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The A-10 cannon is not comparable with that of a modern tank. Just compare the numbers:

A-10: 30mm Gatling

M1 Abrams (and other comparable tanks): 120mm (Russland's newest tank has a 140mm gun as much I remember)

That is a huge difference! The only advantage of the Gatling is the high firing rate -- but it is definitively no match for the armor of a modern main battle tank. I also never implied that. When the A-10 was designed, tank armor was less advanced and today the A-10 is mostly fighting against light to medium armored targets. Many countries even in their regular army have still very old tanks in service.
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I went through Codefellows and it was great. They do have a job placement focus however there were people in my class who were only doing it as a learning experience to stay on their same career path. The coding and career parts are kept pretty separate so you just wouldn't be required to show up to the career counseling parts unless you wanted to (there were some interesting guest speakers during my class so maybe you might want to go to some of them).

I had a very positive experience there and learned a lot. I also met people very extremely varied backgrounds (a linguistics professor, a financial worker heading to MIT after the program, a school teacher, a former MS project manager and a coffee roaster with a degree in Mathematics).

It's in Seattle and is 8 weeks long and is pretty intense (9am-7 or 8pm was very common 5 days a week) but I had a great time and would do it again if I could.
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> I presume the second bug they were using was an already-fixed kernel bug
That's true, @jduck confirmed that on twitter. It's an old, fixed, bug that has nothing to do with stagefright and could be exploited by every app on the phone or every rce in any app on the phone.

> Regardless, the question you were responding to was more about how most of the exploits people put together do not satisfy the "remote" and "silent" parts, as opposed to the "I got root" part; the latter is comparatively easy

FWIW, "throughout the whole chain" was part of the question.
That sounds awfully prescriptive. You need to add "To me" to the beginning of that post.
The only "bulwark of stability" is cold, hard cash. The US government may not default, but that does not mean you will not lose money. If you bought US bonds at a high price/low yield (like right now :-)) chances are you won;t be able to sell before maturity because the price will go down, and if you hold them to maturity, the inflation will eat the measly return US bonds offer right now.
Your attitude makes you look like a devil, I'm sure you think you are so edgy and sophisticated now that you try to compare a primitive culture with the west.

We are not talking about America here and I am not American. Debating rape of children is heinous, and rape of children is heinous.
Thanks for your answer :)
I have two options in mind right now. Some good friend, who also lives in SF, suggested me to search for an internship. It may be technically illegal for me to work there, but he told me that fortunately some startups won’t care, and I could give the company the option to get paid in my country as if you were an overseas contractor.

The second option is to get a remote job in a SF startup. I'm planning to visit some startups to have interviews. But I'm not sure that I'll work. Seems like most startups hire remote workers only from U.S.

What do you think about this? Could it work?

Thanks again!
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That's a bit too far. Just changing paragraph font-size to 1.2em would be enough: https://monosnap.com/file/2IbdkolMW8nVIF1cGsX75BeiwR5b7k.png
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It's a test that university graduates in the traditional engineering disciplines (civil, mechanical, etc.) usually take in the USA. After 5 years of work experience, you take another test, then your state's licensing board gives you a stamp and the credential "Professional Engineer" (P.E.). You can then take on liability for project documents that you stamp, so you charge clients/employers more money.

It's mainly useful if you work for a consulting company.
At the same time, apparently less than 3000 people developed the Tesla Model S [1], and less than a thousand developed the Tesla Roadster [2]. That might not be an entirely fair comparison.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors#Overview

[2] http://www.statista.com/statistics/314768/number-of-tesla-em...
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Thanks for your answer :)
I would really like to get a remote job in a SF company. I'm planning to visit some startups to have interviews, but I'm not sure that I'll work. Seems like most startups hire remote workers only from U.S.

Where do you think that I could begin?
There is no "natural direction" because the systems, in this context, are not natural. The platforms will only remain open so long as we fight to keep them that way. We're not doing a very good job, either; the Internet is moving to a closed system very rapidly.
> C and C++ have so much more resources behind them

Since we use LLVM, we get all of the gains involved when Apple and other companies make it better. So that helps.
The right way to say it is, I think, "all modern password libraries do the salting for you. Use one, and stop trying to outsmart it."
Exactly!

If your entire setup is "But we want to use old folks!", then you should really delve into old prejudices, being unable to change worldviews, reflections on what it means to move to what is effectively a Valhalla of endless figthing and fornication divorced from your previous life, etc.

None of that stuff shows up though.

