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I agree that nothing about the market share argument has been proven, true or false. The evidence only shows that the market share argument is false or that we simply haven't reached the threshold yet.

But:

"The market share argument implicitly rejects the idea that OS X is significantly more secure than Windows..."

This is the idea I'm curious about. Perhaps there are arguments that make the case that OS X is signicantly (and inherently) more secure than Windows that I've missed, and if that's the case, I'd appreciate someone directing me at them.

If the market share argument is false, which I grant that it very well could be, I'm interested in the reasons that might be so. Inherent security of OS X could be one reason. Another could be something specific to do with malware that I don't know or understand because I'm not that familiar with the subject.

I'm saying I understand the market share argument, and it seems straightforward and logical. I have not seen a counter-argument, but if there is one, I'd like to see it. Gruber does not produce a counter-argument. I'm not asking for evidence either way, because I don't think there is any yet. I'm asking for an argument.
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Lots of fun to be had playing around with your brain and a 9V battery!? No. On average a body has about 1000 ohms (wet hand to wet hand) which in my mind divides down to 9mA, 4.5 times the recommended current. 0.15mA reaching your heart will probably kill you. About 15mA/cm² on an electrode will cause tissue damage. So, if you want to experiment with this in a safe manner, get something that will provide only 2mA, no more, no less. And even then you can fuck yourself up easily. Great potential for big laughs.
Last time I bought something at an Apple Store, my credit card was swiped through an iPod Touch, not a Mac. Do you think that the iPod was running a virus scanner?
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From: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-620-m/2005001/article/adults...

"The racial make-up of the two countries might explain some of the differences, as research has shown that obesity rates vary by ethnic origin. Nonetheless, when obesity rates of White Americans and Canadians are compared, White women in the United States were significantly more likely than those in Canada to be obese: 30.3% versus 24.8%. However, the percentages of White American and Canadian men who were obese did not differ."
Gorilla Glass. If my keys don't scratch it, a cat claw definitely won't.
Even if you buy a book, you're still only getting a license to the one copy of the book as manifested in the stack of bound pages that you hold. You don't have rights to make and give/sell copies of your own.
But don't come to Australia or you'll have to pay a fortune for your games.

Dawn of war 2: Complete Pack (Australian Steam) $99.99
http://store.steampowered.com/app/56437/?cc=au

Dawn of war 2: Complete Pack (United States Steam) $59.99
http://store.steampowered.com/app/56437/?cc=us

Please note: The currency in both of these “products” is identical.
Our generation, more and more, is getting away from ownership worship. This is a good thing. People will continue to read on the Kindle and iPad and enjoy the immense convenience it provides.
Even more surprising is that cat claws can't scratch those screens.
I wonder, if Mars was an hospitable place, full of easy resources, would we have colonized it already? To motivate a long term effort on starship building maybe we should concentrate our efforts in finding a destiny that is enticing enough for it to go. Like the Moon was back in the days.
From 5 and 13 months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1967554 <- Some comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290367 <- No comments
Points should definitely be visible after certain amount of time, if not in real-time.
Way off-topic, but I swear I made a website about 8 years ago on earbits.com for a guy that sold a tool for cropping dogs ears. weird...
It's been a long time since I had my Theory of Computation class, but as I recall, the proof that there are computationally undecidable questions uses the same diagonalization technique[1] used to demonstrate that the real numbers are not countably infinite.

The same technique can be used to show there are still computationally undecidable questions if you have a Turing Machine with an Oracle.

This proof technique suggests not only are there undecidable questions, there are uncountably many of them. Even if you have an Oracle.

[1] c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantors_diagonal_argument
Hey Joel, that is at the top of our list to add. Unfortunately, nearly all of our current features that require registration are designed for sharing on FB. Only bookmarking songs and getting email announcements about new features or artists will really be enabled by registering via email at this time. That being said, we're on it.
Hey dr_, we plan to focus on our mobile apps soon but we've got our hands full with some big partnerships that we'll be announcing in the next 30-60 days - very big partnerships.
You should also require that AntRank be disabled while in private browsing mode.
the page listed here is mine, and i am quite surprised how many people were looking at it. if you have any questions, just make a comment here or on my blog and i will try to answer it.

the text on the page is NOT mine, it was written by the party. i am a member of the party since early 2007 and we had similar problems in 2008 (the spokesperson mentioned was me) http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-official-raided-after-u...
HAHAHA!
Why would I want to own a book?
They are mentioned in this article: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/121390204.html
What happens to all those licenses when you die? Are they eternal licenses, lifelong licenses or what?

