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Ask HN: Say I have shares of AMZN and soon will work there.  What are the rules?
How are these shares treated legally that were acquired before my employment? Am I now restricted in when I sell those shares due to insider trading concerns? That is, do my pre-existing shares get lumped together with other shares that I get in the form of employee stock options?

I'm trying to decide if it'd make more sense to sell before my employment begins (assuming I'm comfortable with the share price at that time).
And only rent-seeking craftsmen are capable of high quality work?
Whoever doing the slideplayer website is doing a damn good SEO.

I see more slideplayer links on my Google search everyday than I see SlideShare.

I always wondered why slideplayer which is a crappy ad galore website has more content than SlideShare. Very interesting post.
Property, of course, is the one very large exception. For example, in Europe owning land might mean you can exploit it for farming, but not prohibit freedom of travel across it. In America you can put up barbed wire fence and shoot trespassers, because somehow excluding people from using stuff isn't infringing on their freedoms.
If this is a system that groks the meaning of the input text and constructs original text to match, then sure, it could just use non-gendered language.

But that seems unlikely - we're probably talking about an engine that just recommends whatever occurs frequently in its corpus (hence the article talking about the team black-listing swear words and so forth). In which case adding gendered pronouns to the list seems reasonable enough, and non-gendered forms will presumably show up regardless (to whatever extent they appear in the corpus).
When autocomplete is potentially wrong, I would rather it pick a neutral but correct choice and let me choose gender for myself.
Sure! Hit my profile.
Yes. Why not? If the 1st Video was your upload to begin with why shouldn't you be able to replace your video with a different Video?

This is a very useful feature for people since it would give creators the ability to fix errors in their videos without creating the confusion that happens when creators try to do this currently.

Every single time when I saw a reupload it had tons of comments saying something to the effect of "Didn't I see this before?" or "Didn't you upload this Yesterday?" and the creator commenting X times: "Sorry it is a reupload to fix Audio/Editing/Facts"

Can you then replace a John Carmack tech talk with a Amway recruiting video? Yes, but there was nothing stopping you right now from uploading that Amway video and simply calling it "John Carmack tech talk" anyways.
This is a dupe of several others on the HN front page today. It looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18542597 has the most discussion.
Why single out China though? If Google had to stop doing business in any country that forces it to censor stuff, they would not be allowed anywhere, I think even the US forces them to filter out illegal gambling. Where does it stop?
You include the "breaks a regulation" in the premise, whilst in this GDPR case it is what has to be established. The accuser doesn't get to determine guilt.
i·de·al
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ADJECTIVE
1. satisfying one's conception of what is perfect; most suitable.
"the swimming pool is ideal for a quick dip"

2. existing only in the imagination; desirable or perfect but not likely to become a reality.
"in an ideal world, we might have made a different decision"
Damn, good for y'all for sticking to your values. How did you argue against the inevitable "if we don't take this contract, dude across the street will"?
Wow. Great story, thank you for sharing this.
They should volunteer to give up some of their generous benefits to offset the lost revenue from Dragonfly.
Get a property in a city and start a tire fire.
I say google should go for it. If they don't build it, someone else will. If a lot of people start using the tool, google will have a lot of influence to actually make change happen.
It's personally prized because I've been a domain geek since I knew what domains were. No inferred value to anyone else.
> Google would likely achieve dominant search engine market share in China within a few years

You assume that the government would ever let a foreign company get dominant market share over a domestic one.

China is no where close to a free market, the winners are chosen.
I can't tell if you see that as a better or worse framing.
iPhones have direct access to the Internet and to the power infrastructure. Apple does not limit which websites can be loaded in Safari, or which emails get delivered, or which electric sockets can charge an iPhone. Anyone in the world can reach an iPhone user by standing up a website and sending some emails.

The issue is the App Store, not the phone. And it's a lot harder to argue that the App Store is public infrastructure, in part because of the open access to the Internet that comes with every iPhone.

Reminder that Apple launched the iPhone with an app concept based only on open Internet access (web apps, no approval needed). They only added an app SDK and the App Store because of public outcry demanding it. Now we want to be mad at them for doing it?
I think you're right there's large amount of compute power being used on simulations/computations of some sort on AWS. But I don't think they are "HPC", which is understood as requiring rapid exchange of large amounts of information between nodes. It's more like a "non-HPC compute cluster" which are also useful and which you find in many places both in academia and industry.
What's the difference between choice A and choice B? It seems there is no difference. Let's move onto the next logical argument. If the argument is that someone else will do it if we don't then do morals and values ever come into play?

