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Iphone lock out
i have an iphone 3gs that i just got a couple of days ago. all of a sudden when i was in an app it said an admin has locked all applications. not i cant get into any of my apps or make a call. can someone please help me. my email is slumkat@aol.com
It seems to be a bunch of submissions are effected. The page past the picture I took now has 3 of the double submissions. I just added a second screen shot.
No vesting schedules, so that makes it all the more hairy from a founder leaving stand-point. At the time we started working with him he was a responsible individual who knew what he was doing. It is only recently that these issues have popped up.
As a seller, I am turned off to the point of exclusion. I'd rather landfill my goods than go through the market process (i.e. ebay) and me'be get some cash. And I'm lucky enough not to be desperate.

I don't think I need a complete replacement of all functions to be engaged to sell. I just need the essentials.

I'm a seller. Is it really necessary to be better in "all areas" to beat the incumbent?
Well, the corporation was started 2 years ago. At the time it was a completely different situation. That is kind of the dilemma.
That's weird since I tell the YouTube API to only return embedable videos. I'll look into it.

EDIT: I'm not getting that error. Is it still happening?
Not for me they ain't.
I haven't experienced college-level textbooks to be particularly full of clutter, but K-12 textbooks were full of useless cruft.

(not that children in kindergarten have textbooks)
Oops, I think we're talking past each other, or maybe I was projecting my own ideas on the article too much. I agree with you completely - actually, I can't think of any profession where video lectures alone would get you a real understanding of the material (maybe accounting?). Even when I studied abstract math, I learned a lot more in study groups and office hours than I did during lecture.

My point isn't that a good set of lecture videos will be world-changing (we've had broadcast video for awhile now). My point is that that the learning all of these subjects can have a strong web component to augment the process (and "web" doesn't necessarily mean video). Maybe when I put it that way, it sounds almost obvious. A stronger statement: whatever form web-augmented learning takes in the next century will improve learning so drastically we'll barely recognize it.
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In reality I should look this up, but I'm guessing Berkeley. They are a public Uni, and if you look on iTunes U they have an impressive collection.
That one's awesome. Runs smoothly too, which is always a plus :)
Andres Lagar-Cavilla
It is fairly small (sub $1000), but large compared to our income over the past 6 months. We are trying to slowly grow, gain more capital to do more ambitious projects without involving VC's in an attempt to keep the corporation for us. I think the anger issue is definitely something that is getting to me, AND the other founders.

We are definitely trying to cancel the corporate card, however Wells Fargo is giving us the run-around.

The other founders are unhappy with the situation and are on new territory as well, so we are all unsure as to how to proceed. No, we are all pretty much together that something has to be done, we cut him slack when we noticed it and talked to him about it, now it has become an issue of how is the corporation to survive if frivolous spending becomes the norm?

Am I overreacting, possibly, but if that is the case we (as in the other founders) are all over-reacting.

Yes, we are trying to get the issue resolved as soon as possible, however I know HN is an extremely smart group of individuals and advice is always wanted from people that may have gone through something like this before.
It's actually not an iframe, or a frame at all. The site uses no frames, except for the facebook stuff. I've actually gone through multiple designs and have tried the player on top of the site and on the bottom.

I've actually never tested it with small screens so thanks for bringing that up.
try http://superuser.com/
I really don't want to have to do this ...
i've realized my math was wrong and removed my comment :(

i hate this problem
Digitool is long dead in case you have missed that.
Found a good article discussing this very topic

http://www.ripten.com/2010/05/28/sports-antitrust-law-profes...
Terry Childs, 'Rogue Techie,' Sentenced to Four Years
Terry Childs, the "rogue techie" who refused to disclose the passwords to a crucial city networking system for the better part of two weeks, has been sentenced to four years in state prison. He also may be stuck with up to $1.485 million in restitution payments.
I think you meant forward-ported Dom0 patches. Lenny already supported DomU operation without modification.
But podcasts aren't that different of a medium from radio, or mailing out tapes, for that matter. The web is different.
Can anyone else verify that this is happening? Starts at post 119 on the popular stories list.
Bill Gates probably wants you to do labs with the Kinect and get automatically graded.
> FreeBSD is a cohesive whole rather than a "distribution".

So far you're the second person in this thread to use that phrase. I saw it mentioned multiple times in another recent HN article's comments. I don't understand what it means. It seems to be said with an almost religious fervor, but I might just be misinterpreting it. What, specifically, does cohesive mean to you in practical real world terms? How do the BSD versions 'ls' or 'grep' or 'awk' benefit from being cohesively developed with the kernel?

I feel I'm missing something here and would love to be enlightened.
Yeah that's true and my Clojure code contained a hell lot of -> and ->> constructs. They're very useful.
Well, at least in his field of expertise. Different fields depend on education in different ways.

