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I generally like HBR articles, but it's very annoying to end up deleting HTML nodes because of their stupid menu bars and x articles left notice.

Poor web design.

anyway...

> Successful candidates should clearly demonstrate that their priorities are company, team, and self — in that order.

This just sounds so obnoxious to me.

> At Facebook, moving into management is not a promotion. It’s a lateral move, a parallel track. Managers are there to support people and to remove barriers to getting things done. Managers focus on building a great team, creating a vision for how that team will execute its goals, and helping the people on that team develop in their careers

All of those things sound like they add up to much more influence and responsibility than you get as an IC.

> “Then who is in charge?” Lest anyone think it’s a Lord of the Flies scenario, our managers still moderate, facilitate, and tie-break.

So the manager is in charge. But you know, feel free to suggest stuff plebs.

> We provide different opportunities for growth by empowering employees to work on new projects or in new groups when interested. This keeps ICs engaged by allowing them to broaden their areas of expertise and expand or focus their scope by moving to projects at different levels of development

So does this mean you don't make me jump through hoops to switch to another team? Large part of why I quit my last job was because I find the idea that I have to do an interview, to get the same job I'm already doing, ridiculous.

The idea of the hackamonth sounds like it could help with this acutally. You are already employed by the company, just go talk to the manager and ask to switch for a month. At the end talk again and decide if it is a good fit.

Way better than getting stuck on a lousy team, with a poor manager, who is able to trap you with bad reviews and threats.
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> "Managers focus on ..., creating a vision for how that team will execute its goals"

Confusing management with leadership is one of the main reasons for politics and empire building. Once managers think they're in charge of figuring out the vision, instead of that being the whole team's responsibility, you're lost in top-down management land.
Thanks Geert!
The Siri API doesn't support music.
Do you really work for a genuine co-operative where all decisions are made by consensus of the workers? I'd be surprised and interested to learn more if that's the case.
I love it! The instrument selection is good. It generates some brutal riffs with catchy rhythms. As a guitarist, I think this tool is great for finding inspiration and maybe breaking out of a creativity rut.
I've gone the Google-free route a little while ago, and it's really been not nearly as bad as even I thought myself.
The only thing that I'm still sort of missing, is the automatic calendar and contact backup.
You could do that with something like OwnCloud/NextCloud or a CalDAV-service, but yeah, it is a non-trivial effort.

Otherwise, in case you do try it, here's some things that I found useful:
If the apps on F-Droid aren't enough for your taste, you can also use Aptoide [0] to access a big portion of the apps that are available on the Play Store.

The Amazon Store is also an option, although their store is also not really the greatest when it comes to not invading your privacy.

And if you cannot live without some of the apps on the Play Store, or if you've paid for some apps there and would prefer to not lose access to them, I can recommend Raccoon [1] for accessing them.

There's also some online-services, like for example Evozi [2], which can download unpaid apps from the Play Store for you, but well, for one, usually only unpaid apps, and secondly, I have yet to find one of those services which is not hopelessly overloaded.

I think, if you look more into app-piracy tools, you might also find a web-service which let's you download paid apps, but I've personally just stuck to Raccoon, so I can't make any recommemdations there.

Finally, if one of your apps really does need Google Play Services, there's a project aiming to reimplement the functionality without the privacy problems, called microG [3].
I haven't personally tried it yet, but I think, it's somewhat hit-and-miss, so while it's probably worth trying, you shouldn't expect too much from it...

[0]: http://www.aptoide.com/

[1]: http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon

[2]: https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/

[3]: https://microg.org/
Ask HN: My co-founder ghosted on me before an important meeting, what do I do?
Hello HN,

On Monday we have an important meeting to raise money. I'm the technical guy and I don't usually handle the meetings, but my co-founder has disappeared since last Sunday and doesn't answer my calls, emails, texts and Facebook messages (I receive read receipts from the Facebook messages but no response)

I'm not worried about the meeting on Monday, I'm prepared to handle the meeting myself, what I'm worried about is what should I do now? do I shut him out of the Github organization so he can't take the code and run? also should I suspend his email account so he can't access the files on Google Drive??

