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Presumably at some point you will need to pay, which, if they're smart, is tied to your real identity, so they'll hit you with your real non-Detroit price when you log in.
Internal investigations are not government prosecutions. They are an investigation by the company of what its employees did or are doing. "Independent" means independent of the employees, not impartial to the company. Such investigations are typically carried out by a firm familiar with the company and its operations.

Evidence acquired in an internal investigation is sometimes presented to the government to try and convince it not to prosecute. In that role, you generally want someone with credibility. At the same time, the lawyers doing the investigation are intensely protective of their credibility. Unlike any given client, the lawyers are repeat players with the government. And while the government double-checking your work won't uncover a single isolated instance of fraud, those odds change over repeated trials.
I'm describing a method already implemented by many large companies and one-man shops that do "efficiency engineering" by basically listening to ground workers. One of my employers got better survey results than you're describing despite being over 10x bigger than Uber.

Getting the info out of workers hasn't been the hard part in industry. It's getting management to act on it that's hard. Things have to get bad enough, esp in media, that executives are forced to respond and handle policy change top down. Uber is halfway in that position.
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You are part of the problem.
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I started with Ford Shorthand (.Com). It took me a few one hour sessions across 3 days to memorize the glyphs. 6 months of practice later, I was writing much faster and more freely--now it didn't matter where I left my notes. I now have a very hard time not automatically switching to this simple shorthand when I'm writing fast. It's just much more efficient.

I also know how to write Gregg at a basic level but Ford was way better for a beginner.
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I hear 'retraining' brought up a lot, what does this entail? What do people get retrained in and do they want to be retrained in that thing?
Mark my words--This is the future of all Retail: Personalized pricing determined by big data's prediction of your ability and willingness to pay. And yes, it will be awful. "Log in to view the price of this item, sucka!"
Only optional media angle adds liability. Everything else reduces liability by giving executives ability to spot and remove obstacles to execution efficiency in the company. If internal politics are as bad as stated, then even straight-up firing most of the engineering management with SRE teams running autonomously on existing goals/functionality would possibly disrupt Uber less than managers are already doing. Might even see a boost in productivity since workers are focused on engineering work they love doing instead of politics.
Hundreds of thousands? According to Wikipedia 2000 gun sales were tracked under Fast and Furious and 710 of those were later found, leaving somewhat less than hundreds of thousands of guns afield.
Sort of related: I don't remember specific examples, but I recall that several games/apps have inadvertently shipped with partial source code recoverable by an undelete tool because the developers simply deleted the source/build files from the floppy that they were using for development before imaging it for production, rather than wiping a new disk and copying only the release files.
Hiring Eric Holder to me means that they aren't going to handle this "internally". So this could be very interesting. But likely this is Eric Holder as big PR bandaid, and that's all we're likely to see unfortunately.
I really wish game companies would publish their old source for really out of date games. I really wish I could see what went into making the games I love like Fallout 1/2.
"fixing government"
It's about what my Toshiba PC laptop cost in 2000. With its 1.5 hours of battery life... :P
This was great to read. I started 32Waves in April of 2016 under the same premises you did here. We're now 176 customers strong and are getting into fiber as well (just lit up a 10gig local ring that runs to several tall structures). Today we're 95% wireless, but we've had amazing success with it. No issues at all with stability and reliability, we spent a metric shit ton of time engineering everything.

Our city is looking at doing a community fiber build, where the city owns the strands and the use is open access. I think it's the future and we're pushing for it as a company as well.

I've started another company recently called OpenOptic where we are working on SDN solutions that automate operations with virtualization and user control portals.

It's been a freakin fantastically fun first year so far.

Love to swap stories sometime.
Many of them are available in higher-resolution models; for example the T420 I have (released 2012) is 1600x900. I also suggest getting an external monitor so you can have two screens--until recently I had an awful 800x600 LCD I got for $10 and it was still better than nothing.
Many executives cultivate this ignorance. When you kill someone accidentally its manslaughter, when it's purposeful it's murder. A person is dead either way, but the punishment for incompetence is lesser than that for malice. By cultivating ignorance and incompetence in key areas, people can dodge the consequences of risky or unethical behavior yet still receive the benefits by nature of being the "leader"
He may have said that, but it wasn't specifically his call to make.
You should check out what Microsoft and Intel were upto in the 90s before coming to conclusions.

