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I dislike that Quanta used the term "Back Door" in their headline. That has a pretty specific meaning in information security generally and cryptography particularly. This was not a back door.

The tl;dr: it was conjectured that a more feasible method of factoring large numbers might exist by finding their unique polynomial representation. Polynomials are more quickly factored than integers, and to every integer there corresponds a unique polynomial per the fundamental theorem of algebra.

But that method doesn't actually work, because as polynomials get larger they become commensurately more difficult to factor. In other words, it is as or more difficult to find the polynomial you'd want than it is to just find the prime
factors for any given RSA semiprime.

This is a neat result, but nothing is changing for RSA.
Working == income. You need to stop being so pedantic that you actually think you're saying anything different than me, you're not.
Could also be thinking of Green Man Gaming.
CNN hasn't published anything on this and they are owned by AT&T. am i being a tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist? it seems like lots of major outlets have discussed it, including their major competitor fox news.
I'm not sure that the contents of the censored site really matters to the point he's making.
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No matter how educated you are about the scientific method, there are going to be hypothesis that you don't have the technical skills to test yourself. Scientific knowledge has advanced, in part by accepting consensus. Not until a new idea fails do the assumptions it is built upon really need to be scrutinized.
> something we should have figured out years ago

I actually blame Stallman for that. He insisted that GCC should not dump any AST or provide embeddable functionality so that actors like Apple wouldn't be able to build nonfree software on top of it. However, that meant you also can't build any free tools on top of it, so everyone was forced to make their own ad-hoc C++ parsers and analysers. Once clang appeared there were much higher quality tools available. There's rtags that's a sort of proto-langserv implementation for C++ from before Langserv was a thing.

I suspect Stallman's decision was right at the time, but it did hold back free tools.
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Do they also follow Saudi Arabian law?
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Trying to find out the best looking color. Would be nice to see some screenshots.
interesting we decided to bootstrap in 2016. Chasing down VC's is such a time drain when you can focus on your product.
we now have about 28k users.
Oddly there is a Raspberry Pi 3 sitting on my desk today. I find myself a little reluctant to setup the BTD loop for it (BTD = build test debug), because at the end of the day I'm going to have a (physically small) linux box. Which is fine because I plan on installing a network proxy on it that only needs wifi. But how is the Pi a gateway to embedded programming? It has pinouts you can attach an oscilloscope to?
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That is my understanding as well. This study[0] estimate that the worlds oceans have lost 2/3 biomass of predatory fish in the last century.

It's really disturbing.

[0]https://www.int-res.com/articles/theme/m512p155.pdf
“goof around”?
The EU is going to regulate themeselves to the dark ages by simply creating an environment that is too antagonistic and costly to capitalism compared to other parts of the world. The regulations around capital raising for a fund in the EU is aweful. You’re better off being based in the US and simply invest in EU startups.
It's boring exactly the way going about your daily life is boring, 99% of the time it's nothing very interesting. But unlike other MMOs Eve has these insanely high stakes.

If someone blows up your ship, they destroy and steal real value that you spent time earning. Suddenly all that time spent being bored and grinding weighs on your mind when you contemplate a fight. It means you actually have something to lose.

Consequently, PVP in Eve comes with a shot of adrenaline. On top of that, there's an incentive to raise the stakes even more in PVP: spend even more time/money on better ship equipment and you have a better chance of winning (at the cost of making losses even more devastating).

This also means having allies is a real thing. Not just buddies who play with you, but friends who you rely on to keep you safe, and that rely on you doing the same. It really brings to the surface feelings of comraderie that I can only imagine one must feel in the military.

The big alliance level stuff is awesome, but it takes months to play out. The daily experience that keeps people coming back is very similar to the rush one gets eating spicy food: it hurts a lot, but it gives an incredible rush
This seems like a good place to start.

https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap
Finally got around to looking at this and had a couple questions if you're still checking this thread.

Your 0.3 announcement mentioned switching from Kademlia to Chord for the DHT but doesn't go into much details. The lookups are consistently fast, and maybe consume less storage? But Kademlia seems from a topology point of view to more closely match your network and seems to have significant advantages for networks that have ephemeral nodes.

A bit less technical but is there an overall goal for the project? Was this trying to solve a specific issue (such as consistent mobility addresses?) or is this more of a project to test out a combination of findings from research papers?
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Good job ! Please add something about namespaces.
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The spaceship combat is incidental, the more important part is collecting enough people that you can go look for fights that are decisively in your favor.
It's interesting that their Santa looks a lot like the US/UK version of Santa designed by Nast, later popularized by the Coca-Cola Co.[1], and not a continental Santa.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_suit
Self-blocking instead of making one's business model compliant with the law is a choice. An alternative would be to update the business model.

