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Sure, maybe the polling place info may not be online, but I'll bet that the polling places haven't moved for years and that folks don't have problems finding them.

as to "), but no one seems to have done any analysis of it (disappointing since the town has four colleges)." - what is the benefit of said analysis?

>I expect to spend a great deal of time actively disagreeing with people.
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> The list goes on. Tyler has information that could be freed. Tyler has government that could be opened.
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> Instead I'm going to hack Tyler to be what I need it to be.

Ah yes, the big city kid is going to teach the yokels how to do things.

If Tyler is at all typical, it's about 100x as open as Chicago.

If the author wants Chicago, he should stay there.
Ed 'Glen Beck' Bott is apparently more influential amongst non-technical Mac users than anyone might have expected!
go to google, search for "piece sign" on image search. click on the ~20 image, black very slim lines white background next to piece sign with globe in background and alien head like looking piece sign. host is decinet.com or something. (im on my phone right now)

watch what happens next... thats the trojan, unzips automatically in safari.
Personally I feel that top-down control of customer support agents is fundamentally flawed these days, but that is a different matter.
To be honest, I'm just curious why we haven't seen much real malware yet. The Mac Defender stuff is a joke, but there's no reason why somebody couldn't be exploiting the recent Skype bug (http://www.purehacking.com/blogs/gordon-maddern/skype-0day-v...), or the Chrome/Flash bug (http://www.vupen.com/demos/VUPEN_Pwning_Chrome.php), the bugs found at pwn2own or the myriad other holes which are closed regularly via updates.
Please, tell me where to find these mobile web apps that are superior to their native iOS counterparts.
...and "liberal" used to refer to what we now call "(U.S.) libertarian".
Apple is doing the most sensible thing for their business. An uptick in users installing adware on their computers (yes, you have to manually install it) is a far cry from having a platform blighted by drive-by infections and autonomously spreading worms as Windows was in years past.

However, from a marketing point of view it's a lot harder to sell. Compare:

You can't get viruses on Mac.

with:

Using a Mac you are very unlikely to get a virus, and provided you don't download and install anything shady ad/spyware isn't a concern either.

The second statement is true of Macs today, and still presents an advantage over Windows, but "No viruses" is a much simpler message, and one it seems they are trying to keep (superficially) intact.
You've basically described 10.6's anti-malware 'solution', although obviously its little plist file hasn't been updated to include Mac Defender yet.
It's not a virus. It's malware. Users install it, and it sends them to porn sites.

If you run "sudo rm -rld /*" on a Mac, it may not run so well either.

Of course, it may be a sign that more sophisticated malware (i.e. real viruses, and other stuff that actually exploits the Mac's vulnerabilities) will be on the way.
That's the kind of thinking Josh calls out in the article. Redis is great in most of the use cases for replicated Mongo if you're gearing the rest of your architecture to use it properly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism says, in part,

The first person to describe himself as a libertarian was Joseph Déjacque, an early French anarchist communist. The word stems from the French word libertaire, and was used to evade the French ban on anarchist publications. In this tradition, the term "libertarianism" in "libertarian socialism" is generally used as a synonym for anarchism, which some say is the original meaning of the term; hence "libertarian socialism" is equivalent to "socialist anarchism" to these scholars. In the context of the European socialist movement, libertarian has conventionally been used to describe those who opposed state socialism, such as Mikhail Bakunin. In the United States, the movement most commonly called libertarianism follows a capitalist philosophy; the term libertarian socialism therefore strikes many Americans as a contradiction in terms.
its not supposed to. its for mobile devices that lack the ability to scroll inner divs
TL;DR - No.
I doubt it. It's about how badly formal education is implemented, not why it's a bad idea in the first place.
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Having an idea stolen sucks. I empathize with you. It's rough and I've gone through it with a business partner of sorts. It hurts to think that something you worked hard on and thought through is going to benefit someone else who doesn't deserve it. At the end of the day though, you can either man up and out code them or learn from it and move onto bigger and, hopefully, better things.

Additional thought:If you had followed your own advice as soon as you came up with it, your post wouldn't have ever been made.
Because (a) is enough. We're cool funding people who are doing it for the money; the startup doesn't have to be their life's work.
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If anyone is interested, McLaren is looking for an embedded software engineer: http://www.mclarenelectronics.com/Jobs/ ("Embedded C Software Engineer - Engine Control - Data Acquisition")

My friend works there and loves it.

It's in Surrey, England (in this place: http://www.e-architect.co.uk/england/mclaren_technology_cent...)
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Sounds like a good thing. iScroll is another option too, however if this is simple and small, it could be a winner.
My girlfriend is still on her shitty HP laptop and it is so incredibly painful to watch her worry about viruses and malware on a daily basis.

