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Hi. I work for commoncrawl. We are about to start an improved recrawl and will be doing this more frequently going forward. In the process we will also consolidate our data on S3 to keep it relevant. But, as with any crawl of the Internet, there is lot of noise in there. We spent most of 2011 tweaking the algorithms to improve the freshness and quality of the crawl, and hopefully this work starts to show results in 2012.
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Or learn how to build and use an astrolabe. It's not rocket science and gives them your approximate latitude.
Yes, I imagine there is malware out there which can read smtp credentials from an infected host, but majority can't, and will just try sending out without authentication. If nothing else, resulting amount of spam is decreased severely.

OTOH, if smtp auth became mandatory, or at least widely used, malware would just adapt, and its ability to sniff out credentials would improve. Arms race and all that. So scratch my idea.
This was my first thought, too. I can't seem to hit the resource to check it out but even if the content is "stale" it can be used for a couple different reasons. Initial snapshot of pages, decent starting index on self crawling (instead of reliance on BOSS or Bing), content differentiation, nullifying search bias (if existent)... But I'm not really a search guy so I could be jaded on its importance.
From Miller's twitter stream last night:

For the record, without a real app in the AppStore, people would say Apple wouldn't approve an app that took advantage of this flaw.

https://twitter.com/#!/0xcharlie/status/133739410662494208
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yes and no. I'm also multilingual, which is nice for being able to switch gears and learn languages faster. But it won't help you past the initial hump of learning all the logic, data structures and mathy stuff behind it. For that reason, I don't think it will help initially, but once you know one language it'll make it easier to learn more.
I found strange that no one mentioned Privnote (https://privnote.com), a much older/popular service that does this but more securely since it generates URLs with keys in the fragment to encrypt the messages on client side (so that the plain message never hits the server).
There are economies of scale for SSDs. Thus if there is more demand, you can afford to build out the costly infrastructure to create the SSDs at a lower cost because of the volume.

Expect that a significant percentage of the HDD market to never shift back from SSDs even after the factories come on line.
Why can't I be asked the first time someone communicates with me? (This is ofc client-side spam prevention, but it should be passed upstream ideally)

However, this isn't necessary for all communications. For instance, if a communication is signed by a reputable company (bank, for instance), then don't bother asking. ISPs should keep the list of reputable companies as short as possible and, regardless, it gets rid of phishing emails.
It seems to me that the easiest way to reduce spam is to use proper spam filtering. My private Gmail and my work email (proprietary commercial solution) are almost entirely spam free.
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http://www.postcastserver.com/help/Port_25_Blocking.aspx

ISPs that block Port 25

This list contains some of the major ISPs that block port 25 on their servers:

AT&T (can be unblocked at the request)
MindSpring
BellSouth
MSN
CableOne
NetZero
Charter
People PC
Comcast ATTBI
Sprynet
Cox
Sympatico.ca
EarthLink
Verio
Flashnet
Verizon
MediaOne

I don't know how accurate or up to date this list is, but I know that loads of residential ISPs in countries all over the World block outgoing port 25.
I'd say they probably hope to have pushed prices down and thus having more demand than this year.
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You may consider it sinister, but it's a fairly common practice all over the World for residential ISPs.
I'm on Sonera network at home and able to use port 25. Although at work Elisa blocks it, so I guess it is per ISP basis.
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Wrt. their Spider Oak backup service, from https://spideroak.com/faq/questions/35/why_isnt_spideroak_op...

"Our founders and engineers have a strong open source background and we consider a contributory relationship with the FOSS community as the normal course of business. Thus, our plan all along has been to make our entire client-side code base open source; however, as anyone who has worked with such issues knows, it is often not quite that simple."

So they say they want to be good, but not quite yet. I've posted a question about nimbus.io on that page.
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If people see a message saying "x has tried to contact you, do you wish to allow them", some of them will say yes. So spammers will continue to spam just as hard as they always have.

Also, considering how easy it would be to spoof "x", they could probably make people click "yes" a significant amount of the time.
sorry to burst your bubble but Page and Brin are computer scientist and much less "programmers".
The reason Google succeeded was because they had a great idea, and not because they had the best programmers.

Being programmer alone is of little use, one must be an innovator to create wealth.
Since the nimbus.io page has only little information, you can take a look at the spideroak dyi archival storage page[1], which seems to be the predecessor of the nimbus.io offer.

