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Is there even much point in using AV software?

I ask this because I have never installed any on my computer (including on Windows) and I have only ever knowingly been infected once in the last 10 years (I think this happened because I didn't update Windows Media Player and it was still associated with a file type and somehow a rogue media file streamed from a website attacked it).

On the other hand people I know who have things like Norton etc installed seem to have way more problems with their computers than me (including fairly tech savvy people). For example programs randomly breaking, tracking cookies being flagged as "malware" , general slowness of the system , nonsensical warning messages etc. Besides that they still seem to end up infected with malware more often than me and usually re-format their systems once every few months.

On that one occasion that I did end up infected , I had to install 3 different AV programs and do full scans before it was even detected.

Mac and Linux users never bother having AV installed and as far as I am aware there is nothing inherently more secure about either of these systems than there is Windows 7.

If you are running a network , surely it would be simpler just to disallow any executable files apart from those explicitly whitelisted and to make sure security patches are installed?
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Apple just wants your money, they don't need your data.
Of the 100 or so interviews I have done over the past year and a bit, only two or three have had cases where the interviewee did not need to admit they did not know. If my goal is to understand the breadth and depth of knowledge, then one can only really have a clue about that when one starts hitting the edges.

The grace/confidence in admitting they don't know, the willingness to guess and explain how they came up to it (and continuing/iterating as I give more information), and how well someone integrates something new (ie, something I have just told them) later in the interview are all major considerations in my interview feedback and hire/no-hire decision.
16 GB per 4 CPUs does not mean 4GB per CPU? sorry for my english.. :)
So, when it comes to walking the walk, are you saying FSF is just like everyone else: free software is great, as long as it doesn't stand in the way of making money?
I guess this relies on you having limited broadband – not sure why anyone would use a company that has limits though in the first place!

A while ago I had unlimited broadband. Then my ISP changed to 10GB cap – I only found this out because we went almost 100GB over the limit... It was cheaper to pay the cancellation fee than to pay up – thankfully my new ISP is actually unlimited! I really hate ISPs.
They don't need to beat Intel "at the high-end" for "CPU intensive tasks". They just need to find their own market that requires low energy usage over high performance, and of course better performance/Watt, which I do think ARM beats Intel in.

But Cortex A9 was never really meant to be a server CPU, so I would wait at least until Cortex A15, or even better for the 64 bit chips that are coming in 2014 (Cortex A15's successor, Nvidia's Project Denver, etc).
Ask HN: How do I sell my iOS app?
Is there a Flippa for mobile apps?
Good one, but this one from a few years back is even better, IMHO: http://jz10.java.no/java-4-ever-trailer.html
This is a great charity, that has been doing wonderful work for 5 years.
"Huh? What role do those two statements have to do with the discussion?"

Because it doesn't make any sense to say that I decided my privacy was worth less than $1000 dollars if there is no way for me to rationally quantify or put a value on whatever privacy I was giving up.

"Seriously? What books are you reading?"

Mostly Jeffrey Rosen and Daniel Solove, so I haven't read much about this kind of economic analysis. Sounds interesting though, I'll check out some of those links.
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It'll be interesting the reaction of developers here, some will win, others will lose.

This could be the moment of truth for Apple.
Clever...
Mhm, I was more alluding to the media and sensationalist and misleading headlines, but I get your point.
Ok, sorta tangent on this. It would be a very interesting study to take photos of a large sampling of drivers during a morning commute into a city. I wonder if you could get some information on what parts of the road really stress out the drivers and cause those grey hairs?
I've found that people actually tend to perceive me as knowing more the more honest I am about what I do and don't know. I'm sure some people aren't that way, but I've found it to be true the vast majority of the time for me. I would consider fudging the truth the riskier option unless you're some kind of silver-tongued devil.
for ze childrenns!
I'm a little disappointed there's no direct download (at least that I can see) for something they're asking money for. Could rip the youtube video I guess, but that's extra hassle and probably against the youtube TOS.
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True, although in the UK, there is no reason to believe that a med student is "ridiculously rich and privileged".
Only 3 plus my personal site; one has a full backend built, social media accounts, proven business model with an EIN and company bank account, long list of launchrock signups waiting for access, etc, but never saw the light of day. The next time I have a free week or so, that will change.
That hadn't occurred to me until I read your comment, but I came over here to ask a related question: What is the business model? Who is paying for the bandwidth boxopus is using by downloading all these torrents for people?
I cannot agree with you. A user, on a given day, interacts with countless interfaces, not all of those interfaces have to do with technology.

