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I love how the first paragraph is basically "you can just pirate everything instead!" The second paragraph is a little more relevant.
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$500 for a ticket? As a student, I'd love to go, but that's a little much. Does anyone know of any student tickets, or company sponsoring tickets? I'll wear as much company swag as you want, and be there the whole day.
I was not claiming the problem exist with the user.

Im claiming there is lots of overlap in functionality. The differences are in the default behavior and the UI elements. In the end, it should all be one big directed graph.

I would rather state it the other way around. The fact that people use tabs, means the bookmark functionality is broken from a UX perspective.
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People keep underestimating how important communication is between humans. It can be more important than stuff like lightbulbs or hot water, which may seem counter-intuitive, but lightbulbs and hot water are mostly recent inventions, while phone calling is just an extension of communication between 2 or more people, just over longer distances.
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This is very interesting read.
For a club in Miami $400 is nothing.
It would help if every purchaser of a bicycle checked the frame serial number against various online stolen bike databases. I'm not sure how fragmented the bike registration industry is.
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Cities should levy a bike tax and use it to fund some snipers that shoot assholes who steal bikes.
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Best of all, the authors seem to have somehow evaded MIT's IPR office. (Shh!) At least, I get squat for the lead author, Maxwell Krohn:

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en...

Not-patenting a (practically, not legally) patentable algorithm doesn't come easily to academic researchers these days. The authors deserve kudos (unlike the rapacious Michael Luby, fountain code inventor) for trying to make sure people can use their algorithm sometime in the next 20 years.
This is just not correct -- plenty of white collar jobs in Royal Oak. There are an abundance of creative/web design shops within downtown Royal Oak area itself.
Eternal NDAs and Why We Don't Like Them
I would place good money that most AT&T wireless routers (SSID = 2WIREXXX) are using the same 10-digit password that is printed on the sticker on the unit. Yes, it's more secure than the old days of a default password being "default" or "admin" but not so great if 10-digit passcodes are easily broken.
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It looks like the most popular (or maybe just hyped) NL search engines for wikipedia are now down, PowerSet and AskMeNow. This one still works http://host.expertsystem.it/wiki/Default.aspx but it's a little slow.

To answer your first question: Watson doesn't just search, it tries to understand all the information. It runs several hundred different algorithms in parallel and then weighs each of them for relevance. That said, you could get away much less hardware. For example, during the game the entire database was held in 16 TB of RAM because disk accesses were considered too slow. It had to beat Jeopardy champions in 3 seconds or less.
This resonates with me. Frankly I'm tired of owning "stuff". All I really need is a place to sleep, a laptop, a tablet, a phone and clothes. I'll get limited furniture but it'll be cheap Ikea stuff that I'll simply dispose of when I move.

I don't own a TV. In fact I doubt I'll ever own a TV again. Nor do I own a big sound system. I do own a table and chairs, a sofa and a desk. All but the desk I regret.

One thing that frustrates me no end is the one-dimensional nature of the housing and construction markets.

It seems that inner cities are (generally) expensive. Places are smaller, typically older and definitely more expensive per square meter. The further you go out, the places don't tend to get much cheaper (until you're really far out). They generally just get bigger.

Take Manhattan. I live downtown in a walkup. I could live across the Hudson in Jersey City. I'd pay slightly less but I'd have a much bigger and nicer place. But what if I just want a small place? Doesn't seem to exist.

Whenever this issue comes up I'm always reminded of the line from Fight Club:

The things you own end up owning you. [1]

It's totally true. I see a lot of posts (on mailing lists) from people moving to NYC. It typically starts out "I/we need a 2 bedroom apartment". Reasons vary. Sometimes it's for their "stuff". Sometimes they "need" an office. Sometimes they've simply never had smaller.

You can have that in the city but you'll be paying a fortune or living further out. The tradeoff is more apparent here than most places and it really forces people to make choices. Some cling to their stuff. Some don't.

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/quotes
It’s easy to use a good UI—not to create one.
That's harmless.
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Correct me if I am wrong but the solution proposed is to use a free vpn under your control, my question is why do users have to trust you with their data?
Does anyone actually use priceonomics.com? I'm sorry, but I don't find the service useful at all. They come up with viral blog posts all the time, but the service is not actually something that I would use.
I've heard both sides of the argument.
Using the aircrack-ng suite you can do it for free.
We shouldn't make such proclamations based on reasoning along. Security policy that involves human behavior depends extensively on what humans do. So while a particular security policy may be the safest, most rational thing to do, it may fail in practice if people execute it poorly.

