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just like bugzilla.

if you dont know what i mean, just go to any bugzilla install and type something generic as new bug title

its going to ajax its way and show you matching bugs while you type.

it could be the same for stories
None of his changes affect Terminal. Who needs a GUI for these tasks anyway? Not us.

I have had Lion for a few months and I haven't seen felt limited by any iOS-like features.

Maybe the Mac Pro will go away, but with Thunderbolt allowing additional monitors on the iMac, I bet most pro users don't even mind.
What a ridiculous mess. It would not surprise me if it's come to this. When all else fails, whip out the lawyercats.

How much will it take to make people quit(quitquit)?
This whole air bnb story is blown out of proportions.

Yea, when you open up your house for people you don't know, it can happen that you will get it trashed (honestly I am surprised this is the first time that it happened).
I.e. go back to 1998? No thanks.
Some programmer in AZ told me a couple days ago to in order to search their user profile database(location, department etc), instead of changing his web service to accept some criteria, I should just use the GetAll() method and do it locally (a few thousand profiles), when presented with the logical use cases and the little "performance issue" he quit his job.
I, too, would be rather surprised that incognito/private-browsing would share cached data (and thus ETags as sent on If-None-Match requests) with normal browsing.

Looking at the researchers' paper...

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1898390

...it's not clear that's what they're claiming. One quote is that "Even in private browsing mode, ETags can track the user during a browser session."

That suggests they may be concerned about cross-site tracking within a single private session, and the possible expectation that 'private browsing' prevents tracking from site to site. (I've never had that expectation; only that a private session is not connected to distinct prior private and non-private sessions.)
They should put a dollar amount on their offer and get a deal signed - indluding a secrecy agreement.

Offering "tell us all you need" sounds cute but turns the victim into a begger.
> fiber is just indigestible solids...nothing special health-wise

That's possibly the most wrong statement in this entire discussion. Fibre is a critical part of your diet; without enough of the stuff, pooping sucks.
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Nice job. I like the rewrite 100 times better. I could actually see myself using something like this, but wouldn't consider the original.
> To play devil's advocate: does cutting back on the transfer rate constitute a data limit?

I would say yes: if you have, say, a 1MB/s line, which you keep constantly saturated, you can transfer (1 month * 1MB/s) = ~2.5TB in that month. Whether you have a data cap or throttling, it translates to such a line getting being able to transfer less than 2.5TB of data per month.
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I don't remember which one, but Asimov talked about micro-nuke devices powering personal electronics in a Foundation Series book.
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I was going to suggest the same thing but I'll add that it might be prudent to start cross-referencing posts based on URLs in posts and comments.
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This is all true but, for the average user, entirely academic. What counts is their personal experience of the phone. What is a matter of terminology to us is a costly matter of frustration and regret for them.

I'd like to see Google start promoting its own phones a lot more, although it's a tightwire act for them now since they risk alienating the other handset makers if they go too far.
I agree, but I do find it interesting how well the iOS devices have caught on with the geek/nerd crowd...people who are usually comfortable with having to go to great lengths to get just that one extra bit out of their personal technology.

Some of that is echoed in this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823502
> "He made no inquiry into my current emotional state, my safety or my well being."

Airbnb definitely screwed up here, but she just sounds like a professional victim. Lots of homes get burglarized every day. On a smaller scale, everyone probably had a car broken into at least once. Yes, it feels bad. Very bad. But it's not THAT BAD. Not on a scale when you expect someone to inquire about your "emotional state, safety, or well-being" a month after it happened. Airbnb's handling of this case is a big failure, but it's not fair to blame them for someone being so damn sensitive.

Let's face it, she didn't do it out of sheer goodness of her heart. She did it for money. Letting strangers into your home does and always will involve some risk. If you're so vulnerable that you can't possibly take that risk - don't do it, period. It's simply not the right way for you to earn a quick buck.
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You have a better solution?
Preface: What I am about to say is a complete and utter assumption.

One would assume that ATT did some analysis on bandwidth usage patterns amongst heavy users. They probably came to the conclusion that the top 5% of bandwidth hogs account for X% of their entire bandwidth throughput.

