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> What I don't get about these programs (for desktops/laptops) is...do you guys have passwords on your user accounts? And if so, they must have somehow cracked them to get access.

> In that case, I know if I was going to steal a laptop, the first thing I'd do is format it. Do any of the programs remain after a hard disk wipe?

I have a non-passworded guest account specifically for that purpose. If someone steals my laptop, I want them to be able to use it so that Prey can get me information. Going along with that, my BIOS is passworded and won't boot off anything but the hard drive, so that the only way to wipe the drive is physically removing it. I'm counting on any thief not being technically sophisticated to go that far, and it also gives my information a bit more security (in theory it stops a thief from running something like Orphcrack to get my account's password).

I don't believe that any of these programs will persist after the hard drive is wiped or replaced, though I have heard of manufacturer-provided solutions which live in ROM and install themselves into the operating system automatically (I'm probably getting some details wrong).

> Also, for those using the Prey panel - why does it have an option to save your password?

Yeah, the "Remember me" checkbox is really weird (I'm assuming that that's what you're talking about). I suppose that it makes life more convenient for some people, if they're using a desktop or suchlike to manage other devices. Or maybe it's just something that the developers reflexively included.
I'm not sure how many times I have to say it: Adding someone as a collaborator is not publicly visible until you collaborate (make commits) on the project. At that point we show the activity on your public profile.
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Why would these people file suit the week before WWDC? It makes no sense at all.
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I wonder if the mugger's lack of a gun is WHY you got repeatedly punched in the face?

I've never mugged anyone, but I would guess that the first step is to establish control over the victim. With a gun against an unarmed victim, the mugger gets control easily. With neither armed, the mugger might need to actually attack and force submission before the victim decides if he should fight back or not.
they forgot to mention the faux study has a minuscule sample size of 16 people.
I would like to see examples of software patents doing any good at all.
Just found the slide listing the "standards" FaceTime uses [1]: H.264, AAC, SIP, STUN, TURN, ICE, RTP and SRTP. From the list, the only thing left for someone else to integrate with FT would be friend management and presence (online status). Something like Jabber could probably handle this bit pretty well.

[1] http://ugc.kontain.com/photo/20100607/prod_519da669-212a-414...
Well, python or javascript does not suffer from this, does it? And, I cant, actually, think of any case where code search would require "Array" term.

On the second thought - if PHP would at last consider converting or storing everyhting as an object ("".length or [].walk()), this would cause a problem. Still, see my first sentence.
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I guess I figured it was implied. With your influence, you totally could've emailed the github guys and voice your concerns privately. Instead, you chose to do your own thing and publicize it and how awesomely you pwned the dude.

And then you claimed it was all to improve the github experience. Cmon.
You know what, you're a dickhead. Guys like you are all tough when they're on forums like this, but you wouldn't ever say anything like this to my face. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've been to a couple meetups in the city and you've not said a damn thing to me.

Next time you want to call me a "whore", why don't you email me and meet me in person like a man instead of pretending like you are one online.
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Yup. The patent system is severely broken, especially their prior art research (or lack of).
Wow, dude. Chill out. I'd be MORE than happy to meet up and grab a beer with you.

I've been to ONE meetup in the city, and aftewords someone mentioned you were there. Jesus.

EDIT: Just sent you an email, hopefully it went to the right place. Couldn't find one on your website or your HN profile (or your twitter account).
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Good to know that OPD has arrested the bastard. :)
What kind of traffic does SearchYC get? Is a $40/mo Linode not sufficient? I would gladly pay that (or be content with some Google ads in the right bar). Hell, I'd even maintain the site...it's a great service.
I visited a CD store today. (Remember those?)
Less honest marketing
So some less than honest strategies are proving very useful, such as craigslist spamming.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603844

What strategies exist that although dubious, new start-ups may consider.

I am not trolling and sorry for the throwaway.
Yep, Python works great so far, I threw up a little cookbook recipe for a Pyramid app:
http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid_cookbook/dev/...

Since its fairly easy to composite multiple WSGI apps together, one could run a few different Python WSGI-based apps under a single multi-threaded process to take full advantage of the free quota. That would work with Pylons/Pyramid/Flask and other Python web frameworks that don't rely on a single set of module global settings (Django).
You're only using a fraction of the kernel as well at any given time... (As they count by LOC in the article...)
It's an honest assessment by a conscientious engineer. And because of it, I trust Redis even more.

