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This is pretty terrible news. It would have been need to see LastPass get acquired by a company like AWS but LogMeIn doesn't really have the reputation required to ask people to trust them with all their passwords.

Also, the valuation also seems low to me. Maybe LastPass was having trouble generating recurring revenue. It seems like going public would be a better route for security companies but maybe the revenue wasn't there for an IPO.

I've had a paid subscription for years and used their enterprise service for 2 different startups. Hopefully the service doesn't start to suck. I'm already scouting alternatives.

It's cool to see people thinking about this stuff.

I wasn't trying to discredit the project. I think the project is neat and I wanted to see what other people on HN would say about GvR's comment.

This project looks completely misguided. The talk focused on the trivialities of mapping Python to C++ rather than on the interesting problems to be encountered when trying to optimize Python while maintaining its extremely dynamic semantics. Also the benchmarking effort is laughable; pystone is not to be taken seriously (only exercises a tiny part of the language) and pybench does microbenchmarks, which are optimized away. You should try the "real-world" benchmarks from the PyPy and Unladen Swallow projects. And what is the size of the generated code? (E.g. how big would the binary for the entire standard library be?) In your blog, please use less boring subjects than "version x.y.z released". ~ Guido van Rossum

Find Guido's quote in the first comment.

https://ep2013.europython.eu/conference/talks/nuitka-the-pyt...

Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0v-pht1...

This sounds like a fairly idealized vision of what working in medicine is like. I have heard doctors say the same sort of thing about being a software developer. Is the grass really greener?

The issue in this case is that the defendants haven't even been convicted of a crime, which is why everyone is worried. Based on this ruling you need only be accused of a crime for the government to seize your assets. If prosecutors only put guilty people on trial you might be correct.

edit: I guess the comment I was responding to was deleted.

Behold a man standing on the shoulders of giants and complaining that the giants are not tall enough.

I think the laws are different depending on the state but most of those overly broad agreements are not enforceable. Usually it has to be something that you could have only created with proprietary knowledge gained from your employer or access to customers gained during the course of business. So just because you are a web developer by day, your employers do not own the Minecraft forum you maintain by night.

I'm not a lawyer, so this is just my fuzzy recollection of what my lawyers told me. If you've got something serious on the line, a good lawyer's time is a cheap investment that will pay dividends in the long run.

I started a b2b SaaS company while employed and quit when we got our first paying customers. I always built software in my off hours for fun, but when I decided to try and solve other people's problems I realized it could be a business rather than just a hobby. I don't think my employer knew or cared what I was going to do after I left.

Currently we are in the process of being acquired by a larger company. I've seen a few folks try to do a start a company this way and they almost always underestimate how much work it's going to be. Everything takes 3 times longer than you think it will and requires 10 times more effort.

I tried to raise seed funding and VC money but failed on both counts, so I can't really give any useful advice on how to do that. I raise this because I spent a lot of time in meetings with potential investors and gathering information for them. Since that ended up being largely unproductive time, now I wish I had just focused on my customers instead.

I'd be interested to hear how other people decide which investor meetings to take and which ones to ignore.

I'm sure this is true, but all of the manufacturers provide postage paid biohazard boxes for the explanted devices to be returned to the manufacturer and properly disposed of. All you have to do is call the customer service number and ask for some to be sent to you.

I assume you mean this one:

http://www.secure-medicine.org/public/publications/icd-study...

You would need to be specific about which one of the linked documents you meant, there were several. All the hacking attempts started off with a manufacturer's programmer and worked back from there. In the example using a software radio, the researchers were able to replay sniffed commands to the device after it had been activated by the programmer.

Which of the reports talked about a device being compromised without using a manufacturers programmer?

What pacemaker communicates via blue tooth? Last I checked they all used induction telemetry (which requires the telemetry wand to be within several inches of the device) or MICS band radio for distance telemetry. I think some Boston Scientific devices used 900MHz at one time, but how many of those are still in the wild?

