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MSBA in MIS worth it?
All,

My current position is titled, IT Specialist at a prosecutors office, and basically I do everything computer related in the office from installing PC's to managing the integration of our systems with other agencies. I have no formal education in IT (in fact I am a lawyer). Well, strike that, I have taken classes (cobol, VB, Java, PHP, HTML, XML, Cold Fusion, MCSE stuff, etc.). I don't get to use any of that though.

I have recently been accepted into a MIS program (technically a Master of Science in Business Administration in Computer Information Systems) at a legitimate university (not a for-profit college).

My question is, "Is it worth it?" Will it allow me to branch out to other companies if need be (my office is based on election cycles and new people can clean house quite easily)?
(Disclaimer: I personally like the individualistic part of Nietzsche's philosophy more than his love for the Dionysian). Nietzsche wrote The Birth of Tradegy back when he was under huge Wagnerian influence (an influence he later renounced), and the duality he introduced there between the Apollonian rationality and the Dionysian irrationality basically gave ammunition to the postmodernism movement. That said, although I do think that mysticism/spiritualism has a place in human experience, it is tautologically absurd to rely on it as a guide to areas that are better explored using a rational mind. There are many other ways to look at art; to bring up one example, one could look at art as an attempt at naming that which hitherto remained unnamed, which would place art into the rational realm (although more into the periphery of it than into the center). If I could read German, I would be incredibly interested to read Wilamowitz-Mollendorf attack on "The Birth of Tragedy" (infamous for the fact that it nearly ended Nietzsche's career) because I came believe that the difference between early Nietzsche and a charlatan may be more subtle than many realize.
How much does QoS matter on your home router when your next door neighbor might be downloading HD pr0n and sapping all the "local loop" bandwidth?
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Hmm, shouldn't this be alleviated with RELP [1]? (which the author suggest you use).

Because, otherwise, since AFAIK rsyslog doesn't support DTLS it means unencrypted log transmission. (For RELP it also means running stunnel anyways, which supports DTLS, and may be a solution)

[1]: http://www.librelp.com/
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Where do Security Requirements come from?
I bet I can guess your age. I'd say you're about 19 or 20, maybe as old as 22. How did I do? That's the age I was when I felt as you do.

Now, I realize that rituals are important and useful. I also realize that, any system that puts the good of others above the good of self, when needed, is what gives us much of our progress as a species. It doesn't matter so much, what that system is, but it does matter that such a system exists.

The larger the definition of "others" is, the better. We see this daily, where countries where tribalism trumps nationalism are always at a disadvantage. When you go beyond nationalism, to religion, you have a force that can move mountains.

The perfect world you envision, of no nationalism (I assume because of one world government) and no religion, seems like a recipe for decline and decay. Also, by human nature, I think, if nationalism and religion were taken off the table, we'd revert to tribalism within that framework.
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Congrats. Carolynn had been our lawyer for almost 5 years and was excellent.
Really? I didn't expect to find a "consumer device roundup" article (along with sidebar ads and referral tags for the products being reviewed) to rate so highly on HN, even if the reviewer is Jeff Atwood. I doubt that flashing custom firmware on a router or QoS settings are a new concept to anyone on here.

All I'm gaining by reading the article is some knowledge on some consumer electronics that will probably no longer be valid in a couple weeks, which IMO is not HN-material. These types of articles are best served by Google results when I'm actually looking for a new router, not on my HN feed.

What's next, "how to build a computer?"
I don't believe it's some work ethic that is at issue. It is a 'if your ass isn't in the seat you're not making me money.' It's the same reason sick time in the US is so low, why vacation time in the US is so low, why showing up on time is so god damn important and why any activity that isn't making you or your employer money is looked down upon as a waste of time.

In many ways, the US economy never grew out of the slave labor mentality.
both options void the warranty. I'm an apple fanboy, but what iOS needs is what android, OSX, and Windows has already done..

- a carefully groomed, public facing store monitored by apple (they have already)

- allow other app stores for non-monopolistic competition (eg: Amazon's android store)

- allow developers to use DRM on their apps

- allow app files to be loaded manually by the user
What Does Advanced Computing Have to Do With Sex ? (USENIX WiAC'12)
> No mention of Mikrotik?

FTA: (...) a combination of commodity hardware and open-source firmware.

It's OK that you suggest RouterOS, I'm just saying OP is not supposed to mention it.
reminds me of The Asylum film studios - they do the same thing, except for movies. I've been tricked into renting their movies instead of the real ones before, when I had forgotten the correct title.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asylum
Why is automatic face detection an invasion of privacy? Isn't sharing the picture in the first place the invasion of privacy? Facebook is making it possible, but your friends are the ones doing it.
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Magento 2.0: What's Changing and Why
One thing Jeff didn't mention is that due to the high CPU and RAM in that ASUS router, you can be downloading several different torrents and the internet experience in general won't be degraded.

