skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO this post has some good points but makes the executive sound like a passive referee, ultimately misunderstanding what High Output Management (also one of my favorite books!) is about. (Admittedly adding my own editorial here from my experience founding a startup and now running it as a ~3,000-person public company.)

The basic principle of HOM is that the fundamental job of an executive is to deliver results ("output"), and that the measure of an executive is the output of their organization. Importantly, there is no one right way to deliver results -- successful CEOs can have very different styles and techniques.

That said, for every effective way to deliver results there are vastly more that are ineffective. Complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty are not your friends. Time is not your friend. Everything is situationally dependent. There are many skills to develop and principles that can help but there's no formula.

This also partially explains why the median CEO or exec is perceived as ineffective, often because they are. It's a hard job, otherwise everyone would do it well and there would be a surplus of good (and cheap) execs.

Contrary to what the post suggests, HOM does not say not that the job of an executive is to wave some kind of magic culture or "values" wand and rubber-stamp whatever emergent strategy and behavior results from that. CEOs and executives absolutely do (and must) make important decisions of all kinds, break ties, and set general direction. Occasionally they need to give commands but more typically you work collaboratively with and (as the post correctly suggests) empower your team and avoid doing too much as an individual contributor.

If you're curious about what execs do and how to be a good one, HOM is an incredible book. The Effective Executive by Drucker is another favorite.

https://hbr.org/2009/05/what-only-the-ceo-can-do is one of my favorite articles about the responsibilities of the CEO.

https://hbr.org/2018/07/the-leaders-calendar is a fascinating study of where CEOs spend their time and what they actually do day to day.
A lot of hackers I read about have a great deal of bravo about things like this. Yeah sure you found a vulnerability in a companies API and got something for free. What I look forward to see is his next hack, where he somehow gets past the part where the company sends men with guns to his home to throw him in jail. Hopefully he can use the free rides to go someplace without a extradition treaty.

Really he only managed to hack a small portion of the system and ignored the societal safeguards that are far more robust.
That was quite fast . Was he living pay check to pay check or am i missing something ?
If you look carefully at the base of the bottle, the glass version has molding marks (raised dots and ridges) that aren't present the plastic version.
Western societies are traditionally patriarchies, based as they are on the patriarchal ideals of Judeo-Christian religions.

That's simply a statement of fact, and reasonable people should be able to discuss it on a site like HN without flamewar.
"little" is relative. An employee could be a single student living alone or a parent of 5. It's really not up to the employer or society to make sure an employee is financially responsible.

Just giving people an instant raise is a band-aid and will only last a few years before inflation catches up.

Education is the answer. Anyone not making enough to survive should focus on learning new skills and getting a better job.

We also need to teach personal responsibility. Some people are in bad situations and are responsible. But many never learned it in the first place and have multiple kids with no way to support them or just continue to make poor financial and life decisions that lead them to a situation where they have a job and are still living paycheck-to-paycheck. No government action (unless it means total control over a person's life and decisions) or pay boost will ever fix this because the amount of money needed will just continue to increase over time.
When they passed the tax cuts, the opposition said it’ll increase inequality! Companies will buyback stocks and stock pile money!

And they did.

When you can give government a cudgel to use on the people they will.

In that vein, Economics has been a cudgel. It has absolutely fuck all nothing to do with physics and is often ex post facto. “This is how it was so it’s how it must be.”

What a shock, since that’s essentially traditional values level emotional thinking and oh right a lot of our economic policy has been formed by limbic systems captures by childhoods of having “believe in bullshit forever” jammed down their throats.

Neuroscience has revealed too much about the functional loops in our brain for me to buy anything else. This was emotionally fueled justification to stick to a social meme. Not useful science or social philosophy. More of the same “justify in math, a language the masses cannot reason around well, the structure of our inequality.”

Economists are yesterdays wise men and today more like the those who insisted we’d be driving nuclear powered rocket cars: crackpots
But Dropbox's mission statement from their S-1, which is what this article is referring to, is an 8/10: "Our mission is to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working."
>> That glass ceiling limit seems to be at the CEO level, in the case of Elizabeth Holmes and other various "confident phonies" that get posted here on HN every few weeks.

Are you joking? Yes - she was the CEO, but she's also facing up 20 in prison after being that CEO [1].

It's not just about getting to the top. It's about whether you'll remain there and whether the history will try to forget you as soon as it can.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes
Adopting new technology may seem like change, until you go up a level and see it as consumerism. Then you see that nothings changed.
75th percentile would be for when out of network. It would work to reduce ridiculous charge-master surprise bills but still provide a redress mechanism for monopolistic insurance companies playing hardball and cutting reimbursement 60% in one year (see Anthem BC/BS to pathology in multiple states).