If you give everyone 100% control over every interface - this will drive the world crazy. How much control do you have on your house lock - do you take it apart everyday? How much control do you have on temperature regulation in your fridge, except for temperature dial?

People in computing must realize that a computer is just another interface for a user. For a programmer, I agree with you. But if I made cupcakes for a living, I'd want control over my oven, not my computer. As a programmer though, I trust that my oven company did their job and eat food out of it everyday.
I agree with all this, but it would be silly to blame Fox News or the Republican Party (or for that matter Apple, with its locking down of hardware/software and questionable environmental practices) for choosing what works.

The blame is totally on the uneducated electorate (or "consumerate"). Conversely, IMO, education is the only lasting solution to these problems.

(NB, there is at least ONE non-liar at Fox: Shep Shepard. It's hilarious to see him directly contradict his co-worker shills, often earning him a place on Jon Stewart).
Honestly I think Grey's Law should apply here.
The advantage of Open-Source is that the source code will (or at least should/could) be audited by a variety of people from different organizations or private individuals who will have differing motivations and therefor it is much more difficult to get away with something that may be advantageous to one group but not to all the others.
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Without online donations, they wouldn't be able to raise as much money to support their campaigns. Personally I believe that it is worth it, just as it is worth using a closed-source machine to save somebody's life, rather than let them die for the sake of ideals. Of course the FSF would rather use free software to take donations (accepting bitcoin was an attempt to enable this), however by sticking to ideals in this situation it would harm free software more than it would help it.
The users are in control of the software, they can disable the gateway or add exceptions to it.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd441041.aspx

Unless you consider the 'user' to be the employee sitting at the desk which is a topic for another discussion, unless the FSF is claiming that website blocking by an employer is user abuse.

Edit: There's speculation that the gambling classification was triggered by a pattern matching algorithm because of accepting bitcoin which mostly gambling sites tend to do. Maybe that's why only the donation page got blocked.
At least, when they get nasty, none of it's about electronics fanboy bs.
If they couldn't raise funding they would be unable to do anything.

They would also have to forego actually purchasing anything incase proprietary software was used anywhere in the supply chain.

It's a bit like the whole "Al-gore/Jet" argument, sometimes you have to make sacrifices of principles for the "bigger picture".
Also, it seems strange given that he once said:

Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing
experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no
real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that
are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

from https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
For about the first half of the clip, I actually thought they had taken a real movie and added a few Java references.

That sort of makes the second half look a bit strange. But it's still hilarious.
This list is a joke, based on a similar list for imperative programmers writing a "hello world" program. There are certainly a number of ways to write write something in either paradigm.

The number of ways you can write something is a horrible metric to evaluate languages on. Any sufficiently clever programmer can come up with a number of bad solutions. The useful imperative techniques are more obvious to you because you have more experience with that framework. Experienced functional programmers would just as quickly narrow their list of useful solutions.

In order to be productive in a functional style, you don't need to know much of the language's standard library. You simply write small functions that can be applied in a number of areas. You'll probably end up re-inventing the wheel though, as most functional languages come with most of the essential functional constructs included in the standard library. If anything, functional programming is more beginner friendly, because you don't end up dealing with mutable state and you can easily work on the level of abstraction that you're most comfortable with (you're just composing ever more advanced functions from simpler ones).
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They accept donations in BitCoins http://bitcoin.org/ who's reference implementation is open source.

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/bitcoins-a-new-way-to-don...
This is what I did, too. I registered an Ltd in the UK with an unrelated name (Stochastic Technologies) and it serves as an umbrella for my consulting, products and experiments. It's very easy to register, and all you need is a good accountant.

Even if I had no products, the company would still be useful.
Careful with one of the tips... Not everything should be speed focused...
If my house lock automatically rejected anyone it arbitrarily deemed "morally suspect", I'd sure as heck want control over it.
If that's your goal, you could simply block access to your service from hosts other than Tor Exit Nodes. You could do this by combining:

https://www.torproject.org/projects/tordnsel.html

With the mod_access_dnsbl module for Apache.
Maybe they're celebrating how successful they've become. The dot eventually turns the glider into a boat, as if to cheer "I'm on a boat"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Game_of_life_boat.svg
> " and law should not be amended to make this behavior illegal."

Why not?
If the U.S. market has approached saturation, how much of the decline might be seasonal -- weather related? More people spending more time outside and face-to-face with friends?
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Good point, although the glacial pace of Apple's refinement and their total lack of user customization options cripples their platform aesthetically and functionally.

