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The original question wasn't "why is encryption without authentication a bad idea"; it was "why is it worse than nothing". The only thing I can come up with is that some users look for https instead of the newer security banners.

The additional question was "is a non-CA-signed certificate irrelevant to authentication, or is it a forgery" - my opinion would be the former, browsers seem to think the latter.

It is my understanding that adding trusted third parties is possible for the client, but considered to be only for advanced users, and that adding security exceptions for self-signed certificates is unexpectedly common. I further consider the terminology unfortunate (servers with valid certificates are not certified, they are authenticated).
Seems Dell are working on a series of android devices and some of them will be tablets. If anything is going to beat the ipad I can only think about a dell tablet right now
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Since you can fit several full-length movies on an iPad (16-64GB storage space), adding 5.1 channel audio won't be much of a problem.
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Google does it again. 'Gives' Pakistan occupied Kashmir to Pak
It's completely idiotic to openly carry a fake weapon. Carry a concealed weapon, or open-carry a real weapon, or carry nothing, but never open carry a fake weapon. Nothing good can come of it.
Chrome doesn't support it now. As it's WebKit based, will the next version incorporate this feature?
Should Gmail be counted as Web or email?

It's all about usage, not about the technology. Think out of the box.
intitle:"Index of" "config.inc" -"config.inc.php"

I'm confused to why people do this, surely the must see the implication - webservers generally don't parse files with a .inc extension as php so it ends up being displayed as raw text.
Google never said "Be idealistic." They said "Don't be evil."

They lost any pretense of idealism when they expanded into China. That was a tough moral call. So was this. Some moral calls are tough to make, and maybe Google made the wrong calls, but there's a difference between "don't be evil" and "be idealistic and pure and unquestionable in your motives, and when it comes to the hard questions, just punt on them".
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Carrying weapons from the car back to my apartment in a shared building elevator is one of the main reasons I want a house with an attached garage next. It's perfectly legal in California to have uncased longarms in the trunk, and my car actually can't fit big rifle cases in the trunk (only soft cases or uncased rifles) without putting down the rear seats.

The look on a neighbor's face when you've got a TRG-42 slung over your shoulder in the elevator is priceless...
I hate self-censoring like this.

Either use fuck, or don't. If you don't want to use the word fuck, then use another word. It's easy to be equally harsh. "Chill the hell out about the Google/Verizon proposal." "Freaking out about the Google/Verizon proposal? You're a retard."

The point of censoring is that it's externally imposed. Swear filters on poorly designed multiplayer video games. Internet forums. When you self-censor, you announce that you spend so much time in such places that it has irrevocably altered your writing.
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There's also a comment in Kelvin regarding how the triple point of water is defined to be at 0.01 °C, not 0 °C, that reads a little confused. I wonder why it's defined like that, anyway.

The bit is used for information because information is almost defined as the expected length of an optimally (context-free) coded word, using a base 2 code. Some physicists prefer base e, in which case it's measured in nats.
Do you acknowledge that Google and Verizon now have an interesting business relationship, where the success of one party in the mobile space directly influences the other? Vested interests do drive people and companies to behave differently.

In this case, its reasonable to wonder if Google has changed from champion of NN to a company that sees its next great revenue pool (mobile) forming before its eyes.
Possibly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring.
Hans Zimmer, my colon.
You really are evil, evilhackerdude.
'Max' extrapolates a lot from relatively little anecdotal data and does that quite frequently.

For instance:

> Angel investors are not interested in companies that create value and that can hire one or two people, while making a steady profit.

That goes for some angel investors but definitely not for all of them, in fact the majority of the angel investors that I know of are doing exactly that.

> The investors are interested in blow-out companies – companies that either grow huge, or that will be bought by other companies. Those are the only types of companies interesting for the angels.

No, those are the only types of companies interesting for the VCs whose only way to recover their massive investments is a sizeable exit, not a lot of piddly little dividends over the years.

I think it's wrong to lump 'angels' and 'vcs' on the same heap like this, and even between VCs (and individual deals done by the same VC) there is a lot of difference.

Partnering with an angel or a VC that has a similar risk profile to your own is a good way to avoid such issues, and that starts by defining what your risk profile really is.
I think this point is overlooked all too often. With git, just mashing out code and committing at regular intervals is not using git to its full potential. You're supposed to spend time crafting proper commits, consisting of logical, well-separated changes. The staging area and rebase feature make it easy, but it still requires effort that most developers are not used to.

