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Isn't the solution to some of these problems to assess the teams results overall? If they are performing as required or expected (i.e. hitting targets) whatever the team metric, then wouldn't that explain rank inflation?

The ranking of people requires either one of two things:

1. fitting your group of people to a bell curve regardless of their proper distribution in reality

2. ranking inflation or deflation

Seems like a broken system designed either to generate make-work for managers and HR or to give the illusion of personnel manipulations to improve performance.
> My 1K+ folders and millions of archived emails disagree with you.

You seem to be attempting to address just the slowness of my complain and not its overall awfulness. Start-up time, loading each email; I've never seen it work very fast it always has that android-like lag throughout the entire thing. It also doesn't feel native to whatever OS you're using it in almost like using a Swing app.

The UX is just awful.
agreed, 100%. I used to be a GUI diehard. Then, I was told about emacs and became an emacs fanatic. But the difference between emacs and vi/vim is that you can count on vim not only being on any system anywhere, but behaving in almost the exact same way anywhere.

vim is timeless.
Hate to say I told ya so implies that you are linking to some prediction about exit tracking, or facial recognition in airports.

Your post you link is about your prediction that Social Media account credentials will be required to be handed over by citizens on exit. That's not a complete non sequitur, but hold your horses, you have made a verifiable claim, and it isn't true yet. You haven't "told" us anything.
This mission's passengers appear to be funding it, at least in part.
"loophole with the law" is a very interesting way avoiding the fact that they flat our broke the law in jurisdictions and reimbursed fines drivers incurred.
Glass bottles are heavy. Trucking all that extra weight (compared to plastic) around uses more fuel resulting in more CO2 emissions.

They also have to be thoroughly washed and sanitized before re-use, which uses more energy.

There is a reason that plastic replaced almost all use of glass bottles for beverages.
Isn't MITM required in enterprise environments where they want to filter content? Unless you want to run it client-side which isn't usually an option.
I've had co-workers, upon a woman passing by in the cafeteria, say things like "would you do her?"

I told them "shut the fuck up. You debase yourself by saying shit like that." Look them in the eye, say it with the confidence of the truth you know it is. If HR wants to debate me on cursing my co-workers, I'd be happy to oblige. What are they going to say? Don't tell your coworkers it's wrong to demean women?
It's not a "campaign" if it's "probably just organic."
> With all due respect, you don't know what you're talking about. If you overstay a visa, you're going to stay in the country no matter what.

How is overstaying a visa a necessary requirement for staying in the country no matter what. Some people might just make mistakes and come clean and explain what they did. Some might hope to get lucky. Maybe some are extra sneaky and want to borrow a passport from one of their cousins (but that biometrics checks though it making it tricky these days).

> I know folks who have missed family funerals because of that.

So they snuck in on a tourist visa, lied about the purpose and then never left missing their mother's or father's funeral even?

> This is why amnesty is a huge deal for lots of folks.

You think this very common and now after they snuck in they want amnesty? Well I can certainly see that. But I can also see why a lot of Americans might not want to give them amnesty as well. Last year 2.5M people were deported that will probably continue.

> I know folks who have missed family funerals because of that.

Well tell your folks to stay put and especially stay away from anywhere near a border. People have been deported just by boarding an inter-city bus. Because it was stopped and searched by immigration officers.
Have you had any problems with your tooth enamel since drinking diet sodas?

Have you tried NOW Foods Better Stevia (in packets)? I liked the flavor in my flavored teas (hot or cold). Only the cost adds up. It does contain rice maltodextrin though.
The very premise of a great Rick and Morty episode [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/embed/l2bU_tOREos?vndel=watch&vndapp...
> The fix to anger is to eliminate your expectations.

As Buddha said "Expectations lead to disappointment"
Actually it looks to me as though the legs cannot move sideways at all, only forward/back/up/down. If that's true it would be nearly impossible for Handle to stand on one leg or even raise one leg for long enough to perform a decent kick without falling over.
Telling your manager that you want to be at the next level and what you want to bring to the table.

why?

If that manager is good, they will bend over backwards to give you a plan, hook you up with the right people and ensure that you get that promo quickly.

Why?

Because it makes them look good. Amazing, even.

Understanding the mechanics of the business you work under and talking to people on the profit-side won't hurt, though.
> Self driving cars will save millions of lives. We need to speed this up.

The DMV doesn't appear to be asking them to slow down. The DMV appears to be asking them get a $150 permit, and to be transparent about errors their software makes.

> When does HN normally love regulations so much?

