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My cousin has related stories of the A-10 watching over him and his troops. Bullets most definitely were the main item related. The A-10's ability to stay above his group and fire a couple of rounds every so often allow them to sleep. The F-35 or B-1 is not going to do that. Drones don't currently do that. The goal is to safeguard the troops and bullets work very well.

The Air Force hates CAS and will say anything to get out of it. The fact that a modern version of the A-10 has not been developed (the F-35 is not a modern version) says everything about the Air Force's direction.
Even though it's $750 per dose now, since they have exclusive control over the market they could decrease it to whatever whenever they wanted to starve competitors.. probably after said competitors have invested in doing it.
> I don't really understand why other manufacturers can't make a MBA...

Lenovo's Carbon X1 is that machine for me. I carried an Air (running Debian) for a couple of years. I've since replaced it with a Carbon X1, and there's nothing I miss about the Air. The Carbon is simply fantastic.
I'm not sure when the Taliban officially started, but it's probably a bit after Reagan was involved in funding the Mujahadeen.

Plus, the individuals mentioned in the linked story are actually warlords that are fighting against the Taliban, in conjunction with the US forces. This is complicated further by the fact that I think many of the warlords switch sides between Taliban, US & freelance depending on whatever seems to be the most lucrative at any point in time.
Not really. Exceptional cyclists who are average runners still do very well on full iron distances. "Average runner" meaning they can crank out a 3:15-3:30 marathon after the first two events (so not really "average at all).

That said, people who come into triathlon from a running background do tend to do better than swimmers or cyclists who have to learn the other two events.
What if they just use a very focused transmission technique instead of blasting a signal in every direction?
Is this open source anywhere or just closed beta?
A more advanced civilization will have gotten much better at avoiding the energy waste of sending a signal except to where they want it to go.

The Drake equation of detecting intelligent life based on their signal emission needs a few extra terms for accounting for energy efficiency or perhaps even deliberate discretion (https://xkcd.com/1377/).

If we did pass through their data laser or whathaveyou, then perhaps it would be unintelligible encrypted information, but that's not something that seems likely to happen (even if things aligned perfectly, other star systems - particularly those with radio emitting civilizations - are probably too noisy to try to transmit through).
ahhh, but put a little effort into building the cigarette boat and the response envelope is drastically small, small enough that a swarm of cheap boats could gut a battleship.
No not really. As a US Soldier, you sign away 100% of your constitutional rights when you voluntarily sign the contract.

So many civilians get this wrong it isn't funny, but the only code that applies to US military members is the UCMJ (uniformed code of military justice), of which Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning was a member of.

Source: I'm a US Army veteran and learned all about this.
That's a bit of a fantasy, isn't it? Pharma companies don't re-invent the same wheel: even in cases where they're pursuing similar avenues of research, the drugs being developed share sometimes significant differences (and in many cases, even insignificant differences can later be found to be more significant than first believed). Even if companies were somehow able to collaborate without any problem, the end result would be a decrease in the number of medications brought to market. Instead of multiple therapies that doctors can use to tailor to their individual patients, they'll get one that works for the majority of cases and woe be to anyone who falls outside the bell curve. The developing crisis with antibiotic-resistant strains is a perfect example of the sort of problems that arise from such short-sightedness.

But that's a scenario based on your idea being feasible. The far more likely scenario is an even more brutal and unethical market, where companies use controlled distribution (such as with Daraprim) to prevent generics from being tested, and thus, being brought to market. Why? Because without patents, even that limited initial window for drug companies to earn back R&D costs--along with supporting the sunk R&D costs wrapped up in the larger number of drugs the fail to bring to market--exists only so long as the manufacturer is able to use whatever force is available to it it to stop generics from being produced. Far from cooperating with one another, pharmaceutical companies would have every additional incentive to stab each other in the back. Instead of skirmishes like you have now, you'd have a war to the knife.

It's easy to look at problems with the current patent system and think that they'd all magically be fixed by getting rid of them. But unintended consequences are still consequences.
Long time ago, but yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe
Thats the Particulate filter which needs periodic long distance drive for self cleaning. The VW cars in question have higher NOx emissions.
Is there a way to get data from each sheet in a workbook? I'd love to use this, it is so simple. But it only seems to get the first sheet in my workbook.
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I'm not sure about the larger picture of the whole internet, but after seeing the fempire spread on reddit and reading some of the ways they did so, I can see why some people jump to it as the default argument.
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Disagree. 4chan is great and important. It shaped the Internet we know today in so many great ways, and in a few cautionary ways as well. Moot should be proud.
It's not impossible and has been done several times in the past, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe
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Yes it looks like somebody
a: copied unencrypted backups to S3 and
b: set the s3 bucket to be publicly accessible

BIG oops.
didnt skype used to be p2p so that things like this wouldnt happen?
Back when all iOS apps ran as root, and MobileSafari had a vulnerable libtiff, jailbreakme.com was "easy" by today's standards.
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Considering the strictness of the requirements, I can think of two options:

- this is just a PR stunt, nobody will realistically deliver such a piece of code before oct. 31st.

