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Like someone else mentioned, the YCombinator effect makes the startup's life easier than the rest.In the long run, whoever innovates faster and listen to customer's needs better will win the race, it might be one company or more than one company similar to how enterprise esignature market has been dominated by top 2-3 companies so far. SignEasy App has been enabling mobile esignatures since July, 2010 and in fact, it was one of the first in bringing the novelty of esignatures using an iPhone/iPad and consistently ranked in top 50 business apps worldwide.

At the end, all of the new startups are all trying to make digital signature universally accessible to everyone and
trying to innovate better as compared to the status-quo.

Thanks,
Sunil Patro

Disclaimer: I am the founder of SignEasy App (Formerly EasySignMobile).
OK I get that, but won't that backfire in a big way? It's happening right now, I guess... Still, I don't really think Germany can be blamed. Unless you think of the "weaker" countries as children who can't take responsibility for themselves. But why would Germany be smarter?

I think overall we are just lucky atm (or were lucky for a while...).
Yup, credit cards are not really a thing in germany
This seems like poor advice. If people have questions, they should be addressed, not "oh don't worry your pretty little head, smart people came up with this." Like the discussion about app-specific passwords above was very informative to me... all it takes is one of those getting sniffed or read off disk and someone can suck down all your email. Not exactly "fire and forget" security.
This whole "4chan is vile and horrible" thing is getting old. 4chan is not /b/, and vice versa. There are a lot of boards on 4chan that are perfectly normal, with no gore threads/porn/etc.
When the way to make your post sound less self-promotional is to make it less comprehensible and useful, please go ahead and be self-promotional, i.e. put the link in there and be specific about what success people have told you they had using the technique.

If you've become shy about self-promotion due to downvoting, please ignore it. Downvoting on HN seems random in the last year or two. Please think only about how helpful you think your comment is, as if you were oblivious to how self-promotional it might sound.

Helpful pointers to something you made will always sound self-promotional; there's no way around it.
MS-CHAPv2 is used by VPNs and can be used by RADIUS authentication services (to authenticate WIFI clients) but typically it won't be.

For almost all private individuals your WPA2 connection is still just as secure as it has ever been. For most businesses it is likely secure unless you're using a Microsoft RADIUS server for authentication (and even then as the article says the impact is almost nil).

Which isn't to say that the MS-CHAPv2 thing isn't a big deal: because it really is. It just doesn't have much to do with WIFI.
I think you (and probably many others) are conflating 4chan with its /b/ board. There are several communities with their own "ecosystem" within 4chan, even if there's some overlap of course.

Also, it wouldn't be fair to attribute all the things you've cited to 4chan only. Something Aweful contributed to the birth of many "early" memes for instance. And I think the rage comics were infamously made popular by reddit (4chan had "MS paint comics" and such).
A smart hacker just steals the info, doesn't wipe out the data and reveal themselves.
/sp/ is honestly one of the funniest places on the internet.
It has been very effective for a number of projects in which I have been involved. I have seen many circumstances where a company "had tried AdWords and it didn't work", but were very successful when it was implemented in the right way. One of the key points of a good implementation is limiting the ads with the right negative keywords, locations, and even the time of day. You need to be creative in linking your product with your customer's expressed need that might not necessarily be on the top of your list as well. Think about what your customer might search for prior to even knowing that a product like yours exists. For example, a customer might look for a spreadsheet template for managing some process and not even know that your software helps manage that process more effectively than a static spreadsheet. When you hear the stories about AdWords not being effective, you can bet most of those were implemented incorrectly...or the product wasn't meeting an expressed and acknowledged need of the customer.
I don't think that this is intended as a smoking gun, it's one part of a picture Apple want to build up - that Samsung were highly aware of the iPhone, were actively assessing it's design in comparison to their products, and that this path ultimately lead to them copying significant elements.

In that context I think it's damaging to Samsung as it's hard to say it doesn't show a little part of that picture, but obviously Apple will need a lot more to make the whole argument.

The implication is that the lawyer fucked up - that the memo was out of scope until he referenced it at which point the judge considered it fair game - but it's not 100% clear.
I really hope other services start offering it as a feature.

Namecheap, I'm looking at you. DNS web apps are a huge possible attack vector.

Also, RE the Google one time use passwords for POP/IMAP. They are all lower case, alpha/numeric, and 8 chars long.