WTF is your gf doing on a daily basis? Does she do reviews of shady porn sites? Install MSE (it's free) on your gf's computer and tell her not to install programs sent in email from people. Then tell her to stop worrying.

And if she does do reviews of shady porn sites, tell her to use a VM.
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> Of course, it may be a sign that more sophisticated malware (i.e. real viruses, and other stuff that actually exploits the Mac's vulnerabilities) will be on the way.

Once an OS has the attention of malware writers (even user-installed malware like this), real malware won't be far behind. Especially when you consider how much easier exploitation is on OS X than, say, Windows or Linux. It's 2011, but OS X still doesn't have useful ASLR -- supposed to be coming in 10.7, but it was also supposed to come in 10.6, so we'll see how that goes.
> I'd have no objection to government employees striking to get more vacation - provided the agency they work for has the right to fire (for cause)

IMO, in certain kinds of industries, striking should be cause for firing. Imagine the pilots at a commercial airline strike. That causes massive inconvenience for customers (especially that already have tickets!), damage to the brand and long-term revenue.
Where did you find the 2010 revision?

The one from the parent link says VERSION 1.0 - 11/09/2009 (PDF creation date is October 24th, 2009) and http://www.securenetwork.it/ricerca/whitepaper/ links to the same.
> Microsoft doesn't remove malware that Windows users install either.

Yes they do:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129972/en-us

"Call 1-866-PCSAFETY or call 1-866-727-2338 to contact security support."

> Two hundred clueless posts on a web forum out of a userbase of millions doesn't mean there's a "malware explosion," as he described it. Why are people falling for this flamebait?

If Apple is issuing special instructions to its support staff about this malware, then clearly this is a pronounced problem.
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OK, so "Most IQ tests are not good at sorting out people above 120".

So yes, intelligence is important. But many tests are useless at quantifying it above a certain threshold.
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Apple is not going to solve the problem of gullible people typing their credit card info into a scammer's form, any Mac based solution (of which the obvious will be to lock down installation to the Mac App Store) is just going to push scammers back on the web.
Ask HN: how to go about finding internships?
How's it going HN.

It's summer time, and students much like myself are having a tough time finding interesting summer jobs. It's not that I don't enjoy waiting tables or anything, but at some point I think it's time to look for more meaningful employment.

Some background on myself - I've just completed my second year of engineering education, and have project experience coding C/C++ and assembly. As well, I have web development experience with PHP and MySQL on the backend, and Javascript/html/css/Ajax. In terms of non-programming technical knowledge, I've probably taken a course on "$subject mechanics" (fluid, statistical, quantum... you name it).

So I figure my best way out of waiting tables would be to apply for some internships. In particular, being an HN reader, I'd love to work at a smaller company closer to a start up.

But I'll be honest - I have very little work experience. Just a lot of drive/motivation to work on something interesting and challenging, and a few projects to show.

What advice would HN give?
Because unions don't let the market work. They physically attack "scabs" who would do the job for less without the bad attitude. They force all workers to pay them dues once a site is unionized (something that right-to-work laws are intended to redress). The union bosses like Andy Stern rake in the bucks for contributing negative productivity. And in the mid to long term they cause the demise, migration, or automation of an entire industry. That's why Boeing moved its plant out of Washington State, and one of the reasons Japanese car companies invest so heavily in robotics. Talk about killing the golden goose.

From the standpoint of the consumer and employer, who must deal with their strikes and surly attitude, unions are a disaster. From the standpoint of the above average and exceptional workers, they are also a disaster as unions exert peer pressure to stop people from working hard and "showing up" the unproductive workers. In a union workplace, all promotions are based on seniority rather than merit. And unions have a history of racist targeting of "outsiders".

You could not think of a culture less compatible with the tech industry, let alone a Silicon Valley startup.
@all I'm the author of the post (@onyxfish). I'm not even remotely interested in debating its merits here. You all seem well-equipped to form your own judgements. However, for the sake of clarity, I wrote a __blog__ post that got __aggregated__ by The Atlantic. The original post is at http://hacktyler.com. It wasn't written for anyone but those who know me, but people liked it so its become public. Think what you will.
The reason is scale and alternative options: If you're a hacker, why focus on the Mac when you can target 10x as many people on Windows?
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It's due to speculation as another poster said.

That being said, government loves higher prices. They benefit first.
Most Windows viruses these days have the exact same attack vector, simply tricking the user into installing them. All we're seeing here is that: (1) Despite the marketing, the Mac is not magically immune to these things any more than Windows is, and (2) now that OS X has obtained a reasonable market share it's finally become worth attacking.

