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I absolutely agree that you can have fantastic managers from a non-technical background if they're intelligent reasonable people with good people skills.

However...

> I've seen some pretty scary discussions about underlying technology in executive management with seasoned industry veterans and it's the usually the person with no domain knowledge that asks the right questions that lead to a good decision.

I think the seasoned veteran in this example is not a seasoned veteran - well, depending on how you define the term. Because the people who are best at their jobs tend to "know what they don't know". If someone has bias, they were probably never any good at their job in the first place.

So I tend to think if you can find someone who has good domain knowledge and good people skills they will consistently outperform someone with just good people skills i.e. Managers gain nothing by not having proper experience in the domain they're managing.
I think social is different from search. With search it’s hard to unseat an incumbent, but you can iteratively improve quality and grow a following.

Social requires network effects. Even Google with massive resources at its disposition could not compete with Facebook.

Now, from the advertisers’ PoV, Google is a essentially a monopoly in search, but not so much from and end user’s perspective.
But aren't most pro-Israel groups conservative?
bcachefs is another "competitor" to btrfs: https://bcachefs.org/

But Redhat is going all in with stratis: https://stratis-storage.github.io/
> pro-open borders groups

Can you provide a link/source for these groups?
- apologize and improve your office culture so you stop scaring people off.
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Conversions and such aren't where the memory-safety-related vulnerabilities in C++ come from nowadays. They come from memory management problems, which Pascal doesn't help with.
"better explained as positive feedback from an already unequal situation"

I thought that was implied.
Seems like supporting and incorporating RHEL support into IBM’s business is the reason they bought RHEL. They effectively grew their business contracts with the addition of all the RHEL contracts.

If anything, I would expect business as usual for their business customers. It was a really obvious market move in hindsight.
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I'm aware of one paper which tries to fit a local polynomial model to the lateral dynamics, and they have a different model for different positions on the track (it requires really good localization to work): https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06534

I had some of the vehicle parameters as part of my EKF for a while, but it led to some instabilities in the control.

The main problem is that it's really hard to know what the car's instantaneous lateral velocity is. I think the best you can do is check the difference of velocity*gyro yaw rate and lateral accelerometer measurement to get a noisy lateral acceleration measurement, and that can tell you how well your tires are hooking up. I might try fitting a least-squares model on the fly with something like that.
Stop straw manning. Thanks.

GGGP never said that to run a law firm, you had to have practiced in every area the firm does. He never said the law firm should outsource its HR and payroll and travel, unless the managing partner had experience in those functions. He said the manager of the law firm should be a lawyer.

Elon Musk has a degree in physics and began a Ph.D. program in materials science, which is probably the second-most applicable field to automotive engineering generally (after mechanical engineering). For someone doing solar cell and battery work, materials science might be the most relevant field. So tell me why you think Musk proves your point and contradicts GGGP.
> It also includes a new TCP/IP stack with Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time (BBR) congestion control, which enables higher performance, minimized latency and decreased packet loss for Internet-connected services like streaming video or hosted storage.

I suspect Red Hat didn't rewrite the TCP/IP stack, so can someone translate this from marketing into nerd? Google doesn't seem to know.
ouch. oh man, yup. ugh.. i cant even
1,100,000 Bitcoin Cash just moved
NSF awards $50M in grants to improve STEM education
Encryption by default equals national security
Anytime a social network starts to show threatening growth, Zuck tries to buy them.
metacells blow my mind. i'll leave this here for anyone else interested: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w...
Until you realize it's code you wrote. Happened to me when our children were little. There were large parts of a system I'd written, sleep deprived, that I had no recollection of writing. Version control said I did, but I didn't remember it.
Right, the issue was to make it credible. It was never difficult for someone to say "screw this, I'll use a different search engine instead" and be using it in minutes. Google would even find it for them!

The last sentence of the quote is false; only a small fraction of that money was spent on "building the search engine". Again, the relevant point is whether you can offer an alternative, which MS (and several others) have done with a fraction of that $12 billion. If it's difficult to offer something better because the top provider is legitimately the best at it, that's not the worrisome monopoly we should worry about.

Imagine the comparable investment to make a different OS that runs MS Word and getting a home user to use it instead of Windows/Word. Or running an alternate rail line from San Jose to San Francisco.
Heh, you can just click on it to see the result if you don't want to actually compile it.
Meanwhile, FTC employees are sleeping their way to the bank, as they seemingly couldn't care less. Let's hope that the EU finds some inspiration.
He was once a person fleeting terror with literally nothing.

