skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what you mean by "attack"; and I include DOS and Win 3.11. In the early 90s, the most common viruses I saw were infected executables (i.e. modified programs that when run, searched for other executables to infect) and boot sector viruses, often both in one.

I worked part-time as a PC technician in the early 90s, building, upgrading and repairing PCs. I was there :)
The reason business writing is so awful is because business thinking is equally awful. Faced with attempting to understand something as complex as a business, and the society it must operate in, it's of little wonder than most people fall back on simplistic models described by simplistic language, usually cribbed from other businesses also who use these same simplistic models and simplistic language. This is much easier to do than actual original thinking.

Most people working for most major corporations have little incentive to fully understand the complexity of the business they work in. All they really need to care about is knowing enough to do their job. Exceptional people, when you find them in businesses, are the ones who understand a far greater degree of the complexity of the business, and have been able to place that within the context of a greater understanding of society.

Start-ups are different, where the incentives are markedly different: if you do not understand your business and the society it operates in, then you fail. I think this explains why much of the leading-edge business thinking comes from startups.

I can only understand the adulation of 37Signals in terms of the intellectual squalor of business in general. All 37Signals has done is been competent and hand-working, and they have obviously thought long and hard about what their business is and does, and the environment it operates in. This should not be exceptional in the slightest degree, yet it is - and this speaks volumes about the low standard of thinking that permeates much of the rest of the commercial world.
If nothing else, this proposal to simulate humanity on planet Earth is ambitious. The original paper is here:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4969
Thank you to everyone who has worked hard either as a colleague or by building any of the products that make me happy. I'm genuinely grateful to all of you, from the folks at HP in the 70s who made wonderful calculators (my first exposure to great technology) up through today where Apple, Dropbox, Google, and many others are a large part of my daily life. Your hard work has made things that changed the course of history, pleased millions of users, and affected everyone on the planet in some way. Keep up the good work.
I'm two chapters into this story and strangely enough, it appears to be an appropriate submission to HN. Petunia ends up marrying a scientist (not that he or she or all the relationships are perfect or even great), and a "rationalist!Harry enters the wizarding world armed with Enlightenment ideals and the experimental spirit".

And it's funny (ADDED: very funny). A few too many slightly long digressions on "rationality", but worth a look, I think.
I assumed that comment was a reference to the Nook.
We once had an architect that sued the occupants of a house he designed because the washing they hung out to dry disturbed the beautiful lines of his creation.

Arrogance comes in all kinds of forms.
I didn't write it... I thought I made that clear.

Again, it's SUPER obvious to us (and to you, apparently) that our dataset is NOT representative. Do you think it'd help if I added that to the bottom of the post? We just assumed that's obvious once we described the value proposition.
That's the thing. If I could hear the lyrics it would be able to find the song. Thanks for giving a shot though. I will try Tears for Fears.
I think one of the first signs of bad business writing is equating the number of google hits for a term with its real life impact. This was a fun trope in 2000, but in an age of content farms and repeated links its kind of meaningless. e.g. I just searched for a random term "Gargamel Robot Fan" and got 15,000+ results.

That said, I like the products JF mentioned, but I think the universe of customers who like the cheeky tone of the companies he mentioned is fairly small. The Saddleback backs cost hundreds of dollars, Woot plays to an educated techie crowd, the farm he mentions is a super local business. You've got this venn diagram of people with a broad liberal education crossed with folks who have large sums of money for big discretionary purchases.

I work in the world of medical devices, specifically diabetes. It is a $130B industry and while some companies try to get conversational, the truth is most don't want a tongue in cheek/casual/authentic tone when it comes to their health. It might be conditioning, but people seem to like the idea of a massive company filled with scientists that seems "robust" if bland. I'm sure its similar in other categories.

I love the Saddleback copy, but it is not universally applicable.
It's probably related to the way I learned about tech, I relentlessly pulled stuff apart until I understood how it worked. I never really grew out of that I guess.
Turns out the people in question _are_ developers in Silicon Valley, and I'm pretty confident a Facebook engineer could get another job in the valley if he/she wanted.
Are European academics more efficient with their words? I have no quibble with the comment, but I do think the groundless criticism of American thinkers is kind of lame. I realize its the quote not the poster.
The modern user is interested in both.
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Seeing analogpixels.com being one of the top 10 donors made me wonder: How many people would donate more if the current top 10 paying people got a link to their website/product for the duration of the sale?
Here is what I did -

1. Started with emacs-starter-kit - http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit

2. Install clojure-mode, slime, slime-repl and swank-clojure using ELPA (M-x package-list-packages)

3. Install http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen (again technomancy)

Starting a new project is the following -

1. lein new <project_name>

2. Tweak the project.clj to pull in the dependencies I need (Using the project.clj that leiningen is a good starting point http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/project.... )

3. Fire up emacs - M-x swank-clojure-project and point to the root of the newly created leiningen project.

I understand that those new to Java-land, the concept of the classpath, jars, maven all can be a little daunting, but that is the nature of Java as it stands today.

