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The issue affects only outbound mail, not the ability to operate your mail domain as such.

The fix/workaround is to find an SMTP relay which has reputation, and send your SMTP through that. At least temporarily, until the domain you want to be gets better reputation.

This is what people do who operate little domains that are physically hooked up via residential subscriber IP addresses. You will never be able to send SMTP anywhere from a subscriber IP. Rather, you typically use your ISP's mail forwarding hosts (usually via an authenticated connection: your SMTP server logs in to theirs to do its business). (Otherwise they would be operating an "open relay".)
Right, but my guess is people start talking about being a unicorn probably means they did a unicorn-sized funding round. So total raised is comfortably north of $0.1B.
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He wasn’t wrong about it being all crapped up.
I'm sure there were many geniuses among our ancient ancestors! The fact that they had no science doesn't mean they weren't smart.

Our age is superior in the sense of more advanced; that doesn't mean that we individually are superior to them as individuals, except in the sense of being more knowledgeable.

No smugness implied or intended.
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A boring topic that I'm excited/fascinated by: cement
Since you've brought up nothing but a couple of links to emails with the word "pizza" in them somewhere and a couple of links to your own posts in the past (without any context to explain why those posts are relevant to the topic), I think I've avoided nothing specific you've claimed because you've claimed nothing specific.

Does it even count as "JAQing off [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions]" if one party in the conversation doesn't even bother asking questions?
Goodbye SMS Texting, Hello RCS
OTOH, more than one mouse button would be "confusing".
I see. So you downloaded an out of date VM.

Try grabbing an ISO of Ubuntu 16.04 and see what happens after you run apt-get upgrade? Spoiler: you’ll be asked to reboot to update kernels. Maybe more than once!

Again what you saw is not a daily thing but very specific to a certain set of circumstances. Not sure how you came to extrapolate that as a daily usability issue.

Maybe learn how to measure better?
I cannot for the love of my life understand why apple put a touchbar there. If someone regularly uses them, please share your experience.

My next personal laptop will definitely not be a MacBook at this rate.
> I'm afraid you're wrong here, Jacques.

It would seem you both agree that "[Google's] spam filters [are] either seriously broken or they tweak them to cause more people to switch to gmail."
I have usb mouse plugged into this mac and there was no scrollbar.

edit: I have a magic trackpad 2 also. It took when I turned that off and reloaded the page. Well that's annoying that I lose the scollbars with the trackpad.
> There is ZERO reason a large company with resources can't make sure that things like this don't happen

IMHO, large companies don’t always work in perfect, laser-focused speculation.

As a result lots of big companies have competing “pulls” — eg fiefdoms. Interference from investors. New CEOs who are still finding their feet. Lame duck CEOs. Regulatory distractions.

In theory a company would be laser focused on customer satisfaction and doing the best possible thing for their customers. In practice these gaps in BigCo attention gives nimble newcomers a chance to shine.
Exactly. Look at it this way: an account with good reputation for years, suddenly showing up from Thailand instead, is exactly what a spammer hijacking the account would look like.
Click on one monitor and then move mouse to another monitor and move mouse down to the edge (without clicking anywhere). Of all alien, obscure and mind bogingly bizzare ux behaviors this would be probably in my top 5.
To engineer something is, apparently, by definition, to "design, build, and maintain [a physical thing]".

What I do as a developer is "design, build, and maintain" some software, and while it may not be physical, the use of the software is a physical activity. In this way, software has a physical existence at the very end of the process, same as a bridge or other object, though you just touch or fiddle with it through an intermediary physical object.

I'm not sure I see why someone would be upset about use of the term engineer, unless they are an engineer and somehow see developers as 'other' and it makes them angry that someone may be intruding into what they perceive as some private club.

Besides, I didn't decide to be called a "Software Engineer", that was a title bestowed upon me by a company. Before that I called myself a "programmer" and that's what I tell people I am. Now that I know "software engineer" might annoy someone and/or make me seem loftier / more worth taking seriously, perhaps I'll start calling myself an engineer.
I think this email thread went public at the time of the court case.
I like what I see from Suspense. I've had to implement that pattern myself a couple of times before in Angular; it's common enough to justify a standard approach.

EDIT: This is better than what I've implemented. My solutions have involved data-load waterfalls. I'll have to crack the code open and see how Suspense is pulling this approach off; it's pretty cool!
I think it's more that measuring engagement is cheap: just add some metrics to your app. Measuring usability is expensive: you need to give large groups of users your thing and be physically present to see how they try to interact with it.

I would be fairly surprised if startups regularly tested their UX the way e.g. Microsoft (used?) to test some of their products: give it to a room full of old people who have never touched your app and ask them to do something with it.
Seems too good to be true. So I checked their website.

