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HackMIT 2017 My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to finish our project on my own. I still regret that. I promised myself the next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what. This past year, Ive been increasingly fascinated with blockchain technology. A blockchain is basically a list of records linked together with cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network rather than in a central server. And its so much more than that, but well go down that rabbit hole another time. Anyways, I was getting tired of just talking about the blockchain. I wanted to actually code something that uses it. One of the most interesting companies Ive seen in this space is Sia.  Sia  is a blockchain company that lets people rent out their extra hard drive space to others while still keeping everyones files secure. It turns out that Sia actually started at HackMIT 2013.  HackMIT  is a massive 24 hour hackathon that happens every fall right on campus. 1000 college students from all over the world gather together under one roof for 24 hours to code, hack, and build. Ive been blogging about HackMIT for years, but I still havent competed in one. So I figured HackMIT 2017 was the perfect time to let loose and code up my first blockchain project. Just one problem. The deadline to register was in July. I didnt even know I wanted to do it until a couple of weeks ago. But they did say they accepted some walk-ins on the day of. I didnt have a team but I knew I wanted to code something so I was going to try my luck with that. Saturday, September 16th. I woke up early in the morning and waited three hours in the walk-in line. Everyone on the registration line was signed in and brought inside before anyone on the walk-in line was. I was then given a card that said I was #13 on the wait-list. Everyone who had a number above #50 was asked to leave. Then, everyone above #20 was asked to leave. Miraculously, I made the cut. At the opening ceremony, we heard a talk from Steve Huffman, one of the founders of Reddit, and from Kyle Vogt, founder of Cruise. Kyle Vogt was an MIT alum and told the audience some great stories from his time at Burton Connor, one of the MIT undergrad dorms. Afterwards, all of the sponsors of HackMIT came up one by one to announce their prizes. While HackMIT gave out the main prizes, companies could choose to sponsor their own with special challenges. These were pretty creative. For example, Nasdaq wanted students to hack something that would change the way we look at financial markets. Disneys challenge was to use their new Marvel API in your project. 1000 hackers in one gymnasium. Incredible. I ran into so many of my friends who had also come to hack. It was interesting how, even though the class of 2017 has graduated, I still knew so many current students from my involvement in many different clubs. I also met a lot of new students from other universities. One student I met came all the way from Budapest. Throughout the day, companies also gave talks about how to user their software in our projects. Since I was focused on blockchain, I spent a long time at the ConsenSys talk, learning how to integrate a software called MetaMask into my project. Later on, I also went to an amazing talk with Austin McChord, founder and CEO of Datto, Charlie Cheever, co-founder of Quora, and Maria Latushkin, the CTO of Narvar. Back in the main gym, I wanted to build a decentralized web application that used a blockchain as a database. Luckily, my experience coding previous MIT projects transferred over when building out the web app portion of my project. But to integrate a blockchain database, I had to learn Solidity for Ethereum. It was very difficult, as it was still pretty new and there were few tutorials and documentation. I kept running into bugs and got frustrated. It was getting to be too much to try to figure out in one sitting. Cue 4 am. Judging was in 7 hours and I was falling asleep at my chair. No idea, no working code, no team. The snack booth even stopped serving energy drinks to stay awake. I had the sudden desire to give up and go to sleep. I learned some Solidity, thats good enough, right? I started dozing off and thinking back to all the previous times in the past four years that I all-nightered to complete a goal. Every all-nighter I pulled to finish a pset and every blog post I wrote about it. Four years of training leading to this do or quit moment. I had quit my first hackathon and I wasnt going to quit my second. By 7 am, I had formed a new team with an old friend, Sathya 17, and a new friend I made earlier that day, Sathvik 21. I reasoned that if we worked together, we could probably hack something up that at least gave us something to present. We started coding. Willpower was our fuel. We entered a state of flow where nothing existed but our idea and our code. In four hours, we hacked together a decentralized password manager that stores encrypted passwords on the Ethereum blockchain. The code didnt work. We tried again, modifying this and that. Still nothing. We sped through documentation and thought up of new things on the fly. We tried again. This time the code worked. We were able to get a working demo minutes before judging began at 11 am. After being awake for 28 hours, I had to pitch our idea again and again to like twelve different judges. Then we went to the closing ceremony to watch the top ten projects pitch. All of them were awesome. The HackMIT organizing team then announced the winners of the top prizes, followed by the company sponsored prizes. Win or lose, I was happy just to have coded an interesting, working project. Then, we won the ConsenSys prize for best blockchain project. I dont think Ive ever felt as much of an engineer as I did at HackMIT. Rallying together teams, solving problems on the fly, challenging yourself, battling sleep deprivation, making something that helps people, all distilled into one 24 hour long experience. Post Tagged #day in life #HackMIT #photography

