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Ask HN: What to do when CEO is distant / closed off?
Hey HackerNews!

Throwaway Account here.

I work as a Team Lead at a growing San Francisco start-up that has recently gone through a round of funding and ever since then the CEO has pretty much gone "dark" to everyone except 3 people in the company.

This isn't giving me much faith in the company or it's future culture if the CEO isn't willing to interact with the employees and shut himself off in a corner of the office.

The really depressing part is that the rest of the company seems to following suit and shutting themselves off from everyone else. It wasn't always this way, and for a while now I have been hoping that it was merely a phase that the CEO & Management was going through due to pressure but now I don't feel that.

The environment & culture stems from how the CEO acts and interacts with everyone and in this case it's causing severely negative effects.

Have you been in a similar situation & what did you do?

I really love the idea & vision of the company, but it feels like the CEO and key members aren't a part of it anymore.

What can I do?
Sure; companies are required to generate value for shareholders. That does not necessarily mean profit.
I'm not saying that there aren't companies that are responsible with their data. I'm saying I really disbelieve that the majority of companies treat their data this way. There's too many fly-by-night shops.

My point though, is that the attack is definitely feasible. I think WM has every right to be concerned.
Compassion and fast progress: choose one.

The "catastrophic " healthcare subsides all other healthcares around the world - 99% of new drugs and medical equipment are first introduced in the US. After the US market pays to big degree for the R&D, the rest of the world gets em far cheaply.

The lack of universal healthcare is a major factor pushing people in US to work harder. Hard work = Uber, FB, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.
Sacrificial Jerk
Have you opened in the the last three years? If not, toss it.

I wouldn't bother trying to sell them. Books aren't worth much. Recycle sounds like the best option. But I would put them up on Gumtree/Craigslist/Local FB group to see if there is a CS-Student or similar who couldnt' make use out of some of them.

That said, I have a couple of boxes of tech books in the shed that I've still not gotten rid of.
Thought this was for PopcornTime for a minute..

Multi ore Linux could be pretty cool.

Mix and match CPUs anyone?
> Even if those legal means go against everything you stand for, you have to pursue them because you have a fiduciary duty.

This is not true, and never has been even a little bit true (in the US). It's a commonly misquoted trope.

Assuming your company happens to be public (the only way this matters) - you still can do whatever you like as controlling CEO short of outright fraud or negligence. If you decide to switch your Fortune 500 company to it's sole goal being charity - you could definitely do that without going to jail or being liable for anything.

You might lose your job though.

If you own a private company you started yourself and own the equity? You can do everything up to and including burning the building down.
A lot of these are brilliantly displayed with varying degrees of integration and success on airline pages. [1],[2]

[1] http://sas.dk (Search for e.g. Copenhagen -> London)

[2] http://lufthansa.com (Search for e.g. Frankfurt -> Copenhagen)
You're absolutely right! It's possible that a methodology can be described as poor without every showing what poor is in context.

It's possible that some might regard this as such a context, but I happen to be of the opinion that the original comment both noted a poor methodology and clearly showed what about it was poor.
LESSON #5 -- “I saw…a city in the clouds.”
That somewhat depends on what you consider education spending. We waste ridiculous amounts of money doing things only tangentially related to education.

Median teacher salary in the US public schools = $57,200. And 50.4 million students attend public elementary and secondary schools combine. Teacher student ratio is nominally 16.1 so ~3.5k* per student. However, the total spending per student is actually ~$12.7k core and 15.5k w/ indirect support.

This gap covers support staff, buildings, equipment, trips, testing, etc but most other school systems do that stuff for far less money. https://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2014-Indicator%20B1%20(eng).pdf has PPP numbers for this stuff. But, it assumes each country is using the same metrics.

