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Props to Spain. The examples from the article are interesting: "In one case a domestic violence victim discovered that her address could be found through Google, whilst one middle aged woman was able to find information about her arrest as a student through the search engine [...]." I have a hard time understanding why G wasn't willing to remove a DV victim's address -- forcing the government to act to remove her information from their search engine is pretty appalling. Of course, Google's position is you should just change your name [1], which is evil.

I'm not sure how we're going to evolve as a society in this brave new world where every bit of everything people do hits the net forever in easily searchable and discoverable formats, but it seems like people deserve a bit of forgetting and shouldn't have potentially stupid stuff they've done as a teen follow them all the way to middle age. I personally had to call a friend at 3 in the morning who decided to post an old picture of me w/ a bong and tag it with my name (!!!). I don't care if people know that I occasionally smoke pot, but I don't need it to be one of the top search results for my name.

[1] http://socialtimes.com/google-change-your-name_b20474
If the title was "You don't steal from a hacker," you might have a point, but "Why you don't steal from a hacker" implies the reason for that is exposed in the post.
link shorteners are generally frowned upon here on HN. They're unnecessary (if there is a character limit on posts, I've never reached it) and they have some downsides. So just post the whole link.
I've always thought the broader purpose of this feature is to stop spammers from determining if you've opened an e-mail, rather than improve your load times. It isn't a stretch to call g+ content 'internal'

To skirt the issue, I've just configured g+ not to e-mail me. Ever.
Glad the person got their Mac back, but why does this story and ones like it always end at the recovery of the property? Could we get an update on the punishment of the criminal? I'd like to know what kind of repercussions the criminals suffer--do they get prosecuted? I'm just curious if these software tracking systems have been used in court as evidence to convict any of these criminals.
Something similar happened to me a while back. I noticed that several smiley face/emoticon applications had been downloaded using my account. They removed my credit card from my account and drained my iTunes gift card.

Apple caught the problem and e-mailed me to ask if it was me. I told them no. They disabled my account, refunded the gift card money, and asked me to write them once I was satisfied that my computer was secure (just in case it was key-logged [I was not].)

I wrote them back the next day and told them everything was good to go. They enabled my account and I signed in and changed my password.

I didn't lose any of my purchased items and I could have had the account back the same day had I chosen to.

I recall a while back that there were quite a few iTunes accounts that had been compromised. I used a very non-trivial password, too, so I'm rather surprised that mine was one of the compromised accounts. I'm still curious as to how it happened.
No, there are no credit cards attached to my account. The commenter is mistaken. I also haven't received an emailed receipt so I suspect a larger backend hack. My systems are secure.
So now everyone who installs a "tracking software" on his laptop is a hacker. Really, the internet has changed.
It's at least no more divisive than to have Passenger vs Thin vs Unicorn vs Heroku vs WEBrick vs Pow for the serving end of things. Or RSpec vs Test::Unit vs MiniTest vs Shoulda vs Riot for testing. Good things have come out of all of these additions and they were not all fuelled by discussions.

In any case, to defend against claims like yours (which are common, it seems), it does seem wise for anyone wishing to create something new to post to existing mailing lists with their ideas. Once the maintainers say "No" to your idea to rip out 90% of their system, you can then create your new project and have the valuable mailing list link to say "Look, I tried."
right now its free and on a donation system; currently competitors offer services which do less, aren't transparent, and are mostly faux benefit for hundreds of dollars, so we know there's value.

we can easily expand this to other services such as opting out of credit offers, etc, and begin charging a one-time fee down the road
While I'm a huge fan of Google, I'm glad other companies are challenging them. After all, competition leads to innovation.
I agree that the 80/20 rule probably applies to this situation.

Novice users (a larger percentage of Bing/Yahoo users) have more simple queries and are more likely to click poor results.

Tech Savvy users (which Google owns the lion's share of) will have more queries, more complex queries, will have a better sense of their goal in mind and will iterate queries, and are more likely to leverage search features like definition and calculator queries.
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It's the same reason you pay a surgeon a lot of money. Sure, 80% of the time their job is somewhat cookie cutter, and maybe even a med student could do it.

it's the 20% of the time when things get tricky that you really want an experienced surgeon, or in the case of building software that a million dollar(or billion dollar) company relies you, that you want a superstar engineer to handle .

When a junior developer is given a module to write, he may or may not screw that up to some degree. Worst case scenario if he does though, is needing to fix/debug that module.

