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Indeed we operate in a highly regulated environment and Seedrunners is more complex than the traditional equity crowdfunding paradigm.

Essentially, we take advantage of the regulatory environment in the UK, which allows us to market this investment opportunity to 3 categories of investors:

1) Investors who pass our 7-question investment authorization questionnaire and elect to be treated as professional clients under FCA rules
2) High net worth individuals
3) Sophisticated investors

The first category is the most important to us as it allows essentially anyone with a correct understanding of the risk they are exposing themselves to to invest on Seedrunners.

To actually provide our service, we work with multiple investment services firm that confer us the authorizations required by the FCA to operate something like Seedrunners.

Happy to answer our first question from the HN community :) Thank you!
Thanks for the tip. Had not heard of it. Opening scene is very relevant :)
Conflict Crusher, wow that takes me back! Back to that awful Visual Basic UI with random windows metafiles for backgrounds, what was I thinking.. :). Great to hear that I helped you on your path to become a programmer! Modding games inspired me a lot too, especially Quake and TA.
Figure 1's concentration of orange and yellow areas looks moderately correlated with the Bible Belt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt), in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism plays a strong role in society and politics, and Christian church attendance across the denominations is generally higher than the nation's average. It would be interesting to explore this relationship further.
I don't get the hype behind bots? When are where was it proved that bots as interfaces can be successful?
You could always write one yourself.
I think by definition if you live in poverty you probably don't have the luxury of "paying a premium" to live in a different school district.
> What matters is who was before you in the stall or who wants to (forcefully) get along with you into the stall.

This is already a crime, and one the new anti-trans laws do nothing to combat (unless you intend to require a birth certificate or a pat-down to enter the bathroom).

> If unisex toilets would increase the risks for people with woman physiology then I would be wary about forcing them into unisex toilets.

Then demonstrate that they increase the risks. As I noted, there appears to be a larger risk of lewdness in bathrooms from Republican Congressmen than transgender individuals. There's certainly no epidemic of transgender folks assaulting people in bathrooms. If anything, transgender folks are generally the ones at risk of assault.
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Read the disclosures. It's not SMB. It's nothing to do with SMB. It's your AD-DC that is at risk here.
Sorry. You're right, of course.

I only skimmed the CVEs, and from painful memories of having to implement all that shit for scanner products, that whole bundle of protocols is just "SMB" in my head --- in particular, DCERPC to me is "stuff you do over a named pipe".
Doesn't have to be written in Go to produce a single statically-linked binary.
Good intro and overview
> Anyone know what stack FB uses for their messaging platform?

Initially Erlang. Now C++. [1]

1. https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Erlang-chosen-for-use-in-Faceb...

edit: was quoting wrong part of the op comment
The ARPU # is mis-leading. According to the Economist article, 85% of the revs are from gaming, not "to hail a taxi, order food delivery, buy movie tickets, play casual games, check in for a flight, send money to friends, access fitness tracker data, book a doctor appointment, get banking statements, pay the water bill, find geo-targeted coupons, recognize music, search for a book at the local library, meet strangers around you, follow celebrity news, read magazine articles, and even donate to charity."
I have tried this a few times, and I've never gotten anything more than the general "culture" or "we went with other great candidates" response. It is incredibly frustrating and unhelpful to ask for any feedback only to be met with "Unfortunately we’re not able to provide specific feedback." How can I improve or refine my skills without any information? I keep things cordial and professional but often the conversation will just end, full stop.

Thanks for the reply and well wishes, though. Trying to keep fighting.
I suggest we crowdsource a list of chat bot related startups: https://github.com/shaohua/awesome-chatbot

Submit a pull request to include your bot :)
Perfect explanation, thank you!
Wow, that is the biggest pile of garbage I have ever read.

Half of this article is a strawman argument under the heading: "You can’t minify JavaScript code without semicolons"

I've never heard that argument in my life for using semicolons.

> Easy solution: when a line starts with parenthesis, prepend a semicolon to it.

Sweet! Something extra to remember because I chose not to use semicolons.

> My advice on JSLint: don’t use it. Why would you use it? If you believed that it helps you have less bugs in your code, here’s a newsflash; only people can detect and solve software bugs, not tools. So instead of tools, get more people to look at your code.

Are you kidding me? This has to be trolling. Our goal as programmers is to automate tasks and save people time. What kind of garbage is this?
They should be using Ada instead of C, amiright /s
If anything, the cruft is shrinking since you simply can't fit as much cruft into mobile.
Yeah, we poor fish tend to be a bit oblivious of the water ;-)
Planar directional antennas have been done before, in EHF-type frequencies (most research has focused on 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz for obvious reasons). Lower-frequency signals would probably be harder. No idea what a nice clear frequency might be though, particularly out in the interstellar medium.