Really, what he was best at as I gather is summed up by this:

After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800, Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the creators of the new microcomputer, to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform. In reality, Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS's interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo, and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration, held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque, was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC
Yeah, isn't this the first one in the whole history of Hacker News?
No, Bayesian decision theory does not allow you to reason in that way.

Suppose the amounts in the envelopes are A and B. A Bayesian would say:

Prob(I have A) = 1/2 and Prob(I have B) = 1/2

The expected gain from switching is:

Prob(I have A)x(what I'd gain from switching = B-A) + Prob(I have B)x(what I'd gain from switching = A-B)

which is: 1/2 x (B-A) + 1/2 x (A-B) = 0
Someone mentioned that the "iframe must go" -- I thought it was fine. I'm on 1280x1024.

Besides that, here are my initial thoughts:

I didn't explore the site enough to figure out what it did, beyond find music on YouTube and play it. I understand it can track other people's iTunes and WinAmps, but I'm not really interested in that. I find listening to ShoutCast channels and Pandora adequate, and I'm not convinced this service could up the ante.

I was impressed by how quick it was, that the forward and back buttons worked, and the overall design was pleasing. Visually, it looks like your site can be a serious competitor in your space.

That's pretty much my unfiltered first impression. Hope it helped.
speaking as someone who has experience working for other people /and/ starting companies, I would argue that a lack of social skills is limiting in both.

In both cases, if you are primarily a technical person, yea, lacking social skills is a problem that will hold you back, but it's not the end of the world, or your career. It's certainly not as bad as, say, being of average intelligence, or lacking curiosity, or being lazy.

Running your own company gives you a lot more flexibility; if you know yourself well, you can use that flexibility to build a situation where your strengths help and your weaknesses don't matter so much...

But really, the computer industry was designed for mildly-autistic nerds who don't play well with others. by the standards of such things, I'm almost a friendly extrovert.
Yeah, I'm confused. What is it? I downloaded the iTunes app and it...doesn't do anything. Huh? Is it like a scrobbler?

Why should I use your interface when I have my music on my laptop?
Or the infinite amount of strings that sound just like his destiny but are, in fact, not it?
That is a retarded captcha. You have a 1 in 6 chance of randomly guessing the first picture right, and then a 1 in 6 chance of getting the second picture right.

So my automated script needs to perform an average of 36 attempts in order to break through the captcha. Whoever built that system doesn't understand captchas.
Possibly off-topic.

"However, a year ago the team shrunk by half and our agility was severely limited. I’m omitting the internal reasons for this, as they are the typical big-company middle-management issues every software developer has."

This is one of the things that can happen to you when you work at Microsoft. You can start thinking that the terrible work problems you face are both "typical big-company...issues" and problems that "every developer" has to face.

First, many of these issues, and especially their particular flavor, are not general to the business. Second, not every developer works for a big company. You have to get out and work elsewhere for a while to see this.

There's a minimsft.blogspot.com, but is there an equivalent for Apple? For Google? If so, are they as well known? Do they draw knowledgeable commenters from within the ranks of the host/target company?

There are many better places to work than Microsoft. The place seemed truly pathological to me.
Pity, he doesn't sound so enthused about the future.
The problem Apple have is that their name drives an enormous amount of web traffic. I could think of worse problems.
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Our Small Business and the Era of Yet Bigger Government
Honestly, when I started doing this I didn't even know Last.fm showed your play history. So I didn't know Last.fm already had some of the features. And before I started I had extremely limited exposure to Last.fm.

I tried their Mac client once and it was a horrible experience (it was a windowed app whereas Like.fm is a menulet in OS X).

I remember it being an additional layer on top of how you normally listen to music (hearting songs). Like.fm uses existing user interface to generate your top tracks (rate songs directly from iTunes + frequency of play).

But most importantly, none of my friends, or anyone I knew, uses Last.fm (and I believe 2 out of 300 of my facebook friends have the Like.fm app installed). So I figured there's space to make a way for non-music-enthusiasts to share music info with each other. That's why Like.fm is really passive. You just play songs from iTunes like you normally do, rate them like you normally do (if you do). Then on Like.fm I guess what your current top tracks are, and share your play history with other people.

Also Like.fm doesn't require you to play hundreds of songs to build up a robust profile. The top played list on your profile is meant to represent your recent top tracks. So you just have to play some of your current top songs and it should be accurate. Recommendations will be based on who you choose to follow, so it's not directly dependent on training the system with your playback data. However the one problem at the moment may be that there aren't enough users to follow.
> There's a minimsft.blogspot.com, but is there an equivalent for Apple? For Google? If so, are they as well known? Do they draw knowledgeable commenters from within the ranks of the host/target company?