Granted, most of my books will probably just bore my kids by the time I die, but still, it bothers me a little that I might not even be able to pass on my library.
Generally companies hire on the basis of current experience and less so on potential. So why not get hired as a tester and then seek out avenues to increase the amount of development work? You could discuss your goal of such a career progression at interviews.
Yes, I want to see that kind of license. The unlimited redistribution is the thing that really makes it difficult to make money selling the software portion of GPL'd software. For some applications, doing the Red Hat business model of commercial support works fine, but if you have something consumer level, you will not make anywhere near enough money off of that.

Licensing something under the GPL makes financial gain from your copyright practically impossible. People make much more money if they retain their legal right via copyright to be the sole source of (commercial) distribution. Hence, very few corporations are interested in using the GPL for software that they intend to package and sell as its own product.

The ideal license in my mind would include a clause that source and/or binaries should only be given to licensed users. I understand this greatly restricts freedom of distribution compared to the GPL, especially since a user can't know if a user is licensed or not (a practical application of this may be a copyright notice bundled with every patch, telling unlicensed persons they are not allowed to use it), but we know that GPL is too lax on this front from a commercial perspective, making it inviable to sell GPL software (the software itself, not attached services) as a major product. In some cases, a merely non-commercial license might be acceptable. I am always in favor of the most freedom, but we know that the amount of freedom given by the GPL is too much to retain profitability.

I would still encourage GPL use where possible, but a license like the one I've described would make it possible for consumer-friendly developers (Valve's a good candidate imo) to open up their code, allow the community to hack on it and share their hacks amongst themselves, and still protect their revenue stream. This could also be extended to game engines like Source; a non-commercial license would be ideal for that so hobbyists, academics, etc., could still learn from it and use it, and Valve could still make their money licensing it out to other game developers.

The point is to get source into the hands of as many persons as possible. I don't think it's good to restrict this because of divergent economic or political realities; if you're using a computer, you should have source to your programs, and be able to modify them as you see fit, and developers should still be able to make money off of their software.
When you buy a hard copy you actually own it, you do not license it, and you can do with it as you please as long as you do not infringe on the rights of the copyright holder. You can sell it, lend it, etc.

eBooks are licensed. You cannot sell them, or lend them unless the right to lend is granted in the licensing agreement. I like the eBook format, but ownership is superior to licensing. Far superior.
I would think and hope so, but that gets awfully close to the Zediva case (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/zediva-copyright/). I would think the 'public performance' argument still holds, even though it would be a free performance.

So, I do not think this would get struck down quickly. I do doubt that studios would dare sue in this case, though. Under pressure from public opinion, laws can change very quickly, and such a change could see studios lose quite a few sources of income.
I haven't made a single misleading statement. How about this, when someone does come to me with a statement about the GPL I'll just say, "It's too confusing for me apparently. GPL advocates have asked me to remain silent on the issue, so I can offer no advice." That will be my new official stance, on HN at least.

"And I don't have a bone to pick with the GPL.

A brief review of your comment history when the GPL comes up seems to indicate otherwise."

I've only spoken the truth. I realize that freedom for you means others not having the right to speak, so I'll cease my conversation on it for this thread to appease your desire for all-encompassing freedom.
Cool, thanks for the response. I'm enjoying the service. Good luck.
I don't understand this comment at all.

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569633 mentions 'monthly expenses'.)
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It would not qualify as OSS as defined by political figureheads like Stallman, Raymond, et al, but if I can access the code, make changes, and share the changes with others, it's good enough for me.

As another commenter pointed out, AGPL is actually the opposite direction, as it merely applies the copyleft constraints of the GPL to hosted software.
Good question. Can people inherit eBooks? I think not.
I'm not saying the market share argument is illogical. I'm saying it's not likely to be true. The extent to which that can be proven is limited by the lack of specific predictions to be falsified. At the moment, all I can say is that a significant fraction of the predictions that could have been made a decade ago have been falsified.

For example, the Mac malware explosion has not happened yet, and Mac market share is around 10%, so we can conclude that Macs aren't 10 times easier to attack than Windows targets. If Mac market share is more like 15%, then Macs can't be much more than 5 times easier to attack.
Why would you want to own anything?
Purchasing a 50% random sample of all tweets in real time is reported to be $360,000 per year [1]. Apparently you can get the 100% feed for a negotiated price. If they can sell many licenses for those feeds, which I think that they can, they have the potential for real profit growth. I too was very skeptical of Twitter's profit potential until this service launched.

1. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_to_sell_50_of_a...
I took the train across the country rather than flying, and know others making similar tradeoffs. And hey, Congress defunded the next round of scanner purchases. So we are having an impact.
Golly, this sure puts the "app" in "rappture".
The Limewire case was terrible for everyone. RIAA now even more thinks the best way to make money is to just sue companies rather than innovating and making a better product than piracy. Everyone loses.
This is absolutely awesome. I hope this project does well and inspires more long term, high risk research.
This exactly. If you have a paper book, then removing that book (except via court, anyway) is theft. If it's digital and Amazon issues an arbitrary delete to Kindles, you've agreed to them being able to do it already.

