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Well, it's the best product. Believe it or not, a lot of telcos still have pager backbones in production. Pacwest in California has something like 100k+ pagers still active.

So their competition is actual pagers IMHO.
Stock price has 0 effect on the sustainability of Amazon as a business.
I just saw this book the other day at chapters: http://www.amazon.com/Running-Mind-Meditation-Lessons-Traini...
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Ask HN: B2B or B2C?
A recent venture of mine involves aiding students finding a student property at my university. The project was originally going to offer two plans, a free simple version and a premium one with more information.

However, after emailing estate agents, whom liked the idea, they asked what sort of funding I would require to develop the service.

Should I decline the funding and go B2C? Or should I accept and build the service for the estate agents?
I find that fan-freaking-tastic because I've noticed that the people doing these things often had very little Linux experience to start with. The pi makes it unscary because so little is at risk. They don't feel like they're working on a "computer" and its immediately obvious that if you screw up, you can just pull out your card and reflash.

After they wax-on, wax-off for a while with the pi, they are often surprised to learn that they know Linux Kung-Fu.
that's just crazy enough that it might work. have you run this in production ?

it renders each fragment to a file and serves that to the bots, right ?
I agree 99.9%, but just wanted to add one little thing.

Depression is not only a matter of society or brain chemistry. It's personal circumstances, too. About 1.25 years ago, I had a depressive breakdown that resulted in my leaving my job. Luckily, I came from a family that had always been very supportive and understanding, and through various means got treatment and changed my life to put myself back on a healthier, happier path. But... it's still a little scarring today, on the emotional front. I know that I'm fighting a defensive battle if I put myself in certain living situations.

Thing is, I was in a situation where many people would have thrived and been happy, not become depressed. It wasn't my brain chemistry, and it certainly wasn't a permanent illness. It was partially society, but most people would merely have been unhappy due to those societal factors, not depressed. It was social factors plus my burned-out personal state when it started (that I hadn't really recognized as still-burned-out) plus the social isolation I had put myself into by moving away from home and from my college town with nothing to ground me but a job plus the psychic pain of betraying several of my more important values and dreams.

Part of the problem with depression, though, is that it reduces your ability to think. I can introspect on what was going with me far better now than I could then.
Importance of APIs in Solving BYOD
AWS has an engineering team of 10,000+ people? Can that be right given Amazon has 56,000 or so total? Surely they meant an engineering team of 1,000 people.

Rackspace generates $1.2x billion in sales with about half that many total employees (not just on their engineering team). By most accounts I've seen, AWS is around a billion in sales as well.
Routine Dismissive Agreements To Terms Of Service Are A Real Problem
I'd love to. Any helpful guides on how to proceed?
This was a hugely helpful big-picture overview of the recent vulnerabilities. Everyone, please go read it.

I had been meaning to get some context for the recent spate of security problems and this provided that in spades. Thanks for taking the time to write it up and post it.
> but it's still straw-man to picture everyone who is questioning as a scientologist

But that's not what I did. I responded to someone who posted scientology propaganda.
Royalty and licensing issues. It's heavily encumbered with patents.

As far as the actual quality:compression goes (both lossy and lossless), it kicked ass. But with so many free options, why bother?
The thing is, it's not even an inaccuracy. He's entirely correct (statistically speaking). He's describing the concept of Expected Value* without explicitly using the term.

The only thing he could be said to "wrong" about is the idea that a person can die more than once, but everybody understands that that's not actually true. It certainly doesn't "ruin the article" like this poor fellow seems to think.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value
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Very spot on, on many points, however: there are demonstrable links between brain chemistry, genetics and depression. Hell, I inherit depression from both sides of my family, and drugs have helped me in the past. That being said, I'm very averse to medicating a problem that can be solved otherwise, and I agree that treating the causes rather than the symptoms is much more fruitful. My depression is in remission, but it's been a long hard road, and I still have a ways to go. Keeping busy in technical forums helps :)
Rails is [Fr]agile. Vulnerabilities Will Keep Coming.
Took me a moment to realize this was another two factor provider similar to Google Authenticator but only commercial in nature: https://www.authy.com/pricing

They have a free level for 500 authentications a month which might work for a single user but I could see that used up with a few active contributors posting often.

There is already a nice Wordpress plugin that adds Google Authenticator: http://henrik.schack.dk/google-authenticator-for-wordpress/
There is nothing inherently negative about being shy by the dictionary definition of the word.

I tend to agree that we have attached negativity to the usage, but only in the the way that gay is used negatively. They are often both used to point out "flaws", for lack of a better term, in other people. (not that either is a real flaw; only in the eye of some beholders)

I find it interesting that you assume that shy is already negative. I was actually skeptical of your original comment at first, but perhaps this actually serves to reenforce it.
Approximately 1 percent of the Belgium market would think about putting in a ccTLD instead of using browser default search box.
Sure, but I get squirrly and my blood pressure goes up. So all the studies in the world don't mean more to me than my experience.
Authy Brings Two-Factor Authentication To WordPress Sites
> It may not be as cathartic for you, but I'd suggest toning it down to "reasonable human being" level in the future.

