skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My hypothesis is that the MBA degree is largely valued by other people with MBA degrees, so you have pockets of high MBA concentration that grow within specific businesses.

I have a friend who got a specialist business degree and then got an MBA. I don't really recall him ever really talking about what he studied or learned during the MBA, but he did talk a lot about networking. A lot of the program consisted of taking many foreign "educational" trips all over the world (networking with classmates) and then access to the alumni network was supposed to help you get a job. It really sounded more like a high-class job placement club than an educational pursuit. If that's how it actually is, I can totally see how a business can get colonized by MBAs once one gets his foot in the door.

My friend himself is a good guy, but a couple of his classmates are some of the shallowest people I've ever met.
They allowed politics to interfere with progress and ran off Brendan Eich.
I am with you, and I think everyone generally agrees with the principle in infosec, but I just wanted to add on that from this whole "attacker" math perspective often you just want to make your app a little less fun to play with than the next guys. The bored security researcher will just move on to a less hardened target. When you design for real security and mitigate low and medium risk issues with obfuscation when it makes sense it can lower the total cost of your information security program because you control the exposure and information out there.

As long as you know why and when to obfuscate vs. implement real security measures it is a valuable tool. If I can make something that much more expensive for an attacker I haven't bought any iron clad security but I have moved a system from "likely to be hacked by a bored security researcher" to "likely to be hacked only by a highly motivated or well funded attacker".

When doing time boxed black box assessment work and I have no choice but to expend effort figuring out things (stripped symbols, obfuscated names, purposefully unfriendly backend things, etc.) it means I have less time to play with the important stuff. This exactly simulates and helps inform the "real attacker" picture.

So, it can be mediocre technically (no actual security increase in a technical sense), but perfect when it was really low cost to implement. When you spot those low cost obfuscation opportunities they are often worth doing :)

And on the content of the article, I was right there saying, "Okay, just because you now have your own pile of code doesn't mean it is any more secure!" In an absolute sense true. But if you can save a bundle of money not having to rush out to emergency patch some feature, distracting from important work, because QEMU got a new widely disclosed vuln... you are winning :)
Russian engineers invent the end of privacy
Elsewhere in the comments section there were tips about an addon that tells if one of your addons is blocking e10s. Another useful tip was the dom.ipc.processCount setting. Before I cancelled my LastPass account I was using the 3.x version from them, which doesn't support e10s and crashed the browser when I forced it on. But still I was able to turn it on even though the browser was unusable.

I run this on Arch and Wayland, which might also add to the snappyness. What I kind of observed from all the comments was, that the OSX users were complaining the most about the slowness. Might be that the Linux version is faster then.
The timeline on this stuff is asap haha (:
Focus on is maybe slightly missing the point, they may not even have the background to appreciate or imagine the possibility of value creation that is not in their area of expertise. So certain possibilities are essentially invisible to those companies. It's made worse because it's the large successful corporations that actually have the resources to fix problems that few other players can even imagine (even with venture funding....).

So those companies (and the market, and society) may miss out on fundamental exploration and expansion of real-world productivity. Perhaps, this is a contributor in the curious drop in economic productivity despite, in theory, so much availability of new technology.
My personal daily workflow is heavily dependent on the old Pocket addon. That addon was deprecated a long time ago, I think even before Mozilla tried to integrate Pocket into FF.

I think what I'm actually using now is a tweaked version of the addon that bumped some of the compat flag and signed it (per http://hemenkapadia.blogspot.com/2015/12/get-old-pocket-expe... ). Because of that, I'm actually way behind on the FF update curve, and holding out as long as I can.

(If anyone has a pointer to an equivalent modern addon, I'd be interested.)

For that matter, I'm also a die-hard TreeStyleTabs user, and I'm still not clear on whether that's going to work properly as things go forward.
It's funny that both java & c# seem to be picking up many scala features in their latest & future versions like traits, lambdas, tuples, pattern matching, case classes, closed hierarchies, declarative generics...
Your language isn't incoherent if you can build features on top of each other with is exactly what scala does.
So people like it better when the people in charge know what they're talking about.
But people keep putting the ones that tell them what they want to hear in charge.
And the two sets don't usually overlap much.
Half would be a miracle, with that level of friction.
Comment of the year.

Do you write?
Threats of violence, and by extension government, are not always evil. It's evil when it's used to violate one's human rights. Punishing someone for driving dangerously on public roads, or stealing someone's wallet, is a legitimate exercise of force. Using violence to punish someone for refusing to hand over a share of currency they receive in private trade, or for being 'too successful' at selling a widget and therefore being categorised as a monopolist, is not.

