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>We ended up with a name very similar to the one we started with, one that all of us like just fine, and one which is just going to be what people call our new, supremely free, project management app. I think everyone would have gotten used to Hippolist too, but it doesn’t matter, because it’s called Trello now.

>In the end we should have just had Michael do the whole name picking in thirty minutes and been done with it.

I mean... successful names DO imply what the product is. "Google" is similar to the English language term for staring in wonder. "Facebook" is taken from the existing name for books of college students. "MyFitnessPal," clunky as the name and product are, is a pretty informative name. If you rattled off a list of these names to a grandmother, chances are that she could divine the purpose of each website.

I'm a huge fan of Trello, and I think the name works well the same way that "Xerox" worked well -- because most people really don't have another word for kanban systems or photocopies, and the product name suddenly defines the category. But unless you're churning out revolutionary new products rather than refining existing ideas, I think it makes sense for your name to in some way characterize your product.
This is an argument that applies equally well to Linux; after all, my auto mechanic could give a shit what OS runs on his phone or set-top box.
RDS MySQL does this, with a hot standby master and 60 second failover. Replicas too. Unless you were looking for free. That's a bit harder.
I've been watching some of these projects for a while now. They are cool but the four-legged ones always creep me out slightly..
The obvious advantage is typed channels.

http://haskell-distributed.github.io/documentation.html#type...
It's a directly drawn from the premise that each startup is likely to fail. Stealing an idea doesn't make a company more likely to execute well and having an idea doesn't make a company less likely to.
And then you have all the French engineers currently moving to Silicon Valley because a $1XXk salary working for a world known tech company is more interesting than 30k € working for an SSII where you'll have a chain of 10 MBAs above you, or applying to companies that won't even look at your resume unless your degree is certified by the CTI, even if you're probably a better engineer than 90% of their employees.

Well, that's what I did anyway. Part of me wishes I could have the career fulfillment I currently have back in France, to give back to the system that made me (l'École de la République, what a beautiful dream!), but sadly that's not possible. Oh well, that's what the UK expats are for, right?
SERIOUSLY!? eval() from regexes!?

Jebus... Just burn it all down, we're screwed.
What a great director. But things are never as black and white as adam would have you believe.
That's all so irrelevant to our discussion I wonder why you bring it up. The point is that a black box takes the kind of effort you describe to review: "meaningful, significant costs" most can't or won't invest using specialist skills or tools most don't have. Are you telling me you fully reverse engineer all the state and code paths in every proprietary offering you consider along with a robust evaluation against known vulnerabilities? Or do you look at their stated claims, prior/current credibility, and perform some basic evaluation? Most of us do the latter for economic reasons and that leaves proprietary software as a black box.

As for Microsoft, there's all kinds of people reverse engineering their code with most doing it to write exploits. So far, nobody has shared a link to a bug-for-bug compatible source equivalent for Bitlocker to analyze for cryptography issues. I'd just be taking someone else's word that (a) they R.E.'d it enough to see all potential subversions, (b) they had the skill to spot clever subversions with little context, and (c) they weren't lying to me. Please link to papers showing such a full deconstruction of the Bitlocker code with a hash that we can use to confirm it's the same on our machines. It will boost everyone's confidence in the product. Otherwise, you're talking like it's been rigorously R.E.'d and reviewed while providing zero citations to back that. Meanwhile, the Internet is full of citations on Microsoft's security failures and deceptions. Status quo stands until you deliver proof otherwise.
Ha, no it was just a mindless copy paste.
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The Lotus Esprit was my favorite. The sketch of the Aston Martin DB10 looks good, but I'll reserve judgement until the movie comes out.
It is exciting! I'm in charge of scaling a business to support an explosion of users. I say business because I'm also building / extending the sale & marketing systems, the internal communications, and some other stuff I have planned out. It's a lot of work but we need it and good tools help me move quickly. I love scaling businesses as a whole.
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Other research to cover at least some of the potential use cases uses less invasive methods (e.g. influencing the leg muscles or sending sensory stimulations which are easier to ignore)
OK, I put down for the pre-order of the Steam controller. And am now remembering what a bad idea it is to be an early adopter. No offense to Valve but I'll be very surprised if they can succeed in a way -- and at a lower price point -- that much more experienced controller-makers have not been able to after decades of iteration. I just hope it's more compatible with my Mac than a jury-rigged XBOX360 controller is.
This is a bit tangential, but which are the credible open-source competitors to IDA and the arguably best currently-available assembler you're referring to?
They will try to chisel away at rights (with some success), but if you think about what they are up against, they will always be playing wack-a-mole.

