skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Schneier reports that it wasn't a state-sponsored actor, but a criminal group called Group E. He says "state-sponsored actor" is often code for "please don't blame us for our shoddy security because it was a really sophisticated attacker and we can't be expected to defend ourselves against that." [1]

Google is definitely more secure and more proactive at security than Yahoo. You can look through their security whitepaper: they take a systematic approach and they meet and exceed the state of the art.[2] In contrast, Yahoo was hashing passwords with MD5. Here's Ptacek saying "there is no redeeming quality to justify using MD5", in 2007.[3] Yahoo doesn't really have any excuse.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/the_hacking_o...

[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5Y-fwYJF2hLOTVmMzQ1MjAtMDF...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.matasano.com/log/958/...

(I'm not affiliated with any of these companies.)
Most companies I've worked for don't distinguish that much between "manager" and "product manager", so maybe that's part of the confusion.
That could be said about anything.
> Top engineers were being poached from Google/FB and these people
> were trying to carve out territory in a quickly growing engineering
> team.

It is always a bit sad when one of the top characteristic of an engineer from organization X is their political ability to carve out an empire.

I'm a bit surprised she doesn't have at least one law firm trying to get her to be the lead claimant in a class action lawsuit. Seems like she did everything right and has a pretty sold case. Of course she may have signed that option away when she left.

Also, in California at least, your employer has to give you your full personnel record if you request it. She might ask them to do that.
I'm not saying she overeacted. Please read what I wrote. They fucked up repeatedly and she would have grounds to sue. But this is annectodal evidence, let's not try to generalyze and draw overarching conclusions from this.

To me this post shows how fucked up Uber is right now, let's not try to make generalyzations about the rest of the industry from this.
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If you're willing to set the NAP aside for junk food, your bar for setting aside the NAP is likely pretty low. But my own perspective is that of a person who scrutinizes what I put in my body. I've never felt that I needed someone else to make that decision for me.
What this study shows is that you've met a lot of ambitious women, but they pretended to not be ambitious around you because they expected you to react badly.
Sorry i misunderstood the question.

Yes both have admins and as i wrote in coments around i think admin is what makes kirby highly superior.

We always have problems with clients not being able to edit things in wordpress.

In kirby its possible to do in much simpler way. Basicaly you create admin that has only the content. No settings and user managment and all kind of useless functionality..

Grav is fine too but users will have to learn a bit more. Its more clunky and not so dumbproof.
>> we reached out to some security experts...

Four-Tops-Itis
And that 1% of the industry is exactly the context for these comments, the company being discussed here is Yahoo. I guess you didn't read the part where I specified "SV tech giants"?
As the author (blame me) of the List type, the primary advantage is it needs no special logic in JSON for processing. New line separated JSON is wierd for a lot of libraries, and in the future we want to have endpoints that allow bulk creation / bulk apply.
The nazis were on meth but that's not the whole story
Yes but in this particular instance Uber recruits heavily in the Bay Area. If all workers in the Silicon Valley office refused to work and discouraged others to work for Uber it could be quite effective.
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I use these https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-Charge-Block-Adaptor-SmartCh... - cheap and effective.
I believe you're right about individual decisions to become more active on these issues can make a difference both on the government and the business level. In many ways, it already has made a difference as many businesses, even in the most cautious industries, have tried to at least do something to reduce their emissions.

However, the impacts of an individual, even collectively, don't matter much on this issue. The change has to come in the way energy is generated in the large scale if it's going to make a difference in the problem. It also takes actions from government like a carbon tax or incentives to create more clean energy sources, or both to push these collective decisions in a better direction.
I vouched for this because it's a fair point to make, and also because it can be 200% debunked:

1. That repo links to a publicly-viewable website, I'm seeing files in the list from 9 months ago (way long enough), and GitHub has a very clear, very well-oiled DMCA process. This is up because it's okay.

2. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682657 (nearby this thread):

> If you go to the company's public github & bitbucket profile you cannot see the project but you can see all the devs and all these devs have access to the code.

IOW, it's a private repo hosted on GitHub. «The code is safe from the public» but the contractor's actions still squarely violate the security guidelines for the project such as no USB drive access (!) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13679303).

The OP qualified this fairly explicitly here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682501
> and our sampling so biased

How so?
Annual CO2 emissions per capita, according to World Bank [1], for 2013 (metric tons), top 51:

1	Qatar 40.4
2	Trinidad and Tobago 34.5
3	Curacao 34.1
4	Kuwait 27.2
5	Bahrain 23.6
6	Sint Maarten 20.8
7	Brunei Darussalam 18.9
8	United Arab Emirates 18.7
9	Luxembourg 18.7
10	Saudi Arabia 17.9
11	United States 16.3
12	Australia 16.3
13	Oman 15.6
14	Gibraltar 15.4
15	Kazakhstan 15.4
16	Estonia 15.1
17	New Caledonia 14.6
18	Mongolia 14.5
19	Canada 13.5
20	Turkmenistan 12.7
21	Russian Federation 12.4
22	Faroe Islands 12.3
23	Korea, Rep. 11.7
24	Norway 11.7
25	Palau 10.6
26	Netherlands 10.1
27	Greenland 10.0
28	Japan 9.7
29	Czech Republic 9.3
30	Singapore 9.3
31	Cayman Islands 9.2
32	Germany 9.2
33	South Africa 8.8
34	Israel 8.8
35	Aruba 8.5
36	Finland 8.5
37	Belgium 8.3
38	Bahamas, The 8.2
39	Libya 8.1
40	Malaysia 8.0
41	Iran, Islamic Rep. 7.9
42	Poland 7.9
43	New Zealand 7.6
44	Ireland 7.6
45	China 7.5
46	Austria 7.3
47	Seychelles 7.1
48	United Kingdom 7.1
49	Slovenia 7.0
50	Equatorial Guinea 6.7
51	Denmark 6.7

Total absolute emissions puts Norway at 52.

Carbon intensity [2] for 2011 was the third lowest in Europe among measured countries.

[1] http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=2&ser...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_in...
You misunderstood my whole point.

Reading this story and getting all riled up for 10 mins is very satisfying and all. All the other "shit" and how we deal with the problems that women face in the work place is what actually matters.
> Susan deserves to be commended for her bravery in writing this.

She's already being commended for it through viral marketing for her book club and book.
The reception is crap, but the S/N ratio is still good because the electronics add minimal noise, so most of the noise is atmospheric interference which is also reduced.
Yes they do. You must indent the here-string with tabs and not spaces (which sucks for people who prefer spaces). If you want to indent within the here-string, bash requires spaces and not tabs. Mixed spaces and tabs are required to get both kinds of indentation at the same time. A very common use case for this would be help text / usage strings.
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Curious to see if anyone has specific journalists they follow (as opposed to a publication) and why you like them?
To everyone worried and/or curious, the code is in a private repo. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13680180
> Re­mem­ber when the Oba­ma ad­min­is­tra­tion wrest­ed con­trol of health­care.­gov out of the hands of the con­sul­tants, aimed a bunch of com­pe­tent geeks at it, and res­cued it?

Yeah, but the government screwed up healthcare.gov in the first place. Some engineers were surely death-marched and then besmirched afterwards for a variety of reasons that boil down to having a bad manager and a bad customer who ended up being the same clueless organization.

Maybe it's getting better, but I have experience contracting for the government. It's underpaid and higher stress than it's worth. And it's not like you can get a new boss or a new customer. Not without changing countries anyway.
I don't think having a drinking culture means drinking while programming. Quite the opposite actually.
Not everyone has it in their vocabulary, but everyone has google in their tool-set...
Have you ever known anyone to overeat on cauliflower until they get obese and diabetic? Let alone a population of three million people doing it?

