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Does anyone have a source directly from Google?

The article doesn't contain much substance.
Its not just iPhones: almost every piece of electronics is now made in Taiwan by this "almost slave labour", including laptops, desktops, and the servers that run your favourite cloud computing provider.

And it its not even for the soldering, the machines have done that for some time; its just cheaper to pay humans to screw together the components into case than to build a machine to do that.
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Hacker Monthly #1 is here
It's Windows only? I'd be nice if you detected my Mac, and instead of offering to download an exe it'd just say "Your platform is not supported".
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They are not even allowed to buy their own products.

I gave a free camera to one of the kids who worked an electronics factory. He recognized me months later, while he was waiting tables at the Railway Hotel Restaurant in Shenzhen. I took out a late model camera that they just produced and told him it was a free sample and he can take it. He told me to keep it with me until the Chinese New Year, or it would be confiscated from him as stolen property :-(

That night he went to the mall in Lou Hu and bought me a photo album as a gift. Must have cost him a day's salary, but the Chinese are too proud to take free gifts and usually try to pay it in kind ASAP. I still have the photo album; it has butterflies and unicorns, but I like it.
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My beef with some acupuncture is that it seems to provide pain relief, but I suspect it doesn't treat the underlying symptoms.

If your body hurts but you can still function, let it hurt IMO. It ain't broke so don't fix it.
Well, there's always the iPed:
http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/06/01/apple-ipad-vs-chin...

I don't think this is much different from working in a luxury car factory building cars you can probably never afford. Wealth is relative.

You also have to remember the tremendous growth China has been ging through the last couple of decades. People living there must have got used to each year being a lot better than last year.

So maybe that iPad doesn't look too far off after all for a factory worker.
Here is the pdf link: http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-issue1.pdf
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> "Google never denied and, when caught red handed, never admitted to snooping WiFi data either."

This is an absolutely disingenuous claim. Google had an accidental bug in software that stored captured packets. Said packets were never looked at, nor did anyone know these extraneous packets were being sniffed and stored. Upon finding this error, they publicly admitted the error and fixed it.

To characterize this as "snooping WiFi data" means either:

A - The author has a axe to grind against Google.

B - The author is not technically competent enough to realize what actually happened.

Personally I neither love nor hate Google, and to be honest most of the other content in that post is not something I have followed closely. If this gross misrepresentation for his own case is consistent over the rest of the blog post though, the author has no credibility.
Congratulations! Taking the plunge is indeed a hell of a thrill, and spooky too.

I'm a big fan of your product and the way you've been handling it so far.

Also: I originally bootstrapped by doing consulting work; it's been 2.5 years now, and my consulting business is doing rather nice, but I'm still not doing the development work I wanted to do. So don't get stuck!
Hacker Monthly #1 - June 2010 is here
This looks quite tasty.
Beautiful. I'm buying a hard copy now.
My advice: Try to avoid making business decisions for emotional reasons. Do business based on rational analysis of the facts, or it will cost you in the long run.

Google seems to be ignoring that advice, ditching an entire operating system and all the potentially cool stuff that comes with it because they're a company full of developers who don't particularly like Windows, and because they compete with Microsoft and therefore hold a bit of a grudge.

They're certainly within their rights to do this, and they can justify it to themselves as being for "security reasons", but in the end all it will do is weaken them a little bit.
Sorry for the double post.

I thought maybe there was something unique about the way they use their phones (the Japanese are constantly reading or typing on their phones) such that the iPhone was inferior (I still don't know the answer to this).

A few perceived demerits of the iPhone in Japan, in no particular order:

1) No or poor support for standard emoticons and "decorated" (HTML) email. That's a big minus here, especially among women.

2) No mobile wallet support. This was not a completely standard feature 2 years ago but it was already fairly common.

3) The camera is not so good: relatively low resolution, few features, no video recording.

4) No infra-red device. This is used to exchange contact information. This is a completely standard feature, even 0-yen phones have it.

5) No push email. Also a standard feature.

There are others. Personally, I don't mind the issues above except for 5). For me, the main problem is that the response can be horribly slow when typing, but I don't know if this is a widespread problem or just a glitch on my own device.
I'm not sure if you're speaking philosophically, but there's plenty of precedent for high schools in the U.S. punishing students for off-campus behavior, and sundry justifications that seem to be accepted for doing so.
They apparently picked the name by automatically searching for available short domains: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1369208

I said the same in the comments on that story--I don't think their name is very good. I constantly forget it too, and waste a few minutes Googling for it every time I need to use it (which is always a few months apart, and my experience with Ninite is so short it never makes an impression on me).
One of the most brilliant things about HN is the comments in relation to the article not just the article.