Every corporation sucks in some way ... and if there isn't a minimsft equivalent for Google/Apple ... that's a point in Microsoft's favor.
Responding in reverse order:

- "Communicating online" is in its infancy. The way people communicate online now (facebook, twitter) is wholly different than 10 years ago, and will be wholly different 10 years from now.

- I agree that University admissions provide a useful filter, but one may emerge online, as well. Already, the people you meet on HN are not the people you'll meet on 4chan. I wonder what an HN clone would be like if membership were applied for and kept only as long as you maintained a certain comment point average.

- Agreed. A great deal of what Universities provide is a cultural submersion into a social class. This is hard, if not impossible, to replicate online. That said, it has nothing to do with learning. People can still learn online and go about indoctrinating in one social class or another in other ways.

- Social norms follow progress, not vice versa. Whatever Universities will be like in 1000 years won't be socially acceptable when it first appears.
Good point -- instance methods make it all a bit dirty. I usually use some meta trickery to turn toplevel methods, which can be mentally eq to defuns, into oo-chainable stuff. Well I suppose I just should clean this code and put an example on a blog.
right. my point was that gates is clearly /very good/ at something. I mean, from what I read, he's no slouch as a computer guy, either, I mean, how often are projects like that delivered on time? Sure, he made a dishonest claim about what he had, but when called on it, he delivered.
It wouldn’t work. Say you are looking for a recipe for apple pie. You will be able to find a infinite number of recipes for apple pie, which do you pick? Not only that, there will be an infinite number of recipes with the headline ”Recipe for Apple Pie” which are, in fact, not recipes for apple pie.

Still not convinced that mining Pi for usable data would be a bad idea? How about this: You will be able to find those recipes not only once, you will find them several times. As ASCII encoded bytes, as PDF document, as DOC document, as JPEG, as iPhone and Android app (different versions for every version of iOS and Android that there will ever be). And you don’t have to stop there, you can just continue on. Just think of the millions of versions of the recipes with a few typos.
True, but wasn't the CPL World Tour 250,000 dollar for first prize or even 500,000? Even that couldn't lift it to the next level.

Don't get me wrong, I love eSports (that's why I have created www.esportspress.com) but I'm just a bit sceptical about reports that pop up every now and then that announce that eSports will finally go mainstream.
I recommend the "Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries" book.

http://www.amazon.com/Framework-Design-Guidelines-Convention...
You're right, and accreditation is key for value perceived by the job market, and accredited colleges will try to increase online enrollment thanks to the inevitable collapse of the student loan bubble.

Physical enrollment in college now is way overpriced, and the market will soon correct that overpricing leaving colleges competing directly to enroll many more students with less cost overhead per student, which will lead to a vast proliferation of accredited online degree offerings.
That's cool. I actually missed it was a hack-a-thon app + open source! :P

Rolling in an SSH client would be teh bombz btw
I can't decide what would make a better thriller- decoding his actual destiny, or trying to figure out which one is the real destiny
Tachyon - a hypothetical subatomic particle that moves faster than light
Ah yes, this one can be solved that way; oops. My understanding of the literature is that variants are much more problematic, though, and require more complex restrictions on typical Bayesian probability frameworks to exorcise them.

This is one good review, with a proposed solution (from a Bayesian perspective): http://books.google.com/books?id=14_ykEOAZ6AC&pg=PA49
Yes, it's like Last.fm's audio scrobbler.

It's a lightweight daemon that just sends your current iTunes track to Like.fm.

Then you just play songs in iTunes like normal, and rate songs in iTunes, and then it will show your current track, history, and top tracks on your Like.fm profile. You can also add that profile as a tab in your Facebook profile (as pictured on the home page).

I really didn't expect the MVP to be so confusing. Can you help me find better way to explain it?
Probably not that big of a deal if they stop supporting IronRuby. What's the point anyhow? Ruby is most popular because of RoR and Microsoft already has an MVC framework that works just fine. There was some very limited effort to port ASP.NET MVC to IronRuby, but it looked dead in the water to me. Plus, I hear straight up Ruby has built-in bindings for Windows, so IronRuby isn't necessary for scripting either.
speaking as someone who has experience working for other people /and/ starting companies, I would argue that a lack of social skills is limiting in both.

That isn't my primary concern. I have a form of cystic fibrosis, which has a life expectancy in the mid-thirties. My 23 year old son has the same diagnosis. He has not been on antibiotics in over 12 years and has taken no medication for about 3 1/2 years. This was achieved by carefully arranging our lives, something you cannot do in a job. He also has other issues, like eyesight issues. I currently work for a large company and have been stuck in the same entry level job for nearly four years. Conditions at work are a problem for me due to my health and this means my performance at work is not that great and it shows. If my son has adequate control over his working conditions, he can be very productive. If he doesn't, he can't be. Most employers are not going to accommodate his needs. And I went through the intake process with a program for helping handicapped individuals get a job. Fortunately, I got a job on my own before they provided any of their so-called "assistance" or I likely would be in worse straits.