When a senior engineer screws up core architecture/engine code...the whole project is in turmoil until it gets fixed.
Sounds like it. When this happened to me, they removed my credit card from my account because, I assume, they couldn't get past whatever fraud mechanics were in place. That, or they like stealing gift cards but don't want to commit credit card fraud. ;)
Okay, but I'm not rich and Sam stole from me.
First, I do not believe ADHD is an disorder. It's a certainly a condition, but it's not an disorder. And so I say this: ADHD is a genetic advantage and not a generic disorder.
Perhaps Lego Mindstorms? I've never used it, but from what I know of it, it seems to fit the use case you have in mind.
I've seen them in various places in the US, and I just got done spending about 8 of the last 12 months in Taiwan. QR codes were bloody well everywhere.
RVM provides a great service to people who work on multiple projects with multiple dependencies across the range of Rubies. Knowing how complicated that type of development was before RVM, I can attest that it may many people's lives a hell of a lot easier.

And if you bother to RTFM, is very easy to understand and employ every day, compared to other parts of the Ruby ecosystem who don't have a talented developer supporting the project and if you cannot understand the basics of RVM, I would be loathe to encourage you to explore those other parts of Ruby world that'll make you feel utterly incompetent.
You say "professional hacker" to refer to yourself a lot, but as far as I can tell all you did was use someone else's product.
Where is the hacking in that?
Hacking is creative problem solving. You used a product for its intended purpose.
That's called being a consumer, not a hacker.
lame.
self masturbatory. grow up.

also I'm not anonymous you dipshit
In my compromise I did receive e-mail receipts. Interesting.
State clearly the problem that you are solving. As it is, you're assuming I already know.
You say "professional hacker" to refer to yourself a lot, but as far as I can tell all you did was use someone else's product.
Where is the hacking in that?
Hacking is creative problem solving. You used a product for its intended purpose.
That's called being a consumer, not a hacker.
lame.
self masturbatory article.
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Jonathan's card, at worst a marketing experiment, at best a means of charity for those who are privileged enough to learn about it and who like to frequent Starbucks, has been subverted to give to the truly poor and needy. Does it leave a bad taste? It might. Truly, a shame. This toy for the well off might now be broken for good. I might have used it, I might have even given to it (in the spirit intended by the creator), and in either case this exploit would not upset me. I don't see why there is so much umbrage present in these comments.
I am sorry, but mere mortals have not heard of and don't use prey project. Hackers use prey project. Professional ones.
Sounds like typical denial a la Firefox memory usage or MySQL's early lacking that have to get eaten down the line.

Not that the case isn't well argued, but to claim that GIL isn't a fundamental limitation and a bad thing is silly.

A few years from now it will be like, "Oh, yeah.. that".
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Ah, ok. I recall a conversation with a SEAsian refugee who mentioned something like neighborhood committees and such where neighbors were organized to actively spy on such things which could be regarded as anti-state/anti-party.
The real problem is not anonymity but that people who do use their real names on G+ are getting their accounts disabled because somebody at Google thinks their real name looks fake.
Instant search shouldn't impact clickthrough on links. It could effect the length of queries though (making queries shorter on average for Google).
This isn't anything like "exposing a security vulnerability." Everyone understood that the card COULD be misused.

That doesn't make the misuse of it okay.
I really like the idea and I have plenty of designers I could show this to, however, just one thing irks me:

It asks for me to give it access to my DropBox. The issue with that is I had no idea how to do it until I went searching. Perhaps there's a way to link to the part of DropBox to make it easier for dum-dums like me?
Now that's hack-zore :).
Maybe he wants to preserve commenting, or maybe getting memcached up and running is faster than generating a static copy. /me shrugs
I completely agree about the execution aspect. At another level to me the value of acquisitions comes from understanding how you will increase the value of the product. At the consumer product level look at what P&G did with Swiffer. They knew with their marketing and distribution they saw a little diamond in the rough.

I'm guessing the opportunity the people within Google saw at the time they were competing for acquisitions was the same thing. Maybe one saw a diamond in the rough while others saw the diamond as being complete and thus those differing perspectives led to different executions post-acquisition.
Wow, you are out of touch.
We do have to remember that this was a social experiment that was not just about giving and receiving sbux coffee, but how a society reacts to a open public commons.

As I said before if the experiment was really only about the coffee and not about the money on the card then Jonathan should have his tweets update with units of coffee, not quantity of money.

The experiment was set up in a way where money was front and center and coffee was only secondary.Also, if it was just about coffee why have an API?

With this twist Jonathan's experiment is even more brilliant.
Yes, it would be extremely dangerous.

As I understand the current research, its focussed on 'fixing' problems where one link of the chain is broken. So when a specific set of enzymes are missing (think lactose intolerance) or immunodeficiencies.

