skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real lesson of Anslinger is you take a guy who's hungry for power and feed him, and regardless of actual need you'll get a 10K person department under his control eventually. Its a misallocation thing. NACA (the predecessor of NASA) was 15 years old when Anslinger gained power, and if he was put in control of NACA we'd probably have landed on the moon before Pearl Harbor or some similar ridiculous accomplishment. But no, he was misallocated into some backwater of law enforcement, and thru personal skill he turned it from a backwater into maybe the dominant force in the field. Or more realistic than putting him in charge of future-NASA, if he instead were assigned to the SEC which was formed a couple years too late for him, imagine a world where a super-cop pounds down financial crime.

There are bad boomer sports analogies with "the hot hand" and "the playmaker" and honestly I don't think Anslinger cared much about weed at all, as seen by his statements before he gained power; all he cared about was building a 10K person department, which led to the DEA we have today. Big corporate PR oriented mission statements mean nothing to people today, makes you wonder if they'll be vilified for ruining lives decades from now in some weird unanticipated quirk.

Anslinger wasn't evil so much as he was tragic. What a waste, both his organizational skills and all the lives ruined as a side effect for decades after.

Most discussion about the civilization wide effects of too many people for too few jobs focus on what millions of manual laborers or white collars being non-gainfully employed will do.. but another problem is imagine a world with 1000x as many Anslingers all able to build an empire, yet there are no useful productive empires to build, leading to 1000x the insanity of current drug laws in other fields. Imagine IP allocation, DNS resolution, or software licensing turned into a DEA-like dystopia, simply because there's no real jobs for empire builder-type people.
Any examples in regards to free speech?
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I'm talking 0-3 years in!
That was my point, we should not need to rewrite this over and over.
Anti-FGM activism and and reformist Islam have both been labelled hate speech according the SPLC:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/southern-poverty-...

While Twitter bans criticism of the left using the NPC meme, @dbwrf, a pro (yes they exist) FGM group is not only still up but also running a Twitter ad campaign supporting FGM.
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I have a Commodore 64 and due to its age it's a rather temperamental piece of equipment, and the 1541 disk drive even more so. I'm planning to replace all of the electrolytic capacitors in it which should help a lot, but that's probably beyond the abilities of most people.

Setting up a Pi or something to boot directly to a C64 emulator would be easier and an order of magnitude less expensive for most people.
>or only doing this on the weekends.

Problem being ?
Reminds me of the original Ethernet algorithm to deal with collisions on coax.
It is already how it works for alcohol and gambling. Makes sense that drugs would also be sold by the government.
On the homepage

> Do you know where your email is?

You show, Google, NSA, etc... but doesn't this service route email through your own servers to get to the box in my home? what makes your servers more secure than Google's at handling the emails? If I have to trust you to route the emails, I might as well just use something like Fastmail that hosts them too.

More crucially, what can I do with the box if I ever stop paying you? or you go under, etc.
Not all of these accounts where banned. But, it's likely they where banning multiple sock puppets from the same users.
B-b-but they spread information that could lead intelligent and informed people to miss the vote!

Who doesn't get the voting date from Twitter these days?
"power on to genera" would be nice.
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All of what you said makes sense in the context of being a relatively, financially mobile, single person.

Having a children and home that isn't the size of a shoebox is the norm in most regions of Canada, and should not be considered a luxury. So yeah, it is that Toronto is expensive, if you want these things out of life.
This would be true if what you call "news" was objectively valuable information. To me it appears more strongly curated to misinform and create irrational emotional responses for the benefit of some (mostly political leaders and large businesses) to the detriment of the audience.
Very ignorant response. It's fairly straightforward to set up SPF for a new domain, and most big emails will follow these policies.
I found the answer by clicking Technology from the top menu, and the explanation is the very first paragraph to be read.
Or you have driven at 200mp/h on the Autobarn in Germany.

Obviously perfectly legal in Germany, but seriously illegal in the USA, so the border guards will deny you entry for breaking a US law while you where in a country where it's not illegal! insanity!
Probably the most commercially successful algorithm ever invented.
I'm referring to it catching on in a political sense and becoming such a major part of the 2016 election cycle while neither the crying Jordan, the spongebob caveman, the sad ben Affleck and all else that was popular at that time didn't.
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For the 1,000,000th time: you can't shout "fire" in a crowded theater and call it "satire" either.
Hi tpetry - Giri Sreenivas, co-founder and CEO of Helm here. You raise an important issue with residential IP addresses not being trusted by email senders. This is why we use a static IP address assigned to a gateway for each customer. The Helm Server appears to have this IP when communicating with other email servers. This also allows us to define reverse DNS for a domain which is another marker of trust for email servers.
They recently announced the first detection of an exo-moon, but said the moon was the same size as the Earth (orbiting a much larger gas planet) so the definition of planet and moon is blurry. Unfortunately the terms 'dual-planets', 'double-planets', or 'binary-planets' are not (yet) recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) according to wikipedia.
Source? I’m genuinely interested in the numbers.
It's my understanding that he's reverse engineering the Chinese version of the phone rather than the international version.
> not in free speech etc.