So, if it is true that when people regularly change their passwords, they pick poorer passwords, then perhaps those poor passwords are a larger risk than the risk of maintaining a compromised password. Again, this is not a question of what is the most rational policy. It is a question of human behavior, which means in order to find an answer, we need to study what people actually do.

I googled to see if I could find studies on this, and I did: "The True Cost of Unusable Password Policies: Password Use in the Wild" by Philip Inglesant & M. Angela Sasse: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/shb10/angela2.pdf I have yet to read it in full, but they do touch on this idea at least some.
If you happen to have a jailbroken iPad 3rd generation, iPad 2, or iPhone 4S, you can install UnrestrictPremium to work around this limitation: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/08/09/unrestrictpremium/
The cable companies that partially subsidize them in order to lure subscribers don't want you walking over to your (non-subscriber) friend's house and throwing "Game of Thrones" up on the big screen via Apple TV.

I don't get that. I would think the cable companies would pay you to walk over to your (non-subscriber) friend's house and give a taste of what they could have anytime if they subscribed. Or are you talking about sharing your password so they could watch more shows after you leave?
There are a few opportunities for student outreach from what I've heard. Contact us and we'll see if we can connect you to someone that can help.
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It sounds similar to the pricing effect that Apple has on suppliers. By buying out the existing supply of a component, it drives up the price on the component for everybody else, giving Apple that much more advantage. If Andreessen Horowitz can pull the same thing against other VC's, well that is going to make them that much more profitable over the long haul.
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I for one think they did an awesome job customizing bootstrap.
As edw519 pointed out, I didn't do my research before making that flip comment. I didn't mean any offense by it and I apologize.
I think most purchasers don't care, at least not for any bike that cost less than $100.
I actually think the design is great, and the target market won't recognize it.

I don't own a nightclub so I can't comment on the feature set, but maybe a live demo or tour would help convey the value better?

The pricing page to me is extremely confusing. I think you just need to clear up what the free plan actually is, basically $50 per event?
Yeah, that is too rich for my blood. Plus it is during the week. Real startups have work to do during the week.
The article links to a story about Igor Kenk, he stole almost 3,000 bicycles. He was caught, sentenced to 30 months and served 16. That's a few hours per bike, I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kenk

This isn't an American thing apparently, it seems stealing a bike anywhere in the world has absolutely no real risk, even if you still 3,000...
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This is why I don't get Hollywood and all of the cable providers. It isn't like pirating software, where it is usually an inferior product due to updates and the like. Instead, pirating video (movies and TV) is truly the best form of the product you can get. Music finally went the right way after a handful of years full of DRM - we can only hope the same will happen with video.
Totally agree with your perspective on enterprise software, and inroads to the auto/suppliers/etc being a tremendous opportunity.

I initially thought the same about lack of funding, but it is not true. There are numerous funds as well as angel investors across the state of Michigan that are poorly connected, and historically as a region we've done a poor job of highlighting accomplishments of up-and-comers. We're trying to improve this dynamic.
question: is there a flash ad running?
Every time I've talked to them they describe themselves as Torontonians.
I now have napkin designs of just this.

I got hit by what seems to be some kind of paradox: old casual bikes are targeted more often than expensive flashy ones.
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XP is antiquated in terms of its technology, in particular its security model. Vista, while not a hit with consumers, was a major step forward in security for Microsoft. In fact the massive improvements in security were part of the reason it was a flop, as it suddenly started throwing warnings on all the terrible application security practices that XP tolerated.

If you can upgrade from XP, you should.
fixed. thanks. sorry about that. too much time without sleep.
IBM's new mainframe aimed at assimilating "private clouds"
It's also a more violent crime, and one which gets more police attention. As long as you have a hostage, the police will hunt you like it's a murder case, but with more urgency.
You really don't seem like you have had to implement a lot of CSS in the context of a spec or design.
Sixteen months in jail is a pretty big risk, even if it is only a few hours per bike. On the other hand, 22 of the charges were apparently drug-related.

I wonder what his dollars-per-hour-in-jail ratio was.
This works in theory, and in practice for some people, but not everyone. For example, I don't have a lot of 'stuff' but I do have a couple of hobbies that require 'stuff' like rock climbing and backpacking. My girlfriend who lives with me is an avid scrapbooker, which inherently means she will have a lot of stuff.

It's easy to not have 'stuff' if your entire life is online, but once you start to accumulate hobbies that aren't online then not having stuff gets much more difficult.

