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Too late to edit so I'm replying to my own comment.

I also wanted to mention that there is a place where the Lord of the Flies approach has been taken to its logical extreme, in a long-running experiment which continues to this day.

That place is the British boarding school system. It messes people up so badly that it even has its own psychological condition: Boarding School Syndrome [1].

The fact that many of our political leaders come from this system should be a cause for concern.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/1166...
If your one opening argument rides on being someone who watches YouTube all day

It rides on how good google's natural language processing is these days. If you wanna think of yourself as a hacker, you need a little bit of initiative.
It's great feedback.

Here's what Alex (atopiler) Slacked me yesterday after he read the article in draft "One thing that I felt didn’t really come through fully was some of the true essence of cust-dev calls. This is the product snob in me talking, but it felt a bit like we're listening to what our customers wish for, and we build what they tell us to build. When it comes down to it though, what the calls really reveal, and what we’re really trying to understand more deeply than anything else is what are biggest problems and frustrations they’re dealing with on a day-to-day basis? Why are these things frustrating? Why do they put themselves through that frustration? And what would it enable them to do if those problems didn’t exist?"

And that became that middle section.

Thanks to all of these comments I'm seeing the light of what he was really getting at there and I've salted the headline and some of the earlier passages to set that up a little better.

p.s. this is my intro to HackerNews - you guys are awesome.
He said that they were watching what was happening with the stellarator design in germany and if it proved out they'd use that rather than a tokamak.
Absolutely - huge thanks for reading and for the thoughtful replies!
Every OS project README needs 2 sections: Purpose, where it explains what it is and why, and Prior Art, where it explains what came before, and how the project improves on / differs from them.

With time at such a premium, that is by far the most valuable information you could possibly communicate. I wouldn't even be bothered by having to read comments/unit tests to figure out how the thing works if you just tell me why I should care in the first place.
Uh oh - are you referring to the docs on GitHub or the actual docs site (https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/zipkin)?
"Tell your friends about the dangers of using Uber."

Please, honestly, tell me what I am in danger of. How could Uber tracking me for 5 minutes after arriving at my destination impact upon my life in any way?
Facebook already exercises a lot of discretion -- they reorder posts on your timeline to drive engagement, they promote related links, they have the Trending bar, etc. People aren't asking them to do more. They're asking them to do what they're doing now more responsibly.
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Stop trying to make "streets ahead" a thing...
Think of a professional vehicle driving. Be it race cars, trucks, etc... Sure, maybe in the early days those cars and trucks looked and worked way different from each other but over time the available ones largely overlap, work similarly, and work well in almost all situations. If every time a new car came out you had to spend several days/weeks trying to figure out how to drive it that would be incredibly annoying. Now just think if you needed to purchase a vehicle and stake your business on it. You look at the options and some come without wheels, some without seats, some had designers that said brakes aren't neccessary, oh and there is an upcoming one that is getting a lot of attention the can also fly... some take gas, others run off vegetable oil. Experimentation is good but there are way too many options parading around as serious contenders.
Mark Cuban and Shark Tank did get screwed because somebody at the show production thought viewer rating is more important than filtering out entrepreneurs with bad intentions before being asked to put their reputation on line by announcing investments on national television which would expose the Sharks to real risks with implications.

If I was Mark Cuban, I'd be fucking livid at the production for not seeing the risks of doing due diligence at his own expense, both intangible and tangible costs.
How about this for a universal tax plan?

YOUR_TAX = MARGINAL_RATE * MAX( 0, ( YOUR_INCOME - MEDIAN_INCOME ))

By 2014 data, if we round median household income to $55000/year, 63327000 households owe no tax. If the MARGINAL_RATE is set to 40%, then households earning $55k-$60k have about a 1.5% tax rate. $60k-$65k pay about 4.5%. $195k-$200k pays about 28.8%. Households earning over $250k pay between 31.2% and 40%.

That's a progressive, but not onerous tax scheme. From $9436 billion in total household income, it taxes $1742 billion. Actual receipts from the 1040 tax in 2014 totaled about $1395 billion.