This is a bigger problem on the Apple desktop, which still forces the late-'80s/early-'90s inverse color scheme on you all day. Squinting at black text on a glaring white screen results from the failed attempt to make the screen an analog for a piece of paper. This fails because paper doesn't emit light. It's a bad idea left over from the "desktop publishing" era.

On any other GUI (certainly Windows for 20 years), you can simply set up a color scheme that makes sense. Competent applications then take on that scheme automatically.

Note that this is not a call for the return of the asinine "skinning" fad of 10 years ago. We are seeing that in mobile apps, which eschew well designed standard controls in favor of undiscoverable gimmicks.
If you want to sell an app all you need to do is take it down off the app-store, transfer your code to the buyer and collect your money. The buyer would be responsible for re-listing the app under his/her account. As for websites, I think I remember coming across one called "sellmyapp" or something similar. Try Googling that.
He doesn't say "arbitrary from a scientific perspective", he says "arbitrary". The former would be a silly point anyways. Would it make sense to point out how arbitrary it is that the houses of congress are divided up by party because party appears arbitrary from a (genetic) scientific viewpoint?

Don't confuse genetic/geographic science with science as a whole. Anywhere you can do experiments you can do science, and politics is no exception (although everything is much noisier). Certainly, the groups of people described by the census are meaningful in a scientifically confirm-able way: they identify with each other, forming clearly discernible self-selecting cliques, neighborhoods, etc.
The software mentioned in the article already gives you that level of control, with use of exceptions. But this is just as much control as my fridge gives me with the temperature control dial.

What FSF is debating is "fundamental" and full control of inner workings of the software, which is what I find a bit narrow.
Exactly what I was thinking. First reaction from me was that they will raise the price again when they gain market share, second reaction was a quiet note to myself that if they ever drop price on AppEngine like they did to GMap I shall not go back since my startup was hurt so bad with their vendor lock-in and dramatic price raise.
Even if one doesn't like java, this video and Java4ever are very amusing :)

EDIT: They're using Vim, awesome :P
It's www.sellmyapplication.com
We've all savaged Calxeda's blogpost now, but it's worth noting the positive sides too.

• It looks like the real world power savings will be something like 66%. I know hosting facilities that base your bill on your watts. That looks like a powerful incentive.[1]

• Virtualization is nice (#1), but if you aren't a big enough fish to own all the slices you are at the mercy of your box mates and the financial pressures of your hosting company. If you have your own ARM server you get to live in a predictable world.

• Virtualization is nice (#2), but isn't there an embargoed Xen interdomain security flaw right now? How long have bad people known about it? Is your hosting provider in on the loop to get the fixes before they become public?

• For small sites, it doesn't matter what the efficiency of a Xeon at full load is. You won't get there with a dedicated machine, and you don't want to be on a virtual server that goes there.

• It looks like the boards actually have 10gbit interfaces. The 1gbit limit was either architectural to get to the client machines or deliberate to keep the Xeon in the same ballpark. Either way, it is reasonable for sites that aren't going to have more than a 1gbit drop anyway.

• 48 of these quad core ARM systems fit in a 2U box.

I'd much rather have a dedicated ARM than the tiny slices of Xeons that I use now. I don't need a random performance problem brought on by anyone other than myself.

EOM

[1] It may be that if your workload is network bound you won't be offered wattage based pricing. That might eliminate this savings for the people that could best use it.
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I'll be impressed if this sort of freeform perspective mechanic translates into entertaining gameplay. Seems like that sort of mechanic would be too flexible in a manner that would be detrimental to gameplay.
It's interesting to note that while Twitter has moved away from client side rendering of HTML templates (and is a strong advocate of sending HTML directly down the wire[1]), LinkedIn mobile app seems to be rendering the template on the client.

[1]: http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/05/improving-performance...
I'm personally not too thrilled with the change...This means that if you don't have a budget for promoting your app, and you are not featured, any app you release going forward is basically DOA, since you can't really rely on the app getting discovered via keywords.
I exaggerate a little on being DOA, but things have become significantly more difficult for new apps.
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> How much control do you have on your house lock - do you take it apart everyday

I actually have taken apart the locking mechanism once to repair it. It got stuck, the door wouldn't open, so I fixed it. I didn't take out the barrel or dig too deep in, but I didn't need to. If I hadn't been technically competent to do that, I would have been able to hire someone else to do it for me.
True, but that is because 101 is jammed from Palo Alto to Sunnyvale. I commute across the Dumbarton every day, and it's just not a problem.

