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I remember before the internet, and a degree from Harvard, Yale or Oxford still would've made you Jesus-with-a-keyboard. It's about branding, i.e., transitive trust - I trust Harvard, Harvard trusts you, therefore I trust you.

As joe-the-user points out, this gives it value, and has nothing to do with whether it is currently over- or under-valued.
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We have multiple ZEO clients, fronted by Varnish. The guy who runs all of this for us has been working with Plone for something like 5 years and is fairly sharp. We're using every trick in the book. The main problem might be that out site is very very big indeed.

As for the relational/non-relational comment, I have to say that the data actually is relational. When we want to do things like reassign user privileges it's a huge pain to walk the gigantic database file. (Needless to say, it's impossible to do this in Plone - it just hangs!)
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Thanks for the quick feedback! I've just moved the download button to a more prominent location.
And as a result, it's virtually guaranteed to die out within about three hours of this happening.

(Has any big company ever succeeded in making something "go viral"? All I can think of is that "I'm on a horse" series of ads on YouTube. Ironically, I can't remember what they were selling. Old Spice?)
First, your assertion

"college can be valuable but is not necessarily so"

makes no sense.

You can always claim that "X can be valuable but is not necessarily so". Where X can be anything in this universe.

Second, you are trying to turn a personal experience into a generalization. A good question to ask would be what would happen If the college enrollment dropped by 10% or 20% or 50% ? How would this affect the workforce and the industrial output?

Another extremely important question is that how do you decide who exactly should drop out??
Should people drop out on basis of financial resources or some limited test of intelligence. The problem is that it is hard to tell who should enroll and who shouldn't.

While certain subjects can be learnt online, a large number of subjects cannot be learnt. A university provides Labs, Wide range of subjects, access to a social network of like minded people, Faculty, Assessment and most importantly some guarantee of Academic Integrity. Universities are an example of the Theory of the firm.[1] You can surely separate different components of college education which I mentioned above, however there will be significant transaction costs.

The underlying theme of this discussion is not about education or elitism. It is about allocation of capital.
Peter Thiel being a Venture Capitalist is interested in allocation of capital, thus the whole 20 under 20. Dont confuse his efforts with education or elitism. If anything his program might be more elitist than Harvard.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm
Thanks for your advice. As far as I am aware our Plone guy is using an approach based on your suggestion. We even have a specialist Plone boutique on retainer to help us but things are still not going so great!
Maybe if enough 8-year-old kids get these messages, the carriers will finally do something about TXT spam.
> I don't like the idea of using a password manager, because it's difficult to move it across platforms

http://clipperz.com is a very portable password manager.

It works on your computer as well as online.

It relies on your browser being a "secure" Javascript interpreter. But then we do that every time we log into a web site.
> Websites care a lot about their Google organic search rankings (which is why, for example, helping websites improve their rankings is multibillion-dollar industry). A button that improved search rankings would likely get prominent placement by many websites.

No way in hell this cannot be spammed to death. No way, I say, Google has these clever algorithms that make sure that all the search results have a least a link to about.com on their first page.
You are attacking a strawman, because you misunderstood what he wrote. He never said users create "creative" content, they just create content. And it's the most personal type of content, which may not be interesting to you but is essentially a taste and emotion graph of the world. That's probably the reason cdixon, co-founder of Hunch, considers it important.
yeah, the government is after for-profit schools with shoddy predictions about what a good investment those student loans are. But the recent legal efforts give a pass to not-for-profit schools, as usual.

Seems its evil for the non-unionized to make money in education. The unions and the overpaid civil servants that manage them can rake in as much as possible without federal resistance, even if the product is marginal. I wonder if that came up when the unionized PBS did their expose.

Money that flows from DC has a way of wrecking things.
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/universal-capacitive-screen-sty...
Have you been to college?

If not, how do you know if you would have learned at lot there or nothing at all.

I can't blame you for dropping out of high school, but please don't tell me what college is or isn't if you have never gone to one.
http://clipperz.com rocks in terms of usability, convenience, and a sense of security (which might be false: here is a call for criticism).

