skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I've seem how irritable they can be when they're not blazed.

This is a symptom of this:

>> They may not be chemically addicted

When people who smoke weed on a regular basis stop, the effects are similar to nicotine withdrawal - irritability, anxiety, fatigue and difficulty concentrating.

>> but the "harmless marijuana" trope is a little much.

I agree and would also add that when people are forced to consider statistics of people driving while high has increased dramatically in places like Washington and Colorado, their only response is, "Well drunk drivers kill way more people than people driving high." as some way to justify that it's ok.
Personally as a fellow free software developer, I take whatever opportunities I can to look closer at what value the software is really providing for the user. Is your primary user actually interested in the freedom and community the software provides, or are they just looking for "Pro Tools on GNU/Linux" with a low price tag? It's probably a combination of the two for most users, and as you have found there is tons of tweaking that can be done to optimize for the middle-ground. I personally choose to lean more towards optimizing for freedom and community, but the downside to this is it requires more infrastructure to support it.

From the download page it looks like your anchor point is a one-time $45 for unlimited upgrades. This is already fairly cheap for DAW software, but I would be interested to know which of your pricing options actually does generate the most revenue. That would probably give you clues as to how to build a stronger free (gratis) version that doesn't reduce overall value for the user. Subscriptions being popular means you can probably consider paid add-ons and services. User wants to use proprietary plugins? It's added maintenance costs, make them pay for it. One-time purchases being popular means you probably need to pursue sponsorships. Unfortunately I don't know a good way to do this at scale without either A) embedding obnoxious advertising, or B) finding generous corporate benefactors. Everyone obviously wants option B and option A sucks for everybody. Whoever can find the equilibrium in between these will get rich.

I also want to add that I tremendously respect what you're doing and how far you've come, and that I probably would not be a musician if Ardour did not exist :)
My favorite olive oil anecdote. Last year, I was traveling from Venice to Paris on an overnight train and I'd brought along a bottle of wine to share with my cabin-mates. One of them reciprocated by bringing out a can of olive oil that had "just been extracted last week" from his farm in Tuscany. We sampled that oil with a piece of bread torn from his sandwich -- our olive oil purveyor was probably not expecting to conduct a tasting in an overnight train. Would it be politically incorrect to exclaim: mamma mia? :-)

All I can say is that you are right -- it is impossible to taste real olive oil and not know the difference between it and the supermarket stuff.
Can't wait for the "small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri" memes.
You also need a DMARC record (https://dmarc.org) along with your DKIM and SPF records.

Be careful testing your configuration when sending emails to the large providers, you can inadvertently score negative marks against your own reputation, which is hard to recover from.
No, not really. It's a constant battle to get delisted from spam blacklists and your site keeps popping back up. Even most companies don't bother with it anymore.
Hunter S. Thompson: Finding Your Purpose (1958)
No indication? Lol, they act like it's OK to alter the blockchain whenever they stand to lose. Regulation of eth is exactly what they are doing, and what they said they wouldn't during the premine sale. Oh then they tried to steal the coins and sell them but got caught lol! Nobody in their right mind will trust eth again, especially with the actions of the people behind it. Oh and here's some cause and effect for you, don't take my word for it, this is the internet..http://cointimes.tech/2016/08/13/ethereum-reputation-has-bee...
Faked would be too much to say, but the German Stiftung Warentest tested 26 different olive oils recently and found that none of them were correctly labelled [½]. For the most part this concerned the alleged origin country, but there were also several with contaminants. Nothing health-endangering, but still not allowed to be labelled "Natives Olivenöl Extra" (the highest quality category of olive oil). No mention of blends with other types of oil, though.

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[½] https://www.test.de/Olivenoel-Jedes-zweite-im-Test-ist-mange...
Also check the IPs of your neighbours (in the same subnet or network block). I suspect the big ISPs also look at this, and on Hetzner at least I've found many neighbours with somewhat spammy IPs.
Why would other MTAs have a buff against Qmail?

I'm using maradns for DNS but I respect djb's software a lot. I'm using his publicfile as an httpd.

I have already added my domains in google's postmaster tools. So far it hasn't helped much
> I don't know anyone who would hire someone like you, who knows a little bit about lots of things. Most businesses want someone to join their team to provide significant value without that value being overly-difficult to measure.

Yeah...my current job is like that (this is irony)....we need specialist for technology x. You will be responsible for ABCD.

First day in new job...you know what? We need someone who will handle y. Doesn't matter that you don't have so much skills with it.

6 months later....he is leaving and we need someone who will handover his duties. He is doing everything for everyone. But task are specialized and we dont have position for that. Something like highly specialized generalist (to be concrete: design, implementation of automated policies for config verification. Used Technologies: tcl, regexp, html, xml, perl for all kind of network devices from various vendors - multivendor support.)

