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I think that the default tripwire config (and definitely the default samhain config) includes monitoring new files in /etc, so at least there's that protection. Unfortunately not many people use those applications in real deployments.
I'm a student, and can't afford to pay to watch Mixergy. But I still enjoy watching the videos while they're available for free, and I don't begrudge Andrew for wanting to make money off his own hard work.

"HOME OF THE AMBITIOUS UPSTART" - I love that line.
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Unfortunately I don't think these private individual political boycotts are very effective. If you want to stop Apple, you need to bring something clearly better to the market, and that thing needs to have the underlying structure necessary to reach Apple's core audience and tell them how much better the new thing is and why you don't need Apple's crap anymore.
> the methodology is rarely to blame for a failed project

Truth is, it's always the person in charge who is to blame.

That and natural disasters, but those are far less frequent.
I can't say anything else but agree.
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Well private individual will also have a hard time bringing something better to the market than apple.

Individual's first strength is to boycott something. And to raise his/shes voice so that the alternative arguments are heard too.

I just called 90% of my techie/geek colleagues pussies over twitter after reading this.
> The science being employed is sociology.

Perhaps in the case of Avatar, the science would be anthropology with a small bite of psychology and history mixed in.

A lot of good sci-fi stories gloss over the details of several sciences (and often violate them in ways that would make a screenwriter turn red) to have the opportunity to examine one specific idea.

Or, to put it more concisely, they tell one story while pretending to tell another.
Couldn't agree more. Though I'm waiting to see what new Mac Pro will bring. Tuth is I can't find dual processor machine for same money/quality as apple makes it, even though I'm installing windows on it (mostly for applications I'm using). Mac Pro is one damn nice Windows box.
It's very hard to tell a story if you are to make an accurate enough prediction of the future.

Raw unadorned reality doesn't lend itself to make great movies.
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(5) Carve out clear areas of incompetence: Claim areas of incompetence! Admit it.

what?
I'm concerned that as it gains users, HN is acquiring an attribute common to other social news sites where users simply downvote a comment because they don't agree with it, or because it criticizes something that they favor or like.

This is an often-discussed issue. I see your join date is not quite from long enough ago that you may have seen this comment from pg

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

in which he said, "I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.

"It only becomes abuse when people resort to karma bombing: downvoting a lot of comments by one user without reading them in order to subtract maximum karma. Fortunately we now have several levels of software to protect against that."

But I have a still more recent join date, and I have seen links back to that comment on the MANY previous occasions when downvotes have been discussed, so I have become aware of this point of view.

Of course, more recent discussions of the issue of voting behavior on HN

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=507948

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057133

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103339

(this set of links is far from exhaustive) show that there is thought on the part of site management about how to improve current incentives.

I try to learn from the downvotes I receive. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, but I expect myself to analyze my own behavior to figure out what really contributes to the community. The site management, of course, has to figure out how to set up incentives for altruistic rather than mob behavior.

I always wonder, when I see a post about the evils of downvotes, why I don't see more replies about what is good to upvote. I tried opening a separate thread about that issue recently

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1065084

but you can see for yourself it didn't get upvoted much at the time. I will ask again here: what ought to be upvoted? I would like advice from the community about how to use my upvotes to build up the community.
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Does it work inside text areas? The article mentions working inside text "fields," but I'm wondering if I can get inside a large text area and have it feel just like a vim window.

That would be great because then I'd be more inclined to edit certain files through our web interface instead of "cheating" by ssh-ing and using vi there.
The iPad will sell like hotcakes and while some preach doomsday for freedom others will make millions developing for it.

At the end, pops and moms will be happier than ever with their new computing experience that doesn't crash every day and has to be formatted and reinstalled every other month.
I'm happy for you Andrew, but you could've played out monetization side differently, albeit the hard way. You could've pitched yourself for syndication to sites like channel9 and live interviews to conferences - that's where your money would be at while keeping the site free. Just an idea.
Android Growing Faster Than All Other Mobile Platforms (In the US)
This is only true of the iPad/iPhone ecosystem. For OSX, they give away development tools better than the ones microsoft charges ridiculous amounts of money for. Almost all apple-made software (even the kind they sell) doesn't even make you enter a license key. If you are honestly worried about a closed app store coming to OSX based on what Apple does with phones and devices that they clearly think of as large phones, you are paranoid.
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OK I'm trying it out myself now. I'm in a text field and it's showing that I'm in "INSERT" mode. Makes sense.

