skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the trust thing. Lets say Ballmer anoints Mundie or someone else to 'fix' the overall vision thing. That person then sets down a plan for moving the company forward and if it means that the Office guys have to so suck their thumbs because it won't help their product then so be it.

What happens in these situations is that the powerful subgroup does its sort of machination move and tries to ambush the guy in some meeting or email or something. At that point Ballmer has to basically shoot the ambushers and allow the vision guy to exit untouched with this plan in place, up to and including firing someone on the ambush team. That is how you send the message through the highly politicized environment, you shoot people who try to put roadblocks in front of "your guy" (or gal). It works really well.

However, and its a real problem, Ballmer has to realize he has to do this, he has to get the vision guy on board or promoted, and then he's going to have to shoot some of the political party leaders publicly in order to get the others to fall in line. Now if he can't do that, then he's missing an important skill as CEO.
Half the time the UA sniffing has nothing to do with capabilities and just has to do with people only wanting to test in one browser and use only one set of prefixed CSS properties...
I bet you could do it with 5 1000fps cameras and some software trickery. The algorithm would likely be very similar to those used for superresolution merging of multiple photographs of the same scene.
Just looked MachTen up - http://www.tenon.com/products/mt1.jpg made me nostalgically remember afterstep which was the first window manager I used in linux.
If anything I'd bet that the 'fiefdoms' have quit warring as much?
I normally just provide the human who's going through the crowdsourcing interface with a link to that search on Google in a new window - no need to scrape anything if you do it like that :)
Your metaphor is flawed. By your metaphor this kid is an olympic basketball player being forced to practice sprinting. Who cares what's on the exam? Memorizing facts for high school tests isn't any real indicator of knowledge of intelligence. That is precisely what's wrong with education though. When I was in High School I got in trouble for designing software and writhing code on paper. Then I got hired by Microsoft when I was 18, and have been doing pretty well for myself since.
I would actually argue the exact opposite – sometimes the process makes all the difference for the level of respect one should accord to the piece.

For example: http://www.deviantart.com/#/d57smxx – that is a piece of vector art. If I didn't know that it was an image produced over 90 hours by an artist in a vector environment, I'd probably just say "decent portrait" and move on. Instead, I am floored and my respect for the creator of the piece is multiplied hugely.

How, exactly, do we separate the act of creativity from the product of it? The two are so intertwined that I think it's often hard to do.

In any case, I don't agree with the author of this piece. Technology advances and always resets the bar for technical achievement. That's a good thing – it challenges us to go beyond, to explore further, while opening new worlds to those who wouldn't or couldn't.

Instead of looking down one's nose to prove superiority, they ought to get out and make something better, harder, more interesting.
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I wish this information wasn't in a huge, confusing infographic.
Hiring a lawyer is like buying insurance for your legal needs. If you hire a lawyer, you get to sue the lawyer for malpractice if they mess up (which means your damages incurred as a result of the malpractice, plus legal fees paid, plus legal expenses paid to maintain the malpractice suit).
Okay let's break this down:

1. Wordstream is a PPC (Paid Search) (SEM) service company in Boston

2. Wordstream concludes that Google is leading an " Organic Search Listing Smack-Down" and Paid Search is beating out Organic "2:1" for "Commercial Intent" searches.

3. Wordstream wants to market this message to prospective customers, customers with "Commercial Intent" if you will.

4. Wordstream decides to use no less than 3 of the most over-used SEO (ORGANIC) tactics to market this message:

Tactic 1: Guest Blogging (on VentureFizz, BetaNews)
Tactic 2: Infographic (http://www.wordstream.com/articles/google-ads) see the giant embed code with no less than three links back to Wordstream)
Tactic 3: Over-Abundance of In-context backlinks: There are 14 links back to Wordstream in that one article.

Very funny.
You don't give money to Greenpeace because you are ignorant.
Looks like a bug in Konsole to me.
Why is it so hard for you to accept that many men simply don't find that acceptable?

I've left work in the middle of the day because my wife was hurt, or not feeling well. I've taken off time simply to take her to the doctor for "moral support" even though she was quite capable of going by herself. Either of us will take a kid to the doctor depending on who it's most convenient for.

It's not the 50's anymore. Most people with good relationships want to spend time together. I don't give a rat's ass if I get 30,50,100 million in 20 years for working ridiculous hours now. I could be dead by then. Right now I want to spend time with my family and that's worth giving up a lot of money for.
Hoorah for us all, even less viable products for us to choose from! I don't understand why people look up to Jobs, but still hate Bill Gates for his business practices during the 90's.

"Picasso had a saying - 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." - Steve Jobs﻿
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The "security questions" really are terribly insecure. I've seen questions as bad as "What was the color of your first car?". I wouldn't be surprised if 90%+ of answers fall into three or four colors. What I recommend to people is using a password manager like 1password or lastpass. Copy each question into the "notes" section, use the password manager to generate a random answer and then save it in the notes as well.
Odd. The infographic doesn't load in Chrome 20.0.1132.57 m on Win7. I thought it was AdBlockPlus, but when disabled it still doesn't show.

It does load in Firefox 14.0.1 on Win 7.
Well, not donating to an organisation because you fear that you may be put on some government watchlist is the opposite of exercising ones freedom in a free land.
I love how once the circuit to ground is established it just pumps power through it until it is fully discharged.
Assuming they did it from scratch and not shipping the assemblies outright, I don't see what the issue is.
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>"or something"

Ballmer is the second largest shareholder in Microsoft, after his friend and 30 year business associate, Gates.

To put it another way, there isn't a Wall Street analyst who works for a company or fund with a greater stake in Microsoft than Ballmer.
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85-97% of all email is spam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam#Statistics_and_esti... It cost the USA $21B in 2004, probably more than double that last year. Edit: it was double that by 2009 http://email-museum.com/2009/01/28/cost-of-spam-is-flattenin...
It's not going to fly because it's not compatible with the corporate policy of changing password every 60 days.
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I am not a lawyer, but I'm not aware of parody being a defence against charges of criminal impersonation.
"Steve Jobs was huge on vision but he really sucked operationally, because of that Tim Cook was the 'go to' guy who ran day to day operations. You need that blend in a company, good manager, good vision. "

Who is supplying the vision at Apple now? Ives?

"When Microsoft had Bill Gates as the 'vision' guy and Ballmer as the 'execution' guy it worked well."

If the vision + operations hypothesis is true, doesn't it mean that Apple is now starting the same journey that MS did when they lost Gates? The ops guy is in charge, without a counter balancing visionary.
First, how can they revoke a license for Windows on Bootcamp? If I purchase a retail Windows license, I can install it on any PC.

Second, I don't think OS X is the real threat to Microsoft. Sure, the Mac still grows in popularity, but it's relatively marginal. The biggest threat to Microsoft is the popularity of tablets. The iPad convinced people that they can use it for the majority of their home computing. Every time the average consumer buys an iPad it's a lost or delayed PC sale. Imagine what happens when Google gets things right, and the tablet market explodes like the smartphone market before.
They won't lock down the distribution source as Apple does so you might have competition among marketplace providers. If you think 30% is too high, you are free to create your own marketplace with a 10% cut.
I didn't downvote you, but do either of your examples actually have anything to do with multi-touch?
I was hiking with three friends this morning and we were talking about this. As productivity per worker keeps increasing (exponentially according to this article), fewer workers are needed to produce goods and resources needed by society.

I framed this as a social issue since society needs to accomodate a smaller work force and still have opportunity for most people to lead meaningful lives. I would posit that a meaningful life == being productive and having the world be a better place because of us.
For users, HTTPS Everywhere is a must: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

Also, by using DuckDuckGo [1] over HTTPS you get the same ruleset in HTTPS Everywhere [2] even if you don't have the extension installed.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/

[2] http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/09/duckduckgo-imple...
There is also Inconsolata-g[1] which is an enhanced version of Inconsolata-dz. I prefer the dotted zero among a few other changes.

[1]: http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html
There are a number of lawyers in California in both Silicon Valley and Silicon Beach who make decent money repairing LegalZoom documents that startups thought they could use to incorporate their companies.

LegalZoom is great if you don't need to customize your documents from the base case at all. Unfortunately for startups, the LegalZoom base case is not for companies seeking Venture Capital, it is for family-owned or single owner small corporations.

>Ask founders in the community for legal help and chances are they'll give you better advice over a lawyer. You really don't need a lawyer when you're starting out, avoid them at all costs.

I laughed so hard at this I almost got stomach cramps. You will get better business advice from other founders, but invariably the worst legal advice you get will be from nonlawyers.

You may not need a lawyer when starting out, but this is actually when they are most relevant and when they are the cheapest, because all they have to do is provide advice. This doesn't take long or incur much (if any) cost. If you wait until you have problems before turning to a lawyer, you've already driven up the legal fees you will incur by 10x or more.

> It costs $300 to form a company(s-corp) on legal zoom. The bylaws, vesting schedule, and share holders agreement can all be found online for free. If you need to include a specific cliff in your documents chances are its already online, just copy and paste it.

You do that, "copy and paste" a provision from one document into another. Cleveland lost a football franchise over a single misplaced comma, and Frank McCourt almost lost the Dodgers over a single extraneous statement in his post-nup, but you go ahead and insert multiple paragraphs from one unrelated document into another. See how well that works out for you if you have problems with your co-founders.
Be scared.

http://www.amazon.com/American-Microsemiconductor-120293-000...
Competition is what drives companies to create better products. Without that there would be very little progress in innovation. I am an Apple fanboy and still hope nothing happens to Android.
I accidentally downloaded the PDF. What do owe you?
As someone who has tried to work with Twitter data for academic purposes, I think this is still a great idea.

Further, it recognizes the idea that what we view as mundane now, may actually be extremely valuable for understanding the world of 2012 (etc.) decades from now.
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Yes (depending on your definition of notable).

>MYTHIC: The Story Of Gods and Men, has just been busted by forum users at Reddit, SomethingAwful and Rock, Paper, Shotgun... Turns out the art was cribbed, the text for backer rewards was copied and pasted from another Kickstarter project, and even the office photos were from another game studio, Burton Design Group.

http://betabeat.com/2012/04/this-is-what-a-kickstarter-scam-...

When you're essentially trading money for concept art, there's a lot of potential to get scammed.
Orkut had this same problem. They started showing who looked at your profile. For a lot of people that was when they crossed the line and they started getting tired of the social network. I'm from Brazil, by the way, Orkut was dominant here until last year.
It depends on what you define by seed money, if you've just got an idea and no track record you'll find it hard to raise any seed money.

The following things will make it easier for you to raise money:

* a track record (i.e. a strong team)
* a product
* customers desperate for your product
* traction
* a large market size

If you have all five get funding will be easy, the fewer you have the harder a time you will have getting funding. If you have none of them you'll struggle to get funding from professional investors (on the other hand angels who care about your product and government funds may still be an option)
I can't even tell if you're being sarcastic anymore. These "memes" are driving me crazy.
> 3D gaming in the browser is here

That's just in one browser.

If Opera signed a deal with Steam and bundled it in their browser, would all the Steam games now "run in the browser"? Technically in some boring sense perhaps, but it wouldn't be on the web.
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“the lack of any major apple product announcements in the current quarter.”

Apple fourth fiscal quarter of 2012 started in the last week of June and will conclude in the last week of September.

WWDC usually falls in FQ3, one month a go Apple released new notebooks during the event. That was good timing, it means Apple will be able to keep up with demand when the Back to School crowd starts shopping.

Mountain Lion will be released within the next two weeks, which will also boost Mac sales.

The next hardware announcement will be no earlier than September (new iPhone), but that will probably still be in FQ4.
Why do people keep saying such things regarding previews and demos?

He is not complaining about a bug. Nor does he complain about a not ready for primetime feature in some early development version. Those are expected.

He is complaining about how a feature is implemented. Features such as this, rarely, if ever, change between preview/demo and final release. If it does change, it will be mostly because of the outcry, not because it was supposed to change in the final all along.
Unfortunately, I've missed the mark where I can edit my comment, but I wanted to correct myself and say "Jack" organized this information; not "Justin."
Yes, you're right. For my OS class when I was in school, instead of doing the proposed homework, I convinced the professor to let me do a x86 OS. We were a group of 3. I started doing everything in C with as little as assembly as possible, but the other two decidet to do an all-assembly little monster.

At the end of the course, we had only the boot loader and a little command interpreter, aside from FAT-12 support.

Then, much later, I messed with OS by playing with the code from the Minix Book [1].

Last year I wrote a little emulator for a virtually unknown architecture that can run uClinux on a modern browser (i.e., Chrome)[2].

[1] Operating System Design and Implemenation: http://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Design-Implementatio...

[2] https://github.com/ubercomp/jslm32/
It is better in the sense that it is actual AIO. Whether you want AIO so badly that you're willing to suffer the lack of docs is a case-by-case decision.
When I was teaching, having a detailed lesson plan was the least of my work. Just a handful of bullet points was fine.

I half-agree with this. I don't need to work from a script, but if you want to do really high-quality work with students your plans need to be laid out pretty carefully. Students should be able to produce professional-level work in high school, in their area of highest interest and ability. We need to do some pretty well thought-out planning to help students work at that level. Once the planning is done, I work from bullet points. But at some point, for consistently high-quality curriculum, we need more than bullet points.

What takes the most time when you're teaching is grading.

I disagree with this. Certainly many teachers spend a lot of time grading. But with good use of peer feedback and modeling, grading does not need to dominate a teacher's time.

Also time-consuming: documenting discipline issues and parent contact.

Yes, although education is a holistic profession. The better we plan and deliver meaningful learning experiences, the fewer discipline issues we have.
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When you say advertising providers here, can you name some them in mobile space. What are the other many variables you were mentioning above, name some of them at least.
I agree it is probably more appropriate to check some other developers who has done this kind of stuff to get real picture.
This is pretty great. I guess he gave this talk at HOPE, but it's laser scoped to startups, down to the order in which he gives the advice:

* Enable HSTS

* Don't link to HTTP:// javascript resources from HTTPS pages

* Set the secure flag on cookies

Very few of the sites we test enable HSTS. But it's easy to do; it's just an extra header you set.

The only quibble I might have is the fatalism he has about mixed-security Javascript links. I'd go further than he does: when you source Javascript from a third party, you have leased your users security out to that third party. Don't like the way that sounds? Doesn't matter: it's a fact. Companies should radically scale back the number of third parties that they allow to "bug" their pages.
The author seems to gloss over the importance of browser built-in HSTS lists. If you're just relying on a response header to tell the browser to use HTTPS, aren't you still vulnerable? Isn't that the same fundamental problem with redirecting to HTTPS via Location headers?

In other words, a MITM could downgrade any HTTPS traffic and simply remove that STS header. The browser would be none the wiser.
Doesn't seem to work, a title screen shows but clicking etc. does nothing.

FF17 on Linux.
Yes. The io_submit based async io API is much better, especially if you are doing lots of iops.
"Who is supplying the vision at Apple now? Ives?"

That sir, is the $64B question. Many people has suggested that without a replacement for Steve's vision, that Apple will be just as likely to end up like Microsoft today, executing against the last known 'good' plan. Sadly it will take a while before "we" (the folks outside of Apple) know whether or not they have developed new talent or leadership to replace Steve.
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By referencing "great artists steal" I think the OP was referring more to the hypocrisy of Apple as opposed to indignation.

Here is the youtube video of Jobs saying that Apple shamelessly steals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

Given that Jobs credits Picasso with the "great artists steal" quote and Tim Cook making an analogy about "finishing the painting" the whole thing is quite ironic.
One thing that's not covered by a lot of frameworks is protecting against CSRF in AJAX requests. Django has some info on enabling this (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/csrf/#ajax), but it's easy to overlook.
> There's a second collarary to this: attackers can set your HTTPS cookies too.

If your app uses session ID cookies, then another implication of this is that attackers can set a user's session ID to a value they know, wait for the user to log in, and then use the session ID to hijack the logged-in session. To prevent this make sure you regenerate session IDs when logging a user in. (This isn't the only reason to regenerate session IDs on log in but it's a very compelling one.)
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14,000 feet. Sorry to nitpick! You go with the min of the sigfigs in the expression, which here is 2 = sigfigs(12) < sigfigs(13,397.28) = 7
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For us it was more like a 10x, but a few things went into that:
- We found screamin' deals on hardware by snatching it up when it was available, not when we needed it.
- We were at a fairly cheap colo, and haggled hard to get the cheapest rack possible. We went on a tour, noticed they had _tons_ of empty racks, and used that as some leverage.
- We didn't add any additional ops overhead by having everyone responsible for ops.

We were in the 5k/month ballpark for EC2, and cut it to under $600 with a few grand outlay for hardware spread over the course of a quarter.

That said, all of my current projects are on EC2 for the provisioning flexibility, and because I hate having to drive down to a datacenter at 4AM to swap a drive.
No, that's not how STS works. Once the header is set, a MITM can't simply clear the header; the purpose of STS is to tell the browser to remember that the site is HTTPS-only.

You are, obviously, vulnerable on first contact to a site, in that an attacker can prevent you from ever seeing the STS header. The point of STS is that attackers don't generally get to intercept your first contact with a site.

Adam Langley, by the way, is one of Google's Chrome SSL/TLS/HTTPS people.
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Googling around has led me to http://120293-0001revkmicrosemiconductor.blogspot.com/, which greatly puzzles me.
Yes, 10x is common. 100x is a little contrived but possible when you spec out enough Ram in EC2 instances (>2T), then compare to a physical box over 3yrs.
What is an analyst? Just any kind of analyst, in the traditional sense of the word? How do you get access to people when you subscribe to a publication? Why would they want to be in those reports? I'm confused!
I once made something similar, except that it's not dependent on GitHub. http://cpypst.me

Great job by the way.
Lots of people have ideas. Lots of people even have good ideas. But few people have the necessary mix of talent, drive, and experience to turn ideas into reality.

I haven't spent much time on Kickstarter, but my impression is that a lot of people are being handed money for ideas before they discover out how hard it is to turn those ideas into a tangible quality product.
>"Microsoft shares rose 64 cents"

Thus, Ballmer became $213,281,913.60 richer.
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