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RTCA v0.1 - Tool to assist #Forensic analysis #Tools
RTCA v0.1 – Tool to assist Forensic analysis

Launch of the first version of RTCA licensed GPLv3 , the purpose of this application to facilitate forensic investigations under Windows

These features (evolving):
runs under Windows (XP, Vista, 2003, 2008, 7, 8) 32bit (64bit version will be compiled) and 90% compatible Wine (use therefore possible under Linux);
can be executed from the command line;
completely portable
Some of the comments here are really disappointing. Can't believe some people here are focusing on the fact that it's illegal to sell candy on the subway instead of this guys' hustle and trying to drag him down. Good to see the worlds current/future patent trolls and paper pushers have found HN in time to rip on someone making his own way.
"""Actually, Apple has challenged a number of other tablets."""

I fail to see how this contradicts my statement though, which was:

"""Apple doesn't object to such trivialities. There are a lot of tablets out there with different designs which they don't challenge at all."""

I didn't say the don't challenge any other tablet --just that they challenge for good reasons. The Xoom was also bloody similar.

(Mind you, there are also patents related to the UI etc, not to the external design).
An important corollary would be his views on a woman slapping a man. There was a time when slaps directed at either gender were both acceptable.
Obligatory reading: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
I think Consistent Ordering Blocktransfer Ontology Language would be a perfect fit for this task. COBOL was designed with transferring data that has a strong ordering, like book chapters, while tracking its Ontological state like read or unread as its primary focus.

All joking aside pushing data around a HD with little to no calculation sounds like the job of a scripting language. Go for which ever you prefer. If you are on an Apple you might try their automator program it is a visual scripting tool that is good at doing little file transforms like that.
Shameless plug: http://narly.us

repos.io is cool because it offers a lot more like notes and followers.

narly.us just has the ability to tag repos but its backed by redis and Backbone.js so it's quite fast and (hopefully) intuitive.

I took some inspiration from antirez's post a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2338351
Install RequestPolicy. It fixes this problem and many many more.
Laptop Asus X54HY-SX030D cu procesor Intel CoreTM
Yeah, the ./-i file trick is mentioned on the best answer: http://serverfault.com/questions/337082/how-do-i-prevent-acc...
One thing that you can do is ls what you want to delete and then do a ^ls^rm -rf to replace ls with rm -rf in the last command if satisfied.

you can even do a ls -rf ./somedirectory and then just do ^ls^rm at least you can in bash on os x.
Samsung showed a scene from "2001 A Space Odyssee" with a better looking tablet. You can always select some ugly tablets for such a picture.
Not even close, while all the sites it said I visited, I had, it missed tons of other sites I'd visited.
I applaud them. SMTP shouldn't reign forever.
no.

SAP is not SaaS, yet. They have an offering, Business on Demand, but the Netweaver core is not SaaS, it is classic on premise.

Salesforce is biting into them. Microsoft right now has a strong campaign for cloud ERP, spearheaded by CRM. Oracle is peddling Oracle On Demand.

SAP is trying to protect their belly with this move.
"""Why are people stuck in this mindset that Apple invented the tablet?"""

No, people believe something different. That Apple invented the first tablet that ever sold in numbers, worked well and millions of people actually wanted to buy (and did so).

"""All of these are roughly the shape and size of an iPad. Apple just applied their standard solid-colored plastic design to it."""

Yeah, that must be it. That's how one of the most, if not the most, decorated and awarded industrial designer in the world (Jonathan Ives) works. You're taking armchair criticism to a whole other level.

"""Even the iPhone. Palm had something that looked exactly like an iPhone in early 2000s. I remember my dad having one and giving it to me when it "broke". In fact, I think it only had one button on it."""

Yeah. And a stylus. And a totally different UI.

And for some mysterious reason, all the smartphones available on 2006 from other vendors were totally different that those made after the iPhone's introduction.

"""Apple: get over yourselves. If you're so /innovative/ then show us."""

