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None of the core keyboard shortcuts have changed in years.

I'm pretty pragmatic about tools, everybody has a preference and outside of pipeline integration issues it's the speed and quality of the output that matters.

For me, what's given blender the edge over the commercial software I've used (mostly Maya) is the keyboard-driven approach:

I can rotate a cube 22 degrees in the x axis, scale it 15% and move it 3 units in the z axis in about 5 seconds without every reaching for the mouse. That's tremendously powerful and fast, and requires that I know only about 4 keyboard shortcuts.

It's a bit of a learning curve (no moreso than learning, say a new programming syntax), but when you catch on, the speed and efficiency pays for itself in short order.
Adventures with a $50 Android tablet
You're not thinking hard enough. Imagine you could do blood tests weekly from home cheaply? It could change all of medicine.
Guest Speaker – Simon Sinek
I love startup school speakers that Y Combinator invites, what a wealth of free knowledge provided by YC (thank you!) and every speaker is a genius in their own way! I think Simon Sinek would be a really good addition to the speaker's pool for startup school; what you think?
Rent is so high in San Francisco that Im a software engineer and I live in a van
It was a long time ago. Like more than 10 years. The indie version is indeed much more reasonably priced but I don't do enough to justify 200/year. Blender hits my sweet spot :-)
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anybody who's ever tried them knows that pinterest is doing very well
If someone spoofs a CNAME to evil.com in response to DNS query for google.com, your browser will not accept a certificate from evil.com as valid for google.com, whereas if you send mail to gmail.com and someone spoofs an MX record for mx.evil.com, a vaild mx.evil.com certificate will be accepted.
I don't think you should comment on articles you haven't read. Also, I suspect your knowledge of sex workers in Southeast Asia is entirely theoretical or, at best, as a client.

There are a lot of people who are not happy with their informatics jobs, especially in the UK, and I think recruiters are a significant part of the reason. As you can probably guess from the slang, the particular situation the author is describing is much worse there.
Whoa. Your one sentence completely demystified this article for me.
the other end of the process is pretty useful too - unmarshalling raw sql results into ocaml objects or records, converting foreign keys into references, etc.
My parents picked up a diesel years back after having driven gasoline only for decades.

Their first road trip to a destination we visit regularly surprised us all.

While with a gasoline car we would need at least one refueling stop each way, the diesel managed both direction, and a bit of back and forth while there, on a single tank.
Everyone seems to agree that email is broken (and yet incredibly useful and almost universal in reach).

So moving on from there, how do we fix it? Who is currently working on fixing it? What would a new protocol look like?
Classified documents published by Der Spiegel [46] indicate that NSA is passively decrypting IPsec connections at significant scale. The documents do not describe the crypt- analytic techniques used, but they do provide an overview of the attack system architecture.

Due to the Snowden leaks, we know the NSA is doing something that they haven't been able to do previously. The paper just explains, given what we know today, how this is plausible. There's nothing magical about that.
s/middle class collapsed/broadband became prevalent/
Mmm... not really. Dedicated IPs are hard to beat if you have a steady traffic of high quality and low-latency delivery is a priority (think of PagerDuty). Most legit businesses/customers have that. Most likely they're not offering dedicated IPs because they're tough to get, especially if you are a small company in email business.

The reason Mailgun and Mandrill can do this is because they belong to much larger companies with better access to IPv4 stockpiles: Rackspace and Mailchimp.

Source: I worked at Mailgun.
I love the ideea of this!

I have a question: When using because/but/however, do they apply to the hypothesis or to the premise? It would seem logical that they apply to the premise, however the count on the homepage is slightly misleading. I thought some people were "becausing" a lot to a subject, when in fact it counted the becauses on the "buts," too.

Also, the design could be improved, but it's usable as it is.

