skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Take the incentive out of “climbing the ladder.”

Some of the organization structure setup is not unique to Facebook. My former boss was a long time Microsoft employee, from what I heard from her anecdotally, Microsoft has long been setup with dual tracks for technical employees. The management track and the engineer track. One moves from engineer track to management track is a true lateral move in that salary don't necessarily get raised even though responsibilities will vary and may expand.

Also, the rank on engineer track may also be converted to a lower rank in management track. On top of that, long tenured Distinguished Engineers might also get a much higher compensation than a mid-level manager.

Once the incentives are leveled up, personal interests and motivation really becomes the driver for employees to do their most appropriate job.

Obviously these were all anecdotal stories I heard. Microsoft now may also be different from the Microsoft then. I welcome someone who has first hand experience with similar organizational structure setup to clarify and elaborate on this.
"A better analogy would be if Microsoft opened an app store on the XBox (which they have/do) and then blocked Sony from selling apps there, or charged Sony a premium rate."

Which Apple is not doing.
I wasn't complaining but I do consider this comment quite sad. Realistic but sad
What you 'mean' is the whole point of why it's not bad faith, you have it completely the wrong way round. Bad faith implies that you had an intent not to pay, whereas all the previous examples were of someone writing cheques that they intended to pay.
Good. They are not the police. They are not a jail. They are not allowed to arrest people. This is the worst kind of vigilante "justice" I've ever seen.

I mean for chrissake they took her phone, belongings, and credit card (!) and charged her for a random amount. This is beyond ridiculous.
> He is just like me so he will ask himself what will my opponent - that is me - do. But I will of course try to figure out what my opponent will do but he is just like me and so he will...

In other words, exactly what Vizzini was trying to reason out in the Princess Bride...
How do they get away with selling commercials when they charge that much?

I recently tried sling.tv and it was terrible. Why would I want to pay to spend 1/3 of the time watching ads? (not to mention how _bad_ almost all of the programming is)

I would pay a _lot_ for a content subscription that had a history channel that actually had history programming... a science channel that actually had science programming ... all without ads or gimmicks.

Mythbusters guys are great but half the content is either commercials or cliffhangers trying to get you to stay past the commercials.

There is a vast untapped market of educated people who want to purchase content that's targeted beyond the means of a clever 8th grader. Instead we get news for gossip freaks, reality tv shows, and what little advanced interesting content there is is targeted way too young.
And imagine the online world loosing both Google and Mozilla. Or development of Firefox, Chrome, and Android slowing to a crawl as they went paid or donation-only. Big companies would win in browser and mobile market by default.
I wonder if they have to be exclusive.

How cool would it be to have a keyboard where you can hold down a "gesture button" or just move your hands/fingers over a certain zone and have it pick up small gestures? You'd barely need to move your hands and could probably keep your wrists in the same position.

This could then do things like more natural scrolling, cursor control, obviously more complex actions.

They keyboard is great for what it does, but improving input doesn't necessarily have to mean getting rid of something that works quite well and completely reimagining it.
Not sure why you're getting modded down, because your'e exactly right. They're stupid, psychological, trick questions to get people to lie.

Just walk out when you get questions like this.
"employer" is in there 20 times. Did you even glance at the document?

CLIENT AND EMPLOYER is #2 in the list, and SELF is #8. COLLEAGUES is #7.
The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann is a very idiosyncratic book, but with an interesting middle section on quantum mechanics.
Lobbying is appropriate when it helps resolve market inefficiencies created by outdated legal quirks, not the other way around. I think the US approach is reasonable — lobbying should be legal, transparent, monitored and regulated. I can understand why it was decided this way.

> Is it the responsibility of government to facilitate the opening of new markets, for instance?

Technically, yes. However (under the current concept of sovereignty), some things can be obligatory in home territory but only "nice to have" abroad. Therefore, globally, it is more right than obligation (subject to costs-benefits analysis).

> As with TTIP?

I do not have enough expertise in international law and trade agreements to judge TTIP in its entirety. So far, I know that there are some good things there (steps to establish global markets operating transparently), and not so good things (mostly related to intellectual property laws, which are messed up).

> How do you square a free market with a global economy where free markets are not the norm?

With diplomatic and cultural efforts. Often it is enough to somehow show people that free market alternative exists. E.g. USSR was strictly controlling who could see what beyond its borders, otherwise it wouldn't survive that long.

> How do you compete with state owned and operated business? Do you let these companies participate in your free market?

