skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Our teams continue to work around the clock to bring BBM to Android and iPhone, but only when it’s ready and we know it will live up to your expectations of BBM.

No rush, guys. The good news is it already lives up to my current expectation of BlackBerry - late to the game.
I wonder if I could get office workers to shift rubble for me in the evenings and get them to pay for the privilege as a fitness craze. I have never really understood paying to lift things, you might as well do an evening shift doing order picking at a warehouse.
There is a hidden scrollbar there for me. This could go on multiple lines, too.
Pandora Radio vs. iTunes Radio: Who Will Come Out On Top?
If you showed someone how fucked up Scientology is, and they came back with, "well, my experiences with it have been totally different - your local church must be bad. You should have done better research before joining it!" then yeah, that would be complete cult-like mentality.
For invoices I use http://tradeshift.com, but I'm not sure they handle quotes.
5 skills every small business owner should master
Actually, if the corporate farmers grew the same crops in the field year after year, the land would eventually not be arable. This payment allows for the land to recover from the disastrous methods the corporate farmers use.
Apple blocks unauthorized Lightning cables with iOS 7
Not to downplay the good work he's doing, but both of those things (selling expired food and giving it away) are both pretty common. There are discount stores who specialize in expired food.
Oh Youtube, where did you go so wrong …
I had a crazy friend who ate for years out of Trader Joe's
garbage cans. One day a cops were called. After, that
he still went back, but a lock was put on the garbage.
Considering bitpay is only charging .99% fee (or no fee to be paid out in coins) you could easily add it to whatever you're doing especially since they have no monthly minimums or other costs, or just roll your own solution easily.

Also, why is there no concrete information on their site (bitwall) on what fees they charge forcing you to contact sales. Arrgh
If I were a 61 year old billionaire academic with modest needs, I'd spend half my money to fund fundamental scientific research -- physics, biology, medicine; all the big ones. If this guy keeps investing his money without spending it, he's going to die a billionaires and his kids are going to go crazy with it.
One other reason people aren't making sales is they aren't considering what people buy when deciding what to build. I don't mean this just in a big sense, I mean this in a very small, day to day sense, week to week sense.

I like to think of each product feature as a "marketing event". Before you add a feature or do a release, you design things around how you are going to sell it, how people will use it, and what the messaging might be for it. Then, when you launch the feature, you email your users, blog about it, drop press releases, go on podcasts, tweet the news, post to Facebook, and in general get the word out.

This might seem basic to some people, but I'm continually surprised by just how very little this is done by most companies or products. It is rare to see a company that nails the basic concept of "do things and tell people".

Github seems consistently good about this. Their pattern is launch a feature, blog about it, tweet about it, and their passionate users probably post it to social media or write about it on their blogs.

Now, imagine if Github shipped the same features, but never blogged about them. How much exposure would they miss out on?
Indeed so. I once worked on a digital delivery system for broadcast radio, able to perform as anything from virtual cart heads through to (sadly) completely automating it, switching between local playlists and sat feeds as required.

It ran under QNX/Photon. It never, ever crashed; QNX's reputation for reliability is well earned.
They also do a lot of hiring of interns from universities. Namely the one I go to, and unfortunately I know some of them and they are terrible engineers. I don't know how much that could hurt the company, but it has to cost them something. Even though they get tax breaks for those interns.
It's not really "expired" food. The sell-by date is just an indicator of when the item begins to go slightly stale. In the case of foodstuffs like fruit and milk, there are expiry dates and it's best NOT to eat past that expiry date.
Whenever I hear these stories I always wonder, why California. Why not Kansas, Vermont or Arizona? What makes California, especially SF a target? Presumably if Nevada wanted to wipe the traces of their scheme better they would just pick random locations every time.
w3fools.com had, at one point in time, a long list of "awful" and "wrong" parts:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110117085131/http://w3fools.com...
I agree with your opinion of law clerks as generally competent people, which probably extends somewhat to technology with the younger set.

That said, I know a lot of young, competent engineers and scientists who know next to nothing about the workings of computers and networks. They could figure out a lot if they had the time to put into it (I've seen a couple switch into development successfully), but usually they don't and their knowledge is of the surface-level stuff. That could still help with gut checks about what's reasonable behavior online for a casual user, but it's far from the nuanced understanding necessary to understand the ramifications of and make calls about things like the various applications of the CFAA in cases involving more advanced users.

Most people are not curious about technology and generally don't have a good understanding other people's curiosity about the subject. Should they be the ones to judge whether someone was just playing around or trying to attack something? Or should it be people with that curiosity who have had experience in playing around with security?

I would say that programmers' interpretation of the law via intent and current context in tech cases is frequently more consistent with what a just society needs than most judges' attempts at maintaining consistency with past rulings until a higher circuit corrects the precedent. I wouldn't dismiss the whole class as overenthusiastic amateurs.

