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I can't offer exactly domain advice. I don't use OSX myself. But I can offer board advice. Learn the options, learn what they do, learn why they do that, and what you gain.

Basically never trust a computer to keep you safe on its own, if it promises to its likely lying (or OpenBSD).
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Hi, thats a bug :P. Send us an email support@nodegear.com and we'll do it manually.
Thx Hyperenergy. Will check it out.
Hell,if they kept the same price and added the sleekness, power, and recharge functionality I'd feel a little less taken advantage of.
Yes Cheriot, you're probably right but we wanted to keep it easy to understand. How would you change it? Happy to improve it and make it more "best-practice" compliant and then share it here https://github.com/Stamplay/stamplay-foodme
I have fond memories of the TI-89 - all the power of a TI-92, but the same form factor as the TI-83/84, so it wouldn't raise much attention.

Having a computer algebra system in my handheld calculator got me all the way from pre-algebra to intro diff eq in high school. It's hard to say whether it was unfair, but being able to try algebra and calculus things out on the CAS really helped me explore and understand concepts.
I feel like the real market for this is a comfort robot in Japan.
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This is exactly what always bothers me in time travel movies.

You never hear about the poor time traveler who got the calculation slightly wrong and ended up deep in space or inside of a mountain.
Back in 1998, when I had to buy one, I was given a choice. I could get any of the TI, Casio, or HP options. Most of my classmates got the TI-83, but I chose the TI-89. Mine was much faster and had more memory. I could create better applications. Unfortunately, the teacher taught to the TI-83. Instructions for homework showed what menu options were needed to find the formulas required.

It was obvious that if you didn't have the calculator that everyone else has, you might as well not even bring the book to class. You spent more time trying to find the equivalent settings and processes to do the work than actually getting anything done.

A competitor would have to include the exact same formulas in the exact same menu locations.
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If it works great for what people need it to do, why change it? I like things that do their core purpose very well, and this apparently does.
> And 100% of the evidence was that they met at the same pizza place? There were no other indications?

It was enough for the guys supposedly in charge of protecting us to waste a lot of time staring at graphs. And the 'threat matrix' is full of even more shit than that; I refer you to "Secret without Reason and Costly without Accomplishment: Questioning the National Security Agency’s Metadata Program", Mueller & Stewart 2014 http://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller/NSAshane3.p... for that and other sorry details of 'the war on terror'. Seeing the sausage made is never pretty.

> In that case does it flag every single group of high school friends who regularly get pizza after school, or every group of co-workers who hit up the same happy hour a couple times a week?

No, I'm sure some racial and religious profiling was part of the special top-secret sauce which selected that particular pizza joint...
Thanks. I did not do much. Juste wrote a blog about the authentication mechanism I used and shared it on twitter/g+ communities
Gabriel Weinberg also has a super blog (and now a book) on traction that every startup founder should read.
From the article:

"Apple sells an iPod touch for $199 that comes with 16 gigabytes of memory"

I tend to let it slide when people get memory and storage confused, but I hold journalists to a higher standard. This isn't even a semantic error; this came right after describing the RAM capacity of a TI-84 Plus C Silver. Nothing Matt McFarland wrote in this article was wrong, but it certainly wasn't highly-informed either...

Comparing TI calculators to consumer electronics is a rather moot point. It's better to compare against the plummeting costs of microcomputers in general. The Raspberry Pi is better proof that TI is marking their products up 1000%+! Nobody needs a calculator with a 1GHz processor and 512GB of RAM, and 8-128GB of flash storage, so why are we paying for even more than what that would cost?
There are worse monopolies, I guess. The 83+/84+ has good software and is neigh indestructible. The physical interface is very good and beats a touch screen.

A TI calculator fast enough to run NumPy to build simulations and interactive gizmos would be super cool though. Allowing students to build colorful mathematical animations and physics simulations using simple building blocks would be awesome. Of course that can all be done with laptops but having things in the palm of your hand shouldn't be underestimated.
The amount of work to be done doesn't change as a function of how much workers are paid.

Whether the work can be profitably done certainly can change.

Arguing that the minimum wage causes meaningful increase in unemployment is just as silly as arguing that paying CEOs huge salaries does.

Could we make it $50/hour with no employment effects?

You can argue that a minimum wage makes things more expensive: that's likely true, but I'm okay with that.

Which means the minimum wage is indirect welfare that redistributes money to low-skilled workers by taking it from some combination of business owners, employees, and customers. That's strictly less efficient than just giving low-income workers extra money, especially since many of the customers now facing higher prices are themselves poor.

I agree though that we as taxpayers should not be required to subsidize corporations unwilling to pay employees livable wages.

