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> We are calling for a conversation around how the government uses that technology.

...

> If the Snowden revelations taught us anything, it’s that the government is in little danger of letting law hamstring its opportunistic use of technology. Nor is the executive branch shy about asking Congress for more leeway when hard-pressed. That’s how we got the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act, not to mention the impending changes to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41 and the endless encryption “debate.”

I'd be worried that this would be mean that the conversation would be fruitless. The constituencies just won't hold Congress accountable because they don't understand or they don't care. Even though these events generate major headlines, I think most individuals think that it doesn't impact them, or that the only villains to be found are the ones in foreign states, but not ours. I kinda wish that Ars story about the corrupt DEA agents [1] were more publicized. It clearly illustrates the kind of damage that corrupt law enforcement can do. These are the same individuals who are able to summon the power of the Stingrays and similar technology.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/stealing-bitcoins...
Focus on getting better at your regular job. Raises and bonuses will outweigh any "easy" money over time.
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> I read the other comments to this comment, and I'll agree that you must either have money or decent health care coverage, probably a combination of the two.

That's incorrect. The benefits I receive have nothing to do with my insurance or my salary.

> Here it is mostly single payer, with some blips, but folks can choose a private doctor if they'd like to and can pay for the difference in cost.

Autism support in Canada falls into this "blip." Unfortunately, it's not as easy as going to a private doctor. Just because you need services now doesn't mean you can pay to get it, even if you had the money.

Sorry, but the idea that there are no benefits to the US system over the Canadian system is simply false. In my case, the US was cheaper, faster, and superior in ever way.

What I was lucky to have was the ability to make that decision to move. Canadians generally don't have that choice.
Are Uber's customers even ready for driverless taxis? It's one thing to trust your Tesla, when you're behind the wheel and can re-take control. It's another mental leap to get in the back-seat.

I would be hesitant to trust a new technology developed by a company with a record of skirting laws and regulations.
Thanks for the feedback.

The essence of open socialism is to have a cooperative system without free enterprise. I think most people would accept that without resources expended due to competition and controlled wealth inequality, a cooperative system is more productive since everyone is working primarily on the good of society, not for their own personal gain. A large proportion of the surplus created can be reinvested into the good of society and not go to a small percentage of wealthy people where it often does more harm than good. I think on paper this type of system is much better for the majority and for long term progress.

The traditional (valid) criticism of such systems (eg. communism) is that the 'state' has too much power in these and those in control will become corrupt. Open socialism is quite focused on this key flaw and primarily addresses it by having society run much like an open source project, with all deliberation and operation done entirely in the open. Add to this the consensus seeking model to making corrupting decisions more difficult.

I posted it here hoping that people would give feedback or help if they are interested.

Cheers
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It appears the EFF intend to fight section 1201 (thou shalt not circumvent) on first amendment free speech arguments, and on the idea that punishment for circumvention creates a chilling effect.

I don't think a court will buy it. They'll argue that 1201 protects the free speech of content creators, and that it works as intended - and they will cite the decss appeal, which was won by the media giants on the same argument. https://www.2600.com/news/112801-files/universal.html
Couldn't you save the resulting epub to a dropbox folder ?
Don't keep plaintext passwords in memory; treat them like you'd treat your persistent records (e.g. database), because it is one.
Apparently we can't agree that there are no benefits. =/ Every time I suggest issues with Canadian healthcare and how in some cases, the US healthcare system is better, people assume it's all a lie. And, well, frankly, that's why it won't get better.

At least the US is having that discussion.
Get the 8320e at Microcenter for $90 and over clock it. It'll be faster and cheaper.
More about the Nimatron: https://pbgames.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/1940-nimatron/
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When my wife and I bought our house ca 2011 we both had to sign a statement saying that our down payment was our money, was not a loan, and surprisingly was not a gift. They also requested bank records showing the balance. The bank official we were talking to said they had had problems with people getting a family member to "gift" them a large down payment for a house they couldn't afford in the past and you basically had to prove the down payment was your money beyond the fact that you had control of it at signing.
PHP is really great. I'm not sure why so many people hate it so violently. It's useful and runs like 1/4th of the web.
Well, there's an opportunity. Five years ago, everyone in China used to use qq, which is kind of like Chinese Facebook: everything public. Then wechat came out, and now I never use qq any more, I mean, noone does.
> coming from a C background I love PHP since its basically C with a lot of the boring/repetitive stuff abstracted away

It has a C-style syntax, but similarities almost completely stop there. Especially in modern OO PHP.
They run a hell of a lot more than half.
The smaller loan is more risky. If it is "personal needs" like you describe, it isn't backed by any asset. In other common scenarios such as using second mortgage or a HELOC to get to 20%, it is second to the primary loan in getting paid off in case of foreclosure.

