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I hope you're not being sarcastic! :)

I wish I could do a general reply to everyone (new to HN) but I think I temporarily confused themeforest with themegarden (and similar.) Well, they are all similar, but it's mostly in WordPress that the prefab stuff really bothers me. For quick 'gotta get the point across' for html5 or trans to ruby or whatever, yeah, themeforest definitely makes sense.

We deal with mostly very design-heavy, frontend-ish startups, where I work, so that may be why we hate spec and prefab work so much. We value originality but YES most definitely agreed, there's a time and a place for it!
I hate to be the Devil's advocate in a case involving a stolen laptop (I regard stealing my laptop as a crime even lower than stealing my bicycle), but I'm more than a little troubled by the idea of plastering someone's face and private life (such as the inside of their home) on the Internet before they have been convicted of a crime.

Sure, we could say "Yeah, but this software let the blog author see them absconding with the laptop," but debating the evidence is conducting a trial of sorts, without giving the accused the benefit of a chance to cross-examine their accusers and present their side of the story.

I'm very comfortable with the idea of using software like this to gather evidence, and I'm very comfortable with criticizing the police for failing to act, but I'm not comfortable with publishing these pictures.
I'd put electrical tape on the vid if I wanted to check out what I just acquired,and re-install soon after..
You are correct, but there are some gotchas, too.

1. Hopefully you incorporated in your state and actually have the protection, not as a Delaware LLC, which might not help you. Hopefully you paid the yearly fees and did the registration requirements, too.

2. Declaring bankruptcy doesn't just let you walk away. The opponent will get your assets. Did you claim your computer as a deduction? Other side could get that. They can get any corporate assets up to the judgement amount. If you have regular income from licensing agreements they can also get that. And so on.

3. Declaring bankruptcy isn't without its consequences. Senior officers of companies that declare bankruptcy can be prohibited from serving as a senior officer or founder of other/new companies. In some instances it will show up on your personal credit report.

4. Hopefully you don't have a business line of credit that you made a personal guarantee on. Or friends and family loans.

And so on.
It's not a crime to pretend you filed a false report on a blog site though, as long as you don't ACTUALLY speak to the police.
CAN-SPAM, sending from a fake address (illegal headers). CA has a specific law that pre-empts CAN-SPAM that definitely makes this illegal if sent from CA (don't ask how I know).
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That's a good find, but the fact that a Google employee has a patent on using email links to rank blogs doesn't necessarily mean that Google's using it.
Could have something to do with the fact that you can be shot from quite a bit greater distance than you can be stabbed with a knife, hit with a hammer, struck with a steel bar or cut with a broken bottle.
One day someone will come along and scrape the data from that "clunky and expensive AirBnB" to start an XX million dollar startup.
No, I don't think it looks like marketing because he's an interaction designer who doesn't seem like he has anything to do with the Hidden app besides being a user. If you look at his twitter feed, he has tweeted about trying to get the laptop back since April (check-in at Oakland police station). What makes you think this is marketing vs. a guy who has no other avenues to take besides asking the internet if they have seen/know who this person is?
In Startups Open Sourced, he says Airbnb "tried everything" but he says that press is the single best source of their growth. Having the happy customers came in second, but would be interested to hear if this helped them much. It's hard to believe that Craigslist is the reason why they'd be so successful when the product is so easy to spread by word of mouth and press.
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It's interesting that they sell the lack of features as a feature in itself. I remain skeptical of their tagline about better tools and better craftmen, at least as it concerns their product being the better tool.

I'm an avid Emacs user, so I guess I'll never understand this trend towards minimalist editors. If you want to go full-screen, you can do that in emacs (you can even get the same kind of layout and look and feel with something like darkroom mode), and most decent editors anyway. Is having features in the editor really so distracting?
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Yeah it was quite the learning experience for me in many ways. If this happened now I'd handle it much differently.
> I think that the author undervalues the importance of innate talent.

Several recent books are doing that. But I think the common claim is that people who have become great have done so through training, and the effect of innate talent seems to be secondary at best.

They don't claim the opposite - that with the right training anyone will be great. Only that greatness is primarily due to the right training. It implies that a person of normal natural abilities has a shot at becoming world-class, but it's not a guarantee.
Because he's specifically erased identifiable information about this guy, specifically his google account.
More likely that he wouldn't want someone emailing the person telling him that he is being tracked.
That's true of overt ads; ads masquerading as reality have less need to worry about such things.
Wait, so being threatened and robbed is more scary to you than being savagely beaten and robbed?
Consumer electronics are unique right now in becoming orders of magnitude more capable before the old versions even begin failing. New products sell because nothing comparable was even available before and it's inconceivable that next year's version could be better somehow (even though it will). No other category has this going for it.
It takes far less effort to kill someone with a gun than with many other weapons. They also don't need to be close to the victim: being shot from 10 feet away is just as bad as being shot from 2 feet away, while being 10 feet away makes all of the alternatives you mentioned pretty ineffective.
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C'mon, he posted the guy's photo. More likely it's so that people wouldn't e-mail him and tip him off.
>He should let the police handle it.

