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Can we setup a list of servers that definitely support SMTP STARTTLS. Don't accept a plain text connection with them.
Money is just a proxy for power, and there has literally never been a society where it is easier for the powerless to become powerful than it is for the powerful to accrue more power. The "best" you can do to prevent the powerful from accruing power is consolidate all meaningful power as tightly as possible, which history teaches us is a recipe for misery.
Earth Class Mail filed for bankruptcy recently

http://www.geekwire.com/2015/heavily-funded-earth-class-mail...

Edit:
They're also who I thought this was about. I get Startup.com and Start-up Junkies mixed up. Start-up Junkies followed Earth Class Mail, and was also pretty interesting.
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To my knowledge I am the sole user of my QuickLedger project -- so I'd be very interested to hear how it works for another's use case. Any feedback would be great! If you fork I'd like to know so I can see what someone does with it.
First, you need to learn the skills and work of managing a software team. I just wrote about it here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/real-work-management-marcus-b...

Second, the best thing you can do for your career is the hard work of turning your team of "mediocre programmers with broken culture" into something great. It's hard work, but it can be done, I promise. I write more about this as well at..

http://marcusblankenship.com/become-a-great-manager/

Not trying to toot my own horn here, but it is completely achievable.
It is amplification if you allow the packets through transparently because all the hosts behind your firewall will respond if you send an echo request to the broadcast address.

So you're going to have to do a little bit more configuration than just allow a maximum packet size if you're going to allow ICMP to transit at all you should also limit the allowed set of addresses (you should do that regardless, but echo can be used for amplification requests by virtue of the broadcast feature of the IP protocol). Hence the 'one step away'.

This was known as the 'smurf' attack. Fortunately this is now mostly a thing of the past. But poking holes in your firewall for ICMP is a delicate affair.
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David Graeber's Debt, The First 5,000 Years ideas on this can be summarized that around 1500 or so, money gained autonomy from the leviathan. Where it once mattered that you could use money to get things and use things to get money, but when money is used only to get money, things go berserk.

The result was someone like Cortez could conquer Mexico, gathering all the gold there was to be had, even enslaving thousands to work in mines, murdering thousands more by working them to death, and still be completely broke. Cortez was capitalized at a rate point where he could never break even.
That is pretty cool. Shows some of the versatility of Objective-C. I was also surprised that a low level API like Metal also uses Objective-C.
http://thewhineseller.com/2012/03/usps-adds-needed-features-...

I remember seeing this on the USPS website a while back, but I haven't tried it myself yet.
Are they planning to leverage the Google Closure compiler the way Clojurescript does? Un-optimized Clojurescript is also huge until it runs through Closure compilation.
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It's not very clever to just post a picture, as if that makes a very compelling argument for whatever you presumably are trying to make. It's nice that less people are living off the equivalent of $1.25 a day, but according to this:

http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-sta...

50% of the world's population live off the equivalent of $2.50 a day. I guess we can cheer that 30% of the world's inhabitants have doubled their income and call it a day.
This is an interesting book. It gives a different angle on the ideia in Yanis Varoufakis' book The Global Minotaur which is that money has to circulate in order for the economy to function with stability. You just can't let it pile up too much in one place.
On a related note:

The majority of Beijingers used to live in courtyards flanked by houses by four sides: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siheyuan

Growing up in one, you get to know all of your neighbors really well since you see each other every day. My mom who grew up in a one, still knows all of her childhood friends and they have regular reunions.

Wish they were more communal spaces like this today where you're bound to regularly run into and interact with your neighbors.
I would be curious to know what is the philosophical definition for _absolute poverty_.

Are we doing the best we can for the billions, definitely not. Are we doing the least we could, arguably not.
Interesting to read that the number of bank branches is actually increasing in New York. In the UK the opposite is happening as more and more consumers are doing their banking online: "the UK has lost a quarter of its retail bank branches over the past ten years" (650 estimated closures in 2015, 500 in 2014 and 222 in 2013) [0]. Many of the closed banks are turned into bars, see [1] for some nice examples.

[0] http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=28007

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/29801667/see-the-pubs-...
I found the versions a bigger problem.

I install something --save and get "^1.0.0" into my package.json, which resolves to 1.0.0

Someone installs my stuff and on her machine it resolves to 1.0.3 and nothing works anymore, even if she cloned an exact copy of my repository etc.

Next step is to lock down all versions in my package.json, so all wildcards are gone.

But the packages I depend on still have wildcards and can break happily.

This happens far too often for my taste and can (as far as I know) only be solved with third party software.
profit != success of a company. some of the best companies in the world run a deficit and its a smart thing to do. https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/why-amazon-isn-t-a-fucking.... so the fact that they have no profit means nothing.
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Americans paid 19 billion in inheritance taxes in 2014.
How would you phrase it?
Isn't a possible solution to this problem to make it easier and cheaper for others to take part in others success.

