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If "Open File" (which may or may not mean a dialog) is a service provided by the Operating System, then there is no reason why a sandboxed application would have access to anything more than the particular file you have open.

People have been researching other security models for decades now. I'm afraid I have to say: they're way ahead of you!
seems like an empty list, they don't even have Mint for the "Money/finance/ consumer fightback" category....but they made sure to give Twitter related stuff its own category...wtf
A presentation made at a local refresh meetup about Kallow a new way to buy electronics
Videos are dangerous?
I'm not sure why TechCrunch thinks their readers care about how the PR industry works.
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There is a reason it's called "Safe Sleep". If you have forgotten to save files or a number of other thing and get powerloss RAM only suspends are gone. That could really suck.

Personally I can live with the extra small delay. I've toyed with these settings before. Suspend only to disk is too unstable because it's trying to write to disk while you are moving the laptop around closing it/picking it up/etc RAM only sucks when you loose power. I'm happy to stick with the default.

I would like it if someone wrote something that suspended to RAM and then copied to disk when the tilt monitored guaranteed it was safe and then turned off the computer. When traveling the power suck from powered suspend is really annoying.
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I wouldn't want to. I can barely tolerate family reunions now, no need to make them fill a stadium.
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Is it moral to charge for food? Water? Heat? For tutoring or teaching? If I've learned something in my years and I want to make the world better by passing it on, through software or any other means, I'm morally obligated to find a way to sustain it. I personally also feel morally obligated to educate my children so that they can do the same.

The best model man has yet developed for allowing people's talents to be used to their fullest is business.

I disagree with your implication that I am somehow immoral for selling software. In fact, I am a little annoyed.

(Edit: but I did upmod because it's an interesting POV that deserves to be heard.)
Anyone have any idea what the comment about "France, Germany, and the Netherlands" in the end alluded to?
Spend it on your own time to bone up on PR and marketing tactics. There have been many posts on HN about this before so I won't repeat their advice, but there are probably popular blogs (and other sites) in your niche who could drive serious buyers to you if you're on top of your PR game.
Does anyone use dutch auctions in practice? They are more complicated, and if you have small increments there is no difference from what I suggested (a 31st-price auction). With big increments there is just rounding error. Or do I miss something?
10 $100 lunches with people who can connect you with people who will buy your product, or lunches with your engineers about who would buy the product and how to pitch it to them.

Give away a copy or two or a few months service for customers that recommend another customer. Can do the same with employees that refer a company to you.

Old fashioned letters. ($1000 will go a long way in stamps).

An advertisement in a trade magazine. Or, conversely, quite a few subscriptions to trade magazines where you find out the names of companies who are looking for what you sell.
I'm not sure where you're coming up with this "real security of VMWare" idea:

(1) VMWare has had plenty of security problems, ranging from guest-hopping attacks to remote code execution.

(2) If VMWare is more resilient than Win2k3 or Linux, it's because VMWare does less and has less of an attack surface.

(3) In any realistic compute environment, VMWare adds security concerns; it doesn't subtract them. That's because you still care about the security of your guest OS, even when it's running underneath VMWare, because that's where your actual data lives.
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You could have a law, if you take anti-aging meds you must leave the planet.
I feel like their cashcow is Basecamp and people would be hard pressed to ditch their project management app
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I thought about building one on my own when watching the video, but I haven't even built anything simple before. Maybe I need the challenge to get me interested.
Example #489643876834 of why you, a very smart, very capable developer, should not be writing crypto code. Rule #1: if you have to type the letters A-E-S or S-H-A into your code, you're doing it wrong.
Your typical non-IT SME tends to invest in IT after a big sale / raising new investment - as this does not happen every month, I'm inclined to agree with you Sir.
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You're making this harder than it needs to be. Your tenant market isn't "freelancers," it's "freelancers who can afford $x/month." You just need to decide how much "x" is based on the desirability of the space.

Basing rent on what it costs you to service the place is OK if you just want to keep the space occupied, but not if you intend to make money. So make the decision: which is it? Profit or occupancy?

I was a landlord for a few years and had to deal with this every time a lease expired; it isn't rocket science.
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Plenty of well-regarded crypto protocols use timestamps to prevent replay. The nonce isn't a panacea; you have any number of design pitfalls to deal with when trying to secure a message with a random number, too.
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If there were 40 sides of the road to choose from, and the side you drove on depended on the time of day and the color of your car, then yes, Colin, I would say driving on the correct side of the road would be hard too.

