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I don't think the scalability is as much of an issue as you think. The current system allows a trusted CA (or untrusted if you are OK with warnings) to issue a cert to a malicious party for, say, facebook.com. This means that in aggregate it is difficult to trust the reliability of a cert that a browser receives.

The strength of the Sovereign Key is that once facebook.com issues a Sovereign Key, no one can possibly produce a key that is valid for facebook.com unless facebook.com revokes its key, which is a cryptographically secure process that only facebook.com can perform using its private key.

This largely alleviates the problem you describe. One can be relatively lax in distributing new sovereign keys, because there is no way to attack an existing one by granting another. One still has to be a little careful in granting them because a site without a sovereign key might be attacked by creating one in its name controlled by a malicious third party, but it's not as dangerous as the current system where granting an overly broad certificate to Joe Schmo can compromise google.com's SSL.
One problem with this versus jsfiddle.net is that if your code shows an alert, it will show it again after every keydown.
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Are you joining as an employee, or as an investor? Because if you're not an investor, your ties to the financial state of the company begin and end with the paycheck that shows up on your desk every Friday.
North Korean State Television Says Kim Jong Il Is Dead
So, why is insider trading illegal again?
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> Any student of history will tell you that this is exactly when states transform from free nations to fascist states.

No, absolutely not, that's not how it happens. Go back and read your history books. Also, Godwin is not on your side.
I wish I could upvote that at least twice - once for the game-theory bit, and once for the tracking-effort bit. Those are both excellent insights.
N. Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies
Only it scaled better.
Honestly, I forgot server-side image maps existed. Does anyone use them (or even client-side image maps) anymore?
Actually, thanks to the economics of computer startups, the big players, if they were held to the same standards as everybody else, are worse off. They have fewer people-per-post than smaller sites, not more. It's that whole scaling thing that is the reason why computer startups can be so exciting and lucrative.

Of course, the key phrase here is "if they were held to the same standard as everybody else". Though I think the second-order effects of SOPA would be more bizarre on something like Facebook than you'd think at first blush. The mere fact that they could still be legally shut down in a heartbeat still can't help but have a profound effect on their world even if the trigger is never actually pulled for fear of generating an uproar.
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This is a link to the home page of the NYT. I think you meant this: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/12/18/world/asia/AP-AS-...

(Curiously this was on the front page with 5 points (!) by the time I found it.)
The legal system can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
It's deplorable that people like PG insist on age as a criteria for the YC application :-(
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, 69, Has Died
Hopefully this is the beginning of North Korea opening a dialog with the rest of the world. His air designate, his 3rd son is western educated. Hopefully everyone on the
Korean peninsular can look forward to a safer brighter future.
The son will clearly not be able to retain power, so now it's a question of whether they get a military dictatorship or the system implodes and they get a chance to start anew.
(OP here) Yup, that's the app - surprised you found it!

Hmm... If you think all it needs is a visual makeover and some marketing, how about I give you the source code and remove my version from the app store, and you can make it over and see how you go? If you have some success, all i want is for you to give me some marketing tips, let me know what you did that worked. Anyone up for this? My email's on my blog.
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I wish I could say that public announcement of his death would lead to better lives for all North Koreans but sadly that isn't the case.
Kim Jong-Il has died
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Hmmm, this year has not been kind to eccentric dictators.
Hell it allowed the government to block the release of an independently produced film, by the group Citizens United. It's crazy that anyone could think that's ok.
I'm curious at to what statistical facts inform that opinion. Police certainly may show up after being a victim of a crime, but being protected from crimes seems a harder case to make without resorting to unfalsifiable claims (sort of like those put forth by defenders of patent law).
Think what you like, by all means. I think your comment is shallow, and a disservice to humanity in general.
For a few minutes, there was only a line of text at the top of the NYT home page. It took them some time to put up an article.
Kim Jong Il dies at 70
"clearly"? Please elaborate, I have heard speculation in both directions since he was announced as the successor (last year? year before?).
It would be nice if HN could at least add a link to the raw PDF.

I wonder if PG even uses scribd himself?

