skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buenos Aires has four major providers: Claro, Personal, Movistar, and Nextel.

I think the economics here might be a little different (aside from possible collusion between the operators) because such a large fraction of the population uses only SMS. If the providers have to put up new cell towers to provide SMS to an area, the economics are a little different.

Argentina in 2003 had just collapsed. Things cost three times as much here now, or more. On the plus side, that means the taxi drivers can afford electronics and other imports.
It's implied in the first sentence:

"...plans to spin off its personal-computer business, people with direct knowledge of the matter said."

And given Compaq's parent company is HP and is a personal computer manufacturer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq

But you're right that it doesn't explicitly say.
300 minutes wouldn't be enough for me, but:

$60 for 900 min
$30 for unl. data (lucky me)
$10 for 500 texts
$17 in taxes (NYC)

Verizon. Pretty much the same plan was slightly more expensive on AT&T.

Tether might still work, for now: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/08/verizon-blocking...
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Mark Jaquith has created an amazing tool that syncs WordPress via SVN every 30 minutes,
These are nice excuses managers give to rally workers to work overtime.
Worth a complete read - amazingly accurate assessment of what actually came to be.

Also insight into MSFTS current problems - Gates' genius mind was able to coordinate across many different biz divisions from consumer to enterprise.

Not many other candidates in the world with that bandwidth or visionary insight.
Very cool - love the way it's configurable, good job.
Florian, what's the device you are using?
My gut feeling is that if you rendered the different stages of the animation into multiple images using canvas and just toggled their visibility, you could get better performance.
What if you work in a construction site where they cannot afford helmets?

And what difference does it make to call it a cultural thing? People are still getting their heads injured.
Article doesn't mention a big audience that would be very interested in cheap book scanning: the print disabled. Blind and partially-sighted people are the most obvious members of this group but dyslexics and others who cannot read normal print would also benefit. Many books are of course already available through libraries for the blind but if you need less-popular or specialised texts you are out of luck.

With an aging population it seems this is a very natural niche.

Now if it were only OnePoundScan instead of OneDollarScan...
If Google and Apple weren't in a cold war perhaps they could work together and make an interoperable standard. Get RIM in on the mix and you have the big three bypassing SMS.
I would love to buy my groceries online and just have to pickup a box at the store, but I would properly spend a lot less then, since I would only buy what I was interested in.
I look at it a different way. I'm saving $35 per month over Sprint with my Virgin Mobile plan. The phone cost me about $140, so I essentially pay it off in 4 months savings on this plan. I could upgrade my phone every 4-6 months if I wanted to, at no extra cost from where I was with Sprint. Compare that to the 1-2 year upgrade cycle on a contract, assuming you're able to get a free phone with the contract renewal. If I did upgrade every 6 months, the old phone would still be new enough to fetch $50 on Craigslist, making it even more economical.

Just a different perspective. I'm not actually one to be particular about having the latest and greatest phone, and at most I will upgrade once every 18 months. Switching to Virgin Mobile was one of the steps I took while unemployed to cut down on bills. It's actually been the easiest and most effective way to reduce my monthly living expenses without much sacrifice.
...according to an unnamed Google employee that is no longer at the company.
iMessage is built into the Messages app. http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html#imessage
Courage is underrated in the tech industry.
This system seems ripe for exploitation. Banks 'clear' checks by granting the account holder access to the funds they expect to be available. A check can still be bounced or returned days or even weeks later in the case of fraud.

This is how a very common scam works. Receive a check written for more than you were expecting (usually for the sale of some goods or as prepayment for a service). Receive instructions to deposit the check and return the difference to them (with a healthy profit for your troubles). Weeks later, the check bounces and your account is debited the amount of the check, while the scammer has the cash you wired to them. Essentially, the scammer uses your good standing with the bank to cash a bad check.

Given the nature of this system, what's to stop someone from depositing a bad check, emailing the receipt, and receiving BTC after the funds are released but before the check actually clears (or rather, bounces)?
Ah, so this is why it takes LinkedIn forever to add new features.
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it's a teaser not a TL;DR; read the context.
This is more hilarous than expected

http://i.imgur.com/t9OuG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/PDqe5.jpg
That is because most of the C++ monents (at least for me) have resulted in code that cannot even compile and the WTFs have been the pages and pages of template error messages.
That's very succinct, witty, and more or less diametrically opposed to the point of the OP on StackOverflow. Did you read it? :-)

He's making the point that regular long hours are always a sign of bad management.

