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I didn't think it was possible to sue or charge someone for linking to a specific website. It would be like banning someone from saying where they heard about a story. "I read about it in the Times, page 25."

It doesn't make sense at all. The SEO guy for the paper will probably hold their head in their hands when they discover the site they are trying to promote is taking legal action against anyone who links to it.
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The problem with using this kind of rhetoric is that it is also "utter crap" to require everyone to stop making progress on applications and high-level systems because some "whiners" are "unwilling" to put up with a couple warts in the languages they are using so that we can all instead go through tons of working code to update it to some new syntax or language standard; one might even, then, claim that it is this other set of whiners that "are to blame" for why a lot of libraries in some languages (I'm looking at you, Python) have never been able to get past puberty where they can start to crystalize into high-level perfection, and are instead trapped in a perpetual quagmire of "suck" while they scramble and fight to catch up to a shifting platform (and often just get thrown out and rewritten over and over and over again by new generations of whiners that insist that the old syntax is so unusable that they refuse to touch it anymore and would rather just start fresh).

(edit: The author of the comment I responded to added another two paragraphs.) C# beating Java is not something I think is as clear-cut as you seem to believe (from my vantage, C# is used by Windows developers, and Java is used by everyone else: the dividing line has little to do with syntax preferences and much more to do with the quality of the IDEs and the integration of the runtimes; before MS was legally required to stop distributing it, J++ was gaining ground), but to the extent to which it is true you have to remember that C# also is not making breaking language changes, and in fact didn't even make drastic changes to Java (which one might argue is the legacy that C# continued). In fact, C# was so compelling to a lot of us who adopted it early because it had such amazing backwards-compatibility in the form of interop with native C and C++ code with the ability to nearly natively interact with our existing COM objects.
"Fair use" is a USA copyright idea. In Ireland (& UK) there is a weaker "fair dealing".

Annoying the US constitution is nicer about copyright, since it says that copyright is explicitly for limited time, and that it's to benefit the arts & sciences. Whereas the European Charter of Fundamental Freedoms (which was only enacted recently), just states that "Intellectual property shall be respected". No limits, no purposes. ☹
isn't slow better in this case? I mean if it's fast to generate, it's fast to crack, right?
The reply is brilliant, and is an example of a lawyer calling them on their nonsense:

"> “a licence is required to link directly to an online article even without uploading any of the content directly onto your own website”.

We would be grateful if you would specify the statutory basis of this claim by return of post."

Basically "I don't think that's the law, please tell us the law. Oh you can't find it?"
I'm wondering what would happen to fastmail as this is currently owned by opera.
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The thin-box design is smart, it makes it very light, and the cardboard hex structure deadens resonance, so it doesn't sound like a "cheap" box, even if it is one. A lot like how car doors have sound deadening to give them a solid, satisfying thump, instead of a cheap, high frequency ring when you close them.
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I'm not so sure about that, I wonder if there are any articles that disagree..
That's exactly the fear – Opera doesn't have much reason to link recorded data back to you, facebook does, and is known to permanently store all available data. And it already knows way too much about you.
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This sounds really cool. Very minor quibble: in rebutr's Philosophy, section 3, "backs it's claims up" should be "backs its claims up".
Im not joking at all.

It's not as if HN is "feature rich" - the short comings are spread across the board, why should they implement a multilayer login security system but skimp on everything else? Have you ever done PCI compliance? Login is the tip of the iceberg!
But that is exactly my point - HN doesnt need to do this stuff or become PCI compliant, because they dont store (very) sensitive information.

HN is a poor MVP at best. Its the community that makes HN amazing, not the product.
MurmurHash2, which is pretty great, has some issues:

"MurmurHash2_x86_64 computes two 32-bit results in parallel and mixes them at the end, which is fast but means that collision resistance is only as good as a 32-bit hash. I suggest avoiding this variant."[1]

Murmurhash3 has a 128-bit variant, which might be more along the lines of what he's looking for (the original post mentions SHA256).