- they know that someone in the jailbreak community is cooking something big like that and they're trying to tempt them and acquire a very interesting exploit before anybody else.
I am curious, could you think of some examples of the great ways it influenced the internet?
Are there any good resources to learn it? I've always wanted to do this.
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no, as in honest disclosure of how he has negotiated in the past (by lying through his teeth, repeatedly). Title is a bit misleading, granted.
Why can't you just go to a doctor or hospital and pay them a couple grand per pill and use that? Nobody has to know where you got it from...
Saurik, you can do it ;)
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I wonder if we will now see more hardware-based jailbreaks.

It's a bit like with oil drilling. Once the easily accessible options are gone, people reconsider options that used to be considered too expensive to exploit or too damaging for the environment. Like fracking, oil sands, oil wells that are very deep or far up in the arctic, ...

In the case of iOS explots, maybe you'll be able to jailbreak it over the lightning connector. Maybe you'll have to open the phone and hook up the circuit board to a device. Maybe someone in china will build a robot for phone shops that'll disassemble, jailbreak, and reassemble a phone in seconds (and replace a cracked screen while it is at it). Heck, maybe it'll become economic for criminals to bribe and/or blackmail Apple engineers to put a backdoor into iOS, or to leak keys?
A signal that contains anything other than noise can not be absolutely indistinguishable from noise. Otherwise you won't be able to decrypt it.
Looks good .. will set up to build it from sources. How's the latency?
All of the drugs mentioned in the article have had their patents expire long ago.
> undersell until they're the only supplier left

I don't think this is illegal unless they're selling the drug below cost (dumping).
> Otherwise you won't be able to decrypt it.

Why not?
This would hold true for most complex pieces of software really.
I think what people tend to get upset about is having their opinions dismissed and smugly described as a harassment campaign. Both sides of that stupid gamergate fiasco had legitimate complaints and both sides had assholes who harassed the other side.

I mean it's pretty easy to see what camp you fall into, and you're basically ascribing a very shallow set of beliefs to an entire group of people - the exact same thing you're accusing that group of doing. Without knowing anything going on with the other side, I could see why people would get upset with that.
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Why would the US ignore her death? Your comment makes no sense.
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Can't a simple solution be: websites detect if their ads are being blocked (by iOS9 or whatever) and blur their content until the user disables the adblock?
> were posted in the clear to Amazon servers by insurers using Systema Software.

Posted in the clear? As in, transmitted over unencrypted channels, dumped on public-facing FTP server, or what?

> Texan techie Chris Vickery spotted the files

Spotted the files? What does this even mean? Did he run some kind of crawler? That can land you in quite a lot of hot water, actively searching for these kinds of files.

> on Amazon web servers

Public-facing EC2 instances with no authentication? Public-facing S3 files? ????

This article is so scarce on details it's impossible to determine whether AWS, Systema Software, or users of the software are at fault. I'm inclined to point to Systema Software for not knowing how to properly secure their AWS assets.

EDIT: as mentioned elsewhere and in the article, the original source for this article is here:

http://www.databreaches.net/oops-error-by-systema-software-e...

HN mods might want to change the submitted URL to that.

After reading the article, a production S3 bucket was set to be open to the world. Pretty frightening that Systema would let that happen. Perhaps AWS' Trusted Advisor service should check for that?

Tbh I find the article title inflammatory as it implies AWS is at fault or that AWS is in any position to mitigate the problem to begin with. Do we blame car manufacturers when motorists drive drunk?
Typically this sort of corporate cheating is done by a single person or group of people acting on their own.

But this cheating seems surprisingly coordinated.
The GAU-12 fires 25x137 and the GAU-8 fires 30x173, so it's more than just a slightly larger diameter bullet: http://milpas.cc/rifles/ZFiles/Misc/MILITARY%20CARTRIDGE%20R...

