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Look at it this way: he's the only employee you're likely to hire to truly understands the feeling you get when you think Steve Jobs is going ensure you never work in the valley again.

Sure, he lost a valuable prototype, and the entire world got to see it before Steve Jobs unveiled it, ruining Apple's legendary cloak of secrecy, but you know that he's one of few people in the world who will never, ever make that mistake again.
IPhone Leak Investigation On Hold As DA Ponders Gizmodo Shield Law Defense
You're putting us all down. Blogging is no more inherently self-important than speaking at all.
They clearly knew the engineer's name and information, since they went ahead and posted it on their website. So they could have easily tried to contact him and return it.
You probably wouldn't have liked this Simpsons episode then.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/46753/the-simpsons-mapple-store (clip)
Rather than doing this why not just read "JavaScript: The good part" and learn about JavaScript's classes instead.
The cursing really helped make your point.
A good swindler... like a state lotto ticket salesman!
Nah... I like my "Fanboys" (http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Fanboys) style adventure better. Eventually my pattern would have taken me their.
Not bad. 3c and 3d are more than a lot of startups do.
I kept thinking about Go.
If Car & Driver bought a Ferrari prototype from someone who clearly wasn't its legal owner, then ran a big front-page teardown story on the car with a snarky sidebar about how stupid it was for Ferrari to "lose" it, do you really think the resulting police raid would just be "Ferrari managing their PR"?
fine - it's more reddit 2006. better?
> Huh, weird. This seems to crib very heavily from my original Simple JavaScript Inheritance implementation: http://ejohn.org/blog/simple-javascript-inheritance/

It is, see the AUTHORS file which credits that URL. In fact I was using a slightly modified version of your code for a long time but had to do some changes in order to use it for a project of mine.

Basically I need classes implemented in a way that they will work in the presence of any other JavaScript framework. Reason: this JavaScript is injected into unknown code by a middleware system.

> It even uses the 'classy' name and logo (stemming from an April Fools joke that I ran that used the aforementioned inheritance implementation): http://ejohn.org/blog/classy-query/

Interesting. I did not know that one. Name was rather obvious and did not return any direct hits with projects named like this so I went with it. The original drawing of that logo is the search result on Google images for "classy" with filter set to linedrawing. Original author unknown, I just vectorized it.

> ... but on the whole it looks very very similar to the original implementation that I wrote. Odd.

If you want a more obvious attribution than the AUTHORS file, just let me know.

Other changes besides hasOwnProperty, the ability to use the library without modifying window, and $ prefixed names so that it does not clash with custom attributes is a more python/javascript inspired naming scheme for special methods and attributes (__init__ etc.) and support for mixins. Also attributes are properly removed if they were unset previously and not just reassigned with undefined and classes can be instanciated without new like in Python. Can't count how often my code did funny stuff because I forgot new there :)

All in all, the idea is to have that fairly common piece of object orientated JavaScript class bootstrapping under an open source license so that anyone can use it. I hope I succeeded with that.
I was waiting for this.

"Islamic terrorism is nothing compared to Christian terrorism".

Sigh.

If you believe it then here's an experiment for you. Go to Vatican City and stand in St Peters square and shout obscene things about Jesus. If you think Catholics are too tame then choose somewhere like Canterbury Cathedral (the seat of the Primate of the Anglican Communion).

Now, assuming you survive(!) go to the Al Haram mosque and repeat the experiment shouting obscene things about Mohammed. If you prefer then I'd accept you doing the same in any major mosque.

I await the side column reports of your death "from trampling" at the Kaaba.
I find blogs to be more self-aggrandizing than traditional opinion columns. But indeed, I agree that it is unfair to pin general human traits on blogs.

Oh, and if I sound like I'm on a high horse... I would do the same thing that Arringtion does, if only somebody cared what I thought about anything ;)
>the ongoing abortion clinic killings

Which ones? The pro-abortion or anti-abortion ones?
Was I the only one surprised by the Haskell praise?
Sure, I love Haskell, but I didn't realize it catered so well to game developer.

