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There's 0% chargeback risk with Bitcoin, and 0% risk of fraud. Counterfeit is impossible.

These factors substantially reduce the cost of selling goods and services with Bitcoin.
Hellas Planitia
Are Company personalities reflected in the design of their Headquarters?
I once had someone tell me you tell when I company is starting to go into decline, they spend a bucket on new Headquarters?
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This sapphire smartphone screen is strong, strong, strong
The internet model of key exchanges /does/ suck, but yet somehow the Secure Boot model is yet worse still.

The main issue with the internet model is how uncompetitive the whole thing is. You have just a few companies handing out keys and they charge upwards of $50 a year just for the "pleasure" of having secured communications.

Secure boot would likely suffer from the same problem. But yet I'd still take that over this...
I always thought that the secure boot is a very, very, very bad idea.

In fact the whole UEFI in general I think it is a clusterfuck of mishmashed random ideas, some good, many bad.

What I intend to do personally, is attempt to don't use secure boot.

And this all might explain the e-mail I got from Lenovo 10 minutes ago...

I asked them for a non-Windows machine.
They replied saying that they from now on only manufacture machines with Windows. At first I was: "wtf? why?" now this article remembered me that now we have firmware tied to Microsoft, and this explains then why ThinkPads must come with Windows.

Here in Brazil this is illegal, and Lenovo for example got sued (and lost) once. I hope a rain of lawsuits make this shit stop.
> What they've told us privately is that as long as no-one comes along with a plausible exploit for Windows based on using a secure boot enabled Linux system, they don't care what we do.

I guess we need to hide all those forensic distributions that can modify and access data on a windows machine. To name a few: backtrack, CAINE, and DEFT. If technology can modify and access data, it can also be used in an exploit. Some might even argue that running a forensic on a computer without the owners permissions is an exploit in itself.

Edit: How could such technology be used you say. Package a usb drive that once plugged in, will reboot the machine and load a Linux distribution. Once loaded, it automatically modify the windows system and transfer any interesting data it find. Afterward, it erase itself and reboots, thus looking like any empty usb drive once windows boots up. If that is not an plausible exploit which an ordinary Windows users could trigger and become compromised, then I would like to hear the definition of an "plausible exploit".
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Exactly; this happened early enough in the history of ICs that I'm sure they weren't taking such precautions, just like tamper revealing seals for over the counter drugs didn't become big until after the Chicago Tylenol murders.

There's a good chance a tamper revealing seal would have stopped the clerk from opening the containers, and of course it they'd been broken before reaching the people at the fab lines who were supposed to open them that would have clued Intel into the problem before any went into production and would have allowed them to quickly trace the problem back upstream.
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The nice thing about SecureBoot is that there is no root key—you can have whatever keys you like installed on your system, you don't have to get permission from a central authority. If you want code signed with your key to run out of the box on random PCs, you just have to convince each PC manufacturer to include your key in the hardware key-store of the systems they ship, a purely independent transaction.

It's just that, well, there's only really one software manufacturer with enough clout to get all the hardware vendors to include its key, and it's a heck of a lot easier to just get a sub-key signed by their master key than pretty much anything else.
The likely explanation is Taylor Swift is famous and some people are familiar with the full name of the town she is from.
RTFA.

"This 'plausible exploit' has to be some way of getting ordinary Windows users to run the code and become compromised, it's not an experienced Linux user becoming root and subverting Windows on their local box."
Layers should abstract over details, and eliminate entire classes of bugs if used properly. You don't see much discussion on it here, but it's a necessity if you're writing software for the long haul.
Yes. Gone forever.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=109117.0
Why would a tween want an earpiece of any kind when texting seems to be the main communication method they use on a phone?
That's just bad business advice. You need to market right from the start. Having a dedicated person to do it is actually more productive than the founders themselves doing it.
I got to thinking. Is there any chance we could nudge this to impact the Hellas Planitia on Mars. It's the lowest point of Mars and therefore already has a higher atmospheric density (.01 ATM). So if we could double the depth and potentially add more water, it would really get us closer to a great location for a colony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellas_Planitia
The real use for secure boot is within a single company/organization where you want to control exactly what runs on the computers you own. That's an argument for secure boot to be switched off by default, and for the companies that want it to manage their own keys.

Although Microsoft will now point at me and say "but, but we need to prevent boot sector viruses!" it's telling that no other operating system except Windows commonly suffers from this problem.
> Fraud is essentially a non issue in card present situations... That is not true. If it were, they would not ask you to enter your billing zip at gas pumps

Compare: Electronic interference is essentially a non issue on aircraft... That is not true. If it were, they would not ask you to turn off your Kindle at takeoff.

