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Shopping around for college education only makes sense if your career path doesn't take the name of the institution into account. Careers are so path dependent that landing in a worse first job can make a huge difference in lifetime earnings.

See, a good engineer I know, who studied in University of Missouri Rolla. Their CS degree is not all that different from a big name, as far as curriculum is concerned, but many HR departments won't recognize the place, especially if it's a company from the coasts. If you don't find a way to break through that social class, the best you can hope for is a Midwest Enterprise company, which will not pay as well, and will not teach as well. Then your resume will be thrown away at many hip companies, because working at such companies is seen as a negative, not as a positive: To climb out of a good education with a bad name to a place that pays top dollar can be a huge struggle. If instead you go to the Right University, you can then move on to the Right Company, and you can keep working at said places, or get venture capital to start your own thing, because you were already in the inside track. That's what you are paying for at the coastal university, not a dramatically superior education.

You are right though, in that there are many degrees that are terrible investments in all but the topmost universities. You'd be surprised by the kind of companies that will interview you anyway if you have an irrelevant degree from Harvard.
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Not to my knowledge, but you can use the LTS version of Firefox. Which if I remember is still compatible with older plugins. It will be a year before Mozilla refreshes with the newer branch.
No, copr[1] is to Fedora as the AUR is to Arch, and as PPAs are to Ubuntu.

RPMFusion a very longstanding and trustworthy repository for software that fedora/RedHat can't/won't distribute. Many of the RPMFusion maintainers are also maintainers for fedora packages in the official repositories. RPMFusion is of very high quality and doesn't often break . You don't really have to worry about some Joe Shmoe putting together a rpm spec that backdoors your machine, just add the RPMfusion repository and you can forget about it.

That type of attitude should not apply to things like PPAs, the AUR, and copr. Anyone can put anything up and you're trusting random people online to not bork your machine. With RPMFusion you're still trusting internet strangers, but they have a solid track record of many years and it's effectively no different from trusting the maintainers of official packages.

[1]: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/
For anyone reading this, the user-agent switcher is not something to be over looked. If a drive-by-exploit is written for firefox and you are switched to IE... hey maybe they now try to apply an IE exploit and of course it won't work. Basically it is an extra layer to prevent browser specific exploits from being delivered.
> The education system used to work fairly well in this country several decades ago.

That is...a pretty remarkable claim. I think there are a fair number of people - lots of women, lots of people who grew up smart and poor, lots of non-white folks - who would contest that pretty stridently.
> You will lose your career and job over even the faintest claim.

We'll see.

Unfortunately, the 'track record' is not promising to those people that have accused their abusers. What has actually happened? Yes, Harv is in some deep stuff, but Kevin may slip out just fine. Donny pretty much got away scot-free. Give it time to mature, we may be disappointed to find that effectively nothing will occur.

Also, going out drinking with co-workers/bosses has always been an 'eyebrow raising' idea, right? Even a beer or two has always been a point of caution. Was anyone (not in a SV-frat-house-turned-startup) under any other impression?
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At the very least they should have had a plan to move to another green energy source. Or at least something that isn't essentially guaranteed to kill people.
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I use Privacy Badger, AdBlock Plus, Markdown Preview, Secure Shell and JSONView.

As a web developer I find JSONView to be very useful when testing APIs and all sorts
Yeah, either a good Python JIT or Cython would have been fine honestly. I never understood the obsession with "python is slow" when you can recover almost all of the performance with a good JIT or Cython (in many/most cases).
It could also be due to the quantity of indexed data
If you're interested, I explained above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15696184 why the switch was necessary.

As a Firefox user (and dev) I believe that breaking some extensions today in a clean manner that will let us maintain compatibility in the future is way prefereable than randomly breaking extensions with every single version of Firefox, as this has been happening forever. Plus this break has set us free to actually improve Firefox and make it competitive again, something I believe is in everybody's interest. I realize that it's painful for the users who lost some add-ons upon which they relied, but I believe that given the alternative, this was the best choice possible.
> People die in huge numbers in very violent automobile accidents.

That's offset by the illusion that people believe they're in a very high degree of control over the situation. It enables the brain to create an illusion and say to itself: I won't make that mistake, my actions dictate the outcome, I'm a good driver (as the comical studies always demonstrate, people tend to dramatically over-estimate their driving skill).

