skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is also a guy who left the gov't military to become a "private military contractor". He's a lifer and sometimes you have to try to bring everyone to your level by casting them as "sociopaths" in order to sleep at night.

We do it for real, time and time again, with no other motivation but pay, leave, and the chance to brutalise whomever we deem the “enemy”.

scary.
Few people will like this, too, including myself, but the truth is that as long as they aren't "our" women and children...

I'm kissing my hard-earned 198 away here by speaking truth. Hate the truth, not the speaker.
That's a ridiculous question, and it implies serious problems with your company's procedures.

I do a lot of "R&D" type projects that have no deadlines. But for the projects that have hard deadlines, my company has only ever missed one in our 5 years of operation.

We do this by not having any 'political' influence on schedules. Our engineers make the schedules based on information they have about the tasks. If we don't have enough information, we refuse to declare a schedule for that task.

I think a lot of companies are effectively doing research projects, and are trying to schedule them. You can't schedule learning, or creation of truly unique concepts. If a project requires research, we split the research out as a separate task and refuse to give numbers for it. Instead, we explain the approach we will follow.
All this tells us is that you typically re-use your passwords, and that they are fairly weak to begin with.
You're being too literal about the word psychopath. The original article claims, in essence, that war creates an environment where ordinary people can kill without it affecting them much personally. That is, from a behavioral point of view, what psychopaths do in regular society.

The article definitely isn't claiming that the 5% of so of humanity that is genetically incapable of feeling (much) empathy (i.e. sociopaths) make up 80% of the military corpus. The math obviously doesn't work out.

The article claims that war changes people. Some end up with PTSD, other people cope in another other way that makes them look like psychopaths.
As long as they insist on breaking DNS there will still be easy solutions for us geeks, like using caches local IP lists. Just hope they don't start blocking actual IP traffic based on deep inspection.
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This assumes the NSA don't have a root CA they can use to man in the middle SSL - an assumption that seems unlikely, given other well-publicised breaches of CA's:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/249510/trustwa...

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/man-in-the-mid...

http://www.darkreading.com/authentication/167901072/security...

http://betanews.com/2010/03/25/has-ssl-become-pointless-rese...

http://lwn.net/Articles/372264/

http://blogs.cisco.com/security/black_hat_usa_2009_summary/

... etc
Microsoft's small investment ($150M) in Apple was really to prop them up just enough to avoid Apple's bankruptcy

Apple had over $1 billion in cash at the time of the investment. You can argue that the investment and continued development of Mac Office help shore up investor confidence, but the cash made little difference to Apple's bottom line.

http://apps.shareholder.com/sec/viewerContent.aspx?companyid...
Are you able to name your VM's on Linode?
"If society tells you to go kill somebody and you do, you can't be a sociopath."

...what? I'm at a loss for words on this one. Just because society - a large, faceless group prone to rallying around propaganda and emotional bandwagons - embraces a cause, doesn't mean it's acceptable by default to kill in the name of that cause.

And it certainly doesn't mean you're not a sociopath.
I'd like to get an idea on how important an openness of a data archive format is. Not in FSF sense, but practically speaking.

Has anyone had any luck/problems with transferring a history of backups from one software to another?
Btw, checked and found some "Safaries" - 535.8+ with a screen resolution of 1024x600 (operating system version not set, some with Flash support...)
.Co is nice idea:) Thank you so much OnTheNigerian! and I like eatand.co!
or:

c) Of the few hundred employees with access to iPad 3s, at least one slipped up and visited public websites with it.
Thank you so much mkelley! I love Grubster. I posted on http://www.facebook.com/questions/356536851036409
A few days before the MacBook Air announcement, references to a MacBook Air appeared in Adium's server logs.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/01/macworld-ars-macbo...

Given how Apple is so notably obsessed with security around new products, it certainly seems plausible that if they wanted to hide it, they would figure out how and make it happen. So I wonder what the probability is of a controlled leak.

And this info would be the perfect thing to leak, because it doesn't tip their hand to show anything we don't already know. It's already known that a new iPad will be announced on Wednesday. 2x resolution LCD panels have surfaced in China, so we already know that. And of course Apple is working on iOS 6, because they make iOS.
I added them on http://www.facebook.com/questions/356536851036409
W saddens me; he's clearly dealing with guilt by just labeling himself and his buddies as sociopaths.
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Awesome work! It did take five mins to understand what the service was. But wonderful piece of thought! :) +1
I present to you: Ghengis Kahn. 40 million people died as a result of his campaigns. Civilized society? Not at all. Just organized tribal warfare.

