skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not use that transfer as an excuse to delete old email? I try to limit my accounts to hundreds of MBs, despite having far more capacity. Reduce the weight you carry around rather than hire a bigger backpack.
What is reliable email worth to you though? $40/yr is a pittance for something I use every day...the analysis is harder when you have more data though, like you say.
I used wordpress for a couple of years, It's good for a general purpose blog, but as jalami said I like CLI than web interface and it's too much hassle maintaining WordPress( Regular updates and security patches, database backups and sync to dropbox or s3 )
What about the family or business plans? They seem to have custom domain even at the lite option.

https://www.fastmail.com/signup/family.html
> A friend of mine is a big advocate of space habitats. Apparently they are far superior to Mars...

Interesting...did he work at NASA working with real space habitats? I was a summer hire at NASA many moons ago in the medical/habitat programs and there sure wasn't much their that looked superior to anything.
If they don't want your reward is it really good policy?
Its amusing that you think "Europe" is one single culture. Do you really think a Finnish person and a French person are that much alike? Or even a Greek and an Italian? Or that the US is a monoculture. Does a rural Texan have a lot in common with a Manhattanite? Or a Chicagoan with a Peorian?

I think HN loves anti-US anecdotes, but this is weak sauce even by our low standards.
> If its less than 2-3 a week, I'd probably just opt to wait until the season is over.

Apparently it's going to be twice per month
Thank you for the link. I suspect we agree more than we disagree. It's good to be reminded that we can only falsify theories, not prove them. It's also good to check assumptions from time to time - your example of slavery is very apt.

I am not, however, going to modify the way I speak and write to emphasize that I am speaking my own opinions, with my own assumptions. That should be obvious.
> One interesting factoid that the new york times did not mention is that while it was common for emperors to resign before the meiji restoration

It's right there in the article, you might have missed it (or it was added after you read it): “Historically, it was extremely common for emperors to abdicate,” said Takeshi Hara, an authority on the imperial family at the Open University of Japan. More than half of Japan’s monarchs have vacated the throne, often for quiet retirement at Buddhist monasteries. Only in the 19th century, when Japan’s leaders created the cult of emperor worship, did quitting become impossible.
There is no reason you can't make a 3d map, by tracing the contour lines...
And the 'Mill' design just uses a single pointer into a ring buffer? Cool.
From 100x to 1250x

container (40’) shaker
payload: 27,600 kg 100g
cost: 1000$ to 5000$ 2$ to 5%
cost/kg: 0.04$ to 0.18$/kg $20/kg to $50/kg
> it's succinct

This is what I liked the best back when I lived in Sweden. It was basically Twitter for news. Also back then news web sites just collapsed when there was a breaking store so that was another plus.
It's funny how everyone was saying that Walmart would never pay $3B https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12218654
I am a big fan of Agility, mostly because it is simple to understand, thus relatively simple to apply (provided that the workplace is open-minded enough). I really like the "Keep It Super Simple" mojo of the Agile Manifesto.
Expecting to bring some Agility by Applying Scrum to the letter is in my humble opinion a foolish endeavor, but using scrum as an inspiration to improve the workflow works. Little by little, it can eventually lead to 100% Scrum, but Scrum is not a goal, it is a tool.
Has anybody used HushMail [0] or ProtonMail [1]? How does it stand against both free services like GMail/Yahoo or paid ones like FastMail?

[0] https://www.hushmail.com/

[1] https://protonmail.com/
> ... I'm not sure if I can trust them.

Might I suggest looking into who it is at M-Tier that's producing these packages? It's not just some random third-party.

FWIW, the openup tool makes things extremely easy and it certainly doesn't "involves lots of time". Run "openup -c" from a cronjob and, when you get an e-mail saying there are updates available, log in and run "openup". Kick off a reboot if the kernel/base was updated and you're good.

I run several OpenBSD boxes in production. Don't let this be what stops you.
Map: The Most Common* Job in Every State
He's saying that eventually when your feature surfaces as a UI the customer may not like it.

To which I have 2 responses:

1. not all features need a UI to be useful

2. this also demonstrates the infantilising nature of scrum where no developers can be trusted to think deeply, talk to stakeholders and otherwise do the right thing in a fully-rounded way but must just follow the exact instructions expressed
I've recently came across the same problem, and decided to go with runbox.com. Servers are located in Norway, and I think they have reasonable pricing.
Because I have interests other than running my own email server. I am capable of running my own email server. I'm also capable of taking my own garbage to the dump every week. I'm capable of removing my own appendix if that is required (under self administered local anesthesia). I hire those things done because I have better things to do with my time. I got tired of keeping up with the latest anti-spam best practices. I can pay someone $15/month to make the weekly trip to the local dump saving me an hour every week (I believe the dump charges a dumping fee as well which makes the math more in my favor). I can pay someone else to go to medical school thus saving me the time it takes. I would rather play with my kids, and if I can ever get them to sleep I have plenty of other things I enjoy doing.

