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If you sign up for the newsletter at http://tech.eu/, you get a weekly email with all the EU acquisitions of that week & other interesting news.

For example, this was from last week mail:

What else happened in the European tech industry this week?

M&A deals, IPO filings and rumours
Denmark-founded Zendesk filed for an IPO of up to $150 million and acquired Singapore-based competitor Zopim
The Netherland's Takeaway.com raised $103 million and acquired German competitor Lieferando
Spanish travel company eDreams Odigeo opened for trading
Vivendi agreed to sell SFR to Altice for $23 billion
French ad tech company Criteo bought French startup AdQuantic
French native ad tech platform Adyoulike acquired British content service and native network Content Amp for $2.5 million
Munich's Deal United is insolvent
Belgian HR company Prato acquired recruitment software firm Actonomy
Ovum and Informa Telecoms & Media Research announced intention to merge
Security solutions company INSIDE Secure acquired Scotland-headquartered mobile payment security technology company Metaforic
2 things I'd like to see in a bookmarking service.

1. Have it email me nightly or weekly recapping what I've bookmarked.

2. At some point (perhaps in the recap) show me if any of my friends have also bookmarked the same thing (perhaps from Facebook or g+ graph data).

I could live without #2, and might want to opt-out - there are some things I bookmark I wouldn't want other people knowing about, but some things I wouldn't mind.
I can't see how the parent comment postulates a causality.
And it suggests that physics isn't involved when it comes to traditional axes.
Practice what we Preach
This is really cool. I've never split more than a couple dozen logs in my life but Ray Mears teached me to wedge the blade to the side on impact. This seems to emulate these physics. I'm not a big guy, and it's a pretty hard motion to get in to when you're swinging down as hard as possible.

This seems like a very capable survival/bushcrafting tool for less accomplished wood cutters.

tl;dr I wood buy.
You will be freaking mad at this Freaking Math game
Ubuntu is more popular than you would think :). I used torrents to download it and it went quite fast (huge numbers of seeders). Here you can find torrent links: reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/239wbp/1404_is_live/
Send a nightly or weekly recap of stuff you've bookmarked (possibly with an indicator of how many other people bookmarked the same items over the time period). Maybe even with a 'click here to organize/tag' link to help me manage things on a regular basis.

I'd probably pay up to $10/year for something like that. I bookmark a lot, but then forget about things. A service that reminded me what I bookmarked would be great.
Bytemark start from £85 for an hour a month of hands-on work, along with the automation, monitoring & etc:

http://www.bytemark.co.uk/managed_hosting/transparent_pricin...
It's not just about compromised encryption algorithms, it's also about picking the right algorithm for a given purpose.

For instance, an hashing algorithm can be used to securely store passwords, and must therefore be slow, or to find duplicate files, a task which greatly benefits from speed. If you use a fast hashing algorithm to "securely" store passwords you might as well use a compromised algorithm since the security is nonexistent in both cases.

I think the same applies to crypto algorithms: it doesn't matter if the building blocks are individually secure if you don't know how to put them together in a secure fashion.
Um... Just drag the URLs from the location bar to your Dropbox/Wuala explorer window and click on them later?
Much of what I read of his was in Spanish, a second language for me, but even so I could see his command of language was incredible.

Things like, in "Relato de un náufrago", the story teller has emotional ups and downs each chapter - and García Márquez carefully chose words that sounded emotionally up or down, giving a sense of rising and falling on waves through the whole story.

That, detected by someone whose Spanish was "solid" at best - what a joy it must be for a native to read.
How to exploit home routers for anonymity
As a European this argument is a bit strange to me (since we have so many structures that are hundreds of years old and are still in use today). Don't people sometimes just want something that works and keeps on working? A monument of engineering to be proud of? Something to show to visitors? And on the economic side of things I'm not at all convinced that rebuilding every century would be cheaper for something like a bridge, considering the cost of closing it down.
No, they're paying $3000+ per month in the US.

Whew - I didn't think the UK had gone up THAT much ;)

The £800/month isn't out of line with a lot of US rents either - that's around $1300/month. You'd get a lot of room for that in some areas, but in others like NYC, that's almost nothing.
Generally "managed" means you share the login details to your host with somebody, they apply updates, they help work with you to tune your server, and they let you know of upcoming problems.

Although there are providers who both offer hosts and offer the management you might find a decent compromise is to pay for them separately.