He _does_ point out a few of the downfalls of Haskell, but there seems to be some positive element there.
Ask HN: I was scammed on Craigslist.
I paid via Paypal for a Macbook Pro with the agreement that we would meet up to exchange later in the day. The seller never came; now she won't respond to emails. But, when I filed the dispute on Paypal, she said that we met, and that I took the item happily. I called Paypal, got the claim escalated, and told my side of the story.

WHAT CAN I DO FROM HERE? HOW CAN I MAKE SURE I GET MY MONEY BACK?

All tips welcome.
Yeah. It's a constant battle. Friends and my wife help remind me when things are getting too crazy. That and the length of my beard. :-)
It's a trade secret until Apple announces it. Obviously business plans become public eventually, the secret portion is before it becomes public.
That goal went out the window when you erased most of the machine.
You can do this on real machines, too, with LVM2 snapshots.
Did you mean

How not to write a good blog post: Don't permit your readers to decipher the article without unwinding 4 levels of double negatives.
this is amazing software! Tremendous potential.
If you were, say, a major celebrity and there was a lot of press about it (as in this case) there would be.
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But you could already look at publicly listed events and find out who was attending. This - in principle - isn't exposing any more information than what was previously there. It just makes it easier to access.

Sure, it still sucks. But it's not a major new security breach. All that it exposes is already there.
Bienvenido a Miami...er, Twitter
This is the latest in a long series of similar articles. I am fully in agreement with the premise: the movement toward closed, less-than-hackable systems like the iPhone are bad for individuals, bad for computer science, and ultimately bad for society because they stifle tinkering, creativity, and learning via technological mechanisms and legal threats.

Isn't it time we move beyond this analysis?

In particular, I'm wondering:

1. What has changed since the glory days of personal hacking (I assume this was sometime in the 70s or 80s) that has made this shift toward closed devices possible? Is it a change in the law, granting device manufacturers and software companies more control over users? a change in the complexity of technology? the result of once hacker-friendly companies becoming greedier, larger, or more entrenched?

2. Is the perceived shift towards closed devices really a shift? Are people giving up hacker-friendly alternatives in order to have an iPhone or iPad? Or are we simply seeing a growth in the use of personal computing devices, with new hacker movements still to come?
> The reversal of the "extends" paradigm is interesting. It seems very natural. What made you go with that?

I think the earliest version of that was prototype which I think used Class.create and Object.extend. I've seen that in many JavaScript class implementations so far.
http://tweetreach.com will do this. The basic/free version only looks at the 50 most recent tweets, but they gasp charge for more. Amazing...a Twitter app that charges! Novel! ;)
Can someone please explain why it's preferable to raise money from an angel than any other citizen, besides connections/networking advantages? What's the legal reason behind having "accredited investor" status - what can an accredited investor invest into that a civilian cannot?
While I agree lotteries are a voluntary tax on the poor, I haven't seen anyone advertise a lottery as an investment (i.e. a vehicle where there is a possibility that the original capital can be recouped with profit).

A lottery or casino is gambling in that everyone that participates understands that the bet is lost on the outcome of a single event. Pyramid schemes, ponzie schemes, and other similar scams imply the inevitability of a long term return on investment which is impossible to occur due to the nature of the transaction.
World's Critical Communications Infrastructure
I found cellphones on several occasions, never gave it to anyone. I always tried (and was successful) in finding the owner by calling people on the phones address book.

Actually giving the phone to a stranger, never really crossed my mind, and call NYC police? HA.
We were just down for a few minutes...back up and chugging along now. :)

Sorry for the inconvenience.
So true. Having written one book, I can refer to myself as a "writer", which is somehow more relatable. What I really need to do is learn a few chords on the guitar, come up with a name for a band, and call myself a musician. That, I think, is the only hope for a future generation of jrockways ;)
I bet it would involve lots of yelling.
If this case is about stolen intellectual property, then Apple is most definitely involved. They have to specify the infringement on IP rights committed. If this were just a stolen phone, they wouldn't be confiscating every piece of technology he owns.
This is really cool of the people who put it together because from the looks of it they are trying to build a community over generating any sort of revenue.