Also, I was talking about renting in Fremont, which means you would be commuting on the Dumbarton in the anti-commute direction.
tl,dr; Apple retail jobs are in high demand, pay reasonably well and have excellent benefits. The NY Times was able to find some folks to speak badly about that.
I once worked for a company that ran into this same problem, hence, I have a whole lot of sympathy. However, I also sympathize with Symantec.

The biggest problem with the AV world is that it tends to be reactive. A criminal releases a piece of malware, it infects computers and then there is a fix released. The problem is that there is a gap between release and fix and criminals exploit this gap to steal information.

Reputation analysis is one possible solution. Alas, when it fails, it fails big (and hurts primarily independent developers).
Yes, but that's how Tor would work even if he wasn't using hidden services. The point of a hidden service is to give anonymity to the server as well as the client. But in this case, his server isn't getting anonymity because it is simple to locate.
Not since false negatives are the biggest issue. For companies that use this software keeping porn and viruses off the network is a higher priority than letting charity donation pages through.

These companies have never little trust in their employees. A flip side of this is a lack of respect. Blocking none work related sites is an acceptable if not desirable result.
Not in Our Genes
You don't really even need an accountant. You can file it online at Companies House's website for something like £15 and minimally adjust a standard memorandum and articles of association. The record keeping is easy and all the processes for incorporating, running, and dissolving a company are very well explained by CH's guidance booklets.

The UK, for all its faults, is one of the easiest and cheapest places in the world to incorporate, and all the other formalities combined are trivially trivial. The only qualm I have about incorporating in the UK revolves around how much personal data Companies House sells that subsequently gets splashed across the internet for all to see, free of charge. It's better than it used to be (directors' and secretaries' home addresses are now finally protected under the 2006 Act) but it's still a little too much unnecessary data that's made public.
Exactly! I would use that way more than the ,, that I use now to break into command mode.
I'm not sure why you would take that attitude towards pro playing/sportsmen/whatever - if you accept that entertainment is good (in moderation), surely you accept that providing that entertainment is a worthwhile activity too?

I have a stereotypically productive job, and I'm good at it (and enjoy it). Nothing spectacular, but you probably wouldn't sneer at it either. The reality is that I almost certainly bring less useful value to people's lives than a really good quality entertainer.
Quite true; people on the Peninsula side really hate the idea of commuting across a bridge. It's purely emotional though as the Facebook to West Fremont commute really is just 10 minutes of easy, scenic driving.
I didn't mean any attack on you! I just try and help others not look through the glasses of imagination when the game itself is pretty cruddy.
Except that no one involved really gives a shit. This is enterprise software bought by some manager to restrict access for the hoi-polloi in order to satisfy some HR rule. It's at least three levels removed from reality.
You realize they are a non-profit right?
I think you have a point about materialism because they inherently go hand-in-hand; if you define your life by your accumulation of material things then these types of brand/identity "divisions" are also part of your life.

But I think this kind of heavily-invested identity rivalry started way before advertising, right? And I certainly don't see how a product reviewer could be blamed.
RIM considers splitting business in two
Yeah I noticed this yesterday and didn't get time to really research it. I thought I might be crazy, but sure enough, now app name and keywords are searched independently. You can search for "Instagram camera" and not find Instagram. That's crazy.

I need to scramble to get some app updates done to change keywords. I wish Apple would make some sort of statement about this. I also wish they'd let us update keywords without a binary change, even if it's a one-time "free" update to deal with this change.
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> Insurance is designed to protect you from rare but catastrophic losses

That is 100% correct. My point was that the US system of health "insurance" is anything but insurance.

> ... that people have been using it as a way to only pay 20% or less of expenses ...

That isn't the case. Ultimately the premiums paid by you and/or your employer as part of your "benefits" (foregone salary) will cover most of your expenses, otherwise it isn't a viable business model as pretty much everything involves an insurance transaction. The actual procedures really don't cost that much. It is the extra layers of obfuscation, administration, multiple parties etc that totally confuse what is going on.

You should try buying your own insurance someday. It becomes obvious again how it really isn't insurance. I believe California health insurance now requires maternity coverage.
I don't agree with that. If you have a low budget and rely on keywords for discovery, you shouldn't be competing in a crowded niche in the first place. Unfortunately, all niches will eventually get more crowded.

I'm not thrilled with the change because it was a surprise and was a big blow to my sales.
A lot of good points in this article. The main elements that stand out are:

An idea isn't everything. You don't just think up an idea and incorporate. You need to build a genuine business model that warrants going through the incorporation pain. Get serious. Only start the paperwork if you are committed to pursuing the idea into a business.
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