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Kaspersky is undoubtedly one of most interesting companies in the antivirus space, if not the one. They do a lot of research and they push things forward instead of just scaremongering their userbase into buying annual subscriptions to a bloatware like Symantec does.

That being said, they do ship some really buggy stuff that is an absolute pain to deal with. For a couple of years I had to deal with support of a networking application and every time a new type of bug report cropped up, the first question was "do you have Kaspersky installed" inevitably followed by "yes, we do." I just can't tell how many men-hours were sunk into chasing problems that were ultimately created by bugs in their resident antivirus shields. It was few years ago, perhaps things have changed for the better.
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this makes me wish that the "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky." story was true.
When this happens, please visit about:memory and then file a bug or email me the contents.
A great point. But still no excuse to have their existing customers left behind. All of their customers (myself included) invested in the product because it was good, because it worked extremely well, and because it solved problems. I didn't invest in their work at Google. Where does that leave me?

The biggest concern I have with this is the same thing that happened to Tweetie: the one company that should have scooped it up did and then completely changed it into something that barely represented the existing app (and more or less dropped an interest in the desktop client).
In reality, the Finnish average is more like 27-32 days.

After your second year of work at a company, you get 5 weeks vacation per year. The official number for this is 30 days, but that's counting Saturdays. Nobody works 6 days per week, so in reality this is 25 days.

On top of those 25 days, there are public holidays. On average 7 of them fall on weekdays per year.

This gives us a grand total of 32 days per year on average.
Who else thought this said orgasm?
I personally think how clojure has been presented so far is its greatest strength and it is the reason why it is so strong so far and why it continues to get stronger. You have to be a better than average programmer, one who has worked with multiple languages from multiple paradigms, who has worked with real production code before, to recognize why it is so much superior to any other programming language currently available right now.

I'm GLAD that there is currently no killer app for Clojure, like how Rails became the killer app for Ruby. IMO Rails killed Ruby. Ruby started out in the right direction but once Rails became popular there was an influx of so-so programmers who started polluting the language with inefficient concepts, constantly reinventing the wheel poorly because they did not know enough computer science to know that a better solution had already been invented. Now the system has been bogged down by so much cruft, it is difficult to see if it still serves the purpose it was originally designed for (a language the people can enjoy programming in).

Clojure is not ready yet. The core team is still working on refining the fundamentals for what maybe can become the 100 year language [http://paulgraham.com/hundred.html] -- look at reducers in 1.4. Right now Clojure doesn't need more people. It needs more smart people. If you are not smart enough to understand why it is worth switching to it, maybe you should wait a bit and let the design mature more. The killer apps will come. Clojure's ability to scale complexity will eventually overcome its current drawbacks, as the tools and the ecosystem matures.
Basic biology research is really exploding. Very exciting stuff.
It looks like these guys have plenty of money. They show a nice house, nice cars, etc. Sounds like they could fund themselves pretty easily, right?
Have you paid the global tax ?
This is a really well designed application.

I'm not really in the target audience myself (I aggressively digitize everything and avoid owning physical media of all kinds), but for xx% of the population who do like physical pictures, especially older people or sentimental people, PicPlum is a great choice.
That isn't Strunk and White. That is just Strunk and is an earlier edition of the work long before White came on.
Ask:HN: Collecting email addresses from a niche group
Hi,
I want to start one Appsumo(or Groupon) like web portal which will try to provide ridiculously cheap deals on instruments and lab kits to a bunch of people in a particular niche. Say for the people who are in universities and Govt. organizations doing physics and astronomy. However, I have no technical background(coding) for launching a good landing page which can collect email address from these niche groups. Also I have no business experience how to collect enough numbers of email address to start with.<p>So here are my questions.
1. How do I go out and collect large number of email addresses from a particular niche group?
2. Should I go with any landing page template off the shelf to test the idea or hire a freelance developer to do it?<p>Any suggestions/feedback is highly appreciated.
Thanks.
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why does that make the course look bad?
F-A-B!
> You do not deserve respect. Ever. You must always earn it.

Hm. If you don't have my respect, I may well feel justified in stealing from you. Is that really the kind of 'lack of respect' you think should be the default state?
I found this article more informative than Elements of Style. Elements of Style is full of poorly thought out grammatical "rules" which are flat out incorrect, or over-generalizations without much guidance on how to properly apply them, and even the authors of Elements of Style don't actually follow most of their own "rules." If you actually tried following Strunk and White's rules, your writing would come out sounding bizarre and stilted.
If there was a new sparrow-esque app in the market that was drastically better than stock ios mail app, would people buy it?
If you're so sure the 'value' being created here is so low why not quantify it? I don't see how you can declare 'he could have created a lot more value' when it seems to me the value here (the morale boost to the company, the goodwill engendered, etc) is somewhat unquantifiable.
I would love to read the article, but $31.50 is a bit steep.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867412...

