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A security hole is where some attack vector within the code is overlooked (ex: injection attacks, overflows). A negligent feature is one where the steps to exploit the service were put in explicitly.

What one does this fall into?

At some point a developer coded in a resource that bypasses any privacy data, had it approved by management/coworkers (not sure what model they use) and published it live. I'm certain many people have been exploiting this longer than that forum post existed.
I feel like it's worth mentioning that if you like learning through an application interface similar to this, I really recommend http://codeschool.com.

(I'm completely unaffiliated.)
Yes, Apple's iTunes store system of record runs on a custom SAP ABAP based system. It used to run SAP ERP but that could not take the load of transactions.

As I understand it, this is the reason why you get a weekly bill from Apple: the iTunes ABAP system makes financial postings to ERP, to reduce the overall number of transactions - and presumably also their credit card overhead.
I've used Errorception for one of my products and was very happy with the service provided by the author. Thanks.
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Some things off the top of my head:

What info do you report back? What format is it? Do you handle different types of errors? And if so how do you report them? Do you plan on providing an API for devs to retrieve this info?

That's all I can think of on the spot, I just think you know your product better than anyone else, adn if you were trying to convince yourself to use it, surely the 8 point feature list wouldn't cut it.
I think people know that this is a mistake. But it shouldn't have happened. Facebook is a massive, wealthy company that has many many programmers. Bugs like this should not have happened, considering that privacy is one of the biggest media problems Facebook has.
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Like Backupify? (not to be confused with Backify) https://www.backupify.com/

(PS: Rob, if you're on here, you still owe me a beer next time you're in town. :)
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Bodybuilding.com started as a forum about bodybuilding, but over the years morphed into a large general message board with all sorts of members.

Behold, "misc," the /b/ of bodybuilding.com:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/forumdisplay.php?f=19
> then why do people keep buying Androids?

Do they? The big Android surge only came in the last year, so the vast majority of Android users are on their first.
I don't bet my money based on perception

Of course you do. Reality is unattainable, perception is all we have. What you're saying is that your perception is different from the average, and that's fine, but it doesn't change my point.

Besides, do you really perceive SAP as a cool company? I certainly don't. Whether it's a good investment or not is a different issue.
I hear you. SAP suck at that stuff. The problem with SAP is it's so complicated, you can do anything you like. And so, it becomes hard to explain. Not sure what the solution to that is.

SAP has a new CMO, Jonathan Becher, who I hope will bring some improvements to this stuff. Marketing is supposed to be about making stuff easier to buy - and as you rightly point out, SAP aren't always that good at that, especially to a casual observer.
Thanks, going to give it a try. One tiny typo (I think!), first line under Sign Up For Free Trial

'No oblations.'

plural of ob·la·tion (Noun)
Noun:
A thing presented or offered to God or a god.
The presentation of bread and wine to God in the Eucharist.
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Not sure if this is on purpose or legacy code, but the Tweet button and Like button (both of which I clicked :]) both link and speak of "DojoApp"/dojoapp.com
I think this is definitely traditionally true, and there are people making big bucks in the SAP space - contract rates can be high for geniuses.

What's changing is that open standards mean that the wider tech community can integrate into SAP. This both commoditises the business, drives rates down and makes it more accessible. I suspect that in 10 years time we will see a very different Enterprise IT market.
But why should you have to contact them directly to get the wrapper removed?

They're likely in violation of the licence of most opensource packages which typically have a clause saying you can't redistribute your version and call it the same thing.

Imagine the real world equivalent - e.g. if you bought a delicious meatball Subway sandwich and took a giant dump on it and then tried to sell it as the same delicious Subway sandwich...
I started using Arch a little over a year ago. It was my first Linux distro so I didn't have much experience, and I cant recall regretting it for a single moment during the first couple of weeks. Sure, there's a lot of stuff to set up and configure manually, but I found that to be a good thing. Getting Arch up and running with everything you need is sort of a crash course in Linux. The docs are very good so I don't think the average HN reader will struggle.

