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Exactly what I thought. Project Zero allows Google to segway away from their Android ecosystem mess they left beyind and (even relatively benign findings at times - there was a Defense in Depth issue in Windows recently I remember that got an article) get a lot of media attention, and other researches are ignored. Shows that Google's PR works really well. I first noticed that during Meltdown/Spectre where most of the heavy lifting was done by university students somewhere in Europe, but they nowhere got as much attention as Google. Sad.
Considering they already have relashionship data (x is in a relationship with y, x is now single, etc) - on which they might be able to predict matching data; the other missing thing is knowing who might want to date. Which I guess correlates pretty well with "installs tinder".
H-1B needs to be ended. No more wage-suppression handouts to multi-billion dollar companies. Google and the rest of these companies can pay either pay more, or train more CITIZENS.
Honestly, this is a terrible choice! I like Lua, but it's not mainstream, and it's not going to be! There are tons of embeddable JavaScript engines - they could've used TypeScript, too!
sci-hub link http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018... (https doesn't work because their CA decided to censor them)
Ah, ok. No, it definitively inserts onto the line.
Google is a global company with employees from many, many different countries working in offices all over the world. Many different social norms.

"Corporate America"'s prevailing wisdom can not be blanket applied to all these people in all these countries (both in a cultural "it ain't gonna work" sense but also legally things are different elsewhere too)
What does this even mean? There are a lot more engineers, designers and product managers at Google devoted to what you deem “marketing” than ads. (Source: I’m a xoogler). People on those teams believe strongly in their missions and their KPIs are mostly not revenue-related. In general, there was a strong underlying philosophy while I was there that “if you do right for the user it will work out in the long term.”
A real world example would be an automated postal sorting/routing center with a bug that lets it be exploited as a remailer. By doing domain fronting, a single party is betting that this postal center is important enough not to get shut down/bombed. Obviously, the postal center isn't happy that you just put it at risk of getting shut down, because they deliver lots of other mail, none of which is obviously less important than your shenanigans. So instead, they opt to patch the bug that allows them to be unwittingly used as a remailer.

The core point being: Signal isn't using Amazon as a shield - it's using every single customer of Amazon as a shield.
What about Tencent? Very misleading title.
And when Android ditches the headphone jack? What then? It’s going to happen.

iPhone 6+. Flawless. Works perfect. Zero issues.
Shareholders still come first if they do the right thing here. Letting reputable people do good with your product rises the tide for the ecosystem. Good for the Internet is good for AWS.
It's never too late for anything, my friend. You can be in an even worse situation a few years from now or you can decide to start making some changes today.
These exploitation are far too common they are just very unreported due to fear of losing job and having to leave country in 24 hours notice.

Desi consulting shops are most to blame for. They learned tricks from big guys, it's easy to make big guys change their ways but not all these moms and pops shops.
The name even hints at that: it's freedom that rests on the targets unwillingness to inflict collateral damage.

Which, questions of morality in the abstract and consent aside, seems to gamble pretty heavily on sensitivity the regimes of concern are decidedly not known for.
> Censors are not stupid, they will ban domain with no problem.

> See Russia banning millions of AWS and Azure IPs to block Telegram, damaging a lot innocent applications by the way.

In that particular case they seem to have been outsmarted for now : )
Your blog says they decided not to use the tech after talking to you… Also could you link the patent? The above link is dead.
right != extreme right.

That the overton window has shifted doesn't mean what's on display is just "right wing" - it's extreme.

So what is "center" anyways? The single-axis political scale is a very flawed way of looking at
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As an H1B at Google, I get paid as much as my American co-workers at the same job title. Please stop spreading FUD.
Makes me wonder if x86 could be extended to expose the underlying parrellelism. How much faster would my Prolog and Haskell programs run if all branches were executed simultaneously and only the successful path down my search tree returned?
everyone apart from the aboriginals should be sent back to their respect homes. The whites should be held accountable for the genocide and punished at the international criminal court.
> Cloudwick Technologies of Newark has been ordered to pay about $175,000 to 12 employees for back wages after violating H-1B rules, the U.S. Department of Labor said.