This is one reason why export controls on technology are important. The corporations don't mind helping oppressive governments lock up dissidents.
On being an Engineering Manager (2018)
It's a problem for sure, but it's not the problem. It's not like there's just one thing that we're changing in a way that effects ecosystems.
Thanks for the link, I hadn't thought about my similar experience and that's terrifying to see in a lifetime.
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A protest against censored search could hold the door open for creative alternatives.

Hopefully this effort helps by encouraging search-oriented sneaker nets and decentralized content platforms. I think Google itself could provide the former, which would be very welcome in remote locations like Haiti.
Humans have this seemingly innate or nearly innate theory of mind, where the beliefs and desires of other people can be reasoned about in an effort to understand or predict their behavior.

A few key neuroscience results suggest that the brain does not really work how the "theory of mind" has us think it should. The concepts of belief and desire that we use in our theory of mind, may actually just be crude heuristics that were useful at some point in our evolutionary past, but don't actually have explanatory power in the way most humans naturally try to apply them today.

I don't really know how strong this idea is. I think it is fairly speculative in these early days of research.

My summary l may have a bit of extra color. I listened to Sean Carroll's podcast with the article author, where this same topic was a big part of the conversation.
Agreed. Also Anathem is fantastic.
Ask HN: What are biggest AI advancements in 2018?
OT, but as I grow older I find it harder and harder to read those hyper-storified newspaper "stories". I don't care about the life story of all those people and their kids and how and why they were riding a bike in the forest 30 years ago.

It's supposed to be a great progress in journalism to put people first and make stories relatable, but it's gone too far -- and it always sound the same.

Bugs population is in sharp decline, here are the numbers, here are what scientists think are the causes, and the possible consequences, and the possible remedies -- is what I want to read.

Sorry for the rant.
This has far more chance (if still very slim) of being effective than a few dozen software engineers resigning.
I know, right? If I wanted green polygons I'd play Super Mario 64!
> it's an example of how FP-style UI libraries can be a good solution

On the lower level, FP approach indeed sometimes causes much cleaner architecture, even for GUI code.

My point is, there’s no good alternatives at higher levels, where you want to build complex systems by combining components developed by different people/companies.

> and even be popular because they're less OO in nature.

That’s debatable. I don’t think the main reasons why React is popular are technical ones. Facebook is popular, and half year ago it’s market cap exceeded $600B. It’s $392B now but still it’s a huge company with 2.2B monthly active users. Many people want to achieve such success and view their technology as a silver bullet.

P.S. I’d like to add that OOP and FP are almost completely orthogonal. Here’s a good article about OOP in FP languages: https://medium.com/@gaperton/let-me-start-from-the-less-obvi... And many traditionally OOP languages adopted a lot of FP stuff: C#, JS, to lesser extent even C++ have now a lot to offer for functional-style programming.
> Besides who are we to decide for the Chinese what is best for them?

That's exactly the issue people have. Censorship. No one should be deciding what others can search.
I don't agree with this assessment, the UEFI spec also states that :

> If the primary GPT is corrupt, software must check the last LBA of the device to see if it has a valid GPT Header and point to a valid GPT Partition Entry Array. If it points to a valid GPT Partition Entry Array, then software should restore the primary GPT if allowed by platform policy settings (e.g. a platform may require a user to provide confirmation before restoring the table, or may allow the table to be restored automatically). Software must report whenever it restores a GPT.

Emphasis on "if allowed by platform policy settings". Booting up the system should require read-only access to the disks and writing a new GPT should be prevented in that case. At the very least after asking fo ruser confirmation, as the following section suggests :

> Software should ask a user for confirmation before restoring the primary GPT and must report whenever it does modify the media to restore a GPT.

In that case, the motherboard uefi neither asked nor reported that the primary GPT was restored.
It has all sorts of specific instructions about how much to spread, how soon before/after rain, how close to waterways & drains, sweep up any that gets on sidewalks, etc. Tons of words. Also in Spanish.
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Depends on if you define asshole as intentions or results. Destroying a good thing for everyone for short term gain is classic asshole but of course they lack the agency.
I have mixed feelings about this... I fully support free information not filtered by nation states, but abandoning search in China means you abandon the chance to make it a better place :/ I think developers and engineers we often do assign enough value to "progress" vs perfection.

