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Nicely implemented chat services are in demand, or so it seems. They might be sold into the billions and monetized with ads, and I guess the negative spin comes from purely busines…

Misleading title. This has nothing to do with privacy and encryption. Just to quote a couple of recent Pavel Durov's tweets: "To media covering us this week: Telegram channels are …

EU is not a state with a single national mindset and identity - it's a bag of different countries with different fragmented cultures and languages. China has its Baidu and Qzone, a…

I believe the multi-millionaire publisher Felix Dennis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dennis ) in a certain sense would not quite agree... In his book "How to Get Rich" he re…

Well, maybe the way Danny Ocean (George Cloony) manages his team in Ocean's Twelve (the movie) - tight team, clear plan, known desirable end-result, exact subtasks and timing, conf…

There is a book, " Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy "(2010), by Joseph Stiglitz - an economist of Nobel prize fame and former Chief Economist o…

I did not see in the presentation the following code snippet: " from twisted.internet import protocol, reactor " Somehow I feel cheated... ;) :P

This is indeed very revealing on the interesting qualities/properties of the engine => " ...and so I was watching how this game developed – Houdini sacrificed a pawn, two pawn, thr…

Big problems - sometimes before even to be formulated and asked - require big fundamental and applicative science research programmes and the respective advancement. These are not …

The title of the submission is a bit misleading. PG explicitly states in the essay that it's not that much on Java itself but rather on the way hackers judge technologies (the "hac…

I can't wait for the next Hollywood sci-fi movie in which aliens discover Earth just to find out that humanity wiped out itself to extinction or mysteriously left the planet for so…

How did he manage to find you after 20 years?

The graph is built according to Facebook data, as the article claims. Certain edges and vertices should be easy to check then.

It was RMS in the beginning - he built the foundations: the software (GCC, the GNU-project, Emacs), the philosophy and the values (his essays and interviews), the organisation (FSF…

Congrats to the courageous - and experienced! - startup founders with kids and supporting wives - I wish them great success.

Does anybody on HN use Maglev Ruby in production - any feedback on the experience?(http://maglev.github.com/)

This sounds really cool and might lead to some changes in user behavior and usage patterns - since users would have the ability to judge objectively on their usage.

Thanks for sharing your opinion - I'd give them credit, though. At least they've discovered the virus during their investigative research.

Thanks for the securelist-link. It's indeed a better source for some technical details, also from a Kaspersky expert... But in the RT-interview the Kaspersky's chief malware expert…

" It was actually after an inquiry from the International Telecommunications Union, which is a part of the United Nations, who actually asked us to start conducting research " ...W…

http://www.claymath.org/Popular_Lectures/Minesweeper/ " It's not often you can win a million dollars by analysing a computer game, but by a curious conjunction of fate, there's a c…