What's your source on this? Free speech is enshrined as a "fundamental freedom" in the Charter. There are reasonable limits as well, to ensure that things like hate speech are deemed illegal.
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I think just about every internet connection can run email just fine.
> "a fraction" is "half" in this case, which is actually pretty close to par in my mind

??! No, half is half. Strange response. It's $50/year, and the $50/year charged by Fastmail is already quite steep for email.
I have a hard time believing these troll accounts had a significant impact on anyone's voting decions. Dumb meme, but seems like an over reaction.
It's interesting that Amazon is portrayed as the "massive corporate server" provider that stores your email "outside your home" on your homepage, yet you use AWS EC2 instances to pipe email traffic to/from Helm.

I understand that it's just an encrypted VPN connection, and are not actually storing email on the EC2 instances. But is there any way for your customers to ensure that? Can your customers shell into the Helm and/or EC2 instance(s)?
Yes some memes are more powerful than others. Like biological replicators, they score on longevity, fecundity and fidelity.

For example many religions have a clause where if you stop believing you go to hell. Or if you don't teach it to your children you are a bad person. Very powerful mechanism.
I had an assignment where I needed to implement generic Skip lists in Java, I had a great time doing it, I really enjoy them as a data structure
It's interesting that this Twitter ban gets all this attention, while a far more civically damaging coordinated mass-ban by Twitter and Facebook has largely escaped notice. [0] If one were a cynic, one might suggest that there is only enough space in the news cycle for one group of unsympathetic ban victims.

[0] https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/10/13/internet-censorship-...
In Ontario, Canada I know that Bell, Rogers, and Teksavvy all block outbound TCP 25 for their residential service. I can't comment on inbound TCP port 25 though.
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That happened back with George W. Bush ironically and really ended it for the postmodernist side. There was one interesting article about it.

http://clubtroppo.com.au/2012/02/22/george-bush-bruno-latour...

Being disengaged with reality because it doesn't say what you want it to isn't a good thing but some delusions are more harmful than others.
I host my email on a vps for $2.50/month. At that price there is really no reason to do it at home.
Repeating it all those times hasn't made it true.
Honest question - What's up with that form factor? Seems designed to take up more space than necessary. Is there some reason for it or was it just an aesthetic choice?
Yes, but the website is not only for polymer elements, you can find components written in other libraries too, like lit, svelte or even vue. That's what I meant - it is just a website that serves as information aggregator from bower/npm.
Try https://mailinabox.email

It's rad, does all of the DNS/SSL/DKIM foo necessary to make your email fully deliverable, includes contacts and calendar sync, is multi-user, multi-domain, etc.
I think it's fun and has a lot of potential.

I think they could be set up in public places where pianos are to get people a little more into it.

Future versions could include co-creating the patch and store/recall in memory.
It's a big fat lie that employer pays anything - employee pays it all, from money employer is willing to pay him/her for work done. No matter how we wrap the facts, this won't change. It doesn't matter that its taken away before it reaches your account.

I understand the motivation - people would be properly pissed off if they realized state is taking 50-70% of their income prior to letting them get the rest. And then they are taxed more with VAT, housing, fuel etc. Of course there are services given back, in some cases very substantial and helpful (and in some cases very wasteful and useless), but never forget the fact that you pay for it with most of your income, like it or not.
> It's almost certainly not going to be another tobacco, but it strikes me as impossible that smoking marijuana is harmless.

it is known not to be harmless. it can cause cardiovascular issues. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.08.001
Canada is actually super good about this.

If you're coming from Australia, the official immigration docs ask do you have a DUI? If yes, was it below .07 Blood Alcohol Content?

