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> Asking for an independent third party verification is reasonable.

Asking for it may be reasonable, demanding it certainly isn't. You can't demand that somebody gives a third party access to their hard drive.

First, it's completely unreasonable from a privacy aspect. Given the level of personal data most people store or process on their computers, it is even less reasonable than asking someone to have a third party dig through their house to "verify" that they don't have something.

Second, it's completely unreasonable because it's pointless against a malicious actor - they could have cloned the disk before deleting the data and there would be no way to detect it.

It does make sense only to confirm that the data wasn't accidentally left on the disk due to an insecure erasure method. When dealing with someone competent with computers, the proper solution (which they ultimately arrived at) is to have him describe the method he used to delete it, possibly ask him to verify it (e.g. via some form of "dd | grep"), and that's it.
His videos are really incredibly intuitive and well-made. He deserves an award for his channel.
I started as a freelance designer, then quickly niched down to UX designer and then again to CRO consultant. I only work with companies that will see direct ROI impact from my work. While I still design UIs, the whole process starts with discovery and an audit. It's a data based approach with no guessing involved. The process involves understanding customer pain points, their language and behavior. Clients vary in size from 10 person teams to larger e-commerce operations with maybe 30-40 employees. I do all of the work myself and expect full cooperation from the client or we don't go forward. I've definitely made every mistake in the book but I've learned a lot along the way. I'm sure there are consultants 2 tiers ahead of me though with productized services or just products. My ultimate goal is to have a product (who's isn't, right).

To answer your first question, I do consult in e-commerce, but not limited to it (though that may be a good idea). Most of my leads come through dribbble or LinkedIn. The client typically expects grunt work but after my initial email and call, they are quickly educated on my process and most see clearly that the way they thought of approaching their problems is backwards.
I live in DC, land of the professional Fed. At the absolute highest level and after adjusting for location, the most a DC Fed could earn is $164,200. No surprise that anyone with serious technical talent--and by extension, market value--doesn't want such a job.
A lot of people aren’t comfortable bringing up bigger picture issues - especially those around performance, career, or concerns about the company or team - casually. Having a dedicated time to talk about things like this on a regular basis helps prevent them from falling through the cracks. They’re also an important time for relationship building, especially with the introverts and heads-down types who are less likely to spend time chatting around the water cooler.
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I'm extremely curious watching the progress of the Vision Fund. Softbank already announced a second 100B fund of which Saudi Arabia is contributing 45B, but we've been in an extremely bearish market. What's going to happen during the next economic recession. Will there be so much money going into private companies that they'll be able to ride out the next economic pull back?
I'd personally agree, but a great many people who claim to be for free markets are in practice for unregulated markets. Their theory is that the invisible hand will optimize all things. To me that sounds more like an invisible magic sparkle pony.

Having worked for financial traders, I got to see up close that some of our most effective markets are very tightly regulated, and for good reason. If a market participant can trust the deals on offer, trades are fast and frequent, and sellers compete on dimensions like price and quality. But if a seller can do well by scamming, that not only harms the people they trade with, but the market itself, in that trust is reduced. That raises costs for all buyers (because they have to do more verification work before each trade), and puts a burden on all sellers (because they have to work harder to prove they're not evil). It also reduces turnover, as increased risk means fewer deals done.

So for me the question is how we get a free flow of accurate information. I think the obvious answer is tight regulation with a willingness to sanction deceptive actors. But for a lot of people, and they seem especially common here, that kind of regulation is anathema, as to them it's the opposite of "free".
Not sure what are you talking about. The best moment to speak about anything is ASAP. I am not going to wait until next 1-on-1 meeting day because that's the procedure. I am not going to track the bullets of interesting topic throughout a week and wait either because I have many better ways to spend my time at office, like contributing to the project. If I have anything that needs a discussion I go to manager and talk, or I go out for a lunch with him. It works both ways. A 1-on-1, to me, is an artificial construct created so the organization can mark a goal completed "we are trying to foster a better culture and growth environment, blah blah blah." What are you talking about when there is nothing to talk about? Not because of hostility - just everything has been already discussed. Don't get me wrong here. I am on very good terms with my manager and we have not always easy but honest communication channel for few years, now. We just cancelled our 1-on-1 and I couldn't be more happy about it. None of us lost anything.
As a manager, I give my reports the choice of when to have our one on ones. Most choose times just before or after lunch or our daily standup or another standing meeting precisely because at those times you’ll already be disrupted. Maybe your manager would be amenable to scheduling a different time that’s less disruptive to you?
I agree it wasn't a bug in the protocol. However, it was an issue that people in general weren't aware of, and even the official tutorial code on ethereum.org had similar vulnerabilities. For that reason I think the fork was reasonable.

