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They most likely do, both password and FileVault. The idea is to intentionally leave a barely-functional Guest account available to anyone who opens the laptop. Those in possession of the laptop start using it and the tracking software phones home with location, photos, etc. This is even a best-practice suggested by Apple; its quite effective.

A good start would be increased quality of interfaces and abilities to find and connect similar sources; that's all I'm really asking for. There is a huge amount of research published within the Gale-Wilson-ElSevier-JSTOR-Ebsco-Taylor&Francis vaults, properties of immense academic and economic value, yet the tools they charge to access them aren't much more advanced than Yahoo circa '99. Don't even get me started on the transition from physical-copy journal publishing where you always 'own' the copy to a model of journals-as-a-service (the ultimate DRM; they host it) that cost well into the five figure range per year where you lose all access once you let the subscriptions expire.

Meanwhile, 'search' as we know it rules the world and is the driving force enabling the entire tech industry. It wouldn't be hard to throw a little effort in building out their platforms, but there's no competition to force further development in their products.

I think that could be a successful community, you just have the same problem as any social community, finding users. Especially ones of interest that are open to publishing anonymously and listening to anonymous reviewers.

The real tragedy is the general reference, social science, and humanities journal diaspora where the usage and demand has skyrocketed with the increased access online resources allow to lay researchers. The science journal communities are way ahead in self-sufficiency in adapting, and are increasingly open to the corrupt state of publishing and alternate community publishing platforms.

The state of academic publishing is in a truly dreadful state. The same monopolies that created the industry hundreds of years ago have never been pushed out and innovate in the slowest way possible, aqui-murdering even worse than EA when they have to. Online journals and the promise they provide are peddled by high pressure sales pitches who insist on absurdly high prices. For many institutions, when taking usage stats, the price of online access per user often works out to several dollars per search...

This is why I've given up trying to work in the field or found a company in the sector... Anyone with an idea and need a technical cofounder? ;)

How is the speed? Last time I tried it, about 6 months ago, there was a very noticeable lag when switching between modes. I ran into the maintainer of IdeaVim at PyCon and he said it should be better but my trial period expired and I never got a chance to try it again.

Most the rents quoted are several hundred lower than reality, though the bedroom in a shared place price is pretty close. It also fails to underline the competition for cheap, or any, housing. Landing a spot within the first weeks, or even month, will be very hard for anyone new to the town.

If you want an apartment in this city you must bid several hundred over the listed price. It is also extremely common to offer 3-6 month's rent down and be ready to cut that check at the open house.

Curious what companies these were? Haven't heard of any of this.

"People who can't own their own sports teams play fantasy sports. People who can't invest in the stock market do virtual trading. Why should I be left out? I decided that I'm going to publish my list of investing picks (that I've kept private up til now), so that in the future I can (and you can) look back and see how I do."

Are we really at the point where startups are a spectator sport?

edit: Apparently we are. Wow.

The patent is about breaking peers out into small sub-swarms to look after each other. The more healthy peers in each group focusing to keep their's groups healthy while also keeping up with the larger swarm. The greater BitTorrent protocol doesn't do this and, judging by the patent filing, other p2p streaming applications don't either, hence why they fall down upon high demand.

But does it do it reliably and well? I get nothing but buffering problems, hell I'm rarely even able to get up to speed even to view the stream. Even if I get on, the quality is too variable and skips are abound.

It looks like BT's angle (different from Sopcast) is to break up the large swarms into smaller groupings that are loosely connected to others.

Honestly, I still find no reason to go to Mint after Cinnamon has been made available in Ubuntu.

Tip:

When hiring engineers (or speaking to any anyone ever again) NEVER use the word 'grok.'

Let's save the world... with my startup!

Oh come on. Of course that won't get you arrested. You must not be aware of the American cult of Free Speech. Speaking out and being an insensitive asshole is just that, nothing more. It's your actions that determine criminality. Unlike China sometimes, right? ;)

"Binders full of asians"

I don't understand your point. If your third-party APIs are volatile and out of your control, causing a liability in maintaing tests... wouldn't that cause an even bigger liability in your application code? Such volatility is even more dangerous to your application. This is why we have integration tests.

This is classic case of why you need tests and integration policy. When your APIs change or break, the tests break and you are quickly made aware. You just saved yourself a huge embarrassment and likely have the competitive advantage to those we don't look forward like you should do. Need to make a release quick and need to update your handlers? Go for it. If you're on a deadline and secure with the release, go ahead and push it with a couple tests breaking with false-negatives then swing back for an hour and fix them.

You'll thank yourself when they release v2 of that API and sunset your methods.

I'm sure they do, and at the same frequency of most all income brackets. The rate of usage across classes is pretty flat.

This is an incredibly popular sentiment in the Valley as a whole. Job applications often ask about a history of arrests/etc but that will say "except marijuana related arrests."

Very few people care anymore around here, and those who do more or less know not to step into the debate. I almost beg interviewers to ask me so I can just say "sure, I can take that test but I'll fail it. Is that a problem?"

I doubt many would tell me to walk, except Big Blue and the most old fashioned of firms, and I'm not even that talented.

Except 4x the average income.

With all the Sublime/Textmate theme tools lately, where are the gvim <--> Sublime Text conversion tools. There are a few one-way options, but none that work both ways. Are there significant technical challenges in pulling this off, or is it a matter of interest in the tool?

Really, I've consistently credited having a real browser in Chrome was the best part of modern Android. The Google account synchronization especially.

I don't know about that. These acts highlight that the inarguably-real criminals can humiliate the government and not be stopped while public information activists get thrown away. One can say that they're Bad and/or criminals, and might be right, but to assume that the actions of Anonymous are in a vacuum apart from Aaron or Manning is short-sighted. Are their actions and reckless? Probably. So? The means-ends relationship is complicated, but Anonymous acts within their virtues and their intents are from the right place. And come on, this shit's hilarious!

And, this whole 'giving hackers a bad name' thing. Give me a break. Yes, 'hacker' is a dirty word to some. Most likely those that don't understand, nor matter to the greater interests of either types of who self-identify with the word. It will continue to be, regardless of however many Facebook/Google/Instragram/whatevers there are.

I upvote them, because I find the entire Anonymous drama to be incredibly fascinating and highly topical to the HN demographic. What I do tire of is the 'damn buncha hoodlums' comment cacophony that offers no contribution to the discussion.

Another thread of broken-record HN comments!

The issue comes down to the legal and moral definition of consent.

How old must a child be until they are wholly fit to make their own decisions? How do you define public policy around this, written to incorporate the whole of the public and not just the outliers? It is absolutely impossible to try to give special exceptions on such a large scale. This leads states to define a minimum age at which a child can give full consent and be legally bound to contracts.

Pretty quick, eh?

"Once a startup, always a startup" is the rule of the day these days.

Makes me wonder how long HP would be considered a startup if they were born today.

Does that make this less important...? Would you like a timestamp?

Or, that anyone hiring or interviewing you (recruiter or developer) will actually evaluate your work beyond that you have a couple repos with more than a couple files in them.