skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the real issue here is the weakness of the passwords your bank is willing to accept.
So far you guys have overlooked what was possibly her greatest contribution to humanity.

She was credited with coining the phrase "It is better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."

In all seriousness, she was an amazing person. Whenever I hear someone start complaining that women shouldn't be allowed to pursue a career, I think of all of the things that we wouldn't have if it weren't for women like Grace Hopper.

Edit: Someone posted the quote before I finished writing. Good job!
Flaunting charity seems to negate the effects of the charitable giving some. Perhaps that's a pet-peeve of mine; however, it has effectively:

* raised his company profile;

* draw potential employees to his company, though I fear that might be for the wrong reasons: "bonuses here are ~amazing~" as opposed to "I love the work I do here" (money vs love-of-the-art)

Also, did he do a good thing? I know this sounds silly; but, why couldn't he have just had it in the employee contract that all employees will be getting X% of the dividends, based on some criteria; or, just given everyone stock so they could reep the rewards of dividends directly. The latter seems less effective in the spirit of the giving than the former.
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If I remember well, last year we stumbled upon a similar case. We'll know after the announcement. As far as I know there have not been any iOS 6.0 rumors, so this is a high bet.

If 6.0 is unvelied next week, then Apple is doing that on purpose, as they know Ars checks their logs for that kind of content. However, if they stick to 5.1, then we'll know it's some kind of prank, and Ars will probably think twice before publishing the same article next year
Why is nobody using SSL Client Certificates?
Just standard propaganda. Pro-Life, PATRIOT Act, "enhanced interrogation"...
What was Microsoft's ROI on their $150 million investment?
If this is a prank it's not a very good one:

1. If there is a retina-display iPad 3 then they're faking something that actually exists.

2. If there isn't then they're setting up the unreleased product to not meet expectations.
AndyAtUdacity:

We have seen a lot of questions about homework 1.4. While we don't have time to check everyone's code, it seems like the majority of problems fall into one of a few cases.

1. Students deleted or modified the code above the comment section. This section was necessary for grading purposes. Admittedly this is not the most robust system and we will try our best to make future homework more clear about what you can modify.

2. Students redefined the show() function. While this wasn't explicitly forbidden, this had the same affect on the grading as modifying the show command. The reason you couldn't do this is because we actually redefine the show command in our grading script. This was an effort to prevent us from grading you wrong if your solution included print statements for debugging.

3. Students did not make their solution general enough. These solutions tended to only work for a world of 20 cells. We tested with a variety of worlds, so such a solution would not have been marked as correct.

We apologize for the confusion and the effect this had on some of your grades for the first hw. I hope everyone still enjoyed the homework, we put a lot of work into making it and we are as disappointed as you when it doesn't turn out perfectly.

Please mark this solution as correct so other students can see the "official" answer. Thanks!

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k_l_s:

I guess I'm not sure what to make of this answer. While I understand that you have what seems to be thousands of users and so individual attention would be inplausible, you are presenting a rating system through which you are communicating to folks (admittedly, I am one of them) that their material mastery is poor when it likely is not. It would seem to me that the solution is to fix the grading system or to do away with grades, if it is technologically infeasible to correctly evaluate an individual's mastery of the material. Simply explaining that the grading technology is lacking but leaving the grades in place is demotivating and, quite honestly, perplexing. We students don't know the full implication of these grades, but almost certainly they will remain in your database and might even have significance, in the future, that would make some of us regret simply ignoring them. I presume that I am not the only one who would like to see the system work.

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No, that is extremely not likely.

The only (realistic) way to generate bitcoins today is with GPU or other specialized hardware that doesn't exist on webservers.

These servers that were compromised were used to manage generated bitcoins. One was used by a pooled mining service (mined coins were sent to the server then payed out to miners) and the other was a faucet service which would give a little bit of bitcoins to new users. The other 6 servers that were compromised are unknown to me.
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"All I need is a commitment that Microsoft will keep developing for the Mac..."

I guess this led to Apple's development of iWork and Safari so that they would not have to depend on Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer.
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I don't think there's anything plausible about inferring anything from a UA string, but you make a good point here. 5.1 should come on Wednesday, hopefully for all current iOS devices and not just iPad 3.
this is exactly the sort of attitude that gets exploited to pass bad laws. A law restricting free speech or violating privacy should not be specific to any sort of behaviour, whether it's child porn or counterfeit drugs or pirated movies.

producing or selling counterfeit drugs is already illegal. the importation of those drugs is also illegal, if somebody is importing them customs already has the legal authority to stop it. it might be difficult to enforce, but that doesn't mean that more laws are the answer. passing more laws isn't going to make it more illegal, those laws are just going to be abused to infringe upon the rights of people who aren't actually producing or selling counterfeit drugs.
I think an important point is also that Minecraft can run on very low spec hardware, no need for fancy GPUs.
I agree with you in that I don't see the "living pictures" aspect as particularly useful, I think you'll probably have a given point you want to be in focus, and rarely will want to switch between foreground and background.