Clearly wanting to help out others in the same situation is a crime against humanity.
Still waiting for news on having eSim and physical SIM use different networks.
If it were run by the government, how would the government be held liable?

We can’t ‘fine’ the government. All we have are brief elections. So the question becomes - are elections a better incentive for forest safely than financial liability is for a power company?

Seems laughable to claim that.
Ben Shapiro’s facile arguments appeal mostly to younger, inexperienced politic fans and the right needs all of the youthful fervor they can muster. I am sure this has something to do with their embracing of Shapiro. He has followers.
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Yep, they got state channels (branded as fate channels, haha) working even before Ethereum did!
Mystery Solved? A New Theory About Why Egypt Stopped Building Pyramids (2013)
"There's no proof that stress by itself causes long-term high blood pressure."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pr...
well, there is not a name for everything. In English, there are missing words (like the word for "the day after tomorrow").
Yeah, I'd be happy with a board that's identical to the RPi3 but with eMMC rather than SD. Not only is SD less than reliable, it's slow.
First: Your SD cards are most probably not destroyed, but have corrupt file system due to the unsafe shutdown.
Second: You can boot from USB with no micro SD with latest firmware. RPI will look first for SD card and then try to boot from USB if no SD card is found. You can even set a one-time-programmable (OTP) bit to skip SD card lookup.
The same reason the Kochs are the boogeymen of the left (not even the far left. Pelosi and others attended a conspiracy movie about the Kochs, and they have been chastised in the Will Ferrel movie "The Campaign." Not to mention how they were accused of things from Maddow & co back in 2009.)

People need a boogeyman because the real world is far too complex to comprehend, so having puppeteering bad guys is easier to deal with than reality of people actually having genuine beliefs that you don't agree with.

There definitely is some Antisemitism, though I don't think that's the main driver, the left also chastises Sheldon Adelson, who is also jewish.
This type of innuendo has no place here. Either say what you want to say or keep it to yourself.
Why is it that "truth seekers" are the ones with their shirts and tongues stained purple from how much Alex Jones-type Kool-Aid they've been chugging?

"Putting together the pieces" means "type into Google the wild, completely unhinged conspiracy theory you have and watch Google try fill in the blanks by surfacing the hare-brained detritus it's carefully indexed".
>i don't understand what your argument is about user IDs

Names/User IDs are not equivalent to biometrics. Nor passwords. Nor tokens. They are symbols that exist to enhance human UX. That's it.

>remember the context of the comment you criticized is that there are vulnerabilities in biometric security

Yes, just like in every single form of authentication. Which is utterly irrelevant.

>so if you're merely saying (as i think you are) that biometrics make poor usernames, much as they make poor passwords

>that biometrics make better passwords than usernames, i'll reiterate: that's wrong.

These are utterly non-sensical statements. Biometrics are not user names (a public symbol) nor are they passwords ("something you know"), "poor" has nothing to do with it, they are one of the other two classes of unique authentication factors. They have their own strengths and weaknesses, and yield different practical results when combined with one (or both) of the other two in a multi-factor authentication system. And a biometric/token MF system can absolutely be superior in security for many common threat scenarios and use cases compared to passwords. Achieving good security requires intelligent deployment of all 3.
Those are really ignorant statements. Bosch, Siemens, BMW etc. definitely pay well and employ plenty of talented people.
Testing the limits :-) It's interesting because it shows you how things scale, and that information is useful even for normal-but-large filesystems. I've submitted a talk about this to FOSDEM next year.
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Then Microsoft wasn't a traditional monopoly either.

Maybe the term should be "network monopoly" where the network effect is the mechanism by which they restrict the entry of competitors? That's very much true for social media companies.
> if that's the case then surely Russia has agents masquerading as the far left too? After all if you're just pretending to be far right to enrage the left you're leaving half your strategy at the door.

If you weren't aware, Russia did have its agents masquerading as the far left too:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-you-found-in-3-mil...