Our relationship before this happening was fine, I can't think of any reason that he might just ghost me.

Thanks for putting the time in to read this
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My bad! I'm totally behind schedule today! Feel free to delete!
Are you feeling ok.
Trying to watch Game of Thrones at release time on release night is mostly a nightmare, and I'm glad I didn't try and organize viewing parties because they would have been failures. The HBO NOW subreddit[1] is full of unhappy threads, and at least on one occasion, the error message presented was definitely indicative of an overloaded server[2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/HBONow/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/HBONow/comments/4ow6eb/anyone_else_...
The question is who decides the annual bonus and raise?
Makes me wonder... How did this country become such a global supplier?
> No, it isn't. There is Google Play, Microsoft, Amazon, and a whole host of other app stores out there.

Apple has banned all of those from iOS. It allows no third party app stores.

> Remember, the market is mobile devices altogether, not just iOS devices.

You cannot just tack on the word "remember" to make something an established fact. We don't know what the scope of future legal decisions will be until they're in fact made.

> Which will not happen, because you can't have a monopoly on your own platform.

You, nor I, have any way of knowing or proving that. This will likely go to SCOTUS in our lifetime, until that happens we won't know the scope of what is a monopolistic market.
That may be true. I meant that it isn't forward thinking to require viewers to have a cable subscription to watch, even if it means more revenue in the short term.

Even for me as a lifelong baseball fan, I've largely stopped watching games. By the time they do away with the restrictions, will I even bother? Who knows.

But I am a little biased and may be overestimating the impact of cord cutting among millennials
"I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of the Sherman Antitrust Act (I wrote a paper on this in engineering law undergrad about the Intel/AMD case) is that whenever a company uses its dominant position in one market to attempt to restrict competition in an adjacent market, that's called "tying" and it's illegal."

But it doesn't have a dominant position. It definitely doesn't have one in mobile OS marketshare. It doesn't in app store usage.

"And this seems like a pretty textbook case of it: Apple has a strong, powerful position in mobile devices, and they're making it harder for Spotify to compete with them for music streaming services."

But they don't. Android has far, far higher marketshare.
Product decisions can never be solely by consensus. At some point, barring massive groupthink, there will be a disagreement on some product decision (what color should this icon be?) but the icon will ultimately be assigned a color. There is some process by which that decision is made.
IBM is set up the same way, to a degree. They have "IBM fellows" who are essentially executive-level engineers. I don't think it extends all the way down though.
Just today it occurred to me that I actually do depth first in some real-life situations I better shouldn't.
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Whiners in the interview process seems like a good one. I'm conscious about complaining about a tech stack, or even a build system. It doesn't matter if you don't like it.
> Sibling comment covers this perfectly.

Which one? The one that asked if it was wrong for carriers to block updates in the first place? Right vs wrong isn't my concern here.

Here is the sum of my comment: Apple used their market pressure to make carriers (and others) change. Now they're whining about somebody trying to make them change.

That's all.

I didn't say that I have evidence that they force carriers to do anything through any means other than market pressure.

> You mean a pretty standard most-favored-nation clause?

No. I mean the illegal price fixing that they were convicted of 3 times. You can read the rulings here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc.#Ru...

The final ruling - "In June 2015, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals by a 2-1 vote concurs with Judge Cote that Apple conspired to e-book price fixing and violated federal antitrust law."
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> 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.

I think the Veil of Ignorance is extremely compelling, and I think leads inextricably to equal rights for natural resources, open borders, etc. A lot of his reasoning I don't agree with-- he thinks all actors behind the Veil would perform minimax analyses, which is unjustified. However, I think the overall thought experiment is very valid.

