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>What happens to the guy in open salary co who is legit 50% better than everyone else?

The GP is right in that, that person doesn't have much choice but to move on.

I don't have experience with open salaries but I do have experience with collective agreements and seniority. They aren't meant to take into consideration the "super stars". That's not what they are meant to do. Seniority and collective agreements do suck if you're a "super star".

I don't think there's a system where everyone is a winner.
So that person then is forbidden from attending these meetings?

There are two problems with that:

1. Even if employees get to opt out, others still know they opted out. And that can create mistrust on both sides. "Why did Bob opt out? What does he have to hide? Is he making more than everyone else? Is this transparent salaries thing just a way to keep the lower paid people thinking they're actually average?"

2. By excluding those people from the salary meetings, the company basically creates an "in club", the people that know more than everyone else. The opt-out people are now no longer just opting-out, they are literally being kept in the dark about things being shared with others. And like in scenario 1, that will breed mistrust.
The copper pyramid for self-healing is almost as appealing as the touchbar.
Also, turning around an aircraft carrier (e.g. a public company with thousands of employees) is a whole hell of a lot harder than turning around a tugboat (private company) or a raft (a startup with 10 people in a room).

Advice to the OP: don't be a martyr. If it looks like you can make a difference, go for it! Just don't pin your identity or sense of self on whether you succeed. The markets are a harsh mistress.
This is beyond laughable. I am genuinely so sad that they finally ruined the MBP. Watching him tap the auto-suggested words on the 'Touch Bar' is so sad. I have a 3 year old MBP and I was looking forward to upgrading it, but not anymore.
Reminds me of 360-degree feedback -- which may not lead directly to a raise but provide the employee with frequent feedback and build social support for the reviewee.
That's interesting because Vine is shockingly popular with the younger generation.
I don't think this is a problem startups are positioned to address.

Start-ups are geared to return outsided returns (1,000x+) on investment within a short time. Most are wealth-extractive, though a few may present real synergies.

The principle benefits of information technology to research have been in the tools and information access side. Computers are vastly less expensive, programming and data access/analysis tools vastly more powerful. And access to knowledge, mostly in violation of copyright conditions, through Sci-Hub, LibGen, and the like, is unprecedented in all world history.

Compensation is far more difficult.

One element is that the environment of a startup and the environment of research are almost diametrically opposed. Very high-pressur,e high-stress, rapid turnaround, subject to the whims of investors and markets, is pretty much the exact opposite of what a researcher needs. There are reasons that universities buffer faculty from these pressures (or at least do in theory).

The funding and financing of innovation through the ages is an interesting study. Few innovators have directly benefitted by their inventions through the market, many, especially of the most significant inventions (take television, 4-cycle engines, and gas turbines for example) have failed entirely at business.

Alternative models of support, including sinecure (essentially: tenure), and specific prize awards, might be other options. I'm exploring this area, the history is interesting.

Markets have a strong tendency to reward gambling-type activities, especially around monopoly formation.
AT&T requires police to hide Hemisphere phone spying
Yeah! It's just half an inch of blank space where it used to be. Bizarre.
Many very bad things have happened in large organizations, and have persisted for years or decades without someone blowing the whistle. The Catholic Church, intelligence agencies, and many police forces come to mind.

I don't think engineers are more principled than others, and thinking we are exceptional is, IMHO, the number one way to expose ourselves to these human frailties.
How come the GNU tar maintainer was ignoring this for 6 months? Shouldn't someone better take over then? Huge fail.
I would argue that many apps/sites don't have UIs where everything can be interacted with these days, and therefore hints are very important.
I have my eyes focused on the screen, now I have to look down, understand what's on the touch bar, then look back up. It sucks.
All the Vine celebrities have moved on to Instagram and YouTube. I opened it up a few weeks ago, forgetting I still had it installed in a folder, and all the big names I followed hadn't published anything in months. So I deleted the app and decided it was pretty much finished.
Why is the block button not sufficient?
I'm happy to see the escape button is still there,and you can bring back the function buttons by pressing the "function" button on the physical keyboard.
But again, you could also argue that there would be fewer Linux exploits if it were closed source. And Linux exploits have definitely caused loss of revenue for web hosting companies, and preventing that kind of abuse does carry weight too.

