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> [..] it is a sure way of getting employment especially if one is studying a field in which employment is scarce outside of academia, say, philosophy.

Just a random observation, but having philosophers with an educational background teaching kindergarten is probably not such a bad thing.
Based on my month with a Chromebook, the only thing lightning-fast about it was its bootup. It was pretty choppy at rendering pages, while Chrome on my desktop was in fact lightning-fast.
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Well if you're going to rule out people who have fallen into a pit of debt these days, where do you think they'll go when they're back on their feet? To your company that snubbed them?
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Yeah, I suppose, but how do you get from that to the multi-hundred million dollar exits demanded by the investors on these deals? Compare those 60k on one day to the multiple millions every day that read local newspapers sites. How do you make something more and more and more local without reducing the number of people who care about it to near zero?

For example, at a conference like SXSW, you have x-thousand attendees with their smart phones. You can track where they all go for the whole event. But the number of people who would find that data useful (by my way of thinking at least) is quite small - the local vendors, the other attendees (who won't pay a dime for the service), who else?

How do you sell it to them and how much can you get? How do you monetize that in a way that isn't just glorified banner ads to a small market segment? How do you make it HUGE? That's where I have trouble.
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Those are the latencies I expect, though. And literal coast to coast distance does not take into account the structure of the network.
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Minor correction: On your front page (http://www.getchorus.com/) you have a carousel of screenshots from your product.

One of the screenshots (Trending Topics) is of spreadsheet/tabular data where the first item says "Frustrated (Repitition)" [sic]. You should remove the spelling mistake from the image as it is very apparent, being the first cell in the spreadsheet.
Like steve-howard said: You choose randomly from a large enough space. That way you can make collisions as improbable as you like.

(You can also add an identifier for each system and the current time, if you don't trust your source of randomness. But that's beside the point.)
The rhetoric of "battlefield" is over-done and unhelpful.

The US National Security Agency is a world leader if not the world leader in signals intelligence. Signals intelligence has been part of military intelligence for a long time (and military intelligence has alway been, uh, part of the military too for what its worth). It's well known how cracking encryption helped the US win WWII. It never stopped after that.

You and I don't know all details of how this works because naturally (for good or ill) that's how they operate (they being the NSA, NRO and the vast multitude of secret agencies out there).

You think someone histrionically describing signals intelligence as "a battlefield", saying "we need a Cyber Force, this is 'War!" makes much of a difference in the massive, massive investment and resources the US is now very actively using??
I hate this when startup does not reveal all the information to the hiring candidates.

Other than the founders, investors, advisors, disruptive product, humongous market, revenue stream (past/present/future), business model; the obvious thing is your offer.

Different components that include an offer is salary, perks (not food but medical insurance/plans, dental/vision,), yearly bonus if any (generally speaking startups do not have yearly bonus unless they are doing great on revenues but if they would be then they do not need money to raise), signon bonus (do not give too much importance since its one time) and the MAJOR component is the equity.

10,000 shares sounds like a lot but what does it exactly mean.

The company has 1M outstanding shares. That means 10,000 shares is equal to 1% of the company at that particular time. If the company goes and raises some more money, the company gets diluted which means additional shares are issued. Lets say with a round of financing, 100K shares were added. SO now you own (1M + 100K)/10000 = 0.9% of the company. What just happened is with the same no of shares your % in the company got reduced. So now the company will have to make a bigger exit in order for you to earn that money.

So go and ask the recruiter, what are the no of outstanding shares.
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and use of it as a battlefield as tragic Isn't that why it was invented in the first place? Just because it has grown in to something more doesn't mean it has completely cast off its military upbringing.
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Zerply is totally AWESOME.
My wife stopped letting our son play Angry Birds on her phone because of the scantily clad ladies advertising "meet sexy singles in your area". When will Adblock Plus port to Android?
Saying "AES-256-CBC and RSA 4096" isn't nearly enough detail to assess whether you know what you're talking about, and pushing me through a thread to the limit of what I personally know how to break is just going to give you false confidence, because I know less than a lot of people I know.

In case this is what you were implying: it is absolutely not the case that the big problem with OpenSSL is that it'll let you use Camellia in ECB or 512 bit ElGamal. The problem is that there are (a) more things you can do terribly wrong with AES-256-CBC than there are things you ar likely to do with wrong with, say, C memory handling, and (b) things you have to do well beyond encrypting soundly with AES-256-CBC to make your system work as a whole.
I officially have lost interest in tracking Facebook's nth iteration on privacy controls. Maybe they're good, maybe bad; but my attitude toward the news is: not interested any more. maybe I'll check back in, two or three iterations down the road.

