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Ask HN: how to build trust on the Android Marketplace?
So Google gave me a Nexus One at the developer day (thank you, Google!), and I really like it. I am already beginning to worry about the marketplace, though. Potentially my phone carries even more sensitive data than my PC. Installing software from the marketplace seems to be akin to googling for some software, then installing it. The apps are not being reviewed (afaik), so it would be trivial to upload malware to the marketplace.

I've just looked up Debian on Wikipedia, which seems to be one model that works (if only for open source software). Apparently you have to prove yourself worthy before being allowed to contribute. Also, they have the unstable and testing distributions.

Other than that, I am not sure. I could stick to only installing apps that have been reviewed by some blog I trust, but who says those blogs can't be fooled (if it's not an open source app)?

I guess traditionally a commercial software vendor just had too much to lose to spike their software with malware. If they went to the lengths of wrapping their software into boxes and distributing it, risking their reputation was not worth it. But now the hurdle has become very low.

Another thing I thought about is web sites: there usually is not that much to fear from visiting random web sites (unless you have dangerous plugins), because HTML, Javascript, JPG, PNG and GIF seem manageable risks. So at least some sandboxing on Android would be desirable?
500,000 Americans To Get 1 Gbps Connections From Google
Amongst others, this is one reason why I'm not an early-adopter. Too many things have odd consequences, and although this one is and pretty much always was obvious, many are not, and require devious minds and talented/persistent hackers to find them.

So, in fact, this is an opportunity to say "thank you" to the hackers out there that tinker with and attempt to break (sorry - "improve") everything as soon as they can get their hands on it. You make the world a better place.
Be aware that "cat file | less" is much more expensive than "less file" because it forces less to buffer everything it reads (it can't seek on a pipe). "cat huge-logfile | tail" is especially bad because it uselessly reads the whole file (and evicts a bunch of more important data from your buffer cache) where "tail huge-logfile" would just seek backwards from the end until it has enough text.
Having worked in the family services sector...I'm actually thinking this post is full bullshit. I very much doubt this even happened.

I could be wrong of course, but the post has way too many red flags to sound true.
There are clearly no longer any humans working at google, just one giant heartless inhuman machine calling the shots...

Or at least thats how Google looks to the public these days. If thats the perception they want, they got it.

I think this Buzz privacy fiasco is an historic lesson in the convergence of humanity and software and the lesson learned is that privacy of personal relationships should be a fundamental right
I have never created a google profile either. Is simply clicking "turn off buzz" at the bottom of gmail sufficient to completely opt-out of all of this nonsense? ...because that's exactly what I want to do at this point.
Please list some of these red flags for those of us without a family services sector background.
Microsoft does outsource (more precisely, offshores) development to reduce cost, it has large dev centers in both China and India (and few small in bunch of other places). Once I heard that product groups that were moving development to India were getting x2 headcount over positions closed in Redmond.
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Our lives have been made easy by the internet in many ways. We can accomplish so many things these days sitting right at home with the help of the internet. Though the internet has become one of the most versatile tools today,
It could be good and there are some nice little (for most HN people obvious) gems in there such as

"Everyone got ideas, no on wants to do the work. Don't tell me what you want to do, show me what you have done and I might write you a check"
Could you maybe write a blog post with a concrete example of a project you researched and rejected like this? I'd love to read that....
I see plenty of disagreement, but not a great deal of ridicule. It sounded like you were insinuating that fears people do have of being without health insurance are unfounded. This was not a popular opinion. It happens. I got a -20 once before the -4 limit was imposed and I'm still not quite sure why it was such a hot button. We're an opinionated bunch and we like to play rough when it comes to reason and insight, but from what I can tell, its always done in a spirit of camaraderie and respect.

If you want to see public ridicule in action, take a gander at 4chan.
Found a bug:

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is used twice in unobtrusive.forms.css
You'll have to block people who are following you first
uh, nothing that you post on anywhere outside buzz is propagated via buzz unless you ask buzz to propagate it, unless I missed something. also, buzz doesn't have access to this information unless you allow it to. it seemed that way to me when I used it.
what every programmer should know: publishing their works in a pdf will make it hard for other programmers to read it.
My understanding of your comment is that open markets means competition. Competitors will compete on price, forcing prices down, with constant production costs margins will "tend to zero"

However this is incorrect. Where demand is greater than supply, prices (and therefore profits) may be stable or rise regardless of the number of competitors. A drought is a scenario of restricted supply where all competitors in the water supply market may increase profits due to demand.