Rome didn't fall in a day, as they say.
America Is Poorer Than It Thinks
> to continue rising

From the other thread, pretty usual recently

> I considered working at Google last year after a recruiter reached out to me, but their decision to backtrack on their promise in China changed my mind

Maybe it's not about rising anymore.
Craig Wright's Bitcoin Cash SV saves itself from drowning, just
Activism takes many forms. They’re not mutually exclusive. Your contribution to this discussion (with a throwaway account) is to put boundaries on what activities you deem acceptable.

Your cynicism is not insightful or interesting.
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Unless you're an anarchist, that's exactly what the government's job is: decide what's best for people. That's why you have prescription only drugs, anti-vice laws, securities. All these things exist because the government think the people are too dumb to decide things by themselves. Not saying I agree with it, just saying you would need to argue for anarchism if you were to argue "who is the X government to decide what is best for the X people?".
I wonder how accurate these appraisals are? I've bought a few two-word .coms over the years for projects which have since lapsed (like a travel blog). According to this they're worth a few thousands dollars and I have no real use for them.
You're downvoted, but I think that's a bit unfair.

Graydon did leave pretty early, so there wasn't this kind of pressure yet, really. However, after he left, we moved to a "core team" model, which meant that a few people (I among them) were the decision makers for everything. This eventually lead to complaints and pressure, and we opened it up further from there, adding all the other teams.
It was more a figure of speech rather than a real concern that we will literally poison ourselves with high CO2 concentrations. A more literal statement would probably be "fry ourselves with CO2", but didn't have the same punch, IMO.
Same. I spent summers there too. Anywhere close to humans has been slammed. I used to have trouble sleeping because of how loud the frogs were at the pond by the lake. There were tens of thousands of them. Might be a hundred at the same pond today.

The Anthropocene isn't going to last.
> Did you mean "dynamically" (for C) [1]?

Yeah, I did. Good catch.

> Also, I'm not too sure if Go links all dependencies statically by default, if that is what you implied above. IIRC I read somewhere recently that some things are linked statically, and some dynamically - I need to check that.

By default, Go does dynamically link to some things--it will prefer to use the system DNS resolver if one is available, for example. But you can disable this by setting `CGO_ENABLED=0` at compile time. If you do this, a Go program needs nothing more than a linux kernel (no system libraries or even libc) and whatever other files it requires (certificates, for SSL for example).

> I need to check it for C too, because things have changed since I last used C a lot.

I'm sure you can make statically-linked C programs which are smaller. For example, the musl libc implementation is quite small and designed for static linkage. But lots of libraries break (often in bizarre and hard-to-debug ways) if they don't link against glibc specifically, so it's not a panacea.

> But they are still costs, and if you create lots of small binaries, that cost adds up. Disk space is cheap nowadays, but depending on the use case and your environment (e.g. small or embedded system, cost constraints if shipping many copies of a h/w + s/w product or appliance, etc., that cost might be significant.

Agreed, but again, Go does allow for dynamic linkage in those cases so you can conserve disk space. There's no doubt that if you're golfing, C allows for smaller binaries than Go, but Go can meet 99.9% of real-world requirements when it comes to size (if you're at the extreme end of what Go can support, you've probably already ruled out Go for other reasons).

There are still many reasons to pick other languages besides Go--if you're working on a hard real-time system, if you're working with a team of people who all prefer a different language, if you're working in a domain (iOS app dev, for example) for which there are no good Go libraries, if you're willing to trade all else for extreme performance or extreme correctness, etc. But Go is actually a pretty good little language for most things that aren't at those extremes.
quoting _halgari from June 2016(on clojure)[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11884028]:

> Something that is often very hard to understand (it took me years to do so). Is that maintaining a language is insanely hard. Everything has a cost. Let me give a good example: A few years back someone submitted a patch that improved the error messages in Clojure. Worked great, just a single extra "if" and a message. It was committed to master.
Then people's code got way slower. Why? Well this was a often used function and that single if blew the JVM inline budget causing that function to never be inlined. And that improvement had to he yanked out.
Google is a publicly traded company, so they unfortunately answer to shareholders and customers not to employees unless they are one or both of those things.

In this case investors are who can make any worthwhile difference and they should be appealing to investors. However, I imagine a significant chunk of investors don't even know/realize they are due to whole/broad market funds.

Google sees 17% of the world's population as potential customers via China so who is going to have their attention more 'thousands' of employees or 1.4 billion potential customers? The only way they're going to get Google's attention is to get shareholders concerned. There will always be employees willing to be on board with this, fact of the matter is most people just don't care as long as they are getting paid. They need to get investors against it if they want to have any hope of getting Google to not do this.

