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Maybe it is just too expensive to keep producing these drugs, when they are not needed. As horrible as it is to say, there is a price on a human life. If those millions can be better spent elsewhere, surely we should be doing that.
Fluff ? On my HN ?
Ask HN: Crap, I just downloaded over 10000 Credit Card Numbers - Now What?
I'm a developer in the freelancing/early startup phase, and had a client ask me to look at their current CMS/Online Store. I found out that the service they're using is storing credit card numbers, names, addresses, phone numbers, and cvv - probably in plaintext too. Obviously this is NOT PCI Compliant!

I poked around a bit to see wtf is going on and unintentionally dumped the entire db of 10,000+ credit card numbers, cvv, etc. For ALL of the system's users!

I'm a good person, and I really would rather not use this information incorrectly, so what's the right thing to do that won't land me in jail?

If anyone is wondering the shopping cart service is apparently based in PHP.

Edit: I didn't make it clear enough, this is a service - like shopify - but definitely NOT shopify :) Appears to be locally operated, and has a good number of local clients.
When you do, let me know how it's working out for him. I may start holding in-person meetups for people who try to go through the book and I watch and make notes on things that need to be improved. I'll announce it if I do.
http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/05/10/firefox-4-vision-fas...
Editorializing is for comments, article title is:

"Mozilla CEO John Lilly Stepping Down To Join Greylock Partners"
This is the social web.

Pain, joy, suffering... all played out on our blogs, in our tweets and ripped to shreds in the comments by a legion of humans dealing with their own issues--all just as real, but not always in sync.

Life is grand--and it can suck.... and it's beautiful and so ugly.

Vote down... I forgive you.
Startup Analysis: Is Shotgun Approach or Singular Focus More Likely to Succeed?
Facebook “Posts By Everyone": People Realize They’re Sharing To The World?
Rare video of Steve Jobs with Walt Mossberg from D1 and D2 conferences
Acer Aspire 7715z Review
Doesn't sound like a scam to me. It's as if you own an apple stand, and customers periodically come up to you and say they would like to buy some apples. You offer to sell 1 apple at 20 cents, and they agree. Then you offer another apple at 25 cents, and they agree. Eventually you get to 40 cents, and they disagree. At that point, you offer all the apples they could possibly want at 39 cents, and you make a lot of money.

Your advantage wasn't speed. Your advantage is that the other side was a bad negotiator.

At the very least, they could have placed an all-or-nothing order. Also, this analysis assumed the seller had no competition.
A person can take their whole paycheck or social security check and spend it all on lottery tickets, just like they can spend it all in a casino. They are both ways to live in a delusional fantasy world. What is worse, casinos actually have a higher pay-off ratio than state run lotteries. So if they are going to live a fantasy they might as well go to a casino...
The FDA is here to protect you. If they didn't regulate testing of the anti-venom, how would you know it wouldn't kill you?
I work on search-quality at Google. This is my life.
320k per machine per second sounds really high, even granting high-end machines, since the non-10gen ops/s numbers I've seen have been in the 2k to 10k per second range (e.g., http://prajwal-tuladhar.net.np/2009/11/15/500/mongodbs-perfo...).
I handle recruiting at a tech startup. I also have a PhD in CS. Ask Me Anything.
I already posted this to the IAmA reddit, but a friend suggested it would be interesting to Hacker News participants as well. Whether you're looking to work with a startup or to hire people for your startup, I'd be interested in sharing my experiences at Pattern Insight, and learning about yours.

Original reddit discussion:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c2qz2/i_handle_recruiting_at_a_tech_startup_i_also_have/
More places for startups to get attention can only be a good thing. I hope The Launch Conference is a big success.

I don't know why money has to be such a big part of it though. Paying $2000 for a ticket seems ridiculous. And giving $50k to the winner is kind of meaningless too (did Mint really need it?)

