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You see where you and I are coming from different places? My understanding is that in Saudi Arabia, the thief's hands would be cut off after a trial. Which is my point. I did not question someone remotely controlling their property. I questioned someone publishing certain pictures in a blog regardless of how they obtained them.

Now onto a subjective matter. A bicycle is a highly personal item for many people. It may not involve identity theft, but for some people it involves a loss of freedom and mobility that can't be replaced easily. My current bicycle has been highly personalized for my use. Having it stolen would be like having a bit of my soul stolen.

If you don't feel the same way about your bike, I quite understand.

UPDATE:

You said that "The dude lost his right to privacy when he stole a laptop." Did you notice what you just did? You convicted someone of an offence without trying them in a court of law. If we were in a jurisdiction where murder is a capital offence, you could use exactly the same logic for lynching and hanging a man without bothering to try him. He lost his right to life when he murdered, and we know he murdered, so fetch a rope and a horse.

Now some (strawman alert) might say that the evidence is overwhelming. Well, where do we draw the line? What's the rule for "We don't need a trial?" Pictures on the Internet? Eyewitness accounts?? Confessions? All of these have been proved unreliable in the past, which is why we have trials.
And underpaid, understaffed, and spread thin patrolling East Oakland.
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> I'll posture a bit and say I'd like to see public funding of the airwaves in the US - radio and tv - continue.

I'll posture a bit and say that I'd like to have you pay for the things that I like instead of the reverse. (Don't tell me how little it is unless you're cutting me a check for that amount.)
>It's also possible that I'm missing the point by comparing how I think I feel against EffectCheck's results. Maybe we're unreliable observers of how a text emotionally affects us, and EffectCheck more accurately predicts what's really going on deep in our brains. In which case, forgive my unwarranted naysaying.

Bingo. Our algorithm focuses on the lingering, subliminal emotions that you aren't necessarily aware you're feeling. Though not related to the emotions we measure, one commonly-referenced study shows that if you're walking down the street and you see a big sign with the word "ELDERLY" written on it, you'll actually walk slower without realizing it [1]. Lots of words have these subconscious impacts and you simply cannot accurately poll your own brain to determine how you feel.

[1] See "Stumbling on Happiness" for a great overview of this study: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400077427/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
Great mindset.

Don't buy decent equipment to increase productivity, buy cheap hardware because it (most likely will be) stolen at some point!

Also don't make decent money because at some point you will most likely become a victim of identity theft.

Oh and make sure you live in a run-down old shack because someone is probably going to rob you otherwise!

Stop making yourselves a target people...
They aren't, but you still have to register.
I think by 'lower' he means 'worse', or 'more despicable', so you guys don't actually disagree on that.
Personal taste, I guess. I find your browser setup very distracting.
Definitely a window manager issue. On Windows 7, the space between the tab and the top edge is 18px, which is plenty thick.
If the only thing you want of Chrome are the improved developer tools, the same tools are in the Webkit nightlies ( http://nightly.webkit.org/ ).

The tools UI also does not have issues like broken gradient or draggability
I don't have enough saved up, but my income is high enough to outsource development on a pay-as-you-go basis. The idea is monetizable but not yet. I will share once I am a little farther along - want to have something to show
Most of the Catholic theologians I've run into/read about/heard about are fairly pragmatic about this sort of thing (especially the nuns.) There's the law, and then there's what people do, and then there's what people can do better even if they don't meet God's standards.

As for Protestants, you'll find many who agree with the Catholics, many who agree with what you've called typical, and many who consider human life to begin at birth. But most people have a loose affiliation with their denomination, and I don't think there's much that can be called typical about the rank-and-file Protestants or Catholics for that matter.
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Ironically I paid 20 GBP for my last car - worked fine for a whole year (bar an oil leak that cost 10GBP to sort out) then someone nicked it. Wasn't particularly bothered - I don't use a car any more.
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I find it weird to even think of a bookmark bar anymore. At least in FF, the URL bar does such a good job searching history/bookmarks that I have no use for it, and I thought chrome was now in a similar position?
I'm not sure what perspective Saudi Arabia's laws give us. In Saudi Arabia homosexuality is punishable by death, does that give us any perspective of how they should be treated here?
If I saw someone walking around on the streets with a broken bottle, I'd be pretty damn concerned to. Ditto if they've got a big-ass ka-bar in their hands.

A hammer or steel bar, on the other hand, is not immediately threatening because for the most part they aren't used to harm people.

