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Ask HN: Micro-feedback at work and cultural differences
My team is building Karmabot.chat, a tool for gathering micro-feedback on chats.

The bot works on Slack, MS Teams and Telegram and tracks in-chat team performance ('karma', very similar to Reddit concept) via simple set of commands:

`@user ++ for fixing that annoying bug`

and, for example

`@user 2-- for showing up late AGAIN`

I've been living in New Zealand for 12 years, spent some time in Australia, dealt with Australian customers, worked remotely with the US-based teams. Naturally, as an immigrant, I have somewhat limited understanding of the western work ethics customs.

As they say at Startup School, 'keep it simple', hence one of the features in question is the _concept of negative karma_.

So, my question to the friendly community: is it OK to use negative karma as a measurement tool for professional accountability?

Consider the following scenario, say, you've:
- missed an important meeting,
- actively avoiding daily standups,
- broken company's website,
- did not show up for work,
- constantly ignoring your colleagues requests, etc

Would you please share your views and possibly answer the following questions:
- As a manager, would you feel comfortable reducing your employees karma (@user--)?
- As an employee, how would you feel getting hit with negative karma request?

Please note your current location in your response.

Thanks so much . It's super hard to build a product that people actually want to use.

Link to the product: https://karmabot.chat

P.S.: From what we've leant so far, negative micro-feedback is acceptable in SOME cultures. The way it is now, downvoting is optional. It is OFF by default. 3700+ teams from 50+ countries use Karmabot in various ways. Some of US, most of Indian, Spanish, Japanese, Russian and generally Eastern European teams are fine with --. New Zealand and Australia -- is a loud and clear NO
I believe "no" if "disingenuous" is a synonym for false I think it'd be like "yelling fire in a crowded theater":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...

IANAL
Right now I have this bug in Firefox where the results from the drop down menu are incorrect. As in, if I get an autocomplete result that is several lines down - say, foobar.com - and I click on it then I'll be taken to barbar.com. If I click on the result that is several lines above foobar.com then I get foobar.com. I don't know how to explain this correctly.
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Got in a pretty heated debate with a colleague once about this. We had a really great infrastructure setup with a VPN bastion host that would get you into our VPC. You couldn't reach any of our kube nodes externally. Your Google account was your VPN account. It was pretty solid.

When this engineer redid things they opted to go the public internet route where the master runs a public api and auth is done via a certificate. The logic here was so that external 3rd party stuff (CI) could control our master.

To my knowledge this setup is still running and chances are these machines are vulnerable to this issue.

Contrast to the prior setup where, immediately upon being offboarded from the company your VPN access became automatically terminated (thank you LDAP and Foxpass!)
Such a scenario is more appropriately represented with the bitflags crate.
I use Firefox day in and day out and the only time I have found myself using Chrome is when I have to do profiling and even then that is because profiling tools in all browsers kinda sucks.

I have often wondered what is the killer feature that Chrome dev tools has that Firefox does not that forces people to switch back to Chrome as this seems to be a common refrain and while I don't work on the dev tools I sometimes wonder what awesome feature I am missing in Chrome...

In some cases, I actually find Chrome lacking. For example, the ability to see what events are attached to a dom element.

DISCLAIMER: I do not work on the developer tools for Chrome or Firefox and don't do much CSS.
You are trying to tell me that I can't take a picture of anything without the specific consent of every organism off of which every photon that enters my sensor most recently bounced?

And you are calling my comment dystopic?!

Do I need to walk around with my eyes closed also? Or simply agree not to remember you without your consent?
No, that would be "revocation". Expiration is relatively easy to implement because the expiration date is known in advance and so you can simply put the expiration date in the certificate when it is issued. Revocation is relatively difficult because you need to continually check some database for revocation information — that's where CRLs, OCSP, and the like come in. And there's a lot of complexity under that hood, which, once the dust settles, boils down to just issuing very-short-lived certificates under a different guise.
Nothing from setuptools is being standardized. Tools can use any keys they want in any format they want in any file they want.

The "legacy standards" are subtly incompatible INI dialects that people recently started putting into the same files. The incompatibilities mostly don't matter because most tools just read their own sections. They do matter if you want to standardize them.

The only new tooling for TOML is a small library. A new INI dialect would need one too.
In this vein, I think they tried to do too much at once. They should have learned their lesson with the PowerPC. They had two tracks, one was trying to implement a new OS. The other implemented the 68k OS on a simulator. The first track was way late. If Copland could have released just a protected environment at first, and allowed people to start writing for it, they could have added all the rest later.
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How's that not failure? Copland was intended to be shipped as Mac OS 8. It did not ship. It was canceled, with almost all the money and work put into it (with the exceptions of self-contained tech like QuickTime) being completely wasted. It did not succeed. So it failed.
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Well, I don't think that's actually the question nor the solution. The solution might lie in treating new and low activity accounts differently. Of course, this does not prevent "sleeper" accounts which act one way and then "turncoat" --however this method requires too much pre-planning and engagement (thus relatively costly) for it to be viable, I think.

