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> An immediate review system, which in this case sounds like just a forum for immediate complaints/reprimands, sounds terrible because given a negative situation the feedback hasn't had any cool-down time. It sounds very toxic, tactless, lacking introspection, and easily decorated with anger.

You've described basically any feedback mechanism at all. Cooldown time or not, a 360 feedback system only works in a culture that enables it. The feedback will be toxic if the culture is toxic. The timeliness of the feedback isn't likely to change that.

> Performance reviews in general are more formality than anything in my opinion.

Ah, and now we come right to it. You don't actually believe in a system of employee evaluation.

That's your opinion. You're free to have it, but it implies that feedback is not a path to skill or career development, and I deeply and fundamentally disagree with that premise.

> At the end of the day I can gauge how my impact is respected across a company on a mgmt/executive level by the money that lands in my bank account.

If you think that's all that reviews are about--gauging impact, ascribing blame, or simply analyzing failures--you're already missing the point.

Feedback is about many things:

* Identifying and lauding successes.

* Feedback to address performance concerns.

* Feedback for skill improvement.

* Feedback for career development.

If you don't think you have anything to learn from your peers or your managers that can help you in these areas, well... we'll have to agree to disagree.
> While it may be true that in this particular instance the FBI might act benevolently

Indeed. Didn't the FBI effectively purchase a zero day to break into the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter? Didn't they also then not disclose said zero day to Apple?

There's no way that any LE agency can be trusted with this responsibility; I'm not convinced that it can be done by the federal government at all. EFF seems like a reasonable choice, but even non-profits have the potential to be corrupted/subverted (and operating as a dump for zero days has the power to corrupt, for sure, regardless of how moral your organization claims to be on its website).

This definitely falls under the umbrella of hard-problems-in-politics-that-will-not-be-solved-any-time-soon
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Seems reasonable: Gmail's Javascript makes the message appear immediately because it knows it will appear there. You delete it, but that command has no effect because the real email message is still being relayed to Gmail's mail servers and getting redirected to yourself, but nonetheless the message vanishes from the UI. Then it arrives.

I'll not try to reproduce. This is not a bug.
Yes.

It doesn't really matter what Bezos says - if they keep growing their business, some day they will find themselves in the same position as Apple, Google and Microsoft: they generate so much revenue that they don't know how to invest it intelligently.

It'll take Amazon longer because their margins are lower and their expenses (warehouses, planes etc.) higher than very generous programmer salaries but there will be a time where it won't make sense for them to build another warehouse in, say, California.

My comment was also in context: some people apparently believe that AWS is the only business that matters in context of Amazon and ignore massive revenue and continuous growth of the ecommerce business. I believe that ecommerce business will ultimately be more profitable (as total profits, not profit margins) to Amazon than AWS. And yes, it might take a couple of decades.
Based on the timeline [0] I'm guessing that these were used in his album Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2. I assume that this robot is used on the track snar2 [1] and perhaps others.

[0] - "15.01.2015: Aphex Twin announces a release using Robosnar as well as our HAT robot."

[1] - Listen to an unauthorized upload here: https://soundcloud.com/xiao-bao-ming/02-snar2
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

a legit company will only go to certain extent to defend. They can still survive.

An illegit company will go all / full lengths to attack and defend. illegit company life depends on this !
Of course it is mispriced... Large scale cataclysmic damage is just too expensive to insure, just as war is or an act of God is and that is why the government is the insurer of last resort. Ultimately, it will all come out of taxes. The government will bail people out, maybe not at full market value individually but definitely at the bank level. It will be the same dynamic as the 2008 housing crash.
Are you just operating under the assumption that no one will invent the seatbelt of flying cars? That cars will just fall out of the sky with no attempt at saving a passengers life?

Eventually someone will invent a big balloon that pops out of the bottom of cars to catch them as they fall, or a parachute, or something better no one has thought of yet.
they respect it, but because it's so frequently misused or plain broken, it's basically sidelined vs. more optimal methods for preventing indexation, or getting an already-indexed piece of content removed, such as the noindex tag.
I mean...
Amazing stuff.
How..?

My mind refuses to believe it's actually possible EVEN AFTER I TRIED IT AND SAW IT WORKING.

The universe is a lie.
Sure. Talent is a function of luck too. I'm not denying the role of luck. Just saying that someone who made it big is not following a random policy, and that imitating their behaviour might help you too.
Just to add to what @hawkice said already, you can offer them a money back period or offer a short free trial like for 7-10 days BUT take credit card upfront. Always take credit card upfront, period. If not, then you will get tons of tire kickers and time wasters. For bootstrapped, it will not be of too much use to you and may add unnecessary support time.