Now normally in vi I could press ESC now to exit INSERT mode. So that's what I'll do now. ESC

Drat. It doesn't do the ONE THING I care about the most: giving me vi-like edit capability within a text area.

I haven't dug around in the documentation yet so please excuse me if I missed something obvious.
There are some surprising available math fonts, here is a page with sample output showing which available math fonts match which available text fonts:

http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/Free_Math_Font_Survey/s...
Are we sure of these figures? Adding the world wars together, civil wars, and the razings of the ancient world I would figure man has killed man much more often than nature has been able to.
OK now I'm going to try the "Texto" plugin instead:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/73747
I'm struck by how old they all are. I bet the younger generation is just waiting for them to all die off.
Yeah I have used Google Notebook but I want some local app. There are already some very good ones as an extension on a web browser.

Zoho Notebook is also good enough now that Google Notebook is no longer in development.
"Kilimanjaro, I want to send some of our holiday photos to aunt Annie with your mom's iPad. Where can I plug it in? Dad."

"Kilimanjaro, your father bought a book which I would like to read too. Could you tell us how to copy it to my iPad too? Love, mum"
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"I wonder who Seneca thought was carefully arranging the universe so that everyone would had enough time if only they had used it properly."

The Stoic thought process would simply reject the exceptionalism of Man and the maxim naturally follows without recourse to a higher entity.

After all, we do observe that all other life forms seem to have just enough time to do their thing. And when we speak of "properly" (or "wisely"), naturally it is only meaningful given that we have the ability to make choices. (c.f. "to thine own self be true")
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There's an app for that. Or, there will be.
Now they just need to make the buttons bigger like this http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/Google-Chrome.jp...

Oh and make the top right pixel click-able too (for Fitts's law).
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Wow, the Texto plugin does exactly what I want!

After installing it in Firefox, I told it to use this editor:

/usr/bin/gvim

Now when I want to edit a text area in vim, I just click the little
Texto icon which appears in that text area and up pops a gvim window!

Note that I can still edit the text area normally as well. That's what I'm doing in this paragraph.

And now in this paragraph I'm editing in gvim again.
So let's say I am totally convinced, not by the programmability, but by the combination of unicode support and microtypography.

For LaTeX, everyone knows that to get professional output you just read through the two (!) manuals for the memoir class and then you know pretty much everything you need. Where do I start to make professional looking output with ConTeXt?
"Hi Dad. You'll have to buy one of these http://images.apple.com/ipad/specs/images/usb_connectors_201... for the iPad, unless your camera has built-in uploading. Look on the box for a WiFi icon."

"Hi mum. Plug your iPad into iTunes and click 'add device to authorized list' under the Advanced menu when dad is logged into his iTunes account."
> > It allows free interpretation of scripture

> Check

> > demands difficult personal decisions

> Not really. Haven't given up anything because of a difficult decision

vim or emacs? KDE or Gnome? decisions, decisions.

> > imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user

> Not at all. Everything is very simple, from the bottom up.

All complex hermeneutics are simple once you're initiated into them. To the outsider, however, Unix is arcane.

> > not all can achieve salvation

> Why not? Every Unix that runs on a regular PC (or a Mac) is a free download. Chances are you can run some flavour of Unix on your watch. Or toaster.

Salvation comes from understanding the system and making it work for you. Merely downloading it is not enough. Unix is user friendly, it's just very picky about who its friends are.

> > To make the system work you need to interpret the program yourself

> No way. Running most programs is a point-and-click business. On any modern Unix (such as Solaris, Debian or Fedora), installing a programs is a point-and-click, very app-storish thing.

> Without the DRM part, of course.

Configure, Make, Make Install. Remember, this was written in 1994, when point-and-click was still very alien to Unix.

(all in good fun, of course)
Unclear from that article how much of the JP Morgan estimate of $600 million/year revenue to Google from China is from ads sold on Google and viewed in China (.cn/.com) and how much from sales to Chinese advertisers viewed anywhere on Google. Revenue from the latter case isn't likely to suffer from a pullout.
Yes, reddit said they evaluated riak + the other usual suspects: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bcqhi/reddits_n...
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>I try to learn from the downvotes I receive. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, but I expect myself to analyze my own behavior to figure out what really contributes to the community.