So i do bit of everything but nothing so deep. My customers are mainly internals - account managers responsible for green results of weekly audit.

The same highly specialized bullshit was in my previous job - security team who provide multivendor support. You do everything but actually nothing in deep. At the end you have years of experiences in highly specialized business but dont know more than was required for your daily tasks plus something extra. And there is always what to learn.

Same issue is with programming jobs and frameworks. Company A use framework X, company B use framework Y. After two years you change company. You have to learn new framework and in the meantime Framework A changed (litle bit overreacting) and you are another usless specialized generalist.

So this not black-and-white (as many other things in this it business).
It's not rancidity, it's butyric acid, the source of "the Hershey flavor":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7275566

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_bar
I've been running my own mail server on AWS for about 3 years now. Postfix, Dovecot, and a Rails app I wrote for webmail. At first I had 0 deliverability but over time it's improved to near 100%. Just setting up SPF, DKIM, not being on a blacklist, and building up a reputation of good mail seems to have worked wonders. I've been wanting to move to DigitalOcean but I don't yet know if there will be a significant hit on my IP reputation.

Postfix occasionally drops a legitimate incoming email due to a misconfigured sender, usually from a domain that doesn't resolve to anything, but I just log those in case I miss something important.
All calories are not equal. Ask a diabetic to chow down on carbs. The body clearly doesn't treat all the macronutrients as interchangeable units of energy. To say, "a calorie is a calorie" helps none and allows people to behave as thought-terminating parrots.
In 1995, Gary Taubes (lately a writer on health and diet) wrote a profile of Thinking Machines Corp.

The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines
A close up look at a doomed-yet-brilliant start-up computer company that never quite grasped the basics of business.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/19950915/2622.html
Are you running it out of your house (e.g. a residential ISP). If you are you'll probably never have much success, all the major email providers block residential IP addresses.
It takes some time, but even with small amounts it will eventually work out.
I started to send requests for whitelisting my ip to the technical support emails as well and some MTAs even have forms for that.
Keep running it! The net was made for decentralised services. I think it will even be in 2020 worth it.
This is probably no help to you, but since you're doing this already, you may know. Is it feasible to self host your own email server but then use something like Mailgun for SMTP?
Maintaining sub 10% bodyfat sounds like quite a task. I'm sure some athletes can do it. I'm probably just below 20% and hadn't exercised until roughly 2 months before starting a diet (started strength training), so I have some wiggle room. Even so, people like myself seem to have difficulty maintaining the loss after the fact, which concerns me.

My suspicion is that
There's so much conflicting information on weight loss that I'm not sure if it will work, but my plan is to start tapering off the diet 50-100 calories a week as I approach that point to determine my new maintainence intake and maybe speed metabolism back up.

However; after a little research, I think my current diet may be succeeding (in short-term) largely from a large increase in resting metabolism from strength training (and no longer eating a surplus to build that muscle).
> It's probably a symptom of a larger issue when people abuse drugs and attempt to "opt-out" of society.

Let's not forget that it can also be a symptom of society itself. In a scenario where the majority is insane, behaving sanely makes you look crazy.

I understand the disgust for supporting human beings who are inert, but I suspect it's largely irrational. The idea that we should "all do our share" is becoming more and more impractical as technology progresses. There simply isn't a big enough share to keep everyone occupied, and the majority of jobs are completely unnecessary, if not detrimental to our collective welfare.

Let's face it: most of it is just status games and posturing. Anecdotally, cannabis dissolves the desire to participate in status games. My personal theory is that it tends to increase the creativity of people who find meaning in their work and the desire to "opt out" in those who don't. Unfortunately, out current economic system creates a surplus of the latter, because we are stuck with a system of health distribution that is based on human labor, which is increasingly irrelevant.
The Game of the Name (1994)
While I fully agree with limiting the WOW and canabis usage of irresponsible users as a goal, I wonder how to do it without creating very illiberal policies.

That is: I am not opposed to a small amount of "nanny-state" to force heavy users into a better path (and that is very illiberal, I know) but I wonder if it is possible to do it in a fashion that has minimal "illiberal side effects".
The main thesis of this article, as stated directly by the subtitle, is that "hunger isn’t in your stomach or your blood-sugar levels. It’s in your mind – and that’s where we need to shape up". Interestingly enough, the author then proceeds to tell us that he changed his diet to something that looks a lot like a regular low-carb diet, and lost a lot of weight, without having much hunger or cravings.

