skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the idea was to dig up private information about people in retaliation for them doing their jobs because the things they write don't reflect well on Uber.

The first article there is taking a public PR interview that someone chose to give and copy pasting it. He should be thanking Pando for it, they are simply repeating quotes he intentionally gave to the public with a little bit of editorializing.

The second one is downright nasty I agree, except for the entire section on Uber which is totally fine. Just quotes that Kalanick gave to the news media and the public willingly speaking as CEO of his company (NOT dredged out of his personal life) and 'information' about their business practices and NOT about the personal, private life of anyone. It also outlines illegal business practices, a culture of disregard for customer safety, disrespect for drivers, etc. Something Uber customers (and shareholders) have a right to know about but that Uber certainly won't tell them.

Quoting leaked personal emails is nasty. There's a line between private and public and exposing someone's private life because you don't like what they're doing in their public life is what's so disgusting and beyond the pale. Pando certainly does exactly that (they did it to Evan Spiegel in the article you linked), you could even say their entire business model is based on being scummy but that doesn't mean it's alright for Uber to. In fact it's much worse for Uber to. I don't trust Pando with personal information about my comings and goings (or trust them at all, with anything) or let them install an app on my phone with permissions. Pando doesn't forcibly alter the laws in every governmental jurisdiction it touches to favor their business. It's a huge difference of scale.
The jacket drama had nothing to do with gender really and she was making a big deal out of something trivial. I can imagine the scenario is like "ok we're too cheap to create custom jackets for everyone so we will order the jacket size that fits the majority and the minority can try to fit in it". If the gender ratio was the other way around, there would be a similar situation.

The response to other reports are standard. Whether it is a homosexual boss or a female boss, the company will seek to protect itself.
4000$ for a single speaker seems pretty extreme, and i've spent a good amount of time in professional recording studios. Am i missing something with the Genelec speakers?

What am i getting out of 1x Genelec that I'm not able to get out of having 10x (!!!) Yamaha MSP7 studio monitors?
you don't need to burn the burner phone necessarily. Just take out the battery and store it somewhere safe.
> To pick one at random, the pancreatic cancer line on the graph above is basically flat.

Pancreatic cancer mortality is heavily correlated with age. What happened is that people now live longer, and when older people get pancreatic cancer, they have a lot more probability to die.

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-s...
Bingo. I've lived in Smallville, USA. Single tech job within a 60 minute commute. Maybe 10 in the surrounding counties.

In a city, if you lose your job or voluntarily want to move on, there are at least a few others nearby. In small town USA, you have to move--likely to another state! Too risky. No way I'd move back.
Good luck on your future endeavors.

But I can't shake off the feeling that the company hired too fast and decided to let go of a few folks to avoid raising more funding. Of course as you said, the whole thing was amicable.
I've been a long time IBS suffferer and I think yeast overgrowth plays a key role in my case. I took anti yeast medicines for a while and felt great. Should've taken probiotics at the same time.
What framework support are we talking about? Isn't the beauty of XFO as a countermeasure is that it doesn't require framework support? Unlike CSRF protection, you could add XFO in an nginx conf if you really wanted.
you can always hire someone down-and-out or someone that doesn't take part in the normal economy to buy the phone for you, though of course there are risks with that too
Is "leadership" pure ideology?
OK, but then my question becomes "are traffic violations class A or B misdemeanors"? IANAL, but I think that in almost all cases the answer is "no". You don't get 3 months in jail for speeding (unless there's been a total miscarriage of justice, or unless there was more involved than just the speeding).
> They do not do that. It's illegal under federal law.

But they most certainly can impose enough bureaucracy and other hurdles to make renting factually impossible. Or simply both the incumbent provider and the county employ just a single FTE (or less!) to handle permits, and one can't do anything about it. All while following the letter of the law, because there's nothing in the law that says "county has X days to deal with the permit else it is being automatically granted".
My relatives have this same issue. Uncle owns his own auto shop and has had 20+ people working for him at times, now it's 5. They are always looking for workers, but have a very hard time finding 'decent' ones. It's not the pay that is the issue, they are ~10% above market for the area.

Its the education and the drugs. They are a 'dry' shop and that means no beer or anything else. Would you want a drunk or oxy-head working on your brakes or transmission? Neither does my Uncle. Lawyers aside, it is really tough to work with a drunk or a tweaker and get them into work on time. They steal things to finance their habits.

The education issue is also big. Auto-repair requires a fair bit of math these days and literacy. And I don't mean reading words one at a time, I mean remembering what the start of a sentence was by 10 words in. You have to be fluid in your reading and can't be deciphering what a word is like an Egyptian hieroglyph. Most diagnostics occur via online forums in auto-repair and you have to read and carry out instructions in a timely manner. This is far above most HS grads in that area (reasons are complicated).

