skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh. I've been staring at your post for a while wondering about solutions.

I wish there was some way to turn this situation into the bank thanking you with some kind of consideration.

At least it's good to hear that the bank now knows about it, although that doesn't really solve your situation.

I take it that fees are a problem because the contract payouts were stopped, more or less? (As infuriating as that type of situation is) For example I know of one lawyer in NSW who takes computer-related work - for mid-range three figures :/ (that said, would this be interesting to you?)

It sounds to me like it would be a very good idea for you to get a concrete, unambiguous idea (ie sit down and work it out with someone) of where you sit in terms of civil liability, relative to your total and utter ignorance (for example, what's the difference between (a) signing up for this contract, (b) walking into the building for the day and (c) committing the code? IANAL (!!!) but I reckon the argument of intent is equally weak with all examples). It's possible you may be less vulnerable than surface/kneejerk intuition might suggest - but of course I could be wrong. (I have absolutely no idea.)

Besides making it clear to the lawyers about the immediate/current liquidity situation, the bank and ombudsman don't seem completely against you, and I wonder how far you could go with that.

I assume you've reiterated all of the context (without unnecessary details, unless that's okay) with the Ombudsman, to see what ideas they might be able to come up with.

With the bank, you've probably scored a few points with the security and related folks there. If the consulting firm is integrated into the bank then that might point to systemic breakdown elsewhere, but on the other hand, their silence could simply be professionalism on their part while they mete out corporate knuckle sandwiches. (Or I could be being ridiculously optimistic.) Maybe you could chase them down and see if they'd be interested in having you on board; worst (ish) case is that you find more of this kind of thing and get even more points. Something to keep in mind.

Finally, have you tried Legal Aid? They're not lawyers per se, but they may be able to give you a bit of a foundation to headscratch through this with. I would definitely call them. (It's only 3PM!)

As a last resort another contract may turn out to be necessary, and I hope that works out if it comes to that. But don't completely give up, even after that point - you refused to do work that could legally compromise you because it violates corporate policy and standard security access controls, due to the craziness and laziness of others. You should still receive your contract payout.

lol at the perl code bit :)

If you want to get in touch, my email is in my profile, and the username you've picked isn't taken on Gmail yet FWIW; there's really nothing interesting Gmail can leak. Just use a fake name/birthday for the associated G+ account that will get created.
RTFA, it agrees with you.
> It tends to be pretty messy keeping track of all the addresses in the OS configuration, but that's an opportunity for OSes to get better.

Seems like an odd thing to do, create bizarre (unnecessary?) complexities simply as an opportunity for OSes to get better.

Are there any advantages to doing it that way?
I didn't mention alimony at all in my comment and would rather not delve into it, so I'm not sure why you fixated on it. Divorce can be costly even without any sort of alimony (personally, I think it is mostly an outdated concept).

That being said, while I agree that historically marriage was all about children I do think there are social benefits to bonded pairs which extend beyond raising children. For example, single people are more likely to commit crimes.
Please note that Kalanick didn't take responsibility for this or said that the buck stops with him, but rather instructed the head of HR to investigate something that systematically took place in the organization for years: protecting high output engineers for the sake of valuations and their IPO. If that doesn't reek of rotten culture, what does?
Uber has always felt skeevy, but now I know that the whole damn fish is rotten.
He did box himself in a bit with "...will be fired". At least boxed into firing somebody. Not at all saying his outrage is genuine, but initial corporate responses don't usually go that far.
Check out Pachyderm [0]. It supports distributed, version-controlled data storage. The API is very Git-like: you modify data by making commits.

[0] https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm
Definitely true. Case study in "any publicity is good publicity" -- they're always in the news as the assholes, but the market reality is it's a better service than waving your hand and maybe having a cab stop where the first thing the guy says is "meter is broken, cash only".

The services are more or less identical, but I always feel like I'm in the minority when I tell friends I'm calling a lyft.
I am pretty familiar with several, such as Alembic, South, Django Migrations, etc.

I'm not just interested in versioning schema changes, but data changes as well.
How to Backup and Restore LINE Chat Messages on Android
This is fantastic. I'd love to see more people in the "low-power" computer space. It's a nice constraint that isn't actually so tight that you can't do cool things. I'm pretty sure you could make use of these systems as a complete desktop which would be great: an entirely silent solid state system.
Im going to assume that this is just damage control to handle the media accusations. Ive never been an Uber employee but have been apart of previous large SV companies that were driven by what I perceived to be management structures plagued (or driven?) by in-fighting and unethical behaviors. Perhaps Im being presumptive about Uber's internals but from my experience once you define a company culture its almost impossible to turn it around in any meaningful way. From what I hear about Uber internally and externally it smacks of the same cultures of places of the past like Zynga or Groupon. It seems to me watching SV over the years companies of this profile follow a pattern of hype, exuberant growth and then an unabated fall over a long period of time after which the CEO gets thrown out and the company survives on life support. I guess we'll see if Uber is different.
I was wondering if someone would post that work by Theo Jansen!