It is open source, portable (runs in Javascript), works on and offline and well designed. You can log in using a master passphrase, or a one-time password.
Besides the different logging levels, I don't think this brings much improvement over console.log. I think I'll stick with that.
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When I started, I emailed the founder of a well-known company, asking him if I could copy his ToS and adapt it to my site. He had no issues and said he had done something similar when he started and sought legal help only a bit later when he had some contacts and money.
Any time you make it cheap to increase the supply of a thing, the supply of it increases. But that also decreases the price one can get for it

Eventually people's awareness catches up with reality. And that's usually when the government tries to lower the cost of increasing the supply even more. But for some reason, people don't seem to fall for it twice.

So the search is on for new things to bubble-ize.
Yes, HMAC is (one of) the right solution(s) here. On the other hand, do you trust the rest of the program if the author gets this wrong?

The attack does work, see e.g. http://www.vnsecurity.net/t/length-extension-attack/. This example suggests that any padding should not matter; and even if it does, being able to mount this attack on a substantial part of visitors is bad. (Sorry for being vague here - I don't have the time to look at this properly now.)
Agreed - but it's medical mail both ways with import duty paid on way in... I bit the bullet and paid - not bad, about £100 all in for the year sub and test. Hopefully the data will be of interest.
I suppose this could be very useful in debugging in IE. But the way IE shuts down the JS interpreter once an error in encountered may just render it useless anyway. Will have to try it out.
"English degree is not higher education" - that is one of the most depressing comments I've seen on HN.
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> Facebook is such a horrible platform for creative people.

Just as an anecdote, I'll tell you what my creative wife did this weekend. She wrote 2 or 3 posts on her blog, and then she bugged me all day to tell her which one of them was any good, because she wanted to post the good ones on Facebook for all her friends to see. You could say "Hey, why don't the 200 friends she has follow her blog using Google Reader?", but that's not how things work in real, non-geeky life.
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Even the founders of SO acknowledged that their (up-to-date) reputation does not reflect "smartness" :) So this is just another example of corruption as I see it.

But I agree with you that future online community reputations can improve the situation.
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This probably dates me and marks me as unhip but..

When I first read the headline, I thought "Why would anyone add a touch interface to WordPerfect 7?"
The physorg article mixes up, at first, the nature/nurture question and the cross-modality of perception question (whether internal representations good for tactile perception are also good for visual perception). Those are very different fundamental questions.
I agree with the points that "maths is not a tool", and that teaching (real life teaching) is hard as hell. Students questions can sometimes blow your mind, or make you invest huge amounts of time and mental resources to answer them correctly. Preparing a decent interesting syllabus (something I have not been required to do, but I've seen some colleague doing) is a hell of a lot of work, even if it's bound to be lousy.
Can you explain how canvas generates a PNG on the client side?
With a little research they would have seen that the source of the math library is actually: http://www.moshier.net/#Cephes

Another common library is: http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/mass/ and http://www.ibm.com/systems/software/essl/ both from IBM.

Writing good math libraries is a huge undertaking, and there aren't that many versions out there.
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Hi, I'm trying to integrate facebook graph into my app. I've tried to follow the official-creepy-nonexaustive documentation of facebook, but it doesn't work.

There are any well written tutorial out there? Thanks
First call canvas.toDataURL() to get a base-64 encoded string for the image [1], then open a new window with that data URL [2].

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-canvas-element.html#dom-canva...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Url
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This isn't an overly easy question - a domain name is an incredibly important part of any startups identity and there's a ton of factors you need to consider above and beyond the obvious SEO factor of having a product related site name.

For me personally, just as important as having a name that relates to what you do, is having a name that is pronounceable (and spellable) via verbal communication. Particularly over a phone line when giving out email addresses etc, when the sound quality may be less than perfect.

There's definitely a shrinking pool of .com names available, but there is still a huge number of names available. I'd be pretty hesitant to go for a domain name that didn't match the startup name.
It sounds like they didn't actually test Molyneux's question at all, or prove anything about perception. It sounds more like an additional data point to nudge our understanding of the brain toward greater plasticity.
I compared a few items and that gives you less of a discount than the Education store. (Just choose a school. You don't actually need to have attended.)