FastMail is a cheap and easy option to email. They provide some services that I value over what free accounts have. It is a compromise, but everything is. I freely admit that I was failing at administering my own email servers: I never did get some anti-spam thing in place so a few domains rejected everything I sent. I got about 100 spam messages in my inbox every day (my filters caught 3 for each they let through). With Fastmail everyone accepts my email, and I get about one spam message a week which I can handle.
Fat Protocols
If there's enough crap IoT devices out there, and a good, well-publicized scare, someone could run a good security certification program for IoT devices that would become a must-have.
It is important to know the history, because patent and copyright laws are radically different. In order to understand the differences, we must know where the laws came from. The modern version that people say with "incentive to create" is intended to make people accept legislation for both patents and copyrights as inevitable in order to have innovation. It is a deliberate mind trick to persuade people to accept bad legislation, as this new furniture legislation might be.
>Agricultural output is still growing, but there are physical limits.

And people frequently confuse engineering limits with physical limits.
FWIW, some ideas on how to reduce time spent on cooking:
1. Pressure cooking - saves not just time, but also energy.
2. Cooking in bulk, e.g. over the weekend, freeze or refrigerate the contents, and heating in a microwave over the weekdays.

Personally, I think the biggest tragedy for low income people is that many small food stores that accept food stamps do not stock healthy foods well, instead favoring higher margin junk, processed food: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/opinion/see-no-junk-buy-no....

There is also the problem that a lot of healthy food is ridiculously overpriced, catering to the upper middle class population who wants to "eat healthy" and believes some nice "feel good" marketing material instead of careful thought. There still exists very good food that is very cheap, such as the beans mentioned in this discussion.
Lentils operate in a similar fashion.
It takes effort to identify such things though.
While I agree with you, I can understand the OP's sense of frustration: it's annoying to have people rail against taxes, the government, and laud the free market, and simultaneously defend government subsidies for industries they're working in and demand public infrastructure because the free market doesn't magically provide.
My business uses Fastmail, and I'm mostly happy with it. The one thing I notice every day though, is the spam detection. I start each day by marking 10-15 messages as spam. That's been the case for three years, and I don't seem to be making headway on training their spam filter.

It's a small thing, takes me all of 10 seconds, but I do notice it, every morning.
In the commentary for a previous story, another user mentioned that they have a "today-I-will" room in Slack. I've been itching for a chance to bring that up with my management.
Stop chasing after this Side Project Myth
I have about 20gb of messages in gmail that I'm considering moving too. But really, I can't think of a single time I've needed to look at a message that was more than a couple of years old. Running your own email server, getting around spam blockers and blocking incoming spam all sounds like a pain.

My plan is to move to fastmail but and only migrate across the last year or so of messages. Google's data liberation front[1] lets you download the complete data set as an archive. Then I'll just import the most recent year into fastmail (or one of the competitors) and ask google to delete its copy of my mail archive.

[1] https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
You can get low resolution digital elevation models over the US from the USGS or NASA. From there you can triangulate and generate an stl file fairly easily.
There are always retention bonuses for the founders. What scenario would the options not be worth anything? It's a cash acquisition that is 2x larger than the post of their last round of funding which was fairly recent.
Great, yet another thing to be anxious about on this fine monday morning.
mandatory link to alternative: http://programming-motherfucker.com/
Yes, all you need to do when moving to Fastmail is update the DNS MX records for your domain so that email is routed to your Fastmail Inbox.

Then all you need to do is, visit to docs.google.com and login using your Google accounts credentials.
> They had battery backup for an hour and then generators that could be fired up in twenty minutes with 3 days worth of diesel.

How often did you test that?

> has less than 8 hours of backup power for their mission critical computers?

It's plausible that they thought they had that, but some part of it failed.
If people had the same reasoning before, you would have no telephone, no roads, no trains and no postal system.
I don't always understand the focus on this. It's not something people are tested on when learning to drive and not something assessed on your driving test.

