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People becoming lazy is a sign having no purpose. That's where the management comes into play. The best thing that can be done is giving people purpose. The next best thing is punishment and bonusses. And if that doesn't work people can be made to monitor each other when punishing one gains a bonus for the other (that's how the train ticket inspectors are made to check your tickets and not do favours to you).

Go with purpose first and don't assume it's the wrong path if it doesn't work at first. It's a hard path. Some simple things to start with: Do you ask your employees to provide input? Do you try to understand their input and adapt the company and processes accordingly? Do you show them how well the company does when they do their job well and how much it costs all of you when they do a mistake? Think of games. Show people numbers to optimize and they will do that because that's what we like to do!

Please come back and tell us your results from trying, maybe also start writing a blog. That's how you can interact with other managers to learn from each other, and to some degree to not feel too alone. ;-)
Yeah. I think the modified title used by the OP is effectively editorializing.
I beg to disagree that not making judgment calls equals acceptance and fatalism. Actually, accepting the fact is good (yes, I just made a judgment call) as it gives us the opportunity to learn; but making judgment calls without acknowledging that you have all the facts is not much different from fatalism.
In frontend land this is often the distinction between UI vs. UX. UX means usability, UI is the more aesthetic side of the exercise, though of course there is considerable overlap

I've never understood how the concept of "UI" ever evolved to not encompass usability at it's core.

I was happy to cede UI territory to the designers who said they'd do it better. Even when I was insulted to my face that because I'm a programmer and liked my arcane typing based interfaces for myself, so therefore I couldn't possibly understand making usable software for others. I bit my tongue, put my head down and went back to the things I wanted to focus on anyway.

In the time since, user interfaces have experienced gradual incremental improvement just like everything in computing. But rather than going for "nothing else left to take away" design (or perhaps due to a shortsighted version of it) visual clutter was just turned into mental clutter. The number of WIMP nouns and verbs the average user has to understand are higher than ever, with less consistent behavior, and overflowing with one-off slightly different implementations to remember.

Rather than any grand improvements, I've only seen degenerate phenomenons for making user experience worse. My favorites being: A well-managed brand name, good aesthetics and software reputation means that when someone (eg. Apple) ships a bad interaction, users that would (rightly) blame the software first before working around it, start blaming themselves first for "not getting it". Or that products evolving quickly (such as the early years of Facebook) are bewilderingly unusable to people that don't log in often enough to keep up with the UI changes as they happen in small increments.

Then after waking up from their bender the UI folks start talking loudly about UX. I thought that was the goddamn point all along! Oh, but what do I possibly know? I only have formal training in what we used to call Human-Computer Interaction, and I quite like my console shells. And shells have bad aesthetics, so they must have bad ux too. And at least the UI guys managed to get 1 of the 2, I guess I'll just go back to holding my tongue now.
One reason is that there are projects/situations where language stability can outweight the benefits of language evolution. While this isn't the coolest view out there, the fact the the ANSI standard didn't need to be revised since 2004 can actually be a feature, not a bug. For an extreme example of my point, look at the state of the front-end JavaScript frameworks in the last couple of years.
> In short TPB does nothing in terms of contributory infringement that other indexing sites (Google, Bing, etc) don't do.

That is an argument that you are making, not a foregone conclusion. First off, the branding matters when it comes to intent. The name, "The Pirate Bay" leaves it pretty clear what they're expecting you to do with the site.

Also, there's the fact that Google and other search engines are responsive to DMCA requests, TPB is not. Finally, there's the political positions of the organization running the site.

Their service is much closer to cperciva's analogy than it is to a normal search engine.
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It will — but not at the expense of others. Anti-competitive rules are generally about sorting benefits that raise all boats and practice where one pushes their competitor down to stay above the water (sorry about the too long sea metaphor).

I was expecting him to be a lot more negative against a terribly unfair competitor, but he proved very insightful, and genuinely concerned for impact. The main consequence of VW investing in those tech in the near future is most likely a raise in prices for rare-earth metal needed for the battery, and more competition, so I don’t see him defending his margins. On the other hand, he is trying to accelerate the legitimisation of what is still a slightly unusual technology. I have no problem with that, even less as he has been repeatedly and transparently doing that.
The "etymology" you speak of (and is often used in a Chinese context) has nothing to do with actual etymology. The origin of characters is barely related at all to the origins of words.

