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"You know what would be a better product? A relay SMTP server that works with Google/Microsoft/Amazon/Fastmail et. al. to pump e-mail from personal servers and ensures it won't get caught in spam filters."

That's basically Sendgrid or Mailgun or even Fastmail itself. They can all relay SMTP for arbitrary domains.
In my opinion anything js-related is the furthest you can get from "power on to BASIC". I can say that for me it feels less enjoyable to have to rely on an external website (like jsfiddle), also requiring that you be able to write (very) basic HTML and maybe even CSS. I agree that once it's set up it can be very interactive, but it's non-trivial to get to that point
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I wonder which planets Kepler would see if someone used it to look at the Solar system from a far distance.
You could also say a similar situation could happen with alcohol. Note said , I think in the future , 59-70 years from now healthy people will refrain from alcohol, pot knowing they both have negative consequences to themselves and their offspring
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For now, a single domain per server. And yes, mirroring support is coming with 2 servers so you will have the fail over that you mentioned.
If I understand correctly, incoming e-mail actually goes to some EC2 host.
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He writes that he's using a special type of IL for this technique, presumably he forbids indirect jumps in it.
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I remember having lots of very similar questions when I first started. I'm a software engineer, so I moved to silicon valley years ago to find a CEO I could CTO for. Fortunately, I stopped looking and had the confidence that I'd be able to figure out all the business stuff. I bet on myself as the CEO.

One of the reasons why there are so many software startup opportunities is because industries are so siloed. My current startup is in Oilfield Logistics - it's literally software to aid moving sand from a mine to an oil well. I had no idea this problem existed until I talked to a friend that runs a large trucking company, and then dug into it. Key takeaway - talk to a lot of people, in lots of different locations, in lots of different industries.

As for how to get the money to bootstrap - you have to get creative, and that's what makes bootstrapping so much fun. Having a VC write you a check is so...unoriginal. If you can find a customer whose pain is more acute than the rest, you can often get them to pay in advance or have them pay to build it, but offer them a "discount" so you can retain all the IP. Now a customer is funding your startup. Or find the smallest MVP that customers will pay for and only build that. The MVP might be a spreadsheet or Zapier + Airtable. You would be surprised what customers are willing to pay for. They don't care if it's easily deployable, can be easily scaled up, or has a beautiful UI, as long as it solves their problem.
I am a strong believer in kids having access to technology, but also creating the frameworks in which they can learn how to keep themselves safe.

I grew up around a software company and I was exposed to computers and the internet from a very young age; I had my first computer that could be considered "my own" at about five years of age (a little hand-me-down desktop from my father's company) and cut my teeth on that, building little static websites, stuff like that.

It's definitely what lead to my lifelong interest in computing (as much as I can't stand this industry sometimes) and a healthy career in IT infrastructure.
Pilots being drunk in the cockpit is not “quite common” at least among major carriers. Pilots are randomly tested throughout the year against a stricter standard than what’s used for driving under the influence in the US. A positive test can be career ending.
Depends of your definition of planet, according to IAU a planet needs to clear his neighborhood, in this case, only one planet can be the major object in his orbit.

But co-orbital objects exist and one of the most interesting ones is the pair of Saturn satellites, Janus and Epimetheus, their orbit describe a horseshoe and there are pretty cool videos on YouTube with their orbits.
Hey, I'm glad someone did!

You offered an interesting thought, and I couldn't find anybody actually taking on "how does this compare to USA data?", so it was as much to settle my own curiosity as anything.
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>far right twitter accounts

Nazis are everywhere, after all.

And wow is it just embarrassing to see this "incorrect election information" thing being touted here. If someone was actually convinced that the election was a day later because they believed an NPC Twitter account they have only themselves to blame.
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Getting the necessary time in complex aircraft has gotten almost prohibitively expensive. I also believe the military is creating less pilots as a result of having fewer and fewer airframes. I wanted to be a pilot and pursued an Air National Guard C-17 squadron, but to get the hours they were looking for would have required me to be independently wealthy. And if you go the civilian route, you end up flying for a regional with hopes it doesn't get bought out before you get enough PIC time to be competitive for one of the majors. And that is while making 20k-30k anually for 5-10 years.
Are there alternatives for PWS? I liked how it provided better and more localized information in comparison to official channels in Mexico
The average home computer user has terrible security practices. Frankly, their email is safer being managed by a competent business. So who is the intended market here?
Doesn't Helm have RCE on the device at all times? Doesn't all e-mail come in on an EC2 instance, and go out over an EC2 instance?
That is an uncharitable, low-comprehension reading of my first sentence. Didn't say they were friends, and the phrase "all encompassing", isn't for the folks looking after the dog.
Thanks, I didn't see that. I'm looking for all the cons.
If you have to rely on propriety code which makes a constant connection to a server hosted on AWS, I don't see any benefit over Fastmail or Proton. It's less secure and has a higher failure rate.
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I'm beginning to think the only user friendly secure way of user authentication is to go passwordless (except for the email account which becomes the key for everything).

