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But it doesn't. It's calling the exact same function. As your sibling comment remarked, it looked like someone really frustrated with why they were getting a stack-overflow error and gave up.
Samuel, the power efficiency of the FloJack is first rate. The consumption per polling interval is ~10uAs. On a 250mAh cr2032, this works out to about 90MM polls. At the Android polling rate of 10Hz, the FloJack would last just over 3 months. Since FloJack's sleep mode kicks in when apps stop using it, we estimate typical usage patterns will allow upwards of a year of battery life.
If you do Ruby and you want to make an iOS app, you should immediately purchase RubyMotion as quickly as you can. You still have to learn how iOS apps work in general and how the UIKit works. But you'd have to learn that anyway.

I was on the fence about it, but I took a shot and it's great. After a few weeks of working on it as a side-project, my app is nearly done. It has gone much more smoothly than I would have thought and it was really easy to get up and running. It was nice to not have to switch to XCode, and use my editor and command line like I usually do. Also, the support is top-notch, the lead developer responded to an issue I had pretty much immediately. And the community is really cool too.
You assume he hasn't? Did you notice how many times he was mentioned in the paper? This is one of Moxie Marlinspike's research areas.
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I would love to be programming in a retirement home, should that day come.
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I'm tired of founders, CEOs, profit harvesters who appease the population by throwing rebates at a few people with very public complaints.

Treat all customers the same.
Sure, but it was legally settled a century ago. That's like people from Texas being angry that they're no longer an independent country.
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Yes, I do assume so, since neither the authors nor Moxie himself indicate that they have had any communication. I cite people all the time without contacting them, and I have been cited without being contacted.
Yeah... that's a bug that I haven't been able to squash yet.

Particularly with high latency, it will sometimes fail to load the JSONP from the USGS. Because JSONP is a <script> and I'm not properly catching the thrown error that causes D3 to bug out. I'm trying to get USGS to let me use CORS with the JSON files so I don't have to deal with the callback function of JSONP.

Oh - and refreshing the page should fix that! Thanks, and glad you like it.
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And -- what kind of geo work do you do?
Should compensation be based on performance or experience?
So of all the possible futures we could have, ones where we use computers to give us crypto, good security and privacy etc, instead we end up with Masamune Shirow's admitted guess of Ghost in the Shell where people can't properly use their arms due to 5 different version of the driver installed and people having 10 different viruses IN THEIR BRAINS and are constantly getting hacked and having their bodies taken over.
I'm really just commenting to note that Moxie Marlinspike isn't just the author of some random piece of software cited in the paper.
It looks a lot like the output from an Android decompilation tool... which tends to return some weird stuff. That code segment would never compile (code immediately below a return/break/continue/etc. statement causes a compilation error).
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Might be an asset for founders who would otherwise be stuck in a comfort zone, but for most people I know the added stress would be a negative.

Besides founders generally get richer as companies get bigger, especially with the advent of secondary markets where privately held shares can be sold. If you're the kind of person that loses motivation as your comfort level increases, you're unlikely to ever build a big company.
I've got to give you credit for not being at all defensive. I have a hard time with that, and it's something that I need to get better at. When someone gives you feedback, you need to take it graciously. Either they're right, or you didn't communicate yourself well enough, and that's why they're wrong.
No.

Programming is low-impact work. You can only write so many lines of code in a day. The people that are changing the world don't do it by writing code.
For those too lazy to RTFA, very cool in that it is an open source design and parts list rather than a for-sale/profit part.

One big plus seems to be cheap/easy duplication of GND and V+ pins.
maybe they should just stop naming things and call everything "windows".
For those who don't know bwin.party owns the PartyPoker brand which had > 50% marketshare for US online poker before UIGEA passed. They are the company most well positioned to re-enter and dominate the US market once regulation has passed. They've also partnered with MGM and numerous others.

This is great news for US online poker, bwin.party and Zynga.
Exactly why I stopped programming in my 30s. Figured I would try to solve management problems as that could do more good for programmers than any code I wrote. Turned out to be harder than I thought.
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>For many careers, age is seen as wisdom. Lawyers, mathematicians, judges, accountants, politicians, scientists, MBAs, real-estate agents, bankers, journalists, doctors... In all of these fields, all else being equal, you'd probably hire a 50 year old over a 20 year old.

Today.

Maybe people will realize the wisdom of 50 year old programmers in a few decades.
So who makes, say, 4GB E(E)PROM chips? I'm thinking Windows here, not Android. Clearly the technology isn't the problem but the largest ROMs I've worked with are all in the Mbit range.
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Gosling was fond of speculating that Java would eventually be faster than C and C++... but nothing ever materialized or made enough of a difference.