I see it as more useful in that it eliminates the issue where you take a great photo and then realize that the focus was off. It's a shame the resolution is so low, but I think this is a very interesting first commercial foray into the area.
Note: When I added this comment, the title had the suffix "by ESTHER DYSON". It's been fixed since.
I guess it depends on what form of martial arts you are talking about. Some only focus on "dirty fighting". The whole purpose is to maim the other person so that they have no choice but to quit fighting.
Thank you for the fix, thank you for the quick response, and thank you for putting your content online.

I hope it proves to be a catalyst for the next great idea.
If he came out and made a bunch of ridiculous claims about actual events, I would find it appropriate to assume that he was a liar.

In this article, his ridiculous claim was simply his personal opinion about the psychological state of the average soldier, so I find it pretty likely that he was actually a soldier, even though his opinion is clearly wrong.
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I meant situations where you're at a disadvantage - as I said, doing any kind of martial arts will keep you in shape and will decrease your reaction time (unless you "freeze" in a real situation), but when you don't know how your attacker will move or he's got a weapon in their hands, it's not of much help (not as much as most instructors make it out to be, anyway).

And you'd be surprised at how many hits a fat, untrained drunk man can take and dish out, especially once adrenaline kicks in...
Politicians are the body and voice of society. I hate to expose an ugly truth to you, but it is not a single person deciding to go to war. It takes many people to nod in agreement before bombs start being dropped and troops start marching.
I know right? Next you'll be telling me there is entire sites devoted to covering just gadget news! This world...
I'd agree with that, but I imagine not for the reasons I presume you mean.

Microsoft's small investment ($150M) in Apple was really to prop them up just enough to avoid Apple's bankruptcy. Apple may very well have died had they not received that cash injection, and Microsoft, facing pressure from the DoJ regarding their monopoly, could point to this barely-hanging-on company as viable competition.

It is interesting to ponder, in that context, that Apple likely owes its existence to that act.
Agreed; the title of the article is linkbait at best. This is far less "patent pressure" and more an appeal to a long-time colleague to lay down arms because it was a lose-lose for everyone. For Jobs, it was more of a concession that though he knew he was in a fight that he couldn't win. Truthfully, I find that story far more interesting and compelling than the ridiculous assertion that this was a form of "patent pressure."
The context that is missing is there was a DOJ lawsuit against MS at the time. MS needed someone propped up as slight competitor..hence the deal as otherwise MS could have just waited until Apple ran out of money and their patent problem would be solved.

The quote might be wishful thinking
They are pixels at 100%, but a lot of mobile devices have a default viewport width making this meaningless.
like playing these games. But it's a game... I thaiboks also and like it.

But would never be a soldier in any army. Can't kill people of do any of this shit. Except if there was immediate threat for my family....
If you accidentally kill innocents you probably aren't very good at the game.

(ammo is a precious resource)
Grav Suit - A very cool HTML5 game
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It is not dumb, naive, or wrong to ask this, it is an important question facing all of us for quite sometime to come.

Here's a potential example that might show the limits of privacy-- online or otherwise. It was an anecdote provided by Charles Duhigg from his new book "The Power of Habit" (excerpt here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...). The story is that a father discovered that his teenage daughter was pregnant because Target sent selected coupons to their home, addressed to the daughter. You can read how Target figured that one out-- very fascinating data and statistical analysis -- but the point is this. A guy such as yourself, who follows the law and has nothing to be embarrassed about, might still feel a little uneasy about how much others know about you and the people in your life, and the purchasing decisions you all make. At the very least, I think most people would say that they would rather hear the truth about something as personal as their daughter's pregnancy from the daughter, rather than from a corporation analyzing your data.

Having said all that, we have benefited greatly from Google, Facebook, etc. So I am also conflicted about this issue.
Ask HN: Is there some site that tracks news about e-commerce payment solutions?
There's nothing that quite has what I want out there yet. I'd like to keep track of what is new in this area without worrying about missing something. Is there a site out there that tracks this? Or does anyone here have a method they use to keep track of things like this?
I think this is missing the difference between grabbing your Facebook login and using Facebook's OpenID capability. The only piece of information StackOverflow gets back from Facebook is the fact that you're logged in there.
But it will be eventually be written in JavaScript.
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Over the course of an hour or less we set up a front-to-back analytics solution. The server is hosted on Amazon EC2, the client is run on iOS devices. I'm going to tell you how you can do the same.
There are some logical flaws with the sociopath label, but there is certainly some truth to it, at least from my own experience. I'll provide a single example.

