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It's not quite that simple: I think DJB is proposing that we solve a different problem than DNSSEC tries to solve.

Compare DNS security to HTTP security. SSL/TLS secures HTTP connections, but not their underlying content. DNSSEC is like trying to encrypt and sign every web page, instead of the secure connections. Which is why it's unlikely to ever happen.

DNSCurve is a design that uses modern high-speed ECC crypto to do packet-transaction-speed security. It looks like its to DNS what TLS is to the web.

That said, since DNSSEC is a crazy idea (obligatory self-link: http://www.matasano.com/log/case-against-dnssec/) and because DJB got a lot of (well deserved) attention after this summer's DNS debacle, this could get some serious attention.
Whenever technologists start dreaming of the future, they end up overestimating the pace of changes. They think too much in terms of what is possible and too little of the many forces of the market and government that hold them back.

I have little doubt that if we were building a brand new country from scratch with a huge budget, we'd all have cars that drive themselves. But, because some percentage of the population couldn't afford them in our current reality, it's greatly complicated by the fact that not all cars would be self-driven. So rather than having roads and central control designed to make computerized cars safe, which we could probably already do, we have to design ones that can drive down a 50 year old expressway full of human-driven cars.

That's how it works with most technologies. Legacy systems and things being good enough the way they are prevent the sort of rapid progress technologists always predict.
Regular exercise has been shown many times to improve many factors as eluded to in this article. But it all just appears as opinion and I feel would be more persuading if cited some of the slews of studies.

On that note I love working out, in gyms and outside... its even related to my current web app, but telling people the benefits isn't really going to motivate them enough for a lifestyle change unless they enjoy it.
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I read them because I find them entertaining, and I can even relate to a lot of the sentiments. A written piece labeled under the heading "Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants" is not intended to be a carefully crafted treatise. A drunken blog rant is a drunken blog rant. I do not understand why people think that a drunken blog rant has to follow a format that isn't at all representative of a drunken blog rant. It's funny. If the problem is that it's not funny to you, then that's a valid viewpoint, and I can respect that.
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We "bitch & moan" at the level of technical stories written but given the chance, what tech articles would you like to read?
I'm sure the wives/girlfriends in the article would be doubly suspicious of you because you obviously having something to hide!

I'd like to think that trust might be a better foundation for a relationship that what you read on someone's texts.
#ubuntu, #jquery, #tuxhacker

lulz you can tell where my interests lie...
You're NOT talking about a map.
If you're referring to Al Gore, you mean climate change, not "liberal politics."

Lets not turn this site into a political arena. We have enough angry mob sites on teh interwebz as it is.
There's interesting content, even if you don't like his writing aesthetically.
It doesn't take Bill Gates to say things will move forward.

Companies will continue to find things people want, and people will continue to buy things they want. The end. Move on, nothing to see here.
If cherry picking worked, VCs wouldn't invest in the "not cherries". Actually, cherry picking does work, but the cherries aren't clear until after all of the big engineer stock grants are gone. VCs get to cut their losses and double-down on their wins. Engineers don't.

Even if engineers averaged as much gain as VCs, the distribution will be different. The typical VC would be close to the average because they get to make 10-20 bets/year while an engineer gets to make <1 bet/year. As a result while the typical engineer would be far below average return. (Yes, a small fraction of the engineers would be ahead, but ...)
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Why pay to exercise? Grab a pair of sneakers and learn to run.

* http://www.runnersworld.com << learn to run

* http://www.hundredpushups.com << learn to do 100 pushups in 6 weeks.

* http://news.ycombinator.org << learn to stop wasting far more time than is necessary on this site xD

I'm 2/3 on that list.
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Really? What is this "common standard"? I'll agree that there's a range, but the high end is 2-5x the low end, so if you don't know the exact number for different, you can't reasonably compare companies.

VCs always ask and they're constantly evaluating investments. Why do you think that the less-practiced should wing it?
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That's nice, but the article was about transport routes, not what happens at the end points.
"Some Internet technologists and privacy advocates say those actions and other government policies may be hastening the shift in Canadian and European traffic away from the United States.

Since passage of the Patriot Act, many companies based outside of the United States have been reluctant to store client information in the U.S.,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. “There is an ongoing concern that U.S. intelligence agencies will gather this information without legal process. There is particular sensitivity about access to financial information as well as communications and Internet traffic that goes through U.S. switches."