The argument here is that by destroying the threat of out of network, the insurance company has literally no incentive to offer rates better than Medicare. That’s a huge unfair advantage to insurance companies.
I typically listen to it on Apple podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portal/id146999956... or Spotify where he posts the episode earlier https://open.spotify.com/show/3qv8BS1HzrgKpDnXSlYWWL?si=cUA0...
Talking about emotions is just one part of it. Society in general needs to be better educated and equipped with mental health tools. Things like cognitive behavioural therapy, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, transactional analysis are all ways to understand and deal with our emotions.

It's no good just blurting out whatever it is you're feeling and like you say, turn it into a masturbatory indulgence, but we should still promote talking about out feelings because suppressing them is no better than having an emotional wank.
The only way such change can be enforced without a war is from inside.
Wow, I hadn't known about that niche for elm! I searched because I unfairly doubted you, and thought you might be confusing elm with some other tree. Here's a comment thread that provides some more information: http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?212281-Elm-in-boa...
> values convenience over price

That's the thing. Needing more subscriptions to access the content everyone in a household wants to view is going to lower convenience and raise the (collective) price. Disney+, next is Peacock, and who knows what's next after that.

Nobody's suggesting a mass piracy uprising. But more people will look in that direction and decide that piracy can substitute for another subscription or replace all of them.

Running my own Plex server costs substantially more than subscribing to the major streaming services. I'm paying for the convenience -- it pretty much runs itself, new content appears "by magic" (Radarr/Sonarr/Trakt lists), content never goes away, I have content that no streaming subscription offers, and there's only one place to look for content.
I know. Sorry, I should have clarified that I was not necessarily referring to Europeans, but any people who blame Brazil AND buy Brazilian beef. I do not think we even have Brazilian beef around where I live, in Eastern Europe.
While the BBC is certainly decaying in quality and balance with each passing day, I think those deals might have surfaced after the vote happened.

> No mention of the fact that MEPs had very little to do with the contents of the law, which was mostly shaped by shady back-room dealings between the French and German government

Actually a lot of MEPs participated in the discussions and their contents (which doesn't mean what you're mention didn't happen, of course it did)
Has Brazil fully industrialized? With a per capita GDP of less than ten thousand dollars and a population mostly employed in the agriculture sector (compared to 2% in the US) I'd say not yet. The west is trying to kick the ladder out from behind them.
I spoke to total strangers on the tube (London Underground) every day for a week
> 7% of journalists identify as republican, versus 28% identifying as democrat. The majority identify as independent

> So 80% of journalists who disclose a political affiliation identify as Democrat, and 20% identify as republican.

That is an exceptionally misleading way of presenting/interpreting that data. 50% if journalists identify as independent. That is a political affiliation. You can't just ignore that group.

I find it encouraging that over half of journalists don't identify with the two main, polarized, often extremist political parties.
One thing I learned from being a first time parent is that you really can’t prepare much. I read every parenting book I could get my hands on, and every time I tried a technique from them to, say, get my son to sleep, or calm him when he was crying, didn’t work. I felt pretty helpless for awhile, and then realized my gut instincts worked more often, and I had to get to know my son as a person and discover what worked for him.

So I think the best way to prepare for being a parent is to
1. get ready to feel more love for this tiny human than you ever thought possible.
2. prepare financially.
3. gather your supplies (diapers, changing table, etc.)
4. have strategies in place to deal with lack of sleep.
5. have strategies in place to deal with stress and anxiety.
6. decide how you will support your partner. How will you make them feel important when the baby becomes your whole world?
7. breathe. It’ll be okay. It’s easier than you think, and you know more than you think. Trust your instincts.
Seven Years Later, Jimmy Hoffa Case Is Still a Mystery (1982)
Ask HN: Who has the best personal website/blog?
This thread on Twitter took off (https://twitter.com/pjrvs/status/1176945769598705664), so I'm curious to ask the same question on HN.
"bravado" :-)
You can install unsigned iOS
Perhaps you wouldn't need to buy another separate Android device, since a iPhone dual-booting Android could make it the best supported Android device since the Pixel.
Good article to explore parser combinators with practical example. Not about creating your own language, but quickly handcraft a parser for jsonnet.
If you can access using this so can others when you cross borders, are stopped by police, have spying spouse, etc. Those are real and sometimes fatal threat models.
He only talked cause he had nothing to lose. The ranger didn't really have much to do with it
Nothing comes close to apple's ARM CPUs.
> it’s also slightly worrying that a whole class of iOS devices have a severe and unpatchable security flaw.

"Severe" is a bit over-dramatic. To be accurate, from the article:

Checkm8 requires physical access to the phone. It can't be remotely executed, even if combined with other exploits

The exploit allows only tethered jailbreaks, meaning it lacks persistence. The exploit must be run each time an iDevice boots.