Wholesale rewriting chunks of DNA would, as far as I can tell, likely kill the patient. That being said, the potential gain for some to have larger changes to their DNA will no doubt compel someone to try it. A biologist that gave a tech talk at Google on the technology said he had received calls from althetic trainers asking about how his work might be applied to other areas. He was convinced that there was already some efforts at using gene therapy to 'improve' some athletes capabilities.
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Right, you need lazy lists (or generators) for this to work naturally. eg, in python:

paid = (markpaid(x) for x in list_records())
If I wait long enough is it going to be hip again to have your own website?

You can have any name you want on your own website and run it any way you want.
Chrome's Omnibar is under intense development, and the latest stable version (13) now supports substring matches on almost everything. The flags in 14 and 15 basically turn it completely into Firefox's Awesomebar.

Xmarks is ok, but it only covers a fraction of Chrome's synching, which includes Bookmarks, Passwords, Form Input, Extensions, and Preferences. And it's being completely integrated with their forthcoming Profiles feature, which means that I can finally easily switch between dev extensions enabled (which otherwise use a LOT of resources if left on for regular browsing) and normal profiles, and the bookmarks/passwords of a significant other don't interfere with my own.

I haven't checked out Glims, so thanks for the link.
They want to create a community based on honesty

Often the best way to get an honest opinion is to gauruntee anonymity, not remove it.
Pretty sure it's fake - plenty of faked sports videos. Look for the video with Ronaldinho hitting the crossbar three times with a soccer ball. Insanity, but fake.

Still awesome though.
In general at least the two processors with the conflict will either have to block for a bit or switch to another hardware thread when write conflicts are occurring. There are lots of architecture tricks people pull to try to mitigate the impact but the reality of the matter is frequently mutating shared state (e.g. reference counts) makes it extremely difficult to have good performance with threads running in parallel.
To all who want to slam on Sam Odio's moral code:

You're seriously arguing that a hack that converts money into fat, caffeinated Americans and corporate profit is better than a hack that hacks that hack to feed the poor? We should be finding more ways to prevent the conversion of money into American fat. In fact: as a doctor, there's my challenge to you: please find ways to catch calories before they land in middle-class American bellies and convert them to some better good.

I know the HN crowd is pretty libertarian, but Sam's behavior is, by definition, thoroughly with the scope of acceptable behavior in a libertarian polity. By the way, Sam's fairly successful startup guy. If you're on HN and not your text editor, you should probably be noting this is how successful entrepreneurs behave, and emulate Sam.
Depending on when this happened, keep in mind that Apple often delays receipt emails for up to a day (in my experience) and bundles the purchases of that day into one receipt.

So again, depending on when it happened, you may simply not have received the receipt yet.
Search through auction houses, antique shops and old warehouse for unique looking bottles. Make sure your paints are high quality and won't scrape off when putting flowers or other things inside. Sell them for $15-20 depending on their uniqueness.

If you found a nice bottle for holding flowers, I'd totally buy one for Mother's Day or an anniversary. This is a great niche to be selling to and you could probably come up with some other interesting things to add that would "add value" to your knick-knacks. :D

(I personally like blues, greens, purples (cool colors) and really go for bottle designs that are more striking than utilitarian.)
Email is tier 3?!!! This is insane. There is not much more important then your primary email account! Primarily because you can get access to pretty much anything once you break into email.
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Not to be un-empathetic here, but I'm more intrigued by the exploit vector than Apple's initial response to an individual. It's interesting that your account is getting exploited without the password being hacked. Does anyone have more details?
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With shortened links you have no idea where the link leads, and you can also be tracked (to varying extents—at least my following the link is registered). They also act as an additional potential point of failure.
I had a little bit more excitement than that when I found Intro to Algorithms for 10 cents at the local library. Hidden within many pages were $20 and $50 bills. Over $500. There was no name in the book and the library said they had no way to figure out who the book belonged to. I assume the owner did not trust banks or his room mate. I now have a habit of looking for money inside whenever I see a used book for sale.
Yeah, if you dig through his blog, he has some really cool model train stuff.
i dont think they will sell anyway...
out of the 16 feedbacks they have received... 63% are negative...
Doh! Somehow I got that mixed up in my head because that was my original intention. Thanks!
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I'm not sure if it's that easy for the victim to find that information. My family was robbed several years ago and while the police eventually reported that they caught the perps, that was all of the detail they left. Similarly, my girlfriend had credit cards stolen once and neither the police nor the credit card company gave any information except that they had found the people who stole the card. Perhaps this discretion is to prevent people from attempting vigilante followup actions?
I got that same email yesterday when I purchased Lion for a computer on which I'd replaced the logic board. The "change your password" suggestion and lack of a fraud reporting mechanism was strange, but I didn't have cause to tell anyone.

