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Is any of this good/bad/right/wrong? I have no idea. That depends quite a bit on what THEY are doing with it and why. For example, it can be cheaper to distribute from CloudFront versus straight from S3 for some use cases. Though, generally, you are not only looking at using CloudFront to save money over S3 ...there's typically a performance reason.

And sometimes the hosting costs simply don't matter. It's easy for us engineers - siting here on HN - to sit at our keyboards and play around with hypothetical ways to save money. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there are numerous things in IT that it doesn't make sense to optimize. Why? Because the ROI on the engineering time, CapEx, and OpEx (and the time, energy, and focus of ANYONE involved or impacted at all) to do the optimization doesn't outweigh the opportunity cost.

Sometimes there are simply better uses of our limited capital and time.

Not everything needs to be optimized. And the argument gets stronger when there are other factors more difficult to factor in: adopting a platform that isn't as widely known or isn't backed by a similar level of maturity (even with it's quirks, at least they are well known), etc.

The risks/concerns not only vary between organizations, but often from one period of an organization's growth to the next. The beauty is every organization gets to make their own decision ...and none of them have to give a damn if the HN community agrees or not. :-)
Ah, thank you. So does anyone know what maximum threat he's actually facing?
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Whats that got to do with the language?

Autoupdateing can be implemented in VisualBasic as well.
If you throw around possibility of ridiculously high sentences to scare people and manipulate them into guilty pleas, then you have no right to complain when people act like being threatened with unfairly high sentence.
Can anyone see this message "ping"? It's supposed to disappear after 10 views, but I keep loading it.

https://delete.im/messages/retrieve/n0rLEeSsqX/

Edit: It says 'unique' views. I wonder if my incognito windows didn't fool it? Hopefully HN can make it disappear.
In this case it is accurate to say he faces up to 45 years for linking, because the statutes that are charged mandate consecutive sentencing. Concurrent sentences are allowed at the court's discretion "only with another term of imprisonment that is imposed by the court at the same time on that person for an additional violation" of the same statute.
Seems so. First view I've got the ping, after a minute I've got the 'message currently unavailable'.
I use cactusformac.com and as a non- technical guy i was stil able to upload my project (http://kabaal.co) on the Amazon infrastructure. Cactus even connected the DNS from AWS with my hosting service. I see realtime changes in my browser when i code and i can deploy it with just one button.
Huh? Is the use case you're describing a situation where the parties are only theoretically looking not to leave a paper trail?
Another perspective is go 51/49 (CEO 51, CTO 49) just so that later down the line you can resolve any "deadlocks". With 3 founders you'll never have this occur, but with 2 cofounders you will.

Remember you'll make a 10% employee/advisor pool and probably 10% to an Angel/Seed, making your 51% to 49% become 40.8% to 39.2%

By the way, we're all assuming that you'll both be committing to this 100% and full time. If not then a 50/50 split isn't right
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You should be aware before putting money into Zidisha that current non-repayment on Zidisha is ca 30%, and that to break even when lending on Zidisha you need to charge flat interest rate to 32% break-even.

Zidisha is also giving huge credit bonuses to borrowers who invites new borroers, this also gives a danger of increasing default rate.

So I advice not to put more into Zidisha than you are prepared to loose.
Or, turn it the other way around, don't let bad schooling take years of the best period of your life.

I dropped out after 3-4'ish years of AI, and now I'm working on AI projects year round.

I think it's slightly patronising and playing it safe to say people should consider staying just because they might not ever get the chance to learn these things later in life.
For one, that's their responsibility. The knowledge you pick up at a university can deprecate just as much (if its not already). If you don't continue to pick things up later in life, that's your own fault.
Secondly, grades and bureaucracy, in my opinion, instil competition and stress in the areas where it doesn't matter. Universities should be concerned with obtaining knowledge.
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In the longer term (assuming Bitcoin survives so long) the question is whether exchanges will start to openly fractionally reserve their deposits. It might seem crazy today, but if and when the exchanges develop a strong reputation for financial soundness it may be very hard for them to resist the profits from a small, very safe under-reserving. Customers are likely to go along with this because 1) after all, the BTC exchanges have a strong reputation for safety and competence! and 2) some will likely share in the profits through interest on their deposits. Of course, these small, very safe overcommitments will likely turn out to be the first step on a slippery slope, but so it goes.

(I am not an expert on anything.)
Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia identified this a long time ago. His ideal would be that their products are manufactured for the local market (or manufactured locally). However since they also strive to create a sustainable supply chain, and this requires control, it is not currently possible.

