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> There's always the Bill Gates or Larry Ellisons of the world building supermansions and owning all the yachts, but Steve wasn't exactly one of those.

Indeed. I've run into Steve three times. Twice we were both shopping for produce at a natural food store (Country Sun in Palo Alto, and the old Richard's Natural Foods in Los Gatos).

The last time was just a year ago. I sat down for dinner on the patio at La Strada, a nice Italian restaurant on University Avenue a few doors down from the Palo Alto Apple store, and there were Steve and his daughter at the next table. After dinner they took a stroll down University Avenue, just the two of them. I imagine they were probably going to get some frozen yogurt. I thought to myself, "Doesn't he have some security? A bodyguard? Something?"

There are a lot of Silicon Valley executives who I'd recognize if I saw them. But Steve is the only one who I've ever run into doing ordinary things like produce shopping.
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Ask HN: Conversion rates for free software + paid software?
We are currently getting 0.007% of visitors buying our software on our website. We are also getting ~18% of visitors downloading the free edition.

Our sample size is pretty healthy (we are talking in the tens of thousands here not hundreds).

For other people who sell software online with a free edition available, would you be able to share your numbers? To me the gap between 18% and 0.007% seems disproportionally large. Can anyone tell me if this gap is too large?
I learned programming with Turbo Pascal. I remember appreciating how it used a "Smart Linker" could produce really small executables because it stripped out any unreferenced code. I can't remember now how small the Hello World .exe files were, but they were small.
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Then why not just have an option to rotate? Don't you think it will be much better if it can do it itself, that you never need to lock this feature again ?
Are you kidding, at $650k, that's too expensive for arcade owners (do those still exist besides collectors?).
True, it is mostly irrelevant :)
I've only ever had 2 instances of someone trying to MMS me and when Google rolls out MMS support (it's coming, it's already here for some Sprint users), I'll do the same thing I normally do. Delete it immediately. Email them to me, any MMS capable phone can, but more importantly, use the email client so they're not super compressed.

Don't know what you mean with the SMS forwarding, but the again I use the native app.

I don't understand the bit about the phone numbers? Isn't the point that you just have the one Google Voice number and it rings your other phones according to your contact rules or such? People still use faxes (a bit sarcastic, but it is HN).

All that having been said, I would kill for an API. I'm thinking about giving koush's DeskSMS a shot, purely because it has an API.
Not to mention, secure boot is a good goal. Booting two different operating systems is just fundamentally at odds with secure boot, in the same way that leaving open the window next to your locked front door is fundamentally at odds with physical security.
I hope I'm not out of line here, but that sounds like an iOS issue and not a Google Voice one. I mean, Sprint should have thought that through... not sure what they were thinking period there, Apple and Google aren't exactly at their high point in terms of their relationship.
From the article: "if you use Gmail, please use Google’s new “two-step verification” system. .... This is not an airtight solution, but it can thwart nearly all of the remote attacks that affect Gmail thousands of times a day."

Here's more information: http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/static.py?page=gu...

This additional protection will radically improve the security of your account against hijacking.
This will also make installing previous versions of windows impossible no?
Repeat of this thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3122798
There is a literal war being fought right across our southern border. This isn't an Internet thing, that's just why we're hearing about it.
It's a real rabbit hole, this one.

The problem you have is that relaxing of the laws has to happen gradually and simltaneously.

If one country or state or even town drops the drug laws, it gets overrun with the worst case scenario, as the very desperate flock to that region. The region then becomes a poster child for the 'I told you so's who will point at addicts, mess, and whatever external effects will come from that. If it is experimented and ends up in very public failure, the topic will be removed from discussion for a generation.

This is partially the case in Amsterdam, where most Dutch people wouldn't be seen in the red light district, as it is overrun with drug and sex tourists, usually from other countries. And do-gooders point to the Amsterdam red-light district and say 'see, do you want your town like that?', despite the fact that the laws are not Amsterdam specific, and apply to the country as a whole. And the rest of the country is a very pleasant place to be.

So you need to relax laws slowly and simultaneously, so that the problems can be dealt with as they arise, and successful health management can be introduced at the same time. And you have to take a very realistic view of the societal damage drug use can cause, no matter what type (ie beer or heroin).

