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When AVG was first launched it was a great AV product. Now, like most services have gone the evil direction. It became pretty obvious they went downhill after directing people who want the free version to buy their other products.

I've been uninstalling AVG and replacing it with Microsoft Security Essentials. I know a lot people will be upset over that because [their favorite AV] catches X% more viruses and malware than MSE. But you know what - MSE is light, made by the same company who made the OS, and catches most of the common viruses.
Internet karma...
I think he was making a reference to ghostbusters: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/there-is-no-dana-only-zuul
You're using "universal" in a sense that is unfair. Science isn't universal in the sense that any finding must apply globally while ignoring contextual factors. There all sorts of ways in which differing geography, cultural practices, genetics, environmental factors, prevailing diet, etc., etc., can and do create differences in observed diseases. It's unfair and wrong to say that something is unscientific because it manifests in some places but not in others.
> Show HN : One click image optimization service for your terminal

This is perfect. Well done.
Last time I looked MSE had fallen way behind everyone else. I could be completely wrong now.
My teammates wrote a guide to remote work that might be useful, lots of gems: https://zapier.com/learn/the-ultimate-guide-to-remote-workin...
Bad management is the norm, especially in Silicon Valley/Startups because:

1) No training for managers.
2) No measurement of managers against what actually makes a good manager (ie- only rewarded for results, ignoring if your team hates you and is quitting left and right).
3) First time Founders may not have had great role models or training themselves so they won't set a great example either.
4) First time managers are common because you were an early employee or around longer, so I guess you should manage.
5) Misaligned incentives: the only way to get a raise is to go into management
6) Being a manager isn't for everyone, but few companies make it safe to go back after
7) Turnover is tolerated more in the Valley than other places which can hide management problems others companies could never afford (it costs about 2/3rds of a salary to replace someone).

Re: Being able to be flat sounds great, but at scale creates a lot of challenges when you need decisions made and you don't all fit in a conference room anymore. Having someone who can make a final call (and ideally does take input from everyone involved) is more efficient than having 50+ people all moving in independent directions.

[2] Google Questions for Good Management https://getlighthouse.com/blog/google-management/
[5] [6] Why people take management jobs and shouldn't https://getlighthouse.com/blog/bad-manager/
[7] Why it costs over $65,000 to replace an employee https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-costs-replacing-employ...
I get your point on number two - but you know, people who work in offices sometimes have to run errands and help with child care.
> You make your own bed and you're the one who has to sleep in it.

This is a very American way of looking at the world. It's also deeply flawed.

You have far less control over your own destiny than you think. For example, people who get cancer don't choose to.

I find this kind of "fk 'em, throw 'em under a bus" mentality gross.
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"Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years"
Ask HN: What would you want in a paid SEO tool?
If there was an SEO tool that you would pay for, what functions would you want in it?
(Biology) restores some bio-diversity to the planet.

(Cuisine) If passenger pigeons became commonplace again, we could eat them.

Regarding your point about knowledge: totally agree. If we could coax extinct life forms back into existence, think of the likely medical implications. Regenerating limbs, repairing brain damage, curing MS and ALS and a host of other genetic problems.

People like this science writer keep saying "We might be able to, but should we?"

Of course we should. The opportunity costs of not doing it are potentially enormous.
All the keys that are exchanged can be exchanged in plain text.
I believe that if you want the protection of patent, you should disclose everything and it not suppose to be a secret. If you want to keep it as a secret, don't patent it. Isn't that is the reason behind the patent system? Inspire people to create things by providing certainty that no one will be allowed to reproduce their creations until patent expires. The only reasonable thing after that is to make the patented technology (including all the bits and pieces) a public knowledge.
I've spent time in Gurgaon, and I hypothesize that some of the perceived successes of the city were more about marketing and social positioning than anything else.

It is "the place to be" for the simple reason that other young, wealthy up and comers are seen there too. This is a much more powerful drawcard in certain circles than whether there are proper municipal facilities or not.

similar things have been achieved across India, EG Mumbai's Bandra-Kurla complex. Property developers well understand their target market's desire to appear a certain way and leverage this knowledge extremely well.
"They were fairly qualified but what I found was odd gaps in their knowledge."

This very much goes both ways. A lot of recent college graduates lack practical software engineering experience, has overlooked the importance of related fields[0] and tend to be stuck in this examination mindset of individual correctness.

[0] Like networking, security and operations.
Funding is adequate, costs are simply out of control

Yeah, that's the bottom line. Govt funded infrastructure projects are totally out of control, it's not just NYC.

