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You can always check out the monthly STHLM Tech Meetup (#STHLMTECH on Twitter for conversations).

I heard that a lot of startups at hanging out at SUP46 (http://sup46.com/) these days. They got some cool startups there right now and seem friendly enough. You can also check out http://swedishstartupspace.com/. They usually cover Stockholm based startups.

I saw some map of Stockholm startups somewhere but cannot for my life remember where. Should be able to Google for it.

Edit: Next STHLM Tech Meetup is on the 17th Feb. There was one earlier this week, which I unfortunately was unable to attend. http://www.meetup.com/STHLM-Tech-Meetup/events/162741412/
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Gliffy(www.gliffy.com) works great for me.
Here is another thread about failure: Post mortem and lessons learned: This is the right attitude IMHO.

http://elnorr.com/2014/01/27/post-mortem-thanks-lessons-lear...
another bad habit are those "security questions".
For me, the only proper way to deal with this is to have your mother maiden or pet name be cy4nEp7UtNsz and save that (along with the question title) in your (properly backed up!) password safe.
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Then maybe he's not a puppet but actually an actor who tries to extract bonuses from multiple parties by raising stakes?

I.e. get EU treaty ready to be signed, extract power from Russia based on the fear of this treaty going live. And then try to extract more power from EU based on the fear that Russians are overtaking.

But that's not what puppets do.
Probably, and since untraceableblog.bit already points to his host's IP address, all that's needed is for him to configure that domain on the github side (and probably also untraceableblog.bit.pe for folks without .bit resolution).
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Why block the whole site? The notice mentions that some activity falls under export restriction. Why then block every course?
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firefox can do this since about 1 year ago.
Look at this https://marketplace.firefox.com/
Not going to go down to well with a UK pensioner who lost their savings. And UK tax payers like my self who are effectively bailing out Icelandic debts.
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Those are all old sources, if I recall correctly AMD spun off there fabs to GlobalFoundries then recently divest their stake.
Code by Charles Petzold [1] is a fantastic introduction. It isn't so much the nitty gritty "this opcode performs this operation, and these are all the tricks to making it do things, edge cases and things you should worry about" and more along the lines of "what opcodes should a CPU have, and how do those translate into electricity flowing through physical wires?" I feel like really thinking through that book made MIPS and x86 assembly much easier for me.

1 - http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/
I'll give you the Eurozone...
Makes it impossible to devaluate and much harder to put capital controls in place (though Cyprius manage to do so while being in the Eurozone).

However, what Iceland did was still unilateral.
They didn't ask for anybody's permission and didn't expect their decision to be accepted.

Laws and treaties still need to be enforced and those countries are still sovereign.
What happens if a country does something that is against EU law ?
At worst, they may be expelled from the EU.

So it's really a matter of comparing the advantages of EU membership to the cost of the path of action that was taken.

It's still a political decision.
As codez says, I agree you could benefit from simplifying the design of the site.

I really dislike that you are completely focused on one thing, and then you suddenly hide that thing from me and show me other things I should click on. It's jarring, and dare I say inconsiderate. It's like those horrible ads that block content you're reading and force you to close.

I'd take a solid look at a clean design that shows the user a main bit of content for that day, and maybe a few other things they can click on.

Take a page from upworthy. They do a nice job of not overloading the user with too many choices to click on.
Unfortunately the GPLv2 license makes this an academic exercise. Mind you, perhaps that was exactly the goal, so I'm not criticizing, just pointing out some issues.

Quoting the GPLv2:

7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.

What this basically means in the words of every legal advice I've gotten over the years is that by distributing software that is under GPLv2 you run the risk of having to stop distributing it. While this is fine in an academic setting, if you actually build a product using this software, you are toast.

This section of the GPL is actually the major reason why many companies will go to great lengths to avoid using GPLv2 software in their products. Many people think it's the requirement to release the full source code — it's not. Releasing sources is rarely a problem.

Please, if you reply to this, don't fight straw men: software authors can choose any license they please and it is their decision to make. I'm not criticizing that choice. I'm just pointing out some consequences which might not be obvious to everyone, and which are particularly relevant in the case of heavily patented video standards.
Crumbs, this makes interesting reading - clearly lots of failings by the companies involved here.

However. If someone were to steal a physical asset in order to extort something else out of me I would go immediately to the police. I'd have thought I'd do the same if the assets involved were digital.

