skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody here does.

It's a civil case and the standard of evidence is "preponderance of the evidence".
That's one of the ways they are searching for life. It's starting to show it's age but A Pale Blue Dot is still an excellent read
Sounds good. But how would such things present?
Those hipchat messages and emails are available to anyone with the ceo's say-so who cares to look.
In which somebody who didn't want to work for Uber, interviews at Uber, is unimpressed, and they with him, but this realisation is kept secret until a story about Uber culture blows up all over the web over a weekend.

By the way, it's spelt "suit", not "suite". I believe the e on the end has escaped from "belive", which appears later in the article.
Whenever I hear about a case of a woman being harassed at work, I can't help but wonder how I would react in a similar situation. I am male and I have never experienced workplace harrassment, but if a female co-worker started writing things like those in the story I can't imagine that it would annoy me the slightest. If she was attractive, I would probably be flattered. If it _did_ annoy me, I would ask the person to stop and if that didn't help, I might contact her husband as retaliation.

Is it a female-thing to take these sort of situations so seriously, or maybe a personality trait?
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The level of smell really varies a lot (as does the texture).
The NDK was only introduced in Android 2.2 to please game developers.

Given the way C and C++ are handled by the Android team, versus how iOS and UWP teams support them on their platforms, I think that if given the option the NDK would never have been brought to life.

One can see this on the recently introduced Android Things, aka Brillo.

When Brillo was introduced at Embedded Linux, the plan was to have a set of Brillo Frameworks in C++, instead it got rebranded as Android Things and adopted Java as their main language, including for user space drivers. Now in preview 2 of Android Things they are introducing NDK support again.
The Fender Stratocaster
As a righty in a country that drives on the left side of the road, I'd never considered it a problem either.
The Juul

I don't smoke, but this is literally one of the best designed gadgets I've ever seen. It's beautiful, smaller than a cigarette, self-explanatory to use, holds a full day's worth of battery, and charges quickly. Instead of using e-juice, Pax developed nicotine salt cartridges for it, making it both simpler and hit much more like a cigarette than other vapes. I know multiple people who've instantly quit smoking cold-turkey after getting a Juul.

Others: Apple headphones with W1 Bluetooth chips (AirPods, Beats X, and Beats Studio 3), Teenage engineering OP-1, Palm WebOS
For almost a decade now, I have had rock solid, high-performance audio running on my multi-channel DAW running Ubuntu Studio.

Rock solid. Better than Pro Tools.

How?

I chose my hardware wisely. In my case, I've got two Presonus Firepod FP-10 interfaces, which work out of the box with JACK. Truly superlative Firewire audio interfaces, and I chalk that up to the fact that the Bridgeco chipset used in these devices was developed in a pro-Linux environment.

Of course, ymmv .. especially if you fall into the PulseAudio trap, which is designed - imho - to make Audio suck on Linux as much as possible. Not so with Jack and Firewire audio - in this case, its the best possible combination of audio hardware and software components, given superlative latency and multi-channel I/o capabilities ..
Land Rover owners like to joke about how awful they are, I think it's also a British sense of humour thing. LRs haven't been any worse than any other car I have owned. The series 3 ended production in 1985, the reputation of LR being of poor quality or hard to fix came after modernization of the vehicles into consumer and mainstream markets. Series vehicles are bulletproof, sometimes quite literally (https://www.google.no/search?q=armoured+land+rover&tbm=isch&...)

They were good enough for many of the world's armed forces for over 50 years!
Psoriasis + Arthiritic Psoriasis + GERD + some IBS symptoms for me. Was on proton pump inhibitors, antiacids and all that shit for a time. Said fuck this shit and started experimenting my diet.

Now I'm down from 2 PPI's a day to one every now and then when I get stupid and eat something that irritates my digestive system. Also my skin condition is a lot better now.

I cut out wheat, sugar, (shitty light roasted) coffee, broccoli, raw tomatoes and most artificial sweeteners.
My Seiko SARY57 mechanical (automatic) watch.

