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I don't think it was such a big deal for them until China told them that that it was a big deal and punished them accordingly until they fixed stuff according to China's liking. Everything that happened after (including firing the guy) is just fallout to clean up an issue that they didn't predict, and they're taking steps to do what China wants (like not listing Tibet as a country anymore) in order to keep operating there.

Simplest answer is often the best answer. If the survey had never happened with Tibet as a country, the tweet would never have happened, and then the whole scenario would never have come to light. It's easy to predict this in hindsight. I honestly think people didn't think about this in the past. Whether or not it's right is an entirely different question.
Compilers are rarely going to transform the 1000/1000 example into the 10/10 one, even if they were smarter.

Often such a transformation is simply impossible: the effect of interleaving the instructions may be different than what the source dictates.

Also the 1000/1000 example probably doesn't arise as a long stream of explicit instructions: it is probably just a short loop with 1000 iterations! That makes it even less likely that the compiler will simply start interleaving various instructions following the loop into the loop body somehow.
Why is that reasonable when firing an employee (vs layoffs)?

So a bad performing person now costs even more to get rid of? That might force the company to just keep them on and try to squeeze out some productivity, waiting until they just quit instead.
Not only that, but breadth-first makes it easy to: a) Iterate much faster on models; b) Keep better track of results and code and models, which is already quite difficult in ML; c) Enable other teams to work on other parts of the pipeline, in parallel.
Reminds me of the Doom status bar face. Pretty straightforward when you're visualizing one value. [http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Status_bar_face]
As an American citizen, I'm pretty ashamed our Constitution has forever enshrined slavery, and it's something that still resonates today. There is a terrible irony of setting a colony free from the UK and then having the heritage of slavery being celebrated in swaths of the United States for hundreds of years, even after abolition, as some sort of worthy heritage.
I use Spotify and never connected it to Facebook. It's not actually required. They just make the "social" features of Spotify super hard to use if you don't connect to Facebook, which... doesn't matter.
>>You think it's a violation of your First Amendment rights to be unable to openly advertise criminal activities?

I dont know... lets see

Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech,

Yep seems pretty clear to me, that congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.... So what part of that is unclear to you?

>>Where does that line end?

No where? Freedom of speech is absolute. It you have a limit on speech is stops being free speech, and become regulated speech
Exactly. I'm more than willing to pay for things I use and see worthwhile as investment in my community. However the government is not a charity, and if it were, their monetary efficiency would be very very low (revenue collected : actual benefit ratio).
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When the police order a crowd to disperse during a civil disturbance, should the camera crews who stay be prosecuted?

All we would have of the Civil Rights Movement are secondhand stories if we followed your principle.
I am ashamed that I missed seeing my obvious error in 'their/they're' usage long enough that I cannot edit the parent of this post.
I joke that the way to afford rent in LA is to live in your car. I grew up there and last visit I had one friend who sleeps in his van when he sublets his apartment and another who was looking to buy a van to live rent free for a while. It's amazing that we haven't started building upward yet.
I haven't done pairing myself, but I suspect it's highly variable based on the two specific individuals. Certainly I've noted smart and capable people I work with well, and some that I don't. Not every smart/capable pair is going to mesh. Just because I respect you doesn't mean I can work well with you, especially in such an intimate set up.
I'm a Marriott rewards platinum member, with over a year in house, and staying in a Marriott hotel right now, and I find this behavior disgraceful - and while I'm likely to complain to Marriott about it (and did previously), I'm unlikely to change my stay preferences.

Most Marriott employees I know of (not who work for franchises), speak highly of the work environment and culture that I know its a good place to work/be - but behavior like this is still at best foolish - I mean this guy just learned a multi-million dollar lesson, isnt he the one you'd want to keep on?
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If you're considering doing the same but is still on the fence, here's an alternative: News Feed Eradicator [1].

It still gives you access to messages, but eliminates the news feed, so it breaks your habit of going there to "check what's new".

Go ahead and give it a try. If after 30 days you still miss the news feed, you can just disable the extension. But I bet you won't even notice...

ps: but don't forget to delete the mobile app. Conveniently FB offers you a separate app just for messages, if desired.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
And thus the Chinese Communist Party's cold authoritarian censorship extends overseas to strike at the job of a US citizen.

It was just a few months ago that I wrote this here on HN:

> I even feel a personal dampening on what I will say publicly about China on social media, just because of hypothetical tech/travel opportunities, and I don't even live there.