> Actually, poor kids seem to be enlisting at lower rates (relatively) to richer kids

Huh. I stand corrected.
Same here - 12 visits with Chrome for Windows last month with this resolution
If you really want to debate if this was evil or not (and if it becomes less evil if you outsource it, pass the buck or bend over to big content) then there was a HackerNews discussion (Maybe two or three...) on this topic. People trotted out their apologies there for this unacceptable action, so I'm sure there are good rebuttals there.

The basic question that I asked was: Why is MS held to a different standard to the big guys of the internet (chiefly Apple, Facebook, Google, Oracle, paypal/ebay)? What recent actions do we have to compare them on?
IPads running iOS 6 crop up in Web traffic logs
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Do you have links so I can check out some web based word processors that deliver more of a desktop class experience than Google Docs does? Especially one where the UI is done entirely with Canvas?
Thanks AznHisoka! Mywasabi sounds nice! Btw, do you like Hunter x Hunter? I thought it from your name:)
None of the sources is what I would consider reliable. Multiple unreliable sources doesn't improve the reliability that much unless they are reporting independently.
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That's more a comment about you than about SO. Also, I don't see why you single out Facebook--I suspect a large amount of people use Google, maybe even more than Facebook. And the technically savvy sort could always use any OpenID provider.
The communist regimes of 50 years ago were more than happy to protect our (American) ideas from foreigners. I suppose that in fighting so hard to undue this, we thought they would buy our products but not clone them.
Uhm, no?

I added the Facebook login option* to Stack Overflow, and I can assure you we don't really care which credential you use. We don't do anything different based on Facebook/non-Facebook creds.

Go look at your app settings and you'll see that the Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow app only accesses your Facebook account when you login. We don't do any subsequent queries, by design (we actually discard the auth token, but that's harder to prove).

The vast vast majority of the accounts on Stack Overflow use Google as a login provider. This has basically always been the case (http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/31021/130213).

* We waited until they supported OAuth 2.0, as we weren't comfortable with the older Facebook Connect.
revorad, thank you so much for unique ideas. I love eat with pete and dico dinner especially. I really laughed when I saw eat with pete haha
>I feel the most fundamental motivating factor for the llvm project was Clang.

eeh? iirc LLVM precludes Clang by atleast 5 years and LLVM was initially created to replace GCC's backend while using it's frontend (in fact during most of it's lifetime LLVM has relied entirely on GCC as a frontend and it still uses it through the dragonegg GCC plugin).
This is news because no one really knows what Apple will release and not release.The rumors and chatter before the iPhone 4S indicated an iPhone 5 with a new design but that didn't pan out. That is the reason this is newsworthy and this is the reason for Apple's secrecy, to increase the speculation in the media.
[Edit: math was corrected above]
I'm not following your math, 18.2 million shares of Apple today would be worth about $9.8 billion--for a $151 million investment. I'm sure there are nuances that I don't fully grasp; but that's a huge discrepancy.

FWIW, I didn't mean to imply that MS should have held onto that investment; I was only answering the question about the purely financial ROI.
10-12 months multipliers as others in this thread has said. And that's being a tad optimistic.

You mention all the reasons why it should be higher, but look at the other perspective.

- You say good, organic SEO. But remember, Google can penalize anyone, even if you are 100% white hat, and if it's a mistake, would you trust the support dudes will help you?

- You say no work to maintain. But how about someone who has no clue how to run a dynamic site? There's work involved in moving files, setting things up, setting up email, DNS, name servers, file permissions.. etc, let alone fixing any issues that might arise.

- You say viral loop but it means almost nothing because the dudes who come in through the viral loop are worth less than the ppl who come in through the search traffic.

- You say stats are legit, but remember, noone knows who you are in the internet. You're not selling to a friend or family member. And ppl will always be suspicious of someone selling something that's raking in cash, they'll ask why are you selling it in the first place?
Hmm, indeed.

You'd have to write an assembly program and then a hand-translated binary version that can run directly on the bare metal with no OS. And use it to compile the "real" compiler.

I wonder if one could make that simple enough to do be "somewhat reasonable," yet complex enough to compile the real compiler. Probably! Though it may take a team of people quite some time.

I wonder if government(s) have infrastructure/teams that do this already, or if there are any open source projects aimed at this kind of thing.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'finished', but I almost always do. I try to be functionally complete (albeit sloppy) at about the half-way point, then I can start refactoring.
My evil twin has been gradually taking over an "answers" site that has licensed technology from SO and my impression is that there's a good reason for this enforcement -- actually, asking questions is a better way to get massive amount of Karma rather than answering, particularly asking the kind of questions that lead to knock-down drag-out discussions and lots of links. If they didn't attempt to suppress this, serious Karma whores would get their Karma by asking questions and soon the people at the top of the leaderboard would be question askers, not question answerers.
Really? This is to herd you into using FB?

