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> Perhaps the main reason most of us are not using HTTPS to serve our websites is simply that it doesn't work with virtual hosts.

That's a bit confusing. They mean when multiple sites share the same public IP. You can run SSL on a "virtual host" (i.e. a host running as a VM rather than on bare metal).

Also not mentioned is the general increase in server load by having to encrypt/decrypt all traffic. (or the additional cost of investing in a dedicated layer to do that for you).
From the article, it's not so much the TLS protocol that allows SSL on virtual hosts, it's specifically the Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS extension. And every major browser version supports SNI except IE6 (arguably not major anymore) and any IE on XP (except maybe IE9?).
Mandates worked for TV standards (original standard def). Then when high def came around, everyone was lobbying for their own formats with too many official formats.
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In addition, irrational fears will devastate Japan food exports for years - Kobe beef and sushi industries better look to diversify.
I've met plenty of developers who don't have enough sysadmin experience to be running their code on production systems. If devops is a way to encourage them to learn about the actual systems their code runs on, I don't see the harm in it.
So you’re thinking about self-publishing an I.T. book?
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Same principles, evolved way of thinking due to experience. But I think it wont change to much, because they got it right, now it's just a matter os polishing
> "virtual host" (i.e. a host running as a VM rather than on bare metal).

That isn't what virtual host means, particularly not here. Your "they mean ___" is exactly what virtual host means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting

> Also not mentioned is the general increase in server load by having to encrypt/decrypt all traffic.

Because it's fairly negligible, especially with OpenSSL able to take advantage of AES-NI and equivalents. Most of the hit you see is setting up a connection. You can move SSL off your app stack and onto load balancers, too, and it's wise to do so.
A job was not offered. Title and OA are incorrect. An opening dialogue attempt was made by a recruiter.

georgecmu's comment is good too. Those sorts of emails from recruiters are closer to the random snail mail you get from credit card companies saying "Contratulations! You're pre-approved!" -- just fill out this form with all your PII and we might really approve you. Maybe. It's a little better filtered than that, but not too much.
What Apple Should Do To Fix The App Approval Process And Why It Matters
Would YC ever go the Techstars route and make it a city by city 'franchise'?
> 1. A program is run more times than it is compiled (hopefully). So the goal is really to make the effective combination of the two more efficient in a given usage scenario.

You're not counting development time, or rather, cost.

Even if I eventually need the efficiency of a statically typed language, dynamic languages let me save the time that I would have spent satisfying the type checker on code that didn't make it into that version.

> On the other hand, with a dynamic typed language, if N seconds are shoved away from compilation, at least N seconds will be added to run-time.

It's unclear that that's true. In fact, the cost of compile-time type checking is typically more than the cost of run-time type checking during much of development.

> Run-time errors take longer to detect and correct and the process of doing so is bound to see less automation.

Run-time errors aren't detected until run-time but since folks with dynamic languages get to run-time faster, they're often detected earlier.

As to "less automation", I don't see it. Do you have an automated system that corrects type errors?
it's a sad, sad day for the wireless industry and an even sadder day for us consumers...
Except the guy gave two other examples of impossible-to-search-for Microsoft-given names: .net and c#.
True, but it's not obvious to non-techies (hence the article). I was curious how FB did logins when we were creating our API and site since I couldn't fathom them sending l/p's without https. A long look at their source on the homepage is really all it took to guess what they did (a guess, I could still be wrong). After a good deal of painful eyestrain I noticed they seemed to be using their internal APIs via JS over https for authentication. I wonder how many "non-https" sites also do this. I'd still wager a good deal of sites still send authentication over plain ol' http though. Is the lag for authentication purposes really that bad? Anyone have any hard metrics?
And we'll all have muscle memory to add the exception through the browser's four-step "I know what I'm doing" UI.
I've never found a use for Twitter until I use it as a news ticker across my devices.
So do you pronounce it C-butt or C-boobs?
In that case, everyone is a jerk because if we're honest, we've all been rude at least once in our lives. :)

In other words, I find it more helpful to call out specific behavior as inappropriate than to write off the whole person as a "jerk".
Spoken by someone who is not familiar with koush or his works. That's too bad.
Data roaming in Europe is truly painful. As far as covering a large geographic area, the US carriers sell plans that are convenient to use within the US.

Yes, I can get another SIM, but then I have to tell everyone who may call me that I have changed number for that week, which is not really workable.