https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/russian-trolls-are-obse...
And one of the reasons no one competent will allow her to run a cyber security company is that she disregards the advice of people more knowledgeable than she is, not because she doesn't have a deep knowledge of how computers work.
I think we agree there has been double spending. We may not agree on whether that constitutes fraud.
The problem lies in executing that "seek out the best place to actually receive the treatment". Its hard when healthcare givers do not give a quote or outright misleads. Readers who are not familiar with the American way might find that hard to believe.
Under normal market conditions, they would hemorrhage current employees to any alternative local employers who raise their wages. But if all local business owners are freezing their wages while unemployment is low, then the liquidity of the workforce freezes, and you get into a weird equilibrium. Workers might want to leave, but there's no alternative that improves their compensation. Businesses are engaged in a natural cartel behavior, but where the incentives to cheat are reversed - the first to raise wages hurts themselves the most.
Does this surprise anyone who understands the level of psychological manipulation they deploy to create quick dopamine hits that create addicts out of users?
Seems like author of this article has mistaken smart people for people who think their smarter than everybody else. If a smart person can't focus on long term goals or cooperate with others, attaching their self worth to arbitrary skill assessments while lauding the world with these accomplishments, was that person really that smart to begin with? Nah.
For my tastes this is too far over the line into voluntarily subjecting oneself to the kind of treatment a dystopian future government might meet out.

Is there anything new you can do with this, or anything existing which becomes easier? I could see it being quite cool to pay for a coffee with a tap of the wrist, open a hotel room, unlock your car (less cool), or authenticate to you computer (really a lot less cool). Are those things possible?
Is it possible that expensive food keeps people from eating too much? Overeating can have a bigger negative impact on lifespan than the type of food that you eat. Almost any food can be healthy in moderation.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Uncle%20Tom
When the internet is being mostly used (and increasingly more so) from mobile phones, why does Beaker focus on desktop? And further, do you think the web (both old web in conventional browsers and new web in Beaker) is desktop-first?

(I've been wanting to ask this in person, but so far we haven't met, and I suppose other readers might think of this question too)
I wasn't aware, I've only really seen the usual narrative that Russian bots are acting as the right wing. Thanks for the links, I'll check that out.
Keep tree tops 30-60 feet away from structures is certainly good advice, but the environmental extremists are virulently opposed to any efforts to permit homeowners from being able to do that sort of tree management on their own property.

Here is a page from such a group attempting to oppose a measure that would allow private citizens to cut down trees on their own land, if that land is under 300 acres in area: http://winewaterwatch.org/2018/08/kill-ab-426-allowing-road-...
That can well be true for one particular company, but what does it mean for employment as a whole? Say you increase the comp and you find a person for the position. It's not like they have been sitting twiddling their thumbs, you hire them away from some other company. Now a different company has this problem.

Without some external contribution, like willingness to invest into on-job training, availability of online and brick-and-mortar education, this is a zero-sum game.
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For people in the US, it's worth looking at the list of HIPAA-defined "protected health information.[1] The 18 listed fields are the basic standard for both anonymization and de-identification.

Frankly, it's a terrible list made by people who don't understand statistics. 16 of the fields are simply unique identifiers in isolation. The only two sops offered to prevent deanonymization are dates, which are restricted to year, and location, which is restricted to a >20,000 person zipcode identifier.

A complete medical history reduced to year is probably still a unique identifier for many people. Crossed with a 20,000 person geographic restriction, the year of even a single uncommon medical event is unique for many people. And that's before we even include non-redacted information like demographics. Adding just race, gender, and approximate age can easily turn 20,000 people into a few hundred.

Who can deanonymize that data? Well, Visa can see when and where you're diagnosed with things by spotting a radiologist's bill or a monthly pharmacy payment. Target can use your location and OTC medical supply purchases. Plenty of ad networks could pair an IP location and search term to a ZIP and diagnosis. And that's what I've got with 2 minutes thought and no training in doing this.

As a final, ugly aside: HIPAA coverage applies to patient-released data. Once it's anonymized, shared, and deanonymized, the new holder is likely free to shop it around with your name attached.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_health_information
Why waste my time writing a long comment, finding references, etc just to have it flagged in a few minutes? They way I've written it is more than enough to convey what I mean.
How a Nigerian ISP Accidentally Knocked Google Offline
Wow. Excellent. What serves drewdevault.com -- sr.ht itself?
Case in point: Zuckerberg and Sandberg
The Kochs are libertarians, anything they do will be viewed as simply wanting to help their own business, even though that is not true when you actually evaluate what they have said.