Beautifully made, looks great, does what it's supposed to do, not too expensive. Simply can't ask for more design-wise in my opinion.

https://www.amazon.com/PRESAGE-mechanical-self-winding-windi...

Kindle Paperwhite probably comes a close 2nd.
Just do it! BUT! Commit to using JACK for everything, and get rid of PulseAudio.
Fixed, thanks. ESL
Wikipedia does IMO an excellent job explaining the notion of a confidence interval. On the other hand, I find the idea of being "73% certain" that something will happen much harder to understand. A percentage implies a ratio, but Bayesians never explain what the numerator and denominator are.
wow, beauty! Not even the idea and the implementation, but also the very short story, it somehow reminds me Delphine's Another World
I once interviewed at Uber. I told them I was also interviewing at other companies, to see what was available. They told me this was not "the people they where looking for". And it wouldn't be "OK" to say something like that in America. They where looking for people who really want to work at Uber.

I got an assignment to build a linked-list in language of choice, with a test-suite. A weird assignment if you ask me. But i build it in Golang and submitted it a day later.

After that I didn't get a reply for 3 weeks!! I then mailed them asking if they where going to check out my work.

2 days later I got a reply, it was OK to continue. At that point my interest for Uber was already gone. If they cant handle candidates well, the company would probably be chaotic inside too.

I also don't like their arrogance.

An old colleague of mine is working at Uber, and he says the working times are flexible, but more than 40 hours per week. And they have over 1000 microservices. And its normal to rewrite them often.

To me that seems like a bad architecture.
Maybe I'm missing something but isn't every single "social login" effectively using OAuth for auth?
Thanks. I will have a look at Kirby, I started coding a blog that's good enough for my needs in php with a database.

I am just having a loot around see what there is.
Sure, I'll have a look and file some bugs.
> The AMA _did_ lobby (I should have clarified that they no longer do this) to restrict medicare funding for residency

...twenty years ago, when we had the opposite problem. It still wasn't some act motivated by the desire to benefit doctors, even if that's the PR spin they used.

> At one point the AMA had about 75% of American doctors as members but has declined for various reasons (growth of specialty professional associations, change of employment in which many doctors have gone from private practices to hospitals which has accompanied a change in political objectives, etc.)

The move away from private practices was not the driving force behind the declining membership of the AMA. Quite bluntly, doctors stopped joining (unless they were forced to) because they did not support the AMA or its objectives. Why pay money to an organization that fights for causes you oppose?

Of course, this is only possible because (most) doctors are not required to be AMA members or pay membership fees if they choose not to, which is not true of people in most unions.

> The AMA probably does still serve as a professional association in the interest of some segment of doctors,

It does - it acts in the interest of the subset of doctors who are serving in administrative roles and are no longer practicing medicine full-time. That is to say, they advocate the interests of hospitals and payers, not practicing physicians.

> This is actually a good example of why professional associations can be inadequate,

It's not that they're "inadequate". It's that, in this case, they are literally fighting against the interests of the group they are (allegedly) advocating.

So really, the AMA is an argument against either professional associations or unions - doctors are unhappy with the AMA, and you certainly don't see them, by and large, advocating unionization in their practices en masse.
Uber explicitly prohibits stock sale on the secondary market, and their options expiry after 30 days of leaving job (instead of the standard-but-undesireable-still 90 days).
The only thing I could contribute to the conversation so far would be to NEVER use PulseAudio, and commit to using JACK for all your audio I/o needs, with regards to setting up Linux (UbuntuStudio) as a high-performance DAW.

This is really the great thing about Linux: we've got tons of options when it comes to audio I/o routing .. but its a liability too. My advice: commit to setting up Jack and learning it - definitely the best thing about Linux Audio.
Why do men end-up in dangerous yet good paying jobs? Because testosterone. Most young men are more willing to work a shit job if they can get good money than most women who value quality of life.
Uber is losing money at astonishing rates.
I'll add a +1 to Total Commander. That tool along with several others REALLY make a large difference in day-to-day computer work.