In most non-official speech (under oath, perjury, etc.) you are not required to be truthful. I.e, I don't have to be truthful with directions when a stranger asks me, nor you give me the right time when I ask you for it.
Sounds like they aren't investing very well for themselves since the SP 500 is up 150-350% from 2009 depending on the dates.
Now wait till the trolls flood skeptics.stackexchange.com
Okay, I've now tested it on my main site, and I can definitely confirm that it's not a good fit for blog posts/news articles. Took me forever to post a simple 300 word article, in part because of all the random spaces it kept removing when I copied in paragraphs from my text editor.

It's also way too 'big' in general; the UI is a pain to scroll past and find things in. Definitely gonna go back to the Classic Editor if the next few posts don't go better than that one.
Someone who actually had a chance to do something with BeOS, and of sticking around for longer than a few years.
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Photos. Of a sentient human being who dont want to be photographed

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/03/a-part-of-dail...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/south-korea-sp...

edit: or on non sexual voyeurists

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/04/napalm_girl_was_haunte...

>Phuc said the image haunted her for decades, as she struggled to come to terms with its shadow and legacy, the embarrassment and pain it conjured.
> I think the important part is that he doesn't have personal connections either directly with the industry lobbyists, or with prominent Dem leadership figures who do.

No, he didn't get to be the ranking member of the Banking Committee without personal connections with just about every Dem leadership figure that matters, especially in the Senate.

Now, he might have the moral fortitude to stand up for his public values despite such connections, but denying that they exist is ludicrous.
I, too, really want to like Firefox, but usability (at least on Mac) is clearly not a priority. Standard keyboard shortcuts are broken, and have been for years. There’s abstraction layers (unique to FF) to figure out how to make a text field work like a text field. The preferences dialog box is gone, for some reason.

When FF wants to be a Mac app, I’ll be the first one in line to use it.
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I know that there are several projects around, and I'm for example halfway comfortable with using cmake as a main build tool (bazel looks interesting too).

A huge issue however is still fragmentation. Only a minimal amount of libraries are provided and can be built in this fashion, and translating and maintaining build files of others is no fun.

Another annoyance can be getting into existing projects, where maintainers don't want to learn or invest in anything new, and claim that Makefiles and copying dependencies into subdirectories are just fine.

There's a huge difference between a state of the art modern C++ project and the typical things one encounters.
It's like the whole world is in an Eternal September phase.

These are the glory days for trolls. Some of them can even get paid for it...
Alarmism was never so appropriate. We have so much to lose.
I can't find the screenshots offhand, but someone recently pointed out that the wording of one Finder alert dialog ("The document $1 can't be opened because it is in the Trash", IIRC) hasn't changed since System 7.
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No. That was an amendment that was not passed.

We got the full dictatorship version with no reporting at all.
Is it really terrible? Maybe they should hide usernames too
The big thing nobody talks about with Bolsonaro though is the geopolitical implications with China. US and Brazil could starve China into compliance as they produce around 80% of the worlds soy and corn. Nobody is talking about that aspect,the fact that brazil has non-socialist anti-China leader for the first time in decades, although Trump must be aware because he sent Bolton down to Brazil and invited Bolsonaro to the white house

It applies beyond China as well. They could just become OPEC for food and both countries would benefit from being able to jack up prices on crops and livestock.
Oh hey, pwnies from reddit here! It wasn't just me, it was myself and a bunch of my coworkers over at Atlassian. As one of the larger Australian tech companies, many of us are somber today to see this passed.

For context, here was the letter we sent: http://i.imgur.com/yRrZHAq.jpg
Those two features combined end up sending keystrokes to third parties in a way that is not transparent to users, and they haven’t consented to it, either.

I prefer Firefox’s defaults on both counts.
It took away Reading List, which was similar but private.
I suspect, if not leftover, certainly rejected (for visual appeal if nothing else) fruit is used in this way. Just as commercially sold 'baby' carrots are produced from ugly carrots.
So, is roadmap for 2019 visible? I'm really interested if any high-performance computing features are going to be introduced or not.
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Well I'm a sentiment human being too. And I was born with eyes (which capture light) and a brain (which stores photographic detail about that entering light).

Additionally, I have many other hardware cameras in addition to the ones that I was born with.

