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Apple didn't say "Macs don't get OS X viruses".

The very next sentence was "a Mac isn’t susceptible to the thousands of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers".

Which it wasn't.

As for custom viruses targeting OS X, none had been seen in the wild for a decade (only some trojans did exist). So the general public's assumptions "Macs are safe" was grounded in pragmatic reality.

That something is theoretically possible (e.g a meteor hitting my house) doesn't make it a real threat.

Now, one could argue that an OS X virus is not only theoretically possible but, unlike the meteor example, also easily achievable.

But still, something being both theoretically possible and easily achievable doesn't make it a real threat.

E.g a neighbour setting my house on fire. I'd rather start worrying about it when it starts happening frequently (instead of never).
Glad to know about Khukuri being gifted in SF CrowdHack - i'm from Kathmandu, Nepal. There are other popular items from Nepal like Wooden/Brass Baghchal boards, Buddha statue from Lumbini, Mt. Everest souvenir, Pokhara scenery, Himalaya Range Scenery souvenir that'd be great gift to anyone who knows or somehow heard about Nepal :)

Hope you could win one :)
You trust your current ISP?

I've never understood these arguments. Google doesn't 'snoop' on your browsing—they anonymously track your habits to give you better ads as their business model.

You used to get terrible ads on the internet—flashy popups, tricky spam ads, etc. Google has changed this, since they realized that they could avoid needing to trick people into click on ads by delivering ads that are actually relevant.

Your current ISP can 'snoop' on everything you do too. Why don't you have this odd mistrust of them?
Have you consider Penang island, it is not really isolated or exotic, but we have beautiful beaches here, and when you need a dose of civilization, it is just within 30 minutes driving distance, there are quite a few big companies here like Dell, Intel, Motolora. Standard of living is cheap. The island been ranked by Yahoo! Travel as one of the "10 Islands to Explore Before You Die". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang

Hope I didn't sound too much like a salesman already.
After a 7 year programming hiatus from my college CS degree (never ended up coding professionally), I am learning RoR through CodeSchool.com's tutorials and it's fantastic. The best part is you can speak to a real person for help by calling RailsHotline.com, they only ask that you donate minutes in return.

I am currently up to 'Rails for Zombies 2', and while it is very beginner focused, I'm comfortable to look through API docs to work out what I need to use, I have a grasp of MVC and I'm acquainted with basic github functionality.

It's fun. It's never going to be "5 minute abs", but that's a good thing.
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I'm with you. I feel the same way about startup porn. It's just that when I saw Wasswa's email it hit me most programmers don't work closely with good marketers and understand this. It's an unnecessary lost opportunity. I also figured there's many hard working people like him that just needed to be told marketing (or any skill in that set) is learnable that got me motivated up to write something.
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The thing is, at least in my case, this simply isn't true. Nobody buys a VPS on the first click; if someone clicks through a google ad for my company, yeah, google should get some credit, but most of the credit should go to the blog the customer saw a month ago.
That's the thing; because the adwords are the first hits and are super convenient for the customer, they pick up a lot of people that would have clicked on the organic result.

This is called attribution measurement. It is generally considered the next big thing in advertising technology - primarily by anyone who runs a website where buying intent isn't obvious.

I think this is also why facebook is so highly valued; people believe that facebook has enough tracking data to see that blog that my customer read last week that actually caused the customer to sign up through the adword this week.

Facebook isn't valued because of this, it is valued because of the sheer volume of people. Facebook lets you advertise to people who "like" something, but doesn't do anything very smart to predict this (perhaps they might in the future).

Google, OTOH, does have data on what you search for and actively uses it on 3rd party sites, as well as offering re-targeting.
He got some decent responses so it seems like it turned out okay. You can give the audience here a little bit of credit, really.
If everyone has unmetered gigabit, technologies like Tor and Freenet become significantly more usable. Rather than trusting my ISP, I'd rather use technologies that make it impossible for my ISP to violate my privacy expectations. Which would you rather have, "we promise we won't" or "we couldn't if we wanted to"?