For me the builtin PDF-Viewer in chrome works perfectly fine whereas scribd is a terrible experience.
The flip side to this is that older teams, more aware of their limits, may play a more conservative game, funding more carefully from operations, and the like. This means also less of a need for VC funding, and it means less of an opportunity for VC's to leverage successive rounds to dilute founder's shares.

In other words, lower risk, lower rewards.
True, though eccentric is far too kind a word.
Lots of cross-currents in this article.

The premise focuses on "internet founders" which invariably celebrates software development over hardware development.

Okay. But the truth is, an enormous amount of innovation continues on the hardware side, and those development teams and founders are not generally under 25.

Heck, if MSL Curiosity suddenly sputters on Mars it will probably be due to a gray hair making contact somewhere.
How about a black banner, pg?
Yeah, 2005 Reddit would probably be pretty screwed. Areas with a lot of user generated content might calcify if this big barrier to entry comes in, and only the big incumbent players are safe. I imagine the fact that govt. clearly wants this is probably already going to have a chilling effect on riskier areas, even if nothing gets passed.
"died on Saturday of physical and mental over-work."
His propaganda machine is still alive and well.
Meh, I'm an old-timer and you know what? I don't long for the days where a minor fuckup had you redo a large slab of exactly the same damn thing over and over. There are so many games out there to enjoy these days that there's no point in wasting time to defeat an artifically difficult situation. "Yeah! I defeated Marioclone 239b level 23! I am the man!" just doesn't cut it anymore - bragging rights about mere timesinks are a thing of the past.

Sure, some difficulty is nice, but be careful of the rose-coloured glasses of nostalgia.
What is the black bar policy out of interest?
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Instead of an SSH tunnel, I route a web address and use a VirtualHost to access local ports.

For example, I route http://blah.example.com to my home server, then use VirtualHost to route blah.example.come to port 8080
Current laws, maybe - I'm no lawyer, and won't pretend to know the answer.

But I asked if people actually expect that it reasonably should stay that way. I see many people indignant about the idea of collecting sales tax for internet purchases. I'm not sure if that's because of the undue burden on the collector (a solvable problem) or if they really think interstate transactions on the internet should be exempt from taxation forever.
Kim Jong Il Has Died
> Is it morally valid to do ilegal stuff because one believes that the law is wrong?

I say yes with absolute conviction. If the law is immoral, it is immoral to follow it.

This is an extreme example, but it supports my position--It was illegal to harbor Jews during the Nazi's reign. If, in Germany in 1939, you turned in your neighbor for harboring Jews, you were most definitely acting immorally, and your lawbreaking neighbor was acting morally.
Will be interesting to see if his son and chosen successor is able to retain power and persure a similar governing style. Seems like the perfect opportunity for change in North Korea.
I don't think I mentioned the Nazi's, but since you bring it up.

"From the prosperity of the empire during the Wilhelmine era (1890-1914), Germany plunged into World War I, a war it was to lose and one that spawned many of the economic crises that would destroy the successor Weimar Republic."

"During the Hitler era (1933-45), the economy developed a hothouse prosperity, supported with high government subsidies to those sectors that tended to give Germany military power and economic autarky"

Economic crises inducing a transition from democracy to plutocracy/fascism, and massive military spending, ending in wars on multiple fronts.

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

I suppose I should also qualify my statement as "dominant states". Since the most common way for small states to be converted to fascism is by the dominant state (i.e. USA) installing fascist/authoritarian governments for them. So I concede that, in general, you may be right.
In HK you can dive in/out pretty much indefinitely, as long as you don't (and I really mean DON'T) overstay, even by 1 minute.

My US friends have been doing it for two years, I'm English and have been doing it for 15 months (but we brits get 6 months at a time)

They'll screw you if you overstay.

tl;dr: HK != China.
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pg places a black bar on top of the orange bar when some one significant dies.
We've educated many dictators and even more of their lackeys and family members. US-educated means very little in these situations.
You'd think god would have done something sooner.

EDIT: This joke going over a few heads?
I wonder if his son's violent statements toward SK will turn into violent actions.
Another article that shows HN turned into a regular American newspaper.
I am also in Brisbane, though the roles I'm looking at aren't necessarily in IT; this problem does not seem specific to the IT industry here.
Kim Jong Il's likely successor
"There were a good spread of skills, with the vast majority checking web development, and far too many checking other (who are you and what do you do 47%!?)"

