skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the cost aspect of commercial software, this is false. It is no more difficult to feed your data to another system than it is with any other relational databases. There is certainly no bill involved with exporting your data. In fact, SQL Server includes the tools you need to do this with software like SQL Server Integration Services.
SQL Server has its own implementation of the ANSI SQL standard but this is true of every database system. The majority of it is compatible, it's only when you use certain functions that you have to consider porting them.
SQL Server is the database used for many customer facing applications and there is often no nightmare involved.
You could be right, but I assumed the quotes around the “political reasons,” was because the magazine was quoting someone but didn't want to say who they were quoting.
It seems many take the negative perspective of this finding - anecdotes about moments where management "doesn't get it" and tying that back to their lack of technical expertise.

What's missing from the discussion is the underlying foundation of the finding: in an average case, if your manager has technical expertise in your field, you're likely to learn a lot from them - that learning (and growth) is a major driver of job satisfaction. It creates closer relationships through shared understanding/experiences as well.

I'd also argue that simply being able to do the job and not developing the team in technical expertise yields similar job satisfaction as not having deep technical expertise at all.
I actually really like the deoxygenation of orange juice thing. The result tastes better than fresh squeezed, more of a sour taste that I prefer. Maybe it just amounts to dumping more citric acid in it or something, but it's delicious in any case.
Lying about crowd sizes undermined democracy? As far as delegitimizing protests -- how about the delegitimization of Tea Party protests? How about the attempted delegitimization of the president by the press by suggesting the Russians are responsible for his election?

We could talk about the lying of the government when they repeatedly and officially stated that Benghazi was because of a YouTube video.

My point -- nothing has changed -- only the people doing the lying and deligitimizing.

I get it, your person lost and you're mad about it -- but don't pretend that Trump is any worse than the guy that came before.

Same game, different players.
This is a systems argument, not just software. It applies to choosing to do anything. I would rearrange these points, but they are essentially correct. You don't make changes for the sake of change or because something is cool, you make changes when:

1. Necessity. You need something that the current system is not doing for you. That might be scalability, or performance, or stability, or having good maintenance procedures, or compatibility with another system... In order to justify this change, you must clearly understand and document what it is that you want to do and how the existing system cannot do it.

2. Cost. Could be dollars paid for licenses, or for consultants, or for attention required from your own people, but excessive cost is certainly a convincing reason to change a system. You do need to make sure that the cost of implementing the new system isn't going to exceed the cost of keeping the old one. That can be non-obvious.

I have lumped in "difficult" with "cost" because they are the same thing with two names. Cost in time to change or time to learn or time to implement always converts directly to a cost in dollars and a cost in opportunities to do something different.
That doesn't work for corporate communications, though. There are numerous use cases where a corporation must be able to penetrate HTTPS internally in order to comply with regulations, both for direct reasons such as regulations regarding corporate communications, and indirectly for things such as internal security, protection against insider threats, and a lot of other second-order issues like intrusion detection.

And, rolling back around to the main topic, preventing internal machines from being compromised by viruses, since a lot of people end up having to hit at least one website of some sort that has at least one tracking or advertising widget that could by three layers of indirection get compromised to serve viruses, which is, alas, not some sort of far out scenario nowadays, but just another day of the week on the web. (That is, even perfectly safe browsing habits can still get you owned on the modern web. And saying that a modern network can't count on "firewalls" and must have defense in depth still doesn't mean it's just peachy keen if an internal machine gets compromised.)

If you're going to insist those corporations can't penetrate HTTPS for compliance and security reasons, you're going to have to be willing to lift those restrictions and deal with it when their security fails. There's no two ways about this; either you grant them the necessary tools for compliance and security, or you stop complaining when they can't comply and aren't secure. (And at scale, let's be honest; the latter isn't on the table.)
Nothing ruffled my feathers, I'm simply laying out facts. Feel free to ignore them.

There is no improvement for Firefox, it will never amount to anything given how rotten the codebase is. Unless they plan to scrap it and rewrite everything from scratch, with an actual focus on security from the beginning, which of course they don't. Slowly rewriting small parts of Firefox in Rust will do nothing for security, it's just more smoke and mirrors from Mozilla.

On the other hand, we have Google who were really the pioneers when it comes to securing the browser since they spent millions of dollars doing just that. Mozilla didn't even bother. Even their current attempts are laughable really in terms of scope and actual impact, it's just shitty PR aimed at people without security experience.

