skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I assume there's more to be skimmed than just credit card numbers

As usual, Le Wik to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_stripe_card#Financial_...

Looks like a skimmer will get you account number, name, expiration date, and some verification numbers.

> So if you have 1 waiter with a Square-skimmer (or any other kind) and another without, can the first one get any more fraud-ready data than the second?

No, if you give your card to a malicious waiter he can skim all of its data. Because you gave it to him.
For the convenience of being able to download Xcode through the mac store and get the updates automatically, I'll gladly pay $4.99.
I guess people don't want therapy at night?
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As others have said, use an email client of some kind, and access gmail via IMAP. See as many accounts as you want.

I use Thunderbird, your preference may vary.
"Wow, I'd love to develop for Mac! Let's see...where's Xcode..."

Dev navigates to the App Store.

"Ah! Here we are. Now I can make splendid apps for Mac and iOS like I've always want--"

He notices the $5 fee...jaw drops, eyes bug out.

"What is THIS?! A price for DEV TOOLS?! Confound it all, now I can't develop for the platforms I love!"

Buries head in hands, then looks to the heavens.

"JOOOOOOOOOOOBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBS!!!"

End scene.

--

Working title of this play: "The Story of a Developer That Doesn't Exist."
Ask HN: Encrypting an entire mysql DB?
Just did my first demo for my first start-up. The product focuses on privacy and ensures users data is not viable on the site (without approval). Someone asked if I could see the data, truth is yes, if I logged onto the db.

I'm using mysql, passwords are encrypted by industry standards, but would it be possible to encrypt all the data in the database(so even with admin login it couldn't be read)?
Love at first byte?
Be sure to also check those two amazing summaries of incredible things: the "Fast Facts" and "Did you know?" pages:

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/fastfacts.html
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/didyouknow.html

I regularly wish that I could have been born earlier and that I could have been part of the whole team that accomplished this huge achievement.

The "Grand Tour" of the Solar System by the Voyager probes is one of the greatest achievements of mankind IMHO.. :)
> I still take the overnight "redeye" from California to New York, but I'm asleep by takeoff --even if takes an Ambien.

Seriously? I bought the guy's argument up until that point.
I couldn't do a feature by feature comparison but generally speaking if you're not in a team you can go pretty far on the express editions. The express edition of SQL Server is also good.
I think it is either an accounting thing or they decided they wanted people to pay for the 4.28GB download and decided to charge their "standard low price".
What does that even mean? I'm asking seriously. You're saying Windows didn't have a lot of good developers?
While I agree it's still quite cheap, I wonder why Apple suddenly decided to start charging almost nothing for something that used to be free.

I don't see the price tag having any impact in the iOS/OSX software ecosystem, so, why are they bothering to charge for it?
It's still free, for registered Apple developers who pay the $99 a year.
Also on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/2011/sxsw/scqxk/
But doesn't the flip also occur. Now poetry has less overhead to publish, so poets can publish their works w/o fighting a publisher.

Although I do wonder, who buys and reads poetry. I can honestly say that in my entire life I don't think I know one person who does. I know a few people who write poetry as a hobby, but I've never actually met anyone who reads it. And I can't recall ever seeing someone on the subway reading a book of poetry.
I'm going to say a strong NO to this, and I strongly advise others to do so as well.

The thing about sponsorships of things like barcamps and heck any other event is the fact that you negotiate what you give up for the money.

Here they are asking for EVERYTHING, and not saying exactly what they are going to give up, for the 'privilege' of having them stop by... Do I give you the names of all of my attendees? How about their names and email addresses so you can spam the hell out the my 'entrepreneurial community'.

And don't even get me started on the mealy-mouthed help you solve your 'biggest pain point'. Which one exactly? Every event has its on hard pain point, but for the most part its finding a good venue. Sponsors are easy, usually I have to tell a bunch that I don't want them anywhere near my event.