CA's regulations seem incredibly friendly towards autonomous vehicles; it could have been a legal grey area, but from everything I've read (and seen with Google's testing in Mountain View), the DMV's policies seem acceptable.

Software that is going to be responsible for people's lives should be transparent, and I've yet to see it demonstrated how the DMV's requirements even approach onerous. Like the article mentions, other companies such as Google seem to have no issue complying. (And, from what I've seen of Google reporting of Waymo's incidents, most of their incident reports seem to suggest that their vehicles are doing a job that surpasses my expectations of where they would be. What little we know of Uber's does not.)
The only way to get team cohesion is positive-sum priorities. If I spend more time helping you improve long-term and less time delivering on my own responsibilities, that needs to improve my next evaluation, otherwise I'm pretty much compelled to stop doing it.
Now we've got to launch either a really massive solar sail or a lot of small ones. And they've got to be really massive or have enough fuel to maintain position.
An absolute scale of ranks for each discipline, and some clarity on what types of performance result in increases or decreases in that scale. AFAIK Google uses this now, and many traditional or government software companies use this (e.g. Software Engineer III, Systems Engineer IV, etc).
That's not what the story says happened. The story says, according to their anonymous sources, Singhal was about to be fired over the harassment incident, and Google instead allowed him to leave gracefully.
Let's play the game "Wolfenstein miscompilation or Dwarf Fortress screenshot?": http://fabiensanglard.net/Compile_Like_Its_1992/images/run_w...
I can't begin to imagine the difference in scale here. Perhaps a solar sail a few million times larger than all the solar sails we've ever launched, combined?
It sounds like it might be a worthwhile effort to reverse engineer one of those.
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Well, maybe I'm just used to it. I tried many other email clients and other than text mode ones it is the best I've found so far (Linux, Debian).
Has philosophy ever clarified mathematics?
I'm from DC and used to work in politics. Everyone I know from that realm considers political appointees to be political positions, and call them such. The political positions are rough, because churn is pretty much guaranteed every 4-8 years.
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Do the employees know it?

In my view, the answer is yes. Today's employees are well connected, and we are no longer dependent on management for information. We might get our information from friends in management, peers who were once managers somewhere else, networking, and even HN. We can broaden our base of knowledge by assuming that most companies are managed in similar ways, due to shared training, culture, and networking among managers.

I'm a former manager and now a regular employee. I understand the mechanics and politics of stack ranking from experience.

At any given moment, the employees may understand the process better than their direct supervisors, because the employees have no limitations on how they gather information, whereas the managers are busy memorizing corporate talking points.
When should you trust your Gut Feelings?
For a while they were under military contract for these, but the versions they built were expensive to maintain, but also much too loud. The military contract was removed, but i think as a result they worked towards making them more simple and more quiet.

In the end though they're still building prototypes as R&D to try and find something that can be polished into a product.

here's a video with commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giS41utjlbU
I really like using http://www.piskelapp.com/ for online pixel editing. It's useful for making 2D sprites ( and saving them for later ).

It's also open-source: https://github.com/juliandescottes/piskel
Oh, man. Uber sounds like a seriously sick, toxic environment. Get rid of Travis, get rid of everyone in a management position, fire the HR team and actually make an attempt to better the working conditions at Uber.

I'm a man, and reading this plus Susan's story shared recently makes my stomach turn. It truly is sickening. I deleted Uber off my phone, I refuse to support a company that runs like a gentlemens club operating in 1955.

The sad thing about all of this is, when women report this kind of behaviour they get told to "report it", but it seems in the case of Uber (and who knows where else) these claims come with a huge cloud of being fired hanging over your head or they're just ignored.

I think Uber needs to be investigated by an impartial third-party and to be honest, the only way this will happen is if the investors step in and do something about it.

Fuck Uber.
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But gmail and fastmail don't work offline.
Let's say Uber (or any unicorn) would not provide any liquidity to employees.

Could employees unionize and threaten to quit en masse unless a company-wide liquidity solution was offered?
True, but her claims haven't been denied by anyone. And a lot of her claims should have a paper trail. Either she was propositioned by her manager over corp chat, or she wasn't. Either she emailed HR these screenshots, or she didn't. Either she informed HR about the leather jacket incident, or it didn't happen.

These claims can be easily disproven by Uber if they were false, and the fact that Uber hasn't denied them says a lot.
Wouldn't it be better to allow enterprises to do version pinning (which I believe used to be supported in chrome enterprise), rather than remove TLS 1.3 for everyone?
Direction to implement this was in the executive order Trump signed which banned people from the 7 countries that the Obama administration had built a database of nationals of those countries.