Setup an email account and lock it down - strong unique password, enforced 2 factor, etc.

Then on every site just email a magic login link.

The user only has to remember 1 password, they don't have to figure out how to use (and trust) a password manager, they don't have to worry about a breach on one site leading to all their accounts being compromised, and they don't have to worry about whether some site has correctly implemented 2 factor, or has side channel attack vectors to gain control of their account.

I actually attempt to do this where I can (set a randomly generated string as your password and use the reset password route to get a magic login link). The main problem I run into is where I want to be logged in to the site and their mobile app and they log out all devices when the password is reset.

The biggest problem (and it is a big problem) is that if they lose control of their email account or their email provider is breached, then they lose access to everything. But right now that's already true (due to the reset password route on many sites).
You typically have to be in the industry already and experiencing the problem first hand. If you’re technical the best opportunity is usually to partner with someone in the industry 50/50 cofounders. In the later stages you will become an expert because if you’re technical usually fast at learning.

If you have ideas for products or services to improve technical workflow that could also be a space to innovate too.
This question would be better asked to AWS support. Barring that, why not just test it with an few instance types and measure the results?
power on to lua: nodemcu

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also: you may have choices to make in a mind free of the trappings of the news that the constancy of the news is likely to undermine
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xonsh from linux

A shell is an interactive programming environment (like basic) that is the primary interface for communicating with the computer. (remember Commodore BASIC was also how you used the computer)

Linux with auto-login directly into a shell with xonsh as default does exactly this. Go directly into a shell from a PTTY or set up your desktop environment to automatically launch a terminal.
One key principle for Helm is that you always hold your encryption keys to all your data— Helm and outside parties should never get access to that. So the backups are encrypted, and the Helm device itself stores your data in an encrypted fashion on its storage, and has a secure enclave such that those keys never enter user memory space.

Hosted services like protonmail (great option) support some key management but that's rare. Most everyone stores all your data in the clear, and that sets you up for Facebook-style hacks where people just steal a database en masse, and/or leave you open to warrantless wiretap which has been a problem for email services broadly in the past.

I want to point out that email is just the first part of what Helm wants to do. What is super valuable is that Helm can run its own software and add things like distributed anonymized VPN, or file sharing, and these things are all federated in a way that wasn't possible before.

Not everyone is going to care about this, but enough people should. People reading this thread should care: decentralization and federation of this sort is the way we maintain an open Internet. You can take down individual nodes but you can't take down millions of them. That's the ultimate goal of Helm.

Remember, there's no such thing as a cloud, it's just someone else's computer.
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Stack Overflow already exists.
> * How does one even learn that is an issue?

> * It seems like something where getting started is driven entirely by having contacts in the industry.

Get a job in an industry and learn the domain. It's that simple, in theory at least. The "advantaged" have friends and family who educate you on these industries, but it's hard to really get domain expertise without doing the work.

You aren't "only good at programming." If that is the case you underestimate yourself, are lazy, etc. That's not meant to be mean, but you can achieve more.

The challenge is that domain expertise can be a significant investment when:

* You could be doing more fun things

* It might be location specific

* Might impact your earnings

* May result in your settling down to a different life than you expected.

> Say you're really only good at programming and want to start a ...fashion business. How do you even start?

Get a side hustle. For that exact scenario see https://twitter.com/donasarkar and http://donasarkarbooks.com/fashion-design/.
I am all for single payer (Medicare for all for example) but there are plenty of ways the US system could improve. First would be to mandate pricing transparency so we actually have some data on the table for a rational discussion.
in visual form (hold shift and move mouse): https://shaunlebron.github.io/ratios/
I can see it going this way as well. My fear is that it will cause too much focus on personalities rather than quality work.
An hour a day of screentime is literally what I’m talking about. That’s a constant presence in life.
Ah, but the argument was made that Forth code has an implicit tree structure based on looking up the arity of functions, in place of explicit delimitation with parentheses. How can that be if some function takes N arguments, where N is, say, a run-time value, itself on the stack.
>I expected something juicier

What does the quantity of employees have to do with the discussion?
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So what happens when you are traveling and there's a power issue or maybe some other connection issue that knocks this box out of service? Looks like you'll be stuck without email until you can physically get back to this box. This isn't a scenario you worry about with regular email.