(Organizer of three barcamps, twenty two startup hackathons, a startup conference, startup weekend, burning man 'decom' parties).
I highly doubt it. This is not some part of the OS or something, this is a standalone product and it is still OK in the US to have products that are free. Also, they've been giving xcode away for free for a decade, long after this accounting practices thing came up.
Well, if the standard allows autoplay without user consent then it's broken. Just because a standard is doesn't mean everyone should follow it. It should be followed when it's a good standard, and in this case it's arguable.
I really hope the toolchain is released for free.

Even if it is not, the various apps are open source, so I imagine someone will knock together a free downloadable toolchain.
Yes sorry, my mistake :|
How much do Microsoft's dev tools cost? (honest question)
Connect.Me – The Next Facebook? Probably Not. Will You Sign Up? Definitely.
Of course there is someone making a tablet for you... Apple. The iPad is in no way the BMW in this instance, it's a nice fully loaded Honda Accord (or Civi, whatever floats your boat). Hell there are cellphones that are quite more expensive than the entry level iPad. Five hundred bucks for a great tablet (and an awesome user experience) is honestly quite cheap in the grand scheme of things.
Interesting. I can sleep for 12 hours several nights in a row.
Yeah, I came over here to point out that he's talking his book. :)
By that metric, heart beating is even more import than breathing.
I'm fairly sure a month from now, original iPad will cost ~ $200 and it's still ages beyond the Nook
I apologize, didn't actually want it to mean that way :)
What about someone who isn't in love with the platform, just curious?
My experience: they're free, but they cost a piece of your sanity. [0]

I wanted to set up Visual Studio Express on my Windows partition just so I could screw around with Silverlight. Two hours, about 12 forum threads, and three beers later, I vowed to never develop anything for Microsoft.

[0] http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-ed...
Yeah sure free beats it. Most times. I mean sometimes people don't see the value when they are getting it for free. Example: Guy finds a bug in a free software and thinks 'what doesn't cost nothing can't be anything'. But these people are mostly end users not developers.

Long story short: I don't have a clue why Apple is selling XCode 4 BUT when I look at Microsoft you are getting a hell of a software for just 5 bucks. (Visual Studio costs 1500 bucks I think, to be fair there is also a Express (free) edition)

Anyway, I love the new XCode one window interface!
I just bought Mary Oliver's Swan[1] and it's quite a great read.

Also, I wrote a paper in grad school comparing the Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales to Anne Sexton's Transformations[2] as Homer compared to Sappho, and they are a thauma widesthai, if you like Grimm stories reinterpreted by a slightly unstable Bostonian feminist.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Swan-Poems-Prose-Mary-Oliver/dp/080706...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Transformations-Anne-Sexton/dp/0618083...
"Xcode is still free, as long as you pay the $99 a year to be a registered Apple developer".

Sort of like the way Visual Studio is free, as long as you pay $800+ to be an MSDN subscriber? That's an odd way to judge something as still being "free".

From where I'm standing Xcode is not free now, it costs 5 bucks or a hundred bucks, though the version that costs a hundred bucks includes some other stuff too.
Or maybe just write more. All his writings have always been excellent, in my opinion (and also his comments here on HN).
Why should dev tools be free? Adobe's whole business is selling dev tools. Should Adobe stop selling Flash Builder and instead sell Flash Player?

Dev tools should only be free when the platform owner is desperate for developers. This used to be true for Apple, but not any more!
If you need to be up at a reasonable hour, just keep a clock in reach. You'll wake up several times during the night and morning anyway. Just make it a habit to look at the clock, and check if you can go back to sleep or need to get up.

Worked for me the last couple of days.
They are are really really rich now.
FWIW, I've always wanted a service like that. Good luck!
If you are really into developing for Apple, $99/year is not that bad. Still, the free-as-in-beer Xcode attracted those curious with the platform. Don't forget those who can't set up a store account (Brazil was on this list until not that long ago) will not be able to even try it.
It's not inaccurate, just incomplete; it should be "Xcode now costs US $4.99 or free with Mac Developer Program Subscription (US $99 annually)"
At my (failed) software company I tried this. I had two really talented guys with complimentary skillsets. Moreover, like the article, one was a starter and the other a finisher. Like in the article they had been long time friends.

