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>There ultimately is little freedom from bosses. Either your VC's are, or paying customers are.

I hear this line often, and I think it switches terms. I'm a bootstrapper. When I say I don't have a boss, I don't mean I don't have responsibilities. I have a ton of responsibilities – maybe more so than those with jobs. I can't easily take a 100% off vacation, for example.

But I don't have a boss. I can arrange things how I want. I could even blow off customer support entirely, if I felt like it. I'd make a bit less money, probably, but I'd still be fine.

And I've occasionaly "fired" whole categories of customers when I felt like stopping a certain activity. Couldn't do that to a boss.
The challenge in equating our two experiences is the perspective from which the LOI was received. For them, it was a message in the form of another low blow from this high pressure accelerator trying to wrest away 50% of their business. With that mindset, a week probably would have been too short. Who knows.

Ours, on the other hand was, "Awesome! Troy called and invited us to the program! We finally get to quit our day jobs and go after this business full time like we have always dreamed about, and TS is facilitating that! Let's go over this LOI, which is simple and straightforward and doesn't legally bind us to do anything other than say we understand we are continuing the process and wont tell anyone publicly about it and gets us one step closer to Chicago and the success of our business!"

Looking through an LOI and getting it back to them was a joy for us, not a burden.
Are any of these anti-chaos tools open source or shared with the community? Would love to see more companies that I'm dependent on have this sort of testing and robustness...
You could code both views and show one or the other based on a server-side flag.
USB has a huge security problem that could take years to fix
In this case, what does quarantining it mean?
Interesting to see where adlens is now. I dated a woman who was leading their push into Africa and Latin America a decade ago. That's where they started - trying to give people vision correction who wouldn't otherwise have access to it.
>>student may have thought he’d understood it at the time, and perhaps he did, but he’d never practiced using the concept to truly internalize it.

I'm changing jobs and I've interviewed at quite a few places off late. Having faced with so many Algorithm and Data Structure questions, I took it upon myself to read upon a good deal of material before I started interviewing. So I did the usual approach one takes while studying math, understand all the basic concepts and look for places where you could apply them, rather than studying individual problems.

Recently I interviewed at one place, where I guess a guy who was just out of college asked a few questions. My general approach is to look for how the problem would fit in the concepts I've learned. I gradually derived the solution out of the concepts I knew. And to my surprise, the solution was simply unacceptable to the interviewer, he just clung to his position that I was wrong. He then proceeded to write the answer, he even wrote the test cases.

Now I go back home and check it out of the internet and it was hardly surprising for me to see what I had suspected. The guy didn't want the answer to the question. He wanted exactly the same answer he had memorized. The guy had even memorized the variable names, even the exact input values.

Most people interviewing you on your Algorithm and Data structure skills. They are simply testing your algorithm and data structure rote memorization skills. The same goes in exams.
NASA has opportunities like the Small Explorers (SMEX, http://explorers.larc.nasa.gov/APSMEX/), Discovery (http://discovery.nasa.gov/p_mission.cfml), and New Frontiers (http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/program/index.cfml) into which you can propose to conduct missions of different size/cost classes.

If you have low-cost mission concepts for achieving important scientific objectives, please propose them.
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By trading away C (Consistency), we’ve made a conscious decision to design our applications with eventual consistency in mind

How does one go about writing a user-facing application with eventual consistency?
The problem is that unless you are also able to approach things like a constructivist, you will end up with a bunch of disjoint facts. I think that most people just don't understand math well enough to understand this key. The more math I know, the more I wish I hadn't memorized anything, but derived more things. There are many cases these days that I will have to go back and derive an equation for the first time because I was never taught the equation.

Her department is "Industrial & Systems Engineering", she doesn't need to know much more math than how to do arithmetic and a Chai squared. Not that I know more math than she does, it's just not a true part of the mathematical disciplines. She and I probably both just use the tools handed to us and don't understand the beauty or the ugliness. One of the big problems with math today is that nobody understands that arithmetic isn't math. It would be like a baseball player being called a woodworker because she used a wooden bat.
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I know it's easy to view perks as window dressing, but some of the things offered by TechStars are game changers for a business's tech teams, particularly in the early stage.

Granted, these perks do eventually go away and you have to have ample business justification for technology costs. But at the outset it's a godsend to know your business has the financial headroom to address any early technical challenge.

Benefits like web hosting / services credits allow all that financial hassle to get out of the way in the early game so you can just focus on delivering the best product possible.
CalTech is the tops in my book on this. I don't have a huge sample size, but they are all rock stars. I've met a few less than impressive MITers.