I'll add these to the list:

* Clipmate. The BEST clipboard database.

* Evernote.

* AutoHotkey. Seriously, play with this a bit and you will see uses all OVER The place.

* Midnight Commander for Linux installs. Makes it a LOT harder to shoot yourself in the foot as well.
It will be an exciting jailbreak vector, I'd be surprised if there aren't quite a few vulnerabilities created by allowing shared GPU access.
Why do so many americans fear muslims?
Yep, that's the reason. Both tests would work fine but it's a matter of convenience.
Yeah, just a tip OP: You might want to re-read your article for typos - there were quite a few which detracted from the actual story for me.

But as an aside - I was looking forward to hearing more about what you could learn from their corporate culture from the interview rounds. You mentioned that they were almost always running in 'emergency' or 'fix it' mode and expected staff to work long hours, but did you see it in the conduct of the staff you met? Did they seem tired or frazzled?

Also, what did you manage to learn about the management structure and how they treated employees there? Did you notice that people respected their managers, or feared them, or felt disconnected from them?
>However you're giving up a lot of third party instrument and effect options, aren't you?

You'd be surprised just how many VST's work smoothly and reliably under Linux.

>Bitwig

Tried it, but not a fan - I have too many external hardware sequencers to be bothered with setting it up with the rest of my system. (Hardware sequencers run forever!) I do, however, have Ardour set up for perfect multi-channel recording, so every instrument has its own digital tracking, and this has been wonderful ..
If people are interested, I've now found the robot with a year's worth of dust on it and copied the code from its SD card that drives the Python side of things. (Blog also updated)

> Update: 20th Feb, 2017

> Python code is now available at https://github.com/alexellis/wild_robot
There is nothing sub-par about Ardour as a DAW. It ranks up there with the other tools you mention in terms of capabilities and features. I simply don't need to use anything else.
The good ol' days :) My home desktop is using a Boston Accoustics 2.1 (BA790) that I bought in 1996 as an "open box" item from Best Buy, and they still sound great. I even had a family member buy me a 6.1 (Logitech) system over 10 years ago as a Christmas gift and it's still sitting in the box. I feel a little guilty about not using it, but I really like the sound of my old BAs. At least I know I have a spare system if I need one.
I will have to read the article later but if this is true then I will have to say to Chrome those memorable words found in Terminator 2. Hasta la vista, baby.
Poorly written (probably because it was written in a hurry to piggy back on Susan's article). This doesn't contribute anything new to the conversation.
> misapplications and erroneous applications to get that holy p<0.05.

Or you can just force them to give confidence interval.
#ASKTHEINDUSTRY 10: Is the DOM really slow? Can we work around it?
Agreed, I think relatively high compensation is something engineers can get caught up on when discussing the idea of unionizing (though its worth noting that we're paid salaries closer to electricians and plumbers than we are to specialist doctors, not that this is really apples to apples in terms of education required).

Even though we earn good wages, its relatively easy to see that workers are not often reaping the benefits of surplus value and have no ability to weigh in on determinations of how that value is allocated. More importantly, the advantages of a union are not limited to being able to negotiate a better salary, there are lots of workplace conditions that can be pretty oppressive in the tech industry, and unions offer the ability to improve all of them.
> And they have over 1000 microservices. And its normally to rewrite them often.

> To me that seems like a bad architecture.

I don't know, the part about it being "normal to rewrite them often" is worrying, but having fleets of microservices managed like Erlang processes or supervision trees sounds interesting and possibly pretty good — assuming that's how they're architected, I've no idea about that. And rewriting a service might be less of an issue if each service is just a small processing loop.
That's great to hear & thanks for doing an amazing job with Swift. The language itself is great.
From the article:

The guy interviewer was so tired from “staying up
last night working” that he drank two energy drinks
during our interview and forgot his laptop when he left.
That story is one that sadly happens all too often. It's even worse for the poor, who are not engineers as in parent's story, you will get thrown into a jail or a prison if you are unable to pay because your sources of income are too small or to irregular: https://qz.com/397579/the-divorce-divide-how-the-us-legal-sy...