ATT's approach doesnt really solve their problem very much though. If someone has extremely sporadic bandwidth usage but uses gigs at a time, limiting these users won't do much for solving whatever problem they are trying to solve. Maybe their data modeling/forecasting is so accurate that they are able to segment those 5% into various segments and limit that way.
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It has been my experience that Unix-based OS's besides OSX make for acceptable desktops, but rather poor laptops.
Were all the claims upheld? The article's penultimate paragraph suggests that some fell short.
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I had every intention of getting an iPhone 5 when it launched and renewing my contract with AT&T at the same time. Now I'm going to run the contract out and then go elsewhere.
One of the Starships was based at our local airport for a few years. Very impressive looking aircraft. As I recall, it was a strange sounding beast; much noisier than you'd expect. Haven't seen it around in quite some time, though.
It seems like they're trying to get rid of the unlimited plans altogether, so I'd bet they'd let you out of your contract if you were one of the people who would be throttled. The people who use that much data aren't nearly as profitable, and they'd probably love to see most of that group switch networks or accept data limits.
It might lower the ceiling, but I don't see how it could bring the threshold lower. Since the throttling is reset every month and doesn't kick in until you hit the threshold, it will only affect people who go over the threshold to begin with. If you were consistently below the threshold before, I don't see how this would cause the threshold to pass you by unless the top 5 percent just get pissed off and leave altogether.
That's not amusing at all. And in fact, what is more likely: competition on GSM will bring better service and more data cheaper to users, or a monopolistic single service on GSM will bring better service and more data cheaper to users.

If I was at the FTC or in Congress, or at Sprint, I would definitely be waving this AT&T policy around, and use it to stop the merger.

What AT&T needs is more competition, not less.
"A market maker is merely a prop desk running a particulra strategy. They have no information on Goldman's clients. They behave exactly like any hedge fund."

The common understanding is that a market maker is not exactly a prop desk. The clients of a market maker are the counterparties who take the other side of the market maker's markets. (These counterparties are Goldman clients). Market makers are not hedge funds and don't fundamentally behave like hedge funds, though I suppose both during their line of work take views on markets, so there are some similarities.

My point was, market makers, by definition, know what (their) clients are doing and take market views based on this. The major value in being a market maker (which is a huge part of Goldman's capital markets business) is seeing client flow.
I wish people would stop linking CAP theorem, as if it proves something about one database or the other.

It doesn't.

It expresses some useful things about trade-offs but they aren't necessarily binary properties and it doesn't say anything about the underlying data structures or features of a database.

> then a lot of people don't need all that scalability. (And if it did, you'd use Hadoop anyway. =P

Maybe, not necessarily.
I am pretty sure he understands compilation.
I'm curious: Did you guys start this before Twitter declared that they didn't want to see more third-party clients, or did you guys just roll the dice and hope they were feeling kind?
That "it" happened doesn't "mean anything". I think what you mean is that when bad shit happens to a person, it doesn't mean that person is bad. But even if that is what you mean, that it happened does "mean" something to EJ. It also most definitely "means" something to AirBNB. I don't know what yet. I suspect that the internet is so fickle, and that even if the cost/benefit analysis demonstrated that AirBNB is a universally bad idea, that people would still do it because they perceive less risk in events they choose [1]. Equally, the whole thing could just be overblown because its news.

"People underestimate risks they willingly take and overestimate risks in situations they can’t control. When people voluntarily take a risk, they tend to underestimate it. When they have no choice but to take the risk, they tend to overestimate it."

[1] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/11/perceived_risk_2.html
I usually use Firefox with it set to forget everything on exit, along with the Noscript plugin. Does anyone know if this tracking service would work on a FF user running Noscript?

By the way, using Noscript has made me aware of something that I didn't previously know: many sites call Javascript from lots of other domains. I've seen websites with as many as 18 other domains listed on the Noscript pull down menu. And I have seen an increasing number of XSS alerts as well.
But it's unclear what her involvement in this is. Was she one of the perpetrators (and if there was more than one, as EJ suspects, where are the others?), or was she someone who received stolen property from them? Hard to say at this point...
Doesn't this achieve the exact same purpose as logging a combination of the user's IP address + user-agent + maybe some other stuff? Don't need no complicated, cunning technology to do this...
Thanks. And please forgive me the quality of my posting (I wrote it before getting my morning caffeine).
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I rolled the dice a bit. I started this after that announcement came down, but I built the interface to be pretty non-standard for a Twitter client. I had built all sorts of other twitter apps before, but never a full blown client. I just had to get it out of my system.
Why single out Kiss Metrics? One example, I visited Fox News last month and found they set up an HTML5 database called, in a rather unsubtle choice, "evercookie". I can't confirm that this is the case currently, though since the ability to view HTML5 databases in Preferences seems to now be missing from all the browsers I have (which seems odd, too!).
I like Google and I really hope this isn't true.
Well, there's the Guruplug Display, which also has a video output.
Yep the "never before seen in the wild" ETag approach was implemented September 2010 in an easy-to-use library. Very clever, but it seems like Samy Kamkar deserves the credit here, not the brilliant researchers who found the library's approaches being used somewhere.
You realize that Airbnb called her and asked her to censor her blog post, right? Before they've paid her anything.
Thank you so very much for doing this.