Hope this helped

[Edited for formatting]
I use http://www.rapidsslonline.com/rapidssl-certificates.php (~$15/year) and haven't had any problems.

https://www.servertastic.com/rapidssl/ look similar.
Looks useful -- how about extending the calculator with a four-layer option? That's where things start to get pricy, it seems.
Their single biggest problem is OpenID. Normal people have zero tolerance for such shenanigans. It's confusing to create an account and login. On top of that asking for such information seems like a scam to non-techies. I know, I know there is significant support for OpenID. Yet it's still a distraction to the site. And it still scares people away. This may be acceptable for tech to tech communities but not for the rest of the world.
Business writing (the kind that tells you about best-of-breed, market-leading solutions) is awful because it is written by people who do not understand their product, their market, or worse, both.

You'll notice that business writing of this type says very little in many words. That's because the author doesn't know what to write, so they resort to vague phrases that say everything and nothing. Technical documentation sometimes suffers from this too (e.g. "Fznoozlator: Fznoozlates the document").

Someone who truly understands the business benefits of their offering and their customers will write text that reflects that. That's why the Woot and Saddleback Leather examples are so good. It's a lot harder to write this sort of widely compelling content for enterprise software, but a skilled marketer can still communicate the value proposition well. Problem is, most skilled marketers would rather slit their own wrists than work on that kind of boring product.
The most surprising thing there is that engadget found it surprising:

a) We know Android tablets are coming - we've seen them before
b) We know Adobe is porting Flash to Android/ARM

It appear logical that it would run better on an Android tablet that a phone given the processing power available.

The tablet is probably a Tegra2 based thing (since you can buy the dev boards and they run Android well) or possibly Android-on-Atom.

Both Tegra2 and Atom are much powerful than the Cortex-A8 (Snapdragon/Apple A4) processes found in phones (and the iPad)
I'd like a little more detail on what they mean by "flawlessly." It could be that Steve's idea of "flawlessly" involves things like being thrifty with battery-hogging system resources, playing nicely with the upcoming multi-tasking in 4.0, and having a culture around writing applications that feel "native" on their host platform.

There's nothing wrong with having a different definition of "flawlessly," I'm just wondering what Adobe means.
I know almost all of Tears for Fears by heart and it isn't one of theirs, but the voice is close. The music is also definitely not Tears for Fears.

I'll play it loud on the speakers tomorrow, see if I can catch some more of the lyrics. I run 'lirama.net', so I can use the songs database to do some queries that would be hard using google. (wildcards in the fragment, for instance).

That womans voice is getting on my nerves, it is hard to try to tune her out while catching the underlying music.

Incidentally, I found a song two days ago that I'd been looking for for over two decades, I heard it once on the radio and the melody stuck, I finally linked it to Tony Banks (genesys keyboardist) because of one small fragment in a different song by him.

I can't describe the feeling of finally laying that to rest. (the song was called Portrait of Jerry Jackson, it's instrumental, which was a huge part of the problem).

So I'm kind of motivated to find this one for you :)
NetBeans+Enclojure is really nice. It has some features even Emacs doesn't. I'm an Emacs user, too (thanks to Clojure) but I still kind of resent having to spend half my time configuring and learning crazy key-chords to get things done.
I thought about a p2p social networking where each person can host their own data (like you mentioned). Then I checked out Opera Unite. The concept and possibilities are neat. But in practice they ended up way too slow. Maybe in the near future, we can have that.
Ah, true 'nuff and totally agreed. I think it'd be super interesting to try to get a good cross-section with RescueTime. Even if we buried our users in demographic questions, we'd still have a hard time get truly representative data.

More realistically, I think it'd be interesting to correct/adjust by profession. i.e. do this same analysis for JUST software engineers, for example, to correct for the likelihood that RescueTime women probably have a different distribution among the assorted career paths.
Books aren't set up for discussion. I'm guessing that you think they aren't good for "fishing" either?

The basic idea with StackOverFlow is to ask well-defined questions and get well-defined answers, without the long messy threaded response found in most forums. The worst is when the thread ends in a dead end.

The wiki feature and the ability to include formated code are very useful. The reputation economy is essential, so more questions get answered, including older ones. What happens in a forum when no one answers a question? Ask again a few days later?