First issue: How do you know this is the intention?

Second issue: Who cares? You are free to not use the site.

Third issue: There are other options. I sign in using Google's authentication. I did not even know they had FB integration.

Seems more like this post is an excuse to whine about things than anything "real".
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After seeing these mind-blowing quadracopter videos from UPenn popping up online all over the place for the past couple years, its great to finally see a culminating talk about the work being done there. Congrats guys!
If the visits are from Apple's block of IPs, the argument is not really crapish. It can be that Apple employees are trolling Ars, but there's a better chance they are testing pre-release devices.
Thanks; that's good to know. Thank you also for jsonlint.com; great tool.
I did a martial art for a while where we trained against bottle/knife attacks etc.

I think that training was mostly useless, some nerd in a dojo attacking you in a predetermined way with a plastic bottle while you do "hip throw #3" is going to be very different to a real fight.
PandoDaily appears opaque about their bias to me, so I don't read it.
Presumably, the stock would be reissued at a point where forces other than supply & demand would have had an impact on the price as well. Yes, the additional available shares on the market would cause a dip--but that dip would not necessarily negate the other effects that (could have) impacted the stock price since the buy-back.

I'm not ignoring the effect; I'm just not viewing it in vacuum.
As far as I know, no one has built that yet. But just because canvas allows a greater degree of flexibility, I think it's a worthy experiment for someone to do.
Cut your finger? Save a life.
same here, now in Toronto.
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In that case, you'd likely be charged under a fraud statute (misrepresenting a product) versus counterfeiting (misrepresenting the source of a product). Selling a sugar pill isn't a trademark violation. Stamping Viagra on it is.
hbg, thank you for advice! I know the facebook question isn't best solution, but I couldn't find any better solution...I thought facebook questions has transparency at least. Anyway I'll email you soon after lunch:)
You have no assurance that something that works in the USA will work also in Germany, Italy, EU or (even more difficult ) any african or asian country.

As said by others, there are language, cultural and legal differences.

EDIT (missed a piece): Execution is not only design and coding, it's also verifying the market, adapting the product to this market etc..

note: i'm not justifing them (at least not completely), just making some point.
> I still love SO, but am sort of discouraged from starting any discussions unless it's a very direct question.

That is by design and the direction that they want to focus the site.
I added them on http://www.facebook.com/questions/356536851036409!
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Is this a joke post?

8 unique characters? I just checked (as I use a password manager) - 90% of my hand-coded passwords pass this test. The rest of my passwords are machine-generated - and most password generators are capable enough to guarantee unique characters and length.

Maybe StackOverflow's "cunning plan" [1] is really to force you to use a password manager or OpenID?

[1] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blackadder
At first I thought this was just embarrassingly wrong, but it's more than that; you fabricate details to try and make your point. This is what the SO login page looks like: http://i.imgur.com/4Z8P8.png

SO doesn't push Facebook logins -- they accept any OpenID login, and Facebook is one of 13 default options presented (besides just letting you type in whatever provider you want). They only accept OpenID logins -- the Stack Exchange option is just a Stack Exchange-provided OpenID. You can use that login with any OpenID-enabled website, including Stack Overflow. I can't believe you felt comfortable writing "they strongly encourage you to sign in using Facebook"

Furthermore, they don't even use the Facebook login you're thinking of. Facebook supports oauth, so they connect via that. They're not cleverly stealing all your Facebook data; oauth doesn't work that way. It just got funny when you complained that the password requirements were more complicated than banks, since banks are regularly mocked for their incredibly insecure password requirements

As far as I know they've never published what percentage of users use which type of OpenID, but I know at least myOpenID is very popular. Why you chose to use your Facebook account from one of a dozen options and then bitched that you used your Facebook account is completely beyond me
Completely agreed, even if all they did was break even on the deal financially (or honestly, even if all that money had eventually gone up in smoke) the value of having a real competitor to point to at that time was worth every penny.
But there are SO many chipsets they put out. e.g. I have a Core 2 Duo system, but the exact chipset is T9400.

Intel could keep track of which chipsets are vulnerable and which are not, and carefully pick which kind gets released to who.

Obviously, Intel employees aware of the strategy would only use the invulnerable chipsets themselves.
Thanks for the feedback. However, I work with a bunch of people all day. I don't work at home. The cool thing is my work place is nearly across the street from my apartment.
Yeah, but I'm asking about roboneal's personal experience, not the article.

Edit: what bothers me about the article is that it seems unlikely that a true sociopath would describe himself in these terms.
This is what password managers are for. Here's one that the manager I use generated for me:

87NTK7g9M;xwF@aQ7tqTK{d(87ftLd4(;a$w]#f7X4<yAFNFwk

I believe that meets their requirements.