I wonder if 'letting go' of the supply chain - regardless of the repercussions - would allow these methods to evolve...
Um... if you don't want anyone to know, why would you EVER send your data to a third party?

All of these "disappearing ink" apps are patently ridiculous, they all have demonstrated security flaws, and they completely ignore the analog gap problem.

What are people thinking when they decide to use this crap?

... "Oh cool, look at me, I am a spy... let me send you something sekret, tee-hee I am sure this other dude running this server is totally cool too so you can send me your sekrets back... tee-hee-hee... nobody will ever know"

So many god damned stupid fucking kids walking all over my fucking lawn these days!
I wonder how many of the 10 remaining Yahoo users will be inconvenienced by this.

Seriously though, this is a good thing - third party sign in is a horrible idea and should die.
Unless someone is being paid over or under what they're worth, this isn't a problem.

If they are being paid under, then now is the right time for them to leave to an employer who rewards employees fairly.

If you're been paid over, then it's time you got your butt in gear and worked your ass off to prove to everyone your worth! :D

Personally I believe in 100% transparency across the board from day 1 (at Trak.io and all my previous companies). That way, situations like this can't arise, and new people coming in are unlikely to ask for misaligned salaries they know wouldn't stand up under peer review.
We run into the same cost-related problems for our CDN. What we did to solve it was to rent dedicated servers that are near AWS regions. We used Route53 latency based routing to route traffic to that dedicated servers + Nginx + LUA. We're serving 300+ TB of traffic per month and the total price is just a percent of the RubyGems AWS Bill. There is some maintenance included with this solution and the problem is finding the right dedicated server providers.
>The main thing to point out is that by uploading a message it is still possible to get access to your message in a permanent state either by screen shotting or finding the image source. The tool exists for people who have no interest in keeping the messages you send. Please don’t blame us for message leaks.

So I can't send this to people I dont trust and I have no way to guarantee that delete.im doesn't save my messages. What exactly do I gain from this over just clearing my local logs?

As as security person these 'forgetful' services really bother me because people tend to claim that they offer the world but there is no way to actually guarantee any of it. More importantly there _fundamentally_ isn't a way to prevent the other side from saving the message. Without end-to-end encryption there isn't a way to make any claims about what is stored by the service.

And before you recommend end-to-end encryption in a browser based service don't forget that we know exactly how those get MITM'd: When a warrant comes in you serve that person a different webpage with broken encryption/leaks.

This is the same rant I had about Snapchat, and the same rant I'll have about the next forgetful .* service. The only claim they have to actually being forgetful is a promise and you'll never see them stand behind any actual privacy claim because they cant and they know that.

tl;dr Please stop making 'forgetful' services or 'view only once' services.
Many people would role their eyes at the idea of using a chain of console tools for document production, think of it as contrived. But it's not such a fancy idea. One of the first things to work on unix was roff, an ancestor of the man page system. It processed text documents into a printable form.

Most serious document production company (publishing companies and newspapers; legal firms are probably less sophisticated) have a similar pipeline within their firm. Text (raw or rigidly styled), version-controlled, running through a pipeline of reviews and signoffs and markup and arrangement.

> I don't know of a modern equivalent

I don't think monolithic word processors will be a feature of the future. The mainstream tool will be some kind of style editor. Maybe it'll incorporate a spellcheck and some other monolithic features. There'll be a pipeline underneath - to send things to paper or web or archive or accounts.

We'll think much more in terms of snippets of styled data, and its lifecycle. We'll laugh at memories of these laborious monolithic word processing systems, and how we thought that this was productivity.
I did before I wrote the comment. There are two statutes: 1028, and 1028A. (See for yourself: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1028.)

Only one of the statutes in question mandates consecutive sentences, 1028A. The maximum sentence for these counts is 2 years for the crime charged. (He was not charged with a terrorism offense under 1028A, so the 5 year sentence is not applicable.) The way this statute is written, this 2 year sentence may not be concurrent to any other sentence for any other crime but multiple counts of the same crime can be served simultaneously. (Note that 1028A is an "enhancement" charge, similar to the gun enhancements I mentioned earlier. They are add-ons to other crimes, and cannot be charged separately. Basically, enhancement charges are used when additional circumstances covered by the enhancement make the underlying crime "worse" than a normal instance of that crime.)

