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If what is published in hackerregiment.com is true, this is the most irresponsible thing the company "CCAvenue" could have done - to store plain text passwords.

They also claim to have PCI DSS 2.0 certified. In light of all the discussions happening repeatedly about need to regenerate passwords & not to store plain text passwords if they have it this way, this is so stupid.
For a decent subset of the procedures I've worked on, yes, I am, from experience. I've had app performance killed by excessive string concatenation before, so my inclination to repeat identical jobs at runtime which I know from experience cause performance issues is limited. Precompile.

I should stress in this though, I'm not a complete 'it must be a compiled sproc stored in the DBMS' guy; I have worked with systems before which effectively provided their own stored procedure implementation within the application source code because the underlying DMBS didn't support anything else; it's not ideal for a number of reasons but it does work, is an order of magnitude superior to ad-hoc SQL scattered throughout the app, still permits some of the benefits of genuine sprocs but also still provides the dev with proper control over what they're doing.
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I've done it .. let me know if you want any help. I've got a fully working OpenGL ES demo ported to the NDK and functioning as a regular Android app ..
That's amazing. I would love to know what is in the center of is in the center of our galaxy?!
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From the limited information i have on this, i'd say they don't know/care about those discussions. Hopeless engineers? Engineering department that find management in their way? Hard to tell, but considering how basic this stuff is i'd go for the last one.
Generally very positive, though perhaps not for the reasons you'd imagine.

Basically everything you learn in grade school will be useless in real life. This is not because you don't learn anything: it's because you have not experienced enough by high school to have a reasonable chance of knowing what you want to specialize in, and you have to specialize for your adult life. So the fruits of that deliberate practice will be useless whether you learn stuff or not.

Instead, I found that the project-based curriculum was useful because:

1.) It shows you that there is more depth to things than simply doing what you're told and regurgitating what you've learned.

2.) It trains you to take initiative and be responsible for your own education, and later your career. There's a huge difference between learning stuff and doing stuff, and projects help bridge the gap.

Both of these skills are invaluable later on, when you do know what you want to do.
Let this be a reminder to LastPass to include a password expiration date by default.
> The fact that a company that is supposed to be worth 1 trillion USD...

"Billion"
Are you denying the existence of aesthetics in software engineering? If not, then how about the correlation between skill and said taste?
I have been evaluating payment gateways in India and quite frankly I would not be surprised if this is true. If you just look at the CCAvenue website you will see what an absolute mess it is, they do not reply to any form of communication I try to make with them.

If I were a customer of CCAvenue I would close my account and move to someone like DirecPay from Times Of Money.
Question: would adding another hardware RNG to feed the random queue significantly boost performance here?
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Is this the first event of this kind in the UK? If it is kudos to the organizers, would really love to see something similar where i live (Italy, startup environment not mature enough yet, maybe in a few years).
Websense has categorised your site as 'Potentially Damaging Content' - you might want to get that changed.
CCAvenue CEO talks about this hack:
http://www.medianama.com/2011/05/223-vishwas-patel-ccavenue-...
Maybe the other end of our galaxy ;)
Spreadsheets and presentation software took over from hypercard for non-programmers.
I have been reading you site not able to figure it out what it is, Is this a kind of CDN, If not how we can use this for our blog and website.
It looks like he didn't live tweet the insertion operation so much as the cleanup operation (backup helicopter, destruction of helicopter, etc.) The explosion he heard was almost certainly the destruction of the downed helicopter, which would have occurred after the backup helicopter had arrived. The backup helicopters were seemingly of a different type.

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It always strikes me that Excel is essentially a functional programming language. A limited one perhaps (no looping/recursion) with an awkward syntax (all those commas), but still one that tons of non-programmers manage to learn and create powerful stuff with. This language then has an IDE that is quite advanced in some things (conditional formatting, charts) while strangely archaic in others (why are all variables are laid out on a grid?)

