skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is about "blaming the manufacturer" for the behavior of retailers. My anecdata is that they distributed their product to the gift shop of what is, overall, a kid and preteen museum. For adults, there is a King Tut exhibit and an IMAX theater, segregated from the rest. The main flow has animatronic dinosaurs, a bug house, a tide pool, a bunch of touchable exhibits. Kids come through on field trips. So this product is wrong for that retailer. There was probably no location in the store that would have kept it from being seen and wanted by kids.

Maybe the Buckyballs guys will say, "hey my hands were tied, I couldn't do that level of due diligence with every store I sell my product to." And the regulator will respond, "hey my hands were tied, I couldn't allow the product to be sold without that level of diligence."

That doesn't mean that regulator is somehow being unfair to Buckyballs. It means the laws of physics are being unfair to Buckyballs for not allowing them to create a cool sticky product without health risks to children.

Yes, there's a certain amount of proportion that needs to be taken. Yes, more kids die from drowning in backyard pools. But it's not unreasonable to ask that these products (like cigarettes, like prescription drugs) are more difficult for children to acquire at retail.
The obvious solution is to take a short position so then you profit when the market is manipulated downward.
My best advice is to find sites you like with similar functionality to what you need and try to find out who did those. Often companies will share who they used. If it is an internal person then he or she might be willing to share inspirations or point to freelancers with similar approaches.

Note that this isn't really about the "look." Good designers are flexible enough to work in many styles and are always trying to solve your unique problem. What you are trying to spot is quality and familiarity with the technologies you need.
I have actual work to do, work that I have been putting off too long, so let's try crowdsourcing this question on HN:

What should one try to do to protect against this?

Hypothetical actions to take:

Make sure that an email address that's doing double-duty as a login identifier for a given service is unique to the service and appears nowhere on the web or in outgoing mail.

Take particular care to have a "recovery" email address that is used for nothing else. Don't forward it to your regular mail, naturally.

Enable two-factor auth for email if you possibly can.

Have a credit card that is only used for online stuff.

Can one get a second address that is used only as a billing address? How would one do that? (A P.O. box? Expensive! A friend's house? I fear that credit card companies will leak this address like a sieve no matter what I do.)

EDIT: Startup wizards, here's a Minimum Viable Product: a credit card that can only be used for online accounts - which you must whitelist as you add them, via two-factor auth with your phone - and that features two billing addresses: The real one where the bills go and a dummy one that still validates. (Is that even legal under the CC rules? Sigh.)

The other suggestions in the article: Disable Find my Mac, reduce coupling between your accounts… was there something else?

Alas, nobody who isn't crazy paranoid is going to bother jumping through all these hoops. (I have tried to fight that paranoia but I think I'm losing that battle.)
Why build it on top of Stripe's API and lock you into a single (relatively expensive) vendor? You could build on top of something like SpreedlyCore and simultaneously support Stripe, PayPal Pro, and 30+ different payment gateways for hundreds of merchant account providers.
I've been more interested in what the bandwidth and packet loss rate are like.
Pup will graph all the metrics Datadog does - it already collects OS metrics, and comes with a set of plug-ins for connecting to common apps, and it wouldn't be very difficult to connect collectd to it.

Pup's feature-set is limited today, though, compared to graphite. You may also check-out the full http://datadoghq.com service for more. It's SaaS, and free up to 5 servers.
They'll probably keep the link relatively saturated, so it's easy to calculate the cost per unit data.
At least they don't pretend to be fair and balanced. It's a blog... if you want journalism, go back to the 70s.
I can't wait to see the higher definition videos. Also - there was quite a bit of dust being blown around there.

It will be interesting to see if there is any followup as to whether the SkyCrane maneuver is really required, or, whether in the future, we can land directly on rocket engines. Particularly with the Plutonium power supply - no need to be concerned about solar cells getting covered in dust.

Also - I seem to recall that there can be fairly significant dust storms on mars anyways - so it's not as though landing without rocket engines means that the Rover will be immune from getting struck by pebbles/rockets/dust.
Only you can define what your signature looks like. That is why you didn't have any issues. They don't check the signature against anything, if that's what you mean. See this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4345214

A few years ago, I was going through the process of changing my name. I was endorsing checks with my new name and depositing them into accounts with my old name -- a completely different name, and still no problems! I imagine this happens fairly often with newly-wed women.

