skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See this is the problem. If you're making a list of "most diabetic countries", sure, stick the US at the top of the list and start thinking about public policy to reduce diabetes and obesity. But don't blindly try to use that ranking to make policy decisions about how we provide health care, which you imply by saying people are "apologizing" for US care, because making doctors and hospitals more accessible won't make people eat better.
So the hack being demonstrated is against a provisioned phone, which requests a secure auth list from the TFTP to authenticate SSH access.

The SSH access file is checksummed and the processor on the phone would be too slow processing this file, so it asks the TFTP server for this. A simple way to lock this down would be MAC filtering, another alternative would be building a secondary auth mechanism into the firmware. Either way, this shouldn't happen.

So in answer to your question: there are a lot of things Cisco could do to mitigate this, but they haven't done them for whatever reason.

I don't think Cisco is the only guilty party here (these exploits would likely work on many other manufacturers with a little modification), but pretending this isn't a serious exploit is ridiculous.
Pantry staples are generally fine if you have decent inventory tracking. The problem is when you've started something and realize "oh, shit, we're out of salt...the big box we thought was full behind this one was empty/spoiled/etc."

Instacart also makes a lot of sense in groups, where no one individually wants to be responsible for going for stuff. Parties, roommates, or offices.

The problem with fish/produce/etc. is there's variation on offer. If I go to the store and want some tuna steaks, but see hamachi is on sale, I might get that instead. It would be hard to delegate that level of decision making to anyone who wasn't a routine agent, or having an exceptionally good CRM, or having a realtime inventory system at the store.

What I'd love if if someone could get Tokyo Fish Market in Berkeley, a few farmers markets, etc. to publish realtime inventory info, and do a buying trip once a day. Go in in the morning, see exactly what is there and at what price, let me know, and then I'll let you know in an hour or so what I'll buy. Specialized restaurants do this already (e.g. sushi chef goes to the fish market), but maybe smaller places would be more likely to do it for ancillary items if they could use tech to do it for them, or home cooks would do it. Most restaurants just use food service companies like SYSCO for most of their stuff now, though.
And use grapeseed oil! Expensive but amazing.

I use my food processor occasionally. Pie crusts, etc. But most stuff I'd rather do in a Vitamix.

I guess maybe I love my blender so much because I love soups and sorbets. And quiche. I use it probably at least twice weekly. And going through that cook book, there are a lot of things that call for it.
Do you not see the difference between "active military" and deployed troops?
Google "Amazon ebook spam" and you'll see several articles about it -- their self-publishing system has really gotten hammered with it. In this case, it sounds like the content is just copied from the public domain.
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Epocrates attracted buyout offer by getting back to basics in mobile
If iTunes Match requires ripping, and this just uses purchase history, it's pretty fundamentally different.
Ironically, this is because English likes to drag other languages into dark alleys, beat them up, and rifle through their pockets for loose vocabulary. That vocabulary tends to come with a different pronunciation.
You can require ACH payments and block CCs both with our invoicing tools and over our API. You can also have the customer pay the service fee, rather than eat it yourself. The only thing you can't do is split the cost depending on the payment method (i.e. I'll eat the 1% ACH fee but if you want to pay by CC you're going to pay the extra 1.9%), though we've had some of our API customers ask for that kind of thing and are considering it.
What's the distribution of revenue like across the sites? Is there one which props up the rest? Are there some that are walking dead?
First mover advantage. In the time it takes for you to do market research, others may already have a leg-up in starting something which may converge to your idea before you launch. And having that initial traction may completely squelch your launch
Hardcore nationalist = you must display flag. Anyone who follows US flag code (military, older people, etc.) just believes "no obligation to use the flag, and in fact it's way overused, but if you're going to display it, do it in a respectful way".