Given these requirements, I can't see it ever happening in the foreseeable future, which pretty much guarantees the cartels will exist for a long time, possibly until they capture an entire nation and form an actual government.

EDIT: Just remembered a great line from the Ben Elton book (whose name I have forgotten) which is about removing drug laws.

The quote is something like : "Do you really care if another person becomes a heroin addict if it means your Grandma will not get mugged on the way home"

Really, it's all about people not trying to always rule and control the lives of others.
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In short, no. The secure boot is essentially optional from what I've seen so far; put Windows 8 on any old motherboard and it should work.

The whole reason this has come about is due to the vulnerability of people faking BIOS IDs and manufacturers on startup, allowing auto-authentication of pirate copies of Windows Vista and 7. In order for this auto-authentication to work in Windows 8 on a shipped bundle, secure boot will need to be activated. After the initial secure boot and activation, hopefully it can be turned off and allow more open access on OEM machines. (If it doesn't, then we have a problem.)
> You can''t compare some car mods to all iPhone mods

I didn't, but there isn't a lot of diversity in the iPhone mods. The vast majority are jailbreaking whereas the car mods change behavior.

> it would still be meaningless because it's just a thing you said, not a validated and useful model.

Validated? It's just as "validated" as iPhone jail breaking.

In fact, since some car mods can result in illegal behavior, not just IP violations, ....

Which reminds me - why is it so important to you that iPhone mods be considered "rad", "sticking it to the man", unique, etc?
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Cool resource. Some of those figures are impressively high. Do they include things like room and board and fitness centers or just money for instruction?
I tried learning Scheme. I found that the syntax was easy, basic recursion was easy, solving simple math problems was easy, and even dealing with cons and cdr was pretty easy. What's difficult is learning functional programming.

Anyone can pick up Scheme syntax really fast. Where it gets difficult is when people start telling you to not use state, not change values of variables, and to stop using side-effects.

Most people have never done functional programming. How does one make the leap from imperative programming to functional programming?
18% was reasonable for BCC back when it was downloadable. I got approximately 1.5% of downloads to convert, so that would be about .27% as you are measuring it. Different markets, different acquisition strategies, and different apps will have vastly different numbers here. It is also highly sensitive to time of the year in my market.

If you haven't looked at it before, optimizing a) the installation, b) the first run experience, and c) the checkout funnel (hint: start that funnel in the application, ideally roadblocking a customer from something they urgently want to do) produce big wins for comparatively little investment. For example, for ~3 hours teaching people how to install software, you can get a big win in successful installations. (You are likely counting 18% of visitors initiate downloads but, unless you take efforts otherwise, you have no clue how many downloads actually result in successful installations or executions of the product.) Try downloading Skype and steal everything they do.

You can really increase download rates if you send targeted traffic at landing pages designed to encourage installation. (AdWords converted upwards of 25% for me, though I eventually "bid that down" by getting less qualified customers, because it was still profitable.)
They're a quiet giant.
Silicon Valley is certainly not to be confused with southern California.

Southern California should make you think LA. Silicon Valley should make you think SF. (There are loads of other associations, but that pairing shows how far apart they are.) Totally different, or hella different.
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Well, the need to change some obscure option in BIOS is quite a problem already from the end-user perspective.
OT: The first thing I thought of was the Discover card commercial with Peggy. "Transfer!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZXZAlfykpo

Sorry, couldn't resist. Inspiration or coincidence?
Actually in a lot of his orchestral work, for example the 8th symphony, his arrangement was off. Stuff like trumpets being drowned out by other horns, etc. It's the kind of thing that would be hard to imagine without hearing it.
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> Booting two different operating systems is just fundamentally at odds with secure boot...

Agreed with your first sentence but not really with the second. The idea is simply securing the boot process of an operating system from POST right through to the OS being ready for use. Having 2 operating systems is perfectly fine from that point of view as long as the integrity of the boot process can be maintained. Having a boot loader and 2 or more OS's available complicates things, but doesn't make it at-odds with secure booting.