My favorite example is local, in Oregon. In 1982 a very fine bridge was opened across the Columbia River. It cost $170 million.[1] Fast forward to recently. Before the plug was finally pulled, estimated costs for a second bridge a few miles away were $2.8 billion.[2] And that was for a scaled down version. Other estimates were as high as $10 billion.

Yes we've had some inflation in the last 30 years. But the cost increases far outpace inflation. And nobody in government cares. All they do is say "we need it", without doing any critical thinking. What they really mean is "we want it".

It's like the teenagers in my house. They want everything, they don't care how much it costs. They haven't earned the money they want to spend, so to them any possible costs are meaningless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_L._Jackson_Memorial_Brid...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_River_Crossing
Well, a couple of years ago I was hit by a drive-by virus. Just opening a website in (up to date) Firefox literally opened .exe files on my PC and infected the entire OS. I burnt my hands once - not again. This might be an anecdote to you but boy that scarred me - the idea that clicking a link could compromise my entire system like that.

Even then - an antivirus program is unlikely to stop such an intrusion. It's just utterly ineffective, and I got viruses before despite having an anti-virus. Also, my anti-virus always deleted my hacktools and own programs which was a nuisance. Hence I don't use it anymore.
This works in Chrome on Android as well. Of course it's way easier than on desktop.
For Master of Orion you will want to be playing with the latest fan-made patch. It removes some bugs. (They had to patch the binary, since the source was unavailable.)

Still one of my favourite games, and without a substitute that capture the flavour without introducing additional complexity and micromanagement.
I meant to say - if you were to buy a developer tool (not currently existing), what functions would you want?
I wrote some thoughts about it, after doing it for a two year stint: http://jeremyraines.com/2014/01/18/remote-retrospective.html
Newsbot thanks you for proving that you are real.

You may return to your life simulation.
Having used the Lobdon Underground for several decades, I must say that is beautiful.
Full list of apps is here, there wasn't a good link in the article: https://clever.com/schools/partners
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Leonardo da Vinci used to throw paint filled sponges at walls and then force himself to make sense out of the resulting irregular shapes in relation to a problem he was interested in. For example: he might be thinking about transportation and say "well this looks like a horse drawing a carriage ..." and then use it as a basis to come up with new ideas. By forcing his brain to make connections between totally unrelated things it enhanced his creativity (or at least that was the intention.)

What comes to mind for this Hacker News Simulator is the modern equivalent of da Vinci's sponges: an ink blot which you can use to come up with completely new and novel ideas by forcing unexpected connections. And because the topics here are in some way related to hacker news the result could be filling in enough blanks to produce something newsworthy (i.e. an actual good idea instead of a garbled markov chain.)
Aw snap! Always.
Ask HN: Where to Find D3.js / Data Visualization Jobs?
Mac OS X has used an old version of bash for awhile now.
Congrats to the team! Best of luck!
The companion is fun to read, more like Wikipedia than TAOCP.
Well that was pretty awesome. Small suggestion. Fix the times on the comment threads to make it even more realistic. Threaded conversations have people starting a thread 11 minutes ago but getting replies 35 minutes ago. Busted :D
Maybe the Ken Thompson Hack[1] is alive in the wild, or AVG just believes it is. ;)

1: Reflections on Trusting Trust: https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html
The expert is Theresa Deisher, who has strong views against the use of human embryonic stem cells for any purpose. See http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110209/full/470156a.html .
> Tell HN: my first dollar on the App Store due to a good review from Techcrunch, lessons learnt.

This is so real
I've worked from home since I was 16 years old.. find your most productive hours during the day and join a co-working shared space in your City.
These headlines are phenomenal.
I've spent the last two years working remotely. Everything that's been said here is great. I'd especially +1 the comments advising to keep up a daily routine (shower, get dressed, etc); there were days I forgot to brush my teeth because it was so easy to sit down, start coding...8 hours later and you get it.

Also, make sure you deduct the working space. Whether its in your own residence or pay for something like a co-working space, it's tax-deductible.
tcsh is the default for root on freebsd and should always be used when working as root.
I might have read that wrong but did you just blame 'gay activists' for existing problems with Firefox that not only existed and were planned for release before he was ousted but had nothing to do with his direct control anyway?
A couple experiments in the past have got me banned from Amazon Product Advertising API for breaking the TOS, and I can confirm that other aspects of the account (store access, AWS account) were never shutoff.

That said I would not recommend using the admin account for your AWS account for purchases. Historically the support for Amazon store has been easy to social engineer (see links for reference) and I imagine with enough info about the Amazon account and/or product purchase history a clever con artist could get your Amazon store account details changed and password reset, to give them access to your AWS account.

