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Hmmm, I wonder what this says about the iOS ecosystem, where programming on your device is strictly verboten Even former Apple Fellow Alan Kay, chosen by Steve Jobs way back when, couldn't get a suitable for children version of Smalltalk approved. The Gambit-C Scheme crew got their's approved, and then banned.
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I'm pretty sure Tom Preston Warner (in particular) would disagree with you. He gave a great presentation to YC's Startup School a few years ago on the subject[1, 2].

GitHub has had one of the best jobs retaining people. Zach Holman disclosed some numbers recently[3] on his How GitHub (no longer) Works talk.

[1] video: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272031754

[2] Writeup http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/10/18/optimize-for-happin...

[3] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/github-evolution
huh? Allegedly it's a fake employee. https://twitter.com/torrez/status/410138380690022402
Thanks, that makes a lot more sense, and you're right that is the point that was being made.

It would be nice to see the scenarios expanded and stressing the outcomes for different classes of shares.

For example, on a second read I understand it that in scenario B the investor paid $100M for 3.33% of the "$3B" company, and gets a $108M payout even if the company sells for $1B (which would be equivalent to 10.8% of how much the buyer bought it for). If it sells for $30B, then he gets $1B.
In the video, a Google employee who hopped off the bus shouts down Erin McElroy, a protester who also heads the eviction mapping project. "How long have you lived in this city?" McElroy asked him. He shouted back "Why don't you go to a city that can afford it? This is a city for the right people who can afford it. You can't afford it? You can leave. I'm sorry, get a better job."

"What kind of fucking city is this?" he shouted, and then walked off.

That's the nut of the whole article/video if you are curious. Really bad move on the Google guy's point. I suspect he may himself be looking for a "better job" before long - as far as I know, no one at Google is critical enough that they can't be replaced essentially at will.

Update: as thrownaway2424 points out, the article has been edited to indicate this was staged.
I don't think people really want to change the world.

I believe the phrase is a coded message along the lines of "we're the next Facebook!", an application or service that will radically change the landscape of {insert something here} and turn into a massive public company and insanely huge IPO.

That's what the mission is about. Since you can't guarantee success, you put the carrot at the end of the stick and it starts right here.
"They have other priorities, like fresh water, AIDS or malaria medication, or a reliable source of food."

I am from a country with ~50% inflation and +30% of poverty (under the government scale, it is arguable to be way higher) and I can tell you that in that context you are overestimating people's priorities.

I have seen people with a minimum wage salary and without anything to eat but having smartphones and/or having cosmetic surgeries.
> So why post this diatribe here? Because without knowing a thing about the gentleman in the video, I can almost guarantee he never worked a day of retail, food-service, or manufacturing in his life...

As you said, you don't know a thing about the man in the video. It could very well be that he spent the past 5 years working a shitty manual job, worked hard to get a CS degree and get a job at Google, and now he's pissed that people are preventing him from going to work.

I certainly know SF tech workers who have a past not too different from this.

The last paragraph of your post is incredibly condescending and doesn't add much to the conversation. In general, making assumptions about other people's intentions/backgrounds is rarely useful to a debate.

Let's all try to raise the bar here.
So we have to sit around while The Guardian decides which docs are important..
I've found, in my experience, the average person, no matter what level in society they have achieved or have not achieved, does not understand

1. People who don't live like them
2. How cities work
1 million Ukrainians -Lenin Statue decapitated 
page got taken down the second posted it

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/ukraine-opposition-viktor-yanukovych-european-integration
For a "social coding" site it still surprises me that they don't have a more obvious way to browse users.
All 3 of your points are achieved if the startup is growing fast and its product is succeeding. It seems like you'll optimize employee retention by making sure the work is worthwhile, even if it's hard, rather than by making sure people don't do too much of it.