Am I missing something?
Interesting. So why didn't they use a TMP? Cost savings? International distribution constraints? (I see TPMs are illegal in China -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module.) It is somewhat peculiar given Apple's known DRM policies.
Thanks for that. It's good to see some rigour being brought to something that's hopefully intuitive (long-term gain).
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I disagree with this "providing access to everyone for something by nature devalues it"

It's not just that everyone has access. It's also that bubbles create huge numbers of over-valued objects. If these for-profit colleges were cranking out well-trained software engineers we'd see a rise in overall real value (there'd be more technical co-founders available). Instead they're charging students 25k for online classes in degrees that society has no demand for. The same way pyramid schemes sell you junk to sell to your friends. You end up with a bunch of junk you can't sell. The degrees provide little or no real value to the workforce, and they're not even a filter anymore. That's what's really wrong with them.
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Alternatively, you may also set window.location.href = data_URL. That brings up the "save as" dialog window directly.

Nice work, BTW! One nitpick: the link icon looks like a resistor. It's not obvious what it's supposed to do, although once I figured it out, I find it very handy.
Put it on Git !
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I know you're talking about features more so than specific models, but I was tired of my iPhone 3G after using it for a couple of years. It was sufficient to me feature-wise, but the sluggish response time on every screen was just frustrating. However, after upgrading, iPhone 4 speed and retina display have been game-changing to me as a user.
You are rifgt the US gov is not the only one, that's why i say western world, cause here in Spain, for example ,is exactly the same, the gov has the mouth full of human rights and democracy but the dictator of Morocco is like the young brother of our king (yes Spain is a Kingdom in the XXI century) and our government is silent about the tortures and everything that happens on the Sahara.
US gov is not the only one, the problem is that they are the ones talking louder about other countries like China not respecting human rights.
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By then, consoles will have advanced by 4.5 years though.
What you point out here is a very implausible attack to perform. Not only would you need to know that the user is using this scheme to generate a password, you would also have to know how he generates the salt (maybe they use fb, or FACEBOOK or facebook.com). But then you'd have to be able to trick him into signing into some website with a name that's a subset of the aforementioned salt. Hell, even using FQDNs would fix the "problem" in most cases.

For the average user, a scheme like this would be a vast improvement over their "123456 is secure enough, no?"-scheme.

Putting the face/facebook start at the front of the passpphrase string would fix that. So would an HMAC.
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I see a lot of those capacitive styluses, and the thing that bothers me is that they look too wide at the bottom, as if they're designed to mimic the area of a fingerprint. If I wanted to do more intricate and accurate work, I'd like to have the finer point that a traditional stylus provides.
Also, massive mice.

Should we be keeping this stuff about in case of a Dire-Mouse invasion?
1. Providing food for everbody devalues food, but frees up the labour of everybody to make cool shit.
2. ???
3. No - it was a result of poorly underwritten loans, made possible by a lengthening/abtraction of the underwriting chain through mortgage backed bonds.
4. ???
5. ???
6. Peak capitalism? Where did you get that idea from? Do you honestly think we have reached maximal productive capacity? Do you know how much more cool shit I will be able to do when quantum computing gets here? Do you know how many people still do menial jobs that could be automated, freeing up those people to build other cool shit for me to have a better time?
Unlike HTTP, SPDY is no longer plain-text (it uses a packet structure similar to TCP headers).

While Wireshark's usability has been constantly improving, I will miss being able to do:

$ telnet google.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: google.com
The limited number of reads and writes is not a problem for a laptop. You're not putting a million-transactions-per-second database on it! If you don't believe me, try to find a "worn-out" USB flash drive.

You will love the performance of an SSD. You may want to consider a "smaller"/older model, though - they are quite a bit cheaper.
Thanks. One simple UI improvement suggestion: add a visual indicator to mouse overs for all the buttons. I usually prefer a change of colour or cursor pointer.
The editing UI with the keywords as a calculator-style interface in the bottom half of the screen is an interesting '80s flashback. It reminds me of LucasArts-style adventure games with a grid of action verbs below the game view.

Also, those home computer keyboards where each key had both an alphabet and a BASIC keyword printed on it:

http://ewyse.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/acornelectron_top.j...

