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I don't stay up on the latest developments in this field day to day, but my understanding is that most of the extrasolar systems that we can observe are a little on the wonky side to begin with, otherwise we wouldn't be able to detect that there are planets in them at all. Super-Jupiters orbiting close enough to make their stars wobble, binary star systems, all kinds of stuff. I'm not sure I'd hazard a guess at any kind of definite conclusion at the makeup of the universe and our overall specialness in it, with tools of observation as crude and limited as we've still got; there's a long way to go just to survey what is out there.
Thanks for not just looking for an answer to your own question but also sharing it!

> So how does mean shift come into the picture? Mean shift exploits this KDE idea by imagining what the points would do if they all climbed up hill to the nearest peak on the KDE surface. It does so by iteratively shifting each point uphill until it reaches a peak.

I wonder if this would still work with high-dimensional data. Distance and space start to act weird in higher dimensions, right?
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I've started a few modestly successful companies over the past decade. Most of them were bootstrapped, but for one of them I went the VC route. I raised $16M over 4 years, starting with Angel, then VC, then "top-tier" VC.

Taking VC funding made the experience of owning and operating a business worse in almost every way.

There are many reasons why I wouldn't recommend raising VC money, but I'll focus on just two right now. First, once you take VC funding, it's no longer your company. Think about that - this business that you created from nothing, sacrificed so much for, know inside and out, and poured years of your life into - now you share control with someone who you've spent maybe 8 hours with. And you're going to have to do that again and again over the years.

The second reason is the disparity in the invested interest between the VCs and you. You have EVERYTHING riding on this startup. The VC has almost nothing riding on your company. It's not their money, they get a great salary either way, and they are expected to have most of their investments fail.

There seemed to be more worldly prestige running a VC backed company, but that's probably because we bought press coverage. :-) In terms of my own personal happiness, I've never been happier than when I was running my own bootstrapped company...and I also made a ton of money.
Yeah, as somebody who has run their own mail server for years, #1 is a huge concern. It has been a real struggle for me despite having a server I own in a rack with net-neighbors I know.

Another big one for me is the failure modes. What do I do when my home connection is down? How about when my connection is down and I'm traveling? What happens when the hardware fails? How about when the hardware fails 5 years from now?

Having email just down for a couple days while you wait for new hardware to would be a very bad experience.
I once had google adwords flooding my website with some ridiculous number like 1000 clicks in 5 minutes, zeroing my daily budget in just a few seconds. The clicks had nothing to do with my campaign keywords, which was set to gradually distribuite the adverts during the day instead of rushing to the budget limit.

Conversion was terrible, as in no one subscribed to the newsletter (the website usually had a very high newsletter conversion rate (20-30%? I forgot), but of those 1000, not even one person decided to subscribe.

The ad spend for the day (I remember now) was even higher than the daily limit.

I spent two weeks talking to the useless billing support that would admit no fault before giving up and paying for a "bug" in their system.
Apparently so:

"Helm connects securely to a unique gateway, which is assigned a static IP address so Helm is reachable by other mail servers and secure TLS sessions can be established."

Which I dont see the point of then. That way they are your gatekeeper of your mail/files etc. Not much of an improvement.
*chan-land is pro freedom of speech. Historically that meant being against things like religious crusades against explicit lyrics and anti-evolution arguments. With the shift of the left against free speech, they've become the new enemy.
this is just some hearts and minds article to get people to worry about things that shouldn't worry them.
They're "solving" the residential ISP email blacklist issue by offering an IPSEC VPN with static addresses they control:

> Helm just works with your home network—no configuration needed. Helm connects securely to a unique gateway, which is assigned a static IP address so Helm is reachable by other mail servers and secure TLS sessions can be established.

A nice approach, but it does sort of chip away at the decentralisation claim that's at the core of their messaging.
SMTP policy requires retrying if mail cannot be delivered. From RFC 5321 section 4.5.4.1:

> In a typical system, the program that composes a message has some method for requesting immediate attention for a new piece of outgoing mail, while mail that cannot be transmitted immediately MUST be queued and periodically retried by the sender.

[ ... ]

> Retries continue until the message is transmitted or the sender gives up; the give-up time generally needs to be at least 4-5 days.
How in the world is criticizing the capacity of a persons ability to critically think by using memes Propaganda.

I'm right wing and I find the boxed responses from leftest to line up with some of the NPC stuff I saw.
If an asteroid wipes out life on Earth in a thousand years does it help to worry and mourn over future generations or something?
This looks really interesting, but I'm disappointed that you apparently _need_ a subscription to their DDNS-like service.