The word 灣 wān (= bay, cove) might be related to 彎 wān (= curve, bend) but the character doesn't tell us that; it's certainly not related to 水 shuǐ (= water) which appears in 灣 as 氵.

灣 wān also provides an excellent example of where the "character etymology" definitely isn't the actual origin of the word. 臺灣 Táiwān (= Taiwan) is made of characters meaning "terrace" and "cove", so you might think aha, Taiwan has a purely Chinese etymology from "Terrace Cove", but in fact it's unrelated: it's from Siraya (an indigenous Taiwanese language) Tay-uan (= sea people).
Assume starting salary and velocity and ability to perform are all equal. Then that's one interpretation of the original article.
Well, more encryption should be our response. It will backfire in ways they didn't even consider.
Read a book, I guess.
I'd love to hear about how you use instead of triggers. I can imagine some useful scenarios for them, but they seem so easily abused ive never really tried them.
I have little problem in quartering the executives of those company if need be, but bankruptcy condemns the lower-level workers a lot more.
Many of those are needed to transform the industry, so I hope they’ll find better position, and bankruptcy could help them realise that — but it is going to be painful. Firing those responsible and everyone above them sounds preferable.
It's about time. There's almost no difference between the Sony Z1c and Z1c except the Z1c is made of metal instead of plastic and is actually a better phone. Why are we replacing our every two years when phones from 2012 should still be able to do most of what we need to? Why are some of our newer phones built worse?!

The only thing I'm afraid of is this company won't survive because, after initial purchases, there'll be no reason to buy new phones. They'd need to grow horizontally, pulling in more customers from other brands.

They'd also have to push upgrades for cameras, screens, etc to keep existing users buying new parts. Even with an amazing device like this conceptually, capitalism and consumerism will find ways to rear their ugly heads to make this business with a superior product fight for survival while those companies with less durable/upgradeable hardware will tend to make more money because they can always push the latest device to the market.
Well, afterwards, if the attack stops (software does not need to stop) in a timeframe short enough for your computer to no clear its history.
I've been worrying over clicking archive vs delete for ages in Gmail now.

Even though you've always got undo I'd much rather not have to click undo.

I let out an internal comforting sigh once I realised I could just replace the icons with text.
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Maybe once there are a few hundred rovers driving around up there.
Not by any likely means.
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While the question is interesting from a law theory perspective, the pirate bay was actually never charged for being in violation of copyright. The court decision referenced a rather obscure law which was intended to address organize crime.

The law basically says that if a service is primarily used for illegal purposes, then running that service is illegal under current assisting laws. The intention of the law makers was to give the police the ability to shut down biker bars that was used as headquarters, without the normal procedure of having to find tax crimes or some other excuse to shut it down.

The prosecutor in the pirate bay case provided a screenshot of the top 100 shared file list and said that this proved that the primary usage of the site was copyright infringement. The defense argued that you could not determine this, using the long tail argument. The court went with the prosecutors argument and so did the appeal court.
Not if they want to comply with existing European privacy law, which the European courts have no problem at all interpreting in maximally draconian form - up to and including forbidding access to the European market.

Even if the US government would attempt to force companies to do this, they wouldn't. And as far as I can tell, this bill doesn't force companies to comply, it just holds them harmless should they choose to comply.
SHALLOT was right!
Well, at the specific case of Windows, Microsoft ships something they say is the source code of it. But nobody is allowed to compile it, and can not do so in practice, because they don't ship the building environment.
See also Snap! which is very actively developed and used pretty widely, and open source:
http://snap.berkeley.edu/

Or for iPads there is the Tickle app: https://tickleapp.com/

and of course the code.org site which I believe uses Blockly: https://code.org/
A bunch of media articles?

Being easy to find doesn't mean this happens a lot, it means there's a market for this kind of content. The Guardian 'feminist' section is a good example of this.

I'm sure it's already been argued in this thread that maybe there are other factors that result in fewer women in IT. The Guardian article isn't a clear example of sexism in tech.

Also, the pc-gamer event has more to it (the original requirement hails from Korea), but in any case isn't related to sexism in the workplace.

I'd rather not comment further on the US.
Maybe both: They found a second backdoor, reported one and kept the other. This makes them trustworthy in the eyes of Juniper, while still netting them a backdoor.
Snap is great and IIRC fairly kid friendly
Ha - if it was in 2014, I was probably in the office!

