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I make silly knick-knacks by swirling paint around in bottles and I've been thinking about selling them. Will you tell me if you find them attractive, if you would like one, what swirl and color patterns you think would be neat, and what you would consider paying for one?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_R1dPFGJyk5w/TVBJndoh53I/AAAAAAAAAB...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_R1dPFGJyk5w/TVBKOp0ly4I/AAAAAAAAAB...
(The green one has a really cool wood grain pattern.)
Legally, I think the only issue this runs afoul of is his auctioning of a giftcard. Most giftcards do not allow this; however, most gift cards don't allow you to purchase other giftcards with them either, so Starbucks might not have as strict rules about their cards.

Morally, though, I agree this is all kinds of wrong.
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If I friended you on G+, you would know it. (well not my address) But we are not on G+, we are on a site that allows pseudonymous and is designed around that idea.
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You should totally do it... it's fantastic. Norvig makes it quite clear in the beginning that he expects you to know atleast some lisp beforehand (the "intro" chapter is a bit sparse), so you might want to brush you on your CL skills before you dive in.
Read this: http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704--.htm

It's about utilitarianism, I think you'll like it, it's making the same point you are.

(It's called "The Shallow Pond and The Drowing Child - By Peter Singer")

edit: (If you read the paper, it's discussing exactly what parent was describing, and is completely relevant to the discussion)
Fuck this. Feeling judged is a crutch.

And he says things like "Only about 1% of proposed ideas are ever accepted." -- That means he knows how many ideas get proposed in the world and whether or not they are accepted.

He's full of shit.
I honestly don't know what you're talking about. I'm sorry you were insulted by something I didn't say, and that you feel the argument you didn't make was unfairly reduced to absurdity. I was only trying to help.
The social experiment revealed that there are in fact people miserable enough in this world to senselessly steal from such a good will fund. In fact, so miserable that they see fit to even brag about it and pretend to themselves their actions were noble. The experiment revealed that the name of one such miserable person is Sam Odio.
Actually, either word is both a noun and a verb.
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Reading comprehension fail. Just because the title asserts that the poster is a hacker doesn't mean that the post justifies why he is one. If I write something about "Why you don't steal from a Texan" I'm going to talk about you digging lead out of your derriere, not about where I was born.
Quick look at the source code (https://github.com/tomas/prey) seems to show that if you wipe the HD you're SOL. I'm still waiting for Apple to release Find My Mac (similar to Find My IPhone), which will withstand a hard drive reformat.
I'd say this is largely due to the type of searches people are doing, as well as (as some people mentioned) many finding the needed info in the blurb or instant page of the site. For developers like us, we probably often Google a very difficult programming question. Others Google random questions or phrases as well, hoping Google gives the answer. Often, we don't find what we're looking for, so we don't click on anything. I'd say a large part of those searching in Bing are doing much simpler searches, leading to easier found results. Those who really want to scour the web for a difficult-to-find answer more commonly use Google than Bing, so they more commonly can't find the answer.
There's hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year with people trying to game the system and show up higher in google search results. With the amount of money spent there, it's no wonder that some (a lot of?) worthless results show up. Bing benefits most from not being Google. It's the classic security by obscurity.
I have a single word name. I got around the signup code by this: (name) Name. With parentheses.

I've been waiting for the ax. Although now I suppose it's an evite with the executioner.
Why didn't a real hacker have a keylogger installed on his machine instead of just the webcam thing? You could have gotten the guys' password to his facebook
>So why did he rely on luck instead of SSHing to the laptop and unlocking the machine?

I don't know of a single person who directly connects their laptop to the internet. This would have been sitting behind a NAT device which, unless port 22 was explicitly forwarded to the IP address that his laptop happened to get via DHCP, would have stopped him from SSHing in :)
I believe his argument is that it would reduce thrashing between the caches. With the GIL ownership of a cache line containing the reference count for any given object will only have to be transfered at most once per timeslice. If multiple threads were concurrently accessing a python object it would be ping-ponging back and forth between caches much more frequently.

EDIT: Also, "stop whatever they are doing to synchronize the dirty cache lines with RAM," is not a very good way to describe what is going on, often times you don't have to hit RAM at all, the caches just synchronize between each other. It is still pretty bad for performance though.
Awesome. What a hack. Can everyone please shutup with their dumb subjective value judgements already? Grow up, these were both fun, benign, experiments.
Sorry I wasn't implying that the software I used made me a hacker, that is simply just my profession... I use the term very widely to be someone who codes, pentests, reverses malware or jailbreaks iphones...
> How long have you been on medication? What medication specifically?

