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Of course, it is a fallacy to assume that leaders from STEM backgrounds may be qualitatively better than others, or even perform better for their constituents. But then again, such leaders would definitely not ignore climate change wholesale.

If there is indeed a correlation between education in any of the STEM fields and "leadership qualities", would it not be better to reform education to introduce skills implicit to these fields at an early age (logic, reasoning, rational discourse, understanding of the scientific process) instead of selecting for these qualities later on?
I'd be OK with Edge except that in Win10, Edge gets subsumed into "System" in the volume mixer. You can't lower the volume on the Edge program, like you can on Firefox, Chrome, or on previous versions of IE.

In short, when ads or background music start blasting, you can either mute your entire system, or you're stuck with them - can't mute Edge specifically.

That's a killer feature right there.
Healthcare insurance isn't the best example given that several cantons want a single payer system but can't have it right now.
No doubt they may have been pwned, either by infiltration or other means. There's no evidence of them (ala Yahoo) complying with the NSA
I'd say it's more about having generic transferable skills; a PhD might know a lot about their subject area (e.g. a biologist skilled in evolution), but won't necessarily apply that knowledge to other areas of life (e.g., same biologist is a practicing Creationist). Perhaps the SS officers were chosen for exactly this kind of blind spot.

IMO the major qualification for any CEO is people skills, since most of the job consists of meetings and negotiations as opposed to any technical pursuit. And if this thread is secretly about Trump, it's hard to argue that he doesn't have people skills: http://archive.vcstar.com/opinion/columnists/ruben-navarrett...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen

>Many Einsatzgruppe leaders were highly educated; for example, nine of seventeen leaders of Einsatzgruppe A held doctorate degrees.[42] Three Einsatzgruppen were commanded by holders of doctorates, one of whom (SS-Gruppenführer Otto Rasch) held a double doctorate.[43]

So perhaps I was wrong to say majority, but a good portion.

As an aside, what a bizarre thing to nitpick. Why does this fact bother you?
If I had cash, I would buy those mediallions at fire sale prices.

The NYS trial lawyers are doing a good job holding Uber hostage. Once they get what they want, Uber is fucked.
Worse, there is a massive chicken-and-egg problem here.

At least with normal jobs, I only have to risk occasionally encountering someone who is difficult or slightly incompetent. While dealing with difficult people is normal, at least right now it isn’t a daily occurrence.

Conversely, I can pretty much guarantee that a huge number of future colleagues would be making my life miserable when in Congress. Some of them apparently cannot be reasoned with at all (“I’m sorry, you have the wrong letter after your name therefore your idea sucks <turning brain off now>”), and a pretty insane number of them just do whatever they want without obeying rules.

It reaches a point where you have to decide where you can do the most good, and there just doesn’t seem to be a way to do much “good” by being in public office. I feel better working on engineering projects that go somewhere.
i switched to firefox about two years ago after having been on chrome since 2008 (The very first release). At first i was really impressed with chrome and its speed and stability and UI. But firefox has much improved and is now the privacy candidate. I've also switched to duckduckgo. I'm jumping right off the google hype train because i feel that their business is to mine mine.
Mistakes derail me much more when I'm sharing my screen or pairing. Once I make one, my confidence is somewhat shaken and I spend an inordinate amount of time on accuracy rather than the task at hand. Stupid, I know.
Maybe some of the onlookers don't know that you have long identified yourself as a woman here. As I recall, we (you and I) eventually figured out that we first "met" on an online community before Hacker News was founded.
You can use stuff like https://github.com/dynup/kpatch or http://www.ksplice.com/ to apply security patches to a running Linux kernel, but that's still pretty new stuff.

Stratus has been doing that since the 90s, though :-)
The "victim" came to their superior to complain that their work had been sabotaged. After talking about it, her superior came to the conclusion that the most likely person to "blame" was the "victim". Hence, the straightforward use of the term "victim-blaming".

Since my wife has done a lot of work with abused children, I was thinking most directly of that - when someone alleges abuse in a school or church community, it's quite common for people to bend over backwards to find ways to disbelieve or blame the victim. In the case of child abuse, almost nobody blames them "because they should have protected themselves better (or have hidden their vulnerability better, etc.)". They generally find ways to disbelieve them, or (quite commonly), say things like "you know how children lie about these things" (spoiler: they generally don't).

The parallel I drew between two different (and vastly different in terms of personal damage done) types of blaming the victim was positing that it's the impulse to preserve the ideal, imagined just world that would drive people to go to such lengths to discount the straightforward path.

