skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of banks still have mainframes lurking somewhere on which they run (legacy?) accounting and settlement systems. Interestingly, a lot of the mainframe / COBOL programming jobs are outsourced, mainly to Indian companies. Infosys and TCS (the two huge outsourcing shops) actually train some graduates in Cobol / Mainframe programming. When I worked at ${Wall Street Bank}, we had an outsourced team in Chennai looking after a mainframe system. I had a quite a shock when I visited the Chennai office and discovered that most of the guys were straight out of college!
Getting shut down by Google is always a possibility, but I think the chances of that happening are very remote.

Similar keyword tools for search have been operating at scale for years without any trouble.

I think the reason Google puts up with this is that they know that it's very hard for new advertisers to build successful PPC campaigns.

And, ultimately, the end result of people using our software is that they will build larger campaigns that run longer and end up spending more money on Google.
> If you want a web interface where non-programmers can log in and interfere with your message passing

wha?

That's not what he was talking about at all, he was talking about selective message reception: when an erlang processes fetches messages from its mailbox, it can do so using a pattern and only messages matching this pattern will be retrieved. And if there is no message matching the pattern, it will just block (can be made to go through directly or with a timeout if needed) until one such message lands in the mailbox.
Yes you can, copy the link, sign out of apps, sign into your gmail account, then paste the link and go.
It's because of limited upload bandwidth when sending multiple copies of a stream.
Drop me an email (in my profile)..i'm in the opposite boat as you. Biz guy, have a part of a product already built and soon to be finished. I know the market pretty well too.
Makes me wonder about the future of Logic Pro. Most of the Logic team has been occupied working on Garageband for iOS.
After using it for a couple weeks, the bright red Compose Mail button is really annoying. I hope they change that.
That also explains why professionals were going absolutly wild at that National Association Of Broadcasters event where Apple demoed Final Cut Pro X for the first time.

They liked the new features and interface changes they saw, they liked the complete rewrite (64 bit, much faster, background rendering) and, most importantly, they didn't know which features would be missing.
Microsoft has alternatives for mostly everything, including Google Apps if you're willing to switch to Exchange and pay the price for that.

But all these Google products are hard to switch from because they are kick-ass. It's hard for me to switch away, not because Google has me trapped, but because the competition sucks.

You can export all your data from Google and import it wherever you want. I did so with Google Reader (since you mentioned), but I came back to it since it's better than any desktop client I tried.

But this doesn't mean Google has lock-in, unless you extend the definition to include "being better than the competition" and that shouldn't trigger antitrust regulation; and if it did, you could say that the system is terribly broken.
From what I know Steve used to do his NeXT presentations in Lighthouse Design's Concurrence, and he continued to use an OpenStep machine well into his return to Apple.
"Thanks, your email address is confirmed and your account is now activated."

Urr ... now what?
As noted in the comments of the article, Jobs was a big fan of Concurrence which was developed on the NeXT platform by Lighthouse Design.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_Design

Wikipedia also says that's what he used:
Prior to using Keynote, Jobs had used Concurrence, from Lighthouse Design, a similar product which ran on the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep platforms

Jobs spoke highly of Lighthouse design during the 1997 WWDC video that was circulating around recently. Keynote was inspired by Concurrence. People noticed the similarities right away: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=218463&postco...
Is there video of the talk available?
On the other hand, Amazon's site doesn't crash my browser by using that Onswipe theme. Even worse, the link on the bottom to view the non-intercoursed site doesn't work.

Edit: leaving and going back let me get to the non-Onswiped site.
Most of them think they have a great idea, revolutionary, really. It's not, of course, but they're too inexperienced to realize that.

Often the focus of their idea is the consequences of their new fangled web service once it already exists and have already succeeded. They tend to focus on how cool it will be when it exists, when their idea has already materialized, has made a dent in the world and has a great amount of users and a good reputation.