That's not to say that Chrome is a secure browser, but it has raised the bar significantly and it deserves wider adoption. Finally, we also have Microsoft who have probably spent even more than Google on improving security on Windows and are doing a lot of innovative security-related work with Edge [1].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/window...
Sorry to hijack your topic. What is the most popular technology stack in terms of amount of jobs available on the market ? (world wide). Make a wild guess i do not need exact numbers.

Java and or JavaScript ?
It's probably sold a lot of PC upgrades too.
> in many cases AV software was deliberately disabled by user

Right, because the only way AV software can ever be effective is if it blocks things that legitimate programs also do (if a given piece of functionality has no legitimate uses it wouldn't be in the OS in the first place) - so users get in the habit of disabling it. Installing a piece of software that e.g. stops you running any downloaded .exe files is useless - if you didn't want to run the .exe you wouldn't be trying to run it, and if you do want to run it you'll turn off the antivirus. If you just want to disallow it completely, you can do that at the OS level easily enough.

There is no magic that AV can do to make it any easier to tell legitimate software from not. Reactive scanning for specific threats is ineffective in the modern era - by the time AV knows about a new form of malware most of the damage has already been done. So all that AV can do is monitor what programs do and apply inherently unreliable heuristics, and maybe be more or less sensitive about those heuristics than the OS is.
Except AV started out like how Carbon or Cylance did (lean, effective, buzzworthy, etc) and other popular applications started out. It was decades of feature creep, poor competition, out of control pricing, etc that killed the AV industry.

I'm seeing the same thing today. Getting a trial of Cylance for a small environment seems next to impossible and when 3rd party testers test these apps, the false positive rates are terrible. Worse, they miss a lot of obvious malware traditional AV doesn't.

I am skeptical this technology is some silver bullet for the industry. I imagine cryptolocker changed the game where its politically expedient to whitelist everything be it application, driver, URL, etc where in the past IT departments were told to pound sand because some executive couldn't install Bonsai Buddy on the weekend or whatever.

Once you have proper whitelisting then you can pretty much remove AV or go with a non-traditional AV product like the kinds you list or no AV at all. Whitelisting requires a centralized IT department, no BYOD, and a lot of other infrastructure and talent smaller organizations simply don't have. I suspect traditional AV is here to stay for rational reasons and the technology behind things like CB or Cylance will eventually be part of a traditional AV package.

Arguably, the heuristics behind Win10's more advanced SmartScreen are a poor man's version of this and SS comes with every copy of Windows10 (The Win7 version is actually very poor). I imagine there's a lot of anxiety about being acquired by these companies before traditional AV reverse engineers what they do or SmartScreen gets good enough to the point where you can run a flawed local AV and still get some world-class heuristics watching your back as well.
I can imagine the red tape for training, then buying and running a node would be a bigger hassle than the usual MO of bribery.
It's not just Qaida though, they sponsor all kinds of Sunni extremists all over the globe.
Can you tell me about being a technical writer? I've written some documentation and intend to do more.
Contrast the sale of a car to the sale of a bomb: in the first case, both parties are clearly better off. In the second case, some people would argue that the commons is better off by funding a public good (national defense).

If the sold weaponry is not increasing security for the public, or even decreasing it, wealth is destroyed. It's like buying a car and burning it on the spot.
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Also it's not just homosexuality[1]

> 46 percent of respondents said transgender people should be required to “use the public restrooms of the gender they were born into.”

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/half-of...
Is there any way to turn off Windows Defender without installing anything else?
Bitdefender likes to revert to default settings frequently. I prefer Windows Firewall (Win7) and have to turn off the Bitdefender firewall usually at least once a week.
Funny how austerity measures f everything up. let them eat cake!
wow. it's even worse than i thought.
Except recently a widely-publicized law was introduced that actually allows the intelligence agencies to break into computers. So the offer is legitimate and the rest is paranoid superstition.
Me challenging them is what got me not supporting IE9 :) .

Global usage is not the number that matters for businesses though - it's userbase percentage, and unfortunately that number for IE is quite higher than I'd like (over 10%).
That's because Rogue One is fake 3D. It wasn't actually filmed in 3D. http://www.realorfake3d.com/
>Ask why something is newsworthy while not doing at least a basic research to have a minimum understanding of the subject is very juvenile

Did it occur to you that I did Google his name? The results are littered with this same article and a wikipedia page that mentions he had VP roles at Google/Xiaomi but there was nothing about why this would be relevant to the HN crowd other than him being a VP at big tech companies. VPs at big tech companies move all of the time and they don't make the front page, so I asked who he was and why this was newsworthy.
Is there any reason to trust that Dropbox isn't phoning home with full knowledge of how you use your computer?
Good stuff, I can also heartily recommend Scott Meyer's Effective Modern C++ book which covers idiosyncrasies and some unexpected behaviour (at least to me).