Yeah Apple, show us. You think just

(a) putting a UNIX OS, with a terminal, bash et al, in the desktops of tens of millions of people,

(b) changing the mp3 player industry

(c) creating the top music store in the US and ruling digital music sales

(d) entering a totally unknown market to you, capturing 70% of smartphone profits, changing the smartphone industry, and changing the basic design and UI of smartphones afterwards

(e) making a huge tablet market from a tiny niche it was, with competitors after 3 years still selling 1/10 of the devices you do

(f) creating a huge marketplace for 300,000+ extremely powerful online smartphone apps, and being again copied by Google, MS and Nokia in that too, while also getting like 2 billion app sales...

will convince anyone that you are innovating? Come on...
It's good to be a early bird, because if it becomes successful you can say it was a good choice, and if it fails you at least tried.
Wow, that is awesome! We played around with this back in ~1990 with the sound outputs on an Amiga driving a set of slaughtered speakers with little mirrors attached. We did nothing nearly as advanced, just played with sine wave outputs synced to music, but the limiting factor there was definitely the hardware. If you tried to make hard turns with our setup, it would just make huge amounts of noise and quickly fall apart.

I wish he would write more about what hardware he's using to do this. These days I guess you can use some sort of MEMS device that would give you way higher output bandwidth. And now when you can buy 1-watt lasers for a few hundred bucks, you could really do something that only Jean-Michel Jarre could have done back in those days...
"The reason this man is capable of making a profit is because he has almost no competition. It has nothing to do with entrepreneurship, being a good salesman, having a good idea, or really anything positive other than the giving spirit of some New Yorkers."

So he's found a niche market and exploiting it. Good for him. And it's not a good idea because it was just so obvious right? Or, because some guy in a suit says it's wrong? If someone cracks down on him fine. Till then he isn't hurting anyone. You should be rooting for this guy instead of against him. That even if he gets shut down at least he had the guts to put himself out there like that and hope he finds something else if this drys up.
> Amazon does.

What?

http://www.talkandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/185353...

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M_Vcs9_9k8k/TsLckGIfzzI/A...
From the 5 sites I visited, it correctly flagged HN, WP and YT as visited, and gave a "whoops" for FB and Google (what does that mean?), which I both visited.
Yes. I was molested and raped as a child. Like most victims of such violence, I hated and rejected my sexuality and felt like if I could just remove that, all would be right with the world. The single hardest psychological moment of my entire life was when I realized that hating my sexuality and blaming it for my suffering only perpetuated the damage -- that to heal, I had to learn to love my sexuality and be gentle with myself and seek out gentle, caring experiences with men rather than hating men and avoiding them.

I've also been battling for my life with a serious medical condition. I have essentially beaten it and no longer have chronic pain, am no longer on boatloads of medication, etc. The condition is very deadly, so the standard medical response is to break out the big guns and nuke the body in order to kill off deadly infections. Having recovered from the sexual abuse I endured, I pursued the opposite approach of gently supporting my body -- feeding it right, removing problems from my environment and so on. The body is the battleground on which this war takes place and the response of throwing ever stronger drugs at the problem is part of what kills people like me (news that is very unwelcome to the ears of most people with my diagnosis).

It's also a proven negotiation tactic to back down, make concessions and work on earning trust rather than constantly escalating until things get ugly (like war is declared).
Better yet: don't remove things. Move them to a folder. My rm is aliased to a 'mv to a trahs folder' function. I have aliased rrm for real rm.

Guis know this, but somehow this piece of UX is forgotten on command line tools.
Another interesting fact about polar bears: They have black skin, but layered with fur comprised of fibre-optic-like hairs which allows them to soak up heat radiation from the sun.
I'm sure many of us know the feeling of dread that creeps over you when you suddenly realize an rm command you've dispatched is taking longer to complete than one would expect based on the contents of the directory you think you're deleting...

