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The MBPs are still pretty good and parts that I want to replace are still user serviceable (RAM, HD, optical drive - everyone should replace theirs with a 2nd HD).

The Mac Minis still have user replaceable RAM but the HD is not super easy to get to.

The iMac is pretty bad. You need suction cups to remove the screen from the body to service it.

I don't think they are going to bother too much about what software you can run. But hopefully they make basic parts like the HD and RAM MORE user serviceable.
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And that's a good reason to avoid Airbnb, not a good reason to give a stranger your keys.
Maybe it was copied from another source and slapped in there to sound educated.
Game Theory + MVT? That is tantalizingly interesting, you can't just leave us hanging! I would love to hear, (or be directed to) a more detailed explanation of this!
I think you misunderstand me, so I'll try to clarify.

I'm not saying that ordering a third-party drive from Amazon is some insurmountable obstacle, I'm saying it is a small inconvenience that will result in a measurable difference in behavior because defaults matter (often much more than we think - see the studies on opt-in vs opt-out 401(k) enrollment).

I'm also not arguing that there will be a smaller selection of ripped movies on bittorrent or whatever. I'm arguing people will use ripped movies less and, in particular, will use rips of their own collections less (and even watch their own collections less on their computer, but I think that effect is less interesting) because the optical drive is less convenient:

- they're less likely to have it at all (as argued above)

- it might not be at hand when you want to use it (particularly if you're not at home)

- using an external drive is flat-out physically less convenient than an internal one (particularly if you need to keep your drive and computer plugged in and/or have other peripherals in the mix...)

Why would it matter that people are ripping their own collections less? Because the norms around ripping your own collection come from CD ripping and the norms around downloading movies from bittorrent come from piracy. Many more people are willing to do the former than the latter. In other words, ripping your own collection is very useful and is fundamentally different from pirating. The convenience of ripping DVDs you own is an important factor that will affect people's video consumption and I think that effect is growing with time.

I'm also not claiming that there is a complex conspiracy going on. I'm saying that, from a consumer's perspective, Apple's judgment about whether or not "the optical drive is done" is compromised. For that matter, this compromised judgment may manifest itself consciously or unconsciously.

Apple decision-makers might unconsciously make any or all of the following mistakes (as well as others):

- underestimating the usability of DVD rips

- overestimating the usability of iTunes video by not considering niche drawbacks (e.g. subtitle issues)

- underestimating the desire of people to have video on non-Apple devices (e.g. Android phones or tablets)

To put it another way: Even though Apple has better technical judgment overall, I'm more willing to trust Lenovo or Dell's judgment about whether or not "the optical drive is done" because they don't face the same conflicts of interest that Apple does.
Civil disobedience is only one of many forms of activism. The people who ran the underground railroad were in no hurry to make their identities known. Where they any less activists for it?

An arrested hacker activist is a hacker inactivist. Expecting them to allow themselves to become arrested is absurd.
Even then, I know plenty of people who are never assholes, even in an off moment.
"[While] the rest of the financial sector was busy pumping rocket-grade helium into the credit bubble, a young Bridgewater investment associate named [...] "

Helium is not explosive.
Screw Facebook Ads and Spam
Finally a cheap and simple way to see and interact with all my Facebook feeds.
250 Cameras, A Day Of Soldering, Zero CGI: Party's Mind-Bending Music Video
"saying you can avoid arrest by running faster"

Is that false? If they cannot catch you, how can they arrest you?
LulzSec Member Topiary arrested in the Shetland Islands
I'm just as interested to know who the lawyers were.
Who rips movies? That’s even nerdier than ripping CDs which also hardly anyone does. It doesn’t matter. Pirating has to be far more prevalent than ripping movies.

I’m not sure what all that judgment talk of yours is about. Optical drives are done for me personally. I have no use whatsoever for an internal optical drive and I actually can’t think of anyone I know who would really need one. I will certainly never ever again buy a PC with an internal optical drive. That has nothing to do with Apple’s choices. It’s my personal choice and I will be very happy if Apple will sell me a product that fits my personal choice. If not I will have to buy something else.

What do I care for Apple’s reasons? (I don’t think they are absurd like you paint them.)
The box is still my property, even though it is in somebody else's data center. My ISP has physical access, so it's not like it's uber secure, but there are a comforting number of hoops that they'd need to jump through to grovel through my mail spool.
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Gas of price has relatively little to do with the business actually operating the gas station [1]. You'll see that on average, you have something like 20 cents going to "Distribution Costs, Marketing Costs, and Profits" at 4 dollars a gallon. You're not going to be able to squeeze much out of that.

