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A couple years ago I ran tests on an embedded Broadcom platform (7413, clocked at 400MHz IIRC) because I wasn't sure what was reasonable for SSL certificates when a box like that was involved.

I ended up using 2048 for both the client and server certificates. 4096 on the client would have taken several seconds to negotiate, and 4096 on the server was too expensive for the number of clients I wanted to pack onto a single server. (Also, I didn't have proper control of the entire client software stack, and the behavior of part of it with regard to session management and keepalive was extremely non-optimal.)

Based on that experience, I don't think I'd really want to use a 16384-bit key on a low-resource system anytime soon. Right now, 2048 ought to be plenty for any information that doesn't have to be kept secret over a very long time horizon (decades, at least), and anything over 4096 is getting pretty paranoid. 16384 seems obscene.
I only got that job because I’m a girl
Actually if we're going to colonize Mars a large source (like Great Lakes quantity) of accessible water would solve a number of problems. So yes, that would be quite exciting.

It would also be fun to discover that in its first billion years of existence as a wet planet Mars supported life in one form or another, simply to give us a data point in the probability function.
That's exactly what I mean by slip through their fingers. It would be like Valve not picking CS. With Blizzard's considerable resources and, as they claim, freedom, they should have gone after hiring Icefrog and getting DOTA. If it's not in their DNA to make such a play work, well I think that factors into the larger point of them living in another age.

I want to also clarify that a lot of this rant is in the context of them trying to build out stuff like the UMS maps store for SC2 (or even putting in development time on their version of DOTA). To me, these are a fool's errand; pursuing them demonstrates that Blizzard doesn't understand _why_ UMS was so successful on their platform 15 years ago, and how the landscape has changed such that it no longer makes sense.
Say, "You so deserve that promotion/scholarship/interview offer."

I read something recently that suggested using language like "You really earnt that [whatever]" when complimenting people. That is, you define the merit in terms of the person's effort which, hopefully, the recipient of the compliment is less able to deny. We often deserve nice things, but when we think we earnt them it's a more concrete achievement that's harder to wave away with impostor syndrome.
NFC could easily be implemented so that permission isn't necessary, but even then tapping on one's screen (only the sender has to tap in the existing implementation of Android Beam) is much lower friction than scanning a QR code.
3% of all my companies to date is worth exactly zero.

The idea isn't to say "everyone should throw X%" into a pool. It's for you to pick a number that makes sense for you and find a group of founders that wants something similar.

Founders who are absolutely certain of their future success only do worse by pooling equity. The more likely you are to succeed and succeed big, the less likely you should be to contribute to a pool.

Luckily, founders run the gamut in both skill and risk tolerance, so there are probably people close to you no matter where you fall on the spectrum.
Like a boss.
The "university" vs. "college" usage in America is also influenced by the increasing trend of local community colleges initiating four-year degree programs and dropping the word "community" from their names.

Despite offering a limited set of bachelor's degrees, these schools are still regarded as somewhat low in prestige, so those who obtained their bachelor's degrees from more traditional institutions have begun to emphasize the difference by saying "university" instead of "college".

IIRC, the distinction in usage arose from the fact that when the first "institutions of higher learning" were founded in America, they were initially quite small, and intended to merge together into larger universities as additional institutions were subsequently founded; instead the individual colleges ended up expanding as independent institutions and ultimately dividing themselves into multiple "departments". It wasn't until the 19th century that the term "university" began to be used by American institutions.
Here's a list of all the anonymous donations they have received so far (doesn't include membership donations): http://blockexplorer.com/address/1BTCorgHwCg6u2YSAWKgS17qUad... (currently 26.5 BTC)
OK, yes, there is such a thing as "strong enough crypto for your purposes", and there are tradeoffs for computing power, etc.

My point was that there's no point in picking something with a known back door when there are perfectly good, non-compromised alternatives.
you're right - it is more difficult than that. which is why i am little surprised that you said "that is the problem...". it is a problem. there are also other problems and other advantages. as you said - it's complicated (and i'd hate for you to be misunderstood as claiming to draw some simple conclusion from it).
A quick Mars timeline:

Mars was formed around the time Earth was, but it was blessed with only 11% of Earth's mass and less than 40% of Earth's gravity field. Shortly after cooling solid, its "Noachian Era" was similar to proto-earth: warm, a thick atmosphere, plenty of liquid water on the surface, and probably a significant magnetic field.

But this era was still during the era of the Late Heavy Bombardment, a time in which the last dregs of the solar system were still settling out. Large asteroids still pounded the planets with regularity.

