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Without better moderator tools to manage large subreddits they didn't really have an option other than remove all threads seeing how majority of bitcoin, tesla etc related stories was not really for /r/technology. Even for that they had to use 3rd party tool.

Just because Tesla Motors is more tech oriented company than its competitors that does not mean every mention of teslas should be posted in /r/technology - and pretty much everything was posted. Same goes for bitcoin related stories.

It also depends on personal interpretation of word "technology", I'm sure that pretty much any topic can be somehow be tied to technology sector but that does not, and should not, mean that every news article about a topic should be posted in /r/technology.

On the other hand the vote brigading that happens from related subreddits is, even though it is against reddit rules, ignored by reddit administrators...
Of course there are exceptions. My girlfriend being one of them. She's not capable of switching and input and using a different remote to control a different device - or even a universal remote to control both devices, for that matter. If she cannot get to Netflix with the push of a button, then I get a call every time she wants to watch Netflix when I'm not home. Smart TVs make technology accessible, and that's why they are popular.
> So if domainA.com sends spam, why should domainB.com mail delivery on the same IP suffer from it?

Because the mail servers both share seem to allow sending unsolicited email, i.e. spam. You're the one responsible for terminating the spamming user.
The difference, to me, is that what Paul Graham wrote is proscriptive. He encourages or discourages specific behaviors. The typical corporate communication on culture talks about values, but does not focus on the values themselves, or how to encourage or discourage behavior.
Just checking but are you non-white or non-male or some other protected class?
I agree on the surface it seems paranoid, here are my data points-

I'm a reasonable person of sound body and mind and very well socialised (I'm certain that I don't have a mental illness).
I've been on the sub since there were 20k users, there are now 120k
I've helped countless newbies and formed relationships with other long term users of the sub who also have a high reputation. I've made many high quality posts on bitcoin data analysis (and a few crappy memes along the way).

Something is definitely different in the past few months, and a lot of the other old timers would agree with me, the subject matter is not normal.
I have loads of anecdotal "Wait a minute, that not the way things are meant to work" situations, where some comments are being downvoted and upvoted abnormally. Some comments are meant to only confuse you or deride the conversation and bring it off topic. Some threads are calling into question the Mods and their motives. Some comments on threads are pushing the traditional banking system benefits. There has been an influx of 0 day users who seem to speak on authority about financial instruments. These are not trolls. Some users will reply with what seems like a positive post and then flip completely 180 degrees by the end of their reply.

What I'm trying to say is that the human neural network pattern matching machine is incredibly good at finding inconsistencies, my alarm bells are ringing, there is some organisation at work in the sub.

I would like to start gathering data on the extend of this by comparing users account age, their topic of conversation and the techniques they use. I'll need some help from my trusted friends on /r/bitcoin and I'm still coming up with the process on the best way to collect information to prove or disprove my hypothesis.
I used Projekktor. The paid version has VAST support and works quite well:
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Very true, and I have to admit that I have many side projects (with huge amounts of 'scope creep') that I've done just because I can.

I have a very hard time justifying that kind of behaviour on my employer's time though.
We desperately need the laundry one in my dorm at Oxford! I have invested way too many brain cycles in thinking about unobtrusive ways of achieving that.
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Microsoft seem to have been moving towards an Apple-like vertical integration strategy, and the buyout of Devices & Services seems consistent with this.

As part of the buyout, Microsoft have bought the rights to use the patents, and have the option of extending these rights in perpetuity.

Why would Microsoft want a Microsoft ecosystem accessible to Android users?

Windows Phone market share has increased year on year, why isn't it worth 'saving' (I don't think it needs saving, but rather, cultivating)?
It's important to note that Sam also suggested an increased equity grant on top of the 10/20/30/40 schedule. The expected value of 10/20/30/40 only matches 25/25/25/25 if the overall equity grant under 10/20/30/40 is higher to begin with. Depending on the time value of money, and upon one's personal opportunity costs year over year, that equity award might need to be significantly higher. Alternatively, as Sam suggests, there are compensating mechanisms (new grants, vesting acceleration based on performance, etc.).

All things being equal, I wouldn't take a 10/20/30/40 over a 25/25/25/25, because it would be economically irrational to do so. But all things aren't supposed to be equal under the two structures.
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Police the motherfuckingbejesus out of your users.

If it costs you when your IP is blocked, insist on a deposit that's forfeit in the event of spamming.

Sadly, I've worked for shops with poor practices. How bad? Sending thousands of emails to domains which no longer existed (let alone stale accounts at existing mail service providers). Simply not a priority.
Should get faster binaries, thus better on the batteries. I think better compile times would help with the edit-compile-run cycle.
Still not an excuse to ban the word 'tesla'.