Rarely do they focus on the difficult part: how to get there from here. How to solve the chicken and egg problem. And because they don't focus on that journey, they tend to miss things, like they say the idea will attract people of type A, but when you ask them about a problem they introduce attribute X that clearly isn't attractive to type A, and yet they don't tweak the idea to fit the new circumstances. This is because they are bad at making mental models, unlike programmers they don't make or use mental models every hour of every day.

But it's the idea they think is great, they usually don't claim to be the next Steve Jobs.
Since you seem to know this stuff, I had a couple of questions.

> Not unless you teach it. Humans who grow up in the wild on their own are quite ape-like -- clearly, human brain doesn't start working automatically on its own

I find this very interesting. Are there some articles/papers that I can look in to?

> also, as demonstrated by machine learning, you can teach a non-biological system just as efficiently as you can teach a biological one

Is there something you can refer me to that compares the efficiency of learning in humans vs machines?
This is (I think) the most amusingly transparent comment I have seen on HN in a while. Not a bad thing; made me smile.

user:	ericmilliken
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This is pretty nice but it's still using floats. Check out http://stacklayout.com/ for an example achieving a practically identical result using display:inline-block
Thanks martey, I'll definitely look into that.

I did add a terms page (although it's not readily noticeable - it's a bar along the bottom with copyright).
If Google was that analytics driven they would get rid of it for people that don't use it. I haven't used it since gmail was in beta, I definitely haven't used it for at least 5+ years. And yet it's still there.
It's in their best interest to get as much in as possible considering they charge for storage and deletion.
My experience with Google Plus is also like my experience with Google Wave but in a different way -- I think the service is very cool but the "slow trickle" invite system is making it mostly useless to me (what's the point of a social network when hardly anyone you know in real life is on it?).

If this plays out like Wave, by the time a critical mass of people I'm interested in interacting with are on the service I'll have lost interest.
As others posted, ZeroMQ and RabbitMQ are two different things for different use cases. ZeroMQ is a socket product, RabbitMQ is a message queue. It doesn't help that ZeroMQ uses MQ in it's name. Or perhaps it really means zero MQ :-)
I think the ruby web server is not necessarily needed, simply change the dotjs.js's content to

$.get(chrome.extension.getURL("script/"+window.location.hostname+".js"), function(script){
eval(script);
});

it will look for the js file in the extension directory instead of the local ruby web server, and this should work for any platform. To take the ~/.js convenience, a symlink in *inx system or shortcut in window will do the job.
I'm not liking the big red "Compose Mail" button and labels. Red is usually used as an indicator of warning and error messages, and the giant red button really jumps out at you when you first see the redesign.

If you're trying to move away from the "40 shades of blue" while keeping a fun and playful feel, why not use green?
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My girlfriend said this was is really nerdy. So I am submitting it to hacker news (again).
What always annoys me with the discussion of passwords is that everybody here focus on a technical solution that allows the user to continue to use insecure passwords.

That isn't the problem. Reuse is. And the best way around that is to not let the user select the password, just generate it server side. Technically this is easier to get right than some complex password generation scheme and the end result is properly better too.
funny you should bring up merge sort: in my first google phone screen, I was asked "why is merge sort good" and I gave "it's asymptotically optimal and stable" and couldn't come up with anything else, the interviewer eventually conceded that I was too young to know that it was also better than other sorting algorithms on tape :)
How can the author's name be "Research In Motion". Why isn't this post signed by anyone? This is just as anonymous, for what it is worth.
The "platform" that Twitter is restricting access to is a website, with a bunch of content put on it by users of that website. IANAL, but I don't see what rights to that data could possibly be claimed by a third party.
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Ask HN: What's the Google+ stack?
Is it GWT as with Wave? The back-end for video chat would most probably be Java or C++. And chat backend was already there.

