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Right. It's clear that this is not a problem with Bitcoin itself, but a problem with an institution built on top of it. If Mt Gox fails, other trading platforms could emerge to take its place.

Likewise the freedom from government intervention that is the point of Bitcoin does not ensure freedom from government intervention in trading platforms built upon it.

Not that I don't expect problems to emerge with Bitcoin itself...
Is the Olive Garden reference a metaphor or other abstract thing like Fresh Plum? I thought it was a restaurant chain in the US.
In this thread, people can ask him question, something that can't be done on job postings.
You're right in that it will vary by jurisdiction. I guess I didn't use enough caveats. :D
"people often disable the plugins and are conscious about plugins being an attack surface"

actually I think most people can't tell the difference between a browser and a search engine ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: The entire UK 2011 Census
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That's a very loaded sentence. "Make the UI harder to use" and "rare cases" and "he/she doesn't trust".

Trust isn't binary.

He doesn't want "instant everything reveal" when someone (a friend? work colleague?) uses his phone.
Because there are so many Qt-based apps for Symbian already, right? Oh, wait...
You can never prove scientific theories, only disprove them.
Thank you for the recommendations because I never knew of them. I may be a music connoisseur but I don't know all the spots to go which was my point. All I had the time for was checking out GorillavsBear, Stereogum and checking out reviews on Pitchfork and Spin.

I really don't know what these patents were intended for. Apple has had a history of using a patent for a completely different scenario than what is described. It may be the tech behind it that was important and not the described use.
I like what your pet theory states. For me, it highlights the bigger question: _why_ do we have this propensity to "trust without doubt"?

My pet theory for that is based on risk-avoidance and (behavioural) rational choice theory. When we try to figure out the world in order to effectively interact with it, uncertainty is a huge problem. It is primarily a cognitive processing problem: if you don't know what it going on and what you should or can do about it, you are cognitively stuck and cannot take action. This increases our perception of risk, and possibly real risk too due to our cognitive machinery being engaged and confused.

Unconditional belief to the rescue! If there is something that we can trust without doubt, whatever the rationale behind it might be, it sounds appealing - even if the belief is mistaken, it frees up the cognitive machinery. The more abstract or unfalsifiable a belief, the easier it is to completely trust it and believe in it.

<troll>Cue religion, UFOs, nationalism, horoscopes, communism, homeopathy, libertarianism, rational choice theory, karma.</troll>
> Running a plugin is different from using a feature in the browser - people often disable the plugins and are conscious about plugins being an attack surface so the admins often deploy policies disabling use of plugins.

1. It's not hard to expose a way to disable WebGL support, especially for admins. And no, overall people do not often disable plugins and they're not very conscious about plugins being an attack surfaces (though admins may be).

2. Are you saying it's OK to ship technologies known to be broken as long as it's in a plugin? Do you really think that makes sense?
They're farmed out piecewise to a pool of translators in the language pair. Say I had actually passed the Japanese to English translation test (which I didn't -- what can I say, must have been having a bad night, and I think I botched the heck out of a statement on the red tide's effect on productivity of fish stocks). I would log into myGengo, and there would be a list of J -> E translations awaiting completion, with titles. I could get the full text for one, get basically an editing lock on it (i.e. no one else is translating it while I am), and then after completion the customer reviews, accepts, and I get paid money.

This is optionally doable via API on the customer's side, which is a practical necessity for someone whose business was doing that transaction several hundreds or thousands of times per day. For example, you could imagine a major online retailer deciding "We'd like to offer all of our clothes to customers in the big six fashion markets, but drats, how to get 100k skus of descriptions of men's formalwear translated into six languages. AHA! We'll just build it into our CMS using the myGengo API."

Disclaimer: worked for them. They're cool folks.
Coincidentally I ran into this today:

http://blacklocus.com/

I wonder how much FreshPlum will differ.
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"Silly, I know, but effective."

Absolutely not. You could try it the other way. Work harder to earn more money, to be able to buy better stuff to get the same fealing. ;)
First of all, congratulations, Sam. You're an inspiration to us all, and I wish you (and Freshplum) the best of luck.