I am very good at explaining social things to my sons and helping them cope in that regard. They can do that piece of it. But they still need a high degree of control over their lives, something a regular job will not offer.
>But doctors mostly don't push for dietary and lifestyle changes. They are mostly in the business of selling pills and surgeries.

really? my doctor pretty regularly admonishes me to eat better and work out more. I think the problem is me... lifestyle changes are /hard/

I mean, maybe they need better tools for making those admonishments more effective, but they certainly recommend diet and lifestyle changes before breaking out the pills and scalpels.
Ah, perhaps we are talking past each other. I completely agree about the web being integral to the learning experience: from printing out course readings to working online exercises. I suppose where I'm coming from is speaking out against the idea that higher education is simply about learning facts and rote methods. To me it's ALSO about interaction and the group learning/creating dynamic, and that can't be parceled out through the web, and to that end I fundamentally disagree with Mr. Gates. But he's a world famous autodidact; I can see where he gets this impression.
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Your concern is somewhat valid although if someone is making 30 plus attempts to submit a form can we not assume it is a bot? We have made a configuration interface to allow users to increase the number of possible response photos if they are security paranoid.
Yeah I guess I understand. What niche does it fill? How is it different from Last.fm or Rdio? Or is it just latecomer?
Thanks. You got the gist of it. I can't really target the Pandora user until I get a viable auto play mechanism.

However if you listen to internet radio from WinAmp or iTunes, Like.fm can keep track of the history so if you want to play a song again you can do that from the site.
Why? If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. That is the favourite thing of the police, which is the executive, which encompasses the army.
> This is incorrect. Developers seek variances for various zoning restrictions all the time.

Variances are part of the zoning process.

> And doing so effects financing decisions because a project that requires variances may face substantial delays.

No one lends construction money before zoning is satisfied, regardless of how it's satisfied.

You seem to disagree, so how about an example of a lender providing construction money before there was good reason to believe that construction would be allowed.

Yes, lenders may think that some projects are more likely to be approved and the reasons for approval may be political, but that just means that lenders consider the outcome of political processes, not that they're making decisions for political reasons.

Absent something like CRA, lending decisions are based on predicted return on investment. Can the borrowers make the payments? The greater the risk, the higher the interest rate.
The social skills you need as a one-person company is much narrower set than what's needed when employed at a big political-minded company.

When you are a consultant you have only one boss: they guy that is able to sign the check. When you are employed, there can be multiple official and non-official bosses that you have to satisfy, plus all of the personal/social drama.
Cats or Dogs
That's a really good point. The teacher is the certifier. Heh, no conflict of interest there... This is how we end up with grade inflation.
Not sure about overall feature sets, but if Gantt charts are all you want, try out redmine (http://www.redmine.org/). It's an open-source issue-tracker that has Gantt charts out of the box.
Heard on the street?
Grenades have the disadvantage of having to be thrown, which means you need a guy standing close to a wall, which is why you don't want penetration.

FIBUA has the unfortunate tendency to produce a good number of casualties because of the requirement to get close. Anything that increases standoff range therefore, can reduce casualties.

Using something like this, you could "clear" a house one room at a time without actually setting foot in it. Use three or four in quick succession for each room. Even though you'd still need occupation via human to ultimately be victorious, the need to avoid the initial assault into prepared defenses will be a godsend.
Not when you have something really deadly, like cystic fibrosis. Most people with CF are on several thousand dollars a month worth of "maintenance drugs" -- ie when they "aren't sick" -- and take more when they have an exacerbation. They account for something like half of all pediatric lung transplants and a third of all adult lung transplants (edit: Those are probably US specific figures). Meanwhile, I am dismissed as crazy for saying that diet and lifestyle can make a really big difference.

The current state of the art advice for CF patients regarding diet is "high calorie, high fat, high salt". The medical establishment routinely pushes unhealthy foods at people with this condition because such foods have a high fat count and, therefore, a high calorie count. Healing my body has shrunk my appetite. I no longer need the extremely high calorie diet that is the norm for my condition. I get treated by the CF community like I made up my diagnosis and was never actually sick. The idea that you can have CF and get well is wholly alien and utterly rejected by most members of the CF community, as well as the medical establishment. Most research for treatment is for drug therapies, not diet and lifestyle. The idea is that since it is so deadly, the treatments need to be equally scary (much like chemo for cancer patients). I have found that is completely wrong and is, in fact, part of the problem.
hehe... great minds and whatnot.

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