skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you posted doesn't say they turned down job offers, it says they weren't going to interview at Google. Realistically, the only risk to them is if a company goes out of their way to look for that pledge during the hiring process, then decides not to hire them. They didn't lose a job or any income from what they did.
I believe Docs has always been an entirely separate product. They may have had a version of it inside Wave. Not 100% sure on this but that’s what I remember.
I still miss Wave... In my opinion, Googles biggest failure was the missing real-world federation. They promised us, that there will be a server to run on your own hardware and yet it took them years to release anything that was usable. Even years after the open source release the software was quite unstable.

Paired with the missing backward compatibility with email those two are the most important aspects of why Wave failed IMHO.
>Are there any serious, in-depth studies, stories or books or whatever about 4chan? I feel like politically and culturally, 4chan is one of the most important sites on the internet. I'd like to read more on its influence

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-we-cant-have-nice-things

I'm friends with the author and we were pretty close with when she was writing this. She would tell me about her research, which involved a lot of lurking on 4chan and talking with people there in an official journalistic capacity. I haven't read the book, but it might be worth a peek. She was very much interested in not dismissing it as sociopathic boy behavior, but in understanding what drives intelligent people to troll.
I wasn't going down some reverse chronological timeline. It was in the first page of many of results.

About 1,2 and 3, if you would zoom a bit out, you have an advertising company that is, by it's intentional actions, making the rest look bad. Outside of contacting the relevant companies, they don't have to push the exploits to the world, yet they do.

The rest is just how one spins the story depending on the size of the paycheck received from Google.

There is nothing left to conclude, I am out of this thread.
Let me get it straight: You are increasing potential hires pool tenfolds, save a fortune by not playing the real-estate bubble game, effectively double your work day to almost 24 hours by spreading over timezones, and likely enjoy a 6-days work week - and VCs are worried about your ability to scale? This is just astonishing to hear.
That's what some of the pro Brexit mp's were saying - well actually lying - to try and get some typically labour communities to vote Brexit.
Surely that's a practical position to take, but as an idealist, thinking over the long term... wouldn't you rather have that extra performance in addition to a lack of security vulnerabilities? There's no fundamental trade-off between this kind of performance and security.
True, no one goes around thinking "how can I make my product as obtuse as possible," presumably while twirling their mustache and saying "bwahahaha" occasionally.

The thing to realize is that there's not actually a functional difference between that and the "numbers-driven" guy you describe. Evil isn't just the sadistic maniac; it's the affable businessman who doesn't care, doesn't even consider, whether his product helps people or hurts them, so long as it maximizes profit.

Someone else posted an interview with the former president of Facebook, and it's pretty enlightening: https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-unloads-on-facebook-god-on...
Using a centralized service for communications means spying will eventually happen. It doesn't matter if it's Facebook or some brand new company. The incentives are there.
Or just don't use GC.
I generally believe we should try harder to educate and hire Americans.

I am not against immigrants or H1B holders. Or anyone trying to improve their lot in life.

I am against the position H1B holders are in. And the effects it can have on a culture. Especially with the force multiplier of technology.

They are basically indentured servants. And therefore more likely to do whatever their boss wants, including morally suspect things. Like buy and sell American's privacy. Speak out or resist? You'll need to on a plane out of the country in 6 days.

I'm not saying this is a product of a particular race/ethnicity/identity. The moral suspectness. But rather the product of the position. Most everyone in that position would behave in similar ways to keep their position. Sometimes at all cost. Don't get it twisted.

So to me, the reasonable options are to either cut back on the program, or give H1B holders more rights.
The article was posted one day after Unilad (the 4th most popular publisher according to this article) went into administration: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45744028
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Obviously the logic doesn’t work that way, but you absolutely do not see people showing up late to meetings and canceling plans last minute in Minneapolis or Boston the way they do in Los Angeles or Atlanta.
why would i? im already a vegetarian (not by choice, the explanation is long) and thats restrictive enough. im already not that keen on food in general as it is but vegan fare is nothing short of disgusting (in my opinion)

ive had people tell me that dairy, sugar, smoking and any number of other things i consume on an incredibly regular basis are terrible for me "they ruin your body and mind" they tell me, however these same people often speak of my intelligence so either its not really as bad as all that or i was some sort of super genius and the only reason i havent cracked fusion yet is due to the amount of cheese i eat and having 2 sugars in my brew

sorry world but im not giving up my dairy so theres going to be no cure for cancer this christmas
Games that are single thread bound are not maximising their potential on the common multi-core CPUs. Not many games strictly dictate sequential computations of the numerous things a game has to calculate.

