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I think you need to learn to read. None of these banks were hacked as the editorial misleads. The victims were actually part of a huge phishing and identity theft campaign.

>> In a criminal complaint, authorities allege that the defendants transferred money from victims' bank accounts to pre-paid debit cards. They took the debit cards to ATMs to cash them out or used them to make purchases across the country. Much of the money that was cashed out was wired to the two leaders.

>> Some of those debit cards were secured in the names of individuals who had their identities stolen by the defendants, the complaint says That allowed the group to file fraudulent tax returns in an attempt to obtain undeserved refunds.

Can you direct me to the part of the incident whereby the financial institution had it's integrity compromised due to superior penetration techniques circumventing internal bank security measures?

The compromise came about through bank customers disclosing personal information.

This is Hacker News - not Reddit. Claiming that banking institutions, who are in direct compliance with worldwide security standards are "absolute shit at security" is just juvenile ranting.

Post genuine case studies and security insights if you have them.
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I have updated my facts, thanks.
I'm pretty sure the terminology actually comes from Major League Baseball farm teams: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_League_Baseball#Current_s...

I can't recall a gaming magazine that used a grading scale as described.
> If you're a high school dropout who is very accomplished since then, just silently drop any mention of your education from your resume.

Yeah, do this, it really works, at least worked for me and apparently a couple of other commenters here.

The general advice is to lie^Wdisplay social skills, ie. present your facts in a way which makes them look like they are what the other person is looking for, and hide everything which would interfere with your lie... I mean, story or narrative.

People don't want to really know who you are, even if they tell you otherwise - especially in the professional setting. They want to read an interesting story and resume is the ultimate literary short form. For me writing a resume is very similar to writing a short story or novel, it's just even harder, because you're the main character. But the creation process and reception mechanisms are essentially the same.

The only specific advice I could give is the same I'd give other aspiring writers: get yourself a competent editor (a human, not software!) and let your imagination run wild.
Right, because no men ever behave badly in the workplace?

Sure, there are stereotypical ways in which a small number of people from each gender behave like assholes and create toxic work environments. The solution is to not hire jerks and to get rid of them if you've made a mistake, not blame all ones ills on a particular group of people.
I'm not sure what your point is here.

Take a potter. His visual style, assuming it is distinct, bears copyright protection. Rightly so, then an upstart can't legally come in and reproduce his work and steal away his customers without having put in the work needed to create the design initially. But the copyright in that work doesn't, and shouldn't, bear any sense of protection towards the jobs of those that quarry the clay, or the steel-workers that make the steal used in the potter's tools.

An entire network rests on the potters creative work, but the copyright is there to protect only the creative portion. If the potter is producing work without a distinct style then there will be no effective copyright in it's visual appearance and still all the others will get paid if there is demand for the product.

So?
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I wonder how many of these I've caused by having Fiddler w/ HTTPS decryption enabled (to troubleshoot one session) while accessing FB or whatnot with the other.
> bumbling incompetents (and I'm not naming names here), are likely safer than citizens of governments who believe they have a mission from God to be the sword and shield of the righteous, and hire thousands of the smartest people in the world to carry that mission out

Yes bumbling Europeans are less dangerous but only because they have outsourced their intelligence to the US. China and Russia are more dangerous but only to their own population.
Andrew Ng on why he decided to leave his day-to-day responsibilities at Coursera for Baidu: http://blog.coursera.org/post/85921942887/a-personal-message...
It sounds like women just hate working for "Enterpreneur".
A forced day off drove me crazy
Brain surgery is very risky, invasive, and is only available to a subset of the population. Spoons are risk free.
Because Europe didn't know about America until 1492.
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Does this account for the strong differential in number of independent contractors who work at GS vs GOOG? (re: revenue/headcount)
TIL America used to be tiny!
It is a far cry from the serious, dedicated abstract thought demanded by fields such as software engineering/machine learning/data science etc.

99% of software work is straightforward too. Here's a form for entering data. Here's a report for formatting data someone else entered. Every website is just these two concepts that have been around since the 60s. Don't kid yourself that a "full stack developer" or a "rockstar ninja" is anything special.
You have employees with outstanding arrest warrants and domestic violence issues? It kind of sounds like you also need to reevaluate your hiring practices...

Edit: I'd like to encourage people responding to this to consider the context: an article about why someone doesn't want to employ a certain category of people, and a response to that article about how there's lots of value to be found in that category, if only the author had better hiring practices. E.g. "somebody's gotta hire them" would apply equally to the article's female employees, and thus is also a criticism of hiring practices that exclude those "problem" people, which presumably includes the parent. IOW, the premise here is that you want to hire people maximally useful to your business. Maybe you don't think that's should be the point, but then you're having a different discussion.
Wall Street is NOT building up America but is instead weakening America by causing a Great Brain Drain from every other vital industry. It is a cancer that's eating away America. Because America is losing the brightest kids who could've really shined and played vital leadership roles in other industries, I feel American industries are falling behind.