I mean if you're going to criticise libertarianism, at least learn the basics, like what the Non Aggression Principle (notice it's not called the Non Violence Principle) is.

Libertarianism is just the formalization of common decency and common sense. People denigrate it so that they can term basic decency as the tenet of some fringe ideology and get a pass to promote tyranny over other people through political action.
To each their own. The point remains that this is not a necessary project for Mozilla to take on, nor was it a good use of resources for them.
Others have mentioned the automation factor, but let me add another one. Those of us outside the military probably equate "officer" to "management", but a more apt comparison might be to "college graduate." Now, how many different ways can we think of that a state-of-the-art surface vessel might need a higher proportion of educated crew vs. maintenance staff who are mostly high-school grads who have received maybe a year or two of ship-specific vocational training?
I never thought about reader mode, maybe because I don't use it on the desktop. I checked it and it works on the second link. For some reason its icon doesn't show on the pastebin page.
I'll give it a try systematically. Thanks!

Next suggestion: save for offline, another feature from Opera.
The AMA controls the requirements for licensing, the schools that can educate for the purpose of licensing, and the number of licenses that can be issued. Exactly what is intellectually dishonest about calling that a monopoly?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2007/09/a_spoonf...
I am with you. This looks particularly bad for electronic engineering. Why they would define a schematic without any drawing.
> That's not to say Apple don't have influence, but do they have the kind of strong-arm leverage you seem to be implying?

Enough of an influence to force many video providers to use non-free codecs and HLS. I find such influence to be very damaging for the whole Web.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13486246
This was discussed a lot:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/5k4dn8/im_becom... (6086 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13252242 (109 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833718 (49 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10360761 (54 comments)
This is a great example of the advantages only a tiny number of technical companies have. It is great technology and great that Google can do this, but who has the resources to competently implement a hypervisor and customize it to their infrastructure?
> [Comcast] will start offering customers a new router by the end of March called the Advanced Wireless Gateway, which will monitor what’s connected, analyze some data in the cloud and fine-tune the network to keep data flowing efficiently

Is there a potential privacy issue with these data being shipped to the cloud? Or is that unproductive paranoia given we're talking about one's ISP?
Hey. We recognize your past meals, so if you take a picture of something again it will let you copy the entries.
ECG machines already print likely diagnoses.
> To borrow the OP's analogy, that is like saying drivers with licenses have a monopoly on driving.

Not so, as the number of medical residents is de facto set by Congress (due to how the funding system works), thereby limiting the number of doctors in each specialty.
When talking about JVM languages suitable for building systems, Jython isn't generally mentioned for the reasons you give, nor is Apache Groovy. Those two are good for scripting, e.g. testing Java classes, build scripts, glue code. Besides Java, languages like Clojure, Scala, and Kotlin are usually considered as systems languages on the JVM.
Review: 2017 Chevrolet Bolt is an affordable game-changer and fun to drive
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjcXJ8EU48o
I understand and sympathize. These children are the best and brightest of us. The future will be build by, of, and for them. We cannot have them isolated from everyone else. That way lies disconnection, alienation, resentment, and a total lack of empathy. Madness!

When I was a gifted student in a classroom of regular students, I learned a great deal.

What I learned was not how to help raise up my classmates. What I learned was that my classmates were petty and cruel people who got their jollies bringing me pain. Combine this with material that was far below me and rarely able to hold my attention and the result was a thoroughly miserable experience for a number of years.

I got a diverse viewpoint and understanding of people different from me. I came to learn something else, too - I despised them.

Gifted students are students. Please don't treat them as unpaid assistant teachers. They need to be cared for, kept safe, challenged, and taught. The same as every single other student.
I can easily slap out a 30-line program and have it compile and work on the first try with Rust, guaranteed. No competent Rust developer has issues writing solutions in Rust. Nobody but newcomers are 'arguing with the compiler'.
I'm not for death of jobs, but I'd love to have a tad more information, a tad sooner, rather than relying on luck with which doctor is experienced or not, or wait until the best specialists are available.

If ML unleash a global increase in diagnostics for all MDs than it's even better.
Not again, why would anyone prefer a bloated javascript based email client pretending to be a standalone one instead of a fast native one?

If I want a javascript one I can run a browser to access it.
Since this article is basically a straightforward blog-sized recap of Clayton Christensen's _Innovator's Dilemma_, which is one of the more important business books in technology, it seems unlikely to me that the whole piece is "BS".
DragonflEye Project Wants to Turn Insects into Cyborg Drones
I feel like this comment literally makes the author's case for him.
Then I will probably sell drugs.
> Inventory

In Maximo, there are different storerooms you can have with bin assignments within each storeroom. Not sure if you need that kind of granularity (bins) depending on how often technicians actually add materials to a work order (wo) or add parts to an invoice.

