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I've run my own mail for about 15 years. Just recently stopped.There was nothing wrong with the process, it worked. But I thought about how much time I've spent on running my own domain and email over the last couple decades, and added up what it got me over those years... and the value just wasn't there.

I know the article is concerned with owning your own data, and I appreciate the point. But finding a mail provider that meets your needs is, IMO, a better way to spend your time than just saying "Gmail isn't good for me, so I'll do my own."
It is cheaper for you and the OP. It isn't cheaper "with a whole bunch of domains". Route53 would cost me ~$100/month vs. ~$21/month for my own setup.
A simpler rebuttal is that the Daily Stormer is opposed to ISIS, and I would in fact expect Google to be taking down ISIS websites celebrating specific acts of terrorism (as the Daily Stormer did). Both sides!
The big feature is CUDA 9 and cuDNN 7 support, which promises double-speed training on Volta GPUs/FP16. (it should be noted that TF 1.5 does not support CUDA 9.1 yet, which I found out the hard way)

I updated my Keras container with the TF 1.5 RC, CUDA 9, and cuDNN 7 (https://github.com/minimaxir/keras-cntk-docker), but did not notice a significant speed increase on a K80 GPU (I'm unsure if Keras makes use of FP16 yet either).
This kind of thing seems insane to me. If you want to build a cohesive team, you figure out what is common to everyone and rally around that. Bringing in divisive topics unrelated to work seems like you're playing with fire.
> Postfix is not the best choice for novices,

I'll give you that in general, mail servers are not for novices, and they have a huge array of configuration options, but Postfix is by a wide margin the best piece of software that I've come across the last couple of years, and I've been using it for a long time because of that.

It's reliable, it works exactly as documented, it's up to date, it's documentation is excellent, and it's community helpful, if overly precise - but then that's exactly what makes it so good.

I've literally never come across any problem with it, that turned out to be problem of postfix.

I can't say that for any other piece of software that I know.
Is gold ponzi?
> I note that Linus seems to manage at least one "people who do X should be fired"-equivalent email every week

Fired for poor programming practices. The two situations are in no way comparable.
No, but you can't until someone pays to develop the technology.
> Are you going to ban phones from meetings too?

My employer does this, and it's wonderful.

> Does anybody really want to work in that kind of environment where their attention is not invited, but commanded?

No, but nobody is making that argument.
I don't agree. Sendmail definitely has the weirder config file syntax, but (having set both up multiple times) both have the exact same setup technique—reading through the manual looking at the config options and copying/pasting the lines into the config.
Mux (API to video) is hiring a Developer Evangelist and other engineers
But that's not a bad thing.. fg it back. ^z is my preference for tmux too.
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Sorry, I got confused with Ariane 6.
Because the project manager handles how things are to be done. In software, these differences are getting lost because of the specific features of the field, but the project manager role is much older, and works fine with projects where specifications are defined far ahead and independently of their fulfilment -- like for example building a bridge.
It's unfortunate that Wired frames this debate as one of "diversity advocates" against "the (racist) alt-right". It seems to imply a dichotomy where you're either pro-diversity or a racist. However, there are lots of moderate liberals and conservatives who are making very reasonable arguments against Google's politics (including its handling of the Damore fiasco) while at the same time being vehemently opposed to any racism coming from the alt-right.

I appreciate that the alt-right's response is a valid piece of the story, but it would be nice if they at least acknowledged the presence of the significant middle ground.
I agree with this so much. I miss reading thoughts by independent people on semi-esoteric things instead of filtered conversations on filtered topics had in vote-based sites like reddit, HN, and pretty much any other news aggregator. And I miss the blog rabbit hole you can go into. That was half the excitement of blogs.
Obama knew and wanted to alert the public.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell informed Obama that if he did carry out the alert that he would cry partisan politics and interference in the election by the sitting administration.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-mcconnell-wanted-no-part-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/why-d...
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If a bunch of people choose a single DNS provider they all create a centralized point in this tree, through witch all of the clients wanting to access their services have to go through. This is exactly what centralization is and is exactly what caused downtime for a lot of websites when Dyn was DDoSed.
The actual root cause of #2 is that, along with LiDAR, maps are also on Elon Musk’s “won’t do” list, so instead of comparing radar output to ground truth and detecting a stationary obstacle (which Waymo can do easily), Tesla tries to get by without any information about the world, and fails, badly and with sometimes fatal consequences.
So I can't quite parse it out from the page, maybe one of the Fastmail users can tell me.