I was walking behind a guy this weekend and noticed a Glock sticking out of the back of his pants. It's a little unnerving that one would just stroll around with a weapon that can do so much damage, so easily, in such a casual way.

As a Canadian living in the US, I don't think I will ever get used to the sight of casually toting around guns on the street - particularly when it's just tucked into your waistband.
How was your 1st time?
Josh is a real guy, I've been friends with him for a long, long time. He's completely legit and this situation is very real, and he did file a report first thing. I think he threw the site up without knowing how big it'd get.
Although it is spam of some sort, a better description would probably be "using sock puppets".
That is an awesome experience... but I wouldn't say it's always the case with the NYPD. I got held up at gunpoint in New York a couple of years ago. They got my wallet, phone, and camera. I spent several hours in the police station reporting this... the cops REALLY didn't want me to report it, seemingly going out of their way to tell me how long it would take and how little a chance there was to catch anyone. I had to do it anyway for insurance purposes... it took so long because I had to flip through over a thousand indiscernable photos on a shitty CRT screen to identify a few known perpetrators that it could be.

I never heard from the police.

Funny because when I was peeing behind a dumpster they found me easily and had no trouble reporting me as publicly indecent (took them about 90 seconds).
it would be amazing if someone wanted to build out mentormykid.com. i would seriously fund it.
I agree but I think people confuse happier programmer and better programmer a lot of the time.
By coincidence, I had this leftover tab up next:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2600933
- Matt Cutts denying "Email Reputation Causes Penalties in Google Search Results".
“I’d gladly put my balls on the chopping block for the benefit of mankind.” Great quote! That should be the mantra for entrepreneurs.
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I posted up above: this is not a joke. I've known Josh for a long, long time and this situation actually happened (or, is happening). He's not a marketer, he's a very well-known interaction designer that's been in and around the web design community since 2003. One of the nicest guys out there.
Well said, Mr. Calacanis. It'll be interesting to see if somebody actually picks this idea up and tries to make something happen with it.

Sadly, if it did happen, I can already predict what'll come next... the inevitable whining and moaning about how bloody unfair it is that "some kid gets to be mentored by J.J. Abrams, just because his parents are rich... waaaaaaaahhhhh, waaaaah.... somebody should pass a law prohibiting this sort of thing, it's a return to the Robber Baron era, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, wahahaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa."
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I am advocating prefab themes.

The price point for a very solid HTML5/CSS reasonably-semantic gridded admin theme is $12 to use and $600 for unlimited license. Even the license is a tiny fraction of the cost of any design project.

I am very specifically saying that samey prefabness isn't a liability for web app UI; in fact, I think UX outcome is likely to be superior, since samey prefab admin themes that people will like enough to pay for are all the Themeforest designers tend to build. They're developing palpable expertise.

The liabilities of these themes --- for instance that they are highly non-optimized --- are things that (a) do not matter until you have lots of customers and (b) are not particularly expensive to remediate with contractors after-the-fact.

The liabilities of the DIY approach --- often, a devil's bargain between either waiting weeks or months to get a pro designer to pick up and complete a project, or going to market with a manifestly poor design --- are much higher.

I think for most app devs, not using Themeforest is an expensive, irrational point of pride. It's not good business.

This is a fairly recent revelation for me, so I'm being noisy about it.
i think people would have a much different view if this wasn't airbnb and was a less reputable company. The things described in the post definitely constitute as spam and violate CAN-SPAM...but these types of tactics do work (if they didn't we wouldn't have spammers) and there wasn't anything malicious about it.
It is more effective. The world's armies don't march into battle with swords anymore, do they?
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That's really great news. Hopefully, Professor Zittrain will be able to have a good influence on FCC's policies regarding mobile and the Internet.
> But that's true in any browser, no?

Safari will not lower the width of a tab under a preset size, the rest is moved off-bar. You can always see at least half a dozen characters of the title.
These languages are all pretty well designed but without tool support they can't really hold a candle to Java for those developers that want strong IDEs. Scala and Groovy are pretty well supported but still far behind Java on this mark.
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I think his point is that although the guy whose photo was taken probably stole the laptop, we shouldn't jump to that conclusion without a proper trial. For instance, maybe he bought it from the thief off craigslist. I don't know how that gets sorted out by law, but I wouldn't blame the person who bought it and wouldn't want his face posted on the internet.
I had a teacher in intermediate school (age 11/12) whose variant was "practice makes /permanent/". If you practice something wrong a certain number of times - in his example, 7 - you're learning it wrong, and your muscle memory will retain the 'wrong' method.
Most people who have problems with color profiles don't know their problem is color profiles.