By contrast, look at the entire handling of, say, Mandella and the changing standards towards homosexuality portrayed in The Forever War, and the dissonance of the veterans with younger troops about the purpose of the mission and the validity of the government and its past actions.
Side question... when we use the Google search workaround, is Google paying WSJ for the view?
Well, that's not so hard to remember!
Nah, I was 12. That's old enough to learn about failure in a fairly direct way. It was a good lesson and I'm glad my teacher stuck to it/

Sure, if I'd put up a good fight and lost because he was better, perhaps I'd be a bit sadder, but I really failed. (I still remember it clearly: I was distracted by my opponent's disgusting acne. I also had a turns-out-justified case of impostor syndrome about my place on the team).
Indeed. I don't think my $0.00 in college money would have gotten me very far.
Thanks for your answer.

I would really like to get a remote job in a SF company. I'm planning to visit some startups to have interviews, but I'm not sure that I'll work. Seems like most startups hire remote workers only from U.S.

Where do you think that I could begin to search?
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You are making the assumption that her decision to not date, or interact with any friends is beneficial to her mission.

I'm a believer that as a person sleeps less and interacts less with others at best they see diminishing returns and at worst their productivity overall declines.
The strategy is to prevent other companies from manufacturing the generic by withholding supply from them so as to prevent them demonstrating bioequivalence. ISTM that the least-onerous regulatory solution would be to require manufacturers to provide supply at cost to FDA on demand for testing purposes.
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I've gotta think one category he's talking about are the delivery services. I still have not seen a decent articulation of the end-to-end economics. But they can't be terrific.

I know, for example, that Sidecar pays drivers up to $20 for a single delivery and just can't see how this is viable outside of rare exceptions. At least Instacart prices the item being delivered (and I suspect never gives you the yellow ticket price which pretty much every Safeway item gets nowadays).
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As a side note, unless you have a secret sauce (something unique to your company, like better proprietary data, lower operating costs, etc.) all acquisition channels will decline in effectiveness over time, making it harder to make unit costs work. This is generally known as audience fatigue.
The one product that I use and pay for that is so good that I recommend to all of my friends is Spotify. I'm so surprised how few of my friends actually pay for it though. They're willing to put up with ads and reduced quality for just $10 a month.

Other services I found so good that I recommend to all of my friends but do not pay for because my data needs are very small are dropbox and evernote. I bet some of my friends wonder why I wouldn't spend such a small amount of cash for their usefulness.

Getting people to pay for digital services is hard.
Pattern lock is insecure in the most analog way possible: it's real easy to read fingerprint smear on the screen, and unless you assiduously wipe your phone screen with a lint-free cloth and a bit of isopropyl alcohol after every unlock, chances are you're at least sonewhat vulnerable.
Seems like a cool Idea. I'll explore it. Thanks
Let's hope that for once, Apple won't divert the market into its distortion field. Or ... maybe it will just be a different shade of proprietary.
OP should work for a fully remote company; most pay international workers as contractors.

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
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Pretty much every study shows it as a wash at worst. Just Google it.
Yea, and why not just look at the actual history of FB where they were quite easily able to pay for server costs at an early point with ads. It's possible they hit a point where they were losing money, but 100% at any point past the very beginning if they wanted they could've invested less and been a profitable business. Possibly not a business that would've existed for the long run and it might have opened the door for a competitor, but they could have drawn down money out of the business they had built. Many of the companies people complain about actually couldn't do that because they don't have any ability to raise their prices without losing all of their customers.
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If we're pulling old authors out of a hat, check out H. Beam Pipers stuff, in particular 'Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen' and 'Space Vikings'. Edit; my reference to Pournelle was in error, apologies!
I'm not trying to be rude, but I can't fathom how you can think running a public utility like water treatment and capital intensive research and development are in anyway comparable to each other.
Adam Curtis wrote an interesting article about Gaddafi that also details the questionable Lockerbie investigation:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2012/10/hes_behind_you...

Within months of the attack the famous Sunday Times "Insight" team had a series of scoops that revealed that the bombing on the Pan Am plane was a revenge attack by Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airliner by an American warship in the Gulf in 1988. The articles laid it all out in enormous detail - how the Iranians had paid a Palestinian terrorist group based in Syria to plant the bomb in a Toshiba cassette player. And that this had been done with the help of the Syrian authorities.

The terrorists were named and "intelligence sources" were quoted with absolute certainty saying that they knew this is what had happened. There was no mention at all of Libya.

But then suddenly in December 1990 there was there was a complete switch.

"Intelligence sources" in America began to tell journalists that they had found evidence that showed that it was Libya who had masterminded the bombing.

Then in June 1991 the British and American governments formally announced that Libya had been behind the bombing. Here is the first TV report, it includes a conservative MP called Teddy Taylor who had been to see Colonel Gaddafi. He raises the question that was going to lie at the heart of this puzzle.