It's definitely not out of line to plug that you're hiring-- my point was that you would be better to avail yourself of the special "hiring for YC company" posts built into the system, and I see that you've done exactly that.
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Yes. It goes in a different direction than it starts. I think the parent stopped reading at some point. Did you read it all, and the articles it cites?
> I know but the rent is low

The rent is low in Shenzhen? That comes as a surprise to me, I'd been led to believe that it was in fact the most expensive city in China. Can you please expand on this? Perhaps share some numbers relating to rent, food, etc.? I'm considering moving there right after my graduation.
That does not seem to have changed.
"-But even scientists admit that they can't explain everything.
-There probably are questions that science cannot answer..."

I would love to get rid of this intellectual appeasement of supernaturalists. It is only there to avoid accusations of scientism so I find it an argumentative cop-out.

Sure, science can't answer some questions. Like: "what hair colour is bald?", "where does god live?" and "what is the meaning of life?".

But is the problem with science or with the question? Always challenge the question, especially if it contains assumptions.
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5103260/how-ios-handle-ur...

Although in all fairness I have to mention that this hasn't happened to me personally, so I can't verify that it works exactly like that
Part of what ? They've already announced Qt won't run on WP7.

They've basically offloaded everything-but-developers to Digia [1]; and I bet Digia will have a big say in what the remaining Qt developers in Nokia will get to work on.

Qt might be part of their low-end strategy on S40, for big-numbers / low-profit emerging markets. Considering how iPhones are now immensely popular even in places like Cuba and how low-cost Android devices are getting ready to hit those markets, I bet that strategy will soon need revising as well...

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/07/nokia-sells-qt-licensing-...
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"The British are coming! The British are coming!"

Not that it technically changes anything, but Spotify is Swedish.
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I'm just about to buy a "tablet", its screen is 4.3 inches and it also makes phone calls.

People keep asking if the "tablet" market is going to be like the smartphone market or the iPod (i.e. PMP) market. I think it simply is the smartphone market. People like Marco don't want this to be true, because they think Apple has already lost this market. That's why there's so much effort expended trying to desperately to separate the two. It's like the old business school cliche of "what business are you in?". The trains thought they were in the train business, but really they were in the people moving business and got disrupted by aircraft. Tablets and smartphones are just two ways of accessing the web (in its widest sense). At some point we're either going to start calling tablets "phones" or phones "tablets" and the two will merge into a range of devices with no clear transition point.
or just send an email to 0@,1@,2@,3@,4@...22@ :)
I pay my accountant $275 to do the returns for my LLC. I keep my own books the rest of the year. I've been audited by the IRS and owed no money after the audit. Having a business doesn't automatically make things super complex. It's only complicated if your business is complicated.
Please add a warning in the title that this is linking directly to the Windows download.
Assuming they won't notice that is probably not the right way to go.

Also, 22@ might be a little high. Just sayin'
Theregister has more info:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/startssl_security_br...

Hackers managed to somehow generate certificates for arbitrary domains. Looks like they spoke directly to Eddy Nigg (StartCom's CTO and COO) to get this info
> Write down the steps required to merge changes from 5 different people

This thread (and hence the comment) was about archiving a repository, not about merging it.
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PS might help piracy a bit if you did.
You had me at "I don't think Nokia's leadership thinks".

They must have known this device was in the pipeline when they made the WP7 announcement. It really doesn't seem like they gave much thought to how that would impact this (otherwise easy to get excited about) product's launch…
This is great stuff. In particular, how they designed their service interfaces to reduce coupling and allow instrumentation is really interesting. I'd love to see more information on the faceted services - I wonder how using a particular facet of an interface affects the wire protocols (i.e. does it just expose a reduced set of methods or does it also affect which data are sent on the wire?).

Amazing that they use memcached so much as a K/V store too, it's not something I'd have considered as a general store.
So, not altruism.
Given LulzSec seems to post their hacks on twitter, that there's no way of validating who posted the PasteBin item and that the Office of National Statistics hasn't reported the loss, its probably best to wait and see something a little more convincing.
Yep, I know how they have been doing things. However, things like this http://www.developer.nokia.com/swipe/ux/ shows that they have done a bit of effort on this one. I don't believe they'll gain anything from cutting the support when they have come this far and actually delivered something which has selling potential in future too.
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It's nice to see people this passionate. You could tell that he started off quite frustrated and slowly cooled down as he was writing, which I think always makes things more genuine/fun.