I hate people with flags/ribbons/etc. on their cars, generally.
I didn't realize ZURB had so much cash.
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Just about every out-of-band management card (e.g. HP iLO, Dell iDRAC) for server-class computers, uses the Java plug-in to present a KVM (keyboard/video/mouse) console through a web browser.
Stuck on your startup’s design?
Forrst gets acquired
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Kyle, do you still have any day to day involvement since selling to CL? I am grateful for the community you built up and hope that ZURB can help bring it back up to snuff.
What is equally powerful about modern C++ (quite possible to make it work on C++98 as well) is the ability to have template methods that can dump out pretty-printed fully customizable (by overloading operator << in conjunction with a stringstream) debugging for data structures.

Yes, template programming is not something I am likely to ever figure out but these things only need to be built once, by somebody other than me.
It's not about the proof required to fire him. It's about understanding the situation entirely before reacting. Immediate reactions are usually problematic because emotions are involved, particularly in this case.
Mobile-Backend-as-a-Service: Open Source MBaaS vs Cloud-based MBaaS
It's like curb-stomping, except with schadenfreude.
ZURB is fantastic, and I really hope they follow through on their intentions for the service as listed in the blog post.

Like other commenters here, I couldn't justify spending time on Forrst vs. Dribbble + StackOverflow because the quality just wasn't there. While there's definitely great content to be found, the current layout isn't conducive to finding it quickly, and you run into enough bad design and code during that process that you're turned off (although it does make you feel better about your own work!). It's faster to just close the tab and look elsewhere than hope you find the diamonds in the rough.

If they want to be a 'relaxed' platform for criticism (which I have been looking for, and would even pay for if the community and incentives were top-notch), I would highly recommend that the "like" button has an opposing "dislike" ability and force the user to give feedback through highlighting areas of the code or image like many existing tools, browser extensions and services like LayerVault already offer. Why do people like it? Why do people not like it? A "like", even on Dribbble, means nothing to me. I want to know specifically what I can improve upon.
This whole discussion is amazing. He pretty much removed any obstacle you might have to create your idea, offered his experience... and then a torrent of excuses and whining came back :). I am sure a bunch of smart people are probably taking him on the offer.

hmexx if you would like, hit me up, I have several ideas that I am trying to create, you obviously have experience gaining traction, so maybe we could agree on one or two to work on it, I need a good cofounder.

You don't need to pay me anything, in fact, we could both add 2-3K (more is excessive) as initial funds for each project.

Obviously I would like to know a little about you and you can evaluate me as a potential partner.
Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) is a very hot market in the mobile space. This article compares the two types of MBaaS solutions in the market. The hosted Cloud based MBaaS and the Free and Open Source MBaaS.
Amazon 'AutoRip' – A Service That Gives MP3s To Customers Who Bought CDs
It is funny. Although, I don't think that comparison is completely fair. Usually, a startup that has started hiring has already achieved some degree of progress, traction, and demonstrated potential.
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> Kyle, do you still have any day to day involvement since selling to CL? I am grateful for the community you built up and hope that ZURB can bring it back up to snuff.

I left mid-summer, so not presently, no. Appreciate that, and I'm hopeful that it's in good hands with Zurb.
This reminds me of the "Tracer Bullets" tip from The Pragmatic Programmer. The idea being that tests help you see where the code should go and how far off you are, so that you can aim a little better and try again.

This is just tracer-bullet pricing.
I'm not so sure. I could see delivery robots in a decade.
I didn't see any mention about the price they bought it for, and based on the recent downfall Forrst has had with users, it could have been pretty cheap for all we know.
I meant national health systems. Costs are going up everywhere (or at least, spending) and lots of places are having some issues providing enough treatment.
He also said "C runs on many systems with noncontiguous memory segments but presents it as a single contiguous space." That is 100% false. In C, pointers to different objects are different. They're not even comparable. There is no concept of contiguous memory beyond that of a single array. Two arrays are not contiguous.
This sounds like a very interesting deal. It wouldn't be right for my particular circumstances, but I imagine there are others out there for which it is a good fit. I would be really interested in hearing progress reports from your venture(s) down the line.
I'm French. I'm 44. I can make mayo with a fork. So can my son who's 7.

