Did Starbucks get VC funding?

Yes they did. If not from a "VC" there were plenty of investors and funds that the CEO pitched to. But they already had stores by then (originally started as boutique coffee roasters).

So surprised (pleasantly) to see this! The original Eliss is still one of my favorite games. Last I heard though you were working on Faraway? What's the status of that project?

Still working on it! :)

...an "aging" ~two-year-old laptop with a top of the line processor?

Well it's a 2011 Model. But calling a 1.8Ghz Dual Core 'top of the line' is a stretch, especially compared to the previous commenters 100% used octo-core.

Ditto. I can't imagine they didn't discover this during the submission process -- seems like a strange decision to go ahead with it..

I can't claim to be well-versed on this story, but I would like to point out that a couple weeks ago the author of this piece was accused of misrepresenting the issue in the local paper, The Star Tribune. In particular he was called out for glossing over the fact that there have already been several investigations of the matter, which I see he has again failed to mention in the piece linked here.

http://www.startribune.com/local/yourvoices/207993521.html

Actually he mentions it:

>>University officials have repeatedly claimed to have been investigated and exonerated by various legal and regulatory bodies, but those claims have fallen apart.

And has these links:

http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2013/05/questions-journalist...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/147683397/Attorney-General-Office-...

Isn't this just the standard 'Windows is woefully insecure' problem? I would be curious to see how this works in the browsers on OS X.

On OS X, the passwords are probably stored in the Keychain which would be much better than this.

Personally, I just disable all password storage on all browsers and use 1Password.

Firefox will use the OSX keychain only if you install Keychain Services Integration: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keychain-serv... . I highly recommend it.

Chrome OSX stores in OSX keychain out of the box.

Like I said, I opt to use 1Password instead for cross platform usage.

So locally running malware only needs to keylog your master 1Password password to decrypt your 1Password data file?

This is harder than it used to be due to the secure text entry and sandboxing options which OS X has added but it's definitely the biggest risk for password manager users.

If you have a keylogger on your machine, all hope is lost. This is true for any password based security, much like a the best safe in the world is thwarted by someone videotaping you entering the combination. Even so, 1Password does utilize sandboxing in OS X and a secure desktop in Windows, which should in theory make this significantly harder to achieve.

Yes... and the premise of the original post was about vulnerability to arbitrary code being executed on the machine with the user account's rights. I.e., nothing's stopping the keyloggers now.

This is the airtight hatchway we're talking about. The post's premise, and the solutions for Chrome and IE, imply bad guys are already on the other side. All hope is lost. Best you can do is try and make it so that anyone just stumbling around rather than purposefully looking for the passwords doesn't find them, and the value of that is questionable on false sense of security arguments.

It's non-news to anyone who understands how Windows is built.

Same here, amazingly happy with LastPass and it even makes logging in on mobile a breeze :)

...isn't this at least the world's third or fourth private cloud appliance?

Curious to see this today, as the FF enterprise mailing list has been filled with grumbling this week about FF's inability to auto-update itself or its plugins, and the headaches that causes us IT folk when paired with the auto-quarantining of outdated plugins recently implemented.

I just fired up Firefox and did a help->about firefox. Guess what? I'm still on version 17! Despite all their claims about the silent auto-update feature, it doesn't work if you are running as a limited normal user account.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711475

I don't know if this is what you're talking about, but I'd don't blame the "IT folk". Seriously, what kind of idiot requires their users to run with administrator accounts for their software to function properly? What is this 2005?

Funny; all this time I thought the goal of entrepreneurship was to build a sustainable business.

Sustainability is a waste of time when your only goal is to cash out as big as you can with as little investment as possible.

You are mixing up "entrepreneur" with "wanting to create lasting value." A lot of what I see on HN is not the latter.

I think I would classify myself and most of my startup-knowledgable friends in the latter crowd.

Is that a particularly bad thing to not be motivated by large cashouts, and instead by creating a company with long-term value?

Not at all. In fact, I was insinuating that a lot of the start up crowd is motivated by the wrong reasons - money.

You can get rich by buying up real estate and charging rent. All you did is sign paper and make money. "Charging rent" isn't a service. "Allowing you to live in property I purchased." isn't really providing value either.

"Building a house and selling it to a family." <=== that's creating value.

That is one possible goal. That is not the goal for everyone.

I'm guessing you changed it since this feedback, but I really like the current color scheme. The lighter-grey bubbles around the actual code do a nice job directing focus to the important bits.

It was a very subtle change but yeah we lightened it up a bit after the feedback from this thread. We made quite a few changes actually and summarised them here: http://alias.sh/thank-you-hacker-news-community