P.S: Gosh, my sentence is confusing.
With regards to HashCash, the explanations I've seen didn't persuade me (the counter arguments most often cited have been made by some researchers in some IMHO very weak papers). To me it seems that the real reason why it's not being used is that ISPs would have to allocate resources, which would make them less competitive (who wants to offer free email then pay for a lot of infrastructure, or deal with the mess explaining that users have to pay for better delivery). The CPU cost could be moved to the clients, but somehow no IMAP based mail clients seem to ever have implemented it (chicken and egg problem?), and JavaScript has not been an efficient way to do it.

Also, I guess the big ISPs have an easy enough time (in their view?) analyzing trust, which is probably a better solution in general if applicable. The problem is that it's easier to judge (newly created) internal users (accounts) than external ones (random IPs).

I would think improving the mail system would be a research topic, but perhaps not interesting enough from the point of view of researchers (would it be best done in social sciences or computer science?, and there are many real-world variables, taking time to collect and verify, and working out simulations to predict possible remedies).
Not to pay per email, but to pay per email address. If you aren't a spammer, how many email addresses do you need? I don't think asking for a registration fee akin to a domain name is unreasonable.
I completely agree the UI is pretty bad. The hidden side of it though is that anything you want to do regularly has excellent keyboard support. I don't even use the UI in blender most of the time and there's little to no friction, it's tremendously efficient. Problem is, new users have to get past the bad UI to get to that point and many never do. It's much faster to get up and running in Maya, but once you are proficient in Maya, you'll still be doing nearly everything by clicking buttons with the mouse. To me, that's the key difference.
If anyone wants to contact AgileBits, I've found that they are pretty quick at getting back to you, either by email or via the forums.
A Perspective on Information-Flow Control (2011) [pdf]
You're thinking way too small. If it works, cheap at-home testing could change all of medicine.
> suddenly Gmail was connecting to my mail server over an IPv6 interface, and I had never bothered to put the IPv6 block into the SPF record

Whoa, I think you just solved the problem I've been having with my outbound e-mail for the last two months! Thanks so much!
Only if they are growing rapidly.
As per logic of the foreign policy of russia I have not found analysis that would persuade me to abandon Kennan's view presented in his long telegram[1] (although the political structure has shifted I doubt the psychological aspects have not that much):

'Soviet power... is neither schematic nor adventunstic. It does not work by fixed plans. It does not take unnecessary risks. Impervious to logic of reason, and it is highly sensitive to logic of force.'

If there is a better author to read about understanding russia I would be glad to recieve any references.

[1] http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan....
What do you do on a laptop that it requires 10 Gbit?
They do care - otherwise they'd just buy 40s or plastic flasks of Popov.

Beer snobs just can't comprehend why anyone would prefer, say, Miller over Bud, or that it's even possible to differentiate between the two.

From our side of the fence, all craft beer enthusiasts seem to care about is disgustingly ever-higher levels of hops.
Same. I hate having to use a picky pie menu, or click buttons to do simple things like change the viewport angle.
Maybe you're not very familiar with the uncertainty principle, but continental plates and even individual birds have enough mass that the uncertainty in their position, for any reasonably large uncertainty in their momentum, is insignificant.
Not to worry. It's often hard to tell. One of the things this community is good at is figuring out the likely (in)accuracy of a story together.
The fact that you were studying Gaussian blurring in high school amazes me. Which kind of school, if I may ask? Is a standard program?
I mostly agree. But

> Costella shows that Lanczos and Bicubic create nasty grid artifacts. This is not true, he simply has a bug in his upsamplers.

The good and bad part of discussions about image processing is that it's easy to compare the results. This blog post would be better with the images using the correct implementation of the filters.

(One problem is that some times just getting the images, configuring the programs and tiding the results is more time consuming than expected. So "just add the images" may be a one week project.)
Europe would become part of Greater Russia and Australia would become part of Greater China.
The personal economic decision to buy an electric car here in Norway depends so heavily on the incentives (exemptions from luxury taxes, horsepower taxes, tolls, parking, etc.) that a lot of the good work could be undone overnight if the government decides to implement the reduction in incentives that was originally intended to happen once there were 50k electric cars on the road.
The talk was that you could make diesel out of just about anything, the classic example being old cooking oil.

