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Vurb is evolving the way we search and share on web and mobile. Rather than windows/tabs or jumping from app to app, we're building a platform that brings services together and delivers a cohesive experience in one place - an app you'll use every day.

Our investors include Max Levchin, Drew Houston (Dropbox), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), CrunchFund, Redpoint Ventures, and many others.

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Full-time opportunities (interview on-site, H1B transfers OK)

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* Lead Android Engineer - help bring our Android version to market

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First, congrats to all the commenters who have lost weight. I know it's not as simple as "make better food choices" so it's awesome to read so many people who have found success in weight loss.

I follow a diet similar to low-carb, moderate fat and protein, and I'm still concerned about not getting enough plants, and fiber. While the low-carb diet encourages consumption of veggies, I find it tough to make sure I get enough veggies (not fruit), in a day.
This is great. It's just perfect.

The service purposefully limited to naturally content-light context-light 180-character quips—whose intent is to broadcast and be broadcasted to unfiltered—achieves its destiny.

The result is natural and unavoidable. I'm so happy we're beginning to realize it.

Seriously though, this is one of those unmeasurables that's difficult to nail down. Sure you could blame it on changes to the UX, or on the user-base itself, or any number of other reasons. But in the end, you've gotta look at the nature of the form of communication itself and its parameters and assumptions, and make a conclusion at face value.
"I hear a lot of knee-jerk reactions about the diet saying how it must be awesome to just eat steak, chicken, etc. all the time, but it gets real old real fast."

One thing to consider is that while your old diet is obviously bad when you look at it through the low-carb lens, it is also subtly bad as well, because your entire cuisine was bent around carbs replacing fats, and baking, sugars, bread, dough, sugars, potatos, sugars, etc etc etc. If you're going to successfully do low-carb over the long term it's important to also make sure that one does not simply try to eat "old diet - carbs" every day, but that one explores the culinary options that are available to you when you no longer fear fat. Go down your oils aisle and start trying them out. If you haven't been using your spice rack, start trying them out. (Well, first throw away your several-years-old spices and buy new ones, then start trying them out.) Start cooking ethnic foods from ethnicities that didn't go low-fat. Start making your own salad dressings.

(Basic recipe: Spoon a dollop of mayonnaise into a bowl. Pour in some vinegar and mix thoroughly. Pour in an oil and mix thoroughly. Insert ingredients to taste. There's ways around that first step, but this makes experimentation fast (my grandparent's generation call mayo "salad dressing" for a reason), and you can use this to bootstrap up to your own opinions. Your first couple may suck, and I'm leaving the recipe underspecified sort of on purpose, but you'll dial in fast.)

When eating out you may often end up eating "old diet - carbs", such as a bun-free hamburger, but for what you cook yourself it's important to go discover the really quite wide world of cooking options that America just sort of silently turned away from in the past 50 years. There's a lot of flavor and variety in the fats, but it takes some time to explore them, because you're darned near starting from scratch.

And to be honest, there are simply some things in the carb world for which there is no replacement. For instance, I'm well aware of the pains of missing gluten since I've got (proper) Celiac, and there's really no substitute for such a metaphorically and literally flexible protein, for instance. But fats have their own thing to offer that carbs don't.
I think the idea of "following your dreams" is incredibly oversold to people, especially the young, but reading this it seems like this particular guy's problem wasn't that he followed his dreams, but rather that he followed his dreams while recklessly failing to do any sort of planning at all.

Of course you cannot easily collect unemployment if you resign (though he eventually did via suing, which despite my leftist leanings rubs me the wrong way). Of course finding an entry level position in a new field in which you have no experience and little to show in the way of a portfolio is going to be rough at 42.