Thanks, Elsevier.
So what's the HN consensus - were there landings to begin with or was it all staged?

:)
To me, this kind of product needs crowdsourced equity financing (that's becoming legal soon, right?), not Kickstarter-style.

I have a hard time imagining there are, say, 2000 people willing to pay $100 in advance for this with no guarantees. This isn't a sexy video game which can build up lots of viral demand...

Despite that, I wish them the best of luck! From what I understand, CSS-style formatting of native iOS components is sorely needed...
Unless the product or service meets the qualifications I mentioned then you can presume I'm not going to recommend it. Some companies that have been acquired have "done right" and released their product as open source afterwards. I would like to see more companies make this part of their agreement before purchase or use. While I'm comfortable with many things technical, many are not but open-sourcing a popular product will more likely than not allow those non-technical users to just pick up the use of that product with other providers.

A recent example is from Moxie's company Whispersystems and the open-sourcing of their Red Phone product. This came after their acquisition/sale by Twitter.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4256801

Does all of this greatly reduce my access to the latest and greatest? Yes it does but then often what is portrayed as the greatest by popularity is not necessarily a great product. And one further note of clarification, if this service is meant to be consumed in a disposable nature then obviously I've got no qualms about something like that as I enjoy actively participating in the world. There's a reason for pragmatism.
Why We're Upset About Acquisitions Like Sparrow/Google
24 dead companies according to the list
It makes it look bad to people who judge it based on the attrition rate.
ditto, I got half way through the article expecting discussions about neurons.
Agree. It surely would also cost a lot of time (and therefore, money) to determine a 'correct' uneven distribution.
My talk was actually done in Light Table itself, so there won't be slides up. Not sure when they're going to put the videos up - I'll see if I can find out.
Great. Facebook just bought the application that manages my passwords. That makes me feel good.
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In any other context I'd hope for them to open-source their efforts if they're giving up on the project anyway, but I guess that's not the iOS way.
Troll's claims were "dismissed with prejudice", according to Kaspersky's personal blog. So, i suppose, this means that effectively the patent is invalid.

http://eugenekaspersky.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dec.png

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js...

upd: court order: http://www.scribd.com/doc/98161737/Https-Ecf-txed-Uscourts-g...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/98161154/Https-Ecf-txed-Uscourts-g...
Any clue what software/technology they are using? I'm guessing Java.
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> Whenever you confuse the two, you cause me to have to reparse the sentence. "it's" becomes "it is" and then I have to determine that that doesn't make any sense and go back to substitute it.

I'm sorry. When they come up with a cure for dyslexia, I'll be sure to get it. In the meantime, I suspect that most people are just dyslexic enough (dyslexia is a spectrum) that these little things cause them a great deal of trouble. It's not that they don't care; it's that if they did care, it would drive them crazy. Me, I do care about details. That's no doubt, in part, why I became a programmer.

As to throwing you off, since this mistake is so common, it would seem to be easy enough to train yourself to treat the two words as hominyms of each other. After all, you have no problem, I take it, with all the other homonyms in the language. (Yeah, I know, wheelchair ramps are annoying!) The fact that the words are pronounced identically proves conclusively that we don't need the words to be distinguished, other than by context.

As to having linguistics backgrounds, in my classes they beat prescriptivism out of me. How did yours survive?
This is good, and I don't think it's the first time it's happened recently. I think Notch did the same if I remember right. It works well for a model, creates long lasting loyalty for employees and good public feeling.

Plus I bet the employees have got some smiles that'll take a while to shift, and that's really awesome.
Hi, I'm the lead of Mozilla's MemShrink project (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink) and the author of the linked post.

Can you tell me what you mean by prior blog posts "like this"? I remember http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/08/09/firefox-7-is-..., because I wrote it, but it was accurate -- FF7 did have some very large improvements.

This "Mozilla claims memory consumption improvements in every release" zombie lie is something I hear a lot, but it's just not true.
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I don't really think all that much about somebody who is fantastically rich giving away money that they won't miss. Although it's still somewhat cool because other fantastically rich people wouldn't do this and seem more concerned with increasing their own wealth to an obscene amount.
recent awesome discovery: you can use Inconsolata in your google docs to paste in code samples and whatnot, available from the Add Fonts item in the font picker.
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... but 1Password isn't as pretty...
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XKCD said it all: http://xkcd.com/202/
I think that's the impression the CEO is trying to give. I think it's a smart move that will improve morale and confidence in the company.
Currently it takes about 9 to 10 hours of computer time to simulate a single division of the smallest cell — about the same time the cell takes to divide in its natural environment.

