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Code signing is another beast all together, in 5280 (and its predecessors).

EKU is used to restrict what certificates are good for, this bug explains a behavior the majority of code signing delegation is dependent on - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321156

Basically a parent ca can say, I trust you for S/MIME certificates but not for SSL or code signing -- this is a common scenario.

Additionally root programs do not delegate code signing to all roots.

Basically the ability to do code signing is rarely delegated to a root and doing so to subordinate CA outside the CAs control should be even rarer.
"These judges and legislation would, of course, be substantially different from those resulting from an Obama Administration."

Is there some reason to believe that? Obama kept or accelerated a large number of rights-killing policies from the Bush administration...
tptacek was giving a reason for why he voted for Obama. I was arguing that it's a poor reason. It's a digression, I'll give you that.
Only if students are also allowed to submit essays generated by a computer.
I'm astonished that anyone would hesitate for even a nano-second to give this kid anything less than a godspeed and God bless. I'm sorry, but the kid has already launched himself into orbit, he's not going to come back to earth for the sake of two or three years of choking down generic, all-purpose pablum at the local high school.
They need to be intrinsically motivated or else they will be B or C players. I'm only interested in cultivating A players. It's something I can't do, and it's something that would be extremely valuable to any organization (like any company I run for instance.)
Going through this right now myself and it's definitely one of the weirder feelings I've had recently.
Florian Müller finally admitted a few months ago that he is a paid shill.
Oh come on, Apple sell out every time they release an iOS product - even when they miss analysts' expectations. They are either really really bad at estimating demand (which I seriously doubt), or they are intending to sell out.

It's a perfectly sensible thing to do.
In summary, while perhaps uncommon, it is possible to for a meritocracy to flourish given excessive care and thoughtfulness is spent designing fair and useful incentives and metrics.

When I get back to blogging (probably in a week or so) one of the topics I want to hit is Smart People x War.

War is the stupidest thing imaginable: a negative-sum slugfest. It's inhumane, unjust, and wrong. So, naturally, most Smart People hate it.

However, what is the best thing for Smart People? For an irreparable fissure to occur within the Elite, splitting it into two or more pieces that want nothing more to destroy each other. (This tends to result in War.) If you look at history, the times of greatest meritocracy are also times of war.

When was the golden age of American scientific and technological R&D? The Cold War.

If you let the Elite function as one, they collude to keep Smart People down. They take all the resources and society stagnates. If you rip them in two and put the halves in mortal conflict, it creates jobs for Smart People.

So there is a weird symbiosis going on. War itself is horrendous, but the only thing that gives Smart People a chance (opportunities to ascend, rather than being preemptively shot down by a defensive Elite) is severe crisis, which War tends to produce.

Capitalism is supposed to have this effect (fissures in the Elite, creating competition and opportunity for middle-class talent) but corporate capitalism doesn't, because even if firms compete economically, they collude on who's cool and who's not. See also: VC-istan, which is more like a postmodern corporation (with founders as semi-independent PMs) than what it claims to be.
Thanks for the response. I guess I am confused at what market they are dominating and if it is a market if they aren't making money off of it...I can't see the monetization angle (maybe I'm just missing something obvious).
Private flights (aka "general aviation") have to take off from somewhere. I don't know if there are currently private flights taking off from SJC - I think the Google executive planes take off and land at the nearby military base.
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I'd advise the kid to keep his grades up as long as he has to stay in school, but to drop out and get his GED as soon as possible. Even if his business goes bust, as long as his GPA is intact he's got a hell of a college admissions essay on his hands, and honestly colleges won't care whether he got a GED or not as long as his grades while he was there were good. Unlike getting a college degree, there is pretty much zero signaling benefit to finishing high school versus getting a GED, and the kid is 100% correct--high school is a total waste of time from an educational standpoint. The only thing it could buy him is maturity, but it's clear that he understands the importance of developing social skills and if he can manage a dozen employees he's well ahead of the curve in that dimension.

Again, as long as he doesn't tank his grades trying to do both, the kid has nothing to lose here.
Well a smartphone compares poorly to dumbphones as a phone (significantly worse battery life. Lack of consistent physical buttons such as "disconnect current call", less reliable, much larger / less portable than a dumbphone, generally more expensive as well). Smartphones compare poorly to tablets as a tablet (too small a screen for serious media viewing, generally underpowered compared to Tablet CPUs).

But because a smartphone can do both, it has become a useful device.