I like StackOverflow's login implementation. I believe StackOverflow was the first site I encountered that I wanted to sign up for and whose OpenID implementation accepted i-names. I had =tzs for something like 2 or 3 years before finally being able to actually use it.
I think you might be ascribing too much to the marketing types. Regardless of the company, a "controlled leak" would probably be someone from PR (credible) talking to a single (or few) outlets. They almost certainly have no idea of (a) what a user-agent string is, (b) that it is logged to servers, and (c) that high-credibility news outlets are monitoring user-agent strings.

I'm putting my money on gaffe.
"It is interesting to ponder, in that context, that Apple likely owes its existence to that act."

Except it doesn't.
StackOverflow is just doing the right thing enforcing a strict password rule. If people don't want to create an account with a strong password and instead end up using FB connect, then it's just what the user chose. I don't think that amounts to StackOverflow being cunning and tricking anybody. I get your point but don't think you should use those words.
s/cynicism/trolling/

FTFY
Did it work pre-vista? If so, I agree that's kind of a lame change. It seems like a pretty minor issue in the grand scheme, since generally users shouldn't be mucking around in the registry, but it's lame nonetheless. I assume that if it worked previously, it was decided that the effort to implement key-specific UAC was just too high, so they implemented whole-app elevation.
I like one point in particular that he touched on. That is, the military's careful manipulation of the media and public perception and the lens through which we view military personnel.

I know I'm supposed to laud infantrymen as brave and patriotic (which is why I'd never voice this in public), but frankly..nearly every frontline veteran I've ever met seems like an uneducated, violent and scary thug. I know that's basically what you have to be to fight on the frontlines, but the disparity between public opinion and reality is shocking.
What technology was used except backbone/coffeescript? Something like PhoneGap?
> Civilized society?

Yes, of course. It came to existence when Ghengis Khan united nomadic tribes but so did the countries in Europe -- Franks were a confederation of tribes, Poland was founded by a tribe subduing its neighbours, etc, etc. That is how civilization is born.

If it wasn't for that they wouldn't be able to reach Europe. That is why we call them the Mongol Empire.
I said that EE paid people for answers, I never mentioned cash. SO has only every used earned reputation (as a form of gamification) to entice users to answer questions.
This isn't a "non-focused" signal. This is being directed by an antenna in one dimension. A perfect antenna transmitting through empty space would send a signal that does not diminish at all with distance. The only attenuation would be due to imperfections in the antenna causing a gradual widening of the beam, and obstacles in the path of the signal.
But why do you single out Facebook? They offer a total of 15(!!!) ways to log in, including traditional and any form of OpenID.

It really does smell like link-bait by singling out two large sites.
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thats iOS 7 running Safari 535.8 from iOS 6
Reminds me of my app. I had that idea 4 years ago when I was 16: http://namsremote.nambrot.com

Wonderful memories to get started into hacking/dev
> Given the fact that this has happened repeatedly with the launches of past Apple products, I find it difficult to believe that Apple would have made this "mistake" again

This is the part that excludes (c). If they didn't want to leak, they would've configured the prototype units to report themselves as normal iPad 2s.
I suspect they used US customary units because that's what's used in the video.

Anyway, if we're only going to talk about readability then I'll note that the text is imminently comprehensible to anyone with an intuitive grasp of said units. So the real question is one of functionality. (I'll put my vote in for metric, of course.)
The software retrieves the data and applies it from a list maintained by the software distributor. This sounds, from the high-level overview they gave, exactly the same as all update servers.
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I think the author just wanted to throw in the "Verizon pays billions" line. IMHO, they bought it so no one else could have it.
FTP is still the standard for file transfer in most large corporations. It is as secure as other methods.
Lots of Java exceptions for an HTML game!
>346 visits from a device with a screen resolution of 2048x1536

That's pretty weak, was that same device one that was providing a iOS 6 user agent? They don't appear to link those two together, so eh. I can see one Ars user who has an old CRT (like I had 10 years ago) running 2048x1536.
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There's an extra HTTP request to fetch the manifest on every page load.

In the same vein, does the browser check if files specified in the manifest expired? If yes it would once again waste some time...
> Tests have proven that 1.2 is approximately 3.29 quadrillion times faster than 1.1 and 4293% less likely to crash. It's science.

This sounds great!
Deadlines aren't difficult to hit if you can properly estimate the amount of time required. It sounds like in your case your deadlines are being pushed down from above without any regard to feasibility.

Obviously the larger in scope the project, the more likely the deadline is going to slip because more things can go wrong. A good project manager can help anticipate this and mitigate risk.