My goal is to not have stuff that doesn't serve a purpose. Nic-nacks, gifts from trips, decorations, etc.
I believe I should pay as well. And I happily would pay the $120 monthly the cable company wants for two years if I could get a license that let me download all the content via newsgroups and have non-DRMed MKV's that I can use wherever I want for my PERSONAL use. I do not want to pay for Comcast's awful distribution, I want to pay for a license to download the content for my personal use, regardless of what distributor I use.
For me Chrome also starts instantly but then it starts churning on the disk so hard that it is basically unusable for the first minute. Kind of reminds me of windows XP.
That's exactly what this article points out in the very next sentence after the section I quoted.
A pair of low-res cameras - one pointing forward, and one pointing upward - would result in some fantastic shots as well. (Though there may be privacy and legal concerns.)
I used the word naive to preemptively deflect the bad argument that I would be naive because I believe in a working world without the current idea of copyright, something which I hear way too often.

If we take the word naive to mean "lacking experience, information or clear judgement", I would say a person is naive is he believes a world without copyright would lead to no creative works appearing at all. You say some works would still be created but the original post I replied to implied nothing would be created at all.

I think it's important to realise, there is no way to know whether a world without copyright would work other than just doing it. But I've heard enough arguments in favour and I'm reasonably sure it would.
Thanks!

We really need to fix that pricing page. The free plan lets you get empire features for that event $50. Letting smaller promoters run an event like a pro whenever it comes up.
Sure, but "asking price" isn't necessarily "getting price." And may or may not have much to do with "actual long-term value." :-)
I would suggest dumping all but the very best tech books and buying them again if you actually need them. Sure, they cost's 50$ a pop, but for most tech people that's not really an issue.

http://my.safaribooksonline.com/
I wouldn't think anyone in that industry would want their data offsite and out of their control (mainly because the IRS could get it).
I would agree with regular, every day patents describing mechanical inventions and the like. But show me software patents that show the actual code involved in producing the result. From what I've seen they usually have drawings showing the method and/or result. They do not show how it works.

It would be like a patent for a hand gun that has exterior drawings of the gun, a hand holding the gun/pulling the trigger, and then showing the bullet coming out of the barrel. No explanation of how the inner mechanism itself works. Therefore any other gun that works in a similar exterior manner but has a completely different inner mechanism would violate the patent.

That's my understanding of how most software patents are done.
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Sexism implies discrimination. Every single word in your statement could substitute racism or ageism for sexism and it wouldn't make anything you're saying any more meaningful.

Does racism also mean something else in the dialect of English you speak?
It would need to be spoken in an Unreal Tournament voice, too.
From the article: it’s heartbreaking to find out someone stole your bike; bikers love their bikes

Sounds like your idea addresses a real need. I wonder why I haven't heard about this kind of thing already implemented?

Price maybe? http://www.gizmag.com/spybike-gps-tracker/22999/ says $153.58 plus a pay-as-you-go SIM card.

Also http://www.zoombak.com/products/service-plans/

I wonder what it would take to make it more economical.
When I've pointed it out, people have told me that political diatribes are appropriate here because "x is relevant to hackers and this is for anything hackers find relevant".
Which is as silly as those patents which essentially took existing ideas and added "on the web" to the end of them. Not saying you're wrong, just what everyone else has been screaming - the patent system is broken!
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Couldn't find an email on growdetroit.com, so I facebook messaged you. Thanks for the help! I really appreciate it.
It's a streaming service, no streaming service offers to-go. Is there Netflix To-GO? No. But, I can connect to my hotel's wi-fi and stream their ENTIRE catalog of television shows. To me, that's even better than their TV experience on my STB.
I agree with you about the burden of moving books. In that sense, they do carry the baggage of "stuff".

However, I don't put books in to the same category of visual clutter. When I look at a messy room or garage, overflowing with stuff, it makes me unhappy. Even after it's better organized, I still feel a little unhappy realizing that so much storage space is taken up by stuff.

Books do feel different. I enjoy seeing them, the sight of a lot of books is actually a little relaxing. They don't stress me out the way other kinds of stuff does.

Sounds like you have a lot of books stacked around... I could see how it might get to the point where you're feeling cluttered. And the main reason I like getting books from the library isn't so much that I don't have to pay for it but that I don't have to find a place to put it after I'm done.
Excuse my lack of clarity; when I said television I mean the television screen. They are perfectly fine with you watching HBO Go on your iPad but they don't want you watching things on your television except through their cable boxes. Because the cable box contains advertising for other channels you don't currently have and HBO Go does not.
"Open Letter to the Guy Who Stole My Bike Wheel" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m68-oWBh9Ow
Ok, but also view th TEDtalk I linked to, it has an actual implementation and Jeff Han zooms in using 2 fingers.
When I was younger, I worked for a company that exported cardboard back to China.
I work for a 4 yr old startup. I'm an ideas guy but I didn't have the idea for the startup I work for, I merely do administrative projects for it. Nonetheless, I have to be careful how I word things.

