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Uber employee here.

This was a disheartening story to read to say the least. I hope that she sues as her case is abundantly clear and the response by HR and the management chain was absolutely unacceptable. If what happened is true, they should be held accountable.

Unfortunately, from my perspective, Uber has a track record of lack of accountability when it comes to leadership/managers. Pretty much everyone I know at Uber believes that Josh Mohrer [1] and Emil Michael [2] should have been fired. It's probably fair to say both are generally regarded as being high performers, but what they did was extremely damaging to the reputation of the company and the fact they weren't held accountable only worsens that reputation.

I think that generally Uber is a positive influence in the world. It has created work opportunities for millions essentially out of thin air has fundamentally changed how people think about transportation in cities for the better. Uber is certainly disruptive and its methods and behavior have been brash at times which has often resulted in a disproportionate amount of scrutiny, both deserved (comments and actions targeting journalists, sexism) and otherwise ("support" of Trump, #deleteuber, and surge price "gouging"). For me, Uber is still a place filled with many talented people working on interesting, challenging problems. But a story like this is a tough pill to swallow.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-25/colleague...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-19/uber-said...
Of course not, but i'll just tell her / him i'm not interested, and see if the person's keep insisting and make my life at work miserable, or if he's just a desperate person having a very bad day...

There are many reason why someone would be a pain to work with honestly. I could imagine someone insisting on people going to drink after work being a pita for a muslim for example, or a guy talking all the time about politics and having different views than myself, etc, etc. But it seems like sex is handled extremely differently than the rest, and i'd like to understand if, in practice, there are reason for that (other than the subject itself being extremely sensitive in the US compared to some european countries, for example).
The problem is the chain of responsibility:
company -> DTC -> brokers -> investors
With "IPO as a service", the chain of responsibility is instead:
cloud-IPO -> company -> investors
Because of centralization, the DTC isn't as accountable to the company as a cloud service would be.

I guess there are actually companies in the space, e.g. https://www.startengine.com/
Whoa, that's still theft, even if you explain it this way. My bank (Sparkasse), for example, charges 8€ a month and that's already perceived as "near to extortion" - and the increase to 8€ actually led to massive public outrage. Many "direct banks" (i.e. banks without physical offices, services via ATMs and Internet only) are entirely free here.
What? It's literally your right to vote to join a union. If a majority of coworkers vote for one, you've got a union. Look up the National Labor Relations Act.
Everything is sexual harassment now jesus fucking christ. Uber is making so many SJWs pissed lately that it gives me more and more joy to use it.
Yes, what you are saying is true and that is indeed how I have worked in financial industries. I have my own ACN (C-Corp) consulting company with Indemnity/Liability insurance through which I work.

However this muddies up as I consult to a consulting company which in turn consults to the bank. I was informed by the Ombudsman that this was a common way to work in Silicon Valley and US has laws that clarifies it however Australia has not updated the laws regarding this "double employment"
> of that kind of criticism if they made any sacrifices for my ambition that created an imbalance :)

The reason alimony is unfair is marriage is a two way street and alimony is not.

I work 60+ hours a week in a high stress role. I come home at 6pm and spend a couple of hours playing with my kids.

Then my wife gets them ready for bed while I do another hour or so of work.

Finally around 9 or 930pm I sit down with my wife and we relax together for another hour or so.

What would happen if we divorced?

I'd get to see my kids every second weekend and I'd lose all my emotional support.

Without my partners support I couldn't handle my 60+ hours of high stress work each week. And I'd like to see my kids more often.

I could easily take a 60% pay cut and drop my hours to a sustainable 25-30/week but I'll end up in prison due to my states alimony laws.
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They don't "choose tarballs over github". They choose darcs over git. Both are distributed.

The terrorism line (at https://patoline.org/about.html) isn't taking a shot at git, it's taking a shot at GitHub, which is centralized in spite of git's underlying distributed nature.

And this is far from the first project to choose a free/open distributed system over a proprietary centralized one.
The saddest thing about this to me is that she decided to stay for so long, and let the incidents stack up. I'm not sure if that's indicative of her personality, or what women in the industry have come to expect, and thus have a much higher tolerance for bullshit of this caliber. Unfortunately, from the repeated stories we hear I suspect it's the latter, and that's fucking tragic.
It's not worth $0. At least not according to the IRS. But you're right, it's certainly a big gamble, although every year people rumor that Uber is going to go public.
> sexual women

Unfortunate typo there.
A nice short, informative article on this from 1981:

Bushnell and Dabney submitted the list to the
Office of the California Secretary of State.
A few weeks later, their incorporation papers
came back; the Office of the Secretary had
selected their second choice, ATARI.