I can set up 100 domains and 600 aliases, but if I want my wife to have access to hername@mydomain.com, does she need her own $5/mo account?
C-a seems to be quite a common prefix, but as you said, it conflicts with the beginning-of-line command. I’ve been quite happy with C-s so far; if it conflicts with something, I have no idea.
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One could argue: this one gets press, which gets funding, which is quite important for science.
No, I believe Censys is doing client-side scans.
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Unbreakable crypto is a natural phenomenon, like gravity, or the hardness of steel. Like gravity, you can access unbreakable crypto anywhere. You can't give the police the power to defy it. Making laws against it is like saying you can't put up a fence or grow a hedge higher than a policeman can jump over.

Rights are, in part, a recognition of the limits of the law. It makes sense to include the ability to hide and potentially destroy information in a way that the law cannot access, any more than policemen and prosecutors can levitate themselves.
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I've noticed my driving has gotten a lot less smooth now that I moved near a train station and take the commuter train into work every day. I drive about once a week now and my acceleration and braking has definitely got a bit more jerky.
> I have a sudden urge to somehow make DSN Now my desktop background.

Not sure your OS, but if you're a Mac user you can do this pretty easily with GeekTool. I used it for some years as a quasi dashboard on desktop setup and it was pretty nice.

https://www.tynsoe.org/v2/geektool/
I run exim on Debian stable. I use greylistd for greylisting and dovecot for imap. I backup emails daily by taking a btrfs snapshot and rsyncing it to my home server, which I have a regular backup cycle for. If you were really worried you could setup exim to forward every email to a backup server.

Failover is manual. I would create a new vm, install debian stable and run a script I've prepared a script that installs packages, copies config files and creates users. Downtime with email is not a big deal, servers will retrying sending for a few days. If you have users complaining to you it's obviously a bigger deal.
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That's in CA, which has expanded Medicaid to cover the gap.

In states which haven't, you can make too much to qualify for Medicaid, but too little to qualify for Obamacare subsidies: http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/21/news/economy/obamacare-medic...

This happened because the Supreme Court ruled that states couldn't be compelled to expand Medicaid to cover the gap, which the original legislation had depended on to make the plan work. So states which did not expand Medicaid have an income range in which you can't get Medicaid or Obamacare subsidies.
I really wish this included a specific when. It points out a lot of dire consequences, but doesn’t give any strong discussion of the immanence of the impending event.
When you start a war against co-workers which has different opinions than yourself, to the point that you try to get them fired...

Maybe you shouldn’t be surprised to find people fighting back at you.

This is the toxic diversity-advocates in Google effectively getting the same treatment they have been giving others, their own methods used against them.

In other words: cry me a river.

Edit: wording.
I hope not. I actually find C-a and C-e (for end) _much_ easier to type, especially with Caps Lock remapped to CTRL.
You're better off bringing up gender and tech politics to get that.
Why don't you track the ISS instead. It is orders of magnitude more interesting than a disco ball.

Imagine explaining this to your daughter :

- Here is the ISS, people live there.

- This is the Hubble space telescope, it makes plenty of nice pictures.

- This is a communication satellite, it for making phone calls from anywhere in the world.

- This... is a giant disco ball, it is made so you can see it.

Putting up what is essentially a space billboard is the kind of space development we can do without. And this is what astronomers are complaining about. It is not for the object itself, it is for the precedent it sets.
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A better approach might be "don't talk politics on chat channels" ie at the pub, over lunch sure but not on company wide official communication channels. We have a semi-unspoken rule at my work around this, partially due to having offices in Scotland and Barcelona (independence movements). No one expects you to not be political or to not discuss politics, but we understand that having these conversations on text systems everyone can read (slack for instance) isn't a great idea. There's a time and place, normally at the pub or a team day out etc.
tcl.tk has been running without a hitch for 15+ years. I know the admins and they are satisfied with the service.
No, but it does lead to the incessant infighting as described in the article. That behaviour then leads to firing people.
This link does not really provide any value to Hacker News. The title/question is flamebaity and the comments largely consist of typical Reddit meming.
SlateStarCodex had a good article on this. Basically, if you keep on complaining about bad <X> people then <X> people are going to start worrying that you are targeting them because you are referring to <X> people when you could just complain about bad people.

