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I agree the article is more about stupid management but micromanagement is another aspect of stupid management.

If there are over-detailed micro-goals and accompanying micro-status updates on everything, it devalues the employee. The goals have to have significance to the end product.

When managers sweat over details that have no meaning they lose their authority. It leads to bad morale.
It is also not a good strategy for the organisms involved since what we produce, especially the organics, changes fast and we're about the only source..
I think they also use Common Lisp with their work on D-wave quantum computers. I'd still wager the ITA group has the lion share of Lisp though.
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I always just assumed it was like 'enjinks'; even the back end devs who deal with it.much more regularly than me call it that as well. The more you know. 'SQL' has that issue as well I suppose.
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What if you have a psychotic disorder? Prevalence is ~3%.
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Uh, substantiate this?
It probably is because they didn't or couldn't verify whois data, however as you stated - how many other people do they actually enforce this with? It's probable there's a mandate.
Depression is a major risk factor in suicide.

Tricyclics are frequently used in attempted and completed suicide.

Being more careful with prescribing tricyclics to people with suicidal ideation would probably reduce the numbers of attempted and completed suicide.
Changes to Facebook’s “Real Names” Policy Still Don’t Fix the Problem
You advocate violence against people who don't agree with your views on public spending?
Maybe you should handle the "unusual" transactions?

I bet you don't pay them much - maybe not even enough to live on (that would definitely be the case here in the US I don't know about Australia). I've worked shitty retail jobs (hotels) before, for years, if you're trying to assess their "status" they'll just lie to you to get you to leave them alone. A checklist is just an extra hurdle when it's busy (and even when it's not).

I've never been a manager so I'm not sure what to tell you as far as motivation. I think money might help. I'm sure you have your pets and the other employees will resent those people and you for having them. Maybe letting them vote on shift leaders or something so it's not you correcting them but someone they may already like/trust.

When you have people living on nothing they will perpetually be in a survival mindset - which is to say, cut-throat and self focused. I doubt whatever you want them to do is of any real concern to them and I doubt you can make it that way without spending money and showing that you actually care about the person and not just the job.

I can say for certain though, you'd be hard pressed to get people to hate you more and faster than to try to micromanage them. Your employee turn over will increase which will just mean more people for you to try to train "the right way".
> I hope the folks at Juniper are checking their toolchains, build machines and repositories for signs of similar attack.

I hope they figure out who planted it there and that they change their hiring/code review policies to make sure that such a thing can not happen again. Firewalls should be tamper-proof to the point where they simply refuse to operate at all if the code has been messed with after it leaves the premises, the absence of such tamper proofing is already a problem and should be taken quite serious.
You just need to change your dns server to access those domains, or just access the server ip directly.
The planet will be here a long long time after we're gone.. And it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, because that's what it does.
It's a self correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed and if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm - the Earth plus Plastic.

The Earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth.
The Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of it's children.
Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us..

Could be the answer to the age old philosophical question "Why are we here ?"..

Plastic, assholes!

:)

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Am not sure what part of your post contradicts what I wrote.

>In some cases, chronic ketamine use has been associated
>In several reported severe cases

Chronic / addiction levels yes. Not recreational levels. As I put

As to ketamine and bladder problems. I used to be involved with the UK free party scene which had serious problems with ketamine in the early 2000s ( up until the supply shortage caused by the Indian clampdown a few years ago), before it was well known about the addiction / health problems it could cause (although issues were known, but it wasn't generally well known beyond a few knowledgeable people).

You would often hear that ketamine had no comedown, had no side effects. Users would start out being weekend users, then progress to daily, sniffing between 3-7 grams a day, all day - everyday. Then gradually you started hearing about stomach cramps, difficulty going to the toilet, thinking you had to go to the toilet every 10 minutes, having to urinate a jelly/jello like bloody substance. Drs had no idea what was going on and were no help. But by this stage the addiction had them completely and the only way to stop the pain was to sniff more ketamine. Eventually it led to a girl having kidneys and / or bladder removed and slowly the public conscience about the dangers of ketamine was known.

However, of all the users I knew who kept it to only weekends, used ketamine for years with none of the above mentioned health problems. Anecdotally of course and I am sure there may be edge cases I am unaware of. But recreational use of ketamine does not cause bladder problems IME
>If classic art sought to pull on "positive" emotions and move and inspire; modern art seemed determined to confuse and then move on to outrage.