That low-carb diets reduce hunger and thus often bring people to eat less has been known for quite a while. Gary Taubes' NYT article from 2002, "What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?" [1] describes this phenomenon in detail, and tells how it's been known to researchers for already quite some time. The explanation however, doesn't seem to be merely "psychological" but rather physiological: in Taubes' words "[Sugar, starches and floor] are known in the jargon as high-glycemic-index carbohydrates, which means they are absorbed quickly into the blood. As a result, they cause a spike of blood sugar and a surge of insulin within minutes. The resulting rush of insulin stores the blood sugar away and a few hours later, your blood sugar is lower than it was before you ate. As [David] Ludwig [a Harvard endocrinologist] explains, your body effectively thinks it has run out of fuel, but the insulin is still high enough to prevent you from burning your own fat. The result is hunger and a craving for more carbohydrates."

Personally, I moved to a low-carb style of nutrition about two years ago and, lost about 8kg over a period of several months and have managed to keep the low weight ever since, without suffering hunger or cravings. It may not sound like much, but I wasn't obese to start with but towards the high end of the normal BMI range, whereas now I'm right in the middle of the range with a weight I hadn't have since my early 20s (I'm 45 now). My nutrition style is like the one explained in this website [2] which, incidentally, looks pretty much like the diet described in the article.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-...
[2] http://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb
When I ditch the carbs and eliminate grain from my diet, there's no denying that I look better and feel better. I've cycled on and off several times now and there's no way to get around it: The carbs and grain have to go and they have to go forever.

If you can eat them, no problem. However, there's many of us that can't and we're going to talk about how to operate with that as baseline.
I run my own mailserver and have done since ~2012. I don't have DKIM or DMARC set up but I am using postfix and not qmail. I'm sorry I can't help you with your delivery problem - except that to say that if you didn't have eg rDNS set up to begin with gmail might have a negative cache of it. I haven't had problems with delivery of outgoing mail except to a couple of poorly administered exchange hosts run by recruitment agencies - which complain about my mail but confusingly do still deliver it.

Two real problems I have faced...I once (embarrassingly) created a unix user with test/test credentials for messing about and forgot that my postfix setup at the time reused unix credentials (ssh was locked down to only allow specific user to log in). I sent a few million spams a hour for a couple of weeks, getting my host into all the DNS blocklists. This took some time to fix (you have to apply to have your host removed from the blacklist). While I'm sure sending all that spam was annoying to many other people it didn't actually affect delivery for my mail...so it seems other administrators aren't using DNS blocklists?

Second, after a while I started to get a lot of spam. Maybe 10 per day. I tried various things to handle this, including setting up a proper bayesian spam filter (amavis-new) and using DNS blocklists myself. None of this worked for me. Greylisting however worked great.

So my suggestions to you: use defence in depth for mail as well as ssh. That means, fail2ban, different creds for both, unusual ports, user whitelists, high patchlevels (auto-patch and restart is great for a personal mail server) maybe client side TLS certs...etc. If you're relying on a single layer of defence eventually you'll make a mistake with it and then you're in trouble. I guess that really applies to anything you're trying to secure.
This opinion really bothers me. The absolute best way to maximize chances of humanity's survival is expand off this rock. Improving survival chance here is of little consequence compared to essentially ORing the likelihood of survival over the independent existential threats.
Receiving email is easy. Sending it is much harder.

One of the things that is the most frustrating is that if you end up on a blacklist, or a large provider decides independently not to trust you, it's often completely silent when it blackholes all your outbound emails to that service.

I've just moved over to a hybrid of hosting my own MX servers for incoming email, and forwarding all my outgoing emails to an email-as-a-service provider for outgoing messages. Their trusted IPs usually help delivery, and they're actively paid by their users to have employees making sure that their IP ranges are whitelisted.
A hive mind would face tremendous costs and very small returns. If you think of a human brain as a hive mind made out of neurons, which isn't an unfair way to describe it, a hive mind split on two planets would be like two brain hemispheres being light years apart. They can't help each other without unacceptable delays, so they would both have to be almost completely independent to function properly. They couldn't make each other very much stronger.

Furthermore, synchronization overhead scales with distance: you may be part of a hive mind, but if it takes ten years to exchange a message with the rest of the hive, you have to act independently during these ten years. This means the hive's "goals" must be replicated on each colony well enough to make sure they can't drift too far in that time. This is not cheap: for example, a lot of innovative technologies would have to be stifled while the whole hive assesses the risks they pose to its own integrity. Independent colonies, on the other hand, would just plow forward.
Be great if it was true but seems that this freeze test is a myth. One report for instance: North American Olive Oil Association called the home test “completely false and misleading.”
I've been running my own MTA for about 15 years now, so it's definitely possible without spending the majority of one's waking hours to do so.

Even when I switched mail server IPs twice over the last few years I didn't run into the issues you ran into. A large part of it depends on where you run it - if you, say, run it on your home Internet connection that's usually an immediate strike against you because of the insane number of spammers using backdoor'd PCs to do exactly that.

