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none of the above

After leaving a small business in Taiwan due to poor fit with partners, I moved to Beijing last year and haven't worked since. I've tried to teach myself how to write flash games, but with little sense of real progress, my motivation has been sporadic. So... I'm just decompressing. After years of working far more than full-time and putting my heart and soul into a business that generated less than what salaried work in a western country would have, I'm slowly recovering and trying to learn new skills. Anyone who didn't know me before the past 9 months or so would think I was an amazingly lazy person.
> One can't fault the FDA for the price increases for Makeda and Colcrys; the agency is doing what it's supposed to do, clearing out old drugs and improving the standards of the national Pharmacopoeia. (Disclosure: I worked as a speechwriter for FDA in early 2010 but had no involvement in the colchicine or 17OHP issues.)

I think anyone will agree that FDA's intentions are good. But sadly, what really matters are consequences, not intentions.

> In 2009, after winning FDA approval, URL Pharma won exclusive rights

Exclusive rights granted by who? Why blame pharmaceuticals for following the incentives they are provided with?

The truth is that FDA and other industry regulations increase costs in addition to destroying competition and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.

Milton Friedman says it better than I can here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZL25NSLhEA
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Too late to edit the other answer.

http://clojure.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc

http://pycon.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc

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Are my three favorites.
If you're worried about SQL injection in your applications there are several steps you can take.

Firstly, you should periodically scan your app. Both Burp Suite[1] and Netsparker[2] have free versions of their excellent tools. Burp Suite Pro comes with a very capable scanner and is about $250 (£175). Netsparker Community Edition is a fairly good automated scanner, but it doesn't cover all forms of SQL injection and the full version is quite expensive.

Running Wordpress? Head to Sucuri[3] and get your wordpress scanned. If you haven't upgraded already, now's the time.

Once you've done that, things vary according to your language and platform. Generally OWASP[4] is the font of (almost) all knowledge. You can test the app but if you wrote it you're probably more familiar with the code, so looking at how you handle user-supplied input and applying consistent changes where needed is probably your best bet. If you get really stuck, there are plenty of security geeks on HN, or alternatively you can drop me an email (address in my profile) and I'll see if I can answer your question. Alternatively if you're in London, come to DC4420[5] next month, there's going to be about 200-300 security geeks there, many of whom would be happy to help with specific questions in exchange for a beer. I'll be one of them.

[1] - http://www.portswigger.net/

[2] - http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/

[3] - http://www.sucuri.net/

[4] - http://www.owasp.org/index.php/SQL_Injection_Prevention_Chea...

[5] - http://www.dc4420.org/
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If Uncle Sam doesn't qualify as "the man", then who does?
I refer you to my earlier comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2395552
Try various commands on their cli for some interesting feedback (e.g., vim, emacs, rm -rf).

Btw, someone downvoted a previous poster who said exactly that. The post was deleted though :-(
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Me. I leaved my job today. :-)
A difference in kinetic energy -- E(outflow)-E(inflow) -- of air would result in net force pointing forward (a decelerating force, if we consider a plane). Basically, we'd need the air to get accelerated forward more than rearward, producing net force.

Kinetic energy is E = (mV^2)/2

Obviously the mass of inflow is equal to the mas of the outflow. We can achieve a difference in speeds if the effective cross-section of the (forward-pointing) outlet was smaller than cross-section of the inlet.

That's very off-topic, anyway :^)
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Surely the problem is the insurance industry? If the insurance industry wasn't able to foot the bill, no one would buy the product and market forces would be able to set a reasonable (affordable) price.

As a non-US citizen (I'm from the UK) I can't believe that such an obscene set of symbiotic relationships have been able to be formed between the medical establishment, medical insurance industry and pharmaceutics.

There are some things that benefit all - and some issues that every human holds close to their heart. Medicine and the ability to recover from ill health is too important to let companies hold individuals to ransom.

I'm shocked the situation was ever allowed to get this bad.
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Learn to remember everything: The memory palace technique
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Chalking this one up to the calendar. Soundcloud aren't this stupid even if they are struggling with infrastructure performance problems.
Deprecated is the correct word.
In their case it's not just having apps to do cross promotion. Is having a pretty popular application in the very same space (photography).
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> Who's up for creating a website to share recipes of these drugs?

No, seriously, somebody please figure a pharmaceutics delivery business model that does not depend on FDA for legality & operations.
I would agree with some of the other comments. The burden of testing this historical drugs should not be placed in the industries hands. The FDA should run the testing, either with its own money in the common interest or allow the collection of manufacturers of a certain drug class to divide the total bill. The practice of back dated invention seems archaic.
This is an ad, in the guise of a news link. WTF?
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This works, but I don't know if its web scale.

Like, do you use the memory palace at first, and later it just fixes into unconsciousness? Because there is no way greeks really had hundreds of memory palaces where they structured all their knowledge, right?
Wow, this reasonable response is getting downvoted, whereas the parent, which is basically a gibberish string of conspiracy theories is the top comment?

