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Glass-half-full-guy here. Free software, as a movement, started in the early 80's. Writing free software is incredibly easy because you need only a bare minimum of building blocks. Also once the initial tool set is built, anyone can join with virtually no cost to entry (for example, if you had emacs and GCC binaries and a computer capable of running them, you could participate in free software).

Free hardware is completely different. You have to rely on other organizations all the way down the chain. And even if you manage to build a tool set to build something, it's not like anyone else can simply copy it and get started. They end up having almost the same struggle that you did.

Consider as well how long it took for the free software view point to become acceptable to mainstream thinking. Even today, almost 2016, there are huge populations of programmers who think free software is crazy. But now there are companies built on free software with near billion dollar valuations, and other companies mostly built with free software that are in the many-billions-of-dollars of valuation. The concept has gotten over the hump, though it was a huge struggle for decades (and it continues to be necessary to make sure that legislation doesn't take our freedom away).

Software was crazily hard. Hardware is nigh on impossible. And yet, they have accomplished this! It's not sad, it's amazing!

I understand that you wish that the world was made up in a way that would make free hardware easy, but it's not. It never will be. It will take the concerted effort of dedicated pioneers to drag it into the consciousness of the masses. I suppose it is sad that it isn't easier in the same way that it is sad that it doesn't occasionally rain candy instead of raindrops. But that is no reason to be disappointed.
80% of their "errors" were actual errors. So, the number drops to 1 out of 3 surgeries for "Preventable Medication Errors".
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"You can imagine the way your heart skips a small beat when you put a book under a chopper like that," he said. After the volumes are scanned, workers reattach the spine to the pages, encase the book in shrink-wrap and, he said, "put it back in the depository for the apocalypse."
Ta will definitely give it a look, one nice thing about Serial is it put me onto This American Life which I'm enjoying (in parts, some of it puts my teeth on edge).

The depressing bit about the system is even when it's clear there's been a potential miscarriage of justice, and some poor sod has spent years behind bars on very shaky grounds, the system still tries its best to keep them there without retrial.
The benefit of wifi spectrum is that the parts are cheap and you generally won't get in trouble for transmitting signals without a license, which is what their system does. (It's not passive.) Unfortunately the wifi spectrum isn't that great for through-wall imaging in general -- you're going to lose a lot of transmission power if the wall is composed of just about anything besides drywall, glass, or wood, on top of the massive loss of power you get by default since the received signal's power is inversely proportional to the distance raised to the fourth power.
I think that's the point of GP's question. Try to admit to those priorities and you'll be told you're going to waste your life, that you should go and find your True Love instead. Our society seems to be focused on (romantic) love as the meaning of life.
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"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."

- Banksy

If you don't already know about it, this is pretty interesting http://adnauseam.io/
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It may be a good moment to introduce you to Hexagonator (http://josetomastocino.github.io/hexagonator/), a simple experiment to turn images to hexagon-tiled compositions, within your browser!
> Uh, if an adversary has large scale access to credit history (how hard is that to obtain?), couldn't they mine the data for their target and find them?

How? There are millions of Americans without a credit history.
and he should be ordered to give back 25 years of his own salary to that poor guy
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I am skeptical about the first part (the second part, about facial recognition, seems good, and at this point might just be a budget issue -- that to comb through the low quality results manually given current software would take too many man-hours).

I have seen IT for school districts. It's often one person, who has an insane number of demands on their time, no resources, and no specialized knowledge in security, building a number of systems that handle sensitive and non-sensitive data the district cares about. Given how homogeneous that situation is, evading detection consistently seems... extremely doable. And being caught 1% of the time means they have access to 99% of the networks -- they aren't magicians, there wouldn't be a clear way to intuit the larger context. If they all use e.g. web based grading software, and that gets 0-day'd, your 'almost certain' estimate gets readjusted by quite a lot too, and that's not a crazy thing to have happen either.
This article is from 2013.
What kind of development are you doing? Do you have a resume/profile?
I was contemplating about this in the context of many similar posts on HN (Aaron Swartz [1] being a prime one). And I realized the power that lawyers/prosecutors wield over accused is enormous. To win a case they can design outrageous plea bargains - plead guilty and get 5 years, don't plead and face death if convicted. Even if lawyers representing accused try to educate him that the chances of conviction are less than 1% the fear of facing death penalty is so enormous that accused typically end up pleading guilty. And not without a reason. Loss aversion plays a big role when a human arrives at a decision. And just like that the prosecutor who initially had a very little chance of winning the case ends up winning it.