I didn't dig too deeply, but I found recoil force measurements... 4000lbf for the GAU-12 and 10000lbf for the GAU-8.
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For some brands, there are retrofit fans, who take parts from newer models and put them into older, to get features that were never offered when their cars were made.
>I think this is partly out of ethical standards (yes, CEO's, even pharma CEO's, can possess this)

Not buying it. I'll buy the fallout argument, as that will hurt them monetarily, but I'm not guying them have any moral or ethical concerns with those being hurt by high drug prices.
How do you go from small time lists/review sites to real PR?
I'm not a PR professional. I studied business and got into online marketing. Love it. Current job (budget) calls for PR. I've started with small lists and some bigger ones like betalist, but is there a tool/app/method i am not aware of to get into the "mid-grade" review/news/list sites more regularly?
The point that is being made is that by cutting off a fraction of mobile ad revenue by allowing blockers, Apple might be seen to be cynically herding content providers towards its walled-garden platform wherein iAd is the exclusive provider of adverts, which cannot be blocked. Whether this is the true intention of their strategy or merely a coincidence is a matter of some (understandably contentious) debate.
I don't completely understand how they can effectively prevent generics companies from producing it (even through tightly controlled distribution), but if that's the case, I believe that should be the story here as opposed to the bit about raising prices.

Under normal market conditions, either the demand and price will naturally incentivize generics to enter the market (even at high costs), or this is really not much of a story because the total addressable market is so small that price * demand won't significantly move the needle in the books of insurance companies who will be paying for it. If total addressable market is significant and the producers can manipulate the market in ways outside of patents to abuse monopoly power, then that's the misdeed (in my opinion), not the raising of prices.

In other words, with very few exceptions it's futile to blame a company for their prices. On the other hand, if unscrupulous manipulation of a market is the culprit for unreasonable prices, that's where we should demand/enforce a higher standard.
Much of the dank memes that have become completely mainstream in social media can be traced to 4chan in one way or another. Something Awful also used to be responsible for a lot, but lost relevance a long time ago.

I don't know if this is "great" as in implying a positive value judgment, but it is great in magnitude.
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It should. But it hasn't yet. Right now, if I google "architect transforming NYC", this article is the first search result. Yet, when I click it, I am told to buy an Apple device and download Apple News.
It used to be. But Microsoft made it more centralized.
Patent reform is just going to be a way for those in power to promote regulatory capture. The only reform worth anything would be abolishment.
Probably not.

It is hard to advertise a consultancy because you are generally under N.D.A. and if you really helped Company X improve margins by 35%, the last thing Company X wants is for Competitor Y to improve margins by 35%.

The dominant paradigm in software development is "gather requirements", "design something", "code it", "test it", "deploy it" and it is a pretty bad paradigm with a 2/3 failure rate in the field.

However, customers seem much more comfortable to stick to something familiar rather than follow a highly opinionated approach which is best of breed for some particular range of problems.

Many companies like that also have a sales approach which is driven by person-to-person sales and the goal of the web site is not to "knock people's socks off" but rather to not introduce any additional objections. (i.e. it is all black because the even though the head salesman is the most conventional guy you've ever met, the web designer is a lolligoth.)
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My advice hasn't changed in the last few years: avoid the idiosyncratic TLS libraries, and stick with OpenSSL / BoringSSL / LibreSSL. Libraries like PolarSSL are (somewhat) less likely to have the simple memory corruption bugs that OpenSSL has had, but more likely to have crypto flaws.
The copy is occurring on the phone number input, not the password screen.
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Because of government red tape and regulations and delays around creating a 'new' drug even if it's molecularly identical to an existing off-patent approved drug.

If a quick run in the mass spectrometer was sufficient to start selling a generic, this crap wouldn't happen. I don't understand the knee-jerk calls for more regulation when it's clear that regulation is what's allowing this unethical business model to work.
First off. The report links violence in video games to "increases in aggressive behavior, aggressive cognitions and aggressive affect, and decreases in prosocial behavior, empathy and sensitivity to aggression", NOT violent crimes.

Secondly, (http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations) just as correlation does not imply causation, a lack of correlation does not imply a lack of causation.
Off the top of my head, memes are one of the biggest contributions. Examples such as nyan cat, rickrolling, crudely drawn cartoons etc. Not to mention 4channers once even rigged the Time man of the year poll. One can also find negative influences such as extreme trolling.