> After you return your Fair car, you will receive a final bill, which may include any past due amounts, fees, excess wear and tear, or excess mileage.

> To keep monthly payments low without locking you in to a long-term contract, every car you get through Fair requires a Start Payment. It's an upfront fee due at signing to drive away. It is not refundable past the 3-day cancellation period.
> Starting at the bottom of another career hierarchy at the age of 40 is a complete disaster, you will be out-competed by 22 year olds who cost alot less, are easier to train, have less grievances about a low salary, are okay with the bottom rung, and do not have huge expectations.

Only if those 40 year olds believe they're entitled to higher pay just because they're older. The number of available jobs in a given career hierarchy shrinks pretty quickly as you ascend, which means that most people won't rise very far. Start at the bottom rung, stay at the bottom rung for the rest of their life.

My mother lost her job as a factory worker (bottom rung) when Samsung stopped manufacturing CRTs in Germany. She was 50 at the time and retrained as a call center agent, working for the same pay as 22 year olds. She kept working there until her retirement, while new 22 year olds had to be trained every few months because they hadn't yet learned how to hold down a job. Talk about "out-competed".

> Even more than that, shifting X00,000 people from one career to another would flood the labor market and destroy wages. The whole thing makes literally no sense.

Only if they all retrain for the same job. Spread it over all industries that have room for growth and the effect becomes much less catastrophic.
So in your example, the investors are basically getting a 300% return if the company sells for 15M or more?
A push gone wrong in the name of what, exactly?
Of course, the other side of this is billions of people outside the United States raised out of extreme poverty. Eventually, globalization means that everyone in the world has access to the same opportunities. The nationalist argument that workers in the us are better or more deserving of that high standard of living and those opportunities doesn't really stand up to much scrutiny here.
The early 2000's were a period of especially low usability for Microsoft's products.

At the time, I had a roommate who was a die-hard Windows user. Over several years, I tried to convince him to switch to Mac OS X, with examples like: (a) Just drag/drop a PDF to a printer spool window, and it will print; (b) to install an app, usually you just have to drag it to the Applications folder; to uninstall it, simply drag it to the trash; (c) the simplicity of System Preferences and Software Update; (d) the composited window manager, enabling things like Expose.

What finally converted him was the horrible experience around updating to Windows XP SP3. Recall at the time, Windows Update opened as a control in an Internet Explorer window. Well, he must have waited a very long time until Windows Update no longer supported IE6. So when he attempted to update to SP3, he got an error that the current version of Windows Update required IE7. But for some reason, he could not install IE7 without updating to SP3 -- again, likely because he waited a long time after the SP3 update became available. He told me "I'm never using Windows again" and promptly bought his first MacBook. To my knowledge, he still hasn't gone back.
> As a gmail user, I 100% appreciate keeping my inbox extremely clean. Google's spam filter is a welcome addition.

Not the case for me. I'm okay with some spam. It's not hard for me to delete few mails every day. But I'm extremely not okay with legitimate mail marked as spam. And gmail keep doing that. And that means that I must check spam daily. So basically gmail spam filtering does not exist for me, because I still must read at least all subjects. And that's dozens of mails every day.
The memo comes from court documents as part of the plaintiff's exhibit.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2543429/microsoft-sett...
Yeah, if your company raises $200m and your sell for $100m you don’t make any money.
What "techie way" of describing the place in Windows that is labeled "Add or remove programs" would you accept?
Never heard of this, but my last name (and my dad's) is Svensson. Will tell him this next time I'm in the car with him on the highway and he's driving in the left lane, and see if he gets the reference.
The addiction narrative is there because opiates are well known for being highly addictive. People who are prescribed opiates for an injury suddenly find themselves without a supply once the prescription runs out and recovery is complete.

They literally leave the health care system addicted to opiates, and without a prescription, there is no amount of money that will allow them to an opiate based drug from any legitimate, regulated source. Their only option from that point on is to turn to the streets in the pursuit of illicit and dangerous substitutes.

Inefficient drug pricing has nothing to do with the not-so-uncommon story of the successful father of 3 who was a partner at a lawfirm who got prescribed Oxycontin when hurt his knee running a marathon and ended up living on the streets addicted to heroin.

As if this problem is by any means limited to poor people.
Say a company sells 10% of itself to an investor for $10M, with a 2x preference.

If the company sells for $100M, the investor gets $20M off the top. My question: Does the investor still own 10% of the shares, and will they recoup $8M of the remaining $80M?

Is their $10M investment now worth $20M or $28M?
I had the same experience. I ended up getting used to the mild uncomfortableness of having someone watching you "work", which led to me dropping the service. Found myself not working even when the camera was on.
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It seems to me that the big problem with Globalization is that we're only doing half of it. If we exported work but also exported working conditions then globalization would be a good thing.