Some quotes from the article that you should remember:

1. "so many kids who could seemingly do anything choose to work 120-hour weeks"

2. "something like a third of Ivy League graduates going to Wall Street"

3. "They're not just getting finance-minded kids but they're getting the smartest kids from all fields."

4. "give us two years of your lives, don't see your friends, chain yourself to your desk, but we will give you this glorious life where you're making many times what you could ever imagine."

These are kids really really smart, socially adjusted (enough to be accepted by Ivy League), and hard working. If they entered science/medicine/engineering/etc, they would've added great positive impact. Probably not immediately but eventually years down the line. And now they are abandoning these vital industries that actually produce something for an industry that is basically pushing papers around and printing money in the process.

Seriously, WHY would anyone choose to enter a field where you have to work up the ladder (or spend years in grad school and in poverty life) and possibly live in some small towns with a hope of making a few million a year salary ONLY near the end of your career, when you can enter Wall Street and live in NYC (great city but really only for the super rich) and start making 6-7 figure salary/bonus almost from the beginning?

Other major economies do not have Wall Street equivalent and so their top engineering/science graduates don't join finance but instead actually enter the vital industries. And these smart kids actually produce something that is tangible. I think we are already seeing the effect of this trend showing its result slowly.

I know we live in free economy society and all that but I think we need to find a way to 'regulate' how the wall street recruits.

Lastly, I believe the ratio of liberal-arts majors entering Wall Street is way lower than the article seems to suggest. From what I hear, overwhleming majority of the graduates entering Wall Street after graduation are science/math/engineering majors.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Would recommend to anyone interested in quick overview of C++.
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> It sits on the side of my TV stand completely unobtrusively, and if friends come over within 30 seconds we can be playing frantic, immersive games.

So, it's the new Wii?
* Store your application/source code/etc in multiple object stores (S3/Rackspace Cloud files)

* Abstract away from specific computing/storage APIs

* Test to ensure you can always deploy to a different provider

Twilio does this well, as they run in AWS and Rackspace Cloud, based on availability and cost.
Sounds a lot of bad luck (or bad hiring skills) that every single woman she hired was a failure. But every communication issue has two sides. I am pretty sure she reinforced - even if unwillingly - this behavior after reading this:

"I have developed a different approach for offering constructive criticism to male and female employees. When I have something to say to one of the men, I just say it! I don’t think it through – I simply spit it out, we have a brief discussion and we move on. They even frequently thank me for the feedback! Not so fast with my female staff. I plan, I prepare, I think, I run it through my business partner and then I think again. I start with a lot of positive feedback before I feel that I have cushioned my one small negative comment sufficiently, yet it is rarely enough. We talk forever, dissect every little piece of it, and then come back to the topic time and time again in the future. And I also have to confirm that I still like them – again and again, and again."

When you put so much effort on something that is not the focus, that thing becomes the focus. If a woman cries after a reasonable feedback and you spend a lot of time trying to justify and compensate on that crying, the crying become justified. So you just reiforced the behavior. But if you are sure your feedback was a fair one; just let it go. Let her cry on her own, without giving much attention to it. She will stop crying sometime, think about things more rationally and the next time she will take feedback differently.

I think the case is just that women express themselves different from men. Women cry at the spot and go emotional. Men keep the things for themselves and talk trash about you later on the bar. If you, as a boss, could listen to the men employees and tried to get some confrontation about the trash talk men do, this would reinforce the trash talking and a lot of new issues would appear on the professional realtionship.

It is just bad luck in this particular scenario that women express their emotion more strongly and vocational; so I think some conscious actions must have being taken so this particular behavior doesn't extrapolate in more serious issues.
There is a difference between encouraging and actively marginalizing someone because he watches porn.

I was born in Eastern Europe where nobody had a problem with you watching porn as long as you don't do this at work or in public spaces (schools, shops etc ...).
You could do a pretty good job with latitude, between noon observations of the sun and Polaris at night. But it was the 1700s before anybody could work out accurate longitudes. So I suppose you worked with latitudes and compass routes when you mapped a coast.
I've seen same kind of tests on one of the fire ranges. You have to read safety rules. One of the points was to put x mark on the 2nd page if you read that.
Non-standard build/deploy/run.

