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Great response from StrongLoop, it was ridiculous over-react from Joyent to publicly pull out the pitchforks.

To me, real story is, all 96 tablets less than $50 in China.

When I was 28 years old, found I had high blood pressure. Over next 7 years I took BP meds but also lost weight and worked out. Doctors ran tests but never found a root cause - it was just high for no assignable reason and I was told to take meds. At 34 years old, was in best shape of my life, except still taking BP meds. That year, I stopped taking the meds, but monitored BP every few months. It was borderline high but not crazy.

So this year, I turned 38, off the BP meds more than 3 years now. Then, last month while in China with my family, I had a full blown stroke. Result was lost 2cm of my left brain directly in the region that controls speech and right arm & hand motor skills. Spent 8 days in a Chinese hospital.

For about one week, I talked like a stone cold drunk and my right arm was useless. I thought I might be that way forever. Luckily, after two months, I'm basically fully functionally recovered. Bottom line is the path from a risk indicator like high blood pressure to a stroke or heart attack can be fairly short. Now, at 38 I know I must make some radical change if I'm going to live to 70, no less not be a paralyzed half brain dead invalid.

I'm certainly interested in quantified self tech now. The problem is everyone that needs a doctor to take an intense personal interest in their long term health cannot possibly find a doctor to do so, for any number of reasons. Opportunity is to empower the individual non-medial experts to easily monitor their own health and risk factors over time. Will likely be moving into product development in this space myself.

If there is one thing I've managed to become sure of in my time on earth, it is that existing financial systems are explicitly designed by the status quo to be abused by the status quo.

From burritocop (linkdead): Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python http://inventwithpython.com/hacking/ I haven't yet read the book but I've heard good things about it. It looks like it's a beginning programming book that also teaches cryptography

How about looking into paying this man for his honest bug finding work? The response from FB on this is disgusting.

    "We are unfortunately not able to pay you for this     vulnerability because your actions violated our Terms of Service.  We do hope, however, that you continue to work with us to find vulnerabilities in the site. 

  We have now re-enabled your Facebook account. 

  Joshua 
  Security Engineer 
  Facebook "

Yet another datapoint that marijuana vaporizers are a great bet for a hardware startup.

Sorry to hear this. Jumping bail and escaping the country, is a valid option, in my mind.

This is senior high school analytics and stating failure as a certainty with this simple model is over-reaching, not to mention, Mark Shuttleworth's money.

This is really helpful, thanks.

That style has merit. Whomever submitted that code, which obviously resulted in creating extra work to waste Linus' time, that person has many choices, such as leaving and never contributing again, or improving their code before next submit which might actually help the project. If they choose to tough it out improve their code in future submissions, then they will likely also have improved themselves in a lot of ways. Otherwise, they can just go away, and at least in this popular project, there is a chance they will be replaced by a much better talent.

Wow, this is really pretty cool. I'm surprised not more discussion on it. Thanks for sharing.

Hi HN, thanks for taking time to look at my project!

From gitsum, who is linkdead:

"I mined about 13000 bitcoins in 2010 when it was possible to mine with a single quad core CPU. It was worth about $100 when I stopped mining in August 2010, and I was ecstatic that I had earned a nice steak dinner for doing absolutely nothing. After I missed the first peak at $31 in 2011, I was determined to sell everything if it ever hit that price again. Unfortunately, little did I know the price would surge to $145, and I sold most of my stash at the then all-time high of $40-50. Not quite a bitcoin millionaire, but still a good chunk of change (of which a sizable amount will be going to the IRS)."

Doesn't everyone realize by now that these android tv boxes are a dime a dozen here in China now? What the heck makes this a legitimate kickstarter? They have their PCBA in a tester, like they've actually designed the PCBA (NOT), and love how he said "our mobile app is near ready"...you can bet that app isn't more than a shell! Ridiculous.

Shame that this is the biggest news to come out of PyCon.

Google Glass banned in McDonalds.

As an American that lives and works in China, I can certainly vouch that it is a real trick to even download the regular version of Skype, and best I can tell it is impossible without VPN connection. Microsoft belongs to the man, in China.