What surprises me is that the Ivies can still have such high average test scores and GPAs despite all the legacies and athletes.

What surprised me about Princeton was that it was Lacrosse. Lacrosse. It convinced me that I want to send my kids to fencing lessons after their math circles.
Not sure why I was downvoted here. Maybe this was interpreted as snark. I assure you that it was not. I am genuinely concerned that reading about snowden and NSA issues "flags" me and puts me on a list. I Don't feel like I've anything to hide, but it seems that the NSA wants this to go away. Maybe I'm paranoid.
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Ivies give so much need based scholarships that athletic scholarships aren't required. If someone's parents and poor, the school finds a way for them to graduate debt-free. (This is a big plus for them)

As for sports having an impact... They may not let in a 900 SAT football player, but 1200 may be enough for an Olympic rower.
First you said you wanted a report of all breaches, now you're asking for the investigation to be run in public - rather a massive move of the goalposts. Without expressing any sympathy for the banks, I'm having trouble thinking of any business that would be willing or even able to do business under such conditions.
That they are revenue neutral makes it even worse.
Foci is a GeoSocial Network and Mobile App
Chaos Monkey (and related software) is open source: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki
Soylent had sucralose? I guess these guys aren't following the research about artificial sweeteners [1]!

[1] http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/261179.php
Can we please stop talking about Ello at last?
A friend just told me six student suicides at MIT this year plus one professor. We now lose more people to suicides in the U.S. than to car accidents.

You are not alone.
If you classify hundreds of millions of dollars in loss as a minor inconvenience...
And that is rudimentary "code push" isn't it?
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I've tried and failed to get seed funding in Australia. There is a Startup culture in SA, but it's mostly PR.

That said, I would love to see a lot more activity in our beautiful country but don't expect any support from the government or business sectors... unless you know somebody ;)
Basically it's great, and matches up well with bpython: I wrote up some comparisons at http://ballingt.com/2014/09/30/prompt-toolkit.html (bpython-curtsies author here)
If you really need consistency, you can use an external locking mechanism (Zookeeper comes to mind).
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It depends on the application. For Netflix, transient glitches like having outdated play history or catalog entries that take a while to propagate aren't hugely detrimental -- the core value of serving the videos that users request doesn't depend at all on having a consistent view of quickly-changing user data.

For more complex applications (think Facebook), there are useful consistency models other than strong consistency, with causal consistency being one of the most promising: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2610533
Without specifically being in the situation, it's hard to tell. The author implied that when they had spoken on the phone, he indicated to Troy that he wasn't sure if he was ready to commit, and then received the "please return by Monday" email within moments. It seems yours was more of a "yes, we're interested" followed shortly by the email. Maybe it's just their standard practice to immediately follow up "the call" with "the email," but I can see how it could be perceived differently depending on the receiver.
>Initial tests showed that block 218430 with considerably higher difficulty is solved more efficiently than the genesis block 0 for a given nonce range.

This is very misleading. 99.99999999% of the work of finding a valid block is finding the right block header to mine on. You have 2^32 possible nonces, and your odds of finding a block are 1 in 2^67.

By giving his program the block in advance, he's taking a shortcut.

An algorithm that could quickly decide whether a block header contained a valid solution would be very valuable indeed.
I assume: serving content that doesn't change often (videos) and mostly needs to be available. Recording user scores and aggregating their effect later (last write win means you could update the score a second time and the first time only would be recorded - which is annoying but not end-of-the-world).

Likely if they have things that require stronger consistency they use another DB.
> rails new todolist

...seriously, though. All of our views are out of date by the time we see them, and all of the user inputs have to be dealt with for races and double-submits. Eventual consistency is just the patterns you already know, but bigger.
True, its a pure travel scholarship, with all likelihood the student won't even get to touch the money. It will all handled by the university's finance department (it was in my case).
And $18k is huge for an Australian travel grant, they're usually just $2k to $5k, some examples:

$1.8k in Perth http://www.postgraduate.uwa.edu.au/students/funding/travel
$1k to $2.5k at Uni South Australia http://www.unisa.edu.au/student-life/global-opportunities/tr...
$2k to $3k at Ian Potter foundation http://www.ianpotter.org.au/travel

etc.
Ohh sorry, I thought you were talking about the merge, not the sort. Yes O(n log n) is allowed for the merge, but what I'm saying is that the Dr. Dobbs article's in-place merge sort is actually not quite an in-place variant of merge sort: its complexity (as far as I can tell) is O(n log^2 n) rather than O(n log n).
"it's not their fault most of the time"?