1: http://code.google.com/p/smhasher/wiki/MurmurHash3
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The person specifically requested an algorithm for a hash table. Nobody is going to attempt to crack that
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There are times you want something that won't be a cracking attack. E.g. to randomly (but consistantly) partition data (i.e. a hash table).
Not if you're not looking for it to be hard to crack. Suppose you're generating quick checksums, using a hashtable, indexing non-malicious data, etc. In those cases you want a very fast hash function, and you're not worried about folks being able to find collisions for existing hashes, or create multiple values with the same hash.
This reminds me of Intel Research Berkeley's (now-defunct?) Confrontational Computing project, which produced a Firefox extension called Dispute Finder: http://ennals.org/rob/disputefinder.html, http://confront.intel-research.net/Dispute_Finder.html
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Given Moore's law and the prevalence of botnets and cloud computing - hash speed really isn't a very strong means of defence against cracking...

Also see: http://cyberarms.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/cracking-14-charac...
Interesting: considering the tone of the YC announcement post I had assumed that funding via Kickstarter was put on the back burner. In particular I'm surprised that support for a given language would hinge on a funding goal therein! So a number of questions come to mind: Wasn't Chris offering to return Kickstarter donations? What will happen if some people take him up on that offer after the funding period has closed? Perhaps Python support should be based off a different metric now that Chris is guaranteed funding via YC?
+1

I have been a big fan of and user of Opera since it had banner ads in the free version. It has been a long time as my preferred default browser for home and work PC's. I'd even have it on my iPad if I could.

But when I first heard this rumor over the weekend I felt in shock (and sick). I hate Facebook along with its smug a-hole founder. Never even had an account (although I do feel I missed out on some old connections and such but refused to be a part of FB). From a business standpoint I guess it makes sense. FB would get a mature, fast and feature rich browser (One they could data mine to no end, including emails).

But the very last version of Opera that was released, shall this buyout happen, will also be the last version I ever use. Opera has a very clear and good privacy statement. I trust Opera. But Facebook, forget it!

In past few days I have spent time downloading and trying pretty much every other popular browsers. From Chrome to PaleMoon. I could live with one of them but nothing really compelling for me. They all have already been uninstalled and am done trying. Opera would be surely missed.
This is a great premise for a Monty Python sketch.
nobody? This exact problem was a massive issue within the year.

https://www.securityweek.com/hash-table-collision-attacks-co...
Misleading title - the project is about a player, not the format. The player happens to use mkv etc. As to why he is reinventing menus is questionable though, since they're already supported by the mkv format.
>"... we are very, very rapidly sailing into a future where a person would never have to hear a single word of dissent to their own beliefs. This troubles me more than any other issue that faces the Internet today"

I concur. I don't think this is limited to online interactions either. There were stories a few years ago of how people in the real world were increasingly moving to be near like-minded people (and the negative effects this had on reinforcing their world-views). Wish I could find the story but no luck.
Having gone through the tutorial, I had a couple issues. I couldn't mark a page to be rebutted, switch tab to the rebuttal, then mark that page as the rebuttal except by manually copy-pasting the url. When adding tags, I could only add tags from the list and couldn't remove a tag I accidentally added. Shouldn't the tag text box be editable?
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Great idea - I've always wanted to see something like this.

But... compulsory registration? This just dissuades most of your potential users from even giving it a try....
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>Trident is not for sale, Gecko is irrelevant and possibly too heavy for mobile use, and WebKit is interesting but rather crowded. Presto, Opera’s engine, is the only one that’s available.

Why is Gecko irrelevant? It still has a good chunk of marketshare.
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I also use Opera regularly - it's my main browser on my computer and my phone. I've been using it since the 90s, and actually paid for it back when it displayed an ad for free users! It just has so many useful little extra features, and I generally trust them not to use my data for nefarious purposes.

If this happens--and I've seen nothing as yet to suggest it's anything other than a rumour to get the pageviews up on certain tech blogs--I'll be uninstalling it after nearly fifteen years of use, and probably making the move to Firefox. I don't have a Facebook account, so why would I want to use a Facebook browser? Instead of just tracking me across Like-enabled sites, it'll be able to follow me around the whole internet, logging goodness knows what.

I seem to remember a social networking browser was tried out before, as a forked Firefox and subsequently Chromium, in Flock. Whatever happened to Flock?

