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Ask HN: Whats your opinion on online courses?
There are a lot online learning course websites like: Udemy, edX, Coursera or similar.
I'd be interested whats your take on them. Do you think you can gain useful hard skills if someone is a beginner/intermediate or even on an expert level?
Maybe you already did such courses yourself and have experiences you want to share.

If you have other sources for getting started in cyber security topics like:
cryptography, pen testing, ethical hacking or basically anything else I'm happy for your recommendations.

A note on the background of my Question:
I want to gain new skills specifically in the IT-Infrastructure/Cyber Security field.
It's not about money, mainly i want to challenge myself and I'm very interested in Cyber-Security since I work as IT-Admin and want to broaden my skillset, because every time I stop learning I feel like getting behind in the IT-Sector and I hardly have time for a university education, even though it is an Option.

Thanks a lot guys.
> Bananas also have the highest standard deviation in terms of predicting if a given (known) consumer will purchase bananas in a given store run. (At least as compared to other food products and consumables.) When predicting a consumer's shop, it's generally pretty easy to make a highly educated guess about their purchasing activity and, thus, to project volumes for products. But bananas defy that wisdom, except that people in aggregate buy a lot of them. Someone who buys bananas reliably every week for months will randomly stop for months, and then start again, for no perceivable rhyme or reason. Bananas aren't seasonal purchases like berries or corn or other fruits or vegetables. Bananas also tend to be a high purchase at gas stations and convenience stores.

Where can I find and read more things like this?
Sorry I misunderstood your comment. Sometimes metaphors _are_ taken over-literally on HN. I didn't assume ill intent.

Dyslexia is obviously caused by _something_, but its forms and manifestations do seem to be varied.

There are specific tests that can be done, and no doubt they are accurate. But you can't test every single child, and I think one should be open minded to the kinds of behaviours that are co-incident with dyslexia in case it might lead someone to a diagnosis.

Diagnosing based on that list is obviously wrong, but I don't think it claims to be a list of falsifiable, scientific characteristics. More something to prompt. I'd rather have a more open funnel than a closed one.
a simpler version of that workaround can be built with a powershell script (and hell, with a little bit of fiddling around, you can even use PowerApps as a front UI) in less than 2 days if not one morning.
Well in 1688 Quakers in America protested against slavery. 1773: Boston Tea Party. Temperance in the 1800's. Women's Vote in 1913.

But they entered the public awareness in 1963 with the March on Washington, and haven't let up since.
You should read Ordinary Men [1] sometime. All humans have the capacity for evil which is why we must stay vigilant.

From the description:

Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Soluti...
The school bussing (at least in my area of the States) is provided by a bus company which contracts with the school district. The bus company in turn maintains busses, and hires drivers (presumably?) part-time. They also provide bussing services for field trips, sporting events, etc. in addition to daily bussing to the school itself.
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I was diagnosed with dyslexia at age of 8. At the time I couldn't spell my name with any reliability (it's not a complicated one), and I was failing primary school across all subjects. My reading level was, perhaps surprisingly, about average for my age, although I do find to this day I have to be very careful not to skip lines or misread words while reading (I usually use my finger IRL or highlight the text I read through as I go along online).

I see dyslexia now as an umbrella term for a wide class of learning related symptoms. The justification for receiving additional support and understanding as a means to reduce waste of potential. If there is such a large gap in one area of development that that it overly impacts the measurement or development of the other areas then failing to compensate for that seems negligent.
> I make 35k

I can only imagine the people this company employees if they are spending 35K on a software developer. 90% sure the majority of staff is making minimum wage.

With such low wages, you can't expect quality.
Plural they is pretty new in wide-spread usage?

I usually just stick with generic "he" until I know otherwise; i.e. if a scientist found something, I don't really care whether he has...

I'm not sure I get the idea of referring to a known person as "they", and this is at best a controversial issue bound very tightly to one side of the political aisle. A side with which I do not align. I guess I probably wouldn't ever do this, but I can at least see a possible use. Information appreciated.

Quick follow-up: I saw your reply to another comment; I do not really acknowledge that it is a "thing" with respect to grammatical validity.
Here are videos of protestors beating cops and other innocent bystanders,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd1nW7Oa3mc
> And if it turns out (because times have changed) they no longer have enough "primitives" to do their dirty work for them

It has always been the case that the powerful squash uprisings by getting half the poor to kill the other half this has been the case regardless of the country for thousands of years, to think otherwise is naive.

