skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could happen to any other online file storage provider too. So depending on your needs, you're probably best off encrypting your files yourself before storing them online.
VPN will become the norm. Internet access will be 30€ for the ISP + 5 € for the VPN. Not that much of a big deal for the citizen, more worrying for Paris as a tech scene.
Finally Mozilla Firefox 5 Is now Available Officially For Download
For Mac OS X or Linux users, does anyone know an equivalent script to the batch script at the end of the post that would make Dropbox wait until the TrueCrypt virtual drive has been mounted?
Thanks, sdf! We'll definitely think harder about getting our "value prop" out there faster.
No, Java and Scala syntax are quite different. I can really only think of a few cases where they share syntax.
Yes, the article is a bit naive on the economics. There is a couple of similar articles that cover it a bit differently from "unknown author sell 1 million" to the direct announcement from Amazon:
http://is.gd/XY8T2y
Great little box's. Beyond being a switch/router/printer at its core that one time I recovered a corrupted file made it worth many times what I spent on it.
Subject to Mt Gox's holdings of real dollars, too.
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My experience with Java and Scala in high profile, high traffic apps is that they are more or less exactly the same speed. Scala has historically had a much less performant (and buggy) collections library, so I've often used java collections from scala, but it's gotten better.
FDA reveals bigger, graphic warning labels for cigarette packages
I think the worry is that the third party tools might stop working at any time and/or the company might pull or change the API that allows it to function. If it was an official feature from the company, it's continued existence would be a bit more assured (although not perfect).
"Alexander, meanwhile, had helped manage OdioWorks, in addition to founding a previous Y Combinator company (a failed coupon site)"

What was the previous "failed coupon site" nick007 founded?
This part of their story was made up to cover themselves. The "attackers" didn't run into any limit. They sold off a bunch of bit coins. A legitimate user bought then and then (sensibly) tried to get them out of the system, hitting the limit.
> So, no, Scala is not faster than Java and probably won't be for a long time.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but how can a language that compiles down to Java, be faster than Java?

Does C code execute faster than machine code?
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Tutorial: Install and configure Tomcat 7 on OS X / Ubuntu 11.04
Yesterday I tried to play with tomcat so I installed tomcat6 from the ubuntu repositories. But I couldn’t make it work with eclipse. In fact, every time I try to install a java related package from the ubuntu/debian packages, something goes wrong. So I finally decided to download the packages from the official website.
yah this comment is not realistic - Mt Gox wouldn't allow itself to be hacked if their "system" was strong enough to disallow "orders like that".

It's not what Mt Gox allows that matters - it's been hacked and compromised specifically to allow people to do things that are not allowed
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Interesting package deal, as the French also have a pretty stringent anti piracy law.

Other side effect, assuming that the VPN is fully encrypted and the server is in a, shall we say more liberal country, is that it will become more easy to pirate things for the average user.
Dropbox works brilliantly for sharing/syncing non-private files, but I don't think it makes sense to try to patch on something to make it work for truly private files. In my experience, the added security of encryption always comes with some inconvenience, but TrueCrypt volumes sound really inconvenient (like dealing with conflicts if the volume was mounted on multiple computers at the same time).

I'd rather lose the convenience of the web interface, etc. and have locally encrypted files that are only accessible to me.

What about adding encryption on top of a tool like lipsync (https://github.com/philcryer/lipsync) as an alternative to Dropbox for private files?
If there's a bubble, it's because idiots like this are dumping money into the system. Greenspan and Shiller call it irrational exuberance.

“We are not valuation-sensitive and the traditional community feels threatened.”

“We may be the dumbest guys in the room, but we’re opportunistic,” Mr. Mazzola said, adding that “Felix is Latin for ‘lucky.’ ”

The traditional community doesn't feel threatened by you, they're just smart enough to know that you're driving tech company prices way higher than true economic "value". Which, by definition, is a bubble.