Just because an industry does something doesn't mean it isn't cargo culting.
In plain words, what does the product do for me?
clarity of purpose is a vanishingly rare stroke of luck

and even then we just don't hear much about the countless midwestern girls who sacrifice it all to the talent circuit but never amount to anything
Smart phone apps for business owners - the longest infographic EVER
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hard, hard, hard; not strong.

Gorilla glass is not as hard, but is much stronger.
I think the Germans were pretty concerned about this, too. I could definitely see a lawsuit against them there, considering how "weird" (but usually right) Germany is when it comes to things like these.
On the contrary, over half the wires we get, and we get a lot as we have clients all over the world, are held up in some way.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this! This really helps.
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Being that IPv4 addresses are something that's having a bit of a shortage these days, it's not at the top of the list of things to worry about.

That said, if you're one of the few that has IPv6 access, this could turn in to an issue pretty quick.
I was working on this project last year, but for various reasons never got around to properly finishing it. I recently decided to get the code I have so far online, even if it's not perfect.

Tip: play on Explore mode, it's more fun (though trickier).

The game concept is quite unusual, mostly because it "evolved" over time rather than being preplanned. I was interning at a social gaming startup where I was tasked with researching HTML5 (they were a Flash shop).

I had the idea to do a lemmings-meets-Angry Birds type game, with a ninjas theme, and coded up a very basic demo in HTML5 where you could click and drag ninjas to send them flying as they walked around. That was fun, but not really a game. Then I added a Falling-Sand inspired water simulator, just to see if I could code it up, which turned out to be more fun than the ninjas. Then I added randomly generated caves filled with gold, which turned out to be the nucleus of a playable game.

So the odd theme (underground ninjas?) and some of the odd mechanics (endless ninjas?) are attributable to its weird genesis. I did try and carry on with the project after I left that company, but university got in the way.

I can think of lots of ways I could improve this game (for a start, I'd change it so you just have one ninja, and collecting gold lets you buy extra lives or powerups) but I've decided it's not the most valuable thing I could be working on right now. Hopefully people will still find it enjoyable, though.
50 kilometers ... hmm ... how big must a stray celestial body bee to severely disturb the longterm stability of the solar system?
> Google is the world's largest scraper, making almost all of their
> revenue by serving ads next to the content of everyone else but them,

That's oversimplifying the service and value Google offers. This is the typical passive-aggressive SEO stance. Deriding Google for the service it offers, but at the same time craving it's attention. Because you know, Google gives you a steady stream of customers.

People use Google because it helps get them to the websites that offer the content that people are looking for. It's (relatively) good at matching seekers with the information they seek. That's what brings people back to Google over and over.

And so, the page they deliver has value to people.

Yes, they scrape content from everyone else. Including themselves (e.g. a search for "Google webmaster guidelines" returns support.google.com).

They also add to that their special ingredients - algorithms that dissect pages, classifying, inferring meaning, deriving synonyms, inferring intent. Weighing, scoring, evaluating every page out there. So when a customer comes a-querying, it uses those calculated metrics to decide which 10 pages get to be mentioned on a search results page, and what snippet/extract of those 10 pages to show.

The value Google adds is the selection of which pages to link to based on the query and what it knows/infers about the pages themselves. That is no trivial thing.
The way patents encourage innovation is by protecting the profits of the holder. You can't have one without the other.

This scheme seems to be solving the wrong problem (The right problem is to answer the question "What is patentable?").
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I'd bet that a reason the first line indent was invented was as a space-saving method of indicating new paragraphs. Do we skip a whole line and waste paper, or ... ? "I know! We can put a bit of extra space before the first word of the next paragraph!"

Such things are not required in digital media where each reader might have completely different spaces for text to render within. And, ideally, the content and its formatting are structured in such a way as to allow the user to apply their own formatting if desired.

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What exactly is illegal? Selling a machine with OS or not selling it without one?

And as for the "this explains then why ThinkPads must come with Windows" - no. It doesn't explain it. Secure boot has to be present on Windows certified machine, not the other way around. Lenovo can sell whatever they want (but apparently it's beneficial for them economically to only sell Windows machines).

Also, certified machine has to have secure boot disable-able. So it's not about you not being able to use the machine with Linux, it's about not being able to use Secure Boot with Linux.
Would be too shocking if I consider this a "How to find a non-technical co-founder" question?

