skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had that experience with Yahoo. I sent a single email to my brother whom has an account on Yahoo with SPF, DKIM, and not in any blackhole files. I received their 421 response "All messages from x.x.x.x will be permanently deferred; Retrying will NOT succeed." and my only recourse was to fill in a "bulk email prioritization form" I was not sending bulk email and was thus denied for that program (nobody read my explanation that I am NOT a bulk mailer). It took over a month of contacting various channels to get them to take my mail.

I understand spam is a problem but email is perhaps the last communication identity you can own, and have interoperate with others. I have had my own domain and own email for 16 years now, and I am not going to give that up. Free email services come and go, but I own my identity.

I think the problem with DIY/small business email is that it is surprisingly difficult to set up a proper mail server. Sendmail book is about 4 inches thick, and my current setup is using 3 projects to achieve a simple mail server with SSL auth/IMAP. (Dovecot, postfix, SASL). I am a software dev, but even very good sysadmins I know do not want to have anything to do with email anymore and will often farm it out to Google.
What makes 6174 interesting?
It seems like a cool concept. However I would like to see it have some type of functionality. Am I missing something. This appears to be a demo to me. As such I feel a little bit duped that it doesn't make it abundantly clear that it is just a demo.

If I was a VC I would be frustrated that this does not at least have some type of simulation even if you don't have the multi-user competition working yet. At least coding against a clock or virtual opponents would be a nice touch.
To me this is not proof of concept but just a story board if you will, good marketing. I am sorry to be harsh but I hate going somewhere with the promise or implication of one thing and then getting something different.
She failed to anticipate the huge backlash of her actions. Ironically, the goal of her actions was to make sure that his actions would lead to a huge unforeseeable backlash for him.
starts with a good analysis and then become a infomercial for a startup that do Facebook without the follow option (which is easily added by a external archive so they are pointless)
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"This is about directly replies from me to people I have been emailing for months all of a sudden ending up in their Google Spam folder"

Yup same exact thing. Just the other day I sent my wife a few links from my business email account @company to her @gmail and it ended up in her spam folder. And I have been mailing her for longer than a few months as well.

In other words google does not differentiate it appears on whether you have an ongoing relationship (email wise) with the person that you are sending an email to as if they are just looking at the mail message and nothing else.
@interpol_p: As a thought experiment, what if the joke had been, "Where does the king keep his armies? Up his sleevies!"
ie. entirely innocuous and commonly told in third grade classrooms. If all parties had behaved identically and this same controversy had blown up as a result of that joke, would you still be taking the same position that you do in your comment here?

I'm asking if you acknowledge the existence of some norm in our society for the reasonableness of being offended. Is there a point beyond which we as a society say, "No reasonable person would ever be offended by that, so we're sorry you're experiencing negative emotions and rising hair on your neck, and we're sorry you feel like murder is imminent, but this is not actually a problem and there is a negligible probability of you being killed based on a joke about the king's sleeves."

Note that a consequence of denying such a norm is that we must frequently reorganize our society to please myriad extremists of many stripes, many of whom have mutually exclusive demands.

Conversely, if you admit the existence of such a norm, is this controversy just a discussion about how to construct an algorithm for calibrating it? I'm genuinely asking these things, not being snarky.
AppleScript should have been Luna Lovegood and C should have been Dumbledore, I guess forth would have been so Harry Potter. :)

Allegories are interesting and funny.
Ask HN: Google copying website data to SERP. What can I do?
I run a food blogging platform and yesterday a blogger pointed out Google SERP showing recipes in context [1]. Technically recipes aren’t copyrightable but Google resorting to this will have a significant effect on search engine referral traffic. I think complaints will only end up in demoted ranking.

HNers, what can I do here?
For context, Here’s Matt Cutt’s question that led to an outrage [2]

[1] http://d.pr/i/13mGj

[2] https://twitter.com/danbarker/status/439125570115223552
I've run my own mail server since before Google (yes, there was a time...), and I'm having similar problems. Right now I'm in the middle of a job hunt, and email from me (even to people who have already emailed me) is ending up in spam folders. It is infuriating.

It is also apparently unfixable. Regular people cannot inquire as to why mail is not getting through. And amazingly, even having friends at Google does me no good here. I'm told that the anti-spam team is so mysterious and opaque that they won't even talk to co-workers about this.

