skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first test was inside the DC. Many providers will have different limits on edge routers.

In OVH you get no limit (limitation is your network card) in their own network and set BW/s after edge routers.
Uber's employment contract includes an agreement that you won't take them to court.
I'm asking because I genuinely don't know: did Samoa apply bans to unhealthy locally produced food too or just to unhealthy imported food?
I have contacts in the security team of most banks in Australia. Happy to help
>But fining people for having too low positive cash balance?! That's theft.

I just used casual shorthand when I wrote "charged $30".

The way the bank's Terms of Agreement spells it out is that every account has a monthly service fee -- e.g. $30. However, if you maintain a minimum balance above $500, they will waive that fee. (Many in the HN demographic would have a higher tier account such as "Premiere/Preferred/Platinum" and those also have minimum balances of $20000 required to waive the monthly service fees. It's still the same idea, but a bigger number.)

The banks word it in positive terms ("above/waive"). I just wrote it the opposite way ("below/charge") to match how people psychologically perceive it. For many people seeing the minus-$30 deducted from their account, it certainly feels like a penalty/fine instead of a +$30 bonus for all the other months that they were above $500.
This is getting fast attention far beyond the tech crowd. There could be some serious fallout for Uber (well-deserved if the story is true).
As someone who was truly frustrated with the taxi system for years, to the degree of refusing to use them hardly at all, I don't mind so much Uber breaking outdated laws (I do believe some kind of taxi commission is warranted in general) so much as the results of their business model: replacing one mafia with another. That a secondary effect is to flood the streets with even more batshit-awful drivers is proof that they aren't disrupting anything but taxi management and not hacks[1] in general.

1. http://answergirlnet.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-are-taxi-cabs-...
There is academic research documenting the impact of trade agreements on the labor market. The main take away is that on average the welfare gains are huge, but not everybody is better of. Still, if you do not believe in the impact of tariffs, the point still stands for other types of protectionism.
Or perhaps the superior designs are better at preventing detection and have yet to be discovered by the opposition.
Most airlines in the US have an official policy allowing them to require passengers who cannot sit in a single seat with the armrests lowered and seatbelt fastened to pay for an additional seat. They usually try to employ alternatives, but on full flights, people do get bumped if they don't fit in one seat.
> I can't fathom what kind of weirdo does something like this, male or female.

People who get off on violating other people's boundaries.
> isn't it very short sighted to consider silencing/removing the accusers a protection of the company.

Yes. It's also human psychology. See the church sex abuse scandals. The morality that people claim to have is less important than protecting the group.

The same thing applies to HR. The HR person who shuts down an accuser is doing it in order to protect their position in the hierarchy, and to protect the people in the hierarchy that they know. The fact that it's illegal, and can very well destroy the company is completely irrelevant.

In these cases, short-term focus is more important than long term goals.
I would say this is pretty surprising. Tech may have a problem with representation, but there's a very big difference between something as overt as this, and, for instance, not being able to find candidates from diverse backgrounds. We should never lump the two together.

I guess it's not surprising that this happened at Uber, though.
Exactly, I saw this in my offer.
You should name every single person involved
Bob gets paid what others are willing to give him. Nobody NEEDS to offer Bob $150,000 because there are other people willing to take $50,000 for the new job as well.
> Companies such as Uber will continue these destructive behaviors until they face genuine consequences that impact their bottom line.

Having a hard time recruiting is a serious consequence.
Same here.

And you know; 100% of the women engineers I know have similar stories. 100%. That's insane.

These stories need to come out so the guilty companies and their toxic environments are exposed for all to see.

I'd encourage everyone here to pick up a copy of her O'Reilly book -- it's very good. Hopefully she gets all the income and none of it goes to Uber...
The main problem (inferred from text, not the video) is -> "Bob now adds $150,000 worth of productivity and therefore earns approximately $150,000" - No, Bob still earns $50,000 as before. All the gains from productivity goes to Eric the CEO and member of 1/10th of the 1%. By the way, Eric and his peers also successfully lobbied to decrease the tax top 1/10th of the 1%, so he effectively pays a tax of $0.
Facebook mints money in the US – What does that mean for Snap?
The problem is that workers don't have leverage like they used to due to globalization and a general labor surplus. We need to think of something that would work better than a union.
That line of thinking seems to miss a lot of the negative externalities [0] of a hypothetical world in which Uber is dominant.

Just to take one example, Uber doesn't pay the same taxes as taxi companies. Localities will be losing out collectively on a lot of revenue. Aren't you affected if your city has to raise taxes to compensate?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative
+1 for just admitting that you owned Betamax (vastly superior of course to those VHS ninnies).
I'd say 'my uncle (not me) in a personal injury lawsuit' and 'I used a lawyer in a contract dispute that ended right there' is a very different setting from 'this is my job that i'd like to keep'.

