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Well, they had 600 employees as of Dec. 31, 2015. They paid them 65.1 million shares from April 2015 - Dec. 2015, which is an average of 108,500 shares per employee. Using the $17 IPO price, that's an average 2015 compensation of $1.8 million per employee that year.

They had 1,859 employees by Dec. 31, 2016, and issued an additional 105 million shares in 2016, so that's an average of ~$960k per employee paid in 2016.

Those are averages, of course. But I think a lot of people made a lot of money this year.
I would imagine most of them can't, it amounts to trying to bail out the ocean, one bucket at a time.

In less hyperbolic terms, many of these programs are attempting to tackle intractable societal problems when - even for ones that are relatively well-funded - the cost of organizational overhead, limited ability to cause lasting impact outside of their specific area of influence, etc., reduce what they do to a lot of good intentions and few meaningful results.

Depending on the "clientele," it amounts to attempting to provide assistance to people who really can't or don't want to be helped (hard drugs and the chronic homeless, for example).
Nice work! I've always wanted something like this but as a browser extension for Amazon. On each product it would insert a box that shows how ethical the company behind this product is. Could also show things like how sustainably it was made and if it wad made in a sweatshop etc.
On a related theme of annoyances, I use this extension to prevent auto-playing videos:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-autoplay-blo...
I'm ignorant as far as Australian law. Is this true if the company is based in America and the worker is laboring either in America or remotely? It seems like at that point Australian law wouldn't directly apply to termination decisions.
Do you have a way to handle the fact that emacs locks up while evaluating code?

I love org+babel until my entire emacs session hangs because I kicked off an operation that takes time.
Computers don't understand concepts and people only do. Our gradual ascent from hardware to intuitively-usable mechanisms involves abstracting away the repeated "okay, given these primitives, here's how we'd use them" to go the next layer up.
> those who didn't want to be identified of wrong think

I'm inclined to think the kind of employees most afraid of that would be those who didn't want him fired.
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He's not firing his buddy at a 15-person company.

Regardless of whether he made the right or wrong call, Pichai, could not for one moment "be candid".

Whatever he said, or did, would become public and whatever he did as head of a very large and well known consumer-facing company, would reverberate beyond the company [and would be parsed for meaning and perh lawsuits]

The only wiggle room he had was to play it down a bit, maybe waffle and delay till his team could formulate a more nuanced response.

Agree or disagree these sorts of things can turn into PR fiascos --perhaps some of it their own doing because of how they market themselves --Walmart, another consumer facing company, markets itself differently and would have more wiggle room --probably lots more.

But no, a Google can't publish a "we screwed up" mea culpa style response that a brash start-up can.
Not even IP. Source/destinations would both only be crypto identifiers. The multiplexing part is just a convenient way of expressing different data streams to simpler protocols for QoS and other activities.

That does imply that there should be a way (possibly host to host, possibly build in to some kind of service resolution system) of looking up a 'name entry' and 'service type'.
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It's not stable though is it? Their revenue has gone down 22 quarters in a row
Part of the difficulty here - is you're not just upgrading the whole stack, you're instead layering on whatever stack is already there - its a needed part of deploying any new technology without replacing everything from the basement up. I'm not sure what this guy would do instead however - as someone with a decent networking background, I got completely lost in the end.
They had so much time to contribute but instead chose marketing and pushed into areas where they didn't really have a handle on yet. As in management didn't understand.

I mean all the datasets, dozens of libraries, stunning NN demos and training sets, TPUs (multiple versions at that!) all could've come out of the company.

Think if keras and tensor flow were from IBM. Or all those cars now running Nvidia Jetson, or mega datacenters running NV100s or Google TPUs.

Shoot they even had a chance to enhance PowerPC ICs for NNs.

Alas but nope.
Sidenote: Which parses better: buzzfeed-esque, buzzfeedesque or buzzfedian?
We'll switch to IPv6, and every service will still go through port 80.
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yeah i was gonna say. give it a week or a month to even out and so we can get more samples before we crown anyone king
During the 1960s in the US, it became culturally taboo to express explicit racism. Perhaps we are undergoing a similar transition now.
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Maybe you should read it again and let us know which of those options it is.
If the viz tool can speak to Postgres, it works with Timescale. Tableau, Superset, SQLPad, Mode, Plot.ly, etc.

We internally use Grafana through a REST interface to a timescale backend. (And in fact, that's how we visualize the Prometheus data we store in Timescale: https://github.com/timescale/pg_prometheus )

But, Grafana Labs is still working on a native Postgres connector (MySQL released earlier this year). They promise us soon :)
It's extremely hard to come up with any across the board cost of living comparison.