Is it $175000 in back wages per person, or total for all 12 people? The wording is a little sloppy here.
This is a bloodless equivalent of using human shields or hiding your forces in a hospital - you involve lots of innocent civilians in hope that the government will not be willing to absorb the sacrifice.
Would be good to also highlight the other finders of some of these issues, but this view shows that Google Project Zero is a well executed PR machine taking away the focus of other security researchers. The title of this thread is similarly misleading.
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While I sympathize with your concern, and agree with you, pasting the same comment repeatedly in a thread is likely to get you slapped by the admins. They don't like it, and most of us need not read the same comment three or more times.
it high time these desi consultants are bought to law. To reduce H1B abuses, the focus has to be on them. Modern day slavery.
And if you're feeling brave, TIC-80 has a port that uses Brainfuck instead of Lua. [0]

[0] https://github.com/lolbot-iichan/TIC-80/wiki
Seems it is enough to be a little creative with side channels.
There's no nice way to say this, but you might be a sociopath.
> is there constant and vigorous debate within Google about the ethics of targeted advertising, media/tech consolidation, and other ethically ambiguous drivers of revenue?

Yes. Sometimes it's overshadowed by debate on other issues.

I don't always agree with it, but there is a diversity of opinion expressed, at least among the people who engage in said debate.
You contributing to supply would still suppress wages though no?
Without a system like this you don't get your quirky cat domain name, someone swoops in on minute 0 with a script and registers the top 1000 desirable domain names and squats them.

Anything that wouldn't have been swooped up by squatters will _also_ still be available when the early access period is over and everything is $20.
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Do you know how it was ported to the Switch?

TIC-80 uses SDL, which doesn't have a working port (for the Switch) so far as I know.
What is wrong with all existing crypto gaming projects?
That's an interesting way of stating that Google goes through great effort to discover how best to convince a user to click on an ad.
You can indeed download the websites and host them yourself :)
Think this was the link: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-patent-speaker-m...

Edit: after reading the article I have very little sympathy for OP. Samsung clearly developed their technology without you, and Google was rewarded a patent 5 years after meeting you. Which likely means you didn't even file an affordable provisional patent.
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I guess I should just not work for a living, then. I'm hoping that people making such an observation have native American ancestry.
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Shocker. Here’s what happens in Melbourne, Australia. I used to work for one of the “big 4” banks.

1. Bank outsources to vendor. Typically IBM. “It’ll be cheaper!”

2. IBM is, initially, cheaper - because all of their staff are in India of course.

3. But they can’t do the job from India because they need to be here talking to their colleagues at the bank.

4. So they get flown to Melbourne, but still on Indian wages, where the poor souls live ten to an apartment because they can’t afford anything else.

5. The bank has now saved money by “offshoring” despite the workers actually being here in Australia.

It’s a disgrace and I have no idea why it isn’t in the news.
Thanks for your advice.

1)I've been time tracking in toggl for about 2 months now and all it has done is confirm that I spend too much time doing nothing. It's not unusualy for "Procrastinating online" to be over 60 hours in one week. I'll start thinking "Ok, I just gotta do one little thing" at 9am, and then 6pm rolls around and I've spent another 8 hours browsing the internet.

2) I don't actually have many commitments. I have very little paid work at the moment (less than I need to live) and I'm only surviving because I have inheritance. I formed my company a few months ago but I haven't managed to release a product yet.

3) I have an appointment booked for in a months time.

4) I realise that I need to be more consistent, but I've never managed to crack the 'how'. The only thing I've ever managed to be consistent at was going to the gym, and that was because I would put it before all other commitments. It would often be the only thing I do in a day. Even then, I've never really met any of my gym goals, even after 4 years.

Sorry to be so negative. It just seems like everyone around me can just "do work" like magic. If someone offered me the choice between ending procrastination and $1 billion dollars I would leave the money on the table without a second thought.
For those who prefer the reader app for reading this:

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Wait, I thought "You are the product"?
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There are tons of studies that show that high-skilled immigrants create more jobs than they occupy and overall boost a region's economy, but all of those are conveniently ignored whenever someone wants to make a point. Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without the H-1B visa.