All startups really want is a chance to show press and VCs how awesome their thing is. How about $50 per ticket and the winner gets an additional "finale" presentation or something?
Not that I run a site that's anywhere close to Reddit, but I was a bit scared to hear one of their admins mention MongoDB "suffered more than one bout of catastrophic data loss in my brief testing": http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/c2spc/reddits...
Obama Michigan Commencement Speech
and there's always a picture of some old homeless dude,
staring at you like he wants to say something,always, in any 'artsy' photo gallery. i hate photographers
Ask HN: Going to TC Disrupt?
Hey Everyone,

I'll be volunteering at TC Disrupt, and I'm wondering who else is going?

Post a comment or email me, it'd be cool to meet some HN people while I'm there :)
Wow. What a politician. He'll fit right in with Zuckerberg.

Q: "Why not simply set everything up for opt-in rather than opt-out? "

A: "Everything is opt-in on Facebook. Participating in the service is a choice."
Now all we need is an explanation for the magnetic field.
You're right that they do take an SSN. I always assumed that was for tax or risk purposes. They don't say they do a credit check, but you're right, it is possible they do.
we can safely assume this is not hacker news but belongs to reddit. please flag this one.
I don't understand why someone would use this service. Am I falling out of touch?
Is anyone planning on going to TC Disrupt?

If so, let me know: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1339763
How is "signlas end of Firefox" accurate at all? Especially given that they just released a bunch of new information about Firefox 4?
Benefits only those who live long enough to suffer age related problems, and I doubt that's 99% of all humans born.
That's a good point; I didn't make the connection with the 1967 date and focused on the article referencing that one company as the only source of antivenom.

Is it possible for pharmacists to synthesize anti-venom on demand? Coral snake bites may be rare, but if you were, for example, the operator of an Everglades tour group, your probability of encountering a bite might be a bit higher, and the antivenom would be good to keep around.
If you really are worried about jail time contact a lawyer and most probably delete any trace of the files.

If you aren't going to do that, or even if you are, contact the people who are storing this in plaintext and tell them why it is wrong perhaps even give an ultimatum for further action.

But you probably should talk to a lawyer first make sure you know what you should do.
Authors@Google: George Soros in conversation with Google CEO Eric Schmidt
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sensationalist

I'm going to say that nothing was staged and we simply have a record of the events that occurred, after the initial attack. I don't think anything was done by the person recording the event to influence the audience. Having a video of an event can certainly provide more insight into an event than a well written article in the NYT.
Allowing advertising for drugs is a problem in and of itself. I think the United States is pretty unique in allowing direct to consumer drug advertisement.
Wow. You make an incredible amount of bad assumptions.
It's more like an apple vendor was offering an apple for 20 cents and someone stepped in between you and the vendor and offered it for 21 cents. You have no idea that the person offering the apple for 21 cents is not the real vendor, he's the only person you can buy from. That's what the millisecond HFT systems are doing.

The prescient part of the 2009 article: "If you're wondering how Goldman Sachs and other "big banks and hedge funds" made all their money this last quarter, now you know."
Founder of Credit Karma does Reddit IAMA
Bigger, Faster, Stronger (A documentary on risks and benefits of steroid use)
Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python
The last man standing... Halo 2... Xbox live
From this page here: http://www.wolfire.com/humble

Almost all games from the Humble Indie Bundle (except World of Goo) have decided to go opensource.

IMHO the humble indie bundle method is a nice way to launch indie games. Would be nice if they revamp the bundle every couple on months, so that other indie developers can participate and make their buck and a little of popularity before going opensource (if they choose to).
Perhaps a small progress bar embedded in the element you activated? For the first example in the video, double clicking 'lapis' would show a small progress bar embedded in the bottom of that element itself. That would indicate that it has reacted to the user action, which is what's important. You could even do a safari-type thing and make the whole element into a progress bar.

Clicking the item again while it's still processing could bring up the dialog for more detail, or to let the user cancel the operation if it's taking too long. If long running operations don't actually happen, you could do away with the progress display altogether and just use a throbber. But they probably do happen.