And if they don't do anything? They're not required to. Should he just forget about it?
This too expensive , broke programmers will just use launchrock for free.
I have a two-year old daughter. I want more kids, not fewer. If I had known how amazing raising a kid was, I would have started sooner. Smart people need to bring more smart people to the world.
Sure. Here you go:

Anxiety - High

Hostility - High

Depression - High

Confidence - Medium

Compassion - Very Low to Low

Happiness - Low to Medium
The American Dream had too many barriers to entry.
If CL spam is responsible their phenomenal growth, then more power to them. It wouldn't work if they didn't have a better solution to a huge market need.
new to HN so not sure who sees my replies or who don't, but I should've clarified - what you're saying is what I agree with, in terms of prefab themes.

it's just the spec work that gets me. that stuff isn't being sold multiple times like prefab themes. college students do spec no matter how much I yell at them and then end up (in terms of time spent) making so little an hour that it's just atrocious.

but, time and a place, etc.

and the type of work I do is very front-end heavy.... tends to go from mvp to beta launch quickly... and we have designers on staff. so, just spoiled. bad bias!
A word of warning on Prey -- I looked into it myself and last I checked, it stores your email password unencrypted in a plain text file in your filesystem. Better still, a comment in the file describes it as "base64 encrypted". Sure, your average laptop thief is probably too clueless to run the trivial command to "decrypt" it, but it still strikes me as highly irresponsible of the developer.

That alone was plenty to convince me not to install it.

EDIT: it still does: https://github.com/tomas/prey/blob/master/config#L44
An itchy trigger finger could mean a life threatening injury. I'd rather take the hit and have a bruise that would heal and not end up with a bullet in me.
Actually, on a MacBook, the green camera light will occasionally blink for a split second while the photo is being taken.
The problem is that other people might have already found other blocks, rendering your block useless.
heh, those helped me learn ELF and linux assembly almost a decade ago.

more tools are here http://asm.sourceforge.net/
Guns are an impersonal method of killing someone. With the others you have to be up close and really want to do some damage.
Someone suggested posting the car image on vwvortex or a similar car forum to have the users identify the make, model, and year
http://preyproject.com/ has a little more information, plus you can try it for free.
Seriously? I think that one's pretty obvious. When guns are involved the likelihood of dying seems to increase somewhat - even if it's only perceived at such close range.
Well done! I too sit on emails for far too long - making up plenty of reasons not to send.

You've inspired me to scour my inbox now
I found some older macrumors spoiler free sites and tried subscribing to the mailing list (http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/24/january-2010-media-event...). It didn't work.

I did find apples event site though:
http://www.apple.com/apple-events/
It's a crappy situation, but he has to weigh the value of his iPad against the cost of possibly being charged with trespassing, breaking and entering, or worse. He could end up with more severe charges against him than the thief.

If this is not a marketing stunt for an app, then he seems to be going about it the right way. The publicity will hopefully put pressure on the authorities to act.
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In that case, I don't really see any validity in the complaint. The search function is a temporary UI addition with a single purpose that goes away the moment you hit escape. Better yet, if you hit ctrl-f again, it comes back with the same text already entered.
Is this a serious question? If someone has a gun pointed at me all they have to do is pull the trigger and I'm likely dead. If someone is going to kill me with a hammer, steel bar, knife or broken bottle, they have to overpower me and then repeatedly use them on me to have the same effect. From the perspective of someone who killed animals for food, it is SIGNIFICANTLY more difficult both physically and emotionally to kill something with a knife than it is with a gun.
You can fight back if they punch you. If they have a gun, and you do too, then one of you will likely wind up dead.

That said, there are worse ways to be mugged. I had a friend develop a pretty bad smelling problem, and his sponsor in NA used to mug people by sticking a dirty needle into their neck and threatening to inject them with whatever was in it. Pretty savage.
Just out of curiosity, what are the outrageous claims that have come up?
On the other hand, isn't Limerick still known as Stab City?
Wow, that's outlandish. For some perspective this guy's hands would have been cut off in Saudi Arabia. At the end of the day (assuming this isn't some fake ad campaign) dude lost his right to privacy when he stole the laptop. The victim has a right to remotely control his property, especially when it has been stolen.

