skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+10 for Interactive Brokers.

I find their software to be average but you can't beat their prices. They charge 0.005$ (half a cent) per share with minimum of 1$ commission. So if you trade less than 200 shares, your commission is 1$. If you trade 1000 shares, you pay 5$ in commission. Compare this to other brokers who charge you 9$/trade regardless of your trade size.

Also, they are one of the only brokers will EXCELLENT short borrows.

There are numerous trading software available in the market who integrate with Interactive Brokers account.

I am not affiliated with them in any way, just a very happy customer.
Sony didn't even have a CISO before they shut PSN down.
Tell him exactly what you told us. Seriously. If you have as good of a relationship as you think you have, you guys should be able to come to terms.
Looks like investors got what they were looking for:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/recessionplagued-nation-dem...
As far as I know there is not any. I have asked people also. (I read tech blogs from Turkey and they never mentioned one). Maybe that people are Turkish people who live in US already? (I consider you didn't want to mention their name.
Or maybe we shouldn't stereotype, and assume these people - like you and I - can use proper grammar without even having to spend 10 minutes proofreading?
Even if they had hired all of the top ranked security firms the first day PSN was hacked, they would still be open to attacks like this. The amount of public properties Sony hosts internationally is huge -- it would take a long time securing it all.
Google likely uses clickthrough rate (CTR) in their algo. If your site has a high CTR, it should hypothetically rank higher, so it makes sense for them to include it in their algorithm - to the point that it can't be manipulated.

So, if the metadata doesn't directly increase rankings (which I'm pretty positive it won't), it can indirectly do so by grabbing the users eye and improving CTR, which I am most certain it will.
This is not Anonymous. Lulz Security.
Work hard, just don't push yourself harder than you find enjoyable. For a lot of us that threshold is extremely high for hacking. This has always been my philosophy and it work really well for a long time. I broke it recently and paid the price.
Thanks for the reply, I shall keep that in mind when I have the application up and running.
Android Apps Not as Profitable as iPhone Apps
I didn't see anything being attributed to anonymous here.. just some hackers looking to hop on the bandwagon, stumbling across a very simple vulnerability in one of the many Sony properties.
Ask HN: How do I get started making a web app?
I have been contemplating the idea for a while, and now I think I'm ready to start building a web app. Unfortunately, I have no idea where to start. However, based on the number of 'Show HN: Look at the web app I built this weekend...' posts on here, I know there are many people who have experience with building them.

A little background: I know some basic Java and am going to continue learning it this year through AP CompSci. I've worked with HTML and CSS, but have only been exposed to Javascript a few times. I have also tried building some Java web apps with Google App Engine, but it seems to take a while to get started.

My goal is to build a few web apps in between now and next summer. I would like it to improve my programming, whether that be with Java or some other web based programming/scripting language that I would have to learn. At the same time, I hope to end up with some fun results that could be shared with friends and added to my resume/portfolio.

What I've just described is of course what everybody wants. But I am willing to dedicate time and effort to get things done. I am also not afraid to learn a new language, if that what turns out to be best option.

Now what I'm looking for is a easy-to-learn platform that I can use to build dynamic web apps on. Preferably one that I could learn from and, at the same time, produce quick results.

From what I've heard, PHP might be the best when it comes to web apps. However, I'm not exactly sure how easy it is to learn. I know there are some hip and new extensions to JavaScript, such as Node.js and Backbone.js. Then there is Ruby on Rails, Ajax, etc. And since I already know Java, might I as well try the Play framework (which people seem to like)? Yet there are so many frameworks/platforms out there - how do you choose which one to learn and use for your weekend projects?

It'd be great if I could get some feedback on which platforms to use and any tutorials to go along with it. Thanks in advance!
Oh, you're totally correct.
The ticker is "P", not "P.". :)
Majority of websites can be converted to 5 just by replacing doctype. Nonstandard attributed don't help you to save bytes though.
Also, from what I've seen sites which were built without even thought about validity and standards tend to be of much lover quality and hence are more bloated: lots of unnecessary div's, classes, wrappers, etc.
Just so be clear... How exactly does this differ from any monetary system out there? A currency is not accepted until a major of people approves it. Government or not, "money" is and will always be something that human kind has invented, it does not contains any real value, it just makes it easier to trade goods.
It's worth noting that this is the same group that gained access to the complete Fox.com X-Factor contestant database last month.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2525865

http://thepiratebay.org/user/LulzSec
Well for the love of sanity, don't bring it here.
Hi there,

As Antony said, I am a penetration tester, which tends to drive my research. I have seen several malware based attacks via .htaccess when I worked for a shared hosting company many years ago. The append iframe has always been a malware staple. Although I saw more redirects to specialized exploits based on user-agent rewrite rules than the blackhat SEO ones you are showing. SANS ISC has also covered several of these techniques over the years, but I digress.