The hollowing out of these areas of the US is a collective blame. Passing the buck off to ignorant racists masks the real issues of drug policy and education policy that must be solved. We must empathize with the tweakers, the bosses, the racists and the coastal liberals to solve this.
I don't see how that refutes my point. Most people will agree that we have a democratic process for a reason. The existence of institutions outside of the democratic process that have power over our democratically elected institutions undermines this. This has nothing to do with word semantics about what "democracy" means, or how that word applies to America.
1) I drink Yerba Mate, it suppresses appetite and also makes me feel good causes of the sorta caffeine. I also just like drinking.
2) Not sure how long but I normally go about 22 hours. I have done two days in a row, so I just eat dinner essentially.
3) 29
4) Yes, I climb, mainly indoors. I fast every Tuesday, sometimes Monday and Tuesday and I always climb on a Tuesday. It has no negative impact on my energy levels or strength.
5) For all the reasons you mentioned! And I also like to experiment with myself :) So I once only drank MCT oil, Whey and double cream for breakfast and lunch and then LCHF dinner for 6 months, so spent the majority of 6 months in ketosis! That was cool.

I honestly look forward to my fast every week, so good luck!
Uber orders investigation after Fowler harassment allegations
Having been impacted by a layoff recently, i can sympathize. but on the upside, LoadAverage's loss seems like a gain for matrix...? (Referring to his comment, "...try to reach me on Matrix (@pztrn:matrix.feder8.ru)...".)

I've been running private instances of both Gnu Social as well as Matrix for my family...and as easy as Gnu Social was to set up...the documentation was always lacking - in my opinion - at least for non-techs. I had to dig up stuff myself, experiment, etc. My wish is for so many more people to set up their own, decentralized/federated/distributed instances of social network-esque systems...Gnu Social made it a little burdensome for non-tech folks...And while matrix is not much easier, there certainly seems like there is plenty more documentation for matrix - even after only being "on the scene" for a short time. Granted I can't say its very easy for non-techs to set up their own matrix instance...but there appears to be so much more attention/popularity with matrix, that already is has lead to more documentation being out there...my hope is that this results in more people - including/especially non-tech people - creating their own instances...which would also lessen burdens for folks like admin of LoadAverage.
Could be a satellite reentry. It's not unprecedented.

In 1978, Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 crashed into the atmosphere and spread 50kg's of Uranium across western Canada. They only recovered 1% of the fuel. One of the pieces recovered was radioactive enough to kill a person in a few hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954
The stereotypes associated with being a woman in tech trend towards the negative. That means that having other people signal that they see you primarily as a woman first instead of an engineer can be uncomfortable in a professional environment, even when the other person isn't bringing up those negative stereotypes themselves and may even in fact be complimenting your qualities as a woman. Those negative stereotypes exist and people are aware of them, so being signaled that your colleagues are seeing you as a woman first instead of an engineer feels like people are perceiving you in certain ways before they even get to know you and your work.

Basically, if on Day One of a new job your boss says, "I am viewing you as a woman rather than an engineer," given the negative stereotypes about women in tech, it adds a lot more discomfort, anxiety, and frustration about how others are perceiving you in the workplace than an awkward proposition would in a non-professional context.

That said, I think your question implies this is a male/female thing when really it's probably more of a you/me thing. Plenty of guys would also not be okay with being propositioned for sex on the first day by a female manager that they directly report to and who is responsible for their performance reviews.
I'm fairly sure the idea of a natural leader is a myth. Just about everybody has to learn how to do it. Everyone starts out bad at it and they work and work and work until they're better, then everybody starts crowing about how natural they made it look.

It has to look natural for it to be effective. This requires a lot of art.
I am not an expert on Buddhism in any way but many Internet buddhism commenters, who are not affiliated with Dorje Chang, claim that Dorje Chang made up his lineage.
Signs of obesity in Arctic people after exposure to instant noodles and pasta
There are plenty of people whose nuclear physics isn't even up to that, so i think it was a reasonable question, even if the answer is "i paid attention in physics at high school and remembered it"!
What do you guys actually do?
I think the theory is you geographically segregate, with the people of the mob pointing their guns at each other and their children (and the furriners), while the elites isolate themselves in dense, expensive metropolitan areas and neighborhoods that have more in common with Shanghai, London, and Dubai than with Iowa.

Voila! No motorcade necessary.
I have never used a fountain pen with a glued together nib and feed. The ones on the top of the page aren't glued together, they are the screw on type. These are generally found in hand-tuned pens (like the Edison Noveau) or premium pens (like Pelikan MX00 series).