In Other News: Facebook users driven to apathy can now be royally reamed by advertisers!
Really love these guys, the endorsements have so much meaning compared to connections. Keep up the great work team Zerply!!!
Lack of reliable free (or inexpensive) VOIP/Video conference even though I have 22Mbps/22Mbps. It is totally unacceptable to be dropped or clipped during a business conference call.

Also, lack of a inexpensive, easy to use conference bridging with global landline dial-in.
You're forgetting that those 10 million iPads were sold over many quarters. Re-do your math.

There is absolutely room for a low-margin low-cost tablet. The Kindle is one of them. But there isn't room for the HP Touchpad at HP. I kind of doubt there's room for the HP Touchpad anywhere, because it's intrinsically positioned against a superior product sold by an extremely competent company.
I think AC is, like Zimmerman above, talking mostly about the data-at-rest case when it refers to key management being the riskiest part. This is reasonable, because in the data-at-rest case, all cryptography does is replace a large secret (the plaintext you want to protect) with a small secret (the key you need to protect instead). If you already had a keeping-something-a-secret problem, then it's reasonable to presume that you will have almost as much of a problem keeping the key a secret.
Try Autofocus [1]. I quite liked it though I eventually gave it up as too simple.

[1] http://www.markforster.net/autofocus-system/
You had dental insurance and "a lot of appointments with the dentist" while looking for a job? This was paid for by scrubbing toilets at McDonalds, or while on unemployment/just unemployed? Forgive me for being skeptical, but this doesn't match with my experience, nor the experience of anyone I know.
It takes in anything your customers say in real time (tweets, blogs, surveys, but mainly email)

Then it analyzes all the data, figuring out who's happy, who's unhappy. You can then search the results. Main example: type in a product that your company sells, Chorus will tell you how your customers feel about it, how the feelings are changing over time, and what you need to address now to make your customers more happy.
First, _Applied_ is totally not just talking about data at rest. It's chock full of archaic challenge-response protocols and half-specified descriptions of asy key exchange schemes.

Second, even for data at rest problems, _Applied_ is a terrible resource.

Just get _Practical Cryptography_ and burn your copy of _Applied_. Schneier co-authored _Practical_. It's a great book.
> When you file a patent for invention like (dishwasher) you have to supply all the design drawings for the project.

Actually, you don't. Look at some patents, such as http://www.google.com/patents?id=TdUkAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&... .

Notice that the drawings for that showshoe binding patent are not "design drawings" for a snowshoe binding. (Those drawings are lacking a lot of dimensions that one would need for such a product.)

You have to provide information that tells someone skilled in the art how to do what you claimed. That's it.

FWIW, "What you claimed" is rarely a complete product. Instead, it's an aspect that can be used in multiple products. (While I don't know where else one might use that snowboard binding mechanism, I'm sure that someone else does.)
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They eventually cite her for not having a business license. I honestly don't know who has the better chances on that in court. Does AirBnB have a policy about that?
And here's where I clear this BS and remind everyone that it is NOT copyrighted, and NOT trademarked and CBS has no right to it (and does not claim to).

I am the author of the LCARS Reader iPad app and have been bullied by CBS many times. Their own general council however admits to having no legal basis for their claims.

What CBS does have is expensive lawyers that usually get their way.
The number and nature of the flaws in TLS actually give me more confidence in it. It's not that other systems don't have similar or worse flaws; it's that these kinds of flaws are a cast iron bitch to find, and TLS is the protocol with the maximum incentive for study.

Give it time; we'll find something horrible out about ISAKMP.
When Zimmerman wrote that, you'd get sued by RSA if you shipped a product with public key crypto in it. Those patents expired.
I need to know more.

Right now (though without any contractual guarantees I'm aware of) Time Warner hands me via DHCP a publicly routable IPv4 address that doesn't change except during extended outages, which don't happen very often (the address stays the same through brief outages - less than an hour every month or so). Effectively, I can initiate a connection to my home machine. There are no explicit data caps, though if TWC were to start slowing things down after more thann 100Gbyte per month, I wouldn't know. Tomorrow I could find out that TWC has decided to use NAT'd private addresses and quenching at 40Gbytes, and I'd lose all that, with the only recourse being to use AT&T ADSL.

I haven't adopted use of any dependencies on high bandwidth - no internet backups, no TOR participation, yell at the kids when they torrent anything already available to them on Netflix.