Also, the signature on my current driver's license is a squiggly line.
Chase usually takes me < 24 hrs for VAR sheet...
We did that in an early node app, and it indeed turned in to a nightmare.
I want some of that golden money!
I usually thank each interviewer after the interview. They say thanks for coming in and I say thanks for spending the time on me. Basic courtesy.

But everywhere I've interviewed at has used a loop of interviewers, so a thank-you note doesn't really make much sense unless I spam their loop... and that still doesn't make any sense.
We need people to be able to regain access after losing a password, and we need only the right people to have that. This is a very hard problem.

One thing that we should have is a "cool down" period. If you want to regain access to, say, your GMail account, then it will take 48 hours of waiting, and phone calls and emails will go out to your contacts before that is completed, so the real person has a chance to protest.

I don't understand how the MacBook data was permanently lost. Even if the files were deleted in the OS, they are recoverable by disk utilities. Unless they were encrypted. Which just goes to say that when you think the solution to your problem is encryption, you don't understand your problem.
Isn't every single business in existence abut money and machismo? Well more-so the money part anyway. I think Apple removing the Youtube app is a great move, it was barely updated anyway and this means Google can put a Youtube app into the App Store and update it more often. I'm pretty certain the Youtube app has barely changed since it was included on the original iPhone in 2007.

What we have here is a media-skewing situation. I'm sure removing Google dependence on things like maps and Youtube is definitely a strategic one, but I highly doubt it's an aggressive anti-competitive one. Everyone always looks for an underlying siinister motive in a tech story, especially one that involves Apple, Google or Microsoft.
that's nice but you arn't US based because you live in japan so how did stripe let you in?
A lot of receipts contain the last 4 of the card used, it looks like most iCloud users are one garbage bag away from being compromised.
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It's useless in a fissile device, perfectly usable as a nuclear battery.
Waste Pu238 it's a bit dirty if it explodes because of all the other stuff that's mixed in with it - but it's only Florida.
He wasn't asking 'why sponsor the olympics', he was asking 'why take the exclusive angle'. Saying 'they've been doing it for years' does not answer that.
What kinds of things to you foresee running on such a beast?
"...but had to settle on the next best thing - spamming my email address with
hundreds of emails per minute in an attempt to cover up the emails sent by
my CC company."

Here's an article from just last month about this very technique: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/07/cyberheist-smokescreen-e...

Flooding someone's inbox (or telephone) is now available as a very affordable a la carte service.
"Hated", really?
That seems a little exaggerated... most merchant account providers get applications through underwriting in 2-3 business days. I'm not sure what "set up in exactly the right way" is since my merchant account applications only asked for the bank account # and routing #, and the first one I opened 8 years ago was tied to a consumer checking account. Opening a business bank account once I registered an LLC took less than 30 minutes at the local branch.
Good to hear. I always like seeing cool sites have a way to make money so I can have confidence they'll be around for a while. :)
the last rovers were solar powered, which is partly why they were dormant in the winter and at night.
That doesn't absolve Scripps of their responsibility to make sure that the content going into their system isn't owned by someone else.

If one were the sort to blackball others, the fact that an algorithm did it for them, on the basis of data that they fed in is essentially no excuse for me.
I don't have a source I can find easily, but I believe the older rovers had a 10Mbs uplink.
HOT OFF THE PRESS
that's not necessary at all...
I've been following Real-World Economics Review - http://rwer.wordpress.com/ - since they were the movement for a Post-Autistic Economics - http://www.paecon.net/PAEmovementindex1.htm - Steve Keen seems to crop up there quite a bit.
It would be great if startup founders offered potential FoundersFund investors the opportunity to Skype with them. Or to save time for founders, they could offer a Google hangout at a specific time for potential investors to drop by and ask some questions. Kind of like an office hours for potential investors.

Some 2.5k investors might up their investment to 5k, and some 10k investors might up their investment to 25k. I think that would be worth the time.
There's a prototype betavoltaic battery which can sustain 50 microwatts on 20 Curies of tritium [1] -- an efficiency of about 2%. Scaling linearly by 10^4, current technology could get 500 milliwatts on 200 kCi, or 20 grams, enough to charge a 5 watt-hour phone battery in 10 hours. The tritium cost would be on the order of $600,000 today [2]. If you could do this, the battery charge time would be a few decades.

[1] http://www.citylabs.net/index.php?option=com_content&vie...

[2] http://fire.pppl.gov/fesac_dp_ts_willms.pdf
Not significant. iirc, NASA's nuclear batteries are designed to survive re-entry and the resulting collision, meaning you aren't going to have to deal with vaporized plutonium in the air, and cleanup in the event of an accident wouldn't be too bad.