*Note that's just salary benefits get complicated to calculate.
The quotas are insane. It artificially hurts people from populous countries, making it basically impossible to immigrate to the US from india even if you are highly educated without H1B, which is itself a random system.
There are more people in India than China so that is a bit rich.
> Maine, meanwhile, is set to be hit so hard by the shortage that Republican Governor Paul LePage has conditionally commuted the sentences of a number of prisoners so that they can fill some of the needed positions.

That's interesting - I wonder what the conditions are?
Increasing salaries needed for H1B was long overdue, obama should have fixed that as one of the first things. Trump, like him or not is taking a hard look at many of these visas. Scrapping the founders visa is not a bad idea there are plenty of other opportuninties to get into the US.
The dimensions are the dice.
Page explodes for me into an unhappy tab, on OpenBSD/Chrome at least.
I'm using this as my daily-driver font when I remember to install it. :)
The sets of dice which have equal sums will often have different constituent values.
This would only be possible if EU companies were violating US laws or regulations. Given that EU laws and regulations are typically more restrictive than those in the US and EU companies are already required to comply with them, it seems less likely that an EU company would be fined by the US than a US company fined by the EU.

And I, as a consumer, hope that the opposite happens. The lack of regulation in the US may be great for corporations but it's definitely not for consumers. When it comes to things like privacy, most of the features I get from US companies seem to be a result of EU regulations.

Note: I live and work in the US for a major US company. I just prefer to have consumer rights than a minor bump to my stock portfolio value.
100% this. I solely use the unofficial AnkiDroid port because it's leagues beyond the awful desktop app.

Somewhat related: a lot of its horribleness comes from the fact that the UI is written with QT, which is equally horrible for Windows and Mac, and basically okay for Linux as long as your DE is KDE.
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Yes but at least the local economy in SF can support absurd housing prices. Unless you plan on making or paying much higher than average salaries in Vancouver it's going to be very different attracting talent there.
I had he exact opposite reaction: expecting it to be US-exclusive and got to the last paragraph where it said they don't support any US banks. Big ole' :-( face.
iOS 11 Beta 2 Changes: Control Center Tweaks, Experimental Safari Settings, Do N
Pre-link-click: Ooo another site by Google these are usually pretty cool; at least they're well made...
First impression: LOL this site was made by Google?! Page load is atrocious. Interaction using mobile is very bad.
Lasting impression: This is like some weird developer designer hybrid that encourages...I don't even know...Extra....Weird...serifs
My impression, working for a Fortune 500, is that management is largely an information processing task. They are gathering, analyzing, and communicating information, but typically have to deal with both quantitative and qualitative information of varying quality from disparate sources.

They are also skilled at certain kinds of tasks such as creating business plans, budgets, etc., and serving them up in a recognizable format that other people can use.

Supervision is a different kind of task, some managers are good at it, others aren't.

Hopefully your business grows to the point where you need someone who can perform these tasks for you.

Certainly, the ability to make things was what got my business off the ground. I'm still a one man shop, and my sales don't justify hiring myself full time, much less another worker -- management or otherwise.
Interesting, I thought you had to be a special type of corporation for that. My language is a bit strong then.
That actually didn't happen. http://globalnews.ca/news/3340159/donald-trump-angela-merkel...
> Free markets win every time.

Unless they result in a monopoly, which has arguably happened in the case of Google. Users only want to use one place to search, Google is currently dominant and the problem seems solved well enough that no newcomers are likely to succeed in the future.

Now Google is using its monopoly on search to move into a new segment (shopping) with an unfair advantage.
Yeah, this is another serious issue. People have intellectual, social and emotional needs. Merely satisfying their basic physical needs is not enough.

Domino Harvey* comes to mind. She was supposedly a model turned bounty hunter. A lot of adrenaline junkies currently get their thrills doing EMS work and similar jobs. Or they have dangerous hobbies. If you take away all the constructive outlets for adrenaline junkies, you are basically left with dangerous hobbies and fomenting revolution or pursuing illegal activities merely to feel alive once in a while. This will likely not go good places.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_Harvey
From where did you derive this explanation? Truly capitavating. Very different perspective than what I've thought of, and I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about this exact thing
Thanks for your comment! My apologies, no disrespect intended - I should have clarified I meant "left" for the purpose of your IPO. It was and is fantastic to see Australian talent prosper to such heights.