Checkm8 doesn't bypass the protections offered by the Secure Enclave and Touch ID.
Google has determined that the best way to bring visitors to the newssites is by showing a few lines of the news item. Apparently google vistors are more likely to click on a link if they see a few lines of text.

This benefits the newssite, not google.

Those few lines function as an advertisement for the actual article. Usually companies have to pay for advertisements...
You should elaborate why that is bad and provide different examples. Many people would say it's actually good if there's less dog poop and that small rule breaking should be followed by proportionately small punishments instead of selective enforcement or letting better cheaters get away with things.

I think an implicit assumption behind fears from surveillance systems is that our society relies on small rule breaking all the time and human judgment is needed to smooth out the rough edges and be flexible. If 100% enforcement becomes the norm, the laws need to be much more precise with many more exceptions and clarifications.

The other issue of course is that many laws are not written according to normal people's interests, so their 100% enforcement would harm society.
While this is great for the concept of jailbreaking, in practice I think it will be mostly academic. The devices this supports are already old, which doesn’t give much excitement to the process. The ecosystem of libraries, apps, stores, etc. around jailbreaking is in a dismal state, if it really even exists anymore.

I really don’t expect a thriving marketplace to spring up again like we had in the old days.

I do think it will be very useful for people doing security research, as it will allow them to access the full running images of supported devices.

EDIT: Since people seem to be wildly missing my point, I clearly need to spell it out: The community and the ecosystem is what made jailbreaking great, and while this very cool work done, this isn't going to usher in a new golden age of jailbreaking because the community and ecosystem isn't there.
I thought the same. The kind of interviewer that hides behind the company name to play one's own power trips.
Wait, what? NYC has some of the best tap water in the country (barring some old buildings with bad pipes).
The title of the blog post is "interim housing," and should be changed from its current clickbait title per the site guidelines, and nowhere in the post does Stallman say he's homeless, or that he's looking for a permanent residence.

He may or may not be, but

I am looking for a room in a shared house or apartment as an
interim place where I could stay for at least two months.
Ideally I would have the option of staying for up to six
months, but I could do without that.

doesn't make it seem like he's in dire straits.
True, but it's a delayed position so I'm not sure it would help you create a signal that combines correctly with the original accurately enough.
Potential business opportunity - iPhone "virus scanner" device or service?
Scraping Websites Using Scala and Jsoup
Well, you're absolutely right, but the law did go from a complete shitstorm to something more manageable.

> Maybe the rights of publishers not to have their content seen by users?

Well, it was always their right (as they could use robots.txt) but now Google gives them a more fine grained control over it.

Though to be honest I'm very, very happy they're trowing a fit right now. Yes, please, use the panel and take your content off of Google.

> But certainly the freedom and right of a news consumer in France was harmed as they have less access to news in a convenient fashion.

True. But they can always go to the website of their favourite news org and go from there.
If you want a display that imo really hits home for some reason, see xkcd "Lanes". The uncertainty that patients are going through in the years after a cancer diagnosis/treatment must be brutal.

https://www.xkcd.com/931/
I guess you could set up timers that post with some delay to confuse such systems.
I once got a chance to chat with a psychologist who worked for the Rangers. I ran into him at the Schlitterbahn water park south of Austin, and talked while we waited for family members to finish their rides. He was involved with tracking down members of MS-13, the Latino gang. They're known for being particularly violent, so he was pretty eager to find them and get them prosecuted.

One piece of Ranger history I didn't know was that their badges are made from Mexican 5-Peso silver coins.

https://www.americancowboy.com/people/history-texas-ranger-b...
We seem to have learnt at least something from those monocrop areas of forestry that were the norm in the early 20th century. There's a number of schemes now trying to recreate some of Europe's mainly long-lost temperate rain forest.

Of course it's far harder to put back than not lose in the first place...
This might actually delay things if you work at some bureaucratic company where you need to discuss with another department whenever you want to add a table to the database or something.

Also, while keeping track of email addresses is simple, making such a system hard to exploit isn't all that trivial, with there being wildcard and throwaway email addresses and so on.
I upvoted you because in my heart I agree. Yet now having shipped commercial games my mind tells me otherwise. The simplest behaviour can cascade into bugs, edge conditions, more feature requests, and for some features the base implementation is never the hard part.

Any feature which fundamentally transforms the final result, say by blocking a transaction, will be one of those cascading features. Sure just adding a "good enough to be 80% there" could be simple. Yet what happens when the client turns around and says "You delivered a broken app to me, I tried submitting my survey 3 times and only the first time was it accepted".