There are only 3 variables: the income that you partially control, the median computed by the easiest statistical analysis you can do, and the fraction between 0.0 and 0.99 set by public policy.
>no one knows yet if it will be viable on smaller scales

If? I never thought there was any doubt that it can be made viable with sufficient research. The problems are related to when/if we actually do that research.
Hi! I'm the author of Crypto 101.

I couldn't agree more. I think the fact that we have so much crypto foot guns available is a UX issue that we should address. Ideally, Crypto 101 would only be to satisfy one's own curiosity; not mandatory reading for anyone who wants to do something cryptographic. Alas, that's also not the world we live in right now. Realistically, plenty of crypto libraries will offer up e.g. unauthenticated AES-CBC. Then you probably want to know about some of the attacks on that, why you want a MAC, and where that MAC should live; if only to convince your coworkers that the concerns you have are real.
Whenever you have any kind of assignment process, people will squat. If there's a monetary fee involved, more people squat.

IEEE's new policy is uncomfortable in another way, it makes it impossible to guess what a new, not-seen-before MAC prefix might be.
Nice one. Thanks!
BTW if you're wondering how to start 'preparing mindfully' and you're not already into esoterica. go watch the Dr Strange movie, which is a truly excellent rendering of the psychedelic experience.
It is not just the proles that get domesticated, it is the nobles too. Since in even the most ridged societies there is movement across classes, if the peasants become domesticated then the same genes will eventually end up in the nobles.
Sounds like this?

https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs
for me, yeah, meditation and exercise has helped quite a lot because they both directly reward and reinforce accepting struggle or challenge very shortly after doing it and the effect builds through persistence. I don't like to call it "pain" or "suffering" - I think "strain" or "tension" is a much much better to put it because you can strain to do something pleasant like when we squint to try to see something better, or when we stretch to loosen up our muscles. Describing it as pain or suffering isn't going to help anyone standing on the outside of learned-helplessness - for a long time I associated "hard work" with doing things just because you felt like you had to because of that mindset and because of public schooling/being told what to do as a kid and so I carried on that refusal into my adult life. It's taken a couple years to learn that effort is fun /in the moment/ too if you /care/ about it - look up flow states.

we tend to make things like exercise and so on into these grueling things that we do as if out of this sense of duty. we don't really have to do anything - we can never get out of bed and starve to death. nobody's going to judge us for that, and if the only thing that makes you choose different is feeling guilty then you need to find your motivation. for me, the less I judge myself for not doing, often the quicker I get started. it's been tough to remember that - I can still agonize with patterns like "analysis paralysis" and I have to just stop, and go do something totally unproductive until my motivation returns. It's kind of like diffused/focused thinking as applies to learning, or anabolic/catabolic processes for weight lifting.
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> The author is saying that 1 person, in whose company he'd invested 4 years ago, closed her company down and registered another company just before pitching to Shark Tank and getting 500K investment from Mark Cuban.

This is more or less correct, but the big part to me was this quote from the article:

> If he/she wants to sell assets to another company — this includes a domain name, a logo and emails lists — needs our permission. Basically, a CEO cannot harm the company in any way without a written agreement with the StartEngine accelerator.

If I am interpreting this correctly she wasn't able to just "close" her company down and move on. Especially reusing assets from the first company because of legally binding contracts between the first company and the start-up accelerator it took investment from.

A possible problem with the author's blog is that it may premature. As others have noted, deals made on Shark Tank are subject to diligence after the show is recorded and possibly even aired. So it may be likely that diligence is still in progress.

Anyway this whole thing is a mess and The Style Club entrepreneur is at the center of it. At any rate I am interested in seeing how this plays out legally.
You learn about DHE reading this. You implement DHE following specs and standards.
What defines a company's culture
Fake news is a problem because the wrong metrics are being targeted. Fake news vendors are seeking clicks because ctr maps directly to their revenue stream. So they make outrage click bait, get the money, and compete to make the most outrageous stuff. There's a mix of human psychology and general platform failure going on here.
My guess is that it's because running the check costs money.

Doing checks after going through the show means paying for fewer checks because you don't need to check people who don't get picked. Also, you get to air people who have a pitch that would rate well on TV but who end up failing the check.
> I want a protocol and software to combine the paradigms of Syncthing and FTP, so you could download a folder's contents (or a subset thereof), or keep it up to date, all with syncthing's discovery and authentication framework.