I don't think it's hit version 1.0 yet, which would explain its rough edges. I find it interesting that it shares a lot of philosophies with Bosh.
Lots of people in lots of jobs make mistakes when they're busy or distracted or doing something unusual.
What are you asking exactly? In order to be attached to the bill, the amendment must be approved by a majority of the chamber. So that means it's already garnered support from congress, and congress is unlikely to take it off again before voting on the bill as a whole. Once it passes congress, the only way for it to be defeated would be for the president to veto the enormous budget bill based only on the amendment, which he is very unlikely to do (even if he did disapprove of CISA, which I don't think he does).
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Really, how can people value art when it is indistinguishable from everyday life?
The planet will be here, it will incorporate the plastic in some way, like it does with everything. The issue was never about the planet itself. Planets don't have minds (that we know of) and don't care. They just are. It's only us, humans, who care about how the planet looks like - because we can only survive in a tiny band of possible planet states, and live comfortably in even tinier band.
It's a really good way to get around the way companies usually weasel out of punishment "well, you'll really only be punishing our workers..."
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Yes. That's what the man says.
"The planet is fine. We are fucked"
What I meant is that "excessive attention to detail" is bad by definition.
End-to-End encryption... Which the UK govt is trying to ban.
You get access to q2 no matter what you click in q1.
> I do NOT believe it contains any further provisions requiring private companies to share their data without a warrant.

Sure, but that means the companies now face minimal incentive to protect user data but doubtless will experience pressure from the government to give it up even without a warrant.
I think I am missing something. Statement level for what?
On that note, you can't use any of ['shit', 'piss', 'fuck', 'cunt', 'cocksucker', 'motherfucker', 'tits'] with .US domains.
URL: https://www.fairphone.com/phone/
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Right now not even the former CEO Martin Winterkorn (who resigned after "taking responsibility" for VW's fraud) has been fired: http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-volkswagen-management-idUKK...

VW's former CEO to draw salary until December 2016

During almost nine years as CEO, Winterkorn amassed a pension pot of 28.6 million euros (21 million pounds) and last year was the highest-paid CEO among the heads of companies listed on Germany's DAX-30 blue-chip index with remuneration of about 16 million euros.
Which, together with the rest, means:

> Force VW to pay Tesla, instead of producing its own vehicles.

(VW is already killing its "efficient Diesel" program, and instead focusing on EVs)
Sorry. Didn't realize at first you're quoting George Carlin. I'm watching the video now. It's the first time I hear about him. I see now that anthropomorphisation of planet is a part of humour.

Sadly, too many people think that way for serious - that the planet is important for itself, that this particular state it's in ("blue marble") is somehow meaningful for the planet itself, or valuable for reasons not related to having humans on it.
Maybe there's a bit of a gap between 'I am going to kill a hypothetical person' and 'I am going to kill Raymond Chen'.
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What is "the long tail argument"? That the service was provided for legitimate means but most people in the long tail use it for illegal means?
> state of the front-end JavaScript frameworks

There's evolution and there's running in circles. :-p

Few languages really evolve fast in a meaningful sense. The only examples that come to my mind are Haskell, Racket and pre-1.0 Rust. And the first two are research languages. Breaking changes (e.g. Python 3) to get rid of accumulated cruft can be a good thing, but nevertheless stability is a feature.
I think he means, while they approved the bill, warts and all, that doesn't mean everybody likes all the warts. (Although it is congress, so we have to assume they DO like warts... but let's put that aside). He's asking if they can come back and remove some of the warts, essentially, in a separate action at a later time.
I think these is a good example for people that complained about OpenBSD refusing to use cloud servers for their infrastructure. Point being security at this level shouldn't be taken lightly. Juniper must have a ton of security measures in place and they end up with this.
That truly is a pressing challenge due to all these DNS related issues.

It makes me remember a short paper from 1977 by Carl A. Sunshine [0] where he proposed a network architecture with no global unique addressing, no global routing, and no global naming. These three major axis of modern Internet censorship would fall apart.

David P. Reed, the designer of UDP, tried to push for larger role of source routing in the then nascent Internet architecture. But, somehow, it didn't reach what he had envisioned.

The 70's were a very interesting era on the research of networking fundamentals and I find it sad that such important topics like source routing weren't investigated much further in the following decades.

Shouldn't we somehow return to the fundamentals of networking to try to find ways of dealing with the censorship by the status quo against the natural need of sharing our digital culture in a free and anonymous way?