My mom is 81. She can make oeufs en neige with a fork. That I can't.

The difference is speed. Mayo doesn't need speed. It's just about fat molecules being elongated.
Lol! That's awesome.

I always wonder about that company. I saw the ex-CEO speak at Failcon and I'm continually reminded of the idea that companies die not because of bad product or losing one particular deal, but, rather, because the owners decided to give up.

To my mind, Cuil could've stayed afloat, but no one wanted it to. It was easier to sweep that giant pile of FUBAR under the rug, but, in retrospect, they would've still likely been a large company, albeit not Google size, but large nonetheless.
Yes, we do. Our metrics show that this converts better.
Does anyone have experience hiring people from these camps vs. those who did study on their own?

I'm in Boston, did some programming in college (mostly C++, a bit of HTML and CSS - a few web sites for family, mostly for fun) and then had the slight misfortune of going to law school just before law crashed. We all make mistakes, but I did mostly IP so I hope it comes in handy down the road.

Anyway, I've been helping with a startup doing a little bit of everything and have been using Team Treehouse to work through Ruby and iOS (since that's what the coders do at work). I'm basically working for free and can only find "internships" for non-tech people. (I do have another part-time job that pays something)

I can't afford $10k for a bootcamp. If I keep going with Treehouse and Code Academy, produce some small projects, will that be taken seriously? These camps are full-time for a few weeks, but I'm learning part-time for months.
Sugru: the new self-setting rubber for fixing and improving your stuff
They have several tools for sale, http://zurb.com/apps, all of which seem to be very mature and [presumably] quite profitable.
Have you at all considered relaunching it under a different name? There must be things that you would've done differently now, with all the experience you got from running Forrst.
I found myself asking the same question, and then found http://basecamp.com/breeze/compare. It seems that they're offering easier set-up in return for the $10.
I usually just drop into pdb wherever I want to prototype my tests.
How would consumer opinion be effected by the change?

I wonder if, as a consumer, I would resent seeing a "service fee" as opposed to seeing higher priced goods. Perhaps, subconsciously, people ignore the item price and are looking for the "fee". In this case, their pricing is their marketing.

I'd be quite interested in whether they A/B tested the two strategies.
It's been that way for a while. I've been buying and ripping myself since back when the last independent record store around me closed, and online music was only selling DRM'd 128kbps tracks.

It was really about the DRM and the quality (I'm no golden ear, but even on my dicey consumer equipment I can hear the artifacts at 128). The price difference was just icing on the cake.

It's not like it took a lot of effort or time to put the CD in the tray, hit "go" and get 320 kbps and a FLAC track (for kicks).
1. understand the basic components of each proof
2. practice and apply
3. goto 2

I recently got through my undergrad math courses and was also looking for a way to memorize all the formulas, proofs, ect.
A few different methods for consideration:
holistic learning methods
mnemonics
loci/memory palaces

Personally, my favorite was to use a mnemonic or image then continually using this when applying to practice problems really helped it stick in my mind.

For a simple example the integration by parts formula:
integral[ udv ] = uv - integral[ v du ]
I would remember the right hand side as "UV [uv] 'voodoo' [v * du]" and imagine a shaman lining his voodoo dolls up inside a tanning bed as to burn them with the UV rays! Once you have the basic parts like that, writing in where the minus and integral signs go is second nature from practicing and applying.

Hope this gets you started
Color Piano - in-browser music experiment with midi.js
I'm definitely purchasing!

I've read the online version twice now and it's been an invaluable learning tool. I started with a very shaky understanding of functional programming and LYSE kept me engaged and learning the entire time. After reading and doing some experimenting, I have a solid enough foundation now to develop professional projects in Erlang. I think my only complaint would be the chapter on FSMs... a FSM is probably not the tool I would have used to solve the example problem ;)

Thanks again!
We're looking for a PHP freelancer to add to the team, work with big brands
We're looking for an experienced PHP freelance developer to add to the team. Our clients include brands such as: Scion, Universal, True Religion, Juicy Couture, the SF 49ers and many other big brands.