The food is designed to be a hyperstimulus, moreish beyond anything humans would find to eat in the wild.

How is the food not the problem?
> That's why there are so many movies about superheroes and rebellious people with psychic powers and so on.

People have ALWAYS told stories of humans / Gods / Demigods with super powers. I agree that a lot of modern cinema / entertainment is VERY lame, but this is not a sign of the end times. I'm sure a few people rolled their eyes at stories of Zeus. People have told these stories for centuries.
Which of these would be best suited for a ghost blog. Under 50k visitors a month.
That's the point of the post: how fucked up Uber is. The author still works in the industry, at Stripe.
If the city is smart, they'll fill that hole by taxing Uber and other such services. If they're stupid then there's no end to the ways they can cause me to suffer.
I'm not seeing any GitHub organizations in Australia with that name...
... ahem, the Balmer Peak disagrees:

https://xkcd.com/323/
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full quote:

> Women have been trained to be a timid, subservient partner to men for a millennia, and it's hard to get away from

suggests most women are "timid, subservient", which is not compatible with "many western women lean towards tsundere".
As the article correctly notes, the criminal case was dropped. Also, the law parts of the case was based on was practically forgotten for a few decades now and will be removed soon.
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I'll go first. I think this kettle is exceptional: https://www.amazon.com/Sori-Yanagi-Stainless-Steel-Kettle/dp...
Given what I'd said, your question was a constructive one.

The CNN example is a useful one because it is an example of both, in that it is an example of how "fake news" can mean "stuff I don't like/don't want to hear about/that makes me feel bad about my particular political preferences," and can also mean "poor reporting with clear biases."

It might be fair to say that CNN wanted to propagate the dossier, for whatever reason. It's fair to say CNN has an editorial bias. What's not fair is to say are these things:

1) The dossier's existence wasn't worth reporting on once it had been made available. Even if it was one hundred percent false (not clear, and some parts have been independently verified, but not the important ones), the leaking of a classified piece of intelligence that was provided to the President of the United States in a briefing is 100% newsworthy. The fact that that intel is regarding something which may be false does not make it not worth reporting on, because the focus is not the document itself - it's that the document exists at all, and that the Trump administration is leaky enough not to be able to protect it.

2) CNN cannot do good reporting because they are biased. A partisan bias to some degree does not make their reporting wrong, because they adhered to ethical standards when they reported. That is, the meta-level of "this exists, but we aren't gonna speculate on what would happen if it were real" that CNN used is different and restrained compared to what Buzzfeed/HuffPo/whomever else did with it. CNN didn't start crowing about the evils of Trump or use the dossier to start a partisan conversation, it took the tack of "this exists and people have a right to know."

3) The fact that the dossier 'blew up' after CNN reported on it (really, after they reported on it being reported) is CNN's fault. Really, this goes back to Buzzfeed, and the way Buzzfeed reports. That, I think, is where the discussion over ethics should be focused - did Buzzfeed do the right thing in making the decision to report it, and in the way they reported it? The case there is not, to me, nearly as clear-cut.

I think your read is not necessarily an unfair one, but what's important is not to dismiss CNN or Buzzfeed as a source of news because of it. Similarly, evidence exists that Wikileaks is a mouthpiece for the Russian intelligence complex. That might be quite true, but if it is, it doesn't make the Podesta emails not real, or change the importance of the Panama Papers, etc. That is, you can be 100% right about CNN's goals, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't know about the dossier or that the dossier is "fake news." It's real news, reported by someone who may or may not have an agenda.
I'm of the opinion that the average software engineer in the USA is already overpaid and underworked with excellent benefits and low incentive to unionize.