Are you trolling us? The survey questions only had spots for web dev, design, ios and android. What about working on metrics, databases, desktop software, games, systems programming or just general server side code?
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Why not? Certainly there are a large number of historical counter examples to that statement. The old guard dying off leaving more progressive elements in the leadership to bring on reforms in a country. The death of Mao in China and the trial of the Gang of Four marking the end of the Cultural Revolution. The death of Franco in Spain and the transition to a constitutional monarchy.
God doesn’t exist: it’s simply an interjection. One that expresses my gladness over the death of someone who is legitimately an evil person.
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I wonder if his son is prepared for the massive power play that will come from the military brass over the next few months.
Much easier to bully your way into a shot caller role as a VC if your portfolio companies are being run by inexperienced managers. An important part of that is convincing your stars to "spend big" and burn through the cash quickly so you can take larger positions before revenue catches up.
Yeah, I think everyone will be watching closely to see where this goes.

This is a two-year-old article but it's pretty interesting to read: "North Korea After Kim Jong Il: Four Scenarios" http://www.nps.edu/Academics/centers/ccc/publications/Online...
This is a big blow to http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/
To expand on what phil is saying: It is by itself logically consistent for someone to decide that there's enough fun left in their life and enough stuff that they need to do that they don't want to die now even if they don't necessarily mind dying in the indefinite future.
Certainly, but with a more balanced perspective available to his son (who may or may not succeed in any case) isn't it more likely than would be otherwise that he will proceed with reforms that see a lessening of tensions and bring about a true peace on the peninsular?
You don't think this headline will be running across all the world's newspapers tomorrow?
After his death, Kim Il-sung was declared the country's Eternal President.

Could it be possible to take control of North Korea by getting a plant in there, killing Kim II Sung and his family and then using his power to work behind the signs and use the totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship to morph the country into a free capitalistic republic? Sounds like something the special forces could do in a few weeks, it just has to be a surprise so the military doesn't get a chance to respond.

Not doing anything seems cruel and unusual punishment. We may be born there in your next lives, wouldn't you want someone to do something about it?
IIRC the NK first family isn't US educated but rather Swiss.
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I run a simulation football game called http://deeproute.com

So far the biggest mistake I believe I've made is not cheating to help players win. I made a brutally difficult simulation game.

We have tons of players quit simply because the game is too hard. Because you are 1 person versus 31 other people, there is only 1 winner, and 31 losers.

People don't like this.

Compare this to our competitors, and they make losses not exist, and otherwise "cheat" the experience so everyone is above average.

The worst player in the games, looks like he is the best.

There has to be a happy medium somewhere, and I am the ruthless simulation side of it for now. (Trying to figure out how to change...)
you're right that the isolated assertion is not at all sensible, but the wider context is that you are considering all possible algorithms and the sequences that they generate, and looking for some way of compressing as many of those as possible. you should read one of chaitin's books for a better idea (they're generally "accessible", but at some point you just give up trying to make complete sense of it all...)

in other words, you are choosing your compression for one particular algorithm (the one that generates omega - you could go further and say it's 1 for omega and 0 for everything else). this is a common problem in arguments about compressibility (if we're only trying to compress beethoven's ninth then i can do that in one bit too) - you have to be talking in an "average" or statistical sense for things to be useful.

having said that, the exact nature of what they're saying is still not clear to me (ie it's not clear exactly how the details of the argument work out, or how this eventually ties back to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannons_source_coding_theorem).
Kim Jong Il has died
Well, that too of course. :)
I think he thinks exactly that. Which is why it makes a bad HN submission. Flagged.
Talk about good timing.

With the political climate of change in afrika and middle east, this might be a great reason for the goverment to tear itself apart as various factions try to take over 'in the name of the people'

We do live in exciting times
I've lived in South Korea for two years and this is the most I've ever heard people talk about Kim Jong Il or North Korea. Even the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in 2010 didn't generate this much talk. This is also the first time I've ever heard anyone tell a joke about North Korea. People are telling jokes in the street right now.
Thanks! Transmission and distribution don't get the attention they deserve, it's true. I think storage can change that, though :-)
> This joke going over a few heads?