In a lot of cases, users may be paying for a static IP from their ISPs (or even have one for free, by default), or they may be running their own DDNS via a cloud instance already. This does nothing but add a $100/year fee for something that is exceptionally non-reusable and narrowly-scoped.
That's really interesting to hear. I tried Duff's Device myself, once upon a time, and found it made no measurable difference, so I pulled it back out. This was a long time ago, so I had just assumed that a similar optimization was just built into most C compilers these days. Does it vary by toolchain? I believe I was using clang at the time.

(I was still quite wet behind the ears at the time, so it's also more than possible that I was just doing something wrong.)

All that said, agreed, wonderful little mechanism. It's one of those things that every C programmer should take the time to really understand.
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https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-year-old-boomer
Even if you could send it, someone has to receive that email on the other end and the residential ips are usually blacklisted.
This almost reads like a parody of the entitled God-complex VC mentality.

I wonder how long it will be before people feel some shame advocating for overtly classist and exclusionary network-only policies in public at least.
Hm, maybe I missed the context somewhere along the lines. Are you talking about something on the developer side only? I thought the discussion was about something that works or not for the end user.
I believe you're right. I also believe you've just demonstrated how adding cards, borders and so on breaks vertical rhythm. You've decided to prefer adding cards and borders to keeping vertical rhythm, but one could also come to the opposite conclusion. What do you think?
I don’t even have regular WiFi.. I’m mostly using my phones LTE via hotspot because it’s much faster than anything I can get (in a big city that is) here. I don’t have a cap for that.
Beyond usage of legal Cannabis in Canada, US Border agents can deny entry to those who work or invest in the Cannabis market.
> When RMS and co worked out copyleft, they didn't just rage against the sheer existence of IP and seek to destroy it all or somehow fruitlessly deny that it existed, they hacked it to their own ends instead.

You mean like people who per-ordered the Librem5, because it's a practical cause they believe in, instead of just raging in the semi-frequent HN threads how awful Android is?
Which totalitarian state do you live in?
$99/year? They are targeting an extremely small market. I can get Fastmail for a fraction of that amount, and I don't see much of an advantage with this - and I'm one of the few willing to pay for something I get elsewhere for free.
SMTP was designed around the assumption that nodes could go down or network partitions could happen.

If you are unreachable, the mail server that is trying to contact you should try again later.

How many times, at what interval and for how long retries happen vary.

Most servers will notify the sender saying that “message delivery failed permanently” if the receiver is unreachable for such a long period of time that the sender server gives up.

So between the resilience to temporary unreachability and the fact that the sender should be notified if delivery times out, I would say that the chance that anything important is lost is very slim.

The bigger problem is the fact that home ISPs often block outbound SMTP, as well as the fact that their IP blocks are often regarded as low trust by others, meaning that you will certainly run into problems sending mail every now and then. I did not yet read the OP link, but am going to, so I don’t know if they offer proxying/forwarding of outbound SMTP.
NY times characterizing these protesters as far/right or as “attention starved gamers” is also odd.
Gladly. Blueprint provides all of the "components" and I use Basscss to lay them all out in responsive containers.

I use Basscss' grid and flex helper classes to define how my I can create a 3-column responsive layout with something like:

<div class="clearfix">
<div class="col md-col-4">
<SomeBlueprintComponent />
</div>
<div class="col md-col-4">
<SomeBlueprintComponent />
</div>
<div class="col md-col-4">
<SomeBlueprintComponent />
</div>
</div>

There's also a couple of other helpers like `max-width-*` which ensure responsiveness as the screen grows larger. Things like adding the `Classes.FILL` (which causes a button/control to go full width of its container) are useful for making things seem more like mobile (where buttons often are full width of the device, minus padding)

All in all, while it's a slight bummer than Blueprint isn't just responsive out of the box, I haven't really found that to be a deterrent to getting things done.
One could argue iPhones collect similar data. How does apple know that the user you are texting has iMessage if it isn’t sent to apple?
Y'all went so far left *chan-land is now considered right.
For spreading incorrect election information.

Plenty of far right twitter accounts, these where designed to get banned for publicity.
Being funny isn't really a defense against pointing out that it's harmful.
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This is HN so you might appreciate this version: (SFW)

https://i.imgur.com/aPaBYCt.png
Can you elaborate for those of us considering Google?
one i like is...
"to begin, begin"
it is not inspirational, haha, but helps me to start something, so is a kind of motivation, right?
I can't believe that we're alone, even if intelligent life is extremely rare, and life in general somewhat rare. It's a big universe.

Or is it just as terrifying to be First?
It's a pretty interesting project, love to see if it can integrate with GraphQL.
Canada does not have felonies or misdemeanors. You are either in violation of the criminal code, or you aren't.
How about they proceed to ban bots instead?