See ma, no ass-covering, no excuses, no cooking benchmarks.
Nobody will ever be able to legally prove the gmail accounts were created for and by AirBnB. Actually, I don't think those accounts were created by AirBnB guys, but by a third party, for AirBnB use.
Ad extremis, the AirBnB founders might as well plead they never knew what was the exact method this third party will use to generate traffic and users.
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The best way to end this is to make it illegal to buy things advertised in a spam mail. This would absolutely kill their margin.
Oh look, another anonymous troll that has exactly the same validity and standing as my comment.

This place is awesome with the anonymous posters.
Ask HN: Review my startup, SimpleTing.com
I am hoping to get some of you to take a look at my site and particularly review the UI. I feel the benefit of the business is solid, what I need to do is make sure the UI is streamlined so users have a smooth experience and take advantage of the benefits the site provides.

The site is currently in BETA so you will need a code to create an account. The beta code you can use is: x914h

URL: www.SimpleTing.com

Registration page: https://www.simpleting.com/users/register

my email: pearce (at) simpleting.com

Notes:

- I am working on a redesign of a home page, if you have any ideas that would be great.

- There are some bugs, but the site is fully functional. If you find anything odd then please send me an email.

- I outsourced a good portion of my development so if you find any bugs the it must be their fault :-p

- I currently work as a programmer for Adobe, that is why you will see tracking code that is different then Google Analytics.

Questions:

- Would this be something you use? The main market for this site is working people who are busy.

- What you would change? Or are there features you think would be greatly beneficial?

- (feature idea) Would you like a free trial? Maybe get one or two birthday cards free if you sign up sort of thing? This is a feature I am thinking about building but I don't want to invest the effort if it will not be valuable.

Thanks for your input, once I polish the site up I am going to start pitching to angels. So I am definitely interested in what you have to say.
it's safe to the point of being sterile. (this is a personal opinion, not a fact)
Up until just now, I didn't know that. And if you didn't reply to my comment just now, I still wouldn't know it.

And you explicitly telling people about how being a collaborator works isn't a scalable way for people to find out. And it sounds like this question/issue has come up before. Perhaps it can be made clearer somehow?

In any case, thanks for clarifying when you become visible as a collaborator, even if only in this one comment to me.
See above discussion it is also explainable by other things ( like embryo development ) wich are not what you call "supernatural". by saying "evolution did it" you are dismissing all other valid explanations. and limiting yourself. evolution theory is also not well understood so by using it to explain things you are just passing hot potato to someone else. This exactly the same thing that creationist are doing. they will say Creator did it! but what? and how? it remains unanswered.

if it was understood we would now be able to induce it on living organisms ( things like grow wings on giraffe and such ). and i don't mean by classic genetic engineering, but by using different environmental parameters we would be able produce desired mutations.
> Can you explain where in my blog post I claim I'm great?

Maybe people still remember this: http://web.archive.org/web/20090218021137/http://zedshaw.com...
Sure you try to mask it as an attempt to be funny, but even if
"it’s all an act" that acts make the person.
Now I am off to http://bellard.org/ to clean my mind a bit.
So if Redis is purely in-memory, then (and I'm asking in a positive way), how can it be used in any production system effectively? If something like a spontaneous reboot or Redis crash occurs, or some other event, don't you lose everything?
Nobody here knows how much of Airbnb's growth is driven by Craigslist, it's purely speculative. Until Airbnb confirms, you'll never know but you'd have to be naive to believe that you can build a company up to $1 billion by firing off a bunch of emails. Nobody here has even suggested the possibility that "Airbnb became a billion dollar company" by suggesting how many Craigslist rentals are posted each day, along with a standardized conversion rate.

I'm surprised to see how negative the comments are on this. This is like Yelp paying people to write reviews. Shady? Sure. Illegal? The only part of the CAN-SPAM Act Airbnb broke was (1) not including a physical mailing address, (2) not mentioning it was an ad, and (3) not including an unsubscrive link. Otherwise, CAN-SPAM is laughable at best. It's hardly enforced. Don't expect Craigslist to come at Airbnb with a lawsuit, it'd probably not hold up in court.

I see this instead as one of Airbnb's many tactics to try and reach out to users. If you look at this logically, they've been covered by the press a lot. The amount of growth they might (or might not) have reached doing this would hail in comparison to how much they obtained by press and simple product and customer development.
> You scare me. :-)

Relax, things are a lot better now (even for me, I'm on HN, ain't I? :)). What I'm talking about happened 10-15 years ago.