1028 imposes a maximum sentence of 15 years for the gravest crime listed in the statute. Assuming he is found (or pleads guilty) this yields a likely maximum sentence of 17 years, or a potential maximum sentence of no more than 33 years.
San Francisco the pro green city thats people protest when a company tries to create a mass transit system to cut traffic and emissions that SF? The city that objects to innovators moving there and ruining their culture by virtue of living there? The city who people mobbed the house of googles self driving car team head for no good reason. Yeah not convinced, they sound more like a liberal arts version of the old black and white monster movie peasant mob chasing down scientists and innovators with pitchforks and torches.
Fair enough. Thanks for doing that calculation.
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Apparently the gold market is still heavily fractionally reserved today, too.
Dealing with screwball windings with no ready way to discern their orientation make this one thing a piece of feedback manna.
Ah ah ah, not exactly.
> Now we find out that bitcoin definitely isn't secure

If anything is secure, then bitcoin is. That doesn't mean that it protects people from their own incompetence when it comes to security, there's no getting around that at this stage.

> and fraud by central authorities is just as possible as with any complex system of representing monetary value.

Only when you actually trust a centralised authority with the private keys in question, which people should not be doing in the case of businesses like mtgox which were obviously utterly incompetent right from the start. Plaintext passwords in http get queries embedded in plaintext emails? Come on, that would've twigged my "this is a really dumb idea" sense even before I started software development.

> MtGox turns out to be no different to the FED and any other fiat money authority.

Exactly, which is irrelevant to the security of bitcoin itself. It's like saying a currency itself has a security vulnerability because a security guard at a bank was incompetent, it doesn't work like that.

> I think I'll stick to keeping gold and silver pieces in an old sock.

Gold and silver are just as vulnerable to centralised betrayal when held by a third party, and bitcoin is just as invulnerable to centralised betrayal when you hold it yourself. Your analogy compares two entirely different situations in order to make one look better than the other.
How many years should the 5 Eyes alliance get then? not for the linking but for the hacking itself.
Ridiculous.
Shouldn't have used GoDaddy. Anyone with a clue moved their domains off years ago.
No, you're reading the statutes wrong.

1028 does not mandate consecutive sentences. Note that 1028 is also the "base" offense, i.e., the actual felony. That means the first 3 charges yield a potential maximum sentence of 45 years, but more likely 3 simultaneous sentences of 15 years.

1028A is the "enhancement" charge, which is why it must be served consecutively to the base offense on which they are levied. However, the enhancements themselves can be served concurrently. This means the potential enhancement sentence is anywhere from 2 years to 18 years.

This may be too complicated to explain in a brief HN comment, but an enhancement to one charge can be served consecutively to another charge because the concurrency prohibition is specific to the underlying offense. (I.e., if he gets 10 years for Count 1, but 8 years concurrently plus a 2 year enhancement for Count 2, he can serve both 10 year terms concurrently because the enhancement doesn't extend the sentence for count 1).
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Why is it a horrible idea? I worked on the Site Integrity team at Facebook and I can assure you that protecting people's accounts from attackers is a fundamentally hard problem that very few companies are actually equipped to handle.
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Under Marissa Mayer's watch, Yahoo has been investing tremendous effort in refining the UX on their web/mobile properties like Yahoo Weather [1], Flickr [2], and Yahoo Sports [3].

Actually, the recent changes made me quit Flickr. It's now an ugly mixture of new and old (especially if you use the organiser, etc.) and when you are logged in (which is likely when you use Flickr) you get an unremovable, ugly, purple Yahoo bar.

I was a paying user since 2009. Now Smugmug gets my (and my wife's) money.
> Verdana (the font of this very comment: "I")

Weird. I'm seeing it in Adobe Source Sans Pro, where that "I" has no serifs.
That's a good hype for GnuTLS, but most of the packages that I know of uses OpenSSL - Apache, Nginx and so on. So it doesn't really matter.
I personally liked when there used to be a barrier to entry for designing (horrible) fonts. Nonetheless, this is quite a feat, wow. There are other contenders too, there is:
http://www.prototypo.io/
http://www.metaflop.com/
I love that you qualify it with "right now". Applaud your anti-hubris, stickydink.
This is partially because of difficulty of debugging a completely ad-hoc pipeline.

When you have 50 moving parts and the final image doesn't look right, it's hard to know where the problem is. Instead, you try to make each part adhere to "reality" by making them "physically based", thus enabling objective testing.
How do you know there is no paper trail? What stops Delete.im from saving your messages?
It's a bit of an improvement. On the other hand, if that one account is hacked, it gives access to everything else as well. Moreover, you can even get a list of applications/sites tied to that account. Which makes it arguably even less secure.