Obviously, those fears were founded. Part of me is happy about the Trump tariffs because it will force more multinational corporations to stand up and show their true selves with regards to what matters more to them: access to the Chinese market, or basic human justice and dignity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16272683
The self driving car executive’s children. These guys are willing to risk my family to make a lot of money. We should make it mandatory that their kids play an extravagant game of frogger, instructed (when/where to cross) by college kids who get paid $$$ if one of the kids gets hit. Televise it. Let’s see how confident they really are in their technology.
Ask HN: How do you prefer to spend your weekends?
Actively swtiched off? Time with family? Working on side projects? Errands? A little bit of each?
One of the few things I miss about Brazil is how much more protection I had there as a worker compared to the US.
If you only had that furniture, yes; if you had no money left to replace it, definitely.

Not when you have enough wealth to replace it. Shit happens, and getting furniture into space is an intrinsic risky affair.
> Is there some secret massive trove of Dropbox users I'm simply not aware of?

I think the fairly obvious answer to this is "Yes".
Or you can continue to believe your conspiracy theory.
I'm not sure if that's exactly it. It isn't quite coercion. Facebook's tone and methods of communication often seem more like a manipulative but charming narcissist who is insidiously trying to rearrange your reality. You think you quit the site and suddenly they are back at your front door edging even deeper into your life than before, using every manipulative trick possible. Maybe there needs to be a new term for it.

I wrote other thoughts here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16664199
The Supreme Court (and other US courts) have repeatedly found that the US Constitution does not hold that freedom of speech is absolute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
A van parked at the Berkeley Marina is looking like a pretty good option in the bay area. I could sublet my Piedmont place and spend the few thousand on some sweet van digs.
Whatever. A theoretical one. You name it. From whatever a political angle you are watching, you can probably notice quite a number of them in the world. By definition a regime is considered a tyranny once it starts doing harder to keep the power at whatever the costs than to improve well-being of the people. In the past people could oppose peacefully or violently, today they can't. My hypothesis is that a society where anybody can easily communicate to anybody secretly at any time will become an effectively self-regulating organism making cancers of organized crime and tyranny nonviable. Special services like the NSA or Roskomnadzor say they need to be able to eavesdrop and/or block everything to fight the bad guys, I believe this probably is a mistake (or a lie - everybody just wants the One ring and fighting the darkness is just an excuse to keep it) so whatever an app they try and fail to have/block has my sympathies. Once an app or whatever emerges able to stand the ground long enough and easy enough for everybody to use we'll see.
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I feel most of these vulnerabilities should not exist in the first place. When you create a language that's specifically made to handle money that also is immutable (so without possibility to rollback), it should be generally a bit more secure than the average language.

The VM should be protected against integer overflows and functions should be protected by default, I don't really get those design choices.
Yes, that one is on my to-investigate list already. Thank you for the reminder!

Chrome has started just blocking the HTML parser completely on stylesheets. That means it doesn't end up with FOUC (except insofar as there is renderable content before a sheet that is affected by the sheet), but at the cost of less parallelism and slower pageload...
Exactly. Not to mention that some other guy in this thread said that in Brazil now all forestry equipment is sold with GPS tracking, so there's literally zero need for such a device regardless.

If they want people to stop chopping down forests they need to provide them with a differnt, viable source of income. If I was living in deep poverty and there was a forest near me I'd chop it down, no question about it.
So about 6-8 seconds or so, as the car was still accelerating most likely. There is also probably a slight delay for AI based driving after speed limits change, so probably closer to 4-5 seconds later.
Anonymous unions... Now that's a concept I'm very interested in. Where does the negotiating power come from?
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Honestly I wish I had a good answer to this. I didn't think about supporting BCash because I had never seen it used before.

If enough people are interested in it, I can add support since it's already supported by Coinbase/GDAX.
Golem is solving exactly this problem.
I imagine just rolling some objects across the road or some self-riding bicycles should be enough.
I would be very interested to see some studies on Europe’s experiments with vice decriminalization. Prostitution in the Netherlands and Drugs in Portugal seem to be the main ones.