This has never made any sense to me. If Walmart pays a cashier $10/hour, they're helping him more than you are, but somehow they're the bad guy.
The hard part is convincing people to sell Teslas with those types of restrictions.

I'm guessing Tesla wouldn't be near as successful without the direct-to-consumer model.
Since we're talking about a feedback loop, rather than a straight-line system with a start and an end, there is no "right" place to intervene; we have to adjust every entity in the feedback loop together.

A lot of popular debates come down to people treating a feedback loop as a straight line, and picking different points on the loop as starting points. Some examples: nature vs. nurture, lobbying vs. corruption, chemistry vs. thoughts (e.g. in cases of depression).
How about the skill and risk involved in being able to determine what is "under-priced"? The way I'm reading these posts, it seems as if all it takes to make money is money (at least in flipping homes).
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Concepts like "huge public benefit" and "sound reasoning" are in the eye of the beholder; and as mentioned above, money isn't everything. Especially for old people, memories can be more of a comfort than cash, and losing your home inevitably means losing some of those memories.
Shorthand pithy summarization is a fundamental building block of human communication, and doesn't constitute a fallacious argument.

Allow me to translate what tobinfricke said:

"The Heritage Foundation is hardly an objective source on the topic of the advantages of the so-called 'free market', considering the fact that they are an organization dedicated principally to promulgating and evangelizing the concept of the 'free market' (by which they essentially mean a market in which the regulatory structures that benefit incumbent businesses are preserved, but new regulatory frameworks that would affect the status quo are discouraged). Oh and, here's a link to some basic information on the topic.

If I were to say to you that Frito-Lay is not an objective source about whether Doritos are delicious and healthy, that does not actually meet the criteria for argumentum ad hominem.
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I avoid the things these days. It's not about being fast it's about getting the job done. Quizzes don't demonstrate such things.

They might be okay for graduates, or low end candidates, but for experienced folk it's irrelevant.
'If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.' - Henry Ford
It is worth noting that the MSRP is $100 vs the K480's $50.
He links to quasar in the article...
Advice is fairly standard: don't make your main account an Admin account, give your password out sparingly to apps that ask for it, try to use only sandboxed apps (i.e. from the App Store), don't turn on un-needed services (these are mostly in the Sharing pane in System Preferences). If you don't like Apple's default firewall rules, I believe OS X has BSD-standard ipfw installed by default, so you can use that and modify it to your liking.

Mostly, though, I'd say don't panic. Keep OS X updated and you should be fine (inc. Flash if you use it in Safari, and keep rarely-used web plugins disabled by default). Zero-days are always a worry, but you'll never see them coming by definition, so there's not a lot you can do about it...

[Note, I am by no means an expert]

Edit: and, as another poster said, enable FileVault. It's a great, stable and fast (on modern Macs, any slow-down should be imperceptible to the user) protection against casual data theft if someone steals your computer.
Sometimes the law seems incomprehensible. How is it that you can knock down somebody's house on purpose so you can essentially steal their land and all you have to do is pay for the house?
Using a time-loop in node.js to compute factorials https://gist.github.com/Marak/3967740
Erlang loops will not block the OS thread because the BEAM VM implements preemptive multi-tasking at the (green) process level.
Yes, two wrongs don't make a right, but given the presumed motivations of this article, it is important that everyone is aware of the security shortcomings of the phones, other computers and computer related services we use every day.
Isn't that the problem with calculators? The lesson becomes "How to work the calculator" instead of math.
I got an HP programmable calculator. It operated on RPN. That makes you think about problems differently, IMHO in a better way.

I remember a 'calculator Olympics' involving solving an incredible half-page calculation involving scores of parentheses and transcendental functions. Everybody else launched into typing all that into their TI calculator. I started from the innermost expression (as ALL RPN-trained people do). It was an identity. Hm. As I worked my way out, everything was an identity (sin(90) etc). I got the answer without ever touching a button on my calculator.

THAT's what math class should be teaching.
Developer: If they're reasonable in subject scope, length and proportional to the rest of the interview (not to mention the level - you probably don't want to do a code quiz for a senior position: that's a serious red flag, highly correlated with micromanagers), why not.

Interviewer (many hats here): A _brief_ quiz is a useful highpass filter for junior-level positions ("Ugg set clock on microwave! Ugg programmer now!"), and a possible conversation starter ("what, why & how").
None of those offer the features Highcharts does right off the bat.
> so why are we paying for even more than what that would cost?

Because TI has tried in the past to introduce more powerful calculators, and that fell flat.