That's all there is to it. GDPR isn't banning news sites, or other companies; it's banning a very particular set of antisocial business practices.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.13360
As a kid in the early 80s, I used to love going to the cockpit. British Airways had a "Junior Jet Club" [1,2] for children, figureheaded by Captain Leo Budd, a Concorde pilot (amazing the names/things that stay in memory after 35 years!). Club members had a logbook [3] and on each flight you'd give the book to a flight attendant who would have the Captain complete and sign it. There were awards after you travelled so many miles. Every single time we'd get an invite to the flight deck mid-flight, usually over the alps, on the way to/from the Mediterranean.

I've been fortunate enough to fly first class on many top tier airlines since then but nothing will ever beat the thrill of those early flights being led to the cockpit by a flight attendant, bursting with anticipation, ready to meet the pilots and see where in the world we were flying, through the front window of the plane.

[1] - https://www.boeing.com/boeing100/stories/2016/march/junior-j...
[2] - https://www.adventuresinfamilyland.com/blast-from-the-past-b...
[3] - http://www.danzfamily.com/archives/2005/02/boac_junior_jet.p...
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> This parallels civic/political engagement in real life.

Indeed it does. And the "insane" label to the engaged is even more apt there.
The date tag wasn't there previously. Someone added it by mistake as it seems.
I’m not sure if there’s much of a reason to become downright upset about the article.

As a Miami resident, it’s clear that Miami is extremely influenced by NY and NY’ers living there to begin with. So I’m not sure if this is really news. NY’ers essentially built up what is Miami now and there is a strong sphere of influence from NY in Miami.

Miami is basically a satellite economy of NY. The big thing that Miami doesn’t have is high paying jobs. And tech in Miami is virtually nonexistent.

But wealthy folks residing in Miami don’t really need to worry about landing a decent job in the first place.
Doesn't going by number of victims skew the results because some countries might have a more modern fleet of cars with better security features? Or is that accounted for?
A good in-between option is a parser generator like Ragel ,http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/

This takes in the definition of a regular language as a set of regular expressions, and generates C code for finite state machine to parse the language. You can visualise the state machine in Graphviz to manually verify all paths, making it much easier to spot hidden corner cases, while being a lot quicker to code than a big pile of if statements.
Nobody knows yet what will and will not be GDPR PII. The law handwaved like crazy and they haven't even finished hiring all the officials who will interpret it.
Yes, it has a GPIO header that has pins that mux to a limited number of periphals. You can attach an oscilloscope to any GPIO.
For the language, K&R is good, and Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by Peter van der Linden is a great second book.

But all the fun stuff happens when you start talking with your OS, so get a book about that too. If you are planning to develop on Linux, Michael Kerrisk's The Linux Programming Interface is excellent. Much of it will be familiar to someone used to shells and the terminal, but there will be plenty of new ideas too, and even the stuff you know will get a much deeper perspective.
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It’s easy to see how people might wonder if vaccines cause autism—many children regress developmentally right after receiving vaccinations. It’s been conclusively proven that this is correlation, not causation. There is absolutely no doubt: vaccines do not cause autism. But it’s emotionally easier to for parents to believe they have a reason and someone to blame than the stark truth that their child’s autism is not yet understood

Tell that to the parents of the afflicted children. If the autism was not a genetic condition then the vaccines must be the cause. Simply because the mechanism by which autism develops is not understood doesn't mean the vaccines were not the cause.

post hoc, ergo propter hoc

It is similar to the argument of those who maintained although there was a correlation between the presence of the HIV virus and the AIDS disease, it was only a correlation because the mechanism by which the HIV virus caused AIDS was not understood. I for one not being in the medical profession cannot say for sure that the actually mechanism is well understood.

I say again, tell that to the afflicted.

And what has this got to do with the Internet? If the Internet gives the opportunity to spread falsities as well as truths at Internet speed is it an inherent fault?
The hardware is better documented and less complicated than a full intel PC, I think is the general goodness to it.
It's designed specifically to 'tinker' with.
C++ package manager written in F#. This should be the tagline :P
I did do contracting in the past and I do consulting from time to time related to an open source project that I created but it's not enough to turn into a full time business yet.
There is a huge contradiction in this essay. If everybody were to follow the mantra and 'fire their boss' then who will those scrappy starter-uppers hire?