I remotely manage a lot of servers (40-80) in exchange for an ongoing minimal fee, and I'm not alone in that I expect.
Apparently you don't need to execute it with elevated privileges so you can build it (or your own variant) statically on a different machine for all you care.
When I read "uses physics" my grumpy morning attitude thought "Sorcery would have been cooler than Physics." How else does one split wood if not with physics? As someone pointed out elsewhere the article is not well written, 15 seconds on the product's homepage and you get a better idea of what is happening.
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What an awful article. It doesn't explain how Yahoo is in "more turmoil" at all, with zero metrics to confirm this statement. It doesn't say anything interesting, just a bunch of questions with no answers. Hey, Mr. Author, you're the one who is supposed to be the smart guy who provides answers!
so have they put back the key bits of xwindows they removed in a provious LTS - I was not happy after setting up my small hadoop home lab to find that some idiot PFY had removed teh fuctionaly that made remote login possible!
If you look at all world's countries in terms of GDP per capita[1] and economic freedom[2], the countries with higher GDPs per capita have higher degrees of economic freedom, and conversely the countries with the lowest degrees of economic freedom have lower GDPs per capita. This is obviously not perfectly scientific, but I don't have the time to describe the whole theory of developmental economics in a HN post.

'Filthy rich' in the sense that a king is rich is different from a nation being rich in an economic sense. The wealth of a country, measured by GDP, is a measure of productivity. A king has the ability to purchase many things, but he's not rich in the sense of economic productivity, in fact his economic productivity may well be zero.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP...

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_economic_f...
I tried that some time ago with 13.10 & xface-desktop and I ended up with some weird mix of the two (randomly some parts from unity and some fonts and menus + shutdwon splash screen definitely from xface). And I was not able to totally remove the xface packages from unity again. So I'm quite reluctant now :).
+1 for mauls. Why people use axes to split wood I don't know. I have a 10lb maul which _usually_ will split logs (even large rounds) on first strike assuming the wood is reasonably well seasoned. I used to use an axe + sledgehammer/wedge for the tricky stuff, but it's a ton more work that way.
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I don't think they've ever stalled mine.

I've always liked how it's like a brute force analogy on those things. Just keep pushing until it breaks, with literal tons of force.
there's nothing new or innovative here. people have been doing this for years... it really depends on the KIND of wood you're chopping. this guy has it down to an art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vThcK-idm0
Well for me, it's because although they're cheap and dedicated, servers, they aren't particularly good machines and the support is pretty much what you'd expect at that price (very basic).

That being said, I do think they're great value, and I have a reverse bidding dedicated server from Hetzner, that I use as a test and staging server. But I wouldn't dream of using them for production instances though - for the amount you'd have to pay to beef up support and get access to things like out of band console access, you might as well pay for a server from Bytemark.
I'm totally with you on most of your post... But how is Gedit "heavy"?
Cortana vs. Siri: Battle of the Virtual Assistants
And XUbuntu is using almost half of the memory Ubuntu is using.
And I love it, and think it looks fantastic. So, yeah, different strokes?
"I guess the problem is not local access but a malicious app perhaps, but then it doesn't matter too much anyway because there are other ways of compromising the system."

Well, that's the idea - protect a user from malicious apps running within their security context. Qubes does this by running apps within their own virtual machines.
Sure, the monolithic app at the center is still Rails. We're working to deprecate it and go all SOA/microservice, but many of those services are JRuby.

tl;dr still very polyglot here.
Shame that they don't seem to have an Android app yet. I am just going to wait until they have until I consider it as a replacement for pocket.
Dragdis is more about to keep you organised. With one Drag&drop you can collect anything you want and place it on the right place (you don't need to click save, then select the folder, etc.).

For example Pocket is very great for "read it later" but it's hard to be organised there.

Also, Dragdis will have integrations with Evernote, Pocket, Gdrive, Dropbox, Tumblr soon. So you will be able to Drag&drop your items directly to Evernote notebooks for example.
NASA Discovers Most Earth-Like Planet In Habitable Zone That May Sustain Life
This is a terrible survival/bushcraft tool. It is big and heavy which could be acceptable if it was not single purpose.

My fellow Americans please do not hold this post against Ray Mears. He is rather awesome. I am at a loss when it comes to thinking of his American equivalent. We do not have a nice guy survival expert. Anyone I can think of is not as famous and certainly not as kind spirited. The best way I can describe him is Roy Underhill from the Woodwright's Shop does bushcraft/survival skills in a Red coat.
Twitter Agrees to Let Turkey Censor Tweets, Accounts
It seems may use this opportunity to recommend an Ubuntu derivative. I'm very happy with Netrunner-OS[1]. It come with KDE and gets "sane defaults" right. AdBlocker, YT-downloaders, codecs, etc. -- all pre-installed.

And they also gave it some thought to make sure it looks good out of the box.