One of my childhood bullies - let's call him Tom - is most definitely a sociopath, and he joined the marines, along with his two brothers who are not unlike him. All three of these guys have been violent for as long as I've known them. During middle school and high school (and the couple years after where he happened to live in the same city as my university), he would pick fights with anyone and everyone for the dumbest reasons. I think he did it just to do it. Oddly enough, despite all the bullying and "shittalk" towards me over the years, he never fought me - although we did come close a couple of times but I just laughed at his stupidity and that was that. One of the last "conversations" I had with Tom was shortly before he went off to boot camp (or whatever you want to call it) and I asked him why he was going; he explained that he had nothing else better to do so he might as well go kill some people. He said those exact words, and he was dead serious.

If you're wondering why I didn't avoid the guy like the plague, it's because he and I had a lot of the same friends and he would always throw parties as his house to which my friends would invite me. Despite Tom's overly violent behavior, he was always very popular with the ladies, and most people really liked him. This is the same guy who posts pictures of himself on facebook cutting off the heads of goats in his marine gear. My theory is that because of his aggressive behavior (and using it to "dominate" others), people perceived him as an alpha male. Can I get a second opinion on this? Because so many people liking such a violent sociopath has always bothered and confused me.

Back on topic though... while Tom and his brothers are an example of some confirmation of the article's statements, as far as marines (or army, navy, etc.) go, for every Tom I've known, I've also known at least a few very easy-going men. So the author is partially right but his argument is flawed. Violent sociopaths without education probably do gravitate towards the military and war, but the statistics have got to be way off - not nearly 80% - but that's just from the small sample set of my experiences.
It's nice, but it's "old news", so to speak.
It's about par for the course around here. You'll similarly see headlines about patents that were won (that were really filed) and acquisitions that happened (that were merely discussed).

This is all in addition to the usual link-baity headlines such as "Plan to FAIL!,", "How being lazy made me a millionaire," etc. etc.
I don't know that the full numbers are well known, but this Ars article reveals some of the details:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/05/apples-stock-r...

FTA:
All told, Microsoft spent a little over $151 million to acquire 18.2 million shares of Apple stock, for roughly $8.31 per share. Microsoft confirmed that it sold all of its AAPL holdings some time ago, and likely did so at a healthy profit—after all, AAPL has traded significantly higher than $8 for many years. But what if Microsoft had held on to that investment just a little longer?
The appellate overturning of the DOJ's successful case to split Microsoft up was surely worth more than any investment in AAPL. These aren't directly tied, obviously, but a seriously infirm Apple (at the time, the only serious competitor in the consumer computing market -- this was before Linux broke out and long before smartphones) might very well have changed a few minds in the 9th circuit.
yes I do. Too long to explain, but this is a good start read: http://www.salon.com/2010/12/06/america_collapse_2025/
Low-level, trained MMA fighters would wreck a street brawling toughman 10/10 times. If they rush the MMA fighter with a broken bottle, they'd get slammed to the floor on their own velocity and the MMA fighter would twist around, take their back, grab and arm, get their legs around it pull. Good luck fighting with a broken arm.

We saw it play out recently. Remember Kimbo Slice? If you don't, he used to post videos of him beating the crap out of regular dudes in street fights for money. He became a legend. People were saying he was unstoppable. He went to the UFC based on that and lost just about every major match he was in. Why? Because he doesn't train for the various martial arts the way even the lowliest fighter does there. He's currently in boxing, now, and likely will be back fighting normal people in the street for 500 bucks again.

Seriously, you think guys who train 8 hours a day in Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu aren't going to be good at beating you up? You think some street thug would rough up Junior Dos Santos or Anderson Silva? They would KILL the common man, likely in short order. A broken glass would just make them more careful about it (and piss them off even more).

This isn't even to say if Silva grabbed a glass, too. Then what?
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everyone has different requirements...
clearly those of the world don't match yours.
Exactly. This 'challenge' has absolutely nothin to do with what PandoDaily is talking about. There's a huge difference between giving your information to a trusted company versus just throwing it out in public.
"Killing people is just so... unenlightened."

Care to elaborate? As far as I know, war practiced at the societal level is usually not for personal development.
That is the problem with painting the martial arts with such a broad brush. Many styles have techniques specifically designed to deal with knife/gun/weapon attacks, and some styles are designed mostly around dealing with such things.