Unlike Earth, Mars had trouble maintaining its liquid iron magnetic field. Since it's much smaller, it cooled and thus congealed faster. And there's growing evidence that asteroid impacts were able to drive enough heat beneath the surface that interior convection was quelled, leading to a fragmented magnetic field.

Without an adequate magnetic field to deflect solar wind, the atmosphere was prone to shedding off pieces of itself into space. This was amplified by the lower gravity which meant holding on to lightweight gasses was even harder.

Over time, Mars cooled to the point where the major forms of tectonics ceased. The water locked up beneath the ground, rusted out pulverized basalt dust from the asteroid impacts, and frizzled in the radiation-baked atmosphere, floating off.

The seas and lakes dried, the rain stopped, and that... was that.

Three billion years later, we arrive on the scene and find out we have a little sibling. Then we send robots. We hope to find life, or evidence that it once lived. Characterizing how water worked in the Martian past is a part of answering that question.
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If you want to (start to) cover a gap in employment, make an LLC and put that on your resume. And if you get questioned about it, just say, "Why, yes... I was bootstrapping my own business." It would also help if you had a small app or two to your name.
Brad Arkin is a pro. He comes from vulnerability research, not PR.
Consider Dudley Code-right. He implements a feature which isn't well thought out, barely works from a user perspective , and has horrible usability. He comes up with a very elegant way to implement it. Boom, it's done, and nearly bug free. What bugs are found are quick to fix because the code is so clean and well put together.

Now compare this with J. Average Coder. He implements an excellent feature with high user impact in a typically half-assed way. The ratio of total end-user value to total invested dev-hours is through the roof in comparison. Not just a factor of 100 different, but factors of thousands different.
1) I've had it happen a few times, but now if I know I have to step away from my desk to do something, I will let the customer service representative know and they are fine with waiting, they just need to know before hand.

2) It's 100% an ad. Sure, it can describe why a majority of the "Live Chat" systems don't work, but instead of explaining how to fix them, it just links off to two companies that have a product and then call that a solution.

They should have explained how the two companies they recommend do it differently than the rest instead of just say "Use these two, AND USE US FOR YOUR PHONE APP!!!"

How does the code integrate into apps? What does the client for the user and the client for the support agent look like? What's the benefit of using this instead of linking to a support e-mail address? Do I have to have the app open in order to get live support help?

It sounds cool in theory, but without a demo video or walkthrough, I can't be sold on it.
Such cynicism.
Wikipedia has some more information on it, but for realistically printable QR codes (version 10), you can probably store about a hundred bytes.

Alternatively you could use Video QR: http://stephendnicholas.com/archives/310 ;)
There is an excessive amount of cynical snark in this thread.
> I'm not saying that sexism in the industry isn't a problem, but the solution is more difficult than "just hire more women"

This is true, but one of the biggest steps you can take toward fixing the various forms of explicit and implicit sexism in the industry is to hire more women. It's not sufficient, but it is necessary. Moreover, the existence of such programs can be beneficial in the short term, as well. They really only skew significantly problematic if they are willing to compromise on standards in order to meet the goal of hiring more from underrepresented groups but we have no reason to think they are.

That is, think of it another way: the programs exist to provide more opportunities than would otherwise exist but getting in doesn't imply you only got in because you were of a given demographic. You're still being selected for your skill above all else.
Because more = better (obviously), and my keys are going to continue to have privileges on machines several hundred years from now.

/s
This may be one way in curtailing bring your own device mentalities but beyond that any security system is always a compromise in one way or another. Also it is only as strong as the weakest link and if your the only user logged onto the box via ssh and others have weaker keys then you start to see the flaws.

But if everybody who logs on uses the same level of security, then it is that secure, otherwise it realy is down to the weakest link and even a home box can be taken out by a house cat who can't even use the vi editor.
If "more bourgeois" means that I won't get stared down by junior gangbanger wannabe thugs every other block, then I can live with that tradeoff.
I just tried adding the word "patent" to a search, and the top results returned were kind of relevant, but you're right, not direct patent links. Mostly news, but also a decent hit on a site called FreshPatents.com, which may be the service you are looking for.
Another LastPass user here. The two big obvious ones:

- Completely non-standard menu behaviour and appearance
- I to this day can not associate the shortcut icons for copy/edit etc. with the password. Maybe that's just m..
- The one single function I use the most often is "generate password", and it's hidden one menu down from the root.
- The second most frequently used function for me is to view the password, when I need to enter it somewhere where I haven't got Lastpass installed (on another device, so copy/past isn't sufficient), yet that requires me to click on the site, "edit" and "show password".
If you want your wiki to be public, or accessible from multiple computers, MediaWiki (along with dozens of other web-based wikis) is a good alternative, sure.