I'd tend to agree. Any business can be run in balance with a reasonable lifestyle. If you're working overtime very often on your own business, it's either because you're incompetent, or lazy, or greedy, or failing (see 'incompetent'). If you're working regular long hours on someone else's business, it's because they are incompetent/lazy/greedy.
HP spinning off PC business, Bloomberg reports
There are, of course, exceptions, but programming in industry is typically a design job. Your focus is on designing an infrastructure for the application that will allow it to be functional and maintainable, and survive massive refocusing of scope without determent to the prior two points. Things like compilers, HTTP proxies, and OS kernels are plugged into the infrastructure, not written as part of it.

Your concern, as an industry programmer, is not whether merge sort of bubble sort is the right algorithm for your problem; you will just hand that off to the built-in sort function. Your concern is whether or not MVC is the right design pattern for your application. Again, there are exceptions, but that is fairly typical of the average programming job.

So while you might pick up some design skills during your study in a CS degree, it is not the focus of the program. That is where the meme comes from.
Tracking tweets proves profitable for Derwent Capital
Yeah, I get crap using those numbers on estimates. I still don't redo math because people dislike them though.
I think the title of this post is too alarmist. Chrome makes it very easy to install or remove apps, unlike traditional desktop applications.

I recently released a Chrome Extension myself https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ifhpbfmklgecpflbnb..., and was surprised that Google requires a $5 payment from developers, supposedly to prevent malware and spam, even though most extensions are free. I suppose Google largely counts on ratings and comments to moderate content.
Process schmoces. Any time I work long hours it's a sign I want to work long hours. Sometimes you're hot and you just don't want to stop.
I've often entertained the idea of creating a piece of software to tend to certain things after my passing, beyond just sending out a batch of emails. It could reply to emails with canned responses for certain people, even a little AI to respond to questions. Sounds pretty narcissistic now that I think about it. Who really wants to be pestered with emails from dead people?
I was under the impression that the E3 had an attached dependent visa already: http://canberra.usembassy.gov/e3visa/dependents.html
I'm worried with _all_ email providers
For the uninitiated, strain types [1] and administration controls [2] can help ensure a satisfying experience. Alcohol, after a few drinks, always makes me stupid.

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Paper: The Akamai Network - 61,000 Servers, 1,000 Networks, 70 Countries
Do you have a policy for how users can _prove_ that they are who they're claiming to be ?
Can you handle having _too_many_ users under the terms of that policy ?
There is an opposite though. Legal projects don't really seem to have budgets like software projects do.

I know at my rates, if I work 14 hour days, my productivity shoots down, and I blow the face and upper body off the budget in no time.
I need to read more before I really understand, but what was the problem with something like distcc, ccache and CMake? The two downsides I see to the distcc/CMake approach is slow dependency resolution (looking at lots of files instead of just packages), and duplicate coping of files by distcc to remote machines.
There is an opposite though. Legal projects don't really seem to have budgets like software projects do.

I know at my rates, if I work 14 hour days, my productivity shoots down, and I blow the face and upper body off the budget in no time. I tell people this, but they still want it sometimes. But really, it's usually better to cut expectations and go at a measured pace all the time.
You can inspect it too
I am considering moving to Virgin because of the data option, but I have done exactly what you describe you want to do 3 years ago. I currently use Straight Talk, which is sold by Wal-Mart, run by Carlos Slim's telco (he's _the_ telco player in Mexico), which uses Verizon's towers. I pay $33 including tax for 1000min/ 1000sms (200MB of data, but it's ~useless CDMA 1.x).

edit: I don't know if you want VOIP opinions (there so many options), but I use flowroute and am quite happy with their performance/ pricing.
Now I am in the honors college of a fairly good public school, and I am surprised at how many of my fellow honors students smoke.

The only ones you notice are the ones who fit the stereotype. How would you even spot the rest? Thing is, the ones who fit the stereotype are already a group on their own, it just turns out that getting high fits their lazy style really, really well.
No blog, but if you have specific questions, you're welcome to email me - I just added my email address to my profile.

I understand the sentiment of retail being a turnoff because of the atoms vs bits issue. But something you may not realize is that there are tremendously difficult problems to solve in this space. You mention how "messy" it all is - and the problems associated with organizing and automating this mess are, in many ways, very enjoyable to solve with technology.
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Yahoo's Android-based phone in Japan next month.
To the people who say that it's about follower count after all,

Uh, think about that. Pick a different celebrity, like @neilhimself has 10 times the followers, and ask what would happen if he posted something like that. I will tell you: nothing. You know why? Because Morton's would have NO IDEA what he likes to order because he ISN'T a frequent customer. And do you really think they'd send a steak without anything to go with it?

That's why it's a customer service story.
Huh. I'm not sure that's a compliment...
Hmm, I don't have any of those (I get an email whenever someone's switch triggers, but just the username, and the emails have been deleted at that point), I suspect most are just tests, or the friends/relatives aren't too inclined to email me about it.