More commonly, people blame it on Windows, OS X, Photoshop, or a litany of apps. Funnily enough, unless they are in the know, they don't blame the browser.

It is a very common problem though, and for people generating content it makes their lives doubly tough. The average quality of your computer display is depressingly low (TN LCD panels can't reproduce a color correctly to save its lousy life), add this to outlier apps like Chrome messing up the experience for users, and you'd never know how your content is going to show up on the end user's machine.
It's a Lincoln Town Car.
I think it would be a lot easier/cheaper to pay someone to pose as the thief...
It is decent equipment - it's just not new and shiny. It is as good now as it was when it was new. Spending 1000GBP more will not increase my productivity but it will make me have to work harder to pay for it therefore taking time away from things I deem more important.

I make enough money to be happy and not sacrifice time with my family.

I live in a nice house in a nice area (which my family appreciate) - I can afford it because I don't have to pay for a new car and MacBook Pro every year :-)

I am not a target. I am just a person in the crowd not flashing white earphones around.

Oh did I say: I have a family who are more important than shiny stuff.
So this happened to me in Feb.

I had my MBP taken with http://preyproject.com/ installed. Now I live outside the US , (in Ireland) and while the police where helpful & curious about how the tech worked, they just did not do anything, even though I got a photo of the guy, his first name and geo location of his apartment block in the first week.

So 3 months later, and although I'm still watching the guy watching porn on my laptop, I have built up a substantial profile of him, through persistent (obsessive according to my girlfriend) tracking.

So just this week I passed on the following details to the cops
- fullname
- email
- phone number
- postal address
- bank account no
- online betting account no
- lots of photos of him and his flatmates/friends.

They were kinda shocked I was still on the case, but said they will dispatch someone to go pick up the laptop this week.

So my advice; if you stick with it, and hand them the case on a plate it might work out.
And yes, I've worked in startups and founded a company last year; we're ending beta this June. I can work a little bit extra before she gets up, and after she goes to sleep. The one thing that has suffered the most has been the time we used to spend watching a few shows on TV. Every minute I spend with our daughter is worth more than any evening of TV. Every new phrase is a delight.
This isn't the police (or any other government agency) posting the pictures, its an individual. If the accused thief doesn't like that he has been accused of being a thief he can sue the blog author for defamation (libel/slander).
This was common-practice back in the early 2000s, when you had to troubleshoot your webapp in production and the hosting company didn't provide you with ssh access (or it was too overpriced and/or required too much red tape).

I was particularly fond of this one:

http://www.rohitab.com/cgi-telnet

Don't miss the screenshots there :D
Whatever did happen with that situation? It seemed far too good to be true.
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... and you live in what neighborhood?
I'm not disputing that it's annoying. Props to GitHub if they improve it soon for sure.

I just have better things to do than start a big flamewar over something like this. If you add me to some joke repo and start doing these 'certain actions' so I get useless emails... well, I'll just write a mail filter that blackholes them and get right back to work.
The best way to teach mathematics is to put it in a useful context. Want to teach trig? Have students build a set of stairs. When students need it to solve a problem they will figure it out and intuitively understand it. The primary problem with mathematics teaching and education in general is that students know the knowledge but have no idea how to apply it.

I didn't learn to program by sitting in a class having someone drone on, I learned it because I needed it to solve problems I had.
I thought according to the article, AirBnB was posting from their own real gmail accounts they made, and the article writer was the one misusing others' email addresses.
I don't see how you can realistically have either of these extremes. In Ireland handguns, with the exception of a particular class of law enforcement and competition .22 calibre guns, are illegal - period. You can buy firearms but it's a very drawn out process and the ultimate decision lies at the discretion of your local police Superintendent. There are still murders committed in Ireland with handguns between rival city gangs but the common mugger will not have one. Do I feel safer? Yes

It seems that Switzerland has a low gun-crime rate but I wouldn't be so quick to give credit to their gunlaws for this. Switzerland and the United States are very different places.

Again this is just my $0.02
"Thus, if we look at the PG analysis as a measure of his mental state, we can speculate this is due to the prosperity he’s experienced in these last few years."

