skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Here you make a lot of false statements, and then conclude on the lack of security based on them. So let me answer to each of them:

> they don't even use SSL in their site logins.

Which sites? The only one I can think of having a login is the transmission site, and it not only uses SSL, it even has two way certs validation, so even the client has to have valid SSL certs which the server validates.

> You use md5 to check firmware

No. They use SHA256, not MD5, and to check the CD software, not firmware (there is no way you can checksum a firmware securely if the firmware wants to lie to you).

> and the coders are obviously capable of using proper cryptography, but they won't

Yes, they use encryption, where it makes sense, like the double SSL in transmission.

But I guess you are referring to the unencrypted chip data. It would be useless to encrypt that. Think for a second: the machine needs to be able to read that chip on the counting step. So you are distributing the unencryption keys in hundreeds of public CDs that very same day. Having the data on the chips encrypted would accomplish nothing, they keys to unencrypt them would be public. It's like puting a padlock in your bike, but leaving the key along the padlock.

So no, nobody has given up on security, you just probably have read misleading things.

2) Again, several wrong things, will answer separatedly:

> why not a qr-code? it's hard to read?

This is the only one I can't answer with full knowledge, but I think it had something to do with them being hard to read because of the quality of the print (thermical fast printing)

> they can be unlocked, re-written

No, they can't. It's a physical process that burns and cuts connections on the chip, you can't "rebuild" them to unlock it again.

The thing you probably saw was people rewriting demo ballots, which are created with the machine configured in demo mode, in which it doesn't burn the chips, to be able to reuse the same in several demos. The people claiming that even published photos of the supposed "real" ballots they where rewritting, and the ballots had in really big letters crossing all the print, the text "DEMOSTRACION USO NO OFICIAL". So, no, they weren't rewriting real ballots, it's obvious those where demo ones.

> with a weird faraday cage that do not work correctly

Reallity doesn't agree with you, hehe. Even people opposing the system had tried and weren't able to read the chips through the shield. It's simply a shield which has enough mass to absorb the signal that the chip emits.
Linked from a related EFF link recently:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/facebook-reforms-inmat...

Prisoners denied access to social networking, in a state law & through Facebook's prisoner profile takedown forms (!)
This sentence from the paper sums up to me a remarkable trend:

> For the most recent cohorts, the four-year college graduation
rate for women (32 percent) is ten points higher than the comparable rate for males (22 percent).

This means that women were completing college (I believe in the year 2006) at 1.5 times the rate that men did. That's a huge difference, and from the charts it appears that the difference has been increasing for decades without signs of leveling off.
I've always found the anarchist ideology confusing. There was a reason the early Americans (who were leaving tyrannical governments) formed a judicial system run by a government.

The people of today forgot how the people of yesterday lived and never learned why they made the choices that they did.

Unfortunately, I believe that history will continue to repeat itself until we learn from our ancestors in more meaningful ways.
Suddenly, a shaded rock appears.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Martian_...

We're doing humans wrong. Maybe not all wrong, and of course, humans are extremely useful things, but think about it: sometimes it almost looks like we're already there. There always going to be an anomaly; lots of them, actually, considering all the things shaded in different patterns. Something have to change.

I agree that we aren't there, but we'll never be there, every system can be fooled, its just a question of 95%, 99% or 99.99%
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Sounds to me like he just wanted author credit without doing the work.
It's not centralized, just tracked. If you want centralized, there's a biobank in Stockholm that contains tissue samples from everyone born in Sweden since 1975.
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America has pledged not to use anti-personnel landmines(APL) anywhere outside of the Korean peninsula. I suspect (although obviously can't confirm) America has reserved this right but probably does not exercise it.

> The United States is the world’s single largest financial supporter of humanitarian mine action, which includes not only clearance of landmines, but also medical rehabilitation and vocational training for those injured by landmines and other explosive remnants of war. Since the United States Humanitarian Mine Action Program was established in 1993, the United States has provided over $2.3 billion in aid in over 90 countries for conventional weapons destruction programs.[0]

While I am quite cynical and definitively against a lot of the ways our military has been employed, the degree of safety and the diplomatic security I receive as a result of it, provides more utility to me than a parking lot.

More broadly, roads and localized infrastructure are quite important, as is the military. I agree that personally I would allocate more money for infrastructure than to the military, and agree if this is the point you were making. I do want to illustrate the counterpoints that many people (once again, not me personally) would "Rather have their names on the bombs that kill terrorists"[1], than on a highway.

