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Ask HN: What is best way to send bulk emails to marketing lists?
Hello HN!

We're developing lead management software and from feedback of early customers, sending emails to marketing lists is considered as critical requirement. They gather email database at different sources like tradeshow, conferences or advertising campaigns to create marketing lists.

Now there are lot of options available to send transactional emails to subscription lists -- mailchimp, constantcontact, icontact etc. but in this case it won't be possible to verify email address by customer himself hence these marketing lists won't be allowed by these services. What would be best approach to integrate such service in lead management software? We've considered installing postfix but it has its limitations of sending certain number of emails from same IP until its blocked, and as this is going to be used by multiple clients, its more likely that large number of emails will be sent out in short time span.

Thanks!
Coming from Germany, I could only shake my head about this (imhl) totally stupid state-behaviour. Sorry, but having studied teaching for 2 years, before switching the subject and having teached a lot in non-school environments, I can't possibly imagine any argument supporting this legelative behavior.

Sorry, to say that, but I am so glad, that I grew up in another country, in another time.

If I were a parent, I would strongly think of relocation abroad. out of such a system.

Sorry, if sounding rude. But I had to try real hard, not to use any swear words.
Is that really the case?

In other parts of Europe we don't have Free, and still prices for mobile and internet (speed might be better in a lot of areas as well, especially considering the price/speed ratio) are way more convenient, AFAIK.
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Do you seriously claim that he is not allowed to post his own opinions on his personal blog?
You're probably right, in that there is a useful role for pure "assign value X" languages.

But also bear in mind that simple INI style files can be represented as data structure literals in the language. So you could replace your ini-style file:

searchdir="/etc/foo"

with (python syntax):

searchdir="/etc/foo"

and then load your cfg file with 'import' from python.

This approach isn't perhaps suitable for all cases, but it also allows users to do "clever" things, e.g. replacing:

server_host_1="foo"

server_port_1=8000

server_host_1="foo"

server_port_2=8010

server_host_1="foo"

server_port_3=8020

server_host_1="foo"

server_port_4=8030

with code.

Basically, I'd urge anyone considering adding anything beyond simple assignement to use a real language, and even in the case of simple assignment, I think you can use a real language without scaring the users too much.
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I'm interested to hear how I personally profit from PyCon - because the fact is, I don't. I spend more hours than I care to admit stealing time from work and family, busting my ass to get things done for this conference and the Python Software Foundation.

I do this as a volunteer, as those who came before me did. I don't get fat checks, or kickbacks from sponsors, or free cars or servants. I do get a lot of heartburn, a lot of email, and a lot of stress.

So not only do I find your comment confusing and insulting, I'm honestly completely baffled.
You save "" for each extra item, which gets annoying on longer lists.
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Downloading apps/videos over 20MB on 3G isn't allowed, but you can browse the iTunes music store an buy songs (unless they're over 20MB, which is rare).

It seems to me like a sanity check. If a user accidentally downloaded a few 100MB files, they could easily get over their data cap. This restriction is not device wide, just on the iTunes App/Music store.
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I'm curious too.

Japan has had fingerprint scanners on phones for a while. E.g. http://www.nfcrumors.com/11-15-2011/fujitsu-launches-nfc-pho...

Would be a great feature to have on my iPhone.

At least in Apple's case, perhaps the problem is the added cost of the scanner combined with Apple's one-size-fits-all model (as opposed to offering different models, so fingerprint scanners only for those who need the extra security and don't mind the added cost).
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Common idiom in Erlang. Using message passing (untested code):

do_something(N) ->
Pid = self(),
spawn(fun() -> find_x(Pid, N) end),
receive
{found, Item} -> ...;
not_found -> ...
end.

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You can also handle timeouts and stuff.
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That is a definitely usability flaw IMO. I forget the exact dance I did, but I think in the end it was simply to create an account, and they associate all books you've previously ordered with that email address with your new account.

The emailed links expire, but the accounts page is permanent as far as I know.
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I wonder.
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I have been living in China for 9 years now, and ever since (and certainly before) there's been fears and rumors about real estate bubbles, pollution, war, social crash, etc.

I can understand that China raises fears and disbelief: how could dare a self-proclaimed communist country build the biggest capitalist market in the world? And, moreover, doing it using the exact opposite way as proposed by European social democracies (China has economic freedom without political openness, while France, for instance, has the opposite)

But for anyone coming here in China, from Westerners to Indians to Africans, there is this stone-hard fact: it works, it is happening and it works. In China, they actually have highways all over, they build new factories everyday, they grab millions of peasants out of poverty every year. This process has a lot of difficulties, yes, but who would hope it wouldn't?