The thing I could not get them to do, was that I couldn't get the starter to check in the code to the version control system so that the finisher could pick it up and run with it. Whenever I pushed the issue, he would always fly into a panic, and then seized by some mad other-worldy inspiration, delete all his code and start over only much better this time.

Due to all sorts of psychological quirks that I suspect are more common in programmers than the general population, the kind of synergy described in the article is rarer than you might think.
Yeah, that's what I was getting at (most Linux distros used to work this way "back in the day").
Microsoft makes available test build of Python plug-in for Visual Studio 2010
you must 'match' into a specialty. If you do not have a good rank or board scores you can only match into the 'lower' residencies like family or psych
The SDKs are free, and ship with compilers. The Express GUI development environments are free, but limited.
P1?
I love Tim's story on how he was able to bootstrap O'Reilly publishing into a premiere technical publisher. He was really nice in the interview as well. All around great guy.
There are free (Express) versions of Visual Studio but they lack those awesome Visual Studio Professional features AND Visual Studio Professional costs 1500 bucks.
Just regular maintenance. I loved the car. I just wanted something that went from A to B and it did it until it's dying day.
Direct link to beta page on CodePlex:
http://pytools.codeplex.com/
Automatic updates should be obvious standard feature, not a premium.

I don't like paying Apple for solving problem they've created themselves by putting download behind pointless registration and releasing minor updates as 4GB bundle of everything.
Xcode 3 appears to still be a free download. Xcode 4 is free if you're a registered developer (which costs $99/year), or $5 from the app store.

gcc is obviously still free, if you get it from anyone other than Apple.
Agreed. The OP conflates significance and urgency. There a many things that are extremely important, yet there is no need to attend to them at a given moment.

The OP defeats a straw man. He argues against complete deprivation of sleep, yet his conclusion is based on sleep that isn't limited at all. Proving that something can't be done without entirely is far removed from proving that we can't cut back a bit.

He might be right, but for an article intended to be persuasive, he does a bad job of supporting his thesis.
I believe this doesn't work if you want to use Gmail's offline feature. Also, the maximum seems 3 accounts?

Here's the official explanation (with this exact use case): http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/access-two-gmail-accou...
You can get the iOS SDKs without paying? I thought it was only 10.5 and 10.6 you could get without being in the iOS Developer Program.
Is there a free option for those who don't mind downloading it outside the app store?
Act two:

-----

"Hey, everyone's always talking about iOS...maybe I should check out it's dev tools."

Dev navigates to the App Store.

"Ah! Here we are. Now I can find out more about making apps for--"

He notices the $5 fee...jaw drops, eyes bug out.

"What is THIS?! $5?! Now I can't have my BURNT STARBUCKS TOMORROW!"

Buries head in hands, then looks to the heavens.

"JOOOOOOOOOOOBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBS!!!"

End scene.

-----

On a serious note, I was a curious developer. Couldn't grab Xcode 4 because I didn't have Snow Leopard, so I actually went and paid $29 so I could try developing for iOS. Very happy with my purchase.
"Parent didn't need the downmods"

It's okay. I continue to be baffled and amazed at what gets voted up and what gets voted down, usually it balances out, so if something gets unexpectedly voted down, something else will get unexpectedly voted up.
All accurate. I'm with you. I'm simply saying the iPad comparison is not real, just a vehicle to get eyeballs.
One guess would be that they didn't want a 3gb app constantly being downloaded by people who wouldn't use it for more than 30 seconds. I realize bandwidth is incredibly cheap, but we are always hearing talking of Apple trying to offset costs, maybe this factored into the thinking?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/us-government-jailbreaking-...
"Several years of industry or hobby-based experience." -> Wow. Nowadays it's just "industry experience".