That, in combo with the lower fuel consumption, was presented as a way to ween the world off oil.

Then came the whole NOx issue...
I would agree with your Blender rant if it was about Gimp. But I was OK with Blender's UI after a couple of weeks, whereas Gimp still annoys the shit out of me after ten years.
> That's a rather glib and obtuse way to put it.

Glib, yes. Obtuse? less so.

>I'm an Amazon customer. If Amazon can't reach my gmail address because Google started using some third party filtering service, what exactly would you expect me to do?

If your free email address doesn't receive mail you want, I expect you might move to a different mail service. I think that if you want anything but automated support out of a free service, you are expecting far too much. Because you still seem to think sticking with your free email provider is the only reasonable course of action, I can only assume that said free provider is meeting your needs; that the automated support is good enough and that you don't mind the odd false positive.

Sure, if you want service, you are going to have to pay a few dollars, but there are plenty of spamfiltering services that are fairly cheap that do have a real person who will fix it if you tell them you aren't getting legitimate mail.

In reality, users consider "legitimate" newsletters to be spam... spending a bunch of time digging through the "legitimate sender" settings to get the mail you want and not the "legitimate newsletters" is often so much work that users just mark the newsletters as spam, and hope their provider will figure it out. Of course, this works really badly when it comes to reputation systems, as the billing stuff and the "newsletters" often come from the same server.

(really, if you must send "newsletters" in addition to your billing, you should do them from a different mailserver and different email address.)
How does it compare? I've only seen a Sony camera (it was a high-end one, although I'm not sure if it was an A7) and I couldn't shake the "cheap" feeling of a point and shoot because of the mirrorless design, although I admit that it's completely psychological.

How do you like it?
> TechCrunch has obtained documents that show Pinterest has been forecasting $169 million in revenue this year and $2.8 billion in annual revenue by 2018.

So in three years, they'll have to grow revenues by 16.5X. These sort of outlandish growth assumptions necessary to substantiate their valuation is exhibit A as to why the a16z valuation is extremely suspect.

Of course, 16.5X growth is doable when you are starting from a low number, but $169MM ain't spit.

And all the being said, $169MM for 2015 is just a forecast, so if they miss on Q4 numbers, the 16.5X assumption can easily be 20-25X.

On the plus side, their revenues per active user target of $9.34 is relatively modest, and I think doable as FB does $4.18 per user per quarter in revenue.
> ... because it would mean that spammers would need to control the servers they use to send for longer than they do now.

This is the reason IM2000 is exciting. Spammers only survive using hit and run tactics. We might see a 99% reduction in total generated spam.
old but valid HOWTO blog post. http://blog.philippheckel.com/2010/01/28/how-to-postfix-as-m...
There is lots of rich ground here to explore, but claims like "the GPL is freer than the BSD licence", will be open to a lot of subjectivity, due to there being no clear (or even given) definition of 'freer'.

I think the biggest challenge is UI and user education (most people don't know what a fallacy is, let alone how many there are and how often they likely make them).
Thank you. That looks great.
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In wich ways is this different and superior to a fee?
The mention of the other player Pharmasecure being based in Lebanon, NH (just down the road from Gogo's alma mater Dartmouth) caught my attention. It appears the founders were also involved with Gogo near the beginning.

[1] http://thedartmouth.com/2011/10/28/pharmasecure-receives-39-...

[2] http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/winter09/html/vs_drugs.php
If that happens, then social status shifts to other fields, and you're back to square one.

Social status will always exist. Life will always be unfair.
As long as Spotify doesn't make a loss on the payout per streamed listen event and the pay-in from advertising, I don't see any problem.