There should be a name for that.
Hi

I didn't know about narly.us.

The new design of repos.io will be a lot more intuitive. And faster too, i'm working on optimizations.

Btw, thanks for the link !
I think you're walking over some of the arguments here.

Too much competition?:

A bubble is when too much investment (the incubators here) chases too few good deals (the "meh" startups). The question is what the distribution looks like - do most of the most successful startups come out of the top incubators? I'm not sure, but it's probable. If so, this means that the playing field is more of an oligarchy my market share and the also rans are just getting the scraps.

Levchin's incubator:

He thinks they're all clones of YC/TechStars - so he's starting one on a new model to make hardcore startups (in his opinion) that solve big problem. Given this - how doesn't that make sense?
(and i forgot to say that repos.io add "main" tags automatically, for repositories and users)
The Walking Dead can survive quite some time by buying up competitors. Happens in all areas of business. Decline isn't fast for the big ones. But eventually, they go poof. Sun, DEC, etc.
"That’s why he hopes the company can eradicate internal emails in 18 months, forcing the company’s 74,000 employees to communicate with each other via instant messaging and a Facebook-style interface."

So, basically, let's eliminate the form of electronic communication that has some semblance of permanency (e-mail) and replace it with an ephemeral one (Facebook-style chat) and one that doesn't lend well to archiving, indexing and search (IM).

E-mail is a tool. Like any tool, it can be used wisely, or it can be used poorly. If it's being used poorly, why isn't the solution to fix how people are using it? And how the heck is 18% of the e-mail that reaches users spam? Do they not use filters?
It's available on android, iOS version coming soon (as well as the web version)
Speaking of DIY/open laser dacs, one of my friends built one called the ether-dream. (http://ether-dream.com/) You can control it over ethernet and all of the firmware is on github.

I put together a simple AVR based laser system once that projects a UV laser onto a glow in the dark surface. Check out at http://lm741.posterous.com/ if you're curious.
Computing classes don't teach programming skills
I bought the DX in order to read PDFs on it. No conversion is necessary - just attach a USB cable and drag-n-drop the PDFs to it. The page switch time is fine.

The only real downside is you can't "flip" through the pages. Reading a book sequentially works fine, any other way is a pain.

I got the DX at the $250 special Amazon had for it last Monday. The price is back to $379.
It's a _todo list_ AND it's _spyware_.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/61320/saturday-night-live-shimmer-...
Slightly unrelated, but I think Nokia N9 is a perfect example of a phone design that doesn't have a flat front surface. The screen part is slightly thicker than the rest.
Not even close, too. Instead of measuring load time, you can create "<a>" elements verify their rendered color is the color you defined for visited links. It's a trick of old times...
> All I see is that the iPad's physical design is as much a derivative of all those that came before as the rest are derivative of the iPad's.

I thought comedic posting was frowned upon around here. That's a pretty good one, though.

edit: Oh, come on! He gets to make funnies but not me? Well, fine, the absurdist humor is generally funnier than irony, that's true.
I used to run: rm /somedir -rf

If I would have hit Return to soon it would have bailed out automatically.

Worked well on Redhat Linux, unfortunately it doesn't work on my Mac these days...
Really interesting concept. This one wasn't as accurate for me as the original Firefox-specifc proof of concept, though. It only picked up on YouTube and Wikipedia. What's with the "whoops" on Google?

I do use NoScript and Ghostery, though, and I could see how that might cause some false negatives.
An argument which would have held water were Samsung producing such tablets prior to the iPad selling millions of units. People know the iPad industrial design as the iPad, not "that thing that looked like the thing from 2001."
there is already way better and reliable methods to accomplish same goal. e.g

http://ajaxian.com/archives/spyjax-using-avisited-to-test-yo...
I don't have an account on StackExchange but the best way to avoid this is to always run find and then pipe to rm.

find . -name "whatevs"

hit enter, verify you are deleting what you expect then hit the up arrow and type:

| xargs rm -rf
http://ajaxian.com/archives/spyjax-using-avisited-to-test-yo...

come on...
Is it just me or are the high-resolution images from Mars absolutely beautiful. There is such a large amount of variance in the landscape even for such a barren planet. Some of the canyons, craters and mountains are breathtaking.
Because the idiots compromised my health before I knew better, or rather knew how to get away from and effectively avoid this.