http://www.atarimania.com/faq-atari-400-800-xl-xe-how-did-at...
Under standard American business ethics, and most state laws if I'm not mistaken, such a request from a person with control over your job is an abuse of power and automatically over the harassment line. (This is probably true everywhere in the world but perhaps not recognized as such.) Any American manager would know this and would have no excuse. You don't wave a gun around at work because you're having "a bad day" and you don't write stuff like this. At a company with any ethical backbone, he'd have been pushed out the door so fast they might have forgotten to open it first.
Is that legally enforceable?
Being propositioned for sex on your first day is about as qualified as it gets when it comes to sexual harassment. Do fuck off.
Reporting it to HR was the right thing to do. This behavior can become a liability for the company, HR should protect the company from employees like this, so it was in the best interest of the company to report this.
Or you sell them on the secondary market, depending on the rules for the stock.
Software developers have incredible leverage right now, perhaps more than any cohort of employees in the country, and while most don't have salary to organize around, there are plenty of other practices --- transparency and liquidity of equity compensation being a great example --- that generate a broad base of support across the whole industry.

People hear the term "union" and they think "shop rules" and "union contract salary". There's no reason that's what has to happen. Substitute "professional association" for "union" and you've got all the degrees of freedom you could want for us all to profit from organization without over-complicating our work lives.
Ask HN: How do Finnish students get accepted in American universities?
My understanding is that Finnish students perform quite well in PISA scores, so well in fact, that they're top or near top scorers. However, unlike students from say Korea - another high scorer in the PISA tests - Finnish students don't have any homework nor take any tests. So with these very difffernt educational styles in mind, how do Finnish students get evaluated by American universities in terms of admission?

I'm hoping the answer is well beyond the realm of standardized tests SAT/ACT and that whatever the answer is sheds light on what American universities define as "education."

Thanks guys!!
He does say "usually" so it doesn't seem like that strong of a statement.
I'm as horrified by the story as anyone, but I don't think the author can be considered an industry veteran. I just looked at her LinkedIn profile and she graduated from undergrad in 2014 and held two <=6 month jobs before joining Uber.
While I read this thread, I actually noticed that I use only a single feature out of vim-fugitive, which is the :Gw command. So I replaced vim-fugitive by https://github.com/majewsky/devenv/blob/master/vim/plugin/mi... just now.
Interesting. I haven't had nearly as many encounters, but in my limited experience, pointing a camera at an officer is perceived as adversarial/hostile and increases tension. Sometimes it evidently leads to this:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/cop-filmed-telling-motorist-he-wanted-to-beat-him-sic-dog-on-him/

Having a third party legal observer point the camera seems less likely to lead to escalation.
Sorry, that's not what I meant. I mean *.github.com and NOT an enterprise level private repository.

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.

The logic is: All the employees are able to work with minimal delay (caused by background checks)
How is this possible? How can anyone afford a car under such conditions? I believe you, I'm not saying you're making it up, but it's inconceivable.

So a $20k car is $45k? What the #(%^@! ???
I suspect a temporary tax with set deadline for re-evaluation would be a good way to go.

I think a tax would be needed in the short term transition period but after we get ubi or similar sorted it should probably go away.

The situation really just boils down to: we have better tools coming, only this time the labour displacement is going to be unheard of in magnitude. We need some way of limiting the fall out. While taxing robots is a silly idea, it might just be the only thing that is a feasible solution.

People tend to forget that real people lose their livelihoods when technology happens.

This isn't nice, but we tend to shrug it off because we have social nets in place.

If we don't have the money to pay for those social nets we're fucked.
I suspect even the most misogynistic investor will balk at the poor publicity like OP's story, and especially at the stack of harassment lawsuits that are sure to be in the pipeline if all these employees grievances are accurate.
That's par for the course at unicorns/non public companies though. Both their cash and equity portions are fair (really good for unicorns actually) from what I've heard
> Susan is an industry veteran and her interactions with HR are typical of what I've seen so I would have expected her to know how things would play out

Here's what she says she expected:

> Uber was a pretty good-sized company at that time, and I had pretty standard expectations of how they would handle situations like this. I expected that I would report him to HR, they would handle the situation appropriately, and then life would go on

Which sounds about right...
After a quick search for photos of various stages of "cooked" this page has both the method I had been using (cold start, bring to boil, turn off, let stand 10-15 minutes, cold bath) and what I'm doing now with steaming (steamer at temp, add eggs, steam 10-12 minutes, cold bath).

http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_make_perfect_har...
And many have been right. The burden is on you to provide counter-evidence. If you have reason to believe he's wrong please post it, otherwise your comment is just spreading FUD.
Do you own a cooler within a cooler?
Not only is this true, but the NLRA also bars employer retaliation against concerted actions by employees both to organize and also to take actions in protest of work conditions. It's a huge exception to at-will employment.