It's maddening. I get why Google grew up with absolutely no conception of customer service. (It's hard and expensive, and not necessary for their business model. Chicken farms don't have customer service windows for the chickens to lodge complaints.) But their apparent utter indifference to the problems they are creating for other people is maddening.
I work in Paris, France.
I charge 500 € / day for web dev.
I charge 600 € / day for consulting.
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Unless I've missed it, there still hasn't been an announcement on what Grails is going to do. I just assumed they'd announce in tandem.
Netflix tries to explain its apparent sudden flip-flop on net neutrality
Ask HN: Why angular when we can compile native apps to ASM.js?
I suppose it's possible that ASM.js is too hard to use for some reason, but in the future won't we be compiling native apps to js? Why bother investing in angular?
first of all, we do care about great products. a lot. though we still try not to fund great products that we don't believe will become great businesses (there are many, many reasons why this might not be the case). it's critical to us you have some specific ideas about who your first customers will be.

second, we often ask questions that are already covered in your application. the way you explain what you do is incredibly important. if you can't clearly and concisely explain what you do, and get people excited, you will struggle to recruit, sell, raise money, retain people, etc.

third, we are happy to fund ideas with lots of technical risk. we have funded nuclear fusion companies, rocket companies, synthetic biology companies, etc that are years from a first sale. i don't know where this meme that we will only fund companies with traction came from, but it's not true. that said, we expect you to progress as quickly as you possibly can for whatever you're doing.

fourth, i believe i am the youngest YC partner and i am 29. there is no way you were interviewed by 3 young boys in their early 20s. however, i don't think the age of YC partners should matter, as long as they can evaluate and help companies.
And get rid of hallway usability tests.
Hadoop and MapReduce
Pub/Sub is currently free. The whole experiment including 2 days of tests, between AppEngine, compute nodes and BigQuery was about 10$.
I'd like to see a competition called "Learn to Code Slow" that encourages people to think and design good solutions and then implement them robustly.
" so I would charge $200/hr (a.k.a. I'll never do this) "

Just to emphasize how much rates can vary for many reasons, $200/hr was my base rate when I freelanced circa 2012.
> This seems more like a bug than something intentional.

You can intentionally not fix a bug.
Yes because CC companies and stores would never do that /s

Apple Pay actually makes it impossible for stores to do this and Apple has said they don't care about trying to sell/collect your data (and I trust them more than Visa).
"He is using Gmail as a backend to his own mail setup"

No, he is using a normal forward for those who want to receive their mail at gmail. He is not using gmail as his backend. You should read the original article.
Strictly speaking, "piracy" means something involving international boundaries, planes/ships, and violence or coercion...

But seriously (and colloquially) "piracy" is still not specific enough if you're asking a legal question.

Do you mean only plain copyright infringement?

Unlicensed use of spectrum with "pirate radio"?

Secretly re-selling portions of you phone's data plan via tethering?

Bypassing electricity-meters and wiring your house up to the grid directly?

...Abusing a promotional offer that says "one massage per person"?
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The basic ruling is that e-books are 'electronic services' and not goods, as a paper book would be. Therefor, France and Luxembourg must apply their standard Value-Added Tax (VAT) of 20% and 17% respectively instead of the lower rate used for paper-backed books of 5.5% and 3% respectively. EU law states that reduced rates for specific categories can only apply to goods, not services.

The countries as well as companies like Amazon will push to allow the lower VAT to be applied to ebooks.
Technically speaking, of course they do. Google can also read all your emails.

But I'm not sure Facebook would bother doing so. Hopefully the privacy policy regarding anonymous login specifies what they will or won't track.
The product/service distinction is orthogonal to the relevant category in (U.S.) copyright law: the work. Only "works" can be copyrighted, but a work can be provided as part of a service, sold as a product, or one of any number of other possibilities. Nice try though. :)
That doesn't help occasional important people who might send you an email that you might miss because it ends up in spam.
In other news, man commits to phasing out beating his wife by 2018.
Seeing how these days you're effectively "renting" any cloud-based DRM-enabled digital content, I think it makes more sense for them to be called services for which you get a "license to use" indefinite (i.e. limited, for as long as the deal vendor/publisher is in place) period of time.
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Ask HN: How do I prevent gmail from marking my mailing list as spam?
Mailing list in the traditional, GNU mailman sense. I have SPF and reverse DNS set up, but still ends up in the spam folder. What to do?
"I do think that the grueling and intimidating software interview process is a very serious problem in our field."

I'd have to agree. The interview process is irreducibly stressful, but that doesn't mean we have to go out of our way to make it worse. It isn't even good for hiring most men either, after all! It's just a bad idea.

I've personally had fairly good success hiring people who happen to be women, and I suspect a good part of that is that my interview attitude is that I'm there to find out what you can do, not to find out what you can't, which seems to be the unexamined default of a lot of interviewers. You don't start at "perfect" and get marks off for failure... you start at essentially zero and work your way up. "Starting at zero" may sound superficially harsh when I put it into English, but in practice this produces a much friendlier interview environment, I think, because we're discovering positive aspects instead of negative ones.