That would IMO make twitter much more useful, but of course it would kill 95% of their “user base” and traffic.
Do you have some details for these applications ?
Sigh. So people who would normally vote liberal are now going to vote on the wrong day because they got the election day date from a troll account mocking their liberal position--and they didn't bother to remember that elections are always on Tuesdays or to use google?
The fact that NYT even asks the question “Are these Russian bots?” kind of fuels this meme, imo.

Their answer is “probably not”.
Pretty sure like 0.001% of those accounts did that. But it's a good excuse, granted.

I think the real reason they got banned is that under every tweet of every blue-checkmark liberal on Twitter you'd find dozens of replies of accounts called NPC209834029 with the same avatar nodding and saying the same platitudes. But of course, when all the replies to all Trump tweets are from blue-checkmarks shitting on him, Twitter doesn't seem to care. :P I think neither should be banned, but I guess they know better.
The appropriate title should have included:

"The accounts violated Twitter’s rules against “intentionally misleading election-related content."
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Evan James has a good writeup on the sort of anxieties around society that sprung up the NPC meme [0]. There's a portion which I think has a kernel of truth, although it is definitely generous to the kind of people that immaturely lashed out and made very low-effort twitter accounts which wound up propagating the meme:

>The far right can be profoundly intuitive creatures, who feel more deeply than cursory glances suggest. The NPC meme is a response to something real, something that snarky liberals, and even leftists, increasingly fail to notice. In short, it is a tragicomic acknowledgment that things are not OK, that we are all NPCs (to one degree or another) because we are all in bondage.

I think the idea that people repeat samey platitudes they hear on TV or read online without much further thought is certainly a legitimate concern. The meme brought up a good point about mass consumer culture, but from there, it attained its own populism: a thousand voices telling a thousand other voices that they're following a script.

As someone who admittedly spends a lot of time on 4chan (an online addiction I have sustained for ten years), I was present to witness its snowballing on the imageboard. What I found interesting then was that the crux of the discussion around the meme focused on the idea that few people have an inner monologue [1].

[0] https://jacobitemag.com/2018/10/02/empty-realm/
[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/pristine-inner-exper...
That's unfortunately the default on browsers (with the default `list-style-position: inside`). So we basically have three choices:

1. The bullets itself are indented. This is ugly and rarely what you want but for some reason the default.

2. The bullets line up with the left edge of the rest of the content; the bulletpoint text is indented, naturally.

3. The bullets are hanging; the bulletpoint text lines up with other paragraphs, as recommended in the article.
I've had my home network setup like this for years, though with VLANs instead of seperate physical routers.

I've got :

* LAN - where my wife and i connect our laptops/phones.

* SERVERS - for my NAS and a couple of small servers.

* DMZ - just a single server sitting here.

* KIDS - Where my kids and their friends connect their
laptops/phones. It's a semi guest network, as it only allows traffic to the internet and a few devices on the IOT network, printers, Apple TVs, etc.

* IOT - Internet of trash, only allows connections to the internet. Only network that allows uPnP. Has multicast repeating on for ChromeCast/Apple TV.

* GUESTS - you guessed it.

DMZ is the only VLAN that can be accessed from the outside.
Each VLAN from the bottom up allows access from the VLANs above, with the exception of the guest networks. Nothing can access KIDS, IOT and GUESTS.

KIDS can access a couple of devices on the IOT network like printers, Apple TV, ChromeCast, AirPlay devices, IOT and GUESTS can only access the internet.

My UniFi network then creates 4 Wifi networks as well, one for LAN, KIDS, IOT and GUESTS.
So, if I read correctly : "add ethic concerns" is "bullshit padding". Right ?
It's not the jokes and mocking they got the boot for it's spreading intentionally misleading election information like when and how to vote.
I feel like I'm the target market for this as I pay for Fastmail ..

1 - how many domains can I use? I currently use ~6 with my Fastmail account
2 - can I have multiple users? I recognize that fastmail doesn't let me but at this price point I would want it. It looks like you support that but I'm unsure.
3 - How do you convince my ISP to let me receive traffic on the ports required to run a mail server? (most firewall them on residential accounts)
4 - If I were this committed to my email, why wouldn't I just set it up for free myself? This is actually my biggest question in regards to the product/target market. Are there that many people out there that both care about how email works to this degree and aren't willing to host their own?