I don't mean this is merely or even at all a matter of practical difficulty. Few people go home and toss in bed thinking about how they can sue their employer. I find 'she should have just sued' is pretty glib and why I ask "have you done that"? I don't think it's an easy thing and simply throwing it at someone who's taken the time to publicly describe their experience is rather missing the point.
I can confirm, Appcode is good enough. Annoyingly, they don't manage to get font rendering to be the same as in Xcode, and that's a bigger issue for me than it should.
Thanks for replying...I didn't realize the real life example.
> Most of the comments say that this is unreasonable or that it makes little economic sense. But let's take the case of tariffs. An heterodox economist will tell you that every country should eliminate all their tariffs, because it is "pareto optimal" (you are not making anyone worse-off). Well, now we know that that is not true. The rust-belt is a clear example of this.

People in the rust belt sure enjoy their cheap imports. Just because SOME people lost their jobs, doesn't mean the office worker who still has her job doesn't benefit.
I'm not sure what flaw you found in what he wrote, or why even ask.

Obviously it's not the absolute number (50k) that counts, but how it's distributed. (And those 50k are not even all programmers).

If you do an OS, a mobile version of it, an embedded version of it, your own language, several huge SDKs, your own mail app, your own calendar app, you own spreadsheet, your own word processor, a TV appliance, the biggest mobile app store on the planet, your own logic board and CPU designs, the biggest music store on the planet, another large desktop app store, your own DAW, your own NLE, your own compositor, your own broswer, your own javascript engine, your own AI, your own Maps, and several other things besides, then no, "50k" might not be enough.

Microsoft has 5000 programmers just for Office.
This is a great resource that helped me for learning Dijkstra's algorithm and A* when I was learning about graphs in general, not just for game programming.
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Just wait till they hear about drones.
It happens in laptops. Why should cars be any different?
Sure, but until there is a liquid market that's worth $0. Who will you sell your newly vested shares to?
Your comment is lucid and makes good sense.

Why readers are downvoting it shall remain a mystery.
Would you be okay with it if you started a new job and your boss instantly propositioned you?
probably because "Brilliant Jerks" are tolerated
What is the last lawsuit you voluntarily started? A lot of things are 'an option'.
In the bay area at least a lot of us know at least one or two Uber engineers, and Uber has has an awful reputation around here for a lot longer than the month or so since that strike occurred. As a result of that (plus talking to drivers who work for both services and have strong preferences for Lyft) means that most of my friends were quietly boycotting Uber for years at this point.

I have one friend who worked at Uber and had years of experience working at another tech company beforehand. Uber basically refused to promote her, even going to far as to hire people significantly junior to her into those senior positions. In one case one of the people who was hired blatantly lied on their resume about their past experience, got caught out for it, and was still hired above her.

Even outside of the bay area Uber has taken many reputation hits for their stupid behavior. The whole incident where they were planning on digging up dirt on a reporter to ruin her character shows a huge lack of ethics at the top of the company. The "god mode" application and research into "one night stands" shows they have no respect for privacy.
You tell them what distribution you want of Linux installed, they install it, and then you manage the server on your own.

Install the needed SMART utilities to keep an eye on your disks. I think if you can show them a SMART failure that means the drive will fail soon, they will replace it for you.

Their tech support is competent but is mostly limited to the basics of installing and initial configuration of network, plus taking care of the hardware.
> Salary? Stock options?

Are they really so much above typical Bay Area rates?

> Career path? Career security?

Plenty of people are still hiring in the current bubble, and she's an SRE, not an auto specialist or something.

> Coworkers?

Like the one who dropped his pants?

> The early belief that HR would help correct this?

Of which she was quickly disabused.
Perhaps because they don't have huge uncofuced teams?

It's not like having fewer people per project hasn't worked out for them in the one way that really matters for a company -- profit.
What other decisions would you like the government to make for you? For your own good, of course.
I agree with both comments, but those problems have other solutions.
> When I pointed out how few women were in SRE, she recounted with a story about how sometimes certain people of certain genders and ethnic backgrounds were better suited for some jobs than others, so I shouldn't be surprised by the gender ratios in engineering

Holy *. How long until Uber reports this as fake news?

Jose Moran, move over. Tech companies have a new scandal.