Yes, there are companies that abuse visas and pay low wages etc. Why not focus on improving enforcement rather than rant about immigrants?
This is one thing I don't entirely understand in terms of political alignment. The one side that is supposed to be about the little guy seems to support this system of immigration which leads quite directly to depressed wages and exploitation of this sort. Even in cases where the 'guest workers' are not so ridiculously underpaid, companies still exploit the fact that these workers generally have to have this job or they may be forced to leave the nation losing any hopes of gaining permanent residency or citizenship. In other words when the company tells them to jump, their only question is going to be how high - compared to an increasingly 'mobile' domestic workforce.
A nation != its current government

Citizens under oppressive governments often don't like their governments. The feeling's usually mutual. Some people in such countries - I actually think "most" but I'll remain conservative here - appreciate such tools and its creators. Not necessarily to do anything so ambitious as "ushering in new springs", but often simply to talk to relatives or make online friends or learn new things or exchange ideas online. In case you didn't realize it, lack of freedom and powerlessness really brings down one's mood, and anything to brighten it up is welcome.
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Buzzfeed's Worth It program visited one of these shelters on its Tea episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g88bGDNRyyg
I have a job role that has brought me into regular contact with Google as an external partner for the last five years. I won’t go into specifics, other than to say that what used to be admiration has entirely faded.

Their culture really turns me off. I am a mid-30’s white male, for the record.

A few months ago, I visited one of their main campus locations.

When I walked in the door, there was a group of female employees huddled in the lobby having some sort of private discussion. When they saw me walk in the door, I received what I can only describe as a “death glare” from them. I felt like I was walking into a junior high school cafeteria and interrupted the cheerleader table. It was at that level of childish tribalism and latent tension.

I know this sounds thin skinned. I regularly have been involved with Amazon, Microsoft and others and never got a vibe approaching open cliquish behavior.

I talked about it to some minority friends and their response was: “well maybe that is how minorities are used to being looked at in these environments.”

I can’t remember ever giving anyone a death stare in my career because they were a minority or due to their gender.

I wouldn’t work there.
Why not just adjust the H-1B program so that the highest paid positions get priority? That way companies could still hire abroad for in-demand skills, but it would eliminate bringing people into the country to avoid paying the prevailing wages for IT workers. You could even make exceptions for academic or medical work as needed. It seems like a common sense adjustment to the program, but I don't see many people offering this up as a solution to this problem.
The world needs some sort of self-defense mechanism from the biggest parasite of the planet -- human. With significantly diminished mortality due to intra-species conflict, the various epidemics seem to be the only viable way.
Link doesn’t work. Anyways: is it evil to teach something about intellectual property? You failed to properly prepare the meeting, hire a lawyer and patent your invention. What exactly did you think you were selling to them? Don’t be evil doesn’t entail: don’t conduct proper business.
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If I was living in India I’d probably take that deal.
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I guess center is the median? Therefore by definition half will always be right of center.
Wage suppression also affects citizens through non-competitive practices: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/apple-google-other-te...

The real fix, which is incredibly unpopular in certain circles, is a labor union
This looks to be an excellent, thorough resource on MVCC in Postgres. Here are some others:

Chapter 13 of the Postgres official docs -> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/mvcc-intro.ht...

Concurrency Deep Dive talk @ PostgresOpen 2017 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxhBkBNxvR0

There is a wealth of good, informative, high signal/noise ratio talks at the PostgresOpen 2017, encourage you to check it out

And another famously good resource that's not quite related:

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I followed the guy on twitter for half a year. Shallow, rumbling and full of shit. It’s kinda sad picture, with all the big words. Counterterrorism, CIA, Police, and now mass media via new Yorker.
Ummm yes they did not include SpeakerBlast/audio sync between phone capabilities into the Moto X. Yet they sure as hell got patents for it!
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I've been told some of the H1Bs at the goog SJC offices mostly do make work work. Which, if true, raises the question, why do they even have them if they putt around most of the day trying to figure out what else they can do on projects in limbo.
In the NYC area, we also have some on-ramps with red/green traffic lights. However, these are only active during peak traffic times, and are otherwise turned off.
I'm kind of a maven, except all of my friends end up disliking each other.
A long time ago, ads on google search were clearly distinct from organic results. Nowadays, they're mixed so well that only those who know they should check for the difference notice it.