Why do our politicians insist on making things harder for entrepreneurs (ex: immigration) while ignoring market failures caused by idiots like this?
The "pro" versions - the implementations that were tuned for performance by experts in that language - were not part of the main figure that compared runtimes (the table in Figure 8). All of the optimizations and reports of performance improvements were in the "Tunings" section, and were considered apart from the findings in Figure 8. Well, except for the Go Pro version, which blurs the division.

They could have used a sentence in the opening of the "Tunings" section to reiterate that the optimized versions are not represented in Figure 8. The different versions in Figure 8 are mostly tuning the GC, not tuning the implementation itself. And, strangely, they do include the Go Pro version in Figure 8. Certainly, though, the C++, Java and Scala Pro versions are not in Figure 8, which is where they drew most of their conclusions from.
Google Chrome To Have Real-Time Communications Capabilities
It sets a bad precedent, and unfortunately it's not the only country to do so (or consider it). When I was younger, I had always dreamed of living briefly in France or maybe Australia at some point in my life, but both countries now see to either enforce strict censorship, or are on the verge of doing so.

I live in Canada, and it wouldn't shock me if our Conservative government did the same, but it still saddens me nonetheless.

I don't keep up on French politics/culture very much, but this move does surprise me, given their Revolutionary history.
Absolutely. For every person who wants to get into Mt Gox there's likely a thousand who'd love to do the same to Citibank et al.
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It's weird how the article assumes that the rightful owner of this domain must be Amazon's Jeff Bezos. What if some other Mr Bezos was first to register, is it still a question of it being returned to Amazon's Mr Bezos?
So, now, the trunk? Let's see it wiggle!
Analyst: Android US smartphone share drop to continue
The article mentions the IR data is received by the camera itself, so you can't just cover a sensor with tape.
I think in the past we saw a lot of people with their Accept-Language header set wrong, which is why we haven't used it. But we've been having a good discussion internally about the "my language won't stick" issues raised on this thread.
Is there any Government IT contractor that doesn't have a terrible reputation?

Government contracts are a pain to do. Most of the work is in jumping through hoops rather than actually doing the work. Most (all?) competent companies avoid Government work for this reason, making it very difficult to get any Government IT work done well.
I would've had so much fun with this on a ti83 back in high school... But more seriously: kind of makes you wonder even more, how people can believe those doomsday proclamations based on patterns in centuries-old texts.
I am using encFS for all data that gets backed up (on USB disc and in the cloud). Its easy to set up, and files get not stuffed into a "container" but they remain seperate files, with their file names and contents encrypted.

If a file is changed on disc, then only that single encrypted file is changed and Dropbox can upload it like any other file.

I also have one backup of my work PC sync every day to my webserver, using rsync. Its publicly accessible on the server, but who cares, its encrypted.
30% difference

N9 - 12.1 mm [1]

iPhone4 - 9.3 mm [2]

[1] http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n9/speci...

[2] http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
This is actually a big deal. We are testing the waters of non-government controlled currency with Bit coins so cases like this are very interesting.
"Most articles look like recycled PR posts about Company X raising Y millions from a Z fund."

Spot on. I can't stand that. Who cares, really? How do any of those articles add any value to what any of us are doing?
I agree - I think this has the earmark of a competitor exchange - to crash and destroy Mt. Gox so they can take the business.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
AMD withdraws from Sysmark 2012
Given their track record this seems very possible.
Final Cut Pro X now available through the Mac App Store
Who invented the personal computer? (hint: not IBM)
Screw the Tech Bubble:  What's your Plan B?
FYI: Chrome uses D3D to render OpenGL or Windows (AngleProject)
We are going for a fun hacker ethos---come, build, be merry. Everybody is welcome :)
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Frankly, their discussion is a bit confusing because they did have optimized versions discussed in the text. And the optimized Scala version did make fundamental changes to the algorithm. They could have kept a better division between the two - idiomatic versus optimized - in both their results and their discussion.