Additionally, competition in markets where there is imperfect knowledge is not always based on price. It may be based on many other factors for example branding etc.

So your statement "In open markets margins should tend to zero" is not true, they will tend towards an equilibrium based on supply and demand, and even then individual suppliers may be differentiated by factors other than price allowing them to make a higher margin than their competitors.

The fact that competition may in some cases reduce margins, does not therefore have any "wider implications on the ability to profit over the long run in a capitalist society."

Note that where the marginal cost of production is zero, we can say that supply is infinite, and so prices cannot be maintained by restricted supply. This is a different case. But I cannot think of any market where the marginal cost of production is zero. Even copying and pasting a news article requires a small investment of time. So this qualifier may be unneccessary since it refers to an absurd situation.
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I must say that this person strikes me as having "issues" and thus I think I'll wait for more information before passing judgement. I mean just look at rest of the blog. I look at that, and I do not think, "wow, that's a calm, reasonable person who is going to give me a fair and balanced description of what the problem is".
"The next time you guys all think that the "business guy" in start-ups is overrated, think about the time you clicked the up arrow here."

The business guy is someone who has read Steve Blank's book and put it into practice?

Any "technical guy" can read the book and put the ideas into practice (far easier than a business guy teaching himself to code ). Talking to your customers is hardly magic. Why do they need a "business guy" again (again confining the discussion to the kind of activity talked about in the bog entry. Anyone can do this. There are specialized business skills which do call for "business guys" but talking to potential customers when you plan a startup is hardly a specialist skill).

EDIT: I am just playing the devil's advocate here. I think there is insufficient information in the blog post to make it some kind of paean for the "business guy" and/or a counterpoint to the supposed underrating of "business guys".
Yes, interesting. Optimal play should end in a tie every game. He says there are 2 ways for X to win (mirror images of each other). In those cases, O's second move was not optimal.
To know which C++ subset to use on your project, you need first to learn a little about ALL C++.

Alexandrescu and Stroustrup's books will teach you a lot and open you to what is possible in this amazing language.

Weather you will use those techniques in your project however, depends on the project, your team, your clients, etc.
They offer an optional extra feature (paid) that I wasn't expecting:

http://www.mypasswordbuddy.com/web/admin/
I don't understand what more information you need. Do you believe she's lying? She makes no secret of her difficult past on her blog.
This is the typical advice given by C programmers turned to C++.

Illustrating the best reason why you should NOT learn C before C++...
Yeah, some kind of condition? I'm made out of meat, doesn't that count?
Your comment was unfortunately not just wrong, it was dangerously wrong. I'd just hate for anyone to read it and think "he's got a point", sorry.

"I joined 2 days after HN was first opened publicly, and was in the top 10 for a few months a while ago (a year or so), to give you an idea of how times have changed on HN."

Looks like I joined the same day you did, and I think I was also in the top 10 for a while. I don't think us not being in the top 10 any more is evidence of "times changing" on HN (other than the fact that the community has grown a lot and so it's progressively harder to stay in the top-N).
Ask HN: Ever hired an artist?
I've been making social apps for about two years now, but so far they have never used graphics. I don't know any artists, and don't really know where to find them, or even the right terminology. What I'd like to accomplish at this stage is as a test get a few simple drawings done, such as badges that users can get, and then expand from there once I find a relationship I'm comfortable with.

I've tried posting on DeviantArt and other forums, but when I browse the replies others are getting, the portfolios posted don't seem to compare well to the level of graphics in social games like FarmVille. Now I'm thinking that instead of trying to contact individuals, I should find some kind of an art company which has already gathered such talent. I've only found one promising company so far (http://animasia-studio.com), hoping they could help.