If your engine can deal with it, this design also affords doing operations in parallel. If not, then you could queue up commands as they're performed.
> "banal everyday stories"

Isn't that what life is, though? It seems like a suboptimal strategy to only admire/enjoy the rare and fortuitous circumstances over everyday occurrences. After all, you are going to get a lot more of one than the other.
Actually, if you have a limit to buy at 25 cents and a seller still exists at 20 cents, the market maker will fill your order at the lower price first.
Internal Server Error

And sufficiently advanced errors are indistinguishable from pages made for pure irony.
Usually debit cards require PIN entry and credit cards require signatures. Even most debit cards can be used as credit cards without requiring PIN entry. That is one of the reasons the risk is higher for credit cards.

And to that end, Square's screenshot has a line where the customer signs their name.
Study: Twitter Is Not a Very Social Network
That's what I said about Blippy, too. But then, I find so little use for most mainstream products and services (Facebook, cosmetics, Rice-a-Roni) that it is apparent people like me are not the target market.

It's significant that there are now two nascent companies with this specialization, and apparently investors are taking the idea seriously.

How long before Facebook adds 'Show your credit card purchases on your Wall', aka Beacon v2? I wouldn't be surprised if they refined it based on current observations and their past experience with Beacon. This would make investing in Blippy or Swipely seem a bit more risky.
Then move to the UK, where their debt is about to eclipse that of Greece.
PostgreSQL 9.0 beta has replication built in
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
My past self empathizes with you. I'm not sure if it helps, but life can change, and even though everyday repetitive things will always be dull, being already happy can make it a lot more bearable, interesting even. Sometimes really silly things can keep you up. Since moving to this city (são paulo), just getting out of the house in daytime puts a smile in my face, because it brings back how uncomfortable I was living in the other places I did, and makes me feel slightly better, even though generally other aspects of life will always kinda suck.

YMMV, though, as always.
Pentagon Details Cold War Mind-Control Tests
Sorry to nit-pick, but I think you meant lintel, not lentil. Lentil is the bean-like thing.
But without regulation there would be chaos! All corporations are evil and want to kill you and the government is perfect and only has your best interests at heart!
Building a Cloud Ark for the Coming Data Flood
An Ingenious Hybrid Map: Why Didn't Garmin Think of This?
Simplicity Betrayed - ACM Queue
seriously good advice. And if you are not a huge company, just making a single page with a list of colors and logos is a huge help and doesn't take more than an hour to put together.

I am barely more than a hobbyist and I have a little one-page guide for my own reference, mostly to sample colors easily.
Way to sensationalise the article, nothing in it mentions the end of Firefox you clown.
My immediate thought was to hire a band of ninja to appear at every XKCD speaking appearance.
I was just thinking that their name is fantastic. It conveys such a strong meaning: "we can't be all in one place anymore but we still relate". Maybe it's not a web2.0 buzz name, but at least I immediatly remembered it.
Develop iPhone, iPad, Android And BlackBerry Apps With Just A Browser
If the goal is to build a wysiwyg editor, finale and others have some implementation that regular musicians have learned to work with.

For a lot of people, the ability to do midi input is really important because when they write the music down a lot of the time they have to transcribe from their motions anyway. This is possibly more important than the actual explicit way that you write things down.
I didn't skip the basics of the language.

perlfaq4 explains the difference between arrays and lists in Perl in plain language. One is a variable. The other is a value.

The rest is operator precedence, grouping, and context. If you don't understand those, you don't understand Perl. Granted, most tutorials do a terrible job of explaining those, but these are fundamental concepts.