Have you ever, in your whole career, worked with a team that wrote their own crypto and got it right in version 1? Because I haven't.
I find myself doing a lot of site searches for LifeHacker
Can you please give me the links regarding the posts ? that will help me :)
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And because Tumbler is basically a dumbed-down version of the RADIUS protocol, you still wound up with the same major security flaw: if you sniff a Tumbler message off the wire, you can crack it with an incremental SHA256 cracker (which is much faster than Unix crypt).

You told people to pick good "passwords"; you should change the language to say "generate good 128 bit random strings".
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Is Clinton actually a talented musician? I thought he just knew how to play some.
>But what does the return on capital look like in 2008 versus 1408? It is much, much higher.

No it isn't. See table 2 here: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:K7gncYlDrYQJ:www.econ.uc...

Think of it this way: there is only so much wealth being produced in the world. Increasing lifespan by itself does not increase wealth (unless it increases the proportion of people who are of working age, but at most that would less than double it). So, if a large proportion of people are going to be equivalent to today's millionaires or billionaires, where's all this wealth going to come from?
Wow - congrats guys. And great press following that knock off site covered on TC.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you don't sound like you know too many of the very poorest Americans. They are in debt, or completely insolvent, living a life of vagrancy, homeless, family-less, mentally disturbed, and diseased, often terminally. Kings lived lives of prestige and luxury.
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So your assumption is life is pointless so kill yourself? Are you going to be the first person to test this laughably pessimistic hypothesis?

I'm a thousand times smarter than my pet rabbit, I've yet to even try suicide because its patently moronic. If human beings were a thousand times smarter than they are today then there's a high probability that less people will commit suicide as they'll finally be smart enough to realize it's not a solution to a problem.

Human culture is so diverse that even in 1000 years you'd barely manage 5 years in each country on the planet. I mean just look at how different human culture is today than it was 1000 years ago. We're talking the difference between Monarchy and Democracy in the entire western world.

There's no law of conservation of information, there's no finite limit to the amount of data in the universe. It's not like once a thousand books have been written you're stuck with them, there's going to be more and more unique information as the universe ages. A being with an infinite lifespan is going to have a lot of time experiencing all there is for humanity to offer before it even has to create something itself, even then it could likely explore the universe to find another culture to experience. I'm sure if you're going to live forever and spent 10,000 years experiencing humanity, it might not seem too long to take a quick 100 year jaunt to another star system to spend 10,000 years experiencing alienity.
I remember a great story from Sandra Kurtzig's book "CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from the Ground Up". She demoed her package to her first customer. He was wowed and asked , "How much?" She was worried about overpricing, but she said "$50,000" anyway. And when he didn't blink, she added, "per module." And when he still didn't object, "per year."

It really depends on who your customer is. Many managers have discretion up to $1000, so a few hundred dollars is not a hard sell. Above that gets into the corporate approval cycle. If you are selling enterprise software, you can get away with $2500 per seat, but then your selling cycle becomes months long.

If you are selling to consumers, maybe only a few dollars or a few $10's of dollars. Think TurboTax. Developers are the really cheap bastards, maybe $.05, But they can probably talk their managers into spending a couple of hundred dollars.
"radically large market shifts are unlikely and that all price changes are statistically independent; today’s fluctuations have nothing to do with tomorrow’s—and one bank’s portfolio is unrelated to the next’s"

Is this actually true? I thought that a number of models at least correlated price changes at a single point in time, and that agent models were correlated nonlinearly across time as well...
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ISTR that, on average, people would live to be 1000 on average if they died only from accidents/violence rather than disease and old age.

The age distribution would be different. With the simplifying assumption that everybody's chance of dying in a given year is the same, the mortality rate would be proportional to number of people alive, which means that 1000 years would be a half-life. So you'd see 1/8 of the people living to be 3000 or more years, 1/16 living to be 4000, etc.
Isn't this the same thing they said in 1989 about program traders?
They are most likely to be liked by both hackers and non-hackers.

Text is least likely.
This is going to be an awesome experiment - count me in.
"this method leaves many handheld devices in the cold, including those based on Intel's ARM chips."

haha
To be fair, Favreau has also likened the job to being Ted Williams' hitting coach. That's not to say he isn't talented. Just that he's already working with someone so gifted it may not matter who his coaches are so long as they know when to get out of the way.
I think the author's methodology (or at least the article's synopsis of it) seems a somewhat flawed premise.

Suggesting that we focus less on conventional medicine in order to raise the bar in other areas neglects the massive waste and allocation in the market system.

One of the fundamental things that increases lifespan is diet. I've read in numerous sources the approx life span of humans should be 120 years if they don't suffer a medical trauma. Now we have the ability to deliver the optimum diet to achieve that we don't. Instead we subsidize meat until people get fat heavy diets, etc.

