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The best advice I can give to somebody in the technology mold who finds themselves in the business leadership chair is this: learn and delegate.

There are 3 core parts to just about any business today.

1. Technology
2. Business Administration
3. Sales

Odds are if you are on this board, you will be pretty comfortable with #1 or at least be interested enough to learn more.

For #2 there are companies who can help you a lot.

Become a client of a quality accounting firm who can provide you with at least basic guidance on some of the financial side of things.

Become a client of an HR firm when you get to the point of hiring employees. The structure of these companies is worth every penny for a small business. They streamline employee paperwork, act as a co-employer for you, help you with things like employee handbooks and software, allow you to offer benefits as part of a much larger entity and allow you to delegate all of the questions related to this stuff from you directly to experts. They will even advise you if something you are doing could get you in legal hot water. If you get sued, they get sued.

For #3...take a sales class.

Hiring good sales people is important, but I learned far too late in the process that I did not truly understand sales. I wasted a lot of time on people thinking that I knew what I was doing. Sales education is usually a very, very foreign concept to technology focused people.

Even if you aren't going to be doing it, taking a class so you understand that side of the business better will make your life a lot easier.
Parrot Security 4.0 – Security GNU/Linux Distribution Designed with Cloud P
At least it wasn't.

On linkedin.

Where the trend is to write single sentences.

One per line.

Instead of complete paragraphs.
Which is a model.
"Thank you" for your conjecture.
I bet you don't. In the sense that if you were under extreme surveillance and someone analyzed all your purchasing decisions there would be a detectable difference in your behavior based on the "99 cent trick".

It's a pretty well known cognitive bias to overestimate ones resistance to cognitive biases.
It’s “responsible” to let the public know that they are exposed to this.
> High Efficiency Image File Format being the standard designed to allow storing twice as much information as JPEG at the same file size while better image quality.

Sounds neat.

> HEIF is backed by the MPEG organization and, yes, involves patent licensing.

Right. So as a Internet-format, it's pretty much dead in the water then.
> It's also very simple to delete

Microsoft placed it into my library and you can't remove it unless you first install it and then uninstall it and I don't want to install it so I'm stuck with it. It's egregiously a dark pattern[0]. On the other hand Garage Band is first party code which presumably enjoys the same level of quality as the main OS so it's fine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern
It frustrates me that the engineering community has so little recollection of its own history that it doesn't even contextualise /this/ question as one of the founding problematics of its own specialism, and our cybernetic age in general. The question of whether the brain functions discreetly ('digitally') or continuously ('analogue') was one of the three main debates at the Macy Meetings in the 1940s. [0]

For example Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts effectively staked their careers on the brain being a fully digital network, as a computer. But John Von Neumann was more cautious, arguing that the digital function of the brain rested on a chemical, analogue foundation, and that it was unclear whether messages were coded in a digital or analogue way. Julian Bigelow argued that mathematicians and physicists preferred to ignore the biological structure of neurons and identify them with their digital operation.

This debate strikes at the heart of the debate between the difference between analogue and digital, and in my opinion it's a philosophical, not just physiological, problem.

[0] For anyone interested in this history I'd highly recommend Ronald R. Kline's work, especially The Cybernetic Moment (p 46-47)
A good LED dimmer won’t do this. There’s even a standard now: IEEE 1789. It’s possible, albeit hard, to find IEEE 1789-compliant dimmers.
People should just move out of the area and find a better for themselves. Whining has never solved anything for anyone, and, when successful, end up in "socialist" revolutions that turn the country into a shithole. (Venezuelan here, and I don't like Trump, by the way)
I'd think that VR and AR have possibilities, they're interesting technologies that no one has really landed an amazing use case for. I like to think of it as "Technology innovations enable industry creation", so look for what the new technologies are, and what industries they might create or revolutionize. Sadly thats the hard part, and if i knew the answer i probably wouldn't share it.
Reminds me of a writing prompt I saw a while ago [0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/35mgnn/wp_a...
wonder if ACLU and/or EFF employees supporters are in the system.
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Google Authenticator is not a password storage app. It produces time-based hashes that expire every 60 seconds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_a...
to_owned() converts to a String, not to a &'static str. Those are not the same. You can't create a &'static str dynamically (though you can mutate one using unsafe.)
> CEO's cultivating trillion dollar companies

But do these people posses something called "leadership" though, or are they just in control of a lot of capital (either by the lucky success of their app, or by being crowned by VC firms) and people. I don't know that we, as apes, can really disentangle the two.

Even Nadella turning around Microsoft is arguably just down to business strategy, which is a technical skill like anything else, but we imbue it with this aura that defines it as something more valuable than merely coding, building something mechanical, dispatching subway trains, or comforting a sick person.