Depending on what maneuvering profile these things will have, it might be desirable to have a "semi-phased" design that can be steered to a limited degree without physically moving the spacecraft.

And, it also goes without saying that this antenna probably needs to be flexible or at least articulated in order to deploy.

NASA has previously done some really interesting antenna designs with genetic algorithms. You just need to figure out what the goodness function here should be.

https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/pub-archive/1244h/1244%20(Hornby)....
Totally agree. Big music and film stars are a pretty new phenomenon and in the future they will probably be viewed as a short term fad. The big companies probably will keep making lots of money though.
Vince Cerf is working on interstellar communication:

http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/vint-cerf-qa-on-interstell...
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And I was like...
I'm sure you all hear this or even speak like this (cause when I get excited about something, I find myself saying it too), "... and I was like (insert quote here)..."

This is what our modern society has degraded down to when communicating with each other. The proper way to describe what you had recently said to someone should sound something like this:

"...and I said..."

or

"...and I looked at him/her and uttered the words..."

or

"... and I had the urge to say..."

or

"... and I thought to myself..."

or anything remotely creative.

Please, for the love of humanity, say ANYTHING but "... and I was like...". Future generations depend on it.
Well I block ads on my desktop so I'm not really seeing fake "download" buttons that often. On the other end what really bothers me on mobile (using the latest chrome) is ads automatically redirecting me to another site, happens quite regularly when I browse Google news. I don't really know if those ads use an exploit of some sort or if they consider I've clicked the ad when I only tried scrolling the page with my finger but that should clearly be checked. And it happens on well known newspapers websites, not that I was browsing some obscure shady part of the web...
Because jra_samba doesn't want to elaborate: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS16-047

Update FAQs

My application or product uses the SMB protocol, does this issue affect me?
- No. Only applications and products that use the SAM or LSAD remote protocols
are affected by this issue. The SMB protocol is not vulnerable.

"An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Security Account Manager (SAM) and Local Security Authority (Domain Policy) (LSAD) remote protocols when they accept authentication levels that do not protect them adequately. The vulnerability is caused by the way the SAM and LSAD remote protocols establish the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) channel. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain access to the SAM database.

To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could launch a man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack, force a downgrade of the authentication level of the SAM and LSAD channels, and then impersonate an authenticated user. The security update addresses the vulnerability by modifying how the SAM and LSAD remote protocols handle authentication levels."
Is their test suite just unit tests, or does it include user-acceptance testing?
The actual news is this: https://security.googleblog.com/2016/04/improvements-to-safe...

Google's expanded it from just protecting users to also notify the network admin via https://security.googleblog.com/2010/09/safe-browsing-alerts...

(The "notify the AS owner" service existed before, but now it also notifies about social engineering content.)

[/end doing job of reporter who should have done it themselves.]
Clearly, in a democracy, you need to get people on board with things, and that will take time, but I don't think it's impossible.

Naturally, the 'marginal' (in the economic sense) people who are being excluded don't get a voice in the matter, which is sad, because they're already being screwed by being pushed away from highly productive areas.

You also need to balance what voters can and can't dictate with property rights. It's pretty common in the US to have laws like "houses must have a 2 car driveway", which seems excessive to me.
It's not SMB, but it's all DCE RPC, right?
Well, you could use your handy 200 GW solar array. With perfect conversion, and ~1300 W/m^2, you'd need to get your 12km x 12km panel array pointed consistently at the Sun.
Unless the contracts are dumb, the house will be the security for the loan, so it 'transfers to the kids' in the sense that they don't get the house, but it would be really stupid to allow reverse mortgages or home equity loans to be attached to anything other than the house.
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Comment on the code:

As a Lua aficionado I hate to see stuff like this:

Ball = {}
Ball.__index = Ball

function Ball.new (x, y)
local table = {}
setmetatable(table, Ball)
table.x = x
table.y = y
return table
end

Explicit setmetatable() call and manual __index setting? You can automate this and hide all the metatable magic = less code to write, less potential for bugs.

E.g. in my own Lua object system the above would be:

Ball = Class()

function Ball:Properties(x, y)
return { x = x, y = y }
end
Do you not plan to have ratings at all? If the maintenance is being done by the hotel staff it won't always be the same quality, and people must care about things like location as well.
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Of course there's innate complexity, but pursuing encapsulation for its own sake adds complexity you don't need (just like using functional programming techniques for intrinsically non-functional use-cases adds complexity for no good reason).