Right now I'm travelling in Australia and have settled on getting a local pre-paid SIM with a few GB of data included. I purchased a Skype-online number and am forwarding my US Google Voice number to my Skype number, which I can answer either with Skype running on my phone (Nexus One) or directly with my phone (via Skype forwarding). Additionally I can tether my phone to my netbook via USB or wifi. (The people at Vodafone AU spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out if that was allowed on a pre-paid SIM.)

This is not exactly a simple solution, but is working for me on the road to make relatively cheap calls and I'm always reachable (when I want to be).

I'm not very optimistic about what will happen to my T-mobile bill with AT&T buying them.
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Judges face bureaucratic pressure to maintain high conviction rates. According to the following paper, it can have negative effects on a Judge's career if he appears to be lenient:

http://www.rasmusen.org/published/Rasmusen-01.JLS.jpncon.pdf
IE9 will never run on XP, so you're right, just not in a way you expect.
Actually at&t prepaid is about the same.
$100, 10 cents/minute, 1 year expiration = 1000 minutes
Having some optional for-pay features seems like the no-brainer way for almost of these "give service away for free, get huge if popular" web businesses to get revenue. It should work for NYT, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc. Essentially, freemium bolted on late. Even if not all users would be willing to buy anything, there will always be some folks that do. Find out what those folks want and are willing to pay, and make that happen. Done.
While this is much, much better than what the (german) media has on this, I still miss the one thing I would really want: To actually know what this means for the people living near the plant, or just somewhere in Japan. Will everyone living under 10km away get cancer and die? Will eastern Japan have to be evacuated? Will nothing change at all, except for a small rise in cancer rates for people who live next to the plant?
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What about the following paragraph is not clear?

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and Warrants shall not be issued, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Am I missing something? Of course the problem is that it's near impossible get something like this to the SCOTUS. The only real possibility is more whistle blowing.
One of the privileges of being a writer is you get license to inflict horrible violence upon the English language.
Strange Attractors: chaos patterns in Silverlight
Search for a pattern, then rotate it in 3d.
Another company leaving the impossibly corrupt and broken US cell marketplace.
Google Voice eliminates the problem of having to tell people to call you at a different number. As I understand it this was Grand Central's motivation for developing the technology in the first place.
Make sure to click and rotate. The method is described in a book at http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/sa.htm
Letting people know when you're being sarcastic is awesome.
Yeah but even with https login, if a site also serves regular http pages, cookies with session credentials are still visible (on open networks) and the session can be hijacked.
A self-signed cert provides effectively zero protection. You have no guarantee of the identity of the site and there is no confidentiality in your traffic. Key continuity (the only assurance you have that the cert might be legit) is not effective on the web, where you are likely to interact with hundreds of unknown hosts.

If browsers do not throw big warnings at self-signed certs it is trivial to impersonate even sites that do have real certificates. The user sees a lock icon and thinks they are secure, but they are sending their credit card to someone other than Amazon.com. This is slightly fixed by EV certs, but there is still a large user training issue.
Like my advice for any programming language I think they should show their source for "Hello World" on the home page. Code snippets are worth a thousand words. Yields a good quick thumbnail feel for the language.
Tigers are not known for functioning as a superorganism, that's why I had to go with ants. See this video to know about the power of ants - Ants: Nature's Secret Power - Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwATgYaEku4

In your mind, perhaps ants are 'little' and 'mere insects' but in my mind I see only those parts of them that apply to the discussion at hand.

Let me elaborate.

I never said they are 'no more than ants'. When I said 'they are ants', I meant it to be an intro to the analogy of how their society's functioning has similarities to the superorganism that is the ant colony, thus showing the same behaviors of stronger community, less in-fighting, rigid society and protective nature, which enables them to efficiently handle disasters that would cripple any other normal society, just like how ants can handle their entire colony being destroyed only to rebuild it anew in 2 days.

I also never said anything about them lacking choice, creativity or spontaneity. You will note my references to concepts they have pioneered - JIT, Kaizen, Katakana. Sony was built amidst the ashes of the war in a dilapidated building. There's so many more I could write a book.

Racism is not about -ignoring- differences. Racism is the opposite - recognizing the differences and still treating people the same -despite- the differences. I treat everyone the same.

Comment is long. It's the result of years of observation that started when I was 23 and first came to know that in Japan, the average delay per train throughout the year is a mere 0.4 minutes, including delays caused by typhoons, earthquakes, snowfall, heavy rain, and other natural disasters. It boggled my mind and I set out to learn more about the people who could make this happen. That comment is not meant for everyone but only for those curious about what makes the Japanese do the things they are renowned for.
We want to build a peer-to-peer social network that connect people together by using bleeding edge picture analysis on their mobile internet devices (MIDs). Combined with state of the art audio analysis or the user's voice we can create the world's first social analysis network that blends the virtual world and the physical world together through 3D graphics!
Does HN allow downvoting because you disagree with the poster's perspective? This comment was legit. See the NP post, and senior user Cheng's comment to the computational biologist who wants to become a quant, about the market for quants nowadays and how he refers to LinkedIn in that regard.
> A self-signed cert provides effectively zero protection.