Your last paragraph is a muddle. I think you're claiming that using the term "victim blaming" is an appeal to emotionally-loaded terms in a heretofore "rational" discussion, and claiming I'm jumping the discussion from the (presumably usually "rational" hackernews norm - hah!) to some kind of mindless emotional appeal. I think that's my cue to exit…
They should have done whatever it is that qualifies as "turning to anger" now.

(Personally, I think the article is overstating the case.)
The market for all services also expands. Previously, if I had missed the bus, I would never have called a taxi: costs too much and no certainty whatsoever that it would arrive any faster than the next bus (~30 min). Now, I will on rare occasion grab an Uber, because the cost is tolerable and it's virtually guaranteed to be at my doorstep within 5 min.
The engineers may have even exacerbated some things, especially in the 1950s-70s, as they were more optimistic about rapid advances in (what was then called) cybernetic control than turned out to be warranted. It seemed within short term reach to have rational, data-driven optimization of large sections of the economy, but neither the technology, nor theory, nor data was there at the time to make that actually work. It's an interesting question what would've turned out differently if expectations of rapid advances turned out to be accurate, and they had 1960s USSR-level political resources paired with something closer to today's level of data-collection and ML technology. Central economic planning, but run by an engineering-bureaucracy with the resources of 2017 Google.
http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/2016_0831_hyperloop...

I did a quick bit of looking around, rather than making accusations about the company. So far I find no indication in any of the rules I've found for the competitions that SpaceX is running that would suggest any such thing.

It's probably worth pointing out that SpaceX isn't much involved in Hyperloop. Elon published the idea, and has mostly left it up to other groups to work on / produce.
Receiving downvotes. Would be interested in an actual response.

If someone was selling laptops with a pirated copy of Windows on it and a Windows update recognized the unlicensed install, causing the laptop to be non-functional, would that be any different?

Remember, the maker of these dodgy laptops has locked the bios so that you can't reinstall a genuine operating system...
This was one of the more chilling things I've read in awhile. Explains some of the more surreal aspects of the election.
Here is the original link: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/big-data-cambridge-analytic...
It is quite crazy. I have experienced this before and once I was on LSD. That was not a nice experience, I heard screaming babies. Easy enough to stop (put on music!) but really creepy. I thought I was going mad for a minute or two.
Was any of the data going to be released under an open license?
There was in fact an OS X version of TotD, called "Typing Of The Dead: Typing Lariat", and it was an universal binary too; I think I still had it on my mac a few months ago.

I don't think it's sold anywhere anymore; you should be able to find it on some abandonware website, with a bit of googling.

The menus are in japanese but the text to type is all either in english or at least uses english characters. If you want the proper english version you could try with wine, the tests on winehq seem to report decent compatibility.
Too bad Firefox is doing everything in its power to make itself a Chrome Clone...

Including Widevine, Chrome Extensions, and various other things
>As an aside, what a bizarre thing to nitpick. Why does this fact bother you?

I see no reason to get nasty.
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In the games industry dealing with abusive online players can get demoralising too. In a lobbby and someone has black sounding voice? Abuse. A woman's voice? Abuse. It becomes an ethical and business issue because these are paying customers on services like Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus. There a ToS and abusive people are a minority but in gaming it can be a large minority. Developers do write algorithms to help deal with these people (won't go into details intentionally) but without outright banning them its not always full proof.
An E.O. which violates Constitutionally-valid statutory restriction on the executive is, ipso facto, a violation of the provision of the Constitution empowering Congress with the authority to control the matter addressed by the statute.
Hollerith, he didn't just ask for a source, he implied it was an "alternative fact" which is a political attack
I haven't gotten into Godot, but it looks interesting.

At the very least, their blog is interesting. And their annual April Fools posts (https://godotengine.org/article/godot-aims-mainstream, https://godotengine.org/article/godot-now-really-free) are fantastic.
A few years ago I raised the idea (on Twitter) of Iceland being a nice "neutral" venue that's equally (in)convenient for both US and European attendees, very liberal and progressive, and, at the time, cheap for a Nordic country.

I have since seen a handful of industry conferences take place there, but it hasn't really blown up (one reason, I suspect, is it's reasonably expensive to stay there now - Iceland's decline did not last long!)
I (and others) have made it an explicit goal to try and maintain civility and to focus on things that are immediately useful to tech practitioners. It's amazing the amount of shit that gets cut out when you don't normalize the mindless upvoting of news, marketing, and politics.

The closest we've come in recent memory was a long grumping in a subthread about ESR in a submission involving Rust vs. Go.