All Unity-refuge-seeking, but otherwise Ubuntu (Debian++) lovers should have a look at it. :)

1: http://www.netrunner-os.com/
I think that's what he is asking. Full details at http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.10/std/fmt/index.html

By the way, the Rust docs look nice, but finding this was harder than it should be. After searching for 'println', I got at http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.10/std/index.html?search=P..., which led me to http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.10/std/macros/macro.printl..., which says as good as nothing. The other search results (http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.10/std/io/stdio/fn.println... and http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.10/std/io/stdio/fn.println...) are similarly uninformative. It would have helped if the text "For more information, see std::fmt and std::io::stdio" on that first page had hyperlinks. Now, I had to search for "std::fmt" and wade through a sea of results to get at that first page.
This question only makes sense if you give the threat-model to consider.

Is it only classical cryptanalysis on the cryptographic algorithm? Or do you take into account the programming mistakes (not necessarily related to crypto) of specific implementations? Or do you allow side-channel or fault-injection attacks, which will be able to break most algorithms, if they are not implemented with specific countermeasures?

In anyway, it is a very difficult question which doesn't have a single definite answer.
When you are working on a networked filesystem, and someone else has foobared it by doing something stupid.
It was assumed because that was/will be a foregone conclusion.
Epochal discovery in space: the first cousin of Earth that could host alien life
There are torrent links on the Alternative Downloads page: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads
Show HN: 2048 with levels
Hey guys,

We made an iPhone/iPad game based on popular puzzle 2048, but it’s quite different and has many other functionalities.

This is the link to download the app (http://bit.ly/1mjpRO1)

Here are 3 features in our app that as far as we know no other provides them.
1)	It has 100 levels with various difficulties and goals. You can start with 128,256, 512 and gradually move towards 2048 or even 4096.
2)	It has different initial configurations. You don’t always start with empty board. Sometimes the initial boards have quite big numbers. We believe this saves people time.
3)	The ability to get hint from the program. We have a great auto solver that can even reach to 16384. So the hints that app gives are great.

Putting these together, we believe you can learn great strategies from the program and ultimately beat 2048 easily.

Guys do you think this is something people would like? Does something come to your mind that we can use and improve the app?

Thanks in advance.
Nobody is arguing against that. The OP is asking about compromised algorithms. Sure, non-compromised algorithms can still be used incorrectly and be insecure, but compromised ones won't be secure no matter how they're used.

Also, you don't use hashes to store passwords, you use KDFs.
It makes the implicit claim that people interacting freely will lead to worse outcomes under some metric then people interacting under the constraint that actions contravening some centrally determined directives result in punishment via violence or the threat thereof.
I've been a staunch Xubuntu user for the past couple of years and I'm completely pleased with my setup, but I'm interested in giving Gnome a try.

The main thing that's holding me back is that my machines aren't massively powerful - do you know if Gnome is as resource-hungry as Unity?
As gary explained he wasn't wrong in his response to the question because the audience member was asking whether [object Object] means the object is in an array. It doesn't. The string point is moot.

I do agree the {} + [] example has always felt a bit unfair to me (for the reason that {} is a block), but whatever, it's a light-hearted talk.
NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planet In The 'Habitable Zone' of Another Star
It's a demo.

The point is that it applies the force more effectively to a splitting motion. I don't know why you would insist on using a heavier maul requiring much more effort by default. Use the maul for the really knotted stuff where you need more vertical force applied somewhere in the middle, but defaulting to it seems silly.
Should We Be Afraid of the 3D Printed Gun?
This axe looks really awesome, physics for the win.

Also, instead of using an old rubber tire, I highly recommend building a variable length, tensioning chain, much like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrLiSMQGHvY
Makes chopping wood so much more fun.

And then, there is also the stikkan: http://www.stikkan.com/
Perfect to hang it up next to your fireplace to do some more fine grained wood chopping, cutting larger pieces into smaller ones.
Same story, multiple sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605280 (economist.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605398 (latimes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605610 (bbc.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606168 (npr.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606184 (keckobservatory.org) : 2 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606651 (cnn.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606802 (cnn.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606835 (io9.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7607534 (theatlantic.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7607607 (nytimes.com) : 28 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7608493 (nasa.gov)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7608824 (techfess.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7608832 (cosmosup.com)
dispatch_once(3)[0] can be used for lazy initialization without concern for the calling class and without synchronizing on a shared object. This is (likely) cheaper in most cases then entering a @synchronized block.

0 - https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
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Good point. I think it is because positive opinions without good reasons are perceived as encouragement ("I like what you do, keep going!") instead of criticism, while negative opinions are criticism. The latter requires arguments to be useful as feedback. Of course, saying why you do like something would also make those remarks more valuable as criticism - you got a good point there.