Please pass this along to anyone who might be interested and available!

LOOKING FOR:

Experience with HTML/CSS/Javascript:
-Experience making cross browser pixel-perfect websites (including older browsers such as IE7 when required)
-Experience with jQuery.
-Some HTML5/CSS3 understanding is good, not necessary.

Experience with PHP/MySQL:
-Deep understanding of OOP, including at least one major framework (Cake, CI, etc).
-Experience working with Magento is a huge plus.
-Experience with ORM (ideal but not required).
-Experience working with APIs (building them is a plus).
-Experience working with Facebook (ideal but not required).
-Deep understanding of MySQL.

You will telecommute most of the time but would be great to find someone either in the SF bay area or around Toronto for occasional in-person meetings.

Email me- ana@buildrx.com
Advice From a 92-Year-Old Veteran of WWII on Getting Out of a Dark Place
Yeah. 37signals seems to have nailed the Startup Porn genre, and the hive mind eats it up.

And: if that's what qualifies as thinly-viled advertising...
I have to disagree.

I'm not an "angel" by any means, but any time I visit Urban Dictionary, I come away feeling filthy. I typically go there to look up some abbreviation I heard on reddit or IRC or a blog post somewhere and what I look up usually ends up being middling-dirty, but the stuff that I see there "on my way" to the word I'm looking for makes me cringe and gives me a bleak vision of what the next generation is going to be like should Urban Dictionary actually be representing the majority of the population (I firmly hold that it does not).
I think it's genetic. I can't make mayo with a fork, but I have heard of you mystical Gallic folk who can and I believe you.
Of ZeroCater?

They have a feedback form that's emailed out an hour after lunch, but the actual suggestions we provide go largely ignored. Several employees have described it as them having really short-term memory.

They also seem to insist on "trying out" restaurants again that the entire company dislikes.

Further, the feedback (when taken into account) never seems to apply to the company, only to the specific restaurant. For example: we request that next time $sandwich_shop delivers to leave the bread dry and put mayo and mustard on the side. That happens the next time $sandwich_shop delivers (though frequently not the time after that), but does not happen when $other_sandwich_shop brings food.
This sounds like a great idea. I wasn't clear from the post: is this going to be a web app?

Is it similar to:
http://divshot.com
https://www.easel.io/bootstrap
http://jetstrap.com
Awesome idea. It seems like this would be a great way to capture a different part of the market than a codecademy or teamtreehouse. Especially with the "guaranteed job" afterwards, it's much more of a crash course focused on skill building. I wonder if this type of thing is what companies like degreed.com are going for in changing education.
I really love this! I opened it and just jam on the next key (n).

Use this little snippet to set it to auto-next mode, for a great screensaver. Edit - here is the screensaver https://github.com/gourneau/WebSaver

setInterval(function(){$("#book_next").click()}, 500)

Watching all of books fly by is wondrous to me because it feels like it is painting some weird version of conscious reality.

Hilary could you please add this bit of code so for auto advancing mode via the query string.

function getParameterByName(name) {
var match = RegExp('[?&]' + name + '=([^&]*)').exec(window.location.search);
return match && decodeURIComponent(match[1].replace(/\+/g, ' '));
}

if (getParameterByName("auto")){
setInterval(function(){$("#book_next").click()}, getParameterByName("auto"))
}

It would work like this, where 500 is the number of milliseconds.
http://www.bookbookgoose.com/?auto=500
Yes. You read about how the cache works, and design the code to take that into account. This is usually done through techniques like cache coloring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_coloring), loop tiling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_tiling) and other techniques that depend on the way that the cache works internally.