I personally don't think the Kochs nor Soros are bad people, and likely want what they view as what is best for society. They put their money where their mouths are, nothing nefarious about that. If the Kochs were only for their own self interests their main focus right now wouldn't be criminal justice reform.
To take the blame, mostly, as far as the show is concerned. Hacker even says it in one episode, I think the one about the civil service pay rise (or maybe the one about civil service honors). Going from memory:

Sir Humphrey: Civil servants are paid but a modest wage.
Hacker: Modest? You make more than me. Compared to who?
Sir Humphrey: Comparable positions in industry.
Hacker: In industry, when you do something wrong, you get the boot. In civil service, when you do something wrong, I get the boot.
Seems like the first point ("Once you have pushed a commit to GitHub, you should consider any data it contains to be compromised.") supersedes that — even if you and GitHub both erase any trace of it, there's a nonzero chance that some kind of automated system, malicious or not, has a copy of it already.
Ask HN: How to stop a spoofed DDoS attack?
My site is experiencing a DDos attack from multiple dozens of ips in each of azure, aws, google cloud, etc. It is targeting at least a hundred different urls and tons and tons of browser strings/user agents.

Is there a name for this kind of attack and has anyone solved it previously?
> a monopoly should be judged by lock-in, not by raw market percentage

Monopolies are predominantly, in anti-trust law, judged by market (pricing) power, not raw market percentage. This directly relates to whether there is effective competition in the market—which may be slightly different than your question of whether buyers can switch to an alternative; it is more whether the alternative(s) are empirically substitutes rather than parallel non-substituting markets, whether or not buyers are able to switch.
The courts have also held that gawker should not exist anymore
Ask HN: What is the best training you've taken? (technical or otherwise)
Right. Elite units did "blitzkrieg" and quickly broke holes in defensive lines, and then the regular army poured through those holes. Fundamentally, it wasn't that different from how armies used mounted cavalry units centuries earlier.

Awesome name, tho.
It appears the hardening of requirements for H!B's made a new market in OPT, where there is no limit on total number, just years of service.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/13/h-1b-alternative-opt-...
This view of "traditional monopolies" isn't actually that traditional. From the end of the Gilded Age to through the LBJ administration, antitrust law was focused on reducing market concentration, barriers of entry, and anti-competitive behavior. Only in the 60's did Robert Bork and the Chicago School start to chip away at this way of thinking. By the end of the Reagan administration, Bork's idea that a firm is only a monopoly if it reduces consumer welfare (aka raises prices.) [0]

Google and Facebook have taken full advantage of this new definition. They provide their products for free, acquire competitors without a peep from the FCC (Waze, Instagram, WhatsApp), invest heavily in corporate lobbyists, and have the fastest connections by colocating their data centers and building fiber optic cables. How can a new competitor be expected to lay undersea fiber optic cables?

[0] Tim Wu, "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age", 2018
It's just running on my personal infrastructure. In the future there will be a place to host it on sr.ht.
If the instructor and the institution gain nothing from the process, then you are mostly right.

For myself, things always have gone better when there’s a little bit of turnover. The training gets better. The obtuse decisions get removed. The sharp corners sanded down.

With no turnover, people tend to memorize the system and eventually nothing material ever changes. I find it soul sucking and so I give a slightly negative score to highly stable teams now, whereas I used to count it as a pro (wow people like working here!).
CentOS is being used by a lot of HPC shops, academia and research units like one where I administer a HPC.

For the number of cores that HPC shops run, the bill would become FAT real soon if we have to pay for OS. I'd imagine that if IBM messed with CentOS, it'd be called out for being incredibly dumb about RH business, and there would emerge an open fork of RHEL that is not owned by IBM like CentOS is.

To give you an idea, we run CentOS 7.5 on all compute nodes, but make use of paid for RHEL for our identity server, DB servers and the like. If IBM touches CentOS, the whole domino falls and we start looking for alternatives.
Hogan earned $13 million from just the WCW for a 5 year contract. There's zero chance his total lifetime earnings is $25 million. Probably add a 0 to that.
i haven't followed Bitcoin lately. Can anyone here explain why is this such a big deal and what are the ramifications?

Thank you
All the truly non-technical managers I've worked under have been great. They know the bounds of their knowledge, and will either work to expand them if needed, or accept that they should take advice. Very technical managers are also generally fine (up to a certain layer, where business and people management fundamentals trump all). The scary ones are the pseudo-technical managers who think they know far more than they actually do, and so insist on getting into the weeds of technical discussions, and even overruling people who know what they're doing - my worst was a manager who in a post-mortem on a weekend outage after someone pushed "urgent" code on a Saturday morning came out with "well people just shouldn't write bugs, its that simple".
Love the idea that of contributors being eligible for free access!
I don't know much about low level stuff, but from what I have read:

- these issues are inherent in speculative execution

- speculative execution is critical for performance

- therefore these issues are really hard to eliminate

- these attacks can break out of VM's

Are these points correct? Because if they are, it seems like a safe conclusion that most of the cloud will be compromised.