I paid for Opera years ago, and I'd actually pay real money again for a good quality, feature-filled browser that was guaranteed to not include tracking. I'd rather pay with my money than my privacy. Money can always be replaced, and earned again. Once privacy's gone, it's gone.
I don't believe they misunderstand, though they may be greedy and stupid. They just want people to pay for the privilege of linking to their articles.
I still prefer MUJI. It's too bad they don't really have many locations in North America outside of New York City.
Re Opera Mini and them having no competition in proxying browsers: Nokia's S40 Browser actually does proxying these days. This was released as a beta in late 2010, and is now the default in all S40 phones. (http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-browser-for-series-40-b...)

It's not a proper competitor of course, as one cannot install it to phones by other manufacturers, but it does still cover a pretty big chunk of the low-end devices.
Not on mobile, which is where Facebook wants a browser.
If I'm ever in need of legal help in Dublin, I'm definitely picking those guys.

Essentially a ruling in favour of this will cripple traffic to the sites of the companies suing, which means they'll lose money and potentially put themselves out of business. Another contender for this weeks Business Darwin Awards.
Funny thing... I didn't recognize his name, but the first book of his Axis of Time series was available for free when I got my first Kindle. This can be a great way to introduce people to an author or series, and I've bought books by an author based on the free one I got.

Unfortunately for Birmingham, Weapons of Choice just didn't convince me he was a great author, or at least not one that I want to spend more money on right now. Of course, I haven't pirated his books either, but the only reason I've ever done that is if the book isn't legally available electronically.
Seems as though things are hotting up in Sydney (and Australia generally?).

As an Australian who has been working for startups in UK/US/Canada for the last 15 years, i'm interested to hear reports from the ground from those currently in Sydney. Is there a perceptible shift in attitudes around startups/the tech scene of late?
If I have a wart, I go to the GP to have it iced, perhaps it hurts for a little while, but my skin is better off.

If a compiler removes a wart, why wouldn't you s/wart/scar/? Perhaps it's a bit of a pain every compiler release, but in the end isn't your software a bit more future-proof?

There is no need to stop making progress, this is why good software is open source and on github.

New generations of whiners are better judges of what is and what is not useable than old farts. The new generation has a glimpse of the future.

edit:
I don't think native code interop is backwards compatibility, that would imply C/C++ is somehow a thing of the past. My point was that as long as C/C++ are being adapted to the future, they will never be legacy and retain relevance where their use is warranted.
C# perhaps is not a winner in adoption, but it is gaining ground on linux and osx. My observation that C# beats Java is more in the syntax area.
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> isn't slow better in this case?

No, guy's looking for a hash table hash, not a cryptographic one. For a hash table you're looking for low collisions and high throughput (so your hash table is fast) first and foremost.
Using a slower hash would make the issue worse (linearly): the collisions would still be there, but now each insertion would take even more time due to the extra computational cost of the hash.
AFAIK (as someone who studies programming languages, but not as a "real" Haskell developer) the metaphor of "return" with respect to monads in Haskell is that when you "bind" a function to a monad the result (the "return value" as you might say in a many other languages) must itself be wrapped in the monad (so returning really is putting something "into" the monad).

I personally do not feel like this is squinting and rotating your head 47 degrees: if you look at simple Haskell code examples the "return" function is used in the same way as it would at the end of any normal C function. The author of this article sees it that way, but that is just an opinion in not backed up in the argument by the "false cognates" premise.
> To anyone who is going to suggest Calibre, please don't, lest you make yourself look like you know nothing about the issues I'm talking about.

Can you please elaborate on this. I've never tried, but I thought Calibre could strip the DRM from kindle ebooks. Or do you mean that Calibre can't handle the general case of arbitrary DRM (via OCR methods)?
Why did he omit the standards (MD5 and SHA1) from the comparison?
It's not just ability to use flac - there's a bunch of other restrictions on the MKV format for webm. These include chapters & menus (and ability to use separate media streams for each), support for variety of subtitle/closed caption formats, plus the ability to add attachments like fonts, textures and images for use in those streams.

Some of these features have been re-invented in the webvtt format, which is inferior to what was already available.
I'm getting tired of self-righteous comments that make sweeping generalizations. I've been in the web design, Internet marketing business as a small biz owner for 7 years. My experience has been some clients are not open to negotiation. They've already crunched the numbers and came to a decision. They tell you there is a reduction in rate / of hours etc. Take it or leave it (I've done both).