Edit: Ok ok, HN doesn't like the jab at Tesla..
Take the example of Qatar, where a "modern" lifestyle is a clear and obvious contributor to the fourth-highest obesity rate in the world. A state which in just 70 years has ascended to the country with the highest per capita income, and the fourth highest GDP per capita; it has used generous oil and natural gas revenues to massively raise the country's Human Development Index and institute a welfare state. Despite internationally-highlighted issues with among others, corporal punishment, the treatment of migrant laborers, and the mortal danger for homosexuals, most average Qatari live very, very well.

Yet in this short span of time, traditions haven't adjusted for the altered diet, air-conditioned comfort, and sudden lack of need to perform manual labor (which is now done by foreign migrant workers instead). So far in Qatar, government spending on healthcare has not been able to stem the rise in obesity, so other social health promotion programmes are being deployed.
This is not exclusive to Uber. By now I'd say that most companies with skewed diversity statistics likely are toxic and dysfunctional.
I think this proves that HR should be fundamentally separate from a company. The incentives are setup for a company's HR division to try and maximize success for the company.

Just like the NFL and NBA have player's associations, HR should be managed by external companies, or at least separated by function (supporting employees vs management). Companies would still be paying the HR teams, so incentives wouldn't be optimal, but seems like it would be a step in the right direction.
Not really so far. I enabled it a couple months ago but have not seen any changes.

It's not clear to me if upgrading to HWE would correctly disable the livepatching.
If businesses pay more taxes on profit, it's close to the impact of a sales tax. This is because the business ultimately only has money by taking it from customers. You're taxing the money that customers pay to the business.

That money is money unavailable for expanding the business - if you want to actually make enough profit to open a new location you'll have to raise your prices. Every successful business thinks the same thing. So everyone raises their prices as a form of implicit collusion to keep their profits at a healthy level. This is equivalent to how a sales tax would operate with minor differences.
Thanks. Do you mean track additional UTM codes etc. for each subsequent visit?

Is having the following data included in the object returned by purser.fetch() what you're after?

"visits_before_conversion": 2,
"subsequent_visits": [
{
"referrer": "news.ycombinator.com",
"utm_source": "hn_post"
}
]

I added this as an issue here https://github.com/bilbof/purser/issues/3
In São Paulo, where I live, taxi apps appeared a couple of years before Uber entering the market. It took the market by storm, so every single cab had to be in at least one the two major apps (Easytaxi and 99taxi).
It was easy, fast and safe to call a cab anytime. But it was still expensive.

Uber came with its black cars. No one bothered. But Uber came with UberX and then Uber pool. It was a revolution, 50% cheaper. It exploded. The taxi market was/is dominated by corruption, with its medallions monopoly. Capitalism worked.

But capitalism dont stop working when Uber is winning. Now the taxi apps, specially the rebranded 99, that was the clear winner in the taxi apps fight raised hundreds of millions with the chinese and is ready to fight Uber. They now have regular taxi, a 30% discount taxi (that usually matches Uber price) and a Uber-like service with common people cars, all in the same app.

My social network mostly went back to using taxi, now that the price matches, because SP is not an easy city to transit. Uber drivers rely 100% on Waze/Google Maps. This ofyen leads to errors. Taxi drivers who drive around for years, sometimes decades are more reliable.

My point being: I dont believe in karma, but capitalism is a bitch. If you are that arrogant to mismanage that bad your resources when you are winning, when the market forces strike back, you wont be strong enough to stand on your feet.
I always wonder how a group of people can come together and made a bad decision.

I mean, if one person makes a bad decision, you can say, OK, we all make mistakes, but a room full of smart? people...
>If there are fewer workers to tax, where is the government going to collect taxes to afford UBI or other welfare programs?

Tax wealth instead of income.
>That very wealth is what's insulating them from the long-term reality of the choices they're making. It's a trap!

What "long term reality"? They have been doing this when they were near bankrupt and continue to this day, 20 years later, and they are now the richest company on the planet.

Maybe the long term reality is actually success?
except tariffs make _terrible_ economic sense.

It's "taxing" the nation to support a small but vocal group.

I guess... just know the "rust belt example" you allude to isn't a clear example at all, except to someone who already agrees with you.

Taxes are generally terrible ways to compensate for things, especially because if my neighbor is suffering and under duress, I'll support him. (Take him/her food, let them live with us, borrow our car, etc.) but if I'm taxed to a place where my own existence is threatened, I won't support anyone.

And my dollars spent by me in support of someone else will be better spent than the government can.
Well they could TAX the companies that make the profit, I know countries/Unions seem to fail at taxing companies but it is there job to do that and one in which they always seem to fail and push the problem onto the individuals.

