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Show HN: PixelStew - pain-free collaboration and revision control for designers
We've got a "launch" planned via a few partners here in town, from which we expect a significant amount of domain-specific traffic (i.e. a buncha designers). We'd love to get HNs take on our landing page from a marketing perspective and, if you feel so inclined, the functionality we have in place within the app. I've disabled the private beta lock such that if you register an account you will have immediate access to the app.

You can find the landing page at http://www.pixelstew.com

If you have any questions about anything at all please don't hesitate to ask!
From his LinkedIn profile:
"Greg Martin is a recognized Information Security professional with over 12 years experience and considered an industry expert in Network Security and SIEM technology." Sounds like the word hacker could very well apply. I think he used it in relationship to his profession, not to his installation skills.
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Here is a much funnier and more technical account of someone retrieving their stolen computer. In video form!

Skip to 3:15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAI8S2houW4
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This is why I have file vault + password screensaver on my MacBook Pro + insurance. I'd sooner have to wait a few days to get a new laptop than rely on: a) the user not instantly formatting the computer, b) prey finding my laptop, c) the police doing something about it.
> I don't see lock-in issues as a concern. It's an open spec

There isn't any open spec here. NaCl is a research project, not a spec or a proposal.
>That is, if one processor writes to memory in a cache-line shared by another processor, they must stop whatever they are doing to synchronize the dirty cache lines with RAM. Thus, updating reference counts would flood the memory bus with traffic and be much worse than the GIL.

I dont' understand. Isn't this going to happen if you have multiple threads running even if the GIL is blocking them from running? I'm not a hardware expert, but I'm not sure how constant locking would prevent cache synchronization just because they weren't truly running in parallel.

I am fairly certain that constant synchronization(lock) because of the GIL would negatively impact cache performance, especially since well designed multithreaded applications avoid locking for as long as possible.
I read it the other way around, that it very much applies to them, and thus might make it less interesting for Mr David Howell Evans and others like him to join Google +.
> "Since _I_ don't find the idea of yuppies buying yuppies coffees very interesting"

Wow, This is some serious sense of entitlement of someone else's money/experiment.

I don't believe in many of people's belief. However its their beliefs and it is Jonathan's (and other donors') social experiment. If you do not agree with its philosophy, don't participate in it, but ruining it would be as senseless as me trying to make a personal mission to harass people on having belief's other than mine.
Google+ finally made me move from Flickr. The integration between Google+ and Picasa is really well done. Now I can upload HD video longer than a minute and a half. I can easily share content with exactly who I want to (without them needing an account anywhere). Before I had to upload family photos to Flickr (world-public, of course, or no one was going to be able to figure out how to see them) then email the album around or post it on Facebook. Now it's all in once place and way easier.
Libya's Internet Begins to Fail
Hey Mathattack - thanks for the feedback. You are absolutely right, the time I can spend focused on my family is very different now than it was 4 years ago when I started my first company. The biggest challenge is certainly during the transition years from having a stable job to taking your first jump as an entrepreneur. Nothing can really prepare you, or your family, for this major transition - but at least trying to maintain some balance is key. Thanks for reading!
I wouldn't normally submit something like this. It's not "deeply interesting" and it's not technical, but I was watching it and thinking - computer graphics?

But I can't see how it can be fake, unless the ability of the software these days is significantly beyond what I thought. So I figured I'd ask the community I have contact with that's likely to know the most about it.

And that's HN.

So I ask: Is it for real?
I have my gripes with RVM, but this isn't one of them. I work on a project for provisioning and deploying EC2 servers. It's a capistrano plugin called rubber.

In any event, the immediate benefit is we can provide a tool that lets our users set up whatever Ruby they want to use, as we shouldn't be forcing that on them. Moreover, it makes it dead simple to deploy different Rubies out to different parts of the cluster, since everything is role-based. That's far from the common use case -- most people use the same Ruby everywhere. But if you have more complex needs, RVM affords a lot.
QNAP have some packaging stuff of their own, and make it simple to one-click install and keep it updated.

http://www.qnap.com/QPKG.asp

I used to build my own SqueezeBox Server for years from source, but after a while I just wanted it reasonably up to date, in a stable build, without the hassle. I'd hope that AeroFS would be packaged in the same way so it's not another thing on my list of things to maintain.
You're missing the point. To paraphrase: "As a hacker, I had the good sense to make sure I had tracking software installed. I take security seriously."
>We don't give a damn about placing people in Circles

"We"? Who the hell is this "we"? I love the functionality of circles.
>Luckily the thief was a smart little bugger and he was able to bypass the password by using an OSX install CD to create a new admin account.

So why did he rely on luck instead of SSHing to the laptop and unlocking the machine?

