skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all it is an illusion to say that conditions have improved because of capitalism alone. In most of the places where people had some improvement, this happened because of socialist policies of wealth redistribution lead by the state, including in the USA. If you go back to the US of the 1910-1930s, most people lived in near poverty, with the "dream" of one day becoming something else, until a socialist plan of wealth redistribution called new deal was implemented.

Second, wealth inequality is a direct threat to the democratic system. In a country that has extreme levels of wealth concentration as we see here in the US and elsewhere, it is very easy to enact policies that harm society in general in benefit of the minority that holds economic power. This in fact was the downfall of capitalist society in the 1920s. In such a society, there is big turmoil among the general population, which frequently leads to revolutions and economic disasters. We are just starting to see this pattern happening the the US, with increasingly big economic calamities such as in 2008 and political turmoil such as the election of Trump. I wouldn't be surprised if the US and similar countries are heading towards a popular revolution as we saw in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
I just tried creating an account that differed from an existing account in the number of dots, and it was refused, explicitly on the grounds that periods and capitalization are ignored. Therefore, either at some point Google got this wrong and allowed the creation of such aliases to an existing account as if they were distinct, or this person is mistyping one of the non-dot characters of their address.
There are some historical examples of corporate control of people's lives.

Henry Ford's Sociological Department did unannounced visits to employees' homes to ensure they were "model Americans" and probe for union ties.[1][2]

Walmart "locking in" janitors.[3]

There are a lot more examples of negative environmental and financial impact, I picked these two as they are examples of controlling human freedoms.

[1] Negative source: https://jalopnik.com/when-henry-fords-benevolent-secret-poli...
[2] Positive source: https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digita...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/us/workers-assail-night-l...
I'm (naively?) hoping that Google doesn't know which aliases received at least one email.
I don’t get the argument that the email dots stripping should be removed but the “+” tag feature should be kept.

Both of them allow infinite email addresses. The tag feature is not always available because app developers frequently don’t allow the plus character.

I would prefer that (1) a Netflix require email verification and (2) GMail describe in detail all of the email address features so app developers can explore the security issues around them.

I used to work for a company that dealt with these issues almost 10 years ago. It was also fun when Hotmail and Yahoo started recycling unused email addresses after ~6 months.
That's missing the point. Its the staff/teaching that has become insular. The students enter with lots of creativity and individual ideas. They get graded and norm'd to death, step into line or fail, and spit out.
If they can get 6 months free access to Netflix with a dodgy CC, just keep going down that route. No reason to do the double scam when a single is working so well for you.

> Gmail already provides this in the better form of “plus labelling”

True, but lots of singups disable the +.

Netflix should do what everyone else does and do an email verification test.
I disagree with the assessment. It seems like any form in which the government tries to identify you is being compared to the scary Orwellian dystopia. There is no cost benefit analysis. Sure it could be misused, however it can also be used in a super beneficial way. India is a country where some Indians have never obatained birth certificates, there was no equivalent SSN system, often resources are poorly distributed because there are scams where a person claims to be somebody else or there is no clear identification system, all of this significantly affect the GDP and the rate at which people’s std of life is improved. I think if it gets misused , then the solution to that is regulation and better management, not no collection.
> actually emails with dots in different positions should be different emails

Don’t know from where this is coming from but there’s no such _should be_ rule, there never was.

As a matter of fact an email server can have any aliasing setup it wants. FastMail for example does sub-domain aliasing, which is awesome because I can use an unique email address for any service I sign up to.

Any email server or service worth its salt allows aliases. Which aren’t hard to guess for a determined attacker either.

Netflix has no excuse ;-)
>> Americans are citizens of their country whether they can prove it or not.

Tell that to the undocumented immigrants. You forget that you have a birth certificate to prove you are a citizen.
Like many others here, I still rate my Samsung Omnia, running Windows Phone 7 as the best phone I've owned.

The mistake MS made, for me, was abandoning the existing WP7 phones for new WP8 phones, no upgrade path, and taking so long to release WP8.
Wow, what a shitshow.

Do we have a word to describe frustrations caused as a byproduct of other people's use of technology? I wonder if the Japanese do.
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You can't think of any case, for anything, in which you can do something in two (or more!) different ways, but one of them is simpler to explain, understand, and implement?
Dot's don't matter if the relevant RFC says they don't matter and I think this is the case.