1: https://spideroak.com/diy/
I think this is irrelivant. Don't these ISPs still run SMTP servers on port 25, but they force you to use theirs? Their SMTP servers then contact other SMTP servers on port 25 to actually deliver the mail.
They replied to my email. The registration got through, but the confirmation did not work (at the time?). So if you submitted your email, they'll be in touch when it's time.
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Make me a good offer and I'll sell you CoderStack ;)

I didn't really appreciate it before building a job board but adding features for developers has practically zero upside, developers who are actively looking for jobs will use you anyway (assuming you have a base level of interesting jobs) and those not looking won't.

Basically for any feature you have to ask (1) will it result in more applications/candidate (2) will it attract more candidates to your site who would otherwise use another site.

But in the developer market the fundamental market problem is neither of these two, but rather that most good developers aren't in the job market. So to make a big difference you essentially have to attract developers who would otherwise not be looking for a job.

StackOverflow does this through it's stack exchange sites where they have a captive audience, CoderStack does this through a huge amount of advertising and marketing (we've bought roughly 30 million ad impressions this year - that's about 90 impressions for every developer in the UK).

You need to ask yourself what is it that you're going to do differently that will allow you to attract these developers.

If I was building something in this space from scratch I'd be much more inclined to go the route someone else suggested in this thread of the daily deal email route, because that is a feasible way of tackling the attracting passive developer problem.
botnets are the source of the vast majority of spam. Not mail servers and not open relays. If a botnet program can make an outgoing port 25 connection, they can connect directly to the recipient mail server to send the spam.

Preventing them from making outgoing connections on port 25 means they have to connect to an intermediary server instead. Usually the ISPs. This makes it much easier to detect/block/rate limit them.

Most of the time however, they just give up when they can't make the outgoing port 25 connection. Or keep trying and failing.
Since he has control over pricing, couldn't he submit with a free price tag, and change it to something insanely high once accepted. That way no sane person would buy it, and he'd still prove his point.
He _had_ to submit an app and get it in for this to work ofcourse, otherwise this was a moot point. And it's a good wakeup call to everyone. Security awewareness helps sometimes unfortunately when you make a splash.
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I teach flash and actionscript at the community college level. Besides the adobe documentation, what are good resources and or books for intro level classes. I'm looking for new ideas, thanks.

Ps. Most of my students have no prior experience with programming or scripting just HTML and CSS.
I like Reeder, but I badly some of the features that's missing in Reeder, namely, sort by magic and translate to my language.
I use Reeder on iPad and I'm quite happy with it.
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Actually I don't think it would have to cost much before the volume of spam plumetted. Just 1 cent per message would probably put off most spammers.
You have defined problem number (3): the ability to spoof. Introduce certificates and signing - problem "sorted".
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I'm using exactly the same technique but I have a completely different explanation. It's not someone else processing the data, it's you getting around the topic ins and outs.

Here is a long story if you want to know how I discovered this method.

When I was young (12 year old), I usually go to school to learn things. The process is simple. You start from the basics and you build upon this knowledge. In the end of the trimester, you accumulate knowledge which is pretty much limited to what teachers taught you. This is because you (I) don't go and read books or articles.

This knowledge quickly evaporates. I usually find myself learning and learning the same stuff again and reviewing it every-time I have an exam. It went like that and I succeeded every year.

When I was 17, I noticed an interesting fact: I'm quite good at programming. I have been doing it since 10 and reading anything that just comes in my way. Article about programming? Just read and think about it, discuss it on communities, read comments and contribute to coding forums.

Why I'm better/different than the other guys? Simply: I have a wider and deeper knowledge. When I read a programming book about Ruby On Rails, it doesn't take 30 days to write my first program. I can do it from the first hour. This is because I already know how to install a program, what a server is, what a HTTP request is, and have a good coding knowledge.

What you are doing is exactly this: You are broadening your spectrum of knowledge about that particular topic so when you read the said book, you get the gist out of it quickly and easily. No one/thing is doing the work for you, you are just using a different method.

For me, and the reason why I use this is because the book/resources are quite boring to read. They don't also cover lot of topics that I don't know about and reading them will make the topic feel like quite difficult to master and understand.
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Yes they do. And thus botnets are forced to route via the ISPs intermediary server instead of making a direct connection to the recipient mail server. That intermediary server can apply rate limiting and blocking.

ISPs who implement blocks on port 25 and force everyone to use their mail server are able to take responsibility for the spam leaving their network.

Note, ISPs don't block ports 587 and 465, so they're not preventing you from using services like GMail etc.