The Macdonalds culture has created a culture where non-nutritious foods are the cheapest to consumers, despite the real cost of production.

The author can try to justify leeching resource from numerous areas of society to create "competitive advantage" but until governments remove the impediments to have healthy food cost less nothing much else we do will mean much.
There are pretty big mistakes to be made on the other side of this philosophy as well. If you need to solve some cryptographic problem which is not exactly the same as something which has already been designed, implemented, and reviewed by competent cryptographers, then you essentially need to create a new protocol and accept all the pitfalls which that entails.

PGP seems to be a popular 'primitive' to try to roll your own broken crypto protocol out of.

Exhibit A: http://enigform.mozdev.org/

Exhibit B: http://web.monkeysphere.info/

Even SSL/TLS is not easy to use correctly (while understanding all the risks) for purposes other than what it was originally designed for: Preventing credit card numbers from being sniffed between a browser and a web merchant.
I wouldn't just kill myself for several reasons, but the two top ones are:

First, I am afraid of death.

Second, I am mortal and my death is a certainty, there is quite literally no point in rushing it.

So there you have one emotional instinctive reason and one logical one. And I have to agree with you suicide is moronic.

And perhaps 1000 years is not nearly enough time to become bored. But how about 1000 000 years? More?

My question was about the veeeeeeeeeeeeery long run, do you think you'll find life interesting for ever?
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Have you ever, in your whole career, worked with a team that wrote their own crypto and got it right in version 1? Because I haven't.

As far as I know, I got the crypto right in tarsnap. If I didn't, please let me know. :-)
1) Aviary is a free service.

2) They offer more than just a photoshop clone. They've got four tools out right now (raster manipulation, procedural generation, palette creator, vector editor), and there's more on the way.

3) They store all the images online, which means you can see how every image gets made, which is a pretty useful thing for beginners.

4) They're making all the programs available as AIR applications, so they function on the desktop.

Jeez. Why not take a look at the thing before you try and rip it all apart.
Consider Zimbabwe. Its wealth was well, wealth, not money that's easy transferred, but fertile farms and abundant mines. Stuff that's inherent to the country itself. But Mugabe has brought it from the "breadbasket of Africa" to the brink or ruin (in fact, perhaps given the latest news from there, over the brink). Where did that wealth go? It wasn't transferred out by fleeing Europeans. It didn't even go into his Swiss bank account. It was simply destroyed.
sweet, sweet idea. I'm with you.
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Yeah, I know the feeling. For whatever reason, it's not a sticky site. You don't go to it and become completely engrossed, which is how it ought to feel considering the awesome stuff they've got going.
Thank you HN: BreakkUp.com Story
Just under 4 months ago I posted a link to BreakkUp.com and requested feedback from the Hacker News community. We got so much helpful advice that I thought I’d come back and give you guys a big thank you and post a little update about our progress. You can read the old post at the link below. As you may notice, most of the comments left by HN members were put into action.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=285895

Long story short, the site actually got put on the backburner for a few months while we focused on our mobile app company – http://saltlicklabs.com. I don’t remember which night it was but it was a couple hours past midnight when we had the crazy idea of integrating BreakkUp into our first premium application. Through the premium app - Little Black Book - members are given anonymous access to BreakkUp. We were a little concerned about the quality of submissions but it hasn’t been a significant problem thus far.

BreakkUp gave us the ability to hedge against Black Book competitors (2 of 'em) if we ever needed to price the app for free, but right now the price barrier is great because it keeps out the nonsense. In addition, we repurposed the templates used on the mobile version (m.breakkup.com) to make a free iPhone app strictly for BreakkUp.com. Huge cost savings in terms of marketing, awareness, etc. since it's free to publish free apps to iTunes.

The good news is BreakkUp is now growing by ~50-100 new members a day and the free iPhone app is downloaded over 100 times a day. However, the way people use the site is a lot different than we had initially planned so we’ve got a lot of changes and new features planned for 2009.

During the holiday break, we’re experimenting with Google AdManager so we can start advertising our own applications to our community. It’s a walled-garden approach that gives us a higher return while the site is still relatively small. Our audience is primarily iPhone users (emotional / retail therapy), so it makes more sense at this junction to advertise our own products rather than use Google AdSense. That's the theory we're testing at least... if BreakkUp grows significantly in 2009, then our mobile company has a lot more weight against the VC and big-budget guys.

So if you have any new feedback (re: BreakkUp or Saltlick Labs), please send it our way.