(I don't disagree with work/life balance in general, but I'm pointing out that your data supports Sam's point that you should give people generous equity for working on a product that's worthwhile, rather than your point that they shouldn't devote themselves 100% to the work.)
You are correct. However, when I say "rest of the country", I mean national average. There are many parts of India that fare better than Delhi on a host of social indicators (ie. Kerala). That doesn't change my argument.
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Nope. IE also renders the red glow noticeably faster than Chrome (i.e. less delay before it appears after hovering). There is no difference at all between hover on or off in terms of fps.
I don't get how shuttle buses haven't already paid for their right to use public streets the same way a business can deliver something w/o paying an additional fee. Using this logic, FedEx and UPS should be paying even more fees for flashing hazards and double parking all over the city. The city should either bake in the fees into shuttle licensing or just recoup it by having a traffic officer ticket the Google shuttles at every Muni stop and generating a nice revenue stream. The other option is for Google to rent a space at their stops either inside a private lot (it's temp anyways) and not have these problems.
electron transfer is a basic concept in metabolism, my specific application notwithstanding.
It's true that TWC and Comcast are the worst of all. But I have to disagree, not all providers suck.

In my current town (Clifton, NJ) we can get Verizon FIOS and Optimum. Both providers are fighting fiercely for customers.

I used FIOS for a year and it was great, no caps,full speeds and good support. I later switched to Optimum and it is fantastic, I've never been so happy with a service provider, they upgraded most users from 50mbit to 100mbit for free, and they are actually giving me a true 100mbit connection, not to mention an outstanding customer support.
Also, article stated that the shelter guests are not allowed to bring in canned goods.

In order to have food stored, it basically has to be packaged in plastic or glass. Peanut butter. Jelly. Bread.

A jar of peanut butter is the perfect food for someone without fridge or pantry. It can be stored at room temperature, it is calorie-dense, it is cheap, and it actually has some nutritional value.

If I am ever forced to live at poverty income without basic residential infrastructure, I would definitely walk to the nearest actual grocery store and carry back peanut butter. You can also keep eggs around a while, even in the US, if you can replace the cuticle (removed during processing) with wax. I'd probably cook them in their shells with an electric kettle, dip them in paraffin from plumbers' candles, and put them back into the container.
If you're selling goods you buy with fiat, you can only hold Bitcoin for longer if you're hoping the price will go up or depending on the margin. Even if your vendor accepts Bitcoin, you still need to pay taxes, wages, rents, etc. with fiat, so, you cannot keep much of it in Bitcoin anyway.
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The "right people" are the ones who can afford it, its not anyone's god given right to live in a particular place of their choosing.
https://disconnect.me/

But doesn't ghostery block FB, Google+, etc. by default, too?
Someone can always hack the display driver - you have to display the messages to the user at some point, after all. Take a screenshot on whatever user event, encryption bypassed.

I've been thinking about encryption all the way up to the display module, though, meaning interception would have to be very close to the display hardware itself.
"X Labs"-type sub-divisions rarely do things of immediate practical interest to X.

Microsoft Research, for example, doesn't restrict itself to the domain of features for Windows, Office, or XBox. Instead, you get giant touchscreens (which you could say inspired Windows 8's unified tablet-PC approach, but didn't really) and PhotoDNA.

Likewise, I'd expect the things coming out of a Facebook AI Lab to be more of the "new ideas that could replace our entire business model when this one runs dry" than "better ways to advertise." Personal, private social agents that live in the cloud and continuously execute on your goals without requiring direct instruction, say (I'm sure there's a speculative-fiction name for these, but all that comes to mind is "NetNavis.")
Depends on where in Texas you're talking about. In Austin, we have the City of Austin Utilities (though the suburbs do seem to have options). El Paso only had one option when I lived there, too.
although I agree - it might be worth considering it's creepy because of the uncanny valley
Candidate Obama did, pointing out that maintaining adequate tire pressure would obviate the need for more drilling.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/08/obama-pushes-ba...
Talking with Comcast on the phone can seem like talking to someone from another planet. When I moved last year and needed to move my service with me, I was instructed to just bring the Comcast box to the new place myself, and then call a specific number when I had connected it to turn service on. Great! I thought, that sounds easy.

Well it turns out the people answering at that number (the number they gave me, remember) were completely unfamiliar with the concept of moving. "You want to do what?" they asked incredulously, as if I was the first person they had ever encountered who had moved from one residence to another.

"I have moved. My service has already been disconnected at the old address, and I would like to activate it at my new address" I repeated, thinking they had just misheard me.

"Have you tried unplugging it and then plugging it back in?" they offered helpfully.

After an hour on the phone and many, many transfers I was finally able to talk to someone who could handle this bizarre and complicated request. I hate to think how much time it will cost me if I ever have a real problem.
That's because car knowledge, at least for men until 20-30 years ago, was the kind of knowledge that fathers passed onto their sons voluntarily, without needing a presidential exhortation.
Curious, PG, how do you personally reconcile Silicon Valley's participation in the Surveillance State? E.G. Palantir's tech, possibly, being core to some of the capabilities - and by extension, VCs such as Peter Thiel's support of such companies...

