total lack of permissions or feedback loop. Many SMTP servers used to not even require a password.

Stuff like DKIM/SPF and DMARC is a step in the right direction. But the RFCs upon which our email system is based were written decades ago, and in many cases have fundamental flaws, like SMTP leaking metadata no matter what. I could go on and on about issues with email, and why I care about getting them fixed, but let's just say it was designed in a different era of Internet with different constraints and opportunities.

So how do you build a new email service and not get blocked? Well, you spend a few weeks or months emailing, calling, Skyping, and meeting with folks in the current space. You work your way up through marketing support and random protocol discussion lists until you are talking with the folks who can influence which IPs are blocked/unblocked. Then you convince them you are (1) building a legit venture, (2) are worthy of their trust, and (3) don't directly compete with them. Then you'll get a small number of clean IPs and you must not screw up!

There are a few hacks, like sometimes a single partner/vendor will sell you a block of clean IPs and help manage the spam reputation. But usually it's just a lot of sweat and annoying phone calls. It takes way, way longer than setting up SPF/DKIM. The challenge is more relationships than technical.

Once you have a new email sending provider, the burden shifts to you for doing abuse/spam prevention. And you find yourself implementing many of the strategies and systems you cursed when getting started. But that's the circle of rfc2822 life I guess.

Oh, and never use EC2 IPs for sending mail. Most of them have been burned by spammers.
but the same result, reduce copies.
Maybe something like this?

https://github.com/ssbc
https://github.com/ssbc/secure-scuttlebutt
https://github.com/ssbc/scuttlebot
I use Uber almost every day. I love it. I also like vending machines. I hope that one day my Uber rides will be entirely like interacting with vending machines.
The Ortskundeprüfung ("local knowledge test" = learn a ton of street names) is the only problematic part of it and it needs to be reformed away.
Very interesting take on things. From this point of view the virtue of the New Jersey Way is that they shorten this cycle, keeping things from getting way out of the ordinary f*ed up before the cycle restarts - after all, why wait 'till your car skids out and crashes before you replace your bald tires; that sort of thing.
"3 and 4 would require a sort of token system"

Not to get all handwavey, but I think this is why some people are super excited about bitcoin becoming 'part of the internet'. There are definitely some areas where we need a concept of identity & trust, and bitcoin seems like one of the first truly distributed ways of doing it.
What are you referring to by "inject tools for heterogenous collections?
Mapping FinFisher’s Continuing Proliferation
“Empire” by Spiegelworld (September 29–October 18)
> It is that smtp is fundamentally broken.

Because the SMTP cabal is fanatically opposed to changing it.

The response I had 15 years ago was "It takes 10 years to deploy any serious changes to a protocol".

Uh... so? Does that mean we shouldn't do it?

Apparently, yes. 15 years later, there have been no substantive changes to SMTP.

Repeat after me, SMTP is perfect. It's perfect! Well, there are a few known issues. But it's deployed! It's too hard to change. You're trying to change it? You're a terrible person who doesn't understand SMTP.

I got that for 5 years before giving up and going to more productive lines of work.
Thats not the point.

I am talking about when technology makes it obsolete to even have most doctors and lawyers.
via netmap, yes.
The takeaway I'm getting from this is, as with other websites, the attempt to fund streaming music indirectly via targeted advertising is hopelessly unable to keep up with ever-more-clever click fraud. At best, we end up with an arms race of more and more powerful "criminal" botnets and more and more heavyweight advertising tech crowding out the original content. I'm becoming very sympathetic to the viewpoint of backing out towards either completely untargeted advertising (which, paradoxically, can be far more effective) or -- and, admittedly, I'm going crazy out on a limb here -- paying for content.
Keep your prices, your average developer is not a business person and advises everyone to race to the bottom.
Firstly, don't take advice that impacts your ability to feed your kids from random guys on the Internet.

Having said that, sell yourself as a niche provider, and act surprised when asked to do generic stuff.

The simplest niche to start with is "lives in the same town as me". not London or NY that does not count - think town of 100k.

Now choose three business needs (sales funnel management, tickets on smartphones, GPS tracking of goods or RFID in a warehouse.). They must be clear things. Things you could plan your architecture for just from hearing the sentence.

Write a blog post on each of them and how they can be solved or improved by software - and software is what you have experience in writing (even if not in this niche.)

PS you are probably thinking this is dodgy now - well spend a day or two making a ticket scanning app on an iPhone. Make sure the essence is there. You will even be able to write another new knowledgable article about how the focal point of smartphone cameras makes ticket scanning difficult / easy / costly whatever

Now find your local business meetups - chambers of commerce, networking meetings. Go to them, and at each of them say "I am looking for businesses that are looking for software developed to solve their problems in sales funnels / tickets on smartphones. Some networking meetups actually expect this of everyone at the meet, some you have to do this on every handshake.