This is a pretty clear example that the comment threads have seriously gone downhill.
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Fooled me for a second, the opposite of the old myspace have always been their guideline.
We can't be sure about the greeks, and I still don't know how well it scales personally. Memory champions claim to have quite a lot of palaces and ways to cram information in them (for example, for memorisation of digits of pi), but my personal experience is not that big as of yet.

As a matter of fact, an informal list of places I can use as memory palace, as I know them from memory ranges around 70 "palaces" with between 4 and 15 rooms each. If you cram 3 items per room its around 700 things to remember. But you can get better.

You can also use association (I am about to write a post about it) to get facts about books, people, things without using a new palace for each kind of data type.
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Not enough evidence to suggest that the downloads are not driven by being featured by Apple. Being featured is a big deal in the App Store (the "lottery", and photo apps are all the rage lately.
I think you are being just a bit over sensitive....
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The employees of Germany's Foreign Ministry are getting iPads replacing their PCs and notebooks.

I guess some will wish it wasn't April 1st. :)

Google translated story:
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This is an awesome technique and I can't believe it's not taught in schools. It's better to think of a previous home rather than your current one though, otherwise things can get confusing.
2 days ago Kurt Harris posted a very readable article about what paleo is and what it probably isn't.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/p-nu/201103/dietary-mani...
Gout may be another disease of civilization which might be preventable with diet. Gary Taubes had a chapter about this that he didn't have room for in his book, Good Calories, Bad Calories, but you can read it online: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/10/05/gout/
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OK, with n growing without bound, and the ratio between n and pi being transcendental, the value of sin(2n) basically bounces around randomly.

cos(n) is also effectively random, and there's no real relationship between the sin and cos because everything's "random."

So I'd bet it doesn't converge.

In fact, for any epsilon we can find N such that |sin(2.pi.N)|<epsilon/4. Call the sum up to that point S - it will not be zero, and then look at the sum up to 2N. That will be very nearly 2S. Take one step further and the sum will be roughly 2S+0.7754.

I think that's enough to show it doesn't converge, but I'm typing this between other tasks and don't have time to be more formal. If anyone really cares then I'll work on it later.

But no, it doesn't converge.
http://www.google.com/#q=%22%3Cscript+src%3Dhttp://lizamoon....
Page 31 of about 631,000 results

vs

http://www.google.com/#q=%22%3Cscript+src%3Dhttp://lizamoon....
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"The “number of results” count that Google gives when you search is clearly fabricated." http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/02/04/trochee-chart/

If you click to include omitted results, the number of results stays at 631k when you get to the last page they will show you.. (1000 results max) Though I don't think it would be hard to imagine that the actual number is far fewer.

Edited several times.. I don't post often...
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In those cases the item should be flagged - any discussion is potentially no longer relevant because it's about an earlier version.
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Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?
I could go in a long explanation of the personal reasons why my co-founder and I have decided to give away our startup, but let's just say in a nutshell that we've burned out.

We're looking for at least two people to give it away to. Preferably a team with both tech and UI/UX experience. We're running on our own PHP framework. You'd need to master nginx, redis, resque, Node, MySQL and MongoDB as well.

You will get the majority stake after a vesting period. You'd be in charge of everything and it would be your startup to do with as you see fit. My co-founder and I would retain a minority equity stake in the startup and have an advisory role.

We thought of shutting down everything, but would rather "give" the startup to another team to take over. We believe in taketake a great deal and have some solid ideas for its business model.

We are looking for a team who are ready to fully dedicate their time to taketake to launch it, raise money and grow it.

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This is just unbelievably incorrect, absurd, and just shows complete ignorance of the healthcare industry. Profits for healthcare companies are the same as those in any other industry. A quick check on Yahoo Finance will let you compare their respective financial statements. The culprit is in the endless rules and regulations that drive up costs to make the pills, preventing competitors from coming in to drive down the costs.
A new book called "Moonwalking with Einstein", by Joshua Foer covers the Memory Palace technique and others.

Check out the review at the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/books/review/book-review-m...
These same monopolies you're mentioning (were|are) in fact legally protected from competition.
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I've also found it quite hard to "overwrite" memories. At least, you need to let the pegs rest for a while before reusing them.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393810
> I don't know if its web scale.

Does it support sharding?
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I have a similar library here http://bit.ly/fTj2Ls that uses pushState to provide a routing layer so you can handle perform ajax (or anything else you want to do) when a link is clicked. The best bit is that if JavaScript, or pushState, isn't available the links can still point to real pages on your server
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Kudos on your success and a well written article, but to be very frank, this is incredibly hard to emulate. An analogy would be the Envato network discussing the success of a new sister site and attributing the initial traction to their already well established network. Not that there's anything wrong with that - just that there's not too much for me to learn.