This can also cause strife between well meaning people who wouldn't otherwise be at each others throats. Like you have someone complaining about bad <X> people, an <X> person gets triggered and lashes out, the original complainer now believes the triggered person is a bad <X> person.
^S is XOFF of software control flow fame. You shouldn't need to worry about it though.
> I misread the previous comment; I get the argument. I don't think the failure of export controls is a good indication of the capabilities of the state; in a sense, they served their purpose well, by ensuring that commercial products were sold in a default configuration that offered trivially breakable crypto.

Did they? I seem to recall that it was easy for international users to illegally download the "secure" 128-bit version of Netscape, and that most people did. I could be misremembering, though.
A few more iteration in this direction and 1984 will be realized in at least a single company most likely powered by AI.
I have Adaptive Cruise Control on my VW Golf, and I must say that I preferred my old Honda Accord vanilla cruise control. I found with the old system that I could relax if the road ahead was fairly clear. If car changed lanes in front of me, I immediately touched the brake, which disabled cruise control. I could relax and yet know I could regain control immediately.

Even before reading this article, I have not been able to relax with my new automatic cruise control. The problem is that I don't have a solid intuition for it - so instead of relaxing, I remain nervous and alert while it is on. In reality, I use it way less than I used the vanilla system.
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> "Is it valid to be trans" or "Are certain races inferior to others."

In your opinion, did the google memo touch on similar topics? Many represented it as saying "women are inferior engineers to men", but a crux of the argument seems to be that many say this is not what the memo said.

Also, there are tangential topics that are often phrased similar to the above so as to make it seems like we're in a Carthaginian scenario when it isn't necessarily the case. For example, the main argument seemed to be about trans-people using certain bathrooms, that touched on the topic of "trans validity" (or dragged conversation into that), but was also also a separate, related argument about bathroom usage that precipitated that.
Best bet to learn about our ML systems is at (and after) talks we do in Singapore.
Where do people think they're going to put the water when it's not in the ocean, anyway? In space? It would get the paper stack wet so this is clearly nonsense.
I shudder to think about the lasting damage to America's reputation this administration has caused, and what the geopolitical implications of that may be.

I think the political instability of the US will create strategic opportunities for other nations like China to fill, not to mention that it will reduce America's persuasiveness on all sorts of global matters.

Trust is an enormously valuable thing that is often undervalued until it is gone. Unfortunately I think the loss of trust others have in the United States (which didn't start with Trump) is going to create major difficulties for some time to come.

I do however think that once this situation is put to rest, our strongest alliances will hold, and hopefully we can start behaving like a trusted partner again.
What is the safety record for semi-autonomous cars per mile driven? I worry that even if it's better than human piloted vehicles, progress could be short-circuited by the fact that since this is a novel technology, it makes the news every time an accident occurs.

On the other hand, while it seems that we're on the cusp of an autonomous vehicle revolution, and we'll see commercial use adopting early, consumers are going to be wary. The failure modes are very different than what drivers are used to. The systems appear "dumb" and make mistakes that humans rarely do. I see more promise in the short term for collision avoidance systems, or other systems which augment the driver's ability. For example anti-lock brakes have been an almost complete win, almost to the point of invisible ubiquity. I'd love to have something on-board my car that can help me safely avoid hitting a deer at 75mph.
I specifically said it would look more like. Of course we have GPU and other chips but we are going to have much more than we have now to get an increase in computer power.

The BIG issue will be programming to utilize these architecture and we haven't really hit anything yet that we see a HUGE increase when we have multiple of cpu cores let alone other components. The big issue will be API.
I've got a little script that runs on my home router that makes zone updates to CloudFlare over its API. Cost per month: $0, infrastructure to manage: $0.
How do you know it's not?
I kind of feel like a billionaire calling anyone or anything a threat to society (in the sense of communal support) is very much a case of Pot Kettle Black.
So Rspamd+PostFix ?
Being able to bring up my shell session if I accidentally quit the terminal emulator has been a really helpful feature for me.
Also called "Children of the Magenta" (the cues provided by the flight management computer on the primary flight display are typically displayed in magenta).

Really a conundrum - automation forestalls many accidents, but pilots get less hands-on experience and are less prepared to cope when the automation fails.