In my view, it's not. There are two categories of business leaders: capitalists who are looking after their own assets, and paid managers. Neither deserves any more respect than any other rich guy or technocrat, respectively.
> "if I can't get x speed off this Ethernet port, it's your fault, hands down, so fix it".

In my experience that was when they'd point out that their advertisements only say “up to x speed” and lie that the server I was trying to use must be overloaded. The best answer is to contact your local government regulators and/or switch to the competition.

We had Comcast in New Haven and when we moved to DC the experience had left me soured enough that I got 8Mb DSL rather than deal with Comcast again. In the evenings, the DSL line reliably delivered better performance than our Comcast service had. We subsequently moved to a neighborhood with RCN and the experience has been night and day different: if I pay for 50Mb, I get 50Mb.
Comparing home price to income is incorrect. The unit of measure of home price is dollars. The unit of measure of income is dollars per year. You should compare home payment, be it a rent, mortgage + maintenance costs to income per unit of time.

Home price highly depends on interest rates which vary a lot. Currently we have an ending low interest rate period and when rates will go up, situation might change.
I have been coming around on RMS. When I was younger I thought he was awesome, then I started to think he was unrealistic, now I'm coming back to awesome (if extremely cantankerous).
This is one heck of a hillclimb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoCzZHcwKxI

Pulling this completely out of my ass, lets say the ability to camoflage is 30 genes, ones to modify skin color, signalling to do it on command, mapping to specific parts of the body to create a specific pattern, all of the above for skin morphology, mental ability to map this to prey avoidance, all of the above for ink synthesis (glands, storage, ability to express on command). Let's further assume that those genes are expressed over 500 base pairs (woefully short) for better or worse.

Somehow those genes need to be introduced into the genome to create a ninja octopus out of whatever its predecessor was. To date, all i've heard is that mutation is the source of this new genetic material. So somehow we need to mutate our way to these 500 base pairs. Let's divide that by ten as some kind of poor man's compensation for the flexibility of dna to handle noise and whatnot.

So we need to introduce 50 essential base pairs. There are 4^50 possible combinations of these base pairs, or 10^29 in more recognizable numbers. Do we have 10^29 generations to introduce those? That's a lot of octopus.
The problem with the calculation you made is that he is not making $50 per hour every hour of the day. If a person is at full employment, that is they can’t or won’t work more hours, then the calculation changes. The opportunity cost of dealing with tech support is no longer monetary and the cost of equipment rental is no longer negligible.
I tend to take the "rubber duck debugging" approach to writing comments for big hairy SQL statements.

After i'm done (I tend not to comment these behemoths until at or near the end), I go and explain what the query is doing, sometimes almost line-by-line, to a fake "rubber duck" as if it were a junior developer. Even sometimes commenting what I didn't do, and why I didn't do it. Because as it turns out, future me is a bit of a cocky asshole that always thinks past-me was some kind of idiot that must have never thought to try that before...
By knowing the taxpayer has to bail them out of really big mistakes:

While the going is good, bonus are had for an upper crust of society.

When going is bad, normal ppl loose their pensions.... and bonus are distributed anyways to congratulate the upper crust of successfully lobbying for a bail out.

The net effect? The upper crust got relatively wealthier than the poor.

The above is technically not criminal. But then there is insider trading, interest rate fixing, falsely signing up ppl for services.

Do you live under a rock?
Using a shared inbox can help cut down the time spent by your team on emails
Saw this yesterday. Deleted my account. Problem solved. Recommended.
The primary facility in graph databases is each node explicitly contains a list of relationships it has with other nodes. The relationships are treated as first-class citizens. Neo4j has a great set of docs that introduce Graph DBs to people already familiar with RDBMSes

[1] https://neo4j.com/developer/graph-db-vs-rdbms/
Raptor has indicated that they will sell the mainboard only, just not quite yet: https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/997421199117430784?...

(Disclosure: IBMer, I don't speak for IBM or Raptor)
All the places with viable logistics have ALWAYS been full. Nobody sane overbuilds infrastructure by much: you can't afford it. Instead civilization is constantly in a cycle of upgrade as required. It has been this way for thousands of years.
See all the studies linked in this thread. The only reason people do it is to try to get past the hard phase of sleep training your child. Those who give up end up co-sleeping, and will regret it later.
If you want to see how it all works, see the chart for mortgage rates: http://www.fedprimerate.com/mortgage_rates_chart-graph.htm It was going down for almost the whole period discussed.
The Verge Hack, Explained
>It can't be modeled using a sequence of discrete symbols, but it's also stable over time in the presence of noise.

Did you mean can be?

When you learned to be integrate continuous functions, I'm certain you learned to do it while scratching sequences of discrete symbols onto paper.
Since this is technically very illegal I'd be inclined to view your message as a bait to capture and jail one of the very first people who managed to mirror the whole thing.