From the other end.

I had this debate with someone in person, and they tried to tell me that since you cannot trust the other end with a self-signed there is no point in protecting your traffic from eavesdroppers on the open AP. That makes no sense to me, but he was passionate enough about it that I let it go. He never could tell me why, so I invite a more learned HNer to complete his argument for him and persuade me.

My take:

There's a difference between identity and encryption, and I think warning users about a site that wants encryption but doesn't necessarily want or need identity is a bigger user-training mistake than anything else browsers have ever done.

Perhaps the lock was the problem there; in that case, if I offer a self-signed certificate, perhaps the better UI experience would be to inform the user in that "Page Info" that their connection is encrypted, but they have no idea if the other end is who they say they are -- and don't bless the page with a lock, bar, anything. The entire construction of https:// needing to imply both encryption and identity doesn't make sense to me, as I see them as distinct concepts. One does not necessarily imply the other, but browsers make it so.

Maybe this is inherent to SSL/TLS itself and I'm the off-base one, but logically it makes sense to me.
I'd suggest allowing grouping of items, allowing groups like 'Drinks', 'Sandwiches', etc. It's somewhat confusing in that example because there doesn't appear to be any sort of order to how the items are laid out. That may make some sense for the actual registers (muscle memory is wonderful thing), but if the customer is expected to use that interface themselves, I'd expect it to be a bit more friendly.
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The trolls may also be paid agents. An acquaintance of mine runs a company that assists in astroturfing.
I can honestly say I've never been rude to a waiter, taxi driver, shop assistant... etc.

And I certainly wouldn't claim to abide to a higher than average moral standard, I've been rude to my friends and to people I dislike. But not to my colleagues, not to strangers and not to people working indirectly for me (i.e. waiters etc.)

It is quite possible that in the future I might be rude to a waiter, but that would be the exception, not the rule. So yes, it's possible that if you judge someone of a single incident you might have caught the one in a thousand occurrence, chances are against it, far more likely is that you're seeing their normal behaviour.
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I look at those two symbols, and in my head I hear "cow". I know there's only a C and a W, but my brain doesn't care. Maybe it's 'cause the W is kinda roundish? Anyways. "Cow".
>"Many people can work after one beer, but I doubt many people can do serious knowledge work very productively after four or five."

This might just be because I'm a student, but I can't remember the last time I got any serious coding done before five in the afternoon.
I don't think anyone truly rules the Internet. But if one were to be really honest and strict in trying to settle on which gender "rules" the Internet then the strongest argument would be made for males. Yes, women might shop more and/or converse more. But that's different from ruling. If most of the people who shop and converse in North Korea are female, does that mean North Korea is ruled by females? Clearly not: it is ruled by a man along with some other military men who are loyal to him.
Can someone elaborate? I was at a baseball game and now all I see is "Goodnight sweet prince".
I think a 10 to 20 year timeframe is even more interesting to think about.
The issue is inebriation, not time of day ....
You should be careful with judging people by how they drive. Cities have different levels of traffic congestion, traffic engineering and expectations. So the driving may say more about the city the driver is from than their personality.
According to the NYT at the time, the deal was valued at about $34B: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B16FC3E5D...
Seems unlikely. They sold their Boston office location and if you were maintaining a geographically distinct second location, Boston would be where to do it.
Nice find. Facebook should have a morning paper about all of the changes & additions they make. They never seem to stick to any one way of doing anything and drive developers nuts!
It is actually possible to serve multiple virtual hosts from the same IP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#The_fix).

The first technique is called Sever Name Indication, which is a way to specify a virtual host with TLS (https) negotiations by sending the virtual domain as part of the TLS negotiation

The second method is a specification that introduces the subjectAltName field which allows one cert to be used across multiple subdomains (for things like wildcarding). This would make it really easy to do organization-based subdomains with TLS encryption.

There are limits to which browsers and which servers can do it. It requires IE7 and up (not on XP though), and basically all recent versions of other browsers.

Edit: noted that IE on XP doesn't work.
Yep. You can apparently down vote for any reason you like. Figuring out why you were downvoted is part of the game...
Piet, in which programs look like abstract paintings
I'm not defending the behavior of being rude to the waitress nor saying that the entrepreneur had bad judgment in leaving the deal.