Also, they do have short discussions through comments, which I have found to be effective.

Finally, I think you, and many others, are completely missing the point of StackOverFlow, and hopefully other future sites like it. If say, for example, 100,000 people are learning [Lisp, Scala, Java, C++, Go, jQuery, C#, etc], they are going to have the a lot of similar questions that really only need to be asked once, with one or two solutions provided. Now the next 99,999 people don't need to ask the same question. So, now we have taken the FAQ and improved upon it by creating it dynamically through voting, and question matching.

There are various improvements that could be done to StackOverFlow. They are essentially creating a huge database of programming knowledge. Ideally it, or a similar project, could be organized to enable someone to start learning any new topic and become proficient by browsing and searching the site. Questions could be further categorized to enable better filtering (eg. Mac OS bug, compiler warning message, compiler error message), include specific version solutions (eg. Java 1.5, Java 1.6). A Rosetta Stone feature could be added linking solutions. For example, the question: "How do I reverse a string in [Java]?" could provide links to the Perl, C#, Java, Lisp, Scheme, Javascript solutions.
Any speculation or ideas on why Amazon chose Singapore?
>Adobe says Apple is stifling competition by barring developers from using Adobe’s products to create applications for iPhones and iPads

What exactly are Apple and Adobe competing over in this particular case? Language? Is code language a market?

I can understand Flash developers feeling that this behavior excludes them from the market, and I understand that Adobe feels (rightly) that this makes CS 5 less attractive, but is Apple competing directly with Flash app developers or with Adobe's CS 5?

I guess it's just not clear to me what competition is being stifled and if Apple directly stands to gain from section 3.3.1 (as opposed to indirectly gaining because of their ability to maintain control of their platform's direction and features).
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Just found Mocklinkr which is similar to what I've been looking for, but not quite as good.
Yes, I know that they cannot move faster than the speed of the light, and that the universe was opaque to visible light before the decoupling of radiation.

But there're a group of neutrinos that decoupled before the decoupling of radiation, even before this gravitational waves were at large in the universe, they could in principle say something about regions that are outside the Observable Universe, this ignoring the fact that they must be absolutely difficult to observe and that both neutrinos and gravitation waves are generated by new events and that we can in fact extract some information about these regions from them in the same way we can from light.

This was what I found from a paper, "Detection of gravitational waves with resonant antennas" from Francesco Ronga, earlier today:

"Gravitational wave and neutrino astronomy will increase the amount of observable universe, because they will investigate places that are completely inaccessible to the electromagnetic radiation and probably will change our knowledge of the universe evolution"
I may be in the minority, but I am loving Opera on the iPhone.
I think you're missing the significance of quotation marks around Google search terms. To replicate Jason Fried's results, you need to search with quotation marks.

A search for "Gargamel Robot Fan" with quotation marks returns zero hits.

But I think your second point about medical devices marketing not working so well with a cheeky tone is good.
gmail TOS:

http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS?hl=en

6. Your passwords and account security

6.1 You agree and understand that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any account you use to access the Services.

6.2 Accordingly, you agree that you will be solely responsible to Google for all activities that occur under your account.

6.3 If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or of your account, you agree to notify Google immediately at http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=58585.

It's not absolutely clear, but 6.1 says to me "don't give your password to anyone." Whether it's for auto-scraping or not. If I give my password to FB to scrape my contacts, I (but not necessarily FB) have violated 6.1 because my password is no longer confidential.

So FB is at least relying on someone (me) violating TOS.
Apple: The Microsoft of Mobile?
Intel's Turbo Boost vs AMD's Turbo Core
Yes, and no. Focussing your business, which seems to be the message behind the reset button, is incredibly valuable for creating future growth. But it doesn't have to be a Product focus, which is all the article explores.

A lot of web-based businesses in particular offer a wide-range of products, leveraging technology to distribute them more efficiently, more cheaply, or into new markets. Would you tell Amazon to stick to hard copy books, or eBay to go back to Pez Dispensers?
I had a pretty pointed argument with someone here not that long ago about never having 'worked hard', my position was that for the most part none of us have ever worked hard.

Talk to someone building an asphalt road in the summer about hard work, or a farmer during a bad year, an ambulance driver or a police man.

Hard work means that your body is going to fail you long before it normally would have, hard work means that your hands have calluses.

We're bloody lucky that brains are rewarded as much as they are, I certainly wouldn't make it for a long time working in a mine or a field (the two options that you had roughly where I'm living not that long ago).

Sure, working under pressure can be tough, and demanding customers can drive you to the brink of insanity. But only if you let it.