So the real estate bubble fear: I can only talk about what I know, and what I have seen. I was in Chengdu for 3 years. An enormous percentage of the city center is actually owned by the local government. Same thing in Beijing, where I have lived for 6 years: in my street the local government did order renovation for all places it is owning during the post-olympic little depression (just a "post coitum anima triste"), so it was very clear: they own half of the hutong street. In Kunming, nearly half of the city is a University. What I mean is that, contrary to many Western govs, Chinese gov still has a strong leverage on real estate. They are already reacting in real time to stabilize the market.

So, sorry to tell you that, but your eruption feels a bit ill-grounded.
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I think part of the problem with Ubuntu's UX direction has been the extreme reliance on context for everything. Menus change location and contents, buttons change their behavior or just disappear, all in the name of 'sleek'. It drove me mad and ended up being counter-intuitive for the non-geeks in the family.
In my experience, of all the places in the world I've been to, California (and specifically SF) is probably the most progressive and best place for Westernized Asians to be. It's the one place where the bad stereotypes have withered away leaving us with the good stereotypes (well educated, hard-working, low-crime, high achievement), the whole model minority thing.

Anecdotally speaking, sorry I don't research this, it's the place where I've seen the most Asians of all ethnicities in politics, as C-level executives in addition to the usual fields of achievement in Medicine and Finance. It's also the place where I've noticed the most AM/WF couples.

I'm from Sydney which probably has another 20 years, a full generation to catch up to Cali. I've only ever been to Canada for short holidays so I don't know what it's like up there but the vibe I got in the 2 big anglophone cities was good.

And then at the other end of the spectrum I've been to South America, Eastern Europe where they think 'slanty eyes, yellow skin, must be Japanese Businessman! Konichiwaa!!!' lol

I'm going to try really hard to make my kids bi-cultural as well as bi-lingual, I guess the only way to do that though is to make them live in China for large tracts of time in their formative years.

Oh at the end of all of this I forgot, Singapore is great place to be for Westernized Asians
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Common idiom in javascript/jquery too, where the callback is called after the asynchronous execution. That's the advantage of this technique of course: synchronous or asynchronous implementations are interchangeable.
I make much more than 10K a month in Beijing without leveraging my foreign-ness, most of my Chinese colleagues pull similar salaries. A new graduate from a decent school could expect to make 18 or 20K a month, a newly minted PhD probably more. Laowai startups here often don't pay well and look for low-end talent accordingly, its nice to access low-end talent but you get what you pay for. For my friends who run startups in the 'jing, it works for them but just barely.

One of my American friends just did a stint at a big Chinese tech company. He was willing to immerse himself, but the cultural differences were just too great. They had time cards for software developers for crying out loud (and no, it wasn't a consulting company)! Suffice it to say he's decided to do a startup.
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I've been working in tech in Beijing for 9 years. Many multinational companies will give you a bit of a bump (perhaps in the form of a higher working grade) since you're from overseas, but it's not huge. To earn that, the company might expect you to help with communication/project management.

One tactic I've seen work in professional services (lawyers, accounts I've met here) is to just take whatever job you can find when you show up, and then, after a year, once you've built a bit of a network and have proven you can hack it in China, to move on to something that pays more.

Another option is to do something entrepreneurial. I know folks who source products from China that they then sell online via their own e-commerce sites.
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It's not just that. The real estate companies collude to keep prices high, and won't let landlords consider lowering their prices (they won't market the house, and you can't really market it yourself for some reason). A lot of craziness in this sector, something has to give.
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Because biometrics is the least secure and easiest to copy method of security.

There are three types: What you know, what you have, and what you are.

What you know is the most secure in theory, but suffers from the limitation on human memory. But it can not be stolen from someone without them knowing. (Yes I know it can be stolen from a device, but that a problem in implementation and not fundamental.)

What you have is very secure - except that it's possible for it to be lost or stolen, and possibly without the person even realizing (at least not at first).

What you are is the least secure - all the detected features can be copied remotely without the person even knowing that someone copied them, and can not be changed once copied.

Biometrics sounds very secure - but is actually very very insecure.
There were a lot of articles of that sort around back when SVN was interesting and people were bothering to learn it in large numbers. HN wasn't around then, of course, but I remember it sweeping through the Ruby community at the time.

SVN has had its wave of tutorials and hype (usually comparing it favorably to CVS at the time). Git's wave still seems to be roaring. When the next system comes out, we'll see tutorials for that every couple of weeks too and Git will be where SVN is now.
Actually there exists a mandatory (by law) social service in France, which has been mocked by Free as a fraud (40min and 40sms for 10€, available only under certain income criterias)
> It's rather an initiative championed by very very smart people, with very decent ethics.

Let's not go there! Niel, founder of Free, did it all "for the lulz". His favourite passtime as an engineer founder is to take a market, build a 100% better product, vastly undercut the competition and watch the competition rage, killing businesses in the process. He did exactly this with all his former businesses, starting with Porn services on the Minitel, and was even sentenced to deferred jail time for misuse of company asset.

