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Can you make an RFID tag that you can embed in the bike such that it's easy to scan at a small distance, but also hard for the thieves to fry it or remove it? Because in order to be successful it would be to be standardized and if standardized the thieves would fry it if easy.
You forget the impact of computer viruses on Windows migrations. In 1997, I had some friends with Windows 3.11 boxes, absolutely loaded with games and other software. They loved Windows 3.11, but were preparing to migrate to Windows 97 because all the "Anti-virus" vendors no longer supported Windows 3.11, and the Windows 3.11 malware was eating them alive.
I've been reading a lot of books on the subject lately and I think that's exactly how a lot street-level dealers (the lowest ranked members of the empire) are operating. The dealer would hide their product somewhere close by, for example in an empty soda can in a garbage bin or in a crack in the pavement. Once a client has made a purchase the dealer would tell the client where his stuff is hidden and the client can then go and take it.

If a dealer was busted he would never have any product on him, and the risk is relatively low if you consider that these people usually deal in units worth probably less than 20$ each. So if a package gets stolen or lost it's no big deal really.
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Yes! Or a bar code/serial number encrusted in bikes' structure would do. Only this requires efforts from bike brands, owner, or shops to obtain a sustainable back-end tracking infrastructure.
I'm also an Android user who would be interested in an Android version.
Yup; recently had my REAR wheel stolen (a large pain to replace tire, tube, wheel, AND cassette). Now I lock both of them.
So throw an extra character in there somewhere.
But you could make possession of stolen property (the bike) a major crime with prison and financial punishment and you weaken the demand side of things.

In legal terms, you'd have a problem with proportionality—that is, the idea that the punishment needs to fit the crime. This is partially a problem with fairness and partially a problem with incentives: if you give someone the same punishment for, say, stealing a bike and for beating someone up, then if you want to steal someone's bike you might as well beat them up to steal the bike.

If you follow this logic, you eventually get to something like 18th C England, where a LOT of stuff was punishable by death, which led to large problems with murder: if you're going to be killed for stealing, you might as well kill someone, then steal, since you've just eliminated the witness.
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Small circle, like spooning something, hooking a fish with a rod, or hooking spaghetti on a fork, would target the area, and the line length would control the size.

A simple(r?) overall movement, with one finger.
I think that viruses stopped being a threat sometime around 2003.
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There's a tool that will commit changes to /etc before every apt-get install.

This might be what I'm thinking of: http://joeyh.name/code/etckeeper/
My fiance's bike was stolen a few months ago. By coincidence someone who was a friend of a friend of her's ended up buying it off of craigslist. We discovered this when he arrived at a BBQ riding her bike. When we asked about the details of his purchase, he sent us all the email correspondance with the bike thief.

The thief had actually given him the serial number of the bike, which he checked in the online police database and it returned no hits. The catch was that the thief slightly altered the serial number so that it wouldn't yield any hits. When he went to actually look at the bike he didn't notice the subtle difference in the serial number and assumed it to be legit.
I will look at your links when I have time. My initial reaction to what you wrote is to look to history. Before the 20th century college was expensive and rare. It's costs were very much out of the range of the middle class. Perhaps we will revert to the historical mean of university being for the rich, the bright, and the highly motivated.
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Yeah, I agree. The app is an interesting take on productivity. I haven't seen anything that does countdowns. But my initial reaction was "whoa, terrible font". Also try left justifying the labels and have the uinavbar label font match.
Here in the UK, about 850 sq ft is the average for a new home. Less than half. Please do not complain about having lots of room until you've had to live here :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14916580

When it comes to governments and houses, the British public are idiots who accept whatever is waved in front of them
My vague understanding of pg_upgrade is that it just updates the metadata tables; any data changes that need to be made (which is very rare) are usually then done online and incrementally during updates... it should be a very fast operation.
Sleeping problems is a pretty extreme case. If the tablet or laptop pushes your sleep time back to midnight from 10 PM, that could be a large and significant effect even if one doesn't consider it 'a problem'.

(In some groups, this might be a problem, and the paper specifically mentions them: adolescents already have a sleep schedule that has been pushed back by puberty, love their gadgets, and have hard and early wake-up times. The result: highschoolers spend the first few classes half-asleep.)
>Tangentially, and pardon my ignorance, I'm not a biker: I can't
>understand people who shell out thousands of dollars for a bike,
>are these so much better than a $500 one?