A broken bottle is probably not as dangerous as you may think. A knife, you are probably going to get cut but your attacker will fair far worse. A gun becomes less useful the closer an attacker is, during something like a mugging, they are typically very close.

But, even when learning how to deal with an attacker with a knife or gun, any decent instructor will tell you the best response is just to give them what they want and get out of there. It is the same as when engaging in just a fist fight, it is more a matter of 'is this worth it' or 'do I have a choice here' rather than 'can I take this guy'.
UX mind trick or not, the strict password policy DID ultimately get me to sign in with my Facebook credentials.

My conclusion here is that a strict password policy can actually help a website get more of their users to open up their Facebook profiles to them.
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I just checked my Google Analytics. I have (in my personal blog) 1 visit with this screen resolution, browser Internet Explorer. Then I checked one of my job's biggest sites (Apple related), 6 visits, Opera and IE. Checked a smaller site... Added Chrome to the mix.

TL;DR: The screen resolution argument is quite crapish.
The author of the Pando article is 18 years old. He's not at the age where he has been burned by something he did when he was young and dumb. He's hard at work building a great foundation for what that moment arrives, though!
If it was possible to do your own processing of the raw data, some very cool effects could likely be achieved. After all, this camera is capturing precise info on the distance to every pixel.

Examples: realistic atmospheric effects, adjustment of color/contrast based on distance (so you could emphasize what you want), correction of color casts in mixed-lighting scenes, motion blur where the length/direction of the blur was a function of distance, synthesized 3d/stereo views.

Figuring out exactly what to do with the data in these kinds of images is going to take years of experimentation and creative effort. At the moment, they aren’t that interesting for non-technical users who just want to make pictures.
Well I don't think Apple (atleast not when run by Jobs) was ever 'happy' with GPL. Back in the NeXT days Jobs actually tried to circumvent the GPL when they wanted to use GCC as a backend for their proprietary ObjC frontend by claiming that the end-user would do the linking and it wasn't until it was clear that they legally couldn't do that they submitted the ObjC frontend to GCC.

Apple wants to incorporate open source into their proprietary solutions, OSX, XCode, Instruments etc which in turn is part of their lock-in strategy so I'd expect them to remove all GPL code from their systems whenever they can.
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Why is this even news? Don't we already have multiple corroborated sources verifying the existence of the Retina display iPad3? And what's the other takeaway - that iOS6 will eventually be released?

Wouldn't the opposite of this information be what's newsworthy?
They would have made a little under 1.2 [edit: 9.7, typod math] billion dollars if they still held the investment today. Which would increase their cash and short term investment reserves by about 2% [edit: 10%].

Microsoft is printing money. Cash is not what they need or care about.
This is revisionism. Now that Apple's back on top, they can afford to re-write history. Apple's patents were worthless. They invented nothing; everything they claimed was prior art. The real story is Microsoft bailed Apple out. Microsoft had several motivations, none of which was settling patent disputes. They wanted to crush netscape. They wanted to demonstrate to the DOJ that they weren't a monopoly. They wanted to counteract the growth of Linux. Apple was more than willing help out.
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curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPI OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/535.8 (KHTML, like Gecko)" http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/03/ipads-using-ios-6-...

Now Ars has iPad with iOS 7 user-agents in their logs too :)
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I don't think this brilliant at all. Anyone who decided to forego the FB Connect route is already someone who wants to sign up. By making it incredibly painful, it'll lessen the chance of him even signing up. Sure, you'll get more FB signups, but the absolute # of signups will decrease.

And what's the advantage of more FB signups? This isn't a social network like Foursquare or Pinterest.
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> War is part of society? To barbaric ones maybe. Civilized societies don't settle disputes by mass murder.

It's quite the opposite -- only civilized societies can have the kind of logistics, range, military culture, ability to support the warrior class (or standing armies), and numbers to engage in organized warfare. Conflicts between small bands of foragers can hardly be even called war.

Not to mention mass murder which absolutely requires the kind of discipline, organization and leadership only a very cohesive and civilized society can provide. It just doesn't happen outside of civilization, no one has the means, or could benefit from it. Anything of the scale of holocaust is only possible in a highly industrialized country.

> So now poor kids with few options are recruited into the military. Problem solved.

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

> Enlisted recruits in 2006 and 2007 came primarily from middle-class and upper-middle-class backgrounds. Low-income neighborhoods were underrepresented among enlisted troops, while middle-class and high-income neighborhoods were overrepresented.

This and much more on the topic: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/08/who-serves-...
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