On a side note, isn't it a bit Orwellian to know for a fact that your government is participating in mass spying, but the largest tech forum on the internet isn't talking about it at all, and now you've come to find out that key words relating to the spying scandal have been censored on said forum? Not only that, but if you go and read the comments in the sticky over in r/technology, it seems the main problem mods are still in power (at least according to the community) and the mods that are being called out seem to have no comments and have actually removed posts calling them out. I assume the main mod accounts have been bought and sold over and over and the current owners are trying desperately to pass it on to the highest bidder. Kind of makes you wonder if banning terms like "National Security Agency" and "Snowden" was an honest mistake (HA!) or if they're just trying to pass it off as one now.
> I you add greylisting you get rid virtually of all of spam.

I don’t really like greylisting, as it takes longer for email to get through. What did help without any perceivable loss whatsoever is being extensively strict about SMTP specifications (e.g. proper hostnames in EHLO) and things like PTR records. I really like watching these ‘5xx: Client <something> rejected’ flying by in my mail.info :)
Some links:

* http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/16581/does-browsin...

* http://www.quora.com/Airfares/Does-searching-for-air-tickets...

* http://studenttravel.about.com/od/planes/a/The-Students-Guid...

Short answer: they use cookies to track your searching behavior, and raise fares if you keep looking with the intent of getting you to panic buy. Correlates of high income (e.g. using a Mac or an iPhone) also hurt you.
Moderators should keep obvious spam, explicit behavior, vote manipulation, etc... out but not to decide which content gets posted. Otherwise, let the members of the community judge content I mean that's the whole point of the site after all. You basically have to read an article before posting on a subreddit because who knows what the moderators have decided is allowed on that subreddit. For example, look at /r/games. They allow "quality" gaming content only but the definition of that is extremely subjective and the list of things you aren't allowed to post is huge ( http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/wiki/rules ). Now maybe its possible to be less strict w/ non default subreddits and make the default ones adhere to a global set of rules instead of letting each default subreddit pick its own rules. They are handed millions of users so they should be less subjective imo.
Well, honestly the part that confuses me is that the article tells us that half of Syria's weapons have already been disposed of in other European countries.
There is a lot to learn yet. The Internet of Things is a new paradigm for interacting with the world. Anyone who has developed applications that aggregate the control of disparate devices and tried to make them work together knows what the pain points are. For starters, there are many reasons why a Thing on a network might not do what you tell it to do. Error handling is a huge PITA.
> I always click the "unsubscribe" link, first. If I get anything else after that, then I mark it as spam.

Then you're much more resilient than me :P

I used to do that but I thought, since they want to deliver their message, I'll deliver mine: "I don't want your unsolicited mail and I'll flag you without hesitation".

Apparently it works.
You already can, just be warned that if you use something different than Java you won't be able to export to the web. From my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong) LibGDX converts only Java code to JavaScript and HTML5.
Nice idea - I signed up!

I've always wished Pocket had a PDF export option that would give you a magazine/newspaper style layout of your saved articles from that week.

Have you guys thought about a digital version too?
I believe in IP blacklisting. Why should my business be open to countries like North-Korea or Somali if I don't have anything to do with those? Spam comes from everywhere, but you can get rid of at least 50% by simply dropping traffic from certain countries, so the expensive score based spam filtering get cheaper. Unfortunately Amazon SES is the victim of cyber warfare and spammers.
Require a small fee to send an email, e.g. $0.01. Small enough not to matter for legitimate users, large enough to make spam unprofitable.

Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency would be ideal for facilitating micro-transactions like this. Interestingly, the Hashcash concept was originally designed to fight spam, and later became one of the important ideas that made the invention of Bitcoin possible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
Note that the C++ is half the code and 6 times as fast. This supports my general impression that you can torture decent performance out of a Lisp compiler, but the result will be ugly, and you'll rarely match C.
As a person who is not white, I look at these efforts curiously. They seem generally like a way to hire people like "us", people who like the same music, people who will go to the same bar after work, fundamentally people we are comfortable with...people who will not change the culture.

Fred Wilson's blog had a related topic; The Role Of Personal Chemistry In Investment Selection -- http://avc.com/2013/10/the-role-of-personal-chemistry-in-inv...