Direct quote, above the fold, first page.
Pre series-A this usually is the case, but post series-A there can be a lot of bullshit, especially if there is actual or perceived pressure to hire quickly.
A restaurant review has more content than this. This is just a list of personal tastes, with virtually no addressable argument. A lot of what he does say is idiotic. His entire lisp section, for example, is about an elisp system, which has absolutely nothing to do with the merits of learning real lisp. "Perl OO never really caught on." Um, have you looked at CPAN or the core module APIs in the last 8 years?
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I'm curious as to how you define "worst." As someone who once upon a time studied English, I love this paragraph:

It's hard, though. It's a big jump. It's not sufficient to learn how to write C-like programs in Lisp. That's pointless. C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at.

That's good writing. Summarizes the writer's opinion in an active voice without latinate verbs or excessively long sentences.
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I dont think it would really work, there isnt much you could do for an internet stranger than give money. pretty sure swapping book sites etc already exist.

so it seems like it would just be swamped with people wanting someone to randomly paypal them money, along with a sob story.

plus as mentioned in the comments, it kinda games the idea of karma if you have some badge pronouncing how "good" you are.

I think random acts of kindness are best done off the internet. I think what might make a cool site is somewhere for people to post random acts of kindness people have done for them. no real point to it, just feel good stories
What about Pirates?
Why are the code samples in images? I guess because they are intended to be screenshots of the IDE, but it sure makes them look crappy if you have the page zoomed.
At least they're not animated: http://redhanded.hobix.com/
Isn't quite there yet, I just wrote a ton of slander into it and nothing.

Either way I don't quite agree with this kind of project, if you need a stupid filter you're browsing the wrong sites, and filtering out comments based on a shoddy algorithm is just silly and elitist.
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"My apologies to the YC founders looking for employees, but being an early stage engineer (not a founder) at a startup is for suckers."

This is a pretty broad statement that I'd disagree with.

First of all, plenty of startups pay market rate (or close enough to it).

Second (and way more important) most BigCo jobs are woefully bad at preparing you to spin up your own thing. Don't believe me? Come to Seattle sometime and watch how fast all of the Ex-Microsoft entrepreneurs hire "program managers" and VPs. Working in a small startup can teach you a lot about what works (and what doesn't) on a small team with limited resources.

Third, it gets you into the game. You meet other folks who like startups who can be useful later (from co-founders to future hires to investors).
More likely to produce interesting results in a timely fashion, eh? :)
Why the overuse of the word hacking? I find it everywhere in situations where it just isn't appropriate. This particular example is an incredibly clever use of chemistry, not hacking. Imagine some chem oriented news site saying that programmers "synthesized" code.
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Er, no. There should be a way to actually secure one's phone.
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I'd consider paying an "account creation service" a dollar to create a single (legit) account for me at some web sites. Some CAPTCHAs are just awful.

Maybe they could flip this into a legit boutique business.
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Well, I worked at myspace so I can tell you that he is very real.

He is actually a really cool guy.
Tony, many of the YC aspirants posting here have zero experience in BigCo's or anywhere else --- but we all still buy the idea that they can start a company. I've worked with ex-Microsofties, and I know what you're talking about, but I disagree with the idea that a BigCo job hurts your chances of starting something when the time is right.
Can't hurt to participate, have entered something similar last two years. Hint though, find out who the Judges are, in our case they were mid-level managers at PWC, IBM other sponsors etc, really need to target their tastes if all you want is the money.
There was a Montessori school down the road from my primary school. We thought the students there were pretty weird (they were easily identifiable by their lack of uniforms) but of course their weirdness was more likely due to their parents than due to the school.

I have particularly vivid memories of the fat boy who wore skirts.

In later life I never actually met anyone who went to that school, though, so I couldn't tell you how they turned out. Whatever they did, they did it in very different social circles to mine.
60 percent of people simply can't fathom to trust their partner. I am not surprised

For the record, I've never read my girlfriends texts (unless she told me to) and I seriously doubt she's read mine
Rocket + radioactive silicon + crashing into the sun = all possible flavours of awesome.

I can't think of any better way to spend $200 million.
Hey I must be ahead of the curve. I have a Skype UK number (Leeds) and amusingly, a Compton number in the USA - one of the few Californian numbers left.

Great for business - my American customers can phone me in 'Compton'.
Perl OO never really caught on because it isn't part of the core language. It's the same with Scheme. It's nothing to be embarrassed about or something that you want to try and correct.

Also, what pray tell is a "real" lisp? Last I checked, Emacs-Lisp has macros and much of what makes any lisp a "real" lisp.
I have a doubt. I read about the Konami Code on wikipedia.

