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by jcrites 11y ago
The recent post about Candy Japan's attempt to combat credit card fraud gives a good sense of what fighting fraud and abuse is like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11431881 As an email service provider it's
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Possible reason that email service providers and other email sending services might see an increase in new signups and free tier use recently: http://blog.mandrill.com/important-changes-to-mandrill.html Mandrill in essence
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Rebol has always interested me, as a person that follows programming languages. There seems to be a spark of insight to it. I wasn't aware that there were free and open source languages inspired by it (or made by its author), nor had I
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At least in email's case, the most common pattern is for SMTP connections to begin in plaintext and then be upgraded to TLS. This involves the client sending a command to the server inquiring about the server's protocol extensions
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Excellent! Strict transport security for SMTP has been sorely needed. Once it's widely deployed, it will finally ensure that virtually all email communication occurs over TLS. TLS is already widely supported among large ISPs, but until
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I'd recommend Pinboard.in. If you pay for an account with Bookmark Archive, it will also save a permanent copy of the bookmarks so that you can read them even if the original goes down, and provides full text search over them. There&#x
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James has put out a lot of great material. He's given a talk series and wrote a conference paper called "On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services" which is a trove of valuable design insights: https://www
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Why is the situation hopeless? Google, for example, has been undertaking efforts for years to improve security on the Internet, in part for the purpose of protecting privacy. Seven days ago they were featured in an article about how they&#x
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The article is discussing documentation for the AWS Flow Framework specifically . The Flow Framework is a Java framework built on top of the SWF API, and it provides a completely different programming model than the SWF API. The C# example
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> I'm not arguing that we shouldn't do anything. I'm arguing that the presentation of the data is at best meaningless and at worst downright harmful. What do you think should be done to make progress that's better tha
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These are the kinds of questions I'd be concerned with: Can I easily develop Haskell from any platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and are good IDEs available on all of them? My team is diverse and I don't want to tell my engineers what
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.NET is a pretty strong contender and provides a lot of the benefits of Java, I agree. C# was ahead of Java language-wise for many years, though Java is catching up, and there are elements of the CLR and model that I'd prefer over Java
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This sounds like unjustified FUD. It's not been my experience. A large amount of infrastructure at companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Ebay, etc. is written in Java and the code I've seen from those companies is well-engineer
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I'm skeptical that any other language will be nearly as easy write, operate, and maintain in production as Java. It's really easy to administrate Java applications. You can connect to the JVM and examine what objects are in the he
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Reddit threads are indiscriminate. I'd expect Facebook to filter the content to intelligently include posts from people that you know and correspond with frequently. There will probably be even more activity total across the system, bu
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Neat concept. Presumably lets all the sports-interested people congregate, while I assume also helping keep sports-related content away from folks who are not interested. There's probably a lot of pent up user demand for "what peo
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by jcrites 11y ago
> Look at TV before Netflix/iTunes/etc. came along. I think that undermines your point: Netflix and iTunes are paid content channels. TV used to be freely broadcast over the airwaves (still is, but used to be too) and needed to
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The light reaching the object from the sun drops off by 1/r^2, and then the light reaching Earth from the object drops again by 1/r^2. Since the latter light is a portion of the former, you multiply them for 1/r^4.
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So, ISIS earns 1/5th the daily revenue of than Clash of Clans, or about the same revenue as ~250 McDonalds stores? http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-02-11-clash-of-cl...
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You seem to think that a certificate authority is obligated to verify ownership of a domain by email (for DV certs). You are mistaken, and that's not the case. The mechanisms supported by Let's Encrypt to authenticate domains ar
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If you like Permutation City, you might also enjoy another of Egan's works, Diaspora. http://www.amazon.com/Diaspora-Novel-Greg-Egan/dp/1597805424... "Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, huma
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Technology and technology-based products and services have the intrinsic ability to scale, especially digital ones. Physical technology can be manufactured and mass distributed; digital products and services can be copied or spun up. WhatsA
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She's a very special friend, and I hadn't done much in the way of thoughtful gifts for her birthday in the last several years. She loves the restaurant and hadn't eaten there in about five years. The restaurant actually burne
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Yes, this was the solution Magic used. This is what I appreciate about Magic, by the way. I simply asked for food from the restaurant, specifying that leftovers were fine. Chilled overnight didn't even occur to me; I did not have any i
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I use Magic and they provide incredible service. They've been able to accomplish pretty much everything I've asked, including some requests that I thought were borderline outlandish, such as having food from a restaurant across th
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There was a really interesting Planet Money episode from NPR about how introducing a new currency saved Brazil from hyperinflation. I'd highly recommend it: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/
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Google's also had a positive impact on TLS usage in email: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/ TLS for email is still in pretty bad shape but it's getting better. (Funny, I just noticed
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People who are interested in this topic - what REST is and is not, what it's meant to be, and so on would do well to read Fielding's thesis in full [1]. There is quite a lot of misunderstanding of the topic. REST as a concept was
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A person looking to understand "What is REST? What is a RESTful application?" would be well-served by considering websites rather than web services. Facebook, Amazon, and Hacker News are good examples of RESTful applications. Yo
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I'm a fan of the JVM, but it doesn't remove the need to be prepared to scale up by adding more machines. That said, it's great at concurrency, so it's easier to harness the full capability of a machine than with other pl

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