If you really, really want to follow you dreams, go for it, but don't be an idiot about it. Research what you want to do and then do what you want to do while keeping the old day job going. While there are some careers where this isn't an option (eg. being a doctor, which is obviously going to require a huge educational commitment), there's no reason that I see why this guy couldn't have attempted to get into advertising this way. If working essentially two jobs is really not an option for some reason, live cheaply and save enough to last you 6 months to a year, and then follow your dream. If it really is your dreams. If what you are jumping off into is really your dream career then surely it can wait a bit and is worth living frugally for a while.
Forget about America, think about Germany. Many of their small/medium sized companies produce factory tools, and they still have great business in China, but that could change quickly.
No, that's a problem with your IT department being stuck about a decade behind.
Funny to read this here. Just read about it last week in a mayer german tech magazine. Now everybody can buy the imsi cacher for less then 1500 usd.
http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Digitale-Selbstverteidigung-m...
I don't normally use Github's search. Most of the time, it's a Google search such as `python markov chain github' and get lots of Github links. Perhaps you should try to optimize that, instead?
tbh the guys who are building the new IE did a reddit AMA a week or so ago. The new IE seems really great and those guys seem smart and receptive to the needs of web-devs and users. The problem, which google is trying to address, is that I doubt the majority share of computers running ie are running the newest most updated version. However, ceterus paribas, your point is well taken.
They didn't test low fat. It was just carb restricted versus 30% fat (not low fat). Feeding was ad libitum, so it just confirms what we already knew: fewer food choices leads to spontaneous calorie restriction.
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I don't know the exact wording.. But mine is something like I'm not able to work for others in the industry that sell competing products.

I could move to Microsoft or amazon afterwards and have no problem, but GE and a few others I may not because they have subdivisions that are in my current market.

I find this to be acceptable since I am not in this particular industry for love of this industry, and I can still move on to other places without issue.

This non compete clause only take effect two years after the end of employment.
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Widespread hatred? That presupposes even wider-spread recognition. But that doesn't exist. Surely you jest or, more likely, profer clickbait.
Okay, so you were talking about the keel of the larger model being deeper underwater in absolute terms. I suppose that would effect buoyancy, because pressure increases as depth increases. This might be significant enough to warrant adjustments, at least when scaling very large ships down to very small models.
It's really cool how, in a way, DNA is the source code of life. Except it's completely awful spaghetti code even compared to the worst computer code you've ever seen, and we have only the vaguest idea of how the processor that's running it works. Imagine what we could do if we had the level of understanding and power over it that we had over computer code. I hope these guys are getting us just a little bit closer to that point.

Anybody wanna take a crack at refactoring the human DNA? Okay, we aren't anywhere near ready for that, but imagine if we were.
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Some may see your comment as flippant, but it is very accurate. Didn't MS shut off support for that combination of OS and Browser? If so, their IT department is exposing them to security trouble. If so, their competence is in question.
CSS is a very powerful technology for web designing and styling web pages. It gives a great flexibility for defining styles and have various other designing features. A very beautiful crafted templates and designs can be made using CSS. Nowadays, web designers are using CSS for creating logos on websites because it reduces file-size and it also have support for modern browsers.
In this tutorial, I have created icons or logos of some of the Google's products like Blogger, Web Search, Google Drive, Orkut and Google Business Apps. I have used pure CSS to create these icons. It is very easy to create these logos using simple shapes such as circle, triangle, parallelogram, square etc. Please note that, some of these logos will look blurred or jaggy on browsers other than Google Chrome. So, to solve this problem, you can add -webkit or -moz prefixes wherever necessary.
How would you structure a study on human test subjects that would reproducably limit calories without it being illegal? ( locking them in a cell, etc.)

How would you structure a study on human test subjects that would keep their weight constant over long periods without it being illegal?
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PS> Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

It's the first line of just about every publicly-distributed script (including Chocolately, etc).
Does your laptop have intel hardware? If so - I would recommend installing Ubuntu on it so you could keep using same hardware while it is still relevant.
FYI, I highly recommend becoming a connoisseur of cold brew coffee- It's pretty tasty even without cream/sugar. It was the first zero-calorie coffee drink I could find that could replace my addiction to caramel lattes...
You can find these people everywhere in China, even Beijing. Weirdly enough, many of them here are Uighers.
When Does Uber Become Cheaper Than Owning a Car?
How do you think the existence of the very poor who don't work affects the poor who do?

Reduced supply raises prices. If more of the poor were in the labor force, employers would more easily find replacement workers.

I suppose you (and the other two commenters) are right that the war on drugs benefits a small number of wealthy people at the expense of the rest of them. But overall it's a negative sum game - bad for the rich and poor alike.
What about incredibly rich socialites who don't work and yet thrive off of their parents' money?

What about people in upper-middle-class office jobs who spend the vast majority of every day in their office browsing Reddit?