They also activated my account right away which probably means they are having fun with it in their freetime.
Ask HN: What's a PC (for Linux) laptop that doesn't suck right now?
I'm in the market for a laptop that I will be running Linux on. All I will be using it for is programming. In other words, it must have a good keyboard, screen, battery life, and passable Linux drivers. Things I don't need: glossy screen, advanced trackpads, optical drive, powerful GPU, 3G wireless.

Things I do want: Build quality. Good keyboard. Good display (does anyone still make IPS laptops?) And that's it. Size preferred would be 12" - 14".

My desktop right now is a 2006 Mac Pro, which is more than powerful enough for everything I do. I have several operating systems set up on it. I have nice big Dell IPS screens from 2005 which I'm still using to this day. Switching from that to the MacBook (2007) which I currently have is like getting spikes driven into my eyes; the screen is utter crap. I rarely use it.

The current state of affairs in the non-Mac laptop industry looks pretty pathetic. Are there are diamonds in the mountain of coal? I could get a MacBook Pro if I had to (can run Linux on it fine), but I would have to get the 15" matte model, and that's a huge/fast computer -- I will basically only be using it to edit text. Overkill. I would get the 13" MBP but it's a glossy-only computer.

Suggestions? I have no brand loyalty. Price doesn't matter.

I was looking at getting a ThinkPad x201/x201s, but recently the x201s has vanished from Lenovo's website, though it's still there in their annoying glitzy Flash banners when you are looking at their lineup. I also know that a large part of the ThinkPad lineup is now plastic crap that they try to trick people into buying thanks to the ThinkPad branding, which is unsettling.
If "near" means "close enough to work in", feel free to contact me with some examples of what you've worked on; we've got space that you might fit. Email in profile.
Hacker News is like Stanford University, then ?
It was the real thing, so we started to work on documenting it before returning it to Apple. We had the phone, but we didn't know the owner.

Wouldn't the owner of an Apple prototype most likely be...Apple?

Surely you're not asking me to buy the idea that they thought it was the engineers's personal property, and that if they sent it to Apple, it might never find its way back to him. That's an insult to even an average intelligence.
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Unless you diligently read "the letters from steve jobs", you probably wouldn't even know he answers emails.

Though, I upvote you, because all this time, I thought it was steve.jobs@apple.com :/
What Gizmodo did might have been illegal but I have no real problem with it. I feel like Gizmodo made a calculated risk breaking the letter of the law. I can't say I haven't done the same thing involving copyright law, drug law, speeding, etc. Ultimately I read the story and looked at the photographs so it would be a bit silly to get upset at Gizmodo over it.
Here's a great introduction to how CLOS (definitely the inspiration for this) does multiple dispatch:

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/object-reorientation-generic...

This is also possible (perhaps, non-idiomatically) with Python and Perl:

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605

http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-MultiMethods/lib/MooseX/M...
> sold it to Apple

Did you mean Gizmodo? Or am I completely out of the loop on this one?
This all seems like great advice, but the hurdle is that wherever the advice comes to do something that involves a lawyer, my brain parses it as "spend thousands of dollars on x, spend thousands of dollars on y". That's the minimum ante for involving a lawyer in even a basic task.

Physicians are to nurse practitioners as lawyers are to ______. If we could put something in that blank, dealing with legal matters would get a lot easier (and cheaper). That would involve changing a lot of laws, though, so the prospects aren't terribly rosy at this point.
Magic the Gathering for Med Students
Exploring the Complexities of Nerdiness, for Laughs
Car makers disguise their field test prototypes with bras, dazzle paint, fake body panels, etc.

http://www.carandsuv.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Vauxha...