(Another reason to prefer this is that in practice this also helps avoid the problem of the senior candidate being thrown softballs, or the junior candidate being asked to design a cloud infrastructure. It really doesn't take that long for me to key in on where your most likely "knowledge frontier" is and probe for details there. As opposed to just going through a rote set of questions looking for demerits. It is a harder style of interviewing, though, precisely because you can't just go through a rote set of questions... even the standard question set I use has a lot of ways of approaching them and several "levels of detail" I can get into depending on experience and skill level.)

The end result is still, frankly, stressful. It's a big deal, and the interviewee would have to be outright irrational to forget that. But it helps if you as an interviewer remember that, too, and have some compassion.
Sadly, it doesn't have to be malicious to be anti-competitive. Back in AT&T's monopoly days they were at their most destructive not when they were scheming, but when their size let them not give a fuck what they were doing to other people as long as it was good for them.
If someone asked me for it to be even thinner, I would change it. The thing is, the default setting is REALLY THIN. If you want it thinner, it becomes transparent. It ends up taking FOREVER to slice because it just shreds to some extent. It's no longer slices, but a pile of shredded meat.
Hi, I am glad you are creating such application, it seems really interesting. Here is more info about the app, we are about to build:

- the evaluation of the progress is going to happen by running it against tests written in advance and against tools that evaluate code quality. The algorithm that is going to calculate the exact percent is yet to be created.

- user experience is the most important thing for me, if it is good and not intruding, it will help developers to stick in the application longer and learn more things (I guess)

- my hope is that the content (best practices and exercises) will be constantly updated and written by the best developers in the field or by authors that will be specifically chosen for that purpose
I have real trouble squaring "public mores change" and "that dude donated money to a thing that is dedicated exclusively to hurting people." Sure, that thing he likes that was dedicated exclusively to hurting people is no longer in vogue. Does that make his decision to help a thing that was dedicated exclusively to hurting people less bad because more other people were okay with it then than are now? Eich backed something that was always wrong, and yes, should be held to account for it. If Strom Thurmond was still alive you can bet I'd say the same thing about his efforts against, you know, the Civil Rights Act.

Now here's the real thing: not only did Eich back those reprehensible politics, he by all indications continues to do so. Heck, I'm probably one of the more vocally left-wing posters here, and I was a proud libertarian nutter ten years ago. My politics have wildly shifted and I am personally embarrassed by some of the idiotic beliefs I once held--but I'm not ashamed of the journey I took to get here and I own the whole damn thing. "I believed it then, with the best information I had, and when I got better information, I changed my mind." If Eich had been a neutral actor, had mildly believed something and shifted with those public mores instead of financially supporting them, had said "you know, I believed that then, I've grown as a person, and because of X and Y I no longer believe it"? Nobody would have had a beef. But he'd supported it concretely, and apparently picked that hill to die on in his moral calculus. So he, metaphorically, did.

There is a lesson of the Internet to be learned here, though: you will be viewed through the lens of history and you will probably be viewed through it during your lifetime. You don't have to be uncontroversial. But you do have to be just, be generous, and be good in your dealings. Or you will be judged harshly, and I'm honestly pretty okay with that.
Richard Stallman warned us about this kind of thing: he warned us and we laughed.
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I agree.

Personally, I can handle all sorts of adversarial situations, but I've never done well with "rigorous" interviews. I think I was raised to be humble and that's built into my DNA, but the business world embraces overpromise/underdeliver.

At the same time, I've successfully managed large teams, budgets, interfaced with super-high level people and negotiated hard-nosed deals. I gotten myself into these roles by other means -- 90% of interviews that I have done have been formalities.

IMO, that's a symptom of a bigger problem, as what you do has more to do with where you are and who you know than any other factor.
I always mark Amazon mail as spam. Could it be that if a lot of people mark a certain kind of email as spam, Google just treats it as spam?
If, howewer, there was such a history, would me making fuss over the situation in the story above make my behaviour justified?

The point is, there is always a minority to be found and a member of such can always find a reason to feel offended - but this by itself does not justify being aggressive. I used a clearly absurd example to separate the issues from sexual themes, because those get people emotional and irrational.
I did read the article and that's exactly what he's doing. He forwards everything to Gmail, and then allows users to send from Gmail via his SMTP server (or maybe doing some spoofing but it wouldn't look so clean). Essentially outsourcing hosting of inboxes (but just inboxes) to Gmail.