So, jbooth is not accusing them of intellectual dishonesty. And if I consider the following three suppositions: jbooth's understanding of the paper was not complete, your understanding of the paper was not complete, and the people who wrote the paper are smart and hard working; then I simply conclude that performing and writing about this kind of study in a clear manner that will confuse none is very, very hard.
Hiera: a pluggable hierarchical data store
According those that forum (same thread) they're only in Japan to escape fallout from a previous scandal.
Google Places API practical demo
As a french citizen living in the US, I’m sad to hear that the French government is proving itself even more ridicule than it already was. Sad.
I have a 7" Galaxy Tab (1024*600 px, 170 PPI). PDFs are fine, although I like to read them fitted-to-width with tablet horizontal, not fit to page. No problems with web pages using Opera. SSH client fits 85 characters wide by 37 tall (tablet vertical, with onscreen keyboard) at font size I find comfortable. My eyesight is nerd-average, corrected with lenses. Unless you have some studies about this, I'm afraid it's going to be personal experience vs personal experience.
Similar to how the DoHS is seizing domains, and their screwup that resulted in 84,000 wrongly seized domains.
If a group is trying to get attention, they've done it. And it seems like attention is all they are after, probably a few dopey kids running the show.

Someone is 'putting on a show' to go with their hacking hi-jinks. I guess that's what makes him a 'ringleader'?
The three day settlement rule applies to the NY equity markets. Other markets, including NY fixed income products, run under different rules, including same day settlement.

And this isn't a fraud prevention measure, it's a legacy of the days when settlement included someone carting a stack of stock certificates from one bank's vault to another.

Lastly, most traders trade on a contractual basis, not a settlement basis, so their trades are considered binding as soon as the agreement is in place.
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Techcrunch started as an obscure site, and grew thanks to obscure companies.
What a waste, Nokia launches hot, MeeGo smartphone
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API designers should be writers
Scala compiles down to JVM bytecode. Java also compiles down to JVM bytecode. Scala does not compile down to Java.
LulzSec Deleted some Tweets from their stream, why?
The end of this post lists some tweets that LulzSec deleted from their Twitter timeline.
ahem people..

1. Chinese and other criminal hackers do not engage in describing activities on irc, web, etc..ever wonder why?

Its because when un-encrypted data flows through a central IP hub such as AT&T NSA has access to it in real-time.

Now think real hard, is this the real anonymous or lulzsec?

I assure you the read bad actors are spurring both anonymous and lulzsecf on in irc to do their dirty work from them than laughing their asses off when they get arrested..

Look at the irc transcripts that have been posted for yourself..that pattern is there..

Think for yourselves people do not let media do your thinking for you
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I don't think you understand how fast MD5 is. On the order of 10 billion MD5/sec is doable for very cheap. If you're going after millions, getting multiple graphics cards is a no-brainer.

See, for example, http://www.golubev.com/gpuest.htm
One of the Groklaw commenters asserted how FTP and even "TCP-IP" are prior art (OK, he corrects himself to say they are listed as 'related art' - whatever.) But the commenter is missing the fact that the patent discusses distribution of smaller parts of the file by "spraying" it around. FTP and HTTP can transfer large files, but your HTTP client doesn't download a single large file in small chunks from several servers.

The more accurate prior art are the methods for transmitting large files via usenet: split large file, uuencode parts, distribute parts to several usenet hosts (where there's also some kind of negotiation about swapping parts between hosts.) Finally client obtains, decodes, and reassembles those parts.
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Anyone can claim to have the census data; I won't believe this until they release it.
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Don't forget about us Canadians (and all other British expansions), when they brought up Harper on their twitter I started noticing stuff like this, great eye cormullion.
Surely there is another copy of this video including the whole talk. It would also be nice to see the slides.
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LulzSec has a website,still unidentifiable?
Simple question ! Every registered domain has to have registration details like address,email and payment information.While LulzSec maintaining a website how come they are still untraceable?
Does it auto-upgrade, a-la Chrome?