This sort of thing is why I'm still not so comfortable with cloud media services in general. If you want a good example, look at the tracks that randomly get disabled on Spotify (sometimes when bands reform, sometimes, like Hotel California, apparently randomly).
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I'm fine with reasonable regulation. When you have an oligopoly controlling the infrastructure, having regulations that say they can't sell preferential access to that infrastructure to other oligopolies is a good thing. The key metric of what's good for the consumer is competition, not regulation. Regulation that stifles competition is bad. Regulation that protects it is good. Regulation itself is simply a tool, and it's moral worth lies in how it's used.
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Demo: http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate/guru.shtm...

Drag the map icons around and across each other.
What does it mean to sell an eBook? Lets say I went and actually bought an eBook from Amazon. How would I sell my copy of the eBook to you? Doesn't it have to be bound to HW to actually sell it (or DRM'ed). It seems like prohibiting transfer is the only reasonable solution, unless DRM is used.
Books have better display resolutions than ebook readers.
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What are some good websites/information to help me get started?
No but I'd love to talk to the guys who did it. Do you happen to know who they are? My email is in my profile.
Selling something means you relinquish your ownership rights. e.g., selling your house, your car, etc.

You have no ownership rights when licensing, renting, etc.
The Witty Worm could be explained by those firewalls being considered far more valuable or vulnerable targets than desktop PCs. The market share argument typically assumes that those factors are roughly the same for Macs and Windows machines, and that the only significant difference (or at least, the dominant factor) is the size of the target population.
So AT&T relies on nightly checkins from the device reporting how much data it uses? They don't do the accounting in the network? That seems crazy. So on a jailbroken device you could just tell it to report 10% less and it would all be even.
Single entry point FTW
One of the major advantages of Flash is in its compatibility with Illustrator/Photoshop. I can literally create a vector sketch in Illustrator, copy paste it over to Flash and keyframe myself an animation. Shape tweening and Illustrator == epic win.

Anything like that in Hype? I'd imagine one of the ways would be to use something like .svg and perhaps an open-source tool, but I'm still not sure it would reach the level of Flash&Illustrator.

I mean, as a web-developer/animator, I'm all up for a cheaper product that doesn't require viewers to install Flash, and integrates into JavaScript perfectly. I am very interested in where this goes and might be one of the first users.
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Please expand. I'm aware there are some things that HTML 5 does not offer a reasonable replacement for, but a tool like this could easily eliminate many of the trivial uses of Flash for banners, ads, menus, etc., and there is no hope of eliminating Flash without a designer-friendly IDE, imo. I did not mean Flash would become totally undone or useless because of this application, as this application does not address some of the problems with HTML 5 like audio generation, encrypted streaming, etc. Why do you disagree?
This is a silly conversation.

In either case it's a license. The difference is what the license is bound to.

Amazon kindle ebooks are bound to my Amazon account (I can read same book on my Android or Amazon Kindle device as long as I sign in with same account).

With a physical book, the material is literally bound to the pages of the book.

In neither case do I own the copyright. It's the same as owning a film on DVD or VHS.

You cannot make copies of the content of the book to sell it, you cannot take large excerpts of the book and sell those either. In short, you do not have full intellectual property rights to the book.

You have licensed a single copy for the purpose of reading the book.
Hey - good to see you're on HN. This app never fails to amaze people I show it to (especially The Matrix mode)
It might help your case if you didn't call people liars so eagerly, since in the end the "lie" turns out to be merely a "confusing" statement. Especially if the confusing statement was essentially the GPL is confusing to people, and if you're going to use it be prepared to explain it well, which seems to be a statement that you actually agree with.

Don't be super sensitive and interpret everything as an attack on your religion. That's going to scare people away from the GPL. Businesses want competitive advantages, not a religion to subscribe to.
Ownership is a legal term, and it grants rights. You own some things, but not eBooks. We're talking about owning what you pay for, not becoming the copyright holder.
There's no reason to be fatalistic, we're all going to die sooner than we think, so.. who cares.
Lastly, it’s important to point out that the Kindle does not support the popular, open and free ePub format, which means the Kindle will be unable to borrow from libraries that lend ePub titles.