They are better. They aren't 5x better (as if this was even quantifiable)... but if you are passionate about biking and you spend a lot of time on your bike, it can seem worth it.

I spend much more time on my bike than in my car... and I appreciate the improved ride of associated with an extra $1000 on a bike more than I'd appreciate the improvements from spending an extra $5000 on a car. So, it certainly seems reasonable to me.
Well, I can see that this app is going to be useful for me (assuming I don't forget to use it). Thanks for making it! A few comments:

- I'd like to start multiple tasks at the same time (like running, and listening to music--done at the same time, but have different limits)

- Make the granularity of time equal in 'Today' (curr min: seconds) and 'Goal' (curr. min: minutes)

- 'Goal tracking' on/off was a bit confusing, I think because it's on the screen that manages the goal and not on the one that creates it.
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Patent protection should be proportional to the value of the invention

He was making sense up until that point. The value of patent protection to society is determined by the potential harm done to the progress of science and the useful arts that would result if the IP had been kept as a trade secret. In the case of pinch-and-zoom gestures the net benefit to society gained by allowing Apple to own the idea is demonstrably nonexistent.

Apple sold a hundred million iPhones before they ever set foot in a courtroom. Clearly patent protection was not necessary to allow them to recoup their investment a thousand times over. Meanwhile, the harm done to competition by granting them a 20-year monopoly on the basic UI paradigm is easily estimable in the trillions of dollars, if they succeed in enjoining Samsung and other manufacturers.
A few thoughts

* WPA2 hasn't been 'cracked'
* Without 'passwording', all your traffic is unencrypted and can be trivially sniffed
* Spoofing one of your whitelisted MAC addresses in order to use your network is easy
Keep the font, and the color please. I think you're right about it.
I'm not sure I believe that most overweight people have even had the advice of a dietician.

I suppose things like the food pyramid sort of count, but even the old one didn't endorse the empty calories evident in shopping behaviors (i.e, chips and pop).
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WPA2 keys hash the passphrase and the SSID.

The precomputed tables that make cracking WPA2 feasible have to not only target passwords, but password+SSID combinations as a result.

I think you're grossly overstating the relative weakness of a longer passphrase. The more obscure, the better, obviously, but the chances of any given quote or phrase of any length appearing in a precomputed table are relatively minimal.

More importantly, any variations in punctuation, capitalization, spacing, etc would make a precomputed table worthless while still making the passphrase far easier for a human to remember than a random string of 8 characters.
> Tabs aren't just navigation history; they're curated, temporary history. Unworthy of the permanence of bookmarking,

You might enjoy this?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toomanytabs-s...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Also, the person who thinks 30 tabs is a lot should get a look at what I do to myself:

http://heybryan.org/shots/2008-01-15-tabs.png
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Using a font to give it that feel is the wrong way to go. It makes it seem like your development approach was informal.
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When we moved from Helsinki to Berlin last spring, we took the opportunity to get rid of all the accummulated cruft, mostly by giving things away either to friends or charity. A strict regime of no books, no physical media, etc

In the end the "stuff" needed for living by two software developers boiled down to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/7662550710/in/set-721576...

(ok, on top of this there were two motorcycles that we rode over when the snows melted)

The weird thing about the move, however, is that thanks to Berlin rental situation, the flat we have there is bigger than what I ever had in Finland. While flats tend to come furnished, the place still seems very, very empty.

Given that we both have about two blocks of commute, the motorcycles are "unnecessary". But they certainly are fun on weekends.
This sounded like a MLM when the video said

"When they signup 10 users and
when those 10 users signup 10 users and
when those users signup 10 users. "
I'm curious why you didn't use the stock iTunes app store badge. That might convert slightly better if you get some site traffic.

You should make sure to go through AppCod.es preso on app store SEO. I am regularly amazed at how bad my competitors are on their app keywords. http://www.appcod.es/

You should go sign up with LinkShare and whatever the other iTunes affiliates are and work out your affiliate link from your site. 5% of the sales through your site might not be much now, but it's free money.
> More expensive bikes are built from lighter and stronger materials (such as carbon fiber)

I would recommend anyone thinking carbon fiber makes stronger bikes to visit a topical image blog at http://www.bustedcarbon.com/ :)

The weight issue is addressed elsewhere in comments...
>However, the stolen goods are generally recoverable by the original owner, whether or not the person receiving them purchased them in good faith.