If there's one takeaway, it's that leverage can be a wonderful thing and can make a tremendous difference to the outcome of a startup. There's a superb post on Quora that articulates this really well: http://www.quora.com/Xianhang-Zhang/Disregard-ideas-acquire-...

That said, (and please correct me if I'm wrong) I think this represents minimal value in terms of actionable insight for the reader, so I'm intrigued as to how this hit the top of HN. My theory is a lot of users chose to upvote this post without actually bothering to click through and read the article.
I would love to learn Morse code to use it for text messages. Not related to Twilio, but this reminded me. Maybe we could take care of two problems at once by hooking up a Morse code transcriber hooked up to a cell phone to the horn in every teenagers car :)
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You are clearly on the wrong website.

Given the number of people employed in our industry without a university degree — many of whom are leaders in their subject matter area — i think your proposal is not just obviously discriminatory, but spitting into the wind of a gale of contrary evidence.

Get out, see the world, go talk to people in places and industries where a university education isn't paramount, and then tell me again that they should be denied a right to vote.
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Yes, maybe most sadly, the CERN guys aren't joking around... :/
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Something similar, written in C is sslh[1].

[1]: http://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh.shtml
I agree. Not too much new here. I've upvoted it however because I've learnt that:

* You can give away in-app purchases for free. (Wasn't sure if it could be done.)

* They didn't spend any money on advertising. Nothing new there either, but it's another datapoint and it'll help me a bit in the future, when I need to figure out if we should spend money on ads (probably not).
Clickable link to the site:

http://taketake.com/

Looks nice, btw.
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See also sslh. (Or sshl, I forget which way round it goes.) Which claims some ssh clients are eager (sending a greeting without waiting for the ssh server greeting).

I was once unable to connect to my sshd on port 443 when I was using the free wifi in a pub. The firewall appeared to be blocking the connection: presumably it was checking whether the connection was really ssl or not.
Why are you posting this? It's old "news" and has no technical details about the crash, the recovery, or the handling of the situation.

Can you enlighten us as to why you think it's interesting?
Hey, it isn't a sql injection.
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Out of curiosity, why do you use both Redis and MongoDB?
What does that even mean? The pharmacist is going to ask you why you are taking the drug to decide if they can give you the generic version or not?
My $180 solution is much nicer and doesn't require two people to lift.

http://www.leevalley.com/en/hardware/page.aspx?c=&p=4057...

Ignore the text about a maximum of 20lb. When you get it, it's actually a MINIMUM of 20 lbs required. 20lbs is the balance point: if you have less than that, it stays permanently up. But if you have less than 20lbs you can take out one of the springs. Of course, most woodworkers using it for it's intended purpose use 20lbs of hardwood, but I use a jerry rig that's much lighter. Then I added a 30lb 30" monitor, and it works great. The springs lift 20lbs, so you only have to put in 10lbs of effort to lift 30 lbs.

I'd worry about adding a lot of heavy weight to the front of it where there is more leverage, but I wouldn't hesitate to add another 50lbs to the back. This thing is solid.

Of course, it's a fixed travel distance. But if your monitor also has a little bit of height adjustment as well, it'll work perfectly.
Oh c'mon - I think poor old Goldman will survive any obviously tongue-in-cheek claims made on the Hacker News board just fine.
Imagine instead of Goldman the OP would have said "YCombinator", how fast do you think it would have been downvoted ?

You can't have one rule for companies you like and another for companies you don't.

I like many HN'ers am a startup founder, I'd be horrified if someone baselessly accused my company of advocating criminal activities. I don't care if the company being wrongly accused is Goldman, Microsoft, AOL or some tiny startup. Wrong is wrong.

While such behaviour might be tolerated in other online communities, it should have absolutely no-place on HN.
Without transparency cronyism and bad governance can flourish.
There are mathematics symbols, it looks scientific. Must be true :)
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True, though it's targeted at the sightly different angle of being a REPL for an analysis environment, rather than being a command-line shell for general CLI computing. So it's more of a competitor to something like R, or to the way Python is used as the top-level of SciPy.
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I would speculate that there are some comment bots that simply upvote and comment whatever at the top by chance. Out of 6 comments here 3 seems completely off-topic and coming from relatively new users. There were reports of submission bots around lately too.
I used to use this technique as a kid to win money off friends, betting I could instantly remember the order and nature of 50 objects read out to me. If you'd prepared properly it was embarrassingly easy. Recalling the list a week later was trivial for me but astounded everyone else.

The author's place method is much superior to my idea then of using an arbitrary list of objects which I'd previously memorized and then associated with the spoken items by using outrageous mental pictures, Memory Palace technique is to be recommended.
Is the "nerds" hitting the ground rather than the pile of 0s and 1s a part of the joke?
I have a "bar table" from Ikea that works nicely.

http://blog.ethanjfast.com/2010/08/on-standing-desks/

Just a warning: I've found that the more I stand, the less I like to sit. Going to class (I am still an undergrad) has become annoying for entirely the wrong reasons...