The fun bit about these camera's is that if you make the straws tubes long enough, they have practically no perspective. With Jansen's paint machine, which is also 1:1 in scale, this once resulted in a group photoraph being photobombed by someone standing many, many meters behind the group but appearing on the photograph as if he's right next to everyone else.
>The USA does not have a 'global DB of every citizen and their life'

Jinx!
My old Honda S2000. Best car ever.

* Why The Honda S2000 Is A Future Classic || http://jalopnik.com/why-the-honda-s2000-is-a-future-classic-...
> I don't get why BFQ hasn't been mainlined yet, it has the most sane I/O behavior for desktop use

You've answered yourself there: for desktop use. Desktop is a very low priority in the Linux world, as proven by the long history of ignoring desktop-friendly schedulers over and over.
Why it’s taking longer to manufacture chips at 10nm and 7nm
"So now pushing for regulation is disrespecting "the rule of law"?"

Yes, where an agency takes action outside the scope of its lawful powers.
IntelliJ (with Stack) as Haskell IDE
What kind of crappy library doesn't work on a newer version of Java?

The only thing I can see breaking would be reflection based invocations of new methods on existing interfaces (ex: Foo has a .bar() in Java 7 but not Java 6). You'd have to be doing something pretty unusual for that to bite you.
The side-stand of a motorcycle that swings backward to retract. Such a simple yet life saving design.

For tech stuff, checkout Windows Surface Hub.
Is that still the case? If so, that's crazy - as bad as the old Windows installs with vbox. However that being said, if that is still the case, they must have a wrapper on top of it since I didn't notice much of a difference at all between OSX docker usage and Ubuntu.
The Haunted Chase Vault of Barbados
> Also nobody ever gets fired for choosing to develop using Java.

This is actually a negative. Java can be great if you have half-way decent people who make good choices with regards to libraries and frameworks and application servers and whatnot, but the choices that come from "nobody ever gets fired for" thinking are by far the worst ones.

Example: IBM WebSphere. "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM," but they absolutely should be if they choose this giant shitpile. Anyone who has chosen this shit should be thrown into a wood chipper, unless they specifically chose it waste the maximum amount of time possible. Or, if it was invented to set Soviet computing back 30 years like the IBM 360, except that joke doesn't work anymore because the Cold War ended before Java was even a thing.
All signs point to a terribly caustic culture, but I'm a stern believer in innocent until proven guilty.

What was the message actually sent to the girl? I feel like this is a vital piece of information.
I found this last week and I'm very impressed because it solves a lot of the problems we had with existing ingresses.

I really like how you guys decided to do your own 3rd party manifests instead of using annotations.

I'm going to play more with this :-)
It's interesting the author mentioned the nuclear generators and whatnot used in lighthouses and for small portable power generation. Those use strontium-90 and other byproducts of nastier energetic fissions which if my amateur nuclear physics brain is functioning correctly don't produce iodine-131. Iodine-131 is a byproduct of uranium-235/238 decay & fission. Since practical fusion doesn't yet exist, iodine-131 can only come from more energetic reactions like U235/238 fission. It's hard to imagine Russia left fissionable uranium abandoned, even in the Arctic.
Over the years I've learned that most of the time people tell you they are going to rip you off before hand. Not flat out directly, but they'll provide deliberate warnings because it makes it makes it easier to rationalize what they are going to do. The best test for whether or not someone will pay me is whether or not they will write me a check up front. People who intend to pay are ok with it, people who don't intend to pay aren't.
Is anyone versed enough in common HR practices to actually explain this behavior? It seems much more likely that this is some perverse instantiation of an aggressive incentive to the HR team that actual incompetence. Is Uber rewarding HR for minimizing actions taken?
The original poster had screenshots

If you didn't fucking automatically rely on things like Slack, etc, this should be a five minute lookup to verify.†

† My organization switched to slack from our own IRC too... :-(
Disagree. It's fine for the government to take half of anything I've saved beyond $5.45 million when I die. If this does serious additional psychic damage to the recipients of my estate, I've probably done a terrible job raising them and it might be better if they got nothing. Nobody needs that kind of money.
Cronitor is great. A few months back I used cronitor for a use case that ended up hitting their ping endpoint at about 10-15 QPS, and they said there was some capacity constraint they were running into (not exhausting though). I would love to hear more about the architecture behind cronitor.
Not covered in the article, but `rename` is a multi-file renamer. I wrote a script which used an `echo $f | sed | mv` loop before I learned about this.
There are also lower TDP models like http://ark.intel.com/products/53401/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-...
I can do exploratory coding when drinking, but I won't waste my time or an employers trying to write production code while drinking. As you note, it just doesn't work.
What brewing method do you use the grinder for? I've been using a blade grinder for French press, and the grind is so uneven that part of me feels like it probably doesn't matter, but the other part feels like a barbarian.
> she has definitely gone above and beyond by writing this up

I would hazard a guess and say that she is doing this to market her newly published book and newly created book club than. Not really altruistic, although it may have a positive effect.
You have good taste! The Hosu chair looks very comfortable, though I'm too poor to afford one :(. Anything else you'd add to your list?
Ikea Jerker Desk.