Spotify has a pretty much working monetization model, they could just tell advertising to fuck off. Their free model is like classic radio, where advertisers pay without knowing if there is one listener tuned in or millions (literally).
Well, what he said is: 1) he does not like pro-marijuana lobbyists/activists ("bastards" as he calls them), 2) all of the pro-lobbyists (from his times) are Jewish, 3) he does not know why is there such a connection, 4) he provides a crappy explanation (psychiatrists? really?). Now I have no idea whether or not 2) is true (probably not), but correlations between ethnicity and lifestyle preferences can and do exist. Take Chinese approach to parenting - clearly different.

To sum up, the only thing that could possibly be offensive is either 2) or the overall tone of the fragment. Hence my question: is it because it's plain false? Or is it because such language is always xenophobic, regardless of available evidence?
>The cost to me of not hearing from Amazon is virtually zero. The cost to Amazon of not being able to communicate with all its customers that use gmail is huge. It's an Amazon problem, not a customer problem.

And... this is exactly the point. If the filtering company works for the end user, and the end-user doesn't want the mail (or at least doesn't care if it doesn't get delivered) - then the filtering company should block it.

My point here is that you don't have a fundamental right to my attention. If I'm paying someone to sort my messages for me, and they throw out a message that is important to you, but that I don't really want to see... as far as I am concerned, the filtering company has done it's job.

(obviously, if I want that email, it's another matter entirely - see my other response.)
The irony is that at least half the spam I get comes from @gmail.com addresses.
You either are not paying attention to what he wrote or, alternatively, "fully devoted" doesn't mean the same to you as it does to him (and me).

BTW: Everything is fundamentally mechanical, you should check out Norbert Wiener.
"somewhat inspired by Elm".
We are seeing a trend here.

Speaking as one who is trying to use more functional languages and starting to love Elm.
This is a lot more fun than debating which browser-based MVC framework is better. ;-)
Why do they need to be secret? If secrecy is such a large concern, why not go the TPP route and keep the available copy in a locked room under supervision?
Arduino 101 and Genuino 101
I think Google would have saved a lot of money if they rented out a dorm-like building for some employees, with cheaper rent vs. higher salary
If mail storage is the sender's responsibility, then perhaps senders should be allowed to seed their outgoing messages directly from their personal and home devices, and rely on others who have included their identity in their web-of-trust\address-book to propagate notifications of changes to their outbox, without relying on their ISP to do so.

If the sender did not have at least one personal device connected to the internet 24/7, then they can perhaps purchase storage and bandwidth from a competitive online market, similar to the seedbox market for torrents, without surrendering their online identity or address to a commercial entity.
Star Wars as a high fantasy isn't my definition, and the Hugo Award is for scientific and Fantasy fiction.

Science Fiction's classical definition is a work of fiction that uses science as a story telling device to explore ideas.

I don't want to be a gatekeeper to anything, mainly because it's just as presumptuous of me to do that as the opinions you've presented.

There are quite allot of categories in speculative fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction including Science Fantasy ,and Comic Science Fiction which is where i would put Douglas Adam's work in there.

The more finite definition of a work is really dependent on the setting, story telling device used and interpretation.

A tunnel in the sky is a very good example of works that can be classified as Science Fantasy a genre that it's author Robert Heinlein was quite instrumental in it's creation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy
OpenBSD developers: Bryan Steele
That's how it ends. Everyone dies alone.
>And, of course we attempted to identify the problem with the third party. If you read more carefully, you'll find that in my comment. Only after they insisted their classification was correct and refused to remove us from the list did we explore our legal options.

My point here is that the recipients of the email and the senders of the email have very different ideas as to what constitutes a "correct evaluation." - and in this case, it's the recipient who matters, so complaints from senders of email should be simply ignored by spam-filtering companies. Now, if the recipients can't complain, that's a problem, but it's not like people don't have a choice of email providers.
One "could" have a VPS SMTP server transporting inbound mail to a mail server at home and relay outbound mail through e.g. Amazon SES via the same vps-smtp host. But still.. this is bullshit.
This one caught me out too, Comcast Business decided to give me an IP6 block, didn't notify me, and my mail server ended up with an IPV6 address. Everything still worked (Yay IP V6 I guess) except that now Google was throwing everything away. The "quick" fix was to tell my mail server not to use IPV6 and the "longer" fix was to update the DNS records according.
Well, the purpose of types is to enable design by contract among other things.