Best to keep the email for your AWS admin account just as secret as the password, and only log into it when you need to change billing info. Use a separate IAM account for day to day access.

http://gizmodo.com/5969981/two-for-one-amazons-socially-engi...
http://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/
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look at the data, I did. 400,000+ adverse event reports

https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/data#downloads
Interesting to note that further down he talks about what i suspect was X11, and being able to use that to run something over there that presents the results over here. This in that a decade or so later we are basically reimplementing that using HTML+JS+CSS.
I get very distracted at 1x. There is a speed of maximum efficiency that works for me - generally around 2X. When information is thrown that fast at you, as long as you can catch it, there is no way to get distracted (unless there is a physical distraction).

Try listening at 2X or 3X while lying down with your eyes closed. Apparently, your brain will start to engage your visual cortex for listening and the speed becomes quite manageable.
I find smart phone UI's really annoying. I'd love it if my phone behaved more like Unix.

It would be great to be able to do stuff like grep the address book to extract contact details, edit a config file to change ring tone, manage alarms with cron use apt to update all apps etc.
If you just want to cut down the number of applicants, that's even easier - just pick a random sample to look at.

It only makes sense to do it based on features of the individual candidates if you believe the remaining pool is, on average, better. (... or maybe more precisely, "that you will be able to select better candidates from the remaining pool for a given amount of effort").
I had the exact opposite experience.
Congratulations, you just described a security compliance program that's smaller than DFARS 252.204-7012, COBIT, PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, CLOUD SECURITY MATRIX, SANS CRITICAL CONTROLS, SOX, FEDRAMP/FISMA, and ISO 27001.

I keep reading (IMO nonsense) that best practices like those compliance frameworks aren't enough (mostly coming from Josh Corman). However, breaches are the on the rise and only 10% of the IT industry is goes through this thorough cleansing process.

Security Compliance forces you to go through that cleansing. This isn't a compliance burden, its just thorough hygiene.

Key Rotation process, Log Review process, Change control process, etc are examples of things in Compliance Frameworks.

Even the Chinese government is demanding that US Tech firms go through one of the above compliance programs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/technology/china-tries-to-...

Sysadmins continuously foo foo that compliance is not security.

They foo foo on it because they're self-compliant - doing security processes right the first time around. Therefore those self-compliant sysadmins are already security competent and don't need to adhere to an external set of security compliance standards.
Yeah that's how I currently implemented it on my site, but it can't harm to overthink the solution of performance problems I don't (yet?) have ;)
Ah, the good ol' "if I was poor, I'd be awesome at it!" argument.

Whether or not you're right about how you'd actually behave, it's irrelevant. We can see how poor people actually do behave, and we can look to solutions that work empirically rather than philosophically.
I agree with the point that this article makes and think we should be discussing the questions article tries to raise.

However, the article is a poorly written piece of PR. It makes several mathematical errors, mis-represents the study on shopping time, and fails to provide any evidence to back up it's critical point of "e-commerce today acts like a regressive tax".

Why is this crap on HN?
I find it odd to be put into a bash shell.

You don't need to guess where config files are. Unlike Linux, they're in the same place and documented in 'man hier'.

For my workstation, I don't have a need for jails (or Docker), so that's something a Linux user doesn't have to learn at first, or at all, if it's not important to them.
I've had apps fail to garner quick review. I've had apps rejected for mistakes I made. I've had significant apps that later won wide acclaim not even be mentioned on the iTunes What's New page due to timing.

I've never emailed Tim Cook about it (or Steve, before him).

Yes the process is capricious. But your email comes off as a bit whiny, braggy, and self serving, and then ends with a threat to leave the platform. Frankly I would be sort of disappointed with Tim if it took this kind of threatening tactic to get a substantial response from him.
Changes are now happening so quickly that they appear to be driving some species towards extinction because they can’t adapt fast enough.

Well, yeah -- that's how natural selection works.
Gurgaon is actually a worst place to live. Less secure, electricity and water problem, sewage. I can't imaging living in that place. I was there for barely one month and I quit.
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If a person, derives his world from his senses, and acts as he instinctively would, no science need be involved - he is acting as he is programmed to. I think morality is much the same, it is a society, deriving its collective world from the senses of all its individuals, and acts as it instinctively would. As a society, deriving the world from our tongues, our stomachs, and our hearts, we have decided confining pigs and cows to dirty prisons, kidnapping their children and forcefully impregnating the adult females, and killing the healthy adult animals, is fine, because it will fill our stomachs and delight our noses and tongues. On the other hand, some of us deriving the world from the empathy in our hearts, because some of us see the similarity between the cognition of elephants and our own, conclude elephant poaching is murder. Some others, who live closely with elephants and rely on their farms to not be invaded by elephants, who rely on their crops to fill their stomachs, see killing elephants as a justifiable act comparable to killing cows and pigs.