How should self drive cars react to this? It should be programmed to not get into the situation in the first place. We should be developing systems that continually monitor vehicles for faults - kind of like an on-going MOT - that can react to the first signs of something going wrong, rather than waiting for a yearly test. This will stop the breaks failing/accelerator stuck situations more often than not.

Should the car plough into the people or the obstacle? Well it should be safe enough to crash and to cause serious harm to the occupants - which is something Tesla have put a lot of work into - and also not accelerate towards points in the road that can change suddenly. Guy stumbling along the side of the road? Drive as if he'll fall into the road at any moment. Road ahead partly blocked? Drive as if the whole road could suddenly get blocked, and so on.

Driving is all about reading the road and being aware of what can change around you, which is what self drive cars can and should be doing better than people.
AM2R 1.0 Released: Fan-Made Metroid 2 Remake
> What the system I describe does not prevent is switching between "FooBarX" and "BazQuxY" where X and Y are changing numbers or characters every time you switch back to them. To prevent that you would need a custom backend, sure.

Yes that's what I figured. Thanks!

Thinking about the problem a bit, I came up with two possible solutions[1].

The first is to save N prior hashes and brute force the permutations. The main issue with this is that if the CPU cost of the hashing is non-trivial (which you hope it would be) then this will be prohibitively slow (though still feasible for a small number of permutations).

The second is to store the plaintext of the old passwords encrypted using the current password. That way after verifying the current password you can decrypt the old ones and run the permutation checks against those as well. Updating the password would decrypt/encrypt the old passwords with the new password as the key[2].

[1]: If anybody else is following this thread and wants to build this, it's all yours!

[2]: Or more likely the new password would be the seed used to derive a key.
Basically, get a lot of domain knowledge about a market, understand your customers, etc. Build trust. Don't focus on profit initially.
Walmart doesn't have extremely over valued stock like another dot-com would that would pay with stock
Keep a CHANGELOG 0.3.0 now in 9 languages
The author mentioned in the beginning that maintaining a server and fighting to keep it off of spam lists was too painful.
So, you want to punish them all because most of them happen to not agree with your personal political views... even the minority that do agree with you, just for having the gall to live similarly to the ones who don't.

You seem like a nice person.
What's the likely scenarios for an employee whose been there for 2 years, an employee whose been there for 1 year, and an employee whose been there for 6 months? If we assume 1 year cliff on options.
Properties of Currency (not money):

(-) Scarcity: finite number of the symbols (fiat currency breaks this in batches, BTC are finite, gold can be considered ~finite until you mine it in other planets or use a star trek replicator)

(-) Fungibility: all symbols are interchangeable, commodity like. Symbol A is identical to symbol B, and vice versa.

(-) Divisibility: the symbols are easily divisible, so you can divide them to smaller and smaller portions (you can't do this with houses or Ferraris)

(-) Durability: the symbols can survive the test of time and weahther and won’t be worn out or disappear

(-) Transferability: the symbols can be easily transferred between owners (can't do with houses or Ferrari's)
You can use Fastmail for email and still keep your Google Apps account, that's what I've done it seems fine.
I left my Windows PC on for years at a time and didn't notice this. I wouldn't be surprised if it was non-deterministic.
I went the opposite direction -- FastMail to Google Apps -- several years ago when FM had ~3 solid days of downtime. Really long time ago, but still a bit of a sore spot for me as I missed at least a day and a half of incoming email that wasn't deliverable during that time. My sense is that they're a much more mature company now though.

That said, I'm not sure why more people don't consider upgrading to Google Apps from free GMail. $50 a year gets you an SLA, support, and no ads. It's been extremely reliable for me and I've not had any downtime (that I've noticed) for 5+ years. No performance problems either that I hear folks complain about with free GMail either.
The summary of the book could be : if you want to make friends, first, be interested and friendly to people around you. But the book tells you explicitly to not fake it because it would not work anyway. Despite the title, the book is actually not manipulative at all.

It is actually quite funny and old-fashioned because most business examples are coming from the 30's or 40's. ("Mr Smith from the typewriter company...")
This is familiar to me. However, I'm not sure you'll like my "fix". The PM should never be outside the discussion. The moment they become a separate entity, an unaccountable entity, dev can become more and more pathological. It is for us to stand up to that, communicate the difficulties in task estimation, keep a strict paper trail on when specs get shifted/scope creeps so that we have a well backed response when this discussion happens.