The only time I ran an MTA out of my home was when I was on a commercial ISP with a fixed IP address, that seemed to be good enough for most services including gmail and hotmail.

These days I run my MTA on a VPS with a reputable hosting provider and don't seem to have that many issues with outgoing mails marked as spam.

SPF and DKIM are pretty much a must these days, so that's a good starting point, as are the rest of the precautions you already too. I assume you're using your own domain, how "old" is that domain? That might also have an impact giving how many phishers and spammers register odd domains and use them for a short amount of time. I've used the same domain since about 1999 so that could make a difference.

I use postfix instead of qmail, but I've used qmail in the past. Both work well and are easier to configure than sendmail or exim IMHO. On top of that I do run amavisd/spamassassin/clamav for the incoming emails as well.

One more thing I've got set up that I didn't see in your list is that I've got TLS set up with a non-self signed certificate for both incoming and outgoing email. I suspect that this also makes a difference even if the other email server won't request a client certificate (most, if not all, won't). Certainly shows up when I send an email over to gmail.

My biggest issues these days are more with incoming email:

- You'll never get to the level of spam filtering that, say, gmail offers. To me, that's OK

- I use greylisting to weed out a lot of the spam that would normally make it through spamassassin, but unfortunately that's when you find out how many people have misconfigured servers that bounce emails when they encounter temporary failures
I think these "open web" movement people are mistaken about what made the web successful.

The web succeeded because it let people connect more easily by removing friction.

Of course the "openness" part was important in gaining initial adoption, but today "adoption" is not a problem anymore. Most of these open web movement people just want to make things open without any immediate, clear, and tangible benefit to end-users. Even if they did, these always come with caveats--inconvenience.

Introducing inconvenience for the sake of making things more open is going backwards, and that's why it never gets any traction.

I'm not saying being open is stupid, I'm just saying it's not gonna happen if all these guys think about is "how are we going to make the web more open?", they will keep building the same shit that no mainstream user cares about.

If you want to make the web more open, build something that provides a unique unprecedented benefit, important enough that people will use it no matter how inconvenient it is, like Bitcoin, or Bittorrent.
Does a web hosting company count? Some years ago I was basically running a hosting company off a single T1 and then into a colocation cage. But it was never making me any money, and eventually expenses were adding up. I slowly wound things down to what I had started out doing and am just doing some small scale hosting for a few friends.

What could I have done different? I don't have any business sense. I didn't calculate costs vs expenses, I just ran with what I thought was best. I also lacked the technical expertise for the networking side of things.
Also what really killed off my dream was the quick rise of bargain basement web hosts like 1&1 and Dreamhost, offering unlimited everything for dirt cheap prices. I could never compete on that scale. I tried to pivot somewhat and offered more "personalized hosting & support" but again, couldn't compete on price. Potential clients would say "Why would I pay you $20/mo for web hosting when I can get unlimited space and a free domain for $1/year?"

It was a big learning experience for sure. I learned a lot about business and that it's not always as easy as "just be your own boss."
One idea I just had: inspect the headers of your emails as they are received in a gmail account. These will often contain diagnostic information that will help you debug any problems (with SPF/DKIM/etc)
Why not just launch a seed factory and send the instructions to build via light?

That seems a hell of a lot more practical and cost effective
You and me both. I think the risks are overplayed, but at the same time it's probably about time to join the future with SPF/DKIM/DMARC.
If you change IP addresses when moving to DigitalOcean it will reset your reputation and deliverability. Speaking from recent experience.
I love this idea. Imagine you have a bunch of emails and a bunch of contacts that you'd like to preserve. You're using Gmail and for some reason they've put a bad taste in your mouth. If Gmail were built upon these open foundations then you could simply download your solid archive, and hand it to someone else to take care of.

Regarding the complaints about trust; that should be the realm of litigation. We put trust in our licencing of source code. Your data should be licenced in a similar fashion, and if the handler of your data fails to comply then they shouldn't be allowed to operate.
The problem is that people should be able to trust the news, not that they don't think for themselves. I do plenty of "thinking", I just don't have any time to evaluate the authenticity of my olive oil. Think about how many decisions you need to make in a day; if you had to verify every article, product, or piece of information you ingest on a daily basis you wouldn't have time to do anything else.

We have a huge problem where you really can't trust anything you hear or see; especially news. However, what's the solution? If I want to be up to date on world politics who do I trust? How do I know I can trust them? What about a new product? The manufacturer says it's healthy; an "article"says its not. Who do I trust? Is the article genuine or paid off by a competitor to boost their own sales? Do I have to do my own research and studies to find out the truth? That's hardly scalable.