This is the part of abuse that people persistently don't get: It often works, by chronically if not permanently disadvantaging the victim. There are people who succeed in spite, but you're down to talking about individual circumstances and variables, then.
Spyjax: Using a:visited to test your history (2007)
MyCarPaid - The Official Website
It looks like somebody has tried to apply the new Google aesthetic (whitespace! whooo!) to Facebook.

I mean, how much space do you really want to waste?
Why would it be hard to archive and index chats or IMs? My Facebook chats and IMs are already archived on Facebook. I even have a local archive in my iChat folder. Seems like that problem has been solved.

The article just means his company is shifting to something like Jive instead of Exchange.

Maintaining an internal mail system is a gigantic headache for many reasons. You have continual spam and phishing attacks from the outside as well as internal users using their email as a document repository. Closing off the external threat and using purpose built software for document exchange and internal communication is totally sensible.
we migrated to SAP Business One from QB since we manufacture and needed more serious inventory management. It's impossible to fully test it prior to purchase.

Let me say, SAP is a pig, the UI is painfully slow and non-intuitive (though consistent) especially with the various additional "usability" addons. Some things that were left out for the giant price tag are mind-boggling. This was not the promise of ERP software.

I'd equate it to buying an expensive house which comes with the foundation in place, half the framework done and a ton of materials to finish the work yourself....with sparse instructions.
Better yet, just use an OS that doesn't come with a self-destruct button: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rm_(Unix)#Protection_of_.2F
Heroku, Neo4j and Google Spreadsheet in 10min. Flat.
This screencast shows how to use Neo4j on Heroku. We will do:

- Create and install a Heroku app
- Add a Neo4j instance to it
- create a custom Ruby app
- execute Cypher queries
- Connect to the app using Google Spreadsheet
- Build a small bar chart from a Cypher query.
"""All I see is that the iPad's physical design is as much a derivative of all those that came before as the rest are derivative of the iPad's."""

The only thing in common the devices previous to the iPad have with it is that they all have a rectangular screen. I'll give you that. Apart from that though, they are totally different.

And that's from the external design aspect.

From a UI aspect it's night and day.

The devices after the iPad, now, copied both from it.
Ask HN: How to respond to investor questions about platform dependency
I'm building a startup that is built on top of the Fb API in addition to another API. To some degree, as of now, we are dependent on their access for the purpose of our product. We have an upcoming pitch in a public forum where investors will be present.

My question is how to respond to investor questions about being 'platform dependent' on other companies? How do you justify future success when it is dependent on other companies? We plan to make adjustments to get around this issue in the long term, but for now, we are technically dependent on others. Based on how we use their API, it is HIGHLY unlikely that there will be any issues, however, investors are normally observant of all the possible drawbacks. Any thoughts on how to approach this?
It's really more effective to have a very regular backup (e.g. ".snapshot" directories are really nice), because you can't control all the ways a file may be deleted.

Just because you protect one "rm" command doesn't mean there isn't another. Someone might have used unlink() in a Perl script or a C program. Maybe "mv" was used to write one file over another, or "cat >! filename", or a dozen other things.