Bringing all of the people of the world up to the first world standards. But instead we outsource only the work and not the working conditions so there's an enormous gap between what you can expect in the first world vs. third world. That gap ends up mostly as profit that is absorbed by the ultra-rich.

Globalization ends up being impossible in practice because there is no central world government dictating standards for all countries of the world, and opens up the system to exploit poor countries as they race to the bottom.
Maybe you could induce something similar by providing the liar with strong incentives / stress. Something like this:

>We're going to hook you up to a state-of-the-art polygraph. We know you've heard that polygraphs are snake oil, but we think we've made a breakthrough on this one, which is why we're running this test. Answer truthfully to all questions except the five on this shortlist. For any of listed questions, you may choose to lie. If you tell one undetected lie, you get $5. For each additional undetected lie, your payoff is multiplied by 1.9. If any of your lies is detected, you get no money and you get shocked. The intensity of the shock has a similar exponential relationship with the number of lies you told.

If shocking volunteers doesn't get past the ethics committee, then maybe you start off the volunteers with a baseline payout of $50 or so and allow the payoff to both grow and decrease exponentially. The goal being that on that fifth lie, they're really on the edge, knowing that they could either make a lot of money or get {shocked,nothing}.
Yeah I hear the terms 'liquidation preference' much more often than 'preference overhang'.
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The comment from Andrew Somers[1] there is well worth a read. The salient quote here is

> The method used for the WCAG 2.x contrast is, as I’ve discussed elsewhere, inconsistent with human perception models

[1] https://uxmovement.com/buttons/the-myths-of-color-contrast-a...
Thanks for the hourly reminder to praise GNU
I actually don't mind the lack of a scrollbar in the mobile version of Pocket. There are times where I don't necessarily want to see the progress of the article. The web version of Pocket seems fine to me.

What I really don't like is the Wall Street Journal mobile app which has an unreliable scrollbar, presumably due to ads. Articles frequently end well after you've scrolled to the "bottom" of the scrollbar so you can't ever tell how far through you are.
This is because in this example you are expecting Google to be Ctrl-F for Internet (and not even that because you alse expect it to weed out what you think is spam somehow in the process, which is not a feature of typical Ctrl-F).

This update addresses the other side of the search spectrum which is meaning. Google has a very tough job of moving the slider between exact keywords and meaning every time someone makes a search. This is a step in the right direction, but the fundamental problem still remains - Google interface is optimized for ad conversion, not user experience.
Except humans aren't rational actors, driven by statistics, and obviously the women who were murdered can't be interviewed. But if there are more stories out there about women being murdered by a partner, and the stories are amplified by the news, it's easy to imagine this could have an effect on perception of the danger of a non-murderous but angry former partner. As to whether this is measurable in a sociological study, I have no idea.
I feel like legal manipulation is very bad for the startup ecosystem. Even here, at the YC forums, people assume their startup equity is worth $0 and advise you to go with a FAANG (or day that they broke even with friends at faangs after their exits). How is a legitimate startup supposed to recruit the best people under these conditions?
Buses, trams etc. would also have the doors on the wrong side, so cannot just switch side one day without any planning.
Trip planning in OneBusAway is turned off for now
It's a matter of scale; before social media, small groups would be isolated due to difficulty in "finding" each other. Now it's just a quick google search away.

The other part of that "scale" is that these fringe views are presented with the same facade of authority as a more mainstream view. Generally speaking, something like Google will present the search results in a non-biased way... so googling for "flat earth" will bring up links, just as "moon landing" would. So to a naive viewer, "Google" is approving of the idea of a "flat earth", if that makes sense...
"AC7X0_R3.2.0.7d_ENG_NB.exe"

I was after a specific legacy driver last night which the vendor no longer has available. Google returns zero results for this, bing returned a few relevent results (but sadly still didn't help me get what I needed) in the end I went mooching through the way back machine.

It's this class of search that bugs me the most, I know for a fact something with that exact filename is out there on the web, I just can't find where easily.

If I run into more issues or can recall anything else, I'll forward it on.
> The point GP makes about an old boys club that attacks men and women equally rings painfully true to me also.

He's just saying shit. I can make one story up, but I don't need to.

Making up stories that seem likely doesn't make them true, even if you feel that they're right.
But not because they're US products (not consciously at least).
I guess the performance impact could be controlled by applying some cheap heuristics, something like having more than 3~4 words with a preposition. They're giving a pretty specific number (one in 10 searches), so this might be the case.
I think "friendships" are further removed from base evolutionary instincts than sexual relationships are. Your base evolutionary instinct to select for mates is different than the ones we developed to form societies.