As for a crime lower than stealing my bicycle: That's crazy. Even if you have a bicycle worth more than your laptop, the loss of time and possible identity theft that could happen with a lost laptop more than outweighs the financial loss of either.
I have the exact same story with the cops refusing to look for the muggers who had run away a minute earlier. And I've heard plenty other outrageous stories about OPD refusing to help. They are mostly incompetent and lazy.
Was anyone else reminded of this Defcon video (Don't Mess with a Hacker's Machine)?

http://goo.gl/7y6mD
We need an AirBNB for Mentorship--not $35k a year wasted on college
anyone out there want to build mentormykid.com? dead serious... I will fund it. :-)

i meet young adults all day long who are $100-200k in debt after school. makes no sense.
I find this principle wrong, based on what I've heard experienced couches say

Maybe less time on couches and more time with coaches would change your perspective?

With that said, there is a guy, Dan, who is testing this theory with golf. We still have a few more years to see if it works.

http://thedanplan.com/

"Remember when you were in first grade, try to remember your classmates, what percentage of them could have become Nobel Prize winners in Physics given the right nurturing conditions?". According to the author of this book, almost all of them

I haven't read the book, but have read articles. I thought the goal was "expert level", not Nobel Prize level. There's a pretty big gap between being a Chem expert and winning the Nobel prize in it.
my Macbook Pro only goes places I'm comfortable with, home, maybe neighborhood coffee shop, other friends houses, and that's it.

My Thinkpad X61s goes everywhere. I took it to NYC, walked even drunkenly walking around in the middle of the night with it in my backpack in Brooklyn and Manhattan and on the subway. I've hesitated upgrading my iPhone 3GS just because it's starting to look a bit busted but gets me along perfectly fine. I was using it to sync photos while there to Dropbox in case either/or got stolen.

Of course, I've had my car broken into three times, and each time has made me more and more anal about it. The first time was the worst though, a 1965 Fender Bandmaster at work on christmas eve, worth about $800. What was shitty about that was I had just got out of band practice, hadn't gotten home, it was in a very conspicuos, non-hidden place on a very busy day (I worked at a grocery store) and nobody saw anything.

Other times were much less severe, a shitty CD deck ($40), some CDs (maybe $60 I spent?) and a crappy coat. Mostly I just got sick of replacing the window, but that was only $15, so it didn't matter so much.
Maybe they have some external reason to care about it this time, like the impact on stock prices or something? Analysts making stuff up and then being disappointed has caused stock volatility in the past, and Apple may want to avoid that this time.
Different frequencies of light have quite different effect.

Visible and UV light don't penetrate skin. Microwaves do.
It worked for me too :) but check up your billing usage statement it will be showing some charges, even though you are under free limit. I just filed a support ticket with heroku, after scaling the web dyno to 0 ;)
Ok, not sure if you'll see this - but here is my feedback as one who desperately needs your services:

I fully agree with all the comments TheSkeptic has made here.

First, your commitment to a prototype in 2 weeks for 5K == $125 per hour, and I think that this is a high rate.

You want to make $250K per year doing this on a contract basis where each contract is 2 weeks.

I take your wording to be more of you trying to sound confident and 'rock-star developer-ish' - but I cant judge your skills in producing my prototype based on this language.

How is this better than me getting another developer off-shore for less?

So, here is what i would rather employ you to do: Help criticize my wireframes and spec document such that I can go to a lower cost developer with a much more clear product spec and requirements and ensure that Ill get what I seek.

I'd be willing to pay you, say $200 to give me an hours review of my wireframes and spec and tell me what you think a realistic timeframe and work-effort is for that prototype.

If you say "Yeah this is really clear, and I can do this for $5,000" -- then I can choose to go with you, or not.

Again - $125/hour for quick pump out prototype is still an uncomfortable amount coming out of pocket.
I've used it before for the iPhone and it works great: http://www.apple.com/ipad/built-in-apps/find-my-ipad.html

Just be sure to setup a password to lock the device, otherwise a thief can just turn it off.
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>> Then, the more abstract model of functional programming allows the implementation more freedom when distributing work on the many cores/GPUs, and can make use of this new architecture

> It would be great to have some form of programming that maps to parallel architectures without headaches and bug-prone extra work.

One of the advantages of age is that you can remember instead of predict.

There are three problems - finding enough work that can be done in parallel, controlling the amount of parallel work that you find (yes, you can find too much), and managing the overhead.

