skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hush user here for 2y already. I've the desktop paid account and I'm very happy with it (POP+IMAP)

They seem to be more privacy oriented than popular ones.
Web UI is nice but maybe not "so nice"? (I do not use it so freq.)

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_webmail_provider...
Maintenance is minimal, it's pretty much set and forget, add a cron job to update spamassassin, I get maybe 1 piece of spam in my inbox a week.

Configuration (at least using dovecot and postfix) is easy too once you get started.
Yeah, that thingie in which you draw stuff, sprinkle them with a script or two, and with a few click you get something that can be run or embedded in a webpage. The thing HTML 5 supposedly replaced.
State of our industry, being "fan" of something or "not a big fan" of something.

You should not be a fan of a tool, but use the right tool for the job. If Scrum is the right tool, use Scrum. If Kanban is the right tool, use Kanban. If Six Sigma is the right tool, use Six Sigma. If waterfall is the right tool, use waterfall.

Second, if you can't use a tool, don't use it (I've seen companies using Scrum with excellent requirements engineering, rearchitecture/refactoring, headroom, ...)
It's a similar thing on Rackspace's email. Their spam filter never learns anything. Marking something as "Not Spam" just adds a whitelisting rule for that sender for that particular email account. You can bypass all of Rackspace's email filters simply by UTF8 encoding the from address and subject.

Spam filtering at most big providers is still abysmal.
It was a blip
They came to my university to recruit last spring. I bet whoever got that job feels real good right now.
"Sceintific method" and falsifiability are not the same. Popper's criterion does not even mention this method and for all I know this is something only people in the US learn (on the other hand, many Americans do not seem to be familiar with the concept of falsifiability).

Paleontology as a whole could not possibly be falsified but a paleontological theory could. E.g. if a paleontologist claimed that certain species lived in a certain period then discovery of a fossil for these species but dated outside this period would falsify such a claim.
My wife does. She's probably ordered from them between 10-20 times. I mentioned them to her and she uses them now and then when she realizes Amazon is overcharging for something.

Clearly she's mostly loyal to Amazon.
Yeah... His English is extremely hard to decipher (Native Brit here). I thought that the man that invented World Wide Web would write more eloquently...
Your best bet is J1. http://j1visa.state.gov/basics/, http://j1visa.state.gov/programs/summer-work-travel
Once Taunted by Steve Jobs, Companies Are Now Big Customers of Apple
No one agreed that - and it's getting exceptionally tiring the sheer amount of snarky comment space dedicated to espousing adblocker privilege.
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Excellent sum up!

What's the point of Fastmail if the servers are in the US??

The author starts his "poem" with Snowden and privacy concerns, but he ends up with exactly the same solution as Gmail.
Friends care how friends perceive their words, honest or not.
This is interesting. I always assumed that Jet was operating at a loss for a significant amount of their stock due to shipping costs.

I wonder if Walmart's more physical presence can help with this?
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If you could count the joists and studs and shingles needed for a computer project, sure you could make good estimates. But more often there's no architect drawing at all. Just some desired behaviors. "How long to build a house that will bring joy and success to the family that lives there?" You can understand when the builder hesitates to name a price, given a spec like that.
And ensuring it stays running and updated and secure and backed up. Docker isn't magic. A server instance and the associated apps still need to be maintained. And you're either trusting the creator of that Docker image or digging into every security setting anyway.
benchmark at the 4 nano second level

That should show up on your 10GHz scope, although the probe setup is a little fiddly.

Or you could just ask your 10G network card to timestamp packets for you. Only valid for packets sent back to the same card, unless you go to heroic lengths to synchronise between systems.

(The exchange issue is called "counterparty risk", and it's the one area Bitcoin advocates tend to handwave away with reputation systems)
> Card had to fend off scathing criticism from his own church (and others')

This actually supports my hunch that Card has been pressured to make a public pronouncement of homophobic values, since the messages in the Ender series are largely subversive and pacifistic.

I'm not too familiar with the Book of Mormon, so any detail you care to share about the allegory would be appreciated.
It's more like Visual Studio than Sublime Text.
The problem is communities.
"This change means that people will be prohibited from using 3D printing and other maker technologies to manufacture such objects, and that for a full century."

Undermining the premise of an argument in the first paragraph with a complete mistruth doesn't bode well for the ground it's built on.

To say that this change will prevent makers from using 3D printing to produce furniture is significantly more absurd than the idea of protecting makers' own designs from unscrupulous exploitation by manufacturers.
It's just the most insignificant example of how being even slightly outside the local cultural norms can grate on your psyche. If I can get irritated at how people around here are football obsessed, anything more significant must have a greater impact.

