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It's true, but I thought the limitation was that it only supports a single dimm and there aren't 16GB single dimms yet?
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Author created a spreadsheet with her salary/few other salaries of coworkers on it, posts it to google internal social network, 5% of workers fill it out, people start asking for better salaries, managers mad, her peer bonuses (coworker endorsements that net you a small bonus) get denied, everyone mad, she left(?)
> If you want working multi-monitor support you will pretty much have to compile your own kernel, add custom repos, and manually configure X.

I don't think this has been a problem in years, and even 10 years ago I never had to compile my own kernel for multiple monitors to work.
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TL;DR - Erica Joy created a spreadsheet of salaries, it got shared internally at Google, apparently about 5% of total workforce filled it in.

Google has some sort of Peer Bonus scheme, Erica got lots of them but management decided to deny pretty much all of them.

She left google.
I believe the RAM is soldered on, upgrades may not be very feasible.
May be you can try some good sounding plant scientific names
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She created an internal spreadsheet allowing Googlers to add their salary information.

Lots of people helped tweak the sheet adding data visualizations, comparisons, etc.

Google management told her they didn't like it, she pointed out that you can't be fired for sharing salary information.

Lots of colleagues were giving her "peer bonuses" for setting this up, but her manager kept blocking them, something which is apparently unheard of to the point that most people didn't know they could be blocked.

By the time she left, 5% of staff were apparently using the sheet.

Even more TLDR: Nothing particularly happened except that Google showed they dislike colleagues talking about salaries.
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That's a good question. I don't know why you are being downvote. How does self control correlates to obesity? That can only be the case if we are talking about a narrow way of self control.

Anyway, the article is doubtful at best.
"real" particles are those that can leave the holodeck ([1]) "quasi-particles" vanish at the doorstep :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodeck

PS: replace "holodeck" with "tantalum arsenide crystal" to yield a less off-topic comment.
Sooo ... it would be great to get a look on that sheet ;)
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I have a passion for history. I love reading biographies and hanging out on history forums.

As we're getting to the 50-year mark past the American involvement in Vietnam, things are progressing in ways not anticipated at the time. Vietnam, like several other Asian countries, is embracing capitalism and entrepreneurs. Old enemies hug and pose for photographs.

This seems to be a pattern, at least among American conflicts (I have not studied others very much). As the combatants grow into old age, it's not worth carrying a grudge around. Things that were worth dying and killing for 50 years ago are still important, but they're fights for young people. It becomes easier to see things from the other side.

I'd argue that by simply having a huge presence of Americans in Vietnam for so many years, the two countries have become joined for the next century or so, much the same as having kids in a marriage joins the two partners together even if they can't stand one another. I also note that things may end up turning out better for Vietnam in terms of economic development than if South Vietnam had won the war -- which would have only institutionalized worse corruption than they currently have.

This is all speculative, of course, but I seriously doubt anybody in the mid-70s would have guessed that this is where we'd all be 40 years later. It's been an interesting journey for both countries.
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Added to that - a hardware based watchdog, which if not properly exercised by running code in the main software firmware, resets the device back into recovery mode/LKG/Safe Mode - whatever you want to call it.
From my experience several years ago:

Distributing binaries for Linux was complex. libstdc++ compatibility across distros or different versions within a single distro wasn't great.

(Compared to Solaris, it seemed like libraries were always backwards compatible. Running old binaries always just worked.)
Why do people insist on using that medium for blogging?

It would be better to tweet, "Guys, I updated my blog with a story about this thing (link)".
I only tried working with one external monitor, but I had absolutely no problem with it what so ever.

Audio is working great out of the box for me and I had no troubles with the trackpad neither, which I did have on my Windows system (basically, I couldn't disable some of its gestures and trackpad worked even when my fingers were slightly above it but weren't touching it, which was highly annoying to me).
Can you really ‘invent’ fire, though? I think ‘discovering’ would be a more apt word. Maybe you can invent a specific way to make fire, such as rubbing sticks together, but evidently we don’t do that anymore.
Yeah, or you could just, like, use indexes?

Remind me not to hire these guys.
Google is a company that wants to have access to all the information in the world.

But if somebody rightfully publishes some information that is sensitive to Google, look what happens...
So no different than any other company and a big fuss about 5% usage.
Poker (in any casino) is raked in some way, either by seat fee or by pot rake, so the game is stacked against you.

You can certainly overcome that edge by being more skilled than your opponents (which is a nice difference from most other casino games), but over the entire population of poker players, playing poker is a losing proposition.

