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I do not believe most Mac users use Firefox. Also, don't forget mobile.
Another way to predict the future is to realize that it takes a very long time--about 10 to 20 years--to get a technology out of the research lab and into everyday life. It's very difficult to get brand new ideas out in less than a decade; in the case of the transistor, it took almost 25 years. No matter what you do, it may take several companies, several different groups of people, several different areas of venture capital funding and more before you get something back. http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/futures.htm

Java took a bunch of academically proven ideas, and put them together in a way that was workable for industry (and yes you're quite right, also marketed as an web applet-language, which is remarkable for Java's failure at it).

Haskell (for example) first appeared in 1990. 1990+25 = 2015.

Possibly, what we are seeing is just the historical rate of technology transfer.
In my eyes there are two actual conclusions from all this:

1. flash will remain the dominant video platform for the near future.

2. This stalemate between theora and h.264 is a huge win for chrome, the only browser that will support both.
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Yup, we can all get rich by choosing some product or service that we know nothing about and selling it on a web site. Consumers would much rather fill out forms and wait weeks for shipping than endure the fun and convenience of the mall, because hey, it's on the internet! This completely novel idea shall be named.. i-shopping.
Sure, any way you want to twist this..

You seem to be saying that if you're bored, it doesn't mean your life is boring. But if you say your life is boring, does it mean you're bored, or only that your life is boring, or omg neither and can you even be bored if your life is not boring ooohh..

Or maybe you're saying that when someone complains about being bored, he's not actually bored but just thinks he is?

Any other interpretations?
Might it be because it's an interesting article?
Perhaps when your entire community has only been around for a few years it is natural for it to suffer from drastic nearsightedness?

I suggest someone with stake in ruby to sponsor glasses for that vocal minority. Articles like this damage the public perception of the ruby community. That's bad - when you are a programming language then mindshare is your most valuable asset...
Personally, I'd like to see this become a feature of the HTML 5 standard. I'd also make it opt-out if you specify your doctype as HTML 5. That would certainly help drive adoption.

Who do I send that suggestion to? :-)

I love PwdHash because it is a relatively simple solution to a relatively complicated problem. This is just further proof that "secure by design" is the only real way to do security.
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I think you're training it on the submission titles - I wonder if the text of the websites themselves might be more accurate. Certainly richer. But it's quite possible that the submission titles are more accurate.
I agree, for large companies, referral makes sense.

But they were quite clear they want to get involved in seed stage and for that, referral-only is another way of saying "innovation, but only where it comes from certain connected people in a few places". Innovation is occurring everywhere and yet it languishes. It needs people like Marc and Ben. If they are serious about seed funding (and they have been and they should be), they need to set up a more indirect process as well.
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Actual tech guys as VC. It's fantastic. I think it explains their past success and why they are capitalized at $300mm. I expect nothing but success from these guys.
<Pardon the apparent attempt at circle jerking that's about to happen>

The reason hacker news sucks less than other places is cause when people come up with cool mashups that could be interpreted negatively (you don't like all the news chosen by the community, whaaatttt?!), no one gets pissy or flamey.

It's almost like "the way society should work" or something...
Ну и пусть пиздуют со своим китайским барахлом ломающимся.

Seriously: you want to have a business in the country, a profitable and fast-growing one, yet you have complaints about the process. I guess, either shove it or leave.

In Moscow, there was an accident when an aquapark full of people collapsed due to bad engineering and construction, too. So, maybe those delays aren't just corruption?
Also: In South Korea, there's a history of mall collapsing under its weight due to poor engineering and exploitation;

The bottom line is: If it would be corruption alone, they'd bribe and move on; they're huge. So, it's not just corruption.
And as of stopping investments, maybe they're just out of money in their Sweden?

"The retailer has become such an icon of Russia's boom that today's yuppies are called "the Ikea Generation.""
This is crap, never heard anything remotely like that.
Perhaps stop making things up?
I love that the announcement of Hacker Hacker News on Hacker News is on Hacker Hacker News!

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And as of their "investments". Those "investments" just build huge malls that sap away money and life from small busines and local furniture making factories, instead introducing a wave of cheap Chinese crap. Why care? Such investments aren't life-savers for anything.
This is a bad idea which has been implemented a half dozen times. It's vulnerable to using a dictionary attack to recover the master password from a stolen hash.