That is, if the home sells for 85% of value in foreclosure, the primary mortgage holder will likely be made whole on both the debt and costs of foreclosure, but the second mortgage might get 10% recovery. And in the case of a "personal needs" loan, they probably get nothing.
Well, outside my house at a safe distance. But yes, better batteries as a utility company thing don't need to be as safe since they can be outdoors behind a fence like a propane tank.
The only reason taxi license (and most other licenses in general) exist so that one group of people can monopolize a business without worry of competition. And with that you get smelly rude taxi drivers.... who drive away if they don't like your destination and are crazy drivers. If uber is guilty of "flouting regulations", that makes me like them even more.
Work your ass of building and promoting something useful and charge money for it.
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The real popular cricket in india that I grew up playing is one tip catch out cricket. It can be played in minutes, with as few people as beach volleyball. Also if you hit the ball out of the playground or lose the ball, you are out!
Events are just mainstream now; unless there's a chance the FBI is going do a raid, likely nothing you're not going to hear about a day later on the net.
Have you thought about allowing payment through the website? Making someone email you (a VA?) seems like an unnecessary hurdle.
> So the point is to get something for nothing? Money without work? Everybody wants that.

No, that's not what they're saying, and you should be generous enough to assume that,

What they're saying is that after the initial investment is done, they don't need to do lots of work. They put in the initial effort up front. After that, the income is more or less passive.
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If you wait until it's perfect you'll never sell a single copy. My advice is to launch it, get the money going, and use that to refocus your efforts on the edge platforms on which it won't compile.
I'm working on my second million.

I gave up on my first.
Thanks for the link! I knew something was wrong when days went by and there were no updates...
You make a fair point. I've seen this happen before and after a while, projects that have essentially turned into a poor framework, plus the application, can become somewhat of a pain to maintain.

PHP has come a long way in the past few years and the amount of open source packages has become huge, especially since the adoption of composer. I think with that in mind, it is now easier to build and maintain PHP applications without a framework as such, but just with the components you specifically need. Like yourself, I haven't actively been working with PHP for a while either. But it's been interesting to watch what's been happening with it and it's community.
The return on investment comes from rental income, not increases in the price of the property.
Not much substance in this one - the summary would be something like:

- LendingClub inflates figures by encouraging employees to use the service

- there was an affair with mis-dated loans - but this is not covered in any detail

- LendingClub data does not include information about repeat borrowers (one example given was about someone who tried to take a 25K loan - but got financing for only 20K - then it borrowed the rest, apparently with better rates, because smaller loans are less risky) - this might be a big thing actually - but it needs more data

- there are privacy issues for borrowers (obviously)
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Napster was centralized, that's why it was taken down. Now we have torrents. When a torrent site is taken down, 10 new ones replace it.

I think with projects like Ethereum, IPFS and others, there will be a huge push for decentralization in the near future. Of course it will be limited to enthusiasts at first, but not forever.
It's actually easier to do this as a single dev because you typically have a near-complete mental model of the software, including the rough bits and areas for improvement.

With a team of 4 people it's very easy for no one dev to have a complete mental model, which leads to nobody truly understanding the weak points underneath.
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leanpub allows you to get the data from github, my book is already on github, 950+ stars
Not to mention that they probably already have a dozen or more skilled employees who have already done this or could easily do it if permitted, but who are instead kept occupied with pointless busy-work.

A culture of warring fiefdoms and organisational incompetence means that good ideas can easily get buried if they didn't come from the right team in the right department (or an expensive consultant employed by the same).
> [4K movie] 24fps playback [...] in RAW format [...] needs > 1 MB/s

Actually, much more than that. 3840 * 2160 * 3 bytes * 24 Hz = 569.53125 mebibytes / second
That kind of stuff adds up fast in an interactive shell.
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What's up with that hero image? It seems to have zero relationship at all to the content. Is it just a case of "A/B testing shows women in bikini's on beaches drive a lot of clicks?"
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In 2001 (before e-books were a viable business) I wrote a C++ book that throughout the book we wrote a full usable library (games) and 2-3 full games. It isn't hard, thing is, most tech authors I've talked with shouldn't really be writing books. They get the deals not on technical merits of writing full scale applications, but by a few blog posts on how to use X to do Y but little understanding on how to teach/write.