Could you explain this syncthing desire more?

I developed SyncthingFUSE [0] for something that possibly sounds similar to your desire. I've let the project languish, but planning to pick it back up.

[0] https://github.com/burkemw3/syncthingfuse
The best that can be done is to harness the natural urge to dominate peers. Put it to use by granting dominance tools in exchange for academic success.

Good GPA? Wear what you like, except distractions (naked) mean back-of-class seating. Bad GPA? You wear a one-size-fits-all jumpsuit made of faded rose-colored velvet.

Good GPA? Eat what you like. Bad GPA? You get that squishy nutriloaf thing normally reserved for misbehaving prisoners.

Good GPA? You get first choice for slots in sports teams, drama club, choir, cheerleading, and all the rest. It doesn't matter if you suck at the activity. Bad GPA? No participation permitted.

Enforce prom date pairs having a minimum average GPA. Those with the highest GPA can pick anybody. Those at the midpoint can pick the better half of the school. Those at the bottom get only one choice, and will thus need to make nice with the top-performing student.

Good GPA? Wander in and out of school as you please. Bad GPA? You pass through metal detectors, get a pat-down, and are sniffed at by the drug-detecting dog.

Good GPA? Move around and chat with friends during lunch. Bad GPA? You get assigned seating and must eat in total silence.

People will invent new ways to attempt dominance. Brutally crush this for any student who fails to perform academically.
StartEngine claims to have contract terms which require that "if the CEO wants to shut down the company, he/she needs StartEngine’s permission. If he/she wants to sell assets to another company — this includes a domain name, a logo and emails lists — needs our permission. Basically, a CEO cannot harm the company in any way without a written agreement with the StartEngine accelerator." This is a routine bit of corporate law, and it's time to send lawyer letters.

Moving a substantial portion of the assets to a new corporate shell requires shareholder notice and approval.[1] Even without those contract terms, the company had an obligation to inform shareholders. A company just can't do this because the CEO wants to. Delaware's Court of Chancery [2] has seen this before and can deal with it.

[1] http://delcode.delaware.gov/title8/c001/sc10/

[2] http://courts.delaware.gov/chancery/
Serious philosophers of science (a la Popper and Poincare) had a succinct term for more-or-less right: verisimilitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude

I always enjoy finding the right word for summing up a heretofore real but fuzzy concept.
Can someone more knowledgeable explain why the digits 4 or 6 specifically would be causing issues?
A week to fill a DB and 70 m3x-large is way too expensive to find out how far you can scale.
Me and my friend built stacktical (https://www.stacktical.com) so that with very minimal load testing it's possible to understand and share how many concurrent users your current and upcoming application infrastructure can handle. Testers are welcome
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Maybe a new command like "DELSYNC" should be added that acts like the current DEL behavior, and in a future version DEL could be changed to act like UNLINK?
C and Rust compile to native code. Python doesn't. It's either interpreted, or run in an abstract machine (VM). Python was never really intended to interact with the actual hardware directly.

I mean, you could, there's no real technical blocker, but it'd be horribly slow. Plus many failure modes of touching hardware are very likely to break the VM process and make debugging very challenging
People who are bullied often deal with their feelings by punching down, bullying younger or otherwise lower-status kids. It's a hard cycle to break, and I think once it gets started in a school, it's almost impossible to get rid of.
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Yeah I don't get this sort of attitude at all. It seems like a very simple sequence of steps:

1. Creating something non-trivial in language X, 2. Identifying things that language X made difficult, 3. Brainstorming ways to implement solutions to those issues within a set of acceptable trade-offs, 4. Concluding that some of the brainstormed ideas might actually work, 5. Working really hard to implement and iterate on them.

I can't figure out which step the parent commenter scorns. I guess probably step 2, where they see no pain points to begin with. That's fine, but trying to convince people they haven't felt pain that they have felt is a silly battle. I guess they're actually implying that people who have felt that pain are just not smart enough.
If they start accepting takedown requests as a general policy, though, they become an attack vector themselves. Their customers would start getting calls saying "give us $LARGE_SUM in untraceable bills or there'll suddenly be thousands of plausibly-authentic complaints that your $VALID_BUSINESS is actually a malicious site"; no one wants that. They've decided to not make themselves the internet police for a reason.
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First of all, yes, I think the founder screwed up.