Also, it is completely relevant as they have all done exactly what is being proposed in the article being discussed. ISPs in South Korea will also provide mail relays for their subscribers to use.
Thanks for the reply. We have a tough road ahead indeed :)

It's encouraging that you would consider a 25% margin - we're finding this the toughest point to tackle, right now we're looking at costs of about 50%.
Tried to install it last week, almost everything was done until GUI. Could not make to install & configure one of window managers.
This seems more like an exercise for NASA engineers to succinctly summarize the human race, instead of an intuitive discovery tool for aliens.
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If you go and sell somebody a hosting solution based on Nimbus, you'd need to share your source code.

What I'm not sure of, is if you build, say, a photo sharing webapp using Nimbus as the storage back-end, does your webapp become AGPL by linking? I'm fairly certain GPL would require this, but, as per the rationale for AGPL, you don't care about that when you run a webapp.

Curiously, if Nimbus adopted the exact S3 API instead of "similar to", it would not constitute linking, as it's using a standard interface.
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'"get-viagra-cheap-now" has tried to contact you, do you wish to allow them'

- the spammer has just succeeded in putting their message in front of you. If you had 500 of those per day, it would constitute spam which would again need the same filtering.
"Design without context is not design. It’s noise."
That's bad luck - but was there a reason you needed to build your own wm? If you were able to get X and a *dm running, you could just install one of the many prepackaged ones (I go with Xfce, myself), and then edit ~/.xinitrc .
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I'm glad they put the wall in-front of him. Must have been a horrific sight for the children.

I also wonder how much was scripted.

Take for example when he unscrewed the cork. Did he "feel" that the cork was loose or did a programmer instruct him to unscrew the cork 278 degrees?
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These letters aren't there either. Perhaps you see as Ә what's simply э written haphazardly. I'm not sure where you're seeing Ғ, or Қ.
It's trivial to bypass those checks anyway.
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But this is really easy to work around. Isn't the Soth Korea arguing that all mail relays should block port 25, not just those on residential networks?
Such developers will just compile the code into their apps. It's trivial to hide it from the reviewers.
Aren't the bulk of customers who turn to the cloud rather small operations, who are trying to "outsource" as much of their infrastructure issues as possible? And aren't these customers much more concerned about pricing, rather than possible future growth?

Note: I don't mean to ask this sarcastically. I'm actually asking.
The cloud is great for scaling, but once you have a large dataset and more-or-less predictable growth, it could easily become more economic to handle it your self. Using something like Nimbus would make such a migration easier.

On the other hand, it's not like the S3 interface is rocket-science. Re-writing your apps file-storage interaction is the least of the effort in a multi-terabyte-migration.
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You mean like S/MIME, PGP, DKIM?

How does this prevent me from getting a certificate for "Viagra Salesman" or even "Roger Smith" and sending spam selling viagra?
Reviewers check behavior, mostly not content. It's easy to hide code and activate it later. If you can break out of the sandbox, you don't need to download code to exploit that.
>The installation process may take a while (several hours.. or less)

It depends on what you're talking about. With relatively fast internet (I have 20Mb/s), I can have a functional box up with my favorite DE in just an hour or so. It's true that I configure things here and there for the next couple days as I need them, and each configuration is simple and only takes a second or two, but several hours seems a lot longer than the average install to me.
What window manager are you talking about? And when you say install & configure, are you talking about compiling from source or installing via Pacman?

I only ask because I have never had a problem with a window manager on Arch.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390889
App review ensures no such thing. Put in your spyware with a timer so it doesnt activate for a week. Boom, reviewers don't see it, and users do.
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I wrote about your message on my blog, and a commenter there, a linguist who knows Mongolian, confirmed it's Mongolian and translated it. His translation is in Russian (as is my blog), so I can only offer it to you re-translated yet again into English :)

"The first page says something like:

make 3 of my wishes come true

1. to go to New York and spend one wonderful year there

2. to all my relatives - good health, peace, success and something I can't make out :)

3. something about spending a good life with my beloved

the second page:
I would like to meet my true love, become famous throughout the world, and live a good live with my family."

It seems like the two pages were written by different people.

These are the comments on my blog with these translations:
http://avva.livejournal.com/2378561.html?thread=81649985
http://avva.livejournal.com/2378561.html?thread=81650241
http://avva.livejournal.com/2378561.html?thread=81650497
Now, all they need is for ASIMO to say: "glass. . . ice. . . gin. . ."
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I'm not. My criteria are different.