Btw, I need to thank you Derek: When I was trying to decide which distro to use I considered Arch because I heard Zed was using it at the time. Then I read the interview with you on thegeektalk.com and decided to give it a shot because of your recommendation, and I've loved it from day one. So thanks!
Yep,

For example. I read the article and think ok, this SAP HANA in-memory technology sounds interesting. I google it, go to their website and see a two minute video that supposedly explains it.

I think cool I'll watch that to get an overview of what it's all about. I watch the first twenty seconds after which I'm still actually eager to learn more. But then the video stops and they put an overlay telling me I need to register to continue watching the video. WTF!

So I still have not much idea of what it is and frankly no further inclination to find out.
What is the "hash"? An md5 of username? Or what?
It seems like it does sometimes, but not at other items. I clicked around on the page a bit, then clicked on the search button, and suddenly it showed me the zero click info, which was hidden before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Name
Cool... thanks for this list. I'll incorporate it in the FAQs.

To answer your questions right here: The only info reported back is the three parameters from window.onerror (error message, line number, file name), and the page on which the error occurred. It's submitted as a regular form POST. There's no distinction between different types of errors - everything that window.onerror catches is posted. I do have plans for an API (and several other features) in mind - it's still work in progress.
If you ask them to they'll probably remove the crapware. Paint.NET is no longer bundled with anything due to the author contacting them about it.

http://blog.getpaint.net/2011/10/03/paint-net-v3-5-9-and-dow...
Do you think

a) chicken fed not with grass/organic food but with whatever's cheaper and convenient (in Europe there were several scandals where they even found that they used machine oil in chicken feed),

b) packed by the thousands in small cages,

c) full off antibiotics and hormones to grow them fatter,

are totally as healthy as organic chicken?

(I used to have a chicken den (sp?), with 10-15 chickens in my backyard (in Europe, that is), raising them organic style. I have also visited a couple of huge chicken "factories". I'd never even begin to compare the two methods, much less the quality of their output.)
Time to '+1' Google stock?
Google isn't Facebook. There. We got that out of the way. Now let's move on. For much of this year, many investors penalized the search king because it was no longer the cool kid on the tech block.
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I'm downvoting you for saying I think it's a stretch to call this a mistake

If it wasn't on purpose, it was a mistake. Period.

It might be inexcusable, as you later pointed out, but it was still unintentional. Everyone likes to hate on Facebook. If this was a YC startup, I suspect people would be more forgiving.
Thanks, my mistake. That's embarrasing, I totally misread wikipedia. Regardless, I do stand by the claim that the bulk of the gap is still explained by ethnicity.

I do agree with you that US schools are not cost effective - I've long been a proponent of cost cutting. In my view, the biggest problem we have with US schools is cost, not quality, and we should focus our efforts on making school cheaper.
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For sure, and I'm open and honest about that :)

I would like to say a few things though, especially to those people who think that it's an us and them scenario.

First, I have personally spent a lot of time on open source software, and you will for example find some of my code in the Linux Kernel, if someone hasn't removed it by now.

Second, I think that closed communities are a bad thing, and it's something I strongly believe that SAP needs to get better at. Yes, SAP has the largest community network in the world with 3 million members. But it's not good enough at opening that up to the wider tech community, which is a loss.

Third, I think that integration to the wider tech community like HN, would be a huge benefit to Enterprise IT. We can be silo'd and the expertise of this group in writing nice-to-use apps is something we really need.
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Links broken, think they wanted this: http://discovr.info/2011/12/ux-design-experiments-for-a-numb...
| Yes. The picture is even more stark when you look at Japan, where the government has more than 200% debt/GDP, but pays record low interest on bonds. Monetary sovereignty matters.

Well, sorta. A big reason Japan has such great rates on bonds is that they mostly sell them to Japanese people and institutions, and there's some weird nationalistic stuff going on there...
Germany is a special country.
In germany you can have direct, instant bank transfers, through internet. And that's free. No fees.

So that's like paypal, but faster, more secure, cheaper also.