I had hoped it would include the discussion threads from that too.
Colour me skeptical. Writing Chrome? Testing on IE?
Nope, I'm not trolling.
Really fantastic article, and for anyone interested in low level coding it's a must read, but overall it is quite horribly misnamed :-)
Sadly, magcloud still doesn't ship to (most of) europe.
I'm from Belgium and want to by a hard copy is there anyway to do this?
magcloud seems to be only sending to usa/uk/canada
Nice!

I think you've messed up the title's formatting a bit in the jwz iPhone article tho.
I agreed. Still working on that. Trying to obtain the permissions from the commenters is harder than I initially thought.

That will come in #2, hopefully.
I've been to the hacker dojo in Mountain View and it's definitely a great hub for startups and hackers working on projects. They host good sponsored events with good food & drinks, hold hacking classes, and have free swag from companies that hold or sponsor events there.

I haven't been to the other ones around the bay area but I'd like to check out the SF places soon.
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but this was rumored to be a zero-day attack, which means nobody knew about the exploit so it was as-of-yet unpatched. even if they we're running goobuntu with the full capability of patching the source and deploying fixes, a zero-day attack would have made it through in the beginning. switching operating systems is not going to secure against zero-day attacks.
It's a journal, those two pages will be side by side.
From the Hacker Monthly FAQ:

Q. Will you include the comments of Hacker News?

A. Of course. Similar to the articles, I will email the original commenters for permission. Oh, if you are a regular commenter in Hacker News, pretty please, put your contact information in your profile (a lot of the members just leave it empty), that would save me a lot of fuss trying to look for your email around the web. [ed: that means you ThomPete]
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> Just run Windows

...but they're (allegedly) banning Windows.
This is just brilliant. Media companies are putting up paywalls while their print volume is decreasing. Hacker News goes the other way around. I like it!
That's why virtual machines exists i would say.
Impressive. Won't be purchasing the print copy but the pdf is well done. Hope it works out for you!
They might call your bluff. Graduation rate is a sizable component of the all-important U.S. News ranking. Given the acrobatics top-tier colleges perform to ensure each student leaves with a diploma, I wouldn't be surprised if an unfinished degree is as costly to the school as it us to the student.
Heh, I actually thought it would include only comments.
Security through hoping nobody plugs the device into a linux box is no security at all.
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I will have to admit, I was skeptical about the idea when it was discussed here first and now I can see real value in it. Its true that discussion on these topics adds value to the contents and that is what makes a community unique. The discussions.

But sometimes I just want to read the content, not get distracted by anything else.

Two suggestions for future releases.

1) Can you reprint at least the top 3-5 comments on those topics on hackers News? (not sure how you are going to do that without making a lot of people mad). Also on the PDF version, can you have a clickable link to the discussion on the hacker news?

2) One of the biggest reasons I am turned off from reading magazines is the annoying ads all over the place including in-between the content. Since you are going to rely on ad, may I suggest that you try to avoid ads on the same page, where there is content? I stopped reading Wired Magazine, just because of this reason.

Good luck. Looks good.
Steve likes to keep things clean. Neither have Macs any "designed for" or "powered by" stickers on them.
It's gorgeous!
Absolutely gorgeous. Really nice work!
Proving that someone has zero credibility takes a bit more than that. Hurt his credibility, perhaps, but saying that he has zero credibility is hyperbolic.

And 'snooping' is only a gross mischaracterization if you believe the meaning of the word strictly excludes unintentional unauthorized access to data. Which I don't think it clearly does.
Watching test footage on YouTube just isn't the same as being able to say "back in my day, they used a nuke for something!"

It's like watching YouTube footage of Halley's Comet or the moon landing, if you don't actually see it live it doesn't count.
Yep, it'll also ignite the Earth's atmosphere and boil off the oceans!
So far Linux is still the best for server storage.
It would be super-awesome if you would use correct quotes and apostrophes (the curly kind) everywhere.
Gitorious is an open source alternative to github.com hosted on it's own site http://gitorious.org/gitorious

It was recently ported to rails 3 as well.
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You're right - he doesn't have zero credibility. As someone who has not read the blog before, and who did hear about the Google/WiFi thing before today, it made me want to close the tab out of disgust. That is a bit more than a little bit of hurt credibility, I think. For someone to rail against Google for their hypocrisy, it's a terrible shame that he has to bend and distort the facts to this degree to do so - and he ends up hurting his case more than he helps it.

