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If we take women out of the equation entirely ... As a male I find "no negotiate" to be more equatable ...

I don't understand why someone would want to work for someone that asked them to negotiate for the salary they deserve?

I don't understand why someone would hire someone who thinks they are worth more than what they can afford/offered?
Looking all of their posts in that thread it is clear how much loves Google and how far goes to spin and bend reality
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I'm going to send this article to every client I have (surprisingly many) who are demanding "our data must not be stored in the US and subject to your evil NSA...you have to keep it safely in France!".
I never understood how they could not make money. You have built a platform where people notify you exactly when and where they are about to spend money.

Loyalty program? Upselling? Competitor advertising or intelligence?
I was laid off from my first software job and this definitely contributed. I am more careful about how laid back I appear now.
Isn't consumer convenience the whole point of a healthy economic ecosystem?

We don't want companies to compete for the sake of competing but to deliver better products and services. Failing that, at least cheaper.
I don't know, man- Rome proper's population is larger than Paris', with approximately 2.9 million residents.

London, however, is indeed much larger.
If the goal is to have roughly equal distribution according to some metric and the company/field/whatever has a skewed distribution by that metric the hiring is going to be "obviously biased". What other option is there other than accepting that the current state of affairs will continue w/o change?

This applies in pretty much every field, and I'm comfortable with trying to have balanced working environments. Role models, mentors, team vs. individual players - pick whatever aspects of interpersonal interactions you're interested and I think things will go worse with a monoculture.

Gender and aspects of gender are the flavour at the moment, but it's been other things in the past and will be other things in the future. Unless it's a solo project, actions to improve aggregate performance are a win. And such improvements include "soft" aspects such as "can we secure work", "can we retain/recruit talent", "can we secure funding", "will dogs eat our dog food", ...
Several people already told you: it doesn't matter if it's trivially easy not to use google.com or chrome. Anti-trust law is about market realities. Google has a dominant position in several markets and they abuse it to gain advantage in other markets as well.
>I never understood the antitrust angle towards Google search. Is there some kind of browser or app out there that is forcing people to use Google as their search engine on all their devices

Antitrust law is not about being "forced"...
> The politics of shaming and diversity guidelines are not market factors.

Of course they are! Just like the politics of discrimination and dehumanization were market factors in previous eras. To pretend otherwise is to take a very narrow view of the market that ignores the full range of human interactions. Indeed, trends in industries such as fashion, music, film, and gaming are almost entirely driven by what ideas are popular at a given time and not by some objective utility function of the product.
> I'm aware of that but my point is that most employers would not allow that since the employer is also liable if it under-withheld for a W2 employee.

AFAIK, they aren't liable for under withholding if they withhold correctly according to the W-4 signed by the employee, even if the W-4 claims things (e.g., "exempt" when the employee does not meet the qualifications) that are not accurate.
> Shouldn't the regular matter influence the dark matter too? At that point doesn't it end up in the same distribution as the regular matter?

No, not enough. This is a consequence of its interacting only gravitationally or via the weak force. Much of the distribution of visible matter is down to electromagnetic interactions that effectively allow it to collide and slow down, whereas dark matter naturally wouldn't do that, or at least would take a drastically longer time to do so.
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Neither does the argument of the "patriarchy" which if you go after the graph would have suddenly appeared in 1980 and only in CS domain. This whole discussion is so black and white. One person claims it's 100% natural, the other claims it's 100% not natural. Why can't it be 50% natural and 50% biased? Why is there no fine grained discussion, still...
416 is the correct error code to return in this situation... that's what you want to see.
Read the article, magicalist. Particularly the bottom few paragraphs. Google mandated exclusive use of the Secure Element for the payment system on Android. This would have prevented carriers from offering a competing payment service.

In short, carriers were not being greedy by blocking Wallet. Google was being greedy by designing Wallet. Carriers, if anything, saved us from a Google Wallet monopoly. Now anyone can make an app that uses NFC.
The thing is, most of this complexity wouldn't be a problem if the tax filing system were sane. We could have had a prefilled webpage back in the 90s very easily. You would just add anything the government missed (mostly deductions) and hit "go".

We can't have this because it would put tens of thousands of accountants out of work, not to mention the damage it would do to tax filing companies. The middlemen must be protected apparently.
I'm failing to see an issue with penalizing sites for not using HTTPS.