[0] http://www.state.gov/t/pm/wra/c11735.htm

[1] This is a dramatic characterization and hyperbole. However, I do suspect a large swathe of the country believes this.
Same here, I got a red https on chrome/android.
They take place in the 15th century, and are fictional (although they chronicle many historical events), but I cannot recommend highly enough the 'House of Niccolo' series by Dorothy Dunnett to anyone who is interested in the Mediterranean (and to a lesser extend, Scotland, the Baltic, etc) of that era.
So, you should be "Android first" with an app that could never be written on iOS? Yes, I'd say that makes sense.
They are not yet a startup. They are doing paper to get angel's fund so they can incorporate in France.
Founders used 1200$ to outsource their website in India.
There is 1 CEO, 1 CTO, 1 financial guy. They want to recruit a backend dev (~9y exp) and me.
I imagine you could get all that without having an obligation of coursework hanging over you, but I guess at that point that doesn't matter much either
Microcontrollers haven't really become 64-bit yet.

Also this project looks very PC-oriented in other ways (virtual memory management, VGA screen output, keyboard - all of them are PC and no microcontroller devices)

You might be better off starting with a different, more portable, project. As klibertp said, Forth is a possibility. I remember one guy writing a 'Forth bootstrapping framework' called BootForth [1] sometime in 2008, which unfortunately since disappeared off the net, but you may have luck inquiring for the sources.

[1] http://compgroups.net/comp.lang.forth/forth-bootstrapping-fr...
No, you don't. The report makes clear that you need wealth of USD 3,650 to be in the top 50% in the world, and USD 77,000 to be in the top 10%.

https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/?fi...
I really couldn't comprehend what that was all about and had to go read a Vice article about him to understand
Not really laughable commas and periods have a different meaning in math, and well accounting in many countries.

For example if you have a 2340 dollars and 87 cents then in the US it will be written like 2,345.87 in mainland Europe it will be 2.345,87.

If you remove the cents than to an American person 2,340 is 2000 and 345 dollars, to a say French person it will be 2 dollars and 34 cents.

On top of that the Kuwaiti Dinar is the only currency in the world (that i know off) that its main unit is divided into thousands and not hundreds which complicates this even further since for most people this makes it even look less like a "decimal" sign used in currency but a simple comma which is used to separate thousands.
Merging feature branches off of one branch that was rewritten into a new one into the new one is nothing anybody would ever do or recommend. Rebasing is a requirement here, and truthfully an operation with less mental overhead, since it's actually just "copy all of those commits over to here, then put the branch marker at the end of the new copy".

It kind of sounds to me as if you're saying "i don't want my developers to not learn rebase because it's easier if they learn a little less". Is that a correct understanding? If so, then you're trading a little upfront work for a lot of cleanup work later on.

> My view on rewriting history is that it should not happen on shared branches

Depends on how shared they are and how big the fuck-up is. Everything is relative.

> as this will surely lead to issues where one of the developers does not do the entire 'fetch rebase merge' dance correctly

There should not be any merge involved there. See first paragraph.

> or works directly on master.

That developer gets a notice to get his shit together and gets fired if he persists. This is teamwork, not cowboy work.

> I'm not sure how the tags with descriptions would help with easily rolling back

They don't. They help with marking places where old broken branches were abandoned and marking places where their new counterparts were reinstated.

Lastly:

> it is not up to me

If it's not up to you, and they'd not be willing to listen then the conversation is moot and your org is broken. You can't wedge one small part of a rebase-based workflow into a larger workflow that pretends git is just SVN with a different syntax.

I can tell you how to do everything correctly and how it will actually make things nice and smooth, but if everything is not an option, then a little can't be applied to your situation.
Its fine to do those things (and I tutor kids too), but you should hardly get to claim that you're doing charity if you're knowingly and willingly doing far less good than you could be doing.
Ethereum components are:

- cryptocurrency
- blockchain
- consensus mechanism
- miners
- virtual machine
- programmability
- browser client

As an open source project it leaves it open to developers, entrepreneurs and organizations to use it and create the applications they wish.

All external political and social dramatization is personal opinion and judgement.
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His comments rather reminded me of the network identifying the couch as a Jaguar. He seems to have similar network issues.
You may be interested in this episode of The Amp Hour podcast, where they talk about powerline analysis attacks: http://www.theamphour.com/239-an-interview-with-colin-oflynn....