I do have a "success" story (used very very loosely due to the morbid nature), I'll write it up when the service is out of beta and link it here.
Step 1: give money to ExchB, "founded May 2011". Has been in business MORE THAN A MONTH, therefore is ULTRA-TRUSTWORTHY. The invisible hand of the market says so!

Step 2: ExchB gets hacked or gets "hacked", your money disappears

Step 3: profit!

Caution: the profit in step 3 may not be your own.
Although people today are far more wealthy as a result of astonishing increases in productivity that have led to much lower prices for goods. Consider how much you can buy at a dollar store for one hour's labour today.

Then there are the much harder to calculate ways in which you are better off such as new medicines and technologies (e.g. the internet [Hacker News]).
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Which is why I don't like the 9-5 nonsense either. Also programming isn't just done at the computer. When I am working on a problem, I am working on it at lunch, on the bus, on my cycle, sitting out side starring into space, etc. Left to my own devices I would "work" infront of my work pc 60 hours one week 5-10 the next 40 the next two. Being forced to be in the office a set time is no good for anyone in my position.
Not that I know of. But it's so simple to hook input to an eval in Perl (or any dynamic language for that matter), that I've always wrote it myself. It can also be implementation specific (preforking server, event-loop, dispatcher daemon...). I've used different approaches throughout the years:

- a controller action in Catalyst that listens at http://host/repl which evals the POST parameters. As a client, I use a simple admin-repl html page.

- in the main loop of a daemon script, a quick check for a row in a DB table or a special file in the server. When the server detects a new repl event, it evals the contents and writes the response back (either to the DB or to a file log).

- a 3 line AnyEvent::JSONRPC::Lite server that listens on a given local port for a string to eval. A matching JSONRPC client that calls that port with the repl string. I've used it to run scripts, and recently with a Corona-based Dancer app.

Maybe it could become a Plack::Middleware someday.
this is the old "you don't have anything to hide" mantra dressed up in more personal terms. people aren't perfect and they have the right to distrust their closest friends if they want to.
I made something similar a while back - http://peterbraden.github.com/maze.html

It generates a random maze and uses a few different algorithms to find a path through it. Refresh the page to get a new maze.
Would something similar make sense for say music cd's, dvd's etc? I for one would love to send someone my media collection, and have it ripped into lossless format and put on cloud. In order to get around piracy issues etc maybe the entire collection can be digitally signed by my public key...
Not exactly, but broadly yes. You have to go back to Ireland to trigger your H1B. (Also, and I think you aren't suggesting this, but never ever ever overstay your holiday visa, or you'll be banned from getting a US visa for 3-10 years).
New web stuff: decrease in computer sales
I was just thankfully let go from a startup that expected extra hours on top of running an open-plan office and coworkers who lived by the "who can interrupt the loudest?!" method of project management. 4-5 hour stretches were never once achieved during normal business hours in the 2.5 months I was there. A 2 hour stretch was a gift, but more often than not the quietude would be broken by one of a small group (3-4) loudest coworkers.
Extensions really can't do anything without specifying permissions explicitly in their manifest. Those permissions are then shown to the user when extensions are installed. I don't see the problem here.

And inserting links in a search results page is hardly the type of malware the title of this article implies.
Have some kinda cool HTML5 transition when you hit the next button. The site itself is just a cool site, so people expect nice looking animations. Instead of generating a random integer and passing it in as an 'id' in your php script, you should look into keeping everything static except the main box itself. To do this, you need to use JavaScript (preferably jQuery, also look into CoffeeScript) Keep the logo at the top and the 2 tiles at the bottom for social media the same. Don't make the site reload everytime you hit 'next'.

Design-wise, it's great. Very clean and simple, and the logo's cool.
I didn't know an official Google extension existed for this, until I scrolled further down the thread!
We don't, because your account might have been canceled at your death, so disabling your DMS account would be the last thing you wanted.
Never, never put your will into a safe-deposit box. That cannot be opened after you die until you have an executor. Which happens after the will is found.

Just make a couple copies, leave on in your desk, in your office, in your bedside table, with your lawyer. They are not secret documents, not something you have to lock up.
Apple, China Mobile In Talks To Bring The iPhone To Its 600m Users
also, making a simple iPhone / Android app is key.

Very few people browse using their computers for an app. Making an app with iAds is the best way to go about making any $
"Posing Apprenticeships as a significant alternative to higher education is delusional."