Also, the "do_not_reply@apple.com" seems like a strange address for an email like this. It should be "fraud@apple.com" (note: probably doesn't exist) or at least provide a link to the list of phone numbers at http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57 or the online support system at https://expresslane.apple.com/.

Unfortunately, the conclusion of this rather long thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2178698?start=0&tst... seems to be that Apple isn't legally liable for this, and that you need to take it up with your bank.
To be more verbose than molecule: Gruber is an Apple-focused blogger who gained a lot of influence in the Apple world over time. A lot of people interested in the Apple "world" follow his blog. So, if he were to get this problem and blog about it, Apple would make sure it'd be fixed fast…
It's not even that readable on my box.
With occasionally obtuse syntax: yes; with bonus space parentheticals: no (see?).

Most non-code writing is going to be read linearly, rarely more than onc. Parentheticals in a reading context are secondary, not deserving of additional emphasis that they get in code.
Perhaps he is admitting to us that "he thinks self-righteous blogging is more important than starvation and a lack of clean water".
In fact, he's updated his post to reflect this kind of comment:

"Updated: to quell the comments, I did not choose the title to imply downloading tracking software is hacking, I am a hacker by profession and have been all my life."
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I'm guessing here, but I suspect functional comes from maths notation where there typically is no space between the function name and the paren.

y = f(x)
no it's not. and please don't start with this over again.

we (the Prey team) don't have the time or the interest to pay people, thieves or whomever to build and publish these elaborate stories.

I spent almost all afternoon yesterday on Reddit -- where some guy published a similar story -- trying to make it clear that we had nothing to do with it (besides having developed the software).

I'd be happy to answer any questions regarding Prey, but please don't make me go repeating today the same thing all over again.
Yeah, but there's something different about doing it that way. I don't get to just put my stuff out there the same way for people to stumble on. I get between 20 to 100 views a day on my flickr page and I have absolutely no idea who it is. On occasion I'll get messaged by a travel guide or a competition or something that wants to use one of my photos or have me compete.

I'm not sure I can replicate that in g+.
I don't think that he is arguing the the GIL isn't a limitation, just that the fundamental limitation it imposes can't be removed without also changing the threading model or the garbage collector. It's really impossible run threads in parallel with any sort of performance when they're all constantly generating a huge amount of cache coherency traffic by updating reference counts.
I don't see that there is any relationship between a function declaration and a conditional followed by a statement block. There is no reason to use different formatting for function declaration versus invocation.
My thought is, what if instead of a starbucks card, Jonathan gave out a card for a little family owned coffee shop somewhere accessible? Then it's helping specific people make a living rather than 'the man' making more money. Maybe starbucks is good, maybe bad. But his objection was yuppies buying yuppies coffee, not against starbucks itself, or the coffee industry.

I'm definitely not a yuppie, I like starbucks coffee. Maybe I want to get a coffee every now and then. I would be interested in participating in Jonathan's experiment. But somebody like Sam would ruin it for me. It just doesn't add up to me.
A software service with an API that performs these transformations would be amazing.
Yes, I'm saddened by all the responses here making the basic logical fallacy of affirming the consequent.

It seemed perfectly clear to me that you meant that a hacker is going to have some means of finding his stolen laptop rather than that using Prey makes you some kind of hacker.

And to the criticism that you are running a product, that's ridiculous as well. Do we all solder our own motherboards? Devout Not-Invented-Hereism isn't a prerequisite for being a hacker, and in fact it probably makes you much less effective of one.
I have to agree with this. VS 2010 is by far the best so far on many different levels as you've already pointed out.
"my only guess is that it is related to the load, so I suggest you keep trying."

If it's related to load, then a better suggestion might be to keep trying, but later. :)

I'm reading the pdf now, so far so good. Thanks.
I was wondering that too. I was thinking that perhaps this guy had gone and screwed around with his social network given the facebook screen cap at the end. Of course if someone steals your laptop, and using software you've installed you keylog all their secrets and you use their credit card to buy themselves a hundred pizzas each from 10 stores around town, that would be a bit much perhaps.

I know from experience (not me of course, but that of some kids who stole some stuff from a neighbor) that juveniles who are caught and convicted of petty theft basically get a slap on the wrist, a stern warning about what will happen if they do it again, and sent home.
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It would, as you make a lot of instant queries with no clickthroughs before you end up typing your full query.