skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The TLS handshake is to work out identities and exactly what type of encryption etc they want/support. Then before sending any actual data they encrypt a "Finished" message and both sides verify they can read the message. The server will only be able to create a correct "Finished" message if it has the private key to go along with the presented certificate.

It seems to me like the overt change in the handshake security boundary is that in a FalseStart handshake, a man-in-the-middle attacker can make the initiating side send application data encrypted with relatively arbitrary parameters (until the TLS implementation realizes it can't decrypt the final handshake message properly). There is a good chance this is just annoying (like, on a denial-of-service level of attack) but my intuition is there could be some application circumstances where this is a significant problem. Off the top of my head I can't come up with a specific example however - so I could just be imagining things :)

There are also operating system/application level architecture challenges as well. For example, I'm not sure the idea of FalseStart is compatible with the calling convention of Windows SSL/TLS (InitializeSecurityContext and AcceptSecurityContext) given the separation between transport layer and security context negotiation components. And because of that existing convention, the recommendation in sections 4 and 5 of the draft that "TLS implementations allow the application layer to query whether the handshake has completed" could be potentially tricky for applications using Schannel (Windows SSL/TLS).

"Creating an Schannel Security Context" : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374781(v=VS.85).as...
Well, if this is that much valuable, the hardware manufacturers wouldn't push shorter screens... And the Windows taskbar wouldn't take that much space! :D

I really must be missing something on what people want and do with their computers...
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I'm already using ctrl-L to focus the navigation bar every time. It's very convenient.
I'm sure if the MAFIAA thought they could get away with it they'd lobby for mandatory snooping software on everyone's PC so they could check for illegal copies.

Because, y'know, human rights and the rule of law are far less important than preserving the music industry's business model for a few more years.
Why I have to refactor your software requirements?
Also, comment scores are not always indicative of quality, they're indicative of how many people agree.

I want to go on record as strongly agreeing with this.
I think the problem, as you've demonstrated with your flippant comment lies with this new 'internet culture' (tied in with anonymity on the internet) which has led to the development of certain attitudes and changes in social norms and 'values'.

For instance, if you were standing next to someone, and you asked them a question, it would not be the social norm to say "google it" even if you knew the answer.

Either that, or the internet just gives the idiots that would say "google it" if you spoke to them in person and they knew the answer, a platform for themselves, when in real life they'd have no friends/get ignored/get punched in the face.
Why couldn't the shares have been offered in 2 classes: one with voting rights and one without. Offer more of those without. Lots of companies do this e.g. Berkshire Hathaway, Google etc. That would solve the "mispricing" problem.
Why is the RIAA special? I produce copyrighted material all the time.

I demand the right to start looking at everyone's cloud files too.
Because then they can't store only one copy of each duplicate file, skip uploading duplicate files, work with file hashes knowing that the same file will have the same hash, and less pleasantly, they can't do analytics, advertising and recommendations on the types and quantities of stored files.
It sounds like mainly he's saying he is done with Windows and MS Office. Definitely the trend these days, and it's good to see someone who is tech savvy but not a techie going down that path. A MacBook Pro and an iMac are still traditional 'desktop' devices, though. I guess the key is that he's ditching the desktop software stack in favor of the new mobile era style software and cloud storage.

Myself, I moved all my vital email, coding, and business administration from a desktop box with Linux to an Android phone and an MBP on the last trip I took. When I came back, I didn't bother switching back. however, I'm not ready to abandon the safety of my own hard drive.
Definitely has the slant that everyone in the world is stupid. I don't like that kind of world view, but still somewhat interesting. Can't stop estimating that most of the people in the world are stupid. Pretty antisocial.
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My prediction is that JSON will eventually reach feature parity with XML (this is quite similar to XPath), then we'll dump it for YAML or something.

Great.
In other news: RIAA Wants To Start Peeking Into Files You Store In The Cloud
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2570538

Considering those trends I would not want to store any unencrypted data in the cloud.
Probably yes. Can it handle the first 1000 users? Then, just create and ship your product before worrying about scalability.
We have a toy sloth hanging from our emergency sprinkler system!

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It might be interesting to compare some of these ideas with large worker-owned cooperatives like the UK's John Lewis Partnership:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Partnership

[I have to admit to being very fond of Waitrose, the very successful up-market supermarket chain that is a part of John Lewis - this does no good to either my bank balance or my waist]. :-)
#4. What kind of centralized subscriptions?

#5. Status.net already has templates.
To a certain degree I emphasise - in spoken contexts I often fail to pick up sarcasm. But I have far less problems in navigating through subtle shifts in tone in a piece of text.