With search engines, there's two things. If the core goal of a search engine is to link to ads, (or pages with ads) then bad-actors will be incentivized because there's money to be made. If the core goal was simply to link to content then the incentive goes away, and so does the problem.
This sort of comparison isn't apt. The benefit to the city for improved tourism is more than outweighed by the jobs unfulfilled by workers who couldn't find a place to move into the city.
I can't get over the ESC key.

I need to experience it in order to make a final decision but even though it's "there" the position looks awkward.
There should be a single thread about all announcements on that event to don't flood front page with separate submissions.
I'm on a 2015 MacBook Pro 15" and, just glancing down at the current function row, it seems like it's really not THAT far away from the bottom of the screen. So if you look at the dock routinely, jumping an inch or so to the new Touch Bar might not be such a pain.
I can't get over the incredibly smarmy vibe that Apple emits at all times. It permeates their entire aura and the consistency amazes me.

Every presenter has the same kind of rhythm and timing. I wonder who coaches them?
Well to be honest I'm not a hive mind. When I said long form it's quite likely I was mistaken. I was under the impression YouTube started with 15 minute videos which is infinitely longer than 6 second clips or whatever vine is.

"We're losing money on it and have to fire people from the main company we should probably not keep this thing alive and we dont want competitors to our main product now it does videos neither" is definitely a convincing argument
Isn't the exact same criticism relevant to Snap too?

They're solving it by bringing native content from partners on board - would have thought Twitter would do the same with Vine.
Wishing for unrealistic fantasy to become reality is just that, unrealistic.

Anecdote: Many of my high school friends and peers went on to pursue medicine. I pursued engineering. Multiple times I was asked by these people, "You're smart so why aren't you spending your life making a difference?" Your comment and its ilk remind me of that question.
> Many tech engineers are extremely principled

Extremely principled about who should win the election.

I don't want to turn this discussion into the presidential mess, but it's no secret that virtually almost everyone working for a particular search engine, from employee to executive support one particular candidate and not the other.
It's a consumer-level gimmick jammed into what's supposed to be a professional tool. Sad.
Which inevitably leads to additional questions probing your actual comprehension. Fortunately, after a few weeks in each grade, I found that teachers did tend to accept it. After sufficient probing attempts that felt like they were trying publicly disgrace me for claiming to have read the material but not actually doing so...
Google Chrome shipping with web bluetooth privacy disaster?
Doing things without staring at my keyboard to figure out what buttons are available at every moment.
So if it was simply a video making of the phone or its likeness (a S7 by the way, not Nexus) by mocking its technical prowess and then showing an explosion as a "feature, not a bug" then sure it'd be parody. Self-referential. Using the S7 as a detonator? Much more like commentary, though it's toeing close to satire in that the notion of the reference (comedic/etc) is not targeted at the phone itself but in an alternate application.

Like taking a tampon and shoving it up a person's nose as a way to stop bleeding from cocaine abuse and making an ad about it - that's not direct parody, and it's a lot closer to what's going on than some would like to acknowledge.

I do know very well there's a lot of over-reach when it comes to Fair Use but picking bad examples, like the EFF loves to do and then jack up with all sorts of FUD end of the world rhetoric, doesn't help.
I think the touch bar is gimmicky, but I have to give Apple credit for bucking the trend of hiding UI and making functionality more rather than less visible to users. The trend in the mobile OSs has been to hide more and more functions being hamburger menus (Android), toolbars that only pop up when you tap them (Apple Maps), cryptic flat icons, etc. It's totally undiscoverable. This is the opposite: context-sensitive commands that show up and let the user know what he or she can do.