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The Defence of Provocation Provocation is a defence which reduces the offence of murder to manslaughter. Even though there may be an intent to kill it can be deemed that, in some circumstances, it is not appropriate to be classified as murder. It is not saying the killing is justified or excused. What it is saying is that the circumstances, the response (which resulted in the killing) is within the normal range of behaviour of what can be expected of the ordinary person and that it represents an acknowledgement of human frailty. This is the traditional view of the law. 1] When the penalty for murder was death, often provocation was a way of reducing the punishment from the death penalty to life imprisonment. In jurisdictions where there was a mandatory life sentence, there was also an argument for this defence to be in existence. [2] In this paper, the issues of the relevant stakeholders, previous provocation cases, and the law will be discussed in regards to any amendments or recomm endations that need to be made in changing the current law in regards to the defence of provocation and how it will affect the Queensland society and its stakeholders. We will write a custom essay sample on The Defence of Provocation or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page One of the main issues with the defence of provocation include the timing between the act relied on as being provocative and the assault or killing is very important. The longer the time between the provocative act and the assault or killing the more difficult it is going to be to use the defence. [3] This time limit for the provocation defence has caused difficulties in the case of ‘battered spouse syndrome’. These are cases where one party to a relationship, usually the woman, puts up with serve physical, emotional abuse from her partner. Eventually she ‘snaps’ and acts violently towards her partner. Women in this situation, who have tried to use this defence, have often been unsuccessful in proving provocation. This applies only where the assault is proportional to the provocative act. So, killing a person because they are having a sexual relationship with their ex-wife/husband/lover has not usually been enough for the killer to rely on the provocation defence. However, sometimes the male of the relationship has been charged with the murder of their wives have successfully used the defence of provocation. This has been used the most particularly where the oman has left the marriage or relationship to start another sexual relationship with another man. The stakeholders involving the issues of provocation include the victim, the defendant, legal personnel – judges, barristers, solicitors, crown prosecutors, medical staff, police officers and commissioners, jury, forensic pathologists and the coroners -, surrounding members of the community and martial partners. The law affe cts the victim’s family because of their ability to seek justice against the defendant. The defendant’s family is affected as their family may have lost the main income earner of that family, causing them to suffer. Medical staff, police officers, forensic pathologists and coroners are affected by the law. According to the Criminal Code Act 1899 (Qld), section 269(1) states that a person is not criminally responsible for an assault committed upon a person who gives the person provocation for the assault, if the person is in fact deprived by the provocation of the power of self-control, and acts upon it on the sudden and before there is time for the person’s passion to cool, and if the force used us not disproportionate to the provocation and is not intended, and is not such as likely, to cause death or grievous bodily harm. Whereas section 304(1) states that when a person who unlawfully kills another under circumstances which, but for the provisions of this section, would constitute murder, does the act which causes death in the heat of passion caused by sudden provocation, and before there is time for the person’s passion to cool, the person is guilty of manslaughter only. The current law has been applied to the following cases through numerous through the Parliamentary Act, Criminal Code (Qld) 1899, through sections 269 and 304. The Penalties and Sentencing Act (Qld) 1992, has also been applied in regards to the final sentencing punishment of the defendants of the following cases. The Supreme Court case, R v Murray[4], states that the appellant pleaded not guilty to one charge of murder – where the appellant was found guilty of manslaughter – where, although the appellant intended to kill the deceased, e was only criminally responsible for manslaughter because of provocation under section 304[5] where the appellant was sentenced to nine years imprisonment under section 161B[6] where there was a declaration that the applicant had been convicted of a serious violence offence. Where the case R v McDougall and Collas[7] was applied as a precedent to the final decision of the case. The Supreme Court case, R v Vollmer[8], states that the appellant was convicted of murdering his de facto partner – where evidence as to the deceased’s past violent history in a previous relationship was available at the time of trial but not relied on by defence counsel – where there was no evidence led at trial or on appeal of a history of violence between the appellant and the deceased – where the appellant sought to rely on the defences of self-defence and provocation at trial under sections 271(2), 304 and 668E(1)[9]. Where the cases R v Hajistassi[10], R v Mogg[11] and Re Knowles[12] were applied as precedent to the final decision of the case. The Supreme Court case, R v Harold[13], states that the appellant was convicted by jury of manslaughter of his de facto partner where applicant was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment – where sentence took into account, among other things, nine summary offences and two charges of assault occasioning bodily harm to which the applicant pleaded guilty – where on sentencing the prosecution submitted that a sentence of 12 years imprisonment should be imposed