Classloader per verticle type makes dependency injection painful. "I don't know what a Spring "ApplicationContext" is" -- Tim Fox

Uses multiple classloaders so you can "run multiple versions of the same module at the same time". Not something I have ever done or would do.

Uses Hazelcast for clustering but uses tons of classloaders so using anything other than simple types in Hazelcast is hard and inefficient.

Message bus is tightly coupled to application cluster through Hazelcast.

Messaging is missing the most useful features of AMQP like wildcard topics and queues. Only possible to do very basic message routing. Many messages have to be sent multiple times to mimic advanced routing.

Dividing everything into 'verticles' encourages use of callbacks for everything. This increases code size and complexity which increases the need for testing. 'Callback hell'

Encourages polyglot programming.

Writing Vertx apps with Groovy makes me feel like I could add a whole chapter to 'How to Write Unmaintainable Code'.

https://www.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
It is almost as if Australians don't realize they are part of the problem.
Especially programming jobs.
I'm new to Elixir (and FP in general), but I really like the language. I came across a couple of youtube videos on Phoenix , and it looks really nice (reminds me of Rails). I think something like Sinatra would be even nicer, for 2 reasons:
1. the standard these days is to have a rest api serving json to web/mobile clients, so a Rails-like framework seems overkill
2. Pretty much all my friends who are learning web dev on their own, find Sinatra/Flask way easier to get started with than Rails/Django.

Regardless, Elixir (and Phoenix) is a great leap forward compared to the other options for building concurrent, reliable servers. I hope more people try it out before falling for hype/marketing (cough node.js cough mongodb cough cough)
> She had bought them with the company credit card and I actually did not like them at all, but I digress.

She definitely sounds like someone I wouldn't want to work for. Apparently she didn't like the flowers "at all"? Who hates flowers? This is probably one of those cases where the person complaining might want to look inward as a first step.

EDIT: Oops, it was butterflies. Either way, is a picture of butterflies really some to not like "at all"? Just sounds bitter and angry to me. And why does she feel the need to "digress" and let us know that she didn't like them?
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I have the same problem. My hearing is also excellent. I have worked out what the problem is, though. The truth is, nobody can hear everything in a place like that. But other people can fill in gaps in speech, possibly from other signals like watching the face, but I think mainly from a conversation model in their brain. For some reason I either lack the model, or it's just not trained properly (more likely tbh), so I have to hear everything to understand.
I completely disagree with the presumptions of this article. Hopefully not too many employers feel this way.
Yep. Build objects with -fvisibility=hidden, create a static library with `ar rcs libsqlite.a *.o`, and link your app with it and NOT dynamic libsqlite.
Thanks, that does.
Any theory from people better versed with patent law on whether Google is gearing up to "fight" (IP-wise) Oculus or any other serious VR companies?
Code Complete has pretty good bang per page, especially if you are beginner.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Con...
Er, no it isn't. Given the filing and priority date, this patent was filed well before the likes of Google Glass were announced.
The poster works in manufacturing.
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I've recently read The Passionate Programmer and was rather disappointed.

The book has a few very valuable insights. For the most part it reads like a series of blog posts from a slightly experienced developer.
I'd love to see this map projected onto a current map (or even satellite imagery) to see what sort of accuracy they were able to achieve back then. It is quite a feat to gather all that information and compile it into a single (large) image!
Didn't realize there was a distinction between POSIX locks and flock, thanks!
JavaScript: The Good Parts. Made me see JS in a much more elegant way. Coding JS is not trivial. I did use JS in webdev in general, and APIs. But really, I would have never known the mysteries behind it such as prototypal inheritance.
Maybe women are too sensitive. Tell a girl at work her hairstyle does not look nice after she asks you, and she is mad at you.

Maybe men are too sensitive. Tell a guy at a sports bar his team sucks and they should be put out of the league, and you are lucky if he does not punch you.

So someone can write a post about women gossiping at work and how that creates all sorts of tension. And someone can write a post about how their boyfriend is so sensitive about his app that telling him the truth and saying it's kind of crappy will probably end up in break up.

Who is more sensitive? I have my opinion, but maybe all of this is a matter of perspective?
From the article:

> CREDO Mobile, a new addition to this year’s report, demonstrated through its exemplary policies that it is possible for a telecom to adopt best practices when it comes to transparency and resistance to government demands.

I'd never heard of Credo Mobile before.

Regardless of the intentions of Credo, since they appear to be leasing Sprint's towers, doesn't that ultimately put Credo's customers at the whim of Sprint in terms of who gets wiretapped / transparency reports / etc?

Or is it possible for a tenant on the infrastructure to be reasonably assured that outsiders can't intrude into their communications.