> combined with all the cameras running

They killed protestors in Tiananmen square precisely because it was in front of cameras so the world would know the lengths they would goto in order to maintain power. China has never faced any negative consequences for the massacre because every one got the message.
Of course you can test every single child. In America we test every single child, every week or two. Starting from childbirth and continuing pretty much uninterrupted until they leave school.

In the US the Federal Govt requires schools to test every student for dyslexia and provide appropriate services.
Returning GIs from WW2 protested, resulting in the GI bill.

Women protested in the 1910s for the right to votes.

My guess is it’s an industrial revolution side effect, but would be love to learn of earlier roots.
What is this posturing? If you have dirt on people do tell it. Or write it down to be released when you die. Or shut your mouth.
Are you familiar with what PJ O'Rouke says about politicians?

Have a listen to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbIqKqojOZU

He is the author of Parliament of Whores

Parliament of Whores is an international best-selling political humor book by P. J. O'Rourke published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1991. Subtitled "A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire US Government"
It's easy to see some major problems, but take a look at this: https://random.isthe.link/?code=let+x+%3D+Date.now%28%29+%26...

The random number generator here is used quite often in projects and it looks pretty random. But if you look at the code you can see that it has four numbers that store state and its output can be entirely predicted from those four numbers that are consecutive outputs of the RNG.
I live in France, and I must say I am offended by your comment!

People burning cars and destroying property are not yellow vests, they are antifa groups and their job is to bring chaos to discredit the yellow vests movement.

http://lemurjaune.fr/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmle has been doing some interesting dataflow and static analysis for some time.
I don't live in the United States, I do know it for a fact and I will not sabotage my own life or those of the people I care about just because you would love to read some drama in the papers. The net result of that would be that in a month or two nobody would remember it, and lives would still be ruined.

It is almost mystifyingly selfish of you to ask this of me, especially when you souse it with your fairly hostile closing remark.
Estimates of the number of protesters from non prc sources are around 1-2 million. For reference the HK population is 7.4 million. This in an incredibly large fraction of the population. Moreover, these are just the people who felt it so important that they were willing to risk their own safety by physically taking to the streets. Support for the protests among the population is likely much higher. In fact i think these protests are notable because of the agreement among hk citizens.
It's been almost 4 weeks of regular HN posting since you've made a comment that wasn't politically charged or that mentions China. What gives, this doesn't seem like a normal account.
protests have been going on in the us for a long time, for example the labor movement in early 20th century

but probably what you are referring to is post world war 2, which mostly started in the 1960s caused by the vietnam war and civil rights movements brought about by myriad causes (middle class affluence, mass communications, overextending of the govt overseas (and at home with the draft etc))

wikipedia, but it’s as god a place to start as any[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s
I agree with you; a wxgui will call the native graphic API of the platform directly while Qt is reimplementing everything, and most of the time it's not GPU accelerated.

I am currious to hear about how CPU intensive are the 2 versions, wxgui vs Qt.
Isn't this happening in Hong Kong as well? Destroying properties, and especially Molotov cocktails.
How you can make people from one part of the world care for people from another part of the world?

If anythin, most HKers aren't very interested in what's happening around the world either, AFAIK.
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Reminds me a lot of the concept of contrapasso [0] in Dante's Divine Comedy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrapasso
>To determine the composite index value of the availability of content around the world, the
access to Amazon Prime (Saba, 2016), Netflix (Netflix, n.d.), YouTube Premium (YouTube Help,
n.d.), and adult content was assessed for each country. Countries were given one point for
each service that was freely accessible from within each country. Zero points were given if
the respective services were not accessible from the countries at the time of data collection.
The total of the points for each country were divided by four to get an average value. The
average was multiplied by the weight indicator of 0.14 to determine the value of the Content
Availability indicator.

https://surfshark.com/dql-report.pdf

This is so bad actually because the none of the services have a global catalog. US Netflix vs a european one is totally different. Same with Amazon Prime Videos. In a lot of cases you can't even watch their original content on their own service because they already sold the license to local TV channels
Teams is like Sharepoint.

It compares with the competition really well on paper, but the details suck the life out of you.
Those protests are all due to environmental issues and against the local government.

Each time the national government has stepped in and supported the protestors.
Why would I want developers to adopt my software? Like "Doctors make the worst patients", my experience is that developers are the worst users. Doubly so, if you're looking for them to ever pay you.
> if they are spending 35K on a software developer.