Thus more companies/people will have a chance at being successful and more people will profit from their success.
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"SF specializes in creating companies that are essentially 'New York as a Service' bc its infrastructure sucks."

I've also heard the "mom" variation. I've never heard "mom" equated with "New York" but it is insightful in its own strange way.
I should have read that thread first; it appears the answer to my question is "yes".
No, I believe the DCE implementation (still in the works) is specific to the Elm compiler, as opposed to an implementation which organizes the source in such a way as to leverage Google's Closure compiler.
You can solve it with the npm shrinkwrap workflow mentioned in the article. It takes somewhat more effort, but locks down the full dependency tree.

People have historically experienced a lot of issues with shrinkwrap in older versions of npm; I'm optimistic that npm 3 solves a lot of them.
Not to mention Capital itself. Whether or not you agree with it, and its historiography is mostly proved bunk by now, its analysis has value. The linked article is kind of boring because it explicitly does not analyze the structural conditions of capitalism which make the phenomena it criticizes inevitable. You can't fight these trends within the framework of capitalism.
I have a hard time believing any conclusion based on the premise that banks listen to their customers (depositors), given a long-standing behavior of anti-customer behavior like a plethora of fees, minimum deposit, and in general, sagging interest rates.
The USPS can alert you when you have new mail in your PO Box. You just have to go to your post office to get it set up.
No software, just cost overall.

The cheapest way to buy into Mac is a Mini, but even the "top" $999 one has no SSD, only 8GB of RAM, and a older i5. Compare that with a $500 PC, you can get a legitimately high end developer machine including [basic] monitors and the whole works for that.

Then you need to buy Parallels at $99/year and a bunch of Mac/Apple specific accessories which add up fast. This is particularly important since Bootcamp is garbage, Parallels is the only good way to run Windows or Linux side by side (which in our multi-device world is important).

I could likely even afford to spend $1K on a Mac. I just don't feel like if I did so I'd wind up with a good developer machine that will last me three or four years. Seems like $2400 is about the minimum buy-in.
This would make `git diff` an absolute nightmare.
Besides the content of the article, one of the things I found interesting was that this site has paywalled the comment section, which is something I have not seen before.
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Just was in a bank in a nice neighborhood in Indianapolis. Asked the banker how it stayed open with little traffic. His answer is that the branch was an asset it could be leveraged to allow the bank to loan more money.
I don't think it's necessarily meant to clarify. I think it's an exercise in constrained writing.
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Until we actually see punishment happen, and happen to the level where this behavior would be discouraged in the future, you cannot say that it is a non-issue.
They tried to do this deliberately in the early 20th century, incentivise college professors to breed and so on. Events transpired to make eugenics programmes unacceptable however.
No, the new term is "Cockroach" - https://medium.com/@caterina/the-age-of-the-cockroach-5a720d...
Who says we're calling it a day? The rate at which capitalism is pulling people out of poverty is accelerating not stopping.
(bundling node_modules into git is definitely not an option)
No

Capitalism's been 'hacked' and that's why you have consumerism and unsustainability.

The free-market is the most effective way to distribute resources in an environment, that's it. All problems come from central planning.
Before going with SDL2, I'd highly suggest evaluating it compared to GLFW.
I guess I wonder though... Physical locations are pretty large expenses so do New Yorkers pay more for their banking services per capita than other bank customers to support this psychological need to see their bank everywhere or is this psychological want just something being underwritten by the rest of the bank customers.
re: Only innocence can surmount them ... when we find ourselves able to listen to things, totally and intensely absorbed in child play. — Grothendieck

Apropos is something another Frenchman once said:

"Talent is long patience, and originality an effort of will and of intense observation." — Flaubert
Good to see more people working on editors for Lisp, but I don't really see this as an improvement over the (immaculate, IMO) Paredit for Emacs.
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If you use C++ instead of Objective-C or Swift for iOS/OS X development then it is just because you refuse to learn something new. The only use for C++ on iOS/OS X would be algorithm heavy code. C++ is a poor language for dealing with GUI or higher level concepts in an app.

Compare the elegance of stuff like Core Data, bindings, target-action, undo framework, predicate filter using Objective-C with how kludgy stuff like that ends up in C++.

I know because I have tried implementing similar stuff in C++. It is possible but it looks like shit.
Where has your first claim been proven?
If you are in to this sort of thing, my wife (who carves a pretty spoon herself) maintains a list of links to carvers, tool-makers, and the like at http://jarofwood.com/spoon-links/.
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Much investment is in private equity anyway, so the market should be fine and dandy
I really hope this isn't just a 'plausible enough' cover for someone to take advantage of the absence of the big two in an auction, sit on it for 5 years and then sell on in a hopefully (to them) different regulatory environment stating that they really need the investment and weight of an existing player to use the spectrum properly.