This is disingenuous, and getting a little tiring honestly now. The Amazon Kindle can read ebooks in the .mobi format fine, which is based on the Open eBook standard [1] just as the EPUB format. (EPUBs may be technically superior to MOBIs, but that's a different issue altogether)

EPUBs can be converted to the MOBI format fairly easily. Inconvenient? Yes. Evil, locked in system? No.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_eBook
Navy FCU and Pentagon FCU are also great (and open to anyone for a charity donation of around $25). I notice a trend!
O'Reilly sells their ebooks without DRM. I haven't read their licensing terms, but I suspect them to be very liberal. Their page says they trust you to do the right thing.
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-att-tracks-unauthorized-tether...

This article suggests they can track data usage in the network and jailbroken phones cannot override this.
Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't this simply a better study that shows the universe is expanding and not a direct observation of dark energy? Is there something particularly novel about this study?
Saying the Kindle does not support ePubs is simply a literal statement. Interestingly, the Kindle will support ePubs soon, and thus libraries that lend ePubs, but the paper was written last year, before Amazon even hinted at supporting ePubs.
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Some general stuff:

http://producingoss.com/

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

http://www.reddit.com/r/FOSSHelpWanted

http://sourceforge.net/people/

http://www.reddit.com/r/codeprojects

Outside of that, you'll want to know one or more of the popular Version Control Systems. Git is wildly popular these days, and subversion has a huge legacy base of projects using it. If you learned Git and SVN you'd be in good shape. But hg (Mercurial) and a handful of others are pretty popular as well.

For a good intro to Git and OSS projects, see:

http://codebetter.com/karlseguin/2010/04/22/contributing-to-...

Do you already code in one or more languages, or are you just now learning coding as well?
... like you just did.
I love Live but Ableton themselves admitted that Live 8 wasn't as stable as it should have been and stopped production on Live 9 to iron out the many, many crash bugs in Live 8.

Reason may not be the most full-featured audio app but it's certainly the most stable.
Judging from WHOIS they seem use Softlayer.
Pragmatic Programmers too. This is the only sort of ebook I buy.
It is unlikely Amazon will switch to ePub. What's happening with library loans is that Amazon will mirror in Kindle format the ePub catalogs each library has.
I would recommend using the "getting started" tutorial from Akka instead, it covers the exact use case:

http://akka.io/docs/akka/1.1/intro/getting-started-first-sca...

That page also has some key features including the use of PoisonPills and stop hooks to terminate all threads once the tasks are finished and sending messages betweens workers and the master actor that are missing in the OP.

Also, web crawling is an I/O bound task - so why limit the number of worker actors to the number of cores? That approach makes sense only for CPU bound tasks. The approach in the tutorial to accept number of workers as a parameter is better practice imo, so that you can tinker with it to maximise throughput for your particular problem.
Over-consumption of everything is bad. Cake is great, cake is fun, but if you eat it everyday you'll probably get fat because it has a lot of calories. And hey, a lot of calories isn't bad, it's just if you eat more calories than burn you'll gain fat. And that's OK, until you start to get so fat that it decreases your quality of life. Body like a loosely tied ballon, if push air into it -- it'll get big, but on itself it'll lose weight.

On another topic, I'm usually pro-legalization of every drug that's out there. But there's a lot of people out there who just put random shit into their bodies in unreasonable quantities without understanding of what they are doing, making stupid excuses. AND IT'S JUST FUCKING FOOD. If heroin or coke become legal, we'll probably see a lot of people overdose. Which I'm fine with, technically. I just now start to understand why some drugs are illegal.
i'm obviously not a lawyer, so my understanding may be utterly wrong. The injunction is covering whole world, though the judge can enforce it only in UK. That seems that if you ever plan on visiting the UK during statute of limitation for injunction violation, you'd think twice before tweeting and most probably decide against it :).
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Put your account name and password in your Will and Amazon or any other company will never know. Do any TOS contain "Services terminated upon your death" clauses? I don't think so.
But how do I give you an eBook and relinquish my ownership rights? It seems like it relies upon me voluntarily deleting the book. Just from a pragmatic perspective, is that really a feasible plan?
It's more like this. You can prove more theorems by adding axioms, but if you add too many, then you might get an inconsistent proof system (containing undiscovered contradictions). Because of this, mathematicians are extreme conservatives when it comes to adding axioms, and if they ever got to that point they would stop believing they were doing mathematics.
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Interesting. I imagined Amazon would update the Kindle firmware to support ePubs in addition to the Amazon content. We'll see I guess.
Why not add -u?
Thanks! I know some Java, VB.NET....but looking to build on this and expand to other languages.
I thought that too but apparently Amazon is telling publishers they can start submitting books to the Amazon Store "to be listed in the Amazon store in ePub format": http://www.thebookseller.com/news/amazon-accept-epub-files.h...

I hope this does in fact mean ePub support is coming in a Kindle update.