on the manslaughter conviction and a further two years imprisonment should be imposed for subsequent offences which the applicant pleaded guilty to at the hearing – where the applicant was not remorseful and did not plead guilty on the manslaughter charge – where the applicant had considerable history of violence toward the deceased – whether the sentence is manifestly excessive. Where the cases R v Bell[14] and R v Mooka[15] were applied as precedent to the final decision of the cases. The interests of the stakeholder’s conflict through the trial of the appellant, the attack on the deceased, the relationships of the appellant and the deceased as well as the legal personnel involved with the case. The issues of this case affect the stakeholders as the legal personnel may need to go through counselling, depending on how gruesome the murder has been. The appellant’s and deceased’s family may have lost the main source of income and therefore may struggle to pay the monthly bills or provide for their family. The jury may fear for their lives as they may believe that the appellant may target them because of the verdict that they come to in the court. Some stakeholders in society see the general refusal of the law to recognise â€Å"battered spouse syndrome† (as mentioned earlier) as an example of sexist attitudes and an example of the law’s insensitivity to women’s issues. This legal principal is a good example of the law rejecting the society of which it operates and the need for legal principals to change as society changes. 16] A female judge quotes, â€Å"Laws do not spring out of a social vacuum. The notion that a man has the right to ‘discipline’ his wife is deeply rooted in the history of our society. The woman’s duty was to serve her husband and to stay in the marriage at all costs ‘till death do us part’ and to accept as her due any ‘punishment’ that was meted out for failing to please her husband. One consequence of this attitude was that ‘wife battering’ was rarely spoken of, rarely reported, rarely prosecuted, and even more rarely punished. Long after society abounded its formal approval of spouse abuse, tolerance of it continued and continues in some circles to this day.

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Legislation and Legalization essays A Study of the Inconsistency of the Application of the Death Penalty A well-dressed, young-looking businessman casually walks into a soaring skyscraper filled with over a thousand people who are all going about their normal lives, carrying out their daily routines. The businessman holds his briefcase in one hand and clenches his other hand into a tight fist. Nobody gives him a second glance as he walks through the tall, glass entrance doors. He looks perfectly normal to everyone in the building. However, these people do not realize that this mans typical-looking briefcase hides a considerable stockpile of high powered explosives. He calmly boards one of the buildings many elevators and presses the button labeled 30, the exact middle floor. He exits the elevator, impassively sets the briefcase on the floor, and returns to the lobby. Two minutes later, the bomb detonates. The blast reaches nearly fifteen of the buildings sixty floors, killing nearly three hundred people and injuring many more. A witness standing a block away from the building notices the businessman suspiciously walking away from the scene with no expression of fear or panic, and he chases after him. Later, the man pleads guilty to charges of first degree murder. He is sentenced to life in prison without parole. Why is he not given a sentence of death? Why is he not relieved of the right to live for the horrible crime he has committed? The reason is that the crime is committed in the state of Massachusetts, one of the 12 states in the United States of America that do not allow the death penalty as a form of punishment. This inconsistency in legislation causes many serious problems with justice, deterrence, and retribution. The primary problems lie, obviously, in the fact that some states do not allow the death penalty. These twelve states are Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, ...

The Meaning of Ça in French

The Meaning of Ça in French In French, the word  Ãƒ §a  means it or that. Its a very simple word, but its also a very useful word that every French student needs to add to their vocabulary because its used in a number of common expressions. A brief lesson will introduce you to this word and the many ways you can use it. The Definition of Ça The pronunciation of à §a is sa. The cà ©dille (or cedilla) is used on the letter c  to ensure that it has a soft sound. Without it, the a would automatically give the c  a hard sound like it does in the word cat. Ça is an informal word that is actually a contraction of cela, which means it.  Ãƒâ€¡a  is also used to replace the more formal  ceci, which means this. These derivations are why  Ãƒ §a  is often defined as it, that, or this. Ça  is also an indefinite demonstrative pronoun. Unlike some other pronouns, it does not change based on the subject or the number of the sentence. This means that there are no other forms of  Ãƒ §a, which makes using it in sentences a little easier. Using  Ãƒâ€¡a  in Common Expressions Due to its meaning and usefulness as a pronoun,  Ãƒ §a  is found in a number of common expressions and phrases. Even though it is informal, the French language uses it often. Cest à §a  - Thats it, thats right Ça alors  - How about that Ça va ?  - Hows it going? Ça marche !  - That works! Okay! Quest-ce que à §a ?  -  What is it/that?   Cest quoi à §a ? - Whats that? Quest-ce que à §a veut dire ? - What does that mean? Ça maide beaucoup - It helps me a lot. Its interesting to note that the phrase, Ça cest une bonne idà ©e. is redundant in its use of that. Since cest is included along with à §a, it literally translates to, That (that) is a good idea. Notice how when the two words are reversed in Cest à §a above, the translation makes perfect sense. This is just another tricky thing to look out for when switching between the two languages.