Many use that. I know PostBank makes <1min transfers, as I used to be a customer not long ago, for example.
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There are actually a few levels of automation available to hornet pilots, ranging from (in layman's terms) "a little help staying on-speed and on glideslope" to "fully automatic." Some pilots hardly ever use them, some pilots use them as much as they are allowed (in order to insure proficiency, there are limits in place to make sure the pilots don't become overly reliant on the automation). Most pilots are in-between, using them occasionally, typically when they feel like they're not at their best (e.g. at the end of a 6 hr+ combat sortie into Afghanistan). Even when on full-auto, I don't know any of them who sit "hands folded:" they're ready to take over immediately in case something goes wrong. I've heard stories that some of the test pilots eventually got confortable to take their hands completely off the controls back when this stuff was first being tested, but I doubt if even they made a habit of it.
Yes, because we all know what a reliable guide to value trading has been over the past three decades.

To some extent entrepreneurship found in technology has been the counter-culture to the con game that the financial markets have become accustomed to.
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every meal has protein

Contrary to popular belief, meat doesn't need to be eaten with every meal. The idea that humans require huge amounts of protein is a popular day myth. Vegetables do contain protein, even an average potato has 3g protein. Almost universally, everyone who is overweight eats entirely too much meat and dairy.
Webpages as Graphs
Cool idea! Does it give me a stacktrace of exceptions too?
I used http://errorception.com on one of my projects and very surprised to find some really nasty JS errors which I never knew existed
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Other things that could be changed. You say you ignore errors like when "Google Analytics broke", but I think reporting this kind of errors should be configurable. For us, an ecommerce site, it's important for the GA tracker to work, as many decisions are based on the insights it provides.
If you see a comment that makes it sound like there's a vast conspiracy, please post in reply to that comment. I don't see any such comment. HN appears to be comprehending just fine.
The link points to the wordpress preview which isn't public. Proper url to the post. http://discovr.info/2011/12/ux-design-experiments-for-a-numb...

OP, please edit the link while you can.

EDIT: I assume all 4 upvotes in the first few minutes came from the Discovr team hoping to push it to the front page. Just an observation.
No. This shows that Facebook has no robust security model at all.
Either they do not have any mandatory access control for private data, or someone approved of circumventing such access control measures for this feature.
Both is in my opinion inacceptable for a company holding so much potentially sensitive data.
Link is broken (server taking too long to respond). Any alternatives to this URL?
So just to be clear, when the Paypal rep says "We know what you are trying to do and we aren't going to let you do it", what do they think the scam is?

That the site would accept "donations" for a fraudulent reason?
I didn't claim Singapore was homogeneous, I claimed it was predominantly Asian. According to wikipedia, non-Asian groups make up no more than 3.3% of Singapore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Singapore
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I asked the mighty Google, and couldn't find anything like that. You could be right, of course. Do you have a link? I've even seen several others use the term verbatim.
I don't see any necessary relationship between profits and coolness. Lots of boring things are profitable. In fact many boring things are profitable precisely because their boringness means substantial payment is required to convince anyone to do them.
A long time ago I tried fasting for ten days on nothing more than water with a little lemon juice and cayenne (the plan was courtesy of a stupid book). After ten days, when I was ready to break my fast all nice and slow, I happened to pass by some fresh baked apple pie, which smelled like the best apple pie I'd ever smelled in my life. What do you think happened?
Some of our applications here push a bunch of data to SAP via their API

To be honest I have no idea what SAP does nor do I really care, we just push a load of data over a network on a regular basis and the team who deal with SAP probably do something.

They all have to wear suits though while us Java programmers get to kick back in normal, comfortable clothing.
Nope, no stack trace at the moment. This is because the stack has unrolled by the time window.onerror is hit. However, there might be workarounds - fake stack traces we can build by walking the callstack in some browsers. I'm currently working on just this. :)
While this article is interesting, it should make clear that basic necessities for life MUST be maintained. Everybody needs food and water to live by ordinary means, all medical technology aside. However, life support is not required and is considered extraordinary.