You can still adjust the flow of the nib without tampering with the feed by just using a brass strip and running it through the slit in the nib (to increase the flow). I have never wanted to decrease the flow of a nib unit.

What you are saying is true though. Ebonite feeds have their advantages, like you can heat tune them as well to fit to a certain nib shape.
It seems that Silicon Valley loves to hate people who have a different political opinion than theirs - like Peter Thiel and Travis Kalanick.

Regarding the "strange year at Uber" post, it's absolutely shocking for me to see smart people jump at conclusions based on a single point of view - her.

I'm not saying she's lying, but hearing just one side of the story is never enough.

If the same post would've come from an ex employee of Facebook, which didn't supported Trump, I'm sure people would've had second thoughts regarding its true veracity.

But if it's something negatively related to Trump, it must be true.

I'm not a Trump voter, I'm not even American and this witch hunting that takes place against Trump's supporters is quite suspicious, even when looked at from Romania where I'm located.
Users flagged it and a mod applied two kinds of standard penalty to it: one because it was a copycat post that added no information to the two major articles/threads already on the front page, and two because it was an unsubstantive rant.

Those penalties are standard because follow-up posts (e.g. that try to capitalize on hot stories to get cheap attention) and informationless rants routinely get tons of upvotes—many more than the substantive stories that HN is supposed to be for. That's a well-known weakness of the upvoting system. HN can't live by upvotes alone. If we didn't have countervailing mechanisms such as moderation, the site would not survive. I've written about this lots of times, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10292239.

It had nothing to do with San Francisco (the moderator was elsewhere), nor with the rant being about Silicon Valley, etc.; anyone familiar with HN knows that critiques of all those things appear here all the time, and that's fine. We're hoping for thoughtful critique, though, not rage trolling.
Most of them will die from meth and/or heroin long before they turn into heavily armed mobs
> hose people do not believe the jobs exist at all, at any price point.

I used to live in a small town rural area. There were 4 employers of software engineers. I worked for one large one (~500? sw engineers), the other two were universities with poor pay and uninteresting tech prospects, and the fourth had 30 people total. I believe there's a fifth company now.

If I wanted to do more things with my career than work for one company for the next 20 years, I had to move. Remote jobs aren't very good for people without connections (because connections typically form through personal contact, something difficult in rural areas), and freelancing/consulting at the junior end is excellent for someone who excels in marketing themselves and building webapps.

Moving to a city lets me do things with my career as I want, not what the sole company wants. If the company crashes, my career is not in disarray and I don't have to move.

I simply can not recommend to anyone who is looking to make something of themselves to move to a rural area. The connections, niches, specialties, opportunities are just not found in rural areas. You have to build them up manually and it's simply not possible without deploying tremendous effort just to tread water in relation to the you-that-moved-to-a-city.

It's of course plausible that a senior person with a lifetime of connections and a deep specialty can live in Nowhere, USA, and have a solid life. But those simply don't hold true for junior/midlevel people.
16gb ram.

It's DDR3 1600.

Reinstalling windows is not really something I want to do.
It doesn't seem like they're trying to actively force women out. It seems like they're such creeps that no women (or grown men) would want to be there.
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Hi! Great question. I love static websites, but we hit a point where we were updating the site constantly and needed dynamic content, like the running costs (which pulls its data from a google spreadsheet). There are certainly ways to do this with a static site, but with the size of the site and frequency that we update it, I really wanted to be able to hit save and it was live, rather than wait for everything to compile and publish. I still use Siteleaf for all of my other websites, but cushionapp.com is a different beast.

Also, lol at "marketing team". I am marketing team. :)
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Because talking with confidence will go 90% of the way to convincing people that you know what you're talking about. So often I've worked with assholes who talk with such confidence that most people won't bother filtering the garbage coming from their mouths. They just believe it.

It's almost eerie how effectively talking with confidence works. It's so effective that when you complain about these charlatans, YOU look like an asshole, even when you are completely factual. It's sad but fascinating at the same time.
Your argument has no core. It's a bunch of dots. If you want to participate in the discussion, take five minutes of your ultra-important time and RTFA.
Given HN's recent experiment with trying to define and block political stories, I don't see how one can draw that line in a non-viewpoint-based way.
Life in the US must be that of a stray cat, then; running in fear every night, not sure where your next meal is coming from, survival the only thing on your mind, fighting over scraps. That life is reality for many unemployed and under-employed in the US, so that a select few may be very rich and powerful, mostly due to inheritance and favorable conditions / opportunities during childhood.
I'd understood that the controversy here began with a difference of opinion on whether climate change was a political view or just a fact?
What would happen if the fast includes water, like in the 4-day vision quest fast (no food and no water) practiced by Native Americans?
The facts are not in yet; this is a developing story.