> Most physical violence ... is between people who know each-other

You don't actually think that's going to happen, that's the issue. If you told someone their pal is about to rape or murder them, they would not believe it, they'd be far more afraid of the menacing looking stranger. That's where ignorance of risk - as with sharks - comes into action. I would guarantee a low percentage would believe they're more likely to be murdered by someone they're close to than a stranger. If a person doesn't have a meaningful comprehension of the risk (as with nuclear), the risk context inherently can't be judged properly. I suspect there's a big illusion of control that is involved between two known relations as well, you think you have some influence over whether a friend will murder you (surely they like you, surely you could talk them down from a violent confrontation, etc.); versus that almost entirely missing from the menacing stranger scenario.
The good news is, that for this year so far, 38% of the electricity in Germany comes from renewable sources. Solar and Wind generation capacity is still growing. But the big energy companies like to use their paid-off coal plants, as it is profitable, and politics isn't currently putting much pressure onto them to stop it. As coal plants cannot be quickly switched on or off, Germany is exporting a lot of electricity into the neighbor countries - whenever the sum out of the renewable sources and the coal produces an electricity surplus. From time to time we even have negative rates at the electricity exchanges.

There is a very quick way to reduce the carbon footprint: use more gas plant. They exist, but they are mostly idle, as gas costs more than coal. Using them rather than the coal plants would have several instant effects: gas produces less pollution, and produces less CO2 than coal for the same amount of energy. Also, much less electricity would be produced, as gas plants can be throttled fast enough to avoid overproduction.

So the carbon could be down quickly, only requiring to be less protective to the coal jobs and the energy companies revenues.
It's hard to beat WinForms for cranking out a quick and easy UI on Windows.
>Also, Americans do this with everything

A lot of Indian restaurants and street food vendors do it too, ha ha. E.g. Gobi Manchurian (a cauliflower version of Chicken Manchurian) is a real dish you can get in "Chinese" restaurants, or rather restaurants serving (Indianized) Chinese food in India. And Chinese Bhel (a made-up "Chinese" version of the Indian snack bhelpuri [1] - a sort of reverse adaptation, is found at street food vendor's carts or stands).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhelpuri
Never forget the great TSA Master Key fiasco.

To facilitate airline baggage security while easing bag searches, the TSA approved locks which could be opened with a master key (well, one from a small set of keys). These keys, like the "golden key" in the indicated article, were carefully guarded. Anyone using a luggage lock that either wasn't TSA-master-key-compliant, or not already open, was of course considered with great suspicion.

Then someone wrote an article about it. And talked a TSA security agent into posing with the keys displayed. http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CM8Naj... was published, and within hours people were 3D-printing copies.

Never forget the great DVD CSS fiasco.

To ward off unauthorized copying, DVDs were encrypted. Authorized playback devices were given the secret decryption key. Controlled properly, this key would never be actually revealed.

Then someone didn't control it properly, storing it unsecured in a playback product. The key was found, copied, disseminated, and DeCSS software proliferated. It was even printed on t-shirts: https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3451/3228250152_cf84bbd87d_b.j...

No, it's not "going to be different this time". Universal back-door keys get compromised/copied/disseminated eventually.
I'd like it to be able to use certificates in the user's login keychain.
What is code review
And a change of constitution.

Specifically, unreadable speech is still protected by 2nd Ammendment.

Just make your cipher output speech (gibberish words, form of steganography) and you're set.

As a reminder, this is how Zimmerman's PGP was exported. Printed in a book.
+1 Saves a ton of time, and very simple to use
If people enjoy it, what's wrong with that? It's better than TV in a lot of ways and doesn't have screaming loud advertisements every 5 minutes.
Pretty weird to put it there instead of Preferences.
The answer is to build other accredited institutions that compete on costs. They can poach all those adjuncts from the established universities by offering them tenure-track positions, build no-frills dormitories, skip the fancy landscaping and neo-classical architecture, forego any formally sanctioned athletic programs, rely on the bare minimum of administrators, and focus on undergraduate instruction.

And that could be a decent second life for abandoned retail shopping malls, too.

It might also be nice for such an institution to adopt a libre-license or gratis-license policy for all course materials, such that textbooks and lecture notes are essentially sold for the printing and distribution costs, and electronic versions downloadable at no additional charge.

And since some of those new colleges will fail, establish a succession plan to begin with, so that the student records can be easily maintained and transferred.