Your definitions of "classic art"[1] and "modern art"[2] have to be pretty narrow to argue this. I know anyone can pull a few counter examples to any objectivist statement on the arts, but I have a very difficult time believing any argument that's based on the earnest belief that classic art drew on "positive" emotions while modern art is driven by "negative" ones. What kind of art are you looking at?

Just want to point out; that Jeff Koons piece is displayed publicly.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Francisc...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Bilbao.K...
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> Drinking a bottle of whiskey every day for an extended period of time, perhaps.

People drinking far less than that, maybe a glass or two of wine most days, are getting cirrhosis.
America continues the slow spiral down the drain. Good luck folks.
Could be, but those things are the basics; lack of them is a cause of misery for people in today's society. Depression is something that makes you miserable even if all objective factors about your life are stable and comfortable.
> It should totally be above the viewer in the sense that it should get him to broaden his horizons, to deepen his thinking and to cultivate an appreciation for the craftsmanship that goes into art.

Right, that's exactly how I feel about Homestuck and how I don't feel about modern art.
Think of it more as asm.js the next generation.

Wasm is to be another dialect your JavaScript engine understands. In it's initial version it is designed to fully map to asm.js.

The main difference between wasm and asm.js at first will be the binary format. Practically speaking it'll lower the file size and start-up time.
Yes. Although this article isn't about "micromanagement" in my mind. Micro-management, in software, effectively turns the programmer into a secretary taking dictation.

It's someone caring about the details of the results along with the details of the implementation, and the process, and every other factor but then hiring someone else to actually press the keys and move the mouse. It turns the task of programming from problem-solving to satisfying effectively onerous checklists of ceremonial acrobatics. There's other ways to solve that problem.

The original post is talking about debilitating flow and a structure (stemming from a culture and engagement) that is fundamentally destructive.
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Releasing public beta today, just wanted to share/feedback :-)
> the serialization part isn't separate they are in one library

Although Cap'n Proto's C++ implementation is hosted in a single git repository, it does compile to several distinct libraries. You can use just the core serialization/deserialization part, libcapnp, if that's all you need. There are separate components, libcapnpc and libcapnp-rpc, for dynamic reflection and the object-capability remote procedure call system.
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This is probably illegal (garnishing for mistakes), so check with you local labour laws before doing this. Though I would recommend against this unless you want employees quitting or stealing from you.
Rand should filibuster everything until a CISA removal bill is passed.
Usually, the ICANN suspension pages that I've seen look more like this [1], is this fake?

[1] http://coastnetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IcanSusp...
I wonder why Elon Musk is involved in the panel and quoted here. Isn't there a conflict of interest where "investing in research, development and manufacturing facilities for new battery technologies" will indirectly benefit Elon by driving the industry forward?
So true. You need someone to track progress and distribute responsibility.
Yes, BUT, you have to look no further than at the top of this page to see how utterly unclear text labels can be.
How this happened [1]:

In a late-night session of Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced a new version of the “omnibus” bill, a massive piece of legislation that deals with much of the federal government’s funding. It now includes a version of CISA as well. Lumping CISA in with the omnibus bill further reduces any chance for debate over its surveillance-friendly provisions, or a White House veto. And the latest version actually chips away even further at the remaining personal information protections that privacy advocates had fought for in the version of the bill that passed the Senate.

Snowden's comment on this:

Shameful: @Facebook secretly backing Senate's zombie #CISA surveillance bill while publicly pretending to oppose it. https://t.co/du7RK7V1WJ
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 25, 2015

[1] http://www.wired.com/2015/12/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibu...
I believe that "root is root" is just shorthand for...

If you aren't using unprivileged containers, then the only approach you have for making the container more secure than chroot is a whack-a-mole style approach.

By whack-a-mole, I mean trying to map out the attack surface, and using a hodge podge of tools to try and close them (kernel cap-drops, apparmor, se-linux, firewall rules, overlay mounts for /proc, /sys, etc).

I think it's reasonable to say that the whack-a-mole approach isn't truly more secure. In the same way that having a vault door on the front of your house, next to an open window isn't any more secure than having the door wide open.
Is there any reason today to study Common Lisp instead of a more popular and evolving Lisp, like Clojure or Racket?
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There have been very many versions of laws similar to CISA that have been proposed, modified, and changed/passed/failed/delayed. When I try to understand exactly what this CISA version includes, most rhetoric I read is alarmist and not conducive to actually knowing what can and cannot be done under CISA.

