skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is very little good that can happen when a company serves or provides mind-altering drugs to its employees. That includes alcohol.
Typical business problem around the world.
> what's the alternative

Contact your state's labour commissioner. If you received stock or stock options, contact your state securities commissioner. Otherwise, suing is tried and true.
If you're thinking Europe, Belgrade, Serbia. A very nice city with balanced weather. Amazing nightlife. Emerging opportunities in tech and startups.
To be fair, the guy had been harassing him for years and then posed as a producer for a children's television show to get him to show up.

I'd be pretty mad too.
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It's true, and to some extent the problem is that you hear about the bad HR stories, but rarely the good ones - in which they quietly take action, but nobody except the parties involved ever notice. When HR does their job right, nobody other than those people even notices that they're there.

That said, lots of companies have HR departments that are terrible, so it all depends on whether you think yours is trustworthy and competent or not.
I think it's fair to say that Uber only takes corrective actions only when there is public outrage. Otherwise, breaking the laws and unethical behavior is all well and good.
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1. Macbook Air 2013.

2. Herman-Miller Embody Chair (best chair if you have lower back problems).

3. Apple Airport Time Capsule (best backup device + router).

4. Epson L565 + WiFi. Absolutely great printer/scanner. Easy to configure and use.

5. Merkur-33C Classic (best safety razor in my opinion).
Actually they just celebrated their 15th anniversary.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/02/13/happy-15t...
A woman in HR is still in HR, she's responsible for protecting the company from employees (and not the other way around).

A woman as her boss' boss is responsible for the health & effectiveness of the team, and is likely to be far more aware of the impact these sorts of things have on cohesion and morale.
On the subject of car ergo, a 2000 Miata NB. As someone who is 6'+, I'm consistently amazed at how comfortably I fit. It makes you realize how much wasted space there is in most car interiors.
Maybe I am getting old, but not everything should be 3D. At least not things that I have grown to love because it is not.
CCP Grey does a wonderful video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc) on mind germs and how they make us angry and how they spread. Its a short but interesting look at how these stories spread.
The OP and this are quite beautiful. I can't quite put my finger on what I like so much about them, I'll keep thinking about it.
It's highly unlikely that Susan's account is untrue.

Making an untrue statement, this publicly, would mean Uber's lawyers would have a strong civil case to sue her for defamation: http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/california-defamation-law

Susan was brave to share her story. There's very little upside for her, and tons of potential downside.
Why are you already calling for someone to be fired? No evidence of wrongdoing has been presented.
Guava is yet to be green listed in any of the Java projects I worked thus far.
There is no silver bullet. And no language can stop you from making mistakes (assuming “at least some” means the same as “all” is one example). But some languages help you avoid certain classes of mistakes with automated checks. Like Rust.

And even if you added those features to C++, you couldn't guarantee a codebase that only uses the secure subset. Nobody has the time to rewrite old code. And making sure that current code uses only the secure subset would require code reviews. Not everyone does that.
Dvorak for Developers
Macbook Air 11" (I'm writing this with it)
Air is denser at dawn than at dusk, changing scattering profile.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/258553/differenc...
I wrote up a small script to test this out for python (at bottom of this post). The results on my laptop are about 8.0 seconds for unsorted and 7.6 seconds for the sorted version. I'm assuming that the discrepancy for python is much smaller due to the slow nature and high overhead of the language (or at least the way I've used it here), but I would be interested to know: how would one go about finding out what the python interpreter is doing beneath the surface?