EDIT: This is how I feel about the "ESC" key thing as an Emacs user: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/59dp9u/apple_f....
Yeah, I figured I could eventually teach myself; it's never been something I cared about enough. Even at my fastest, my recollection and enjoyment suffered. If it was fiction, appreciating the author's prose and word choice and flow was more important, and seemed best enjoyed by vocalizing it, and if it was non-fiction, then capping my speed helped me understand and consider and generally grok the concepts.
I like the idea of the Touch Bar, and it does look like a great feature for customization and additional information space.

A couple of thoughts:

* What advantages does the Touch Bar have over chording? One I can think of is less need for memorization.

* One advantage of physical keys is the physical keypress. I can imagine Apple adding taptic feedback in the future.

All and all, I think this is a good move forward.

* Is the the Touch Bar the new <marquee> /s
Usually there's a thread for each new/updated device. I don't know if there is an official policy on it.
No! This meme is just wrong (and it does grind my gears to an unreasonable amount as a physicist). In physics quantum means discrete, it does not mean small. Hence the idiom "quantum leap" used as "a discontinuous abrupt jump in quality" is perfectly in sync with the way physicists use the phrase.
Can't escape Apple's courage. ;)
They're not just pretending nobody ever uses function keys--they insinuated that no one has had a use for them since 1971.
It's because the whole rotten mess that is academia is dying, that's why.
Do you have a bunch of part-time jobs? Can you do most remotely or freelance? How does it work for you?
Looks like you can program the touchbar to have an esc key.
Wait... why is this laughable? It seems incredibly useful.
The entire function row still exists including the Escape Key. The Touch Bar is customizable, and I would imagine we will see a "global ESC" application pretty quick.
That's fantastic. I can't imagine how much work has gone into this project. I'm excited to see what this does for the adoption of Origami. Are there any personal stories from the process you're able to share?
The spacebar is a big amount of wasted space. They should make this a Touch Bar too so you can map multiple buttons to it.
Apple Event ThreadApple Keynote, October 2016 – Event Megathread
There will be another megathread after the event ends, where you’ll be able to voice your opinions and thoughts and reactions about the whole thing.
Is there really a return of the 17 inch?
Seems to be well thought out and not just a gimmicky feature.
Using Go for competitive programming
A good point, but experts can review the algorithms and report on them to laypeople. Almost everything in the world that we understand is a result of that process, other than some things (not all) in the field we have expertise in. Nobody has time to review the source material in more than a tiny fraction of the things they know.
That isn't the majority of people, though. Most of humanity lives in either apartments, cookie cutter developments, decades old homes they didn't build, or shanties. They don't get to choose, and customization is a luxury.
2013?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_governme...
In typical Apple fashion, there's a dongle for that.

Sarcasm aside, I wonder how well this will work if you use Boot Camp. Does the TouchBar revert to a normal function bar when OS isn't in control of it? Let's say I don't use VMware, and I want to boot into Linux or Windows, what happens to the TouchBar? Installing Linux or non-OS X operating system could be made more difficult without function keys. And yes, VIM and other modal editors are going to be less fun with the loss of tactile ESC.

I'm hoping the TouchBar will have some failsafe firmware mode that allows normal use of Func keys when OS doesn't have control over it.

The worst possible case in my mind is buying a small, tiny external keyboard (dongle) with just the Func keys if Boot Camp doesn't have a good solution.
(Posted in another thread, that probably will not make it as high as this)

I think conceptually this is really neat, but it could potentially suffer from one major flaw: I hardly ever look down at my keyboard. A flat, digital screen containing changing buttons does not cater well to touch typists, of which you can reasonably assume most are who use a macbook pro.
Touch ID is sweet though.
> This sounds to me like Mozilla is getting impatient with Servo.

I mean, yes. In a way. I think this was always part of the plan for Servo -- if things go well start uplifting ideas and/or code to Firefox. This isn't exactly impatience; it makes perfect sense to do this.