Gamer's who prefer cutting edge performance should prefer multi-thread performance.
the ability to Retool is not the point - it's will the organisation let you make the big choices during that retooling. The battery position is a good one, because so much then flows from it - but an even better example is the Tesla dashboard - there is a big shiny screen in the middle and it is where everything comes together- previously software was divided and conquered - the software for the brake system and the software for the lights were written by third part suppliers.

but now if you want that integrated glass screen, you put software division and that new CTO just hired from AmaGooSoft, right at the top
of the tree - want your lights susystemn to have screen real estate - talk nice to the new guy. If you think the other division heads will take the new guy lying down, I have a bridge to sell you.

The point being that it's easier sometimes to
let Schumpter destroy a company with the wrong PoV and let the market raise a couple
of others with the right pov. After POV is worth 20'IQ points.
For high skilled people it can be I know a CTO who moved back to the uk from the valley mainly because his wife could not work - she was a senior nurse I recall.
>or the first time in ages, I felt like I was actually finding out about tech news as it happened instead of being days-to-weeks behind the leading edge.

That's exactly why I migrated here from slashdot. I read both for a few months and was finding I'd see something on HN and then see the same exact thing on slashdot days or weeks later.

What eventually made me switch completely was the way comments work here don't encourage the inane, offtopic, uninventive, dead-horse-beating karma-farming injokes and references that slashdot and reddit seem to be inundated with[1]. Not to mention I find it utterly charming how often someone else will post something and the author/creator pops into the comments section to chime in "Hey that's me, would love to answer any questions you guys have". Nowhere else like it on the internet I've ever seen.

[1]Not to say I don't occasionally enjoy the occasionally silly comment, but I find the ones on HN to be a lot more tasteful and actually witty as opposed to the rout cookie cutter memes and references that are found on every single tangentially related reddit or slashdot thread that people can think to post them to.
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Oh I see, okay thanks!
Came here specifically looking for this comment and was not disappointed.

+1

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And even if the workloads are doable in a standard workday, the context-switching involved removes any possibility of high-quality thinking.
I too find Google only keeping 2 weeks of logs unbelievable.
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You can't "dox" a company by calling them out for lying and incompetence. Rachel simply does not want to get sued. This isn't some virtuous moral high ground you're standing on, stop pretending otherwise.
Up to 365 of those can be accounted for while being a temporary resident (on a work or study visa) on a "1 day for 2 days" basis.

You also need to actually be in Canada all those days. Any day that you're outside delays your citizenship by a day.

Then it takes about a year to process your citizenship application.

Overall, it's still much faster than most anywhere else.
But wouldn't the consequence of spawning millions of native threads be to spill those virtual addresses into many, many pages and incur many more TLB misses and page faults generally?
I mean, they could just inject Javascript that detected that you clicked the link if tracking was the only goal. The fact that they prefer an HTTP redirect means there's more than just tracking involved.

It would be nice if they put a link to the privacy policy on the redirect page, so the intent was more clear.
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The first release of Deer (v0.1.0) is here (Linux, Mac & Windows)
Here's a visualization http://mochimachine.org/wasteland/#
> You're using the cashflow accounting method...

I'm making a statement on profit margins, Tesla's negative margins are just there for completeness.

> And you're not taking risk into account. Tesla is worth a lot more now than five years ago but there was no guarantee of that five years ago -- otherwise the price would have been higher five years ago.

There are no guarantees of anything. The potential for 10x growth was there. Those old companies weren't going to magically achieve that growth.

> You're taking this from the perspective of something like a mutual fund manager. Why don't they invest in both Tesla and GM? Well, they do.

Indeed they do. Who uses mutual funds? The "rich and powerful" do.

> Now take it from the perspective of an oil company executive. You can produce oil at a breakeven price of $45/barrel. If oil prices are at $75/barrel, you're making a nice fat profit margin. If somebody comes along and starts mass producing solar panels and electric cars...

It doesn't matter. The "rich and powerful" aren't all fully invested into oil, not even the oil execs, not even the Saudi princes. They diversify. If somebody comes and starts mass producing solar panels, they can buy that. Except of course in reality solar panels and electric cars have little impact on oil prices (rather it's the other way around), but let's say they had a significant impact, that's exactly how investors would hedge.

> How are they each going to make up more than $60 billion dollars every year by investing in a company worth under $50 billion dollars in total? There are seven major oil companies. Even using ridiculously optimistic numbers, Tesla isn't going to be worth trillions of dollars ten years from now. But they could cost the oil companies that much.