As downvotes don't differentiate between agreement and poor construction of argument how can you tell what contributes. I find that those who disagree with me in a well thought out way are instructive. I don't wish to homogenise with the community but want to know if I'm not expressing myself well.

For example, this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1135803, I can't work out why it's downvoted. Thus I can't see what I could have done to improve the comment or why I should perhaps of not made it.

IMO we should have an agreement vote as well as a quality vote.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox : During the 20th century, it is estimated that smallpox was responsible for 300–500 million deaths.

Smallpox has been around for over 10,000 years. In the 20th century it killed more people than all the wars in this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War#List_of_wars_by_death_toll
As the newest mobile OS on the market, I would be very surprised if Android's growth stats weren't large compared with the mature platforms.
Should also point out that for not that much money ($79) you can buy a great looking alternative font called Lucida Bright which comes with a complete set of matching math glyphs. It is much easier on the eyes (both on screen and in print) than the standard CM. Well worth it if you write lot of Tex.
OP's post says more about the consulting industry than the best practices they promote. Let me explain...

I was brought in by a Big 5 firm to rescue some of their clusterfucks. One project was 18 months old and one year behind. Another was "90% complete" for the past year. They gave me a laptop with their own systems analysis / project management app on it. Everything had to go through it. After 2 days it was clear that this "system" was cause of most of their problems. Why? Because no one thought any more. They just plugged everything into the app and submitted the reports every Friday whether anything made sense or not.

I showed the app to a friend of mine who was an expert consultant (not Big 5!). It was clear to him why they did this.

He said, "The sole purpose of 'best practices' and tools like this are to make people who don't know what they're doing appear as if they did. They pay people $50 per hour and bill them at $300 per hour. The difference, after expenses, goes to the partners. That's their business model. It's that simple. So, forget about best practices and just do your fucking job. You'll eat them alive."

Thanks, Tom. I've been doing that ever since. You were right.
As Timthorn mentioned, a high growth rate from a small base isn't really impressive. Last year, it was on one U.S. carrier, and T-Mobile at that. Now, everyone but AT&T has it.

Aside from that, however, Android's tackling a range of devices from the high end tier to what the industry terms "feature phones," devices that hope to tackle one area and tackle it really well (i.e., photos, texting, social media). These are lower margin but higher gross, and for now, completely uninteresting to Apple but Android provides a perfect platform for crafty manufacturers to quickly churn them out.
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Agreed. org-mode is simply perfect, and alone is worth knowing and sticking with emacs for - that is, if you already mostly use plain text in your life, for speed and simplicity. Be sure to get and use the cheat-sheet at http://orgmode.org/orgcard.pdf
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Thanks very much for the links, I haven't seen most of them.

In my opinion, upvotes should be used to promote any comment that provides a unique or underconsidered point-of-view on the topic at hand, to indicate enthusiastic agreement, or to encourage users. For instance, if someone posts a comment that says what I would have said if they had not said it, I upvote it, because I enthusiastically agree and that user has saved me the time I would have spent typing it out, and usually introduced an element I hadn't considered. Or, if a user has posted a thoughtful comment with a divergent take from the rest of the group, even if I don't agree or don't care, I will often upvote that because it will get people thinking and hopefully generate good discussion. I will also upvote comments that have caused me to reconsider an opinion, or that make a point I hadn't yet considered. Those comments expand my mind and experience, and are good.

I find myself upvoting a lot of things I otherwise wouldn't upvote recently, primarily because I don't think the comment is worthy of downvotes it has received. For instance, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1188846 is the comment that pushed me over on posting this, and it had a score of zero when I found it. I didn't find it particularly useful or insightful, and I didn't really have much opinion on its content, but I didn't think it deserved a downvote, and I upvoted it to get it back up to 1.

I try to reserve my downvotes for lines of thought or discussion that are either useless or actively damaging to the community. I don't think a comment deserves to be buried and its user penalized by karma removal merely because I disagree or don't find their comment interesting. I think of the vote buttons as a tool for communal cropping, I suppose, not a personal comment rating system.
Obviously Android is growing, but this rhetorical trick to make the growth look RIDICULOUS is... ridiculous.