No matter how good the surveillance teams are, they will never completely control humanity nor know everything at all times. They simply aren't capable of it.

In addition, the wants are limitless but their budgets are constrained by what they can reasonably appropriate. As they make it harder to do business (by introducing security holes or ruining trust) the amount they can appropriate becomes less.

In addition, they become buried by an ever increasing amount of information that their inefficiency can't handle. I have no doubt some of the best and brightest in the world work for for secret agencies. But operationally they are still bureaucracies. Thus, they have no shortage of lazy and stupid people... many of whom are in leadership positions. In fact I believe these pleas for unconstitutional shortcut tools are the pleas of lazy and unimaginative people. People who don't want to be found probably have much more reason to worry if the special pleading ever stops. Because at that point there may be truly more competent people running the program.
I'm pretty sure it will also work without Steam, though you'd need other software to configure it.
The Apple Store is extremely Tor-friendly, I find. There are no CAPTCHAs. In creating Apple IDs, there are no requests for personal information. Gift cards purchased with Bitcoins are recognized. I am gobsmacked! Maybe Apple is actually walking its privacy talk.

However, using ever-changing Tor exit IPs does trigger account locks, which require password reset. But that's arguably a feature, and not a bug.
This might be an easy and cheap option (I'm assuming you can dual boot these with Windows) to have a PC to go with an Oculus Rift.

I'm a Mac user and don't really want to buy or build a gaming rig just for VR. This is an interesting option that seems to meet the Oculus recommended specs.
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If nothing else, you should be able to tell the intermediate CA to pretend that a root and then re-sign its public key with your actual root, and then hand the actual root to clients, and hand the new intermediate CA cert to servers to use in the chain. I'm pretty sure the signing process only depends on the public key, not on the entire cert.

This is how cross-signatures work: new CAs will get their intermediate keys cross-signed by existing CAs, so that you can construct a valid chain from them. This creates a different CA certificate, but it's using the same public key, so the end-entity certs validate with either CA certificate.
This is an official USAF photo of a F-22 coming in for a landing. What people perceive as "photoshop" is a result of the suns positioning relative to the plane and camera.
Now that is a legitimate critique. It's why I prefer Inline Media Encryptors with trusted path. Those plus an encryption scheme addressing such known issues. The IME knocks the host TCB out of the equation, at least.
Somewhat related project i had going... https://github.com/meesterdude/reddit-rust-servers (http://ruru.name/reddit-rust-servers/ show/hide columns to see more options)

I used to run the rust servers sub. I would have people post JSON posts, which i would then spider and generate a JSON DB from, and created a UI (see the gh-pages branch) to grab the JSON and present a searchable/filterable way of finding servers that are relevant to you.
Steam ain't that bad. It's better than buying titles for consoles. DRM is usually forced on you by 3rd parties, as far as I know Valve titles don't ship with DRM, but you do need to use Steam to take delivery of the game.

It's a small price to pay, and a huge convenience.
But managers still need to get approval from executives to purchase it. And who wants to go into a budget meeting pitching for "CockroachDB by Cockroach Labs"? They desperately need a name in there that will be palatable with executives outside of the Silicon Valley venture bubble.
It's my favorite game at the moment, just wanted to sneak in a plug for it :)
Also, is strong security something people expect out of a garage door remote? It's never been a feature, as far as I can remember.

Not that there isn't a market of people who do want for security in their remote, or would but don't yet know it...
I disagree. Three or four corporations own almost the entire Canadian media, from traditional print publications to television and Internet. The range of viewpoints on offer is extremely limited. For example, the two daily newspapers in Vancouver are owned by the same company. The two (or is it three?) private "over the air" TV networks are run by the same companies that own the two national daily newspapers. This type of media concentration would be illegal in the US. The Canadian media is incestuous and prone to nepotism and corruption. The CBC network took government money to produce a series run on their flagship nightly newscast that sent their chief correspondent (who was also a Bilderberg guest) on a tour of the Northwest Passage aboard a Coast Guard ice breaker. This coincided with the government's ramping up PR about a "strong northern presence to assert Canadian sovereignty". A CBC business corespondent was on the payroll of a national financial institution, and married to a high-level employee of said bank)when she did an "independent analysis" of this institution which just happened to show them in a very positive light.

And Canada is the only Anglophone nation without a tradition of media criticism. So, no, Canadian journalism is not in any way superior to US reporting. Quite the opposite in fact. Canadaland, a weekly podcast started by a dude who has worked for a variety of Canadian media outlets directly confronts the sick and feeble nature of Canada's media landscape.
> state of the art encryption
Encryption Is not rocket science. It's trivial to make encryption arbitrarily harder to crack by using larger keys. There is no practical limit to key sizes.
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If it is microcode it wouldn't be a complete disaster. Microcode updates are volatile and can ship with BIOS. Even when updated by Linux it happens early out of initrd.
I think (as I alluded to in another reply) that it's wrong to think that the only two outcomes are that you either lock in 100% of your market or you fail.