That was a pretty clever way to make the programming language quick reference available at a glance.
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Variation on that theme: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/12/write-your-passwords-down.html

I did an implementation of it (http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/projects/password-generator)
Time-based bugs are a nightmare to debug but in my opinion the far more insidious side to them is that, even once you've found the bug, there's an easy workaround - just reboot the box! Papering over problems is asking for disaster, as the US armed forces found out:

Patriot Missile Software Problem
http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/~alum/patriot_bug.html

"Ironically, Israeli forces had noticed the anomaly in the Patriot’s range gate’s predictions in early February 1991, and informed the U.S. Army of the problem. They told the Army that the Patriots suffered a 20% targeting inaccuracy after continuous operation for 8 hours.

Army officials presumed that Patriot users were not running the systems for longer than 8 hours at a time. They suggested if they would be running for continuous periods, they were rebooted regularly (which took around 1 minute and would reset the system clock to zero)."

This is where I part company with the author, when he says:

"If a particular failure happens twice a year in thousands or even millions of runs in that period, you’d be excused if you attributed that to 'the alignment of the planets' and simply went on your merry way."

No. No a thousand times. Whenever you find a problem, any problem, you owe it to yourself to dig until you find the actual cause. If you don't find the cause, I guarantee the cause isn't magically going to become "cosmic rays", and rest assured the problem will come back to haunt you when it combines with other "random" issues in a cataclysmic failure; fate is funny that way.
You'd want a combination of storing the keys in tamper-resistant/tamper-responding FIPS 140-2 smartcard module (like a TPM), and some kind of certificated key architecture (where each mac and each airport have a key signed by Apple, but where breaking a single device and extracting the key isn't a class break -- it only provides the ability for everyone to stream to or from that one physical device. That way the Apple Signing Public Key can be in everything, but the Apple Private Key can be kept offline in Cupertino. You could even do a multi-level system where there are manufacturing keys signed by Apple's key so the contract manufacturers don't steal things.

Combine that with a way to update and blacklist keys and devices, and you have the state of the art DRM type system. The cryptography used in the BluRay format is probably about the best currently deployed in that application, and can just be bypassed. The same people (Paul Kocher's Cryptography Research; IMO the top cryptography consultancy in the world) who developed that developed the original Divx system (video rental at Circuit City) did the crypto for BD+. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX

TPMs are unfortunately usually only FIPS 140-2 level 2 or 3, and not THAT hard to break a single instance of. The TCG's TPM architecture is such that compromising one TPM doesn't class break everything. If you naively put a global key into a low-security module like that, and put millions of them in enemy hands, you will get screwed by someone with some acids and an electron microscope at college (or a competitor leaking it anonymously)
It isn't being poor that sucks. Its not having any pathway out of being poor that sucks. Socialism, consistently followed, makes the pathway equal for everyone. Which is why it fails when consistently followed. No one's going to struggle to create if there is no reward.
On the other hand, it presents an opportunity in countries with a moratorium on using genetic testing information for insurance purposes; it creates an information asymmetry in your favour. For example, until 2017 in the UK you can take out as much life insurance as you please with no test-result penalty (with the sole exception of Huntington’s Disease results). http://www.abi.org.uk/Media/Releases/2011/04/Insurance_Genet... Perhaps the insurance companies figure that knowing the results might improve the actual outcome in many cases, because the individual alters their behaviour to mitigate them. That, and the predictive power of most tests is fairly weak at present.
Ignore everybody by Hugh McLeod.
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Reversing the order is not a good idea: read http://rdist.root.org/2009/10/29/stop-using-unsafe-keyed-has... for a readable introduction (summary: it works, but it maximally exposes you to any possible problems.) Just use HMAC, especially if you want to use SHA1 - which is not broken, but no longer above suspicion.

I agree that this scheme is probably fine as long as you're the only one using it and nobody is specifically targeting you; but if you're going to go to use a password manager (which would be an improvement in general - as you point out, "123456 is secure enough, no?" is prevalent), why not use a good password manager?
This is for employees of other companies to buy Apple gear with the corporate discount. Like a bonus scheme, but instead of gift vouchers you get an online store.

Though when I was at Apple, the student discount was more than the staff discount.
They probably won't switch off http support before a very long time :)
So you won't miss anything.