How can you possibly have a "right" to dictate what I do with the photons that come to me? How can you claim them? If they're your property, why did you let them drift into my sensory organs in the first place?
Apparently it's common in all of North America.

Personally, I think "motor spirit" is a kickass name for it.
Speed isn't everything. I don't like its features, or lack thereof, nor its design. Vivaldi for me.
Those stories are about a rather specific type of photo in situations that most people would reasonably consider to be private.

If you really don't want to have a photo taken, in say a public park, I'm not sure what to say. Too bad.
It’s always astonishing to me how many Americans support “direct democracy” as opposed to representative. Mob rule plays out time and time again without representative democracy
How long would it take before developers started wrapping their API and CDN calls in rapid-firing loops because of this?
We expanded our team line limit to 88 characters and that feels quite a bit better than 80. There are a lot of pretty common lines of code that once you're nested in a function/if statement/loop stretch out beyond 80 characters but fall comfortably into 88.
Dumb question, does this mean the official Rust book I had shipped yesterday is outdated?
The US has doubled their oil production since the 2000s. Trends like these aren't easy to grasp by just watching the news. If only there were maps and charts we could read.
>US and Brazil could starve China into compliance

Into compliance with what, exactly?
What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% speed of light?
Your link says "yes".

> limited the scope of banned speech to that which would be directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot).
Pretty similar to 1984 where Orwell split the world up into Eurasia, East Asia and Oceania
Note K8s is designed to control a lot of machines, sometime the entire fleet of smbs.

So itself should be more sensitive than other infrastructure pieces.

And I think op meant to say that, not that k8s is particularly bad in security in general. Or k8s is less experienced in security.

The down vote is not warranted.
Thanks.

Actually, if it's possible, you could redirect to a page saying the reason you are blocking, that would be even better.

Seriously the world should quarantine us.
We're tired of representatives abusing their power.
Ask HN: Book Suggestions for Vacation
The last 5 book I read and enjoyed:

1. Digital Apollo
2. Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
3. How we Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
4. A Brief History of Time
5. Leonardo Da Vinci (Isaacson)

Any suggestions?
(I'd give bonus points if the book is on OverDrive!)
We only support webkit based browsers for our web application. Multiple fortune 500 companies use it, meaning they are using neither IE/Edge nor Firefox... nuff said.

I'm guessing the people complaining here haven't tried to embed Gecko vs Webkit. Webkit is far superior, it's the leading browser engine world-wide, and it would be really strange for Microsoft to choose Gecko over Webkit, as a result.

Also, Microsoft would be unable to provide a browser for iOS if they went with Gecko. Why would they try to standardize around a browser engine that is supported across less platforms than Webkit?

Webkit's API for engine embedding is far superior to Gecko[0], and that's coming from Mozilla directly.

> The “browser engines” — Chromium from Google and Gecko Quantum from Mozilla

Huh? Sorry Mozilla, but you have to know that "Chromium" is not the engine, it's Blink, Google's fork of Webkit. Chromium is an application that encapsulates Blink, just like Firefox is an application that encapsulates Gecko.

Anyway, the complaining from Mozilla is hilarious anyway... Do they seriously want Microsoft influencing them? C'mon... They are just butthurt because Webkit has way more market share than Gecko, and even more so now that Microsoft is abandoning EdgeHTML.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Will-Firefox-ever-drop-its-Gecko-layou...
Trade blockade, and food in particular.

Russian farmers will be happy, once in a blue moon.
American interests
France is a nation of 67 million people.
Who is losing, exactly?
Container is great. I have to toot my own honk. The addon Session Boss supports container seamlessly. I have multiple GMail accounts that I put in different containers with their own logon and cookies. Session Boss saves the tabs and containers in a session and easily restore them the next time I need them.
What gives you the impression a significant number of Americans support direct democracy?
> If I am allowed to say X, can I also pretend to be Y and say as X as Y?

If “Y” is a person, that's false impersonation if it is done to cause harm to Y or benefit you.

If “Y” is an adjective, and it's done to induce other people to take detrimental action that they otherwise would not, it's fraud.
But if that foreign site is using https then the telco couldn't know which account is logging in.
trade, IP, muslim concentration camps, illegal island creation in south China sea, the list goes on.

Xi's power grab is only accepted because life is pretty good right now in China. He won't be able to maintain power over a billion hungry, angry chinese
> There are still orders of magnitude between current batteries and the theoretical hard cap.

Not at all. Existing cathode materials have a theoretical coulombic capacity of about 200 mAh/g (mostly less than this value, a few more have more). So for a 45g cell like an 18650, you are looking at 9,000 mAh maximum in the impossible world where your battery is 100% cathode, no anode or electrolyte. Those cells are already > 3000 mAh, so there is no way there are orders of magnitude between current batteries and the hard cap.