I'm simplifying it a bit but if you don't like your job, just grab a copy of Cracking the Coding Interview and apply to big companies. The big companies pay very well, have good benefits and interview everyone because of the need for a high head count
Stock is exactly the same as cash to me, since I always sell all of it on the day it vests. Why would you only compare cash salaries when evaluating compensation? That makes no sense.
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I don't see that happening. There's no natural monopoly here and almost no barriers to entry. The moment Uber tries to leverage being the only one left, someone new will undercut them.
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Having only one soda is definitely as bad as being in the gulag, I'm sure.
"When I joined Uber, the organization I was part of was over 25% women. By the time I was trying to transfer to another eng organization, this number had dropped down to less than 6%. Women were transferring out of the organization, and those who couldn't transfer were quitting or preparing to quit."

Uber is bleeding engineers to other startups. Will the replacements be of the same calibre?
It is on pretty much any quality laptop from this decade. I don't remember the last time I've had to replace a laptop battery.
> Anecdotal.

Sure, but I'm not entirely sure what else you expect. Isn't your statement also anecdotal?

> If drinking is done outside work/events this isn't what is being described in the article.

Sorry, what article? It's not mentioned in the main OP, and the person a few parents up is talking about what sounds very much like events or after work happy hours. I can absolutely see how that can turn bad, I'm just saying it doesn't have to.
I found Gibson's writing style to be a bit difficult to get into when I first started reading his work. I started with Neuromancer and I'm currently reading The Peripheral.

At first I was a bit mad -- it seemed to me that he left out a lot of detail regarding the scene and the characters -- he just seemed to give the reader a few hints, and left them to construct the rest of the scene on their own. Dialogue often unfolds without explicit reference to who's speaking, leaving you to infer it based on speaking style and content. He'd also provide you with a couple sentences about a city or a structure and then move right on along with the action, movement, and interaction characters have with the environment.

Since I then have to rely so much on my own mental construction of the characters and the story, I end up surprising myself later on in the novels with how vividly I picture things as I'm reading, and the level of detail I can see. It's as if the reader takes as much of a part in constructing the story as Gibson does.
That's a pretty good analogy. Unfortunately, it seems that we're going to be dealing with the implications of this for some time. I don't even know if it's solvable.

Interestingly, 2) is probably strictly speaking illegal (harassment) already, but practically speaking pretty much all the perps get away with it.
I think it's worth pointing out that this kind of male dominated culture doesn't just put off female engineers but male engineers too. As a male I've worked in environments with a high male to female ratio and it makes for a stifling homogeneous type of culture. I've never experienced the kind of sexist culture described at Uber but I imagine that must feel even worse as a male employee. I definitely see few women as a warning sign when interviewing.
What you say is all valid.

Am I sure? I'm an engineer, so no, I can't be 100% sure.
I have to be honest, I know a lot of people who claim that they can write really good code if they've been drinking.

I just absolutely do not understand how that is even possible. If I have ONE beer, it throws off my ability to write good code, or hold all of the concepts in my head.

One of the weekly coworking meetups I go to always ends at a brewery (there is a brewery next door to the hackerspace where it is held), and while it is certainly a lot of fun being there brainstorming things, I don't understand how anybody gets actual code written after drinking.
You don't.
i don't know many BD/sales people who contribute to hackathons...

seems like the person above you was speaking specifically about engineers.
How about security? As far as I know, Linode has had a few security incidents in the past. I haven't heard anything about the other providers - could be my information bubble though.
Try language with manual memory management and then you may notice difference.
Wow, that's a jarring shift to heavy sarcasm that would be solidly in Poe's law territory without your first statement.

> so they feel comfortable not speaking in pc terms to me.