For example, you mentioned a red light ticket. That presupposes you drive a car, which is pretty much required in NC but far from a necessity in the SFBA.

Not to mention that while your expenses might increase substantially, there's no reason you have to keep your savings rate consistent. I'd much rather save 30% of $200k/yr than 40% of $80k/yr.
There are many variants. I was hired into a group based on tons of positive reviews of my work from a variety of senior engineering roles.

When I got into the group, I was asked to do stuff I had never done. Okay, I start to learn it, but slowly.

Then I was reorged into a different group, doing stuff I had never done. Okay, I start to learn it, but slowly.

Then I was reorged into a different group, now I'm a Developer, when I've never programmed professionally before.

I am far far worse than my colleagues at even simple tasks. It's not that I'm not trying, I'm working tons to try and learn data structures, and programming to be able to complete my job.

But it would be entirely valid for my coworkers to feel the same way about me, as you describe about this guy.

It's likely going to take another 4-6 months before I'm competent at my job. Will my colleagues still care at that point? Will I be reorged into another position by then? Who knows?

And I'm an expert at many fields, just none of the ones I'm being asked to do.

I'd leave, except my colleagues are great, the topics are great, and if someone is going to pay me to learn how to be a proper developer, I'd be stupid not to do this.

But it's hard as fuck, and I'm certainly not pulling my weight.
> But keep going further. End up with 128 bit CPU where every byte is IP addressable. Necessary security to block random outsiders from reading your memory, but capable of potentially running various parts remotely transparently

This is already a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_direct_memory_access
I worked at Redfin previously and the CEO Glen was amazing at PR. He said "You don't get to position yourself in the market. The market positions you." Then he made a joke about how he wished he could make himself tall and good looking just by claiming so. It's a self deprecating joke because he's not tall.

If someone writes they value diversity then it does not prove they do. It's a persuasion tactic. The most obvious example is "I'm not racist, but..." Pay attention to what comes after the "but".
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Not OP but I have a TypeMatrix that I really like.
Let's also not forget that the IRS primarily accepts tax payments electronically and not with bills.
Not like it's exclusive to the valley. Like, you'll find it in NYC. I know a girl who could get arrested and smile about it, but will have a meltdown if you say that men and women aren't identically distributed populations of blank slates.

For this reason I don't think all the people who stayed home were fake-offended or scare-quote offended. Some just haven't hit certain developmental milestones, of the sort where you can think about population distributions, probabilities, or think about the universe without an evil genius rewriting everything to fit your fractally wrong worldview.
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Can you buy clean energy from your utility? If you're in California PG&E has a program called Solar Choice where it attempts to offset your electrical consumption by building additional renewable capacity. So far it's only added about $2 or $3 to my bill. Many other utilities have similar programs.
> I have not yet made a decision about how to respond to James Damore's memo about diversity at Google. I am going to wait for the outrage to subside, for the various members of the Twitter mob to lay down their metaphorical pitchforks and return to their homes...And this little bit of extra time will allow for hurt feelings and outrage to subside, and that will in turn allow us all to approach the issue with cooler heads and sounder judgment.

That last part in particular seems patronizing. It implies that people who wanted Damore to be punished did/could not reach that conclusion if they had exercised rational thinking and reasonable judgment. So the OP seems to be begging the question here, because the memo he believes Google's CEO should have written is the kind of memo the CEO would write if he thought the anti-Damore crowd to be irrational and over-emotional.
What... it's not having accessible apps that is forcing them to not learn how to read and write, but rather a lack of access to education and the means to obtain that education. Low-skilled workers are almost always less-educated so of course they'll rely more on audiovisual communication and that was as true in the era of letter-writing as it is today. Just because dictation and videorecording exist, doesn't mean that people will suddenly stop pursuing literacy. They'll continue doing that as long as it is required for white-collar jobs and the like. Instead you should question why the literacy rate isn't so high and why someone might be driven to not pursue education. Often, the answer will be that they're forced to work at a young age, especially when they come from elsewhere seeking opportunities. (the person profiled in the story has family in a village) We should be commending apps like these for allowing these users to get connected to the global web and gain knowledge and opportunity that was hidden behind a keyboard before. (for example, the app that lets low-skill workers find job postings) No one's forgoing how to write just because keyboards exist, so chill with the alarmist rhetoric.
I agree with the content of this article. I have read James Demore's memo, and found it to be an accurate depiction of the differences between the drives of men and women. To pretend these things don't exist, and to burn people like Damore at the stake for pointing out the obvious, is to embrace ignorance. In my opinion, Sundar Pichai handled this poorly.
Too wordy.