Therefore, I am also a bit dubious about IFC. It seems to me that Data Flow Analysis is more suitable.

We are essentially hinting at the same thing I guess, but I expect some type system tie-ins. Otherwise it might become too abstract.
Ask HN: Freelancers outside US and EU. How do you find quality clients?
I'm from Tunisia and I have been a freelance developer for about 6 years now. I get clients mainly from Upwork (oDesk). My hourly rate went like this:
2010-2013 $16/hr

2013-2015 $20/hr - $24/hr (with some occasional $30/hr jobs).

My ideal hourly rate is between $30/hr to $40. But I have been struggling for more than a year to find clients with that rate without success. I have more than 5500 hours worked on Upwork and 100% job success rate and earned the Top Web Developers badge, so I'm not sure where the problem is. I also have good English communication.

I thought it may be because of the drop in quality of jobs posted on Upwork in the last couple of years so I tried other ways including AngleList, Monthly HN Freelancer posts but still no luck.

Now it seems obvious to me that the best tech jobs prefers that the developer lives in US even if the job is remote. Am I right? Any guidance or help is appreciated.

Thanks
I'm claiming that to measure the salmon population well enough to predict earthquakes, you would have to violate the uncertainty principle.
Power is probably one of the worst things in human society. Power is the ability to shift matters away from equality, from equilibriums, the ability to fuck others over for ones selfish benefits. Power is worth nothing except you use it in inherently unethical ways. It's the same everywhere, internationally, nationally or within companies. No country should have more power than the power to defend its borders. Everything else can be solved in a better way without resorting to power.
My data was hacked. Are credit monitoring services at all worthwhile?
My data was included in the recent Experian/T-Mobile breach. My entire credit application - including SSN - was compromised, apparently.

They're offering two years of free credit monitoring from ProtectMyId as compensation, but I'm curious if that's effective enough to be even worth the hassle (as opposed to checking my own credit quarterly, which I do anyway.)

Does anyone have experience with these services? At this point it's probably safe to say that most people have enough exposed data to pull of many kinds of identity theft. Should this be a standard line of defense, or are there other mitigations?
Part of the reason a company stays private is to have more control over the release of financial information. Why would a company that values privacy choose to do business with a firm (a16z) that it can't trust?
Chat services such as Slack, and social media like Twitter, are excellent ways to communicate. It's pretty simple. If you implement a request system so that both parties have to agree to let the other send messages, all of the problems are solved. There's no good reason that we need a system that allows anyone to send an arbitrary number of messages to anyone else.
It's a lost cause.

The blacklisting ugliness is one more sign email was badly designed. One more nail in the coffin.
Really? More than 99% of the junk email in my box is from "legitimate" senders who use their own mailservers. The truth of the matter is that it's already pretty easy to block the hit and run spammers. Most of the junk that gets through is sent by people with the resources to bully the spamfilters into accepting it.
Well, it doesn't apply to OP's question, which is why I didn't mention it directly, but I know for sure that most enterprise class virtualization software doesn't accelerate through to the VMs. (Yes, there is SR-IOV, but then you lose hot migration and other HA features. SolarFlare had it a while back but it no longer works)

I didn't mean to suggest that it's hard to find, just that there are a host of things that need to be in place before you'll get the expected speeds. This isn't a knock on the tech or any manufacturer, it's just that it's not mature enough to to be like 1Gbit where you plug it in an almost everything starts running at 100Mbyte/s.

Here's an example of what to expect (I have no affiliation with this thread): https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/197/860183