I've no idea if a criminal offence was committed in what ever jurisdiction this happened. But I'd have thought extortion is illegal is many parts of the world?
Mindy was used to bootstrap Gwydion Dylan, a Dylan compiler implementation. This was the main open source Dylan implementation for quite some time until Functional Objects (which obtained the code and rights from Harlequin when they went out of the language business) open sourced their implementation which is now 'Open Dylan'.

Functional Developer (What was Harelequin Dylan) was nice. The editor would syntax highlight the code based on the optimization level. In this way you could look at a method call and see if it was inlined or not and decide whether to seal functions or classes to improve performance.

Another interesting feature was the editor was written in Dylan (using a framework called Deuce). This was emacs-like and had features like virtual sections in a buffer that could each be mapped to a different file on disk. This allowed viewing in a single editor pane the implementations of all methods of a generic function even if they crossed multiple files. This could also be edited as if it was a single file.
I'm not using my home tomorrow morning. Is it alright for just anyone to go in and take ownership of it?
Increasing life expectancy in places like India is mostly reduced childhood mortality, not longer lives at old age.
Dylan did well in multiple ICFP contests IIRC.
Shameful. I am so disappointed.
A reader will always follow a path and every path is a single story. Like how you are not aware of other parallel universes. So I still think it's more of the hardware that's being reimagined. You just flip the book differently.

About your two friends, it sounds like intuition. How do you think it relates?
Why these extreme examples? OP said "not always" and we are talking about viewing webpages here, not killing people.
Nobody is saying to just do whatever you want but sometimes you should reflect on what you're being told to do.

Remeber this? http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870411730...
>>Google Defies China on Web. Search Giant Stops Censoring Its Results

Did you know the excuse "I was just following orders" is no longer a valid defense 100% of the time? That means you need to consider sometimes not following rules/orders if it seems unethical.

Also, if you're protesting something you believe is unethical there can be situations[1] that breaking the law on purpose brings about progress. I think Google alm

1. http://radgeek.com/gt/2008/11/jackson-ms-sit-in.jpg

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P.S. I don't understand how anyone doesn't already know this. The law is not absolute. You don't just follow it unquestionably & unthinkingly. There are countless examples of people breaking laws that are unethical to bring about progress in a society. I suspect you're just trolling.
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On a more general note, I enjoy reading these post-mortems. Not out of a wry malicious pleasure, but it is certainly a learning experience.

Is there some place where these are gathered for common benefit? Maybe get into more depth with interviews, because this post-mortem for instance leaves a lot of questions unanswered.

The top Google link is a CBinsights blog post, but that does not really cover it. I would consider starting this as a side-project. Would this be interesting?
From the article: "The girls lost more often to boys than they should have done given their and their opponents' prior skill ratings."
"Unfortunately, the rate of change is incredibly large for Internet-facing applications. Intranet-facing applications are left behind. As browsers evolve, which they do rapidly, unpredictably and without compromise[1] a disparity grows until you need two browsers."

This could be an argument for buying in cloud services (which you expect to be updated and maintained as technology evolves) rather than building solutions internally. Not always an option but where it is this seems like a good argument to buy rather than build, and if possible buy from a company which seems keen to move with the times and allow you to upgrade your browser in future without fear of breaking something
So I install a random app that includes PingJam. Another flashlight app or something.

So the flashlight app then goes and monitors my phone calls, intercepts them to display ads (at no point is it clear that the app is responsible for that) and probably relays my called numbers to PingJam?

Are you fucking kidding me? It's straight malware and you should be fined triple for every dollar you ever made. Google should fire whoever inside their organization enabled you to run this scam for longer than a month.

(Anyone still have the SDK or an app that used this? I'd love to see if it leaked caller ids to them. Holy privacy invasion.)
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There's too much competing text, IMHO. Focus more on the message and photo. And it's really bad to have a big sign-up box that pops up before I've got a chance to let the inspirational message sink in. That just makes me want to leave immediately.
In the spirit of maintaining my argument...

The company should light a fire under the ass of their vendor or development department if they're being forced to live with some very serious security risks.

The vendor doesn't exist any more. This is a realistic problem. They had source escrow which results in them hiring a development team to port it. This has taken 4 years, including retraining all 5000 users and porting data. This isn't some shitty TODO list app or an Intranet - it's a full ERP with over 2 million lines of code and 500Gb of raw non-binary data. And yes this is still cheaper to run than SAP/Oracle.

Why are you supporting software that is a quarter of a century old? If it has undergone significant rewrites to work on those new-fangled color monitors, then you understand why things need to be upgraded.

