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Ask HN: How can a company build the culture of embracing criticism?
What top management can do to change the culture within the organization so the employees embrace criticism instead of avoiding it?

UPDATE: I mean the criticism in all directions but above all across employees (horizontal) and from employees to their managers (bottom up).
Didn't read the article.

FWIW, local churches of Seattle had a rotation going to host Mary's Place. It was sort of a hassle; you needed people who volunteered for the night to monitor the situation, some food and drink served for dinner & breakfast (if I remember correctly). Only a few people volunteered and burnout was high.

I too am really uncomfortable with a local duke offering some of his property to help, knowing that if it becomes troublesome, he'll just pull out.

US homelessness is extremely difficult to deal with; in large part of the principle of federated states being semi-independant. In order to manage this at an acceptable level, it becomes a purely national coordinated effort. Otherwise one city/state or the other starts to become the place homeless are routed to by the local governments who don't have resources or interest in helping them. Of course, part of the subtext is that the US deinstitutionalized the mentally ill in the late 70s (for several reasons, including the gross violations of human rights and a general distrust in institutions). So on the street you have drug addicts, runaways, the mentally ill, criminals, people who had too little money to pay rent, travellers (rainbow folk and the like), #vanlifers, and people who broke up with their partner. It's an unpleasant combination that the US is unable to solve without significant multiparty negotiation or federal override.
> If a journalist can find it - any internet layman who knows how to Google can find it.

News organizations have access to many non-public databases.
I'll grant this for that technique: while your website linked to your username here made it easy to guess your reddit username, 5 minutes of looking did not recover your deleted comments.

It's a little difficult for me to wrap my head around the mindset though: if you're concerned about privacy, why would you post anything sensitive to reddit? If you haven't posted anything sensitive, why delete it? I'll admit, I've never been the victim or perpetrator of doxxing, so I may be missing something.
Yes. Banning cash and making every transaction public without bank secrecy is great anti money laundering measure
But we are talking privacy. Privacy means also privacy from the vendor. It is almost impossible in iOS.
can't tell from this article, which reads like an editorial and is extremely vague on actual facts.
Books mostly, with some good listserves.

You tended to learn more broadly rather than zeroing in on a specific task. Now you can execute a Google search after learning to "rails new" and get the precise answer, for better or worse.
I wouldn't be so sure. ACL2 is written in LISP.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/acl2/
If these hackers caused tens of billions of dollars worth of damage... I'm happy to see a rapid and decisive response severe enough to dissuade people from trying a stunt like this again.

Maybe leaving my front door unlocked was a bad idea, but you still robbed my house.
I don't think I've ever seen a counterfeit on Amazon. If you find them easily can you show me an example listing? I don't know if I'm gullible, or I don't browse the kind of products where they're found, or what.
ah the good ol days. any efnet users on here?? got insane amount of help from therr
bought the series as well, love it. It's my daughter's favorite math series. One interesting thing I noticed in this regard is textbooks from the 30-60s have way more textual descriptions. They seem to spend more time looking at the problem or concept in a literary way and that might have helped to build a better understanding for the student.
It's compelling, but the switching costs away from AWS are quite high, aka good ole' vendor lock-in. I'd love some new EC2 instance types that don't force me to use EBS for root, but the switching cost away from EC2 is so high that, sigh, whatever.

If there were a drop in replacement for EC2 that didn't force me to use EBS for root, I'd switch in a heartbeat, but because of vendor lock-in, EC2 doesn't have to compete on quality, features, nor cost. It's simply because switching is (currently) too expensive. This is a feature that I, a customer, wants; the reason I want this is besides the point. To borrow from the auto industry, you can have use root, as long as it's EBS.

Pretending Amazon doesn't use vendor lock-in to it's own advantage like every other company, and thinking that it really competes on quality, features and cost ignores the huge inertia of saying on what works.

Private, back-room, "don't tell anyone else I gave you that good of a price"-type enterprise sales tactics for "at-scale" pricing don't engender trust either. Great for business; not for encouraging competition.
"Your shop runs SolidWorks? Don't worry! There's nothing intrinsic to CAD that requires a Microsoft OS. Switch to Linux!"

Implementations actually matter. Hordes of us would jump ship if we could, but convincing vendors to port flagship software, or even do something as seemingly straightforward as a license migration is never easy.
Apple has designed both server side and client side keystores to now be resistant against "future evil Apple".