TWC business class effectively guarantees the features which I'm getting but not paying for - for an extra $200/month. I would pay that if I were running a server for customers, but I'm not.
Does anyone actually get any value out of LinkedIn? I've had an account for years and the only thing its done for me is sell my email to recruiters.
I think a lot of passion behind this comes from Googlers having this kind of connection at work :)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/894208160.png
It's interesting, but the heat I guess goes away over time? Can't type messages to others or anything?
Yeah, quite a lot actually. You might also want to check out broadband and wi-fi, also very popular.
Agree that endorsements are extremely valuable in a professional network. And, making it much easier to weigh in on endorsing someone should increase this activity. I also might not be willing to endorse every aspect of a person, (so would be unwilling to write out a paragraph of endorsing them), but I would be willing to endorse the one aspect of their professionalism I am willing to put my own name behind.
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Neat. To get started, try entering "UJP" in the top box, and hitting the button. Then translate that field, or let Chrome keep doing it for you (that's a handy feature). You can dive into companies and even individual transactions, though I haven't seen any itemized receipts yet :)
I'll have to go and ask my Slovenian co-worker about this tomorrow. Sounds interesting.
The best solution is education. Its the first thing they teach security auditors. Just about all of the really hard problems in security have solved solutions that really do thwart attackers. The issue is that both organizations and regular users do not know how to actually use them correctly.
I love the video about everyone having to be on LinkedIn but they can't answer the question what it does for them.
I got tired of the constant email updates about who is connected to whom and people that I should be connected with (yeah, I know you can turn that off, but ehh *linkedin offered no value to me) so I closed my account.

I must give them koodos on how easy they make closing an account.
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OpenSSL does at least provide some high level interfaces now - EVP_Seal* & EVP_Sign* (and their inverses, EVP_Open* and EVP_Verify*) seem reasonable.
Zerply may be the best thing since sliced bread in its design, but I'm not going to be the one to spam all of my business connections with yet-another-social-network.

If I started getting lots of invites from people I trusted, then I might consider joining. But I'd never even heard of them before reading this article.

LinkedIn goofed up ONCE in allowing your face in ads when you have some connection to the company. That's nowhere near as slimy as Facebook putting your face on ads you'd never even CLICKED on (famously a woman saw her HUSBAND in a picture advertising a singles site...), and that's just the tip of Facebook's privacy betrayals.

And since LinkedIn has a totally dominant market share (and mind share) in "business connections," it's going to likely take a lot more than a better design and easy import to dethrone them.

It looks like the hook is "use us to host your online resume! We'll make it pretty!" That approach has some potential; I'll keep my eyes open for a Zerply-hosted resume moving forward.
I find it curious that most users on this poll would not pay more than $100 for Google fiber speed.

I already pay about $100 for my OK-but-not-great 7Mbit DSL service.

The DSL service itself is only $50, but I also have to pay $50 for a land phone line I never use.

Not that I want to give the cable company any money, but they don't serve my apartment building, so DSL is my only option.

I'd happily pay twice this for Google's service.
I am looking forward to seeing what Zerply can do now that they have our attention.
In the same vein, I'd rather endorse a particular ability or skill someone has than an entire position they held like LinkedIn makes you do. In an economy where we have periodic high unemployment, your skills are more important than how long you have held a particular job.
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I can, get in touch.
I sit around hoping that they'll sell my email to recruiters. Y'know, for a job I actually want.

I've only had one recruiter approach me in several years on linkedin (and even he didn't have anything more interesting to sell me than DE Shaw, who had already collected my resume for their "Hey look how many people we reject" pile).
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Isn't this an obvious marketing play by people behind Zerply?

edit: Look at the one line positive comments that appeared straight after posting this article. Really funny.

Besides the general attention that an article like this gives this is also a perfect SEO tool.

Personally, what I think that these dudes are doing is building a linking pyramid that passes on the famed Google juice from Y Combinator (PR 7) via the blog article (contextual links, a big thing after the Google Panda update) to their own site.

Anyone can find person X to write a semi-beliveable article about their service or tool and submit it here. Clever stuff but not clever enough.

Actually, kind of dumb, because sooner or later, people running this message board will have to rethink what types of articles can be linked to.
Yes, actually. I've been able to reconnect with past coworkers who I otherwise would have had a hard time tracking down.

I also no longer need to maintain another resume online. It IS my online resume. And instead of saying "recommendations available on request", they're right on that same page.

Finally, it's a way to find people to work with you, if you're hiring. If you're always on the "being hired" side of the equation and never on the "hiring" side, then you won't experience that, but it's hard to find good people, and it's great to have friends-of-friends available as a resource.
As far as I can tell, teachers don't take up the majority of spending, though. It varies a lot by school district, but typical figures are that ~40-45% of education spending is on classroom teachers' salaries, with a declining trend compared to a few decades ago (when it was more common to have 50-60%).
> I sit around hoping that they'll sell my email to recruiters. Y'know, for a job I actually want.