"Experience programming in Python a plus " -> Keep in mind, this was 1998, and Python was young.
> The credit card number (and security code, and expiration date, and account holder name -- i.e. everything you need to "use" a credit card) is printed right on the card.

This information is not sufficient for a majority of transactions. Ecommerce tends to require VbV/SecureCode and Retail tends to require track data. These developments are a response to your very suggestion.
Xcode 3. You can grab it from http://developer.apple.com/
Appsumo Lean Startup Bundle
I think anonymity is far more important for the uniqueness of your product but is only really valuable if you can provide a very anonymous process.
My dream! Obviously not everyone can do it.
I am guessing that the 2.5% that needs under 8 hours of sleep is composed mainly of people in the tech industry. If I sleep under 5 hours I feel a bit groggy all morning, but if I sleep more than 6 ~ 6 1/2 hours, I feel like utter shit all day long. Incredibly, I was speaking about this same topic with some fellow coworkers and 5 (counting myself) out of 7 felt the same. It might be that they're bullshitting me or maybe the statistics are wrong, but the lack of sleep (as in the people that actually need less daily sleep, not the one's that do so because of lack of 'time') seems to have a correlation with professions that require staring at a screen all daylong. Anyways, in my experience, the number of people that need less than 8 hours of sleep is hugely over 2.5% of the population.
It's been a while since I worked the numbers, but I believe that humans regularly put out more power than that during daily activities. Assuming the exoskeleton was extremely efficient, it wouldn't really get you all that much advantage.
And Eclipse still sucks.
One reason I'm not an entrepreneur is that I haven't found a reliable, enjoyable way to get past the precipitous drop in enthusiasm and energy that occurs around 3 days to 1 week into a project, for me.
(Disclaimer: I'm the project lead on Beaconpush)

Beaconpush is a good alternative for doing this. We support user presence and you can use the API to find out what users are connected. You can even log out users from the API.

We have a contributed Ruby library (called Dimma) made by one of our users. Don't think it's EventMachine based though. Read more at https://github.com/Burgestrand/Dimma

node.js with socket.io is also a nice alternative. Played with it somewhat myself and I like it! But hosting it yourself will make you deal with scaling, deploying, uptime and hosting in general. Not exactly stuff you want to focus on when developing things on a tight schedule.

So if you're asking me, I'd naturally say Beaconpush (http://beaconpush.com) :)
The trick is called a version control system.
First look: View.io lets you see news and info about places near you
A Kia is a Kia (Sportage). You get a modest car for a modest price. But in fairness, the paint, interior, controls were in great shape on the day it died after 10 years. No complaints.
Doesn't work with a domain name that uses Google apps.
I get the impression there aren't many corporate IT departments in NK. Not sure what your point is.

In any case, most malware these days is designed to either steal information and phone home or make the infected computer part of a botnet or both. Without an internet connection (whether the PC is in a LAN or not), the practical risk is pretty minimal.
I think text editors and "instant" compile environments have skewed our perspective a bit.

I'd argue that it really doesn't take a genius to write out code longhand and have it work. What it takes is the discipline to write it slowly. The way people talk about it, it sounds like he just scrawled out a program..and it worked. But what he most likely did is think a lot, write a bit, erase, think a lot and write some more. It was written in pencil.

I've personally found that if I force myself to stop, think and re-read code a lot -- not just fragments a few or 5 times, but the whole shebang in context 10 times over -- it's of consistently higher quality. Also, another way to view this is to pretend that's there's a high cost to typing it in the first place -- that helps too, but is harder to stick to :-). This seems to me to be a way of forcing your inner code reviewer to the fore.
True, and they sell those install discs for more than $5. Presumably the next OS update will include Xcode 4 on the discs.
I hate to poke you like a speciman in my lab, but when and where do you read poetry? In the evening do you read for hours or is it something you read on occassion while waiting for the microwave to buzz?
Okay, you've got me.