Do you honestly believe none of these people had not tried to appeal the judgement? And if the appeal court rules that the initial judgment stays then what?
> Trains in Switzerland (including the great app!)

For any train lovers out-there I'd heartily recommend visiting Switzerland just for that. Yes, the country is quite expensive to visit (I paid almost 20 euros for a pizza at a so-and-so restaurant in Geneva), but if you're into trains you won't be disappointed.
It's sort of true but a very one-dimensional view on an individuals contributions which is a bit worrying coming from a people manager. I think its funny people go around lionizing individual technical skill and at the same time insist that people are interchangeable.

In my experience most programming jobs don't really require deep domain expertise or share it by osmosis. Ideally a smart, dedicated person that gets a 40 hour a week crash course from experts in the field should get up to speed reasonably quickly.

In the absence of experts there exists a whole slew of technology that democratizes hard fields like game creation and machine learning. You can commit all sorts of sins and still end up with a well functioning product. Partly resting on technology developed as an enabler and partly resting on the sheer amount of available compute.

IMO people are far more easily replaced in terms of making an individual code contribution than they are as members of a team and it's the latter that is significantly more important. Good teams are multipliers for their members. Replacing a team member in a well functioning team is a super risky prospect. Yet we live in a world of frequent re-orgs, teams smooshed together haphazardly and overvaluing individual technical skill.

I don't see that changing anytime soon as it all sort of works and there is an endemic lack of interest.
The truth will only come out if a lawsuit is filed and it goes to trial and it's not settled before a verdict.

Otherwise we'll get her side of the story as written and a statement from Uber that's been rubber stamped by lawyers.
They'll ship with a 4.x kernel eventually, but probably not until the specific release is aged :P

The main issue with Android devices running a mainline kernel is device drivers, these Qualcomm chips have a board support package which adds half baked support for their chip to some year or two old kernel, then a device vendor picks that chip and modifies android more, and then you end up with an ancient kernel on a brand new device. The only fix is for Qualcomm to mainline their device drivers.
- My cast iron skillet. It's indestructible and once I learned to season it and cook with it, I prefer it over any other.

- 15" Macbook Pro w/ Retina display, iPhone 7

- BNC connectors

- The Xtrend Professional Rabbit Wine Opener. (Super cheap on Amazon and it has an incredibly well-designed mechanism)

- The Mezlan Cordoba men's shoe -- high quality, no break-in needed, durable, fashionable.

- Crocs -- indestructible, comfy.

- Joybird furniture (good prices, high quality)

- Liberté yogurt. Incredible texture.

- The Uber app (I think that amid the weird culture at least one person there really understands mobile UX)

- HN -- the only place where I look forward to reading the comments more than the articles.
That's another article she wrote, and that one links to the article now discussed.
I think its quite telling that you find a comment where I suggest actually talking to women to be meaningless unless there's the implication of offense.
Nothing in this article really stood out for me. Anyone who has interviewed in the valley is bound to come across disorganized recruiters, overworked engineers, demanding hiring managers and an overall chaotic environments. This is the norm.

The issues raised in Fowler's however is not normal and is something that Uber should figure out as soon as possible.
In my experience, this is even more true for art.

Where I live, physics and math are a part of obligatory general education, so you'll definitely have to study them until you're 15. After that, if you stay in the general education system (which is true for 95% of people who plan to go to college), you'll have to learn them for 4 more years. Sure, some people will develop a likeness/talent for it and others will hate it, but everyone needs to pass. Only when you go to college at 19 will people start telling you that perhaps you need to be a physics person to study physics and that it's not for everyone.