Isn't it a bit odd, he says, that at the very moment in 1990 when Syria became America's ally in the first Gulf War, that America suddenly stopped accusing it of Lockerbie? And at the very same moment America and Britain suddenly find evidence proving it was Libya.

Suddenly the media was deluged with reports that said that the Lockerbie bombing had been carried out by Libya.

And many of the investigative journalists who had previously said that it was definitely Iran also changed their tune as well. Even the journalists who had written the Sunday Times articles saying there was concrete proof it was Iran and Syria now said it was the mad dog of terrorism - Colonel Gaddafi. And what's more their "intelligence sources" were absolutely sure too.

But a few old-school investigative journalists held out against this sudden swerve. The main one was Paul Foot from Private Eye. He wrote a devastating pamphlet that tears part the whole American and British case against Libya.

Foot showed that much of it rested on the evidence of one extremely dubious witness called Mr Giaka who claimed to be high up in Libyan intelligence. In fact he was a mechanic in a garage who serviced the vehicles for Libyan intelligence - and he had been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Americans.

Even his CIA handlers were very suspicious of him - and after two years of getting nothing from Mr Giaka they told him they would stop paying him unless he came up with some incriminating evidence for the US Department of Justice. The next day Giaka did just that - describing a samsonite suitcase that was loaded onto a plane in Malta by Libyan intelligence. Something he had forgotten to mention for two years.
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> Apple has not, at least since Jobs took over again, really been slow and methodical in entering big markets.

Depends on how you look at it:

- They've been fairly slow to enter the TV market.

- Homekit is out there but hasn't received a lot of attention in recent keynotes.

- Healthkit and related medical technology isn't something they have been extremely quick on.
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The Hornet is an actual Jet and therefore those costs are real. The F-35 estimates are the most conservative that are legally defensible but will almost certainly much greater than that once actually in service.
No, it's not. Don't get me wrong: I am certain that you believe that. I am not calling you a liar. But you're wrong. The core of GamerGate is the same bunch of misogynistic tools who have been around for years, occasionally manifesting into a herpetic flare-up somewhere or other before going away again for a while. (They didn't come from 4chan, but they incubated there.) Guys like Milo Yiannopolous don't give a shit about video games, they give a shit about hurting women, and you are useful by proxy. The rhetoric about ethics-in-journalism-etcetera-etcetera sounds nice, and in it you and I can find a bunch to agree with. But it doesn't matter. Because the actions are what matter, and the actions are fucking reprehensible. Please don't insult my intelligence with false equivalencies and but-but-but-both-sides because but-but-but-both-sides is not true. None of the misogynistic toolbags have been chased from their homes, none of them have been confronted with credible threats to their lives and their families. It has not happened. The notion that it has is fictional at its core.

The reason GamerGate functionally evaporated as quickly as it showed up, aside from particularly die-hard members of the useful-idiot troupe, is because most of your fellows went away once Stephen Colbert made fun of you. There's a reason why the influential string-pullers have been saying things like "give up and try again next year". Because they don't care about what you care about. The social credibility went away, and as soon as the social credibility went away that hard core couldn't do what they wanted to do with your help.

In the process of supporting their movement in the hopes that you get something out of it, you are hurting the defenseless. I hope you stop.
I'm curious to see what Apple does with a car. It could be self-driving, a car I can talk to or whatever - but it doesn't matter to me if it is "just" an electric toy car.

Electric only is an option for some, but they are a long way off from working for everyone. Some people still live in places where gas stations are scarce - not exactly the place you want to try to find an outlet for your car.
These are some pretty awful scripts, to be honest. Use Unison (https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/). Syncing is much more dangerous and difficult than people assume.
Theranos has some pretty big red flags. No peer reviewed studies showing accuracy levels, stacking the board people known politicians to give it an air of legitimacy (and get legislation passed), ridiculous levels of secrecy.

I really hope they are what they say they are but if I were investing I wouldn't give them money without a serious 3rd party audit.
That's why I like the idea of a little meat. 4oz is usually enough to get the great meat taste. At In n Out, get the single. At Super Duper, get the 4oz burger. At steakhouses, get the smaller cuts. Mix minced veggies into burger patties. Even meatloaf doesn't need that much meat to be dee-lish. Etc. If you want more meat, stick with chicken and fish.
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bigcorp was Cisco and the little guy was using off-the-shelf stuff, though I can't remember the manufacturer.
Great My blog[1] uses a static side generator called middleman[2] and I was looking for a way to share 'quotes' in the website's subtitle. This seems to be the best solution! I was about to write a simple Sinatra API to run in localhost, but that's a way better solution for my use case!

Thanks!