We've seen at least a couple big cases where journalists were too quick to take a side, ended up very wrong, and lost a lot of credibility for themselves and future accusers. Restraint is warranted.

That being said, the NYT needs to follow up after the drama dies down, and not just leave the final story as a footnote somewhere.
> I don't imagine this sentiment would go down well with most Americans (who I assume live in small towns?)

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2012/03/us-urban-population-w...

It's complex. But populationwise, we're mostly in larger towns.

> One of the things I found incredibly surprising in America is just how much people do not like to move; especially those living in small towns to bigger cities. So we have a situation where the cities are attracting people from other countries often many oceans away, and the people living in the same state are unwilling to move out of their home towns.

this is novel for America. Traditionally Americans moved all the time.
Fake news = propaganda

Deep state = military-industrial complex
Prostate cancer isn't as big of an issue fatality-wise.

Right now breast cancer has a disproportionate amount of money spent on it, but I don't think comparing it to prostate cancer is fair.
I am having trouble understanding what the site is for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

From the link:

The Peter principle is a concept in management theory formulated by Laurence J. Peter and published in 1969. It states that the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate's performance in their current role, rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and "managers rise to the level of their incompetence."
No, the problem identified here is utterly trivial by comparison.
Just read the Noisebridge discuss mailing list post

https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/20...
Cushion is a tool for freelancers to manage their schedule, forecast their income, and track invoices. Time tracking is also dropping soon.
Keep going, it gets better after it gets worse.
First, North African languages are called Arabic. The proper written form of Arabic is the same in every country. The Berber language never had a written language or letters and only confuses the matter. It is a tool used to divide the people. Can you imagine Palestinians demanding Caananite be included as an official language? The most common modern standard Arabic would be found in Syria, Lebanon,Jordan and Palestine, with the Egyptian and Iraqi dialects also well understood. The North African dialects need a major overhaul. In Morrocco, they have borrowed even German words and the pace is so fast half the words are mumbled. Use modern standard Arabic as your focus,and perhaps Latin letters to make it easier on non natives while being able to translate it back to Arabic letters.
>Wait, no, you're just another person who shouts down any views that don't match your own

"Show me evidence" isn't a view

>Enjoy the state of your country; people like you created it.

I quite like Denmark these days.
Lenin won Ecuador's presidential election
I mean: hardware that runs without binary blobs and runs a free BIOS.
A side issue that all those funny links have is they always randomly intermix requiring years of experience and they won't hire anyone without a degree or years of experience, which mostly fake claims about hiring anyone off the street... who also happens to have a Mech Eng degree and be willing to take $1/hr more than McDonalds and given those criteria not be involved in drugs or prison.

And as a side note it stereotypically required in all employer anecdotes about alcohol and drug abuse to point out that the drunks are trivially detectable as non-functioning but the painkiller addicts are extremely high functioning and indistinguishable in performance from sober people yet we have to discriminate against them anyway, just for fun apparently.
I am interested in this project.
Hmm. Thanks for taking the time to respond, but I'm still not clear on this. It's possible I'm beyond help.

I can see how the statement that it was irrational of her to stay makes potentially invalid assumptions. It seems appropriate to me to asterisk that with something like "if my boss did this to me I'd leave", which I suppose is how I was reading the earlier statements anyways.

Having said that, the amended statement seems innocuous to me and could be read positively ("I wouldn't be as tough as she is in this situation"). Reading the rest of your response it seems this kind of what-if is the core of the issue to you. Is that correct?
Those graphs are two-dimensional, squashing a whole extra dimension (stage of cancer at diagnosis) into an average.

My understanding is that most cancer research has focused on how to take advantage of earlier diagnosis by putting early-stage cancers into remission, or slowing their progression.

The "thing about cancer" is that it's somewhat exponential in growth: if you have cancer in one place, it's easy to treat; if you have cancer in four places, it might be in 16 places by the time you're treated those four.

It's like a manhunt for a criminal group that knows they've been made: they started out meeting in one building, but they're on the run, parting from one-another's company and spreading out across the world. If you catch the group when it's still in one building, you can just raid that building; but it's very hard to do raid a thousand individuals once they're living scattered across the whole world.

So early-stage cancer is "easy", and late-stage cancer is "hard"; and, insofar as we haven't come up with a brilliant way to solve the hard problem (a whole-body chemotherapy that doesn't hurt non-cancer cells) we've set ourselves to the task of combining screening with early-stage therapies to try to eliminate cancers before they can become late-stage.
How does your body react to the fruit juice?
Oh, okay—I browsed the website and couldn't find anything about a paid tier. nod