This is clearly not "decent ethics"!
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That's exactly what I was thinking - when I saw the headline, I thought this would be another "Android lags, Android's UX sucks" post.. instead, it's some abstract rant about net neutrality and openness - I say, let the users decide.
Hell I'd be happy if they handled a /128, since none of the other players seem to be remotely interested in v6. Bouygues actually uses double-NATing.
Uhm... utter tripe. How bizarre.
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At least Chinese economists are working in the interests of China, unlike the USA. For every dire economic indicator in China there are 100 in the USA and most of them are caused by the government/media/universit economics departments.
Funny article. He mentions 'tail call elimination' once, and then never mentions 'tail call' again.

Also a 'tail call' and 'tail call elimination' are 2 completely different things. The former being an implementation detail (to provide proper tail recursion for languages that require it, ie Scheme), the latter an optimization technique (to remove (expensive) tail calls!).
Not exactly. For an iphone 4S 16Go, Apple price is 629€ and Free price is 720€ (over 24 or 36 months), so it makes something like a 9% or 13% credit.
I should have started with a disclaimer: this was 3 years ago and I don't perfectly remember all the details. It was a system cron job, not one added by me. I think it was logrotate. I've removed it, but finding out what was happening wasn't that easy. Which was my point, with the whole thing being so unpredictable, debugging the system sucked.
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Oh please, let's not get out of hand.

If Apple is a prison it's the most liberal open prison in the history of the justice system. It may be constrained but it's hardly four to a cell and making sure you don't drop the soap in the showers.
I'm not entirely clear on how it works in Australia, but in Greece you can either pay the full amount and get an unlocked phone, or get a carrier subsidy with contracts. The amount of the subsidy depends on the plan you choose, with higher-costing plans getting higher subsidies.

For example, a two-year, 50 EUR/month plan gets you a free iPhone 4S or the equivalent android phone, if I remember correctly.

Also, not a single phone, at any price range or contract status, is locked. Carriers don't care about locking the phones, you've got a contract with them and you're probably going to get a new phone at the end of it anyway.
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This deal is great in France, then go five minutes across any of its borders and you'll be paying a multiple of Euros per megabyte.

Someone, maybe Free, needs to deal with pan-Europe roaming with the same disruptive vigour Free is dealing with the domestic French market.
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There's a very simple way to stop the carriers from doing this: Close-source Android.

The article should have been: "What Android gets wrong: It's open source." Then the author would have realized how silly and of no value that whole article was.
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France is still one of the cheapest country for landline internet (the standard price is ~30 EUR/month for 20+ Mb/s, with unlimited landline calls and tv).
I for one am perpetually see-sawing between insane focused passion for what I am doing and full blown existential crisis. I see this as a blessing and a curse.

I think a little bit of impatience can help you achieve more than others who sit around waiting for things to happen/dawn upon them, but at the same time too much can mean you miss out on the benefits of some things that take time to build. I think the balance between the two is very specific to the individual and unfortunately can only be found through experience and making your fair share of mistakes (and successes).

I generally feel ill anytime I see someone using a quote by someone famous to help define their life but this always brings a smile to my face when I think about it:

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
Your assuming the average users machine is secure. I don't think that's necessarily true. For most people, a list of common passwords stored under their keyboard is probably more secure than an encrypted file on their HDD.
Sure, but it doesn't hurt to mention it because I'd even MORE rather have both the writeup (98% of the value) AND the well-licensed code (<2% of the value).
Remember to keep track of the call stack in your head as you write code. The trap to avoid is to invert control and then fail to invert (return) back to the main program flow.

In the example referenced, the following call stack could be created:

0. authenticateUser
1. login
2. authSucceeded

If authSucceeded continues to call other functions as if it were the new main flow of control you could end up with a very deep call stack (it's not uncommon to see software with a call stack 40 calls deep). This is why I would have preferred "authSucceeded" to be renamed as "registerUserSession" or something else that screams "this function will do a well defined bit of work and _return quickly_" rather than "this is a loosely defined event callback that may do anything".
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Very well made. This year will be strong for the canvas tag and web gaming.
And of course don't be surprised if it doesn't run well on your tablet or phone. Mobile browsers aren't that strong yet.
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Ultimately, if you are unhappy then it won't hurt to look at other options.

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Just allow me to free up a few assets so I can afford to apply :)

Doesn't the whole concept of having to pay large amounts of money just to apply to maybe register a new TLD feel a little bit against some of the original ideas behind the "World Wide Web"?
Thanks for sharing. Always interesting to read through challenges others have faced/are facing.
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Anyone know why they are using a .ie (Ireland) domain? Just curious.
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This seems like kind of a big deal. I'm surprised I'm only hearing of this now.

I guess the price creates a big enough barrier for most people?