(Pro tip: set up a mailchimp list called "software in middle of nowhere-vile". At the met up say "hey can I get your mail address onto my list ... ". Just push an article onto the list every so often - try monthly.

The key here is to inject a specific need into the existing network of businesses. They will take this around with them and somewhere in the next six weeks will meet someone who is trying to sell tickets and ... They will remember you. Mostly they will have forgotten your contact details but Google for your blog / search your email list will solve that.

It's painful. And it works a lot lot better if you are also calling the likely businesses yourself, contacting their CTOs. (Ps as an ex CTO I always took cold calls, but I always asked "what are you selling". The good ones could tell me.)

But sell a particular niche, and be prepared for the "I know this is not what you usually do but what if ..." That way you are really selling your "generic I can do coding me" but in not a lame and totally forgettable way.

So, have a niche, have an online presence, and sell the niche so that eventually you will be asked to step outside the niche.

Also find local government - hard to get into, pay is regular though.
This is a very cool swiss-army knife for the abundance of cab aggregators in India. Am gonna give it a whirl the next time I need transportation.

Because I've not used it yet, I'm curious as to whether you're using deep-linking to get to the other cabs? If the taxi companies offer APIs, I think another powerful use-case would be to link up to those APIs. Without them, this is a pretty good tool!
I understand your point of view. From a pure job security point of view, withdrawing from women unless necessary is simply being sensible and and little more than an intelligent act of minimizing risk.

However when job security is taken out of equation (for whatever reason) and this situation is seen in a new light, it becomes evident that this whole thing is problematic for men as a whole. It means that the bully-boys and feisty-femmes are allowed to win via men giving up on standing up for themselves, ensuring actual equity (such as meritocracy) and defending against non-emphathetic SJWs.
Sometimes I use pinterest when I'm looking for cooking inspiration. It is absolutely nothing like 4chan, I have no idea what you are talking about.
There's also Da Vinci Resolve, the free version isn't available for Linux though, but the full package isn't very expensive, and ridiculously powerful.
Instead of that pedantic "sic" you could have, you know, fixed the article.
MIT data-analysis algorithm outperforms human teams
Edit: They said they checked the spam lists but the ones that I've listed below may be helpful to others.

OP might have had an IP previously used by spammers or in a spam block. (See edit).

Important to check the IP before using it if it's been given to you by, say, the VPS Provider or the upstream. To see what, if any, reputation it has.

Here are two tools to use:

http://multirbl.valli.org/

http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx

And there are a bunch of similar tools.
Certs or some other method to identify servers, so that gmail etc don't attempt to use IP for server identity, which is obviously flawed. The SMTP protocol is pretty flawed itself though, so probably that needs to change to see any real progress here.
I think he might have been drawing a rhetorical knife against Abbie Hoffman.
All of that is why I wrote this:

http://caseysoftware.com/blog/so-you-want-to-build-an-app
> Clinton said that Edward Snowden could have gotten all the protections of being a whistleblower." A key 1998 law focused on intelligence community workers does lay out a pathway Snowden could have followed. However, there is at least a significant legal debate over whether the issues Snowden wanted to raise would fall under that law.

> Additionally, legal experts including an Army inspector general have said that the 1998 law does not protect whistleblowers from reprisals.

> The protections that Clinton referenced do not seem to be as strong as she suggested, and most of the expert opinion suggests they would not apply to Snowden.

> We rate this claim Mostly False.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/...
Gross. What a shallow and pathetic way of viewing the world and the people around you.
> I'm not familiar with other languages that have support for named, infix functions. Are there better syntactic alternatives?

A "dyadic function" in q/kdb+'s .q namespace has a kind of Currying that accepts the right-hand value as the second argument to the function. (This is abusive in practice since the user should never add to the .q namespace as future conflicts are possible.)

.q.add:{x+y}
5 add 10
In general, everybody uses a service like MailChimp or SendGrid to do this. That allows them to send email, but keeps them from building up a good reputation for no spam on their IP addresses -- that reputation is built by the email provider, not by you as the customer.

For awhile I wondered why so many SaaS apps bothered to pay external (not cheap!) mail services when it's so easy to set up an email server.

This is why. My "easy to set up an email server" info was years out of date.
>Because many of them dropped/stopped out of Stanford after being accepted.

Really? There's obviously a few well known cases of this, but I doubt you're looking at any hard data when you make this claim.

>Outliers can't be analyzed using aggregate methods. Powerlawpeople.