[1] http://www.convalesco.org/

[2] https://middlemanapp.com/

UPDATE: A good use case is to use the HTML form to store subscribe/notify-me emails for landing pages. I was about to build a YAML file or use SQLite3 to store emails via form, but this is so much more convenient.
> I don't see it as particularly dangerous

Well, you weren't in the classroom where he set the alarm to go off, were you? So it's not like you're in a position to reasonably judge the reaction.

Suppose he did just take apart an old clock and piece it back together for fun, and didn't specifically try to make it look like a bomb. What was the purpose?

If it had been me, I would have been eager to explain why I chose that particular case. Like maybe-- look "how portable this is" or "look how you can hang this on the wall now" or something like that. Or maybe even just-- "well I was messing around and just happened to have the case so that's why I chose it." I also would have been up front about the fact that all I'd done was dismantled and re-assembled an old clock. I wouldn't have tried to pass it off as an original circuit-board project of my own.

There's nothing like that in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mW4w0Y1OXE

Also, as the OP notes, Ahmed makes a comment about using a cable to fasten it shut to make it look less suspicious. OP wonders why would he have been thinking something like that, if he did not know that a suitcase would in fact be suspicious? Sure, such a comment might have been made as some sort of back-rationalization after the whole thing blew up, but along with the other red flags it's a suspicious statement.

And if he did deliberately try to make it look like a bomb and did nothing to assure his teacher and fellow classmates that it was not real, then it's perfectly fair to call it a hoax.
>Culture is a distraction.

Culture is a lie. It must be re-told in order to perpetuate.

Abandon any culture that allows - or requires - one to hate and destroy the life of others.

Its as simple as that. Cultures are lies. Stop telling the lies; end the hate. Abandon any culture that allows you to hate.
This might already be the case. See for example http://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-ni...
You don't use words the same way everyone else does. The most charitable thing I could say is that your take on Keynesian economic policy and 'genuine capitalism' is heterodox and stems from a non-mainstream ideology. There is no serious economist who would call Keynes a socialist, or socialistic, whatever that means, and the definition of capitalism does not proscribe government control of the money supply.
Surprised to see such a non-imaginative viewpoint on HN.

Over what I feel like the last couple of decades, we've been taught that work == bad, life == good. You work because you have to, you trade time for money, you suffer from 9 to 5, you anxiously watch the clock, and then you go home and enjoy "life."

I think this is sad. There's nothing wrong at all with productive work, and putting best years of your life into doing something creative like building your life's business.
The problem is that the economic system that not only allows this, but incentivizes it. Witch hunting isn't going to fix a fundamentally broken economic system. We need to admit that our system is not optimal, and fix it. Rational people are always going to act in their own best self-interest.
> I found it a bit 'thin'. Perhaps that was intentional as a corollary to the breakneck pace of time-dilation Mandella faced and the societal change he faced. I always felt out of place and behind as a reader, never really finding myself fully immersed in the story Haldeman was telling, always wanting to stop and see more about how things had changed. I guess the 'world building' wasn't as good as I hoped for.

I think that this was a conscious choice by Haldeman - he wanted you to feel as lost as Mandella, who got a brief glimpse of a culture before being plunged yet again into another relativistic journey into the future. The only constant in his life was the Army, as inhuman and brutal as it was. I thought it was a good choice, but I can definitely see why you'd be frustrated with it.
er that is the type of engament that the a10 is designed for top attacks on the thin armour - just as the ww2 stuka with 37 mm wasn't firing at the thick armour but the weaker top armour
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How about "Methodical and successful"
Thanks Henry, that's very friendly of you.

I think that I'll visit some startups, looking for a remote job when I arrive to SF :)
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I would gleefully welcome that! I cringe every time I have to pry open a breaker box, car hood, or wireless router config.
> “You don’t have to worry about having a hypothesis, a conclusion, beforehand.”

Sadly, in my world of biology and this has been a factor in the epidemic of bad papers and unreproducible results. Most of this is due to the treatment of p-values as a magic. If you run 20 hypotheses over p < .05, one is going to show up as true, regardless of the data. Keeping your experiments in narrowly defined scopes is still important to producing good science.
So the question becomes, are we prepping to fight the next war or prepping to fight the last one? Do we think we're going to be launching sorties over Russia or China or do we think we're gonna be fighting another Iraq war against ISIS?
Another failed startup's lessons in the B2C space
I am in the process of ending my startup (B2C investment technology) because it failed to find customers and or have a good product market fit (pick your poison). I thought I would share my lessons and musings for those that are interested.

https://gist.github.com/jay-johnson/d902351f49294b6685bf

Hope someone finds value in these opinions.

Good luck!