No business has 100% of its market. There are many profitable business that do not do everything as well as their competitors. They may be smaller, less efficient, less sophisticated---but they still attract enough customers to be a going concern. If I'm a customer, once I've made a purchase from you, you're a known quantity. Any competitor will seem like a risk. Evaluating whether it's worth changing takes effort, and unless I'm unhappy I probably won't do it.

Look at domain name registrars. There are hundreds. They all do pretty much the same thing. Some of them have really nice management tools, and some have really terrible ones. But even the terrible ones have repeat customers.
recoup your investment by making a video review...and pray that it hits 500,000 views or more.
Easy, maybe. Cheap, no. You're paying for the brand, the flashy case and parts that fit a smaller form factor (the Alienware machines are using laptop GPUs instead of desktop ones, I am not sure they would support Oculus at all). Cheaper just to assemble it or buy a gaming PC that isn't constrained to the HTPC form-factor.
Execution can make a difference on how likely you are to fail. There are so many examples out there where one execution won over even if the original idea was the same.
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Is there any reason why NVIDIA/AMD wouldn't want to go the open source route with their drivers? Is there some kind of a special sauce in there that they need to treasure? Aren't they in the business of selling hardware, or is there something really special about those drivers?
While I admire the sentiment underpinning your reasoning, I don't see it as obviously beneficial toward YC's purposes in running HN. Given that Tor is correlated with spam and such, allowing legitimate uses creates the messy problem of separating legitimate use from illegitimate in real time with the potential cost of a whitelist mistake being more detrimental to the community than simply banning Tor.

To put it in marketing terms, banning Tor is simply a segmentation decision and another way in which HN isn't designed to be all things to all people.
It ain't bad or better than X, isn't a defense.

Steam in itself is DRM. You can't run games without it. There are very few exceptions where you can. You must be online to use it, unless you manually specify offline mode( you must be online to do this ).

It is a price I choose not to pay.
I work with someone who got a graduate degree in Germany. She simply can't believe anyone goes to college in the US without massive scholarships. From the student's perspective, I've come to agree.
If you want the Chinese to stay, you also need to have a suitable work/entrepreneurship visa policy.
I was obviously referring to proprietary drivers, because anyone serious about gaming with AMD (at least for recent games, older ones can run fine on FOSS ones) will have to use proprietary ones. Note that Mesa is still limited to 3.3 OpenGL support and FOSS drivers do not go over that limitation yet either (hence there are less and less modern games using OpenGL 4.x that will run on FOSS drivers).
Well those are two examples that are representative of about 0.01% (or less) of apps or web-based businesses.
I don't think any of these meet the minimum Oculus specs. You need a GTX 970 which costs like 75% of the entry model
There are super low power accelerometers with wake on movement. Simply require the key be recently moved about to activate the door. If the key is not awake, it can't answer any challenges.
I thought about creating an anonymous peer-to-peer network like BitMessage but over Twitter instead of over TCP/IP. The main benefit is that for the watching government hardware your traffic will flow to twitter, not to some suspicious computers. Of course if government can talk to Twitter, it might find out that activity, but not all governments can talk to Twitter.

Another improvement might be not to send base64 abracadabra, but instead send some readable texts (autogenerated or fragments from wikipedia) and encode message as a slight deviations (typos, etc) using steganography. But it would require a lot of messages to transmit enough data.
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Yes, there is. Like nVidia making sure that you don't know that the chip they use is actually the same as in a more expensive card, but controlled to act as a lower performance chip through the drivers.
Syber's "Steam Machine X" is the only one which meets (or rather, exceeds) the Oculus Rift recommended specs. The critical component is the GPU, and Oculus recommends a GTX 970. This one has a 980.

At $1419 it's quite fairly priced for the components it includes (just check logicalincrements.com), but I wouldn't really call that cheap.
Not intended as click bait. I saw it on twitter and was wondering just how serious a flaw people thought this could be. Or if the presenter might just be blowing smoke.
No, Canadian mainstream media reporting is NOT reliable! Canadians tend to believe everything Canada does is just a bit better than what the US offers. Definitely not the case with the media. In fact, Canada's English-language media is in a pretty sad state. See my other post in this thread for more info.
> Also, I love that games are being ported to Linux at the fastest pace in history because of Steam machines. I play and buy a lot more games because of it.