I'm not looking for control. I'm looking for non-posed shots of my children to be 1-captured in time before the moment is over and what I'm photographing is gone, and 2-not blurry. With most low end digitals, you can take a nap between when you press the button and the actual picture is snapped.
but will it blend?
This is why gamers go berserk when they don't get a monitor with 100Hz refresh rate and a computer that can deliver 100fps. You can really tell the difference, even though studies show that your brain can only react in 20ms and your eyes can't see more than 25fps and blabla. Though i think it's quite well known that the 25fps myth has been busted long ago.

In the near future I guess we will have to live with 60fps, which still is quite good, since that's becoming the defacto standard refresh rate of tvs and monitors. But it's quite sad to see newer games trying to lower the frame rate just for more visual effects, Battlefield 3 for example only runs in 30FPS on consoles T_T
Are you saying Page & Brin didn't program? They worked on Backrub for 2 years before they hired their first programmer.

You possibly did not read my comment properly: I was arguing that pg invested less into the super-productive programmer idea than your description. He's elsewhere argued that programmers (even if they are called Computer Scientists or Solid-State Physicists) are better placed to turn great ideas into successful start-ups than MBAs.
From my experience working with Rackspace Cloud Files, customer sizes are all over the map. Some customers are very small. Some are very large. I know that S3 has a similar variance in customer size.

From my experience talking to users (and potential users) of Openstack (http://openstack.org), there again is variance. Most people are relatively small (a few hundred GB to a few hundred TB). Some are much bigger (several PB). The most exciting thing I heard was that CERN is evaluating Openstack swift (http://swift.openstack.org) for their storage needs. A researcher from CERN gave a keynote at the last Openstack design summit. CERN generates 25 PB / year and has a 20 year retention policy. They have vast storage needs. The storage needs vary greatly.

I've seen that outsourcing infrastructure is great to a point, but the largest users can generally get substantial cost savings by bringing their infrastructure back in house.
Two things helped me a lot with my Archlinux installation:

1) I previously tried in a virtual machine
2) I had a second machine next to mine to look up stuff in the wiki and follow the installation guide.
I haven't seen them say that anywhere. If they block port 25 everywhere, then they simply prevent the ability to send or receive email within South Korea. That's clearly not their plan.

The port 25 block is designed to force compromised systems to route email via controlled boxes. The fact that you can route email via controlled boxes doesn't mean you've worked around the block, it means you've been forced to do exactly what the intention was.
I have 2h45 of shinkansen from Kobe to Tokyo, it's not that bad. The HN Tokyo Meetup is worth it, so keep up the good work!
My vote is for complete egotistical wankery... mostly because I like the sound of that. It fit's the fart-app/social generation very well I think.
I'd say, if you have to ask, you don't need it.

Even the article writer doesn't need it: as far as I understand he never presented some use case which would benefit from such techniques:

"It's mostly intended as an example of how these tricks work."

Now, if you have an OS component it's convenient to have a mechanism to easily hook some externally exposed API function. The code he presents inserts a special place in such functions which are so prepared to be hooked and another code does the redirection.

If you write applications and not OS components, I can't imagine you'd ever need such a code.
It's true that Arch might be fast to install, and can get something working very fast, in less than half an hour, but this post is aims for beginners, and it's probably not that fast for them, so I thing it's better to say "you wanna try Arch? take a day, and do it with the documentation". It seems to me more fair than say 30min top, you have Arch. You probably won't disappointed new users, with wrong surprise when few hours after they still stuck without Xorg running.
<I'm sorry> The first thing that crossed my mind when I read the headline was "The Office."

However, it isn't a bad approach to marketing. Considering that many of their users are captive - i.e. are required to use their product by their employer - showing the thought that goes into their product is likely to create buy-in among the worker bees of 37signals' customers.
> .. otherwise this was a mute point.

"moot". Pretty please, the word is "moot."

Otherwise, while I think you've got a point (he could have used pricing to ensure no one ran his app), that isn't the issue here. The disclosure is. No one is contending he did something evil with his code, it's that Apple is mad about his code and disclosure. I don't think making it unlikely to be purchased would have helped.
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Directly, it doesn't. However, I can block your certificate., or better, I can block the CA signing certificates that represent either businesses I don't want to talk to or people who don't really exist.

Whilst I don't generally believe governments should intervene in the internet, this is one area they could intervene in. They could act as a certificate authority.

Of course, CAs will make mistakes, but they can revoke certificates when things go wrong.