With my Verizon FIOS's router, if I try to torrent anything it gets throttled down to less than 10KB/s, and on my old Linksys, attempting to torrent would make browsing the internet nearly impossible.
Interesting tidbit: Google spends "$500 million to perhaps $1 billion annually [on its maps business], equal to a fifth of its budget for research and development."
Why config.threadsafe should be enabled by default in Rails 4
In addition to the 7 on http://ycombinator.com/people.html who are the other two?
The description sounds hilarious and man I am loving the grammar:

Description:

Every modern person some time or other is faced with Microsoft Office Word. However not everyone knows it to perfection! "How quickly can you page numbering?" How about adding and changing the page header? If takes more than a minute, this program is for you! Now you always have a list of tips which makes any Microsoft Office task easy and simple.

Seems like the developer tried to make this version of Word less sucky...
I think you're nitpicking pointlessly here. Rather than seeking interpretations that you can be snide and cranky about, seek interpretations that make sense.

Literature is art, but literature isn't just a bucket of statements. Indeed, plenty of interesting literature makes use of things that aren't plain statements. If Upon a Winter's Night a Traveller, for example. Its title alone isn't a proper statement, and the book plays with that kind of incompleteness throughout.

The statement version of the book might be something like, "Incomplete statements can be interesting." But that's not art.
Yes, this was a managed DNS service that we rented from our (now cancelled) hosting provider. They deleted it by mistake without telling us, when we asked them to discontinue an old server we were no longer using.
Castelo de Highclere - No cenário de Downton Abbey
Pretty sure this is how Skynet got started.
Religions all start somewhere, usually someplace small with a handfull of people. We see storefront and basement churches all the time.

Most fail and fail quickly.

Often the failures come from the same things that kill startups. Focus on the wrong things. Not finding its market. Not serving its market. Burning through cash before reaching positive cash flow. Inability to adjust. Inability to scale. etc.

So religion is really another type of institution, like business or government. And, perhaps, more religions would be sustainable if they adopted lean startup practices.
to put it simply, browsers are really good (these days) at executing javascript, thus the biggest factor in this test seems to be the large(r) HTML payload.

though to make this a better test, I think you should serve both the JSON and HTML as static assets. after all, we're not interested in benchmarking ERB/to_json/ActiveRecord here, we care about the client side. server-side templating and JSON generation could both be quicker with optimizations and/or different backends.
It doesn't matter at all. QoS on your local net will let you prioritize your VoIP over your streaming video, but has zero effect on your throughput if you are constrained by a shared resource upstream of your router.

Some people share their LANs with more disruptive users than others, so QoS on that LAN can be useful. But the article was not clear at all.
IMO this sort of thing is primitive after seeing easel.io last week.

I suppose I would have liked this when I was first learning, if just for the error messages. But I think, like any programming, part of the learning is running/viewing your program and figuring out why the output isn't what you expected. Maybe each error pointing to w3schools for more information would benefit the user.
Well, I have been very impressed by the performance and stability of my 4 year old Apple Airport Express.
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Have you heard of Alan Turing?
It is the centenary of his birth on 23rd June.
There was a post here today which attracted no comments. So I tried again with a link to

http://www.turingcentenary.eu/

and a long comment. Again, the same thing. Not a single comment or upvote. You had never seen a topic disappear off the front page so fast. It was long gone before I even had the time to finish my comment.

So now I am just curious. Have you heard of him? Do you care? Is he just another foreign/irrelevant/faggot (tick all that apply).
Someone who is good with statistics is more learned than the prominent experts in many areas when it come to disagreement. See e.g. this: http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/04/08/gene-linked-to-autism... - Roberts is a professor of psychology, but he wears a statisticians hat in this post. He does this often and in many fields, and more often than not, his review (though well argued) is discarded as "a blogger who disagrees just based on anecdotes and truthiness".

Yes, most criticism is useless, but ...

No, most research is NOT as sound as the researchers themselves believe.
The article touches on this, but the real reason St. Louis could be a great place to start a company is because it has one of the most underrated Universities in the country. Wash U attracts very talented students to St. Louis, but because the school doesn't have much name recognition, very few tech companies recruit there. When I was at Wash U, the best tech jobs at the career fair were (in order): Microsoft, Raytheon, and General Mills. Unless things have changed dramatically in the last five years, I think it's safe to say that there's not much competition if you're trying to hire developers there.

Combine that with the low cost of living, and St. Louis might be the easiest place in the country to hire talented young people.
As far as Vim goes, it is pretty stellar. Pretty much everything I tried is there and works as expected. There are even some Vim plugins that have been recreated for Evil (i.e. surround).