Link?
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Are we really expecting social media employees to be familiar with and adept at geopolitics?
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It's reasonable when firing an employee without cause. If a person is performing badly, document that and then fire them.
The article says that Uber instructed their drivers to hover their hands over the wheel in order to be able to take over at a moments notice. But they also supplied an iPad app to report issues, that some safety drivers used while in motion (others were cited as using it at red lights)
What about photo sharing and commenting?
There's nothing really "unprecedented" about it -- the whole premise of extradition is handing someone over for violating foreign laws, not violating US laws.
Where does the coercion appear? Shouldn’t wages just go up?
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The US Constitution also includes the means to amend the document, which has been done numerous times, including the 13th Amendment, which corrects Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3. There's of course still room for improvement, we have the means do do so, creating an even more perfect union. While keeping in mind the past (which, as an append-only document, the Constitution makes sure we do) and working for the future (while perhaps chafing at the rate of improvement), I think that's also something to be proud of.
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First, “Minor” correction: his bail was not revoked for trolling on Facebook; he asked for sample of Clinton hair to reserch her DNA and some people rightfully felt its a threat and reported him.

OP was asking why he is wasting time, like Shkrelli supposed to work 24/7. Like he said - better to chat with people online than go and draink/smoke until you puke. The mere fact OP wanted to call and talked with him indicates Shkrelli did something more than average Joe with whom I presume OP wouldnt want to talk, unless OP daily picks anrandom number and call to chat.

Second, I dont blame Shkrelli for playing harsh about the drug price because he still played same game as everyone else, called capitalism. I witnessed bigger scumbags in my life; worked for company who hired HR manager for $250k/annul only to come back with pink report after one year and getting rid of 10% work force and therefore saving $500k by pushing their work on current employers that already were making 10 hours a day. Then they gave him $150k bonus and everyone consider him being “a great and successful guy”.

Finally I dont worry about Shkrelli. He has money ergo after less than two years he will be at home confinment for another year so three years from now we gonna hear from him, healthy free and ready for another startup.
I don't make 250k, my wife's income included, and we own a home just north of Seattle. I bus it in and she drives to her job in Ballard. That must be some new hipster trend, 'cause that ain't forced =[
I don't have many data points on Seattle, but I'm reminded of this article from a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12459698

Seattle was also one of those cities hostile to jitneys. http://mynorthwest.com/152499/political-promise-personal-veh...?

So my impression is that Seattle often jumps the gun regulating things away--banning things that actually increase quality of life/spending power. We all know that those without discretionary income are the first to feel drops in spending power (due to regulation, etc.).

I'm also reminded of a great chapter in "Downtown: Its Rise and Fall" which talks about the special interests behind and the consequences of tenement reform, consequences which were largely negative if you were poor. I can't help wondering if similar forces have led to Seattle's present-day predicaments.
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I think it was required a few years ago. It isn't required now, but I'm not interested any more.
The parent replied to a comment as a rebuttal against the claim that France's employment laws are what you get when you give employees rights.

They specially stated the false dichotomy, and made a strong argument.

No one here knows if the other option has to be Marriott losing business, so you putting that out there is wrong, and ironically, again a false dichotomy.
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All of which we know how to do. A display IS a circuit board by the way.
I like Protonmail, I use it. But one should realize that search works only on the headers, because, well, the content of your mail is encrypted ... doh!
One couple choosing to live in an RV doesn't make a good argument for that.
How does it matter if most people are still using Gmail? Email is a very open and widespread protocol. I'd continue using email 100%.
Google Plus us quite popular with photographers.
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It's already a closed ecosystem. The software is open, not the ecosystem. Moxie toes the line so that Signal's strengths always outweigh its faults for most people, which prevents an alternative from reaching a critical mass. By not federating he locks users into his ecosystem - a fringe group of upset users can't draw the rest of the users out if they have an incompatible platform. I think he's a smart guy who knows exactly what he's doing, but he puts on a nice face for PR because he can't exactly come out and admit his design choices are self-serving.

Also, Mastodon is built on open standards that have several competing and compatible implementations (GNUSocial and Pleorma are the main two), which are run by their own maintainers.
There is only one person to blame for this and it is the executive in charge. What a fucking chicken shit and horrible leader to throw his subordinate under the bus for what is a process and institutional problem.

I️ wont be using the Marriot again (not that I️ wouldve).
I must say using foldable displays to have 2 display sizes does seem very useful to me. If you can ignore the blatant cheesyness and sexism this video does illustrate it pretty well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKG7XRsG9KQ

(plus it would sell really well)
That I agree. But I couldn't edit it later on.
Bus commute from Shoreline is 1h each way. Manageable but quite far.

Tacoma is really freaking far though. I’d be in a world of misery if I had to commute from there every day.
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Agree! Here's a better data point, where the Seattle mayor says as much (while announcing $100 million investment in affordable housing because there is so little).

