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What has been most disappointing about webM/html5 video, is that Google seems to have halted the roll out on YouTube for several months now.
Was a bit rough getting Mixxx installed and working, but looks promising.
The article title isn't very informative; you might as well say, "Elite colleges, largely for the top." Elite how? Academically? Income? Family connections?

The real injustice, IMO, isn't in the higher education system. It's in the public K-12 system. I didn't attend a private high school, but I might as well have---my parents live in an area with sky-high property values, and the high school I attended solicits citizen donations pretty vigorously. I think we had maybe three black kids in the school, and I'm sure our graduation rate was over 90%.

I have a very hard time believing that Joe Inner City had a chance of getting the same secondary education I did.

I don't know what the solution is, but I'm pretty sure it starts way before college.
I might have the wrong picture of the situation but Mozilla seems to have been reluctant to adding new stuff google and the chrome team are trying to push while the opposite is completely different.

Maybe I'm biased since I think Mozilla should start looking into including NaCL in Firefox. But that's obviously not the only thing they've been blocking, same with Opera.

I dunno, please correct me if my perception is wrong.
Great read. Though the same story has been told many times before, it still amazes me that 4 people, in a garage, created a company that is now thousands of employees big and generates many billions of dollars in profit quarterly.
Would you give Warren Buffet credit for his investment success?

For making a good living, yes; I think that much was in his control. For becoming a billionaire? No, there were far too many variables involved that were not within his control.

I certainly believe, given enough time, Warren Buffet could teach someone to follow his methodology to have nearly identical success.

I think Warren Buffet could teach someone to have some success, I don't believe he could teach someone to be a billionaire because becoming a billionaire depends in large part on chance. Most professional card counters never became rich either, they just made a good living.

You seem to be viewing the article as discouraging, while I see it as encouraging. While it means that much of our prospects for success are beyond our control, for the most part we have as good a chance as anyone, so get out there and do something.
We'll be back for ya, little guy ... it just may take a hundred or two earth years.
Just the birds to beat now.
Google becoming the next .... Symbolics? Too much engineers in power?
Just Do It! Pound the pavement now for paying gigs! Freelancing is a relationship business. Find your target market and start wining and dining them. Attend their events, speak at their events, write articles with solutions to their problems, meet them, befriend them. 2-3 months is about as long as it takes for the first gig to happen. As you continue the above process, you'll continue to have customers. Ppl do business with those they know, like, and trust. Deliver on time and within agreed upon terms. Be responsive to your customers, return calls and emails on the same day. Start at a lower hourly rate at first, to get your first paying customer, raise rates for new ones if you can afford to lose the work. Most importantly, do not waste time creating an ideal portfolio. Number one, find these potential clients. Get those clients signed up, get that money coming in.
My home PC, which I rarely use, is a single 27". My work is 2 24". The most productive I am is on my 13" air.

The size of a 27" takes a couple hours to get used to, and then ur ok. My original intention was to get a 19" and rotate it next to my 27". Dell (which i'm a fan of when it comes to monitors) sells 27" which are as high as 19" are wide, making it quite seamless.
The work could be done on a hardware security module, so the key never leaves the well-guarded environment. That would also make a good gatekeeper for requests for the unencrypted password.
The conclusion (that a landlord will reward "good" tenants with lower rent) is hopelessly naive.

My landlord hit me with rent increase the moment he could (and I consider myself good tenant by the author's definition).

And why wouldn't he?

First, at least in my case, landlord (person who owns the building and gets the money) is a different person than building manager (which takes all the heat from annoying tenants and, I imagine, is employed by a landlord) and they have full-time maintenance person anyway, so there's no feedback loop.

Second, if I decide to move, it'll cost me several thousands bucks and will be a hassle, assuming I'll find a better deal elsewhere, so there's a strong disincentive for tentants, good or bad, to move just to get lower rent.

Third, as much as we like to think that we e.g. value peace of mind over money, money is very easy to quantify while peace of mind is not, which is why money usually wins in contests like this.

The only reason for a landlord to keep rent low is to maintain low vacancy ratio and that is dictated by the overall market.
How many times will Sony be hacked?
As a Computer Science student in a state University, this is very cool. I would love to take a class like this.
The counter is a large image with every possible score (http://ndruger.lolipop.jp//hatena/20110429/css_game/images/c...). Initially only the top of the image is shown, but as the radio buttons are clicked it makes visible some spacing elements which move the image so the next score is shown.
Even if that's the case, it doesn't mean Mozilla is wrong and Google is right. Could be quite the opposite.
Ask HN: Can you recommend an ad network to help me monetize my unique site?
birejji.com - Incentivized site where users are paid to chat and play games.