It is simple. I offer a 30 day money back guarantee. But if you cannot commit to credit card on day 1 knowing that you have nothing to lose, then you are not the customer I want.
The Hit AnyThing bot is pretty cool too. You can hear them both on "Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 EP" (2015).

http://www.logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/HAT.html
If you put it on a bootstrap template, it must be true!
Make sure that device isn't listed in your devices if you sign into iCloud.com with that account and go to the account settings.
I think Moosefs is file not block, like Gluster.

I actually found it better than Gluster in terms of robustness and performance. It's got support for multiple masters, failover and a nice dashboard.

One of those projects that should be much more well known than it is given there are few open source distributed storage solutions. The MFS devs are good but maybe lack the marketing savvy or perhaps just happy where they are.
It's much easier (maybe too easy) for anyone to sell on Amazon compared to Walmart.com. This allows Amazon to alway have a huge selection with a bunch of sellers competing to offer the lower price. This is going to let Amazon stay in front until the other companies catch up but it might be too late by then.
You're correct. That's the fun part. What's especially fun is that the blind spot is often something which has already been developed, and didn't sell well in its first iteration, or is common in prototypes and SF / futurist stuff but no one thought it would ever be widely available.
Where do people get the idea that helicopters just fall from the sky when there's a power failure?

Do people think that others are flying around everyday in machines that will likely kill them in case of a malfunction? Is the media is covering up all the helicopter related fatalities?
They were going to be required by 2016, but then PCI-DSS decided to give companies an extra 2 years to implement the changes.

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/281302/Resources/Migrating_fr...
As a Devuan user (not a dev), it's more than just the init system though. Devuan is also doing lots of heavy lifting to keep udev separate from systemd, as well as other things (consolekit and polkit come to mind, as does dbus).

At this point systemd is a whole lot more than an init system. Most people don't have a complaint with regards to systemd units or how fast it boots, it's more to do with the amount of dependencies it seems to be sucking in (at least from my experience).
You are right, that isn't how you make progress: it's how you make money.
Ok, this was fun to write, I get it. But it serves no real needs, and it may do a lot of harm to you and others.
That tends to be a brew your own situation comparable in difficulty to creating a business from scratch. If you have to ask that, you will probably be better off getting a part time job or signing up for some service to do piece work through them (like UpWork, but preferably not actually UpWork).
Forget about the joke for a minute and let's be realistic.

It is entirely possible and reasonable to prototype a streaming service serving 20% of the us traffic with a single machine and mongodb.

Well, a single machine, mongodb AND akamai.
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Off topic: he's 95 years old?! I don't care how well connected he is, who thought it would be a good idea to have a nonagenarian on the board of a (supposedly) cutting edge health-tech company?!
> If you're not comfortable with anyone seeing what you're sending,
> don't send it via a website you found out about 15 minutes ago.

Says it all.
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>how smart contracts can remove middlemen from financial transactions.

These sorts of things are trivially gamed and have been since they were first proposed in the bitcoin space. Besides that you don't even remove a middleman for this example since you still need the courier to act as the middleman.
how do you transition from a one time purchase to a recurring one? I.e you say "200€/year", how do you change it to 30€/month during that year?
How do you backup your git-annex repositories?
I can respect your experience, and in fact it mirrors mine, in that any review process invented by HR inevitably becomes a broken, gamed system, with limited value.

Where it seems we disagree is on the solution. I don't think adding an even more burdensome artificial review system will fix what is still the same review process, just sped up. They've missed the entire human aspect of how immediate feedback is used/interperted, i.e. how a manager can correct a poor attitude or a deficiency without turning it into an everlasting stigma. As much as HR would like to pretend otherwise, good management is a skill and requires some basic human interaction talent to do correctly.

This will be another failed HR initiative within a year or two, at best. At worst, it'll turn into an episode of Black Mirror. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive
Password strength checkers when signing up to a websitr don't send anything over the wire. They generally just analyze the entropy of a password and give live feedback to improve password strength. Why do they make your nervous?
You made a correction on a technicality of a post complaining about our discipline's fastidious obsession with correcting technicalities.
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No one should independently contact a company about this type of issue without first obtaining competent legal advice. And I do mean competent advice; most lawyers are very technically illiterate and will not be sympathetic, let alone familiar with the relevant areas of law.

The researcher is lucky that TradeKing believed their NDA trick was sufficient. Even if the case here is weak, and I wouldn't necessarily assume it is, it would still seriously damage the researcher's life.