I wonder if there's an opportunity for a product that introduces a more powerful programming language and steps away from doing all the calculations on a grid, but that keeps the intuitiveness of Excel.
Hard figures - more than half of the graduates from one of the top technical universities in the UK (Imperial) go to work for banks (computer scientists that is).

The reason is that they pay quite a bit more than most software houses do. Notable exceptions include Google which usually can match the starting salaries but otherwise, you're pretty much guaranteed to earn less.

The bottom line is that after several years of student life, a relatively high salary looks compelling and coupled with student loans to pay off, the choice is quite clear at this particular moment for the majority of people.
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Why should anyone do this it is against the law.
Wow, this article actually had the opposite of its intended effect with me. I had always expected that CoffeeScript was a better form of JS that I should probably get around to learning. Now I've just learned that besides having an unpleasant syntax, it actually redefines some important features of javascript to behave in novel ways.

As an example, the whole point of setTimeout is to be able to do the sort of thing shown in Example 4. Defeating it just means you now have to search for another way to do the things that setTimeout was designed for.

Same with variable scope. If you can't declare a global without actually standing in the global scope, that makes things harder, not easier.

Beyond that, I glazed over at seeing various little ascii arrows. I'm sure they're there for a reason, but by then I was already halfway out the door.
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Exactly my thoughts. Dorm rooms is like so 2 years old. I want a decent setup, a good view, high speed internet and a vision to win the world.
...So you then have to replace a safe, well-thought-out password for a less safe one?
Have you tried it? I am waiting to get out of CCAvenue -- so many times the payment crashes that my customers are now preferring to mail me a check! Their customer service is pathetic too
Thanks for the info (didn't know this)

Isn't there something inherently wrong with society when an industry that provides little value to society make so much money that they can afford to pay better than anyone else?
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You might need to define 'successful' for online grocery in the UK. Ocado is losing money and I doubt that the major supermarket operations are profitable.
I remember when I first learnt about Kerchingle -- I was gutted. I thought that my idea was unique super-magic that would made me rich and I guarded it jealously. At the time I felt that the first mover would take all. Since then watching Facebook taught me that even an enormous network effect advantage can be defeated and absorbed if you have the right mix and a smart growth strategy.

I don't think Kerchingle's model is right either. They still require you to click their medallion to begin payment to a publishing site, introducing that same cognitive disruption as conventional tipjars. Also I think the "social cents" thing is basically nuts. Far too easy to be embarrassed. It smacks of that idiotic site that published credit card transactions. Blippy? Blit? Something like that.
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Indeed there is just such a niche of products, such as Resolver One. I think for a lot of people the attraction to spreadsheets is the same as for GUIs: very little short-term memory is required -- you can delegate remembering options and state to the user interface itself.
Question for experts: Is a PCI DSS certification supposed to take care of aspects like plain text passwords or credit card info & such vulnerabilities as well?

Gist of what I find in wikipedia is this:

PCI DSS Requirements:
Build and Maintain a Secure Network
1. Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data
2. Do not use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parameters

Protect Cardholder Data
3. Protect stored cardholder data
4. Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public networks

Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program
5. Use and regularly update anti-virus software on all systems commonly affected by malware
6. Develop and maintain secure systems and applications

Implement Strong Access Control Measures
7. Restrict access to cardholder data by business need-to-know
8. Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access
9. Restrict physical access to cardholder data

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10. Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data
11. Regularly test security systems and processes

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12. Maintain a policy that addresses information security
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Very interesting. Anything having to do with disrupting the current model excites me to no end.

Have a few more questions if you don't mind:

1. What's your motivation for doing this?

2. Is there a particular level of education (or type of subject) you're targeting? Would you find the product more geared towards being effective in some subjects than others, or generic enough for any?

3. Is UBC somehow part of this project?

4. Could I play with it (I'm in no way affiliated with UBC)?
2 is possible in the present, but the problem is that in the long run, the taxman can change the rules and you can't.
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Yes, there is certainly something wrong with it, but for some reason the entire country is effectively owned by the banking industry at the moment (despite the fact the country in fact owns a good chunk of the banking industry).