The challenge with email is that once you give out any mail address to people, you are on the hook to ensure that it's a functional address. Not something you can just try for 6 months and then easily move on from. And if you decide to move on from this service, will the average person be able to easily migrate that custom domain to a different email provider? (Yes, technically this is possible, but can normal users do it easily? Is it part of the service that Helm provides?)
Yeah, is The Onion going to get banned now? This seems like straight-forward parody.
as long as the average premiums cover the average costs for the pool

Not even. In P&C insurance at least, the premiums are invested. Even if you operate at an actuarial loss (i.e. you pay out more than you receive in revenue), you can still make a profit on the investment income.
Turning things around a bit why would people care enough to spend time to get a meeting with you? 30M is a tiny fund the advice you give is pretty much what all VCs say but you are wording it in a very master of universe type of language. I would be slightly surprised if Doug Leone phrased it like this but to see such wording from a small fund partner to me is already a big red flag.
> Production is also largely illegal in Canada

Production is only illegal in the same way that tobacco production is illegal - you have to be licences to produce and sell cannabis products.
"Send tab/link to Polar" Firefox and chrome extensions could be useful.
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Didn't mean to. I had assumed all the banned accounts did spread the wrong election date.

I'll take your word that most of the accounts in question did not spread the wrong election date. I guess Twitter saw that some were, and assessed that the accounts were part of some 'campaign' (because they're similar in appearance, creation date, etc.) and basically judged every account in that 'campaign' as one.

To answer your question, if I were Twitter and I suspected all the accounts were being operated by the same small group of people, then yes I would punish all the accounts including the ones that hadn't yet carried out voter suppression tactics.

If I saw they were posting very similar content, I'd suspect the accounts that hadn't spread the wrong election date were soon going to and not wait until they all did to get rid of them.
Can't all these (once?) illegal growers sellers just do so legally now?

Not talking about someone who buys an ounce and sells 3/4 so they get a 1/4 for free, but those doing it as a business, making good money.

About 15 years ago used to grow and sell in the UK, nothing too major, about 1 to 2kg a month would get cropped every month of the year. If the option presented itself to pay tax on the profit in order to remove the hassle and fear or banking the money I would have taken the hit of lost profit in a heart beat.

Is this not being offered to existing growers / suppliers / dealers? I can understand perhaps not as a long term solution, but as a transition period
Which is difficult for type a personalities !
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I’m talking about younger kids. But, cool, feel free to report back when you actually have kids and tell us how your plan went.
There is an app on the Nintendo 3DS called Petit Computer which is a basic interpreter.(It might currently be called Smile Basic). There are tons of tutorials and you can make simple applications to advanced games.
Carrot weather already has Dark Sky as the default. You need to pay for a subscription if you want to use it on the iPhone, and a higher-tier subscription for the Watch. I'm assuming they're just remove WU and have DS as the only option.
What else should we use? The letter paradigm is fairly universal.
This is a valuable and useful criticism and we're going to talk about this at our next board meeting.

How do you know who to trust? You surely have to trust someone. It feels generally true that we can trust Apple since we pay them for hardware and their ongoing business interest is in protecting their revenue streams through their hardware and iOS app store, which means you are aligned.

Generally for Helm that's a good case. That's why we charge money for this hardware and software: it aligns interest.

Free cloud services are not truly free and that's what most people seem to be OK with... but not all people.

This is the classic trade-off. Open source software you can read the code but usability suffers. For the people on HN, most people can run their own servers, but for normal people that's not an option.

Apple has managed to create a computing environment that is highly usable for normal people. This is what Helm is trying to do too.
Do you have some examples or a link to a blog for what types of error cases you ran into and how you handled it?
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Neat, looks like they're using a solution similar to what we're doing, except instead of using Cloud KMS to encrypt information stored in Google Cloud Storage, we're putting our information in Datastore.