And congratulations for choosing Cluj. I'm usually trapped in Bucharest but I'm happy that tomorrow I'll go to Sibiu for a 4-day vacation. It's only a 2-h drive from Cluj I think, I highly recommend it for when you have time to discover the rest of the country :).
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It is both "wrong" and WRONG: if you have to fake the real fans and the real efficiency of your startup, no matter how good your idea you think it is, it's just a bubble. Your startup sux, big time. As did and does Microsoft's (someone mentioned MS took quite the same savage approach when they launched).
There are two mechanisms by which defectors could win coins.

First, they could simply mine more coins. For them to win almost all the (new) coins this way, they have to do almost all the mining. Say, 80% of it, although it's really a matter of what you mean by "almost all".

Second, they could collude and subvert transaction audit trails so that the Bitcoin system transfers ownership of all existing coins to them. For them to win all the (new and old) coins this way, they only have to do more than 50% of the mining.

So, if collusion is feasible, the second approach is easier; so let's forget about the first one for the moment.

The point at which the defectors, each using 2 orders of magnitude more CPU time, are doing more than 50% of the mining, is when they control more than about 0.9901% of the network's total raw computing power, because at that point, the cooperators control only 99.0099% of the network's total raw computing power, and the cooperators are using only 0.990099% of the network's total raw computing power to prevent counterfeiting.

If a single defector controls only, say, 0.5% of the network's computing power, they will get only about a third of the new bitcoins mined, and will not be able to subvert the network.

Only needing to have 0.99% of the network collude in defection to break the system is a pretty bad problem, but it's not nearly as bad as any single person being able to break the system.
After searchyc went down, I've just used google, adding "site:news.ycombinator.com" after my query. Seems to return quite good results too.
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AMD Firepro marketing gets a little… heated
AMD has stepped up their Firepro marketing and taken a pretty direct shot at their competition in a new video released today, entitled “Good Idea, Bad Idea”.
It's nearing a year old but here are some points to consider if you're an apple long: http://aaplbear.com/
It can be used for caching, etc... It is only a problem in production if you expect data there to be durable (i.e. resistant to mild crashes).
The OP's title is a bit sensationalist, so I can understand why you'd ask this. Redis stores the in memory database to disk asycronously. If a crash occurs, Redis will read the database from disk on startup and copy it into memory.

So the short answer is "no", you don't lose everything. You just lose the data that was written to memory since the last sync to disk.
You can run a slave Redis replica very easily, and save db snapshots from that without impacting the master. When Salvatore says "redis on disk", he's referring to attempts to mix in-memory & on-disk portions of the data, rather than the background saving feature of Redis.
Redis can save to disk after X number of keys have changed or after Z number of seconds. http://redis.io/topics/persistence
If I commit act X, which is illegal, but I cannot be convicted because an error in police precedure makes some of the evidence inadmissible, it sounds like you believe that means I did not actually do X.

That is not how causality works in this universe.
Just curious - what aspects of the performance was she controlling live? I'm surprised she was hacking away in netcat during the performance. I would think the entire thing would have been completely designed beforehand, and at most during the performance she'd be pressing a button at various pre-selected points during the song to keep everything synched (or something like that ... obviously I don't know anything about this).

Awesome stuff by the way. I happened to be watching America's Got Talent tonight and it was by far my favorite.
Having too many screens doesn't make you get distracted, there is a root cause as to why you are procrastinating or not enthralled in your work, and it's not having too much screen real estate.

You should try to address the root cause of your issues because it's only a matter of time before the 1 screen you have left ends up being covered by a browser window full of off topic tabs.
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Chill out? You just called me a whore douchebag. Now you want to buy me a beer?

You see, this is what pisses me off about you whiners claiming I'm stirring up drama. I didn't say a damn thing to you until you started insulting me in these comments. I didn't say a damn thing to you. The only contact I've had with you is one tweet. Yet, here you are insulting me as if you know me personally and I've treated you poorly.

Then what do you think I should do? Oh that's right, not be a drama queen and just shut up and let you call me goddamn whore. 'Cause if I stand up to you, I'm causing drama, but you coming here and insulting me is totally alright and just a nice Tuesday evening.
Come on, admit that Zed is funny with style. He's bragging, too, but it's never condescending. That's the difference between a gentleman and dandy, and an ugly troll.
So, you basically were stirring up drama by exaggerating what I said for effect, yet I'm the drama queen and attention whore.

Next time, actually read what I write instead of just imagining you read it after seeing a stream of tweets and your buddies on reddit tell it to you 4th person in some comments. For example, I didn't contact github because I knew one of the peole working there was in on the joke. If you read what I wrote you would have known that, idiot.
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Firstly, I called you a name that I now regret. It was a juvenile move and it was said in a moment of anger. I really do apologize. Should I delete the comment?