Even if you cut established university costs to the bone, you still eventually run up against the problem that there isn't enough undergraduate instruction capacity in them to serve the growing demand for bachelor's degrees. You're going to need to build out anyway, and private universities aren't necessarily going to do enough of that if it drops the market price for tuition.
there is one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042 — it was moved to being tracked for v58.
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Are you comparing sextortionists to EA?
I agree.
IE can account for a fraction of total traffic, but it still can affect large percentage of users. The same person can use several devices (work, home, mobile) to browse the web at different times. I can't recount how many times I saw some page at work only to send myself the link to read it later. I'm not forced to use IE anywhere, but if I were, loosing that initial visit would also lower the number of visits from other browsers.
Here in America we gain interest while we are in school and have to start paying it off 6mo after we graduate. For context, that is the average time it takes a student to get a job (right when they are also paying moving costs and such). Payment used to initiate after 9mo after graduation.
That pissed me off too. When did Mozilla become an advertiser?
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The Pee Tape is an issue because the Racist President had prostitutes pee on a bed that the Black President slept on. That is what the issue is with the Pee Tape. It is not about kink or anything else, just a racist doing racist stuff.
A lot of developers don't want to write the core (and sometimes complex) business logic in Javascript, and thus this allows writing client applications that take advantage of all the .net framework with strict compile time checking that is better than Typescript.

On the other hand of the coin a lot of developers in the frontend and design related space are experienced with HTML, CSS, and some javascript and therefore it gives the same advantage that Blend gave for WPF, it makes it easy for frontend folks make the application look good while the C# folks can make an application function well.
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On this, I definitely agree.

The point of your post on which I disagree is the idea that we need to name a "culprit".
At least in the US, a person's job is a big part of both their identity and their brand. "What do you do" is one of the first questions that come up in most conversations, and everyone judges everyone else (at least subconsciously) based on the response.

Back in another life I did a lot of online dating and tested this hypothesis by telling some of my dates that I worked as a garbage collector for the city. Those dates pretty much always ended early. :) I had drastically higher success when I told them my real job: software consulting.
When you’re critiquing a hardware device, it might help to be factually accurate instead of basing criticisms on your own misunderstandings.

First, the Apple Watch easily lasts at least two days with headroom. Second, most of those extra hardware features — which you essentially dismiss outright — directly support what is likely the largest selling point and driver of demand: fitness tracking.

To be honest, at this point, the Apple Watch is to a wristwatch what the iPhone is to a traditional cellphone. Arguing that it’s not the best (or even a particularly good) timekeeping device isn’t particularly compelling, because such functions are secondary or even tertiary uses of the device. It’s about as silly as reviewing smartphones solely on their telecommunications stack, which is likely amongst the least-used features of a modern smartphone.

It’s fine if you really just want a timekeeping device, but your criticisms are going to go over about as well as someone wishing for a return of the Nokia candybar days.
The fact that coal usage is actually declining was mentioned obliquely in paragraph 7.

Virtually the entire article is cheerleading hard for nuclear.

Not mentioned is also the fact that the UK is building a new nuclear plant and it's very expensive. Significantly more expensive than the equivalent in wind/solar would have been even if you assume that they do not continue to decline in price (which they probably will).
Tabs Backup and Restore for Chrome is very useful, if you are like me, and collect more and more tabs to "Read later". It will do periodic snapshots of all tabs, and you can restore any point in time.
A fixed rate that changes, right? None of my loans ever had the same percentage as the year before. Small point though.
We don't do this on Hacker News, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have to say it's been a while since I have been impressed with a firefox official release, I have been using nightly for a couple of weeks now.

Another thing to note, and maybe most people don't instinctively realize this, but Chrome should get a lot of kudos for bringing both browsers and the web forward in such a short time. Let's not forget - the clusterfuck both Firefox and IE were before chrome came to the scene. A lot of the implements that makes Firefox awesome now came from chrome.

Chrome played just as big of a role as FF did to bring IE out of the gutter.

I haven't used IE (or whatever it's current incarnation is called) for a long time as a daily driver - spend some time about 6 months ago - wasn't impressed, but still better than what it was before.

Thanks, Chrome team.
The last time that a package I installed proceeded to install code that the vendor didn't know about was never.

The last time a web page caused my browser to download and run js that the page owner didn't know about was five minutes ago.
I think most people here use more than 1 non-mobile OS?
I don't think you intended it this way, but the analogy of a tornado going through a junkyard and building Watson is very apt for the emergence of any intelligence. Any individual path or outcome is itself fantastically unlikely, and you're right to regard it as a low probability event.

But we've already had one such event-- the development of human intelligence. So if the random emergence of sentience from undirected physical processes is your bar for impossible, I'd say you need a new bar.

Regarding human technology, 40 thousand years is not a lot of time in the grand scheme of things. But even having said that, none of the claims I make rest on having human tech: the electric eel is not a human invention, nor are lorenzini organs. Use of a lava flow for heat is natural to many aquatic ecosystems, and requires no more intelligence than the ability to win at "hotter or colder". Many aquatic life forms already make use of simple hydraulic effects to move along the sea floor, anchor themselves into tidepools, or hunt prey. The preponderance of evidence we have for life on Earth suggests that that these skills will develop over time. Proposing that there is some reason that advancement inevitably stops under the sea is a bold and surprising claim, and yes-- requires evidence.