It would've been sufficient to stop at "I have not yet made a decision about how to respond to James Damore's memo about diversity at Google. I am going to wait for the outrage to subside".
Chatbots are glorified command line interfaces. With no man pages.
Recycling (and slightly modifying) a previous comment [0]:

Certain topics, that otherwise might be interesting to discuss, are surrounded by minefields. One such topic is the distribution of intellectual ability within subgroups of the population. This minefield was not put in place by a repressive government. Nor was it secretly put in place overnight by a fanatic band of social-justice zealots.

My observation, which I will offer without citation, is that this particular minefield was put in place, mine by mine, over a period of decades, through a process of fairly broad societal consensus.

To those who suggest clearing the minefield, thus permitting this topic to be discussed freely in public, I will invoke the principle of Chesterton's fence [1]: Before you talk of removing the mines, you need to show that you understand why the minefield was created in the first place, and you need to explain why now is the time to remove it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14970661

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
I wish I enjoyed remote work more, since I've managed to get contracts like that but really missed the feeling of working with a team in an office.
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Rewriting Elm in Haskell.

[0] Project Homepage: https://haskell-miso.org

[1] Github: https://github.com/haskell-miso/miso
Only for SF and CHI. I'd love this but I'm not in their zone.
I don’t doubt that the writer of the memo had the best of intentions with this memo. And there’s even some parts that I could support.

But the main thing that gets to me is the idea of biological differences being partially to blame. He views males as predetermined to be better engineers. And he was a senior engineer who was in a hiring position. Someone who is hiring engineers, that views female engineers as biologically inferior for the job, allows for a system of discriminatory hiring to occur.
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You shouldn't have changed your comment, even if you are scared of reprisal. Your observation about people inferring motives and being hard to argue with was on point.
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Sexism is not free speech. It's immoral and constitutes hate speech toward more than half the population of this planet.

Libertarians who say any speech should be allowed do not relate to the fact that what you say in words can and will be expressed by yourself and others in their actions. Condescension towards --and unjust treatment of-- women, and the feminine in general, is a consequence of the same sexist thoughts expressed by Damore.

You can't be both for it and against it. Our speech and actions both originate from our thoughts.
I did my first programming in HyperTalk, which I learned from the HyperCard 2.0 manual.

Back then, software came with well-written paper manuals, and the translation quality (into Finnish in my case) was very good, too. I feel like Apple manuals peaked with HyperCard 2.0.
>Strike prices are in terms of the energy actually produced, so they can be compared directly.

In a sense. But as I said, the low capacity factors will add in lots of additional cost if wind or solar is expected to some day be a significant source of power. For example:

>... In June 2011 several energy companies including Centrica told the government that 17 gas-fired plants costing £10 billion would be needed by 2020 to act as back-up generation for wind. However, as they would be standing idle for much of the time they would require "capacity payments" to make the investment economic, on top of the subsidies already paid for wind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kingd...

If by ramping up wind power the country must spend huge amounts of money for capacity payments because the plants will (hopefully) sit idle, then that cost should be added to the cost of wind. Anything is better than using coal, but people should be honest about the real costs of their choices.

>...You can, of course, argue that baseload is more valuable than intermittent sources,

Is this actually a point that anyone disagrees with? As Bill Gates said in an interview "…They have this statement that the cost of solar photovoltaic is the same as hydrocarbon’s. And that’s one of those misleadingly meaningless statements. What they mean is that at noon in Arizona, the cost of that kilowatt-hour is the same as a hydrocarbon kilowatt-hour. But it doesn’t come at night, it doesn’t come after the sun hasn’t shone, so the fact that in that one moment you reach parity, so what? The reading public, when they see things like that, they underestimate how hard this thing is. So false solutions like divestment or “Oh, it’s easy to do” hurt our ability to fix the problems. Distinguishing a real solution from a false solution is actually very complicated."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/we-need...

>...but also remember that nuclear doesn't scale well - that strike price will still be paid in the middle of the night when there is low/no demand for the energy its producing.

"low/no demand"? What developed country on this planet has no demand for electricity at night? For example, in the New England area, on an average day the demand for electricity varies from about 11 to 17 GW. With the coming electrification of the vehicle fleet, I don't think electricity usage will decrease at night. In terms of grid stability, nuclear doesn't have a problem with load following, but since the fuel cost is so minimal, it is more economic to not do that.

>... (For that reason, storage will help us make more efficient use of nuclear as well as renewables)

I don't think anyone disagrees with that. (Gates is investing in 4th gen nuclear and energy storage companies so he is putting his money where his mouth is.)

>...Wind is already a very significant energy source in the UK, supplying up to 50% of all demand on the windiest days, and 11.5% of all overall demand in 2016.