So if people around here are generally hostile towards homosexuality, a gay person must feel worse than I do when people start talking about specific players on specific teams and upcoming scheduled games and the keystone play of some past game and just shut up, shut up, will you please shut the hell up about football for once?!

It makes me wonder how people even further from the norm than myself can even find the strength to get up out of bed in the morning, or, once risen, get through the entire day without destroying some ignorant blatherer with a beam of pure rage exploding from their foreheads.

It's not just about being around people who are different, but having enough different people around you that you can't just assume everyone else is like you. If you don't know that someone is Muslim, and make a derogatory comment about Muslims in front of them, that person might not feel secure enough socially to confront you about it. So they keep their religion secret from you, and you might continue crapping on something important to them, without anyone ever telling you that you shouldn't do that.

If, on the other hand, you live in a city where anybody could be anything, you are more likely to encounter situations where you are the minority in some way, and therefore will probably be more sensitive to how it feels when a local majority tramples over your opinions.

You just have to realize that other people might not share your opinions, interests, and values, and if yours are part of the local majority, other people might just be humoring you to fit in better, or irritated at the constant reminders that they are not part of the dominant tribe.
Are you trolling? The United States and most countries, AFAIK, have laws protecting endangered species.
Not really true. I've been running my own email server for years, and it's actually really easy. After the initial setup, I don't think I've ever had and email end up non-delivered.
Why Tokyo Is the Land of Rising Home Construction but Not Prices
> rigorous schooling and sacrifice of youth required to become a physician

Which wouldn't be such a barrier to entry if medicine were an undergraduate degree (i.e. an MBBS) as in the rest of the world, instead of a graduate one, and residents and fellows were paid market wages instead of government-depressed ones. Creating skilled and knowledgeable doctors does not require stacking a 4 year degree on top of another 4 year degree--a single 5 or 6 year program should be enough.
When has broadband been a free market? Its a monopoly situation for fibre. In the areas where small companies can get in we have pretty fast broadband[1], but regulations limit their service area. Established providers are able to lock out expanding companies with little effort. We don't need the subsidies. We need the regulators to get off their butts and let in the competition.

1) BEK does 200M fibre connections with no data cap in rural North Dakota. Plenty of these companies exist and are profitable.
I'm ignorant as well. I agree it would increase prices for some desirable locations - but also, increase freedom of choice of where to work and live. Hard to guarantee, but the latter seems more significant-ish to me.
It's not that small if you think of all the property they own around the world. In San Francisco we have quite a few old churches that are basically shuttered.

I'd love to see these sold. Their blemishes on a city that could use them for things like housing for our homeless/low income issues.
I get why Walmart would buy them, but it seems to me they could have waited 6-12 months and bought the company for $300m. There's just no way they were showing growth. The only thing that makes sense is that Jet would have been damaged goods in 12 months and this was the only option for Walmart to build a millennial friendly competitor to Amazon.
Complete shot into the blue, but could nix [0] provide something that you need?

[0] https://nixos.org/nix/
Because the habitat can be a great place to live. With all the comfort we are used to have here on Earth, but all the resources collectable at space.

And if they are discriminatory, you gather an asteroid and build another one. More than 99% of the difficulty is gone just by the fact that you are not on a planet's surface.

We are, of course, far from being able to build such things.
> That, and all the complications that running your own email server brings with it. If you read the article, the author explains it very well.

I have to disagree, it sounds like he just had a crappy provider, avoiding blacklists is pretty much just a matter of having your RDNS, SPF and domainkeys configured properly in my experience. Pretty trivial stuff, really.
I get far less spam at fastmail than I did at gmail.
I think you can interpret "and points west" as "and beyond."

I think it's based on the expression "all points west." Can't find a good source at the moment. "Points" is used as a plural noun there, not a verb. So, I think the expression "all points west" means "all locations to the west," and used metaphorically here to mean "all things beyond."
It can quite difficult to get a large diesel generator permit for a data center in the Atlanta area due in part to automotive emissions but also (ironically) the high greenhouse gas emissions caused by Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Mind you, I'm not saying they don't have one, just that it can be difficult to get -- there can also be limits on the number of hours you can run them.
The US National Map has better, more recent topos. These GeoPDFs allow turning on/off layers (e.g., satellite image, PLSS grid lines, etc). You can also download historic topos.