(Note that I'm not saying Nathan Osullivan is necessarily wrong in his judgement - I might disagree with it but he can still have valid reasons for disliking it. It's just that it's pretty a useless remark if he gives no arguments why he has that opinion)
You're not the only one... it's rather sad and silly but this makes the language quite unpleasant for me as well.
Updated benchmark results with 2GB vs 4GB vs 8GB vs 16gb plans from Linode vs DigitalOcean https://blog.centminmod.com/346. Definitely Linode has the faster cpus and disk i/o as you move up in plans >2GB. 16GB plans are pretty close though if you look at subtests in UnixBench and ignore the subtests affected by different base Linux Kernel versions used.
I would recommend against this for anyone on an older computer. I had been on Lubuntu 12.04, then went through phases where I had various versions Xubuntu and Mint XCFE and ended up back at Lubuntu 12.04 because it is still the fastest drop-in recent distro.
I guess I should've said "without using a car". I could catch a cab, use uber etc to get from downtown Manhattan to deepest Queens. But why would I?

I'm from Perth, Australia, a city which several observers have compared to LA. So I hear you on public transport.
Yes. Now as it's mentioned

"This is a programmer specified conversion which uses the `Show` trait, which works a bit like `toString` in Java."

Do I get the content of { } passed to my custom Show, in order to implement all the formatting possibilities?

Hint: explaining the mechanisms of handling such common tasks we can really learn a lot about the language. I'd be happy if the tutorial presents the solutions to such real and common tasks.
awesome, linode or DO, if you're small or media companies, no other options should be considered at all, even AWS or Google Cloud.
> Also, you don't use hashes to store passwords, you use KDFs.

Well, technically a hash can be seen as a particular key derivation function (KDF). Not a proper one for the purpose of storing passwords I agree, but then most KDFs are built using salt + an iteration of hash functions, to my knowledge at least (which I admit is not very deep on the subject).
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#57 today on: http://distrowatch.com/ and stable/not moving up in popularity. Plenty of good other distros to try? If you like KDE, maybe Kubuntu 14.04? The problem with random distros is that unless you are the maintainer, they may not stay up-to-date. How many people are maintaining it and how up-to-speed are they in the overall community to stay atop security?
Because that's still not telling us what the problems are, just where to look for them.

Stating something like "X is inconsistent with Y making the whole thing restless and messy, and if they did the font alignment like this the whole thing would have a more orderly clean look" wouldn't have.
Clearly, we don't agree. I feel a similar feeling towards Marquez as you do towards Borges.
This is the page you need to read!

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Cloud images are always published directly as part of the release. You can find the list here for reference: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/trusty/current/
I have strong recent evidence of this in my own score, and It was an interesting experience for me. Lets just say my average was less than one for a while, but then climbed back quickly over the last 72 hours. Its an interesting system that really punishes the type of comments that get downvoted, and while I was upset about it for a few days I can see that it is a good system.
If I'm not mistaken, it was never planned for Servo to have it's own Javascript engine, it just does layout. Most benchmarks just test JS execution time, so you wouldn't even run those ones.
> I've yet to see anyone make the claim that Borges originated any of the important philosophical ideas in his stories.

The publication of The Garden of Forking Paths predates Hugh Everett's PhD on the "Many Worlds" interpretation by 15 years.
> If you use those curves, then you're revealing your secrets to the NSA but not to anyone else.

...until some worker or contractor takes their "secret" values for himself, or sells them, or publishes them on the internet. Producing the public standards with the built-in master keys increases possibility of overnight global breakage.
You should check out Lexington, KY as well, if you like Des Moines. It's a similar sized city and a similar distance from Chicago. It's got a lot of culture and history. It's also quite close to other cities, so you kind of get to collect on the benefits of living in a larger metro. Not sure it's quite as cheap as Des Moines though.
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OpenSSLs internal PRNG framework was ripped out and only the (noop) API is left. arc4random is the only PRNG source left, it can not fail and doesn't need to be seeded.

OpenBSD goes to great lengths and sacrifices some performance to ensure the kernel PRNG is always useable.
Both have gotten much better in this department than they used to be. I would say they're about equivalent.
I believe such things are covered under international law, although I'm not sure how successfully it's enforced.
I never swung an axe (no need where I live, the only thing I did to prepare for this winter was... close the windows, I can still walk around the house with light clothes).

And to me the thing STILL looks like sorcery... I have no idea how to hit the wood like that (I mean, the aim), but seeing each hit split the log is like... HOW???? It looks like the log split by itself.
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Sadly, synapse is orphaned, Kupfer hasn't had a commit in over a year and GNOME-Do is going nowhere since GNOME Shell does the same thing by itself. One thing that's kept me from more minimal environments than those with their own launcher is that's there's just no really good standalone launcher.
it's amazing that we still aren't at nikola tesla's level, even after more than 100 years.
The click vs drag detection is sublime. It sounds like something that would be fiddly and annoying but it doesn't get in the way at all.
Thanks, this looks very helpful.
Invisible Things Lab published a similar analysis of Windows GUI isolation earlier this year:

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.fr/2014/01/shattering-myt...

I find the concept behind Qubes fascinating. I only wish that it was more stable or that it supported native isolation mechanisms like FreeBSD jails.