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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Glusterfs or ceph on Digitalocean block storage?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Dismantling botnets: possible?

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github.com 10y ago

Djinni: generate C++ to ObjC, Java, Python bindings

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Is gevent holding you back from switching to Python 3?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

LastPass installs malware?

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github.com 11y ago

Export from PasswordBox

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github.com 11y ago

Google Address Validation lib/data source

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Anyone use slack.com for personal use (ie. replace WhatsApp)?

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jamesaddison.ca 11y ago

Loading images in email clients by default: Stats manipulation?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

S3cmd S3 sync memory usage solution?

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jamesaddison.ca 11y ago

Startup Failure, 20 Lessons Learned

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: I've forgotten which social signup I used

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pypi.python.org 13y ago

Django-simple-templates 0.6 released

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github.com 13y ago

Designer-friendly templates + A/B testing for Django

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www.scottisheyes.com 13y ago

Restructuring Graphite

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Would you exchange space in your email newsletter to get exposure?

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www.scottisheyes.com 15y ago

Django-cachebuster: Django 1.3 ready file cache busting

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www.scottisheyes.com 15y ago

HN Android Game Developers: Using IntelliJ IDEA 10 with libGDX

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: how to sell an early stage startup?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: request HITs on mturk.com from outside the US?

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"Many consumers have enjoyed the falling price of fuel in the form of lower petrol prices; several UK supermarkets have begun selling petrol at below £1 per litre - which they last did in 2009."

It feels as though prices haven't fallen relatively here in Canada, at least not on the west coast.

(112.9c CAD / litre in Victoria, BC)

Walmart Pay 11 years ago

Chip & Pin and Contactless are commonplace in Canada as well at stores. Not all have it, but most get it as they upgrade their systems.

This is the honest truth.

I've dealt with outsourcing to India before and share many of the same headaches mentioned in these comments.

I know it's a generalization, but I believe it's fairer to generalize about Indian outsourcing businesses than about Indian individuals: these businesses are doing their best to maximize profits, like any business does. They hire very low, mark up quite a bit and (in my experience) misrepresent their talent pool.

Conversely, I've worked with a number of brilliant Indians at a large corp here in North America.

The good individuals leave after a couple of years or less. The turnover is really high. They leave for the same reasons anyone would: better opportunities, mentorship, culture, money, etc.

In reality, it's a smoke and mirrors game where the outsourcers mostly win. Indian individuals get a bad rap.

OP here.

The only thing that I can come up with is that I happened across a malicious page that did a drive-by install of some malware that magically disappeared upon browser restart (which both the lastpass installer and uninstaller force in order to get their extensions registered).

At least, that's what I'm hoping, or I've still got malware on my system!

I absolutely agree - a reputation is easily shattered, which is why it seems incredulous that you guys were actually knowingly behind this.

Like I said, however - the issues disappeared upon uninstallation of the lastpass browser extension pack for OSX, and it certainly seemed to appear on its installation.

For everyone's sake, let's all hope I was idiotic at some prior point and somehow had a different drive-by install...

I posted a response to a request for a sha256sum - I had the same sum as the one posted. If providing md5sum helps further, I will.

I have no idea - I've never used them before. I imagine if you've already got it installed, it's not an issue for you.

I don't think their product is affected, just what gets installed is <nasty>.

I'm admittedly naïve in this, but wouldn't it make financial sense to buy OPEC based oil stock in the coming few months? Based on whether this is true, of course - so... In theory naturally.

Good question - django-simple-elasticsearch is definitely focused on generating a document from a single instance of a specific model. Of course, you can add supplementary data from associated models via M2M or FK models as you see fit (nested objects, etc.)

I've thought of adding in support for pushing bulk index request data to redis (for example) so that an Elasticsearch river could pull from it; this would decouple the app somewhat - but not completely as you've noted. It would likely help with throughput however, and still provide you with the ability to do pre-processing on the data as needed within your app's/project's context.

The Elasticsearch JDBC river isn't as flexible for processing data if I'm not mistaken, as it doesn't have context for the data? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it's somewhat limited?