It's also a particularly bad implementation that uses a single round of HMAC-MD5, which is a kind of bizarre primitive to use for hashing a password in the first place.
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Why does one have to accept the practise of corruption, to have a profitable and fast-growing business, as you seem to suggest?

With your reasoning, we could put forward that maybe the Moscow accident was caused by corruption: the builders paid off the inspectors to save on building costs.

The bottom line is: Ikea and Ingvar Kamprad has stated several times that they will not accept the Russian business practise of corruption. This is one of the reasons why some of Ikea's new locations have stood unopened for years, while waiting for permits from local governments (read: while refusing to pay bribes).

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Isn't it possible those perceptions will change? Or even the realities underneath, if those perceptions are correct?
Except - traditional Russian retailers are terrible compared to Ikea. They do represent a real improvement.
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Well, you can either accept "practice of corruption" or circumnavigate around in some way, or not have a business.

About the Moscow accident; I'm sure it was, partly. But I don't see how is this fact going to help if their mall in Samara has safety problems, indeed. If it doesn't, as I've told, they have their three choices.

In short: I DO think there's a problem with corruption in Russia; I just DON'T see a problem with IKEA packing its bags and leaving.
It's interesting being downmodded for being there and having a clue.
I'd be to Samara in three weeks, would YOU?
However, traditional Russian furniture is fine compared to Ikea's chinese crap. Crap's cheaper, tho.

I know that on the basis of having some.

As for retailers: if it wouldn't be an IKEA mall, it would be some other kind of mall, it's not like there would be much difference.
such a paradigm shift from the rest, and perhaps even from typical human-thought patterns

For me, this is Haskell. Trying to write any decently large program (say, a Super Mario clone) causes brain hemorrhage.

I've also met people who learned Haskell as a first programming language (common in UK unis). A lot of them wind up being crappy C++/Java/Python programmers, because they keep waving their arms and expecting magic to happen like it does in Haskell.

Indeed, I learned Python and Haskell simultaneously during a seriously nerdy week (the gf. was away :) and my Python codes came out with a bloody lambda on every other line! Then I realized I was trying to re-implement laziness, but obviously Python lambdas are not lazy at all (that's right - stuff gets evaluated when you define the lambda).
There was an article in one of our national newspapers this weekend that shows how deep the corruption goes. A huge investment company, with 4 billion in assets, was unwilling to pay up and was driven out of business. Several government officials committed fraud to the extent of 290 million dollars (seizing taxes the company paid to the Russian government) and despite sending different parts of the government piles of evidence, no one did a thing.

One thing was clear from that article that should be clear to everyone here: Russia is not a good place to do business these days. Your competitors are the government are the criminals.
I think many net neutrality proponents will eventually regret inviting greater federal involvement. Remember, the FCC is the agency that fines companies for broadcasting naughty words. Its rulemaking often aids large incumbents (who walk the halls of DC) at the expense of startups and potential entrants.

If the gov't wants to insist on honest disclosure of traffic-shaping policies, that'd be a pro-consumer reform. But anything which dictates what services can be offered limits the ability of firms to search the competitive space. It makes the core problem, insufficient competition and service diversity, worse rather than better.

Also, when political regulators have discretion over an industry's activity, it can be used as a kind of soft, subtle censorship. For example, big media companies don't savage the executive branch as much when they need FCC/FTC approval for a desired merger.

And what if someday, under the same paternalistic reasoning that regulates radio/TV content, an ISP is only considered 'neutral' if it carries enough 'underrepresented' viewpoints, or ensures that pro-government voices get 'equal time' against critics? Oh, and to prove compliance, keep a log of all traffic for the past 6 months, in case we need to audit.

We need no 'neutrality' regulations of newspapers, magazines, or books; we shouldn't need them for electronic speech.
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Problems like this seem to be endemic to Russia. Not only is corruption extremely common, but outside investors also have to worry about the government basically taking their shares and selling them to Russian companies, leaving them with nothing to show for the money they invested.
You know that old saw about your friend putting running shoes on as an angry bear approaches--he doesn't have to outrun the bear, he just has to outrun you? This password hashing is kind of like that. Sure it's easy to break. But if you're running a phishing site, are you really going to go through the trouble to cryptographically attack this weird password that doesn't work on other sites, when you've already got a bunch of other people's passwords that do work?