No offense, just seems fishy.
I don't see why you couldn't use testing tier for individual transaction history.

https://plaid.com/pricing/
Ask HN: Best Anti-Virus/Security Set Up for Seniors?
What security setup do your recommend for seniors on windows based systems? Without having a fully managed setup is there some combination of security settings or programs that alleviates most potential problems seniors are likely to encounter using a typical windows computer.
Large SV companies have nowadays become cash-making media machines of a gargantuan scale, acquiring that cash from all over the world for a service of questionable value, and investing it back in a relatively small area while providing only a few tens of thousands of jobs there. This distribution of capital creates a huge imbalance, no matter how "liberal" the stakeholders are.
You can have all the imagination you want, but it doesn't change the distribution of elements by mass in the universe. The most common are hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon, neon, iron, and so on. The likelihood that hydrogen/oxygen in the form of water are the necessary solvent for life is simply a statistical likelihood. They form a polar solvent, which can dissolve many different molecules and move them around. Water is a great medium for life to form in, do you have a different solve to propose? I've heard some try to say liquid methane, but it doesn't have some of the great properties that water does, like solid water being less dense than liquid water (really useful for bodies of water, which keep liquid water underneath a frozen surface).

Additionally, carbon itself forms stable amino acids, stable nucleic acids, and does so not only on Earth but even in celestial samples we have taken from outside Earth origin. So, would you rather a non-scientific writer leave the confines of sound science to speculate wildly? As a scientist myself, I'd rather they confine themselves to the most likely and sensible scenarios the majority of the time, since their purpose is to inform and inspire the public. Some small amount of speculation is fine, but education should be first and foremost.
Intro to Matplotlib: Data Visualization with Python
I see this all the time biking around Santa Monica / Venice.
So, how exactly is evaporation to outer space less of a problem in these red dwarf systems? Shouldn't eyeball planets suffer of that depletion especially?
Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See Surveillance Risk
You pretty much just nailed exactly what this post is demonstrating about Rust. The lifetime associated with the different types indicates the provenance of the variables.

Basically, the 'static lifetime guarantees that the query string was built at compile time. And then it allows the parameters to be from user input. To Rust, these are effectively different types due to the restrictions on the function definition, which restricts the first parameter to 'static, and the list of SQL parameters can come from anywhere (static or dynamic runtime).
Right, I should clarify that when I said Power I really meant Power of the "Book 3S" variety (ie IBM server chips) rather than the embedded/QorIQ kind. Though I'm still very happy to see people selling and using PPC in all its forms :)
1. It's unlikely the effect on price of what you are describing would have the impact that is being shown.

2. Regardless of that fact, the area between the curves is the troubling part.
Prometheus: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
How to Optimize Images for Better Performance in WordPress
Perhaps this would be a good time to point out that neither the article nor I were talking about Nazis. There's a lot of room to disagree before we hit Nazi.
It's really great news and am looking forward to seeing what fintech applications I can build to disrupt the industry.
> HEIF itself is a container, and when containing images and image sequences encoded in a particular format (e.g., HEVC or H.264/AVC), its use becomes subject to the licensing of patents on the coding format. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_For...
ICO Securities Exemptions Explained
quite possibly, although the effect might still be there. extant bumblebees warm themselves up after crawling outside on the cold morning by buzzing their wings.
It's oracle, so that depends: how much money do you have?
I'm sure this will be unpopular, but these kinds of posts seem out of touch with the reality of a startup.

I'm trying to imagine a founder starting a company and sitting down with this 15 point checklist. In my experience, things happen fast and much more organically, and so a list like this is great in hindsight, I don't see anyone trying to tick each box off and getting anywhere.
You'd rather say the Church advocates the responsible use of wealth.
Move Over Crypto-Enthusiasts, Wall Street Will Take It from Here
Hey everyone, I'm the creator of the Stealth framework. Let me know if you have any questions about things not covered in the blog post. Happy to share.
Or live in their parent's home with their spouse and children.
lol, so you call your SQL just with constants? "username" in his example just for one user forever? Still a bullshit.
>> $250K since I bought it in 2012

That is really, really bad.
How strangers saved my life in India
How to topple a dictator: the rebel plot that freed the Gambia
Are iOS Authenticator apps actually calculating OTPs on the Secure Element? Is there a way to execute arbitrary code on it? If not, they have to pull the keys off to the main CPU where they're open to attack like anything else. Still secured as private app data, still mostly protected, but an attacker with a jailbreak could still dump them.

I know for a fact I can dump Google Authenticator keys from my Android device with root as I'm able to back it up and move it to another device. Theoretically on most Android devices even there's a secure enclave available that could do it, yet I haven't seen any apps use it.