Update, nope, it does tell you there's an upgrade, though (at least on OS X). I think the next step for the FF team is getting those cool assembly-text-diff things like Chrome has working. Until then, there's just fragmentation.
This is a confusing feeling. The Firefox release mechanism makes this more frustrating than friendly.

With Chrome, my browser automatically updates for stuff like this. I never see it and always have the correct version.

For Firefox, I have to purposefully seek out the next version, and considering I'm still upgrading some of my machines to 4.0 from 3.5 (I downloaded 4.0 yesterday on one machine), this is kind of annoying.

I'm not sure a quick release schedule works quite as well if you've got to manually upgrade. I like Chrome for the same reason I sign up for automatic bill payments - I understand it's important, but I don't want to have to deal with it.
Release Notes:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0/releasenotes/
It took me about a month to really get limits. Once I did, I started complaining about how horribly unintuitive the definition the class had used was. So a friend asked me how I would define it. After a few tries I had the perfect definition...and it turned out it was word-for-word exactly the same as the one in the book.
I used to spend a lot of time on TC, but there's so much fluff and crap to filter through it's not worth it anymore. Now I only find myself there if there's an interesting link on HN. And the best articles by far are written by guest authors. It really isn't a useful or productive resource for startups, it's kind of like the TMZ of the tech world.
Using it now. Looks the same as 4. All add-ons worked fine. Seems a little faster but that might be because my previous firefox process had been up for about 3 days and had gotten all slow.
I'm sorry: I cannot see a pattern, only somebody asking me for deep thinking and to avoid the media all while pedaling an unsubstantiated conspiracy.
Absolutely the thought of this kind of "feature" used to actively cripple a democratic tool by big gov is chilling. i.e. "What if cops used it to mask abuses?"

But somehow it's the more banal applications I can imagine that would deliver a more real sense of oppression. Stores turning it on so that nobody could photograph their displays, meaning you couldn't take a picture with your mom if you were out shopping. Or buildings broadcasting the "don't film" signal such that photographers wouldn't be able to take pictures (i don't know why they like to do this, but this activity has been consistently upheld by courts). Lots of entrepreneurs have ideas that inevitably revolve around the utility of ubiquitous cameras which would be nullified by ubiquitous camera-canceling signals. And so on.

The chilling effect could become commonplace. And then in the event of a real crisis when you do want photos, people can't take them because of a stupid IR signal. What you do then? Oh crap! There's a guy getting beaten in front of me. Nobody move; let me run to Walgreens and get an IR filter!
Why the Nokia N9 will fail
I need my vertical tabs on the right side of my screen, which is why I am still stuck in Firefox 3.6 land.
Ah, thought perhaps it was a separate sensor.
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Am I missing some point here? When Internet was censored in Tunisia, we would use proxies, https, sites like vtunnels... This became casual stuff even for the non-techie. So what's the point of censorship? Making access to the web a little bit harder? If you censor a video on Youtube, someone else can upload it to Facebook and watch it through HTTPS and diffuse it to many people.

Aren't (the French Gov. and other Govs.) aware of that? If so, what's the point of censorship?
Archaic hardware + archaic software with dead community = big fail. Design alone does not sell as good as it used to a few years ago.
Why I think HTTP is Overrated
(Note: this food for thought based on an internal dicussion)

Overall, I think we (web developers) are often trying to cram functionality that belongs to the Application Layer (actions, events, data flows, etc.) into Transport Layers like the "holy" HTTP Protocol. This forces us to model our logic into HTTP ways of thinking like CRUD, REST and passive states.

Take for example, HTTP status codes. When "My App" cannot perform an action because it couldn't connect to an external API, or it couldn't perform some Magic Sauce on an object, the error that results should belong to the Application Layer, and should not be any of the Transport Layer's business. Trying to figure out status codes for these kind of failures I think is wrong.