Personally I'd quite like to see the government actually tax them at decent rates, and call the bluff that they're all going to up and leave if they have to contribute to the country. The chances of that happening when the current government all made a fortune in investment and banking careers is low though.
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My gmail account is actually more secure than lastpass since I have OTP enabled with two factors identification.
If he was buying sortfolio, how would he get it to $100k p/m?
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dating sites and tshirts will never die, but rss readers are a blast from the past - even firefox removed the icon because people didn't use it. rss is essential to provide content for web services when you don't have an api, but on the user end it's not used anymore due to social newsstreams, dashboards, etc.
Besides paying partly in stock, they can also borrow cash.
This will be much better than those standard Page Load Time measurer. Because this will be real-data from actual users and not some highest-speed page-load test.

More accurate, and more real.
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What would he gain from releasing such information before capture? BTW, isn't the timing of his capture attempt a bit odd? If we are to believe the US intelligence community was unable to track him down for years while he was hiding in a Pakistani suburb next to a military training facility, wouldn't they look singularly incompetent? I mean, did they really trust the Pakistani on that?
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Reasoning behind the project: http://blog.sevenmillennia.com/2010/12/23/the-flaws-of-comic...
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I'm a doc from The Netherlands so can only comment on our system. Here when you file a complaint it will be sent to a local commission first. This commission consisting of doctors will look at the viability of your complaint. This commission consists of doctors working in the same field as the doctor whom possibly did something wrong but cannot have close relations to the doc being investigated. If they see a valid case they will send it to a medical court consisting of doctors (3) and legal professions (2) who will judge the case.

So if a way it is like 'complaining about the police to the local sheriff'. However all commissions consist of multiple people from different hospitals. I don't think it's a 100% fail-proof system but by having MDs look at the case first a lot of cases that will never ever lead to a penalty will be filtered out.
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I am surprised on this. Why CCAvenue did not conduct a vulnerability test on their applications? It is standard practice to conduct a VA on production systems, which will certainly identify this kind of vulnerabilities.
A Payment facilitator going down because of an SQL injection attack is ridiculous.

Indian market is paranoid about online security. This will bring down the number of online sales. Too bad for start-ups depending on CCAvenue.
It's a python script, you will need to download code, or clone git repository to get it. Then run "python wecomp.py -h" to get some info about how to use it.
The problem with money is everyone wants it and no one wants to part with it, or as little as possible!! I'd be interested in having software analyze my browser history (and my bookmarks), work out where I spend the most time or what is important to me, and allow me to spend some money that will go directly to those sites. A 2 minute carefully interfaced exercise every 6 months to a year. No background plugins, and little or no complexity for the website to implement. Badaboom.
i just love the fact that with all the really expensive (so i believe) hardware and software he used, this really stood out to me:

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After watching the video I have to wonder: why not use the shrinking ray to reduce the transistors themselves?
I don't understand one thing: if they raised already millions and believe so much in their future, why do they eat $1.5 red beans and why they don't hire a cleaning lady? It looks to me they are way past the ramen profitable phase, aren't they?
That's great for the graduates who get these jobs but can I add that it seems to me that there's precious little evidence (actually none at all) that their skills result in any kind of improvement in the service offered to the millions of ordinary customers of the monopolized banking industry in Britain.As far as I can see there's been a marked decline.
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Thanks for the link, I'll get in touch! Appreciate it
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Doesn't seem to make them too miserable either...
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I'm curious, whats the avarage starting salary at a financial company in london? Sometimes I see salaries of 23k-25k pound per year (for other software companies) from which you can barely afford an appartment for yourself in London.
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You're close to what I have in mind. I did look at time-based, but my 'secret sauce' doesn't fit it.
I'm not denying it -- I just took issue with your sweeping statement. Taste when talking about programming languages, frameworks and so on, is individual (like everything else in life where "taste" is involved).