When I read the executive order I was quite troubled to see this.

I also noticed the exit tracking part of the order went undiscussed in the media. I searched to see if anyone else had noticed but i didn't find anyone else talking about it.

It almost feels like some of the more outrageous parts of the order (eg ignoring green card holders) were designed to draw attention away from the real point: slipping in exit tracking without people noticing (because they are too busy distracted fighting the other parts of the order).
I don't think this tool is really meant for the people that are looking for ECC RAM.
> Isn't MITM required in enterprise environments where they want to filter content?

Then don't filter content.
It's a fashion, a management style. It isn't logical. They want to work as they socialize. Constantly and publicly voting for people/things you like or of which you approve is normal. It's what highschool kids do these days. So it is completely natural for them to bring that scheme into the workplace.
I'm sure they only sell you a ticket if you pulled yourself up out of the slums by your own bootstraps. No old money allowed.
Just a question - wouldn't this actually help prevent criminals from fleeing the country with fake passports?
I _have_ worked in SV for my entire career and I've yet to meet the mythical brogrammer. That being said, I've only worked at big companies and am currently at a startup where I'm the first employee and have done all the hiring. Though that doesn't really explain why none of my candidates check any of the boxes that I'd expect from what I've heard about brogrammers.
I'm thinking maybe purchase a fireproof safe and lock the laptops in there while not in use?

I can't think of much else, really.
> I always wonder how you deal with having to use the same part of your brain for writing the code you are writing and to "code vim commands"

I think the transformations you think about map very nicely to vim commands. If you want to move some code around for instance, the action you want in the brain is "delete line" and the vim mapping is "dd". So I'm never thinking about vim commands, I just have an internal mapping for the change I want to the command to do it.

This is where I find the productivity comes from, with a normal editor you go thought->action, thought->action, etc and I find if action is to long it can break the thought part.
> Well if they want my sympathy those are my standards, sorry.

This is the crux of the situation. To be real: your opinion doesn't matter.

No one "wants your sympathy".

The issue with most of your comments is that you seem to think this whole thing relies on your acceptance.

That tone permeats every post.

You have a pointlessly peddled very particular logical arrangements that many think are nonsense.

And that's fine; we're each entitled to our opinions.

Your reasoning doesn't hold up. And whether anyone wants your sympathy for their situation is self-aggrandizement. You're setting up mental hoops for no reason.

The popular meme will get their way regardless of you
My thought was simply that people drown on the water, even when not doing a potentially tricky physical activity.
Uber seems to be a slightly special case in terms of how blatant discrimination seems to be and the explicitly deceitful and in the obviously abusive responses from HR but the general problems of harassment and discrimination are not unique.

I'm aware of multiple issues at Google and issues at Docker (although not the full details of that one). HR being useless and protecting company and senior management is common although they may be less blatant about it than Uber. Google is obviously huge so many areas may be OK.

Those are just issues I'm aware of following a few women on Twitter, they are the tip of the iceberg, some issues never come out at all, others are privately shard between women and others that might be vulnerable (I'm not in that loop).
At this point, the ouster of Kalanick is the only blood sacrifice that would be sufficient. The rot goes all the way up to the CEO.
a year or two they went down for about a week. That was the final straw for me and pushed me to pay for pinboard.in. I haven't looked back since. it just works and I don't worry about it going down or going away.
Here is one example

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/28/alt-ri...

I could tell it was fake because it hit on so many tropes of the left.

Here's a more directly comparable example (incredibly long winded expose... skimming recommended)

https://contraspin.co.nz/the-weaponising-of-social-pt1-the-c...

It's not about the events, it's about how they are framed and told by the anonymous author.
I thought of that, and it's a seductive answer, but I'm not sure anyone wants it to be done mechanically that way. (If you're just eyeballing things and then having multiple people have input to keep the primary manager honest, then yes, I think that the team's performance should be kept in mind).

Like, say your team didn't hit its OKRs. Should that mean that your manager has to make the average of your team's ratings be below 3? Certainly, one reason why your team failed to hit its numbers might be because most or all members of the team are poor performers. But it might also be that your manager didn't organize your work well, or it might have been that your numbers were unrealistic.
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It's also a fantastic show, to boot.
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I recently introduced two friends to Signal (because they couldn't get me on Snapchat). Later I caught one party sending a "snap" to the other and asked why not use Signal instead, and the reply was something about ease of use.