The basic problem is just that there are a lot of people who want to inject politics into everything--and that's fine, and frankly even correct--but they don't realize that by doing so they destroy the safe space for civil technical discussion, of which there are few these days.

Some of the things that keep the discussions civil (in my estimation):

1. Public moderation logs, none of the secret cabal stuff that goes on here. Thus, users never have a clear ground to say "help help I'm being repressed!". Towards that end, at least one user banned multiple times here has been a reasonably civil member of our community--though we do try to keep him from getting to longwinded about certain topics.

2. People have multiple reasons to select why they're flagging something, and downvoting something just because you disagree with it is actively discouraged. Allowing people to get used to knee-jerk downvotes has made HN nastier, and it's something you can't really walk back.

3. We have a clear tag system for organizing submissions, and a general policy of pointing out things that don't fit (and adding tags for new things). In this way, we get to ignore the brunt of articles--news, marketing spam, other bollocks--that would have to show up and be flagged away manually by the userbase. In effect, it seems people submit things with a little more care and submit things that are actually in the wheelhouse of the community.

4. People are not afraid to point out when community norms are being broken, and are not afraid to use the mechanisms in place (meta threads, tag discussion threads, PMing) to fix those norms when they aren't working correctly.

5. Invites are handled through the existing userbase, and we are all aware that we are somewhat responsible for who we bring in. In some small way, everybody feels directly responsible for the community and how it evolves--and they often put some minimum effort into vetting the people instead of just opening the floodgates to normies and marketers (for lack of a friendlier term).

~

I guess the other thing that helps is that, in general, we've had open discussion about the role of politics in the site, and the general population seems to recognize that, while some discussion is to be encouraged (and cultivated in places like our `culture` tags), we don't want to just start indiscriminately hosting submissions and their resulting arguments. Some, like me, would prefer that those submissions never appear. Others would be happy to submit politics all the time. The community though, in agggregate, is empowered enough and--for now--wise enough to strike a balance between those two extremes.

It's a good place, and I hope we don't fuck it up too soon.
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Thanks, I hadn't heard of tig before now.

https://jonas.github.io/tig/
I am doing a one-man SaaS project also. It is extremely hard. Yes it is rewarding but it is also soul-crushing and stressful and most probably will not go anywhere.
Okay, but then the question becomes: why use Godot over UE4?
Wanting more STEM seems like an indirect way of wanting more critical, evidence-based, thinking. Atheism is probably a better proxy.
It would be highly illegal. And there's probably a black market for it. Immigration is supposedly watching for it as well.

I have heard in University one of my wives' friends wondering if she could marry an F-1 student to help him stay. Never inquired further what happened there...
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Yes but I believe you can hide this.
Ah, good fact-finding! I'd heard rumblings that Political Detox Week was basically done to prevent snowballing outrage before said visit.

It's probably just a kook theory--thanks for digging up a timeline.
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There's a Chromium bug that goes into more details, but the basic idea was that they didn't want the cert details button to be in the Page Info pop up, but didn't have a new place to put it. In Chrome 56, the SSL icon now shows "Secure" or "Not Secure", so more users will be clicking on Page Info, and they didn't like technical details in that pane. There's a new bug to find a better place for certificate details in Chrome 57.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=646465

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=663971
OK, but GP doesn't criticize him for that. It implies he's nitpicking, acting bizarrely and bothered by trivialities.
I think asking for a citation was fine. Framing OP's statement as an "alternative fact," without evidence, caused me to downvote.
I keep coming back to HN for insights like this. Thanks for taking the time lawkwok.
And you'd like a banker running the SEC, of course?
You mean today's computers can assign prices to existing products and decide which new products to develop better than the market? The iPhone coming out of a neural network which isn't close to passing even a pale shadow of the Turing test (which a lot of humans pass who certainly cannot develop new products or set prices better than the market)? I wouldn't put my money on it.

(BTW Botvinnik, the first Soviet chess champion, was trying to push his (weaker than competition) chess-playing program as a basis for running the entire Soviet economy (he explained the weakness of his program for chess by it being more general than the competition; it apparently did not occur to him however that the fact that it lost to other machines and of course to people - this was 1990 - could perhaps mean it might run the economy somewhat worse than say a person. He was an engineer.))

