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Ask HN: How does employee feedback work at your company?
How does your company give feedback to its employees (annual performance reviews, 1-on-1 meetings, peer reviews)? What tools do you use to do this?

If nothing formal is in place, how do you keep expectations aligned between management and employees?
Simpler.

The taste of sugar is perceived as positive. This puts you in a better mood. This makes you likelier to associate the ads with positive feelings. This in turn makes it likelier for you to react to ads because you associate those products with positive emotion.
You guys are bullying him without a proper reason.. cause they (redecentralize.org) are not creating the technologies themselves.. they are just making the efforts and projects of others public and organized.. therefore they dont need to do this sort of thing themselves..

Their goal are being achieved: To spread the word about projects that can create a descentralized internet..

So, can we please give them a break, and the credits for their nice work?
Who cares? I wouldn't pay $5 for that garbage, regardless who it is. Who the hell is Banksy?

Guess I'm not edgy enough for this art.
Debian / Unstable.

I've had some thoughts at looking into FreeBSD but that's not Linux.
Volunteer for their campaigns and provide them with detailed technical and experiential insight into legislation. The reason that lobbyists are so powerful is that they can offer politicians what they need to keep their jobs do their jobs:
- Information on legislation that they don't have the time to gather because a person cannot be a lawyer, an engineer of many types, a scientist of many types, a businessman in many industries, and a military officer.
- Money so that they can pay for people to knock on doors and
build their website and do all the gruntwork of managing a staff.

And yes, the people writing legal code should be lawyers or at least highly knowledgable in the law.
It really depends on who the editors/founders are; e.g. the JMLR was automatically prestigious when founded by leaders of the ML community, forcing the previous crown bearer to become open access itself.
Try moving large sums of money (even money earned abroad) around like this to avoid taxes as a private US citizen and you're likely to get 10-20 years of mostly distraction free time to ponder the question of whether this is or isn't a problem.
The article kindly submitted here reports: "More than two decades ago, then-33-year-old Dan Price had a wife, two small children, a high-interest mortgage, and a stressful job as a photojournalist in Kentucky. He worried daily about money and the workaday grind."

Then the article follows up on what Price thinks about his life after he read the book Payne Hollow and his marriage broke up. "'I like being able to do what I want to do,' said Price, who pays $100 a year for his land. 'I don’t believe in houses or mortgages. Who in their right mind would spend their lifetime paying for a building they never get to spend time in because they are always working?'"

So my question about that is, does he believe in a father supporting his young children growing up? I sure do. I can think of a lot of lifestyle adjustments I might make to simplify my life if I had no minor children, but while my children are young, I'm very well going to live with them and participate in supporting them financially. After all, I had the choice at the beginning about whether or not to have children, but my children had no choice about whether they were born to a dad who steps up or a dad who checks out and forgets about them.
"worked on the Manhattan population" is an interesting linguistic slip.
[saving for AI research]
The rates reach 45% in Australia, and I suspect much of Europe is something similar. France was proposing 75% recently. It's true that these are marginal rates.

But consider how much taxes would need to rise to pay for the basic income. Let's say 50% of people who are eligible for basic income actually work. Then you'd need to collect two times the basic income from each of those people, on average. Surely this would push marginal, and probably overall, tax rates over 50%. Tax rates this high are only going to encourage even more people to give up working. I suspect such an economy would simply collapse.

It's possible that invention of Star Trek replicators would change things. If people could have all material things they wanted with minimal effort, then I imagine that the remaining work could move to a volunteer model.
Liquid might be too unsettling. Pre-chewed would preserve that rough pulpy texture -- a familiarity that'll help customer adoption.
Thank you for your uninformed contribution to Hacker News!
You know, sourceforge was once the place to be for hosting your SVN projects, forums, etc., and nobody batted an eye when they ceased to be the community centroid. Similarly with github, if it shut down or something new and shinier came along the projects would move there before you could say "merge conflict."
We can probably agree that Feynman's cancer wasn't directly due to his work on the Manhattan Project, but not for the reasons you cite. He died >40 years after the Manhattan Project. Feynman tells several anecdotes which indicate that he and others may have had significant exposure, and that he certainly had many opportunities for exposure. The Manhattan Project was unlike any other science project to follow in that not only was worker safety much less of a concern but the danger was also less well understood than in any successive project. Additionally, all involved persons were encamped together at Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Hanford, and Argonne, working closely together on a daily basis, milling about each others' labs, sharing other facilities. It is lucky, with the safety regime in place that more people were not killed or harmed.

http://www.orau.org/ptp/pdf/accidentsurvivorslanl.pdf
Good for them. The government shouldn't be taking their money.
I don't think Freshbooks really counts...