Exactly. If they had a way to mark a job from a recruiter as irrelevant which caused their account to be flagged then they may create an actually useful service for job seekers, but until then I just keep getting emails about .net jobs in Omaha.
The thing I like about Zerply is finding people to work with. Which is kinda the point of a professional network when you think about it.

It's only fairly new, but I think the value will come from endorsements more than connections.

If you're looking to hire a developer, does it really matter if you know me or know someone that I know. What's the point of linking to people you already know anyway?? If you're looking to hire someone, it's far more important to understand their reputation than it is to understand how you're connected to them.
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LinkedIn is like my credit score. I have no use for it now, but I might need it one day, and having it ready for One Day requires less than 30 seconds of thought/week.
How about just convincing Verizon to sell the higher speeds to those who want them, at a higher price? The hardware's there, but their most expensive FiOS business connections are far short of Google's numbers.
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Ask HN: How do you "read"/understand/interpret existing code for software?
You are looking at a chuck of code that is 1000 lines long...

- Say if the code has little to no documentation.

- Say that variables are mostly named with acronyms.

- Say there are 20 if statements including nested.

I am a very visually oriented person so i find it difficult.

What techniques do you use to understand what is happening?
Yes. LinkedIn does most of the things it says it does for our business.

Things not to do on LinkedIn: post job ads; pay for "super" account; pay for special magic messages.

Otherwise, LinkedIn is pretty great.

If you're not actually on the business side of a business, I can see why you'd think it was useless.
15ms, one way, in a vacuum, going directly.

When you start to factor in things like the fact that light travels 1/3 as fast in a glass fiber as it does in vacuum, routing overhead, and the fact that ping is a round-trip measurement, 60-100ms is about normal.
I'm sorry, I don't get it then -- is the plan to force me to enter one before visiting a site? Or are they just display ads with text fields?
* I frequently use Wikipedia as a source of information on a TV series, ... *

So do I, and it's quite handy. But if Wikipedia is to be the host for what is, essentially, mass-media trivia, then why would it not also be the host for arguably less mundane content, such as a page on Randal Schwartz. Or me, for that matter?

It just depends on how Wikipedia's owners decide to handle it. But they're currently defining themselves as an encyclopedia.
a few more were listed previously but for some reason no longer appear in the article:

Hiptic: Stylish, single page websites for everyone.
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Pingm: Phone systems for sales teams.
https://www.pingm.net/

Yardsale: Local mobile peer to peer commerce.
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http://www.getbentobox.com/
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Didn't YC classes used to be much much smaller?

It's great publicity having the YC name attached to your startup, but it's a lot of companies to look at in a single sitting. Surely, each one gets a bit less time and attention, which devalues the publicity somewhat.
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Comcast has a link with Tata Communications that it apparently runs at a 100% capacity day in day out

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg15911.html

To be clear, that is Comcast's fault because they're too cheap to buy more bandwidth.
Not that I dislike Asus, I've never had any of their products. But where have they proven the technology leadership this post promotes?

I admit, I've seen some nice Asus hardware around, and the slider and transformer seem to be nice devices. I think it completely misses the point when comparing 'specs' to the touchpad or the ipad. Most people don't care about the specs, aside from memory.

To compete with Apple, a competitor will have to out-do Apple, not be a comparison. The way to compete is to change the game. Apple is not the only company that can do this.

Maybe Asus is the one, but this post hasn't convinced me.
Agreed - I have both already, I haven't burnt AC yet though (I find it occasionally useful for identifying which oddball 90s cipher a developer has gotten it into their head to use - yes, I have actually seen "3-Way" used in anger...)
Interesting demo, I did a similar one but with mouse movement: http://www.patrick-wied.at/projects/multiuser-heatmap/ but I think my server wont handle lots of users since I'm using an early version of Ajax Push Engine. nowjs seems to perform really good.

Btw: nice solution for the "too much data" for heatmap.js (at the initial heatmap rendering) issue :)
No, it was on the Google Fiber network at their house (in Stanford). To speak of one is to speak of the other, currently.
Sorry, but AdBlock on a game like Angry Birds IS stealing.

Rovio certainly has a lot of money, but other developers aren't so lucky -- and many are barely scraping by.

Try investing nearly $5000 and seven months of your life in developing a game that's being ad supported, where your income relies on ads, and then watch people joke about blocking them. It sucks, trust me.