("like Tor", but not exactly Tor since pervasive fiber from one provider would break Tor's threat model by allowing traffic analysis.)
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Or they're preparing to move into the console market through the Apple TV.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/04/apple-meets-with-valve/
The site looks like 100% Scientóogy propaganda. I know this may sound paranoic, but you can really recognize it by the home page and the way it's written.
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Not at all. In fact about 95% of all Haskell I write - and I write quite a bit - is for commercial stuff, ranging all the way across large-ish (not quite google-scale, yet) scale computation, distributed systems, machine learning, modeling/simulations and web development. More academic feeling stuff like parsing and DSLs are just the cherries on top (though even those were for commercial uses).

I'll admit Haskell has a steep learning curve, but once you're there, all this stuff Go is said to do real well feels fairly lackluster compared to what you can find in Haskell-land. What's built into Go can be achieved at the library level in Haskell. As a result, we keep seeing better and better manifestations of key ideas in the library space.

Examples include Cloud Haskell, many, many concurrency libraries, STM, Parallel Haskell, many constant-space data streaming libraries (pipes, conduits, enumerators, ...), several excellent parsing libraries (parsec, attoparsec, trifecta, ...), etc.

As a side note, I used to do lots of python/ruby - I really can't anymore. They feel simultaneously more burdensome to code (no static type-checking), more verbose (no elegant, long pipelines of computations), less expressive (no real first class functions - you barely use map/reduce/fold/etc. in python) and slower (as in runtime).

Having said all that, I do see how Go fills a gap in the market. You need something that's easy to grok and gets just enough of it right that you can produce fast, type-safe-enough and concurrent programs with somewhat less mutable state than what you may be used to in C. A simple mental model and ease of entry are conceivably great for larger, homogeneous teams.
I find that position overly paranoid.

You're already being snooped by your carrier provider, including your location and the online content you access.

You're watched by CCTV cameras as you walk across city.

You're car's registration is being automatically recognized by surveillance cameras as you drive on highways or if a police car happens to drive behind you.

The list goes on and on.

Welcome to life in the 21st century.

From all of the above I find Google most trustworthy believe it or not. Do your own research but Google tries really hard to protect your privacy from both internal and external "snoopers".
As I commented elsewhere, perhaps Google is the party with the deep pockets and legal expertise -- and lobbyists -- to take on and beat these entrenched monopolies/oligopolies.

When a community of some thousands goes up against a corporation of 10's of thousands and a largely captive customer base of millions, in e.g. lobbying the state legislature, well, the deck seems kind of stacked.

In Illinois, I recall specifically, SBC -- now AT&T -- received hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks and incentives, specifically with the agreement to promote and complete universal high speed access.

They then promptly set their lawyers and lobbyists to finding ways to break their side of that agreement -- while keeping the incentives, of course.

If Google wants unfettered access to unfettered customers (or eyeballs, if we're going to call the advertisers the customers... not to go there, at the moment), such partnerships might be a good way to identify and speed deployment.

And... plenty of publicity about what people in many other countries are paying. Little seems to motivate the American consumer -- and voter -- more than a bargain, or feeling they're getting ripped off.

And, since I'm typing away here, I hope Google will do it while treating their linepersons (technicians, etc.) decently. As a recent story here, with its high rating, pointed out, people are tired of seeing the line workers being abused.

I'm not familiar with sonic.net in detail, but its CEO, Dane, seems a decent sort, and I bet they're not the worst employer -- whether direct or contract. (And since Google's already talking to him, maybe you all can pick his brains in this specific area.)

Google still does some things that piss me off. [1] But I support this initiative -- I'll sign up as soon as I can, if and when -- unless Dane beats you to it.

[1] Mentioning just one item: Give it up, already, with the "true names" initiative. Anonymity has its value and place within the online domain. Not just one of convenience, but one of necessity, for many people and contexts.