They aren't perfect by any means but I'd much rather see DISH or t-mobile get this for reasonable pricing with the proviso that roll out happens in x amount of time.
In comparison to what? And exactly what income-levels paid what percentage of that? Did the poor & middle class paid 98% of of that? Did the rich & powerful use all kinds of crazy tax-loop-holes to avoid paying trillions? Cost of living/retirement in what parts of America?....maybe 19 billion is a drop in the ocean, maybe not.

19 billion tells me nothing.
Oh man KIT Digital was one of the stranger companies I've run into over the years. They were in the process of buying everything they could get their hands on from Broadcast streaming to social games. Had some initial conversations about them acquiring my small dev shop at the time (we were too small for it to make sense), then they became a client. Even at that point as an outsider the whole thing seemed a little off.

At one point I was supposed to meet Kaleil at CES and our plans kept falling through. Finally as I was waiting for my plane back to SF I got a call from his admin asking if I wanted to join him at his table for the AVN awards that night (the CES dates always butt up against the AVN (porn) awards). I ended up passing....
Publish it, and post the URL! I want to read it!
Sure, but I bet you there weren't any articles in 1993 about a bubble that ultimately burst in 2000. The insanity with the current argument for a bubble is that we have people who have been screaming "bubble!" since 2006, starting with the myspace and youtube acquisitions. At some point predicting that there is a bubble loses meaning if the prediction doesn't have a time constraint(ultimately, all companies and people die.)
Author (and Blabr dev) here. I have no answer--other than it seems like a really good idea, now that you've said it.

The plotting widget I used is based on flot [0]. It looks like flot can draw simple shapes ([1], see "markings"). I'll look into improving the widget--thanks for the idea.

[0] http://www.flotcharts.org/

[1] https://github.com/flot/flot/blob/master/API.md
They still owe me a new left eardrum. Paradiso, Amsterdam, long long long ago, I fixed one of the cables running from the stage to the sound pit (soldering is a handy skill, re-splicing a 20 conductor multi cable under a stage after someone cut it by wheeling a trolley over it is no fun) and got to stay for free afterwards.
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It means exactly what it sounds like: the author tried to attack the generator, failed, and thus concluded that it must be a Very Hard Problem.

Note that the field of pseudorandom number generation for non-cryptographic purposes is much less rigorous than cryptography. Typically, for a new generator to be accepted as "OK" all it needs to do is pass a number of fixed statistical tests, usually one of the TestU01 batteries [1]. This is usually the only falsifiable claim you get, and if you're familiar with diffusion and how to achieve it this is easy to work out. Other falsifiable claims include equidistribution, but that is not a very useful guarantee---simply incrementing by 1 will achieve that. The notion of indistinguishability against computationally-bounded adversaries does not exist. All of this contributes to this being a field where crackpottery abounds, and is hard to distinguish good from bad.

For example, here's a generator that uses 1/4 of an AES round per output word, and that passes the Crush battery of statistical tests (which uses ~2^35 samples). Is it a good generator? I would not bet on it.

#include <stdint.h>
#include <immintrin.h>

struct S {
static const unsigned kAesRounds = 1;
union {
uint32_t state_[4 * 4];
__m128i words_[4];
} u_;
unsigned counter_;
const __m128i key_;

S(uint64_t seed)
: u_{{0}}, key_{_mm_set_epi64x(seed, -seed)}, counter_{0} {
for(unsigned i = 0; i < 16; ++i) (void)next();
}

uint32_t next() {
const uint32_t output = u_.state_[counter_];
__m128i t = u_.words_[counter_ & 3];
counter_ = (counter_ + 1) & 15;
for(unsigned i = 0; i < kAesRounds; ++i)
t = _mm_aesenc_si128(t, key_);
u_.words_[counter_ & 3] = t;
return output;
}
};

[1] http://simul.iro.umontreal.ca/testu01/tu01.html
Just what I need, more phone notifications.
Yes and no. I really want the service as part of my local post office.

I wish I could keep my current PO Box that I've had for years but still have some of these features.

It would be awesome if the Post Office could:

A) Let me know mail has arrived, and from whom.

B) Mail be a box full of my mail once a month to my physical address. That way I can either drive in and get it, if it's urgent, or just wait for the box.
So guys I wrote a clone of Slackin [0]. Slackin is written in node.js. I don't know JS and it was very difficult for me to customize anything, like adding some related links to landing page, protecting the page with captcha etc. Plus slackin doesn't work if JS is disabled in browser. So I rolled down my own version written using Flask. This is my first Flask app and I really appreciate any feedback/PR. Thanks!