On the contrary, for contemplated chemistries the practical hard cap is probably less than 2x current capacity/weight values (since you need a significant amount of anode and electrolyte in practice), and almost certainly less than 3x.

> Current batteries throw away enormous capacity due to the safety constraints in preventing thermal events.

If by "current batteries" you mean current chemistries like Li-ion and existing and contemplated cathode materials, then this is not correct. The batteries have essentially the ideal material ratios within the existing manufacturing capability. That is, if you were willing to have a much less safe battery with the same materials you would gain almost no capacity. The main concession to safety is when a safer cathode material is chosen, like LiFePo over cobalt or whatever.
> Foreign propagandists are getting a strong foothold in France, and the traditional media can’t fight it

Or, another way to look at it, is that MSM in the country has lost control of the "narrative". Whether that is good or bad largely depends on whether your opinions fit within the status quo.
Simple: Keep your old mattress until you're sure that you want to keep your new one.

Or, buy a new mattress before returning the one you didn't like. This way you only need to store a superfluous mattress for a short period of time.

I feel like these are solveable problems.
France is losing its war against digital populism amid a large scale of economic stagnation, might be a better title.
I don't disagree with anything you're saying here, but I don't know what it has to do with Microsoft having a say in how Chromium/Blink is developed or what directions it may take.
How do you know the Civil War soldiers being discussed here didn't want to be photographed?

I think one can safely assume consent was given for them to exist, considering the slow and complicated nature of photography at the time.

It would be impossible to have any sort of historical record if all artifacts, including photos, were burned or disposed of after a person's death because they didn't leave explicit permissions for their use in the future. It's difficult to see how a right to privacy for persons a hundred years dead even exists, much less can be violated, in this case.
In many cases there's no point in reading the site itself.
You’re right, although for context the FTSE100 is below its 1999 level:

https://www.afr.com/markets/market-data/uk-stocks-wipe-out-i...
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There was an amazing joke about this in Silicon Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i92Ws7qPTRg
Do you have data to support that assertion? As a European, I grew up with nothing but box-spring mattresses. IKEA has more box-spring products than foam ones.
It’s not remotely as complete as about:config
The fact that California is nearly ungovernable due to it?
Likewise. FF turns my 2012 rMBP into a frying pan for any web page with moving content (video, animated GIFs, ads) or just significant JS (Google docs). I would prefer FF, so I keep checking every couple of years, but no improvement. Unusable.

On those same pages, Chrome and Safari work just fine.

If Apple were making MBPs better each year instead of demonstrating their "courage" ("This time we're taking X away from you because as long as Windows is the only competition, whaddya gonna do about it?") I would have already bought a new one, and that would presumably have more powerful graphics and not get as hot, but I would still want to verify that FF wasn't running the battery down faster than Chrome or Safari.
There's all sorts of things you can say as long as it's your opinion.

Once you start trying to get other people to do things, there are big areas that are off limits. We have laws about public safety, inciting crimes, fitness for purpose ("drink this battery acid, it cures gout!"), fraud, libel, and slander.
I have been using FF for what seems forever, and I have no plans on stopping... unless they shut it down, finger crossed that that won't happen! I'm a web developer, and it has always been my go to browser, to me it has always felt pretty fast and I actually have never had any problems so I am always baffled how other people always have issues with it, maybe I am just an edge case. AS of now, it has been my default browser for well over 10 years, on both mac and window machines. I will continue to be a loyal user as long as it continues it's current course. I really wish Microsoft had gone with Quantum Gecko.
Purely from a feature development perspective, I guess I don't see how adding a read-it-later / bookmarking feature would generate so much consternation. Functionally its roughly equivalent to Reading List + Bookmarks on Safari, with some delicious-like aggregate smarts.

Would it have been better to have built it internally instead of through acquisition? I admit I'm unfamiliar with the inside baseball on it's integration, but breach of trust sounds pretty drastic. My read (as an uninformed outsider) is that they probably acquired Pocket for a song, it filled a gap in the product offering, and it offers the potential of a future optional revenue stream that aligns well with the web as a document reading medium (subscription).

There's all sorts of internal browser features you can't 'completely remove'. How is bookmarking different?
Well, you could always have multiple people connected to the same desktop with VNC. If you prefer terminals, tmux and screen support multiple simultaneous clients.

Obviously not quite as good for many reasons, but possible.
Australia passes new law to thwart strong encryption
Are they even actual Amazon employees or contractors?
Sure, because that's the problem we have. We forget that the problem we don't have may be worse.
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