>I cranked up the frequency of reports to one in every five minutes to try to get a screen capture of him using gmail or facebook so I could snag a name or login credentials.

Hmm, start a keylogger (and a sniffer) in the background and then scp the logs a couple hours later?
Speed (among other things, I guess). I have been asking this question for a while, and this is possibly the best acceptable answer yet.
The problem will releasing that information is that it gives a huge advantage to fraudsters with limited benefit to legitimate users. Fraudsters will know exactly how much fraud they can commit to stay below the radar, so they'll max out an account while avoiding detection and then move onto another account and repeat. Paypal will then have to reduce their thresholds to minimize fraud and end up hitting far more legitimate customers.

They could perhaps identify the general risk categories (i.e have a list of businesses-type which are considered high-risk). Most merchant account providers maintain such a list and you can easily find examples by googling, but I'm guessing most people who run businesses in high-fraud industries are already aware of that fact.
I've been wondering about these services. Not having more information about the inner-workings of a monitoring/recovery service, I'm concerned about the company's ability to spy on me the same way I could spy on anyone who uses my stolen laptop. What prevents this from happening?
short-sighted is the perfect word here. Its possible that without his deliberate abuse this small project would have encouraged people to be more charitable to causes like the one he wants to donate to. The value of those donations over a lifetime could well have exceeded his little cash grab several times. Instead this has just made people distrust the idea of giving money away a little bit more.
I included it because a large segment of Americans seem to discount, ignore, or refuse to accept the validity of such things. I agree with you. NPR, unfortunately, does not.
I don't get it. Why not serve the original content statically instead of that message? That's bound to be faster than memcache.
People had similar complaints about Rails and now it's pretty modular and flexible with what you include/exclude. A proposal for RVM to be more modular with what it does to your shell would have probably been well received.
A discussion on the pixel art scaling algorithms was going on here, if you're interested in them: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2034690
There's no law for many things in this world, but there certainly are expectations.

There are many projects with widespread use that have become core projects in the Ruby community (Rails, bundler, RVM, etc). It's reasonable to expect that issues or design decisions get discussed on the project mailing list before you try and divide the community.
Really? The whole reason I like Google+ is that I can share family photos with family and make other stuff public. I could never do that on Flickr.
There is a much better example where the witch sketch from Monty Python is subtitled in prolog, but I can't seem to find it for the moment.
I disagree. Finding and removing duplicates amoungst the 6000+ photos I have on Flickr is a PITA. I screwed up a few times and uploaded photos I didn't think I already had there.
I have prey too - it's awesome.
PayPal is a horrible company. They freeze accounts, hold money hostage (pretty sure illegally), refuse to delete user data (illegal in the UK), and screw smaller users over by forcing them to add bank accounts or sign up for their shitty credit card just to verify that their account is real.
How to teach my 8 years old son programming
Hi,

I would like to introduce my son to programming. He keeps asking me what I do at work and when I started talking he was very interested.

Are there any programming tools, languages etc that would help me to introduce him to programming. I am talking about simple stuff like program robot to walk couple of steps, turn right, pick up box walk, turn left, drop the box. You get the picture.

Thanks a lot,

T.
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What I Didn't Learn In School
I thought this was a REALLY great question. While I think all of the advice already given is important to consider, I have a slightly different perspective: http://nobulb.com/2011/08/just-do-it-and-actually-finish/
Robin Hood is all about stealing to the rich to give to the poor and in that respect, I think Sam is right on.
Thanks! I'm a fan of your writing so I appreciate the complement.
This was my first thought too, but I would guess that normal searches make up >95% of searches (averaged over the mostly non-technical population). So I don't think this can explain the discrepancy.

Could use some good data.
Google just doesn't get it.
Consumer routers will typically have port 22 firewalled for incoming trafic.
clicky: http://www.pixelstew.com
Open-source software is about making software, not about staking claims to product areas and stroking egos. Linux Torvalds didn't ask for Andrew Tanenbaum's opinion before releasing Linux, and John Resig didn't send Sam Stephenson a pull request for Prototype before releasing JQuery.
Yeah, I've heard. I really need to acquire and work through that book.
Think of all the fresh water the author could have pumped from a well in an impoverished village in the time it took him to write that blog post.
> Could Firefox change their default search engine to Bing? Without losing users and causing a huge flame war? I doubt it. Google should stop paying just to see that flamewar, would be fun.

It would be insane for Google to risk even 1% of its search marketshare for "fun". And the risk here is larger than 1%.

It would be fun for you, but disastrous for Google.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878277
Well, considering he trolls the blogosphere with a new "Flickr is Dead"-type post every month, I can't imagine he was very helpful within the help forums and was doing more harm than good.
I've read some really great stories in which real hackers used SSH to log in to their stolen computers, install key loggers, and custom tools. This obviously isn't one of those stories though.