Unfortunately, I can't get a source to it, but from what I remember, the margins on gas are already so thin that most profit at gas stations come from the random other stuff they sell. I mean think about it... 20 cents (maybe) for a gallon of gas, or like 80 cents (or more) for a can of pop.

Also, a side effect of the razor thin margins, as well as the relatively fixed consumption pattern means that while price at the pump tracks crude prices going up almost instantly, on the way down, every single gas station wants to be able to enjoy their extra margins for as long as possible, so they reduce their prices slower. And this clustering phenomenon just encourages that even more, since the moment you undercut your competitor, they'll know in like 5 minutes or something and match you, and now both of you just missed out a bunch of extra cash.

Edit: silly me, linky here: [1] http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/gasoline/margins/index.php
This. I definitely think this entire situation calls into question the feasibility of Airbnb’s continued success and their business model in general. They’ll need to find some way to address these problems to maintain confidence in the site, and as the site’s audience grows it may not even be possible to do so.

I don’t dispute any of these things—my only real point was that it’s completely off-base to call Airbnb immoral for not compensating the woman.
One problem worth thinking about is unless you very carefully pick your words, there's a lot of potential for accidental offensiveness.

I'd hate to have to explain things to a user with 0b2f:3354 in their address.
Bullshit. The entire idea behind a sit in is a number of people consuming disproportionate resources of an establishment. You don't participate in a sit in by using the amount of resources that a single person might normally reasonably use.

I suggest you read this article, since I am beginning to suspect you are operating under a very very distorted definition of the term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in
Interesting notation :)

I agree that the starting move I proposed was sub-optimal. That was an arbitrary move I chose to get the idea in motion.

That algorithm is optimal in a greedy sense--going for the most immediate gains with no memory or foresight. I think this is where the game starts failing as a model for reality. The optimal game algorithm would probably have enough look-aheads to force the other players to the other side, and then take the 'majority' 1+ by moving to that same side, but closest to the 0, giving it 1 + an infinitesimal market share on the other side.

In reality, there are moving costs and one does not simply "win" when holding a majority market share. Perhaps a redefinition of the game is in order?
The lawyers in this situation had a clearly defined client whom they had an ethical obligation to represent zealously. I don't know any of the particulars, but let's assume their official client was the corporation, and the board, stacked with the VCs, duly voted on this course of action. The lawyers were then just doing their job properly, under this assumption, and serving their actual client, not making a calculated betrayal. The only ones responsible for the VCs' decision are the VCs.

Of course founders could and probably should have their own lawyers advise them in deals with outside investors.
the only interests proposing the demise of anonymity are those who would profit from it
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Smiasm - Reverse engineering framework
Zen: A cross-platform functional programming language for C++ developers.
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Within in hour this guy comes up with an idea, posts it to Reddit for feedback, and launches. Has no prior experience with website development. Maybe it will never get off the ground and maybe it will fail, but the effort is admirable.

What idea have you been sitting on?
get user-agent info from twitter, or provoke them into visiting a link, and possibly load malware. no browser is really safe in a targetted attack

This is certainly the most direct way. I'd be pushing exploits from the twitter data center and sharing links to funny/cool #antisec whatever in irc hangouts. The client is almost always the weakest link here, and with people using multiple devices you get lucky once or twice and get some malware on a phone or pc.

If you're investigating foreign hackers on foreign soil you have a lot of leeway in terms of back hacking them, the US is definitely using this kind of approach in anti-terror.

Once you get the right guy and know it's him, share the details with the local authorities and let them figure out what legal info they have to build a case now that they know who they're after.

The other way I'd do it is with a fleshed out honeypot. Set up something tempting with two stages of flaws and some good documents. Bring the first flaw to on of the farm irc channels with something semi-juicy you got out of it. They'll probe the rest of the system and find the second dangled SQLi flaw and some juicy data. If you can set up and watch them in advance some mistakes will generally be made, and whatever documents and executables you leave to get stolen will probably end up being handled in an unsafe fashion. Think how tempting a VPN software token authenticator would be to run, and I highly doubt that stuff would get RE'd before it got run. If you can get them to voluntarily run some software they stole from you you won't be needing a warrant in advance.
The only due diligence possible is an AirBnB-provided, essentially anonymous, IM conversation. Anyone who attempts to use the AirBnB service who isn't running a legitimate short-term rental property (with all the associated insurance and safeguards) is playing russian roulette with their property and possessions. And if they're home during the rental they're potentially risking life and limb.