Good, logically separate changesets make merging, backporting (cherry-picking), bisecting and reverting much easier. It is worth the trouble.

The version history of the git project itself serves as a magnificent example of what a commit history should look like. It's actually possible to read the logs and understand each committed change. (Most of the time)
read: Cisco want to sell video-on-demand stacks and other software.
How's Hermione doing these days?
I am not enjoying that type of articles on HN. Dont even want to get into discussion of this - there are plenty of other sites to do that.
This is just a nightly build; both Chrome and Safari's public releases lag some way behind the nightlies, for obvious reasons.
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Yeah, that's exactly what I tried for a while. Daily Google email reminder asking something like "How do you feel today?" or "what did you learn today?" and I'd write a short quick reply to my private posterous. I think OhLife's idea of including an old post is very clever.
Is there any way to change the settings so that I get sent an email once every 2-3 days instead of daily? I don't fancy writing a daily journal, but a twice-a-week diary would be sweet.
I've read several stories about kids like this but I never seem to hear about them later on. Were there any kids back in the 90's that are still active and somewhat popular today?
I didn't find the article particularly helpful actually. Didn't learn anything new. But maybe in the sense of the author pushing his own opinion/bias it was useful: if you trust him, it makes decisionmaking earier. Things like "Use Quickbooks", "Do the Delaware Dance" are just opinion.
Oh, I see, I didn't know that, thank you.
I knew I'd miss one ;)
In economics, ideas are an interesting category of product. They're fairly difficult to exclude people from - you can't "sell" an idea to 1000 people and not expect to see it spread, if it's good.

They're often quite non-rivalrous, too, although the right one at the right time might mean that one person gets the most benefit from it.
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Nice! The first thing I thought of is sharing it with my girlfriend. But she doesn't have a Google or Twitter account. Can you add Facebook connect? I reckon you might get a whole lot of new users.
I suppose many factors were considered including the fact that the ruling against the FCC did derail the neutrality cause, and who's to say that if the teleco lobbyists are through with any suggested bill, things wouldn't be much worse, so they managed to agree on a couple of positive point and concede a couple of other points get things going.
Infers a flu rate based on Twitter content ... Nice!
This is pretty neat - exports as .txt files and even the filenames are named as "ohlife_20100818" (ohlife_YearMonthDay)

Thoughtfully designed.
You can ignore the emails (delete them perhaps)
The part of the article relating to Y's previous projects and one dying out. Did Y do any post failure writeups on this? wondering what lessons they may have learned or tips they could give to others.
"Here are your departed, loved-ones memories. Please pay me $30/month to not delete their information."

Not to be an insensitive clod, but this seems to assuage the finality of death...

Time will tell.
What's the significance of "https://encrypted.google.com?
Ask them to assess when they think the startup will be profitable, considering everything invested to date, then reproportion your equity accordingly. So if each of you have 25%, the consensus is 2 years to profitability, and you spent 2 years there already, then you should agree to reduce your share to 12.5%, splitting the other 12.5% between the remaining 3 founders. You can also offer to play an advisory role for a bit more.
That makes sense. I actually like the way that reads, and would suggest keeping it and adding sample usage to make it absolutely clear to people.
Short term stress responses improve cognitive function (including memory). Long term, chronic stress reduces it. Cortisol is a hell of a drug.
It's not a complete list of units without the hella- prefix.
Are you in search of replica watches?
Seriously, how can "using jQuery" be a good practice?
Maybe; but if you have a customer then a business can usually be pretty shoddy and still turn something of a profit
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/cabinetoffice/corp/ass...

probably it is officially released though, since it is /media/.../asset
Interesting consequence: If one wants to have the subjective perception of a longer lifespan, one should do more and more novel things more often as they age.
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the triple point of water is defined as 0.01 °C in order for a difference of 1 °C to be equal to a difference of 1 K.

To put it another way, the triple point of water is known to be 273.16 K, and the boiling point 373.15 K. Now if this mapped on to 0 °C and 100 °C, then we'd be left with a situation where 100 kelvins would be equivalent to 100.01 Celsius degrees. Instead, by defining the triple point of water as 0.01 °C (still 273.16 K), we now get an interval of 100 kelvins being equal to an interval of 100 Celsius degrees.