Basically, even apple the company now can't break into their phones with software updates. The phone requires an erase or user unlock to update. It's scary because now apple can't even fix bugs in certain parts of the system without erasing user data.
I did. The injunction states that the Fuji lidar may be infringing on trade secrets, the court can't rule and is unwilling got make a prelim injunction, telling Uber to chuck it off a cliff, but will allow expert analysis to confirm. The problem is that Waymo made some overbroad claims and so Alsup is punishing them for it by making the injunciton weaker (and he states as much in footnote 6). That's also what is covered in part 6 of the injunction relief. They are granted additional depositions and analysis of "schematics, work orders, source code, notes, and emails" regarding lidar.

In fact, reading the trade secret infringement part, it reads as though there's no question that levandowski stole documents and that those documents were used to create Uber's lidar using proprietary information from Google. That doesn't bode well.

Edit: Or in other words, Alsup's questions aren't whether or not proprietary info was stolen, but whether or not it is still being actively used.
> returning things through the mail is a fucking pain and a huge friction.

If your stuff is relatively small item things, you can use their locker system to return items. It's somewhat better than going thru the postal system or UPS or such, but you'd still have to physically go to one.
Best i recall, the NHS had signed an extended maintenance contract for XP. But it had recently been dropped because some beancounter had decided they could not afford it.

In the end it may well be a big validation of the FSF message, as then the NHS (or anyone really) could hire someone to maintain the software beyond the existence of the original company.

This much like how i can find someone to repair something for me that physically broke, because the tools and such are widely available and known (or even attempt to do so myself).
The government has whims too, and while they may not change as frequently, they can change much more dramatically.
Think how you can limit the load, but have as few users affected, as possible. And I mean users that make requests and are quick to leave if latency feels high for them, not system users. System doesn't make limiting decisions on per request basis to be useful for this.
It takes a quite long time to get a big plane "pointed at the ground". It's also impossible to get a plane literally pointed at the ground without breaking it, and most planes can not maneuver enough to get there.

In high altitudes, there's plenty of time to open the door, immobilize a rouge pilot and fix things.
I don't think people learn, but get answers to specific problems. However, I'd say the bulk of your learning throughout your career comes after you "learn" a language.
musical instrument manufacturers know that a musical instrument that needs repair/maintenance/upgrades on a regular basis, isn't a musical instrument. (Its more of a toy.)

Well, hang on now! That may be true of electronic instruments, but if you buy a piano and don't have it regularly tuned and maintained, that's how you end up with a honky-tonky toy piano. :)
> Disabling updates is the worst possible solution

If so, more blame lies at the feet of those that make it the only solution.

> Just click no on the windows 20 upgrade dialogue

Would that it were so simple. But Microsoft chose to mean "yes" by the "close this [annoying] window" button, with Windows 10; who knows what they'll come up with for Windows 20.

> (or just upgrade, it's pretty good)

For you, sure. Some people like to make their own choices.

> Refusing to patch

For most people that disabled updates, it wasn't a "refusal to patch", so much as a (read: the only) relief from annoyance.
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You're so right but I think this problem has more to do with poor news reporting. For one, people like to read about companies they know, good or bad. Press releases always herald a feature as innovating even if competitors have it. Press companies will practically write the articles for journalists. It's much more time consuming to check the facts or, more importantly, the features of competitors, so why to bother when their goal is to drive impressions.
Many of us also refuse to use Amazon.
I do but I really didn't get much out of it learning wise (circa 1998-1999)
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There were programmer sites/mailing lists before that where knowledgeable people gathered, and today you can search directly on SO, or use DDG as I do. Also, I used AltaVista before google, and often got answers there, though success was less frequent.

Therefore, at no point in time have I been dependent on google, though it was helpful about five to ten years ago. So, my impression is that SO was the bigger innovation, though YMMV of course.
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And the doctor not nag you every few hours that you haven't had your dental check, while you're working.

And when you do get one, you don't lose sight.

(My favourite complaint is Windows replacing GPU drivers with MS approved broken ones on major updates.)
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Leaker claims Intel launching powerful 'Core i9' processors in June
I started early 90s and it was a much smaller world. Systems were less complex so there was less to know. Books and manuals were also better so you could read a few books and have a decent understanding from the ground up.