Google follows the standard, Netflix does not.
Can you imagine being the programmer on that project?
The US intelligence community (aka the Deep State) has a strongly vested interest in covering its tracks, which makes WikiLeaks a dangerous opponent, who must be shut down at any cost.
Both of these links are about Tor. Do you have any of those about Telegram? I've been using it for 2 or 3 years now and I think it's great.

I will be so sad if it's as bad as Whatsapp in privacy department :(
I had a similar issue with Sony/PSN recently. Someone had registered their account and even though I received a validation email I didn't click the link. I then got a welcome-to email a few days later.

PSN's emails don't have a "This is the wrong email" link like some services do, and the US support page link geo redirects to a UK 404 page. I had to go googling for an email address to complain to in order to remedy this.
Another interesting part of dots in emails is that they apparently can't be at the end of the username, EXCEPT if you also "quote" the entire username. So, <a.b.@example.com> is probably invalid but <"a.b."@example.com> (including the "quotes") is supposedly valid.

Had an acquaintance who was signed up to a popular email service with "a.b." (their initials) for years until they changed their underlying platform, after which they actually were very sorry to let him know that they could not support his strange email address any more and terminated the account.
Where do all the workers who have 401k plans composed of shares of all the public companies in the US fit?
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Of course they know. They delivered the emails to the aliases, which are permanently in the To: field of the metadata. As long as you can see the email “to” address in the gmail web interface, so can Google.
I didn't say that they paid a large proportion of their income, I said they paid almost all the tax. That's because their incomes tend to be much much larger than those of the poor.

I was responding to "because all taxes will be paid by workers.", which is complete nonsense.
Rose's ancient paper is balderdash and wrong and even Turkheimer wouldn't agree with his claims now. Heritability has been repeatedly vindicated empirically as a guideline to selective breeding, GWAS power and results, genetic correlations, evolutionary development of traits and split between additive & epistasis variance based on selective pressures, and so on. Even human sperm donor donations affect height of offspring exactly as predicted by the breeder's equation - which rests entirely on the concept of heritability! The results of projects like UK Biobank and SSGAC have been a vindication of the entire behavioral genetics research programme, not any kind of refutation.
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Need an expert Perl coder to continue the development of my ecommerce script.
everything gets worse in a country when there is "too much" inequality

How sure are we of the causality here? Does inequality make these things happen?

Maybe countries with strong feelings of unity tend to look after their poorest members better, and tax or restrain their wealthiest members more strongly. In countries with no such feelings it's every man for himself, and those who can screw those who can't, economically and politically. These are less nice places to live, but inequality is one of the results of this, not the cause.
Yeah, another pattern I've seen is that confirmation is required just in case you need to provide a payment method.
The other way around. It's Google who decided to do it that way.
Further, even if we give 'capital' a pass (the use of imaginary points to grease the wheels of trade) and move on to the Free Market. A market works if everybody has something to trade there. For those that bring only their labor (whether ditch digging, medicine or engineering) they have a finite value over their lifetime - they will never be wealthy as the top 1% are.

Now automate. We no longer need the labor of millions to run the machine (country's industry). We need only a million. Then only a hundred thousand. Then none. What happens to the 'laborers'? They are dropped out of the bottom of the machine as scrap.

Its this 'means of production' that gets us into trouble - when a few folks squat on it and call it 'theirs', the rest of us are reduce to marginal participants in the machine, expendable.

Automation is happening in the US at an explosive rate. Heard about a factory coming back from China? Only because now even Chinese labor is too expensive, if you can automate. There are insignificant jobs 'coming back'. And there never will be any more, again.

No, the age of labor is nearly over. And what will the millions of us do then?
Ok, let's say we start over and distribute all material equally - don't you think that over time some people will be more skilled and focused at gathering material and would end up with more than others? How do we counter that?
Canada (and most of Europe, for that matter) don't bear the costs of their own defense. That helps a lot.

You may be wondering who would want to attack Canada. Well, you have an awful lot of wheat and oil, and China has an awful lot of hungry people and factories.
I misread “fund” as “food”. I’m on a mobile device without my glasses. Sorry for the error. The mistake was mine.

It is bad for you to ignore the rest of what I wrote in my previous comment. I think I did make it clear what I was talking about. Specifically, what reasoning does Pinker give for believing that inequality doesn’t matter as much? He claims that it doesn’t matter. I would like to know why this is so given the tendency of humans toward jealousy and similar emotions.

Despite my clarification you appear to still be under the impression that your original interpretation is correct. Since we don’t know each other common courtesy mandates that you accept my clarification.