Neither of these things should be surprising to anyone, and hopefully the antimalware situation on OS X will improve before progressively more insidious Mac viruses are released.
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"A calorie is a calorie" is good enough, however.

People aren't fat because they are consuming 2500 calories from a Big Mac and Fries rather than 2500 calories from carrots. People are fat because they are consuming 6000 calories and burning off 1300.

The message is simplistic, sure. For a large majority of overweight people though that's all that is required. Somewhere between reducing caloric intake and becoming fit, the message that not all calories are created equal sinks in, if for no other reason that it quickly becomes apparent that you'll starve only eating one meal of McDonald's a day.
"Classic liberal" vs "Modern liberal". It's a really bad co-opting but normal.
Also at 100k people it isn't exactly "small town America" as the article claims.

I started to wonder about the actual size when he mentioned "reasonably extensive" bus service and then four colleges. And maybe my estimation is skewed from having grown up in the suburbs instead of Chicago itself, but I would expect living in an actual small town to be a lot cheaper than just 30% under.
It allowed people to update their social status pretty much from anywhere at any time with minimum friction.
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Very interested to see if this could actually be an alternative to ad revenue.
Gibson has apologized several times, and notably in the preface to the 25 year anniversary edition of _Neuromancer_, for the utter lack of cell phones.

In an earlier interview he mentioned the scene with Case walking down the length of a row of pay phones, each ringing exactly once as he passes, as one of the first things he wanted to write for the book. I don't remember the last time I saw a row of phones in the U.S.
The problem is real this time and Apple needs to get off its ass.

I'm the IT guy at a (mostly) Mac startup. In the last week I've had two users come to me about the Mac Defender Malware. One was smart enough to email me when he saw the window, but the other managed to infect his machine. (Older gentleman. We don't pay him for his computer expertise.) I told him to go to the Mac Store and ask them to reinstall his operating system. I would do it myself, but it's a Macbook Air (no CD-drive) and a personal machine.

I am pretty upset to read that the Mac store people are not going to be helpful to him (landing the problem back in my lap). We spend a lot of money on Apple products for the slender justification that they'll "just work" -- which is often a joke at the best of times.
I refuse to listen to audio that won't tell me how much time it will take to listen.
Make it hard to fire and you make it risky to hire. This is why Europe has structural double digit employment while in the US some employers will still take a chance on a smart guy without formal credentials.

Paul English wrote a while ago that he had to let go about one in three as it wasn't working out. And look at all the hiring threads on HN about how hard it is to find the right person. If you can't fire, you can't take a chance on someone. It just reduces the liquidity of the labor market, and means borderline people don't even get jobs in the first place.
I know Tyler, Texas only as the home of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, where all the patent trolls take their cases. I always just assumed it was because the jury pool were morons. Which isn't fair, kind of like this article.
As they point out -- you would need a visitor to remain on any given page for a relatively long period of time. Works well for long-form content, but breaks down in shorter chunks.

One thing I'm particularly interested in would be embedding this in a frame similar to stumbleupons web interface and allowing for revenue sharing with the user.
> meritocracy doesn't exist

Skills aren't everything. Not every valuable attribute can be taught. There's talent, motivation, work ethic. As edw519 said in his book today, the primary differentiator among programmers is passion.

Assuming I'm an above-average employee, I would rather work at a company that rewards me based on merit.

Assuming I'm a business owner, I would rather pay employees based on merit, because if I don't, I'd never attract the best. Paying based on merit improves the chances of success of the business. Profitable companies pay salaries; bankrupt ones do not.
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I'll second that "incredibly short sighted" judgement. It's efforts like Hewitts, which works exceptionally well for a days work, that lead to superior mobile web apps.
People who are gifted and talented get a derogatory term? Poor kids.
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Do you have a portfolio to show? Also, you should put your email in the HN profile
> To contrast, here in Australia, a part-time/full-time employee needs to be formally warned (and these need to be documented) three times before being 'fired'

A small Australian business can fire someone immediately without any warnings. I think it's a company of under 50 employees at the moment. The number was increased under WorkChoices then dropped back again.

A larger business can use exceptional circumstances to remove you instantly as well (breach of contract and along those lines).
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Anyone care to calculate the actual expected revenue you could get from this?
If a scientific theory doesn't make any testable predictions, what good is it?
You need a year's worth of 3ghz dual core cpu power to make 50 bitcoins.

This is some impressive code but not practical.