The influence is not on the technical side of things, but more to do with shaping internet culture.
This seems like a plus? Market interest in health tech/quantified self seems at an all-time high.
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That story just makes me sad. Like, from the bottom of my soul and my hacker's heart kinda sad.
Putting it up there, having it there (owner or AWS?), viewing it there, or having copies ending up on the viewer's disk?
Because the only way to make your signal appear more random is to add more redundancy. In order to make it look like an absolute random signal you'd have to add infinite redundancy.
This goes pretty far back into the past.

For instance, Leonardo was a military engineer for a large chunk of his life, and many of his inventions are clearly military-themed.
Having a credible level of deturance might not need cutting edge aircraft, but things have progressed past the point where pointed sticks are sufficent so some form of flight capability is required.
2ch also offered a paid post deletion service used by political parties when Nishimura was running it, after the 2ch coup he scraped the site and started 2ch.sc

This is the guy who runs 2ch/8ch https://twitter.com/xerxeswatkins
> Indian government authorizes generics, regardless of the patent status

That is only for drugs considered 'life saving' though.
From what I've heard, the cost of research is already heavily nationalized via the NIH and other grants.

In typical US fashion, though, the profits are privatized.

Actually, I don't believe letting the government take over would be good in the long run. The most direct fix would be to immediately revoke the various laws that disallow American citizens and companies from buying approved drugs in foreign markets at massively reduced prices and then reselling them in the US.

Big pharma has for years now been slashing their US workforce and moving to third world countries. Another example of labor getting to compete in the global market, while capital enjoys privileged advantages.
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Or, you know, you could remove the stupid regulations around generics. I trust Bayer is capable of copying some crappy 60-year-old drug without the FDA taking 6 months to approve it.
HIPAA has strict standards for storage and transmission.

So that would be the person putting it there.

But you can fax medical data under HIPAA so go figure.
Improving things just to improve them and research just for curiosity's sake are foreign concepts to those running the markets.
CRFs directly estimate the posterior/conditional model you care about (it tells you how to tag things), whereas a HMM estimates the joint model which you then use for inference. The general feeling is that it is actually easier to learn the posterior model than then joint model. (And the insight of linear models like support vector machines is that it is easier to just learn the most likely label than it is to estimate the label-given-observation probability distribution.)

In fact a linear-chain CRF is little more than the discriminative version of an HMM. (And an HMM is just a sequential naïve Bayes classifier, and a linear-chain CRF is just a sequential logistic regression classifier. And, while I'm at it, a max-margin markov network is just a sequential support vector machine.)
Oh, no doubt. Realistically I don't expect my phone to be secure from the lockscreen, it's more to keep pests out. Anything secure is from full disk encryption, passworded SU, etc. As far as person-looking-over-you protection, they're not bad.
Why would they need samples when the chemical structure is so widely known[1]? It's not like it's a biologic where sequence and other formulation details are critically important. Can you explain?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrimethamine

Edit: I noticed that paulmd, further down, explained why this is important. I didn't realize the rules were this stupid. The FDA should be able to force companies to make their product available for comparison testing. It's insane that it isn't the case.
You’re partially right at least. It’s now a completely undisguised harassment campaign.
His resume should be pretty damn impressive though. Those numbers are huge.
I pine for the WIRED of yesteryear. The current publication is but a pallid, embarrassing shadow of a formerly brilliant publication. It's now on a par with VICE, GQ or some such, and quite frankly, it is heartbreaking. The guiding light of my youth essentially extinguished (particularly as I grew up in nineties Italy, from where it provided a fascinating and prescient window into the social aspects of tech).

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You can sell value adds such as additional services or support. Nothing stops you from selling an open source project as is, either, you just have to be a aware that you are essentially competing with your own "free version".

There are also a couple of good Open Source consortiums that are run as non-profits. They act as a 501(c)3 parent organization that handles a lot of the legal footprint for the open source projects they manage and in return they provide a useful, charitable way for businesses and enterprises and individuals to donate to open source projects that they use and have it count as charitable giving that can be used to a tax credit advantage. You aren't going to get rich on "donation-ware", but it certainly is a good way to get smart people to help pay for the maintenance of long-term open source projects.
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Secret 2: All of the marketing psychology stuff, Edward Bernay's "propzganda", etc., is not really used by direct marketers. A handful of things are useful "tricks" (risk reversal, urgency, etc.) but marketing is not a handful of magic spells. The creative itself is half about telling people your Unique Value Proposition, and half empathy for your customer. Empathy is the root of all expert creative.

Secret 3: The trick of direct marketing is not persuading people, it's getting in front of people who already want what you have and making it easy for them to get it.