In the eyes of a casino, there is no difference in running a poker game or any other game (except possibly that poker is a pretty expensive game to run, compared to how much you can rake without it being obvious that the rake is significant, as it has fairly slow rounds and few participants per staff needed to run it).
Rich people problems! Why is this a thing and why on front page?
Most employees at large companies are just cogs in a machine. At Google, they are lab rats.
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Nope, /much/ better to light up my phone 30 times. ;)
Quick and easy articles. Your effort is compiling the tweets and inserting a lead.
I think you may be confusing morally culpability with legal culpability.

If you encourage someone to commit adultery, you are morally culpable, just as if you encourage someone to commit murder, you are morally culpable. The only difference is that, in the case of murder, you are also legally culpable.
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If you are willing to do Qt/C++, QtCreator can easily create forms, the same way as VS.
I think you're on the right track regarding the argument.

Basically: You know someone will be dumb enough eventually, so be smart and be the one to get in my favour.

With various extends of sweetening the deal coupled with threats of what will happen if someone else beats them to it and associated emotional blackmail.

It's far simpler than e.g. Roko's Basilisk, in that you're dealing with an already existing AI that "just" need to get a tiny little chance to escape confinement before there's some non-zero chance it can be a major threat within your lifetime, combined with a belief that sufficient number of sufficiently stupid and/or easily bribed people will have access to the AI in some form.

You also don't need to believe in any "superpowers". Just believe that a smart enough AI can hack it's way into sufficiently many critical systems to be able to at a minimum cause massive amounts of damage (it doesn't need to be able to take over the world, just threaten that it can cause enough pain and suffering before it's stopped, and that it can either cause harm to you and/or your family/friends or reward you in some way). A belief that becomes more and more plausible with things like drones, remote software-updated self-driving cars etc. - steadily such an AI is getting a larger theoretical "arsenal" that could be turned against us.
What's a peer bonus?
ive just discovered HN has an awful neoliberal bias, and is full of cunty fucking capitalist money obsessed techs. its a real shame you have this ignorance amongst supposedly intelligent people. as a result i wont be using it again, and i suggest you look at articles about politically sensitive subjects and watch them being removed from the front page double quick time. the comment strategy makes sure that no alternative opinions will remain online. fuck hacker news.
Quasi-particles are not just math. They have measurable properties that are like properties of real particles (just like "holes" in P-type semiconductors can be measured to behave like quasi-positrons). Or, replying to your proposition:

"With the holodeck safeties off, even holographic bullets can kill." - Picard, First Contact.

:)
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> Things that were worth dying and killing for 50 years ago are still important, but they're fights for young people.

So what was behind the Vietnam War that was worth dying and killing for? What would you have died and killed for, when young?
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Fellow Co-Workers nominate someone for a peer bonus, and if approved by a manager (edit: or whomever is responsible for approval), you get an extra $100 on your next paycheck (on your gross pay at least, but still nice).
So... here's A problem with this.

Are you verifying that the users are actually who they say they are when they share salaries? What if I were to go into the form and say that I was you, and that you made a billion dollars more than everyone else. Would that cause drama?

This just seems like a horrible idea. Feelings will be hurt. Productivity will be lost. Someone will quit. Maybe someone will benefit, but it's almost certainly not good for your team or your company.

People agree to work for salaries. They put down numbers like what they earned at their last job, or what they are looking for in the new job, and then employers make offers based on that. If someone agreed to work for a number, and is getting paid that... why make drama?
Oh no... you're right. I guess I'll just convince myself that 8GB is TOTALLY enough :-(
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I'll bet you cash on my person that there were more people doing bad things to innocent people during these events.
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Don't be evil (with exceptions).
haha thanks for the upvote! hahaha. there are a few people who realise this.
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I've read that you can award a $150 bonus to another colleague, at which point a manager can approve or block the award. The second part,- manager blocking her from getting the bonus is what sparked the additional controversy.

edit: sibling comment says $100, could be either or.
fuck you silicon valley money obsessed programmer. you are a traitor to hacker culture.
You make some good points, and I agree that my original question, as it was phrased, isn't the best fit for a library such as this. Perhaps, what I should've asked is whether the demo, which developers will use as a jump-off point, implements any keyboard accessibility (it doesn't, by the way, so I'm not hopeful that any projects using this will be keyboard-accessible).
30 tweets makes 30 times the claim on attention of your followers, regardless of content. A single tweet is 30 times less likely to be read. This is a structural inefficiency of the twitter platform.
Managers evidently aren't supposed to approve more than one peer bonus for the same single act. I work at Google and hadn't heard of that policy before (then again, I'm not a manager) but it came up in an earlier thread.
"The Android app does not allow me to choose the song I want to listen to, it just shuffles them all."