You've been a cook, I worked in a mail room at the ripe old age of 17, scrawny little kid trying to drag a mailbag twice my weight. I didn't give up but I can tell you I came close those first weeks. It certainly helped me to appreciate my good fortune later in life.
it wasn't pure luck, Dropbox also nailed the product by making it stupid simple with their OS plugins to upload from Finder/Explorer - that and the viral invite friends to get more space thing were just two things that occur to me so it's never plain dumb luck!
Any busdriver or airliner pilot is responsible for more people on a daily basis.
Huh, how does comparing the current imperfect situation with an even worse situation make the current situation better? One might just as well say stuff like "You're LUCKY to have [insert contemporary OS]! Back in the day we used MS-DOS and didn't have mice so count your lucky stars!" when someone complains about their OS. A flaw is a flaw regardless of how much worse things used to be. Sure, be grateful for what you have (I am, just for the record), but don't rag on people who want to make things even better.
IPhone OS 4 beta 3 brings iPod widgets to the dock
Simplification trends in product design
Seriously, why is this even on HN? I would have loved to see a coherent argument against putting game mechanics into everything, but this certainly is not it.
Google is moving to HTML5 on YouTube so there is no benefit here:

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Android should just do h.264 video. There is less overhead.

Also, won't apps written directly for the native (Java) APIs on Android provide better results? Aren't "native" Windows or Mac apps usually better on their respective platforms? AIR is a nice idea but adding one more layer on a phone with limited resources has to cost something in terms of app performance, battery life, and/or usability. It's good that Google is supporting Flash. However, I think they just need to be careful to make sure that there are a lot more "native" Android apps.
Vague words are completely useless, yes, but sometimes just funny stories aren't good either.

Not uncommonly I find a link (in HN even) to a software product page and, arriving there, I'm greeted with pages and pages explaining what is all about and why I should use it. The pages are long, spread apart and in not-so-obvious places. Ah, there's also a 15 minute demo with a non-descriptive start. Fast forwarding shows some guy playing with a console terminal, but I can't even read what is he doing.

So, this is my two cents: not only you have to captivate your reader, but you must first show him where to start and convince him it's worth his time, either by already starting with something interesting or by making it short.
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A search for "Gargamel Robot Fan" with quotation marks returns zero hits.

Not anymore...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
Some people might misinterpret this but it is very interesting data. I think it is more fun than being damning. I put it in the same category as the studies that say what a mother and work at home mom do are worth 130k+.

I personally love RescueTime and subscribe, it has helped me immensely in managing my own time better. So while some may get angry, I find the data useful and the service even more so. I think they were just trying to draw some traffic and get some more customers to help.

The only people I have shown that don't like RescueTime are the ones that seem to figure out how little work they actually do once they start using it. It surely opens your eyes to your non productive time on the computer.
Windows Server 2003 Active Directory MCSE 70-294
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Exactly. I'd really like to see what sort of battery life they get out of that, for example.
Maybe it's surprising because the iPad does not run flash.
Dropbox (YC 07) announces mobile API (and apps for iPad, Android)
I've never heard watched him speak before this. It's cool because you can tell he's a genuine geek at heart.
How is this even remotely 'hacker news'?

Perhaps you're looking for /r/politics.
If you are a programmer, clone the code from github.

You are right about a demo, but this is a small project that I really wrote for myself, and shared it (and the code) as an after thought. This is really a 'scratch my own itch' project, like my cookingspace.com site that I use to track my vitamin K input - I could not find any other recipe sites that would do that for me when I wrote cookingspace.

Anyway, thanks for the idea: I'll add a PDF download link tomorrow with screenshots and a page or two of text describing why I did not like any of the other 'getting stuff done' sites.
Funny, when I saw that I thought it was genius. Nobody wants to be a cheapskate so by showing the average you encourage people to put in a price above the average. Over time it will trend upward. On the other hand, maybe people will enter in a value just under the average. Right now it is reporting $7.97 as the average. Let's see where it ends up.

I also notice in the promo video it has the average right next to the entry form. On my form it defaults to 29.95 and says "For instance: 10, 20.50, or 100.00." as help text. It seems like they played around with the form a bit.

This is the type of thing that could benefit from a nice A/B test. Might be hard to run on a very public one-time promo like this though.
The original source of the video appears to be http://www.spacecraftfilms.com/ and they look to have more NASA related videos at http://vimeo.com/user1634425/videos
Exactly, there are so many places where authentic or ironic speech isn't appropriate and wouldn't work. The phrase "Full service solutions provider" sends a lot of signals about being willing to deal with a low level of definition and a high level of bureaucracy on a project. A farmer whose first priority is "stimulating soil biota" sounds passionate but difficult to work with.