I hope there is some core distribution of basic build tools available for free in the future though, the first step to building anything on OSX is "go download/install xcode". The community could work around it since all these build tools are freely available, but it's nice to have an official bundle available from upstream.
This is somewhat strange pricing - it seems ridiculously cheap if they're trying to make significant profits off of it, but pricey enough to prevent tinkerers who don't really know about coding but feel like trying it from getting a start in xcode.
You could view the MacBook Pro in about the same way - it is competition to notebooks in every way except for price. They cost twice as much as non-Apple notebooks with comparable specs.

I think the second part of your comment would apply to netbooks, too. It's just that nobody takes note of them in the same way because they don't seem as novel as iPads.
Using node.js, backbone.js, socket.io, and redis to make a real time chat app
I would want automatic updates too, but only if they didn't break every existing SDK on your machine. This is currently not the case, so thanks, but no thanks.
I wonder why they charge for the tools to develop on their platform.

Charging for the forums/bug tracker is probably a good way to keep people out who aren't that serious about development, but I don't get why they charge for XCode. It's not like they'd make any relevant amount of money off XCode.
So make it download by torrent transparently like (IIRC) Starcraft.
Seems like a reasonable guess. However, considering how large the update downloads are for even minor upgrades of Apple software I always assumed Steve secretly owned stock in a CDN.
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I bought the ImpactJS engine, and I'm currently working on Android to run sounds through SoundPool while everything else happens in an embedded browser. Not much luck yet, but I think I can get there.
I wonder what that Chef is doing these days.
They want to shove the Mac App Store in developers' faces.
You must log in to see this page. Why? Is this not a public event?
I know you're being tongue-in-cheek, but it seems like a lot of others aren't.

This is only five dollars folks. You get a hell of a lot of value for that five bucks. I don't think Apple will even recoup their development and distribution costs with that. I'm guessing the main reason for the price is to deter every man and his dog from downloading it - anyone who cares can part with five bucks.
It's not the "ck" sound that makes it difficult/slow; it's the "ck" followed immediately by the "d". Both sounds are stops, and stops are somewhat difficult to produce consecutively.

Compare with a name like "Conoco", which contains the same sound that you were complaining about in DuckDuckGo twice as well, but is much easier to say because both occurrences of it are preceded and followed by vowels.
I'm guessing that this is a regulatory compliance thing :/
I can't dig anything up, does anyone know if there are officially documented ways to build extensions for xcode? Say, to support other languages?
Wordmerge
No websockets, either. That's the thing that irks me the most.
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Will there be a way for me to install the developer tools for the command line (a C compiler, the C library headers, linker, assembler, and debugger) without using the App Store?
Cool. BeaconPush is probably also the easiest solution for me to migrate to.

Any idea when webhooks will be ready? (That would seem to me to be the easiest way to keep the server up-to-speed with who's online?)
Ask HN: How do tech startups get funding before a revenue model is developed?
Dailybooth just got 6M on top of a previous 1M round and I see no revenue model. There's tons of sites and companies that get funding before a clear revenue path is defined. How are they convincing people to invest? Traffic? Users? Is there a rule of thumb as to how much a user is worth or how much a certain amount of traffic is worth?

Or do they invest because they believe in the idea or see proof of a concept?

Thanks
VS Express is free - you can download it right now - no subscription required.
Ah, I read "component" to mean a hardware component and then rushed to check of a Nook Color 3G had been released. Oh well.
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It was a bad configuration which, sure, probably wouldn't have been a big deal if we had 0 traffic. :)
Why put a barrier, however small, to people contributing to the app stores?
To be fair, this is a $5 fee for a full-featured version of their development tools. Compare that to the cost of a full-featured Visual Studio.
Actually, they've been including Xcode with the OS and giving away minor updates for free. History of Xcode, every new major version was released with an OS and would not run on the previous versions of Mac OS X. See also: iPod Touch until recently. Major updates cost some nominal amount of money, minor updates are free.
It is a public event that anyone can view or RSVP for -- given that you have a Facebook account :P