Edit: After running with a wider range of parameters, it seems that the difference is always roughly the same order of magnitude. To investigate further, I included the sort into the second timing to double check and for 3276800 elements it's still a bit faster overall when you sort the array.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import time
import numpy as np

def main(n=32768):
arr = np.random.randint(0, 256, n)
t0 = time.time()
sum1 = do_loop(arr)
t1 = time.time()

arr = np.sort(arr)
t2 = time.time()
sum2 = do_loop(arr)
t3 = time.time()

assert sum1 == sum2
print(" Unsorted execution time: {} seconds".format(t1-t0))
print(" Sorted execution time: {} seconds".format(t3-t2))

def run_many(func):
def wrapper(arg):
for t in range(1000):
func(arg)
return func(arg)
return wrapper

@run_many
def do_loop(arr):
tot = 0
for i in arr:
if i >= 128:
tot += i
return tot

if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Humans are searching signs of life w.r.t how life on earth evolved which should not be the way I would say.
This is a question I have been pondering for a while. If your knowledge of most of the world is from penny papers then how do you know what is true and what is not?

Arguably all the newspapers/websites that do news are funded in the same way now, advertising rather than directly by their readership throughout the western world, everyone reads penny papers and don't have an alternative. Since they get their news from each other, and its potentially all made up how does anyone brought up in that environment know what is actually true?
Of course I knew about that, that guy totally deserved it (just my opinion of course)
My parents are still (about four computers later?) using the Gateway speakers that came with our 386 system. Built like a brick, internal amp, sound decent enough.

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDE4WDUyMA==/z/ad8AAOSwbYZXVA67/$...
FWIW, the author of this post is also the author of the "A Strange Year at Uber" post making the rounds.

She also authored this previously discussed post about physics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691963
Mistakes were made (but not by me)
To be clear, more women in management is a positive. I just don't think it's sufficient.
I have a hard time believing HR really behaved the way they are portrayed in that article. They really claimed that if she elected to stay in her current department she should expect to receive a negative review from the boss she rejected for a sexual relationship? This is just too much. And for someone as savvy and with as large an internet presence as the author, I can't imagine she would accept this resolution. The crowd is quick to crucify Uber here, but we have seen similar claims before that have turned out to be false or exaggerated greatly. It's also suspicious that the claimant tends to only last in jobs for a median of 6 months before moving on and has just released a book. This deserves a full investigation and we will have to wait and see what evidence surfaces.
The increase in economic inequality (and effects in that same realm) a very huge issue, I agree. I just thought it was a little out of the scope for this thread.
short answer: yes

however there are many factors to consider before going that path
* Low price start will be barrier for any future price changes or re-assesment.
* There is quality perception attached to price so it impacts brand perception.
* Even with price differentiation quality is something cant be compromised (in most of cases)
In California your employer is required to keep a personnel file. Get a lawyer. They are the pros. Don't leave it to a blog post, this is way more important.
It's not for free: it's in exchange for a potentially better experience.
If HR had actually done their job, Kalanick wouldn't be spending a Sunday night struggling to reattach his unicorn's horn.
What corporate American companies don't have this problem?
If you‘re interested in what you call “corporations of people”, one classic sociology paper is about Medici Florence, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~snijders/PadgettAnsell1993.pdf
the shape is probably what's being discussed when the parent says it's "a really cool looking plane" though.
I imagine that the real loss was higher, considering there was "revenue" in the form of selling UberChina.
* Lenovo T60 laptop: It wasn't pretty, but it was sturdy and well designed. Good resolution for the times. Good aspect ratio. Very nice keyboard. Trackpoint. Serviceable easily - replaced fan, hard drives, added memory. Eventually just got too slow for the stuff I was doing.

* Bentology metal fork and spoon. I got a full lunch bento box set. But never liked it much. However really like the silverware. Just the right weight, size, and balance. I just went to check if I can get more, and they are out stock apparently)

* Moab Merrell hiking shoes. Really good all-around shoes. Light, sturdy, comfortable. Good ankle support.

