skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious whether Holder's "investigation" will also look at Uber's historical attitude and pattern of behavior towards women as a whole, not just their female employees.

For example, there's Uber's refusal to background-check their drivers using a system that includes fingerprints, which is something that most traditional taxi companies are required to do. The SF District Attorney has publicly called a background check without fingerprints "worthless."

Journalist Sarah Lacy of PandoDaily linked Uber's fingerprinting refusal to the number of cases of women kidnapped and/or raped by their Uber drivers, and how Uber seemed to think that this was either not happening or wasn't their fault. Lacy claimed in one article that that Uber PR would even smear the passengers as having been drunk and dressed inappropriately. In one case, a woman was choked by her Uber driver and police were called to the scene, but CEO Kalanick claimed in an interview in "GQ" that it didn't happen. (We're talking about hundreds of incidents of assault; a partial list is here: http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/rideshare-incidents )

Lacy also pointed out Uber's collaboration with escort services in Lyon, France -- which objectified Uber's female drivers as lingerie-clad escorts, and offered passengers free 20-minute rides with them...

And there was BuzzFeed News reporter Johana Bhuiyan, who had her trip information accessed on two occasions without her consent...

And then there was the report from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which is non-partisan and non-profit, that found in a two-year study covering 1500 rides and published last October that female Uber passengers were taken on longer and therefore more expensive rides than male Uber passengers...
> but I'd like to manipulate them in the same way I manipulate my SSH keys.

You don't have per-client SSH keys so that only one needs to be revoked if you lose control of a particular client? I bet the red team LOVES you.
All those tools brought back some pleasant memories! Thanks for sharing.
There is reasonably good evidence that excess iron is a risk factor in heart disease, which may be at least part of the reason that pre-menopausal women have less risk than men and post-menopausal women. But there doesn't appear to be a clear link to cancer.
The real test is how Uber specifically addresses Susan Fowler's comments. If they recognize issues, create programs, wave hands, weep openly, hire someone to yell "shame", etc. then it's all about correcting how they are perceived. It's understandable.

If they pay Susan something larger than an annual salary and request that other female employees who suffered similar mistreatment come forward for similar compensation then they're serious about resolving the issue permanently and addressing their mistakes (I'm imagining Uber running ads like a personal injury lawyer 'are you a woman, have you worked at Uber corporate, were you sexually harassed and mistreated, please call Uber for $150k or more in compensation for the wrongs you were forced to endure).

No company actively prosecutes themselves. No lawyer seeks outcomes that aren't aligned with their client's best possible outcomes. Eric Holder, despite his name recognition and alignment w/ President Obama, is not there to help women who work at or have worked at Uber. He's there to help Uber look better.
I have finally deleted the app from my phone and installed Lyft. Its honestly not as good, but its good enough after taking this into account. I'll be talking to the five people who have installed Uber because of me too, three of whom are women.
Bethesda (maker of the Elder Scrolls games) provides binaries of the first two games in the series, Arena and Daggerfall, for free on their website (you need to find a DOS emulator to actually run them, they recommend DOSBox). It's not quite the source, but it's enough to suggest to me that financial concerns aren't the reason they don't release the source for these old games.
this youtube tutorial helped me a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT1A1KKf0SI&list=PLxxA5z-8B2...
The article specifically mentions that they borrowed the reproducible-builds.org analysis infrastructure that was developed by Debian.

"I would also like to acknowledge the work done by the Debian folks who have provided a platform to run, test and analyze reproducible builds. Special mention to the diffoscope tool that gives an excellent overview of what's different between binary files, by finding out what they are (and if they are containers what they contain) and then running the appropriate formatter and diff program to show what's different for each file."
I saw the new MacBooks in person 2 days ago and kept asking, "why would I buy one of these?" Cheap feeling keyboard, useless difference in thickness, and only 16gb. Not going back under 32 with Photoshop ever.

I'll stick with my 2013 and look at a Lenovo 2-1 next. Pretty tired of OS X too.
Excellent points. The whole thing wreaks of grossly incompetent HR staff, as well as a management team that was unaware of the very real legal risks that allowing this sort of culture creates.

The guy who did it may be eccentric and totally harmless to everyone who knows him, but none of that matters if there is evidence that a persistent harassment problem was not dealt with.

No matter what the circumstances, it's risky for a company to keep someone employed who has not completely rectified any problematic harassment behavior after receiving a single warning.
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You might be an anarchist, but you probably don't want anything that aids a totalitarian / monon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-didnt-think-id-ever-leave-the-cia-but-because-of-trump-i-quit/2017/02/20/fd7aac3e-f456-11e6-b9c9-e83fce42fb61_story.html

How can you help? Apply. It might be more important than delivering brownies on-demand unicorn.
Ooh. What other things have you got tucked away? :)
This is why I wish copyright would expire after 15 years or so instead of forever. Especially for software. Very, very few people are profiting from 15 year old software.
Sure, but does signal work in China? I'd be impressed if it did without any tunneling.
Keep in mind this isn't an independent investigation from the perspective of Uber. Holder has ties to Uber and it's only independent in the sense that he was not involved with the parties in question.