What has changed though, in a month were we have seen Zuckerberg apologize, an Infosys leaker and now Uber, is employees don't really put up as much as they used to with org culture.
We could be talking past each other a bit. Ill end the tangent in that case. I agree the diversity effect is contentious (a smaller claim) and possibly out of scope for people doing these projects.
This is a bit off topic, but can anyone suggest a decent Django tutorial? I've just recently learned python, and would like to build a few projects using Django. I completed Django's official tutorial[1], but when it came time for me to actually start building something, I found I didn't really understand what was going on. I should mention I'm inexperienced in both web application development and python in general.

1: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/intro/tutorial01/
While I agree with you, they do in fact have hardware-backed key storage these days; it's just only available (and reliably useful) in recent Android versions (namely those devices with fingerprint sensors).

Since we're on the subject, OP was talking about a perceived vulnerability with rooted Android devices. I highly suspect that even a decent secure enclave solution would warrant some skepticism if the system around it is wide open. For example, timing attacks or even plotting voltage draw on an oscilloscope could leak some key information.

If you're rooting your device anyway, you should probably invest in a hardware security key.
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People who are at war with the United States are not "assassinated" by that country. They just lose. Numerous people have lost their lives in this fashion.
Corporations like Uber universally coerce their servants to sign away their rights to litigation. The only mechanism they have is arbitration, chosen by the corporation.
Didnt see any pricing info for your voice infrastructure. Was it a conscious choice to not go for a business phone system?
I remember finding this on the CD as a kid and being blown away - I couldn't understand why all this stuff had been included. Most of it was over my head, but I played around with Deluxe Paint for ages. Would love to know the backstory on this.
Hire a sales person with ties to the industry. Find them on Linked In. Sales people are always networking.
Worth noting: costs for people blow costs for software/services out of the water. I was notoriously spendthrift with regards to SaaS services ("gotta catch them all!") and spent ~$3 on people last year for every $1 on services. (And if I had had any FTEs that would have been substantially higher.)

Over ~10 years running SaaS apps I generally managed to pretty consistently find ways to spend 40% of revenue.

Also worth noting: as you get further from "things which are made by devs-running-businesses-as-hobbies-for-devs-running-businesses-as-hobbies" towards "business inputs sold by businesses to businesses" costs skyrocket. You're going to spend plural thousands of dollars on bookkeeping and tax compliance every year. You will eventually need a contract reviewed; that will probably cost you a few hundred bucks. You're going to get a business insurance policy; you'll find the bidding starts at a grand. etc, etc
Uber is treating this like it's a situation that they just stumbled upon, rather than the way that their own company, which they painstakingly created from scratch, works.

The goal of this sort of investigation is to try to reset the clock--to try to get people to say "well let's see what the investigation finds," like the situation is a complete mystery, like it's a dead guy in a locked cabin with nothing but a puddle of water. "What a mystery we have stumbled upon! Let us investigate."

The reality is, this should never have happened in the first place, and it was 100% in Uber's control to prevent it.

The very best you can possibly say right now is that executive management at Uber placed zero emphasis on preventing harassment. If they had, their HR team would not have acted so stupidly.
I personally use Office 365 for my domain, and man it rocks. I know there are some other email-only services out there, and some people are hell-bent towards Microsoft, but I can definitely say it has been the most reliable service I've used to date.

Also, for my purposes, the Office Suite is a nice plus.

If you have your own domain but don't need all the Office stuff, take a look at Outlook Premium[0].

Other options I know of are FastMail[1], and I've heard Rackspace email is reliable.

[0]: https://premium.outlook.com/

[1]: https://fastmail.com/
But that won't matter if users keep moving to the cloud. They will be forced to just work on whatever Amazon/Microsoft/Google want.
The HN code should import and use the Public Suffix List or a library that can make use of it.

https://publicsuffix.org/learn/
I got a 1st gen Shed in 2010(?) and use it daily. It is definitely a fantastic product, and well worth the money even though I was a grad student at the time.
ex Reactor Operator from the mid 90s to early 2000s as well (enlisted).

One of the things that was apparent is purpose. A commercial reactor is a profit making device whereas a Naval reactor is part of a war machine. In the former you end up with complexity designed to save cost, where the later favors simplicity and extra cost to ensure stability. That is not to say commercial is unsafe, but the motive behind design is different and hence leads to different results and design criteria.

From what I can tell, I haven't worked a commercial reactor but commercial reactors are toys in comparison to their Naval counter parts. Going back to your land based vs sea based comparison. Refueling a land based reactor is trivial compared to cutting into a hull that needs to sustain high pressure underwater. This requires extra design in poison placement and fuel placement to achieve a longer life cycle measured in decades not years. The material barely touches on this and no where near the level of detail you get in the full NNPP schooling.