How secure are they against brute force? Why wouldn't Google offer 16 char options, or even longer? Is 8 good enough?
Aren't most of those boards invaded pretty regularly?

Also, some of the boards are full of people who can be described as insane- despite not having porn/gore/etc. For example, /g/. I don't agree that it's inaccurate to say 4chan is vile in general, and I certainly agree with the sentiment that 4chan is the best and worst of the internet- or at least the social part of the internet.
I have to admit, I never understood the point of devaluing your currency, except maybe for sneaking taxes by your citizens.

Say you want to buy a German car that costs 20000€, and your country uses Drachme, not Euro. How does devaluing Drachme help you afford the car? if you say "no, a Drachme is not worth 0.5 Euros anymore, it is only worth 0.05Euros", it only means you have to 10 times more Drachmes for the car than before?

Say you produce olives, and one pound of olives goes for 1 Eur. So you need to sell 20000 pounds of olives to afford the car. How does the valuation of Drachme enter into that?
I don't think memes are profound, but I do think that having this crucible in which new memes are created, with the best spreading from there to the rest of the internet via Tumblr, Facebook, etc. is pretty awe inspiring.
Greggs only added that recently and I also believe there is a minimum spend (£5?).
Sorry I did not see that.
Thats why i said, the euro put Germany in a very fortunate situation. I can't imagine Ex-Chancellor Kohl expecting it to play out this way.

Its not that Germany is in any way smarter, Germany would probably have done the same, even if it were just on a governmental or banking level, as private lending is very conservative in Germany.
Am I the only person in the world who doesn't have a cell phone? It annoys me that the two-factor auth setups at sites (like Google) assume I have one and don't even have an option for "I don't have a cell phone, please stop nagging me about this."
turned it on. was so annoying that i removed google accounts.
I did this a few months ago, but I'm thinking of turning it off. I know it's trivial, but there's something deeply annoying about being dinged $0.20 a pop for the SMS message to get the code.

I'll have to see if I can set up the Google Authenticator; I hadn't heard of that before.
It's a good idea, but it's not the weakest link in user security right now. It does very little to solve problems like Apple positively identifying people based on totally insufficient and publicly available information.
Yes you are, and I suspect you know this. Even in most third world countries cell-phones are common.
Something Awful and Newgrounds were a good place to spawn memes back in the early-ish days of the web. When memes were still flash videos and such.

And even before that (or possibly not before that), I remember going to emule to download what were essentially memes. A lot of them spreading partially via email.

But I think in the least 8 years, 4chan has really become the main birthplace of memes.
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I make it 4 blocks of 4 random alphanumerics each, which is a pretty big search space.
I did this but was expecting more from Google. As an example, it was easier to add two factor auth to my Blizzard account (and install their authenticator) than it was for Google. These are the steps for Google:
- Add mobile phone to account
- Enter code from SMS
- Generate random passwords for multiple apps which don't support two factor auth (this took awhile).
- I wasn't given any instructions on how to switch from SMS to Google Authenticator app so I had to search for those instructions and then set that up.

Granted Blizzard controls the entire experience, they're not dealing with 3rd party apps, but it seems like Google could make this easier. And once it's trivially easy to setup, then it can be made the default.
What study are you referring to? There are studies that show diet soda and/or Aspartame are linked to metabolic syndrome (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/nutrition/05symp.ht...) and other studies regarding its excitotoxicity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity).
You can run the Authenticator app on an iPod.

But 2-factor does mean there in an expectation you will have to carry some kind of token device.
> Is 8 good enough?

Depends on how good their intrusion detection is.
Rage comics are just "MS paint comics" with recurring characters and a set format- which makes sense given that reddit is a less chaotic alternative to 4chan. Of course, the chaotic nature of 4chan is not a bad thing.

Also, the memes that originate elsewhere are still made popular due to 4chan's influence. e.g. "trollface" apparently comes from deviantart but is commonly used in rage comics (I think).
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I don't write software that people want to copy, but there are people that do, and still take the grandparents' stance:

http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-theft-ridiculous-lost-sale...
Buy a cheap used phone and a prepaid card, you should be able to get by just "recharging" 20$ of credit every 6 months or so.
This is exactly what I'm trying to say when it comes to the discussing "Samsung had to copy the iPhone cause it is the defacto standard". It is not. Nothing should be a standard. Apple didn't copy Nokia even if Nokia was the defacto standard and the bestelling phone maker. It is not okay to just copy products and earn a fortune with it. I genuinely believe that Apple invested millions of dollars into the UX of the iOS platform and letting people just copy it would be a shame and just the wrong thing.