This is a failure of the business model. If they are unwilling to get into the business of creating a safe, vetted community for short-term rentals, they need to disallow personal rental properties and stick with full-time rental companies.
They did not build the business this way. That was something done years ago by a single contractor without their knowledge, and it had an insignificant effect on their growth.

Edit: Actually it sounds like it was several contractors (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/07/1-billion-1-br-amazin...)
I'm surprised that Boston isn't already the equivalent to Silicon Valley for the eastern seaboard.
Within in hour this guy comes up with an idea, posts it to Reddit for feedback, and launches. Has no prior experience with website development. Maybe it will never get off the ground and maybe it will fail, but the effort is admirable.

What idea have you been sitting on?
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I agree, his arrest was probably not politically motivated. However, I believe the way the authorities proceed with prosecution and punishment will be influenced by Aaron's other activities.
Are opinions hallmarks of egos as well?
I replied to the other comment you made saying the same thing elsewhere on this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2815183
One faces the posibility of those horrible loses each day, but obviously you are increasing your risk with AirBnB.

But a nutter having your key is just a minor detail if entry is desired; and with AirBnB at least you get a cash reward for your risk.
I've also heard this from a guy who works as a tech at a gas station. They make way more off of lottery tickets, alcohol, and other various things than actual gas. And he also went on about car washes, how freaking well they do and how little maintenance is required for the things to make a lot of money.
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> SQLite-based interface to BDB

One thing I didn't get about SQL API for BDB, how does something like

select * from users where name!='tom'

work ?
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They were hoping nobody would notice. I'm sure they've been working on changes as a result of this since June and have had a response plan in place as well, but in their ideal world, this would have never made it to the top of HN and other sites, and TechCrunch would have never gotten involved.

Why point people towards something that will always give you a black eye when they could say "see the new features we have to keep you safe" instead?

FWIW, similar to PayPal paying well north of $100M to really learn how to do fraud prevention, AirBnB should consider the cost of making things right for her as part of the cost of learning how to rent safely. Not doing so is a very short-term decision that reduces trust in their ecosystem and trust is fundamental to their success.
At least on AirBNB you can always decline a (potential) booking, so if you always want [x] days, you can simply always decline if the booking is that soon.
Nah. HTML5™ killed Flash and supposed to work very smoothly everywhere.
The RIM Death Knell
Now that's how you do idea proofing.
Wouldn't our evaluation depend a lot on your model of how invites would spread across the social graphs of users? I'd think that the user base would expand until the sub-marginal user had been invited. Given that the value of the network is largely determined by the user base, that user might be found fairly early in the invite process.

Given that G+ probably had a heavily concentrated set of initial invites, I think it's a safe bet that it's largely done growing for now. That's probably good for Google, though; I imagine it makes the feedback better for this stage of development while being fairly easy to handle.
From Business Idea to Successful Startup in Three Months
This is not HTML5 fullscreen video, this is Safari 5.1 fullscreen video.
Agree, lawyers have the resposability to represent their clients regardless of their own interest, its actually unethical and illegal to do otherwise. VC were just asshole, lawyers committed malpractice.
They already did and I was very happy to pay for the personal account. I get tremendous value from them.
Would it be accurate to say that the cult-like atmosphere was intentionally created to dissuade people from unethical behavior in a field that is rife for that sort of behavior? I.e. if you can control people in a field that is overflowing with excess then you can be confident that they'll be loyal employees.

I'm not criticizing people for wanting to get filthy rich, but brainwashing people into conforming to corporate standards for the sake of harmony seems not only insidious but evil. YMMV...
New York Magazine looked at the same stuff and saw hope:

http://nymag.com/news/media/new-york-times-2011-8/
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You're right about the financial expected value, but I think you might be disregarding the trust aspect of the transaction, which I think was why Airbnb was so successful. Buying into the brand reinforces a particularly optimistic world view that people who are likely to use Airbnb enjoy.

Plus, when you are giving your key to another person, the risk is not just monetary, but the additional emotional risk of just being violated. I think it was very telling that EJ was particularly betrayed by the lies in the ongoing email updates and not just the monetary loss.
Many good companies start out as side projects that grew to the point of crowding out the full-time job. The odds of it happening are lower than if your startup is your full-time job - which already gives low odds - but it's much higher odds than if you're not working the side projects.
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I actually really enjoy cleaning up huge legacy codebases. Maybe there's also someone out there who likes building internal apps for performance reviews.
Pleas please please tell me this is a joke? Set numbers of PDF checkouts? I don't know if I should weep or vomit.
I am not going to argue that living that long is anything but the tail end of a huge bell curve. My point is simply there is no need to extrapolate when there are some actual numbers to work with. And when you look at the numbers you find that just like IQ the bell curve for lifespan is a little fatter at the tip than you might expect. At the same time there is a dip in rates of deaths ~10 so you are more likely to die at 1 than 21.
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Rails Testing Tools in Real Life
A post about all the good testing tools used during a 6 month Rails project.
As the story goes, McDonalds had a very sophisticated system for finding locations. They were constantly doing geographical analysis, looking at development plans, and so on. Meanwhile Burger King did not. Burger King would look where they were opening a McDonalds and try to place a store nearby.