There is a slippery slope of exclusionary behavior associated with this line of thinking -- where some way of being that is foreign or different doesn't get hired or potentially doesn't get funded.
Yes. Im sure it has nothing to do with bitcoin being a scam that is in the final stages after most of scammers/speculators already cashed out. What is left is a LOT of people that 'invested' at $800-1000 and are very angry now.
Disputing flawed studies does sound like something that scientists who acknowledge human-caused global warming might engage in, yes. The same is true of, for example, vaccine-autism linking studies. This is in fact something that happens all the time in the scientific community. The better question is whether those scientists were getting paid large sums of money by industry in order to make those claims (hint: they aren't--in fact, the opposite is true, with virtually all global warming denialism organizations linkable to large private investments by the oil industry).
Super basic web app – share images with short URL and get feedback.
If the moon is only one pixel in an image that doesn't fit on your screen, then it would be invisible in an image that does. It would be impossible to get the whole solar system in one image that fits on your current screen without scrolling. So, what you would really like is a higher resolution screen.
Aha. That perhaps explains all the downvoting. But this was my objection:

Name != Identity

It's nearly impossible to have a meaningful English conversation about these problems without getting that straight.
Software companies can't do software either. It's draconian masters that force usability on programmers that would be happy if the world ran on CLI. You know its the truth, or you haven't really worked with programmers before.

We have one guy on our software team that this describes. The rest of your post is condescending assumption that ALL of us have the unix beard and vim editor of that one dude. Paradoxically he is one of the iPhone owners in our Android heavy group. In conclusion, I guess I've never really worked with programmers before.
A really reliable rocket is successful 95% of the time. What do you do the other 5% of the time when the rocket explodes/crashes.
http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2012.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_insurance
While the hardware part of the job is nicely done, I think there still remains the problem of how to convey the information to the users.

Once a toilet becomes free, everybody waiting will try to aquire the ressource (ie: do a costly walk to the bathroom).

There must already be some gaming theory or performance modelling result that solves this issue, though.

Just a simple idea would be to add a random delay for propagating the information to different users.
In 1996, 58.4% of American households had cable [1], but 96.7% of American households have at least one TV. Assuming that this difference is made up mostly of people watching OTA TV (not satellite TV, fiber, other, or non TV watchers), that still leaves a pretty massive audience. I wish I had numbers, but my understanding is that retransmission fees are currently not the majority of income for broadcasters. Certainly, they are quite significant and growing, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_the_United_State...
That's because the CLI is better than the average GUI.
They were also unlisted for having (as you can see) too small moderation team. This is said to be fault of /u/maxwellhill and /u/anutensil. (They are one of the oldest mods -- they have whole power).
> Provide a good user experience, and you'll build a good
> reputation. Push the limits (for example, use a "pre
> checked" checkbox on an order confirmation page to put
> people on your sales mailing list) and you'll be putting
> out email delivery fires all of the time.

Believe it or not, it's possible to be a good actor, follow all of the rules and best practices, and still get flagged as spam.

Mail recipients are not perfect. They forget that they signed up for things. They accidentally click the "spam" flag on their messages. They get lazy and instead of unsubscribing they click the spam flag.

The real culprit here is that email messages rely on blacklists and not whitelists, i.e. recipients are required to give all senders full access and then block them when they misbehave, instead of giving them no access and giving them more access as they build trust.

So: What would it take to implement email whitelists across the industry?
>What I'm trying to say is that the human neural network
>pattern matching machine is incredibly good at finding
>inconsistencies, my alarm bells are ringing, there is some
>organisation at work in the sub.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
A quick google of "extracting uranium from seawater" gives a different impression. For example: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/nuclear-fuel-from-th...

...which says that EROI is 22 assuming a conventional reactor. Ie., we'd get 22 times as much energy out as we spent on extraction. With a fast reactor the ratio would be a hundred times better, since we could use all that uranium instead of 0.7% of it.
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I think a startup focussing on only events and doing them well could have some potential.
I wouldn't consider this awkward. It tells me that Google might not need to continue to make certain products even if the consumer wants them. Those users will often end up right back on the Google platform in some way or another.
also Iran
Yes, I believe it uses GWT which doesn't use bytecode but rather Java the language.
I don't have any documentation, but I've been flying A LOT for many years (last year flew 108 flights for a total over over 150,000 miles). What the parent comment above you is saying is true.

It is common knowledge among frequent flyers that you can get better prices sometimes if you're not signed in. For example, if you fly 100,000 miles a year with an airlines, they're pretty confident you're going to fly with them, so why not show you a slightly higher fare? The worst part: it works. I go to HipMunk sometimes and see a fare for $500 dollars less (on the same airline), but I still book through my preferred airlines, because the benefits are worth it for me: no hassle security, no hassle baggage (first on, first off), no hassle boarding, good chance of 1st class upgrade, etc.