(In Australia the crime is .05 or above, but in Canada the crime is only > .07)

So even if you broke the law in Australia and got a DUI at .06, Canada will ignore it, because technically driving at .06 in Canada is not a crime, so they don't deem you to have committed a crime at all!
I would suggest checking out the Micro:bit:

https://www.microbit.org/

Not exactly the same as what you're looking for, but the idea here is to introduce kids to programming with a small, self-contained environment, and there is both a graphical coding environment and you can move to Python or Javascript.
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You might know that internet trolls from reddit/4chan aren't likely to be russian (at least for this meme in particular), but most (especially older) people are not familiar with the various internet cultures. It's a question I can definitely see my parents asking.
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How does this work for mobile? Most of my emails are read on the phone, outside of home.
Agreed there are exceptions to the first two rules — the two best performing investments in my portfolio respectively are exceptions to #1 and #2. That said, these are the exception, not the rule.

• Out of ~70+ companies I've invested in, exactly one reached out cold (and I had already met the founder once before socially). I do take a look at each of the companies that reach out cold, but I'm bombarded with these email, so I give them about a tenth of the attention I can afford to give to someone who comes with a recommendation already.

• The best companies can raise without a deck if they have a strong personal connection or really good traction to get past the screening stage. In my mind, the deck is the most effective way to succinctly pitch a company before I meet the founder. We don't actually use it in the initial conversation.
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How do you know what type of company to start and how much of your own money did you invest when bootstrapping a company.

I heard about startups that do something like make medical insurance billing easier. That raises a lot of questions, actually.

* 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.

* There has to be a ton of prohibitively expensive red tape to cut through. Would you just pay a lawyer to figure all that out? Lawyers are expensive!

* It doesn't seem like something that really makes the world better although I'm sure you could tell yourself that it does if it was your business. Is having your business do something you consider positive important?

* Where do you get the knowledge you need to get started in an industry. Say you're really only good at programming and want to start a ...fashion business. How do you even start? It can be hard to use Google when valuable information is buried under an ocean of click bait articles.
Do you think pointing out someone else appears to have stock opinions and doesn't actually think about the world around them is "shouting fire in a crowded theatre"?
According to their FAQ, you are basically on your own since your device is the MX server:

> While offline, emails sent to you will not be delivered. This does not, however, mean that they are lost. If your email server becomes unreachable for any reason, the sender’s email server will periodically retry sending the email at a later time. Email servers are generally configured to retry rapidly at first and then back off and increase the time between retries.

> Once your email server comes back online and a retry is performed, you will successfully receive the sent email. If your email server is offline for an extended period of time, the sending server will eventually give up and send a bounce message to the person who sent you the email.
I’ve talked both Verizon and Frontier about servers and both have basically said the same thing, if it’s private and locked off it’s fine. Meaning as long as it’s not public.

Now the terms still would give them an out if they decided they didn’t want you, but honestly as long as you’re not hurting the network they’d rather take your money.
Winnipeg is in the top ten, but definitely not the murder capital of Canada:
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/these-are-the-canadian-...

To put it in perspective, the murder rate of 2.9 per 100,000 makes Winnipeg about as dangerous as San Jose, CA or Raleigh, NC.
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My kids are enjoying working through the kano. It's a raspberry-pi with a linux distro attached to it, lots of coding opportunities.

A bit too graphical for my tastes, and lots of distractions — but, lots of learning.
We already have nice things, and other reasons not to write in-house ops tools
If anyone has watched the move “Strange Brew”, that’s exactly what the LCBO stores looked like in the 1980’s.

No advertisements, no product on the shelves, just a person standing at a register taking orders and you case of beer magically arriving on a conveyor belt.

Weird to think about now.
The problem I see is the word "near" in "climb to nearest peak". To quote the curse of dimensionality wiki page:

> The common theme of these problems is that when the dimensionality increases, the volume of the space increases so fast that the available data become sparse. This sparsity is problematic for any method that requires statistical significance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
> Someone I follow posts something I think is intelligent and polite, and the replies are filled with people launching tangential attacks and making weird accusations.

You can still curate this experience. There are accounts that I will never read the replies from, and there are accounts that I know will have great replies.

There are other accounts where I will. I ban, mute, and use the "don't show retweets from this user" feature liberally.

> suppose hoards of people with political opinions you detest start creating accounts that pose as "your side", using the worst possible arguments for your positions, insulting everyone, and making "your side" look stupid and cruel. Is that a kind of speech you want to protect?

If you're talking about the NPC accounts, they are clearly satire by their tweeting style and avatar.

Actual subversive impersonation is tricky, but I would hope that those kinds of accounts get outed by the side of the people they are subverting and the side they are subverting can condemn those arguments, positions, and tactics.
I compared my usual candidates: vue, inferno, Surplus and vanillajs, and lit-html was dead last overall in almost every category. Also slower than Preact now that I checked, so I'm not sure that performance benefits are one of lit-html's unique strengths.
Wow - 60kb for cookies is crazy.
> I can see how luring in sailors with beautiful song could be transferred onto luring with physical beauty and how that could map to classical femininity, but the relation does not affect the original meaning.