> streamline the request process.

I think you guys have done a great job here. Service request status checks by e-mail without a password makes it really simple. Enhancement could be custom header & footer with customer logo. CNAME so Requestor page looks like it is part of the company's web site.

Suggestions: Include completion notes and the technician(s) responsible for the work. Especially with residentials, the tech has permission to enter your home and you may not be present to view/supervise the work. The notes help fill that gap. Maybe include status change date stamps too. Maximo has a WMATL (Waiting for Materials) status which is useful if a required part is backordered and work can not start immediately.

> Maximo

A very complicated suggestion but if you built an UpKeep module to work with the Maximo MBO (API), then you could market the iOS or Android app as just a proxy client. Since Maximo's front-end is a visual mess, providing an optimized workflow and screen adds great value.
>Gifted students can help raise up their less gifted classmates.

Gifted students can often also be held back by their less gifted classmates, and feel a sense of isolation from being different. Gifted students with a stimulation-seeking kick also do not work well at all with traditional education.

Industrial-revolution-era ideas about school are terrible as far as i'm concerned, and made education a very sour experience for me once the novelty of going to school wore off.

I'm all for the notion that segregation of education is a bad idea (taxes that benefit only one's immediate district are terrible), but I totally don't buy into the notion that smart kids have anything to gain by being taught the way average and dumb kids have to be.

Also, this is anecdotal and field-dependent, but after high school you really do kind of live in a vacuum. In software especially, it feels like everyone kind of fits the archetype.
If I were in that scenario, and I were also an "at will" employee with "PTO" in lieu of vacation and sick leave, I would have started to take all remaining PTO upon learning the launch date would be pushed back.

I would take care to work at least 8 hours in any calendar week, and work another 8 hours after all PTO had been used. After that, I would quit immediately--at 4:30 PM on that last day--and let my new employer know that I can now start before the previously arranged date.

The careful use of time off is to maximize the amount of time being paid by the old employer with the minimum amount of effort wasted in throwing old tires onto the fire. If you are a salaried exempt employee, you have to be paid for the full week if you worked any of it. The PTO is just to mimic vacation, sick leave, and docked pay for not working a predetermined amount of hours in a week. If you leave with a positive PTO balance, unlike with vacation, the company does not have to pay you for it. So use it all up. Then work a bit more, so the company can't argue your quit date was the last day you actually worked.

Depending on my financial situation and the corporate policies, I might actually start work at the new employer while burning through my leave at the old one.

I would also try to find out if my new employer needed any more good people, and discreetly try to poach my most competent and amicable co-workers on my way out the door. If you're hitching a ride to flee a sinking ship, it's only fair to throw some flotation devices behind you as you sail away.

A company that mismanages its tech professionals and its projects doesn't deserve diddly squat from you. If I were your new boss, I'd be glad that you're not spineless. That's like wondering whether the next person you date will think poorly of you for dumping your abusive ex. If they're worth keeping, they will applaud you for it.
I've been writing Rust solutions for two years now, and I do not feel like I am in a 'constant fight' to get something to run. That only happened for the first two or so weeks as I was learning Rust.
There is a lot of work underway in this area. The Webextensions project is the big long-term effort. But regarding e10s, it is true that e10s is an all-or-nothing proposition. However, as of Firefox 51, extensions do not disable e10s unless they are explicitly marked as incompatible with e10s. The rollout was deliberately done slowly in this area to favor stability over getting e10s enabled quickly, I think that was pretty clearly the right decision.
Ask HN: Startup running out of money, shall I leave?
Hi,

Throwaway account for obvious reasons..

Working for a startup for last two and half years.
The product was launched early last year, could not get the expected traction.

End of last year, I came to know that company is running out of cash. And it was also reflected some how from the speech of CEO. CEO+Product people put a plan to have a monetization strategy. And its fairly extravagant. Finding a new job will not be tough but I was one of the early employee of the company. And the CEO plus colleagues are wonderful people to work with.

When I think about leaving the company, it hurts. But on the other hand, I have a family to support. If I leave now and the company survives I will feel guilty in future.

What you would do if you were in my situation? Thanks for feedback.
>Yes if the https server is compromised there's a problem, but that's true with any other delivery method.