I think it is great that the average person can now do all those things from a web app. It is funny though that they still consider themselves to be hackers because they can use that web app. Another example of misuse of the term hack that I see all the time is when people use someone else's logged in Facebook session and then claim they "hacked their Facebook" because that person left their session logged in. Silly...
It's free and open-source. I doubt they have the budget for a viral marketing campaign.
Fwiw, I do know Sam and can vouch that he is not pretentious or has a holier than thou attitude. How would participating in Jonathan's card encourage donating to charity? Adding more money to Jonathan's card is not charity. One could even argue that if you knew Sam was doing this, adding money to Jonathan's card so that Sam would donate the money is charity.
Do you also write that way ( if you know what I mean ).
This isn't symmetry per se, but the study referred to here does suggest that beauty is mostly innate:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6355-babies-prefer-to-...

(They didn't do any averaging.)

This article says that symmetry specifically has also be found to be attractive to babies:

http://www.jyi.org/volumes/volume6/issue6/features/feng.html

Not sure if that was separate from the averaging mentioned.
If Google really wanted to make this true, they'd add "Import from Flickr" to the G+ Photo Upload page.
Prey is open source so, if you knew how to, you could add some monitoring capabilities to Prey to make sure it isn't doing anything it shouldn't.
I actually find the omnibar incredibly frustrating, as I know when I want to search and I know when I want to find something from my history. For me, these are separate tasks and combining them makes me slower because I have to mentally filter out the unrelated results.

I'd love to see Google vs. Apple's research for one vs. the other. It seems to be one of the polarizing issues.
There is nothing wrong with thinking about an experiment that hacks the original experiment. There is however something wrong with the statement "is pursuing art (or whatsver) admitting to yourself that you value art more than world hunger? After all, that's how you're allocating your resources."

That something is that it is pretentious as fuck.
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Sales of obscure game consoles vs. non-iPad tablets
What complexity do you refer to? Facebook has groups, it just has a crappy UX for it. Google's Circles are way better, easy, and kinda fun to setup with a slick UI. Once they are setup, it is easy to filter your content based on circles. Circles make a ton of sense to me (and a lot of other people, too). I can finally share all my information in one place, with different groups and view those groups in context in my stream. No one is forcing anyone to use Google+ though. Users have a choice and we shall see where the cards fall over the next year.
"Hacking" is now referred to, someone posting on anothers facebook, since they were still logged in. /facepalm
Very interesting experiment on an already interesting experiment.

Would everyone be up in arms if he didn't publish how he did it on his blog and publicly post the code on github and instead used it to buy himself coffee for life?

He saw a "flaw" in the system and is publicizing it. Sounds pretty holy to me. Certainly holier than buying yourself a luxury item from an exploiting corporation, meanwhile deluding yourself into thinking you're doing something good for society by donating 5 bucks to said cause.
Microsoft Research shows realtime 3D modeling with KinectFusion
I agree. Look at nginx vs apache - competition with nginx has done a lot to improve apache. Merb did more to improve Rails than anything else has. New projects with different design centers give you the flexibility to try out approaches that wouldn't be possible in the old project.

The thing that sucks is people taking sides and getting all bent out of shape over things. Even the people behind "competing" projects can cooperate in their work. Ruby MRI, JRuby, Rubinus, Maglev - all these supposedly competing projects created collaboration on RubySpec and other shared pieces of technology. When John Trupiano and I collided over Rack::Rewrite vs Refraction, we just talked on IRC and had a friendly chat about our different approaches and motivations, and how features in one project influenced the other. Nobody got mad or hated anyone over it. Even major political rivals can be close friends - look at James Carville and Mary Matalin (or don't, if you value your peace of mind).
Isn't this the same thing as PowerFolder, which has been around a long while?
I'm not surprised. I've been getting fed up with Google more and more regarding search. I still don't use Bing as much, but it seems nicer to use than Google.
On a related topic, why is google going after the "like" game anyway?

To feed it into personalization of search results.
Not sure if this is the kind of question you cam here to answer, but I am going to ask anyway. I need some life advice.

I am a 22 year old senior at a fairly well respected college. I will be graduating within the year with a degree in electrical engineering, and I do not have the best grades. That is where I run out of ideas.

When I decided to major in electrical engineering I was in highschool. I didn't really think about it that much, and I guess I planned on graduating and getting a normal office job doing what I thought was electrical engineering stuff. Currently this is the thing I am most afraid of doing, but it seems like I am getting pushed in that direction. Soon, like some of my friends who graduated last year, I will get job offers at large companies with nice bonuses.