Have you ever successfully gotten something more complex than a simple logo done for you by an artist / company? Can you recommend anyone? Please share your experiences, thanks!
While it seems likely that's true (to me, anyway), it does still mean that for anyone who isn't a tier 1 ISP, and therefore does have to pay out the gargantuan bandwidth costs, it's quite difficult to profit from video websites.
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An excellent example of why measuring performance is vastly preferable to speculating about it. I often find that what I imagine to be the case and what the measurements tell me are two completely different things.
I like that book too. I am reading it atm. But it might be difficult if you don't have already a programming experience. But for those like me who know C already it is great because it explains all the differences between C and C++ and helps you to fill the gap between both. You can download it for free at the link mentionned above. I find it much more helpfull to learn C++ than Bjarne Stroustrup's book which should be better used as a reference once you know the language.
Nice component
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Updated and renamed the component to jquery.tagInput (tagBox was already taken).

New version features:
1) esc key close the dropdown
2) clearing the tag will close the dropdown
3) tab on dropdown will select the tag

fixed a bug on safari, and a strange behavior pressing return.

Cheers
Most of the artists I know who do small-to-medium contract jobs browse the "gigs" section on Craigslist for their local area (you'd think location wouldn't matter, but a lot of people who contract out for art assets want to meet in person, so many artists don't bother searching outside their local area). It's mainly big in the U.S., so may not work well in other countries. If you're near a major U.S. city, though, a post with an outline of your requirements will almost certainly get multiple responses with portfolios/bids/etc.
Buzz automatically adds at least Reader and Picasa streams to your Buzz account.
kinda obvious now that it's implemented, right? i mean... kids know they're wasting time by just sitting in a bus for hours and doing nothing else. homework got to be done anyway, so why not use the time now and have more free time in the evening?

> “We’re being stalked by a rainbow!” Jerod said.

:)
Only calm and reasonable people should be listened to?

Of course she's having issues. We all do. That's how it is in the real world ;) ... and some of us are extroverts, sharing our feelings with others. But it doesn't mean that if I have a message for Fred, everybody should read it ... and normal people don't know how to protect themselves, that's why this whole trend on "public by default" taken by Google and others is so worrying.
If you like boost::python, have you tried Luabind?
thanks, this feedback always appreciated :-)
The user interface of this page is remarkable. Sign up without choosing a username or password generates the missing part. Downloading the randomly generated username/pass in a file (broken or intentional rickroll right now).

There are a lot of very small and nice elements in this page worth stealing in a future project- kudos.
Really... no shortage of people who think Bing, Google, and Yahoo are equal? I haven't met any of these people, and that includes my relatives in Oklahoma and Texas.

There are no shortage of people who think Yahoo is the best search engine, but most of those people can't spell Google. They get their search bundled with their Windows, and that's a wrap.

Maybe this was satire and I missed it.
But once you get it you will be very addictive to it :D

A drag drop shopping cart is far more interesting than a cart webpage, more intuitive, quickly manageable.
I think we had a different interpretation of the situation, but let me know if I got something horribly wrong below, because I'd love to know before going out and doing the mistake in the real world.

Note I said _bidding_ 99.999% of profit. If Alice makes $1 profit when she bids $.10, then even if she bids $1.10 she would still get all those $.10 clicks and make her $100 profit, but additionally would get some other profitable clicks as well.

Does this make sense, or am I misunderstanding something?
If you're an active user of Google Reader's social networking features who tried out Buzz, please chime in. I wonder if it really happened as automatically as it sounds, from the post, or if she missed something. (I've tried out Buzz, but haven't used Google Reader in months.)
FarmVille di Facebook
I first learned to program using C++ and found this online resource to be extremely helpful:

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/

It has great reference for the C++ and C standard libraries. The best thing is that there are simple but _very_ good code examples accompanying each function description showing how to use it in context. Can't recommend this reference highly enough.
Android apps are sandboxed; the security model, assuming there are no holes in it, shouldn't let apps do crazy things like delete your files or install a keylogger. See: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/security....
Google employs a lot of smart people, so this is a real failure on their part - probably the biggest that I've yet seen from them. All previous similar addons to gmail have been opt in, so I wonder what caused them to change that policy in this case.
What do you guys think of "Thinking in C++" by Bruce Eckel ?

http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html

I remember back in college I used to refer to one of his books (can't remember which, I'm afraid) and it was pretty well written
already on the HN front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1119822
This problem usually occurs with shaped accounts. During working hours the connection is shaped, and therefore, cheaper.

The alternative is to pay a lot of money and have a download cap (5GB ~$67 p/m/ 10GB ~$85 p/m).