An exception (maybe not all books, but the few I've read) are the In Action series from manning. They tend to write a full fledged application slowly throughout the book with clear and simple writing.

Also, if you want/can, shoot me an email at brunomtsousa (at) that_google_email_domain.com I've worked with some BPM solutions and thinking/designing a solution I think could be cool for SMEs. Not easy to find folks that know much about the topic and would love to exchange thoughts!
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The majority of SaaS applications do not require their founder to travel or purchase capital. You have a good chance of not needing a lawyer[0], especially if you already have an LLC like a large number of developers do. Marketing is a likely expense but can be done for free if you're smart about it.

Hosting is really the biggest up-front expense, especially if you expect to have large spikes in traffic (SaaS around events or seasonal things) that you need to try to plan for.

[0] Meaning a large cash outlay to a person. You can get away with generic privacy, TOS, etc.
There's a good interview on Youtube with the main author "FLOSS Weekly 340: VeraCrypt": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgjsDS4ynq8
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If so, please share the revenue details.Just curious to find out whether wordpress is still a hot platform with the advent of modern blogging platforms like medium. Also, please share how your revenue has changed in recent times after the popularity of medium and such stuffs.
At a convention you can pay cash (semi-)anonymously where if you had to build that stuff you'd leave a paper trail.

Many I know in this group of people (DefCon/HOPE attendees) do things like trade around craigslist-cash-purchased laptops.
Both qq and wechat are owned by tencent.
Google has millions of users and provides zero support for a lot of its products. I've had products generating passive income with ~50000 users and has to answer no more than a couple of support emails a month that required no more than a simple answer.
It's the same with frameworks. "Modern PHP" frameworks usually include a ton of composer packages.
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I feel like you're talking through me.

When I said "Created value vs captured value", I was essentially saying

>cooperative system is more productive since everyone is working primarily on the good of society, not for their own personal gain

I'm not misunderstanding what the problem is with capitalism, or what socialism hopes to achieve. So please to read my feedback with that in mind, and don't just keep trying to explain socialism/communism to me.

I'm on-board, capitalism is bad.
I'd love to take the otherside of your short.

(Disclaimer: I've followed Sandstorm since it began, so unlike you I know something about it. Not sure I need to disclose that our not.)
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Look at their promotional video too [1], it’s very concise and goes straight to the point, showing good examples of why using the application is worth.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWO-Hedsr8E
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Could you expand on "a hard time reading"? Is this only for long tutorials or for any text?

I believe https://teamtreehouse.com/ uses a lot of videos in their courses. However, I do think it would be challenging to learn to develop websites by exclusively relying on videos.

When developing a website, you'll come across various challenges, bugs, conflicts, etc., and a large number of them will require reading docs, help forums, etc., to solve.

Perhaps graphic design may be a better option?
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Hi all!

I should interview potential new candidate for the team I work in, and based on the many opinions on "fixing the job interview" here on HN I figured I will solicit some advice.

My situation looks like this:

* Candidate has been pre-screened by HR already

* I have read the CV

* We have 1.5 hour video-call scheduled

* Predominantly a dialogue

Any tips how to best lead this dialogue?
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I've bought PDFs where I already had all the information just to support the author. The hard part is letting the people who know about your book already know that they can buy a hard copy/support your work.
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My company which employs more than 100K employees and also one of the largest software company in the world can never work with 6 Hour.Because even the 8 Hour work itself is not enough for us to finish our jobs.This is the case with lot of people I interact with.Almost all my kith and kins who work in IT or engineering companies end up working 12 hours easily everyday and still some end up working on Saturdays.This may work for non IT companies especially manufacturing(because multiple shifts) or some government organizations(only work on a particular timing) better than private IT companies.

e.g Services companies bill their clients for number of hours per engineer and this would drastically reduce their income

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Update: CamScanner is now less annoying than what I used to remember. I might actually be switching back.
That was where I stopped as well. I moved from PHP to Django about 9 (wow) years ago because I was reinventing my own ORM and very poor reusable web component set but didn't see something like RoR in the PHP world (there were some early ones but they weren't that appealing at the time). To say PHP is equivalent to Django, RoR or any of the very nice PHP equivalents is . . . I don't get it and thought maybe this was parody of parody.
Sounds interesting! I have been trying to get in touch with the OpenAI team in the last weeks concerning their program synthesis project (I have been working on static analysis & machine learning for the last two years and would be very eager to contribute some ideas) but so far haven't been successful. It seems they're either just unresponsive or overwhelmed by requests right now (I assume the latter).