The Rails community has exhibited such self-assured, self-promotional exuberance for so long (and continues to do so here), it feels necessary to rely on equivalently forceful and bellicose language to have a hope of countering the spin and marketing messaging.

Case in point, the article seriously says, with a straight face:

"They’re being found at breakneck pace right now precisely because they required substantial new security technology to actually exploit, and that new technology has unlocked an exciting new frontier in vulnerability research."

Substantial new security technology? To claim that a well known vulnerability source -- parsers executing code -- involves not only substantial new technology, but is a new frontier in vulnerability research?

This is pure marketing drivel intended to spin responsibility away from Ruby/Rails, because the problems are somehow advanced and new. This is not coming from some unknown corner of the community, but from a well-known entity with a significant voice.
When they suddenly need a top-level engineer to solve a hard problem, they hire one who consults for three months, works remotely, and visits once or twice.

You've essentially described every job I've had since college. That's exactly my experience of how companies actually work in practice.
Investing in sarcasm, even. Disgusting.
London-Based Broadgate Launches Start-Up Mentoring Programme
Yeah, I get that. You are more productive. You are interrupted less. You can focus more easily. You are happier at home.

Now, where's the consideration for everyone else on your team? That seems to be the one thing missing from all these counter arguments, yet it's the crux of the matter.
I wish I could have both. Rebase to stick to single clean commit messages, but still preserve the history/order of modifications within that, even without the messages.

I might work on a project for a week, write some code, do an intermediate commit, realize it's not needed, delete it. Then when I finally merge into master (rebase), that code I wrote is forever gone. Which I think is fine, but two months later I realize I could actually use it. But there's no way to get at it, is there? Or am I missing something?
Oh, that's easy. Start a cmd.exe terminal. Run bash (or whatever). Now you're running the shell of your choice in the cmd terminal.
wow thanks for the long description. have you ever tried to use a tool like nudow.com to do this? Is that any good?
He was not asking sincerely; He was commenting on the influx of articles representing the current fascination with using the Raspberry Pi for projects like this (since there is nothing particularly new about the R-Pi other than its low price).
Well, you sell high, and buy back low, presumably.
If one bitcoin is some encrypted id or whatever how can I transfer 0.00000001 of them to someone else?
I've seen a handful of Surfaces around town, but I live in Seattle and every Microsoft employee got one for free.

It's a nice device in theory: the build quality is significantly higher than your average PC, but the lack of apps is, I think, a killer. Almost no one understands the difference between Windows and Windows RT, nor understands that this means you won't be able to run Steam, PrintShop Pro, that crappy VB6 app that IT built when Clinton was President, or any other app that's run on Windows for the past 20+ years.

Plus, the other thing that boggles my mind is that it is not a laptop. You literally cannot use it on your lap with either of the keyboard covers. It is either an overly long tablet, or a desktop machine.

edit: I'm impressed therobot24 can get their Surface to balance properly on their legs. I tried this out and couldn't make it happen in a way that I thought would be safe. Maybe I underestimated the strength of the magnets between the keyboard and device.
nursing in a hospital is quite dangerous
Yup, great point. I think if there weren't patent concerns over GIF years ago, there wouldn't have been nearly as wide support for the format, which means far fewer people would be using it today.
They probably meant that Amazon as a whole has an eng. team of 10,000 people. At least, that's what I told them :)
Sorry but P90X will NOT make you ripped. A standard barbell Starting Strength protocol is FAR superior and will stimulate muscle growth WAY more than P90x with WAY less effort.

"It shows that my BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) is around 1900. That means I need to consume around 1900 to stay where I am today." - No this is wrong. You need to add your activity multiplier to get your Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE), which is probably (assuming sedentary) ~2050Kcal/day @1900BMR.

"It also helps to note that P90X burns on an average of 700 calories per day" - This is not even TWO Starbucks cookies. What a total waste of time, it's WAY easier just to eat 700kcal less a day. Even then I would bet $1000 that a p90x workouts is not burning anywhere near 700kcal a day.

Also you added "(that means I can eat up to 2290 if I exercise)" which means that the p90x is even more useless, it's going to be your excuse to eat more, and it WILL make you really really hungry.

The good news is if you eat 1600Kcal/day you'll lose about 30 pounds (~15 pounds of fat and the ~15 pounds of water bound to those stored lipids) by the end of May, and that's with ZERO exercise. I'd drop the p90x completely. It's only going to make you really hungry and threaten the most importnat part (by FAR) of losing weight - net calories consumed.