It depends. If they are willing to participate on the same set of rules as everyone, and the government itself is not known for some atrocities, then yes, it will be allowed. Government business usually is not that efficient, and there is no coercion power beyond government's own domain.

> Are there any other instances you can imagine besides preventing revolving door monopolies where regulation might be appropriate?

Some. Ayn Rand wanted to abolish FDA and all healthcare-related regulations; I am not so sure about that (though these should be rooted from up-level laws preventing fraud in general). Some military-related stuff (you don't export arms to state enemies), etc.

Incidentally, all of this is strangely similar to the current US economic and foreign policy. I have to think more about that. I am not even American.
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For many people who do this, money is not the end goal. It's just a way of keeping score.

There's another subset of people who do this who simply enjoy playing games (and poking holes in them). There's not much money in, e.g., writing bots in attempts to find optimal play for board games, but people do it anyways.
He's a bit more specific that that:

> One major problem–which I’ve been on about for years, and which I am quoted about in the Nautilus piece–is that counterparty credit exposure is only one type of many connections in the financial network: liquidity is another source of interconnection.

> As a practical example, not only does mandatory clearing change the topology of a network, it also changes the tightness of the coupling through the imposition of rigid variation margining. Tighter coupling can change the probability of the failure of connections, and the circumstances under which these failures occur.

> Another problem is that models frequently leave out some participants. As another practical example, network models of derivatives markets include the major derivatives counterparties, and find that netting reduces the likelihood of a cascade of defaults within that network. But netting achieves this by redistributing the losses to other parties who are not explicitly modeled. As a result, the model is incomplete, and gives an incomplete understanding of the full effects of netting.

> Thus, any network model is inherently a very partial one, and is therefore likely to be a very poor guide to understanding the network in all its complexity.

FWIW, I think he's right to bring this up, as there are things that we already know of that the topology model doesn't cover.
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I think what you are pointing out is that those priorities shouldn't be misaligned in the first place. Asking someone to do professional suicide to help the company shouldn't be a thing.

I mean, if you are are part of a team and identify something that goes against you and the team but in favor of the conpany, your team's goal should be revised and realigned, and you should get credit for that. In the end pointing out the problem and eventually offering a solution shouldn't go against your own professional interests (your "self" shouldn't get the short end of the stick for a correct behavior)
The regular phone dialer and Messenger app are Google products. Therefore technically you are agreeing to allow them access to your regular call/SMS data.
A "gets memory" comment is unnecessary next to a call to malloc.
That's entirely Google's fault for not fighting for the same thing.
I'm not saying that it's RIGHT that carriers block updates for anyone. I'm saying that was a rule that was in place by carriers before Apple came along and made a stink about it. Now they're complaining about Spotify trying to get Apple to change their rules.
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Wait you like branch delay slots?!
It is a lateral move salarywise, at least.
Your arguments are just fundamentally different from Feynman's. We're trying to estimate whether something exists. If you are using a counting measure on the integers, say, then whether or not something exists is whether or not the measure of that set is zero. If you're dealing with, say, a Lebesgue measure on the reals then the measure being zero tells you nothing about whether the set is empty. Put the counting measure on the reals and then you can work, but then the answers you get won't be zero.
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React 15.2.0 is out
I think the comment to use one of successor languages is most pragmatic. I learned with stickers on keyboard, you don't want to do that, and a dedicated keyboard sounds kind of silly (this from former pro IBM APL2 programmer, it was my 2nd language).

However, I don't really like the digraphs/glyphs/whatever that J uses that much, i think there's a mode where there's short forms like "rot" for rotate function, "ind" for index etc, look for those.
It's a duopoly. I wish it were better but there isn't much choice anymore for consumer smartphones.

Windows Phone is dead (even if its market share is >1%, I believe the project has been abandoned) and BlackBerry OS is hanging on but holds a trivial share of the market.
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Pretty good recommendations. I'd add that if the Chen/Ankenmann book is too abstract, then possibly the Intelligent Poker Poker by Phil Newall is a better choice - it's kind of the more applied game theory book. MoP is an excellent book for those with a math background, but as you say, it's a bit tough for those without it.
This is one of the two issues where I am not in complete agreement with Ayn Rand's theory (she thought that first come/first served approach is OK with land grab and other natural resources like frequency bands; and free market should diffuse the resources to the most efficient actors if competition and trade are not restricted.) This sounds logical (land grabs were OK when land was still abundant and mostly unaccounted for), but yes, there are some reasoning flaws with this approach. (The other issue is with intellectual property rights — I don't think that IP should be treated the same way and on the same legal basis as physical property.)