For that matter, this solution is probably even more complicated than it needs to be. Just tack on the domain name wholesale to the end of the password, and you'll foil any automated phishing password script well enough.
Because you so obviously are more interested in spreading libel and doubt about those who put forward critique of Russian corruption, than to actually analyze the subject matter in a civilized manner.

If you really care about Russia, start acting better than those who libel Russia. That means, don't libel back.
That's awesome. Is this obsession (not meant in a bad way) with generational lines typical of Americans? I'm Belgian; I don't think I personally know anyone who knows the name of a forefather 4 generations back.
What I'm interested in is telling some truth about what's really happening.

I guess that's just not interesting enough. Truth is overrated.
Just saying that "the ecological impact of disposal [of batteries] is also extremely high" without differentiating between battery types is to simplify the issue too much I think. Some batteries are bad to throw away, others are less bad, but you can also recycle batteries.

"Lithium Ion batteries are classified by the federal government as non-hazardous waste and are safe for disposal in the normal municipal waste stream," says Kate Krebs at the National Recycling Coalition. http://bit.ly/wS344

In general, throwing away stuff that isn't naturally occuring in the eco system is often bad, and sometimes too much of something natural can be bad too. But blanket statements that something is bad don't help. The battery system would be replacing something else, like a petrol driven engine, which also has an environmental impact and is much less efficient.
I love this story as much as the next man, but how many times do we have to see it? Flagged.
Well, you know why they still do business here?
The answer is M O N E Y.

So, they bribe to make it happen, thus feeding the corruption loop, and don't see any problem with that! Until they do. Then, they brag the "ikea generation" crap in newspapers.
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I use SuperGenPass, which has a bookmarklet which does exactly this; for FF and Safari, the entire Javascript code can be stored in the bookmarklet, and does the hashing process without having to go to another site. For IE, it loads the script from supergenpass.com.

There's an offline version as well.

I do use a weak password for throwaway sites, but I use hashing (supergenpass) to make sure the (weak) password is unique for each site.
If you need to pay bribes, you need to raise your prices to still make a profit. Your customers, i.e. you, need to pay more. Corruption hurts the population of a country, as every cent comes directly out of their pockets. That is partly why people in properly democratic countries have, and keep, a higher standard of living.
Clearly these things are quite different.

For example, w - x * y + z is w - (x * y) + z

There is no way to write this as someFunc(w, someFunc2(x, someFunc3(y, z)) where the someFuncs are one of *,+,-,/ -- you would have to use someFunc(w,someFunc3(someFunc2(x,y),z)).

Unless you mean that the x,y,w,z can be freely permuted?
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In India, college students usually get books from their seniors (who give them out for free, after the results).
Sure! Where did I say that corruption is a good thing?

But I'm saying that they feed the corruption. By paying bribes.
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>It's especially bad in math, in which writers have a long tradition of deliberately concealing difficult steps and leaving them "as an exercise to the reader".

You're supposed to do those exercises. If you're a programmer think of them as unit tests. In technical subjects, most of the information is contained in the problem sets. For that reason I'd actually say the texts are more informative - more detailed.
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Really, it should be posted on Hacker News News.. (Sorry, I'll go out of Reddit mode now.)
A thoughtful analysis of how we choose to form hyperlinks, the impact on information flow, and special complexities for non-native English speakers/readers. ...with a nod back to Marshall McLuhan.

Got me thinking actively about linking choices that I encounter online but not elsewhere seen debated.
If you read the comment properly - I am not blaming the system. Only pointing the current ills in it and hoping he UID scheme cuts down at least some of them.
I agree with what you said I just wanted to point out the "I wasn't mocking Bing" part was a pretty obvious back track. Anyone who was there (I know a few people) will tell you he got laughs when he used the line. If you're seriously complementing a competitor and people laugh the automatic response is to say "No, I'm serious" and then explain why.