Art, on the other hand, is considered something magical and depending entirely on your talents right from the start. Art subjects barely touch on any practice, you have to learn a bit about the history and you pass. But I feel it's absolutely the same. Everyone can (and IMHO should be forced to) learn to read sheet music, play a simple tune on the recorder, draw still life with correct shading and proportions, write a short poem etc.

Personal involvment would give people a much deeper understanding of the topic. I mean, imagine if physics only consisted of everyone learning about Newton, Galileo and Einstein with just the smart kids doing calculations.
* Blendtec Blender - blew my first pay cheque on one nearly 10 years ago and it still looks and works good as new. Absolutely superb design and construction.

* AGA Oven - I don't own one, but my parents do and growing up this thing was just incredible. Still looks and works like new. I honestly have never used an oven which looks and cooks so damn good.

* Apple (Unibody) Macbook Pro - Despite my present feelings towards Apple right now cough Mac Pro cough. I can't really say enough good things about the unibody Macbooks - no other laptop surpasses it and it's been nearly 8 years since Apple's unibody construction was introduced.

* Devialet Phantom speaker - it's an engineering marvel - nothing like it.

* HP Proliant Servers - despite HP's awful website and support policies their Proliant range are the most well designed, well thought out servers I've ever used.

* And this garlic press - can't recommend it enough :)
http://www.kuhnrikonshop.com/product/epicurean-garlic-press
And yet, despite all these politicizing attempts, Uber has essentially transformed urban transportation in the 21st century.
It _is_ a personality trait that you are talking about alright --- your personality trait, that is. So, thanks for sharing your views, patricius.
They are prior observations: successes and trials.
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It is because of ADHD that I pursue these. It's a constant stream of stimulation. If my gut says no, it's impossible to focus on it no matter how hard I try.

But I do spend time on them. People think I'm a weirdo for even reading a math textbook outside of uni. I don't care: I am who I am.
Career in Investment banking
I'm personally glad the kitchen gets cleaned daily, having worked places where employees were responsible for keeping it clean. That was a disaster.

I feel like wiping the desks down weekly would be enough. Maybe there's a reason behind it. Keeping cold from spreading around? Who knows.
The poster's wording is deeply vitriolic. If you can't see that points to some abnormal issues (either with them or with their particular company) then I'm not sure what to say.

Out of curiosity, have you ever worked at a company with a good deal of older married men/women with families?

Nobody is pressured to "suffer through it with a smile on your face." Nobody has to lie about anything. Among mature adults it is enough to say you simply had other plans, were tired, or simply "Oh, I was there for a bit."

In my personal experience, the kind of thinking that "I have to pretend I'm enjoying this," "I have to lie about why I left," or "people will judge me for not showing up" is a sort of neuroticism that is really entirely self-imposed / self-imagined. Nobody is actually judging you, you only think people are judging you (out of self-consciousness or something else). When I experienced it, it reminded me a lot of being in high school (and being very self-conscious).
They actually got you to build a linked list from scratch? That's somewhat hilarious, considering you can get a book within 10 minutes that'll show you how to do it, not to mention unless you're a terrible programmer who reinvents the wheel and doesn't know how to google, that situation isn't realistic at all.
I honestly wonder how much resources are spend on people getting one of those boxes and then spending a night running 'benchmarks' off their VM vs what would be the 'regular' (non) usage of the vm.
Looks like a regular startup company interview.

I have no objections to Uber's business model, and a friend of mine earns $5000/month being an Uber driver (that's in Switzerland, but still impressive -- it helped him a lot when he had financial troubles).

Sexism, of course, is unacceptable, but that's from another story, not this one.
> - The Uber app

Yes! Fast, intuitive, responsive and rock solid. Uber might be a very, very sketchy company but man have they engineered and designed a great UX - I can't think of any other iPhone app with the same level of 'fit for purpose' as Uber's app.
It could also be that something came to air due to the continued melting of polar ice
> at least some portion of the HN user base does not abide by the community guidelines.

There is no stated policy for when down votes are appropriate.

There is, however, one about whining about down votes.

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html