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I would just like to add that starting an organic is not cheap. It's cheaper than, for example, scuba diving or photography. But gathering the materials to get started was a more than I anticipated at first. Just like produce, the chemical free, organic stuff (soil, fertilizer, seeds) cost more than the general stuff. But you only have to do this once, after that it's just the recurring cost of maintaining it.

But it is wonderful to be out in the sun, eating stuff I grew fresh.
1. Are people actually anonymous or does it just say that? I guess they would be if they were using Tor, but I think it's a shame it doesn't mention this anywhere on the site that I can see.

2. Is there some kind of reputation connected to the accounts. I think that this matters a lot on an anonymous message board.
Y'know what would be a great idea? A bitcoin discussion board, so that y'all don't have to keep spamming all these stories here!

What's that? A discussion board for bitcoin already exists? Hey, how about that!
I think he's saying that it can be harder to change cultures than it is to say, simply invade a country. The US rolled into Iraq with no problems at all, but how long would it take to truly change the people and culture? Would it even be possible?
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Let us know if you actually manage to find a real buyer willing to pay actual dollars. If you do, then you'll earn my congratulations.

I'm guessing this is the top of the bubble, the point at which people who have been holding onto a few bitcoins go "Holy crap, they're worth that much?" and suddenly try to sell.
Were you looking at the statistics all the time to see when they passed 90% confidence? That invalidates them, just so you know.

Basically, if you're watching it, it won't science.
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Italy has already been mentioned in the replies.

Sweden is another one. Actually they are currently discussing/planing to completely ban cash transactions: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10538032
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Have they sorted out the Mac support? I have one and haven't been able to get the toolchain to communicate with my MacPro. and no way am I booting into Linux just to push firmware.
"It's way too slow. Page load times are awful."

His own blog is also very slow. Sometimes you should not reinvent the wheel but optimize it.

I don't know why he needs all the Javascript but when I open his page the whole page kind of rebuilds after 2 seconds.
No, but the building's thick enough that there will be three types of offices: outside, inside and no-windows-at-all.
My two cents -

I could be wildly wrong, but it sounds like you want to start a company more because you know you want to be an entrepreneur than because (a) you have some idea that you are convinced will revolutionize the world and (b) you are convinced it is your destiny to bring this innovation to humankind.

If this is correct, given your age, I'd recommend either going to a school or working in an environment where you will be surrounded by really smart and ambitious people. This may not be the best way to find a co-founder right now but in my opinion, it will yield the best results in the long run. You are young enough that you can afford to invest in the future a little.

One point in favor of going to a really good school for college would be that it's the one option you have that you can't do when you're older (or at least it's a lot harder).
I don't have an strong opinion on the WiiU yet. I just think it's interesting that Nintendo is brave enough to not only try crazy ideas, but to also try them again even if they weren't total successes the first time. Illustration from Reddit: http://i.imgur.com/4GVMY.png
If you really consider this funny and worth sharing the text in its entirety as an HN comment, there is something very wrong with you.

There are limits to satire.
the limit is now $4000 not $10,000
Just shows how much real information is in tweets : not much :)
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I'm not sure either.

If it is encrypted, it would at least buy some time to replace all the certificates signed by this private key. Depending on the strength of the encryption key, obviously.
Of course, "just revoke" doesn't actually work: serving a outdated certificate revocation list, or preventing a connection to the OCSP ("is this cert revoked?") server causes browsers to trust "revoked" certificates. Worse, lots of software doesn't even bother to do this check. This is why the browsers hardcoded a list of compromised certificates last time.

This is even worse, though, because a lot of "real" certificates depend on this CA. Also, there are no logs to make a blacklist of "bad" certificates, so you can't just revoke a handful...
I did hear the suggestion that what they should really do with their cashpile do is buy up the entire Tenderloin and knock it down for a new Apple HQ.
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I bet he'd take that gracefully, most people have both up in the top percentile.
(1) Yes, the key is encrypted.

(2) This is not necessarily the private key used to sign other certificates.

(3) If they're lucky, this is a private key only used for their web server. OR, this key is an intermediate key. In which case they can invalidate it, create a new one, and reissue certificates for all the affected customers.
I can vouch for this. I never worked for any of the big 4, but worked with them on many occasions, when I was a consultant with a much smaller firm (<50 employees when I started, >200 when I left).