Because the 30 year paid for and guaranteed support lifecycle isn't over yet. Not only that, it's tied to the specific hardware platform which is an embedded 80286. It doesn't have a monitor attached - it has a 40x8 text LCD screen and an RS232 port. New requirements and bugs do appear.

What is "non-engineering background trendy startup pushing culture" supposed to mean? While HN has a charlatan element, you can't legitimately think that the startup culture here isn't dominated by engineers.

I use the phrase engineer loosely with respect to software as it has in the last decade or so come to mean a different thing. It's gone from individual who carefully plans and creates something with meticulous attention to detail and extensive knowledge of requirements to individual who makes something with little thought. Note: this isn't every case but it changes the meaning of the word, much as you can say "I love you" too much...

Do you also scream "la la la" while the tips of your fingers are lodged in your ears whenever in architecture meetings? A web browser is an ideal consumer (ubiquitous, cross-platform, cheap) of a large number of business applications and high availability demands writing software that's internet-aware (that feels so strange to even have to type).

Yes, it's actually my job to ensure that due diligence is done and put good engineering standards and technology in place. La la la doesn't cut it but I have to think ahead 20 years in some cases and make a call. If something doesn't make sense in that timescale, then it gets discarded. Your personal opinion isn't necessarily that of a risk assessment.

It sounds like your perception of the industry is antiquated. A 10 year cycle without maintenance to keep the codebase secure/running on modern hardware/platforms?

Industry? There are two industries at the moment. The one in the technology press and everywhere else. I firmly circulate in the latter. There is not a noisy presence but a large and realistic one that makes critical cogs turn behind the scenes. Whether or not this is "antiquated" or not is purely conjecture.
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Agreed. If I get to pick the security question itself, it'll be something like "What's the magic code?" to emphasise that the gibberish answer was set intentionally.
i was trying out serf, but one issue that killed it for orchestration is behavior around network partitions or transient net issues, namely messages get dropped on the floor. which would need a layer on top to query out distributed eventually consistent state for a node rejoin to replay orchestration. using etcd (or even zk) is considerably simpler to reason about failure recovery for transient issues.
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yeah, we're back to medieval ages...that's a shame...
Because IMAP doesn't work.
>People saved money with Icelandic banks that had opened branches in the UK and the Netherlands.

Weren't many of those branches of Icelandic banks seized/nationalized/prevented from repatriating any capital to Iceland all over Europe ?
I like Randall Hyde's style:

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Assembly-Language-Randall-Hyde/dp/...
I don't think it was fraud that caused AIG problems, it was making really bad business decisions. Meanwhile, Joseph Cassano the guy at AIG FP London responsible for a lot of the problems walked away with at least $280 million

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/3225213/A...
>>Laws are not always meant to be respected; they're meant to be broken and challenged in court.<<

As quoted from parent.

So if I ask the OP to explain, that is trolling? What do you define as discussion?

And my question still remains, who decides what is good or bad?
Sometimes there can be pragmatic reasons to re implement existing software especially if your needs are simpler than the problem the library had in mind.

It can be a choice between "Write 200 lines of code that I understand and know does exactly what I need and no more" or "import 5000 lines of unknown code that might be abandoned and left to bit-rot by the original author, use 5% of it's functionality and hope I can shoehorn it in without too many gotchas"
Which assembly? x86, PowerPC, ARM, MIPS?

Personally my favourites are 6502 (http://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/) and 68k (http://www.easy68k.com/) tho' neither of these are realistically of any commercial use.
Yes and no. So far cloud services have proven themselves too risky for a lot of people as they suffer from availability problems (Azure), data retention problems (Atlassian data loss), security problems (NSA anyone?), churn and inconsistency (Google apps), data protection and regional law (Amazon S3). I could go on all day.

This isn't really an option for a lot of people.
Not really - we are bailing out people from the UK who chose to deposit their money in an Icelandic bank to get higher returns ignoring the fact that higher returns almost certainly implies higher risk.

If someone is daft enough to deposit their cash abroad to get higher returns without doing enough due diligence as to where they are depositing their money that's their problem - not mine or any other taxpayers.
An interesting point made was to avoid using custom domains for the login emails

That's horrible advice. That sort of attitude taken to the extreme means we shouldn't be using DNS for anything ourselves and put everything in Google's (or Amazon's) big bag.

Should I redirect my customers to facebook.com/company as well in fear of someone taking over my DNS?

The lesson from this whole charade is to not trust something as crucial your DNS to untrustworthy companies like Godaddy. We've heard the horror stories before and we keep on hearing them again.