P.S. I'm pretty tired, and I'm probably being to optimistic/idealistic, here. OTOH, having directly observed the crap dished out by AT&T, Comcast, and the like, I can readily believe there is plenty of room for improvement.
Sad. OpenBSD popularized the term hackathon, but OS developers aren't invited...
That wouldn't work for me. I've been lucky enough to almost always work on things I've been interested in, and it has served me well in my career so far. I doubt I could even perform at 50% efficiency when using tools that don't excite me.

I've also had a ton of fun mastering and compulsively customizing both VIM and Emacs :-)
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Show HN: Mindcast.com -- My Browser-Based Widget Engine MVP
Hey everyone! I am building a little browser-based widget engine that is inspired by Corning's "A Day Made of Glass" video. I was hoping to get some feedback on which of my interface decisions made sense and which do not, as this user interface goes a bit off of the beaten path for webapps.

Please note that this MVP is made to work with a mouse-based devices. Touch sort-of works, but I've got a bit of work to do before I'm ready to call this MVP-ready for touch devices

Here are some features that (hopefully) makes this widget engine interesting for you:

* You can drag the background to scroll the viewport, both vertically and horizontally.

* When in edit mode, you can double-click the background and enter a url to embed a web panel/iframe.
(... as long as the target webpage doesn't block framing.)

* You can minimize/expand web panels, with automatic thumbnail generation by url2png's web service.
(... there is processing delay of up to 15 seconds on
the thumbnail generation.)

* You can set the page dimensions and upload custom backgrounds.

* There are some simple authoring widgets for edit mode that I started to work on:
a wysiwyg editor (redactor), a grid editor (handsontable), a checklist builder, an image uploader

Thanks for checking this out! You do have to register to get into edit mode and be able to save your work. It's, of-course, free since I'm obviously in beta... If you have any questions, feel free to post them here. I'll respond when I can. (I do have a day-contract unrelated to this project, so I can't be here all the time.)

http://mindcast.com
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That's true, I completely forgot about the Cold War. I grew up in the 90s, so I guess I'm lucky to have never had that looming over my head.
Imagine for a moment, if they fudged the numbers a bit on the storage capacity of every box going into your home. They advertise the usable capacity of 1 or 2TB. In reality, it has 30-200% more storage that is not usable by the customer.

They just made a very fast, low latency, distributed mesh CDN that the customer pays Google for the connectivity AND electrical bill.
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The above is not an example of duck typing.

Even if it was, one example of a difficult bug in one system does not invalidate a whole concept.

And duck typing is almost as old as programming itself...
Ah, OK. When I read the description of DroidWing I wasn't sure what the point of converting EDICT to some other format was. I will look into this further.

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>- Go is compiled to machine code. This means that, barring a miracle in JIT/VM research, Go will probably always be faster than PyPy for most tasks.

Actually it's slower or comparable that simple Python in most cases. And slower than Java, which also uses a JIT.

It being "Machine code" doesn't mean much. The implementation also counts, as do the libs. In Python lots of stuff is delegated to plain old C libs.
I think the purpose of Go is to solve some of Googles very specific problems (e.g. easiness feeling comparable to Python, short compile teams, ease construction of concurrent internet server apps), not to enthuse anybody.
If I see it as an unspectacular, better Python, not as a top modern language then it makes some sense to me.
It seems they had to sacrifice sth. for short compile times (e.g. generics).
I think that's a perfect tl;dr. :)
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I vaguely recall somewhere that Matz commented about how he felt that he was a good language designer, but not necessarily a good language implementor. I've always felt that MRI should be treated as a reference implementation, and the fact that there aren't more alternate implementations of Ruby is a (maybe sad?) reflection on the Ruby community.
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That's a hard copy, and an old edition at that. The digital version (which is what you need for DroidWing) is only $270[0], or free if your ethics are flexible.

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As someone who makes a living on the app store, I have to say having an ARPU of 70 cents really sucks. Also, that people expect updates forever because they gave you 70 cents also sucks. Had an absurd conversation today giving customer support for someone with unbelievable expectations for half the price of a cup of coffee.