He's got me sold.
This was the first census where you could submit details online. I wonder if it was these records? Would be surprised if they had even finished scanning the paper ones yet, but the UK governments security record is not good. They contracted it to Lockheed Martin, who also do the US census, so presumably reused the software?
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Lulzsec claim to have the 2011 UK Census records.
I didn't read the cited articles, but I did read it all. It may have (as a sibling of yours pointed out) "danced" around that conclusion, but it was far from clear that's where he was going with it. It was just a bunch of poorly-thought-out analogies that made no sense (and in many cases were factually incorrect; e.g. the stuff about FC Barcelona is just wrong).
I wonder if they are using the same (undocumented) exploit for each of these attacks.

I am certainly no expert in this field, but I would have thought discovering new exploits and security holes would take time, yet these guys are hitting several major sites a week.
I haven't seen "Census" mentioned in their twitter feed (yet), so as far as I know the only source is a bit of anonymous text on pastebin. Anyone could put that there.
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How would you like to have a "cognitive prosthetic" that could "adapt to unexpected events" in situations of "intense information overload"...as a personal newsreader app online? That sounds pretty hot and it's exactly what startup TrapIt was when it spun out of DARPA's $200 million research project CALO (Cognitive Assistant That Learns and Organizes) more than a year ago.
Maybe they didn't officially endorse it, but by un-accepting it they are unendorsing it, although they would not admit it. Doesn't this decision have something to do with the MtGox hack incident?
From what I understand, their main tool is simple SQL injection.

Most websites seem to have at least one XSS or SQL injection hole. Nearly all have CSRF flaws.
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> So when is a currency a currency? What is the difference between an apple and a pound note? (Assume the apple never decays)

There's no difference. Currencies are just goods whose primary use is as a means of exchange.

The usually enumerated properties of a currency are (1) a means of exchange, (2) a store of value, and (3) a unit of account.

(2) is really not required; almost all modern and historical currencies fail it to some degree. (1) is the true test, and it amounts simply to being able to find someone willing to exchange what you want for some amount of your would-be currency; (3) follows from (1), since (1) implies agreeing a price in units of your currency.
Still, census data should not be accessible from a public facing web site. That's just amateur hour. You should really assume that anything with a POST form is vulnerable.
If this is true then I am suing Lockheed Martin under the Data Protection Act.
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I think that's overstating the case quite a bit. Apple's design prowess is formidable, but they're hardly the only company with those strengths. They basically had to copy Android's superior notification system for iOS 5, for instance. And with the new task switcher and widgets in Android 3.1 I think iOS's static grid of icons is starting to look conservative and stale.

Sony and Samsung have come up with some nice hardware designs and Windows 7 is a reasonable competitor to OS X in my opinion. Apple has been held up as the paragon of industrial design for so long that we're too willing to accept whatever they do as the "right" thing. Frankly I'm a little tired of their vanilla aesthetic and things like the ridiculous Time Machine UI indicate to me that they've lost their way to some extent.
Heh ... I wonder why they didn't multiply by 7 (rather than 11)? The frequency counts would have been the same as rolling two dice. Too obvious perhaps? Or maybe that would have attracted the wrong sort of developers :-p
If true, this will be a massive coup and regardless of how they obtained the records, LulzSec will get all of the significant negative attention they so badly crave.

I submitted my census info via the online form and given the amount of detail I included I would be terrified if that info was leaked.
I wrote the article and have been trying to trace the authenticity of the release. I am still waiting to hear back from the Office of National Statistics, which at the time were unaware of who LulzSec even were.

I contacted them a little over two hours ago, I haven't received a response, yet.
They are mentioning something they've got though, in similar language to the pastebin. I think it unlikely they'd have managed to acquire the full census, but I think it's probably quite possible they've got ones submitted online.
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I don't like where this is going.
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Symbian will live at least to 2016. Who knows what happens during that time. They also announced that S40 will have Qt apps. They have been pretty clear about Qt's future I think. I don't know the details of the Digia deal, but I'm pretty sure Nokia can do whatever they want.