I made that decision before I realized how much I love problem solving (and programming is a great tool to solve problems) and creating things myself. I learned python at the beginning of this summer and am currently trying to learn django and javascript/coffeescript. I also plan on making some contributions to the IPython project. I've been teaching myself computer science concepts as well, but no matter how much I try to learn, I still feel like I know much less than the average startup founder/employee.

Now I know this is because I have only started studying and learning, but I still probably will not be with a knowledgebase I would feel comfortable with by the time I graduate. And once I graduate my student loan bills will start coming, so I can not afford to sit around self-studying.

I guess my question is this: Is there any viable way for me to enter the start-up game, or are my only options to get a entry level job at a large company or go to grad school? I really do not want the former, and I would not mind the latter, but it seems people on here often rail against grad school. I do think I could do without grad school as well.

So maybe I am asking an impossible to answer question, but you did say no strings attached. If you do want to answer and would rather contact me directly, you can reach me at jack#minardi,org
I think what you have here is a good idea. Clearly the PaaS and IaaS markets as heating up and it would nice to have a one-stop-shop to spin up the servers you need. However, I don't know that your prices are framed properly. Your marketplace makes it seem as though I'm paying $12/mo for running MySQL (which is free to use is most circumstances). This might come across wrong. Instead, consider developing a "configuration" panel for the type of server the person wants and point them to a provider who can supply it. Then allow them to add "free" packages to those instances. In other words, make it clear that they are paying for server time, not for the packages you're deploying.
"We'll never see this fixed until Gruber gets the error."

Awesome.
App store is a content distribution platform (more than a software platform)
Google had AdWords long before they bought DoubleClick. As a matter of fact, Yahoo had adwords (they bought Overture) long before Google bought doubleclick.
The new macbooks with thunderbolt potentially solve this because you can hook up more than one monitor there.
Only on the 15" macbook though.
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I know what you mean, but the original Jonathan's Card thing made it seem like buying someone Starbucks was the height of charity when it's actually quite frivolous. At least this idea is real charity. It's still in the spirit of Jonathan's Card, but actually does some small amount of good for the world.
Facebook is uploading icontacts
But the face on the left is more beautiful. She has large eyes and lips and a strong jaw -- outstanding features which arrest the gaze. The "beautified" version of her face was just kind of "meh".
I suppose if you are worried about it you can use Wireshark or some other similar network traffic inspection tool to watch your traffic for suspicious communications you didn't authorize.
Ugh... This is the type of thing I love about languages like ruby and python, this kind of crap debate doesn't matter, there is really pretty much one way to write it.

Braced languages annoy me because every developer seems to have their own "special" brand of stupid formatting. Some perfect examples of this thinking are right here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Horstmann_style

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Whitesmiths_style

Think about basic writing people. Would you decide not to put a space before a parenthetic statement(obviously not)? Or like one comment suggested, you would never put a space after the opening or before the end ( unless you are just being ironic ).

It doesn't matter how you think it looks, it matters that you are trying to be different for the sake of being different. Stop it.
Sure, I've heard it said more than seen it written. Especially on news stories: "the car was tracked using the GPS system", etc.
This article doesn't say anything, as much as it tries to. Without considering the different populations that use each search engine, the numbers are meaningless. Get back to me when they do some proper normalization.
How the world has changed, Hackers use macs?
A colleague at my previous job hacked a digital photo frame to display his calendar. It had about a 6 inch display as I recall. I don't remember if it had a touchscreen but it did have next/previous buttons which was good enough for the task.
They might have the budget: http://preyproject.com/plans
If you want a bleeding-edge WebKit development tool, sometimes even more bleeding-edge than Chrome Canary/Chromium build, try out WebKit Nightly. It just swap out Safari's WebKit for Nightly WebKit while the whole Safari experience remains the same. Since the whole inspector stuff was done completely in HTML/JavaScript, you get a more up-to-date development tools with it too.

About your other points.

>A real omnibar/awesomebar

I've found Chrome's Omnibar to be very annoying, to be honest. The last version I tried (probably Chrome 14) still couldn't do substring searching for titles or maybe even URLs. Pressing control for navigation (standard Emacs C-n, C-p stuff) change the ordering of navigation items. I've found it to be very much unpredictable and is one of my main reason of not using Chrome as a primary browser.

Firefox's AwesomeBar is awesome, though, only if I could navigate using C-n C-p.

>Syncing

Xmarks[1] works beautifully across browsers and platforms. I've used it to sync between Safari, Firefox and Chrome without any problems.

>Favicons

Have you tried out Glims[2]?

[1]: http://www.xmarks.com/
[2]: http://wiki.machangout.com/howdoi/glims-development-build
The Monzy quote made by Cliff Stein caused me spit up my diet coke with laughter :) http://www.monzy.com/intro/killdashnine_lyrics.html

Monzy was my TA for CS147 (intro to HCI). Small world.