They do great marketing, and the name being a play on Quickbooks is simply brilliant, but it's not at all an accounting system. No double entry, no general ledger...it's just invoices.

Granted, they are incredibly successful, so are doing something right, but I find it fairly annoying that their marketing positions themselves as a Quickbooks alternative ("cloud accounting") when they are not, IMO.

Perhaps I'm being pedantic.

So, Freshbooks aside, Xero is not Quickbooks, so I think that means it wins. :-)
Meh, tax code is still grossly over-complicated in the US, simplifying it would help everyone.
Lol, it's always funny to see people think the world will collapse when they leave, because they are the 'real' essence.

And the fact they seem to think they had some sort of right to be there in the first place having themselves booted out the previous generation.
I don't think we should view tax increases as a serious solution to debt so much as a means to combat income disparity and provide safety nets.

The US government has shown us that tax increases usually go to fund irrelevant wars on other continents or NSA spying. Very little goes to worthy programs like NASA or helping the poor.

While I agree the rich should pay more, I think that we need to really take a good hard look at what that increase in revenue would actually pay for, and see if it's absolutely necessary.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6544301
I agree. I was wrong.
looking for collaborators and suggestions, cheers!
Show HN: end-to-end browser encryption (example application) 
I made this example application showing how you can integrate otr.js with socket.io.
My (main) point is that with so many uncontrolled variables, there are many alternative explanations that might have equal justification.

Of less importance (to me) is that my alternative explanation relies not on some physical act (chewing) somehow blocking brand awareness, but rather on the experience-seeking brain being idle or already-engaged when shown ads.

Again, with at least 6 uncontrolled variables, we could come up with dozens of things, from blood sugar trajectories to brain activity to chewing to smelling etc., all of which could be the actual trigger blocking brand awareness. I'm not partial to any one explanation given the paucity of data.
Sure there are health issues from inhaling smoke. But a strategy of suppression and control rarely creates a better world. Instead it empowers criminal organizations who use violence to make a foothold in the black market. Like the mafia during prohibition. Or the Mexican drug cartels in present day.

Marijuana is safer than alcohol. Too much alcohol will cause death. You cannot OD on marijuana.

Marijuana is safer than Tylenol which a kid can buy over the counter in a store. Too much Tylenol will shut down your liver. You cannot OD on marijuana.

Repeatedly punching yourself in the face causes brain damage. It's a dangerous power every kid in the world has. But putting them in straight jackets is not a good solution.

Recreational use of Marijuana is bad. However I do not believe the answer is suppression and control.
I'm more comfortable downloading the lectures, but there are a few upsides to using their HTML5 player:

- When I speed up the video in VLC the pitch of the sound goes up. This doesn't happen for me in Chrome.

- You don't get the "in-video quizzes" when you download the lectures. Some courses put them up for download separately, for others there is no other way to get to them but through the online player. The quizzes don't typically (never?) count towards your final grade, but they can reinforce concepts and correct mistaken understanding early.

On the other hand,

- I have finer speed control in VLC, and

- The video players on my computer are just "nicer" than the web alternative, maybe better than a web alternative can be.
It looks like it has the regular Springer policy still, i.e. some OA stuff but mostly not: http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10994
Higher taxes on income can help with the deficit, no question. However, you realistically can't raise taxes enough in America to fill the $750 billion deficit.

To balance the issue, I like to ask a simple question: what did America get in exchange for doubling the size of its government between 2000 and 2012? (during which population increased by a mere 11%)

Is our economy better off? No, we have the greatest amount of poverty since the great depression (15% U6 unemployment, 46 million on food stamps, etc). Do we have less debt? No, twice as much. Is our military stronger? No, it's worn out, we've lost thousands of good soldiers and our weapons are destroyed, having lost a small war machine in the desert. Is Social Security more solvent? No, it's bleeding red ink now. Is our infrastructure better? No, it's in shockingly horrendous shape. Is our electrical grid, and energy production improved? No, it's collapsing, with black-outs ten times higher compared to 20 years ago. Are we safer, with a hundred billion in added domestic security spending? I'd argue not, that it's mostly security theater. Do we have a higher home ownership rate? No. Do we have less consumer debt? No, more. Is our education system flourishing? No, it's an absolute disaster, from K-12 results, to the trillion dollars in college debt. Do we have more full time jobs? No, seven million less since 2007, and about 92% of the jobs being created over the last year are part-time jobs. Do we have more manufacturing jobs? No. Has the long promised manufacturing boom from cheap natural gas arrived? No. Is Washington DC functioning properly, such that we can trust them to be responsible with our hard earned tax dollars? No. Do we have a lot less people committing welfare fraud? No, SS disability has enrolled millions in just six years that are lying about their inability to work. This list doesn't stop going.