And I don't think visitors are going to like you maxing out their cpu.
I have often seen this mantra repeated, but I can't believe that this is enough to dissuade every single hacker. With Macs approaching 10% of the market this has got to be worth somebodies time to have a go. And yet, I know a lot of folks with Macs and not a single one has ever had malware issues. Either nobody is getting hit, or they are getting hit with stuff so good and stealthy that they just don't know it :-) I'm certainly not arguing that Macs are invulnerable (far from it), I'm just genuinely curious why somebody somewhere isn't stepping in to fill the malware niche.
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Same here. I remember liking it, but I was 12...

Gibson's writing is good because he develops incredibly complex social systems and structures for the reader to navigate. He does this mainly by leaving gaps in the world that the reader has to imagine or guess at. Some of them are filled in, as the plot progresses some of them are filled in and explained. This is incredibly difficult to do well in film. Directors are always tempted to show everything and producers demand it if there is the budget for it. The world becomes simpler, flatter, maybe a little silly.
Javascript is way too slow compared to GPU, by at least a factor of 1000 or more. If you have 1M daily unique visitor and you manage to "steal" 10 CPU seconds from each of them, the amount of work would be equivalent to 1e6 * 10 / 1000 = 10000 seconds which is about 2.8 hours of one dedicated GPU-based mining machine.
I do see something wrong with the task. We are being poor stewards of DNS. Given past abuses of the legal system by the RIAA, I am sure they will abuse us further.

I'm also quite uncomfortable with how this will work in practice. The bill has a number of assurances to protect non-US companies from having it be unfairly applied to them. I do not trust those assurances. When a US lawyer sends a subpoena to the DNS provider and the website, and the website (not being in the USA) doesn't show up, the DNS provider still will. I doubt that they will put up a vigorous defense. Based on the fact that two sides showed up and the facts presented were overwhelming, the judge will have little choice about taking action under the bill. (Even though the real facts about the website may be overwhelming in the website's favor, the judge has to judge on the facts presented in court.)

Furthermore I hate the precedent.

But when someone opposes it with ridiculous hyperbole, it is too easy for supporters of the bill to point out how ridiculous the argument is. So the fact that the bill is bad won't stop me from pointing out that the argument is even worse.
Because the users are more naive about malware and 10x as many might actually install it?
It is bad to use a bunch of the user's CPU without any notice. They will probably notice that your site makes their computer slow and never come back again. Also, once they find out you've been using their CPU power/electricity/battery life surreptitiously for private, unshared gain, you will probably have some angry customers.

Additionally, does this automatically hook in to slush's pool or something? Bitcoin mining is practically useless on CPU; even the fastest CPUs out get way, way less than 10mhash. The average length of time to find a block at 9999khash and current difficulty is 1200+ days, so even that estimate is over-optimistic, so this isn't worth anything if your users don't sit on your site for 5 years+, unless it's hooked into a pool or some other contraption to pay on shares instead of blocks.
LOL

...and to me, that sounded kind of silly...
I know plenty of women who spends hours a day playing casual games, if you embedded a bitcoin miner into a free facebook game you might be able to generate some decent revenue while they play.
It's not just certain kinds of industries, absenteeism is a cause for firing in virtually any industry. In most states, if you are fired for absenteeism, you won't even be eligible unemployment benefits.

Unless of course your absenteeism is blessed by a union.
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Idea: Screensavers with a bitcoin miner. Like SETI@home. Bitcoin@home!
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Essentially yes, they should be blocking US traffic, or at least not operating any servers in the US and not serving ads to anyone in the US. That would mean sticking to www.baidu.cn instead of registering www.baidu.com (with MarkMonitor.com, a US-based domain registration provider).

Would this be 'better' than censorship? A matter of opinion - I don't think it would be all that better and I am guessing you feel the same. But if you're using a US-style .com address, registering with a US domain registry, and serving ads to US visitors, then you're doing business in the US for legal purposes, and you become subject to US laws about how you do business - especially the laws that say you can't discriminate against people or infringe upon their civil rights. The concept in the US is that if you want to enjoy the freedoms and legal protections that go with being American, then you have to offer your services to others on the same basis that you expect to be served. You can't turn people away or give them inferior service just because you disapprove of them in some way such as not liking their gender, ethnicity, or national origin.

So if you're offering Chinese-language web search, in the US, and you're filtering the results in a way that limits the rights of US citizens/residents, then you're effectively discriminating against US residents who originally come from China. You can stop discriminating, or you can get out of the US market, but in the meantime you're liable to get sued. As I said, I really don't know if this is a viable legal argument or not, but winning the case is secondary to keeping the issue in the news.
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