The people in this country most oppressed by crime are not well-off conservative white people. Crime is a scourge of low-income communities, and most of it is violent.
> But even if you want to add pure money related perks, please review this: http://www.techstars.com/program/perks/. Such free. Much hosting.

Some of those are programs that are open to any company in any accelerator.

http://aws.amazon.com/activate/

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

http://www.softlayer.com/catalyst

https://blueprint.paypal.com/

Not really a reason to pick techstars over another program
It is worth pointing out that talking about suicide more than usual (media, blogs, sharing stories) also has a strange effect of triggering suicides.

Even if it is just raising awareness and just telling people about the suicide hot line.

It is a rather insidious double edged sword.
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Just out of curiosity, what are you doing now?
That would remove their ability to take content away from consumers when contracts expire though wouldn't it?
Nobody is saying that off-site backups are a bad thing. they are certainly part of a complete DR setup.

And yes, all of us know that if we lose the data? we lose the customer, and worse, we lose the customer and they say (justifiable) bad things about us. If you lose all your data? yeah, you are out of business.

Even so, there's a huge difference between how a low-end hosting company is run and how an "enterprise" datacenter is run, and expecting enterprise reliability at low-end pricing is... not realistic.

If you think that your low-end VPS provider is doing everything possible to back up your data... you are likely to be disappointed. Hell, I don't have regular backups, or offer for-pay backups at all myself. I'm working on it for the next version of my management software, but for now, I'm very up-front with my customers that they need to back up their own stuff, and my architecture is such that most of the time, data loss is confined to one server, and yeah, if someone got in and wiped it all out, I would very clearly be bankrupt. but... I'm only saying this because yeah, in this market, you don't get "enterprise level" backups. If you want 'enterprise backups' you have to do it yourself, or pay 'enterprise money'

You can say that it's like not having a fire extenguisher, and I'm not going to argue with you, but I've worked in this sector for well over a decade, and yeah, that's just how things are done. A low-end hosting setup is going to be way different (and way cheaper) than an "enterprise" hosting setup.

and I do know that many of my competitors have gone out of business because both backup and production could be written to by the same user (do you remember HyperVM? it was a disaster for many in the industry.)

I don't know of any competitors that have gone out of business because of physical destruction of their datacenter.

just saying... off site backups are good... but I would get the security and 'defense in depth' setup squared away first, and nobody does, because it's not on the checklists.

more on the hypervm thing:

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/security/25559-hyperv...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/

The idea was that lots of people used this cpanel-style VM hosting software. It worked pretty okay, from what I hear. I never used it myself. Anyhow, there was a vulnerability, and some asshole decided to use that vulnerability to hack into a bunch of different providers, wipe the production data, and then to wipe the backups, too.

it happens.
Disclaimer: I work for Google on Cloud Platform.

Yep, TechStars is just one of many incubators and accelerators we've partnered with (and we're happy to take more):

https://cloud.google.com/startups
Why do I see so many similar posts? Is it cool to turn something down other people want and make a blog post about it?

The internet these days is much like McDonald's, instant gratification and quantity over quality.
Same; though upon browsing the support page for uBar, I stumbled on this:

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 1000 && killall Dock

Make sure to use a lowercase 'd' in 'dock' in the identifier– it matters on Mavericks.
Embrace idempotence. Being able to perform am operation multiple times with the same result adds a lot of flexibility.

For example, using the rails TODO list, if you add a task to "buy milk" and then on another client view the list and don't see "buy milk" there (because consistency hasn't been reached), you might be inclined to think you forgot to save it or something. Then you might enter it again. If this is not idempotent (as is the case on the classic tutorial) you will end up with 2 "buy milk" tasks instead of just one.
It's the opposite of that, and that's why it's interesting. You'd expect dynamics to produce matching warrior/nanny to their environment. Instead, even when their ratio matched the environment (ideal for individuals), the group reverted to its genetic roots (to the detriment of the individuals and group). Alternatively, when the group didn't match its environment, but the ancestors of the group did, the group reverted to matching (an important point left out of the GP).
From your blog post:

The cheap frame from the discount store
has unsafe hangers and it’s not sealed
and it’s barely held together by cheap
staples and the thin, chipped glass
inside is a death trap in disguise.

I've spend a good deal of time today reading responses from other posters on this thread today. I think I can bucket them into three groups:

"This is too expensive"

This represents the bulk of the responses: people who are used to buying cheap discount store frame you describe. The 80% case.

"Are you kidding? This is cheap!"

People like me, who represent most of the other 20%. I can appreciate the $300 and the $900 designs you reference, but I'm not willing to pay either amount. I'm not framing an Ansel Adams or a Henri Cartier-Bresson print.