Most of the benefit of OTPs really comes from approving on a secondary device rather than protecting the keys to an absolute degree though, so this is probably of little concern to most users. In fact it may provide a convenience benefit, I like being able to backup and move my keys, without that I probably wouldn't use 2FA at all.
My sense from reading was that he was upset by what he perceived to be hypocrisy on the part of the wealthy. In that they talked the talk about charity and making the world better, but their actions spoke differently. So liberal words, liberal values being expressed, but pure greed when it mattered.
they can’t or won’t work more hours, then the calculation changes

How so? If I come into work (self employed) and have no Internet access I immediately start losing money (double if you count both people in my office). If I have to debug my own hardware, possibly drive to Staples to buy new hardware - I lose even more money, not to mention the cost of new hardware.

My only recourse is to eliminate some personal time with my family and replace with more business time to make up for the losses.

I don't see how this calculation makes buying my own hardware more economically attractive.
Good for him. Thankfully I'll be living in placid Seattle where the kind liberals are, surrounded by beautiful nature and a society grounded in a cannabis induced peace.
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Only if you're on "Team USA". Looking on from outside, it seems to me pretty obvious that a Russian security company might provide useful insights on US malware operations that a large US security company would be less inclined or would not immediately report on.

Otherwise it's just your basic mudslinging; Both Kaspersky and US security companies are likely to do their governments favours, in particular by selectively not reporting things, both willingly and under pressure. If you're a US citizen working for a US security company and you'd stumble upon a US malware operation that appears to be doing something benign, such as preventing nuclear whatnots, you might be disinclined to report on it for fear of ruining a US malware mission--and even look past the fact that they're using such a risky, dangerous type of software to do it (being a worm/virus, remember that Stuxnet also disrupted and got into places that weren't targets).

Back when Stuxnet was active, I closely followed the story and the existence of the (airgap-hopping) virus was discovered long before people got any solid ideas about its purpose. When finally the first reports came that the special control software checked for machines running on a frequency that were only used in either some Finnish industrial plant or these Iranian refineries[0], the first reports on this did not come from a US security company.

[0] This part is a bit vague sorry. I wish I had sourced/fact-checked this part of the story better, years ago. There was so much going on.
Perhaps it is an "abstraction bug" that results in existing discrete handling math not coming into play? We do not reject a glass being slightly below a filling ring as being ripped off but would to being charged 10 percent more. Cents are modeled as a second variable instead of part of a whole for a variety of reasons. Brains tend to learn to skip "irrelevant" steps with experience. Thus we catch "shortcuts" like looking at only the dollar amount and not the trailing 99 cents. If we were dealing with say metal dust as currency we would be unimpressed by slightly smaller payment scoops as discounts.
"Warped" rotors, yes, I've heard that term. Not something that comes up in conversation as much as it used to.

They are a lot cheaper today but the cost of rotors varies tremendously depending on the manufacturer and their volume. I gather they turn rotors a lot less than they used to because they're so darn inexpensive to replace, but I'm pretty sure it's still economical for some of the higher-end stuff.
Everything the Government Did to WikiLeaks Is Now Done to Mainstream Reporters
Software Ate the World. Now What?
Yep, I absolutely can't stand this design pattern either, but I ended up using it as well. I would advise that the best way is to actually respect the 'never show again' button. One pop-up isn't too annoying, but if an app asks me after I tell it to f off, I'm damn well going straight to the store and leaving a 1 star. It does work, but make sure it's the least annoying it can be. E.G. in a shopping app, don't show the rating pop-up in the middle of checkout, wait for the user to finish their transaction.
Yeah, but using "built at compile time" as a synonym for "safe" is pretty crude. A runtime string composed of the concatenation of two compiled strings is still safe, yet not allowed here.
Only one standalone vault is allowed for Android, it doesn't have multiple vault support.

However if you have an active subscription to 1Password.com it will unlock the Pro features for that single standalone vault. So it behaves similarly to how 1Password for iOS does in this regard. The difference is that 1Password for iOS supports multiple vaults.

Hope that helps!

Kyle

AgileBits
> Most rational people.. one of the finest thinkers in the world..

Is this advice coming from a professor/scientist/philosopher? No, they are the investors who make the most money. In a neo-liberal society, the richest people get the intellectual authority to tell us how to make intelligent decisions. Incredible! /s
No, as a property owner who doesn't plan to sell in the near future I want my properties values low: I pay taxes on the value of the land, so the lower that value the lower my costs. When I decide to sell I want low property taxes because I know the future buyers of my land will consider property taxes, I just want high property values.
Sure, unless you have a stalker-ish ex, or you're a politician, or you've ever had someone else pay your bill, or you once had a bit of mail go missing or...