...just like Apple did with the Fake 3G skin.
The sticking point for this one, though, is that customs already saw the child porn. After seeing that, they lost the key, and wants Boucher to provide them with one.

That's a little different than "we think you might possibly have something on this computer", which is still untested.

Also, they appealed. Considering child porn gets you more time than homicide these days, I would wait until the case if over before deciding that encrypting your hard drive is a waste.

You can always decrypt, you can't always encrypt.
Especially in a small office it is easy for working hours to creep down and soon everyone is starting work an hour late and leaving half an hour early.

This illustrates one of the attitudes I believe the OP is satirizing: that butt-in-seat time is equal to work time.

Programming[1] isn't a profession where one stops being productive just because the keyboard isn't under the fingers. Even if it were, the office is far from being the only place a keyboard is located.

[1] and perhaps all creative endeavors
Exactly. Apple tech support isn't a lost and found. They have no training or directive to reunite lost phones with their owners.
olds.ycombinator.com ;)
If atheists are to be believed Christians are also in the minority though, so why no protection from infantile attempts to denigrate Jesus Christ.

Case in point - Behzti (sp) was cancelled the month before the BBC airing "Jerry Springer the Opera" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Springer_The_Opera) which was widely criticised as being needlessly defamatory of Jesus. A few Sikhs complain and the the UK authorities react and shut down the show, thousands [of Christians] complain (the most complaints ever received by the BBC apparently) and nothing is done.

The difference, well the Sikhs threatened to kill the Sikh playwright, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/dec/21/religion.arts (add pinch of salt!), and took part in violent protests at the theatre.

So violent protest is the way to win.

Aside: IMO both shows should have been put on. Interestingly the Jerry Springer:The Opera show includes the use of the word "cunt" which from what I can tell is the only word the BBC won't normally allow - exceptions are made if your show is considered blasphemous, obviously.
I think it's called "the Android Browser".

It's different to Chrome - the Webkit version is different (not sure by how much at the moment) and it doesn't have the V8 Javascript engine (yet - although it is possible to build it with V8 now)
It is interesting that everyone always points to this california law, and the key word thrown around is misappropriation, though, according to wikipedia, misappropriation is meant to mean something like:

"failure to care for property you were entrusted with"

If the phone was returned, in order, to Apple - maybe it was in a contract he signed with Gizmodo, I don't think misappropriation occurred here as the found phone was eventually returned.

I'm not saying that Gizmodo is in perfect legal standing, but if this case wasn't so high profile, it would have already been dropped by now.
That's a great idea, except my main drive is bolted inside of a really hard-to-disassemble iMac.

There's externally bootable drives, and I guess that's my only easy option.
What really is a shame is that your comment regarding this submission--which isn't entirely on the mark--is what is at the top of the comments and taking away from the discussion which I am finding (and I'm sure others) very passionate and enlightening.

I completely agree. My only goal was to remind people of the guidelines and get one of the mods to tweak the title, certainly not to overshadow the conversation.
There is no shift towards closed devices. There's one closed system that just happens to be supremely popular.

The "glory days of personal hacking" are right now. There have never been more open systems easily available to hack. Back in the day you could hack on your C64, but these days you can design your own C64 with a low cost FPGA kit!
Old but useful -- and nice to read it again from 2010 perspective.
I find the comparison between Apple's lost phone and Muhammad (PBUH) drawing interesting.

While most around here are with Apple's now legal tackling and their defence of their future commodity (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1295964), many are sceptics and sometimes hostile when some call for understanding of why they could be offended of other's 'freedom of expression'.

Edit: spelling, concision.
I think he was mostly referring to 'Even when they're paying people for interviews, instead of buying hot goods' with his question. That escapes the bounds of the current news item and makes a blanket statement about general practices. 'Paying for interviews' is can't easily be grouped in with 'inducing a misappropriation of trade secrets' without really broadening the net that you're casting.
A Dictionary-based Compressed Pattern Matching Algorithm (2002)
The DA will now reevaluate whether those shield laws do apply, and will not begin going through Chen’s possessions until they’ve reached a decision in the next few days (he says they’re in no hurry).