It turns out, sending a one-off picture with Signal is one click less than Snapchat. Also, normal people don't care about privacy.
Well, the laws in question (forced taxi monopoly laws) were bad to begin with.
Feedback's fine. If only more people commented on why they down-vote.
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Not really. Red states like Arizona seem to like self driving cars just fine.

It is Californias loss, and other people's gain. The cars are going to be tested, no matter what.

Self driving cars are already much safer than humans. The recent government investigation of the Tesla self driving cars proved this (ten's of thousands of self driving cars are already on the road right now) .
There are ways to filter content without breaking user privacy. For example, you could restrict access to the Internet altogether, and suggest that your users only get what they need from your internal corporate network. See how incredibly productive that makes your staff?

What these "enterprise environments" want is to leech off the Internet's knowledge while keeping a firm chokehold on the privacy of their own employees Sadly, it looks like Google is caving in to their pressure.
I think they've lost the benefit of the doubt after responding in an unconvincing way to Susan Fowler's allegations and the critical open letter from one of their VCs, to name just two recent examples.

People deserve the benefit of the doubt and courts are very strict on this. Companies that let such an issue fester for such a long time without convincing remediatory action probably don't deserve it in the court of public opinion.
Yes. Exploiting wrinkles like that is the opposite of real productivity. If your whole business strategy based on arbitrage then everything you build is on legal quicksand.
"Projecting" is psychological jargon describing the act of ascribing one's own feelings or motivations to another.

Since I don't have an ulterior motive, perhaps you are projecting?
If a team didn't perform as necessary and all it's rankings were high, that would be some damn useful information regarding the manager, the teams it interacted with or depended on, and/or the companies goals, deadlines, and methods of setting those.
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Yeah, that's pretty clearly deep into the skeeze.
SpaceX is already docking with the space station which is similar difficulty as launching from the moon and docking in lunar orbit. The problem is getting a rocket with enough fuel on the surface of the moon without damaging it, not the docking in orbit. Which is even easier than doing the same thing from the surface of Mars. The only advantage of Mars is you don't need to burn fuel slowing down but that's more than offset by a significantly deeper gravity well.

On the upside, they can land an un-manned assent vehicle on the surface of Moon / Mars before sending people there. Which can significantly increase your odds of getting back.

PS: Yes, NASA did get to the moon and back several times, but they also took a massive chunk of US GDP to do so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#/media/File:NAS...
Insurance company?

Why would billionaires waste their money or time on insurance?
Regulatory approval in California is generally a green light for the rest of the country because California's standards tend to lead the way for other states'. Arizone, not so much.
It's my understanding that BlueCoat is used pretty heavily in some schools. Most of the students there don't have the option of "working" somewhere else.
Saying "I wish it supported other vcs'" is like saying "I wish whales could fly".

An impossible situation.

The entire way it's designed to work is inherently tied to git, and thus flawed IMO.
You dont know what he means? They dont feel like native, they feel like web apps.
The EU case that's spinning up seems interesting in relation to product tying. It seems like they are going to get them for some minor stuff around email installation on Android and some pretty egregious advertising decisions. If Google loses I think it will still have little affect on it's monopoly.

While Google's products do work together I would argue they also work with competitors. Google is pretty open in this way. If you want to move over to MS Office you can export all your stuff to office files. That's unlike what Microsoft was doing. They were making it difficult for competitors. I think Google was very purposeful in this strategy to at least seem open to competition.
I'm sure the students of the Montgomery County, Maryland public school system, who are affected by this problem, will take your advice into consideration when submitting resumes to other public schools.
It won't work because actually enforcing a meaningful loss requires a real war.

Otherwise, no matter if you believe if you have got a 50% or 10% chance of victory (or even no chance, but a certainty of painful losses for the opponent) then it makes all kinds of practical sense for the loser to say "screw the coin/game" and simply ignore the result and escalate it further.

If a reasonable settlement acceptable to both sides can be negotiated, then it doesn't need the coin or game in the first place; and if someone can enforce the conditions on the loser without a horrible cost, then there's no need for a game or a war since it can be done as a simple ultimatum.
This is something the TLS spec authors have prepared against with GREASE. The idea is the client adds some junk version information to its list of supported protocols. To quote: "Correct server implementations will ignore these values and interoperate. Servers that do not tolerate unknown values will fail to interoperate with existing clients, revealing the mistake before it is widespread."

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-davidben-tls-grease-00
This is legally required in some sectors for regulation purposes, notably finance. I think a lot of people who casually throw out this sentiment don't appreciate that aspect of it.