* Ikea's Crime Against Humanity - An Ode to the Jerker - Marketing Mojo || https://www.marketing-mojo.com/blog/ikeas-crime-against-huma...
Another oft-cited reason is because vinyls can't have a "brick-walled" dynamic range, as it often happens with new digital music thanks to the loudness war [1]. So audiophiles tend to favor it.

From the article:

As explained earlier, due to the physical limitations of vinyl, there are limits as to how loud you can press a record, and because vinyl is “for audiophiles” – there is less incentive for record companies to compromise the quality of vinyl releases. As a result, many vinyl records are mastered differently to the CD release with more dynamic range and at lower volumes.

[1]: http://www.soundmattersblog.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness-...
The problem with google sheets is row limits. Excel has them too but it's more. Eventually only manageable way to deal with larger datasets is in SQL and managing CSVs with bash to split.
>What was the message actually sent to the girl? I feel like this is a vital piece of information.

From the posting, she supposedly had screenshots. I'd love to see them. Also, I'm betting the screenshots are of a system that doesn't easily allow for others to look in to abuse such as Slack, Basecamp, etc.
Pentel Client Pens.
Go-Ruck Slick backpack.
(Disclosure: I work on Dagger in my 20% at Google.)

What's more, Dagger gives you (compile-time) insights into the graph of dependencies.

For example, we've hooked up our internal code-search tool to give you Dagger cross-references, so if you (e.g.) click on a parameter to an @Inject constructor, you'll see the place that provides that object.

Also, if you click on the @Component, you'll see a visualization of the entire graph.

We're working on surfacing these hooks in the open source repo, which would allow IDEs like Eclipse to gain this functionality as well.
"We're very, very sorry - that we got caught".
> https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power

$79.

When their MacBook batteries changed to be non-user-replaceable, the price didn't change a cent, but included free installation.
I would watch OVH for that. They already do a fair amount of cheap VPS. And, they already offer a server with 2 nice GPUs for $159/month: https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/gpu/

So, they should be positioned to sell virtual GPU, since they already understand both demographics.
The post on programming hex grids is another really good one
People in the AI community have spoken out against Watson because it's more marketing than tech. Some feared that it was setting machine learning / AI up on a pedestal that would give false hopes. It looks like those fears are now realized. I hope this doesn't further entrench naysayers against machine learning in medicine. Watson was a rules-based system from the get go and (to my knowledge) only recently started adding deep learning.
Doesn't Betteridge's Law mean the answer is "no"?
Care to share the top 3 things you like about it/top 3 things you wish other cars did?
No, but they do need industry-savy managers and agents working for them to ensure they get the best deal.
That would be something more like "shared source" than "open source".
What are you talking about. Docker is a tool that positively contributes to the deployment experience and reduces friction in adoption. It is one of the tools that directly contributed to the adoption of microservices because it makes dealing with a large number of services (500+) sane and possible.

You should learn more about docker and dev-ops, because with microservices the focus is increasingly towards having developers support their services end-to-end, which means the devs are responsible for deploying/supporting the services they wrote in production.
Lombok is something I've been working with for a long time and I can say it's the only library I enjoy pulling in because of just how much it has to offer. Everything and two kitchen sinks.
I have generally been skeptical about joining Uber. I was in the job market a couple of months back and was always apprehensive when interacting with their HR. I have received recruiting mails from them indicating that I would be lucky to work at Uber, instead of the opposite tone in general. Uber is probably losing many potential employees due to this.

There is no answer to the retort that Uber is successful. If that was the only guiding light for humanity, then we should just be living as savages surviving on who can punch the hardest.
The article takes a long time to come to the conclusion that young men are voting for Trump because they're losers, thaf it's trolling and their way of giving in. Classic lazy millennials trope.

It says nothing about the obvious status of trump as an outsider and the desire of the young to change the status quo.

It goes to mention that both generations have had the American dream shattered but then goes on to say the older generation that votes for Trump is somehow better because reasons.

The truth is the reasons that most people across age groups voted for Trump was the same. They were tired of getting screwed and thought pulling in someone kinda crazy from outside politics would be better than continuing the Clinton dynasty with Hillary.