Is there a digestible explanation of what this CISA entails?
A question that should be asked! When you investigate it, the American prison system is unconscionably harsh and is tantamount to torture, not only that but the sentences are extremely long by global standards.
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Every time I read an article, and 20 seconds into it, mid-paragraph a modal window tries to get me to register it evokes such an rage I just stop what I am reading and click back. This UI pattern is one of the worst I've ever seen.
This is ridiculous. Since OpenBSD started as a fork of NetBSD, one could similarly claim that innovations in OpenBSD are irrelevant if they have not been picked up and integrated by NetBSD.
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Yeah, it's a good point. Carrots might work better than sticks. You can always fire people for incompetence though.
Do we need a replacement for C?
>> If all you want is money with low risk the choice is clear.

It's not quite clear to me: care to explain?
Interestingly, no news coverage yet for Open Hunt. May be, conflict of interest with Product hunt.
What the hell does "symbolic" even mean in that comment. Can you rephrase that in plain English?
Many drugs can precipitate a psychotic episode, including stimluants, psychedelics, even Alcohol. It's a risk you take when you take drugs but can be mitigated if you known what to expect and have support.

Ketamine I don't think has a huge problem with this compared to other drugs. It may be a bit of a bizarre experience but not often a tramuatizing one.
>In his talks the founder says he provides law enforcement with all the crawled data for free

Why is this a good thing?

Isn't it like trying every door in a neighbourhood and handing the FBI a list of all the properties that have been left unlocked?

Oh - and there's that very useful exploit dictionary too.

I ban all the shodan IPs I can find as a matter of policy.
Yes, they are _completely_ different languages, despite being lisps.
I don't know if it's a panel. It's just an open letter written by 44 people with interests of different kinds. Somebody else impartial, will surely make the actual decision on what will happen.
They are - it's in the GitHub repositories: https://github.com/alphagov/paas-cf/tree/master/concourse

I should prolly mention that I was lucky enough to work with one of the Concourse authors, and also think it is awesome. Every other CI server I've used has induced rage!
Dont't knock spending money to scale. The most important lesson I learned at BigCorp was when to buy vs build. Not Invented Here syndrome will kill even mega companies.
> Haskell is a great language for expressing computations, the thing CS is about.

I think Haskell is good at expressing a narrow range of ideas that, honestly, aren't all that fruitful outside the FP field. There are three main reasons why it's not a great language for expressing arbitrary algorithms:

1) It uses the pointer model instead of the integer RAM model. That leads to extra logarithmic factors.

2) Immutability. That's hypothesized to also cause extra logarithmic factors, but AFAIK that's still an open problem.

3) Non-strict evaluation. That wreaks havoc with space complexity, and compositional analysis of performance in general.

Yes, you can add epicycles to remedy these drawbacks (arrays, ST, strictness annotations). But I'd rather use a C-like language in the first place. That's closer to the "core" of CS as I understand it, and that's how most algorithm research is done.
That's true - but, on the flip side, it would also create a massive competitor for the Tesla.
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This is exactly what I've been thinking, too. By all means "fine" VW with billions of dollars, but instead of actually taking those billions of dollars from them, force them to commit to a very strict plan of investing those billions into bringing EV cars to the market (but not hybrids - EVs!).

But they should also have audits every 6 months or so to make sure those money go where they're supposed to.
Personally, I'm strictly on the pragmatic side of thing. As Scott Alexander says[0], "society is fixed; biology is mutable". If we can't on Earth figure out an effective social solution to a problem, but we have a pill that fixes it outright, maybe let's try the pill so that people don't have to go miserable all their lives. Calling something a disease is really about assigning blame[1]. If I'm ill, it's not (entirely) my fault and I need a cure. If it's not a disease, all I'll get from people is pep talks at best, at worst I'll be called lazy and told to get my shit together. We clearly know that latter doesn't work; depression is pretty much defined as a state where you can't just "get your shit together".

BTW. I always considered ADD, ADHD, etc. to be a bit of a fake disease, a product of environment, but I'm no longer sure. I've been struggling with depression and anxiety for many years and responded relatively well to SSRIs which stabilized my mood and helped me quit the recurring panic attacks. The problem is not gone, but with a little more stable emotional situation I managed to figure out that what really causes most of my problems now is total lack of focus. I can't hold my attention on any kind of work-related task (the task doesn't matter; what matters is that it's work) for more than 30 seconds without compulsively seeking something else to do. Be it HN or IMs. With no easy distraction source available, I'll get anxious and sleepy. I can be perfectly well-rested but will still occasionally get sleepy at work just because I refuse to distract myself with Hacker News. A considerable amount of my mental energy goes to fighting this and forcing myself to focus. Now that I've finally dug that up from underneath the layers of anxiety, it's going to be a topic of the next conversation with my doctor.