Uhm, I'd say Java already is faster than C++ for all intents and purposes. If your codebase is >50KLOC and the number of developers on your team is more than, say, 4 or 5, then some crazy optimizations that are possible in C++ for small applications are out of the question, and the JIT plus the GC more than make up the remaining difference. Also, modern performance-critical software requires good concurrency, and Java has stuff like fork-join, that I'm not sure is available in standard C++ (it is, of course, available in Cilk).

So, even though it's hard to provide hard evidence (because most benchmarks are <50KLOC and written by one or two developers at most), I'd say from experience that Java already is faster than C++ in practically all circumstances (except, maybe, scientific-computation applications), not counting startup time.
The only missing piece in the Java performance puzzle is value types and arrays-of-structs, and those, I believe are coming, and should make scientific-computation faster in Java as well.
> I like to think that my code is getting better, too.

And that's why, according to the article.
The paper makes that quite clear by calling him an SLL expert and referencing two of his vulnerability discoveries. Academic papers are stingy with both personal praise and references. Anyone who receives either one of those I assume is an expert in the field.
Ouch, that is seriously yucky code.
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Also if you flip it upside down (drag over a pole) the side to side turns backwards.
Another way of doing this might be to look at that persons friends on facebook and see if somebody has liked a page associated with 'chiropractor', then the referral essentially comes from friends.
Is $80,000 a realistic amount of money to launch a project as ambitious as this one? With multiple employees and a large need for hardware and manufacturing, I don't see how this is enough to kickstart the product.
If you have an infinite amount of money, so that you don't have to choose a good offer then yes, booking flights and apartments probably takes you 3 minutes, not 30.
Can you address his specific point about TextSecure?
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I've always preferred Zed Shaw's notion: "You're much better off using code as your secret weapon in another profession. ... People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines."

At some point, I'll actually take that advice and be a something-else-who-can-program, but that hasn't happened yet.
I'm 51 and still lovin' it. I switched companies about three years ago because the company I was working for was sold to Ginormous Enterprise and the quality of work dropped precipitously - our engineering focus changed to writing procedures and navel gazing. :-(

I actually had my wife talked into allowing me to switch to an entry level programming job in a totally different software field (potentially at an entry level salary, at least for a while ;-) so I could learn new things and enjoy work again. Before I actually took that step, a startup hired me. I am still in the same field, but I am back to learning lots of new things, working smart and moving fast.
Video of moxie at BlackHat 2012 for deep essential background on the subject:

SSL and the Future of Authenticity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA

What's the status of the Convergence SSL alternatives that were going to be built into Chrome/FF?

http://convergence.io/
"There's a big difference between being infinitely scalable, and being infinitely foolproof."

Both would be lies. None of us deal with the infinite. Stop lying to customers with shoddy marketing terms that have no basis in the reality of your current hardware's capacity. Everyone needs to stop this.
At least the default value is 2.
Oh thanks, I think that FAQ is exactly what I was looking for. I realize we might not be your target audience, but it seems like it'd be worth including those impact analysis statements in the paper itself, since they're short and do really help to clarify the situation.

I'll have to take a second look at the instant payment notification forgery. Last I used FPS, I remember the transaction notifications being signed. Maybe "instant payments" are a new thing.
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Hi, I'm Erica, and I'm the person that is mentioned in the OP. (Imagine my surprise to click through a link on the front page of HN and find out it was about me! That was quite a jolt.)

Anyway, I wanted to say: $1.1 million is life-changing, especially when it's for a company you started at age 20 and never expected to make more than a couple hundred dollars a month on. I didn't take on any investors for that business, and I found the buyer and did the sale.

Running (and later, selling) that business solidified my expertise not only in the tech area, but also in learning how to acquire and keep customers. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything. The payday was a nice bonus.

And, I have to say, in an era where tech companies IPO and then tank, is it not refreshing to read about a bootstrapped company built by a sole founder who then sold it for 7 figures? I know I love those stories. And, even in the Valley, they're a lot rarer than you think.
On your video, it really is amazing how much better a good mic makes the whole thing -- the video part is kind of irrelevant, but being able to clearly hear you speaking without a ground loop hum, wind noise (people doing videos outdoors for some reason!), fan noise from a computer and built-in mic, etc. is a big improvement over many online videos.
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Interac is like the system in the states without Visa or MasterCard in the middle profiting.
Seriously, Google should fund this whole project and make it work with Google Wallet.
Might you be interested in a dash of parametric polymorphism for type safety?
I think it's because in this field you are your perspective. If you aren't making a constant effort to catch up, to challenge yourself, than you are going to fall behind. The red queen principle doesn't work well for older programmers.
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I started my hosting company in 2001. If you were in the Valley at the time, you'd know it was a terrible time to be there. No one was hiring. I am a college dropout and had no degree. I sent literally hundreds of resumes out to every conceivable tech company. Never even got a call back. Newspapers (remember those?) were full of smug pundits telling us "The Internet is dead!" or "The Internet is a fad!" Huge companies were going bust by the day.