With new practices like SocketIO, HTTP becomes nothing more than a Transport Layer. SocketIO is responsible for making your browser-side communicate with the server-side (or any other node) as real-time as possible. It does so using whatever is available in the environment (XHR-polling, JSONP polling, Websockets, Sockets in Flash, etc.). Transports like JSONP cannot even cope with HTTP status codes, JSONP is an entire new transport on top of HTTP.

With applications becoming more complex, more real-time and more event-driven, I think we have to move away from HTTP thinking.

HTTP has been great, but let's not get sentimental. The web has moved on.
I can tell you is isn't being deallocated before being used, that would be a major bug. So, I guess it would get moved, but the GC probably won't run unless the first gen space is pretty full. I'm glossing over details because, well, the GC in the JVM is a very complicated piece of work, and I don't know much of the details, but the JVM does in fact default to a stop-the-world garbage collector[1].

I don't think anyone actually expects the JVM to beat C++ using stack allocated objects[2]. Our concern is how well a garbage collector handles lots of small objects.

[1] Details on how the JVM GC works: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/gc-tuning-5-138395.ht...
[2] There is a switch, which will be on by default one day, that lets the JVM do escape analysis so it can allocate objects on the stack automatically.
So they are keeping Qt development for their low end phones? Shouldn't they have made this announcement a few months ago?
This piece is bizarre because the author never once acknowledges that it's possible Locke could not sell a million of his books the conventional way. In other words, the author never acknowledges that Locke may have made less money with a traditional publisher.
unwind, you're right. I suppose if there was another "Jeff Bezos" out there then the domain owner probably should have considered giving the domain to them.
Well, yes, but only when your data is skewed in general. Tom Kyte gives a 1 - 2 hour presentation about bind variables, bind variable peeking, overbinding, SQL Injection, parsing etc - great stuff if you are an Oracle guy and can get to one of this seminars.
The Internet used to be a force for anonymity. Now it's a force that ends it.
If you want to see if your CCD picks up infrared light (it does), just point a remote control (from a tv) at it and press a couple of buttons.

A trick I learned about a few years ago.
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> always have the correct version.

Depends what you mean by "correct version". If your app isn't tested with 5, then it's not the correct version.

Firefox's release mechanism is the middle ground between IE's and Chrome's: you get updates, but you decide when, and they're not tied to the OS.
> your understanding of the paper was not complete,

Indeed: I have not read it. But now I plan to.

(Edit: since when a pubic recognition of one's own fault is worth a down vote? My not having read the paper provides meaningful context, by temporarily undermining my authority. Down vote the grand parent, but leave this one at 1 point!)
www.skyfile.co it has a easy API
Nokia N9, First Meego Based Smartphone, Is Beautiful
Still no flash auto-update like Chrome? Then I'm still Chrome-y!
Reflections on the Passing of Eli Goldratt
I didn't know this existed here. Looks awesome!
There is a great line from Jonathan Ive in the documentary Objectified where he says: "A lot of what we seem to be doing is getting design out of the way. And I think when forms develop with that sort of reason, and they’re not just arbitrary shapes, it feels almost inevitable. It feels almost undesigned. It feels almost like, 'well, of course it’s that way. Why would it be any other way?'"
This would set a very bad precedent indeed, as other countries will later point to France as an example of how it should be done.

Sarkozy wanted to get all the G8 countries on the same page, so they don't look out of place with their new censorship laws. That way if they all enforce the same kind of laws in the same time, they think people would just take it for granted that that's how it should be done, and that "if so many countries are doing it, then it probably makes sense".

People need to speak out against such measures and be very vocal about it. Fortunately, there are elections next spring in France, so I hope the French people will vote Sarkozy down over this, and put someone in his place that disagrees with such censorship.

Americans also have an election next year, and hopefully they'll do the same (Ron Paul?).