This is good. Usually there is just a demand for bikes. With this system there will be a demand for non-stolen bikes. The prices for stolen bikes go down and so does stealing them.
My mistake. I have content management system (CMS) on my brain.
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Do not make an Android app until there's proven validation in the iOS app. If you're not getting very many bites in the App Store, you'll get even fewer in the Android world. Your app is market-agnostic, so iOS interest will be a good indicator of Android interest.
To be pedantic, it's a16z...like i18n or l10n. (so you can edit if you want)
Almost 20 years ago, I had a ten-speed junker I bought for $20 just for riding around town, only three gears actually worked, but it got me around. Somebody stole it off of my front porch.
They're most likely to do it by creating alternatives to the traditional college degree.
Perhaps partially because you can patent intuitive.
I personally value a backyard less after growing up with a rarely-used one, but I think the prevalence of families living in apartments in that area is just because they can't afford anything else. It's the cheapest place to live in Austin, especially if you account for transportation.
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A feature that no one has touched on is the JS debugger included with FF15, you can now set break points and walk through JS calls.
What?! This is an online method? Why don't people just use Google Authenticator? It's totally offline, on both ends.
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Awesome site. Navigate enough and you'll find a hidden 'Star' on the home page behind the Events pipe. :D
The key isn't being transmitted, but a hash of it with a nonce is. You could do a DH key exchange and encrypt it, but I doubt that would help that much: An attacker would just need to transmit their own auth packets.
I just went from 1 kid to 3 (twin babies) and the 3-bedroom 1400sqft place we have is a bit cramped - babies command a LOT of space for stuff.

That said, I don't think we would have ever purchased/rented a 4 bdrm while we were still a 1-kid family.
I disagree. With most discussion sites (the likes of slashcode, phpBB3, vBulletin, etc.), daily re-visiting of the site and trying to pick up where you left off the previous visit is a maddening experience.

With reddit, it's easy to see at a glance (particularly with the enhancement suite) just what comments/posts you have made have been responded to.

Granted, there simply is no web-based discussion format that rivals firing up "trn" and using 2 keys to flip through several hundred threads in just a few minutes. That, and you can sync the posts offline, read and respond to them offline, and post your replies in a single batch once you regain connectivity. Pure ASCII was such a great medium for discussion.
Around where I live there's definitely another factor to consider: Opportunity theft. A lot of bikes get stolen simply because it's very easy to do so, especially downtown. On the weekends when there are lots of drunk people around, a _LOT_ of bikes get stolen simply because people are too lazy to walk or they just find it funny to steal a bike. These bikes sure as hell don't end up at some kind of black market, instead they are simply left at some place and somebody else picks them up. It's like a never-ending cycle of bike theft. Also it doesn't help that most bike locks are ridiculously easy to break.

Another thing that I've noticed (I'm an avid freeride-biker) is that there are actually gangs that target high-end bikes. They have spies at known bike-trails and follow people home. If they see an expensive bike they break into cellars, garages and sometimes even people's apartments just to steal a bike. The bikes are then taken apart and most components are sold right away (a second hand fork in good shape can still go for $1000+ in some cases) and the frame itself is shipped abroad and sold separately. I'm actually very paranoid because it's happened to two friends already... :/
Follow to the logical conclusion. Did you think of it quickly? Then someone patented it. You know, so you don't go and "steal" their "innovation".
Making possession a crime at the level of first party theft doesn't have this problem.
Good design is iterative

I can't help but feel this when i look at architecture. Medeival stone masonry, for example. When it takes decades to build, you can tweak the design. In particular, this is evident to with respect to "human scale," 3-dimensionality, volumetric balance, and proportionality. Much early modern architecture, was just designed to look cool as a model; or to photgraph well in publication. Much of this architecture has a PRE_FAB feel to it (brutalist, etc). Ironically this emerged in the context of (a) more powerul modeling tools; and (b) more degrees of freedom in plastic materiel (ie, modern materials, RC etc).

Edited: brevity
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The only reason I even have a password is on my router is that it crashes more often under traffic if I leave it open. I intentionally made the password easy to guess.
I do see it being prominently listed in Pricing page, but the "Terms of Service" is a binding contract which I have to agree to while I signup, don't you think they should be consistent.