In the last decade, we had oil prices between 30$ and a 100$, while the amount of electric cars on the roads has remained irrelevant. If anything, electric cars need high oil prices to appear economical at all. But let's say electric cars would magically become highly profitable, how much money do you think would it cost those seven major companies to prevent not just Tesla but all other car makers from producing them? Everybody could go into the business of threatening to produce electric cars unless they're paid off, which is even more profitable than actually producing something! Eventually, the oil companies would have to decide it's cheaper to ignore the issue and let the market set the price.
Also, it makes sure there are no single points of failure. Apparently many embezzlers refuse to take vacation for fear someone will look over the books and notice irregularities.
Circles is/was awesome, but it lacks the virality and oversharing present in the Facebook ecosystem. With FB, it was essentially (yes, one can fine-grain it, but it isn't straightforward) all or nothing, and people preferred all to nothing.
"90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds".

I'd say let's have a moment of silence for Google+, but that is clearly too generous
I can't really think of a Chinese proverb out of my instincts that linked to this translation, the closest one being "上梁不正下梁歪", literal translation "When the upper beam (of a house) is not in the right place, the lower beam follows"
That's still too optimistic. You're assuming that they weren't fully aware of the problem, and would have fixed it if they could. The truth is that they only care about problems that could impact their bottom line.

See the Sean Parker interview: https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-unloads-on-facebook-god-on...
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Huh? We've had typed arrays in JS for years. I think they originally went in to support WebGL, but you can use them for other stuff too.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Just to provide context to that 70-90k range, median household income in Toronto is $78k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Median_household_incom...
Might I suggest the civic tech sector as a place where coders (and designers and product managers) can find morally satisfying work? You can work directly for government in organizations like the US Digital Service and 18F that bring the lean startup model into the public sector or join purpose-driven private companies like Nava and Ad Hoc that contract on government project spaces like healthcare using modern development practices. And there's lots of charitable and volunteer opportunities at well.

https://usds.gov/jobs
https://18f.gsa.gov/jobs
https://jobs.codeforamerica.org/
https://brigade.codeforamerica.org/
I've always maintained that prisons should only serve vegetarian food. Apart from the health and environmental benefits, it would save a lot of money for them as well.

A lot of prisons in the world are already smoke free, I see no reason why the privilege of eating meat shouldn't be withheld from them as well. Want to eat meat? Then don't break the law.
YouTube has over a billion hours consumed a day. That is not search. Actually it is now the #2 most popular web site.

So they have both the #1 and #2 most popular sites now.

Heck they are rolling out the first robot taxi service in Arizona later this year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites
It is really bad for Indian and Chinese citizens. I guess you are not one of them. Also H1B visa is a different thing. A tourism/business visa is not a difficult thing to get.
Were the Google Pixel 3 leaks a clever troll?
Maybe, but it's Musk's own tweets that really get people's attention, and you can't blame outsiders for them.
"Why don't more executives hire really good programmers and analysts to be their assistants?"

They do. Usually they have a title like "Chief of Staff" or "Speechwriter" or "Associate." My friend occupied just such a role after working in investment banking and private equity. He was paid in the low-mid six figures and ended up doing tons of research, analysis and writing for the CEO of one of the most successful private equity firms. The position was stepping stone to Harvard Business School and nobody stayed in the role for much more than a year or two, so they are constantly rotating in fresh, hungry and smart people.

I like the idea of adding automation to the mix, but realistically, if there is a task the CEO wants automated, he/she can tap any engineering manager and pull their team onto that project. The value add would be automation of tasks for the assistant rather than automation that benefits the CEO directly.
I don't think it has a GP ADC on board, and the GPIO section only seems to talk about interrupts bus width configuration, so probably no ADC on those pins either; but the datasheet does mention an Audio Processing Unit "APU".
I am told that the Knights of Columbus was founded in part because the Freemasons and the Catholic Church didn't get along, and thus Italian Americans could not generally join the Freemasons. Columbus was picked as an Italian who was important in America's history, to make it seem both Italian and American. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Columbus#Early_year...
As a non-Canadian, what about Calgary or Edmonton?
To me, the worst part about Google+ has been the fact that Google services started forcing you to use it. Like I'd click on some sort of account settings tab on YouTube, and suddenly I'd be redirected to a different website and my first reaction is always "what the hell is this crap?" Worse yet, there was always an irritatingly huge delay between changes I made to my Google+ "shadow profile" and my profile on YouTube.

Hopefully this will put an end to that nonsense?
There's a vegan fast food chain in Australia called Lord of the Fries. It's basically a vegan McDonalds.