I may just not be seeing the value in the judges' attempts at finding consistency, though, and I'm curious as to why they strive so hard for it versus trying to find the correct interpretation. My understanding is that that's just an attribute of the common law system. If someone could tell me why that's valuable (perhaps for consistency of enforcement/predictability of outcomes?), that'd be great. Sorry for the tangent, but it's something I'm curious about.
LinkedIn is the primary reason I'm cautious to link my different services to something external (facebook, twitter, etc.). Even those I'm a bit more lax on compared to my email.

Nothing, but me and my devices, should ever have a reason to access my email. If someone or something is trying to access my email, even with explicit permission, there's no way they can be up to anything good.

The activities that originate from LinkedIn touching your email account is definitely sketchy at best, and definitely spam. There doesn't seem to be a good way to stop unwanted emails going to a single address.

Hell, I've found that even getting them to stop sending you emails regarding your account / groups you joined doesn't always work. Speaking to their support department ends in a response with something like "our engineers are aware" with no change in behavior.

Half of me wants to just get rid of LinkedIn, the other half of me likes seeing old acquaintances getting promotions/moving on to greener pastures.

===

Dear LinkedIn,

Please stop being scummy...we'd all appreciate it.

Cheers!

-Everyone from the Internet
In this case, the suspension is some with salt water, which would provide very little support.
>>Hogwash. Each person is responsible for their own actions. Yes, competition might help people push themselves, but that shouldn't turn you into a mindless machine that will self destruct just to get the win. If it does, then you have no one to blame but yourself.

Bullshit. A Crossfit trainer telling you to do high-rep barbell deadlifts is the equivalent of a doctor prescribing you ten times the dose of a drug you need. What happens when you are hospitalized? Is it your fault because "each person is responsible for their actions"?
Huh? None of that says anything about whether he has a point or not.
Good point. I've been mulling the founder route. It is annoying that my reason for founding a company was that I was unhappy in an academic job rather than having an idea burning in my soul.
Yea--me too.
How micro are we talking about here? The default transaction fee is 0.0001 BTC per kilobyte, or about 1 cent, and it's usually the amount you need to pay. Hardly the expensive transaction. Yes, handing someone some cash is cheaper, but the fees, at least as they are now, is nothing to complain about.
It does not have to be actual kids picking on another child, but the child can feel excluded. When I grew up my mom chronically destroyed the TVs we had because of content she didn't approve of. Sometimes we would be without a TV for years. Kids reactions to me not seeing a show because I didn't have a TV just made me feel like more of an outsider.
Wow, such hubris. And negativity. Geez. With, apparently, nothing to show yet. But big plans to be #1.

Though I appreciate the list of currently available resources and have saved the link for that reason.
thanks for adding "the bigger picture" into the mix.
"Zero Hours" - working in 2023 London
This sort of argument is what the article complains about. Yes there are easy protections that prevent very rich people from losing money. (The $100k limit simply causes them to open a lot of accounts. Which is why you have mint.com to keep track of it all, I guess. But any rich person will have 4-5 $99999 balance accounts, and have 4-5 of them in multiple countries (US, EU, Switzerland, Dubai, Australia for example), and they know why. There's firms that will arrange it for you).

Suppose you're poor. You do not have the money to support yourself 2 months. You call the helpdesk for cox, they come and repair your cable modem, but somehow they "blame" the problem on you, and that's $250 for riding out thank you very much.

Now let's assess what happens in 3 situations :
1) you have a bank account
- the money's gone the moment they say you spent it with them
- you have no recourse
- you call them
- they've got everything they want, you have zero negotiating position
- even if you achieve the impossible and talk them out of it, the money's gone for 2+ months
2) you pay by credit card (obviously only available to "the rich", granted, not quite "the 1%", but I'm pretty sure >20% of Americans effectively don't have access to a credit card)
- the money's gone the moment they charge you
- you call them up, ask what's going on, they don't cooperate
- you threaten them with a chargeback
- they will suddenly become very cooperative
3) you don't have a back account (with positive balance)
- their payment request bounces
- they have no recourse
- they call you and ask if there's anything they can do
- they're pretty cooperative

The "mystery" of why poor people, students, ... go with option 3 is not much of a mystery to me. It's because option 2 is not available to them.

The same goes for being a customer of any service firm. Internet, telephone, car insurance, ...
This is something we've been thinking a lot about while working on the Khan Academy programming curriculum. We want the lessons and challenges to be fun, and to actually product something that the user can identify with (very often, an animal or food :-), but we also don't want to sacrifice teaching the concept in a clear way. For example, today we debated how to do our intro to loops tutorial, and we found that the clearest example wasn't nearly as fun as other possible ones - but it was the most clear, and for something like loops, we want to be really really clear when the student is first wrapping their head around it. We've written up some of our teaching thoughts here, but I'm sure we'll keep evolving them as we learn from our learners: http://cs-blog.khanacademy.org/2013/08/our-design-guidelines...