You do realize not every human being on the planet, or even HN, is a software developer, right?

>90% sure the majority of staff is making minimum wage.

I make 65% of my state's annual HOUSEHOLD income and 2.3x minimum wage... this is a problem with HN, many of you make 6 figure salaries and assume that everyone is a software engineer making 6 figure salaries.

The 2017 nominal median income per capita was $31,786 in the United States.
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Europe couldn’t even handle Libya without running out of bombs. They have no capability to do anything of note.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nato-runs-short-on-some...

> Libya “has not been a very big war. If [the Europeans] would run out of these munitions this early in such a small operation, you have to wonder what kind of war they were planning on fighting,”
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Ok, so hear me out: I'm a young dumb kid, and I just don't get irc. I'll join a supposedly active irc channel for something I'm working on, do whatever the channel wants as far as registering, etc. Once I'm in, nothing.

No one seems to be chatting about anything, the only messages I see are logging people joining and leaving. One time I left an irc client open for hours and i finally saw some other human asked a question. After that , more nothing, I don't think anyone replied to them. These servers often show 100s or 1000s online too!

Am I doing something wrong, or am I missing something I need to use irc?
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It's pretty much the latter, as far as I can tell?
Indeed I have the perception that the western reports were biased towards Western democracatic values.
Random HP praise:

I was working on a project Sunday that involved fairly precise current and voltage measurements using an HP3458A benchtop meter. I was a little careless and put about 4A through the current shunt (which is rated for only 1.25A). It immediately failed open circuit, shutting down my circuit. I finished up the work using a lesser quality meter and figured I was in for an annoying repair task, at a minimum pulling the meter out and replacing a fuse in the back or, worse, maybe having to take the cover off (and break the cal stickers).

Instead, the design is incredibly thoughtful and user-friendly, obviously designed by someone who cared to think through how the device would actually be used in the field and not just relentlessly “cost engineered”.

https://youtu.be/sdyDUl5xYpE

If I’d known, I could have replaced the fuse faster than going to get the other meter.
This is so sad. You should guys all quit in protest. You deserve better than this. I mean it, goo
Is there currently a way to get the elevation of a point? I know Google Earth has one but it's very imprecise
They also were a real leader in scientific and precision metrology equipment, like interferometers.
Money talks bullshit walks

Rules aren't for moneyed interests, they are to ignore the masses, gatekeep more simply, “read the sign”
>Other porn sites with user contributed content exist.

I bet that those sites also hosts vast amounts of illegal material as well. The law isn't fully enforced because doing so would have so many people arrested that it would lead to invalidating the law.

As you said, the outrage doesn't really exists in those hard to tell cases, but the law isn't written to align with the outrage. So the content is largely ignored unless a specific case happens to get popular attention.

Overall the standards are about as sane as our standards around other similar topics, which is to say not at all.
> About politics and languages. Politics are constantly shaping the language. This is not new. It's part of the natural evolution of languages. Politics are not inherently bad neither. We don't have slaves anymore in most countries, thanks to "politics".

> Actually, I find politics is actually too vague a word, and some people seem to invoke it as a bad thing, saying that we should focus on technical matters when their view opposes the view of people seeing something belonging to the status quo as an issue (which is a political stance in itself… and considering that technical matters and politics are opposed too, ironically).

> You can't really reject an idea "because politics". You may either argue, or disagree respectfully, but there is no such thing as avoiding politics and remaining technical.

All of these are very valid points; I do have a political issue with it as much as anything else. I don't believe it is incumbent upon me to alter the manner in which I speak and write for the convenience of another. There are also, of course, the issues of grammatical horror and the fact that "they" as a singular simply feels clumsy and unnatural when spoken.
> Will there be grocery stores every four blocks in your bike structured city?

Sure:

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/205+Roncesvalles+Ave,+Toro...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roncesvalles,_Toronto

There are already neighbourhoods and cities like this. Do you know how many vegetable/fruits stands there are on the above street? Plus a couple of delis, a fish market, dry cleaners, four banks, a library, a BBQ joint, a couple of pizza parlors, pharmacies, dentists, optometrist, etc. The tram / street car tracks you see connect to a subway station.

Plus everyone on the residential side streets have a backyard, many have garages connected to lane way:

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/50+Westminster+Ave,+Toront...

This is how we used to build cities.