What about the rest?
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A large part of it is what you want to use it for. Python is commonly used in a variety of areas, from web development to numeric computation. Giving some bounds of what type of programming you'd like to do might help narrow down a fit.
I personally hate it when sites do this. That's probably the best way to make sure I don't come back, as I'm not likely to remember the generated password. Worse, how do you give them the password? Email?
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Use more than one gmail/apps account? You want this.
CS professors always bring up the tape example, but it's true for any medium where linear access is faster than random, which becomes applicable as you move down from L1 cache -> memory -> local disk -> network.

Linked lists, too :)
I'm thinking it might work well for me on a higher res screen. On the 1280x800 MBP screen I'm on now it's not very usable. I switched back to "Basic White" theme. I like that one a lot.
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Webservices usually use signed requested[1][2] for security, not username/password pairs.

[1] http://oauth.net/core/1.0/#signing_process

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-Security#Features
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Here I am.

http://www.chrisnorstrom.com

lol, just kidding. I don't think I'm ready yet, but do take a look around.
A bank is a legally defined concept, this exchange is not one.
Doesn't a salt just make a rainbow table attack more expensive, in direct relation to the length of the salt?
Might sound strange but: Yes it is. Since the first JDBC DB drivers it's common sense to use prepared statements and not build a query on your own. Because of this SQL injection is a much much smaller problem in Java codebases than in PHP ones.
(this being a Java culture result more than a language one).
And now we enter the age of the "Social Wars"...
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If you "Invite" people they don't need to do the captcha or verification, Gmail "trusts" them to be human because they got referred by an existing user.
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Security is hard, and we KNOW they are not experts in this area. The ONLY way they can do a secure system is to use someone else's design.

Thus, the fact that they are describing it in terms that none of us have heard of is a troubling sign.
Now you can do a search from the search box on the homepage at mixrank.com. Sorry for the confusion...we still need to tweak the UX.
I think you've meant: A bank is a legally defined concept where I live, this exchange is not one.
Reuse is a problem, but weak passwords are the biggest problem. If you have a strong password that never gets cracked/leaked/intercepted but you use it everywhere you're still fine, but that's not recommended.

Generating server-side passwords is horrible as well since you're counting on the user to write it down and/or let the browser's password manager save it. What if the user wants to log in with a different machine/browser?

I think the best solution is to, first, forbid passwords under 10 characters. 8 is still relatively secure, but not really, 10 at least gives you a fighting chance. Second, run your own dictionary attack (you can load /usr/share/dict/words into a hashtable and check for membership in sub-second times..in fact, here:

import sys
f = open('/usr/share/dict/words')
words = {}
for line in f:
words[line.replace('\n','')] = None

if sys.argv[1] in words:
print 'You fail'

) and alert the user if their password sucks and to pick a new one. (You might want to check for membership of their password with an 's' or a '1' or something added on as well.) You might also want to do some sort of complexity analysis as well that requires e.g. at least one uppercase, one lowercase, one number.

The infrastructure problem is places like Banks saying "Enter a password between 6 and 12 characters and only use alphanumeric characters!"
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Funny, here in Sweden this caused a shift not to internshifts but to people being hired by the staffing companies.

The current situation is pretty different though - there is a huge lack of all kinds of IT people and it is really easy to get a job.
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How can 0MQ - a library (or even Communication Middleware) can compete with Erlang/OTP - a Programming Language and Platform ?

They apples and oranges.

Some people use both. There is Erlang binding for 0MQ.
Things are a little too spread out perhaps, but I already love that the top action bar (archive, spam, delete, etc) follows you down the page. As someone who's never quite mastered gmail keyboard shortcuts, I was constantly checking items then scrolling to the top or bottom to manage them. Nice little timesaver.
On a similar note, my mom did not call this Nerd Quest because she has no idea about bitcoin.
The level above which you have to register to collect the VAT is there precisely to protect the smaller companies which make a few small sales to the EU. If you are making enough sales to be over the threshold you should be able to afford to abide by the law.
Not sure why I'm downvoted, SHA-512 is obviously better than MD5 and we don't know the details. The constant spewing that bcrypt is the only way to hash a password is getting old fast.