The reason being that these secrets are absolutely essential for many tasks that our registry needs to perform, and the past six years of experience have shown us that Datastore has better availability than GCS. We haven't seen Datastore ever go down unless all of Cloud is down too, whereas we have seen outages isolated to just GCS. Datastore also has lower latency (since it's a DB, not bulk file storage).

One caveat is that the maximum size of a single entity in Datastore is 1 MB -- if you're encrypting stuff larger than that then you'll need to shard (ugly) or just use GCS. Since none of our secrets are anything close to that large, it works just fine.
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You mean pot is safe, Muslims are not waiting to kill me on every corner, and if a homosexual person looks at me I won't catch AIDS?
What about that healthcare thing? I heard free healthcare will turn me into a communist.
> if you cheap out on RAM and buy used Phis you could probably get the same setup for $1k USD.

I'd love to lay my hands on a cheap 72x5 Phi based workstations...

But since Intel only sells those by the tray, I guess I'll have to wait until someone decommission a large supercomputer.
The greater the sample size, the more room for outliers.
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If you change the “desired” setting directly from 50 to 300, they will start up in parallel
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To support the "you can get pretty far in playgrounds on an iPad" assertion, one of my coworkers built something like half of a language flash card app on his ipad before he transferred it over to his laptop to finish it. I thought he was nuts doing dev on a tablet, but he said it was actually a really nice dev environment and in some areas it totally outclassed xcode. Swift may not be your favorite language but it is an objectively good modern language compared to a lot of what's out there in industry, and its skills are easily transferable to several other good modern languages that are becoming popular.
Equating joke accounts spreading the wrong election date with voter suppression is just laughable. How could anyone possibly believe an NPC Twitter account? How stupid would they have to be?
Hey cwyers - this is a good question. Our offsite backups use keys that only a Helm customer has access to. They are created during the setup process and stored on a USB thumb drive we include in the box as well as your phone. We will be publishing how this is done using duplicity so people can see the details of how it works.
Be careful: signal/noise ratio is extremely low here. There are lots of people, particularly in SV, with vague ideas and a general desire to be a "non-technical cofounder", but far less that have the deep, valuable domain knowledge being discussed here.
> I definitively believe that we need to fix the way email is handled, but I don't think this is the solution.

Sorry, I respectfully disagree. We shouldn't fix email, we should throw it away and replace it.

It is almost impossible to have secure email that can't be eavesdropped, even with PGP. Normal people just don't get the need for security and can't bother the hassle of encrypting their email.

Also, from an usability perspective, email was a solution for an age without mobile computing.

What we need is something like Signal: instant messaging with privacy built in by default.
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How do you know the statistic probability of life evolving in a solar system? We don't have an observation technique to definitively observe this.

Again, we've only ever observed a single solar system up close.
If it’s obvious social signaling and not rooted in any real argument about use of language and morals, just laugh and shake your head
I love to see the creative misuse of technology. We need more of that.
The legislation I linked to suspends all constitutionally-guaranteed rights "at" the border (ie within 100 miles of a border crossing, including any airports with international flights) if you are not an American citizen. The suspension of constitutional rights has been tried and upheld by a number of SCOTUS cases.

There is no international body regulating any other kind of right, despite the well-meaning intention of a number of organizations.
Say, how are things with adaptations of "The Master and Margarita" into other media? There was some Hollywood movie undergoing, or wasn't it? Pretty sure I didn't mistake it with the Fantastic Beasts franchise...

I myself gonna humblebrag, one of my mods for Skyrim is named "Never Talk To NPCs" after the first chapter of the book. Of course it's only rehashing a few selected tropes, not an adaptation in the strict sense.

So is "The Master and Margarita" really for people who feel low in their lifes? My activity once led me to reading a thread on 4chan about "The Master and Margarita", where the OP-anon insisted there's no point in a book where there is magic and "the protaganist [i.e., Woland] can do everything". Not sure if it was genuine trolling or some poor soul forced to read in for a class assignment, but there's a grain of good question in that observation.

SPOILER if Woland frees the Master only after Margarita wished to free other person, maybe Woland wasn't in power to free the Master without that happening? we'll never know in the book, but I shall imply that the whole thing was set up precisely for that accomplishment END SPOILER.
You don't need anyone's permission to call anything "open source". There's certainly no legal requirement.

Note, however, if this language starts making its way into contracts, and you're calling something "open source" that isn't actually open source by any standard meanings of the term, then you could be in trouble. But releasing something under a common open source license is prima facie open source, so no problems there.
Minority? This is directly from Knuth.