Consulting really is a great way to learn the ins and outs of business while earning a good salary and getting to travel. Combine it with writing lots of code and its a fantastic real-world education for a multitude of endeavors.
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I don't think this leak has included their own certificate authority key to allow you to generate your own key signed by the CA (which thinq claims), just the private key for the website, but it's certainly embarrassing for them.

They seem to have modified all the files in the directory overnight, and removed the offending www.certigna.fr files from http://www.certigna.fr/crl/ (unless the website has an archived directory that the thinq.co.uk writer was looking at)
Some artists do. Writing is an art, and breaking rules in art is not the same as breaking rules in programming.

If not, you just say "consistency is good" which also applies to architecture, painting and so on.
Just by looking at the PEM's number of lines you can tell it's a 1024 bit key.
Spot on. I think a hybrid approach would be good however as having maintained a huge static site, it's a pain in the arse getting templates etc right.

I actually have a static site generator that I wrote that uses Go to apply reusable templates (using the built in template package) and generate navigation that outputs static HTML only. The idea is that you store your HTML static documents in Mercurial, run the site through the site generator and rsync it to your web root. I really need to clean it up and chuck it on bitbucket.
It codifies the relationships between the parts - but also adds ceremony (the call, the method definition, the arguments). Whether this is a net gain depends. Probably the key is whether it feels like a conceptually distinct component - a theory or abstraction that you can build on. This is probably true even if it isn't reused (but typically coincides with it).

There was some "non-linearity": the interaction between parts increases (roughly) with the square of the number of parts: 4 parts have 16 directed interactions. Combinatorial explosion is a more accurate measure. If you can separate the parts into modules, that interact with only the caller, then the complexity increases linearly (but if many methods need to interact, then it's as if you wrapped all the cables up in one tie, and forced them all to go through the "main" method - not actually an improvement. However, it's rare for everything to interact with everything, and even then, it may be clearer to codify it somehow).

I also wanted to say that while proving correctness is important, the organization that is best for proving is not always the same organization that is best for human clarity (sometimes they are). It depends on what your goal is. Proving absolute correctness is not important for most programs (all software has bugs; bugfixes are common) - to sacrifice human clarity for correctness is usually not the optimal trade-off.
Well, unfortunately there are also other .pem files in the list.
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I've sold 2 BTC so far. MtGox says I have $59.58.

It's surprisingly painless.

I'm waiting about an hour to see how the market moves, before selling my other 3.

I'll let you know how much I have in the bank at the end of all this.

EDIT: I've sold all 5 bitcoins for a total of $150.21. MtGox transfers money using a service called Dwolla, which charges $0.25 per transaction.

This means I will walk with $149.96 after fees. Actual, US dollars. :)
But that doesn't mean their CA trusted root key has been disclosed - sure, the pem files could contain their trusted root key, but they normally wouldn't.

For example, the file named certigna.pem exists on most Linux machines, it's the public key not the private one, look at the ca-certificates package on debian.
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I'll second that - I have the same dev board I think if it's that really cheap TI one. Nice architecture and can run on ant farts for power.

For those people who use a Mac, just fire up Parallels/Bootcamp and Windows - it works fine and won't kill you (honestly).
Once upon a time I translated "The lake island of Innisfree" to Lojban.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/lojban/message/19725

Lack of reading materials is a problem, but I found that I enjoy writing or translating as much as reading.
What? In the U.S? When did they change it? I don't recall ever seeing that.
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"digital dollars have a lot of restrictions."

But, importantly, not the one he responded to "transferring physical property".
That's the private key itself. I was somewhat unclear in my wording. We (I and the grandparent poster) were wondering if the private key was encrypted with a passphrase.
Github makes it easier to track projects without having to download 3kb files only to forget about them several days later... And of course, there is the Git part.
Yeah, that is actually a very relevant precedence. Anti-money laundering laws once created to control the mafia took on a whole new meaning with the war on drugs and then again with the war on terror.

Governments (rightly) understand that the flow of money is the best tracer bullet available to them.