[0] - https://github.com/rauchg/slackin
Though this paper is from 2010. it is interesting because of the recent set of commits. http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1511.0/01898.html
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1511.0/01980.html

I find it similar to rumpkernel(based on netbsd), but based on linux, so drivers are available for more devices. Wondering if this would allow me to use nvidia CUDA libraries in smartos/illumos.
Your first $5.3 million is exempt from inheritance tax when you die.
Not if you're using that style of bracing already. I'm guessing you have a different style convention?
This is the actual link
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/illinois...
>To this day I have not found a tool that works as well as Paredit for editing and navigating s-expressions.

https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens

Basically paredit on steroids.
It bothers me that they took a perfectly good Aphex Twin song and threw yelling on top of it.
This is very interesting. I was very surprised that Tensorflow did not use a central parameter server, and this looks like a good foundational parameter server to build something like DistBelief on top of from Microsoft. I wonder if they have a Deep Learning module that they will open source eventually. Microsoft has a few tricks they used in some of their recent papers and it would be interesting to see them in a production quality system.
The latest investment/liquidity pref is usually satisfied first.
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That's not a valid comparison. I bought your software with the expectation that it would continue to work, even if I wasn't continuing to pay you.
Ask HN: Adding a play button to any linked music file
Is there a Chrome extension, or app, or bookmarklet that will allow to place a play button to any linked music file? Trying to play music stored on Amazon Cloud Drive.
I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
History tends to support your conclusion, but most of the time high concentration of wealth leads to social instability and then (bloody) revolt, overthrow of whichever 1% runs the show at the time. Then the (+/- 70-100 year) cycle starts again. It seems it's best to be born about 10-20 years after each of these crises (see Baby Boomers). It's worst to be born just before / during such societal quakes and unfortunately, we seem to be on the cusp of a new one now. I would add that that before the change occurs, there is inevitably a long period of oppression first as the privileged try to defend their positions, with increasing amounts of suppressive behaviour. We see that already with the surveillance society in which anybody who might challenge the current powers will be branded a terrorist, and even in the economic policy of QE which has the main effect of supporting the financial interests of the wealthy incumbents.
Except the US is rolling in wealth and has real class mobility. Countries with top-level hoarding like many in South America countries or oligarchies like Russia are better examples.

I know HN is US-centric and all its criticisms centered on the US, but its asinine to use the US as an example of "feudalism" when we're seeing much, much worse elswhere. With a 5.5% unemployment rate and median household income of $55k, there's a lot of opportunity.

France, and other Euro states, has twice the unemployment rate and almost half the household income. Yet it always gets a free pass in these discussions.

In Russia 111 people control 19 percent of all wealth. This is a country with a $1.5T GDP and 145m people! One fifth of it controlled by a mere 111 men? Yes somehow Russia also gets a free pass during these discussions. Hell, in Brazil the bottom 10% of the population lives on about $1 a day and the top 10% owns almost half of the wealth!

Yeah, a lot of countries have fallen into near feudalism, but the US isn't one of them. At least its not the best example for breathless exposes of wealth inequility.
Well, roughly 2.6 million Americans died in 2014. I've read that 1 in 500 estates gets taxed so that's about 5200 estates.

19 billion / 5200 = an mean of ~3.65 million per taxed estate. That's all I know off the top of my head.

In general I've found the trope of "the rich don't pay taxes because of their fancy lawyers and accountants" generally turns out to be false.
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Uh... Why do we need a notification middle man???
Wow, this is a fantastically documented and executed idea. I'm not enough of a Lisper to have an opinion on the content (though it certainly seems cool), but the presentation is top notch.
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mobile and mobile apps are just an access point. You still have to build something people want. the fact you have an app buys you nothing itself (though maybe it used to back in the early days of the app store).
Yup. The only debt we have is a rotating LOC for physical inventory (we ship hard goods) of which we have 2x in cash on hand, but obviously debt service of inventory is more efficient than cash service of inventory.

I read HN and other sites and I am just in shock of the fact people are creating... basically nothing sustainable and hoping it will somehow magically become sustainable? It boggles the mind.
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Nobody gives a shit that it's a "side project". They paid good money to you for it. If it really was half baked, then why the fuck are you taking money for it in the first place.

"I'm not against letting your users know that you're shutting down with a good amount of time before. What I'm against is that someone saying (the linked blogpost for example) that I HAVE TO maintain my side project because someone decided to depend on it."

No. It stopped being a side project, and became a real project the second you started taking money for it.
I think nugget's point wasn't about eugenics so much as discouraging the concentration of wealth in specific groups.
Am I the only one looking at a blank page?
to prevent you from installing tons of individual apps? the only reason I can think off.. having said that, I don't use anything facebook related and don't like notifications that much.. I've overcame the fear of missing out years ago. I consume news when I want.