Is this SLA done individually with each customer after they signup?
Since the primary intent of the app is to help manage where your minutes go and make the process of managing the app as minimal and streamlined as possible - have you considered optionally enabling automated time keeping. Things like how much time you spend on phone calls, using your phone in general. GPS insights like driving time, time spent at home/office/bar. Anything that you could reasonably guess given the different features of the phone?
While it MAY be true that WS is blocked by some mobile carriers (though I haven't seen it myself .. at least in Germany), providers will have more problems blocking WSS since it runs over TLS. Since WSS only starts after a TLS connection is established, identifying the traffic as WebSocket requires intercepting TLS using MITM proxy techniques. This in turn requires the ability to inject ad-hoc "fake" certificates into browsers .. which is possible if there is an appropriate CA cert for the proxy installed in the browser. This can and is be done within controlled envionments like corporate networks where you can force user browsers to incorporate such CA certs. I never have seen it on public networks. It would be a major security and privacy issue. My provider reading my online banking traffic? Yes, please! I sue them to hell and make some bucks;)
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I've had a situation where an Ethernet connection would occasionally drop link for a very small fraction of a second, which unnecessarily shut down the interface and reset all TCP connections. Maybe a few second delay is too long, but 500ms seems reasonable. Also, maybe I wouldn't want to keep the old address blindly, but trigger a DCHP request if the link is dropped and restored before the timeout.

Also, thanks for the pointers into the source code. It looks like I would want to make the change around line 67 of net_backend_waitlink.c. I highly doubt I'll actually get around to doing it though :).
> It can be faked.
Not in the way that matters in this case - it's prohibitively difficult to receive someone else's text messages.
I think you're underestimating how a lot of people live and what they value and then people are also underestimating what's bad about jail.

If we assume that death and sexual assault are not going to happen in this 5 days I would guess most people would do it and from what I've read it's pretty rare for either of those things to happen in the short term jails, it's prison that's the bigger risk -- and even then apparently sexual assault is way exaggerated in the media.

Can you describe what your friends have described happening in jail that makes you so against it? From the AMAs people have done on reddit about jail and prison it seems jail is something anyone with the ability to enjoy their own company can get through with ease, although I guess it could be that your country uses jail and prison as an interchangeable term?
> I'd like to start multiple tasks at the same time (like running, and listening to music--done at the same time, but have different limits)

I had support for multiple tasks at once in an early build, but I decided to nix it to reduce confusion. I couldn't think of any compelling use cases that were hindered, and lots where running multiple tasks would cause confusion. Hope that makes some sense.

> Make the granularity of time equal in 'Today' (curr min: seconds) and 'Goal' (curr. min: minutes)

You're probably right here. Time input methods should be uniform.

> 'Goal tracking' on/off was a bit confusing, I think because it's on the screen that manages the goal and not on the one that creates it.

Good call. I'll be rework the UI a bit to make that clearer.

Thanks for the feedback!
I actually think this is a pretty good idea. If I were working at my own startup, I might even pay for this myself even though I have a decent amount of sysadmin skills. I can definitely see it being useful to consult with someone more experienced for those tough situations that have to be handled quickly.
I'm sure a significant portion especially in the high end can be explained by rational actors with pretty low prospects. But I'm suspicious that there isn't a lot more of the less rational going on. The hoarder mentioned in the article may not be an outlier and bike theft is also sort of a low stakes learning ground.

In anything approaching an urban center I see a lot of abandoned bikes (locked and slowly vultured.) They are generally attributed to lazy owners, but a portion may be decaying inventories of hoarders, joy riders and/or thrill seekers.

I'm reminded of inventories of locks on urban fences. Obviously the collections of not so rational (but social or antisocial) actors.

I think a good urban experiment would be a collection system that pays ~$5 a bike (and gives immunity once you arrive) and charges ~$7.50 to a verifiable owner before selling back into the free market of "used" bikes. A little cross between a repo-man and the can man, to keep the things a little tighter and make it more likely lessons are learnt on the cheap.
Moved the Features and Demo sections above the Mission. :)
You're right about the difference that lowering your body mass makes. It's the easiest way to drop the weight that you have to pedal around. I have a cyclist friend who loves to claim "I just took a $1000 shit," the joke being that that's how much it would cost him to get a $poop_mass lighter bicycle.

However, this doesn't apply to racers. If it's going to speed someone up by 2%, and he's got the money, and he wants that last tiny advantage, he may just drop the cash on a $1500 wheel set.