* Nissan stainless steel thermos. Just very sturdy. I like the cap design. Doesn't leak. I got another one after 4-5 years of a different size, so now have both.
Their indiegogo put it at $90 for a kit to solder, and $120 assembled. No idea what the cost is now since you've got to email them on their website to get one it appears

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/uradmonitor-environment-h...
That makes no sense. We're not talking about lesser options that are slightly off the norm. These are bad options that are clearly outliers.
These are allegations by one party against another with zero data either way, why is everyone on the anti-uber bandwagon.
This is a bit hyperbolic, please take a step back and consider if you would actually say "you have to justify your salary somehow" in person to folks in your company's HR department.

HR does protect the company, but it also helps employees tremendously. I've had several beneficial experiences with Human Resources folks. One company setting a bad example is no reason to dump on an entire profession.
Yeah my Union (even researchers and engineers were union members until we became "managers") had its ranks filled with senior folks who were rotating in from corporate. There was more collusion than conflict I think.
Thanks to the Fair Labor Standards Act, anyone who is a software engineer is exempt from overtime pay as long as they make at least $455/week on a salary basis.[1] Hint, I don't know any software engineers making less than $23660/yr.

It's a heinously stupid regulation, and it's one which was lobbied for heavily by the tech industry to reduce labor costs. But that is the federal law of the US currently, which means yes you can be required to perform unpaid overtime.

[1]: https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/fs17e_computer.pdf
Antec computer cases. They're high quality, easily accessible, and promote good air flow.

And they're fairly cheap, all things considered (picked up this model for about $45 on sale at Fry's last time I built a computer).

* Amazon.com: Antec Three Hundred Two Gaming Case, Black: Computers & Accessories || https://www.amazon.com/Antec-Three-Hundred-Two-Gaming/dp/B00...
What?? Everywhere I worked a screenshot like what she's describing would get you fired. Over office chat even?? It's not even hearsay. Someone can bring up the exact chat history.
The effect isn't as notable on a road bike. On a mountain bike (riding off-road) it definitely gives the oneness sensation you describe.
Degoo: 100 GB free cloud backup
Typical Travis. Reacting too late, and pretending to care only when a situation threatens revenue.
Similarly IBM x23 thinkpad. A foldout sliding keyboard that actually works and feels great? I want to go back to those days.
That's hard to believe, their Dvorak/Qwerty version has four or five different keys completely mislabeled, which made me return it because I couldn't trust the product any more.
Thank you. The swiftness with which the hammer has fallen on Uber, is disturbing. Yes, at face value, this looks bad for Uber. But, the claims here are serious enough that we really should be holding our judgement before an investigation, or some other evidence surfaces.

This does not mean I think her claims are false. In fact, I BELIEVE them to be true, but I withhold my judgment and public criticism until I can be sure.
I also hated the permissions increase they asked for about a month ago. They want to know my location for up to five minutes after I've finished taking a ride with their app? F--- that, uninstalled immediately.
Very much so! Not talking shit-faced, but just normal drinking. It's one of the fastest ways to get to know a person, a lot of people naturally let their guard down, and it provides a casual atmosphere to get to know each other.

It also provides a shared experience that is an easy conversation starter when meeting sober later on "hey, thanks for last night! Where did you end up going after.." etc.

Obviously YMMW, in EU/Denmark it's a very common way to "crash course" people on each other when you suddenly find yourself in a new environment with nobody you know (university, new work). Then again, I'd say EU drinking is a lot more mature than the US one. We usually get introduced to it a lot earlier in life, and have a gentler intro curve rather than going from zero-100 real quick, when entering college or the likes.
I really enjoy my Mazda3 2016 dashboard and controls.

Meanwhile I HATED the BMW 3 series controls and shifter. Nothing was intuitive, though it all looked space agey.

I am a fan of the Lexus controls as well. They look positively 90s but are very straightforward to use and behave as you'd expect.

As a former automotive engineer it hurts to see "aesthetics" trump usability.
Vonnegut's Bluebeard:

I think that could go back to the time when people had to live in small groups of relatives—maybe fifty or a hundred people at the most. And evolution or God or whatever arranged things genetically, to keep the little families going, to cheer them up, so that they could all have somebody to tell stories around the campfire at night, and somebody else to paint pictures on the walls of the caves, and somebody else who wasn't afraid of anything and so on.