Also Stroustrup's 4th edition of The C++ Programming Language is invaluable, if not just for the more-readable sans-serif font compared to the 3rd edition!
And of course the coverage of all C++11 changes in it...

I can also recommend the Overload journal for interesting C++ articles (https://accu.org/index.php/journals/c78/)

And cppcon videos on YouTube - there's a wealth of info there, free.

Also the ISO CPP FAQ (which I think supersedes Stroustrup's?): https://isocpp.org/faq
I don't know about Singapore, but China is known for its unofficial millionaire/billionaire corrupt bureaucrats and party members. Also, when government has a complete control over the media, crime statistics tends to get underreported.
Best of luck, we need more non-commercial options for fundamental things as this!
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However had Hillary won, this report would be different.
>the land use is absolutely vast

Not quibbling with the broader point, but... is this actually a problem? When I see center-pivot irrigation circles laid out on a square grid, wasting 20% of the land, I don't get the impression we're short of the stuff.
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This article makes it sound like this is common sense, but I think Twitter (and other tech companies) could do a better job at encouraging better security practices. General consumers don't care to go look for improving their security; it's on us to point them in the right direction. Gmail tends to do this periodically at login, for example.

Granted, the White House Communications Agency should have checked this.
It must be. They're not pulling a Slack and running a full WebKit in their app. The internal library on MacOS is written in C (or was, they were moving to Objective-C last year).
> empower children to experiment, explore, and express themselves.

A lesson for boys & girls of ALL ages. Good man, Seymour!
Ah! Ok, thanks for the info thread link.
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No. Any reasonable analysis comparing the two presidents shows immediately that Trump is in a whole other league. I'm not saying Obama was perfect, but he was most often misleading. Trump is saying the sky isn't blue, over and over again, and then forcing his communications team to say so as a loyalty test. The New York Times has now put "lie" in headlines describing Trump multiple times, and he's been in office less than a week. In a long campaign and then eight years governing that never once happened with Obama.
The last comment on that thread is from June 2016. I think this has since been fixed?
Thanks for sharing this. I too strongly feel that a much wider awareness over these topics will be extremely important in the times that are coming. Expecially among the people who are really able to judge these tools, like data scientists and AI developers.

I'm really hoping a healthy and large debate will come on over this topic, and sharing this kind of thoughts is extremely important for this.
Could you get away with a more limited version by abusing Unicode?

With so many "unprintables" combined with things like the RTL and LTR control characters I think it would be possible on some level.
I work in China these days for the past few years. Have Canadian citizenship. During the holidays, visited friends in New York and went to Seattle. Both times, I was pulled aside for second inspection. New York got a total douche. He was on a power trip as we walked across the lobby, asking people if they saw a sign that said they could use their cell phones. No, then put the phone away. Eh, didn't see any signage saying it wasn't OK... https://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume1...

Going to Seattle, the guy was nice this time. He said he'd let me know why I got pulled aside for the extent that he was legally able, because being pulled aside had ruined our ability to go to the Boeing Future of Flight Center, which closed entry by a certain time. Apparently, going to China so often flags me. As well, the fact that my dad and I had just visited Turkey also. OK, I get if there are reasons that I get flagged, and most of these guys are just doing their jobs. But don't be a douche like the first guy. Be nice like the second guy.
McAfee in particular aggressively pushes "free trials" (often getting them bundled into the installers of unrelated software) that will then show scarily-worded warnings encouraging you to buy once the trial has expired.
Why Did HN flag my submission on Democracy and change it's name?
I added the EIU 2016 Democracy Index with the title: US downgraded from 'full' to 'flawed democracy' and the title was changed to '2016 Democracy Index' before being flagged. See screenshots below: 1) Original post http://imgur.com/O22kb1P 2)Title Change: http://imgur.com/2IvB4Nv 3) Flagged: http://imgur.com/71daypA
For all people saying this has been fixed: my Spotify on macOS regularly will spike to 90% usage when idling and stay there until I kill it. Reinstalls change nothing.
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It does mean that "the server should stop x anyway" is not a reason for the client not to prevent x.
SNAP is not for long-term investors
Because much like the US, HN is not a democracy...
>Neither does asking a question which is trivially answered by Googling.

see my response to owebmaster.