I like WikidPad because it's _fast_ in Edit mode (on-the-fly text formatting, like code highlighting), and it turns out to be a killer feature for me: without this speed I probably wouldn't be using it as much. With almost all other wikis I know, you need to switch back and forth between edit mode and preview mode, or they have a WYSIWYG editor mode (and I avoid that as much as possible -- just a programmer's obsession... I like to deal with the source).

I haven't used TiddlyWiki much, but I loved the concept when I first heard of it (self-modifying single file). It sure is a good way to get started fast.
If you have a hard time picking clear titles for founders because there is a lot of overlap there could be a problem.
Forget 16kbits keys.

Use this: ssh-keygen -b 521 -t ecdsa

That's (a lot) faster than RSA 16384 bit keys. A 200bit ECDSA key is +- (there's many factors involved) equivalent to a 2048bit RSA key.

Also the 521bit ECDSA not only verifies faster, it generates instantly (on current hardware), instead of taking a few coffess with the 16K RSA.

Finally, remember that, by the time we've enough computer power to brute force either of the above, one of these will probably happen:

- RSA or ECDSA may be logically broken

- you will be dead

- the hardware and software will not run anymore

- a new computer power breakthrough will make the choice of strength and cipher irrelevant (one can hope)
Very cool, great idea.
They're not thinking of you because Facebook had to remind them.

Try making your birthday private in Facebook one year and see how many happy birthday messages you get when people aren't prodded by Facebook to care. It's a lot less.
In a very literal sense it can be forked: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

You wouldn't need to try and duplicate an ecosystem. People with nodes on the network would "vote with their CPU power" to support the version they liked the best - so the best one would naturally get the most support.
Is the SDK publicly available right now?
Yes can imagine some digital archaeologist in a few hundred years time thinking they have hit Indiana Jones payday only to get his mom's receipe for flapjacks.
Risk spreading reminds me of this Dogbert cartoon I came across back when I worked in finance:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-12-13/

Basically, risk spreading suffers from unintended consequences. There are however other alternatives to the portfolio approach that do make more sense. My favorite is the concept of a keiretsu ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu ). This approach makes sense, especially when you have potential co-dependencies between startups in a portfolio. The YC portfolio is generally large enough and the group activities create enough comraderie between startups that it functions like a keiretsu because I often hear about one startup using the services of another startup.

I think it could make sense at the level of investor portfolios. If I were accepted into YC, I would be open to the idea of giving up a small percentage into a YC "insurance" fund. The same would apply to a few investors (Sequoia, Kleiner, Benchmark, A16Z, Greylock, etc.), but for anyone other than the top funds, I think such a fund would be a losing proposition.
This is a valid point however unfortunately is limited to systems running recent versions of OpenSSH; ECSDA is relatively new. If you connect to a large amount of boxes (as do I), your ECDSA simply will not work on older pre-ECDSA versions of OpenSSH.

That said, nothing preventing you having a mixture of keys for different hosts and modifying your ssh_config to use the correct key dependant on the domain.
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Absolutely. Having previously grabbed Counter-Strike (Half-life mod) and Team Fortress (Quake mod), and treating them nicely, most definitely should garner a good reputation.
Because nobody uses it!
You're still missing the point. Search doesn't have lock-in via network effects. If all my friends use Yahoo search, it doesn't make my Yahoo search experience any better.
You're right that this is trade-off is somewhat inevitable, but I feel like Seattle's traffic is disproportionately bad for a city of its size. Seattle is consistently listed as one of the top 10 worst traffic cities in America and is not even in the top 20 in terms of population.
I'm super bullish on this. I think this will end up being FB's first big cash cow. I never thought advertising was anything more than a stop-gap to cover costs, Zuck has always hated ads. Personally I thought their big revenue stream would probably be to start charging for FB Connect, but this makes more sense. They are basically hooking in at the right point of intent to convert a user, which is exactly why Google can print piles of money.

This is just step one. Once they get this working they are going to have all kinds of purchasing behavior and really be able to weave their way into all sorts of ecommerce scenarios. Their biggest challenge is going to be fulfillment (you don't want a birthday gift showing up late) so they are probably going to be very selective in who they partner with and are going to roll this out very slowly, since first impressions being good is essential.

Edit: Also there are all kinds of social experiments they can run to optimize conversions with this. If someone you know buys a gift for your friend, you are going to feel more pressure to do so. Etc.
OP here - demo video is forthcoming.