Cars are present but optional. If you want one you can still have it, but they're are not needed.
Sounds like you need a union
DocumentDB exposes the same api
another - Whoops, it failed.
I thought of a book like that. Foreign spies try to figure out who is running a sensitive operation by running a Leadership/Targeting operation to figure out who is running the show. It means they need to find out who decided to name the operation "OP SUPER SAIYIN" and "OP BRIGHT BLOTTER" or something.
@dang What's up with the detachment of this from its original placement as a top-level, top-voted reply to photomatt's corporately bombastic quip?

It's specifically a question to him, so seems directly on topic.
Don't forget Vibranium.
It sounds like you know your situation sounds not as good as a googler, so what are you doing to actively better it?
When it was up. The frequent outages on HipChat circa 2014 or so got to be unbearable, and we switched to Slack at that point, and were much happier.
Yeah I remember something vague about CAFE and EPA rules from that era. It created a lot of perverse incentives do to poor planning. Like Hummer H2s were classified as work utility trucks and didn't have to adhere to the tight emissions rules of smaller vehicles. So you had soccer moms and realtors slap a magnetic sign on the back and, TADA!, commercial vehicle. And your "work truck" with heated leather seats was now eligible for all kinds of tax deductions.
> To invent products like Gmail, Earth, and Translate, you need coddled geniuses free to let their minds run wild.

A cute meme that people like to repeat because it 'sounds right', not really accurate. Gmail was someone's pet project, Earth was purchased, and Translate was a boring statistical analysis program for 10 years. I mean, really, how "wild" does your mind have to be to write a crappy CRUD app or design an algorithm?
if they actually believed “markets” to lead to democracy, that seems to me they conflated democracy (rule of the people) with capitalism (rule of capital)...

my opinion: they are not at all the same thing, and it was naive to think it would happen in china (markets existed a long time before capitalism even existed and democracy was quite the no-show for a long time)
I’ve also seen this phenomena you describe: a strong desire for a thing you’ve committed to to be true, to the point where you’ll make continued poor and harmful decisions to avoid acknowledging you’ve been very wrong.
Dutch... so Reagan?
This article was so good and then ended too soon. Imagine if James Stewart had written that book.
Spoken like a true resident of the First World.

When progress is so ubiquitous in your environment that it becomes invisible, it's easy to forget that people die of easily treatable diseases in places that don't have so much "technological progress", that people still starve because of a lack of "economic growth", and so on and so forth.
There are two main elements to sanity: having a rational and sound interpretation of reality, and acting in a way which rationally benefit's ones interests.

I think hypersanity would constitute not only a hyper-rational worldview, and to reconcile common cognitive dissonance, but also the ability to integrate that awareness into better self-preserving behaviour (to improve ones safety or efficacy), rather than to respond with depression, terror, self-ostracism, etc.
True hackers can see the underlying structure of things others don't see. True hackers have the ability to solve problems others don't see. Real hackers are somewhere learning to see and helping others connect what's true so they can see too.
I’m not sure I follow. All of those additional optimizations are pretty simple problems in the OR field.
I remember a story when Microsoft translated some ancient version of Internet Explorer for Mac, there was a menu where you could select TLDs (I can't remember what for) and the .no domain ended up getting translated as the word
Usually it can. The person I was replying to asked how someone would pay over the phone, not why. I agree it was an oversight by Apple not to allow online payments.
It seems he made a colossal mistake by not having a dead man's switch set up. That probably would have made him less suicidal ;)
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Yes it is very ingrained in society and featured in many movies.
The paper extrapolates from its survey questions about developer time to loss profitability so I think it's fair to discuss risk as more than just developer time. Even so, the developer time risk of poorly maintained packages is enormous (and not just security-related). Consider the time loss from a security issue in a package you have to replace, fix yourself or wait for someone else to fix. Not to mention the non-time losses. The npm ecosystem has thrived despite this and other risks-- if you want developers to adopt your software, make it interesting, easy to talk-about, frictionless to get started with and shiny. Time is a logical consideration that takes a backseat.
did we(HN) break this :|

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There are literally a whole ecosystems to learn to be interdependent with. Farming is still a thing, too. The deer are simply a single example of a way to eat. Hunting is also a thing. Don't buy into the myths of scarcity and learned helplessness society uses to get people to play along. Everyone's capable of learning how to reconnect with and be an active contributor to nature. We simply have a society that operates competitively with nature, rather than mutualistically, and it shows.
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