Why can't Samsung just come up with it's own ideas? Why was there no S-Voice before Siri? Why is the Galaxy line pretty much the only Android Smartphone with a home button? Why do Samsung product packages (!!) look nearly the same as Apple?

Even if people like Samsung or hate Apple they have to admit that something fishy is going on here.
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I hope Twitter can keep up with all this demand...
Influence on Western Culture? Why don't you go read the news, the Patterson break-up has had more of an effect on Western culture then 4Chan could ever hope to succeed.

Some people spend way too much time on the internet; I can guarantee you that 99% of America, has no clue what 4Chan, Rage Comics, lolcats is. Anonymous and the 1% movement (but you may have to say Occupy Wall Street to the 3 million remaining people) may be the exceptions because of the media coverage.

And meme's are far from profound, humor, yes you could argue to be considered profound, but meme's? A silly time-waster at best but generally worse then a joke told among friends. You can't find a meme and share it with friends with the same impact (whether online or in person) as:

One day little girl comes home from school, "Mom, today some boy showed me his penis."
Mother exclaims "What?!"
Little girl says "Yea, and it sort of reminded me of a peanut."
Trying not to laugh, mother asks "Is that because it was so small?"
Little girl laughs says "No. Because it tasted so salty."
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It's a strawman. In every country, you will find sectors (and the associated people) who have a net gain from the EUR and some with a net loss. It doesn't really matter and would be impossible to figure out who benefits and loses more, both on the micro and the macro level.

I myself think about it in this (admittedly broad stroke) way:

1) The EUR is not just an economic project. It is a political instrument. That's why it exists, and that's what will determine its future. The economics is only a constraint (alas, now binding) not the objective.

2) No matter the history, a breakup now would be incredibly costly for everybody. Bob Rubin, US treasury secretary under Clinton, aptly described it as "Lehman times x". That's why a complete reversal is highly unlikely.

3) There is a solution: Peripheral states must accept a German-dominated external voice in their fiscal affairs; Germany must let the ECB monetize the debt. Neither of which is politically realistic.

4) In the absence of a conventional political solution, the continent "needs" a holy-shit-moment, something that will scare enough people sufficiently s.th. politicians can reach the costly compromise (3). So I expect one to happen.

5) What journalists, economists, and whoever writes about the success of a country ex post does not matter, it's just noise. Think about what people wrote about Japan in the 80s, the "Asian tigers" in the 90s, the "Washington consensus", etc etc. Until just a few months ago, it was China's state-dominated model, now it's Germany's social-consensus-based turn. Or, to stay with Germany, remember the Economist cover about "the sick man of europe"? It's quite similar to the attribution bias when successful people write autobiographies (or have biographies written about themselves). People like "the illusion of control", and a nice story with a neat, understandable "explanation" with max three identifiable causes or "factors" that led to the observation supports it.

Personally, I think the best way to test your understanding of how the world works is to make predictions and bet on them, preferably money, less preferably your reputation or your ego. So yeah, this article is probably blah but I will read it anyway because it will probably make me feel good, having grown up in and thus having links to the successful system du jour ;-)
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1) Cheap currency:
"For German companies, the sinking euro acts as a kind of crisis buffer. While it reduces demand for German products within the euro zone, these make up only around 40 percent of the country's exports. But for the rest of the world, a weak euro means cheaper German products, which means they're more competitive."

2) Cheap credit:
"But recently even interest rates on German bonds with longer maturities have decreased significantly. The federal government is saving a bundle. The reason for the windfall? Amid the ongoing euro crisis, Germany is one of the few borrowers that are still regarded as a safe haven. Many investors would rather lend the government money at bargain-basement rates than risk losses."

3) Inability of other countries to (quickly) adjust given single currency constraints, leading to, for example:
"As mass protests form in Spain due to high unemployment among young people, Germany is benefiting from an influx of new skilled professionals. An increasing number of southern Europeans looking for work are heading north to prosperous Germany."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/profiting-from-pa...
Still, if I plan to use Google Authenticator, I don't want to give Google my phone number at all. When they insist to get the phone number from me, I don't like it.
I don't think Apple are arguing about some similarity, I think it's the sheer level of it - the physical design, the icons, the packaging and so on.