Also note the first few comments on the Register article point out that the results DON'T come up on Bing which is yet another indicator he wasn't being serious (if you're seriously suggesting people look something up on Bing you'd check to make sure it comes up on Bing)
What about a generic My Hacker News with a classifier trained on each person's personal "I want to see / I do not want to see" preferences? :>
I'd just like to take the time (and the modding down this comment will probably get) to thank HN, simply because this article has been posted for more than 4 hours and nobody has yet made an "in soviet russia" joke.

Thank you all for the continuing maturity.
Aren't you really arguing for a variety of "security by obscurity"? Yes, it may work for the immediate present, but it's hardly planning for the future, is it?
For a project of this scale the India Govt. has allocated just above 20 million $ (100 Crore in India). Not sure what to say.
No the allotment is only 100 crore in the first year.
Says above he's using body text.
I understand the attractiveness of the convenience, but (perhaps it's just my paranoia) should one approach to security and how users handle it be codified into a standard at this point: shouldn't we be concerned about what currently unknown weaknesses may fall to cracking approaches that develop within a few short years?
HN doesn't need subreddits.
> are you really going to go through the trouble to cryptographically attack this weird password that doesn't work on other sites

Of course you are, because this password does work on other sites. All other sites.

With a single high end CUDA capable graphics device you can blow through 500 million MD5 operations in one second. How many words are in an English dictionary? Less than that.

That's how weak this is. If you steal the password database from bigforum.com, you can attack all the passwords in parallel. If you crack a password, you can then log into their facebook, gmail, paypal, whatever. This scheme pretty much guarantees you can do that.
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It's nice comparing the python code from this article to what you can do now.

Modern python/numpy will look more elegant.

Also modern numpy can do GPU, multi core and SIMD optimisations (not out of the box... yet).

There's a few pages on the numpy wiki for converting between the two. However both numpy and matlab expressions often look very similar.
Your "truth" is based on what, you being Russian? "I will be in Samara" in your only argument. You didn't provide any data on furniture sales, no references to the "fact" that IKEA put local stores/factories out of business.

Well, I'm Russian too, and your comments are totally wrong. I can say my arguments after I hear yours.

Finally, cursing on HN (even in Russian) doesn't make you sound good.
What's unfortunate is that when Ruby was small and _why's shadow still loomed large, there was the acronym MINASWAN: Matz is nice and so we are nice.

Now that Ruby's gotten bigger, the community's gotten bigger, and friendly small towns don't always become friendly big cities.

(Cf http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/01/zeds_so_expletiv... for a comment about this 18 months ago)
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My desktop and all servers run Linux (Ubuntu) the notebook is Mac OS/X and the home PC is Windows (the wife can't get her head around Ubuntu nor OS/X). All the applications I write run on all three platforms and I spend more time in a browser (FireFox/Chrome/Chromium/Safari) than any other program. Oh yes, I use both OpenOffice and iWorks. Write complex documents using Latex / Lyx which in turn run on all three OS.

Does the OS really matter that much these days? I use OS/X on the notebook because everything works! Could only get 90% of stuff to work reliably on a HP notebook (C700) with Ubuntu. The Mac Book Pro cost three times the HP, but it's worth every dollar in saved time. Don't get me started on how much Vista kept getting in the way as originally shipped on the HP.
Unfortunately, I have trouble finding details about their approach except through paid subscription to wsj.com

If anybody knows more about Quantcast or their approach (or has read full article), maybe you could let us know if what they're doing can teach us anything?

[ see also: http://www.quantcast.com/target.com ]
What you described is unethical but quite a rational strategy in a corrupt political system. Pay up as long as the bribes are tolerable, use political leverage otherwise. Add a risk bonus (and bribe bonus) to your prices.

That is exactly something to be expected from a corporation. You don't expect corporations to take the moral high ground and heal Russia's political system at the expense of their own profits?

With respect to corruption there's bad news and good news. The bad news is that only Russian people can do something about it. The good news is that Russian people can do something about it.
Well, did the article provide any data on how much are they expected to bribe, in $, and how good their mall building is? No, instead we've seen some bashing. It's okay to bash, it's okay for me to troll.

Face with it: IKEA drains money from the country (is that called investments) and also their offerings are crap.
Maybe it's just my experience; Тёмочка praises them. However, my experience is that you should only go there for tasty фрикадельки.
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