<edit> Ok, whatever, keep downvoting, fuckers.
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Yeah, that one stuck out for me. Pen and paper is a good way of solving problems in your own code. If your problem is interfacing with some external library/system/framework, which 95% of my difficult-to-fix problems seem to be, Google is often the only solution.
Even just including the text you've got in this comment verbatim on the confirmation screen would suffice :)
"LPTHW is structured well for beginners"
absolutely !
Heard of PPCBully, Google Cash Detective? They have been around for years and do the same for AdWords on search networks, scanning hundreds of thousands of ads a day.
This isn't working for me. I've tried searching "cushy cms", and "web design sydney" and then copying the displayed urls for each of the top ranking google ads and pasting them into the search bar but I'm not getting any results.
I usually use Tor when I scrape anyway :)
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Okay, we can agree to disagree my friend.
Exactly. Security through obscurity does not work (for long, at least).
Thank you I am not native English speaker. I may made some mistake that I don't know by myself.
I would be curious to know how much (and which parts) are Go powered as well.
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That was how he IMed in 2004 when he was 20. People change.
Is that Comic Sans?
ASK HN: Python framework for someone new to language
In a shocking turn of events, I decided to remove an old language from my brain (Pascal) and replace it with something a bit rad. I looked over Ruby (w/Rails specifically) for a bit and it didn't feel right to me but Python kind of clicked so I'm going with that.

I've read a lot here about Django and from the website the docs & guides seem pretty good and I think I'd be able to pick it up fairly sharpish. However, every time someone mentions Django there is a chorus of folks shouting "use X - it's better!" or "for eff's sake use Y! It has [unfamiliar-construct] which is essential!". Since I'm for all practical purposes on 'hello world' right now, I don't know how to evaluate these comments in the way I could with PHP frameworks for instance.

Now, I could just pick one up and go with it but I'm getting less & less free time these days and I'd like to waste as little as possible. Plus, I don't want to pick something that is perhaps for super-kings and will kill my enthusiasm.

TL;DR: If I go for Django, am I gonna be ok?
It was a pure Ad hominem.

The ad hominem is normally described as a logical fallacy, but it is not always fallacious; in some instances, questions of personal conduct, character, motives, etc., are legitimate and relevant to the issue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

We obviously have opposing views on the matter. We've made our arguments, let's just agree to disagree.
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Can someone help me understand what a password cracker does with a list of salted/hashed passwords? How do they know they've figured out the right plain text passwords without bouncing them against the authentication logic?
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That is likely the case, but technical fora tend to be overly concerned with "tying" (e.g. Internet Explorer or iTunes), while overlooking the indisputable fact that Microsoft did run a "trust".

MS had a set of legal contracts which gave them total control over PC distribution and pre-installed software. (And, they even had deals with their main competitors, Apple and IBM.) That was a much lower bar and easier for the government to make their case. In fact, the IE "tying" case was ultimately tossed out.

If anything, Google probably has more potential Antitrust issues in their relationship with Android handset makers than they do cross-promoting products on the web.
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See http://gigaom.com/video/google-hangouts-technology/ for details on Hangouts (video chat).
It almost looks like the "html only" view of gmail which is originally meant for slow connections. Nevertheless, lighter is better and it is definitely soothing.
So does Devise, one of the most popular authentication Ruby gems.
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I prefer a stronger contrast between read and unread messages. While the new look looks great for search, maps etc. I find it less useful in GMail.
Your rhetorical questions of course have rhetorical answers: yes, if it is programmed that way. "AI" isn't a singular mind design. The rest of your comment is weird, I'll refrain from guessing what you're implying (if anything).
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On .Net this is definitely the way to go.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryp...

Make sure to use the defaults or better in terms of rounds. The salt provided when you don't supply one is cryptographically random.
Not really no, a bank is a legally defined concept in pretty much every country in the world. Suggested reading: http://www1.law.nyu.edu/centralbankscenter/texts/order.html
I would be thoroughly impressed if any of it is supported by Go.