So what did we get for the extra $18 trillion above population growth in spending over 12 years? What did we get for all the debt? Absolutely nothing. So we should just keep spending more? That's going to have an obvious outcome.
I'd add that playing with pop corn in the hand, feeling its texture, the smell and the small noise tend to steal the brain's focus from the ads. Indeed once the sugar is melted there is less to experience with the body.
Wasn't it Google that made a huge donation to Kubuntu after Ubuntu pulled the plug on supporting them?
Not to mention, the surge of glucose from eating the sugar cubes could've very well affected sentiment and responses. Daniel Kahneman talks about this in his book, specifically how groups given a chocolate bar in between tasks performed better than control groups, presumably due to the brain's dependence on glucose, and its fatigue in the lack thereof.
I'm actually attempting to start such a market.

Here's a link: http://assmkedzgorodn7o.onion/
If you don't have Tor installed you can also access the site by adding .to: http://assmkedzgorodn7o.onion.to/
MMM is postmodern art. He goes to huge contortions to pretend that he doesn't work for his living as a blogger and handyman.
It's even worse on a tablet ... It apparently treats tablets as phones, with the same number of words per line, so the fonts end up being gigantic, with no apparent adjustability. Horrible and barely readable.

It's like a mockery of responsive design...
What's frighting to me, is someone could attempt to build an "Assassination Market" with: tor, bitcoins, and a single website.

But I'm skeptical this would really work. Just look the 25 million dollar bounty on Osama bin laden, which no one tried claimed. (That's just reporting him) Maybe, it would work if you didn't go through a government to try to claim your reward, but I'm still skeptical.

Still, I think if a "bounty" was out for someone on a tor website, that would make for some huge headlines. Plus spook the person enough to get their attention.
If, once again, we're talking about a group of individuals that controls (once again!) over a third of the wealth in their respective countries, then shouldn't we conclude that money is a fairly poor form of rationing?

Putin's policies show that "the rich" are no actual threat to government. Why would the IMF bother with this recommendation?
IIRC, he sat behind a vehicle's windshield for the benefit of the UV protection it offered. But, no, remember, he died in 1988, more than 40 years later. What type of cancer takes 40 years to show up?
At least for me the "streak" or chain methods don't work. Because if for any reason i happen to break the chain the probability of me returning to the task decreases the longer was the chain. For example i was doing Codecademy, broke a month long chain - did not return for a year (lost all motivation).
How do you reconcile this sweeping statement with SEC v. Switzer?

Like holding a monopoly, "insider trading" is not automatically a crime. Some specific conditions have to be met.
Your no different than the people this normally works well for. Being in the "zone" for most people is a very pleasurable activity. If one could sit down or start running and immediately be there, procrastination would be a much smaller problem. It is precisely this unproductive, introductory stage that this method is compelling you to complete in order to get past. By forcing 15 or however many minutes a day you are hoping that more times than not this period will transition into one of productivity in which you don't need to time or force yourself to do more. Some days this won't happen and you can quit after 15 minutes. But for some it equate to more long term productivity sessions per week than strictly scheduling each long term session.
Agree. I have friends who have lived this lifestyle for a long time in the U.S. and Europe, and you just can't live the same way here in Brazil, for example. This freegan stuff just doesn't work here. My friends squatted in the U.S. and ate fresh food from dumpsters. Here, the squatters are really poor people or crack addicts. Here, there's hardly any good food thrown out, and it is all quickly scavenged by really hungry homeless people. And my U.S. friends say they are anarchists. Sorry, you can only live like this in the U.S. because of the stability and prosperity that is around you.
I do, to post jobs for my company. BTW, I have a beta testing job board now, techrabbit.asia.
surprised so few stopped. $60 for a canvas knockoff of banksy isnt a bad price, let alone an original.
I skipped straight to: https://github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet
Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post set this up and wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning article about it. It's a great article, "Pearls Before Breakfast":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04...
And yet everybody who can afford it, sends their kids to private schools in London. Heck - I know people who sold their house so that they could pay for private schools.
3 families are leaving London and that makes a trend? Comparing property prices in London to Williamsburg or SF and it looks like a similar trajectory to me. Cities are expensive because space is constrained (artificially in many cases) and lots of people want to live there.

The author makes note of the low "property taxes" in London which is just spurious. In the US, property taxes are often used as a way to pay for many local and state government services for a number of historical reasons. This is often the only income that some states collect. In the UK, council tax is to pay for a much smaller set of services. A £5m house does not generate 10x the garbage of a £500k house. It's a cheap shot that tries to make a false point for US readers.