This was the way I made it work. I wasn't about to go back home to Indiana and live with my parents again, so I hustled.

2001 was a totally different timeframe and mindset than exists now in the tech industry. It's easy to look back, 11 years later, and say "It's easy" or "Startups get valuations 10x higher than that pre-revenue" or "She could have just gone to Google and made that much money." None of that was happening in the tech bust of 2001.
But google's dremel actually doesnt use Map-Reduce at all. So is this using just the HDFS and a new layer along side map-r that is using the HDFS?
Who would hire someone to use ssh who doesn't know enough to encrypt their disk and lock their screen on a timeout?
I'll assume you're talking about throughput, rather than latency/real-time constraints.

I'm pretty dubious, given that Google extensively utilizes C++ in their more performance sensitive portions of their architecture. Their custom web server, for example, is written in C++. Lets not forget the rather large HPC codebases out there in Fortran.

Can you prove any of this?
Congrats. That's awesome. Particularly at that stage in your life - I bet it's hugely life changing. Would never do ANYTHING to discourage a young entrepreneur. I hope you go on to more, equally interesting, things.

I got a smallish exit a few years ago now, similar sort of range, did much worse with it. Unfortunately we took our $$ mostly in stock and that was depressing - seeing other companies selling for much more while our tech languished ignored in our acquirer as it tanked and our stock became worthless :-/

I think that your example is great, I just disagree with the premise of the article that being broke is "a founder's greatest asset".
Why not try the Warby Parker approach where you mail people trial versions of 3-5 gadgets at a time?

This lets you avoid all the the B&M problems.
Trevor Perrin and I are actually making some encouraging progress with TACK, which is a less controversial proposal with fewer moving parts. It's for dynamic certificate pinning rather than a full CA replacement, but we feel that it takes a big bite out of the problem and is potentially a step on the path out of the current mess.

The internet draft and reference code can be found here: http://tack.io
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Indeed. It's actually updating the origin of the map projection with the animation, so it will always be spinning eastwards. That's why the globe will rotate clockwise if you center over the North Pole.

All of this can be changed in the JS parameters easily enough, however.
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It seems to me that this isn't the first YC interview story that ended with rejection, and being too set on a certain idea being cited as a possible reason why...
Which, as the authors show in section 7.1 and 7.2 of their paper, many PHP developers, like the authors of the Amazon Flexible Payments Service SDK and the PayPal Payments Standard SDK, will happily override with true.
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Of Tapas and Apps - ideas about pricing... Thoughts?
According to the rumor mill, the DSO is about to close.

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A lot depends on what you are trying to achieve. In my case, for example, I wanted to group images that may have perceptually similar colours either as a dominant component or as an accent (say, a red shirt and a white shirt with red stitching).

To expand on your points, based on my own experience:

* Rather than using the centroid to represent the cluster, pick a representative peak from the hue histogram. This tends to make things less muddy.

* Not only do I throw away extreme S/L values, I aggressively weigh everything by S * (0.5 - |0.5 - L|), so bright, saturated colours dominate. Black and white are usually very thin slivers, and I almost never have grey.

* As a last step, I convert to Lab space and merge any colours that are perceptually similar (dE < 5.0). This means that large gradients (like an unevenly lit surface) only occupy one sliver of the pie. Unfortunately, in my current implementation this conflicts with my first point above, so the colours I end up with aren't always in the original image -- something I need to fix.

Here's my result for one of your images: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/azl2bag84riugg8/imghist.png, notice how the orange has a disproportionally large weight because it is so saturated.
Really nice.

It doesn't always auto play, and clicking play/pause doesn't make it work (happened twice to me in five refreshes on Chrome).

When it said "Highlight an earthquake..." I was nervous I would have to follow those little circles with my mouse while trying to read the information, but it works well!

The earth quake zones just popping into view looks a little goofy. Is there any way to fade them in, or have them start as a line and transform into a circle (going through an ellipse). That might make it look a little cleaner on entry/exit.