I had no idea about any of this stuff until I started talking to the Tech Solidarity people. I'd always thought the reason nobody goes on strike is that you'd simply be fired for doing so. But, no! That was dumb of me! Striking --- really, most forms of employee protest against working conditions --- is protected federally.

I'm particularly interested in how these laws interact with the employment laws for salaried workers. In addition to it being unlawful (in most cases) to fire an employee for striking, it's also (usually) legally risky to dock a salaried employee's pay.
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I am not sure why this post was down-voted, but the first statement is correct -- the author of the post is early in her career and is not an industry veteran. She has about 2 years of working experience, and does not qualify as an industry veteran.
Ben Thompson of stratechery does good work. Most of his stuff is behind a paywall but it's worth the $.
SimpleRM, a sort of a personal CRM for friendships/colleagues/etc.

I'm re-doing the frontend right now as the currently available version was from when I started learning React... have come a long way since.

http://simplerm.co/

(it is available in https but my certs expired and I forgot to do them over the weekend :grimacing:)
A visitors guide to the UK's tough surveillance law
I saw Kakoune last week on HN and think about giving it a shot. Can you comment on how extensible it is? Are there extensions available, and can I write my own?
I first learned about a new search engine called "Google" when he went to work for them.
Nope, those require tabs. See first result on Google for "bash indented here string" as well as bash guide.
did Samoa apply bans to unhealthy locally produced food too or just to unhealthy imported food?

In general, countries like that don't have unhealthy, locally-produced food. And the article agrees with that assertion. We have a patent on junk food.
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What qualifications does Susan lack that would make her an "industry veteran" in your eyes?
This is good news - CoreOS needs to focus on what's most important to their core business to be successful.

Being chock full of bright, relatively young and enthusiastic engineers drunk on the Golang kool-aid, there's a very real risk of getting distracted by reimplementing everything under the sun in their favorite shiny new language.

Even if Torus is a good idea, CoreOS has to prioritize, commit, and execute. They can't afford too many diversions. This is a competitive space, their opportunity window and runway are both limited, as usual.
It's not all bad though: http://www.voanews.com/a/saudi-employment-uber-careem/366760...
Never, ever use access tokens as proof of identity the way you are doing it. It makes you vulnerable to token substitution attacks. OAuth2 is not an authentication protocol.

https://oauth.net/articles/authentication/

DO NOT USE THIS in its current state. Stop upvoting this.
Probably the same way my phone felt!
Seat belts, air bags, crumple zones.

Fire exists, wheelchair ramps, smoke alarms, fire rated building materials.

Emission targets, waste control.

Air traffic, RF spectrum, earth orbit satellites.

Minimum wages, social security, health care, school.

Defence, police, emergence services.

We are not savages. In fact, it could be argued that the system we have is a result of having anarchy in our distant past. We rather like being governed and having institutions and civil society.
I’m not sure that the total size of the population is what matters here. It’s the lack of representation. Back when the USA started, we had 33,000 person-units per Representative. Now we have over 700,000 people per Representative in all but the tiniest states, and those Representatives are only going to listen to the biggest and most obnoxious voices out of those 700,000.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/09/opinion/flynn-expand-congress/
The other way terrible code gets written by good developers is focusing more on deliver working code that meets the business needs, more than elegant code that meets the needs of future maintainers.

Ideal code meets both. I'm sure we all agree on that. But when working on deadlines, under pressure, with poor management, you sometimes write bad code. And if the code is 15 years old, that great engineer you are talking about today was, at the time, an inexperienced new coder. So you didn't inherit his greatest work. You inherited his embarrassment where he made mistakes.

I suspect the original authors of the terrible code in question could give much deeper insights into exactly how and why it was done that way.
That scenario allows someone to get away with making every female employee's first day horribly uncomfortable. The sender has the power to fire the recipient at will without an explanation, which means saying "sorry, not interested" could get you summarily fired with no recourse.