>Why are you reserving your rage for the person trying to support community norms

It is not a community norm to condescend with instructions on how to use Google. The downvotes should make that clear.

>when substituted for the search query "who is hugo barra"

see my response to owebmaster.

I'm sorry if you have some personal connection with the guy or there was a cult of personality thing going with him at your job, but a VP of a company moving to a different company just isn't really normally newsworthy. That's why I asked in case I missed something about him changing the entire Facebook VR direction or something.
This looks a lot like my Thinkpad x260 running KDE which cost $750 but for about $1,100.
For IT professionals the risk doesn't seem very high. Just running tor exit-nodes is not illegal. There are enough jobs in IT where you don't have to worry about any kind of government approval.

There are lots of stories about people who in one way or another got in contact with the intelligence agencies and nothing really bad happened to them.

Of course, agreeing to secrecy and then spilling the beans is not recommended. But in this case the agents decided to tell him stuff without any kind of agreement.
America is no longer a 'full democracy' according to the Democracy Index
Seriously? No. It doesn't take much skull sweat to figure out why this doesn't make any sense. First, social media sites are not monopolies nor utilities in the proper sense. Facebook bans don't affect you ability to get on Twitter. Twitter bans don't affect your ability to host a Wordpress site. And so on. Now, if Scott Adams has evidence of blackballing then he has a case for censorship but I haven't seen him make that case and I think he's not making that case because he knows he's not being blackballed (and that would show up under examination of any evidence presented).
Yep, couldn't agree more.

I wrote about one aspect of that specific case here:

https://medium.com/@roryireland/latest-wikileaks-documents-i...
Part of "that other stuff" is that the body do not burn or metabolize consistently when you change diet. For example, the body can go into a starving cycle which increase metabolism, lower energy usage, and make you less sated, and which reportedly takes a rather long time to recover from. It should not be that surprising that the human body has evolved to adapt when food availability change.
Depends what your focus is. If your focus is playing the stock market or IPO game, it doesn't really matter what industry you're in. You're merely an investor.

Yes, I think this anti-engineer culture at work at HN is ridiculous. Its the people building the future and having a vision for it who matter. Not the bankers who write the loans/buy stock/buy equity. That what Thiel's role is, pretty much just what banks used to do for businesses, except the SV way is no collateral just equity.

I think we greatly overplay the importance of the money men and let them steal credit from the engineers and founders.

> "the weirdos" and people like Thiel.

He stopped being one of the weirdos a long time ago. He's the establishment the weirdos now have to fight against.
He also didn't take into the account the effect of publishing this article on his chances of getting a date.
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it's because general political topics aren't considered a good fit by a lot of people and lots will reflexively flag them.

As an example of how despised political discussion are, a chrome extension I made to filter stories (mostly political) made it to the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467611
hence to the people working for that company
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I'm not smart enough to understand these kind of deals fully, but I always thought the Skybox acquisition made a ton of sense for Google. The Skybox assets could possibly be used to improve consumer facing products like Maps, while also being a self sustaining business providing mapping to enterprise clients.

But what do I know.
I had math professors that would express this sentiment in undergrad. It is very true.

However, problem sets generally aren't graded like they're programs, haha.
Like, admitting to a small lie to get away with a big one?
1) political

2) editorializing the title
If they cannot detect a difference in behavior, is there a need to detect what isnt causing it?

I.e. there are so many different psychoactive substances, that effect, rather than presence, seems to be the only 'fair' way to discriminate in a world where most people take at least 1 medication a week or more.
HN Guidelines [1] has a policy to post the full title of a site without modification.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cat meat is popular in Asia, especially in Vietnam.
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The topic reminds me of the lyrics to Ana Ng by TMBG: http://www.metrolyrics.com/ana-ng-lyrics-they-might-be-giant...

There's a whole area of maths devoted to finding the ideal partner and related topics, called optimal stopping theory. The Secretary Problem is particularly relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
I got burned with kodi on an arm unit, the ODROID (C1 or C2, don't remember which) was capable of playing many things with the hardware decoder. But it would fall short on anything other than basic MP4 and MPEG. The ODROID was far more capable than the bananapi, raspberry pi, and other ARM units with HDMI out.
Interested to see how this plays out in the market.
You could offer/sell it to https://cock.li, seems like a domain he would be interested in.
Does it have change feeds?

I'm using RethinkDB right now, but I would probably switch back to Postgres if I had to use something that didn't have change feeds.
How do we know that?

(I expect it is higher, but that seems hard to produce meaningful data. Self reported? Subject to a blood test? A piss test that detects 2 months use?)