It's actually quite popular, even amongst the non-veg population.
It is generally no longer a day off at school, at work, or much of anywhere else. Some cities have renamed it "Indigenous Peoples Day".
Hmm. I guess that’s true. I think it’s safe to assume however, that this article is relevant and useful for x months, and I see no issue with him getting paid as long as the article is relevant. If the services mentioned significantly decreased in usefulness or increased in cost etc. then it would be on the author to appropriately update the article. If new services were added in place of old ones, it stands to reason he could get the same arrangements with those companies. I guess it all comes down to trust and whether this guy seems honest or not. Seems to me that he is
Who upvotes this? The backlash against Musk and Tesla is solely through Musk’s behavior. He acts like a penny stock fraudster and the negative press he receives is because of the Koch brothers? Surely Soros also owes my girlfriend a lot of money for protesting. Having created great products is no excuse for this kind of behavior.
Some specific resources for the interested:

- Cognitive Dimensions of Notations (Green 1989) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.128...

- Programmers Are Users Too: Human-Centered Methods for Improving Programming Tools (Myers et al. 2016) http://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Myers2016Programme...

- Programmer Interrupted (Parnin 2013) http://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted/

- Empirical analysis of programming language adoption (Meyerovich and Rabkin 2013) https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2509515

- Learnable Programming (Victor 2012) http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

- Usability of Programming Languages working group at CHI'16 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-GUt5oVPpi7rlObbU1WbA5V1...
> CPUs can only execute about one logical thread per core truly concurrently.1 An inherent side effect: If you have more threads than cores, threads must be paused to allow other threads to do work, then later resumed when it’s their turn again.

When would millions of goroutines be useful if you can only run ~4 threads in parallel?
>RIP. Like so many of Google’s high profile efforts (anyone remember Wave? Glass, etc), a bunch of good ideas and great tech brought down by an utter failure to understand the human element/social psychology angle.

Absolutely this.

It is, however, not the marketing strategy that failed them. G+ was hyped for some time before release and it became a hit since day one.

With the level of attention any Google product gained at that time, there was no need to focus on a niche. The issue were their horrendous decisions in UI and product design as well as feature integration. In short, it was a product for the tech savy user, yet aimed at the mainstream. It wasn't satisfying anyone.

I still can't understand why they would not cap the most valuable resource they had, GMail, GDocs, GCalendar, GReader, etc. Zero integration.
Not quite a circle. There'd be progress in that you could choose your "Javascript" and "DOM", which really opens up a lot of possibility for progress. No need to force eternal compatibility or put up with bad APIs- just pick a better version.
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I don't think a lot of people will see this the same way you do. I think a lot of people will care about even a 1% degradation in performance. And people will prefer a tried and true operating system for security over something that hasn't been tested in the real world, even if it's designed to eliminate one class of security vulnerabilities.
Wow the Wall St. Journal and Murdoch really does not like Google.

This article makes this sound like this is something that it appears to not be.

Did this all start when Google fired Damore? Or does it date further back?
I agree that the "circles" idea is good, and that's why I'm implementing it in my social network. However the idea of circles by itself is not good enough for people to make the move.You need something else too..
Your body/brain is probably telling you it needs a break.
The point is that the more time you spend on Facebook, the more ads you look at, and the more Facebook gets paid.

"If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold."
That’s a fair distinction. Still, choosing not to interview at one of the top 2 highest-paying employers does indicate some sacrifice. I’m not saying we should nominate these guys for the Nobel peace prize, but their stance does merit some respect.
> Leadership ignoring user feedback as people start to attribute luck to skill and vision

I think a lot of this is because of Steve Jobs. He did this but was for the most part successful at it. Everyone wants to think they are the next Jobs.
When is the last time someone was killed playing with their toy quadcopter in the back yard?
I'm surprised Loom hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread.

Proposal: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.htm...

It's in the early phase, but there is a prototype currently.

The commits in the mailing list mention a recent zero copy continuation thawing if I'm not mistaken.

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/loom-dev/2018-October...

EDIT: I'm mistaken, it is about lazy stack walking (but I remember zero copy continuation thawing might be attempted)
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It was my general impression that porting Java found native threading bugs in multiple OSes. How stable or portable were native threads before that?
I follow a Native American political twitter account. They protest Columbus Day and describe him as a mass murderer, among other things.

Native Americans are not exactly fans.
> The aircraft risk is almost entirely mitigated by not flying your drone anywhere near low-flying aircraft.

The problem here is that any half-decent consumer grade drone has a range of a few kilometres and an operational ceiling of several hundred feet. You can't rely on 'just flying it sensibly' when a software bug could send it anywhere within the hardware's limits.

The risk of this causing serious harm is very small and the hyperventilation induced by it in some of the community is overblown, but it is there.
You are spot on. However you have groups in Whatsapp. If somehow you could use instant message groups as "circles" for publishing posts too... that's what I intend to do in my social network btw.