Since Microsoft's Server and Tools Business is a 1+ billion dollar business it obviously tastes good to quite a few people.
That's because the graduates don't go and work for the retail arms of the big banks. They work in the investment and trading arms and generally have very little to do with customers. Many of the Banks don't even have retail arms.

And that's not even thinking about Hedge Funds, Brokerages and other Financial institutions that are normally grouped into 'the banking industry'
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My non-scientific perception is also that new projects tend to use less restrictive licensing. And I like it.
That's an awesome list of companies. There are a few missing from that front page who I hope are still around on the day.
around £35k+bonus for dev at decent bank.
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So you’re saying that the merchant data has not been accessed?
> It hasn’t. If you see, apache 2.2.14 – we’ve been live with apache 2.2.17 for last five months.

You’re also saying that merchant account passwords have not been stored as plain text?
> They are encrypted, and not stored as plain text.

Have you ever been told that there is a security hole of some sort?
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Not only that. All your kids have quite similar set of genes. And yet they are still different.
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You are not the first one to think about that:
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Thanks for the comments!

Good point about using cross-validation to learn K, I forgot about that. I added this to the cheat sheet.

Also regarding online learning methods, I was probably a bit quick to dismiss certain algorithms as not supporting online learning; in coursework we unfortunately didn't have time to delve into all aspects of all algorithms. I've rewritten the Online column as "To be added." for those online methods I'm not familiar with (yet). Someone else is, of course, free to fork it on Github: http://github.com/Emore/mlcheatsheet
Thanks for the comments!

The course unfortunately couldn't cover all material on all algorithms, so the cheat sheet basically reflects my own knowledge rather than what's possible. I've referenced the Online SVM and Online Mixture model though, thanks for those.

Also, I'll have to look into stochastic gradient descent!
As a bit of a finger in the air estimate from looking at job ads here, I would probably estimate that a London finance company will pay about 50% more than a "normal" company.

Not sure what a starting salary would be, but I would bet it would be > 30k. After 5 years you would probably be on > 60k, but if you're quite specialist (in terms of finance based skills) you could be earning much more.
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I'd like to present a different perspective. I've worked at 3 startups in the past, including one of my own. None of which had much financial success and 1 of which cheated me out of several thousand pounds.

Though it's been interesting, in the sense of the chinese proverb, I sometimes wish that I'd just worked at a bank for the past 15 years.
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Also, I happen to be sleep researcher. There is TONS of literature that says that people, when sleep deprived, make all sort of mistakes. I don't care what they say: I would not trust a line of code from someone who claim to sleep 3 hours a night no matter how smart they are (and they surely are smart).
Really? Do you queue in your branch still, or use the website?

Remember if you have an ISA or a pension you are "the stock market"...
You might also want to check out Mute, which uses ant based routing-

http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/
I've just registered. I'm on one of the better CS courses I get the impression from my peers that most of them want to go work for big organisations and consider the idea of working for a startup as unthinkable. I think thats such a shame
Interesting, I didn't know about Resolver One. I'll try it out when I have some time. Thanks!
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I don't know where you get that "little value to society" nonsense from. Asset allocation is a non-trivially hard problem, and the alternative to doing it our way is Five Year Plans and the like, which tend to result - and this is actual, historical fact - in tens of millions of people starving.
Agreed. We were doing mobile video calls with XMPP with Nokia N800s already back in 2007

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I was curious what software would be powerful and flexible enough to stitch together 37,000 photos. Clearly GIMP is the choice for that job.
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Ask HN: Alternatives to per hour pricing
My friend(and really, its a friend and not me ;-)) has a web development consultancy. It's a relatively new company with recent college graduates as interns and a couple of friends the only employees. He's burnt his hand enough with the per hour payment model that he has followed till now for each project that he takes up. The estimates are generally wrong and the interns usually give enthusiastic and unrealistic estimates. He's looking for alternate strategies so that he can devote more time on development. What pricing strategies have worked/not worked for you? Can you suggest some other models that have worked for you?

Just to clarify this pricing strategy is for per project. Currently he gives an estimate in hours for each project and charges them the per hour rate.