I'm on Concerta. It's effectiveness outweighs Ritalin according to most. I've never used Ritalin or RitalinXR nor would I, since much better drugs have evolved, and will continue to evolve.

> Are you familiar with street meth? Ritlain/Adderall are pharma grade long duration forms of that.

I'm not going to try and make a case against your experience, since you could have very well had a negative experience with stimulants. One thing I know for certain, is that Ritalin/Adderall/Concerta are not the same as street meth - by any stretch of the imagination. Just because they are derived from certain drugs doesn't mean their potency, effect or side effects should be the same.

> Artificial increases in motivation are silly. If you aren't inspired on your own to do something, you probably should be doing something else.

For me, I get really sparked up about what I am doing but tend to have trouble executing the details because I'm getting overwhelmed with the overall concept. Does that mean I should walk away from an industry I love? Or are you saying I secretly don't love it?

> There are ways to handle ADD/ADHD without drugs. Change the environment.

ADD/ADHD should be a multifaceted approach and shouldn't lean on any specific treatment. Some may be better suited for behavioural therapy and meditation. Others may find themselves performing fine with medication with some extra fish oil. Regardless, everyone should explore all avenues to get a good understanding of how the condition effects the patient.

> Forcing kids to take meth is just wrong.

Firstly, no one should be forcing their children to take anything. The process should be more of: "Do you feel that you can concentrate better, or have a better sense of being while on this medication?" If the answer is "No", then obviously your child stops the medication. The child actually gets a say in the matter.

Now if you want to talk about forced treatment, examine for a minute, circumcision - wrong on all fronts. There is now no plausible reason for people in the developed world to have this procedure done and yet it is being done around the clock without any permission from the human being its being done to.
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Excuse my ignorance, but what's wrong with bit.ly? Or are you simply objecting to the need to shorten the URL?
No, I am saying if you really feel the need to join google+ and you do not want anyone to know who you actually are, you can make up a name. If you personally have ethical problems with false names, then no, you should not do this. You should refrain from joining the google+ social network.
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Hi, I did not cash out at all on closing. The original salary offer was considerably below market (and well, well below what I was making before) so this started things out on the wrong foot IMO. The only relationship I care about is with my cofounder at this point.
Thanks. I'll head over Monday morning.
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I could never understand the appeal of Flickr. I've always found the UI to be extremely confusing and close to unusable. Way back in the day I used to post my travel photos there, mainly because back then there weren't that many alternatives. None of my family could figure out how to use the site to view my albums either.

Thank God we have a competitive market for this sort of stuff now so that I haven't had a reason to visit Flickr in years.
My unsolicited 5 cents:

In order to become a founder on a startup it would help if you had confidence in your skill set, and it sounds like you're not at that point yet.

I would get an office job and continue to develop my skill set with self study- It's helpful to know what it's like working at a real office, so why not try it for a year or two?

If, within the next one or two years, you can avoid acquiring a mortgage/wife/child, AND can improve your skill set, you might be able to afford the risk that a startup entails.
Run SSH on a non-standard port. Or you can have your laptop set to open a reverse ssh tunnel to another trusted machine on some event, like a file changed on your website, etc.
Why doesn't Google force you to register with your real name but allow you to display a pseudonym? I usually support Google but this makes little sense. Force me to register with Jamie, but if I decide I want to be displayed as some nickname, who the hell cares.
The emphasis on "real" life is an absurdly ironic policy for a company that made its billions online, where people have been known by email addresses ("dragonworrier@hotmail.com") or chosen pseudonyms ("dragonworrier") since before people started asking "are you on email?"

EDIT: Changed "stopped" to "started."
I personnally never donated anything significant to charity. I haven't tried Jonathan's card either (for lack of time), but if I had, I can picture how I would have felt, and how it would have changed my views on human nature and altruism.

Jonathan's experiment was letting people experience other people's generosity and let that change their minds.

And then Sam comes and ruins everyhting. And he's totally convinced that he's doing the Good Thing.

You're not, Sam. You are destroying an opportunity for people like me to become less individualistic assholes.
I'd just boil it down.

1) What is the problem?

2) How do you solve it with pixelstew

I guess there are too many graphics for my take when trying to introduce a new paradigm like this.
An incubator bubble isn't "scary," per se, but it can lead to inefficiencies in the tech sector over the long run. Given that acquisitions -- seldom IPOs -- are the end game for most of the new breed of startups, a bubble in the financing stages of the startup world would naturally make startups much pricier to the end-stage acquirers (Google, Facebook, et al.). The cost of buying a feature, team, or technology goes up over time.

