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by Yrlec 14y ago
To be fair though, all security is about obscurity. The questions is just how obscure. One could certainly argue that using bcrypt instead of SHA-1 without salting is a lot more important than not disclosing your security practices but they
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by Yrlec 14y ago
Normal short selling doesn't distort price discovery. Khan Academy describes this quite well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAkMhEqWFF0 . However, with naked short selling it's a different story. When you're short selling something that y
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by Yrlec 14y ago
When you're selling something you don't own you're distorting the market's price discovery mechanisms. In many contexts I think most people would consider it fraudulent to sell something before you've bought it.
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by Yrlec 14y ago
I heard through some friends that Swedish start-up Klarna is actually using your Facebook profile to evaluate probability that you are a real person. If you pay online using an e-mail address that has lots of friends on Facebook then the ov
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by Yrlec 14y ago
But he's suing in the U.S. Not in Sweden.
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by Yrlec 14y ago
In what way is IKEA not an example of a successful company?
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by Yrlec 14y ago
I agree that the FRA-law is incredibly bad but overall I still think Sweden is a lot better at protecting civil liberties than most other nations.
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by Yrlec 14y ago
Sweden is a really amazing country! In addition to being a well functioning democracy it also has these features: * A flourishing market economy that has created everything from IKEA and H&M to Spotify and Skype. * Free health-care * Fr
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Monitor Estimated AWS Charges Using Billing Alerts(aws.typepad.com)
5 points by Yrlec 14y ago|1 comments
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by Yrlec 14y ago
There's also a Swedish start up working on that: http://www.xadesoftware.com/blog/ (Disclosure: I'm a minority share holder in the company)
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by Yrlec 14y ago
How is that ironic?
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New iPad Act - Stockholm with Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales(youtube.com)
1 points by Yrlec 15y ago|0 comments
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by Yrlec 15y ago
Interesting, thanks! Any particular reason they limit the multiplier to 35 bits and the output to 48 bits? Edit: just noticed that Java limits the output to 32 bits, not 48 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator ). How
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by Yrlec 15y ago
Any reason for the down-vote? I honestly want to learn.
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by Yrlec 15y ago
While not exactly a bug, but if you run this code in Java: for(int i = 0; i< 100; i++){ Random random = new Random(i); System.out.println(random.nextDouble()); } It prints the foll
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by Yrlec 15y ago
Let's hope this puts some pressure on Amazon and Microsoft. The current prices are very high, compared to hosting using your own server.
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by Yrlec 15y ago
You should try C#. It's like Java with closures (and some other nice features: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/610199/the-art-of-program... )
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A Beginner's Guide to the Nordic Startup Ecosystem(forbes.com)
2 points by Yrlec 15y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft to Offer Startups $60,000 in Windows Azure-credits(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by Yrlec 15y ago|0 comments
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by Yrlec 15y ago
It would be interesting to see some benchmarks comparing it to Amazon RDS. If the performance is comparable then I think it can be a very interesting option for many start-ups.
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EnterpriseDB Announces Availability of Postgres Plus Cloud Database(enterprisedb.com)
20 points by Yrlec 15y ago|1 comments
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by Yrlec 15y ago
Ok, thanks for the notice. I had a feeling that was the case but better safe than sorry. Don't want to come of as "spammy".
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by Yrlec 15y ago
My start-up ( http://degoo.com ) is working on a P2P backup system that I think will match your requirements quite well. We are launching our beta tests within next couple of months. </shamelessplug>
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Rand Paul Detained In Nashville For Refusing Full Body Pat Down(twitter.com)
5 points by Yrlec 15y ago|0 comments
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by Yrlec 15y ago
Great article. Note that the point about Strings using 2 bytes per char isn't always true. The latest HotSpot VM has an option called "-XX:+UseCompressedStrings" (see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions... ) where
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by Yrlec 15y ago
If that's the case then it's a completely different ball-game. I was about to abandon the whole idea of using DynamoDB due to the pricing of throughput. This makes it a whole lot more interesting!
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by Yrlec 15y ago
Remember that the throughput is per item, not per query. For instance we have an indexed query that returns ~1500 rows each time. Just doing that query a couple of times per second would create that kind of throughput requirement.
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by Yrlec 15y ago
I was doing it in GF(2^32-5). Your statement is true for GF(2^n) where n is small enough to keep the entire multiplication-table in memory (usually n <= 8). When it's bigger you keep log-tables in memory then sign matters. However when
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by Yrlec 15y ago
I had a similar experience when I was doing some Galois Field arithmetic in Java. You pay a huge penalty because of the absence of unsigned types. In our case we had to use long instead of int, which is extra costly, since many basic operat
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by Yrlec 15y ago
Great arguments! I still don't think that paying 50% of your tax revenues in interest rate is sustainable (especially not when the interest rates are as low as they already are). However, your point about capital gains combined with high le

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