This is also why the term centigrade is no longer used... it's no longer 100 even.
You can drop the quotes around my name, just like you don't put quotes around Andrew Warner's name. It's now my real name and has been for several years.

What I am focusing on is not the actual people who successfully attach themselves to angels, but the people who fail by aiming for that mode.

If you build for acquisition but it does not take off, there is no place to fall back to.
So first of all - you kind of want it all ways. You think its going to fail but you want a piece of the action "just in case".

First step - pick one.

If you think its going to fail and your partners are just wasting their time. Sign it all over them. Assign them the IP and walk away.

If on the other hand you think that while your involvement has come to an end - that they still have a chance then sit down with them. Get it setup in a form where you can have equity and agree what share of that equity you will have - but it sounds from the agreement you already have you have 25%. Sign over the IP to this entity (they won't be able to sell it or do anything if you don't do this - and you want to give them a fighting chance). If you still want to be an advisor or they do - then that is your choice. The net result of all this is that you will be a shareholder with your investment being the work that you did.

A Note on amount of equity: You have put two years work in at the riskiest part of the game (at the very start when everything is unknown). They might want to argue you down a bit because it's still very high risk - and that would probably be fair - but I would say that's their call if they want to go down that road. Ask yourself if they would have any chance going forward without those 2 years work.
what? no Helens

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// A mH is the beauty required to launch 1 ship
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Seems to be missing

hella ::- 1ee27 // Northern California slang for "lots of" or "very"

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I think you also need a valuation for the company so that as they continue to put money in (and assuming you will not) you know how much you should get diluted by.
> That is, the information in the phenome seems to be limited by the information in the genome.

I think that is a very original use of the word 'limited', limited in this case holds enough room for random chance to come up with human beings.

For all practical purposes that 'limited' might as well be unlimited.
Yes. Sorry was assuming all that.

You do need to become an investible entity which involves a valuation , cap tables and all that nonsense.

We needed to do this early on as well - because we had some early people who we paid in stock and not all of which worked out for one reason or another. Its a pain at first but to be honest it also brings a bit of rigor and discipline to the company as well.
Are RubyGems or Github down or is it just me?
Put it all in the cloud!

Only partly facetious.
Ah, sorry I thought it was an alias for "Mark Essien", a 'nom de plume'.

If you build for acquisition I think you're doing it wrong anyway, you really should be building a business that stands on its own strength. Of course there are plenty of people that do this but they are hopefully aware that their prospective buyer is under no obligation to actually consummate a deal at any price.

They also break their own negotiation position because there usually are not that many possible parties that would acquire such a company, so it's a buyers market by definition.

So, why did you change your name?
Dogs have been intimately intertwined with human survival for thousands of years. They're actually more emotionally intelligent than most of the primates.

A dog will risk its own life to save another dog. And at least one saved a human baby for a very likely death.

But yeah, I am not crazy about people letting their dogs roam free at the office and peeing on things while their guardians are stuck in a meeting. That is not cool. If you can't keep them in your office or cube, they should be left at home.
Why don't you agree on a dilution scheme where the more money they put in, the less of it you own?

For example you could agree that everyone gets X shares of stock. Agree on how the company is currently valued, and how it will be revalued going forward, and allow money to be put in by purchasing additional stock. (You could also reward effort put into the company going forward with even more stock.)

If all shares are equal, your ownership interest will naturally diminish over time.

Whatever you agree to, get a lawyer to make it official.
Wouldn't that be a mH (milli-Helen)? A micro-Helen would only launch 1/1,000th of a ship, so perhaps a kayak or life raft.
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yes, I agree with you, I think that's right. But it's good to know what others think! thanks.
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More like a minor point, but I'd like to see that envelope more white-ish, the home page is really beautiful but the envelope takes a little eye-candy from it. :)

Good luck with your project!
I've been using OhLife for some time now and really like it. Since the sign-up I never visited the webpage, all my interaction with the service is done through the email. This is absolutely brilliant. Every day, before I go to sleep, I reply to the "how did your day go" email, looking back at the day. It also improved my writting. Great work guys!
I think the site name is a reference to 'Anything But iPod'[1], which has been around since 2005.

[1] http://www.anythingbutipod.com/
About the only advantage I can see is the ease of accepting payment. For a lot of devs I guess that is the number one thing going for the Apple AppStore.
Yeah, when reading this, between the fact that I love emacs and the fact that I'm not too comfortable giving Ohlife (and Google, since I use Gmail) my journal, my immediate thought was text/markdown files backed up to a private Github repo.