By comparison, Parity's wallet bugs were just a result of carelessness, and independent audits probably would have discovered them. Consequently, the community strongly pushed back when Parity tried to get a fork for the second one.
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So what happens when you stay at your current job because you've just stopped caring for any of the software work out there? It's easier just to stay with your current company than to have to incur the costs of changing to a new environment and having to learn a new way of doing things.

I'm not sure if at this point in my career, it really makes a difference in the big picture of my life to get a 20% raise.
As a direct report who sits near his manager I agree that weekly 1:1 is a waste of time. My manager took a middle road.

He has two hours scheduled per week for a team of 15. He reserves those for 1:1. Anyone is free to put a 1:1 slot on his calendar if you have something to discuss. Otherwise you go about your week.
A classic of the genre "we certainly did not produce this document in the anticipation that we would get caught. We absolutely abhor the negative consequences for ourselves and would not have accepted this engagement if we knew it would come back to bite us"

https://twitter.com/dsquareddigest/status/105398920020122009...
Just curious, are there established guidelines that are broadly accepted and that lay out how to proceed? Or is it really just down to the "I think you should" on Hacker News? (No snark intended here.)
I'm not a mathematician but I think these are valid concerns. I'm only very superficially familiar with the continuous entropy debate. My understanding is that the continuous version is not quite as mathematically ironclad as the discrete version. The concept of continuous entropy seems to make be useful for reasoning about things. That's been good enough for me. I don't know if Shannon would approve.

As for the idea of using only the first two moments, to me, that's just based on the very Bayesian idea of reducing the number of parameters you work with in order to make your models more easily learnable and computable. Most of the time, you only have enough data to do parameter estimates on a limited number of parameters. As you add more parameters, it gets much more difficult to learn as well as mathematically and computationally difficult to manipulate. You also get diminishing returns in terms of predictive power. "The blessing of abstraction", reduction in the number of parameters and possible states in models is the best we have to deal with the "curse of dimentionality".

Or as Yudkowski puts it:

"Our physics uses the same theory to describe an airplane, and collisions in a particle accelerator - particles and airplanes both obey special relativity and general relativity and quantum electrodynamics and quantum chromodynamics. But we use entirely different models to understand the aerodynamics of a 747 and a collision between gold nuclei. A computer modeling the aerodynamics of the 747 may not contain a single token representing an atom, even though no one denies that the 747 is made of atoms.

A useful model isn't just something you know, as you know that the airplane is made of atoms. A useful model is knowledge you can compute in reasonable time to predict real-world events you know how to observe. Physicists use different models to predict airplanes and particle collisions, not because the two events take place in different universes with different laws of physics, but because it would be too expensive to compute the airplane particle by particle. "

However, when you do have enough data, easy enough equations and enough computing power to deal with higher moments, by all mean do so!
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Ceviche is marinated in lime juice. The citric acid has similar effects as heat.

Sushi on the other hand usually contains raw fish indeed, which is why it should only be eaten fresh.

As for cooking beef, there’s certainly a reason why our ancestors invented cooking. It helps with making food more palatable and safer to eat. When heating tissue above roughly 42 degrees centigrade proteins start to denature, which renders many pathogens inactive and harmless.

The gastrointestinal system of modern humans can’t stomach many types of foods raw either because we lack the enzymes to digest them.
We are using https://www.15five.com/ is a tool that helps on 1to1. We write beforehand what we want to talk about and It is something that helps to have the meeting preworked and no make a unplanned meeting.
My website is really stale as I am typically busy doing the work. I've tried to improve it but it does not generate any leads yet. So far the bulk of my inquiries comes from dribbble or LinkedIn. I get repeat business from an agency that uses me exclusively in place of their own designer / cro person as they do a lot of a/b testing.
Status fields aren’t much help when you’re 8 days in on “in progress” for a ticket that was originally estimated to take 2. Often that’s exactly when you need to have a conversation. Scope is creeping; or the engineer is taking a poor approach and needs to talk it through with someone; or there’s some tech debt that warrants investing in refactoring; or the engineer just plain misunderstood the goals. And they’re almost certainly demoralized by now and need encouragement or help seeing a way out of the swamp.
I recently signed up as a volunteer after listing to this podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/be-my-eyes-mobile-micro-...