I think inequality does matter. But Pinker does not and he is much more knowledgeable about the issue than I am. Hence my inquiry into why this is so. Addressing the inquiry would be the proper way to respond to my original comment. Or, ask if indeed I think people with real struggles are merely jealous instead of making that assumption.
But then if the password is reset, the original scammer has no access to the account! And the scammer cannot reset the password because they do not have access to the email.
I strongly disagree with the author as well. Netflix is not doing its job.

But the scam described by the author works because he victim already has an account registered with their Gmail address.

The warning could be a good idea

also I wish the email address of both the recipient and emitter were shown in a better in Gmail.
No, you really aren't a citizen unless you jump through hoops. The reason you don't see that is because you've existed as a citizen since birth on whatever citizen roll/database, with a citizenship link by virtue of your parents.

Maybe you get a free-pass as a baby/child/orphan. But as an adult, you don't get to just "appear" onto the electronic grid of citizen presence. If there were such a mechanism and it were easy and devoid of "loops" then illegal immigrants would have exploited it by now to become citizens.

You may think you're a citizen, but you are not unless you have the blessing of your government.
Ultimately the bug relies on how believable the emails from Netflix are. If I got an email from Netflix asking me to update card details, I wouldn’t be surprised because maybe my card expired. But if I got an email asking to verify my new account, I would be very surprised. I didn’t sign up for a new Netflix account. If after that, I got an email to update my card details, I would be alarmed because of the recent unexpected signup email.
They couldn't carry out the same attack without the dots, because the attack relies on the target mistaking the attacker's Netflix account for their own account. If you get a Netflix email when you've never signed up using that email account then it's obviously not for you.
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7.x (public) SDK had no support for C/C++ whatsoever, you needed special access and a private SDK to use it. Windows Phone 8.0 allowed C++ 11
Ouija:+Origin+of+Evil+(2016)
I have multiple "e-mail doppelgangers" - confused people who don't know their own email address and so accidentally use my address when they register stuff.

One's in Chile. I have almost no knowledge of Spanish. The other is in California.

Having experienced this:

Services need to email new email accounts they become aware of ASAP. They have literally zero UI available to me to notify them that this is an invalid email address. The very first interaction when a user registers an account with their email on the service needs to be "Welcome username to MyCompany.com! If you didn't create an account with MyCompany, click here to let us know and we'll remove the email address from this user's account!"

If Netflix does not do this, Netflix is doing it wrong. It also would solve your security issue - by immediately notifying the address that a new account has been created on them, it notifies the user to expect additional emails and allows them to take action immediately.

This also prevents another problem: What happens if somebody has already accidentally claimed my email address on a service I want to join? If you don't provide a way in the emails to say "that's not me", then I have no way to ever register for your service with my address.
Original title of the submission (which corresponds to the title of the article): “How Famine Under the Nazis Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease”

More about this “food shortage”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944–45
It’s not just Netflix. I am having the same problem. Someone has signed up to instagram, yahoo and others using a form of my mail address without the dots (the one I chose had the dots before I knew gmail didn’t care). I believe a lot of them are spam accounts. But what do I do. I don’t want to spend time trying to speak to a customer service rep for companies that don’t want to be contacted.

Instagram had a link at the bottom of the mail called ‘remove your email from this account’. I click it and it says it’s not a valid link...

I don’t want this from gmail. I want the address I signed up with. It should be simple. It’s hard to explain to others why the dots don’t matter.
"Will it be easy for a computer to prove that my API is being called correctly?" is not a question that JavaScript library authors seem to give any thought whatsoever to
I'd really like to see your accounting to see if it's apples to apples, because the 50-100M is not counting people who died due to proxy wars, or anything like that, just people who lived directly under communist governments, and died directly because of communist policies that lead to things like mass starvation, and in many cases, because of literal death squads.

It's surprising that people already seem to be forgetting how incredibly horrible communism was when implemented.
In the initial submission, without the dots issue though, the wrong address entered wouldn't be able to match an existing user.
Headline: "The steadily disappearing American car"

Story: "People aren't buying Sedans anymore"

Reality: "People arent buying US Sedans anymore, because US automakers keep pumping trucks"
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We eventually ban accounts that do this.