"Snooping" in any colloquial use implies intent. I'm pretty sure we can't get away from that, and perhaps I'm being less charitable than I should be, but I think this implication is exactly what the author was going for.

After all, saying that Google actively intended to spy on WiFi users would be an outright lie, yet implications are okay?
Nothing will give you definitive answers: email is decentralized but computer-litterate and privacy-aware people use gmail and regularly send important emails to gmail users...

I agree with you that there should be some way to "quite easily" encrypt everything so that your recipient decrypts it only on its client software, though I doubt the situation will differ from the current one with emails. But "Freedom" lies in the effective ability to use it. Once all protocols are open your issue is more social than technical: for this see Elben Moglen's ideas on personal servers (tiny pluggable servers…) (even if we already have DSL boxes and even phones for small-bandwith data).
There is a famous Chinese story, perhaps it's related so I'd share.

The King of Qi[1] held many horse race with his general TianJi, there are three rounds, but every round the King's horse is better than Tianji's. So the general loses everytime.

One of general's stratagy advisor[2] came up with an idea: Use general's worst horse to race's King's best horse and lose for round one, then use the best horse to beat King's average horse in round two, next use the average horse to beat King's worst horse in the final round. So at last the general wins.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_(state)

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Bin
I live in Malaysia and have a hard time trying to get MagCloud to ship to me too.

Hence, I'm using SHIPITO (http://shipito.com). They seemed to be the cheapest and quite reliable (has a support forum).
Very cool! Looks great.
Is there a way to subscribe to it on MagCloud so I don't have to buy it every month?
It's weird but I remember reading some of these articles on the web but, reading them again in magazine form, they somehow seem much more authoritative and objective.

Ah, the perils of framing!
My jaw dropped a little bit when I opened the PDF; it looks very professional, and it's gorgeous, too! I skimmed through it and I'm definitely looking forward to read it. I totally would buy a hard copy, but unfortunately MagCloud doesn't ship to Europe (Pity!!). Are there any plans to ship HM to Europe? I could imagine that it would cost too much, but there's always hope:)

Either way, keep up the good work!
One thing I learned from all these years is DON'T LIE on your resume -- no matter what!
Maybe instead of putting the threads on the magazine, you could have a link to the discussion thread at the end of every article. That would probably save a bunch of trees in the print copy.
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MagCloud has some sort of address checking that does not work with my address, so you are out of at least one buyer.
Of course they are not making a business decision for emotional reasons. By choosing an open source OS, Google gains more control on its systems, and avoids using a product of a competitor. Moreover, Google trusts its employees' judgement about a product: if you think your employees are competent, then you listen to them. If something, their decision weakens Microsoft.
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It looks great. If I could only buy it here in Germany. :-(
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What do you pay in total? Around 20$?
Lim, at times your grammar is off and your constructions are jarring. If you'd like a proofreader for future issues you can contact me on: jg457 [@] st-andrews [.] ac [.] uk.

Otherwise, well done on Issue 1. Looks great.
The main reason a Mac user is more secure than a Windows one is because a Mac system is running on a sounder security architecture (not administrator by default, etc.). You can only go that far in retrofitting an OS which made the wrong decisions on the start.
Absolutely beautiful. A slight typo: I noticed Jamie Zawinski's name is spelled wrong in the table of contents.
I'm curious where you see any limits for legitimate usage on GitHub. Or perhaps I've made this blurb on our pricing page ambiguous? http://share.kyleneath.com/captures/Plans___Pricing_-_GitHub... I'd love to hear how I could improve it.

Edit: To answer your question, we impose soft limits for two reasons.

1) To prevent piracy & overall abuse
2) To protect people from themselves (if you have repos over our limits, you probably need guidance on what files you're committing to your repo)
I just checked. As of this writing the format is being displayed in flash. I think there is a delay when converting PDF uploads into html. So you were actually reading the flash version but you thought it was html5.

Evidence: (notice the flash blocker?) http://i.imgur.com/gszpP.png
I just took a glance at a couple controllers in the lovd source, and they do just look like generic scaffold controllers.
"it's a much better web browser / computing device" > I disagree: it's a great webbrowser but I've come to miss things like the delicious plugin or the ease of sharing links on social networks. Especially in app-wrapped magazines, I miss being able to share articles easily on social networks / blogs / twitter. It takes more effort. Also, magazine apps make me take out pencial & paper to take notes. I'm not sure yet if that is a good or bad thing.
Nope. I need to write my own app to do that.
He might have, and given the context, he has a plausible motive. But it's worth considering that many news outlets have called what Google did 'snooping', as a Google search will reveal. (The CNET article he linked to actually calls it 'spying', which is arguably more insidious-sounding.) And I can't think of another word that succinctly captures the idea of accessing unauthorized data, intentionally or no.