#HNTherapy

Also, this is what I got googling for ADD[2]. What the shit?

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biolog...

[1] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...

[2] - http://i.imgur.com/n5nhyWt.png
>Musicians used to be huge cultural phenomena

It still is. Is there any music from the 70s that's been heard by as many people as Gangnam Style? Psy currently has nearly 5 billion total views on YouTube.
Markering, social engineering. Hot or not, learn from it!

Everyone in the marketing business should learn how it's done from such premieres (other examples are Bond, Hobbit, Harry Potter).

I think those strategies would not work with a completely new title. Here you have a series that spans over 2-3 generations and through marketing you can create this illusion that this is an incredible cultural phenomenon, and that everyone is waiting, and that it's a part of the saga, and that without watching it you cannot call yourself a member of the polite society, or a middle class.

Look closely at what kind of arguments are used in the marketing messages. "This episode fits to the style of the other films". Now do reverse engineering on that statement - they took focus groups, sociologists, cultural anthropologists, ask people questions: "what are you most afraid of with the new episode", they say: "that it will spoil the style and mood of the previous movies". Now take 2-3 most repetitive statements and construct the smart message that will cover these problems. This is how it's done.

Another element is that the screenplay is written in such a way, that this episode has to be both - relating to the previous episodes and satisfy the fans, but also has to have a self containing story, that will be understood by those unfamiliar to the series. From the marketing point of view the Star Wars fans are not really the target group, they will go to see it no matter what. The real challenge is to broaden the fan base, attract those uninterested. Make the girlfriends go together with the boyfriends, and parents together with the children. Big bucks rule.

I particularly like the way they insert the information into the news reels. Of course the TV stations are being paid for it and the message is well tailored, but goes seamlessly well with other pieces of news. Very few movies are honored like that.

On a technical level - I think Episode I in 1999 was the last one shot on 35mm film. But actors spent most of the time in the blue box, so the editing deserves applause. Episodes II and III were shot on video making the composition with the CGI much much easier. But this time they went back to shooting on film, natural scenery and models. Interesting development. It's also interesting how they are able to release it on all different formats, 2d, 3d, IMAX etc. all at once (like games on different consoles).

I'm slightly critical from the point of view cinematographic art, but I'm admiring it as a global social engineering masterpiece and a business enterprise.
I don't see the issue even if the plastics are invisibly dispersed in the wild. I use styrofoam in my potting soils, for a reason.
I agree with the premise, but I'm not aware of an open source firewall that can provide the same functionality and scale as Juniper's product line.

You can certainly provide, for example, open source designs for a specialized ASIC, but it doesn't mean anyone could afford to actually make it.
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Thanks. Any suggestion about with which one to start? I don't believe that I'd use them for work or for many personal projects, but I've read about the advantages of learning FP. So I'd like to learn something that teaches me to think about programming in a different way and be able to apply those insights into the code I write in Java or other procedural or OO languages used at work.
I espouse a slightly different interpretation of that quote, namely that unsatisfactory answers should spur underlying curiosity. In other words: "Oh, you doubt unicorns exist? Go find out."
That's one way to look at it. Another is "force other companies to become our direct competitors". It's like Apple asking the US government to force feature phone makers to make touchscreen smartphones.
I've got no problem with fining intentionally deceitful companies into bankruptcy, if that's what it takes to stop the rest from destroying our world for short-term profit.
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Indeed, for those of us not taking the time (or lacking the expertise) to audit code ourselves, this is all ultimately appeal to authority.

If anything, the advantages of open source here are more about open development processes and being able to know just who is the gate keeper. As an example, if you use OpenBSD, you have reasonable assurances that Theo will do a good job, because he has earned his reputation.

Juniper? Who really knows what goes on internally? How are people allocated and shuffled around? It's a black box.

Ultimately I'd put more trust in OpenBSD than in Juniper because of this, but I'm still making a leap of faith. And OpenBSD is an extreme example of how much trust a project can earn; a vast majority of open source code is not held to such scrutiny.
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Thanks, that does sound like it'd make Pocket more useful - both of those last points.
A conflict of interest is when the decision maker stands to benefit from some outcomes of the decision they are making.

When you are just some person sending your views to a decision maker, that is simply interest. Of course Elon Musk isn't "just some person", but he still doesn't do anything like tell CARB how high to jump.
Depends. If you use a third-party, client side telemetrics provider it's probably on blocklists. If you track usage yourself on the server or integrated into your JS, then yes, you'll probably get good data.
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Well, this whole Internet thing was nice while it lasted.