That's what I think. And of course a scheme like that doesn't make sense anymore, because simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.

The entire planet can get along nicely now with maybe a dozen champion performers in each area of human giftedness. A moderately gifted person has to keep his or her gifts all bottled up until, in a manner of speaking, he or she gets drunk at a wedding and tap-dances on the coffee table like Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers. We have a name for him or her. We call him or her an "exhibitionist".

How do we reward such an exhibitionist? We say to him or her the next morning, "Wow! Were you ever drunk last night!"
There's effort, entropy, and uncertainty with changing jobs. My only point was that saying, "Why don't you just get another job?" is just a little dishonest.
HR could totally act in the way the article describes. They exist to protect the interests of the organization, and to minimize boat-rocking. It would be easy for HR to dismiss her claims in the very same way that you are. Before we start down the path of victim-blaming, lets at least consider the possibility her claims are valid.
How did she get through high school without taking algebra or geometry or any higher-level math courses? Aren't they required in the US?
Hashimoto's here. The problem with all of these diets is that its not known if they actually do anything and the source is usually a mommy blogger who's making money from selling supplements.

I tried to talk to a few doctors and the only one(yes, one) who didn't dismiss the whole thing mentioned that there's nothing conclusive about any of these diets besides some well known diseases such as celiac and gluten. He told me to try it out if I wanted to and see how i feel but don't go to drastic measures because you could be depriving your body of nutrients it needs. I guess that's why the recommendation is always a varied diet; nobody knows what the body needs exactly so eating everything in moderation is likely to give your body anything it could need. Not really scientific though, is it?

So my question is, how do you know what fad diet actually works? Searching for peer reviewed published work on anything nutrition related is a futile endeavor.
> $35 a month

Wow! Are you in the US? May I ask what insurance you have?
Probably because a good number of people have worked for SF startups and seen this behavior first hand.
> Authorities said there was "no nuclear risk" following the blast in Flamanville shortly before 10am local time (9am GMT) on Thursday.

> Officials said the blast took place in the turbine hall and confirmed there was no radioactive leak.
BEE: Updated EMAIL HTML Parser
BeatMoovz wearable turns your body into a musical instrument
"I have a hard time believing HR really behaved the way they are portrayed in that article."

I don't, and I'm a man who has also worked at big well-known tech companies.

"And for someone as savvy and with as large an internet presence as the author, I can't imagine she would accept this resolution."

Why not? It's really hard to rebel against your employer, given that they literally feed you.
Fist I have a low IQ.
Then flowing is my comment:

This is the 42 reasons why I give up C++.
YKK zippers.

We never think twice about them and that's the proof of their genius.
Yes, exactly. Nothing should be off the table if this is nearly as wide-ranging as alleged, up to and including Travis Kalanick's termination for cause as CEO.
Any Kindle model with e-ink. The utiluty and simplicity of design of these devices has enabled me to read almost every night before going to bed for the past 6ish years without loosing my place or holding the weight of a book (finally read War and Peace).
Perhaps that's true for the top 10% most engaged WSJ users.

But, how do you know how much value I'm getting from that news source? I usually get my news from many different sources. And sometimes, I don't even read the entire article. Only a small percentage of the articles are actually of interest to me.
But if you #DeleteUber won't your money be going to the taxi drivers? I'm not sure I understood your question.
> If they will discipline and fire people and put processes in place to keep the problem fixed

You're assuming that that allegations are true. They have been neither proven nor corroborated, and the author advertises her book in her post.