Certainly, but if Steam Machines fail to pick up steam (hehe) that could be a very short lived phenomenon. Especially for AAA games.
Basically nothing in your comment is factually accurate. Here's one example. Google more at your leisure.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/indicted-chinas-a...
Is there anything that stops them from simply scraping Twitter without using their API? (A la ArchiveTeam) I mean, besides a silly ToS.
There's a very similar tale behind the name Toy Story.
The low-end Alienware box has specs that don't meet the minimum requirements for Batman Arkham Knight, one of the few AAA titles coming out this year that supports SteamOS. And it costs more than either the Xbox One or Playstation 4, both of which will run Arkham Knight fine. I think Steam Machines are a failure waiting to happen. PC enthusiasts can get a Steam Link for $50 for most of the benefits of this. And people who aren't PC enthusiasts have no reason to buy these over a console.
Ya, but the war on drugs has been a resounding success...oh, wait....
Just in case you didn't know it already, there is https://www.humblebundle.com/ . It's a shop with a lot of drm-free titles and let's you download the games over http(s).
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"Nobody is going to steal your idea".

Excellent, feel free to publicly announce all your future projects prior to completion! :p Your competitor's would love to be first to market with some of your ideas.

An example being my company: I run a web hosting company (http://www.fused.com, y'know those antiquated LAMP stack ones that aren't cool around these parts) & it's an idea anyone & everyone can execute with some effort. Yay, launch a host today! Good luck.

The main company aside, I've got a few internal projects brewing that can, and will differentiate us from our competition (or, quickly turn into something we wholesell to them directly) that are far beyond run of the mill ideas.

Those 'secret sauces' are too all about execution, but I'd still like to be first to market with them :)
I'm in the exact same situation and completely agree.
Rings are an extremely convenient abstraction when it comes to talking about operations that trap (so, basically, the whole foundation that security is built on). It's perfectly reasonable to keep talking about it even if the origins are no longer used (or usable at all, in long mode). It even makes sense with the NX bit, thanks to the control register that lets ring 0 bypass write protection.

To be clear, the only thing I'm disagreeing with here is your last paragraph.
"Memory sinkhole" seems be a pun on the "memory hole", which suggests it might be MMU related?
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Consoles don't support Oculus Rift though. It might be great to satisfy that need while being lower maintenance than a normal PC.
I really wish there were standard models so game developers could optimize the settings. These are just low-end PCs that manage to cost more than a PS4 or an Xbox One.
Bluntly: Serverless, NAT-breaking P2P with public keys and BitTorrent DHT
proof of concept code for making secure connections between 2 peers by knowing only each other's public keys. (no servers or IP knowledge involved, featuring NAT penetration).

uses the bittorrent DHT. code is hacky, written for fun.

As opposed to Bleep and Tox, it works right now with no extra protocol or network.
Well, now we know what they do with that cloud Amazon runs for them.
Steam may have DRM but they implement DRM properly.

That's the difference. Most companies who implement and force DRM on their games don't do it right, and causes issues for the end user, and makes their gaming experience rather shit.

Steam makes it easy to search for games, to download them, and to play them. The Steam platform is easy, fast and it just works.

It's the same reason Netflix took off - they take out all the hassle, and give you a great experience. I don't hear people complaining that they can't watch Netflix ... without Netflix.
One of the co-creators here; as a disclaimer, we didn't mean to threaten to break reddit at all. We're amazed that someone even found this repo since we abandoned it back in January, and that it's even gotten any amount of attention. Honestly we just built this in a week over winter break cause we were bored
People understand ID cards and phones. Once it gets into things like passphrases, keys, salts, etc. 98% are lost.

I work with students (some are Ph.D. candidates) in computer science who can't keep public/private SSH key pairs straight.
Hey, this is cool. I sent @bemmu an email a few months back asking him about Candy Japan and he sent me a list of all his competitors just like this article. I was stopping my Japancrate subscription because of the cost but I never did start a new one with anyone else. Seeing Candy Japan on here might convince me to subscribe for a bit.
Has anyone used the new controller and compared it to the original that came with the first steamboxes? I had a friend win the steambox lottery and I tried the original steam controller -- I found it simply awful.
Nonsense, go is fine, so is rust.
That's not even remotely close, on either number.

There were 294 motor vehicle fatalities in NYC in 2013.

The US has been averaging about ~32,000 motor vehicle deaths per year the last several years.

Your 12/10000 rate would indicate 360,000 people per year; that's off by a factor of ten.

* http://dmv.ny.gov/statistic/2013nyc.pdf

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...
Well, that's sad. So they basically have every incentive for there not to exist decent Linux drivers until the demand is large enough that they have to do a great job at supporting the platform?