Thanks for sharing your experience!
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Veterans to CrossFit are not immune, nor are good movers/fit athletes in general.

I've been doing CrossFit for six years, this past December during a 'holiday' WOD I got nailed by acute rhabdo in my right arm.

It took many months of rehab and different body work techniques to get things back to normal. Very, very, painful process.

Honestly, the workout wasn't out of whack with a tougher than normal day. It was for me, however something that put me out of commission for five months.

Lesson learned.
There's nothing crazy about that. I've known lots of people who dumpster-dive. A college roommate of mine lived on nothing but free and dumpster-dived food for several months when he was broke. Even when he had money he liked to do it and would bring back vegetables to share. One time we feasted for weeks on a huge grocery bag full of (normally expensive) avocados, eating around the bad spots... at least ¾ of it was good.

If you think it's crazy, I'm gonna guess your broke college-kid days (if you had them) are long behind you. :)
As a resident of SF, this makes me furious. I hope our city attorney just demolishes them in court. WTF Nevada.
I'm a huge fan of http://www.freeagent.com/
This is somewhat off-topic, but has anyone felt like they are "typecast" into a certain industry or job position by their LinkedIn profiles?

What if you don't want to stay with the same industry for the rest of your life? All your contacts probably already endorsed you for your skills in a that industry. It seems like a situation that increases friction in trying to move between fields, industries, and job positions.

Should you delete your profile? Would it seem weird to potential employers/business relationships that you are missing a LinkedIn profile?

I think this will become a more visible problem in the near future.
My guess is that these 1.1. million active users found a problem in the service that the beta tester could not. Probably related to its integration with Android / iPhone.

If anything BB should be thankful to the leaker. It would be a lot worse if the issue was found when it's used by millions of legitimate user
"Ideating"? Really? Yes I know it's not a new word, but really?
I like the internship idea. However, I should add that these should be non-research. I did internships at industry labs - this seemed like a good idea at the time since I was prepping for a career in research. Now that I want to get out of it, those research internships aren't worth as much as the Google internships.

As a someone who is 5 years out of his PhD (working at a research lab), I'm a bit perplexed at how I can make up for the lost years of industry experience. The best idea I have now is to start my own company.
I can understand why they put the lock though. If he eats something and goes ill and then hires a lawyer, the lawyer would be in the position to claim millions in damages from TJ because they did not ensure hazardous waste products weren't "laying around on the street instead of being properly stored". Given that lawsuits with much less merit succeeded, who needs those problems?
Sadly, I think whoever cooked up this scheme will never be uncovered, and the tax payers of Nevada will pay the bill.
I've always wondered where the products go when they are past their expiry date. They don't suddenly go bad at the second expiry date passes... Are they just thrown out? Sold to discount stores? Sent to local homeless shelter? It it legal to give expired products to anyone? Does it expose one to liability?
Blackberry pulls BBM app from iOS App Store
Books or Netflix?
The weather is a factor. It doesn't rain much in large parts of Cali. In those same areas, you are generally at low risk of freezing to death and in SF and a few other areas you also won'tbe dealing with excess heat. SF in particular has very homeless friendly policies. I took a class at SFSU years ago on Homelessness and Public Policy. That detail was highlighted during the class.
And then there was the wonderfully.. "hand crafted" touch, shall we say. Order your keys to develop for them, and:

==
Your BlackBerry JDE Signature key order has been received and will be processed shortly. It could take up to 10 business days to fully process your order. You will receive a confirmation email prior to your signature keys being issued. If you require further assistance with regards to your order, please email devsupport@rim.com, providing your Company Name, Name, Email Address and Date/Time of your order.
==

Yes, that's 10 business days to get underway.

(At the time - 2011 - I recall their app store could only be browsed under Windows, thanks to a fundamental reliance on DirectX components. This struck me as a little odd)
not quite sure i understand the problem, but here's one Mathematica approach:

m = {{39, 90, 75, 88, 15, 57},
{9, 2, 58, 68, 48, 64},
{29, 55, 16, 67, 8, 91},
{40, 54, 66, 22, 32, 25},
{49, 1, 17, 41, 14, 30},
{44, 63, 10, 83, 46, 3}};

Select[
Extract[m, #] & /@ Transpose[{Range[6], #}] & /@ Tuples[Range[6], 6],
Total[#] == 419 &]
Not sure it qualifies, but hyperloop comes to mind
The weather is more stable and less seasonal than in most other states. And California has richer cities and municipalities than most other states, so maybe there's a belief that the homeless will at least have a better shot at getting care here.