Google has incentive to maintain the quality of their search results by being able to make some guarantees that the sites they send visitors to are what they say they are. It's reasonable to extend that to prioritizing sites that can be verified over sites that are easily MITM'd.
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Agreed -- and people are proud (NetBSD) or defensive (Linux) of the characterization I made -- and while of course every single line isn't re-written, and presumably Linux kernal devs will talk to ea. other, or perhaps one person maintains multiple architectures and therefore gets automatic code/idea sharing, NetBSD goes through pains to make sure all the supported platforms' origin is the one, single repository that is NetBSD.
Thankfully we have leaked documents from the US case.

Excerpt from Ben Edelman, whose done a damn good job over the years not only watching Google but also companies involved in abusive adware and spyware practices:

'At the same time, Google systematically applied lesser standards to its own services. Examining Google's launch report for a 2008 algorithm change, FTC staff said that Google elected to show its product search OneBox "regardless of the quality" of that result (footnote 119, citing GOOGLR-00330279-80) and despite "pretty terribly embarrassing failures" in returning low-quality results (footnote 170, citing GOOGWRIG-000041022). Indeed, Google's product search service apparently failed Google's standard criteria for being indexed by Google search (p.80 and footnote 461), yet Google nonetheless put the service in top positions (p.30 and footnote 170, citing GOOG-Texas-0199877-906).'

http://www.benedelman.org/news/040115-1.html

Were consumers hurt if Google de-ranked content which by even Google's own standards were better than its own? May be not, but it certainly peels away any idea of the integrity of algorithmic search.

Google's business is under attack from all fronts today. As business owners and those employed by internet businesses we are so fortunate as to not have to rely on Google anymore for our audiences. We have have search from two major app stores, and more if you are international. Social can deliver new users at a greater rate than search. There was a day where Google penalized your company, and the next day you fired everyone.

In the next year or so we may start seeing ultra-cheap Chinese smartphones flood the market with Google free Android. Interesting thing commenters here seem to not know, device manufacturers are not allowed to sell any non-Google Android devices if they sell Google Android.

Idealy some lines are drawn so Facebook doesn't engage in similar abusive behavior against its users and customers. I don't have high hopes. If anything, the ability to avoid US penalties and the EU's late reaction time probably emboldens behavior by market leaders everywhere.
Your simplistic worldview ignores facts: humans need large amounts of food and water to survive and thrive. Those things don't get to your body for free [as in 'effort']. At least, not on the scale that humans are currently occupying the planet.

To remain at our current level requires tremendous physical labor and organization of process just to deliver the required nutrients to every person, every day (and we still fail to achieve 100% distribution). There is a base level of effort required to sustain our current state. To believe otherwise is foolish delusion.

If you supply your own nutrients and use no product of another, you may exempt yourself from the previous analysis. Otherwise, I suggest we figure out how to achieve the above with as little 'work-hours' as possible.
That seems to mean not running IIS, or IIS is behind something sanitizing the range field (load balancer, apache/nginx, proxy, IPS, etc)
It just means one of my explanations is far deeper than it looks on the surface - that the discrimination and discouragement against women in engineering starts at childhood.
Sent email, no reply.. grrh. :/
The evolution of a galaxy is affected by collisions -- the interactions of regular matter. Dark matter doesn't interact with itself in the same way. That's exactly what this article is about!

(I don't know what's wrong with people that they think that, somehow, the entire astrophysics/cosmology community has been too stupid to think these fairly simple things through. If there was an obvious flaw in these models, a researcher would have a large incentive to point these out and get the citations!)
Fixing this issue would probably only happen in newer models of vehicles... the keys for existing cars don't often change, and I'm not sure a recall would ever be issued for something like this.

Here's another article from four years back; the tactic is likely older than that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079289
This is a very nice walkthrough and the narration was very informative.

It's amazing to anticipate all the other world famous places that can be showcased with this demonstration method.

There was an interactive 360 photo tour of Sistine Chapel but it didn't have any narration. I tried to find it again but all the google searches led to links that no longer it existed. I did find a "3D virtual" tour[1] but it's a visualization that blends photos with CGI models and not the same stiched-photos website I remember.

I do hope later tours get enhanced with stereo[1] photos so viewers can get a better sense of depth in the space. The photographers would use 2 cameras spaced apart instead of just one. I figure if the crew is going to go through all the trouble of traveling to a site and capturing a space, they might as well bring 2 cameras for stereo images.