As for your disagreements with Rand-- is there anything you disagree with Georgism about?
According to the Verge's article at the release of HBO NOW, it's been MLBAM for HBO NOW since its launch.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/4/9090897/mlb-bam-live-stream...
No, they don't have the same rule, nor Spotify, nor Netflix nor Amazon music have to use Google payment system
From the perspective of being implemented in a modern, high performance architecture the extra complexity caused by thousands of instructions is tiny. Here are some properties of the ISA that matter far more:

Ease of decode - You want your instruction stream to be dense to fit easily in I-cache. You want it to be self-synchronizing for easy multiple decode. You want the input registers to be at predictable offsets from the instruction start to speed up fetching them.

Data Dependancies - The design of your OoO execution engine will depend on the maximum number of outputs and especially inputs an instruction can have. Flags are inputs too. If some instructions can only partially update your flags (like x86) then the flags count as multiple inputs now.

Atomic execution - Handling precise exceptions from timer interrupts or page faults or whatever mean you have to go back to some coherent state. This is easier if your instructions only touch memory at most once each. Especially difficult is multiple writes to memory in an instruction but read-modify-write is also bad. Read-modify and modify-write are pretty ok but still add a bit of complexity.

And one can argue about whether it's better to have 16 or 32 registers but with x86-64 everybody these days has one of those and is good enough. Well, actually SPARC with its register windows has way more than 32 and that might be Fujitsu's biggest motivation in moving to ARM.
Actually, I think it's a very pretty site: it says what it needs to say, it has attractive colours, it uses my browser window sanely, it's not distracting. What's not to like? I wish that more websites were like that.
Agree. My play sessions were short and my study sessions were long.

I kept it pretty low-key--maxed out at $200 SNGs, but I maintained a 59.something% winrate, which was as good as anybody.

I wish it would come back, but I'm not hopeful we'll ever see what we had before.
> Everyone always says that :)

Truth to be said: there were some good languages but never good frameworks. After rails it's really hard to touch these semi-baked flawed "rails copies". And Phoenix is the first framework that not only replicates good rails sides (other web frameworks failing even that) but also fixes most (actually important) rails issues.
Here are a couple refs:

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Analytic-Probabilistic-C...

http://algo.inria.fr/seminars/sem96-97/deshouillers.pdf
I think it's a great choice, it's catchy, short, simple and kind. A perfect fit for a programming language, I love it.
After testing couple trial apps, decided for Sygic. Found it reliable enough for EU, gets updated quite often. Main feature that was also important is that it supports downloading maps per country. Some other navigation apps at the time didn't, so you had to store multiple GBs for whole EU, which was a PITA on the Nexus phone at the time (no expandable storage - another display for Googles crazy bubble of downloading everything). On a phone with optional SD storage I own now, it asks where you want to put maps at install, so no space wasted on internal storage.
"Apple has banned all of those from iOS. It allows no third party app stores."

Which is irrelevant, as Spotify can still sell apps through those stores. Remember, the market is mobile as a whole, not just iOS.

"You cannot just tack on the word "remember" to make something an established fact. We don't know what the scope of future legal decisions will be until they're in fact made."

It is currently an established fact. If that changes, then we will have to revisit. But as of now, it stands.
Managers don't only evaluate performance.
Complex life also need a very large moon to stabilise the poles. The Earth's moon is very unusual (in some ways the moon and Earth are double planets). The collisions that can can form a moon of sufficient size are very, very rare.
I've found consensus decision making to be frustrating in the environments I've encountered it.

A lot of flip flopping and lack of follow through.

Who made that decision? We did. Can we give up on that and try something else? Of course.

I kinda like to have at least a shepherd for the day to day decisions, if not a commander.

In practice in my current environment it's been the occasional PM that takes some ownership that fills that role, but in many groups I see the floundering without leadership.

Internally I think they think they're making progress because everyone on the team is always happy with their decisions, I may just be the old curmudgeon that's frustrated with what I see as wasted effort.
They link through to the book itself, I am crying with laughter.
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/english-as-she-is-...