In addition, many CPUs provide prefetch instructions to make sure data is in cache before it's used, or cache-skipping loads and stores to prevent polluting cache with data that's only ever touched once.
Well, there is always Lisp:

http://psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/chapter18.html

At least SBCL will generate efficient machine language for bit vector manipulations if you tell it the sizes of the vectors (or if it can infer that information). It might just be a matter of opinion, but I would say that Lisp beats the pants off C in terms of programming; you are almost never going to have to keep track of pointers or memory allocations, you have far less undefined behavior to deal with, and it is generally a more expressive language. SBCL and CMUCL also support a non-standard feature that is similar to inline assembly language in C, the VOP system, that allows you to utilize obscure instructions or change how your code will be generated, if there is some reason for doing that (e.g. if your encryption library will use AESNI).

Of course, since you said "library," I assume you meant for this to be used in other programs, possibly programs not written in Lisp. Unfortunately, SBCL's support for that is still rough; commercial Lisp compilers may have better support for it. Of course, if you were targeting an OS written in Lisp, things would probably be different -- my view is that C's popularity is mostly a result of how many systems were written in C i.e. how much legacy code there is, and that were it not for that momentum C would be written off as an inexpressive and difficult to work with language.
This is a thing I want personally. Most recently the excitement and focus on Sandy Hook has frustrated me. 1 Sandy Hook occurs every day in the United States. We just shrug off the sad local news story and continue eating dinner. The fact that there is sudden interest in discussing gun policy is great. The fact that the discussion is so badly informed is not great.

I can tell you that I will work inside Causes to make it a thing we do.

EDIT: to be clear, I don't mean informed gun policy, I mean informed policy in general. Gun policy is just a recent example.
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I don't believe there are any rails-apps-as-packages in the official debian/ubuntu repositories, but if there were I assume they would use bundler to bundle their gems internally.
Causes is not Facebook.
So I know next to nothing about this, and I've never shipped a product of my own, but why can't you just do something like:

1. Price it at price $X, record number of buys/month over a few months.

2. Price it at price $Y, record number of buys/month over a few months.

3. Now with the assumption that you have a linear demand curve, you can extrapolate the buys at any price, which would roughly follow the equation B = (X-Y)/(P1-P2) x P, where B is the number of buys and P is the price in dollars. Obviously this equation will only work (if at all) for values in a certain range.

4. You want to maximize B x P, which is the total money made per month. That is, assuming costs are always the same regardless of the number of sales.
If you're going to be pedantic, use the right terms. The C language defines an 'abstract machine', not a 'virtual machine'.
As a person who lives inside a city: hell yes they should be quiet instead of sounding like an ICE.

As a person who own a Prius: I'd think about the OPTION of installing something to make noise, as I have had pedestrians almost get hit and I've had several cyclists hit me. Something as LOUD as a normal car though? No.
Yeah, I think there's a conflict between opportunity costs and fighting to the absolute end.

There's plenty of value locked up in the company which could have done other things. If it were startup nuclear winter and they had no other options, they might have made something successful out of it. Staying may not have been the economically rational choice for them, but if there were different economics, or non-economic factors (pride, unwillingness to fail, etc.), they might have had a better outcome.

And there's always uncertainty in estimating -- usually in underestimating how big a success something could be if successful -- so "blindly" continuing could the EV maximizing choice, too.
How does staring at a bright screen affect sleep? If anything, it makes me tired and I fall asleep even faster.
Martin from Kytephone here. We're not from UW, although I did spend a bunch of time in Waterloo.
> The point is that Sweden is a cherry-picked comparison.

Choose any other OECD country then. The results are the same.
No, but it's worthwhile for other people to spend time and effort studying them.
You forgot to mention they also leverage synergies (please excuse my P.H.B.-ese)
Or if you don't like cleaning. I can usually clean a non-stick pan with a wipe of a paper towel. Unless you're making a pan sauce, you usually can't clean a non-teflon pan as easy.
How you can be 100% compliant with the C spec by omitting strlen is a mystery to me.
According to the changelog for parse_url that is no longer the case for 5.3.3 and up.