Interesting episode that touches on things like their monetizations strategy, unexpected use cases etc. Definitely worth a listen.
I wonder if you added up all the little niggling search and service issues from living in Apple's ecosystem and all the niggling device issues from living in the Google ecosystem which one would be smaller. I actually suspect Google's would be smaller because Apple deliberately handicaps itself in order to enhance privacy.
Seeds can't defend themselves so they all include some poisons, some well known and others more subtle. Just to point out one example, Lectins are in almost all seeds and are associated with gut tearing and autoimmune diseases. Even with FDA approval eating cottonseed may not be a good idea or truly safe.
if lack of sleep and dirty air both compromise immune system function, it would be consistent with the virus hypothesis.
If your team is functioning well, there's no need to change. You can do what my manager does...who also has 15 direct reports and largely tries to get out of our way. Block off two hours per week. One hour per day. Anyone on your team can schedule a 1:1. Most weeks, probably on one will talk to you. But if someone has something to discuss, they can just place an invite on your calendar.
There are several of these repair cafes around town where I live. My old Braun blender from the 70s that I got from my grandma got repaired in one of these. I sent an email with brand, model and photo when I registered, the guy got some spare parts on eBay just in time for the day and I managed to repair the blender under the guy’s guidance. Paid for the spare part (5 bucks) plus left 10 bucks as small donation. My blender is as good as new. Overall a great experience, would recommend.
>>a corporation has their best interests at heart.

A corporation isn't a living thing to think about you. Its basically one boss, or at best a few of them, who think about you. The good news is if they like you, they'll do something for you, or at least can be made to do something. The bad news is let alone hating you, if they as much as don't think much about you, there is nothing much you can do but to leave.
Don’t forget that his 16 year old son was killed in that strike too. He was not an accused terrorist.
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I know I have herpes simplex 1, it has a few times manifest itself as pinkeye or cold sores in times of stress for me. Is it possible I could get acyclovir or some other anti-viral prescribed? Or is it only used when the virus is not dormant? Is there any thing you can take long term to reduce the viral load, or eliminate it?
He said global relations, but it’s kind of a no brainer point - ‘power and money’ is pretty all encompassing
Mental note to self.

Instead of reporting data breaches turn it into a torrent and make it public.
Democratic party neoliberals are to blame that the republican house, republican senate, and republican president are squandering the US' superpowers?
iTunes used to be extremely crappy and noxious on Windows, I wonder if it's changed.

I'm STILL using mainly Winamp. I've tried some alternatives but for my old MP3 collection it's unbeatable.
I follow this too. I try to meet 1:1 biweekly with my direct reports. Here are some ideas on management that I believe will make this effective

1. Try to meet with every one of you direct reports consistently.

2. I believe you should have less than 8 direct reports. The number is not important. Its that you have the time to meet with each one on a consistent basis.

3. If you have a large team then you need to delegate managerial duties. Work with HR if you can't do it directly. At least set up team leads.
I wasn’t very clear, if the NaK is liquid it could flow through a radiator and could still be considered air cooled.

While there are some pure air cooled engines, lawn mowers, motor cycles, etc. A typical car engine is also considered air cooled since it gives off its heat to atmosphere even with assistance of a coolant radiator system.

Most marine engines, some power plants and some industrial equipment is considered liquid cooled since the coolant passes through a fluid to fluid heat exchanger and then that cooling water gets put back into the ocean/river. An example would be some ABB drives come in a LC liquid cooled or AC air cooled package. The motor drive lineups are the same with primary coolant going through all the drive bays the difference is at the end if they put an liquid to air or liquid to liquid heat exchanger.
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I once visited a Panama Har factory and the difference between a $20 and a $100 hat was striking. However real surprise was awaiting in the special room with $600+ hats. They feel like they are made from completely different material - soft like fabric, yet able to hold their form no matter how much you try to stretch them. You get that unique feeling of a very high-quality physical product like you would get from, for a example holding a very fine sword.
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I have even more than 30 minutes. When there's a need. Then I go to him, speak with him, share the problem or revelation I have, he advises or take an advice, we check on it later if needed and off we go. None of my colleagues values wasting their time (we've got a discussion about it already,) so if you'd like to show us you care, you'd reduce number of meetings greatly.
I was wondering how you were making that much as a contract research organisation.

If you want to see how one person does better on conversion rate optimisation look at draft.nu Given what you’ve said about your rates and funnel you probably don’t need to improve but Nick Disabato puts a lot of work into being a guy people think of when they’re doing big a/b tests so he can charge them giant piles of money. Thought leader stuff like books, mailing lists, for a while a podcast.
MBS wants to turn Saudi Arabia into something like a Gulf state. Therefore they are investing in tech (directly and indirectly e.g Softbank), building a new tech city with relaxed rules, etc.