As far as Emacs goes, well, it has less problems than any other Vim emulation mode, but it still does not play well with everything. It is workable though.
Enmeshed Queries - anyone?
It is indeed within Chrome as reported.
ReC2S: Reliable Cloud Computing System
That you've never had the problem doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist, as I definitely have. There are also a variety of other horror stories where people have had similar things happen to them.

That said, I don't disagree that it's a minor chance, but the chance exists, and with a little mindfulness, it's worth shrinking the likelihood of that happening even further. There's nothing worse than finding the 'perfect' available domain name, gathering feedback from partners (delaying registration) and then finding out it was taken.

It isn't inevitable, and a good argument could be made for promiscuous domain purchasing without delay, but if it matters to you, then you should be concerned with the ways in which domain poaching is more likely. If it doesn't, then feel free to disregard.
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Yeah, but Java no thanks :)
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Should Rails be threadsafe? Insightful discussion around the GitHub pull request
> Modern science as it exists today is basically a quasi-religious system

No. This is simply wrong on a factual level. Science doesn't have dogma. It isn't religion. See? Your ideas fail because you don't have the facts you need to form good ideas.

> It's clear to me that in a couple hundred years we'll probably look back on the science of today the same way that most people today look at alchemy.

To the extent we do, it will be because of advances in science. Science replaces its own ideas (that is, in fact, the exact opposite of dogma) using evidence and sound mathematical logic, which is why that happens. Trying to use science to prove the weakness of science is a wonderful indication that you haven't the faintest clue what you're talking about.
Well, this debate is getting a little stale over a few days. The disconnect is in the phrase "at this level".

You can always find a salary point at which any good or service will appear to be in "shortage". And you can always find a salary at which there will appear to be a glut. Sounds like there's a big shortage of 80k/yr engineers, but absolutely no shortage of 160k/yr engineers.
If you're running VM, it should be perfectly fine. I read about some dual boot issues but I think that can be resolved.
Great work! I would love to see a compatible org-mode for Vim!

Basically, every editor should support org-mode. It is really awesome!
This is exactly the scenario that Stairway app, posted today on HN is addressing.
congrats Kirsty and Carolynn!
How does this compare to buying an Airport Express/Extreme?
I never recovered from trade one. You should quit your day job. ;-)
Parasites: a gene thief
You know, not wanting things is great. Keeping things simple is great. This article is for those of us that favor functionality over simplicity. Just different views on things.
Right, we are back to the days when taking ones photo was like stealing their life.
Yes there is a lot of depth to Prometheus, this makes me only hate it more. If Prometheus were just a silly horror film or a comic book movie then I'd be ok with it being mediocre.

Instead, they poured an immense amount of design skill into the sets and backgrounds to make a wonderfully beautiful movie. And they built up this tremendous premise and a fantastic universe. And they populated it with several truly deep and rich and wonderful characters. And they had those characters acted by outrageously talented actors (Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, Guy Pierce).

And then they pissed it all away with a shoddy plot and incompetent direction.

Spoilers follow:

The engineer turns out to just be a dime store monster. Nobody's actions are interesting, meaningful, or seem to flow from any significant motive other than to conform to the plot. One of the most dramatic scenes in the movie (when Janek decides to commit suicide by ramming the engineer's ship) comes off as completely anti-climactic because it comes out of nowhere. Similarly, the major revelation of the movie of the planet being a biowarfare research station comes out of Janek's mouth but it is so out of place and out of character that you can almost hear the clanking boilerplate of dreaded exposition falling into position. Perhaps the most interesting character of the entire movie, David, remains nothing more than an automaton throughout the movie with only a gnat's whisker of a hint that he is anything more.

Prometheus the fictional spaceship is a "trillion dollar" mission which is unaccountably staffed by a handful of incompetents, fuckups, and pseudo-villains who throw away their lives for the silliest and least meaningful of reasons. It is an apt metaphor for the movie itself.
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Indeed. And there's no tax advantage to keeping the new company in Finland, so they probably won't.

And I'd give dollars to donuts* that Microsoft gets the trademarks. HTC or Samsung might want them, but Microsoft will get first right of refusal, and they won't let them get away.

*Dollars to donuts isn't that compelling in this day and age. Canadian dollars, perhaps.
Ok, I'll bite. What would be the most effective way for my company to recruit at WUSTL, bearing in mind that we'd be relocating people from STL to Chicago (or NYC or SFBA, if that's what they wanted).

We've got WUSTL people on staff, and I'm sold on the caliber of its grads, but direct-to-school recruiting has been a dead-end for us at other schools.
You're correct, I see how I missed that.