The point of my .htaccess based attacks are remote code execution or information disclosure that are valuable to an attacker during a targeted attack. Malware distribution is a very different beast. However, in both cases Apache hardening will help if not mitigate the attacks as dicussed in the earlier comments.
That huckster could have been seen as providing a public service. Or, well, earning a fortune with the public service as a side benefit.

In other words, seems like this comparison is giving the huckster a bad rap!
I think this boils to down to definition of working hard. For a lot of my friends, that would mean "working more at the same thing".

I've been in the same situation as described in the OP, but I would call it "working hard at something new". That may entail more work, but man, once you nail it, that's a great feeling. You're not going to get that when you go from 100 support tickets/day to 1000 or even 10,000 - or something similarly routine.

Often, once I actually explain what I was doing during that 120hr week or all-nighter my friends typically respond: "Oh, that's pretty cool. I wish I did stuff like that."

I'm not saying friend and family aren't important, but I think this quote from the OP sums it up:

>However, sometimes I do get caught up in chasing my dreams and forget to make time for friends and family.
Not quite the same.

> 'craziest police chases'

Footage recorded from police cruisers and obtained as part of the public record? Unlikely to run into a need for copyright clearance.

> 'worst TV moments'

Limited parts of a whole broadcast in a non-market-destroying way for the purposes of commentary? Fair use.

Which isn't to say those shows don't suck.

My mention of Grooveshark had to do with the way Grooveshark was/is encouraging users to upload infringing material with a nudge and a wink.
Walt Mossberg Tells Adobe CEO To His Face That Flash Sucks On Android
Only http traffic is routed to your web processes so a different protocol (I don't know, IRC) won't be routable to one of your deployed processes, correct?

Also, how much RAM can a process use? What happens if I run Redis and fill it up with "a lot" of data?
But I am quite sure Sony's board knows very well what event started all this.
>If hackers make being a Sony customer unpleasant

Unpleasant is the word your choosing to use? Having my credit card information that links to my bank account, and the only bank account I have, and then having that fucked with is more than unpleasant. I'm thankful when the PSN network was compromised I wasn't one of those people with the claims of large sums of money being circulated out of the bank. ( Yes I know, could easily be coincidental evidence. Not the point. )

By all means the cause is more than plausible with Sony's abysmal track record. The methods are absurd and obnoxious, but by all means keep hiding behind this tired old excuse that the end result is to hurt Sony. The people you're trying to help will have no sympathy when you're caught and sentenced.
Brass Monkey Acquires Emotely To Help Turn Your Smartphone Into A Remote Control
You might idly slice the size of the official Federal deficit any way you wish - high by comparison to earlier GDP ratios, low in comparison to the GDP ratios of other countries (Japan has a public debt of ~100% of GDP - funny how they have the world's highest ratio here despite their huge trade surpluses).

I don't think it's fair to compare the public debt of one country to the annual deficit of another. It is akin to saying "It's alright that I put $8000 on my CC last month because Bob down the street owes $70,000." While Bob may be in dire straits, he probably didn't accumulate all that debt in the last 8 months.

Trifles aside, It's refreshing to see someone with a very different perspective from my own who realizes what is going on.
More like the bully has someone smaller in a headlock and you light both of them on fire.
Which country? And which service? Always curious to see what's out there.
Zepto: jQuery-like mobile JavaScript lib
You're right. The customer is the one doing the float. This margin seems high to me. And they still end up with a loss ... boggles the mind.
I think it has more to do with the end of QE2. Free money is ending, and asset prices are going to reflect that in the near future.
I have seen lots of web work for Sony-sized companies being awarded to design-heavy advertising agencies with incompetent backend developers when such work should be undertaken by people skilled in making the plumbing of public-facing, secure and scalable websites. This is the kind of mistake only a junior makes that should never pass the most complacent code-review process.

Like an old friend of mine used to say, "you pay peanuts, you buy monkeys"
Kill everyone is certainly not the only option nor
the most likely reason for scrambling. Any commander
will value eyes on the ground as high quality intelligence,
and in this situation a calm professional pilot obsrving
the cockpit will be useful, even if the airforce
don't have gizmos for listening in, videoing etc

so, no, reaching for a gun might mean you just want to look down the sight to see more.
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ (the online version of the book is free).
Google's $6B offer for Groupon was the catalyst, not some "foresight"... Groupon thought they could get better from an IPO than going with Google.
We've responded multiple times that we have nothing to do with that account. In this thread just a couple of pages up, in fact: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2606408

We haven't shouted this from the rooftops primarily because we're tired of this being the story when it should have focused on the bullying and our addressing of the problem.
Well, that's certainly the last thing Bitcoin needed right now.
I wish you could add your own custom icons...without recompiling. Other than that, love Vim!
Mashery – Evolution of Distribution
No, two years ago, Grooveshark existed ostensibly to allow artists to upload their own work. So what really happened was that the majority of the content there was major-label music being attributed to "kubraffle622" and the like.
The F-16s aren't there to kill everyone on board. They're there so that if they do need to kill everyone on board, they're in the right position.