That said, of the convertables, the Surface isn't actually on my shortlist anymore. Lenovo Helix and XPS Duo 12 look superior to the Surface. But I'm not against the concept of a combined device.
I just made that argument up, didn't know about Conal's post, thanks for the link!
Rich people can lose wealth far faster, and far more easily than poor, trust me.

It is a tautology to say that you can lose more money the more money you have, because anyone (rich or poor) can simply choose to throw it away. That doesn't change the mathematical fact that interest compounds and that more wealth translates into more income in our economic system.
High-def movies are sold for a profit unlike most WoW goods so they are more like the goods sold in the Maple Story cash shop.
I think my biggest frustration is when there is a pop up designed to go to the center of your screen. This never works properly in a phone browser, making it impossible to either close or even view the pop up. I just give up and don't even try to get the content anymore.
People use "1 percent" as a euphemism for the global elite because (a) it's fewer symbols, and (b) it's not natural for us to think of such low proportions (e.g. 0.005%).

You are absolutely right, by the way. The enemies are the Davos Men, not the people who worked their asses off to get a few million.
Unfortunately, I fly out Sunday night (if Boston Logan is cleared out by then!). Thanks for the tip though, wish I could make it.
I own six PC laptops. I'd take the SPro to bed, the coffee shop or on a trip to read my books tablet style. On a trip I could even do real work on it --coding, writing, design, whatever-- and have access to, effectively Windows or Linux as required. I could install Dropbox and synchronize my work as required. During the same trip I could hand the sPro to my kids and let them log on to their own restricted account to play games --as a tablet-- without having to fear that they could accidentally destroy my work or email that business contact in Munich some gibberish. I could also hand the SPro around the table at a business meeting with the confidence provided by a restricted purpose-specific throwaway account t I created for that meeting that only provides access to the three documents I want them to see and not my Address-book, Meetup, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts. They also don't need to have access to my Chrome where they could gain entry into plain-text passwords stored in the browser.

Again, I could go on.

For corporate use it is an absolute no-brainier.
Neither of my kids have ever been to school (k-12). One is in college now, the other just turned 17 and is considering her college options, of which there appear to be plenty based on the amount of mail she is getting from colleges.

Dropping out has a stigma, unfortunately. Homeschooling, not so much anymore. So I'd recommend he quit school to homeschool, studying mostly whatever he needs to do on a day to day basis to run his company. The end result is basically the same, and depending on where they live, the Principal may be powerless to stop the homeschooling decision. Maybe he can offer to take a class or two at junior college, or on Khan Academy to mollify his parents that he is still doing something and that their kid is not a "dropout."

If you want to let me know what state they are in I can give you a basic idea of the homeschooling regulations for that state.
The only way I would authorize a highschool dropout is if the kid is ALREADY wildly successful, achieving more than 99% of all humans aged 15 to 25 years old. Only in this circumstance would dropping out to pursue these goals be preferable to getting the paper that verifies your education.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the majority of very successful tech startup founders did finish college and have some life experience. E.g. Elon Musk is a prime example - he got degrees in both Economics and Physics before going on to found Zip2, X.com (precursor to PayPal), SpaceX and Tesla Motors.

He runs the risk of burning out like an over amped/volted light bulb, and winding up in the bread line, without a high school education. He just entered the house of pain, unless his parents are very wealthy and can support him the rest of his life, do not drop out.

If he is not a US Citizen, not having a high school diploma will hurt him.

You're most likely going to be working for the rest of your waking life, five days a week, with minor breaks for vacations. Enjoy school/college while it lasts, make the most of it; there's no rush to get into work because once you get in, unless you strike it rich, there is NO getting out. Only if his prospects for striking it rich are REAL and attainable and in-the-bag, do not drop out.

The highschool/college education combo will benefit you far longer than most companies (no matter how wildly successful they are) will be around. The world is full of snakes and evil people. His performance in getting things done may be eclipsed by someone eating him for lunch, in which case an education in common sense would save him a lifetime of pain.
Sadly, this feature has gone away now that I have the latest greatest Nexus phone with Chrome and Jelly Bean.

Why in the world would they get rid of this feature?
The technology is pretty much there, but currently there's still a requirement for human supervision/control in case of mechanical or electronic failures.

Like a need to land the plane in Hudson River when the plane hits a flock of geese, or emergencies when vital system monitoring tools become inaccessible.

A large portion of FAA's required reading for pilots http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aviation/pilot_handbook/ is dealing with various failures of subsystems.
Sounds like you had a fun time! Any tips on discovering those random trivia parties (or YC parties to crash ...)?
Chrome says that site had malware on it...