That's not correct. In most distros, installing packages from your distro's repositories has an additional security guarantee: the packages you download have their PGP signatures verified before installation. If an attacker compromises the web server and alters the package, your package manager will reject it as it's not signed by a trusted key in your keyring.
Alphabet Gets Robotics Pioneer Back After Her Stint with Apple
France and the USA use a different threshold for obesity, so I'm not sure the comparison is straightforward. Someone who is borderline obese in France would be considered far from obese in the US. I can't whip up a source for this at the moment, but I'm speaking from personal experience (born in France, moved to the US when I was 9).
Aha. That makes sense - I've seen PPTP, OpenVPN and L2TP as well.
Paging @shit_hn_says after a 6 month hiatus...
I don't mean to imply that gifted students should be used as teacher aids but I think they have a different role to play in helping their fellow students. The teacher's job is still to teach but having peers to turn to is a valuable resource and skill that everyone should learn. By removing the best resource for that cooperation we do everyone a disservice.
I never switched from Firefox to Chrome, even though Chrome was (and is) very clearly superior in _almost_ every way-- more secure, faster, and a superior UI.

Unfortunately, Chrome mouse gesture addons are all terrible, none work perfectly, all have inconsistent performance, and most are spyware to boot! Firefox has Firegestures, the gold standard. With 20 years of muscle memory mouse gestures are non-negotiable for me. So, I stuck with Firefox.
For 2), you would get what Chrome has - memory hungry browser.
I tried using it for a month, but for my workflow (>100 tabs open) it ate my whole memory.
> The way he writes makes even interesting topics feel deadly boring.

This sounds like a great endorsement to me. Another complaint I had about Zinsser's book was that he was giving you advice on how to "spice up" your writing, but IIRC (it's been some years), it was all about standard journalistic tricks to construct a narrative, have distinct characters and personalize the story. Obviously that sort of thing is more engaging to read, but I feel like it often distorts the "take-away" message of most scientific and technical writing, given that most science is incremental improvements on existing technology carried out by international collaborations and competitions, not major breakthroughs carried out by lone supermen.
Not much, but the original question was a little severe in its tone as well. Let's all be happy folks! :)
Has somebody here experience with Jd and could comment on the status or the performance? Thanks!
One way to look at this is that companies go upmarket from a firm base of downmarket customers. There's a lot of uncertainty in upmarket enterprise sales: the engagements can involve RFPs or bakeoffs and involve dogfights that incumbents can lose to upstarts. A company can do really well in the high-end markets without ever having a stable, defensible customer base in it.

So if Trello grows to the point where it seriously threatens Jira's downmarket base, Atlassian has two problems: first, that Trello is sapping their downmarket revenue, but second, that Trello then has a beachhead from which to start attacking their high-end prospects as well.

"Killing Atlassian" is surely easier said than done, and probably hyperbolic. But buying Trello to prevent the emergence of a credible competitor to them across all their important markets? That sounds like a pretty plausible explanation for the valuation.

I'm a little skeptical, though, if only because I think Trello has a lot more potential than Jira (and of Jira's value proposition in the abstract). I think Atlassian just bought the next Microsoft Excel.
I've looked at nativescript- it's pretty neat... although still very young. Imho, there's no native JS platform that I'd recommend for a production app yet.
I think parametric design could be used here, but to what extent that would be useful, I'm not sure.
I worry they're gonna repeat Digg's mistakes somehow, dressing everything up and coincidentally increasing their ad/sponsored zones. The minimal comment-and-reply-focused experience is the reason I use Reddit.
AWS Traffic Load Balancer
Nice theory but acute medical emergencies are often stochastic. Let me know if you get to the point where you can predict a pulmonary embolism in members of the general public with enough accuracy to dispatch an ambulance.

Preventable conditions are often a combination of genes plus environment plus luck. Trouble is, the "luck" part dominates more often than we'd like. This is why preventive medicine is often accused of being tremendously arrogant.

We've got a long ways to go, and it would help to focus on the highest marginal benefit items. (We were supposed to have flying cars, and all I got was the sum total of Hunan knowledge on my phone... not a bad trade, on balance)
I posted this because I just watched a documentary about the earth's core on the BBC and the stuff about the implications of the south-Atlantic anomaly fascinated me.

It's a few years old but worth a watch if you have an hour to spare:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0148vph/horizon-201120...
There's always an option to bring 2D glasses [1] to a 3D movie showing.

[1] Not a joke: on Amazon you can find polarized glasses that work with most theaters where both lenses are polarized to just a single camera (left 2D and right 2D). I've got a friend that experiences motion sickness at 3D showings that uses them to see movies where everyone else wants to see 3D. One of the lesser utilized but awesome tools with some of the home 3D TVs (like my LG) is to have one player with left 2D glasses and the other with right 2D glasses and play a "full screen" coop game.