What about people who do work, but who go into their workplace with a terrible attitude and end up failing to provide the service customers pay for?

These are three types of people that you can also observe, if you look hard enough, and they are not always destitute. They also (arguably) don't work - just having a job or money in the bank doesn't mean you contribute your fair share to society. Granted these observations alone, which are just as hard to quantify as the Krugman quote above, it's hard to say that the war on drugs (or the war to put poor people into prison, whichever name you prefer) does not exploit lower-class people. If there are always people who don't work as much as others would like them to, there's nothing theoretically different about people born into different social strata.

So, the Krugman quote above is almost reprehensible, and I also don't believe it's backed by data. For instance, a full-time federal minimum wage worker makes $15,080 a year. This is enough to live above the poverty line if you only support yourself, but not even close to enough to support a spouse and even one child (http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-are-annual-earnings-full...). How can you possibly say that people who try and support their families on a minimum wage salary are mostly lazy bums who don't work?

I would like to see how Krugman backs up his argument. Data is always welcome.
Yeah, I think composability is one of the biggest things missing from SQL.

The issue is that composability is often tied to actually moving data around in the database which has terrible performance. That is, you can compose a query of multiple queries that dump partial data sets into temp tables.

Views get you part of the way there, but they are designed to be long lived and are visible to all database users until they are dropped. This means its dangerous to change them or clean them up, as its not always clear who they are being used by.

Ephermal or temporary views that are session/connection based, or even loadable as modules would be useful to me.
I just finished reading The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz, an extensively-referenced account of the history of nutrition research over the past century. It was really interesting to see the weakness of the evidence against fat, and how our general fear of fat came about anyway.
The lack of caloric control is key to this study - any diet which restricts caloric intake, long term, will be self-defeating. Allowing people to eat as much as they want, but simply choosing from a particular food group, is one key to long term success.

Another big part of this - an apparently non-biased researcher (presumably they don't run a food supplement business) - has suggested that eating fats of all things does not necessarily lead towards heart disease.

I think that's going to be a wake up call.

It also, in my mind, emphasizes that the bulk of "Nutritionists" for the last 50 years have been a bunch of cargo-cult practicing members of the mob - and it makes you wonder what other so-called-scientific disciplines are behaving in a like manner.
If anyone is interested in the aspects of reuse and recycle touched on in this article, I highly recommend Junkyard Plant, a book about recycling largely but not exclusively focused on China. There are a couple of chapters on electronics and Shenzhen, as well as other chapters ranging from paper & cotton, steel, plastics, aluminium, etc, and the entire sourcing chain.

http://www.amazon.com/Junkyard-Planet-Travels-Billion-Dollar...
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Then let's just dispense with the silly idea of having open standards. The idea was to allow graceful degradation. But if you're just going to block out people, just dump the baggage of HTML and CSS and truly move everything forward.

I'm not really sure how the rest of your points follow, however. Modern browser features have led to higher battery consumption on the whole. The number of sites that can peg a CPU core is staggering (and naturally terrible for batter life). The motivating factor for auto-updating browsers is to deal with security matters, not jamming features consumers aren't really asking for down the pipe. No one really needs drop shadows badly enough to risk instability every 6 weeks. And I'm not sure how constantly trying to get people to download Chrome makes them either more educated or engaged. It strikes me to be the opposite.

I'd like to mention that there's a whole class of HTTP clients that aren't end user browsers that get impacted by this sort of thing. It kinda sucks having to fire up a hefty PhantomJS or SlimerJS process because the standard HTTP clients for whatever language of choice can't do anything meaningful with certain sites any longer.
I'm not sure where the ethical or legal issues are, I think the issues are more expense/practicality.
This is just blogspam wrapped around the original article, which was posted here yesterday:

"A Financial Model Comparing Car Ownership with UberX in Los Angeles"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8249834 (95 points, 109 comments)
You can still get 10.6:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow...
Although it was discontinued at first (I think), you can now buy a DVD of 10.6 (Snow Leopard) on Apple's online store: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow...