As to electing engineers - let's put it this way: all else being equal, I'd rather be ruled by an EXPERIENCED ex-engineer (not just a guy with a degree) with a track record of achieving something, for which people who worked with them can vouch, than an ex-lawyer or an ex-journalist. But "engineer" by itself is not even a certificate of basic sanity, let alone the ability to lead someone somewhere other than the abyss, and for this HN's comment section provides ample evidence on a daily basis.
Just this comment light grey because of downvotes? Why would that be?
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It definitely wouldn't hurt to have less lawyers in leadership. they seem a little over represented.
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It's already the case that some prominent VCs have already become way more active outside Silicon Valley.
IMO, the immigration restrictions in the last few years are one of the root causes.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/29/as-sequoia-upped-investmen...
Excellent question.
Can you define better?
or even further is it different for different verticals?
On a related topic, anyone know any good hacks for disabling autoplay while browsing?
As was most any country going through their industrialization phase. And China has gone from a third world country to second biggest economy in 20 or so years.
I'm not betting my labor vouchers either for or against it, just an interesting thought experiment. Some of the technical problems with 1960s cybernetics are solved now, especially for more defined tasks. The USSR had huge problems getting to work things that would now be called "supply-chain optimization" and similar and are now routinely done, in a pretty centrally planned style, at large vertically integrated companies with complex logistics. This kind of stuff just didn't work at the time at the scale Soviet planners hoped to use it (scales like "optimize agricultural production in the whole USSR"), and when people tried to use it it produced bad results. I do agree that how to switch production into new sectors and products and how not to have a terrible bureaucracy capture all these decisions is a different, probably more difficult question though, certainly having some logistics optimization tools that work isn't solving the full picture (it's just better than having those problems and also having logistics optimization tools that don't work).
Why isn't anybody paying attention to the fact that this is a "fake news" site without so much as a mailing address anywhere on its site?
Dear god the last thing I'd ever want is a country ruled by engineers. Most have one track minds, can't multitask, and can't see the forest beyond the trees. Maybe if they also have some sort of background in philosophy/economics/humanities or anything that can add perspective on the human condition, managing people, etc...
We definitely want JS benchmarks. Please, if you can, file bugs at bugzilla.mozilla.org in Core::JavaScript Engine.
Elect more leaders like me! Seriously? This is seriously at the top of HN? What is so great about science? Didn't science create nuclear weapons? Isn't it rushing us towards the AI Singularity? Why are you so confident that STEM is the answer to all our prayers?

I do STEM because it provides for my family. However, I appreciate and understand that I might very well be the problem rather than the solution. But, I am good at it and pays well and sometimes it seems to do good when in the right hands.

If you ask me though - elect more leaders who are anti-violence and anti-consumption. But hey, one person one vote - right?
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Yes, I've also experienced auditory hallucinations with LSD. Also synesthesia. And subsequently, with marijuana as well.
Sorry, my mistake, I wasn't aware that Trump was required to pay the previous Secretary of State any mind.

He was elected to do better.
a longer tunnel would likely have more pumps along the track. I don't think you should extrapolate from this small-scale model.
So you are proposing a Democrat led dictatorship?
Well, in this case, he ordered a custom made POS for all his bars/restaurants. So it was a specific case.
> If you REALLY want them to self-terminate but you found out that they mutated and can now synthesize X & Y, you're in trouble.

And speaking of the Jem'Hadar, there was an episode of Deep Space Nine based on this idea:

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath_(episode...
Ask HN: Is MBA from top school worth it for mid career boost?
I work for Amazon and have 11 yrs of experience in software development. I am not an SDE anymore, although I stay in touch with technology. My job is in tech family roles only.

I also have project management certification from Stanford University.

I am wondering if MBA would be worth for going into exec management at this stage? I want to get into director/VP role.

It will be 200k cost for doing MBA in 2 years. I am thinking of doing MBA in part time or an EMBA degree. If I go for MBA then, I will have to put down thought of buying house.

What are your thoughts? Has anyone done MBA and got boost in the career? Would it add value to climb higher in career ladder at top tier companies?
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Angela Merkel has a similar background, doesn't she?
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A US citizen cannot be barred from entering the US. That is one of the key rights of citizenship.

A US citizen is also required to present their US passport when entering the US - even if they are a dual citizen and hold another passport.

The whole thing about dual citizens refers to citizens of the banned countries who also hold citizenship of a third country - i.e. one that is not the US and one that is not banned. e.g. an Iraqi-Canadian who presents a Canadian passport is still barred from the US by Trump's order.
And his idea to have the drilling solution for cities is really because you'd need to drill a lot on mars for habitats. You need 5 meters of Martian soil to provide equivalent protection to earth atmosphere
I love that quote, and his work :)
How would you ban lobbying consistent with the First Amendment?
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A modified version of it is used in most CPU register out-of-order execution