In order to get a truly independent investigation, there will likely have to be a lawsuit, because companies very rarely want actual independent investigations.
> * Lots of skilled workers, all in one place.

A lot of software companies like to piss that advantage away by moving to some "technology hub" on the outskirts of major cities.
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When they're cheap and small enough to leave on all your existing cables, then yeah, they're probably a non issue.

May be even better in the new MBP because you don't have to care what port to plug into since they're all the same- I always end up trying to plug USB into the magsafe on my 2015 MBP since USB is in the same position on the right side.
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Oh sure, I know. I was just staying it would be a nice addition, since the post is pretty original and novel. By the way was this the link you were thinking of?

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/wi13/cse141-b/slides/05-Sing...

By the they way second link is a nice read. Thanks.
Just to add, JavaScript is not the slow and hard to use anymore. With V8 engine JavaScript can be order of magnitude faster than Ruby, python(almost as fast as java in most cases). With ES6(ES2015) features it becomes pleasure to use.

It should get more attention as a Ruby/python alternative.
I caught that too late to avoid the downvoting, shame on me for commenting before I rtfa
Thus far legal has been one my most significant cost (incorporation + NY qualification). Perhaps I'm doing it wrong -_-. What do your numbers there look like?
> Solve the technical issues by getting the right 20 engineers in a room for a week or two

Oh man, I haven't laughed that hard in a while.
Not an ebook reader per se, but goodreader on iOS is by far the best pdf note taking app around. Not only does it have a gamut of styles of highlighting, but then you can export the whole mess and it makes for a wonderful synopsis of a book, complete with page references.
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I didn't mean to be un-relaxed, but I see that I may have been re-stating the obvious.
Prostate cancer is noticeably higher and has been for a long time.

Try

https://prostate-cancer.canceraustralia.gov.au/statistics

And

https://canceraustralia.gov.au/affected-cancer/cancer-types/...

Similar figures in the UK too. The MSM have pushed breast cancer heavily for as long as I can remember.

Despite male homelessness being around 80%, the MSM downplays this too, in the same way male cancer is heavily downplayed by MSM. That's been the case for at least 30 years (source: ABS).
Nukes have been and probably will always be the best underachievers you have ever known.

Killed a scholarship, check. Didn't get the scholarship check.

They tend to be smart and marginally good. The thing is though going through that program tends to right ships and get them in the right place. I have seen this with so many of my friends and with my self. We get back on the right track and get everything else in order. I am now at a 6 figure income and support most of my family. I would never be there without the support of such a program. I can say I pissed away my upbringing, but in reality I learned to be the man I am with that help.
I really dig MDN's tutorial: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/D...
I'm reticent about sharing thoughts on sexual harassment in the workplace, given the emotionally charged nature of the issue. I've seen men get away with completely inappropriate behavior toward women at work, and I've also seen women make absolutely false claims against male coworkers and get rewarded with unearned benefits. I see how hard it can be for a neutral third party to judge the difference when all there is to go on is he-said-she-said.

In this case however, the accuser claims to have verifiable evidence that her direct supervisor propositioned her for sex and then punished her for declining. And not only did Uber not remove him for it, it covered for him. If her accusation is true, and it probably is if Uber isn't denying it at this point, then Uber is causing incredible self-inflicted damage by allowing some employees bully over 1/7 of its technical/product workforce with impunity. Uber has taken over 8 billion dollars from investors. To those investors, how much has Uber represented that 1/7 of its workforce is worth?

Yeah, not surprising they're getting some famous names to help explain this.
The pricing looks super cheap. All the best.
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What can we do as men to stop sexual harassment?
I honestly don't know the answer to that, but I'm disturbed by the precedent it sends when someone is individually targeted.

It's really something I'm not very comfortable with under any circumstances. I mean, what sort of proof is required? Who holds them accountable? If I'm not mistaken, this guy's son & daughter have also been killed by drone strikes (one under Obama, another under Trump), though I don't think either children were individually targeted.

Anyhow, I do not foresee myself becoming any more comfortable with that sort of thing under Trump.
I don't know, at some point not supporting this feature would be equivalent to a running a browser with a flawed TLS implementation. The burden is on the user to keep their software up to date.
This is a really good question.

We have wikileaks etc, but nothing to make it easy for digital preservation of things like this.

Perhaps for games a site like abandonia.com could setup a git server?

I bet there are a ton of people reading this page who have access to old code that if they deleted it, it would be gone forever.
The damage of DRM is even more evident when the context is taken into account.