But on my computer's keyboard what keys do I press for A and B?
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Nothing beats a slick compact design that dosent take up as much room as those riced up versions.
regulated because the government controls all the customers -- the elementary, middle, and high schools. It may not be direct regulation but it is dependent on government regulations all the same.
If you're selling straight to individuals it's not, but if you sell to schools, you are selling to an entirely socialized sector. A friend in Teach For America told me how his principal was obsessed with technology but had no ability to judge software. The result was that teachers and students were forced to use almost non-functional software that some company had duped the principal into buying. My friend said that if he had no ethics, he would go into selling educational software, be schools wasted so much money on crap programs. It ends up being entirely about sales and manipulating the bureaucracy, rather than creating the best software.
Or do Citizen Kane 2 as a fictionalized story about Rupert Murdoch. There are lots of possibilities.

Either way, there is a big difference between a major studio release of it and a fan-made homage.
Montessori FTW. This is awesome.

The Montessori method is not without its problems. Namely, that it has to end at some point.

I've written more thoughts on this subject on my blog:

http://jamtoday.beehold.us/post/37396861/solving-school-part...
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I'm talking about really early stage people... the guys brought on for peanuts and options, pre series A.

- Pre series-A, startups can't really pay market rate, unless they have huge angel investment or the founder is rich and financing the thing himself.

- BigCo jobs probably do encourage the entrepreneurs to do things the same way they did at the BigCo. However, in your example the Ex-Microsoft entrepreneurs are hiring program managers and VPs. Thus, they have enough money to pay these sorts of employees. Which means they got rich at Microsoft or their MS resume point convinced investors to give them money.

- Working in a small startup CAN teach you a lot about what works, but the same thing rarely works twice. Note I'm talking about engineers. All the stuff I learned about server scaling in 1998 wasn't as important in 2008.

- It does get you into the game, but so does being employee number 30 with a comfortable post series-A salary and free backrubs.
ah, ok. the 'enterprise' market. I was thinking of "where in the world is carmen sandiego?"
Money is attack resistant? Not entirely. Not to governments, who can raid your savings by printing more. Not to central banks, who have the same powers, despite not being part of the government. Not to corporations that are seen by corrupt governments as "too large to fail." Not to all manner of con artists who pass themselves off as legitimate people involved in finance.

And unfortunately, only a small minority of the above get jailed.

Yes, markets have remarkable resilience. But there are lots of vulnerabilities in markets in the world as it stands now.
I thought the same thing but was told that in case of an IPO, a starting price of around $10-15 a share is usually looked for.

According to this article (http://www.inc.com/articles/1999/11/15748.html), "investment banks will target an initial offering price of around $15."

If you take this as true, you don't necessarily need to know how many overall shares have been issued. It would all depend on what level of the startup you get in obviously.

Anyone can confirm that this is a usable ball-park number?
I was actual talking with a nursing friend about this idea today. The troubles are numerous. Firstly, the best adopters of a health care product would be hospitals, which are big, numerous and have some money. However, they have also proven to be terribly slow adopters of technology, even when it could help, overly bureaucratic, and are often unwilling to use webapps due to privacy concerns.

I remember reading somewhere (in a book by Taleb or Gladwell, or in a TEDTalk) that there are revolutionary apps that are used for diagnostics, as doctors screw up constantly. Those programs, I believe, are made by big health companies, which presumable have the data and expertise.

Separate from hospitals, we have private practice doctors. I'm not sure what space there is for startups on the needs of doctors. Obviously someone could likely make a lot of money if they could centralize billing and invoices in a manner better than HMOs, but I'm not sure what you would do.

Having said that, Paul Graham says a great startup provides a simple solution to an overlooked problem (etc) so I think there is a lot to be done here.
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Actually, it was Coldfusion. But you're right on point.
I wonder if he hacked into his schools mainframe and altered his academic record (like in the movie). hmmmm...

kids...
Gravity is not such a huge barrier. Even 3rd rate governments can overcome it.

Iraq, I think in the late 80's, was planning to build a "supergun" that was capable of launching rocket-assisted payloads into orbit for only $600/kg.

The prototype was to cost $25 million, which is a drop in the bucket for a government like ours.

I $600/kg starts getting you towards the range where building Solar Power Satellites become economical. (Said to be $400-500/kg.)

It's not the physics that's the problem. It's the will to do it and the finances!
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A lot of people hid money in WWII and never found it again. It seems simple, but think about it. If you bury it outside, people can see you do it or (since war changes things) it can be hard to find again, even with a map that the average person might have back then. Hiding it in you house was even more dangerous. It seems like a simple problem now, but really, it wasn't.
...9 years ago.
Gene expression blog:

http://www.gnxp.com/

And a heavy metal forum:

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Ugh. again, if you're going to tear on something, please... at least be right about it.