The good news is that if you do find a lower fare on ITA (and pretty much only ITA), you can usually call the airlines and get that fare. Fares are bucketed into fixed "fare classes" so if there is availability in a cheap bucket, the airline MUST sell it to you.

The bad news for frequent flyers is that many benefits do not extend to these cheaper fare buckets. For example, if I want even a chance to be upgraded to business class for free on a transatlantic flight, I have to purchase one of the most expensive economy fare classes. Concrete example: I am flying to Israel in a couple months; for the cheap economy fare it was $1400, but for a chance at an upgrade it was $2,100. I took the $2,100 fare, because being in business to TLV is quite important to me.

Its unfortunate, but its how it is.
Hustle my friend.

Get your idea into the hands of people that will use it. Network, demo, do free giveaways, discuss on forums, meet people in reality.

If you don't know how to do this, this is where a sales master comes in. None of that abstract marketing stuff. A true salesman brings in sales and that is what you need.

You should read up on some sales books and strategies in those books, try to employ some ideas.

Remember to keep hustling all the time and your product will grow.
I agree that one of the major failures with reddit is lack of moderation. (Highly inconsistent moderation, at best.) The problem is, it can't be fixed because of the attitude of so many of its users that moderation equals censorship. Appealing to youth is a double-edged sword.
That wouldn't work for mailing lists.
I don't believe there actually is an UPSERT command and that it's just a nickname for the activity. MERGE is a part of the standard, so I think any implementation would use that as the actual command.
One of my friends built software to track use of the two washers and two dryers at our local dormcubator. It relied on students to report that they had started a cycle by email; so long as students did this then the website could tell you when the cycle ended because the machines had fairly consistent cycle times.

While he built a virtual queue into the website (type in your email address and we'll send you an email when the last load is done) it turns out that people are really bad at picking up their laundry right when the machine finishes...
does vast also work in flash-mode ?
>they didn't really have an option other than remove all threads

Aw dang, really? No other options except to remove 100% of threads containing the words "snowden" and "national security agency" and "tesla"?

It's too bad the community has no way of moderating it's self by somehow giving submissions "scores" to rank them. Then only threads that a majority of people like would make it to the top. If you think about it, a system like this would allow for stories that only partly relate to technology, but are still hot topics that tech enthusiasts want to talk about, to make it to the top.
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Dish and Direct TV have about 34 million subscribers between them.

That's nearly 30% of U.S. households (something like 117 million households).
If you prefer C++, Cocos2d-X may be a good fit for you. I've tried it, but I just couldn't stand it, because of the way they've translated the Objective-C object model and bolted this on top of C++. To me it looks hardly idiomatic C++. I can understand their technical reasons though (easier to translate the original Cocos2d-iphone to C++).
I 100% agree that there needs to be a simple protocol (much like email) that can help interconnect the many devices that we are bringing online. I think that the emphasis this time around, however, will be on security and flexibility. We need a protocol that we can trust and adapt to changing times.

PLUG: This is exactly the sort of thing that we are attempting to build at [AirDispatch](http://airdispatch.org). You should check it out and let me know what you think.
Wow that was a hell of a thing to read, thank you! Ya I'm definitely way outside my realm with anything medical. My knee-jerk suggestions must sound quaint. After reading what you wrote, I'm thinking that the nerve implant problem is probably not going to be solved for a while. But it reminded me of this, where they did surgery to have nerves control a muscle and then read the muscle with regular electrodes:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/prosthetic-limb5.htm

I wonder if eventually "they" can shrink this down to the point where individual nerves are controlling another type of cell, like bioluminescent, and then the flashes could be picked up by a photodiode. I guess the reverse would be if they figured out how to get implanted light sensing/retina cells to react to diodes the other direction.

I'm glad that people are working on that stuff. I guess what I was trying to get at is that a lot of the problems that seem hard, like say self driving cars or voice recognition, are getting to the point where they are well understood and error rates are comparable to what humans achieve. So maybe some of that expertise could be open sourced and used to solve problems that seem intractable like mind-machine interfaces.

I would dearly love to work on real problems like that, but there is such a separation between grants and tinkerers like me that I can honestly say hackers are 90% underutilized. I wish there was a kickstarter for such things. I graduated college in 1999 and have only spent about 2 years out of the last 15 doing what I would consider "real work". The rest of the time I've been scurrying about trying to make ends meet, constantly choosing between the pain of being under someone's beck and call or hunger. I can totally relate to researchers constantly fretting about money. Sometimes I think we could use a Walk for Breakthroughs, the same way that people have fundraisers for AIDS or cancer.