Great work!
Also, YC can't accept every applicant, even if that application can accept the solution might change as time goes on.

Maybe it's that YC just saw a pitch a few hours/days before about a similar product with a better team/solution. Maybe it's that YC already invested in a few similar companies in the same space. Maybe it's the lack of a track record of the founders in building things. Maybe it's the black shirts. There are a lot of reasons besides being tied to a solution.
Sort of true and sort of not true. You have to realize that 'programming' as a profession isn't all that old. (Having met the guy who invented the subroutine call at the Computer History Museum, you realize as an industry computers are fairly young).

Given the graduation rate of programmers, as with most things, the number of them over 50 is a growing segment of the total available programmer group.

There is ageism in some places, Google had that taught to them the hard way, but realize that a 50 year old programmer probably graduated from a university prior to 1985, there weren't as many graduating then as there are now. I know from experience that it can irritate a young programmer if you know their idea won't work because it didn't work in the 80's :-).

And some people got into programming as a way to 'make good money' which it is (relative to say working as a stenographer) but their motivations don't always survive into their 50's. So they often change to other non-programming roles.

I expect to program in one form or another until I die. I like the puzzle aspects of it, and the thrill of seeing complex systems come together. So even if I wasn't being paid for writing code I'd still write code in my 'spare' time.

But there are also curmudgeons. These would be folks to learned one way to program and don't want to learn anything new. They have a hard time because they say they are programmers and people looking for programmers ask about current technologies and in response they hear about how crappy these new things are relative to the old ways. Those people are stuck and I feel sorry for them. The may want to program at 50 but they may not be able to find paid employment doing so if they don't know enough about the current state of the world.
Perhaps this is a dumb question, but when would VERIFYHOST=1 be useful?
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They don't charge for the distribution but don't you have to create content to be a content provider?
It took me a while to get a streak going. About 2-3 months actually. The time it stuck I just made a serious commitment to do it. Then after getting over 30 days I really didn't want to miss a day.

Good luck!
The issues you're describing has been solved by cellphones, but it doesn't mean it was the only solution. More payphones, more reliable phone cards (in France we use smartcards for that) would have done the trick.
You're welcome. Contrary to the downvotes, I wasn't trying to be a jerk; I was trying to make a useful point.
> I would be far more interested in a discussion about how we could identify the factors that lead to a community that doesn't appear to be following the aging and health norms of other communities rather than just saying "the article is stupid and isn't worth reading".

OK, I don't think we're using 'empirical' in the same way, then. 'Empirical', the way I've always seen it used, just means 'evidence-based' or, more verbosely, 'based on observed facts and not purely theory or philosophy'.

In particle physics, the fine structure constant is an empirical constant: We don't know how to derive it from any theory that doesn't include it already; if we want to have the correct value for the fine structure constant in a theory, we have to explicitly put in the value we know from experiment, that is, the value we derive empirically. Compare this to the value of the acceleration due to gravity between two objects of known mass: We can compute this value, derive it from a theory, called the theory of universal gravitation. We don't have to physically construct an apparatus and perform an experiment every time.

Frankly, it seems that you're tired of people being dismissive based on an imperfect knowledge of a set of specific formal and informal fallacies they came across once.
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" In this paper we describe and demonstrate a protocol flaw which allows criminals to use a genuine card to make a payment without knowing the card’s PIN, and to remain undetected even when the merchant has an online connection to the banking network."

I wasn't even aware that the chipped cards _had_ PINs.

I think we can all agree that a chipped card + PIN is more secure than a magnetic strip card with no PIN. But, perhaps the reduction in fraud isn't worth the cost of replacing all the old gear.
The FloJack bill of materials consists of only 54 parts, of which the cr2032 battery tray is the largest by far. We chose this design because these batteries are inexpensive and easy to find. Creating a more streamline form factor with a 3D printer that draws power from the iPhone bottom connector is trivial and something we're exploring. How much would you be willing to pay for it?
Git/most Git clients weren't designed for project managers or other document users. [shameless plug] Perforce has a new product (http://www.perforce.com/products/commons) that we're working on -- a client that IS designed for those folks/for document-sharing-and-versioning use cases.

So if some developers are using Git, and the idea is to keep all company stuff in a clearly-shareable and accessible spot, Git + Git Fusion + p4 + Commons would do it.

[Disclaimer: I work at Perforce, hence shamelessness of plug]
If they sip power that well, a battery should be included. Make the user experience that much better.
Why are you shifting from convergence? It seemed like such an ingenious solution.