A Medium article, or a petition, or a 'hey thousands of us think you shouldn't do this', is unlikely to do a damn thing. If they want to make a stand they should have Amnesty International create a video campaign that describes, FROM PUBLIC SOURCES (to avoid any potential blowback from sharing company secrets/violating NDAs), what Dragonfly is and have non-Google employees that are industry experts comment on why they think it is a bad idea. Then the Google employees should share this on all of their social media, share it directly to their friends. You want to get outsiders championing the cause and generating attention and you want to minimize any single employees risk as much as possible by using non-employees to be the public face.

If I were doing it I'd do a video as Amnesty International, try and get the Internet Freedom Foundation on board, reach out to college human rights groups and try and grass roots the shit out of it to get as much media attention as possible which would increase chances of reaching the eyes of investors.

Doing it as a group of employees though, ehhhh, that's almost certainly going to do nothing and if anything it'll have a negative impact on employees and potentially result in future policies designed to thwart future attempts like this.

It sucks because it's too big of a market to effectively deter Google from wanting to bend to the will of the Chinese government.
I was responding specifically to the GP

> The Times is really going hard on the gloom and doom lately

I'm not making a comment about the state of the global ecosystem, rather the state of the news media.
Not if they're a heavy smoker...
But please continue to filter search content in the USA based on what a few politically motivated people label as "hate"...
You're right, maybe it shouldn't stop at China.

Maybe google should commit to a policy of "protected free speech" on a wide range of political topics that it will never censor in any country (roughly in line with the first amendment).

Great idea.
Or it's because they would rather access to a censored Google without using a VPN when they visit China. If they really think that Dragonfly is worse than Baidu or Bing, they don't have to use it. This is a classic case of privileged westerners deciding that they know better than the actual residents – a modern day white man's burden.

Edit: Flagged for an unpopular view. Hacker news has sunk to a new low. Whatever guideline you think I violated, I guarantee that there are violations of equal magnitude on this thread that are very popular.
that's how a lot of these AI work you weight bias' to more towards the result you want.
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doing business with the second largest economy in the world isn't an expendable venture

Google could continue to operate profitably without doing business in China, so what makes your statement true?
> Not sure if this will benefit people over there though to ban google completely.

It won't really help them, and focusing on the Chinese market misses the most insidious problem: a censored Google search engine in the PRC gives the Chinese Communist Party leverage over Google outside of the PRC. Just look at what happened with the airlines: the PRC forced them to change their foreign websites to reflect a PRC political positions by threatening their access to their market.

Think of what they could do to "uncensored" American Google with similar leverage:

* Chinese human rights websites are deranked from relevant searches down to the second or third page. This is a subtle and deniable type of censorship.

* Ditto with critical coverage of Tibet or Xinjiang.

* Taiwan is shown on Google maps and infoboxes as part of the PRC.

* Google gives Xinhua, the PRC's English-language propaganda outlet [1], prominence on Google news.

* etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency#Bias_&_poli...
So there is an order of magnitude difference, but the other side of that is with farmland, pesticides are applied by professionals, trying to minimize cost. With yards, pesticides are applied (most often) by rank amateurs, who often know nearly nothing about proper application.
You're criticizing a snapshot of a process. I'd agree with your criticisms if we knew this was the end-game, but we don't know that it is. It is not, in general, the correct move to escalate to the maximum level in situations like this, so considered as a process this isn't necessarily a bad thing. The next move is currently Google's.
Maybe engaging China is the first step to them opening up their society? Similar to the arguments against the Cuban embargo.
Reddit "trusts" accounts with high karma in various ways.
> "iPhones have direct access to the Internet and to the power infrastructure. Apple does not limit which websites can be loaded in Safari, or which emails get delivered, or which electric sockets can charge an iPhone"... yet
Google has literally thousands of engineers. A significant percentage of those engineers leave every year as part of normal attrition. Google is certainly capable of dealing with the fallout these folks leaving without feeling a thing. While it's true there are some "one-in-a-million" type engineers that work at Google, I don't see any of the well-known ones on this list.

All that said, I commend the folks who signed this letter. If anything, the fact that most of the folks who signed are in relatively junior positions shows how Google has lost its way when it comes to it's morals. The more senior execs feel the pressure of serving Wall Street and have more to lose, while these more junior folks, while taking a risk know they can get hired anywhere else in a heartbeat. It's the kid standing up saying the emperor has no clothes.
What am I actually doing to make your life painful? Let's say I collect beanie babies because I really just like them. I'm not in control of the market supply or demand, so when someone wants to approach me with a $10k offer for my Princess Dianna 1st edition, sudden;y I'm the bad guy for displaying it on my shelf?
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