Regarding hating my type of person, that's on you. I think your position is narrow-minded and in error, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler.
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Sanity.io designer / co-founder here. We've been discussing how to explain what Sanity is and stuck with “CMS” to give people an everyday use case, casting a new product category in something old. There's the term «Headless CMS», but that doesn't capture the data modelling and query capability well either.

And for sure, this way of thinking about content isn't new. People have been building bespoke relational databases with custom forms on top since forever. But it has been time consuming and also pretty hard to get totally right. It's free form in data structure, but expensive to change.

Many who haven't needed to structure content in the past need to do so now. Both given content reuse across touchpoints, but also to be able to easily shift your content over to other services as structured data.

So we built Sanity to make this fast and easy while not compromising on the experience for the editor: real-time collaborative work on structured, interlinked data.

BTW – In order to make extending the editing UI clean we've built a system for build-time dependency injection. This gives a non-crufty way to override and compose components: https://www.sanity.io/docs/extending/parts
Very sorry about that. The third party extension was developed by a core DevTools engineer, just not merged upstream. We'll get there. :)
Oh wow. That must be some story about how you racked those up. I wish you luck.
Feedly performs like garbage with the new Firefox. 100% of CPU when clicking on the feed and doesn't go down.
I believe it's the sender.
Could be because the locals making them are experts, having made them for centuries - not the same people living for centuries, obviously, but the skills transferred from parents to children over many generations, and refined as years go by, etc.
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This will be the first version of Firefox that I won't be using. The final straw with me was the "Studies" integration. I've wanted to stop using Firefox since Pocket and EME was integrated, but I have failed to find anything else that works for me. I can no longer pretend to trust the Mozilla Foundation or the Firefox team, given their track record over the last few years. In our current era, the browser has become a critical piece of software and it is dangerous to trust an organization who wishes to censor [1][2] and track users.

[1] Brendan Eich https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/04/11/did-mozilla-ce...

[2] Mozilla Information Trust Initiative : https://archive.fo/jcJWg
What Firefox version is Webrender release scheduled for?
What are some good Python JIT's that are worth trying out?
Working rich remain central to rising top incomes [pdf]
This has been the strategy, but the bill is invalidating it:

>“Similarly, awards with vesting triggers based on exit events such as an initial public offering or change-in-control would be taxable on grant unless they require the recipient to be employed through the liquidity date.“

From Fenwick’s analysis.
I think they're counting on the fact that everyone already has ;)
I use a combination of Selenium and python packages (beautifulsoup). I'm primarily interested in scraping data that is supplied via javascript, and I find Selenium to be the most reliable way scrape that info. I use BS when the scraped page has a lot of data, thereby slowing down Selenium, and I pipe the page source from Selenium, with all javascript rendered, into BS.

I use explicit waits exclusively (no direct calls like `driver.find_foo_by_bar`), and find it vastly improves selenium reliability. (Shameless plug) I have a python package, Explicit[1], that makes it easier to use explicit waits.

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Google certainly tracks people by their IP address, so your privacy is lesser with Google as your search engine than DDG.
This reminds me of a comment by quotemstr a few days ago about the housing supply 'debate,' where the absurdity of pretending that supply and demand somehow doesn't apply to the west coast reality distortion field is called out. The math behind energy is very simple and any honest person that chose to deal in realities understood that by EOLing their nuclear supply Germany had only more fossil fuel or severe economic decline as possible futures; renewables can not make up the difference then, now or in the foreseeable future, no matter how hard we wish it could.

Yes, I know: Chernobyl. That's a cop out. Germany need not be governed by hysteria. The difference between Russian/Soviet incompetence and the results we see from France, Ontario and other well governed and highly successful nuclear systems is vast and decisive and could have provided Germany's 'leaders' with the ammo they needed to do something other than indulge anti-nook hysteria.

But that's not what happened... so burn coal instead.
It's possible most of them are now using the combination of tab containers and the "snooze tabs" extension, rather than trees. A test pilot feature that lets you mark tabs as "I don't want to see you until tonight/tomorrow morning/the weekend/next week/etc". It really cuts down on the need to keep 100+ tabs open (you just silo the tabs based on their role, then snooze all the ones you don't want to lose but don't need in the slightest right now either).
If you have enough money to outright purchase residential real estate in San Fransisco, just to use it for 6 months, you are exactly the person being targetted