http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/
Yup, though for me, I've only seen this happen with two different work google apps/gmail accounts, not my personal account. In one case, it caused a bit of a problem!
Contracts are just structured assertions, they're very similar.
Sounds like your DR plan or your network don't require power. Care to share?
Yap, I noticed a few valid messages there recently. Marked them as "Not Spam" but it was a bit worrying.
GMail once ate (bypassed spam and instantly deleted it, silently) an email filled with travel itinerary for an interview, causing me to miss the flight booked for me and the company I was interviewing with to have to book a second one (~$1k). If you find this hard to believe, go check your spam folder and see how many emails you have. Do you think you're really only getting ~1 spam message a day? This is the dark side of Google's spam filtering.
Tokyo may have found the solution to soaring housing costs
You are right.

I took a quick look at the cap table on CrunchBase and there is lots of smart money in it. It is definitely a win for the investors but how much of a win for common share holders is up to how hard the CEO fights for them.
But I thought Bitfinex was a global exchange... Does an exchange just need to have a few US customers to face US lawsuits?
Why shouldn't it be?
The population growth rate is steadily declining. The last hundred years, is not going to be reflective of the next hundred. http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#growthrate As the bigger countries like India get more and more industrialized, they will level off too.
However, there isn't any counterparty risk, other than if you buy BTC for USD, and the person on the other end charges back the bank transfer

(Sell BTC for real money, surely?)

So there isn't any counterparty risk apart from when it's most critical, actually cashing out?
I had a similar issue with FastMail - if I remember correctly, it needs 200 messages to be moved from inbox to junk and 200 moved from junk to inbox before the personalised filter kicks in.
Small time bureaucrat throttling enterprising scientists.
Transactional NTFS is deprecated [0], and having a transactional Registry buys you very little.

[0]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh8...
Scrum definitely sucks, but it sucks less than most of the other options.

Kind of like democracy.

If you don't like meetings, planning, or giving estimates, you probably don't like working on software for a living, because I simply don't know how to build software without meeting with other people, coming up with an idea, and telling the people giving me money when I hope to be done.
Actually I have a huge issue with Gmail spam filters being over aggressive. Replies to my own emails often find their way to my spam box. I check the spam folder daily and notice at least 5-10 emails that are not spam getting sucked in. Even if I mark them Not Spam, the next day an email from the same address will end up right back there.
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The spam threshold is adjustable: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/stopspam.html#settings

It also supports training a filter on your specific email/spam patterns which works very well in my experience.
updated - they did pretty well until the later Cat series of OSes.
This looks like a comment surprisingly devoid of intellectual curiosity. Leaving all matter of ethics aside, how could anyone be for destroying possibly the only alien life we might discover in our lifetimes in search for resources? Earth has plenty of resources to support mankind; we just need to manage them better.

I'm sorry, but your comment just reeks of arrogance.
If you knew what the problem was before the outage happened, and didn't consciously put the effort to prevent it, then oh well, that's professional negligence. Maybe not on you because you may not have the decision power to apply large-scale changes, but definitely somebody within the company. And if you didn't know what caused the outage, and you conducted some type of investigation to get at the heart of the problem, then you need a postmortem.

That's one of the main goals of a postmortem: document what the cause of the problem was, not just for you, but for all interested parties. If some human caused the issue, you need to document what happened and what should be done to prevent it from re-occurring. And fix it, of course.
however my question is, how do they decide a piece of furniture does a task so much different and better than another that is warrants protection? There is just too much ambiguity in this interpretation. worse the whole is motivated by national protectionism and not trying to protect designers etc.

how about designers adopting to the new technology and selling personal use models that will work with standardized printers. The allure of most furniture is in the craftsmanship and I seriously doubt any 3d printer will be more that the quality of deck furniture and cheap deck furniture. Its like having your own IKEA furniture printer, minus the cushions and such.

whats next, limiting utensils and dinnerware? Chairs are generic, tables are too, your not going to put a designer out of business with your 3d printed chair.
Think auction rather than static supply/demand curves. If we both used to have $500/month for shelter, and our bids settle into some stable relationship based on personal preferences, if UBI comes in and now we both have $1000/month for shelter, we can now outbid someone else who stubbornly insists that UBI shouldn't change the price. The stubborn person can either drop their stubborness and bid higher, or see themselves outbid and be forced to take something they prefer less now. The stable outcome is that the money goes to the landowners in this incredibly limited and isolated model, which I am using only to illustrate the point in a simple way.