Edit: This comment has gone strongly negative in the matter of minutes. I offered no opinion and only stated fact; either there is vote manipulation on HN, or at least some portion of the HN user base does not abide by the community guidelines.
I agree. Owned one for a couple years. Everything was great as long as you don't run over chewing gum because you might get stuck.
My Bunn ST Velocity coffee machine [0]. I bought it on September 1, 2011 and have used it every single morning (and then some) since. It has no buttons, no configurations, no options. It makes coffee inside of 120 seconds (because it keeps the water pre-heated). It does not have a glass carafe to break, it does not burn the coffee since it does not use a heated plate but instead pours the coffee into a thermos that keeps it hot for hours. <3

It's not available on Amazon any more (where I got it originally), but I'm not sure if it's actually discontinued or just unavailable. I hope if the former that it's just been replaced by a slightly updated model, but I don't know.

UPDATE: There's still the STX model available [1], it's a bit more garish looking but it seems to be otherwise identical.

0: http://amzn.to/2mdtWs3

1: http://amzn.to/2lZxlhT
That doesn't excuse all the guilty-until-proven-innocent pitchforking going on right now.
Giant contract manufacturers a large portion of the world's bikes, including high end Italian brands. They definitely know what they're doing.
At a guess, because KernelNewbies.org is maintained by volunteers who may have had their own reasons for why they didn't have time to finish the 4.9 page?
> For example, Rust can't tell LLVM about its pointer aliasing guarantees

False.

http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#noalias-and-alias-scope-me...
I speed read. Usually I'm done in less than 30-60 seconds. There's so much filler stuff in there, often.
Quite excellent, yes. A fave.
This is true. Also a lot of grads just think, "I'm not a woman/minority therefore it doesn't affect me if I work there". Others think it sucks but will do it anyway because they want to get a big name on the resume and will take anything they can get.
I don't believe the OP ever intended to 'victim-blame' or discount the possibility of claims.

But rather to wait for the story to unfold before making judgement.
The fact that these are simple errors doesn't mean that these are not errors. We should understand tat they are especially noticeable when there is a small code fragment. In the code of a real application such errors can live for years. By the way, I recommend playing: http://q.viva64.com/
Consider sharing your knowledge to help graduate students and guide them take good career decisions. This is a forum for discussing computer science careers with more than 150,000 students. https://www.facebook.com/groups/core.cs
It is like stackoverflow - but for students who can't express their questions in a rigorous format expected by the stackoverflow community. We help students with their questions on various CS topics like algorithms, datastructures and programming. We are a group of 30 moderators answering thousands of questions posted daily and obviously our knowledge is limited and would like to expand to other areas like machine learning / datascience.
It would be great if you can share your knowledge with the community. We believe that giving knowledge is the best form of giving, as it empowers the receiver for life time.
Can I create custom fields for posts in the Kirby admin frontend (or any other way??
It's trendy right now to "listen and believe."

Outrage can score you some serious Internet popularity points, particularly when your claims are about men being sexist pigs. Don't ask for any evidence, just grab the pitchforks!

That being said, it's tempting to just believe everything Fowler wrote and hope for sweet justice. We all love a good story, after all.

Unfortunately, what makes for a gripping story of justice in the face of wrongdoing doesn't always align with reality, and it can be difficult to convince the lynch mobs of that fact.
> I spent every minute of my days trying to learn everything I had never been able to learn from 6th-12th grade physics and math. I had the most difficult time possible taking intro physics and the beginning calculus courses. I kept going. I knew that if I was ever going to learn this stuff, I had to learn it now.

If you have the drive to put in this "most difficult" effort, utilizing "every minute" of your days closing the gap then you can learn like Susan.

I think the people who aren't "math people" or aren't "physics people" just aren't willing to put in much effort to learn it. They probably aren't all-consumed by it like Susan is.

It's not that these subjects are inaccessible to some people, it's that some people don't want to learn these subjects.
"It's the first time this has come to my attention so I have instructed Liane Hornsey, our new Chief Human Resources Officer, to conduct an urgent investigation into these allegations." Me Kalanick. Ah the damn pattern. Boycott Uber now?