Then there is the aspect of what do robots run on, electricity! They TAX that already in the EU, as they equally do water and food. Indeed on one hand they pollute the air and on the other they TAX the people to get cleaner air.

It is a vicious circle and all gets down to governments failing at the job they are tasked with and punishing the individuals for the crimes of organised companies.

Whilst I agree robots do remove the lesser professional jobs and the fread in the 60's/70's was for this to happen and give everybody more free time. But have we really seen working hours/week reduced? That is one aspect that sadly we have not and in IT at least the pressure to endure more and longer hours burning the candle towards burnout is alas still happening today for many.
Saying that they "poached" engineers make it look like they are property of a company and can't move looking for better opportunities.
One of the interesting features of the "fake news" debate is the allegation by the term's proponents that true journalism from high-integrity outlets is indistinguishable from and equally as ideologically biased and tainted as poor journalism from low-integrity, tabloid, hyper-partisan or even blatantly lying ones.

That is, people want to compare the New York Times and Vox, Wall Street Journal and Infowars, the National Review and Breitbart, the Washington Post and the Huffington Post, and allege that there is no fundamental difference between them. It reasoning usually goes something along the lines of "all media is owned by corporations trying to make money, so they will all make money the same way: by spinning to a narrative they think is profitable, and ignoring things they think is not, even if this prevents them from reporting the truth."

What people forget is that while yes, many (not all) journalistic institutions are for-profit and trying to make money, they have an entirely different approach: 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.

To make the comparisons I made above is to ignore the fact that the entities being compared have fundamentally different ideas about what they're for and what their goals are.
At some level they are linked.

Uber will have to learn to play within existing frameworks.

Key Nordic proverb: "Pissing in your pants keeps you warm only for so long". In other words, using your funds raised to make up for shortcomings elsewhere in the organization will sooner or later come to and end.
Just to be another anecdotal data point, I am a white male iOS engineer with tons of experience on top-grossing apps. I live a few miles from Uber's new building in Oakland. But I would never consider working for them because of stories like this and others. This kind of behavior doesn't just cost them good hires among women and minorities. Having a toxic culture makes it hard to hire any decent people, and if only toxic people will agree to work there, it will just perpetuate things.

Maybe they don't care now, they're growing, they're sitting on big piles of cash, they can afford to be assholes if they want. Our culture regrettably gives them that option, even rewards for it sometimes. But companies ossify as they grow, disruptors become entrenched and it takes a long, long time to shake a reputation like this. They've created a new market but they're not entitled to it forever.
By that definition there is literally nothing the government can't, and arguably shouldn't, regulate. That won't end badly I'm sure!
Bill Gates: BioTerror could kill more than NuclearWar, and nobody is prepared
I generally go to tofugu.com for really interesting articles about Japanese culture/language. The writing there is awesome, and the site is better designed.

http://www.tofugu.com/
As I understand it: Good ideas come from individuals. Good sorting of ideas comes from a crowd. Trying to get a crowd to make good ideas is apparently not very functional.
This is way too specific and will create tons of bureaucracy -- and of course, there will be exemptions and disputes about what qualifies and what doesn't. The lawyers and government will win, but I'm not sure about everyone else. Oh, I guess large corporations will win because taxes and compliance will hurt small business and startups disproportionately.

I do think, however, we need to provide assistance to displaced workers. That assistance could be new training and a comparable income while they make the transition.
Last time I've tried to argue for the French ban of unlimited soda refills, I was called a "Stalinist" so I probably won't say much on this one. I hope it will help to reduce their obesity rates.
Free charging stations can hack your phone, here's how to protect yourself
He likely had some old Macports or whatever binaries lying around in his $PATH (it was that for me the last time some libs didn't compile). Would Linux be immune to that, if you had 2 concurrent pkg managers?

You could probably run vanilla macOS in a VM without running into any problems.
Oh wow. That link makes my brain hurt. Not sure if trolling or serious.
Ok, in the US you're also prohibited from obscene speech, which is, according to Miller v. California, expression that '(1) "the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the [subject or work in question], taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest" and (2) "depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, contemporary community standards, sexual conduct defined by the applicable state law" and (3) "the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value"'. There's no threat of violence here, just community standards that are bother by your artwork, poem, song lyrics or whatnot. Since this is clearly a restriction on your freedom of speech, you clearly have zero freedom of expression in the U.S.
Maybe the solution is to reverse the lane regulations so that only EVs are allowed in the main lanes, everyone else go in the side lane. (Still needs a solution for buses.)
That speaks to me. After salary negotiations, HR within companies has never done anything for me when I approached them.

They seemed to be there only to defend the boss and register me as a complainer. It took me several jobs and this post to learn that.