I know very little about it, but what I've seen of cell network security research, makes me assume that no such security exists for tenants leasing towers.
I understand what/how to do VBO's but I don't know how to link it with game dev. If I have a HUD, entities, effects, terrain, do I have one VBO to handle all that data (and update it in my game loop)? Or should I split the VBO's into HUD/entities/effects/terrain/etc?
I've recently started my way through SICP and Algorithms in a Nutshell.
It seems Word Lens was destined to join Google Translate and is a perfect match for Glass.

At least they're not killing the app. Yet.
Either that or he had just recently learnt about parrots and felt strongly enough to put it in.
I've run into this issue linking against the iOS included SQLite. The apps were server backed so it was easy to just detect and correct but yeah it can be one of those one in 1000 edge case bugs that really get you. Now I use FMDB with SQCipher and it's been very reliable, more so then Core Data.
Clean Code, by Robert Martin. Excellent book that dives in deep on how to write solid code. It's like having the ultimate code review in book form.

Shameless plug: I just finished writing the first in a series of books about Backlogs. Good backlogs can make programming a lot easier. Conversely, horribly formed backlogs can turn coding into a death march. http://bit.ly/1fJd5Gg
And WebSQL:

We have the fabulous SQLite as API in HTML 5, yet Mozilla and Microsoft refuse to support it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSQL (supported by Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and the Android Browser; Firefox ships with SQLite but doesn't expose the API)

WebSQL is not deprecated, the W3C Working Group Note says:

'This specification is no longer in active maintenance
and the Web Applications Working Group does not intend to
maintain it further'.

Recently, we had a discussion about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7645726
>outstanding arrest warrants, inability to resolve past DUI
>offenses with the courts, domestic violence that spreads into
>the workplace, absenteeism, etc. -- all actual issues we have
>had to deal with.

Umm...maybe you just need to pay higher wages. Pay monkey wages, get monkeys.
Indeed. Xah's website and long history may impress a developer, but this is a huge DO NOT TOUCH sign for any career recruiter with little or no technical background. Even for a developer, it's a warning sign - it means your mileage may vary. He may be extremely bright in one thing, but one should not expect something predictable like a comp-sci graduate.
This might be because you are male. Woman are likely to interact with you differently than they might interact with another woman.
That's the same dog that I have accept all those "click here if you agree" "by opening this package you agree" licenses.
Well, you never know... People are strange.
I like this. It's similar in nature to what I'm looking to do with blot.pw (more information at https://github.com/stuartpb/hashblot/wiki/About )
It's really worth noting that this terrible version of MVC didn't start with the web. MFC used a similar version of the concept way back when. I think it comes from the inflexible object model that languages like C++ (particularly the 90s version of it) and Java use. It's just almost impossible to avoid strong coupling that defeats a lot of the advantages of the model. What's really a shame is that Rails fell into the trap even though Ruby has a rich and flexible object model.

But yeah. This expresses a lot of the things I feel about MVC for the web.
Yes, that's true except that according to a semi-recent Snowden interview many of the European intelligence agencies share information with each other, so they might just get it from NSA/GCHQ [1].

Some of the other large countries might not be as interested in Facebook because they have their own versions of it: Russia's VK, China's Qzone & Renren, Japan's Line, Iran's Cloob, etc.

[1] https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/27-1
Thanks, yes, the article was unclear about that - in its discussion of ownership/POSIX I was confused if it was talking about the individual database files or some kind of centralized tracking file.

And yes, clarification of what cases I could expect both my connection and the OS connection to hit the same file would be good too. Because I wouldn't expect the OS to hit my own private sqllite dbs, and I wouldn't expect to be writing code that directly hits the OS dbs (instead of going through OS APIs to query them).
> when you can enter Wall Street and live in NYC (great city but really only for the super rich)

This is a common misconception, but not true. It's not true on an absolute scale (many people in NYC survive on what are modest salaries elsewhere) or on a COLA-adjusted scale (NYC has a salary-adjusted lower cost-of-living than many other "cheaper" cities).

> and start making 6-7 figure salary/bonus almost from the beginning?

Even when you factor end-of-year bonuses into the equation, an entry-level I-banking job pays about as much as Google or Facebook would pay an engineer right out of school. The hours are also a lot longer than at Google (not to mention less flexible).

It takes a long time to work your way up to even half of seven figures, and that's if you get there (the vast majority burn out, change professions, or have their careers stagnate).
Figured this would have been an obvious acquisition for Google years ago, surprised it took so long. Obviously a perfect fit, and even more-so now with Glass.
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>They are simply more business friendly

That depends upon whose business to which you're referring.
Google? This is an Apple patent.
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