Relying on Google, a company with no direct end-user support and no emergency hotline to secure the most important thing you have, DNS, is even bigger madness. I've been locked out from a Gmail account before. It took me weeks to get it back, because Google has no support.

So yeah. Get a proper DNS-provider, and don't dig yourself deeper into the hellhole you're currently setting up.
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It's pretty weird to think that x86 gives Intel any advantage over ARM.

Let's see: x86 code density is horrible for a CISC, there is hardly any advantage over ARM, which does great being a RISC. Also remember that the memory bandwidth is primarily a problem for data, but not code. ARM64 is a brand new ISA, it's the x86 ISA that is a relict from the times when processors were programmed with microcode. Intel is doing a great job to handle all this baggage, but to claim that the ISA gives Intel an advantage is ridiculous.

And finally, Linus has been an Intel fanboy since day one. Go read the USENET archives to find out. He received quite a bit of critique because the first versions of Linux were not portable but tied to i386.
Although I cannot claim to know a lot, http://microcorruption.com was a very nice "fun" way to at least start with a small, easy to grasp instruction set.
> "deserve": Are you arguing economics or social justice?

Social justice. I am not from the US of A after all (and even if I was, I don't see the point about worrying about some accident of geography / history).
icesave heavily advertised in the UK and had a UK based operation.

they were supposedly also beholden to the EU depositor protection scheme, if they weren't then most depositors wouldn't have touched icesave.

on the eve of the crisis the Icelandic politicians told the UK that they would pay out to UK depositors, then after the UK had paid out they changed their mind.

no one could have predicted that the day before the collapse the Icelandic parliament would withdraw their promise
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I'm currently building a framework agnostic Authentication module for PHP/Composer, that has 2FA baked in. I want to give everyone who's building web apps in PHP no excuse for not having it. It's painful, but worth it IMO.
>the reality is that we've failed.

I'm seeing this a lot lately. Paraphrasing UK driving test examiners, it should be "You didn't FAIL; you just didn't succeed this time."
How has P2P filesharing be linked with terrorism?
"Unknown or expired link."

This is somewhat annoying. If you have a page with 5 or more interesting links and then after some minutes want to continue, it breaks the xp on ycombinator entirely. I usually leave the page. Why in any hell don't you even just link to the start (or include the header bar)?

I bet it's because of caching the query, to avoid post sliding over page indexes after time, or whatever you thought with that non-session and non-user token. But. It. Is. Somewhat annoying, to cut the ?x=whatever just to return to news.ycombinator.com.

Use a timestamp to refresh the query or go back to use old school bad page indexes, but please fix something, at least the error message. Please!
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Well, GS knowingly sold AIG junk CDOs days before the collapse, while shorting those same CDOs to make money on them. I'd call that fraud. I think they were fined less than they made on the deal, and no-one was punished. Of course AIG deserves blame, but so do those who tricked them into buying junk.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870420140...
Obviously it's easy to hypothesise; however, if I were in your shoes, I would like to think that I would simply refuse to cooperate, and I can't help but feel that would be the more effective course of action, since there's probably no technical obstacle to serving packets to these countries.

Like others, though, I'm glad to hear you're doing something about it. Well done.
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"Open Compute is an initiative that Facebook started three years ago to help big computing centers add the kind of cost cuts and efficiency gains that open-source software — where programmers share ideas and code across company, university and even national boundaries — to single computer servers and Web management.

If that sounds technical, you’re right."

I've read that first sentence 10 times and I'm still not sure how it parses as English.
This is ridiculous. Are you purposely ignoring the ____NOT ALWAYS____ in the qoute?

Do you understand what this picture is? http://radgeek.com/gt/2008/11/jackson-ms-sit-in.jpg

Do you understand the good that comes from Google disabling censorship in China even though it was not lawful under Chinese law to do so?

I'm not going to get into some silly pedantic debate about who gets to decide right & wrong. If you don't undestand those 2 examples and what the OP is saying, then ....good luck to you.
The Googlers would revolt.
This is a 'Reduction to Absurdity' fallacy, a ridiculously overwrought interpretation of the parent's position.
The essence of point 7 of the GPL applies to every piece of software covered by patents you don't own or license – other people's patents can force you to do a lot of things against your will. Even if a more permissive BSD or MIT license were used, you could still be prevented from distributing due to patent rulings.

In any case, many popular open-source encoders are also under either GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1. Examples include libx264, libmp3lame, libfdk_aac, libfaac. The license hasn't prevented them being very useful to many people.
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