Because I think that is just what you need. I don't think a freelance, temporary or part-time marketing person would be a good choice. A real co-founder, responsible for marketing your product would be ideal. Someone that could hack the distribution part of your product.

Actually, I don't have any practical tips of how to find this person, but my advice is that you should think of her as an essential part of the team, not a disposable labor with a specific mechanical job. Don't be the "code guy" versio of the HN stereotyped "idea guy".

Maybe something you could try is trying to find, on startups' events, that non-developer young guy, who is kind of lost there, not pitching any of his ideas, just trying to understand this environment and learn a few things. My guess is that this persona, with the right potential skills, could be a good distribution co-founder.
I wonder what the minimum atmospheric pressure is to grow some kind of plants out in the open? (Or bio-engineer some plants to grow). Would this get us in that ballpark?

Also, what the minimum pressure a human could survive with just a breathing mask?
Programming lesson: Don't slog away at the end of the day
I just bought a UEFI laptop in Vietnam that was Lenovo brand, it came unlicensed with windows, but fully supports secure boot in to it.

Are you sure this isn't just a regional sales thing, not selling a Windows Free version in that teritory?
A little bit of feeling guilty is in order; the author "didn't know that he didn't know", and I'm sure this motivated him to learn a lot more about proper engineering processes ... something I'll note aren't particularly a focus in CS degrees. Especially since I haven't come across anyone who's really dedicated to them who hadn't first gotten burned in one way or another.

There's a big difference between being told "Do X, don't do Y" and that sinking feeling you get when you realize a big problem exists, regardless of the eventual outcome.
Wouldn't it be pretty toxic (especially if it's a vapour?) In a sealed component in a datacentre that problem doesn't matter, but they're speculating about home use also.
This clearly shows where the money comes from and where it goes.
Access duopolies are the problem and have nothing to do with core network tech. Give us multiple access pipe options (IP access of course) and the telcos can do whatever they feel like in their cores (and most already use IP cores).

This is really just an attempt by ATT to get us to help subsidize their retiring of the legacy systems that we helped subsidize in the first place.
Can anyone calculate how much this impact might heat up Mars? (I've heard even a little heating might set off a chain reaction and substantially increase the temperature?)
The argument of this article seems to be, "We can't fix how the FCC regulates IP services so we must force AT&T to stay in the dark ages."

You can't simultaneously decry America's networking innovation and complain that AT&T is moving to IP. Everything is moving to IP. Circuit switching is dead. They're even putting TDM over IP nowadays(ITU Y.1588v2 and SyncE).

If you really want to improve the situation don't act all Luddite. Start the conversation on overhauling common carrier legislation. Bring Judge Greene back from the dead and break these carriers into thousands of competing tiny operators.
I don't know if there's really a good way to implement it.

No matter how you do it, it seems to have the same problems as SSL CAs and certificates (that is, some CAs are corrupt/negligent/compromised).

And in your proposal, what do you do if the root key ever gets compromised?
15 exit nodes in the kyrgyz republic hospital area alone? Can that be correct?
> I like [Python] better than C

Isn't it strange to compare Python/Perl to C and say that one is better than the other? It's apples to oranges. You wouldn't use Python or Perl to build an OS, and you wouldn't use C to prototype a web app.
IE10 public bug site, btw:
http://connect.microsoft.com/IE/SelfNomination.aspx?ProgramI...
So if there is ever a bug discovered in the protocol or say the crytography methods get broken, or say we need more than 8 decimal places in the coins.

How do you get all members of a distributed system to upgrade? Would holders of bitcoins have to upgrade as well?
Princeton professor Anthony Grafton has an actual book wheel in his office. One can see it behind him on the first picture on the right: http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW06-07/11-0404/f...
sure, but i'm wondering how it ties in with supply and demand in the IT labour market.

PS how do i get this post to show ib Ask HN rather than on the news page?
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How about multi-boot? From my understanding that isn't going to be possible anymore.
Even I regret clicking it before reading your disclaimer :(
There is an interesting bit from NASA here that covers your concerns, http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/25...
The problem is that there are a ton of people that do exactly that. I live in New York and over the past year I've dated a string of actresses, some moderately successful (several year soap runs, broadway), some less so (off broadway, guerrilla theatre, etc. . .) All of them have been outrageously dedicated and talented. Still, for all of that there is no guarantee of success at the end of that multi-year struggle.