They know the oil run won't last for another 50 years.
Oh dear, the next "let's squeeze some more arbitrary complexity into a thing that should be simple" fuckup is supposed to be a solution? One has to be a horribly inexperienced engineer not to see how ADS is a very bad idea.
Donald Norman's Design of Everyday Things helped cure my technophilia, maybe even turning me into a humanist. http://a.co/d/dSsOfxJ

Aha, looks like there's a new version (dated 2013).
It doesn't make much sense. There are other journos who have died in custody or are still rotting away in custody.
Yeah, and they developed the nontoxic version a long time before genetic editing became a thing. IIRC they irradiated seeds until they got one with just the right mutations. Then they decided “rapeseed” wasn't the best name for a food product, and renamed it “canola”.
The non-commutativity of rotations can also be seen directly: rotating something 90 degrees about the x then the y axis is not the same as the y then the x.
Why not just

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Tweets are cheap - let's see them sack the Saudi government as a client before anyone takes their apology seriously.

And that still begs the question of why an report on dissidents was compiled for their own internal use in the first place...
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"You can now have your dvorak keyboard for normal use and a second qwerty keyboard for when your coworker comes over for a pair programming session"

Well over a decade ago, I had multiple keyboards with different layouts hooked up to my linux laptop, and could use both of them at the same time with no problem.

I'm not sure why this is supposed to be so novel.
Before Reagan and Bill Clinton the Democrats used to be in opposition to some of the free trade extremism. Once they capitulated it developed into a Washington bipartisan consensus no matter who is in power.
Great list. I agree listening is primary, but I think a manager should work to make sure particular topics get discussed. For some people it's enough just to say "what's on your mind?" But for others I find I need to be more specific.

One thing I make sure we don't talk about is status reports. A lot of people have been trained to do that in a 1:1 and I think that's a waste of time. As a manager it's my job to know what's going on; if I don't I should adjust systems so that I do. So that everybody does.

But the things I really want to dig in on are deeper issues. It's my job to make sure my people are happy at the company and are growing in their careers. So if they don't bring it up on their own I'll ask questions about emotional state and emotional reactions to situations. E.g., "How did you feel about that?" "Are you feeling sufficiently challenged?" "What have you learned this week?"

I also think it's valuable to have a list of ongoing themes and to keep returning to them. Otherwise it's easy for an issue to drop into the background. E.g., somebody has an issue with a coworker, or is feeling bored, or thinks we have too many meetings, or thinks we don't take tech debt seriously enough. People mentioning that even once is a gift: I can't fix systemic problems if I don't know about them. And even if the system is fine, I don't want my people just putting up with their jobs. I want them happy.

So it is definitely their time. But I'm also the person with more experience both in the industry and specifically doing 1:1 meetings. I'm also the person with more power to fix many problems. So if they have anything they want to talk about, I'll honor that for sure. But if they don't, I think it's my job to ask good questions.
> 4. Never give advice unless specifically asked for it.

As an employee, I’ve quit a job notably because my team lead didn’t give me much advice. I didn’t know you had to “unlock it” by asking first “please give me advice”.

Seriously you’re in 1-1 as a specific help for communication. If you refrain from communicating because a specific keyword wasn’t said, then it’s culture enforcement at its best.
Apple lost my trust with their maps. They were willing to push a bad product to their customers as a negotiating card against Google.
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Well...all that Saudi oil money has to go somewhere and isn't it just better most of it flows into the US instead of China or Russia or wherever?

Wielding soft power doesn't have to be tightly coupled to it.
I'm sure MBS knew about this.

Many people will find it offensive, but the Middle East has its own rules. Saudi Arabia is nothing like a Western state in terms of its power structure and population. Things that we find barbaric are contributing to long term stability. In this area, when you lose control over the population you get things like the Syrian civil war.

But that's not at odds with modernization. Singapore is a very modern nation, as is China in parts and you could count some Gulf states on some aspects. Modernization does not have to include democracy and human rights in the way they are perceived in the West.

Whatever happens, it's a long process and has inertia.

Put hard limits on MBS and his ilk, but be wary of turning SA into a pariah state over this. They are turning their back to Whabbism and radical Islam, it won't be good for anyone if things are rolled back.
The current POTUS is anything but a "free trade extremist"
Anecdotally, I recently updated my Arch VM after about a week of uptime, and it somehow OOM'd mid-kernel update. Guidance online suggested it was technically recoverable, but seemed easier to just blow the unbootable VM away and recreate.
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She also got millions more votes. That election turned on a few tens of thousands of votes in a couple of states due to the way the electoral college works. Money paid for the targeted ads responsible and built the company that made it possible.
Alice programs in C.

Bob programs in Python.
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