I also believe that until sometime in the 90s most programmers genuinely were interested in computers and didn't just do it to have a good job. So you didn't have to deal with a lot of zealots or clueless people like there are around today.
> No business pays any tax, ever. They are collectors of tax only. The embed their taxes and fees in the products and services they sell which means the consumer is the payer.

And similarly no consumers pay any tax ever. They are collectors of tax only. They embed their "fees" in the salaries they demand from their employers.

Or more accurately, both consumers and businesses are responsible for paying taxes as part of the responsibilities of benefiting from a functioning society. One that provides a structure of law, an educated populace, common infrastructure and a safety net.

All sides are responsible for contributing to society - business just have consolidated more power. Sufficient enough to escape the responsibilities of paying taxes.
Arresting a member of a terorist group would be wrong? What are you smoking?!
ThreadRipper is the perfect name for a 16cores/32 threads CPU
Maybe it's because of "the free market improves everything" that Amazon started offering their own fake review service, fake branded products and cheap knockoffs. After all, fraudulent marketing is indeed one of the services provided by the infallible free market.
> "A reason. Real events have lots of root and proximate causes. MS could also have avoided writing the bug, or discovered it themselves with better auditing. NHS could have disabled SMB on systems that don't use it, or otherwise firewalled it."

No machines are built perfectly from the start and there are changes made over the capital equipment's life be it airframes, jet engines, or computer systems.

When purchasing capital equipment or buildings, bridges, etc, part of the responsibility of the firm is to follow the manufacturer's or builder's instructions and including maintenance upgrades. In the case of Microsoft, they gave warnings for years that the Windows XP software would not continue to be maintained.

The issue was not Microsoft, but NHS (and other governments, firms) decisions not to budget for and perform maintenance for the capital equipment that they purchased.
As scarmig says, it's hard to enforce, but even if it is correctly enforced, it's on a per-paycheck basis, not on a strict hourly basis. So imagine a server who makes an average of $20/hour with tips (which seems reasonable) -- if suddenly two-thirds of customers become tip abstainers then the server's pay will drop down to right around the normal minimum hourly wage. The top off only gets you up to poverty wages (keep in mind many server jobs are part-time); any lack of tipping above that point is pure loss for the server.

Also, I happen to be in Madrid right now, which doesn't have a tipping culture, and let me tell you that I've had some pretty bad service here. Way worse, on average, than in the United States.
I wholeheartedly agree with your statements. I think there are a legion of developers who would love to program for the web, but refuse to learn|use and simply can not keep up with JS.

The browser is one of the only truly cross platform development environments around. The popularity of the browser is directly coupled to that fact in my opinion. How many developers|companies and organizations would be over the moon excited with hiring a Python|Ruby|Lua|Rust|C# developer that could talk natively to the browser? My guess is a LOT.
There's a reddit account summarizer (I know you said you don't own /u/spare_account on reddit, this is just an example):

https://www.snoopsnoo.com/u/Spare_Account
Your original subject is "His core base", which was what I referenced. You are talking about party politicians. In this situation, we may both be correct.
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walmart's website is awful. they try to just scam you and sell you junk from third parties.
NB: Stack Overflow can be a very useful resource to answer a certain limited class of problems you run into while programming. By construction, it's a poor resource to learn how to program.

So the short answer is: exactly the same way you self-learn programming now (reading good books & code, practice, and hopefully finding a good mentor or two).
I definitely wouldn't be happy about Tesla uploading gigabytes of data on my metered connection. Even if it was unmetered, most people don't have very fast up-speeds and that could take days to upload and heavily impact their speeds. Absolutely unacceptable.
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I read a post I saw online from Tania jones about a professional hacker then I got captivated by her testimony which made me contact spystealth.org@gmail.com for help in changing my school grades. To my surprise he got that done in less time than I expected. He's the best hacker I've ever known. Go for the best and you'll never be disappointed.
Or, you know, just improving their practices.
Also, forgiving a company for a technical mistake is a lot easier than trusting them again after a decision that implies they don't give a fuck about their customers.
> Some are afraid president trump may EO the postal service in some unheard of way

Wouldn't he have to get around this part in some manner (I may have misread your comment - particularly what you meant by "EO")?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause
I'd be extremely surprised if the Daily Mail did that.
Is the Telegraph really a tabloid? It's hardly on the same scale as the others presented here (and in the article).
Because modern governments are the epitome of human decency?