Integration docs here for iOS: http://www.hipmob.com/documentation/ios.html

And more here: http://www.hipmob.com/documentation/

EDIT: And we dont have a product for the web - wasn't meant as an ad, just to highlight some observations I've made in the past.
Unfortunate, given the title of the article, that the site went down...
very cool. I love the look and feel. Where are you sourcing your quotes from?
That doesn't really make for a tech scene, as much as I would love for that to be true. I couldn't go to Spokane and a get anywhere near a comparable job as I could in Seattle. Even Salt Lake City has a better tech scene. Spokane lacks a flagship university, unlike the other cities.
Wider, flatter buildings have enormous infrastructure costs, especially with the typical layout with a large building surrounded by an even larger parking lot.

Spreading things out means sewer lines have to be longer, power lines need to go further, and more roads have to be built and maintained to get to these new destinations. Then there's the phenomenon of the more roads you have, the more roads you have to build to get around those roads since they take up so much space themselves, further complicating things.

It doesn't make economic sense on the whole, only from the perspective of a developer that doesn't have to build and maintain infrastructure. The carrying costs are borne by other parties.
I am just sad that they scrapped the RPG / adventure game they were making with Thrall as the main characer. It seems a lot of his storyline took place behind the scenes somewhere between Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft. But again, an adventure might have failed spectacularly with no prior experience and the genre in general losing popularity.
You've got the first act to a corporate espionage story.
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The real problem is the junk is travelling at high speeds, in many different directions. So the only 'safe' way to collect it is to match the speed and direction of each piece of junk, one at a time.
Given the amount of customization SugarCRM has out in the wild (including some really nice add-ons from partners) I'd be curious to talk about what you experienced, and to see if where we've gone since (we're near the release of 6.6 btw) addresses your issues.

I think we have a great product with a lot of flexibility.

Yes, I work for SugarCRM (I'm in product management), and yes I am actually interested in knowing about what you experienced. jarruda@sugarcrm.com
Good suggestion. I never really liked using 'deserve' for this anyway.
Is it possible to divide the world into multiple channels?

So I only see updates from those in my area.
Then change channels as you move?

And start users in different spawn points when usage is high?
Looks like it's from OpenSSH 5.7 released on Jan 25, 2011.
Small ECDSA key by default, 16kbit RSA fallback?

Both are very secure, but ECDSA will not have the long negotation times. Problem solved?
I clicked thinking i'd see some some skin.

(Oh yeah I'll deserve the down-votes for that one, go ahead!)
No. Websites should stop outsourcing their security to third parties they know nothing about (such as email providers). It's not just a matter of immediate security, but overall architecture quality as well. Having your entire digital life depend on an account that, for most people, is hosted by a third party, for free and without any guarantees is dumb. Email simply wasn't mean for that kind of use.
Knowing water was present and knowing what it was doing are two entirely different things.
It's back now. Here's a mirror in case it goes down again: http://i.imgur.com/hR9Mc.png
I almost hope no traces of life are found.

If traces of life are found, however distant in the past, it seems quite likely that any Mars colony or even exploration would be delayed by decades, if not longer. Preservationists would be against any interaction whatsoever.
Unfortunately I think the dismissive attitude of your friend is a direct product of very real reverse discrimination. Anecdotally it really does exist; a female friend of mine was able to easily get interviews at Google, Microsoft and Apple every year despite lousy technical chops and a 2.5 GPA at a mediocre state university. My ex girlfriend had her hand held for literally years by Microsoft recruiters on the stated basis of being a female cs major. Policies of reverse discrimination are definitely not limited to the special programs with women in their name.

Note that the former never was able to pass interviews, but it was only enough to get a foot in the door. It goes without saying that I have worked with many extremely capable women that no one would question they deserve everything they have, but it is easy and to see why some insecure college students have some backlash at having explicit discrimination against them (usually for the first time ever), since they are not being able to see how the less explicit but very real institional discrimination against women.
How much of this could be because there is no real way for people to found companies without taking on this risk? Perhaps this might reduce the risk profile of founding a startup enough that family providers or risk-averse developers can feel more comfortable building their ideas.
The kernel won't matter. The hardest part with compatibility is library versions (for matching API and ABI), and the opengl rendering of the graphics driver (which Valve is working with Intel on).
So, why exactly, would it be any different in programming?

Sadly, it's not.

Thomas Kinkade was, I believe, far more prolific than Picasso. But I do not want Kinkade-grade developers.

There needs to be some other metric for software development. Figuring out what that should be, and how to accurately measure it, is non-trivial.