This isn't a change in gear for Servo, though. Servo is still chugging along. There are still no concrete plans (that I know of) for a Servo product, however Servo is working on stuff that it needs for it to be a product (i.e. it's not just focused on trying out researchy ideas to be used by Gecko), like proper SSL security. So there's nothing stopping Servo from being a product in the future, and Quantum doesn't affect this.

Quantum affects Servo in a couple of ways:

- There are now paid Gecko engineers hacking on bits of Servo (yay!). On the flipside, paid Servo engineers (e.g. me) are working on Quantum, but for the most part this involves improving Servo itself.

- Rough edges are being polished, web compatibility is being addressed for the quantum components. These were things that were always being worked on, but weren't always a priority for a given component. For example, there have always been optimizations that we knew we could do, but we hadn't done them so far since there were other researchy things to focus on. Now these are getting implemented.

- The build/CI system will probably have major changes to make it possible to smoothly integrate with Gecko. This doesn't really affect goals, just the day-to-day servo developer experience.

It doesn't affect Servo's goals or de-emphasize Servo itself. It just gets some of the advances that Servo has made to the public faster.
Facebook Login for TVs
I know there's a lot of hate, but I think the Touch Bar is really exciting. The keyboard + trackpad paradigm could use a little innovation and evolution in light of many years of touch screens. I wish they had made the trackpad itself a touch screen, but I suspect that's an inevitability now.

I just hope that web pages can customize the Touch Bar too.
I don't. I think there's a conflation where "zombie" is interpreted as "lacking consciousness". But the description I'm seeing in the Encyclopedia, as well as LW's definition and my own definition is closer to "entity that doesn't process what they feel" (doesn't feel what they process? Sees blindly? Blargh).

> by definition there is ‘nothing it is like’ to be a zombie

Non-conscious animals are still often perceived as processing feelings and therefore capable of the concept of suffering. You could try imagining being a simple animal, even if it's as simple as a single signal that goes 1 and 0. Zombies don't process any feelings and ethical consideration in their address wouldn't make much sense, it's like being concerned with the ethics relating to a sun or a hydroelectric dam.
It's interesting to see how many of the sites (those that are being presented by other than the owners, anyway) are getting crushed by the spike of traffic from HN.
I cannot understand how a company like Apple, known and proven to build exceptional hardware, won't let me use my iPhone headset with the new MacBook.
You've never tried to buy a good microscope, have you?

Kitting out a lab to do publishable work in a lot of fields right now is just jaw-droppingly expensive.
I created EncryptedGist [1][2] to cover part of this use case. It gets me Vim backed by GitHub Gists on any machine I happen to be working on. Adding localStorage would be easy [3], but undesirable for my main purpose - I do not want any of my personal information remaining on the machine.

Edit: And just in case it wasn't obvious, I prefer to maintain my todo list/logs/notes/projects/bookmarks in a single plaintext file. Grows about 30k lines/year. Vim search/grep and some basic structuring/naming conventions go a long way.

Top of the file is my todo list with priority order of top 3 tasks. Next is a 'Waiting For' list. Last is a 'Projects' list for longer term, high-level categories. This fits on a single screen. Completed tasks, meeting notes, logs, bookmarks, etc., go below in chronological order and are all associated with a date. This system has worked well for the last decade or so with minor changes.

[1] https://github.com/srpeck/encryptedgist

[2] HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12475070

[3] https://github.com/srpeck/encrypted
HN is full of people who touch-type F9, I know. But I'm pretty excited about the toolbar. In anything but my primary editor, it will dramatically increase my ability to get by keyboard-only. For 99% of people, the increased discoverability will dramatically increase their ability to use shortcuts.

And even the other 1% don't spend all their time within a set of applications small enough to memorize all shortcuts.
I'd be sad to see physical function keys go. Maybe there'll be a gizmo that I can put over the TouchBar that gives me physical keys that can simulate touches for me. :)
Vim users: best of luck.
> At that point, I see no reason for vim users to complain (saying that as a vim user).