Again, "messages", "objects", etc. -- these are metaphors. They should be abandoned as soon as they stop being helpful.
Yes, it is a removal / diminishment / dissolvement / insert-word-here of the self, depending on the kind and amount that you do. That's what the article talks about, and that's what psychedelics do in general. And citing the OP:

"can psychedelics have lasting effects." (followed up by claiming that these lasting effects are positive)

You do not want the effect of the psychedelic to last, because you cease to exist as such when it's in action, and that's what I was replying to. It was followed up by a religious quote, and you may not be aware of this, but in religions such as Buddhism losing the self is considered to be enlightenment. Assuming this is a "permanent positive change" is extremely controversial, especially from a western perspective, and certainly from a psychological perspective. Psychedelics are dangerous because the default network may not reform.

Regarding your other comments, what you are doing is known as "junior modding" on the internet, and is generally frowned upon. Have a nice day.
Google still loves disks, should you?
> Oddly the most practical use for this is as an interstellar weapon.

I completely don't advocate this, but the 9-year-old-boy part of my brain thinks it'd be pretty awesome to announce our presence to the universe by attacking a star system.
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Not for Brazil, at least. Here, most people use WhatsApp: local and even larger business are starting to list their WhatsApp number in advertising, even radio stations use it for users to send messages instead of calling.

And it's even hard to spot a Java-applet based phone. Even the lowest classes just use cheaper or older Androids.
Not true.

The language as spoken by real people -- is the primary language.

You can't stop the signal, Mal.
Me too. :-)

I think that this fallacy is correct in the sense that averting extreme outcomes at the cost of a lower expected outcome is rational when it comes to survival.

I suspect you might be able to explain the existence of those "irrational" behaviours this way, although I haven't searched the literature.

Kind of the opposite of playing the lottery (which I also find rational, despite all the nerds decrying it): There you are giving up expected value, in order to gain variance.
Phones contain valuable data, too.
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I'm aware. This is an isolated comment about other security mechanisms that are in place for the user (not for the support staff).
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My go to tools:

De-centralized https://syncthing.net/

Centralized http://elkarbackup.github.io/

Both are user friendly including nice gui
subdomain1.mywebsite.com
subdomain2.mywebsite.com
subdomain3.mywebsite.com
...

An extreme example would be DDNS providers like No-IP.
I hate this ingratitude. You know Miller and Young loved Davis. Absolutely loved him, but they were in the business of making radio friendly rock music by that time and obviously very different than the jazz scene Davis lived in. Their mainstream popularity gave Davis a great venue to open up to non-jazz listeners and promote someone they admired. Davis, being a jerk himself (oh the irony of calling Miller a jerk), took it as a personal affront to have this opportunity. An opportunity other acts would have killed for.

Life isn't and shouldn't be "everyone is fake except this one true artist here." They're all artists. If Miller could magically become a better musician he would have. He probably felt tremendously upstaged by Young's and Davis' talents. I'm sure hearing this broke his heart.

Miller himself got his early breaks through concerts backed by Chuck Berry in 1960's. I can't imagine him calling Chuck a low talent nobody, even though by then his music was very much out of style as blues-based and psychedelic guitar rock took over. Everyone has to ride someone else's coattails to make it in this industry. No need to be an asshole about it.
Yeah I remember seeing them on TV in Canada over 10 years ago.
Why go? I can't think of any reason to prefer Go over any other language for this project. I'd prefer a security-oriented program to be written in a safer language, actually.
I understand what you want to say, but you have to see this in the context of crypto lockers. I think it's a very realistic scenario that an attacker hacks into a router and then uses this position to encrypt the SAMBA Server in a MITM attack.
And you can mathematically prove that no possible future disaster could possibly affect a larger area?

No? Okay, my point stands. I simply don't care about probability-weighted outcomes there.
Mind-boggling indeed. I guess you could do worse by using your FB auth on Ashley Madison, but not by much.

> We are one FB bug away from some serious embarrassment.

FB has been squirreling away phone and credit card numbers for awhile, along with DoBs, family members, birth cities, and pet names (i.e. "answers to common security challenge questions"). I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of this information has already been stolen, and is being used for things worth more than a bit of embarrassment.
First, five is not that many.

Second, if the only interviews you get are "whiteboard coding", and the only rejection is "not a cultural fit" you may not be interviewing in the right place. Not all places want you to be a 10x engineer who's gonna work 80 hours a week.

I'm surprised you encountered this behavior in larger companies. You said you got introductions from your friends, I assumed you interviewed there. I would try to get more constructive feedback through your friends to really know what's going on.
>the biggest reason to think the universe isn't a computer is just how darn non-computable quantum mechanics is

If an intelligence is simulating a universe, they aren't exactly going to be doing it von-neumann style.
The gene pool? For wordplay beyond the call of duty?