To put it bluntly, the colloquial prevalence of "thinking with your [genitals]" certainly indicates that people's higher social brain function tends to be clouded more often (reverting to base instinct) when sex is involved.

(Obviously, good relationships are based on friendship as well, but by definition the relationships in this study were not successful ones.)
You let participants know that they'll receive money for every lie they "get away with" making them feel loss-aversion.

This has been used in psychological studies, but it's effectiveness is proportional to cost of doing the study, so it is expensive to get large datasets.
The object we're discussing is a two-wheeled cart.
The fruit machine was reincarnated for pedosexuals: a device attached to their genitals measures if they get sexual arousal from pictures of children. Those that do are not deemed ready for rehabilitation.

Where most people yell scam or digital phrenology, I have a somewhat contrarian view: These systems do work. It is possible to tell, better than random guessing, if someone is gay or has a violent disposition, with just a single picture. Prisons for violent crimes see way more inmates that are bald, bearded, acned, square-jawed (signs of high testosterone). Replicated studies have shown that the profile pictures of gay men are significantly different from straight men, from subtle effects, such as more attention to grooming, to more physically noticable, like shape of the jaw being more rounded.

I have no reason to disbelief that an automated system could check for tell-tale signs that someone is hiding something: needing a lot of time to answer basic questions, using their lead hand to cover their chin, looking not in the direction commonly associated with recall, but that of imagination, trembling voice, anxious eye twitches, etcetera.

This is what flawed human border guards are already doing. Isreal has the most advanced airport security and trains European and American border guards to detect suspicious behavior. The TSA has over 3000 behavior detection agents. These are people with their own political and religious beliefs, prejudices, and variance -- and they can't be audited rigorously. We just never heard the accuracy, so we can't say if lie detectors can beat this (or can help as a human tool). But I bet they can.

I was dissapointed that the actual video chat with the journalist and the digital border guard was not included in the investigative article. They argue that the system be interpretable, but give no full transparency themselves. I'd trust that she did not tell any lies, but I don't trust that they did not try to game/fool the system, as to have an actual article to write about. Anyway, using just one test subject is majorly flawed, and comes close to not understanding that science can't provide 100% accurate predictions, just probabilities. I feel it is a reasoning flaw to discard any automated system, by honing in on a single mistake.
I've thought about setting up a mail server on a DigitalOcean or Vultr VPS without any experience with mail servers (for person use). Whenever I read opinions about operating a private mail server, there's usually a few people that express great satisfaction in doing so, and say that it's not too difficult. However, there are also many more people that say it's not worth the effort since there's maintenance to consider, complex setup, and the cost of email providers is usually the same or less than running your own server.

What is your opinion (or others' if they'd like to chime in)? If you enjoy running your own, are there any guides in particular that you'd recommend? Does the future of email look even more prohibitively complex for self-hosting?
> saying idiotic things like "no one would buy such an expensive phone" (about the iPhone).

This is something that people keep saying but he way actually right and at this point this is just an Internet meme.

I remember that moment. The iPhone costed $800 with a phone plan. Insane. Nobody does that even today, so in that regard he was right.

Only after the iPhone 3 and $200 phone with a contract did it ever start selling.
My former company got acquired for $150 million after raising $87 million. I am not expecting anything. If at all I can expect a tax write off for the shares that I bought
Filtering SPAM mail with an acceptable false positive and false negative rate is part of the service.

Unfortunately for you, the e-mail providers' customers (the users receiving the mail) get to decide what is an unacceptably high false positive/negative rate --- and not you. If e-mail recipients get too much SPAM or if they get mail that they want landing in their Spam folder too often, then they will switch. This provides the economic incentive for mail providers to Get Things Right.

Unfortunately, there is so much spam out there that if you are too relaxed with letting marginal e-mails (or e-mails from marginal network neighborhoods through) the false negative rate could result in so much spam in users' inbox that they will get mad, and switch.

However, it can happen that the email provider can be too sensitive, and there can be too high of a false positive rate. For example MIT recently tried relying Microsoft's spam filtering system. Way too much stuff landed in the spam filter, and while you could go to the spam filter and manually mark e-mails as "not spam" and eventually Microsoft's ML algorithms would hopefully figure it out, the false positive rate was too high and the MIT community (especially the ones with the real power, e.g., the professors) rose up with an outcry, and MIT abandoned using Microsoft's Spam filtering service.
Except that pesky -used chewinggum- keyboard..
Yep. They're locking in their upside to offset for the risk they see in putting in $5 million. 3x preferred is either a weak founder with a good company or more likely an ok founder desperate for funding and therefore pretty high risk for the investor.