[1] http://vatican.com/tour/sistine_chapel_3D/web

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy
Yes, that's a good thing. However, imagine a world in which everyone has local storage and only needs power on the 10 days of the year when it's dark and rainy. So, let's say the total power draw per household drops to 100 kW per year (about $15 at California power rates), vs perhaps 10,000 kW per year today (about $1500). Meanwhile, the cost for maintaining the infrastructure changes very little -- crews still need to come out and trim trees away from the lines, pull fried squirrels off of transformers, re-string lines after a storm, etc. Assuming half of your current bill is spent on infrastructure, the utilities would need to recoup $750 or so per year from their customers to provide that $15 in power.
i think he is still working, i am not what this compulsion being sincere to corporation. I can sincere to the monay paid and get the job done for that. I dont have an interest in making money for the CEO. If the corporations are so good CxO should be get less money and share that with other in company and community. When they limit thier profit sharing why should we not limit how much value we provide to them. Why we should give our life to company.
> The national, tax-everything sales tax doesn't tax idle money.

There's no such thing as idle money. As soon as you deposit it in a bank, it gets loaned out to someone else who spends it.

> People with money have lots of it and can spend it non-domestically.

Even now, you're obligated to report any purchases made outside the jurisdiction and pay sales taxes on that yourself. I'm not suggesting we abolish the IRS. They should still be around and do audits and enforce the law, especially in such cases.
By entities, you mean the Microsoft funded astroturf organization FairSearch and the hydra connected to it.
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I think my point is that I can't find a case where an EU company has been threatened with antitrust action in the EU (or the US). Do you have a counter example? (Genuinely curious not trolling)

That leads me to believe these laws are "not strictly applied" but politically applied.
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>Finally, procrastinators are more likely to complete a piece of work if they’re persuaded that it’s not actually work. In one study reviewed by Jaffe, students were asked to complete a puzzle, but first they were given a few minutes to play Tetris. "Chronic procrastinators only delayed practice on the puzzle when it was described as a cognitive evaluation," he wrote. When scientists described the puzzle as a game, they were just as likely to practice as anybody else.

I'll commence gamifying all my tasks, after fueling up with a big cup of coffee and breakfast. ;-)
The marketing and launch for the product was very weird if this is the case. Why was it emphasized that it's a brand licensing deal? I think being so loud about it certainly diminished the value of the product. If Nokia designed the product, hardware and software, how is it different from the typical model (Apple etc.)? Is it because the 'producing' and money for the product came from the Chinese? I.e. the Chinese took the investment risk.
I get "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!"
Can someone share what the tweet was? Thx.
Beats me what causes it. Whatever it is, perhaps it's similar to what causes "impostor syndrome" and various self-referential crises we see people having.

I got in before this really started. Sure, the PC was changing the world, but people tended to be a lot humbler about things. It was the domain of autodiadicts, not prizewinning blue-ribbon specialists.

Perhaps the sheer amount of money going into tech ( and leaving other fields of endeavor ) both raised the stakes and "attracted the wrong element."

I saw an interview - onstage - with the playwright Arthur Miller, and he thought the sheer quantity of money has destroyed the ecosystem around Broadway. It's become risk averse. I suspect the same applies to movies, music, maybe even books.
>No other industrialized country asks its citizens to jump through as many hoops to calculate their taxes as ours.

Except for Canada? The same sort of situation exists here. The Canada Revenue Agency enthusiastically supports the private tax preparation companies. It's pretty much the same deal except perhaps a little worse. The private companies will extend you charity here as well, but if you have any amount of income you don't even get online forms to fill out.

Presently in Canada the only way for a citizen to file their own taxes is by filling out paper forms. Ironically the easiest way to get the forms is to download them off the internet from the CRA website. Then you fill them out and mail them.

The really ridiculous thing is that since the CRA already has all the information it doesn't really matter how you fill out the forms. Just get your deductions and withholding on there and you are good. You can put whatever other gibberish on there you want.

I actually file on paper on the principal that I don't want to support a corrupt system. This year I am considering just drawing pictures on the parts that are ignored and putting down a hundred billion jillion dollars as my refund... I strongly suspect that the people made to do the data entry could use a bit of entertainment.
You examine yourself in a vacuum. Does your food come free? Does your water? At the current time, someone must do some work in order for you to remain living. Some of those people who do that work are not afforded the work-life balance others are able to achieve.

Can you eat your employer's bank credits?
"Solaris" by Stanislav Lem - we aren't the center of anything and just because we can't see or understand it doesn't mean its not there.
I just crashed a 2008 R2 server without a rule, just with "Enable Kernel Caching".
Not sure if it is relevant, but I first added a rule for .png, and then removed it again. Still worked.
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I don't know if anybody else has this problem, but sometimes SVG are just really slow to render for me, especially on cell phones and other constrained platforms.
Android gets raked over the coals for years for bad customer experience.