I LOVE pullups/chin ups. Kudos for sticking with that, they're super hard at first. I'd try negatives to get you going though. That's were you get to the top of the pullup with assistance (chair, elastic band, etc), and then lower yourself on your own as slowly as you can. This will get you to full range of motion pullups/chins really fast. Once you can do 10-12 on your own, put on a dip belt and hang free weights between your legs.

If you want to get seriously ripped YOU MUST do full ass-to-grass squats and dead-lifts with the heaviest weights you can handle, and keep pushing that weight up every workout. In fact all you really need to get big is the squat, deadlift, bechpress, and chinup and eat/rest correctly. Basically buy Starting Strength book and do the program. It's incredible how well it works. I took my squat from 85 pounds to 190 in 6 weeks.

Oh, couple more things: Firstly if you're looking for something to boost your weight loss, I bet you'd see rapid results in dramatically reducing your carb intake for a few weeks. This will empty out stored glycogen in your cells, and with it LOADS of water-weight (every gram of glycogen is stored with ~3-4g of H2O). Secondly, hunger is the enemy of a diet, and protein is the ultimate weapon. Nothing blunts hunger as well as protein. If you're hungry, eat more cottage cheese, whey protein, lean-meats, etc.
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If the alternative is not having a person at all isn't a competent remote person preferable?
Nursing is not a low-paying job, not any longer. There are some nurse's aide jobs that are low paying, but registered nurses make good money. Many make 6 figures, including overtime.
The article feels like it's been written by someone who's never bought advertising before. Anyone in advertising could tell you about FBX.

FBX among other things allows Facebook to offer retargeted ads which have been shown to convert at a significantly higher rater than regular ads. As retargeted ads roll out to more users Facebooks ad revenue will go up with Facebook having to do practically nothing.
President Obama has a Cabinet full of Secretaries. The problem is that receptionists and transcriptionists are called secretaries.
edit: a great first step would be to watch the meditative film: Baraka!!

To be honest, I would not recommend starting with a book. It'd be hard to go into meditation that way. I don't meditate daily, so what do I know? But I do know that the few times I've gotten to that place where I said "oh wow I love meditating!" were guided meditations led by someone who's good at guiding.

Basically for beginners, it's nice to close your eyes and let a guide take you through a series of thoughts/visualizations/concepts/sounds that end in a breathing- or mantra-focused meditation.

The goal in meditation is the ceasing of thought, which is probably why thinking too much and reading thus may not help. Tho it depends.

Search youtube for some good guided meditation and approaches and see if any work for you.

I often return to the best guided approaches in my own mind when I do try to meditate...

final edit: If you are by any chance near Berkeley, I strongly recommend checking out (any week is good) the Meditation, Mysticism, and the Mind decal (grad-student-led course) at UC Berkeley. They bring in a wonderful speaker each week from a different world tradition and mix lecture with guided meditation.
Daniel from Authy here. Were a API company, but wanted to allow non-technical folks to also benefit from Two-Factor Authentication, thats why we built this plugin.

Ask me anything.
You can also accomplish the same effect in Angular by creating several "controllers" with focused responsibilities, then communicating via events with $rootScope.$broadcast (publish) and $scope.$on (subscribe). I've been using this pattern a lot recently and have found it does a great job encouraging separation of concerns.
Go B2B. Businesses will pay, consumers will not. If you can build a base of a few hundred real estate agents paying $50 a month, then you'd have money to subsidize a free version for consumers, but I wouldn't bother with B2C until you're making more money with B2B than you know what to do with.
I didn't mean to suggest otherwise about the teaching of safety if that's how you read my comment. I think the model you're teaching to the 10-year-olds is both well suited to the audience, and gives them a tool to use to analyze other situations they find themselves in. Sorry if I got derailed a bit from that point while fleshing out the safety system involved in climbing and the risks therein for the non-climbers.

Now I just wish that some of the people I see climbing outside (and inside!) would think as much as you're asking the 10-year-olds to. If they did that much they'd be much safer, nevermind a fuller analysis of the system.
It's not every day you get to use the phrase "technologies we use to communicate evolve fast" and IRC in the same paragraph.
Is Rails moving to a YAML (or almost-YAML) parser that does not execute code for future major releases? I find it hard to believe that such functionality is used often. Until then, as the article says, people will just keep finding zero-days. This seems like the only logical choice for the Rails core team.
Yes I personally like the Yubikey idea which integrates with AD. Keeping a physical token and just pushing a button is nice.
Sounds more like a Chief of Staff you are talking about.
"Facebook is a large, inefficient engine for transforming electricity and programmers into a down-market place to sell low-value advertising"

"Low value advertising"? Well, not to my business at least, as it currently represents the second best ranked referring website. Customers who come to my shop always talk about the things we post to our FB web page.
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Have you tried howdoi? Command line, but nice.

https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
Notability is awesome! I'd definitely use it - much better than peeking at a neighbors notes.
It could be statistics - maybe people with depression in the undeveloped world simply die without having the depression diagnosed.