I would even argue that in the same way the "brown nosers" are trying to make some positive impact for themselves, as risky as it is, you can do better by fighting bad product management. If you feel the pain, your team does, and likely, your manager might as well. (if it's also a separate entity from the PMs.) The loyalty and trust you can build by defending your devs and being a force for good can be absolutely invaluable as your career goes on.

By and by, although I acknowledge the risk, if you shape your rebuttals well, you can find yourself bringing PMs to your side (a recent "spirited" discussion in which a PM was refusing to institute KPIs to track their features ended with their other PM peers questioning their resistance and backing the eng push for better telemetry, because when it came to "how can we justify how well we're serving clients if we _don't know_" this speaks even across lines.)
Its not bad. I think Carnegie, like many men of his generation, had an overly rosy look of society and the book buys pretty deeply into middle-class Christain-Judeo ethics. It definitely fits in more with the win-win idea of striking a deal than the zero-sum scorched earth tactics that because popular later and emphasises relationships, perhaps to the point where a modern person would find it to be butt-kissing.

I'm not exactly sure what the GP meant, but my take is that if you find the book to be revealing it probably means you were buying into middle-class Christian-Judeo ethics anyway, or are good at faking them. If both parties believe in a win-win solution, then they'll probably find it. So its self-fulfilling in a way. The problem is that is highly competitive environments win-win negotiation is a non-starter and these kind of strategies won't work.

Its something of a relic in my opinion. Maybe it made sense in terms of a door-to-door salesmen like Carnegie was, but I can't imagine it being particularly useful today, especially for those looking to run a tech startup. I'd look at books like "Getting to Yes" or various startup specific books instead as a better use of your time.
It's interesting that this is the top comment, I'm assuming it's because Gmail users like myself just don't see spam anymore - Google's spam filters are so good that I don't even think about it anymore.
The fact that virtually every other nix system, large and small, can provide this standard functionality, and the OpenBSD project cannot. Having to rely on third parties for convenient updates is an obvious potential security issue. Firstly because it discourages updates in the first place, but secondly because I now have to trust m:tier as well as the OpenBSD devs.

That is why I say embarrassing - they are one of very few projects to lack this feature, and this feature is an important part of a secure system. OpenBSD is all about being "hands off" and "sane by default" and yet paradoxically their update process is much more involved and hands-on!
Is their spam filter deliberately design to be too conservative?
>they only shifted the problem once again

Shifting the problem is a sometimes a good thing.

In this case, because it means the energy can now come from effective sources (nuclear) instead of carrying petrochemicals in the vehicle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Gramscianism
Given that ~90% of Google's revenue is its search business (AdWords and AdSense) that's true for pretty much everything they do apart from that core business.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/030416/googles-...
I don't see a huge difference between "engineer" and "developer", at least in Europe there are degrees in Software Engineering (which were born from traditional Engineering curricula) which are taught by the University's "Faculty of Engineering", so the name is somewhat justified.

I actually would find weirder if someone would define him/herself as a "Computer Scientist", even with a CS degree, outside of Academia :)
I'm happy with Zoho Mail [1]. Even their free tier comes with a custom domain and 5 GB mailbox.

[1] https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html
"Ideal" growth of an economy is 3%. Growth takes resources(fossil fuels, ore, etc). Compound growth takes more and more resources over the whole planet. Free market fundamentalism means we're not investing so heavily into alternative sources but burning what we've got. Compound that 3% and it's just a metter when we'll be fucked unless things change a lot.
We really just need education and prevention on the hardware side.

Just like sex... if you don't absolutely know where something has come from or has been before, DON'T STICK IT INSIDE OF YOU (...without protection).

Consumers:
If it's an sd card, a usb-stick/flash drive...whatever, don't put it inside of your hardware. Especially critical hardware such as a thermostat.

Hardware creators:
Don't build slots, or at least exposed slots, for sd cards/usb drives, etc. on hardware such as thermostats, cameras, etc. I know the sales team told you the customer wants to put an image of their cat as the background of their thermostat, "it's the killer feature". Just say NO. There is absolutely no reason to do that using hardware. Build an online portal where users can upload images and then check them yourself before offering them as background choices.
I appreciate the attitude that making changes like this can often be imbalanced with regard to cost/reward. However it is beyond time for some alternatives to show up and compete.

We have stagnation right now and Google is being allowed to make mistakes.

It has reached a point where I don't want my data on their servers. Then you start to notice how ubiquitous their servers are, it should make anyone uncomfortable that there aren't more options.
If openbsd developers do it, why don't they make it official and provide it from openbsd.org? They could still plaster "this is thanks to funding from mtier" on the site prominently.