You will have to work really really hard to convince me that this race to the bottom is a good thing for software devs.
Ask HN: My gf got scammed for 10,000 RMB (1570$ USD) yesterday, need advice.
Hi fellow HNers.

My Chinese girlfriend got scammed for 10000 RMB (~1570$ USD) online yesterday and I'm desperately looking forward HN's advice on clever social engineering-y ways to get the money back.

To make a story short, she quit her job last week and wanted to make some money online. She started selling phone calling credits online through a software designed to do so (for every 100 RMB she sells she gets 1 RMB). By now it already sounds like a scam (why wouldn't people who need calling credits go through this software by themselves) but apparently the software is legit.

Anyways, a guy called her yesterday telling her he urgently needed 10000 RMB worth of calling credit. Gullible as she is, she proceeded to transfer the money to this man's phone number (5000 RMB through Mastercard credit card and 5000 RMB by Union Pay debit card). The man was supposed to pay her money through Alipay (China's Paypal) and apparently showed her screenshots of the transfer happening. She just trusted him.

This morning, she found out it was a scam. The whole story is a bit confusing to me as well. My girlfriend is crying and her English isn't that good. She tried calling the scammer but of course his phone was closed and also tried to call her bank to get the credit card payment canceled but they told her they couldn't do anything unless she had lost/got stolen her credit card (seems they don't have chargebacks in China!?). She also called the police...

I'm looking for some clever way to get the money back through social engineering (especially the 5000 from the credit card which shouldn't be that hard). The money traveled this way: Credit Card -> Software vendor -> China Telecom -> Scammer's phone.

This is a lot of money for her (and for me at the moment). Thanks for helping HN!

tl;dr: Girlfriend got scammed. Need clever social engineering tricks to get money back.
Major publisher fails to protect ebooks, allowing free download.
Recently, while looking up book reviews, I inadvertently discovered that a major publisher had failed to secure some of their ebooks from being downloaded for free.

Most of the chapter pdf links are indexed by Google, and those that are not, can be easily found because of the simple name pattern of the files.

I've contacted someone from the company, but received no response and after checking, the problem hasn't been fixed.

This is a company that in the past has, to my knowledge, taken action against illegal ebook sharers, a problem decidedly harder to fix/handle than say, aspects that fall under their direct control, such as the security of their own products.

Obviously I'm not naming them publicly because I don't want to risk getting sued, but how would you handle this, HN?

I'm thinking about just letting it go.
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google is no better or worse than your ISP. you think browsing & serving ads is more invasive than knowing every single thing you see on the internet?
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Lots of smart people disagree with this. You should start marketing when you start coding. Find out who is interested, what they want, etc. When you launch, you don't want to do it to crickets.

If you have something people will search for, you can start your SEO and start adwords. 6 months down the road you are actually getting some search traffic, and your adwords have over time built up a mailing list.

If you haven't read this article by Rob Walling I highly recommend it.
http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/10/14/startup-marketing-pa...
I was thinking it'd be just like a startup incubator but instead of getting paid $20k for 5 to 10% you get to go here and get paid $10k
The investment share of GDP for the US was 12% in 2010 according to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... and I would expect it hasn't moved much since.

US GDP is about $15 trillion/yr right now.

So the $8bn of direct investment you mention is about 0.4% of the investment that happened in the US last year.

A far cry from "owning or controlling a significant part of European and American industries". ;)

Oh, and the $10bn investment into Australia, which has "only" 27% * $1.5e12 = $405bn of investment yearly, is about 2.5% of yearly Australian investment. At that rate you _could_ get to "significant" in several years, if the economy doesn't also grow at several % a year....

(For further comparison, the EU gdp is about 17tn/year and investment is almost 19% of that, so figure about 2.9tn/year.)
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Well, their mission is to organize all of the world's information. So, yea. I think this is probably about gathering data.
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