So a guy finds a $5000 phone in a bar, sells it to the media, has the media look at it, and then returns it to its owner. The state, in an effort to prevent others from doing this, breaks into the writer's house, takes $5000+ worth of his property, are going to look at it for a few days, and then they'll return it.

I smiled.
I map right alt to ctrl. This gives you alt with your left thumb and ctrl with your right thumb, which is pretty intuitive once you get used to it.
So then... Jason Chen must be the guy who sold the phone to Gizmodo. Correct?
> If this were just a stolen phone, they wouldn't be confiscating every piece of technology he owns.

What about photographs, emails and records relating to the person it was bought from?
The first 5000 years of Debt
The article might add that having lots of department meetings is also a excellent way to keep crappy programmers.
I would file a police report asap.
Network Timeout: Offline Analysis of Packet Capture
buying stolen goods is a crime
Or Social Security, the greatest Ponzi scheme on earth!
On Geeks and Gays
I thought it was only the 5.25 disks that were called "floppy" (because they were at least flexible, if not quite floppy). The hard-shelled 3.25's were always just "diskettes" to me since they weren't floppy at all.
there are still plenty of new, in-the-box x201s' on ebay. the thinkpad edge 13" is cheap ($) and has decent specs, but you get the annoying glossy screen and case.

i'm typing this on a thinkpad x301. with the dvd drive swapped out for a 2nd battery, it's pretty nice. it's costly though, and i wouldn't really recommend buying it when there are other thinkpads available for 1/3 the price with much more than 1/3 the performance.
A lot of people whose karma otherwise rate leaderboard status have been manually removed (especially pg).

In nickb's case, it's likely because his account has been dormant for almost a year. He may have passed away (http://markenomics.com/item?id=395) but it's also likely he just decided to take his leave of Hacker News and a number of other online communities.
Heard something, but I don't think their problem is customers hanging out at the store and not buying anything. They simply built too many branches, would be my guess. Also not sure how much it hurts Starbucks if a branch shuts down.
Thanks, I'm in the early stages of learning vim and this is great. If anyone else is in the same position, also check out vimcasts.org.
The guy doing all of this writing refers to himself as a "Founder's Firm", and it seems his goal is to fit into that blank: http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup_003.html

I'm looking for something like that in the Boston area. I have yet to speak with any attorneys who can help me form a corporation and take moderate angel investment without charging $5000 up front and $thousands more later...
Do you know what the police do to people when these people take someone by force and keep them in a location where they don't want to be (kidnapping)? They take those people by force and keep them in a location they don't want to be.

And do you know what they do when a person kills other people?
> If this were just a stolen phone, they wouldn't be confiscating every piece of technology he owns.

Nowadays that's standard operating procedure for any criminal investigation. There was an article on HN a while back about the police in SF confiscating the laptops of DJs at illegal raves and tying them up in paperwork to get their gear back just to punish them for helping out the raves (the DJs' laptops are their main source of income in a lot of cases).

Police love computers because people do a lot of their interaction with the world through them now. So by confiscating someone's computer they can get a lot of information.
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Sexy, curvy Kim Kardashian who looks perfect in bikini covers Life & Style Magazine May 2010 issue of United States first time without bikini.
loving it so far, very fast.
The writer has an entire series of legal advice for startups, found here: http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup.html

I've only gotten through 5 or 6 of these so far, but I've found his explanation of restricted stock and tax law 83(b) particularly simple and useful.
> according to wikipedia

I don't mean to sound glib, but I'm fairly certain that wikipedia is not an expert on California legal codes.
Or you could just use svg
In case some weren't aware, Arrington is a Stanford Law School graduate and was previously was a lawyer at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-arrington