skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The landing page is NOT empty! Watch the source, it document.write()s a OBJECT tag with an ActiveX control.

LOLOLOLOLOL. Oh, and LOL.

Edit: Here are the links... looks like Borland stuff to me.

Files BackOffice:
1) http://comfortmanagement.com/imaginebackoffice.cab
2) http://comfortmanagement.com/SRSBck3Inf.cab
3) http://comfortmanagement.com/SRSBck3.cab

Files Cash Register:
1) http://comfortmanagement.com/SRSCsh3Inf.cab
2) http://comfortmanagement.com/imaginecashregister.cab
3) http://comfortmanagement.com/SRSCsh3.cab

2nd edit: here are the nmap-details:

PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
21/tcp closed ftp
80/tcp open http Microsoft IIS httpd 6.0
443/tcp closed https
3389/tcp open microsoft-rdp Microsoft Terminal Service
Service Info: OS: Windows

3rd edit: Someone actually should email the host. I bet my behind that this server is vulnerable to multiple exploits.
I recall an article a year or so back that implied that Alzheimer’s could be transmitted between mice if certain proteins were moved from a ‘sick’ mouse to a healthy one. I cannot recall the authors or even the journal, but I am sure you read it, if it was of relevance in any way.
Are companies being so hugely stretched over multiple billion dollar markets a by-product of the web, or is there some precedent? I mean, of course they're all on a collision course because once they get large enough they seem to find their way into every market.

Another example is Facebook, which obviously competes with G+ but also things like Youtube with a pretty serious video player - a more social take on that seems to have caught everybody off guard. They also seem to be positioning themselves for eCommerce too with recent(?) gift voucher presents etc.

Even looking at younger companies like Dropbox and a push into Email, Twitter and Vine.. collision seems inevitable when the rules seem to, at some point, become do everything you can remotely link to your core product.
Can't you learn both?
At a very order-of-magnitude level, your stats are exactly in line with my 1.5yrs of experience in the paid-app biz category. 3 of my apps have spent large amounts of time b/w #17 and #300. In the biz category, you can get into the top-25 with about 70+ downloads per day. 30-50 will get you into the top-50. My apps are priced 1.99-4.99

All the comments about spending $$ to get into the charts is bs. I know competitors who have released their first apps in the last few weeks. And reached the top-10 very quickly. Fantastic UI, rock-solid services and solving a real problem took them there. They charge $10...yup. Thats right-10 bucks!! All that bs about 99 cent apps only selling is debunked too.

DONT buy ads; dont spend $$ on anything other than solving the primary problem the app addresses. Just narrow your problem domain. User will pay you $$ for it.
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"New York and California are, as a result of very recent legislation, actively seeking out and disarming those labeled "mentally ill". "

What? On top of everything else the mentally ill get to own guns? That is honestly shocking to me.
I've never seen a GUI frontend that managed to remove the need to write custom queries while inspecting the data, but if you don't know SQL I could see someone not even realizing all the things that can be trivially done with a relational database, and just settling for manually cross-referencing tables.
I often find myself pulling my phone out to check Amazon for reviews on a product whenever I do end up in a shop. Needless to say I never end up buying the product in the shop after that.
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I thought the same thing about sushi
A similar tool exists for Java, although it doesn't rely on symbolic execution (but IIRC it is able to use it for integer constraints) but evolutionary test data generation [1]. There's a plugin for Eclipse too.

[1] : http://www.evosuite.org
Ask HN: How to manage more than 3 "Home page" tabs in Firefox?
Maybe I'm unique but I have multiple home page tabs that I like to use in Firefox - eight as of today. In case you don't know what that is (or aren't familiar with Firefox), that's the tabs that get opened upon launch.

For example, here's what my "Home Page" text box looks like:

file:///c:\FolderA\FolderB\FolderC\myfile.html|http://www.intel.com/FolderA/PageName.html|https://subdomain.mydomain.com/FolderA/FolderB/AnotherPage.html

etc, etc until there are eight pages. Notice the pipe character ("|") - that's the tab/page separator.

Firefox does have the handy button for "Use Current Pages" but, unfortunately for me, a few of my URLs are to sites that use session hashes (vBulletin search URLs, for example).

Anyone know of an easier home page tab manager? I can deal with it but, if there's an easier way, that would be cool too.

Thanks!
Yes, it appears they are. In long scale it's million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard etc.
Well there's the whole world of NoSQL but without understanding the relational model there's no guarantee that your choice of NoSQL is appropriate. From what I understand, many of the prominent advocates of NoSQL even recommend learning relational first.
He's referring to the fact that the site is down already.

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Agun.i...
Doesn't it require that you plug in the iPhone/iPad via USB cable?
Scary and exciting!