I know that I'm sort of oversimplifying here but the key take away here is that prosecutor has absolutely nothing to lose! Well OK, he could end up losing the case but that's nothing compared to what accused stand to lose. There needs to be a counterbalance to the power wielded by prosecutors, and this is a good start!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7998287
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Ou I absolutely agree on that. This is nothing more than a simple Proof of Concept for voting on Ethereum/a Blockchain. Definitely also agree that the ideology of "decentralize and blockchain everything" is wrong.

In the current implementation of PublicVotes, it costs around $1 to record some 200 votes into the Blockchain. This is quite expensive compared to systems such as Civitas, but it is arguably, cheaper than the current system where governments often count vote ballots by hand. (at least that's how it's done around here in Italy).

Nonetheless, I do think though that Smart Contracts can play an important role in future voting systems, and obviously they can empower entire governments. I will work on a Liquid Democracy model next for which Smart Contracts make a lot of sense.
Hi, some time ago I mentioned space simulator, if you are still interested I just added it to chrome web store as app, it is unlisted but you can find it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/callisto-space-sim...
Fair enough. I don't much about the legal system in the US - so assuming you can get a lawyer to work for % of settlement / damages, would that shield the family from spending enormous amounts of time on the case? My impression was that lawsuits are not only a money burner, but also a huge time sink.
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This is exactly the point we're leading to - if you need vast heterogenous support everywhere, you're doomed to use TLS/SSL and you'd better cook it well, cause it has plenty of problems.

But, from our point of view, most non-web-developers (mobile? distributed applications? there are plenty), who now use SSL, but can afford themselves either avoid HTTP at all, or implement decent cryptographic stack on top of it, because they control both client and server, and don't need multitude of platforms to talk in the same way.

That's the point we're leading to in this article.
Cool app.
Such app where you go straight to the point without loosing your time through multiple screens are nowadays a blessing.
And thanks for the promo codes.
I guess that was the Indian Prime Minister. It could be both though.
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I´m looking for a laptop that is easy to repair and has open source hardware.

Preferably there would be something like the ITX standard for laptops with different standard designs. Like a ultra book, notebook and different screen sizes. If there was standardized screen you could easily repair your laptop.

All hardware should be open.
The firmware should be open with known checksums.
Open boot loader.
Open source operating system.

All components should be upgradable so that once the laptop speed wise is obsolete by moores law it should be easy to dissamble and recyle the materials.
Further you should be able to reuse components which does not age that fast as the cpu and mainboard, for example the keyboard, mouse and display.

We throw a lot of electronic garbage, that ends up being exported to cheap scrap yards in China and Africa, this needs to change if we do not want a junk yard planet.
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It is uncharted waters, but in terms of symbolic representation of value, it is more accurate and thus may be more effective in practice. A dollar does not degrade in value the same way a physical product does, and thus a dollar is an inaccurate representation of the value of the product.

Inflation and deflation are side effects arising from this inaccurate representation. I will hold on to a dollar differently then I'd hold onto a physical product. Inaccurate representation therefore leads to unnatural behavior. Often the product a dollar represents can degrade to worthlessness while the dollar maintains value.

By making the dollar degrade explicitly , it forces people to treat a dollar as one would treat the majority of physical products in the real world: as an object that degrades with time.

Think about it. If my assets are represented by physical products with real value, what is inflation and deflation? The concepts becomes non-existent.
I was JUST thinking that when I read the heading :)
That's good to hear, I was under the impression that this wasn't possible.
10 days is completely fucking negligible. i'd put myself in jail for 10 days just for the experience.

disgusting.
I agree with this. I also know plenty of full stack engineers who are superior in both domains to the so-called specialists.
Unfortunately the LuaTex website is completely opaque and I can't see any examples of the language or even a top level description of how to use it or how the workflow differs from that of LaTeX.
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> Is it just me, or does this sound kinda dangerous?