Edit: Manually correcting autocorrect and adding a couple of words
I use it to call physical phones using VoIP all the time.
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It's a pain agreed, but hopefully doesn't affect the ability to keep your system open enough to install non-windows OSes or restrict using non OEM equipment to run Win8.
If there aren't enough startups solving problems, there's room in the portfolio for a few "$BCs".
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Thanks for the link. Truly understanding cognitive dissonance seems to be the key in understanding what people find attractive and can definitely help companies (start ups or established) in marketing and refining their products or services. The simpler something is, the harder it is for people to have conflicting ideas about it, making it more attractive.
This must be the only place on the web where saying thank you gets you pissed on. I'm going back to lurking, can't figure this place out. Please downvote my "karma" to zero & adios.
It's something I've always been interested in although I don't have the flexibility in my schedule to make it work.

From what the accounts I've read, It provides some benefit in the short term however it doesn't seem sustainable in the long term (think months or years).
Wow, this is getting real, very quickly. This is a very, very different enemy than taking on a corrupt government, who still needs to stick by some sort of rules.

Assuming that this really is an Anonymous-supported act, I'm not sure if this is an enemy they want to engage. If they do end up taking on a drug cartel, do they really know what the consequences of this will be? I think Anonymous really needs to think deeply about the consequences of releasing names that would most certainly result in the loss of life.
I think it's time to take such an advise seriously. Today's investments go to either successful late stage startups or seed ones[1]. And this trend is likely to continue for a while.

Also, there was a good discussion about profit[2] a week ago. I recommend to take a look.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/30/us-venture-bround-...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3147487
I don't see why he compared Turbo Pascal to the Wikipedia page on C++ - Turbo Pascal is also much smaller than the Wikipedia page on Turbo Pascal :)
I agree wholeheartedly. I started out with JavaScript, and it was a brilliant language to learn. I was doing cool stuff--websites with content and pictures and color--almost immediately; with other languages like Python or even Scheme, I would probably still have been writing dry command-line programs.

There's a place for command-line programs, but it isn't at the very beginning. JavaScript is great not only because it lets you start with concrete stuff immediately, but it's stuff you're already familiar with: everybody uses the internet now. I also found the basics of HTML much easier than any other UI framework I have ever used (Swing, WPF and TK mostly).

All of this is coupled with the fact that, ultimately, JavaScript is a really nice, really expressive language, also makes it my choice for a first language.

However, if not for JavaScript, I probably wouldn't point people towards Python/Ruby so much as Logo, which has many of the advantages of JavaScript and is well regarded by CS educators.
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Dang, I wish it had a RSS feed! I now have a bunch of really good plain HTML sites which I have to check manually for post updates.
> that part of 'historical' Tibet is in India.

It's also worth noticing that India was never an integral country in the past.
That wasn't the only thing that was small about TP. The entire documentation for version 2 was a single book about 8 inches high, 5 1/2 inches wide and about an inch think. You could learn the entire language, IDE, library, and debugger in a weekend.

Only six months before I met TP I had been using punch cards on the University's mainframe. TP2 was pure shock and awe.
Very disappointed in Soledad, I'm black and I don't know that many black Tech entrepreneurs myself. I guess that makes me racist right?

Playing this gotcha game has become standard fare in politics other walks of American life, but bringing it into the Tech space is only going to hurt the very people its meant to help.
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I'm a DC native and that story is bullshit.

The red line does turn south a bit going west out of Gallery Place, but it doesn't go any further south than D street and doesn't go under any important federal buildings.

Besides, what would be the point? The National Mall is absolutely riddled with tunnels! West to east there's an old streetcar tunnel at 14th Street under the Bureau of Engraving, the 12th and 9th street road tunnels open to trucks, two tunnels apiece for the yellow/green and orange/blue lines with the latter going under dozens of federal buildings, the entire Smithsonian subway station, large underground art galleries south of the Smithsonian castle, the buried watercourses of Tiber Creek, the National Gallery gift shop & cafeteria under 4th street, the I-395 Center Leg Freeway that has the DOL built on top of it, the United States Capitol subway system, the old C Street streetcar tunnel under Senate Park, and the First Street heavy rail tunnel under the LOC / Supreme Court.
Winning the PC war in the sense of becoming the leading PC vendor - overtaking Windows will take another decade. :-)
Interesting, I had someone report something similar next to the Canadian SIS building in Ottawa. His GPS was telling him the completely wrong route. I don't have a GPS personally to try it.
Almost always, yes. If you script everything all the time, even if it takes you longer, twenty years later you'll be able to script anything so fast you'll be so productive your head will spin.