Seven months ago, I became a full-time pastor. Quite different from web development using Java and programming in general. Twenty three years working as a geek is not the most helpful background for pastoring. On the other hand, I love the pastoring and I made sure that the church has a decent web page. :-)

The biggest thing for me to get used to was (still is) managing my time, being a 24x7 people person (I'm a type B personality) and juggling the needs of a congregation. Do I visit A, B or C today? And don't forget to phone D, pop an email to E and be sure to remember that you have lunch with F today and breakfast with G on Saturday. And must have a sermon ready for Sunday. And be available for people to phone or text or Facebook chat with. It's all good, but can get complicated because of the people issues ... and it's all people issues!
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For a while I used to ask interview candidates to explain the difference between WHERE and HAVING, to see if they'd ever done anything beyond the basics. I'm still not sure if that's too hard, but people who could answer it did tend to do much better in the rest of the interview as well.
This is not how Uncover works. We specifically designed it to avoid this. The company is only charged for benefits that the employee uses. Therefore, if an employee doesn't care to use one or more benefits then the company is not charged for them.
Learn accounting, too!
Might be helpful to add in a few recommendations for analytics tools such as Flurry for measuring users actions on mobile.
Interesting. Initially, I was thinking "But Amazon could only ever eat into a small-ish percentage of Google's total revenue, because Lowe's and restaurants and such will still want to advertise on Google so long as anyone is using it for search." However, I think there's a clear avenue around that: allow Amazon to index and ship Lowes' products. This would allow stores to stop supporting their massively expensive e-commerce operations (or significantly reduce them), especially if Amazon allowed the store to have significant individual branding when you're viewing a product they list. They could even index movie tickets and restaurants, which would mean you could Amazon your "night out," reserving tickets and dinner online, in one place.
It could be a pro or a con, it's dependent on the company culture.

I worked at a company with unlimited vacation days where management "trusted" you to make the right decision on how much rest you need. This is good in a culture that encourages rest. It's bad in a company that measures productivity by time spent at your desk.

Having untracked vacation days as a benefit, I definitely prefer a known hard limit, but that's my personal preference.
I didn't really grok your product until my eyes crossed the envelope with the card in it. Put that sucker front and center with "Employee Recognition Program" somewhere.
This is just like the big server vendors (IBM, Dell and HP) losing all their sales to big companies, because they are buying their own designs direct from companies like ZT and Hyve.

What's left, storage systems?
Shoot me an email (in profile) if you want to get up and going on Zapier, I can help you work through an MVP API or what kinds of integrations might be popular.
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This is not how Uncover works. The employer is only charged for the benefits the employee uses.
there are some out of band issues. SMS, email, etc are "push" which means I can't stop people from sending me sensitive things unencrypted. Centralized platforms like facebook, while technically opt-in, are so deeply rooted in the younger generation's lives that opting out has unacceptable social consequences for many people.
For those interested, Google has been using OpenFlow for some time now. This presentation by Urs Hölzle is about a year old:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLHJUfgxEO4

Slides: http://www.opennetsummit.org/archives/apr12/hoelzle-tue-open...
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The comments on this post are pretty interesting to read, there is such a divide between those who think this is a terrible story and those who are inspired by it. Quite fascinating.
I could actually see how this happens these days, especially when working on a big enough team with dedicated Database engineers. In the old days, I'd definitely be writing my own stored procs and embedded SQL in code, etc. Then I worked for several years on teams with dedicated data gurus. When we'd hit some performance thing that would need tweaked, they'd write a stored procedure for it, and we'd just call it from the middleware. I've seen this type of team composition on both .NET and Java platforms, with and without the use of ORMS.

It all depends on the coverage of your server-side web engineers...some will go deeper into the JavaScript/UI, some go deeper into the data-model.
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Thanks for your feedback. We'll definitely work on making the product message clearer now that we have more eyeballs to our homepage.
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Hi there, I'm with Sandglaz.

We launched this late Monday evening and saw our first handful of signups and data imports.

Yesterday, our new user sign ups were 83% higher than an average Tuesday for us. Also got some media coverage.

Today at Noon, we've generated more new sign ups and traffic than an average Wednesday.
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for further infos there is also a quora answer regarding why apple called it retina-displays

http://www.quora.com/Retina-Display/Why-are-Retina-Displays-...
Another thing that is not practiced in Europe (to my knowledge) and allowed in the US is fluoridation of water.

There is scientific proof that fluoride is a potent neurotoxin[1], and yet the government continues to insist and require fluoridation of water.