Functional languages help superficially with the first but the latter two are important as well.

One reason why I write "superficially" is that writing in a functional language isn't enough - you have to write programs with the correct dependencies as well. Functional languages merely make it easier for the compiler/run-time to identify the dependencies in the program, which is a very different thing.
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> I guess my question is: is it justified or is this just my lack of experience of living in the states running amok ?

The most dangerous places are places where there's access to firearms for criminals, but they're illegal or prohibited for citizens. The most heavily armed states in the USA actually have lower gun crime and violent crime. Likewise, extremely heavily armed countries like Switzerland and Israel also have low violent crime rates.

You've got to go to one side or the other to be safe. Near complete removal and prohibition of firearms (like Japan) works. Arming all legitimate citizens who want arms works. But having firearms available easily for purchase on the black market, but restricted/prohibited legally tends to promote the worst of both worlds.
Which is a fair point, but I had to just Google "color profiles" to figure out what you're talking about.
Move to New York. I was smoking on my fire escape, and saw a dude break a car window and steal a shopping bag out of the back seat. I called the police, they got the description from me over the phone, and the cops showed up in a car in around 90 seconds. They then asked me to get in the car and we drove around looking for the guy, found him, and they arrested him, and returned the car owners stuff. The whole process took less than 10 minutes.
Mark Bao tried to pull one of these promotional stunts once.
I'm not sure that this is entirely true for Google. Recall that Google bought DoubleClick and that much of their current advertising empire is built on that foundation. I think Twitter is aiming to do something similar here.
Assuming a "great programmer" is one that writes good quality code, then I don't think tools are necessarily about making you a great programmer, I think they're more about making you a faster and happier programmer. I would probably write the exact same code in nodepad as I would in vim, but I could probably write it in significantly less time in vim, and I would be much happier and less frustrated along the way.
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But the million dollar question is whether it produces better results than a well-managed fiat money system ?

In a fixed-supply system a small number of powerful people will amass all money (as the value of cash tends toward infinite over time, the only correct action is to hoard any and all money you have). Or that's what the theory says, anyway. Is it true ? History would seem to indicate that it is, but there is certainly no consensus on this matter.

In a fiat-money system with controlled inflation the value of money tends toward zero, forcing investors to do stuff with their money. All money will therefore be used for running the economy, very little money will be used for hoarding (which is exactly what you see today in America. The wealthy control very little money, and even the portion they do control is mostly invested in loans to profit-seeking companies). Of course, inflation de-facto puts money in government hands.

The theory is (but is it true ?) : in a controlled-inflation system nearly all money is used for making people do things (which tends to result in absurd levels of bureaucracy on the negative side), in a scarcity system all money is hoarded, and nobody gets off their ass.

I'm thinking I'd prefer a controlled inflation system. Now how do we restrict inflation to a fixed, predictable value ? Because bitcoin is not the answer for this.
This has been done a few times legitimately, I wouldn't be surprised at all if someone started emulating a legitimate trend for advertising purposes... In fact I'd say we're about due for it.

The 'this app is awesome' comments, and the prominent FB like / Twitter plugs kind of lend credence to the theory too.
Twitter introduces the Follow Button
I agree, but the bigger problem with oakland is that everyone (including Oaklanders) always say "There's something very very wrong with the city of Oakland" yet no one steps up to bat. Including you and me.
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Is there a Posterous for Musicians?
A musician friend of mine is looking to create a nice, clean 'portfolio' site that allows her to upload her images, songs, and videos (perhaps embedded via YouTube/Vimeo).

There a service that does this, easily, that I am missing ?

Thanks.
Sure you have, Cretan.

[edit: only on hacker news would it be necessary to post a link: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox]
> I realize this is more of a Unix thing and not necessarily available on OSX.

I bought a Macbook a month ago, and window management being more cumbersome there when compared to properly-configured window managers from the rest of the world of Unix clones is pretty surprising and the third most annoying thing to me about my Macbook experience. (Where the second most annoying thing is the ~half second delay between lifting my finger from the touchpad and the actual release during a drag operation, and the first most is the lack of an equivalent for middle clicks.)
That's a great question. I just tweeted at him and referred him to this thread. Maybe he'll show up.
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I've been a bit AFK in the past couple of weeks, but one that surfaced last night/early this morning was that if a website sends out a newsletter and too many people flag it for spam, you could get banned from Google.

There's probably been (many) more, too (there's usually plently).
Education is always important, agreed.
Photosharing, Adgrok (Ads engineers), Follow button... is Twitter (finally) engaging Facebook?
Why post the guys picture but blur out his google account info?