I'm certainly no expert, but I suspect that anonymous transaction brokers (eg Bitcoin exchanges) probably do fall foul of some anti-money laundering law.
I think that the point of original post is precisely that many do know and understand all the things you listed, but for some reason fail to apply them on the job.
Agreed and this is something that you can't say you are aware of because banks do not communicate of internal security measure checks.
As an example : I paid 1c on my own website via paypal while doing paiement integration test, and the transaction was blocked. I received a text message that told me to call the bank to authorize the paiement. I asked if it would block again for another test, but they have consigns to not answering that kinds of questions and I'm glad they did ;)
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They can't regulate P2P file distribution networks for the same reason. Doesn't stop them trying.
A little bit off topic: I was curious if you can really do something with bitcoins aside from speculation. It turns out that there are some places that accept bitcoins. But it seems that actually _using_ bitcoins as a currency instead of a speculative asset doesn't seem like a good idea right now:

The sites seem to either try to adjust prices often, or don't. The sites that don't are hopelessly overpriced: Let's say I want the biggest vps for sale at http://lightfoot.dashjr.org/?page=vps . I can either go through the hassle of buying 49 bitcoins for ~1450$ at mtgox to pay for the vps, or I could pay 118$ directly. Even the sites that adjust the price have a huge problem: If I convert dollars to bitcoins, I would be tempted to wait a couple of days and sell on mtgox and then buy the service with dollars.

So, buying stuff with bitcoins is not the best idea right now. If you want to do something with bitcoins, buy them and sell them at a higher exchange rate later. The only problem is that we all know that this can't go on forever. Therefore, the exchange rate is bound to go down sooner or later. If that happens, we would be in a mirror inverted situation: Selling stuff for bitcoins would suck. Prices would have to reflect the overhead of continuously adjusting prices and converting bitcoins, putting them at a disadvantage against "real" currency.

Price instability is poisonous for a currency. Some aspects of bitcoins lead to excessive speculation, and therefore, prices will always be unstable, therefore, there is no incentive to use bitcoins as a way to buy or sell (legal) goods.
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but which I saw I could now do with almost all subject areas.

Mmm, but you can't tho'. No-one can. What consultants do is fake expertise, then actually learn it on the time the client is paying for an expert. Not that that isn't a skill mind, but don't confuse it for something it's not.
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I'd be interested in that code. There's lots of static site generators out there already--and like so many procrastinating nerds I wrote my own--but it'd be a nice real-world example of Go and its Template package.
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The key difference between the old policy...

"provided that the same content is also offered in the app using IAP at the same price or less than it is offered outside the app."

...and the new...

"that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app, as long as there is no button or external link in the app to purchase the approved content. Apple will not receive any portion of the revenues for approved content that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app"

Now it appears that it's fine to show content that is subscribed for outside of the App Store ecosystem (but you may not link directly to your payment pages).
Thanks for the link.

I'm not surprised regarding Italy (where I had to produce a passport and get myself registered in order to use an internet cafe), but Sweden does surprise me.
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I'll clean it up and upload it when I get a chance - probably in the next couple of weeks. I'll post it to Show HN.
My experience (off and on-work) with Accenture was horrible.

A small anecdote (out of many):

I visited a good friend of mine, a true math and programming genius, who was in the middle of his PhD at the ETHZ. An acquaintance of my friend started to tell bullshit stories about his "heroic" job at Accenture. An untalented money whore if I ever saw one. If you know nothing and have the moral integrity of a human trafficker, it looks like you end up in consulting @ Accenture.

Buzzwords. Check. "Play the game or get lost" mantras. Check. "People making less than 100k are lazy bastards". Check. "All companies are rotting from within, our external consulting work is basically a gift of god". Check. Blah blah blah. He got a hard on from riling us up, the "naive idealists" we are.

Get real, son.
So to get this straight: the guy who took Apple's icon for syncing and added a wifi symbol thinks Apple ripped him off taking their icon for syncing and adding a wifi symbol? Who'd a thunk.
Being originally from a background and area where this is rife, I can only offer the following:

1. Change your mindset - Positive things happen to positive people, as basically they envision the positive result they want and engineer (either consciously or subconsciously) towards it. Negative people think they will always fail, hence don't try, hence fail, and vicious self-reinforcing circle repeats. This is hard to to when depressed, hence why you need to to change lifestyle as per following as example.