[0] http://cartap.us/p29-sunshine.pdf
Huh? Unless your endpoint peers directly with your ISP, you always route over unknown third party networks.
To get it, you have to register first.
What is an illegal domain squatter? Someone using your business name? Namespaces are bound to collide.. think of all the JohnSmiths who want JohnSmith.com
Oh yes, I should have qualified that! I was talking Nordics, GermanySwitzerland/Austria, Benelux countries, UK and Ireland.. Maybe France as well. Definitely not the whole Europe, but a significant chunk of the tech scene.
It's not necessarily a good thing, but it's a good indicator that it isn't obviously illegal (because otherwise law enforcement would try to hide that connection better)
Well, VW has used this case to fire the old CEO, who was focused on "We don’t need EVs as long as we have our super-diesel" (due to personal involvement in the program), and the new plan of them is creating their building block program for EVs, too.

They already have 2 EVs in their lineup (the up! and the Golf!), but they plan to provide every vehicle as EV in the future.

Just out of economic reasons this is going to be the only way forward for them.
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That’s hard to do if you can’t prove the CEO was directly involved.
So, the solution to a namespace collision is "first come, first serve"?
I don't think the current version of the Fairphone will offer much in terms of upgradeability, unless they get really lucky with the technical evolution (it's going to be pretty hit-or-miss if newer parts are actually compatible enough to be made into exchangeable modules for older phones)

It's IMHO more important for repairs.
Interesting cut-off date of 1480 you have there considering the whole Portuguese-in-Africa thing not to mention an extreme influx of wealth starting about 12 years later.
The law is not append-only. Bills can add and remove anything to/from the current body of law previously passed by the legislature (as distinct from the Constitution—there's a more complex procedure for ammending that—and as distinct from executive branch regulations—which can be effectively neutralized [requiring an executive rewrite] by legislation banning programs or actions or by denying funding, but Congress cannot directly rewrite exec regs). Congress rarely removes anything because there's rarely a benefit to the representatives to remove existing law. Special interests prefer exceptions carved out rather than striking out broad provisions that are currently active.
also interesting, javascript dev bundle:

https://stacksocial.com/sales/pay-what-you-want-javascript-d...

currently at $11
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It's useful to note that Paul Ryan gained his position by saying shady backroom deals like this, plus giving Congress almost no time to read and think about the bill themselves, were the exact things he promised to stop.

So his very first act as speaker is to break every single promise he made to become speaker.
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Sadly not. The US courts have already ruled that data held in other data centres are fair game for a US warrant [1]. In this case the data is held in the EU (in Dublin, Ireland to be precise) and MS was found in contempt of court for failing to hand the data over [2]. They're still fighting this case now - over a year later - and it's currently in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals [3].

This means that the precedent is already set. If the company operates in the US and is served a warrant, the US Govt wants ALL of the data WHEREVER it's held.

I'm rooting for MS on this one and hope their appeal is upheld.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/29/us-court-m...

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-refuses-to-hand-over-...

[3] http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/e-regulation/microsoft-resis...
Row-Level INSTEAD OF triggers are really useful to make views updateable that are otherwise too complicated to be updateable.
I don't think Amazon compensates that much - I interviewed with them this past summer, and they tried to lowball me. I gave a firm number that I would not go below after giving some numbers I have turned down in the past, and the process stalled indefinitely. I have also heard stories about Apple lowballing friends as well, to the point startups were giving higher compensation. The others, I have heard stories about or could believe.
Even if the top 100 moat popular torrents do infringe on copyrights, the many less popular torrents (the long tail) may outnumber them in downloads etc.
Lobbyist don't do "back room deals" for the fun of it. They do it so that there's no accountability. Democracy should have no secrets, and this is a disgrace.
Agreed. Shouldn't be a Show HN without an online demo or source or...
The bill itself reads mostly mundane, which I think is part of the intention. The main issues are the liberal definitions of "cybersecurity purpose," "cybersecurity threat" and "cyber threat indicator," along with the really half-assed integrity requirements ("Make sure you scrub out personally identifiable information, but only if you're aware of it, so no big deal.") and a repeated insistence on the data being "shared as quickly as operationally practicable".

As such, it strikes me as a try-hard and forced attempt to implement private-to-governmental-entity data sharing with little assurance, and cloaked as a seemingly routine bill. It thus makes perfect tactical sense to bundle it with an omnibus, since it blends in well.
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Wish I could up vote this more. The government has nearly nothing to show for all their surveillance and yet they keep asking for more.