In the end, if a file needs to be safe then it needs a backup (and the sooner it can be restored, the better). And then given a good backup the file still needs an appropriate Unix group, owner, file access control list, etc. to minimize the chance that you'll ever need the backup.
The results are not consistent. Each time I click the button it keeps changing and also lists the wrong sites.
...or just use `-delete`:

find . -iname "whatever" -delete

Otherwise you're screwed if someone managed to put a file named "/" somewhere in your find directory, which `-delete` has safe-guard for.
twidi , no problem, no one knows about http://narly.us because I have been building it in a vacuum =/

Perhaps we can help one another? Through narly is in ruby and repos.io is in python. In any case would be great to collaborate. My code is also fully available : https://github.com/plusjade/narly

Do you have any experience with redis or backbone.js ? I think backbone.js is supercool (play with the narly tagging ui if you can) but it does have a non-trivial learning curve and a lot of closure/reference gotchas that I struggled with. Anything I can do, just let me know!
Bézier curves in Haskell
Just because the market is distorted doesn't mean they aren't entrepreneurs. We all know some laws are written/influenced by industry to protect industry. Maybe your parents told you never to break the law but, laws are written by men. They are fallible and sometimes people need to push the limits or break laws to make things change.
Hardly, there is a lot of arc that you are not seeing that really powers the voting and other features of the site like spam detection and voting ring detection. It's similar to the code at http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.tar but there are significant modifications as well.
Dec 3, personal alarm
In this case, the graphs don't seem to add any more clarity beyond what is already provided by the counts (e.g., 47 heads, 53 tails).

I would be more interested to understand to what extent each coin appears to statistically differ from a fair coin, and in fact that's what I imagined the article would cover, given the title.
Universal Development Automation Discovered In Full Open Source
Occam's Razor applies here, so no.
Their problems seem to be people-related, not technology related. Most messages I receive on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Yammer, IRC, and any other form of digital communication just aren't important. Email really isn't an exception here in my experience.
This is one of those ideas that sounds good at first but I think they may rethink that.

Their points on the disadvantages of email are true and good but they may be overlooking its good points and the downsides to using IM.

Spam can be quickly deleted. While its an annoyance there are Ways to curb the amount received.

Lots of not useful email is sent but there are lots that are useful.

The cool thing about email is that you can choose to ignore it easily and come back later. When you substitute IM for email you're opening a can of worms that can be worse. An IM is harder to ignore, people expect an instant response and people will still use it for communicating less than useful info still.

When you have an IM client open all the time you're going to have to context switch more often than with email. With email you may get a little alert via something like the Mail.app sound for new mail or a Growl type notification but you know it can wait. With IM you're going to be switching over immediately. Context switching kills productivity and this policy will make matters worse.

The better solution would to implement a policy that stops people from sending ridiculously not useful emails. They aren't solving the problem but just putting it into a new context.

But then I'm reminded of a story here on HN from a day ago from the Atlantic that talks about how folks like us can easily criticize but if we're so smart why aren't we running that company. It may not apply here but it just popped into my head.
Mostly right for me except it didn't know I visited twitter and facebook (both tabs are open right now).

That's probably due to me blocking facebook and twitter widgets on sites other than Fb and twitter though.
Facebook's chat has become a chat/messages/text/email hybrid so I can't see it being a bad replacement for email.

http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/
I've added it now. Thanks.
Whence cometh this entire "Whitespace is evil! Booooo!" meme?
Twidi, I have one more question. Are you caching all the github api data on your end or do you hit the api directly and assume you are good for the limit?
this just blew my mind.
True. This is something I'm working on. Even with Dropbox, I'd rather use an HTTPS than HTTP.
Health issues and abuse (largely separate issue) are a big part of my story. I've been recovering from both, but at high cost -- like I'm deeply in debt and being evicted from my apartment. Perhaps not the best place from which to be giving "money" advice (not that this is really that). In my case, I'm clear my finances would be far worse if I had not recovered my health, that my current fairly dire situation is still an improvement over what I would face with conventional treatments/accepting the problem. I'm still trying to figure out how best to share information on how I accomplished that. It's possibly stupid (and often goes over very badly) to try to offer encouragement in that regard given the large gap between that encouragement and my ability to adequately convey what I did.

Suffice it to say you have my sympathies and agreement.