For example, If your code base is 50 million lines in any language, you're doing it wrong, and it's going to be a pain to maintain. C++ has little to do with it.

He also seems to think Python is losing to Ruby -- Sorry, no. They're both going strong, and growing rapidly. Both of them are winning hard right now.

Also, his convolving of lisp and emacs is quite annoying. Emacs is not Lisp, and Lisp is not Emacs. Please don't confuse the two.

Overall, I think that this is a rather poor article. Although I've definitely seen worse.
Conversely, programming is an excellent way to interrupt (text) writer's block, which is usually exhaustion, neurosis, self-doubt, boredom, frustration or erectile dysfunction by a different name.
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I think that's true to a certain extent, but I also tend to subscribe to Ray Kurzweil's theory that futurists overestimate the pace of change in the short-term and underestimate the pace of change in the long-term.

The reason for this is that the pace of change is not constant, but is increasing exponentially, as new technologies enable more rapid iterations of development and market adoption of even newer technologies, and so on. However, this exponential trend is difficult to grasp from our perspective today, so futurists tend to extrapolate out the current pace of change into the future (along with a healthy dose of optimism), when in reality, change is accelerating.
> Then why is it, one year later (and more stock has been issued/other investors have come in), I have less than 10%?

Because other stock has been issued.

Companies can sell "new stock" or "old stock". Selling new stock dillutes. Selling old stock doesn't.

Suppose that you own 20 out of 200 shares. If the company sells 100 of those 200 shares, you still own 10% because the number of shares hasn't changed. If the company creates 100 and sells new shares, you now own 6.66% because the number of shares has changed to 300.
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We have a site in the pipeline targeting health-related topics, but nothing that would interface with the Health Industry directly.

I also have Kurzweilian dreams for other ventures, but the regulations are so daunting that it's so hard to justify exploring healthcare products/services.
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Unlikely. The distance between the Earth and the Sun varies throughout the year, but it all evens out. When you are trying to figure out the age of a sample that may be thousands of years old, these variations are just noise and nothing significant.

What would be interesting is how the decay rate on the nuclear generators aboard Pioneers 10 & 11 and Voyagers 1 & 2 have varied as they traveled away from the Sun over the past 30-40 years. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...
2/3 have enough self confidence or respect for their mates? That pretty good. My hope for humaity, it's gone up today.
Seems a likely theory. Probably the bits that seem wrong are the client mentions.
One thing that holds me back is, ironically, lack of scale options.

500Mb limits with no way to go beyond (paid or not) will have to go before I even start planning to move there. It's a pity, because automatic scale was so promising.
So the browser stops supporting cookies does it? Even if the browser does stop sending cookies to google, they could do pretty good tracking based on useragent/ip.

However, a browser that doesn't support cookies correctly, isn't very useful.

The browsers history is completely irrelevant.

From the article: "others using the same computer will not be able to see which sites have been accessed."

That is not the same as "Cookies sent from google will no longer work"
Suspicious because your mobile device, which you'd really only use when out of the house and therefore around strangers, would be protected from those strangers?
Another Y Combinator clone, in Lexington, KY
Is it just me or are all the guidelines listed just plain common sense?
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I am a very proud product of a Montessori classroom, attending from kindergarten through my "fifth year." To my peers with children, I suggest it is as the ONLY option for elementary education (but lean towards AMI-accredited schools). If you want your child to understand how to problem-solve, instead of memorize facts and tables, I urge you all to seek the same.

I wrote about the perfect world that a Montessori-based education system would yield here:

http://patrick.snajder.net/blog/index.php?/archives/44-Save-...

By the way: I never had to wear a uniform and, how did I turn out? I like to think people enjoy my presence and I like to solve problems.
Completely agree. Or at least hold an auction for each domain name instead of giving them away for $10.
As long as domain names are given out essentially free, they will be owned mainly by squatters trying to extort money for them.

The price they are sold for initially should be the going market price for that name.
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Isn't it about time Gates restrains himself from publicizing predictions?
The site doesn't seem to work very well.
I really hadn't even considered #7 - "Make your site easy to use -- and useful."

So far I have been making mine hard to use, and useless, so this article came as a shock.

edit: Come on... 3 years? 4,500 people? Was there anything really surprising on the list that wasn't brain dead obvious?
I like the name but I wouldn't really call it a clone, to be a clone they need to actually be launched. They don't even have any investors now. + Kentucky? How many people would move to Kentucky for a summer to develop a web based product?
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