You could make the argument that this creates wonderful incentives for the startup environment in general, thereby attracting much more talent to the space. But in large part, this talent is poached or drawn away from existing tech companies. Increasingly, you're even seeing talent bounce from one pre-exit startup (!) to another. In addition, there may come a point where the end-stage acquisition market dries up, because the price of acquisitions gets too high for positive payback/ROI on would-be-acquirers' balance sheets. Once that happens, the bubble officially pops.
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God I hate this mentality.

Yeah, you can exploit this, but are you doing anything fun or interesting by it?

I live in a community that has a lot of cyclists in it. If I'm at home, I tend to spend a lot of time on my front porch working on my bikes with my friends. Most of them know that I keep some tools slightly "hidden" there, and I've told all of my friends that they're welcome to come over and use them if I'm ever not there.

Could they steal these tools?

Yep.

Would they would demonstrating some OMG SECURITY HOLE in my "Ryan's Porch" scheme?

No. They'd be acting like assholes, which is exactly what this guy is doing.

I'm an amateur locksmith. I usually keep a half diamond pick and a torsion wrench in my car, and sometimes I even carry it in my pocket. Could I steal half of the bikes locked up across the street from my house?

Could I break into buildings and steal things from them?

What if I donated the money to poor people?!

Sam Odio, you're being a jerk here. Knock it off.
FWIW, Konfabulator (now Y! ConnectedTV) is on 8 million TVs and growing. Pairing that with their recent IntoNow acquisitions, if those are to be integrated (rumored) then it could be a very unique and exciting product.
Opposite experience for me. 2005 and 2008 were incredibly slow, painful, and prone to locking up or flat out crashing. I don't think I've had one lock up or crash since I switched over to 2010 about 4 or 5 months ago. Also, I can have multiple instances of it open now without my whole computer gasping for RAM. In fact, when I launch a second instance it comes up in a split second, making me feel like the core parts are sharing common resources.
What? Just sell the bitcoins and pay for things in dollars.
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You know nothing about the people you judged except that they threw a coffee into a virtual 'give a coffee / take a coffee' tray. And from that, you've extrapolated that they care more about art than world hunger.

That's as illogical as it is self-righteous.
I really want to try this out, but I'm concerned about conflicts or syncing collisions with Dropbox. Has anyone tried a setup with both AeroFS and Dropbox running simultaneously?
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Thank you for pursuing this enlightening thread further.
I agree with the shotgun analogy, it is certainly true. Hopefully advancements in individual genome sequencing and the advancement of personalized medication seeks to improve upon this point.
Ok, I'll rewrite: Why wouldn't he use his reverse SSH connection* to do that stuff?

* Reverse SSH:
if wget http://myserver.com/sshreverse; then ssh -R 2900:localhost:22 User@myserver.com; fi

Stick this in a file, chmod +x, then add an entry in cron to run it every hour or so.
After that, you just need to create a file in your web server called "sshreverse" and you'll have an SSH tunnel to your laptop.
Jonathan's card strikes a good point beyond giving to Yuppies and not those seriously in need. The social implications of this experiment I think shows that people are willing to help others if its relatable and also accessible for them to do so. Besides, I am sure somewhere someone bought a coffee with Jonathons card and then gave it to a hobo
In following threads pointed to by the various +pseudonym threads, I've learned that many states allow common law naming, i.e. your name is what you say it is based merely on usage for N years.

It would be refreshing for Google to be as tolerant as government.
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Thanks for the advice. I have worked for the Air Force Research Lab for the last 4 summers, so I do have somewhat of a taste of office life. This is partly the reason why I do not want a standard office job.
Tell HN: g+ emails loading images without permission in gmail
Has anyone noticed how the g+ emails load images automatically in gmail without asking for permission?

note that I have "Ask before displaying external content" set.
Note the comment about credit card security codes. This dude is all the way hacked.
Since it's relying on the error correction to interpret those bits as smudged / etc. - couldn't you just slap your hi res 4 color logo down on top of the center of the code and get the same effect except without the pixelation?
Robin Hood is actually all about robbing from corrupt oppressors and protecting the oppressed. There are tales where the people he protects are fairly well off, and he regularly interacts with people of medium to high status without any intent of robbing them.