The website is heavy on theatrics and bold statements but I feel actually kind of lacking in terms of the meat. There's more than a few parts made it difficult for me to get any information at all (the automatic slide show on the Product page, the 'see the inside' slideshow on the tech page). If I had to guess I'd say this site wasn't tested against Firefox (doesn't seem that any are anymore due to its low market sharE).
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Author here. Been working on this for a while now, figured it was time to show hn. Love to hear some feedback!
The rules on this are a bit complicated, though : officially, this price does not apply to anyone who has worked more than two years since their last diploma. Persons in this situation may have to pay thousands of euros (1k/2k per year) to go to a public university. In most cases, the price is covered by some institution (such as "Pole Emploi", which handles unemployment) or by some professional reconversion organization.

Note that many universities don't follow these rules at all, and will let you sign up (paying the normal price) even if you worked more than two years since your last diploma.

I don't really know how it works for foreigners, and many people (including social workers and advisers) are confused by this.
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I'm almost 2 years into a bootstrapped startup with close friends. After all the ups and downs, we're modestly profitable and growing.

But as the stakes have gotten higher, there's also been a widening rift between the product-side and the sales-side of the company. Decisions around:

- What projects to prioritize?
- When to pay off technical debt?
- What kind of office culture to promote?

Are being pulled in two directions. One towards "faster, damn the torpedos." One towards "focus, less is more." While we all have a lot of mutual respect and shared vision, the ongoing debates are starting to be a real drag.

I suspect this kind of tension is common enough, maybe even unavoidable. My question is, how do other companies deal with it?
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My suggestion is to run an email server inside your home that connects to a single server on the internet (like a VPS) that routes your mail for you. It's a bit more complex to setup but much more secure and reliable and almost certainly won't violate ISP rules as long as you keep it secure.
Originally yes, that was the joke, people just repeating the same buzzwords and catch phrases in response to anything as game NPCs do.

However as with all the memes over the last few days, it quickly turns from that into 'well those people are reacting exactly how we thought they would, just keep posting it if it triggers them'.

e.g. take Pepe - the only reason it caught on was because the left took the bait and lost their shit over it. The only reason this NPC thing took off was because the same people took the bait and are loosing their shit over it. It doesn't matter what the meme is, what it's about, or what it represents. The right keeps making jokes, the left keeps taking the bait, the right sees that and keeps feeding them more and more.
Each Helm gets its own gateway server with static IP address that the Helm establishes a VPN connection with. Port 25 is open on the gateway and the packets are forwarded to the Helm. This is how we work around residential ISPs blocking port 25.
I guess? It's so self-invalidating that I'm having trouble seeing the point. Do they understand that they're engaging in the exact behavior they're criticizing? If they do and see it as clever irony, it hasn't come across in the bits I've seen. If they don't then it seems a vigorous self-own.
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So basically satire banned on Twitter, if it comes from the right. These accounts were in no way misleading; one would never confuse them for actual liberal activists.
Am I missing something or is 500$ an awful lot for an email server?
You could probably set up a personal e-mail server with a Raspberry and have more or less the same functionalities.
The Right used to abhor postmodernism, and were properly mocked by the Left whenever they whinged about it.

Now the Right have embraced postmodernism, and the Left have no idea how to respond.
Is it really that odd?

There are a lot of posters in HN that are FAANG employees, yet talk big game about Open Source, Data Security, Free Speech, etc yet time and time again these companies fail to uphold these values.

When you are making a 6+ figure salary with vesting options it's really easy to bend your principles and if you are lucky you can become wealthy enough to become a philanthropist somewhere down the line to undo some of the damage you have done.
I’m a bearded, bald guy..

Not really my thing ;)
What did the parent comment say that you disagree with?
In the US it's standard that residential accounts don't get to do that, but business accounts (which are usually double the price for the same speed but come with better/quicker support, particularly when physical lines are down, and an open connection) are allowed to run on-prem. And usually with a residential account you don't get a static IP as an option, but if you're lucky you can pay extra for one.
Real hackers :)

Markets do matter because they dictate if the company exists to support the people who have purchased their product. Will a Real Hacker spend unpaid time to fix security bugs in this phone, then also host this for free and distribute?
I believe that funding based on local property tax is a uniquely American proposition.

In other countries, it is considered distasteful that people in poor neighborhoods get less funding for their schools and police force. And especially for schools, the country at large reaps the benefit from people going to a good school, much moreso than it is a benefit to parents that their children go to a good school.
There's plenty of satire left out there. What isn't satire or useful is misleading information about how/when to vote etc.
heh, I've worked for companies that hit the max on cookie size (which I think is around 60kb). For an entire framework to be 60kb would be amazing for these companies :)
I suppose I should have said equivalent to a felony, since Canada uses different terms.

http://www.canadaduientrylaw.com/felony.php
But with that said, what isn't 'far right' these days ...

I'm just counting down the days until Bernie is called far right because he's not throwing bricks through Starbucks' windows.
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