It's true that the current state of the global economy has meant that fearful foreigners have brought their money and bought property, but this tends to be at the very high end of the market which shouldn't be affecting the middle class that he's referring to. Greater demand by many people wanting to live in one of the world's great cities might.
> I remember reading that if you need the CH to prove something, then you should definitely reconsider the statement you are trying to prove

This is not entirely true. There are many proofs that begin by assuming CH. There are also two ways of interpreting "need CH to prove". One way is that the thing you are trying to prove is equivalent to CH, which is an interesting/useful result. Another way to interpret it is that you can not come up with another way of proving it. In the latter case, the CH based proof justifies that your proposition is not inconsistent, and may even lead you (or others) to proof that it is true regardless of CH. If I recall correctly some statements have been proved by proving the statement when CH is true, and also when CH is false.
The property taxes cited are fascinating. $3k per year on a 20 million dollar home??? As they say, there's your problem right there.

I've come to appreciate the extent to which property taxes drive a country's culture or system of living. I grew up in an eastern European country where property taxes don't exist, and so there are tons of people who live in quite posh inherited/grandfathered-from-communist-times residences while receiving tiny incomes in comparison. Meanwhile the property tax rates common in the U.S. tend to drive out people who stop being able to afford to live in a locale.
The trouble with timestamps
So I have a fiduciary relationship with some guy who was in too big a hurry to jump out of my taxi? Fascinating.
So you don't think it has anything to do with easy access to credit and loans?
Wow if his stand was near MOMA I probably walked right by it yesterday without noticing... I usually just ignore vendors around the park because 99% of the stuff being sold in that area is mass produced crap that has no value but to extract money from tourists.
Yeah all valid points. That's one of the unintended consequences of the system: someone with enough money can short-circuit the "voting" process to get anyone killed.

Let me reiterate: There's a very interesting nugget in there. Namely one (possibly of many) ways for ordinary citizens to provide less asymmetric incentives to politicians and bureaucrats.

I'm really interested in alternative methods of achieving similar goals. Rather than death, could we perhaps institute a petition-based vote of no confidence that could be binding? I'm not sure how that would work but it would be a way to kick someone out of office or position sooner than a term limit and which would also be tremendously damaging to their reputation; something which seems rather important to politicians. Maybe you've got other ideas?

EDIT: To answer your question specifically the goal of a marketplace is similar to voting but one which isn't necessarily scheduled the way voting is. For example the guy after Obama could win by a 90% landslide, then immediately launch an all-out war against Iran, Syria and say Jordan. That might quickly turn the tide from 90% in favor to 80% against, but we'd have to wait at least 2 years to vote out a lot of people in the House, and four full years to vote the new President out, and a total of six years to get rid of people in the Senate.

Given that it's not terribly easy to make a living in the US and that many people have jobs, kids, elderly parents, etc. to prevent a sizable fraction of those opposed to various things from making a serious public statement like a march on Washington, lowering the barrier to entry MIGHT get us better outcomes.
Everyone got to enjoy the thousand or so atmospheric tests that were conducted.
I'm sorry but if 90% of the population uses gmail, you're using SMTP yet you're 90% centralized.
It has already happened. Here's my website: http://assmkedzgorodn7o.onion/
I am a happy member and longtime reader of MetaFilter but I wouldn't look to it as a positive example.

MetaFilter has several full-time moderators who, because they feel they need to be doing something, are stifling discussion and deleting a lot of threads. Many long-time, valuable members have left the site because of staff decisions.

Meanwhile, a group of noisy, low-value users are mostly allowed to bully others, mock people different than them and even write death threats from time to time.

MetaFilter prides itself on being a place that knows all about Consent™ etc. and maybe that is worth everything else, but it's not a place where people can get together and have a civil discussion.
Interesting that the libertarian solution to someone violating your rights seems to be to violate their rights back in even more spectacular and violent fashion.
Fine they don't pay taxes on the earnings, but they can't really use that money either--it must remain permanently abroad. Part of the reason AAPL did that $17 Billion bond issue (largest ever until the Verizon $49B deal) even thought they have like 8 quadrillion dollars in the bank is they cannot use those permanently abroad monies to pay dividends to shareholders.

So, in short, what is good is tax-free money if you cannot use it? Are these companies all hoping that one day their will be a tax holiday and they can re-repatriate the funds?
Anyone foolish enough to try it deserves what they'll get.
Distrowatch tracks hits per day, not installed user base. I love Linux Mint, but I doubt it has a larger user base than Ubuntu. However, it may eventually.

Mint has been consistently winning on Distrowatch since 2011, the year Unity was released.

This is just one poll (although a pretty large one), but Reddit does an annual poll. Ubuntu is still killing it.

http://constantmayhem.com/ty-stuff/linuxsurvey/2013.html