While you seem to see it as a wolf in sheep's clothing and are terrified that the sheep are about to be devoured, I'm seeing the wolf, dressed in sheep's clothing, comically delivering a lecture to said sheep about avoiding wolves - and actually dispensing some pretty good advice. Surely you can see the wonderfully playful irony here.

What's more, the sheep are sitting around (i.e. hacker news readers) having a good ol laugh at the wolf. And you're amongst them shouting loudly - WATCH OUT THE WOLF WILL DEVOUR YOU! And when they look at you strangely your response to this is to conclude that you're just in the wrong crowd.

Just a shame is all - you're obviously quite a smart chap. It's like meeting Beethoven and finding out that really he hates listening to Mozart. It would boggle the mind!
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How many websites do you meet the owner and talk to them first then if you like them, ask for them to text you their website address so you can add it to your contacts?
Bought it great work. Hope to get epub version soon. Also thanks for the great screencasts at nodetuts.
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That's not true. As is, in a lot of crypto problems, there are powerful workarounds that require a lot of work.
See here for one idea: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2461713

Unfortunately, this starts to become a cat-and-mouse game.
Yes, and it becomes to be a kind of cliché here and around. We could list them. Years ago we had the "X reasons to" lists, now we have "I'm very humble to be the best". It is a "preciosity" (not sure if this word applies correctly in English, I need to read Les Précieuses Ridicules, Molière, in English to make sure). Really intersting guys like PG do not usually have these preciosities themselves, but it is something that flourish during interesting times (like was Molière's).
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no ansi colored menus though
This analogy isn't correct - and I am surprised that there are experts using it in their analysis.

It would be like selling 10 of the bricks from the house for $10, and then the guy you sell them to turns around and sells them for $20. Far from being upset, you now realize that the remainder of your 150 bricks just doubled in value.

To complicate the analogy further, you would need to sell 10 bricks to 10 different people and spend a month negotiating the price to a point where everybody agrees on the same price - which is the problem with an IPO.

There are even further complications with LinkedIn in particular, but needless to say the analogy falls apart very quickly.
I think we all need to spend less time working and more time golfing. Here's a start-up I created that can help.

I'd love to hear your feedback!

-Michael
Many institutional investors won't touch two-class shares. It's an inherently rigged model. But at least you know it's rigged, and the rigging rules are transparent.
The article is very funny, but I do find the definition of stupidity as the tendency to perform actions that benefit nobody as particularly insightful.
It's something I've always thought, but I was not able to put it in words as well as the article do. The comparison with music is highly accurate, and very simple. I like it.
There is no barrier to entry to start your own consulting business. If you have to learn to sell yourself, you may want to start with small jobs. Sites like Elance are probably good, too. Take on any work you can find, and then work on becoming more discriminating as you move up the foodchain.
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Handing someone my Kindle is like lending my whole bookshelf when someone asked a pocketbook.
People seem to think St. Steve never makes mistakes... see Rockr phone, and Ping. Why didn't he say no? Or wait, it sucks.
How? Not well. SEO is in the service industry. Someone needs to do something to get paid. If you want scalability, build a product that people need.
I disagree with your reality.

The reality I prescribe to is that we all have the freedom to create content and share it under the terms we dictate. We do not have the freedom to dictate terms to someone else.

Where it does not violate essential freedoms (such as me letting someone use my Kindle, or listen to my iPod), having an ability to trust the terms you've set helps business prosper.

Like I said before, the public "culture" feature of this content seems to give us additional rights and ownership over it. Just because we really, really like Tron or Inception does not mean we have the rights to copy it and distribute it through bittorrent.
Mixergy is great for real examples, INC provides simple advice that just works and TechCrunch sites like CrunchBase keep you in the loop.
"The Company is primarily created to generate bonuses for the employees (not to get sold)."

Wrong.

The company is primarily created to profit all shareholders, a group that should include most, if not all, employees.

There are a lot of great points in this article, but there are at least 5-10 bullets that I cant get close to agreeing with.
The employee is assumed to be cost efficient...