If we want people to be safer, we should learn them how to use a password manager to generate a unique password for every site.

And since access to passwords requires two things (the password to the password manager and the password database), it's arguably more secure, even with a weak password.
semi-OT: +1 for the domain name, thought it may be a bit hard to remember
To follow up to ageisp0lis's post (which is apparently now deleted, but linked to http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2013/adding-105-charges-against-bar...), the reasoning behind the 100-year number is: (1) that is the total maximum possible sentence assuming consecutive terms, and (2) it includes 2 other cases against him, not just the Stratfor case.

My comments on this thread only discuss the Stratfor case, which is the second indictment of the 3 discussed by the DMLP article ageisp0lis linked.
Seeing it from outside the American judicial system looks really scary.

Maybe I'm making a generality of a few fringe cases but since 9/11, and the rise of TSA and several horror stories of Police abuse I abandoned my project to one day visit this great country.
Google links to a lot of sites, even a large number that contain Hacked/Obscene/Defamatory/Copyrighted material as defined by appropriate laws.

Since Google is posting these publicly (using many fancy techniques to improve their relevance no less) how many billion years of Sentencing will Brin & Page face under these extremely well worded/just/sane Federal Laws?
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Yes. http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
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"Until you've walked around with a soccer ball full of goat's blood in your pants, after your wife and mother have abandoned you, you have nothing to complain about."

Ha, awesome!
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You can very well minimize it when you look at the actual timeframe between appointment and announcement:

Schmidt joined the Apple board August 29th 2006: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/08/29Google-CEO-Dr-Eric...

Public iPhone announcement was January 9th 2007: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/01/09Apple-Reinvents-th...

Also, the book that article is sourced from hashes out how the Google mobile software team working on iOS which was lead by Gundotra was a different body all together from Rubin's Android unit (who were actually gunning for Android to be shut down since they couldn't see the point of it).
It's worth a read.
Minorities have to put up with this all the time, especially blacks in the South.

I don't see why being a white male hacker makes Barret Brown a special case. If anything, it's a good sign that a white male is being subjected to the same overhanded treatment that minorities have to deal with, because it makes people aware of the problem and creates pressure to fix the system.
I would just like to note that the DOJ prosecutors in their press release for the indictment, have indeed touted the maximums, as well as mandatory two-year sentences on each of the aggravated identity theft counts.

http://www.justice.gov/usao/txn/PressRelease/2012/DEC2012/de...

"Upon conviction, however, the trafficking count carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and the access device fraud count carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Each of the aggravated identity theft counts, upon conviction, carries a mandatory two-year sentence in addition to any sentence imposed on the trafficking count."
Are there any countries where this kind of prosecution would not even get past the court clerk?
Is it true to say "no one really knows precisely how much of a threat he's facing"? The justice system is usually precise, so it seems odd that a precise maximum can't readily be found in this case. Do you think the maximum is probably more than 10 years?

EDIT: I see you've run the numbers in your other comment, sorry:

1028 imposes a maximum sentence of 15 years for the gravest crime listed in the statute. Assuming he is found (or pleads guilty) this yields a likely maximum sentence of 17 years, or a potential maximum sentence of no more than 33 years.

Does this seem excessive?
Yes. We had a long debate about the domain name. What's your thoughts? Do you think we should buy one easier to remember?
Even if package signing works perfectly, when I connect to a mirror and request a patch for foo, the mirror learns my IP address and the fact I have an as-yet-unpatched version of foo.
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In a just world, Barret Brown would not have DOXed an FBI agent and his family for doing his job, or distributed several thousand people's credit card numbers and corresponding identifying information.

Barret Brown is not Aaron Schwartz. Schwartz at least had a colorable claim that what he was doing should not have been a crime. If the allegations are true, Barret Brown is definitely one of the bad apples and does not deserve our sympathy.
This is achieved by making a transaction between two wallets you control - this is recorded on the blockchain. Karpeles / MTGox did this previously to prove that they had a certain amount of BTC. see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=21436.0 for more details (search for 424242).
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Conclusion: people stay loyal to the sales channel.

Not exactly, Humble Bundle and Steam have completely different buy sensitives.

While i buy Humble Bundle, Android Bundle, Weekly Sale, ... I almost never buy any indie game (never say never) from Steam, cause i use Steam to buy A+ discounted games (> 15%) on the front page once in a month. So i would never have noticed your game (honoustly).

But i buy a lot of Humble Bundle's that are worth it.