Here's how it goes when you get sued by a big company. Their lawyers essentially have a heyday doing everything possible to obstruct and delay the process so that they can maximize their time on the corporate teat. It will go on for years; they won't mind because it's business as usual for them, and they're getting paid big bucks to torment you. Your life will be ruined: assets seized pre-emptively, reputation and credit destroyed, inordinate quantities of time consumed by legal research and tedious paperwork, struggling (if not immediately blatantly failing) to keep your incompetent counsel paid at $250/hr and meet the retainer, and eventually failing to file some document or pay some fee that will cause the court to enter a default judgment against you and permanently confiscate everything you own, leaving you with the albatross of a massive outstanding judgment waiting to be enforced, bank accounts garnished any time you get any money, etc. And that's the short version!

And then guess what -- if, by some miracle, you don't lose in the first round, this whole process will repeat as they file appeal after appeal. Hunker down because the proceedings will last at least 5 years.

The corporate lawyers will be able to justify all of it to their clients without blinking an eye, who probably forgot that they even asked them to sue you. Everyone at the company and the law firm will go home and sleep soundly on their piles of money, and you'll have learnt your lesson that trying to stop the subterfuge of an online trading platform is a terrible offense.

Good reading: http://www.nissan.com/Lawsuit/The_Story.php

IANAL.
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I think that an important point in this vulnerability is that it does not violate the CFAA. From my, albeit limited, understanding of the CFAA, it requires access breach.

Imagine this conversation were the user to have discovered a parameter which let the user execute trades on behalf of another user.
I hope i'm not the only one on HN that really cant take such a post seriously. "This will never happen", yeah okay, glad someone can see infinitely into the future.
I'm starting to use Sia (sia.tech) to backup some heavy files starting with data I can afford to loose (even if I'm quite confident in the tool).
I used to dream about being a light house keeper but I'm sue those jobs are no more.
HR, just like any other department, is under pressure to perform better. Given the axiom that you can not improve what you can not observe, they are under pressure to improve their quantifying methods. In itself, it's not bad, but unfortunately we're a very long way from having a meaningful quantification that measures the right things.

Ideally, having a dashboard that can show the real, applicable performance of each employee would go a long way to improve the organizational personnel. People just don't want to consider themselves as a resources; they have feelings and emotions, desires and goals. But at the end, some employees are better than others and improving the quality of the workforce is a significant factor in improving the overall performance of a company.
Some snarky drift: Then post-college commercial reality sets in, where using mind numbing boilerplate supported by frameworks and heavy ides (as opposed to libraries, custom or otherwise, and an editor), is SOP. Join the programming masses and literally think inside the box(es). So why did you go to college now?
My experience is that knowing who's a good programmer is like knowing what's art: you know one when you see one. That's why I don't get the coding interview.

Just an everyday conversation with a coder will give you a better idea whether he's any good or not, and it will do this without stressing him out or impugning his integrity (which is exactly what you're doing when you ask someone a bunch of trick questions on a subject they've already claimed expert knowledge on in their resume).
I could believe someone making a rbeakthrough and then leaving college to commercialize it. That's what happened with Google and a bunch of other unicorn firms, and I'm plenty willing to believe in the posibility of innovation/discovery by a fresh thinker who noticed a pearl among the gravel.

But when Elizabeth Holmes burst upon the scene, she just seemed too good to be true - gee, you're an original, off-the-wall thinker and innovator and you're a goody-two-shoes workaholic of the kind MBAs and investors fantasize about? Nah.

My sister is very much that hard worker/high achiever personality but she's intellectually very conservative and compartmentalized. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this - indeed it's part of what makes her good at her medical profession - but innovators usually also demonstrate a playful streak and a tolerance for failure rather than needing to be perceived as perfect.

I wonder if this apparent fraud will result in criminal prosecution. It would be a sad end for la Holmes to matriculate at San Quentin.
If they can ship it by the end of 2017, that would still be well ahead of whatever makeover the Mac Pro will be getting, so it could be a stop-gap. And there are quite a few mobile-workstation laptops on the market now shipping with Xeons (the iMac is sort of like an immobile laptop).
Flying personal consumer crafts could definitely happen in our lifetime. Light wings + light engine/fuel + safety system.
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Agreed, it's bullshit like this that makes it VERY clear that the law only applies to the poor and non-influential.
Disappointed this article didn't talk about maintenance.

I get the feeling most people don't take care of their cars (oil changes, tire rotations, etc) as often as they should -- I certainly don't. And with driving, it's no big deal. If your car overheats, just pull off to the shoulder.

With flying, it's another story entirely. Even a successful emergency landing would be terrifying for occupants. That means having experts go over every inch of your flying car regularly, and that means a lot of money.
Yeah, the concept is the same as Sikuli, but all inside Chromium (and the OCR is better).