You can also buy Lion and Mountain Lion, too, as a code to use on the Mac App Store. (Presumably Mavericks will join them soon.) More info: http://store.apple.com/us/help/downloadable_software#MacOSX
If it just told us that "fewer food choices lead to spontaneous calorie restriction", then both groups should have roughly equal results. They didn't. Any putative explanation of the results really needs to, well, explain the results. Not explain results other than the ones obtained.
Admittedly with little research I tried out a low-carb (more like no-carb) diet (of my own invention). I ate pretty much only meat and green leafy vegetables. I was ravenous all throughout. I remember eating large amounts of meat and still feeling like I was starving.

It was hard to concentrate on pre-exam days because I was so hungry.
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Uh, that "Open Source Server" sounds a lot like a decompiled, obfuscated official server to me.
> I find it tough to make sure I get enough veggies (not fruit), in a day.

When most people think veggies they think "lettuce", which makes it hard to eat a lot. Try these recipes:

Broccoli (steam cooked, with olive oil and fried garlic), avocado (salad or with honey + lemon), eggplant (roasted in slices) and Chinese cabbage (it's crunchy and great to eat raw as salad).
Christ Popsci is a terrible site to try and use from Australia. Trying to access any URL just gives a lazy redirect to the front page of popsci.com.au, with the helpful error message "Oops! Something went wrong. Please scroll down to find your content."
> The lack of caloric control is key to this study - any diet which restricts caloric intake, long term, will be self-defeating. Allowing people to eat as much as they want, but simply choosing from a particular food group, is one key to long term success.

Sure, I guess to me whether or not high fat diets have higher satiety is just not interesting - it's a settled issue and it's obvious to me.

> Another big part of this - an apparently non-biased researcher (presumably they don't run a food supplement business) - has suggested that eating fats of all things does not necessarily lead towards heart disease.

Right, but with similar weight it suggested eating less calories helps prevent heart disease. This study doesn't answer the question of whether or not diet composition affected heart disease.

> It also, in my mind, emphasizes that the bulk of "Nutritionists" for the last 50 years have been a bunch of cargo-cult practicing members of the mob - and it makes you wonder what other so-called-scientific disciplines are behaving in a like manner.

Let's not get dramatic. Don't forget that people are significantly less active than they were 50 years ago, and that just because low carb diets happen to be in fashion right now doesn't mean they are right for everyone. That being said, I agree, the diet/nutrition industry is a joke, and most people could do a lot worse than cut carbs out of their diet.
That's a fair point. The interior shape of most of the chunks you're handling is mostly convex anyways, so flood-fill's conservative visibility determinations will usually be equal to the precise numbers.
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> Where are we with replacing the password?

The state of the art of the technology, in my opinion, is GRC's SQRL: https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

However I think you have captured something essential in the idea that Mozilla Persona "failed to catch on", and it wasn't, as far as I can tell, for technical reasons.

The real problem is that any change from the username/password system has a cost (in programmer hours, and support retraining, etc.) and so long as "nothing is broken" it is hard to justify diverting funds from features that are customer-visible to providing a defense against an attack that is arguably the user's fault anyway (password re-use).

To me this issue is sort of a monument to the strange insincere lipservice we pay to technology and technologists. Of course technology is business-critical and of course we work to hire the best and brightest, etc. But somehow organizations keep storing passwords in plain text in spite of the fact that engineers who work there know better.
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I had a bit of a freak metabolism growing up, and never worried about anything I ate, I simply couldn't gain weight. I lived on nothing but carbs. Until about 25, and my metabolism slowed, I gained 20 pounds; then again around 30, another 20 pounds. So I ended up at 197 pounds (I'm 6'2"), and the 200 number starring at me convinced me once and for all that my carb heavy days were permanently over.

So I slashed the carbs and sugar out of my diet, lost about 30 pounds in four months, with some minimal weight lifting thrown in every other day to boost muscle and amplify my body's resting burn rate some. Used a 1500 calorie diet roughly. I give about 90% of the credit to eliminating specifically pizza, pasta, and most sugar (particularly anything sugar heavy, soda, snacks, etc) from my diet. So long as I stayed away from those things, I found I could eat a lot of what I wanted.
This is no secret. There will be endless mostly uninformed debate but the idea that less carbs - less stored fat - its not counter-intuitive.

I wouldn't doubt keeping the blood sugar levels from spiking (especially processed carbs) plays a big part. Weight watchers giving you credit for fiber always wondered about that.