* ... but if it's less easy to handle than other languages, it won't draw new people in.*

That sounds like a tempting explanation for language popularity, but I doubt it's true -- it's too close to the "Obviously the technically best solution deserves to win!" fallacy. I suspect that practicality, availability, and the ease of which you can just get something done trumps quality. Certainly PHP's ease of deployment has contributed to its popularity more than consistency and correctness of design.
It's probably best to keep that sentiment in the comments, though, and let the article stand on its own merits, instead of being dragged down by editorializing (or at least confusing people who see nothing about that in the article).
Cool. What hack? The only ones I know about are replacing some of the world editor files with zero byte files, and moving the jass file into the scripts directory. But I'm pretty sure those are mac safe.

BTW I played Castle Fight under the name curi.
Air Jordan shoes
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they're going to have issues when they announce how much money they have as a non-profit

Not so. Firefox is a product of the Mozilla Corporation, a for-profit organization. The Mozilla Foundation is the sole shareholder of the Mozilla Corporation.

As a point of interest, much of the money the corporation brings in through their search deal with Google is redistributed to the employees by way of a generous bonus structure. It's one of the ways they compete with stock-distributing startups for talent.

I think the fact that an OSS company can do so well within the context of Silicon Valley is awesome. Moz rocks.
Code Quarterly: Writer's Guidlines
I signed up to volunteer. They haven't confirmed me yet. I'll let you know when they do.
I'm totally up for this. AwesomeFoundation could be the main host for the prize and you can probably have additional sponsors for each idea, maybe in a different field each (health, farming, education etc.) Give me a shout out whenever you are ready.
My understanding wasn't that they refused to sell it, but that they are now selling the Incredible, which was basically the same thing.
You could start out that way and get pretty far, but eventually the language will get complicated enough that you'll want something more like LaTex than like JSON if you want it to be readable.

Musical notation is often deliberately ambiguous to allow for interpretation. Tempo is often approximate. Durations are often approximate or implied (such as swing time). Volume is very approximate. And then there are various kinds of hinting. The hints need to be in the source code because nobody wants to specify them with more precision.

But that said, I'd be perfectly happy with something basic that runs in a browser.
You have an entire ocean of water - miles across, yet with your hand you can make a dam that keeps out the weight of the entire ocean.

The reason is that it's only height that matters - not width. The weight of that very wide ocean is supported by all the water under it.

It's the same in a siphon. All the water in that wide leg is supported by the water in the bottle.

The difference in height however is not. Maybe think in terms of pressure. The bottom of a tall column of water is under higher pressure than the bottom of a short one. The width of the water however doesn't matter. Pressure is pounds per area, so while there are more pounds at the bottom, there is also more area, so area cancels out.
absolutely....sometimes i mark as "spam" conversations that i'm personally not interested in, even if the author is "legitimately" spamming me. (eg a mis-guided friend's mass email...or more likely the dozens of mis-guided reply-all's)
* why is it OK to charge "hundreds of thousands of dollars" for a few weeks of hospital stay?*

Sigh... I've been a critical care nurse for years, and here is the answer:

When a person is in the ICU on life support, it's not just "staying in the hospital for a few weeks on a ventilator" it requires 24/7 care on a 1:1 or 1:2 nurse patient ratio. That is, every hour, on the hour a highly trained nurse goes in to your room, takes your vital signs, observes you for any minute changes in condition, documents those changes, monitors how much you've peed in the last hour. A person on life support is also probably on a myriad if IV drips that each have to be controlled with a separate pump.

I've cared for patients on death's door that have easily had 25 separate medications slowly dripping into the patient at rates of 3-5 cc's per hour, and any number of those medications in the wrong doses could kill the patient. Each of those medication rates are changed, and titrated from minute to minute or hour to hour depending on the patient's changing condition.

That's just nursing care, not to mention a Pharmacist with a Phd that's awake 24/7 to double check the safety, concentration and contraindications on each of those 25 drips. They have to be ready to send me a replacement does within minutes of my requesting it.