The cynical/realist motive: California is a really big state -- so it's an easy dumping ground for people to get tossed into and disappear.
Probably a stupid question, but could a malicious party use Dual_EC as a primitive to construct broken but fast crypto? ( I am thinking about something like seeding a fast CSRNG with a Dual_EC random number and thereby breaking the fast CSRNG.)
Video games? Porn?
Yeah, I didn't even realize that until you said it. Whenever I see an iThing, I assume it's something Apple. The power of branding.
How does it harm your future? It's nice to have someone who has multiple skills.
I wish standards were higher; I've had that wish since starting a gym. Most gyms are good, most trainers mean well, but there are a few bad apples and people who are unaware.

I'm not turning a blind eye. There is a different between being a realist and trying to garner attention by bashing a trend that you don't understand.
And beyond the fee; I would love Gatekeeper if I could manage the certificates myself! I don't want the choice to be "Apple's feudal system" or "wild fucking west" exclusively.

IMO they are being complete shitbirds about app signing and I am actually surprised to hear Mavericks is not more restrictive. I fully expect them to lock it down at some point. (I've resolved to use only FOSS in the future and not buy Apple.)

Also I want really fine-grained permissions that I can disable to make system calls return fake information a la Cyanogen Mod.
With the exception of infant formula, the laws that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) administers do not preclude the sale of food that is past the expiration date indicated on the label. FDA does not require food firms to place "expired by", "use by" or "best before" dates on food products. This information is entirely at the discretion of the manufacturer.

A principle of U.S. food law is that foods in U.S. commerce must be wholesome and fit for consumption. A "best by", "use by" or expiration date does not relieve a firm from this obligation. A product that is dangerous to consumers would be subject to potential action by FDA to remove it from commerce regardless of any date printed on a label.

Source: http://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/transparency/basics/ucm210073.ht...
Thanks for commenting. I would definitely say clarity comes before whimsy. That was part of my frustration back in college was the complete lack of clarity. Recursion was taught in about five minutes like this: "A recursive function is a function that calls itself until it reaches a terminating condition..." and then it was never explained again. No one got the recursion questions right on the end of unit quiz except the kids who had been programming since they were young. It wasn't until about 5 years later that I finally wrapped my head around recursion myself.

I really appreciate your comment. Education is really important to me and Kahn Academy has been a huge inspiration to me.
My personal favorite one used to be: http://invoiceomatic.io/
I have however moved on to: http://invoiceable.co/ as it saves a copy of your invoices online.
Yeah, it's nothing too novel. It sounds to me like he wants to take over a chunk of that market, by providing a large-scale solution that competes with all the small vendors. This article is mostly a promotional piece.
When I was a student I was broke, and lived off a tiny income of $800 a month for food. I bought a 3G mobile stick which didn't work, and immediately returned it the next day and cancelled the service.

Of course, they never cancelled service so a year later I get collection phonecalls that I owe them $1,000. Regardless of me disputing the bill they instead debited my bank -$1,000 which I had no idea they could do since I didn't have overdraft. What they did was wait until 11:59pm the day before I was to be paid out $800 direct deposit from my pitiful p.t job and the bank allowed it to go through, then charged me interest on the negative balance for those few hours where they overdrafted the account.

I woke up to -$280 in my account in overdraft fees and the theft of my money from that telecom. Being that I couldn't feed myself I had to go out and do cash loans at extreme interest and was in a cycle of poverty for 3-4 months after that until finally got my money back from those assholes. I closed my account after that and asked to be paid out in cash from my job instead.
Moonwalking with Einstein(http://www.amazon.ca/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Rememberin...)
Thinking, Fast and Slow (http://www.amazon.ca/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0...)
This is where I meant to say YES! Absolutely! But I was on my phone and missed.
> the crowd sourced content is inconsistent

You don't plan on crowd sourcing content? You're going to write all these documents, tutorials, cheat sheets and videos by yourself?
I'll save you 70+ slides - It's all about marketing and sales, not design and development.
It's not the rational response at all. The rational response is to get a bank account like your wallet. One that ASKS YOU explicitly for permission before paying out money to someone else.

A bank account is not that, at all. A credit card is closer to that (because of chargebacks). Prepaid credit cards, and getting a new one every month (carrying over the balance, and because of the number changes, it's very hard to charge you things you don't want to pay for), are better still. Cash is best.

You want to improve the situation of 90% of America's poor ? Find a way to convert a check into a prepaid credit card (with balance transfers from a previous prepair card, ideally), for as low a fee as possible. Make that option available in poor neighbourhoods. When you have that, offer a bank account to them as well, NOT linked to the credit card, fee-free (no-one will care if it's also interest free) that they can save money into.
I heard of a guy that did that and his ex girlfriend told her new gangster boyfriend (real gangster) where he kept the money. It's probably safer to keep your money in the bank.