>Do you find it better than Phantom?

It depends. Once you have a working script, web scraping with Phantom is much faster and much more resource efficient. But since Kantu works visually, you do not have to touch any page source code. That makes it much easier/faster to create the automation in the first place, especially for complex sites with date controls, drag & drop and other Javascript.
It looks like the beep is sufficient for recording from a one-party state calling a two-party state, since federal law supercedes the other state's law. Actual consent would be required if the recorder is in a two-party state, even if the other party is in a one-party state. But even if the recording is "technically legal" without consent, using it as evidence in the two-party state could still be problematic. So I guess it wouldn't be a good idea to rely on the beep alone.
When I think of flying cars, I think of hovercrafts.

It would a step in the right direction for maximizing quality of life in the first world.

Poor roads (due to stress and lack of maintenance) being the main irritant at the moment.

Hover crafts would: make tollbooths obsolete (their main function: road-tax for maintenance -- gone), reduce accidents all around (trivial: liquid spills, minor: flats and whip lash, major: hydroplaning, ice-caused accidents, and crushed-by-car accidents), decrease consumer and government costs (via aforementioned need for tollbooths and road maint, wear-and-tear/ car maint, and insurance), and, as well, keep the aesthetic quality of the roads intact for longer.

Also: leaders plant the seeds into their followers imaginations. Electric cars and getting to Mars are relatively boring things (think: mass-media popularity), but Musk was able to get everyone on-board, although at the cost of promising Utopia. The same can be done against flying cars, if one is possessed on the issue.
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To expand on that, federal law requires a union to represent all workers in a bargaining unit. In exchange, they're allowed to collect partial dues from non-members. In "right to work" states, the union still has to represent non-members, but they don't have to pay.
How about hire smart people, trust them to do the job, and then leave them alone!
One would think HR would be against something that introduces constant stress in the workforce rather than introduce it.

It comes across as a company obsessed with getting the maximum possible output from their workforce like from a machine but quite not sure how to pull it off from human beings.
I guess.

But I do wonder why autogyros haven't become more popular.
As I mentioned, I am not opposed to H1-B reforms. If there are corporations that are abusing the system by not following the spirit of the law, rules must be revised and the corporations must go through due legal process. If they are illegally replacing American workers, one could sue them and get their fair share. I haven't seen any major legal cases regarding the same so I am not sure what gives you so much confidence in stating that it is frequently used to illegally replace American workers. There are always a couple of exceptions but citing that as a major issue is a bit disingenuous. American companies outsourcing some of their work (HR/Recruitment/Pay/IT, etc.,) to other companies happens all the time. It just so happens that some of these outsourcing companies are Indian. This is the way it has been in a globalized economy. American companies produce high-tech equipment while developing companies provide low-end manufacturing and services.

There are so many Indians and Chinese on H1-B because they both add up to 40% of the world population and they are culturally inclined towards academics which is why they make up a significant number of students in graduate and PhD programs; not that other cultures aren't, but they particularly are. Also, unlike other nationalities, where folks get a green card within 2-3 years of being in H1-B, Indians have to wait it out for almost 10 years (Source: https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul...). Because everyone on H1-B has to renew their visa every 3 years, the percentage of the Indian H1-B visa applicants shows up as higher.

Legitimate foreign nationals with PhD's don't get an H1-B because of the lottery system used for issuing visas and that is something that must be fixed.

There are 1.4 open jobs in tech for every single American meeting the requirements. H1-B's are filling a need left open by Americans choosing to study non-STEM courses. I am not sure where you get the number that hundreds of thousands of Americans, with programming/IT/engineering skills, are unemployed because of immigrants. Unemployment in IT is one of the lowest in all the industries (Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm) even though there are 5.7 million job openings (Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm). It is assumed that 3% unemployment rate is normal and can be attributed to general employee turnover rate.

If there were qualified Indian workers losing their jobs to Americans, I would be unhappy too. But you don't have that problem.

This country is built by immigrants and it always had a steady flow of immigrants. It was Germans and then Irish and then Japanese and then Russians and then Chinese and now Indians. H1-B is the latest incarnation of a process to immigrate. The majority of these immigrants are highly educated, work on a high paying job, pay taxes and help the local economy. If every single American citizen you know is opposed to them being here, maybe you should find yourself some open-minded friends.
This vulnerability does allow to execute trades on behalf of another user.

For example, a realistic exploit would be to slowly buy up a bunch of a random penny stock; and then post an image link to some forum frequented by users of that software with the order "buy 10000 units of stock_x, okthxbye". The order will be executed by users viewing that forum and will bump up the price as you dump it.
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