That this isn't reddit seems to have gone over both your heads.
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Yeah, Brisbane is suffering from too many people, not enough companies. We're not as out-of-the-way as say, Adelaide, but there's really nothing there to draw companies.

Oh well, maybe if enough disgruntled workers get fed up enough, they'll start their own successful start-ups, and draw other companies to the area.
The OP is probably better suited to Reddit. But I take your point, will try and refrain from spiteful digs.
What joke? Four, well reasoned and exceptionally well written petitions have gone up to this very website and the administration responded with insultingly dismissive answers that did not, end the end, address anything.
It's very coarse and clear as far as I'm concerned.

Speech != money. Talk/write/etc all you want. Even spend money on spreading your "voice". But, giving people money or "in kind" is clearly bribery and not speech.
I don't give a piece of shit to international politics. If I did, I would read globalsecurity.org which does it very well.

BTW American newspapers are much more interested at the politics of other countries because of the leadership of US.
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Site link: http://skipthegifts.com

With non profits and people struggling to make ends meet, prominent public figures have called on us to support charities instead of giving gifts this holiday season. The problem as a gift giver is knowing whether the recipient would prefer a gift or a charitable donation. Makes it easier if the recipient declares that they would prefer to forgo gifts and donate to a cause.

This is the gap Skip the Gifts tries to fill. You can register to receive cash instead of gifts and donate the cash to any cause. The person donating still declares what they would have given you, so the thought behind the gift is preserved.
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Honestly I find it in a bad taste. Also, there is nothing to ashame about using IE especially IE9. It's truly a decent enough browser.
I flagged it too. I don't know why you're downvoted. I wanted to say sth for myself, but maybe I'll stick to quoting the guidelines:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
Please can we have two HNs.
What's an example of the kind of jokes South Koreans tell about Kim?
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Well, we aren't using my grandmother's computer programming language much (Fortran).... Thank goodness ;-) hahahahah
Get some video! I'd love to hear what others are saying.
Flagged also. A million places I can go for this sort of news.
I think it's specifically only for someone significant to the computing/hacker community.
Online petitions exist to harvest email addresses so they can hit you up for donations and volunteering during the campaign. They're an easy way for campaign staff to build a mailing list of people politically engaged enough to be worth spamming.
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He's been grooming Kim Jong Un (his son) for quite a while now.
Look how fast the Kim Jong Il tweets are coming in
The accepted message length is less than the limit for Twitter. Small is good. Microscopic, not so much. I figured I would just let my message find its own way back to Mozilla from here.
This is something of a trope. In Imperial China the death of an emperor was often ascribed to "積勞成疾", which literally translates to "illness from accumulated labor".
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IE6/7 have left so many mental scars on developers over the years that I think "IE" will evoke those two for developers for many years after it stops being objectively worse.
North Korea is very skilled at manipulating world opinion to seem like a rogue state. They know very well that their existence depends on never taking action, no matter what they say.

Think of them like a crazy family member that keeps in trouble unless people pony up cash and you pretty much have their entire strategy in a nutshell.
The surface will probably be quiet for a bit, while the internal political machine of the DPRK roils. There are certainly a lot of possibilities (both good or bad) that can happen depending on who actually takes over control. Even if the regime collapsed non-violently, the ensuing chaotic human crisis would still be immense. My belief is that it will continue largely unchanged for the short to mid term.
Surely there are better ways to support a candidate than money. If you want to donate something to a candidate, donate hours of your time toward their campaign. If you have easily stated reasons for supporting a candidate, you will be more likely to get more supporters for said candidate with your word of mouth than with your money.
Hardly, HN only covers world events with real global significance. I enjoy reading HN users takes on this kind of news as I find it interesting to discuss this kind of news but comments on mainstream news sites are terrible and I don't really have the time to invest in other sites with quality comments who cover this stuff in far higher volume.
Frank Lloyd Wright was considered washed up and done in his 30s after a successful period. Most of his greatest works came late in his life. The Guggenheim museum, just as an example, was designed just before his death.

Ray Kroc was already in his 50s when he bought out McDonalds and turned it into the success we know of now.

The point of seizing the moment is to make the most of right now, not make you feel guilty about the past.