But the email would remind me to do it every day, and it'll be easier to look through old entries on Oh Life since it shows all entires on one page (though I guess there's nothing stopping me from just having one super-long text file, if that's what I want).

At least they have an export that looks solid.
"Put it in perspective and you realize the web's "peak" according to this graph was when most people were using 56k modems."

I think this is precisely the point: traditional, browser-based Web (text-based, asymmetrical...) is designed to work perfectly with low-bandwidth connections. With the advent of broadband, it becomes obsolete and is to be superseded by modern technologies which better utilize this type of connections.

Of course, Web is not dead by any means; but Wired is in the business of selling tech-related sensations.
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I think it is strange that they found topic branches to be "cluttering", but find their current workflow convenient.

We use topic branches a lot in our startup and we find them convenient, useful and efficient. I would never consider doing what they do.

Then again, to each his workflow, I guess.
That might just be the kind of thing you have to say when your on the board of a rival smartphone manufacturer at the time your company starts planning a rival.
Yeah I need to do that. I'll probably do so in the next week or so.
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The rest of these features are just frills, like replying to an email, or getting a previous random entry.

A simple shellscript does the main job. In fact, mine actually used to do a "tail" of the existing file before prompting me for a new entry, but i found that a bit annoying.
It's a feature they added not long ago: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/search-more-securely-...
We are in an interesting junction point for browser games: will the future be HTML5 based games or will all browsers start to offer sandbox that will run native games like Chrome does.

Basically, will current AAA game industry shift to use HTML5 or will browser makers be eager enough to get AAA titles to their platform that they will offer native clients in browsers.
I'd love to see how people are running map/reduce jobs on AppEngine.
This pretty much all started because of a single New York Times article. Everywhere reported that Google was requiring Verizon to abide by net neutrality except the NYT which said it was destroying net-neutrality (pretty hard to do when it never existed).

The fact that everyone on the internet reads the NYT and Gawker (and Gawker just reports on NYT reports) lead to some sort of vicious rabble-rousing feedback cycle. The power of the media.
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There's an even bigger opportunity cost to spending 3-4 years of your life on something and have it come to nothing.

It's certainly possible to make the kind of startup that lets you walk away with significant value regardless of how the business does.
Net neutrality has always been in Google's own best interest, which makes this storyline even weirder.
Google won't complain: the users are actively installing a browser plugin on their own computers by choice to remove the ads, but more importantly get a great beneficial service.

It's no different than installing noscript or adblock on Firefox.
I don't think Max is proposing that programmers build companies just to pay the bills. Paying the bills is not the final goal, it's just a requirement for bootstrapping.

There's a big difference between the the kind of expected return necessary to compensate for the risk of failure and the blowout he's talking about.
Household appliances - no site I know of allows you to search them based on the width, height and depth but for people who are replacing them, then that is often the first consideration - yes there are 'standard' sizes but how many houses are built to standard :) Another thing of course is when buying an oven or fridge, important consideration is capacity. I would love to be able to search for say 'show me all fridges which have a max width of 90cm and order them by capacity'. Add In price comparison and links to buy
Looks like it's all better now!
I'm intrigued because my understanding of drills is that it turns the required response (e.g. in skydiving trying to get stable when things get out of control) in something instinctive that will take far less time than normal to execute. When you couple this with the slowed-down time, you do improve your reaction time, so that you can use your available time window in the best way possible.
I'll add another. Hotel, car rental, flight reward programs and their myriad of benefits, special offers to get extra points / miles etc.
This is what I always liked about darcs (it's still the DVCS I use at home): separating checkins into logical change sets.
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You appear to be hinting at the "android" argument that I've never seen spelled out properly. Care to explain why this makes such a big difference compared with say HQ Youtube carrying TV shows to homes supplied with internet by Verizon?

Because to my euro eyes it seems like US fanboys cheering on Apple, iPhones and AT&T, which makes Google, Android and Verizon the "baddies" in this tag team match. And yet you get Android phones on all carriers, including AT&T, and the iPhone seems to be coming to Verizon (and I assume all other carriers once exclusivity is broken, like in many other countries) so these "teams" are basically fiction.

So where's the real beef here?