Commercial plants are very well aware of the training and experience that Naval operators get. I have many friends that went commercial. In the commercial world you don't shutdown or startup a reactor very often and hence you have specialists to handle that task. In the Naval world you do this every time you pull into a port. A Naval operator with 6 years experience has most likely done a few hundred cycles compared to a civilian at the same number of years only doing startups measured in the tens. So order of magnitude difference.

Startup of a reactor is one of the most difficult controlled chaos events in which you calculate expectations, move rods, and monitor activity to make sure everything is safe. A quick study of the neutron life cycle illustrates the simple fact that you don't know the state of the reactor in current state, but only in what it might be in future state. So you guide future state with understanding of current state and what might influence that state. You have to understand the Xeon poison over the last hours of operation and when that is going to decay among other things. It's not rocket science but it does require an attention to detail.

In full disclosure my first 10 minutes on a live reactor resulted in a mental breakdown. I knew all of the formulas and what I was suppose to do, but at the first time I had to move the rods I just brain farted out of nervousness. I was not going to cause a problem or accident, but I could not flatly state what was going to happen in 10 hours if I moved the rods. After 6 years on my first in fleet real reactor I could tell you where the rods would be within a tenth of an inch 120 hours later. This is why Naval operators get jobs. They learn to become one with their reactor. This is a good thing we want people that understand what they are doing.
Frankly, seems like Uber and any large workspace should have regular company wide training on appropriate workplace behavior, before it's an issue for anyone. You get the culture you create.
This looks cool. Thanks for linking! What epaper hardware are you using?
Fascinating article.
Uh, it's not a sit in for the right to use the same schools as the taxi companies, it's a calculated money grab. It's a bet that they can make enough progress before they go under. Sure, they saw the writing on the wall first, and I don't think anyone thinks this isn't where we will be in a few years, especially with self driving cars, but they're not MLK and co. They're a business that's intentionally breaking rules to make money.

Edit: The rules they are breaking may be silly, but they aren't fighting a moral cause. I guess this is the natural progression of corporations are people too.
I've always thought there is no need for drugs to be illegal, because if they are really bad then nature provides it own penalty and if they arent bad then they shouldnt be banned anyway
> Prediction: Uber will go under within the next 12 months, it will be revealed that they've been most creative in their bookkeeping and there'll be a sudden need of a few extra beds in some federal sweaty-white-collar prison.

I suspect it will be more of a Groupon type deal. They'll exist as a large player in an increasingly crowded market via their brand name advantage. Then expect big lay-offs as the valuations/cash injections drop and later some consolidation within the industry etc will shift everything to a significantly more realistic position.

IMO they left their IPO a little past the excitement point.
Yeah I hear you. I just got used to doing it years ago. It helps if you keep your docs on a separate drive so you only have to reinstall the OS.
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What is ultrasound used for here?
I'm the author of the blog post in question (and have no idea why HN won't let me reply to the original post). For some clarity here, the "untrusted" third party is Google, whom I don't want to read my data, but I trust that they will not modify my backups. However, in the article I do gzip the files before encrypting them, and gzip has a CRC-32 check, so if the files were modified, then after decryption when you attempted to gunzip them, it would error.

I used openssl because I find GPG on servers is awkward to use.

The full article is more clear that I have only one private key, and for all the nightly backups I'm generating AES keys and encrypting them with the public key.
No, and I never claimed I did.

But I suppose I do question the motivations of those who care deeply about presenting the "other side" when there are allegations of sexist practices in the workplace. In this particular scenario, the other side is a company with incredibly deep pockets and priority access to world leaders. They've dealt with far worse (e.g. threatening to stalk journalists), and they'll be fine.

In fact, an exec who threatened to "expose" a personal detail about a journalist who had written negatively about Uber is still employed there. Fancy that.
I had DP2 and DP2e; IIRC the "enhanced" included svga drivers. (without those you were limited to 320x200x256 or 640x480x16)
It's not so clear cut as you make it out to be. In the phrase "due process," the word "due" literally means "what is warranted." I.e. "Due process" has always been understood as the idea that people are entitled to the amount of process warranted under the circumstances. It's about fact-specific inquiries, not bright-line rules.

How much process is "warranted" when a U.S. Citizen wages war against the U.S. abroad and actively tries to evade any attempts at accountability through other means? Is military action against a U.S. citizen abroad never warranted? Maybe, but maybe not. I wouldn't have made the same call as Holder, but that's just me opinion, not an inexorable legal conclusion.
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The title of the blog is "people before ..." And the writer doesn't understand the social signaling of clothing? Like, at all?