One of my favourites: under 'games' is listed 'carousal', word that I hope to use daily from now on.
More importantly, who decides who's manager next quarter/year? I've never seen non-managers exercise much leverage on this front. Being able to determine who works with whom is a very powerful position.
Hell man, that's even more impressive.

As someone who's self taught and gainfully employed let me know if you want chat. I know quite a few other people who've gone non-traditional routes and I'd be happy to provide some insights.
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This is very true. Hierarchy is hierarchy. Any organization can pretend they don't have such blasphemous thing, but if that was really true then there would be no "management" to begin with. What's wrong with accepting a leader as leader? You can't have it both ways - either you lead or be led. There's no equal footing there.

It's not about making everyone equal at all times. What's important is how do you choose a leader and when.
I read a comparison on another forum that I thought made sense... Consider Apple is Walmart and Spotify is wanting to sell their product in Walmart. Is Walmart going to take a cut? Of course they are! What if Spotify asked Walmart to give their product box away free from their stores and inside there was a message that said "Hi there, please come to our website and pay to signup for our service!". How is this any different? Does Walmart have an advantage in its store when it sells its own Great Value products? Yes of course they do. If you don't like it, start your own Big Box store!
That's actually true though. Not burglars exactly, but the police absolutely can peer through gaps that you accidentally leave in your windows, even if you expect to be private inside. The court ruling even refers to this example.

Sometimes people on HN complain when security researchers are threatened with prosecution under the CFAA. Well, which is it - is exploiting vulnerabilities more akin to peering through someone's window blinds with unintended gaps, or burglary?
Automatically merge and clean up passing greenkeeper PRs
My random advice from the internet:

In the context of the other recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12011012 This course of action should run by a lawyer.

Overall, framing this as a purely business matter rather than one of morals/ethics/justice might be useful. My intuition is that there is money set aside to purchase the domain and a timeline for acquiring it. If there are millions of dollars for a law suit with uncertain outcomes, there is even more for a certain quick outcome.

Anyway, there's nothing to be gained by treating matters as personal or evil regardless of what they might be.

Good luck.
Good luck with innovating.
Uber is a really nice place to build a product with a great sense of ownership. You'll be working with a highly motivated peer group, on some of the hardest problems in the real world. As an engineer, it's a very rewarding experience in scaling your implementation to serve the magical trip to millions of users every day.

Disclaimer: I work in the team.
"Climbing the ladder" has the connotation of stepping on other people in order to get ahead. Thinking about the analogy, if there are a bunch of people trying to climb the same ladder as you are, you have to pull people off or climb over them.

It's possible to create an incentive structure that discourages cannibalizing your coworkers.
In more traditional structures, managers are often in charge of figuring out that vision because they argue the buck stops with them, so they need the authority to make decisions to arrive at the outcome that meets their goals.

Unfortunately, what often happens is managers think they are more knowledgeable than the ICs on the team. This in turn leads to ICs not being invested in the outcomes as much as if it were their ideas, and can lead to resentment because they do not feel their input is valued.

A good leader is not "The Decider." A good leader is the one who asks their team "given X, Y and Z goals, how would you solve for this knowing these are the constraints?"
The link points to an older article now, for some reason.

Link moved to here: http://www.reuters.com/article/tesla-autopilot-dvd-idUSL1N19...
It will happen. I'm sure of it.
> It is currently an established fact. If that changes, then we will have to revisit. But as of now, it stands.

It hasn't been ruled on. So, no, it hasn't been established.

> Remember, the market is mobile as a whole, not just iOS.

Why are you copying and pasting? I won't reply to this again, you already posted this above.
This practice is common in digital marketplaces. For instance, Amazon doesn't allow Marketplace Sellers (people who aren't Amazon but sell goods on Amazon.com) to:

- link to a non-Amazon webpage

- provide buyers with a phone number or email address to reach them at

- or any other thing that could funnel sales outside of Amazon
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