I particularly don't like when the first result is the paid result from company X, and the second result is the organic result of company X, which is only paying to outbid competitors that could appear as #1 when people search for "X".

I'll use very strong words here, but that paid ad for me is not different from "protection money" you pay to a racket so they ensure nothing bad happens to your business. It's highly unethical, but, I'm sure, incredibly profitable: in these cases I make the conscious choice to click the organic result, and NOT the paid one, but I'm pretty sure I'm one in 100.

So, I don't doubt that there are ethical debates inside Google, but it's clear that, the more it becomes just another public company for which the overriding concern can only be increasing shareholder value, the less any ethical consideration that has an impact on the bottom line can have an effect.
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I know another variation involving a different company and engineers from another country. They incentivize young engineers to go and work for companies like Google on-site. Since it is an amazing experience to travel and work abroad they don't care about additional work benefits.
As an American citizen formerly at Google - no, not really.

The supply of engineers that can pass Google's slightly ridiculous hiring bar is still fairly small, and Google tends to take whoever meets it regardless of how many people it has already hired. It's not like they're short on cash, after all, and there was plenty of work to go around while I was there.

Anti-poaching agreements, proprietary tech stacks that are useless outside of Google, a broad prohibition on moonlighting, standardized salary bands (which actually blunt the impact of immigration on wages), and a tendency to offer non-monetary perks like free food and private Cirque du Soleil shows over more cash - those depress wages. Immigrant coworkers are not a significant concern.
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Which, incidentally, allows you to background-check a listed person on Facebook easily, if you know how to capture traffic on your device and read out user ID from the photo's URL.

(Or at least used to allow, don't know the current state.)
On the one hand I agree, and it's been one of the few reasons I've tried (with moderate success) to not be too nomadic.

But at the same time I think friendship is a varied and complex enough thing that thankfully it's not entirely about time/tending, and if the nomadism doesn't mask an underlying problem, it doesn't preclude having a 'complete' life.

Some of my best friendships were almost clear from the beginning, and required little 'tending'. Others I have tended diligently only to realize that while they were good, and the tending helped, they'd never be as strong as the former. Sometimes losing them didn't affect me much.

Some of my friendships even seem to have suffered from 'over-tending', a bit like how moving in with a friend can ruin things.

All that said, you're probably more right than not. Just saying :).
may be unrelated but this reinforces my observation that moat successful immigrant business owners get rich by abusing their fellow countrymen who arrived to the states later, dont have paperwork in order, lack language skills, etc.
Sure you can. But you have to go back first.
>Unfortunately, and I count myself in this, a lot of people are unwilling to take that deep look inside to be able to answer that question.

Often enough, it simply boils down to being unattractive. People automatically like you if you're attractive. People do not automatically like you if you're unattractive, you have to work for it.
Actually H1B is easily transferable.
>Wood-built low- and mid-rise is far more cost efficient

And also tends to be drastically worse build quality and sound isolation. Given a mid-rise or a high-rise built in the same year, you definitely want to live in the high-rise, all else being equal.

Higher quality multi-family buildings that middle-class people could see themselves living in would go a long way towards changing public opinion. Unfortunately, our multifamily housing stock is bifurcated between shoddily built crap for the poor, and ultra-luxury high-rises for oligarchical investors. If people don't want to live in a building themselves, it's harder to accept its externalities for the benefit of others. Most people do live in apartments as students and young adults, and they'd never go back.
Exact same situation for me. We used to ride and skateboard on my parents' street, kick footballs, etc. 30 years later, there are cars on both sides to the point that it's hard to drive up the street let alone get a park out front.

I wonder how much of it comes down to people having more cars and parking them out front to avoid having to shuffle them in a narrow driveway. The risk of a break in is low enough that people have no qualms leaving vehicles on the street overnight. Without parking restrictions or costs, it will continue like this until it's cheaper to rent/call cars on demand.
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Back before Google, other search engines would let advertisers pay to boost their search ranking. Google promised not to do that. Ads are labeled and advertising is a separate division from search ranking.

These days, most of the first page for some queries may be covered with ads, but they are still labeled as ads. It appears that technically Google hasn't broken that promise for the actual search results.

(But if you know otherwise, please share.)
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