However, I'd argue that the use of open source firmware in this case is a means to an end, since proprietary firmware generally sucks. But since this is an article about how to have a quality Internet connection, rather than how to get started in router OS development, it might be more than suitable for many of his readers.
If I tell someone those things about the Obfuscated C entries, they still won't be able to tell a good one from a bad one. Different judges will rank different entries differently. Even if judges agree, it's possible that other people will think the judges wrong.

Other kinds of art are no different. Heck, most interesting things are no different. Try listing criteria to distinguish a good programming language from a bad one and see how many people you can get to agree with you.
Shenzhou 9 Crew Enters Tiangong-1 Space Lab
I didn't realize Kirsty wasn't a partner before.
> The tricky part is getting a router that will take ...

Or if you're lucky enough for your provided devices to support real bridge, put both of your devices in dumb mode and plug that as ethernet into your dual-wan device. That's still hardware present but management is kept to the absolute minimum. Plus sometimes you don't really have a choice to use the provided devices...

BTW, do yourself a favor and don't get a Zyxel device.
Has anyone given CeroWRT (the bufferbloat project's distribution) a spin?
That would only be true if

a) all data, everywhere in the world, including negative results, was published regardless of funding/publication.

b) someone actually looked at that data, normalized it, and used it to assess the real significance of every result, in a sane manner (e.g. by using a bayesian inference with some reasonably behaving universal prior).

Neither a, b will ever happen, and both are essential.

(note: publication of all data is not a sufficient requirement: if 20 independent labs each do the same random experiment, one of them is expected to have a 95% confidence, and when they publish all their data, it consists of that one experiment that seems legit. This _will_ and _already does_ happen by chance)
The Importance of Thinking Like an Engineer
We're looking into this now. Is a secondary DNS service usually sufficient? Even Facebook seems to use a single domain NS.
Thanks for posting. I enjoyed reading.
And the whole area around WUSTL is quite nice. The Delmar Loop is reminiscent of Harvard Square.
It could change, but Object.hashCode(), if not overridden, is operating on the most basic type of Object with zero data members. So they pretty much have to go to the memory address for the hashing functionality, since there's no other information to hash off of. Unless they wanted to just "return 0" for every single one which would be pretty dumb.
Of course I've heard of him, anyone who hasn't can get a quick overview here: http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2012/mar/19/turi...
About long options repeated: you can either specify "[options]" shortcut in a pattern in order not to put all options in that pattern, or you can have all options listed in the pattern--then you can avoid having them in option description.

About repeating program's name (say "naval_fate"), you can do:

"""Usage: prog <bla> ...
prog <bla> --bla
"""
args = docopt(__doc__.replace('prog', 'naval_fate'))
I outsourced my dating life at one point.

I would hire people to go through a bunch of online dating sites, filter through the results, attempt to initiate conversation and upon a reply I would take over.

This has since been changed to a parsing bot I wrote that utilizes the sites search feature & a bunch of full text searching for keywords.
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Additionally, there is the argument that today's users are way more familiar with the language of UIs. Because of that, some bandwidth that used to be necessary to drive home the message "this is what you can do here" can be used for other purposes.

And for those wondering about whether that "more familiar" argument has merit: the same has happened in movies. Nowadays, everyone can follow what happens in a movie if, in a scene immediately following one shot in the New York office, a shop owner has a slight French accent. In early movies, such a change required intermediate scenes showing someone taking a cab to the airport (and saying "to the airport" to the driver), getting in a plane, getting out of the plane, etc.
This article is misguided, at least wrt Java. For "distributed systems" object identity needs to be created and ensured programmatically (e.g. by an object id). equals() and hashCode() must be derived from an object's immutable properties and they are as safe or unsafe as you implement them.
The word 'any' precedes the parenthetical statement which I take it to mean, well, any.
You are free to interpret the word 'any' however you'd like. I must say though, I do like your interpretation more. :)

From http://developer.netflix.com/page/Api_terms_of_use, section 1.9:

1.9 Appropriate Conduct and Usage Restrictions. You are responsible for your own conduct while using the API and for any consequences thereof. You will use the API only for purposes that are legal, proper and in accordance with these Terms and any applicable policies or guidelines provided by Netflix from time to time. In addition to the other restrictions contained in these Terms, you agree that when using the API, you will not do the following, attempt to do the following, or permit your end users or other third parties to do the following:

...charge, directly or indirectly, any fee (including any unique, specific, or premium charges) for access to the Content or your integration of the APIs in your Application, or use the APIs to build an enterprise application (e.g., that you distribute to other companies);
Siri Comes to new iPad Because of Steve Jobs and Aristotle
In 1985 Steve Jobs visited Lund University in Sweden. He arrived with a helicopter and after making three circles he finally landed wearing his signature outfit of sneakers and jeans sans the turtleneck.
And the HN discussion is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4122783