What do you find compelling in Rawls theory? He is considered the arch-villain in libertarian circles, but I can see some logic in his statements about inherent inequality. However, his solutions amount to lottery, and for me, lotteries are extremely unfair to begin with.
Apple's response to Spotify's complaints
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Can anyone explain that this is about?

The website popped up with a request to use my camera (I declined - I don't know what this even is, wants to do etc).

What is this trying to do?
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Did the UK fall below France? So third largest?
I actually feel sorry for poor Pedro Carolino — he obviously put a lot of work into his little book (even if it was horribly misguided), and people have been laughing at it for over a century!
Well, apparently I'm bad at formatting on HN.

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Nope. They have plenty of garbage rules of their own. Also, they have the same rule Apple does in this case.
Science and history programming is sadly low brow. Netflix had a 12 part series of lectures from Neil deGrasse Tyson that were refreshingly thorough and weren't watered down. They didn't seem to have it licensed for very long as I think it's already removed from their library.

Regarding stuff that seems to be geared towards 8th graders, that's just what some people want to see and you couldn't force them to watch anything with more substance if you wanted to. Not everyone has to enjoy the finer things. I don't think it's that they don't know there's a difference. It's just boring as all hell to most people.
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The last few IE exploits also affected Edge. I would say that there is still quite a few IE pieces left in Edge
Morgan Stanley survey: Microsoft will be largest IaaS vendor by 2019
Have only heard negative things about FB office politics from the folks I know who work there.
I'm curious to see if the VR version of Chrome will operate similarly to JanusVR: http://janusvr.com/

JanusVR is a fun experience and linking via portals is novel, but it's more of a place to hang out than anything else.
What has probably seen the end of the road, is the mouse.
> Microsoft was found guilty of abusing its position because it had a monopoly on the entire PC OS market.

And Apple has a monopoly on the entire Apple app store market.

> You are discussing competition law, because you have redefined the market.

Law is expansive. When competition laws were written several securities didn't really exist, but the law expanded to encompass them. There's no specific reason why the law cannot expand into protecting consumers from monopolies within an artificially created digital marketplace.

Ultimately competition law exists as a concept to protect consumers, it is clear as day that Apple is abusing its monopolistic control of its app store in a way that hurts consumers. Even if existing law wasn't able to expand to encompass that situation, new law could and should.

PS - I love the people who turn up late and downvote every comment on one side of a discussion.
JBoss seems to work well enough. Er, Wildfly???
The BuzzFeed story was submitted earlier today, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12017819
So Apple charges their own music service a 30% fee?
I have a bunch of friends at Facebook - and from what I hear, this article is not very far off from what is happening. And it's all about many of the seniors leading with example.

Take Philip Su, who was the site lead for Facebook London. In most organizations, that would translate to "manager of everything happening at Facebook". After 3 years he decided to take another lateral move - to move back to software development (no lead, just a software engineer) https://www.facebook.com/the.philip.su/timeline/story?ut=32&...

When you work at a company where managers demonstrate that it is a lateral move - moving from management to individual contribution - well, then this stuff starts to work.

Another thing that this article does not touch on, is the transparency that people at Facebook share what's going on with them professionally. My buddy said a senior person shared on Facebook @work how he had gotten a bad performance review, and how this made him feel... for all other employees to see, and comment on. My buddy was saying that "when I joined, I thought that people were just drinking kool aid about how our culture is different. But now that I'm in - I seriously have not expected it to be this different to anywhere I've worked before"

I do think that Facebook is doing something incredible with keeping a very startup like and transparent culture going at this large scale. No other company of this size even comes close.
That's beyond fucked up.
The article says there is now a 25 year limit on redacting, if I read it right. Obviously the DoD isn't going to play, so how are they getting around it? Is there a generic "security can trump this law"?
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Congratulations to the Slackware team for their hard work!
Look at Herfindahl index.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfindahl_index

It is over .25 which means the government will scrutinize it.
Privacy Guard will not allow API calls and stuff them with fake data, which I imagine is not possible with Cyanogen or any conventional outfit for legal and regulatory reasons.

I do not think the UI is great, but articles like this are not either. I made my choice.
Wonder what the judge will say when his computer is hacked? After all, he should have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
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I wonder how useful an ELO system would be for evaluating performance. If one were in place, I don't think we'd really need managers at all.

The system would supersede and replace managers. Your rating would be hidden as well.