At any rate, the man is responding to what he believes was a gross mischaracterization of himself (the idea that he 'hates' Google). Out of anger and in haste, he may well have overreached. But one can overreach and not be without merit. On the basis of what is only plausibly a mischaracterization, one can't dismiss everything else a person says out of hand.

There just isn't enough here to warrant this degree of outcry and dismissal.
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Just emailed you. :)
Thanks for the encouragement, it means a lot to me :)

I know what you mean about getting stuck.

I've seen others fall into the trap of independent contracting, favoring it over the project they planned to work on. I'm blessed (cursed?) to have a contract project that I really like as an alternative to GridSpy. It makes it that much harder to put the time into GridSpy that I need to.
A netbook? Apple doesn't make one :-) The point is that I'm going to have the iPad anyway and was thinking if it could replace a laptop, because I avoid carrying multiple devices.
@MAGCLOUD PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD tell your users that you don't ship to their country before they add items to cart, sign up (in order to confirm purchase), and then proceed to the payment page. PLEEEEASE!
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"Chance" it was meant to say.
This looks highly unusual. Isn't Foxconn interest to keep their workers happy ? I'm not even sure how is Apple justifying this given those workers aren't Apple employees.

So, basically, Foxconn increased the price of their service but included an item in the contract where the difference goes directly to the employees ? Nice way for Foxconn to maintain their margin and make their workers happier. What did Foxconn do ?

Either way, it looks very strange. Apple could have handled this in many ways (for example, what about buying part of Foxconn). But it looks like the media won and Apple is paying to cover up the PR mess. I don't believe Foxconn only has Apple as a customer but somehow all the media was against Apple. And since Apple has the cash now, they just paid up.

Let's see how will the workers not working on Apple products feel when their colleagues get more money.
The RigZone site has had the best comprehensive set of pictures and diagrams of the incident.

http://www.rigzone.com/news/incident_images.asp?inc_id=1
To add to this, we don't strictly enforce the limits (hence the liberal use of the word "soft"). We aren't going to lock you down if you go over the limit, so why does it matter? The limit is there to help you more than anything, if you're hitting it something is wrong somewhere.
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Awesome execution. Starting the first issue with 1500 subscribers, a great design and a quality magazine is quite a feat!

Not for me though, I remembered 90% of the articles included in the issue and rereading them didn't really add much value.
Just ordered a print copy. Hopefully, you will share some sales figures and/or blog about the experience of putting it together.

Also, interesting that magcloud still remains very connected to HP. It's paypal address is actually magcloud@hp.com
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I am from Omaha, Nebraska and I can say there is plenty of it going on... as far as official places to go? Not likely. Hackerspaces seems to confirm that
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This just goes to show how badly suited OAuth is for desktop applications: Basically, what ever you do, you will need to direct your users over to a browser (or embed one) and they'll have to deal with strange "passcodes" or whatever you want to call it.

This is much more difficult for a user to understand ("why can I give twitter my password, but in this client here, I have to do this strange dance? What am I supposed to do now?").

In most of the client apps, the issue of having to enter your password is a non-issue as there's no need for a third-party to know it.

In the case of desktop apps, IMHO, OAuth does nothing but makes the lives of both client developers and users harder.
Actual landing page: http://hackermonthly.com/

Original submission with longer discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394526
I bought a print copy out of interest, so clearly this is just my observation from reading the online one...

Looks great, first off, really nice design. I'm guessing you are a designer?

The only downside for me was the lack of editing... it's key to producing a magazine and there were places where it was obvious. As an example; some of the pieces were just too long and needed additional proof reading.

Other thoughts? Obviously comments would be neat (but I know your working on that).

Editorial would be quite interesting to have. Maybe ask one or two HN members each month to write custom editorials on big topics or just in general.

EDIT: if you need a hand editing drop me a mail.
+1 - I'd happily throw you a few bucks for the PDF though, if you've got a donate button somewhere...
it does have US/Canada/UK in the drop down at the bottom on the first page...
So true. That's why use Safari & Mail.app on OS X and before that, Konqueror & KMail on KDE. (They are great apps, too.)
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Dude, congrats. DOwnload them and it looks good.
Proud of fellow country doing this, especially fellow penangites.

;)

Keep Up the good work!

If you need help just pm!!