I run my own mail server, but most of my employees use Gmail. So I have forwarding set up: employee@dnalounge.com simply forwards to employee@gmail.com. When sending mail using their Gmail account, they set their From line to employee@dnalounge.com. (Google lets you do this if you jump through some hoops to verify that you can actually receive mail at that account.)
320 pages vs. 274 for the 2nd edition of The C Programming Language. Not bad, considering how much more "stuff" Go has in it vs. K&R C.
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Most people are fat because of diet, and just exercising a bit is not going to help them as much as they might hope.

Your anecdotate is just a silly brag that adds nothing to the discussion.
And to make it worst: Google don't run filters on messages that goes to the spam folders, so you can't even use that.

I always wanted to do the opposite: Run a filter on the spam folder to delete emails that I know for sure that really are spam, so I wouldn't need to delete them manually.
looks good, and is fast, but I won't use it unless I can import my opml
What did he warn us, and who laughed?
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I genuinely think you should put that to him. Not enough organisations recognise the value of junior developers imo.
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> So, if I try to understand your choice of comparisons, do you live with oppression because you're a Lisper?

If you call my peers laughing at me for "learning this weird thing" for the past 3 years, then yes, I live with oppression.

But more seriously, the reason I chose a clearly absurd example is to separate the issue from the emotional weight people give to topics about sex. I see this emotional attitude as a reason people get so irrational about the topic.
As @throwawayaway mentioned, some people may be worried about privacy. Many European countries are truly that small.

I myself have my location in my profile, so obviously this is not the case :) By saying that it's my country, I don't have to add if I just heard about it from my colleague, friend, read on a blog or have first-hands experience. I could say "my country (name-of-the-country)" to make it more clear though. But in this case the exact country doesn't matter much. Thus I put in the necessary information only.
Gmail is horrible in so many ways. Complete disregard for the MIME structure of the emails. All parts that aren't text/plain or text/html gets bumped to the bottom, even if they are clearly declared as inline. And then there's the infernal top posting they force on you. To get to one attachment I had to page through a wall of unsnipped irrelevant garbage, if they want to force an obnoxious posting style, at least put the attachments right below and together with the top-level message, not all the way at the bottom.
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My low content response is that you are brutally correct.
Yes, and that does not conflict with what I was saying. There are specific problem domains where generics would simplify matters, but in the overall universe of problems those domains are rare, i.e., most of the code that most programmers will write in Go will not involve duplicating code because of the absence of generics.
They also discontinued Baseball, which pretty much made the Xbox platform crap for a baseball fan (my son).
I've long supported a proof-of-work concept augmented with whitelisted keys for email spam filtering.

There are basically two cases here:

1. The sender is sending one email to one receiver. The sender computes the proof of work and sends it along with the message. This takes some time, but typically it can be done in the background. Waiting few seconds between sending and receiving an email is typically not an issue, and in fact many email clients wait for some time before sending anyway to allow "undo send" functionality. Rather that doing this computation on the mail server, it should be done on the sender's client, so that the server doesn't get overloaded with proof-of-work computations.

2. The sender is sending many emails to many receivers (a mailing list). In this case when the receiver signs up for the mailing list, the sender sends a request for a whitelist token to the receiver's mail server. IF the user accepts the request, the receiver's mail server returns the token and then the sender sends all further communication with the token instead of with a proof-of-work. This solves a few problems: a) Receivers opt in rather than opting out of receiving communications. The ubiquitous pre-checked "send me spam" checkbox loses its effectiveness. b) Receivers can revoke tokens at any time. c) Senders who are sending large amounts of legitimate mail don't have to compute a proof-of-work for every email they send.

Receivers simply drop email which doesn't come with either a proof-of-work or a whitelist token. This drives up the cost of sending large numbers of spam emails because each spam email requires a large amount of computation. And even in cases where a spammer has a large amount of computation at their disposal (botnets are a common case) it makes it easier for servers to distinguish between mailing lists and spam: a large number of identical emails could be either, but mailing list mailings should come with a whitelist token.

Doing things this way would mean we can drop these terrible DKIM and SPF systems that both fail to prevent spam and make it difficult to send legitimate mail.
We are thinking on removing the watch from that image as people may think its "just for watch" (whatever that means). What do you think?
It's nice that the site enforces HTTPS, but I wouldn't call that a distinguishing feature. Also calling it a "reader for a privacy conscious generation" is a bit pompous, if that's the only feature in that direction.
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well i've started marking ebay, linkedin and google+ stuff as spam. i'm sure somebody else did amazon the same favour...

so... sorry? :)
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If it was me I'd have said something like "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it to offend you, I didn't mean it to".

But yeah, your one works too ;)