Sure this feature can be accommodated. The client might ask for special handling of test email accounts. Or an admin panel. Or a report & moderate workflow where they can override the block.

Getting to the core issue: the client did not see the value in the proposed work. If you are getting paid and spending extra time unpaid to give value to clients, you better be doing so because the client is going to be thankful.

Imagine a scenario where the OP ignored the clients wishes, implemented the feature anyway, tanked the negatives, all so that the client would not lose money to fraud, and thus prevent the client from seeing why the feature was needed in the first place. Lots of work, negative reward for the programmer.
> I participated in men's work ..

I'm a little confused, who are the they you are referring to? People are hired on to perform tasks in return for remuneration and feelings should be reserved for outside the job. Getting emotionally involved with ones co-workers is a recipe for disaster. If you're ever invited to a workshop on diversity, don't go. James Damore and Professor Alessandro Strumia would know why.
Watching You Watch: The Tracking Ecosystem of Over-the-Top TV Streaming Devices [pdf]
Isolated co-processors and memory.
How are you qualifying better?

I had three Nexus Android phones go sideways on me in their first year, over a span of 4 years.

I have had two iPhones since 2014, and only because I dropped the first one.

If I have to spend $300-$400 on replacements every couple years, I’ll go with $800 every 4-5
Except in the EU version, enforcing the press publishing rights is optional (optional to the news org)
> but doesn't follow it up

The whole article is such follow up including the outrage of privileged women.. The claim is that a flâneur may be trying to witness outrages to their norms between people of a lower social class and may have been outraged by virtually anything if it was directed at them, so it is hard to determine what precisely occurred from their testimony.
Whenever I am asked that in an interview, I am usually puzzled if their workplace is some sort of magic kingdom where great tasks are falling from the sky or I am missing some kind of skill to navigate my previous jobs and make my menial tasks more interesting.
How is this supposed to hurt smaller internet companies? If anything, it makes people visit smaller sites for original content and content-based rather than targetted, analytics-heavy ad models.
there's plenty of intolerant views that are widely held, many religious say that are part of a healthy discussion if you want to hear everyone's viewpoints. It seems a little weird to brush off the opinions of hundreds of millions of people as 'it isn't difficult'. It's really difficult.

The intensity of disregard of political opinions concerning China hasn't anything to do with the opinions themselves, because I read way stranger stuff on HN every day. It's that it's an American website that puts much higher scrutiny on opinions held by perceived US adversaries.
I can't wait to see an iPhone X natively running DOOM.
I think it's going to be an interesting future when everyone is afraid to post anything online or say anything to a friend (that could possible be recorded or even just claimed) because a stupid thing you say when you're 15 can get your fired from your career at 30.

If we dug into the past of most people. they would be fired.

I've read Fahrenheit 451 multiple times and it's almost like predicting the future: The government won't cause a dystopia. We, as a society will do it to ourselves. I feel like this is just the beginning.
> After a decade of stagnation, an exploit that in theory allows Linux (and Android) to be ported to iPhone, iPads, Apple Watches, and I believe, Apple TV.

There was some discussion about this on r/jailbreak, and it comes down to whether the community is willing to reverse-engineer and write drivers for the various hardware:

https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/d9yyit/release_i...
Whenever I hear patriarchy in a conversation I can't help but start laughing as it reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch which as growing up in an eastern orthodox family was a central part of my belief. It never helps the conversation.
This is one reason Mr Robot is so appealing to me - it feels so real as a New Yorker
Can't wait for the bloatware iOS antiviruses!
Hey this is fantastic! I don't care about the job interview part, but having the ability to see some of these algorithms implemented in my daily workhorse may help me improve as a programmer. So thanks!
Their surgeries must be triaged down to “basically not important” if they have to wait so long. Urgent work gets done.
HSTS is a server config line, automated vulnerability scanners will pick it us. Sure that’s not optimal, but crypto is hard in general, HSTS is one of the easier to understand concepts. Fix the whole problem not one minor functional issue.

The users machine cannot be part of a legitimate threat model. Either it’s compromised or it’s not. Either it’s FDE’d or it’s not. I wouldn’t even pretend that a HSTS assertion here or there would even make a difference in the shitshow that is browser cache.

I agree it’s a hack, but at this point I pretty much think that about crypto standards, period. Having HSTS is better than not, and we’re a while away from disabling unencrypted comms.
What kind of security analysis are you running on the package? Stuff like bandit/pyrom?
They only win in this context if people use a different search engine that does pay to show snippets.

If people still use Google to find results but have to go on just title and publication to figure out what link to click which spoiler alert they already mostly do then you have 2 net effects.

Searching for news is slightly more cumbersome and resources that do allow snippets will get slightly more clicks from people who can read both.

Who wins in that context?