It's a good lesson to learn that risk isn't a word that means "work really hard for several years and you'll get your pot of gold." Risk means that you could pour your heart and soul into something, be extremely talented, do everything right, and still end up with nothing. To think otherwise is to fall prey to the just world hypothesis.
Apple added other buttons, but you had to use your other hand to press them to get shift-click etc
Yes, this is the issue I see in all this.

None of the linux vendors banded together to create a NPO which would simply manage keys, ensure it was avialable to all manafacturers. Maybe even provide a logo/stamp/certification/brand so people can instantly see it's supported.

The fact that ONLY Microsoft have done this isn't really the fault of Microsoft. The fact that devs can't agree on the most elegant way of providing the chain of trust, in a manner which plays nicely is again, not Microsofts fault.

Yet Microsoft is being flamed for this.... Why exactly is this their fault?
Deploying new hardware is difficult and expensive.
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I have to approve each payee separately (by checking it off on the site)
Setting off a volcanic eruption, instantly oxygenating mars, saving Arnold Schwarzenegger
At some point Dominos Pizza or the like is going to take bitcoins for web orders and it will go mainstream. Zero transactions fees and no charge backs make it a no brainer for a big class of normal, nonillict online transactions.
Pinterest beats Facebook in number of users per employee
Have you read the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson? I bet you have, but if you haven't, you should. It's the most amazing hard science fiction regarding terraforming and colonzing Mars. Planetary-scale engineering techniques to heat Mars up, add water, increase the atmospheric pressure, etc are discussed in detail.
It's not the ads. It's the "I'm already logged into some random app and one click away from accidentally doing something I don't want to do".

I've been using a separate browser for FB for quite a while now.
"trusted neutral party"

Such as?

Should Microsoft trust WC3?

Or Foxconn trust the United Nations?

Every organization requires funding. How would this party receive it?

Because the world is unfortunately short of philosopher kings, we are probably better served by the marketplace when it comes to hardware manufacture.
Having firmware locked to only work under a given OS. It's pretty much a textbook definition of anticompetitive practice.
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Sounds very cumbersome to have hardware adapted to use this, also expensive.

I'd still like to see something like this for server cooling: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/131656-the-fanless-heat...
Oh man, those stock photos... I had to make sure I wasn't at angelfire.com.
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Perhaps simply multiple network interfaces / assigned IP addresses - all could actually reside in the same physical machine. (That's probably not good practice Tor-wise, of course - the nodes should be as dispersed as possible..)

edit now that I think about it, placing Tor exits in a hospital area might be a clever tactic to avoid them being raided (e.g. to freeze memory and attempt to extract some data about other nodes etc)..
I don't know about that compound being toxic, but there are some splendidly awful fluorine compounds:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_won...
what about mental health issues? what about those who are veterans? why does this guy spend so much time leading people off a cliff? it reeks of confirmational bias by someone whos life will never be derailed, and will always have friends and family. im guessing this guy is an aspiring republican.
It is possible with disabled secure boot. Windows 8 doesn't need Secure Boot or even UEFI to work. It's only about the "Certified" sticker.

And theoretically, Grub (or something) can have the key signed.
Can Thinkklip become the Airbnb of 3D printing?
Thanks for your response. I think I understand your point re: cores, although I wouldn't have used the argument quoted above, instead I would just make the point in your response - we have all these cores, gotta use them.

Since I found some things to nitpick I want to say I definitely like the approach you are coming at this from -- in terms of how you apparently view sharding, NoSQL, database as a processing engine, etc.

But I still think you are presenting it as something novel (just look at the title) when what you are really doing is promoting a long-established but sorely neglected philosophy... a good philosophy, which needs to be promoted. The novel aspect seems to be supporting callbacks in your Spacebase product, which isn't particularly essential to this philosophy.

Thanks for the article.
No, I'd like to see the same as used in Firebug, a sort of expandable tree that gets updated as the object is modified.
If you haven't found product-market fit then what you need isn't marketing, it's product management and that's something that founders need to be heavily involved with at early stages.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor)

Or in this case energy, ignorance, and not learning enough of the big picture, or wondering why these wafers were sealed in air tight containers in the first place.

It's the well meaning mistakes that tend to be the most dangerous since most people are of good will, or at least don't want to kill the company and lose their jobs.
Just as I thought, the Kimsufi line is really popular (at least for these kinds of things)! :)
Why are there not more freelance testers out there?
Here's the app in question.

http://appshopper.com/healthcare-fitness/vital-signs-camera-...

It's $1 and seems to have mixed reviews. I haven't tried it myself.
Intriguing title, but without anecdotes the whole article feels hollow.
Of planeraty size and mass.