Its such a complex issue, I think, for this industry; Strive to make incredible technologies, hope they are used for good.

Do you have any thoughts on this?
Well, stuxnet breaks things in one or two specific known ways on purpose and the healthcare site is broken in lots of unknown ways by accident. You think that is fair?
In my experience the biggest retention issue is for an employer to deliver what was promised during the hiring process. Employers that are competing for talent are known to paint the picture of how they see their ideal instead of how things really are. This sets the new hire's expectations to an unreasonably high standard, and when those expectations aren't met they walk.

Being honest with potential hires and showing them both the good and the bad about what you have to offer may lose you a few good hires but will surely save you many more bad (short tenure) hires over time. As a recruiter, I hear the bait-and-switch cited by roughly 25-50% of job seekers that are leaving a company after a relatively short 0-3 year stint.
It has not been confirmed that the person works for Google. It would be best to update the Headline to reflect this

(UPDATE 12:12 PM -- The Guardian amended the headline
to reflect our story more accurately, that though this
man exited the bus and claimed he was late for work,
we have not yet verified his employment at Google)
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Except that not everyone will work with code monkeys. Basic computer skills and able to use applications is a lot more different than programming, and often the reason you have levels of middle management with technical and business ability to decipher and relay the important information.
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A lot of people's jobs in the military is to come up with plans like these. The point is that we're not actually doing them most of the time.

The fact that a US senator once proposed a false flag does not make this official US policy. If we had to take everything every member of congress said as scripture, we'd have bombed every country in the world by now.

There are a lot of disturbing stuff in this list, but the false equivalency between putting a weapon down next to an afghan civilian after being (most likely) accidentally killed (despicable, but not always likely they went in with a plan to kill civilians) and actively killing your own people just so you can say it was some militants (an actual campaign involving planning and whatnot) is preposterous

Creating a fake terrorist organisation to mess with the heads of the real ones doesn't seem like an issue in itself, and there's a pretty big line to cross between fake training camps and real bombs.

Also, the notion that a country is funding terrorism in another country is not exactly a novel one.

It's unfortunate because there are a lot of real issues, but some people who cover these issues try so hard to find all these issues with US policy (of which there are many), that they try to equate some offhand remark of a senator with years-long operations involving framing and murdering innocents with express political goals.

>As reported by BBC, the New York Times, and Associated Press, Macedonian officials admit that the government murdered 7 innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order to join the “war on terror”.

This one is beyond bizarre.
One of the things I love about Engelbart's work is that it does not obfuscate the underlying data. You have the data structure at your finger tips and it's up to you how you display it or interact with it. If you've got a graph, you interact with that graph as a graph. If you create a list you can interact with that as a list.

I am trying to implement something in a similar vein[1].

[1] 98, 4, & 44: https://github.com/samsquire/ideas
Great read on storytelling. One point I'd be interested on your thoughts is how data drives the story. How do you know you're telling the right story?
Port 8pen to the PS3 navigation controller (one-handed joystick device)?
http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/12/09/protesters-block-goog...

There's a pilot program that's set to start next summer that charges the corporate buses. It's halfway down the article.
Eh? Torrez says "@edcasey If last week taught us anything it is that everything on the internet is fake. So I am covering my bases." Doesn't seem like he is seriously alleging that this guy is a plant.
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Yeah, that's another possibility. Or it could be coded for "we're the next Apple," after all the mythologizing that took place in the wake of Steve Job's death.
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Bitcoin can act as an intermediate currency, i.e. "local currency of the internet", while both parties in a transaction are actually immediately converting to/from their own currency using their whichever exchange they like. Or maybe they're holding Bitcoin. It doesn't matter to the other party.

Existing payment systems like credit cards sort of do this, but Bitcoin does it in a more decentralized way.
First, the Google employee let his emotions get the best of him and should have avoided the confrontation.

Second, if these protesters think gentrification is so bad, wait till they get a load of anti-gentrification, like in my hometown of Baltimore, and elsewhere in places like Detroit.

If you want to keep the city vibrant, it is a delicate balance, and yes, if you swing too far towards gentrification you get monoculture, but if you swing too far in the other direction, you get a lot of problems I think are far worse than not being able to afford to live in a "cool" city.