I see many clever companies where I live in Melbourne - however I am saddened by what I perceive as the neglect the government is showing for the tech sector, especially startups; I'm looking e.g. at how share options are taxed. I believe there's a lot of lost opportunity here.
I'm pretty disappointed with the specs on most Lenovo laptops anymore. Why does everyone put junk ULV processors in laptops nowadays? I'd die for a slightly thicker laptop that had good specs at a price that's more reasonable. No joke, you'd be much better with a used 2012 MBP than nearly any recent Thinkpad. I have an X1 Carbon that is just pathetic. With Apple going the direction it is, I really wish there was an alternative.
You don't see the point, but you think it delivers little value. You don't understand it, but you're going to assert as fact that it's unhelpful. I don't wish you luck with that perspective, it's ignorance followed promptly by pontificating, not merely contrary or skeptical.
Is the use of "vendors" in the title misleading? The title suggests it refers to people who are supplying WalMart with pickles and paper towels to sell.

But it seems to refer to tech contracting firms who are implementing software services for WalMart. WalMart is saying they do not want their proprietary algorithms and information running on servers owned by their main competitor. That is very reasonable and sensible.
Your recipy almost matches my dream laptop:

15'' ThinkPad, ca. 2005 era

KabyLake quad or more cores, maxed out memory

rMBP screen

All thinkpad ports in their modern incarnations (gigabit ether, USB 3.1, hdmi), add 1-2 USB-C

rMBP Touchpad before it became Forcetouch

Essentially, give me the Ford F-150 raptor of laptops. And I'm saying this as a European ;).
What it’s like to interview with BuzzFeed Engineering
The article's contention is that on-the-ground teachers expect that two people coming out of a high school Algebra II with C+'s are similar.
> Here's the point: At some future point in time, torrent and video traffic will be negligible faction of the total amount of bandwidth available.

What will be taking the rest of the bandwidth? It certainly won't be idle or it won't get built out at all.
Since the matter appears to be exemplified in the Askin article I've cited at the top of this thread, and I'm trying to honestly and fairly present the facts of current law and informed discussion, I'll simply quote Aksin's abstract:

Since the Supreme Court reinforced the state-action doctrine in the early Seventies and ruled that privately owned shopping malls could not qualify as a public forums under the First Amendment, efforts to protect free expression at privately-owned public gathering places have shifted to state courts.

That is: privately-owned, publicly-accessed spaces "do not qualify as a public forum". As a consequence, "courts must now consider the constitutional obligation of private communities." This includes, for example, privately-owned condominiums -- people's homes: "In a case involving a high-rise condominium, the court held that once the condo association opens a forum for some speech, it must allow access to opposing speech."

You might argue that Prof. Askin is misrepresenting the state of law as of 1999. That may be the case -- I read and follow some legal discussion, but haven't formally studied law myself.

I find your characterisation of my descriptions as "false" exceedingly uncharitable.

And with that I'm dropping this thread.
Maybe twitter will watch and learn. They have some similar problems.
> You might lose your job though.

That's what I was trying to get at. I didn't mean to make it sound like you'd go to jail.
Oh you've only got experience with Labradors? This is a rottweiler company.
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> you have one big consumer that is eating the major part of that every day, making the others miserable, isn't it reasonable to limit that consumer's bandwidth somehow?

NN doesn't force ISPs to not have bandwidth caps on consumers. They are free to do this. The fact that most ISPs in the world are able to provide unlimited bandwidth should provide you some hint on how cheap bandwidth is.

> I can see a world where you would have to pay a little more for Netflix and a little less for sshing to your VPS.