Average CTR: 2-3%
Impressions: 1/4 Mil

I'm looking for an ad network which would accept this kind of site since networks such as google adsense will not accept it.
I think my Samsung Focus is a fantastic piece of hardware and I'm very happy with it.
Ayn rand's attitude I guess.
This sounds like bad news for SpaceX. Apparently NASA has decided (no doubt under pressure from the senators for whatever-states-these-things-get-built-in) to go back to building its own manned capsules. For a while it looked like they were going to subcontract the basic put-dude-in-orbit missions to SpaceX, but I guess not.

NASA has a way of making things sound much lamer than they should be. Hey, y'know what's a good name for a spaceship? Dragon! Y'know what's a bad name for a spaceship? Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle!
I've always wondered how this is actually done, algorithm-wise. Can someone more knowledgeable give me a link, or at least a google search term?
This is neat, but what is a good use case for this? I would assume most people needing search functionality already run their webapps on a server somewhere.
I see. So each input is being made visible in sequence and the overflow outside of #counter is hidden.
Google Invests $55 Million In Mojave Desert Wind Farm
I have a great idea for a song, but I just need someone musically inclined to write and perform it. I'd be willing to give them 10% of the earnings when it hits number 1 on the billboard charts.
This actually sounds similar to ElasticSearch itself.
It could either:

A) Have a traditional hashing scheme independent of the vault
B) Use public-key encryption, and give the production
system only the public key. The server could encrypt
the provided password for decryption by the private key,
and then compare ciphertext. The vault simply has the
private key.

Neither of these systems are ideal, especially the latter, but they do get around the one particular issue of a hacked frontend.
Preparing the Linux Server for SAMBA
Um, what. I most certainly have checked out of Newegg without re-entering my card number. Even if they store the numbers off premises for PCI certification reasons, if a Newegg password lets someone log in and buy a hundred flat screens on my account, that sounds like financial harm to me.
In this case, it's really irritating to hear someone play devil's advocate, because you know as well as the rest of us do most of these "ideas guys" don't offer much in return. If they had real domain specific knowledge, big time connections, or heck.. even capital, that'd be a different story. But let's please be honest here - self proclaimed "ideas guys" are looking for free or dirt cheap labor.
Ironically, his experience would be totally different in China itself, where the tenant regulations are non-existent in practice. I had to deal with a number of landlords in two different cities, and I have to say that his principle ("[...] that people will pay a premium for convenience and stability.") is absolutely not true in China. Landlords will go to great lengths to extract the maximum amount of profit to whoever they can get as renters. It doesn't really matter if the renter is good or bad, because the whole country is going through such a huge transformation that nothing is stable right now. Renters move in and out, new rules are changed or created very often, etc... You can be the best renter (and I think I'm a pretty good renter) and the landlords still are going to try to extract something from you. And I cannot really blame them -- They are businesspeople, and their apartments are investments in a highly volatile environment.

And I don't think it's even a cultural thing... Of course culture always play a role, but I think the issue is simply how the market is right now (i. e.: regulations, competition, instability).
Ask HN: My first startup offer
Hello Hackers,

I'm on the edge of taking the plunge into the startup scene. I've received the deets of the offer, now I have to decide. I'm hoping someone can help me run the numbers and figure out if it's a fair offer...

There's 3 co-founders. They're a smashing team of folks but none of which will be technical. One has a technical background (and some successful iPhone apps and such), but they're staying on the business end. Those are the only employees right now. There's no product. This is definitely the 'ground floor'.

They're raising 750k on a 7M valuation doing capped convertible notes (at a 7M cap). To that end, they've been running small events and have people that have been attending them. Nothing huge but it's a slight glimmer of some market validation.

They're recruiting 3 technical engineers to develop v1 of the product. Myself as a backend developer, a PM + UX developer, and another backend developer to work with me.

They're planning a 12 month runway with an officially solicited 18 month burn rate. Their tentative plan is to raise a series A round right at 1 year and growing out of the Bay Area after 1 year.

The plan is to keep 3 engineers for 18 months before hiring.

That said, they want to bring me on as one of the backend engineers to build v1 of the product. I'm 23, a year out of college with an impressive resume (Apple, Google, Microsoft). I'm currently making $85-90k at one of those three.

They're keeping 20% of the company for an employee options pool (with a decreasing amount of options being offered, as they bring more people on). My offer has been:

$80k salary -> 1.25% of 20% options pool

$70k salary -> 2.5% of 20% options pool

$60k salary -> 4% of 20% options pool

Keep in mind, those percentages are of 20%. Therefore, 4% of 20% is equivalent to 0.8% of the overall company. ($80k->.25%, $70k->.5%,$60k->.8% overall company equity)

And they want to work out of San Francisco, where I'd have to live.