I'm not sure why this analysis stopped in October 2009. Why not go back to October 2008? Then the stats would look something like this:

all other phones:
sales in October 2008: finite
sales in Jan 2010: larger
percentage increase: big

Android phones:
sales in October 2008: zero
sales in Jan 2010: large
percentage increase: INFINITY!!!

In other words, I assert that one big reason why Android has grown so fast since "the three month period ending in October 2009" is that before then there was only one or two Android phones, they were all from HTC, as I remember they were rather poorly marketed, and as a result they sold modestly but not spectacularly. When you're down that far, there's a lot of upside potential.

Take a look at this chart:

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

What you will see is that the bulk of Android-powered devices, including the ones with the big popularity and big press from Motorola and (of course) Google itself, all came out after October 2009.

Cherry-picking certain parts of the sales growth curve and then extrapolating them to infinity does not add additional information. Take the data for what it is: The newest Android-powered devices are selling much, much better than the old; Apple's three-year-old iPhone platform has reached a marketshare plateau (not astonishing: three years is a long time in the phone market; unlike Android the iPhone OS is only available on a few types of device from one vendor; and in many markets the iPhone is chained firmly to specific telecom vendors, as Bay Area AT&T customers know all too well). Meanwhile, it sure is nice to be RIM, Microsoft's marketshare is doing about what everyone expected, and, well, it's really too bad about Palm.

EDIT: Oh, wait, these are smartphone subscriber stats. As such they probably don't include Apple's iPod Touch or other non-phone devices. (e.g. Does the Nook count?) When judging the installed base of the software platforms, rather than the size of various markets for cellphone minutes, this is a big omission, since Apple is known to do a huge iPod Touch business.
I know I should not expect too much from "Phandroid.com", but the only thing ridiculous here is the way this guy cooks the numbers. If RIM saw twice the growth as Android they would score 20.8% on his chart. The percent change in percents is not a meaningful number.
Attempting to game reddit, brave man.

>And the idea that my submission of my work is frowned on, but others submitting my work sees them rewarded, that is deeply abhorrent.

The point is that work others find interesting/important in some way are posted; most authors consider their own work to be worthwhile.
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The growth is quite good, i am happy for that. But it is not RIDICULOUSLY faster. This interpretation of statistics is just too much.

It's probably why i stopped reading phandroid. My suggestion for android news: http://www.planetandroid.com/
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It is. # cell phone subscribers by phone type is not mobile web users by phone type.
Microsoft's developer tools are free (at the entry level), and I would question the assertion that they are worse than Apple's.
The control that Apple has over the iPhone and the application distribution channel does contribute greatly to the iPhone's success.

Does it really? The iPhone was hugely successful well before there was an App Store.
Surely if it's a government agency they should be part of the Copyright office (same phone network, same web address) and called something like the United States Copyright Collection Agency.

Responding to an email @soundexchange.com looks like a scam. Responding to an email @copyright.gov appears far more legit and you've a pretty good idea that if you're being scammed the USCO will let you know.
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From the description on the site:

The same area is used both for creating notes and searching. I.e., in the process of entering the title for a new note, related notes appear below, letting users file information there if they choose. Likewise, if a search reveals nothing, one need simply press return to create a note with the appropriate title.

If a note's title starts with the search term(s), that title will be "auto-completed". This selects the note and consequently displays it. Correspondingly, selecting a note places its title in the search area (De-selecting the note restores the search terms).

To create a new note, just type its title and press return. Edit the note as needed in the bottom pane.

To view or edit an existing note, type one or more words contained in its body or title. Reveal a note's content by using the up/down arrow keys to select it.
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I have noticed some more downvoting than is usual - and, yes, sometimes on well worded and apparently good comments. I've never seen much problem with downvoting for disagreement myself - but I do dislike this idea of downvoting instead of commenting your disagreement/counter view etc. (I personally don't think a downvote is worth much if you can't support it)

I think it would be nice to see a social pressure to add a reply if one doesn't already exist explaining disagreement etc.

Both for the benefit of the commenter and other readers.