------------

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_toxicity
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I am not saying that the problem (dirty chickens) doesn’t exist, I am saying that there are likely superior solutions to that problem which don’t risk leaving an extremely toxic and reactive substance on my food.
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Well, it says both. You can manage your Stripe account, and btw, it's beautiful.
Yes, there was in fact a war during the revolutionary war, but very few if any of the founding fathers were at Bunker Hill, and you'd be hard-pressed to prove the overwhelming majority of soldiers were doing it out of pathological anti-authority problems. They had plenty of non-pathological, reasonable complaints.

Sometimes things happen within the normal human spectrum. You're conflating behavior with a category in the DSM with political action by generally sane individuals.

As far as what little relation this has to the gun debate: Background checks for mental illness are probably a reasonable idea, and I'm pro gun rights.

I was against the recent Toomey-Manchin legislation until I heard that:

- It makes creating a federal database of gun owners explicitly illegal

- It makes transporting unloaded guns across state lines explicitly legal (this is apparently currently illegal a lot of the time)

- It's only applying the same standards for licensed gun dealers to gun shows and internet sales, while explicitly making internet sales legal (gray area before)

It's actually a totally reasonable bill that does a lot of what gun rights people have been asking for. But what's the upside for the NRA in a reasonable bill, versus vilifying it and raising a bunch of money to STOP THE GUN GRABBING BILL? That is why we can't have nice things.
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Thanks! I'll shoot you an email to make the connection, but I think we're still a bit of a ways away from doing so as we just launched and are still iterating.
And I can say this is a great way to prove you are a good fund raiser, by getting 20k from losers that donate to a already rich person, that promised to do something that the person won't do.
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A class of query I love that scares off a lot of developers is a correlated sub-query, where the subquery references a value from the outer query. For example, finding all employees with at least one assignment:

SELECT *
FROM employees e
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM assignments a
WHERE a.employee_id = e.id)

For a while in Oracle this was a lot faster than IN/NOT IN. I'm not sure if that's still the case, or if it's true for other systems. I believe I read that in Postgres the query planner does the same thing whether you use EXISTS/NOT EXISTS or IN/NOT IN.

EDIT: This kind of query is great with Rails scopes, because you can write something like this:

class Employee
scope :with_assignments, where(<<-EOQ)
EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM assignments a
WHERE a.employee_id = employees.id)
EOQ
end

and that is easily composeable with other scopes/conditions/etc since it doesn't force you to use any joins. Yay for mixing SQL with your ORM!
I want the freedom to have claymore mines and hand grenades.
> ...and avoids externalizing the cost of poor security.

This is not true in the case of at least one major brokerage firm in the United States for account thefts via cyber-attack (I know this through first-hand experience helping the victim file reports with various LE and regulatory agencies), and all brokerage firms if my read of the regulatory requirements is correct. As the regulatory environment stands today in the United States, if your account is broken into via computer hacking and drained, then you have no recourse other than to appeal to the brokerage institution. It is completely up to the institution whether or not to engage restitution, when (in the case I'm familiar with, no word other than "we're still investigating" for the past five months), and in what manner they treat the case and communicate with you.

Elsewhere in this thread, patio11 already pointed out the cost to mount various attacks. After some quiet questions around some Wall Street contacts confirmed other accounts (but not a massive number of accounts) were also drained at the same institution, I'm reasonably convinced that at least one black hat or black hat team has figured out to use this regulatory hole to their advantage, to wit:

Drain only a few accounts, and the institutions externalize the cost of the poor security upon the account holders themselves.

This points out an interesting problem: apart from sheer trust in traditions of financial institutions, how does an account holder prove that they themselves did not drain their own account, when the financial institution's own computer systems and potentially even their logs have been subverted?

If you are a tech journalist that wants to research this story, I'm happy to respond to questions over PM, and direct you to the actual victim.
Looks nice.

One of the first things I do when using Google maps is hide the side bar until I need it. I want full maps, looks like I'll get it.
One of my biggest fears as a search guy is that Amazon starts dabbing in general search.
By the way, same for Canada except #3 and #4 which have been banned.
You can see them here:

https://www.uncover.com/how-it-works

Scroll over the top left image.
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Per mobile app analytics, I understand that being actionable and data scientist teams are differentiators, but who offers a superior product and who offers best bang for the buck...? I see Flurry and Kontagent are pretty big in the space.
Appreciate the help :-)
The python example is good here, because originally the Python language had separate types for unbounded-integer and machine-sized-int. This happened as part of the move from Python 2.x to Python 3.x, right along with changing strings from byte-arrays to unicode.[1]

There has been lots of fuss and even pushback about the change to use unicode instead of byte arrays, but I have never heard anyone complain about semantics OR performance of the switch to a single integer type.