With that whole picture... what are your feelings on their offer? Fair? Unfair? Things I should argue or watch out for?
Yeah, but then a 50/50 split would make sense, not the 10/90 or 2/98 that they typically ask for.
Yes, that is always the case. Poor people often work hard and save money for many reasons. One obvious reason is they really have no way out. If you are given one and only one chance to do something, you are left with no choice but to do it well.

The other aspect I see is upbringing, when all you see around is poverty and and way out being working hard, you grow a natural tendency to think of hard work that way. You also learn to live frugal, and manage even with little resources. Later on life when you earn well, these habit help in saving and making proper investment decisions.

On the other hand people raised in spend thrift environments, try to match their living accordingly. For example even if they do no have money they try to buy things through debt and credit.

Saving and making investment decisions overtime make you rich, this is obvious and nothing surprising. But people rarely realize this.
The "n previous" is trivial to do with hashes. The problem is the policies like "you can't add a number to a previous password". With those, you must have a reversable password.

Ironically, those policies make you significantly less secure. First, you are storing previous and current passwords in a reversible format. Second, the more difficult your policies, the more likely your users are to treat the password insecurely (PostIt note on the monitor, etc).
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What can an SMS API do for an SMS reseller
I have worked with Asterisk and would recommend using FreeSWITCH instead.
I posted something on this a little bit ago. Seems to correlate with Microsoft's decision to revoke free access to their VXML studio product (and thus Skype purchase) - https://studio.tellme.com/
But all else equal, a low-income applicant was no more likely to get in than a high-income applicant with the same SAT score. It’s pretty hard to call that meritocracy.

Wait, isn't that exactly a meritocracy? An applicant's chances of getting in are correlated with his SAT score and not with his income?
Either that, or he needs to find a different wife.
I'm not debating you on that, since I agree with you. I simply wanted to point out the issue with your point about people not knowing Zynga and that possibly being an issue for them (i.e, it's by and large not).

Even if people knew Zynga I get the sense it wouldn't make a huge difference; their games aren't quite immersive enough to inspire the type of brand loyalty you'd see with Nintendo/Blizzard/etc.
Well the first question that needs to asked here is why do those people borrow money after knowing very well they can't pay it back?

Its purely their mistake, and nobody else (society, government etc) can be blamed here.
If Opportunity traveled as fast as it possibly could it would take a century to reach Spirit, though the chances of it lasting that long are low.
On Proof And Progress In Mathematics
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This comment stream is a great example of HN going downhill. It's literally ten threads of the same half-informed claims with half-informed stock counterarguments.

We have the: completely unverifiable reversible encryption defense, followed by the complaint that reversible is just as bad, followed by every manner of hypothetical baloney. Then we have the dismissive password generator users, followed by the complaint that this is an irrelevant solution. And of course the smattering of people wanting to publicly shame sites that store in plaintext, like more than 0.01% of the Internet will ever care.

tldr, you no longer have to read these comments, screw the karma this will cost me.
New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR
There are many uses, one of them is when you want to do instant search. There is no point in having the browser go to your server so you can act as a proxy for a query.

Also, you could add search functionality without having to touch your backend logic (only your web templates). This may seem minor if you are in control of the whole web app, but it matters for larger organizations where it's easier to change a template than to deploy code.
Hadoop Dont's: What not to do to harvest Hadoop's full potential
Disappointed in jwz's choice of punchbowl metaphor. Seriously, why would you call your format Web Pee? Then there's Web 'Emm..', soon no doubt to be followed by Web 'Eh?' (because 'music' also starts with m, guys).

'Did you know? WebP is pronounced "weppy".'[1]

No. And it isn't.

...It's the little things.

[1] http://code.google.com/speed/webp/
And it's another image format that no one knows how to pronounce. From Google's site: http://code.google.com/speed/webp/
"Did you know? WebP is pronounced "weppy"." Snuh?
Ha, literally came here to copy/paste this exact thing. I am hoping this is an editorial oversight, because any other explanation would be disturbing.
I think he misused meritocracy; I think he was looking for `plutocracy'.
Can someone please tell me how Ga Tech made the list (not trying to hate, I'm from GA and my dad is a yellow jacket)?
That's a fantastic one. I like this one in the "things which have taken less time" list:

>The United States' entire program to put a man on the moon, from Kennedy's challenge to the landing.
I think the guy earning high is to blame here. Nobody else is responsible for one's financial mess(Recession, Inflation, government etc) if one doesn't know how to manage their money well.

All measurements in the world are relative. One person lives frugual, saves and invests money. Another person doesn't.The spend thrift guy will have himself to blame. You can't have good earning conditions all your life, good and bad times come alternatively in every person's life.There will always be recessions, wars and inflation. There will always be health problems, there will always more competition.

The responsibility to secure your future when you have the chance is yours.Savings and good investment decisions make people incrementally richer. A person may not become a millionaire next year with this strategy, but over time savings and good investment decisions can make you really rich over time(When you need it the most).
You probably don't need to do this depending on why you think you might change encryption schemes. If the idea is just to upgrade to a stronger encryption scheme, you can do so by using BOTH going forward.