- When traveling they should strive to stay over at their fellow employees’
places and/or share rooms with their fellow employees. (This item can
be overridden with a ‘good cause’ by their manager)

Isn't the "right of physical privacy" a good cause in itself? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy#Physical
My favourite passage from a James Bond book:

Doctor No said, in the same soft resonant voice, "You are right. Mister Bond. That is just what I am, a maniac. All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards their goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singleness of purpose could have given focus to their genius, would have kept them in the groove of their purpose? Mania, my dear Mister Bond, is as priceless as genius. Dissipation of energy, fragmentation of vision, loss of momentum, the lack of follow-through - these are the vices of the herd." Doctor No sat slightly back in his chair. "I do not possess these vices. I am, as you correctly say, a maniac"
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة ومانشستر يونايتد بث مباشر نهائي ابطال اوروبا 
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة ومانشستر يونايتد بث مباشر نهائي ابطال اوروبا
Grooveshark uses flash too.
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We know it most commonly as the music business.
1) Why are you saying "we" if you are the only employee?
2) What are your monthly expenses?
Who do the company's financial executives serve during an IPO, when the identity of the investors is changing fast?

Let's not forget that the point of an IPO is to
(a) provide an exit for the startup investors.
(b) raise funds for the company's future operations
(c) make the company's financial executives and founders rich.

Who loses when the offering price is lowballed? Everybody who sold shares into the offering. That's the first two of my list. Usually the insiders have a six-month lockup; usually they can't sell their own shares until six months after the IPO. So, if the shares hold their price the execs will do well.

There's a big PR penalty if the stock drops below the opening price. That will turn into a money penalty on the execs in six months unless the company can overcome it.

So, the smart bet for self-interested execs is to lowball the offering price. As long as the startup investors don't call foul, the only loser is the company itself.

If I were an investor, I'd insist on the execs giving me (selling me cheap) options to buy half their shares at the opening price, as an incentive for them to price the offering right.
Yeah, it was built by a couple friends of mine. They started advertising there when AdSense kicked us off for being apparently-pornographic.
If I am rich, I help other people.
So, are you saying Coca Cola makes less than a billion dollars per year from Coca Cola alone?

PS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_GmbH#Sport_ownership

PPS The Red Bull product page has 4 different drinks, unless you believe Coke and Diet Coke are the same product, why would Red Bull Energy Drink and Red Bull Energy Drink Sugarfree be the same product?

PPPS My open source hair-splitting machine written in Python is almost complete.
Or the 'no radio' thing in ipods. One of my colleagues is convinced that a radio got into an ipod only because Jobs got really sick at the time and some sane, brave engineer just slipped it in while no-one was looking...
Google actually invited some very high profile people to teach its staff about wealth and investing http://www.sanfranmag.com/story/best-investment-advice-youll...
If you don't have outside investors, and distribute profits as bonuses, the effect is basically the same as if employees had shares and you were paying dividends, except that shares only persist for the duration of employment (since you stop getting bonuses once you leave).

A more formalized way of setting that up is to use a cooperative business structure, where ownership is shared by current employees.
I think they should fairly price the IPO, not overprice it.
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Some time ago on HN I've seen link to website based on stack exchange (overflow) engine about recruitment questions for programmers. But I can't find the link now, can you help?
Revenue:

1) 377 * $20/month subscriptions
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2) ~$1000/month in AdSense

Expenses: ~$4000/month
I see pyramids with firefox 4. I'm not sure what the 'mindfuck' part is though...
Actually, come to think of it, there's a distinct irony in Apple products. They hate cables, so everything is as wireless as possible... yet they don't do wireless things very well. They selected a bad telecom to launch their phone; by the time they were able to get a good vendor, they screwed the antenna; the ipods never had radio - the one 'wireless' that's been around for a century; the Airports really suck as access points... :)
easier said then done!
Great post! I am a software developer currently working full time for a company. Recently, my husband and I started talking about having kids and the first thought that came to my mind was that I don’t want my kids to be left in someone else’s care while I work for someone else. I don’t want to stop working entirely and become a housewife either.

I started looking into other options. From what I understand, startups are for people who want to run a business and a lifestyle business is for people who want to own a business with a focus on maintaining their preferred lifestyle.

I am choosing to go the lifestyle business route. We’ll see how it goes :)
Admirable, but regrettably, people boycotting Kindle or any other product because of the DRM are in the minority that is easy to ignore.
I think some storage providers might not be comfortable with the situation where they'd have to tell a paying customer that they can't help them at all when the customer loses the key - they choose simplicity as a feature over appealing to the security-conscious.

As for Dropbox, they need to be able to read the files to serve it to you from their website.
That item jumped out at me as well. I'm reasonably sure you can't enforce it in the US; that, instead, you could get in trouble for having a clause in your handbook suggesting that you were expected to open your house up for coworkers.

It's also just creepy.
you seriously think bill gates has any concern about his personal fortune at all now?
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I'd start with making sure that SPF and DKIM is setup properly on the sending mail server.
Certainly, but being "rich" I would figure out a way.
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Just an example of the "amount of detail": the game tracks things like beard length, nausea level, ratio of indoor time to outdoor time, noise level, and it simulates the entire history of the planet before you start.