Does the build for 10.7 include both the llvm-gcc and the vanilla gcc-4.2? I ask because quite a lot of software still has problems if built with the llvm-gcc (Ruby interpreters for example, and a number of items from Homebrew).

Edit: Just checked 'GCC-10.7.pmdoc/01gcc-contents.xml', and I'm pretty sure the answer is yes.
They generally relate to NFS - e.g., Linux fcntl() used to lock NFS files only locally. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking#Problems

Windows CIFS shares are fine and always have been AFAIK.
I think this article is highly relevant to HN readers. It's about marketing and challenges the notion that sex sells.

Personally, I think using hot women and sexual innuendo is insulting and played out. I have three daughters and I don't want them to live in a world where women are treated like juicy morsels of steak.

People rarely remember the brand or the product in racy, sexist advertising anyway. They only remember the skantily clad women. It's a waste of time and advertiser dollars.
In the same vein, I have been thinking about a mysql wrapper around various nosql products.

Same issue, installed base and connectivity.

Composition, interfaces, abstraction.
In Chrome you can bring up the Developer Tools (View menu on the mac, I think it's in the wrench menu on other platforms). You can see databases, cookies, etc. in the Resources tab.
Merge the article for the purposes of comments, but allow references to each unique article cited. Perhaps an indent under the main story with related stories and just one comment section.

Either that or leave it alone. Most of the airbnb stories are semi unique takes on the same stories.
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This person sounds like a real pleasure to work with. Efficient? Sure. Human? I doubt it. No wonder people like this seek more solace in computers than people. I have just one rule: don't work with assholes. I guess that rules out this "expert".
Update: SF police arrest suspect in trashing of Airbnb rental

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20085741-245/sf-police-arr...
Of course the event itself doesn't mean anything. It's how Airbnb handled it that means something. IMO, the fact that Airbnb said the word "funding" to the victim is pretty damning.
You have to remember: not everyone who works at Mantech is working directly on a government contract, and even the employees who are get lunch breaks, so this doesn't indicate anything in and of itself.
We're not on the same wavelength here... as I said, you can authorize (pre-approve an amount to charge) on bank cards, debit cards with the Visa/MC logo, Visa/MC gift cards, etc. Since that's true, an auth doesn't tell you that the person presented a credit card.
Google having more control over Android would make a better UX and platform, but it would not have allowed for Android to take off as it has. One of the key reasons it's selling is because it's not an iPhone. It's open, and comes with all the pros and cons that openness entails.
There is lots of evil in the world. Your statement is far too broad of a generalization to be taken seriously.
I do that too, but I don't think it's enough.

I use FlashBlock, which I think is enough, because they're apparently using flash cookies to recreate regular HTTP cookies (or something like that).

Flash is a huge POS in so many ways.
It was called WP Review Site. I don't know if it's still widely used, the current owner unfortunately seems MIA at this point. He's let the affiliate program balance drop to $0 and go offline, and isn't responding to support questions in his forum.
it turns out Airbnb has been offering to fix it, from the very beginning

No one really cares what Arrington wrote. Everyone knows Arrington's rep.

What people are upset about is how the blog post that Chesky wrote sounded like. His post sounded like...

"Ummm...here are our security features..."

The correct public and private response is:

"This is a horrific. This is unacceptable. As CEO, I'm not going to rest until this is made right. I've assigned 3 people to this problem to do whatever is necessary to make this right.

We are extremely concerned about this, and we have a lot of work to do to make sure something like this will never happen again. Safety is job 1." Of course backing up those words with actions.

That way, even if the lady is lying. Even if it's a hoax... Even if it's complete crap... it doesn't matter, because people know that you take this seriously, and you're pulling out all the stops.

If there's a follow up blog post that details more horror stories... And, you have indeed made those phone calls.. then you say, "I'm really sorry that our response has been less than what you have needed or less than what you expected. That's on me, (as CEO). I will personally make this right. Call this number, they will put you directly in contact with my cell phone. and, I will make this right." And, of course, backing up those words with actions.

That way, no one can accuse you of having a less than stellar response to this. You are above reproach...

Because you've done the right thing for the person. The right thing to do is to do the right thing for the person.
"The planned hardware included a 700MHz ARM11 processor, 128MB RAM, OpenGL ES 2.0, and 1080p output."....Awesome
Once it really gets going, two or three per month will be coming out of the woodwork. Totally nothing to see here.
I see a lot of ranting about sex-themed ads not being ingenious or memorable, but he stopped short of claiming they're ineffective. If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. Now, is it unethical? Well, he didn't make much of a case beyond porn-is-icky.
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Nice shibboleths!
So very sick of SpringBoard clones within apps...
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For the typical consumer, it makes a lot of sense.