Quality of life is something to achieve with the inclusion that these basic needs are met. If not, the quality of life is a personal opinion and can be interpreted in any way, from conservative, to ridiculous.
Fortunately for some of us (e.g. me), judging is not something computers are particularly good at right now.
True Hackers are interested in changing and influencing the world and the way it thinks, profits come secondary.
I guess I should clarify that statement on the site. The errors aren't actually ignored. They are just filed separately as "muted errors". None of the errors posted are ignored - they are all visible for review.
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I'm defining my universe as what I observe in my area. I have yet to see a cyclist around here that behaves well. Perhaps it's confirmation bias and I will acknowledge that.
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You need to provide more information how the service works, what kind of data and how you can get etc.
Automation is incapable of "judgement;" automation consistently and reliably responds to inputs according to pre-defined instructions. That's why automation works really well in some situations but not others. The more complex the task, the harder it is make a complete instruction set that will result in a satisfactory outcome for every possible situation.

Even human pilots behave somewhat like automatons in some situations: in most situations they follow procedures, which could be described as "responding to inputs according to pre-defined instructions." However, they often encounter situations not covered by the procedures, in which case they must instead exercise their judgement.

The problem with judgement is that it is neither consistent nor reliable. Some humans have better judgement than others. Eventually we will have automation sophisticated enough to handle even to full complexity of aviation, at which point automation will yield safe results more consistently and reliably than human judgement.
"Of course, what PT Barnum said..."

Or possibly didn't say:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theres_a_sucker_born_every_minu...
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I had the same response w.r.t "telling me what I want to hear".

After thinking about it there is an interesting notion in there. If you consider how the author may benefit from writing such a piece (as opposed to any other piece which would have resulted in him receiving the same payment).

If we assume that hypothetically he is simply writing what developers like to hear, then it is likely that he is trying to curry favour with either a specific developer or developers in general. If he was trying to do that then it implies he sincerely believes what he wrote and therefore wasn't just writing what people might want to hear.

Admittedly it does fall apart if it transpires if his motives were 100% financial, however I found the concept of a self-negating idea to be an interesting one.
this time with correct link
Also I think the main reason why no one talks about SAP is because SAP == Work whereas sitting at home and hacking together your own open source project outside of work hours? A welcome break.

To me: -

* Java EE == my day job == Work

* SAP == Work

* Working on own app at home written in Haskell == Fun hobby project that I do outside of work hours and doesn't feel like work
If it wasn't on purpose, it was a mistake

I think the problem is that calling it a mistake downplays the issue. I'd say this is grave negligence, because besides the feature itself, it shows a lack of access control systems.
This "users using free services are of no value" meme needs to die.

Twitter is nothing without their users so are many of these web services. Getting traction depends on people using your service. If it becomes the norm that companies built will not exist in 2 years, why then should I invest my time in the service especially the free ones.

I have run a startup that was not financially viable so I know it is not the fault of founders if things do not go according to plan. However, my co founder and I have left the site up since it does not cost much to do. However, if it did, we will be sure to make the transition as easy as possible.

I am not saying users should be paid or compensated but should be thought of.
Reading this blog I was reminded of Epicurius's statements (According to Cicero) about the impact of fasting on smell and taste (largely exactly what are described in that blog posting).
Probably not. Phones have been great at adding more functionality, and they're really good at serving use cases of people who wouldn't have ever carried around a dedicated device before the phones supported it. But for the kind of people who were serious enough about something to carry around a dedicated device to do it, I've seen that phones have a hard time replacing it outright.

Think of pictures, phones are convenient and take good-enough pictures for most people, but they're still not a replacement for anything but the cheapest of digital cameras. Anyone goes somewhere planning to take pictures will bring a dedicated device.

For me its music. I tried listened to music with my phone exclusively for a few months, and it hurt, I've gone back to my mp3 player. I wanted to like my phone for music, I really did.

As much as I would like it to be true, the economics don't make me think there will be many fields where phones are going to be more than wide-breadth shallow-depth devices, especially when hardware is the limiting factor.
Thanks. I'm assuming you already looked at http://errorception.com/faq and that wasn't satisfactory? I'll see how I can improve the FAQs.
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There is a lot of muscle memory to overcome here. It's like Jeffrey Dahmer accidentally killing someone. You can't blame people for jumping to conclusions.
"OSX users are such a small minority, its hard to find a way to please them without making it worse for Windows and Linux."

There are many more OSX users than Linux on the desktop.

http://www.netmarketshare.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201011-201111
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