It's just too bad he can't come up with a UI that would appeal to any but the most dedicated players.
There is a very big difference between lending a paper book and sharing an electronic copy and conflating the two damages the debate. Please stop making the analogy.

Lending a paper book meant you couldn't read the book until you retrieved it from the other party. Sharing an electronic copy has no such restriction.

Pretending that the rights you had with a paper book should be the same as the rights you have with electronic copy is silly because the only similarity is the content and nothing else. The real debate is what should your rights with regard to the content actually be? And how do you protect those rights when the content goes digital?
It bugs me. I get a few inquiries a day about pages on my web sites. There are a few million of them, so I can't be expected to know what they're talking about from a vague or even a detailed description.

About 1 in 5 offer me a URL right away, maybe 3 out of 5 will give me a URL once I ask for one, and about 1 in 5 doesn't know what the heck I'm talking about. It's depressing to think that it's going to get even harder for people, in the beginning of the linked data era where URLs are becoming the universal namespace.
I thought "that would be interesting to build, I could call it jsawk" - turns out it exists already:

https://github.com/micha/jsawk
Yup, use awk for similar tasks:

awk '{ print FNR "\t" $0 }' test.txt
1	one
2	two
3	three
4
5	five
Being on the cloud can be really really nice, but does Charles realize that what he just did was give employees at Google a free look at _every thing the Union Square Ventures does.

They now have access to your financials, your location, your search, your email. You've handed the most amazing trove of your business's intelligence over to Google to manage and handle for you.

Generally I trust Google. But, when a company has a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value, and more and more corporations start switching over to a Google Apps platform over the next decade. I'd be suprised if Google didn't start to use that huge trove of business intelligence to it's financial advantage.

If Google acquires a company that's in Union Square's portfolio, wouldn't it be silly _not_ to look at what's been going on in Charles River's Google Apps account regarding that company?
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Thanks. My goal with Mixergy is to have founders tell the stories of how they built their companies.
Can't they implement client side encryption? A javascript based encryption mechanism could be interesting.
This is Fred Wilson / Union Square Ventures, not Charles River, but your point stands.

That said, I don't agree. Sure its possible, but Google is going to jeopardize its entire business to see what Fred Wilson is emailing his partners? Yeah right.
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follow the links in the post and you'll find it. he actually has a somewhat lengthy thing about what he did and how.

what's disturbing about the dream lifestyle stuff?
Have you studied any law? A company should follow it's constitution. If that constitution says that the company is there to waste it's investors capital, then that's fine. Just don't invest in one of those, unless you have a good reason.
It's not H. pylori?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori
If a kid gets a 5 in AP comp-sci, the college will still make him take the intro base CS courses.

College is also set up for majors to be chosen without any understanding of those particular areas of study in high-school.

So, yes, your intro class should be for kids with no former compsci exposure, just like every other major your college offers. You then allow AP compsci students to waive some of the intro classes.

Of course, the real question is why should the kid pay money to hear this guy when, if the kid already has an interest and some knowledge of CS, learn with MIT open courseware and iTunes University?

Do you think CS professors are the best at presenting/explaining the material? I believe it depends on the professor.

Music is much more difficult than compsci. In addition to the mental, you have to hear/listen, and possess excellent muscle coordination.
Not really. If you are rich you may have some investments you would like to make and, in doing so, you are helping other people: you create jobs, you generate wealth for everyone, you might even make the world a better place depending on what your investment is.
If wealth is what people want to give you money for, you should be able to get rich by helping people.
If you don't have a backup of your data that is in your physical control, then you are at risk. It doesn't matter if you're using "the cloud". By all means, use "the cloud" if you like. But keep a copy of your own data in case the service you're using stops working the way you'd like it to or loses your data entirely.
I absolutely agree with the idea of improving students' interest and motivation by having them work with multimedia (and I would recommend also, games). The part of my CS classes that I found most tedious was the interminable drudgery of textual input and output.
Good point. Although the tax implications are different (worse), this would be effectively the same.

But I think the idea of shareholder is more powerful. It is not just about cash, but also about ownership and having a vote. And it also means equality per share. Bonuses have none of these characteristics.
This idea is actually not as crazy as it may seem.
Copyright lobby is usually just one step behind the Chinese policies of restricting access to the illegal content, with the only difference in definition of illegal.
Chinese have developed such tool, [1], and were planning to install it on every new computer sold in China. But later scaled down it's use.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort