skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, when the the police are given guns they will also be given training and procedures that will require them to use their guns in certain situations.

I've socialized and trained with various police trainers. I've asked them about when police are "required" to act.

With one exception (a pedant who talked about the supreme court cases that I mentioned elsewhere), they all said "never".

Where can I find out more about this "training and procedures that will require them to use guns"?
How much do you know about the CEO of Walmart? Do you trust him or her with all your personal shopping history? What about your apartment's building manager? Do you trust him or her to not have hidden cameras in your apartment? How much do you trust the head of state of your country? Do you trust him or her with the almost limitless amount of your personal information that may have been collected?
My point wasn't that ID Software made buggy games. My point is I think that they don't know since a while what a trully successful video game is made of.
More detail here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
That's not a counterargument to his point. You're parsing job titles down to the atom, and concluding that "data scientist" is different than "scientist" is different than "statistician", is different than "analyst". Gaius is saying that this job responsibility has been around for a long time, but that people are reaching to find reasons to give it a new name -- exactly what you're doing.

If you ask me, the phrase "data scientist" is recruiter-speak. I have all of the skills required of a "data scientist". I've done the job of a "data scientist". And other than object recognition, I've developed all of the different product features you mention in your comment. You know how I got the skills necessary to do those things? I was trained as a scientist, and there's no such thing as a scientist without data. A person properly trained to analyze data should be able to effectively and fluidly transfer those skills between domains -- otherwise, they're not actually good at it. There's nothing special about internet products that precludes competent people from doing effective data mining on their logs.

I suspect that the real problem here is that "data science" is Internet Hipster for: "someone who has already worked at an internet company, and knows some statistics". Because when it comes right down to it, your average statistician, chemist or physicist is more skilled at data analysis than 99.9% of the "data scientist" types you meet, but they don't easily press the comfort button for hiring managers at consumer internet companies. Why hire the "risky" ex-scientist, when you can hire the guy who claims to be a designer, a software engineer and a statistician?
As I said, I understand the reasoning.

I just don't understand how it completely destroys wifi when inaccessible. Windows 7 does a similar thing, but when the page is inaccessible, it doesn't completely kill the internet connection.

Basically, if Apples servers dissapear... Am I to believe that wifi becomes a useless feature on my iDevice, or am I missing a piece of the puzzle?
Oh that's a great quote, I really hope they stand behind it. As long as they are pushing for a strengthened version of the DMCA safe harbor act, more power to them.
Because it's an unreasonable search, no need for harm.
Meetup.com was Down today :( (UPDATE: came back up now)
Although sigkill should've been named sigstop and sigstop should've been sigpause. Ah, hindsight is a wonderful thing.
There's nothing in it for the viewer of this ad.
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They often do not make it to the front page because most of what TechCrunch write is just fluff, AOL likes to churn out the content at a ridiculous rate both in quantity and quality.

Most of the time when they do get to the front page it's because they're just pandering to YC or Apple fans.
I can't say how it is now, since I did not use it for a while, but it used to be anonymous funding and anounymous withdrawals within daily limits.
So I guess this was a previously cracked MD5 hash, 6th result below:

http://www.google.com/search?q=900gage!%40%23&hl=en&...

{restricted date to before a few days ago}
In general, with all variations of an 'optimization' approach, you will be constrained by considerations re: Acquisition of power. To simplify, its best treated as an exogenous factor. Expressing it and acquiring it, while inter-related, are distinct processes. When incorporated, the necessary feedback loops will (almost invariably) thwart a simple quantitative approach. But, consider Aristotle. He had a surprisingly sophisticated method (inter-subjective selection). And was a proponent of N-dimensional optimization, for critical life tasks. His frameworks remain surprisingly useful.
can anyone explain why the f will wifi try to hit a html page http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html

is it just a pac file?
Yep I ran into the same issue and now looks like the page is up so its fine. So if it is a success its good if not redirects?
Interesting that there was only one compiler that was immune to a wide class of bugs they found everywhere else:

"The striking thing about our CompCert results is that the middleend bugs we found in all other compilers are absent. As of early 2011, the under-development version of CompCert is the only compiler we have tested for which Csmith cannot ﬁnd wrong-code errors. This is not for lack of trying: we have devoted about six CPU-years to the task. The apparent unbreakability of CompCert supports a strong argument that developing compiler optimizations within a proof framework, where safety checks are explicit and machine-checked, has tangible beneﬁts for compiler users."
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/pldi11-preprint.pdf
Agreed. I've been running one of the last dev releases for weeks and have had 0 problems.
Jack who?
Actually, they feel like flies or insects crawling all over the page. Its just something about the way they move. Not a good look!

Also from a design perspective they are really bad. You want people to be reading the text, not focusing on the dots.
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"Don’t think of your life as a random walk"
You forget the Call of Duty engine which is, if I'm not wrong, still made of Quake engine code... Sure, others made trully successful games with their technology. Others, like Valve, actually did the video games history since the 2000's. ID not. I'm sorry for that, but it seems to be true.
Edward Tufte makes the exact same argument and has a book entitled 'Beautiful Data,' and NO ONE says that about him. Also, while I applaud your use of quotes as rhetorical device to discredit Hilary Mason and her job title, I respond better to well-reasoned arguments.
May I encourage you to watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL3DWcBsPU4
Now imagine her saying, "Simply: I make beautiful things with data." Does that still read cutesy to you?
I might also suggest perusing her GitHub code, but I wouldn't want to alarm you, what with all this newfangled technology and rapid motion.
What seems to have happened was that the people managing www.apple.com 404'ed the URL http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html, which iOS loads automatically upon associating with a wifi AP. This causes iOS to believe the wifi is actually one of those public "captive" hotspots that redirects all HTTP before you authenticate/pay up, and fires up a modal web browser intending to let you log in.

About 10 minutes later, they seem to have restored the URL, and normal wifi access points are no longer incorrectly detected as captive.
The fastest IE has ever updated is 19 months
Wait, you're saying if I can control that URL I can prevent all iOS devices in the world from connecting to the Internet ? That sounds seriously dangerous. Or am I mis-understanding?
TC used to be flavor of the month here (10 front page posts on any given day), but TC lost a lot of credibility after the CrunchPad fiasco and allegations that founder Michael Arrington had undeclared conflicts of interest in his reporting. After AOL acquired the business there was a conflict of personalities and Arrington left. Many people feel that what made the site's reporting distinctive and important went out the door with him.
Because the most interesting information rises to the top. TechCrunch also seems to focus a lot on a small number of companies instead of more generally on interesting topics.
You assume a total lack of self interest: A perfect adherence to Kant. I disagree with you about it reflecting a sick society: I think it reflects a real one.
LMDDGTFY https://duckduckgo.com/?q=storm

Hmmm...
Basically: if apple.com is down, all the ios devices go down...
you're right. and just to clarify for others the crackers can try certain digits (or doubles) before others and include common patterns (like 123) and transformations (like holding shift down).
If you can control that URL, you can probably control ANY URL, and thus you can already prevent any (not just iOS) devices from connecting to the internet _via your wifi ap_. No surprises there.

iOS falls back to 3G when the page doesn't respond as expected.
What makes you think your hypothesis is invalid? How often do your current users share their coffee experiences?

I would do more customer discovery and see if you can gain anymore insight. Go to a coffee shop and ask people what they think of your concept.
I think they just googled the hash, see my post above.
An iOS device is typically multi-homed. Think about what routing options the typical iPhone has and how it likely picks a default route.
The devices aren't down, they just fall back to 3G.

If the page times out, I don't know what happens. But this time, the page explicitly responded with a 404, which it "should never do", so the device successfully detected a "MITM" and did the right thing. (Except in this case, apple.com webmasters screwed up)
One would assume that inability to access the site would not be interpreted as a captive network, because that's not what captive networks look like.
You are assuming all devices have 3G?
You mention "123" with the shift down and that in itself gives us a clue about it's possible origins. If the last part was shifted `123` on a UK keyboard then it would be `!"£`. So apart from USA layout keyboards, what other keyboard layouts country wise yeild a the same result from shifted 123. Still does not prove anything, but certainly is something to be mindful of. Either way I know I can sleep at night.
Be sure that those games are in my heart too. But these numbers doesn't correspond to trully highly succesful games. That's why ID has been sold for only $100M. For a comparaison, Riot Games has been sold for $400M with only one game (League of Legend) [1].

Also, Minecraft[2] sold 7+ millions of java copies. It's more than x2 copies than Doom3 on "one platform".

[1] http://www.develop-online.net/news/36960/Tencent-pays-400m-f...

[2] http://www.minecraft.net/
Lessons Learned From the BDT Fiasco
In fact, if you control that URL, then you are operating a captive network, which is precisely what accessing that URL is meant to detect.
I think for small things it makes sense, but for a $2,200 purchase I'm surprised he would back out over such a small barrier. Either way, I agree, but for high-information purchases I doubt it matters as much.
Co-founder of Twitter and Square
You're assuming all devices _have_ 3G. My iPad doesn't...
Breaking a password and then forcing access to the server - isn't that illegal regardless of who does it?
Passbook is finally released
Ever read Techcrunch?
It imagine something like electric welding for metal components.
Naively, I get 3 exabytes.

(50^10 + smaller terms) * 256 bits (SHA256 size)
Number of hashes * size of hash to store.

Obviously this isn't how it's actually done. The best page I found describing the process is: http://www.freerainbowtables.com/en/faq/

The forum is fascinating: http://www.freerainbowtables.com/phpBB3/uncracked-hashes-f23...
Wonderful article
Thank you for updating me on a better robot for industrial use. I would like to invest in the company when it goes public.
$500 / (10 hrs/week * 50 weeks) = $1/hr. I'd only worry about it if your hourly rate approaches this.
It's not an inability to access the site, it is explicitly receiving an invalid and unexpected response code, which indicates an impostor is returning responses instead of apple.com. (Except this time, they screwed up).
Step 2 is apparently "enrage existing userbase and partner ecosystem".
I just checked this - If I block apple.com on my router, wifi on my iPad becomes unusable when reconnected. When re-enabled, no problem.

Apple just fell quite a few points for me.
Am I doing the math wrong here? You have a 50 character space, and a 10 character password length. This gives you 50^10, roughly 9.77 * 10^16, permutations.

Even assuming you could store each possibility in a single byte, which you can't, that would still take about 86PB to store. Considering you would need to store both the key and the hash in order to have a useful table, it seems you would actually need to have a few exabytes dedicated to this.
He sure smiles a lot though!
Larry and Sergey are different from other star founders who've been accused of evil (Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg) in that they were older so maybe more mature and also relatively less entrepreneurial- their goal was academia, unlike all the young dropouts. Maybe many extremely entrepreneurial people don't respect the law. In Zuckerberg's case it does seem like he doesn't care about patents at all whereas Aaron is still mad about the IP and hates that Zuckerberg ignored the rules (re: patents, Facemash, dropping out, and everything else) and got rewarded for it.

Reading the logs I don't get the sense Zuckerberg is being dishonest or that he even considers Aaron to be a friend. The main conflict seems to be the accusation that Zuckerberg stole ideas, which is a big question for software in general: ideas want to spread so the concept of IP is arguably against the nature of ideas. At the same time, we want people to be able to get rich off a great idea even if they don't implement it successfully. This question re: IP and copyrights is something we're still resolving as a society. Until it gets resolved, if ever, lots of people are going to have lots of unfair things happen to them and it's understandable to be mad about that.

But that's what life is: unfair. Just like we can't go through life feeling guilty about how lucky we are to have survived infancy unlike some absurd percentage of humans in poor countries, we can't constantly hate on other people who are even luckier than we are re: how they don't deserve their success. No one deserves anything. Life is unfair.
Well put. While he may be simply "telling his side of the story", Aaron Greenspan comes off in his own writing as a sanctimonious, sour-grapes-y, whinger.
That's exactly what I told sdwrage to do last week - go to the local coffeeshops and chat with people! :)
I don't think anything I said was at all unfair to him. He's had many successes and a few failures (like most people). He made a legitimate name for himself in the early days building buildings and not just selling t-shirts. I think what sets him apart from other billionaire businessmen is the amount of ego he shows while doing it. There are investors in casinos, golf courses and Manhattan residential buildings who are more successful than Trump who's name we don't know. Also Trump is a bit bombastic about certain topics such as politics, going on and on about birth certificates 4 years after the President was elected.

Another person who is similar is Sir Richard Branson, who often jumps out of planes and such in order to make a grand entrance into a press conference, while having several Virgin businesses that outright fail (such as Virgin Charter, the jet timeshare, and Virgin Record Stores) that we don't hear about so much. But Richard Branson doesn't come off as egotistical so much as just a good marketer of himself and his personal brand.

I actually agree with you that he is cultivating a brand for rich people, by making the non-rich people look up to him as some type of real estate God. Sure, I bet he has high standards for the multi-million dollar apartments he sells and so no one is getting crap products.
What exactly makes Khoi Vinh's website[1] notable? Not trying to be negative; I'm genuinely curious. I wouldn't have given it a second thought if I came across it in the wild. To my (untrained) eye, it's typography consists of a single font that is almost always too small to be readable.

[1] http://www.subtraction.com/
Apple updates nearly every app for iOS 6
I've used ATS a fair bit in real programs. The back end of my bitcoin mining pool is written in ATS and handles a reasonable load. I've also used ATS in other projects and am happy to answer questions you might have. Contact details at the bottom of the website linked in my profile.
High quality matters most actually, video platform is a social community as well which most people don't realize it is
In any case, if the wifi AP responds with "impossible" results, the wifi access point is for all purposes "unusable", and you wouldn't be able to get on the internet anyways.
I'm super impressed by this. I'm grateful that government websites are finally starting to shape up. I'm on a break from California in good ol' Virginia right now and have been eager to register to vote. I just finished the registration in about 5 minutes, luckily I know all of the things it requested by memory. WOOT!

Now I won't have any regrets about voting down the road when i'm at some backyard BBQ talking about the president. I'm looking forward to voting in this upcoming election.
Note that !@# is just shift-1, shift-2, shift-3.
So not unlikely that it would appear in a rules based approach.
The password is numbers, english word, keyboard-sequence.
Yeah that is why I said it is too early to tell that it is. As for going to a coffee shop and asking people, how do you think I should go about that. I wouldn't want to go sit down at a random table and be like "Hey you, what do you think of this idea". Maybe my head is in the wrong place as far as customer discovery is concerned :) Thank you for the advice.
Exactly. If apple.com goes down, that doesn't look like a captive network. It's only if the site is up and responsive and returning the wrong result (which is what happened today) that incorrectly indicates the captive network.
One on One: Ricky Gervais, Comedian Turned App Developer
He got screwed by Google, Inc. as well so lightening does strike twice
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-i-sued-goo...
Even if you have no use for storm, I'd strongly suggest you check out the wiki on github and browse the source code. It is IMO the nicest, cleanest, most exciting OSS project out there.

https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm
hehe, look about 10 pixels below where you typed "obama".
Are you saying JtR no longer has a rules-based approach, or that it's no longer used?

It's still actively maintained.

http://www.openwall.com/john/
I find it interesting (but not surprising) that California is making an effort to make voter registration easier, while many states (mostly Southern) continue to try to put obstacles in the way of many people (mostly African-American, or poor, or both) being able to register to vote.
Google's web search by date works by parsing dates on pages, not by loading actual historical search data, so it's possible to backdate information with it.
What kind of blockage did you set up? A hijacking 404/403 HTTP response, or are you dropping IP packets to the www.apple.com IP addresses? If your router blocking is implemented on the HTTP level, then obviously you would see the same result as everyone just did when that URL returned 404.

I'd be more interested in learning how iOS reacts when TCP (HTTP) connections to that URL time out, or are treated as a closed port.
internet connection != http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html

When did "successful wifi connection" mean having access to this unstable apple.com url?
This shows why Plan 9 as part of the plan to fix inconsistencies and problems in UNIX wrote a terminal which doesn't even support escape sequences for coloring. I'm not a Plan 9 expert but it's actually for the better. Try launching some program like the sudoku game or acme from 9term inside Plan 9 compared to doing the same in plan9port's 9term or a plain xterm. On Plan 9 your 9term will become the program you launch.
False equivalency. All over false equivalency.

Walmart isn't a service. Walmart doesn't have access to your most intimate information like Facebook does.
Heck millions of Virgin Mobile accounts have been compromised. But the potential damage isn't even in the same order of magnitude of something (hypothetically) going foul at FB, either owing to deliberate policy or accidentally.

Same with JetBlue with passenger data some years ago. Not same order. Not same potential damage.
Yes, the preprocessor is a disaster for static analysis. I don't know anyone who attempts to analyze un-preprocessed code (we certainly don't).

Along with the problem you describe, one occasionally sees stuff like this:

#if A
void foo() {
#else
void foo(int x) {
#endif

Here there are two versions of the beginning of a function definition. There's not even any way to represent that in an ordinary AST, even if you could parse it, which you can't with any ordinary kind of parser. And it's not hard to come up with even nastier examples.
My iPad has one route to the internet and it's wifi. If apple.com is inaccessible (i.e. I block the domain on a router) is should not render the entire internet inaccessible.
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that's exactly what you do!

2 things:

1. Check with the owners - ask if you can do a few customer surveys. Tell them you'll stop after X hours or if anyone complains.

2. Buy some gift cards from the shop and give them out - $5 gift card for... 10 minutes of their time. Have a survey of set questions, but go open-ended as well.
I love a good reason to be upset but I sympathize with this bug. It should be easy to get around the captive portal issue and they should have other contact domains besides apple.com (in fact, that's the most offensive part of this), but it's an admirable task. Imagine if you connect to the Wifi and it didn't do this... you'd have no idea why you're not receiving any of your data.

For what it's worth, recent copies of Android try to help you through the captive portal process as well, though I doubt they fail if android/google.com go down. (Though, Android has always had an indicator, they only become colored after Gapps makes a good connection to Google)
I agree, some people just believe that they are of a higher standard and should be allowed to act like total dick heads, and the only way for them to learn is if someone from a "higher social status" puts them in the right place.

I've seen it all the time, while working the floor at retail, or traveling abroad to fancy hotels and restaurants. A small "thank you", "have a nice day" or just "hi" goes a long way, even if you're there to complain about something.
Rescale (YC W12) is hiring a Lead UI / UX Designer
I guess you're referring to OnlineHashCrack.com.

Google search result says that that appeared on 21 Nov 2010.

See it here from google's cache: http://goo.gl/Yctw3
With the right 3d printer, you can print out servo-driven anthropomorphic robot hands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAs2F4sFVdA Whether that's useful or just an interesting-but-expensive model making hobby is a matter of opinion!

I think the designer may have a higher-end 3D printer than we're discussing here - he mentions a 3D touch, and they start at $3500ish.
I'm pretty sure what you did was a very clear abuse of the description field for your apps. When you very blatantly flaunt the rules and use them to publicly insult your host, what exactly were you expecting to happen?