Right now, on an unshaped account I've got a 200ms ping to google.com; on a shaped account it'll be ~800ms.
My brother, who is trying to break into comics with a book where all the art was outsourced (2010: we're living in the freaking future), apparently got most of his artists by looking for ones he liked on DeviantArt and PMing them asking whether they were available for hire.

(Having seen the output and heard what he paid for it I think either he is the most talented hiring manager in the entire world or the price on original artwork has cratered so comprehensively that the industry is doomed, doomed, doooooomed.)
Government drive to reduce IT costs is a hollow desire
What if you post it before? What happens when you Creative-Commons a book, and then try to sell it?
So, a 3rd party says the battery lasts 4 hours, while Lenovo claims 10 hours?

There are two different batteries available (I think this is true for all X models). One is about double the size of the other and the 10 hours quote on the Lenovo page is "up to", so is the larger battery. My guess is that the original poster has the other one (which is more compact).

[Disclaimer: another X60 user here]
You're right. I'm not quite sure why I felt so strongly negative just then. I think it's because capping downvoting to -4 is still too low.

I really wish downvoting was capped at 0. That way, comments still get filtered to the bottom, but people who get downvoted (and spent ~20 minutes writing the comment) don't feel like they just wasted their time for no reason at all. Seeing my (interesting, if inflammatory) comment at -4 when a ridiculing reply was at 5 just set me off.
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great talk. We have the book in the hackerspace that I am the part of. I am much more eager to read it now.
Several companies offer this here in Norway.

We used to live in a building with 140 apartments, and it shocked me that we had to work for close to 6 months to find more than 10 people interested in getting a true 1Gbps link installed. The rates would end up being cheaper than the ADSL/cable people already had, but still no go.

Originally, we were supposed to bring on board more than 20 people, but the company installing the link felt so bad for us that they went ahead with the few we managed to find anyways.

And then we moved to get out of the city. Back to unstable and horrible cable. Bleh.
> Having seen the output and heard what he paid for it I think either he is the most talented hiring manager in the entire world or the price on original artwork has cratered so comprehensively that the industry is doomed, doomed, doooooomed.

Or, amateurs don't know what they're worth, like it always has been.
Your implying the cost to replicate the technology and gain the same traction would cost Google more then $50m. This is clearly not true, even if you grossly overestimate and assume it takes 20 engineers 6 months each at a salary of $300k each to replicate vark, plus $10m in marketing. It still falls short of $50m.

So is the difference the cost of mostly re-acquiring talent? Talent that you had already ascribed a value to when you employed them through assessing their annual performance?
True, but you can always wait to buy a car until you need it, and the savings will* still outdo the cost of a rental to tide you over while shopping for one.

*Estimating here. Looking at Hertz.com, you can rent for ~$250/week, which for me equals about 4 months in minimal car insurance.
I guess that's a novel open source monetisation model. Make it open source, but dependent on boatloads of proprietary products.
You're missing the point. I don't care about karma. I said I was in the top 10 to establish that hey, I'm not some random guy, I've been here since the beginning and contributed enough to actually matter, and so therefore when I say HN has a problem then maybe someone will listen and do something about it.

As far as you thinking I'm "dangerously wrong", well, I'm still living and breathing, aren't I? Plenty of people live without health insurance, with no problems. Statistically I'm making a safe gamble, even if I'm "gambling with an unlimited downside" or whatever.

If you're going to say someone is wrong on HN, you better back up your position with facts.
The source of the huge costs in medical care are the way medicare/medicaid completely dominate the market with their hair-brained payment schemes. The way that insurance is tied to employment for tax reasons, the cartel that controls the supply of doctors (AMA), and hosts of other barriers and redtape that may improve the quality of healthcare, but make it unaffordable to a large portion of the population.
Nice walk-through, for the cautious like you and me:

http://savedelete.com/discover-how-to-do-use-google-buzz-and...

(posted yesterday by yogeshmankani: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1118141 )
As amateurs, though, they might not be worth much in most parts of the market, because a lot of potential employers / contract-art purchasers put a lot of value on the portfolio and previous gigs. There are huge swathes of the market that you're excluded from if your resume is essentially empty except for "posted a few things on DeviantArt", no matter how good those things are. Which means you can get good art cheaply if you're willing to find people with no resume who can provide it.
Google introduces smut censor for YouTube
Google has introduced a "safety mode" for YouTube watchers that filters out smut and other objectionable material, the company announced.