So, it's a realtime simulation! Cool, although wholly incidental.

It's hard to tell from the article exactly how fine-grained the simulation actually was. Was it actually at the level of tracking individual molecules, or did each "cell object" just keep track of, e.g., concentrations of different types of molecules?

Also, I wonder if this will have any long-term impact on things like the Open Worm project ( www.openworm.org ).
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Actually, this is a counterpoint. There was a period of time where Lookout was unavailable, but then it was incorporated into Outlook proper. The search in Outlook 2010 is very fast.
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Prevent them from creating facebook competitors?
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Sadly it only work on OS X and Windows.

Anyone knows a good email client for Gnome? Something that does only email.
The core of my disappointment is the expectation of future development that comes with buying into a relatively new piece of software.

I don't know. This doesn't seem like the most useful stance to take when buying new software. You are almost always going to be disappointed. Nothing lasts for an eternity, whether due to acquisitions, laziness, burnout, etc. I think it's always better going into software purchases with the mindset that you are paying for the current feature set, and anything in addition is just gravy.

How long should they have supported the product with new updates? 6 months, a year, two years, 10 years? Or just until you got sick of it, or found something better?
Ask HN: What's your Mac collaborative workflow?
Hi guys. I'm choosing the collaborative tools for my team and I need your suggestions. Web tools are good, Web+Mac tools are even better :)

I'm thinking of using GitHub + Postbox mail app + Evernote + Things + Trello.

Thanks!
It's simple -- he was using NoScript and Ghostery. Those add-ons don't exist for other browsers. I can imagine that a very privacy/security-oriented user would be willing to put up with some significant inconvenience to use those add-ons.

(It's fortunate that the inconvenience has now been fixed.)
I'll clean it up and open-source it when I have a bit of time! I used your prefixes and based my code on yours for what I did, I've already put you in the footer, but heroku's git server is acting up, as soon as I can it'll be online with a link back to you!
Just to clarify your comment - the Moai engine supports isometric (2.5D) and 3D functions for effects. Shadowrun Returns, a 2.5D title, is being developed with Moai. See http://getmoai.com/blog/thinking-isometric.html for an overview.

There is no license restriction on Moai as noted. It's a standard CPAL license, approved by the Open Source Initiative. CPAL itself is a derivative of the Mozilla license. http://getmoai.com/moai-faqs.html
I don't like the fact that Chrome acts as a spider for Google's search engine.
The corporation I work for hasn't bought a Lenovo branded anything. One could argue that the IBM PS/2s of the 80s might count. Heck, a few employees had our department order some PS/2 to USB adapters so they could keep banging away on the 20+-year-old Model M clickers that came with them.

I happen to personally own a Lenovo and it's certainly top-notch. Perhaps we should think about getting new desktops from them instead of Dell and DFO.

This classy move is another gold star for the CEO of a seemingly top-notch tech company.
They are somewhat vague on the technical details - however, it sounds like they are indeed basically rendering out their own graphics context and not using Apple's native UI components ("[a] 2D graphics engine facilitates the rendering of scalable, resolution-independent vector graphics).

As to performance, it depends how they do it. I wouldn't want to comment until they revealed some more technical details about this 'graphics engine'. They say 'style native apps and components', but it's unclear to me whether this means they are interpreting CSS and applying these styles to UIKit elements or rolling their own UIKit-like elements (I suspect the latter, but I might be wrong).
Annoying but true
Why?

Here in the US we have a cultural flaw where we irrationally conflate equilibria in the supply/demand of labor with distribution of credit for a company's success.

The CEO gets paid a lot more because there is a much smaller supply of people who have the pedigree/qualifications to be CEO than to be a line worker. There is no chain of logic that can take you from there to the conclusion that he's more important to the success of the company than those 10,000 line workers.
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Hardly.

A captain steers the ship, but it's the rest of the crew that sails the boat. You can steer to your hearts content, but without the right team and culture, you aren't going anywhere.
This is acquisition is simple: if people stop using their web interface, they don't make money on ads.