We are not talking about nuclear reactors here. Only basic nuclear decay. No criticality. The key thing is the packaging, to make sure you aren't contaminating an area when something goes wrong.
The Olympics as a sporting event is great (ok, if you discount women's badminton, fencing, boxing and a few others), but the Olympics as a business.. it's just sleazy.
Why do McDonald not want to serve french fries? People love fries. And it's a big profit center for McDonald anyway.
We don't actually disagree - I said just before that that we need to push it into the culture :) The way to do that is to make beautiful docs the norm, which is what I tried to add to Noir and Korma. And you're right, it is really hard, but we need to at least convince people to try. While not solved purely at a tooling level, I think tooling can go a long way here by creating interesting and obvious ways to document things in a more meaningful manner than simple API docs. If the cannonical tools for the language are all encouraging you to write long form docs, I have a hard time believing that everyone will simply ignore that.

In the end, however, it comes down to us; the people using the language and writing the libraries now to do exactly this. It's why I spent so long writing stuff for Noir and it's something we as a community that already exists need to do better.
It does seem like there was a lot of dust kicking around. Was there anything said yet about if that was more or less dust than they expected? Maybe they don't even know how much dust is on the rover yet?
Aliases typically only apply to interactive usage. From 'man bash':

Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive,
unless the expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt (see
the description of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below).
Is there anything Excel can't do? No. ;)
A couple of people from the JPL team talked about why they used the sky crane rather than other methods and they mentioned that the amount of dust caused by using rockets all the way down would cause issues for the rover. So it seems like some dust is ok but too much would cause enough problems that the sky crane is worth it.
We (userfox.com) rely on mailgun.com for email delivery since it is a 'distraction' from our core: helping companies send interesting and relevant messages to their customers.
I know how you feel, I started when I was fourteen and even I felt like I was behind. It kind of sucks that so much attention is given to those people who happened to discover programming at a younger age. They'll make some little app using Lua or game maker or something and the <a href="http://www.appolicious.com/tech/articles/4829-young-game-dev... will be all over them.</a> It's almost like developer's above the age of sixteen don't exist unless you invent the next Facebook or Digg.
I think they meant that no one except for McDonald's was allowed to serve french fries (or anything similar to a french fry).
Can we please get the entire internet to agree to stop using email addresses as usernames. It's not a user, its an email address!
Not a solution, but I have a feeling Apple is going to be tightening their policy very soon. This story has gotten a lot of attention.
If you're trying to remote-wipe your computer so that a thief doesn't access your sensitive data, wouldn't you want the data to be lost permanently?
run your own server.
I assume the remote wipe zeros out the data a few times, otherwise the feature is somewhat useless.
I actually offered to do exactly this (I'm a Sponsorfied founder), and suggested doing it much like YC office hours (small 10 - 15 minute slots) but via Skype or Google Hangouts. Throughout the day I could easily do a few of these, and I'm always interested in new feedback and practice pitching.
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Instagram should have done the colour corrected version with a filter. PR opportunity: MISSED.
I work retail, and we're forced to charge slightly different rates to credit card users (store policy, I don't agree with it!). However most new debit cards in New Zealand these days are Visa ones, which confuse the hell out of me. Some banks don't put "debit" on the card and our machine will show "ASB Visa" for others.
You’re absolutely right, mate. In fact I am (was?) in a very similar situation. I’ve been (relatively) in the tech world for quite some time, but only really began going at programming about a year and a half ago.

Last week I landed my first real software development position, one of many I was accepted for, all really awesome startups.

I also have friends who have been programming game engines for six years and are working at Pop-Eyes. Confidence is the largest hurdle to overcome, in my opinion. One day it just suddenly clicked for me, that I actually COULD do this professionally instead of just working on hobby side projects.

As long as you have passion and confidence, you’ll be fine ^^.

Of course I realize there are still mountains of experience I need and so many devs out there- just don't get stuck in that mentality. Use it to power your thirst for more, and not waddle behind.
If you ever reach the point that your account is so hard to recover that it requires human customer service intervention, the recovery process needs to be tedious and thorough.

"Okay, I'll need a notarized copy of a photo ID and once we have that, we'll give you a call to the number we have on file to confirm the change."