“Too many long-time residents are getting locked out and pushed out of Seattle,” Durkan said in a statement.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-t...

That's why it's not the best idea to use subsidies to lure one of the largest tech companies in the world to your town. Available housing declines, it takes far too long in the feedback cycle for new housing to be built, and you've made the city marginally worse for anyone who isn't a tech worker.
What does “just North of Seattle” mean? What city/neighborhood? And more importantly when did you buy it?
What a strange use of the word privilege.

Seriously though, if everyone paid into strong safety net, all the time, not just when they fire someone, the result for fired employees is the same and the lack of bureaucracy will probably make that approach even cheaper. The real upside though is that companies can be very nimble and are more competitive internationally.

On both sides - greedy people who don't want to pay either in the moment for firing someone or pay taxes for a safety net, and employees who demand total job security even if it means cement boots for the employer - the extremes are very short sighted.
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If you're going to criticize anyone who threatens your ability to make employment agreements freely, does that include corporations?

Apple, google, and other companies we're already found working in a cartel to keep software engineer wages down, and those were just the high profile explicit agreements.

I don't get people like you who find it ok for corporations to pool capital and output from all their employees in the negotiation process, but the second employees want to work together to even the playing field it's a deadly sin
>It should have been the guy that allowed all low level employees access to the official Marriott twitter account

Where in the article did it say that all low-level employees have access to the official Twitter account?

The employee in question had access because it was literally his job to reply to customers on their official Twitter account:

The Marriott customer care manager intended to spend his eight-hour overnight shift doing what he always did: helping hundreds of Marriott customers around the world as they shot complaints, questions and reward-point requests to the hotel chain’s official Twitter accounts
What they did was an economic sanction and it is something the US does engage in to further political goals. The US uses similar tactics to force countries to comply with US drug laws, punish Russia for invading Ukraine, as well as other less noble political goals. It’s often in the form of sanctions but can also be in the form of withholding aid from poor countries or embargoes. They do this to many central american countries to uphold inane policies that make no sense for the welfare of those countries except to serve American political interests.

There’s really no good reason for the decades long embargo against Cuba except that the US considered it an enemy all nations partake in to pursue political goals.
You mean tax cuts.
> Giving raises on certification...

As far as I can tell everything you're describing is the primary way that people are currently promoted and how compensation is decided. The real unicorns aren't companies with billion dollar valuations, but companies where you can just focus on solving problems and have your manager recognize that with compensation and promotion.

Just like unicorns... they don't exist.

I still feel like my question stands. Are we actually so good at these things now that unionizing would actually harm us? Or is this claim that unions will make it harder actually just hand-waving and ignoring the fact that we're already terrible at this kind of evaluation only we (workers) have no recourse against a feelingless corporate structure that exists to min-max productivity and compensation for the benefit of shareholder value?
I would be willing to bet that that couple lives in an RV because they want to, not because they need to.

It’s the kind of thing my wife and I might have done if we didn’t have a kid.
what does it matter whether seattle is hostile to jitneys? (a word whose definition I just learned). I see lots of private small buses around seattle. buses for google, tmobile, i think facebook, and many unsigned buses.
I don't foresee the corporate world becoming more evenly split between men and women. The primary differentiator between men and women is testosterone and estrogen levels, and this has a profound impact on life strategy.

With respect to testosterone, the much higher levels found in men drive them to be far more likely to make sacrifices and take risks to achieve more ambitious goals, which manifests in everything from higher numbers of Nobel prize winners, to a life expectancy that is on average 5 years lower than that of women, to a much a higher proportion of murderers, and criminals in general, being men.

This difference in outcomes is not based on gender, even if it correlates with gender, so it won't go away as a result of eliminating any supposed social constructs that promote gender stereotypes. It's based on different behavioural traits associated with sex hormones, that establish a person's priorities, and that just happen to be found at higher concentration levels in a higher proportion of men, or women, depending on the hormone.
Secure scuttlebutt (SSB) anyone?

The core of all of these recommendations is that you need an identity online. It almost seems like if you solve the identity problem (like how various blockchains deal with it with addresses and wallets) you can get all the rest as easy follow ons.

Mastodon still ties identity with a machine online much like email. Even SSB ties identity to your machine. Even what Sir T.B.L. is proposing - a "data pod" per person - seems to tie identity with a machine online.

Are there no other solutions to this?