Meeting the team at the conference seems like a great opportunity but I'm wondering whether this will be an effective way to get a collaboration started or learn how to participate in their efforts (as it would require a 20 hour trip from Berlin for me).

For me, the biggest questions right now are:

* How are they going to organize their work?

* What kind of contributions are they looking for?

I think it would be great to address these things at the conference.
I switched from AT&T to Sprint last year because of their unlimited data plan and other incentives. I don't really use that much data, but I love not having to worry about a surcharge if I exceed some arbitrary limit.
Yeah I'm an LC loan investor and this doesn't move the needle for me.

What other bank or lending institution publishes this amount of loan data? Does this imply that LC is more transparent or less than most lenders?

Investors in the stock may be hurting, but my loans are still in the black, and have been for the past 4 years since I started.
More accurate dates would be March 2004 (original release) for Markdown and April 2008 (public launch) for Github, which is a significantly larger amount of time.

By the time Github launched, Markdown had eaten most of the lightweight markup language for lunch. If you want to compare its popularity, you first have to look at the relative popularity of the other lightweight text markup formats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language

Also, you have to keep in mind the amount of cachet Schwartz and Gruber had at the time, which helped no end in popularising it. Popular blogging platforms at the time of its release, such as Bloxsom and Moveable Type quickly got support for Markdown.

Arguably, if you wanted to choose a site that's done a lot of popularise Markdown, Reddit, which launched in 2005, would be a much better example.
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What if I don't want to be an employee? For some people, the flexible schedule is really important. Why does everything have to be this draconian 'you're either one or the other'? People are so obsessed with these regulations and proving that Uber drivers are employees (to stick it to the evil corp, I guess) that they don't even consider what the people affected even want.
Honestly I dont care. Truecrypt works great for me. My adversary is neither NSA nor FBI, so I can live with some small vulnerabilities. I installed Veracrypt, tried it with "Truecrypt compatibility" on and it didnt worked. This signals to me, that Veracrypt is not very much tested either, if they have bugs like this, they may also have bugs in crypto. So why shouold I trust it more? Truecrypt is proven by years of usage.
I've seen dual licensed projects before.
As jasonlotito points out I mean that after the initial investment, i.e the creation of the product or system, you will generate money with little to no involvement. You're likely going to have a few hours work a month with most passive income streams but the point is, after development, you generate money without focusing on it. For example: I created a simple iOS app that netted ~50k users. It generated about £1k per month and the only work I needed to do on it was answer a few emails a month. You pointed out in your comment the example of people selling physical products on Amazon. I know several people making the majority of their income, passively, from that. So your 'it's also not making them much money' comment, which you failed to back up, is wrong. It's possible. For most people passive income doesn't need to be very much, just a nice little supplement to their salary. For others it can be their entire income and more than enough to live on.
Using bad grammar and obviously fake UIs is a pretty well-known technique that's been used by Internet scammers and phishers for years to filter out the savvier potential victims. It seems the motivation is not that smarter users will report them or try to stop them, but that those who are naive enough to miss the obvious signs of a scam are also far more likely to actually fall prey to the scam, to send larger sums of money, and to possibly fall victim to multiple scams. In essence, the bad grammar and fake UIs are used to make the scammers more efficient. They don't need to waste time on people who will get a few steps in, then cause them trouble or recognize the scam and back out; if you don't see the clear signs up front, you likely won't notice any of the later ones either. This is the same reason that the "Nigerian Prince" email scam still survives.

Here's a research paper published by Microsoft on this very subject back in 2012:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...

Here's a decent summary on Yahoo:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/study--obvious-nigerian-scam-emai...
Taxi prices are very strictly regulated in most jurisdictions I've been too.
Oh yeah, Im sure. Im using modern eyes intentionally in context that many people think a LISP or dynamic language can't run on constrained hardware. The 704 was pretty constrained by today's standards. Refutes that claim.
Even if you value your time as worthless then maybe you could build a hardware key logger for less than $50 in parts but I really doubt it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

But we did actually build prototype engines of a similar principle. There were actual mechanical artifacts test-fired. This is a much more viable looking option then Orion which only proved the pusher-plate design seems viable on a small scale, and which is unlikely to ever clear the problem of "build a lot of nuclear weapons...then deliberately start setting them off".