About a month ago, I was at a meetup which had nothing to do with technology or the internet but I ran into a guy who was throwing out some buzzwords. The point came early on when he asked me what I do, and I really didn't want to say I worked for a startup (because I sensed what was coming) but I did because I do. Then came the 20 minute monologue throwing out many more buzzwords and how he'd just moved to SV. He was going over how he was just pre-launch and outsourcing the coding, blah blah blah. He was very, very excited about his project (at least there's that). But then he told me what it was (I forget but it had to do with health, it might have been a lifestyle app) and I thought to myself, "but specifically what you're describing is not a startup, that's a small business that happens to be online."

He wanted to keep in touch, almost as if we were two kindred souls braving the unknown and at that point I gave him the (true) line that works really well in certain circumstances such as these. "I'm not searchable on Facebook, sorry, but you can send me an email." In casual settings, no one ever sends the email, by the way. It's FB or nothing.

Being that I have another regular job (that happens to be online), I now say I do that instead of "I work for a startup." Though, believe me, if I had one, I'd have zero shame in saying it.
In addition to 7 which was already mentioned, Rapid7 says they've successfully tested it against Ubuntu 10.04 and OSX 10.7.4 as well.

https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2012/...

Errata Sec claims it's working on a fully-patched Ubuntu 12.04, provided you're using the official Java package instead of the default OpenJRE. OSX 10.8.1 has also been confirmed.

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2012/08/new-java-0day.html
We use Swagger at 3scale - awesome framework and great to see more automation - a better kind of glue!
Anyone have a summary for those of us who don't want to watch an hour-long video?
You can put a lot of stuff in a car. I have a fair amount of snowboarding stuff for example, but it does not actually take up all that much space. Camping is probably a better example, you can have an insane amount of camping stuff or a backpack full, but quality dominates quantity.
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Some how bike stealing seems to have tremendous sentimental/symbolic value attached it ... the woman talking about her kid's bike reminds me of Ladri di biciclette [The bicycle thief].
For those of Perl persuasion, there are:

* File::ChangeNotify (https://www.metacpan.org/module/File::ChangeNotify)
* Filesys::Notify::Simple (https://www.metacpan.org/module/Filesys::Notify::Simple)
Node.js npm modules now have a download statistics API
I'm saying the patent was obvious before the fact because of prior art. Just because someone was the first to patent something doesn't mean that they can claim it was not obvious before their patent was issued.

If you had prior art that invalidates a patent it doesn't necessarily mean the owner of the patent owes you money.
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And we all know how much ethics politicians have...
I reached the same conclusion as you in January. I've since walked away from my mortgage on a two bedroom place in the burbs and bought an efficiency condo in downtown. I paid cash and in retrospect realize that my need for a two bedroom place was not well founded. I don't have kids and am not married so a two bedroom place wasn't necessary. Right now all of my expenses to live in my efficiency is 10% less than what my mortgage payment was.

I think the message of society (and by this I mean media and advertising) is that more is better. There tends to be a glorification of buying stuff merely for the object of buying stuff. "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" was ahead of its time in this regard. Now we have all kinds of such shows. I fell into the trap of going along with this type of thinking but have since seen the way in which my subconscious was manipulated.

The keeping up with the Jonses mentality is real and it's hard to step back and ask, "Why is this necessary?"
I've heard that was a very lucrative business for a while.
I have a problem with people who like to call India simply a dysfunctional state. What does that even mean? The author here is hypothesizing a reason for the dysfunction. Its just a hypothesis but its still well ahead of calling it simply broken.
Also I believe 'police state' doesnt imply big-brother-esque behavior on the part of the govt. Even unending policing and related rules can be called that.
Far too many people especially Indians take comfort in calling it 'simply dysfunctional' thereby oversimplifying the situation and hence not bothering to find out what can be done to improve.
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How would the sniper be supposed to distinguish the robber from the owner?
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Pretty cool. Google authenticator is another alternative that be used via a pam module, with the additional benefit that it doesn't need to connect to something else for verification.

https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
It's not about drawing conclusion from intuition - you need to validate your hypothesis - but about following your intuition.

See Einstein: his findings started as hunches and creative exercises. Nobody though about light being a particle-wave, or combining space and time, because they were limited to preconceived notions ("it's either a particle or a wave", "time as conceived by Newton").

It's often necessary to start from intuition to get to new places.
The thief is using a battery powered angle grinder to remove the u-lock. The owner uses a key. The snipers will be well trained to distinguish between the two.

Hmm. Maybe this would be a good application of unmanned drones?