2. Take any job - It's not about doing something you love or pays well, but getting out of the house and changing your environment. A fresh/different perspective, new scenery, fresh air, and interacting with other (different) people always helps. It can also help you find structure and (different) routine in your life.

3. Focus on one change at a time - Thinking about everything at once can be overwhelming. Try and make one change at a time. Do the easiest (most achievable) things first. Success at them will make you feel good and help as building block to next (harder) thing.

4. Don't worry about external opinions of nay sayers - You are not in competition with others, only yourself, so as hard as it may be, focus on your path at the pace you are happy with and ignore what others say. The key thing is you keep moving forward, positively, even if only one step each day. Once you stop standing, and start moving, you will inevitably make progress, and that progress will help you move more.

5. Build income - Inevitably money is the cornerstone to fixing many problems in life, and with an income that meets your base needs, you may then be afforded the opportunity to do things you want to do, not have to. This could be something like hiring a carer a few days/hours a week so you have time to do something you want e.g. build your skills/portfolio/resume for a future step of a new/better job.

6. Do not be emotionally black mailed or feel guilt for wanting to live your life - We all have our paths to walk in this life and sadly there are people that will put you down or try to stop you for no good reason (i.e. your path is not self-destructive such as drug abuse) and its to do with what they want rather than what is best for you. No matter how hard it is to say this, or resentment parents/family may feel, but they have lived their lives and made their choices. You must live yours and make yours, even if in the immediate term it upsets people. In due time, most people realise things were for the good and the initial negative reaction such family has is more about the change itself rather than why/what change is for. One way to smooth this is to give people notice so change is not unexpected i.e. tell them you are telling them, tell them, tell them you told them, do it.
Let's take all the Apple stories to the Apple forums, too, while we are at it.
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Not to mention that they apparently tried to hire him.
I wish I was surprised, but this seems to happen with a lot of OS-extending apps on the iOS device. I've never heard of a game being banned from the app store, but as soon as it's something that Apple doesn't already have baked into the operating system...

It's been said before and it'll be said again: Playing in Apple's walled garden isn't a safe way to make a living.
I never mentioned anything about expertise. What I said was:

I also gained a lot of confidence in my abilities to pick up and absorb new things and become productive quickly - something that I knew I could do with technologies, but which I saw I could now do with almost all subject areas.

I think you're letting a prejudiced opinion of consultants get in the way of the article.
"The height of absurdity was reached, I believe, when I was asked to prepare the proposal for the preparation of a plan to produce a proof of concept for a module of a tool the client was implementing."

Wow, that sounds pretty inane.
That's about it - macros, boilerplate, constants. Straight from wikipedia the ultimate yuck:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/GObject_e...

I have no problem with C at all (I prefer it to C++).
Mhm. And the fact that he produced the first public implementation of this means that Apple isn't allowed to implement their own version — never mind the fact that such a feature requires lower level control than the App Store guidelines allows for its apps (meaning it's exactly the kind of feature that Apple should be implementing themselves, not App Store developers).
Any company with 100k+ people is going to have its share of idiots. I worked there for 4 years and, in my experience, this type of person was definitely a very small minority.

I'd blame the person rather than the company for this kind of terribly flawed character.
Ludicrous link bait headline and tabloid trash article from The Register.

Apple didn't copy the app, it sound like they were maintaining control of their interests; no one should be surprised by that given Apple's track record.

That's not to say Apple haven't copied others apps, they've positively trampled on a slew of third party apps with enhancements in Lion and IOS 5, but that's all part of the game at this point.
One step at a time.
I suggest getting a job at Starbucks.
http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/starbucks-to-the-rescue/...

Also I suggest listening to NYC WBAI Radio show "The Positive Mind by Armand DeMille" for anyone reading this.
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I'm pleased that they've made at least this change, but saddened that so many good services that used this functionality have already disappeared.
I think it's more fair to say that making things that should/could be OS features isn't a safe way to make a living. Or if you do want to risk it, just be aware that you should have a fallback plan.
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His peers probably think the same thing of him. It's rare to come across someone like that, but unfortunately they are sometimes around.
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