"This doesn't stand up to my expectations"

As far as I can tell, only you in this thread. That's not to say that your viewpoint is invalid. Far from it. But, instead, it fails to recognize that there is a meaningfully large mid-market that doesn't want a $10 death-trap, but is also unwilling to spend as much as it would cost to buy a used Hasselblad[0] on framing a print.

Getting that personalized, one-on-one, high-end experience would be fantastic. But it's also clearly not an experience that would work well with cutting out the middleman. Especially when that middleman is incapable of providing the MFA-requiring experience you eloquently described.

[0] No really, my Hasselblad 501CM, plus an 80mm ƒ/2.8 Zeiss Planar lens, plus a film back cost me about $950 earlier this year. They're all in great shape, and produce the best photographs I've gotten from any camera I've ever owned.
and how would you make that idempotent? ;)
I wonder if their chaos system causes network partitions as well as node failures.
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How meta.

Http://tracks.roojoom.com/r/15310
This is a problem that I've experienced myself. I came up with a practical frame recipe for me and my ol' table saw, but it isn't for everybody. And it never occurred to me that it could be the basis of an Internet business. So, hats off to you, and I hope it's successful.

I wonder if polystyrene is cheaper than acrylic. I don't know its UV protection properties.

I didn't look too closely at your site: Can people upload a picture of their artwork to display in your frame design UI?
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I think that's a different concept to the “Two-Man Policy/No Lone Zone” mentioned above.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide

and a recent example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/08...

Here's how the CDC recommends handling this sort of thing: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031539.htm
> Who writes that out in plain text areas? Nobody. Nobody except Gruber.

I do this. Reading through my recent comments on [Website X] concludes that I use it as kind of an "italics" tag even though there IS markdown on that very website. I guess it becomes more pronounced.
The encryption keys would be time limited (monthly basis, certain titles, etc). If you don't top up monthly, you key expires, the underlying data is re-encrypted with another key, etc.
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A group doesn't "evolve" overnight. That would be environmental pressures influencing it, not evolutionary. That the groups reverted showed heritability in the face of individual needs. If it were strictly individual needs, the colonies shouldn't have reverted; the evolutionary forces that directed warrior/nanny ratio should have reflected the environment instead of the ancestry of the group.
The folks who moderate the various reddits are there by no virtue other than
the fact that they were either there first, or have some relationship to the
person who was there first.

This is what I think the biggest problem with Reddit is. There needs to be a better system for picking moderators. I don't know what that would be but the current one is broken.
Caltech has a similar problem. I very nearly lost my girlfriend to suicide due to academic pressures at that school.
The key is to consistently derive a primary key. With the same key, last write wins. The second create turns into an update.

Making the primary key "buy-milk" would do the job. Getting a consistent key requires a bit of UX but isn't actually that difficult.
> I actually find Ansible to be a lot slower than Fabric

Have you tried it since they switched to using ssh by default (instead of paramiko)? Because in my experience Ansible can ship multiple modules faster than Paramiko can connect to a host. And it is vastly easier to build reliable tasks out of modules than bash scripts.
Why would one transpile on the device rather than on one's dev/deployment/whatever server?
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Evolution occurs at the population level, but populations are generally not thought to evolve.
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Since we are on the topic of math textbooks, I will suggest the No bullshit guide to math and physics which is a math textbook written specifically for adult learners. See http://minireference.com/ for more info.

<discl>I'm the author</discl>
Even though I chafed a bit at the delays it imposed and kept asking the teacher about other more advanced topics, I do not regret a single minute of the time spent chanting 12-times tables in my first couple of school years. Same deal for written exercises and homework - I don't think I'd be so good at mental math, estimating, and 'back of the envelope' calculations done in pencil if it weren't for all that practice as a child.
hm.

from: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-108.html

MITIGATION
==========

Running only PV guests will avoid this vulnerability.

Did amazon reboot all of it's VMs? or just the HVM VMs? why was neflix running on HVM VMs?
Gentoo is for Ricers!: http://fun.irq.dk/funroll-loops.org/
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> We now lose more people to suicides in the U.S. than to car accidents.

Holy shit, that's unbelievable. I basically don't drive because I have long believed that driving is an unnecessarily risky thing to do -- indeed, because it kills so many people. To find out now that more people are lost to suicide than car accidents is pretty bizarre.

I agree with rdtsc up above by the way that we should just not bring this up on social media too much. It's one place we should censor ourselves. Merely even talking about it exposes suicide as an option. Avoiding talking about it really is the way to go.
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