Excellent related talk by Capt. Warren VanderBurgh of American Airlines from 1997 (!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10

EDIT to add: some background:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magen...
I find it interesting that in past years there was a call for self determination of the people. But that was turned around and now attacked by the same people who now favor globalism and want to impose their globalist view on countries. Not sure how successful they will be imposing this view on China and a growing India though.
Of course you can and how majority of the companies in the US operate. Usually you have no idea how the gal in the cube next to you voted. While most companies try to have diversity.
David Metzler's series "Ridiculously Huge Numbers"[1] is a good introduction to this. It goes rather well beyond puny little integers like Graham's number.

Loader's number has already been mentioned here, but I don't see any mention of the Busy Beaver function[2]. BB(n) is the maximum number of 1s that can be written of a 2-color, n-state halting Turing machine starting from a blank tape and counted after the machine halts. This is of course uncomputable, and grows very quickly. Rayo's function (Rayo(n) = the smallest natural number greater than all natural numbers that can be uniquely identified by a first order set theory expression of at most n symbols) grows even faster, but that requires a non-recursively enumerable set theory or the use of non-provable functions.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXliQvd1vW0&list=PL3A50BB9C3...
[2] http://googology.wikia.com/wiki/Busy_Beaver
I haven't ever seen any real repercussions for businesses acting against the interest of their customers, aside from high profile scandals. And even then the penalty is usually a tiny fraction of what would be appropriate.

At least the gov't has some plausible accountability to the citizens every time an election rolls around. Especially local gov't.
"* Use python as a preprocessor

* Use python to call into C."

You nailed it. Also note that Python isn't my recommendation so much as what mort brought up that I'm countering with examples showing even it can help. If it was my choice, I'd pick a better HLL for these goals. Let's keep looking at this a bit, though, where I'll introduce those where they're useful.

PHP was a great example I didn't think of on preprocessor. It versus C's is either the 1st or 2nd most used one out there. On the high end, some "term-rewriting languages" can easily handle jobs like refactoring: TXL, Rascal, OMeta, Ohm. Alan Kay et al in STEPS project did a whole OS with graphics stack and all in a mere tens of thousands of lines of code using such a language. One can, as people do with Prolog and STEPS did, pick a general language that can be extended with meta facilities for DSL's or rewriting where opportunistic. Then, where that doesn't work out, you at least have general-purpose language to fall back on.

http://www.vpri.org

(Use Control-F to go to anything that says "STEPS" to find the reports. Work from the bottom up since it's chronological series.)

On your other point, your Racket example is one way it could work. I was also advocating in this thread just using Python itself to build tooling for its own benefits and ecosystem. A lot is already built. Use C for low-level software that strictly needs it if nothing else is available with HLL's like Python for stuff that doesn't need it. The language I've been telling C programmers to check out for scripting-like use is Nim. It looks like Python, has real macros, can call C, and compiles to C. Here's a comparison I just dug up:

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Nim-for-C-programmers

I also doubt it will be harder to find C developers if tooling is written in HLL's. For one, they just have to use the tooling rather than write it. I doubt most C# developers extend Visual Studio, most Java developers extend NetBeans, and so on. If they do have to learn, using a language like Python or Nim should make low barrier to entry since even folks with no experience pick Python up quickly. A C-like subset of Nim or something similar will be just a lot like C with easier syntax and less stuff to worry about. If anything, productivity will go up over C like shown in about every language study ever done.

I have encouraged people to do C-like languages with safe defaults, cleaner semantics, a REPL, better macros, easy integration of C, and outputting C. That way, one can program in a cleaner language avoiding most headaches and accidents that come with C being designed for 1970's hardware. Aside from Wirth's languages with C syntax, a good picture of what this might look like is Julia language which was femtolisp on the inside. Especially its seemless interoperation with C and Python.

https://julialang.org
That's... Not what zunger says.

He says people may want to be violent against you because of what you said. He makes no claims about the justification of that violence. He makes a statement of fact, not of judgement.
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To be fair, I really didn't add much to the conversation, just expressed puzzlement towards a mentality that I don't understand. It also drew forth a comment that _should_ have been downvoted. I was actually preparing to delete it myself when it was commented on.
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Indeed, there is no useful information or adult conversation going on there. Not sure why this is on the frontpage of HN
Thank you for putting my thoughts into words.

Add shrugging guy on a skateboard ascii art here.
> Why would you tell someone that?

Because there was a huge study that indicated aspirin should be used as a minor blood thinner and reduced heart attacks, and because most/a lot of doctors recommend it for such.