Actually it's because the site has become so large that I have to be more diplomatic. When it was small I could say harsh-sounding things without worrying about being misinterpreted. Now I have to be more of a politician.
Just out of curiosity, what are the outrageous claims that have come up?

A lot of them come from sudden up and downs, with no apparent changes by the webmaster, as Google does "quality" changes. So people wonder and Google loves to spread FUD.
> The most heavily armed states in the USA actually have lower gun crime and violent crime.

Is that true when you compare cities of similar size / population density? Sure, Montana has a ton of guns and little crime, but it's also rural and has no people. Looking at cities >250k, the high-crime cities (let's say, those over 10 violent crimes per 1,000 inhabitants) don't seem to skip states with loose gun laws: St. Louis, MO; Memphis, TN; Indianapolis, IN; Kansas City, MO; Atlanta, GA; Houston, TX; and Tulsa, OK; are all high on the list.

(Data from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_r...)
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My friend's written a small Chrome extension which implements MRU tab order - let me know if you're interested, I'll get him to share :)
I know he can sue. My point isn't that it's illegal, my point is that I don't like it. I also don't like it when newspapers do exactly the same thing, accuse people of crimes before they have been convicted.
Even when it's illegal? Is this an action that you consider moral but illegal (re: CAN-SPAM and various state laws)? Should AirBnB's investors be worried about the potential liability of lawsuits?

> Each separate email in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act is subject to penalties of up to $16,000

- http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-complia...
Because doing nothing to serve up justice simply reinforces the behavior. This guy is probably out committing more property crime right now because, hey, it worked last time. Maybe he'll graduate to mugging, at some point.

I'm not going to address your implication that the police are attempting to maximize their market demand. This is an issue of short-sightedness, laziness, and oblivious focus on more glamorous crime in order to placate the electorate.

For more examples of Oakland PD's short-sightedness, look at the enormous crime wave following the Acorn Gang sting. They arrested a bunch of gang leaders, which left the unsupervised lackeys to wreak criminal havoc across the region.
404, do you have an archived copy?
I think maybe some people around here might think "don't have nice things" is not the greatest way to solve a community's crime problem.

I think a better way to solve it than having a shitty laptop that I hate might be to quit arresting people for having bits of politically incorrect plants in their pockets and start arresting thieves and muggers. Especially when they've got the evidence of the crime right in their house and the police get told the address. How much easier could it be?
Crap, my apologies, I obviously skimmed that article as opposed to reading it. mea culpa
Really? Well, crap. I wish I'd known that years ago, it would have saved me a whole bunch of worrying.
" It's not really enough to solve the problem. We have to have the pleasure " - DHH, 2011 Railsconf, Keynote

Should this trait has anything to do with it?
This is basically what Quora is for, try asking there.
Are you saying that the person in the pictures may be someone other than the thief (e.g., they purchased the stolen laptop), or that the pictures shouldn't be published even if they depict the thief?

Also, are you uncomfortable with the publishing to the extent that it is a punishment? I interpreted it as an attempt to get people's attention and thus make it more likely that his property is returned, rather than a punishment.
Okay, I believe you. Probably being a marketer also made him write the tumblr description like marketing copy, which is part of what makes it seem fishy.
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whoops, I meant that it does suck, and I won't pretend otherwise.
aside from mac os which has an encrypted keychain, how do you expect a password to be stored that is used by open source software, which has to be accessible by software that cannot prompt the user for a password?
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Same here, i love the "There should be one and only one obvious way of doing things"-paradigm of Python. Scala is in my mind the complete opposite to that.
I wish for claud time machine.
I've been told that a phrase which often spurs police into action is, "well, okay then, I've got my gun and I'm heading over there now."
Buy a couple of acres of land somewhere, at least you might not starve.

But EU is going to go down first.
There have been documented cases of NYPD not wanting to take reports. Without crime being reported, they can manipulate the figures to make themselves and the city look better. [typo edits]

Edited to add:

Start here:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-05-04/news/the-nypd-tapes-i...

Or take your pick:
http://www.villagevoice.com/related/to/New+York+Crime+Statis...
I looked at my own Prey installation and found this password, but it was just "password", apparently because I don't use the email feature. So it only affects the users of this feature.
Just suggest that you might possibly have seen some kind of green/white stuff in a little baggie on the table in one of the pictures. The cops will be there in 10 minutes.
The author uses the term "black hat" way too much and very loosely.
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It's down. I use the service everyday. I need it.
Actually, a single punch can kill you. (see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392113/Aspiring-rap...)
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