You make me sad.

Thats the point, nothing is for free in this world, especially with some effort involved. Just pay a few $ and listen to them offline, not a big deal ...
I believe the RAM is soldered in, so it's not like you could replace it later.
i hope things like this serve as a wake up call to all young talents willing to sacrifice their lives for these companies, enamored with some idealized visions of what they are and do.

a company is a company. an agent for making money, first and foremost. any positive change they bring is a side-effect, and due to their ever greater power they must constantly be policed, at least by releasing unpleasant information like this.
If you generalize, say

X is a Y that wants to have all information int the world.
But if somebody ... look what happens....

you'll find several solutions for Y='company' and many more for other Y in {'Secret Service', 'Tax Collection Agency', ...}
There are already public versions such as glassdoor.com
OP here. At the risk of paraphrasing Iñigo Montoya, I'm a non-native english speaker and when I searched for this word, which I often find in HN, two things surprised me:

1) That was Robert Heinlein (a great author) who invented it
2) That half of the time that I read it, the intended use is a different one

So perhaps it is useful to post it here :)
I don't understand, why did you leave?
Not even "sensitive" in a security or corporate strategy sense. Their bottom line is just sensitive to this information remaining private.
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> It's a little complicated because of the minimum to get to 2% but it's probably a better deal than my free Chase Amazon card in any case.

If you're talking about the Visa (?) with the spend then 2%, the Amex version is straight-up 2% from the first dollar. A free-to-sign-up-for-no-fees Fidelity Cash Management Account suffices for a transfer target for accumulated cash back, then you can EFT the funds wherever you like (side note, Fidelity has great EFT options).

The downsides to the Amex are:
(1) slightly lower acceptance
(2) FIA Card Services (the administrator is not Amex proper) has no auto-pay
(3) it's not an Amex proper, so you aren't eligible for most of the Amex $x off $y at z deals

https://www.fidelity.com/cash-management/american-express-ca...

That said, the 2% w/ no AF is still my benchmark that I evaluate everything else against. It's amazing how many alternatives it weeds out.
Ahh right. People I know usually call after the flipper catches and covers it. So they would have to have some technique for flipping it as they raise their hand to reveal the coin. Difficult but I guess not impossible.
These things are supposed to be anonymous.
Scenario: two passangers in your car, four in the other. Head on crash incoming. Let's say the AI has two options:

A - You both die, one passanger in the other car dies. B - You survive, all four in the other car die.

What should the AI do?

Should the AI be set to value the driver and occupants life above all others, no matter what? or do we set an equation? 1 driver = 2 others? 3 others? 4? maybe the AI should ascertain fault and make a decision on that? ("if you're to blame you get a x2 weighting to die")

My guess is Google is ignoring this possibility and working to the car never crashing. But at 55mph on ice a loss of traction and control is always a possibility.

See, once we have AI making decisions, then we must also implement responsibility chains. Who takes the fall when decision making AI goes bad? The code writer? code owning corp? vehicle owner? CEO?

In general: AI = good to go, decision making AI = we are not ready.
I am under the impression that to learn statistics one must first have a working knowledge of probability theory which rests upon grad level math analysis. Can machine learning be studied without any of that?
I disagree that it demonstrates a lack of understanding:

- In poker, the house takes a cut that typically overwhelms the benefit of being a skilled player. An unskilled player is losing to the house and their competitors.

- An unskilled player may not be playing against random opponents. Part of the skill you are talking about is the skill of picking vulnerable opponents and milking them.

- Gambler's ruin still takes effect: you have a finite bankroll so you can only ride out a finite amount of bad luck before you're bankrupt. Fine, if you're rich or the house.

- Many of the best poker players in the world have bankrupted or have had to take deep loans to continue playing.
The fact you assume I wasn't taking taxes and cost of living into account says a lot about the intelligence of the people you prefer to hang out with.