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Yes, even the very poor in India have voter IDs and the schemes in question already require a ration card. You started off by asking about how to reduce corruption (and I answered that as long as there are subsidies there is going to be leakage) but you keep bringing it back to some airy theoretical concept about 'identity in the state' when Aadhaar is a practical force in the country right now. I haven't linked my Aadhaar to my phone yet and if the Supreme Court hadn't extended the deadline my phone would have stopped working by now. This thing is a real and present menace, not just a political science question.
I've had the same: I have firstname.lastname, and I've had netflix, nytimes subscription, dropbox registrations (and warnings that it's full), hotel bookings, and many other things that are nothing to do with me, targeted to firstnamelastname.

I also get regularly added to conversations with other people who think I'm someone else. Again and again I've had to try and explain that they've got the wrong email address, but it happens so often now, I just don't bother now and ignore the emails.
I know Perl has a bad rep for being noisy, but it also has some nifty conventions to make code more rational. For example you can add your `if` condition after your expression or use `unless` rather than an awkward `if (!())` kind of thing.
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Please share your list of "must-reads".
So then why don't they go and apply to be documented? I'm sure their foreign birth certificate is enough to prove their existence. Oh, that's right, it's illegal and would get declined. Hence the correct term: "illegal immigrants". The topic is complicated and touchy enough without it being muddled with incorrect terminology.
> I totally empathize with your situation, but globally the numbers are irrefutable.

Indeed they are. Here are some numbers from NPR (hardly a right-wing thinktank):

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/02/389578089/yo...

In 1960, Americans spent about 18% of their income just for food. Now it's less than 10%.

And, of course, the quality of food available to a typical American is vastly better than it was in 1960.
Relying on email providers to do the right thing (read RFCs) so you can avoid best practices is the wrong conclusion to draw here. Netflix should validate all email addresses. It's really, really basic stuff.
This is hard to believe. So you're saying that they hash/bcrypt (user+pass) to determine uniqueness?
I see a lot of claims that email addresses should be verified prior to a transactional email being delivered - that that’s the “norm” or stupidly obvious way.

But when there is a real consequence on a conversion funnel for requiring email address verification (say ecommerce), I imagine the obvious business decision is to do the exact opposite.
Which the RFCs for email do allow. The local part is the local part, under local control, and should not be assumed about by remote systems.
How humans echolocate 'like bats'
It certainly does.
Being much, much more Clarke than Kubrick, I watch the thing in awe up till and including "My God, it's full of stars", and then usually switch off, as I know from then on the masterpiece will be descending into lava lamps and nonsense.
> For another simple example, look at the Fortune 500 of today vs 20 years ago. Very few companies remain, it’s still very much fluid.

To my eyes, your statement seems to be completely false.

http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_arch...
What you describe would be a super nice utility. Great for prototyping and development, as the code could be copy & pasted from such a tool into application code.

The streaming would make it memory efficient, and possibly able to handle some big data - maybe not true "Big Data", but certainly 10s of gigabytes.

Anyone want to take this idea into a GoFundMe site?
This has happened to me with quite a few websites (netflix, nytimes, dropbox, and many smaller more localised websites for small businesses / services): people somehow seem to have registered and/or added payment details with an email address they don't own.
It's interesting that Russell himself is 85. I always saw him as "the next generation Lehrer", but he is actually the same generation.
Nope. RFC 5321: "the local-part MUST be interpreted and assigned semantics only by the host specified in the domain of the address". That means it's actually technically against the RFC to do any normalization of the local-part (like ignoring dots or case).
As one blogger said, perks are cheaper then salary raise.
I meant they will get stuck with whatever paradigm works for them right now. So they might have some nice decade, then hit a plateau, then decline, like always when they followed their "safe philosophy" in the past (look at e.g. Qing dynasty).
Assume for a moment that the politicians lie at every opportunity.

You don't have to believe them. You can read the report and source the court documents. Those will tell you what Backpage themselves said: We knew about it, we didn't have to do anything because of section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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Advising against using Tor is imho unrighteous. Your arguments are not sound, especially with OS' like qubes and tails around.

I am on your side regarding Telegram though and that's mainly because of using non encrypted chats by default and not having encryption for group chats which is just unacceptable in this day and age.
You must read the great patio11 / cpersiva (friendly) controversy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523953

Totally inaccurate short version:

fake patio11> You will get more business clients if you bill monthly in dollars/month. (Also, raise your prices.)

fake cperciva> I prefer to bill in attodollars/second, I get enough money and I happy with that type of clients.

The short version is not enough to explain all the details and the reasons each one has to make their decisions. You should read all the related threads and make your own opinion.
This is really cool. I've often wondered why queries weren't be compiled to native code to remove interpreter overhead. I imagine that overhead must not have been particularly low hanging fruit until recently.