Harsh crowd.
for their friend group outside the US
Why don't we focus and reflect the sun's rays instead? Or even combine this and the traditional rocket method by putting the emitters in space to catch the sun and push these tiny craft after they've been shot from the Earth by the zillions in a single satellite. That way we deal with two big problems at once: generating laser energy sufficient for escape velocity, and focusing lasers through an atmosphere layer. Better yet, we can use SpaceX's reusable rockets and save even more on launch costs.
One of the most frustrating things for support or customer service personnel to do is respond to something other than what was said.
Wow, that must be one if the best guitar performances I have ever seen.
Let me get this straight.

- The phone OS has a shell, usually written in native code.

- The messenger app runs on top of the shell, usually written on top of some type of VM.

- The messenger app contains a web browser that renders other apps, written in js.
I was once at a panel at a scifi convention (Dragoncon, for the curious) where they had a few people working in various nuclear power related areas there to discuss and answer questions.

While they were clearly biased, I felt they did a good job addressing the issues directly. I too am biased (I tend to not trust anything that requires maintenance on a time scale so much larger than we can comprehend) and my walk-away conclusions were:

* There are a LOT of safety precautions, backups, and more backups - But I still don't trust those will survive human perversity [Edit: And that makes this point hard to settle - if I just don't trust any precautions would be enough, there's no effective way to add precautions that would change my opinion. ]

* Nuclear Power, with all the risks and detriments, has a very strong argument that the fossil-fuel alternatives we're using now are MORE damaging.

That last point was a huge deal to me. Instead of it being "Nuclear Power: Safe/Unsafe", it became "Nuclear Power vs Fossil Fuels (largely coal): Which is the bigger danger today".

I went from anti-nuclear power to "oh gee, I don't know, that's hard", which I generally take as a sign that I've become somewhat enlightened on a topic.
I have, and I didn't say it had anything to do with it. The point is it's hardly a heartbleed or even a shellshock.

Having samba accessible from the public internet is a issue in itself, regardless of this exploit. The MITM is dangerous I guess, but it's a MITM. It's bad, but not super-hypetrain mega-branding bad. It's not colleagues talking about it at lunch bad. Plus all the shady stuff other people have commented on here.

Edit: having re-read the release ok, yeah, it's pretty bad. I still think you overdid it on the release though.
This is one of my favourite Stallman anecdotes of all time :)
We do something very similar at JotForm. The hardest part has always been the"keeping it fast" part. The deployment should take less than minute otherwise developers spend too much time waiting to see if the commit went live without problems.

The solution is usually to run things in parallel. Examples: Run tests in parallel. Keep things in separate repos and push them into separate folders in the app servers.
I work on software for a few satellites (not Kepler) and they have gone into an emergency or safe mode a couple times over their long lifetime. None of those times ended up being because of a serious problem. While I am interested to hear back on what exactly tripped the emergency mode, I think the main sad news here is the loss of the finite supply of fuel on board, which will ultimately shorten Kepler's operational lifetime.
Sure it does. People in positions like this are required to learn. If they repeat serious mistakes like this, they're not the right fit for the job.
The inofficial clients work well enough nowadays.
I'm a consumer. I have a web server on IIS. I come to their site. How do I know this?

---

The answer is: I don't. I hit the "getting started" page. I see instructions for Linux. I don't have Linux. I say "oh well," and leave.

In fact that scenario is pretty much exactly what happened a few weeks ago when someone told me about let's encrypt. Which explains the post I made to this thread today.
Combined with the fact that, for certain demographics, if you can't walk out of your apartment to a hipster coffee shop, life is basically not worth living.

(SF pricing issues admittedly extend to the entire Bay, but for many thriving cities, very high prices are mostly a near-in urban phenomenon.)
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The expectations management you mention is really important, I need to think how to communicate that clearly to customers.

In this case we are going to make it "cloud based" so there's no need to deploy anything. About the different kind of spreadsheet uses, the more use cases that we can found the better, also we are going to start with the more simple cases to reach a functioning product and then expand to the most complex ones.
That's rich, coming from them. When I used mobile apps with ads, the majority seemed to be fake "update battery driver"/"uninstall virus" type nonsense. In flashing red and yellow.
Sorry, wasn't deliberately not elaborating. I hadn't read the Microsoft announcement yet, I've been too busy working on our side of things. Thanks for the link.
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Sorry I must have missed the bit where I impuned the rollout of the issue, or suggested I could have done it better?

My comment related to the hype surrounding this bug, which I see (from an infosec point) as a bad thing.

From https://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html it looks like there were 8 CVEs for bugs in samba this month and 14 in Microsoft's monthly patch bulletin (https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms16-apr)

Should all of those have logos and websites...? Do the other issues in these releases not need to be fixed...?

So why is it a bad thing? Well to me it contributes to "vulnerability fatigue". the more issues that get hyped up and then don't turn out to be objectively more serious than many other issues that are getting release, the more people will dismiss efforts to draw attention to issues that come up.
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