Unlike a restaurant, ISPs are in the delivery business. It should not matter what is being delivered.
different from*
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Is the fact you don't talk at all about security in this blog post or on your home page deliberate?
Ask HN: Why do people pay for Balsamiq, when there are better free alternatives?
I don't trust any article with art of computer programming as a must read.
Shit, I am locking myself in my room to study to get a job in silicon valley, what now?
It seems to me Apple is correcting though, looking at recent announcements. They seem to have been listening pretty hard. If they correct their messy port situation then all is pretty much in order again IMO.
Yeah, weddings and graduations are a big hit for them. Definitely a new must have for event planners that just gets folded into the cost of the event.
Incredibly irresponsible, and exceedingly hypocritical.

Before you can start work, Los Alamos National Labs requires an inordinate amount of safety training.

Despite two weeks of videos like this [1], managers think it's ok to make their reports risk the fate of Slotin.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDsTc2oWGSI
Clooney and Partners Sell Tequila to Diageo for $1B
Tips are literally tips. For example, you read a blog post from someone's official account and tap 'tip' to give a few rmb in appreciation of the writing.
I was just in Lima, Peru. This is what you see if you're on Facebook on someone's phone (I was tethering), and click a link that takes you outside of Facebook:

https://s22.postimg.org/lilkrmo4x/Screen_Shot_2017-06-21_at_...

What do you think your chances of competing against Facebook, or Facebook-based businesses, are, when clients see this before accessing your site?
the difference is that it's pretty easy to tell a good b school (lots of objective rankings). at an early stage, it's really tough to tell a good startup- as a candidate you are at a significant disadvantage in choosing a startup employer due to the lack of available information. not saying one is better than the other, but that making that choice is far more difficult than the couple of sentences you mentioned.
Deako (YC W16) Is Hiring a Senior Product Manager Generalist
As a male, the most common time for me to drop 6lbs in one sitting is 8am. Related?
Slavery had a simple legal solution, abolition. The political will to enact it had to be generated with a civil war. What would you propose as a legal solution for this? And how dearly do you think we would need to pay for it?
When the president consistently acts childishly (with corroboration from his staff, videos of him pushing others aside for photo ops, and countless other shenanigans), does one rationally conclude he is childish, or that he is playing "10-dimensional chess?" (as his most zealous champions inevitably conclude)

A serious question: what would the president have to do, within reason, for you to consider him petty, childish, or incompetent?
What a strange comment. Of course the costs of an education don't just include the teachers salary.
Maybe he's not a man child, but what's his MO? His approval ratings are shite, so somethings not working
:) I'm sorry. I thought the sarcasm was dripping when I wrote this. It was my attempt to cut through the nonsense of his conclusion and to highlight that when Steve was visiting PARC, maybe the reason he wasn't "top gun" was because he was in the presence of some true giants at the time.
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This isn't relevant. You might as well say it would be really difficult with a donkey ride, as they have no registration numbers
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Thanks, these are helpful. Is it mostly searches with quoted words?

brian@duckduckgo.com
> Nationalism is a Bad Thing in my view.

First of all, nationalism is not national sovereignty.

The former is a social construct which an individual embraces while the latter is a principal of law which a group embraces.

The former is hardly useful, but the latter is vital to all existing nations. No nation is going to willingly give up its right to self governance.

> I'm in favor of putting limits on concentrations of sovereignty.

So, essentially, you wish to live in a world without borders where one or more unions govern many places regardless of geographical separation?

Because that worked out so well in the past...
I'm pretty sure they honestly and truly believe that the economy is doing well /despite/ Democrat policies rather than because of it. That, or they believe that the financial crisis was just a blip and now this is the economy in its "natural state".