When information channels are so weak, it's imperative to get into the best decisionmaking vantage point available.
I love the format of the whole "Effective ..." series, especially the fact that the books are focused on best practices instead of individual language features.
If you already know Java, but you want something that enables rapid development, and uses a more dynamic language, I have just the ticket for ya:

Groovy on Grails[1]

Download and install grails, and you can have your first webapp up and running in a couple of minutes. The Groovy[2] syntax will be pretty familiar to you from Java, but it has dynamic features that Java lacks. Grails also has plugins for tons of popular libraries and extensions, which make adding functionality to your app pretty seamless for many scenarios.

There's a lot of great "getting started" info here:

http://www.grails.org/Tutorials

and the "quick start" guide here:

http://grails.org/Quick+Start

Of course Grails is for the server side... you'll probably still want to bone up on your javascript skills, including possibly something like JQuery. I haven't used backbone.js, but have heard good things about it... might be a cool thing to learn as well; looks like it would be useful for building more advanced client-side javascript stuff.

[1]: http://www.grails.org

[2]: http://groovy.codehaus.org/
I don't understand why Google doesn't sort results by distance from original author? Is there no technological way to do that? In my head it'd work like this:

Original: 100 points

Someone who the original links to: 10 points

Someone else completely unrelated to the original, but housing their content: 1 point

They're constantly crawling. Is there no way for their crawlers to determine the originating source of content?
Agreed, my first thoughts too. This is ripe for abuse.

I honestly would be less concerned about "legit" or "publicly known" use (concerts, sports, political event etc.) since it would lead to public dissent towards of the offending performer/venue. Not saying it wouldn't be used, but there would be a significant PR liability if they imposed sanctions on photography.

If I were a criminal, first thing I would do is get a few of those IR transmitters to wear on my ski mask.
Why make the success of the technology so dependent on the success of the food operation? Grill cheese / retro comfort food is hot right now in hipster places (I'm thinking of the new "meatball" shop on the Lower East Side in New York, too) but it might not be in a while. And it might not have the wide appeal nationally, either.
>If you're reading this on a desktop or laptop system (rather than a phone), then you are most likely using an "IBM PC Compatible" even if you're using an Intel based Apple, and hence, you're using the fruits of completely legal reverse engineering.

Not if you are booting via EFI, for example if you are booting Mac OS X on an Apple.
When is their stock going on the market? I couldn't find it in the article.
Volkswagen Golf
Just in case you didn't want to use one of the other 1,000,000 options.
i can't say i'm surprised.

my experience with apple customers is that they more freely spend money (or perhaps i've got the causation the wrong way around? ;)), so it's no shock to hear they're more likely to make small purchases like 99c apps and such.

also, most people are familiar with the itunes store, the app store practically follows the same steps as it does. honestly though, i have no idea how buying apps on android works, but given that a lot of people already have the means to buy music from the itunes store, the level of effort required to make a purchase, i'm going to bet, is less than that of android.
Very cool, but why didn't they use the existing RDFa format/keywords but invent their own?
[ see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa ]
[ itemprop vs property ??? ]

I guess when you are big G, you can do anything you want.
Yes, I saw that a week ago and signed up for an invite. People seem to be happy with it from what I've seen on StackOverflow and other sites.
> it makes a whole shitload of money.

Sounds like they /gross/ a shitload; but they need 7,000 salaried employees to do it, and they're not even in that many places yet. Groupon is a brilliant idea, but it's not the typical zero-overhead startup that HN people are often involved in. Just because you are bringing $20 billion in the door every year doesn't mean you are making f.u. money. I'm not knocking it as in investment -- I really have no expertise in that area -- but the numbers appear less eye-popping when you look at it as sales/marketing outfit that happens to do all of its business online.
Perhaps there's a legal snag with giving attribution, being that, by giving attribution, they're also admitting they don't have any right to show the content and question, and shooting themselves in the foot legally down the road.
I never understood why would anybody want a bulky reference book describing the standard library, when they same information – only more up-to-date and searchable – can be found online.
Yes, it is the one from 37 signals. He was on their board now an advisor.

It looks like he already made $557,721 by selling some stock during Series G. I think that left him with 414,690 shares worth at least $6.5 million and probably a multiple of that by the time he can sell them. I could be reading this incorrectly though.