They will either drop the app, incorporate AdWords on it, or integrate with Google Plus instead of Facebook.
Actually, when it was first released, it simply didn't work. Very few pages actually loaded, and there were errors all over the place.
DON'T give an advice/order without explaining the rationale.
While it is a shame to the app effectively killed, calling it premium priced is just a reflection of how the app store has forced developers to push prices to the absolute bottom. Ad-in the fact that they had no recurring revenue model, getting a ton of new users could actually have been a false economy for them. They did not owe users an explanation of their future business plans, that's not how it works.
Why uninstall it? They already got your money.
If you don't mind me asking, how good a job do you think John N. did? Did the buck stop with him on this engineering project?
> it's a description of an existing evolved system.

This is not how the people who get angriest about grammar see it. They demand that splitting an infinitive is wrong, they demand that the passive voice is wrong (and those demands get stronger the more often they themselves use it), and they demand any number of other idiot things of the language, because they don't know the difference between grammar and style, and they fail to realize that dictating style requires taste, which they lack entirely.

> "which sentence is more correct" and one of the sentences has an improperly conjugated verb

Hm. Don't give this test to people who speak AAVE [1]: You'll be considered racist.

[1] AAVE is 'African-American Vernacular English', or what the conservative yammer-heads called 'Ebonics' back in the 1990s. It has a rich inventory of verb conjugations considered incorrect by standard English.
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I see your point, but the difference is that you had no expectations. As someone who purchased Sparrow (both on iPhone and Mac) I had high hopes for it continuing to grow, add new features, etc. Sure, as a Google user, you will gain something - but it's more of a happy surprise for you and a disappointment for us Sparrow users.
To see how not to do it, I'd suggest Wikipedia's edit summaries. (I say that in the spirit of love as a Wikipedia admin. :D)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ESL
There was an article in inc related to this topic couple of years ago. Interesting read http://m.inc.com/?incid=27673

I think the most important point: After learning that Kayak puts software developers to do customer support the writer wondered why on earth. Good developers cost serious money, customer support people are much cheaper. The Kayak co-founder replied along the lines that yes, they cost money, but when a software developer gets the same support question for third time, he probably fixes the actual thing causing the problems.
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What you are experiencing is tantamount to the motivation that birthed the GPL.
People doing what they want to do with their own money is "unbecoming of the principles of the free market"? WTF?
From what I understand, if a case is dismissed with prejudice the charges can not be refiled. However, I am not sure if that also means the Plaintiff can not appeal.
I'm getting the same vibe. And I'm beginning to think that allowing this kind of thing will be the downfall of Kickstarter. Yes, I will explain.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the Kickstarter concept. But in practice, their scaling seems to quickly be turning hem into a sales platform that has no controls or accountability.

And I have nothing bad to say about this project in particular, but they are a YC company, and the state of the prototype shows that they already have all they need to make it happen. This project doesn't need money. The campaign seems to me to be nothing more than a simple "I'm making something cool, so give me cash". And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that -- by all means, people should be free to do what they wish with their money, and the Kickstarter campaign will probably work out beautifully for them. That's great.

But this whole perception of Kickstarter being a place for bootstrapping interesting projects is turning into a dangerous myth. Like many things before it, Kickstarter is becoming a place for people with money (and/or obvious ability to make money), to make even more money, though marketing under a vague guise of "bootstrapping", with no checks or balances to keep people honest.

This isn't an accusation leveled at Pixate -- I don't believe they're doing anything wrong and I have huge faith in YC's filtering. But once enough clever people figure out that you can earn a killing or huge bonus on top of anything, just by tacking on a nice Kickstarter campaign, it will become impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff. And then people will move on to the next thing, and the cycle will repeat.

</bubble-y doomsaying>
There are 7 * 10^9 carbon atoms in E Coli [1], so we're probably a decade or two away from being able to do any kind of simulation at the atomic level.

Though it's probably getting close to the point where getting the right algorithms is the bottleneck; if you could somehow bring the techniques and optimizations we'll inevitably learn over the next 100 years back to today, a half decent simulation would probably already be possible on a cluster of commodity hardware.

Unless the techniques revolve around a new method of computation, of course - maybe memristor logic helps with that kind of thing.

[1] http://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?s=y&id=...
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[Citation needed].
It's a cynical way to pre-order, because you're not really pre-ordering at all: you're giving some money and the rewards are a side-effect. You don't get any of the usual consumer protection at all.
I completely agree, and I suppose this is also the end to the iPad client they've been hinting around.
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Another helpful link for test credit card numbers (with Visa, Amex, Mastercard, Diners Club?, etc.):

http://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/vhelp/paypalmanager_help/...
Easy to build, hard to scale (although far easier than when Digg was first built). Also getting the voting algorithm right, assuming they're going to continue with that model, takes a lot of refinement.

But yeah, overall I agree. Why would they rebuild the same product? That's already failed.