In a less simple way, there are many people, including me, who rather believe that making it easy to get money for college is the root cause of colleges getting more expensive. Having been back to my own alma mater about a year ago and seeing the unbelievably glorious meal hall they have now, which is more accurately described as a meal mall, it is abundantly clear that they have more money than they know what to do with and are spending wildly on things that have little to do with education. They're caught in their own trap; since the money is free to the students (at least for now), the university is forced to compete to be ever nicer themselves. Nobody has the power to decide to just go to a cheaper university because they'll get outcompeted by people anomalously flush with "free money". So college prices spiral ever upwards and the market mechanisms can't do much about it, because we broke the market by giving everybody "free" money, or more accurately, money whose costs were deferred beyond most people's ability to think about the future.

One of the reasons I stand against UBI is that the same thing will happen. The UBI will come out, but time doesn't freeze. The UBI will then affect the economy, and people won't quite get what they wanted out it as capital owners figure out how to extract the extra funds. And the politicians will be falling over themselves to be the ones who get the credit for raising it; who would ever be re-elected who lowers the UBI? UBI takes a "free benefit" death spiral we're arguably already on and throws it into high gear, and I can't see how we'd ever escape from it short of outright collapse. Nobody will ever vote against the free money. It creates a society where the short-term incentives are always in favor of more free money, even as the long-term looms ever more obviously in everybody's face, which would actually just make the short term "get what I can while the getting's good" problem even worse. It's a catastrophically broken way to set up incentives in a society.
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Cute, fuzzy endangered species anyway.
Do you know of one? I've been looking. For 25 years.
They're not just buying a pile of code. They're also buying an energized and engaged team that they hope will be able to modernize Walmart's ecommerce systems. They wouldn't have gotten that if they had purchased a broken failure of a company somewhere down the road.
Definitely! Also, Stroopwafels
Updated is usually barely a problem, there hasn't been a serious postfix vulnerability since 2011 or a dovecot one since 2013 (and even the 2013 one wouldn't necessarily affect you as an individual user). One update every 3-5 years is not exactly something I'd call a problem. I don't update unless there's a major vulnerability and it's one I'm affected by.

Rebuilding your docker when you hear about that is not exactly something I'd consider a big deal, but I guess if 2 minutes work every 3 years is worth giving away your privacy, then you do that.

Backup is a set and forget cron job (tarsnap mail dir), so I don't see how that's an issue.
Further more, there are a large amount of people who use a teletekst app on their phone and their twitter account has almost 120k followers
Nothing can substitue inbox.google.com for me so far.
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> I don't think ransomware to unlock your thermostat is too lucrative.

Agreed. Its just cheaper to rip it off the wall and return it, or buy a new one. Its literally five wires and anyone who knows the basics of home repair can replace a thermostat.

I think the larger issue, at least to me, is that all these IoT devices are sensor devices. Does this thing ship with a SoC that also has a mic for voice commands? Or a wifi chip that can now start sniffing my data? Can someone now eavesdrop on you? This kind of thing can have serious repercussions for targeted individuals. Think blackmail, nation state snooping, corporate espionage, etc. If you can get root on an IoT device, you're definitely sniffing out data you shouldn't be.
Heads up that NSIS 2.1 has a major security hole. It will use fake Windows DLLs within the same directory instead of the ones in the Windows and System directories. This wouldn't be that big of a deal except that Google Chrome is completely insecure in terms of downloads and would let any page automatically download EXE files and DLL files to the associated download directory without user interaction. The same download directory your installer would likely run from if you distribute online.

Chrome has had the insecure behavior for years. Not sure if it does currently.
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I've been thinking about moving to FastMail for quite some time now for pretty much the same reasons you mentioned.

What still keeps from switching though is that I rely on services like SaneBox and Unroll.me for organising my email. Unfortunately, the last time I looked only GMail is properly supported by these services and there doesn't seem to be a vendor-independent alternative either.

Does anyone here use services like SaneBox with FastMail?
I would add to the list;

* If you have transactions, keep your transactions to a single machine/instance/db as much as possible. Muti-machine or software transactions are the LAST solution you should try.

* Pay attention to payload sizes. Make sure you dont come close to saturating the network. Which leads to weird "app is slow" problems.

* Design for testability and diagnosability of production systems. If this is java, use JMX extensions EVERYWHERE for EVERYTHING.

* Time (and timing) is your enemy. Make it your friend.

EDIT: Side note. IMO, JMX extensions are one of the most under-appreciated things that java and jvm devs have but keep forgetting about but its so powerful.
In the case of the US even 1 big client is enough