I think Donald Glover covered that fairly well in the first episode of Atlanta in the Flo Rida scene (both of them), but I'm not really one to judge the accuracy... (why is it so hard to find clips of that show?)
> t's hard to say things about an entire group for 3.5 billion humans

I've not met all humans, yet I believe most (>95%) have two arms and two legs. Is this not a reasonable belief?
duty calls hey?

https://www.xkcd.com/386/
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cauliflower is low in calories, so it would just be physically difficult to eat that much cauliflower

but bananas? Yes, some people get fat eating too many fruits
Xiaomi is the 3rd largest smartphone seller in India.
More trees and plant cover can help in the short term, but it's not going to solve the long term problem because those trees will break down and release the CO2 they've captured. This wasn't always the case as the ability for microbes and fungi to break down trees evolved later, which is how many of those coal deposits were created in the first place.

The main benefits from forest are habitats for wildlife, prevention of erosion, and ways to improve biodiversity. Their benefits to climate change are limited to reduced sunlight absorption because of their higher reflectivity and a small amount of a carbon sink if they take over land that was cleared and turned into plains, or farms or whatever.
I'm a bit surprised so many people want to give her advice. She's already taken a really bold step and written cogently and in a balanced way about her situation, the toxic culture at Uber, and made it clear she's moved on to a better place. Why talk about what she should be doing and hasn't done as if there is only one way to resolve this? Why not give thanks to the writer for writing this and putting up with all the drama it will cause in the hope of a better world.

Why not talk about how wrong Uber was in every way and at every level - allowing a manager to attempt to proposition new direct reports for sex on their first day, not immediately firing them for this, trying to suppress this when taken to HR, rewarding the perpetrator, killing her career there for vague reasons, let alone all the other dysfunction she mentioned in passing? Even just one of those points means a really toxic culture. There are little bits of men's behaviour in every large organisation which resemble this, why not talk about that and ways to make this better? There are so many ways this story can inspire us to do better.
You can't buy pastured eggs for less than $7 a dozen generally. The eggs you are referring to are still from chickens who are stuck more or less indoors at all times, and don't get to engage in "chicken-y" behaviors. "Free range" in this case often means there is access to an outdoor patch, but there's no real reason for the chickens to go there, and the are so depressed that they hardly want to move anyway.

As such their yolks will tend to be yellow instead of orange or nearly red, as true pastured chicken eggs yolks will be.
> I know a lot of people who claim that they can write really good code if they've been drinking.

i know a lot of people who say they drive better if they've been drinking too. Doesn't mean it's accurate.
In the same way that vehicles can move thousands of times faster than humans, and metal can be thousands of times stronger than human flesh, is there any good reason to think that marketing manipulation, or market forces, can't be (or become) thousands of times stronger than human willpower?
As long as you're tactful and willing to cede your argument if they don't come to see your side, there shouldn't be any reason to be terrified. If you act diplomatically and still have crazy bosses, might be good to find a different job if you can, or just not care and get your paycheck.
Maybe we as men got to let the women know we have their back?

Defend them when they are not around?

Don't stay silent?

I don't know for certain either.
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risk among Muslim immigrants (.pdf)

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Just deleted Uber from my phone. Is there a good alternative to Ubereats?
> I think that generally Uber is a positive influence in the world

I'm pretty sure you can replace Uber in that sentence with "ride sharing".
So don't swallow it! Spit it back out at them. Uber is entirely dependent on the goodwill of its engineers. They're irreplaceable. Uber's financial situation is such that they're absolutely required to execute. They cannot afford organized employee protests and will cave to them like an overripe grape trying to hold up a cinderblock. People like you could be running the table there. Why not hold them to account?

What's the worst thing that happens? It doesn't work out and you eventually switch jobs. But the best case outcome? You get to work on exciting, important problems for a company that is accountable to its team and their prevailing beliefs and principles. That sounds pretty awesome to me.
This predates #DeleteUber, and it's not only limited to the Bay Area. I've also observed this in Seattle, NYC, DC, Chicago, and to a lesser extent in LA.

The perception is closely tied to what people hear from drivers, constant negative media coverage, and being recognized as the epitome of a douchey tech company. Those three things combine to make using Uber distinctly un-cool in the eyes of many users. (Note that folks will use it anyway, but not talk about it.)