"Content from us.bernerverein.ch, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your computer with malware."
Interesting. I suppose that this makes some sense, but when I have a 27" 1920x1080 screen three feet from my face, it's still absurd.

I wish web designers would learn a thing or two from the writers of LaTeX.
Honestly, I'm more interested in meeting the people. If they are up for showing off the office, that's fine, and a good way to break the ice. But I'm not an interior office designer - my interests are more with the people that occupy them :)
Goodnight, Parrot
"But while Mr. Crockford, who is immensely knowledgeable in JavaScript, is seen as the Einstein of the JavaScript world, his book, The Good Parts, is not a good JavaScript book for beginners."

Why not?

Also, does he mean it's not good for people who are just starting to learn programming? Or also for experienced programmers who are starting to learn Javascript?

What would be a good book to start with for experienced programmers just starting to learn Javascript?
Ummm... What?:

http://fresh.amazon.com/product?asin=B000PRDZSM&qid=1425...
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I passed the test they give pregnant teens (I forget what it's called) which gives you an equivalency, midway through my junior year.

My parents wouldn't let me drop out and go to junior college, explaining that I wouldn't graduate.

Of course, they were right. I am just not good at school.

Two years later, when I did graduate, it was 1997. Within months I had a pretty decent programming job that "required" a college degree.

Nobody has every asked about my high school diploma. (I, of course, never mention it. Why would I? all the jobs I have had "require" a college degree, and I don't have one of those, either.)

Anyhow, I gave my parents shit for years about how much money I'd have made if I had another two years working during the bubble.

We are in another bubble, just like '97. If you have the opportunity to get a job now? do so. Once the bubble pops, it will be /dramatically/ more difficult to get a technical job and earn that almost inestimably valuable "first real job" experience.

You can always go back to college if you can't hack the standards after the bubble pops. (standards went /way/ up in 2001. I traded down, job-wise, but retained my pay grade and even though I was working at a less impressive company, retained a programmer/sysadmin role. I had worked hard and learned a whole lot since '97- there is no way I would have made that cut without the experience I gained in those few years.)

If I had gone to college like everyone said I ought, and gotten out in 2001? Very likely I'd have been unemployed through '06 or so. I'm saying this because one of the guys I worked with in '97... someone more experienced than me, and not significantly worse than me? He ended up making sandwiches through the early oughts. I ended up hiring him for my projects through the mid oughts; He left me for a real job again in '07, if I remember right.

I mean... there must have been some difference such that I was able to retain employment through those years and he wasn't... but he was pretty good. If he couldn't get a real job during those years, I don't think a me without experience could have either.

My point, here, is that the business cycle has a huge effect on how easy it is to find employment. It is /essential/ to take advantage of the good times in the business cycle to build experience you can use to get jobs during the bad times.
So what?

Sorry to be so blunt. I own half a dozen laptops and over a dozen desktops. If that's what I need, that's what I'll use. An sPro will actually provide greater capabilities and options rather than reduce them.
One of the administrators at my law school dropped out of high school, got a GED, and went to Harvard undergrad. Growing up, I always believed that colleges cared intensely about what classes you took in high school, etc. They don't. Nobody cares what you did in high school as long as you keep up a 4.0 in whatever classes you did take. People will care where you went to undergrad, people will care where you got your MBA, but nobody will care about your high school (barring making old-money connections at a place like Andover or Exeter).

I quite enjoyed my high school experience, but for kids who didn't, I wouldn't hesitate for a second to push them to get out as soon as possible, and maybe take community college classes for awhile until they're ready for college. Lot's of people who hate high school thrive in the more self-directed environment of college.
Why is the button not growing when I can't read the caption instead?
What was the first app to do a staged rollout or invite-only launch?
It's commonplace these days for apps to do "staged rollouts" or stagger invites for new adopters.

This trend obviously grew from the concept of pre-launch email signups, and seems to have turned into more of a marketing gimmick than actual necessity. Smaller apps and startups have adopted the practice from big boys like Google to enhance their image.

To me, this is the digital equivalent of making you stand in line to get into a club - making it appear more crackin than it actually is.

My question is - what was the first app or service to do the whole "invite" thing?
I think that he should get his GED and drop out. If he's already running a business with that much revenue, then he stands to learn far more from dropping out than from staying in high school. I think that you should also reframe the situation by not calling it "dropping out." He will be homeschooled in an unschooling environment, which is what it's called when you let kids do what they want. In his case, what he wants to do is run a business with ~$350,000 in revenue. That, to me, is much more valuable life experience than sitting through calculus.