But like you, I feel left out of the OSX for "power users". I use it all day, every day. I know what sequence of keys I need to use and so I want to do it quickly. This has become a problem for me in Lion.

If anyone was a serious Spaces user; the new Mission Control/Spaces replacement changed just enough to be really annoying and hurt 'productivity'. The "delay" in moving to the next space is horrible; and while you're changing, you can't do any other commands with the keyboard. You must wait until the space is moved and loaded. Not to mention there's no wrap around for spaces anymore (going from #1 to #8 now requires 7 clicks or swipes whereas it used to require 1. (I use mouse buttons for spaces; or if you use a trackpad).

As someone who knows their way around OS X; Lion really hurt me in terms of getting around the OS quickly/easily.
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Nope, no love =(
that's ok, I was so very sick of the 4/5-button tab bar at the bottom of every twitter client.
I always find the blame shifting in these sorts of threads interesting. My only comment is, if the user thinks it is Androids fault, then it is Android problem.

More interesting are some of the proposed solutions to tighten controls. So basically you want to introduce enough restrictions such that there is a more consistent UX across Android phones. Which is ... pretty much what Apple does with the iPhone!

I think iOS consistency is directly related to Apples way of doing business. If you want to improve Android and not end up like iOS, you may need a different strategy.
I can't take this article seriously. That page and this post/article/whatever is a mess. It's like I'm reading forwarded emails from my mom.
See also the Piaggio Avanti. http://www.piaggioaero.com/ One use to land at the airport near me (I have not seen it in a while). It also had a very distinctive sound (and was quite noisy).
Because the containing page isn't SSL, there's no telling where the form really loaded from, or where it is configured to send its data.

An example of this attack was the keylogging code used by Tunisia about 8 months ago:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/25/tunisia_facebook_pas...

A wary expert user won't enter a single keystroke of sensitive information into a page that wasn't completely loaded by SSL with a trustworthy server certificate; no amount of in-page reassurance text/lock-icon helps.
Isn't #2 pretty close to their tiered data plans?
Well, having used Lion for the past few months, I can say that Terminal is unaffected by the changes they are talking about. Running open source development stacks hasn't been affected. So, I don't think a solution is needed.

I still believe that no one makes better hardware than Apple and their OS is the best possible system for a developer that also needs to run things like MS Office, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.

Do you have needs that are not met by Lion?
waste of hardware as you mentioned. your idea would have been popular 7-10 years ago.
All the social sharing buttons use 3rd-party JS. You can see the "embed" code for Google's new +1 button here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/07/1-button-... This lets the sites update APIs without breaking every page on the Internet :)
Except for that virtually every single one of the biggest problems we face is a marketing problem, rather than an issue where we don't have the science or technology:

global warming, education reform, prison reform, the national debt, healthcare, literacy, food production, biodiversity, etc.

Marketing is probably the single most important career there is right now, and if there's any hope of humanity making it through the next thousand years then it'll almost certainly be due to improvements in our ability to market things rather than new technology.
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It is on par with a WII.
I would imagine a large part of this is that if someone launches a lawsuit, anything said will be twisted into an admission of guilt or at least knowledge of the offense.
Isolated DNA is artificially synthesized DNA derived from a biologically produced mRNA transcript.

If you pretend the mRNA is object code, DNA is source code, and isolated DNA is reverse-engineered object code, you have a pretty solid metaphor. Oh, and comments = introns.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm definitely going to get the SSL ASAP, and just wanted to let everyone know my thought process. The way Stripe does it is actually pretty cool. When you hit submit Javascript POSTS the card data to their servers, their servers return a token and then the form is submitted. Then in Rails I take that token and post it to Stripe and the payment is completed. It's a really interesting way to be PCI compliant without SSL.
I'm not saying she has written something bad so far, I'm saying that an ambulance chaser lawyer seeking a settlement would not let her take that chance.

The only way that would fly is if the lawyer is vetting everything before it is posted, which is more work for the lawyer. Since lawyers in cases like this are not paid hourly, and taking a cut of the settlement, they are not going to waste their time with that unless they think it increases their payout.

I think Occam's Razor suggests that she genuinely feels ruined, and that is why she is posting. Your attitude is borderline victim-blaming, and to suggest she is faking tears for money is kind of cold.
I tried to do my best figuring out what this cunning new method is, but the article seems to have no information. Is it just that it's using my browser's ETags cache?

Also, what's with referring to ETags as a "theoretical technique never before seen in the wild"? It's pretty friggin standard.
i wonder if we've made progress at all...