It's not perfect, but it would require an extremely dedicated and targeted attack to bypass, as opposed to "Hi, I'm your pizza delivery guy. I took a look at the receipt before I delivered your pie, and now I know the last 4 on your CC, your billing address, and your name. Let's go iCloud fishing!"
I wonder how much more weight/space not having large solar panels gives them for scientific equipment. I assume it's a not-insignificant difference.
I really like Mercurial, but even with it I've had some trouble getting the other developers I work with to really understand it. I could not imagine trying to show them Git. I think those who have mastered Git are blinding by how Smart and wizard-like they feel.

I also think its worth pointing out that many of the people here complaining about Git (including the OP), use it very frequently. These are the people who have bothered to invest the time in learning the tool and hate it anyway.
Looks like a great couple of sites. Bookmarked.

Two of my favorite quotes by Keen from his presentations are:

"The one thing Neoclassical economists don't understand is Neoclassical economics."

And

"The Marxist economists hate me even more than the Neoclassicals, which is quite an achievement."
Great read thanks.
How is this a 'productivity' tool? :P
This is so timely and poignant its almost as though it was written just for me!
There was a company that applied to YC that wanted to do the "Google Docs for Statistics" but was rejected. They wrote about it in a blog post but I can't find it. They ended up not launching.

It will be worth it to connect with these people to see if there is anything that can be learned from them.
You didn't already hate Visa? I hate Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, the banks, insurance companies, the stock markets, real estate companies, mortgage brokers, you know, pretty much everything to do with finance. How could your opinion of a finance institution get any lower?
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My dad is an elevator mechanic and just recently switched from Schindler to Thyssen Krupp. It's always boring to go see him at work now - all the new buildings as well as the modernized old buildings are almost exclusively switched over to digital systems. The old systems are incredibly interesting - huge cabinets full of relays! The smell of ozone and the sound of thousands of relays clicking in consortium is really enjoyable to see. Imagine the relay computer videos that come across here on occasion, but put in ten large cabinets of the relays and you get an idea of the sound.

Of course, touch the relay without a relay pick and you'll get a 120v shock :)

The stuff put together in the 80's is a combo of relay logic and old school processors, where you get to load the program in using paper tape!
the weakness with 2-factor auth is that almost all of us with a smartphone use that phone for email. And that phone is the same one google sends the sms to...
I have Master, Visa, AE, and Discovery, just to cover all basis. And the decision to use which one is purely based on the rebate economic. The 2% rebate Master got used the most, while the 3% gas rebate on AE or Discovery got used when filling gas. Only when all else failed I would use the 1% rebate Visa. So the "marketing" campaign by Visa in Olympics have 0 effect on me to use Visa in the future.
Hi Patrick,

I have actually experienced with my own rates over the course of a year, and found that there is an upper limit where clients don't call back after the first project because it is too expensive.

I think the nature of the work you do is as important as your public credibility when it comes to rates.

For example, if a lead comes from someone recommending me, I can easily charge more.
If NASA is putting info up freely, couldn't Scripps just incorporate that into its media regardless?
Honestly, the credit cards are the easiest part. I'd much rather someone get my credit card number than my email account.
I know (quite a few) developers who likes to make games (so i assume making games is something that good developers find interesting and fun).

There is money in social games (as far as the PHB can see from zynga). Amazon has an amazing cloud platform that these games can execute from.

I totally understand the move.
I think the best analogy for that concept would be a change of basis: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_of_basis)

Basically some problems are made trivially easy, without having to change the problem definition by changing the underlying representation of the problem.
I actually shipped _a lot_, so you think this can play an important part in the process?
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Give your parent's email as your recovery email address. If you need to reset, you can call them and talk them through clicking the link and resetting the password.

The bad guys then have to crack your parents email account too, and being older they will be less likely to have daisy-chained Google, Apple and Amazon accounts.
> that the content going into their system

I thought it was a mistaken identification? I.e. it was youtube's fault, not Scripps.
I'm fine with learning new things. I do use git on a number of projects: I just don't think it helps me do my job better.

The job of a SCM, in my opinion, is to be as invisible as possible. Record my commits, and then stay out of the way of what I'm really here to do: write code, architect systems, engineer products.

Futzing around with an overly complex revision control system doesn't help me do a better job.

This is also why I switched from Linux & BSD desktops to Max OS X. I can still write an XFree86 config file by hand, and the fact that I spent time and effort learning this is mind bogglingly awful.
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I have gotten work like this, but it's not as steady as I would like. So I wouldn't use this as a "reliable" channel for new work.
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Thnx Tom!