Eventually Burger King figured out that the McDonalds' locations were generally more prominent and easily accessible than their own. For example, a McDonalds might be convenient to rush hour traffic, while the nearby Burger King was on the wrong side of the freeway or required a U turn to access. They may have also realized that, when given the choice, more people prefer McDonalds. Their copycat approach was hurting sales.

Eventually, Burger King built up their own location-finding capabilities and started locating stores in places where McDonalds was not.
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Awesome - it's one of my favorite "discoveries". The day true mathematicians enter the CRO field the rest of us are toast.

I will 100% write up a blog post on this some day - hit me up via my user name contact details and I'll point you in right direction in the meantime.
The trouble with exponential discounting and how we undervalue the future
People wouldn't say that if they didn't mind Flash.

Flash sucks, and it's worth our while to hope for better.
And the funny thing is it's largely psychological. You're giving them almost[1] the same information whether you create and "account" or not.

[1] The only exception being a user-defined password.

[EDIT] I think I've solved this in a win-win manner on my project.

* No register or login.
* Detail page with link at top: "Been here before? Login to pre-fill the fields if you want to."
* An *optional* password field with a note: "If you want an account, enter a password."
* If the user doesn't enter a password and wants to login later, a link in the password create/reset email sets them up.
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The application of Hotelling's Law to public choice theory breaks down in voluntary voting scenarios because the full spectrum of voters is no longer present.

It does work, roughly, when voting is made compulsory.

Australia, where voting is compulsory, has quite a quite pedestrian, quite retail sort of politics. There's sloganeering and accusations of skullduggery, but most of the pitch is usually quite unrhetorical in its format. Policy debates are closely aligned on the median voter, and both major parties work tirelessly to position themselves in that centrist position.

The USA, where voting is voluntary, has a mix of soaring rhetoric and absolutely maximised negativity.

The difference is that in Australia, you're looking at the people who are "on the beach". In the USA, the goal is to deter the other guy's customers from turning up at all, while ensuring that yours do. Hence the mix of beauty and bile.

Edit: removed surplus apostrophe. The unutterable shame.
That's a step few people will bother to take, just as is the case with most vacation rentals. A credit card is enough ID for even commercial operations.

Her only real mistake was to leave her "passport, cash, credit card...grandmother’s jewelry...camera, iPod, an old laptop, and my external backup drive...birth certificate and social security card" in the apartment. It seems they were locked in a closet, but removing them from the house altogether would have taken a lot of the sting out of this unfortunate experience.
tarsnap is good, but try to teach your [insert] on how to use the tar command and what [sb]crypt means.
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who returned in time to be kids Gargamel too have friends in the form of an objection that is immoral well this film will make the kids will feel comfortable with this movie.
Considering how little we know of the facts, and that it's a "very well-known Valley firm", it's a bit premature to conclude that the lawyers committed malpractice.
Folks that are good at making money to invest in folks solving big problems. I don't get it.
Exactly. People (including myself who used the service) felt that it was more legit than Craigslist when in fact, they have the same financial protection.
with this headline the magical voice-over told me he was fired from hacker news.
this has taken too long for this to happen. If you note in EJ's post, she states that she would not be compensated for any damages and she was on the hook. Airbnb didn't step up to the plate until it was posted on Techcrunch.

Is this really the case? EJ's post from June says this in the fifth paragraph: "They have offered to help me recover emotionally and financially". I cannot find anything in her original post that contradicts that. Can you point me to a paragraph number and sentence where you are getting the info that she originally would not be compensated?

The only source for the idea that EJ would not be compensated seems to be the original TC article from today. That was sourced from a company spokesperson who was citing policy, and was contradicted by Chesky's post here. Given the original blog post, it seems a lot more probable that this is a detail that TC (and Airbnb's spokesperson) got wrong, not that Airbnb changed their mind.
A simple rule of thumb for fast food, petrol stations and other "drive by" businesses is that they will position themselves on the side of the road dominated by "homeward" traffic.

Most folk in the morning are anxious to get to work on time.

But on the way home, you can catch them on an impulse.

It's not an ironclad rule, but look around and you'll see what I mean.