San Francisco has a basic supply/demand problem. More people have a preference to live there than capacity, and the distribution of incomes of those with that preference form a wide gap, driving up prices. Thus the supply is rationed by price. Either they can increase supply, or they can decrease the number of high-end bidders somehow by making the city less desirable somehow.

But to blame the tech workers over this is the height of hypocrisy and irony. Many of the same people at these protest events also complain about suburbia, people driving excessively and not using public transport, etc. People used to avoid the cities, but now there is a trend towards reurbanization, and as more people move back into cities, the natural result of that is an increase in prices unless supply increases.

San Francisco is no different than New York, London, Tokyo, or Shanghai, in real estate trends and gentrification and to fixate on the tech workers or Google Buses, which are not the cause of your problem, and not your politicians, who need to figure out ways to mitigate the problem, I think is only likely to damage your cause by making you look like an angry mob.
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I'm sorry but we live in a free market. I'm surprised that some of the posters here think the employee is the problem? The guy has a right to live wherever he wants. Where he chooses to live dictates where he pays his taxes, which funds directly to the city. It's irrelevant if he's been there a week or 30 years.

Having high income residents in an area is a GOOD thing. It has brought SF a more educated culture and cash for improvements the city desperately needed. Shared buses lower traffic and pollution.

Finally, it must be said that the female protester should have thought twice about putting holes in her face, that is a deal breaker for even entry level jobs.
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I started taking that class but had to drop it -- tried it way too early in my CS career. Having to use his language definitely didn't help! But you're right, I absolutely loved the lectures, even if a bunch of it went over my head.
The announcement of an organization who's revenue is based on advertising doing research into AI deeply scares me. Take a look at this MIT study. Each day our corporation based government takes a step closer to 1984 and each day people become more and more apathetic and quick to change the subject at the first sign of the conversation.

http://web.mit.edu/people/amliu/Papers/PentlandLiu_NeuralCom...
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The problem with public transport in Bay Area is not the lack of money. It's mostly politics and inefficient management.
"A full company, scalable event bus like this can totally revolutionize the way you build services."

Shameless (and shameful) plug, but if anyone wants to be part of such an enterprise that's already gained traction with big companies, send me a message!
Argh. My entire office full of Googlers is cringing. This guy doesn't represent all of us (or really any of the people I have worked with at Google).
I don't see how planting a fake would make sense at all to their cause. They might get a temporary bump from outrage at the insensitivity of the Google employee but once Google starts to investigate and figures out that this wasn't an employee you bet your ass the local protestors will lose credibility.
Geographic constraints + bad transit + anti-development mindset in city halls + earthquakes making vertical development very costly + explosive economic growth = perfect recipe for absolutely bat balls crazy real estate hyperinflation.
"but they should have to pay for the right to use public streets"... Do you suppose there are no regulatory costs to operating a bus?
I think that's a person speculating, not with any actual knowledge. That said, the OP blogger obviously has their own agenda as they cover this.
Isn't there any parking lots[1] that Google can purchase a space at to use as a loading zone? It seems like they should be able to pay a fee to some store or building owners to create their own stops.

1) Since the only time I've been in SF was when the car I was riding in broke down in 1988. Yeah, let's send the North Dakotan to find a wrecker.
And this is employees' fault how?
1) I don't know what country you're from, but in America here is how it works: In general, competitive colleges require at least two years of foreign language classes in high school. Stanford would like to see three or more years, and Harvard urges applicants to take four years.

When a college recommends "two or more" years of a language, they are clearly signaling that language study beyond two years would strengthen your application. No matter where you apply for college, a demonstrated proficiency in a second language will strengthen your application.

Students who have just the minimum can win admission if their applications demonstrate strengths in other areas. Some less competitive schools don't even have a high school language requirement and assume some students will simply study a language once they get to college.

If you score a 4 or 5 on an AP (advanced placement) language exam, most colleges will consider that evidence of adequate high school foreign language preparation (and you're likely to get course credit in college).

2) Foreign language requirements are originally a product of enlightenment era education curriculum and have been kept afloat with notions that in a globalizing economy candidates who can work internationally will garner higher wages and be more productive. This is true, to a degree, but wouldn't you rather work for a Swedish web design firm from your US based coffee shop?