It's like learning Vim. :)
Great.. so its a good thing then, because maybe IT people will realize its not even worth pirating Windows (well, actually they won't be able to). Then they just edit the BIOS setting and install Linux.
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This is a controversial topic. Curious what's your take on this?
too bad HN keeps knocking down all these posts; there will be no worth while discussion going to happen.
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There's an atom feed linked on the side. http://prog21.dadgum.com/atom.xml
I dont think unity is for developers. I was using maverick and now thinking of moving back to debian. Sure its a nightmare to transform back.
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I'm a support/telecom engineer (I use the term engineer loosely), I work (or have worked) on everything from phones, to web servers.

Here is the part I want to ask HN for help.

For 5+ years, I've been working on a distributed phone system concept (think broadcast domain scale, not internet scale), at this point, its mature enough (its been thru review with some other Telecom folks, and some IT/Networking 'experts', who judge it so), that if I could get some folks working on it, (also having sold/installed phone systems for 5 years) I think I have a viable product. The product in the end, is designed to bring simplicity to small/medium sized PBX's, very literally, just be plug and play (for 80% of users).

I can sell it, I've written some documentation, that is clear enough to explain it to either someone on the telecom end, or on the network/web end of things, I don’t know how to go about finding people to present it to, I need someone to work with me, or money, so I can hire someone to work with me. Even if I find someone, that still would take me back to where I am, how do I make the sale, or how do I make the contacts to do it?

I've looked at the various start up incubators, they don’t seem to really be thinking of people who want to develop a physical product, its aimed at the Web 2.0 Crowd, which while I want a nice online management component, its decidedly un-Web 2.0, or even Software/Infrastructure as a Service, its more or less a stand alone product, designed to be sold thru both Retail and VAR's, with money made for us, by hardware sales/support fees.

The question I ask is where do I go from here?
This seems like a strange accusation. It seems like the usual complaint is that lisp programmers are more concerned with elegance than getting anything accomplished.

I think this provides an interesting counterpoint:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
I always thought that Google Wave was about baking OT into everything.
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Wow, it would definitively be hard to use such a map in Canada looking at how it squeeze the polls.
I have been thinking along similar lines, in the context of my latest open source interest, Node.js and the multitude of packages available through NPM.

My main goal right now, aside from building a Node.js hosting service, is to create a platform for content and data management built on Node.JS, CoffeeScript, and NPM, with a plugin and component architecture. I dream about killing WordPress.
Righthaven never had any copyrights to begin with. Which is why they keep getting absolutely slaughtered in cases (no standing).

So unfortunately Randazza won't get those copyrights.
I see what you're saying. I agree.

As an aside, I have often wondered at the way North=up became, and remains, completely universal. An upside-down globe "looks" as wrong to me as an upside-down portrait. Obviously there's no reason this must be so; it's nothing more than familiarity with the shapes of the continents from a particular perspective.

Some day, I'd like to have a globe or a big mercator-type map with South at the top (i.e. with the written labels upside-down from normal), and see how long it would take to become accustomed to it.
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Am I the only one who doesn't think the education is expensive in the US?

Good education with the skills that are in demand pays back for itself in 2-3 years.

Of course, if you pick some ridiculous major like arts or history, it's your own fault. I always thought it was stupid to pay for something that you can learn for free in a library with maybe some tutoring.
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it's even scarier to think what the millions of artists, entrepreneurs, etc. who Steve inspired will accomplish in the future.

Right now there's someone working on the next billion dollar start-up in his garage that's going to blow us all away because he was inspired by Steve.

That's Steve's greatest legacy.
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You say that, but you've clearly never gone up against an adversary with a complete lack of boundaries around what they'll do to achieve their political goals. Politics often manipulates facts.

There are a lot of topics I'd love to say aren't open to political debate, because I personally consider them axioms of basic sanity, but the existence of people who disagree unfortunately leaves the debate open.