Morality is relative, and it is a derived from our experiences with the world. Even if our senses are fooling us, morality is right according to our point of view, and that's all that need to ever matter. No science need be involved, and there is no need to couch it in reason.

You like elephants, I like elephants. We both eat beef. Poachers and farmers who live next to elephants rely on crops for food and see elephants as a source of income. They're closer and can attack the elephants before we can stop them. We have money to fund non-profit organisations to hire veterinarians to treat the elephants before they die and to hire rangers to shoot at the poachers and farmers who attack elephants for their own family's benefit. That's just how it is.
Yes, but with a half life of 500 years, the amount of information you have halves every 500 years you go back. At some point there just isn't enough information to go viably go back further.
They do, so one can meet the prereqs of another. But there are still issues that pop up. For instance, if you install a port with custom compile flags and then use pkg to upgrade it, you'll lose them. There are lots of little stuff like this that can pop up
I don't see what's illogical about it. Generics get approval without extensive testing under the idea that they're equivalent to an already tested drug. How do you do that without ensuring its actually equivalent in all respects?
The database isn't the problem but packages trail ports, cause they need to be tested first, so their dependencies may differ and cause issues. So mixing the two can cause an issue until you're experienced enough to know what to watch out for.

If you're machine can handle it, I'd just stay with ports.
Hmmm what kind of developer is using a modified version of Xcode from some shady source?
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Yes, I must confess it was an educated guess and I was not precise enough. The Mahabhrata is huge so I use an abridged translation (the one by Ramesh Menon). The complete translated Mahabhrata (by Bibek Debroy) is 12 Mbyte uncompressed. Still it's a challenge to get my pearls of wisdom collection down to 1.5 Mbyte (with either an abridged Mahabharata or the Bhagavad Gita section) even without the commentaries as the combined english plain text files are 1.7 Mbyte compressed - 200 Kbyte to much - (from 11 Mbyte uncompressed ascii with the Mahabharata epos substituted by the Bhagavad Gita). So I went a bit overboard, but I still think it's possible to get there, some redundant lines, tabs, introductions and spaces can still be removed. Perhaps I can remove and include certain texts to conform more to what I personally consider the religious highlights of humanity. Removing the ceremonial descriptions, Revelation, chronicles and battles and including The Tao te Ching, The Upanishads, The Gospel of Thomas or The Veda's or make a more contemporary selection including the dark night of the soul, imitation of christ, Rumi and certain hadiths on the life of Mohammed. 10 Mbytes of ascii should be enough for every spiritual adept (and fit 1 A4 of multicolor matrix barcodes), it for sure fits on a 2M formatted floppy.
There was a report here a few days ago, with a version of Xcode repackaged to insert malware into each app.

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/20/xcodeghost-chinese-malwa...
I agree, but only if one uses noscript and requestpolicy, never torrents software, etc.

It's not that MS has you covered, moreso that AV vendors don't really catch new malware that has been mutated, packed, or whatever. So a more in-depth defense is better.

Not to mention that hilariously enough, AVG is literally selling user data now, which is what antivirus is supposed to protect against in the first place.
He's only half wrong.

He's wrong to say that the study only looks at employment status. It looks at income and a number of other factors as well (mainly, income and time spent working).

However, he is right that the article's conclusion is mis-represented:

"Overall, we don’t find much evidence in favor of a negative correlation between income and shopping time, particularly comparison shopping possibly motivated by locating better prices. As a matter of fact, whereas total time spent purchasing goods and services is about 20 minutes per day, the component of shopping time devoted to comparing prices and products seems to be extremely low in the data. It is about 4 seconds a day on average, given the large number of respondents declaring zero. Moreover, nonparticipants and the employed spent more time than the unemployed in this activity. This may indicate that most of the effort made by consumers in the goods market is unrelated to uncovering better prices."
For Slack I believe the discussion was desktop app vs web app, not mobile web app vs native mobile app.
I recommend reading The Future of Management by Gary Hamel. We have all adopted the dogma that hierarchical management is better without questioning it. Is it really? Companies like Whole Foods, W.L Gore, Valve or even Google are great examples that flat hierarchies are attainable.