My point is that it is not helpful to think of people as "jerks". I actually think it can promote rude behavior to label people "jerks" because people may justify to themselves that it's okay to be rude to a "jerk".
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This is literally years-old information. I was aware of and hollering about this at people as a highschooler at debate and speech tournaments. Same thing then as now, no one cares, or those that do care don't care enough.

Besides, who cares if you have nothing to hide. Right?
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I have been rejected twice previously (1st poorly prepared, 2nd late) as a single founder.

Given PG's selection is based on startup founder's likelihood of success. YC's harsh selection process have really shaped my vision of my product to attack the problem domain from a different angle. I think they will train better founders.

Now, I am applying YC this session (S11),

- Finally i find a cofounder that i have know for 2 years that have perfect match in value and skill sets.

- I spend much more time preparing the application

- Also exponential more time working on the real business assets (design, code, project plan)

I should Thank them for the harshness, it makes you becomes a stronger, better fighter !
My former ancient Greek teacher would want me to point out that this is a lowercase Omega (=a long "o" in Greek). So yes, it even sounds kinda like the first part of cow! ;-)
Disagree. The NYT can make money by changing their cost structure to one more conducive to distributing news via the internet. The old rule of thumb for newspapers is that the "cover price" essentially covers distribution, and advertising pays for everything else. Advertising should end up being the same or larger, but the cost of distribution should be significantly less.

They'll end up there anyway, but executives tend to fight tooth and nail against lower cost structures, because it also means lower salaries for executives (smaller company means that fewer of them are needed and there's less room for featherbedding).
I can see a valid use for .xxx -- but .mobi is the lamest of them all.

.mobi should have been .mbl or just .m

To make the mobile TLD longer than allthe others, that is just plain stupid.
I would like to see an example of a successful use case. I can't seem to find any gigs.
There are not many cases where you can read traffic, but not intercept/inject your own.

All you need to do is generate your own cert for the site and the user will encrypt their traffic to you. This is why the lack authentication means that no confidentiality is provided.
Ask HN: Do you email your best friends?
Social networking is convenient and entertaining, but is that it? I can count my best friends on one hand and none of us are friends on Facebook and we don't even email each other. When we want to communicate, we give each other a phone call. Text messages are very rare as well.

Is this normal? Why?
That is written for you to learn in 5th grade civics class and feel good about your country and your government. But is not for those printing & spending hundreds of billions of dollars.
Nobody is living within 10km, however as of right spending one month living nearby would be approximately the same radiation as taking one flight from NY to Japan.
I think my major take home from the process is that I don't need YC to succeed. I still have an application in, and will certainly appreciate the opportunity should we be accepted, but being accepted is far from make or break.
Not that I disagree that they shouldn't be doing a better job with the dickbar thing, but analyzing 12TB of data per day and cross referencing it with petabytes of earlier data does actually seem very challenging. I can't think of too many companies currently doing this, so it's not like you can just google "how to data mine petabytes" to get a step by step tutorial.
True. I was asking for a good hosting solution in Kohana forums[1], PHPFog was mentioned a few times and Lucas went there to offer us direct access (skip the invite-friends part). He is indeed very active and kind.

[1] http://forum.kohanaframework.org/discussion/8452/need-help-w...
.mobi is from way before we had smart phones, so the difference between mobile and desktop web did exist then.
We are totally willing to setup the applicants chatroom again (http://www.nodejscloud.com:8001) if there is enough demand.
No big surprise here really. So when are we all going to get serious and start using public key cryptography on a mass scale, even if we "don't have anything to hide"?
Well, I for one, fancied myself "The Deliverator"... right up until life imitated art and I obtained a bullet hole in my car during a robbery attempt. Having no arachno-fiber weave of my own, I sought umm... safer employ.

Perhaps its only the crazies that can stay with the job for more than a short while.
I knew about it too and I am always baffled at the general population's indifference to it.

I guess when you are in debt, about to lose your house, your job, your health insurance, you don't really give a crap if Uncle Sam looks through your emails ... ?
If I were an American, I’d now be saying something like “ICANN have jumped the shark”

"has". Although the British pluralization actually does make more sense.
I might be in the minority but I just don't see this as a good deal. It reminds me of when Wachovia bought Golden West in a forced effort to seek growth.

ATT's stated desire to catch up to Verizon while losing customers seems like an internal issue that just can't be bought away.

On a personal note. I left Sprint for Nextel years ago to see it bought. And I left ATT in November for T-Mobile and well....
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