In general, it is like many other side channel attacks, where you can use the data to put constraints on the search space for a brute force attack.
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I agree with your point about how the law drops the ball when it comes to rehabilitation.

A real issue IS who owns or manages the prisons. If the profit motive is what drives prison expansion, then society will experience a form of regulatory capture in hyperacceleration.

Many of those programs and processes are being taken over by private entities. You are no long just paying out to your municipality, county, state or country. You're paying out to them and the private company who demands your payment or you go to back to prison for non-payment. They still profit and your debt racks up.

You are paying out fees to the private company for your detention, your lodging, your processing and probation on top of what the state is paying them to hold you. If you cannot pay them back, you are free to spend a day in jail for each $10-$40 of your debt owed to your captors. They get to collect from the state as well.

Then, with the money they've been collecting, the private entities go and lobby to make sure there is a steady stream of constant offenders to keep profits increasing every quarter.

Sometimes it makes sense to bribe judges to send innocent children to your private juvenile detention center to collect those fat state grants, a la Cash for Kids.

The profit motive perverts justice and seeks to turn everyone into customers of the private justice system.
Regardless of whether it would've been an option for this app, the same rules of reality apply to any other app: On Android reacting to user feedback can be done extremely quickly.

This is probably just their first android project and they had this realization and are eager to share it.
Thank you for pointing out. From now on I will definitely give proper attention to the content too not just the code. I will also look for some spell-checker plugins for Vim.
Luboš Motl wrote about this: http://motls.blogspot.co.at/2015/06/sitting-and-experiencing...
Nuclear ramjet
Multivariate Cramer-Rao inequality
No, just one on one for now. I was thinking of adding an option to pull in another random stranger, but that'll have to wait til tonite/tomorrow if I have the time.
Maybe if they claimed to cure one thing it would be a fraction of a bit more believable
But people are working to reduce the population by reducing fertility rates. I haven't met anyone who was openly working to reduce the population by increasing mortality rates or even by campaigning against efforts to decrease mortality rates.

It's possible that if mortality rates were reduced really dramatically, some population activists would get upset (and I've seen indications of that in other threads here).
One thing which I think could hold projects like this back a little is the cryptocurrency component. I haven't delved into developing with Ethereum yet... would it be possible to use the non-cryptocurrency components with a FIAT payment system such as Stripe or Paypal?
For a year, I had two part-time contracts, one for 3 days a week and one for 1 day a week. It was nice to have an extra relaxation day per week. It wound up ending when I got a full-time job for a 30% hourly increase.

It also made it easy to interview for a new job. I scheduled all my interviews on the off day.
Magicians would be out of work if our vision were 'flawless.'
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> A real issue IS who owns or manages the prisons. If the profit motive is what drives prison expansion, then society will experience a form of regulatory capture in hyperacceleration.

The thing is, profit motive is there regardless of whether you call the prisons "private" or "public," because the people constructing, supplying, and running the prisons are (presumably) getting paid, and those people don't suddenly stop having personal incentives if you start calling them government employees.
Running an indie game store, a data dump
There's an alife program called DarwinBots where small bots powered by mutating code compete against each other to survive and reproduce.

Given enough time, you'd expect the to develop clever behaviors, but instead they just fuzz-tested the sim and locked in on exploits of bugs or environment settings. They only got a bit more clever when connecting different sims running on different conditions.

Eyes already use different kinds and densities of sensors optimized for either detail and color or movement/edges. I wouldn't expect a single learning method, even after optimizing it to its limits, to be above what two or more layers of different methods could do, especially when trying to avoid exploits like the tank story.
The Cartoon Guide to Physics might be what you're looking for.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Selling to consumers means selling to many more customers for much smaller margins. And the selling is much less personal. And consumers are spending their own money, not from a corporate budget.

So it seems pretty different to me. Or am I misunderstanding you?
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If government policy doesn't have a strong positive correlation with the desires of the population, then you can't just write everything off as "well, we elected the government."
> I've always found the anarchist ideology confusing.

As far as I can tell, the most coherent philosophy of anarchy is "participatory democracy." Basically, if you want to be part of a society, you can take part. If you don't like it, you can leave.

The problem with this is that people are selfish. If I think that plunder and rape is okay, and the other people in my area don't want me plundering, then all I have to do is say, "Well, I'm not participating in your democracy! I can do as I please!"