Windows Phone / Metro show that you can do these things differently, so does BlackBerry OS, so do some Android phones. When you look at the similarities between the iPhone and assorted other smartphones, they're nowhere near all being the same.

It's certainly interesting that (to my eyes at least) more recent phones like the S3 look a lot less like the iPhone than the S2 did and has still been massively successful.
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I believe the difference between the two is that Facebook is planning to constrain the use of the gambling to countries and users where it is regulated and legal, so no laws will be broken provided those constraints are adhered to. I haven't read a lot about the MU case, but I believe the allegations are that they facilitated copyright infringement with no constraints on geographical location where this infringement took place - so it happened in countries where there are laws prohibiting such activities.
Even without GA (which, if you have an Android or iPhone, I don't see why you'd have to be without) $0.20 a month seems an incredibly small price to pay for the benefit of 2-factor auth.
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Memes are profound because they are our culture. It is what the "young people of today" do. In the 50's they had rock-and-roll, in the 60's it was hippies and so on.

Right now, it's the internet. In just a few more years all of us will become "the old guys" and our younger brothers and sisters will come up with something new - my sister already thinks I'm lame for liking the internet so much and sharing silly pictures and stuff. And she doesn't understand why cats are so cool. She's only 7 years younger.

The thing is, you have to look at memes in a broader sense than just "picture of X with something written on top and on bottom in big bold text". Yes, that's what some people call a "meme" these days, but I mean them more in the sense of a cultural parcel that is distributed between people in a common-ish medium.

I remember in primary school one of the memes (called fads back then) was that everyone suddenly started using yo-yos. Anyone who was between 10 and 14 had a yoyo and you could instantly connect with them, there was instantly something to talk about. Etc.

But here's the real kicker, the memes of today are the first in history that are trully global. And without delay. It took almost 10 years for hippies to arrive in my neck of the woods and they were never pretty big. Punk was a big quicker, it had a delay of only a few years.

Modern culture, mostly the memes, has zero delay. And that's amazing.
the application specific passwords are 16 characters long. Four blocks of four lowercase characters.

I too would rather them be longer, and involve at least some numbers if not specials... but they're not THAT short.
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Two-factor auth gets old really fast when you have to use public computers in a setting like a college library. I had turned it on for a while, but turned it off when I had 5 minutes to print out a paper that I had emailed myself (yes, I still do that) and was fiddling with my phone to get the damn PIN. Never again.
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Something Google could to do drastically improve the security of their two-factor authentication system is to add the ability to give more granular permissions with the application-specific passwords.

I have an application that only needs to send E-Mail through my GMail account (git-send-email), another that only needs to write to one specific GMail label (Android SMS Backup), and Google Chrome surely doesn't need access to everything. But you'd get full access to my account if you compromised any of these.

They already have this for the Connected Sites, Apps, and Services. I sent them a feature request for this a while ago but it hasn't been answered (and there's no way to view it online).
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Monty Python was a silly joke, something friends would communicate amongst each other. It was a meme inside the UK, eventually sort of going global.

40 years since The Holy Grail was filmed, it is still often selected as the funniest film of all times.

There is an impact. But it is a young people's thing, give it some time and it will become part of the cultural heritage of the early 2000's and 2010's.
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There's no Google Authenticator for Windows Phone, but there's an equivalent: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/021dd79f-0598-e011-98...
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Do you trust the minimum wage customer service reps of your phone company to not be susceptible to social engineering?

Two factor-auth, via SMS, may not have saved Matt Honan.
Are you talking about Google Authenticator the Android app, or the SMS service?
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> Namecheap, I'm looking at you. DNS web apps are a huge possible attack vector.

The least they could do if offer IP whitelisting like Linode does.
You don't buy a BMW. But:

1) You buy a local car because the foreign ones are all too expensive

2) BMW decides to build a plant in your country because it is so much cheaper.

Both of those things help grow your economy, growth leads to a stronger currency, and then you buy a nice new BMW.
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The world wide web has much more than porn, but it also has a lot of porn.

This was also true of Usenet.
Really? I was sure it was only 8 when I went through the process 2 weeks ago. 2 lots of 4.

Time to go and generate some new passwords!
Former SAP employee here too :)

Great interview. Awesome questions and always enjoy Plattner's view of the world.

ps- Where were you based? I was in Newton Square and St.Leon/Rot.