Dr. House is full of truisms and one pops up here. Doctors are also seriously concerned about the potential dangers of this treatment; however, they have determined that against the risks of cancer it's worth it.

No medicine is risk-free. Medicine replaces an active condition with a chance for a less severe condition. Cold sores (if they even present as a side effect) have a much better prognosis than cancer.
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It must have been heavily flagged. It's been lower than it should have been from the start. Admittedly the title of the submission isn't great so - if I'm being charitable - it's because users flagged based on title only.
You have to be kidding. And I mean full John McEnroe "You cannot be serious."

First of all $150 for a 750-word article would be a good payment. Assuming you aren't asking for more words than that ("blog post" suggests no), you can have your pick of people.

Second, evaluating writers is the simplest damned task in the world. Read their frigging code.

Third, average reading speed is 200 words a minute, so you could read an entire submission in less than five minutes. Practically speaking, you would probably need less.

Elance and Odesk merged and are now called Upwork. If you posted the job (number of articles, average length) and asked them to send you sample pieces and an online portfolio, you would be overwhelmed.

Even if you insisted that they have a verified business address within 50 miles of Manhattan, you'd still have a fire hose to drink from.

I wouldn't entirely recommend Craigslist, but you can find a lot of people there-- some of whom are very good and still struggling to make ends meet-- if you don't mind swatting away the 8-balls who will apply (CL gives you a custom email for replies, so you won't deal with them forever.)

Writers tend not to hang out there, but Behance or Dribble do have some.

Let me close by restating my opening. Some questions that get posted here are difficult to answer; others have expectations are ridiculous. But the thing every freelance writer wants most is a steady stream of assignments that lets them make a pretty good income per sale.

Four posts a week at $150 would be $600, which is $15 an hour-- enough to pay bills.

Your request is comparable to posting "I'm a supermodel who really enjoys having sex with men with small penises and no social skills. Can anyone on HN help me?" Your big problem would be people thinking you must be a scam, because your request sounds too good to be true.

UPDATE: There are, by and large, two broad types of writers: extroverts who promote themselves capably, but might or might not have equally good skills, and introverts who lock themselves away and aren't great at self-promotion.

The first group is pretty easy to find, but often not worth the price. The second group takes some hunting but can give you better results for less.
I don't get the point of discussing a two-year-old article about an event that also occurred two years ago. Can someone enlighten me? Has something changed?

Edit: You can check for yourself. https://web.archive.org/web/20150522105521/http://www.huffin...

The article wasn't updated. The only addition is that "Prison Tattoos" thing at the bottom.
Then how would the rich avoid punishment for their crimes?

/s (but only slightly)
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However it does not say what the update was.
You can look up prices on some Indian real estate sites such as olx.in. Try and focus on tech areas, not some random parts of cities.
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The problem is that legs make poor backwards reflectors due to their shape, so the reflected signals aren't detected since they're sent elsewhere. Though the material can make a huge difference too. (e.g. wool and nylon can significantly reduce the reflectivity, as can the presence of wrinkles.) The best reflective part of the body is the torso (especially the back) since it's relatively flat.
It's really past time to get rid of the qualified immunity doctrine. It's yet another "law" made up by the supreme court from whole cloth.

Prosecutors should be fully liable for illegal actions they take even when they're performing official duties. This guy should be serving a sentence years long, not days.
Thanks for the reply. We haven't really got a sufficiently large budget for marketing as it is so perhaps we should try and see how far we can go without one. (knowing we'll need one later anyway)
This. It not only fixes the article's complaint, but removes all the other metadata stuffed into the URL and just plain looks nicer.
There is no difference. I just ran a diff.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150522105521/http://www.huffin...
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Statistically the rich don't do any better than anyone who can afford a lawyer. The people who get screwed are the ones relying on court-appointed counsel. They do significantly worse.
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And on the insane side of things, there is the Vulcan 74 :

http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3329
What conference was that?
Instead of posting the opt-out link on hn, shouldn't you send that out to all the former Homejoy users which were just emailed?
Anyone have a link that doesn't require a signup?
Fairphone is doing something similar with their upcoming phone. Although the hardware is not open. They should talk with OP.

https://www.fairphone.com/phone/
In the UK the liquidators hold the assets in a kind of trust. It is their responsibility to try and liquidate the assets to return money to the creditors.