50% of all demand on windy days? Do you have a citation for that? I would think that might be true for Scotland, but kind of surprising to me if it is true for the entire UK.
> I submitted a resignation I didn't mean?

Consider his mental state during this time. He lost his mother for crying out loud and all these things were happening at the same time. Now the VCs want to pile on to that with a lawsuit. I lost my mom 3 years ago and I wasn't in a good place for months. I'm surprised he was able to even function whilst the weight of the world was on his shoulders.

I'm not saying that he should be CEO again just yet (he can take a break and recover) but to sue him at this time like he wasn't directly responsible for the billions they're now so eager to cash out on...?

Don't forget the toll entrepreneurship can have on someone's personal life: you know it from experience and you can also read on how Travis had to move back home in the early days because things didn't work out with initial projects. This is why I would always give first priority of investment to someone like Vinod Khosla who says, 'in 30yrs, I have never once voted against an entrepreneur in a board meeting'. He goes further to criticize most of these VCs as incredibly unsympathetic towards entrepreneurs because they don't know the pains of building a company. Benchmark are exactly the type of VCs Vinod Khosla warns entrepreneurs to avoid.

> I would 100% have expected Sequoia to sue me

Don't know much about Sequoia but I have never seen an article where they've sued an investee.
I've lurked there for years, precisely as an antidote to my own bubble. Probably in part because of Jessamyn's presence, it was a good proxy for well-educated, New England-style liberalism, with a sprinkle of granola. The Steven & Elyse Keatons as foil to my inner Alex P. Keaton.

It's still mostly witty, funny, gen-x zeitgeist. There's great wordplay.

The last couple of years, however, it has had an undercurrent of seething anger. There's such deep faith in really liberal social, economic, and political policies, and an increasingly narrow orthodoxy. I don't think Bill Clinton-era democrats would make it very on long on the blue these days. Hit the wrong note, and it quickly turns to Elyse toting up her unpaid emotional labor, and Steven going from NPR to Chapo Trap House, and Mallory joining the Middlebury Antifa to beat up Charles Murray.

Similar bad things have happened on the right, of course. Kids become Milo, not Alex. But it makes me sad to see the two sides drifting. It's hard to shake the bad feeling about the future.
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"Stop trying to make the meal-kit-by-mail business happen. It's not going to happen."

Meal kits are going to be a big business. But they're going to come from your grocery store, your office cafeteria, or Amazon. That's it.
Now apply your last paragraph to the people who tell us their efforts will increase diversity. For that matter, apply it to the people who complain about how a memo makes them feel unsafe while their co-workers are making open threats of violence on Twitter against the people who think it's pretty reasonably stated.

Up is down, echochambers are diverse, exclusion is inclusive, and open hostility is welcoming. We shall make tech a better place by screaming from the rooftops how atrocious of a place it is and how it's the fault of the bulk of the people working in it.

Why isn't it working, I wonder? If only we could put our finger on it.
To add to your point - due to mechanization, and fossil fuel-operated logistics, participants in WWII could field much larger armies. In ancient and medieval societies, a huge portion of the population was needed to work full-time to feed relatively small groups of artisans/warriors/politicians.

In contrast, in WWII, the Red Army conscripted 33 million men. One sixth of the population.
The Cherry Trail Z8x00 chips are listed as supporting SSE too, are you saying the Z8100P is a custom design with the SIMD units removed and MMX disabled from the x86 FPU? Interesting idea, but would call for a reference I think.
Yep. I have been working on mapping the Patrick O'Brian age of sail novels for the last 11 years.

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Author does good here, but perpetuates the same mistake most people talking about the memo do:

There were additional sections after the "hypothesis", which had specific policy suggestions--most of which were aimed at helping the situation for a broader class of people and for improving visibility into the process. That somehow keeps getting missed.
> that views female engineers as biologically inferior for the job

Did you read the article? Here's the money quote:

> His hypothesis implies that personality differences mean a smaller percentage of women will be interested in and/or qualified for a Google job than men, but that doesn’t mean any of the women at Google fall below the “qualified” threshold.

None of his expressed views lead me to assume that he'd think less of a female candidate that made it through the screening process -- and that's a viewpoint he's explicitly concerned about protecting. Even if some of his opinions did lead him to have biases at least he's open about them and interested in examining them which is the first step to fixing them.
I was (maybe) a freshman at Lakeside High School at that time, which is his Alma Mater. I believe the occasion was the opening of the Gates-Allen Math and Science Building. The year would have been 1987 or so.
I'm still running the original Surface Pro, unfortunately the magnetized grid for the pen died about two years ago leaving only touch or touch pad.

Besides that, it's going strong four years later.
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