I'm just amazed this investor doesn't have Google Alerts setup for every company he invests in. The Style Club sent out a Press Release on 11/9/2016 saying they received an investment. [0]

Also, wouldn't you expect to be kept up to date with what happened on Shark Tank as an investor? I'm assuming the filming takes place well in advance of the broadcast. Wouldn't one think to set up a meeting afterwards but before broadcast to see how it went? Or is that not how these things would normally work?

[0] http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/11/prweb13835196.htm
The original Neoconservatives were bookish types who struggled to do anything more than to be intellectuals in the greater DC region until Reagan came along and saw something in them.

A few decades later, they led the U.S. to war in Iraq under false pretenses.

Be careful what you wish for.
Presumably Mark Cuban got screwed because if The Style Club ever scaled up and became a massive success, there is an obvious and near-indefensible (if Howard's evidence is accurate) shareholder lawsuit from the previous investors patiently waiting on the sidelines.
For writing the aimbot, not for using it.

I'm fine with you being charged if you contract to not do something (steroids, for instance) for a voluntary event, but did so without intending to uphold your promise. That's fraud.

But me, for ripping apart some game and tying into the internals? I should be charged because you could do something bad with it? That's just nonsense.

And what counts as a cheat? In an old game I used to tape a crosshair to the screen because it didn't have one. What if we create an aimbot from vacuum tubes and light-sensors?

Stupid politicians, sticking their noses into things they don't understand. The laws were already adequate to charge any actual cheater.
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...and phone number and physical address and all of the other "real-life" metadata that is commonly defined but disparately stored/leveraged/shared.
>> For example one FB friend follows whitewater racing closely and is constantly posting articles and videos from local websites throughout Europe. I would never get to see this content otherwise.

Do you seek out this content now that you've seen it? Has it made you a bigger fan of whitewater racing?
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Hi! I'm the author of Crypto 101.

Firstly, I'm a real, honest-to-God cryptographer. I don't know if there are any particular people you had in mind whose recommendations you'd like to see, but there are a few HN bigwigs who'd probably be willing to generally endorse it :-) Also, it's been posted on HN a few times before, so it's had some scrutiny. That doesn't mean I don't make mistakes, but generally speaking, an active reader should be OK.

The other thing is in the way the book is structured. I teach you to break crypto; so when I say something is broken, I prove it by showing you how to break it.

Finally, the goal of this book is absolutely not to help you implement DHE. In an ideal world, the primitives we offer people are hard to misuse. Crypto 101 then only exists to satisfy programmer curiosity. It is not a replacement for a traditional academic education that will help you design new primitives; it also doesn't show you how to write secure implementations. However, Crypto 101 is still useful beyond merely satisfying curiosity now, because most cryptographic libraries _do not_ provide that easy-to-use API. Using regular hashes for password storage, various forms of broken AES-CBC (unauthenticated, key=IV, static IV...), et cetera are very real problems for real code, and Crypto 101 teaches you how to avoid that minefield.

I'm also working on the "better, more accessible" crypto part, but I only have so much free time :)
Seriously?

What boon to public culture?

We just entered a "post-truth" era, where the public at large cares nothing about truth, or anything requiring an attention span.

If intellectuals are finding ways to feed themselves and apply their talents, outside academia, bully for them. But let's not pretend they're stopping our slide to a dark age. We're still riding a hand basket right now.
Thinking about politics first is a backward way to look at the world.

We need to know the truth about facts. Only then can we make useful political decisions about those facts.
It's also blatant partisan politics. See arguments to repeal the 17th Amendment.
It comes out of the building footprint. Building owners won't be happy, but everyone else would.
Having not used phones in China, I won't comment on quality, but at the very least, it does prove the point: The only place Androids not controlled by Google exist in substantial number is where Google is banned. Not exactly a shining argument for your claim Google isn't a huge antitrust problem.
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Not quite. It was designed by a contractor, developed by several others, and once it was released to the public and shown to be dreadful, another contractor was put in charge of fixing it. It's still primarily developed by contract to this day.

The first head of the USDS was involved in coordinating the fixing of Healthcare.gov, though.