The only instances of "hacking" a pacemaker (or ICD) have been when researchers used a programmer from the manufacturer to "hack" the device.

So it seems super unlikely you know a blue tooth zero day for a pacer.

It was working intermittently for me, but now it's not working for me at all.

How does Ghost generate pages for web crawlers? This has always been my hesitation about this sort of platform. Does it pre-render static pages? Or is everything rendered on the server in NodeJS?

I don’t think having three years of runway is realistic for most people. Based on that logic, unless you are independently wealthy or someone is willing to fund your “ideas”, you have no business trying to do a start up.

Most investors laugh at your “ideas” and only become interested once they see an opportunity to scale an already proven business. Without product/market fit and a repeatable sales process, all you have is an “idea” or a “hobby” or at best a “lifestyle business”.

I didn’t even quit my day job until we had our first real customer. Now we’ve been live for almost a year, full-time for 6 months, are on $1m+ run rate for 2014, been making payroll for two months, and continue to acquire new customers weekly. For us it was either strike lightning fast and get revenue or have the company die a quick (and humiliating) death.

Is it really reasonable to tell a potential entrepreneur that they need to have their finances planned for the next three years before attempting a start-up? I don’t think so.

One of the things I'm most excited about in Python is the new asyncio that Guido was talking about. I hoping that with an IOLoop in the standard library and built in Futures, that many of the synchronous network libraries available today will be able to present a synchronous mode and an asynchronous mode. The big strength of NodeJS is the async ecosystem, but Python could catch up quickly if asyncio really takes off.

You're right that everyone shouldn't have to listen to the same thing. It's not like that. Sometimes we all want to hear something on the stereo but sometimes we use headphones.

The unofficial policy is that if a programmer has headphones on you are not allowed to interrupt them.

thanks!

Ha, this was one of my prior "failures" but being an introvert is not a "failure" per se. Shortlisted was designed to consume any information an organization had about an employee plus a 1 to 10 rating about the value of each employee to the organization.

The algorithm would then perform a step-wise regression on all the data and "distil" it down to a model of attributes that correlate with performance to that specific business, not in general. So being an introvert might be great for some business cases but may not correlate well with success in every case.

After the model was built, the second step in Shortlisted is to take another huge chunk of data and look for new employees that had attributes that correlate well with success for the business.

So a typical use case might be your company hires 10 engineers out of college per year. Out of those ten you can rank them in approximately highest to lowest in terms of value to the company. Shortlisted takes everything you know about those 10 (plus any from previous years, it really takes about 30 data points to produce meaningful results) and searches the University for more people like the most valuable employees and tries to avoid people like the least valuable.

Our goal was to help job seekers avoid situations that not going to be a good fit, and help employers find new hires that had a high likely hood of success.

Thanks for the feedback. The site was designed using a high dpi display and sometimes I am surprised at how different a font can look on another display. If you don't mind me asking what sort of device are you reading it on? I'd like to see if I can make it look good on everything.

The businesses are not comparable per se, but the emotions that the operators feel might be.

I enjoyed reading this article and I think the choice about how healthcare should be delivered in the U.S. boils down to how we as a society want to spend our (limited) resources. Part of the reason that we spend more in the U.S. than in the E.U. is because in many cases we go to greater lengths to extend someone's life.

I'm not sure that culturally people are willing to accept the idea that we aren't going to do "everything we can" for someone because it isn't worth it to society (the payer). In the case described here, we might have implanted an electronic device to resynchronize the patient's heart and prevent the CHF from trashing the rest of his organs for a few more months (or years) at the cost of $200k.

Are we at a place where people in the U.S. will accept not doing that that?

I think that a single payer with a base level of free care is the right thing for society to do, but the possibility of making private insurance illegal (as it is in some places and some groups in the U.S. are advocating for) is terrifying to me.

The affordable care act basically ensures that we will arrive at a single payer system sooner or later, but how do we change our culture to be more accepting of our own mortality and the limitations placed on extreme measures to extend life?