Counter-attacks? Leave that for World of Warcraft.
My company is based in the UK, and FastSpring has so far been working very well for our recurring billing.

I think you're only very limited if you're selling subscription products with such low margins that paying 6% or so to a reseller is a significant problem. A good reseller like FastSpring makes recurring billing much easier by handling tax, invoices, cancelled cards, PCI compliance, and by simplifying your accounting as you only have one customer (them).
Uh? Hash speed is pretty much the only means of defense against brute-force cracking (assuming the hash function isn't broken and the attacker has no other vector available).

(low) hash speed is the whole point of PBKDF2, bcrypt or scrypt.
Why do they need it "quite badly"?
Yeah, that's what kept me away from using their services.
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i guess you make it pretty clear that you only serve people who know their stuff in your cheap offerings. that is a different audience than a "send email cards" audience would be.
I still don't see the value in it. It made sense when Google did it. Chrome came and shook things up introducing features no existing browsers had and placing an emphasis on JavaScript speed. This was critical for Google as a number of its apps make heavy use of it.

I don't use Chrome anymore, I switched back to Firefox but its undeniable that it had a massive impact on the speed of browser development and probably the progress of web standards.

Now.. if Facebook bagged Opera what would it add to Facebook or what benefit would Facebook get? A bigger say in web standards. Does this matter much to Facebook? They would have a mobile browser.. this still doesn't help them make a mobile app which doesn't suck.

I just don't see the point. The most likely result of this would be alienating existing Opera users. I would also expect Google to switch Opera to web-kit to reduce development costs. I don't see how a company like Facebook will see a return of investment by buying out Opera.
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This is a circular definition of "future-proof": if the compiler never changed, then the software would have been future-proof the day it was written, and the only reason it is not future-proof with the shifting compiler is due to the threat that the compiler will eventually stop supporting the feature. However, the assumption is generally and honestly should be (having been proved in the field after decades of engineering) that there will be many orders of magnitude more lines of code that exist outside of the compiler (which is but one program often maintained by a single team of people) than there ever will be in the compiler to maintain the old feature.

As for your comment about open-source... that doesn't help the problem of "all the developers are spending their time updating and re-testing working code rather than writing new code that relies on it", and specifically looking at GitHub makes no sense. Finally, the "old farts" you are now denigrating have more knowledge and experience of the kinds of failures you will run into, and so far in my experience the people rebuilding systems end up learning, the hard way, the same lessons that they could have just inherited (a rather visceral lesson as I've watched my friend Yehuda work on Bundler over the years, as he got to rediscover all of the things that APT solved over a decade ago).
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In Belgium the newspapers won a case against Google linking and quoting their papers in Google News[1]. Of course it didn't work out that well[2].

I'm not saying it is right, nor sensible, but Irish law isn't US law (having said that under Australian law - which is fairly closely related to Irish law - this wouldn't be legal.)

[1] http://hyperom.com/2011/07/16/belgian-newspapers-sued-google...

[2] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110718/16394915157/belgia...
Mullenweg should be more concerned about how his software causes users to do more work than is necessary.

People prefer posts with photos that scroll, not a slideshow (WordPress Gallery). Many posts I do (mainly the ones about Occupy Wall Street) can have over one hundred photos. These photos have to be placed one-by-one manually. There is no "Place All" button that just plops them all into a post (we have bulk upload now, but not bulk Place).

If he is so concerned about making the world a better place, he can start there. That is something he can actually do.
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Sadly, there is no viable alternative. I use Chrome as my second browser, I occasionally use Firefox and although they are both great browsers, they offer nothing close to Opera. No configurability whatsoever and no extra features you are accustomed to.
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Agreed. However you can also see that Elon doesn't seem to be all too eloquent in his speech or comfortable (at the time anyway), which may account for it. In addition, you can tell that he hasn't necessarily planned out what he's saying here. When he uses "I think" it sounds like it's a thought that he has just then constructed -- as in what he's saying is intuitively correct -- however he seems to realize himself that what he's saying may not be universally true.
That might be beneficial. Their philosophy section states that they want people submitting and voting on rebuttals to have an understanding of argumentative logic; making registration difficult makes it more likely users have some idea of what rebutr is before they start using it.