Some people will have a boss, some people won't and that's all dependent on personal risk evaluation. The 'gig' economy is where really nobody has a boss, the libertarian wet dream where everybody sells their body as a service to be discarded on a moments notice. Having a boss translates into access to social security, welfare, healthcare and other safety nets in many places in the world, and entrepreneurs usually pay in to such schemes but will not be in a position to apply for help if it should come to that.
To people with some infosec knowledge, the poor choice of word "backdoor" sounds as if that the article is about importing an asymmetric backdoor to RSA encryption, which is not the case. If the author wants to have a casual style of writing, I think "loophole" could be used.
me too, i mean all kinds of IT communities
> a lack of diversity in general -- discussions are driven by the worldview of a few

Are you saying that internet commenters have a monolith "worldview" that could be referred to as "the worldview of a few"? I'm not saying you're saying this, but that's what I read.
Hard to call this “privilege escalation” if I’m reading this correctly?

It’s like a firewall default policy of ALLOW and complaining that packets are getting through.

There was a literal “Skip” button on the login page and the default account was granted permission to read certificate private keys. Did I get that right?
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That's probably true, but it might be the end result of a vicious cycle: you don't engage, you don't sharpen the skills required for it, you fall into the easy role.
I absolutely agree if your model is wrong any causal inferences you draw will be wrong. However his framework does provide mechanisms for determining if your data is inconsistent with your model (ie certain independences should or should not exist). So hopefully if your model is wrong your data will tell you so and you can change your model.
VCs win if enough of their bets make it big enough to offset the ones that go under. Naturally the big hits are few and the ones that fail are numerous. That means the big hits need to be huge and the failures need to have a certain cap. The latter also means you can't run a company for 10 years in slowmo until they get profitable. And the big hits need to be huge which means they need to take over a nice chunk of a market which you can only do with good funding and moving faster than everyone else.

VCs were able to control the startups they invested in to a pretty big degree.

What does that mean for founders? It means that you are putting all your eggs into one basket. A founder does not found 20 startups at the same time in the hope that one succeeds. A founder puts his effort usually into only one. So founders take a larger risk than VCs. They make it big or go bust. And the vast majority goes bust when running in supercharged mode.

What does that mean for startup employees? Well, they got the worst of all worlds. High risk and little to no upside. Their eggs are also in one basket as they work for only one company AND they don't have the huge upsides that VCs and founders have.

The whole game favors only VCs and founders who like big bets. But for the vast majority of people (which includes employees), the VC game is not a great game to play.
In your opinion is 8-bit even a realistic choice anymore? Many ARM CPUs offer way more bang for your buck nowadays (unless i'm looking in the wrong place).
Here's my layman's take - basically it's similar to how computers convert binary integer representations to integers.

For instance, a binary number of 0b1111 could be represented as 2^3 + 2^2 + 2^1 + 2^0 = 15, or 8+4+2+1=15. You now have a typical polynomial which can also be factored algebraically and quickly using something like Mathmatica.

Not all of these binary conversion type polynomials can be factored however as they're irreducible. There's a lot of shifting around in big numbers when you compare the normal binary conversion and what is algebraically viable to be factored.

In my conjecture - it's not clear to me the exact mathematical connection between the normal binary conversion and the perfect polynomial factors we're searching for. I believe it still may be possible to find these unknown polynomial factors by migrating some of the polynomial terms through redistribution of higher value terms and/or performing some sort of hard search. So instead of 2^4+2^1, you can rewrite as 2^3+2^3+2^1, for example.

The factors are exponentially smaller and the search space is reasonable considering that it's basically possible to reduce the polynomial to a large matrix.

I gave up on this path a year ago, so I may be a bit off in my recollection. I was using SymPy (a computer algebra system) but the speed was an issue.
IMO, if i did not sign up for information regarding a product, its spam. If i want something, i will go look for it. I don't want random strangers trying to sell me something, especially when they have no idea what i need.
I think the essay doesn't make the case for everyone to 'fire their boss' rather than to limit organisation size to about 8 people and to eliminate hierarchies.
No worse than the rocket launcher or sniper rifle or having the higher ground or any other advantage you need to strategically fight over in a game.

The fight for asymmetry is what makes the game fun.
If you are looking for something that gives you a very similar feeling to something you already know/love/use, you are likely to find yourself disappointed. Or at the very least, without a good reason motivating you to leave Ruby/Rails, you'll just find yourself returning quickly.

It might be more interesting to ask "what is nothing like Ruby and Rails?" to push yourself to learn something new that's entirely different, can give you new feelings.