For example, if your passwords were stored in MD5 and you wanted to switch to SHA1, you could just make your new hashing scheme the SHA1 hash of an MD5 hash.
What would happen in the UK or US if you run out of cash completely?

Last I heard, homelessness is on the rise in the US and has been for some time.
> It can be on a private computer that is not connected to any network at all.

So you're saying the support tech gets up from his desk, walks over to the computer with the key, gives the computer some command to produce the key, prints the key or writes it down on a piece of paper, walks back to his computer, types in the key, and finally shreds the piece of paper?
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As an IT professional, I’m honestly not sure how to feel about this.

On the one hand, it’s great that all the variants of MacDefender currently out there will be neutralized.

On the other hand, we’re surely going to see new flavors that go undetected by the update. Apple is getting into the anti-virus game, and potentially starting an arms race. But, what else could Apple do in this situation?
I totally agree with you. I started to come here a little over two years ago (one-ish with an account) and I've noticed the definite slide towards less "hackerish" statements. This site really exposed me to the raw hacker mindset (other than the distant likes of RMS and ESR) and it's becoming less interesting to read all of the comments on any random story.
Except that they didn't lie.

English isn't a computer program - there are many interpretations possible. I suspect that they didn't even see the other interpretation of their language around security until someone pointed it out to them.
> However, stored in plaintext or stored in an encrypted, reversible manner, the password is not stored in what most folks would consider a secure manner

Credit card numbers are stored in a reversible encrypted manner, and that's considered good enough, so one might argue that it is good enough for passwords too since a leaked password is usually not as bad as a leaked credit card number. (I'm not necessarily endorsing that argument--just tossing it out for discussion).
so...is it the blogger or the title that makes this not blog spam? it's just a link to jrmuizel's rather level headed blog post from a month ago.

spoiler: http://muizelaar.blogspot.com/2011/04/webp.html
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The sad thing is that most likely, nothing will come of it. They'll be the usual "in 10-20 years" bullshit (i.e. some time way beyond the current Congressional sitting/Presidential term of office) and the whole thing will get quietly cancelled.
It's the first thing I thought of, and it could be a clue as to where MS may lead Skype. Are they going to come out with some killer VOIP app for Windows 7 mobiles phones that will cause us all to drop our iPhones & 'droids?
I'm implying that customer-facing systems use secure hashes, and that the company also stores encrypted passwords on a server not exposed to the Internet.
I don't know what the solution is, but I'm pretty sure it starts way before college

I'd be inclined to segregate the schools. No, not by race, by IQ scores. Test the kids at the age of ten and split 'em up into (say) five groups depending on how well they do, and then truck 'em off to schools strategically placed to have catchment areas spread over a range of socioeconomic areas.

The alphas would get the full-on deal, the best education that our species can cram into seven short years. The betas would get a slightly easier set of coursework but still be expected to be fully functional and capable of office work. The epsilons would get remedial literacy and life skills and taught to productively follow orders in order to make it through life without becoming a burglar or meth addict. It may sound cruel, but is it any worse than expecting an IQ 80 doofus to write an essay on Shakespeare?
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Seems like an interesting concept, but at the same time one that has limited use. I could see this having niche use among users that need a server for a match or just want to play for a day with some friends, but in both those cases users have seemingly better options. Serious gamers often have servers to practice on, so they wouldn't be in great need of this service. Casual gamers often prefer to just hop on to a public server instead of configuring their own. Maybe if a group needed a server for an event? But even then LAN servers might be the way to go.

The best use for this would probably be a one-time online event like a 24-hour marathon or something of that sort that unites a group of players rarely, but on a somewhat large and controlled scale. It seems like an interesting idea, but probably not one that will see a lot of use, at least that is my perspective as a gamer.
What, the NYT's "elite" isn't elite enough for you? That sounds a bit elitist, doesn't it?
Why not just authenticate against the existing encryption scheme and then encrypt into the new scheme on the next log in?
Here's a nice pic of a Spirit clone together with Sojourner (from 1997) and the successor to Spirit and Opportunity, MSL:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/Dec4_E-3-generation-rove...

MSL (Mars Science Laboratory) should launch late this year:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/overview/
I'd agree that the wording is pretty strange, but I would argue that if two applicants are exactly the same in every way, except that A's parents make $40,000/year and B's parents make $500,000/year, A should be ranked above B in terms of merit because more than likely he/she has experienced more hardship, and been able to do just as well as B in spite of it.
Isn't plutocracy even farther in the wrong direction? His point is that colleges are trying to reward the poor, not the wealthy, but are failing to do so. Maybe "ptochocracy" or "egalitarianism"?