It's funny that an article that mostly talks about younger Trump voters being losers because they aren't doing anything about their situation fails to grasp that voting for somebody as crazy as Trump was pretty much the best thing these voters could do to gaurantee change, for better or worse.
Came here just to say if you're interested in this type of material, highly recommend following Tyler Rogoway. He was the heart and soul of Foxtrot Alpha before Thiel torpedoed Gawker.
Civil Rights Groups Funded by Telecoms Back Trump’s Plan to Kill Net Neutrality
SPACE10 open sources the Growroom
Reviewable supports per-file (and per-revision) check-offs. :) (Disclosure: I built it.)
>new Chief Human Resources Officer

Does this mean that the person running HR when these alleged incidents took place has been replaced? That would probably invalidate your criticism.
https://medium.com/@smsowmya/harassment-at-apple-my-perspect...
For all the delete Uber folks do you also throw your iPhones?
Agreed. I know some folks who worked in the alcohol industry and drinking on the job was expected.
'spuz is familiar with male-dominated environments and finds them stifling. 'spuz is unfamiliar with a place as bad as what is described in the article and speculates that he would like that less.
Do you use Apple software? I understand they are pretty big on manual testing.

Your process description doesn't sound anything like how I understand products are developed at Apple. Where's the headcount for the designers / UI specialists? Are you counting them as engineers?
I've horrible memories of WordPress and their obsession with storing PHP serialised objects in the database.

It makes a whole lot of things that ought to be simple a lot harder.
I feel this vilification of the media is far overblown.

Specifically: I cannot imagine that a quality news site (say the NY Times, Atlantic, or WSJ) would not mention such uncertainty.

More easily provable: I challenge you to find a single article of about a disaster that includes unwarranted product recommendations (i. e. not "authorities are asking citizen to stock water and other necessities in preparation for the hurricane...")

I'd also like to point out that the "mainstream media" is doing an excellent job regarding these reports: not reporting on them. By now, they have certainly seen these reports. The excitement that grips HN and your comment speak to the fact that it would make for excellent clickbait. But there's nothing anywhere.

On the other end of the spectrum, there's alarmist clickbait with "nuclear incident" in quotes that make it appear as a euphemism for a meltdown (otherwise it'd just be a nuclear incident), posted in a series called "The War Zone".

Here are some other issues I find with the article. It's splitting hairs in a way, but I wish people had a bit of an appreciation for the work of professional journalists and editors:

- The article is tagged "nukes" and "atmospheric testing" when it's almost certainly not a nuclear test. Because that would be stupid. And it would have been picked up by seismographs.

- "Because of the low levels of concentration, there is no health risk to the public or the environment, at least on a wide scale." This leaves open the possibility of smaller-scale health hazards, falsely sensationalising the available data. OTOH, "Levels of concentration" is a phrase capable of inflicting some serious health effects among english language teachers.

- "The highly unique aircraft are specifically designed to respond to nuclear incidents—especially those that include the detonation of nuclear warheads." There is so much wrong with this sentence:

- There's only one WC-135, so the plural is wrong.

- Everything that's "designed to..." is "specifically designed to..."

- Which "nuclear incident that involves the detonation of nuclear warheads" is not described more succinctly as "the detonation of (a) nuclear warhead(s)"?

- The latter half of the sentence seems designed to fuel speculation

- "What are WC-135s doing up there?" There's still only one of these in existence (the plural form is used another 4 or 5 times).

- "There has been some talk about even the US restarting its nuclear testing under President Trump..." If this is speculation mixed with hyperbole, do not bring it up! Any mention, no matter how dismissive, just serves to legitimise such speculation. In this case the best argument against it isn't even mentioned: you don't set up a nuclear test in 3 weeks.

- " The Russian submarine K-27 [...] is said to be literally a ticking time bomb." If the evil media conspiracy saves me from such uses of the word "literally", I think I'm ok with their control of my thoughts.
It took him 10 minutes, if that, to text the person who's going to investigate so they heard it from him first, then a couple of tweets.
Instant pot pressure cooker.

Want to use it as a crock pot? sure.

Want to saute things inside it first? sure.

Frozen meat or dried beans? Why not!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00FLYWNYQ?psc=1
I almost completely agree with this. The camera is fantastic, but if it didn't stick out from the bottom (or if there were something to balance it on the other side) the iPhone 7 would be the perfect product. I don't like that it doesn't lay flat, and I can't fathom why the iPad Pro's were made in the same way.
> I'm a bit surprised she doesn't have at least one law firm trying to get her to be the lead claimant in a class action lawsuit.

How do you know she doesn't?
Wow, surprising news! A company has decided to investigate something that became a well publicized PR problem?
Wow