Thanks HN! Hope everyone has a safe holiday vacation. Hot cocoa and coding, what could be better?
"Paleolithic hunter-gatherers had a better lifestyle and better nutrition than early farmers"

I don't think that is true. Early farmers also hunted plus they had the grown food, so they did better.

"I don't really see the connection between farming and intelligence. Which would you rather trust a stupid person to do: plow a field or kill a lion with a spear?"

Kill a lion with a spear would be my answer - that requires strength and agility - but not much in the way of intelligence (witness animals that hunt).

Farming does require intelligence, when to water, when to plant, what to plant, when to harvest. The calendar was invented specifically to help with those.

After a while anyone could do it (which is why you think it's for stupid people) - but at the start? That took quite a lot of thinking, and experimenting.
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Links

http://breakkup.com

http://saltlicklabs.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=285895
Why not take a look at the thing before you try and rip it all apart.

Because my Photoshop files are 20-50MB (quite typical), and even worse, I produce about 2GB of RAW files with my Canon SLR per photo shoot, yet my upstream connection speed is about 45Kb/sec, and that's still probably in top 20% of US population (at most places I worked, connection was even worse). It's been like that for about 10 years and I see no signs of dramatic improvements within next 10 years.

Need I say more?

P.S. That example is a very typical Photoshop usage pattern, if you going to call something "Online Photoshop", you better have some idea what Photoshop is and what it does. If this was called a "Fun College Programming Project" I wouldn't be nearly as sarcastic.

They offer more than just a photoshop clone

Oh, yeah, forgot to add. They're not "just a photoshop clone", they're nowhere near Photoshop 1.0 clone. I am getting quite intolerant to exaggerated claims, link-bait titles and buzzwordy discussions. Especially because after so many years of bullshitting there is only one online app I can use: good old gmail. Just one. Plus time-wasters, of course.
You seem to be knowledgable on these topics, so I have a question... If I take the query string parameters and then a ridiculously long pre-determined salt (30 chars) to create a SHA-256 signature for POSTing, what's the chance that this will actually result in collisions / cracking?

Even if null data is submitted and someone sniffs the salt, it's still 30-chars long and last I checked rainbow tables don't work too well on SHA-256 hashes of that length.

I ask because I use a system similar to this to just do a basic check to ensure that a form POST is coming from a user clicking an action and not just some random spammers' form just posting the needed vars. It's nothing particularly secure (I think), just a nuisance to any spammer.
Design a transport security protocol that is different in some way from TLS, and a good chunk of those differences are going to be vulnerabilities that the TLS designers figured out that you missed.

SSLv1 may have been originally designed for securing credit cards, but I'm not sure that argument survives a close read of TLS; why waste time with mutual authentication, with forward secrecy, with a custom record layer, with arbitrary length certificate signing chains, etc etc etc. You might be surprised at the number of systems that leverage TLS successfully on ports other than 443.

We probably agree; no matter how you choose to implement crypto security in a system, you're probably worse off for trying.
We aren't talking about europe anymore though. Nor are we talking about colonialism, this is much more basic, and those argument don't work as well.
Good article (though a tad gushy). I've been waiting to find out more about Favreau for a while. It's an extraordinary story, and I agree with the other commenters that it says a lot about Obama too.

One thing leapt out at me that has nothing to do with speechwriting. A lot of research has been done in the past decade or so on the prolongation of adolescence. It's a category of life that didn't use to exist (people went from childhood straight to adulthood), arose in the form of "teenager" and has been extending ever since. The last thing I read on this said it now extends to the late 20s.

Well, this article is a striking example of that phenomenon. The author takes it for granted that a 27 year old would naturally live an adolescent life. It's not just that Favreau became a presidential speechwriter at 27 (though of course that's an amazing achievement by any standard) - it's remarkable that he's doing anything other than goofing around with friends and playing video games. Yet not so long ago, the opposite was the case: it would have been remarkable if a 27 year old were not well along the path of job, marriage, and kids.

I'm not commenting on whether this is good or bad, but it's a major social phenomenon.
I know this is a late response, (I only just found it on my comments page) but major usability loss occured with the introduction of the "non-spatial" Finder with OS X.

This guy summarizes things much better than I ever could...

http://daringfireball.net/2002/11/that_finder_thing
...but with 20 years of the effects of Moore's Law.
It's the damn scapegoats!
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We're really excited about this. If you can really raise tens of thousands of dollars like this, it could really change how non-profits operate. The payments are public and broadcast on Twitter, which is also really cool.
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I think using 'pulls the plug on' would've made a slightly more comedic title.