Not to mention having at least one doctor that's an intensivist. That is, she's gone to school for 15 years to learn how to manage cases like coral snake bites that they might only see once or twice in their entire career. They have to be on call 24/7. Not to mention a toxicologist, perhaps a cardiologist *(12-14 years of school) or a neurologist (easy 12-14 years of school) on call 24/7 in case the person develops a worsening neurological or cardiac symptoms.

And, you need to have a system in place to handle the dozens or hundreds of lab tests this patient is going to need on an on going basis. A lot of those results need to be made available on a "STAT" basis, which is, I need those results within 1 hour or less.

Plus all the added infrastructure: specialized beds to prevent pressure sores, IT infrastructure or organize those lab test and doctors orders.

I could go on.

Not to mention, antivenom is incredibly expensive to purchase. I worked in LA, 5 miles outside of Hollywood. We had a patient bit by rattle snakes in Griffeth park. Each vial of horse serum (rattle snake anti-venom) costs around $3000 each to manufacture. We gave this person 25 vials of antivenom in the first 24 hours, and he needed 25 vials a day for the next week. We indeed had to call the local zoo and all the area hospitals to obtain extra vials.

And, by the way, most hospitals work on a profit margin of 0.5 - 1.5% if they make money at all.

Health care costs a lot, because we demand a lot from our system, like forcing every hospital in LA to maintain a stock of 6 vials of rattle snake anti-venin, so that when one drunk ass hat tries to catch a rattle snake in Griffeth Park in Holly wood, we can save his arm from going necrotic.
Cool, if you're in the NYC area anyway, we can still hang out.
- Did you delete db from your local computer? If not, do it now.

- Inform your client about the problem and how you can fix it.

- Fix it.
I know, I was just having some fun. :)
Obviously, just delete the file, tell your client exactly what happened and explain how you can help them secure their data better. Turn this accident into an opportunity.

Why are these things always so hard? Why bring a lawyer (who will charge money fo his services) in own it?
A Startup's Crucial First Hire: The "Do-It-All Office Admin"
I think this is a valid use case of spam filters. I have trained more than one to detect my father's powerpoint emails and bad chain-mail jokes and separate them from his personal messages that I actually want to read.
Dropbox for iPad: Drop dead useful or lost in translation?
"The answers are longevity, maturity, and a rich ecosystem of development tools and modules that developers can leverage for almost any programming task. Consider the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). CPAN is an enormous collection of software and documentation, largely unmatched outside of the Perl community. Yes, other languages have similar repositories patterned after CPAN -- but thus far none have matched CPAN for its size and scope. CPAN continues to grow at a rapid clip."
Is this a custom store or a package out there somewhere? The latter would be pretty scary.

When I purchased a business I found a DB with all customers CC info in it while doing my due diligence (it was a crappy cart system written by some guy overseas). The seller was surprised they were there, but didn't seem to grasp the gravity of the situation ($150,000 fine for example).

I had my purchase contract written to explicitly say that I was not purchasing the CC info, and I left no trace of the numbers on my computer. IANAL, but I figure if I didn't obtain the numbers and I don't have the numbers I should be fine.

I'd recommend you tell the client about the problem. Offer to fix it, and make sure there is no trace of it on your computer. Probably worth asking a lawyer, but I don't see what else you can do.
For bonus points on first item:

http://srm.sourceforge.net/
You sure like to link your blog a lot.
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In order to help I'm going to need the URL...

Just kidding.

1. Delete the data.
2. Call the client.
3. Explain what happened.
4. Prepare to be blamed.
5. Do the right thing anyway.
That's not visionary only because that's what Facebook should have been from the beginning.

All early internet protocols where distributed before the web became companies playground and Conway law followed.

I think a visionary replacement will happen when something will just replace the cloud (which is too often a data ghetto) by giving users a way to easily and completely control their data and services, local as well as remote, in a homogeneous and synchronized way. A merge between the two approaches: "everything on the web" and "everything on your computer". Data (and metadata) and services being identities, media, documents, events, tags, access rights, version history, and links between all those things... So all this without giving all your data to google :)