Nokia's new developer site shows pretty clearly their main focuses http://www.developer.nokia.com/

They won't put all bets on WP.
More relevantly, so would anyone who ever had their bank account hacked or debit card cloned...
MtGox has about 90% of the bitcoin change market.
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With the amount of hacking that is flooding the news recently, I would like to learn about database security. What are some good books/tutorials/videos on how to make databases more secure?
As an Android-user, web-apps which seems made to mimick the iPhone-look really turns me off (and I say that as a former iPhone-user).

Aesthetic nitpicking aside, it doesn't work very well on my Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000, international model) running CM7. The rendered page is wider than the actual screen and you are not allowed to scroll sideways to see what you are missing.

Once logged in, scrolling vertically causes a full page-update and then all of a sudden the screen-width has adapted. It definitely feels clunky and a bit ... slow, even on what should be a reasonably powerful phone.

Hopefully some of these are issues which can be fixed. Seems like a useful enough service otherwise.
They're going to piss a lot of people off if they do this. Like every single UK citizen.

Exposing security flaws and embarrassing govt is one thing, but to put un-redacted personal data online is quite another.
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> Even the US military does a better job when it accidentally kills people!

What does the US military do when it perpetrates a boneheaded security screwup that might or might not have compromised a small amount of data belonging to a few people?

(No question, Dropbox's response to this screwup is totally inadequate, but comparing it to how another organization responds when it has killed people is a bit silly.)
You are just describing what motivated Bertrand Russell to write Principia Mathematica.
LM was penetrated few days before census day. Maybe the left some back doors?
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/154078/20110529/lockheed-mar...
the author is not familiar with that. I've had trouble finding good material specific to scheme/racket. thanks for the tip!
well its got to go in somehow, perhaps a facade that exposes only preparedstatements procs could have prevented this, but equally perhaps they exploited the facade, the transport mechanism to the facade, the db driver..... who knows, what is known is that theres a path, however narrow
It also has the Bethesda and US senate links in the end, making this look more like copy-paste of an older release. This is inconclusive though since the real LulzSec might copy paste from an older release to get all the ascii art.
So what's the worst possible outcome here in terms of the UK government's reactions? Fast-tracked arcane legislation to make security tools illegal like they are in .de ? Broadening the terms of hacking and increasing the legal penalties? If LulzSec aren't trolling the world and they do indeed have these records I would imagine there is going to be one hell of a shitstorm in the coming weeks.
Whats worrying about the apparent proliferation of security breaches like this is that as the attacks get more sophisticated, so do the prevention methods. This could get to the point whereby the skill level required to protect an application or server goes way higher than the skill level of many developers.

The result being that independent development is impossible as you would need to hire ever more expensive security consultants for anything that stores data.
There's jurisdiction for that?
Imagining that the release is true, this will do strange things for pay bargaining. Imagine if you could look up your colleagues before asking for a rise?
On the other hand, I don't recall anything really horrific on that form. Enough data to steal my identity and take out a mortgage in my name, yes. Enough to embarrass me? no...
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Yes, also the phone number is wrong. That number doesn't work anymore.
Agreed. Any submitted data should have been immediately encrypted with a public key who's companion private key was stored offline. It should have then been immediately transferred to a secondary box which was setup with a single function of accepting and storing the data. Ie a box which you can't query over the network for data.

As soon as the census closed, the relevant boxes should have been taken offline. The data moved to a "secure" location, and the original boxes wiped and destroyed.

Considering the data that was being collected, I don't think this is overkill.
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"Bitcoin raises untested legal concerns related to securities law, the Stamp Payments Act, tax evasion, consumer protection and money laundering, among others."

No it doesn't. Accepting donations in Bitcoins is no different than accepting cash yen or euro or Zimbabwean dollars. You value them at the market's dollar rate for tax purposes. The other objections are thorough nonsense as far as I can tell.

The EFF is full of lawyers who, presumably, have studies these parts of law at least a little, even if none of them have specialized in it. What's your justification for calling their concerns "thorough nonsense"?
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