I'm as cynical as about corporations as the next guy , but what makes you so rosy eyed about the government? Is it because governments invade foreign countries and subjugate their people? That they incarcerate millions of their own people for abusing the wrong kind of drug? That they surveil all of our communications?

For sure private philanthropy is not perfect, but neither are government programs.
Would you still have the same opinion on anti-vaxxers if vaccines were actually harmful?

We avoid taking a big amount of medication that would fix some problem just because it's harmful (and even medication that is less worse than the disease).
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You really need to look at the current homeless crisis in the northwest. It is all heroin and meth, but mostly heroin, and it affects both genders. There are literally tents lining the streets and needles everywhere.
Visual Basic to Javascript+PHP converter+WYSIWYG- because there are a lot of VB enthusiasts still out there and also a lot of free PHP servers out there.
I feel like it is going to be small competitors that bring about the gigabit broadband to the masses. I'm moving this week and the new house is eligible for gigabit (I signed up and am excited) but the company is small and only covers one town (suburb of Chicago).
This is a great point. I'd likely have a tough time buying a laptop that didn't have a removable battery but sometimes with hand-me-down, I don't have a choice.

Usually, though, by the time they become my HTPCs, the batteries are completely shot already and so I recycle them at work.
> Windows 10 is awesome.. the experiment with "ads" sucks but its all tweakable.

I don't want to have to tweak my fucking operating system to remove ads!! Also, I think we're asking too much of the average user. It's not obvious how to do most of the tweaks, so your random older/casual user won't do them, or maybe even realize that such a thing might be possible and go off to look up how to do it. They're more likely to just turn off updates.
The latest high-end PCB tools actually provide useful autorouting features, because they have figured out that if you combine human ability to solve the difficult pattern-recognition and planning problems, you can have a computer solve the details.

For example, Xpedition's sketch routing feature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIi13gI9xEA

Routing 4094 signals sounds daunting, but it is a bit less daunting when you realize that a good fraction of them are power/ground (and route directly to planes), and the rest of them are mostly logically organized into buses/groups that can be routed together.
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Massive vulnerability in Windows Defender leaves most Windows PCs vulnerable
Cores come at a power cost. This is why Intel has been hesitant to move to consumer 8 or 16 core CPUs. There's a lot of pushback on using this much power and serious environmental concerns. Intel's engineering has been focused on power savings, so they've actually been going the opposite way for years now on the consumer end.

This is also why you won't been seeing these 16c chips on non-specialist Dells and HPs. They'll be high-end workstations and servers only. Joe Consumer or Joe Officeworker doesn't need 16 cores.

6-8c comes in at a more modest power profile, so we'll probably see the industry standardize on 6-8c for a while. I think Intel is now forced to move toward 6-8c now, which may be questionable move for most consumer loads, but if everyone stays under 100w for consumer CPUs I think it'll be okay. I don't want the performance race to be driven by AMD's ideas that burning 200+w for a CPU is reasonable. Outside of specialist applications, its not.
> sharing passwords with sketchy family members and friends who then install hidden software

I guess that's a fair use case for locking down the OS.

But when it comes to various sites giving you bad software, how is locking the device and not giving the user control supposed to help? Any security measures like sandboxing could exist on a device without taking control from the user. And while installing zero programs is pretty secure, the user could make that choice without a lockdown.

> So, which curated software store/repo do you prefer?

Ninite is quite good. Other comments already pointed out various linux repos that do a very good job. Also look at the iOS store for something that has pretty aggressive quality control, even if the rules aren't perfect. (While iOS is locked down, the store would work the same if it wasn't.)
Looks really interesting, but How does one debug the web assembly code?
Basically the OUI's I selected are from the ones with the top market share in the United States [1]. The marketshare is totally different in countries like India or Vietnam, so if people use this there they should be aware of this (maybe submit a PR to improve it :) ).

I'm open to suggestions to distinguish routers from mobile phones! Perhaps something like monitoring how "static" a mac address is (i.e. routers should never move and would be much less dynamic than signals from phones).

[1] https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings/comScore-Reports-...
Corporations are made of people and supported by people (customers). Are they not representative of those people?

With all the arcane rules and policies of any government, you could probably make a case that corporations are more representative than a corrupted political process.
why? this is exactly how it works.