[1] - http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0237/
I have no idea how to address that aspect. I am sure many people try to make a new law to forbid "Mein Kampf", but others want to make a "annotated" version of the book. Let's see.
I should clarify: I attended a US university, so we didn't partake in the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer. Rather, we participated in a similar ceremony for an organization called the Order of the Engineer. The Wikipedia entry on the Order of the Engineer alludes to what you're saying though; it mentions that they tried to bring the Canadian ritual to the US but experienced legal troubles including some related to copyright.
Conversation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5674406
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Correct. We've been in beta for about four weeks. Only went public about two hours ago.
I recently discovered that MySQL before 5.6 (5.5 being the latest available on RDS, of course) does not honor indexes if they should be invoked for a subquery, e.g.

select whatever from wherever where user_id in (select id from users where somethingorother like '%lol%');

Got an index on user_id? Too bad. Ignored.

If you precompute the values, though?

select whatever from wherever where user_id in (1, 2, 3);

Sweet, I love indexes! I'll definitely use them.
I don't find it hard to believe: If you had a massive revenue stream coming in from a product that you know is dying, you might be happy just to milk it and close up shop when it dries up, or you might decide to throw a large chunk of your earnings from that division into trying to grow your other businesses, at the expense of profitability, in the hope of being able to make solid profits from them when you scale back on the "growth at all cost" expenditure down the line. Whether or not they'll succeed at that is another matter.
Here's the paper: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/3/1024.full.pdf?sid=c461...

Open-access version: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575082/
The decisive condition here is often "can a problem with the software create a halting error in someone's daily workflow."
did you read the article linked? in AOL's financial report over 100% of their revenue is coming from user subscriptions. that's hardly apocryphal.
The problem I've had is not so much explaining what PGP is, or why to use it. It's the software.

Sending an encrypted or signed message to someone who doesn't have your keys throws all kinds of scary messages in most email clients. Maybe not a problem for us™, but a huge problem for most people who find they can't send messages to their friends without remembering to do step X for people A, B, and D, but not C or Q. And even if you explained this to them, will they remember a month down the line when their friend calls them because they think their computer got hacked? (true story. nobody reads error messages, and encryption-related ones are among the most cryptic and scary looking.)

Then try convince them to keep using encryption / signatures for you, when it breaks for other people and makes sending an email more complicated, and they have to keep track of who C and Q are. Then try to convince them that, even though they have nothing to hide, encryption is still useful.

Then do this all over again when they get a new computer and forget to install PGP and have already lost their entire keychain.

--

The crypto is here, and yes, it has never been more accessible. The software using it is still garbage.
The main point that one should know SQL as much as possible before using ORMs, I agree with fully. The point that applications should be written by quick-prototyping with an ORM, then replacing the ORM entirely with raw SQL, I could not disagree with more. Since he is using my own ORM (SQLAlchemy) as his example, I'd like to point out (as many of you know I always do) that SQLAlchemy's entire approach is one of exposing the relational model at all times. There is virtually no need to drop out of using the Query and/or select() constructs into raw SQL strings, as these constructs can represent SQL fully and more or less directly, not really any different in concept than when the relational database itself parses an incoming SQL string into a tokenized parse tree internally. The results returned are tuples. If your tuples happen to line up with the attributes in your object model, then you can tell it to get objects back. There is no sharp red line between "I'm using an ORM!" vs. "I'm using SQL!". With a mature tool like SQLAlchemy you're using both, and the tool is there to automate your work with SQL, not to replace it.

So of course, learn SQL as fully as possible. But I recommend using an ORM that allows you to make full use of your SQL knowledge at all times.
My parents up until 2010 did not switch to a high-speed ISP and continued to use AOL dialup until 2008, which is when they switched to NetZero which was marginally faster but far cheaper.

In some ways, perhaps dial-up is a better proposition than DSL or cable due to its slowness. It does discourage distraction and waste of time on the net, and since I don't browse YouTube and use

links2 -g

to browse the web, perhaps it isn't such a bad idea. Although, I would have to go to Starbucks whenever I wanted to download a new Linux distro. ;)

As for email, I still do use an AOL email address. I use it for Facebook and AIM, but I use my Hotmail (now "Outlook") for personal email and inquiries.

But AIM. Can't live without it.

If AOL calls it quits on AIM, I will probably shed a few tears. There is nothing like AIM left. Facebook is locked-down and doesn't support buddy lists, MSN is dead, Skype is proprietary and forces you to use its own client, and nobody I know has a Google Talk account and my IM client doesn't support it, even though I've tried to set it up as a Jabber/XMPP account.
This was also discussed in Rob Conery's speech on Norwegian Developer's Conference:
http://ndc2011.macsimum.no/mp4/Day2%20Thursday/Track1%201140...
You throw more hardware at it, of course!