Google attempts to reign in fragmentation and divergent and inconsistent UI experience, and move more of firmware to Play store so it can issue security updates to customers without carriers and OEMs blocking.

Google raked over the coals for anti-competition.

Meanwhile, Apple ships iTunes and App Store, which can only be used with their own cloud stores. They ship iMessage which only works with their Cloud. Apple Maps. A fitness app. A wallet. A payment system. etc All in a proprietary, single vendor system, closed source.

If every Android phone's out of box experience was a random collection of OEM apps that had no common standard, the consumer experience would be terrible. Switch from a Samsung to an LG device and you might be hit by the fact that the device has none of the apps you were using on your previous phone, you have to delete all of the current apps, and reinstall all of your previous ones, enter all the settings again, all of the login credentials, etc. The switching cost would be huge and it would cause OEM lock in.

The setup process is a factor in consumer choice. If you are faced with an onerous gauntlet of selection dialogs for 10+ apps when you start (it's not just app store, browser, maps, but email, music, video, camera, photos, etc), consumers are going to be very annoyed. I don't want to spend 30 minutes to an hour unboxing my phone and "installing", that's what used to happen on PCs.

And what happens when things go wrong. If the user installs a third party app store, and gets malware, do you think they're going to be blamed, or Google's Android brand will be blamed? Most consumers aren't aware enough to narrow down who to blame.

So in the end, you'd be asking Google to assume all the brand risk, all of the complaints over fragmentation and failure to patch older phones, and making consumer experience worse.

Apple has none of these problems. Say what you will about their locked down platform, the one thing you don't have to worry about is inconsistent getting starting experience or malware from the App Store.

The 'choice' being presented here is the kind of choice hackers and engineers love, but it's not the kind of choice one's parents and relatives may love. It's just hobbling attempts to improve the Android experience.
I like PyPy, it's great work. But, it doesn't always work. Our last project that used python seriously used tornado and occasionaly numpy. Getting it all glued together was lots and lots of frustration, confusion about versions, and so on. PyPy just isn't mainline python. Which is really what the 2 vs 3 debate is about, in the end. If you have a 'batteries included' language, making breaking changes could take a long time.
I heard an intresting argument once, I think it was on Planet Money or Freakanomics, that argued that early personal computer advertising had a major role. Early on it was a career or maybe a video game. In the early 80s when home systems like the C64 and TRS-80 were hitting the market they were marketed, essentially, as toys for boys.

So people bought them for their kids.

Their male kids.

Fast forward 10 years and the comp sci demographics shift.
I don't understand what you're getting at. The "product search onebox" does not drive traffic to Google, it drives traffic away from it. For instance if I search for "bicycle helmet" the thing at the top of the page is the product search onebox, it contains five prominent links to sites where I can buy a bicycle helmet.

So I don't see what you are getting at. If anything, the product search onebox is the opposite of what the EU seems to be complaining about.
> Low income households and those living paycheck to paycheck end up paying as a proportion of their income far more than high income households

This is false. Food and clothing is exempt from sales tax. At least it is in my state and that's how it should be.

If they're genuinely poor, that's what they're spending their money on, so they wouldn't get taxed at all.
The fact that you are able to do that is a strong indicator that even if the apparent claim that "Google is using its position to discourage the inclusion of rival applications" were to reflect Google's actual intent, it's clearly not working very well.
By the end of his stint as a consultant, he was making $30,000 a week

Upon hearing this, The IRS is drooling all over the place.
> 6-8% of taxable expenditures, by definition, will equal less than the equivalent state income tax.

Not true; actual state income tax isn't its nominal rate on all income (state income tax usually starts with AGI and then has state deductions and credits). So 6-8% on some subset of expenditures may be more, equal, or less than 6-8%on subset of income.

Heck, its not even true without considering that; it would be -- without considering that income tax excludes some income in the same way that sales tax excludes some expenditures -- if expenditures had to be less than income, but its possible to run a deficit as long as your income is sufficient to pay the increasing debt service cost, which (particularly with an increasing income over time) can be an arbitrarily long period of time.
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"User experience" should never be chosen at the expense of "user freedom".
People spent centuries assuming that orbits (whether helio- or geo-centric) were circular, because it was more elegant. They were wrong!
The issue is that Google by being the default search engine could slowly subsume all the profitable markets that run on the internet.

Once they kill off potential competitors then there is no reason to be competitive on price or quality.

Think of it as sort of a net neutrality for the search engine. People here are totally okay with telling Comcast they can't leverage their ISP near-monopoly to win the video streaming market.

Why should we allow Google to leverage their search monopoly into capturing other internet markets.