Excessive rights have been given to rights holders, such that the song "Happy Birthday to You", first published in print in 1912, entered the common domain in the EU this January 2017. 105 Years.

Patents last 20 years to ensure innovation continues. At some point creative works belong to the society that enabled them, not lucky rent seekers.

This makes it hard to keep an archive.

If DRM existed in a world where copyright rules were entirely sane, where would its disadvantages would outweigh its advantages?
The sad thing is that you're wrong about the writer; he holds a doctorate in physics. What this piece demonstrates is that formal education and even several levels of practical experience do not necessitate deep understanding. Humans are pretty good at copying.
What happened to being normal, getting to know people and then once having some sort of familiarity, maybe mildly flirting with them? IF they reciprocate, then go from there -- if not, forget about it?

Of course, if you're in a position of power over someone, you shouldn't do this or at least be aware of the consequences. But this culture of texting girls that are co-workers direct sexual or relationship stuff without even knowing them is just crazy. It's never appropriate.
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> often leads to unnecessary copying [1].

Rust is very different from C++ here. You wouldn't get those copies unless you directly called .clone(), so you'd know you were doing a deep copy.
Talking about the original commenter's "other side".
The logical end-state of this train of thinking is tamper-resistant key generation and storage, with fully published sources and audited assembly line production.

Except then they need to ensure that all the equipment on their line was produced by trusted suppliers with the same level of disclosure. Ditto all software which touches anything in the manufacturing process. It's turtles all the way down, see also "on trusting trust".
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Leaving aside your feverishly imagined reality in which only first-worlders built the US, changing the rules after the fact is something even criminals look down upon as honourless. Not to mention the fact that considering 20th century history, US-ians looking down on Iran reeks of hypocrisy.
this is mesh network, right? can you tell a bit about your technology?
If there were a mechanism whereby it could be extended for a fee, profitable 15yo+ software would still be protected but the community would benefit from everything else.
I love ansuz's and cjd's work on CryptPad! I use it daily as my personal notes wiki synced between 3 computers, and occasionally for collaborative notes taking in video calls with ~15 people. My happiness levels have increased with every new iteration of features and fixes.

I recently suggested to add a frontend for collaborative agile retrospective boards, similar to Retrium. CryptPad seems pretty pluggable in that regard, and actually TIL it can even edit presentation slides now :)
seriously, their naming scheme is so confusing:

Qt Widgets: produces "classic" almost-native looking applications for Windows, macOS, and Linux. think lists, treeviews, menus, dialogs. C++ API

Qt Quick Controls: like Qt Widgets, but with a QML (a declarative markup language) API

Qt Quick Controls 2: doesn't try to look native on any platform, instead you create your own look and feel or use one of their pre-made themes (they have a Material design theme for instance). end result looks a lot like Electron applications. I believe these run on iOS and Android, as well as Windows, macOS, and Linux. QML API

Qt Quick: umbrella term for both of the previous categories

to make things worse there's very little guidance on what type of application each should be used for, and it seems like a lot of the work in the recent Qt releases has been focused on Qt Quick, making me wonder if Qt Widgets will be considered deprecated soon.
This reads like someone payed you off, or you aren't looking at the situation holistically.
This is (roughly) how the New Zealand telecommunications market works.
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Do you think you can separate out which benefitted you more- the ergonomic keyboard or a Dvorak layout?
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Jordan Mechner released the source of the 1989 Prince of Persia. https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II

"Code review" http://www.fabiensanglard.net/prince_of_persia/index.php
> You'd be much better off buying a cheaper laptop

...or five cheaper laptops. You could do that and still have money to spare.

Then you could make a big laptop dispenser, shaped like a gigantic Kleenex box, and just discard your computer whenever the screen gets a bit dirty.
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Interesting. I heard of CALEA in the past and wondered how CALEA is implemented.

>The IP-based "soft switches" typically do not contain a built-in CALEA intercept feature

Is there a specification you must follow? Like maybe you had a VOIP company with your own custom protocol or softphone, would you just code up some web interface where they have a login and then type in a number to see if any active calls, then click a "Listen" button then an audio stream starts playing. Or is there a well defined way for them to access the call, audio codec, etc has to be?
this is awesome. I was in a similar situation several years ago using crap like Clearwire, Hughes Net, and some mifi hacks to get internet to a dislocated house. I ended up researching and finding out about ubiquiti radios and found a way to hook up comcast to a garage by the road. the distance is about quarter of a mile from the modem location to the house. I went from having the most miserable internet experience (SATELLITE INTERNET SUCKS), to practically being in internet heaven.

Here's the kicker. Comcast was willing to drop a line to the house for around $15,000. No thanks. With two m5 ubiquiti radios and 100ft of ethernet cable, I solved the problem spending less than $300. It would have been nice to have a direct connection, but I'd rather save some money.