Regardless, whatever the problem is, their solution is always lowering taxes on corporations and rich people. Whether the economy is doing poorly or well, that is what they will propose.
How would you respond to the fact that A lot of ISPs have local monopolies and they have 0 incentive to pass on any savings they materialize to customers? Also, many ISPs are also media companies, and sabotaging internet based entertainment is beneficial to them?
Assuming, wholesale prices 50% of retail, I get this sale to come out at 20X sales. High, but given its growth rate not crazy high.
> Sharoon Thomas until recently ran his e-commerce software startup, Fulfil.io, from an office on Castro Street in Mountain View. The international entrepreneur rule — or any visa tailored toward entrepreneurs — would have helped him stay in the U.S., he said. Instead, Thomas is moving the company to Canada, which he said has more relaxed visa rules.

Well, that will surely make america bigly again.
How many upvotes did this receive?
gathering data about users?
An options clause, usually - giving the founder the right to buy back the company/brand at a fixed price - it's enticing to new owners too because it mitigates their risk (e.g. if they run it into th ground while the old owner is interested in it, then it will limit their losses) - the difficulty then is not making the buyback price too high that the original owner can't afford it, or if the new owner screws it up so badly that the original owner loses interest.
Ahem. I think public roads sometimes have, e.g., limits for heavy vehicles or various dedicated lanes. ;)

My actual point is, analogies just don't work.
Thanks for the feedback. We only return videos from YouTube right now, but expanding that is definitely something we'd like to do in the future.
You don't need to be present in the US to run a company there (LLC, C-Corp), so frankly I am not sure it would be a big deal.
> regulation typically increases downstream costs

This is a common claim that is rarely supported with data. Why does enforcing net neutrality increase downstream costs?

If you mean that it shifts costs (you pay more for Netflix because they have to pay Comcast for fair service), then sure. I don't see any evidence that net neutrality actually changes the underlying cost of net service, though.

There's a great counterpoint to your claim in the USPS. Their prices are regulated by congress. Those prices are pushed down artificially to the point that it's slowly bankrupting the USPS. So service is definitely cheaper than it would be without regulation. (Send a letter via FedEx and see what the free market charges for this service.)
> like having the Progressive Party actually be into human trafficking.

IIRC, the Party, per se, wasn't, though a leader of that party was an agent of an organization that was.
They currently have 150B posts (https://www.tumblr.com/about) so I expect that to be quite challenging. If you seriously make any progress though, it'd be cool to see.
I've had similar problems. At this point, I basically run a botnet, albeit one I pay for. I have a rolling swarm of DigitalOcean and Vultr VMs that act as RPC clients for a custom system I wrote.
Not all goods are the same. The prices of stocks and houses vary according to the demand, this is for all scarce assets. Labor demand varies with price.

The price of construction is not the same as the price of housing. The price of construction has only gone down over time, because it's constrained only by time and materials, not scarcity.
Duckduckgo is my default at work and on my phone. I love it for quick programming questions and usually everything else is fine but if I'm doing any design and need images I usually for some reason head to google but for everything else I'd rather not have google turn my query into my next YouTube ad2 seconds later..
I'm guessing that Netflix and video generally have somewhat democratized high data usage. At least they've probably shifted it from torrenting to hours and hours a day of video and music streaming. Haven't seen a breakdown recently though.
Yea, it might not have been clear.

I just mean there is a sliding scale where you can include a school nurse as education spending or healthcare spending and countries don't always slice stuff the same way. Is reduced cost lunches welfare or education, how about subsidized school supplies?
The marketing guy use Comic Sans.
Why do you assume everything has already happened? Do you also assume Gmail passwords have already been hacked? Just asking.
If you're American:

1. People contribute to the economy. More people means the economy grows faster.

2. Lots of people would come to USA if it was easier for them to do so.

Of course if you are China or other USA competitor, you want low USA immigration, so that people stay in your country, and grow your economy instead.
He's also wrong because Jobs never assembled a team to create a desktop PC that was as powerful, simple, extensible and well thought out as the full Alto stack.

Even when they started NeXT, they still didn't fully realize the full potential of full dynamic, late bounded, messaged based object-oriented programming system.
I can no longer fall asleep without listening to an audiobook. Currently listening to HPatMoR.