The 84 exists because schools expect it. That is all. Until they accept your smartphone as a calculator, TI can markup the 84 as much as they want and everyone has to buy it because there is no free market in school calculators.
Yes, I did. I don't think you're interpreting the results correctly. The conclusion of the paper, in summary of all the evidence, is that "Even against the background of advances in the management of obesity-related chronic diseases in the past few decades, our findings suggest that adiposity, including overweight, is associated with an increased risk of death."

Please look at the figures, in particular figures 1 and 2 D/C. Among non-smokers, as the BMI increases from 25 there is an increased risk of death. You can see the trend clear as day.
> and also a tool they can bring in during their most important exam.

This is the most important part. Cheating is probably the primary reason these are used and not computers/smartphones etc. That is their niche. Test taking. With that, if you change the form factor etc, it becomes more difficult for test administers to recognize etc, and more power allows for programs that can be more "creative" and how they find answers to problems.

The tool is a perfect reflection of being built for a very particular market.
There's a lot of people interested in helping the poor. There's humongous social and political barriers that make it almost impossible.

Ideas I have:

-Make a centralized site for homeless people to find resources. At the moment they're all scattered.

-Make an easy to use food stamp app.

-Ride sharing apps

-Apps showing where buses are and how far away they are so poor people aren't just sitting at the bus stop waiting.

-and there's a lot more.

However a quick look at all these requires technological literacy by the poor, governmental cooperation, or both.

It's not just an easy tech problem to solve. It's a social problem.
Can anyone advise please books / blogs / videos to learn the theory behind concurrency, threading, Green Threads, how they are implemented?
That can work both ways though. Sometimes if you chose a less popular option it can make it easier to find outstanding candidates.
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What's old is new again?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads#Green_threads_in_...
WebRTC is just a protocol. You can use it any way you like. Lots of folks use it to talk to a switching server, probably because P2P IP connections can't always be made, while a server connection is guaranteed to work.
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I'll talk to something that Pillow did for me that I couldn't easily find in other sleep tracking apps: audio recording. For the past couple of months in my new place, I couldn't figure out why that no matter how much sleep I got, I still woke up absolutely drained and tired. Other sleep tracking apps showed nothing out of the ordinary in my sleeping patterns and they even matched previous sleep cycles.

After the first night of using Pillow, I immediately found the problem. I learned that throughout almost the entire night I would go into these throat-scratching fits. The reason the other apps didn't show anything is because my movement didn't change, I would just lay there and scratch my throat. On a recording it sounds like a frog croaking. Except this would go on for 15-20 minute intervals nearly 8 times throughout the night. This was a clear sign of my allergies; whenever I'm awake and up and I knowingly make that sound, it's because something is irritating my allergies to such a degree that "throat-scratching" helps soothe it. Now I take a generic Zyrtec before bed, and I sleep like a baby again.

Now this wasn't a very scientific test (I didn't use Pillow or attempted audio-recording before I moved into the new place), but it showed me how easily this information could help me and my doctors. Now connecting this app, with other health apps I use on a whim (weight-tracking, food-tracking, etc). I could make correlations (but not causations) into what could be making me "sick".

To the poster who said "your body knows how to take care of itself", in relation to sleep, that really isn't true for me. From someone who suffers from multiple things that directly affect my sleep, I can tell you my body does not know how to take care of itself. Apps integerating with each other will help find more data relevant to one other than most of us realize. Trying new things, and see how we are affected by them, with data to back it up, will be greatly helpful.
Keep fighting, Boris! Although it is not always the company management's idea to bully startups (some have lawyers that get paid by the hour so they come up with cases) - it is still sad to see this happening... It would be nice to see startups unite to resist this kind of pressure
I like that everyone seems to have a way better barista than I have.
And yet I don't understand why the article is FUD'ing about it!

> hopefully without altering its meaning

...What?

I'm using Quasar right now. It works as advertised. Bytecode manipulation tools are not some scary unexplored arena of JVM tooling.
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Well, they did all of those things with the Nspire stuff, but for whatever reason it hasn't become as popular as the 84/89.

http://education.ti.com/en/us/products/calculators/graphing-...
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This is it. In high school statistics, I tried to use my dad's HP-48g, which I dearly loved (in large part thanks to RPL---this was fairly soon after I discovered Scheme and dc). This didn't really work: the teacher would explain how to do something (automated statistical tests, for example) on a TI-89, and I'd have to spend a whole bunch of time trying to figure out the equivalent.

This was a pain, and it was compounded by the fact that the HP-48 didn't have the same features as the TI-89, so I was frequently out of luck. The teacher wrote his homeworks and tests with an eye towards what was doable without too much effort on a TI-89, and I imagine that the TI people chose the featureset for the 89 with an eye towards what people would want to do in high school classes, so using anything else was an uphill battle.