Secondly, I'm not criticizing you for standing up for yourself. Don't try to frame this as if you're a poor victim of the internet. This is a discussion forum. I'm not an anonymous troll, my identity is in my profile.

You dramatized things in the first place, not by standing up for yourself. The beer offer still stands.
Ah, thanks. I went back and read it two more times and didn't find it, but there it is. (For any one else looking for this excerpt, it's mentioned in passing mid-paragraph half way down page 3.)
Yeah, Mrs. Browl happened to be watching and said 'come look at this, it's cool,' and (as usual) she was right. Not where I expected to see a software engineer on stage either, so that was nice. Well done, you've got a really solid product there.
Only 10% of the ruby on rails community who had to admit the entire platform was based on lies hates me for that.

The rest of the world is glad I wrote it.
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> Reddit has masterfully provided a display and ui/ux that makes it so much easier.

reddit's design is not perfect though, look f.ex. how it's improved when you install http://reddit.honestbleeps.com/ especially the readability of tree conversations
Why is replacing one word with 4 making it less complicated?
I don't mean to be rude, but I'm surprised noone has yet asked how much this itself is an epic case of productive procrastination.

As in: "The job I have [refactor] is grinding, but the shiny awesome distraction project idea I have [caravan workspace] is shiny and awesome and clearly very important, so I'll focus and work really hard on it"

I'm prone to see this pattern because I'm prone to falling into it myself. Not that it's exclusively a bad pattern, you can get a lot done that way.

jaquesm, if you don't mind I'd be interested to know two things:

* How long the whole setup took, and how long you've had the caravan for? (I saw you've been using it at least 10 days from the post, which seems a very good sign - obviously you got some work done recently apart from finding/installing/blogging your new caravan workplace.)

* As a favour, could you please follow up in 2-3 months and tell us honestly how it is working out?

:)
Do you drive 66 MPH in a 65 MPH zone? This is hardly breaking the law. This would have been perfectly legal in CAN-SPAM if they added three things: an unsubscribe link, a physical mailing address, and mentioned it was an ad. It probably would have been even more effective.

If you want to stop spam, don't rely on bureaucratic processes to resolve it through legislation. Build a spam filter, or do some simple pattern recognition so you know that the same message sent 100 times isn't a legitimate inquiry to a posting.
Looking at Lady Gagas twitter (10m followers, average celebrity) when she tweets a link it gets ~100,000 clicks, 1%, so to suggest 3.6 million timelines is 3.6 users "reached" (where reached means actually engaged) is silly, it'll be closer to 36,000 assuming Lady Gaga is a good example.

I have ~600 followers on Twitter and when I tweet a link, it usually gets ~80-100 clicks on it, well over 1%. Just because Lady Gaga doesn't have a high rate of people clicking links, doesn't mean that it applies across the board.
> Just curious - what aspects of the performance was she controlling live? ... I would think the entire thing would have been completely designed beforehand ...

You're right. It's mostly pre-choreographed, with manual cue points for performances involving live music or variable length pauses. But, we do use netcat for manual overrides, for monitoring even pre-choreographed pieces, and for testing the devices and lights. It's pretty damn handy. ;)

> Awesome stuff by the way.

Thanks! Watch for us in the next round!
So nobody cares about open-sourcing WebRTC

Except the people that would want to use it?
Think of Chatroulette.

Something that would be actually noticeable in this
field right now would be Microsoft that open-sources
Skype

Noticeable yes, but useful, not really.

What would be useful is for Skype to become a standard that allows interoperability with other services and protocols, such that you could build a client, like a website, that would allow users with a GTalk account to video-call Skype users. Now that would be something.
I agree, I just gave reasons what in my mind prevents others to follow the same path.
I've been bitten by that scheme after I'd carefully disassembled my laptop, putting all the screws on a neatly labelled sheet of paper, only to later attempt to blow out some dust, and have them scatter across the desk and floor.

Double-sided tape, or actual compartments, sound like a much better idea.
What about a firewall? Because I have seen Windows machines infected through no fault of their users within your 16-year period (Blaster being the most triumphant example). Admittedly this is probably a minority of malware installs out there, but I think it gives Microsoft a little too much credit and their users not quite enough to suggest that it's 100% caused by them clicking on ILoveYou.jpg.exe.
I don't understand the rationale for penalizing saving. The car I couldn't afford on this month's paychecks alone is wealth. Food and shelter after I'm too old to work will be wealth.
I'm sorry I suggested you hadn't paid your bill. There was so little information in the page that it sounded like an attempt to avoid embarrassment. Get something in writing, and get more info up there. Best of luck.
It sounds like you misunderstand how evolution works.
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