First, clothing is really personal, and funding a second skin that "suits me" and "fits me" requires much wider selection than a rack of time socks can supply.

Second, anyone with a social job that depends on status, or who is in the marriage/mate market, or who works in a job that may wear on clothing but still needs to be presentable, will need more than a few hundred dollars a year for clothing budget.

"The cost disease of the service sector" is a well known economic theory (I leaned it in economics 101 in the '90s) and the real insight should probably be that, as we get better at making stuff, the scarce resource becomes educated human time, but we are still locked in a value model that mainly measures "stuff."

Once robots make all the stuff for basically free, we have to totally change how our society operates its economy. That's fairly close in time, yet nobody is really even making up the words we'll use to talk about the issue yet.
Good outcome would be:

* Determine what happened, and disclose.

* Offer compensation to Ms. Fowler, if warranted, and a public apology.

* Concrete changes in policy that would prevent this happening in the future.

Longer term, events like these should happen less at Uber.
Is doing this on a track too ideal? Would be cool if this was done in super extreme conditions. That R&D would definitely help commercial autonomous cars.
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On debian tools, kernel and userland are packages.
I would expect that the presence of competition will make this impossible for most things. If two actors are in a space, and one has this tech, then all the above-median-price potential buyers will shop at the one without the tech. If the first sale doctrine were ever eroded, then maybe.
It was the turtles, wasn't it?
Sharp memory LCD. It uses a simple SPI interface, can refresh at about 30fps, but has no greyscale unfortunately.
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Gnuradio is much more complex and powerful but looks like it's from engineers for engineers

And a subset of (Linux-literate) engineers, at that. I'd sooner write an SDR from scratch in C than try to get GNU Radio working under Windows.
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To be clear, you're questioning my motivations (perhaps implying I condone sexual harassment)? Or you're questioning the original commenter?
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Hi, I find your text analysis code very interesting, and have tried your repo, but it does not work as expected, '_tkinter' and 'py3-gt' causes import errors.
@dang, Quit pretending to be an admin of this site. You're an ordinary SockPuppet burner-account and have absolutely no affiliation with HackerNews.
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As others have stated calculus is not needed in operations.

I felt that my calculus training was subpar to my high school education. At the same time theory on neutron life cycle and other aspects of a reactor are more important. If I can tell you what is going to happen to the reactor in next 100+ hours then I don't need to fully understand the engineering that got us here. The basic core material here get's us close, not close enough to get to mastery.

I learned advanced Physics using Algebra and then supplemented that with Calculus. Nothing that I learned in Algebra based Physics was undone by Calculus only augmented. I was pretty good at Physics when I was 17 and got better when I was 18 understanding Calculus.

These are not mutually exclusive ideas.
No. [1,2,3].reject! { |x| x == 1 } would give you [3,2], rearranging the order of elements. It would work for sets.
"A really good news service" is not what anyone wants in the information age. I want to read the best articles from the best news sources. If there were an Oracle that could find that for me, without extreme political bias, I would happily pay $1 a day.
I've tried so many ways to take notes and keep a personal journal. And nothing comes even close (in terms of simplicity and effectiveness) to what I have today with Emacs's org-mode.
Do you mean the the President could have told the CIA to assassinate Anwar al-Awlaki even if Holder disapproved? If so, then we agree that President could have done that. Eric Holder could have spoken out against it in private, and, after the assassination was made public, in the media. He could have resigned in protest as other AGs before him did in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre. At the very least, he could have declined to tell the public that the President's actions meet the Constitutional bar of due process.

Clearly, the stakes are much lower, here, unless Uber is also running a drone assassination campaign. But we have seen Holder before in a situation where his employer holds immense power over a departed stakeholder who has become a vocal critic, and we have seen his unwillingness to challenge power in that circumstance.

I hope I am wrong, and I hope that Holder can make a meaningful difference in preventing Uber from continuing to treat its employees so poorly as it did in the blog post in question.
I went through all the links, clicking on them and asking archive.org to save a copy. I also did it with the "Download", "Raw", and "Download ZIP" links.
Yeah, I wouldn't dismiss it either. It might just be an experiment in mindfulness - not getting rid of stuff, but just thinking about each thing and seeing how it influences your life.
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A bit of googling and you will find many excellent resources - filter on 'last year' in the search results. One recommended book is 'two scoops of Django'. You should get familiar with the request response cycle (Language agnostic) and that will make things a lot clearer as you build up your skills.
Rather looking forward to this. Got a number of use cases that don't justify using a 'proper' search engine but would really benefit from a more flexible search than an icontains filter.