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I just watched the TV report. It's interesting. The slides mention as targets: Petrobrás, French diplomacy, SWIFT and Google. Everything pointed towards MITM attacks against VPNs and SSL. There w…

Can you please tell us why exactly Brazil is "not-so-friendly"?

On the other hand your work is secret and you will never be recognized for what you do.

Built by the people who can't even keep the president's emails safe with the help of US ad networks. Sure that's going to work. The Brazilian government's reaction to all this has …

DuckDuckGo uses favicons in the way you described: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=favicon

Interesting, similar jumps happened in every country I tried: Brazil, Vietnam, US, Argentina, South Africa. I can't imaging the Pirate Browser thing would be immediately so popular across so many…

Also, C++, which is the king of mutability, also implements map as a tree instead of a hash table, probably trying to avoid the worst-case linear search.

Well, but in a column-oriented database you would store your time series data in columns. Cassandra is "row-oriented" and you store the time series in rows. In both cases the data ends up se…

In case someone does not recognize the reference, this is a parody of the Spam Solutions Checklist that used to be circulated when e-mail spam was a new issue: https://craphound.com/sp…

There is a limit, actually. From my non-American point of view, people who want to understand the context and direction of the US in the early 21st century will study Bush as he is the US president th…

Quite the unnecessary rule I believe. 100 Mbps = 3.2TB in a month.

At least where I work the definition of slow does not cross complexity boundaries. A O(n) algorithm that takes 100 seconds to run is "slow" compared to a O(n) algorithm that takes 50 seconds to run. B…

If they did they could just stay in churches. If people are moving away from churches, maybe there is no such need.

Which is why I have been telling people it's a "better Python".

I find it telling that proponents of TDD so often resort to name-calling and sarcasm to promote their views instead of, like, just writing great software.

Actually, even in the classical Unix security model, setuid'ing to nobody is considered a bad idea. Because so many services do it, giving an attacker an opportunity to become nobody will likely grant…

I agree. Anyway, if you sign up you can play with sample data. It looks completely amazing.

They still suck even if you set a large initialCapacity.

I think part of the problem is that EBS issues also cause ELB problems, from that I read here on HN. I wouldn't know because we only use us-east for Hadoop. On the other hand, our Cassandra cluster ru…

As bad as Netscape 4 was, what killed the company was their decision to charge for the browser while their monopolitic competidor was giving it away for free.

If you need to relate you process the data offline with something like Pig, Hive or one of many other data analysis tools built on top of Hadoop.

I don't know about him but we do 1 billion/month using at peak some 12 servers (c1.xlarges and m1.xlarges), including our DB. These are all dynamic requests. Moovweb creates mobile versions of standar…

I agree completely. By the time you need something like Cassandra you have typically had so many problems with your previous database that you just assume that anything you move to will be ultra-compl…

So Linus Torvalds has created two billion-dollar industries in his spare time?

Is there any way that a small ad buyer (a few hundred thousand dollars a month) can participate in the auctions directly, bidding in real time rather than going through a middleman that does the work …

Frankly, this article scores low on the list of things ESR should be ashamed of writing.

You can safely ignore that "audience" since they comprise 0.01% of a niche. They are vocal in sites like HN and Reddit and so on but the numbers are safely ignorable from a market standpoint. If you w…