The radio's have been up for 5+ years now. I had a problem with one of the POE adaptors once, but other than that I think these devices are cost-effective and robust. I believe these radios can help bring about internet connectivity for a large portion of the unserved population. Easy to setup. Cheap. Robust.
(Seriously, why aren't port operations already entirely automated?)

At the better ports, they are.[1] That's the Port of Rotterdam.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm_rlLyelQo
It is actually seems that Ubber executive management and CEO not only place 0 emphasis on preventing harassment, but also supports and promotes harassment.
Ask HN: How can I improve my team happiness?
I'm thinking about how kind of initiatives companies offer to improve team happiness without a necessarily salary raise;

I will really appreciate suggestions cause I need to "improve" the culture of my current company.

The hard part is that I have a low budget to do it right now;

Context: The good part is we are more than coworkers; we are friends before work in the same company; 4 nerds here :)

Then..

I'm thinking about things like:

Implementing a 80-20% Google like strategy;

Offer free-days after some "points" acquired by "some" metric;

Flexible schedule;

Clear goals?;

Pay Training in websites like Coursera|udacity;

Choose a day to work remotely?

Happy Hour as Gaming day with the team;

Weekend with the team at the Beach House;

Snacks?

That's stuffs really works?
I had a recent interview where it literally went like this:

He: "Hi. My name is [X] from [Y:company]. We were scheduled for an interview now."

Me: Yes.

He: "Ok. Am I audible?"

Me: Yes.

He: "Cool. [Answer this question]"

Me: baffled screeching

He talked about a lot of things then including "How does Node.js manage it's asynchronus thread? Where is the sequence of functions to run stored in the memory?". In the end I asked him what was a general day like. To which (no kidding) his reply was:(sad tone) "It's Friday 6pm. Everyone is having donuts and here I am taking this interview".

Well, if you're more concerned about your donut, thanks I guess. I got rejected after this round.
It's impossible. Most chemicals of interest are pretty boring in the visible spectrum. I'd say >95% of pure substances I've worked with - everything from pesticides to pharmaceuticals - are some variant on "white to off-white solid" or "clear to amber liquid." White/clear indicates that all photons visible to us interact with the materially equally. You get tans, yellows, and browns largely from high-frequency (deep blue/purple part of the spectrum) being absorbed by assorted chemical bonds.

Spectroscopy is predominantly done with UV (200-280 nm most common) and IR, which are regions where photonic interaction is dominated by electronic and vibration/rotational transitions, respectively.

Visible light absorption is typically caused by highly conjugated bonds and metal-coordination complexes. In terms of day-to-day, this is almost exclusively dyes (synthetic and natural). Dyes also tend to be really potent absorbers - you only need minuscule amounts of them to create very vivid colors. So a purely visible-light-based app would at best be able to give you a handle of what sort of dyes are in something. It won't tell you if it has pesticides (let alone traces!) or HFCS or nutrients or what-have-you.

tl;dr - no, it's not remotely possible to even detect pesticides with visible light.
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It's a mesh built on low cost custom hardware. Each node is also super powerful with >128gb storage and some nice computation power, with a GPU to boot :) We're looking to be more than just an ISP in the long run.
In NYC, FlyCleaners does dry cleaning like that. They pick up, everything is organized through their app.
Yeah, I like ruby (and especially rails) because it has stuff like this. I also like that most languages have sort() as part of the stdlib. If you need something specific, sometimes they come with more than one sort, or it would be easy enough to write yourself, but I appreciate and expect a high-level language to include the basics so I don't need to keep data structures and algorithms books within reach.

Rails, especially rails 5 with API-only mode is particularly great as well.
For reference, in the unlicensed Ubiquiti gear that I've used, the point-to-multipoint latency is variable with the signal quality of the connected stations.

If all client stations have good, clear signals, the latency is around 1-2ms. But that can spike quickly if you're dealing with interference or other causes of low SNR.
Bring a player to the court room, and advance the video position to where the defamation begins?

(Not defending DRM. DRM is garbage. If you have the ability and resources to break DRM, it is practically immoral of you not to do so.)
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As you noted, Taiwan banned it. HK has a similar policy too. In the U.S. I am not aware of any bans on Uber driving program yet. That's a huge difference.
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Uber was legitimately at the top of my list of companies that I was going to apply for.

After what happened to Susan.... Yeah, not anymore.
> I am not making a moral judgment about any of the strategies

That's part of my point; it's similar to saying 'I make no moral judgment about the strategy of jumping off a tall building.' It implies it would be reasonable to consider the option.
Ah i have this disc right here.[1]

25 years and it Still works. I will start looking at the files.

Loom is an excellent game by the way.

[1]:http://i.imgur.com/7YUXGnf.jpg