In response, they have two options - let me be, (which is undesirable, as they're right next to me, and I'm going to attack them) or stop me by force. If they do the latter, guess what - they're a government! A crude, ad hoc, mob-driven, vigilante justice-condoning government, but a government nonetheless. And now we're right back to where we started, with the typical abuse of power, injustice, and so on. Probably with a lot more than what we started with, as infant governments tend to be messy when dealing with problems.

So, the only way that anarchy can work is if everyone is benevolent. If that existed, then the government would be awesome and we wouldn't be trying to get rid of it.
I've always wondered if I would take parole, or complete my sentence? If it was just a few extra years, and I was in decent health; I think, I would say no to parole?

The rules they put on paroles are beyond unfair. They might have made sense in the 50's, but so much has changed. We don't have jobs. We don't have any housing. The few guys I knew who got out of San Quentin were given $180, and dropped off at the bus station in San Rafael. (The ones with caring family did a little better than the single guys, but all of them went back eventually because of parole violations.)

Whenever I hear a state administrator explain our current parole system; I know he's lying to the public.
[Web] on being overwhelmed with our fast paced industry
> 'warehouse' the offender indefinitely in some location cut off from society

But that's just prison, the problem is we could make mistakes, and see some things as impossible to fix when they are, but otherwise it's just prison. And prison doesn't have to be bad, as evidenced by some nordic countries.
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Maybe the definition and purpose of a company is not so set in stone. Of course I can see how you could have come to this conclusion and often you are probably correct in the assumption but it would also be possible to say:

Companies are simply a tool for creating value for humans by allowing us to exchange money for convenience. Just because the running of the Ethereum mobility company (for example) is completely automated doesn't mean that people won't be able to get from A to B using it.
> This is merely anecdotal

Yes, it totally is. And i didn't mean for it to have any statistical significance.

But anecdotal data can help. I took the "risk" of buying books on Amazon only after asking other people about their (totally anecdotal) experiences with it. And now that i've had a good experience, i plan to keep using it despite the known problems. YMMV.
I think at the stage you mention, there is really no way to evaluate it. You have to go by what you feel.

The simplest question to answer would be opportunity cost. What will you lose if you do this for the amount time it needs to be done and nothing works out or you get fired when they finally start kicking-ass? If the answer is only "time spent," then I think its OK to just say yes if you have 500 Euros to gamble.

If the answer is more complicated than that, I suggest you evaluate it by answering some or all of following questions (in no particular order)

Market:
1. Are you convinced their pitch deck to you?
2. How long do you think it will take them to serve 0.5%-1% of their stated total addressable market? Is that reasonable time in your scheme of things

Team and execution:
3. Are you convinced that the founders/existing team will do everything they can to acquire customers? Is that "everything" good enough in your opinion?
4. How much do you think they will make your life miserable when they are in stress? Is that acceptable level of misery for 2-3 years? (corollary: I hope you are convinced they won't dump you at the first opportunity)

What can you do?
5. Do you have the bandwidth to execute things, on the side, while working full-time or part time? If you have to quit your job for the startup very soon, would you be able to execute (financial or otherwise)? Oftentimes, there is second guessing when the going gets tough -- so think about that too
6. How valuable is 500 Euros for you now? Can you blow it?

If answers to all the above ones point you in the direction of committing to this effort, you should consider asking for investor status. You should also consider asking for an upfront equity (for example: 0.5% of your 4% vesting on the day you pay 500 Euros) and no cliff.
You have to define whose time and what type of things but I'm in broad agreement. I know I haven't sold anything on eBay in ages and, even when I did, I found the ROI pretty poor. I also note that the various services offering to sell your stuff for a cut seem to be largely gone as well.

And I haven't bought anything through their traditional auction format in ages either. I don't really collect stuff and I'm not much inclined to do the auction thing when a few clicks at Amazon or Newegg will get me almost as good a deal (at minimum) for electronics for less hassle and risk.
I don't live in America. And my country makes all kinds of crap. Clusterbombs and what not. The landmine was meant as an illustration, not as a particular item, it could just as well have been a clusterbomb or some other intrinsically negative item.
Who is Terry Davis.
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The reason for bypassing the ER in this case is because every minute means more damage to the heart. A fracture is not especially time sensitive. Stabilize it in the ER, take some images, and refer them to an orthopedist in a day or two. There would be no significant change in patient outcome by shaving any time off that process.
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