This is absolutely absurd and just shows pure ignorance of the economic realities beyond your grasp. Germany thrives off of apprenticeships. You can't find a job without having an apprenticeship under your belt in Germany. Students spend between 50% to 70% of their time at a company, while the rest is spent on traditional education. Apprenticeships are a vital source to Germany's economy. Dismissing it based on your pet theories is bordering on asinine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprenticeship#Germany
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The only proof we have is the email validation, but the service doesn't claim to actually be a will. It's more about emailing your friends or family one last time.

I don't understand the question about too many users, can you clarify?
Encryption is based on two principles: confusion and diffusion.

Confusion means that the process drastically changes data from the input to the output. For example, by translating the data through a non-linear table created from the key. We have lots of ways to reverse linear calculations (starting with high school algebra), so the more non-linear it is, the more analysis tools it breaks.

Diffusion means that changing a single character of the input will change many characters of the output. Done well, every part of the input affects every part of the output, making analysis much harder. No confusion process is perfect: it always lets through some patterns. Good diffusion scatters those patterns widely through the output, and and if there are several patterns making it through they scramble each other. This makes patterns vastly harder to spot, and vastly increases the amount of data to analyze to break the cipher.

AES has both excellent confusion and diffusion. Its confusion look up tables are very non-linear and good at destroying patterns. Its diffusion stage spreads every part of the input to every part of the output: changing one bit of input changes half the output bits on average. Both confusion and diffusion are repeated several times for each input to increase the amount of scrambling. The secret key is mixed in at every stage so that an attacker cannot precalculate what the cipher does.

None of this would happen if you used a simple one-stage scramble based on a key. Input patterns would flow straight through to the output. It might look random to the eye but analysis would find obvious patterns and the cipher could be broken.
It's a social experiment. After someone deposits a bad check and blogs about it, we'll call them nasty names, then it won't happen again.
Mormons use SEO to control their own image
How much are messages when you don't have a plan? How many do you get for the $20 the unlimited plan would cost you?
Whenever I'm presented with stuff like this (another similar situation is being asked to apply for a loyalty card at most any store), I think of it this way - the reason you have to ask me to do something is because it's a task that you want to make sure doesn't stand in the way of the rest of the transaction, meaning it's probably going to be something that's going to irritate me or something I won't want to do. Offering to bribe me a trifling sum in return means it's probably a serious pain in the ass, so of course I'm not going to do it.

When someone has their hard-earned money out and is about to pay, they are cautious. They have made sure that they have gathered exactly what it is they want to purchase. They know that virtually anything out of the cashier's mouth or anything appearing on the checkout page that isn't "thanks, come again!" is likely to be something that's going to take time to do, cost them money, cause them to lose some of their privacy, receive junk mail, spam their friends, etc.

He'd probably be better off simply putting a message on the "transaction completed" screen simply asking them if they could do whatever it is he wants them to do.
That's because you know how to use Blender, which most people don't. But the site is not for a situation when you have a specific design in mind, instead it is for when you want to explore the space of possible designs and see suggested designs that you might not think of on your own, such as this: http://endlessforms.com/o/372201/

But I also doubt I could produce all of these shapes in Blender. I would have no idea how to do these, for example:

http://endlessforms.com/o/103181/
http://endlessforms.com/o/82117/

Best,
Jeff
Nice post, but it makes no sense whatsoever.

Accounting is all about adding up the figures of the past, not prospects for the future.

In keeping with the analogy, who's to say that any of my cereal box customers will not leave me the next day? Are they tied in any way to me? Am I providing them with a service that is absolutely impossible to clone?
It's not like animating a gif doesn't use up CPU cycles.
What's Wrong With Patents? It's Obvious.
tl;dr - if you have 107522 followers on Twitter, you may get a restaurant deliver a free steak to the airport if you ask. Obviously in return for free PR. And, no, it has nothing to do with the customer service.
Groupon doesn't have a $10 million business without marketing. Groupon minus marketing is a $0 business. Groupon's measurement of their profitability "if we don't count all these expenses over here" is like a restaurant measuring profitability if you exclude staff salaries and food costs and rent. Wait, what?
IAmA guy who has helped develop VR/AR concepts for the last 20 years... AMA.
Low is high in this instance. Unless you were aware of that and saying her high count was a low ranking.
Not realizing what was meant by "spinner", I spent a few seconds waiting for the cool javascript demo to load before I realized.
The ability to go back would be nice, I got a bit click happy and accidentally missed something that looked cool at a first glance.
The document makes no mention of TN visas, no. TNs are significantly different from H1-Bs: they are not a dual-intent visa, they are a temporary work permit.
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I'm thinking the parent comment was still right. Why not say those things now? Its not 'interrupting everyone', its keeping in contact. Its important to do that now, especially if you haven't in a while.