(We also had occasional homeworks in Excel, and I ran into the same trouble trying to do them in Perl. It didn't help that I was very far from an expert in either Perl or the HP-48g.)
I'd walk out, as a developer, I'd likely laugh too. Well I'd laugh, then see you were serious and walk out.

You want me to code fast, I'll code fast. My code will be shit, but it'll work. It won't scale, it'll roll over and die in 3 months when we make the slightest change.

As an interviewer its idiotic. What are you testing? If I've memorized the question you're asking me? Or seeing how fast I can think on my feet. If its the former, what? If its the later, there are other ways to test this, that make sense.

If you want to see how a developer thinks on his feet, give both of you a problem you haven't seen before, prototype a data structure to solve this problem. Work together interviewer and developer, you'll learn each other's thought process, and a bit about the company dynamic. It'll take longer, but more information is gained via osmosis.
previous submission, with lots of comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7270973
Rooting is left in as a feature for those who want more access to the OS, it's equivalent to complaining about sudo. There are certainly vulnerabilities when it comes to Linux (for example, programs running through X.org are relatively easy to snoop on), the advantage with a Linux OS is that you can choose to make it more secure because of its modularity.

Apple has a different task ahead of it because it's responsible for the whole OS stack. A successful model to follow is Microsoft's, they take security patches seriously.
I would like to see a unified explanation that describes how our current modes of time travel work.

How does the matter that comprises my car and myself successfully get from Palo Alto to The Mission every morning?
There is a deeper legacy there. People were complaining about coverage in Japan after Nokia bought Navteq in 2007 (Here was born out of Navteq).

I would expect Navteq had stayed away on some strategic basis and Nokia just kept doing that (I guess Nokia was never a huge brand in Japan).
I use to write programs in HS for these things that helped me during math tests.
You're right, I used the wrong word. Doesn't change the fact that working on something revolutionary is a lot more fun than working on something iterative. It's also more accessible to individual entrepreneurs whereas iterative progress is more of a bigco domain.
Perhaps I'm thinking of a different notion of flipping homes. I might be the one confused here.

I was thinking of buying old homes, possibly teardowns, in a rapidly up-and-coming area, renovating them, and then reselling them at a much higher price. I feel like there's less risk involved here as long as you have strong data showing the area is becoming popular and you can act quickly (i.e., before the boom ends).

If you want to simply isolate an underpriced house, buy it, sit on it doing nothing, and then sell it a few months later for twice what you paid, then I agree -- a considerable amount of skill would be needed.
I caused half of my friends in algebra to flunk thanks to pheonix. I had no idea they were going to play it that much when I transferred it to them. My teacher once said that if she found out who gave everyone pheonix on their calculators she was going to flunk them. Luckily no one turned me in.

Man that game was great.
You are not alone! I've thought a lot about how much we move in space while we "sit still" on earth. :)
For me the caveat that calling a library or existing code can block the scheduler is a non-starter. I love what everyone is doing and I don't think it means they are useless, but for certain tasks and existing projects it means they are impractical to incorporate.

I think it's fair to say that what we are being offered is not ponies. It's a useful tool, but also a leaky abstraction and not what I want to be working with in the long run.

Also the statements about Erlang and loops is odd. My understanding is loops in Erlang are preemptible and that the VM bends over backwards to provide consistent scheduling even if it means losing some performance.
> They could make it more powerful, less bulky, add rechargeable batteries, or drop the price.

It could cost easily a tenth of what it does. Compare the Shenzhen article on the front page yesterday which mentions full cellphones available for $9.
One of my old math teachers won a top of the line NSpire.

She showed her students, everyone poked at it for a bit, and then it was never used again. It didn't provide much additional educational use.
Wouldn't the offices of the demarchy accrete long-held staff positions and/or outside consultants to compensate for the office holders' inexperience? And wouldn't those staff members and consultants be vulnerable to lobbying?

Even if we went straight to direct democracy (which I like in theory, as well as I like the idea of demarchy), the special interest with the biggest advertising budget would win.

I wonder, could an elected technocracy (by which I mean different governments and representatives for different spheres of influence) solve this by limiting both the tyranny of the masses and the influence of any one corrupt official? Or would whatever process controls the final budget still have enough power to corrupt the system?
If they do, they're not PCI compliant and risk having their ability to conduct credit card transactions revoked.
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That would be also my plan, but once I have this setup, it would be impossible for me not to constantly switch between devices.

Pairing every single time is actually a plus for me: It acts as a barrier to avoid multitasking in different devices.
Chances are, if you were able to program the algorithms required to solve the problems, you understood them well enough or more than enough to pass the course.