Other than the escape button is only available contextually, and has moved? Other than the function keys some of us use as more mappings (such as in insert mode) now require looking at the keyboard and using a chord (Fn-touchbar).

Of course, we can get used to it. Of course, we can just use another keyboard. Of course, we can learn alternate key bindings for escape. The change was unnecessary. Other companies have tried it and given way back to physical F keys - that should say something right there.

Here's a thought: instead of removing keys for a touchbar, why not make the screen touchable? That way you don't need extra controls and interfaces to allow for scrubbing, volume control, application launching, etc.
> Lenovo Thinkpad T-Series here, all hardware functional out of the box

Indeed! Lenovo Thinkpads in my company as well, and everything mostly "just works".

There are also some Samsung Ultrabooks (I heard they have some trouble with the boot partition) and some poor quality local brand clones which break down if you stare at them too hard (but that's independent of the installed OS).

The Thinkpads give no trouble. No idea why they're phasing them out. Cost savings maybe? :(
Though oddly not properly aligned. It's about 2/3 of the way off the ~ key for some reason.
That is the last possible thing we'd want. We already have contract law that covers the case where a customer has paid a provider to provide a service and the service provider stops without delivering. But, in the case of a free service, where there are no commitments, service providers should be free to stop providing services whenever they want.
Saw that, but the position is really weird. So weird that I am not sure muscle memory will adapt.

Since I use a real keyboard 85% of the time, the 15% I use on the mac is bound to be painful.
The aforementioned issues aside, Windows 10 is an amazingly good operating system.
When organizations do something highly questionable it usually happens in teams where people have been selected, through time, to accept the ethical or legal consequences.
It absolutely is (at least in the sciences)...the problem is that the path to tenure does not value this type of work. Naturally people could switch their focus once they do have tenure. That assumes that people are not creatures of habit though. The type of people who are likely to succeed on the path to tenure in its current form are those that are focused on production. Asking them (i.e., giving them the freedom) to suddenly change their focus to big, world changing, problems once they are 'free to do so' is unrealistic. Being taught through grad school, post docs, and your time as an assistant professor that this thing is how we measure value becomes your worldview.

Just ask Peter Higgs[0]

[0]http://www.sciencealert.com/peter-higgs-says-he-wouldn-t-hav...
What personal information was divulged?
Have you seen the new Ghosts with Guns video?
I don't think you can just gaze at a dam from the visitors' center and accurately deduce how much renewable energy is being produced by hydroelectric power across one of the largest countries in the world. Why, even buying a souvenir T-shirt in the gift shop might not be enough to gain that information.
Why would any professional want to look at their keyboard to do anything? This is just a reinvention of the F-keys row from the 80s, but worse:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Norton_Comman...
You can remap the capslock key to escape. Or do what I do, have capslock be ctrl when combined with a non modifier key, and escape otherwise. I enter normal mode with my pinky.
Yes, gasoline is taxed at the retail level (though not particularly heavily in the US).

However oil & gas production receives significant subsidies in many (most?) countries around the world, including the US.

In addition, oil used for things like aviation fuel, heating, power generation, and maritime fuels used for shipping, are typically completely tax-free.
Individualized Ads on TV Could Be One Result of AT&T-Time Warner Merger
http://caniuse.com/#feat=http-live-streaming
Replacing hardware keys with a touchscreen on a laptop made for power users is a sign that Apple has lost touch with what made the MacBook Pro popular in the first place. I think they could have just upgraded to the newest CPU and put a new battery in and made everyone happy.
If you’re going to have a policy on employee romantic relationships, my suggestion would be to focus on relationships where one partner is in a position of authority over the other ... And yes, this policy should be clearly spelled out in a company handbook – it shouldn’t be something your team is confused about or has to ask about.

This pretty closely describes the situation at the Fortune 500 company I worked at for a time. I thought it worked pretty well.