Only a sociopath would actually fire you for turning down a proposition, but this is your first interaction with the guy, so you have to consider the possibility.
I'm not a woman, but seriously : WTF? Your boss has to ask you for sex TWICE before that's a problem?
Why not both.. based on Chinese/Indian/Russian/German central bank action I do find the argument that gold is now a "worthless, obsolete shiny rock" unconvincing & I think a good case has been made for a modest allocation to physical PMs as insurance against tail risks. The goal is not to "outperform everything else" during normal market conditions but rather to limit worst-case draw down in the unlikely event of a major and sustained equity collapse, currency collapse, etc.
> Can also run -snip- without admin interface

Is running it with an admin interface an option? I'm looking for a good CMS I can deploy for others (less tech-inclined) where they could still make their own small changes.
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I would do this in awk. I could specify the line numbers. Or I could use the editor option to pass selection through said awk script. Or I could pipe xclip to and from the script.

Someone else could do it with sed, but I prefer awk.
Learnt that lesson the hard way - as an independent consultant working with local businesses, did some work with a seemingly successful guy who boasted about how he always got a good deal/complained about service and got money back etc. Surprise, surprise, a month later he did that to me too, including stupid petty things like trying to pay the invoice without the VAT.

What goes around comes around.

I still support our local taxi company and talk to the drivers who take me (typically to/from the airport). Many of them have had experiences with Uber and don't have good things to say. However their traditional business is struggling.
So what? You think the UK, US, and every other country in the world just sat around doing nothing to improve their own status for decades?
Because challenging someone to "justify" why they feel sexually harassed is inappropriate?
Mike Isaac (reporter for the New York Times) is collecting more stories of harassment & toxic work environment at Uber: https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/833445850130944000
Why is this site being surveilled?
>OP's employer did set up a private github repo where contractors collaborate on bank's code.

This is correct. They are not doing anything criminal. They just want to make sure all employees start working from Day 0. However this is illegal and I refused to push my code out of the intranet
> They believe more people will pay them for their dedication to the truth, and to at least an attempt at unbiased reporting, than will pay them to push out screed. They play a longer game; one that, in fairness, isn't always as successful in the short-term as the sensationalist yellow-journalism model, but one that has persisted over time nonetheless.

How can you tell the organizations playing the long game from those playing the short game? What makes you think the ones you've listed as "high-integrity" outlets are such? Is there a difference in incentives or management structure that would explain the putative difference?

All journalistic outlets have an incentive to make people think they are playing the long game. What evidence do you use to decide which are really adopting that strategy?
... without carbon taxes.

Seriously people, everyone driving ICEs is using a massive subsidy loophole with respect to carbon emissions.
The free refills policy strikes me as very American as well. The other day I paid $3.50 for a 250ml coke at a restaurant when the main course cost $4 :(
Med school is super dissimilar to being a startup founder. If you pass, dead last or at the top of your class, you will be known as Doctor untilHellbanned. Also, you will most certainly have a job and lots of debt post med school, unless you can afford a couple hundred thousand dollars to finance your md. In the end, I think the risk (financially) of med school is WAY less than that of a startup founder.
yes, but "does it make financial sense?" is always the question.
I would say that to be called an 'industry veteran', a minimum threshold of 5 years of work experience in that industry is a reasonable qualification.
I'm sorry. My computer locked me out. I need to run 3 miles before I'm allowed to use it again.
The real problem in Uber's engineering orgs is that Uber hired too many people for too few real projects. From what I learned from my friends in Uber, many teams had largely overlapping responsibilities, and therefore created bogus projects to justify their existence. Their standard MO is picking a missing feature in a service, and then creating a new system that implemented that feature.

It might be okay if all the talents that Uber hired could work together to build truly great software, but hell no, their management created this weird cut-throat culture by enforcing stack ranking with forced curve down to each team of first-line managers. It's hard to imagine that a team with fewer than 10 people had to name an engineer who "didn't meet expectation". Yet that was exactly what happened in Uber. They also doted out disproportional amount of bonus to a few top performers. Naturally, people's expectation was distorted, and chaos ensued.
I would guess that this happens more often than you imagine. Women often don't share stories like this for fear of retribution at their current company or future companies, or because they think you won't believe them. In addition NDA's are often a condition of receiving severance.

Most women in Silicon Valley have had experiences similar to those mentioned in the article (HR disbelief, multiple women reporting same man to no effect, retaliation, legal threats, &c, &c).

The OP probably declined a severance package to write this.
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Trolling, I'm sure.

Making fun of holocaust deniers.
Sublime.

I can't wait until I get a chance to drop this on some truther argument or another.
"It's build with Nginx/OpenResty, Lapis and Docker. This enables the service to be very performant and requires only minimal system resources."

So does this mean I need to have Docker and all of the other things mentioned to use this?

Suggestion: Don't couple your product with dev-ops stuff. Try to keep things separate :)
I actually have a design document from 5 years ago lying around in my backup that outlines a desktop shell based on (and expanding on) vim's UX. I should get back to that project one day.