If he decides to go to college later on, if the company fails, then he will have an incredible admissions essay. The very best colleges look for kids who are unique and running his own business would definitely make him stand out. Have his parents read this: http://homeschooling.penelopetrunk.com/2012/04/27/top-univer...
The company that wants to build the terminal is Signature Flight. Currently Google is their own client, but the terminal would be accessible to other private aviation clients.
This is the closest thing I've seen to the 'star complex'. I went to school in LA and met a number of folks actors and actresses. When they are early in their career they can mingle with people "outside" the business, as they become more well known this gets harder.

When people have only seen you in one role, and you were "playing" that role, they think they know you (if you were good at it anyway). But if that isn't you, especially if it is strongly not you, then you find the "wrong" kind of people want to be friends. Wrong here is relative, its people who want to friends with the person whose role you are playing, except that is not you, and they may not want to be friends with you the person you actually are. It was a running gag with Ginger on Gilligan's Island.

One of the things I like about engineering and general nerditude is that it has largely been immune to these sorts of forces. One of the most depressing parts of the dot com bubble/boom was how 'hollywood' everything got, with people playing the part of quirky ninja rockstar techie.

That made me uncomfortable because it exposed that what I valued, and how I comported myself, could be put put on like a cloak by someone who was skilled a mimicking the mannerisms and the habits of engineers I respected. And that made me sit back reflexively and ask myself how much of what I said, did, and felt was me, and how much was what I played as a "silicon valley engineer" ?

Introspection is a powerful thing. Scary but powerful. I think it is great that Danielle stepped outside the simulation and took a solid look at where she was going. I firmly believe that nothing but good can come of that.
I'll see if I can swing by - 48 hours is a tight schedule, but looks pretty interesting. Thanks for the tip.
I emailed you a more complete answer, but while you're here:

I'm focusing on building the dataset and alerts system, so it's more of a subscription service--for now at least. Looking ahead, there's a wealth of information buried inside these documents that I'd like to leverage.
At small volumes it's not practical for paypal to care about such risks, at large volumes things change.

Imagine this situation without any financial institutions involved. Say that you are a visiting student from Venezuela without a work visa has earned $200k in cash in the US and then packed that money into a briefcase and went to head back to Venezuela. That money would be 20 banded stacks of $100 bills. Imagine what happens when you go to cross the US border and proceed to casually declare that you have $200k in cash you are taking with you. You have no work visa, you have no tax ID number, you have no business license. All you have is a website and a pile of cash. How do you think that will go? What do you think would happen if you took $200k in cash to Western Union and asked about wiring all of it to Venezuela?

Our country has decided to push a level of responsibility for tracking illegal financial transactions and for tax evasion onto financial institutions. And that's what paypal is doing here. They aren't doing it because it somehow makes them richer to have this money frozen for a while, that's at best a tiny effect. They are doing it because the alternative of ignoring fraud, tax dodging, and money laundering is that 1: chargeback rates go up, which will increase paypal's financial losses and could cause credit card processors to increase the rate they charge paypal for transactions, 2: governments confiscate the funds, 3: governments don't allow paypal to operate there.

The idea that there is some big mean paypal asshole twirling his mustache and waiting for an opportunity to screw over some hard working paypal user and steal their money is a very seductive one but it is massively wrong. The reality is that paypal has an enormously difficult job and sometimes good people get caught up in the complications.

The idea that someone can set up an international business and earn $200k in less than a year and somehow expect that operating without any documentation or having to go through any legal hoops is extraordinarily naive.
Dropping out isn't going to impact his ability to go to college. Colleges know that 99% of American high school education is crap, and don't care at all whether you complete it or just get the certification via the GED route.
I agree. And while a genius/superman may be able to do both, everyone has their limits. It may be smarter to pick one thing and focus completey on it.
You mean at Moffett Field, which is operated by NASA.

For what it's worth, there's already a Signature terminal near SFO that private jets can fly in and out of, so Google is just saving the 10 extra minutes it takes to get to SFO by lobbying for a Signature terminal at SJC.
The hell? Marsh, Adam Langley is one of the good guys.

The stuff he's talking about does exactly the opposite of what you claim it's surreptitiously doing.
Complete agreement. I've been writing about the mathematics behind a well-known feedback effect in which ... get ready for a cliche ... the rich get richer and the poorer get poorer. Simply put, and as you point out, it's caused by compound interest:

http://arachnoid.com/wrong/index.html#Economics