He might end up making more off a dozen board meetings than 10 years of hard work at 37 signals. It's a crazy world.
That is pretty exciting. I moved to App Engine from EC2 because I didn't want to spend that much time managing the stack. I'm going to go try Heroku now.
> These guys do a total turnover of about USD$1k a day.

Woah, wait, what? Even if everything else you said is right (and if nothing else, these guys are shady), Mtgox has done a volume of 38825BTC in the last 24 hours -- that's a volume of $411541 today. (At the current rate, which means it's probably more like $380k, but whatever)
How much does Mason own?
We really need to abandon this "adviser" crap. It means absolutely nothing, and 90% of advisers don't do any advising.
Thanks! This was a very helpful comment.

You mentioned a good point about JavaScript. By sticking with Java, it'll be easier for me to get started and yet I will still learn a ton on the client side with new things like JQuery.

However, I read that the Play framework might be better than Groovy on Grails[1]. Have you heard of it and, if so, what do you think about it?

[1] - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1597086/any-experience-wi...
Maybe that will be the end of hearing 37 Signals rail against VC money? I mean, Jason now has $500k in VCs money :)
Richard Branson, Kofi Annan, World Leaders Say End the Failed Drug War
Smoke 'em if you got 'em
Attribution is not linking. Attribution is giving proper credit to the artist who created the work. A link back to a homepage is a courtesy typically given today when someone gives credit.

On a site like FJ, when the correct attribution is missing it essentially means that the user submitting it is taking credit for someone else's work, i.e. plagiarism (since the premise is to submit your original work).

Also, from the update it looks like the "extreme irony" you mention is actually that the copies that attributed the comic to "The Oatmeal" now attribute it to "The Fag." So they are still there! You can go review back issues all you want, just now the artist doesn't even get credit for those.
This is the 3rd or 4th such attack.

Even if they're completely clueless:
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
Apologies. Given the comment you were replying to, I took it to be an attempt to parry the charge that no specs have been released by attempting to frame it as a call for an open source implementation (and therefore Apple would have not broken that promise, since that's not the promise they made).
Could it be a false positive triggered by an automated system that kills posts with improper capitalization by new accounts?
Teenager sells kidney for iPad 2
"Links suck."

I hope the irony of posting this on a web site that mostly links to other sites is not lost on anyone.

All forms of communication entail compromises - who has control, how persistent they are, how easy they are to access. If you own a book, you know it won't disappear - but you also have to move it around with you, and it's never going to get updated unless you buy a new one.

The alternative to linking is to have a hugely denormalized web where owners don't control their own content, have no way to update it and little incentive to publish it. (I believe we called those "CD ROMs" back in the day.) Yes, some web sites disappear if there is so little interest in their content that it's not worth maintaining them. But it's still better than books, where if interest was limited, it probably never got published in the first place.
Sometimes I'm amazed that people don't understand why we have a military and what it does for us.
A funny example of how local merchants try to game Yelp: Plumbers and the like will frequently try to update a competitor's phone number to their own. This is hard to police without calling the merchant.

A have a friend who used to verify these listing changes for Yelp -- but it's all been outsourced to Indian now. Who knows if that will effect quality.
Half of these are usually publicly available, and therefore homework.
Don't you think you arrogant pricks have done enough with all the actors and my parents? Pure hell socializing thanks to actors. You are psy-op tormentors. At least I can take comfort in God beiong just.

God says...
praiseth Goal gladdens saidst expression inwardly debtors
durst fleeing made Dido receivest Way TO unfair sound
completed manifest produce fairest continue compendiously
intermitted witting cogitated soundness given Continence

Yeah, I'll take sadistic pleasure laughing at you doing this in front of God.

Highs and lows balance, so fuck-it. Surely, you know that from manic depressives and drunk/hangover. Pride before a fall and humilty before honors. Retards if you can't see justice in the world.

So, I'll be blessed. You're like the 1984 book, ministry of love.

Relationships are really obvious -- highs and lows balancing.

Psy-ops never win--shit comes back at you.

God says...
ahh endeared church perfect church

random passage:
C:\TEXT\BIBLE.TXT

ll things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise
and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is
to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 4:13 But
rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that,
when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding
joy.

4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the
spirit of glory and of God resteth upon y
It doesn't really matter whether you use Play, Grails, Django or Rails. What matters is that you actually sit down with a few hours and follow the tutorial.

You have permission to start coding. Go forth and build!
To be fair he qualified the questions with "When the ball is in your court..." So the assumption here is that the founder has leverage.
Obviously not at the moment, but the reason research like this happens is because as you develop the process it gets easier and faster, and who knows, in a few years it might get close enough to other processes to suddenly open new doorways you haven't even thought of.

As I understand it, plenty of research happens with no clear goal in mind, and plenty of research winds up good for something other than the original goal. See the Post-it note. This is, in my opinion, because you can't fully understand the technology until it actually exists!