In my case one of our founders purchased the domain name and the "good will of the company", and continued to run the company under that name as a "trading name". The actual company entity going forward was completely different.
What you're describing is rather alarming. They should at least call, send a notification of sorts, before hitting the big red button. I don't use amazon pay, so I'm not familiar with it. Do you the the VPN had something to do with it?

I know PayPal has an automated system which is rather pedantic about IP addresses. I think that it's safer to setup a proxy and use it every time you log into a service like PayPal because from I realized by reading user experiences it's either their way or the highway, even when their autmated alarm systems are 100% wrong.
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Tax basis for mobile in the US is generally usage based to satisfy USAC/USF; not per act.
10 days in prison... how fair...
Physics is crazy: http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/cornar/
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> [...]Instead of placing the trust on the commercial CAs that have all the incentive to do a good and trustworthy job if they want to stay in business, DNSSEC places trust on the various countries registries that have all the incentive to abuse their powers for national security or to enforce the current governments beliefs.

With very high probability, there are a number of nation-state governments controlling some entries in your CA store. Even a short glance at the content of debian's "ca-certificates" package gives these:

- CNNIC (China)
- TÜBITAK (Turkey)
- WoSign (two certs, one specially named for China)
- Juur (Estonia)
- TeliaSonera (Sweden, Finland)

The last two are likely not going to be compelled to issue rogue certs, but technically the data interception laws in Sweden (and the ones proposed in Finland) might not even require any modifications to allow such operations. There are probably a lot more.

Certificate pinning will help, but even that faces a bootstrap problem for new clients. With smartphones being replaced, on average, every two years, there are ALWAYS new clients. Incidentally, a wide-scale MITM for new clients only is something I would expect the Great Firewall to be capable of.

So the commercial incentives for CAs may be more suitably aligned, but there is still overlap with the DNSSEC problems.
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At least 60 % of the "facts" in that article are made up.
Just scroll down, you'll be able to read the contents without a download.
What do you mean by "open source the SoC"?
This is quite an interesting paper, thanks. But the idea that cash is useful only if the person is enterprising was not a result of this study, but an opinion that motivated its setup. As they write in the conclusions, it was "our conceptual framework" that suggests that the study has targeted the right (enterprising) people. Which I agree with, considering the variables they were interested in measuring.

Excerpts from the setup:

Groups had to submit a written proposal stating how they would use the grant for non-agricultural skills training and enterprise start-up costs. [...] The central government asked district governments to nominate 2.5 times the number of groups they could fund. [...] Successful proposals [note: randomized] received a large lump sum cash transfer [...] with no government monitoring thereafter.

Excerpts from the conclusions:

These results show that cash grants to groups of young people who develop business plans have large and persistent impacts in moving underemployed into non-agricultural jobs, increasing earnings and work hours. [...] In the end, YOP appears to have reached a group of motivated, able young people, who on average were neither exceptionally poor nor uneducated relative to their peers, in an economy with little financial depth but bouncing back from civil strife. Our conceptual framework suggests this is exactly the group to benefit from a windfall.
Joel's link to fastcompany.com about GE doesn't work

Here it is http://fastcompany.com/37815/engines-democray
The comic is an ahistorical portrayal of truthiness. You accuse me of cherry picking, so I get to point out your own cherry picking of history, or in this case, false portrayal of history.
Those are great, thanks! All bookmarked.
Harvard Law Library sacrifices trove of legal volumes to digitize them

Please don't editorialise submission titles [1]. The title of the NYT article is "Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age".

[1] FWIW, I agree with the sentiment of loss implied by "sacrifices". On a worse day than this I might even think of these books as being mutilated.
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You say "lying", I say "exploring a few different angles on communication" /s
Exactly, I can't believe this is being billed as a success of the legal system.
I just had to scroll ...yet to read the thing though.