Very much this; when you are dealing with starvation and life threatening physical diseases, mental illnesses get short shrift. There may also be a factor that fighting for survival tends to "cure" depression, but that's not a treatment I would advocate.

Is it chemical? In some cases, definitely yes. Could we do better as a society, both on being more accepting and supportive but also changing some fundamental things about our culture (more social/economic mobility, more leisure time, less consumerism)? Inarguably, yes. There's no easy solutions.
I use a browser even on mobile. Never found an app that does anything but mung HN up more.

I tend to bounce between the main page and the new page. Morning: Scan the main page...read the good bits. Jump to new. After Lunch: Scan the main page jump to new.

Basically a couple times a day I Do the main page then browse new entries.

As for the chrome extensions. I find they all seem to make HN slower. And it's slow to begin with a lot of the time.
You could have simply said "no".
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I didn't disagree with that. I just wanted to point out that his reasoning is much more subtle than just "they had guns and the others only spears". That is exactly the point of the book, because the usual explanation people come up with is "they were too stupid to invent guns". The book explains how intelligence had nothing to do with it.
HMV Twitter account tweets about ‘X Factor Firing’
The previous title on this HN post was more informative without context on what Venmo or Touch is: "Braintree Launches Venmo Touch: One Touch Payment Across Apps"
The most common way a WordPress site gets hacked seems to be through security vulnerabilities present in the WordPress code or some of the installed plugins. I assume this in no way provides protection from them.
PR, Communications & Startups - Interview w/ Gini Dietrich
Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Instagram, Flickr, Amazon

Are the ones I got.

Actually thought Square's was bootstrap.

The the average user, buttons styles may not mean much if at all, but for those that with a keen eye and pays close attention to minute details and pixels, it's quite telling which button belong to which brand.

Saw #4 and was wondering 'What the fracking frack? Is my Little Pony Friends part of this test?' Then I learned it's Microsoft…

The 'easiest buttons to identify for me was Facebook's and Google's.
It has nothing to do with measuring productivity or making sure they're at their desk instead of watching TV. It's about creating a virtual presence in the office to reduce communication barriers. I don't see anything ridiculous about that -- several people on HN have mentioned that their company does it.
In my opinion, the book is about
1) How geographical location and natural factors (accidental agriculture etc.) resulted in some part of the humanity accumulate certain knowledge that helped accelerate them over others
2) Advancement of certain civilization is not a necessary indication they are better, smarter, more hard working, but an indication of accumulated knowledge resulting from #1 over a long period of time
3) #2 culminated in Europeans dominating the world over the better part of last 500 years
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The CitizenWeb Project - for a free, open, and a decentralized Internet
Web Typography Experiment
I think that's a downside to GMail / using Google Accounts... not really a downside to Google Now. Not saying it's not a problem, but just that it is a problem whether or not they aggregate that information for me.
I think the recent Rails, Java, RubyGems and other vulnerability issues have been an absolute boon to the industry. And not just for the increased business I think most security consultants are going to be seeing.

The exploits have happened in ways that have exposed and hammered home the myriad places many applications expose unexpected side channels and larger attack surfaces than you'd think. These issues have opened a broader range of people to vulnerability, and I think opened a lot of people's eyes to the need for a sense of security and what that really means.

Top that with the level of explanation we've seen in at least the Rails and Ruby exploits, it's been a tremendous educational opportunity for a lot of people who will benefit greatly from it, and by proxy their users.

When the idea of a "SQL Injection" first became really prevalent, we saw an uptick in concern for security amongst framework developers, as far as I could tell. I think this will help get some momentum going again.

Speaking as a non-expert on the subject, security is all about a healthy sense of paranoia, across the board :)
You know, I really don't think that a regional book ban of James Joyce in 1933 is really all that comparable with what's going on in China today. Call me crazy.
Why you need women in green dresses selling your start-up.
Good point: you can meditate anywhere, any time. I just walk around cities and do the same thing.
Yep, the only way I can see this being anything close to "make or break" would be in the case of large, inconsistent, unintuitive icons / images as buttons.
The other key thing is that the risk he mentioned was not specifically of dying, but of either death or being crippled. Both of those are very frightening prospects, and he simplifies it as "dying five times" when he does the calculation.
Maybe you should get a buyer, sell the business and move on to other things. Housing booms or busts don't last long and people often fail to realize the transition from one to the other. Education and its financing is about to change as well.

Unless you're really passionate about the sector in which case it would be better if you used their marketing infrastructure, thus B2B.

With B2C you'll have to compete with Craigslist and lots of other alternatives and competitors and you'll have to spend lots of money in marketing.

Of course I could be wrong so please take no offense.