If you are interested in exploring truly new things, there's a lot of interesting stuff happening in Universal or Isomorphic JS space (both names are basically for the same thing, and about equally common in usage), some of which becomes very different from the traditional Rails approach to a web backend. (Also, there's a lot of interesting variety in language options from transpiling ES2018 or ESNext to Typescript to increasingly more obscure transpiles to JS languages. I recommend Typescript as the best place to be, for what that is worth, but you'll get a bunch of other opinions pretty easily.) It could be useful experiencing some of that, and get a very different experience from just "Rails but in a another language". Server-side React seems to be getting increasingly popular, and the GraphQL approach to database work can be very different from a traditional ORM approach like ActiveRecord.
It would be both - having a copy of an entire article is both desirable for the readers and dangerous to the service.
Myth is criminally underrated both in terms of gameplay and technological ambition. Real time reflections, Physics based projectiles, wide variety of multiplayer options and customization, hand animated cutscenes, a post apocalyptic medieval fantasy setting it is certainly one of the most unique games I have played.

It's one of my favorite games of all time and I wish they would rerelease it or at least add modern OS support for it.
Pretty sure that a 2011 metasploit book will be almost completely useless.
Companies also have economies of scale. The 10-to-30 transition is so hard because it has to pass through 20, the moment when overhead as a fraction of total turnover is at a maximum. After that things get better again. But getting through that is a really hard thing to do.
>Eventually Russia and European powers did them in, empire was rotting for centuries...

The Russian winter is the only major European power that has never lost a war.
Reposting my question :

So let's stay I start a startup, grow and manage to take it public, what happens next? Is the company expected to keep growing indefinitely? What happens if growth is stagnant, but the company is profitable?

I also hear about the mid-life and late stage of companies. Can you explain what these terms mean and how being in these stages affects the company?

Are there any good examples of publicly traded companies which have lasted a long time (more than a few decades) with minimal impact of the "we have to keep growing" mindset?

Finally, what are the pros and cons of being private without vc funding and being a public company?

And what role does VC play in the broader economy? Does it manage eg pension money? Are there good resources to understand the lifecycle of VC funded companies and what role VC plays in the broader ecocomy?
One thing that not many people talk about: there's an oversupply of VC funds spawned by the technological waves of the 90s (internet), 2000s (mobile) and everything in between. Today there isn't a clear wave, yet those funds need to deploy capital. Now there are too many funds pursuing not enough VC-worthy opportunities. The VC bubble will pop sooner or later.
>but outlier Wikipedia editors need only be superhumanly obsessive.

Yup. The way the internet works is it privileges the perspectives and opinions of people who have an abundance of time to spend on the internet (either because their jobs are online or because they just have a lot of free time). So you wind up seeing the perspectives of bored office workers overrepresented and manual laborers underrepresented, you see a lot from students but not as much from working parents, etc.

This might be why online discourse is especially toxic around any subject that actually has to overlap with people out in the real world: The people least in touch with it are best positioned to dominate the conversation. And any system that relies on majoritarianism to do curation just amplifies these defects. One of the problems with this has been that it's actually impossible to get a real understanding of what motivates people who disagree with you. Even if you go looking, all you will ever find are the worst representatives of that worldview.

It's definitely true of subjects like politics, but it's also kind of true about things like dating or relationship advice or even restaurant reviews. Even job advice can be spotty. The conversation is always amplifying the voices of people who have strong, poorly thought out opinions. And in cases like politics people aren't even really interested in discussion. John Scalzi characterizes it as "gamified rhetoric" (https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/1025372965754621953) where the whole rhetorical strategy is to frustrate and exhaust you by nitpicking everything you say. The goal isn't to clarify, synthesize, or understand so much as to "disqualify" you and your perspective from consideration.
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in aggregate things are getting cheaper

I'm pointing out that is a naive analysis.
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Well, that's kinda expected isn't it? Also keeping in mind that essentially 9/10 startups fail, VC's are well aware of that and basically treat you that way. Welcome to the lions den!
Agreed. "Loophole" would have been a particularly better choice of terminology. RSA has never had a "back door" in the sense of, e.g., DUAL_EC_DRBG.
Good for you! Doesn’t seem like a hard fork in the road though. You could probably raise a round much easier on way better terms now that you’ve proved the business. Maybe you’ll hit a point where the infusion of money really would make a difference.
Because food stamps gives them about 180 dollars a month to feed two people. That's hardly enough to survive a month, especially for two disabled people that also have trouble cooking for themselves.
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I hacked the source slightly so I don't take any damage in combat. Is a simple one line change so it's a cheat but a tiny cheat. I still cannot get past level 10-12 or so. (Wow, I suck.)
We've tried going down the VC route but no one's really been interested. So we're pushing on to get customers to help us fund it out.
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