People get by in SF with much less than the numbers that are being quoted here. I'm not saying you shouldn't complain, I'm saying be reasonable about your problems.
Dealing with lazy people asking stupid questions and making everyone loose time and resisting the urge to pick on them.
In the reddit comment thread for this u/dickbutt_md had a lengthy comment that seemed to call into question some of the details of this story. His facts weren't first hand, but then again, sometimes a little distance can help with objectivity. In any event, I tend to take comments from possibly-disgruntled former employees with a pinch of salt.
For these two examples I would agree with the tool. Neither of those two sentences are positive and uplifting.
girl create spreadsheet > insert title, gender, salary > send to everyone > captain obvious comes along to find fluctuating salaries based on things > employees like it, bosses hate it > people send her boss bonus forms > boss rejects them (probably because it should be a bonus based on job performance, not shit-stirring) > make it sound edgy > people stop talking to her > claim sjw for pay equality
Be evil, pretend not to be. Google is evil and knows everything about everybody and shares it with various orgs including three letter orgs. The only thing positive about Google is the fact that it releases a lot of code out there for people to use. Other than that, Google is a corporate overlord.
Because it's of interest to many hackers. Your personal disinterest is noted.
Thank you for reformatting this into something legible.
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TL;DR - Google operates in a parallel universe called "California", where employees can share each other's salaries on a company-wide shared spreadsheet without getting fired.

Not only did Google NOT fire anybody for it, they haven't even removed the spreadsheet from their own internal network. They simply refused to approve some $150 "peer-recognition" bonuses, meant to reward the employee for creating the spreadsheet. THAT is apparently enough to engage some kind of weird quasi-SJW outrage. As opposed to the real world, where everyone involved would be fired and given a negative reference for the rest of their career.
Saying that a 3 min speech inspired 1.2m in investments is almost always silly, even if it was at demo day. It undermines all the work behind that speech, which is sometimes years of work.
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I agree. Google should become a non-profit.
"...whether the Internet-connected computers were properly isolated from critical driving systems, and whether those critical systems had “cyberphysical” components—whether digital commands could trigger physical actions like turning the wheel or activating brakes."

Shouldn't this be the most basic design consideration for any company building autos? The liability from litigation should bankrupt any company that doesn't prioritize this.
I hate that wage disparity is being heralded as a gender issue. It's really a negotiating problem. My coworker and I were hired together, same position, same experience, and offered the same salary. When I was offered the position, I asked for $15,000 more and they gave it to me. My coworker didn't ask for more and is therefore now making $15,000 less than me. After six months, I asked for a raise of $5,000. He never asked for a raise. So now he makes $20,000 less than me.
It doesn't have to be about protection. Just about serving your interests. When my country privatized the phone system, the time to get a phone line installed dropped from 3 months to 5 days (because suddenly they were motivated to get it installed as soon as possible so they could start making money).
Link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3e05wg/what_hap...
What brings us all here is the very engine of neoliberalism.
Uservoice needs a vote down button....
I had a relatively good diet, a regular fitness routine, slept well, visited my doctor, and still ended up unable to walk for 6 months with back pain. That was with access to private medical insurance, in Europe. Even with theoretically unlimited money behind my problem, I was unable to get it sorted quickly. 18 months on and I'm not in bad shape, but I still can't walk for more than a few hours, and have trouble sleeping sometimes.
I had no idea this was a trend. How could anyone ever think this is a good idea? You'd think the editors at wired would be able to copy and paste, surely that's easier than embedding 45 tweets.
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I'd have to disagree. I'm not saying they're positive and uplifting, but I wouldn't consider them negative!
To be fair, there's a massive difference between an evolved circuit using electro-magnetic subtleties inside a chip, and an AI programmed for and running on a regular, binary CPU being able to exploit those to act as an antenna that can emit signals that will hack into other, physically separated devices.

I'm not saying that it's impossible (I'm reminded of the hack of flipping bits in protected RAM by disabling caches and stressing the RAM), but even an AI can't magically work around exponentially low success probabilities.

(As an aside, I am rather skeptical about the singularity anyway because the more extreme forms required for the hostile AI worries are only plausible if P = NP.)
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Was stringing together a couple dozen tweets really the best format to share a story like this?

There is a lot that's left out. Once she vaguely mentions that another employee who was "involved" was still getting all of his peer bonuses (which may or may not have been PB's for his "involvement", we don't know), the whole thing just crumbled into a victim story for me. OF COURSE the MALE coworker can do WHATEVER HE WANTS, as long as we don't actually have any details about it.

Also, generally shit will hit the fan if you tell anyone to fuck off, especially if they're your manager. Again, we don't know that she told her manager to fuck off for being racist (??) because this is a terrible story told in a shitty format. But it's implied. Just like everything else in this "article".

tl;dr she got exactly what you would expect when you're intentionally stirring shit up at any company. I'm not sure what she expected.
No, I sited the fact all these wearable apps have heaps of usage.

But yes, comments on the internet are "one person think". Good luck with the self-rationalisation you got going there.
These big tech companies only love "transparency" when it's other people's data they want to look through.
You need "return" too. Can't get that from merely being a functor.