That has more to do with artist then original poem. Sirens promiss knowledge, in particular knowledge of who did what and how who ended during trojan war. Odysseus is tempted to learn what happened to his friends during war. The classical feminity of Christian culture is not the same thing as story in original poem. It changes meaning a lot, into a different story. Projection and replacement of original knowledge/war info into "classical feminity" is the sort of thing I was talking about.

As for beauty, I don't see much difference. Or rather, I don't find it important for anything except value judgement of painter. If painter used sirens as excuse to paint nude sirens out of sense of beauty, my original point applies the same. The poem does not really have higher values there anyway. It has less to do with poem itself and more to do with what artists wants to paint for his own reasons.

> This is why moral tales are a good framework for thinking, rather than always giving you the answer.

Why do you think Odysseus is moral tale? It does not read like moral tale. Whatever moral tales are seems irrelevant to original poem. This one is even the part of story told by Odysseus himself when he is trying to please audience instead of by neutral narrator. The poem is pretty clear about Odysseus not being completely reliable narrator. Odysseus lies or pretends to be someone else often, so treating whatever he says as moral tale strikes me as odd.
Ya this appeared on HN previously
http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-sti...
The DevRel Salon in Amsterdam, hosted by Don Goodman-Wilson, takes this approach and it’s a refreshing change from the standard meet-up format.
> To test whether the peas-in-a-pod pattern was real, I concocted (on my laptop) imaginary planetary systems in which the sizes of planets orbiting a given star were random. Could some sort of bias in Kepler’s method of finding planets—which favors the detection of large planets close to their stars—contrive to make the planets in each of my imaginary systems appear to fit the pattern?

> The answer was no: in more 1000 trials with randomly assigned planet sizes put through a virtual Kepler’s detection scheme, a pattern of similarly-sized planets in the same systems never emerged. This computational experiment did not reproduce what we observe in the Kepler planetary systems. Thus, the regular sizes of planets is a real astrophysical pattern.

This is actually a really cool use of computer simulations that I haven't noticed before (but I'm sure has been done in the past): simulating expected output for a known bias.

I wonder if it would be feasible to do the reverse too for a kind of parameter fitting to fix our model:

1. Create a reasonable approximate model for both Kepler's expected detection bias and for planet size distribution.

2. Constrain parameter space for these models as much as possible, to minimize the search space.

3. Using these models, generate a set different planetary sets for different parameters.

4. Find the outputs with the closest match in statistical "shape" of the actually measured data.

5. generate new input parameters based on these output that lead to set outputs to refine shape until certain level of matching has been found

If done naively this would probably take a lot of computation and result in large a solution space: the more parameters, the higher the conditionality of this space. So the models should be approximations with as few parameters to produce reasonable results, and with constraints on said parameter values based on known physics. This would narrow down both the parameter space to search the possibly valid outputs of this space.

Based on these parameters differ from the output we had expected before, we might then get a direction of where to look for the physics that does explain the distribution.
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That's like saying I prefer kicking puppies to eating broccoli - it's an absurd comparison.

I don't prefer cards and borders anymore than I prefer keeping my job.

Show me a fortune 500 website that uses 0 borders, cards, or forms. If you prefer vertical rhythm to those things you prefer to be unemployed.
We will be making public the configuration for these instances as part of what we publish in open source. We haven't considered allowing customers remote access to the gateway but we will based on your suggestion. Thanks!
the packaging for cannabis in Canada (well at least Ontario) already states that smoking is harmful, as well as other health issues
> While offline, emails sent to you will not be delivered. This does not, however, mean that they are lost. ... the sender’s email server will periodically retry sending the email at a later time.

It could be interesting to see whether MTAs evolve away from that design feature/constraint. Email seems ever-more centralized. Then again, it's a great robustness feature with a very small downside if any, so hopefully it's just my paranoia.
At it's core, it shouldn't be a conservative meme at all, if anything it's a "free thinker" or a libertarian / anarchist point of view. I think it is labelled "conservative" is because the left have reacted strongly against it, thereby defining it, and reinforcing the forms that cause that reaction by their opposition. It's a kind of virus which gets stronger the more anti viral counter measures are applied.

Anyhow, I first heard about someone calling other people an NPC in a robert anton wilson celebration event 5 years ago by a man on acid talking about how many people in the world are NPCs when you try to talk to them about something real or important. I thought it quite funny, was a bit uneasy, sort of agreed, and sort of disagreed.
Is there ever a case nowadays where the compiler doesn't do this for you automatically?