Nothing in the tales of Robin Hood suggests he would rob an honest rich man.
Any actual implementations of the pixel art scaling algorithm available?
who is gruber.. Forgive me for being naive..
Is there any word on how Google instant search impacts this number? That by itself could account for the large discrepancy.

And what about map queries? Do those get counted as queries without successful clicks?
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Can you rewrite it to not use base64? Um, that would kind of defeat the purpose
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How does their permission system work? Does it allow images on all e-mails coming from a certain domain?
"took a report and dusted for prints, performed typical forensics"

I'm impressed that the police dust for prints in England. I've never heard of someone getting that kind of thoroughness for a domestic burglary where I live.
I like photoblogs in general... I also like to see photos in portrait orientation all at once instead of having to scroll to see it all. Consider limiting the height of photos to your target resolution. (Or use javascript to dynamically resize them to the current window height.)

I'm not a big fan of the blue color for links. But personal preferences aside, this is more than sufficient. With photoblogs, I prefer as little distraction as possible from the subject. So your minimalistic approach is wise.

I'll see if I can find some good resources for themes/templates.
Thanks for taking the time to write that up Mike. It is a new perspective that I hadn't considered.

Reading it made me realize something: On most of my projects, I am more concerned with how others will view it. I see developers with several successful projects and think to myself 'I want that, I want to show people I can do that too'. That has enough force to get me to start ('Look at me, starting another cool project!') but not to see it through because I am only personally interested in a subset of the problem.

Maybe I need to re-order my process. `Start -> Finish -> Tell` instead of `Tell -> Start -> Finish`.

Best of luck with your online persona project and thanks again!
That's why I have a two line shell script that creates an SSH tunnel to my server if I put a file called 'reversessh' on my webserver.

I mean, basically doing what Prey does, but without relying on a third-party service and having much more control over the machine.
>I believe his argument is that it would reduce thrashing between the caches. With the GIL ownership of a cache line containing the reference count for any given object will only have to be transfered at most once per timeslice.

Ah. Makes sense.

>just synchronize between each other

Yes, but that's bad because that cache line is 'stuck' for all processors while the synchronization is occurring, if I'm not mistaken...
Try Scratch, it's made by MIT aimed specifically at kids. The "Language" is visual, but it is turing complete.
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Next would be "Somebody who can use a computer"
I've known plenty of programmers at small and startup companies who were EE grads. I don't think you're at any significant disadvantage versus a recent CS grad.
It's not that hard. You're assuming I'm only take one shot of a scene. It's really not that hard to take 3 or 4 a second in some cases. If I'm shooting a panorama, I might take 12 or 13 shots in ~10 seconds.

I usually shoot more like 10,000-15,000 in a week, but I've gone closer to 20,000 in a couple cases. It's only 1500 photos a day for a 10,000 shot week. Which averages just a bit over 1 a minute for an 8 hour day (but who says I only spend 8 hours out and about?) but in truth, the shot times are more clumpy. For example, I shot about 30 photos in 2 minutes of Vasari's fresco inside the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo). I'll probably combine all those into one or two larger photos stitched up.

Differently, walking up to the same Basilica along a street in Florence offered several very different compositions of the same street. In 5 minutes I was able to shoot 20 pretty decent shots, and probably 1 or 2 really good ones.

That's 50 shots of the same building in a total of 7 minutes.

Riding on local public transport often gives you views of lots of neat things, and only one or two seconds to shoot them.

I'm not even counting the family photos I also took in the meantime.

And yes, I'll actually probably start looking for a replacement camera body sometime next year. I shoot with a D60, so it's only about $400-450...trivial compared to the cost of 5 or 6 2- week trips overseas.

My wife used to think I was crazy, but now years later, going over these old photo archives, we can remember in fantastic detail many of the great places we've traveled together.
No it didn’t. Where did you get a crazy idea like that?
A bit.ly link prevents a HN reader from figuring out where the link is going to send him/her. When there is a limitation of 144 characters, URL shortners make a lot of sense. I got the feeling that people generally don't prefer them on HN.
What our little hacker here did amounts to a cut and dry case of wire fraud - here's the wikipedia in layman's terms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_fraud. With all the press on Jonathanscard, it is more than likely this guy will be prosecuted because it is an open and shut case. Good luck kid...
rtfa.

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some small asymmetries enhance the emotional connection

Small asymmetries. Which, by design must be built on top of something that is otherwise relatively perfect. Otherwise the asymmetry does not stand out, and the whole thing is just a mess.

For example, a mangy old cur with one ear that points up, or a spot over one eye.