Sure you can. When you're comparing 500 billionaires, they're no longer the outliers in the data set. They're the norm for the data set.
Postmedia Ad Blocker
You can talk about HTTPS and forcing encryption all over the web however much you want but as long as you're stuck with SMTP and the few large coorps as the only viable mail solutions you can forget individual citizen data privacy... at least thats my 2cents.
You didn't really answer the question. It seems a bit ironic that the US is criticising diesel cars when US petrol cars are (I'm guessing because they're bigger) much less efficient than EU petrol cars.
The thing is while the Internet is all excited about bitcoin, everyone else has (kind of) stopped using e-mail for communication. It's all phone based now. E-mail is just for the things that doesn't have an app. And maybe resetting your password. Unfortunately, the "geek" age is out in favor of the startup age.
I also take issue with this part:

> you can use the operator / to achieve the same thing, but this won't work for all other functions

Yes, it will work for all other (binary) functions. If there isn't an operator at the Preface, just declare one.

Anyway, I'll have to agree with people further down. Using the grave accent as a stand-alone symbol in a language is a big mistake.
That proves I own the domain to some extent. Don't DKIM records do the same? For the purposes of anti-spam, a cert doesn't do anything except prove that you showed some CA that you own the domain (which can be done and is done in other ways currently).
It is time to democratize Impact Investing
mtr gives you a graph. press d, for display.
Why do people keep reinventing LaTeX?
Create an email network where is would cost a penny to send email. It would be payed into bitcoin wallet of folks maintaining infrastructure.

Every email would be digitally signed and encrypted. Certificate with keys would connected to email address (and bitcoin wallet).

Spam would die.

Go build it please.
What do we really know about Bin Laden's death?
In particular, we want mice who when presented with a particular existing class of cancer spring to take antioxidants when they serve the mouse and not when it's going to perk up the cancer more, tell related mice how that feels, then survive at a significant rate; then look at their relatives. Sort of a missing hat trick at the end of _Ben_.
Postmedia owns the leading daily newspapers in most Canadian cities. They required the papers' editorial boards to endorse the Harper government in our current federal election. Given the scope of their ownership and reach, this is a remarkable perversion of the press in favor of a couple of hedge funds who own Postmedia. I built an ad (and paywall script) blocker targeted only at their properties, and plan to submit to Apple later today. Pull requests welcome.
Signals are not frequencies and have a finite power and often defined direction, so every signal is not detectable in every place, particularly at ground level. Anyway, it looked an interesting project. The text is probably not written in their first language (hence constructs like 'signal space').
>"fled with stolen information to China then Russia"

Typical misconception, sad to see it on HN.

He did not flee to Russia, he got stuck on his way, because the US revoked his passport.
Russia was the only country who could stand up to the US. Few other countries dared to offer him asylum.

Unfortunate it had to be Russia, given their civil liberties record, but he HAD NO INTENTION of going there.
Again, never heard of it.
I never understood this stigma about hermits/social isolation in western societies. In the east, it's much more accepted.

Reading this piece I got the impression that the writer and persons interviewed were HORRIFIED by what they discovered.
It seemed to me as if "having friends" was pretty fucking high in their list-of-important-things-in-life.

I was very amused by this, almost started laughing in fact.
Human relationships are not for everyone I'd say, in fact there are many healthy people that view them as pointless waste of time at best.

Technology will solve this little problem once and for all, in this century. I won't go as far as AGI but when house keeping robots become ubiquitous which is surely less than 20 years down the road, society at large will have to evolve and primitive points of view as described in this nytimes piece will basically disappear.
Hashcash?
A lot of scrapers aren't used to build a competing site. It doesn't matter to most companies. The normal policy is to shut them all down ASAP.
What similarity do you see between pinterest and 4chan?
City of London Police lose control of one of their headline seized websites
Just over a year ago the City of London Police's PIPCU arrested the 20 year old operator of https://immunicity.org which was a proxy designed to get around some of the UK Internet censorship.

Arresting people using Fraud and 'Serious Crime' legislation in order to enforce Internet censorship is unacceptable.

Unfortunately (for them) they forgot to dot all their i's and cross all their t's and the domain was quietly acquired by anti-censorship activists earlier this year...
> It is not a safe assumption that the best practitioners in this field should be nerds who got started in their pre-teen years (that describes me, by the way).

Just to be clear, I did not intend to imply that spending more time in nerd mode might make boys better at programming (or any other STEM field) than girls. I was just looking at why boys might be more likely to go into such fields.

A lot (most?) kids have decided what general area they are going to major in by the time they arrive at college, and those kids are going to be a big factor in the demographics of the fields they go into.